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Tati:

• IG - @tationathomas

• TikTok - @tati_thomas

Travis:

• IG - @timefortravis

• TikTok - @thejuicebeloose

• YouTube: LINK

🔑 Key Takeaways for Listeners:

✅ Be grateful for overlooked basics like waking up, breathing, clean air, tiny details in nature.

✅ Daily gratitude practice helps shift your mindset and attract more positivity.

✅ Move past “cookie cutter” lists; focus on unique qualities, lessons, and hardships that shaped you.

✅ Break the chain reaction: Use gratitude to stop negative energy from spreading in your day or relationships.

✅ Strengthen relationships: Practice gratitude for your partner’s growth, communication, and support - not just surface-level traits.

✅ Embrace hardships as fuel: Be thankful for struggles and challenges that built resilience and drive.

✅ Write it down: Journaling your gratitude daily solidifies the practice and amplifies its impact.

✅ Live as teammates: Gratitude for each other’s strengths creates unity, trust, and shared growth in relationships.

In episode 5 of Heart and Hustle, we celebrate reaching our pre-launch milestone: recording five full episodes before going public. Unlike polished productions, we intentionally share the “messy middle” of building so listeners can see what growth really looks like. This transparency reflects our commitment to showing the real process behind entrepreneurship, family life, and personal development.

• Why Gratitude Matters:The central theme of the conversation is gratitude. For Tati, gratitude has been a cornerstone of her journey since first learning about the law of attraction over a decade ago. She explains how, even when far from her goals, practicing gratitude shifted her mindset and opened the door for bigger breakthroughs. By focusing on small things like waking up, breathing clean air, noticing the details of nature - she trained her brain to find abundance everywhere.

• Science backs this up: Consistent gratitude practice rewires the brain to naturally seek positivity, making people more magnetic to opportunities and joy.

• Everyday Gratitude in Action:Travis shares his perspective, starting with appreciation for his partner. He credits her influence with helping him uncover and heal parts of himself he didn’t even realize were hidden. Beyond their relationship, he grounds his gratitude in simple truths: every morning he wakes up is a reason to be thankful. This mindset allows him to approach challenges with resilience, even on difficult days.Together, they highlight how gratitude shifts perspective. Instead of dwelling on frustrations or negative encounters, they focus on breaking the “chain reaction” of negativity. By choosing gratitude and reframing situations, they stop small irritations from snowballing into bigger conflicts.

• Gratitude, Growth, and PartnershipThis episode also explores how gratitude strengthens relationships. We emphasizes open communication, willingness to call each other higher, and rejecting ego as cornerstones of their bond. We describe our partnership as a true team effort - always striving toward shared goals, even when they approach problems from different angles. For us, gratitude isn’t about surface-level acknowledgments like “I’m thankful for my spouse” or “I’m thankful for my kids.” It’s about going deeper - being grateful for the growth, lessons, and even the hardships that shaped who we are. Tati reflects on how her husband’s difficult upbringing became fuel for his drive to be a present father and supportive partner, something she deeply admires.