Nowadays, in the field of health, there are lots of modern technology that take advantage of ancient or old wisdom in therapies and one of them is the use of light. Nowadays, in the field of health, there are lots of modern technology that take advantage of ancient or old wisdom in therapies and one of them is the use of light. 

But modern lifestyle has kept most people indoors 90% of the time or higher. And so we miss to getting these benefits from the red light coming from the sun. Especially at this time of Covid and lockdowns!

So we have here, Wes Pfiffner, who will tell us what we have been missing and how impactful red light therapy can be for our bodies. He is in the leadership team of Joovv—a company specializing in red light LED therapy devices that anyone can use. 

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03:09 From Anti-Fitness to Feel Good Expert: As soon as I made that decision, my career took off like I never would have imagined. Swimming upstream vs shifting streams - when you're moving right with the current and everything seemed to be working for you.

07:48 The Habit Loop: Habits are formed through Trigger - Behavior - Reward loops. What people tend to miss is that reward section. Because people think we don't need it but this is how the brain works. We need these positive affirmations to do these things

10:28 Habit stacking: Attach a habit you want to adapt to things that are already built into your routine so it's easier to do. Build keystone habits—those that set off a ripple effect throughout your day.

13:11 What a healthy day looks like: It is what you learn in kindergarten. Go back to the basics—there is no big secret about the stuff we have to do. The big secret is really about actually doing those things.

17:40 'It's ok to half-ass it!': It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. If you're trying to implement a habit, allow the small wins.

20:26 Fighting the 'F* it!': The messy middle. Don't get all guilty, learn what you gotta learn from it and use that to get empowered to do something different.

24:54 The Efforts-to-Results Ratio: You can decide on the effort and make peace with the results, or you can decide on the results you want and make peace with the efforts that are gonna take to get you there. It's your choice.

29:08 The Feel Good Movement: Recognizing that health and wellness is not but a number on a scale but how you feel. Feeling good is ultimate outcome that you want, and ALSO the method by which you need to get there.

32:54 Best Medicine: Dance. Exercise. Music

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02:44 Dr. Eisenberg on AGT: I did it for the fun and to get the message out there that doctors and patients can break down the wall. They can be family, a friend, and co-conspirator in creativity. They can have fun together.

12:20 Doctor by Accident: I got a second chance at life and realized even as a kid how life is so fragile. You don't get what you want unless you take a chance. So I became this chance-taker and rule-breaker.

14:47 Oncology made the most sense - who needs the most light, laughter, and love in the world of medicine. The science was fascinating but it was the human side of cancer that drew me to the field. I'm on a mission to heal the disconnect between doctors and patients. It's the coming together, the connection, the communication - it all comes from love.

18:05 Burnout and Coming Out of It: It was perfectionism. Fellowship in a competitive uni (Georgetown) prepared me for academics but not for the life in private practice. I came because I want to give light, love, and laughter to oncology but the task given was to win. 

21:47 The Little Perfect Storm and the Dance: A patient asked: How are you gonna take care of all of us if you can't take care of yourself? It nudged me back to who I was.

28:50 Transcendental Meditation: One of the first modalities to healing. But consistency is key. It jumpstarts the virtual cycle of getting better.

30:31 My life changed when I started writing songs for the patients. It was no longer only about seeing the patients and getting the best of medical stuff done but also talking to a patient like talking to a family. It breaks down the wall that I thought I needed to keep moving. Winning at all costs turned to connection at all costs.

37:14 Love over Fear Formula: LOVE (Listen, Observe, Verbalize, Empathize) on top, FEAR (Force, Escape, Attack, React) on the bottom.

40:24 Leading with love heals. Bring love into your practice. Your health is a team.

42:36 CPR: Connection, Presence, and Resilience.

46:58 Best Medicine: Love and Laughter. Nothing connects human beings faster than laughter.

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05:13 The beauty of humor and storytelling: Bringing depth and fun together. Not trivializing people's traumas and struggle but subverts the inner critic and the ego and go around the fears to be more open and receptive to actually experience transformation.

06:26 The Shift: Without the tools, understanding, language, and model of what it looks like to navigate these heavy and uncomfortable experiences, you will default to sadness and despair. Sometimes we let the world dump into us and forget who we are.

10:13 A weight-loss journey: There's no place you'd get where you're done with personal growth. It's a constant work.

14:14 If I understand the way the system works, I can use my thoughts more effectively.

16:12 You don't have to believe everything you think. You don't have to think about everything you think about. They are literally all they are. Crush your negative thoughts with a snowglobe.

20:27 Things you can do real-time as you wait to settle that snowglobe: breathwork, meditation, progressive muscle tension techniques—everything that gets into your body. AND a trigger to remind how the system works. Allow your thoughts and feelings to be without being a nuisance. 

24:56 To leave everybody I meet with at least 5% more joy than I found them: It doesn't matter what the noun or title is as long as I can bring the fundamental element of joy activation in what I do.

29:39 You're seeing me in my zone of genius—the best version of me—but there are plenty of moments that you'll not see this version of me because the entirety of the human experience is everything. You can't numb the piece that feels negatively because that will numb also the piece that you're seeing now.

• 01:15 The Journey to Food as Medicine: Caring for her father who was struggling with cancer led her to find ways to use food as medicine not just to heal the body but also the soul; how to use the energy of love through the vehicle food.

• 10:57 Culinary Alchemy: Beyond the recipe, it's the education around food. Everything has a frequency. Energy is connected to food - it is more than you put in your mouth cause you're hungry. 

• 13:28 Meal Prep Ceremony: Before doing anything else, connect with your gratitude until you actually feel it. That connection is what you're going to take to your food or anything that you put into your body and into others. That frequency - that's love. Take that moment to really savor and honor what's in front of you.

• 17:22 The emotion of gratitude is one of the highest vibrational emotions and anti-aging medicine. When we eat in a state of stress, we're not actually absorbing the nutrients very well and the toxins pass through the gut - an inflammatory way to eat even if you're eating the right food!

• 19:16 Go-to for Anxiety and Stress: Ashwagandha and holy basil are very accessible and can be consumed in different ways. Lavender, chamomile, passionflower (great for sleep), and guava. Foods that are grounding; foods that come from the earth like root vegetables, sweet potato.

• 22:41 Food and Rituals for Sleep: Unwind, have a cup of tea, reduce the amount of caffeine and blue light towards the end of your day, listen to music, breathwork. Having a few key practices or rituals regularly tells your body that when you're doing that, you're telling your body to slow down and prepare to sleep. 

• 28:03 Covid19 is Real: So much of the recovery process, if you don't have severe preexisting conditions, is truly a matter of mindset. It's hard to be fully grounded on that and help heal with your because there are so many unknowns - there's so much information and misinformation. But you're mindset is the most powerful driving factor behind your immune system.

• 32:31 You are completely empowered to take care of your body. Our bodies are designed to heal. Lean in with your mental health, your support system that is your community, and to the faith that we are incredible systems.

• 36:24 Gems from the Community: We are powerful, we are resilient and we can thrive. Energy is a tool for our health and mind. The stillness is one of the most powerful biohacks that the pandemic has given us—the pandemic created space for us to reconnect with our resilience.

• 42:46 Serena's Best Medicine: Going back to myself. Remembering what my mission is. Remember that there's always so much more than what we think we see right in front of us. 

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• What shaped and defined Mike Sherbakov: I've always been like a bit of a contradiction. I've always been the person who asks WHY. And that was seen then as rebellious. 

• Many people don't have the courage to follow what they intuitively feel in their hearts. Many would follow the status quo.

• I was always the one that asked the questions. Even about the things that I believe in and value. Am I doing these things from a place of purpose?

• One big regret that people have: I wish I had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. There is only one thing that's stopping people from living their purpose: YOU.

• I believe that everyone is here for something great. Everyone has something that they want to pursue. Everyone wants to live a more meaningful life. It can be totally scary, but if you start asking the questions early, the earlier you get the confidence in the uncertainty of doing those things.

• It's never too late to be who you might have been. You're never too late to pivot. And when you do, you can take all the experience and the knowledge you've built earlier in your life.

• Where to Start: Think about the things that you enjoy doing and how you can start doing more of them. 

• Purpose: The things that bring joy to people. You light up when your authentic self connects to something. Share yourself being the gift to the world and that's purpose. Purpose is a powerful energy.

• Your body literally starts to shut down when you stop living with purpose. People with a strong sense of purpose have a lower risk of cardiovascular events. And purpose does not have to be this big huge thing. 

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To former Miss California and TV personality,  Crystal Lee, self-worth is not a number on a scale. Such an important discourse these days!

The successful personality development coach and entrepreneur, who thrived from a difficult place being Asian-American, recognizes that the highly competitive environment of pageants would sometimes require you to go beyond the lines and limits of a healthy weight. But Crystal also underscores her most prized takeaway from that glamorous world: use your desire, autonomy and agency to live healthily, thrive and inspire others.

Each one of us is unique. And unique as we are, we have different relationships with our bodies and food. And those relationships should never be conflated by our body shape or weight. Weight loss and living healthy is about looking inside and starting to implement the changes you want from your own truth!

Watch the video and get some boost and inspiration from Crystal Lee!

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They say there’s no such thing as ‘one size fits all,’ or a quick fix for everything. That’s true! But listening to Dr. Nathan Bryan, the preeminent expert on the subject and author of The Nitric Oxide Solution—this is a real game-changer! To say that discoveries around the magic molecule Nitric Oxide and its role in the big picture is pivotal for the future of medicine is even an understatement.

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Stardom doesn’t happen overnight but for our guest, he achieved it with just 1 awesome viral video 13 years ago. Our guest for this episode is no other than William Hung, the “She Bangs’ superstar we can never forget. He made us so happy with his jolly dance moves while auditioning for American Idol. And though it is obvious that not everyone was a fan, William just continued doing what he does best - being himself.

This episode will pluck your heartstrings but I assure you it’s all a happy ending.

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Comedy meets transformation with this spiritual surgeon—Kyle Cease in the house! In this episode, you’ll be more than inspired (you’ll laugh, get your nerves out, cry, and fall in love!) to take your big leap from where you’re stuck at to YOUR NOW.

• Don't make sense out of it—let the feeling be there. Let yourself be scared. Love your fear. Because the avoidance, constant resistance, and judgment of that feeling are what make you powerless.

• You have to start listening to the 'now' because the now is trying to purge your story. When you listen to the silence long enough, it takes your false identity and purges it.

• Kyle’s rule to self: Do a career that will expand you. Evolving Out Load is literally me coaching myself out loud and the audience can take any of the by-products.

• As humans, we're always evolving and we always have the choice of evolving or contracting ourselves. 

• The source of almost all of the pain that we have inside is the gap between the level of awareness that we have and the level by which we live.

• Our cells are receivers of the energy that we provide to it—the two main signal that we're sending is either we are in thrive state or the danger state.

• Rediscovering or remembering who we are is just love. Love is still the answer.

• You're no way you are just your belief. You're not your body because it's changeable. So what are you? You have to only be this moment. You have to be the all-encompassing space. You have to be permanence that's beyond the body and beliefs. You have to be just now. And when you accept that, it can transcend your limited stories.

• A huge lie that we all live in is when something happens, I'll be happy. When you think that something is the source of your happiness, you become dependent on it and you think 'I'd better get more and I can’t lose this.'

• I started discovering total freedom and joy—it was better than any accomplishment I've ever had. This started the shift from ‘when-something-happens-I'll-be-happy’ to ‘when-I'm-happy-things-will-happen.’

• The egoic part of you that wants to run everything is actually in the way of real success. The universe got you.

• If you change your story, you change the way you feel about things. And that actually changes your biochemistry in your body. The story itself is medicine.

• The Wisdom and Healing from Our Children: Knowing and experiencing that I would (and I do) love my daughter no matter what made me realize that I didn’t need to be something to be loved and worthy. Experiencing this kind of love was a healing experience.

•  The Gift on the Other Side of Loss: The part of us that always sought a person’s approval will wither along with our grief for losing that person. And then we become more present in our own moment. Loss or the dark has this other side to it.

• 2020 and the Other Side of the Pandemic: From God's perspectives, this is all of us learning and releasing; learning our patterns, purging our past to be more present. Up until 2020, many of us have our life comfortable enough but not thriving on what we truly are.

• The more I heal my inner child, the more I'm safer, the more expansive I am and the more expansive she is. I'm not here trying to parent from a place of what could go wrong. I'm here expanding myself and finding my own inner compass.

• Your kid is your reason—not your reason you can't, but your reason you have to.

• Kyle’s Best Medicine: My daughter and the NOW.

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