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Finding Light During a Personal Crisis · The World Knowledge

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  Speaker 1: Well, good afternoon, listeners. Thank you so much for coming
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  Speaker 1: on to Lamentaphone podcast, listening, watching. I'm always so grateful
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  Speaker 1: for you guys. And I'm so excited. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: special for me, a little nostalgic, but I'm getting to
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  Speaker 1: speak with Mary Gibbs, who actually played the voice of
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  Speaker 1: Boo when she was a little girl. She was only
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  Speaker 1: three when she was Boo. And If any of you
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  Speaker 1: remember Monsters, Inc., which is just such a classic if
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  Speaker 1: you're thinking animated films in the past. And that was
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  Speaker 1: like her big role. And then she, you know, she
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  Speaker 1: did a little bit more voice work kind of on
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  Speaker 1: the side for a while as a kid. And then
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  Speaker 1: she ended up she does Comic-Con still, which we were
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  Speaker 1: just talking about earlier. And then she also is a
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  Speaker 1: massage therapist, you said?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, massage therapist and studying acupuncture.
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  Speaker 3: So a completely different world than the voice acting, but
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  Speaker 3: I did get a little taste of it when I
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  Speaker 3: was young.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, and it's so cool. And I was telling
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  Speaker 1: her like, it's so neat to find these people who
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  Speaker 1: like made such a big impact in your childhood. And
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  Speaker 1: then at the same time, now they're living a life
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  Speaker 1: to which you can find yourself relating a lot more.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it was just great to find her. She
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  Speaker 1: was willing to do this. And so Mary, thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for being on the podcast. Of course.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thanks again for reaching out. Definitely happy to be here.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah. So I did want to ask you, because
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  Speaker 1: when I saw your LinkedIn and I saw the massage therapist,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, this is really interesting. What, because I
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  Speaker 1: knew you grew up in like an entertainment family, lots
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  Speaker 1: of entertainment going on and writing and storytelling. What was
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  Speaker 1: the passion that led you to move to massage therapy
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  Speaker 1: and acupuncture?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So like you said, dad was a storyboard artist. I
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  Speaker 3: did that one role when I was young. I just
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  Speaker 3: grew up in Pixar. But the path to massage therapy
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  Speaker 3: and holistic medicine as a whole began in seventh grade.
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  Speaker 3: I was diagnosed with scoliosis. And so essentially my spine
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  Speaker 3: just grew crooked. And then in 2012, I was a
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  Speaker 3: sophomore in high school and I had to get a
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  Speaker 3: 10 vertebrae spinal fusion. So- Two 10-inch rods and 20
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  Speaker 3: screws will forever be in my spine. And I was
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  Speaker 3: a gymnast before that, really active. And my surgeon, he
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  Speaker 3: was like, I'm going to be surprised if you could
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  Speaker 3: even touch your toes after this.
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  Speaker 2: But it was something I had to undergo.
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  Speaker 3: And pretty much as soon as I could stand by myself,
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  Speaker 3: I started doing yoga.
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  Speaker 2: And I would just every day get up and start stretching.
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  Speaker 3: And three months later, I was doing a handstand and
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  Speaker 3: could definitely touch my toes. And so that got me
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  Speaker 3: really interested in yoga. And then I started off teaching yoga.
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  Speaker 3: And I was studying pre-med at the time.
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  Speaker 2: So I was always into the body. I loved my
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  Speaker 2: anatomy class. But got into teaching yoga as well.
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  Speaker 3: And it was through teaching yoga where I would give
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  Speaker 3: people adjustments or a little shoulder massage and some relaxing poses.
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  Speaker 3: Or I would have people come up to me and
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  Speaker 3: ask if I was a massage therapist. That kind of
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  Speaker 3: got the wheels turning. So that led into... getting certified
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  Speaker 3: as a massage therapist. And in that school, learned about
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  Speaker 3: Chinese medicine and acupuncture. And then again, that kind of
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  Speaker 3: perpetuated that path for me. So about a year and
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  Speaker 3: a half away from being a certified acupuncturist, which is
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  Speaker 3: kind of exciting.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, started with the back surgery.
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  Speaker 1: Was it discouraging for you that the doctor kind of
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  Speaker 1: wrote off what your future was going to look like
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  Speaker 1: that quickly? Because I've gone to physical therapist a couple
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  Speaker 1: of times for back issues and stuff. And I've gone
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  Speaker 1: from really great care in the medical field to just
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  Speaker 1: really bad care with chiropractors who would give me this
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  Speaker 1: really bad diagnosis, but it ended up not being that.
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  Speaker 1: And then they'd mess my back up more and then
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  Speaker 1: we would be back to square one. And I was
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  Speaker 1: recently at a physical therapy appointment and the lady told
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  Speaker 1: me the whole reason she started her business was because
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  Speaker 1: she had been she had torn her ACL and was
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  Speaker 1: treated so badly for the entire process that she said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want other people to go through this. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to rise above this and make a place where
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  Speaker 1: people can feel like their body as a whole is
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  Speaker 1: being considered and then they can get better. Because, so
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  Speaker 1: I just wondered like, is, was that as, especially if
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  Speaker 1: you'd been so active before, were you just like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: I guess my life is going to be ruined or.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that's definitely great that you found someone
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  Speaker 3: that really sees the body as a whole because that's
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  Speaker 3: what I love about Chinese medicine and things of that nature.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean, it was discouraging and I think it
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  Speaker 3: could have been really dangerous mentally if I allowed that
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  Speaker 3: limit to like set in. You know, I know other
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  Speaker 3: people that have went through the spinal fusions and were
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  Speaker 3: kind of told the same thing and they really believed it.
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  Speaker 3: And so now, you know, after their surgery, they didn't
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  Speaker 3: work to get that mobility back. I don't know what
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  Speaker 3: got into me, but when I was told that I
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  Speaker 3: didn't let it sink in and I just like rejected it. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think a lot of it is that
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  Speaker 3: mindset thing. Like if I told myself I wasn't going
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  Speaker 3: to be able to do it, I wouldn't have tried.
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  Speaker 3: But I just didn't let that belief limit me, thankfully.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it could have been detrimental if it went,
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  Speaker 3: you know, went the other way. So, I mean, it
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  Speaker 3: was still a little, even if I thought, okay, well,
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  Speaker 3: I'm still going to be able to do this. You're
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  Speaker 3: having this professional tell you otherwise, right? it's definitely a
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  Speaker 3: little discouraging. But again, luckily I didn't let it get
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  Speaker 3: to me.
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  Speaker 1: How do you, when you're working with patients now, does that,
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  Speaker 1: do you come across a lot of patients who are
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  Speaker 1: discouraged or just don't feel like they're going to be
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  Speaker 1: able to improve in any way?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I think, you know, when people are living in
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  Speaker 3: pain and discomfort, it's hard to see the light at
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  Speaker 3: the end of the tunnel. And it's easy to think, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I'm always going to be like this. So I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there's definitely a lot of people that think it's a
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  Speaker 3: forever sentence, whatever pain or body thing they're going through.
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  Speaker 3: But it's definitely rewarding to, you know, slowly work with
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  Speaker 3: their body and then start seeing small changes and realize like, oh, wow,
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  Speaker 3: this isn't the end for me. So it's definitely a
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  Speaker 3: rewarding job.