[00:00:29] Harriet: Hello and welcome to today's absolutely, energetic podcast. Today, I have Colette and I'm so excited to introduce this amazing woman. She's brilliant and there's so much to learn about her. I'm excited for you to listen to this really brilliant podcast. She is licensed in Physiotherapy which is brilliant, and she's the founder of a new method in the field of Phycology. It's called MAP, and I'm so excited to have you learn a little bit more about it. Colette; welcome to the show. 

 

[00:00:57] Colette: Thank you! Thank you Harriet! I'm so excited to be with you too. I am here to share my story, and help as many people as I can during this podcast. 

 

[00:01:08] Harriet: Brilliant! Well, I would love for you to introduce yourself, just a little bit and extend a warm welcome to the listeners who have no idea who you are, or what you're about. 

 

[00:01:18] Colette: Alright! As you can understand I'm here. I have a French accent, and there is a very good reason for that. I was born in France. When I was 9 years old I was born in the family of 2 vets that had PTSD and diagnosed these tons of addiction and everything. So at 9 years old I was tired of it, and my mom had a third attempt of suicide. I thought she would pass away. And when I realized that, I cried and I just couldn't stand it anymore. I went to my room and my mom was still alive however, and watched, it was awesome. However, I decided that day, "I will be happy!" That's my mission on the planet and I will help anyone else who wants to be happy. Happiness change direction, first you twist physical, emotional, mental. All my life, I've lived for happiness. 

 

[00:02:23] Harriet: Amazing, and I think there were so many listeners Colette who are also looking for happiness. I would love for you to share a little bit of a brief introduction on your business and what's exciting you about this specific area right now. 

 

[00:02:39] Colette: Right now as I have founded 3 years ago MAP; Manifesting All Possibilities. It's a new method that rewires the brain. Literally within seconds or minutes; and neutralizes negative emotions, beliefs, traumas. That allows so much more happiness in people's life. I have a coaching Institute and we trained therapist, doctors, chiropractors, etc.; to use that method to help their clients release their stress and traumas and be healthy. And on the other side, I do have my especially which is using MAP for success and money blocks. I do that with CEOs and top rank people in the industry.

 

[00:03:29] Harriet: Amazing! Thank you for sharing. I've also had something about you that I would love for to confirm. A lot of people Colette had the belief that psychotherapy is a bit "woo" "woo" and it's a little bit puppet show way for them. However, MAP has actually had some scientific research behind. I've love for you to elaborate a little bit about, on how proven it is, and what's specifically has been labeled. 

 

[00:03:52] Colette:  Oh! Fantastic, yes! One I begin to do this research I had so much results that I hired a neuroscientist. I wanted to have the proof in the brain. So what we did is; we were able to do a QEEG, which is quantitative electroencephalogram during several of my client's sessions. The neuroscientist was actually blown away because we could prove exactly how the brain was rewired during the session. And we have now the proof of that. 

 

[00:04:25] Harriet: Wow! I don't know if any listeners know how mind blowing that is. So many people create things in their time but no one actually gets that proven information, so this is just an absolute asset for Colette. 

 

[00:04:58] Colette: Yes, thank you. Do you have any question for me? Do you want me to elaborate on something? 

 

[00:05:05] Harriet: I would love for you to share a little bit about, how some of those things that happened to you have really influenced you? I know that obviously, your mother gave you the decision to be happy. What has really got you to, from that point right now to being the founder of MAP? That's quite a journey, what has been some of the stops along the train ride?

 

[00:05:29] Colette: It's a 30-year journey. I first begin with the body, happiness and with that being a physical issue because I had bronchitis at 18, like 6 months in a row. I begin with physical issue and then I treated this with natural health using organic food. What I was doing is, actually lived in a farm, literarily when I was 20. And then I realized I still have traumas and emotions that had to be released. And I spent another 10 years going to different therapists, going to the cutting edge as much as I could and clear that up. Then I ended up realizing that the mind is the most important. Believing in your health or in your happiness or what you want to create in your life is the core elements. So I realized we are powerful beings with our mind. I was looking for method that would allow me to help my clients; not only we clean up the past but line their mind to their dreams. And that's where MAP came in. 

 

[00:07:40] Harriet: What would you say, some of the most common problem that you see amongst all of the people that come to you are?

 

[00:07:50] Colette: Wow, so if it's the kind that come to me personally as I say, they come from business and money blocks. The most important problem is; their unconscious self-image doesn't line up with earning more. So they have a negative self-image, low self-esteem, low self-love and tons of negative beliefs they have acquired in their lifetime. So that's what we need to clear. 

 

[00:08:58] Harriet: It sounds like you're able to transform some people. Do you have a transformational story about someone who's work with you that you'd love to share right now?

 

[00:09:07] Colette: I have a lot in the money part, because that's what I do a lot. But right now, I have clients, I helped mentally go through the whole trends of treatment, and she ended up absolutely zero side effects. She had chosen the drugs and the whole traditional approach, but at the same time I could support her with the mind and released all the beliefs around side effects. She ended up having none. So when she went to the doctors every month, they have 40 different side effects that they were talking asking her about, and she had zero of them.  That's just one real story here.

 

[00:09:57] Wow, that is so phenomenal. And especially because some people do like to choose the conventional approach, because they feel they can have some belief in that. There are a lot of people who have been through. So amazing that she had zero effects, that is truly phenomenal. And would you be able to share to the listeners Colette a little bit about what you are taking her through?

 

[00:10:23] Colette: What I was taking her through is any kind of trauma. So there were two aspects of it. One was trying to find the original trauma, and then created the cancer. It was a breast cancer, and we went through her family issues, and mother's issues, etc. That is my method. I can find those events within minutes and clear down within minutes. 

 

[00:10:54] Colette: After that we were working on the different chemicals that she might have been allergic to, etc. and the brain can actually want higher energy system, can actually learn to be more friendly if she wants or to accept more those chemicals. 

 

[00:11:27] Harriet: I got a really important question that's right at the front of my mind. It might be slightly sensitive question. I understand a little bit Colette about how people's energy work. I'm curious to ask you because obviously this is a podcast around health, when you're working with people who have such negative energy's that occurring for them and to them, how are you able to stop this energy's absorbing into your being and yourself?

 

[00:11:55] Colette: For me that's really easy because I take care of myself. That's the number one thing I have. I practice what I teach so I've done my own work. On a daily basis, I practice appreciation, actually; very high level of energy and vibration. So I learn to think positively to feel good. I do everything to eat well, I take care of myself. So I'm in such healthy space when I am with someone. They tend to be lifted up and never go down. So it takes a lot of inner work and personal focus but I love it because it makes me happy. 

 

[00:12:46] Harriet: Wow! And you shared, one of the first thing you shared was "You practice appreciation!" Now, how do you define that? What is that specifically mean to you?

 

[00:12:57] Colette: Appreciation, that's interesting. At first, I knew that appreciation was the highest vibration on this planet. The highest positive faults and emotions you can have. And at first I didn't feel anything so I trained my heart to actually feel like that, by looking at beautiful things and nature, etc. And for me it ends a very simple practice I called it "the sentimentra". The first thought I have in the morning when I wake up; to give you a practical application, when I wake up, the first thought I have is thanking you, thank you, thank you! And I begin to say thank you for no good reason. After a while, I have "oh thank you! I love my sheets, I love the air-conditioning, and I'm looking for things that I appreciate. And then all along my day, I do the same. 

 

[00:14:22] Harriet: Wow! Thank you! For our listeners who maybe listening just then, and listening so attentively that you may have miss some of the detail. The first thing that Colette does when she absolutely practices appreciation is; she says thank you, she wakes up. Thank you, thank you, thank you to the air conditioning machine, for everything. She imagined, if she's struggling what would life be like without having him. How would my life be different if I didn't have that car? And then looking for something to appreciate when you're walking around, when you buy a bottle of water, when you're getting lunch with the colleague, look for something to appreciate in everything you do. Did I get that right?

 

[00:14:58] Yes and actually what I have done is, I have associated it with different event in my life. So each time I go to the restroom, I look around for something to appreciate. Each time I get out of my house, I look around to have something to appreciate. Each time I get in my car, I appreciate my car. Each time I get out, I look for the weather. So I associated it with several, because if you don't make a decision that each time you're going to do that, you're associated with appreciation; you're not going to do it. Your day will pass and you will completely be forgotten, but if you do the effort for day or two, you will actually get in the happy day appreciation. It's going to be very easy. And it keeps you feel good all day long. 

 

[00:15:57] Harriet: Some other things that I would love for you to share. I know, and it really sounds like you have a complete wealth of knowledge. I would love for you to share some of the big pieces of advice you've really experience and you've received over your time when it comes to working on your own mindset and those around you. 

 

[00:16:15] Colette: I think it's important. There are three things to consider. There is the past; you need to consider your past. Your past does exist in your brain, it doesn't exist anymore but it does affect you profoundly. If there is anymore, any conflicts, any things like that that you've never solved, this is affecting your health. And this is also affecting your success. Then you need to consider the present, you need to be present in life. So meditating, relaxing, taking time to smell the roses, I actually do that. Be present because there is nothing that really exist in the present moment, so remind yourself nothing exist the past doesn't exist; the future doesn't exist yet. My power is now. "How can I be in my body?" Present, thrive now, breathing and appreciating. Actually when you appreciate you have to be present, so it's connected to the exercise I gave you before. And then, begin to visualize and imagine your future. I'm really well known for a method that I called magnetizing, and it's about focusing on what you desire; your health because I know you're listening for your health, and for well-being, and for happiness. Think about what you truly desire in your heart, and then begin to think about it and feel how that would make you feel. Focus on that five minutes a day. Take time to pre-pave your future to really rewire your brain, and give it a command; literally a command that that's what you want and that's so important. 

 

[00:18:11] Harriet: That is truly a phenomenal gift so first thing on the past, present and your future. Thank you so much! That's such easy to explain but hard to practice to so many people, so that's going to be great. I would love for you to share something, that's important to me but also to a lot of people who are listening. I would love for you to share one simple thing that you feel our listeners should do to take a movement today towards that ideal health, wealth and happiness. 

 

[00:18:51] Colette: I think it's believing; believing in your health. This is one thing that nobody really talks about when you go to the doctor. When you go train to look for techniques, for the "how" for everything like that, but you're putting the course before the cart, the cart before the horse. You need to believe in your health. That is your journey. You're not going to believe immediately but you want to begin thinking about "Why is it that I could believe that my health is possible, that I could heal". It could be looking for testimonials or stories that will confirm that no matter what you have from Cancer to anything you can imagine, there is someone in the planet that are healed from it, very easily, perhaps miraculously, perhaps with different things but read about success stories. And that will begin to build up your belief. 

 

[00:20:28] Harriet: And it's not just health that you need to build belief, but if you want to be wealthy, you need to build belief for you to call that nature the ecology of believing that you can. When it comes to happiness, even if you're on the brink of suicide; you can turn and notice how small and insignificant but still magically it can be. Every single thing needs a foundation so thank you so much for reminding not only me but every single other person of that two. 

 

[00:21:01] Colette: And for many, absolutely that's one of my course you know, magnetizing millions. You're aware of it and in that course we review all those patterns and make sure that you believe in what you dream. For money issues or for health it works the same way. 

 

[00:21:20] Harriet: Nice, Well I know you Colette that you are working with some truly amazing huge, successful names. You're also working with average people. But then at the same time, it's important to remember that you're just human being to. I would love for you to share a time travel moment, so let's say you went back in time 20, 30 years old or how many you feel. Is there a message you would love to tell your old self? 

 

[00:21:45] Colette: My old self, I would say trust, trust the universe, trust life; it always works out. It always works out for me and when you look back; you're still alive because you're listening to this podcast and therefore, it has worked out for you. And so, just remind yourself it always works out in the end. You might have challenges. You might have bones in the road but keep focusing on where you wanted to go. Keep learning how to believe, how to trust and you will see. Life always works out. 

 

[00:22:25] Harriet: Is there anything Colette that maybe surprised you that it simply worked out in your experience?

 

[00:22:34] Colette: Well it doesn't surprise me because I know the laws of the universe. I know that when you focus on what you want and you believe; I've learn that when I was 17. So that's when I was the most surprised. I actually I manifested my soul mate and had just thought about him about a few months and it was the first; coming out of my house when it was like a nightmare, and I went with him to a beautiful place where I was in love and I was loved and that's the beginning of my life of success and happiness. That's what surprised me the most. Being able at the time to manifest my soul mate and have such a beautiful person supporting me in my life who helped me grow and yeah, I'm very grateful for that. 

 

[00:23:31] Harriet: And because he surprised you, how did you know? What is the moment that told you, this is it? Here he is! It could just been any person, can't you? 

 

[00:23:42] Colette: I knew instantaneously because I have done this work that I was talking about magnetizing. I begin when I was 17, and I did this specific exercise and my focus was on my heart. I absolutely felt love for someone and for such a strong way for a few months; that when I met him, it was at first sight. That means within seconds, I knew there's something special, and less than a minute I was like "Oh my". And I wanted to know if this person already had a girlfriend and then that was it. 

 

[00:24:41] Harriet: Nice, I felt like one of the key concepts that overlaps of everything you've been talking about, is be looking. Be looking for appreciation, be looking for miracles, and be looking for the one. Have that in front of your mind because then you're way more likely to see it. So many people Colette, they walk around and they don't have any idea what they're doing. Looking for being seen, having, and I think such a great thing for you to remind me and everyone of, and that is "to be looking". 

 

[00:25:07] Colette: Absolutely, be looking into your future, believe in it, feel it. Like I was feeling that I would be loved one day; that I was already loved. And then I created all my life like that. By looking in the future and believing in it, and feeling for it, and then looking for it, and expecting it. 

 

[00:25:28] Harriet: Nice, Thank you. I feel Colette that you are very experienced person. These questions are going to land on very well and you can have some great things to say about it, and that is this. The Naked Health Warriors Podcast is all about helping people strip back naked, totally bet of what works when it comes to their health, their wealth and their happiness. And you see the most important critical thing is different from every person. It could mean a million things. So what is real health mean to you and why is it so important?

 

[00:26:02] Colette: For me, it's happiness. I begin with that when I was 9 and still here. Being happy is the most important thing. When I wake up every morning and have a peaceful heart. I'm at peace. I think that's one of my thankful. I'm thankful for having a peaceful heart and for being happy. 

 

[00:26:49] Harriet: Awesome, I love that. Thank you! What is one healthy living nugget like golden nugget that you believe every single human being should live by? 

 

[00:27:03] Colette: Of course, you want to take care of your temple, of your body. So, I think it's very important. I begin early so I don't realize how important it is. I have lived like that since I was 20. I've been into organic food and that's more than 30 years ago. So just take care of your body, eat well, take time, relax, do things that are good for your body. It's your temple. If you don't have that, you don't have a lot. And happiness is not going to be there. 

 

[00:27:56] Harriet: Are there any specific health practices that you swear by, for example Chiropractic water, juicing. What is, what really am holds your health together?

 

[00:28:06] Colette:  For me, it's organic. I am very general about that. Mainly as long it is organic. I can't almost, I don't eat anything else than organic food. So that's my number one. After that, you find your own juicing or whatever. I've not found one thing. I'm just following my intuition on that, and it moves along the years. Along the 30 years of experiences in natural health. 

 

[00:29:02] Harriet: There's one thing I would love to get your opinion on, and that is the beliefs that's been passed on to me through a lot of people who I've interviewed. I want to see if you agree and that is that, when it comes to your body, one of the things that you should truly listen to is the body, and you should follow your intuition. Have you seen many examples of this in the work that you have been doing? 

  

[00:29:24] Colette: Absolutely! That's the absolute key. Actually I have worked sometimes with women who were eating emotionally. They have disconnected from their bodies, so they're not listening with intuition and that's what I have trained in my body. 

 

[00:30:31] Harriet: I'm glad that you also see from that perspective, that's awesome! I would like to wrap up and jump into the clarity round. What is your favorite movie currently?

 

[00:30:50] I don't watch a lot of movies. That's the truth. I don't have TV and oh! Just for fun I like the Yes Man because I became the Yes Woman. I go for it in life, and I say yes no matter what. 

 

[00:31:14] Harriet: And what is your favorite smell?

 

[00:31:16] Colette: Roses. 

 

[00:31:18] Harriet: And your favorite food?

 

[00:31:26] Colette: Raspberries 

 

[00:31:28] Harriet: Who is your current hero, public or private.

 

[00:31:31] Colette: Public will be Tony Robins, private is my husband.

 

[00:31:39] Harriet: Do you have a favorite book?

 

[00:31:42] Colette: I have so many of them, but yes, a very good book to begin with, to know how powerful you are that you can do beyond anything you want. 

 

[00:32:01] Harriet: What is the most effective thing you do?

 

[00:32:06] Colette: My work. 

 

[00:32:30] Harriet: Can you share one of your personal habits that you feel strongly contributes to your successful health, wealth and well-being. 

 

[00:32:37] Colette: It's the gratitude, definitely that's it. 

 

[00:32:44] Harriet: Do you have any technical piece of equipment or app, or built or training or other tool that your body and mind cannot live without. 

 

[00:32:54] Colette: Well I discovered the vibration machine. It's a machine that you stand on and it vibrates so strongly that your muscles are working so hard and it is my "dream come true". 

 

[00:33:37] Harriet: Awesome and I love it. One last question; who are 3 people who you can put us in touch with that you would love to see on this podcast?

 

[00:33:48] Colette: I think Dr. Kay, who is a doctor from chiropractor but not just a chiropractor, he is like an incredible 20 years of studying, and he's an expert in very difficult cases in health that would be him. He's in Austin. There is someone that does allergy's sensitivity that I like very much. She works with a machine that sends frequencies through the regions. That machine is Canadian. I think Dr. Latika Fishers, she's also having a machine that reads your entire body and I just sent a line, patient over there. She could read exact strand of line and she's very specific and she was able to neutralize a gain using frequencies. The one in the middle is Courtney Mielke. 

 

[00:35:24] Harriet: Thank you so much for those recommendations. They sound like brilliant people. I'm excited to get in touch with them. 

 

[00:35:37] Harriet: Colette, you've been brilliant. I appreciate some things that you've brought to the table and literally giving us the recipe for appreciating every single thing, having peace and really centering ourselves into happiness. Is there any last word or any message that you would like to leave the business world today?

 

[00:35:57] Colette: You can do, have anything you want, when you believe it, so you can be healthy, you can be happy and you can create the most modeless life. There is no limit towards you can do. 

 

[00:36:13] Harriet: Amazing! Colette you have been so full of knowledge and I know that the listeners are going to find out a little more about MAP. So I know that your site is rich with so many things and that is www.mapcoachinginstitute.com/joy . What are some of the amazing things that they can find there?

 

[00:36:42] Colette: So this is the gift page that she just gave. They will have a ladder of emotions so that they can check where they are and become aware of what they feel which is the step no. 1 in order to be able to feel good, you need to know where you are, at first. There is a well-being meditation, there will be, my book is coming up somewhere in September/October. They will have a free copy of my book, Abundance In Demand. And there will be also ability for them to join the group course; a group class, a webinar to learn more about MAP. So once they go to that link, they will have the access to all of that. 

 

[00:37:26] Harriet: Wow! That's an abundance of gift. Thank you so much! What a tremendous thing for them to have. 

 

[00:37:32] Colette: And they can look over the website.  www.mapcoachinginstitute.com look a little bit on that, on the research and your stories, things like that to familiarize their selves about MAP, if they're interested. 

 

[00:37:48] Harriet: Thank you so much! Listeners you have been listening to Harriet Worth and Collette Streicher and this has been the Naked Health Warriors podcast. We are helping you to live your happiest, healthiest, wealthiest life and we loved you to stay tuned for more interviews just like this amazing one, on I tunes, podcast. Have an amazing day. Have an amazing week. And will talk to you very soon. Bye for now. 

Hello and Welcome to today's Podcast. Today we have Mason Taylor who is a very interesting human and I'm so excited to have brought him to the table. He's an expert when it comes to unifying human beings and allowing them to love, all aspects of themselves. He describes himself as a tonic herbalism guru, he talks a lot about the floss pin I'm really excited to be able to share it with you. He's also a speaker, a health educator, podcast - just like myself. We'll gonna be having some very interesting conversations today. Mason, Welcome to the show!

Mason: Thank you very much. I don't know, I think I quite define myself as a guru but I'm very much love tonic herbs and all that other stuff you've been talking about.

Harriet: Amazing! Excited to hear a little bit more about it. I would love to turn over to you for you to talk a little bit about you, what you're up to? And what's really exciting you right now in your given area?

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Mason: Cool! I've been on this path of getting myself healthy, for the last seven years but really in terms of developing a philosophy and I call it kind of like a slipperiness of the mind. Staying out of any kind of sense of rigidity and the way that I approach life. I've been doing that my whole life about seven years ago, I was in South America and Honolulu experience where I dropped into my body and realized that there was some stuff going on my body that I wasn't really quite happy about. I didn't know that the time that I was overrun with fungus, I should have known that it was obvious it was coming out of my arm. Quite severe adrenal fatigue and I just really wasn't that vibrant, considering I was only 20s and start from there, I got back from Aus and I did the whole like jump in the day bed of health, I really jumped in to the daybed like hardcore cleansing, hardcore diet in terms of raw foods, juicing, fasting.

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Mason: Just the name of maybe go through that process of cleansing my body of all the parasites, and bacteria, and all those other nasties that we collect in our body living in this crazy world. From there I really discord into creating a personal culture for myself that wasn't just dictated to me or defined to me based on this society that I grew up in. I started really embodying this core aspects of health and to my lifestyle including drinking the best water that I can possibly get my hands on going in becoming a spring water collector. Started getting into tonic herbalism which is the herbalism that you take herbs before you get sick, so you don't get sick and can help tone your organs.

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Mason: My life is about health, my life is about potentiating my body and expanding that out in that search for greater levels of health. So I'm just really focusing on crafting from going into that next phase at the same time I still got my retreats running where people come up, visit me up we go through that whole process of opening up people's detoxification channels, getting them into the elements really immerse, getting them sun bathing, getting them feeling their nervous system, feeling their hormonal system and getting that new reference point that how to really rest and restore your body and activate that potential vitality that's inside of them.

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Mason: Doing that and running my business, dishing out medicinal mushroom tonic herbal goodies to people all over the world.

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Harriet: You mentioned a few things that I would love for you to go a little bit deeper, the first was when you're taking about your personal coacher, one of the things that you associated with tonic herbalism was toning your organs ,would you be able to enlighten us a little, what that specifically means for the person?

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Mason: Every organs obviously going to be different and toning is, we understand what toning is on an aesthetic muscular level. Like if someone that their arm is flabby and then all of a sudden they work it out for a few months and they can begin to tone the muscles of their arms. The same thing can happen with organs, when I was on that nutrient deficient diet, not staying very hydrated, not breathing very deeply what happens is your inside's begin to get a little bit flabby. You're not giving the dense mineralization, the polysaccharide medicine. You're not providing any challenges to your organs in a way that actually promoting health, just the challenges that continue to take on the backward slide making that detrimental. 

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Mason: There are best practices, where you can essentially just get your organs a little bit fit up, more alive, healthier, delivering micro nutrients that they crave so they can become better on what they do. And tonic herbs, most of the Eastern traditions the --- approach to creating longevity, the Yogis, etc. that's where the love of these practices were about whether it's deep breathing practices or the tonic herbal practice. The tonic herbal practice is simply finding those herbs that are adaptogenic and when they're going to be adaptogenic , the herbs can be included in your diet before you get sick .

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Mason: A lot of people know like the biggest adaptogen at the moment is Maca which is a beautiful food and I do like it, and you can go do adapt a little with medicinal mushrooms say Reishi which is a tonic herb that is known especially for toning the heart. I'm into developing habits and practices, rituals in life that is dedicate energy to our vital organs, tone them, keep them healthy keep them fit because that's our storehouse for vibrancy and longevity so that's what I meant.

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Harriet: From the people who have been toning up and showing up in your life, what are you feeling or what are you sensing that most people are lacking right now when it comes to their nutrients in their body that you are replacing?

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Mason: I feel at the moment what's lacking I'll go something more philosophical, is people's willingness to realize that creating health or vibrancy and longevity, body that they feel safe and secure so that the excitement can actually emerge. Realizing that health is like a fire, fire that you would be building and working on for the rest of your life. 

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Harriet: I would to mention how simply profound that statement really was, mainly because we do need make relevant decisions. For so many years we thrown out the concept that we need to be use our own intuition, and as human beings we actually natural intuitist but we need to tune in and kind of listen.

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Mason: That something people lack, is immune system. Immunity is so multidimensional conversation in terms of how we build our immune system, how we create an immune system that's really complex. That's really important to have sophistication in immune system, that's one thing I've always admire about the tonic herbs specifically the medicinal mushrooms. For developing immune system like to start practicing --- and cold plunging and exposing your body to the elements so that you'll become more adaptable, more able to cope with swings, with temperature, and environment. Those are two things that I'd say, the other one is eating clay. 

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Mason: It's been around for quite some time, I've been back reading the books like Wild Health. It's about all animals eat clay, especially birds they eat a lot of clay because they're eating a lot of toxins coming in to the berries and fruits that they're eating, and elephants and all indigenous cultures as well especially here in Australia because they knew that the clay is negatively charged and it would bind all the toxicity they got from their diet, same also with zeolite and charcoal.

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Harriet: Is there any specific clay that you recommend? 

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Mason: I've been focusing on charcoal and just doing a little bit of bentonite clay because that's what I have at the moment but I want to get a wide variety of clays. Grab some green clay, some white clays, nothing in particular, always go in variety.

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Harriet: I love for you to share with us a little bit about you're story, a little bit of your upbringing. 

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Mason: I have really supportive parents, my parents are really awesome. I was never destined to just be pressured to living like school, Uni, magnified job and so they really encouraged me to travel, keep my mind really open. During University, that I started to get little frustrated about the way boarders ran the house, I'm doing an International business degree. I left Uni it was just everything that I can't handle in the world right now. When I got back from overseas I just jumped in to the health realm. I remember having thoughts as a kid, hearing statistics on cancer and diabetes. And really freaking out about my family members getting it.

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Mason:  One in two chance if you're a man of experiencing cancer at a young age, it really scared the s*** out of me. I just got over it, and I started looking around about how many people around me would be degenerating, how many people were unnecessarily having stroke. I just really wanted to contribute to the humans that were really trying to do something about, bringing about a greater sense of safety in people's body. 

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Harriet: You mentioned that you had a something happened in your arm that allowed your health to degenerate slightly, was that been a hard or challenging health aspect in your life that you've experienced until now?

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Mason: Not really. I think it was because I wasn't focused, I had systemic fungus. I remembered that coming out on my arms in High school and then it came up big time when I was living in Austria when you're living in a cold environment like that you're not getting much sun on your skin, you're covered up a lot of the time and so that's you're creating a hot sweaty environment on the skin, that's a perfect fungal breeding ground. I was suppressing my immune system with the junk food that I was eating.

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Mason: So I'm home and started doing a lot of green juicing, i started going up to the Blue Mountains and collecting my own spring water, because I just believe from the top layer of the Earth is detoxic for me, I deeply nourished my body. I went to some colon cleansing strategies within the space of three months, all my fungus just disappeared, and the whites of my eyes came back. I was just following my passion, it was exciting. I overcame it so quickly, I haven't personally had any real big health issues that I've had to overcome. I am passionate about helping people go through that process themselves. I really don't want watching people suffer. If I can in that area, I really like to support as many people to open their detox channels, nourish themselves with the basic elements, learn basic anatomy and physiology, such that they can be at the source of intentionally crafting a diet supplement regime, herbal philosophy.

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Harriet: I would love for you to share a little bit about your practice, a little bit about what you share with people to support their body to find balance.

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Mason: Sure thing. I've been focusing on my sleep a lot, because it's just a core part of health and that vibrancy so I'm just ensuring that  I don't have any Wi-Fi or electrics around my bed or within my bedroom, just ensuring that I can get as good night sleep as possible. When I wake up in the morning, I get up and go and scrape my tongue to make sure any of that bad bacteria that's made it's way out there comes up before I drink water, and I drink that with a little bit of MSM in it (Methylsulfonylmethane). It's a very important supplement over the years in ensuring that my joints stay nice and juicy, and my liver stays clean. 

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Mason: I particularly focus on getting my hips open and stretch my spine and my shoulders and then have a bit of crawl around the ground and move my body in a way that's nice and functional. I'll have a hot Elixir, I'll put their some hot tea or hot water put some medicinal mushrooms tonic herbs, with maybe some turmeric, maybe some cacao mix that with colostrum, a bit of honey and blend that up. I am a big fan of collecting spring water that's been an integral part of what I do. The other thing I'm focusing is my skin, getting my skin nice and clean. I highly recommend clear lights sauna no EMF, infrared is the way to go to help your body to mobilize toxicity. 

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Mason: I've kind of always have a focus on keeping my skin as vibrant as possible, so I'll make a little mix as skin scrub for the shower, I either use Bicarb and vodka or bicarb and apple cider vinegar I just make into a paste, I turn the cold water on after my sauna I'll get nice and cold in there. And then I'll turn the shower off, scrub myself down to the cloth with that skin scrub .Then get out, oil my body up with some coconut oil and If i get the opportunity, get out start naked in the sun. And it's another very important why I make sure that getting sun exposure and sun bathing is part of your life especially if you're dealing with illness, you want to be focusing on this it's so healing. And especially getting those areas that we always cover up, we know that cancers always will spring out on those places where the sun never gets access to.

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Mason: In terms of nutrition, wild green fruit is always brilliant. I'm loving the salads, little bit of veggies getting some local eggs on there. I'm a big fan of berries, high pigment foods and wild food if can get it, go to your farmer's market or just go to someone who is local who has a garden, if you can get a little bit closer to the source. Organic is good, can you talk to the person who's growing that organic food.

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Harriet: I'd love to turn the question over to you, what is real health to you, and why does it matter so much?

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Mason: If you can find all those multidimensional parts of you, that is a health freak, that part of you that is romantic, that wants to connect with other humans and connect with your planet and connect with your family, wants to ensure that your community is tendered, and also that part of you that wants to celebrate, and real health is constantly practicing it. And constantly expressing it.

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Harriet: What makes you come alive, what is your dance, what is your song? And how do you fully express that in yourself? Because it's such an important question and it really does, it really does bring you back to your ancestral root, it brings you back to who you are, and allows you to incorporate all the parts of you, the good , the bad, the ugly, everything.

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Mason: Just finding that sweet spot where they can all weave in together and really live together. 

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Harriet: What is one healthy living golden nugget you believe everyone should live by?

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Mason: The most relevant one for me at the moment is to really ensure, that apart from the culture you're creating for yourself embodies the organic presents of people, of situations or things that just have you laughing your head off every day.

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Harriet: What is your favorite movie right now?

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Mason: Hulk.

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Harriet: What is your favorite smell?

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Mason: At the moment Sage.

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Harriet: And your favorite food at this moment?

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Mason: Capers

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Harriet: Who is your hero currently?

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Mason: I don't have any current heroes, I got a baby on the way and I think that little thing in there is pretty heroic to me and same as my partner.

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Harriet: What is your favorite book?

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Mason: One of my favorite is The Secret Teachings of Plants by Stephen Harrod Buhner.

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Harriet: Is there any copies of equipment or portraying or another tool that you're really enjoying right now?

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Mason: I just a got a new Sauna, I got a new four pairs.

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Harriet: Have you got any personal habits or any cookie things that you do in your morning routine? Is there anything that you feel strongly contributes to your success on health?

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Mason: I just crawl around the house.

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Harriet: Who are three people who you recommend and get us in touch with that you'd love to see on a podcast just like this?

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Mason: I'll recommend , Benny Ferguson( The Movement Monk), Col Clayton, and as well as my cosmic George Kavassalis from I am Infinite

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Harriet: You have brought so much value to this, I don't know If I should tell you how many notes I've taken but there's quite a few. I'd love for you to share your sites so they can join your Newsletter and find out a little bit more about you.

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Mason: Awesome! You can find all my work over at MasonJtaylor.com. I send out newsletter weekly, I will share the latest podcast and at the same time just three or four points of what I'm up to during the week, what I'm reading and what I'm learning in relevant to the health. So you can constantly get a little bit of that inspiration. You can find the podcast there, if you're into that you'll like them. For the herbal goodness and the medicinal mushrooms and detox supplements you can find those at superfeast.com.au

Harriet: Mason, is there anything that you would like to leave any golden nuggets or any last piece of information that you would love to leave the listeners with.

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Mason: I would just like to remind everyone, no matter what we're going through inj regards to your health, don't take it seriously.

Harriet: Listeners, this has been Harriet Worth and Mason Taylor on The Naked Health Warriors Podcast, if you would like to see more of this make sure you subscribe so you can get some more content and we will talk to you and see very soon. Have an amazing day! Bye for now.

Hello and welcome to the Naked Health Warriors Podcast. Today, we have Philippa, and I am so excited to introduce [her] for a few reasons. Number one; she's brought a new term to my person, and that is the word "enthusiologist." She helps people discover optimum levels of enthusiasm on the planet, and if you are the kind of person who wants more enthusiasm for life, this is going to be for you. She's been really supporting people and engaging with them, [those] who feel lost. She's got a great program coming, which is kind of cool, and it's touching on something that a lot of people are becoming more and more aware of today, and that is Flourishing Future's Program, which touches on people's spiritual, emotional, mental and physical aspects of themselves. Welcome to the show, Philippa! 

 

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Philippa: Thank you very much for having me! 

Harriet: Amazing. I would love for you to give a little bit of a brief info on yourself, your business and a little bit about what you're up to right now.

Philippa: My name is Philippa Ross, and as they say, I do call myself an enthusiologist, because I'm a non-conformist and it was just really bad trying to find a title that said something about who I am, and how I show off in the world. I'm based in New Zealand and I'm 55 years old, so I've got a wealth of personal and professional wisdom behind me to actually help people.

Philippa: One of my projects at the moment, I've been working on my book for about six years, so it's past its gestation period. I really need to give birth to that [laughs] and it's called "Life's a Load of Balls: How to Master the Game of Life."

Philippa: I have put a program within that, but it's actually one way to expand my business.

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Harriet: Amazing, that sounds pretty cool! So you've got your book coming up; "Life's a Load of Balls" – I love the title! It's super intriguing, and I'm sure there's going to be some women who would love to read that.

Harriet: I would love for you to discuss and let us know a little bit about what's exciting for you in your business right now.

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Philippa: The exciting thing is actually expanding, connecting with so many people. It's really encouraging to know that so many people are working holistically nowadays. You know, yourselff within the health field, and it's the food side of things. For me, it's bringing the spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical aspects all together because it's really, really important that we have all aspects of that.

Philippa: So you can be well on one level, but the other levels are actually completely down. For me, the big part is educating people on what it means to feel whole and fulfilled.

Philippa: From my school days, I know how hard it is to relate to a lot of stuff and put it into layman's terms, so that's the purpose behind my book.

Harriet: Nice!

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Harriet: So you talk about the levels of spiritual, emotional, physical and mental aspects of self. I'd love for you to share – I mean, spirituality hasn't been around that long. In fact, it has been very frowned upon 30 to 40 years ago. So, how did you come across to these different levels? And how do you know when they're high or low?

Philippa: Spirituality – and I can say from experience – a lot of people align it with religion; and it's got absolutely bug-all to do with religion. It's really about discovering the essence of who you are. And understanding what your own needs are. There are a lot of rules and regulations in life as we go on, we take them all subconsciously; the conditions and things, all the things we say we shouldn't do. Really, the whole part of the program is to help people get in touch with that.

Philippa: And so emotionally, emotions are actually energy in motion.

Philippa: The mind, body, soul – it's all interconnected. It's really about connecting to yourself and listening to your body. So, from your own personal health aspect, when you take – when you eat certain foods, it's actually; how do you respond to that food?

Philippa: A lot of information we get is from our five senses, and so all that we receive – all the data – through our five senses is really creating an awareness around what stimulates/invigorates your own senses the most and what you need aligning with that.

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Philippa: It's a matter of creating awareness. Did you take time to step outside of it and establish your own rules, basically.

Harriet: Wow – awareness for establishing your own rules. That's definitely one statement that a lot of people are taking way too lightly.

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Harriet: We do create so many rules for ourselves, and the more aware we become that there are no rules, and we can just create our own rules, the more flexible and the more enjoyable our life will truly become. 

Philippa: Hence the name of my book, "Life's a Load of Balls," – it's because the love of those rules are balls, and it's for us to establish whether they actually serve our game or not. And it's also [that] those balls of balls of energy, and that's the level of my work. To me, it's a great title because it says a lot.

Harriet: It truly does.

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Harriet: I would love for you to share a little bit of your story and your past, so we can kind of get to know about your upbringing. What's been influencing you – positive and, obviously, the negative – and feel free to be as open and honest as you like. Every single person has a different journey as to what's brought them to this moment in time. 

Philippa: The big thing for me was failure. That one stuck out. Over the years I've come to see it as an amazing thing to look at, to teach lessons. I went to a convent, and so therein lies a lot of rules and pressure and all the rest of it. I was born in England, and so I took my English Language O Levels – I recalled six times, three different boards, successfully managed to fail all of them, and was told I was illiterate. But, fortunately my parents were not concerned with the results of exams – and I think that brings a lot of pressure nowadays – and it was more to do with common sense. Mum said common sense would prevail.

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Philippa: Once I got early 30's, and my son was born, I wanted to find out more about child development to be the best mum that I could be. All the baby books were a bit bland, so I discovered with the Open University a course about child development. So I did that one. It really suited me because it started February, finished October. I'm kind of an all-or-nothing kind of person, so it fitted in with my family – and I had two part-time jobs.

Philippa: Then the next year, I got another module, and that gave me an advance to primary child development. And then my son started primary school, and there was a module about education.

Philippa: And then I suddenly realized that I was halfway through a degree and – you know, if you'd said to me at the start to do a degree, having failed English Language, I would never have ever contemplated it.

Philippa: But because I was learning something that was dear to my heart – and that's the whole point of me, the essence of life is aligning yourself with something that really lights up your heart. So I carried on.

Philippa: And after 6 years, I acquired an honest degree in Psychology, and there was no one more pleased than myself.

Philippa: Fast forward; I've miscarried, I've had a house repossess, I had a violent husband, I've had two divorces. There've been various things throughout life. We all had different things that happen to us for a reason, but it's actually seeing the blessing in – what was at the time – painful, and how it actually served us and gives us the lessons in life.

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Harriet: That's brilliant! So, you've shared a little bit about the journey for you. I'd love for you to tell a story about a place in your life where you've said; enough is enough, and you decided on a different path in your life, and what some of the steps were that the listeners can maybe align with too.

Philippa: We've been in New Zealand for about three years, and my "enough is enough" was – my children were teenagers, and I didn't really know at that time, because I failed through menopause, but I think I was a bit really tetchy [laughs]. So, with hormonal teenagers and me going through menopause, and my husband at the time was a real authoritarian, due to his background, and so on and so forth. I could feel myself really drained, and it really wasn't aligned.

Philippa: It was really hard, but it probably took me a year to build up the courage to actually leave the marriage. The guilt that I carried with me for breaking that up…

Philippa: But for me, the lesson was about doing what was important to myself. It's so hard; we do compromise so much for ourselves, because of society's conditions; I should stay in this marriage, I should support my husband.

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Philippa: I was better off on my own. So, yeah. It took a year to basically really change things around. And that's what made the difference for me. I really came into my own after that. And that was about nine years ago.

Harriet: Wow.

Harriet: So how did you move yourself from a place of getting the blame and receiving the blame and feeling like you were to blame, to where you are today?

Philippa: It's a process, because I'm with teenage children as well, and with a mother-daughter relationship. My daughter, at the time – she wasn't backwards in coming forward and telling me what a b**** I was, and all the rest of it. It's a matter of sitting with yourself, and for me – and this is where the book came out – it was cathartic for me.

Philippa: Like all of us, we do our work to help ourselves—

Harriet: Absolutely.

Philippa: -- and then we realize how much we can help other people through it. It was a journey of self-discovery, and connecting those dots. And seeing how I could serve humanity and the planet.

Philippa: It's really about balancing it and honoring the diversity of life and not doing what society expects of us.

Philippa: Because we change over time, and that's the important thing; to really keep reassessing things and doing what energizes you.

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Harriet: I love it. That's such a super important message for a lot of women, because we find ourselves being slaves to everyone else's need. Especially if – if you do have a husband, and you do have kids, and you do have a job, life is like this balancing act.

Harriet: How did you truly get your life into balance after that? Because, obviously there were kids that got annoyed, there's houses that needs to split up. What was your experience of balancing everything back into order? 

Philippa: I think the important thing is to be honest. As a parent, this is one of the reasons I want my program to go into schools – it's for teachers and parents, because we're the biggest influence on children.

Philippa: It's about being open and honest about how you feel and taking ownership of your own feelings. In the moment, children and teenagers – we react because we're stressed out. We feel we've got to do X, Y, and Z. Really, it's about taking three deep breaths and thinking; okay, I've actually got my knickers in a knot here. It's got nothing to do with the child. 

Philippa: You're out shopping with a small child, and you're stressed out. They're tired and so they're crying. It's actually about just taking that time to love and nurture the child. Forget all the people around you who are looking at you because your child's screaming.

Philippa : Loving yourself and honoring that moment that you're actually in. That's the really, really important thing. 

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Harriet: I'd love for you to expand on something that caught my eye, and that was – or, my ears –

Philippa: [laughs]

Harriet: -- and that was; so you love creating honesty and opening up the waves of conversation. How do you go from a place where two people are not – they want to play to opening the waves? How does that look for a lot of people? 

Philippa: It's really about creating the space and not feeling pressure to resolve something in that moment.

Philippa: When you're highly emotional, then you're not in the right place to resolve something, and it's actually saying; I'm feeling really stressful. I can't think straight the moment. I hear what you're saying.

Philippa: Feedback to the other person what you're hearing and saying; can we just leave this? And come back to it?

Philippa: Because we always feel pressure to deal with it there and then. 

Harriet: Nice.

Harriet: So asking; "Can we come back to it?"

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Philippa: "I need space to sort this out. I'm not able to resolve this in the moment because I'm too emotionally involved in it." – it's stepping away and giving yourself – it's time and space. It's a huge thing. 

Harriet: Nice.

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Harriet: Just to reiterate to the listeners; I need space. I'm not able to resolve this right now –whether is emotional, physical, mental, whatever. And then give the feedback; can we come back to it?

Harriet: And if they say yes, then come back to it. If they say no, then they clearly don't have the patience you have that exact moment, and it needs to be reiterated.

Philippa: And it's about honoring yourself in the moment you need it. You're saying that that's what you need. Again, it's about building that respectful relationship.

Harriet: Nice. That's pretty cool! That's pretty exciting.

Harriet: I know a lot of women who find themselves in that situation, and that's such a – that's such a gem!

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Harriet: What would you say is one of the things that listeners should do right now to make a movement today towards being that – how would you put it? That spiritual, emotional, mental and physical aspect of themselves. How can they move there now? What can they do? 

Philippa: I think its breathing.

Philippa: It's one of the big things. It's giving itself that space. We breathe subconsciously, but it's conscious breathing. Just as us girls might do our pelvic floor exercises and nobody's any the wiser, it's really about taking three deep breaths.

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Philippa: If you practice throughout the day consciously breathing, you're really slowing the rhythm of the body down and giving yourself time to – connecting to that moment and disconnect from whatever's making you frazzled. That's one of the big things.

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Philippa: The other thing is smiling.

Philippa: Even if you feel like s***, it's actually – put a smile on your face and if you hold it, just keep smiling. It's amazing that it actually transforms the endorphins in the body and you actually end up genuinely smiling. It makes you smile inside and [it] has a huge, powerful effect.

Philippa: Find something funny to watch or something. Laughter's the best medicine. It's a real way for shifting your energy. 

Harriet: Awesome! Wow.

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Harriet: So there's three really cool things that Philippa mentioned just then. The first one is conscious breathing. The really amazing thing I found out about it – I learned something myself today – is that it kind of turns your adrenals off.  They can't operate. Which is cool! So you've got to go in-freight and then out-freight.

Harriet: Secondly, smiling.

Harriet: Thirdly, laughter. And holding both of those until it feels authentic.

Philippa: Yes!

Harriet: Nice. I love it!

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Harriet: Philippa if you could go back in time – twenty, thirty, forty, however many years – and tell your old self one thing, what would that be?

Philippa: It would be; "Be true to yourself. The fact that you have a life is purpose enough, and you don't need to prove yourself to anybody."

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Harriet: The Naked Health Warriors talks a lot about real health, real happiness, real wealth. What do you feel real health means to you? It's different for every single person.

Philippa: Real health to me is a true expression of yourself being authentic.

Philippa: Otherwise you're compromising yourself. You're wearing a mask to `try and fit in and you were born to stand out. 

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Harriet: What's most important to you about your personal health? What matters to you about your personal health? 

Philippa: Appreciation.

Philippa: Honoring the diversity of life; that's huge to me. People and the planet. You just look around you, and there's just some amazing – we judge people/books by their covers, and even the homeless person on the street? They have an amazing story to tell. Everybody's got special nuggets.

Philippa: Compassion, I think, it's a huge, huge thing.

Harriet: Nice.

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Harriet: And how do you practice appreciation? How do you get into a state of true appreciation?

Philippa: I do what's called my AA Rescue Remedy, which is appreciation and acknowledgement. A part of it's the journey to get to know yourself, but it's actually acknowledging the traits that you like about yourself. And that is huge. 

Philippa: For me – I have an enthusiastic character. I'm optimistic and bubbly. I have a great sense of humor. But I also have an insatiable appetite for learning – which is quite ironic, having failed school—

Harriet: [laughs]

Philippa: It's just really acknowledging – the small things in life.

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Philippa: Acknowledgment of yourself and appreciating what is around you.

Philippa: And as far as meditation is concerned; a lot of people think you have to kind of be zen and think nothing. It's not. It's really about putting yourself in a state of being. It's to do with the energy, and that's our state of being.

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Harriet: Nice.

Harriet: That's pretty cool. I was going to add, but you expanded on it. I was going to say, one of the things I love to do every morning is I put on my child-like appreciation for the world. I am like a three-year-old. I look at everything around me, and I'm like; "Hello, light! Hello, sofa! Good morning, puppy!"

Harriet: I just get grateful for every single thing that my eyes can see.

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Philippa: It's awesome you said that, because for me, play is one of my big things. I'm a big child myself. It's recapturing the child-like spirit. That's the big thing.

Harriet: Nice. Capturing your child-like spirit.

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Harriet: Speaking of your spirit, what is one Healthy Living Golden Nugget that you believe that everyone should live by? 

Philippa: Smiling. 

Harriet: And how often you would prescribed said smiling? 

Philippa: Every morning and every night. Whenever you can! Challenge yourself; while you're walking down the street, just look at people in the eye and smile at them. It is contagious.

Harriet: Nice. And I like that you said looking people in the eye when you smile. Because you can smile at the world. They say "smile at the world, and the world will smile at you," but I feel like, if you actually smile at someone and you have an exchange of energy, you can really take the energy throughout your day.

Philippa: Absolutely. Makes a world of difference.

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Harriet: Let's head into the QuickFire Questions Round, and we will wrap up. Are you ready?

Philippa: Ready!

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Harriet: What is the best advice for your industry you've ever received? 

Philippa: Be patient with your impatience. 

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Harriet: Can you share one of your personal habits that your strongly believe contributes to your successful health?

Philippa: My optimism and enthusiasm. 

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Harriet: What is one technological piece of equipment, app, book, training or some kind of tool that your body and mind and spirit cannot live without? 

Philippa: My laptop, which has died, so thanks goodness for my iPad. 

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Harriet: And who's your hero?

Philippa: My children. 

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Harriet: What is your favorite smell? 

Philippa: Roses

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Harriet: What is your favorite movie?

Philippa: The Last Station.

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Harriet: And what is the book that you are currently reading? 

Philippa: The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet.

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Harriet: What is the health industry missing? What does the world need most right now?

Philippa: Education to help children value what's in themselves. I think it will have an exponential effect on physical health and will reduce disease and have a huge effect on justice, the social system and so much more. 

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Harriet: And lastly; who are three people who you know personally who you could recommend that we have to have on this podcast? 

Philippa: My friend and colleague Kim Knight. She calls herself the Kiwi Detective. Katherine Newton. She is a women's business coach. And the third one would be – I have to leave it at those two, because there's so many to choose from. I just feel sad if I leave somebody out. Sorry!

Harriet: That sounds good. 

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Harriet: There's going to be some of people who are interested to know about your book [and] a little bit about what you're up to right now. How can they find more about you, and a little about what you do and what you have to offer to the world?

Philippa: My website: www.philippaross.com and that's Philippa which is p-h-i-l-i-p-p-a, Ross r-o-s-s. And I'm also on Facebook as: Philippa Ross Enthusiologist. 

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Harriet: And I would love you to share any parting last comments with the listeners or anything that you would love for them to have in their day.

Philippa: Just honor yourself. Your life is a really precious gift. Wherever you are, know that you are not alone. Reach out, find somebody to talk to. Don't struggle. Instead of being stuck in the moment, know that it will change, and look at all the amazing things that you have achieved. And create your own yardstick for what life means to you, as supposed to doing what everybody else thinks that you should be doing. 

Harriet: What a brilliant message!

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Harriet: Thank you so much for being in the show. Thank you for expanding on what it means to you, to be an Enthusiologist, and thanks for sharing so much about your history and what you're up to right now. Super exciting!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello and welcome to today's podcast! I'm so excited to bring someone truly phenomenal to you today. This is Jay McDonald, Jay, welcome to the house! 

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Jay: Hey, thank you so much for having me. I'm super excited to be here. 

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Harriet: Awesome!

Harriet: Jay is man on a mission to help others find comfort in their own skin – something that so many us women are truly passionate about. And we've got some interesting stories coming your way, because Jay is an interesting human. He's also been anorexic and obese, so he can relate to so many people, and I hope that he can relate you.

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Harriet: Jay, share with the listeners a little bit about you and what you're up to right now. 

Jay: My mission right now, like you said, is to find others find comfort in their own skin. I do international online fitness and nutrition coaching, and I use what's called the No Restrictions Nutrition Principles, as well as the Train Smarter, Not Harder protocols.

Jay: I found that, growing up, I came from a very, very obese family. I came from a very, very loving family and food was one of those ways to show love. Unfortunately, I'm not Italian, so we weren't the best cooks, but we definitely did enjoy food. Growing up I was very, very overweight. And I couldn't understand why. I always thought that; oh, I'm just destined to be this way.  One day, I just that kind of click moment and realized that my genes, my genetics don't determine the size of my jeans. And that's when fitness kind of started from me.

Most people don't know this, but I was actually a professional musician for years as well, and the music industry is very, very, obviously aesthetically focused, so I got introduced to fitness in order to change my body to please the audience for my music career. That is what took me beyond that, to the other extreme.

Jay: So, being from both ends of the spectrum, I can relate – or try my best to relate – with everyone who's on their fitness journey.

 Harriet: Awesome.

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Harriet: Wow, that's so exciting. You were a musician for a long time. What was your expertise? 

Jay: My expertise was drumming.

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Harriet: Awesome! So, obviously, the typical associations with drummers is eating greasy burgers and fries. What was it like for you when you were experiencing that side of yourself?

Jay: What's interesting is, at that point in time, when I was trying to educate myself on fitness and nutrition and how to lose body fat, I learned one thing; and that was that, if I burn more energy that I consume, my body fat goes down.

Jay: Regardless, the only issue with that was that I continued to do that, and I took it to a very, very deep, dark place. I also developed what's called orthorexia, which is the fear of food. So, for a very, very long time, I did not eat salt, I did not eat sugar, I did not eat white flour – I was essentially, completely, and totally in a state of deprivation. And I mean that physically and mentally. We only have so much self-control. 

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Harriet: I'd love to hear a little bit more about what those are, the no restriction nutrition protocols. 

Jay: So my belief is, and based on Science, is that, again, if you burn more energy than you consume, you're guaranteed to lose body fat. If you were using a car, for example; say it takes $50 of gas to drive to the nearest town. If you only pump in $48, you're not going get there. If you pump in $48 of premium, you're still not going to get there.

Jay: And I find what happens with a lot of people is that when they decide to go on a fat-loss journey, they go to the cupboards and they throw out all their favorite foods, and they throw out any of their favorite snacks, and that kind of thing. They opt for organic groceries and things like that, that might not necessarily be their favorite thing. Sooner or later, they start to lose self-control. So, what I promote is eating what you want, when you want, as long as it fits into macronutrient targets, and that's what brings caloric value to our food. 

Harriet: That make sense. Okay, that's really cool. Thanks for sharing that.

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Harriet: I would love to hear a little bit about what's got you so excited about this business, and what's currently growing for you and expanding, when it comes to what you're doing in the health sector. 

Jay: The coolest thing for me about this business, and the most exciting part, is that I can literally do it from anywhere. I had started in a gym as a certified personal trainer, did that for a few years, and the issue that I found that I was having with people was that I could only get hands-on for an hour with one person or two people, or three people maximum. The most exciting part for me about my business or my industry is that I get to do it from anywhere in the world essentially and I get to do it from online. 

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Jay: I found the issue I was having was that I could only help one to say maybe three people at a time, when I wanted to help a much, much larger audience. And I've had people argue that; well, you know, isn't it better to be hands-on?

Jay: That may be correct in certain scenarios, but if someone is going from absolutely nothing to – now they're in the gym, or now they're being active, or now they're tracking their nutrition, or now they're taking steps towards a healthier lifestyle – I am totally about that life.

Jay: The most gratifying thing for me is being able to have freedom and help other people achieve that same freedom in their own body. 

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Harriet: When it comes to having freedom and being able to coach from anywhere in the world, who's your kind of favorite client? Who's your favorite person to work with and see results in?  

Jay: Honestly, for me? My personal favorite is young women. I have a baby sister and to me, there is nothing more exciting than seeing someone feel empowered and confident in their skin. I feel like today, young women especially are attacked just vigorously through social media, in the sense that they have to have the "perfect body." Once they have said "perfect body," now they have to display that perfect body.

Jay: And the thing for me is, I am all about female empowerment and young women being strong and confident and smart. But at the end of the day, you don't have to be naked to show your results. If you want to, power to you. That's fantastic. But I just feel like  there is so much pressure on young women from every direction and having a younger sister like that, I just feel like that really hits close to home and that is the most gratifying thing. 

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Harriet: Nice. So they're like – they love their reflection that's looking back them, and they're so much happier with themselves.

Jay: Absolutely.

Harriet: I love that, that's so cool.

Harriet: I definitely resonate with your message about women are hounded in the media. And it's not just about, you know, you have to be naked to show results. It's like every single place that you look, whether it's on a magazine or the television, online, or on your Facebook ads – it's always stuff telling you that you're not good enough. "Ah, you need this latest cream." "You need this latest thing." "You need to go to this thing, you should do that thing, you need to have your lips a certain way."

Harriet: There's so much noise out there, and so it's great and it's refreshing to have someone who's got such a different message about helping women's self-confidence. I think that's pretty cool. 

Jay: Totally.

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Jay: I think the thing for me is that I m a very, very firm believer in this statement that; "The me I see is the me I'll be." Often, I get women – or men, men as well – come to me and say; "I'm fat. I want your help." And the first thing I tell them, straight off the bat, is; you are not fat.

Jay: You might be holding some body fat, but you're not fat. You know what I mean? You might make mistakes, but you're not a failure.

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Jay: I'm about finding comfort on your skin. It's not about just fat loss. Some of this women want to be stronger. Some of this men want to be stronger. Some of them need to gain weight. It goes on both ends of the spectrum. At the end of the day, if what you see looking back at you is enough for you to smile, that's the biggest thing.

Jay: Like I say, I have been – I like to joke around and call it "manorexic" – and I have been the one that got called "fatty fatty two-by-four." I've been to both ends, and right now, I sit in a very comfortable place.

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Jay: Nobody notices anything. I get to be comfortable.

Harriet: It's just you. It's just the movie that's playing for you.

Jay: Totally! It's all this scenario that we've made up in our heads.

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Jay: At the end of the day, people forget that different societies are attracted to different things. Not everybody likes the rail-thin model that you see. Not everybody likes the plus-size models. Everybody out there has somebody that's going to be attractive to them, and if that's the thing that were seeking out – that tribe mentality where we need a community – you're perfect just the way you are. 

Harriet: That's brilliant.

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Harriet: Jay, would you share little bit – you talked slightly before about your sister and how part of this is for her, as such. Would you share a little about your upbringing, what influences you had, positive and negative? I guess a little bit about your story. I think it's important to show [that] even you're doing great right now you, you've had some challenges. It's great for the listeners to hear that challenges can be overcome. They don't always have to be there. They can be moved.

Jay: Totally!

Jay: For me, growing up, I was a very, very self-conscious kid. Like I said, I came from – half of my family was overweight, and the other half was yogis, so very, very healthy. There's always this, like, inner battle at the dinner table where things had to be portioned for me.

Jay: At the time, I totally hated it. Now, I'm so thankful for the things that were instilled and ingrained in me. Growing up, my parents went through a very messy divorce. I was back and forth between parents' house. The thing for me is that food was the one thing I could control. I learned right away that if I was having a bad day? Have a cookie, right? If I was having a great day? Celebrate. Have a cookie. So, going through those scenarios, I was overweight up until essentially the end of high school. I always went to food as my means of happiness and my means of control.

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Jay: When I was sixteen, my oldest brother commits suicide and that was something that totally threw my family for a loop. It was very, very, very difficult and that I think to me is what instilled this idea of you mean more than you know.

Jay: We have so much to give to the world, and in my opinion, if there's anything that you're doing – if you know how to do something that someone else doesn't know how to do, and you can improve other's lives? How dare you not do that.

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Jay: For me, I've kind of been through many, many scenarios. I've dealt with divorce, I've dealt with suicide, I've dealt with murder. So many of these things that everybody goes through on day-to-day basis.

Jay: But my mindset, I believe, is something that keeps me moving forward. There is truly a silver lining to every single scenario we're in. The event plus your reaction equals the outcome.

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Jay: That being said, through every scenario, I've been able to continue and grow. It's kind of like the torpedo scenario. A torpedo doesn't pick its target and go directly to it. It finds the target, it knows where it's going, and then it fails because it steers off to the left, off to the right, little bit up, little bit down – and it fails, fails, fails – over and over and over, until it reaches that goal.

Jay: And one of the biggest things that I've learned through my raising is that everybody has this idea of this big picture, this big thing that they have to accomplish – almost to the point where it gives people day-to-day anxiety.

Jay: At the end of the day, it's all of these little successes that we make at every minute, in every moment, that add up to that big picture. And that's the biggest thing that I've learned from my raising to keep in mind.

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Harriet: Nice. Can I just say; wow. You know, I've interviewed quite a few people, and I've interviewed some really successful people, some averagely successful people, but it's so awesome to hear the amount of stuff that you kind of had happen to you is insane. One of the true metaphors of life, I believe, is remaining sane in insane places and really knowing how to come out of a spin.

Harriet: It's pretty cool, man.

Jay: Thank you.

Harriet: I really appreciate you sharing your story, thanks so much. 

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Harriet: You talked about some silver linings, you talked about the torpedo metaphor – which I loved. What's been the real metaphor and the real turning point for you for change for your life? Did you have to go all the way to the bottom of the pile? What was the bottom of the pile? How was your experience from that?

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Jay: I've heard the saying so many times that it's the calm before the storm and I think that's absolutely, totally ridiculous and backwards.

Jay: It, to me, is always the storm before the calm. I'm a very firm believer in "the me I see is the me I'll be," and manifesting, and creating the life that we want to live. One of the biggest things is, if you have that big picture in mind and you know it and resolve this, it literally does not matter what happens to you.

Jay: I like to think that you kind of get a one-two punch in the gut, and if you're able to withstand that, you take another ten steps forward. It's like climbing; you're hiking. Just because you trip and scrape your knee, doesn't mean the hike's over. You can keep going.

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Harriet: It's so true, because life – it's not like there's going to be one point where we're like; right! I've solved all my problems. What's next? There's always going to be something that's coming up that's going to allow us to grow.

Harriet: Because if we're not growing, we're doing the opposite.

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Jay: I learned that at such an early age, because, like I said before I had even graduated high school, I was signed to a major label and playing music as a profession. I kind of got to live every 18 years old dream.

Jay: One of the biggest things I learned is that I can be proud, but never satisfied.

Jay: What I mean by that, because it's a dangerous saying if you take it the wrong way, but when we were going, you know, when we first started, we would do anything to be able to play for an audience. And then we did it. There was nothing we wanted more on the Earth than to be on the radio. And then we did it. At that point there was nothing that we would do more on the Earth – we would get anything to be on Much Music and have our music video playing on popular television.

Jay: And then I remember walking past my TV and being like; oh, the video's on, and just getting on with my day.

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Jay: So these things are all these little stepping stones that, again, add up to that big picture but if you don't enjoy the process, if you don't enjoy the journey, what are you doing? 

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Harriet: Awesome.

Harriet: I've got a question for you about recipes. What would you say is one of the recipes that you're a real positive advocate for when it comes to helping people achieve their ideal level of health?

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Jay: The ideal recipe in my opinion is measurement. What gets measured gets managed.

Jay: With my programming, I do what's called No-Restrictions nutrition coaching. So, for certain individuals, when they go on some type of health and fitness journey, they immediately remove all of the things that they love.

Jay: At the end of the day, everything should be in moderation in my opinion, because I don't think that North America – or the planet – has an obesity problem. I think everybody has a rebound problem.

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Jay: Most people are not overweight by choice. They simply just don't know. And the biggest thing is by cutting everything out, they immediately get to a place of running out of self-control. Just like your gas talk, we only have so much.

Jay: But, if you're measuring your intake, you can manage your body weight.

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Jay: I know that it is so incredibly easy to go out and rack up a ten thousand calorie cheat meal, just because of the way food is in today's society. It's not hard; you know, you go to the movies and get some popcorn. You get some ice cream after. You get pizza, you have a bottle of wine – whatever it is that's your cheat.

Jay: Versus, say you had 200 calories of ice cream. You had it literally every day of the week, for seven days a week. Seven times two is only 1,400 calories, so at the end of the day, when you look at the moderation factor, you're staying on track, you're taking the die out of diet. You're living a healthy, hopefully active, lifestyle. You're getting the best of both worlds.

Jay: Does that make sense?

Harriet: It does.

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Harriet: The key factor that I love there is you really cannot manage if you're not measuring. So many people – "ah, I'll just go to the gym," or "I'm just going to eat this thing." It's so important to actually understand. It's like Math; it's like the petrol, the diesel.

Harriet: If you don't know how much you're putting in, you don't want to stop two miles before you get to the next town. You want to know exactly what you're putting in so you can figure out. Everyone has a recipe, everyone has a system, that's going to really work for them. Until you can truly measure it, you really can't manage what you're doing and you can't compare results you can't test. 

Jay: Exactly!

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Jay: One of the biggest things that I run into so often too is that eating something that is healthy doesn't always mean that you're eating toward your goals.

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Jay: I always, always recommend and encourage nutrient-dense – like, as healthy as possible --but, when it comes down to the end of day, it's about measuring your intake.

 

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Harriet: That's such a great, simple take away, for any single person who is on the journey. And I know, being a woman, and you obviously been through this experience yourself – it's so easy to be feeling something. Be feeling not so great about yourself, feeling unconfident, feeling uncomfortable in your body; "Ah, I'll use this tool, this food thing to get me there a lot faster," when really? It's actually something on the inside that needs to be changed, that needs to be adapted, that needs to be edited, that needs to be loved, realistically.

Jay: Absolutely.

Jay: When that seed is planted, that seed of self-love and the idea that you mean so much more than you know, that's going to be the ultimate picture. 

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Jay: Because if all we're doing is seeking out this gratification from others – looking for the likes on Instagram, looking for the screenshots on Snapchat, looking for the shares on Facebook – it's deferred loneliness. We're not going to get that gratification that we deserve. And I'm a very, very firm believer that every person on this planet is worth everything.

Jay: Think about the single people that have made impacts on this Earth. Everything starts with a domino effect. Everything starts somewhere. I've heard so many times, people say before; oh, you know, you're just a speck of dust in the universe. If someone was to say that to me, the conversation's over.

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Harriet: I've definitely had a few people mention to me about the speck of dust thing, before, and here's what I always say; "even if you are one speck of dust, it only takes one speck of dust to truly change the world."

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Harriet: Even though you may only be one speck of dust, if you just change one person's life – one person that was suicidal. One person that had an awful upbringing. One person that wanted to love themself more. That's just a vibrational effect that's going to affect so, so many people. I love that you brought that up and that's the truth that I feel.

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Jay: I could not agree more.

Jay: Even while you're just saying that, I just thought of something that I thought was kind of funny. You think about sneezing. What does it take to make someone sneeze? I'm a 200-pound individual. It only takes a speck of dust for me to straight up, drop what I'm doing, smash a glass on the floor, and sneeze in my hands. You know what I mean? It only takes two or three grains of sand to ruin your sandwich and destroy the picnic on the beach. So, the next person that tells me that I'm a speck of a dust, I'm going to put sand in their sandwich. 

Harriet: [laughs]

Harriet: I think I'd just smash that glass.

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Harriet: Normally, I ask people about their time travel moments. You know, if they go back twenty years, what would they tell their old self?

Harriet: But I feel, for some reason, I've got this different question coming up from me, and I just love the vibration that we're on. What would you say are your top three proudest moments that you've experienced in your life? 

Jay: My top three proudest moments.

Harriet: Yup!

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Jay: I think the first three that come to mind is when I was playing in that band again. We were on a radio competition, it was a local competition, and the grand prize for what was called the Emp Radio Rockstar Challenge at that time was $200,000. We had five guys who were on the same vibration, following the same energy, had the same amount of excitement and the same belief that were going to win.

Jay: We were the underdogs, and we came out from underneath, and we won that challenge. And that challenge provided us with funding and the confidence to do so many things and have so many amazing life experiences.

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Jay: Number two was, I think, I don't know why this comes to mind but; kissing my Dad on the cheek. Getting out of the car in high school. I have always been in a family that was very affectionate, and it was always – you know it's so not cool and so taboo to show affection like that in the public, especially for two essentially grown man to show affection that way.

Jay: I remember kissing my dad on the cheek, getting out, and walking across the grass towards the school, and seeing five of my friends being like; what is this guy doing? I remember thinking to myself; you guys are totally missing out.

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Jay: I think the third greatest moment in my life was winning the marshmallow challenge.

Harriet: Winning the marshmallow challenge?

Jay: Oh, yes! That is a test of stamina, strength, self-control, flexibility. I mean, I put a serious amount of marshmallows in my mouth.

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Harriet: That's awesome and it just shows [and] allows your personality to shine through, Jay, because being fun is so important in life. We've been all this serious in this podcast, we've gone a little bit deep into your history and your past and things that motivate you, but really? The funnest moment in life are when you're just being with your true self. You're being real and you're like; "Hey, I've got twenty marshmallows in my mouth, and said fluffy bunny, and it kind of sounded like something silly, but I did that because it brought me joy". And I love that.

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Harriet: The Naked Health Warriors Podcast is all about getting back to the basics, getting back to the essentials. Stripping bare of all this stuff that society is tells us. When it comes to real health – you see Jay, its different for every single human being so what does it mean to you; real health and why is it so important? 

Jay: Real Health to me means feeling strong, feeling confident. Being able to touch your toes in the morning. Being able to keep up with your kids. Being able to go hiking and experience the things that nature's provided us. Being able to move our bodies, eat the things that we love and still have the results that we want.

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Harriet: Let's wrap up and head into the QuickFire Round.

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Harriet: What is your number one favorite movie?

Jay: Stepbrothers.

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Harriet: What is your favorite smell?

Jay: Lavender.

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Harriet: What is your favorite food?

Jay: Ice cream.

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Harriet: Who is your current hero? 

Jay: Christian Hiscock. 

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Harriet: What is the most effective thing that you do? 

Jay: Brush my teeth every day. 

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Harriet: What is your favorite technological piece of equipment, app, book, or training that you cannot live without?

Jay: Wireless headphones.

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Harriet: What is the health industry missing right now? 

Jay: My website on the billboard. 

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Harriet: What is the weirdest thing that you do.

Jay: Ahh, we can't go there. 

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Harriet: What is the most powerful question that you ask yourself every day?

Jay: Back to the weirdest thing that I do? I eat everything with teaspoons, and I don't know why.

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Harriet: What is your favorite thing to feel?

Jay: Excitement

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Harriet: Last question. Who are the top three people that you believe and you can connect the Naked Health Warriors to that should be featured on this show. 

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Jay: I believe that Colette Streicher should be featured in this show. She is the MAP coach, the founder of MAP, and she is the founder of manifesting all possibilities, and she has been absolutely phenomenal in my life. Honestly, I believe my father should be on this show. He's very, very successful in the direct sales industry and he has ingrained so many brilliant things in my life. And the third person I believe should be on this show; this a tough one.

Jay: Mark Eddie. He was my first manager in a gym that I ever trained at and to this day I still find myself texting that guy and say "Hey what you think about this, what do you think about that" The guy is just brilliant and functional and physical movement.

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Harriet: That was so cool. That was awesome, and I think that you brought some really powerful, just amazing metaphors. 

[00:40:22]

Harriet: So, Jay, I'm sure there is a message that you would love to leave to the listeners, but before we do that, I would love to share – there's going to be some people that are interested in finding out a little bit more about you.

Harriet: I know that you have a great newsletter. How can they find you? What's your website?

[00:40:41] 

Jay: The best way to reach me is my website which is www.jayrfit.com, or my Instagram, which is @jayrfit and lastly on Facebook, just like everyone else alive. It's Jay McDonald. 

[00:41:09]

Harriet: Is there any message that you would love to leave the listeners with so they kind of are able to take a little bit of you for the day. 

[00:41:19]

Jay: You mean more than you know. 

Harriet: You mean more than you know. Care to entertain us with a little bit more? 

Jay: It doesn't matter where you are right now in your health and fitness journey, it doesn't matter where you're going as long as you don't let a speed bump turn into a road block, you're going to get there, and where you are at right now is where you're supposed to be because you're the one you got yourself there. So take a moment, enjoy where you are, know that you're worth it, and take the next step forward. 

 

Show notes Podcast Recording [Natalie Vail][Harriet Worth]

 

Hello and welcome to today's episode of The Naked Health Warriors Podcast. Today, I have Rev. Dr. Natalie Vail and I am super excited to intro her, mainly because she's Rev. Dr. Natalie Vail, and that's just super cool itself. She is a cutting-edge holistic practitioner. And what's really cool about her; she's also the owner of the private practice down here in San Diego called Soulistic Total Health, which specializes in acupuncture, intuitive readings and energy healings. I feel that there's nothing this woman cannot do, so I'm super excited to introduce you Natalie to our show. 

 

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Natalie: Perfect, thank you so much Harriet. It is an honor to be a part of your show and I am really excited to be here today as well. 

 

Harriet: Amazing! I would love for you to give maybe a brief introduction of you and your business, and what's really exciting for you about what you're doing right now.

 

 

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Natalie: Great! So as you mentioned, I'm a doctor of Eastern medicine and an ordained Spiritualist minister. So, what I'm really great at is combining more of the body-mind connection with the spiritual side as well. I really got so involved in this body-mind connection from an early age, and was always wondering how I was going to combine this.

 

Natalie: It was through a series of lots of events and lots of trainings and doing things all over the world that have led me to create my own modality of healing, where I synchronize my natural abilities into this kind of cohesive whole.

 

Natalie: Right now, I'm offering multifaceted treatment and I'm helping people go deep and really work towards their ultimate wellness. Through these treatments, people are getting a lot of relief from symptoms more at the core level, because they're feeling more empowered and they're feeling that they're more connected to their own intuition, and therefore can move into more self-mastery and reach their highest self!

 

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Harriet: Wow! That is so very cool!

 

Harriet: So, you say you've been very intuitive from a young age. I'd love for you to share a little about your upbringing and what's been influencing you – positive and negative – to do this great, brilliant work that you're doing right now? 

 

Natalie: I was seeing a lot of, what we would call, ghosts from a very early age. I was really fortunate that I was able to have parents that were dialed in and they had already kind of gone through their awakening and were in the New Age – this was back in the 80's. They were able to recognize these talents in me and really encouraged them, and helped me to develop [them].

 

Natalie: I started training with my mother who was a registered nurse and a therapeutic touch practitioner doing energy healing at the time of eight years old. I was working with auras and doing chakra balancing and learning different techniques at a young age.

 

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Natalie: When I got into college, I kind of fell a little bit away from that, because I think everybody wants to be – nobody wants to be weird, I kind of felt. It took me some time to kind of refine myself as an adult. I always knew I wanted to be a healer. I always knew I wanted to help people.

 

Natalie: After my undergrad I did some time in retail management, which really woke me up because there's nothing like retail management to just put you in a dark place. So, I really had to find my true calling again, which is where I really did some self-discovery and found acupuncture. 

 

Natalie: When I first found acupuncture, I thought I was totally crazy. I didn't understand why people would want to put needles in other people. But I'm so glad that I chanced upon it. It really helped me learn more about myself, because – as they say; healer, heal thyself.

 

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Harriet: Wow! That is so very cool. An intuitive from the age of eight. Healing energy from eight. So you've had a lot of experience healing energy, it would seem.

 

Natalie: Yes. And also working with the other side, and spirits, and clearing houses – different things like that, exactly. 

 

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Harriet: That's amazing!

 

Harriet: You mentioned a little bit about how you stepped into retail management and that was a bit of a dark place. Do you have a story that you'd like to share in your journey of life so far where you kind of said –not enough is enough, but; "how am I going to get out of this pickle?" and took a new path on your life. What were some of the initial steps that you took in order of you to move yourself out of that? 

 

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Natalie: When I had graduated from my undergrad – like I said, I started in retail management. From that time, I just got sicker and sicker, physically. I started developing a bunch of digestive problems – which is really common when you're under stress, right? I developed IBS and had really bad acid reflux, and I didn't have control over my digestion whatsoever. I was in pain, every single day, constantly.

 

Natalie: And I went to my Western doctor, and they weren't able to help me. And nothing that bio medicine did, did anything for me. 

 

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Natalie: My mom suggested that I try colon therapy, so I went and did some hydro colon therapy and through that I learned about the body's ability to detox, and about different foods that are really bad for us to eat. 

 

Natalie: And so, I sort of just dove in. I was so hungry for this knowledge because I wanted to feel better! So I got the book from Paul Pitchard, Healing with Whole Food, and started learning more about nutrition. I did my own detox – and this is back when gluten- , dairy-, [and] sugar-free was not a thing! Like, there was literally no gluten-free food.

 

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Natalie: So, from there, I'm kind of just starting with nutrition and starting with eating right and helping my body out. I realized there's so much more to this. That's actually when I tried acupuncture and herbal medicine, and I got so much relief from that. 

 

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Natalie: You know, acupuncture gives you what you need, but not necessarily what you think you want, because it moves chi. And if there's dark chi in your life – if you're doing things that are out of integrity for you, your body's going to tell you.

 

Natalie: Sometimes, it takes a while for our mind to catch up. I could tell my body was feeling better, but there was something that was still blocking me. I finally realized; "wait a minute; my job is causing all my problems! This is not who I am. I'm living out of integrity. This is not my full purpose."

 

Natalie: "I'm living a life that I thought I was supposed to have, but not the life that I was truly meant to live."

 

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Harriet: So you basically got rid of everything that could have been making you toxic and just started afresh and used natural whole foods and began to heal yourself. 

 

Natalie: Exactly.

 

Natalie: And I really feel that there's so much to it. There's so much to starting with – starting with a diet, I really feel is the most important thing. I know you said yourself that you follow a pretty healthy lifestyle and clean eating. Some people don't even know about that!

 

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Harriet: Absolutely. I really feel like food is totally fundamental.

 

Harriet: There's a of people thought that, I'm sure you'll agree, they've got so much toxicity when it comes to their job, when it comes to their marriage, when it comes to them being off their purpose, they feel that food won't make much of the difference.

 

Harriet: When you took the plunge and just went totally into whole foods and started healing yourself, how quickly did you notice the difference? 

 

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Natalie: It was immediately, actually. So, what I noticed was that I was less bloated. I was having chronic bloat every single day, so I was less bloated. I had more energy and I actually lost weight as well. That all happened within six weeks. I noticed a visible change and also felt different.

 

Harriet: Nice.

 

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Harriet: And there's a lot of people that feel that if they make those food changes, they're going to be feeling great. And they don't know what's next. Do they then quit their job? Do they then find something they're passionate about?

 

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Harriet: What was next for you after you figured out this food game?

 

Natalie: So, what was next for me after the food was then; what can I do to optimize myself? For me, it's all about soul purpose. I'm a Capricorn, so I'm very career-driven.

 

Natalie: I always felt like I needed to be achieving and going forward and do something big with my life. And working! Work was so important to me, and I knew that the work I was doing wasn't the right work.

 

Natalie: So the next step for me was more in soul propose and finding my passion. 

 

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Natalie: I really believe that having more than one thing – being multifaceted – and using it when it's appropriate is the best way to be happy, really.

 

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Harriet: Absolutely! One of the things that I find with a lot of people – especially people who are in a rut when they're feeling toxic – is they don't know what they're passionate about. They're not even where you are. They'd feel – they're probably jealous that you have such multifaceted life.

 

Harriet: And the advice I give to people is; if you don't know what you're passionate about, start putting entrust in everything. Be interested in gardening. Be interested in interior design. Be interested with people, and then just slowly work your way up. And then whichever one makes you sparkle, makes you come alive, that's the soul sparkle. That's the juice of your life. 

 

Natalie: I completely agree with that.

 

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Natalie: I also recommend for people to go back to what they were when they were a child, because that was the key that unlocked and set it free for me. When looked back on who I was when I was a child, I was very involved in energy work. I really loved to help people, and it made me happy to talk about spirit guides and animals and crystals. 

 

Natalie: I really feel that – when we're children, we're so uninhibited and there's less pressure from the external world, so we're able to kind of just be more of ourselves.

 

Natalie: Through trying to be how everybody else wants us to be or who we think we're supposed to be, that really strips us down and we become the lesser version of ourselves.

 

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Natalie: Whereas that childlike self is so innocent, so free, and more open to our truth.

 

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Harriet:  Speaking of spirit guides and crystals, I'm sure you have so much advice that it would be crazy to say; "What is the best bit of advice you've ever had?", but I know that you work a lot with people. What would you suggest – for a specific type of person that you love to work with, is there a small system you take them through or is there a quick start that you like to suggest to them in order for them to move towards their ideal health and wellness?

 

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Natalie: The very first step that I see for people is self-love. I really feel like that's the key. That's number one. Self-respect, self-love. That really has a lot to do with our confidence and our self-esteem. So, the very first thing I'll do with people is identify where they're not loving themselves. Where they're beating themselves up.

 

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Natalie: As far as who I treat, pretty much anybody or anything that walks through the door, as long as they're conscious and open-minded.

 

Natalie: I really have a lot of women in my practice, because I think that women, in some ways, are a little – and this is not to be a blanket statement, because I love men. I think men are so powerful and amazing.

 

Natalie: But, for the most part, women feel more free to express their emotions or less judged with their emotions.

 

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Natalie: As far as age ranges go, I have treated anything from newborn babies up to people who are a hundred and three years old. I feel like anybody can benefit from some guidance, some clarity, some deeper understanding. Looking into their birth charts and understanding; "Who do I choose to be in this lifetime? What's my sacred contract? What's my archetype?"

 

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Harriet: Wow! Just a few things there – I love it.

 

Harriet: My favorite thing that you talked about was self-respect, self-esteem, and self-love. And it was a question that you specifically asked. And that question is; "where are you not loving yourself?"  

 

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Harriet: Listeners, I would love for this question to land on you right now; where are you not loving yourself right now, in this moment? How can you improve your self-love? How can your self-respect and your self-esteem?

 

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Natalie: I said that because I feel like, even if we think we're the Buddha or so conscious and so aware, there's parts of ourselves where we're giving our power away. And maybe that's because we feel like – we don't even recognize! Maybe it's a subconscious thing or an unconscious thing.

 

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Natalie: There's always room for self-growth. There's always room for improvement. We can always get better. And that's the whole purpose of being here anyway, right? If I pick who you are, what you have, and what you created, and make the best of it – because you can't be anybody other than yourself, right? 

 

Harriet: Absolutely. If you can make the best of whatever it is you have, then you're guaranteed to be living a fantastic life. 

 

Natalie: Exactly. 

 

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Harriet: Alright, let's get into our little wrap-up round. Nat, if you could travel back in time, maybe twenty, ten – however many you need – years ago, and tell your old self one thing, what would that be for you? 

 

Natalie: I would say to not worry so much.

 

Natalie: My mother would always tell me; angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. I was – and still am, to this day – a very serious person. I've allowed worry and anxieties to consume me, and fear to rule my life. I think we all have.

 

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Harriet: I think that's important for a lot of us; not worrying so much. Because worry just take us away from the gift that we're being given, which is the very day we wake up and look around and say; "Hello, Monday! How are you?" 

 

Natalie: Exactly! Yes.

 

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Harriet: Our Podcast is called The Naked Health Warriors. I love to talk about real health. And real health to me is different to what it is for you, for every other single person.

 

Harriet: Real health, in my opinion, is stripping back naked all of the old beliefs that you have, all of the old eating patterns, eating habits, and getting back to what simply works, what is natural, and what is easy for you. But what does real health mean to you, and why is it so important?

 

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Natalie: Real health to me – it means really living optimized.

 

Natalie: I really don't believe that there's one right way for everyone. I mean, that's part of being a holistic practitioner. And also a Chinese practitioner as well! We say that everybody has their own constitution or their own dosha, or whatever you want to call it.

 

Natalie: So, you know, there isn't really a one-size-fits-all. I would definitely say that really finding what works for you and feeling good every day – if you can wake up every single day, feel inspired, energized and alive then you are in perfect health. That's all that matters. 

 

Natalie: And, even if your body's not working? If your mind's in a good place, or your soul's in a good place, that's also perfect health.

 

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Harriet: Absolutely, I love it.

 

Harriet: So find what works for you, what's important for you.

 

Natalie: Yeah! Because, obviously, there's certain things we all need to do. We all need to stay hydrated. I don't care who you are, you need to be drinking half your body weight in water every day, right? Clearly, we need to be eating. And we need keep having sunlight and fresh air.

 

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Harriet: And, speaking of water and everyone needs to eat, what's one healthy living golden nugget that you believe every single person should live by? 

 

Natalie: Take your vitamins. I really believe in that.

 

Natalie: Even if you're eating organic, our food is just missing out on so many of the nutrients that we used to have. Our soil's not the same. I'm not even going to get in to all of that environmental stuff – it's so controversial.

 

Natalie: But, really, take your vitamins. A daily multivitamin – as long as it's good, it's clean, it's organic, it's from whole foods, you're just helping yourself out, basically. 

 

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Harriet: Nice, I love it. And I believe everyone should be topping themselves up, because you're right! There's a lot of things that have happened to our soil, a lot of them not ideal, and we never know what's been put on our food. So it's great to invest in yourself. 

 

Natalie: Agreed!

 

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Harriet: All right! Let's head into the quickfire clarity round, and we will wrap up. You've been amazing and you've brought a lot of amazing things to the table, and I'm very grateful for that.

 

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Harriet: What is the best advice for your industry that you've ever received? 

 

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Natalie: I would say, people need more than one treatment. That's the best thing. We can't expect a miracle to happen in one shot. We always hope for the best, but everybody heals differently.

 

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Harriet: Can you share one of your personal habits that you feel strongly contributes to your successful health?

 

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Natalie: Meditation. I meditate every single day, whether morning or night. Sometimes it's not on the same time because – guess what? – life gets in the way, but I make it a priority, every single day, to meditate, which helps me stay grounded. It centers my energy. It keeps me focused. And it helps me open up to the universal love that's all around us.

 

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Harriet: What is your favorite movie, current or past?

 

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Natalie: I love romantic comedies. I would say the movie is French Kiss with Meg Ryan. It's so cute, it's so sweet. It's about someone who goes out of their way to help someone that they love and they fall in love, kind of by circumstance.

 

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Harriet: Who is your hero? Public or private. 

 

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Natalie: I would say that my current hero is Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith. He's an amazing spiritual teacher out of the L.A. area. He owns and operates the Agape Canter. 

 

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Harriet: What technological piece of equipment or maybe app, or book or training or tool can your body not live without?

 

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Natalie: My cellphone. I have an iPhone 6S and it is – [laughs]

 

Natalie: I love my husband and I love my cats, but my phone is definitely up there.

 

Harriet: [laughs] It's number one, baby, sorry.

 

Natalie: The iPhone, it's amazing. Thank you, Steve Jobs.

 

Harriet: To Steve; we appreciate it mate.

 

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Harriet: What is the health industry missing? What do you believe the world needs most in order to have a revolution around the way we do health?

 

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Natalie: I would say the revolution of health is also kind of going back to not taking a one-size-fits-all approach. I really feel that there's a lot of programs out there right now that have everybody do the same thing. They have you detox with the colon plan, and then take these regular supplements, and then there you go; now you're healthy.

 

Natalie: I really feel that that just going back to basics is where we need to be. And teaching people how to drink water, how to eat right, just in general, really encouraging daily exercise and meditation – really coming in to a place of wellness, not just for the body but also treating the minds, treating the soul, and the emotions. 

 

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Harriet: Nice. I love it.

 

Harriet: Is there a favorite book that you recommend, or some sort of resource that you recommend anyone who wants to improve that health should read. 

 

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Natalie: Healing With Whole Foods (by Paul Pitchford) is quite an amazing book as far as learning more about nutrition.

 

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Harriet: You know what? I feel like there's some people right now who are going to be interested in following you, and I know that you're doing something special for the month of September. Would you be able to share a little of how the listeners can find you? And what you're going to be sharing? 

 

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Natalie: This month, September 2016, if you look at it numerologically, September is a month of nine, and 2016 is the year of nine. And nine is actually the end of cycle.

 

Natalie: So, this month is super powerful. Actually, September 1st, we had the new moon and we have the Solar Eclipse, so this month is super amped up, and it's really helping us look at what we need to let go of, or who we need to let go of in our lives, so we can really shed, release, find some closure, feel really complete around our path, and get ready for creating this new, beautiful, fresh start and new beginnings that are coming in October.

 

Natalie: Because of that, I created a little three-minute video that you can watch on how to navigate September. And, because letting go and releasing things can bring up our fears and make us a little bit stuck, I decided that September is a month of motivation!

 

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Natalie: So, each day, I create a little quote with a beautiful image from my recent personal journey through Ireland. And those are going out every day on Facebook and Instagram. You can kind of just watch those and check up on them, and just feel inspiration and get motivated and know that you're not alone.

 

Natalie: You can find that on Facebook through my Fanpage, https://m.facebook.com/SoulisticTotalHealth or Instagram @navivee99.

 

Harriet: Amazing.

 

Harriet: And is there anything else that you'd like to share? Any parting message or any final words of wisdom?

 

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Natalie: It's really knowing your truth and really honoring your individuality. Just truly being you and letting all those blocks, all those obstacles, all those challenges, those fears, those doubts, those insecurities that are preventing you from just going out there and being your true, authentic self – now is the time, everyone.

 

Natalie: I just want everyone to feel super inspired and know that they're going to be so much happier, so much healthier, and really living in their potential if they can just say; enough is enough. What's done is done, and I'm ready for all the amazing new things that are coming.

 

 

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Harriet: Thank you so much for being in the show today, Nat – super appreciate you.

 

Harriet: Listeners, if you want more amazing, crazy, value-packed content just like this? Tune in to the iTunes podcast, subscribe and download the new episodes that are coming your way very soon. I love you so much, keep tuned in and hope to share more very soon, bye for now!  

Hello and welcome to today's podcast. Today, I have Dr. Angie Welikala, and I'm very excited to bring her to your ears. I'm excited to bring you this amazingly beautiful woman. She's got a truly brilliant story, and today, she's going to open up and share some about it. She is CEO and founder of Healing Agents – which is basically a holistic approach to the big C word; cancer. She also works on the other C, which is chiropractic. I'm excited to hear a little bit more about that too.

Amongst all of that, she's also got a great book; The 21 Day Cleanse and Detox Jumpstart. And then on top of that, even more, she's a two-time cancer survivor – and she's obviously going to be sharing that story too.

 

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Harriet: I'm excited to welcome you to the show, Dr. Angie.

Dr. Angie: Thank you so much, Harriet. Thank you so much for having me.

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Harriet: I'd love for you to let us know what you're up to right now. What's really exciting you in your health business?

Dr. Angie: The greatest joy for me right now is, we've really launched our new non-profit called Healing Agents International. We have a huge benefit concert coming up in October in L.A. on the 29th.

Dr. Angie: This is just a place where – you know, when I was walking through cancer, like; "I'm a doctor, right? I don't care about the crap. Tell me the truth. My life is on the line here. What are the answers? What are the choices, what are the options?" So, I'm so excited to create that place where anyone can come and get the truth and get the real deal, because your life is on the line, so these decisions are huge.

Harriet: Amazing!

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 Harriet: I've heard that you do help a lot of people. Who's the typical person who comes to you and what are they looking for?

Dr. Angie: Every week, we get a handful. Ten, fifteen people now, because our reach is getting bigger thanks to people like you, Ms. Harriet. But the basic person is [asking]; "Where do I go? What do I do? How do I start? What are the super foods? What is the nutrition I need to be putting in my body?" Also; "What are those natural treatments you keep talking about, Dr. Angie, and who do I go to? Where do I find this?"

Dr. Angie: The most persons getting the direction of drug surgery and chemo – that's pretty much standard, but there's a whole other spectrum that I think patients are missing when they're walking through this. So I'm so blessed to be able to provide that for them.

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Harriet: And so the things that you offer, are they a fusion of the modern day, cancer-healing opportunities or are they collaboration of the hospitalization process? What do you offer people?

Dr. Angie: Well, I sit down with them – usually over the phone – and we kind of create a road map, because everybody's different. Some people have the full healing circle figured out, where they've got their integrative doctors, they've got their supplements, they've got to have surgery. So I just kind of help navigate them through the process in which I've been successful, and then see where the holes are. See where we need to fill in the blanks with different professionals.

Dr. Angie: I'm blessed to have met a ton of people across the country that are professional health doctors that all work together, of all different spectrums of this circle.

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Harriet: I love to share a little bit about – because, obviously, a lot of people wonder; how on earth did you get in to all this? We're going to get into some of the hard moments for you a little bit later, but I'd love to know about where you came from, your upbringing. What's really influenced you, positive and negative, growing up to bring you to this point today?

 Dr. Angie:  I was born in Yorba Linda, California. The cool story there is I was adopted at birth. My birth mom was found in a clinic, and she was pretty much a drug addict and lived on the streets. I was basically a meal ticket for her. My parents paid her so they could have me. 

Dr. Angie: And I didn't know this until I was in Chiropractic College, but the person responsible for connecting me to my parents today was my parents' family chiropractor! I got to visit him and it has really been a full circle healing for me, just traveling this road of where I came from, how I started.

Dr. Angie: It's a huge miracle that I'm even here – and then I'm still here after this crazy stage 4 cancer journey so … here we go! I keep going! 

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Harriet: You know, I hear a lot of people who have stories around the fact that they were adopted at a young age, and passed around from place to place. They're abused, and weren't looked after properly – and foster home, foster home, foster home.

Harriet: Now, in their adult life, they blame it on their childhood, and they haven't done anything about it. Were you one of those who had a difficult childhood upbringing, or did you land with some amazing parents? How did that look for you?

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Dr. Angie: Yeah, I had a great parents. I had everything provided for me. I lived a very comfortable lifestyle, although I did fall into some cracks where I did have some childhood abuse that was very hard for my family to hear about. You know, I'm still healing from that today. I still have to really work on; that's the old story, you know, that; that shouldn't have happened to me and I'm okay, just the way I am.

Dr. Angie: That feeling of not being wanted. I was a kid I would walk around the mall with my mom and wonder, "Is that my mom? Is that my mom? Is she going to come and get me?"

Dr. Angie: That little hole has been filled by God and by my life experiences and all the blessings that I get to see every week with helping people. 

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Harriet: I remember you mentioned, when we chatted before, that really believing that "you were enough" has really helped you through that.

Harriet: Is there any advice that you could offer to any other woman – or even man – who's been through that kind of upbringing themselves and is working on that area of their life?

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Dr. Angie: Just keep going.

Dr. Angie: It's the battlefield of the mind, right? One of my favorite pastors and mentors and authors is Joyce Meyer, and she has her story where she was abused many [times] and into the teens by her own father. And here she has one of the biggest ministries in the world and – look at what Guy can do. She's a firm believer of; just keep putting that truth in your brain and staying focused on that. Take out those lies that might still be lingering in there from your childhood.

Harriet: Nice. So Battlefield of the Mind, by Joyce Meyer, and focus on putting in the truth and taking out the lies that you've been telling yourself.

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Harriet:  I know that you've had quite a story and quite an upbringing. I'd love it if you could vulnerable enough to share some of the things – some of your worst points that have allowed you to create the life that you have today. In fact, let's go for the hardest one. Let's just pick the hardest, most gruelling health challenge of your life, up until now, and let's share how that's changed and turned you into a person you are today?

Dr. Angie: That's a big question, my friend.

Harriet: It is.

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Dr. Angie:  There's a couple of things, but one of the first big defining moments for me – and I think that's what helped me keep digging through stage four later – was my first diagnosis.

Dr. Angie: In the beginning, I did the biopsy and I was declared stage 0. But when I was told if I did the double mastectomy, I wouldn't have to do chemo radiation. So I, as a chiropractor, was like; yes! That's the choice right?

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Dr. Angie: I did that, and it was that was all good. But, for me, when I was going through the biopsy – [that] was the defining moment. Because here I was, I was just 35 years old, I had a beautiful practice … serving patients and working crazy. 

Dr. Angie: And I'm lying on this table, and it's a very hard table with a circle in it, and my right breast is stuck in a clamp in the middle of this hole of the table. This gentleman is shooting a needle in my breast, into the exact spot where they saw some sort of calcification.  

Dr. Angie: In that moment I realized; "What the heck is going on?" Like, "Enough is enough. I draw the line. No more doormat syndrome for me. This is where that's gotten me, right?"  I am face down with a needle in my boob, and what am I going to do next?

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Dr. Angie: So, that's when I had to rise up and put Angie on the list of priority; for my life, for my health. Angie's number one, and then next is serving other people. That was one of my big "Ah ha!" moments. It was huge.

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Harriet: How did you pick yourself up? I know you said; "no more doormat syndrome!", but did you go into one of those downward spirals for a while, or did you just have to feel that pain, and then get catapulted into where you wanted to be?

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Dr. Angie:  The first time – it took me a long time to put my head around that word: cancer.

Dr. Angie: "I have cancer? What? I'm a Chiropractor! I've been adjusted since I was sixteen. I eat healthy. I've exercised my whole life. What?"

Dr. Angie: The first round was kind of a shock. This stock lasted for such a long time. I think, when I got through that first one – it took me about a year. I was declared cancer-free, up until three years. And then the second time came, and that was like; "Okay. Let's see what you're really made of."

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Dr. Angie: There are all these big tests of who we are as a character and as a survivor. I've survived some crazy stuff as a child, and it keeps building me stronger, really, to just do bigger, massive things for this country and this world that we live in.

Harriet: I love it. Thanks for being so open about it.

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Harriet: When you found yourself in that place, were there some – what I like to call – healthy living lessons that came out of that, that you'd care to pass along to the listeners being in that stage of cancer?

Dr. Angie: Sure.

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Dr. Angie: Number one lesson is that food is medicine. Food changed my biochemistry of my body. Very thought-out food combinations and supplements. As a chiropractor, I was like; "Yeah, some supplements are great. No big deal." But when your life depends on it …

Dr. Angie: I've watched even some tumor markers in the last month. My tumor markers went up about twenty, thirty points, and I was like; what. So, I changed a bunch of food stuff and added more exercise, and my numbers went down again, six or seven points.

Dr. Angie: So, food is medicine! And I think a lot of people are missing that boat that they can easily do at home.

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Dr. Angie: Number two – love is the answer.

Dr. Angie: Love is the answer to so many things; loving yourself, loving the situation. Just having love as a cornerstone for this whole journey helps you get through it. 

Dr. Angie: And number three would be that self-care button. Remember we talked about priority; putting your name on the priority list. Self-care is one of those big lessons. Because if I'm not doing self-care, I'm not taking care of myself, then my body's going to go the other direction.

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Harriet: There's one thing that I really want to highlight, Dr. Angie, and that is number one.

Harriet: When you said "My life depends on it."

Harriet: I want to massively point out that I don't want everyone to be waiting until they have cancer to decide; "oh dear."

Dr. Angie: Right!

Harriet: "My life depends on it." Because right now, in this moment, this is the youngest you're ever going to be. There is no magic pill, there is no reverse, there is no turn back the clock, Garnier magic special cream.

Dr. Angie: Yup.

Harriet: Your body is now, and your body depends on you to be putting in the right stuff. Your life depends on it. And that is such a powerful message that I feel every woman, every man, every child needs to hear.

Dr. Angie: Yes. And I still need to hear that!

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Harriet: The last thing I want to ask about your story and your experiences is – I know that you're on a healing journey already, but how has it been for a woman? Has it led to you finding the right person to spend your life with? Has it led to you having a family? How did you get over the pain? Have you been attending courses? Have you been working with a coach?

Harriet: What's been the road map for you?

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Dr. Angie: There's so many levels of healing, right?

Dr. Angie: I still have lymphedema in my body – my right arm and my right leg. I have to wear these compression things. My body is still recovering from what we call the collateral damage of chemo and radiation.

Dr. Angie: For those of you who don't know, of course I never wanted to put that in my body, right? The integrative doctors are like; "No, don't do that!" But for me, I had fluid in my lungs! I had fluid around my heart! I had a fractured L5. I was in a wheelchair. 

Dr. Angie: So, there comes a point where there's a limitation. You've got to have that chemo. I was fortunate enough to just have it for two-and-a-half months, and it really helped my body put the fire out of this cancer journey.

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Dr. Angie: But I'm still a work-in-progress. I don't have it all put together. I don't have all the answers, but I do know that I am just walking it out, day by day.

Dr. Angie: Loving myself more every day, accepting myself every day, even though my body is not the weight that I want it right now. It's got limitations. I can't adjust – I only adjust [to] about a handful of people a day. I'm just grateful.

Dr. Angie: I'm grateful I'm not in a wheelchair. I'm grateful I can walk. I'm grateful I can take the dog for a walk. That's kind of where I'm at; just being grateful for every day.

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Harriet: You know, we all have these points in our lives, where we've just got to say; enough is enough, and I'm just glad that you got out of it alive, and you're on the healing journey up.

Dr. Angie: Yes.

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Harriet: Is there a person in your experience who's had an amazing transformation or who's made amazing progress who you've worked with that you'd like to share?

Dr. Angie: Gosh, I'm so blessed, there's – I've got such a great handful of women right now that have had positive results.

Dr. Angie: Just yesterday, literally, someone had a clear scan, and the results are clear. Another woman did all the nutrition stuff and she's having a small surgery and she's doing great. Where I come in is that encouraging word every week, or I email you, or I text you – I'm walking with you, and you don't feel alone!

Dr. Angie: And the timing is always perfect, because God always puts them in my heart at the right time, and I call them or I check in. 

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Dr. Angie: The letters and the emails I get are just proof of the blessing and the impact that we're actually making. Right now, we've got five women that are just thriving and kicking butt. Already, this woman that just got her clear scan yesterday is already doing a video and promoting Healing Agents! And being an ambassador! She's had surgery today, too, so I'm like; "Wow! Look at the transformation already!"

Dr. Angie: Not even a day after her [surgery], and she's already, like; "Okay, I'm doing this!" She took off her wig and showed her bald head, and was so strong and passionate.

Dr. Angie: I'm humbled. I'm so humbled that this is happening.

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Harriet: Wow.

Harriet: It's like when you have a child, and they're learning to ride a bike. You'd put your hand on their – put it at the back of the saddle. And you're holding on, and when you know they've got it, you're like; "and you're ready to go." And they just fly.

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Harriet: Let's head on to our advice section.

Harriet: What is one big piece of advice that you enjoy giving to people every single day? Whether it's water, whether it's chiropractic, eating greens – what is it for you that you feel is super important?

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Dr. Angie: I just want them to breathe.

Dr. Angie: It's so overwhelming. You've got six doctors coming at you. You've got your bin of supplements. But I really encourage the listener right now to just stop, take a deep breath. You're not going to die today. You're not going to die tomorrow. It took fifteen plus years for this thing to get in your body, it's going to take some time. But to know that you are right where you're supposed to be.

Dr. Angie: And if could just pause, and trust that, that's where some big healing can happen.

Harriet: Nice. All good things take time.

Dr. Angie: Absolutely.

 

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Harriet: And there's a lot of listeners, Dr. Angie, who haven't got cancer. They don't have a diagnosis, but they know that their body isn't charging forward at its best. What are some great pointers that you can give to help listeners make the movement towards their ideal health?

Dr. Angie: You know, we talked about that one thing, right? We want to talk about that pause in a day. Those quiet moments.

Dr. Angie: I would always look at fear. Where there's fear, there's no love, right? And I think fear has been a big blocker in my life, and I still have to do an inventory; "Okay, where's the fear meter today?" And I think fear blocks the immune system. I think it blocks all the processes of the body, and it takes up so much space!

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Dr. Angie: Fear is just a false evidence appearing real. It's an old story that we're talking about. I would advise them to see what might be underlying the thing, that fearful part, that's not allowing them to move forward.

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Harriet: Your one thing, as recommended by Dr. Angie, is some quiet time. Take inventory and look at your fear and see where it is.

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Harriet: If you can go back in time, twenty, thirty years, and tell your old self one thing, what would that be?

Dr. Angie: I love this question, because I think I literally just told myself this week that I've been such a driver in getting things moving, and trying to do it on my own strength.

Dr. Angie: I would say; "Baby girl – (I always like to say that, because that's how God kind of talks to me some times) – baby girl, you are enough. You are fearfully and wonderfully made." And that; "God has all these plans laid out for us." 

Dr. Angie: Where I am today – even a year ago, I wouldn't have been able to do this interview with you with such confidence and love, and just enough authentic place. I would have been worried about; "Oh, did I say the right thing?" or, "What are the listeners going to think?" Now, I'm just living fearlessly, because we just conquered stage four crazy cancer.

Dr. Angie: Life is short. Boom! What's next?

Harriet: I love that! And I'm excited for your book to come out; Living Fearlessly.

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Harriet: You've been brilliant. There is one last thing that I want to get your opinion on, before we go into the clarity round. And that is chiropractic.

Harriet: I hear a lot of people say; "Chiropractic is great if you are having a sports injury," "Chiropractic is great if you've got a bad back." Who would you recommend chiropractic is really suited for?

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Dr. Angie: Oh, my goodness – every single person in the world!

Dr. Angie: I'm a paediatric chiropractor, specialized in pregnancy and pregnant moms.

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Dr. Angie: Okay, so here's Chiropractic 101 that a lot of people missed, because the world and society puts us in this low-back pain box: chiropractic is a nerve-function profession. We literally look for the fuses in the spine of every single tissue, cell, and organ is controlled by the nervous system. So, especially the cancer patient. I couldn't have processed the chemo every week, the radiation every week. I went to my guru chiropractors that taught at the Chiropractic College. They did every technique we have in chiropractic on me.

Dr. Angie: I make sure that the people that I work with find that chiropractor in their life, because each adjustment is going to increase your immune system 48%.

Dr. Angie: When you're fighting cancer or any illness, any autoimmune disease – gosh. It's a function thing! So, let's give a hundred percent function in the body, right? Makes sense.

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Harriet: I had a few statistics, actually, that I hope you can clear up on functioning usage of your body, and how your body functions without a chiropractic adjustment. Are you aware of those? Is there any that you can fill me in on?

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Dr. Angie: I just know that, that adjustment, they did research that a single, tiny adjustment increases the immune system 48%. There are so many research articles out there. The best website I send everybody to is the ICPA4kids.org. They have tons of research about how chiropractic helps kids with asthma, helps kids function better with autism. I've worked closely with a lot of these doctors and leaders in my profession and it's insane how much cool stuff happens in your office.

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Dr. Angie: And you want to find the chiropractor that's teaching orientations in their health class.

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Dr. Angie: We also have this cool network called the League of Chiropractic Women, and that's what I'm a part of as well. Girl, I can get you a chiropractor in any state of this country. That's how big we are. It's a sisterhood and it's amazing passionate women that love chiropractic and are changing lives every week.

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Harriet: Let's head into the quick fire questions and do a wrap up. Are you ready?

Dr. Angie: Perfect. Bring it!

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Harriet: What is your favorite movie?

Dr. Angie: Top Gun. Tom Cruise all the way.

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Harriet: What is your favorite book?

Dr. Angie: Brené Brown. All her books. The last one, Rising Strong – I loved that one.

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Harriet: Nice. And your favorite food?

Dr. Angie: Chocolate.

Harriet: Any particular one?

Dr. Angie: No. Just dark, healthy, superfood chocolate. [laughs] 70% cacao.

Harriet: Those are good feelings. And speaking of feelings…

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Harriet: What is your favorite feeling?

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Dr. Angie: Joy, baby. It's all about joy.

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Harriet: What is your favorite vegetable?

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Dr. Angie: Too many.

Dr. Angie: Green drinks, because it's easier.

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Harriet: What is the best advice for your industry you've ever received?

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Dr. Angie: Get that green drink in your body. It's micro-nutrition, especially in the cells.

[00:31:17]  Harriet: Can you share one of your personal habits that you feel contributes to your successful health?

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Dr. Angie: Life changing habit is that quiet time in the morning, or when I get home and the house is – I've gotten my son off to school, my husband's gone off to the office, and I have that quiet moment, that pause where I can just pray and center myself and meditate. Read encouraging things. I love reading the bible, and – just pause. Because I'm on God's time now! All of my reports show I should have been gone two years ago, so, I'm on his assignment.

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Harriet: What is one technological piece of equipment – maybe an app or book or training or sort of tool – that you and your bod cannot live without?

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Dr. Angie: The iPhone, because it's the music. I got to have music all around me, all the time.

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Harriet: Is there any particular song right now that you can't stop listening to?

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Dr. Angie: Yes there is! [laughs]

Dr. Angie: The running joke is with my family. I drive them to school, and they're like; "No, not that song!" It's Justin Timberlake's "I've got this feeling inside my bones."

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Harriet: Who is your hero?

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Dr. Angie: Dr. Andrew Wakefield and Del Bigtree. He's the producer of the movie Vaxxed. They are putting their lives on the line for the truth about the vaccines that we have in this country. They're not promoting don't vaccinate! but, we need to be able to have the choice as a parent to decide what we want for our children.

Dr. Angie: And really, it's about getting vaccines safer. They're my heroes right now. They're affecting change for the future generations of our children. I give it up to them.

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Harriet: Who are three people that you know that you would love for us to have on this podcast?

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Dr. Angie: My newest friend, who I got to meet just a few weeks ago, is Anita Moorjani. She wrote the book, Dying To Be Me.

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Dr. Angie: She's amazing, she's become like a mentor for me. I love her message, [it's] all about love and joy.

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Dr. Angie: My other – I haven't met her yet, but – one of my recommended readings from my people at Healing Agents is Dr. Lissa Rankin. She wrote book Mind Over Medicine. It' so great, it's so well-written.

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Harriet: Is there anything that you like to leave the listeners with today?

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Dr. Angie: Yes. I have a free download of my book for you – an e-version on the website. If you just got to HealingAgents.org (http://healingagents.org/), put your name and email in there, and you will get a free copy of Redeem Your Health – and some extra goodies with that.

Dr. Angie: Along there, we've got the big, huge, benefit concert. If you click events, you can go straight to Ticket Master. Read all about the event – k it's going to be awesome. Every ticket we sell is going to go straight toward the scholarships, and helping families bridge the gap from the integrative care they need, or bills they need. Whatever their needs are, we're here to support them. I'd love to see you guys there!

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Harriet: Amazing! Thank you so much for being a brilliant guest, and I look forward to hearing more about what are you're up to soon. I feel like there's some big things coming your way! So, I'm excited to – maybe we can go for a round two, but thank you for joining us.

 

 

Welcome to today's podcast episode. Today, we have Zac Deane from Raw Cave. Zac is awesome. I'm super excited to get chatting with him. He does many things – he does so many things. The most cool thing about Zac is that he recently bought a chime to the sound – and the frequency of – love which is fascinating. We're going to hear about all of that a little bit later, I'm sure. He is a certified health coach, he is a YouTuber, and also an actor.

 

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Harriet: Zac, I'd love for you to give a brief introduction of yourself – about your business and what it is that you're really passionate about and focused on right now? 

Zac: Cool. Thank you so much for having me; this is super exciting. I love technology; it's just incredible what we can do these days. There's just no limit.

Zac: So, my vision is really to inspire all young people to own their inner greatness. That starts physically, emotionally, in a relationship, spiritually, and also financially. I do that through video, through coaching, through presenting, through building a team in a triad here in Sydney and online.

Harriet: Awesome!

Harriet: That's pretty cool, that's exciting. I love that you're helping young people everywhere.

 

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Harriet: What's the most inspiring thing for you in your business right now, and who is it that you absolutely love to help?

Zac: I'm that weird dude that loves waking up every single day and just excited for life. I don't like to go to bed, because – it's like; I want to stay awake! I have to force myself to go to sleep sometimes!

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Zac: I'm just excited with the people that I'm meeting and attracting into my life. I really believe you attract who you are, so this journey of just delving deep within my self is really exciting. The self-discovery and personal development and personal evolution, as I call it, and the people I'm meeting.

Zac: love working with, really, people who have a spark of energy – the creative energy. They want to give back and impact the world. People who have a vision or who are already doing this type of thing.

Zac: And anybody, like, with my story – we're going to get into my story a bit – anybody who's wanting to lose weight, have better energy, better sleep, improve their muscle – all those physical things that we want. Those are the main few things that people come to me for.

Harriet: Awesome!

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Harriet: The Naked Health Warriors podcast is always about showing and presenting to the listeners that your past doesn't necessarily have to equal your future.

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Harriet: I'd love for you to share a little bit about what influenced you when you're growing up, about your upbringing, and things positive and negative that have impacted your life?

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Zac: It's been a wild journey.

Zac: I've been in the health and wellness journey my whole life. I've had a lot of ups and downs.

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Zac: Growing up in primary school, I was chubby and I was picked on. I went to a Rudolf Steiner school, so super creative – we've been learning about reading and writing very well. It was more like arts and music – so a very creative upbringing. But I was a chubby kid and I had really low self-esteem.

Zac: I really didn't believe in myself. I couldn't talk to the person next to me. I'd get really nervous in class, asking questions. I would hide away from the reality by eating my sorrows and hiding that way and playing computer games. I was an absolute geek. Any nerds out there? Give it up—[laughs]. And I would just play computer games, like, sixteen hours a day, if I could get away with it.

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Zac: I had a lot of family issues as well. I didn't see my dad until I was seven, so I had all these things going on. I put lot of pressure on myself.

Zac: When I was seventeen years old, I luckily had a mentor. Someone who really believed in me. He was like; hey, Zac. I see something in you, and I want to start working with you!

Zac: He was a family friend – he's like twenty years older than me. His name is Jamie, so I'll give him some credit. He really helped me in fitness and nutrition, and confidence, and talking to girls. Getting out my comfort zone and things like that.

Zac: He taught me these things that I implemented in my life. And those were simple things that really worked. I knew in my mind that there were so many people out there struggling with their health and wellness that, with these little changes, they could really turn it around really quickly!

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Zac: I then worked for a company called Vitamix – here in Australia, they're called Raw Blend. I travelled the country with them making real food and smoothies and stuff for years. And then I studied nutrition at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and then started health coaching halfway through that course.

Zac: That was about two years ago, and I've been health coaching ever since.

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Zac: And then I started my YouTube channel. I had a friend who had 70,000 subscribers on YouTube. We were brainstorming ideas for a movie, and I ended up making a green smoothie for us during the break.

Zac: I turned around from the fridge – as I grabbed all the green veggies and fruits out of the fridge – and he filmed it. And I was like; "what are you doing?" I kind of had these nerves, going; oh my God, I can't film anything, this is crazy! And he goes; "no, no, come on, let's do it." I'm like; "Fine!"

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Zac: We started two and a bit years ago, so we've got over a hundred and thirty videos up on YouTube at Raw Cave, so you guys might want to check it out.

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Harriet: Awesome! I love it!

Harriet: One thing that I want to reiterate back is that a lot of women believe that it's only women who eat their feelings. I totally believe the opposite. I don't believe there's a sexist barrier, there is no; aw, guys don't – because, yeah!

Harriet: Everyone sits down and feels a little less than ideal sometimes, and tries to eat food to make themselves feel better, which is what one of our programs is all about changing. 

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Harriet: What was the lowest point in your health journey? How did you truly get out of that?

Zac: Yeah, there's definitely been a lot of ups and downs.

Zac: When I first started coaching a couple years ago, I found the biggest challenge was really just my own mindset.

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Zac: I had to really learn to be the example for other people. I really had to take responsibility and step up as a man. I have to lead by example. The best way to influence other people, I believe, you can't force anybody to do anything. You have to lead by example.

Zac: The struggle for me was around my peer group. Disassociating myself from some of my friends who would go out and party every weekend. It was a struggle because I love belong. I love my friends. And I felt like I wouldn't be myself – I wouldn't have identity with my friends.

Zac: My biggest struggle, biggest lesson – and the most rewarding – was separating myself from my old peer group. As a result of doing that, I found new friends who are empowering, who believe in me more, who are supportive, little healthier, and that's changed every part of my health.

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Harriet: I'd love for you to share with the listeners some of your greatest – let's say three – three of your greatest healthy living life lessons that you've discovered over the years.

Zac: This concept of – I think I learned it when I went to Tony Robbins. He talked about – from NLP – it's called modelling.

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Zac: You look at people who are doing well in life or being successful in their life. You look at the recipe that they've created or they're following, and you just do the similar thing. That's why modelling has been something that's really transformed my life. With my health, particularly around training and nutrition and eating. Also, mindset around relationships, around making money as well. There's a formula for all that stuff.

Zac: From that, when you study any of these successful people, they usually have a powerful morning routine. Whether it'd be twenty minutes or an hour or something that really sets their day of success. Morning routines, daily method of operation kind of thing has, been a game changer for me and my team.

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Zac: Its simple stuff like hydrating in the morning, drinking a liter of water, exercising – I have a sauna at my house – having, like, Epsom salt baths, meditating – all that sort of stuff. Keeping it simple morning routines.

Zac: And then, [I have] an evening routine, which is just turning technology off or meditating, or just – just chilling out at night time. Winding down.

Zac: Second one – or third one, I guess you could say – would be finding an accountability buddy. A friend of yours or a coach. Someone is at the same level as you who you can push together and do – do life with. Maybe catch up once a week, or once every couple of weeks, or once a day over the phone.

Zac: Finding an accountability buddy has been a game changer for me as well.

Harriet: Nice!

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Harriet: I'll go over those again so the listeners can get those;

• NLP – modelling – someone has a really great routine or habit and I want to know exactly how to do it
• Having a morning routine – setting yourself up for success. The second half of that is having a wind-down routine
• Find an accountability buddy

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Harriet: If you could travel back in time – maybe ten, fifteen, twenty, years – and tell yourself something, anything; what would you tell yourself?

Zac: For me, personally, my journey has been around finding worth and building my belief in myself around that I am enough, that I am capable of anything that I put my mind to. I'm older enough – just that belief. Building belief in myself has been a massive part of my whole journey.

Zac: And deserving. Deserving of love, deserving of relationships, deserving of health, deserving of money – the sense of deserving, for some reason, has been a massive part of my life. The more that I build that belief, everything changes.

Harriet: Nice. Awesome, and I'm sure there's a lot of our listeners who are listening, and they are in a place in their lives where they don't feel like they're enough, and don't feel capable.

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Harriet: How would you best advise a lot of our listeners [on] the very best way – or an easy way –to start beginning to build some books of belief and feeling worthy?

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Zac: Everyone is different but, I found that I build a lot of belief as I started to spend time with other people who believed in themselves.

Zac: The fact that we become the average of the five people we spend the most time with or the saying, you know; who we spend time with is who we become, is something that really stood out for me.

Zac: I started spending time with other people who believed in themselves. I went to different seminars and events. Looked at my social group or looked on Facebook and I saw people who were doing things and who were believing in themselves or giving back to the world – you know, really taking ownership of their life.

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Zac: Also, reading books! Reading books to find out the how-to, or people stories, is a massive thing as well.

Zac: Steve Jobs said, when we realize that most of the world was created by someone who was no smarter than us, that's – it's a massive game-changer. Everyone's in the same boat – everybody struggles with these things most of the time.

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Harriet: Something that I find is really important is the metaphor behind the Naked Health Warrior's brand. I like helping people get fully back to basics. There's no need to overcomplicate everything. It's nice to keep it simple.  

Harriet: So I want to talk to you about Real Health, and what it actually is to you. I'd love for you to share what real health is for you, and what it actually means for you.

Zac: The reason I really got into all this – if we were to backtrack in terms of my family, like lineage and heritage and stuff like that, there's been a lot of mental health issues. There's been a lot of suicide and depression and anxiety.

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Zac: Really, true health for me started with just myself – improving myself. Feeling in control of my life, in control of my energy, in control of my outlook on life, in control of my actions. Having a sense of control and certainty around that.

Zac: It's cool to get a six-pack, it's cool to have these before-and-after photos – they're all kind of the ego.

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Zac: That's only one part of it, because – I found I filled my cup up in terms of my health, I filled it up so full that it's just overflowing with wellness and goodness and vitality. The best part of that is when you can actually help someone else fill their cup up, and help their cup overflow with vitality and goodness and wellness.

Zac: I believe true wellness is being able to contribute and being able to help other people.

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Zac: Contribution is really the highest level of health.

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Harriet: What advice would you give to listeners who are in a place of – they actually kind of need to go inside and fix themselves first. What's one of the ideal first step that they should take? 

[00:20:59] 

Zac: Just to realize that all is divine at all times. To build on success and build on belief like; we are not broken. We are responsible for everything in our lives, and we're also responsible for everything not in our lives right now – but we're not to blame for it.  

Zac: Just to realize where we are is totally fine and if you want to start taking action for example; motivation is good – like, motivational videos on YouTube and stuff like that will get you off the couch and get you moving. But long term motivation or long term action comes from inspiration.

Zac: So in – inside; inspiration, alright? Not from outside.

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Zac: It's kind of a weird thing. Us, as humans, we're usually motivated more away from pain than we are towards pleasure.

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Zac: Think about where you want to be and then start focusing on where you want to be as your vision of what you want to create. So, maybe a vision board or images or a whiteboard – whatever it is to keep you focused each day. 

Harriet: Nice! So, two things, listeners, from Zac:

Harriet: Number one; if you're in a place where you're wanting to move, you're wanting to get off the couch, or whatever it is that you're currently experiencing, the first thing is; you need to go within and ask exactly – what is going to happen if I don't something about this? Where am I going to end up in six month?

Harriet: Also; look at the opposite side. Inspiration – how can you involve yourself inside whatever's going on inside and bring it out.

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Harriet: I'd love for you to share one Healthy Living Golden Nugget that you believe everyone should live by?

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Zac: In society now, we live in a world that's completely different to where it was a hundred years ago. We have a lot of environmental toxicity in our environment that we don't really think about.

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Zac: So I would say cleansing and fasting for today's society is the number one thing. I think in fifty years' time, when we look back on today, we'll go; what the hell were we thinking?

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Zac: A great documentary for everybody out there is; "Eat, Fast, And Live Longer." It talks about the people who live the longest in this planet are those who eat the least amount of food. 

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Harriet: Love it!

Harriet: Let's wrap up with the QuickFire Questions – Clarity Round. Are you ready?

[00:26:06] 

Harriet: What is the very best advice you have received in this industry? 

Zac: It's to be honest. Have honest conversation with yourself and other people. 

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Harriet: What is one successful habit that you believe strongly contributes to your successful health?

Zac: Fasting and Cleansing.

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Harriet: What is the most weird but super effective thing that you do in your health regime?

Zac: Sit in the sun – naked.

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Harriet: What is one technological piece of equipment, device, audio, app, book, training or other tool that you can't live without?

Zac: The Smartphone.

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Harriet: What is the number one investment that you've made in your life that's contributed to your health?

Zac: Personal growth, personal development. 

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Harriet: Who is your hero?

Zac: Elon Musk. 

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Harriet: What do you believe is something that's going to start to really shift the current health paradigm that we're experiencing?

Zac: I think the raw honest conversations with people. Having raw, honest conversations around what's working, what's not.

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Zac: So just being open to change that's probably the biggest thing.

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Harriet: What is your favorite movie currently? 

Zac: Can I give you two?

Harriet: Go for it.

Zac: It's a documentary called "E-Motion" – powerful. Thirty minutes. It's free on YouTube.

Zac: Another one – one is on Netflix, it's called; "All The Masks You Wear." 

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Harriet: What is your favorite fruit [or] vegetable? 

Zac: Spinach

[00:29:14] 

Harriet: And your favorite drink?

Zac: On my YouTube channel, I made this thing called a Blues. It's a smoothie and a juice in one, I invented it. It's half smoothie, half juice.

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Harriet: Who are three people who you think are absolutely imperative to get on this podcast?

[00:29:46] 

Zac: Someone who's really impacted my life in the last couple of years would be my friend Peta Kelly. I really believe she's a powerhouse. Preston Smiles would be a great addition to this podcast, and my new friend Frank Jay Porcaro.

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Harriet: Zac, Are there any words or is there anything that you would like to part with the audience today?

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Zac: I think – just keep it simple. Keep it really, really simple. A confused mind will take no action.  

Zac: Do it what you love and love what you do.

[00:31:39] 

Harriet: Amazing! Thank you so much Zac, this has been Harriet Worth on the Naked Health Warriors podcast. I look forward to you joining us for more podcasts just like this very soon. Bye for now. 

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Hello and welcome to today's episode of the Naked Health Warriors podcast. Today we have someone who is absolutely brilliant and I'm so super excited to have her on. She is Dr. Martha Nessler. Dr. Martha is absolutely phenomenal. She is an expert in Personal Success Strategies. She is all about human success – so your success! the listener, the person listening right now. She's a speaker, a doctor of chiropractic from the United States of America. She works directly with lifestyle entrepreneurs who want to live a life of their dreams – so you, achieving your dreams. She wants to help you. She's a master of essential oils. She's an absolute wizard when it comes to figuring out how to help you manage your stress and a whole heap of other things. Mainly, her purpose she feels is to help people step into health, happiness and healing.

1:22

Harriet: Dr. Martha, I'd love to hear a little bit more about you so our listeners can get to know who you are and what you're all about.

Dr. Martha: Awesome! I can't wait to share it with you.

Harriet: Cool! I'd love for you to introduce yourself a little bit more to the listeners. Tell them a little bit about yourself, about you and your business.

1:40

Dr. Martha: Well, it all started as a chiropractor in the United States. I fell in love with a chiropractor from New Zealand and relocated in. I went through a really interesting time in my life where I kind of lacked everything I needed to be true which also meant leaving my career as a chiropractor and a professional speaker in chiropractic. I moved to New Zealand and I kind of went through this stage of, I call it disempowerment stage, where everything that I was kind of almost scooped one away and relocated in New Zealand and started this new life. As I began to do that I began to see that I could actually create the life of my dreams and that's what I call lifestyle entrepreneur, someone who actually begins to build a lifestyle doing what they love. And I found that when I moved to New Zealand, in this "disempowering state" that I needed to really begin to understand empowerment and how we as individuals begin to empower ourselves to live out the life of our dreams.

2:35

Dr. Martha: And what I've done is I've merged the two, so now what I do is I've created an amazing life with an amazing man where we actually go around and we travel across 7 countries empowering individuals to make better decisions and to have the tools necessary to actually empower themselves to health, happiness and healing. And then on a more professional level, I work with other lifestyle entrepreneurs to do the exact same thing to live out a life of their dreams doing what they love and helping other people.

3:03

Harriet : That's absolutely brilliant! I love what you're doing and it's such a powerful message that you have. So many people know how to empower people, but when it comes to themselves they don't have the specific strategy, the specific understanding of how they need to be ignited, for a better word.

3:20

Harriet: I'd love for you to share a little bit about your upbringing. What's been influencing you from a young age, positive and negative, from how you've been created into this brilliant person who's able to have the want to go out there and help people?

03:36

Dr. Martha : It's funny because I think our life is an accumulation of stepping stones and stopping points. And the interesting thing is I think that sometimes we forget that some of the most jagged stepping points, if you think of yourself as climbing up this cell, you think of this harder spot, the tough spots to get from Point A to Point B, those are actually the ones that really mold us and frame us the most. So for me, losing my mom at the age of two gave me this deep desire. My mom died of cancer within 4 months and I was two years old, my brother was six months old when she got diagnosed. And for me to know that this woman didn't fully live out her life – and we didn't really get to live our life with her, she was kind of robbed of a full life of health, happiness and healing. Losing her life at 29 she didn't get to really, really live, kind of put this burning desire inside of me to help others fully live out their lives.

04:23

Dr. Martha: That's my deep, deep why, that's the why that makes me cry". Just lots of different experiences with family, with my dad, and marrying, just living my life and "different levels of disempowerment", finding ways to empower myself and get through them, have kind of brought me here today to empower other people. Let go of their anchors. Anchors hold us back, get rid of our anchors and start living our life and shining.

05:01

Harriet: Absolutely! I love that.

Harriet: One thing that I really resonate is the levels of disempowerment. There's little hurdles that we can get over. As human beings we are able to move past them and move on to better things. But then there's these levels of disempowerment whereby in schools, universities and colleges we aren't literally taught exactly how to get over those hurdles. You know, the real jaggedy steps, the things that are in our lives. That just happens to people everyday. If we're not dealt with the hand and dealt with the skills to get over them it makes things so hard.

Harriet: So I love the way that you explain that.

5:42

Harriet: What was your lowest point of disempowerment that you used to really boost yourself up?

Dr. Martha: I'll be honest with you. Immigrating. That was probably the lowest step for me because I think that when I was in my birth country in the United States I was surrounded by people that loved me, I was surrounded by friends. You know the accumulation of life over 32 years was constantly in my energy field around me.

Dr. Martha: Moving to New Zealand, I was kind of like, going with your podcast, stripped naked. I didn't have that, I didn't have that right here. This was when it got really ugly and I was really naked and raw and I kind of had to get down to my relationship with God as my foundation and then beginning to recreate what I used to have. That was kind of roses and thorns. I got to recreate my life the way maybe it could have, should have been in America since I got to decide exactly who I was friends with, choose who my family here was. But there were some thorns because I felt in my soul I was replacing things that once were.

06:53

Dr. Martha: It was a really interesting experience getting through that and it just brought a whole new level in myself personally and professionally.

Harriet: That's brilliant! I love how you explained the roses and thorns. I think in our lives we should always be coming from a place of choice. And I think it's such a powerful thing. Coming from a place of choice is that something that you spread on your lifestyle brand?

7:18:

Dr. Martha : Oh, definitely – because we choose. No one wants to admit that – if we're going to get really truthful on this podcast – no one wants to admit they have a choice. You have a choice about everything you do whether that adds to or deducts. So you have to stop and think about, that food that you are eating, does that add to your life or take away? That relationship that you are in, does that add to your life or take away? It's all about choices. Sadly, our life is an accumulation of choices that add up to the end result. So yes, I definitely am big on making proper choices.

7:53

Harriet: I would love you to share with the listeners, with the people who are hearing you to let them know what your three greatest life lessons have been.

Martha: One, make the most of every moment with the people that you love. I think that started when I lost my mother at two and has continued to throughout my life. You know, honoring your body. I think that so many people forget you have one human body. You don't get to get a new one and this is it and I never wanted to be someone whose body was no longer functioning with a soul that was alive.

08:31

Martha: I have this really amazing experience in a nursing home with a woman who was in a nursing home bed. And she said, I was 18 years old, she said, "Martha, make sure you take care of your body. 'Coz right now my body is not alive and my soul is."

Martha: And then, never forget to say I love you. Not isn't just to other people but that's mainly to yourself. One thing that's missing in this world is what I call innate love. That's the underlying thing behind what I do. That's that inner love that we are born with that somehow gets stripped away. And if we can actually get back into that faith of loving who we are rather than expecting other people to love us, I think that the world would see a massive shift if we could tap into who we are and love ourselves in the way we were created rather than the way the world is trying to recreate us.

9:28

Harriet: Fantastic, so to recap for the listeners. Number 1, make the most of every moment. Number 2, honor your body. Number 3; telling yourself that you love you as well as others.

9:40

Harriet : When it comes to innate love – the listeners; how are they able to tap into this innate love? How can they be more innate in themselves right now in this moment?

Martha: The best way to tap into your innate love and the love that you have to yourself is to get back to loving yourself. And that seems really easy, but for most people it's really hard. And so what I do is I wake up every morning, and I spend my – I used to do an hour of power lifting, only sometimes I get 20 minutes of power because I got to get on to the next thing. So you're spending 10 minutes in something spiritual, then say, 10 minutes in something educational and 10 minutes in something physical.

Martha: For example I spend 10 minutes on my spiritual self. I love to read my Bible, I love to pray. I spend 10 minutes for my physical self, you know, doing burpies or sit-ups or going on a brisk walk with my dog. And then 10 minutes for my educational self. Just reading something to wake up my brain so that I'm fresh and alive.

10:40

Martha : And then I do what's called aromatic dressing  and speaking words of truth. So it is something you have to do naked. You kind of get naked in front of the mirror and you've got some essential oils and you use oils to empower yourself. You use oils for the way you want to feel, not the way you feel.  

Martha: For example, this morning, I've got a lot on my plate – as every entrepreneur does. I used motivational blend, I used Douglas fir, frankincense and passion. One or two drops of each in a little dish of coco oil and I just start from the legs and begin to actually aromatically dress my whole body and speaking words of love and truth.

11:23

Martha : For example today I might say; today is an amazing day, Martha. You're here to share your message with the world. You can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. When I rub my nervous system, I tell my nervous system that I couldn't function without you. I just really get back to people connecting to who they are and loving themselves with all their lumps and bumps, you know, all the phases they wish weren't there.

Martha: Loving yourself for who you are. Because, the thing is, we've all heard this saying; "Oh my kids don't love me, my husband doesn't love me."

Harriet: Mm-hmm.

Martha: But when we really get down to it; do you love you?

Martha: Because if you love yourself and set this love standards, this innate standard of love, people can easily love you. Now, all of a sudden, Dean knows how much to love me. I know how much I love myself and I'm not asking Dean to pour into me something that I'm not giving myself.

12:18

Harriet : It's so important when you love yourself, it doesn't matter if someone else is having a bad day. You don't have to take it out on them because then you are already full. You are full person. You're not waiting on Dean to feel like, "honey, fill me up". You are a fill up human already. I love that.

Martha: It also becomes a difference, as – I just want to add – between emanating love and giving that love. When you're full of love, you actually emanate that love. You're not having to give from a space that might be depleting you. Because when you're full, you almost overflow. It's really important that people begin to see that who you are and loving you allows you to love God more and love other people more; your children, your family, your co-workers. But it starts with you. It's a ripple effect outside of you. You have to get there yourself.

13:02

Harriet : That's beautiful. Such a powerful message. Love is a beautiful thing. I love it.

13:09

Harriet : Martha I would love you to share something raw and authentic about yourself. I would love to know if you went back in time 20 years, what is one thing that you would tell your old self?

Martha: Wow.

Martha: Probably – other people's opinions don't matter. People are allowed to have their opinions and they are allowed to express that opinion. Just like I'm allowed to have my opinion and express it but, definitely going back 20 years, I'd say, other people's opinions don't matter. Because I think that being in the sensitive spirit, the healer that I am, the lover that I am, I got wrapped up sometimes in what other people thought about me.

Martha: They were allowed to think that, but whether or not I thought it too was my choice.

Harriet: Beautiful.

13:53

Harriet : Now, as you know, the Naked Health Warriors Podcast is all about true health to every individual. Because everybody, every single person's body, is totally different in so many different ways.

Harriet: So, I'd love for you to share a little bit about real health to you – because it is different for every person. It's great to hear from someone else because maybe someone else's health regime, someone else's opinion of real health, can help. So what is real health to you? What does it mean and why is it so important?

14:24

Martha : Well, I think getting back to who you are, that innate self-connecting to who you are – I think it plays with a few roles. It plays a little bit with our ancestor. It's a lot about; what did your ancestors eat, and look at what you are eating today. I think that we need to look back at who we are genetically and begin to see that what we eat and who we are plays a very important role today.

Martha: That's one thing that I think is really important. For me, start to listen to your body. A lot of people say; oh, every time I eat that, I get sick. Every time I eat that I get indigestion. The body has an amazing way of – I call it tough love, or maybe the body's love language. Things like burping, gas, diarrhea, indigestion, headache, that's your body's love language. That's your body's way of saying, "Hey, Martha, hey Harriet, I didn't really love when you did that. I think that that doesn't actually serve me. Maybe you could do this instead."

15:33

Martha: I think, too often we don't listen to the inner voice of our body. We think that our body is just something to be silenced, because we've been taught that. We've been taught that if you have a headache, take a pill and make the headache go away, but that love language is really important. That's one of my big things about health. Find out who you are and what serves you.

Martha: You and I just talked about bone growth and it gave you a little bit of a headache. It can be either way. Do what serves you, not what everybody else is doing because we're not just one person. Genetically, you're an individual. You got to do what serves you.

Harriet: Wow, so much info!

16:07

Harriet: I absolutely love that you mentioned about genetics and ancestry and what did your people before you eat. It's so true there's so much interesting ingredients in our foods these days and some of us, we just don't know any better. We haven't researched, we haven't looked, we haven't asked the right questions, because it feels like the right thing to do. I love that. No one has ever mentioned that before and it's an excellent, excellent time to bring up. The fact that we are all different. And you should be looking back to what your people eat.

Harriet: I've met some of my personal clients and some of them are really great on rice. Some aren't. You need to look into your ancestry and your genetics. And I totally love your message about listening to your body. Absolutely brilliant powerful stuff.

17:02

Harriet : So, moving towards the end, let's get this thing wrapped up. I'd love for you share more about your raw naked self because you've been sharing some excellent gold nuggets today.

Harriet : What is one really simple, healthy living golden nugget that you believe every human should live by, whether it's chiropractic. What is one of your beliefs everyone should live by?

17:25

Martha : I have to be honest. I don't practice chiropractic in New Zealand but I am definitely probably the biggest advocate globally for chiropractic. I think that if people begin to understand the importance of getting checked regularly by a chiropractor, because the nervous system is so important. When we look at what the nervous system does for our body – yes, chiropractic is the foundation for everyone, from birth 'til death.

17:57

Harriet : And what would you say is the number one most amazing transformation that you've seen either personally or known of from one of your clients when it comes to using that healthy living golden nugget?

18:09

Martha: So funny; I had a woman come in to me for neck pain, didn't mention she couldn't hear out of her right ear. At all. For years. She came in the office the next day and she said, "I am really angry at you," and I thought, "Oh, wow."

Martha: She said, "I didn't tell you about my right ear so I know that this is real". But she had a chirping bird outside of her bedroom and she slept on her left side and she said, I can hear those stupid birds chirping. I think she did not have her hearing for about 15 years so having someone get her hearing back on her right side – it was quite funny because she was actually angry –

Harriet: [laughs]

Martha: -- more hysterical --

Harriet: that's a great story of transformation!

19:10

Harriet : What is the best advice for your industry you have ever received?

Martha : It's all about you and it's not about you.

Harriet: Cryptic. I like it.

19:18

Harriet: Can you share with us a technological piece of equipment, app, book, training or whatever kind of tool that you and your body cannot live without?

Martha : Putting it down, I like to put – I'd read a book, or—

Harriet: Yeah? You're a book fan?

19:39

Harriet : What's your number one book that you've read in the last 3 months?

1Martha : A Glimpse Into My Life. It was my grandmother's memoirs that she handwrote. I read it every year.

Harriet: That's fantastic!

19:47

Harriet: What investment or resource would you recommend for people who want to improve their health right now and get back to their naked self?

Martha : I think a gratitude journal and the app, Seven. It's the seven-minute work-out you can do first thing in the morning. That's really awesome.

20:04

Harriet : Who is your hero? Public or private, whatever.

Martha : My grandmother. Helen Nessler? She just was everything I wanted to be and taught me so much about how to be an amazing human being.

20:17

Harriet: What do you believe the health industry is missing right now? What does the world need most?

Martha : They need the truth. That's what I'm working on. I want to do, I guess, the grassroots movement called Human Being Empowered – just to get the truth out there and make it simple. Like I love to say; Keep it Simple Sunshine. The KISS method. Getting back to the basics. That's where I want to take people.

20:51

Harriet : Who do you recommend, who do you know that I should be getting on this podcast?

20:58 Martha : Dr. Josh Axe. He's a chiropractor by training. He's an amazing individual and a wonderful human being. He's awesome.

21:14

Harriet: I would love if there is any last piece of advice that you can offer to the listeners that you want to part with? [An] impression that you want to leave with them?

Martha : I'd say fall madly and deeply in love with yourself and allow yourself to live the life of your dreams.

21:44

Harriet : Listeners, you probably want to find a little bit more about her. You can head over to her website www.drmarthanessler.com where she has an amazing webinar on stress and how you can manage stress right now in the 21st century

22:13

Harriet: Thank you so much, Martha, for offering some true golden nuggets from someone who's got so much experience in multiple different areas. I love your message and I love what you're doing.

Hello and welcome to today's episode of The Naked Health Warrior's Podcast. Today we have the absolutely amazing Ben Dessard for you. It's going to be an absolute treat. Ben is a Wellness World Traveler. What on earth is that? We're going to find out a little bit more today about Ben and how he's been living his life and creating his absolutely amazing health journey from self and other people around him.

 

Ben is, at the moment, at an amazing retreat in New Zealand and he's helping heaps of people through his yoga practices and heaps of different things.

 

1:12

Harriet: Ben, tell us a little bit more about what you're doing right now. I'd love to know – and I'd love for you to share with the listeners – what it is that you're up to!

 

Ben: Well, what I'm doing these days is really taking people on a transformation journey. So I work in a retreat in the South Island of New Zealand. What happens here is, people come for five to seven days and reconnect to nature and to themselves. I'm here to support and guide them in their journey. It's really amazing to see people go through such an intense experience in a short time.

 

Harriet: That's brilliant! That sounds super exciting.

 

2:12

 

Harriet: So, Ben. You've obviously come from an athletic background, being in soccer. How do feel [that] what you were doing previously is really useful for what it is that's going on in your exciting career right now?

 

2:23

 

Ben: Every single thing we do in life, is a step that takes us to what we're doing right now.

 

Ben: Every single thing I've done in the past is contributing to what I can offer today. Whether it's my background as a soccer player, where I've learned to work with a team towards a goal and have this intensity, and then going through injuries that have taught me patience and awareness of my body. And then going into yoga, where I've discovered how to work with the mind and control the mind and connecting within yourself.

 

Ben: It's really been a blending of lessons that allow me today to contribute to something that feels complete.

 

Harriet: That's pretty cool. So many people belief that all these successful health people and people working in the health industry have just landed on their feet, and it's kind of interesting that you've had some injuries and that's really led to you getting to where you are now.

 

3:37

 

Harriet: I'd love for you to share with the listeners a little bit about your story and your past, so they can get an understanding that what's happened to you isn't always the 'be all, end all.'

 

Harriet: You can learn from it and take yourself forward.

 

Ben: I come from the French countryside. I've grown up with a soccer ball in my feet and a glass of wine in my hand.

 

Ben: Growing up as a young adult in France, I would say soccer kept me healthy, but my lifestyle was really unhealthy. My diet was meat, baguette – which is white bread – cheese, and alcohol. When you're young, you manage to stay very fit. But that doesn't last so long.

 

Ben: After I tore the ACL in both my knees, and my meniscus, then came the back pain. For almost a year, I could barely stand up without having huge pain going down my leg. One of my vertebrae shifted and created bulging from my disc.

 

Ben: This started a journey of having to look at my lifestyle and why I was now in a situation where I was in a lot of pain and could not do what I loved to do before.

 

Harriet: That sounds like quite a large challenge to get over. I understand. We've had a few people on the podcast before who've also had back injuries.

 

5:16

 

Harriet: What was it for you that really helped push you through? I know not being able to use your body and stand up for a year must have been a big challenge. What was it that really helped push you through, push you forward?

 

Ben: From France, I was recruited to play division one soccer in [a] college in San Francisco. In the middle of this process – my second year of University – came all these back problems. So I had to shift from having a mindset of going professional and just doing soccer as a career to being told that soccer was over, and if I wanted to carry my child when I was 40 years old, I had to stop running and kicking a soccer ball.

 

Ben: It was a shock, but somehow – to answer your question – I didn't really focus on it. I didn't think of the consequences. Somehow, I took the situation as what it was and just went from there. From there was doing rehab so that my back [felt] good again. Was focusing on my studies.

 

Ben: I didn't make a drama out of the situation. I didn't spend my nights thinking about my wasted soccer career. I just focused the now, what I had to do now, and I had support from friends and family. I just moved on fairly easily, I have to say.

 

Harriet: Nice.

 

Harriet: One of my favorite quotes, actually, that you'll love, is; what you focus on grows. It really sounds like you took yourself from focusing intently on soccer to focusing on getting well again, and I'm so pleased that you had the support to really help you get through.

 

7:30

 

Harriet: I'd love for you to share with the listeners a little bit about how you were able to push through in terms of your health. I'd love for you to share your 3 Greatest Healthy Living Lessons that you grasped from having that experience.

 

Ben: What happens when you're faced with such a health issue is, you're forced to bring awareness [of] your body. You have to think about; how can I get better?

 

Ben: This was a new process for me. As I stopped the training in soccer and I ate the same – which was pretty unhealthy and a lot – I gained some weight. So I had to think; okay, this is a new paradigm. I have to change things.

 

Ben: Through research, though awareness of the body, I learned 3 Main Things. The first one, which sounds very basic, is that you have to eat real food. For me, real food is food that you can digest properly and doesn't create inflammation and toxicity in your body. When I shifted to that, the reduced inflammation helped my back.

 

Ben: The second would be that you have to bring that awareness to your body and to your mind. For me, it was about my posture. I realized I was sitting, standing, even running, wrong.

 

Ben: My third lesson, which came later on, is to reconnect to nature. I've realized how much we isolate ourselves. We live in super-sterilized environments. We don't expose ourselves. This is a huge thing [that] I've learned. I go jogging barefoot in the park or in the sand. I go for a walk in nature, in the forest. I get some fresh air, expose my skin to the sun. Somehow exposing yourself to the elements of nature is really the third big lesson that I've learned.

 

Harriet: Awesome, Ben. I love that.

 

Harriet: So, to recap, Ben's Top Three:

 

1. Eat real food; easy to digest and has no inflammation.
2. Body and mind; getting your posture and your mind shifted into becoming more conscious.
3. Exposing himself to the elements of nature.

 

11:25

 

Harriet: Ben, I'd love for you to share what you believe – because there's always quick-fixes. There's always ways to start moving in a certain direction. I'd love for you to share what do you think is a great way to start taking action for people to be moving torwards their ideal health today.

 

Ben: That's a big one. I get asked that very often. People are looking for the best thing they can do to get healthier right now.

 

Ben: Usually what I tell them is not something they have to start eating or a certain exercise they have to do. What I usually tell them is they have to slow down and take some time to reflect a little bit. Just to ask themselves; what I'm doing in my life now – does it make sense? Does what I put in my mouth make sense? Just slow down and step back a little bit. And if you don't know what to do, just do nothing. Give yourself space to allow this inner intuition to grow.

 

Ben: We're living so fast. We're going from one place to another. We just don't slow down and let this inner intelligence which we all have – because we're not all random, separate entities. We're part of an ecosystem. We're part of a bigger, interconnected environment which is driven by the deeper intelligence of nature. As organisms, [as] a part of nature, we have this intelligence within us. And when we allow ourselves to slow down – to create space – this intuition can rise.

 

Ben: So, yeah! My big tip, if you want to start today to get better, to get healthy; just so slow down. Give yourself some space.

 

Harriet: I love it, Ben. That's so profound! One of my beliefs is that the quality of your life is determined by the questions that you ask yourself. By slowing down and reflecting, you're able to ask yourself these questions not from a place of reaction, but from a place of where you want to be ideally.

 

14:08

 

Harriet: I'd love to know a little bit about what real health is to you. Because it's different for every single person! What matters most to you about your personal health today?

 

Ben: That's true. It's different for everybody.

 

Ben: For me, real health is to feel meaningful. To feel that you're actually part of something bigger than yourself – something positive – and this usually comes with clarity of mind. Of course you have to be pain-free and full of energy first, in order to feel that way, but real health – ultimately – is that you feel that you're in the right place.

 

15: 50

 

Harriet: What is a Healthy Living Golden Nugget that you believe every single person should be living by?

 

Ben: My tip is that we should "eat" water. I know that might sound a little bit weird, but our body is made of 60-70% of water. This is the number one element that we should take care of. The best way to have the top quality water is to eat it. When I say eat water, I mean eat high water-content foods. This is the fruits and the vegetables. They are loaded with nature-filtered [and] energized water. If you eat loads of fruits and vegetables – and I really mean loads – everything can flow properly in our system.

 

Ben: Our body is fluid. It's an aqueous place, full of water, where a lot of change is happening. If we want this to flow right, we need to keep well-hydrated. Yes, you can drink your liter of water in the morning – that's fine – but the best water you can really absorb is the water in the fruits and vegetables, so load up on those.

 

Harriet: Nice!

 

Harriet: So basically, if you're sticking to the fruits standards that says you should have five fruits and veg, you need to triple that.

 

Ben: Pretty much!

 

Harriet: It's not just about having one liter of water in the morning. Excellent.

 

18:40

 

Harriet: Who is your current hero?

 

Ben: I'm always fearful of this question, because I never know what to say.

 

Harriet: [laughs]

 

Ben: I don't really have one. My hero is … I mean right now, it would be maybe my sister, because she's having troubles with her health. And she's in a place where she's not surrounded by people who [can] help her, but she's doing the little steps. She's still making effort to relax, to eat healthy food, despite her environment.

 

19:35

 

Harriet: What is the most standout story of transformation that you've seen?

 

Ben: This is one of my personal clients when I was working in Berlin as a personal trailer. She was an overweight, low-energy, 25-year-old girl. We've worked together and she's made such transformation that she became radiant. She had love for movement, where before she hated it. To go through this experience with her was magnificent. Really, you can see, in a short time, the power of transformation.

 

Harriet: It's always beautiful when women can step into a place of confidence and radiance.

 

20:27

 

Harriet: What piece of technological equipment/app/book/training/tool that you feel you simply can't live without?

 

Ben: I would say a place to hang. Like a pull-up bar or a tree branch. You need to hang from something. This is part of nature. We kind of evolved from animals that were always hanging.

 

Ben: When I cannot hang, something's missing.

 

21:10

 

Harriet: What is your Number One Most Effective thing that you do on a daily basis?

 

Ben: Two things; my morning meditation, in which I combine my exercise funneled by mindfulness practice. The other thing is – you know, they say there's two shortcuts to happiness: singing and dancing. I do my daily singing. I love to dance to reggae music. Those are the things that make me feel alive.

 

Ben: You've got to do something that makes you feel good. That's what it is for me.

 

22:16

 

Harriet: Who do you recommend that we should have on this podcast?

 

Ben: There's a lady I'm following these days; ‪Dr. Robynne Chutkan. Her motto is "Eat Clean, Live Dirty." She's bringing back the importance of getting dirty, which means to get in touch with the bacteria around us. Desterilize yourself, go out into nature, and you don't have to wash your hands ten times a day.

 

23:40

 

Harriet: Ben, you've been absolutely brilliant. I've got so many notes. It is truly brilliant to find someone who has gone from being successful soccer player to overcoming challenges to now running amazing retreats. You literally are the epitome of a Wellness World Traveller.

 

Harriet: There's going to be some people, I'm sure, that want to know more about you. They're going to want to watch some of your yoga videos, some of your morning meditations. I know that you have some free videos on your community that they would probably love to go and see.

 

Harriet: Where would be the best place to find those videos?

 

Ben: You can check those out at http://www.zendess.com/.There's some self-made videos with daily practices from high-intensity interval training to morning yoga to evening guided relaxations. So you can check that out on Zendess You can contact me from there. Also on Facebook, the page Zendess.

 

24:30

 

Harriet: Is there any last piece of advice you would love to leave with the listeners today?

 

Ben: Just trust yourself. Listen to yourself. Don't rush through your health journey. Don't get stuck in the details. Go back to the basics; eat real food. Bring awareness to your body and mind. Connect with nature.

 

Harriet: Thank you so much for being on the show today, Ben. I totally appreciate you.

 

 

Welcome to today's podcast. Today, we have someone truly brilliant who I'm really, really excited to introduce to you. Alexis Wolfer has been doing some amazing things in an amazing space with some humans who really need it; young girls who are influenced so much by what they see on television, technology, and what their friends are saying to them. She has been studying some amazing stuff. She's got a Masters in Women Studies and Human Rights. She's been on television. She's written two books herself and she's not consulting small business.

 

Episode Transcript:

0:33

Harriet: Alexis, welcome to the show. I would love for you to tell the listeners a little bit about yourself, a little bit about what you're doing right now.

Alexis: Thank you so much! I feel like that was a really good intro, but – yes, I have my Masters in Human Rights and Women Studies from Columbia University in New York. I was working in Women's Fashion Editorial, and I felt like there had to be a better way for us to do women's lifestyle content in a way that was designed to make women feel better about themselves – instead of making women feel like they were inadequate in order to try to sell them things.

Alexis: So I launched the BeautyBean.com in 2009 with that goal in mind. We cover everything that women's magazines – health, fitness, nutrition, beauty, skincare, makeup – but all very subtly designed to make women – and girls! – feel more empowered and better about themselves.

Alexis: I've also written two books. The first is a beauty cookbook called "The Recipe for Radiance" and the second is a bridal beauty book that's kind of everything a girl needs to get from engagement to honeymoon – looking and feeling her best without going crazy. No crash diets or bridezillas. And then I consult with some early-stage startups, and I appear on television talking about beauty and health and wellness.

Harriet: Wow.

02:13

Harriet: Us women, we absolutely do everything. I'm sure all the women listeners are listening right now and thinking; "well, yep! We all do a hundred million things at a hundred miles an hour."

Harriet: Alexis, would you please share with the listeners a little about what you're focus is right now? Who and how do you help the people who are in your target market?

Alexis: I've got a couple of focuses right now. My Bridal Beauty Book just came out a couple months ago, so I'm still focused on promoting that. It's called 'Radiant Bride' and I'm trying to work with as many brides and newly engaged women as possible to really help them navigate the 'wedding planning space' in a healthy, holistic fashion. I'm also looking to continue to expand my reach to younger girls.

Alexis: When I launched the Beauty Bean, the goal was really to reach girls 13 to 22, but our target market has actually been 22 and up. So, [I'm] continuing to try and reach younger girls because they're so impressionable, and I really think that there's a space we need to create to provide young girls with lifestyle content that's positive and empowering and has a really profound positive impact in their lives.

Harriet: I love what you're doing for that specific age bracket. Is it something that you were looking for, when you were that age? Something to look for that wasn't like everything else out there?

Alexis: Yeah. You know, I had an eating disorder when I was in college and I just think that talking to women when they're in college or out of college about positive body image is almost a little 'too little, too late.' That's not to say that it doesn't have its place; I've certainly transformed my relationship with my body and wellness and that of lots of other women as well, but I think that to really have a profound impact – and to prevent a lot of the self-destructive behaviors that we see in younger girls – we really need to be talking to them at a much younger age.

Harriet: Absolutely. I think it's a profound message that really needs to be spread, and it needs kind of go viral! And I hear that you're great at that, we're going to talk about that a little later – which is cool.

04:25

Harriet: Let's talk a little bit more about you and your past, and what's really helped you to get to where you are right now. Obviously, one of the messages that I believe is Alexis's most important for all listeners is that anyone can achieve a fantastic, amazing, abundant level of health. But what would you say [are] your three greatest Healthy Living lessons that you can share today?

Alexis: I really think that, for a lot of women, we really need to get out of this space of worrying about how much we weight – and we really need to stop weighing ourselves. So, a scale does nothing more than measure your gravitational pull towards the earth; it does not measure your health or your happiness or even your attractiveness or your body's ability to do anything. So I really think that stopping to weigh ourselves is extraordinarily important.

Alexis: I think that, for most women, we're really good at being kind to others. I always say to women that I work with; "treat yourself like you're your own best friend." And if you wouldn't say something to your best friend about – you know, we all have this experience of looking into the mirror and [starting] this negative self-talk. But if you wouldn't say those things to your best, you shouldn't be saying them to yourself.

Harriet: That is probably the best way I've ever heard someone explain weighing yourself. Can you repeat that again because that was the most brilliant well-articulated way I've ever heard it.

Alexis: Thanks! I spent a lot of time thinking about. I, in my past, have had such an obsession with how much I weighed. I would weigh myself in the morning and it would determine how I felt about myself, my body, my life, my relationships, my attractiveness – everything was determined by this number.

Alexis: It wasn't until I really got my head around the fact that that scale doesn't measure anything except for my gravitational pull. It doesn't measure my health, it doesn't measure my happiness – it doesn't even measure what my body looks like. It doesn't measure anything of value. So we really need to throw away the scales and stop worrying about that, and really just put the focus back on how feel.

Harriet: That's truly brilliant. So listeners, just to reiterate, your weight is literally your gravitational pull. I love that – about being kind to yourself. We have this inside shadow that's always going on. When it's more positive, when it's more happy towards yourself, you're just a mirror to the universe. I think that's truly brilliant.

Alexis: Yeah, I agree! And you know, I think it's really easy to listen to "experts" – myself included – and think that they have the answers. I just want to put out there that one of the biggest lessons here is that we are all teaching what we're trying to learn ourselves. This isn't me sitting here, telling you that I've got it all figured out. What I do have figured out is that it takes a lot of work. It is a constant practice in my day-to-day life.

Harriet: Absolutely. Listeners, it should be a constant practice in your day-to-day life. The more that you're loving yourself, the more love you have to give to every single human being around you.

07:49

Harriet: Obviously, you've turned yourself around since that person you were in college – having eating disorders and a really distorted body image and body-self-love paradigm. The listeners always want to hear what tool they can use to make action now. What was it for you that really hit the nail on the head and helped you turn it all around?

Alexis: For me, when I stopped weighing myself and I stopped worrying about what size dress or pants I was wearing, I was able to focus more on how food made me feel, and less about how many calories or fat grams were in food – which is completely ludicrous; it's a ridiculous way to go about life. I think that, for a lot of women, a really powerful way to do that is by keeping a journal. For a lot of us who had come out of eating disorders, we had kept food journals for all the wrong reasons.

Alexis: What I'm talking about is writing down what you're eating and what you're doing and your thoughts, and how you feel. Because when you start to connect what you're putting in to your body with how it interacts in your body, you start to make different choices. For me, eating grains makes me tired. It takes a lot out of my body to digest them. It doesn't mean that I don't eat grains. It just means that – on a Monday morning, at 8 AM, when I've got a crazy busy day ahead of me, I'm not going to have a bowl of oatmeal.

Alexis: I'm going to think more about how the food that I'm eating is affecting my energy levels, and how sharp I feel, and how my skin looks. All these things that are so much more important than the measure of your gravitational pull.

Harriet: That's brilliant. Just to recap on that – the number one thing that Alexis recommends right now is for you to keep a journal – in a powerful way, focusing on 4 different areas.

• Doing – what are doing with your body?
• Eating – what are you eating?
• Thoughts
• Feelings – how do you feel?

10:22

Harriet: That's an amazing little system; I hope that that's in your book.

Alexis: Yeah, it is! And I would also write down how much water you're drinking, because I know for a lot of people, they're dehydrated. You think that you're either hungry or sad or don't have energy – but it's really because you're not drinking enough water.

Harriet: Very true.

10:44

Harriet: Before we go into our Time Travel Moment, Alexis and I were chatting a few days ago, and we were talking about an amazing vital piece of information that she put out there, and I would love, Alexis, for you to show exactly what you did and why it was so powerful for women today.

Alexis: Sure! So about six years ago, I started something called Makeup-Free Mondays, which started with me taking a picture of me in my bathroom [and] not wearing any makeup. This was at a point where The Beauty Bean had been live for a little less than a year. As a "beauty expert," there was this really contrived idea of beauty – and what I looked like. I was like; "That's the image [of me] that people see on my website. That's not what I look like when I first wake up in the morning!"

Alexis: Having this conversation with women, I was starting to realize how many of us woke up in the morning and we looked in the mirror, and we said; "oh, this doesn't look like me because I'm not wearing mascara." Or lipstick. Or blush. Or foundation. Or whatever is the thing that we each have. So what does it look like for us to get back to a place where we can appreciate our beauty in any way, shape, or form?

Alexis: So I started this movement called Makeup-Free Mondays, where we encourage women not to wear makeup on Mondays. You can do this once or you can do this every Monday. The idea is to put the focus back on the things that really make you beautiful. We started this and had celebrities and TV anchors and women around the world were sending in their pictures! The host of The Today Show actually went makeup-free on a Monday. It's a really profound viral movement, so I encourage everybody to see how you feel, and – more than that – to see how other people respond to you. The feedback that I've gotten the most from people who have tried Makeup-Free Mondays is that they didn't realize how much other people didn't notice that they were wearing makeup.

Harriet: Awesome! Did anyone report back feeling more … health benefits? Feeling like they had better skin from doing the Makeup-Free Mondays?

Alexis: Yeah! We have a whole column on The Beauty Bean called "Makeup-Free Mondays" that you can click on, and you can read a bunch of accounts from beauty bloggers and experts and celebrities and models who have all written in about their experiences going makeup-free for the day.

Alexis: And the Makeup-Free Mondays also has a charitable component. We encourage women to donate unused, unopened, and unexpired cosmetics and skincare to women in need to provide empowerment. The Beauty Bean has donated hundreds of thousands of items.

Harriet: Wow – that is cool. There's always someone who is more in need, who can use it more than you can.

Alexis: Exactly.

Harriet: When you appreciate your true beauty, it's so much easier to see the true beauty all around you.

14:24

Harriet: Let's head into the Time Travel Moment. Alexis; if you could go back twenty years ago – or to some sort of period of time to where you might have been able to talk to your old self – and give yourself a piece of advice, what would that be for you?

Alexis: I'm sure this is a little bit cliché, but something along the lines of; "you are perfect, just as you are." But I feel like I spent so much of my young teen years trying to adhere to this notion of what it meant to be perfect. And, for me, that presented in trying to look a certain way, weigh a certain amount, have perfect grades, and be involved in all these activities. It was an authentic experience because it was my past, but I wish that I had known at a younger age that nobody else really cared about what I was doing and where I was at.

Alexis: I didn't need to do all these other things to please all these other people.

Harriet: Do you feel like – when you were experiencing that – do you feel like it held you back in any way at all?

Alexis: Yeah! I felt like I had a profound fear of failure that prevented me from trying things, because I was so scared of not being perfect at it that I didn't even give it a shot. At this point in my life, I don't care at all what people think! I do care that people think that I'm kind and generous, but that's very different from caring about what people think about what I look like.

Harriet: That's amazing. Anyone who's listening to this podcast right now who have children who are in the very impressionable age, which is from 0 to always – an important message to send to them is, literally; "you are perfect just the way you are."

Harriet: And it's okay to want to be better, as long as you are happy with where you're at.

Alexis: Yeah, absolutely.

16:22

Alexis: And I think a lot of parents don't realize that it's not just about what you tell your kids. It's also about how you treat yourself – because your kids observe that. They can see it. My parents are fabulous, and they told me my whole life that I was perfect just the way I was. But I grew up in a house where my mom was always on a diet. She would weigh herself every morning. She was always dressed perfectly and looked perfect.

Alexis: So even though she was telling me these thing that she knew she wanted her empowered daughter to hear, that wasn't what I was seeing.

Harriet: I agree. One of the quotes that springs to mind is; communication equals response. Thank you so much for sharing that – revealing a part of yourself that you probably don't tell everyone about. Appreciate that.

Alexis: Yeah. I don't even know if I've ever said that publicly.

Harriet: Mum, if you're listening right now, you're awesome! [laughs]

17:41

Harriet: Alright, let's get this thing wrapped up! So, the Naked Health Warrior's Podcast is all about stripping back bare to the real essentials that make our health work. So real health, I believe, is different for everyone. There are no two people – even identical twins – who are absolutely, hundred percent the same on the planet. So I'd love for you to share what you believe "Real Health" is for you.

Alexis: So, for me, Real Health is being able to do what I want with my body in a healthy fashion. I was in a really bad horseback riding accident about three years ago. In the midst of my career, I was in a wheelchair for a period of time. I had to relearn how to walk. I had fractured my spine and my pelvis in a few places and tore all the muscles in my left leg. And so, for me, there was this profound realization of the power of focusing on what my body can do, and not just what it looks like.

Alexis: I have a really great relationship with my body these days where I have gotten a lot better at listening to what it needs and what it wants and responding to that. Being able to exercise because I am so damn grateful that I am able to do it, not because I feel like I have to.

Harriet: That is amazing! Every single person has a different answer, but you're the very first person who has mentioned that – you know – the focus is in a different area. It's literally on what it [your body] can do. Not what you're putting in it, not anything like that. That is cool.

Alexis: Yeah! I hear so many people complain about not liking exercise, and I just think in my head; I am so grateful that I am able to move my legs and I am able to get around. I am in a position where I can sit in a spin class and I have the financial resources and the flexibility in my schedule to be able to go to that class. And I have a body that can actually get me through it.

Alexis: I think when you start to change that framework, you have a totally different appreciation for your body.

Harriet: That's pretty cool.

19:51

Harriet: What would you say matters most to you about your personal health?

Alexis: Just continuing to learn. My entire life, I've been into health and wellness. It's just what that means has really changed. And so I hope to continue to learn and to grow. To continue to communicate with my body in a way that provides me with feedback so that I'm able to constantly tweak what I'm doing in order to live my healthiest, happiest life. And I know that that might change seasonally, it might change over time, regarding my age. Just kind of being in tune with that [change] I think is really profound.

Harriet: That's a really good point.

20:41

Harriet: What is one Healthy Living Golden Nugget that you believe every single woman – every single listener right now – should really live be?

Alexis: Listen to yourself and not anybody else. I think it's really important that you absorb information from other people. It is impossible for any of us to be experts in anything. But trust your gut and make those choices that are best for you. Nobody has the answer for you other than you.

Harriet: Absolutely love one specific thing that you highlighted there. I've been reading a book called "The Healthy Gut" – or something along those lines – by a brilliant woman who's also a doctor. One of the very first things that she said is that there is more neurological receptors in your gut than in your brain.

Alexis: Ooh!

Harriet: I was absolutely blown away, right?

Alexis: I heard Mark Hyman speak a couple of months ago, and he said that 'food isn't just calories and energy; it's also information.' And that really stuck with me, because it's not just a matter of how your body takes the food and converts it into energy. It's also about what is this food telling your body, and how is your body responding to that? Not just in your gut, but also in regards to your brain and how sharp you are, and your skin, and all of these other factors.

23:37

Harriet: That was brilliant. Let's head into the QuickFire Questions round and gain some clarity.

Harriet: The very first thing that I would love for you to share is; what is the most standout story of transformation that you've seen or experienced in this industry?

Alexis: I have seen a lot of women that I have either worked with directly or have responded to my content via The Beauty Bean or my books. [They] have come up to me and told me about their transformation from being so focused on how many calories was in something to – they felt like crap, they didn't have any energy. By the time I was talking to them, they were vibrant, and they were beautiful. I have seen that same situation play out hundreds of times over the course of my career.

Alexis: I just want everybody to know; this stuff works. Getting down to what makes you healthy and happy really does make you beautiful.

25:23

Harriet: Can you share one of your personal habits that you strongly believe contributes to your personal successful health?

Alexis: Not weighing myself is really important – although I know I've kind of hammered that in a lot during this interview. Drinking a lot of water really works wonders for me; I notice a change in my energy levels. And being active. For me, if a day doesn't start without a workout, I'm not nearly as good of a human as I would like to be.

Harriet: I love it. Workout, not weighing, and water equals good human.

Alexis: Yeah.

26:05

Harriet: What is one technological piece of equipment or app or book or training or any kind of tool that you or your body cannot live without?

Alexis: I have three, and I'm going to give them as quickly as possible. First is an app called TripIt and it organizes all of my travel plans. I don't think I would ever know where I was or what airport I was supposed to go to if it weren't for that. The second is my iPad. Reading books – especially books outside the health and wellness field – is really important to me. Third is a specific book; The Alchemist. I'm guessing that a lot of people that you've interviewed have mentioned this book because it's so profound – particularly for anybody on a personal journey –

Harriet: -- because it's truly amazing, absolutely.

Alexis: Yeah! It's so amazing, and it's just such an important life lesson. Every time I read it, it hits me on the head. I reread that book almost every year.

27:13

Harriet: What is one of your kind weird but effective things that you do?

Alexis: I'm super obsessed with the pH of water – in a way that people totally think I'm out of my mind – but I have been known to call water boards in cities that I'm currently in. I also buy really high pH Alkaline water whenever I'm in a grocery store. I find a huge difference between drinking water that's slightly more acidic versus water that's much more alkaline.

27:48

Harriet: What book or resource would you recommend to people who want to improve their health today?

Alexis: The Beauty Bean.com I think is a really great place for you to go! It's kind of everything that you need for health, beauty, wellness, inside and out, but it's all done in really tangible, easy-to-digest pieces of content, so it's not too much to tackle. I've also been really enjoying Robyn Youkilis's book Go With Your Gut, which just came out.

28:19

Harriet: Who is your hero?

Alexis: I thought this was a public one [hero], and I was going to say Cecil Richards – who's the president of Planned Parenthood – because she so profoundly fights for women's healthcare. But on the more private level, I would say my grandfather. He passed away when I was in college, but he was consistently a really powerful impact in my life.

28:41

Harriet: What do you believe the health industry is really missing right now? What does the world need most to really jump out of this current paradigm?

Alexis: I think we really need medium-sized healthy role models. I think that we have a lot of really skinny, healthy – some healthy, some less healthy – models, wellness practitioners, etc.? And then we've got this really large plus-size movement. But there's not a lot of attention being focused on the "medium-sized" girls. I'm talking about girls that range from sizes, like, 4 to 12 – which is a vast majority of the healthy US population. We just don't see enough of them in the media.

29:32

Harriet: Last but not least, who do you recommend we feature on this podcast?

Alexis: I guess I'm going to say Robyn Youkillis, because I'm really enjoying her book right now and because she's awesome.

30:21

Harriet: Brilliant. Alexis, you've been amazing. I have so many notes, and I am so grateful. I hope anyone who's listening to this has also done the same; has also taken notes on some of these gems. Alexis, there's probably going to be a few people interested in a) reading your book, and b) visiting some of your sites. I know that you've got literally so many free little articles and tips on your website. Can you let the listeners know where they can go and find those.

Alexis: http://thebeautybean.com/ is full of all-free content that's really just designed to help you live your healthiest, happiest, most beautiful life, so definitely go there. Both of my books are available on Amazon or in bookstores, wherever you may be. The first one's called The Recipe for Radiance; Discover Beauty's Best-Kept Secrets in Your Kitchen. The second is called Radiant Bride. You can find both of those, and you can find me at pretty much any social media platform, @AlexisWolfer.

Harriet: Alexis, you've been a star. Before I sign off, if there's any last piece of advice or anything that you'd love to share with the listeners, I'd love for you to take the air and go for it.

Alexis: I just want everybody to know that you are your own best advocate, and that you are best at figuring out what's right for you. Take everything that you hear with a grain of salt, and take what works for you. Leave the rest, and you'll be well on your way to being your healthiest, happiest self.