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EPISODE 8: Talking To The Informative and Inspirational Marva Riley · Parent's Talk with Francine Juhlin

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  Speaker 1: And when you are live. Hi everybody, hie Hello, I'm
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  Speaker 1: here with my friend Marva Riley. She is an amazing
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  Speaker 1: inspirational author and nurse, and she has really inspired me
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  Speaker 1: in healthy eating and living well. I was already eating
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  Speaker 1: healthy when I met Marva, but she inspired me to
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  Speaker 1: up my game in movement and exercise. And guess what,
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  Speaker 1: in the process, after I shared her books with my mom,
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  Speaker 1: my mom started implementing some of what Marva talked about
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  Speaker 1: and she went from an inactive couch potato after the
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  Speaker 1: pandemic to getting up and going to the g at
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  Speaker 1: eighty years. Oh so, if you want to start some
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  Speaker 1: healthy habits, Marva is here to inspire you. But first,
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  Speaker 1: real quick, if you're wondering what this background is, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want it to distract you. But the online Confidence
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  Speaker 1: Club for kids is coming soon. But now let's listen
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  Speaker 1: to Marva tell us who she is and what she does.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Oh, Franzine, thank you so much for having
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  Speaker 2: me this afternoon. It's such such a delight to be
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  Speaker 2: on this platform to chat with you. It's not an interview,
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  Speaker 2: it's a talk. We're just gonna share some great tips
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  Speaker 2: that will help us to become and remain the healthst
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  Speaker 2: version ourselves, and who doesn't want to be the healthst
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  Speaker 2: version of themselves? So my name is Marva Riley R
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  Speaker 2: I L. E. Y. I've been a registered nurse for
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  Speaker 2: a long time, since nineteen ninety eight. Most of those
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  Speaker 2: years I worked in critical care, so I cared for
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  Speaker 2: the sickest patients. I'm also a holistic health advocate and
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  Speaker 2: the author of for Wonderful Health and Wellness books and
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  Speaker 2: my greatest passion, deepest passion, is to help everyone to
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  Speaker 2: become and remain the healthiest version of themselves in body,
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  Speaker 2: mind and spirit.
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  Speaker 1: And now that I hear your accent, I'm reminded you're
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  Speaker 1: from Jamaica, aren't you. How's your family? I am from Jamaica.
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  Speaker 2: I've lived in the US longer than I lived in
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  Speaker 2: Jamaica because I've been in the US since nineteen eighty nine.
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  Speaker 2: My family is okay since Hurricane Beryl. After I spoke
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  Speaker 2: with one of my sisters today and they still don't
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  Speaker 2: have electricity, but she has generator and you know, doing
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  Speaker 2: the best there is. They have many deaths and not
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  Speaker 2: a whole lot of damage to houses, but the powers
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  Speaker 2: down and with the power being down, the technologies down,
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  Speaker 2: the phones are down, that kind of thing. But they're good.
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  Speaker 2: They're good things.
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  Speaker 1: All my friends Florida know how that goes.
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  Speaker 2: I actually lived in South Florida. I lived in Fort Lauderdale.
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  Speaker 2: We lived in Fort Lauderdale and moved to Georgia seven
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  Speaker 2: years ago. So we've weathered a number of hurricanes in
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  Speaker 2: in in South Florida, so I'm well aware of that.
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  Speaker 2: And before that Jamaica, and then Jamaica has also been
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  Speaker 2: having some earthquakes recently as well, so they're on the
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  Speaker 2: c Yeah, that's not unusually there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So why don't you tell us why you quit
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  Speaker 1: nursing and went into writing books.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, not quit nursing per se. Okay. My husband always
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  Speaker 2: says to me, the real definition of a nurse is
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  Speaker 2: an educator, and we were also taught that in nursing school.
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  Speaker 2: We are educators. That's part of our job as a nurse,
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  Speaker 2: whether we work in a hospital setting, a clinic, doctor's office,
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  Speaker 2: own or own practice, nurse educators. Whatever we do as nurses,
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  Speaker 2: we are constantly educating the public, whether they're patients or
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  Speaker 2: whomever it is. There are actually many, many, many, many
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  Speaker 2: many nurses that are nurse educators in colleges, universities and
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that. So I'm not in the clinical setting,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm constantly doing research so that i can share
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  Speaker 2: the information that I find out with us big and
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  Speaker 2: bitter because we're constantly having to work and tweak and
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  Speaker 2: work and tweak on our health. So I'm always researching
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  Speaker 2: and writing things. So I'm still a nurse. I still
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  Speaker 2: have my license. I just don't practice in the clinical setting.
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  Speaker 2: But with that out of the way, I was very,
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  Speaker 2: very sick. I was thirty eight when I was diagnosed
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  Speaker 2: with a heart disease called cardiomyopathy. And for those who
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  Speaker 2: don't know what cardiomyopathy is, in a nutshell, it's the
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  Speaker 2: weakening of the muscles of the heart. So the heart
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  Speaker 2: can pump hardy, pumps soft and the muscles of the
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  Speaker 2: heart weaken and the blood backflows and you end up
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  Speaker 2: getting swelling and shortness of breath and fluids in your
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  Speaker 2: lungs and would potentially go into heart failure. I had
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  Speaker 2: an electrical issue wrong with my heart, so I could
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  Speaker 2: I will have just died. Does have a sudden cardiot
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  Speaker 2: death that kind of thing, and the symptoms I was
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  Speaker 2: having was shortness of breath, shortness of breath. I had
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  Speaker 2: no energy. I was shortness of breath. I couldn't focus.
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  Speaker 2: I just never felt good. And I was thirty eight
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  Speaker 2: with young children and a husband, and of course I
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  Speaker 2: ignored all those symptoms because nurses and doctors do that nonsense.
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  Speaker 2: Oh we take care of with children, the husbands and dogs,
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  Speaker 2: the patients, everybody, but ourselves. Eventually, when I went to
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  Speaker 2: see the doctor, actually a medical doctor, did not diagnose me.
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  Speaker 2: He kept telling me that it was in my head,
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  Speaker 2: that I was pre menopause, and it was in my head.
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  Speaker 2: So I saw his nurse practitioner and she said, she
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  Speaker 2: your eyes was beaten erratically and irregularly all the time,
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  Speaker 2: and she referred me to a cardiologist. He had me
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  Speaker 2: on drugs and just checking my internet. He had me
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  Speaker 2: on drugs and the drugs wasn't helping. I mean, it
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  Speaker 2: just made me feel worse and all the negative side effects.
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  Speaker 2: I had no energy, nothing. And then one of my
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  Speaker 2: coworkers said, you know, you should go see an electrophysiologist,
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  Speaker 2: a heart specialist who specializes in the electrical issues of
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  Speaker 2: your heart, because what the general cardiologists saw was the
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  Speaker 2: weakening of weakening of my heart or I was functioning
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  Speaker 2: at thirty to thirty five percent, and sixty five percent
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  Speaker 2: or so is normal. So she said, you should see
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  Speaker 2: someone who specializes in the electrical activity of the heart.
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  Speaker 2: She was an older nurse, more seasoned. She set it
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  Speaker 2: up for me because she knew someone in that field.
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  Speaker 2: And when I went, he said, yes, it's muscle issue,
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  Speaker 2: not electric issue. Long and short of it is that
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  Speaker 2: he did a procedure called a cardiac ablation where he
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  Speaker 2: burnt an area in my heart that was overly excited.
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  Speaker 2: And then he said to me on my two week checkup,
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  Speaker 2: he said, I want you to go home and eat healthily.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to get rid of coffee and anything
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  Speaker 2: with caffeine. I want you to walk for thirty minutes
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  Speaker 2: every day, decrease your stress level, practice yoga, get outside
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  Speaker 2: in nature, and enjoy living. At that time, I never
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  Speaker 2: knew that that was called the holistic lifestyle.
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  Speaker 1: I had the same epiphany in my fifties. Yes, just
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  Speaker 1: living the way that we were meant to live, not
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  Speaker 1: getting our food from a factory but the ground and
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  Speaker 1: actually getting out there and exercising. Yes, just simple things.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not hard. You don't don't You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to spend thousands of dollars on a gym and
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  Speaker 1: buy all of these products that are highly processed that
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  Speaker 1: are not really good for you. Just get back to
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  Speaker 1: the basics. I like to tell people, if people didn't
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  Speaker 1: need it one hundred years ago, don't eat it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh, that's right, that's exactly. And you know the
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  Speaker 2: thing is that folks think that healthy living is difficult.
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  Speaker 1: It isn't.
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  Speaker 2: Like you said, Francine is getting back to eating what
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  Speaker 2: doctor Sabby used to call God food. If you eat
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  Speaker 2: eat eat meat, not bacon, not sausage, not hot dog,
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  Speaker 2: not joels. Make vegan this and vegan that. If you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna eat meat, eat meat. If you're gonna eat fish,
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  Speaker 2: eat fish. If you're gonna eat vegetables, eat vegetables, not
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  Speaker 2: the fake stuff that they sell in the store. And
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  Speaker 2: it actually is cheaper to eat healthy than unhealthy, because
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  Speaker 2: even though yes, you can get a dozen donut for
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  Speaker 2: a dollar, for example, you can actually get a whole
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  Speaker 2: apple for a dollar. You can get all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: vegetables for a dollar. I mean, cabbage is cheap, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And now, like we spoke about watermelon. Watermelon is expensive.
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  Speaker 2: You buy a whole watermelon for six dollars and that
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  Speaker 2: will last you a while, you know, four days or
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  Speaker 2: something like that. And also the money we have to
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  Speaker 2: spend when we lose our health, right, you know, when
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  Speaker 2: you lose your health and when you can hang out
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  Speaker 2: with your friends and when you can enjoy your family,
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  Speaker 2: when you can't breathe and you live in fear, you
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  Speaker 2: cannot put a price tag on that. Recently, I saw
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  Speaker 2: a little posting on Instagram and it says you either
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  Speaker 2: pay the farmer now faar and we are, or you
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  Speaker 2: pay the pha r.
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  Speaker 1: Me later on exactly. And you know, it really isn't
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  Speaker 1: expensive if you shop wisely. I buy twenty five pounds
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  Speaker 1: of organic carrots at a time for and it's twenty
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  Speaker 1: dollars less than a dollar a pound. I eat a
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  Speaker 1: big bowl of roasted carrots every day because they're so healthy.
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  Speaker 1: They taste good, and they're inexpensive, yes.
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  Speaker 2: And they're loaded with all kinds of great nutrients. Right,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's not it's it's it's least it's less
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  Speaker 2: expensive to eat healthy. In fact, recently I went to
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  Speaker 2: the hardware place and I was talking to one of
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  Speaker 2: the guys there and there, and I told him I was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, vegetarian, and he said, oh, my wife and
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  Speaker 2: I were thinking we might need to go vegetarian because
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  Speaker 2: the other day we went to the supermarket and I
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  Speaker 2: was standing over that beef, that piece of beef for
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  Speaker 2: about thirty minutes, trying to deciber it or not I
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  Speaker 2: should buy it because it was so expensive. What beianes
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  Speaker 2: are loaded with protein and iron and all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: other nutrients that beef doesn't have.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, fiber, fiber, and yeah, and guess what a pack
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  Speaker 3: of lentil is a dollars sixty nine if you buy
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  Speaker 3: it a place like Walmart, cheaper.
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  Speaker 2: A pack of a black Eye payses two dollars and
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  Speaker 2: that will serve the entire family. And you won't have
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  Speaker 2: the American Cancer Society saying to you, don't eat too
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  Speaker 2: much lentils or too much black artes exactly. But they're
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  Speaker 2: prayed about the beef. Okay, so eat real food. It's
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  Speaker 2: not complex. And that's what I share in my books.
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  Speaker 2: Eating healthily, losing the weight and keeping it off for
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  Speaker 2: good is not complex. Every year, they tell you in
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  Speaker 2: January you have to do this and you have to
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  Speaker 2: do that, need to join the gym. I used to
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  Speaker 2: join the gym years ago, but since I came to Georgia,
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  Speaker 2: there's no gym close to me. So my gym is
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  Speaker 2: my yard. And even if you leave an apartment, your
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  Speaker 2: apartment can be your gym. If you live in an
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  Speaker 2: apartment building, go up and down the stairs. YouTube has
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  Speaker 2: tons of videos to help you to to you know,
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  Speaker 2: to exercise. Husband has been watching a couple of guys
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  Speaker 2: on YouTube and doing all kinds of calisthetic and I
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  Speaker 2: see his chess his picture looking really nice in the arms,
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  Speaker 2: you can get pre information why he sucked.
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  Speaker 1: Well. Not only that, but imagine cleaning your house for exercise. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: so instead of going to the gym, clean your house.
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  Speaker 1: You'll have a beautiful environment to live in. And you
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  Speaker 1: get the vacuum and mop and do all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: When you do your laundry, take extra trips between the
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  Speaker 1: washer and the closet, and get your steps in walking
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  Speaker 1: back and forth. That's right.
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  Speaker 2: Where there's a will, there's a way. What I find
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  Speaker 2: is that folks would make excuses when they haven't made
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  Speaker 2: up their mind. Yes, but the unfortunate thing Francied is
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  Speaker 2: that so many people wait until there, I mean, Mark,
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  Speaker 2: I was like that. I had to get the wake
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  Speaker 2: up Paul to say, you're thirty eight. In fact, when
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  Speaker 2: I was thirty eight and diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, my cardiologist
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  Speaker 2: told me that if you don't get a heart transplant,
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  Speaker 2: you may not live.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, and you never did. You got healthy instead. Right,
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  Speaker 1: He did the procedure, he did the oblasion.
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  Speaker 2: He gave me the prescription, which was eat healthily, exercise
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  Speaker 2: and all that. And I was so desperate. I took
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  Speaker 2: that doctor's orders to heart and I have lived it
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  Speaker 2: since then.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I really need to say this. Now, make a
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  Speaker 1: change in your life before you're forced to my major
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  Speaker 1: upheople in my life, my liver was shutting down and
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  Speaker 1: I had a full body rash and it was from
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  Speaker 1: all the toxins I was taking in my body. So
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  Speaker 1: Marva had her major upheaval in her life. She had
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  Speaker 1: a heart condition. Get healthy before you have your major upheovle.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and if you're at that point now, it's not
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  Speaker 2: too late, because there are still people that are in
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  Speaker 2: a major upheaval, very very sick. In fact, this morning,
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  Speaker 2: I was talking to my friend about someone we know
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  Speaker 2: who is whose bodies are crisis. And the person was saying,
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  Speaker 2: the doctor is very worried, and I'm saying, well, when
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  Speaker 2: is he gonna decide to change? And I hear people
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  Speaker 2: saying nonsense. I hear a smoker saying it, and I
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  Speaker 2: hear other people that are unwilling to give up their
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  Speaker 2: habits say, or something's gotta take me out. Sometimes you
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  Speaker 2: don't really die. You suffer and suffer and suffer and
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  Speaker 2: die a slow, painful death.
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  Speaker 1: And your family suffers watching you suffer.
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  Speaker 2: There you go because your family suffer because you know
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  Speaker 2: your mate is. Their life is disrupted. You can't breathe,
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  Speaker 2: so at night you're disrupting them. They have to be
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  Speaker 2: taking you to the doctor. You don't feel well and
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  Speaker 2: they don't feel well. You can't do the things that
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  Speaker 2: you normally do together. So you know when you're sick.
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  Speaker 2: Like Francine said, it doesn't just affect you. It affects everyone.
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  Speaker 1: And let me tell you a funny story. When I
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  Speaker 1: started getting healthy, and when I got home from work,
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  Speaker 1: instead of drinking a glass of wine and sitting on
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  Speaker 1: the couch, we took a family walk with the dog.
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  Speaker 4: My dog got healthier, that's right, yes, And folks don't
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  Speaker 4: know that, don't realize that there are animals that are
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  Speaker 4: getting sick because they are eating unhealthy foods.
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  Speaker 2: Like we are eating. Not need you, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: folks are eating I walk or run around. They're not
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  Speaker 2: meant to be that way, and they're not. And our
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  Speaker 2: animals are not getting fresh air and sunlight, so they're
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  Speaker 2: dying from some current human diseases that humans are dying from.
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  Speaker 2: More animals are also dying from those diseases, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So when you take a walk in the fresh air
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  Speaker 2: like I see, you're in nature all the time with
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  Speaker 2: your husband and your and your dog and yourself. The
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  Speaker 2: whole family is getting healthy and staying healthy. You know,
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  Speaker 2: folks have babies. That's no excuse if you have a
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  Speaker 2: baby all the more recent take your baby outside in
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  Speaker 2: the morning before the sun gets really hot and take
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  Speaker 2: them for a walk. It's good for them, helps them
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  Speaker 2: to sleep better. The vitamin D will help them to
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  Speaker 2: grow better and thrive better, build their immune system, so
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  Speaker 2: everybody's getting healthier.
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  Speaker 1: I remember when we were kids, my mom had two
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  Speaker 1: I'm twenty four months older than my sister, so she
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  Speaker 1: had two really close together. And she didn't drive. We
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  Speaker 1: walked everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one of the problems now with There's a
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  Speaker 2: physician that I think his name, don't remember his name
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  Speaker 2: off hand, floor Scheimer's of anyway, he was one hundred
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  Speaker 2: years of age in December, and yesterday I was listening
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  Speaker 2: you know those reels that you get sometimes because I'm
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  Speaker 2: into hell, they will send it to me. And he said, listen,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a hundred and I'm not dying next year. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not dying next year. And he said the secret is exercise.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember he was saying in that real he said, listen.
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  Speaker 2: I had an assistant who was obese, and I told her,
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  Speaker 2: I have two things to say to you. Because I'm
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  Speaker 2: a physician, I just have to say something to you.
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  Speaker 2: But do you want to hear the good news or
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  Speaker 2: the bad news first? And she said, give me the
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  Speaker 2: bad news first. And he said, you're obese, you're at
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  Speaker 2: risk for dying early heart disease, blah blah blah, blah
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  Speaker 2: blah blah. And then he said, but the good news is,
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  Speaker 2: even though you're obese, if you exercise, you will outlive
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  Speaker 2: the thin woman who does not exercise. And I was like.
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  Speaker 1: Oo.
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  Speaker 2: And he's a guy that I saw some years ago.
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  Speaker 2: He had like thirty acres of land in California somewhere
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  Speaker 2: and he used to chop the world to burn for
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  Speaker 2: firelight and for cooking and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, and you know what else, My big problem,
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  Speaker 1: besides what I was eating and inactivity was stress. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't manage my stress well well. Just getting up at
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  Speaker 1: lunchtime and taking a walk, even if it was just
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  Speaker 1: to the end of the block and back, yes, just
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  Speaker 1: reduce my stress so much and that allowed me to
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  Speaker 1: feel better, which motivated me to keep moving and keep trying.
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  Speaker 1: One simple thing. If you can't do anything but get
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  Speaker 1: up off the couch, go outside and walk to the
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  Speaker 1: end of the block and back. Do that until you
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  Speaker 1: start feeling better, and then go a little further.
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  Speaker 2: And the first time you do it, you'll feel better.
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  Speaker 2: Because even us sometimes because I have my own business,
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  Speaker 2: so I run my business from home, and business is
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  Speaker 2: not the author business because as friends seeing might agree,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure she'll agree with me, you don't get rich
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  Speaker 2: off of we write the books that we write because
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  Speaker 2: we want to help people. Okay, so but I have
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  Speaker 2: we have another business that I run from home. So
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  Speaker 2: sometimes I'm here and I feel a little bit low,
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  Speaker 2: un enter I shoes on or not, because a lot
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  Speaker 2: of times I walk in my backyard bear feet. You
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  Speaker 2: see me do that, And I'll go and I'll do
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  Speaker 2: ten laps around my property because I live on an
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  Speaker 2: acre of land, and ten laps in the sun, and
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  Speaker 2: when I get back in, I feel like I could
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  Speaker 2: move mountain exercises. Medicine and the vitamin D and everything
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  Speaker 2: else that we get from the sun that we don't
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  Speaker 2: even know is medicine, and the fresh air's medicine. You
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  Speaker 2: go outside, you hear the birds, You see the squirrels
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: scurrying around. Medicine, and while you're doing it, you bring
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  Speaker 2: the baby with you, bring your animal with you, bring
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  Speaker 2: your mate with you, and just take a few laps
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  Speaker 2: around if you're at the office. When I worked at
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  Speaker 2: the hospital, I would get thirty minutes for lunch. I
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  Speaker 2: would use fifteen minutes to eat my lunch. I always
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  Speaker 2: brought my lunch from home because when you bring your
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  Speaker 2: lunch from home, you know that you're eating healthily. And
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: a quick hit that I want to give is you
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  Speaker 2: can actually prepare enough salad. For example, put that in
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  Speaker 2: mat divide it. I'll put it in Mason jars. Just
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: don't put your salad dressing on, or if you're going
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  Speaker 2: to put protein, you'll put the protein on yet, like
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: your beans or whatever, and stick your salad in the
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  Speaker 2: refrigerator and then grab and go the next day. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So I always packed my lunch and I would have
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  Speaker 2: my lunch in that fifteen minutes, and the other fifteen
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  Speaker 2: minutes was walking around the business, the hospital building, around
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: the hospital building. When I got back, I was more
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: clear minded, were energized, better mood to take better care
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: of my patients as a nurse. So if you're a physician,
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  Speaker 2: if you're a therapist, if you were if you were
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: an engineer, whatever it is, if you take that walk
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  Speaker 2: during your lunch break five minutes, two minutes when you
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: go back, you'll be better able to function and optimize
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: whatever it is you're doing on your job.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. And now I was looking at Marva's video that
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: she posted today, and she gave just a whole list
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: of all the benefits of eating watermelon. I was amazed
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: by all the nutrients you could get out of a watermelon,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: which is inexpensive, and everybody loves watermelon and it tastes good.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I bet you, I bet you. Almost everybody watching this
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: had some watermelon for the Fourth of July. Oh you
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: didn't even know how healthy it was. But if you
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: like to know more about the healthy watermelon, Marva's going
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: to put the link to her Facebook page in the
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  Speaker 1: chat when we get off this call. And if you
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: have any questions, please put them in the comments and
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: we will answer any questions you have and let us
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: know if you want Marva to come back and talk
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: to us again.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and I'd like to say that you can. You know,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: our viewers can connect with me on all the major
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: social media platforms. I have a YouTube channel. I saw
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: that you checked it out because you posted one of
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: my videos that I forgot I had put up. I'm
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: on YouTube, so my name is Marva Riley. I'm on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I have a Facebook group, and I'm in other Facebook
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: groups like Francis's Facebook group. I'm on LinkedIn and I'm
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: also on TikTok and I also have a monthly a
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: free monthly health and wellness newsletter that I send out
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: every month, and you can sign up for that. It's free,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: like I said on my website r N Marvailey dot
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  Speaker 2: com r and Marvailey dot com. And I have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of free recipes and tips to help you to
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: succeed on your health journey on my website as well.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome, everybody, it's July, and I know January is the
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: time everybody goes on dice and says I'm gonna get healthy.
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  Speaker 1: Start now and then you will be healthy in January
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: and you can make a different goal, right.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, today's the day. Tomorrow's I promise to anyone. So
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: today is the day. And the thing is that you
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: don't have to jump in head first. You don't have
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: to go and pull force one hundred percent. That's a
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: mistake that folks make January first. They say in one month,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna lose thirty pounds. Now, it's unrealistic and if
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: you do, it's not sustainable, you know. But you can
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: start making some baby steps now, like, for example, instead
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: of drinking icye, I have Coca Cola bottle up here.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Instead of having Coca cola, have water, you know what
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: I mean. That's one simple thing that you can start implementing.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people do drink sugary drinks and they
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: still want to lose weight, and they still want to
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: decrease your blood sugar, and they still want to feel better. Yeah,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: the coca cola, like the coffee with ten packs of sugar,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: will give you that energy like now, but then you
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: crash afterwards and all the other negative side have come
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: with drinking those unhealthy things as opposed to water. One
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: quick thing, I drink a lot of water, but with
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: a watermelon being in season now and in summer it's
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: so hot, sometimes you drink the water, you don't feel
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: fully hydrated. I cut up a big slice of watermelon,
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: add water to it, put it in my bullet blender,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: blended together with a slice of ginger and as a
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: lemon and sip it made for a few grains of
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: sea saut or something in it. And when you're drinking,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: you feel so hydrated. Your body just come alive and
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: you feel energized, you know, as opposed to the coffee. Yeah,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: because the coffee dehydrates you. It's a diuretic and you
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: peel a lot and you're not putting in enough liquids.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Yes, well, it was a pleasure having you here today,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: and I hope we get to do this again, and
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I am hoping people ask a bunch of questions because
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I'm interested in learning more.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Thank you, yes, thank you for having me my sister.
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  Speaker 2: Take care.
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  Speaker 1: Let's end this line. Everybody bye, all right, the live
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  Speaker 1: is ended.