Failing Forward With Nikou Lohse Podcast

In this episode, Nikou talks to power couple Angela and Shawn Blymiller who create content sharing their health journey as well as the challenges of raising an autistic child.

To view Gut-Brain axis video go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcRZxd1WJ_A 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• We were always on the go and fell into the routine of eating convenience foods, but when our son was diagnosed with autism Angela did a lot of research and said we need to go gluten free and dairy free. 
• I fought it for a while, but only having one person commit to that diet is really hard. I thought it was hippy logic, but I said fine, I'll give you two weeks so I can prove you wrong and I never want to hear about it again.
• There was a lot of pain and suffering that we had to go through before we got to the diet change. 
• Feeding a toddler, there are so many meltdowns where he wants what he wants, and I needed my husband to be on board and not just feed him anything.
• I feel that we're all born with a toxic load that we can take according to your genetic makeup and the different mutations your body might have in enabling your body to detox.
• A lot of chronic illness, that's rampant in this country, is due to toxic overload.
• Adverse events are real and the slogan is that they're rare, and the CDC posts that on their advertisements all the time which is so infuriating for us as a family, because it's not rare if it happens to you.
• When you see the pain and the trauma that it causes, not just to the individual that suffers the adverse event, but the family that supports that individual.
• The pain caused by  brain inflammation from Theo's “injury” became so server that when he was almost four he was diagnosed with PANDAS (Paediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcal infections), which is an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation in his brain.
• When he had aflare it would be hours and hours of him screaming in pain and us not knowing how to help him because his brain feels like it's on fire.
• We had to do cyclical antibiotics for a while, but that destroyed his gut and his microbiome. So, we ended up doing faecal microbiota transfer.
•  70% of our immune system is housed in our gut.
• The gut brain access is so real, and we've seen that with Theo. But through doing the diet together we've got less brain fog as well. If you focus on your gut health your brain health will improve.

BEST MOMENTS

‘One week into the diet change, Theo regained eye contact and started responding to his name again, both of which he had lost after the “injury”.'

‘The blood brain barrier doesn't always fully develop until a child is two or three, it's a physical barrier that prevents toxins in your blood from going into your brain.'

‘The thing that makes us upset is that people can be so rude and dismissive.'

‘It's always the dads out there that hold everyone up, so dads, listen to this story please!'

ABOUT THE GUESTS

The Pure Family's mission and purpose is to help you take better care of yourself while providing hope and direction for your future. They want to create a community to empower parents to do more for themselves and for their kids.

Website: https://purelivingfamily.com/ 

Pure Living Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pure-living-family-podcast/id1565836396 

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VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @nikoulohse

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Gut Reset program details (email me [email protected] if you would like to join the next group, or for more information to start today on self-guided course!)

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ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: [email protected]

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

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In this episode, Nikou talks to Dr Wendie Trubow who has been through a healing journey physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and in business. They discuss how she's got to where she is today – personally and professionally – as well as the incredible things she's had to go through to get here.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I got into the field of functional medicine, prevention and toxins because I am the poster child for terrible genetics piling it on, ruining my health and being sick as a dog. I felt called to heal.
• My husband had a dream to open a multi-specialty, integrative and functional medicine centre that really pulled the best of the best and did all the best technology and functional medicine and eventually moved to a large site where we had a farm, a school and a medical centre and brought all of the best providers in the area to this place.
• We violated the three rules of business: 1) Don't grow too fast. 2) Have enough cash on hand for rainy days. 3) Don't hire jerks. In 2015, we were 7 years old, and we saw the biggest snowfall in a winter for years. Telemedicine didn't exist back then and people stopped going to the doctors. Because we didn't have enough cash saved away because we'd grown too fast, it became clear that we didn't have the right people on the team and we were closed by August the next year we were closed.
• We lost all our money and our family's money that had been invested into the business, we lost the property, and my husband declared bankruptcy. The good news was that we didn't have enough equity in our house for the court to come after because we'd leveraged it. But we lost everything else. We had to start over in our mid-40s with four children.
• The choices were to do it again or leave medicine, which didn't feel right. We did a lot of soul searching.
• My husband is an innate optimist and could never have imagined that things could have occurred the way they occurred. We went into deep conversations about what his thought processes and how it works… I was just as guilty because I allowed it to happen.
• We've now worked together for 14 years and now I'm confident to say: “I can't explain why, but something feels wrong and you need to honour it”. Every fricking time that I said it was wrong in the past, it was wrong.
• My story has two parts, the first is pre-Celiac which starts at birth. I have two genes for Celiac, I then piled on lots of 70s ‘cooked' meals and microwaved meals in the 80s, then the stress kicked in when I became an OBGYN. All of those things meant I was diagnosed with Celiac at 35, but I was sick for years.
• Part two is post-Celiac, getting the diagnosis was transformational because I stopped getting so sick. I was able to get back to a reasonable baseline and then hit peri-menopause which I chalked a lot up to that, but in reality it was actually toxic exposure. It's so hard to diagnose and heal yourself.
• The toxins are all around us and it's impossible to live on this earth without being exposed to toxins. It's not about being toxin-free, it's about minimising the impact of what we're being exposed to so that our bodies can optimally function.
• Eat like a pregnant woman all the time.
• Think about what's going in you (food, water, alcohol), what's going on you (clothing, beauty products, make up), what's going on around you (herbicides, insecticides, pesticides, what you clean your house with). Think of these as buckets and then you can start to empty those buckets. It's not about perfection but making improvements and keep improving.
• The symptoms of mould are manifold: skin issues, respiratory issues, gut issues and difficulty losing weight. Test around you and test yourself.
• If you don't fail you don't grow. It's OK to fail, from that failure comes something you won't be able to imagine, so don't give up.

BEST MOMENTS

‘At our peak we were the largest functional medicine facility in the country, which by extension means the world because America is really leading the charge in functional medicine.'

‘I'm committed to my marriage and have it be a great role model for my children.'

‘The absence of suffering is not necessarily the presence of health.'

‘Ignorance is bliss, knowledge is power, and we all land somewhere on that spectrum.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Dr Wendie Trubow is passionate about helping women optimise their health and their lives. There are so many different challenges in a woman's life – work, home, relationships, spirituality, health – and they all matter! 

Although her credentials give a solid medical backdrop to help women achieve vitality in life, her own journey gives just as much support to to methods of care. Through Wendie's struggles with mould and metal toxicity, Celiac disease, and a variety of other health issues, she has a deep sense of compassion for what women are facing when they come to her. 

When not helping patients in our practice, you can find Wendie alongside Ed and their four kids creating a beautiful ecosystem in their yard that provides nourishment to both their bodies and souls.

To learn more about her journey to health and how you can replicate what she has done, pre-order her book here: “Dirty Girl: Ditch the Toxins, Look Great, and Feel Freaking Amazing!”

Facebook: @fivejourneys 

Instagram: @5journeyshealth

Twitter:@5JourneysHealth 

Website: www.fivejourneys.com  

Free gift: www.fivejourneys.com/promo 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @nikoulohse

@elev8tedtribe

Elev8ted Tribe LIVE & on demand workouts/community:

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Gut Reset program details (email me [email protected] if would like to join next group, or for more information to start today on self-guided course!)

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ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: [email protected]

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

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In this episode, Nikou introduces season 3 of the podcast by talking to former NFL players Reggie Walker and David Carter about failing forward and how to find your best self through trials, tribulations and adversity.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Mental health is something everyone needs to maintain and suffers from from time to time.
• You become very aware that football carries a 100% injury rate, they tell you in the NFL that it's not an ‘if' thing, it's a ‘when' thing. As soon as you're thinking about not getting injured, that's your time to get out of there, because to do the job you need to be in a very special place.
• If anything's bothering you, you shouldn't be on the field. With anything other than what's in front of you on your mind you will get hurt, as soon as you hesitate.
• Any professional coach will tell you that sports are 90% mental and 10% physical. There are some monsters out there that can bench-press the world and can outrun a cheetah, but they'll be cut and out of league next week. The ones that last are the ones who have their mental down, they understand what their strategy is, what their tools are, what their weaknesses are. It's the same in life too.
• You need to be regimented, you need to know you're putting the best possible product out there. You're competing each and every day, so you need to eat right, manage your relationships in and outside of the building.
• Sports is all about relationships, the rest of the team could win without me and don't absolutely need me, but I can help to win more. So you have to be a good leader, a good follower, support people, gain their trust. You need to have a set of tools to bring to the game, not just one.
• There's a lot of weight on you because it's a game of inches and there are 53 players on a team and only 11 on the field. I've seen guys get cut because they were around the guy who made the mistake! 
• Keeping the negativity from the press, the internet and the commentators – I have a special place of dislike for those guys, when you're watching a game, you can't ever tell definitely who made a mistake in a play.
• When you tell yourself ‘I'm not gonna do this or that' you're kinda telling yourself to actually focus on these things. You need to say ‘I'm doing this solely and nothing else matters'. Meditation helps with that.
• I've always brought curiosity to what I do and get excited About exploring something different, finding out something new about yourself and seeing where that takes you.
• It's all about the setup. I've gone through a lot of abuse – mental, physical, sexual. I do belly breathing because it's hard to control thoughts popping up, but you need to get rid of those things to focus on what you need to get done. I go on a lot of walks throughout the day to think things through, sometimes I'll let the bad thoughts catch me as well sometimes and I'll sit with it and understand it because running and hiding from things can be damaging. Sometimes those things need to be processed and you need to listen to them.
• An executive is the leader of a company, you have to come up with the ideas that make the money, you have to create a healthy environment for your employees. The best way to do that is to slow your ass down, look at what you have in front of you and come up with the best solution and figure it out. A lot of people make decisions when they're too close to the fire and they get burned, take a step back and look at all the perspectives. Meditation allows you to break things down in painstaking detail.
• When I have any time to myself, as a Dad of three, I work on my breathing. You can always find a minute in a day to do this, even if it's while you're driving or in the bathroom.
• The first 27 years of my life was filled with a lot of trauma and abuse. Sports was a safe haven for me and was where I could be happy. It wasn't the healthiest thing, looking back, but it drove me.
• When I realised that I wasn't feeling better, despite getting all my emotions out on the field, I figured I needed to start with myself. Once I found that out, the chip on my shoulder disappeared and my need to play football went away and I never picked it back up.
• The shocking thing was when I opened up about my abuse, I can't remember a single other player who didn't have a similar experience, but had never opened up about it.
• A lot of star athletes who surround themselves with people that speak positively to them all the time. But the people who are the most valuable are the ones that not only tell you straight, but the ones that come with facts, the why and the because of what's actually happening. Some of the most valuable information you can get in life is also the most painful.
• We can't learn things if we can't talk about things.

BEST MOMENTS

‘As the mind goes, the body follows.'

‘We need to sculpt our ability to focus, like a muscle, so you can get the best results from what you're doing.'

‘Cutting all the noise out is really hard, which is why focus is one of the biggest abilities to have.'

‘Humans are like computers, we only have so much bandwidth. You need to focus on what you want to create whether in sports or business.'

ABOUT THE GUESTS

Reggie Walker: Grew up a military brat.  Had the blessing of living in situations where I was a minority, part of the majority population, situations where I had money, and situations where we were so poor we had to get food from the church.  All of these different circumstances aided in creating a very unique perspective in taking on the world.

Also, from the age of 4 to 12 I experienced getting molested by a family friend.  Growing up as well as my experience In the sports realm I experienced a lot of physical, mental, and emotional abuse as well.  These unfortunate events had a profound impact on my mental well being.

To combat the effects of my trauma I funnelled all my feelings and emotions into sports.  Sports became a saving grace in dealing with a mind filled with toxicity from the trauma I experienced.  Sports became an environment in which I excelled, leading me to be a top high school football player, a college football starter, and eventual NFL athlete and team captain of 7 years.

In retirement, my journey of healing has led me to two stays at a treatment facility where I created the Personal Mastery School, a program built to help anyone find answers to how to find themselves, their purpose, and a plan.  Using all the knowledge from my experiences, strategies that have helped me as well as others succeed in horrible environments, as well as knowledge from therapy, I put the Personal Mastery School together as an answer to questions I have known many of us as having in dealing with life and leading a good, successful, productive life.  

I have also become a mental, physical, and sexual abuse survivor advocate, Tedx speaker, public speaker, consultant, connector, and problem solver for individuals and businesses.  With my unique perspective from my varied experiences I have found myself to be of value in many different environments as a problem solver.

My goal is to help those who don't have guidance learn the essentials to guiding themselves towards their dreams and goals, find peace and confidence within themselves, learn the techniques to being a master strategist in their own lives in dealing with issues or problems, have the knowledge and system of effectively solving problems in their own lives, and be equipped with the knowledge to plan with an emphasis on fluidity.  I want others to learn all these skills more so they can win the battle against their biggest enemy themselves and the unknown to move with confidence and tenacity towards their life mission.

David Carter: From football to food justice, David Carter aka the 300 Pound Vegan. Born in Los Angeles, CA, David began his commitment to strength and success on the football field playing college football at his alma mater UCLA, and ultimately the National Football League. David played for major teams including the Arizona Cardinals, Chicago Bears, and Dallas Cowboys. During his professional football career David discovered the other side of pro sports; injuries, prescription medication, and excessive eating to maintain 300 plus pounds on his 6' 6” frame. One fateful evening, watching the documentary Forks Over Knives changed his personal and professional life. David abandoned meat and dairy, and embraced a vegan lifestyle.

For the past three years and counting David has used his NFL connections to spread the word about his mission to build awareness and educate the masses living in “food deserts” globally. “Food deserts” are defined as areas deprived of fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthful whole foods due to a lack of grocery stores, farmers' markets, and healthy food providers. David spoke of “Oppression in the food system” at many universities around the world including Harvard, Penn State, NYU, UCLA and more. David is also a film producer and participant in leading NETFLIX documentaries Game Changers (including James Cameron, Bill Clinton, etc.) and What The Health.

Plant Based Athlete, Former NFL Food Justice Activist,Wilhelmina Model David has a multi-tiered career in food justice activism, film production, modelling (Wilhelmina Modelling Agency), public speaking, and music festival production. David has received press placements from; CNBC, Sports Illustrated, NFL Network, The New York Times, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times and other media outlets. Now David has moved his skills to Entrepreneurial, and Business Development working with Light Grove LLC.

GUEST RESOURCES

Instagrams:

@iamdavidhcarter

@rwalk56

LinkedIN:

Reggie Walker

David Carter

The Game within the Game book https://amzn.to/3GmWJmt 

TedX talk: https://youtu.be/JTanRQMitV0 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @nikoulohse

@elev8tedtribe

Elev8ted Tribe LIVE & on demand workouts/community:

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Gut Reset program details (email me [email protected] if you would like to join the next group, or for more information to start today on self-guided course!)

now.nikoulohse.com

ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: [email protected]

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In this episode, Nikou shares her show with The Cosmic Love Antenna podcast, hosted by Harrison Maegher. Their conversation about love and energy reflects the mission statements of both podcasts, hence the simulcast.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• A big part of The Cosmic Love Antenna podcast is about love in everything that we do. This is where we first connected, in seeing love in everything.
• You reflect the idea of building a powerful community.
• From the age of 0 to 7 is where the subconscious mind is being programmed. Every experience and every relationship informs your future character.
• Children watch everything, my son mimics the words I use. If I speak lovingly, he speaks lovingly, if I yell, he yells. They soak us up like a sponge, we establish a lot of their belief systems. It's our job as adults to be very aware of the energy that we bring when we talk to a child. Don't be angry when they do something wrong.
• I had incredible opportunities given to me because my parents wanted me to have a better life than they did. But through some things I witnessed and experienced I became an emancipated minor in my early teens and lived on my own and supported myself while I was at school.
• At that time I was eating poor foods and poor foods wreaked havoc on your internal system – the energetic, emotional and mental being. Damaging the gut affects every other aspect of your system because the gut is connected to everything. It affects your mood, thoughts, ability to make clear decisions, and confidence.
• I was literally full of poop, I was not eliminating. I got pent up and wasn't releasing. I felt anxious and like I had no control and that caused depression. 
• Each chakra has a masculine and a feminine side. Getting shit done and not letting go or receiving is a masculine energy. Look at the balance in your life from a gut perspective, where can you release and rest?
• I became fearful of eating because it was making me bloated and I was modelling so that wouldn't go down well. I became fearful of food. The bloating then became acne, which became cystic acne, which became depression because I didn't like the way I looked, that led me to anxiety as I did more to become accepted. The bad bacteria built up in my gut and I got SIBO (small intestine bacterial overgrowth) and even when I was eating healthy food I was bloating until I looked like I was 5 months pregnant.
• It took doctors 18 years to diagnose my CIBO. You can either take three weeks of antibiotics or do what I did, which was create a protocol that includes nutrition, exercise and mindfulness. Within 5 weeks I healed myself of CIBO.
• The attracting of negative vibrations makes us feel like the victim. But you're attracting it so you can see it within you and come to a state of health. Once we can see where we're at, we can start to move forward.
• I'm always asked what are the keys to success and selling a successful business. It's three things: attitude, mentality and work ethic. You don't have to work really hard all day, you just need to be willing to do the things others won't. But you won't get there if you don't have the work ethic to form new habits.
• The best coach, practitioner that we have is inside of us and when it speaks we should listen. Not every ‘diet' works for every human being. It's about your context and what your body needs at the moment. It's all changeable, you shouldn't make it your lifestyle.
• Get out in nature and into the sun in as little clothes as possible, the vitamin D will give you a sense of security, safety, support, self-care and self-love that you need as a foundation upon which the rest of your body thrives. There's a direct correlation between being able to get out in the sun and your mood.
• We have no control over the past, obsessing over the past leads to depression… though the future leads to anxiety!
• What we don't heal in ourselves, we pass on to others. This is why we get depressed when we spend time around depressive people. But you need to look at what you're feeling and why and where you're feeling it. It's likely this is triggering something in you that you also need to heal. These are hallmarks of something that's passed down generationally.

BEST MOMENTS

‘One of the places in the body where the ego is formed is in the gut – the solar plexus.'

‘If you've shifted out of an unpleasant childhood, standing in this power brings a lot of new elements and opportunities. But everything needs balance, not enough power or too much requires balance.'

‘Years of surviving and living in flight or fight meant that I wasn't resting from the age of 15-27. I wasn't sleeping or digesting.'

‘Shame and guilt vibrate at the lowest frequency, the universe gives back the same vibrations to you.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Harrison Meagher is a Personal Trainer and Holistic Health Coach from Coffs Harbour, Australia, whose goal is to provide you with all the tools needed to heal through chronic pain, trauma and DIS-EASE by connecting you back to a true sense of Holistic SELF-LOVE.

His podcast, The Cosmic Love Antenna, sets the intention and holds the foundation of creating a much-needed conversation around combining holistic inner self-connection and outward loving expression. From spiritual depths, emotional feelings, mental structures, and physical rejuvenation come connected into your holistic self-love, pull back the layers restricting alignment/health, and let me walk you home to your powerful loving light.

GUEST RESOURCES

Website: https://www.harrisonmeagher.com/ 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @nikoulohse

@elev8tedtribe

Elev8ted Tribe LIVE & on demand workouts/community:

https://app.heymarvelous.com/elev8tedtribe/buy/product/13842

Gut Reset program details (email me [email protected] if I would like to join the next group, or for more information to start today on self-guided course!)

now.nikoulohse.com

ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: [email protected]

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Nikou broadcasts from Clubhouse and talks to Credit Ninja, who works with celebrities, high-level executives and professional athletes on repairing and unleashing the power of their credit.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• In 2008 I ran a tech company and it was going under because of lack of funding and low risk appetite in the market and I had to leave my CEO position. People were losing their homes.
• My bank account got frozen so I started living off credit cards to get through the month. After months of this I owed $165,000 and I got a federal lawsuit filed against me. It wasn't a good feeling defending myself in federal court with no attorney, I had to learn to be my own attorney for three and a half years.
• I finally got retribution and was released from the lawsuit and was left with nothing.
• When you're at the deepest, darkest part of your life and there's no way for you to pay the bills, and your house is being foreclosed on, what do you do? I wanted to climb the highest building in Las Vegas and jump off, but I didn't have the credit card to book the hotel room!
• I started selling my clothes and purses and eating 15 cent packets of ramen noodles. I had to decide do I put fuel in my car or food in my mouth.
• When you get to the top after being at rock bottom you have a responsibility to help others.
• I think of credit cars as a float through. If you buy something on there you'd better have a plan to pay it off as soon as possible. Make sure you're doing it to harvest the credit points as a by-product. Ask if the purchase is making you money?
• If you open a credit card or store card over Christmas and you forget about it, it will damage your credit. Be organised and aware.
• Health is the new wealth and wealth is the new health. If you don't mange both you'll have an issue. If you don't pay attention to it it'll leave you, same goes for friendships, relationships, health and wealth.
• Knowing how to play the game, knowing the rules and when to have a debt at the right time. Make sure you have $0 on there on the day the bank reports and then start spending on it again before paying off by the next report date.
• If you're born poor it's not your fault, but dying poor is your fault. There are so many resources and ways to connect with successful people who give back their time and knowledge to help you.
• There's always something to learn from others, be a sponge.
• Because I travel to meet people a lot, and have a lot of meetings, diet is important. Before being the Credit Ninja I was a Pre-Med so I know what I'm talking about.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Life sometimes hands you a purpose, you can't choose it.'

‘When you don't have any finances you learn to be resourceful.'

‘Interest does kill you.'

‘What comes in must go out, it's a flow.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Credit Ninja started working a safe job in corporate finance. At least until the housing market crashed in 2008. Credit Ninja's job dissolved as she became a victim of fraud. In short, Credit Ninja's world stopped spinning. She lost more than $20 million. The bank took her home and her bank accounts were frozen. After a 4-year lawsuit fuelled by meagre poker winnings and ramen noodles, Credit Ninja's credit was wrecked.

Yet, Credit Ninja fought day-by-day to protect and build her life back up, and she did. Over the following months she went from the low 400s well past the 800 range. Her close friends and colleagues took notice. One by one, Credit Ninja shared her credit “cheat codes”. She helped them master the credit game to get the business funds, car loans, house loans, and even executive travel “hacks” as only a true Credit Ninja can. And the name stuck!

That's why today Credit Ninja goes beyond credit repair alone. Credit Ninja's passion is sharing the big picture of true wealth, by using credit as a wealth-building tool.

Website: https://www.creditninjamentor.com/

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @nikoulohse

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ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: [email protected]

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In this episode, Nikou speaks to Dr Janie Lacy, a master in her field of working with women with adolescents, marriages and families overcome trauma, anger, conflict resolution and helping them find joy and a place of unity. They talk about her journey to where she is today as well as giving tips on how you can have better quality relationships, better communication and how to manage toxic emotions like anger.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• A lot of us weren't taught to feel. My Dad was an alcoholic and my Mom wasn't raised by her mother. So, they bought a lot of trauma when they had children. Us children were seen and not heard. Then in your 20s you don't know who you are, how you're feeling or how to react to situations.
• I find a lot of women – and men – if we don't have a template, and we try to enter a relationship, we don't know who we are and it makes a mess.
• Women don't ask for what they want in relationships, business and life because subconsciously we don't feel like we deserve it. This can sabotage things when people are really showing up to be there for us or compliment us. We push them away and expect them to chase us and then when they don't we wonder what's wrong with them?!
• A lot of women end up in the same kinds of relationships where they're treated less than they deserve. What we find on a healing journey is that there's some reflection of how we really feel about yourself. We expect people to treat us better than we treat ourselves when 69% of our own thoughts about ourselves are negative.
• I ask people to make a list of who they want to be in a relationship with and then ask them to list the kinds of person those people would want to be attracted to. Usually, it's not the person making the list!
•  The friends I had at school I had to avoid the pain at home. My Dad was dealing drugs out of the house, my sister was in a toxic, abusive relationship and I found my grandmother dead when I was 12. I ran track, played basketball, I became a hustler because I didn't want to become like the women in my family, reliant on men.
• My biggest mission is to help people enter their purpose and the process of entering God's plan for them. In the process of looking at how I saw myself really determined how I was going to see my future. Being able to know that there was more for me, even though I couldn't see it (which is what we call Faith). My friends were pivotal people in my life to get me to where I am now.
•  I was running away because I knew what I didn't want but I didn't know what I wanted yet until I had my own life tragedy. After being married for 12 years I realised I'd married my father, my husband had addictions, but I got pregnant and that's what made me realise there was something greater for me to run towards. I left my husband when my son was 10 months old because I saw what I was becoming.
• Right now I'm running towards that  every single person that I interact with is better due to my presence. I'm breaking generational legacy, curses, building a foundation for my son to be who God wants him to be and I now have peace of mind. Peace is priceless.
• I see in women sometimes hyper-independence at our own detriment. There are many women working in corporations, but when that all goes away they don't know who they are.
• It's not their fault, but many women will contribute to the demise of their relationships than they will even take ownership for. It's hard for women to step into their vulnerability.
• When I had my child, I was scared I would lose my life because it seemed I was losing my freedom to do what I wanted. I couldn't name my fear at the time. But we have to name it and then build a support system, with no Mommy guilt. I got nannies and babysitters and cameras in my house so I can check up on him. You can still do all the things you want to do while being a Mom. It's not and/or, it's both.
• Sometimes we make decisions based on social norms that are wrong, like mothers having to be housewives and homemakers to the detriment of your health and relationships.
• How do you feel when you say “no”? Are you justifying them? This could be a sign you're codependent and putting other people's needs before our own. This won't serve us as wives, mothers, friends, business partners, etc.
• The very thing that we struggle with is sometimes the very thing we're still suffering from, like including the quiet person in a group because that's who you've been or still feel you are.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Healing is so important to everyone's life.'

‘I didn't know what I didn't know. We need more tools to understand our own stories. We have to make sense of it first.'

‘If you look in the mirror and think “I don't know her”, how do you expect someone else to know her?'

‘I knew there was more to life than where I grew up. I've always asked “how can I get that” rather than worry about the barriers.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Dr Janie Lacy, LMHC, NCC, CSAT-S is a Licensed Relationship Trauma Psychotherapist who has over fifteen years of experience in the field of relationship trauma. She is also a faculty member with the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals and an entrepreneur who took her counselling business from a solo practice to a group specialty practice. Dr Janie helps women overcome toxic relationships.  She's the creator of Woman Redeemed, an intensive experiential group experience that uses proven therapy strategies to start women on their healing journey.

GUEST RESOURCES

https://linktr.ee/JanieLacy
www.JanieLacy.com
Woman Redeemed Monthly Program :https://bit.ly/3IkFbc8

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @nikoulohse

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ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD
Email: [email protected]

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Nikou speaks to one of her life mentors, David Meltzer, whose sports agency (Leigh Steinberg Sports & Entertainment) inspired the film Jerry Maguire. He is now co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing which tried to recruit Nikou when she was doing B2B and B2C marketing a few years ago. The pair talk about David's goal to empower one billion people to encourage each other to be happy.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The three key ingredients to the pragmatic world of happiness are: make a lot of money, help a lot of people and have a lot of fun. You can reconcile this with the spiritual world as well by having faith.
• I never lacked love from my mother and my grandmother as a child, but I did have a keen interest in being rich. It was the only thing missing in my life, the only area of scarcity.
• Motivation is very important and is a lot different to inspiration, motivation always got me up, back up, started and restarted. I got my butt kicked again and again in life – physically, mentally, emotionally, financially – and all the lessons I've taken from that led to a world of more than enough.
• By my mid-30s not only was I was a multi-millionaire, but I had access to things billionaires could afford: Throwing out first pitches, standing on the sidelines at the Super Bowl, and I had the money, and I had my dream girl… but I wasn't happy.
• My motivation for money when I was young was originally to help my Mom and then to help everyone else. Although I had the right intentions, I went from living in a world of not enough, where I was a victim of things that happened to me, to a world of just enough where I wanted to give everything in order to receive back, in a zero-sum game. Economics always dictates my self-value.
•  When you appreciate what you have it adds value to it, to acknowledge what you have, you have to lose it, give it away, have it stolen, manipulated or removed from us. What's left is a bigger space created by the fact the universe is constantly expanding and we have expanded with it. Most people then don't ask for more and they dissipate and dissolve back to relying on other people for their health and wealth.
• Appreciation is one thing, acknowledgement is easy. We live in a world of abundance, therefore it is your duty to ask for more. You can't be a resource unless you wish or ask for more.
• Don't just think it, say it, do it, and believe it, but we need to feel it. Feel what it's going to be like to own that home, to have a mutually beneficial loving relationship with your dream boy or girl. Feel it because it's already done, you're already happy, healthy and wealthy. What are you doing that's interfering with it?
• Gratitude is the only common denominator of happy people. It's impossible to be happy without gratitude.
• Coherence of gratitude is the ability to remember and do. Despite the fact it takes 0.1 seconds to say “thank you”, most of us – even I – will forget to say it and appreciate it. 
•  The first and last thought of every day is “thank you”.
• My tomorrow starts today in an unwinding routine that starts at 9pm, I put my mind and soul in a position of recovery and access. I awake at 4am with thanks and gratitude in my mind, into theta meditation, elevating my vibration to be aware of more so I can utilise and download what I received the night before. Every day I start at a higher self, closer to my potential.

BEST MOMENTS

‘I began with a lot of love in a lot of poverty.'

‘Nine months out of law school I was a millionaire. Lots of people would consider that a success, but it was failing forward.'

‘I didn't appreciate what I had, in fact I took for granted what I had wished for my whole life.'

‘I'm the king of gratitude.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

David Meltzer is the Co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing and formerly served as CEO of the renowned Leigh Steinberg Sports & Entertainment agency, which was the inspiration for the movie Jerry Maguire.

His life's mission is to empower OVER 1 BILLION people to be happy! This simple yet powerful mission has led him on an incredible journey to provide one thing…VALUE. In all his content and communication that's exactly what you'll receive.  

He is a three-time international best-selling author, a Top 100 Business Coach, the executive producer of Entrepreneur‘s #1 digital business show, Elevator Pitch, and host of the top entrepreneur podcast, The Playbook. His newest book, Game-Time Decision Making, was a #1 new release, David has been recognized by Variety Magazine as their Sports Humanitarian of the Year and awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honour.

GUEST RESOURCES

Website: https://dmeltzer.com/ 

Text community: 9492982905

Email: [email protected] 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @nikoulohse

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ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD
Email: [email protected]

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode Nikou speaks to Bobby Del Rio who works in the TV and film industry. He became super famous in his native Canada recently when he secured a deal with a Hollywood producer through Clubhouse. The conversation starts off about Bobby's career but he soon turns the tables on Nikou and proposes an opportunity for her.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I originally went to school for economics before acting school, I was going to go into finance. I was a Math guy, I'm a really big dork.
• The most underrated aspect of being a professional performer is the mental aspect. People think it's about looking good and memorising lines, but most of that is easy, the difficult part is the grind and managing the uncertainty.
• I've had a good pandemic, career-wise, and the reason is that I'm pretty good at navigating uncertainty. Even from a financial perspective, I'm so used to the most volatile things happening that I had prepared for these conditions 10 years ago, just out of paranoia – I saved a lot of money, paid off all my debts just in case something happened where I wouldn't have an income for two years and still be fine. Then the pandemic hit.
• If anything, I doubled down during the pandemic, giving myself more projects, more possibilities than ever before because I'm always prepared for the worst-case scenario.
• I can very clearly identify the greatest accomplishments in my career at the time and compare them to my worst personal failures. I don't know why that is, if I'm reframing the narrative, but it's so pronounced that it's almost a joke to me: professional success – personal failure, constantly.
• The pandemic year has been the hardest personal years of my entire life. I had many disastrous things happen. Great things were happening to me and I was supposed to be elated but my heart was broken.
• I hope this changes over time and I wonder if I'm doing this subconsciously.
• Since I got divorced six years ago a negative pattern has emerged that was not present for, I don't know if it's the kind of women that I've dated or my approach to dating, but something fundamentally shifted in my after the divorce where I haven't had a healthy relationship since – not throwing anybody under the bus or blaming them.
• When I find a woman I like I try to focus on her and making it work – I'm a one woman person – but again I feel like I'm unable to make it work and that's frustrating, but I keep moving forward and failing forward.
• I was studying commerce and the University of Toronto doing economics, accounting, calculus, etc and I became so unhappy doing it that I stopped attending my classes and skipped months of school at the time.
• I took improve classes where I would show up 10 minutes before the start of rehearsals at night. I thought, it's not that I'm incapable of honouring commitments, it's that I'm unwilling. The show was called ‘The Bob Goes to Hollywood', which is so funny now that I think about it. I've never said that out loud before.
• That made me realise that acting was what I wanted to do.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS

‘The link between sports psychology and success in the film and television industry are exactly the same.'

‘I struggle deeply with maintaining a balance between work and relationships.'

‘With dating apps, people don't like to fight things out anymore, they just give up on it.'

‘Ladies: If you're listening or watching this podcast and, just like in Nikou's family, you feel the need to drive to Canada to meet me, do it.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Bobby Del Rio has a 20+ year career in the film & television industry.

He has been interviewed over 400+ times, and recently became national news in Canada for getting an agent in Hollywood from the social audio app Clubhouse. He has become one of the top social audio influencers in the world. 

He secured a distribution deal for The Market during the pandemic, a feature film Bobby wrote/directed. Currently available on Amazon Prime in the US & UK. 

Upcoming: Bobby plays TOMMY in several episodes of “Poly is the New Monogamy”, created by Cat Hostick. 

GUEST RESOURCES

Clubhouse and Instagram: @bobbydelrio
Twitter: @Bobman 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]
Instagram: @nikoulohse
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ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: [email protected]

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Nikou speaks to Melani Ismail who – like Nikou – is the wife of an athlete, so shares some of the same experiences of being associated with her husband first in most people's minds. Nikou invites Melani on to the show to tell us who she is, how she lived before meeting her husband, while her husband was playing and now he's retired, how she has come into herself.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I was a very good barber in LA, which got me into the entertainment world, especially the music space. I wanted to get into A&R and worked alongside P Diddy.
• I met my husband after 5 years of grinding in the business when I met my husband. I was 23 years old and within 8 months we were married. It was the most shocking PTSD moment in my life. Neither of us was really ready for something so big.
• Within a year, I was pregnant and the Raiders moved location, so it was just me and my son. Then, 3 months after that, he got traded to Carolina which was a major move away from family and friends.
• 3 years later we moved again when he joined the Cowboys. I was about to have our third baby. The football playing days were just one constant blur of moving while having babies every 20 months.
• At 32 years old, a year before his contract was coming to and end, he broke his neck on the field and was paralysed. It was rough. He did regain use of his limbs, but it had aftereffects.
• I started a record label in Texas, but my timing was terrible because we were supposed to release an album with him on it the week he broke his neck. I felt responsible for my employees' wellbeing, but we needed to focus on his recovery.
• I wasn't always there for my kids when I was trying to rebuild the record label, I was happy building my business but miserable because I was missing my kids growing up, or tucking them in.
• All my kids are incredible entrepreneurs, they watched what I was doing all those years.
• Then, when I was just about to release our second album my Dad died. That was God's way of saying “you're not listening to yourself right now, you're concerned about everybody else, but you're suffering”.
• Nobody likes to feel invisible, no matter who you're married to. We all want validation, to be seen and respected.
• I feel the pain and trauma now more than I did back then, because I had to just keep going.
• I pray tat if any woman goes through that that God gives you the grace to get through it and he'll comfort you whenever you need to grieve.
• Guys go through a lot when they retire and all of a sudden they don't have the camaraderie that they had when playing sport. He went into a dark, isolating space. Luckily the NFL now reaches out to retired footballers and reintroduces them as a support network.
• I knew that somewhere I wasn't addressing my purpose, I wasn't fulfilled. So, I started going to conferences (business and religious) and nothing felt good. So I fasted and shut myself away for 30 days. At the end of it I asked myself what I really want to do. I thought I want a church, but a fun church. The Fun Factory is faith based, but working with children to find what's fun for them.
• In 2018 one of the kids in our neighbourhood shot another one. I cried for most of 2018. We lost three kids to gun crime in 2018, none of whom were really into any kind of trouble.
• Watching my son's mental health spiral because of his friends dying was the impetus to start up the Fun Factory. It's the most rewarding work I've ever done in my life, despite having to go through all that pain.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS

‘I had a plan of what my life was going to be, but I had to put everything down to follow him and whatever he did became my life and what I did.'

‘I look back over that time and I was in the thick of it, just surviving.'

‘It wasn't easy, laid back, enjoying a lot of money, it was traumatic for the both of us.'

‘Sometimes the trials that you're put through make you who you are.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Melani Ismail is a Conceptual Visionary. She is consistently cultivating her artistic reach through business ventures including music, literature, film, and television. She has executive produced music and film projects as well as consulting for Artists, media personalities and entertainment start-ups.

Melani speaks to a variety of audiences on various topics related to business, entertainment and personal development.

Melani is the wife of retired Football Legend, Raghib “Rocket” Ismail. They are the proud parents of four amazing children. She and her husband recently launched a non profit, The Fun Factory to provide a fun learning environment to serve the needs of the young entrepreneurial community through music, film/television, the arts and technology.    

GUEST RESOURCES

Websites: www.melaniismail.com & www.funfactoryint.org

Instagram @melaniismail

Course: www.livewithmelani.com

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

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ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: [email protected]

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode Nikou speaks to Joy Farley, a real estate broker who specialised in new construction out of Charlotte, North Carolina. Joy and Nikou met on Clubhouse a year ago and this podcast is a chance for them to get to know each other a little better.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I am the ‘friend collector', I meet someone and can connect with them right off the bat. When I hear your voice, I know your spirit.
• Despite being an entrepreneur, I grew up under the poverty line, me and my six bother and sisters were home-schooled by our Mom.
• My parents always gave us everything that they could give, not just monetary. We all went to college, one of my brothers in inn the NFL, another is a great dancer and the dean of a school in Los Angeles.
• I went to college wanting to be a business major, so I could walk into an office in a pencil skirt and stilettos until I took a psychology class and found I wanted to help people. Then I realised the there was a lot of number-crunching involved and I ended up in real estate by accident after everything fell apart at the last minute.
• My parents had never owned a home, I knew nothing about construction or sales, but I had people skills.
• Authenticity is a buzzword now, but my Mom was always telling things as they were and people see things in people like that makes them want to help. It's a superpower.
• Don't be embarrassed to struggle. We all do, that's what makes us human.
• When you grow up seeing sacrifice and authenticity, you see things can't always be solved with money, sometimes it's giving time, resources or energy.
• When you can show up and people can hear your heart and they don't have to guess what you're really like, you're actually like you are on social media in real life, that's the best. Real people are attracted to real people.
• Instead of apologising all the time, say thank you.
• I might not always have money, but I'll never be a poor person. I'll always have something to give, even if it's just a smile.
• I'm always looking around to see people's needs and trying to meet them. Givers always gain. Every time you give your heart fills up, especially if you know what it's like to be on the receiving end.
• In real estate, referrals are life. If you know someone who's looking for a home they shouldn't be looking anywhere but me. People want to work with YOU because no one can do what YOU do or bring what YOU bring to the table.
• I used to have a mental picture of what success looked like and to be taken serious in business. Recently I've thrown all of that out the window and have started wearing what I want and bringing all of myself to work. It's a win-win because when you're being yourself you become a person people want to be friends with not buy something from. Things don't have to be a struggle.
• Life doesn't have to be a struggle to be successful. Don't feel guilty if things feel easy compared to the struggles you've had in the past.
• When you start the day genuinely happy in the morning you do great work. People want to be around happy people.
• There's a difference between happiness and joy; life can take away your happiness because it's based on the happenings around you, but joy is on the inside and it's contagious, and you can choose to be joyful.
• I want to constantly be learning about new things. Be in conversations with people who are ahead of you and read books.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS

‘There's something about colour that intrinsically makes us happier.'

‘As I get older, I recognise the sacrifices my parents made for their children.'

‘I've always been divinely positioned to be where I need to be.'

‘If I've got something, you've got it.'

GUEST RESOURCES

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VALUABLE RESOURCES

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ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

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Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

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