Our brain and our gut communicate through what is known as the Enteric Nervous System (ENS), a piece of our gastrointestinal tract that is outlined with more than 100 million nerve cells. This means that the food we eat is communicated from our gut to our brain, the healthier the food we eat the better we will feel, the better we feel the better we act. Healthy eating not only makes us feel better internally but makes us look better externally. Simply put, lets put down the cheeseburger and grab some salmon, it's more valuable than you think.

Plants, flowers, vegetables...all planted in a garden will grow based upon how much water they receive. Negative and positive thoughts grow based upon how much attention we give them. This idea is know as the Mind Garden, our minds are a garden and the thoughts in our mind are the plants and vegetables we planted in that garden. Whatever we water (focus on) will grow, so we need to be conscious of what we choose to water and let grow.

Questions allow us to search for an answer. Why did that happen? When will this be done? Sometimes we do not know these answers but we prime ourselves to start searching for them. Questions are the key to progress, they highlight blind spots in our lives. This episode asks the listener 10 questions that if taken seriously can change the direction of their life. It's time we start asking ourselves better questions so we can create better answers.

Going to college can be stressful. Having a job that you didn't go to college for can be even more stressful. We often think we need to solve everything so quickly, and to a point action is always needed to make a change, but what if we practiced more patience? Identifying somewhere to go, something to do and someone to love can help you practice patience. These areas are critical thinking points about your personal development that don't happen overnight. Having patience takes toughness. Having patience is power.

I stood on the balcony of a million-dollar home in the California hills next to my father, we both looked out over the trees and watched the sun come through them. I was in awe of the beauty in front of me, the elegance and peacefulness I was experiencing. I looked at my father and said "Isn't it beautiful?" He didn't look at me, he was quiet and focused on something...what he said next changed my life forever on what it meant to be "healthy".

We live in a society where the majority of people are stressed and anxious, becoming the prevailing normality of our world. Most people are unhappy and unhealthy which leaves the happy and healthy people as the minority in this category. Do you have the courage to deviate from the norm and be a little different or unique? Sometimes the fear of this deviation will cause us to stay in the "safe" and "normal" crowd because its just the normal thing to do right? Brings up the idea...do we actually want to solve our stress and anxiety and be that deviation or do we want to stay comfortable with being stressed and anxious?

We would like to welcome Sarah Salib as our first guest to the podcast. On this episode we talk about the power of our emotions and how it's our job to manage them and be aware of when they may be hurting vs helping. We like to call this mental fitness. We lift weights to make our bodies stronger and we control our emotions to make our minds stronger. A beautiful testament to being smarter, stronger and better.

"I can't talk bad about her because she is not here to defend herself". I learned of this statement from a stranger I met in Miami who is now a friend. Once I became aware of this concept I started to notice when I was talking bad about others. It wasn't all the time but it happened and I noticed how easy other people around me did it as well. Connection and superiority, the two main reasons we talk bad about others. This episode highlights these reasons and the action of noticing when we talk bad about others who aren't there to defend themselves. I truly believe we will make more progress and experience more happiness if we stop talking about each other and start talking to each other. It's on us.

When will I be enough? A question that many of ask ourselves in order to predict a level of self-acceptance once something happens. Every decision we have made has led us to this very moment and we place meaning to those decisions. What if we shifted this idea and said I am enough right now, always have been and always will be because of those decisions. Sounds much more empowering doesn't it? Asking ourselves when will I be enough causes us to focus on results instead of believing you are enough by focusing on the process of achieving those results. Focus on the process not the results and you will always be enough.

Every day we practice certain routines known as habits. Some of these may be bad and some good. Certain triggers in our environment cause us to practice these habits which lead to a specific reward. By making small adjustments to these habits we can achieve massive change towards producing more results that we want, but first we have to understand what those habits are and how they are triggered and rewarded.