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Health Is Wealth w/ Chaitra Bryant · Money And Wealth With John Hope Bryant

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  Speaker 1: Welcome the Money and Wealth with John O'Bryant, a production
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  Speaker 1: of the Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartRadio. Yo Yo yo.
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  Speaker 1: This is John O'Bryant and this is the better Have
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  Speaker 1: Shacheer of Bryant. And this is a special segment of
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  Speaker 1: Well anybody, you just want to see schachsfuff, so you
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  Speaker 1: don't care what the segment is. What I'm saying is
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  Speaker 1: a special segment.
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  Speaker 2: H of health and wealth.
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  Speaker 1: In many ways I've learned health is wealth. Shaterer's taught
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  Speaker 1: me that this is going to be a love conversation
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  Speaker 1: like about you, and you can learn a bit more
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  Speaker 1: about Shadra. Behind every successful man is an exhausted woman
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  Speaker 1: and I wear out her patients on a regular basis,
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  Speaker 1: where she's always utterly patient with me, irrespective. And there's
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  Speaker 1: so many things that I can say about her that
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  Speaker 1: are great and amazing. But this is not about This
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  Speaker 1: is not a love session about her, even though I'd
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  Speaker 1: love to spend a session just loving on her. You
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  Speaker 1: heard me talk about her before, but let me spend
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  Speaker 1: some quality time explaining her through how she's loved me
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  Speaker 1: so when we first met to this day, she's one
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  Speaker 1: of two women whoever given me a check, my mother
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  Speaker 1: and her, and it's the story. I lay in the
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  Speaker 1: story out and I think the book up from nothing,
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  Speaker 1: so you can read that there. And so I knew
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  Speaker 1: she didn't have an agenda other than loving me. And
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  Speaker 1: I knew that she was, you know, she just was.
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  Speaker 1: She just cared about me. This is you know, when
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have any money, I was broke, she helped
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  Speaker 1: me out twenty years ago, not ever twenty five years
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  Speaker 1: So I knew if she helped me when I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have anything, she'd be there for me. Like Wise, when
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  Speaker 1: I had a couple of dollars in my pocket, and
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  Speaker 1: those things matter. It calms you in times when everything
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  Speaker 1: else is frantic around you, unless you know, without a question,
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  Speaker 1: somebody is absolutely for you. Fast forward, we got together
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  Speaker 1: and after knowing each other for twenty almost twenty years,
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  Speaker 1: and I invited her to go to Malli this is
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  Speaker 1: my little my place of peace. And she said yes,
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  Speaker 1: and then she said no. She's like, I'm concerned about
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  Speaker 1: your blood pressure, Like your blood pressure seems a little high.
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  Speaker 1: You need to go to the cardiologist. I'm like, I'll
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  Speaker 1: be fine, I'm superman. She's like, no, you're if you
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  Speaker 1: want to be my man, you need to get your
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  Speaker 1: heart checked. So anyway, I go to the cardiologist and
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  Speaker 1: she was right. My blood pressure was I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: was almost it was like two hundred over one hundred.
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  Speaker 3: Not that bad, but it was it was it was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was like one eighty over. It was in a
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  Speaker 3: space of concern even though you were on blood pressure medicine.
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  Speaker 1: M was I a bloo pressure medicine. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: I was taking it? Actually no, actually I'm almost pros right.
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  Speaker 2: You weren't taking your medicine. I don't think I got
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  Speaker 2: the medicine.
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  Speaker 1: Is anything I needed any I didn't think I need
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  Speaker 1: I needed any medicine. I thought I'm superman, I'm John O'Brien.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need medicine. I look great, right, So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: so we go to the cardiologies. Cardiology is like, yo, man,
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  Speaker 1: you really are in great shape and you are sort
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  Speaker 1: of weird. But even somebody who goes with your burns up,
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  Speaker 1: your so kind of energy and you know, and you're
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're getting exercise, airports on stuff. You still
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  Speaker 1: black folks have you know, blood pressure issues, and your
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  Speaker 1: blood pressure is normally high and that's all you do
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  Speaker 1: is mention the word stroke, Like that's it could be
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  Speaker 1: in strokes though, Right, So he's like, you gotta take
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  Speaker 1: your medicine. And I thought it was like a symbol
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  Speaker 1: of of weakness, that I've got to take some medicine.
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  Speaker 1: It it was a real thing for me, like because
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  Speaker 1: taking the medicine meant that I wasn't perfect. That it
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  Speaker 1: was a whole other thing about accepting that perfection didn't exist.
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  Speaker 1: Just the best you can do. That's what one of
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  Speaker 1: my quotes I love is, don't let the perfect be
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  Speaker 1: the death of the good. Like even your iPhone sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: if you have one of those, they're already issuing a
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  Speaker 1: software that's almost an iPhone nineteen software. The phone just
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  Speaker 1: came out. They've already you know, sixteen, sixteen, five, seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: seventeen five, eighteen eighteen five, because they're constantly upgrading it
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  Speaker 1: because there's glitches. No matter what you do, you can
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  Speaker 1: always improve upon it, and they're always be imperfect. So
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  Speaker 1: I had to accept that God made me perfect in sight,
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  Speaker 1: but I was imperfect in my plight and how I
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  Speaker 1: had operated. Because we're human, we live in this world
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  Speaker 1: with toxins all around us or whatever. So I had
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  Speaker 1: to get over the fact that I needed to take medicine.
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  Speaker 1: So I got that. We went to Maloi. She finally
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  Speaker 1: allowed us to go on the plane go to Malai.
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  Speaker 1: Has a great time. And normally I go to Mali
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  Speaker 1: and you know, two or three weeks of being in
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  Speaker 1: this beautiful place, you know, any any flab or whatever
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  Speaker 1: on me. I'm on a bike every day or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But this time the flab wouldn't go away, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't I'm vain. So I had handles here. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: oh no, I'm not doing that. That's not happening. So
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  Speaker 1: she didn't say a word. This is when you got
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  Speaker 1: the power, you don't need to use it. She didn't
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  Speaker 1: say a word. So we get back from MAUI had
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  Speaker 1: a great time, and I was in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: I remember it was like two in the morning. I
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  Speaker 1: was walking across the street to get some thumbs. I
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  Speaker 1: was popping this pepton of this moment thumbs, and so
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  Speaker 1: she finally I'm walking across the street is two in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, from the hotel. She's like, are you done? Like,
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  Speaker 1: are you ready for this conversation? Well, what she's like
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  Speaker 1: you need to cleanse. Like, you know, I can't talk
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  Speaker 1: you into this. You're hardheaded, your double alpha, but are
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  Speaker 1: if you're ready for a real conversation, like you just
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  Speaker 1: gotta get this. She taught me a couple of things
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  Speaker 1: that just blew my mind. One seventy five percent of
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  Speaker 1: all disease lives on inflammation. To get that right, And
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  Speaker 1: you're inflamed. You're inflamed because you're eating a lot of
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  Speaker 1: processed food and your lungs. Your body is not prepared,
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  Speaker 1: it is not designed to process processed food. Your body's
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  Speaker 1: designed for natural you know, food from the earth, and
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  Speaker 1: so on and so forth. And what she said made
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  Speaker 1: all the sense in the world to me. And she says, well,
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  Speaker 1: you can't get this because it's not fat. This is
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  Speaker 1: not fat. You're inflamed and you can't work that off.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to have to cleanse it out of your body.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm like, okay, I'm too vain, Like I
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  Speaker 1: can't have this this stuff here. So what do I
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  Speaker 1: have to do? So I went on a cleanse. I
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  Speaker 1: think she suggested a whimp cleanse for like five days.
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  Speaker 1: I did it for you know, almost two weeks. I
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  Speaker 1: was very proud of myself. And it wasn't bad. It
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  Speaker 1: was okay. So one thing she did on this trip
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  Speaker 1: to Maue, she blew my mind. Well, my thing about
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  Speaker 1: being I call it a flexitarian. She might call it
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  Speaker 1: a pescatarian, or you might call it a vegetarian or
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  Speaker 1: what's the other onegetarian. Then there's vegan, all these different
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  Speaker 1: elements of cleansing vegan, Rod McGrew. My dear friend is
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  Speaker 1: a vegan, I believe. So I'm like, this stuff is nasty.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not eating a nasty Don't put anohing nasty in
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  Speaker 1: my mouth if you want me to do this. So,
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  Speaker 1: brothers watching this, can you relate to what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: So she gives me a chocolate chip cookie handmade in Mali.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, does she realize what she just did? Like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna tell her. Did she just gave me
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  Speaker 1: like like chocolate gold right, And so this is toxin
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  Speaker 1: on steroids. So I'm eating this, you know, before she
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  Speaker 1: figures it out. Well, she's given me and she doesn't
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  Speaker 1: say a word. I'm like, I mean, I've eaten the
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  Speaker 1: whole box. Play do these things? Shay, you're cool with this? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: perfectly fine with us. Why and then she shows me
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  Speaker 1: the ingredients or the box. It's a vegan cookie. I
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  Speaker 1: mean it was delicious. Second thing I learned was I
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  Speaker 1: love coffee and I used to put white sugar in
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  Speaker 1: h in the coffee. I don't drink, I'll do drugs.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't, I don't, I don't, you know, don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have an alcohol problem. I don't have drug problem.
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  Speaker 1: I don't smoke. But but I would, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: love coffee and i'd put this white sugar and she would.
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  Speaker 1: She explained to me that that's like poison and it's
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  Speaker 1: and so she explained to me, like this is the
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  Speaker 1: worst thing in the world sugar. And I tried brown
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  Speaker 1: sugar and I was like, this is pretty cool. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, she gave me this creamer. Do you remember
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  Speaker 1: the name of it? And natural creamer? Do we know
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  Speaker 1: that we do? We say that the brand like we came.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the brand anyway if you want, if you really
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  Speaker 1: interested in the comment, well, we don't want to promote somebody
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  Speaker 1: some We don't mind promoting it. Actually a good brand.
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  Speaker 1: But I can't remember the moment, but we use this creamer,
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  Speaker 1: all natural it replaced sugar and cream delicious, like I
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  Speaker 1: mean completely natural. So over and over again, all of
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  Speaker 1: my biases got remote when we go to Maui or
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  Speaker 1: we go to Turks and tacos where we literally pack
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  Speaker 1: in the in the in the luggage the just cause
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  Speaker 1: they don't have it there. So that's a couple of stories.
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  Speaker 1: And my blood pressure came down naturally based on what
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  Speaker 1: she was telling me to do. And now for a
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  Speaker 1: long time, the longest time, I took half a peal
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  Speaker 1: and the goal is to sort of work me off
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  Speaker 1: of that. If I'm on a high stress period. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: she says, it talls me on tour. If I'm on tour,
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  Speaker 1: then she might encourage me to take the full pill
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  Speaker 1: for a period of time because I'm just depleted, not
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  Speaker 1: sleeping well all the kind of stuff. We're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: to the power sleep in a minute. So these are
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  Speaker 1: a couple times where you know, she really maybe just
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  Speaker 1: saved my life. Like literally that blood pressure think can
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  Speaker 1: literally not take you out.
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  Speaker 2: You know. I feel that we just don't go to
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  Speaker 2: the doctor enough.
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  Speaker 3: And when we when we get the simple signs, like
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  Speaker 3: if there is a number that's off, it's called integrative
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  Speaker 3: care and we just need.
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  Speaker 2: To catch it then.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I know, I stay on John about
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  Speaker 3: his blood pressure, but I have the same problem. And
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  Speaker 3: that's actually what birthed me into doing wellness and helping
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  Speaker 3: other people learn about blood pressure and how to naturally
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  Speaker 3: work your way into eating better and living a healthier
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  Speaker 3: lifestyle from that, because I just had really bad side
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  Speaker 3: effects from some of the medication. And I was much
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  Speaker 3: younger when I got diagnosed with high blood pressure, and
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  Speaker 3: I just struggled with the medication. But I took the
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  Speaker 3: medication because my blood pressure was high and I didn't
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  Speaker 3: want to have a heart attack, and so I worked
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  Speaker 3: integratedly with my doctor and it took me two years.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't happen overnight. And that's really what like birthed
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  Speaker 3: me being able to like help others. You're in your twenties, right,
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  Speaker 3: I was in my twenties and I was on three D.
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  Speaker 1: She thought she was bulletproof too, right. When I tell
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  Speaker 1: you that this was a vipre bracelet girl. I mean
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  Speaker 1: she would go to three events where events a night
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  Speaker 1: and be like, okay, what else, this is only midnight?
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  Speaker 3: One of the more I didn't even know a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people when they get diagnosed with high blood pressure,
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  Speaker 3: they don't even know.
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  Speaker 2: You don't you don't know you have high blood pressure.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, I was just going for my my
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  Speaker 3: yearly regular blood my yearly regular wellness checkup, and they're.
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  Speaker 2: Like, wait a minute, their pressure is really high. Do
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  Speaker 2: you feel dizzy?
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  Speaker 3: And she was twenty no, you know, and so they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to put you on some medication. And I
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  Speaker 3: was like okay, And of course I took the medication.
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  Speaker 3: But because I studied nutrition and or biology and she's.
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  Speaker 1: Got a degree in nutrition really and degree and degree
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  Speaker 1: in fashion, and you know, she's like a triple threat.
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  Speaker 3: But but I had high blood pressure and I was
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  Speaker 3: able to work my way off of it, and it
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  Speaker 3: took me two years, and I just am able to
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  Speaker 3: kind of like help others guide them along.
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  Speaker 2: And so you've done You've done a good job. He's
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  Speaker 2: done a nice job.
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  Speaker 1: Not that and the most recent threat, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: before we start talking about you and about me, the
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  Speaker 1: most recent threat, uh, you know, one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that men get is prostate cancer and all this stuff
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  Speaker 1: and colon cancer whatever. And after I went through these
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  Speaker 1: yearly uh, I don't want to get too graphic here,
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  Speaker 1: but I'd go to a yearly physical and they would
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  Speaker 1: check you out for prostate cancer. He brother knows what
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Brother, don't fear it. Just go just
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  Speaker 1: go do it. We know you're a real man. Yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm just being real, like I had to get
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  Speaker 1: used to the whole situation. So anyway, then now that
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  Speaker 1: so now that was enough. Now they tell me I
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  Speaker 1: need to go to get a colin Aska. I've heard
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  Speaker 1: all kind of stories about that, and uh and let
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  Speaker 1: me just tell you, the stories are overblown. I went out,
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  Speaker 1: you got the preparation, Oh my god, and then you
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  Speaker 1: go to the thing. It's all over blown. The preparation
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  Speaker 1: is nothing. You go to the to get the colonoscopy,
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  Speaker 1: they knock you out. It's nothing. And you walk out
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  Speaker 1: and you'll like okay when you're starting like no, it's
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  Speaker 1: over and it's like nothing. And here's the greatest, the
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  Speaker 1: great part. If you're clean. And I was clean, Uh no,
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  Speaker 1: pun intended. H you're good for ten years. You don't
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  Speaker 1: wan to go back for ten years? Like yeah, So
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  Speaker 1: I did a video. I was sort of loopy. They
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  Speaker 1: gave me some kind of drugs I would do drugs.
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  Speaker 1: I was gone, I was loopy. Shade was in the
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  Speaker 1: vand with me and I went the way home, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, brothers, you gotta go do this. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And if you if you like being relaxed, then then
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  Speaker 1: whatever they given you will do that too. It's a
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  Speaker 1: natural high, you know, a natural high. What is permitted
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  Speaker 1: high anyway? So I've checked all the boxes and I can.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you that working out every day a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, and staying in shape and eating right. The
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  Speaker 1: food is good actually, and I make sure every time
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  Speaker 1: I eat something. If I'm gonna eat beef, it's farm raised.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever I can. I try to eat fish times a week.
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  Speaker 1: Something green on my plate, something and a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of starch that she doesn't adver get the starch I do,
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  Speaker 1: but she wants something green on your plate. Salad won't
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  Speaker 1: kill your brothers. Okay. So let's get into this because
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  Speaker 1: she's also the chairwoman of the National Minority Health Association.
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  Speaker 1: She has a company called Welder's three sixty. If you
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  Speaker 1: come to the whole little form, you've seen the Welder's
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  Speaker 1: three sixty boots, if you want to call her that.
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  Speaker 1: At the form and she does free wellness checkups. This
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  Speaker 1: last time they were sold out. I who would call
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  Speaker 1: her that there was just no appointments available. I try
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  Speaker 1: to get an appointment. I couldn't. I was like a hell,
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  Speaker 1: I'm the chairman and founder and that's my wife. That
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  Speaker 1: like we going to see her at home because there's
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  Speaker 1: no appointments here. Brothers, it's a couple sponsors were upsets
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't get in. It was very very popular. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so black wealth gaps. None of that matters if you
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  Speaker 1: aren't here to enjoy it. So let's have some real
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  Speaker 1: talk conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Basically able to be able to do to enjoy it, right, Well, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: yeah capacity.
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  Speaker 1: So let's but let's let's deal with you ain't here first.
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  Speaker 1: So if you live in a in a five hundred
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  Speaker 1: credit score neighborhood, you lived to sixty one years of age.
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  Speaker 1: I have a theory about that. I think you think.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're the surviving mindset. I think you're stressed out.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're I think you're depressed. I think that
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  Speaker 1: your body just wears down, no different than if you're
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty pounds. There's no there's no three
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  Speaker 1: hundredifty pounds eighty year olds, because your body wasn't designed
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  Speaker 1: to handle three hund fifty pounds. Your knees, your lungs, nothing,
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  Speaker 1: and so you just your body gives out. Think about that.
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  Speaker 1: There are no three hundre fifty pound eighty year olds.
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  Speaker 1: Think about that. So likewise, you know, if you're not
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  Speaker 1: human beings having a spiritual experience or spiritual beings having
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  Speaker 1: a human experience, it makes sense that you in a
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred credit square to eighty one, fifteen minutes away
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  Speaker 1: in a fire recrest coordinator, and you lived at sixty
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  Speaker 1: one before you get sold security, you've dropped dead. Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about people who've actually made a lot of money
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  Speaker 1: and unfortunately health took them out. Chadwick Boseman, forty three
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  Speaker 1: years of age, brilliant brother. I mean, I just loved
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  Speaker 1: the movies and loved his character. Didn't a chance to
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  Speaker 1: meet him, but what I know about him amazing. Didn't
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  Speaker 1: share his colon cancer diagnosis publicly. The importance of screening
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  Speaker 1: for black men is omnipotent. We've been talking about that.
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  Speaker 1: Just get screened on a regular basis and don't and
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  Speaker 1: no shame in this game right and DMX he was
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  Speaker 1: fifty years old. Addiction and trauma untreated. Conversations of mental
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  Speaker 1: health and generational pain are really important. My brother Charlemagne
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  Speaker 1: that God is really passionate about mental health and has
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  Speaker 1: a mental health foundation. We've got to start talking about
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  Speaker 1: our mindset and being cool about the fact that we're
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  Speaker 1: not cool. Or I put another way, if you're black
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  Speaker 1: in America and don't think you're a little crazy, you're
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: probably crazy. This world will drive you nuts. Just acknowledge it. Right.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Heavy d forty four years of age, died a pulmonary
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: of a pulmonary embolism, signs of sedentary lifestyle and post
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: weight loss health management. Andre Heral, fifty nine years of age.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: I'm fifty nine heart failure. I mean a music mogul
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: who helped shape the culture, yet neglected self care. Maybe
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: so Shayha might add. Fame and money do not protect
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: you from preventable diseases and death. In some cases, that
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: make you more vulnerable because you think maybe that you
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: are you think that it doesn't apply to you. Think
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: about Prince whatever he was dealing with, you know, nobody
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: called it around him. There's so many examples of this
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Shanna will have these conversations about We'll hear some icon
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: or somebody she knows in their forties or fifties dropped
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: in and she's like, this is and it just frustrates
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: her because she thinks that with a little bit of
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: self care, people loving on them like she's loved on me,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: they'd still be around and have children, grandchildren, etc. What's
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: your opinion about that?
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Also, you know, you don't want to have kidney failure,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: which leads to kidney dialysis, which leads to possible amputation,
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: which means you're.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Not going to be able to live your best life.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: And I know dropping dead is one thing, but also
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: not feeling your best is another. So it's very hard
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: to function and build wealth and thrive and do all
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: the things and have joy and play with your kids
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: and go on vacations or whatever your pleasure is.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: It's very hard to do that.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: And when you don't feel good, and it's very hard
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: to work at your maximum human capacity, when you know
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: you have some type of illness or even just are sluggish.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's I mean, we're deep diving into disease
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: right now, but we're really talking about mindfulness and wellness
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: and taking care of yourself and nurturing yourself and putting
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: yourself first in terms of self love and self care
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: and nurturing. And I think that that's the real conversation,
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: the real route for my space is in order for
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: you to be able to do and at your your
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: maximum potential and give, you've got to be able to
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: fill your own cup with self care and prevention and
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: remove a shame.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and like.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: You know, we can sit here and say, I'm sure
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: I don't know if people would think, oh, you guys
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: have had high blood pressure, or oh you guys have
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: had to watch your sugar.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Intake or yes, yesterday this morning.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, we have to watch everything that we
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: do and make it a priority to take care of
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: ourselves so that you know we're able to to perform
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: and deliver, you know, the best, our best selves to
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: to helping others.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: And so by the way, look at that that that
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: By the way, this was not conscious, but I'd noticed
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: it as I was doing it. I don't hurt. I'm
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: doing this whenever I've got a moment. I'm this is stretching.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: So I'm sitting here senatory, sedatary, but I'm giving myself
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a stretch. Right. You can do
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: this from where you're sitting, right. I do this. I
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: stretch every day every you know, every morning, I do
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: a fifty minute workout when I wake up. Push ups,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: set ups, squats, just your boy. Got to keep your
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: body moving. If I can get there's a gym where
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I'm staying, with the hotel whatever, I go to the
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: gym when I can, when I don't.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Have I mean, hydration is every.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Hydration water, water, bottle water, water, Yeah, water, water, water,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: more water, and and and.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Things that that. You have to find your own rhythm,
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: add things, your own lifestyle that works for you, that
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: doesn't stress you out and becomes like a daily routine
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: that makes you feel better, not something that you know
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: adds more stress to your life. You have to figure
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: out your steps like that works just for you.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Let me let me say something. She's much nicer than me.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: If you if you figure this out, I'm the egle.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: She is a butterfly. I'm the hard No, she's the love.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I'm the you know. Yeah, once you people talk to her,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: they forget I'm in the room. But let me just
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: say this, like straight up wellness is a radical act
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: of black love self black love for black people. And
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: you've been hoodwinked, you've been bamboozled, you've been tricked, you've
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: been fooled. This is why you're starting off on the
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: bad foot. When you see black people in our neighborhoods,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: a lot of them are are large. But it's not
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: that they're not. In my opinion, they're not overweight. They're obese.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: But I think you're in flight. This is just my philosophy.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of black people are inflamed, like literally,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: just like right, and I think it's yes, stress and
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. It's environmental, but it's also a slave diet. Yeah,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I said it. Uh that in the slavery period, the man,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: the plantation owner threw the crappiest food out the back
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: door as a sign of disrespect. Don't trust me on this,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: do your own research. And it was and we we
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: we turned it. Black folk's been doing so much with
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: so little for so long. We can almost do anything
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: with nothing. Now. I'm not trying to put the soul
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: food restaurants out of business. So don't you Okay, slow down, Okay,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: you give an excuse me before we explain it. So
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I love, I love sof I eat soufood, just don't
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: just don't do it three times a day every day.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: So they threw this stuff out the back door, and
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: we turn it into delicacies, grits, hog malls, pig feet
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: of ribs, fried chicken. I mean, why do we do
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: salt which is a big contributor to uh is it
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: blood pressure? But we do salt on that, on that
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: that that food. Why because it was out in the
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: heat and and one way you preserve food is to
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: salt it up. Well, that salt over generations. I think
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: it's seeped into our whole DNA. I mean we're talking about,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: you know, talk about two hundred and seventy years of
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: slavery and then one hundred years of Jim Crow. It's
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: a long time to have things embedded in your in
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: your culture, in your in your in your spirit. So
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: I think that just we got used to this food.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: We eat it as you know, we ate it because
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: we had to. Then we ate it because we liked it,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: and because I think it became almost a companion, a
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: comfort food, and we have got to and then combine
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: that with fast food and poor, poor neighborhoods with a
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: lot of it. It's fast but not food. She's gonna
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: teach me this. Also, I try to eat fast food
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: when I have no other choice. Uh, some fast foods
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: are better than others. I do, like McDonald's.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: French fries and now fast food restaurants, they also have healthy,
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: healthy choices, like so much do.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Certain things. It's the way you prepare it.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: So if you're going to have soul food, which I
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: like soul food myself too, and it's just the way
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: you prepare it. You know, be mindful about the salt
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: and the sugar. You can still have healthy colored greens.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: And don't you're a healthy salt that you put on potatoes.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: There's a healthier salt salt.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Just be mindful about the way that you prepare you know,
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: fried chicken, Bake the chicken instead of fry it or
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: god or air fry it. Just you know, it's really
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: about a healthier alternative to add into your daily experience,
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: not just don't.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: If you you know, if you're going to go through
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: a fast food.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Restaurant, then try to make the healthiest decision of what's when.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: You go through it.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the least bad option. Here's a weird thing. When
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I eat something that I think I want now because
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: she's not around something really bad for me, my body's like,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: it's so clean now that it rejects it. Like I
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: can eat I used to be to eat eight donuts,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: you know, I can't get through one before my body'
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: is like, oh that was good. Oh no, that's really bad.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: That's just one example. But the stuff that used to
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: turn me on turns me off now, Like my body
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: just does just reject it. Her body is very sensitive.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Like if she eats the wrong thing, she's she's just
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: not Her body is not a happy camper. It rejects it.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: She's sure body is very clean and I respect that actually,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: and as a result of that's kept her timeless. I
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: dare you to guess. So I think we've gotta be got.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: We've got to be concerned about not just financial wealth,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: but physical health. And there are some tips and tricks
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: that Schaitra has and hopefully she will give you some
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: before we end this podcast. But you know, let's acknowledge
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: some things. It's stressful being black. Twenty four to seven.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: It's like my boy, my brother CEO of Walmart Dougrick
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Millan after George Floyd got murdered, he invited me to
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: a diversity session. I'm like, Doug, I'm black, Like I
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: think I get it. He's like, just trust me, these
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: are just too many favors. Just come maybe educate everybody else.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I mean we were in talks and kikos and I
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: business as a favorite to Doug. And by the way,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: they're still fully committed to underserved communities. Of the largest
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: employer of black people in the country, we just so
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: you know, three thousand that just by the way, look
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: at the data. They're still employing people, contracting the whole thing.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: They just doesn't want to be in political football. So anyway,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: so Ducks, who grew up in Walmart was a box boy,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, like a stocking shelves and now he's CEO. Anyway,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: he he gets me to go to this session and
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I'm hooked. Like the session was incredible. I learned so much.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: But the line I remember, if you're white, how often
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: do you think about being white? Respondents on the video
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: call almost never. Why would you if you're black? How
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: often do you think about being black? All the time?
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Every day? The last five minutes. You go to a store,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: you go, you know, you get put over by the police.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: You see the police. You know, you're thinking about how
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: you present yourself in a meeting. You realize that you
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: got to be twice as smart, twice as intelligent, twice
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: as well addressed, get up twice as early, a stap,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: twice as late, be twice as good because you're going
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: to be judge and get half of the credit. That's stressful.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: You know. She tells me the plight of black women
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: all the time, and you know it must be really
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: stressful to be a black woman. But I know what
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: it's like being a black man, and the haters have
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: made me better, made me better. But I do realize
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: how many years I went around what I call my
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: my rear end tight, like I was just trying to
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: be perfect and it was, you know, I realized there
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: was no perfect now, But I mean I was just
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: overdoing everything and it was it was damaging my health.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: And so it is, let's just acknowledge that if you're
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: black and you're looking at this one's no one's giving
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: you a lecture, no one's talking down to you. We
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: acknowledge it is if you're black. You borre on probation
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: in America. Yeah, me twice, you know, twice as good
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: and that may not be good enough. But we want
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: you to love yourself first, because I think that a
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: lot of black people are depressed. And if I don't
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: like me, I'm not gonna like you. If I don't
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: feel good about me, I'm not gonna feel good about you.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: If I don't respect me, don't expect me to respect you.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: If I don't love me, I don't have a clue
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: how to love you. Look at her, she clearly loves herself. Right.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: She's not in love with herself. She knows that there
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: are many faults, but she loves herself, which which allows
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: her to love others. Right. So you can't give what
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: you don't have. So I want you to learn to
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: love yourself. And I want you to have a routine
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: that is mental, psychological, and physical. What are some of
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: the things. What are the key and sleep, movement, hydration,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: regular checkups? What is some of the things.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: The first thing is to if you can get yourself
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: to a wellness checkup. If you've put it off, don't
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: put it off any longer. Get a group.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Together and hold each other accountable. That's what we do.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: My girlfriends and I.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: We I have a tribe and we keep each other
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: accountable because as nurtures, we naturally have a tendency not
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: to do what we were supposed to do. And you know,
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: at the top of the year, we hold each other accountable.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: And I will say even I will ignore it sometime,
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: you know, like they'll pay Okay, ladies, wellness checks time.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Who hasn't been you know, And I'm like, am I
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: the last one that hasn't gone?
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: But also, you guys work out together. Yeah, you guys
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: were walking in the morning and running in the morning,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: six or seven in the morning, some crazy thing.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: But it works because you know it's because you know,
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: if to get the kids off to school and you know,
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: so we you have to carve out a time. But
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: if you have someone that does it with you, and
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: you find something fun to do together, then you'll continue
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: to do it.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: So let me tell you. Let me tell you a
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: shape of a hack that she took too far. She
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: told me that seventy percent of of work of staying
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: in good shape. People look at her like, my god,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: how do you how do you do this? You look great? Right?
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: She told me, seventy percent of this is what you
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: put in your mouth is what you eat, well thirty
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: percents working out or something like that. Yeah, because she
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: lived in Manhattan for so long, she she would walk
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: around with three is pumps all through Manhattan with a
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: skirt and move a lot. We move a lot, so
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: you're now actually in motion. So she just took that
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: for granted. And uh, well she moved to Atlanta and
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: it's not a city you walk around it, see you
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: drive it.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: I have to really like make an effort.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so she she realized she wasn't working out, so
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: she wasn't doing the thirty percent. So she now she's
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: on that. So even she falls off, I fall off
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: like you're human.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: I fall off like every week.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Not that much.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: But yeh yeah, you know we're just saying that, just
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: cut yourself a break. But but my suggestion is too
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: and she's in bed by midnight, so sleep sleep is
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: she will walk, she will go to sleep on you
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: in the mid sentence like midnight is, oh, she's she's
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: committed to Well, it took me a long time.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: It took me a long time to train myself to
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: get proper amount of sleep, and I would it would
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: it would be hard for me to get through the
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: days because I need my brain. And so if I
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: don't get enough adequate amount of sleep, I can not
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: full fully give. You know, if I'm health coaching or
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: doing something for the community or taking care of somebody,
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: I just I need to be able to give my
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: full self and just for me, I need that amount
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: of sleep in order to be able to fully function.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: And once I realized I'm better if I get that
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: amount of sleep, I became more disciplined about it. And
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: then make sure you tell everyone around you that I
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: have to go to sleep.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: You know, you can be all jacked up and looking
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: crazy tomorrow, but I'm not going to be. Charity starts
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: at home. Bye, I'm out.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Well. When you get a support structure around you, that helps.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: So by the way, a given a giver, exotic a
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: given or taker, Narati a taker or taker, psychotic. Hello,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: watch watch your environment. You hang around nine bro people,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: you'll be the tenth. You hang around nine unhealthy people,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: you'll be the tenth. Like that's what she's saying. Watch
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: you hang around because you'll model what.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: You see, which also you can encourage each other as well.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: That's a nice way for her. So you can toxicity
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: out of your life and be positive. Each other's nice
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: to me.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: But if you start something, then other people might enjoy
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: it as well, or find groups of Like I like
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: to roller skate, So if you want to, you know,
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: I thought, find the hobby that you like that's active
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: and do it together, you know, go to you know,
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: go for a walk. I know, like we live in Atlanta,
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: and I know we all love to walk the belt
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: line and we don't even know, we don't even realize
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: that how far we walked, because it's entertaining things on
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: the way, and you know people, and you know, it's
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: nice outside.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: And but but if you don't, if you cannot do
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: all of that, just simply find.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Time for yourself in the morning, whether it's five to
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: ten minutes, breathing exercises, you can, you can. There's every
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: app on the phone these days helps you. It's really
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: you know, meditation.
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: I always tell people just start with one thing and
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: then once you get that one thing master, then start
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: with the next.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Thing and get crazy people out your life. You get
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: the toxicity. Okay, that's a different that's a.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Different toxicity matters. Maybe we'll come back and talk about exercise.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Your positivity. That's that's her. Look at that smile. That
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: can be not that can be exercise. She's just positive.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Try to stay positive. Start with affirmations.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: When I'm in a bad mood or something I'm not
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: feeling my best, then I just go to like a
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: positive affirmation.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: What is it you had? You had a CEO on
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: the Run program? Yes, what are some things you tell
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: there's some CEOs watching now or CEOs run? What would
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: you tell you.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: You have team no sleep exactly? You know CEOs on
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: the Run.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: You.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: I love working with CEOs because CEOs are so disciplined.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: And so all you have to do is tell you, guys,
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: like three things to do and then you guys do it. Hydration,
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: find a way to exercise, and do a food journal
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: of what you're eating, so you know, and then you
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: could pick out what you did good and what you
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: did bad and then switch it up.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so easy, like.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: For you guys, like because the way you're follow you
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: guys don't want to think you're structured. You don't want
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: to have any more put on you, but you just
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: want to have somebody tell you the most positive thing
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: to do for your own body, and then.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Tell me it's not nasty. You tell me I may
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: live longer, and I'm not going to be increpit my
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: old age. You got my attention. And she she turned
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: me on this thynk called ag one. It's crazy. She
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: turned me on toto it. Then she doesn't drink it
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: because she doesn't like to taste of it, but she
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: does something else. But a g one is like seventy
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: five essential vitamins, nutrients, probiotics. I know what this stuff,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: all this stuff was, but I know now, and it's
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: everything you need in one little packet. I poured into
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: some cold water. Don't use warm water or lukewarm. You
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: won't like it. But the cold water, it tastes great.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: And I drink that every morning without fail, every morning.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: And you'd make make because you were supposed to take
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: a vitamin.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't like vitamins.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: So you've but you found what worked.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: For you, right right? Yeah, fine, what works for you?
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: And do that? So I found that that that really
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: worked for me, and something else worked for Chatrus. She didn't,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: you know, And then I now I pour put all
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: kind of little drops in the in the ag one
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: thing I'm now adding, I'm like the creaking cocktails. I'm
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: not gonna what's that last thing I'm doing? Uh sorisa
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: which does think gut health and something else. And so
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: I'm a hook. The five big killers of Black America,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabees, kidney disease, all linked to lifestyle.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Speak to that, yeah, I mean.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Most of it is built around, you know, disease of
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: the body.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: And that's the word diseases. Diseasey, that's a word. Say
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: that again, disease. A lot of diseases, dis ease, that's
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: a word.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: So a lot of it begins.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: That's why you keep a lot of emotional toxicity out
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: out of your environment because it's diase.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: This ease. Your body is not at ease, you know.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: And and it starts around visceral fat and inflammation. As
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: we discussed what shows up in viceral f and that's
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: how and you know, a lot of it is around obesity.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: We have an obesity epidemic here in America. And if
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: we if you can, you know, get a hold of
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: your obesity level, usually that helps not have disease. And
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: that's very controversial statement I'm saying right now, so controversial
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: real talk.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Look, you're people know that, people know that you've come
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: to my podcast is about and by the way, thanks
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: for helping this podcast be top one hundred in business
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: in the country and top.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: But disease cannot live on in an alkaline system. And so.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you cut me off when I was talking hello,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: You may forget what the heck I was saying. I
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: was saying thank you, and I was actually making a point.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: H No, people know that this is straight talk, and
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: they know that I don't use twenty words or two
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: will do before we get back to the alkaline system.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Just to sort of underscore what she's saying, how important
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: you know self care is and being your own wellness
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: center in your life A lot of so. So a
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: thirty economy give or take, is healthcare. A third, give
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: or take, about seventy percent of that is spending the
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: last quartile of your life. So the doctor, the medical
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: profession is throwing all this stuff at you when your
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: body's failing to try to keep you alive because you
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: want to stay alive. It happened to my mother, it
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: happened to my daddy, had my dad hooked up to
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: a million dollars worth of machines when he was dying.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: It was clear either as the doctor said, what do
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: you want to do? John, I'm like, what are you asking?
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Me?
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Like, well, you're the you know, the one that's in
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: charged here and either your you know. What became clear
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: to me was I said the doctor, you're playing God.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: He says, no, I'm not playing God. You are, it's
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: not because you got to decide. You know, what we
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: do is that your dad's we're keeping your dad's body
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: alive with a machine. And it was it was Cedar
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: sign of medical center here in La actually, and I
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: remember it hit me either my dad's body is given up.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: He's given up, or God's called him. But but this
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: physical party is over, and so we had to make
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: peace with that. But I don't know how long you
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: go and live, but I know, I dang sure know
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: you're gonna die. It's not a mystery. So you've got
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: to prepare lift And I've been telling my dad to
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: do certain things and he ignored me as far as
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: far as his wellness is concerned. My mother was a
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: little better, She was a lot better, But I wish
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: you would have done more stuff for herself, not just
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: for her children. As far as her wellness is concerned,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: she ate well, but she didn't exercise as much as
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: I thought she should have. I think she could have
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: extended her wellness. But once you start falling and things
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: start breaking, that can become a thing.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Right and your mindset.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: Remember they always say, you know your mind your body.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Here's your mind your body. Here's what your.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Mind tells it, yes and yes, and it's what you
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: And when we say it's what you don't know that
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: you don't know, you told me this. That applies to
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: the medical profession as well. So I realized when I
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: was on one of my Mali trips, I was having
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: problems with my back. It was so bad. This is
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: going back twenty years now. My back thing was so bad.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: I had to lay down on the on the ground
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: to get to a phone call. I'm like, okay, I'm
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: thirty years old and I'm done, Like I'm going to
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: have I'm, you know, be immobilized. I went to Maui
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: and went to a chiropractor and he showed me that
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: my one leg was shorter than the other. You heard
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: this thing, said all one legs shorter than the other.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: This is where you are. No, they gave me an
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: adjustment and it equalized my legs. I was out of alignment.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: But then it went back. And so anyway, before this,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: they're like, oh, you need to get a lift in
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: your shoe. So I paid back. Then it was a
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars to get a custom lift made for my shoe.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Now you can go get over forty bucks from you
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: know whatever store, doctor shows whatever. So anyway, I did that,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: but then that worked for six months. Then the pain
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: came back. I'm like, okay, wait, I went back to
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: so you tell me I got it shorter than short, Like, okay,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: this is a this is some kind of a racket.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: So I went and found a front roller, a rumble roller,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: and I started rolling that on the muscles, not my back,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: but my glute muscles, my ssiatic around, my ssiatic nerve
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: and all this stuff, and I found the pain went
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: away over time. It was painful to get down in
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: deep into that, but the pain in my back went away.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: I found it was something called Fasha tissue. So so
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: this doctor was trying to get Ambassada to get a
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: knee surgery and black doctor, good guy, and he was like,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: you should tell him Bastian and let me do knee
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: surgery on him. I said, well, you know, I talked
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: about it. He doesn't really really interested in that, but whatever.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: But then he started complaining about his back and I said, well,
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: this is a medical doctor, this is a surgeon shapefe.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: I said, well, maybe it's the fasher tissue and shatrau.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: He said, what's that? So I came home and I
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: mentioned that the shapra and we're like, well, yeah, these
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: doctors are not trained in a lie. They're trained on cadavers,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: on dead tissue. Then I trained on live tissues, and
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: I trained. This is why I respect her so much.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: Listen to me now, this is that this is a
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: forty minute forty three. If you didn't listen to anything ted, everybody,
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: go to minute forty three. The medical doctors are trained
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: on dead tissue. I respected wellness when I learned that
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: that that the thing that gave me relief was the
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: live tissue being relieved, and that's that fosteril tissue that
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: lays next to the bone. It's so deep your messuse
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: can't get down into that. You need to get down there.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: In a non invasive way, and that this phone roller
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: did it for me and my life, which transformed. My
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: back pain went away, and for a long time time
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: I traveled with a NAB phone roller with me, and
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: now I don't have any back pain at all. I
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: actually feel better now that I did when I was
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: twenty five. But a lot of this is this wellness stuff,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: that these good habits that Shape was talking about. But
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: even medical doctors, first of all, they're in se devised.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Again nothing, I'm not saying this is a racket or anything.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: I'm saying they were trained to cut. A surgeon's trained.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: They're very trained and very good in their specialty.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, it was a nicer way of saying what
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: I said. I mean, her dad's a noted legendary even pharmacist.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, so you know it's natural for everything to
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: be a pill, because what do black people want to
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: do or not just anybody I need, I'm in pain,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: make this go away if all you do is appeal
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: the pain of boy temporarily, but you've got a salt
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: what was underneath that? Otherwise you get addicted maybe to
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: the pill, or the pills won't be enough or whatever,
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: or the alcohol whatever, that they are a pain reliever.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: So her dad fishes now and has found and plays golf,
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: and that you know, has made his energy come up
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: in his he's you know, he feels better about himself.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Has nothing to do with a medical situation per se.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: But it all and nature in.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: Nature, right, it's medicinal.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: So do you agree with what do you disagree with
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: what I said about the fact that all doctors what
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: we doctors are trained, as you said, they have a specialty.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: If you're if you're a surgeon, you're trained to cut.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: And so it's not their fault that that's what they're
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: trained to do. But they can't get another Porsche or
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: another house. They're not they're not doing surgery. So they
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: so there if you want the pain to go away,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: they're gonna cut. But that doesn't mean that that's the
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: only solution to your problem.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: There's definitely integrative care.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Can you explain what integrative care?
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: If you you know, if you have to take medication,
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: that's the first solution. And we're happy that medicine does.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Exist, like blood pressure, yes, like blood.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: Pressure medicine and then you integrate it, so you integrate
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: it with a healthier lifestyle, and you work, and you
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: work into a space where hopefully maybe you can get
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: off the medication, and if you can't, then you won't
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: have to add another pill on top of it.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: It keep you steady.
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: So that's really the goal of like you know, bioindividuality
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: and integrative care, just finding your own pace of what's
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: going to make your body work and function at its
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: best capacity. So if you have to take the high
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: blood pressure pill because your body just you haven't figured
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: out a way to totally come off the medication.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: But a lot of.
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: Times, you know, if you start one medicine and you
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: continue it, you usually the second one gets added or
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: the third one gets added.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: That's really what you want to prevent.
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: And altogether being able to work your way all the
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: way off of it would be great.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: But if that doesn't happen, you just don't.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: Want to progress any further because it could lead to
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: kidney failure or other things, other problems. So that's really
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: what integrative care is about. I'm for both sides because
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: I know that if I don't feel good, I definitely
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: want the doctor who has the ultimate knowledge of what
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: is happening in your body. And then you have the
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: other side of holistic care, which is why did what
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: caused it? And usually it took years for something to
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: cause it, and so whatever however along whatever you were
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: doing that took that added to the cause. It's going
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: to take some time probably to work its way back out.
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: So you have to give yourself time to let your system.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Work it back out and be consistent and be consistent.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, are there on the on the National Minority Health
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: uh National Minority Health Association website? Are there tips and tricks? There?
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: Are there tips for people they go to the website?
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: Are their tools? Are really asking? Is it is a
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: website a resourceing people, a starting point for health and lowness?
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: There's three There's three things that we mainly focus on
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: uh loupis diabetes and cares, aching are and healthy living
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: for all. So there's those are our four components of
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: what we really are focused on right now. Of course
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: we were focused on COVID vaccinations, but that doesn't give
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: healthy tips. Where you'll find the healthy tips are through
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: the Diabetic Diabetic Portal, the kit and then you'll get
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: some information for caregiving is very big and what we
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: serve because we have to help caregivers take care of
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: themselves while they're taking care of others, and also have
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: resources on where to go to find appropriate care resources.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: What's his news campaign that you started living healthy? Living?
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: Health is for everybody?
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: What's that? In short?
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: Health is for everybody?
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: You dummy? You understand? She's like, that was plain English?
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: All right? So go to her website. By the way,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: she is a health and wellness advisor. No, no, you
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: don't get it. No, no, this is me. You don't
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: get to come back.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: No, that's over.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: No, so no, go to the website. Check that out.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: She also is a health and wellness advisor for Operation Hope,
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: so you'll if you're in, if you like what you
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: heard today, you want to hear more from her, let
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: me know or let her know in the comments wherever
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: we're checking this out, and you know, send a note.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: She also has her own website, which is Wellness.
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: Three sixty three.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: Sixty Wellness Collective, and send her a note. And if
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: you will want to hear more from her, you want
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: somebody to dive down it's something specific. I'm sure she'd
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: be happy to do a video something specific about it.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: As you can tell, she's much kinder nicer and more
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: patient than me. So I think about some takeaways, like
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: you can give to people for that for a weekly
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: family meeting they're going to have on health and wellness,
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: some of your you know, some some some some some
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: quick text for a CEO who's on the run. What
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: happens if you you're a single mother, like a lot
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: of mothers are. They're raising kids, they got a career,
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: and they're not feeling their best self. What are some
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: things suggestions you have for them? And give me life
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: hacks like cheat sheets, some things that you do that
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: that are quick things that you can give to people
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: as a starting point. For instance, I never asked you this,
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: but like, how does your skin so great? Is it
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: just you're drinking water? What is there something you do
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: for your skin? Is something to do for your hair?
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: Is it something you do to keep the weight off?
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, is there anything there's something that triggers weight? Hello,
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: I don't care any of the above is helpful to
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: the audience. Well ignore, ignore those and go to something else.
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: Water is everything. I mean, you would be shocked at dehydration.
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: And I know I always harp on it, and anyone
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: who knows me knows I'm always harping on are you dehydrated?
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: Hydration is everything. Most of us are dehydrated. And so
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: my biggest, biggest thing is make sure you drink water.
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: And that's the east, and that's the most.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: It's cheapest too, The cheapest, easiest is most sustainable. And
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: then nature is nature is free.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: And go outside get some fresh air. I know that
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: even if it's for.
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: Five minutes, five to ten minutes, just go outside and
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: get some air.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: Do some deep breathing.
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: You know, wouldn't even you'd be surprised at if you
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: just take a deep breath, go outside, get some air,
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: get some sunshine for five minutes. You'll feel so much better.
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: If say you're under pressure or something's going on, just.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: Go out side for five walk around the walk around
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: the house, around.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: The long for a minute. Yeah, and just breathe.
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: You would be shocked at at how that calms the
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: nervous system down. Those are my hacks. Those are my
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: go to. Like every morning, I start off with, you know,
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: my prayer and then meditation, yes, prayers.
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  Speaker 2: You know whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Report Yeah, so that's how I start my mornings.
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  Speaker 2: Those are that's definitely a hack.
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  Speaker 1: Hip hop music so by the way incredible career. Uh
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  Speaker 1: did did the album covers when back when she was
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: in the fashion business and the music business did album covers.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: Were a bunch of big stars and designed the Olympic
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: uniforms for the Andrew Young Olympics in Atlanta in the
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six Olympics, but the Olympic NBA team designed
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: the uniforms for them. I had a fashion house in
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: New York in LA just a lot of incredible stories
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: that she has. So one of these times you'll we'll
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: get the chance to open her up. She's a little
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: bit more shy than me, but you'll open her up
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: a lot in there rather than the beautiful smiley face. Okay,
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: so you give them a couple of life hacks. By
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: the way, last week I was frustrated about something. I
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: had to go outside and walk around the block, I
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: around the house. It helped me just being outside. Like
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: you know, folks will frustrate the heck out of you.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you need to breathe it through right because you
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: don't left it out. You don't let it out, then
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's becoming toxic, toxic inside of you.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: Put these down.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, there, you go put that down, put this down.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: We were in Singapore. Nobody, nobody in the phone, nobody,
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: and they were not on the phone. They were not
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: on the phone, they were not on a call. It
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: was amazing. In all of Singapore, like nobody was on
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: their phone. It was unbelievable. Nobody was texting social media,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: they were talking to each other. They were having really
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: really hard to.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: Do because we're so attached to this and it does everything.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: I love. I love my phone. I love my phone.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: But she loves she had her phone and.
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: Take it back and laugh. Laughter, We have a lot
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: of laugh. You can't take anything, you can't take this
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: so serious.
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  Speaker 3: But if you take some time, just turn your phone off,
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: you know, for a half hour, and just be present
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: with yourself.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Look, I'm looking at her her screenshot and even this
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: is peaceful. Look at this. She's that's her. That's her,
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: that's her in the middle.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: Of the ocean, a peaceful screenshot on your phone.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: Put a piece with something you think about your food,
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: like any any food hacks, shortcuts or things you do,
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: things you do and things you avoid. Sugar avohite, sugar,
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: white sugar. I eat brown sugar. I use brown sugar,
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: but I can't find this cream. I do well. If
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: you're gonna have sugar, maple sugar, brown sugar, sugar and
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: the raw I think are better alternative. What else?
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: Watch the sugar? Watch your processed food?
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: Yes, what do you want to explain with process food?
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: Like anything fried, fried food, or like deli meats and
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: things like that.
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: Be careful of canned.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: Food or they process? I think so a lot of them,
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: not all of them, but a lot of them are.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: If something's been on the shelf, are I'm gonna let's
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: say something she may disagree with if somebody's been Like
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: in Europe, when you go to Europe, you don't see
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of obest people. They make the bread every day,
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: they make the cheese every day. You eat it. They
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: make it, you eat it. In Africa, frankly, the same thing.
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: A lot of places. You don't see a lot of
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: obest people. The food here is processed. They sit on
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: the it sits on the shelf, It has an expiration date.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: That is that that's the definition of process. Process was
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: not not just fried food. That's that's an easy example
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: of it. You I mean, I'm trying to think, I
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: mean all the I mean most of what we most
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: of we get in the groceries.
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: How about a hack don't eat fried food.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: You see, she's really on this fried food that is
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: you know, of course she's right, right, And I don't
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: eat a ton of fried food. I used to, I
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: used to kill.
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: Depending on your system, yeah.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: Moderate because she loves a glass of wine and yes,
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: lowers your blood blood, blood blood pressure.
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good for your blood. So they say, I don't.
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: Know it works for her.
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: I'm nutritionist. I'm not a I'm not a doctor or
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: a scientist. So find what works for you.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: So a note for me to black men, the danger
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: of emotional shut down in grind culture. That's going to
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: stretch you out and take you out. Like I just
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: you know, it's okay. You don't like me, Yeah, I
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: like me right, and not one else, not one out
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: of my self esteem depends on your acceptance of me.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: And that's a Quincy Jones quote. Like I just don't
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: let stuff get to me. I walk through life consciously
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: oblivious and most things around me because it just doesn't matter.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: And like I just shrugged my shoulders. You know, people
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: don't you know, to argue with the fool cruiser are
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: too Just let the stuff all rock walk, let the
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: stuff you know, just roll down your back and walk
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: and walk away from a fight, walk away from drama.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: Don't sit there and argue with a crazy person. Get
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: your blood pressure up for what she said. A lot
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: of disease is disase, right, Just let the drama go.
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: So you know when I urge couples and families to
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: get real about health and have family needs about this.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: You don't need a six pack. You need six hours
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: of sleep. I try to get six hours of sleep
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: a night. That's my magic number. Her number is a
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: little bit longer than six hours. But she's got beauty
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: to be concerned with. I don't go to the doctor
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: like you go to the barber on a regular basis.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: If you love your family, stay alive for them right
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: and keep each.
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: Other healthy, work together to keep each other healthy.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: Okay, Like what like what you like? Would like be
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: accountability partner like you were with me? Yeah, and do
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: it lovingly, I mean so that people listen to you.
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: It's like she she knew I'm a double She calls
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: me a double alpha, which is really bad. That's like
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: an intense on top of the tents on top of intense,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: and she knew that like coming at me, he had
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: come at me a certain way, or I'm like, don't
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: tell me what to do, right, and she she disarms
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: me most of the time, and that gets me to
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: do what she suggests and makes it and ultimately she
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: has convinced me to make it my own decision, as
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: you're hearing me talk about it now. So thank you
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: for keeping me alive.
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: Anytime I'm keeping yourself.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: You did it. And thanks for being good. We do
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: we do good, we're better. We're two plus two here.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: He was definitely equals tense. We hold each other accountable
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: one hundred percent. My worst day was her, I tell her,
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: is better than my best day with anybody else. She's
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: an extraordinary human being. And just what you see is
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: what you're good you get. It's just full of full
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: of love and authenticity, which gets you through. When somebody
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: is real and they have no agenda and they're not
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: trying to play you, they're not trying to extract from you,
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: it allows you to relax and forget, and you can
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: forgive almost anything with somebody's intention is pure. My brother
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: Rob McGrew would say If you're madly in love, you're
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: ready to cement to the it, the BS will entertain you.
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: If you're not madly in love or you're not ready
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: to cement to the it, the BS will drive you crazy.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: It's the same BS. It depends how you look at it.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: Is the glass half full or is the half empty?
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: Depends who was looking at the glass, which is why
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: Shache was talking about it. Disease is often dis ease.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: Your energy. Watch your energy, Watch who's around you, watch
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: your toxicity. Field health is wealth. I mean it doesn't
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: do you any good and make all this money and
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: then you drop dead from a heart attack or hypertension
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: or diabetes or whatever it is because you just you
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: did something you didn't do, something preventable, and now you
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: you can't even enjoy it. That that say that right
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: you think you want to say and wrap up? I mean,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: what what's your? What's your? Your? Your? Drop the mic
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: on the way out the door. Advice for people just try.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: To try to take care of yourself.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: That's that's we always end up putting ourselves at the
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: last on the list, And try to be mindful that
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: it's okay to put yourself first when it comes to
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: your health so that you're being able to take care
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: of everything else that you have.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: Going on.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: That part. This has been money and Wealth on the
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: Black Effect Network. This is John Holbryant, and this is
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: my weekly pullpit of finance. And this was a special edition.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: I only bring special guests on when they're special and
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: when they bring something that's truly transformational to the conversation.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: And I think you will agree this was and has
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: been transformational. We have dealt directly with a lot of
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: taboo topics, and we've been straight about our own insecurities
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: and our own failings and our own fears right there.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: You know, if you're not afraid when a tiger's coming
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: at you at a million miles an hour, then something's
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: wrong with you. Uh So it has a legitimate reason
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: to be absolutely afraid. By the way, this has nothing
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: to doing nothing. It's just funny. You know why black
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: people are not in scary movie in horror movies because
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: we're not convincing. The Amniville horror it was. It was
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: an amiville horror. It was was the movie movie that
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: is it amivill horror? Or the House about the House
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: that was hunted the house that can't out see it.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: There was a black one's the movie. It has been
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: over the first sale sign the front lawn, the first
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: that's why we get we get killed off in the
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: first scene in the horror movies. And yeah, because we're
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: just not convincing. You mess with a black perpy, but like,
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: we got enough problems just trying to live and you know,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: we drop us might drop up black night, drop a
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: wallet in front of police officer, can kick it all
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: the way home. Like we got enough problem so so
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: you know, we ain't trying to be to be scared
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: out of my wits voluntarily and participate. If the house
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: is talking, we're just selling the house, right, We're not
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: going up. We'll get what's that noise? Right? So that
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: has nothing to do with health and wealth it is.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: I thought it was funny Black people are really not
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: convincing in horror movies, which are not generally speaking, while
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: we're not in it, unless it's a completely black horror movie,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: which a couple of them would just come out and
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: they almost parody comedies. And then there's actually a couple
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: of that actually I think did work. But this is
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: really just trying to get you to laugh, like, take
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: life seriously, don't take yourself too seriously. Like just don't
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: be full of pressure if that's what you want to,
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: you know, get yourself focused on a goal, but don't
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: stress yourself out. There is no perfect and you will
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: stress yourself out trying to be that way. It's just
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: the best you can do, and you can do a lot,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: as you heard from Shatrap. If your brother and you
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: think you don't have enough time, think about how busy
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: my life is every morning? Is it true when I
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: get out in the morning, I do push ups sometimes
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: her frustrations, We gotta go right, push ups, sit ups, squats, breathing,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: stretching and whatever it is can wait. It can wait
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: ten minutes, and it does. But don't let your health
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: wait because it may be too late. This is John O'Brien.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: This is Shake Trae Bryant. This is the ego and
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: the butterfly, the heart and the head, even though she's
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: all had too in the since she's really smart. This
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: is you know, somebody may turn it to create a house,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: but somebody has got turned into a home. So you
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: need the whole picture. Uh, And let somebody love you.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: Let your family love. You don't just be don't just
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: be a giver. Try to get good at receiving love too.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: I'm working on it myself. Vulnerability is not it's not
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: a weakness, it's a it's a strip. But most people
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: are not tough enough to be soft. That was my book,
• 1:04:25
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• 1:04:32
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• 1:04:36
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• 1:04:38
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• 1:04:41
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