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Meet Ralph: The Trainer Changing Lives with Kindness and Strength · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  Meeting people that are just genuine, good-hearted, and well-spirited,
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  well-minded, well-grounded, and is willing to do for others as they even do for themselves.
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  That's what I have met in a gentleman
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  named Ralph, who has been officially training me to get into shape.
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  Oh, I've got to put my seatbelt on, and you're ready for Half-Aid Let It Begin,
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  because it starts right now. Click it, Angel.
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  Half-Aid. Let it begin. I'm going to start right now.
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  Welcome to Have Faith. Let it begin.
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  Here's your host, Angel Santana. Ariel, can you say, have faith?
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  Let it begin. Let it begin? Let it begin. Say, have faith.
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  Let it begin. Let it begin. No. No. No? Okay. Noah. Hi, Noah.
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  Noah! Noah! It's happy birthday, Noah! Don't be easy.
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  This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it sound.
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  This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it sound.
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  This little light of ray, I'm gonna let it sound. Let it sound.
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  Let it sound. Let it sound. Yeah.
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  Daddy, I'm so excited. But I have one question. What's your question?
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  I'm going to be a pastor or a minister?
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  Good question. I don't know, but it is all in God's hands. Good morning.
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  You're listening to Have Faith, Let It Begin, and it starts right now.
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  Hello, everyone, and welcome to Have Faith, Let It Begin. It is a Friday edition.
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  I cannot believe it. We're saying goodbye to July.
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  Sorry, hello. We're saying goodbye to June, saying hello to July.
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  I guess I'm a little bit ahead of myself, right?
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  Yeah, you know, listen, here's the update. I haven't really had a chance to
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  get in it with you guys about my personal update, but here's what it is.
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  I officially have been diagnosed as a pre-diabetic and, you know, it's been a journey.
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  I've been doing the best I can to try to keep the sugars down.
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  The good news is I am not on insulin.
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  So I decided it was my, it was in my best interest to get into shape.
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  And I've been doing that.
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  And because of that, I joined the gym and one of my colleagues by the name of
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  Ralph, just an awesome person. You know, sometimes you just got to thank God
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  for the people that have been brought into your life.
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  And every person that I work with at my job has truly been messengers and angels.
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  But Ralph also, in addition to like, you know, Nick, which all of you know, and Justin and Dr.
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  E and all these people that I work with. But with Ralph, he took it to a different
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  level with me and in a way of more of a guiding light and saying,
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  hey, angel, I am actually a personal trainer.
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  And, and, you know, I mean, I, by the looks of him, I knew he was,
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  he worked out, you know, he's just all jacked up.
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  I know he's laughing right now, but he is, he's all jacked up,
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  you know, he's got all those muscles and everything, but he,
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  he offered to train me and here I am, you know, joining the gym.
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  I gave him a call cause I told him I, you know, would let him know when I was going to be there.
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  And he said, he's going to do his best to show up. I didn't want to put pressure
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  on him. So, you know, here I am on the treadmill getting warmed up.
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  And all of a sudden And I looked to my left and there he is with that big smile.
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  And he said, Hey, let's get it going.
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  And let me tell you, I'm a little sore today. I'm a little sore.
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  I'm feeling good i'm feeling really good and you
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  know we've officially started the journey when i started the weight
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  loss journey i was officially at 238 pounds i'm happy to tell you that today
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  i'm at 214 with water weight it fluctuates so there's days where i'm 216 214
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  218 214 but the lowest i've gotten to now is 214 and i feel healthy i feel better my knees are better.
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  My sciatic, which I've always told you guys, someone has disappeared.
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  I want to give a big shout out to all the physical therapists over at Advantage
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  Physical Law Therapy, Advantage over on Dunning Road.
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  25 sessions with them. I'm done
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  for the year. And now I'm starting to bulk up and get myself in shape.
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  Where's the message in all this, right? The message is you never know who you're going to meet.
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  But what you are going to realize is that when you meet that person that truly
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  inspires you, motivates you, and does everything in their power to help you.
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  Not because they feel like they need to, because they want to.
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  And that's what Ralph does.
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  Ralph's journey is just beginning. You know, he shared with me that he wants
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  to begin his own business.
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  I don't want to throw it out there without his permission, but we're going to
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  help him at Have Faith Let It Begin.
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  And if you're a person that needs personal training and you don't have to live
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  in the state of New York, He's going to be doing things with Zoom.
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  He's going to be doing things where a portfolio is going to come out.
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  I'm one of his portfolios, I guess you can say.
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  And I'm not getting paid for any of this. I want to make sure everybody's aware.
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  This is not me endorsing him because he paid me.
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  This is me doing it because I know that he has a lot to offer the world.
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  And his story is unbelievable, his personal testimony. And we're hoping to get
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  him on the show as well. So,
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  Be grateful with what God puts
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  in your lap, because sometimes you don't realize it until you have it.
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  And I'm happy to say that, you know, Ralph is becoming a good friend of mine
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  and to have him, you know, Nick and Justin, the three, you know,
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  are, I would say it's going to be a tripod, but now we've got,
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  you know, now we got the four, the four horsemen. That's what we'll call each other.
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  And we're ready to take on the world. So I'm hoping that each and every one
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  of you has that at your home, has that at your fingertips. and I hope that you'll
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  ride with me in this journey in my faith toward getting healthier and I ask him for prayers.
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  So with that being said, let's pray together.
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  Heavenly Father, thank you for today. Thank you for yesterday. Thank you for tomorrow.
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  Even though it's not guaranteed, we know that with you, everything is possible.
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  Thank you for individuals like Ralph with a great personality,
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  a great heart and someone who is willing to give to others.
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  Thank you for people like Nick who always inspires to be a better person every day.
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  Thank you for Justin who continues to go into work with a great attitude and
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  just a really laid back, chill out kind of guy.
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  And thank you for all our colleagues at my job and all the colleagues at your
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  job, Have Faith, Let It Begin family.
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  We wanna thank people like Mansa, Yesenia, Sigfredo, Chip, Addison.
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  We wanna lift up in prayer. Carol in Florida. Carol, I love you. I miss you, Carol.
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  And we gotta get you on the show. And Dr. E will be back on Monday.
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  And I just wanted to say thank you to everyone because you guys are inspirational
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  to me and I'm excited and I know that pretty soon I'll be able to put my before
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  and after photos and then moving forward, we'll just stay healthy.
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  So on behalf of all of us here at Have Faith, Let It Begin, stay healthy,
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  stay kind, be kind to others and never forget to have faith and let it begin.
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  Thanks, Ralph. Let's get it going.
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  Thank you for listening to Have Faith, Let It Begin. I'll be back tomorrow.