Wellness Renaissance Podcast

A timely discussion I am so grateful for the opportunity to have.

Charles Fai grew up in Cameroon, West Africa. Shannon May was born and raised in Minnesota. They met during her trip to Cameroon.  They call Duluth home, where they both have businesses and raise their 3 children.

Charles works as a mental health therapist, soccer (football) fan and coach. He is a trainer of the Duluth Police Department on Implicit Bias and working with people who experience mental illness.

Shannon is a Naturopathic Doctor with her practice in Duluth.

Many things have stuck in my head after recording this conversation. One of them is this… His daily mantra to himself when he wakes up in the morning. The first thing on his mind. Then, listen to his story that follows… the story that built that mantra… that prayer.

Shannon shares her experience of living in Cameroon where

she was the first white person some had ever seen.  

Raising children… creating for them a home… a place for bliss and peace – And then preparing them for the world and how the color of their skin can change perceptions. She makes a great point…. we can accept kids…. but something shifts as they get older… especially boys.

How do we start to make REAL and MEANINGFUL changes? That thread is woven through our conversation.

Charles challenges us to think about our words, our division of community. Is it a problem for the “black communities” to figure out? The danger of thinking “communities of color” are separate from the community, the town, the city.

Who has the power to make change?

Charles gives us a great way to think about advantages. The Super Bowl… our team and race. Where do we… all of us.. have advantages? How do we honor those advantages and also recognize that we have them?

What does it mean to go from Sympathizer to Ally?

Food for thought… Do our businesses reflect our population? Seeing diversity as an asset not a liability What are business owners doing to attract people of color to their business as employers? How can we create opportunities for people of color to be heard… (Beyond the protests.)

Little changes can add up to big changes… if we invest ourselves a little.

How do we start those changes that need to come from within ourselves and inside our communities?

Please join us for part two as we dive deeper into this conversation.Charles shares his experiences. Some are intense… and some are all too consistent.

When you are a black man pulled over by the police. Being pulled over when you are the only sober person in your group leaving the bar… multiple times.Getting through the stress, the fear, the frustration… being held at gun point to make sure he made it home to see his wife and unborn child… for having done nothing wrong.

We talk about the concept of being “colorblind”

We, of course, continue the conversation of how we make the world a more equitable place.

YouTube Videos

LEARN MORE…about the work Charles is doing with Duluth, MN police and Implicit Bias Training

Intersections: Charles Faihttps://youtu.be/K6ALwSXtIbg

Intersections: Charles Fai, Part 2https://youtu.be/-A7zMbTgjHs

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Janis – A

board certified sex therapist, licensed marriage and family therapist, certified

diabetes educator, registered dilatation and almost a PhD in clinical sexology!

Donna – A registered nurse and certified diabetes educator. She has a passion and expertise in sexual health. Past president of the American Association of Diabetes Educators.

They share

their experiences leading to their realization that they needed to write this

book. They needed to have resources for their clients who needed support around

intimacy and diabetes.

Sexuality

is a topic that doesn’t always come up easily. 

And, sometimes is uncomfortable for the educator or doctor to talk about

and the need is missed or dismissed.

They share examples of how the misunderstanding or lack of awareness of what sexual effects diabetes has on the body can permeate a relationship undermining health goals as well as the intimate connection in the relationship.

Things we talked about…

8 types of intimacy – what is intimacy?Sexual arousal – different for men and womenA broader view of sex than PIV or the goal of orgasm.Understanding each others needs, getting to know each otherCommunication.Enjoyment… even without orgasm.Helping people advocate and find answersErectile Dysfunction and other sexual issues for men and women brought about by diabetes. Why female Viagra doesn’t workTips to talk to your doctor or other members of our health care team.

Chapter

titles…

1 The Passion in Your Life 2 Diabetes and Your Feelings 3 Diabetes and Your Body4 For Him 5 For Her 6 For Fun7 For Couples8 Don’t Try This at Home (Awareness of bogus treatments, sexual products, fraudulent claims, etc.)9 As We Age10 Speaking With Your Doctor11 Recipes for Love12 Resources

Find the

book

Intimacy & Diabetes, by Janis Roszler and Donna Ricehttps://amzn.to/2ZNbqNY (Amazon Link)https://shopdiabetes.org/products/intimacy-diabetes-epub?_pos=1&_sid=d76be89a9&_ss=r (Diabetes.org Link)

CONTACT for speaking, etc. Janis Roszler https://www.dearjanis.com/

Donna [email protected]

In Minnesota, on June 1st, many businesses are able to reopen during the Covid-19 Quarantine, Safe at Home plan.

Hair salon, restaurants, etc.  – but not without plans in place to keep the employees and customers safe.

Adeline Wright joined us in March as Covid first “began” and called us to action. We check back in on her as she prepares, with many changes in operation, for her hair salon to open back up.  

What are the steps Adeline is taking to keep her, her staff

and her customers safe?

Lightening the customer load… and by nature – the salon

income, that comes along with the extra work, extra cleaning and limited

clients allowed in her shop.

Her truth echoes many other’s with concerns about how to

financially operate at less than 50% of usual business. How will this effect

small business in communities? 

Not to mention the tension in what feels, at times, to be a harsh divide of folks who take the concern of the virus seriously and, others who actively operate against those trying to follow guidelines to stay safe.  

Adeline is thinking about the client experience… her plans to keep customer’s down time engaging and fun as she holds awareness that limiting conversation is a measure of safety.

…Operating in “The NOW normal”

We are all trying to figure this out!

FIND ADELINE https://www.adelineinc.com/

Thank you for listening…

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Green Home Solutionshttps://www.greenhomesolutions.com/Call  -1800 solutionsIn Duluth, MN(218) 206-9549

Dr. Mary Louder is a physician in practice for 27 years in family medicine, Osteopathy and Integrative Medicine Holistic Certified.

Mary shares her unique perspective and her story of being very ill and hospitalized with what turned out to be Covid-19.  After a year that included losing both of her parents separately and after Covid, she watched her medical practice “evaporate” as her patients were mostly immunocompromised people who couldn’t come to the office.

Why it is so hard to get accurate information with this novel Corona virus. (There is a lot we don’t know… but many are not great with saying “We just don’t know.”)

What can we do as individuals to support our bodies. Mary shares various things we can do and consume to support our body, our cells and every-body.  Checking our stress. Also taking care of our allergies and mucus membranes.

Hope…We have an “opportunity to observe, adjust and change” as light is shown on systems that are not serving us well. Hope for the future!

We touch on various other

treatments … light, oxygen, ozone, vitamin C… that we don’t hear too much

about.

Suggestions to help us prepare and advocate for ourselves and the treatments we want or do not want.

CONTACT

My Anxiety Code on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/My-Anxiety-Code-105751681118999/(Trauma anxiety and chronic illness go hand in hand)Program in development. https://www.drmarylouder.com/

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Green Home Solutionshttps://www.greenhomesolutions.com/Call  -1800 solutionsIn Duluth, MN(218) 206-9549

For many quarantine has been a time to clean the closets and do some reorganizing.  If you are one of those folks who has some time and can get into the headspace that it feels good, energizing and stress relieving – one of those, “I NEVER have time for X”… that is beautiful!    If you hit a point that you need some help over a hump, or maybe you WANT to dive into some projects but need a little motivation or someone to help you organize your thoughts or plan of attack… maybe just a brain storming session…    Just because you can’t have another person in your physical space to support you doesn’t mean you can’t get the support you need.

Virtual organizer!  It

IS a thing! 

No project is too small… or too big!                        

And, it is more than JUST our things! Kim will talk about

how it is the big picture… our dynamics, our emotions, and helping us maximize

the time for stuff we want to do. 

WHAT ELSE DID WE TALK ABOUT?

Kids at home? 

Creating order out of work and school at home chaos?

How do you help create a space and a household that functions in this time of EVERYONE home…. ALL the time!

Living simply with Kim means…

Promoting intentional livingLiving with lessSelf careHelping us find the time by helping us Manage our stuff! Slowing down!Being intentional with our actions. “Time management”Pivoting through the changes to this new normal.

Feeling out of control right now?  What CAN we control in our space.

Clearing the physical chaos also clears the mental chaos.Taking control of the news and information we take in Watching our budget.Less trips to the store… How are we doing with living with less?

Virtual organizing…How does that work?Can one make significant progress in an hour?Accountability and guidance.

Shopping our houseShopping our pantry before grocery shopping.

Questions about…The worth of something you want to part with?Re-purposing?De-cluttering for putting your home on the market?Moving assistance?

You have a family member in Duluth that has died,  you are far away and  there are no relatives near to help. Kim can act as project manager for that process to release things and arrange for cleaning.

Kim will do one time, or as many as you need, brain storming sessions if you need a little help getting over a hump.

Don’t forget to check in with her about the special rate she is offering for virtual organizing… from her house to yours!  Let her know you heard her on the podcast!

RESOURCE LINKS FOR FINDING NEW HOMES FOR YOUR GOOD STUFF!

If you have things to give away that could help someone in need who has nothing to start a new home.

Local Shelters here in Duluth, MNCheck them out in your area.If you are in Duluth, MN and Superior, WI

Safe havenhttp://safehavenshelter.org/

Steve O’Neil apartmentshttps://www.chumduluth.org/steveoapts.htm

CHUMhttps://www.chumduluth.org/

Damianohttps://www.damianocenter.org/

CASDA – Superior,  WIhttps://casda.org/ Life House (for homeless Teens) https://lifehouseduluth.org/

CONNECT with Kim…

For organizing and simplifying, public speaking, etc. Get your 30 minute consultation by calling or connecting.http://livesimplywithkim.com/virtual-organizing/ Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/livesimplywithkim/ Instagram  – Live Simply With KimLinkedIn – Search for Live Simply With KimPhone – 218-213-8071

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Susan Terrizzi shares her story of how her business, Sum Moxie came, to be.  Growing up with dyslexia, how it effected her as a child, how she discovered dyslexia was the thing that challenged her and also supports her talent with numbers and seeing when numbers “look off”. She has come to not only an acceptance but appreciation of her dyslexia. This interview was recorded back in February, 2020.

She is a numbers coach and a business strategist.  She works with female coaches to help them make the most of their business, find the places where the money doesn’t add up, help people use their money more effectively, keep more money in their business, and ultimately to reach your business or personal goals. Her gift is being able to spot those things in the accounting that “look off”.

What is her niche?Helping women embrace the profit, purpose, and prosperity they desire through 1 to 1 coaching.

“Together we make change that adds up”

We chat about all of this, and:

Keeping you in the know of your business.  Ethics in business and sales.  Be aware!  Scary tales from the finance world. 

CONTACT

For speaking opportunities around finance, her experience with dyslexia, etc. ORIf you are a female coach.

Email her at: [email protected] 

Website – SumMoxie.com

To get the PDF of 15

tips to starting and having a business

Email her with “Freebie” in the subject line at the email

above

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SPONSOR!

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Shaun has been doing “the judge work” for over 15 years. He has specialized in working with people who have substance abuse disorders and struggling with mental health trauma.

A thoughtful calming voice emerging through the noise.

What did we chat about?

This current experience – how is it shifting our thoughts and leveling the playing field. As we each are having a version of a similar experience all over the world.

How do we ground ourselves and be present? What do we have agency over?  Where can we put our energies?

What will come out of this? How will we shift??  We are being faced with the ability to examine our habits, our path… individually? Our community?  Beyond? This purposeful collective work and mindset…

What does community service mean in this current situation?

Being informed without letting our amygdala hijack our brain. Think about how we consume media.  Finding the balance.LOOK OUT FOR THE HELPERSA group effort with Jon Reznick with the Rambler Food Truck and Shannon Cornelius of Yellow Bike, Brianna and more coming together to support health care workers with food and coffee to keep them going physically and mentally.  

Nature It keeps its rhythm as ours drastically shifts.   Noticing nature and being in nature helps us re-attune to nature… to our own rhythm.

Releasing low level non violent offenders from jail in efforts to protect our fellow community members, and those that work in them, from the “Petri dish”? Judy’s words not Shaun’s… of jails during Covid.

We are a country with 5% of the worlds population.  We have 25% of the worlds incarcerated population.   (A fact that always is staggering to me, Judy… so many more questions than answers….)We want folks… these, our brothers and sisters in our community… to come back to society better than they left it.  Is our current system allowing for that outcome?

What is the reality of the new community and how do we find connection?

“Stay safe, Stay strong and Be in the fight…”  Even if it is a tiny way of participation with gratitude or sharing beauty.

“Be present” and “Live out loud!”

QUOTES

“When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor E. Frankl

“I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.” – Maya Angelou

Find out more about

LOOK OUT FOR THE HELPERS in DuluthFacebook Page:www.facebook.com/lookoutforthehelpers/

GoFund Me campaign and updates:https://www.gofundme.com/f/look-out-for-the-helpers

Learn more about Judge Shaun Floerkehttp://www.mncourts.gov/About-The-Courts/Overview/JudicialDirectory/Bio.aspx?jid=1509

A lovely presentation Shaun gave at the St Luis County

Health and Human Services Conference in 2015

WeCroak… the app that reminds you, you are going to die so you can live more fully. https://www.wecroak.com/

In the app store:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wecroak/id1248149943

Vikre distillery

In case you don’t know… They are handing out sanitizer… Find out more if you are in need!https://www.facebook.com/VikreDistillery/?__tn__=%2Cd%2CP-R&eid=ARA4Hl6ufLTGTCD7XRrw2vIqKsWX3d-EinvsQ1gyUNXAuAQfRiwOl3C-jERtnuwOmNgpun5IbF-xoLdg

Check out the episode Wellness Renaissance did with Emily at VikreEpisode 66 – Emily Vikre of Vikre Distillery

Episode 66 – Emily Vikre of Vikre Distillery

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Why are the liquor stores open?   A question I saw pop up in various places

with varying answers. 

I invited Dr. Michele Perron, a clinical supervisor with Lionrock Recovery, back to give us the answer. Lionrockrecovery.com is a 100% online recovery treatment to support folks in need. (She also is a TSM coach with CThreeFoundation.org using the Sinclair Method). If you know someone who needs assistance at this time, please pass this on.

WHAT DID WE TALK ABOUT?

Things you might need to know for a loved one or yourself about alcohol consumption and trying to quit during this period of quarantine.

Why are liquor stores seen as essential and open during this time of quarantine?

How much alcohol does it take to have our body start to get dependent on the alcohol What happens if we just stop? What does withdraw look like when someone is drinking daily or binge drinking?

Alcohol withdrawal can cause seizures and can be fatal.   It is estimated that, if liquor stores were closed eliminating access to alcohol that 15% of Americans could need emergency medical attention due to withdrawal. (Taking away hospital space and staff from potential Covid patients.)

If you are afraid they might shut down liquor stores but you

feel you are drinking too much. How do you safely start bringing the daily

drinks down safely?

If you ARE at a place where you don’t have work and other daily stresses to deal with and this IS a good time to quite or cut down your alcohol consumption and you want to make a change, Michele and Lionrock’s model is an experienced online recovery program model.

Alcohol damages DNA and interrupts immune function. Something to be aware of, especially if you are choosing to drink heavily. You may be adding to your risk of not being able to fight the virus as well.

Steps to take if you are alone and want to quit drinking

during this time.

Video Mentions

Kyle Cease Quarantined to inner freedom

Bruce Lipton

Catch Michele’s previous episode…Episode 43 – Drinking for a lifetime in a healthy way with Michele Perron PhD

CONTACT MICHELE

Lionrockrecovery.com

Full service online drug and alcohol treatment

            Health

Balance group

            Covid

anxiety group (5 days a week and free to the public)

CThreeFoundation.org

            Coaching

page

LinkedIn

            Michele

Perron PhD

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I had the pleasure to speak with David Bloom, Green Home

Solutions Chief Science Officer and product developer of many of the low

toxicity Green Home Solutions products.

And

Steve Stern, the owner of the Duluth, MN

franchise. 

They help us find our way to safe and confident cleaning.

WHAT DID WE TALK

ABOUT?

When we look at bottles of cleaner in our cabinets or even advertisements we see words like disinfect, sanitize, etc. What do they ACTUALLY mean?   Something many of us haven’t really had to think about. We may even use these terms interchangeably without knowing that they actually have very particular definitions, and proper use instructions, giving us clear expectations of what they accomplish.  

Defining terms… Clean Deep clean Sanitation Disinfection

The importance of following directions and taking EPA warnings seriously on cleaning products. 

Product contact time

Some suggestions on getting outside help when needing to

disinfect or reset a home, work place or other space.

The benefits of a dry fog hydrogen peroxide solution.

Keeping air in the home clean and fresh when everyone is staying at home and inside more than normal.

The Hayward scorehttps://www.haywardscore.com/

Green Home Solutions’ very low toxicity products allow them

to help many people challenged with chemical sensitivities.

EPA registered – what does it mean? 

Vinegar and Covid-19

Being mindful of using the right tools and how we use them. Electrostatic sprayers – They work well… David shares concerns they found as they have studied this method of disinfecting.

CONTACT GREEN HOME

SOLUTIONS

GreenHomeSolutions.com

1800-Solutions

For Science and general knowledge questions you are welcome to reach out to David Bloom through the information above.

More about David Bloomhttps://www.greenhomesolutions.com/about-us/leadership/

More about Steve Sternhttps://www.greenhomesolutions.com/duluth-mn/about-us/

Check out the episode with Steve where I learned mold is FAR more fascinating than I ever knew. (Episode 98)https://wellnessrenpodcast.com/podcast/episode-98-mold-remediation-and-your-health-with-green-home-solutions-of-duluth-steve-stern-and-laura-ness-part-1/

Thank you for listening!

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