Welcome back to Move with Lauren Elizabeth. I'm Lauren Elizabeth and today I am joined for our current mood combo with

Leia McSweeney from the real housewives of New York City. She's also a fashion industry pioneer entrepreneur and mom and in her new book

Leia McSweeney breaks through the chaos of battling addiction, igniting the streetwear world and disrupting reality television all while being

unapologetically

Lentingly herself. So we are going to talk to Leia about her new book Chaos Theory. We're gonna talk about her younger years, her older years and also being in the public eye

But really just talking about mental health and sharing it online, being a mom, just all the changes you go through and a little bit of

Bravo if you're into that sort of thing. But before we dive in, let's jump into best mood and worst mood of the week.

So my best mood of the week is I truly feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. Like we always talk about these like transitional phases and change and like although like I've been in one for a very long time

And I'm obviously still kind of in one. I feel like a obviously I've trusted the process. I've been very patient

I always say that like I'm being led. God has a plan for me

And so I've been doing a really good job like especially as of late just kind of like not freaking out about all of the decisions I have to make and the changes I have to make in

regards to like where do I want to live? What do I want to do with my life? Just like classic adult things that we all go through and so I've been kind of like

Obviously they're like in my head and on my mind like in my chest with anxiety sometimes

But I've really just kind of like trusted and just taken everything once up at a time

But obviously there comes a time where like you do have to make decisions right and I feel like I made some decisions after feeling like I was being led and really just feeling like the timing was presented to me and for me instead of like making this like crazy decision

Whatever I'm about like where I want to live all that stuff like I just said and I truly feel like a weight has just been lifted off my shoulders

Now that I kind of know a little bit more information like it's like a I feel like I can breathe and like relax and it's not this kind of like impending doom of like oh you're going to have to make a decision soon

Like the decisions just over and also just kind of like speaking my truth and how I feel like all that kind of stuff whether it's to friends and family relationships whatever it is

Like I feel like as women we don't want to kind of cause a ruckus and be a burden and like interrupt anyone's lives make anyone unhappy like we want to be nice and we want to be people pleaser sometimes

And so I feel like just like speaking my mind and like putting myself first and then like making decisions the weight has been lifted off my shoulders and it's just such a nice feeling knowing that like I don't have these like things in the back of my head that I have to decide about being an adult

You know it's like obviously you have to be patient and you don't want to make like a rational decisions but once you do like just confidently decide and I think the reason I was so able to confidently decide kind of like the next little bit of chapter of my life is because I was patient and I did trust

You know my higher power and kind of like experience things and take things one step at a time I wasn't too hard on myself I didn't put pressure on myself like it wasn't like that right but it's still it still kind of bottles up and it's still kind of you know it's pent up inside so weight lifted off shoulders I promise you as much as like all of these things in your head all of these decisions all of these responsibilities whatever it is I promise you that like even if the decision is hard

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