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118 // Join Us on Skool: Your New Hub for Hashimoto’s Wellness · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Hey, welcome back to Health with Hashimoto's. This is episode 118.
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  And I don't think I have told you lately, I really value you.
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  And the fact that you take time out of your busy day, your busy week,
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  to listen to what I have to say, that means a lot. Thank you.
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  Thank you for trusting me with your health, for making changes based on what
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  I have taught you in this podcast and in the previous 117 episodes.
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  I value that and I never want to squander that.
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  I would never want to waste your time. I never want to waste your energy because
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  it takes some energy to figure out who to trust and who will tell you the facts and not just hype.
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  And I hope that I will always be that for you. Be that person because that is part of who I am.
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  I value facts and science and data and the whole person.
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  Body, mind, spirit, diet, environment, it all comes together.
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  And I hope that you get that in this podcast every single episode.
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  Today, I have something special that I have been working on for a while.
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  I've been looking for a solution for quite a while.
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  And that is moving us to a new community.
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  So you have heard me mention the Health with Hashimoto's app,
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  the community that I have online, and I thought it was going to be a great solution
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  because we know one of the problems of having Hashimoto's or any other autoimmune
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  problem is that you feel lonely.
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  You feel like the people around you can't relate to what you're going through.
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  And while you don't want to focus on what's wrong all the time,
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  you want to, you know, seek out solutions and you want to grow and you want to heal.
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  But at the same time, it's nice to do that in a community where other people
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  also understand what you're going through.
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  You don't want to just be with like victims all the time with that mindset of, oh, we're stuck.
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  And, you know, woe is me. This is horrible.
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  We don't want to be stuck in that. What we want to do is we want to be with
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  a community of people who understand this and are going to help us move forward in our health.
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  And yeah, we do have down days and we have days where we need to say,
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  oh my goodness, I'm having a rough day.
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  Can you guys just encourage me? And there are days like that.
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  I'm not saying like you always have to put on a false smile.
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  That would be not healthy.
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  But what I'm saying is having a community is so important.
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  So when I found the app and I created it, I was so excited.
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  I mean, here is a place where we can all come together. We can form relationships.
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  We can make friendships.
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  We can encourage each other. And then it had a really poor user interface.
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  I don't even like to go into the community. And I own it.
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  And I am trying to facilitate it for you. And it's so awkward and clunky.
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  And the notifications are just, they don't work half the time,
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  three quarters of the time.
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  It's hard to see when somebody's replying. I have accidentally ghosted people
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  for days or even weeks because I thought I was all caught up.
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  And there was one that snuck by.
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  And I just got frustrated because when you're forming a community,
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  you need it to be reliable. You need to be able to communicate with others.
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  So I have been looking and thankfully, one of the other communities that I am
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  part of, all a group of homeschooling moms who are also business owners.
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  We are the homeschool CEO society.
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  If that describes you, definitely look into it. The founder of the group, Jen, she is amazing.
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  And a couple weeks ago, maybe four weeks ago now, she said, Hey guys,
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  I found a new platform. I'm going to move our community. We're going to leave Facebook.
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  We're going to leave the off social media, other platform that we were on.
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  And we're all going to move to this new platform.
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  I'm going to move all of the courses. I'm going to move the community, everything.
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  I'm so excited about this. Come see. So I checked it out. Oh my goodness.
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  This is what the Health with Hashimoto's community needs.
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  So today I'm so excited to announce that we are moving to this new platform,
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  which is so much more user-friendly.
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  You are going to be able to make and build relationships here.
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  I have to tell you, some of my very best friends I have never met in person,
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  or I have met in person maybe once or twice, but we formed a relationship online.
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  But there are problems with social media, and I don't want to be tied to social
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  media all the time. Also the courses.
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  Sometimes I've been having problems on that other platform with my courses.
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  You have been having problems. I've had people try to pay for the bigger courses
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  and it doesn't go through because of the user interface.
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  I don't want that for you. I want you to have a smooth experience that works
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  every time, a hundred percent every time.
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  And that is what you're going to have over on this new platform.
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  If you have never heard of it is called a school, S-K-O-O-L.
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  And it is more like back in the forum days. If you were on the internet back
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  when we had forums before Facebook groups, you will know a little bit about what I'm talking to.
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  And I'm going to read some quotes directly from my other community,
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  the Homeschool CEO Society.
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  I asked in there, hey guys, most of us are new to school, to this platform.
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  We came over because Jen said our community is moving.
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  What are you loving so far about school?
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  And these answers also apply to our new community, the Health with Hashimoto's community.
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  Our community is free to join a school.com. You can search Health with Hashimoto's.
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  You can also go down to the show notes.
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  There will be a link to join. If you're on my email list, you will also get
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  a link on Saturday when I send out my regular email, it will have a link in there.
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  It is super easy to join. So let me tell you what people are loving about school so far.
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  Again, this is after about a week or two of experience for most of us.
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  I would love to hear which of these resonates with you the most.
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  What are you looking for?
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  My friend Ruby said that she loves the decrease of distractions with being on school.
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  I always told myself I could tune out the distractions of Facebook,
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  but let's be real, I cannot.
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  Stephanie said that she was into forum model communities before social media
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  killed them, and school reminds her of the very best parts of that wrapped up
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  in more modern packaging.
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  Specifically, she adds, the gamification and the ability to focus on what matters
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  to me, not what the algorithm wants me to notice. Those are her favorite things.
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  Let me tell you a little bit about the gamification of school.
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  So when you open our community, it's going to be the Health with Hashimoto's
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  community, you're going to see at the top a couple different, I guess, tabs.
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  One is the community. Another is the classroom. Then there's a calendar.
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  You can click on the tab to see all of the members. There are leaderboards and
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  then there's a tab about the group.
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  The community is where all of our discussion will happen. And I love that it is not algorithm based.
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  It is based on how people are using it and what they're interacting with.
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  Of course, I can pin a couple comments or a couple topics, and I will do that.
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  But mostly, this is based on what we want to talk about as a community.
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  Every time that you make a post, or somebody...
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  Shows that you gave value by liking your post, you get a point in this gamification thing.
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  And as you earn points, you up-level in the school community.
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  As you up-level, you will unlock different prizes on our leaderboard.
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  So at level one, you're brand new into the community.
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  Everybody starts out at level one. At level two, you will unlock some different
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  things. Level three, you on the lock more.
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  I have looked at other school communities. And as you get towards like level seven.
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  Eight, and then nine, which is the top, I believe they have huge prizes like
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  one-on-one calls or free, a free year of a mastermind.
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  There are some huge, huge prizes for other groups that I am in.
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  And I would love for you to help me figure out what our prizes should be.
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  I would love this to be a group effort.
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  And I want to know what's important to you. So as you comment, as you engage,
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  as you form relationships, you will automatically level up in this gamification
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  style of school, which I really appreciate because I guess it just makes it kind of fun.
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  So back to other reasons why people are saying that they love school and our communities over here.
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  Let me tell you a little bit more about what Stephanie added on.
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  She said specifically, she loves the intentionality of going to the community
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  without being bombarded with other unrelated posts, ads, and notifications.
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  I have not seen a single ad in school.
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  The school platform is paid for by community owners. So I pay a monthly fee
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  so that we can have this community. I believe that means you will never see an ad.
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  And we are all thankful, so thankful for that.
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  Stephanie also said that she likes pages with a concrete number of posts instead
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  of endless scrolling. Yes.
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  Also being able to customize what posts show up at the top of a list.
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  Posts are sorted into categories so that you don't have to read or skim through
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  every single post to find the pertinent ones.
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  So let me explain those categories or the tags.
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  Every time that you create a new conversation or new post, you're going to pick
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  which category it falls into.
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  And right now I have three different categories. And as we build this community,
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  you are going to help me figure out what categories are best.
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  To start out with, I have three, I have general discussion, and then podcast
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  discussion, and then celebrating health improvements.
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  So if you are listening to this specific podcast episode and you want to chat
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  about it, there will be a post about this.
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  Episode and we can chat. Otherwise, you know, lots of stuff in the general discussion.
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  I would love to be able to celebrate how you are finding health improvements
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  in your life, how you are implementing things, how you are seeing change.
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  And I am very, very excited to see what is reported in the celebrate health
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  improvements category.
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  Super excited about that one. And then the last reason why Stephanie said that she enjoys school.
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  She said, a search function that returns results in a way that makes sense, not however it sees fit.
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  How many times have you been on Facebook or any other platform and you do a
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  search and you're like, well, I know I saw something about that.
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  And either it's like five pages down or it doesn't show up at all.
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  It shows up just random things.
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  It gets so frustrating in the school community. You're going to be able to search and find.
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  I'm so excited for you to check this out.
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  All right, so Erin said everything is one in one place and it's less distracting.
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  She has noticed that she gets a lot more value out of it and she is more intentional.
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  She said, I'm actually reading and responding to multiple posts and not just
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  ones that happen to come through my news feed.
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  Lisa said, I'm actually super skeptical by nature and I was very negative about this move to start with.
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  I actually told Jen that I didn't plan on ever logging in.
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  And then I thought about it with an open mind instead of thinking of it as just one more app.
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  And I realized it's everything I used to like about Facebook without all of the noise.
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  When I first joined Facebook, it was really to be in a few groups and learn
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  with like-minded people who would challenge me to grow.
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  This is that space. Without the memes or ads or political drama or random people
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  that the algorithm wants me to see.
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  I've noticed that I don't have any sensory overwhelm when I am done on school,
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  like I do on Facebook or TikTok or Instagram. It's much cleaner and quieter.
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  Yes, I think that we all need a little cleaner and quieter of anything online.
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  Beth said that she loves the easy access to training. She listened to a training
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  the other day while doing dishes.
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  The app on the phone makes it easy.
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  Stacey said she moved her own membership back in May or June.
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  She loves that she can come check in, gets what she needs and doesn't get sidetracked
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  like on other platforms.
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  And I will read you one more just in case I haven't convinced you yet to come
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  over to our new community on a school.
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  Laura said, okay, I finally decided on mine. It is the privacy of this platform.
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  Whenever I post on Facebook, I find myself thinking or worrying about who will
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  see this, who I'm not anticipating, even if it's in a private group,
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  even if I'm posting in a way that nobody else should be able to see it.
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  I just don't trust anything about the privacy of that platform at all.
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  But on school, I don't have any concerns about what I share making it out of
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  this group. And I love that.
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  All right. So there's so many different reasons that people have found to love
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  the communities of school.
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  And I would love to know what you are enjoying after you join.
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  Let me tell you about some of the topics that I already have started so that
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  you're not just wandering in and be like, well, this party is kind of quiet.
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  I'm just going to leave. I want you to join the party and immediately be able
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  to start talking to somebody.
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  As an introvert, I always struggle at parties.
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  And when I say parties, I really mean any gathering of people whatsoever.
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  I just feel completely awkward. I don't like small talk. I don't know how to start conversations.
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  You know, I can talk about health all day, 24-7. I can talk about health.
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  I would love to hear about, you know, all of your health problems and everything that's going on.
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  I love to hear that. I love to be able to help you.
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  But just a small talk or starting conversations, that is hard for me.
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  So thinking of you in that with that lens, I've already started some discussions
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  that I would love to have you turn into a discussion because right now it's
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  just me saying one thing.
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  One of them is episode 101. What does Hashimoto's feel like?
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  Come over to school and join that discussion. What does Hashimoto's feel like
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  for you? Share your experience.
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  We just finished up a four-part GLP One series.
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  There's a discussion about that. Let's turn that podcast series into a discussion.
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  You know, have you tried them? What are your experiences?
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  Have you had good experiences on the medications? Have you not been approved for the medications?
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  Have you thought about the medications, but you haven't done it yet?
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  Are you trying out this new MindBody GLP-1 system?
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  Are you trying out a different natural solution?
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  Like let's turn this podcast into a
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  two-way, five-way, a thousand-way conversation.
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  Another conversation I have started for you is what tips would you give to someone
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  newly diagnosed with Hashimoto's?
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  Another one, what's one health goal you are currently working on?
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  I'd love to know that. What are some simple tiny things that you are doing?
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  And I do have mine in there, what I am working on.
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  Also, I started another discussion about share your biggest challenge with Hashimoto's.
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  And one popular thing, I know this is popular because the podcast episodes where
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  I talk about increasing energy are some of the biggest downloads,
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  and that is what has been your favorite strategy to increase your energy.
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  And this is just to get us started with our conversation. So come on over,
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  answer some of these, join in the conversation, start your own topics.
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  Let's create a strong community where we are all supporting each other.
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  And of course, yes, My courses are over here, as well as the freebies.
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  Let me tell you what you're going to find in the classroom.
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  The first thing you're going to see in the classroom is one that says start here.
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  It is the best of, it is resources, it is how to work with me.
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  So it has little welcome, what to expect, you know, our community standards,
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  how to invite your friends to the community.
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  Please invite your friends to the community. That is how we are going to grow.
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  Based on the downloads of this podcast, about 400 people listen, which is huge.
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  Can you imagine a room of 400 of us all together talking and encouraging one
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  another and sharing simple strategies that have worked for our health?
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  It's going to be so exciting.
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  I don't honestly, I don't expect every single person who listens to the podcast
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  to come over to our school community. At the same time,
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  On the same level, I don't expect everybody who is going to join this community
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  to be a podcast listener because I know some people prefer the online like typing,
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  reading type platform better than listening.
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  That's okay. That's why I want to be in both places.
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  So yes, invite your friends to the community.
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  Also in the classroom, you're going to see a topic that is the podcast,
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  podcast chat and I will move discussions
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  that we have to the classroom for easier, almost like a bookmark.
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  Hashimoto's 101, which was an older freebie that I made for you,
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  it is now in the Health with Hashimoto's community.
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  I also have both of the Hashimoto's decoded here. So Hashimoto's decoded,
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  10 thyroid questions for your doctor.
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  That is here. I believe that unlocks when you get to level two,
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  which should not take very long. I think in the other community.
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  I unlocked level two in like two days.
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  Hashimoto's decoded root causes revealed is here. That is $7 and it works over here. Yay.
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  Unlike the other platform, which gave us problems when we tried to purchase this sometimes.
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  The holistic Hashimoto's course is also here. That one is $197 to unlock.
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  That is the full four week course. I am interested in hearing your thoughts
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  if we should change it instead of a dripped course where one week unlocks each
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  week if you would prefer to have it like all at once.
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  Let me know your thoughts on that because I want every single thing on here,
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  every single thing that I do to serve you in a way that is going to be best
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  for your consumption and your implementation.
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  So let me know your thoughts on the Holistic Hashimoto's course if you like
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  that one week, one week per week drip model, because I'm
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  I did that so that you wouldn't get overwhelmed. But at the same time,
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  I understand some people want to do other things first.
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  So let me know your thoughts and we can see where that goes after some discussion.
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  I also have at level three, you will unlock the jumpstart to refreshing sleep and rest.
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  That is something I used to give from or via email as a five day series and
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  I help you improve both your sleep and your rest.
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  So that's what I have in the classroom so far. I can build this up if we come
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  up with other things that you want.
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  Right now, I am excited about making this work for everybody.
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  I'm excited about building relationships. I am just so passionate about people
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  not feeling alone anymore, people feeling supported and encouraged.
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  Uplifted, people feeling like they have solutions and they have hope.
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  And I hope that you feel that every time you listen to the podcast,
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  and especially now in this new community.
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  So drop down to the show notes, join school.com. You do have to make an account
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  once and then search for the Health with Hashimoto's community.
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  If you're just doing it, you know, typing it in school.com, or if you click
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  the link below, it'll take you right to the community. go ahead and join the community and welcome.
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  I am so excited to welcome you into our new community on a better platform.
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  This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only.
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  Please discuss any concerns and plans with your trusted healthcare professional.
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  If you found this episode helpful, will you please share it with a friend?
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  I'll see you next week on the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.
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  Music.