Olegana Travel Boutique: SIGN YOUR OWN PERMISSION SLIP PODCAST
Olegana Travel Boutique: SIGN YOUR OWN PERMISSION SLIP PODCAST
a series of conversations with kick-ass women who are not afraid to dream big, bend the rules, and paint with bold colors outside of the box.
Most importantly - they give other women the inspiration to give themselves permission to do the same.
Olegana Travel Boutique: SIGN YOUR OWN PERMISSION SLIP PODCAST
Permission Slips - Ep5 - Renee Hribar, Permission to prioritize travel
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In this episode:
Renee Hribar
Permission to be a mother hustler and pencil in “well days” on the calendar.
Renee Hribar is a sales coach and a TEDx speaker who works specifically with women entrepreneurs.
As her sales consulting business grew over the years, Renee had the courage to ask herself honestly – “what type of life do I want to live?”
In this episode, we explored:
How travel is truly a form of self-care and how Renee gave herself permission to travel to Europe for 6 weeks straight with her family
What it means to be your own boss and a “mother hustler” at home or at work
How travel teaches our kids resilience, adaptability, and positively shapes their lives
If we can make time for sick days, why can’t we make time for “well days” too?
Give yourself permission to pencil in time for volunteering, travel, spa appointments – whatever it is that fills your cup.
A special bonus!
Renee shared a free mini sales course with some simple practices we can all use, regardless of what role you have professionally – check out the link below!
https://www.reneehribar.co/training-1
WHO ARE WE? Olegana Travel Boutique is a boutique travel company offering custom-curated trips for families and couples to Europe and authentic, luxury small-group tours for women.
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to podcast sign your own permission, slip. I'm your host. Anna Fishman. You are listening to podcast number 5, and we have an awesome, amazing guest. Today we reconnected recently. We know each other for quite a while, but we haven't chatted in a long time, and I was like. Oh, my God! I need to talk to Renee because I use one of her terms like a mother all the time. I think I refurbished it into like mother hustling. I'm like, I am mother hustling today. That's what I'm doing. So Rene, welcome to our podcast so good to see you.
Renee Hribar:Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to talk about this today. Travel business. It's my lovely.
Anna Fishman:I'm sure we can have a 17 h long. Podcast. But we'll try not to do that. So I was like, let's catch up. But also let's record. But also let's catch up. But before we jump into all the good things that talk about prioritizing travel, and maybe even creating, maybe working around. Travel, not travel around working. How about that? I want to give you an opportunity to introduce yourself and tell us all about your your career, and your you know, who is Renee Rebar. Tell us a little bit about you.
Renee Hribar:Well, thank you. Thank you. I was born a small child. No, so I am a sales coach, and I specifically work with women entrepreneurs, whether they're working 5 HA week, or whether they're working full time for themselves, selling their skills, selling their expertise, and I help them create offers. I help them get the leads. I help them perpetuate that pipeline so that they can bring those leads into people that they actually can help, because most of the women that I work with. They really just want to help people. And I just want they're not trying to convince anybody. They're not trying to be a big time salesperson. They know that that is one of the many hats that they have to wear as an entrepreneur to be able to help people. And that's where I come in with systems and processes and and proven processes that help them feel good about what they're doing, not just sell, sell, although we do like to make a lot of money because we have a lot of travel, dreams and goals. That's.
Anna Fishman:That's right. And I love your program. That's how we met. I took your program sound like a mother, and I loved that. It didn't feel like the used car salesman like, you know, you, you go online and all these like. sell this and sell that. And we'll be like Bro type of sales, and I was like, no, I don't want to do that. And then when I talked to him, I was like, Oh, my God, this is refreshing. This is different. This, like, I can actually do this. This doesn't feel yucky. And I I'll be honest. I don't think I finished the whole course, because that's what we do, right as women. We just over commit. And then but I probably did like good 75% of it. And it helped me tremendous. I think this was like my 1st like, step up in the business where I started putting in processes in place. I started using, like the terminology that you taught us. So thank you. You were like one of the 1st people that pushed me to to get where I am today. Look at us, recording a podcast 9 years later.
Renee Hribar:I love it. Yes, that's where a lot of women start and you still have access. So you're good to go.
Anna Fishman:I should, I should definitely do that. But also, you know, you are very modest by saying that you only excels coach. You're a Tedx speaker. I think you're author. You're like you've done a lot more than just sales coaching.
Renee Hribar:Yes. Well, yes, I have been in sales for a long time for a very long time. I've had hundreds of thousands of sales conversations, and through my experience, and then teaching others, I've been able to identify where someone's at pretty quickly and a lot of times they're so overwhelmed they don't even know where they're at. And that's okay. That's normal as women. We have 75 tabs open, and we're caring for everyone and so travel to me is really a form of self-care, and when I started this consulting business a few years ago, I wanted to make sure that it left not only left time for but prioritize. As you said, travel. So I create offers that allow me to travel not only personally with my family, but also for work, because there's a lot of places. I found that my husband does not want to go a lot of activities that he does not want to do like horseback riding and kayaking, so I'll do those kind of things when I host a mastermind retreat in, you know Florida or San Diego, or somewhere else.
Anna Fishman:Yeah, no, that's amazing. And you're absolutely right. And that's why I was inspired to start a podcast. Talking about permission slips because we are caring for everyone. We are doing all these things, and we are our own worst enemies in terms of like, we want to get that permission. We create that permission from everyone else to tell us to take that time off to tell us to take that vacation. But really we need that permission from ourselves, and, you know, like this ties in well, into what I said earlier about mother hustling. That's like the term that I use, because we are hustling all the time. We're either hustling at home in the kitchen or cleaning or kids. But also that's not the only way to live like you don't have to be hustling all the time, and I know that you have a great example of that that you are able to figure out when it's time to hustle, and when it's time to relax a little bit, tell us a little bit about what you did a couple. I think it was last summer, or maybe a couple of summers ago with your schedule.
Renee Hribar:Well, I've been so. When I started this consulting business, I knew that my summer schedule would be. I was able to work 5 HA week. That's it. So for the last 5 years I've done Tuesdays and Wednesday mornings. That's when I would work, and I chose mornings because my kid has always been one that slept in. So he really is the demarcation point of when I'm willing to work. And those times didn't always work for everybody. And so that meant some people had to be on pause, or some clients had to take another program or get supported another way. So for me, specifically detail wise. It looks like supporting my clients a lot with voxer, which is just an app on my phone sort of like Whatsapp. I use Whatsapp also, and since of the nature of my work is maybe a lot of talking, I'm able to help them in that way. If I was a website designer, it might be different. So over the past 5 years, the 1st 3 years we traveled domestically because my kid was young, and you know I didn't want him to strap a backpack to his back and then be crying and moaning. You know, 30 seconds, and you know we're going to do 20 K. Steps every day in Europe, so there's no rolly bag here, whatever you got is on your back, and then we get to the hotel, and then we're fine, but in domestic travel we were able to go to San Diego. We were able to go to San Francisco. So we traveled throughout California. go to the national parks, we were able to go to Sedona and DC. And Chicago, and, like we really spent 6 weeks every summer traveling now the last 2 years or in Italy. Now also we went to Spain, Croatia, France, and Switzerland, but those were extra weeks that my child and I did alone. After my husband had to go. He only gets a certain amount of vacation, and since I can work from anywhere I get to stay.
Anna Fishman:Yeah. My ears perked up. I'm like, Wait, did you say? 6 days or 6 weeks? 6 week in in traveling? That's amazing.
Renee Hribar:Every summer. Yeah, every summer. That's been our plan. Yeah.
Anna Fishman:That's like consecutive like. You leave the house, and you don't come back for 6 weeks, or do you like take different trips.
Renee Hribar:Well, initially, when my child was smaller we took small. We took smaller trips and came home because because of his nature, you know, he. He was young, and now that he's in his 12, when he was 12 and 13 we were able to be in Europe for 6 weeks straight. So the biggest thing he missed was his doggies. but you know he's able to see his friends all the time, because they all play virtually.
Anna Fishman:That's amazing. And I definitely want to talk about the main topic of this conversation about like working. But how incredible is it for your son to spend the summer in Europe. How incredible! Like the things he saw, the things he learned like. I always say that, like life is our biggest teacher like you don't. You don't have to learn to sit like at a desk in school, and I'm sure you have some incredible memories like what? Tell me, like something funny, or like something like the most amazing thing that happened like one of that one of those trips.
Renee Hribar:Well, so many things, I mean navigating. Public transit is always.
Anna Fishman:Oh, yeah, right?
Renee Hribar:Trains, planes and automobiles, and just experiencing the same types of people everywhere we go. But they just speak different languages. And so I think that the overarching takeaway, I hope, at least for him, was that humans are humans. There are good people, and there are people that maybe we don't spend as much time with. But really there's always someone good out there. and that the world ultimately overall is a really good place, and there's so many places worth exploring. So when he, the funniest thing, I think, was when we this year, he started a new school. We'd always gone to private school, but this year he he pushed to go to a public school, our local public school, which I'm like. Are you sure it's so easy? Are you sure you want to do that. He walks to school. I mean, we live so close. We live a great in a great public school system. There are a thousand kids in his grade. His past school had, like. had 300 in the whole school. K. Through 8. So this teacher, I think, was asked him, are you going to be? Are you gonna be okay? He's like this is nothing. I've traveled Europe.
Anna Fishman:Okay. it's amazing how much kids take in. I was driving my son, who's now 9 and a half, and his friend the other day, and I was like, Oh, do you guys want pizza? And his friend goes pizza in New Jersey is like but pizza in Italy. And here these 2 9 year olds in the back, talking about how Pizza and the Dolomites and pizza in Lake Como. And they have these, and I was like, that's right. I'm raising them. I'm raising them because we traveled together with my friend and her son. and they're like, Yeah, pizza, New Jersey. I was like little spoiled breads, but, like I am so grateful that I'm able to give them this opportunity, and they know what good pizza is like.
Renee Hribar:Right exactly, and they know that it's different there. They know that everything is different in different places, but that, I think, gives hope on the horizon. I think you know, with children there's so many different factors that go into what they're exposed to now that weren't even possible when we were growing up. So how can we possibly, parent that? So we have to just make sure that we're also one of those influences, and that what we believe, and what we see in the world is also shared with them. And I think travel is, I mean, travel is the answer for me. At least.
Anna Fishman:No, absolutely. I couldn't agree more. I think if we traveled more we would teach our kids more like you said that we're all like we're all the same. We just speak different language. We just use different things to express. But I feel like we would have less wars. We'll have less conflicts. We'll have more tolerance and understanding for one another, because we all want peace. We all want, you know, roof over our heads and food in our belly and comfort like that Maslow hierarchy of needs like it's the same. It doesn't matter what color you are, what continent you live on. We all want the same thing. We just need to understand that we're all we're all the same. Yeah.
Renee Hribar:Yeah. yeah, it's it's been. I'm so I don't really know the full impact of him traveling with us yet, but I'm pretty sure that it'll come out over time, and I sometimes get to overhear him talking to his friends. And I'm like, Oh, yeah, that's something that he said. He learned when we were away. So it's important to travel.
Anna Fishman:Amazing.
Renee Hribar:The permit.
Anna Fishman:So how sorry I didn't.
Renee Hribar:The permission slip has got to be there.
Anna Fishman:Yeah, absolutely. That's perfect segue. I was going to ask, how did you give yourself and your family permission to be to step away from the office and from home for 6 weeks, like, How how did you do that?
Renee Hribar:Each summer. Yes, so that is something that I broke down before I started this business. This is my 3rd company. I started my 1st company in 1996. I had a sales agency for 15 years, and I had a lot of money and no time. and then the next company I had was a cherry juice company, and I had a lot of more time and less money. so that I was always into this battle of I have either time or I have money. I don't ever have both at the same time, and it was frustrating because.
Anna Fishman:Sure.
Renee Hribar:I like to do is, although, I said, we put a backpack on. We're not backpacking. We're just not ruining our Rollies, because, you know cobblestones, and you know nobody has an elevator, and if there is, it's a single shoot, so good luck fitting in it right? So, having said that the permission that I gave myself was from the beginning is, what type of life do I want to live? I have a particular set of skills and thank you to the technology in the space that we live in today, I'm able to deliver and support other people with those skill sets without meeting them in person. And so where in the world can I be right like? Where's Waldo? Where's Rene? I'm allowed to be wherever I want, and I can still support my clients in the same way, I can still hold up my phone in the same way, and speak back into them and share resources with them and support them in their in their goals. no matter where I am. And I just wanted to be able to do that, even if it was just across the street, even if it was just outside of my own backyard. I didn't have to travel Europe, but I always wanted to. With my family. I had myself. and I had so many fond memories and experiences that changed my perception of life. and, you know, to bring the Italians forward is, you know, that la dolce vita right like how to have the that sweetness. And it's not always about one thing. It's usually about a combination of things family love, food, fun, and yes, money.
Anna Fishman:That's awesome. Did you find it to be difficult to work and traveling and be traveling at the same time?
Renee Hribar:Oh, a hundred percent. It takes focus, takes demarcation like steel titanium lines. So, as I had mentioned, I set my hours to when I know my kids gonna be asleep. My husband is not that big of a problem, my kid, though he's not trying to be a problem. He just if the if for anyone listening.
Anna Fishman:Kid.
Renee Hribar:If you're married, and you have like a husband and a wife. And the kid and the mom's busy like has 10 things going on. She's stirring a pot. She's on her computer, the kid. The dad's sitting there relaxing. The Kid has a question. Who's he going to go to.
Anna Fishman:To the mom.
Renee Hribar:Every time I'm like your father also lives here. He can also give you information about where the ketchup is, or whatever you need from me, but I don't want to say that, because obviously I want him to keep talking to me, so I will stop what I'm doing. So I make sure that I have the ability to give full focus.
Anna Fishman:And I'm sure it took a bunch of planning on your end to figure out like what hours you're gonna work, what projects you're gonna take on what clients you're gonna take on like all those things. It's not just like, whatever I'm just gonna like, you know, shut down as of tomorrow and be away for 6 weeks.
Renee Hribar:No, it's i i do yearly planning. And of course, like all plans, we have to have plan BCDE, and F. But I 1st for me. Specifically, I made an offer to my community that would give them partial access during those 6 weeks and then full access. Starting when we got back. And so no one had a problem. Because those times that I'm taking off most of the women that I work with are also parents. And so their kids are also busy. And they want to do things with their kids during those times. So I didn't get a lot of upset from anyone that I would work with.
Anna Fishman:That's great. And then you were able to spend the time with your husband and your child, and work around the schedule that you made for yourself like I feel like the planning is what you know that saying. I always butcher all the saying. So hang with me like, if you fail to plan you plan to fail. I think I got that right.
Renee Hribar:You got it.
Anna Fishman:Just like I catch myself every year around. December 15, ish start. Hearing that my friends have a week off for Christmas. my friends who work in corporate. And I'm like. Oh, that's nice. I won that. But like I work for myself, and I just don't give myself permission to take that week off, because I don't plan for it. So then, like, when I'm people like, Well, you're your own boss, I'm like, yeah, but I still have all the stuff that needs to get done before the end of the year. So last year, when I caught myself on that thought, I blocked the week that I wanted to be off last December. And now, like, it's not as scary, I'm like, well, we're gonna be away this week like that. We're gonna be away from the office if I need to log in, do whatever. And it's like. I don't have that, you know. Heavy weight that like. Oh, like I want to take it, but that's it. It's it's like a Saturday Sunday. It's always there, right. If you want to work, you can work if you don't want to work like then you don't. So I was like, Oh, my God, I need to do more of that, because I do that with my vacations like, if I want to take a week in April, August, or whatever, I'll take a week, 10 days. But for that weekend for the holidays I'm like, why do I always like feel like left out like I? It's my own doing.
Renee Hribar:No agree. And it's literally as simple as that. So I make my Google Calendar. And then I live by it. And so my Google Calendar is my boss. But I created it. Yeah. And so same thing like, and I have a team. And so if they see something blocked off, just is it just is blocked off? Why is irrelevant so it could be like, I always do it like this like, what if I was sick when I would definitely couldn't do it. So just how about we? How about we just prepare to not be sick, you know. I mean, not that we can't get sick, but like I believe that travel keeps me healthy. I believe that travel inspires me. I believe that travel boosts my immune system because of how I feel when I travel, even if I'm just going down the street, even if I'm just going to a hotel in my same town for a staycation. For myself, I do the same thing with, and this is a great analogy for a lot of women, nail appointments, hair appointments, dentist appointments, doctor's appointments. We know when those are coming. I mean, I know when my 6 month dental appointment is 6 months in advance. Right? So we do those things. Why not Spa appointments. So I started doing massage appointments. Okay, once a month. The 3rd Thursday at 7 pm. I'm you know. I just blocked it off. It was it was harder this, like the earlier months, right? So I couldn't. But it's easier to go further out like right now. 3 months from now I got nothing. So it's easy to block things off. So if that's what we have to do to give ourselves that permission slip great. And even if you don't end up going to Italy during the week that you had planned. Well, you can plan it, and you can go to a nice Italian restaurant. Yeah.
Anna Fishman:No, absolutely not. When people a lot of times I meet new people, and they say like, Oh, my God! That's so amazing! One day I'll go to Italy and I am. I'm like in my head. I'm like, Mmm. Because that one day, like it's not on account. If you tell me. I'm gonna go to Italy in 5 years, and I'm blocked that whatever like I blocked that summer, it mentally right? I'm planning for it. I'm saving money whatever like, I'm graduating college, whatever that that or like. Maybe your kids are graduating whatever stage of life you are, then you're gonna go, or if you're telling me. You know what I'm gonna go like in 2 weeks. I just, I'm just gonna like I have 2 weeks off. And I need nothing to, and I'm like you inspired me to go to Italy. I believe you. You tell me one day it will never happen, because that one day it's just like one day, I'm going to go to the gym. No, I'm not like, unless my calendar. I absolutely agree with you people like, oh, how do you like travel? I'm like it's what was it? November right now? I put a week in August when I know my kid has off school and camp, and that's when we're going. I don't know if it's gonna be Italy or whatever. But like, that's when we're traveling. That's how I know, because if I wake up a week before that that week. There's gonna be dentist appointment, nail appointment, everything else. So like you, we have to plan for it, and we have to give ourselves permission to take that time off like we have. We all wear this business as a badge of honor. I'm so busy. Oh, look at my to do list. Look at my calendar. I do the same thing I'm like, look at my calendar. It's like everything is in there, but it's not like I'm just trying to dump it off my from my head onto the paper. Right? We don't need to wear this business badge of honor like no one says on their death badge. Oh, I wish I worked more.
Renee Hribar:I say that all the time deathbed Anna deathbed Rene. Let's talk to her for a second. You think she's going to give a hoots rat about one more email, you know, like. yes, make your bills. Yes, do the work. But it's not like, I think, for many years at least for me. I said I had time or money, I never had both. Well, that was my own doing. No one was forcing me. It was my fault, and so when I realized that I was like, Oh, awesome! I only have control over one thing in this world, me yay, and I get to control my calendar. And so I realized that I was able to control what I did and how I did it, and it changed everything.
Anna Fishman:Absolutely. It is so hard as moms for us to to balance it. It's never a balance. It's a juggling act like it's never a balance. I remember when I worked in corporate, and we had a high ranking senior executive who was a woman, and she did a Q. And a for the company, and I think somebody asked like, How do you manage being a mom and being, I think she was CEO of this company? And she goes, you know, like one day, I'm a really kick ass, CEO, like I do everything that I'm supposed to. I'm at work from 5 Am. Till whatever at 11 Pm. I am at Cnbc, you know, like ringing the bell for the stock market, and I'm flying on a helicopter to meet for lunch for the editor of this magazine. I did it all, but she's like I didn't see my kids that day, and so I sucked as a mom. But the next day I'm going to take a half a day off. I'm gonna suck as the CEO of this company, and I'm going to be a great mom. She's like, as long as you can somehow juggle and balance. Then then, like you can make a difference. And I it's stuck in my head so much that like I when I'm stuck at work and trying to finish something. And I miss, I don't know Miss Bedtime or miss a pickup I'm like, oh, tomorrow is Halloween. I'm gonna take off at 3. I'm gonna go trick or treating with my kids. or like I'm taking Friday off this week because our schools are closed. And so, like I, I started giving myself because the guilt. The guilt is like that cancer. It's like you're constantly, it just spreads. And it's like, I'm like, I'm not going to feel guilty because whatever I'm doing for these 2 h and missing bedtime that's gonna pay for that trip that we're taking. That's gonna pay for that camp, whatever. So it's it's all in our heads. It is all in our heads. And we need to give ourselves permission and let go of this guilt that we're not doing enough.
Renee Hribar:Yeah, right? Because it's never ending. The list is never ending. I love that analogy. Today. I sucked as a mom. But tomorrow I'm gonna make up for it. And today I was great, CEO, and tomorrow I'll suck as a CEO. I love it. I love it branded in my heart. Perfect listeners. Put that down.
Anna Fishman:You know, we started the podcast. Because, I really want women who are listening to this. Podcast. If they're exercising or mopping the floors or rocking a baby, whatever they're doing right when they're I want them to come. Come away from listening to this episode or any of their episodes, at least with one take, or at least with one little inspiration, maybe to block 5 years from now, 3 days to go to Italy, or maybe to block off 10 min to go and look at the sun, because it's a sunny day, right? Like we all. I saw this really funny joke, because we now all live by reels on Instagram. There's nothing else like to entertain us. That's the only thing that my husband and I like to watch together. Everything else will watch apart.
Renee Hribar:Love it.
Anna Fishman:So I saw this reel that now I forgot what I was. Gonna say.
Renee Hribar:This real? And then what?
Anna Fishman:So so this reel about oh, my God! Now it's going to bother me with something about being busy. And oh, my God! See, this is. This is what happens when you have too many things on your mind, anyway. Well, I remember what the reel was about. I'm going to put it in the comments in the podcast, because I just it like, totally see Mercury and retrograde. It totally escaped my mind.
Renee Hribar:Well, I think so. Here's what I think. So when somebody says one day to me, because you said that before. And I say, let's start. Let's start. I mean for me, it's let's start a Google Doc. Right? They're free. They're everywhere and start researching. So go into Airbnb or go to Verbo and go to hotels, go to booking.com, and just have fun and start dropping links of like. If I were to go this time next year. Let's let's figure, let's just map it out just for fun. And you know, those are the kind of things that give us ideas that we can bring to our travel agent and say, Please help us make this real, you know.
Anna Fishman:Yeah, you can also call me and say, Hey, I want to go somewhere next October, and I don't know where. And I'm gonna ask you what you like to do, and I'm gonna plan it for you. So shameless plug, I can do that.
Renee Hribar:Even better, right? Because because right? Because I've been there, I have a chance to sort of start from somewhere. But there's so many people that like I don't even know where to start. Well, you you do.
Anna Fishman:Right.
Renee Hribar:And so what do you like to do? Do you like, you know, food or culture, or museums, or water? And there's so many options to make that trip of a lifetime. and it always opens our eyes to something new. It always. We always come back richer.
Anna Fishman:Yeah.
Renee Hribar:Then we left. and it's in. It's in those riches that we bring to our deathbed. It's not the riches that we have in our bank account because we will spend money. That's okay, because deathbed us will be thankful that we spent that time swimming in the sea, dining at this long, weird table with all these different, and remembering that time when dot dot yeah.
Anna Fishman:And I, as you were saying that I remember the real that I couldn't remember before. So you know, we all take sick days, because if we're not feeling well, we have a day of work. Why can't we take a well day? Why can't we take a day off? Because it's beautiful outside, and we want to take a walk and spend some time with our kids. And I started allowing myself to take like today, I don't feel like working. And I'm gonna take 3 h. And I'm gonna do me like I'm just gonna wellness, whatever you want to call it. Take my kids from to a playground a little bit earlier from school, not leave them at aftercare. And that's maybe not. Everyone can go to Italy right like maybe that's like a long term, but start small, so I would just take a day, take an hour, take like I don't know an afternoon as you get that little vacation time, and see like what it does to your, to your mind.
Renee Hribar:Agreed. One thing I started doing before I started going to these bigger, longer, ongoing, connected trips is little tests like that like, what is that 3 h in the middle of the day feel like? Because, like you said, if I'm not sick, what if I'm well? I was saying, we take sick days, and we don't have any questions. We have no guilt about it, because it's sick day, it's allowed right. Well, what about that? Well, day? And what does that look like? Yeah, like this afternoon? My son and I are going to get flowers for his cousin, my niece, who just had a baby and go bring the flowers, and hope to get some baby hugging time.
Anna Fishman:Congratulations. That's amazing.
Renee Hribar:Yeah. But like, thank you. But like, that's just a little thing. And then we also have plans. We've been looking for to volunteer more. I feel like volunteering is very congruent, at least for me to travel, because it gets me into a place that I most likely am not ever in like. I never have to worry. Knock on wood about food, and so if we're at a food bank and we're packing boxes and we're shipping it off, or we're handing it out to the homeless or handing it out to veterans. It puts us in a state that like helps us understand how good we have a grateful state. and when we have that we realize there's a lot more out there that I could be experiencing, not just for me, but for all of us. you know. I think at least I hope that when I go and meet people in Italy, or Croatia, or Spain, or France, or Switzerland that they're like, oh, a better, Connie, not so bad.
Anna Fishman:Yeah. see? Now, I'm going to walk away from this episode inspired by the volunteering, because it's not. you know, and I shouldn't blame it as much on my bringing, but where I grew up it wasn't a thing. So it's kind of like, not part of my just like I grew up being a Jew, and so we didn't celebrate any holidays. So like, I didn't really know, like, I don't go to synagogue, because that's not how I grew up right. I celebrate at home my own way. So volunteering wasn't really a part of our culture, and I've been here for long enough that I need to like Reteach myself. But I love that. You mentioned that because we are bringing up our kids and a very nice neighborhood, and like they whatever they want, they click on them on Insta, not Instacart, on Instagram, too.
Renee Hribar:Amazon, instacar.
Anna Fishman:It just like appears right. New sneakers ripped here, and new sneakers a pencil broke. Here's no. but I'm like, you know, that's a really good idea, like I'm going to. Now go to my calendar and block some time, because my kid has like 10 days off this winter, and we're not going anywhere. We're gonna so I was thinking of like doing trips to New York and just some like local fund. We can certainly take one day and go to a local food bank, or, like, I look into whatever charities we have here and what we can volunteer and show him that, like not everyone has New Jordans, and that's not the thing to live and thrive to have. I mean, it's nice to have. But there are other things in life. So thanks for inspiring me. See? Like I, we're doing this episode to inspire others. But I'm being I'm walking away inspired as well.
Renee Hribar:Well, good! And on that note I'll just say it's very difficult to find volunteer opportunities for children like young, so what we did is, we'd adopt a family. There's a lot of, I think, adopt a family. If you liked. Were to search it, you could find it, and then we would go to this to the store or Amazon, and buy the boots, or buy the coat, or buy whatever's on that child's wish list. We never meet the child of the family. That's less about it. Because who wants to be like the recipient like? Oh, thank you, you know.
Anna Fishman:Yeah.
Renee Hribar:We get to wrap it, we get to choose it, wrap it, and deliver it to a central location. Where, then, that family is able to receive it. And so, even though we don't meet the other families that are receiving it, it's still that act of giving and knowing that others don't have that, and we're able to provide it. And it's a very, it's very fulfilling.
Anna Fishman:That's amazing. Thanks for sharing that. I'm definitely going to look into that. And I'll put a link into the notes as well for other people who might want to check it out.
Renee Hribar:There's also volunteerism, I mean. Let's go go somewhere.
Anna Fishman:Oh, absolutely! There's a million opportunities for that. Friends of mine went to Costa Rica and helped, you know, lived on the farm and farmed and planted fruits and everything. I went to Israel a few times, and one of the trips we we happened to be in the area affected by war. This was back in 2,007. Fortunately not a whole lot of changed since then, but we were literally planting the trees in the holes in the ground where the rockets fell, and so they removed the debris, and we were planting in New Forests that we were painting the schools. You know, if you have the ability to go abroad and help there you can. But also you don't need to go far, I'm sure if I, Google, my Zip code and whatever is of it like, there's a lot of needs locally as well. So you can, you know, start small, absolutely well, Rene, thank you so much. This has been really really nice to reconnect, and thanks for sharing your story, and thank you for inspiring us to volunteer home and abroad, and for taking the time to travel and spending more time with the family. I know you have a little gift for everyone. Can you tell us more a little bit about that.
Renee Hribar:Absolutely so funding travel, giving ourselves permission, we need to have the idea, the inspiration, the time blocked off, and the money. So, as a sales coach. I have a free sales training. So regardless of what role you have professionally, whether you work for someone else. And you're just thinking about having your own business, or whether you are a full on entrepreneur. These simple practices will help us communicate with people that we want to have conversations with and make them meaningful invitations, whatever those are. So it's a free mini sales course, and I will make sure that the link is in the show notes.
Anna Fishman:Awesome. Thank you so much. This was very generous of you to share, and I'm sure people will find both women and men. It's not. I'm sure it's not only useful for women. People find this absolutely useful, and we'll take some nuggets of gold from that. Thank you, Rene. It was really great chatting with you. Thanks for being here with us.
Renee Hribar:Thank you.