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Wellness Wonders: Ancient and Modern Health Tips with Dr. Monisha Bhanote · The Heart-Led Business Show

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  Speaker: Welcome to the Heart Led Business Show, where compassion meets commerce and leaders lead with love.
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  Speaker: Join your host, Tom Jackobs, as he delves into the insightful conversations with visionary business leaders who defy the status quo, putting humanity first and profit second.
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  Speaker: From heartfelt strategies to inspiring stories, this podcast is your compass in the world of conscious capitalism.
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  Speaker: So buckle up and let's go.
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  Speaker: Let your heart guide your business journey.
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  Tom: Get ready to tickle your wellness whiskers, folks.
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  Tom: Today, we're welcoming the magnetic master of medicine, the dazzling Dr.
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  Tom: Monisha Bhanote.
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  Tom: She's the wellness Wonder Woman who whirls ancient wisdom and modern marvels to make magical mind body mixtures.
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  Tom: A quintuple threat with her fabulous fists full of board certifications and founder of Wellkula global guru and best-selling bibliophile.
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  Tom: So buckle up! Beautiful beans.
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  Tom: We are bound to boldly go into her heart-led business boots and all right here on the heart-led business show.
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  Tom: Dr.
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  Tom: Monisha, welcome to the show.
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  Monisha Bhanote: Thank you so much, Tom, for having me on the Heart-Led Business Show.
• 1:19
  Monisha Bhanote: Wow.
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  Monisha Bhanote: That was a great introduction.
• 1:22
  Monisha Bhanote: I'm going to have to use that one again.
• 1:23
  Monisha Bhanote: That was amazing.
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  Tom: Well, you know, we were talking before the show about ChatGPT and using AI, and that was actually written by an AI with some prompting to have multiple alliterations within, within it, which is one of my favorite things is.
• 1:41
  Monisha Bhanote: I love that it tapped into the Wonder Woman aspect because I will tell you my team has called me that with all the different things that I do.
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  Monisha Bhanote: So I'm glad it knew that too.
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  Tom: That's awesome.
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  Tom: So, you know, the first question I always ask is what's your definition of a heart-led business?
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  Monisha Bhanote: Yeah.
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  Monisha Bhanote: Great, great question.
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  Monisha Bhanote: So heart-led business.
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  Monisha Bhanote: Heart-led, right?
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  Monisha Bhanote: So it's, how do you take that junction between what your heart leads you to do and what you do with your business, right?
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  Monisha Bhanote: And it really takes in for me looking at prioritizing your purpose, compassion, and integrity really are at that core of what's driving your vision, what's driving your mission, and really what's going to wake you up every day to lead a heart-led business.
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  Monisha Bhanote: You know, for me, it's really about creating a system within my business that resonates not just with me, but with my team.
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  Monisha Bhanote: And one of the things that I often when I'm interviewing people is, they are so on board with the mission.
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  Monisha Bhanote: That is key to any hiring for me.
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  Monisha Bhanote: That I see that even through the ups and downs that mission stays clear, and they have something beyond the financial of, oh, I need a job and I need to do this, that no matter what, they can always go back to, I came to do this job because I have this connection to it, whether it's a, you know, in the wellness business many people kind of, have a moment where they're like, Oh, I might need to leave corporate because I've had this experience or my family members had this experience.
• 3:30
  Monisha Bhanote: And I feel like I can contribute more.
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  Monisha Bhanote: So that's where really having a mission and purpose that resonates with the entire team will make for a better heart-led business.
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  Monisha Bhanote: And I think It also stems from having a genuine desire to make a positive impact.
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  Monisha Bhanote: I often hear that from the people that I interview is like, they really want to make a difference.
• 3:56
  Monisha Bhanote: And to me, that means so much because we live in a very trying time and a very trying world where, you know, things move a lot quicker than maybe the results can show for.
• 4:09
  Monisha Bhanote: So, really having individuals who understand building relationships with other companies and other team members based on trust, based on that sense of belonging.
• 4:21
  Monisha Bhanote: And I love how you open the intro with being, right?
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  Monisha Bhanote: Because this is who we are, we're human beings, and then we have all the other beings on the planet, right?
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  Monisha Bhanote: So, it's all the stakeholders involved here.
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  Monisha Bhanote: Not just myself, my company, my team it's everybody else that we're impacting.
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  Monisha Bhanote: And that's really where we look at it.
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  Monisha Bhanote: And I look at it from integrating those holistic practices and really intentional practices to support that mind, body, and soul from a personal, business, all-around embodying it.
• 4:57
  Tom: That's a really good perspective as well.
• 5:00
  Tom: And I think that's you know, it's so interesting, like the interviewing of staff, like anytime that I interview a staff member and I hear the words, well, this job is going to give me the opportunity to blah, blah, blah.
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  Tom: I just turn off because it's not about the job necessarily.
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  Tom: There's no passion and purpose behind them wanting to work for a heart-led business.
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  Tom: And that's refreshing to hear.
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  Tom: I'm not the only one that, that, that does that and listens for, for those cues.
• 5:27
  Tom: That's cool.
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  Tom: So what inspired you then to start your heart-led business?
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  Monisha Bhanote: Yeah, so it's been a long journey, shall I say, to say the least, you know, really, I mean, I've been in the wellness space now, health and wellness space for over 30 years.
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  Monisha Bhanote: I pretty much grew up knowing that,"Okay, I was going to be a doctor, whether I liked it or not.", and It's really a matter of finding the place and the space that you feel that you can make that impact.
• 5:57
  Monisha Bhanote: And I think where I am now is deeply influenced from my real holistic approach to health and really looking at that whole thing and what I realized after decades of being in the hospital is,"I've got all these secrets", meaning secrets on how the human body heals.
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  Monisha Bhanote: And yes, it would be the easiest thing in the world for me to sit in a hospital, do my job that I'm trained to do and just live out the next, like, you know, 80 or so years in my career because my career as a pathologist, we actually don't really retire.
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  Monisha Bhanote: I mean, we're working at like 85 where, you know, it's a very fulfilling job in the sense of we're making these very complex diagnoses to help individuals.
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  Monisha Bhanote: But then, you know, I'm like, okay, great.
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  Monisha Bhanote: I've made these diagnoses.
• 6:49
  Monisha Bhanote: I've given the information to my colleagues, the clinicians whether they're the surgeons, oncologists other specialists to treat the patient, but why are people not getting better?
• 6:59
  Monisha Bhanote: And I'm like, wait a minute, something's missing here.
• 7:02
  Monisha Bhanote: Something is totally missing here.
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  Monisha Bhanote: Because if I give you a diagnosis, you give the treatment.
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  Monisha Bhanote: The person should get better.
• 7:09
  Monisha Bhanote: And that's where I started looking at it.
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  Monisha Bhanote: I'm like, no, we're missing key factors here.
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  Monisha Bhanote: We're missing that integrative, holistic approach, looking at what is the person doing?
• 7:18
  Monisha Bhanote: And that's where really I started applying those practices, not just for my business, but also for my own life and for my patient's life, right?
• 7:27
  Monisha Bhanote: So I realized after diagnosing all the, these diseases, that it's our lifestyle.
• 7:34
  Monisha Bhanote: Our environment and our daily choices that profoundly affect health.
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  Monisha Bhanote: And that's really what drove me to create Wellkula, which is a, you know, a platform designed to foster intentional, sustainable-living, whether that's from a medical clinic perspective, whether that's from an educational perspective, whether that's from a immersive experience like my retreats.
• 7:59
  Monisha Bhanote: It's really about going off of autopilot and becoming really intentional with what am I doing in my 24 hours of a day?
• 8:07
  Monisha Bhanote: How am I spending my time?
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  Monisha Bhanote: How could I be a better human partner, friend, employee, employer, and really just looking at that whole aspect of it.
• 8:19
  Monisha Bhanote: And I think that's where, you know, coming back to the heart-led business, it's really that integrity, that purpose.
• 8:26
  Monisha Bhanote: Every single decision is built on that culture for me.
• 8:30
  Monisha Bhanote: And yeah, it's been a long, interesting journey.
• 8:35
  Monisha Bhanote: And I think from a business perspective, it's ever evolving.
• 8:39
  Monisha Bhanote: And I think you refine the process and see where it leads you.
• 8:45
  Monisha Bhanote: And I think that's where if you can lead from heart, as opposed to going, Oh, I have this five year or 10 year business plan and I need to get here to here.
• 8:56
  Monisha Bhanote: You're going to enjoy it a lot more because it's never a straight line.
• 9:01
  Monisha Bhanote: We know it's not a straight line, you know, health is also not a straight line, but you'll enjoy the process more and you'll be more resilient to the stressors if you kind of have that, that ability to turn inwards and go, all right, this is what I'm doing.
• 9:15
  Monisha Bhanote: This is why I'm doing it.
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  Monisha Bhanote: And this is how I can take my next best step forward.
• 9:19
  Tom: Yeah.
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  Tom: I really like what you said about the intentionality of the day and teaching people to be more intentional because like when I was doing nutrition coaching, like that was like, people are just so, it's just unconscious of putting stuff in their mouth.
• 9:36
  Tom: And you ask people to track their food.
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  Tom: And there was a study done that just by asking people to track their food, they reduced their weight.
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  Tom: They lost weight because now it became intentional.
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  Tom: How are you seeing that in your practice in terms of the holistic approach to working with people?
• 9:53
  Monisha Bhanote: It's interesting that you say you had people tracking their food.
• 9:55
  Monisha Bhanote: We absolutely do that in my practice.
• 9:57
  Monisha Bhanote: So we have a you know, food journal that I have individuals keep, and it's not just about tracking the food.
• 10:05
  Monisha Bhanote: It's also about tracking your mood along with it.
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  Monisha Bhanote: Meaning okay, you had this meal.
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  Monisha Bhanote: Did you feel good after the meal?
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  Monisha Bhanote: Did you feel worse?
• 10:14
  Monisha Bhanote: Were you kind of just okay?
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  Monisha Bhanote: And then also looking at it in that 24 hours, meaning at the end of the day, did you feel like you had a great day?
• 10:22
  Monisha Bhanote: Did you feel you know, tired?
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  Monisha Bhanote: Did you feel like you had some kind of symptoms?
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  Monisha Bhanote: That way we can backtrack.
• 10:28
  Monisha Bhanote: I mean, I just did this again with a patient yesterday where I'm looking at it and I'm going, hmmm, did you ever notice that at the end of the day is when you feel like you have the most gut pain and kind of stress and stuff like that, right?
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  Monisha Bhanote: And I'm looking at her meals and I'm going, well, you're also putting the heaviest, hardest to digest meal at the end of the day and you eat your meal and then you sit down to relax.
• 10:57
  Monisha Bhanote: So we can do one of two things.
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  Monisha Bhanote: We can either move those meals earlier up in the day, because then you're still going to be moving your body, which will help the process of digestion.
• 11:07
  Monisha Bhanote: Or we can, after you have your meal, introduce something to help digestion, whether that's a walk or something, once again, being more intentional with how you're spending your time.
• 11:18
  Monisha Bhanote: All right.
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  Monisha Bhanote: So we do this very often with my patients.
• 11:22
  Monisha Bhanote: I know some of them are eating in the car.
• 11:25
  Monisha Bhanote: So when they're eating in the car, they definitely don't make the best choices or they're eating at their desk, right?
• 11:32
  Monisha Bhanote: So, mindfulness definitely plays a huge role in anything that we do, not just nutrition, right?
• 11:40
  Monisha Bhanote: So mindfully spending our days, intentionally spending our days.
• 11:45
  Monisha Bhanote: And I think that creating that greater degree of self-awareness, you know, as you go up the, I kind of have a X, Y chart that I use.
• 11:55
  Monisha Bhanote: For, you know, the more self-aware you are and the more intentional you are, the more you're creating instead of habits that are bad or routines, which you get burnt out from doing, you're rarely creating intentional rituals in your life that have greater meaning and purpose for you.
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  Monisha Bhanote: And you don't feel like bad when you don't do a ritual because you know, it's been put in place to make things easier and better for you.
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  Monisha Bhanote: As opposed to when you have a routine like, going to the gym and when you don't do it or you don't eat that salad or you don't do that smoothie or whatever, you feel bad when you don't do it because we've put this structure in place that doesn't allow you to tap into.
• 12:39
  Monisha Bhanote: What you need for that day and, and tap into what your heart, your mind, your body, your soul needs for that day.
• 12:45
  Tom: Yeah, no, I think that that's really great.
• 12:47
  Tom: The, just tracking the mood and knowing like what what foods trigger what and all that and being able to diagnose what's going on with somebody.
• 12:55
  Tom: That's great.
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  Tom: So let's shift gears a little bit to the business aspect of having a heart-led business.
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  Tom: You had mentioned before, you know, it's not a straight line.
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  Tom: You know, the 5 year, 10 year plan never goes as we want it to.
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  Tom: But how's that been for you in terms of leading with heart versus just looking at the profit.
• 13:15
  Tom: How do you balance, you know, making money doing you're doing?
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  Monisha Bhanote: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Monisha Bhanote: So, first and foremost, it's always about, I know I can make a change in a person's life if they, I mean, all I ask, I asked you to give me six months and I'm like, I can put you through med school on your specific body in six months, right?
• 13:36
  Monisha Bhanote: And I think the challenge has been really bridging that gap between conventional care and holistic practices.
• 13:45
  Monisha Bhanote: That's been challenge number one because just our culture is that, oh, we get sick, we go to the doctors, we get medicine, and we get better.
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  Monisha Bhanote: When I know that that's not what works.
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  Monisha Bhanote: So when you have both, when you have patients who are like, Oh, okay, well, you know, I have to do something now.
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  Monisha Bhanote: Like I have to be involved in my health, meaning I actually have to track something.
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  Monisha Bhanote: I have to change what I'm doing in my 24 hours.
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  Monisha Bhanote: That is a bit of a mental shift for some people, for many people, I will say.
• 14:19
  Monisha Bhanote: Because we were so trained to just follow and do what we are told to do.
• 14:24
  Monisha Bhanote: I mean, that's basically you know, our education system, you go to school, you're told what to do, you're told what to do next.
• 14:31
  Monisha Bhanote: I mean, you go to a job, you're told what to do, right?
• 14:34
  Monisha Bhanote: You're not told how to think for yourself.
• 14:37
  Monisha Bhanote: So I think that's definitely a challenge bridging that gap between how can we really take the tools that conventional medicine has for us, whether that's the testing, the laboratory testing, the imaging, all of this great stuff, and really apply it in a way that's looking at the person and not looking at the disease or looking at the drug.
• 15:02
  Monisha Bhanote: I can stick on that disease.
• 15:04
  Monisha Bhanote: You know, there's definitely that navigation of skepticism that, you know, oh, okay, but now I have to pay for a service that my insurance does not cover.
• 15:13
  Monisha Bhanote: Why would I do that?
• 15:15
  Monisha Bhanote: And I always go back to the example of, you know, we get homeowners insurance, we get car insurance, we get all these things as a backup, as an emergency.
• 15:25
  Monisha Bhanote: Okay, it's not for like every day we're using it.
• 15:29
  Monisha Bhanote: And I really want people to start thinking of their health insurance as that backup too.
• 15:33
  Monisha Bhanote: This is for like big things when you end up in the hospital for you know, an accident or something like that.
• 15:39
  Monisha Bhanote: It is not necessarily your preventative, like as you move forward.
• 15:44
  Monisha Bhanote: So sometimes you're gonna have to do things and have extra expenses when it comes to health.
• 15:51
  Monisha Bhanote: Now, I would love it if we put this holistic, integrative approach into the healthcare model.
• 15:58
  Monisha Bhanote: Unfortunately, as the challenges are that our healthcare system is decades behind with how it does its billing and It's coding and all this stuff in order for these things to actually apply.
• 16:15
  Monisha Bhanote: And recently I've noticed that there have been a few laws proposed, and I don't know if they've gone through yet, but that we shouldn't be teaching nutrition, and we shouldn't be teaching patients how the body works.
• 16:29
  Monisha Bhanote: So, I think at this time, you know, people are becoming more awoke or awake in the sense that you are the one who has power over your health and your body.
• 16:40
  Monisha Bhanote: And it's up to you to step up and go.
• 16:42
  Monisha Bhanote: This is what I need to, this is what I need to live my best life, and ultimately be disease-free.
• 16:48
  Monisha Bhanote: So, I think definitely that bridge is coming.
• 16:52
  Monisha Bhanote: It's just, it's a slower bridge.
• 16:54
  Monisha Bhanote: The second thing that I think is really important to kind of touch upon is like I said, people have not been taught how the human body works.
• 17:05
  Monisha Bhanote: I think back on some of the classes that I learned in school and, you know, Home Ec was there and I'm like, that was one of the most valuable classes.
• 17:13
  Monisha Bhanote: And we've kind of gotten rid of a lot of these things that teach people like how to make a meal.
• 17:19
  Monisha Bhanote: I mean, we have people who can't even make a basic meal for themselves.
• 17:22
  Monisha Bhanote: And I'm talking about adults.
• 17:23
  Monisha Bhanote: in their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s that weren't taught that.
• 17:28
  Monisha Bhanote: And, you know, I kind of have this motto because I'm always talking about cellular health and your 37 trillion cells in your body and how we really need to keep them healthy and happy.
• 17:40
  Monisha Bhanote: And I always say happy cells lead to happy you, right?
• 17:44
  Monisha Bhanote: And that's the cornerstone of my philosophy on and kind of conveying that cellular health is you can see it in a very relatable way.
• 17:53
  Monisha Bhanote: In fact, I even compare the human cell to a cell phone because everybody's got a cell phone, right?
• 17:59
  Monisha Bhanote: So what do we do at the end of the day?
• 18:00
  Monisha Bhanote: We plug our cell phone into recharge.
• 18:02
  Monisha Bhanote: What don't we do as a human person?
• 18:04
  Monisha Bhanote: Plug ourselves into recharge.
• 18:07
  Monisha Bhanote: We can replace our phone every year.
• 18:09
  Monisha Bhanote: You can't replace your body.
• 18:10
  Monisha Bhanote: So this is where, you know, making sure that the cells that make up who you are, are getting the nutrients they need, the sleep they need, the movement they need, the emotional care they need, right?
• 18:24
  Monisha Bhanote: So, that is also a very challenging thing when it comes from a business aspect, because once again, I go back to where you used to get sick, get drunk, get better.
• 18:35
  Monisha Bhanote: Not really.
• 18:36
  Monisha Bhanote: But, so.
• 18:37
  Tom: Perceived, right?
• 18:38
  Tom: But you think we should be changing the name of healthcare to just sickcare and the health insurance is really not health insurance.
• 18:46
  Tom: It's sick insurance.
• 18:48
  Monisha Bhanote: Yeah.
• 18:49
  Monisha Bhanote: That's a great question.
• 18:50
  Monisha Bhanote: Do we change the name?
• 18:52
  Monisha Bhanote: Or do we go further and go, we don't need to be this way, you know, like we don't need to live our lives this way instead of going into a facility, which, you know, we don't go into hospitals to get better.
• 19:07
  Monisha Bhanote: I mean, I've walked the halls of hospitals from like 6 AM in the morning till midnight for decades.
• 19:14
  Monisha Bhanote: And I don't see, you know, that people go in to get better.
• 19:17
  Monisha Bhanote: Yeah.
• 19:18
  Monisha Bhanote: You might go in to get your surgery, but then if you go back to living your lifestyle, the way you were, you're going to be back in there, right?
• 19:24
  Monisha Bhanote: It's a revolving door that, and there is revolving doors in hospitals, right?
• 19:27
  Tom: Literally.
• 19:28
  Tom: Yeah.
• 19:29
  Monisha Bhanote: You're welcomed back actually.
• 19:31
  Monisha Bhanote: Like, let's see you back.
• 19:33
  Monisha Bhanote: But so to answer your question on what changing the name work?
• 19:37
  Monisha Bhanote: No, I think we need to look outside for other ways to heal.
• 19:43
  Monisha Bhanote: And that's where, you know, for me as a physician, I've actually created immersive retreats, where just in five days, I can show you how quickly you can change your body.
• 19:54
  Monisha Bhanote: I mean, it's kind of funny because my focus is gut health and longevity.
• 19:59
  Monisha Bhanote: But literally on day one of a retreat, I have people having better bowel movements than they have in like a decade on medications, right?
• 20:07
  Monisha Bhanote: So, there is something to taking that approach from the mind, the body, the soul, and really kind of tapping into that.
• 20:16
  Monisha Bhanote: And I love retreats for that because it's an immersive experience.
• 20:20
  Monisha Bhanote: It gets you to step out of your autopilot.
• 20:23
  Monisha Bhanote: It's a pattern interruption where you can then go really focus.
• 20:27
  Monisha Bhanote: And You take those tools back with you, right?
• 20:30
  Monisha Bhanote: So, it's not like you go into a doctor's office for 15 minutes, get your drug, and then you'v e changed your health.
• 20:36
  Monisha Bhanote: No, you addressed a symptom, right?
• 20:39
  Monisha Bhanote: But incorporating things like that.
• 20:41
  Monisha Bhanote: And I know there's numbers of wellness centers and all that starting to do that.
• 20:45
  Monisha Bhanote: I think that should be the paradigm that everybody has on their schedule, at least once a year, a kind of transformative, immersive experience retreat where they are going to do a body reset where they're going to recalibrate their body, their mind, their soul.
• 21:03
  Monisha Bhanote: I know I think about it from a perspective of like, you know, we get some people get three weeks vacation.
• 21:08
  Monisha Bhanote: Some people get, you know, more, but when I would talk to my colleagues about what they would do on their vacations, it was one of two things.
• 21:15
  Monisha Bhanote: One, they do nothing.
• 21:17
  Monisha Bhanote: They just stay at home and like veg out.
• 21:19
  Monisha Bhanote: Two, they would go somewhere, party super, super hard and feel worse when they came back, right?
• 21:26
  Monisha Bhanote: So what did I always do?
• 21:28
  Monisha Bhanote: If you ever looked at my calendar.
• 21:30
  Monisha Bhanote: Every quarter I would be on some kind of experience where I was actually rejuvenating myself.
• 21:37
  Monisha Bhanote: So, you know, I've attended so many retreats, which is why, you know, even with attending them, I'm like, Oh, this is missing, that's missing.
• 21:44
  Monisha Bhanote: So why don't I just create the best version of everything 30 years?
• 21:50
  Tom: Yeah.
• 21:50
  Tom: That's really key and changing the paradigm of people's mind in terms of what does insurance pay for?
• 21:59
  Tom: What are we responsible for?
• 22:01
  Tom: And I have another guest on the show that said, you know, one of the best things that came out of COVID was that people realized that they need to take responsibility for their own health.
• 22:12
  Tom: And it really elevated the idea that we need this wellness movement.
• 22:19
  Tom: And we need to pay for it instead of relying on somebody else to potentially pay for it when we get sick.
• 22:26
  Monisha Bhanote: You know, there is a saying around in the community that if you don't pay for it now, you'll be paying for it a lot more much later because medications are extremely expensive.
• 22:38
  Monisha Bhanote: And you can't really get your body back in that way, you know, so prevention.
• 22:43
  Monisha Bhanote: Doing it now, whatever age you are, you know, and starting there is really going to be the key.
• 22:51
  Monisha Bhanote: And I have seen many diseases reversed once a person has basically made the decision to go.
• 22:57
  Monisha Bhanote: All right.
• 22:58
  Monisha Bhanote: I'm the one in charge.
• 23:00
  Monisha Bhanote: I might need a guide I might need somebody to tell me what to do but every day I'm gonna make that decision to wake up and be the best version of myself, and try and make the best meal, and try and do something for my body, and try and do something for my mind, and if I can't, I will try again tomorrow, right?
• 23:18
  Monisha Bhanote: It's not about like, being hard on yourself.
• 23:21
  Monisha Bhanote: There's no perfection when comes to, health, you know, so I don't want you to get in your head that you got to be like, perfect, I got to do this.
• 23:28
  Monisha Bhanote: But it's, you are your own worst enemy and you are your own bestfriend, right?
• 23:35
  Monisha Bhanote: So you decide.
• 23:37
  Tom: And back to what your first point was being intentional about what you do each day, not just what you eat, but how you move, how you think, how you interact with people.
• 23:47
  Tom: I think that's really the lesson and just a beautiful lesson as well that everybody's on autopilot.
• 23:53
  Tom: It just seems, and it's sad to see.
• 23:55
  Monisha Bhanote: Yeah, absolutely.
• 23:56
  Monisha Bhanote: Yeah, I mean, so many more things from a business perspective.
• 24:00
  Monisha Bhanote: I think you can translate that to, are you intentional with your business?
• 24:05
  Monisha Bhanote: Or are we just trying to make the next payroll?
• 24:09
  Monisha Bhanote: I mean, as a business grows there's going to be, you know, ups and downs and like, maybe you thought this program or this plan or this offering was going to be it and you have to adjust along the way.
• 24:23
  Monisha Bhanote: And I think that staying true to that core of why you're doing it, what you were doing and always just doing that check-in will help you make the decision going.
• 24:34
  Monisha Bhanote: It is this the right thing to do next?
• 24:37
  Tom: Yeah, that's great.
• 24:38
  Tom: Great, great advice as well for other heart-led business owners out there.
• 24:44
  Tom: So tell us a little bit about the retreat that you have coming up because I saw on the website, it looks amazing, by the way.
• 24:51
  Tom: So tell us a little bit about what goes on there.
• 24:53
  Monisha Bhanote: Yeah, thank you.
• 24:54
  Monisha Bhanote: So my next retreat, we do annual retreats, but the next one is in November 2024 in Playa del Carmen.
• 25:03
  Monisha Bhanote: It's a 6-day, 5-night retreat based off of the five elements of Ayurveda.
• 25:11
  Monisha Bhanote: So earth, wind, fire, like ether, all the elements, right?
• 25:16
  Monisha Bhanote: So, but what we're doing is we're taking that ancient wisdom and combining it with modern science.
• 25:22
  Monisha Bhanote: So, we're incorporating things like infrared and cold plunge, really?
• 25:27
  Monisha Bhanote: Because the goal is it's a plant-powered longevity retreat.
• 25:30
  Monisha Bhanote: And I really want to revitalize your cells.
• 25:34
  Monisha Bhanote: You remember those 37 trillion cells of yours on that cellular level from that mind, from that body, from that soul, and even go deeper.
• 25:44
  Monisha Bhanote: So that experience is, it's a co-ed experience and this venue we've chosen for it will just blow your mind away.
• 25:52
  Monisha Bhanote: I mean.
• 25:53
  Monisha Bhanote: I promise you, you will feel so much better.
• 25:56
  Monisha Bhanote: Our attendees who went last year, I mean, they're still kind of daydreaming and raving about it and I feel like every year it just gets better and better.
• 26:06
  Monisha Bhanote: And the one thing I should mention, Wellkula, the name of my business, Kula', means an intentional community of like-minded individuals in Sanskrit, okay?
• 26:17
  Monisha Bhanote: And'Well' translates for me, we live long in intentional community.
• 26:22
  Tom: Nice.
• 26:23
  Monisha Bhanote: So for me, it is the other people who attend the you know, the other guests and really watching their transformations go from this like kind of stressed out, sad face upon arrival to, I swear, like the happiness and joy just coming out of their hearts, you know?
• 26:42
  Monisha Bhanote: And I'm like, yes, remember that, you know, how to feel that way.
• 26:45
  Monisha Bhanote: It is possible to feel that way.
• 26:47
  Monisha Bhanote: And you take these tools that you learn, like you don't need to be in an exotic location to do this.
• 26:53
  Monisha Bhanote: What I want you to take from it is the tools that you learn there and apply them to your days at home.
• 26:58
  Tom: Yeah.
• 26:59
  Tom: Oh, that's brilliant.
• 27:00
  Tom: And having that reset, having it at a exotic location is great to just kind of plunge into it and then reincorporate that into your life.
• 27:10
  Tom: So that's, that's awesome.
• 27:11
  Tom: We'll we'll put the link to that in the show notes as well.
• 27:15
  Tom: So if anybody's interested in going on that retreat, then please check that out.
• 27:21
  Tom: And how else can people get a hold of you, Monisha.
• 27:23
  Monisha Bhanote: Yeah, absolutely.
• 27:24
  Monisha Bhanote: So my website is Dr.
• 27:25
  Monisha Bhanote: Bhanote and on social media, whether that's Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, it's Dr.
• 27:31
  Monisha Bhanote: Bhanote, the only ones.
• 27:33
  Monisha Bhanote: Easy to find.
• 27:34
  Monisha Bhanote: Also check out my bestselling book, which is The Anatomy of Wellbeing, where it is about intentional practices.
• 27:42
  Monisha Bhanote: But I really talk about how the human body works on that cellular level.
• 27:46
  Monisha Bhanote: As, as you mentioned earlier, I am a quintuple board certified medical doctor, so I've really taken my years of training and translated it into a approachable, relatable way that even if you took just a few pages of that book and applied it, your health and well-being would be better.
• 28:06
  Tom: Awesome.
• 28:07
  Tom: Cool.
• 28:07
  Tom: We'll link all that up into the show notes and make sure that the listeners can get all those resources as well.
• 28:14
  Tom: Thank you so much, Manisha, for joining us on the show today.
• 28:18
  Tom: Really appreciate your wisdom and the advice that you shared with everybody today.
• 28:22
  Monisha Bhanote: Thank you so much, Tom, for having me on the Heart-Led Business Show and I feel like my heart is already expanded.
• 28:28
  Tom: Awesome! And a note for our listeners.
• 28:31
  Tom: Thank you so much for listening or watching.
• 28:33
  Tom: If you're watching this on YouTube.
• 28:35
  Tom: I really appreciate that.
• 28:37
  Tom: And also make sure you're checking out what Dr.
• 28:39
  Tom: Bhanote is doing and provide, and all that information is provided in the show notes.
• 28:44
  Tom: And one last ask, please do what other smart and considerate listeners do.
• 28:49
  Tom: And that is share the show with others that could use the advice that was shared on today's show.
• 28:54
  Tom: So until next time, lead with your heart.
• 28:59
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• 29:04
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