I am Jayla. A wife, mother of 3(8,7,2), full time realtor/social media director and co-host of our weekly  self-improvement podcast. I am loud, spontaneous, a thriving energetic morning person, and always  ready to bust out a dance move. I am from a small town with one caution light and a popular dairy bar, I  moved to Wheeling, WV when I transferred colleges in 2007 and never left. 

I was always a go getter and worked through college. After college, I continued that drive and worked  two jobs until having two kids back-to-back and landing my hardest job ever as a stay-at-home-mom.  While I have no regrets, this time was a hard adjustment for me. Being an extrovert, I needed to get  back to work to some degree. I decided to go “part time” in real estate (I was never part time due to my  go getter personality lol). While going through the classes, my mother/hero became sick for the third  time with breast cancer. The first time was when I was 4 years old. My mom moved in with my crazy  little family and started treatment. I ended up pregnant with my third child and was just keeping up like I do. Push forward and pile up the plate. My mom started weekly aggressive treatments in Cleveland and  things were getting better until they weren’t. In six short months, I began working FULL time again since  being home for 6 years, taking care of a newborn (and my younger children), and planning my young  mother’s funeral. There are a lot of details and things I am not mentioning. It is still very hard to circle  back to my reasons why I started this “self help junkie” journey. However, one of my main reasons I am  happy I began to be curious about it is because it led to a strengthened friendship with Shaye. Our  friendship began as having kids similar in age, to belonging to the same yoga studio then eventually meeting to jog in the mornings when yoga wasn’t available in our early riser schedules. We both started  looking into and trying little “turtle steps” and sharing our experiences. This led to trying things  togethers such as reading the same self-improvement books and doing meditation/,manifestation  challenges together. We would sign up, participate, and discuss ways it helped us until we both has a  desire to share to possibly help others. We wanted to share our knowledge because “Why not?” It has  helped us up until now and I look forward to what to come with Shaye and other “why notters.”