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647. It’s Really Important That Women Be Resilient · Be It Till You See It

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[SPEAKER_00]: He said when they see who they truly are and how they're captured, they leave a completely different woman.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And there's not enough words he said to caps like the power and that is a photographer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the Beat till you see it podcast, where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm also Logan, Ply's instructor and fitness business coach.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've trained thousands of people around the world, and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My friends, action brings clarity, and it's the antidote to fear.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Each week my guests will bring bold, executable, intrinsic, and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and be it till you see it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a practice, not a perfect, let's get started.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back to the VTAC interview recap of my cohost and life Brad and I are going to dig into the powerful combo.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I have with another Brad, Brad Walsh.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Another Brad in our last episode.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you haven't yet, listen to the interview, then actually listen to this one, you should go back and listen to that one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's pretty good, I liked it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's a great interview, it was, it was, I'm not gonna lie, you spoke my thoughts out loud.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I did.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, like, did I say that?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't even say my thoughts.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, but there's another comment, I can't remember, it'll come back to me, but you know, when when I heard you introduce Brad Walsh as someone who is entirely devoted to platforming and empowering women, I was like, a man is doing that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, I guess, I guess I'm, I don't even know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was dubious and a little curious and then encouraged and excited by the end.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, yes, that's great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, you can be really successful if you platform women turns out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How about that?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, turns out there's things like, there's like good things that happen when you do that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But you did mention that you had similar thoughts to him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was laughing because it's like, okay, I'm not alone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm intrigued.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah, well, we'll get into that in just a second.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But first, today is February 26th, 2026, and it's Black Lives Matter Day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Black Lives Matter Day is celebrated annually on February 26th in remembrance of Trayvon Martin, an African-American teen who was killed by a white American out of hatred.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The quill of the killer, George Zimmerman from the murder charge and his is roaming free, caused a wave of widespread anger which led to nationwide campaigns centered around fairness and justice for black people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Black Lives Matter is a chant against systemic racial discrimination which has shaped and increased the risk of violence towards black people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Join in the movement to indiscrimination to clear equality for all.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So one of the things that I wanted to address is, we're obviously not black, however, we have heard a lot of people who are not black, say, well, what about white people or what about other, you know, people as well, shouldn't we be focusing on them as much as we are focusing on black people?
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[SPEAKER_02]: does not say, other lives don't matter, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: But what Black Lives Matter is saying is that there is a historical documented like systematic approach against that has not given the same opportunities in our society, in our United States of America, to Black people.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Whereas it has favored white people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One fan, and I heard this in 2020, and I'll share it here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't mean you didn't have to swim uphill.
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[SPEAKER_00]: just meant that you had a paddle.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it just means that like you could have had a hard life, but their the research is there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Even if your family came here like minded in the 19 to all this stuff, the research is is is very much there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The status are there that because after slavery, we didn't we did not treat black people the same as white people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: the wealth that their families could pass down, which whether or not you got any money because I didn't either, whether it doesn't matter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't mean that there was less opportunity for their generations of families to have options.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And there's actually a black family
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[SPEAKER_00]: a guy who was able to buy slaves, the black man who was able to buy his family as slaves.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so then when slavery ended, there was this whole basically reparations for the slave owners.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so he was given money for the slaves that he lost.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you can see his family and the generations that came from his family and how
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[SPEAKER_00]: different their lives were compared to other black people and so especially as we're watching this right now where brown people are being targeted in an insane way black and brown people but we're we're seeing a lot of it with brown people because of ice i'm just gonna say who it is because of that
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[SPEAKER_02]: The reality is is because of ice, the wreck that it by Steven Miller and our president and our president and his vice president.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to add in there because some people think that we just got rid of Trump but life will be better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, you'll still have a shit sandwich.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the reality is because we've never had Black Lives Matter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: we are all being affected all every other color is going to have a hard time and by the way white people you are to your life is not going to get easier because they got rid of some brown people or they only pull over black people you're the this is a community but I want to go back to this I agree with the things that you're saying but I want to go back to this by saying let white lives matter too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're actually side-stipping the issue and that's the problem.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The problem is not that white lives don't matter.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's not what we're saying and that's not what, you know, that's not what, when someone says black lives matter, they're not saying white lives don't matter.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Correct.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But what they, but when we say white lives matter too, we're just derailing the conversation away from the fact that there has been systemic oppression of people in
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[SPEAKER_00]: And also, by the way, if you vote for the people of color who are different than you, you benefit too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, if you, but not saying vote for people of color, I'm saying if you vote for the people who will represent the people of the least of these, you will benefit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But if it in so many different ways,
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[SPEAKER_02]: But here's the thing, that, yes, that you will absolutely benefit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: When there is like, cultural and systemic racism against a particular group, it almost empowers violence towards that group.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that is where the, that's where everyone got really, really frustrated with this,
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[SPEAKER_02]: murderer who was literally set free, you know, and, and I've been degree more, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's fucked up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there was a honest, the whole thing that he stood on, that law that he stood on is stupid, and it's in, of several different states, and people like kids have been killed since then, because they knocked on the wrong door.
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[SPEAKER_00]: a blackhead last year not on the wrong door looking to pick up his brothers and they shot him because he's a blackhead at their door.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like what the I can't I'm sorry that is infuriating and we we are not done and I think like we got past 20.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's like a makes of fear and races and the fact that they're ever like but they're
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[SPEAKER_00]: I won't even give them more into her fear.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're fucked up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, come on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, they're like, their bread fear is like, viewed into their life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got to be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I guess, but also like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: We live in a world where you can curate your own algorithm, and these people are not taking the time to even think about somebody else's experience at all just their own and they're so self-centered and then they vote for people who lie to them and use them and use fear to use them and now look or act people are dying and they're like, but my life still sucks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it does.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You voted for people who made sure it fucking sucked.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I am just like the guns are the fucking problem and then we have to we we voted we got we got rid of from the first time we're like Oh, good all this stuff is better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's not the Democrats and we're fucking fast enough and now we're here in this place of shit We're black people still don't have the rights that white people do
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[SPEAKER_00]: and now brown people are being attacked in crazy ways and by the way like if you're so concerned with like immigrants in crime like last year immigrants killed three people and ISIS killed 33 people from the stats that I just looked at so like I'm just think that like there's things that we could be taking into perspective and it requires us to be more considerate of people who look different than us and also fighting for their rights because it will help yours anyways in a brand.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, that's a long conversation that we are like trying to get out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if we like, that's something a little weird forgiveness because we're all growing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're all learning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You get dumped up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So anyways, I want to get into what's going on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We just wrapped up agency many last week and so you missed it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Congratulations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Congratulations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can get on the wait list.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But you can get on the wait list for the next one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We will do one more this year here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it is for Polizan Starters and Chewy to owners who work for themselves or want to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, I'll recommend it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, we're getting up and we're gearing up and getting ready because we will be gone for an entire month in Europe, Brad and I, we're not taking by-one on this trip.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so we'll be first in Poland at the Contrology Conference to Contribut Ply's conference in Rosswaff with Karen Frischman, xxll.co-polin, you can come from anywhere.
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[SPEAKER_00]: to go to that, Karen and I speak in English and it will be translated into Polish.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you can do either of those languages, that conference is for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then after that Brad, Karen and I are going to go to the Contrality of we're going to Brussels to peel it tells, put like vintage Pilates and friends.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ignacio is going to be there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ells, as her owner, she's going to be there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The four of us are going to be teaching workshops and classes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be a long, fun, filled days.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I promise these are something you don't want to miss.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ells really throws a party with these.
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[SPEAKER_00]: xxll.co slash brussels.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I guess we're going to be like in bruise.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's really cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't quote me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's all on the site.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just go there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was fun.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We have a lot of elevate and other people that we know are going to that one, so it's going to be a really fun party.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then after our second honeymoon, which your recommendations for things to do between Brussels and Paris that get us to London are welcomed, because we're going to take that train, I think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hopefully we can.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the plan.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We clearly haven't looked at anything at this point.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just heard you can go from Paris to London, so that's what we're going to do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But you can join us at POT London.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My Saturday workshop is filled, but there is a few spots left in the Sunday workshop that I'm teaching, but you should come to any of the workshops, those are some excellent presenters at the POT in London.
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[SPEAKER_00]: XXLL.co slash POT.
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[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, that link will take you to all the POTs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that balance body is doing right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right now the only one on that schedule that I'm going to be at is POT London.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We will have a booth at a couple of others, but if you want to take a workshop from me in your up, you've got three weekend options, and that is it for at least a year, maybe two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So check it out xxll.co such POT, and then we come home, we're going to get
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, really looking forward to it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This year, we're gonna change it up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: How to get overhead?
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[SPEAKER_02]: How to get overhead?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So last year's spring training was so fun.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We had people joining us from all over the world.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We had teachers joining us from all over the globe, all the OPC teachers, and it was a big party, and we were digging into, while each year we're digging into a different topic.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So this year's topic is how to get overhead.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I know we kind of said this,
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[SPEAKER_02]: last week on the pod, but you don't have to be able to get overhead to come like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not a half to get overhead.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a how to it's absolutely fine in your own version of overhead exercises.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's really just you're here to find your own.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's a place is making you own personal practice practice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's called control.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The study of control not controlled.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Not controlled.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So come join us go to opc.me slash events.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Opc.me slash events to grab a spot on the wait list so that you'll you're going to be the first one to know when we do that in May.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Before we get into this great interview with Brad, let's dig into this question.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So on YouTube, wanderlust on wheels asks, I would love to see recommendations, brush, parametroposaladies on the Cadillac.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I am also hypermobile.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I can't really do any matte work without fabricating and crunching my joints, and pinching my nerves.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I always end up with neck cranks that keep me from sleeping when I do matte work.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So this is like multiple things rolled up into one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm going to keep it tight because I appreciate your question about Perry menopausal exercises on the Cadillac and unfortunately the way that Pilates has been changed in some ways is that people think I need to know this type of exercise for this piece of equipment, but really it's a system.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And actually, all Pilates is available to any parry menopausal women on any piece of equipment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So what's cool about Pilates is it actually is a low cortisol producing workout or it should be, and if yours is not, then you're probably not doing Pilates.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a mind-body-connective work, and you're not moving super slow or super fast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's some moments of zest, and there's some moments with rhythm, but in all honesty,
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[SPEAKER_00]: most Pilis exercise classes session should actually be low cortisol producing, really great for building strength, and for getting that mind body connection which will bring down that cortisol levels and you should be able to sleep really well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm not going to say which exercises are great for perimenopause because they all are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But
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[SPEAKER_00]: Depends on which one's your body needs right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that actually has nothing to do with Perry Menopause.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm more to do with what's going on with your body.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The fact that you're hyper mobile, you didn't mention the of EDS.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you had EDS, it's a different story and you should definitely be working.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You should really make sure to find an EDS teacher near you, train teacher, when you're you or online, because the fact that when you do matwork, your nerves are pinch and you have neck cranks,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Makes me actually nervous you're not doing actual Pilates exercises and somebody is using the popularity of Pilates to entice you in, because if you're doing Pilates from your center on the mat, as a hypermobile person, the worst case scenario you're going to have is that it's easy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a hypermobile body, and so it would just feel easy to me because I was just walking my joints out and over stretching things and hanging off of things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the fact that you're actually having pinch nerves and neck cranks tells me that there's some sort of pressure that's being pulled to you in these exercises.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I think I think, like, okay, so also hypermobile here and did, you know, in super intense yoga for like a long time before moving to Vegas.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so now I do yoga differently, but before it was like, you know, three, four, five days a week doing yoga and I definitely understand the idea of like crunching joints and pinching nerves or I don't understand fabricating that doesn't mean anything to me, but, you know, just because you can
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[SPEAKER_02]: force your body into a shape doesn't mean you're doing it correctly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well and also I think that like something that you had to learn was that not every cue is for you and I think sometimes on a class we hear them say something so we we do it in a type of mobile people we can keep going like our end range isn't there where as a tighter person would be like get stuck on something.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, look, I, you know, I could put my head, my foot behind my head on the first day of class.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the very first day, like, and they were like, you're yoga practices amazing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, I'm brand new.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What are you talking about?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, and that teacher should have been like, oh, even though you can do that, you should not do that because you don't know what you're doing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Right, you don't know how to engage your muscles to protect your body.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's what to me, that's what it sounds like here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: When you've crunching joints or pinching nerves, like in Pilates, we talk about the five spine shapes and the spine shape that you should focus on as a hypermobile body is tall.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Look at you, Brad.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Look at you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So want to loss on wheels.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like here's the thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you were an OPC member, and I was, you sent in a video of you doing a couple of the math exercise just a couple of reps.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to hurt anything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I could actually see what's going on without being a little see it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just based off what I'm reading, it sounds to me that the person who's teaching the class is not teaching your body.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They are teaching a class and that is hard because it's more accessible for you to go to a class or to watch a YouTube video but not everything is going to be for you and so actually learning how to move from your center is going to be key and that might mean investing in some time or some money to get either an OBC membership or a studio new year near you or a teacher can actually look at you and go, oh, that's too high.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's too much or hear of these exercises because
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[SPEAKER_00]: The math work, like I said, as a hypermobile, I should just feel easy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the fact that you're getting hurt really, like all alarm bells are going off for me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's a second thing I wanted to say on this, and I'm not a physical therapist, but also being a hypermobile body.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The best thing that has that I've done for my body in the past five years is lifting weights.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, and for Perry menopausal women, yeah, you should be so people actually apologize or she'll if it's it's not an or it's an and I do both.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I lift heavy weights and I do Pilates and because because the strength here's here's where
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[SPEAKER_02]: This has been weird for me because I am like super competitive the guy who wants to be the guy who can, you know, bend over backwards and like, you know, touch my toes backwards.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I want to beat that guy because if they can do it so can I that's how my mentality has always been and I could do a lot more black stability things.
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[SPEAKER_02]: maybe not properly, but with my hyper mobility, before I started becoming more strong.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But with the strength added, which has been like a process over multiple years, my body hurts way less, way less, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I could still jack myself up and I could still be like, oh, man, I'm in my lower back right now, I can feel it, you know, but because my because I've been
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like my shoulders don't hurt anymore.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They used to my knees or hurting less.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They, you know, my back, especially has been hurting less.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then, you know, I haven't had neck issues the way that you're describing them, but like, you know, if you strengthen your neck, imagine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's the thing that a people, especially when we're doing the going back to that spring, training with overhead, I ask you like what they're nervous about and everyone's afraid of their neck and I'm like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: you want me to be on your neck and to your neck should be strong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Most people are so afraid of hurting their neck that they're not actually strengthening their neck anymore and they're next getting weaker and so guess what it's actually gonna you're gonna hurt it just sitting around.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I I really like I feel for people because like what if so what if water loss on wheels like can't go to any place right what if she like doesn't have money or the time and she like I get that
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's about listening to your body and really like sometimes you have to film yourself because if you're looking at someone do something and then you're trying to make yourself look like them, but then when you actually film yourself you go, oh wow, look at how a hyper extended or look where my chin is like that could help you or if you can invest in even just some privates going, hey, I need to know these foundational exercises for my body and you know these foundational weight training exercises for my body and hyper mobile, then you can't I truly believe you can do pull eyes on your own.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Once you have those foundations and that's I wouldn't have created OPC if I didn't think so and you can turn on your lots of gems exist.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So anyway, like also I just really wonder if the person teaching that math class is actually teaching real map a lot of you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: or doing lots of extra reps or something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They might be doing a ton of reps, or doing it too fast, or adding heavier weights.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I say, like, I was like, oh, I want light weights for our class, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I shoot up, and they're like, the lightest ones were a five-pound each.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, that's not Pilates.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That should be an a gym, because Pilates is a one-pound weight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So sometimes, you know, people want to fill the burn.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then studios lean towards that, because that's what I think is going to be money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And what we're not doing is educating people, you know?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So your question, thanks for writing in that question.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot there, but we have a great workshop on OPC that Mindy West Fall did about Poliz for hypermobility.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I highly recommend to storm taking a look at that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's a great point.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to talk about Brad Walsh.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's talk about Brad Walsh.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Brad is the host and founder of the Empower podcast.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's around to a baseball platform dedicated to amplifying women's stories and strengthening their voices, a lifelong photographer.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He discovers passion in a high school, and later transition from a 12 and a half-year career as corporate audio visual technician.
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[SPEAKER_02]: To it, full-time photography, eventually specializing in Budwar work, it helps women see their own strength and beauty.
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[SPEAKER_02]: His commitment to women's empowerment is rooted in the example set by his mother and grandmother, who's courage, shaped the values behind his work today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and it's in cool women's life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we've had one photographer on before.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I was exciting to talk a little bit about the geography with him because I grew up where a lot of women change their bodies because of what they thought men would like.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then him being a male of the photographer who's like literally loving everybody as it is and showing them how beautiful they are in their own bodies with these photos.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then they can see how beautiful they are in those photos.
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[SPEAKER_00]: cool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks Brad for not being a dick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like there are some good men out there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If you haven't listened to his episode just yet, his, you know, he shared his story a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: His dad left, or his mom left his dad who was, you know, off.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Cheating out her basically when he was 10 and they went through it like they were broke.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They got an apartment, mom slept in the couch because he also has a brother and he said, you know, her strength and courage to stand back up after 15 years of marriage and say, I'm done with this abuse.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She left with nothing but the clothes in her back and, you know, and then when she got a job because she needs to after being out of the workforce for
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[SPEAKER_02]: you know, stepped in to help.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, very inspirational story there, and also like definitely lies the foundation for why he would be encouraging, you know, women and empowering women.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I appreciate it hearing a little bit of that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But what is one of the things that he talked about that you really loved.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, he said it's the gift of her senior self of the first time, a light she's not used to seeing herself in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He said like it's so powerfully able to give that to another human being.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you specifically talking about his photography.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Good war photography.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He said when they see who they truly are and how they're captured, they leave it completely different woman.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And there's not enough words he said to caps like the power and that as a photographer.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I- His conviction like was was so, oh, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You have to hear it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it was it was very compelling because he's like, I don't have the words to say how much that has impacted me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, well, I think like first of all, ladies, if you're like, I hate being on camera.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't have to tell you me, you're the one who fucking needs to have your picture taken.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because like, I was like, oh my god, the photo shoot tomorrow and I love our photographer and I love our makeup artist.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I'm like, it's, I know it's going to be a great time and it's a long day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like we talked about brick sellers book last week and it's like, you need to be on an eight hour shoot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: you, you have to have stamina endurance and I really think Adderall would help, like just to stay focused right for that many hours.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But when you see the photos at the end of the day, you're like, oh my god, I'm fucking stunning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hello.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you're like, wake up in the next day without hair and make it, but like, I'm fucking stunning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like it just keeps going.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So like, our highly recommend doing it because it does change how you think about yourself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And when you change it, you think about yourself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You change how you act.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You change how you beat till you see it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there's no other way to say it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So what did you love?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I really dug when he was talking about resilience, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it stemmed from a conversation about being tired of the word resilient, you know, like I've been told so many times.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're so resilient.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I don't want to be resilient anymore.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I said, I have to keep being resilient.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My friends are like, you're the most resilient person.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know I'm like, over it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he took us that back and paused and he's like, well, this is how I see what resilience is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's it's courage and inner strength, specifically when you you keep getting back up after being knocked down time after time, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he said, he said, it's really important that women be resilient so they can share their experience and inspire other women by being vulnerable by sharing their experience.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a permission slip for others.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It shows them what is possible.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I thought that's totally relevant and important.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he said, while it can certainly be tiring, it serves a greater purpose, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it makes your efforts bigger than just you, you know, it makes your efforts towards whatever it is that you're working on.
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[SPEAKER_02]: when you share those things and you continue to get back up, you know, you're giving permission for others to keep going on their journey, which we don't know what exactly what it is, but there's clearly going to be something relatable.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He said even if you're only influencing one person, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's worth it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He said think about that impact and how you know that you can have and how you can help.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe by sharing your story, your struggles, it will prevent someone from having to go through something similar that you experience because you're sharing how you got through it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, I mean, that's honestly like, half the reason we do this podcast is hearing, how did they get from A to B?
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[SPEAKER_02]: How are they being into this?
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[SPEAKER_02]: How did they get to where they are today?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, it's inspirational.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I hope you found it as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I couldn't agree more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, like, you're, you know, I'm not a podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I used to listen to before.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was ever like one of the first, they just ended their first season, which is like more like an ending of a show.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they called the end of a season one because they could always come back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it was like 968 episodes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was just like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Interesting, I wonder what it would be like, like, how do you think about ending it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've read their statement, which is like everything that we did worked and like, look, we've inspired people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, there must have been a point where they thought it wasn't adding any more, you know?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, but, and every time I'm like, is this podcast like helping anybody out?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then we go on tour and someone's like, I loved this and I'm like, well, fuck, we got to keep going because,
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a fucking hard work podcasting by I know every every stupid bro makes it look like it's an easiest thing you ever did in your life This is a fucking hard thing that we do every week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we're surrounded by a whole team to set us up to be able to even do this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, and you don't just get to like
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[SPEAKER_00]: bint or rant or like I don't know what the fuck they think they're doing but like you actually have to like have structure and like think about these things and think about the people you're platforming you know I know that dickhead CEO podcast is like I'm not platforming people I'm having a conversation no you're fucking platforming them right so like sometimes I'm like oh do I should I be platforming this person because I want to change lives for the better right so and it's difficult because you're like how do I know this person how am I going to do there's so many things to think about but I do agree it's like if you can change one's
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, stick around.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll be right back.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to dig into those beat action items that we got from your conversation with Brad Walsh.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome back.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So finally, let's talk about those beat action items.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What bold, executable intrinsic or targeted action items can we take away from your conversation with Brad Walsh?
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[SPEAKER_02]: He said,
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[SPEAKER_02]: you just have to be authentic.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Don't try to be something that you're not.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And the two of you went back and forth about what you need to take back the word authentic.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's overused and overplayed, but there's still something to it, you know, he said, look, when we only show the happy shiny, beautiful part of the thing that we went through, we're not being honest.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's not being authentic.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because there was definitely some shit we had to go through to get there, too,
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's fair to say that you can still be selective about all of the shit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You don't have to share everything.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're not airing our dirty laundry, but it's important to show that there's a struggle as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that contributes to that authenticity.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It makes it actually authentic, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So drill down, you know, be selective, but take that mask off and actually like be genuine.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What about you?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, well, you know, I love this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: His father's wasn't who said what's meant for you will never go by you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the mantra that I say, which means the same thing is like, what is for you will not pass you?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or you will not pass you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that that's a really important thing because it's really easy to like, hang on to something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because we're afraid that something else won't come along, but like, if it's meant for you, will not go by you, and it's something that like, as our career has taken off, as our business continues to grow, I have to say no to a lot of things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that means worrying, oh my god, am I letting something go am I saying notice something that could have like changed the trajectory, and it's like, I have to trust.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that what is meant for me will never go by you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What is for me will not pass me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I hope that gives you something to think about because it's not gonna be all fucking rainbows and glitter, especially right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's really hard right now and I want to recognize every single one who are listening, like you open up the news and it's blocked.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you have to go to work and go, how are you?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, all things considered not shitty, but like it's hard, especially especially as people who have empathy and feelings and caring and so you have to keep getting up doing the best you can.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you live somewhere where you can call someone who represents you and yell at them for what they need to step up, do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a part of a great day and then keep going because if you can affect one person's life to make it better, it does matter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, me too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm also looking.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, before we do that, we just wanted to shout out Brad has an upcoming conference on that's called Empowerography.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a live conference for 2026.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It is Friday, April 24th through Sunday, April 26th.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm pretty sure it's a virtual event.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so you can find tickets and information about it on Facebook search for Empower
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll put the link in the show notes as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That might be easier.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, don't do that again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Russell Logan.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm Brad Crowell.
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