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Episode 80- My Conversation with Brian Parker About Energy and the Energy Drink ELIXIR. · You Minding Your Own Business

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Speaker 1: All right, mister Brian Parker, the Energy MD. How did
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Speaker 1: you get that name?
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Speaker 2: And first of all, welcome to this conversation. How did
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Speaker 2: you get your name? How did you get into medicine
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Speaker 2: and how did you get into the importance of energy
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Speaker 2: and how energy plays such a very pivocal part of
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Speaker 2: our health and wellness.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, a lot of great questions there, and first
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Speaker 3: of all, thank you for having me. It's great to
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Speaker 3: chat with you. It's great to be here. You know.
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Speaker 3: In terms of the Energy MD, things like that, a
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Speaker 3: lot of people would call me the energizer bunny. I'm
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Speaker 3: a pretty energetic guy, but the energizer Buddy already trademarked.
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Speaker 3: I'm not trying to violate anything out there, you know,
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Speaker 3: And so a lot of people when they first meet me,
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Speaker 3: they think this guy can't be real. It's a facade,
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Speaker 3: his high energy positivity all that. But then over the
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Speaker 3: course of months or years, I just continue to be
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Speaker 3: energetic and happy and things, and they're like, wow, I
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Speaker 3: was waiting for the shoe to drop, but the shoe
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Speaker 3: never dropped, you know. So that's kind of that's kind
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Speaker 3: of how I how I'm perceived, I guess, and how
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Speaker 3: I got into the uh to be known as just
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Speaker 3: a high energy person, if you will, in terms of
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Speaker 3: how I let's see, I think one of your questions
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Speaker 3: was how I got into medicine, and then also how
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Speaker 3: I got into like energy and why it's important and
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Speaker 3: things like that. Is that correct? Yes, all right, Well
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Speaker 3: we'll start with medicine. We'll come back to energy here.
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Speaker 3: You know. I like to tell people I'm a combination
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Speaker 3: of nature and nurture. So my my father was a
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Speaker 3: financial planner, my mother was a nurse, her father was
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Speaker 3: an obg y n and so on the one hand,
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Speaker 3: the nature part, I just always liked to help in people,
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Speaker 3: you know, and there are a lot of ways you
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Speaker 3: can help people in many capacities, in many many jobs,
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Speaker 3: and not even in just vocational efforts, but just in general,
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Speaker 3: there are many ways to help people. I was always
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Speaker 3: particularly attracted to that. I just was always looking out
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Speaker 3: for the underdog in first grade, you know, the kid
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Speaker 3: that was alone on the swings. I'd go swing within,
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Speaker 3: you know, that kind of thing. So I always just
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Speaker 3: kind of had that nature in me. But then I
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Speaker 3: add in the nurture piece because my mom being a
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Speaker 3: nurse and then her dad being a doctor. She would
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Speaker 3: tell me stories about in the O R or with
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Speaker 3: you know, stories with patients and things like that, and
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Speaker 3: I realized, Wow, I really, I really am gravitating towards
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Speaker 3: medicine in particular. I think there are few ways well,
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Speaker 3: let me rephrase. I think the way in which you
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Speaker 3: can help people in medicine and health is truly unique
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Speaker 3: in what it is because it's such a People come
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Speaker 3: to you in such a vulnerable state and oftentimes with
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Speaker 3: really deep concerns, and to be able to help them
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Speaker 3: through sometimes what is the hardest points in their life
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Speaker 3: is just really a special calling, as I see it.
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Speaker 3: So that's a long answer to say. I always wanted
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Speaker 3: to be a doctor pretty much from when I was
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Speaker 3: a little kid, you know, and then my journey was
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Speaker 3: unique for sure in getting there, in part because I
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Speaker 3: have such an eclectic variety of interests, in particular my
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Speaker 3: interest in business, that I say is kind of a
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Speaker 3: hobby of mine. But one interesting piece about my path
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Speaker 3: to medicine is that many people wondered if I'd be
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Speaker 3: able to make it because I'm a I'm an intelligent guy,
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Speaker 3: but I'm not I'm not the best test taker. You know. So,
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Speaker 3: for example, in my organic chemistry class, I struggled greatly
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Speaker 3: in organic organic. I can't even say the word organic chemistry,
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Speaker 3: you know. It takes me back the trauma. No, I
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Speaker 3: struggled greatly in my organic chemistry professor basically told me
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Speaker 3: I probably wouldn't be smart enough to go to medical school,
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Speaker 3: you know. So, yeah, yeah, that that was a deep
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Speaker 3: blow for sure. And I could go into a few
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Speaker 3: more kind of examples if you'd like, But long story short,
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Speaker 3: I got to med school, I succeeded, went through residency, succeeded,
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Speaker 3: and then bringing you bringing me to your third question
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Speaker 3: about energy itself in residency, I don't know if you
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Speaker 3: know much about or your listeners know much about residency,
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Speaker 3: but in brief, it is a very grueling training period.
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Speaker 3: The in fact, back in the day, there didn't used
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Speaker 3: to be an hour's limit because they would work the
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Speaker 3: residents so many hours. Now they have to put a
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Speaker 3: limit on it for eighty hours a week. And many
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Speaker 3: residency programs, oh yeah, yeah, many residency programs they'll they'll
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Speaker 3: push you to those eighty hours a week, you know,
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Speaker 3: So it can be it can be really really intense
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Speaker 3: and as an exhausted resident, like all residents are. I
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Speaker 3: was trying every every caffeine source I could get my
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Speaker 3: hands on pretty much. You know. I was exhausted, and
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Speaker 3: I was drinking a sugar free drink. I won't say
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Speaker 3: it's a name. I don't want to get in any trouble,
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Speaker 3: but I was drinking one particular sugar free beverage that
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Speaker 3: it's in a white can, and I realized, man, there
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Speaker 3: has to be something better out there. And and so
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Speaker 3: then I started doing a quest for the old mint
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Speaker 3: energy source and didn't find it. I found they were
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Speaker 3: all the same.
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Speaker 1: Pardon its Oh wow, yeah they are.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they're all the same. They're all the same,
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Speaker 3: A bunch of b vitamins, a bunch of caffeine. And
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Speaker 3: that's really about it, you know. And so as I
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Speaker 3: started thinking about, okay, what would I want in like
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Speaker 3: an energy drink, I started brainstoring, writing stuff down, doing research,
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Speaker 3: and then found it didn't exist and decided to create
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Speaker 3: it myself. And we can talk about that a little
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Speaker 3: bit later. But I've created what I believe to be
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Speaker 3: the ultimate elixer. It's called the Elixer. This this drink
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Speaker 3: I created, but that also simultaneously took me down a
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Speaker 3: rabbit hole of energy. And I know that's what we
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Speaker 3: want to talk about here a little bit before I
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Speaker 3: go down my rabbit hole of what energy is, because
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Speaker 3: I have a lot of thoughts about about that and
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Speaker 3: why we're exhausted and ways that we can improve our exhaustion.
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Speaker 3: I want to pause and just see if you have
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Speaker 3: any follow up questions or anything like that before I
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Speaker 3: continue my soapbox here.
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Speaker 2: And see, this is the reason I wanted to do
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Speaker 2: it in two parts, because now we're going to talk
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Speaker 2: about and two conversations, because when it comes to energy
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Speaker 2: is so broad. You got your mental energy, is psychological energy,
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Speaker 2: your emotional energy. You have your energy.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: It's like I tell people's like infidelity, and people say,
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Speaker 2: what do you mean? I said, you have to give
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Speaker 2: time to every person in your life. You don't have
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Speaker 2: just energy for one person. I could be with out
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Speaker 2: my mom and then my aunt can call her. She'll
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Speaker 2: be on the phone with her and I'm trying to
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Speaker 2: have a conversation with her, trying to get her as
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Speaker 2: a priority.
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Speaker 1: And I look at that when it comes to my energy.
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Speaker 2: But also I also look at the energy that's being received.
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Speaker 2: And I always tell people it's like somebody throwing stones
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Speaker 2: at you. I said, do you throw the stones back?
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Speaker 2: Or do you keep the stones? I said, well, there
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Speaker 2: are times where I keep the stones and there are
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Speaker 2: times where I throw them back. But I said, I
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Speaker 2: learned if I keep them, then nobody has any stones
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Speaker 2: left the throat. And you know the reason I say that,
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Speaker 2: mental and psychological and emotional and spiritual and internal and
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Speaker 2: external and in relationship energies are so different.
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Speaker 1: It's what you have to put into them. I said.
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Speaker 2: But it was like, you know, we be on social
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Speaker 2: media all day and I'm trying to break that habit
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Speaker 2: because when I was sick, I didn't have any access
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Speaker 2: to the world. My only access was social media. There
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Speaker 2: was no going out, there was no doing anything at
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Speaker 2: that time. Well, then when you get better, it's like
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Speaker 2: it's still meant that that energy mentally is still there.
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Speaker 2: And then you don't even realize how much time that
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Speaker 2: you've lost. And then you'll say I'm gonna get up
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Speaker 2: this morning and I'm get up and do something. But
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Speaker 2: then you have chronic pain and you're like your body
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Speaker 2: like I just can't, I can't do it, and it
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Speaker 2: is like, emotionally you're emotionally drained because of the relationship
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Speaker 2: that you're in. And the reason why it's so important
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Speaker 2: because that's when you also said momentum, having the momentum
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Speaker 2: to do something, having the drive and the discipline to
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Speaker 2: do it, the adversity, overcoming the adversity, the strength to
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Speaker 2: do it, the even the will to live it to
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Speaker 2: do it, that will to want to do it. And
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Speaker 2: so that's why I say, I think it's so important
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Speaker 2: when it comes to energy, how and what you put
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Speaker 2: your energy into it and being able to determine within
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Speaker 2: twenty four hours.
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Speaker 1: How can I put all this.
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Speaker 2: Energy into all of these different things that we're trying
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Speaker 2: to do. Because I'm a Gemini, we're indecisive. We're like, okay,
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Speaker 2: we start something, then we're like, what if this doesn't
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Speaker 2: work out? But I think I think one word that
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Speaker 2: I think a lot of people don't even put into
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Speaker 2: energy is rejection. And everybody don't understanding. They're like, why
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Speaker 2: what do you mean? You get rejected by something and
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden you quit everything.
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Speaker 1: You quit.
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Speaker 2: Every time it gets hard and it gets to a
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Speaker 2: point where you feel like you're going above your limits.
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Speaker 2: You're like, I can't do this, Like when you have
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Speaker 2: depression and anxiety, it's the same thing, is that fear
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Speaker 2: is another thing that can block your energy and can
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Speaker 2: stop you in your tracts as far.
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Speaker 1: As energy is concerned.
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Speaker 2: So when it comes to that, when it comes to
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Speaker 2: different parts of energy, how do you feel when it
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Speaker 2: comes to how do we go approaching those different parts
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Speaker 2: of energy as far as how to get that to
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Speaker 2: work together?
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Speaker 1: Because all it.
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Speaker 2: Takes is for one to go out of wet to
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Speaker 2: you just say you know what, I just can't do this,
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Speaker 2: and then trying to get yourself that drive to say
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Speaker 2: but yes I can, or I'd like to say the
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Speaker 2: little engine that could, if that makes sense.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like that. I like that. I
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Speaker 3: like the analogy I've heard where people talk about juggling,
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Speaker 3: you know, and it's it's not it's not possible to
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Speaker 3: be one hundred percent at every every every ball you're
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Speaker 3: juggling all at once, right, some are you know, kind
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Speaker 3: of just got to be floating there while you've got
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Speaker 3: the one or two. I'm no juggler, you know, but
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Speaker 3: one or two in your hands as your as you're
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Speaker 3: as you're you know, you're focused on on just a
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Speaker 3: certain thing here and there. So it's hard to be
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Speaker 3: a good one hundred percent of the time a good
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Speaker 3: you know, student, partner, employee, uh, you know, filling the
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Speaker 3: roles X y Z, you know. So that can be
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Speaker 3: tough for sure. But you know, it's interesting You're taught
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Speaker 3: from a little bit about about how divided we are,
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Speaker 3: and that's one of the energy the leaks I've identified.
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Speaker 3: So I'll take a step back a little bit about
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Speaker 3: my perspective on energy, and truly, you're right, there are
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Speaker 3: so many different ways to talk about energy. My focus
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Speaker 3: is largely really physiologic energy, you know, like just being exhausted,
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Speaker 3: coming from when I was an exhausted resident, right, And
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Speaker 3: so I one thing about a lot of the wellness
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Speaker 3: influencers out there that they have a great message, for sure,
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Speaker 3: but one thing that always when I listen to them,
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Speaker 3: sometimes I feel a little guilty because it's like I've
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Speaker 3: got to do more. I've got to eat better, I
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Speaker 3: got to exercise more, You've got to do more social
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Speaker 3: interaction stuff. I've got to It's always like a lot
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Speaker 3: of more, more more. You know, I didn't meal pre
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Speaker 3: I didn't you know, what I mean. And when I
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Speaker 3: was thinking about exhaustion, I was thinking, well, what if
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Speaker 3: we have enough energy already, which from a physiologic standpoint,
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Speaker 3: we do. All of us have enough ATP. Right. You
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Speaker 3: know everyone remembers the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. Well,
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Speaker 3: that's because mitochondria makes ATP. You can think of that
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Speaker 3: as just the fuel of the engine. You know, we
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Speaker 3: all have enough of that. But short of, of course,
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Speaker 3: genetic disorders or if you've you know, got some other
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Speaker 3: like medical condition. You know, I'm not I'm not focused
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Speaker 3: on those people. You should, you know, if you're one
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Speaker 3: of those where you're thyroids out of whack or what
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Speaker 3: have you, you know, follow with your doctor. But the average
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Speaker 3: individual I'm talking about, right, has you know, enough glycogen stores,
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Speaker 3: glucose stores you know which is which is glycogen fat stores,
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Speaker 3: you know, mitochondria, et cetera to make energy. So if
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Speaker 3: we have enough energy physiologically, why are we still exhausted?
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Speaker 3: So then it got me thinking, well, what if instead
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Speaker 3: of needing to do more or more and more, you know,
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Speaker 3: because we can all do better, right, sure, but what
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Speaker 3: if it's just there are just a couple of tweaks
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Speaker 3: we could make to stop us from leaking our energy data. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 3: so I identified, you know, these four energy leaks that
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Speaker 3: I like to talk about, and I'll take a step
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Speaker 3: back as well. I don't know if your listeners are
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Speaker 3: familiar with the story of Apollo thirteen. It's a great
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Speaker 3: movie if you haven't seen it, and a great story
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Speaker 3: obviously based on the true story, and the if if
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Speaker 3: people have a chance to even just read about it,
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Speaker 3: it's it's pretty fascinating. But you know, one thing that
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Speaker 3: happened is, you know, one of the oxygen takes that
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Speaker 3: helps provide power to Apollo thirteen and exploded right on
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Speaker 3: their way to the Moon. And it wasn't a matter
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Speaker 3: of they didn't bring enough stuff with them. It was
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Speaker 3: a matter of they had enough, but they had to
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Speaker 3: stop it from leaking out. You know, we are all
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Speaker 3: our own you know, moon, lunar, rover and land or rocket,
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Speaker 3: whatever you want to say. You know, we're all our
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Speaker 3: own spaceship, if you will. But we need to figure
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Speaker 3: out how to not lose the energy that we have.
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Speaker 3: Right So, the first leak I don't actually spend a
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Speaker 3: whole lot of time on because it is one that's
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Speaker 3: talked about a lot. It's the alertness leak. So there
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Speaker 3: are a couple of things I want to say about this.
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Speaker 3: Though it does focus a lot around sleep, and there
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Speaker 3: are a lot of sleep experts out there, so that's
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Speaker 3: why I don't want to go into it too much.
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Speaker 3: But there was an interesting study that looked at people
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Speaker 3: who they they they sleep deprived them over two weeks
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Speaker 3: to four or six hours of sleep, and throughout this
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Speaker 3: process they measured their performance and what was really interesting
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Speaker 3: is that, of course performance dropped, as you'd expect, but
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Speaker 3: what was really interesting about the study is that their
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Speaker 3: perception of tiredness leveled out after just a few days.
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Speaker 3: Even though they stopped feeling like more and more exhausted,
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Speaker 3: but they kind of reached a homeostasis because the brain
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Speaker 3: is very good about adjusting, their performance actually continued to decline.
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Speaker 3: And I think that's important because the bulk of people
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Speaker 3: in this country are sleep deprived to some degree and
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Speaker 3: continue to just push through because maybe they don't perceive
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Speaker 3: the tiredness to the extreme that they're feeling, but the
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Speaker 3: performance does suffer, So you know, I think that is
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Speaker 3: one little piece that I want to bring up about
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Speaker 3: the importance of trying to get good sleep at night
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Speaker 3: and things like that. And again I'm not going to
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Speaker 3: go into all the sleep strategies their whole sleep experts
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Speaker 3: and sleep podcasts on that, for sure. I'll just say
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Speaker 3: two more things about that. But then I want to
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Speaker 3: get to the really good leaks that I'm really excited about.
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Speaker 3: Number One, there's a thing called sleep inertia, and there's
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Speaker 3: this prevailing I don't want to say myth but let's
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Speaker 3: say theory out there that oh, you need to wait
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Speaker 3: sixty to ninety minutes before you have some caffeine in
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Speaker 3: the morning. Now I bring up caffeine because caffeine can
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Speaker 3: kind of plug the leak a little bit. It's not perfect, okay,
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Speaker 3: as we'll talk about. It's certainly just a patch for
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Speaker 3: the alertness leak, if you will. But there's this theory about, okay,
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Speaker 3: well it blunt your quarters all response and this and that.
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Speaker 3: But there's actually never been like a randomized control trial
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Speaker 3: of people that had the caffeine right away versus those
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Speaker 3: who waited sixty to ninety minutes and then their hormones
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Speaker 3: were measured and tracked. Not that I've been able to
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Speaker 3: find it doesn't exist. And so my point is there
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Speaker 3: are actually a lot of studies of people that have
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Speaker 3: some caffeine right when they wake up, essentially, and it
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Speaker 3: helps them overcome the sleep inertia. So all that to say,
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Speaker 3: if you're one of the people like me where you're
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Speaker 3: hitting that snooze a lot, you know, and you need
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Speaker 3: just a little something to kind of get you going
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Speaker 3: in the day, don't feel guilty that you don't wait
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Speaker 3: sixty to ninety minutes before having your caffeine because those
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Speaker 3: that really push that it is a very theoretical. It's
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Speaker 3: very theoretical, and it actually there are some studies to
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Speaker 3: suggest that if you've already been having your caffeine daily,
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Speaker 3: your body's already adjusted to it. So that's all I'll
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Speaker 3: say about that. But it's a little controversy there. I'm
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Speaker 3: counteracting with or go against what some people might say
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Speaker 3: in terms of caffeine consumption in the morning. Okay, so
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Speaker 3: that's alertness. I want to talk about one I'm really
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Speaker 3: passionate about those, the momentum leak. Okay, and you touched
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Speaker 3: on this a little bit earlier. Asha. Everyone says, man,
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Speaker 3: you gotta you gotta be motivated, you gotta get your motivation,
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Speaker 3: you know. And all of us at times have woken up,
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Speaker 3: whether it's New Year's resolutions or just you know, a
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Speaker 3: Monday to start the week or whatever, and have woken
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Speaker 3: up and said, I'm so motivated, I'm ready, I'm gonna
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go and do X y Z, just like
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Speaker 3: you said, Usha, you know, I'm gonna get this done today.
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Speaker 3: But here's the thing. Motivation waxes and wanes. Okay, you
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Speaker 3: can be motivated and then two hours later, you know,
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Speaker 3: if you're if you're aching, you're hurting, or you get
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Speaker 3: a bad text, or you know, a test doesn't go
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Speaker 3: well or whatever it is, and the motivation can be gone.
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Speaker 3: What I say is what you need instead of motivation
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Speaker 3: is momentum. Okay, momentum begets motivation. So throw the idea
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Speaker 3: of like, man, I've got to do this stuff because
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Speaker 3: I'm motivated just out of nothing, you know. And they've
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Speaker 3: studied this actually quite a bit, a bunch of studies,
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Speaker 3: both in kids and adults. And the big takeaway of
20:24
Speaker 3: all these studies out there is that when they gave
20:27
Speaker 3: people two groups same end goal, but when they gave
20:34
Speaker 3: one group small, bite sized pieces by which to accomplish it,
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Speaker 3: small goals along the way. They accomplished it faster, they
20:46
Speaker 3: were more satisfied, and they did a better job. Okay.
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Speaker 3: So if it's if you know, if you're at work
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Speaker 3: and man, I've got a whole huge to do list, Okay,
20:56
Speaker 3: well right down the to do list and then just
21:01
Speaker 3: start checking things off one at a time. If sending
21:04
Speaker 3: an email is overwhelming, just start with I'm going to
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Speaker 3: open and draft the email, you know, or whatever it is. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: gaining momentum is the key to motivation. As a doctor,
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Speaker 3: I see it all the time, Like with weight loss.
21:20
Speaker 3: You know, the first ten pounds for a lot of
21:22
Speaker 3: people's the hardest ten. But once they've lost ten, oh wow,
21:26
Speaker 3: they're feeling a little bit better. The next ten is
21:29
Speaker 3: usually a lot easier for them. You know. Now we
21:32
Speaker 3: can talk about plateaus, and that's a whole separate discussion,
21:34
Speaker 3: But the momentum that they get creates motivation, and so
21:41
Speaker 3: I think that is such an important focal point of
21:46
Speaker 3: energy because you can go throughout your whole day feeling
21:50
Speaker 3: just overwhelmed. If you allow the world to make you overwhelmed,
21:56
Speaker 3: you know, if you allow the the magnitude of the
22:03
Speaker 3: things that need to be accomplished to just stare at
22:07
Speaker 3: you in the face, and you don't celebrate the small
22:10
Speaker 3: victories along the way to gain the momentum. That's it.
22:14
Speaker 3: And I love that one because it's really just largely
22:17
Speaker 3: a mindset shift, you know. And then Stephen Covey did
22:22
Speaker 3: talk about I'll steal one piece from him. He talked
22:25
Speaker 3: about writing down the list because there's a satisfaction that
22:28
Speaker 3: comes with checking stuff off. So that's that's that's leak.
22:33
Speaker 3: And number two and one that I'm very passionate about.
22:36
Speaker 3: I'll pause there.
22:39
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that.
22:41
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm really passionate about it, because we just
22:44
Speaker 3: get lost. I mean, I've seen it all the time
22:45
Speaker 3: in residence. For example, when I was in my residency studying,
22:48
Speaker 3: a lot of this, right is, oh, I've got to
22:51
Speaker 3: be ready to you know, be my own independent doctor,
22:56
Speaker 3: right like that's the end goal of residency basically, or
23:00
Speaker 3: or be ready to go to fellowship if they're going
23:02
Speaker 3: to specialize. But man, there are so many victories along
23:06
Speaker 3: the way, daily victories that I would tell my interns,
23:10
Speaker 3: my younger residents, I'd say, look, you know, you got
23:14
Speaker 3: to celebrate the small victories along the way, because that's
23:18
Speaker 3: how you get momentum, you know. So Okay, I'll pause
23:23
Speaker 3: there and hear your thoughts about that, but I before
23:27
Speaker 3: I go into my final two, I love them.
23:30
Speaker 2: I love when you said about sleep, because that's been
23:32
Speaker 2: my issue with sleep, is that I'm on social media,
23:36
Speaker 2: watching all this different stuff and strolling and I noticed
23:40
Speaker 2: that my anxiety with my driving.
23:43
Speaker 1: And this is something a lot of people don't.
23:44
Speaker 2: Talk about, is when you're strolling, you're not blinking, You're
23:50
Speaker 2: you're constantly looking down. And I remember I went to
23:53
Speaker 2: the eye doctor and he said, that's where your anxiety
23:56
Speaker 2: is coming from, because you're having tunnel vision and because
24:01
Speaker 2: you're so used to looking down that when you finally
24:04
Speaker 2: look up and then you're looking forward and you have
24:06
Speaker 2: to stare at something for a long period of time.
24:09
Speaker 2: But it also messes with your attention span too, when
24:13
Speaker 2: it comes to reading, when it comes to you paying attention,
24:17
Speaker 2: and because you're looking at something for thirty seconds to
24:21
Speaker 2: maybe about ten minutes maybe. And so you know, a
24:26
Speaker 2: lot of people now are doing these AI stories and
24:29
Speaker 2: they're cutting them into sections and they're putting them on
24:31
Speaker 2: everything has to fit within ten fifteen minutes. And when
24:35
Speaker 2: you go on YouTube, and I tell a lot of
24:37
Speaker 2: content creators, I said, if you look at not just
24:41
Speaker 2: your views, not just your subscribers, look at how long
24:44
Speaker 2: they're watching the videos. You can make an hour long
24:47
Speaker 2: video and they're only listening to maybe five maybe a
24:51
Speaker 2: minute of it, maybe five minutes of it. And I said,
24:53
Speaker 2: you know, you don't get paid for that. They say,
24:55
Speaker 2: what do you mean you get paid on that if
24:58
Speaker 2: it's a YouTube short I said, but if you were
25:03
Speaker 2: to go into a classroom for an hour and have
25:04
Speaker 2: to pay attention to your teacher, you notice you're gonna
25:07
Speaker 2: start getting sleepy.
25:08
Speaker 1: And they're like, why do you get sleepy?
25:10
Speaker 2: Well, you get sleepy because number one, you're bored, and
25:13
Speaker 2: then number two, your attention span is not long enough
25:18
Speaker 2: to be able to sit in there and take on
25:20
Speaker 2: all of this information at one time, which is why
25:23
Speaker 2: now they're shortening everything. And I think that has a
25:26
Speaker 2: lot to do with momentum as well, because if your
25:30
Speaker 2: attention span is not where you can focus, and that's nothing.
25:35
Speaker 2: I would also add to that, it's focused. If you
25:38
Speaker 2: cannot focus, then you can wake up in the morning
25:42
Speaker 2: like you said, if you don't write down your schedule
25:45
Speaker 2: and have it where your schedule is, where you can look.
25:47
Speaker 1: At it, I can say all day long, I want
25:49
Speaker 1: to do something.
25:50
Speaker 2: My body's like no, I don't want to. I don't
25:53
Speaker 2: feel like it. I'm exhausted. I was up at six
25:56
Speaker 2: o'clock in the morn.
25:56
Speaker 1: I don't want to.
25:57
Speaker 2: I want to go back to sleep. I say, okay,
25:59
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get it. They'n do this thing now. We
26:01
Speaker 2: can go to bed two o'clock this morning. I'm not
26:03
Speaker 2: gonna be able.
26:03
Speaker 1: To do it.
26:04
Speaker 2: So those two are so important because you can't have
26:08
Speaker 2: your attention span and your momentum without sleep. Because if
26:13
Speaker 2: you don't have a set bedtime when you go to
26:15
Speaker 2: bed and you say okay, two hours before, like Michael
26:19
Speaker 2: Diamond said, he's a doctor also, he said, if you
26:22
Speaker 2: don't take two hours before you go to bed to
26:24
Speaker 2: not drink anything, to not eat anything, and to not
26:28
Speaker 2: watch anything on your phone, and then most of us
26:32
Speaker 2: don't have the blue ray glass sea the which it
26:34
Speaker 2: turns messes up your eyes as well. And that's what
26:37
Speaker 2: a lot of octagal doctors are talking about. And I
26:40
Speaker 2: really want to get somebody that the eyes about this
26:43
Speaker 2: as well, because I think we need to understand how
26:46
Speaker 2: too much social media is infecting our vision.
26:50
Speaker 1: So I think between those two, those two are very.
26:53
Speaker 2: Important because you can't have one without the other, because
26:56
Speaker 2: you can't be motivated if you're physically tired, because you're
26:59
Speaker 2: not getd and sleep. So that's my thoughts on those two.
27:04
Speaker 2: That bus needs to have one way out the other.
27:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, definitely, definitely the It's one thing that
27:16
Speaker 3: I prescribe to my patients who suffer from anxiety is
27:20
Speaker 3: a social media fast, a break from social media, you know,
27:26
Speaker 3: because social media is always telling us again you're not
27:29
Speaker 3: doing enough, you got to do more, or it's highlighting
27:32
Speaker 3: the bad things in the world, or you know whatever.
27:35
Speaker 3: And these algorithms, man, they're all a little over the top.
27:38
Speaker 3: I mean, I'll like one video that's about one topic
27:41
Speaker 3: and suddenly, man, eight nine, ten more videos about that topic,
27:45
Speaker 3: and half the time I'm like, I'm not even passionate
27:48
Speaker 3: about this topic. Quit showing it in my feed. Let
27:50
Speaker 3: me I have to reset my algorithm by not liking
27:53
Speaker 3: any of the others, you know. Anyways, But point being,
27:56
Speaker 3: these algorithms are over the top. So if you like
27:58
Speaker 3: one thing, of course, whether it's you know, political or
28:02
Speaker 3: social issues or you know this and that, Man, it's
28:05
Speaker 3: just gonna be in your face all the time. So
28:08
Speaker 3: as a side note, definitely I tell people to turn
28:11
Speaker 3: off the news, turn off social media if you're feeling anxious,
28:14
Speaker 3: because man, when you just go outside in the world,
28:17
Speaker 3: it's like, you know, it's it's not as bad as
28:23
Speaker 3: it seems like when we're staring at it on this
28:25
Speaker 3: little screen. You know, you you you segued perfectly for me.
28:31
Speaker 3: My third energy leak is attention, so you you you
28:35
Speaker 3: know I should just say what Asha said and call
28:37
Speaker 3: it a day. But I'll have a little bit here,
28:39
Speaker 3: you know, you know, I guess here's a question, rhetorical
28:44
Speaker 3: question for you and your and your listeners is have
28:47
Speaker 3: you ever had a day where you look back on
28:50
Speaker 3: the day and you say, man, I was busy all
28:54
Speaker 3: day long, But what did I actually get done?
28:58
Speaker 1: All the time? Every day, all the time?
29:01
Speaker 3: Right, it happens, happens all the time. And part of
29:05
Speaker 3: that again, part of that goes to momentum and just
29:09
Speaker 3: recognizing the little milestones that you got done. The other
29:12
Speaker 3: part of that, though, goes towards it is in regards
29:16
Speaker 3: to attention. We have so many demands on our day
29:20
Speaker 3: all the time, and and we're constantly switching back and
29:25
Speaker 3: forth from a task to an email, back to a text,
29:30
Speaker 3: back to conversation with a coworker. Okay, where was I
29:33
Speaker 3: on the task? And you know, we're all over the place, right,
29:36
Speaker 3: We're fragmented. And the problem is is that when you
29:40
Speaker 3: rapidly switch tasks back and forth, like a lot of
29:44
Speaker 3: us do, there's something called attention residue where your mind
29:51
Speaker 3: is still lingering, at least to some degree, on the
29:54
Speaker 3: thing that you were just working on, whatever it is.
30:00
Speaker 3: And so, you know, you go to send a text
30:02
Speaker 3: to someone or whatever, and then you go back to
30:03
Speaker 3: try to get back to work, there's some degree of
30:07
Speaker 3: attention residue focused on that text that you just you know,
30:10
Speaker 3: sent and what it was about, Oh, how could I
30:12
Speaker 3: have worded that differently? Or whatever? You know, we all
30:15
Speaker 3: have it where we run through the convos in our
30:17
Speaker 3: mind or the scenarios things like that, right, And so
30:22
Speaker 3: of course some of that is unavoidable. I get it.
30:24
Speaker 3: If it's a time sense of email, if it's a
30:26
Speaker 3: dang team's message or whatever, right, I get that, but
30:31
Speaker 3: I do think again, this isn't something like, oh, more
30:36
Speaker 3: needs to be done, but it's just a just a
30:38
Speaker 3: tweak to the day. You know, if people could just
30:44
Speaker 3: silence and put the phone away for thirty minutes at
30:47
Speaker 3: a time, fifty minutes at a time, what have you
30:51
Speaker 3: to just focus on the task at hand. Now suddenly
30:55
Speaker 3: you're a little more productive. You are starting to get
30:59
Speaker 3: some moment them and you come home at the end
31:03
Speaker 3: of the day feeling like, oh, I did get some
31:05
Speaker 3: stuff done. And to your point about mental energy and exhaustion,
31:11
Speaker 3: this is a key piece of mental energy and exhaustion
31:16
Speaker 3: is this need to you know, always switch and things
31:20
Speaker 3: like that. One one other point that I thought was
31:23
Speaker 3: really interesting in a study that they did on this
31:26
Speaker 3: is they had people with their phones next to them
31:29
Speaker 3: and they'd send a notification and then but they told
31:33
Speaker 3: the test subjects, don't look at it, and then they
31:36
Speaker 3: monitored like how they did and performing this task or whatever,
31:40
Speaker 3: And just the fact that there was a notification there
31:44
Speaker 3: on the phone made them almost as as inefficient as
31:50
Speaker 3: if they stopped doing the work altogether to address the notification.
31:55
Speaker 3: To you know, whatever, do you look at it, read it,
31:58
Speaker 3: and then come back to the work when they studied
32:00
Speaker 3: the two groups. Okay, And that's important because again that
32:04
Speaker 3: goes to that attention residue and that fragmented attention. So
32:08
Speaker 3: if you've even just got your phone off to the
32:10
Speaker 3: side and you're like, oh, I notifications are coming and
32:13
Speaker 3: you're like, I can't look at those right now, I've
32:15
Speaker 3: got to work, you've already fractured your mind and your
32:18
Speaker 3: focus quite significantly, almost as much as if you just
32:23
Speaker 3: stopped doing your work, spent however long on your phone
32:26
Speaker 3: to address whatever's coming in, and then went back to
32:30
Speaker 3: your work. Right and in a day and age where
32:33
Speaker 3: the notifications are virtually endless, I mean, you know, what
32:36
Speaker 3: are we talking about? Even one notification an hour, which
32:40
Speaker 3: seems to be a gross underestimate, you know, can be
32:44
Speaker 3: very distracting, right people are, especially if you have your
32:47
Speaker 3: social media notifications on things like that emails. I mean,
32:52
Speaker 3: it's it's like a notification every couple of minutes, you know,
32:55
Speaker 3: just some coming in vibrating. So attention is an important
33:02
Speaker 3: leak that needs to be patched, needs to be fixed,
33:05
Speaker 3: because as it's not that you don't have enough mental
33:09
Speaker 3: energy a lot of times, you know, as you go
33:11
Speaker 3: throughout your day, but it's just so fragmented that it
33:14
Speaker 3: feels like when you get at the end of the day,
33:16
Speaker 3: you look back you say, man, I'm exhausted because your
33:19
Speaker 3: mind has just been going, you know. So, which brings
33:24
Speaker 3: me to the last one, which ties in. See, part
33:26
Speaker 3: of the thing about these leaks is they all really
33:28
Speaker 3: kind of tie together, the last one being recovery. Now,
33:33
Speaker 3: when we think about recovery, we think about, Okay, at
33:38
Speaker 3: the end of the day, what am I gonna do?
33:40
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna talk about that. However, again another just
33:44
Speaker 3: little mindset shift. We should be focusing on recovery throughout
33:49
Speaker 3: the day. And it can be very simple. I'm a
33:53
Speaker 3: big fan of I like to say, you know, I'm
33:56
Speaker 3: gonna take a lap. So when I've been working for
33:59
Speaker 3: a while, I feel like, man, I'm starting to drag
34:02
Speaker 3: a little bit. I'm a little my attention isn't where
34:04
Speaker 3: it is, or my momentums not where I want it
34:07
Speaker 3: to be. I get up, I go for a walk.
34:11
Speaker 3: There was a study out of I want to say
34:12
Speaker 3: it was Stanford. I believe they found that people were
34:16
Speaker 3: sixty percent more creative while walking than when they were
34:20
Speaker 3: just sitting at their desk working on this creative project
34:23
Speaker 3: they were studying. Okay, so sometimes recovery is like okay,
34:29
Speaker 3: and maybe recovery involves giving your mind the release of
34:37
Speaker 3: addressing the notifications that you totally don't even know are
34:40
Speaker 3: there because you put your phone away. So, hey, this
34:44
Speaker 3: is a pop This piece is very popular out there,
34:47
Speaker 3: the fifty minute ten minute thing. You know, so work
34:50
Speaker 3: hard for fifty minutes, put your phone away, you know,
34:53
Speaker 3: try to if you can, you know, minimize the team's notifications,
34:57
Speaker 3: et cetera for fifty minutes and then grab your phone,
35:01
Speaker 3: go for a walk for ten minutes, Listen to some music,
35:04
Speaker 3: Drink some water okay, hydrate no one does enough of that,
35:09
Speaker 3: use the restroom, whatever, and just recover, right, Just take
35:15
Speaker 3: five or ten minutes here and there to recover and
35:18
Speaker 3: then get back at it. Okay, that's recovery piece one,
35:24
Speaker 3: and then recovery piece two. You touched on this without
35:28
Speaker 3: even realizing it is. People think recovery equals the binge
35:34
Speaker 3: watching the show or mindlessener or doom scrolling on social media.
35:40
Speaker 3: Oh I'm just I'm recovering right now.
35:42
Speaker 2: You know.
35:44
Speaker 3: It's not recovery. You know, you got to true recovery
35:48
Speaker 3: at the end of the day is doing something that
35:51
Speaker 3: nourishes the soul, okay, and whatever that is. For some people,
35:56
Speaker 3: that's just going for a walk again. But for some people, well,
36:00
Speaker 3: it's playing an instrument, it's doing a piece of art,
36:03
Speaker 3: it's reading a book. For me, it's like I love
36:07
Speaker 3: my entrepreneurial ventures, and so that's like recovery for me
36:11
Speaker 3: when I get stuff done on that, which is kind
36:13
Speaker 3: of a weird one. But for some people it's gardening,
36:16
Speaker 3: you know. I mean, it could really be any For
36:19
Speaker 3: some people, just a phone call. Some people I know
36:21
Speaker 3: love to just talk on the phone with loved ones,
36:23
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. So and insert yours here.
36:27
Speaker 3: Of course that list is not even remotely exhausted. But
36:33
Speaker 3: and let me say, I love as much as the
36:36
Speaker 3: next guy or next girl to sit down at the
36:39
Speaker 3: end of the day. I got my plate food, I
36:41
Speaker 3: got my show, you know what I mean. And I'm
36:44
Speaker 3: gonna watch my show and I'm gonna eat my dinner. Okay, great,
36:49
Speaker 3: And if that's you, awesome. I'm not saying don't do that.
36:52
Speaker 3: That can be a part of recovery, but when the
36:55
Speaker 3: show and I'm guilty of this, I'm speaking from experience,
36:58
Speaker 3: becomes I'm gonna eat my food and watch my show.
37:01
Speaker 3: And then the show goes on for the next like
37:03
Speaker 3: three or four hours of the evening as I'm simultaneously
37:07
Speaker 3: scrolling on my phone, you know, as we're watching the show.
37:10
Speaker 3: I know a lot of people do that. I've done
37:12
Speaker 3: that that is not recovered. You see what I'm saying.
37:16
Speaker 3: So watch an episode or two or whatever, or the movie. Fine,
37:21
Speaker 3: but then do something that recovers the soul a little bit.
37:27
Speaker 3: And like I said, it can be a variety of things.
37:30
Speaker 3: A lot of times it's just human connection is really
37:34
Speaker 3: all it takes, you know, hopping on the phone or
37:37
Speaker 3: texting a friend kind of a thing. So that is
37:42
Speaker 3: the fourth leak, because if you don't recover throughout the day,
37:46
Speaker 3: it adds to the exhaustion by the end of the day.
37:49
Speaker 3: But then if you don't recover, like you said Austria's,
37:52
Speaker 3: you're just laying there in bed and you're just scrolling.
37:54
Speaker 3: And then it's finally, I mean when I've done the
37:57
Speaker 3: same thing where it's finally like I need to go
37:59
Speaker 3: to bed, Just PLoP your phone down. And you close
38:01
Speaker 3: your eyes and you try to go to sleep. You
38:04
Speaker 3: almost you almost were going to bed with a sense
38:06
Speaker 3: of guilt, like, oh man, I've just been either guilt
38:09
Speaker 3: or anxiety. For me, it's like guilt, like, oh my gosh,
38:12
Speaker 3: I just wasted two hours scrolling on my phone. I
38:16
Speaker 3: should be going to bed. Let me put my phone
38:18
Speaker 3: down and try to fall asleep. Going to bed with
38:21
Speaker 3: like guilt or anxiety is no way to have energy.
38:25
Speaker 1: You know.
38:26
Speaker 3: That's not recovery, that's not energy. So it's no wonder
38:29
Speaker 3: we wake up in the morning not ready to go,
38:32
Speaker 3: rather than like you know, we wait up, oh man,
38:34
Speaker 3: another day and that and so if again, it's just
38:37
Speaker 3: a it's just a tweak. It's not like, oh man,
38:40
Speaker 3: you need to be making sure you do X y Z,
38:44
Speaker 3: go to the gym forr you know, seventy five minutes
38:47
Speaker 3: twice a day or whatever. It's it's just a couple
38:52
Speaker 3: tweaks to stop the energy leak. No rhyme intended. So
38:58
Speaker 3: those are the four energy that I've identified that really
39:02
Speaker 3: don't require doing too much more, but rather just being
39:07
Speaker 3: a little bit more mindful about how we address the
39:12
Speaker 3: day and how we tackle the day. And how we
39:15
Speaker 3: can kind of stop things from leaking out the energy
39:19
Speaker 3: that we have. So all right, so that's that's that's.
39:23
Speaker 2: My I love that because, like I said, that leads
39:29
Speaker 2: you leads me to the drink that you created, the elixir,
39:33
Speaker 2: because I'm sure all those things came to mind. And
39:38
Speaker 2: I tell people that you know, supplements and you know
39:43
Speaker 2: those drinks are just something that helped partially with the problem,
39:50
Speaker 2: but not completely. And that's something, like you said, I'm
39:54
Speaker 2: working on now, I said today, I said, I have
39:57
Speaker 2: got to get off my phone, I said, because I'm
40:00
Speaker 2: not being productive. And then also when you deal with breakups,
40:04
Speaker 2: when you deal with everyday trauma, that also alters things too.
40:09
Speaker 1: And what I learned about recovery is how do.
40:12
Speaker 2: I bring myself from that girl? Before I was on
40:16
Speaker 2: social media, before I got sick, and I wasn't on.
40:21
Speaker 1: Social media at all.
40:22
Speaker 2: I was just in my car, driving, going places, doing things.
40:27
Speaker 2: And it's to the point where a lot of accidents
40:30
Speaker 2: are happening because of you know, people being on their phones.
40:33
Speaker 2: You're in restaurants, you're on your phones, You're on your
40:36
Speaker 2: phones constantly, and I really don't like and I wish
40:40
Speaker 2: they never did that where they put social media on
40:43
Speaker 2: our phones to be once. I really do because now
40:47
Speaker 2: the kids I've seen where kids can't even not have
40:52
Speaker 2: their phones in school. I remember this one girl when
40:54
Speaker 2: I was working on daycare. I said, you got to
40:57
Speaker 2: give me your phone. Put your phone in the lockers.
41:00
Speaker 2: I said, because you're not supposed to have your phone
41:02
Speaker 2: my mom. I said, I don't care what your mom said.
41:04
Speaker 2: This is daycare. This is not you know, at home.
41:09
Speaker 2: The mom got upset and they gave them back to
41:12
Speaker 2: the phone. Well when I they gave the girl back
41:15
Speaker 2: her phone because the lady told me to guess what, Now.
41:17
Speaker 1: I got to give all of them back their phones.
41:19
Speaker 2: And I told her that, I said, once I give
41:21
Speaker 2: this girl back her phone, you know, y'all can't say
41:23
Speaker 2: nothing if I give all the rest of them their phones,
41:25
Speaker 2: because now they're gonna think it's unfair that this girl
41:28
Speaker 2: gets to have her phone and everybody else don't. I said,
41:32
Speaker 2: I understand she has asthma issues, and trust me, I
41:35
Speaker 2: made sure that the lockers are not locked to where
41:38
Speaker 2: we can get access to it. So it's not like
41:39
Speaker 2: we can't get access to her phone, and it's not
41:42
Speaker 2: like I don't have mine. But that's the thing about work.
41:46
Speaker 2: At work, you can't have your phone. But like I
41:49
Speaker 2: tell people, when you're at home and you're a housewife
41:53
Speaker 2: or you're at home working from home, you have access
41:56
Speaker 2: to your phone.
41:57
Speaker 1: And there's never a time where you don't have it.
42:01
Speaker 2: And so those four things are important because without those,
42:05
Speaker 2: you don't have ambition, you don't have drive, you don't
42:09
Speaker 2: have any type of discipline or any motivation to do
42:12
Speaker 2: anything because you can't have motivation without momentum. You can't
42:18
Speaker 2: have a perception without a perception, so you can't have
42:22
Speaker 2: one without the other. And I always tell people it's
42:24
Speaker 2: always Everything's not.
42:26
Speaker 1: Always black and white when it comes to.
42:29
Speaker 2: Our thinking process, but our behavior is different because you
42:33
Speaker 2: don't have to act or behave on something. And I
42:36
Speaker 2: think it affects our health because I woke up this
42:39
Speaker 2: morning and my heart was accelerated.
42:45
Speaker 1: I was like, why it's my heart accelerating because I'm.
42:49
Speaker 2: Trying to basically create energy from being tired, from being
42:55
Speaker 2: tired from being up. And when you're not working, it's
42:58
Speaker 2: different because you're not we're you're not doing anything, so
43:01
Speaker 2: it's easy to get pulled back into that I don't
43:03
Speaker 2: want to work, I don't want to do nothing else,
43:05
Speaker 2: wanna land bit. But I always tell people take about
43:10
Speaker 2: a week, take about six months, and not be on
43:14
Speaker 2: your phone for lias. I said, start off with like
43:15
Speaker 2: thirty days, thirty days. Don't be on your phone for
43:18
Speaker 2: thirty days. Sleep make up for lost time. And people like,
43:22
Speaker 2: what do you mean You're gonna have to make up
43:24
Speaker 2: for lost time? Because that's the one time you can
43:27
Speaker 2: is sleep. Sleep, you can make up for it, but
43:30
Speaker 2: you can't make.
43:31
Speaker 1: Up for time.
43:32
Speaker 2: But what you can do is make up time when
43:34
Speaker 2: it comes to your body, because your body needs time.
43:38
Speaker 2: Time will continue to move as far as time itself,
43:41
Speaker 2: but time when it comes to your body needs to
43:44
Speaker 2: have time to.
43:45
Speaker 1: Make up for losity, you don't have a choice.
43:48
Speaker 2: You have to sleep sometimes that could be two days,
43:51
Speaker 2: and pick your mom like, you've been sleep for two days,
43:54
Speaker 2: I've been up for two years. Those two days makes
43:58
Speaker 2: up for two years. And then you have to start saying, okay,
44:01
Speaker 2: I'm gonna start going to bed at this time. And
44:03
Speaker 2: you have to always tell people those little tiny steps
44:08
Speaker 2: instead of you know how people do the long jump
44:12
Speaker 2: and they jump real long? Are they running? Really fast,
44:16
Speaker 2: and I always use the tortoise in the air when
44:18
Speaker 2: it comes to your health and wonness. Your health and
44:21
Speaker 2: wellness is not based on speed. It's based on slow
44:27
Speaker 2: and steady and a foundation. And you have to be
44:33
Speaker 2: slow and steady. Can tell people when they lose weight.
44:36
Speaker 2: In my own journey, when I started working out, I
44:40
Speaker 2: couldn't work out for five minutes because I was in something.
44:42
Speaker 2: I have cronic pain. I was in so much pain
44:45
Speaker 2: and I was like, I can't do this. And I
44:47
Speaker 2: would sit down, wait about an hour, and I said,
44:50
Speaker 2: now I'm gonna get back up. I get back up,
44:52
Speaker 2: I do it again. I told people, don't think that
44:55
Speaker 2: those five minute implements of working out, it's still gonna
44:59
Speaker 2: lead thirty minutes.
45:01
Speaker 1: But you have to think your heart rate.
45:04
Speaker 2: You've never worked out before, You've been sitting still for
45:07
Speaker 2: so long, and so movement is gonna be almost impossible
45:12
Speaker 2: possible for you.
45:13
Speaker 1: It's just like you never wrote a book before.
45:16
Speaker 2: In your mind, you've been told your whole entire life,
45:18
Speaker 2: I'm not good enough, I'm not worthy.
45:19
Speaker 1: I've never you know, I'm never gonna do this. Well,
45:23
Speaker 1: guess what.
45:23
Speaker 2: Just like that little engine that could, it was slow
45:26
Speaker 2: and steady until he finally was able to.
45:29
Speaker 1: Say I can do this.
45:31
Speaker 2: It took a lot of practice, it took a lot
45:34
Speaker 2: of discipline, it took a lot of work, it took
45:36
Speaker 2: a lot of rest, and I'm very sure that engine
45:39
Speaker 2: had to rest a lot.
45:40
Speaker 1: But guess what he finished.
45:42
Speaker 2: And that's I tell people, that's what is important is
45:47
Speaker 2: that you finish. And it's not always on a time limit.
45:53
Speaker 2: You know, your health is not a time limit. Your
45:56
Speaker 2: life doesn't have your health doesn't have a time limit.
46:00
Speaker 2: Every day that you do a little bit and say okay,
46:03
Speaker 2: I'm gonna start off with two pounds a week.
46:06
Speaker 1: That's realistic. Then you can say for a whole month,
46:08
Speaker 1: get used to that two pounds of losing weight.
46:11
Speaker 2: Then you say okay, I'll lose five pounds, ten pounds,
46:14
Speaker 2: but let your body get used to the adjustment of it.
46:18
Speaker 2: For you say okay, I just lost ten pounds.
46:20
Speaker 1: Now we lose twenty pounds.
46:21
Speaker 2: No, enjoy those ten pounds that you lost, and enjoy
46:25
Speaker 2: the resiment, the regiment.
46:27
Speaker 1: That you do. And people say, well, why do people.
46:30
Speaker 2: Always eat the same thing over and over and over again.
46:33
Speaker 2: It's not that they're eating the same thing over and
46:35
Speaker 2: over and over again.
46:36
Speaker 1: They're eating the same.
46:37
Speaker 2: Fruits and vegetables, but they're making them into different types
46:42
Speaker 2: of dishes, all in one dishes, healthy dishes, fresh fresh market,
46:49
Speaker 2: fresh vegetables, fresh fruit.
46:51
Speaker 1: I said.
46:52
Speaker 2: But they're making them into something that are multiple different dishes.
46:55
Speaker 2: So really they're not eating the same dish, they're eating
46:59
Speaker 2: it in a different way, just different recipes, I said.
47:03
Speaker 1: Walking. But also you have to adjust and adapt. That's
47:07
Speaker 1: something that's important.
47:08
Speaker 2: Being able to adjust and being able to adapt because
47:11
Speaker 2: once you reach your goal, that's what.
47:12
Speaker 1: It's gonna be. Okay, now I gotta tell them about it.
47:15
Speaker 2: I don't have to work out as much, so now
47:17
Speaker 2: I have to adapt to Okay, I still have to exercide,
47:20
Speaker 2: I still gotta take my supplements.
47:21
Speaker 1: I still gotta do.
47:22
Speaker 2: This, but my body's immune to this supplement. Let me
47:25
Speaker 2: try this, let me try something different. But you're still
47:30
Speaker 2: doing your same foundation. And I always say your journey.
47:34
Speaker 2: All those four things lead to a not only your
47:39
Speaker 2: inner piece and tranquility, but it also makes you appreciate
47:43
Speaker 2: your health more because then when you go through something,
47:45
Speaker 2: you're like, Okay, Now, everything, every decision, every choice, every action,
47:51
Speaker 2: behavior is based upon your mental health, your psychological health,
47:54
Speaker 2: your emotional health, your spiritual health, your internal and external health,
47:58
Speaker 2: and your finance, because financials what's going to help you
48:01
Speaker 2: to get some of those things for your health and
48:03
Speaker 2: weoness and the relationships that you have, because those relationships
48:07
Speaker 2: determine your stress levels and also those things and you
48:11
Speaker 2: learn those are your priorities, which in terms incorporates all
48:15
Speaker 2: four of those things, which I think are very important.
48:19
Speaker 2: So when you came up with this drink, the elixir,
48:23
Speaker 2: what made you say, Okay, let me come up with
48:26
Speaker 2: something that's gonna help not only the nurses, the doctors,
48:30
Speaker 2: people that work twelve hours, ten hour shifts, but just
48:34
Speaker 2: normal people that are really trying to get their energy
48:38
Speaker 2: back as far as working eight hours a day. Stress levels, anxiety, depression,
48:43
Speaker 2: all of those things.
48:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I wanted here, it is here. I wanted
48:48
Speaker 3: something that.
48:50
Speaker 1: That sounded in the store. I've seen them in the store.
48:54
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, not we are in the stores. Yeah,
48:56
Speaker 3: it's just online.
48:57
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, oh that's right. Okay.
49:00
Speaker 2: TikTok was where I was, where I see it. TikTok
49:02
Speaker 2: was where I saw it.
49:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So you know I wanted something that
49:07
Speaker 3: could do its best to address the four leaks. But
49:10
Speaker 3: of course it can't, I want to make that clear,
49:13
Speaker 3: but it can at least augment or help a little bit.
49:16
Speaker 3: And I wanted something that people could drink and say it, man,
49:19
Speaker 3: I actually feel like good, Like this is healthy or
49:22
Speaker 3: you know, good for me, you know. So the little
49:25
Speaker 3: rundown on it, you know, regarding the alertness. It's got
49:28
Speaker 3: caffeine in there, okay, but it's got one hundred and
49:31
Speaker 3: forty milligrams instead of two hundred, like you know, some
49:34
Speaker 3: of the more popular ones out there currently have. And
49:38
Speaker 3: I wanted to do that, and I formulated it in
49:41
Speaker 3: such a way where even though it's got a little
49:42
Speaker 3: less caffeine, people report having just as long of an
49:46
Speaker 3: energy bump, if not longer, but no jitters, you know.
49:51
Speaker 3: They don't have the shakes as much and things like that. Now,
49:54
Speaker 3: if you're totally caffeine naive and you've had zero caffeine,
49:57
Speaker 3: this will still give you a little jitters. But for
50:00
Speaker 3: your average individual who drinks caffeine, even if it's just
50:04
Speaker 3: diet sodas or whatever, you won't have the jitters and
50:07
Speaker 3: shakes and the palpitations with this so the caffeine that's
50:11
Speaker 3: the alertness Again, Caffeine can help with the alertness leak,
50:16
Speaker 3: but it's not It can't completely fix it all right,
50:21
Speaker 3: but at least it can help regarding momentum. People ask, oh, well,
50:25
Speaker 3: how does a drink help momentum? I kind of think
50:27
Speaker 3: of it as addressing perhaps a physiologic deficiency that many
50:34
Speaker 3: people have. So this has a thousand I use a
50:38
Speaker 3: vitamin D in it, so you can have you know,
50:41
Speaker 3: one two a day, no problem, and it can replace
50:45
Speaker 3: your vitamin D D supplement if you're you know, having
50:48
Speaker 3: a thousand to two thousand I use a day. And
50:50
Speaker 3: why is that important? Well, most people are vitamin D
50:54
Speaker 3: deficient and vitamin D plays a pretty important role in
51:00
Speaker 3: not just immune health, which is part of the reason
51:03
Speaker 3: why I have it in there, because there have been
51:05
Speaker 3: a lot of studies post COVID and things like that
51:07
Speaker 3: looking at vitamin D and the cold and flu and
51:10
Speaker 3: and things, and it's immune and it's immune boosting properties
51:15
Speaker 3: or or you know, illness prevention, but it also plays
51:19
Speaker 3: a role in mood, you know, and people who are
51:24
Speaker 3: really vitamin D deficient can have worsened depression and worsened
51:32
Speaker 3: mood right, and so again this isn't suddenly going to
51:35
Speaker 3: build your momentum for you. Okay, again, I want to
51:38
Speaker 3: make that clear. However, if you have a physiologic deficiency
51:43
Speaker 3: that is preventing you from having being able to get
51:47
Speaker 3: that momentum to then get the motivation, well at least
51:50
Speaker 3: the lixer can maybe help help plug that little leak
51:54
Speaker 3: in that small capacity, you know, regarding attention. I've I
52:00
Speaker 3: formulated this with l fianine, some saying the nine. I've
52:03
Speaker 3: heard it both ways, but when I've looked it up,
52:05
Speaker 3: it's el fianine with the caffeine. And it's interesting. They
52:08
Speaker 3: actually studied caffeine alone versus caffeine and l fianine in
52:15
Speaker 3: patients with ADHD, actually attention deficit hyper activity activity disorder,
52:21
Speaker 3: and they found that the l fianine with the caffeine
52:27
Speaker 3: again gave them a longer period of feeling energy, but
52:32
Speaker 3: it actually improved their focus on tasks. So when you
52:39
Speaker 3: drink and energy drink and your heart is racing and
52:42
Speaker 3: you're feeling jittery, that's going to affect your attention. You know,
52:47
Speaker 3: that's the exact opposite of what I want in this drink.
52:51
Speaker 3: And that's why I formulated it in such a way
52:53
Speaker 3: that you won't have the jitters and the shakes, so
52:56
Speaker 3: that that third leak of attention can you can just
52:59
Speaker 3: be focus. I've got this formula that helps keep you focused.
53:03
Speaker 3: It's been studied in other studies to that shows it
53:08
Speaker 3: helps keep people focused. But then also you don't have
53:11
Speaker 3: divided attention because your heart is racing at one hundred
53:15
Speaker 3: and thirty beats per minute and you're jittery, okay. And
53:19
Speaker 3: then the fourth one is recovery, And that's all the
53:22
Speaker 3: other goodies I have in here. I've got vitamin C,
53:25
Speaker 3: zinc for the gut health, I've got prebiotic fiber in there.
53:30
Speaker 3: I've got collagen hyaluronic acid. And then a key part
53:35
Speaker 3: of recovery is electrolytes. So I've got almost as much
53:39
Speaker 3: magnesium and potassium as an entire electrolyte packet in here, okay,
53:46
Speaker 3: plus subsodium and calcium as well, and so all those
53:50
Speaker 3: things just to help with recovery kind of total bodies, skin, joint, gut,
53:55
Speaker 3: things like that. And so that's why I put that
53:58
Speaker 3: in there as well. And it's the only beverage on
54:02
Speaker 3: the market that has all these things in it. Of course,
54:05
Speaker 3: it's sugar free, and it has alulos which has been
54:08
Speaker 3: shown to have an appetite suppression effect through some GLP
54:12
Speaker 3: one activation as well. But that is is how I
54:18
Speaker 3: got into creating a links or. I basically wanted something
54:23
Speaker 3: that had all this and there was nothing, so I said,
54:26
Speaker 3: I'm going to create it myself. And so but I
54:31
Speaker 3: developed the four Energy leaks separate from it because you know,
54:35
Speaker 3: when I come on podcasts and things, I don't want
54:37
Speaker 3: the whole podcast just to be an infomercial, you know.
54:39
Speaker 3: I want to provide you know, because you know, the
54:41
Speaker 3: beverage isn't for everybody. You know, It's some people want it,
54:46
Speaker 3: hopefully a lot of people want it so far a
54:48
Speaker 3: lot half. But it's not something where I want to
54:53
Speaker 3: provide value to people independent of the drink, you know,
54:58
Speaker 3: But can I do? I think the drink can help
55:00
Speaker 3: you be the energizer bunny a little bit in a
55:03
Speaker 3: good way. Absolutely, But of course I recognize I've got
55:08
Speaker 3: a little bias in it. So anyways, so that's my
55:11
Speaker 3: spiel there about the beverage, and I love that in
55:15
Speaker 3: the leaks, So.
55:16
Speaker 2: I love that, and I love this conversation because you know,
55:20
Speaker 2: we broke down this whole entire drink in this conversation.
55:23
Speaker 2: And I also love about it is it has everything
55:27
Speaker 2: in one And also the only thing that I think
55:31
Speaker 2: I've had issues with a lot of products, and I
55:33
Speaker 2: want to say this because you're someone's making products, is
55:37
Speaker 2: where is manufactured, because you have a lot of people
55:40
Speaker 2: that have allergies like myself, and I'll look at the
55:45
Speaker 2: back of a bottle and I'll say I want to
55:48
Speaker 2: try it, but I can't because at the very bottom
55:52
Speaker 2: it says it's manufactured where there's shellfish and you know
55:58
Speaker 2: those things here. None of that well perfect because I
56:02
Speaker 2: would love to try some. I would love to try some,
56:07
Speaker 2: and I would love for my audience to try some
56:09
Speaker 2: as well. And that's why I think it's important when
56:11
Speaker 2: I talk to people about that, because the reason I
56:15
Speaker 2: can't try a lot of products is not because of
56:19
Speaker 2: what's in it. It's where it's manufactured and the fact
56:23
Speaker 2: that it's manufactured where there's nuts and allergies. And I
56:27
Speaker 2: say it about protein shakes, I'm like, I'm limited on
56:30
Speaker 2: what I can get because I'm allergic to nuts and
56:35
Speaker 2: I'm alert to shellfish. So where's manufactured that is is
56:40
Speaker 2: very important. And what I would say to a lot
56:42
Speaker 2: of companies is that please make sure you recognize that
56:47
Speaker 2: because there are so many people that cannot try your products,
56:52
Speaker 2: even though it's healthy, even though it may be good
56:54
Speaker 2: for me. I cannot take your product because of where
56:59
Speaker 2: it is. It is manufacturer, So I had to ask
57:02
Speaker 2: that question before you go. So how can people actually
57:06
Speaker 2: get the product and how can they reach you?
57:09
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, so you can get the product. So the
57:12
Speaker 3: product's name is Elixer. The website is total Elixer, so
57:18
Speaker 3: an elixure spelled E l I x I R, not
57:21
Speaker 3: e R, so total t O T a l elixer
57:25
Speaker 3: dot com. Right when we hang up here, aha, I'm
57:29
Speaker 3: gonna create an ASHA twenty five promo code. All your
57:33
Speaker 3: listeners get twenty five percent off, you know. So it'll
57:36
Speaker 3: just be a s h A twenty five for twenty
57:40
Speaker 3: five percent off for anyone that wants to try it,
57:43
Speaker 3: and then email me your address. I'll send you. I
57:45
Speaker 3: got a little sample box I send people, so I'll
57:48
Speaker 3: make sure to send you a little sample box as well.
57:51
Speaker 3: On the house, of course, So for having me on
57:54
Speaker 3: So yeah, absolutely, yeah, my pleasure. So yeah, total elixer
58:00
Speaker 3: dot com and then and then also on Instagram total
58:05
Speaker 3: dot alixer. So hope to hope to uh you know,
58:11
Speaker 3: h here if your followers like it or not. But yeah,
58:15
Speaker 3: that's that's really the whole, the whole spiel I have
58:18
Speaker 3: here today, Asha, I really just appreciates you having me
58:22
Speaker 3: on and getting a chat with.
58:24
Speaker 2: You so much. I can't wait to see everything else
58:27
Speaker 2: you do. You need to write a book about this,
58:29
Speaker 2: and if you do, I would love to have you back,
58:32
Speaker 2: so absolutely anything that you have. And I'm looking forward
58:34
Speaker 2: to promoting the new the Elixir and promoting the product
58:39
Speaker 2: because I can't wait to try it. And you know,
58:41
Speaker 2: let my audience know what I think about it, because
58:43
Speaker 2: I'm all about health and wellness and I'm trying to
58:45
Speaker 2: better my health and woneness. And I think this conversation
58:48
Speaker 2: about energy is so important because we don't talk about
58:51
Speaker 2: energy at all during time. You know, I hear about
58:53
Speaker 2: consciousness and subconsciousness, but not in every aspect of your
58:58
Speaker 2: life of energy. And I I appreciate you taking the
59:01
Speaker 2: time to come on here and talk to me and
59:03
Speaker 2: you guys. I thank you guys so much for joining
59:06
Speaker 2: me for this episode. Can't wait for you guys to
59:09
Speaker 2: hear it until next time. We will see you guys later.
59:13
Speaker 2: Have a very very beautiful day
59:16
Speaker 3: Until next time.