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Michael Menard - BOOK - Greater Than Gravity · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Starting the mailroom. You'll be successful. That's what Christopher Smithman
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  Speaker 1: suggested earlier, and I have an illustration of that right
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  Speaker 1: here on the fifty five Cassey Morning Show. Author Michael Minard.
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  Speaker 1: Labeled a non college bound man, he was put in
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  Speaker 1: trade school program. At the age of twenty one, he
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  Speaker 1: joined Johnson and Johnson operated the blueprint machine. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty five years later, he was named the company's first
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  Speaker 1: vice president of engineering and an officer of the company
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  Speaker 1: with responsibilities in forty four countries. Now labeled as an
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  Speaker 1: exemplary creator, he has received fourteen US and multiple international patents,
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  Speaker 1: including inventions of infant disposable diapers with elastic legs and
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  Speaker 1: sanitary napkins with wings for women. I remember those anyway.
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  Speaker 1: He's the author of a book we're gonna be talking today.
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  Speaker 1: He's not a doctor, but how did he discover the
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  Speaker 1: secret to what is causing all of our collective problems?
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  Speaker 1: Described as the third leading cause of death, childhood trauma
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  Speaker 1: the name of the book, Greater than Gravity, How childhood
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  Speaker 1: trauma is pulling down humanity. Welcome to the fifty five
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  Speaker 1: Carsy Morning Show, Michael Minard. It's a real pleasure to
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  Speaker 1: have you on.
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  Speaker 2: Me to be here good morning.
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  Speaker 1: So you're not a doctor, and yet this sounds like
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  Speaker 1: medical research looking to find the root cause of you know,
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  Speaker 1: addiction or what kills us, what causes diabetes? Are we
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  Speaker 1: getting the wrong information? It sounds like we are Michael.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we have for eternity and it's just an unlikely journey.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a I'm an engineer by education, but I'm also
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  Speaker 2: I have a mind that solves problems. We all have
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  Speaker 2: different gifts, and I connect dots that have never been
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  Speaker 2: connected before. And when I decided to write my memoir
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  Speaker 2: about three years ago, that's the kite that couldn't fly.
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  Speaker 2: And in that I discovered that I and my siblings
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  Speaker 2: have we're actually experiencing complex childhood trauma and explained a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the dysfunction in my siblings. And that stopped me,
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  Speaker 2: started me down the journey of recon I lost two
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  Speaker 2: brothers to addiction to heroin. Why them and not me?
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  Speaker 2: So that led me on a two year journey that
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  Speaker 2: I'm publishing and actually that book is going to be
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  Speaker 2: released in about a month. Greater than Gravity and found
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  Speaker 2: some shocking data.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Now, one of the things I've learned from over
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  Speaker 1: the years I've talked to so many folks involved in
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  Speaker 1: psychiatry and psychology. Quite often addiction springs from an underlying
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  Speaker 1: mental health problem. People are self medicating if they're dealing
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  Speaker 1: with generalized anxiety. They feel tense and nervous all the time.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, drink something, you know, it makes you
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  Speaker 1: mellow out, makes you feel good, and that's what you
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  Speaker 1: head straight down the road of addiction. What level trauma
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  Speaker 1: are you referring to? Is this abusive parents? Is it
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  Speaker 1: students that you go to school with. There's all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of trauma.
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  Speaker 2: Out there, great question. There's ten types of classic childhood
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  Speaker 2: trauma that have been identifi of the CDC, and they
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  Speaker 2: include the ugly facts of neglect, abuse, sexual abuse, a
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  Speaker 2: parent having addiction themselves, someone being incarcerated in the home,
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  Speaker 2: someone having mental illness in the home. Those ten things
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  Speaker 2: are called aces. Adverse childhood experiences. One hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 2: million adults, that's seventy percent of our adult population have
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  Speaker 2: experienced childhood trauma. If you have experienced four or more,
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  Speaker 2: which is thirty percent of the nation and the world,
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  Speaker 2: everything goes to hell. Everything goes to hell, and it
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  Speaker 2: starts at childhood with the excess flows of hormones like
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  Speaker 2: cortisol an adrenaline. Because the child stays in the alert,
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  Speaker 2: always on the alert, their brain gets wired for survival,
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  Speaker 2: not for growth. Mitochondria is destroyed in the brain, which
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  Speaker 2: begins the downward spiral. So you lose energy in the brain.
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  Speaker 2: You get mild mental disorders or disease, and those are
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  Speaker 2: pathways to metabolic disease and makes you feel bad. And
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  Speaker 2: when you feel bad, we seek to feel better. And
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  Speaker 2: how do we do that? As children? We begin with
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  Speaker 2: addictions as you as early as eight or nine years old,
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  Speaker 2: with food, yeah, and then we find a drink, might
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  Speaker 2: call them your mind. So eighty five percent of all
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  Speaker 2: people in the United States suffering from childhood trauma, sorry,
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  Speaker 2: suffering from addiction have childhood trauma.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now what of other disease states. I just use
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  Speaker 1: myself as an example. I got lymphauma and I've been
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  Speaker 1: complaining this morning because I had to have a chemo
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday and Friday, and it really is influencing my
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  Speaker 1: brain today, sir. So if I sound a little groggy,
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  Speaker 1: I literally am. Okay. I'm sixty. I was diagnosed eight
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  Speaker 1: years ago, I got five years of remission. First three minute,
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  Speaker 1: Is there something could you trace that to a traumatic
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  Speaker 1: event in my childhood?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely? So, you know, and I don't want to make
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to make it sound like the sky
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  Speaker 2: is falling. No, no, no, no, and we're trying to dig
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  Speaker 2: up bones and blame people. But the reality is that
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  Speaker 2: if you have experienced childhood trauma, even things that you
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't think was trauma, an unhappy mother at birth, a
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  Speaker 2: slight neglect or being demeaned or being touched on these
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  Speaker 2: ten things, if you have it, it begins to destroy
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  Speaker 2: the immune system. So we're built to filter out cancer cells.
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  Speaker 2: We all have them, but our immune system filters them out.
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  Speaker 2: If you've experienced childhood trauma, that system is weakened. And
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  Speaker 2: there is a there is a new book by doctor Gibore,
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  Speaker 2: world expert on trauma, who now shows a direct prevalence
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  Speaker 2: of cancer to your early childhood at adversity. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know your history, not asking your history, but.
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  Speaker 1: No, I was looking. I was looking for a psychoanalyst.
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  Speaker 1: But you're saying, yes, very well, it could have been
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  Speaker 1: some traumatic event of my childhood that has brought me
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  Speaker 1: to the state.
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  Speaker 2: So absolutely, how did you.
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  Speaker 1: Make that connection? Again, going back to the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you're a researcher, a numbers cruncher, not a physician, how'd
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  Speaker 1: you make the leap?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? So, after the memoir, a world renowned psychologist, doctor Schiraldi,
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  Speaker 2: reached out to me and said, you're really onto something here,
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  Speaker 2: like to work with you. So with him and I
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  Speaker 2: consumed three hundred and fifty peer review reports on making
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  Speaker 2: the connection between causing diseases mental and metabolic diseases and
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  Speaker 2: found some gold in that research, and then research deeper,
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  Speaker 2: and I created a team of experts to validate my data.
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  Speaker 2: So it's always there. But the professionals talk to themselves.
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  Speaker 2: They don't talk to us. Right now, I'm still shocked
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  Speaker 2: as this data has been available for thirty years and
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  Speaker 2: you have to have a novice, a layman make this
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  Speaker 2: connection because of my childhood and of all the research,
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  Speaker 2: but no one. I'm trying to hit the alarm button
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  Speaker 2: with this book.
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  Speaker 1: I understand now the sixty four thousand dollars question, or
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  Speaker 1: whatever it's worth these days, what do we do to
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  Speaker 1: solve the problem, Like, for example, if it was childhood trauma,
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  Speaker 1: that resulted in me having whatever disease state or not.
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  Speaker 1: Is it too late to sort of fix that or
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  Speaker 1: do we need to start really really young and focusing
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  Speaker 1: on and talking about the traumas that we face as
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  Speaker 1: young people. I mean, you got an alcoholic father or mother,
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  Speaker 1: how are you going to reach that young person to
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  Speaker 1: stop the trauma from happening.
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  Speaker 2: So the end, the end of the book lays out
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  Speaker 2: the solution. So if you if you're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about a problem, you have a responsibility to talk about
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  Speaker 2: the solution. And I got to tell you, you're the
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  Speaker 2: first guy and all these interviews I'm doing, the first
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  Speaker 2: guy who has asked, Okay, what do we do? So
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  Speaker 2: so here's here's what we're doing. I've created an organization
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  Speaker 2: called you act U act United against Childhood Trauma. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to do three things and a very at a
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  Speaker 2: very high scale. We're going to raise awareness so people
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  Speaker 2: like you might make the connection between your health, your
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  Speaker 2: mental state, and your past. Awareness is number one. Number
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  Speaker 2: two healing interventions. Now, obviously we can't take your cancer away,
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  Speaker 2: we can't take you, but we can improve your ability
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  Speaker 2: to heal by doing things that's so simple. Of appropriate, rest,
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  Speaker 2: appropriate nutrition and a little bit of movement. But if
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  Speaker 2: you're really suffering, if you're really suffering, then you need
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  Speaker 2: professional help. And there are interventions that are quite efficacious,
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  Speaker 2: they're quite easy to implement. So first awareness, Second, let's
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  Speaker 2: drive healing, and third, let's go upstream and prevent it
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  Speaker 2: from happening. Let's teach the parents, let's teach the world.
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  Speaker 2: You know, in a country like Denmark, they have almost
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  Speaker 2: zero childhood trauma because they give their mothers eighteen months
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  Speaker 2: off at birth. They have women, they have teams delivering diapers, food, consoling, love.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they have this theory of raise your children,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like a Viking, and it works. But we're
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  Speaker 2: of the forty two richest countries in the world, we
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  Speaker 2: are the lowest in preventing childhood trauma and bringing these So.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we have a lot of i would say, single
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  Speaker 1: parent families, a lot of pant families with two earner
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  Speaker 1: parents and they're not around all the time, latch key kids.
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  Speaker 2: And we could go on, well meaning, well meaning, well
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  Speaker 2: meaning parents.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, greater than gravity, how childhood trauma is pulling
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  Speaker 1: down humanity. By my guest today, Michael Manard, fascinating conversation, Sir,
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  Speaker 1: I hope you're onto something. I hope we can discover
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  Speaker 1: the source of all this, this tragedy that's out there
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  Speaker 1: and got a solution that's in the book. Your book
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  Speaker 1: is on my blog page fifty five cares dot com stir,
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  Speaker 1: but we can click on it, get themselves a copy
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  Speaker 1: of it and learn about it. Michael, it's been a
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  Speaker 1: real pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: Man, Thank you for having me on. Good luck to you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much, sir, I appreciate it. Eight forty
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