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Paige Lopez founder and CEO of Awaken 180 Weight Loss · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Greeting salutations. Welcome my friends to another edition of the
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  Speaker 1: Power Hour, a post Labor Day power Hour, post Buckeye
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  Speaker 1: went over Texas Power Hour. I'm Cheuck Douglass. You know
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  Speaker 1: who you are. We take it from there. We get
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  Speaker 1: one hour together, which means I talk really fast and
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  Speaker 1: you must lessen even faster. Today kind of a special
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  Speaker 1: day because people ask me about the weight loss thing.
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  Speaker 1: And first of all, let's start it with my theme song.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you guys take me personally. I take you personally.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's why we get along so well. But
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  Speaker 1: as up as I am getting into the maintenance portion
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  Speaker 1: of Awaken one eighty weight loss, I wanted to kind
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  Speaker 1: of introduce you to the people and the process and
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  Speaker 1: so forth that I've gone through because it's been a
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  Speaker 1: tremendous success. It's made a tremendous difference in my life.
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  Speaker 1: Let me set this up for you. Highest point I
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  Speaker 1: ever four hundred and thirty pounds. That was back when
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  Speaker 1: I was like nineteen twenty years old. Spent most of
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  Speaker 1: my life at three hundred and eighty five pounds ish
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  Speaker 1: right in there, most of my adult life wearing size
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  Speaker 1: fifty six pounds. Now I decided I needed to make
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  Speaker 1: some changes, and I started losing weight on my own.
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  Speaker 1: I managed to go from three eighty five down to
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  Speaker 1: two seventy eight, dropped from a fifty six inch waist
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  Speaker 1: down to a forty eight. I was very pleased, although
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  Speaker 1: really not content with the progress that I made on
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  Speaker 1: my own. And I had the opportunity to try this
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  Speaker 1: Awaken one eighty weight loss, and I say, you know, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we'll try. I'm in a forty eight. I'd love to
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  Speaker 1: get to a forty. Well, I got to a thirty eight.
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  Speaker 1: I've dropped fifty more pounds. When I thought I was
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  Speaker 1: dead in the water, when I thought I was finished
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  Speaker 1: through over with, I've dropped another fifty pounds down to
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  Speaker 1: two hundred thirty pounds and a thirty eight inch waist.
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  Speaker 1: I never ever, ever, ever thought it would happen. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm so grateful, and that's the appropriate word. I am grateful.
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  Speaker 1: The diabetes medications gone, blood sugar is always find. The
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  Speaker 1: overall health is good. Stammina is good, energy is good,
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  Speaker 1: attitude is good. No, I'm not walking around starving all
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  Speaker 1: the time. I feel great. And I owe that to
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  Speaker 1: Awaken one eighty weight loss, So I wanted to kind
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  Speaker 1: of introduce you to the players involved. Paige Lopez is
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  Speaker 1: the founder and the CEO at Awaken one eighty Weight Loss.
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  Speaker 1: What got you into weight loss? You're the founder and CEO.
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  Speaker 1: You're running a great company, which I don't think is
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  Speaker 1: nearly big enough, and it should be much much bigger
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  Speaker 1: because everybody should be on it. But what got you
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  Speaker 1: into the whole weight loss arena?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is actually through personal experience. Like you, during college,
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  Speaker 2: I gained weight, probably different reasons than pizza and beer,
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  Speaker 2: maybe late night waffles and mixed drinks. But I came
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  Speaker 2: home from call having gained close to about forty pounds,
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  Speaker 2: and I tried everything at the time that was out
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  Speaker 2: there on the market to take it off, and nothing
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  Speaker 2: worked for me. But more than it not working, I
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  Speaker 2: started realizing that I wasn't feeling well. I wasn't feeling
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  Speaker 2: the way I thought I should be feeling or how
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  Speaker 2: I used to feel. I was feeling a lot of
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  Speaker 2: depression and anxiety, a lot of headaches and migraines, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of fatigue, no drive to get out of bed
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  Speaker 2: every day, and started realizing, Gosh, these things don't seem normal.
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  Speaker 2: And on top of the weight gain. You know, if
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to do all the nutritionally correct things and
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  Speaker 2: I'm continuing to feel like crap and I'm continuing to
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  Speaker 2: see the weight stay, maybe what I'm doing aren't the
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  Speaker 2: right things. And it led to me asking some of
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  Speaker 2: those questions, doing some research, working with some doctors, and
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  Speaker 2: learning how food actually interacts in the body to kind
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  Speaker 2: of the extent of the nutrition approach that we take today,
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  Speaker 2: which is not the calories and calories out mindset that
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  Speaker 2: I thought was the only way that a lot of
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  Speaker 2: us think is the only way. And as soon as
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  Speaker 2: I started to eat, you know, the way that you've
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  Speaker 2: eaten to drop this weight. As soon as I started
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  Speaker 2: to let go of some of the sugars and eat
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  Speaker 2: appropriate amount of calories just from the right types of food,
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  Speaker 2: the weight started to fall off. But so much more importantly,
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  Speaker 2: I started to feel like myself again. My energy came back,
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  Speaker 2: my moods leveled out, my desire to do things came back,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought, gosh, wow, how could I help other
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  Speaker 2: people with this? And is those questions that kind of
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  Speaker 2: spurred the creation of the business.
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  Speaker 1: You know, isn't it strange? How our motivations. One of
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  Speaker 1: the reasons I didn't lose weight all those years was
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  Speaker 1: because I did not have any of what you just described,
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  Speaker 1: the sadness, the depression and so forth. I knew I
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  Speaker 1: was a big, fatty, fat fat I knew that I
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  Speaker 1: had been that way my whole life. But I love me,
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  Speaker 1: and it was always hard a personality thing. I guess
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  Speaker 1: when I was a young man and running around, I
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  Speaker 1: always had a date. I was never alone. People enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: being around me, good sense of humor and all that
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And I've often said, if I had
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  Speaker 1: had some sadness, some depression, I might have been motivated sooner.
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  Speaker 1: So you are you know case in point that if
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  Speaker 1: you feel that way when you look in the mirror,
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  Speaker 1: when you look at your life, if you feel that way,
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  Speaker 1: don't allow it to break you down. Use that as
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  Speaker 1: your motivator. Let it be a strength, turn it around,
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  Speaker 1: and use it against itself to present your life to
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  Speaker 1: you in a better way. And I'm glad that you
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  Speaker 1: were able to turn the tables on it and straighten
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  Speaker 1: yourself out, because it helped a lot of us out
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  Speaker 1: here straighten ourselves out. How big is awake? In one eighty.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know you're not every state available. Is
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  Speaker 1: the company growing? Will more people around the United States
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  Speaker 1: have access to this program in the near future.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great question. So anyone within the United
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  Speaker 2: States does have access. It's just a matter of getting
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  Speaker 2: the word out so you can do our program virtually
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  Speaker 2: from anywhere in the US or Canada. We have physical
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  Speaker 2: locations in Massachusetts, in Hertford, Connecticut, and in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 2: But over the last twelve ten years that the business
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  Speaker 2: has been open, we've helped over twenty five thousand people
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  Speaker 2: lose weight.
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  Speaker 1: You need to be bigger, as I have told as
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  Speaker 1: I've told Jen and and by the way, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: into gen she is my coach. And that's how you
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  Speaker 1: do this from anywhere in the country is because you've
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  Speaker 1: got that personal coach. But we'll talk about her in
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  Speaker 1: a second. The products we have discussed, these need to
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  Speaker 1: be available on you know, the shelves at Walmart or
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  Speaker 1: Walgreens or whatever, because you know all the crap that's
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  Speaker 1: out there calling itself diet age and so forth. And
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  Speaker 1: I've tried things over the years, and I use the
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  Speaker 1: word crap very intentionally. This stuff, this stuff there. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's been a couple of your things that I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: fond of quite honestly on the menu. But but your shakes,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my dear goodness. I love the shakes. And once
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  Speaker 1: you get into the program, I drink a shake and
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  Speaker 1: it's seriously, I mean this, it's like I had a meal.
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  Speaker 1: I feel my stomach is fulfilled at that moment. The
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  Speaker 1: taste is great, the texture is wonderful, and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: used to that with anything that calls itself diet anything.
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  Speaker 1: So you're onto something here with your formulas, and I
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  Speaker 1: seriously think they would fly off the shelves if you
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  Speaker 1: put them at a retail level.
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  Speaker 2: They might. But so much of what we care about
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  Speaker 2: is inspiring health and confidence. It's the it's the bigger picture.
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  Speaker 2: And we've always, you know, wondered if we should be
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  Speaker 2: you know, yeah, stocking our products retail. But what we
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  Speaker 2: really care about is making these long term changes in
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  Speaker 2: people's lives. And that comes, and you have a coach
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  Speaker 2: that comes, and you have a plan, and honestly, our
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  Speaker 2: food is just a tool to make it easier for
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  Speaker 2: you to do that. I do wonder if someone with
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  Speaker 2: our food without the other elements would feel the same
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  Speaker 2: way you feel.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't know, because I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: they would. They would enjoy the the I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to use the supplements or whatever that you're taking right now.
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  Speaker 1: You might be trying right now. As I said, the
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  Speaker 1: usually I've tried so many of them, and they were
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  Speaker 1: usually terrible. The enjoyment that you get from sitting down,
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  Speaker 1: you know. The vanilla shakes are wonderful. The chocolates, as
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  Speaker 1: I was telling you off the air, I will put
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  Speaker 1: the chocolate in my morning coffee cup and it's like
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  Speaker 1: a big, beautiful Swiss miss and I'm getting my morning
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  Speaker 1: coffee and my supplement at the same time, which is wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: The coffee shakes are like a cappuccino type thing, and
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely crazy about them. The oatmeal, believe it or not,
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  Speaker 1: I love the oatmeal and for the on the go stuff,
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  Speaker 1: those little protein shots, the orange protein shots. As you
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  Speaker 1: open the box and it's gone, but it's it's a
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  Speaker 1: great little energy boost and it gets you what you
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  Speaker 1: need to get through the afternoon. And I just man
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  Speaker 1: what I mean. It is a great, great variety in
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  Speaker 1: a very effective variety.
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  Speaker 2: They hear that.
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  Speaker 1: The coaching aspect of this now my coach. Her name
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  Speaker 1: is Jen. I don't know. I'm not going to use
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  Speaker 1: her last name because people call her at home and say,
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  Speaker 1: help me get unfat. Her name is Jen. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how I got her as a coach, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: like a Roulette wheel or what, but we are perfectly matched.
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  Speaker 1: She is wonderful. I don't know how long she's been
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  Speaker 1: with the company, how long she's been doing this, but
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you talking to her each week is kind
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  Speaker 1: of like going to church. It's one of those things
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  Speaker 1: where you go to church on Sunday and that fellowship,
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  Speaker 1: the congregation, everybody coming together just kind of inspires you
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  Speaker 1: and gives you that kick in the toush that you
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  Speaker 1: need to make it through the following week with the
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  Speaker 1: right attitude. And my weekly check in with Jen is
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  Speaker 1: very much like that. You might be feeling, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so tired, and then you talk and the next
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  Speaker 1: thing you know, you're fired up and ready to go
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  Speaker 1: into the next week because of that encouragement and that
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  Speaker 1: guidance that you get before I have to say goodbye
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  Speaker 1: to you. What's the plan is there? Is there is
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  Speaker 1: there anything coming up in the future for a wake
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  Speaker 1: in one eighty weight loss that's going to be big
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  Speaker 1: news for anybody, or anything you want to tell the world,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm just I am so excited to share you
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  Speaker 1: with everybody who hears my voice anywhere, whether it's online
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  Speaker 1: or over the year. If there's anything I don't know
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  Speaker 1: haven't talked about that you want to tell the world,
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  Speaker 1: please take this opportunity to do.
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  Speaker 2: That, well, I appreciate it. Right now, we're we're just
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  Speaker 2: trying to find more ways to help more people, more
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  Speaker 2: than ever before. There is more competition in the weight
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  Speaker 2: loss space, but also more resources for weight loss. There
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  Speaker 2: are people using the medications and that's not the approach
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  Speaker 2: that we take, but we often see a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people with medications on our plan, and we also talk
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  Speaker 2: to a lot of people that have been on the
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  Speaker 2: medications not see success or actually gained weight, or have
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  Speaker 2: their biological bodies damaged, whether that be immune conditions or
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  Speaker 2: metabolic conditions because of the medications. We see a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people coming to us after that, and so just
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  Speaker 2: the more that we can connect with people and help
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  Speaker 2: people know that even if you try everything, you feel
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  Speaker 2: like you've tried everything. This is different.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it doesn't. And it's not chemically generated artificial progress.
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  Speaker 1: It's for real. I can eat pizza now, I just
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  Speaker 1: don't feel like eating a pizza. You change the person,
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  Speaker 1: You change the appetite, you change the digestion, you change
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  Speaker 1: the size of the stomach. For goodness sake, all of
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  Speaker 1: that changes when you do awaken one ady weight loss.
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  Speaker 1: You take you know, some shots and put some chemicals
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  Speaker 1: in you, and you drop a bunch of weight. What
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  Speaker 1: happens when you stop taking the shots, Oh, you found
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  Speaker 1: some weight again. This is a change in you and
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  Speaker 1: that's the way you keep it off. I appreciate you, Paige.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know you, but I love you seriously. You've
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  Speaker 1: made it. You've made a difference in my life. And
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  Speaker 1: because you exist, I am better. And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how to say it any platter than that. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for for creating the company, and thank you
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  Speaker 1: for giving me the opportunity to uh to do this
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  Speaker 1: and to uh to change so much about myself in
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  Speaker 1: such a positive way. I appreciate you.