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Hello to all. Welcome to Diva Care Network. I am Joyce Banning and I will be your host for this invigorating robust lifestyle show. I would first like to take a moment and thank each one of our listeners that have tuned in live and the ones that will be listening to the recording on the podcast. I am just so very grateful and thankful for each and every one of you. And you are in for a very special show today, as I have with me a Diva that has a story in our upcoming Our Mothers, Our Daughters Divas That Care book that is to be released this coming week right before Mother's Day. Oh, how exciting. So, Irena, could you please introduce yourself to our listeners today?
SPEAKER_00Certainly. Thank you so much, Joyce, for having me and everybody for listening to Divas That Care. We are really trying to be inspirational, motivational, and helpful to everybody because it is so special to be a woman these days and to help out other women. I am a retired OBGYN, so I really know about women's woes from the get-go. For myself as a wife of over 40 years now, having born five children, I have five children of my own, and now being a first-time grandmother. This analogy about, you know, mothers and daughters has been very special to me in my heart because my oldest is a daughter. And there is just something so special about being about being a mother as well. After my retirement from doing OBGYN, I became a relationship coach. And I think still this is the most important thing that we can give our children is a foundation for them being able to thrive in relationships, in human relations, because this is what drives the whole world.
SPEAKER_01Oh, oh, how beautiful. Oh my goodness. Yeah, you you know women very much then the career that you had and now being a relationship coach, your your new journey into doing this after you retired. Oh, and I love how you said to be an inspirational and motivational for other women. How beautiful that is, and how you are showing that by everything you have done throughout your life and your times of helping women in so many different ways. Oh, that is beautiful, Irena. Very, very special. Thank you so much. Well, you are so very welcome. Well, and I have to ask, you've said a little bit about being an inspiration and being motivational, but what really inspired you to submit your story to Divas at Care for our Mothers, Our Daughters book?
SPEAKER_00No, when Candace was asking, that was almost a year ago now, I had just become a new grandmother, and it reminded me again how special it is to become a mother, and that every person in this world has a mother. And many times people forget how special that is for a woman to be able to bring a new life into this world. And also for the kids when they grow up they forget about how special their mom actually is. And we women are always, I think, our own worst critic. Of course, you know, we have been brought up to be sugar and spice and everything nice and y don't look for yourself, always look for others. Right? This is kind of ingrained in everybody because when you become a mother everything that's not you. The baby, everybody around is going to take precedence. And you gladly do that and you gladly kind of sacrifice part of your life for this, for the new life, and it's just taken for granted. And then then we start taking ourselves for granted and always feel it's not good enough. And that is so pervasive that I'm talking to, you know, so many clients about that issue that they all think that's just not good enough.
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Oh my, how true that is with women, because I I totally agree with you. We are our worst credits and we we're always looking to help the others that we forget our own needs a lot of times and taking ourselves for granted. And how how special the women are. So oh how beautiful I it is it is just exactly incredible. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_00And you know they all just reminded me f about this so much because mothers and daughters it it's just a special bond that should be cherished.
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SPEAKER_01Oh yes, very much cherished. Because like you said, we all have a mother in this world. Mm-hmm. And how beautiful that is and how special that is and to remember to remember that and to cherish those moments with your mother. And oh, I can I can hear in my heart that you are a great relationship coach on helping helping women. The the few words you've just spoken here in these few short minutes, it's just it's touched my heart because it is it is so true how so many of women feel around the world, no matter where they're at, we all share a bond like that and that is that is what is so beautiful. It just all it all connects us all together is how I feel.
SPEAKER_00Oh, one hundred percent. This is also the reason why I actually became an OBGYN because I felt a connection to like sister a sisterhood. You know, because at um this was in Switzerland and most of the gynecologists there were male. And I felt like how can a gynecologist understand a woman who may go through all these different things, you know, from getting her period the first time or not getting it on time, or then not being able to become pregnant, or going through pregnancy, then having a miscarriage or even stillbirth and later on menopause. How could a man understand that? And I felt such a kinship to other women that I just I I guess I'm born with a helper gene, you know. Um that I just felt this must there must be another way and the women really appreciated that as well. Oh it's just different, right? It's just different. You know when you talk to somebody else who is a grandmother, you understand what she means. Mm-hmm. How true.
SPEAKER_01And I love how you said the sisterhood. And that's that is so true, because we all are sisters and all are connected in so many ways. And uh it takes a woman to understand a woman. Because like you said, that's why you became an O B G Y N. Because you felt you could re you could relate, you could understand what they were going through. And oh that is so true. So beautiful. Oh, what a very special, special woman you are, and how you thank you. You're so welcome because I can just feel it. I can feel the energy through this call of you are you are true to your heart. You're you are speaking from your heart and sharing w what passion you have to help other women in this world. And that's what is so beautiful and that's how we make this world a better place, by all of us women linking arms together like that. And that is beautiful, I love it.
SPEAKER_00And that's what the divas do, right? That's what the divas are for. Because no matter what situation a woman is in there, you they need compassion. Because even they feel they're never good enough. Now comes a husband who is mean or even abusive or fathers that, you know, try to put them down, which happened everybody has this kind of a story. And it's just it's just wrong. It's just so wrong. So we have to hold hold the fort for everybody else as well and band together and being the sisterhood. Incl you know, have everybody embrace everybody no matter where they are.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_00And in what situation they are. So I feel we can be even if you don't have children you could still be, you know, nurturing another woman in a certain way as a best friend maybe.
SPEAKER_02Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Oh, I feel that too. They can you can show it in so many ways and you can help and I always say we're mothers to our fur babies too. 'Cause they they need our love and attention also, just like the humans do and they need our care. So there's so many ways to describe the word mother and in how I feel and the sisterhood of what all that entails together.
SPEAKER_00Yes, exactly. Yeah. Well, it's something very, very special to be a mother. To see somebody else become a mother. And if that is your own daughter, it's even more special because I was honored and privileged to be able to be there during when my daughter gave birth to um you know, my first grandchild. She requested my presence, which I was very honored by that request.
SPEAKER_01Oh, that's beautiful. That's beautiful. You have a beautiful relationship and that is so precious, very precious. Well, in your story, you have shared so much already to spark all the interest that the readers will want to read your story in our mother's, our daughters book. What is a golden nugget from your story that you would like to share with our readers to i really ignite that spark that this is the book that I want to read? Because I especially want to read Irene's story along with other all the others. What is a golden nugget you'd like to share this?
SPEAKER_00It's not only my story, you know, I think my story may be interesting from the perspective of my own mother who just celebrated her one hundred and third birthday, and she is still able to live by herself, and she was a really a s very special woman back in the days when there were no, you know, there was no woman's right to vote. She became a suffragette, she made it through World War Two. She actually enlisted because she felt she wanted to support the effort against Hitler. And all of th I think that is her story is the one that is the most interesting, but I'm a hundred percent sure and I totally I actually, you know, ordered that book as soon as it was able to be ordered for myself because I want to see the other stories too, because everybody every woman has a story to tell about either being a mother, having a mother, or seeing somebody else becoming a mother in very special circumstances. There are so many different nuances of motherhood that I can't wait to read those stories because I know there is the golden nugget is just it will be inspirational and it may very well bring a reader to a transformation that they can bring that inspiration into themselves and get an idea of transforming their own life or somebody else's, having more compassion maybe for themselves as well.
SPEAKER_02Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_00Oh, how beautiful.
SPEAKER_01Yes, what a great golden nugget. And each story is going is very special and very unique in its own way, as each woman is sharing from their heart uh our mother's, our daughters' experiences. So oh I love that and finding compassion. Oh, those were beautiful golden nuggets, Irena. I want to thank you. Thank you again. Oh, you are so welcome, and thank you for being on Robust Lifestyles and sharing about your life and about our mothers, our daughters book. And I just want to wish you a very magical day.
SPEAKER_00Well, thank you very much. And you too, from one sister to the other, from mother to the other, and grandmother to the other, have a happy, wonderful Mother's Day with everybody around and your loved ones. It is something very, very special and we need to celebrate that. Yes. And I thank you so much to include me into this show and into the divas and the book. So we may we may continue the work. Yes, yes, definitely.
SPEAKER_01Oh, you are so very welcome and I oh thank you for all those kind words. That was just beautiful. Thank you so much, Irina, and uh I would love to have you back on my show later on after the book is released and have you share more about all the beauty that you are bringing into this world through being an inspirational, being motivational, and how you have done this all your life in all the different aspects of your careers that you have had. I would love to have you back on Robust Lifestyles to share more about the sisterhood of women.
SPEAKER_00Well, I thank you so much, Joyce. Really uh I'm honored, I'm flattered, I'm very pleased, and it would be my great pleasure. Thank you so much. Oh, you are so welcome, and oh, I am excited.
SPEAKER_01Well, thank you so much again, and I also want to thank our listeners for listening to this absolutely amazing show with our incredible Diva Irena. And she did say she will be back on Robust Lifestyles to share more about the sisterhood of women and everything that she is doing in her careers, and we have so much to look forward to. And with that, we have so much to look forward to with our upcoming our Mothers, our daughters book to be released this week, right before Mother's Day. Oh, what a beautiful time to be sharing these stories with the world. And remember, you can go to Amazon, Kobo, or Absolute Publishing and get your book ordered on the pre-launch so you will have it in your hands when it is released this week. Oh, how exciting! And I want to thank each one of you for being my listener on this awesome show that we just had with Irena. Share it with all your family and friends, check out all the other hosts and their shows on dividcare.com. Have a magical day. Be kind and remember, it you can be an inspiration. Find that compassion inside of you and try and work on not being your worst critic and taking yourself for granted as a woman, because we are a sisterhood of women, and that's how we link arms and make this world a better place. And remember, give your animals a hug and share your love with them until we connect again on robust lifestyles. Stay strong and healthy.