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Elizabeth Molina: [00:00:00] Hello, my beautiful people, I'm Elizabeth Molina and I am your beauty guru in this podcast, I will share with you all you need to know about beauty from the inside out. You will gain access to the latest beauty trends from head to toe mind. And so you will hear from experts themselves. The trendy influencers, celebrities, athletes and of course, myself on all things beauty. This is definitely the place to be biohacking, beauty, hacking, life hacking into the why for your beauty routine. Are you ready for your global obsession? Welcome, guys. You know what day it is. I'm going to keep it short and sweet, because today is going to be a hot episode. We have an amazing guest. It is Susan Bratton. She is an intimacy expert to a million. She is a champion and advocate for all of those who desire intimacy and passion. She is the co-founder and CEO of Two Corporation's Personal Life Media Inc, a publisher of a heart connected love making techniques in the Bedrooms, Communication Skills and 20-20, LLC, a manufacturer of organic and botanical supplements that enhance sexual vitality. You heard that right, guys? We are going to have a spicy episode today. She's a bestselling author and publisher of 34 books and programs, including Sexual Soulmates, Relationship Magic, Revive Her Drive, Ravish Him Steamy Sex Ed, The Passion Patch, Hormone Balancing and Hot to Trot. Susan has been featured in The New York Times and on CNBC and The Today Show, as well as frequent appearances on ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox and NBC. Hi, Susan. How are you, Elizabeth?
Susan Bratton: [00:01:48] I am radiant and glowing, as we all should be.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:01:52] You truly are for you guys. We are also recording this video, so you have to see her. She is truly radiant and glowing and looking as hot as ever. And so I'm excited to have her on. But let's let's talk a little bit about what you do. Let's talk about sex, baby. Let's get into the conversation. You are the expert. You have really helped millions of people. You are the expert in this case. So I'm I'm intrigued. What does that mean that you've helped you become the intimacy expert for millions of people?
Susan Bratton: [00:02:24] Well, about 15 years ago, my husband and I was closer to 20 years ago. Now my husband and I had a really rocky point in our marriage, and I didn't really want to make love with him anymore. You know, I had been doing it for over a decade, and it wasn't that satisfying for me. And I really pulled away. And then that made him emotionally disconnect. And then we were on the verge of divorce and we decided to do something about it. So we sought therapy, which was a part of the solution. But really what helped us was going to sex workshops. It was our sex life. You know, they say that either couples have trouble with their sex life or with money and money wasn't the problem for us, nor was it for all our friends who we saw getting divorced. It was really our sexuality. And what had happened was, you know, in hindsight, 20, 20 vision, we had been having sex. And what I would call today, the patriarchal way, the way that men want to have sex because they don't know any different. And there are there are masculine sexual leaders. And so they're doing the best they can, but they don't live in our bodies or understand our arousal and our libido and how different it is than theirs. And when we did sex workshops, we began to understand orgasm skills and have sexual communication skills that were much, much stronger.
Susan Bratton: [00:03:39] And we really went through a renaissance in our sex life to the point where we decided to start a company together, essentially taking these incredible transformational sex workshop experiences and putting them online so that people could do them in the privacy of their own home. And what I like to say is that my job is to transform having sex into making love. It's also translating the masculine and feminine for each other so that you that you can get into your partner's world. Because though I support full gender spectrum expression, most people are in a heterosexual monogamous relationship. So that's where my sweet spot is. My sweet spot is, hey, this is what she needs from you. Hey, this is what he needs from you. And here's how you can get into a more of a balance that satisfying for both people, because so much of the media and pretty much all of porn is both degrading to women and doesn't follow at all what I would consider to be the matriarchal needs of our sexuality. So I've published over 45 books and programs. You can find them all, by the way, at Susan Bratten dot com. If you look under my products link, there are all of the published programs that I've created, all of my supplement company products. But also there's about 30 free gifts because. And you could just help yourself, you can have as many as you want, because
Elizabeth Molina: [00:05:03] I love that. Thank you.
Susan Bratton: [00:05:04] Different places in their sexual evolution, and you could be stuck in an entirely different place than the next person, than the next person, than the next person. So what I really did was I created a constellation of things that help remove the obstacles to your intimacy and satisfaction wherever you are. Because one of the things I can tell you is that good sex can be can get better and better your whole life long because you can get better in bed your whole life long. And sex is really a learned skill. Procreation, we kind of can figure out. But passionate lovemaking. We're not getting taught. And not only that, but the media and pornography is making it worse for us women then and not making it better. So I really feel like I like to break through all of the wrongdoings, the misunderstandings, the myths, everything from our orgasmic potential to being afraid to talk to your partner or to not knowing what you want. You do know what you want. I tell her that. Yeah. And and I think those things are all of the ways that I can really help and support people and meet them wherever they are. And I've worked with people from 19 to 90 around the world, from all different cultures. So I really have a big heart for actually how sexually emancipated we are here in America compared to the rest of the world. They're still in a very backward paradigm. So that's kind of who I am and what I do.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:06:34] I have a ton of questions. I'm like, what can you just quickly like tell us, because I know we're going to get into this, but like the pandemic has been huge for couples with this sexual arousal. Being with your partner all day, being in the same small space, how do you find them attractive no longer getting dressed, you know, waiting. There's so much we're talking about beauty here, which we will get into. But give us a short OK, you're showing us something. What are you showing us?
Susan Bratton: [00:07:01] So I'm going to show you. And remember, you can go to YouTube and see these images as well. And it's worth going to YouTube and seeing these images, because what I'm actually showing you is the internal mechanisms of a penis. Yes. And really what I want to do is I want to tell you two things that will make a big shift for you. The first is that our men, if we're in a relationship with a penis owner, he has this. The benefit of something called hemodynamics and hemodynamics means that he has these big spongy chambers of erectile tissue in his penis and they fill in very quickly with blood. The blood just runs straight into them. But if you look at what our vulva looks like and I want to show you two images here. The first image is the inside the X, the outside of our vulva. So we're pretty familiar as women with the the the outer labia, the inner labia, the vestibule, the opening, the the clitoral tip, the shaft, the hood, the urethral exit, where our PRP comes out, the vaginal opening, the G spot inside. We're pretty familiar with what the rover looks like, though. I bet we don't look at our own enough. Probably if I peel away the skin and I just take the layer right off the top here group, this is what it looks like underneath our skin and all.
Susan Bratton: [00:08:30] All of this meaty tissue is our erectile systems, and we have as much erectile tissue in our vulva as our male body partners have in our in their penis. But we don't have it. I always say that if a man's like a banana, a woman's like an English muffin. She's got all these nooks and crannies that have to be filled in with blood and it seeps in more slowly. And we have the clitoral glands, the clitoral shaft, the clitoral arms or Kaura, the clitoral legs or vestibular bulbs. We have the urethral sponge, which people call a G spot. It's not a spot. It's a long tube that both comes out on the face of the vestibule of the vagina, as well as going deep into the vagina. And then we have a perineal sponge on the bottom. That's also erectile tissue. And our vaginas are literally wrapped, embraced with erectile tissue. But we women put our attention. We've been told your orgasm starts in your clitoris. And we think our clitoris is this little tip that shows under the hood when actually this entire structure that wraps around our vagina is our clitoral structure. And we have a urethral structure and a perineal structure, and we have sex too fast. And the reason that we do and this is the matriarchal versus patriarchal view, is that he is, number one, testosterone dominant where we are estrogen dominant.
Susan Bratton: [00:09:59] And so he has not only the benefit of hemodynamics, he has the benefit of test, more testosterone, which makes him ready to go and ready to penetrate us. And so the thing is that he gets an erection. He wants to stick it in, but he sticks it in way too early and doesn't allow our entire vulva to become engorged or swollen with blood. We need a lot of stimulation, manual oral toys, you know, vibration to get all that tissue plumped up. Because if you think about it, a man wouldn't have and would not have sex with a flaccid penis. He would want it to be plumped up. Correct, because there's more surface area to send pleasure signals to the brain. So here we are having sex too fast without enough stimulation and enough time to get engorged. That's why women struggle to have orgasms from intercourse. So many sexperts say intercourse is overrated. It's all about the clit. And we need pleasure in the clit, etc cetera. And they are wrong. We can have orgasms from intercourse without even touching the tip of our clitoris. If we get everything fully engorged, if we slow down. If we take our pleasure, if we give ourselves time and the older we get, the harder it is to get that tissue engorged.
Susan Bratton: [00:11:22] Because not only do our hormones decline, but something called our nitric oxide production declines. And one of the very first tips I have for beauty also works for sex and orgasmic pleasure, and that is nitric oxide supplementation. When you can't get enough blood flow, nitric oxide controls your vascular system and how much blood goes where. And if you don't get enough blood flow to your vulva, you can't get fully engorged. So you can't feel the orgasmic pleasure that you deserve. And then you have to spend all the time jangling the nerves of your clitoral tip just to try to orgasm, when all you would have to do is get enough blood flow and engorgement to your vulva that you wouldn't even have to touch the tip of your clit because it's getting stimulated through intercourse. So I really believe and know for a fact that every woman can come from or from intercourse without even stimulating the tip of the clitoris, which is called the glands, by the way. And that's the only part of the clitoris. That's not erectile tissue. Interestingly enough, it has a lot of nerve endings. But your entire vulva can be absolutely activated with pleasure. You can have you can have an orgasm from the tiniest little touch on the edge of a labia. You don't need to have all this mass stimulation to the clitoral tip.
Susan Bratton: [00:12:46] And so the thing that I tell men is, if you want to make love to a woman and have her really appreciate it, which is what they want more than anything in the world, they will give up their pleasure for your pleasure. It's important to them. They just don't know what they're doing. Then slow down and slow down some more and then four down 10 times more than that. I love and put a lot of attention on manuell pleasure or pleasure. Toys get our vulvas, our pop and get our clitorises, our recht. We need a Clate erection. It takes about 20 minutes to pop your clit, and that's a good indication that the rest of it's beginning to fill in. And so slowing down and getting into sensation and pleasure and. Devoting the whole volver means you'll begin to want to have great sex with your partner and you'll literally be able to do what I call Krock crossing the orgasm chasm, being able to have an orgasm from intercourse with your partner, and then you can go on to having multiple orgasms. You can have g spot orgasms, you can have expanded orgasms, you can enjoy female ejaculation, you can have peroneal orgasms, you can have boob orgasms and lip orgasms and brain orgasms and belly orgasms and foot orgasms and fantasy orgasms. And, you know, you name it there.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:14:04] The list goes on,
Susan Bratton: [00:14:05] The kinds of orgasms that are available to us. And we're having one. And it's more like a sneeze than a really good, intense experience. So the good news is there's so much more you can learn and learning makes you better in bed and gives you more pleasure. And all of sex is just learn skills. Some people got lucky and they could do it automatically, but very few. And so I always say to women who think, oh, I'm just not the kind of woman who can have an orgasm from intercourse. I'm like, nope, you're just not one who's had it yet. Oh, well, the woman can have that. And if you're in a relationship with a male body partner, that's something you guys need to work through and figure out so that you can come and come and come the whole time he's in jail. And you can just have a fantastic time and of course, incorporate toys, incorporate oral, incorporate all those things. That's really the trick. And it starts with nitric oxide, which brings vascularization, which brings blood flow to your whole body, including your face and your skin. And what vascularization? Our blood flow, Gattu, is oxygenation and healing, because we take a lot of hits to our skin, to our beauty, to our hair, to to our cognitive function, to everything with all the toxins that are in the world and all of the, you know, the external assaults on our beauty. This is literally the number one foundation of she's pointing to.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:15:30] And, yeah, she's pointing to this bottle flow. So do you take this daily? Do you take this before you know you're having intercourse? Like how does it how does it work? Tell us a little bit more about this, because like obviously our listeners are like, what are all these orgasms? How do I get them? And we know that when you experience real pleasure. Yeah. You have a glow, you're happier. You're releasing a whole bunch of great hormones, happy hormones. You're just in the state of happiness. I mean, you you can see that there's nothing to be angry about. You're in a state of bliss. So tell us about this product. How does it work? How do we get it? We want to know, OK.
Susan Bratton: [00:16:10] It's really easy. Flow is a product that I developed because there weren't any organic nitric oxide supplements that I liked out in the marketplace. This is made from organic watermelon citrulline is a very bioavailable version of a nitric oxide precursor. It also has spinach and bitter cherries in it. And all of those things help you create nitric oxide, which helps you get blood flow to your vulva and to your pelvis, which helps you get lubrication and orgasmic intensity. You can take it about 20 to 30 minutes before lovemaking, which just take it just before you start having sex and, you know, spend half an hour in foreplay and then make love and it'll give you increased lubrication and an orgasmic pleasure and sensation and then take two at night every night just to keep your organic, not nitric oxide stores up once you hit 40. By the time you're 50, you have half the nitric oxide production you did when you are 20s. So women, a lot of times they think it's a hormone issue that's creating the loss of lubrication and lack of pleasure, when in actual fact, yes, estrogen loss does thin the vaginal tissue. But and I'm going to talk a little bit more about some other things I do to keep myself plump and young. So where you get flow is on Amazon flow, organic nitric oxide, or you can get it at the 20 store dot com with my promo code, Susan. And there's a discount that way, which is always OK. So flow is it. And if you want me to send you some Elizabeth, let me know. I'd be happy to ship them off.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:17:46] That's that's a no brainer. I like. Yes.
Susan Bratton: [00:17:49] Ok, good. We'll have that.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:17:52] I'm like, I need this. Let me try it out. Let's experiment and like. Wait. Question. What if you take this? This is like a I basically I'm here like a Viagra for women. Is this like kind of like that or. No? Like will I take it? And I'm like, I need to stop my day, cancel my calendar. I'm fully like in the mood to do things.
Susan Bratton: [00:18:13] Well, you know, for for us women, so much of our sexuality begins in the mind. But when your when you're vaginas lubricating and wet more, you actually do feel more turned on. So there are many women who've reported to me that they're walking around wet again. For the first time in a long time, and that naturally makes us feel like we could be more open to having sex. And one of the things that really helps reverse the drying out and shriveling up is partly taking a nitric oxide supplement, as well as making sure you have your essential fatty acids. And some what I like, I like collagen, but collagen alone is not enough. I've got a really sneaky, awesome hack for you that'll make me knowledgeable. Tell us, keep your tissues plumped up. There is there's a bacteria, a probiotic. It's called El Rouda. Ri l r e u t e u r i locked the lizard, derides and studied by Stanford. It's been studied by many, many. There's a lot of clinical data on the fact that this particular bacteria creates scaffolding in our tissue on which the collagen hangs. And without it. And my other hack, which is highly iranica acid and I like this brand, neo cell. Neo cell is a highly ironic acid that helps hold the moisture in the tissue.
Susan Bratton: [00:19:52] So between the collagen and the HRA and this particular bacteria, and I put these in my spice grinder, I take 10 capsules, put them in my spice grinder, grind them up, put them in my yogurt maker with my you can use dairy or nut milk and a little inulin, which is a prebiotic fiber. That's what the bacteria eat. You put the inulin in there, you sternal up, you put it in 100 degree yogurt maker, you leave it on for thirty six hours, very slow at one hundred degrees. And it cultures and you get this wonderful yogurt. And that's what I put in my morning smoothie, which I have right here. This is my morning smoothie. I'm still drinking it. And so I have the LRAD rye yogurt in here. And then I also put in. That the collagenase. So I like a brand called Organics. And I'm also like bulletproof when you make it with the yogurt and the collagenase. You're doing a fantastic job giving your body what it needs to hold on to the collagenase so they can stay there. And then I also use colostrum. I use colostrum in my smoothie, and I use a cream that is an organic cream from a company called The Cream.
Susan Bratton: [00:21:12] That is a colostrum based natural skincare product. So colostrum are very good. And going back to the hotel, you're on a acid's there are a couple of different things you need to know about HIV. You want there's there's something called high molecular weight and low molecular weight. How URAC acid. Yes. And the low molecular weight, which nacelle makes is very good for your skin. The high molecular weight, which is lubra ocen L'Abri is why. And that's good for your joints. If you're cracking when you're moving, that's a loss of age in the joints, in the synovial fluid. And so that you need the higher that you actually get this to racecourses, you need the high molecular weight. And then I also think that topical, highly irenic acid can't hurt a bit. The truth is that anything topical is only going to do so much. Your beauty starts from the inside out and you have to have enough. You have to have enough collagen. You have to have a structure for it to sit on with the L root rye. You have to have good, essential fatty acids, which I want to talk to you about.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:22:23] Check out the video she's showing us, literally the pictures. I was very impressed with the picture of the vulva and all I didn't like. I come I think that I'm pretty educated, but like I learned so much in this little, we didn't even go into so much detail. So I'm like, holy moly, Shmuley, I need to learn is so much more. And I love that you talk about beauty is an inside job. And, you know, we are talking about sex and we're talking about getting it hot and steamy. And before I want to go into the beauty part, I want to go into because you have this shy and you have this pizzazz about you that I can tell you're having a lot of fun, not just in real life and in your bedroom, but in in your mind as well and in your body. But quickly, I want to touch up on two things before we go into the beauty and continue the regimen, because they're all linked together. Right. Your beauty, your skin, your face, your sex organs, like the collagen you're talking about, all of this is linked together. And it's no surprise. I it was the first time I've even heard about it. I always thought it was the hormones that you're decreasing lubrication for women. It was like, oh, you're getting menopause, you're getting dry. I mean, I'm not in that age yet, but I'm in, you know, the biohacking space with women over 50.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:23:38] I love to learn. And like I'm going to be there, you know, not soon, but like eventually. And I'm like, what's what's in store for me? I want to learn how do I, you know, hijack that? How do I biomech that? And this is the first time I've heard of this. And it makes total sense, I have to say, like everything you're saying makes sense. The proof is in the pudding. Look at you. You look like not a day over like twenty eight. So I'm just like, how do I get there? How do I do that? But we are still coming out of a pandemic. Slowly, some places are closing back up again. And as you know, I'm sure you've heard it in your industry. Couples are suffering. Couples are suffering. Singles are suffering. And I mean, that's a whole nother episode. I feel like single during the pandemic and getting, you know, sexual pleasure and all that kind of good stuff. What may be freebee was you had that you could recommend to couples to kind of spice it up, you know, especially having maybe young children in the home under like 12, just, you know, finding it very difficult to be in each other's space. Not feeling that zests. Give us something to go on. What can they download today, right now that can like bring some fire back?
Susan Bratton: [00:24:44] The first thing that I'd recommend now you can find everything I'm talking about at Susan Bratten dot com. I have a page that mentions all my products. Flow is on there, for example, but it also has all my free gifts. And I have over forty five programs on there, and many of them are free. So help yourself to anything you want, because everyone's at a different place in their sexuality. So I can't guess where any individual would be the most helped. But I'll tell you a couple of things based on what you ask me. I'll give you some directions. So when you get to the page and look at those things, the first is that I've really written about why it's not your hormones that are drawing you out. You know, when you have a loss of estrogen going through perimenopause and beyond you, your vaginal tissue gets then your vaginal mucosa gets thinner and it can become very painful. There are many things you can do to fix that, one of which is this product, the V fit, the V fit. If you go to Joi Lux dot com slash Susan, there's a special page two. This has red light therapy, which uses photo bio modulation, low level laser light therapy, Bagnoli, along with heat and vibration for Kagle toning and recolonization. It helps with incontinence, thickens up the tissue. It reverses that painful sex along with perhaps a plant based estrogen and DHEA cream rubbed internally if you don't want to do bioidentical hormone replacement.
Susan Bratton: [00:26:13] I have thirty eight fascinating facts that supercharge your sex drive. It's called Hot to Trot and it's that hot to trot book dot com or you can find it by going to Susan Bratten dot com. And it goes more into these kinds of things that are it's not actually your hormones hits all these other things. Here's some things you can do. It includes the information about the L root rye probiotic and all kinds of things in there. So that's one. The second thing is talking more about how our female genital system works and how to pleasure it in the way that it needs to be measured, not in the way that is shown in television, on movies and in pornography, which is actually hurting us, not helping. And that's at arousal tips dot com. Ok. And then as far as spicing up a sex life, there's a couple of things I always say that couples that play together stay together, especially in the bedroom. It's either sex or money that tears us apart. And most of the time, if we were with we both have jobs. It's usually around sex. It's around sex more than people want to admit. You can learn pleasuring skills. You can do fantasy and roleplay. You can do lingerie, fashion shows, you can do new sex positions. You can have sex in new locations. You can incorporate toys into your lovemaking.
Susan Bratton: [00:27:33] You know, there's lots of ways that you can invigorate your sex life. But honestly, one of the most simple ways to get started doing something new is to try a new sex position. And I have a book called Seven Stimulating Sex Positions, that it's at seven positions dot com, the number seven positions dot com or at Susan Bratten dot com. All roads lead to Rome. And what I like about that is it's my seven favorite sex positions and it's an illustrated guide there. The illustrated couple is dressed in lingerie and things like that, but it is really fun to just work your way through all seven and try them out. And there are things that generally anyone can do, even if you've got joint problems or weight problems or what have you. So seven positions is something that I'd start with to get your sex life going, because when you learn new things together, when you begin as beginners together, it generates that new relationship, energy that's gone missing. Everything that I've been doing is inside, out, outside, in natural as possible. One of the things that I do love a good skin brush, but one of the things that I think is the most important is a good fatty acid profile. You have to have a lot of good fats. So, for example, I make my own salad dressing. And, you know, in order to eat healthy, raw vegetables and good salads, I like to call this the undressing dressing.
Susan Bratton: [00:29:05] I like to call it Visegrád, because what it really does is, you know, we lose the blood flow to our pelvic bowls, both the masculine and feminine, because we get plaque in our arteries from eating bad fats that clog everything up and then our blood flow is restricted. So when you make a good salad dressing out of, you know, like an organic avocado, oil is what I like to use as a base. Yeah. And if you take a cup of organic avocado oil, a quarter cup of a nice sherry vinegar. Yeah, that's nice. Old sherry vinegar and then a tablespoon of Dijon mustard and some salt and pepper. And then I use one of two dried herbs. I'll use fresh herbs. But I honestly think the dried herbs taste better. I use either savory or marjoram. Don't mix them. They don't taste good together. And you just keep those all those ingredients are dried ingredients you can keep in your house all the time. There's nothing up in that that you can't just store. So you can make fresh salad dressing, shake it up in a jar. And then I like to add a salad. I think a salad diced very fine, gives the dressing a delicious dimension. Everybody always wants my dressing people when I'm coming over to their house for dinner pre pandemic, they'd be like, can you can you make me some of that dressing and bring it over?
Elizabeth Molina: [00:30:25] It sounds yummy.
Susan Bratton: [00:30:26] Yeah, it's delicious. And so I think making sure that you're not eating bottled dressings is very important. Make your own vinaigrette and then take cod liver oil every day, a big tablespoon of it because cod liver oil. And you can get the orange or the. Strawberry flavored I like the Nordic Naturals. It's on Amazon. The cod liver oil has a very good, essential fatty acid profile. But I also use a lot of these activation products. I use the black Couchman oil well like that, the Stari and Pumpkin, which is great for breast and prostate health. And I also use this five seed blend. And so I'll just take a tablespoon of one of these oils along with my cod liver oil. So I eat my avocados, I drink my avocado oil, and I eat my oils. And then I also take something called Puram response, which is it's called a pro resolving mediator. And what this is, is basically essential fatty acids that also really help lower inflammation. A lot of inflammation comes from cellular debris. So when you see yourself aging and you think, OK, what do I do to stem the aging? What you actually have to do is go, I know you like prolon the fasting mimicking diet, and I like that as well. So doing intermittent fasting either with prolon a kit of food that you buy or food window eating gives your body a chance to clean the dead and broken cells out.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:32:01] It's all connected. It's all connected. Beauty, health, vitality, sex like function, like when you are inflamed, you don't have a drive. And it doesn't surprise me because there's so many things blocking that blood flow. Yeah. That vitality to come through to get you like you're not feeling yourself. Like how can you you're inflamed. Your body's fighting something, OK? You are Covid. You look fantastic. Like I can only hope and wish that like I will look like you
Susan Bratton: [00:32:29] Could really be you know, it really ruined my skin. It was so depressing. It was weird because, you know, I lost my cognitive function. I couldn't work for a year. I'm a CEO of two companies. And my my whole team had to run the business without me. Wow. I couldn't even run the. I'm really not back yet. I'm doing I'm doing a lot of these kinds of experiences getting myself back out in the world because they're easier for me to do than sitting down in meetings and things. I still have concentrate, etc.. But I'll tell you of all the stuff, because I'm so vain, you know, I feel in my life that I've gotten prettier as I age and I want to be beautiful for the joy that it brings me and everyone who gets to look at me,
Elizabeth Molina: [00:33:12] Really, I just
Susan Bratton: [00:33:13] Love it. We're not supposed to say stuff like this out loud, but you know what? I say stuff out loud and I've been given a gift and I I've worked very hard to maintain it. Now, when I got Covid, it ruined my skin and half my hair fell out. And I, I like to call myself follicular challenged. I've got that Scandinavian baby fine hair. So I'm wearing a hairpiece. I'm wearing what's called an integrated hairpiece. And basically what it is, is it's like a little custom fitted cap that has lots of holes in it, kind of like those old frosting kits. It has these little clips all the way around the base. And I take the tail of my hair, my rat tail of my comb, pull my own hair through it. I have my hair is dyed to match underneath, but my own hair is is very thin and baby fine. And I lost half of it. So I put on this integrated hairpiece. When I do public appearances, the things that I've been doing that are more procedures are number one, I got preppy hair. Yes, I got it. They call it the fam vampire hair left, but it's PRP punched into your head. That then helps new hair growth. And I've got probably a good three inches of hair. But to support that growth, what I do is I use a laser hair hat every day for 10 minutes, just like the laser I use into vaginally to keep my vaginal mucosa strong. I use a laser hair. I sometimes I have the hair cap on and I've got my V fit inside my vagina. And I just sit there on Instagram.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:34:57] That's like the ultimate bio hacker. Let's speak about what you're doing, your beauty routine, what you're drinking, what you're eating, because you look fabulous. And obviously we know you've got the bedroom down, but you know, for the bedroom, you also need to feel good. You need to feel good in your skin. You need to feel good in what you're in, in your suit, which is your body, your vessel.
Susan Bratton: [00:35:16] Well, we've talked about the internals now, the outside job, again, to keep it as toxin free as possible. And one of the things that I always like to do, if I can, is have the deluxe version and then the ghetto cheap. I'm broke. So I like a product line. If you've got lots of money, I like a product line. And it's kind of these are my real ones, of course. So it's kind of greasy. But I like a brand called Mother Mutty.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:35:44] Oh, I love
Susan Bratton: [00:35:45] That mother makes body butter. They make and a body oil and they make a body. Sarah and I think these are a very nice quality product with excellent absorption, with a really nice non-toxic profile. Yes. So mother is very good. But if you can't afford mother and I understand that you can't. Here's my ghetto option, which I use a lot for sex, too. This is a mango butter. And all it is is organic, refined mango, but it's literally just mango butter.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:36:24] What do you do with this for seeds?
Susan Bratton: [00:36:26] I rub it all over my body. I have sensual massages with it. I don't use it internally, but I use it externally. The only reason I don't I would use it internally the first time I use it. But when you have up something, you dip your fingers in to it. It's going to get bacteria and. Yeah. Not use it into your vaginally. Because I always say that if you wouldn't put it in here, you shouldn't put it in here because your vagina is the other end of your alimentary system. Essentially, it's just a tube. And so it's the same tissue and your mouth is very, very similar to your vaginal mucosal lining. And it's really quick to absorb everything. And the problem is that lubs are an FDA class two product, and they have to have preservatives in them to keep the bacteria's out. Right. And the problem with that is that the preservatives are toxic. So I don't I don't recommend if you've got stuff from CVS and Walgreens and all those places that are lubs, just stop using them and switch to an organic refined oil like whole hoeber sweet almond avocado. Those are three nice vaginalis lubricants. And make sure you have them in a squirt bottle so you're not touching them at any time and introducing bacteria and use them quickly so they don't get rancid.
Susan Bratton: [00:37:46] They last for quite a while. And if you are a condom user, you need to use a poly urethane or polypropylene condom with an oil based lubricant because oil will break down latex. But so many people have latex allergies now that I don't think anybody's using latex condoms these days, but maybe they are. The other thing that I would say about condoms is that semen is very, very healthy for us women. And we've been kind of scared off of semen because you you're going to get pregnant if you can get a Nestea, you know, all this kind of stuff. But I really like the fertility awareness method using a daisy tracker or another tracker like that so that you don't have to use a condom necessarily if you're with a safe partner who's been tested. Right. You can't do that. The problem is condoms. You know, there's over 20 studies, and only if condoms only protect you from a couple, most estes's your skin to skin contact, which is why I say that until you have your potential partner tested, you should never put your mouth on their genitals. They should never put their mouth on your genitals. And you should never do genital to genital contact. You should keep it to kissing in hands, which are pretty safe as long as they've been Covid tested and vaccinated semen.
Susan Bratton: [00:38:57] When you can get into a relationship where where you can actually have the semen in your vagina is very good for you because it has luteinizing hormones that regulate your menses and regulate you even after menopause. Also, serotonin for mood lifting and elevation, zinc for cognitive function, testosterone for courage. And go getter, go get Earnest's. So, you know, we are although I support same same sex relationships with equal vigor, the masculine the male female sexual relationship is a very healthy and symbiotic one. And there's nothing to be afraid of around semen. So that's a long winded talk about STIs and safe sex and contraception and lubrication. But it it all comes down to, you know, non medicated IUDs and fertility awareness met that are the least toxic birth control pills and lubs you get at the grocery store are the most toxic. And the chances are that your listeners are maybe doing one or both of those things. So it's it's important to talk about. So the inside job around toxin's these these can be oils. You know, they're cheap. You get a big vat of it. They're very nice. And these are really good for the rising of the externals.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:40:19] Yes. And you said something about the sperm and how like it's great. You know, obviously, if you're practicing safe sex, use Daisie, Tricor, et cetera, et cetera. If you know your cycle, be responsible like, you know, obviously don't email us and say like, hey, I became pregnant, it's your fault now, like take care of this baby. What about swallowing sperm? Like, how does that affect? Because I know so many women who are concerned with the cat. Calories, I know this sounds crazy, but they talk about calories. Are going to stay in your body. What is that going to damage you? Like there's so many conversations about this and it's still taboo. But I figured you're here. Why not? Like, let's just get it out of the bag.
Susan Bratton: [00:40:58] Well, your vaginal mucosa is a very spongy tissue. So it's going to pull in all that goodness and distribute it through your body when you ingest semen. Your stomach acid is really killing it off. So you're not getting the same benefits. And with regard to caloric content, that's a Google global fact. I'm not worried about calories at that level, myself personally.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:41:23] And so, like, let's continue with the regimen.
Susan Bratton: [00:41:25] Yeah, I like Doctor Dennis Gross. I like his alpha hydroxy daily skin refinishing and his body refinishing. Ok, Hydrox, these are fruit acids. They're quite natural. There's not a lot of chemicals in these daily body buffers and weekly body buffers. And they're very good at keeping your skin soft. I've always worked my whole life to keep my skin feeling like velvet. I want it to be plump, wrinkle free, but I don't mind getting tan. I don't know if you can see, but I'm a tan woman and there's no tan lines.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:42:01] Guys, you have to see this whole diet and do that again. I mean, like that was hot. Look at this. Oh, my God. Ok, dude, she's like a 28 year old. Like, fuck what? Ok, we don't have to like play this back and clip this for like micro content. Like she just lashed us. And it was not and I'm not sad about that. I was on a hot flash twice. Sorry. You're doing a great job that mother oil is really working. I would order all a whole bunch of that today.
Susan Bratton: [00:42:32] I like sunshine. Now, the problem is I don't let it get on my face and my neck and deckle touch. So I wear a really good sunscreen. And the one that I like is called Eclipse SPF. I wear this. But I also this is one of my this is one of my places where I make an exception. I use Chanel Foundation and it has some shitty chemicals in it, but I don't care.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:42:55] And I love that you said
Susan Bratton: [00:42:56] That you got to choose your battles, 80-20. Yeah. The eclipse under. And then what I like is that CC cream from Chanel because it is pretty thick but doesn't look thick on. And it's a fantastic barrier. If I took my breath, I have my makeup matching my tan because I sit out in the sun every day naked in my backyard and I get 15 or 20 minutes worth of sun. And I do have some aged spots, which I continue to whack back with Fraxel. So I get the spots and I whack the spots. That's my process. I don't love it, but that's what I do, because I want the viit, the natural sun, the natural color, the natural vitamin D. It makes me feel better. And feeling better is even more important than age spots for me. So I've got a white face and a brown body. And so what I do is I use the Chanel cream, the Chanel CC cream, which is also a really nice ESPs. I have a double SPF on my face because I don't want to lazarre the crap out of my face. Now, there's some other things. So this is a product that I've been using and it's very expensive. It's three hundred dollars a bottle.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:44:05] What is this?
Susan Bratton: [00:44:06] It's from skin medaka. Everything I own has grease on it. I mean, literally, that's
Elizabeth Molina: [00:44:11] Because you use them.
Susan Bratton: [00:44:13] I am just I am so lubed up. I am like a slippery little devil all the time. This skin, medaka tiens, advanced serum. This is a single pump in the morning, single pump at night. And essentially this is a firming, smoothing, tightening anti wrinkle. Good for us, old six year old broads. So I use skin medika. And this is one where I'm like, I'm just doing it. It's got some stuff in it, but it's working. It's really getting rid of the surface, the small fine lines and giving me some plumpness. So I've done the PRP into my skin. I get the facials. I do a couple of other things. Here's two more things that are natural. One is castor oil. I use castor oil. When I shampoo my hair, I put a dropper full of castor oil with the shampoo and shampoo with the castor oil in it. It's very good for hair growth and emollient, see, but you have to put it with the shampoo and then kind of scrub it out and it leaves a little a little deposit of that. And that's been very good. You can use this on your eyebrows. If they get thin as you age, castor oil will regrow your eyelashes and your eyebrows. And then I just got on to this one of my mentors, Dr. Patti Taylor, who's well, a little older than I am. Let's just put it that way. She's a redhead, so she's got super fair, thin skin. And I was telling her about how Covid just really. Took my skin and just made it so bad. And she said, try this hoe hoeber oxygenated skin cream, it's called pure 03 P oh three.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:45:56] Oh, I've heard of this is amazing.
Susan Bratton: [00:45:57] It's really it makes your skin really nice and plump and it's all natural and organic. So I really like this activated oxygen. Oil. It's basically ozone.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:46:10] One thing.
Susan Bratton: [00:46:11] And they shoot it with ozone. And you can use it if you get like fungal infections on your nails, your toes or your nails.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:46:19] Can I say that that's also great for like acne scars, like the healing, like a rash or anything like that. Mosquito bites like that is amazing. Amazing. I love that
Susan Bratton: [00:46:30] Stuff. And it's so simple. It's just how horrible oil and ozone, you know, it's great. It's like castor oil. These are our grandmother's recipes and remedies that we're coming back to that I think are very powerful. Now, of course, I also do things like topical estrogen. I have a compounded estrogen topical that I do, and I do this maybe once a week. It's estriol, progesterone and organic shea butter. It doesn't absorb very well. You're not going to get any you're not going to get your estrogen boost that way. I do bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. And I have a little a little clicker that puts a little bit of shea butter with essed biased. When you do estrogen replacement, you need to take two kinds of estrogen estriol and estradiol, because the third kind of estrogen is estrogen. And that's the one that gives you breast cancer. So you have a ratio of estrogens throughout the three estrogens. You want to increase the pie of the two good ones, which decreases the pie of the bad one. So it's a biased that I use intravenously. So it goes right into my system because it's just like I would be eating it, but I'm putting it where I want to thicken the vaginal tissue. Ok. I also take progesterone sublingual at night and I put testosterone cream around my labia on my clitoris, and that's how I get my testosterone. And so I take testosterone, progesterone and biassed as bioidentical hormones for hormone replacement. But I also do a topical estrogen on my face and forearms and hands because the tissue gets thin. Yes. My neck and décolletage.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:48:19] So I just want to make sure that everybody knows, like you want to be seeking out a professional. Don't go out there and buy weird estrogen testosterones from China that you don't know where you're sourcing them from. Like this is very, very important. Guys, she is working with someone she didn't like, just Google this and she's like, oh, I heard this on a podcast. Let me figure it out. Like just I just wanted to put that disclaimer out there. Ok. Tell us the next the next stuff.
Susan Bratton: [00:48:44] Well, the other thing that I do for the age spots it's topical is hydroquinone, Treant annoying and Kojak acid. And this is my from my derm and this is what I put on the little age spots that appear because, you know, they do you do get sun. You just do. And what's come out. So this is what I use on my face to kind of mitigate those. It would be similar to what you would do if you use like O'Bagy. It's kind of like better than O'Bagy because it's scrypt not off the shelf, but it's very similar. It's like, you know, it'd be like skin cuticles or O'Bagy or something like that. But it's a prescription strength. And that's the that's the little combo that I use for my derm for the age spots. And then the last thing I want to tell you about is bone structure. As we age and everything droops. A part of the reason that it droops is that we're losing bone mass in our face. We lose the bone density, and that's what actually causes our face to collapse. I chew something called tears of Cheetos. This is this is a resin. It's called Mastec. It's it's a resin. I get this on Amazon. It's a resin that comes from a pomegranate tree on the island of Chios in Greece. It's a natural product and it's like gum, but it's tougher and natural. And every day I chew for as long as I can to my jaws get worn out. I chew this, you know, kind of like tough thing to give my jaws a workout, to keep my system strong so that I don't have bone density loss.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:50:24] So I love to ask everyone, like you are thriving in so many categories, but I also love to you know, you said Covid really got you. And like we're human and we can do all that we want to do. And we can be like the water expert, the sleep expert, the sex expert. But we may we have our days. So I want the audience to know like. Ok, you're human, too. Like you're also sometimes excelling in one category, sometimes you need a little bit of extra care. So where would you say that you are excelling in the beauty circle and where would you say you could use a little bit more attention?
Susan Bratton: [00:50:57] For me, it's about building back my stamina and regrowing all of the muscle tissue that I lost, the sarcopenia that happened from laying in bed. So one of the things that I'm worried about is getting started again now that my energy is such that I keep getting all these little little infections because my immune system is so compromised, you know, so I've been I'll get up and then I'll get hurt and I'll get up again, and then I'll get hurt and I'll get up again and I'll get hurt. So I'm trying to go to the source and got it do autophagy and fix my immune system. But I'm also needing to rebuild muscle without hurting myself. And one of the things I'm planning to do this summer is a series of M Sculp. Yes. Yes, because I think that if I can use a machine, it uses electromagnetic vibration to contract your muscles like 12000 times in a you know, in a treatment I'm going to do this summer is do a lot of ocean swimming and dive the waves and things like that. That's what I'm in and making love. Not that I'm going to you making up for lost time, but definitely my weak spot right now is the musculature and my strength, my flexibility, my balance, because Covid also does a lot of brain trauma. So I've lost a lot. I've lost flexibility and muscle lying in bed, and I've lost stamina from being ill and I've lost my balance from the Covid brain injury that I got. So I'm really working on that. The stamina, the flexibility that
Elizabeth Molina: [00:52:39] The bowel movements. Yes, all
Susan Bratton: [00:52:41] That's the next
Elizabeth Molina: [00:52:42] Thing. Ok, so where is it? So now we know where you're lacking. Where are you thriving?
Susan Bratton: [00:52:46] I'm thriving in all of the things that I've learned my whole life are coming together in ways that I can really say, things that help people understand quickly how to have the intimate connection that they want and to understand that it's not their fault. They haven't been doing anything wrong, that you just didn't know. And now, you know, and it's going to be easier.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:53:07] I love that we're coming to the end. And I like to ask all my guests, what is one piece of advice, something that you wish you would have told your younger self like today, Susan, today, right here, right now, sitting with me. What would you have told the younger version of yourself?
Susan Bratton: [00:53:21] Every time insecurity creeps into your mind about your looks, about your body, about all of that physicality, you're never going to look better than you do right now. You're you're always going to it's just going to get worse and worse. And if you spend your whole life holding yourself up to some thing of imperfection that you can't get trying to push yourself to become, that you're making yourself miserable. And what people what people think about you is how you make them feel about themselves, not how you look. And the less that you worry about those little things that come into your mind and the more you realize that it's just your estrogen making you feel that. Let lack of confidence and that judgment. It's just your mind trying to keep you safe. But sometimes our minds aren't programmed quite right and they're hard on us. And the more that you can let go of worry about those imperfections and the more that you can put your energy into heart connection and joy, the better life you will have.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:54:32] That's such great advice. And not just for yourself or your younger self, but for anyone listening in right now. There's so many people who need to hear this message. So I am so happy that you're sharing that with us. And we have come to the segment where most of my guests are so humble, they don't love to over brag about themselves or boast about their accomplishments. So I made a section called Breaktime where you get to brag about yourself. Tell us what you're doing. It doesn't have to necessarily be business related. It could be like you learn to paint with your toes or something like, I don't know, you know, like something random, something fun that you're proud of that you want to share with us. So the floor is yours, like brag away.
Susan Bratton: [00:55:18] I learned how to scuba dive just a few years ago, and I've done over 30 dives already. And I find being in the ocean a deep connection to Gaia, to Earth, to all living things. And I think that you can learn new skills at any age. And mine was scuba diving.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:55:37] Oh, I love that, I love that brag about yours. I'm excited to try it one day. I definitely on my bucket list. Yeah. Have you seen any sharks or dolphins? Like did you get to. Did you scuba dive in like the ocean in that way or no?
Susan Bratton: [00:55:51] I have seen sharks. I haven't seen any dolphins. I haven't been where there are dolphins, but I have seen sharks and manta rays and all kinds of amazing animals that so beautiful under there.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:56:03] Thank you so much for coming on. I really do appreciate it. I know that my listeners have gotten so much information. We went from sex to skin to the beauty inside out to scuba diving to you, flashing us with. We can tell that you're definitely putting in work because your skin looks amazing and it definitely shows. So if you guys didn't get to watch the anatomy pictures in the beginning or Susan flashing us or all of the amazing products that she's using. Definitely. Check out the YouTube video, check out the TV and follow her. If I were myself, I put everything in the show notes and we are excited to order this product that you talked about in the beginning. And I'm excited to get some of it and see what happens. Flo. Yes. Awesome. Thank you so much. And again, thank you for being a guest on here. Where can our audience connect with you? Where can they find you? Yeah.
Susan Bratton: [00:56:55] Susan Bratten Soussan be a teto and you can find me on Instagram. You can find me on my website. You'll find me. I'm out there.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:57:05] Well, thank you so much. And definitely check out all of her freebies. I am excited. Definitely. We have to do alive and we have to like keep on connecting because I've made you my mentor. So, yeah, the audience is going to get a lot of you. Bye, guys. I just want to say, if you did not learn enough in this episode and if you want more, definitely sent us a message, sends a DM, we're going to do a live. So stay tuned for that. But definitely put something of the comic guys. I mean, this was such a bomb conversation. And I want to see the other stuff. But I do want to be respectful of all of our listeners because we have all ages. And I'm just trying to make it work for everyone, really. I have been left wanting more. Having a thousand more questions. It's so interesting. And, you know, she has been so, so nice to have so many free guides on her website. I will have everything linked in the show notes. And again, you know what I'm going to ask you know what I'm going to say? I'm going to say sharing is caring. If you have a friend, a girlfriend, a partner, anyone who you think would benefit from the female anatomy and learning more about the female body.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:58:17] Also, even aging, you know, the way that Dr. Susan talks about in the things that she's going through or has gone through, please share this with that and do not be greedy. This is totally free and have them subscribe because we're going to have to really interesting more conversations to come. Also, if you would like to know about a certain topic, if you want to know more about something specific, if you have any questions, if you know a guest, that would be great for the show. Send me a message. Elizabeth at Elizabeth Melina Inc.com. There's never enough information. So I'm here to bring you experts. I'm here to answer your questions. You haven't subscribed. I don't know what you're waiting for. And also, if you haven't left a review, please do so now. It takes 30 seconds and that would make my day. And this would also help the podcast be more known and be more seen. So I would gladly appreciate you doing that anyways, guys, until next week. I'll see you then. Bye
Elizabeth Molina: [00:00:00] Hello, my beautiful people, I'm Elizabeth Molina and I am your beauty guru. In this podcast, I will share with you all you need to know about beauty from the inside out. You will gain access to the latest beauty trends from head to toe mind. And so you will hear from experts themselves. The trendy influencers, celebrities, athletes and of course, myself on all things beauty. This is definitely the place to be biohacking, beauty, hacking, life hacking into the why for your beauty routine. Are you ready for your global obsession? Welcome back and happy hump day. And I'm so honored that you are spending some part of your Wednesday, hopefully with us here listening to today's interview. Today's guest is AnnaLynne McCord. She's an American actress, writer, director and producer. She is known for playing the vixen vamp and roles of darker nature. McCord first gained prominence in 2007 as a seeming add lord on the effects television series Nip Tuck, which I personally loved, followed by credits on the CW and nine 00 to one 00 TNT. Dallas Stalker on CBS Foxes Jerry Bruckheimer produced pilot Lucifer, top TV's comedy Let's Get Physical and ABC's Secrets and Lies. Her turn as a disturbed and delusional teenager in the 2012 film Excision was widely acclaimed for her role in Excision. McCord won best actress at Megalo International Week, a fantastic cinema in 2012. Anna's recent film, 68 Kill, won the audience award at the ASX ACW, and her performance has been hailed strong, fierce and powerful and is currently filming in New York City on Starz 50 Cent's show produced power prequel, raising Kanon during her free time, Anna has contributed to various charities stating that working with charitable organizations and giving back has been her saving grace as it has taught her how to rescue herself. She is the founder of The Love Storm, a campaign which raises awareness for those victimized by human trafficking and sexualized violence. In 2009, Anna was awarded a U.S. congressional honor by the Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, for her anti trafficking work in 2019. AnnaLynne was nominated for the best actress at Madrid's International Film Festival for her role in the Milkshake Girls, a short film about sex trafficking. In 2014, Anna revealed that she was sexually assaulted when she was 19 by a male friend. In March of 2015, while speaking at the United Nations in support with the U.N., WFP, a McCord announced her alignment with the NFL support, aunty's sexual assault and anti domestic abuse project. The No More Campaign in 2018, while undergoing MDR in neurological treatment for PTSD, Ana has limited memories of her years of childhood abuse resurfaced. She has since become an advocate for profound treatment and the remarkable transformation to which it has led her to be as intense speaker and advocate and activist and meditation leader. And it continues to engage audiences at colleges, events and private engagements with her transformative tools and candid outlook on sexualized violence, domestic abuse, human trafficking and slavery, which touches seven billion people, as well as obviously mental slavery.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:03:32] So there is no coincidence, guys, why Anna and I came together. We were supposed to do the podcast a couple of months ago, and I had some emergencies, and she was so nice to reschedule. We rescheduled twice, I believe, and it was about working out a movement because I was just so adamant about, oh, my God, I need to release this podcast. They need to be all the ten categories and then I can do other kinds of interviews. And then I realized that was just not working out. So we started talking about trauma and we started talking about trafficking, violence, domestic violence, just all of these things that are happening that we're not really giving a voice to. So we thought that this message was stronger. And obviously we're going to talk about a lot of things. You guys have to just stay tune in here. We we had an amazing conversation and you definitely have to watch if you're able to that video portion of this so you can see our faces and see what's happening in the background and you get to see her beautiful. So I'm going to leave you guys to it and I'm going to introduce our guest. Hello. Welcome to the podcast. I'm so excited to finally get you on. How are you doing, AnnaLynne?
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:04:33] I'm good. How are you?
Elizabeth Molina: [00:04:35] I'm good. I'm excited. As you can tell you guys, this is an audio and video podcast, so you're going to be able to watch us and see all of our faces. Mine. I look a little orange today, but that's OK. And you look beautiful as always. So I want to before I like let you talk, I want to just preface this like I was so excited to get you on the podcast and. You were so gracious enough to reschedule, I had something come up and you were so sweet, you're like, it's OK, life happens, like we'll make it work. And I think it happens for a reason. Everything happens for a reason, I don't think. And that podcast would have been about working out and meditation and which is great. They're great tools. And it's part of my beauty circle where I talk about movement and, you know, and being one with your body and meditating. And I was like, it's going to be great. She's this beautiful person inside and out and she's going to talk about it. And she has experiences that have brought her here. But today, we're actually going to detour from that original concept. If you're OK with it.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:05:42] Absolutely.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:05:43] About things that are. In my humble opinion, just more important. And you know, this is going to air after the date that we're going to talk about, but it's still things are still happening around the world. So before we get to that, I just kind of want to get to know a little bit more about you. We know that you are a well-known actress like your. Your credentials are pages long. You're stunning. And you know you're pretty famous. Right. So let's get into this just a little bit. How did you get into this business? Tell us, like, how you got started into it. What made you want to become an actress?
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:06:27] Well, there's the story that I always tell when I'm asked this question. And then there's the story that perhaps is more appropriate to the shifts that we're both making and this podcast experience. I could give you the easy. I was nine years old. I dreamed of being an actress. I grew up in a trailer park, and it was never going to happen. But then I made it happen. And voila, here I am, which is lovely and sounds great and fits the stereotype of, you know, stereotypical horae Cinderella story that we all know and love. And I am grateful for all aspects of that part. But it is a story. And this thing about stories is. There are lovely things to hear and read about, but who are you really and why are you really here matters more to me. So since we're doing what matters more on this episode, I without knowing it in my nine year old conscious mind, but certainly knowing in my spirit consciousness, I had a little mission I was embarking upon at nine years old, and I thought being an actress was the way to get me there. And I'm so grateful that I wasn't wrong, because it is it created a remarkable platform for me. But the mission that I am on that I came to planet Earth to accomplish is.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:07:48] For less about the nine year old children like me that were dreaming to be an actor and more about the nine year old children like me that were experiencing sexual abuse and experiencing marginalization, experiencing poverty, I kept all the boxes. I am here on this planet now because that little nine year old inspired me to stick around. I was suicidal. I was self harming. I was depressed. I was anxious. I would not be here if it hadn't been for the deeper meaning of of why my spirit consciousness knew I was here and my nine year old self was on this nothing. Because she she had the things that she wanted me to do that I'm only now just beginning to to realize. And so I dreamed of being an actress. That was the top layer of the story. And I did. I graduated from high school at 15 years old. I was homeschooled my entire education. So I never went to a normal school. And as a result of that, I was able to take the reins and get in control of my own education and graduate early, graduated with honors, all the things that make everybody in the world go, yeah. You're doing such a great job, I think. Have so congratulations.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:09:12] Like the world's smallest violin, the the emphasis that we put on education in college and the right schools is like, I want to shoot myself in the face. Like everybody's missing all of everything while they're so focused on my child. Going to an Ivy League school like that makes me feel good about yourself in your circles at church. And I'm so glad for you. And also, wherever you find joy, please find it. So you raise the vibration of this very low vibrational frequency that's in our world right now, but also really that that's your biggest focus. How about who is your child is a human being? Do you even know? Who are they? Who? Why did they come here? Why did they come here? Who are they? Of the spirit consciousness. There's a little essence inside of that beautiful little body that you keep telling them to cut their hair and wear the right clothes and make mommy and daddy look good, because we want to talk about you in our circles. So we feel better about ourselves because we're trying to pretend like we're not getting old and. Oh, well, we are because age happened, bitches. It's like it's just I'm a maybe you caught me on a cynical moment, but I'm just like I'm so over's raw.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:10:24] There's so many people, parents, children who need to hear this because they need to hear this. This is real. This is this is how we get to higher consciousness. This is how we start letting these little people who are going to be the future,
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:10:37] The future,
Elizabeth Molina: [00:10:38] We give them a chance to really be in their true spirit without breaking them. And this is how we get a better future. So I love this, what you just explained. So tell me more. I love this nine year old girl. Like I need to be friends with her,
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:10:52] Itemise, know I've got friends in there now. I like chicken. I'm like, hey, are you in there? Can we hang out? She she was an arrogant little thing. And I am obsessed with her. People were in Brazil to me half the time. Everyone was telling me I would never make it in my dreams. My dreams would never come through all this stuff. I was just I thought everybody was was a moron. I was like, where is this confidence coming from? Zaal Um, I'm so grateful that I was a little nine year old who who had much more of her shit together than I do now. I'm thirty four, but she got me she got me through a lot. And I think it was my it was perhaps that arrogance and childlike ignorance that allowed me to believe in something that we suppressed. As we become as adults, we push down and we end and we we squelch and squeeze the lemon dry of anything that resembles dreaming or imagination or creation or all the things that make our world beautiful. And when I look at the people in our world and the people that I was surrounded with as I became an actress, I did become successful. I did make it in Hollywood. And I this is the line I literally say to everyone, I live in a town of visionaries with no vision.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:12:09] I'm dealing with something right now where I'm doing something outside the box and I get a response that's redacting everything I've written and putting it into the structure of the format of the way it's supposed to be said and done, because this is how we do it over here at this corporation or this, you know, bureaucratic establishment. And and it's like, OK, so I'm going to do a speech for your bureaucratic establishment and I'm going to say it in a way that grabs your heart and shakes you to your core and makes you feel something because you're a human being. And in so many ways, we're not. And we numb ourselves. If we're not numb enough, I'm going to make you feel in ten minutes of your day you're going to be like, wow, I didn't sit through another humdrum speech. I actually got spoken to. I was seeing and I felt that I could see this person. They were showing me themselves. I got to actually be shown up for today. No, we're going to redact all that. We're going to make you do a structured, terrible, horrible stage, which I'm still going to change. But all that you tell
Elizabeth Molina: [00:13:17] Or this is this is your night.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:13:19] This is what this is to me. Thirty four year old Annalyn channeling the nine year old Anna. Yeah, the irony is that the changing the structure to fit the inside the box for all of the people who they think need to hear this inside the box, but all of those people would much rather be at a dive bar having a beer with me, talking the way I would talk to them in my speech as I wrote it in. And it's is like this crazy, ironic thing where we walk around, we live in these circles, we wear these masks. And I don't mean COVID 19 masks. We wear masks as who we are. And and I went into an industry where I thought the masks that I was going to wear were on set in costume and hair and makeup. But what I found was that everywhere I went, you had to perform. I was performing more off camera than I ever was on camera. I was I was smiling on the red carpet that this life that everyone told me was so great and I was miserable. I was I was using sex as a vice because sexuality had been used against me. And I started to use it for myself, but it was still technically being used against me by me. You know, I was harming my own body. I was in situations where I was provoking really dangerous sexual experiences to just get a high to get a feeling, to get a dopamine hit, to feel anything at all, because I was so fucking numb.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:14:38] I mean, it just literally all of the things behind the behind the veil, behind the mirage, you know, where I was living them out. And and I got to a point at a very early point of. Life where I was over it, I wanted to quit, I call it my young life crisis, I was being offered the show and I don't, you know, and I said, no, I don't want to do this show. I don't want to be an actress anymore. I called my old acting partner in New York, who is a good friend and an incredible humanitarian. And I said, Jess, I'm done. I'm out. I don't want to live in L.A. I don't want to be in this town. I want to be in this industry. It's not what I thought it was when I was nine years old. I you know, I I'm going to move back to New York to work at Starbucks and find a new passion. And she's like, well, no, you're not, because that's stupid as fuck. She was last me because I embellish her words. She's very sweet and kind. And she would never tell me something stupid as that. But she essentially ran a very nice politically correct way, was telling me, yeah, I was this stupid, this like so. So she said, you have such a platform, you have such an opportunity with what you're about to embark on to change the lives of other individuals you've never even met.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:15:57] Are you going to give up on all of that because you don't like that people are a little bit egotistical and the only place they're egotistical is in your town. They're not eager to. So you could mystikal in New York City, you're really like the like. So some of the most elitist people in the world. So she changed her mind. We went to Cambodia where I had my entire world turned upside down. I met survivors of human trafficking and these little girls who I thought, you know, I'm going to go help some kids in another country and be such a good person. The girls changed my whole life and saved me. It was not it was completely the other way around. They saved me in a million ways. And I know that I know that this is so very personal to you. But, you know, the fun of the of survival and what that what that state creates and living in that and then surviving that and then healing from that and coming out of that, it's such an incredible journey. And I had a little six year old little girl, a little three year old little girls who are looking at me with more forgiveness and more grace and more compassion and in their short little lives that have been so, so horribly traumatized than I had and all these years of living in a free country and all the things, you know. And I was really, really impacted by that. Wow.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:17:27] I mean, I'm like, just take me on your carry on and like, let's go do something, because this just sounds like beyond life changing. But before we move and move forward, because this is what we want to talk about today, really, like this is the real conversation that needs to be heard, that needs to be spread out to millions of people so that we can make a difference. One person at a time, a voice at a time or millions at a time. Guys, it's up to you. Share this if you really want to help us with this mission. But can I know or can we know what was that straw that broke your back in? How what was that like? I'm done. I'm done.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:18:10] Yeah. Well, I'll tell you, it's ironically surrounding human trafficking, which was something that was not yet my cause. And I was on the set of a film I did called Fired Up. And it was it was such an ironic moment to happen in life. And this historic aspect of it, there was a massive writers' strike that was going on because of the switchover from the pre digital age to the digital age and who was going to get what types of percentages and all the things when when suddenly people were streaming things online and half the world's like, no one's going to watch anything streamed online. Langan's, that's so not going to be the thing. And then the other half of the world made a lot of money in the stocks because everybody watches things streamed online. But so at that point, back in 2008, I was finishing up Nip Tuck on Fox, and I watched at all times. I was going to say I was very proud of being to be on that show. That was a lot of fun. Sorry. My cat is trying to make an appearance. Hi. What would you like to do, Chloe? Because you're about to walk all over. Mommy's OK. I'm going to just pick you up. This is Chloe. I know. So Nip Tuck, we got shut down temporarily because of the writers' strike, because we ran out of scripts so the writers couldn't write any more of our scripts and continue the season.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:19:48] So in the interim, I did a film called Fired Up about like a comedy about cheerleaders and the whole thing. And I mean, I worked with some very at the time because they were 12. I hope I hope it's because they were 12. Some very vapid individuals in the in the same mall that I had been in the process. And I had met with the director and Mike, who was I was in talks about doing this film that centered around the story about human trafficking. It was an incredible film. It was so amazing. It was so well-written. It was so enthralling and action packed and entertaining while highlighting an issue that nobody in the world was talking about back then. Because when I got involved with this issue 13 years ago, no one was talking about this. They have no idea what human trafficking was. The writers strike happened. The film got canned. It got shelved. Money pulled out. So essentially it got canned. It wasn't going to be able to they weren't going to be able to complete the rewrites. So it just got shelved. And so I'm doing this movie and I'm sitting in the makeup chair and I'm hearing like, oh, my God, Gołąbek you. They didn't have parents for less than fifty thousand dollars. And my manager never let that happen. You have to, Tozzer. Oh, my God.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:21:08] Totally like totally. And I'm like, what am I doing with my life? I had this whole moment where it was just like if it was a movie, it's just like everything slows down into like slow motion. It's like, all right, well, my heart be like, oh, God, no. What have I done? I was there all my whole existence away, so. I was I was having this existential crisis. I get off of the thrown out and I was just like it wasn't even a thought. It was just like, no. Like, I I'm I'm I'm I'm fired up and I'm around kids my age. And I want to knock them out because they're literally like they thought that the other cheerleaders thought that we were actually really at war with each other. And I was like, okay, well, I was hired to act. I don't know about you guys, but I don't think that I actually hate you in real life because, oh, gosh, it was I literally went to shake one of the girl's hands and she just like stared at me while she was on her sidekick like her. And I was like, OK, so you're going to shake my hand because my head is not going to stand here and hang in the air and not get shaken. So I just kept my hand there until she finally was like shakes my hand. I was coming off of this acclaimed show with adult humans who go home after work to their families and actually treat people with some human decency.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:22:30] And it was weird to be thrown into this mix of 20 somethings who I just never been around, humans who acted like that. And now I was going to do a show called Nyota, went out with a bunch of 20 somethings who I was so afraid we're going to act like that. And thankfully, I had a lot of cool humans on that show, but that was a very different experience and definitely had some flavors of the previously mentioned. But but for the most part, you know, we had each other's backs. But, yeah, I was I was like, nah, not not into it. And as a result of that experience, I, I that was kind of the that was the the overt straw that broke the camel's back kind of thing. I was like, no, no, I, I signed up to be a lesbian. And this is not what I want to do. What I was like. And then and then I did go on the show and then I did experience, you know, quite a bit of success as it is determined by the society and culture that we live in the very in the box version of success, where you want to kill yourself in your best, but you don't tell anyone about that because you're too busy smiling on a red carpet and making everyone think everything's all great.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:23:42] So that was the kind of success I achieved. I would continue on with the suicidality being a part of my narrative for many years after that period and would ultimately end up in PTSD treatment. When the older I got and the safer I got in my world and my life, the more I slowed down. You and I discussed this like the when you slow down, you're you're getting to a safer point and you are inviting and the healing that ultimately can occur if you if you allow it. I wanted to get over whatever it was that was creating these negative cycles, these horrible relationship dynamics and all these things. I had no idea what I was going to discover. I did ayahuasca in 2017, which is a plant medicine that I highly recommend, but give fair warning. It's not for the faint of heart. So it's something to really decide I'm going to surrender. I did not surrender at all, and therefore I went to hell. But if you do, if you decide to surrender and then actually let yourself release control something, I did not know how to do it. That's time you can have a you can have an immediately life transforming journey. Mine took about 13 months, 13 months after ayahuasca. I had childhood memories of sexual abuse return that were latent for almost 30 years.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:25:08] And they return during the ceremony or like after like in bits and pieces. I'm just curious,
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:25:14] Almost 13 months to the day I was in it, I ended up in a as a result of ayahuasca, I started making lifestyle changes that I, I don't think I otherwise would have made. And as a result of the lifestyle changes, I got safer in my own personal space. And then things started to bubble up, but I didn't have any attachment to what they were. They were all body stuff and energetic stuff. And then I realized that some of them were causing me PTSD, like panic attacks, things that sound very not positive. They're awesome. They're amazing. We love panic attacks. You know why? You know why we love panic attacks? Because they are alerting us to something that is wrong and need your attention and pay a fucking attention to it. So I paid a fucking attention to that and I went episode.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:26:05] Oh, Regan, good episode. Because you are literally we're entering a new age, a new world, a new time, new dimensions. Vibrations are raising high. People are no longer wanting to be in that little box, that little box, and who knows where, what like how many hundreds of thousands of years ago. That doesn't work anymore. You cannot use that same structure today. It doesn't work. So you are saying things that somebody needs to hear right now. Today they're listening. Listening to this conversation. And they're like, yes, yes. Oh, my God. I feel that to the core. I'm going to go get help. This is not something to be shameful of all of these symptoms that we feel, even if it's a cough or a cold sneeze, an allergy, whatever, it can be superficial. It can be like deep inside, like some some kind of like what's going on. I want to eat. I need to feed myself, comfort food, because I'm feeling something. These are all, like you said, wonderful, because there are signs of like, hey, it's like a flag there. Like, I need attention. Come to me. Come to me. And you with your platform are sharing this message because for a long time we were in this box and they were telling us, no, that's shameful. Hide that sign, hide it, hide it, bury it, take medication, hide it. You don't need to know about that side. And then one day it hits you and you're like, what happened to me? Had I seen all those signs, my car would not have been destroyed. Check endin like him on. I should attracted put the fluid in. I should have done that. Oh, the gaslight like wow. Oil change. Right. Those little things. If you don't pay attention, what happens? Right. And so I love that you're saying that because this is what we need to hear. And I love that we're not talking. Movement is great. Meditation is great. And there are tools to use to get there. But our last our initial interview was going to be about that. But, yeah, it's so important. And so I'm so thankful that you are just on fire.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:28:09] And I am a little fired up today. Oh, I love. But I won't say I'm fired up about meditation and my practice because those have been massive tools for my healing with when I went in when I began treatment from that those panic attacks that were I'm grateful for those panic attacks because they highlighted the issue that I needed to look at. And I was refusing to do so because I was taking care of everything else and everyone else and not myself. And my body kept saying, how well do you want me to get? Because I'm all going to get loud. I'm going to make you sick. I'm going to do whatever it takes to stop you in your tracks and slow you down. And what it did was it sent me into a depression for six straight months that I didn't think I was ever going to get out of, because because my body knew that anything intense, I was going to still laugh off, joke it morbid humor right away. But depression, I couldn't see a future for myself. I couldn't see a way out. And that was my body and mind got clever and said, you know what, let's depress her. Let's depress the shit out of this bitch. Because if she gets depressed enough, she's a she's a go getter and she's a mover and a hustler, and she's not going to be able to go get anything. She's not gonna be able to move and she's not gonna be able to hustle.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:29:22] And she'll finally pay attention to the needs that are going on inside this body of hers that she's been ignoring for thirty years. And I'm so grateful to my depression. I'm so grateful to my remarkably incredible brain and consciousness that did this for me that said hello. Whatever it takes, we're going to get your attention. And I coincided MDR, which is eye movement desensitization and reprocessing and very, very, very powerful tool for post-traumatic stress disorder. It is used for war veterans by the United States government. That's what we offer our vets. And it became popular for survivors of sexual and domestic abuses. And I started that treatment that coincided that with Kundalini and ngonyama breathwork hall tropica breathwork, really intense breathiness. I just did one last night and it was beautiful and releasing and clearing. And it is, like you said, with the oil change check engine light, this is maintenance. You don't do just like a one off thing like this is my work now. This is our job and here I am healed. No, you until you die, you're healing. And you literally go into if you believe in the. Clive, you're going into the next. I wish it to heal, so this is a lifelong journey of self investigation, cultivating silence, looking at the parts of you that you don't want to see and asking, why are you here? Hello, panic attack.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:30:42] Why are you happening? We don't ask why? Why don't we ask why we're so? Because someone's already answered a question we all have to ask. They said, you know what? You got this issue. I got a pill for it. You got this thing. I got a drink for it. You got this thing I got to do to suck for it. Like anything you want, anything you want to not have to think about. Why, you might need to ask the question why. We've got a we've got a tour of, you know, any kind of medicinal anything that you want right here, almost over the counter sometimes. And I was I didn't I didn't drink. I didn't do drugs. I never smoked up until I was 30 years old. I never drank a drip of alcohol. I do love a little bit of wine these days. I'm not going to lie. But but my vice was. I use sex against myself because that's what I was taught to do as a child. And I continued that abuse against myself and I had to detox. And now I'm learning about all of these practices, sacred sexual practices, ANCSA types of rituals that are modernized now for us to use today. I use orgasms. I get myself off thinking about how I'm going to change the world in the future like I do these manifestation orgasms. The wild thing, first of all, it's not sexy to be like, let me think about how I'm going to change the world while I'm like rubbing one up, you know? Sorry, guys.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:32:09] I'm I'm very like I'm beauty is like all things to me. And one of the most beautiful things you can do is pleasure yourself. And I love that. I really love that. But I used to think about really toxic things. And our minds are incredibly powerful. So it's visualizing with one of the most powerful energies. The orgasm is life. Force is creation. You created life. You're a little girl like you made a human in your body. That is one of the most insane things that we can do. And no one thinks about it like that. But like a human person grew inside of you, there was nothing. And then there was a fucking human person like that's wild to me. That's so wild and it's bizarre. But think about if you have the energy in your body to grow a human person, how powerful must that energy be when harnessed? So I harness the energy of what it takes to create a human person, and I'm using it to create the life I'm going to live. Ten years from now, two years from now, two weeks from now, I'm pulling in the one I'm calling in these things that are beautifying my life in the way I define beauty, which is at the very end of my life when I take my last breath on this planet and I breathe no more on earth and I turn back into stardust, what what did I do? What is the legacy that I left? Who? Who did I help? Who do I love? Who loved me? Where did I lay down my life for something bigger than me? That's beauty in the world to me, and the the tactics that you had to use to be able to get you and your little girl out of that horrible situation that you experienced all those years ago when you were taken and literally held against your will for months.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:34:16] The the acting performance you had to pay, the sacrifice you had to make because of a little girl and I know you weren't making them a half as intensely for yourself as you were making it for that little one taken away from you. Right. Right. So this is what this is what we're capable of inhumanity. And we are not just capable of it with our own biology. I don't have any personal children. Every child in this world, yours included, matters to me because they are the future of this planet. And the beauty of human beings is our ability to want better for someone else than we even have for ourselves. There's something profoundly beautiful in that song. And I'm I'm so grateful to you. I'm so grateful that you created this platform that you're shining a light on true beauty.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:35:07] I love your flow chart. I was looking at them. I was like, OK, OK, wait a second. So I am super, really way. Amazing guide. Add water and take. I've got water and everything everywhere at all times. Anyone who knows me knows I'm a water fiend. Yes, I drink Chongjin water. Y'all ionize the water molecules so that it absorbs into my pores. I'm like crazy about water. Obviously, I'm crazy about spirituality. Sleep is something that I work very hard on. But sleep has been difficult. Trauma kids, all the kids notoriously have difficulty with sleep. So it's a dance. I use brainwave technology. I use nighttime meditations. I used to wake up 40, 50 times a night in my three or four hours of sleep window that I would actually get. I'm grateful to say that turning on a meditation really quickly can put me back to sleep, which I never used to be able to fall asleep again. So that's an area I'm working on. But I love I love your beauty flow chart. It makes me really happy. I was like, this is so cool. This is a little reminder of like, hey, look at celebrate the wins, the joy. I'm a joyful person now. I used to get I could not stand people who were happy. I was like you. Why are you so happy now? I'm just like it's a love or.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:36:26] Oh, I love that. I know. I love that you loved it. And you found some find it helpful because that's why I created it. I wanted people to have those wins. I wanted people to see that they could do it. And it was easy. And that's why there are ten categories so that you could like feel positive about it. So I, I love it. And I love that you love it. And I love that you love water. Everyone who knows me as well, like I have water everywhere. I get a picture like it's just so good for you. But OK, we I mean, I feel like we could talk for hours and hours and go off on every tangent possible. And like I. I need to meet your nine year old. I know she's here.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:37:07] Yes, I'll bring her out.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:37:09] Just bring her out. And she give me like my five year old and we just have fun. I mean, these are like our babies ourselves, like our younger selves. Yes, a five year old. But I want to talk about the love storm.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:37:22] Yeah.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:37:24] Tell us about that, because human trafficking, as we spoke, is very dear to our hearts. Sexual violence is also like something that you and I have experienced and we have been very open about this, sharing our experiences with the public. And by sharing our messages, people can feel, you know, safe to maybe share their story and start the healing process, because that's really where it starts. When you let it out and you welcome in that healing, it's a good burden. But then the whole opens up and you can let in that light. And it is not as rainbows and butterflies and crystals that people say it's it's it's hard work. It's a lot of also, like you said, meditation. There's so many tools out there. Yum, yum, d-r. I think it's called REI. I always go. It's such a great therapy. There's so many different things. And I have to send you something for sleep, which I think is going to be great for you. It works on your nervous system. It's been amazing for me. Like it actually like makes your nervous again, makes it like act normal again, meaning like, wow, is it normal? But like sometimes we know it wasn't heavy trauma.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:38:33] You stay stuck in that pattern and you need to press that little reset button. It is really hard sometimes to do that. So I'm going to send you that. I remember. But oh, Glenfield, how did you start this? How did you wake you woke up and you're like, OK, I'm awake now. I'm healing. I'm freaking breaking this box like f this box. I don't live in these little parameters like I am more this nine year old came back and she's like, you were here for something. You are here for a mission. We're going to trigger you. We're going to press all your buttons. Like you said, we're going to make you so depressed that you have to do something. So how do you go from all of that where you have repressed memories, right. Like you don't even really know. You just knew that you had this tool. You're beautiful, you're gorgeous. And a lot of times I will tell you, like women who have experienced this at a young age, like myself as well, we use that because someone took our power and
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:39:28] And we want to get it.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:39:29] That happens is we we completely let people keep us taking the power or we think that we're taking it back by giving it out, because now we're in power, but we're also hurting ourselves in the process. Yes, that's what I would go. Yeah, I know. Well, too.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:39:46] Yeah, I for thirteen years, I work fighting human trafficking with an organization that has a ground team in Cambodia. And I with the exception of Covid, which has been really hard for me, it's the first time in a decade that I haven't been to Cambodia. I go every holiday. I bring Christmas and Santa Ana sleigh. I come in with all the Christmas presents and all the things, and I'm with my girls. And it's an incredible experience every time. And I tend to go a couple of times a year. This work was piece by piece, chipping away at obviously my personal journey and getting into where those memories could finally be realized. But the the major shift and the reason for the launch of the campaign, the love storm, was because it had become the amalgamation of the fight I was doing on the outside, this work that is so important. And I am so grateful to everyone in the field fighting human trafficking. But we have had modern we have had slavery in our world for thousands of years. We have not eradicated slavery because we keep doing the same things, expecting different results. And in some circles, that's called insanity. So I was like, you know what? I've been called insane and I'm super cool being insane in certain ways that put me outside the box.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:41:11] But when it comes to actually being stupid, like I'm not in it, I try to do the same thing and expect different results. We learn from history that we don't learn from history. I want to be the exception to that rule. And what what the amalgamation of this tangible fights in human trafficking and spinning our wheels as we have. And anyone who's worked in this field, they can tell you a lovely speech at a party. But at the end of the day, they're exhausted, they're burnt out, and they're seeing very little change on a large scale. And it's it's it's heartbreaking because we're doing it the wrong way. We're we're trying to clean up the outside while the inside it's all nasty and mucky. I wouldn't invite you over and I probably will invite you over, but I wouldn't invite you over to a dinner party, lets you see my beautiful lawn with all my roses. And then the inside has got laundry all over the place in my disgusting house, has never been cleaned on the inside. Like, what am I going to have you eat on the ground? Like, I have to clean up the inside. We need to clean up the inside. We need to fight slavery from the inside out. We have mental prisons, seven point eight billion of us.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:42:21] No one is exempt. A certain point in our. Lives at any point. It can happen, but at a certain point it will happen that you will be enslaved to a school system, to a belief about yourself, that you're not good enough, not pretty enough, not wealthy enough, not successful enough, not smart enough, not whatever enough to be who you actually are just as you are. That is slavery. And slavery is an idea. You can't kill an idea. You got to have a better one. And the better idea for me is freedom. That starts with personal freedom. We don't end human trafficking of forty eight million people with seven point eight billion people are enslaved inside their own minds. It will never happen. So we have to take personal responsibility. The love storm is an invitation that if you never, ever set foot into the world of fighting human trafficking, may you, at least as a human being, show up for yourself and end the slavery of your own mind. May you at least break the chains, the invisible, as they are inside your head that tell you you're not enough because you fucking are. So the love storm is a fierce love because I don't do pansy love. We are storming the planet with love. And my love is ferocious, like a tsunami or a hurricane.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:43:37] So it's called a love storm for a reason. And the event itself actually features a meditation. So the connecting dots between all of this work, all of what I've done for 13 years, what I learn from the girls who were the survivors that I thought I was going to help, that changed my life. What I learned from them was forgiveness. I learned compassion. I learned love. I didn't believe in those things. I didn't understand those things. And I certainly did not want to extend those things to traffickers and pimps like my girls told me to sister. No, we forgive the trafficker. We forget that. But I'm like, no, I'm from I'm from America. And we get really big guns and we blow things up. That's what Americans do. So, no, we don't forgive and we don't love. And the girls like no, sister, we don't kill the trafficker. We don't kill the pimp. We forgive them. I'm like, I don't like this lesson. And I know a decade or so later, I have memories of childhood sexual abuse come back and the healing process the way out of my suffering, the way out of my slavery was to find compassion for the person who sexually abused me because he was a little boy who never wanted to hurt anybody when he was a little two, three or four year old child.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:44:48] Then somebody did something to him and the system failed him. Where did we go wrong? Where do we go wrong, where we began creating traffickers and creating bullies and rapists and abusers? Because we had to create them. They did not come here as children. Children are innocent and perfect. We did this and we have to be the ones to undo this. So the love storm is an invitation to take personal stake in the fight to end slavery from the inside out. That means modern day slavery, fighting human trafficking, bringing the hands together of all these little organizations that are like tiny little waves on the ocean. I want a fucking tsunami, right. But if you aren't involved in that aspect of it and you just want to help with the idea of slavery, you can do that in your own home. You can do that in your own home, in your body, in your mind, and break those chains. So I invite you to love storm yourself or join the movement at w w w dot the love storm dot com and and love storm the world with me. That's what we're doing. That's what Tony Tony connected me with you. And Tony has been love storming the world since the day he was born. He's such a love storm.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:46:02] He is. He is. I'm so grateful to him and for meeting you. And this message really. I literally I usually speak so much that I'm just like mostly quiet because you're either reading my thoughts and just answering or you're just saying things that I've been thinking for a long time and I didn't have anyone else to like. Your radical your thoughts. What are you doing? How can you think like this, having the wrong people around, right.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:46:32] Or just people who are or just accidentally ignorant because there are ignorant people and then there are people who just just don't know. And that's an accidental ignorance.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:46:43] Yes. But then there are people who actually don't want to know.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:46:46] Yes. Yeah. Those sort of.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:46:49] Yeah.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:46:49] I love having come out about them.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:46:53] Oh, God, you're invited. Let me know.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:46:56] They're my favorite. I love to just rip the carpet out from underneath those people that all that show I mean, love I have.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:47:04] Oh, well, it's going to happen one day. And I would love to see that because that would be a challenge. I know the person and.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:47:10] Oh, so send me a Zemlyak, honey.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:47:15] That would be awesome. Ok, so tell us a little bit more like how can people get started in this, Lofstrom? Because I'm like, where do I sign up? How do I go to Cambodia with you? What what do I need to do? Like sign me up? And everyone listening right now got so much like their clubs are overflowing with not just information, but also love. Every single word that you had said is going through their bodies, through their cells, are probably pausing this screen shotting this going back to that. They're going to quote it. They're going to tag us on Instagram and all the other forms. But the most important thing is sharing this message. And unfortunately, we're not going to get this out for human world trafficking day, but that's OK, because it's still happening every day. Unfortunately, human trafficking is very lucrative. And I'm not saying this to go into the business of it, but this there's so much like you said on the inside that you have to change, not just on your mind, but there's just so much that has been the system has created this, and we have to break that box, that system to to to start dismantling what atrocities have been made in the world, in the universe. So I am like my soul is so deeply touched and just like on the same like how do we what do we do? Like, let's but like let's get the stuff and let's just start going in there
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:48:38] And just shooting. Yeah, well, there's a you know, there's always room for a McColley moment, like bring out the sword.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:48:46] But yeah. Yeah, you know, we'll deal with LA. We'll do the love bomb like a love.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:48:50] Yeah. Well, love Bomu. Exactly. But yeah. So if you if you'd like to join the movement, we have a little button you can click on. Go to the W WW dot, the love storm dot com click join the movement. It gives you an opportunity to let us know if you'd like to see the love storm come to your town. We're doing it virtually right now because there's a lovely little COVID 19 virus that once we fully open back up, it is a global tour. It's a global campaign. And we had launched it on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day back in twenty twenty before Covid hit us so hard. And we had 22 cities around the world that we were intending to visit. We do still intend to visit those cities and those communities to bring this message, bring the connecting dots for other organizations to be able to link arms and continue this fight on the outside. And we invite you to show up so that we can learn about this from the inside out. So the love storm dot com at the love storm. Give us the follow on on social or you can find me at the Annalyn McCord. Social and I'm always updating about these things.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:50:00] Awesome, OK. And we're coming we're wrapping up the session because, you know, we're going to do a live eventually. We're going to do a live and we people have can have more questions. And I'm respectful of your time. My time, because time is precious and we are on a mission to storm up the world with a lot of love. And I'm so excited that we connected so to things that I always ask my guests. And I'll ask the first one, what is one thing that you would have told your younger self before? Like from today, like today, what would you have told your younger self? Like any piece of advice and this doesn't have to be about beauty, it just anything that you're like, this is what you need to hear.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:50:38] Well, I wouldn't have told her. I would have asked her, how do I stay just like you? How do I stay and wonder of it all? How do I stay a dreamer? How do I stay? Childlike and kind and loving and trusting. Even when I'm being subjected to horror, how do I do that? Because I'm going to forget and I'm going to get really, really hurt because I forget. And it's only in the moments in my thirties when I remember to be like you that I'm going to get it together again. Can you tell me now how to just stay just like you?
Elizabeth Molina: [00:51:15] Oh, I'm so. That's a beautiful, beautiful question and message. And I'm sure that all of the listeners we have so many listeners from different ages, some people in high school, some grandparents who listen. So this this fits for everyone, because I think that's the part that we're missing. That character that we spoke about earlier, that little human, that little child that we keep on trying to make them fit into the mold. Boy, say I don't have emotions. Don't do this, girls. Make sure you suck in your stomach. Make sure you're like really cute and you have your pigtails and your nails and all these things. We're making them into something that they're not. And so I love that you're reminding us to connect, to stay true to that, stay more aligned to that person, because wonderful things will happen to you.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:52:00] Yeah.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:52:01] Thank you for that. And then last but not least, I had ragtime. Oh, mazing guests on the show. And I found that the more amazing the people, the more humble they are. And they don't really love to brag about themselves. Now you get to brag about yourself. Tell me about I know you have a podcast. I want to hear about that, too. But like this is a time where you get to Tommy Élisabeth, like I taught my cat how to eat with a spoon.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:52:29] Oh, that would be something to brag about for sure.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:52:34] You bought those buttons where like she gets to speak, you know. Have you seen those yesterday?
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:52:43] Yes, I have not done any of that
Elizabeth Molina: [00:52:46] Brag about anything you want is what I'm saying, like the floor is open to anything, like there is no structure here.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:52:53] Ok, well, one of my wellness practices, breathwork led me to half them off. And he does breathwork. That leads you into ice baths. I am notoriously the coldest person on earth and an ice that sounds like my worst nightmare. So what did I do? I decided let's challenge ourselves and I will totally brag about this because I am incredibly proud of myself. Not only did I start doing ice stats every day back in October of last year, I changed my vascular system. I do not get cold anymore. In fact, I run quite hot. I like literally my vascular system had just gone dormant because it was used to me putting on coats and blankets and all this stuff. And now I'm like, it's all in here. And everyone's like, it's winter beds and you're in the Hamptons or there's snow. Like, why are you saying it's hot? Two or three months ago, I broke my own record. 20 minutes in the ice bath. Whoo! I do. I should. I posted it. I posted the whole video on Instagram because I was talking about the mental health aspects of this. And one of my this is the braggy part for me. One of my gurus, who's an incredible yoga teacher extraordinaire in New York, Eddie Stern. He called me and he said, I want you to know that a minute eight and something, whatever, whatever on the video, because it was the 20 minute, you know, of me doing this.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:54:19] He said, you slipped into bliss. And I started crying. It was such a beautiful moment because it just it it's it was impossible to describe. It was just a perfect moment, and it brought tears to my eyes. And this is someone who, like, trained in India and, you know, he's like he knows all the amazing chants and like leads these things. And I was just. And then the world to me that that he saw something that yogis, as you know, aspire to that I was able to do for myself, for that little nine year old girl inside of me, to to bring her into just ultimate joy and bliss in a space where my mind is not yelling things at me. And I'm just in silence. And it's wonderful and it's freezing cold that I didn't know it because my energy field was heating up. That water is so hard. It was like I could feel the outline of my energetic field in the water, just heating the water. It was wild. And I try to explain it. And then you see me just get less and less coherent on the video because you literally get high like you get must. Like you should not drive a motor vehicle after doing this because you literally can't function properly. But it's amazing. Definitely.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:55:31] Check that out a little piece of it. But now I'm going to have to watch the whole thing.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:55:35] Yeah, there's a there's a little time one, but there's an actual video and you can just fly through. And I try to I try to walk people through what I'm feeling. And then I just like I'm just goodbye, everyone. I'm in heaven.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:55:46] Oh, my gosh. That was cool. You've inspired me because I am you sound like me. I'm the coldest person ever. Yeah. And maybe perhaps my.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:55:54] It's your vascular system. It's dormant. Yeah, it's it's gone dormant because it's like, oh, well, you know, Elizabeth going to put a big warm coat on me so I don't need to warm her up. And I, I do you know, I went on the podcast actually because of all of those he invited me on. I was like, fangirl so hard. But I literally go on there and we were talking about it. And it's you talk like you start talking to your to your autonomic nervous system. And all the doctors and scientists are like, you can't tell your autonomic nervous system. And I'm half as like, yes, I can watch me. And he does. And he he's I mean, he's incredible. But the but what I do when I'm in the cold, I say, OK, body. You're cold, but I'm not the body, I'm not my spleen, I'm not my liver, I'm not my elbow, I'm not my skin, I'm not my body, I'm not my brain. I'm the consciousness beneath between like inside, right beneath it all. So consciousness doesn't get cold. What's going on? I am not cold. My body is cold. So I still my consciousness. I'm like, heat my body up, warm it up, stop shivering. And you see me on the video and I'm like, shivering, stopped. And my body starts and I start going into a space where I'm feeling fine and a really cold tub. That tub is about forty three degrees temperature like Fahrenheit. So fucking cold is shared by anything under 60 is just like hubba, hubba, hubba. Yeah, but but totally this has been transformative, like life changing for me. I just looked at the time I actually have to go, but I know I could talk to you forever.
AnnaLynne McCord: [00:57:36] I guess I have a podcast, too. It's called Unzipped. It is my old Niños, you know, co-star, because I did say yes. And I do. And I and I did do that over five years. And my old co-star and I, she and I got someone talked about us behind our back screen, created a feud between the two of us without us realizing it. We hashed that out on episode one of the show. I hated her for five years. And now we're doing a podcast together. So we talk about that on episode one. And then all of the episodes are us diving into topics where we just ask you to come on beyond that, share with us what's going on. You have to come, obviously, on the show and tell us your story. Right now, she is going on mat leave because she's about to have a break. She created a human in her body. And we've been talking about how God is good and he will be here in a couple of weeks. So after that, at some point, I would love to have you on. But see all of your listeners, you are so beautiful because I see your soul. I don't have to see your faces and your know what clothes you wear in cars you drive. But I don't measure your beauty by that. I measure it by the starlight you're made of. And I can see that sparkling all the way from here. So I'm so grateful to be able to be a part of your journey for this lovely little period of the sidecars. Thanks for having me.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:58:47] Thank you so much, Anna. And everyone don't crash. When you go watch her video, we will do so. I appreciate you for coming. Have an amazing day and we will talk soon. Bye. All right, guys, thank you so much for tuning in and listening to this amazing conversation and these amazing topics that sometimes we don't want to talk about. We only want to talk about what's really beautiful on the outside and on the surface. But these are things that are happening every day. If you are interested in checking out the love storm campaign. Please do so. I'm going to put the links in the bottom. Also, check out Anna's podcast. And if you haven't already subscribe to this podcast, I don't know what you're waiting for, because I have to tell you that they're going to be some amazing guests coming and amazing conversations that you do not want to miss. Please share this episode with at least five people, you know, have them subscribe. And if you haven't already, tell people that, hey, this is a podcast worth listening to. So, guys, until next week. See you then. Bye.
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In this episode of Your Beauty Guru w/ Elizabeth Molina podcast, Elizabeth Molina talks with Dr. Michelle Gordon AKA Dr. G. She is a TV Host, Surgeon, Athlete and Author. She was the former Host and Executive Producer of the Reality Docu-Drama, called Life Matters with Dr. Michelle Gordon that aired on the SciFi channel; It was about 7 women they were addressing aging while enjoying the adventure of a lifetime in Spain, she is a board certified general surgeon and founder of the Gordon Surgical group a multispecialty group practice in 2005. She also co-authored a book called Life Matters cookbook with Chef Cassandra Catoia recipes for living including a low carbohydrate and paleo inspired delicious meals you can prepare at home. She is the founder of the menopause movement and it is a community for women to flourish through menopause and life. She founded this menopause movement when menopause hit her hard, and it was very frustrating for her especially as a doctor that there wasn't very much out there. We're going to hear about this during the interview but she set out and she started learning and getting information and this information really transformed her life, not just menopause but her life in general and so she created this community and so she is out there to help other women experience the same transformation she has.
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Conversation Highlights:
[00:02:17] This is such an important conversation to have, because as women I feel like there is not a lot of information in general about our menstruation and why it's good to have it, what it means, and there's alot of shame around it.
[00:05:32] So we started with the period, but no one talks about this period, like this whole thing and like even the days like what that means. As a surgeon, as a physician, as someone who is educated..How do you take this news? In your brain, how do you receive that? Oh this is happening.. Are you mechanical about it or are you the woman behind it? I want to know about your experience, it’s not often we get to hear from the doctor who has been diagnosed with something and have to experience it like their patients
[00:12:25] In your training being a surgeon or doctor did you learn about nutrition? When i take my 2 dogs to the vet the first thing they ask is, what’s their diet, how much protein, fibre, etc? But when I go to see a doctor I never get asked about it. Why is that?
[00:17:10] Do all women experience menopause the same?
[00:18:00] Is there a diet that can help us women have an easier transition into / prepare us for menopause?
[00:28:18] What are some common symptoms that women will experience that indicate menopause?
[00:41:11] What are some common mistakes women make surrounding menopause?
[00:45:10] Now this is a beauty podcast, can you tell me what your definition of beauty is?
[00:48:20]So looking at my beauty circle, what areas do you think you excel in and why?
[00:51:02]What’s one thing you would have told your younger self before reaching where you are today?
[00:51:55]BRAG TIME!!! This is your time to tell us more about what you’re currently working on, or doing in life.
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Elizabeth Molina: [00:00:00] Hello, my beautiful people, I'm Elizabeth Molina, and I am your beauty guru in this podcast, I will share with you all you need to know about beauty from the inside out, you will gain access to the latest beauty trends from head to toe, mind and soul. You will hear from the experts themselves, the trendy influencers, celebrities, athletes and of course, myself on all things beauty. This is definitely the place to be. Biohacking, hacking life, hacking into the life. For your beauty routine, are you ready for your global obsession? Today's podcast guest is the co-founder and CEO of Young Goose. His name is Amitay. Amitay is an entrepreneur in the Biohacking and Spaces. He's also, like I said, the co-founder and CEO of Young Goose, a biohacking skincare company. And he is also the host of The Young, a biohacking beauty podcast, which is super duper cool. And we get to really go in today and kind of talk about what is biohacking, how does it fit the beauty space and how is this beauty line merging the two together? Of course, these are some of my favorite topics, so we are going to be diving in.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:01:18] Welcome, Amitay, to the podcast. How are you doing today?
Amitay Eshel: [00:01:23] I'm doing great. Thank you so much for having me on. I'm actually very excited to be on the podcast.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:01:29] Awesome. Thank you so much. I'm excited because you're doing some amazing things and I want to talk about the journey. We're obviously this is a big podcast. I'm all about Pudi holistic insight and our mind and soul, all of all of it. This all interconnected. And you have a very interesting story. You come from a different background, like you have a military background. So do you mind how do you go from being in a tactical division in the Israeli army to basically biohacking skin care to give us a new technology that we haven't seen yet? Can you tell us about that? I would love our audience and I are like, intrigued.
Amitay Eshel: [00:02:09] Yeah, I think this is a twofold answer because the short answer is where I was in the military and I was in a very small unit in an even smaller task force in that unit, and it was a special operations unit in the Israeli military. In the short answer is you learn to think outside the box and you learn that the enemy is always innovating. So you have an intrinsic urge to innovate and to find that the next step to whatever the large goal that you've set. If so, that's the short answer. If you want to hear a little bit of the story. Yes. As we as we said, I ended up at the end of my military career, was heading the reconnaissance task force and section of my small special forces unit in Israel. Life is very demanding. There are a lot of ups and downs and a lot of negativity you see around you, especially if you serve and on the front line. And when I kind of find myself in the private sector and being asked to manage individuals because this is the kind of profession I chose, I got addicted, you might say to the the amazing feeling you're getting when you're letting when you're giving another person the opportunity to feel better about themselves. And that was such such a sharp contrast in comparison to what I did before. And and it was so speaking into my soul, if you would.
Amitay Eshel: [00:03:52] I love that feeling. When when when you know, you made an impact on someone like someone's life. The positive impact that I have been chasing that feeling so I started in Israel is amazing in innovation in the beauty space as well, but mainly in cosmetic procedure, innovation. So anything that's got to do with cold lasers or types of healing lasers, types of radio frequency devices, you'd be surprised probably, you know, eight out of ten treatments that you've undergone, like ablative treatments, harsh treatments that you've undergone, if you would have there, they were done with an Israeli product. So I started as an executive in that space, took the lessons I learned in my military career. How do you accomplish a mission? How do you build a tactic for for that mission and apply them to the private sector? And then before the pandemic, a few months before the pandemic, we've launched a startup that's called Jungle's. In this startup basically aims to really ring in all of the latest biohacking innovations and bottle them up into something as simple as possible skincare product, and that's another area that I feel skincare is kind of going awry where you have, you know, one product to every half a problem and know need a few products, each problem. So part of our idea was to have all of these amazing new technologies there, but make it as simple as possible.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:05:35] Yeah, what a great story. And I love how you brought in the military of solving a problem. You have to be in head. You have to prepare. You have to strategize. And here's the same thing. We're strategizing against time, gravity, the pollution in the air, the food that we eat, what we drink. This is what you are kind of trying to plan ahead is what you're saying. You're strategizing. How do I optimize my skin, my health for mitigating really what's happening on in the environment and in the world? Everything is changing. So I love that. But how did you guys come up with the name Young Goose? I really think it's very interesting. I try to think of it like, what is a young goose and what does it look like and why do we want to be like Youngie? So. So tell me about the name.
Amitay Eshel: [00:06:20] First of all, the fact that you're already asking about the name to me is is a is a small win, you know, because I we wanted an interesting name. And when we established our our startup, the name was different, the name was called Emesis. And for me is is a positive effect that the body undergoes because of stress. Unfortunately, our goal is larger than just skin care and in other spaces that we were hoping took to kind of expand to the name was taken. So, you know, we had to kind of scramble and find a new name. And my partner thought of the name. Obviously we want the end goal is to maintain youth and the the connotation of Gousse, which is to us is a very positive animal. That was nickname in the military as well. And so it wasn't necessarily about me, but the connotation was very was very positive to us and it rang nicely. A nice Israeli saying it doesn't apply in every situation is nothing better than good enough. You know, if it's good enough, it's good enough. So we all like the name. No, there is no reason in a lot of areas in life to over complicate things and, you know, to overthink things. And we try to apply this principle where
Elizabeth Molina: [00:07:50] It's a cool name. The packaging is really beautiful. I like that. It's er like seal like you just pump it, it comes out. I mean there's so many great things about the packaging. The way that you guys deliver it is just beautiful packaging. But I was like trying to figure out like does it stand for something, is he going to tell me it's like some sort of peptides like like I was like breaking my head, like what is usually I'm pretty good at figuring out the names and like what they mean, where they came from, where the origins. And I couldn't figure this one out. And I'm like, I just have to ask him, like, it's an interesting name. It's a beautiful packaging. If you guys are watching this live, you could see I'm holding up the bottle of what water there, what they're really known for, which is a product called the Caird. It's a cream. But we'll get into that in a little bit. Before we do, I kind of want to ask more questions about skin care. So why antiaging? Like, how
Amitay Eshel: [00:08:45] Come, like every addiction you don't plan to get addicted beforehand? Right. And that that includes good, good addictions as well. I'm going to tell you about a recent interaction I had with a lady named Lillian, who was a professional institution. And obviously she already knew the product by working with her and making sure the products succeed with her business and to see how from the person that has a lot of personal issues, you know, sons with that are not, you know, rocking it in life at the moment, that they have challenging lives. And you can see a person with a lot of burden when I've when I've encountered her the first time. And the addicting feeling is the fact that I didn't solve anything else in her life. I didn't go and fly the Australian Council or son or whatever that would be. But what I did do is create a difference in a specific area of her life that has proliferated to other areas because she feels amazing about herself and what she can achieve. And she feels hopeful about the future. And I believe that when we have. This approach, not that not for me, like a Fugazi kind of standpoint of other things in mind, but you are going to be tackling things, your attitude is going to be much better and other things are going to respond better to you. So that's just an anecdotal example in general, because I started in that in that beauty space, these were the responses I got addicted to. When people go through a transformation or are hopeful about the future, they can see a light at the end of the tunnel, if you will, or they can see how they're going to be more confident. Confidence, I think, is underrated in general. That's something I feel I can really touch people individually. What we try to do in this in this company is obviously reach out to more people and end up as being the golden standard for for skincare and biohacking skincare and the agents in here. But that's a large goal. I'm addicted to the personal feeling of meeting a person and changing their lives personal.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:11:03] Oh, yeah. I can obviously relate to that. And that is a feeling that I don't even know what there's like. No word to describe it. There's no money that can buy it. It's just you just feel like fulfilled, like your mission in life. You're doing it. And I know the feeling and that's why I do the work that I do. You do the work that you do. And that kind of is a good Segway to go into your podcast. You have a podcast, and in the podcast you kind of provide listeners with different aspects, different strategies, tips and tricks. I want to say for like General Skincare Antiaging, you talk about biohacking. What's the most interesting, unusual question that you have heard or. Yeah. That you've heard on the podcast or in general that you've answered on their coffee enemas?
Amitay Eshel: [00:11:53] Not kidding. That's just because we talk to them.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:11:56] That's my that's why
Amitay Eshel: [00:11:59] When you ask me this question, what came to my mind is the using snail secretion as an antiaging.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:12:07] Oh, my God.
Amitay Eshel: [00:12:08] Ingredient. If we zoom out really the expectation or, you know, the belief that there is a quick fix, that there is something that we can apply on our skin and never mind, you know, our other daily habits or whatever that would be, that's going to change our skin. So secretion is is very interesting because the way that the myth behind it is, is that people who were picking cotton would get laceration in their hands and they've noticed that the skin healed faster if by mistake they've they've brushed against the snail. So that's that's where that comes from. And a lot of green products have it. Then when we have designed our eye cream, really looked at why didn't the skin reacts to what's in the snail secretion, we could isolate those peptides and create a product, all of them. But what you first hear about it and you think of smearing snails on your face, to me, it seems it's just such a funny image to me that. Yeah, yeah, definitely. That's one of those. I have another one for you that I just thought of.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:13:14] Tell me, tell me. Tell me.
Amitay Eshel: [00:13:15] That's something that's gaining more and more popularity as we know or if people don't know, red near infrared rays have positive effects on ourselves. And these are the rays that are very prominent during Sandown or Sunset's. So now and the question was, is the rumor true that you get health benefits from exposing your anus to.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:13:39] But I've heard this
Amitay Eshel: [00:13:43] That to me seems like there are other, you know, alternatives. But that's definitely another another thing out there.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:13:50] You beat me. I was going to say I know about the bird poop one. Well, yeah, but I forget that one. I forget the bird's name because that's like an old. And then have you heard of the fire fascial. No, they take fire and they light your face on fire and it's official.
Amitay Eshel: [00:14:10] Is that like is that like a laser resurfacing for, for on a budget.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:14:16] No, probably. Maybe I don't know. So that's one and one that we've been talking a lot about is an anaconda fascial where you get an anaconda snake who is trained, trained. I'm doing air quotes. If you guys can't see the Anaconda strain, then well-fed and it like relieves tension from your face. And apparently it's like a really big trend. But I know, like in Asian countries, they do it. Some zoos do it to subsidize, I guess, to get money with that from their anaconda's. I don't know. But that's a that's some some of the new trends that are coming up, the fire official and the unofficial. So if you hear about those, let me know. OK, the son one. Really, really, that's there's an actress who did a blog about it, and she swears by it every morning she wakes up and she does it and she says that's her secret to looking great.
Amitay Eshel: [00:15:11] Ok, fantastic. No, I'll just say that normal you know, you don't even need to choose super high end light therapy devices. So chromite starts at fifteen hundred and zero. Gravity is perfect. Your ex is like 8000. These are devices that not everyone should have in their home, but like a three dollar or I think they even have a smaller one. I'll do like panel.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:15:35] Juba's pretty nice.
Amitay Eshel: [00:15:36] Yeah. Yeah. And that has, if I'm not mistaken, about 12 times the power that you're going to get from from from the sun as far as near infrared and red. So I really, really suggest her trying this.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:15:55] Well, you have your options. Amitay just gave you some options. He gave you the free one, go outside in the sun and beware or buy some devices and try it out for yourself. But, yeah, that was very interesting. OK, so I want to know what beauty means to you and how you apply this in your daily life.
Amitay Eshel: [00:16:14] I am obsessed with sports. That's kind of a remnant of my my early life. And I love contact sports and contact sports involve a lot of injuries to me when I'm injured. I don't feel good about myself and about myself physically. It's like your body's betraying you. And because I consider myself not a very vain person from a beauty standpoint, I would equate the feeling of a healthy body and the confidence that the healthy body gives you or when you're unconfident because your body's, quote unquote, failing you to a feeling of being beautiful and being outside at least. At least that's that's the way I understand it. So to me, beauty is confidence. And I said before that confidence is underrated because confidence allows us to shed some of our fears that some of the masks that we kind of don, to walk around in the world and not reveal our our full self and our full personality. And when a person is confident, they're less afraid of judgment and making mistakes. They show more of their personality. And like a snowball, they are better looking to themselves and to other people. So it's a snowball, right? You look better, you feel better, you get better feedback from the environment because you're nicer, because you're more friendly, more loving, etc., more generous, and you get generosity back. You feel better, you release it. So to me, that process, that being on a roll, if you will, and that's that's what beauty means to me. That's what the feeling of being beautiful
Elizabeth Molina: [00:18:06] Means to me. That's not just beautiful, but I can imagine that that feels good, like feels amazing and it's contagious. Like what you're describing, the way that you see beauty s contagious, like you said, because when you're confident, there's like a little bit of vulnerability there because you're just showing up and being your best self and your confident self, and then that allows other people around you to also embrace themselves and be confident and say, wow, me too. I can do it, too. So that was like, that's so beautiful. Thank you for sharing that. That's like the recipe for life.
Amitay Eshel: [00:18:43] And I love that you said vulnerability because vulnerability has two sides. There is an innate if we can think of someone in our brain that that just, you know, a negative part of our brain that just waits for something negative, some negative image of yourself to pop pop up and that that little person in your brain tells you how much you were like that all this time. It kind of takes you down. And that's one one part of vulnerability, which I'm not. I what I did not what occurred to me when you said vulnerability, there's another part of vulnerability, which is when you are so confident and so self accepting and you might hear some criticism or something might reminds you in an imperfect part of yourself, there is a vulnerable, confident side where you're saying you're recognizing, you're saying, yeah, I'm not perfect. These are sides maybe I need to work on. Maybe, you know, that's my luck. And I'm not no one is perfect. And that type of inclusive, accepting vulnerability is empowering itself, accepting vulnerability. And when we're confident, when we come from a self accepted place, because we feel beautiful, because we feel healthy, because we feel important and and essential to the world, that is part of the whole package. You. And accept yourself in your misfortune.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:20:02] Guys, if you're not taking notes, pauses, screenshot of the podcast right now, listen to it again, because this is this is beauty. This is different aspects of beauty from different perspectives. And this is so beautiful to see here. Like, as I'm hearing it, I'm like, oh, that just feels so nice. Like just imagining that. So thank you for sharing that with us, with our audience, because sometimes we need a reminder, a reminder of what beauty is. It's not just the superficial, the wigs or the lashes or, you know, the treatments. It's it's a feeling, the confidence that you spoke about, the vulnerability, the showing up, the acceptance. So I love that you said
Amitay Eshel: [00:20:43] That unless you really surround yourself with mirrors, beauty is in personal. Beauty is something that you can't see yourself for all the time. Right. It's only when you really take time to look at yourself is when you see yourself. So beauty is way is much more a feeling than a physical existence, if you would. That is why I did not answer as far as like physical attributes, because really that's a very small part of beauty. The biggest part is, is your feeling. Yeah.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:21:11] And there are programs where people don't look at a mirror for 30 days or 21 days and they say that it's been life changing. People around them respond to them so much better. They even like forget about the outside beauty and it just internal. So I want to stress this, because this is such a great topic, especially since we've been home since the pandemic. The world has changed. And I think this is a great reminder. And taking it back to your company, Young Ghost, right now that we know the name, I want to ask you about your very special care cream, which is like what you said you guys are known for. Yeah. Tell me about the care. Does the care stand for anything? Or that's just
Amitay Eshel: [00:21:54] Another carrier that is named for cellular anti aging air and energy. Wow. OK, good. It is a groundbreaking agreement and I'll explain shortly why. And the main patent that we are using in that cream is called In Our Noble, and that is an accumulation of the precursors. So Nadie, if to quote David Sinclair, who is a Harvard professor, but also one of the more prominent antiaging researchers in the world, and Nadie is the closest we have gotten to the fountain of youth. It is also something that if we took it from the body, let's say to all the energy from your body, you you will be dead in thirty seconds. So it's it's an essential molecule that is involved in more than 600 processes. And wow. And the reason it's the energy is there is because one of its main claims to fame is it's its it's how it facilitates energy creation. So any time we convert, you know, calories that leads into energy that our cells use, they need energy is kind of the waiter that carries that around. And the more energy you have, the more the cells can take care of themselves. And I'm sure it's of no surprise to hear that declines with age. Well, yes. And and that by the time we're sixty, we have about fifty percent of the energy that that ourselves. Oh my God. I used to. And I know
Elizabeth Molina: [00:23:35] What you're here to save the day.
Amitay Eshel: [00:23:37] Yes, exactly. That causes a lot of a lot of a lot of mistakes, a lot of, you know, repair damage in the cells and the cells wants to repair themselves, but they never get that supply of energy. The day the needs supplement industry is a quarter billion dollar industry. Just to give you an idea how many people believe in this product, it's one of the most researched, antiaging aging molecules today. If you know, mostly their health division, which is one of the biggest as far as money invested, is heavily researching and and precursors. And so that's a little bit about the background, the problem with that magic molecule. And we've only really touched the tip of the iceberg as far as its engaging properties, is that our body can't it's not in our body, can't receive it as a form of full molecule. You can't tell it if you go. That's an ad. And nobody's going to know what to do with it because it never has seen it before like that. There is no natural energy in nature which we kind of consume. So the body needs the Lego pieces to make any and like any Lego piece, you have one that's that's bigger and you can you can create more from it and less so. And it is being created from. You things that we that we would know be three is one of them tryptophan and a few other molecules which are less famous, which we have discovered recently, and the most effective in raising a Navy level.
Amitay Eshel: [00:25:16] So the Lego pieces that are really the most useful are and and ah, and in our noble that that path we're using has both of them within it in a special formulation which makes it highly bioavailable in the skin. And then we looked at the most up to date and reliable research asked, OK, now what do we here with this molecule to create an synergetic effect? So we have other 10 other ingredients. We have the vitamins there. We have 10 P Cucu resveratrol, actually Pathet version of resveratrol, which is fermented, which makes it about 50 times more effective and less toxic for the skin. So there are a lot of there is a support group to NIV as well. And the end result is activation of the genes that control, repair and anti aging. And we're activating and fueling them, throwing fuel on the fire, if you will, for those genes and really making them ramp up their activity. And through that, we get anti aging benefits that are skin specific, because if you took a pill, whatever we just gave your cream, your skin in a very specific area would have to divide within your body. And and I'm not sure you want your toenails to A.H. as much as you want to. Crow's feet to. So it's nice to be able to
Elizabeth Molina: [00:26:53] Or you might
Amitay Eshel: [00:26:55] You might not say, you know, if someone has that concern, they can they can put our cream on their toenails now. But, yeah, the ability to choose is important. Not everyone has the same goals. I would love to to to perform at my highest athletic ability until I'm 100 years old. So I want to take the supplements. Someone else would like to look the best when they're 100 years old. And I might opt for the cream if it's a budgetary issue, or you could definitely do both.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:27:29] So do you guys have a supplement? Is that what you're saying?
Amitay Eshel: [00:27:32] No, I'm saying supplements working on one. We are working on one. We are working on one. That is that is more all encompassing, the best one at the moment from a different company that I'm not involved in. If I could recommend is. Yeah, please do is a company called NOVOs, which is end of the OS. They have an amazing, amazing, amazing antiaging product. And they also have Inamine, which is an energy precursor. So check them out. They're great. No affiliation, just great company.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:28:07] Amazing. Yeah, because as you're talking, I'm like, you know, as far as coming from a bio hacker, as a woman, bio hacker and beauty hacker, I'm thinking I want to get to one hundred and look like I'm fifty five. But I also want to be functional like there's no point to to be that old and then also be like in diapers, in a wheelchair, hoping that my home attendant comes on time to change my diaper. Like that's not a good quality of life. So I'm like, can you do both.
Amitay Eshel: [00:28:34] Definitely. And you and you know, that's your question is is very profound because if there is a way to have one and not the other, I haven't heard it all. The more we delve into medicine and health and wellness, the more we understand that systems are not working, individual systems are intertwined, that we're talking about biological systems. Your machinery in your body isn't isn't there are not they talk to each other, if you will, in order to achieve better skin. And this is backed by published substantial research. The better you are, the healthier you are, the healthier your skin would be. I wanted to say and vice versa, but that's not necessarily the case. But if you want to achieve healthy young looking skin, your approach should be a holistic approach and you should really ask yourself, how am I improving my overall health and wellness? And that in a healthy, young looking, vibrant, glowing skin would be a byproduct of that.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:29:38] I love that. That's why we align. I cannot wait to try the product because I'm convinced I almost want to drink it. Is it edible?
Amitay Eshel: [00:29:48] So we're we're working on it very, very, very natural. Version four for those who are OK, extremely picky. And that one of the one of the things we've got to roll down is funny because it's like you looked at our board, one of the things that you could eat it just to give you an idea of the process that were that any that were manufacturing retailers, those any precursors, those anything raising molecules, it really dials them to be skin specific. And there are other strategies to make them or bioavailable when you ingest them. There are also, just to let you know, Ive's of energy, which, yes, a lot of people like and do, which seem very effective, and they have their own challenges as well. It's a very long process. You need to be in a room eight to 12 hours or. Yes, do it really, really, really fast, which is one and a half hours. And you basically look like you've got to act like really
Elizabeth Molina: [00:31:01] I did that and I look like I was attacked by bees and and I will I don't mean to cut you off, but, you know, when you spoke about your product and it was bioavailability available and you spoke about the Lego pieces, that's a very important piece that we didn't really highlight. You can have these products and that's why these things are patented. Right. You have a patent on these things because those Lego pieces that make it bioavailable are so important because you're doing nothing for yourself. You're literally paying out the water. Your body is going to metabolize something that it doesn't understand what that is. It's going to say, I don't know what you're here for. I don't know your purpose. You must be garbage. So you're just going to get rid of it. And when you're even the drip, the the drip that you're talking about, the steady drip, I'm very sensitive. So, like, when I try something, I will tell you right away, my kidneys don't like it. My liver is not approving of this. This is not like in a good form. So what I did, the nad drip, I felt horrible. I didn't have the Lego pieces that Amitay is talking about and that's very important. So you can go and do these things, but just make sure that you check the quality, check where where this, you know, this is coming from. Is it bioavailable because you could just buy it, use it, and then you're doing nothing for yourself. So I wanted to add that there because we didn't really go over the importance of those Lego pieces that you're talking about that your company has patented, which is why I'm like, can I unjustice? Because if you if this is bioavailable, this is going to work out for me. And if you guys are watching this or listening to this, I'm like literally like waving the product on the screen right now because I cannot wait to try it. But yeah. You were saying about the nad drip Amitay. Sorry I interrupted you, but I wanted people to know the importance of these Lego pieces, how you call them, and you said it so beautifully. But that's what how your body can understand what it is.
Amitay Eshel: [00:32:54] Yes. And it's funny, when I was just talking about it yesterday with a an amazing functional medicine doctor called here in Miami, anyone needs a recommendation. His name is. Eliot Ness and we were talking about the the the option of introducing an idea these to practice and the problem with an idea I.D. is that your brain actually knows what to do. Then I guess it is a packaged product and it knows how to use it. Your liver has some idea how to use it, but the rest of your body, your muscles, your skin, etc doesn't. And that's why you see this flush. It needs to really break it down to niacin. And that's that's what you're flushing and in kind of build it back up. And this process isn't isn't isn't perfect at all. And and it's
Elizabeth Molina: [00:33:45] Not pleasant, by the way.
Amitay Eshel: [00:33:48] And that's it creates waste. And those genes that we talk about, those anti aging genes, they are not it's not going to activate them fully or at all. So that's that's important to understand. And, you know, just to kind of connect to what you are saying, you are very intuitive. And, you know, if your liver doesn't like something or your kidneys, and that is that's a gift because most of us need to eat a couple of McDonald's before we understand McDonald's is bad for us. Sorry, McDonald's for mentioning you all the time. But, you know, even if you're not even if you're not that intuitive, you should be feeling. Oh, that I'm feeling way better the day after or not. And so the problem with NATO troops are that they're not perfect. They're very good for brain function. So they're used extensively for addiction and they're used for pain management. Both are neurological in their in their base. And the best facility in the United States in my in my opinion, is in Springfield, Louisiana, by a doctor named Dr. Matya. So that's definitely my first choice, their ideas of B.R. plus an idea. But if you are not interested in your brain specifically, you're looking for a more holistic approach. We're still waiting for any of the precursors to be introduced into Ivey's and our R&D is looking into it. It's a long process. These these molecules don't like water. So so in general, when you're looking at using them as in an IV, they're not very stable and that's where the problem comes, comes from. So really, I feel our solution, our no pun intended, but the our product is definitely a solution as far as biohacking, our skin and our epigenetics, our anti aging genetics of our skin, how do we maintain DNA integrity and how do we maintain proper skin function, which results in many fine lines, wrinkles, tighter skin, less pigmentation, also less irritation from other products you get you get less sun damage when you are exposed to the sun, etc. So it just makes your skin behave like a younger skin. And you think of how that looks and feels like,
Elizabeth Molina: [00:36:11] Oh my God, I love that. I like. So I will be a little biased because I love, like Israeli products because I'm not super dark, but I'm not super white. I have like a tan color, but I get freckles and like Israeli products. I feel like because the sun is so hot there, this is a concern for everyone there. How to protect from sun damage, how to protect from the hyper pigmentation. So most of the products are developed for that, which is exactly what I needed, probably so many people. But here's here's a caveat that I'm like excited for. Like, your skin is the largest organ in on your body and it absorbs right there some minerals, some things that are transdermal. They're the best way to absorb like magnesium. The best way to absorb it is transdermal. Like you can take a magnesium supplement. It's not going to be as effective as take. Sometimes they have like transdermal patches or you can get in a bath and get like really great magnesium flakes or whatever the case may be. But so we forget about that. We forget that the skin is an organ and it absorbs and like you said, it communicates with your body and it'll take it. So whatever. I feel like your skin on your face is not using. I feel like your your body is going to absorb it and maybe place it in other places. I don't know if you guys have studies on that, but I will be interested in the future when you guys do that. So this is exciting. You guys are kind of, you know, skin care has come a long way with technology and it's only getting better. So I'm excited about this. But can you tell us a little bit about the care boost? I have the Caribous. I do. This one does work. Not that meaning like they all work, but the pump works. And I did try it and it's really nice. So can you tell us about the care boost and what what's what is it? Use for like tell us about it
Amitay Eshel: [00:38:07] When we started. We have one product and this product was received so well, people were asking us, well, I want to have a product that would complete it or a product that is similar that I could use during the day. So Boost is a product to be applied during the day like a day cream that allows you to do that on your own, on its own. It has wonderful accident, but it's the secret is its real purpose is capitalizing on the raised energy levels from the night before, from when we applied the night group. So, you know, if I ever comes up on trivia and aid levels peak eight hours after supplementation and skin supplementation is is the same in that aspect. So we capitalize really on close to the peak of energy. And now we're using a formulation that really asks the body, OK, create more collagen, do it here and here, etc.. So we have amazing peptides there. We have amazing way to communicate with the body on how we want it to repair itself on the skin, how we want it to repair itself and kind of accelerate that process. And we have more of that patented resveratrol, which activates those anti aging genes that are fueled by. And so medicine. Our cells have a lot of energy. We're asking it, OK, it's antiaging time, let's go. And that would also provide some protection from from our environment, from from fuck, from smog, from free radicals. It's not an SPF. So you're welcome to use an SPF over it. But as far as DNA damage, as far as damage really being done at the core level of our skin, that's going to mitigate solvents.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:40:08] Wow. OK, sold. And I also have here I'm going to just like bombard you with questions because I know that our listeners are going to want to know about your product line. You have a lip one, which I, I definitely want to get because I'm a big lip girl like well pun intended. I have big lips but I like moisturizing my lips and it's very hard to find a good product that doesn't clog the pores, that keeps the lips moist. Then like if you have big lips they're always dry because they're big. So I'm interested in your product, but I have this icare. So tell us a little bit about the eyecare and then I'm going to like, bug you with some more questions because we are loving this line.
Amitay Eshel: [00:40:51] Just something small about the lip lumper. So one of the challenges that people have with Lumper is the fact that they just some of it and it really causes most of the time heartburn or tingling irritation, because that's that's the purpose of Lumper, right. To kind of kind of stimulate a little bit the blood flow and our you know, our they just offtrack doesn't really agree with it. That was our challenge. And that is as far as widely Plumpers is interesting or unique is because it is very healthy for you. It's it doesn't have any any any harmful substances or irritating substances. So that's just about that will make sure we send you one.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:41:38] Wow, that's amazing. I want to throw in a little fun fact there, ladies and gentlemen, who wear lipstick, you swallow about four pounds of lipstick a year. You ingest it as a byproduct of applying lipstick.
Amitay Eshel: [00:41:53] The problem in skincare formulation is that normally when I increase a percentage of a product, I'm doing it to get more results. But but I'm also increasing toxicity levels. I'm increasing the side effects of that of that product, of that molecule, that we're increasing its amount and we get some negative side effects. So that's one of the challenges. And by isolating what works and kind of stripping it down from other molecules that are normally with it, if we think of snails, it's kind of a formulated product. We can increase the good aspects and decrease the negative aspects. And that would try to do with all of the regulation, by the way. And what we've isolated are the peptides that are active there and that causes skin rejuvenation. The most important that we have there, and that is a a rising star in the biohacking community is copper peptide one. More. Yes, you know, more well known as H k siu you, which is used very effectively in early stages of hair loss, and there is abundant research showing its efficacy in skin rejuvenation, collagen production. And really, that's kind of a game changer in aging. We have pushed the limits so far. We really have the highest levels, highest percentages of active ingredients that a standard skin can tolerate. And our next step would be to integrate our and our noble into that cream. But because that formula is so rich, is is is designed to combat another aspect of genetic aging or fundamental aging, the core aspect of aging, which is skin thinning. So it thickens the skin. This is called, by the way, skin thinning is caused by glycation. Our product really thickens. The skin makes it smoother and people might feel a slight tingling when they apply. That is not a reaction. That is just because it is so active. We love talking about our care product. That's our claim to fame in what we want. We notice that normally the first product people get addicted to is our eye care, which is the product we just spoke about.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:44:41] Yeah, I know. I love that because I've, I got addicted to it right away because feel it. It feels like it's working because there's like a tingling effect and I, I Yeah. So I could see why people would get addicted to that. It's sounds amazing. And my last question before we kind of keep on wrapping the podcast up, because I don't want to take up too much of your time and you want to keep the listeners here. You know what? Maybe we'll have another one and we'll talk more. Are you guys going to have a sunscreen?
Amitay Eshel: [00:45:16] Ok, so a few things about sunscreen. Yes, the answer is yes. But sunscreen in general as a claim, you know, as a psychotic and is a medical claim. And it is it's actually very complicated. So the easy thing to do is to go to a manufacturer and just buy their sunscreen formulation. If you don't want to do that, if you really want to innovate, you're looking at a few hundreds of thousands of dollars in red tape, really in your research showing the FDA that it's a safe product because, again, if you look at any sunscreen that you're using, you're going to see the, you know, your ingredient list. You're going to see a drug that's because it's considered an over-the-counter drug. And that that is that is not as simple as formulating any other product. We will have a sunscreen because another guiding principle that we have is making sure we don't overcharge the the our customers in order to make it financially smart. We would have to wait a while. But we do have that decreases. Resilience to the Sun is a product called biopsy peptide spray. And the thought behind it is we we we looked at people using thermal water, just water sprays on their face.
Amitay Eshel: [00:46:41] And they were spending, you know, over and over ten dollars spraying water on their face, which. We weren't judging anyone, but we were saying, how about people do the same thing but get some benefits from it? So we have a very special type of vitamin C there. We have about three percent of it. And that's very special type of vitamin C, that our concentration actually increases your resilience to some damage. So that's something very good. Just in general, you can use it as a toner or you can use it just as a is it kind of refresher if you're asking about sunscreens in general? Thankfully, in the last few years, zinc oxide, which people might remember from their youth because they're lifeguard's, used to put it on the nose. It was white powder, which is a natural sunblock and not a chemical one is now, you know, widely available as a nano sized version. So you can't see those white particles. So look for a zinc oxide as your natural sunscreen. You can see a lot of companies saying mineral sunscreen. It can be a good codeword for you to look at because chemical sunscreens have been linked with some bad side effects.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:47:56] Right. OK, we're excited to try your MS.. So that's a good can you apply that over makeup as a refresher like you? Will the effects be the same? Yes. Awesome. Guys, check out that product. It sounds amazing. Great. And like if you're going to be missing your face already, I probably use it as a setter. Yeah. Why not do something that adds a little bit of extra TLC? I love that. I love that your company is so conscious and so thoughtful of like all the reasons of why what you're doing. It's like multitasking on steroids and that that's
Amitay Eshel: [00:48:31] Not so remote. That's our email. Our M.O. is we're not standard. If you look at what's happening in skin care in general, most companies, what they would try to do is that they were going to try to take a current trend and attach themselves to the current trend.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:48:46] Yeah, I love it. I love it the whole time. You guys, I'm like smiling. He's speaking my language. Biohacking meets beauty, science and consciousness. I mean, what else could I ask for? Right. OK, so the beauty circle is this tool that I develop and I use with my clients. It's a category. It has ten different categories. So I always ask my guests, what from that category are you excelling in right now? And what from that category, from the beauty circle, are you meeting some more TLC? So that could look like I need to get more sleep because we started like having more sales than ever. I need to work on my water intake because I've been so busy. So I would love to hear from your from you like biohacking in the space. What is it that you're excelling in and what is it that you need help in? Because we're human and we're not always perfect. And I want the guests to know that
Amitay Eshel: [00:49:38] For me, the answers I kind of gave them. But for me they're very easy. What I excel in is more math because I'm one of my addictions is his contact sports. I do jujitsu, I, I train every day at least once, if not twice. And so definitely that is something I excel in because it is very easy for me to excel in that I'm addicted to what I am not excelling in. And that you've mentioned is sleep because we are a growing company. And what happens when you're growing company? Is that you your reference for yesterday? As far as I'm going talking to certain stuff, what you what unexpected events you should expect is skewed is in a smaller scale. Every time I wake up, my evil self tells me, oh, you should hit the button and go back to sleep and eat. Anything you do is forming a habit. Anything you do, every decision you make takes a certain into a certain direction. And it's it's that can maybe cause you to be more conscious about certain decision you're making, what you put in your mouth, what you put on your skin, what you definitely put in your mind and the you know, your attitude.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:51:03] Yes. Oh, my God, you are crushing it today. Here the listeners are getting so much information. We went from your military days, from your units to biohacking to PD, hacking to life, hacking to now hacking your mind, which is the most important thing. It's always mind over matter. Right. So I love that we're hearing this today because if you can think it, you can do it. So, I mean, we're getting towards the end of the podcast. And I want to ask you another thing that I ask all of my guests. It's not even related to beauty, because I think that beauty is a holistic thing. And it's not just one thing. It's not just a product that you put on or what you eat like. You said it's what you have in your mind, there's so many parts to it. So what is one advice that you would have given your younger self like today that I would say that's here right now? What would you have told the younger version of yourself? Like what advice?
Amitay Eshel: [00:52:02] You're going to be OK? Oh, I think that the reason I'm saying it is because I believe fear or doubt is the antithesis to creativity and innovation. If you think about it, you know that that is really, you know, a nice thing is, you know, what's the opposite of love? It's not hate. It's no feeling at all or something like that. You know, it's it's not caring. And you can play the same game as far as innovation and creativity. The opposite is doubt and fear and. I wish I was more adventurous in my youth because that would have read more innovation, more generosity, because I love innovating for the greater good and more happiness, more joint joy is ultimate generosity. So, yes, so to me, knowing that you're going to be OK, unshackle you from from your doubt and from your fear, and now you can really rock on and do what you feel like you're meant you're meant to do or what you want to do, which is the most important I feel.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:53:23] Wow, that piece of advice is so good. I'm sure that somebody today who's listening to us is taking that and hearing it. And it's resonating with themselves, with their soul, because you are going to be OK. And what a great piece of advice. And that's not just applicable like years ago, but today, every day going to be OK. Yeah, I love that. OK, Amitay, I have a section here before we end called Breaktime. You get to brag about yourself, what you're working on. It doesn't have to be just work or the beauty products. It could be, I don't know, you won the karaoke contest that you went to, like it could be anything that you're proud of, anything you have coming up, like brag about yourself. This is your time to shine, OK?
Amitay Eshel: [00:54:10] Because, I mean, to me, it's very cringe to to brag myself. I'm going to tell you what I'm excited about, OK, in my near future.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:54:21] So wait. Before you start. Before you start. I know it's crazy, but I'm going to I'm going to put your advice that you said just now everything is going to be OK.
Amitay Eshel: [00:54:33] Yes, definitely. Let's yeah. And also, I know I you know, I always tell myself, even if it's not true, it doesn't matter. I tell myself when I'm uncomfortable, I perform at my best. That's just a belief. You know, two things can happen if you're comfortable, you're anyway going to perform well. And at least you should have the belief that if you're uncomfortable, you're going to even perform better. So as far as that, but but I really would like you know, I feel like bragging, you know, as an Israeli, it's really frowned upon. So so I would take a different approach to it. I'm going to tell you that because young girls are still a startup and we are committed to invest every dollar of our profits to research and development. I am not I'm not supporting myself to young girls. Thankfully, I, I make enough money before. And in order to to, you know, is an ongoing job, I do get a few speaking speaking engagements in different continual education programs for doctors, if it would be that or some some business development for companies. So I'm very, very excited for my upcoming week. I'm going to be in New Orleans and then in Dallas. If anyone is there, you're welcome to reach out. I have a lot of free time and I love traveling and half of the half of my waking time. I'm probably in a different city. So you know what I'm excited about after this? Pandemic restrictions have lifted a little bit and I can travel again. I'm very excited, you know, meeting the new and and tweaked United States. I'm very curious about cities that I that I used to adore, such as Austin and Portland, which I'm going to be later this month, the next month in Washington, DC. And New York may rest in peace. I don't know what's going on now in New York
Elizabeth Molina: [00:56:48] And New York.
Amitay Eshel: [00:56:49] Yeah, I know. Maybe you can tell me, but yeah, I'm very excited. Again, my addiction is making a personal impact on people's lives, even though the greater goal of our companies is doing that collectively. But because I'm going to satiate my craving for a one on one difference in the media, which I do often, but this week is going to be a great week for that. That would be my Bragge, you know, my my ability to travel and work and meet new people and make an impact in their lives.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:57:29] Oh, I love that. Well, traveling is always fun. Making an impact is amazing. One person at a time. Yeah. And you're doing that. So I'm excited that you are doing. Those things, I just want to take a second to say thank you for coming on the podcast, sharing all of your insights and wisdom with us and being so brave to brag about yourself, even though we know that it is not going to have a positive connotation in some countries. But that's OK. That's why we are here to change that up. And it's OK to talk about yourself, to enjoy your accomplishments and share them with others. And that's how I view breaktime. So thank you for doing that and excited to be on your podcast pretty soon and do our lives. So you guys don't miss that out and try your products. I've been trying the I and the the boost, but now I'm going to try just to care for night and I'm so excited to give you guys my review, but it's so far so, so, so good. Thank you so much Amitay. Until next time
Amitay Eshel: [00:58:32] By having me.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:58:34] Well, guys, that is a wrap if you are still listening. Thank you so much for being a loyal listener. I am sure that the content that you are getting today and next week, obviously for the next episode is going to be super exciting. We are going to be interviewing some heavy hitters coming up. The podcast is taking a turn and I am so excited to share it with you guys. So stay tuned for that. In the meantime, you know what I say? Sharing is caring. If you know anyone who is interested in anything, the beauty, biohacking, mind and soul and spirit and holistic health and all of the things that I talk about. And if you know me in real life, if you follow me on Instagram, on a clubhouse and now green room, you will know that that is my job. I love to bring them in all together. And they said it. Could it be done? Guess what? To tell a girl it can't be done and she will do it. So I am going to be delivering some amazing content coming up. And I'm super excited. So you know, the drill guys share this with at least three to five people who know who are going to be interested in any of those topics. Follow me on IG, which you know, @Elizabeth__Molina, let me know how you guys are finding the podcast and I will see you next week. Bye, guys.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:00:00] Hello, my beautiful people, I'm Elizabeth Molina, and I am your beauty guru in this podcast, I will share with you all you need to know about beauty from the inside out, you will gain access to the latest beauty trends from head to toe, mind and soul. You will hear from experts themselves, the trendy influencers, celebrities, athletes and of course, myself on all things beauty. This is definitely the place to be. Biohacking, beauty, hacking, life, hacking into the wife. For your beauty routine, are you ready for your global obsession? Today's guest is none other than Hala Tala. She is the host of Young and Profiting podcast, frequently ranked as the number one educational podcasts across all apps. Hala is also the CEO of Yapp Media, a full service social media and podcast marketing agency for top protesters, celebrities and CEOs projected to generate over one million in revenue in its first year. She is well known for her engagement following an influence on LinkedIn. She's also known for so many other things that we're going to get into in this episode. You're going to hear things from her that you haven't heard before. She is going to sing. She has an amazing, beautiful voice. She has a story and it is an impactful one. It is a story of resiliency. It is a story of if you set your mind to something and you work hard enough, you will get there. Hala takes us through her journey. And I'm so excited for you guys to listen to a never before heard all of the different adversities that she has gone through and how she's doing it today. So I'm so excited for you guys to meet her.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:01:40] Welcome, Hala.
Hala Tala: [00:01:42] Thank you so much, Elizabeth. I'm so happy to be here.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:01:45] Awesome. I'm so happy to have you here. This is going to be such a great episode. I cannot wait. I'm just going to dive right in because there's so much content. The more I hear you, the more I learn about you. I'm just like, wait, what when did this happen? Like, how old are you again? So I was I want people to know about you and to just hear your amazing voice and power and like, pun intended. You guys will stay tuned for that. So, Hala, let's get to it. How did you begin in the industry you are today? You are a powerhouse to be reckoned with. You have your hands in everything. I don't think there you have enough toes and fingers to put in all the jars that you're in. And tell us a little bit about your back story. Like, let's make it like maybe like not that long. Tell us about all your your journey through radio, through your corporate. Like, tell us about that before we dive in.
Hala Tala: [00:02:37] Yeah, of course. I'll give you the really quick version. So I started my career at Hot 97. It's one of the biggest radio stations in New York, in America for hip hop and R and B. And so I got this internship, my junior year of college. I was in the corporate side, the production side I got I was doing really well. So then they recruited me to be Angie Martinez's assistant in the studio area. So this was like a really coveted role. It was super demanding. And so what happened is I ended up dropping out of college to take it full time and to really take my chances and try to see if I could grow a career in radio. And so I was Angie Martinez Gopher, basically, where I would do all her research. I would answer calls, I would babysit her kids, I would go get clothes for her. I would, you know, go driving around with her to events and was basically her apprentice for three years. And it was totally for free. I never got paid a dime from Hot 97 or from Angie Martinez. So I dropped out of school, like I said. And that was very difficult because I came from a family of doctors. So my dad was a doctor. All my siblings were in med school or, you know, just graduated. I'm the youngest of the baby, the family. And here I was working for free, dropped out of college, working at a radio station when everybody else was in med school.
Hala Tala: [00:03:49] So I was actually looked at as like the failure of the family, which is really funny now. And but I was working really hard, you know, they just didn't understand what I was doing. So then paying roll opened up at Hot 97 and it was to be Andrew Martinez's producer. And for a while I was doing that job. And every morning I would I was already doing that job from before. The reason why she had fired her producer is that he was really underperforming. And I was already doing that job for many, many months. And they decided to instead of hire me, I wasn't even getting paid minimum wage, but literally at the station every day had a key card as if I was employee, like, highly legal. Right. I, I still instead of giving me a job, they decided to promote somebody who is in the video department, who had no production experience, no producer experience whatsoever. And so I was pretty upset. I was a young girl. I was like twenty at the time or twenty one. And I, I sent a text to Jaroussky who is now very popular on Hot 97 all the time and still has his show. And I said he was the one who got the producer role. And I said, you know, I don't feel good today.
Hala Tala: [00:04:55] I don't want to come into the station. If you want to be the producer, learn it on your own and he showed that text to Angie, Angie got upset, fired me, and essentially tried to blackball me from the industry and told all the deejays they couldn't talk to me anymore, didn't even let me say goodbye. I had to pack. I didn't get to pack up my stuff. I just was never allowed to go there again, never allowed to talk to anyone again. And it was really traumatic, a traumatic experience for me, looking back and really impacted the future of my life very dramatically. Because had that never happened, I may have been on Hot 97 as an on air personality right now. And that was literally my trajectory. That's anybody who works for free at the station. It's for that reason they're basically saying work for free because we're going to make you a star, you know, and that's what I was working for free for. So anyway, I didn't let that hold me back. I think they fired me on a Thursday. And by Sunday, I had built like a website called the consortium hip hop strawberry plant Dotcom. And I decided I was going to recruit girls and create this network, this female network. And we were going to empower each other and support each other because I felt like as a woman, I wasn't getting the right exposure and opportunities in the hip hop industry.
Hala Tala: [00:06:05] And so I was going to recruit other girls. So we had girls from Def Jam, VH1, iHeart radio. All these different girls joined us. We started the sort of hip hop and at the height of it we were 50 girls strong. We were hosting the hottest parties and concerts in New York, the same DJs who wouldn't pay me minimum wage. I started hosting parties with them. If you go look on my Facebook and Instagram, you'll see fliers with me on with deejay Carmello and Funkmaster Flex and all these huge DJs that I used to host parties for. And we saw those concerts and a radio show. So it was great. And at the height of that, MTV scouted us for a reality TV show and they filmed us all summer. We got a studio on Broadway. It was finally going to be a way for me to, like, really monetize this endeavor. Like we were a big name in the tri state, but we weren't really making that much money just from events. 50 girls that money spreads quickly can spread thin across so many girls. I was the president, so I would get paid the most. But still, MTV filmed us all summer and then pulled the plug. So last minute they decided they're not going to air the show. And then again, it was one of those moments where where? What do I do now? You know, my life was kind of crumbling.
Hala Tala: [00:07:12] And then a piece of the story that I usually never tell. But I am going to tell it because it's relevant. It's the first time I've ever telling this is after MTV didn't pick our show. I shut down the blogsite, but I also at the same time, it was around twenty fourteen and there was lots of war going on in Gaza, Palestine, same thing. That's what's happening right now. And I shut down my website and I just became like an advocate for Palestine and I raised over three hundred thousand dollars for Palestine. And I had all these fundraising events and that's all I concentrated on for a long time. Yeah, but it was funny because I shut down my website and I basically exited from the entertainment industry and talking about Palestine and like being like political like that was like the nail in my coffin. So like nobody fucked with me anymore. A lot of the people who who supported me stop supporting me. I lost a lot of friends, like a lot of people just didn't mess with me anymore because I started promoting Palestine. So essentially. I exited the entertainment industry and I thought I would never get back on a mic again, so I was like, I'm just going to be I want to be better.
Hala Tala: [00:08:17] I want a more meaningful life. What I was doing before was all fake. It was so such like not sexual, but like we used to host parties because we were pretty girls and I just wanted to stay away from that. I was like, it's time for me to grow up. There's people dying in the world. I want to fix that. I want to be a good person and I want to work on myself because I felt like I had 50 girls under me, all kind of banking on my success for themselves to be successful. It was like I had to do like 90 percent of the work for all these other girls to get all this success. And I was like, I just want to do it on my own. So I went got my MBA. I basically forced myself into the graduate program because I did not have the I would add a two point three undergrad GPA. So I didn't deserve to get into graduate school. But they let me in and then I got a 4.0. I graduated number one of my class and then got a job at Hewlett Packard, started Young and Profiting, which is now a number one education podcast and worked at Disney for a little while, then launched the media. So that is my story in a nutshell. You can dig into any part that you want.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:09:21] Oh, my God, I love that you I was like, please do it quick because you have so many lives that you live that you like. Bam, bam, bam. Here you go. It wasn't
Hala Tala: [00:09:29] That quick. I was like, oh, shoot, I'm kind of going too long. And, you
Elizabeth Molina: [00:09:33] Know, it was it was really good because it was it was definitely quick. There's so much to be said there. So I kind of want to, like you said, a lot there. And I want to unpack that a little bit. And I want to go back to what I keep on hearing is your resiliency like you are that chart that you see of of like the the heartbeat that goes up and down, up and down, up and down. And so I want to take it way back when when you were little, OK? Because it seems like you've been dealing with the rejection, people telling, you know, people shutting the door in your face after you put in the work. It's not like you're lazy, right? Because there are some people who are like, I just want to show up and be pretty. I'm going to show up and be a voice. And you have a beautiful voice. And we were talking about that before. I wanted you to tell us a little bit more about your middle school, high school, because I feel like there's a story there that relates to what we're going to get into, which is what fuels you, because there's a fueling you. That's a really massive like there's this fire in Holla. You guys have to watch her and she's always on. And so, like, we need to know the secret to that feel. But where did little Holer become? So, like, I'm going to do it. I'm going to get no matter what.
Hala Tala: [00:10:41] Yeah. So like as a kid, I was always like really, really outgoing. So like you said, I was a great singer. And so I'd always like at family parties like the ones singing and like wanting to be the star of the show. I was the baby. I was cute. So like, I got a lot of attention when I was growing up. And in middle school, I was like decently popular. I had a lot of friends. I'm a Palestinian American family. My parents are really open like a lot of our family. Friends were Christian and Jewish, and we were just like a normal family. And I would I would like say that, like, people treated us like we were Italian before nine eleven. Right. So it's like we were we were ethnic, but we weren't, like, weird or we weren't bad, you know what I mean? And like, my dad was a doctor. And so, like, you know, my friends, a sleepover. And it wasn't like we were just a normal family. And I mean to say this because after 9/11, all of that changed. And so I used to be into soccer. I used to be like in the plays and like always get like either the co-lead or the lead in the plays and like solos and all this kind of stuff. The 9/11 happened and I felt like I never got any opportunities for a long time. Like so like end of middle school, all of high school, just no opportunities.
Hala Tala: [00:11:50] Like I had the best voice in school. I would say the one thing, the one saving grace that I had an amazing course teacher and he still always gave me a solo in the concert. So if I didn't have that, I'd probably have like no confidence. But I knew that I had the best voice in school, but they would never put me on the lead in the plays. I wasn't even allowed to be in the talent show. Can you believe that? Having the best voice in school and they're telling you you're not allowed to be like you're not good enough to be in the talent show. Recently I lived in a really white town and I was like one of the only brown people. And before nine eleven, it was definitely better in terms of like how the community treated me and my other cousins who lived down the street. But then after that, after 9/11, it was like I just felt like I got zero opportunities. I tried out for the volleyball team. No, I tried it for the Chilean team. No, I tried it for the play. No, I tried to be on student council. No, I tried to be in the towns, you know, like literally. No, no, no, it's not it wasn't normal, you know, and before nine eleven, I would get a lot more opportunities. And I literally think that there's been so many opportunities that I haven't gotten because of literally my name. And like, that sucks, you know, even job applications.
Hala Tala: [00:12:56] I think I've been rejected because people are like, call it. Oh, that sounds really weird. She probably doesn't even know how to speak English like. And it's like the opposite. I'm like the most American person ever. Right. But like, it's just it's tough, you know, and I really hope that that changes. But the big moral of this. Story here is that by the time I got to college, I was so used to rejection that I was like unstoppable. And when I went to college, I went to NJT. It was like nerdy nerd central, right. So many like just engineers, kind of geeks. So I got to school and I was like the hottest girl in school, you know what I mean? And so I was like I got on the cheerleading team. I got in the play. I was like in my sorority and just rocked it. And it was like a really big confidence boost because I went from, like, having all these friends and stuff in middle school and then in high school just kind of being normal and not really getting too many opportunities to in college, like really just soaring and sticking out as a sore thumb. And then I got that internship at Hot 97 and then I started just hanging out with celebrities and dating Chris Brown, for example, like just, you know, had like a really cool life as a 19 year old. And and then the rest is history.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:14:04] Wait, did you date him before Rihanna or after Rihanna?
Hala Tala: [00:14:07] Right after Rihanna was giving me.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:14:10] I was going to ask you, like, how was that? Because that's I think that's a whole another podcast.
Hala Tala: [00:14:16] Yeah, he was nice. I mean, it was like I was his girlfriend for me. I wasn't anything serious. It wasn't like we were like very, very serious. But he's taking me out to dinner and I had to sign a waiver before we the first date that we ever had his like driver. He gets Chris gets out of the car and his driver hands me like a waiver that basically says, like, I can't tell anyone that we're on this date. Oh, my God. Here I am saying it because it's like nothing happens, so.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:14:42] Oh, that is that is a good story. Like, really good story. Did you get any dance moves from from Chris?
Hala Tala: [00:14:48] Did you know when you think constantly every day, like he would just be like walking around singing the whole time, he was really an artist at heart.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:14:57] Did you ever sing with him like.
Hala Tala: [00:14:59] Yeah, I used to. So at the time I was a singer and so we would be in the car listening to my music. And he used to give me feedback on my music. And if I really wanted to have been a singer, I had the connections back in the I could have really pushed for it, but it wasn't I really wasn't like, you see how passionate I am with podcasting. If I had been I wanted to be a singer, but I'm not like the best dancer in the world. And I knew that, like, you really have to be both if you really, really want to succeed. And I have a great voice, but I'm not like Christina Aguilera. So it's like I either need to be like the best singer in the world or I need to be really good at singing, really good at dancing. And I knew I wasn't that. So I pivoted to radio.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:15:38] Ok, well, I'm going to have to ask you how, like, do you mind giving us a little sample of your music? Because I want to hear you sing like I never heard you sing on a podcast.
Hala Tala: [00:15:49] I've never sang, not even on my own podcast. Elizabeth So this is a big ask. So I'm going to sing a song I tried out for American Idol. I didn't make it. Obviously, I tried out for American Idol and I did the Keyshia Cole love song. Would you say
Elizabeth Molina: [00:16:06] Was it the dancing or was it just because, like,
Hala Tala: [00:16:09] No, I was wrong. I got to the second round, like, I got through the first round. The second time I literally went up, started singing for two seconds and they were like, next. And I was like, OK, like they just didn't like how I looked pretty much. Now I'm young and profiting, you know, everything happens for a reason. OK, I will sing. And by the way, I have not warmed up. This is totally just a lie. But yes, let's do it, OK. I used to think that I wasn't fun enough, and I used to think that I wasn't wild enough, but I wouldn't waste my time trying to figure out why you playing games. What's this all about? And I can't Believe, You're hurting me. I met your girl. What a difference. What you see. Have you seen any but I guess it was all just make Believe, oh, love. That was so good and bad.
Hala Tala: [00:17:25] But anyway, that was those mean honestly, guys. Now, I got a little heavy thinking, probably like a year and a half or so. Oh, my God. Sorry if I hurt your ears.
Elizabeth Molina : [00:17:35] No, you did it. That was so good. So what what made you change? What was like your turning point? We were like, I'm not going to be a singer anymore because you have a great voice and you've always had a great voice since you were young and you still do, which is, I think, part of the magic in terms of like you have the beauty, you have the brains and you have the voice.
Hala Tala: [00:17:53] Yeah, I think really the pivotal point was being in hot any seven and seeing the music industry and kind of being abused by the industry. I mean, I had a lot of people paying attention to me. I was the only girl in the studio area at Hot 97. So I met people like Kanye West, Jay-Z, Drake, you name it, Trey Songz, all the big people of that time. And a lot of these producers and their managers would approach me. And I was really young and they would try to sleep with me and they would try to entice me to do things. I had Mack Maine telling me if I was his girlfriend, he would make me the next Nicki Minaj. And I just I was like, you know what, this seems like I need to sleep my way to the top. And it's not really me. And I just pivoted. I just felt like I could honestly I really think I could have dated Mack Maine and been a part of young money like that. I literally had people at Young Money telling me that and I just couldn't do it. I just didn't do it. And then I just kind of pivoted and just kept working in radio and kept working on other stuff.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:19:00] So now what I'm hearing is you could have been in young money, but now you're young and profiting. Yeah.
Hala Tala: [00:19:06] How funny is that? And I've never told that story either, but it's the truth. And even Mack, Maine, he's reached out to me recently and was like, well, like you've been doing some crazy things. And it's just so funny because it's like, yeah. And I'm really happy that I didn't, like, sell myself out like that. And my boyfriend's a very famous music producer. His name is Harry Fraud. I've been with him for like 12 years. And so he does music for French Montana, he does music for recrossing and the Weeknd and all that kind of stuff. And so he produced my first album. And he he also didn't want me to be a singer because he was like, listen, I see the girls, I see what they go through. Like, it's not for you. It's not a good life. Like and so, like, he kind of steered me away from it, too. And it's like I feel like, honestly, this is going to sound so messed up. I feel like if I took that path, I would have been raped like ten times. Like, I know it's sad to say that, but like literally that's the kind of vibe that it was.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:19:59] Wow. How thank you so much for being so honest and just like having no filter, because I think that a lot of girls need to hear this. And you are setting an example of what like a real role model is, right? Like, listen, I lived the life. This is what's really there. Do you want to take that by and like I, however, was not in the music industry because, as you know, my voice is not as angelic as yours, even on my best day. But I was in the modeling space since I was five. And I was actually I got into like America's Next Top Model the first season when I was really young. And then my dad said no, because they have to put cameras all over. He wouldn't sign I was an eighteen yet. And he said no, because, you know, they record you in the shower and he's like, no, like, my dad was very conservative. He's like prostitutes. That's for prostitutes. So he like there were a lot of opportunities that I had. And it's the same story. Like had I stayed in that, I probably would have been. And I've been in situations as well. I'm sure you and I can go back with stories. And that's a whole nother podcast as well.
Hala Tala: [00:20:59] I know. And I think so many girls have those stories, unfortunately, but yeah.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:21:02] So I think it's great because we are only shown the beautiful image. Right. Let's go back to the beauty we kept on talking about how you're beautiful, how you're stunning and how like that also opened the doors in some ways. And then it also shut the doors in some ways because it was intimidating. But I really love it that you're talking about this because people now can see, OK, it's there's an image, what goes behind it, what's happening on the back end. And like, you kind of shed a little bit of light there. So, ladies, if you're listening, all that glitters isn't gold and just know what you're signing up for for sure,
Hala Tala: [00:21:33] Because I'm telling you, I was so my first year or two hundred eighty seven. The reason why I got the internship, because I wanted to push my music and so I'd spend my days at the station and then at night I'd be recording music with different producers and things like that. And then all the different ANZAAS and things from all the different record labels would come into Hot 97. And they knew that I was singer and they would be like, oh, like, you know, you know, you could talk to my record label and basically insinuating, like, if you give me a blowjob, like literally like literally saying, yes, literally like soliciting that. And it just happened over and over again. I was like, you know what, this just really seems like this. The only way is to be like that. And I'm not like that. And so I just pivoted, you know? And so honestly, I've never really. Said that out loud, I don't know why I am telling you this right now, but it's like I feel like your listeners probably need to hear it. Like if you guys really want to know why I didn't decide to become a singer and why it pivoted, it's because it was like seemed like the only way I could get there would be through doing things that I wasn't comfortable with.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:22:37] Wow, thank you for sharing that with us, with our listeners. I'm glad that I was able to get that out of you. I think the message was ready to be heard. And I think, you know, we're coming out of a pandemic. People are craving for attention, craving to be seen, to be heard. And I think this is also like an opportunity for people to maybe see themselves in this position. And now hearing this, this can be empowering. So can you just share with us how you kind of deflected that?
Hala Tala: [00:23:07] Well, first of all, I just want to take it back and I want to remind everybody that this was 10 years ago and I was like 19, 20, 21, you know what I mean? So I was very, very young. And so I would I would just like go with people like if if they said something like, you know, inappropriate, I would just stop responding and just, you know, let them know that that's not really what I was into. But in terms of, like, how I got over it all, I started my own path. I started my own website. I got out of that Hot 97 environment that was really abusing me. I mean, they were abusing. Me sexually, in terms of like the people like, you know, allowing guests and artists to, like, always hit on me, like leveraging the fact that I was a pretty girl, that all these, like, celebrities wanted to be around and everything like that. And then also but also like not paying me and compensating me. And and in terms of, like, all the value that I was bringing for all the actual work that I was doing. Right. I think what empowered me was leaving, even though I was kicked out because I was just like I was too, like, you know, star struck by being Hot 97 and being like, holla from Hot 97 and being able to everybody being like, oh my gosh, how did you get that cool job? You get to meet so many celebrities.
Hala Tala: [00:24:18] Oh, my God. And so as a young girl, I was like, yeah, I'm the shit. You know, I am meeting all these celebrities. I am partying with Chris Brown. I am you know, I'm in the VIP every night, you know. But once I started my own thing, the sort of hip hop and and I was the CEO and I was the owner and like, I wasn't going to be in uncomfortable situations anymore. And it was all me and I was the boss. Everything changed. You know, everybody treated with me with more respect. I was never in those situations anymore because I wouldn't put myself in those situations, like I would get in those situations at Hot 97, because it's like those managers are eight hours or whatever would be at the station and just think it was OK to, like, approach me like that, you know? So it's like I got to make my own circles once I was my own boss and created my only.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:25:06] I love that, I love that because you took your power back. You're like, no, I'm not going to be under that. I'm going to make my own lane. And when you make your own lane, you're young and profiting and you're just soaring like every single day. There's like something else you're working on and you're being very successful. So, guys, if you're paying attention, if you're watching this, like, pay attention to how she is, you're on the lookout because she's doing amazing things. And I cannot wait to see all the other things. So let's take it. Let's go back into this image. We spoke a lot about you being so cute when you were a baby. You got so much attention from your family. Then in school, you, like, wanted to be the star you use, that you had a voice, you got some jobs because you you I think you say to yourself, like, correct me if I'm wrong, but like, you are a pretty girl. You still are just like you are. You still are. And so like, let's not kid ourselves. Like, you also have to look a certain way to be in these scenarios. So what is your take on the image? Like we talk about we spoke about this a tiny bit before we talk about beauty. And when people think of beauty, they're like, oh, it's just makeup, lashes, hair, a wig and a dress. Like, it's so stupid, but it's so important when you're talking about especially like in the music industry, in the beauty industry, like modeling TV, even it's Haddock's, which I know you're going to do. And we're going to talk about that as well. But like that matters the way you show up to the world, the impact that you make. People do judge you by your first impression. So I want to hear your take on this, because you built a business on the image and how you present yourself, not only like your physical, but like your brand. You are very branded on all platforms.
Hala Tala: [00:26:42] Yeah, I think that's a great question. And something that I just want to say that's unique to my situation is that like in middle school and even high school, I wasn't considered like, oh, she's like a pretty girl in school. And that's because everybody was white and I look different. And so, like, actually nobody saw my beauty. And I look back at the pictures, I'm like, well, I look kind of the same. I look, why didn't I get. So it was the 9/11 thing as well. But like also I just think that I look different. I wasn't a blonde hair, blue eyed girl, and those were all the the girls that everybody thought was pretty. But once I got to college and it was like really diverse, all of a sudden I was like a very pretty girl and then hot and seven and whatever. So it's funny because it's like I didn't get that kind of sexual attention a lot in middle school and high school, which I'm not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing. But whatever in terms of image, I think it's what you want to put out there to the world. I feel like a lot of it is a lot of really good marketing strategy is knowing your brand, knowing your colors, knowing your fans, being consistent. I have a really aesthetic. I taught myself, had a graphic design, and I feel like all of that has a lot to do with it. I had a blog sites. I've written over four thousand blogs, so really know how to write a story. And I think like. Me, for the first couple of years of young and profiting, I was the one writing on my social posts and basically being able to scale that so that my team can kind of learn the different formulas that I would use in terms of my storytelling and how I'd write my posts and the different things I would talk about.
Hala Tala: [00:28:14] I also think just knowing your story really well, one of the things that I do is for all my clients and myself, we create story journals, so I'll take all their podcast episodes, just like what I'm doing right now when they guest on shows and we'll transcribe them and we'll get all their little stories and start to put together a journal so that our team can kind of pull from them and ghostwrite on their behalf all these different little stories that they have. And I think it's important to know your stories. And if you haven't really took time to sit down and write them all out, you should. And then you have a foundation for a book or something. If you want to write that in the future because you have all your stories in one place and then you kind of know how to articulate them well and things like that. And I think just knowing what you stand for, like a young and profiting, I feel like, you know, I stand for success. I stand for wellness. I stand for bettering yourself or learning how to make money for being your own boss, for learning how to side hustle, learning how to be an entrepreneur like those are all the pillars of my brand. And I think it's about talking about those pillars and monitoring what you put on social media so that it's not so random, I think that's the key. It's like be strategic about it. Think about it a bit. And then and then, like, release your stuff.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:29:23] I love that, I love your. I never heard about that, taking the content and making stories out of it. I'm like, I need your help. This is so good. This is so good. So so what is your take on beauty and image? Like, what do you what does that mean to you?
Hala Tala: [00:29:42] Beauty and image. Yeah. I am somebody who likes to be put together, and I think that it's important for you to have good hygiene and it's important for you to look presentable and it's important for you to look the part. And it's also scientifically proven. I'll give you guys an example. There's something called the Texas crosswalk study. You know, jaywalking is illegal, but if you put a bunch of strangers together and a guy in a suit starts jaywalking, everybody will follow him. But if a guy in shorts and a tank top or somebody who was wearing like dirty shoes or shoes, shoes with holes in them or something starts walking across a crosswalk, no one's following him. And that's because people are obedient to people who look polished, who look presentable and things like that. And so you actually portray more confidence both internally yourself and outwardly when you look your best. And it really depends on how you feel. So like if you feel great in jeans and a T-shirt and that's what you feel most competent, and then everybody else is going to feel your confidence and you're going to give them permission to, like, follow you. That was my human behavior explanation
Elizabeth Molina: [00:30:54] For why I'm like, that's so scientifical. So what is it? What does it mean to you? Like, OK, let's take away the scientific part, just like a hollow like on a day off. Like, what does beauty mean to you?
Hala Tala: [00:31:08] Beauty means that I feel comfortable in my skin, that I feel confidence, that I'm not shy to have the camera on. And I feel like I'm looking my best. I've had a little bit of time to fix myself. I love wearing makeup and it's not necessarily for anyone else. I really just love doing that. And I'm a very girly girl. So like, I love doing my hair. I love doing my makeup. I take care of my skin. I always go get facials and all that and everybody's different. I know a lot of beautiful girls that are very natural and don't do any of that stuff. But it's like I also find it like fun, you know? So I think it just depends on who you are. And I think beauty, like as cliche as it sounds, is definitely the eyes of the beholder. I just think as long as you feel comfortable and confident, that's what beauty is.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:31:58] Just to follow a follow up question for you, do you think that, like the way that you grew up, like you said, you grew up in a town that was mostly white and I could relate to your story as being a model, like back then at the age of five, going on casting calls. And I'm the only little girl with brown hair, brown eyes. And here I am auditioning for a Tropicana or Kellogg's. And I'm like, why aren't I getting the part? I'm better than these girls. I can cry on demand. But what's happening here? And then, you know, they said, you don't have the American look. And so, like, I can relate to you on that end. But growing up and it's from a different culture, like beauty is different in every culture. So, like, did that clash with you in any way in terms of you growing up in in your home and being confident and then going outside on like that? Nobody else looks like me. And then all of a sudden you're trending because Kim Kardashian is. And so like now.
Hala Tala: [00:32:47] Exactly. It's like it's like all of a sudden Kim was hot and then it was like, oh, well, it's hot. You know, something that you guys should note is that like in college. So when everything was going well, when I was like Miss Popular and all the frat boys would try to make me like the princess of their frat or whatever it was at the same time. So I was like basically like homecoming queen at NJT. Like, you could put me in that box, you know, I was the most popular girl on my class, all that kind of stuff before I dropped out. And at the same time, I was like hated by the Arabic community. They my friends, my childhood best friends. Growing up, I wasn't allowed to be in their weddings. My best friends that I slept over the house every weekend as a kid when they got married in their twenties because they were from conservative families who married them off when they were in their twenties. I wasn't allowed to be in their wedding. And it was because people thought that I dress too slutty, that I was going partying, that I was drinking, that maybe I was, you know, just being too wild, that I was dating boys. And in the Arabic community, even though we were in America, it was like more conservative. And so here I was like finally like accepted in school. And then the Arabic community rejected me, which is just so strange. You know, now I look now I'm just like, ha ha. Like now like I'm the most successful one at all, you bitches. Right? But like so like I was ostracized by the Arabic community in New Jersey. But honestly, I really was not that bad. Like, I was just a normal college girl. I was going out to parties. I was wearing short dresses and I was drinking once in a while and wasn't that crazy, like, you know. But they treated me as if I was like some like cocaine addict, a heroin addict or something like, you know, I got.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:34:45] Whatever, yeah, no, no, no, and that's a good story, and I wanted to talk about that because a lot of times, like we live in America, this is a melting pot and we come from different cultures. And sometimes our cultures say one thing like mentioned to you, like with my dad and modelling, my dad was like prostitutes, prosit. Like he would like I could. I still don't wear red nail polish or any kind of bright colors because my father has like, instilled this in my brain that like that is for like a naughty girl and you can't be naughty and like you'll never find me with red. Like it's always like some sort of nude or like white is like the most that I'll do. And I feel like I'm having anxiety about it.
Hala Tala: [00:35:23] And I feel like there's so many things that probably have impacted me in a similar way. It's so sad. Like, you know, like boys don't have to deal with any of this. No. Like, I remember my cousins in Palestine messaging me, telling me, like, we're ashamed to have you in our family. Because I was like went to a party in college, like literally like that kind of messaging, like from my own family even. And so like I so like that's why, like, now I could give two craps what anybody thinks about me, because I've been burned so many times, like just burned so many times. And so like I just have like the thickest skin, like you really can't get to me.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:36:06] I want our listeners to hear the resiliency, to hear like you crack the formula before the formula cracked you. And what I mean by that is you just said I got burned so many times that it no longer burn. There's nothing to burn, like there's nothing. It's like a threat, like a rope I'm imagining. And you keep on burning it, burning it, and then like it's just thinning out. And then there's like nothing like the fire could be there, but there's nothing to burn. And like when you can get yourself there mentally strong, nothing can stop you. And that makes sense because you have been unstoppable. But I want to take it back to your family a little bit and talk about covid. So let's fast forward back to twenty twenty covid. Let's talk about and if it's OK, it's too much like we can. We don't have to talk about it. But I want to talk about the impact that you have that your dad had on you growing up as a girl, because I know that he was like this force. He was big and supporting people in your family. He was like that person like that. Yeah. Foundation for everyone. And for you, I'm sure, like, he modeled that for you and kind of feel like you are kind of passing he passed the baton to you as like the female version of that. But I just want to make sure that I'm not just putting those ideas.
Hala Tala: [00:37:19] I know it's true. My dad was amazing. So I felt like I would not be who I am, where I am without my dad. My dad was always like, remember when I said, like, the whole Arab community was against me and we in my own family, but never my dad, never my dad, you know? And so, like, he always supported me, always treated me like an equal, always told me I was a star. I always said, follow your dreams like that, kind of that kind of a guy. So my dad grew up in Palestine and during war he was a farmer's son and he had no light growing up. And he used to study on his walks to school where he had light and he was really smart. And he ended up getting a scholarship to Egypt's, got a scholarship to med school, came to America, became a surgeon, then was chief of surgery, opened up medical centers and became really, really successful. And he put all my cousins through college, all his kids through college really wasn't a flashy guy. Like even though he was very, very successful, he would like go shop at Sears. And he spent all his money, like giving it to orphans and people who who needed money to go to college. Because his main thing was like, everybody gave me a scholarship. That's how I'm so successful. So I want to make sure that I can give as many people an opportunity, the same way that I got an opportunity when I was younger.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:38:34] And like literally that's what he dedicated most of his life to, was, you know, fundraising for people to go to college in Palestine and then also sending everybody to school and everything like that. So he was amazing. And such a hard worker was writing a million bucks, doing a million research projects, super ambitious, very like into politics. We would have host dinners with like Hillary Clinton when I was younger and like stuff like that. And he he was great. He was just like such a great guy, great community guy, great family man. And so in March, I got a call. I was living in Brooklyn with my boyfriend and my sister called me up and she's like, call up mom and dad have covid. And at the time I was so me and my boyfriend were crazy about not getting covid. I would like go to the grocery store with, like, glasses and masks. Gloves. I was wearing a mask on the train since I think February. I was I was the only person where I used to work at Disney streaming services. So I'd go from Brooklyn to to New York City. And for a long time I was the only person wearing a mask on the train.
Hala Tala: [00:39:37] I was warning everybody about it. So I was like, Miss, like, I'm never getting covid and I'm doing everything in my power not to get covered. And then I got the call mom and I've covered and I was begging them, I they got covid because my dad had like has diabetes and he was still going to the doctor for like checkups and I was begging them to stop. But anyway, they got covid and I came home and, you know, I decided I was going to come home. I ended up staying home for three months when I thought it was I didn't know what to expect. I thought it was going to die honestly, because nobody had gotten covid at that point. So it's like I come home. My mom and dad are sick, my brother is sick. Me and my sister are like in full gear. My sister's a doctor. So she's like she was like the doctor role. And then my job was like custodian. And I was just like cooking, cleaning and just trying to take care of my family. But it was like miserable. Like we were wearing a mask eight like up until the moment we slept, me and my sister were because it was really scary at the time. Elizabeth, like, we didn't know that it was just mouth to mouth. So I was like spraying the.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:40:41] Cultures with alcohol, spring, everything with alcohol, and it's like we didn't know if we could take off our masks, we didn't know if you could touch our eyes or a mouth and like so it would be like all day taking care of the family. Everybody was sick. My dad was, like, extremely sick. And then, like, we would come downstairs in the basement and like, I couldn't even go get blankets from upstairs because we just thought everything was contaminated. And so we were using, like, old blankets in the basement. I was eating like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches every night. And, like, the only thing I would eat would be at like 11:00 p.m. once we were done with everything because we were afraid to eat the food upstairs. It was it was insane. Anyway, my dad got sicker and sicker and sicker and then know he was basically unresponsive. And like we had we tried bringing an oxygen machine home. Like, the last thing we wanted to do was take him to the hospital. And then finally we called the ambulance to take him to the hospital. And he looked at us like, please, like, I'm never going to see you guys again. And we were like, no, you will like and then they will go away. And honestly, that's the last time I ever saw him alive. And I was we weren't allowed to visit him in the hospital.
Hala Tala: [00:41:44] I got covid. And even though we got covid, they still wouldn't let us go see him, even though he was in the hospital for like a month, maybe like six weeks, and they would not let us go in the hospital. He ended up passing away on May 15th. Twenty twenty. And to me, I think the most traumatic part of that was the fact that for somebody who was so generous, like literally like an angel, like he used to do surgery. So he was a general and vascular surgery. He used to do surgeries for free all the time for people like he saved so many freaking lives. That guy, you know, he was such a good guy. He would like do charity cases all the time and then like for a doctor, nonetheless, who saved lives to, like, had to die alone and like without his family and like, they wouldn't let us see us until he died. It's like I got to go to my dad's hospital room after he was dead. You know, it's like I couldn't even say goodbye. And like, to me, that was definitely the worst part of it all. Like, it's one thing to lose your father. Everybody is going to lose. Everybody is going to die. Everybody's going to lose someone. It was more like not saying goodbye,
Elizabeth Molina: [00:42:51] Especially with your dad being this person, just this human. It just sounds like an angel. Like as you were describing him, I was getting I was like, I'm not going to cry. One hundred percent. Talk about that, because during that, you were so launching your company. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So like that whole part.
Hala Tala: [00:43:30] Yeah. So so what happened was I was working at Disney streaming and while my dad was in the hospital, I would literally try to be on Zoom constantly, like they would let us be on Zoom. And so Disney was like horrible company culture, right? I was my dad was like literally dying and like I was expected to be on every call, every whatever. And so I would work all day, even though I, like, had covid and like was probably still getting over covid all that shit. So I'd work. I'll be on my meetings and I'd have my dad on my iPad on Zoom and in between my meetings I would like talk to him, I'd sing to him. I couldn't know if he heard me or not, but like I would literally was on Zoome with him twenty four hours a day as long as they let me do it. I was on the phone with him while he was in the hospital at least. But I don't know if you could hear me or whatever because he was really unresponsive. So anyway, finally I was in this meeting and my mom calls me and she's like, holla. Like they said that dad's like dying and like we have 20 minutes to get to the hospital and like, if we want to see him and say goodbye. And so we I just was like, close all my stuff and like ran to the hospital, like we drove to the hospital and then they called us on the way. And so that he had passed away. And then so like when I got there, he was like had just died and so. I just I remember they would only let us go up one by one, which, like, sucked, it's like I didn't even get to, like, say goodbye with my family, you know? And so it's like they only let us go up one by one. And so it's like I went up there and I remember telling him, like. It's everything that you did is not in vain, you know. Now I'm going to make it.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:45:07] So don't say sorry, don't say sorry, because this needs to be heard, it needs to come out like this is your dad is still here and president like I just wanted you to know and everyone listening because you're not the only one, right?
Hala Tala: [00:45:24] Yeah, 100 percent. And if I tell that story, it's for everybody else. I mean, I just told you, listen, you gave me so much opportunity. I'm going to make sure that everybody knows our name. Everybody knows your name, everybody knows my name and like and I got you. And we're going to and everything's going to change and that I'm going to make a difference the same way that you made a difference. And so I just promised him that. And I just I remember I was like screaming in the hospital, like, I promise I'm going to make you proud. I'm going to make you proud. Everything's like everything that you ever wish for me is going to come true. And a lot of it did already. So it's just really cool that, you know, sometimes death is a great motivator. You realize that like. Life is limitless, and I was really working hard before that, but it just made me like, you know, put myself first and really, really work hard and focus and and I just used it as a way to, like, launch myself, because then when my dad was in the hospital, I started a business called Yapp Media. And Heather Monahan is one of my mentors. And basically I was like, just I'm always so helpful to everyone.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:46:30] So I'm always, like, hopping on calls and teaching people stuff and just being helpful. That's like my personality. And so this lady had the money and she's like this big influencer on LinkedIn. She was like, your stuff is so good, your marketing is so good. I want to learn from you. And so I would go on these calls with her. And and at the time I had all these volunteers working for Young and Profiting podcast and we were in a select channel. And so I had like 10 people who just wanted to work for free for me and slack. And so I was showing Heather our channel and showing her our social schedule. I was showing her Cannava and like headliner and all these different processes we had. And she was just so impressed. And she was like, I want to be your client. Like, you have a little marketing agency. You don't realize it. I want to be your first client. And so I was like, OK, like, I'll do a couple of videos for you. And like, literally, I charged her like five hundred dollars a month and I was like, this is never going to scale. Like I'm never going to make money doing this. My next client was like a 30 k a month client and then it was just like, boom, everything just like blew up.
Hala Tala: [00:47:30] And now I have 40 employees. We're making almost two million in revenue in our first year. I've got like ten huge clients. The company is growing so fast. My podcast went from getting like three thousand downloads, amounts to like one hundred and fifty thousand downloads a month. I landed the cover of Podcasts magazine. It's just like my whole life, just like all of a sudden just skyrocketed in terms of like my success, like it was slow and steady for the fact that, like, I did grow big LinkedIn following and I did put in a lot of work and I had a lot of episodes. But it's like this summer, like had all that time at home and like had this fuel of my father dying and him being such a great man and so successful and me feeling like I need to live up to that and like, do him right. Plus I think his guidance, you know, from the stars, maybe he, like, you know, hooked me up a bit. I have no idea how I landed podcast, magazine. I don't think I deserved it at the time, but maybe I did. And it's like, you know, you're always so hard on yourself.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:48:32] You definitely deserved it. No one. Right, like being on the cover and all your success. Your dad literally pass that on to you and his legacy legacy is living on through. So I just wanted to acknowledge you and like, let people know that about you because I feel like we always get this strong. Hello. At the NBA, who worked at Disney? Who worked out here, who you know, all these things that great. Great. You Hot 97, you were a singer. You were going to audition, you were going to do MTV. Like, who knows what else. You're not telling us. Right. But we don't hear this holler. We don't hear the feminine soft holler. Who what fuels her. Who is she was what she about. This is what she's about. Like, there's a lot to her. We all have layers. And I'm so glad that you came on the podcast and we're like open to it and like, made us cry. Yeah.
Hala Tala: [00:49:18] I told you a lot of juicy stuff.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:49:20] What how would you see yourself, like, impacting your family, your community and your niece? Who's watching you? She's watching the strong woman grow up like I want to know, talk, tell me, like, what are you thinking?
Hala Tala: [00:49:32] Yeah. I mean, when I said when I was growing up, there was no Arabic women who were doing anything, you know what I mean? It's like if you're an Arabic woman, you were covered. You probably were a housewife. Like I had no like nobody to look up to. And so I'm so happy that I can be this, like, Americanized Arabic woman who's, you know, professional. And I've got a great company and brand and podcast and just influencing so many people. And I feel like it's only going to get bigger and bigger, especially the trajectory that we're on and and the rate at which the company and podcast is growing and all my social channels and things like that. So I'm just excited that my niece, who's half Chinese, half Palestinian, is going to grow up having somebody who at least like sort of looks like her, somebody that you can look up to you that's not a doctor or an engineer or a lawyer. And you know that you can be successful taking your own path. And I love the fact that right now I'm literally living my dream.
Hala Tala: [00:50:35] When I was working in corporate, it was all because I was trying to fit into a box that everybody wanted me to be in. And yeah, I was doing great because I made it my own thing and used my personality traits to be good at my corporate job. But now that I'm a full time entrepreneur and I've got my focus is my podcast and content and this marketing agency, it's just amazing. Like to wake up and do what I want to do every day, like be on a podcast like this in the middle of the day, like, you know, and just have this awesome come. Association, what I want to represent my niece is like I want her to know that you can follow your dreams and anything that you believe can happen if you really work hard and if you believe in yourself and believe in your talents and believe that life is limitless. And I always say this like, you have to believe that life has no limits. As soon as I really, really went back to that thinking, it's like everything 10x for me.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:51:26] So I want to ask you I ask all my guests. Are you familiar with the beauty circle?
Hala Tala: [00:51:32] I know that you emailed me so I can pull it up.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:51:36] Yeah. So basically it's a circle that I use with my clients and it's kind of like how I I'm a little bit sneaky about the work that I do. People come to me for the image and then there's more, there's more to life like holistic. There's science, there's like a whole a whole bunch of little categories that I get. Really, it could be superficial or it could be like really deep. Like I can go into, like, quantum physics on a specific topic. Right. But I just always gauge where my clients are at. So I always ask my guests in the beauty circle, there's ten different categories. Where do you find yourself excelling in currently and where do you find yourself maybe needing a little bit of extra love?
Hala Tala: [00:52:14] Yeah, so I would say sleep is where I struggle and relationships is actually probably where I try for people who don't know me like I am all about collaboration and communities and like I'm always building a network even when I'm not trying to like I wanted to start young and profiting podcast as a one man band. Like, I just want it to be me. And I have 50 employees now. And from episode two, I had my first and I had my first volunteer. And then by episode eight, I had ten volunteers and it was all natural. I didn't pay anyone. And when I had sort of hip hop, I had probably one hundred girls in and out of that fifty at the height of it. And I was the president. And again, it was like people who just wanted to follow this movement. When I worked at HP, I was president of the Young Employee Network and I led like, you know, all these people at my office. Then I was president of my alumni association. So like always like becoming the leader, always becoming like the networker. I have like a podcast mastermind now community. You know what? I would get fans who would reach out to me and be like, I just want to work for you. And then so I just started Aslak Slack channels like, OK, come join our SELEK and you want to I'll teach you how to do an audiogram and you could just keep doing that each week. And then I would give everybody these little projects. And now the volunteers who worked for my show are now like team leaders that have like all teams under them, which is amazing. Not like these volunteers that work for free for me for about a year now are getting like half salaries and quit their jobs and work for Yapp. So and they're following their dreams because that's what they wanted to do. They wanted to work for free at one point. So they obviously had dreams.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:53:51] Why do what is a message that you would have told your younger self from the hollow that you are today like college today has a time machine. And she went back to like Tommy like right when 9/11 happened. I feel like that was a very crucial point in your life where things pivoted and you felt like ostracized, like to what would you tell that halwa?
Hala Tala: [00:54:10] So this is what I would tell anybody who's young and like still finding their way is. Think about your rejections and realize that if a gatekeeper is telling, you know, you actually need to create your own lane, create your own path. So I'll give you guys all the different examples. I worked at seven for three years. I basically was slave work for free every single day. It wasn't about convincing Angie Martinez to hire me. That's not what changed my life. What changed my life is I decided to take it into my own power and start my website. And then that made me on the same playing field as the deejay's and the same Jesus who wouldn't pay me minimum wage, put me on the flyers and I would promote their parties and make just as much money as I'm promoting parties because I decided to create my own lane. Then again, MTV. Decided not to air the show. I decided, OK, again, I'm going to focus this negative energy on creating my own path and I decided that like getting my MBA and getting a 4.0 and getting a great job was going to be that lane. Right. Then again, something happened at HP where I wasn't given a promotion to be the president of the Global Young Employee Network that I just mentioned before.
Hala Tala: [00:55:20] And that's why I started, which I started. Yeah. And then they wouldn't let me be the global president because the H.R. person didn't like me. And then she left the company a month later. But like long story, it's just the same shit. Like, I didn't get a promotion that I absolutely deserved and was absolutely the most qualified for again. I started my own thing, and that was Young and profiting podcast, and now I'm literally one of the most successful female podcasters in the world right now. And it's only because I was rejected and I decided to pivot and start my own thing that I own that nobody can tell me yes or no, that the success of my growth depends on me and what I put into it. And so, like, if you're a hard worker, if you know that you have talents like don't wait for someone to give you the permission to be that person. Like I waited three years for Angie to give me permission to just have a job. So that's what I that's the advice that I'd give is like really just pay attention to your rejections and figure out how you could do it on your own if you can.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:56:23] I love that message. Guys, if you're listening, I know I have a lot of high school students who listen in as well. Guys, you heard it from here. You can be young and profiting and you can be successful in your own lane. And Holla is proof of that. You can follow her journey. Hala, it is brag time on the podcast. I know that you're doing new things. Tell us about your you have any podcast coming up, is that correct? Yeah.
Hala Tala: [00:56:44] Yeah, yes. So I am launching a new podcast. It's called the Audio NEWSROOM. So if any of you guys are podcasters and you want to get the latest in podcasting and drop in audio news, you can check that out. It's going to be called the audio newsroom with highlights. And then, of course, I have my, you know, very popular podcast. It's called Young and Profiting. I've interviewed Matthew McConaughey, Robert Greene, Seth Godin. I put out episodes three times a week so you guys can check that out. It's young and profiting. You can find it everywhere. And then you can find me on LinkedIn at haataja and on Instagram at Yapp with Hala.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:57:17] Amazing. Amazing. Thank you for being here with us today. So appreciate it. And you can also find her on clubhouse.
Hala Tala: [00:57:23] Yeah, the clubhouse there like four hours a day. So you guys can find me there too.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:57:30] I'll put it in my show note so that you guys can follow her around because you will have access to her. You can raise your hand, get up on stage. And she will literally answer your question if she has time, because usually the stage is full. She has a lot of people in those rooms. So you don't want to mess this out. Like if you really want to contact Carla live like that is a way to do it. Follow her on there. I'm on there as well. So give us a follow. And Hala, I just want to say thank you so much for being on this podcast, for showing us a different side of holla and being vulnerable with us. I know that your message today was received and was heard and was healing for so many people on so many levels. We covered so much. So I just want to say thank you for that.
Hala Tala: [00:58:08] Thank you so much, Elizabeth. This is so much fun. You did a great job.
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Elizabeth Molina: [00:00:00] Hello, my beautiful people, welcome back. You know what day it is, it is Wednesday, happy hump day today. We have an amazing person on the podcast today, as usual, and I am so glad to call her a friend. Her name is January Old. She is the founder of Clean Skin Care Company January Labs. She is a licensed institution. Her products initially captured the attention of celebrity makeup artists and as deficient as she grew into an internationally recognized line of high performance products that can be found at Beauty Neiman Marcus direct online and at a host of retailers around the world, January Labs is celebrated by beauty editors on the pages of Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Birdie's coverture, women's health and New Beauty, among others, for its simplicity, effectiveness and accessibility. Welcome, January. Did I miss anything while introducing you today?
January Olds: [00:01:00] No. Perfect.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:01:05] Awesome. So I am so excited to have you on today. I'm so excited. We had a little chat earlier. It was I was like, I should have hit record. We were having such a great conversation. So, January, we know you own a beauty brand. Let's not let's just not kid ourselves here.
January Olds: [00:01:23] Well, first of all, thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to talk to you. And I love learning about your story. So I already feel so connected.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:01:33] Thank you. Thank you. So you are in the skincare business, right. And your company promises that less is more. I love that motto. I live by that motto. Can you explain what that means to us and how your products accomplish that? Like what does that less is more mentality before I get into all the other things. But I just really wanted to kind of like, surprise you with that question.
January Olds: [00:01:58] I love it. Yes. I mean, I think of beauty. Everyone loves consuming more because it's fun and there's new products. And there's but when I set out to develop my line, I my past was working for a company called Clarens, which I'm sure you know of, and epicurean, that's my past. And both wines had huge product lines. I mean, there was one cleansers for different skin types. And and when I set out to make my line, I really wanted to simplify things. We're dealing with skin. My perspective is when you're using the right ingredients, you can really use one product to solve a multiple multitude of problems with this good. So ingredients I love to work with lactic acid, salicylic acid, great for pigmentation, fine lines, texture. So when I say let's there's more, it's using one product to kind of combat different things that your skin is struggling with. So if you have hormonal breakouts, you're probably having aging or fine lines or things like you want to address as well. And the beauty is when things are formulated the correct way, you can kind of target all of those things. So the idea of having 10 products and a regimen is just not how I live my life, even though I'm in this world and I do consume a lot of it's usually four to five products tonight. If that maybe it might just be one product. What your product should be working hard for you. And that's really what I've set out to do. Formula formulation has everything. A lot of brands, we're all working with the same ingredients, but it's just how you formulate.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:03:45] Oh, I love that. I love that. Especially like I think that is just so appropriate for like 2021 in 2020 with the pandemic and everything. And like less is more. And like we're seeing the skin trends of like skin minimalism and just like people getting more aware of like what's in their product, how is it formulated, is it working for me? I love that you say that, like your products need to be working hard for you, and I never heard that before.
January Olds: [00:04:11] I'm a licensed aesthetician as well. So it's interesting. Certain things just do not change in skin care. There are certain ingredients that regardless, there's new technology coming out, there's just certain ingredients that work well. But the other thing is how your products are formulated, what ingredients you put in it. That's always just been something that's really, really important to me. When I work for the other companies I worked for, I loved their product line, so I still do. I just think that we don't need such a huge selection. You know, somebody who has oily skin can use my cleanser, but somebody who is dry, dehydrated and even rosacea can use the same exact cleanser. So when it comes to simplifying, it's making the selection easy on the customer. But the formulas are more complex. But we kind of handle that for you. So I've noticed and even when I recommend products to people, I'm like I try to to start with, I'm like such a minimalist, I'm not wanting products. I want something like a 12 hour cleanser and then maybe our night cream. And as they start to develop with one, their skin really evolves and you're able to pinpoint really what works for you, because I don't love the idea of just, you know, layering 20 serum's and then switching it off. And, you know, if you're not really able to target what's working, you don't really know. You know, I'm sure you're well, tons of products sent to you all the time. And you're just kind of switching it up a little bit. Yes. I really just find it's so nuance. You know, every skin is so different for everyone. So you need to just kind of work with something for a while, not over to it. I usually give people a skin care make under. Oh, I love that. Yeah.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:05:58] January, I think we cut we're going to be new BFFs. I'm also a licensed aesthetician and even I myself get overwhelmed with products and ingredients and formulations. And I'm thinking to myself, if I am getting confused, what about the people who are like not in the industry and like they are like what is a or what is a serum, what is a tonic? What is in essence what are these things right. Like do I need them all? How do I layer them on sunscreen. Oh my God. And so like I love the concept that less is more. And I really this is the first time I've heard anyone say, let your ingredients work hard for you, like I think you should, like, trademarked that or something like that.
January Olds: [00:06:40] Well, thank you. Yeah. You know. Caroline Pirogues, I'm sure you've heard of her. She's an incredible blogger and she's an author now. Her book, I think it's a book on skincare. I can't remember the exact name,
Elizabeth Molina: [00:07:38] But it's OK. We'll all get it and link it to show note.
Janaury Olds: [00:07:42] Yes, it's that book is so precise and on point. I love her. She's incredible. But if somebody is confused, just get that book. It's also in an audio book. So if you just want to listen to it in her or her, she just really simplifies things. You know, it's it really doesn't have to be confusing. I think that there's a lot of people using sales tactics and like, oh, this is dirty and this is bad and this is just it. That's all gimmicky things to sell products, in my opinion. And I think that nobody's setting out there to make products that are unhealthy for you or that are going to eventually kill you. So it's that that that book has really helped direct people and basically, you know, cleansing, using that acid, a good toner moisturizer. It really clarifies things. I go to that book a lot on things that I might have forgotten through the years. I mean, I've been in that situation for like 20 years. I'm aging myself here.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:08:46] Ok, so let's let's take it back a little bit. Let's go back to the name of your brand. It's your name. Yeah. Does that get confusing sometimes or do you feel like because it is your name that it is you like? I know a lot of people always struggle when they have a brand, like you said my name. Is it not my name? Am I tied to the brand like what I do like does that also reflect on the brand or what the brand does? Does that reflect on me? Like, I would love to get your perspective on that, because that is your name.
January Olds: [00:09:16] Yes, it is. It's funny. When I was thinking of naming the line, I wanted to go something really obscure that didn't really make sense. What's floating around me is like blue bead or blue shop not. I'm like, this is not. And it's all about simplicity. But what is me is the name Jan. I'm born in November, so that's good to know on a score. Yeah. I'm just you know, I'm born in November, so my name is already kind of unusual. And when I ask my mom, she's like, you just looked like a January. So what's it. That's where I get I'm also six one. So it's really hard to blend in. When you're six one and your name's Jan, you're like, oh, that was someone else. That wasn't me. So there's no way yet to get around that. So my name has always been such a huge part of my, you know, even ordering coffee. Were you born in January? Why is your name Jan? Literally every day of my life. Yeah. I mean, it's it's a big part of who I am. So when naming my brand, it had to be January and then Labs comes in because that's really the idea that they work, that they kind of the idea of using products that are geared in nature, but also scientific. And they have so it just was born January Labs. I feel like January is a little more of like a clean, fresh start. It's all about new beginnings. And then Labs gives you the feeling of trust. It's something that's formulated correctly and it just works.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:10:52] It can be challenging when your name is on the label sometimes. And like maybe like, you know, maybe it's your identity, the brand. Are you separate from the brand? Are you like, what if you do something and it doesn't like like I said, like, what if you like, become a pilot and you're like, oh, well, Jan Labs is a pilot now.
January Olds: [00:11:10] I love what I do. I love my products. I feel like I'm really offering something to the world that helps. I, I feel like, you know, one thing I love is just getting feedback from customers are noticing. People have ordered for the last five years and they continue to order and they you know, so it's extremely rewarding. So I do feel very tied to the name and I am proud of it. You know, who knows what will happen in the future as part you know, a lot of brands get acquired and they have someone's name and then they run into trouble like, oh, is this you know, most important thing to me is the integrity of the ingredients, the integrity of the product continuing that. And that will always be a lot because my name is on there. And also my line is really a reflection of what I use, what's worked for me. Everything that we create has a purpose. And it's really only because I use it and I see results and I love it. I use every single one of my products. I rarely deviate and try another line. If I was in the business, I'm like, no, but it really it's just I love you here. I match a match today. This is my night cravenness, my favorite product online, and yet I started using that for two years before it was even created because I wasn't able to create that guy. You know, everything has been done so organically. I've I've grown this company, so I have a lot of time to test things, to see that they work, see that there's a purpose for them. The cool thing about not being owned and being privately owned is you don't have this pressure to make mootness. Everything that I offer, I don't want to overwhelm the customer. I want to recommend things because it's something that's really useful that they can use and use indefinitely. Your skin really evolves with the product. I do feel very attached in a very good way to know
Elizabeth Molina: [00:13:11] What a great answer. And, you know, that's actually you bring up a great point about kind of like, you know, like artists and singers, like they have like that one hit. And then the label is like, you need to do the next one. And then the pressure is on like a mic and it's going to be the next hit, like, am I going to bomb it? So like, I love that you mentioned that because I don't know. For me, it just tells me that the your brand has more not that other brands don't, because I love a lot of brands, including yours, but the integrity. Right. Like you, you're like, no, this is what I stand for. That's what I love. And I don't have the pressure to, like, you know, come out with, like, SPF lip balm because it's like trendy because it's trendy right now. Right. So I love that. So let's let's take it back a little more like I feel like I'm going through a journey with you. We spoke about your creams. We spoke about your name of the brand. I want to know how you got into the beauty space. And I know we've touched about it a little bit. And if you're OK to share with it, I would I would love for you to. And if not, that that's totally fine. But just talking about beauty and how you got here and what that means to you.
January Olds: [00:14:16] Absolutely. I mean, there's two different directions that question. And what I I love your story. I just thought of it and I got chills again. I am so in awe of you. So that's number one. Thank you. And I loved that. We talked about things we did because one half of me usually when answering this question, I'm like when I was a kid, I always loved skin care, which I did. I was always giving my girl facials. I was like 12, making yogurt marks and avocado masks. And I just always had an affinity to beauty. But, you know, this is something I've never talked about publicly. But in my high school years, I actually was sexually assaulted. I was raped by a teacher and it really turned my life. I went to a very small, private school. I had never had I had never kissed a boy. I had never I was very innocent. I was very behind that incident. I mean, it was the story is very long. That's a whole other podcast or maybe a few.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:15:18] But Part two will have a part two.
January Olds: [00:15:20] That's a whole history. You know, for a year I was groomed by this person and then this had been happening to several people. But I came forward about it. And, you know, back then, coming forward is not the way it is now. You know, it wasn't really safe with my family. I'm so blessed to have an incredible father, an incredible mother. And I had so much support in my in my home. But I left the school. I you know, it was insane. I was doing crank calls I was getting and I'm like, why do I even do this? Why did come forward with this? And really, the reason I did is I have a ten year old sister who are ten. You're a ten year younger sister who actually went to the same school, was a prep school that went from preschool to high school. And I saw her playing one day. And I'm like, if this person is still here when my sister is here, I. I couldn't allow that. I have never talked about this. So I like actually getting emotional. Right. No, go for it.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:16:23] Listen, this is a I mean, I've
January Olds: [00:16:25] Talked about it just not in this sort of world.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:16:28] Well, thank you for sharing because I know that this can be helpful for people and for yourself and just let it out. You are in a safe place and we will just we just, you know, whatever you feel comfortable sharing. And we we will be honoring that little January after you're done with the story.
January Olds: [00:16:45] I would love a little January. Thank you. Know, I so anyway, this occurs in my life and since my life on a completely different trajectory. And, you know, it manifests itself in a few different ways, like eating disorders and self-hate. And, you know, and I was in therapy, I would say, you know, I have a very supportive family, so but just my whole direction in life changed. And I have to say, I mean, I it was when I got my job with a company called Epicure, and you didn't say. My life, it was the one thing where I'm like, I love this, I am good at this, I saw value in myself, albeit I was still dealing with underlining issues. I wasn't completely healed. That happened later in life. You know, it's all part of the journey. It's funny because you you look at your life in retrospect and it's like how it would have been nicer if I didn't have to go through all that ugliness. You know, like the the after the way I treated myself, the way the relationships I was the the crazed. I mean, I was crazy. I was I was just unhealed. So I would write, you know, I, I and I say this obviously I think I was I was just such a completely different person. I was unhealed person now in my life. I think when people come to talk to me about, oh, how can I look better? I'm like, let's start from the inside out.
January Olds: [00:18:18] Yeah. Was it really at that point? It's just ageless, you know, when you find that love from within. So really, my life changed so much at the age of 15. And then, you know, I feel like I spent 15 years repairing that and getting to the point where I am now. And, you know, a lot of that healing still happens. When I had my company when I first started, I was still dealing with a lot and I was able to really overcome a lot. And I'm still on that journey. So really, as we were talking earlier, you know, you start a company with one intention in mind. And, you know, when I first started, Jan laughs It's like this is what I know I'm going to make product. And you saw it. People are going to buy it, you know, as simple as that. Now, I'm like, these products are a piece of who I am. It's what I love. But there's so much more. And there's so many ways I would like to really be of service to women, young men, anyone who needs healing, because that's where the beauty really comes from. And that's really my mission. If I could spend my whole day talking to people and helping them and giving them tools to get through trauma to get the healing done, that would be a life.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:19:36] But first of all, I want to take a second to honor the fifteen year old Jan, who was brave enough to come forward and put a stop to it and possibly even help stop other girls and maybe boys from having to go through that experience. So I just want to take a second to honor you and to honor the 15 year old who is so brave because especially like you said back then and even today, it is so hard because we're young. You are you know, there is a grooming process. You know, it doesn't happen overnight. Unfortunately, like, there are things that you may feel about yourself. Like you said, you spoke about a little bit about the eating disorder and not feeling good enough. And this is a common theme with people who have experienced this. And we try our best to overcome it. We try to learn many skills because we want people to see that we are good enough that they're not. There's nothing wrong with us, that we are complete and whole. And so a lot of us find refuge in different things, whether it's art, whether it's beauty, whether it is playing an instrument, whether something right.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:20:42] Sometimes if we're lucky and others, unfortunately, you know, go a different route. And so, like this healing process that you spoke about, I just want to say I know that it was horrible what happened to you. And I know that you said that you spent 15 years healing and you're probably still healing because we're all healing every day. There's always something that comes up. And I just want to say thank you and honor you for that, because if you were not able to put in the work, you wouldn't be where you are here today helping other people heal and impact them in, even though it may sound silly to some with with a cream or a product or even you talking and having your one on one conversations, because guys, Jan is very hands on with her company. She is like sending voice messages to people and she's like really hands on. So like, I am kind of telling people, damn her, she's going to have you back.
January Olds: [00:21:34] Yes. No, I like my favorite. I we started it in quarantine and then I just start continually, you know, I had a lot more time on my hands. So I like let's see what's going on. So I would spend fifteen minutes with customers and then, you know, I really became addicted to it. I loved it. And so I still do that. I don't have as much time now, but I have a schedule and people can book the time, even if it's a couple weeks of a wait. And it's it's great because, you know, it also goes into a big thing right now, sustainability with packaging. And I feel like that's all over the place because the first thing that I'm most interested in is. The stability of the actual filler in the bottle. So when it comes to packaging and how to be sustainable, I'm like, well, at least I can get the right product to the person they're not going to over consume, so we're going to use it up. So I'm like, that's kind of an area where I can really control that.
January Olds: [00:22:41] And I've talked to people where, you know, I'm like, you know, we'll send you a sample of this or something to use or, you know, like a little we have these little mini sizes, too. It's not about like selling, selling, selling. It's getting the right product because if someone finds the right acid for them, they're not going to buy five of them and throw away the rest, the rest of the bottles. And so I just think, you know, there's an even on clubhouse, there's so many conversations about sustainable packaging. And I'm like, we as the founders need to be mindful about actually explaining the product properly. And it's not a one size fits all. So and I even love this. Somebody sends an email, they all get to me and I just send them a, you know, a three to four minute voice back explaining exactly how to use the product. And our return rate is so low just because of this. But it's also kind of our mission to eliminate overconsumption. So it's kind of helping in a few areas.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:23:43] No, I love that. And I love that you're thinking about sustainability. And like, that is one thing that people don't think about. You think about the packaging, you think about the shipping, you think about where it's being sourced. Are you getting your ingredients from overseas? Are so many different things to say. We can have like 10 podcasts like sustainability. Like if you can go, it gets really deep, like insanely deep with
January Olds: [00:24:04] Ingredients, you know, like clean beauty. And, you know, if I have another person, ask me, are your products chemical from like Ponson possible? You know, everything is chemical. If people are really concerned about what they're using, just use on your skin, you know, maybe not five serum's or because those all have more and more ingredients if you're just using a little bit less and of course, using performance ingredients, working a little bit more, you're using less, you're using less weight, you're consuming less. I mean, I think 2020 is really a time of becoming a minimalist, a minimalist with things with, you know, now I'm like, do I really need a fancy car? Do I need to buy more clothes? You know, like it's it's not it doesn't feel as good as it used
Elizabeth Molina: [00:24:56] To ride you spoke about. And not just you, but I feel like the whole world is heading this way, like it doesn't even feel good to buy, like, new things. And even myself, like, do I really need that car anymore? Like, I don't know about that. Right. So like all these questions that are arising for you, for me and I'm sure for our listeners and everyone, is this whole thing about getting the right products, buying things that you actually need. You don't need fifty dresses and thirty like silver shoes. Right. That was the thing of the past. And so we talk or we're talking about skin care. You and I, I think, have the same kind of mentality. That beauty not only is a lifesaver for so many and a beautiful outlet because skin is the largest organ on your body. And so like to neglect that is, I don't know for me, kind of the best word I can say. It's funny just to be like nice. I live foolish just to say that. Right. And like the part of the reason why, like I'm thinking, why isn't skin care part of health care? Because our body does absorb so much and we think about beauty in a holistic way. And it's not just what you put on your face. It's also about like eating well. Right. And the you I think you have the same values of there are so many different components to beauty and wellness and just shining from the inside out and like being the skin minimalism and having your products work for you, having your food work for you. Just I feel like that's is that is that correct?
January Olds: [00:26:28] Am I seeing correctly when I get on calls with people and we go over their skin, if they're breaking out, I'm like, what is your diet like? You know, and I don't want to be a killjoy. I mean, I break out if I have dairy and I will eat Barata, because it's worth a break. So I. To avoid these things for life and, you know, like wine is great and all these things are great, but it's all about balance. And, you know, I think the probably the worst thing you can consume is sugar. And there are so many ways to, you know, make it kind of fun, you know, like do a 30 day, you know, sugar and just do it for your own mental state. And then you start to see how good you feel, how you know, as I get older, I'm in my 40s now. So everything is like immediate. It's like, oh, I can tell that I have a little too much sugar so that when she starts to see how clear your mind is, you know, sugar is also associated with so many diseases that, you know, and also keeping your body more alkaline and having.
January Olds: [00:27:39] But really, I think the best way to get there is to have a really strong morning routine. So that's what I always tell everyone to do, because that's like where the self love comes and all of that. And then you feel like treating yourself a little bit better. I think it's good to start out the morning strong with a lot of affirmations and a lot of positive self talk. And even like saying when you put your feet on the ground coming out of bed, like, thank you for supporting me, but today is a great day and just kind of shouting it and you're just kind of, well, you're ready for the day. So little things like that can really help redirect you. So you're not kind of falling into, you know, like a hole. But every morning I like to have a cookie with my coffee or whatever you're like. I don't think I need that. I have a little bit more of a boost today, if that means, you
Elizabeth Molina: [00:28:32] Know, it does make sense. So I'm actually going to ask you if you're OK, like, can you share with us your morning routine?
January Olds: [00:28:38] I love? First of all, I'm kind of annoying because I wake up like five thirty or six every morning now and I wake up and I'm like, hey, yeah, it's a little bit annoying, but I love it. I wake up in a great mood, but I do need coffee. So every morning when I wake up, I do actually say today is a great day. I say it out loud. It's just, you know, especially if I wake up going off, I feel thank you. So I just have to say that and then I journal first thing in the morning. It's my favorite thing to do. And I have different prompts. Sometimes I just freestyle, but really I just write an affirmation. And, you know, right now in my life, I really would love partnership. So every morning I write, I'm attracting my perfect partner and it gives you the sense of excitement for the unknown. And I love feeling excited. It's one of those, you know, that I think being excited about something and something you don't know, like I like surprises and I like so after I write an affirmation, I usually write a couple of things. I'm thankful for a couple things that I love about myself in the beginning. This is hard and I'm like, I love that my hair's shiny. I what you kind of go on and on and it's, you know, in a in a fun way.
January Olds: [00:30:03] And then how you want to feel, I think is such a big thing. I mean, for me, journaling is not a little thing. It's it's a very thing. And you can really set the course for the day you want to have. And I think that's so fascinating that our brains, you know, if we're putting this out there, our brains are looking for evidence for all of that be true. So it's it goes beyond manifesting. It just is. You know, we're living in a time now where it's not like, oh, I'm going to manifest this for my business. It's like, no, you've got to get in the frequency of that being. Now, that's not something you're waiting for. It's something that you're hoping comes about. And once it comes, you're going to have the feeling of you're going to be in that frequency. You've got to be in that field, in that feeling and in the feeling of love. If you want love and the feeling of abundance, if you want your company to be abundant or, you know, abundant in friends and family, all of that. So I think really getting in that feeling every morning is the most important thing I always work out.
January Olds: [00:31:11] I even if I do a little something, but I, I love hiking, so I often go hiking up like 7:00 a.m. for a couple hours. And fortunately I have like a crazy friend who wakes up early with me and we go and she was like an Olympic runner. So I will, you know, behind her. Yeah I know it's but I feel like always work out with someone who's better, who's worth it. Then you will get there or I'll do like tickets and all of that. But then it's funny because everyone talks about meditation and like. Last year, I was a huge public speaker, like four hours a day. I was very into it and this year I really haven't been meditating at all. And I do think, you know, your morning routines changed a little bit and never to beat yourself up, just going to go like that's not the season I'm in. Right. I'm not into meditating, but I am into working out. I am into journaling. I am into, like, affirmations of that and just, you know, waking up and having a healthy meal and just getting to work. But try to keep your phone away from you as long as you can. I've taught myself like no one needs me at five, 30. I so like so I need to look.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:32:26] So, yeah, that's a good morning routine. I ask for two reasons because I'm sure that the listeners want to hear, but I'm also preparing myself. So when I do visit you, I know what to expect. Well, it's
January Olds: [00:32:37] Got to be I have someone like coming to the guest room like, hello, here's your coffee at six a.m.. Let's go.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:32:44] Ok, wow. So now we know and I love the affirmations and even like writing about your, like, things that you love about yourself. I love that. I'm going to try it and see because it's so hard to, like, give yourself.
January Olds: [00:32:56] I often finish the journal, I, I write quite a quite a bit in the morning and I just kind of let it flow. There's no real structure, but a lot of times I just end up with I Love You January and just hear even just saying not right now. I'm like, oh, you know, like we there are so many like even just going like this or going like this is so nurturing to yourself or saying the words like, I love you or even, you know, if I have like, negative self talk often I do not know if I'm pronouncing that right, but it's the. I'm sorry. Forgive me. Thank you. I love you. And yes, it immediately negates any you know, like I think the biggest problem for me in my life, which was amplified from doing something. I know we spoke a little bit about this before. I've done a lot of plant medicine ceremonies and things like that. And it really amplified the negative self talk I've had, even though I wasn't even aware of it. We go through our lives just kind of having our brain guide us.
January Olds: [00:34:03] And when you sit back and go, wow, those are that's a thought I've entertained for an hour now, instead of just cutting it off from the beginning and saying, no, you're not welcome here, go away, that doesn't even matter. But when something comes up, like maybe something that I'm ashamed of or something I can't control that. I'm sorry. Forgive me. Thank you. I love you. Is the best way to just extract it. It's kind of like when your hug gratitude kind of gets rid of what inadequacy or unworthiness of you, if you replace that with gratitude, like negates the flow of forgiving yourself. And I mean, it's probably one of the more pivotal things that you can do by just giving yourself such a huge thing. We don't need we don't need maybe a sorry from someone who's done wrong to you. We just need to give it to ourselves. So we have all of the tools within us. We have the power within us to heal. And that's that's really where my passion is, where.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:35:09] No, I love that. I love that because I feel like it just connects back to to you and beauty and to like the message that you want to share. And it just it's just really nice to get to know you and for people to get to hear you, the person behind the brand. And they know that you are a little bit like introvert, extrovert. We spoke about this a little bit. And this is like probably I don't know how many podcasts you've done. I hope you said this is like
January Olds: [00:35:33] Your first one, really. And it's so I. I love chatting with you because, like, your story and stuff like, you know, it's so sad when you hear that most women have struggled, but I immediately felt so comfortable with you. And I appreciate your you just have the best energy.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:35:51] So we just have so much fun talking. But so I want to know before I get into the beauty circle, we spoke about holistic health and wellness and we talked about morning routine and how like to do one thing. I feel like it's like start your morning. Right. Even if you're feeling like a little cruddy, it's going to be amazing. Just cut that off like you said. Just cut it off. Like cut off that thought said the day. Right. And so I love that you said that. So, you know, I have a tool called The Beauty Circle and the Beauty Circle. I have ten categories that I have identified to be in my opinion. I mean, anyone could disagree. Obviously, this is a free country, a free world. Two thoughts. But I believe that these are things that kind of help you live a holistic, beautiful life. And I don't mean like beautiful, like hair, makeup, lashes and nails, like beautiful. Like you feel good about yourself when. Energy is good when you're in the state of love and not fear so that you can be able to stand up for yourself to set boundaries just to love and other people. So in this category, Jan, that you had you had an opportunity to check out, where do you think that you excel in and where do you think that you could use a little bit of extra love?
January Olds: [00:37:03] I feel like the internal stuff is really where I strive. I you can have, like, drinking a lot of water and things like that. And I believe the health aspect, the I actually it's so weird. I actually feel like I'm this is going against everything we've talked about. But there's so many things as I get older I start to kind of care about like oh my hair or my nails or in. Sometimes I feel like where I'm struggling nowadays is really getting out of my workout clothes and taking part in the way I look physically. OK, and I know that goes against all of it, but I, I, I feel like that's something I'm struggling with. I think that it's OK to go. Wow. Every day I want to walk out of this house feeling good and really honoring my body by putting the best out there, you know, like it was actually nice to do podcasting and do camera. I'm like, I'm going to wash my hair and get right. But that's how I really want to be exposing myself to the world anyway. Like feeling my voice and really feeling good, being a woman and being OK, like I'm going to wear mascara and put makeup on. And so I oddly like that's an area I've kind of I don't put myself first in that regard and I don't really do as much self care as I probably should do.
January Olds: [00:38:30] I never get paid. Sholes I never and I mean, I do. I give them to myself. I know internal health is so important. I've, you know, struggled in the past. So it's like finding that right. That correct balance between not being overly obsessive but being healthy, you know. Oh, right. Carbs are bad or, you know, having some fried food is not going to work. So for me, I had to do the reverse itself off the hook and give myself a little bit more leeway so that because that's part of beauty to just loving yourself enough. Like if you and I went out to eat and you had a bunch of French fries, I wouldn't be like, Are you sure you want to eat that? Those are the areas that I'm wanting to focus a little more on now that I have the backing that I do now. I have a lot of the education as far as spirituality goes, the healing, the self love, which I think is just such a huge aspect. And not by going, yeah, you know, there's little there's a little Jan in here and she matters this older Jan can handle anything, but she I got to take care of well,
Elizabeth Molina: [00:39:47] But no, seriously. You guys have to watch the video. Jan looks amazing. She is glowing from the inside and out. She has done a lot of work on herself and that that reflects on her like she is vibrating really like there's no filter on here. Like you can totally come and see her. She just is glowing. From all I know, she just walked out. But still, I could understand why your mom named you Jan, by the way, not because, like, you look like I don't know what a Jan looks like. You you look like in January, but I could see how January is like start of a new year, like just like uplifting and happy. And just like that kind of reminds me of you. And so, like, that's so cool that she saw that, like when you were born, she's like, you look like
January Olds: [00:40:32] My siblings all have very normal names. So I just
Elizabeth Molina: [00:40:38] That was my next question. Like, do you have a favorite sister?
January Olds: [00:40:42] Were all named after them? No, no. We're all very, very normal names.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:40:48] I want to go back a little bit and ask you before is a podcast is coming to an end. And it's so sad for me because, like, I would love to have you for ten hours, but that's not fair. But we will do more for sure. That's not even a question. This is so good. OK, Jan, so one of my last question before I open up ragtime because I love ragtime, this is where you get to shine, share anything new that you're doing, working on anything you want to talk about? I like to ask my guests to share one thing that they would have told themselves when they were younger. Like if you went today, like January today went back to like the fifteen, sixteen year old girl. Janie, what would you have told her today that she needed to hear? Like, what does that message?
January Olds: [00:41:36] I don't know that I would tell her anything because I really just it's all part of a master plan. You know, it's. Hard to see people suffer or in pain or and often when I talk to my friends and they're crying on the phone, I'm like, Oh, I'm so sorry you feel this way. Like, you don't want to take that away from them because pain is good. I believe that's one thing my dad told me growing up I would be upset about. Some things like pain is good. That's when you learn. I never understood that until later in life. And I realized it is our biggest gift, you know. So I think I would probably if I had to tell her something, I would just say it's all going to be worth it. So that's kind of where I'm at my life right now, because it's just I feel like it's almost like a new book is happening. You know, it's not just a new chapter. It's like there's a whole new ballgame and it's starting now. You know, I think that's one thing from 2020 I've learned is that old way of life, the old way of thinking. You know, I'm on discovering things with a sword, right. I'm dropping that off. So I think I would just tell her, like, hang in there. It's all worth it. Enjoy the ride and it's going to get tough. But just hang in there. And oddly, that's kind of what I have done. And also, I would tell myself, don't dye your hair blonde. Just. Not my 20s, it was not a good look and cut it like a bob, that was my worst mistake, so
Elizabeth Molina: [00:43:17] I can see that. Yeah, well, Jan, it's time for breaktime, so
January Olds: [00:43:23] I like all of it. You know, I think I go probably in this area. I'm really excited right now. When I moved, I recently moved out of L.A. and I have become and I think this is how we became connected in Somerville. And I have started a room on club house called the Blue Room. And we really she's in the same place as me as far as like being of service to women and really helping uplift them, help them their careers, help them with self-love, help them in any way we really can. And so I'm excited about that. And really just everything that's bringing new contacts and leading people that are really elevating, I feel like all of these entrepreneurs keep coming into my life. So I'm like very excited about that. I'm excited about where this will lead me as far as how I can really be of service, really. The other thing I'm excited about, I have like three products in the pipeline. I don't know when to start, when to start producing them, but I'm very excited about them. And I just I don't know. I'm probably sounding a little boring right now. I don't have anything to brag about, just that I love life. I'm excited about what's coming. And, you know,
Elizabeth Molina: [00:44:51] You know, just three products and like, helping tons of women, you know, find their purpose and feel heard and seen. No, I'm just doing nothing, you know, just thought. Jan.
January Olds: [00:45:03] Yeah. No complaints here. I'm excited about what's coming. And I, I really I'm such a huge fan of Club House. It's been incredible with just the people I'm meeting. That's how we met. It's it's really brought a lot to my life.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:45:22] So same we have the same sentiments. Yeah. Clubhouses actually I think pretty magical because it's so different. I know we're ending, but I just wanted to say like it's so different than like an Instagram when you look at a picture or video and like it's so curated and then a clubhouse, like, you can't curate your voice, you can curate your energy, you can't curate your vibe, you can't curate what you're going to say, like either, you know, are you double
January Olds: [00:45:47] Someone's sincerity through the phone? I mean, that's why I like our boom room that we started. We started the gratitude room where our club is called the Bluebird. But what it's like very but one of the rooms is about gratitude and intention heading for the week. And there are so many people I mean, there's been magical things in there of just people like I'm trying to find something to be grateful for and I can't. And just of the people in the room coming together to why stop her bring that person up? I think that's what we need right now. It's it's such a cool shift happening in the world of people, you know, being vulnerable. No. One, which is often difficult. I think I kept myself so protected throughout so many years. And now I'd like to sleep with vulnerability. And you won't lose, you know. No. And that's where I think that comes through on clubhouse. It's so funny. I was talking to someone like Clubhouse is the social media built for me because I always said people voice notes and I'm like, this is like a voice. Nothing. I never and I also I'm not like a huge fan of posting things on Instagram. I'm like, oh, you know, it's not strong. And when you have a brand, you want to do it. So now like clubhouse, I just talk and sames.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:47:15] Well, the same thing for me, by the way, because if you ever look at my post sometimes like it's spelled wrong, people are like correcting me. And I'm like, oh, like I want to post. But like I have a major anxiety about texting and like getting the right message across. But on clubhouse, I could just speak away my thoughts and feelings and and like there is no error in my typing because I'm typing
January Olds: [00:47:39] This practice speaking. Don't worry about that, whatever.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:47:44] So I'm just I'm just confirming to you that clubhouse is so great because it's so easy. You could be cooking, cleaning on a peloton. You can be like on a hike and you like, you know, time to speak. And you could be like in a conference room the next second. And so, like, that's just so cool. Like we met on there. And I think I probably was like maybe mopping my floors. And you came on, you're like, I'm new to clubhouse. I'm like, oh, that's jadi Larry I need to connect with. And so, like in real life, I wouldn't have been mopping my floors and like, connecting with Jan.
January Olds: [00:48:14] I know I've done a couple of times where I'm like, when you talk and you're kind of out of breath. But I always tell people I'm like, I'm on my pillow talk right now because otherwise I'm like, I just don't want them to think I'm doing anything else. But what we found is probably not all right, actually. Could be good for business. I don't know.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:48:34] We'll never know. I don't think you want to test it out. Oh, well, thank you so much for being on here. And so how can people connect with you? How can people find you? Please share
January Olds: [00:48:46] With Instagram. We have a link to and you can schedule if you want to do assume or if you want to put more dates on there as we speak. You can also email at Jan LOPSA, come or go on our website and I'm very much involved. So if anyone needs to get in touch with me directly, wants to or anything or skin or, you know, anything, I reach out, I, I really I'm not just saying that about helping people. It's it's really, you know, anyone resonated with what I my story or might need guidance in that area, even non-smoking related. I'm sitting there, I'm like. What you. Yeah, no, I, I just feel like there, like you said earlier, there are no mistakes. Everything they just have to surrender to the flow of life. And I know that, you know, whatever you put out there is what's coming back. That's what's meant for you.
Elizabeth Molina: [00:49:57] So totally in life is not happening to you. It is happening for you. I am such a firm believer in that. And with that, we are going to be closing. Jan, thank you so much for being here, for opening your home up to me. But yeah. Yeah. And so thank you again for coming. I definitely do not doubt that we will have a part two, three and four. Who knows. Right. But thank you so much. Thank you. Bye. Thank you so much for listening to what Jan and I have to contribute. I am so excited that a lot of you got to hear who was behind the brand. And we know a little bit more about Jan and her journey to beauty and her journey to get here and how beauty really saved her life. So I am so excited for everyone to kind of get their hands on this podcast. And if you found value, please subscribe. Write the podcast. But most importantly, share this with someone who you think would get benefit if, you know, five people share a copy link and text them right now because sharing is caring. Also, I would highly encourage you because it would make my day if you wrote a review and rated us. And if you want to screenshot that to me, I can totally post that up on my Sociales. I would love to do that. Of course, with your permission, I don't do it without you letting me, but until next time. See you next Wednesday. Have an amazing weekend. Bye, guys.
Speaker1: [00:00:00] Hello, my beautiful people, you know, it is Humpday because I am here talking to you and you know that I released these episodes on Wednesday, so excited to be here. And we have another amazing guest because, you know, I read nothing but quality. And his name is Dr. John Jaquish. He is a Wall Street Journal best selling author and an inventor of the most effective bone density building medical device, which has reversed osteoporosis for thousands and created more powerful and fractured resistant athletes. His devices were put into production and has since been placed in over 300 clinics worldwide. Osteogenic loading has now helped over 20000 individuals with their bone health. Dr. Jaquish also quantified the variance between the power capacities from weak to strong wages and weight lifting, which brought him to his second innovation x3. The research indicates that this products build muscle much faster than conventional lifting and does so in less training time, all with the lowest risk of joint injury. Dr. Jaquish is a research professor at Rushmore University, speaks at scientific conferences all over the world, has been featured on many of the top health podcasts, is an editor of multiple medical journals and is a nominee for the National Medal of Science. I am so excited to have him on here because we're going to have some controversial topics that we're going to be discussing, including why not weightlifting and the whole fitness trend and so many more things. Welcome, Dr. Jaquish, a.k.a. Dr. J. How are you today?
Speaker2: [00:01:48] I'm super. Thanks for having me, Elizabeth.
Speaker1: [00:01:51] I mean, thank you for being here. I mean, you know, I'm going to put you on the spot on the podcast. I don't normally do this, but I think I'm inspired by you as being my guest to have a little section called Rumor Has It. And so be prepared.
Speaker2: [00:02:07] I will. There's all kinds of crazy rumors going around about me. Most of them are just ludicrous. But I always I enjoy even the ludicrous ones that are very comical.
Speaker1: [00:02:16] Ok, so we're going to we're going to sneak them in there if you let me. So thank you. So I want to start talking about first of all, let's talk about your product. Right. Let's let's talk about what made you disrupt the fitness world. And do you feel like your research and technology and your competitors who use your traditional way of getting lean and building muscle?
Speaker2: [00:02:42] Ok, yes, it's definitely a threat to the old way of getting fit. But let's face it, the old way of getting fit didn't really work for many people. Like, really think about it. The people who, you know, go to a gym three or four times a week and have been doing so for years. Do they look any different? Right, silence, they don't. Yeah, yeah, and in fact, there's there's data on the top leanest one percentile of males in the nation. It's ten point nine percent body fat, basically 11 percent body fat. That's the best one percent. Now, percentage body fat is a wonderful number because it considers muscularity also. So because the more muscular you become, the lower your percentage of body fat will be, so. You have a relatively pathetic number as the top percentile. Like, I really shows you, there's not a lot of fat people out there and there's a reason why it's so coveted, people want to be fit so badly because hardly anyone is. And like, why are we trusting an industry that might have a ninety nine point nine percent failure rate? Wow. Like who really who really is fit looking? Who really has completely visible abdominals and muscularity at the same time, you know, is it one in ten thousand people, maybe one in fifty thousand people? It's just uncommon.
Speaker2: [00:04:18] And so when that is how we define fitness, that's how we define and an admirable physique and we look at the statue from eight hundred years ago of Hercules, that's that's in I'm thinking of a particular one. There are a lot of statues of Hercules, particular kind of famous. He's leaning on like a like a tree branch and he's hung a lion skin over the tree branch. But a hundred years ago, you know, the guy looked absolutely incredible. They didn't even have performance enhancing drugs back then. But it's just so rare as my point that somebody had to sit for that statue to be created. Like there was a guy that looked like that eight hundred years ago. But my point is, it's just so rare and now there's a couple of genetic reasons which can be bypassed and I discussed that in my book, Weightlifting is a waste of time.
Speaker1: [00:05:09] Oh, I need that. I need to get that book because and we're going to get into that book, you know, I don't know. I want to get a signed copy. I'm waiting for the signed copy from conservatives. I get from and then rumor has it, but I'll bring that up. But I'm like excited to get my signed copy. But I want to go back a little bit to this technology that you spoke about. You talk about Hercules, right. Like let's pretend right. Like back in the days, we all know Hercules is known for being super buff and strong and like like you said, no, you know, performance enhancing drugs or medications or supplements, whatever you want to call
Speaker2: [00:05:46] Somebody that's got you, you listen to me talk and don't understand what that means. Somebody had to sit there and sit still while the sculptor created the sculpture.
Speaker1: [00:05:58] Yeah, that's a
Speaker2: [00:05:59] A who look like that. They don't just invent muscles out of their mind. No, because they don't know the anatomy. There's very few anatomy classes eight hundred years ago, but people could sit for a statue, so there had to be a guy like that.
Speaker1: [00:06:13] Yeah. And so I want to kind of touch on nutrition a little bit talking about that and you and your book. Right. Like what are your thoughts on nutrition? Because you said ninety nine point nine percent of the population are not succeeding in that. And so, you know, when you were asking me a question about you said, you know, who do you know that's really fit and who's going to the gym all the time? And I'm thinking, yeah, they're going to the gym all the time. But they're also like meticulously counting their calories, their macros, their protein.
Speaker2: [00:06:46] They still don't look any different, do they?
Speaker1: [00:06:48] Not by that much. So let's talk about that. I want to hear your thoughts on these fad diets, these new diets that we know that Hercules was definitely not doing.
Speaker2: [00:07:00] Primarily what I eat is red meat. Now, I also it's all about the quality protein when it comes to building muscle. Now, the two greatest drivers of long life or high levels of muscularity and low levels of body fat. So those are the two things I'm kind of best at. Having a low level of body fat and a high level of muscularity now, how does that happen? The easiest well, you have to have a lot of dietary protein and it has to be of quality. So, like, vegetable protein is only nine percent and that's like nine to four percent usable by the body. So you can you can have. Whatever, one hundred grams, but it really only counts like nine grams, so that would be like a pound and a half of broccoli will give you nine grams of use, but you need one gram per pound of body weight. Not a lot of people weigh nine pounds, so especially adults. So you can't have vegetable sauces and get anywhere. In fact, you're losing Moscow muscle the whole time. You're like vegan or vegetarian. So that's why there's weight loss also. Yeah, the losing body fat is a record deficit, but they're also losing muscle very rapidly. And that contributes to a lot of chronic conditions and early death. So, you know, does it do some good things for you going vegan or vegetarian? Yeah. Yeah, it does. It cuts a lot of processed food out, and that's good. But you can cut processed food out and still have animal protein or diet. So, yeah, that's that's primarily where I am. I did create a product that wasn't specifically for vegans, it was for everybody, but a lot of people.
Speaker2: [00:08:49] And they found a one gram per pound of body weight like I weighed 240 pounds. So 240 grams of protein is like two and a half pounds of steak. And I eat one meal a day because I want to fast and benefit also. So when you sit down for one meal and try and eat two and a half pounds of steak that lasts like half a pound, you don't love it. Wow, it's like work, is it, and you don't feel good afterward, you know, so your girlfriend wants to cuddle with you and you're like, now I'm going to have any Digest's. Let me just lay here. And so that just wasn't it wasn't great. So I worked with a with a group who had engineered a cancer treatment. That that was a very. Usable, essential amino acid product and most essential amino acid products are about as usable by the body as sand. Unfortunately, yeah, there may be the amino acids and everything weren't created correctly. They weren't created with fermentation. Basically, we're supposed to eat rotting stuff. And obviously, for sanitation reasons, we don't, right? So what what this is, is gives us the benefits of that rotting material fermentation without the taste and it's clean and there's nothing that will give you an infection or anything. Yeah. And so it's called Vortigern. So so I take about two two hundred grams of protein and protein value. Wow. I mean, I literally have to eat like a half pound steak and I'm good,
Speaker1: [00:10:29] And now you can cuddle with your girlfriend.
Speaker2: [00:10:32] Yes, very
Speaker1: [00:10:33] Good. So everyone everyone wins here.
Speaker2: [00:10:36] Everyone wins. Yeah, exactly. Bet my girlfriend
Speaker1: [00:10:39] Did. She's so sweet. No, no, no. So, yeah, for those guys don't know like I do know his girlfriend. She's so sweet. I did meet her try. We're trying to get her on here but she's doing other activities right now. Working. But she is the sweetest person I've met so far, so I love her. She's amazing. Hi, Jessa waving to her. So when she sees this, we're thinking about her. So let's let's call it let's take it down a notch. So. So you don't recommend. So when people talk about becoming vegan or vegetarian or raw. Right. Like they not only do it because of the benefits of maybe losing weight or taking out those processed foods, but also the impact on the environment. Right. And like all these foreign foods, because not all protein is made equal. Right. Let's let's be honest about that. Right. Like a grass fed grass finished cow beef is not the same as a industrial commercialized, you know, cornfed, right. Exactly. Cow who is fed with hormones and antibiotics and you name it. So let's talk about that a little bit. I would love for you to shed some light on what your intake is on the people who are concerned with carbon footprint and saving
Speaker2: [00:11:53] Animals, the carbon footprint idea or the methane. That's so there were twice as many bison in the United States before Europeans migrated here than there are cow. So where was all the methane and global warming back then? Now, is methane created from grass? Yeah, and if the grass died just seasonally and then came back the next spring, rotting material, dead plants leaves a hole in the ground from trees that creates methane to. Like the same amount, so whether the cow is eating it or just sits there, it's methane equals methane, it's the same thing. So a lot of this is just a gross misunderstanding of what methane is. Also manmade methane number one cause is the medical industry. Like, I think that's like 80 or something, percent of the methane created in the Western world is created by making pharmaceuticals. So I think it's maybe like one or two percent come from cows. So first of all, the greenhouse gases are natural, they come out of volcanoes, they come out of plants, uh, the kind of rotting material, we're not gonna do anything about that. Like, unless you want to cut down every tree, then we'll die, we're all die for another reason. So every animal that saving the planet, then selling it back. So there's no sustainability argument was. A false narrative created by Vegan's and Seventh Day Adventists by Seventh Day Adventists, that's part of the religious mandate that they convert everybody to being vegan, hereditary.
Speaker2: [00:13:35] And so, yeah, they're doing their religious work. So, I mean, I guess I guess good for them until they start lying in the press about things like this. And then, you know, that just becomes annoying. And also then these kind of issues get brought up in Congress and then people are voting on taxes, on food and. Different things they don't understand, like people in Congress have no understanding yet, they want to jump in the middle of it because it's political, because people care. So it's funny situation, pretty alarming. And also there's political correctness. So we want to be nice to animals. Now, here's a statistic. Seven billion animals are destroyed every year for the sake of vegetable farming. So you're actually growing vegetables kills just as many or more animals as eating animals. And the reason is how many gophers do you need to kill him out of your field? Poisoned by the thousands of birds, poisoned by the thousands, and then, of course, other animals eat dead birds and then they die to. And then, dear, if a deer gets in a vineyard like I, I went to high school in the Napa Valley, I watched deer jump in the vineyards immediately get shot. You can't get it. You can't get a deer to walk out the front gate. There's dumbest cockroaches. They won't ever understand that. You just shoot them. And so they did. I saw a deer shot all the time.
Speaker1: [00:15:11] Yeah, I do know that's a bummer.
Speaker2: [00:15:14] Like, wow. Yeah, I guess the deer just went the wrong place. They should have gone somewhere else to eat, but, um. Yeah, that's just that's just part of it. But also from a broader perspective and this is what everybody should keep in mind, any species that's growing is taking resources away from another species. So this isn't just true of humans. If more snakes show up, they eat more mice. They eat so many mice that. There's lower and lower population of mice in a given area, so they're taking resources because they're expanding population, that is a way of balancing itself out later on. But as long as we have an expanding population, we're going to take resources from something. No, no way around it. And so, I mean, the joke is you really want to help the planet just kill yourself. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I mean, it's obviously a bad joke with science like this. Like, we're people. We take up resources. There's no way that we're not going to take up resources no matter what we do. So it's an acre garden that we have to kill all kinds of animals to stay out over eating the food we intend to eat. What are we really doing? Anything.
Speaker1: [00:16:31] Right. Right. And I also want all the animals. Yeah, no. And I want it. Exactly. I wanted to clarify, like I know you said earlier about the deer to shoot him. And I wanted to just clarify for reference that if you like, read your state laws and you see that, you know, farmers like a peach or orchard could potentially is allowed to, by law, kill a squirrel or anything that comes to eat the they are allowed to. And like this is the kind of stuff that we don't talk about, like the almond farms, the peach farms, the apple farms, all the vegetable farms they are allowed to. And they do kill every single thing that comes in there from the Buber's from the moles to the foxes to the ducks, to the birds, to the squirrels. And and they are allowed to because I, I randomly like I went to a friend's house in Jersey and the guy was just shooting squirrels, unfortunately. And we were like, what can we do about this? And we called and we and the local police officer, you know, whatever he said that he has an apple tree and he has every right to defend the fruits from his property. And if that meant Menta to do that, he was able to. And I was just so shocked. I'm like, it's not enough. It's not a real farm. But technically, he's protected and they were protecting him. So I do want to bring that up. When you when you said that, it's not like, yeah, shoot the deer. That's not what you meant. You meant like that to their right. And that's what they do. Yeah. We're just going
Speaker2: [00:18:00] To talk about the losers in. You're right to do everything to keep the grapes from ever shown up the bite off every leaf. Wild boar are typically shot from helicopters because they come near farms and tear up the ground. So, yeah, just
Speaker1: [00:18:19] Just the other side,
Speaker2: [00:18:20] Weapons from a helicopter using very selected narrative that the press likes to hang on to, it's like saving animals is good and very simplified, like like people seem to want all of their health and lifestyle advice boiled down to like a mean like a half a sentence. Yeah. And like, these issues are just not so simple. It's not like vegetable good, meat bad, right? You know, you you eat that way, you'll die of malnutrition. You get no vitamin B 12, which is absolutely essential for life. So, you know, like you can do that.
Speaker1: [00:19:03] Hey, Dad, I have a story, actually. I mean, I didn't die, but I was really sick for a long time and I didn't know what was wrong with me. Doctors didn't know what was wrong with me. I was under every experimental medication you can probably think of. It was like Celiac, Crohn's, IBS. And there was like, could it be like my grandmother had pancreatic cancer and she had survived that. She went to Peru, she killed herself. They gave her a six to eight months to live. And I think it's already maybe 15 years. And she's still here kicking and screaming. So they thought maybe this is what it looks like, the precursor because they precursor cells, they didn't know what was wrong with me. So they put me on these diets first. It was vegan because they were trying to rule things out. And then this is by my doctor, right. Vegan. And then I became vegetarian first. Then it went to vegan and then it became Rovi again. And because it was such a big shift in my body, I had a massive gallbladder attack and my gallbladder was removed, not because it had stones, not because I was unhealthy, but because it was such a shock for my system. So today I do eat animal protein, but I'm mindful of the protein that I eat. I don't eat a lot of it because it's so hard to process the protein without a gallbladder. That's just the reality of it. But I was told by the doctor afterwards that a lot of times people go into these diets so quickly that their body does go into shock and it can cause different organs to fail. And I'm not trying to I hate like I don't like to make people fearful. I'm a big advocate for having root vegetables. I love I happen to love vegetables.
Speaker2: [00:20:47] That's just
Speaker1: [00:20:48] It's. Yeah, I'm just sharing like what my experience. So I just wanted to share that on, you know, diet and like what your opinion was on that.
Speaker2: [00:20:57] I guess a lot of me. No, I don't go to vegans and complain that they should stop being like, you know, I, I in fact, I created a product where they can actually get high quality protein and continue to be vegan. So the bacterial fermentation product. It's there's no meat involved in the creation of that, so it's vegan friendly, amazing. So yeah. Yeah. So I'd rather help them, but. At all, I'm going to be honest, scientifically, it's just there's no case for it, it's it's a bad idea and that ultimately lead to just a poor outcome. But it takes people a lot of years before a lot of these symptoms catch up with them, like the teeth falling out because you have no V12 like I've seen vegan's where you bite into something and the truth will come out like I'm talking like people in their 20s because they've been vegan for ten years. So the really bad symptoms start after seven years because initially a lot of people went and tried this and they're on a caloric deficit and they lost a bunch of body fat because you can't eat enough vegetables to even cover, like what your body needs from basic perspectives. So you drop a bunch of weight and people think thin is healthy. I mean, lean is healthy, thin is maybe a little bit healthier, depending on where you're coming from, but, you know, that also might be dying. So let's keep that in mind, yeah, because there's a lot of dysfunction, so cut weight like cancer make you lose weight, that doesn't mean it's a good thing. Another thing. Like like the vegan research is typically paid for by Nabisco, Kraft packaged food companies they call big foods a big food industry, and then they would love for everybody to be a vegan because they know vegans aren't eating kale. Most of the time they're eating cookies and cake because it's convenient if it's like it's not it's not a meat product. Right.
Speaker1: [00:23:05] I mean, to be fair, there are different kinds of vegans, right? Like there's like the junky vegans who eat, like all the, um, I don't want to just junk food that, you know, just as vegan. And then there are the ones that are more conscious about the kind of food. Is it from a biodynamic farm? How is it raised? Like how is it grown? Is it like coming from a is the soil biodiversity and all this stuff? So like, I just want to put that out there. I'm not bashing and neither is Dr. J. We're not bashing anyone, just kind of talking about these kinds of things. But Dr. J. I want to I thought this is a great Segway talking about gains, right. Like muscle gains and talking about body fat. Can you explain how using your technology helps to gain more in your goal without impacting your body and like low impact and how it doesn't cause any joint issues,
Speaker2: [00:23:58] So it lets you train heavier? That's the easiest way to explain it. Like you train heavier than you would in a gym. But it's also safer because when it comes to that point where the joint is exposed to potential injury, you get an offload moment where the weight goes way down when the joint is at risk and the weight goes way up when the muscle is fully engaged. So you go to a much deeper level of fatigue, weight training with a heavier weight. And everybody that knows anything about strength training, however you go, the more you grow. So really straightforward uses very heavy latex resistance, but there's also an Olympic bar to protect your wrists that's right here. You can see as I rotate the bar, this always stays parallel with the ground, and that's to keep your wrists neutral and keep your small bones in the wrists from being broken. And we have an equivalent platform we stand on that is to protect the small bones in the ankles as people who just do band training, all they're doing is injuring the wrists and ankles. Oh yeah. Because or they're training so light. It's doing nothing.
Speaker1: [00:25:08] Wow. OK, and what was the process of creating these products, how did you crack this code? Like please share with us the back story?
Speaker2: [00:25:17] I'm not really part of the fitness industry. I never was like I mean, the fact that I sell something that has talking points that are fitness, I see the fitness industry is just a complete failure. No joke. Ignoring science for 50 years, just like everything like like the idea the cardio helps you lose weight. No. Doesn't. Does the opposite, it protects your body fat and gets rid of muscle, so it gives you the opposite. We think. So know, I see people like on treadmills and, you know, just wasting their time getting worse. Wow. I come from the medical device industry. I developed a medical device to reverse osteoporosis a little over 10 years ago. And that's been outrageously successful when I looked at bone and how to figure out how to treat bone and make it grow very rapidly after I figured that out and produce a product launch that prior to the clinical trials of that product, I realized I had gathered data on loading of the body that would completely negate the existing fitness industry or strength strength training industry. Now. If you look at what's the difference between cardio equipment and strength, equipment, cardio, what we call cardio is just really shitty strength training. That doesn't work, doesn't make it stronger, your body doesn't know the difference between a treadmill and a squat rack like you're contracting your lower extremities muscles, your long johns. But he knows the difference in how heavy you're going. Because that's what fatigues the muscle.
Speaker2: [00:26:57] So all you're now, you're fatiguing your cardiovascular system during either. And it just so happens that there's more than one hundred studies that show that fatigue in your cardiovascular system with weights. Will give you as much cardiovascular benefit or more then cardiovascular training, so cardiovascular training, as we call it, like I said, there's really no such thing. You don't get any stronger. You actually get weaker because it regulates cortisol and cortisol cannibalizes muscle. You protect your body fat. So you stay fatter longer and you don't get as good of an effect or an equal effect to strength training. So why don't you just do strength training? Well, like I said, the answer is so obvious now, if you're training to be a marathon runner, you got no choice. You have to run marathons. But a marathon runner, their biochemistry by secreting cortisol is trying to get rid of muscle as fast as possible. So they're losing muscle. And this is like this mythical idea that you can be a, quote, well-rounded athlete and have cardiovascular endurance by doing endurance training. And be very muscular. Now, those are two conflicting goals, you're not going to get a Formula One car to have 40 miles to the gallon like they're conflicting goals, conserving fuel and going fast, conflicting goals. So so now I have great cardiovascular endurance, I can do a lot of work in a short period of time. But because of my level of musculature, like I said, I'm six foot six feet tall, about seven percent body fat and.
Speaker2: [00:28:46] Two hundred forty pounds, so when I sprint up a flight of stairs, maybe two flights of stairs, I'm a little out of breath. But a skinny guy, the way one hundred pounds, one hundred pounds less me. He doesn't he's not out of breath when he sprints up the two flights of stairs to the common. The ignorant comment that many make is all strength athletes have poor cardiovascular endurance. No, they don't, because my legs may be five times the size of his legs. So when my quadriceps are asking my heart for blood, it's a lot more blood that's got a pump in there, that's a far more powerful engine. So in essence, I'm driving a V12 and that guy is driving like a four cylinder. So right wing engine, a weak engine doesn't draw a lot of fuel. And so, you know, just because I'm more powerful and I'm designed to do a lot of work in a short period of time, you know, I try and do work in a long period of time while I don't have the engine for that. Like. Which is why, again, a cardiovascular athlete has very little muscle mass because the biochemistry is forcing them to have very little muscle mass. So this whole, like, endurance thing in cardiovascular health, if your idea is to have a healthy heart through strength training, if you want to run marathons, obviously you got to do a marathon type training for you.
Speaker1: [00:30:14] Guys like that are listening and driving. And, you know, just listening to us talk to an audio, we are also video recording this so you can actually see Dr. J. He doesn't work out, but he's he's at seven, what, seven percent body fat. And he looks
Speaker2: [00:30:28] Like, oh, man, I work out with X.
Speaker1: [00:30:31] Well, let me let me take that back. He's not from the business world. He's not lifting weights. He's not measuring his macros and doing all these kinds of things. He is literally following his formula. So I invite all of you guys to come and see this because I need to go and start doing this kind of training, hopefully soon, or I'll have, like, the arms that we spoke about before with you and your girlfriend. Know, this is very interesting stuff. And, you know, I want to just take it back a little bit. I know that you first started in the space of how to repair or how to grow or you have to help me out with the lingo here for osteoporosis because of your mother, am I correct?
Speaker2: [00:31:13] Yeah. Yeah, I was all inspired by my mother. Yes, she had osteoporosis. I wanted to figure out how to treat it. She was unwilling to take any of the medications because of the side effects. And I don't really blame her. But I said, well, you don't want to take any medications. I might be able to figure this out. Now, I came from a very fresh perspective. This was even before I did my Ph.D.. So I just my experience is more like I just want to learn how to author papers academically because that's a skill like, you know, you don't just like you read a research paper. There's a reason most people can't read them because it's a lot of statistics, a lot of information condensed. I know nobody feels like they're condensed because a lot of times are 20 pages, but that could have been two thousand pages of forms. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, it's a lot of information condensed in an academic manner and I wanted to really be able to do that. Everyone has had the biochemical approach to a lot of these physical medicine dysfunctions. And I'm like, well, deconditioning of a bone. Is osteoporosis? Well, you can deconditioned it, you can recondition it right right now and everybody kind of look at me like, oh, I suppose I got seems crazy, but there is research there on like it was gymnastics. The gymnastics research really got me that. That was the key moment where I, I found the right research. I looked at the rate at which people were hitting the ground and they hit the ground so hard, sometimes ten times their body weight, incredible muscle density, but bone density as well. So the bone I was I was looking at. So I just thought, OK, like, I'm not going to tell my mother to do gymnastics, you know, in her 70s, but I can build a high impact emulation device. And that's what I did. And that's what's at the osteo strong locations.
Speaker1: [00:33:14] Wow. Amazing. And I wanted everyone to hear because a lot of times we think of like, why would somebody like this what is the goal here? Like, if you're just trying to, you know, like if you can you flex a muscle for us? I hate to make you do this, but like, there's a lot of muscle there, like hardly any body fat. And so, like, you would think that he did this because he just wanted to look good. I'd figure that crack that code. But the story behind where this all started was the love for his mother and to help her. And I'm assuming that she's doing well today. Right?
Speaker2: [00:33:46] Right. Yeah.
Speaker1: [00:33:47] Yeah. So amazing. So this is what you call the love of a son. And it's beautiful because the company has grown. And I want to talk a little bit about some rumors that I heard. I I've seen Tom Brady doing the X three. Yeah. And he shrugging your shoulders, but I've seen it. So, like, you can't you cannot not talk about it. And so.
Speaker2: [00:34:14] Yeah, yeah, I could definitely not talk about that. But I, I Peyton, I know that I will say I just finished filming a video series with Terrell Owens, who is another one of the greatest football players of all time, and also a much stronger guy, Tom Brady. So he's he's an excellent user and he uses it right. Which I find very pleasant. When I see videos, I see videos of people using it wrong. It's like, dammit, OK, it's just another another dipshit. You couldn't take fifteen minutes to watch the instructional videos and they're just making up their own exercises and they're going super fast, which doesn't really do anything. Speed training is OK if you're. A pitcher in baseball, but what we're teaching is not sports specific, it's generalized, it's generalized for muscular size, muscular power and muscular endurance and have also you can profoundly have all three and there's synergistic. So, you know, the sports specific stuff. I leave that to the to the trainers and sports. Like, for example, like the book got an endorsement from the Miami Heat and they actually let me use their brand. And, you know, in describing, you know, who's who's endorsing this book. And they almost never do that now. And so, yeah, they're very protective of the brand, obviously, because they just believe in the technology and they start lifting weights and they use X three. Now, what's all them was? Use X three, four strength, power and muscular endurance. But you still got to do all your other drills. Will there be any conflict between strength training and drills? Maybe a little maybe we'll get a little less growth in certain areas and certain muscles are a little overworked or whatever, but.
Speaker2: [00:36:13] You've got to do your drills because being a basketball player isn't just about being strong, it's about having balance. It's about regaining balance quickly. When somebody bumps into you, it's part of the game. So, yeah, they still do all that and so, um, and so I'm working with Terrell Owens and, uh, six other NFL players, obviously retired. He's a Hall of Famer. Yeah. And these guys, they love X three. I especially care for the NFL, the NBA, too, but mostly for technical reasons. The NBA, because they're so tall, a joint injury is much worse on a tall guy that it isn't a shorter guy because there's more leverage on the joint. They can they will feel more pain through that joint for the rest of their lives. You got be very delicate with a joint tall person when it comes to the NFL. Um, I see, um, the day they signed their NFL contract, they're told you can't get injured or otherwise you can lose your contract. It's kind of a funny contract. They can say we're going to pay you forty million dollars over the next whatever few years. But if you get injured, you only get paid, prorated for whatever you played and then the rest of that money's gone. Wow. Yeah. So it's a contract. Sorta. Sorta. Also, the drug tested like all the time. So everybody knows when they see a fit and a player. OK, you know that guy, he really did it. And like in Dr. Jake, which is helping him. So like I want to listen to that guy so that I really enjoy the because like also like there's some bodybuilders that really enjoy using ecstasy also.
Speaker1: [00:38:01] My question for you is, since I'm going to now be doing videos, I mean, I'm not an NFL player or anything like that. I'm a good person. So I'm going to be doing the X three soon. And is it like will I will I look like, you know, offense? Not that, you know, you're a man, so that's great. But like, I don't want to look like a bodybuilder. So is that going to cause that, like, I want to be like a politesse like Fiddlin must, you know, obviously body fat going down. It's great. But I'm nervous that I'm going to look like a bodybuilding woman, which is great if you like that. But I just don't happen to, you know, like that. Look for myself.
Speaker2: [00:38:41] Yeah. You're not going to look like that. Yeah. I mean, you seen Caroline. She looks incredibly feminine. Yeah. Yeah. So now she modifies the program a little bit. She doesn't do direct arm work. We just want to make our arms any bigger, but she does the postural movements, the lower extremity movements, uh, she does calves, she really likes how her calves look in heels. Now, they kind of didn't look very developed at all before, but they now. But I see. So a lot of people start strength training. And so then they start they have their hungrier because your body wants nutrients. So instead of eating nutrients, they eat Twinkies. So, yeah, I mean, did you get bigger? No, you got fatter, though. So sorry, it's a habit and I see it happen, you know, it's like, you know, you're not going to grow like, you know, 10 pounds of muscle look like a man. Usually that only happens to women who are chemically enhanced like they're injecting drugs. Oh, OK. Get to that to that look. And again, like I like the way you said it. If it's for you, it's for you.
Speaker1: [00:40:01] It's just not for you. So, you know, you guys heard it here. You're going to see me training. And part of the reason why I also wanted to do this was because, you know, Dr. Jay knows that I've had some, you know, not coronations and a lot of pain. And, you know, he said, like, this could potentially help you. So I am excited about this, but I want to talk about another rumor. Can you handle it?
Speaker2: [00:40:28] I can handle.
Speaker1: [00:40:29] Ok, so I heard a little birdie said to me that NASA published the paper, not a birdie, but it's kind of kind of public knowledge.
Speaker2: [00:40:40] It's public knowledge. It's just, you know, it was published in a scientific journal. And there's not that many people in the world that even know how to read those kind of things. But you know what? I will read you a quote from the paper. Let's do it. Yeah, it was a really, really powerful statement they made, but they're truly looking. What I'm doing and changing resistances for different ranges of emotion. As a way to manage the health of astronauts, because without a gravitational field, the body just starts coming apart. Yeah, like like there's two things that are like from it, from a technical standpoint. And obviously, we put a we put an unmanned vehicle on on on Mars already. So the challenge is to get a human to Mars. Will. Little robots with wheels, they do fine with radiation exposure and now exercise. But humans die. So what we need is now the shield from the radiation, like we know how to do that, but what we're going to have to ultimately do is build a spacecraft in space because that kind of shielding is heavy and the most challenging thing for a launch vehicle. Is how much weight, isn't it, the conclusion of the paper says if the exercise apparatus could be condensed to the size of a shoe box to meet the weight and volume restrictions imposed by NASA, it could potentially serve as a countermeasure for bone and strength loss on exploration vehicles.
Speaker2: [00:42:21] Now, exploration, they mean not the moon, right? I mean Mars. So. Yeah, we can we can pull this off and this is exciting. It's a great study and they used bone formation, blood markers, which are highly accurate, unlike the standard for testing bone density, which is a dual x ray. X rays, just a picture of bone and then use software so the picture can determine how dense or porous the bone is. Well, it's a picture analysis. So is it accurate? Not really right now. One of the developers of DEXA had a drink with me at a conference and he said it's like the worst measure in medicine, except it's the best we've got for bond. And in fact, it's considered excluded for analysis. If the same technician didn't run your before and after, you know that that says that there's like an art to lining up the bounding box on the bone, which is what they have to do. They have to look at your hip jobi from a macro perspective and get the box just in the right place. Well one technician doesn't like this, the other doesn't like this. So it's different numbers.
Speaker1: [00:43:37] And so, so if this device may or may not already be in production or whatever, so does this mean that like we can potentially get like maybe like you could do like travel sizes of this. Like I know I'm maybe wishing to fast
Speaker2: [00:43:52] Track says,
Speaker1: [00:43:53] Ok, well, even even smaller, you know. Like how much smaller.
Speaker2: [00:43:57] Well, OK, so like there's what NASA needs and then there's what the rest of us.
Speaker1: [00:44:02] Ok, five.
Speaker2: [00:44:03] True. Yeah. And also keep in mind from a material science perspective, a lot of the forces. That are occurring. Don't need to be engineered in exactly the same way for Earth because there's no gravity. So, you know, that might be different calls for flexibility, there might be. Some portions of latex, portions of nylon, portions of Cavaleiro, portions of, uh, you know, like a like a liquid carbon fiber.
Speaker1: [00:44:39] Are you ready for the last rumor?
Speaker2: [00:44:40] There is a lot of rumors and I'll say it again. So when I first came out with Yoshio's from devices, I was being criticized by medical doctors. Now, fortunately, once you show them the evidence, because immediately they imagine you don't have the evidence which is showing the evidence and the rationale, they're like, OK, I'll send my patients there. They do a complete 180. So they're never too excited about anything because is it going to work for everybody? No, nothing works for everybody. So they're realistic and they're like, I'll send some of my patients that are relatively ambulatory and relatively pain free because that's those are two requirements are so strong. They can't be like, you know, unable to use your legs and get a benefit in the legs. You've got great the force on your brain. The problem I saw with the fitness industry and I was given warnings by others that my friends who had been kind of crossing the line between medical advice and fitness. Like Venice fans in general, not too bright. And it's yeah, I mean, they just said, like, this is like some of the stupidest people you can find and they cannot absorb science. And, you know, it's like like I used to hear Jordan Peterson talk about the bottom 20th percentile of intelligent people are only qualified to push a map, though. They have a job where they have to drive vehicle or kill people that are intelligent. So I always thought, like, I know where he's getting that. No, he's referencing science. But I never looked up the study. But I thought it seems like a lot of people, 20 percent. And then I found bodybuilding.com and I found all 20 percent of stupid people over that. It was amazing.
Speaker1: [00:46:28] Let's go to the room.
Speaker2: [00:46:31] Ok. Yeah, I'm just I'm just enjoying my haters because the more I get attacked, the business just goes through the roof. No, because more people see the stupid comments and they're like, I got to see this guy. And they expect me to just be like, wrong about everything. And then they look up the studies and they're like, no, this guy is right about everything. I love him.
Speaker1: [00:46:49] Yeah, well, you're also a doctor, right? Right. So that makes you more credible. And then you have your research behind you. But here's the rumor. Here's a rumor right now. I think it's about a rumor. I heard that you may be running for governor of California. Did you almost spit out your coffee? Yeah. Is that a yes of the coffee or yes to the governor or to both?
Speaker2: [00:47:11] I was I was in Chicago for a few unfortunate years, but yeah. Yeah, I'm a California guy and I love my state. And it's great whether it is some great people. There's a lot of great people, actually. What I really love about it is great habits. We're healthier state, we like the outdoors. People get outside and do stuff I think is really sad when a state is financially upside down and it's also the eighth largest economy in the world. That is only one explanation, just grotesque waste. I won't even call it corruption. It's like we spent four billion dollars on a train and never laid a mile of track. Yeah, it's just gone, and most of it was on environmental studies was studying crickets and moths and stuff like that. Now I certainly care about the crickets and moths. That's obviously overboard. And it was a waste of the taxpayers money. And this is why we have a punishing capital gains tax. We have all kinds of strange things. And of course, the governor shut the whole state down for exorbitant periods of time with no scientific evidence to back up his decision, making it all. So I'm not doing it because I'm egotistical about it, I think a lot of guys get into politics, they think they're great. So clearly everybody else should think that that's not my story. I think I would do a great job. I think I understand the problem crystal clear in I can fix it. I don't think the others who are planning on running, I've looked at who's planning on running and I don't think they have a clear vision of what the state needs. I'm going to run until I win. Or I think there's a better candidate. There are some downsides to me, I might be a little opinionated, I might be seen as toxic masculinity.
Speaker2: [00:49:19] I've been accused of that before. I'm a I'm an aggressive guy. I played rugby. I had a lot of things that guys do that are, you know, sort of looked at like, you know, that joke wasn't funny. Yeah, I think jokes are funny. Sorry. And so. Am I perfect for California? I don't know, but I also don't think we should be we should be picking people based on their general presentation, how they look at their skin color. Let's get somebody qualified. Clearly, we need it. But what I'm terrified about is we'll still have these punishing taxes. Companies will still leave, like it'll still be just as screwed up as it is now, because Gavin Newsom, he's the guy for all the listeners in New York and other states. He's got his governor now and he's actually a friend of mine. I used to work for him. Uh. I like the guy, but he is just done way too many things without justification when it comes to the virus. And then and then on top of that, just just nonsensical monetary policy of the state. Just waste Rudel waste. It just needs to end. So it's again, like I mentioned earlier in the podcast, a lot of people want their politics and their nutritional condensed down into a meme. It's not that simple. But it's also not that complicated. We need to look at where the money's going and just fix a couple of problems. Am I going to fix everything in California in four or eight years? Impossible. So many things are screwed up, but we can fix a couple of big things. We can fix the budget.
Speaker1: [00:50:56] I said, well, I'm excited to have interviewed the potential new governor of California. And I think, you know, if you think about it from, like, your mission to kind of help the bone from inside, which is what literally holds you up as a human, like it is your skeleton, it's your structure, it's your foundation. We think of a house. You need that strong foundation. I think it's kind of ironic that you invented this this machine or this country or whatever you want to call it, contraption or what do you call it, tool, medical device or medical device that helps you do that. Right. Helps you become strong from the inside out. And then that's kind of what you do. You've been doing this for a while and now you're trying to do this as a governor. Like, I think that actually is beautiful, like a full circle. Like you're like, OK, I see the problem. Like, I want to fix as much as I can the infrastructure. I want to make the foundation strong for my state. And like that just shows the full circle moment when you do become governor, that this is a lifelong mission of yours to kind of see something that people weren't able to see because you have a fresh perspective, a fresh pair of eyes, and you're like, that's oh, that's how I fix it. Let me make that strong. And then everything else will come together. So I just wanted to kind of tie that in there. So, you know, this is going to be great excited to see how this turns around. And you have confirmed that you are going to be running for governor of California. So congratulations on that. And because this is a beauty podcast and we did talk about the beautiful weather in your beautiful state, what does beauty mean to you from your perspective?
Speaker2: [00:52:46] Attraction? What attracts people to other people? Turns out it is visible cues that indicate long life. That's what makes people attracted to one another, so like why why do women like strong men? Because they look like they're going to live a long time, be healthy for a long time. Maybe be able to take care of things, whatever that means, depending on where you are, you know, whether it's chop the wood, make make sure everybody's warm for the wintertime or go out and earn a living or, you know, protect the family from from whatever threats may come upon them. Physical strength seems like it is highly associated with longevity, so that's and low body fat, so like we visually can tell what somebody looks like and how healthy they are. So I see. Health and physical performance as. Different names for the same thing now. The reason I like the fitness talking points of what I like X three, that's the strength product, I don't really see it as a fitness device. It's more medical, it's more scientific. It's sort of like Ultranet to fitness. But when people get involved in fitness talking points, they're typically talking about their vanity, how good they look like I want to look like this, and some like when it's a guy who show a picture, a strong male. A lot of women and I really like the trend where women try to build a lot a lot of lower body strength because they like the shape of their legs, shape of their butts. That's wonderful because they're building muscle mass. That's going to put a greater demand on all the organs of the body for focusing for enforcing the other organs of the body to perform at a higher level, which is going to keep them alive longer. And a lot of muscle mass they're going to keep later in life.
Speaker1: [00:55:02] Yeah, but also that that trend for the lower body as well. Like we know and I'm sure, you know, as a doctor probably studied this, that it has shown that women who have more of a muscle mass in the thigh and buttocks area, the lower body part, they produce healthier babies. They store more vitamins and minerals and nutrients. So that it's. So I just wanted to add that because that's when you talk about attraction and like, people don't know why that's attractive, because subconsciously, I guess through many, many, like, you know, caveman times, that's what signal to men like, you know, that's why they call it childbearing hips.
Speaker2: [00:55:41] Well, you can't change the width of your face.
Speaker1: [00:55:43] Right. But like,
Speaker2: [00:55:44] You're it's the same no matter what.
Speaker1: [00:55:46] Yes.
Speaker2: [00:55:46] Well, yes, the curvier a girl is. And when I say curvy, I don't mean fat because very often women are like, oh, yeah, I'm curvy. And I'm like, no, you're obese. But I, of course, say that to be real. Don't convince yourself you're healthy when you're not. My that's that's a that's a smokescreen put in front of yourself, lying to yourself doesn't help, right? You're just masking a brutal problem. So why do I feel sorry for people who are addicted for food? Yeah, I have compassion for them. I mean, the food has been engineered so that it's addictive. It's not by accident, you know.
Speaker1: [00:56:25] But I want to go back to Dr. Jay. I know where we're talking to Dr. Jay, not Governor Jay yet. Yet I want to know about the beauty part. Like you left us hanging here like you were talking about you. You like that women are now focusing more on their lower extremities, which actually engage more muscles. It engages more organs. And it just does so much for the body overall. So finish telling us what beauty is to you.
Speaker2: [00:56:54] Its health, like what's beautiful to me is a healthy hemoglobin A1 C score. By the way, one of the metrics that still counts is a lot of metrics don't count like high cholesterol doesn't matter. The higher your cholesterol is, the longer you're going to live. So people were wrong about that for 20 years. People still say that, and really it's the cholesterol medications that. Harm them or the fact that you know why cholesterol was such a myth for so long? No. OK, so think of an artery. Let's say it's right here. Blood, blood flows through it. What happens is inflammation from eating vegetables or sugar accelerates and different inflammatory type situations that happen to the body cause arterial inflammation. So certain points in the artery, there's inflammation and then as low density lipoprotein flows through. The artery, it sticks at these information points and it may collect and then break loose and cause an aneurysm or heart attack. So. So it was seen as like these things that are sticking there cause the blockage, which are low density lipoprotein LDL. But that wasn't the cause, the cause was the information. So if you have a low sugar diet, having higher cholesterol is fine. In fact, you live longer. There's research to prove that. But it's when you have high sugar and high fat diet, which most people who don't really control the nutrition, that's what they do. Now you're looking at cardiovascular risk, but just cut sugar out in front. This is good to
Speaker1: [00:58:38] Know, guys. So I hope that everyone is taking notes because Dr. J. Is dropping some bombs from all different perspectives about health. And I can't wait to get my X three because I'm going to work on getting my body fat a little lower. So I'm excited about that. So Dr. J. You know about the Beauty Circle. And you know what I'm going to ask you next is where do you find yourself Excel? I feel like I know the answer to this, but I'm going to let you answer. Where do you find yourself excelling in the beauty circle and where do you find yourself needing a little bit more TLC?
Speaker2: [00:59:10] The consistency, the I think also just focusing on science. I don't know where that fits in, but not just doing the right things, but understanding why you're doing the right things. People need to take a little more responsibility when it comes to beauty products, you know what's in it. Are you sure, because some of them have some dangerous chemicals in them, some of them don't, some of them are health promoting, some of them are beauty promoting, but health diminishing. Right. You've got to know, like what you're putting on your skin and also what you put on your skin sometimes transfers into your bloodstream.
Speaker1: [00:59:50] I think a lot of times, right. Because our skin is the largest organ in our body. And you're being very generous because I know that there are even and you as a doctor could probably answer this better, because I'm not a doctor. I'm just like a crazy researcher who likes to, like, ask many questions. I'm the Wegerle girl. Like, I think my podcast should have been like, why? And that's all I ask is why? Why? Even as a child, I was so annoying to my teachers, like, what is photosynthesis and why do we need it and why and why I was that annoying kid. But aren't there some minerals or some medications that absorb better transdermal? Like we know that there is such a thing as your body absorbing. And when people deny this, I always say, so why do we have a birth control patch? Not that I'm promoting that. Why do we have a nicotine patch? Why is it that magnesium there have magnesium patches? Because it's absorbs transdermal, like there are so many other things. Yeah. So to say that the skin doesn't absorb it, I just I'm going to call it out as a lie. Yeah.
Speaker2: [01:00:53] Well now some things will transfer easier than others. Right.
Speaker1: [01:00:58] And so where would you say that. You think that you could use a little bit more help in the circle and that could be you know, it could be water intake. It could be sleep. It could be spirituality. It could be relationships to yourself with others. It could be bowel movements. Like where do you think? Or skin and makeup. Yes. For you. Where do you think that you need extra TLC? I don't say the makeup that we're not going to cut that category.
Speaker2: [01:01:24] And I don't know, I'm on film a lot like so you could pick up on me and keep me from being shiny. OK, but it's it's pretty easy. They don't need it. They don't need a blended into my hairline. So from from my perspective, answer your question. Yes. There's a lot of things people want me to present on. Recently been talking about dry fasting, meaning no food, no water and of course, hydration, like we hear about hydration all the time. But we don't have any baseline for hydration. Like the whole like you need two liters of water a day. Somebody made that up. Like there's no scientific basis in that at all. And so I've been I've been doing some spending some time reading about like what's done for Ramadan because Ramadan passing is fascinating and like I want to get that information of the world and. I don't quite have like I'm on so many podcast and there's a lot of media stuff, and then the filming days, like with Terrell Owens or we got another filming day on Friday, the world would be a whole day. It'd be cameras and lighting and stuff like that for more of just like a training kind of video stuff. So I'd like to just be able to free up some more time so I can get my research done because honestly, I'm only good at one thing. And most people are really good at one thing, right, and everything else, they just kind of limping along.
Speaker2: [01:02:56] But I can read research and remember forever. That's amazing, though, when I read research. I have to take notes. Wow. And I can I can read a study and draw a parallel to a study I read 10 years ago, and I will remember the author of the study I read 10 years ago and find it in 10 seconds, and then I'll be able to read the two side by side, draw a parallel and write about it. And so you like like one study, maybe in one totally different field, one maybe endocrinology, another one might be dermatology and I can go, OK, these these two things make sense. But because X is is as a parent and so is why now I have a conclusion I can I can come to or suggest. Right. OK, that's fair. That's yeah. That's really like the one thing. And that's also why I've never had anybody like real like I've had a couple of people who don't really understand research, make some, you know, silly Facebook videos about like what a jerk I am because I'm wrong about this and this and this. And then they provide no evidence. And so even the commenters are like, OK, you like you have no science. And the guy in his book used more than two hundred fifty references. Scientific studies. No. Usually you're not the one right? It's just foolish. There is no real scientists is actually ever had a problem
Speaker1: [01:04:27] With anything I said. So the category that you would probably want is the relationship with yourself to have more time so that you can read more research papers and really start, you know, getting some intel on this drive fast thing and just the whole phenomenon of fast. What I'm interested in hearing your findings. Keep keep me in the loop, please, because I am always interested in this. I think that the body's metabolic flexibility is really something that we haven't really explored as much as we could have, if that makes sense.
Speaker2: [01:05:04] That was very well put. So what we've traditionally been doing is looking at normative data. Now, let me define that for everybody. Normative data is what the average is, so like vitamin consumption or liquid consumption? Well. Considering half of our nation is overweight or obese or morbidly obese, do we really care what the averages are? So we're comparing ourselves to people who are the fattest and sickest that humans have ever been. Also, here's another like vegan thing right now, the Western diet standard American diet is 70 percent plant based. So we go to 80 percent. Are we going to be better? Because like I said, we're the fattest and sickest ever at 70 percent. By increasing the number, we're going to get better because that seems wrong.
Speaker1: [01:06:01] And of course, it is no, I mean, we can get this is like a whole nother podcast, but when you do find the research, I'm sure that you're going to have some product out there, you know, to help us with that, because I do feel like it's going to be trending soon, not trending, but like more studies are going to come out because there are so many fasting protocols and people are talking about fasting and going into ketosis and the formula for energy and all these things. So we haven't really looked at it. And if you think about the caveman days, and I always refer to that because I think that's like a baseline for, like Hercules. Right. You think about how people went for days without food. Right. And like also that all or
Speaker2: [01:06:39] One, they didn't have a hydro flask that they carried around for the perfect hydration.
Speaker1: [01:06:43] Right. But then also you think about the need from a nutritional perspective. Right. Like, I just had this conversation with someone on the live and we talk about like maybe they could have had one carrot, but that one carrot. There's actually a study I don't know if you know about that study, but it actually said you need 220 carrots to equal the nutritional value of a one like one carrot like, you know, from a long time ago that was more nutrient based, not like cropped like a model.
Speaker2: [01:07:12] Are you talking about engineering? Yeah.
Speaker1: [01:07:14] So like a lot of
Speaker2: [01:07:16] Guys that we messed with. Yeah.
Speaker1: [01:07:19] So like also considering that from our side diet, which is the standard American diet, that even if you are getting those vegetables, how many nutrients are really in that vegetable? Because you know, that whole thing about diabetes and people that are obese, you know, we are eating, consuming a lot of food that is empty, empty and nutrition just empty, carbs just empty nothing, which is why you're still hungry. And most of the people are just craving more. And it's like, I don't know why I eat more, but I ate so much. But I'm still because your body's saying I need more nutrients, I need more minerals, I need more hydration because like, even the water is not like the same as you could find it. And and you know this, right? Like a spring water is different like you would get. And nature is different than like a Poland Spring bottle of water. Like the structure of that is completely different. The way that your body absorbs it so we can go up like this is like as you can tell, I'm passionate about this and I feel like you do see that big plate of food, but I see sometimes a big plate of food of like emptiness. And when you eat value. Right. Like, I would love to hear your perspective before we we've been on this podcast for a while, so and I'm going to be respectful of your time. But when you eat these kinds of high nutrient based foods, you're not really so hungry and you're not craving things. Right. Like, isn't that remarkable?
Speaker2: [01:08:39] One meal a day. Yeah, I'm never hungry. Now, when it's time to eat and, you know, I can smell the food I'm about to eat, you know,
Speaker1: [01:08:48] So you don't get hungry.
Speaker2: [01:08:51] No, no, I'm totally calm all the time. OK, cool. Yeah, and you know, one meal or whatever. Twenty three hours.
Speaker1: [01:08:59] Ok, cool. So, Dr. Day, our podcast is coming to an end and something that I ask all of my guests is to share one tip that or one piece of advice that they would have shared with the younger version of themselves.
Speaker2: [01:09:14] So a lot of people think that X three, I'm most known for X three, even though probably the more important thing is the bone density. I mean, osteoporosis is a disease that kills as many people as breast cancer. I came up with the most effective treatment for it. So scientifically, that was a bigger achievement than making muscles grow. Now, I think over time, x ray will be recognized as something that keeps people alive longer because they have higher levels of muscle mass and lower levels of body fat. So both may be saving lives, but there's a more direct connection with with osteo strong in the piece of advice, I would I would tell myself because a. I got to work on this for a long time and the two products go hand in hand, the self education like you don't just learn in school, you learn the whole time you're doing something from a professional perspective, especially like me inventing things, creating things that nobody ever saw before and only heard of it is advice that I was given, but I didn't believe it at the time. Just be relentless. Just don't stop like, you know, you're right. And I did. Even if it takes your whole lifetime, you'll never have a great. Like, that's the worst thing is the person who had the idea and then they end up hating themselves because they never, ever knew if their idea was worth it or not, if it would have worked.
Speaker2: [01:10:50] And so when it came to the osteoporosis device, of course, in the first thousand people I told about, it were like, stupid, that's never going to work. And I just realized that I probably just didn't have my talking points. Right, or maybe it was too detailed or something like that. Even now, I had a I had a great conversation with marketing team yesterday and they were telling me, I'm going I still am going too much into detail when describing the product. You know, it gives you the opportunity to train heavier than you've ever trained. Yeah, you say that like that's what it does. And that's certainly an easier thing to say than explaining variable resistance and how your strength is different from here and here and here and here. Like, yeah, I mean, I can go through all that stuff, but everyone even people who don't understand my product or my research or can't read a research study, which is most people, because they're complicated, they understand you train heavier, you get a much bigger response of a body. And if you can train heavier than you can move weights, well, let's do that then, because that sounds better and it is not giving up looking for a better path. Always, always refining and even refining things that have been documented in our in your marketing material on your website. You never abandoned a piece of text.
Speaker2: [01:12:23] You never just go, that's good enough and leave that alone. OK, you can leave it alone for now, but you always have to go back and revisit. This is the best way to say this is I say it better. Can I say so? It's more easily understood. Can I say it so? Women don't worry that they're going to look like men if they use the product like and like I said, it's not a goofy question. I get the question or customer service gets a question probably one hundred times a day. The women that especially on Instagram, for some reason, I get a lot of female followers on Instagram and they're asking questions like like I really like your approach to fitness because it doesn't look dangerous because they don't wanna get hurt because they know they have girlfriends that have gone and lifted heavy and crosthwaite class or whatever and ended up having a BA land in their teeth and knock on their teeth or carrying on tricep or something like that hamstring. That's another common common injury. They're like, I think what you're doing is very low risk of injury and the right it is so. But will it work for me in I'm thinking? Why would you even ask that question? It's not obvious, it's not obvious because they're worried they're going to look like me with a wig, which would be very unattractive.
Speaker1: [01:13:35] That was my concern, to be honest.
Speaker2: [01:13:38] Yeah, I mean, I had a wig once for Halloween. I look terrible.
Speaker1: [01:13:43] Can we get a picture of that?
Speaker2: [01:13:44] So what else did you picture? I was he can remember he in we hold up the sword, you know, and like like he became like a different person. You look exactly the same. And even his friends couldn't recognize him. It made no sense. The easiest way to get lean strength training, the easiest way to get strength training done with low risk and high effectiveness is X three. And I urge anybody to read the book in another general piece of advice is don't just follow. Understand? I always every Instagram post that I make, there's a little bit of research in there. Like it's like here's this observation. It was made in this study. Keep this in mind when you exercise or something like that. And it's so like twice a week plus twice a week. And the stories are usually the results of some of the users. But. Every week there's like something where I might say, like, cardio is not the best choice. You want to lose body fat and get a lot of incoming questions like what is? And then, you know, that conversation starts are telling just just follow the account, OK? You'll get all the information or you'll go ahead and go ahead and read the book.
Speaker2: [01:14:59] But people are way too complacent and just doing what they're told. Instead of trying to understand or ask questions, we can we can put that the politics to like. You know, we have we have people in Washington that are like, you know, just just do what we say and it's like, well, wait a minute, why? Like, I want to understand why you're making those decisions. And, oh, it turns out you all the data that you're citing that you made the decision off of was faked. So, no, we're not going to do what we're told. I like that about this country in general. I think we're better than a lot of other countries not doing what we're told and asking why somebody has a good enough reason as to why it's like, all right, well, I have no problem doing that. But why do people not want to wear masks? Because the covid. Particle is smaller than water vapor, can water vapor go through your mask, stand in front of a mirror and breathe when you're wearing a mask you see on the mirror, if, yes, the mask does nothing.
Speaker1: [01:16:06] Right. And so I love that advice that you're giving to your younger self, to people who are listening to the podcast is never give up or was asked questions. Do not be embarrassed of those questions and then understand understand why you're doing something. And I feel like you're singing kind of like my anthem that's made you never give me everything. But yeah, that's my anthem. Never give up. Always ask questions and always know why, why you're doing this. And that's me literally. So I think we're so aligned I can't wait to get my X three and become strong and just have strong bones in general and just have my body fat go down and become more lean. So I'm excited about that. So Dr. J. Where can we find you? Where can we get a copy of your book that we didn't talk about enough? But I feel like we can do a life and death and do that. Talk about the book when I get my autographed copy. That's right. I put that in a request to
Speaker2: [01:17:04] Give you an autographed hard copy. The hard copy just came in.
Speaker1: [01:17:08] Oh, you see.
Speaker2: [01:17:09] Yeah, it's really nice.
Speaker1: [01:17:10] Ok, so I'm going to get the Hixton.
Speaker2: [01:17:12] So which one is room is just Dr. Jaquiss, D.R, JHU, Uist age. But there's that's a lot to remember. There's a link to that on my landing page, which is just Dr. JD.com or the letter J dot com.
Speaker1: [01:17:29] That's perfect, and we can get the book on there as well, or where do we find the book?
Speaker2: [01:17:33] Yeah, there's no links to everything. There's links to Ostia. Strong bone density is your question to X three Bardock, if you know, it's like superior strength, superior bone, superior nutrition. So those are sort of the three product categories that are developed, products that the Vortigern, the superior nutrition. I don't really develop that kind of reappropriated it from, like I said, that that cancer of the anti wasting type protein, it's a little different because it's designed to be more anabolic. OK, but that will that will regenerate human tissue in protein synthesis. Better than anything, any food you could eat it, it's better than it's even better than steak.
Speaker1: [01:18:16] Ok, I need to get that. I need to know I'm going to be broke. I'm going to get all these things and we're going to do a live about this and talk about it. You guys, you've sold sold to the highest bidder.
Speaker2: [01:18:28] It's nothing expensive. Keep in mind, I think about a two dollar dose of fajon is as good as eating an eight ounce steak. And if somebody offers you an eight ounce steak for two dollars, don't eat it.
Speaker1: [01:18:40] No, don't eat it. Yes. So thank you so much for that. And we are ending the podcast. Thank you for being here. Thank you for sharing with us all of the amazing conversation that we had. And goodbye. What an amazing podcast. We heard Dr. James basically talk about how he is running for governor of California. We heard about NASA, how they might be using his product to help get people on Mars. And we heard about fitness and we heard about food and we had just amazing conversation. So if you like what you heard, please give this episode. Five star review, if you felt like it was valuable. Also, don't forget to check out Dr. James Instagram and I will put on the show notes in the bottom as well as write a review. It goes a long way. And if you felt like this information was impactful, it was funny. It was great. You learn something. Please feel free to share this with at least five people who, you know, would get some value out of this. So until next time. See you guys next week. Bye, guys.
In this episode of Molina podcast, Elizabeth Molina talks with Michel AERTS. Michel AERTS was born in 1957 in France. Autodidact and early globetrotter, he is also an advanced sailorman, and built 4 of his own sailing ships to go around the world. After years of travelling, he “finally settled in the USA in the 80’s to choose a spiritual path, became yoga teacher and polarity therapist in Southern California. Passionate of microbiology and cellular communication, , he created several companies in France and Madagascar in the environmental microbiology. Scientific consultant, today he helps innovative companies in the biohacking industry. Today’s topic is on the impact of EMF on our lives, what is EMF, how to protect yourself from EMF and how to block over-exposure of EMF. We’re going to discuss Comosystems products which are amazing, wireless and beautifully designed.
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Conversation Highlights:
[00:02:34] What is EMF & How did you get into it?
[00:08:16] What do you think about the fact we store information in our bodies, we’re like water – water memory.
[00:13:00] A site to visit for any relationship between EMF and pathologies: www.oscillatorium.com
Good book for EMF and biological impacts: Electromagnetic Man: Health and Hazard in the Electrical Environment (Cyril Smith)
A fun application to "see" EMF around you: (only on cellphone): Architectureofradio.com
About collagen fibers : The Rainbow and the worm (By Pr Mae Won Ho) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1679325.The_Rainbow_And_The_Worm
About EZ-water, water memory: The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor
[00:13:07] CMO MF04 Harmony – Multifunction protection for the home or for offices use MOLINA10 for discount!
[00:17:00] How EMF effects your beauty
[[00:21:10] The connection between sleep & EMF – this product changed my sleeping life for the better!
[00:22:30] Helps with inflammation of body = lose weight without doing anything
[00:25:06] The connection between beauty, fertility and EMF
[00:37:46] What does Comosystems stand for?
[00:38:49] Does CMO MF04 Harmony and your other products expire? Lasts Lifetime
[00:42:46] Biodegradable packaging you can plant in your garden!
[00:45:53] Beauty Circle – Where are you excelling in and need improvement on?
[00:51:18] What advice would you tell your younger self now?
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In this episode of Molina podcast, Elizabeth Molina talks with Amber-Lee Lyons. Amber-Lee Lyons is a Chakra and Reiki expert, your Spiritual BFF and the founder of The Chakra Girl Co., a company on a mission to make Chakra Balancing mainstream and bridging the gap between Gurus and Gucci, all with a glass of Malbec in hand. She believes you shouldn't have to compromise your love for all things material in order to be spiritual and has inspired thousands of women to tap into their chakra energy to live their glitziest lives!
Amber-Lee is attuned in Reiki and a certified level 2 Reiki Practitioner. She's studied Kundalini Yoga under Gloria Latham and uses the teachings, meditations and chakra work with her clients. Amber-Lee has developed her own form of energy healing, Chakra Activations, that utilize a combination of crystals, meditation, visualization, reiki and light-work to re-train the subconscious mind and expand the vibration of your soul to attract your desires in the physical realm. Amber-Lee's podcast, Chakra Girl Radio is an uncut look into the lives of today's influencers to share their best spiritual and lifestyle rituals that have allowed them to create glamorous lives and overcome the chaos and melt-downs that come with success. Amber-Lee is also sharing her weekly chakra tips, fav spiritual products, wild manifestations stories and reality TV updates so you too can be glam and grounded AF!
Conversation Highlights:
[00:02:12] Tell us how you got into the industry, what’s your story?
[00:06:38] What does beauty mean to you?
[00:07:43] What would you tell that girl who runs away at the thought of them being a goddess and not being they can be one?
[00:09:29] Can you share the journey it took to get you there.
[00:11:46] Was their ego death involved in this process to get over the stubbornness?
[[00:14:47] What was the AH-HA moment for you to realized this?
[00:17:35] The Beauty Circle, where you excel in and where do you need extra help in.
[00:21:46] Share with us your perfect skin food routine
[00:27:09] What would you tell your younger self now after all the work you did?
[00:31:15] What’s the craziest thing you’ve manifested?
[00:39:46] BRAG TIME!
[00:44:04] Which Kardashian were in your 20s vs which Kardashian you are TODAY?
[00:45:40] Anything else you wanna share with our listeners?
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