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I'm depressed because I'm fat. The only thing that kind of relieves that depression is food. I'm doing the thing that's keeping me, you know, fat. Ended up getting up to two hundred and fifty pounds. Just kinda lost myself.
Linnsey Dolson:But now you're in like, you're hot girl summer for the rest of your life.
Delany Dunham:Left a really toxic marriage. I think a lot of women stay because of finances. All the time. I'm so glad I took that leap and got out. I started marketing my whole glow up and post divorce like healing journey and that's where you know I started making a lot of money again on my own. Now I'm down over just over 90 pounds.
Linnsey Dolson:Social media is great and people love relatable things but not just sharing the mess but sharing that there's a solution beyond it.
Delany Dunham:I've always obsessed over losing weight. Now to actually do it and be able to like share that journey and inspire other people and to build a business now around the thing that's changed my entire life, it's game over.
Linnsey Dolson:Got out of your comfort zone and looking, like everything that you've ever wanted in life was on the other side of it.
Delany Dunham:These are not real.
Linnsey Dolson:Girl. People ask me, they're like, are your boobs real? Like really, come on. I have six kids.
Delany Dunham:You know better.
Linnsey Dolson:You think these boobs are real? I don't do it for anyone else. Like, I don't care what else things, but I do it for me.
Delany Dunham:And it's like fun. I can't imagine going the rest of my life like not experiencing how good this feels.
Delany Dunham:Welcome to Bare It All With Linnsey, you guys. I have my guest Delaney here. I'm so excited. I seen her on social media and I was like, I love this chick. I just love everything about her.
Linnsey Dolson:She's funny, she had a great personality. I'm like, and you just moved here, right?
Delany Dunham:I did. Yeah. Friday.
Linnsey Dolson:She just moved here. So I was like, you gotta be on my podcast. So tell us a little bit about like your journey. I know that you're the ultimate just like glow up, right?
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah. You totally left a shitty relationship, glowed, glow up and now you're in like I don't know. You're a hot girl summer for the rest of your life. Tell us about it.
Delany Dunham:So I was a division one college softball player. This was probably ten, eleven years ago, and was in the prime of my life, best shape. And then after I finished my career, I really just I went down a dark path, got into addiction, you know, some toxic relationships, just kinda lost myself.
Linnsey Dolson:Sure.
Delany Dunham:And ended up getting up to two hundred and fifty pounds, so gained over a 100 pounds and was there for, yeah, almost like a decade trying to lose the weight, everything. And wasn't until just over a year and a half ago, I made the decision to get a divorce and left a really toxic marriage, moved my ass all the way across the country to Dallas, Texas to start over.
Linnsey Dolson:Good for you. So this is pretty recent. Yeah. A year and a half ago.
Linnsey Dolson:Yes.
Linnsey Dolson:Okay. So this wasn't that long ago and you said so you struggle with like some addiction stuff. So do you wanna talk about that?
Delany Dunham:Yeah, we can.
Linnsey Dolson:I mean, you don't have to be shy, girl. You know. You know I put my story out there. I put my mugshots out there. Like, girl, no shame, no judgment.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:But do you feel like that had to do with your weight gain? Like I know a lot of people I work with, who struggle with like alcoholism, that thing that kind of stuff they definitely gain weight. So sometimes weight gain can definitely come from, you know, alcoholism, drug addiction, all that.
Delany Dunham:Right. And and they they say when you get sober, you would think that you would like lose a bunch of weight. I'm not sober now by the way, but I had gotten sober for almost three years.
Linnsey Dolson:Okay.
Delany Dunham:But, you know, you would think you would like drop all this weight because you're not drinking like 15 Red Bull vodkas every night.
Linnsey Dolson:Right.
Delany Dunham:But you actually like replace that with something else, which for me was always food.
Linnsey Dolson:Sure.
Delany Dunham:I always turned to food.
Linnsey Dolson:Because you have that, you're trying to fill something. You're trying to fill a void.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. It's this vicious cycle where you're like depressed that you're, you know I will say I always say I'm depressed because I'm fat and then
Linnsey Dolson:No. Definitely.
Delany Dunham:I you know, the only thing that kind of relieves that depression is food or, you know, an alcohol or drugs or something like that. And so it was like I'm depressed because I'm fat but I'm doing the thing that's keeping me, you know, fat.
Linnsey Dolson:Right. It's just a vicious cycle for sure.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. And so battled with with that. I think too my drinking and everything was more based on situational instance in my life. Like I don't really struggle with that anymore.
Linnsey Dolson:Sure.
Delany Dunham:I can drink occasionally and be fine, but I think also having I mean, get it, you're an entrepreneur too. Having your own business now, I'm like, I have something I have to wake up for and something to live for now that keeps me responsible.
Linnsey Dolson:Gives you like drive.
Delany Dunham:Yes. And that sort I didn't have that before when I was just in the corporate world.
Linnsey Dolson:Well, no. And that makes sense. And a lot of times, like, if we're in a shitty situation, we wanna numb it. And it's like, so like a horrible relationship, that would absolutely make sense.
Linnsey Dolson:You just wanna keep numbing it and alcohol is a very common thing.
Delany Dunham:Yep.
Linnsey Dolson:And there's definitely two different ways. There's like alcoholism where like me, if I have a drink of wine, I'm gonna fucking end up in handcuffs.
Linnsey Dolson:Like, I'm gonna drive drunk, I'm gonna hit somebody and I'm getting arrested. There's just no fucking doubt about it. Do not give me because I'm just zero to a 100. But then there's other people who you know, I've worked with many people and they're like just in a shitty situation and they drink because like they wanna get away from it. Right?
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:So it's just knowing yourself and all of that, but it definitely will cause so tell us a little bit about how you lost that weight and this huge blow up you have.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:You look fucking amazing.
Delany Dunham:Thank you. Thank you. So I I left that marriage. I was also on a bunch of antidepressants that I got myself off of.
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah and that goes hand in hand with all of it. Right? Blew up on with that.
Delany Dunham:Yes.
Linnsey Dolson:Oh, and those do make you gain weight.
Delany Dunham:They do.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:That's right. I've heard that.
Delany Dunham:They make you gain weight. They kill your sex drive. Like, they are just I hated them. They helped with the depression but
Linnsey Dolson:So I'm not depressed but I don't have sex, I have fat and everything else, like fuck.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:Damn it.
Delany Dunham:It's like a catch 22. Totally.
Linnsey Dolson:But, yeah, so I got off of some of those and got out of that marriage and just kind of rebuilt myself. I left everything behind, left him with everything. I was like, I don't want money, I don't want the house, I just wanna start over because I knew how much being in that environment was just like holding me back. Yeah. And so, yeah, I kinda just picked a spot on the map. I always knew that I had this vision when I was married, I knew that I wasn't gonna be with him long term.
Linnsey Dolson:Sure.
Delany Dunham:You know, I reached a point where I was like, I need to get out of this.
Linnsey Dolson:You just knew that was not your person.
Delany Dunham:Not my person.
Linnsey Dolson:Sometimes you know that for quite some time before you actually can take the step to leave it.
Delany Dunham:It's hard.
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah.
Delany Dunham:And especially, you know, I had built a massive business before when we first had met and I was actually the sole provider for a long time. And then I I got into a really bad place mentally with the the marriage that I just started, like, I wasn't making money anymore, I wasn't I didn't wanna get up, I didn't wanna do anything, and he ended up going back to work and towards the end, like, my income, I was not able to just get out on my own and start over.
Linnsey Dolson:Sure.
Delany Dunham:So I think a lot of women stay because of finances. They're dependent on the other person.
Linnsey Dolson:All the time.
Delany Dunham:And it's unfortunate because I'm so glad I took that leap and got out.
Delany Dunham:I ended up joining another network marketing company
Linnsey Dolson:Okay.
Delany Dunham:And just ran with that. Just started marketing my whole glow up and post divorce, like, healing journey and that's where I started making a lot of money again on my own, rebuilt everything and yeah, I lost now I'm down over just over 90 pounds.
Linnsey Dolson:That's amazing.
Delany Dunham:Oh, yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:And people love when you share relatable things.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:So social media is incredible. Like when I meet somebody and they're like, I don't use social media and I'm like, wait, what? Who are you? Like, I'm what?
Delany Dunham:I know.
Linnsey Dolson:Because it's so fucking amazing.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:Like social media is great and people love relatable things. So being so open and raw like I was depressed, I was in a shitty relationship, I was overweight like all these things and really sharing but not just sharing the mess, but sharing that there's a solution beyond That you can go from that to where you're at. People love that and and you inspire like that inspires so many women because I truly believe when you feel good and you look good, you execute at a completely different level. When I wake up and if I'm lazy and I like throw my hair in a bun and I look like shit, like I feel like I don't execute right. But when I get up, I do my hair and my makeup, I'm dressed cute, I'm on fire.
Delany Dunham:Yep.
Linnsey Dolson:You know?
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:It just and it truly does change how you feel. So I mean, imagine now, it's just you're on fire way more than you were before.
Delany Dunham:Oh my gosh. I'm a completely different person. I can't imagine going the rest of my life like not experiencing how good this feels. Because I used to be one of those that was like, oh, self love, like never really understood it because I hated myself. I was miserable and didn't like how I looked. Then now, like, I don't vainly say I'm obsessed with myself, but I love how I look
Linnsey Dolson:You fucking should be obsessed with yourself.
Delany Dunham:No. Not in a not in a like a a vain way, but just like a wow, like when you go so long like avoiding mirrors, hating how you look and then now you like how you look, you're like, oh wow, I can't stop looking or I wanna take pictures, I wanna be, you know, in content and stuff or I wanna go on vacation and enjoy it, you know?
Linnsey Dolson:Right.
Delany Dunham:I never used to do that.
Linnsey Dolson:Oh my God, like, okay, I did a mommy makeover. So like once I built my business to where like I was financially secure and all this shit, I'm like, man, I I feel like you live once. Book the flight, the trip, do the surgery, do whatever you want, man. I got my boobs done, I got my tummy done, I got fat transferred to my butt, I got nose done, CO2, I have extensions, I don't even-
Delany Dunham:And you feel amazing.
Linnsey Dolson:So many people comment. Dude, I love it.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:Man, I'm like, sometimes I have to be careful on vacation because like I I'm like, okay, that you need to wear a little more clothes. Little more clothes. But like, because I feel so good.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:I love that.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:And life is super short and you get people that are like, oh, you post too many pictures of yourself
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:Or you're too vain. No. I love myself.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:And you know what? It's like a different level of confidence when you love yourself like that because then you're able to put yourself out there on social media because you know the comments you get on social
Delany Dunham:Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:Oh my god.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:Seriously, and then you know what's crazy? Is you'll get somebody that's like, you're so vain, talk all this shit, then you go to their profile and they got like a picture of their fucking cat as their profile picture. You know what I mean?
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:And I'm like, come on bud.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:Or it looks like some person that lives in their mom's basement and watches porn on a daily basis. Right?
Delany Dunham:It's always those. Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:But it's like when you love yourself
Delany Dunham:You don't care.
Linnsey Dolson:You don't need anybody else to validate you or to think good about you or to love you because like, I love me. And if don't like me, that's okay because I like me.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:So tell us a little bit about how you lost 90 pounds.
Delany Dunham:Okay. So the weight loss shot.
Linnsey Dolson:Girl. Yes.
Delany Dunham:Let's talk about it.
Linnsey Dolson:I love that shit. Yes, girl.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. I mean, I'll be on it for the rest of my life. I am addicted.
Linnsey Dolson:Game changer. Yeah. It's crazy.
Delany Dunham:That yeah. It changed my life. You know, and I actually I had tried it two to three years back when it first started getting popular.
Linnsey Dolson:Did you try the the tirzepatide or the ozempic?
Delany Dunham:I've always used tirzepatide. It's the best.
Linnsey Dolson:Same. I've never tried Ozempic.
Delany Dunham:No. No. Never did Ozempic. I have friends that did, but you it's way way better results with tirzepatide.
Linnsey Dolson:And less side effects.
Delany Dunham:Less side effects. Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:Yes. Because I have an autoimmune. And so, like, I'm sensitive to stuff. I tried what are those? There's these pills. I can't even think of the name of it, but it's a pill that I tried at first. Well, it made me so sick. Betramine?
Linnsey Dolson:Betramine.
Delany Dunham:Yes. Yes.
Linnsey Dolson:Oh, hell no. I felt like I was tweaking.
Delany Dunham:Does it make you like such a bitch on it?
Linnsey Dolson:I was in the office like.... what are you guys doing? What are you guys doing?
Delany Dunham:Yeah. It's like Adderall.
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah. I was like a fucking tweaking. Yeah. No, thank you.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:But the tirzepatide, I had a girlfriend who I was like, girl, what the fuck are you doing? You're looking snatched as hell. And she told me about it and I love it.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:It's amazing because I'm lazy. I'll go on kicks where I'm like all about the gym for like a couple months and then sometimes I won't go for a long time and then I travel a lot so I'll eat like crap.
Delany Dunham:Yep.
Linnsey Dolson:So I really enjoy the fact that like I can be lazy and it's good and still stay snatched.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. Yeah. I've had people be like, well, wasn't just the shot, was it? I'm like, no, it it kinda just was.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. It just melts it off.
Linnsey Dolson:My dinner last night was a beef jerky stick and fucking gummy bears. Oh my god.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. Well, that's the thing is everybody's like, well, what what was the diet that you're using? I'm like, I don't. I just I eat whatever I want. I just eat way less, which I love. You don't have to restrict.
Linnsey Dolson:You just eat a little bit and you're full, which is so good.
Delany Dunham:It's heavenly.
Linnsey Dolson:And you don't have to once you lose, like and we're not marketing for this, you guys. I'm just saying because like I actually really love it. But
Delany Dunham:I'm marketing.
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah. She markets for it. So at the end, we'll tell you how to follow her. But it really is like like actually, I love it. And now I don't take the full shot because lose any more weight, I just wanna maintain.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. So you probably are micro dosing it?
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah. Yeah. Yep. I just do like a little bit.
Delany Dunham:Yep. That's what I'm gonna do. So I have like fifteen, twenty pounds left I wanna lose to reach my goal and then I'll switch to micro dosing it and and I can do that forever.
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah. And then you have like this one cheat date on it. So we went to the fair the
Delany Dunham:Oh, the day before, yep.
Linnsey Dolson:day before. I can tell my shot was due. Fucking eat everything. Two things of nachos, like ice cream and just all of this shit, and then the next day I was like, feel like I have a fucking hangover.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. You just load up the day like two days before the next injection, I'm like an animal, I can eat totally normal again. But the the like four or five days after you inject, you're like barely eating at all.
Linnsey Dolson:I love that.
Delany Dunham:I love it too.
Delany Dunham:It's fun. It's I'm not promoting starvation.
Linnsey Dolson:No. But you know what? It's just like honestly, women have, everybody's snatched these days.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:And it's because the weight loss shot.
Linnsey Dolson:Honestly, it's changed peoples lives.
Delany Dunham:If you lost a lot of weight recently, you're on the shot.
Linnsey Dolson:Oh, my gosh. You'll get people online and they're like, I have a diet next time. You're on the fucking shot. We're on the shot. You don't need to lie. We know it. It's good. It's good. Seriously, you'll see somebody and they lost like all this weight like a few months, they're like, diet next time. You're lying.
Speaker 3:Yeah. But it's okay. Don't know why people feel like they can't
Delany Dunham:There's like the stigma with it.
Linnsey Dolson:There is. Girl, you do you. Yeah. Nobody gotta do.
Delany Dunham:If you get Botox, but you have a problem with the shot, that's it's a hypocrite.
Linnsey Dolson:It's crazy. Yeah. It's crazy. Well, and tell us a little bit about like all the lives that you've been able to help like on this journey because you're so open sharing your journey.
Delany Dunham:Yep.
Linnsey Dolson:So you get to take women along on their journey as well. So tell us about that.
Delany Dunham:I have been on social media working, you know, network marketing for like six or seven years now. And I was always around 8,000 followers. And then I started sharing the glow up and the whole post divorce healing journey and all that. And within oh my gosh, like a month of just consistently posting about that, my following grew to over 80,000. But then Instagram decided, what, like last week to just take it down.
Delany Dunham:Such bullshit, you guys.
Linnsey Dolson:Oh my gosh. So look Yeah. At the end, we're gonna put her social. Go follow her. Instagram did her so dirty, but you're back
Delany Dunham:Yes.
Linnsey Dolson:At twelve So we're gonna get her back up, guys. Go follow her. We'll tag her below.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. But that was awesome because it was literally like well, over over 70 thousand something in growth of women
Linnsey Dolson:Huge.
Delany Dunham:All going through divorce or looking to lose weight and, you know, that really gave me a lot of insight of my passion because I felt like I've always liked to make money and I've always, you know, I've always obsessed over losing weight. That's always been a thing. But now to actually do it and be able to like share that journey and inspire other people, it's really fulfilling, you know?
Linnsey Dolson:Absolutely.
Delany Dunham:And to build a business now around the thing that's changed my entire life, you know, with the shot, I'm like, it's game over.
Linnsey Dolson:I truly think that the biggest flex is how many people's lives you can positively impact. Like that is to me, that's the American dream is to get rich making people's lives better. Yeah. Like it doesn't get any fucking better than that. Right?
Delany Dunham:Yep.
Linnsey Dolson:Is to be able to obviously, you wanna as we wanna make a lot of money, be able to make a lot of money but do what changes it doesn't get any better than that. And women, I see that a lot is when they get depressed, they gain weight. Like even when I started my cleaning business, so I had got out of like rehab and I was already a little chunky because like when I was man, when I was a tweaker, was like skinnier than shit because I'd be up like fucking for a week at a time and didn't eat and all that. But then I went into rehab and girl, I got chunky, chunky. And and then I started my business and I was like working all day and all night like at that beginning hustle stage.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:And I remember like I just wear my hair in a bun, I wouldn't really fix myself up, all of that. And then finally, when I joined like, it was actually some kind of hell shake. I think it was called Visalis or something like that. And I started doing that and working out and I wasn't didn't have a ton of weight to lose, so I was able to lose weight and start feeling good. Well, it changed how I felt so fucking much.
Delany Dunham:Oh, yeah. Changes everything.
Linnsey Dolson:Like my confidence, my everything, like it truly changes how you feel. And when how you feel reflects onto your your life and how you manifest it in all of it.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:If you hate your life, your life's gonna be shitty. Yep. It's like they say, if you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. Yeah. I'm a huge advocate because there's some people out there that can just roll out of bed, throw their hair in a messy bun and and still, you know, go about their day and be successful, but that's not me. Like, I am really big on, like, gotta look the part. Because when I feel better, everything is better like the way I, you know, talk to people. I I there's so many opportunities I've come across since losing the weight and it's because I'm engaging with people now.
Linnsey Dolson:100%.
Delany Dunham:I'm not like looking down like slumped over, hiding from people, feeling invisible, like I'm actually embracing other people and these people lead to other opportunities or other connections and networking, you know, is everything.
Linnsey Dolson:It is. And the confidence comes.
Delany Dunham:Yes.
Linnsey Dolson:And sometimes, you know, I'm doing I do a training module and I'm one of the classes in there is on courage before confidence. And what that means is you have to have courage before you actually the confidence comes. Right? So comes from doing something even when you don't have the courage to do it. Right? Like pushing past those fears.
Delany Dunham:Mhmm.
Linnsey Dolson:All of that comes once you start losing the weight and feeling better and confident. I remember when I first started talking in front of people, like even little shit. Like I'd go to the chamber of commerce and I'd have to speak and I'd like, not even looking at people in the eyes and just like
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:And now, you can put me in a room in front of a million people and I will walk out of there so confident Oh, because if any of you think anything bad about me, I don't give a fuck.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:Because I think good of me.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:Right?
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:And it's just that confidence that comes confidence is a game changer in life. Like when you feel good about yourself and you feel confident, you can conquer the world.
Delany Dunham:Yep.
Linnsey Dolson:You truly can.
Delany Dunham:I agree.
Linnsey Dolson:And how do you see so go in a little bit about maybe maybe even without using some names, give us some examples of women that you've seen go from very low spots to building like the confidence and the life they want from losing weight.
Delany Dunham:Well, the amount of messages I get, well, especially when I had my old account of just women who were like, hey, you've inspired me to leave this toxic relationship.
Linnsey Dolson:Yes. I love that.
Delany Dunham:I don't know how I'm gonna do it but I'm gonna figure it out like you did, you know? Stuff like that I think is is huge because I don't know about you, but it's almost impossible to better yourself when you're in such a terrible environment.
Linnsey Dolson:Oh, when you're in a toxic situation, it drains you.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. You're like drowning in it.
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah.
Delany Dunham:There's no way.
Linnsey Dolson:You gotta get out. Some people are just so stuck in it. I mean, it's so hard. I see people in relationships and I'm like
Delany Dunham:Because you're comfortable too. Like I I would like I could've stayed and been okay the rest of my life, right? But I would've been settling for such a mediocre way of living. And now that I've experienced this, I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm so glad I got out, you know, and took that leap because I actually posted about it yesterday. Was like, you don't realize it when you're in the thick of it sometimes.
Linnsey Dolson:Sure.
Delany Dunham:Like, you're you know, you have those doubts or those worries, like, am I making the right decision? You know, is this supposed to be my person? Am I supposed to stay? You know? Or am I gonna be alone forever? Like, though, you have those, like, thoughts. And then, you know, once you get out of it and you start building yourself back up and working on yourself and healing, you realize, like, oh my gosh, I'm so glad I did that. And it's a ripple effect. So many other things, like, amazing happen in your life because of making that one decision. And so that's my biggest thing is like that one it's not even a tiny decision, but like that one decision led to everything, you know, changing for me.
Linnsey Dolson:And you got out of your comfort zone.
Delany Dunham:So much.
Linnsey Dolson:You know, and I feel like
Delany Dunham:So much.
Linnsey Dolson:almost when you're in that, you don't know what you're capable of. Once you realize what you're capable of, you're like, fuck. I remember being really early on. So I had a twelve year meth addiction. And when I first got into rehab, I'm talking about broken, like zero self confidence. I hadn't worked, I hadn't had a home in years, like and I remember in group, they had us write a letter to ourself of where we would like our dream life to be in one year.
Delany Dunham:Wow.
Linnsey Dolson:Girl, girl, let me tell you what I wrote. This is how close minded I was. I said, I'm hoping I can get on the wait list for Section 8 and get help getting a little apartment. I hope I can have my kids on the weekends and then maybe get a waitressing job where I get tips. Right? And like that was my dream. Girl, one year from then, I fucking own my own business and like within four years of that, I had a multi million business.
Delany Dunham:That's insane.
Linnsey Dolson:So that's where like my mind was just I couldn't think that big. Right?
Delany Dunham:Right.
Linnsey Dolson:And then once you know what made me actually start entrepreneurship? Is I got out of rehab and I got a job as a waitress at Topgolf. And I'm in my first day of training and they called me out of training and said, just got your background check, ma'am. Here's your last check. Gave me my last check and fired me. And I don't even have like felonies but I have tons of misdemeanors. I've been to jail over 21 times with stupid shit. And so I was like so bummed and I was like, you know what? Fuck them. I'll work for myself.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:Best decision ever.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:So it's like we think sometimes limited until we have the courage to actually push through that and then see what we're capable of.
Delany Dunham:Yep.
Linnsey Dolson:I truly feel now that there's nothing I don't think I'm capable of.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:Like, if I wanna do something, I'll figure out a way. I hear the word no, I'm asking the wrong person. Because if you tell me no, someone else gonna tell me yes.
Delany Dunham:Yep.
Linnsey Dolson:Right?
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:It's just knowing what is capable and I feel like people get so stuck in situations where it's like, they tell their self, well, it's not that bad.
Delany Dunham:Right.
Linnsey Dolson:Right? I have a good home. Like, it's not that bad. Like, it could be worse. They don't hit me. They don't da da da da da. But like, you're trapped. If you're comfortable, you're not doing shit.
Delany Dunham:Right.
Linnsey Dolson:You gotta get out of that comfort zone to like I mean, that's what you did is you got out of your comfort zone and look at it. Like everything that you've ever wanted in life was on the other side of it.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. I do really well, and I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but when I put myself in like almost survivor mode where my back's against the wall, that's where I'm the most like motivated.
Linnsey Dolson:Dude, there's nothing more motivating than you
Delany Dunham:You have no choice. Like, you have to make it work.
Delany Dunham:And it's it's true, like, when I first got into the industry, I remember being like, I just wanna make $500 a week. Right. You know?
Delany Dunham:And then it it that turned into, you know, $2,000 a week and then, you know, some months even $5000, 10,000 a week and I was like, oh my gosh. Like, now I have that feeling where I'm like, I can I like, I've done it once, I can do that again? I can double that, I can triple it, like
Linnsey Dolson:You know what you're capable of.
Delany Dunham:Yes. And I didn't have that belief at all before, but now it's like, I'll always figure it out. No matter how stressful life gets, it's like, I'll always figure it out.
Linnsey Dolson:I talk about the that desperation
Delany Dunham:Mhmm.
Linnsey Dolson:Is the biggest motivator and the gift of desperation.
Delany Dunham:Yep.
Linnsey Dolson:Nothing feels like I don't know, nothing will get me a new got me a new client quicker than fucking having rent due next week and payroll.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:Right? Like you can figure that shit out.
Linnsey Dolson:Yep. And oh my god, back up. I just itched my nose. Gotta say that again.
Linnsey Dolson:I don't know. Gonna just cut it out.
Delany Dunham:You said
Linnsey Dolson:You could even leave it. I don't give a shit.
Delany Dunham:That's desperate. Nothing will motivate you like nothing motivates you like desperation.
Delany Dunham:There you go. Love you.
Linnsey Dolson:Help us this sister out. Right? It doesn't. Nothing motivates you like that because like when you I tell people that like I do business coaching and so many people will keep their nine to five and then have their little business on the side. You have your safety net, you're never gonna
Linnsey Dolson:Yep.
Linnsey Dolson:Put the floor.
Delany Dunham:You have plenty
Linnsey Dolson:of You're never gonna go for it. Get rid of your safety net because you need that desperation. Yep. Need to take you need to jump out of the airplane and build your parachute on the way down. Yep.
Linnsey Dolson:You need to struggle Yeah. In that sense. That's what you need. Yeah. You truly do.
Delany Dunham:That's literally what I everybody thought I was crazy. I quit my nine to five.
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah. Best decision ever. Right?
Delany Dunham:Best decision ever. And I was not making anything for the first year after I did it. I barely was making any money as an entrepreneur and then all of a sudden just like a shift happened.
Linnsey Dolson:That's what happens.
Delany Dunham:And like boom. And I've never been I've never been back to the corporate world since and I never will. Like I don't care whatever I have to do, I'll never go work for somebody be
Linnsey Dolson:a horrible, horrible employee.
Delany Dunham:Oh, terrible. There's no fucking way
Linnsey Dolson:you're telling me I do what I want. Yeah. I'm not a
Delany Dunham:permission to like go take off work or be late to a meeting and get yelled at. No.
Linnsey Dolson:There's no way.
Delany Dunham:No.
Linnsey Dolson:Time freedom. So like I I say this a lot is, it's not the money I'm chasing, it's the freedom that And comes with from entrepreneurship, I wanna do what I wanna do When on I my time. Yep. You know? Dude, time freedom is the most It is.
Linnsey Dolson:Most incredible thing ever.
Delany Dunham:Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:And you've been able to get that as well as losing weight, going on your journey, all that. Yeah. You now so tell us a little bit about the the new venture you're doing and all the things about your social is real shot girl.
Delany Dunham:Real shot
Linnsey Dolson:that how
Delany Dunham:I saw that? Yeah. So I just partnered with a telemedicine company called LAMD. So I am connecting I'm pretty much like a medical sales rep, but instead of selling to doctors, I'm connecting people to the doctor Nice. To get the different injectable peptides.
Delany Dunham:It's like NAD, Samorilin, all those good ones
Linnsey Dolson:weight ones too?
Delany Dunham:No. They're anti aging. So we have a lot of longevity stuff. Yeah. We have so many.
Delany Dunham:What?
Linnsey Dolson:And I
Delany Dunham:I need to learn more about those. I know. NAD, I mean, you've probably heard of that. All the all No. Are yeah.
Delany Dunham:It's all about like aging backwards, just an injectable peptide that you take. Really? So, yeah. We'll have to chat. Yeah.
Delany Dunham:Go ahead
Linnsey Dolson:and tell me about this.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. But we specialize I'd say we're mostly known for the weight loss shots.
Linnsey Dolson:Okay.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. So I literally just get somebody connected straight to the doctor and then they're approved that day. The pharmacy ships right to their door and they get a three month supply.
Linnsey Dolson:And are they so shocked by how easy the results are? It's crazy.
Delany Dunham:It's insane. I mean, have people that are literally like, I'm melting. I'm like, you're melting.
Linnsey Dolson:No. I lost like 10 pounds in the first three weeks or something Yeah. To a point where I had to like start doing less of the shot because I was like, okay, I'm gonna start looking a little too skinny.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. Well, I'm really big on making sure to get enough protein in. Yeah. So that I'm not like I don't wanna have that, you know, everybody says Ozempic face or that look where you're just like all saggy, like, I don't have I don't have that look because I have prioritized making sure I'm getting enough protein.
Linnsey Dolson:Sure.
Delany Dunham:Because, you know, you you do, you lose a lot of weight. Sometimes you can lose muscle, you know? So we wanna keep that. I wanna keep my boobs and my butt.
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah. No, for sure.
Delany Dunham:For These are not real. Girl. Nobody's they're
Linnsey Dolson:like, are your boobs real? Like, really, come on. I have six kids. Boobs are real.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. Hell no. That was honestly so losing the weight obviously changed everything for me, but then I cut my hair. I had hair like yours, like so long and then I just chopped it. I was like, I'm chopping it.
Linnsey Dolson:The bob looks Thank
Delany Dunham:you. And then I got my titties done. And I was like Life changing. Changed my whole life. My boobs were always my biggest insecurity and my arm, and got lipo under my arms.
Delany Dunham:I'll get what I'm like you, I'm like, I will drink battery acid if it'll make me look like this. I don't give a damn. Dude, I love doing new things.
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah. Whatever. I get excited when I go to plastic surgery. Like, if I have plastic surgery, the next day I get so fucking excited because I'm like, I always wake up fucking hotter. Yeah.
Speaker 3:And I look like shit
Linnsey Dolson:for about a week or two, and then I wake up hotter.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. No. I just got the Morpheus laser done and I'm having all these breakouts from the purging that comes with it, but it's worth it. Because two weeks from now, it's gonna look like baby skin.
Linnsey Dolson:Oh, yeah.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. But I'm all about whatever you gotta do to enhance yourself. Because if it makes you feel better and more confident, who cares?
Linnsey Dolson:That's how I feel. And it's like, people are like, you don't need to do that. Other people don't care. I don't do it for anyone else's things, but I do it for me. Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:And it's like fun. Right? I mean I love it. I drive a pink car, like I am in my real life Barbie era
Delany Dunham:I love it.
Linnsey Dolson:And like, nobody's gonna tell me any fucking different. You know what
Speaker 3:I mean? Like, this is my jam. Yeah. I enjoy it.
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah. And
Speaker 3:and that's okay. I mean, I get Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:I get much shit from it.
Delany Dunham:I do too. Well, I've, you know, I've heard people be like, you give off pick me energy or, you know, you're just like you seem like you really like attention. I'm like, when I post sexy stuff or like where I'm I'm like wearing something sexy, I'm like, I'm doing that because I actually enjoy how I look after hating myself for I don't even you know what's funny is I I think God was like, we're gonna blow you up make you huge so that you can appreciate what it's like to be small again. Because when I was a hundred and thirty five pounds going into college, I thought I was fat then. Like, I hated myself.
Delany Dunham:Sure. I was so insecure. And and and then he was like, yeah, well, we're gonna make you two fifty. And then, you know, even getting down when I first hit 200 or one ninety, I was like, oh my gosh, I'm so obsessed with how I look because I hated myself for so long. Right.
Delany Dunham:And so, you know, wearing the, you know, the skimpier clothes or or something sexy or showing up like that, that's not for attention. I don't give a damn about what everybody else says. That's for myself. Like, I feel good, you know?
Linnsey Dolson:Well, knowing I feel like and it's very similar to like me being homeless and not having anything. When you have lost everything or you're in a situation like that and you get yourself out of it
Delany Dunham:Yep. You appreciate it.
Linnsey Dolson:You appreciate stuff
Delany Dunham:at a
Linnsey Dolson:whole new level. Like I drive my kids crazy because I'll go in their room and I'm just like,
Speaker 3:God, I love you. And you know what I mean? I get to be your mom. Mhmm. How fucking incredible is that that I get to be your mom.
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah. Because like I didn't know it was like I I had a point where I didn't get to see my kids, like all of that. So I just appreciate it. I literally drive them nuts over it. Or I mean, just the littlest things is like you appreciate it on a whole new level because you know what it's like not to have that.
Delany Dunham:So much. Like even just crossing my legs right now. I like we we were driving across country, I had my legs crossed. I like, I'd never do this before. I couldn't cross my legs.
Delany Dunham:I couldn't tie a sweatshirt around my around my waist, like the buckle on the plane even. I remember like that almost was like ready to get an extender put on it and
Linnsey Dolson:like Sure.
Delany Dunham:Now there's like all this extra space. There's like little things I'm like, wow, you know, I used to take for granted so much. Or, you know, I remember going to the amusement park and not being able to fit on a roller coaster ride, you know, like Oh, yeah. Stuff like that, you know?
Linnsey Dolson:I've seen we go to amusement parks a lot and I've seen that happen a lot aches for them. Yeah. Like when they have to get off the ride Yeah. It it truly aches for them. Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:My thing, like my biggest insecurity I think when I first got sober was like my teeth were shit. Obviously, was in addiction for twelve years, like they were discolored. I actually had some missing and I had like this thing that just went in, it's like, I think it was called a bridge. And they made it like the wrong color because I only could afford a $500 one from like Western Dental or whatever. I was so insecure about my teeth.
Linnsey Dolson:And so when I was able to get full veneers, girl, it changed my life. I smile so
Speaker 3:big now.
Linnsey Dolson:It's that thing. It's like how crossing your legs
Delany Dunham:Yeah. A lot of things.
Linnsey Dolson:Have years of photos and I'm like this. Yeah. Yeah. Or when I talked, I'd actually try to make my lips cover my teeth because I didn't have that confidence and now I'm just like, hey.
Speaker 3:You know, I just appreciate it. I make sure I smile big always. Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:So it's a very similar thing. It's like knowing what it's like to not have that confidence and then fixing that thing and it's just incredible.
Delany Dunham:Yeah, for sure.
Linnsey Dolson:I love that. I love that. Okay. So tell us about your new journey. So you just came to Sacramento.
Linnsey Dolson:I
Delany Dunham:did. Oh, I fell in love with a a guy over Instagram. It's funny. It was probably like a year yeah, like a year into my healing journey after the divorce.
Linnsey Dolson:Okay. So this was a long distance relationship.
Delany Dunham:It was. Yeah. And I had never done that neither did he.
Linnsey Dolson:Never I done that would imagine.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. We'd stayed almost nine months of long distance. And then my lease was up and we were like, let's just take this next step. I love that. Moved out here, now a Cali girl.
Delany Dunham:Actually, was born in California.
Linnsey Dolson:So Oh, okay. So where?
Delany Dunham:In LA, but grew up in Pennsylvania in a town.
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah. So they went from LA to Pennsylvania know. Do this How old did it be when you left LA?
Delany Dunham:I was eight. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So my mom's family was in Pennsylvania and she wanted to be closer to them, so we moved.
Linnsey Dolson:Okay. So I
Delany Dunham:grew up in a very small town.
Linnsey Dolson:Sure.
Delany Dunham:And then, yeah, relocated to Dallas. I've moved around a few times, but, yeah, we met it's now I don't know. We met, like, over a year probably a year and a half ago as friends, just online, social media. We were in the same network marketing company. Okay.
Delany Dunham:And that was always something I wanted was to find somebody that was in the same line of work ideally because my ex was not supportive, like did not Yeah. Understand. Like, I'd be going for like a $200,000 goal, you know, at midnight on the last day of the month and he'd be asleep and I'd be like, we hit it. I'm like, hey, we just made $200,000 and he's like, leave me the fuck alone. You know, that type of stuff.
Delany Dunham:I'm like, okay, cool.
Linnsey Dolson:So someone with the same like drive Yeah.
Delany Dunham:As someone all of that.
Linnsey Dolson:I love that. Yeah. That's so exciting.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. So
Linnsey Dolson:So you came here to be with the love of your life.
Delany Dunham:I did.
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah. And you got
Delany Dunham:him when? Literally Friday.
Linnsey Dolson:So I seen on social. So he flew out there
Delany Dunham:He flew out there.
Linnsey Dolson:And drove you back with all your stuff.
Delany Dunham:He loaded everything, unloaded everything. As he should.
Speaker 3:As he should.
Linnsey Dolson:Oh, Princess
Delany Dunham:the whole time.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Like, he's getting to bring you home and have you forever, like, as he should, load up your shit
Linnsey Dolson:and drive it here.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. But it was great. We went to El Paso and then Phoenix. One of my best friends is in Phoenix, and he had some of his buddies out in El Paso from the military. So, yeah, stop there.
Delany Dunham:So you
Linnsey Dolson:made a little road trip out
Delany Dunham:of here. Yep.
Linnsey Dolson:And nice. So so you're in California.
Delany Dunham:Now, I'm in California.
Linnsey Dolson:I feel like people stay stuck so long. I know so many people who live their whole lives in the town and I'm like, we're moving in ten or nine on the
Delany Dunham:you're going to San Diego. Southern California.
Linnsey Dolson:We're still gonna keep a place here, so we'll split our time side businesses here. Yeah. Dude, I love San Diego and I'm in LA all the time. That's awesome. I told myself, I was like, this is the year I'm moving to San Diego.
Linnsey Dolson:So first, I set the goal for December. And I was like, you know what, that's a long time away. Let's move it up. And then I was like, you know what? I'm gonna do it by August 1.
Linnsey Dolson:So just fucking do it.
Delany Dunham:Yeah. Are you from here?
Linnsey Dolson:I am. Okay. Yeah. Wow. So I'm officially finally moving out of my hometown.
Linnsey Dolson:Nice. Which I truly feel like your life levels up to a whole different level when
Delany Dunham:you leave your hometown. Absolutely.
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah. It does.
Delany Dunham:I'm a big proponent on that. Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:It is. It is. Well, awesome. It's been so great to have you tell everybody how they can find you. Okay.
Linnsey Dolson:And go follow her. She lost her kick ass social media page recently Yes. On Instagram. So go follow her.
Delany Dunham:I need all the follows. Need We
Linnsey Dolson:need get it up right now. Tell them how they can find you.
Delany Dunham:You can go to at real shot girl shit, but shit does not have an I because I don't wanna get cancelled again.
Linnsey Dolson:There you go. Okay. And that's on Instagram.
Delany Dunham:That's on
Linnsey Dolson:Instagram. Also, if they're interested in the tirzepatide that we've been loving on.
Delany Dunham:Yep. If you wanna get snatched with the weight loss shot, hit me up.
Linnsey Dolson:Yes. Oh, you guys, seriously, it's the best. It is. Like Asha, thank you so much.
Delany Dunham:Thank you for having me.