I fainted

in my own masterclass.

I'm not dramatic, but the

story I'm about to tell

you might prove otherwise.

Let me take you back.

A few weeks ago, our family

went to the football.

Now normal Sunday afternoon

there was six of us

and my husband is an ex

Richmond football player,

so of course we went to

see his mighty tigers.

I, on the other hand, am an

avid West Coast supporter.

Always have been,

always will be.

But we do have a handshake

deal, me and my husband,

that if Richmond and West

Coast go together in a final

and Richmond win, I have

to transfer to Richmond.

I have to become a

tiger so far, 15 years.

Fingers crossed.

That's never happened.

Boop boop.

Anyway, we're at the

football and it's about

four in the afternoon.

My daughter, my 11-year-old

daughter says to me, mom,

I'm not feeling so great.

And I'm like, uhoh.

Two hours later we had a

whole stack of vomiting

going on and gastro and

everything in our house.

Anyway, it was a Sunday night,

so I stayed up with her the

night and the next morning

I woke up with a bit of a

headache and I was exhausted.

Obviously.

I had helped my

11-year-old for 24 hours

get through vomiting and.

All the beautiful things

that come with gastro.

I did not need to explain

all of that to you.

So that was on the Monday.

Monday, five o'clock,

24 hours later.

Exactly.

She stopped vomiting.

I'm like, great.

Maybe it's food poisoning,

so maybe it's food poisoning.

But also I was feeling

a little bit off.

Tuesday comes around

and I'm like, no, I'm

feeling, quite off.

So I cleared my schedule.

Serena, who's my

sister and business

manager, works with me.

I cleared my schedule and

she's like, are you okay?

I'm like, I'm not feeling

a hundred percent, but

maybe I'm just being weak.

So I said, I'm just gonna

take, I'm gonna do one

call, have a bucket by

my desk just in case.

Something needs to

happen, and then I'm gonna

take myself off to bed.

So I put myself into bed three

o'clock in the afternoon on

the Tuesday, woke up on the

Wednesday and thought, oh

yeah, I don't feel too bad.

Then I got out of bed and

I'm like, okay, clear my

schedule except for one thing.

You see, we had worked for

weeks and weeks and weeks.

We'd run Facebook ads.

We had talked to our

community and we were

planning to run a Create

Your Offer Masterclass on

the Wednesday for 90 minutes,

and I'm like, I cannot

let down this community.

We had 140 people registered

for a masterclass,

which at the moment.

Everyone.

That's a lot.

So I'm like, right,

I can do this.

90 minutes, I can do this.

Uh, my daughter was

still home because

she's still a bit weak.

So she was downstairs.

I was upstairs in this

studio where you see me

if you're watching us on

YouTube, and I thought,

90 minutes I can do it.

Serena in her wisdom

said, are you sure?

And I'm like, yeah, I, I'm

sure, I'm sure I can do it.

I'm sure it'll be okay.

Uh, my Facebook ads

person said, um, you know,

we've worked really hard.

Just suck it up.

I'm like, yep,

I'm sucking it up.

I'm just gonna do it.

And no matter if anyone

had said to me, don't do

it, I would've ignored them

because I wanted to show up

for my community so badly.

I had things to say, people

to teach all the things.

So I showed up as you do.

We had about 50,

60 women on Zoom.

It was recorded.

Serena doesn't normally

spend the entire

masterclass with me.

She just kind of

lets people in.

But she had said to me

that morning, Hey, 'cause

you're not feeling a hundred

percent, I'll just stick

around and just make sure

that everything works.

I'm like, cool.

That would be amazing.

I start the masterclass.

I know I'm not my sparky

self, I'm not faking it, but

I am going, you know what?

I'm here to serve my community

and my community, get the

very best that they can get.

And about 16 minutes

in, I was like, whew.

Something's off.

I'm not feeling that well.

And then my notes started

to have stars on them and

I'm like, oh, this is, this

is actually not very good.

And so I took a break,

I took a breather, I

grabbed a drink and Serena

covered me beautifully.

She's like, she's just

taking a break ladies.

She's just, you know,

having a drink of water,

it's gonna be fine.

Came back, it was good

so everyone could see

what was going on.

'cause it was recorded.

Kind of like this, if

you're watching me.

Okay, so we take a drink

and we get on with things.

Right?

About a minute later, I said

to the ladies, I'm so sorry,

we've picked up gastro or

food poisoning or something,

and I've been struggling

with that, I didn't even

get to finish the sentence

and I dropped ladies.

Miss Fainty Fainty pants.

So I was out of the picture.

I was out of the picture

on the floor and I mustn't

have been out for long.

I mean, you can imagine

the embarrassment to

start with, right?

But anyway, I was out on

the floor and then I woke

up and all I could hear was

50 women yelling my name,

Emma, wake up Emma, Emma.

Okay.

Most people would be

embarrassed by this.

And now I think it's funny,

but you know, a little

bit of time has passed.

Anyway, so I woke up

from my fainting episode.

I won't tell you the damage

that because I fell on

boxes, so I won't tell you

the damage of the bruising

that has happened, but

I woke up and I'm like.

Oh my goodness.

I jumped back on Zoom and, and

I kept going, no, I'm kidding.

I did not keep going.

Can you imagine?

Anyway, I jumped up

and everyone's like, oh

my God, are you okay?

Are you okay?

And I'm like, ladies,

clearly I'm not okay.

We're probably gonna have

to pull this zoom call.

We'll see you later.

And I hung up.

I took myself off to bed.

Before I took myself off to

bed, I had a beautiful, one

of my beautiful, thriving

women on the call who lives

around the corner, and she

said to Serena on the call.

I'm gonna go over there.

I'm gonna go over there

and make sure she's okay.

so I didn't know any

of this had happened

in the background.

Now ladies, I

can't help myself.

I went back and watched

the recording to see what

kind of train wreck was

happening, and Serena was

so freaking calm.

Now.

She is a ambo by trade,

a mental health nurse,

and everyone was like,

Serena, we need to do this,

Serena, we need to do that.

And Serena's like, I'm

going to call her husband.

It's going to be fine.

Anyway, Serena told me

later that she was so

stressed after the two

hours of sorting everything

out, she got a blood nose.

And also she's in Western

Australia, so she's watching

her little sister drop

to the floor and there

is she can do about it.

Anyway, so that's fun.

Let's start there.

Now, I tell you this story

because there is no chance

that anyone could have

talked me out of showing

up for my community.

And I also tell

this story because.

This isn't about self-care,

so the amount of commentary

I got back, you should

look after yourself.

You should do this.

You should.

No, no, no.

Ladies.

I was just sick.

I didn't realize that I

had gastro food poisoning

and COVID all rolled into

one at that point in time,

and so I was just sick.

If anyone talks to me

about self-care, I do

my 20,000 steps a day.

I nap every day.

I've got good diet, good

exercise, good water.

I don't drink alcohol.

I don't smoke like I am

a clean, clean liver.

So this is not

about self-care.

This is just about stupidity,

basically, and me wanting

to show up for my community.

But in doing so, you

know what happened?

My community showed up for me

these women on the call, there

was no judgment, there was

no, you should have done this,

you should have done that.

They were literally and

genuinely so concerned, and

it made me really reflect on

what a community feels like.

A community is when

we come together for a purpose

that is the same, right?

All these women jumped on this

call to learn from me about

create your offer masterclass.

Now, side note, we did send

them not that recording,

a different recording

so that they still got

the value in it, right?

'cause I could not

let my community down.

But as I reflected on this,

and you know, people do the

whole, um, oh, things happen

for you, not to you, right?

I always think anyway, but.

This happened Absolutely

for me because it was

at a moment in time.

when I watched the recording

back, they were all just

like, I mean, I'm sure it

looked like a train wreck,

but they were all just like,

Emma, are you okay Emma?

Are you okay?

I don't know many communities

that would just like

go, oh, that's crazy.

Hey, let's just yell her

name out until she wakes up.

Like, that's incredible.

and then to have someone

that's on the call

who lives near me, go,

I'm going over there.

That is just some sense of

community going on there.

Right?

And so this isn't

about self-care ladies.

This is probably just

about stupid choices,

let's be honest.

But I wanted to show up

and serve for my community.

I. So I took myself off to

bed after that and didn't

emerge for seven days.

As it turns out, Evie

and I both got COVID

and so we isolated in my

bedroom for seven days.

And, one of the things

that we do in the thriving

human community is.

Grateful Friday.

So kind of what are

you grateful for?

that's kind of how

we wrap the week up.

And in my COVID hazed state,

I had messaged one of the

thriving women and said,

can you just kick off Happy

Grateful Friday for me.

because of course I

can't show off on camera.

Right.

So when you're

sick, you're sick.

Totally get it.

Also, when you run a

community, you kind of

have to have a bit of

a backup plan, right?

So there's that as well.

Anyway, and her name is Deb.

She's amazing.

So she jumped on, I didn't

see any of this 'cause I

was, COVID has she jumped on

and she said, oh, so Emma's

just asked me to jump on and

do Happy Grateful Friday.

So I thought that

would be awesome.

And I also thought it would be

awesome to share our stories

of gratitude about Emma.

I am like, okay, that

wasn't the brief.

That wasn't the brief.

So everyone jumped on and did.

I'm grateful for

Emma for this.

I'm grateful for

Emma for that.

it was unbelievable.

And I thought to myself,

that's what community is.

They are cheering you on.

They are cheerleading

you as you go.

They are uplifting

and It was so lovely.

It was like a report card.

You know when you get a report

card and you think, holy

crap, I hope this is great,

or you get feedback like

it was immediate feedback,

one after the other and

it made me just go, wow.

I am so lucky and blessed

to run a beautiful community,

to be in some beautiful

communities and to really feel

the love of that community.

So.

If you want a nice community,

thriving women will be open

for 2026 sometime soon.

But I wanna say to you, there

is enough people, naysaying,

being critical, being

judgemental in this world, we

do not need any more of that.

But if you can genuinely be

kind, non-judgmental, cheer

people on and encourage

them, wow, as it makes

a massive difference.

So may this be my lesson?

Yes.

I am a determined woman.

And yes, sometimes that

goes into overdrive.

And yes, sometimes I

make silly choices.

Do you know what?

I'm just human at

the end of the day.

And you do make choices

based on what you think

is the right thing.

And for me, I was like, I

have 140 people registered.

That means we'll have like

30 show up, 50 turned up.

I have to be there now.

Could I have canceled?

Yes.

Could I have rescheduled?

Yes.

But lesson for next time.

We'll know better next time.

Anyway, so that is my

little story for today.

I hope that you have

a community that

feels like that.

It feels like a warm hug

where you feel like if you

fainted that, just yell

your name until you woke up.

That's all I've got today.

Thanks for joining

in today, ladies.