In this episode Nikou speaks to Jodie Ellenor, an expert in holistically helping heal anxiety and is here to answer questions some of us have about anxiety and how to deal with it, including having a hard time during the pandemic, the end of the year and the holidays.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I lived in Tanzania for a year and a half a long time ago and picked up a gut issue that I couldn't resolve. When I came back to Canada, I thought I'd be able to have it treated, but that's not what happened and I started to get anxiety about it.
• It turned out I had a parasite which was causing chronic loose stool. I was told it was IBS but I knew it was a parasite. It took 8 years to get answers.
• It was disappointing for me not to have an answer because you don't know how to heal.
• Women are told it's all in their mind, especially when we're dealing with anxiety. Physical symptoms are being labelled as a mind problem and so we end up second-guessing ourselves and not understanding there is a root cause that they can heal.
• If we're not absorbing the proper nutrients, if we have leaky gut, that's going to cause inflammation in the brain and cause leaky brain as well. That will affect neurotransmitter production which will lead directly into experiences of anxiety.
• Copper deficiency is something a lot of women suffer from. Levels naturally raise during pregnancy and if you can't detox copper properly after pregnancy you're going to start feeling super-anxious and copper-toxic.
• Oestrogen-dominance is something you can test for. If you've been on birth control for two years or more your body's had an experience of feeling like it's oestrogen-dominated. The body will store copper, which is stored in the brain and the liver and simulates the adrenal glands which is where we respond to stress.
• My copper was three times higher than the test would measure and I thought well it seems like we might have found a reason that I feel like I'm going crazy!
• Traditional medicine is not going to help, they look for disease and copper toxicity and leaky gut is not a disease. They're looking for serious medical conditions. Their secondary role is to eliminate symptoms without asking the why. So, if you want a different level of testing you have to go to somebody who does that.
• We look at imbalances – before they're at a disease state – so you need to go to a functional medicine practitioner that runs functional lab testing.
• Hair testing looks for copper toxicity. Most labs wash the hair though, I don't because some minerals are washed out.
• You have to really understand the patterns around hair testing and go to someone who's really well trained.
• I saw three functional medicine practitioners before somebody picked up that mould was a big part of my issue.
• I was living in an apartment that I thought was haunted until I moved out and I realised there was water damage to the walls. I didn't see the mould, but I put the pieces together that I was susceptible to the mould because I wasn't healthy to begin with.
• When you remove wisdom teeth and root canal you can get cavitation in the hole where the tooth was which is tissue growing in the jaw bone, which stops you healing as well.
• I get asked is this going to work and am I wasting my time with this? The answer is, it takes time and you might have to go to different practitioners who treat different things. Each one will help you on your journey.
• Healing is like Jenga, you can pull blocks and nothing happens, but one time you'll pull a block and everything falls down. 
• You can be on supplements and medication for life if you don't tackle the root cause.
• The biggest thing I'd like to share is hope. I know what it feels like to not have hope of healing, but the answers are out there.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS

‘If you don't have a reason something's happening you start to feel like you're going crazy which feeds the anxiety.'

‘No one can have a worm living in them and not feel anxious.'

‘There might not be anything external that's triggering and yet we might feel like we're on a rollercoaster.'

‘It took three practitioners and about six years to figure out what was going on with me.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Jodie is an anxiety expert extraordinaire. She is on a mission to help women heal anxiety holistically so they can spend more time enjoying life and less time fearing it. She helps women eliminate worry, racing thoughts, panic attacks, concentration challenges, and sleepless nights. Not only does she explore the mindset factors that lead to anxiety, but she also uses functional lab testing. She combines her training as a therapist, functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner, and yoga instructor to truly offer a mindbody approach to healing.

Jodie became passionate about functional medicine through her own health journey. She spent 15 years seeking answers to gut issues and anxiety after living in Africa. When she isn't talking about anxiety, you will find Jodie outdoors. She has a love affair with nature and is an avid photographer. She also fell in love with surfing during a trip to Costa Rica, though she usually ends up under the waves more often than she rides them.

GUEST RESOURCES

Website: https://go.healingjourneyservices.com/5ways-1 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/HealingJourneyServices  

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. 

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In this episode, Nikou speaks to actor, comedian, host and voice-over artist Eric Artell who shares his empowering story of failing forward to get where he is in life today. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Actors have experienced more failure than anyone else you've ever met. Imagine if 99% of the times you've tried to do something you've been told “no”. That's what being an actor is like.
• I have friends that are massive stars who appear on busses and billboards, and they are not satisfied. You would think that whatever line of work you're in the pinnacle would be to be the star of the movie, having your own show, being the Supreme Court Justice. A lot of people who achieve this need something else on the side to satisfy themselves.
• When I was young, I thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but certain things happened in my life that I believe steered me to what I'm doing now. For example, I was told being a lawyer was all about reading not convincing a judge and jury that my client was innocent.
• I then chose economics because I like playing with numbers, then I started interviewing with consulting firms and investment banks and realised it was not what I wanted to do. Money doesn't motivate me that much. It didn't justify the terrible journey that was laid out in from of me.
• Sometimes the perception of the acting world is it's full of terrible people and it'll chew you up and spit you out. I thought, who says you can't be a good person and an actor?
• It's not a failure if you don't use your degree. Gaining the degree still taught you something and gave you tools that will help you excel in whatever you go on to do.
• Discovering improvisation was a big thing for me as well, not just as an actor but as a person. It can help in work, business and in relationships as well.
• Improve is the study of creation, it's not just acting without a script or making something up on the spot. It's the study of development and construction.
• “Yes, and…” is a lifechanging principle when you apply it to your life. It means you accept what has been offered to you and then you constructively add to it. The opposite is “no, but…” which derails the conversation.
• Don't immediately shoot down an idea, say “yes, and we can put this on top of it” and then someone else can “yes, and…” it. This works in business and relationships too, not just in improvisational comedy.
• Where the magic happens is that as you start doing this you condition you brain to be constructive, which relates so well to failing forward because when you apply the principle of “yes, and …” to a situation where you feel like you've failed you accept it and then ask what you can now do from there rather than deny it.
• When it comes to making genuine relationship, you should be respectful of others and cultivating those relationships in a genuine way. Being that way has had a huge effect on my journey.
• Some people don't realise they're burning bridges. You can see it happen sometimes in the way they treat others. No one will want to work with that person again and you never know where those people who you're disrespecting will end up. Treat everyone with respect and be enjoyable to work with because you never know when that will help you further down the path.
• Something else you learn in improv is just jumping in and doing it. We lose your sense of wonder and play as we grow out of childhood and we started to question and doubt ourselves and improv brings that playfulness back.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Failing is one of my favourite topics to talk about!'

‘Life is so little bout the destination and so much about the journey.'

‘One of the most basic, fundamental principles of improv is “Yes, and…”'

‘Using improv trains your brain to react to things in the same way as training your body to react to physical things.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Eric Artell is an actor, comedian, and host from New Jersey. After studying Economics, the acting bug was too strong, and he began acting professionally while in Salt Lake City. His first professional job came with a role in the independent feature "Net Worth" opposite Daniel Baldwin. Since making the move to Los Angeles, he's guest starred on a variety of TV shows (Scrubs, Monk, Zoey 101) and starred in dozens of national commercials (and even hugged Smokey Bear). Eric has also been the Host for numerous shows, including America's Funniest Videos' (AFV) digital series "Have You Seen This" and PBS' Emmy-Award-winning science show "DragonFly TV".

Off-camera Eric has lent his voice to video games, radio and TV spots, and animated shows. He's also been teaching and performing improv comedy for over a decade after studying with LA's the Groundlings.

He resides north of Los Angeles with his family, and he enjoys in his free time (if he ever has any!) playing sports (basketball, golf, tennis, softball, soccer, ping pong, you name it), reading, and napping.

GUEST RESOURCES

Website: https://improvwizards.com/  https://school.improvwizards.com/course?courseid=yesandyourself 

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 Teri Tkachuk, a serial entrepreneur with many previous careers who was born and raised in Canada but has lived in nine cities across North America, she's travelled all around the globe – you name it, she's been there and done all the things while not losing her shine and burning out.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• If you walk into a room and you feel judgemental eyes and women aren't being kind to each other, maybe those women have done that to others. If you smile you make life more beautiful.
• I don't think there should be competition between women anymore, there's so much room for us to succeed.
• As you get older you realise what's most important to you.
• So many women feel that things aren't easy and you're going to fail more times than you succeed. It's how you come out of that that you're defined by.
• So many women go through ebbs and flows being a new parent, especially if you don't have a support network around you. I didn't know what postpartum depression was in 2005 but I had it. Relationships with other women at work helped me out of it.
• So many doors can be closed on you, but you just need to keep trying.
• I'd never seen myself on the side of a building before, I started crying and I couldn't believe that I was on the side of a Lifetime building in Phoenix!
• We all feel like we have the pressure of all the things we feel like we're holding up. But no one can take away your ‘you-ness', that's something you own and you can manifest inside yourself.
• Look in yourself and realise what makes you happy because no one else can make you happy, you have to find it and write down 10 things that make you happy, 10 things that bring you joy every day, and take an honest look at that and ask if you can realistically do any of those things today. If not, try to do them tomorrow.
• Look to your closest girl-friends for help and ask for it. What if one person you reached out to changes your life with how they help you?
• You're not a burden to your friends and family who care about you.
• Pilates, yoga and being out in nature moving your body is so healing and does so much good for your brain, your soul, your spirit. Our bodies are not designed to sit behind a desk. Every 90 minutes you need to get up and get moving, even if it's just around the house. It's my medicine.
• You have to think about every bite of food or sip of a drink you take. The old saying “you are what you eat” is true in every aspect. Read the labels, don't put anything canned or processed into your body. In Europe everything's fresh unlike in the US. What are they approving here in the US that we're putting in our bodies?
• Don't wait to start a new years' resolution, just start living that life now.
• Fill your life with positivity, hope and be your true, authentic self. Take a look at what you can do for yourself before you can do it for others. To lead the exceptional, extraordinary life that you truly want to lead you need to look from within.
• Join a community or find someone that has a similar mindset as you, because if you're going to fill your day and be around people that take away your energy, that don't fill you up, you need to take a really hard look at the people around you to see who is bringing that energy, who is like-minded, they will hold your heart, hold you together and make you live out that stellar mindset and will champion you so you can champion others.
• Guys get a bad rap; there are a lot of stellar guys out there.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS

‘There's always a way to figure it out and make it happen.'

‘You put out there what you give back.'

‘Reinventing myself every few years doesn't scare me anymore.'

‘I create jobs for myself by seeing the void I need to fill and not accepting no for an answer.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Teri attributes her inner STELLARGIRL to the relentless pursuit of an extraordinary and adventurous life.  Like many women, Teri's values were formed from life lessons — some hard-won, some immensely rewarding — but all contributing to her own STELLARGIRL journey.

Teri grew up with a spirited, global perspective thanks to parents who taught her that beyond their home in a small prairie city in Saskatchewan, Canada, a world of possibilities and wonder awaited. Her early adventures found her traversing North America and Ukraine as a folkloric dancer. She went on to earn a BA majoring in languages and speaks English, French, Spanish and Ukrainian.  She has lived in nine cities across North America, re-inventing herself each time to align with her belief that doing what you love with people who uplift you personifies a stellar life.

Teri's world travels have taken her to over three dozen countries throughout Asia, South East Asia, the Middle East, North America, South America, Africa and Europe and they all have taught her that women living in different cultures and countries have much more in common than not.  In her career, that belief motivated her to support women from all walks of life as they reach for their own “gold.” She's held positions as a fashion editor, a television style host, a wardrobe stylist, a fitness and commercial print model, a personal trainer, and bolstered superstars during her tenure in talent management.

Living boldly has inevitably offered challenges to Teri, but she soared above them with the support of friends and family who propelled her forward. She wants the same for STELLARGIRL – to create a community that celebrates and supports women who aspire to be extraordinary.

Today, Teri lives and works from the mid-west with her true love and their four children.  She is an entrepreneur, model, charity advocate and, as co-founder of Stellargirl, a champion of women who strive to live their individual “stellar-ness” through truth, strength, laughter and compassion.

GUEST RESOURCES

Website: https://stellargirl.com/

Instagram: @stellargirlofficial

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 Marcus Black, a fellow Breakfast of Champion, a man with a heart of gold and an inspiring soul who's on a mission to impact millions of lives globally. If you've listened to previous podcasts and you love the content and conversations and they've changed your lives for the good, go and share this podcast with at least two friends. People need to hear Marcus' voice, especially as we're all juggling lots of things in preparation for the holidays.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• A big part of my story is my Dad trying to fight to become and find himself. He had a big hole in his heart because of the absence and lack of faith and he tried to fill that hole with all the wrong things: alcohol, gambling, women. Nothing can fill the God-sized hole in your heart except for a spiritual focus and a foundation.

• At nine years old I was visited by a real monster, not one from the closet or under the bed, but the same one that haunts a lot of you: Anxiety. And this kept happening up to the age of 18 where I manifested one of my worst nightmares: A high-speed car crash where I thought I was about to die without having ever lived.

• I began to fear death, I internalised the pain and the traumas and bullying around me and I stopped wanting to do what kids do. Look out for that in your kids, if they're struggling you might feel like you don't have the answers, but you do. Just being there and caring is enough.

• Too few people care enough to go back to where they came from and say: “I've been there”.

• Before the car crash, I had faith, but it meant nothing to me. That moment sent me on a journey because I had a lot of questions I wanted answers to.

• The question was never “why? And “why me?”, it was “what?” and “What is it for”. When I shifted my perspective it opened my eyes. I don't know why I'm here, but I made a promise to God that I'm going to spend the rest of my days trying to figure out how to love, pour in, support and take care of the people around me.

• In the wilderness is where you want to throw in the towel and give up, but here's what I learned about the wilderness: While I felt like I was dying and let behind, the entire time God was there giving me what I needed.'

• You don't have a good relationship if you don't have quality time and communication. Every day I get outside (and this helps with anxiety) and get into nature, mostly around a body of water, and silence the noise. I feel the breeze on my face, the waves crashing around me and I pray, meditate and talk to God. Then I'm living in the moment.

• If you've been living in a state of depression, it's probably because you've made a choice to loop your nightmares in your mind and play your traumas on repeat and you feel a perpetual state of depression. Anxiety is the opposite, where you think of all the worst situations and possibilities that could happen and you replay those on loop in your mind. These things may never come. The way you alleviate both of those is to live in this moment; yesterday's gone and tomorrow's not promised.

• You have heard the voice of God you just don't think you have. The faith doesn't do a good job of the way we present that to people who don't have that type of faith. God is spirit and his spirit lives in all things. There's a spirit that you posses and an intuition that you feel, when you're seeking your higher purpose in the world and your heart is committed, that's when you'll hear his voice. If you're busy, like a hamster on a wheel, you won't hear it.

• People haven't been turned off by It, they've been turned off by the people that represent It. People are imperfect and there will be people that represent God's heart wrong, including religious leaders and teachers. God hasn't hurt you, people hurt you. The heart of God is love in all things, he wants you to have an abundant life. To understand it, don't start in the deepest scriptures, start with the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

• If your universe revolves around you, that's the loneliest place in the world to be and is a recipe for heartache, heartbreak and let-down. You feel the greatest when you're giving back and serving others.

• People think it's bad to have questions or doubts. Don't believe that. No one has all the answers. Many of the closest people to Jesus had questions despite seeing the miracles he performed. It's not about perfection, this journey's about direction.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Failing isn't failure, it's a vital part of the process to becoming everything you're meant to be.'

‘Don't worry about the shots you miss, just stay in the game.'

‘You're not defined by any of the things that happen to you. As long as you're moving forward, you're good.'

‘Faith is an anchor. It may not stop you from feeling the elements and getting tossed around, but it tethers you to the ground and keeps you from getting lost.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Marcus Black is a former pastor and current urban missionary providing leadership and mentoring programs to several inner-city schools through YFC international. Recently named one of LA Weekly's Top 10 keynote speakers to watch in 2021, he is a bestselling author, traveling speaker, Life Coach, host of the Vitalize Podcast & co-pilot of the Embrace Your Ambition traveling Faith-based personal development experience. He is deeply dedicated to spreading his message of love, hope and positivity to the entire world. He has spoken to tens of thousands all over the USA and several countries around the world.

GUEST RESOURCES

Website: https://www.mblackspeaks.com/

All other social media platforms, but mostly Clubhouse and Instagram: @mblackspeaks

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @nikoulohse

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 Michelle McLain who has an incredible story to share about how she's failed forward in so many aspects of her life – through mental health, weight loss (130lbs in 9 months), being down at the bottom and pulling herself up to become a badass in business.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Every day I wake up and my goal in life is to change, inspire or save just one life. When you go through what I went through your whole life changes. On November 16th 2016 every single thing that I thought I knew about life changed.

• I went to bed at 10pm and at 2am I woke up in the lifeless, cold arms of my husband. A couple of days later I found a suicide note.

• About a year later I was spiralling, drowning myself in a couple of bottles of wine a day and I grew to the biggest I'd ever been in my life.

• You look at yourself in the mirror and you have these people that see you as a ray of light and an inspiration to people, but I see the person on the inside that's screaming to get out.

• I needed a trainer would wasn't going to listen to my excuses as to why I was 300lbs.

• Every day I had to think that no matter how I feel and how I felt about doing the work, I had to do it. I looked at pictures of my kids and thought, they're not going to have a Mom if I don't discipline myself.

• I couldn't walk up and down stairs without getting out of breath and feeling sick.

• I've stuck with keto and intermittent fasting for over a year. It doesn't work for everyone, but it works for me. Finding the right diet is trial and error.

• When we figured out what it was that I wasn't responding to, that's when the game changed and I started losing weight quicker than I'd ever imagined. I wasn't in the gym for 4-5 hours a day or killing myself with cardio, I literally did 45 minutes of cardio and some strength training with weight, but the one thing I had to do every single day was drink a gallon of water and get 10,000 steps. I literally lost half of my weight doing just that and watching my calorific intake.

• Once I saw the initial results and I got into that routine I'd write notes to myself on post-it notes to myself and stick them around the house and in my car.

• Another thing that was super powerful for me was surrounding me with the right kind of people. I left an emotionally abusive relationship in July 2020 with someone who I never should have been with. It was about eliminating people, places and things in my life that didn't bring me joy.

• I started documenting every step of my journey and that attracted other people in the same situation as me who were inspired by my journey which made me accountable.

• Putting on those size 6 jeans yesterday and they fit was the culmination of the whole last year's journey. I did it. It's indescribable.

• My kids were kidnapped by a cult after my husband died and I've been trying to get them back since 2017.

• Sometimes we call out to god, or a higher power and ask why things have happened to me. But I wouldn't be the person I am today had I not had to go through all that and had to figure it out myself the hard way. I wouldn't trade any of it.

• Every single day you should take out 10 minutes for mindful meditation.

• You're one connection away from your best life.

• If there's one thing I've learned over the past few years is that no amount of guilt we have over the past and no amount of anxiety we have about the future can change the present. You have to learn to live in the now, there's no guarantee that you're going to have a next week, day or 10 minutes. When I did that, everything in my life transformed.

• Focus on fixing one thing at a time, continuous forward momentum. Understand that you're not alone, every single one of us goes through horrible things in life and we've just got to pick ourselves back up a move forward.

BEST MOMENTS

‘In the blink of an eye, everything you think you know about life can change'

‘I physically started with one step with the goal of getting to 10,000 steps and lose 50lbs.'

‘Don't ever use you scales as a measure of success, look at how your clothes fit and how your energy levels are.'

‘Every single thing you want in life starts with a mindset shift.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

On November 16, 2016, Michelle McLain's life changed forever. She woke up in the lifeless and cold arms of her husband and would ultimately discover that it was his own doing; there aren't enough words to describe that kind of pain.

Michelle was months into launching her business and after experiencing that loss, began a downward spiral that she didn't know how to pull out of. She ultimately had to make the choice of victim or victor and after a year of drowning in her own misery, Michelle took a leap of faith, bet on herself and decided that she would WIN, no matter what challenges she faced.

What began as a journey of self-discovery, turned into a complete life and physical transformation. Michelle took control of her health and fitness and through diet and exercise, managed to lose 130+ lbs in 9 months. She changed the people, places and things that were holding her back from her best self and began connecting with those that had a growth mindset rather than self-limiting beliefs. Michelle started to use her pain for a purpose and by pouring into others, her life began to transform in ways that she never could have imagined.

Michelle is a successful brand strategist, CEO and influencer, better known as The Queen of

Clubhouse: “People are my passion. My goal is to impact lives and use my journey to help others navigate theirs. Your story is your greatest asset and it deserves to be told.”

GUEST RESOURCES

Website:www.michellemclain.com

Clubhouse: @werisetogether

#werisetogether

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @nikoulohse

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 explains some tips she's used in the past to deal with feeling down, including suffering from depression that can help to lift your mood and get you out of the ‘down' state of mind.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• When your energy is really low, you're low flowing and its slower to do your normal morning routine, if you're doing that properly at all. Perhaps do a 10-minute HIIT workout or prayer meditation
• Are you doing so many things for everyone else? You need to tune into yourself.
• Find a support system, so you're not trying to do this by yourself. They could also catch the signs that something's wrong, like not eating breakfast. Go for a hike together, go shopping, just find someone way to love yourself and get friends to help you get there.
• Set attainable goals. When we're not in a good place we can set unrealistic, unattainable goals and if you don't meet then you're probably going to feel worse, which won't help the situation you're in.
• Little wins will help you come back to the best version of you.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Jolt the flow'

‘Fill up your love cup'

‘SMART goals: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time constrained.'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @nikouela

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 sleep specialist Dave Gibson who has over 20 years' experience in healthcare, providing advice and supportive intervention across a wide range of conditions to promote good sleep patterns and quality sleep. His background is in all things wellness; having worked as a hypnotherapist, a naturopath, an osteopath and has multiple degrees in osteopathy and food science, and he's on the [podcast to talk all things sleep with Nikou.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• A lot of my clients, as an osteopath, suffer from bad sleep because of their jobs and technology they use – as did I – which is how I got into sleep science.
• We fit our sleep around our life rather than putting our sleep first and at the centre of our well-being.
• There are sleep disorders and disordered sleeping. Sleep disorders include sleep apnoea and restless legs, and disordered sleep is someone who is consciously depriving themselves of sleep and not worrying about it, or people that suffer from insomnia.
• Depriving yourself of sleep is the same as depriving yourself of water, your thirst centre turns off and you don't know that you're dehydrated. Same with sleep; you body goes with the flow until the point that you crash and then you're in trouble because your immune system is gone, the detox of your brain's gone, your cognitive processes are down, you have a higher risk of cancer and then there's all the long-term bits.
• There's no animal on the planet that actively deprives itself of sleep, just humans. It's vital we get 7-9 hours each night.
• 40-50% of people in the UK are sleeping less well than they were doing before lockdown due to adrenalisation.
• Cavemen saw the sun go down, and darkness is the biggest single trigger of sleep, meditation and yoga can help in these days of over-stimulisation by relaxing the body and slowing down our breathing.
• If you can fall asleep within 30 seconds, you're not good at falling asleep, you're sleep-deprived. Our brains don't naturally switch off – especially if you take your phone to bed with you.
• 60% of people that use apps before bed are more likely to grind their teeth due to fear of missing out.
• The Circadian Rhythm looks for the difference between light and dark. Device screens literally give out the same light as the morning light. To combat this you can dim the screen light, used blue-light-filtering glasses and ‘flux' filters for the screens for the devices.
• Regularity is the key to your Circadean Rhythm. If you can't keep to a routine, because of shifts or whatever, make sure you get up at the same time and top up with naps to balance out your sleep and avoids social jet lag, which happens when you bounce your sleep around.
• Some people have taken the extra hours that they used to commute, now they work at home, and are either working longer hours or watching more TV rather than using them for exercise or something that keeps them healthy.
• People look at two things on their fitbits: deep sleep and REM sleep. Exercise helps elongate that. Top athletes sleep longer hours than most people because their bodies need to recover from their training.
• Sleep is a rejuvenation process, if you sleep too long and you're waking up tired that's something you should go to your GP for. It could be anaemia, depression, seasonal affective disorder.
• A good night's sleep is to get up at the same time every day without needing an alarm and feeling great.

BEST MOMENTS

‘You'd think with all my qualifications I'd be getting good sleep, but I have to really work at it.'

‘The care we take with children's sleep is something we switch off in adulthood'

‘There's a lot of kudos and machismo still attached to under-sleeping.'

‘It's harder to lose weight if you under-sleep than if you properly sleep.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Dave has over 20 years in healthcare providing advice, advice, support and intervention across a wide range of conditions to promote good sleep patterns and quality sleep.

His wellness training and qualifications include being a registered hypnotherapist, naturopath and osteopath, with BSCs in Osteopathy and Food Science. He works both online and face to face treating a range of conditions from back and neck pain as an Osteopath to low self-esteem, overeating, addictions and anxiety as a Hypnotherapist and specialises in sleep advice and support. Dave's extensive background and expertise in Wellness enables him to bring a wealth of knowledge to solving sleep problems.

He launched his well-regarded sleep blog, www.thesleepite.co.uk in 2014. Dave has worked with the national press and BBC National and local radio, along with major commercial stations and has also worked on BBC's Strictly Come Dancing as their Osteopath.

Dave's sleep service includes bespoke one to one advice, help with family sleep problems and running webinars and workshops for companies.

His sleep interventions are always tailor made to the individual. They are holistic, built on selecting specific lifestyle changes with nutrition, exercise, meditation, and relaxation techniques at their core. He creates bespoke hypnotic recordings to help improve the quality of your sleep too. 

“My belief is that sleep plays a huge part in our lives. It affects how we feel, how we behave and our ability to perform, whatever the age. I believe it is the fundamental pillar of physical, mental, and emotional wellness. My aim is to help you feel more energised by learning how to improve the quality of your sleep to leave you feeling fresh, boosted and ready for your day – whatever that may look like.”

GUEST RESOURCES

https://thesleepsite.co.uk/

Instagram: @devesleepexpert

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @nikouela

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 Ben Azadi, founder of The Keto Camp and one of the main people in the industry that's getting into bio-hacking and teaching people how to be successful in the ketogenic diet, how to do intermittent fasting correctly and helping you find the root cause of your problems not just treating the symptoms that – as Ben says – is true healthcare, not just sickcare.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I was following a stupid American diet being unhealthy growing up which made me obese and gave me low self-esteem. Books helped me open up my eyes and they helped me take responsibility and ownership and I started to eat, think and exercise better and transformed my physical appearance as well as my mental health.
• We've seen depression and suicide skyrocket in the last 18-20 months thanks to what's happening in the world. I've been there, looking at ways to kill myself on the internet but then thinking of my Mom and stopping, which became a cycle. What helped for me was to really understand the thoughts that we think.
• We have 60,000 thoughts per day, but 90% are from the day before, you need to change your paradigm to thoughts that serve us. Every time I had a negative thought I'd let it pass, like a cloud, and choose a better thought.
• If you change your environment and move away from negative people you begin to think less negatively.
• It's proven that thoughts are a frequency, or a soundwave, that penetrate your cells, and there are receptor sites on your cells that allow these frequencies to get inside your cells and communicate with your DNA. Negative, fearful or hateful thoughts will tell your DNA to produce proteins that are inflammatory and can lead to disease. Positive thoughts produce healthy protein that leads to health.
• The food you eat will determine the thoughts you think. Processed foods give us peaks and troughs in glucose. Eating healthy food puts you into ketosis and your brain loves that.
• I think all diets work, but not long term. Our ancestors changed their diet from keto to vegetarian when they didn't have animals to eat. That variation makes your digestive system and cells to grow stronger.
• Plants have anti-nutrients in them, like toxins, that put predators off eating them. When you eat plants all the time for an extended period of time if damages your gut causing all kinds of problems. You need to remove them from time to time and reintroduce them later. Meat that has been pumped full of medication and fed grain are bad for you, but free-range animals are healthy and can reduce your risk of heart disease.
• Intermittent fasting is just like keto and our ancestors did this too, so it's not new either. It's such an important tool. A lot of people eat too frequently, this will raise glucose an insulin throughout the day – even if you're eating healthily.
• Fasting leads to autophagy – eating thyself. Your body will enter into a state where it looks for damaged cells/proteins/mitochondria/fats and will use those for energy. This is good for fighting disease because it gets rid of cells that could cause disease replacing them with healthy cells.
• Dr Thomas Seyfried (Cancer is a Metabolic disease) says that if you completed a 7 day water only fast once a year you will reduce your risk of cancer by 95% thanks to autophagy.
• Women and men need to do keto and fasting differently due to differences in hormones pre- and post-menopause.
• Bio-hacking includes red light therapy, wearing blue-light glasses. But the best thin you can do for your body is going out every day and get a dose of vitamin D while walking between 11am and 2pm.

BEST MOMENTS

‘I want to empower people to become their own health detective.'

‘When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.'

‘People think affirmations are ‘woo woo', but they've changed my life.'

‘If you thinking is stinking your dreams are shrinking.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

In 2008, Ben Azadi went through a personal health transformation of shredding 80 pounds of pure fat. Ever since, Ben Azadi, FDN-P, has been on a mission to help 1 billion people live a healthier lifestyle.

Ben is the author of four best-selling books, Keto Flex, The Perfect Health Booklet, The Intermittent Fasting Cheat Sheet, and The Power of Sleep. Ben has been the go-to source for intermittent fasting and the ketogenic diet.

He is known as 'The Health Detective' because he investigates dysfunction, and he educates, not medicates, to bring the body back to normal function.  Ben is the founder of Keto Kamp; a global brand bringing awareness to ancient healing strategies such as the keto diet and fasting.

Ben is the host of a top 15 podcast, The Keto Kamp Podcast; and the fast growing Keto Kamp YouTube channel with over 130,000 subscribers, and TikTok channel with over 135,000 subscribers.

GUEST RESOURCES

Website: www.benazadi.com   

Instagram: @thebenazadi

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/benazadi/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/thebenazadi

YouTube: www.youtube.com/ketokamp

Clubhouse: @thebenazadi

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @nikouela

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 Michael Huey about gut health, sleep, nutrigenomics and bio-hacking. All of this makes Michael the perfect guest for the Failing Forward Podcast. However, they get onto their relationships with God, spirituality, fitness and mindfulness meaning that there will have to be a part 2 in the near future.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• 70% of how we function is through what we put in our mouths, I just missed qualifying for the Olympic finals in 1996 and three of my team-mates made the Olympic team, which is very rare from a single college. I realised that there was going to be a shift in the role nutrition plays in performance. So, I switched my drive from athletics to serving – reading in the bible how God wanted us to take care of our ‘temple'.
• It's physical first, spiritual second. Without taking care of fitness first I can't serve well and I'm setting an example.
• I believe a lot of people's physical health problems are spiritual.
• Makes sure you have no co-dependant relationships, they're toxic. Self-examine your relationships from time to time. You make better decisions when you're in alignment with God's plan and purpose for your life than making emotional decisions, like bringing someone into your business because they talk a good talk but could be a liar or narcissist.
• The Devil will always try and defeat you in your mind, your will and your emotions because he knows he can tug at them. But, when you have a real experience with God nobody can negate that experience.
• I want to be a person that doesn't judge people, that forgives, that walks in unity and oneness. But, I also want to be the person that stands up and is held accountable to the bible, not to man and what man thinks. If I deny him before man he'll deny me before the father.
• You have to be intentional in every area of your life.
• Men don't have best friends. 1 in 10 men have a friend they feel comfortable sharing life stuff with and 1 in 20 have a best friend. To me, that's scary. I don't want to have somebody who will encourage me but someone who will correct me. I think a lot of us gravitate towards people that tell us what we want to hear nit what we need to hear. But never correct without encouragement.
• You need to get rid of people in your life who are constantly negative and surround yourself with people who encourage you, sharpen you, makes you better in every area of your life, sets an example for you. Look for people that are good in the area where you're struggling and learn from them.
• Your identity is not in your failures, it's in who you are and who God created you to be minus the shame, minus the guilt, minus self-doubt.
• The difference between wisdom and knowledge is taking action on what you've learned.
• I could be depressed or have anxiety if I wanted, but I choose to be in the present. I can't control what I can't control. I control what I can control and leave the rest up to God.
• Turn your mess into a message.

BEST MOMENTS

‘My identity is in the one who created me, not the letters before or after my name.'

‘You were bought at a price, therefore honour your bodies.'

‘Don't sweat the small stuff, let these things go.'

‘Pray for hope and have faith.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Michael was born in Lancaster, Ohio where he attended Ohio State University as a four-year letterman of Track and Field where he earned a degree in Nutrition, Exercise Science and Sports Management. He also has an 8-year Theology degree in Christian Studies from the Christian Life School of Theology and is a licenced minister. He is a Master Educator for the American Council of Exercise with 25+ certifications from fitness, nutrition to anti-ageing, is the founder and CEO of HeFluence, the number one problem solving coaching company on the planet.

In 2019 he received a Monumental Achievement in Business Award at Thrive, which has been voted by Forbes Inc and Huffington Post as the number one entrepreneur event of the year for the past 5 years.

He has lived in Tampa, Florida for 25 years, 13 of which with his wife, Lisa. They both love God and serving others.

GUEST RESOURCES

https://www.michaeldavidhuey.com/ 

Instagram: @michaeldavidhuey 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michael.huey.739 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-david-huey-b5176652/ 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected] 

Instagram: @nikouela 

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 Josh Aryeh, the founder and CEO of Lion's View Development, he also has a charitable organisation called Smiles Through Cars where he dresses up as Batman and drives beautiful, exotic cars, taking children who are battling illness, disease or cancer and takes them on rides to raise smiles on their faces.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• People see the cars, the private jets and the money, if you're a successful entrepreneur. What they don't see is the stress and the struggles you went through to get there in the first place.
• There's no point in greed. The only reason I want to make more is so I can give me. It's great for generational wealth and there are benefits to that, but in terms of my actual goals it doesn't add to anything I'm trying to do.
• When I was younger, I wanted to be Bruce Wayne rather than Batman until life changing events showed me what was truly important in life – surprising 8-year-old Jessica, who was diagnosed with cancer, with a ride in a Lamborghini.
• A lot of the success that I've had is purely because I found my ‘X-Factor', it was all about making more so I could give more which gave me the motivation to push harder and do more than I was capable of than if it was coming from a negative place of selfishness, pain and jealousy.
• I was doing acts of random kindness long before this, it starts with saying ‘good morning', holding a door open, paying for someone's cup of coffee, saying ‘hi' to a homeless person. You don't have to give tons of money, but you can donate your time. That's where you get the satisfaction.
• If money didn't matter to you what you want to do with the rest of your life? What would truly make you happy? For me it was volunteering, I want to retire and do volunteering work for the rest of my life. The reason I am an entrepreneur is that no one would hire me knowing that any hours of the day or night I'll be out volunteering.
• ‘Yet' is a huge mentality that entrepreneurs need to have to succeed. You need to look to the future. What can I take out of what occurred today to make tomorrow better? Failure is one of the best things that can happen to you as an entrepreneur. Learn from the failure, don't let it hurt you, learn from it.
• No one can control what happens to them in their lives, but you can decide how you're going to react, if you're going to be a survivor or a victim and dwell on it for the rest of your life.
• Love is endless, you can keep giving and giving and giving and it never takes away from your love for anything and anybody else. And it makes you feel better.
• My greatest success through failure was the struggle to start the non-profit, I didn't start off to set up a non-profit it just grew and grew and grew naturally through authenticity and people wanting to give back and I didn't have access to more than one car and manging all these things was tough. So, I decided to partner with people who donated money for me to buy cars or to privately rent out water parks or ice-skating rinks for hundreds of kids to use. Sometimes you need help from other people who know what they're doing, it's OK to ask for help or lean on other people, you can't do everything on your own. I now have lots of mentors that help me with everything from finances to my own mental health.
• I was brought up to look to people who didn't have what I had growing up who would wish for things that you take for granted. How many people don't have those things? Appreciate the things you have. That shaped my definition of wealth. Rich for me is someone who is happy with what they have, not how much money you have.
• It's awesome to get up and put on my Batman suit than my business suit. All day people just smile and take pictures.
• I can't cure the kinds' illnesses, but if I can make them forget about their illness for a minute it's worth everything. What can I do to the cars or my costumes to make their experiences better and special?
• No matter what you're going through in life remember that there are other people going through worse, and that through the dark times there will always be light at the end of the tunnel no matter how deep and dark that tunnel seems. It may not be easy but you will get through it. Keep pushing forward and remember it's OK to ask for help, everyone has the ability to change the world for the better. My only goal is to be better than myself yesterday, I don't measure myself against other people. Happiness starts within.

BEST MOMENTS

‘I can learn anything from anybody. Doesn't matter who they are or what they do.'

‘If I can have an impact with such a stupid thing as a car, then I need to dedicate my life to this.'

‘Greed never satisfies you.'

‘I didn't know how much I enjoyed helping people until I want out and actually did it.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Josh is the founder and CEO of Lion's View Development, he also has a charitable organisation called Smiles Through Cars in 2008 which has a growing team of superheroes on a mission to change the world, one smile at a time.

This mission began with an introduction between Josh and Jessica, an 8-year-old girl in Queens, New York, who was battling a rare form of cancer. Jessica had lost sight of the joy in her life and Josh knew there was something that had to be done. Car enthusiast, Josh borrowed a family member's sports car, hit the road, and headed out on a mission to make her smile. A simple joy ride, an escape, and a moment where nothing else existed for both Josh and Jessica.

Since 2008 Smiles Through Cars has visited 30,000 children, raised $2m and the plan is for the charity to expand to have teams of superheroes in cities all over the world, making a difference.

https://www.smilesthroughcars.com/

Instagram: @batmanrealaccount

GUEST RESOURCES

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @nikouela

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.