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Get Your Spark Back · Inside The Moms Club

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Speaker 1: When you turn forty, it's like, okay, you know I
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Speaker 1: have to kind of stop or start to slow down
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Speaker 1: putting some bad things in my dad.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of we structure, make some small.
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Speaker 1: Changes that really help you to feel good, help your
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Speaker 1: skin be healthy, have energy.
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Speaker 3: Welcome moms, Welcome inside the Mom's Club. I'm your host,
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Speaker 3: Monica Samuels, and I'm here with my.
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Speaker 4: Co host Julie or get aloe. Julie, Hey, how are
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Speaker 4: you a friend and host? I am good.
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Speaker 3: I've had kind of a wild time lately, and there's
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Speaker 3: a lot of stories I can tell, but I'm going
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Speaker 3: to share one. Yes, because you know, you went to
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Speaker 3: the Grand Canyon and hiked the Grand Canyon and you
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Speaker 3: weren't ready for it.
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Speaker 4: No, not happy if we're not out there, and I.
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Speaker 3: Not even tease you about it, but oh please, I mean,
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Speaker 3: I mean, but well, I did something that was even
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Speaker 3: it was so ridiculous. So I was My husband had
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Speaker 3: a meeting at in Las Vegas at the wynd Hotel,
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Speaker 3: which is a sixty story hotel. We were on floor
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Speaker 3: twenty eight and it was a giant conference, so there
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Speaker 3: was lots of people trying.
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Speaker 4: To get on the elevator. Yeah, and I was just there,
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Speaker 4: now do whatever. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So I was there and I got impatient waiting for
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Speaker 3: the elevator one day, so I thought, I will take
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Speaker 3: the stairs. I will walk down twenty eight flights of stairs.
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Speaker 4: And that is a long way, lady.
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Speaker 3: So you know, at floor fourteen, I thought this was
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Speaker 3: really a bad idea. But it got worse because then
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Speaker 3: when I got to the bottom, there.
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Speaker 4: Were all these corridors. So I'm like, up and down
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Speaker 4: these corridors and there's signs everywhere.
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Speaker 5: That say, please don't be here unless you work here.
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Speaker 3: Kind of well, I said, relax, stay calm. So I
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Speaker 3: knew this was really the exit for the fire, you know, right.
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Speaker 3: I ended up in the loading dock and then I
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Speaker 3: had security come and get.
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Speaker 4: Me, I mean Monica, And then I had to go
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Speaker 4: up a ramp the parking garage to get back into
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Speaker 4: the building.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I was so sore I could not walk for several days.
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Speaker 5: I was not in good totally relate to this.
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Speaker 4: It was terrible.
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Speaker 5: So but I think it woke us up.
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Speaker 3: To the fact that we need to totally one hundred
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Speaker 3: percent get in shape. I used to be more in
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Speaker 3: shape all the time, but now I'm like fully committed
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Speaker 3: on everything.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, but at least at a minimum, take
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Speaker 5: care of yourself and pay attention to your body. Like
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Speaker 5: that's that's what I learned.
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Speaker 3: And do it the smart way, right, because there's a
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Speaker 3: smart way, and then there's the easy way.
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Speaker 4: Which cannot well, so like, look at this way.
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Speaker 3: Why Because of some health issues, my doctor put me
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Speaker 3: on a GLP one and it's not just to lose weight.
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Speaker 3: It was for other issues, and so I've been doing that,
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Speaker 3: but I also I've been doing something else that I'm not. Oh,
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Speaker 3: my husband, okay, this is a whole different thing. When
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Speaker 3: I try and close, I've been having trouble, like tightening
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Speaker 3: my belt or get you know, certain things are not
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Speaker 3: fitting in that one area in your you know, your stomach.
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Speaker 3: I've got this one little area of fact. And he
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Speaker 3: always looks at it and says, it's easy. All you
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Speaker 3: have to do is get LiPo. Section just go get LiPo.
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Speaker 3: And I don't want to do that. First of all,
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Speaker 3: I feel like I'd be the one who'd everybody come
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Speaker 3: to my funeral.
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Speaker 4: And say Monica was not so vain.
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Speaker 3: We would not have to be here right now, So
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Speaker 3: I don't want to do that either, so you got
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Speaker 3: to do it really smart, you know.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no easy track to this by any means.
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Speaker 5: I will say, I can feel your pain. As far
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Speaker 5: as that hike went, I still can't talk about it,
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Speaker 5: but you know, I'm here, I'm alive, and I can
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Speaker 5: tell you that for the last six or seven months,
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Speaker 5: my whole body and frame has changed, meaning I can't
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Speaker 5: control it like before. I used to be able to
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Speaker 5: control it with certain things and as far as you know,
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Speaker 5: diet or whatever, but now it's like cortosol spike, you know,
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Speaker 5: different visceral fat. So I'm kind of like that has
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Speaker 5: been a mission for at least at least well over
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Speaker 5: eight weeks I have been People are like, what are
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Speaker 5: you doing? And I was like, I'm working out.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, fully committed.
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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, like I put it above everything else.
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Speaker 4: You've been lifting weights, right? I have been a strength
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Speaker 4: program because I was recruited.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I think they give a discount if you're for a friend.
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Speaker 4: I don't know, but they do.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, which is totally fine because I think that's
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Speaker 3: what I need to You know, I will If you lose.
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Speaker 5: Your strength, you lose everything. I don't want to call
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Speaker 5: the girls and be like, hey, you got to come
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Speaker 5: take care of your mom or whatever. You just feel
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Speaker 5: a lot more confident, You feel a lot more powerful,
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Speaker 5: and you feel in control. So if you don't have
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Speaker 5: those things and it's out of whack, then your day
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Speaker 5: is screwy.
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Speaker 4: Exactly. Well, let's get it all back in whack. You're
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Speaker 4: doing good. You're in a good job.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not, by any means an expert at it
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Speaker 5: or but I've had some you know, great success, so
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Speaker 5: I'm excited.
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Speaker 3: Well, and that's why we're fortunate today to have an
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Speaker 3: expert with us. She is a nutritionist and founder of
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Speaker 3: you Fortified Lifestyle, a wellness focused marketing platform centered on food,
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Speaker 3: plant based lifestyle and culture. She started you Fortified when
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Speaker 3: she turned forty to help women age better from the
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Speaker 3: inside and out. Please welcome, Darren Mayer. Welcome to the
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Speaker 3: Mom's Club. Happy to have you here.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, so good to be here. Thank
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Speaker 2: you so much for having me.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you.
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Speaker 2: I love the Mom's Club.
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Speaker 3: Well we do too, We're big fans, so well. Welcome
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Speaker 3: and tell us about you Fortified. Tell us how you
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Speaker 3: started this, because it's from what I just introduced you
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Speaker 3: You were forty.
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Speaker 1: And Fortified is a media content and an experienced platform
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Speaker 1: that I created when I turned forty.
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Speaker 2: And I've always been into health.
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Speaker 1: I actually had skin character when I was thirty, and
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Speaker 1: that sparked and interested me to really look at what
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Speaker 1: I was.
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Speaker 2: Eating and how I was living.
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Speaker 1: And then I started You Fortified and I turned forty
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Speaker 1: as a way to navigate and.
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Speaker 7: Explore products, services, lifestyle to help age well, age better,
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Speaker 7: but make it sustainable, approachable, and enjoyable.
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Speaker 1: Because you know, you have to enjoy what you do.
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Speaker 1: You have to enjoy what you eat, you have to
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Speaker 1: enjoy how you move, and if you don't, you're not
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Speaker 1: going to sustain it.
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Speaker 2: So that was You Fortified. And then I went back
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Speaker 2: to school for nutrition and I realized also that you
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Speaker 2: need your body.
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Speaker 1: What you put in your body is the foundation for
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Speaker 1: everything else that you put on it, that you do
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Speaker 1: to feel.
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Speaker 2: Good, look good, make your clothes fit.
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Speaker 1: So it's really an integrated approach to modern healthy living.
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Speaker 3: And it's that's great, and that's and we definitely need that.
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Speaker 5: Why forty, Darren, Why forty?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: Like what hit.
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Speaker 2: Your body starts to change me?
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Speaker 1: It starts to change as you age in the twenties thirties,
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Speaker 1: but you know, turn forty, it's like, okay, you know
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Speaker 1: I have to kind of stop or start to slow
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Speaker 1: down putting some bad things in my dad. It's kind
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Speaker 1: of restructure, make some small changes that really help you
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Speaker 1: to feel good, help your skin be healthy, have energy.
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Speaker 1: And you know, as you age into your fifties and sixties,
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Speaker 1: you know you kind of carry what you start with
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Speaker 1: you and you know, things change and there's just little
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Speaker 1: ways that you can modify. But it's all about personalization.
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Speaker 1: It's all about you know, what works for me, Like
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Speaker 1: everybody is different. Every person is different, So it's what works.
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Speaker 1: It's I vet hundreds of products and you know, trends
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Speaker 1: and services and technology and really bring to the forefront
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Speaker 1: what is excellent and that what is transparent and they're
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Speaker 1: they're labeling and their messaging and their claims and really
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Speaker 1: what would work for people at all different levels, because
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Speaker 1: like I said, everybody is different and special.
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Speaker 3: Well, I want to explore all of that. Let's start
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Speaker 3: with since we're the Mom's Club. You mentioned that forty year,
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Speaker 3: your body's changing and you're going to do certain things
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Speaker 3: you lead up to that point when you're a child.
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Speaker 3: It all kind of starts when you're a child. What
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Speaker 3: your parents get you to eat, how much they get
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Speaker 3: you to exercise. When I was a kid, every lunch,
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Speaker 3: I don't even know if they still sell them, but
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Speaker 3: every school lunch I had, I had a ding dog,
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Speaker 3: I mean the healthy breed, and and I never even
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Speaker 3: thought about it, you know, And so chees a little Debbie.
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Speaker 3: I had Cheetos and ding Dongs growing up, And so
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Speaker 3: it's kind of hard to go and I would and
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Speaker 3: I would order at McDonald's. I still remember what my
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Speaker 3: order always was a quarter pounder with cheese and a shake.
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Speaker 4: That's all terrible. And now I realized that was bad.
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Speaker 5: Not of your big documentaries about that.
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Speaker 3: I know, so, but maybe someday about me as well.
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Speaker 3: So how do you instill in your kids? Let's start
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Speaker 3: with our kids. How do we make how do we
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Speaker 3: help them start good habits and eat well and exercise? Like,
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Speaker 3: what do you suggest for moms out there trying to
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Speaker 3: inspire their kids to be healthy?
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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, you do it.
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Speaker 1: You can inspire your kids by being a role model
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Speaker 1: for your kids, and you make it fun and enjoyable
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Speaker 1: for kids to kind of you know, go to the
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Speaker 1: supermarket with you or or you know, if you're ordering online,
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Speaker 1: pick out the products that they want. You know, maybe
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Speaker 1: it's what what you know, what are these colorful fruits
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Speaker 1: would you like.
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Speaker 2: To have today?
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Speaker 1: You know, Johnny, So getting them engaged, and you don't
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Speaker 1: want them to feel though that they can't have something
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Speaker 1: right because like you know, then that's like not good,
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Speaker 1: it's restrict I don't believe in restrictions.
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Speaker 2: But what you want to do is make it healthier.
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Speaker 1: So you know, if you go to McDonald's and you know,
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Speaker 1: once a month or once a few whatever, however you
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Speaker 1: do it, you know, trying to order them something that's healthier,
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Speaker 1: or getting a burger and maybe you're bringing your own
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Speaker 1: bread and you're replacing that bread, or maybe you're you know,
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Speaker 1: having the hamburger with them on half of a bun.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: Maybe my mom used to do this to me when
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Speaker 1: I was a kid. She would order us French fries
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Speaker 1: and she would break them half. So you know, not
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Speaker 1: that you just like to let us enjoy it but
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Speaker 1: not and not feel deprived. But still you know again
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Speaker 1: like but really it's about making it these choices as
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Speaker 1: a family. And there's so many ways that you can
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Speaker 1: incorporate produce and vegetables into.
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Speaker 2: Your diet as like a stable.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you could take carrots instead of
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Speaker 1: French fries, not if there's anything wrong with French fries.
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Speaker 2: Or sweet potatoes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and just making it fun and enjoyable that your
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Speaker 1: kids grow into good habits and they don't want the
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Speaker 1: other stuff because it doesn't make them feel good. It's
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Speaker 1: not good for their brain or their or their stomach
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Speaker 1: and their their growth.
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Speaker 5: Basically it does it really makes the kids fill ter. Well, yeah,
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Speaker 5: I can't imagine that that is a meal that a
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Speaker 5: kid has that for every single meal.
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Speaker 4: So but I.
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Speaker 5: Understand that your plant based focused. And I saw a
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Speaker 5: little bit of what you did at the Super Bowl,
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Speaker 5: So I'm curious about that about you know what you
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Speaker 5: what your focus is on that, And.
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Speaker 3: Go ahead, tell us a little bit more about a
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Speaker 3: plant a plant based diet because a lot of people
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Speaker 3: there have been all these things that have come up.
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Speaker 3: There's so many of that because a lot of people
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Speaker 3: don't even know.
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Speaker 4: Exactly what that is. Can you share what that what
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Speaker 4: we're talking about.
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Speaker 2: That's a great question. These are all fabulous questions. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: So a plant based diet is really where you know,
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Speaker 2: you're eating more plant based.
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Speaker 1: Food, but the original plants are produced, right, and some
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Speaker 1: seeds and the gooms, which.
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Speaker 2: Is all produce.
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Speaker 1: And that is what I believe in, is a produce
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Speaker 1: forward lifestyle, meaning that the more produce you put on
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Speaker 1: your plates, into your meals and into your acts, produce
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Speaker 1: is so rich and powerful, antioxy and vitamins, minerals, everything
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Speaker 1: that people try to get from functional products. Produce is
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Speaker 1: the original functional food Mother Nature intended how it should be.
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Speaker 1: So in terms of plant based there are good plant
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Speaker 1: based products, and there are vet I VET hundreds of products,
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Speaker 1: and I look for key things like, you know, not
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Speaker 1: a huge amount of ingredients on the label, you know,
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Speaker 1: keeping away from processed ingredients, you know, added sugars, you know,
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Speaker 1: unhealthy inflammatory oils, chemicals, you know, preservatives that you really
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Speaker 1: don't need, you know. So that's that's really it's more
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Speaker 1: of a produce forward lifestyle.
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Speaker 2: And the and the Super Bowl was a lot of fun,
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Speaker 2: I have to tell you.
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Speaker 1: I mean we had professional athletes there, and we had
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Speaker 1: Dwight Howard, you know, enjoying dandy cellery and people think
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Speaker 1: of celery, Oh, I have to eat celery.
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Speaker 2: Celery is great for your part, it's great for your
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Speaker 2: blood prushuer.
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Speaker 1: And this celery taste is so crunching and sweet that
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Speaker 1: these football players.
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Speaker 2: We made it a vessel.
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Speaker 1: So instead of you dip a celery into like a dip,
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Speaker 1: we've made the celery the main portion of the appetizer
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Speaker 1: of the sample, and we just lightly you know, coated
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Speaker 1: it with a delicious, healthy greek yogurt's vegan mayo also
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Speaker 1: dip that you could really enjoy, but you could still
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Speaker 1: experience the flavor. And you know, celery is like another
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Speaker 1: at og functional food. So so that was great. And
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Speaker 1: then the mushroom burgers that we had, I mean I
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Speaker 1: found these, you know, by accident through a trade show,
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Speaker 1: and I contact the company and I said, listen, like
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Speaker 1: we have to work together. I have to share your
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Speaker 1: product at this event through media, because like you have
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Speaker 1: amazing greedy if this product is made, what it's called
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Speaker 1: mushroom squared.
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Speaker 2: And you can buy them online.
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Speaker 1: They are made with mataki mushrooms and metagala mushrooms are
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Speaker 1: super food. They have more antioxidants, more potent minerals and
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Speaker 1: vitamins than any other mushroom category out there. And all
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Speaker 1: mushrooms are good, don't get me wrong. It's all about
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Speaker 1: your preference and your taste. But it's made with my
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Speaker 1: Taki mushrooms and it's like a super food. And they
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Speaker 1: the best part about these burgers is they taste like
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Speaker 1: real burgers. So I mean, you could take your kids
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Speaker 1: to McDonald's and you know, have these in your Papa
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Speaker 1: book just you know, order something else and.
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Speaker 2: Put them on the you know, put them in a
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Speaker 2: big mac. I'm just kidding.
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Speaker 1: It's a good idea. But these are great, you know,
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Speaker 1: to going into grilling season. You can put them on
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Speaker 1: the grill, you can bake them again, like these these
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Speaker 1: football players and these attendants, they love them. And the
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Speaker 1: interesting part about it is like you know, the athletes
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Speaker 1: are really looking for healthy foods, and so you know
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Speaker 1: that's we all should be like athletes, you know, because again,
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Speaker 1: like you're you know, you want to put good ingredients
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Speaker 1: into your body. You don't want to avoid any category,
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Speaker 1: any food groups or categories.
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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously you have to. You have to eat
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Speaker 2: for you. So if you're you know, if you're Celiac, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, avoid gluten, but but find other things that have
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Speaker 1: good ingredients you can enjoy. Because the reason what what
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Speaker 1: you fortified is really about is making.
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Speaker 2: Everyday living approachable.
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Speaker 1: Attainable, and enjoyable, because that's how I want to live,
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Speaker 1: you know, That's how I love.
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Speaker 5: So do you still find when you talk to people,
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Speaker 5: whether it's about a product that you're talking about, that
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Speaker 5: I think that people still don't understand that eighty percent
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Speaker 5: of taking care of yourself has to do with food.
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Speaker 1: You're right, and I agree with you, and that is
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Speaker 1: my one of my missions is to help change that.
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Speaker 2: Yea, because you know, and that's another thing too.
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Speaker 1: You know, when you talk about produce, I mean, it
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Speaker 1: is the most affordable food you can find in the supermarket,
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Speaker 1: right and it's the most functional food and it tastes great,
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Speaker 1: and you know, it goes with everything. You know, you
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Speaker 1: compare it with if you want to have a plant
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Speaker 1: based you know, burger, or you prepare with you know,
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Speaker 1: a healthy if you want to eat or chicken, you know,
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Speaker 1: an organic chicken, or you know a good good you know,
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Speaker 1: local chicken or whatever fish, whatever it is, even cheese.
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Speaker 2: You know, again, it's.
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Speaker 1: All about sourcing the right products the right foods that
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Speaker 1: have good ingredients that make you feel good inside and
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Speaker 1: out and kind of just you know, adding that to
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Speaker 1: your lifestyle and then you want more of that.
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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I read a book you touched on something earlier.
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Speaker 3: I read a book called Ultra Processed People, and it
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Speaker 3: was about ultra processed food and that book scared me
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Speaker 3: so badly that I was like, I am never going
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Speaker 3: to buy anything that's in package ever.
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Speaker 4: Again, that's the safest way to go.
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Speaker 3: But obviously you soon learn you can't entirely eat that way.
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Speaker 3: You mentioned finding a products with as few calories on
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Speaker 3: the label ingredients.
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Speaker 4: Is it the number or is it what's in it?
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Speaker 3: Like sometimes I can the chemicals, I couldn't even pronounce them,
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Speaker 3: Like you read what's in something and it's got so
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Speaker 3: many preservatives and with names. I've never What should you
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Speaker 3: be looking for when you are shopping out, you know,
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Speaker 3: buying something in a package. It's obviously been very process That's.
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Speaker 1: Another great question, Minica, thank you. So Basically, what you
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Speaker 1: want to do is look for products that have ten
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Speaker 1: or less ingredients, and even if they have the ten
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Speaker 1: or less ingredients, you want to really look at the
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Speaker 1: way the ingredients are listed on the label, right, So
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Speaker 1: if the first ingredient is sugar, then you know that
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Speaker 1: that product that's the majority of that ingredient, that those
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Speaker 1: ingredients are sugar, and you kind of want to go
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Speaker 1: down the list. You want to also look at the
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Speaker 1: not low calorie, it's not low calorie, it's nutrient dent.
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Speaker 1: You want to look at the you know, the side
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Speaker 1: labels if you want, and you know, you want to
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Speaker 1: make sure that you're eating a look it's a salad
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Speaker 1: dressing sometimes that they mostly don't have protein, but there
17:52
Speaker 1: are ones that you can't get protein.
17:54
Speaker 2: But you want to look at the nutrition label also
17:58
Speaker 2: to make sure that you're getting a product that is wholesome, that.
18:00
Speaker 1: Is giving you, you know, the taste, the flavor, and
18:04
Speaker 1: the benefits so your body can process it or digest
18:09
Speaker 1: it in a way that you don't have bloating in
18:11
Speaker 1: your belly, you don't have an upst stomach, you don't
18:14
Speaker 1: feel sick.
18:15
Speaker 2: You don't you know, so you want to put good
18:17
Speaker 2: things into your body.
18:18
Speaker 5: Yeah, now that's I really liked what you said about
18:21
Speaker 5: Like I had a friend whence that said, I don't
18:24
Speaker 5: really ever do anything that has more than three ingredients.
18:27
Speaker 5: Do you know what I mean? Like something that is
18:28
Speaker 5: it's more natural, it's you know, the tomatoes and you
18:32
Speaker 5: know she's from Italy, so yeah, but yeah, that part,
18:36
Speaker 5: that part is was really you know, hid for me,
18:40
Speaker 5: and I think people in this country, I don't always
18:43
Speaker 5: find that we have hit the mark yet on preventative
18:48
Speaker 5: you know kind of medicine. Diet is one of them,
18:51
Speaker 5: and a lot of people have on their health insurance
18:53
Speaker 5: that it's it's a dietitian or a nutrition person is
18:59
Speaker 5: paid for. So is that I've been reading a lot
19:03
Speaker 5: about that lately.
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Speaker 3: Well, my son has celiac, so we went through the
19:08
Speaker 3: whole process, the elimination diets and everything and working with
19:11
Speaker 3: the nutritionists and you learn so much when you go
19:14
Speaker 3: through that. Now what was hard for him? And I'm
19:16
Speaker 3: so happy that we're going in a direction where like
19:18
Speaker 3: he can go to a restaurant now that's seed oil
19:21
Speaker 3: free restaurants.
19:22
Speaker 4: That are exclusively that or gluten free exclusive. It didn't
19:25
Speaker 4: used to be that way. We once took him to an.
19:28
Speaker 3: Asian restaurant here in Austin where when he went through
19:31
Speaker 3: the whole list of things he could not eat, they
19:33
Speaker 3: came back with like a bunch of pea shoots or something.
19:36
Speaker 4: They canet a plate of nothing. He was the most.
19:39
Speaker 4: He was like, that's all he can eat in this
19:41
Speaker 4: entire restaurant.
19:42
Speaker 3: So I'm so happy that now there is, you know,
19:45
Speaker 3: the opportunity to It's gotten so much better as.
19:49
Speaker 5: It's gotten better, and it's not a lot. It's not
19:51
Speaker 5: like you need a PhD.
19:52
Speaker 4: Right right now, I am disappointed.
19:55
Speaker 3: Like the truth is, when I look at those labels,
19:56
Speaker 3: my favorite foods have the top ingredients that does say sugar,
20:00
Speaker 3: I have to confess.
20:02
Speaker 5: We're all guilty, right, You got to get.
20:04
Speaker 4: Away from that.
20:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, let's go to the question that
20:06
Speaker 3: all the moms out here asking, how do we get
20:10
Speaker 3: rid of that belly fat without risking our lives?
20:13
Speaker 4: Let's talk because let's talk about that.
20:16
Speaker 3: Yeah's important part of the show. Everybody get out your
20:19
Speaker 3: notebooks and.
20:20
Speaker 5: Yeah, my name right now is Julie belly fat or kid.
20:23
Speaker 4: I'm telling you can't even get rid of no.
20:24
Speaker 3: Remember all the sit ups in the world, no matter
20:27
Speaker 3: what I try, it's like always there.
20:29
Speaker 4: So let's let's so.
20:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's another great question. And so basically
20:36
Speaker 1: you know, belly fat comes from a lot.
20:38
Speaker 2: Of different things. As we age. First of all, you know,
20:41
Speaker 2: our digestion slows down.
20:42
Speaker 1: And again if we're eating foods that have twenty ingredients
20:46
Speaker 1: or you know, or inflammatory, we're going to feel that
20:49
Speaker 1: in our gut, We're going to feel that on our
20:50
Speaker 1: belly and it's going to be bloated.
20:52
Speaker 2: So that is one way.
20:53
Speaker 1: So again, you know, choosing foods that you enjoy but
20:58
Speaker 1: that are that it fits to them and that help
21:01
Speaker 1: with the digestive system and your energy levels and maintaining
21:06
Speaker 1: helping to maintain you know, hormones is just one of
21:10
Speaker 1: the first things that you should be looking at. The
21:13
Speaker 1: second thing is movement. You know you want as we age,
21:17
Speaker 1: you know, we need less really cardio cardio cardio, and
21:21
Speaker 1: more just movement, full body movement.
21:26
Speaker 2: Strength training. Again, this is where the.
21:29
Speaker 1: U fortified lifestyle comes in because we want it to
21:32
Speaker 1: be approachable, attainable, and enjoyable.
21:35
Speaker 2: So if you love.
21:37
Speaker 1: Lifting heavyweights and you enjoy that and you've been doing that,
21:40
Speaker 1: then you know that's your strength training.
21:42
Speaker 2: Someone else may enjoy a pilates.
21:44
Speaker 1: I mean, I love there's it's free. Actually, there's a
21:47
Speaker 1: guy he's a fitness instructor. He's a famous dancer. He
21:50
Speaker 1: trains Madonna. Kelly Ripley's name is Isaac Boots, and I
21:54
Speaker 1: met him years ago when I took class at soul
21:56
Speaker 1: Cycle and he said, you should come take my class.
21:58
Speaker 2: And it's a it's.
21:59
Speaker 1: A kind of like a full body thirty to forty
22:01
Speaker 1: five minute where you're just it's using your body weight
22:04
Speaker 1: lightweights and you just it tightens everything from within.
22:07
Speaker 2: So that is another great one.
22:09
Speaker 1: And then Pilate's yoga, whatever works for you, and just movement,
22:12
Speaker 1: walking with your dog, walking your kids, you know, parking
22:15
Speaker 1: a little bit further from the grocery store and walking
22:17
Speaker 1: a little more.
22:18
Speaker 2: Taking the stairs, Monica, that was what.
22:23
Speaker 4: Are you What are your thoughts on twenty eight floors?
22:26
Speaker 3: I mean, it was all down, but that's hard to
22:29
Speaker 3: actually once you start doing it.
22:31
Speaker 8: How many flights do you recommend? Probably not that many,
22:34
Speaker 8: but yeah, you're right. I'm gonna say from the Grand
22:36
Speaker 8: Canyon down is harder. It's hard not yeah, oh yeah,
22:40
Speaker 8: yeah yeah.
22:41
Speaker 1: But I would just say, you know, start small and build,
22:44
Speaker 1: but don't overdo it because you know you if you
22:47
Speaker 1: overdo it, you're gonna get injured and there's no need
22:49
Speaker 1: to overdo it because you want to have that time
22:51
Speaker 1: to go do something else that you enjoy. So you know,
22:53
Speaker 1: it's it's all about balance. And then you know, there
22:56
Speaker 1: are really good non surgical, minimally invasive, non surgical treatments
23:04
Speaker 1: that you can have that skin tight, that tighten the skin,
23:08
Speaker 1: that can target fat directly under the skin. So there,
23:11
Speaker 1: you know, there's subcutaneous fat and visceral fat. Visual fat
23:14
Speaker 1: is what you have surrounding your organs and that's when
23:16
Speaker 1: you read too. You know, that's a different kind of
23:18
Speaker 1: but the visceral fat, you know, there's companies like BTL
23:21
Speaker 1: Aesthetics and.
23:22
Speaker 2: They have all these different technologies.
23:24
Speaker 1: You can you know, go and you can target the
23:26
Speaker 1: belly fat, tighten the skin, and it works in tandem
23:30
Speaker 1: with movement, with you know, a better nutritent and more
23:35
Speaker 1: nutrient dense diet and lifestyle and I hate the word diet.
23:38
Speaker 1: Diet is diet with the te So just filling your
23:41
Speaker 1: your lifestyle with good foods.
23:43
Speaker 2: That you feel good about and enjoy and that is
23:47
Speaker 2: really the key.
23:47
Speaker 1: So it's really a multi prong approach. It's an integrated
23:50
Speaker 1: approach to living well and feeling good inside and out
23:55
Speaker 1: as we age.
23:56
Speaker 5: So are you speaking of something like cool sculpting. I'm
24:00
Speaker 5: just thinking that off the top of my head something
24:02
Speaker 5: like that. Is that what you mean? Well, it conjunction something.
24:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, cool scoping had a lot of controversy, and that's
24:08
Speaker 1: something that you freezes the fat. This is something more that. Again,
24:11
Speaker 1: it has to work for everyone. Not everyone would want this.
24:16
Speaker 1: So again, you know there are creams, there are lotions.
24:19
Speaker 1: I would just tell you that one of the things
24:20
Speaker 1: that helps belly fat too is hydration. Drinking enough water
24:24
Speaker 1: a day. You know, I say people say five to
24:27
Speaker 1: eight glasses of water day. I say eight minimum, And
24:29
Speaker 1: if you're exercising and you're moving more like you know,
24:32
Speaker 1: eight to ten, and you can make that enjoyable. It
24:34
Speaker 1: shouldn't have to be oh, let me guzzle down my water.
24:37
Speaker 1: You know, you can put fruit in the water. You
24:39
Speaker 1: can have sparkling water. You know, you can substitute for
24:43
Speaker 1: like iced tea, you know, herbal tea. It's just to
24:46
Speaker 1: get your your digestive system lubricated to hydrate. And when
24:50
Speaker 1: you put more water in your body, your skin gets plumper,
24:54
Speaker 1: your skin looks healthier. So again, it has that appearance
24:58
Speaker 1: of being a little bit firmer and hot. So it
25:00
Speaker 1: really is again an integrated approach. And there are some
25:04
Speaker 1: great skin creams out there that can do you know,
25:07
Speaker 1: they're not going to do you know, mommy makeovers overnight,
25:10
Speaker 1: but they can help with you know, just helping to
25:13
Speaker 1: firm the skin, tight, hydrate the skin.
25:15
Speaker 2: It's really hydration that helps.
25:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we're talking about eight ounce eight ounce cut
25:22
Speaker 3: like you're talking about eight eight ounce glasses of water?
25:25
Speaker 4: Is that right minimum?
25:28
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, just verifying that because I once interpreted that
25:31
Speaker 3: to mean like I had drink eight giant bottles of
25:33
Speaker 3: water and I was going other directions.
25:38
Speaker 1: This is this is a sparkling water. You know, that's
25:40
Speaker 1: a great question offto Monica. You have to know what
25:42
Speaker 1: you're drinking. But this is sparkling water and this has
25:45
Speaker 1: I think, like sixteen ounces of water. So again it's
25:50
Speaker 1: all about what works for you. But you know, keeping
25:54
Speaker 1: it simple and just hydration is another factor.
25:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, does sparkling water have the same benefit or is
26:01
Speaker 3: the way it's processed to have other issues?
26:03
Speaker 4: Like would you recommend is it still a good way?
26:06
Speaker 4: Because I I've often.
26:07
Speaker 3: Wondered that when I'm like and have some water, but
26:09
Speaker 3: I always want to have sparkling water. But that's is
26:11
Speaker 3: that just as good or is that not as good?
26:13
Speaker 1: Or so this is Italian sparkling water. Again, it has
26:17
Speaker 1: to be with what works for you. I for me,
26:20
Speaker 1: if I drink too much flat water, it will upset
26:22
Speaker 1: my stomach, so I like to kind of counterbalance that,
26:26
Speaker 1: have flat water and then add in sparkling water. I'll
26:29
Speaker 1: drink herbal teas as well, so you know that. So
26:34
Speaker 1: it really depends on what works for you. And I
26:36
Speaker 1: would say, fine, you know the you know, the cleanest
26:39
Speaker 1: sparkling water that's you know, bottled at the source, If
26:42
Speaker 1: that works to you, I mean sparkling water these some
26:45
Speaker 1: people it can be. It can bloat some people, some
26:47
Speaker 1: people not. So it's again it's really what works for you.
26:50
Speaker 1: But again, making sure that you get that hydration in
26:53
Speaker 1: is what's key.
26:55
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's totally I agree with the hydration.
26:58
Speaker 5: I'm curious, hearn, how are you raised? I mean I
27:01
Speaker 5: know how, like I know how I was raised on
27:04
Speaker 5: the foods that I was raised. And it is shocking,
27:08
Speaker 5: like literally shocking that Monica and I are sitting here
27:11
Speaker 5: today eating ding dongs for you know that.
27:14
Speaker 4: We're still here with you to talk about it. Yeah,
27:17
Speaker 4: I know we all did it.
27:18
Speaker 5: But I mean it's just like, you know, I look
27:20
Speaker 5: back on what my parents, and my parents are wonderful people,
27:23
Speaker 5: but no skin off, you know, they're like they just
27:26
Speaker 5: didn't know. So yeah, there's a lot of hot dogs,
27:29
Speaker 5: there's a lot of chips, there is a lot of
27:31
Speaker 5: cast roles, you know what I'm saying. So did you
27:34
Speaker 5: learn this as a child?
27:36
Speaker 2: Yes, Well, my mom, my mom raised us very healthy.
27:40
Speaker 1: She was you know, she had relatives who died early
27:44
Speaker 1: of cancer.
27:45
Speaker 2: My grandfather died of heart disease at the age of sixty.
27:48
Speaker 1: And she, my mother has just her personal passion has
27:51
Speaker 1: always been health and wellness and she just wanted to
27:55
Speaker 1: instill that in her children when we were growing up.
27:58
Speaker 1: And I will say, you know, I always wanted to
28:01
Speaker 1: have the doritos, you know, as a kid, but I
28:04
Speaker 1: had I had something called munchies, which tasted delicious actually
28:07
Speaker 1: you know, but again, like but she made it more
28:10
Speaker 1: of a lifestyle. And what what I appreciate them.
28:13
Speaker 2: Most about my mom that she did.
28:15
Speaker 1: She really instilled my love for produce and clean food.
28:20
Speaker 1: You know, so again it goes back to your talking
28:22
Speaker 1: about kids. You know, you want them to feel good
28:25
Speaker 1: about what they're eating, so you don't want to make.
28:26
Speaker 2: It totally just healthy.
28:28
Speaker 1: You want to kind of make a family affair, but
28:31
Speaker 1: you know, kind of let them taste the difference so
28:34
Speaker 1: they know they go back to what's good.
28:36
Speaker 2: But yes, that's how I was raised.
28:39
Speaker 1: I was I've always been very passionate about health and wellness.
28:42
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been working at I started working at
28:44
Speaker 1: a gym when I was, you know, in high school,
28:46
Speaker 1: and then I became a personal trainer and a fitness instructor.
28:49
Speaker 2: And you know just kind of like.
28:51
Speaker 1: Have always been recreating menus and foods and things like
28:54
Speaker 1: that to try to make them healthier when I was younger.
28:56
Speaker 1: And so, yeah, so I was raised with that in mind.
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Speaker 5: With Prody's first, yeah, Jess was curious that I wanted
29:04
Speaker 5: to hear yeah.
29:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, we have some other moms who would like
29:08
Speaker 3: to share their questions and thoughts with you, and they
29:11
Speaker 3: are our Zoomer moms. Welcome out, Zoomer Moms. Welcome to
29:14
Speaker 3: the Mom's Club. Hi, ladies, So I will introduce each
29:18
Speaker 3: one of you. Please tell us a little bit about
29:20
Speaker 3: yourself and where you're from, and you have kids, what
29:24
Speaker 3: do you do? And then do you have a question
29:26
Speaker 3: for Darren Kreem. Welcome to the Mom's Club.
29:29
Speaker 4: Hello everybody.
29:30
Speaker 9: I'm here in Boja City, Louisiana. I am a physician here,
29:37
Speaker 9: family welcome, working in street Foot Invosure and I have
29:43
Speaker 9: have been helping people learn how to eat healthy, exercise
29:48
Speaker 9: and all that, but I have a problem sometimes with
29:51
Speaker 9: getting them to follow my suggestions. So my question would
29:56
Speaker 9: be how do you help that young people?
30:00
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm finding that, of.
30:02
Speaker 9: Course, they love a lot of the fast foods, and
30:06
Speaker 9: when you tell them about eating the right way, they
30:09
Speaker 9: think that food is terrible. In fact, some of them.
30:12
Speaker 9: I've seen children even almost vomit when you try to
30:15
Speaker 9: give them just regular food to eat, because it's so
30:18
Speaker 9: used to eating the bad things. So how do you
30:23
Speaker 9: encourage the child You may have talked about that a
30:25
Speaker 9: little bit, but how do you encourage the children to
30:29
Speaker 9: eat more healthy and to help them to understand that
30:33
Speaker 9: what they're eating now is going to affect them later
30:36
Speaker 9: on in life.
30:38
Speaker 2: That is a great question for it. So nice to
30:39
Speaker 2: meet you. So a couple of things.
30:42
Speaker 1: One thing that I do also is I'm a lifestyle
30:45
Speaker 1: designer where I work with kids and families and individuals
30:48
Speaker 1: and help them kind of create a wardrobe of food
30:51
Speaker 1: that they enjoy that again make it approachable, attainable and
30:54
Speaker 1: enjoyable to eat nutrient dence and enjoy what you're.
30:58
Speaker 2: Eating with kids.
31:00
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of different things that you
31:02
Speaker 1: can do fast food again. You know, maybe it's working
31:06
Speaker 1: with them to say, Okay, you know we're not giving
31:07
Speaker 1: up fast food completely, but you know, before we go
31:11
Speaker 1: for McDonald's, you know, maybe we have I want you
31:14
Speaker 1: to try if to say, you know.
31:16
Speaker 2: Like a like a baked I think I'm making.
31:19
Speaker 1: Sense, but you know, sweet potato fries dipped in like
31:23
Speaker 1: a yogurt dip or something like that, you know, giving
31:25
Speaker 1: them the recipes. And also as a as a family practitioner,
31:28
Speaker 1: you might want to think about doing some sort of events,
31:31
Speaker 1: you know, in your office or whatever, where you can
31:33
Speaker 1: showcase different recipes and food and let the kids try
31:37
Speaker 1: them so they can see for themselves and kind of
31:39
Speaker 1: like breaking down the barrier.
31:41
Speaker 2: Making it more approachable so they can say, oh, wow,
31:43
Speaker 2: this is really good. You know, they don't even have
31:45
Speaker 2: to know that it's healthy or not.
31:46
Speaker 1: You could even just say these are fries and they
31:48
Speaker 1: try them, you know, these are special fries. So little
31:51
Speaker 1: things like that can make a big difference. And again,
31:54
Speaker 1: you know, teaching education is also important. You know, if
31:58
Speaker 1: you show them what's actually in the the foods, you know,
32:01
Speaker 1: letting them know to how that connects to their overall health.
32:04
Speaker 2: You know, do you have bad grades?
32:06
Speaker 1: You know, do you want to I mean without threatening,
32:08
Speaker 1: but you know, do you want to help them, you know,
32:10
Speaker 1: be better? You know, like have better brain help you know,
32:12
Speaker 1: be able to pass those tests or you know, be
32:15
Speaker 1: able to make it make the kids soccer team next
32:18
Speaker 1: year or whatever the case be. Kind of making it
32:20
Speaker 1: more personalized for them and not making it feel restrictive.
32:25
Speaker 1: You want it again, it's all about putting good things
32:27
Speaker 1: into your lifestyle that make you feel good inside and
32:32
Speaker 1: out and that you're happy about and that you enjoy.
32:34
Speaker 2: And from there, the change just kind of happens.
32:36
Speaker 1: It's not even it's a shift and it happens, and
32:38
Speaker 1: you know the kids will feel better and they'll be
32:40
Speaker 1: happy about their choices. So you know, I would think
32:44
Speaker 1: like again, like I work as a lifestyle designer and
32:46
Speaker 1: I you know, I work. I've worked with doctors before
32:48
Speaker 1: for their patients, and it's it's really about just you know,
32:53
Speaker 1: making it approachable and attainable and enjoyable.
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Speaker 4: That's a great suggestion.
32:58
Speaker 3: In fact, dont I mean you could do a contest
33:00
Speaker 3: for the kids where they have to guess what that
33:03
Speaker 3: vegetable is that they think you so delicious, and because
33:07
Speaker 3: sometimes they're shocked, you know, like that's Ellie, that's zucchini,
33:10
Speaker 3: I know, and like I wouldn't have guessed. So yeah,
33:12
Speaker 3: that's a very great suggestion. Renee, welcome to the mom's Club.
33:16
Speaker 3: Tell us a little bit about yourself, and do you
33:18
Speaker 3: have a question for Darren I do.
33:20
Speaker 4: Hey, guys, how's it going.
33:22
Speaker 10: I'm really enjoying this conversation, by the way, very timely.
33:25
Speaker 10: So my name's Renee. I live in Austin with my husband,
33:28
Speaker 10: Jerome and my eight year old son, Ellis, and I
33:32
Speaker 10: actually took some time off of a twenty five career,
33:34
Speaker 10: twenty five year career in sales and marketing, so spending
33:37
Speaker 10: a lot of time doing all the domestic things and
33:41
Speaker 10: trying to focus on nutrition, also going through prayer menopause.
33:45
Speaker 10: So really my bain has been meal planning. I absolutely
33:51
Speaker 10: I feel like Sunday comes and I get this tizzy
33:54
Speaker 10: where I just I'm not sure exactly what I have planned.
33:57
Speaker 10: And honestly, some days I'm like, oh, I guess my
34:00
Speaker 10: having pasta again, set a chicken, and so I want
34:04
Speaker 10: to make it more exciting for my family and myself.
34:06
Speaker 10: I want to balance all the nutrients. I mean, very
34:09
Speaker 10: active eight year old. I'm trying to be a more
34:12
Speaker 10: active myself again going through perimenopause. So how can I
34:16
Speaker 10: do this and not make it feel like such a chore?
34:20
Speaker 4: Good question?
34:20
Speaker 5: Good question.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's a great, great, great question. Nice to
34:24
Speaker 2: meet you, and a thank you so much. So a
34:26
Speaker 2: few things.
34:27
Speaker 1: One, you know, just making it simple, right, So if
34:31
Speaker 1: you go to the supermarket on shopping, you know you
34:34
Speaker 1: want to a again, incorporate as many much produce as
34:38
Speaker 1: you can because you can use it as a base
34:40
Speaker 1: for your meal planning. And then from there it really
34:43
Speaker 1: is about what your preferences are for you.
34:46
Speaker 2: And your family. You know, if you like chicken or you.
34:48
Speaker 1: Like pasta, you know, there's great ways to enjoy chicken
34:51
Speaker 1: and chicken if it's organic, you know, and you bake
34:53
Speaker 1: it in the oven.
34:54
Speaker 2: I mean, I I actually do this.
34:56
Speaker 1: I'm a dog mom, okay, and I do this for
34:58
Speaker 1: my dog and I we got to share the good.
35:00
Speaker 1: I buy our organic chicken, whole chicken legs, guys breast,
35:05
Speaker 1: and I bake it in the oven over vegetables, over
35:09
Speaker 1: organic vegetables, broccoli, carrots, poliflower. You know dogs can't have
35:13
Speaker 1: all vegetables and sweet potato. And if I tell you this,
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Speaker 1: dog is I love it.
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Speaker 2: He loves it. It's like and it's so healthy and good.
35:19
Speaker 2: It's tastes you know you feel good about. It's just
35:22
Speaker 2: using whole food ingredients and keeping it simple. You know
35:26
Speaker 2: that is one thing.
35:27
Speaker 1: And you know I would not I would make what
35:29
Speaker 1: you have, your husband have and your son kind of
35:33
Speaker 1: as a family together, right, you shouldn't be like separate food.
35:36
Speaker 1: They are great pastas that you can buy that are
35:38
Speaker 1: higher in fiber, that made, you know, with with protein.
35:43
Speaker 1: Some of them are plant plant plants while plant based,
35:45
Speaker 1: but you know you can buy things that are low
35:47
Speaker 1: in carbs, so and you can make that part of
35:50
Speaker 1: the meal. So you're getting the nutrients that you you need.
35:53
Speaker 1: Your husband's getting the teenaes and and your son is
35:55
Speaker 1: getting what he needs. So I don't know if the
35:57
Speaker 1: answers your question, but it's really like simplifying it, and.
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Speaker 10: I love it. I think I'm for complicating it, to
36:03
Speaker 10: be honest. There's so much information coming at at us
36:06
Speaker 10: these days that I don't know that I'm doing the
36:09
Speaker 10: right thing. But I think it's like with everything, just
36:12
Speaker 10: keep it simple.
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Speaker 5: Keep it simple.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I vet information, I vet products, and you really have
36:18
Speaker 1: to look at like it. Like I approach lifestyle. It's
36:21
Speaker 1: not a trend, right, it's it's what works for you.
36:24
Speaker 1: And it's kind of like fashion. You know, like bell
36:26
Speaker 1: bottoms are in style. Well not everyone loves bell bottoms,
36:29
Speaker 1: so don't wear them.
36:30
Speaker 2: Like, stick with what works for you. And that's the
36:32
Speaker 2: same thing with these food trends.
36:34
Speaker 1: You know, it's not it's not like okay, Like there's
36:37
Speaker 1: a company I know and I work with pub they'd
36:39
Speaker 1: make a low acid coffee and he's like.
36:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is going to be a trend. You know,
36:42
Speaker 2: the reality is like it already. It's it's a trend.
36:45
Speaker 2: But you don't want to jump on the bandwagon because
36:48
Speaker 2: it's a trend. You want to do it because it's
36:50
Speaker 2: good for you. It tastes good and you enjoy it,
36:52
Speaker 2: So that's the most important thing.
36:54
Speaker 1: You know. And yes coffee can be acidic, you know,
36:56
Speaker 1: so balancing it out and not having twelve cups a
36:58
Speaker 1: day or buying a.
36:59
Speaker 2: Lower acid coffee.
37:00
Speaker 1: But you don't want to do it just because someone's
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Speaker 1: telling you to do it. You want to do it
37:03
Speaker 1: because you enjoy it. And that's really what you fortified
37:07
Speaker 1: is about. It's really about all these different approaches and
37:10
Speaker 1: these products and these services and these ingredients and these
37:12
Speaker 1: chef inspired recipes to really help you navigate life and
37:16
Speaker 1: feel good, to make choices that you love, you know,
37:19
Speaker 1: and enjoy and you can pass on to your family
37:21
Speaker 1: and friends and experience in person.
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Speaker 3: Well, I like what you're saying about lifestyle and trends
37:27
Speaker 3: because my mother was a really a wonderful cook and
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Speaker 3: cooked healthy. I mean, I don't want to leave the
37:34
Speaker 3: impression that she just served me being dongs all the time.
37:36
Speaker 3: We actually when I was growing up, she'd make a
37:39
Speaker 3: meal and it was a complete meal. It was very healthy,
37:42
Speaker 3: and we all had to eat the same thing. I
37:44
Speaker 3: think there became a trend when my kids were little
37:47
Speaker 3: that it was sort of like, well, my husband and
37:49
Speaker 3: I are going to eat this, but the kids are
37:52
Speaker 3: going to have something else that's more appealing to them,
37:54
Speaker 3: and we were all then it got overwhelming as and
37:57
Speaker 3: I'm a terrible cook. If you want to be overwhelmed,
37:59
Speaker 3: be either me cooking it or them trying to eat it.
38:02
Speaker 4: It's all bad. But I think, yeah, well you just
38:05
Speaker 4: suggested kind.
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Speaker 3: Of going back the way we used to eat as
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Speaker 3: a family, where you're not trying to cater to every
38:11
Speaker 3: single person's personal taste and needs.
38:14
Speaker 4: And ages and all of that, but just to be healthy.
38:17
Speaker 4: So I love that.
38:19
Speaker 3: Alisa, welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us a little
38:21
Speaker 3: about yourself, and you have a question for Darren.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely so glad to be here.
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Speaker 6: My name is a Lisa Sample Alexander, and I'm so
38:29
Speaker 6: excited to talk to you, Darren. I'm coming to you
38:32
Speaker 6: out of the Dallas Fort Worth area, right.
38:34
Speaker 2: So, Texas, Big Texas. That's right, that's right.
38:39
Speaker 6: And I have been blessed to just do a lot
38:42
Speaker 6: of different things. I'm an author. You can look me
38:45
Speaker 6: up on Amazon. I create coloring books for kids, coloring
38:49
Speaker 6: books for adults, as well as work books and journals
38:54
Speaker 6: as well. In fact, I just came out in May
38:56
Speaker 6: with three new journals for Mother's Day. So I'm so
38:59
Speaker 6: excited about that. As I speak, I train and related
39:03
Speaker 6: to this conversation, Darren, I'm so excited to talk to you.
39:10
Speaker 6: I'm so excited to talk to you because I've lost
39:12
Speaker 6: over one hundred pounds. Oh wow, yeah, over, thank you,
39:19
Speaker 6: thank you so much, and it took me three years.
39:22
Speaker 6: It took me three years to do it. Now, I
39:26
Speaker 6: promise you. In my mind, I'm just going crazy right
39:28
Speaker 6: now because we've used the word trend more in the
39:31
Speaker 6: past five to six minutes than we have in the
39:34
Speaker 6: entire conversation. And that's the question I wanted to ask.
39:38
Speaker 6: So you have to be excited, Daryn, because in my mind,
39:41
Speaker 6: we're in the middle of a health and wellness revolution.
39:45
Speaker 6: Every strip mall now has a medspot that can do
39:48
Speaker 6: this or that. We read articles, we look at television.
39:53
Speaker 6: Cottage Cheese is having a whole revival, you know right now,
39:58
Speaker 6: Like who ever knew the cottage Cheese than that an
40:00
Speaker 6: air fryer and that a vibration plate, right well, yeah, yeah, exactly.
40:05
Speaker 6: That's exactly why I want to ask you. So, Darren,
40:08
Speaker 6: what are you seeing out there that you're excited about?
40:12
Speaker 6: Because for someone who's taken three years and kind of uh,
40:16
Speaker 6: brand new to this this world. You know, there's new
40:19
Speaker 6: health and wellness world. I'm more artistic, I'm a writer,
40:22
Speaker 6: I'm a thespian, I'm a singer, I love people. I
40:26
Speaker 6: interact with people, but not in the gym until the
40:29
Speaker 6: last few years, right until the last three years, and
40:32
Speaker 6: so all of this has been brand new to me.
40:35
Speaker 6: And how exciting, you know, how exciting is it all?
40:38
Speaker 6: I heard what you said about trends before, but I
40:41
Speaker 6: have to think that there's something that we're doing now
40:45
Speaker 6: that we weren't doing before, are talking about now that
40:48
Speaker 6: we were talking about before that you're excited about.
40:51
Speaker 9: And I'd love to know what that is.
40:53
Speaker 2: That's a great question. And it's so nice to meet you.
40:56
Speaker 2: And congratulations on that weight loss. That is amazing that
40:59
Speaker 2: you picked it off, it's even more amazing, So kudos
41:02
Speaker 2: to you. That's amazing. What I'm really excited.
41:05
Speaker 1: About is what's going on now, you know, with Make
41:10
Speaker 1: America Healthy Again, because you.
41:12
Speaker 2: Know, what what.
41:14
Speaker 1: Is happening is that the consumers are becoming more knowledgeable
41:18
Speaker 1: and the government, Robert Kennedy and his movement is and
41:21
Speaker 1: doctorized are trying to really make it easier for.
41:25
Speaker 2: Consumers to make healthier choices.
41:28
Speaker 1: They were moving food colorings and dyes and you know,
41:31
Speaker 1: inflammatory ingredients from processed food, which it is helpful to
41:37
Speaker 1: do that because you know, again if they're still not
41:39
Speaker 1: totally healthy, but it's little less cancer or diabetes or
41:44
Speaker 1: you know, other diseases that you're going to develop from
41:47
Speaker 1: eating that stuff or too much of it. You know again,
41:49
Speaker 1: one bag a month, Okay, fine if you must have it,
41:51
Speaker 1: but not every day. So I'm really excited about that.
41:55
Speaker 1: I'm really excited that that you know about produce and
41:58
Speaker 1: about that you know, produce and fresh food is becoming
42:02
Speaker 1: more important to people and incorporating that into more of
42:06
Speaker 1: a daily lifestyle. I think that's important. I think that
42:09
Speaker 1: you know, used to be you know, everything was a
42:12
Speaker 1: trend years ago, like okay, this is like your exercise.
42:15
Speaker 1: You know, everyone was cycling, everyone was spinning, and now
42:17
Speaker 1: like it's really about a little bit more personalization, what
42:20
Speaker 1: works for you.
42:21
Speaker 2: You know.
42:21
Speaker 1: Again, you know, we're not talking about only eating one way,
42:26
Speaker 1: although there are articles. My mom, I love her, you know,
42:28
Speaker 1: she's into health and wellness, but she calls me up
42:30
Speaker 1: every day. Oh you know, did you hear that if
42:33
Speaker 1: you eat dish you can get that or you have
42:35
Speaker 1: to go planting. So there's more information out there, but
42:39
Speaker 1: there's more options, which I'm really excited about. There's a
42:41
Speaker 1: lot more options that make it easier for people to
42:45
Speaker 1: live well and enjoy it right.
42:47
Speaker 2: So it used to be years ago. You know, bread,
42:49
Speaker 2: for instance, a great example, bread had different choices. You
42:52
Speaker 2: had wonderbread, you know, white bread, you had you know,
42:55
Speaker 2: one whole week brand, and you had a whole brain.
42:57
Speaker 1: Now there are so many options when it comes to
43:00
Speaker 1: you have a higher fiber bread that has you know,
43:03
Speaker 1: nutrients and some protein. You have protein breads you know again,
43:08
Speaker 1: you know, you have plant based breads made from like,
43:11
Speaker 1: you know, vegetables or avocado breads. Again, it's all about
43:15
Speaker 1: the ingredients that are in there first. And I VET
43:18
Speaker 1: hundreds of products because you know, I could be in
43:20
Speaker 1: the supermarket and some online and someone's buying and I
43:24
Speaker 1: won't name the brand, okay, but they're buying a popcorn
43:27
Speaker 1: brand that you know has a celebrity endorsing them on
43:29
Speaker 1: TV and it says only forty calories a cup.
43:32
Speaker 2: But when you look at the label it's got unhealthy
43:35
Speaker 2: oils in that. That again fine for once in a
43:38
Speaker 2: blue moon, but why eat sunflower oil or processed oils,
43:45
Speaker 2: you know.
43:46
Speaker 1: Man made oils when you could simply get another popcorn
43:48
Speaker 1: bag that's made with olive oil or avocata oil or
43:51
Speaker 1: so you know, so or make your own at home
43:54
Speaker 1: and put some parmesan cheese on it. So you know,
43:56
Speaker 1: there's just so many different options now that were that's
43:59
Speaker 1: so that weren't available. And what I like to do
44:01
Speaker 1: with you fortified and with my you know, my media content,
44:04
Speaker 1: my events, and then my lifestyle designing, you know, my
44:07
Speaker 1: my my one on one designing is that I vet
44:10
Speaker 1: everything for the for the consumer, and I make it
44:14
Speaker 1: easy for them to make the choices that works for
44:17
Speaker 1: their body, because everybody, like I said before, is different
44:19
Speaker 1: and everybody.
44:20
Speaker 2: Is an individual and you have to go what works
44:23
Speaker 2: for you. So and I do love.
44:24
Speaker 1: Cottage cheese, and I was eating cottage cheese, you know,
44:27
Speaker 1: we would have bagels and locks and I would say,
44:30
Speaker 1: you know what, well, I go for the cream cheese.
44:33
Speaker 2: Nothing wrong with cream cheese.
44:34
Speaker 1: When I could have a cottage cheese, it's so much
44:36
Speaker 1: more high in protein and more satisfying.
44:38
Speaker 5: So so yeah, so as long as it's in my smoothie,
44:42
Speaker 5: I'm okay with that.
44:43
Speaker 8: Yeah.
44:43
Speaker 6: I just bought the Emerging blend, the Emerging the blender
44:46
Speaker 6: that you can put in the Cottage cheese, so that
44:49
Speaker 6: I can do all the exciting things, all the exalth
44:52
Speaker 6: and then one last thing, Darren, I tell you what
44:54
Speaker 6: I'm most excited about losing the one hundred pounds. My
44:58
Speaker 6: daughter being a mom my watching me, she lost thirty
45:02
Speaker 6: five pounds.
45:02
Speaker 2: Oh so exciting.
45:05
Speaker 4: That is tremendous.
45:09
Speaker 6: One of the things I've been telling people, Darren, is
45:11
Speaker 6: that it's not an exciting story. You know, there's nothing
45:15
Speaker 6: exciting about it. I lived in a calorie deficit for
45:18
Speaker 6: three years. I decided that exercise was non negotiable. I
45:22
Speaker 6: decided that my family didn't need to eat Thanksgiving dinner
45:25
Speaker 6: every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday night. And most important,
45:30
Speaker 6: the most important thing I can tell you is that
45:32
Speaker 6: I learned to love myself and put myself first. There's
45:36
Speaker 6: a scripture, doctor Bowh. When I know you agree, there's
45:38
Speaker 6: a scripture that says that we're to love our neighbors.
45:41
Speaker 6: But the other side of that says, as we love
45:43
Speaker 6: ourselves and so doing that, it may it helped me
45:46
Speaker 6: make that mental switch in a way that I had
45:49
Speaker 6: never made it before. It made such an impact on
45:52
Speaker 6: me and obviously an impact on my daughter as well.
45:55
Speaker 6: So thanks for asking me that question.
45:57
Speaker 5: That's great, That is great. I like how you answered that.
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Speaker 5: More exciting choices, good choices. We have better choices.
46:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, and thank you Darren. I mean I could go on.
46:07
Speaker 3: I've been sitting her thinking of five more questions, but
46:09
Speaker 3: unfortunately we're, as they say, out of time. Yeah, but
46:13
Speaker 3: thank you so much. Where can our audience find more
46:16
Speaker 3: information about you, Fortified?
46:18
Speaker 2: You can find more information that you Fortified.
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Speaker 1: It's yo U F O R T I F I
46:23
Speaker 1: E D lifestyle dot com and you can see some
46:27
Speaker 1: TV segments or events that we do a little bit
46:29
Speaker 1: of content and message me, you know, follow us. We
46:33
Speaker 1: also promoked up on social media. Let's have simple ways
46:36
Speaker 1: that you can just make small modifications. And thank you
46:39
Speaker 1: so much for having me. It's wonderful. I love the
46:41
Speaker 1: Mom's Club and I would love to come back, so
46:43
Speaker 1: thank you.
46:43
Speaker 3: Thank you. Well, actually maybe we could get her back, well, Julie,
46:46
Speaker 3: you and I could incorporate a lot of the things
46:48
Speaker 3: that she's just shared, and we'll take up before and
46:51
Speaker 3: after picture after the show, we're gonna take a picture.
46:53
Speaker 5: So we'll take up before and after.
46:56
Speaker 4: No, we both have to do it, and hey support
46:59
Speaker 4: to each other. I'm going to do your straight class.
47:01
Speaker 4: I guess yeah you can. We can.
47:03
Speaker 5: I've done it before.
47:04
Speaker 4: I'm not afraid produce and and Bill I can't wait.
47:08
Speaker 4: So yes, thank you so much, Jarin. We would love
47:10
Speaker 4: to have you back.
47:12
Speaker 5: We would like I mean, I just have to say
47:14
Speaker 5: one thing that I know how frustrating it has to
47:17
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47:21
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47:25
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47:30
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48:25
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48:27
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48:28
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48:32
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48:35
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48:36
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48:39
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