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The Why Not Today? Podcast - Season 3 - Episode 40, Elaine Gibson, Renewed Living · Why Not Today? with Leslie Kane

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Welcome to the Why Not Today podcast where we celebrate courage, determination, and the
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power of saying, Why Not Today.
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I'm your host, Leslie Cain, and in each episode we dive into inspiring stories of individuals
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who have taken bold steps, faced their fears, and embraced the possibility of today.
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From entrepreneurs to artists, dreamers to doers, we explore the moments when they said,
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Enough Waiting, Why Not Today.
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Join me as we uncover the heartwarming, the audacious, and the transformative, whether
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it's pursuing a lifelong passion, overcoming obstacles, or simply choosing joy.
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Our guests share their journeys and inspire us all.
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I started this podcast to honor my father, Patrick Cain, who often said, Why Not Today.
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And remember, you're just one decision away from changing your life.
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And I am excited to find out more about my guests.
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I don't know really well.
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We did a call the other day, but I felt like after our call, the introduction call, I feel
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like I've been in you forever.
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And we were connected with lots of different people on Facebook and things.
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But I officially met Elaine, or saw you speak at Tina Johnson's Women's Summit about a month
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ago.
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And then, as I said, we did a call and you're just, we've got lots of great connections.
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And I felt like you were my long-last friend when we talked the other day.
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And so I'm excited to hear your story and share with our guests.
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You've definitely got a health journey and lots of courage.
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So before we officially get started with that, why don't you introduce yourself, Elaine,
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and a fun fact about you.
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Okay.
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Well, hi, Leslie.
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Thank you so much.
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I felt the same way.
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And what was so such fun is that our connections were like, they were all in left field.
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And it was great.
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And I love this whole thing and your connection with your dad.
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And I have that special thing with mine, which is why I have 14 butterfly bushes around my
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house because every time I see a butterfly, it's my father and my mother.
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I've always thought that too, just another connection.
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I'm not surprised.
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And a good friend of mine passed away last year, unfortunately, in the day of his funeral
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where he was sitting outside his mom's house and a butterfly flew on his cousin's hand
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and just sat there.
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And then it flew on my hand and I took a picture of it, literally sat on my hand for a half
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an hour until I shoot it away.
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Yes.
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Absolutely.
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Yeah.
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I see them in these strangest places.
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Yeah.
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Go, hi, dad.
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Hi, mom.
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Thanks for coming.
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I love that.
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Another connection.
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Another connection.
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Introduce yourself in a little bit about who Elaine is.
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Okay.
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Well, I am Elaine Gibson and I am the ultimate Jewish grandmother from New York City.
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Born in Chicago, raised in New York.
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So I was the child my mother was told she could never have.
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Oh, wow.
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In those days, I mean, just in full disclosure on Mother's Day weekend, actually 80 years
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old.
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And in those days, so my mom had romantic fever.
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And in those days, they were, which was like a gazillion years ago, they were very concerned
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about the heart and all this and that.
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So she was told she couldn't have any more children.
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So my dad, who was in the retail business because during the Depression, he took his
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father out of a ditch who was trying to get money to send him to medical school.
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Oh, wow.
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Yeah, it was all.
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So he was transferred to Chicago from New York.
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My mom goes in for her checkup and they say the doctor says, well, Jeanette, how am I
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going to be doing more children?
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And she said, well, I was told I couldn't.
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And he said, that's ridiculous.
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You're healthy.
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Your heart is healthy as an ox.
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Go home and make a little girl.
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Aw.
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So 11 months later on Mother's Day, I was born.
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Oh, how special.
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No fun.
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Yes.
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That's not the fun fact.
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That's just part of what.
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Part of who I am, right?
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For whatever that means.
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So here's the fun fact.
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I act.
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So when I grew up in New York, I was certain I was fortunate of less than that my parents
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could take me to Broadway in a very early age.
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I actually saw Sammy Davis Jr. on Broadway.
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I saw Mary Barrett and play Peter Pan originate the role.
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So I just fell in love with it.
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And I, so my fun fact is that with all the science and all those other things I have with
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what I do, I actually have a graduate degree in dance.
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Wow.
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Yes.
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And I see the world through music.
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Yes.
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And everything I do is filled with music and musical references and all that.
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So that's my fun fact.
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I actually have a graduate degree in dance and my most fun role was in a dinner theater
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in Gypsy playing one of the strippers who lit up in the dark.
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Yeah.
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Have fun.
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But I'm a city girl and I went to summer camp from the age of eight.
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We did that in New York.
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If we were fortunate enough.
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I went away for eight weeks and now my children have gone and my grandchildren, everybody's
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on the same thing.
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I'm all about legacy and all of that.
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Awesome.
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But this is where I fell in love with my girlfriends.
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It was a brother and sister camp.
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And this is where I was happiest my whole life.
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And this is why everything that I do now is for and with women.
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So yeah, I had a great childhood, very, very, very, very much love, but very, very different
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times.
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So I never was encouraged to be my best.
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Right.
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Because women weren't doing this.
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Right.
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Gloria Stein and we're talking about, right?
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Yeah.
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So I grew up in New York and went to summer camp and then met my first husband, my children's
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father.
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And then we came to Washington, DC during the Ed Muskie campaign and now I'm remarried
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and live in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley.
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We married for almost 34 years now.
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I have six grandchildren and they still call me Gaga.
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Even my six to grant six foot two grandson, who's 26 still calls me Gaga.
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You know, that connection of a grandparents is amazing.
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I know one time my nephew, I said something not really nice to my mother.
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I don't remember what it was, but she annoyed me and my nephew looked at me and goes, don't
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talk to my grandma like that.
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And I'm like, you're on team grandma.
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He's like, that is the only team to be on.
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The only team.
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Yeah.
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That's so powerful.
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So yeah, I love the summer camp.
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I didn't get to go to summer camp.
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I was the oldest of six kids and we from the age of 10, we lived on a lake and grew up
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in Reston.
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There were pools everywhere.
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Oh, sure.
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Right.
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So like there was no summer camp.
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We were summer camp.
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You were.
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Yeah.
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And but you did all the fun things.
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And growing up in New York, I mean, I never saw trees and stuff, you know.
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So now, now I'm the, the now, you know, I, I work.
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Yeah.
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I'm in the Shenandoah Valley, I feel like I'm at summer camp.
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Love it.
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Oh, they long.
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So Elaine, what does courage mean?
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Courage to me means trusting your soul.
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We are so bombarded with other things.
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You know, we all have monkey mind.
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We all are mind always tells us stories and creates so much doubt, but we know inside what's
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right.
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We know inside who we are.
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And as you know, I, I now I work with women that have cancer, having beaten stage four
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cancer without traditional protocols.
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This is what I do.
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But it's trusting how we're created because we know we really know inside us who we are
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and what we want to do.
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And trusting that is the seed of courage.
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Yeah.
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And I kind of call those sometimes my why not today moments with people.
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It's like, you know, the thing and you wake up in the middle of the night or it's just
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been ruminating your head and you finally say, yes, you trust your soul because there
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is so much noise out there and so much comparison, so much judgment, so much doubt.
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And you know, as women too, we do have that doubt that we just came naturally and we've
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had to fight to be more confident, but to be able to trust ourselves and not look left
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to right or back or forward just to go for it and trust that soul.
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So I love that definition.
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Oh, good.
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I'm good.
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Yeah.
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So everybody's got a different one.
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It's interesting.
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The only person that's ever looked it up is my brother.
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All right.
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So you've had a journey and lots of courage.
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And I always say where we start and where we finish are completely different.
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So as a dancer to now working in the health field, you've come a long way.
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So can you share maybe some why not today moments, part of your current journey that
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would encourage somebody else and share your story?
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Sure.
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So in 2001, I was diagnosed with a very early stage cancer, non-Hatch-Kunstl-Sama.
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I went out of the country, they didn't do the things I wanted at that point.
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I just knew that at that moment, why not today trusting that I just wasn't ready to follow
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traditional.
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I had been in, I spent a lot of, you know, growing up when I grew up, the only thing that
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I really was led to, and this is not judgment.
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This is to have a teacher certificate in my back pocket.
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Okay.
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You know, and I did.
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Were you a teacher?
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I was.
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Okay.
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I was actually in New Haven, Connecticut during the riots in the 60s, and they built
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a brand new high school in the middle of the city, and they bust in all the suburban
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kids.
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Wow.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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And you started with a degree in dance.
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I had started with a degree in education in CIS ed.
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I grew up on third base.
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I was in CIS ed.
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It was a great way to get to kids.
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But using that, so we did West Side Story, and we had a Black Maria, and a White Tony,
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and things like that.
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But I just never really had anything that I was passionate about.
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That was in a line, in a lane, in a journey to be successful in this culture.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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You know, we both know Tina very well.
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She's been a mentor of mine for quite a long time, and she's sponsored everything that
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we do as well.
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And when all those archetype things like strength finders, or all of these things, I am way
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outside the line.
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I mean, I'm so far outside the line that it's almost not even digitized.
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Wow.
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And I'm usually right in between the lines.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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Not strong on everything, but a little of a line.
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I am the extreme creative, which makes it challenging to get things done.
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But I never really had a path that, you know, my children have great careers.
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My grandchildren have great, but I never really was taught to be my best, find my best.
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But there was always something inside me, right?
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Oh, it's there.
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Yes.
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And it was always there.
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It was knocking at the door, and it was like, it was just always something more.
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So I had my help, moment, defining moment, right?
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Financing.
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Yeah.
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And so I, in six months, I was cancer-free, right?
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You know, awesome.
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18 months after being cancer-free for five years, I come back from the Galapagos Islands,
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and I had some things because as a dancer and an athlete, I'm very, very, very tuned
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into my body, right?
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Right.
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Right.
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And it was like, so I thought I had a parasite, right?
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What else would it be?
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So two and a half months later, I found myself in front of a woman who said, we don't think
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you're going to see your grandchildren draw up.
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And it's like, have you ever met a Jewish grandmother from New York?
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I mean, I don't understand who you're having this conversation with.
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So I went on my journey, which was to do things in it, moderate, integrated, but did
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a lot of building up my body.
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How did the health, what are the healthiest people, what are the healthiest people do?
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Right.
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Later, I found myself cancer-free again.
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Now, I had already started a business.
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I was in, um, freeing healthy holistic homes, getting in that, doing some workshops and
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stuff like that.
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So now I, now I have a, you know, it's interesting the word that came to me was gift.
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So now I have something where I think I can make a difference.
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But you know what?
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Starting your own business is insane.
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Yes.
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And that's why I do this podcast and do coaching for women because it's hard work.
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It, yeah, it's very realistic.
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And I'm not structured.
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So I have a great team around me.
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My team's been with me 10 or 12 years, but which is why I have somebody like Tina who's
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there, you know, because somewhere in the middle, there, there is some things that can
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get done.
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Right.
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But so here are some, some defining moments for that I have come across in my experience.
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First of all, people are basically good.
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Okay.
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In camp, when everybody was away from everybody else, now I started at eight.
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I went until I got married.
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Then I went back with my kids were there.
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Now my grandchildren are there.
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But when kids are together without all the bombarding, they become brothers, they become
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sisters and it's lifetime.
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I have girlfriends from when I was eight from.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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And I see it with my children and my grandchildren.
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So now my son, so my children are 54 and 56, my sons in California, his boys go to UT
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in Austin.
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He has, this is crazy.
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Each one of those boys have fraternity brothers from my world.
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One of them, Noah has a fraternity brother who is the grandson of one of the two, my
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best friends from when we were eight years old in camp.
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So it, you know, it's this connection.
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I'm all about connections.
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Yeah.
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Somebody told me one time that was, I had a crazy connection with someone and she goes,
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when you're living your life in alignment to your values, those connections appear.
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Yes.
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And not everybody can take that person that does.
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I've had women say, you scare me.
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I'm sorry.
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And I think to myself, you need to get some of these toxins out of your body so you could
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feel joyful, you know.
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Yeah.
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Feel the energy.
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So here's what, here's what I started to see.
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Aside from the, the, the wonderful, the wonderful way people were living just from the technologies
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whether it's the water we use, the air, any of that.
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So now I start putting together, because now I'm the counselor, the teacher, right?
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And I can do it my way.
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So, so, and I don't mean my way, the highway, just mean I can create it around joy and,
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and legacy because that's what I'm all about, right?
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So I started to see that as I was working with women, their lives changed, their businesses
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changed, their careers changed.
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And it was like, wow, that's kind of really cool.
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So I was doing it.
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I mean, I had one woman that came to me to lose weight.
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We met at a business, business conference, because at that time I had lost 28 pounds
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just trying to eat, right?
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And all that.
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And she was a nurse, but she was running her husband's dental office.
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So now she's a very influential person in the hospice nursing space because the cleaner
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your body, the deeper your thoughts.
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Oh, true.
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When you get rid of all the toxins and the chemicals in your body, it gets rid of all
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that stuff that clouds us, that makes us feel less than.
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So I am finding women doing amazing things.
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And then I decided that from private coaching, which I love, I needed to touch more people.
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And so now we do it in groups.
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And it's just amazing.
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But the deeper, the cleaner your body, the deeper your thoughts, and hence the greater
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your impact.
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And for me, that's what it's all about.
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I have seen women do less because they feel less than physically.
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You know, I mean, you heard me saying, and it's true, but it's hard to change the world
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when you can't even poop, right?
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But the same when you can't sleep or when you don't feel it.
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Just don't get the stuff done.
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And sometimes it just means that you're not going to your kid's sock game or whatever
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that is.
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So putting that together, you know, when at almost 80, I'm in a 55 and over resort community
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and everybody's out doing all these things.
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And I do them.
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And I don't deprive myself of anything.
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But I just love, love, love the women I work with.
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And then I see what their impact is.
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And that's, that is to me, the greatest way to have an impact and to change the world
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and to have your legacy because we all have a ripple that they're just all different.
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Right.
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And that ripple effect.
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And I often wear and I've got it on today.
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I'm wearing a starfish necklace.
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Do you know the story of the starfish?
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I do.
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Yeah.
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So, you know, you just never know who that one person you're going to touch.
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Exactly.
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Or who that one person that's going to take your life, your business in a totally different
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trajectory.
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Right.
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And it's being open to those people.
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As you said, the energy, the friends be open to, you know, when people have been introduced
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to a lot more people recently because of the podcast, people are like, oh, you need to
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meet this person, you should talk to this person.
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And I try to have a conversation beforehand and just to see if we have matching energy.
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This is, this podcast is my baby and I want to make sure I have the right people on it.
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And not just somebody because they wrote a book or they think they've done something
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amazing to be, you know, to feel that energy, feel that connection with somebody and make
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a difference because you just never know who's listening.
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I've run into a couple of people, like one person I ran into, she's like, oh, you're
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Leslie with the podcast.
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And I'm like, and this was a year or so ago.
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Yeah.
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And I'm like, yes, she's my, your sister told me about it and I've been listening to it
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on the way to work.
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And I actually, because of listening to it, quit my job and my commute to have a job closer
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to home because you gave me permission.
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So that's why I love the journey and what you're doing.
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And I'm bummed I missed the training you did with Tina's group the other day.
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I need to try to find a recording.
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But so if you could share, you know, we all know health is important and there's so many
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different ideas and thoughts.
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But if somebody wanted to like, okay, what's the first step to, or the first couple steps
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to making a difference and in your own body and your own life.
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That's a great question.
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And I don't say that because you're supposed to say that's a great question.
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Most people don't ask that question.
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So remember, I'm the dancer and choreographer, I've done many much geographies professionally
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and in schools and stuff like that.
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But here's the thing for me, and because I'm so all I can be so all over the place, I must
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follow the science.
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And when we follow the science, there is a platform to stand on and be courageous with
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because you know, my intention is to help women and everybody create bodies where where
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disease and inflammation and autoimmune can't live.
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So basically, most of the time, we're filling our bodies with calories, but our cells are
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starving for nutrients and oxygen.
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So we've gone to processed foods, we've gone to fad diets, people listen, I've got all
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the badges, Weight Watchers, NutriSystems, Jenny Craig, my mother and I even did the
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Rhybrid diet.
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Did you imagine that?
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I haven't heard of that one.
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I know.
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Well, you know, when you're in Jewish community, it was Jewish Rhybrid and you have that with
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everything.
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But understanding that this is not a religious statement, okay, that we are created to be
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healthy, that God has given us everything that we need.
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So everything that we do is turning to nature for all solutions.
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Right.
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And most people, you know, you people are dehydrated and all this and that is because
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we are lacking nutrients and oxygen.
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So when we look at the water we drink or the food that we eat, it must be natural.
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And I call it eating from God's garden, right?
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So giving up processed foods.
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And I'm not about depriving anything.
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I mean, there's nothing about me that screams deprivation.
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Right.
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Nothing, right?
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It's not about, oh, do I have to give this up?
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No, like I never care what you're eating as long as you're eating from the right list.
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You know, so for people that are looking just to start, if you can look at things like dairy
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and sugar and wheat, this is the science behind the cells.
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Okay, we all hear without getting so scientific, but we all hear free radicals, free everybody,
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here's a free radicals, but nobody knows what it really means.
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And for, you know, we're walking around with more damaged cells and we have healthy cells.
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So everything has energy, you know that everything has a positive and negative charge.
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So a damaged cell when we have inflammation, we can't sleep or anything like that.
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We have too many cells that have lost that negative charge.
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And that's because we're not eating from the earth anymore, which is, you know, that's
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all that's all.
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Right.
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And to whole foods, mostly vegetables, not so much fruit, I call the 80-20, you know,
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for every fruit you have, which is has sugar.
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Yes, it's natural.
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Just be sure that you bounce it with like 80% of the other more green and stuff like
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that.
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And it's not difficult, but when you can just know that you are feeding yourselves, that
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is the biggest form of self-care, which women don't do enough of.
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So if you, you know, I start every day with hot water with lemon.
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It's a way to honor yourself to begin the day.
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Right.
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And you can tell yourself first, and that brings oxygen and all that to your brain.
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And you start to feel better.
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Look at some of the, look at bringing some of the most alkaline, oxygen-rich foods.
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Kale, spinach, celery, avocado, chard, all these.
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All that stuff is good for you and makes you feel better.
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But how come, and I don't know if it's just me or other people that, and it may be upbringing
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too.
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You're tired, you're fatigued, you're stressed, it's the end of the day.
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I go, I don't, the healthy things, although I feel better after I eat it.
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That's not what I go to.
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Because you've gone too far without it.
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Yeah.
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If you're feeling here, if you're feeling tired, listen, you've been coaching women,
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you know about business, you have a business, you have businesses.
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What you do today is a reflection of what you did 90 days before in your business.
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How you feel at this very moment is a reflection of what you've put in your body the last 24
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hours.
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Yeah.
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So just making, and I know, make those better choices, eat those healthy things.
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But so here's the thing, that's the courage of trusting your soul.
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When you are, you are who you are and you want to be.
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So in my, everything around me has to do with my family.
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I wear jewelry that was my mother's and my late sister-in-laws.
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Right?
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I mean, this is, I surround myself.
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This was my mother's vanity, her makeup table.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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So this is, so when, this just goes back to courage.
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When you understand that eating from God's garden, this, we have so much beautiful produce.
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He has such great things.
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You know, just do it.
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And I know that, you know, we have X amount of time, but you said you feel better.
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So why not feel better earlier?
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Yeah.
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It all makes sense.
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And I know all that stuff.
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Well, so here's a great quote.
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Knowing and not doing is not knowing.
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That's true.
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Knowing and not doing is not knowing.
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Right?
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And then the other quote that I love is from John Wooden, who was the most successful basketball
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coach in college history.
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Is that it's what you learn after you know it all that matters.
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And you say that again.
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It's what you learn after you know it all that matters.
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And that's just helping us let go, letting go of things that don't do, don't do a service.
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You know, that don't support us.
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You are so right.
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And when you're trusting your soul and you're always there, then you, then it's easier to
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make it's easier to make better choices because we are tuned into that soul, who we are, who
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we want to be, what we want to do all the time.
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And of course that has to do with being present all the time.
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I mean, there's a lot we're talking about.
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I could guess.
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And I know we could go on and on.
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And so it's having that courage to say why not today and get rid of the junk in your
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house.
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So if we could reverse that, if I may, sure, bring wonderful things in.
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I was about to say bring good things in.
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Yes.
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So talking about bringing things in the positive things rather than I have to get rid of this,
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I have to get rid of that.
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So what, what, what can I bring in today?
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Right.
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And eat what you love.
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Eat what you love.
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Let me just say it's everybody knows when you are craving sweets, your body is asking
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for fat.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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So eat some avocado and cooking it.
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Right.
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It's just, it's amazing.
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Yeah.
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So, yeah.
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Last week and learn, we could go on and on forever.
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Yeah.
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And listen to the whisper of your body.
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You said, when you're tired, okay, what, what is, what is it asking for?
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Yesterday with this time change, I was very tired.
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Like a nap would be good.
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And I took the dog out.
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I'm like, you know what, we're just going to go all the way around the lake because I'll
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feel much better.
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Did you?
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I did.
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Of course.
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Yeah.
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High exercising, moving and being outside and.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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All the things.
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You go girlfriend.
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I know all the stuff.
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So how would you encourage somebody else to start that journey?
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I know we kind of just talked about that, but encourage somebody to take, to say why not
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today to take their health seriously.
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And take care of themselves.
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I would encourage anybody to get out in nature.
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Let me just say these decisions are not made in the middle of chaos.
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That's true.
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Right.
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Unless we are present, we will never make a decision.
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So you said it.
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You didn't even know why, but get out in nature.
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Remember everything I turned to nature, nature, get out into in nature, walk out for five
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minutes, just be by yourself, take a hot bubble bath, whatever it is, just sit, even
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if you're just sitting quietly and breathing and you're thinking about who am I?
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What do I really want?
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And this has to come first.
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Otherwise, it's very easy to be distracted.
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You had a dog that you love that needed to go out.
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You hadn't had that.
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Perhaps you wouldn't have gone out.
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Probably not.
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Yeah.
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So think quietly.
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Find a way to be present, whether it's breathing, whether it's having a cup of hot water with
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lemon, whether it's walking.
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I'm telling you, walk out in nature for five minutes and you will have a different energy
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source around you.
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Yeah.
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I know that for sure.
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And I live on a lake.
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So yeah.
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Exactly.
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And I want to be able to go out and walk around and make such a difference.
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So we have some, I have a method called extraordinary living made easy, right?
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And it's trade locked and all that.
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But I have like, what are your my extraordinary vision?
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What is my, and I have all these words, my extraordinary vision, my extraordinary intentions.
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What are they?
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Whether you think about them or write them down for me, you know, I intend to be there
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for great and, and all of that, right?
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So what are your extraordinary visions?
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What are your extraordinary intentions?
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And then what are your extraordinary must-haves?
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Those three things in life will unfold.
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It will unveil and you'll, you know, the, the cleaner your body, the deeper your thoughts
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and it'll be like, where did this come from?
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Yeah.
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So much good stuff.
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I've been taking lots of notes and I'm going to have to listen to this again and we could
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go on and on, but I try to limit these so we're not going on too long.
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So I always ask, you know, how did you know my dad or the connection to my dad?
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And so first I'd say the first thing you mentioned was butterflies, which I feel like
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that's definitely connection to my dad.
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But I know when you were talking to him the other day, you said, trying to explain where
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you lived and you're like, do you know where Berryville is?
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And I'm like, yeah, that's where my dad is buried.
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And there's a monastery or monastery and it's got, it's on the Shenandoah River and
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it's absolutely beautiful.
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And you're like, I know where that is.
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And you had just bought a plot there.
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We just did that right.
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Well, and so that's an amazing connection.
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That was like, oh my God.
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A lot of people don't know about that place.
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And it was something that my mom discovered with a friend and it's funny.
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A lot of people, my parents' ages now are buried out.
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People that have passed away are buried out there.
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Oh my gosh, I love it.
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I love it.
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I didn't know about it.
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And Pat Wurz, who is a friend in our community, everything really, and now she's out here.
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So she and Jerry and Nevin and I have it, our anniversaries are like a week apart.
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We were out for dinner and they, they were telling us and that's how we found out about
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it.
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Wow.
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So yeah, I love going out there and just spending time.
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So beautiful out there.
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So, well, thank you.
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So if people want to find you, Elaine, where's the best place to find you?
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And I'm going to share all your contact in the show notes.
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Renewedlivinginc.com.
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Renewedlivinginc.com.
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That'll be in the show notes too.
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So your website's the best place to find you.
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Sure.
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And, or Elaine at Renewedlivinginc.com, reach out and, you know, we do a lot more than,
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than working with women that have cancer.
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That's what I specialize in right now, but we've been, I've been doing everything for
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years no matter what's going on.
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Yeah.
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Well, I'm excited to get to know you better and work with you.
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So well, thank you for being our guest and for sharing your journey and your courage.
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And I love just how it goes back to summer camp.
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It does.
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Isn't it wonderful?
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It's just so much fun to be there.
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Yeah.
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So let me thank you for a whole group of women that listen to what you do and their stories
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and having the courage to do something because your ripple is so huge that you won't even
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ever really know how far it reaches.
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You just never know.
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So thank you for what you do.
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Oh, you're welcome.
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Thank you.
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You know, and I just feel like, just like you said, in the heart of my heart and my being
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that I know this is something bigger than me and we are making a difference.
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And so some of the other things I'm doing to make a difference and like you, I'm very
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creative and all the ideas.
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So if anybody's looking for help with feeling a little overwhelmed in the chaos in your
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life, I've started a course to support women in business with that.
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Also do some one-on-one coaching.
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And one of my passions, dreams that I've always talked about with this podcast and working
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with nonprofits is definitely something that's near and dear to my heart.
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And so I'm involved in so many.
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So I've started kicked it off the end of October and for November that anybody that wants any
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why not today merchandise, whether it's a t-shirt or a cup or a mug or just a vinyl,
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20% of all the sales are going to go to a nonprofit called Spark, which provides places
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for people with severe disabilities to go during the day and have activities.
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So we're going to have another nonprofit every month and be able to give back and share
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the word just to say why not today.
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We need to be brave.
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So thank you, Elaine for sharing.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you.
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You're welcome.
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And thank you everybody for joining us on this inspiring journey.
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Remember every day is an opportunity to take action, chase your dreams and make a difference.
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So why not today?
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Make sure you subscribe, share and review and just keep pushing forward until next time.
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