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The Life Changing Magic of Detoxifying · The Bridges and Beacons Podcast

• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: Hello, and welcome to the Mystic Nerd Squad podcast where I host Candid Conversations for the Curious.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Kelly Meyerson, the original Mystic Nerd, and this evening I am joined by the lovely Mary Lazita.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mary is a mom, wife, and lifelong learner with a passion for living toxic-free.
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  SPEAKER_00: As a retired teacher and librarian for over 30 years, she learned that connecting with people with quality information is powerful.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: And she wants to continue to teach others how to become informed consumers so they may make healthy choices for their families.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: You had me at Inform Consumers.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: Don't we need that today?
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  SPEAKER_00: So welcome, Mary.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm so happy to have you.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm so happy to be here.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm totally ready to nerd out on this topic with you because I know, like me, you have just entered into this life of detoxifying and making better choices for your personal care, for how you clean your house.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: But take us back to the beginning.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mom of three, two teenagers at the time, two girls that were in high school, and my son was in middle school when I received an invitation for an at-home party.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_01: And I just remember getting the invitation and seeing something about there might be dangers lurking in your house, you know, something about cleaning.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_01: And I went blah, blah, blah, as I'm reading the invite, and I saw have a glass of wine with your friends, and I said, I'm in.
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  SPEAKER_01: I needed I needed a girl's night out.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I went to my friend's house and I didn't realize it was going to be an at-home party for um a topic that I had never ever thought about before.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_01: And it was how to become an ingredient detective and how to flip your bottles of your personal care products or your cleaning products around and to read the ingredients list.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, I had been doing that for years with my food.
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  SPEAKER_01: I could tell you the sugar, I could tell you the fats, I could tell you uh things like you know, natural spices stay away from because those are, you know, hidden dangers in your food list.
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  SPEAKER_01: Never once did I ever consider my shampoo, my conditioner, my glass cleaner, things like that.
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  unknown: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: So imagine the bottles and jars that I have brought into my home.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm sure you were like me, and all of a sudden you're like diving into the cabinets and pulling everything out and going, wait, can't use this anymore.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: Can't use this anymore.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: Can't use this anymore.
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  SPEAKER_01: Exactly what happened the next day.
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  SPEAKER_01: My husband actually, I went home with like a little pamphlet of ingredients, 16 ingredients to avoid.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and I mean, I was, you know, are we allowed to say stores and store names on here?
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  SPEAKER_01: Is it okay?
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if they come after us, I'll be like, hey, you checked out our podcast?
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  SPEAKER_01: I think so.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was Trader Joe's about 20 minutes away.
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  SPEAKER_01: I would say 80% of my shopping was done there.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there's a whole foods we have wild by nature where I am.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so it's I thought I was going to these wholesome, all natural stores, but again, it was just an area uh that I just never ever thought about.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_01: And I was so surprised.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I remember when I first started doing this, my the the start for me was that I I became gluten-free due to food allergies.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I like you, like got really good with my food and reading labels and still like having symptoms that I had with, you know, having gluten in food.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I don't recall exactly who told me, but somebody was like, listen, if you are allergic to gluten and you can't put it in your body and eat it, you cannot put it on your skin.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, oh, so I started looking at my labels, and lo and behold, there's gluten in shampoo and conditioner and soaps and all of these other hidden places.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hadn't learned.
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  SPEAKER_00: But even at that point, I hadn't yet gotten to the point that you're talking about, where you start looking at those 16 things that are lurking in products that have all sorts of negative side effects.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for somebody who has, you know, just always purchased whatever was on sale on the shelf, like what are some of the things that might be lurking in their products and why do we care?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, why is it a big deal for us?
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  SPEAKER_00: What does it mean that it's it has toxic uh nature to it?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, the the the biggest thing I think for me with having teenage daughters was when I learned that it can affect your endocrine system.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was huge.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you know, you you can joke about people being hormonal or being cranky, or but when you've got two teenage girls living in your house and you're trying to run out the door at 6 30 in the morning, if you can do anything that can balance that out, and and and that's just the whole thing.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's not, you know, it's it's ditching and switching for better and healthier ingredients.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, and and when you start seeing when you do these things and you start seeing success with them, or my son, who has an allergy, um he when his eczema started to feel better just from swapping out my laundry powder.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like when you can directly correlate, right, when you swap something out.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, for me, that was just huge.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the funny thing is, I'm also really frugal.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I decided to order shampoo and conditioner, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: From the because I thought, well, what's something that would directly go onto my skin, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: And that would have a big effect.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I said, well, let me start with the shampoo and the conditioner.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then I was gonna wait and you know, use up what I had already purchased, and then about three months into it, I was like, wait, and I was researching because that was the whole thing.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: I came home, you know, and you know, searching everything I could find on this down the rabbit hole, absolutely, hours and hours and hours, and then I was like, wait a second, you know, what is it, penny wise, pound foolish?
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like I'm gonna hold on to this hand lotion for the rest of the season because you know, I already spent the five dollars on it or whatever it is.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_01: So but that was such it's crazy to think that you can pinpoint the moment where for me, I really feel like my eyes got opened up.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_01: Like I was living this life very, you know, happy in my life, but it was very busy, and it was I was on autopilot, and I feel like this was the exact moment that it opened my eyes to something, and then I was able to start seeing other things and learning about other things, and it was almost like an on-switch, which is kind of cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's it's like this consciousness comes about and you can't you can't unsee it, you can't unknow it.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_00: You can't unknow it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's such a great point, you know, having two daughters and a son for you that you were suddenly like, well, it's not just me, it's that I'm condoning my children using this, and it then it starts to feel like that conscious, you know, consumerism is so much more important.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: So let's say someone is like you and they've just been awakened to this idea, and they have a medicine cabinet, and their you know, shelves in their shower are full of products.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, where do you start?
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  SPEAKER_00: You you said you started with your shampoo and conditioner and and did that, but what is that process like?
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  SPEAKER_00: How do you start with that?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, and and I would now going back, I might do it a little bit differently.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_01: I would think of an item that you put on your skin that is intended to stay on there, like a moisturizer or dealer or a sunscreen, like not something that you're gonna wash off right away.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_01: And that that's probably where I would start right now, or your cleaning supplies, because think about your breathing them in, right?
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: As you're cleaning on your hands, right?
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_01: So that I think that would be the direction that I would go now.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think about like when I used to clean my bathroom with with like bleach and like all those harsh chemicals.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_00: I felt horrible every time I cleaned, like I try to open the windows and stuff open, yeah.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_01: And it would just like I used to joke that I was allergic to cleaning, wasn't that I was allergic to it?
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because you kind of were it was the allergic to the the the the bleach, right?
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, open up all the windows, and you don't need and that's the other thing.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_01: Once you get into the research, you don't you don't need to use such heavy-duty industrial cleaners in your home.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: I know.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_01: So I know it works really well.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_00: Soap and water works really well.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_00: Well, what have we learned, everybody?
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_00: We've learned that washing our hands is like one of the best ways to prevent yourself from getting sick, from washing your hands after touching other surfaces, changing your clothes when you get home from work, you know, all of these small steps that have nothing to do with any kind of chemical or cleaning agent.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Those are just very healthy daily tips to follow.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_00: Totally.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_00: So you went through, you started with the shampoo and conditioner, you replaced those and then just continuously kept replacing things as you went.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_01: As I went on, and then um with the company that I had started had been introduced to, I realized I reached a point where I said, Well, I'm buying more than you know what I mean, like it was starting to get a little bit more expensive.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_01: So I remembered that the host of the party had said if you joined the company, it would be a 30% discount.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_01: So I thought, well, you know, I belong to Amazon Prime, I belong to Costco, like this isn't really all that different.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_01: And so that's what I did, and that that's how it all started.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_01: But like I hadn't been introduced to essential oils before this, like it was just that one opening, right?
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_01: That when you then started talking to friends about because that was the other thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: I never ever ever intended to sell anything.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_01: This was all simply for my family, and then you just get so excited about it, you start talking to your friends about it.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, and one of them started introducing me to essential oils, which I had never heard of before.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: And then I'm trying to think the progression, and then I started.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we're talking about hormones, and I got introduced to acupuncture, and this this whole path of wellness that I often wonder imagine if I had said no and stayed home that evening.
• 12:40
  unknown: Right?
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_00: Like yes to that glass of wine.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, that's a very pertinent and like life-changing glass of wine that you had that night.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm sure that other people don't have like such a what's the word I'm looking for, um, moment in time where they can pinpoint.
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  SPEAKER_01: But for me, it is just so clear.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_00: I really, I really like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you know what, Mary, I think, you know, MLMs can get a bad name.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like um, people are kind of like, oh, you're probably it's a pyramid scheme and stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: But um, I'd like to just present, like, there's a different way of looking at this, you know, that number one, you get a discount, which let's be honest, when you're when you're choosing to overhaul your whole personal care and your your home care supplies, like that can get a little costly.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_00: But like, why not do it with the intent of, like you said, you weren't out there to sell anything to help other women and families solve some of these issues they didn't even know they had, kind of that bringing awareness and be able to earn a little bit of an income to kind of at the very least cut back on how much you spend.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: Because especially when you get into essential oils, if you're getting really high-quality essential oils, they can tend to get onto the expensive side.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_00: So we didn't really come here today to chat with each other about multi-level marketing, but I really think it's important to put that out there and to maybe just get a little more curious about it.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: I know so many people involved in different companies.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if if you're aligning yourself with a company for which the mission speaks to you, you're never trying to pull the wool over anybody's eyes or sell them something they don't need.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you can you can do it with good conscience.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: And it's like, I have some chocolate chip cookies, I find that they're really great for my family.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_00: I can help you get chocolate chip cookies, I can help you help other people get chocolate chip cookies and make a little money.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: And if you say it that way, you're like, hmm, either I want a chocolate chip cookie or I'm like, no, thanks.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's not a, you know, it doesn't have to be stressful.
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  SPEAKER_00: But anyway, that's just my like my little shameless.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: You said that because I feel exactly the same way.
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  SPEAKER_01: And and I've never, I've never understood why they've gotten a bad rap because I've never personally had a bad experience.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm now I'm trying to think.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_01: I think I've been with the company seven years, and I I think that's a testament.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_01: Like people don't stay somewhere for seven years if they don't believe in it.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: And and I think it is, you know, for this particular company that we're talking about, and you can absolutely reach out to to Mary and find out more about it.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: But um the mission is is completely aligned with what I feel is like my personal mission.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: It's about families, it's about, you know, helping women, it's, you know, it was it was brought about to just replace a lot of these products out in the market and to bring some true information.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um I think that's also really important.
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  SPEAKER_00: The, you know, when you talked about that, those 16 ingredients to avoid, you know, putting that information in the hands of people to be able to take it yourself and become a more intelligent consumer and be more aware.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_00: I think that is the mission versus like making people lots of money.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_01: And there were some tricky things I found along the way because again, I would still go to um we have CVS here, that's our my local pharmacy, and you know, I would go to grab a deodorant for you know one of my children, and I didn't realize they split the ingredient list, so it'll say active ingredient, right?
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_01: And then way down at the bottom, you see the inactive ingredients, and I wouldn't realize it until they've already opened it and used it a couple of times, you know.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_01: So part of swapping over to I'm also because from being so busy, I like the one-stop shopping.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_01: So I like that I can just get on my computer, I can order what I need to order in one spot, but I didn't run into any of those tricks.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_01: You know, um, I'm trying to think there was another one I just had in my head and it went out of my head, but you know, things like that.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_01: And then I found out that there's an actual term called greenwashing.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yes.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_01: Things appear to be.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
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  SPEAKER_01: All natural or you know, and then you find out that there are hidden ingredients.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_01: And can I say the F-word?
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if I can say the F-word on your show.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, sure.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: We'll just put the little E on it when we put out the broadcast.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_00: It'll be great.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: Go for it.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_01: No, the new F word for me in the past seven years has been the word fragrance.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_01: Fragrance is a legal, yes, a legal leaphole.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: And I did once went again down that rabbit hole, and I don't remember which brand it was, so I'm I won't even you know say that, but it was a popular dishwashing soap.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_01: And if you go into it and you dig deep enough, there were a thousand ingredients listed under fragrance, and gluten was one of them on a dishwashing soap where you wash your dishes and then put food on it.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: So, someone who has a gluten sensitivity, they like gluten should be listed on the label.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_01: So then I would get mad.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_01: See, first you get interested, and then you get mad, right?
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_00: When you find all these things out, and then you want to get started out, yeah, and then and then you pick up your soapbox and you like you people have to start listening.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: That I appreciate that so much because I can't even tell you how many times, you know, products, food products, you know, things can be labeled something that basically means gluten, like tocoferol acetate, which is in a lot of things.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: Turn over your bottles and take a look.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_00: It's in a lot of things, and it can be derived from soy, it can be derived from gluten, you know.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: So, like you don't know where it's derived from.
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  SPEAKER_00: They don't have to tell us that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So one of the things that was really staggering to me was when I learned about the comparison between like how we are in this country versus how we are how things are regulated in other countries.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: That I think in the United States is it 12?
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_00: Is that how many banned chemicals there are?
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_01: We are we are up to 12.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_01: When I started, it was nine.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: We're up to 12?
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, yeah.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: And like in the EU, for example, it's something like 1000.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, 1300 was the last I had read.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_00: 1300.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: So 1300 versus 12.
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  SPEAKER_00: That to me is that whether, you know, however you want to look at it, that to me becomes like I need to be the ingredient detective and knowing everything that's in the products that I'm using and not taking anything for granted.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: So if it's a if it's an ingredient that isn't like, you know, like very clearly, okay, uh a food, a plant, that specific food or plant, if it's some sort of chemical derivative, what is it really?
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_01: And I think the biggest offender is it comes in the preservatives.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: I think that's because how does it sit on the shelf for as long as it does?
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_01: Which was another appeal to just to go back to this company, is that it's manufactured right here in the United States and it gets shipped directly to your house.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: In I mean, our shipping times have always been really good.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_01: So within a week site, you know, it's there's not, and there's an expiration date on it.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_01: There's the, you know, if you open it up, use within six months symbol on it.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: All of that is was just so important.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, to me, it's you're you the products you're putting on your skin get absorbed into your body, right?
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_00: So we talked about that before with gluten.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_00: So do you want things that have no expiration date, or do you want things like food?
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like you're you want to eat more foods that have an expiration date, like real food rots, right?
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_00: So if it's made from real healthy plants, then it's not gonna last forever, which you know can be unfortunate for some people because they feel like, well, that's not cost effective.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_00: But here's another soapbox moment for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can go that route.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_00: However, let's think about like what is that, what are you trading that savings for?
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_00: Is it is it your health and well-being?
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: Is it your longevity?
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_00: Is it, you know, having these chemicals, you know, some of them are neurotoxic.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_00: Are they affecting, like you said, your endocrine system, your brain, you know?
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_00: So um, yeah, I start to think like, what are you really, what are you saving?
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_01: And sunscreen's been a is a really good example of that because that's been in the news.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: That's none of this was in the news when you and I first started discovering this on our own, but you are seeing that things are you know, and sunscreen was a really, really big one this summer.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely, and you know what?
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: I think that we've come far with.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_00: I love, I don't know if if the people who are listening are catching this in the replay on the video.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_00: There's a company called Environmental Working Group.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_00: It's ewg.org.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: And you can go there, you can it's free to go onto the website.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_00: You can find all products, you know, anything you find on the shelf, anything in your cabinet, and you can get the breakdown of the product and what's in it.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_00: And it has a labeling in terms of like one to ten level of toxicity.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and it tells you what the ingredients are that have those toxic values.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_00: I got into that first with sunscreen.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_00: So I mean it's probably been like, you know, like you said, like seven years, like back a bit, just a few years ago.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_00: I made my own sunscreen.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't even know that was a thing.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: You did.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: You made your own from scratch.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_01: See, and that's I have to say, I'm not a is it DIY?
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm not a DIY.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_01: So I need for me, I needed a company that checked all the boxes, you know, fast, easy to use, something I could trust.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_01: So I to me it was Kismet that I got invited to this party.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_00: And I I think whenever you can find a brand that you trust, that is such a huge thing that you can then say, okay, well, now I know I'm gonna get X, Y, and Z all from here and just have it shipped to my house.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_00: We're all we're all feeling the convenience of those that Amazon kind of a feel, right?
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_01: Well, and during the pandemic, it worked out very well to be able to have things delivered right to your house.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_01: That worked out very well.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, absolutely.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_00: So what do you think your next steps are?
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: That's what I want to know.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_00: So you've you've moved through these different levels of things.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_00: You mentioned the detoxifying with the products, going into essential oils, talked a little bit about acupuncture.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_00: So, like, what is your next step in your own wellness company?
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_01: One of my biggest steps, we just hadn't gotten into it yet, and that is I bought the Peloton bike.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_01: Oh nice.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_01: Three years ago, four years ago, I'm on my 200th week streak of writing.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_01: And you're talking about I'm a librarian, I love to sit down and read a book.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not athletic, I was never on any team.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_01: And but that was the next step in my journey.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_01: I wanted to sweat out the toxins every day.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_01: I wanted the opportunity to sweat it out.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_01: Movement is so important.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_01: I wanted to find something that um suited me, suited my lifestyle.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_01: Again, I I like to make things as easy as possible and having this fitness platform in my living room.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm so grateful that I had it because again, I got it in February of 2017.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_01: So everything was already in place when the world shut down and everything got so small.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_01: So, and then I'm not sure where the next.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_01: I'm hoping to do more outdoor activities.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_01: I was able to retire last year.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_01: So being home during the day when it's daylight in December is all new to me.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you know, as a teacher, you are literally on the go from the minute you pull into the parking lot to the minute you drive away from school, and then you're still always thinking, always out of school.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, you know, and so to be given this gift of time that I I haven't had the the kids have all you know moved out, they're my little one went away to school.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_01: So this is a whole new journey, and I and I'm very much looking forward to bringing more wellness into it.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_01: But I think being outdoors and nature is the next step.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: Awesome.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_00: I love that.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I I love that you brought the fitness piece, and we're really kind of creating this whole picture of what wellness is, which is my well-being is like at the heart of what I do, you know, that sense of well-being, like you said in the beginning, even like not getting enough sleep, working too much, you know, burning yourself out, that now you sort of get to sit in this place where you can choose how you spend your hours in your day and really enhance your health and well-being so much more.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_01: So I just feel very grateful, you know, very big on gratitude.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_01: And I just feel grateful to be in this place right now.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_01: Because I know not everyone has been fortunate enough to get here.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_00: So yes, yes.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_00: I uh totally agree with you.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_00: That piece of gratitude is so important.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_00: So we have a comment.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: We're you know, we're live streaming into my Facebook group.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_00: So we had a question will we get to learn of this company that has the quality natural products?
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: So Mary actually has a gift for everyone.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna let her tell you about that.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_00: But in the show notes, and for those of you that are on Facebook, I'm going to put into the comments how you can connect with Mary about finding out more about these products that we're talking about.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so Mary, go ahead, tell them um what you have for them as a free gift.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I do, I it's the gift that was given to me the night that I went to the um party, and it is the handiest little pocket guide to harmful ingredients.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_01: And when you open it up, it lists all 16 ingredients to avoid.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_01: And this is the librarian of me that loves it, gives the explanation why.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, with all the sources noted, yes, oh references, important, right?
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_01: I think if I had just been handed like a list of ingredients that night, I might not have you know been drawn in the way that I was.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_01: But if you hand me a reference piece, you know, with the sources, perfect.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_01: I went home.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, and then my poor husband, he he stopped me.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_01: I think I got to the kitchen, the downstairs bathroom, and the upstairs bathroom where he stopped.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_01: The garbage bags getting bigger and bigger, right?
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, oh my gosh, what is this gonna cost us?
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_01: That's exactly what he was thinking.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_00: We may or may not have had that experience in my house, but but but it's really interesting because you know, we're we're a few years into this journey, and so we've been using like making our own cleaning products or using like cleaner cleaning products.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, we're finding if if we have something different or we go someplace where they're using strong cleaners, we're all like, oh, that's just like the smell is so strong.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_00: Try walking through the mall to go shopping this time, which I don't, I'm not a mall person, but and I don't really, I'm an online shopper, yeah, or I'm small business shopping.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_01: The different, um, the different sense I remembered what I had forgotten a few minutes ago.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_01: No, please bring it back, and that was that I noticed the money I was saving by not going to CVS and Target and those other stores because when you go in to get one item, you walk out with for me, it was always a hundred dollars at the cash register.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, for sure.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_00: Incidental shopping, intending, yes, yeah, yes.
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_01: So, well, at least that was what I told my husband as part of my rationale for all this, but it really is true.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_01: It lit for me, it eliminated going to some of the other stores.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, totally, yeah.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_00: I I mean, I personally, it's just it's so much easier for me to get those things in the in the mail and replace them when I need to.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, I'm with you.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like it has just made a huge difference in how I feel, and also I think it's empowering, like one to kind of look at your your health and taking control of your health and well-being in that way, and then also empowering in terms of like I can decide where and how I spend my money and who whose pockets I intend to line.
• 33:12
  unknown: Yeah.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_00: So if I'm you know purchasing products and and Mary is my representative, I'm helping Mary.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm helping a company who is supporting, you know, women in growing their own home businesses, which let's be honest, so many people have thrived on in the past year and a half or so.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, and it and you know, kind of it's making me think like this other aha, like getting into that kind of like very conscious consumerism, it made me think, well, and what about the other things I purchase?
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like if I'm purchasing gifts for people, you know, like I shopped small business Saturday in my town, in the little shops in my town, and you know, found like a really cute place where they they make their own candles and you know, they have plants.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, oh my gosh, like like you said, like if I hadn't started this whole journey, like how would I have had that access or that interest, or you know, dive down the rabbit hole and then you realize there's all these diverted tunnels, and you're like, oh, I gotta go on all these tunnels.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_01: It's very exciting though.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_01: I found it all to be very exciting.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_00: So so hopefully we've sparked someone's interest in yeah, and I think it can also be like you said, it doesn't have to be cleaning out every single cabinet in your house and going shopping, because let's be honest, that can be very overwhelming too.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_00: And you don't even know if you like them, like it might not be the smell that you like, you might have to, you know, pick something different.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_00: But I would say, like, the the top products, like you said, like the things that are going on your skin, the lotions, especially deodorant.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody should be using antiperspirant anymore.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um, nobody, nobody, because you don't need it, number one.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and having not used antiperspirant for a very long time now, the deodorant that I use is all natural.
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_00: And I really honestly I don't really sweat like I used to sweat when I wore antiperspirant.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_01: Because your body, your body is detoxing the ingredients that are in the antiperspirant, it just it does there's a little adjustment period.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_01: I think that's the hardest one for people to switch to.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, but if you can just make it through like that first week or so, yeah, it's it really and and I'm telling you, I ride a Peloton bike like we sweat buckets when we're on that, and you don't smell, you sweat, you're not smelling.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_01: So I and then you stop the other ingredients that are absorbed into your body, right?
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_01: So then your body has to detoxify it.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_01: When you eliminate that, so you're not getting the toxins from the shampoo or the conditioner or the lotion, the deodorant, right?
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_01: It's it makes you less smelly because you're not introducing those things.
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, I know.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, it's it's a huge lifestyle shift, but I I'm so glad that we could talk about it because I think, you know, maybe just one more person can be sparked and interested in a more conscious consumer and um, you know, think about what it is that we're purchasing, who we're supporting, and how we're really maintaining our health with it.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_00: So um in the show notes will be all the ways that you can connect with Mary.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and especially if you're interested in finding out more about the natural products that she supports and uses.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and any other questions you have, please feel free to throw into the comments.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_00: And Mary and I will hop on Facebook and answer any of them.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_00: Mary, you've been an awesome guest.
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_00: I'm so glad we had this conversation.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for inviting me.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_00: You are so welcome.
• 37:21
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• 37:27
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• 37:35
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• 37:39
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• 37:42
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