June 20, 2022 • 30 mins
Olivia is excited to reconnect with her friend Cambrie Schroder.
Cambrie explains why Leaving Los Angeles was the right move.
They have tips for healthier skin and hair and staying fit.
Plus, do you have an idea and want to start your own business…it’s not impossible!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is Conversationous with Olivia Jade in My Heart Radio podcast.
Hi guys, it's Olivia Jade. Welcome back to another episode
of Conversations. Today's guest is somebody I've known for a
really long time and she's honestly a huge inspiration to
me because she's dedicated, she works hard, and she's inspired
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so many young girls to hop on this fitness journey
that she's created a few years back. UM. Her brand
is called Fit with Cambrie. So please welcome miss Cambrie Schroeder. Hi,
how are you doing so good? How are you? I'm good.
It's been forever, I know. Wow, crazy, crazy crazy, So
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will you give maybe the listeners a little intro as
to who you are? What we're starting right off the bat? Awesome?
So yeah, I'm Cambridge rode around, the founder out Fit
with Cambrie, who helped how inspire women to improve their wellness. Um,
it's for women of all kinds. We want to just
feel better and that's the great thing that we aspire
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to teach is that it doesn't matter what you look like,
it doesn't matter your body shape. Health is a feeling,
So it's super inclusive and that's something that we really
try to convey our messages and our content and our products. Yes,
I remember when you I don't know if I remember
when you started Fit with Cambrie, which is Cambrie's brand,
and she has you know, so many you have like
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training videos on YouTube from that I remember from like
back in the day, and then you've expanded into like
protein powders and different equipment, and you've helped so many
young girls transform from like the most insane before and
after photos, um, and I want to know like how
you got into that and where this love for fitness
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and health started. Yeah, So I felt I grew up
in Hollywood industry similar like Olivia. We come from similar
backgrounds of how many parents who are in the industry
and me personally, I felt like I was lacking support
and guidance in my life. I didn't I wanted to
be healthy and feel good, and I didn't have a
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mentor or the tools to get there. And so I
went on a journey of trying to find people to
surround myself that would help guide me through my personal
journey and that I wanted to then help inspire others
who might feel alone or lost in their process and
be the guidance that I needed for them. So we
started off. I started off teaching dance classes to girls
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and mouth but though some of our mutual friends, and
then I wanted to be able to reach more people
besides just my smaller community, and knew that would be
through products that could help change their lives. Through just
you know, making a nice protein smoothie in the morning.
Just by doing that you could start yourself on a
positive trend of feeling better. So that's where it started.
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You was kind of like trial and error for you,
because I think I can relate to growing up in
l A and growing up in this kind of world
where you feel like you have to look a certain
way and put on like a certain image, and definitely
I feel like I'm still dealing with it of trying
to like fit in and waking up some mornings and
being like, oh I I don't look good enough, or
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now I look this way or whatever it is, and
how did you how do you feel like you? Um,
I don't know, just kind of like honed in and
focused on the health aspect of it, so it was
like healthy to you instead of feeling like, oh, I
have to do this for a certain image or look. Yeah,
I definitely felt that pressure for many, many years, and
I realized it took me nowhere and I never felt
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good And you never feel good enough and never feel
pretty enough, you never feel accepted enough. So once I
kind of understood that that's not where my wellness would lie,
I went the journey of understanding that that can be
through you and good and how do you feel good?
That's about taking care of yourself, nourishing your body, surrounding
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yourself with people who are living a healthy life style
that you can learn and grow from. So it took
me a long time to like go of like you
don't want to with having a certain image or be
accepted and um, so that's been the journey that I've
been on, and I hope to inspire other people to
put more emphasis on feeling good instead of looking a
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certain way. And that's that we all equally have the
ability to do yes. And you know what I'm also
really curious about. Obviously you've said you're from l A.
We come from very similar like backgrounds and lifestyles, but
you moved, you kind of got out of that whole atmosphere,
and I'm wondering was that just because you want to change?
Was there something that was holding you back? What are
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the differences that you notice within yourself from leaving Los Angeles.
I feel like I needed just a you when you're
going through, when you're wanting to change, being in the
environment that was maybe hard to grow in. It's almost
impossible to make changes in the environment that could have
been toxic for you. So I felt like I needed
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to remove myself to see things clear, to work and
focus on on myself. And that doesn't mean, you know,
like I'm never going to move back to LA or
New York or be in those places, but it was
hard for me to manage some of the social pressures
and you know, the culture as I was trying to
evolve and grow in that was very hard. Um. So yeah,
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I'm saying now time between Miami and Ecuador. Oddly Ecuador
my boy, Yeah, oh no way. So he's there and
we've just been going like months a month back and
forth between Miami and Ecuador, and UM, it's been awesome
because I've really been able to focus on expanding. It
was Cambrie. We have in supplement line that we currently have,
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but technologies that we're developing. We have plans for three
years in the works of expanding our line of groundbreaking technology.
So I've really been able to put my focus on
my passion and not be distracted by things, you know
that that are hard for me to manage right now.
I love that. Okay, So I think that this is
a pretty general question I see a lot with any
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time I'm having somebody that's created their own business come
on or on my YouTube, people are always wondering how
do you start? Like where do you start? And let's
say somebody wants to create any sort of line of
something that they're passionate about, what were your first starting
steps to get to where you are now? I think
the important thing with wanting to start and starting to
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be a business owner, which is also has become like
a trend almost right now, like a lot of people
and there's like starting their own brands and and I
think that's great. But I have a vision of wanting
to be like a you know, I have a dream
of point I p O and having a corporation. We
have a full staff of a huge company. And there's
a difference between being a startup and you know, wanting
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to just like launch a like you know, whatever it
is you want to launch and wanting to take it
to the growth of being a public company. That's the
transition that I've been in because I have been a startup.
I started with Cambrie when I was eighteen and twenty
five now, so I've been in the journey of you know,
anyone can these days start a company. So what is
it that makes it different of taking it to that
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next level? Which is the journey I've been going through.
And the biggest thing that I can say is is
surrounding yourself with experts who in the field, who who
can help guide you because doing it alone and doing
anything alone, it's challenging, and the more supporting guidance you
have the better. Also, just perseverance. Every day is a challenge.
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Every day is a challenge comes up that you know
could almost take you out. So having that resilience to
just wake up and be that like, have that entrepreneur
mentality this is this is this is plan A and
there is no plan B. So that's in my day
to this. What's the hardest thing's been through with that process.
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There's been everything from like because we do rigorous testing
on our supplements. We put them through like a lot
of testing before they make it out of the warehouse.
So there's been batches before We've been sold out for
you know, six months, and the cash flow stops because
we're sold out, but still there's there's salaries to maintain
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and the financial pressure is still there and there's nothing
to sell. So and then the batch comes back and
it's contaminated with something and we have to for the
whole batch away that that is stressful just thinking about it.
But that's probably one of the hardest things that I've
I've been through is is not knowing UM. Also with
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the with COVID, and there's been a lot of issues
in recording, and we get our products from all over
the world, resources quality from all over the world, so
there's been a lot of issues with logistics, UM things
that are out of your control. Which you're entrepreneur, you
want to be in control of everything, which is just impossible.
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So I think that learning to for me, I see
this as a lifelong journey and to let control the
day today has been been part of the plan here.
That's amazing, honestly that you keep persevering through it, because
if that happened to me, I would have a panic attack, genuinely.
So I know that you have to have a strong
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mentality to get through it. And I remember when this
has to be years ago now, but your YouTube videos
when you would be fit with Cambrie like packaging the
protein powders to ship them out in your apartment. So
do you still ship them out yourself or now do
you have like a factory or manufacture something? That I
love that you've been able to see the growth and
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the thing because, like Olivia saying, we started, I bought
one protein at a time. So buy one protein, I
would sell it, ship it out my self, pack it
up and then you know, so ten of time, hundreds
of time, and then I had, you know, had to
figure out you know, okay, it can't be sending my
whole dage packaging boxes. Now we have a full we
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have a full warehouse, ship impact facility. It's crazy how
much we've grown and expanded, so tens of thousands of
units a month. That's so insane. It is really fun
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that you've been able to document it too, so you
can go back yourself and look at the growth. And
then people that have been on the journey with you
for a while. What makes your product different than the rest,
and what research are you putting in that's different from
somebody else's protein powder. So it's also been a challenge
because there has been now a trend, as I'm sure
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you've seen, of a lot of like gut health supplements
and like a bunch of protein. It's like a whole
trend right now, and that's been hard to face because
I've needed to grow the people inside of my company
to help guide me, to give me better direction. But anyways,
what makes the Gaber Supplements different is we have a
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board of in house experts who help develop the formulas
the highest quality potency that can really have an effect
on your health. I noticed that a lot of companies
put such small quantities that doesn't really it's a lot
cheaper to do that way that it doesn't have much
effect on on your health. Whereas we we are adamant
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on having super high potent, the highest quality formulas that
really can improve your health. For example, our greens powder.
A lot of people just think, you know, greens are healthy,
and greens are greens are amazing and so essential to
have in our diet. But if they aren't combined with fiber.
They sometimes just go right through you and can cause
like stomach senses, sensitivities and irritate your your gut. So
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a lot of people think, like I'm gonna be healthy,
drink a bunch of green juice a bunch of stomach pains.
So we made sure to formulate our greens powder with
a fiber blend inside so that your body can, your
gut can more easily and more effectively absorb the nutrients
that you're ingesting. So we really make our products well rounded.
For example, our protein powder, we combine with healthy fats
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and carbs in the right amount of protein for women
to digest, because you know, some proteins are so much
protein it as your stomach ache, you're feeling completely sick afterwards.
So we really want to make we take me being
a woman and working with a board of experts who
understand the needs of women, we have created products that
will help the specifics the specific needs of women with
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their gut health with protein and take wanting to you know,
building muscle um. All of our products are super well
rounded in that sense that we look after the needs
of women, their gut health and and their hormones there,
the ability of their hormones to build or not build muscle,
and how much protein it needs to get that done. Okay,
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So I feel like there's a lot of science behind this, obviously,
and I think for me, I like to like at
least attempt to have a healthy lifestyle, but I don't
know the ins and outs of everything. What's the importance
of having protein? Do you have protein every day? What's like?
What do you tell people in your guide on fit
with Cambrie, like what a day of eating should look like,
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because I think some people have a misconception that like,
carbs are really bad and you should only eat really
lean sort of protein and no carbs at all and
no refined sugar. And what would you say is like,
I guess maintainable as well, because I think when you
restrict yourself that much, it becomes a little unrealistic totally.
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So the first part of the question I love that
you asked is why do you need protein? Like, but
what does that do for your body? And when you
learn about what protein does for your body, you also
almost want to drink it more because you're like, Okay,
I really I want these effects. But protein is based
off of amino acids. And amino acids are the building
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blocks for so many things of our body. Our hair
is built up, amino acids are nails. Every organ in
our body needs amino acids to function properly. So people
they protein like, oh, I'm just gonna get mussel. It's
to optimize every part of your body. So if you're looking,
you know, you want to have feel good and maybe
have like thicker hair and stronger nails. Protein is essential.
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So protein is essential in every meal, regardless if you're
working out or not. Mhm. And then with just overall
eating um and something that could be maintainable for people
to apply into their day to day life is to
just focus on having well balanced meals. Protein, carbs, fat, fiber.
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Like you said, people sometimes they're afraid of eating. Cards
and carbs are so essential for not only build it
helping to build we muscle, to build we muscle mass,
but also for our gut health. Carbs help our body
absorb nutrients better. Specifically, my favorite is oats. Oats are
the best. So if you can have, you know, a
breakfast with oats, it will help your digestion so much
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and combine it, you know, with a scrip of protein
or a side of eggs. Try to get in every
food group. The more variety you can have in your diet,
the better. The more range of vitamins you can get in,
the better. Um. And that's the thing about health as
it doesn't need to be an overwhelming, daunting, you know journey.
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It can be just one day at a time, learning
to adding a little more protein, drink a little bit
more water. Sometimes even having a rest day or sleeping
or taking the morning off that can be considered a
healthy choice. So it's really about listening to your body,
understanding what your body is feels like it needs in
that day. Maybe you need a big your breakfast, maybe
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you need to not have such a big breakfast. Really,
learning and understanding your body is is super important on
your health journey. Yeah, and you've been pretty open throughout
the years about how you kind of restricted your diet
when you were a little bit younger or over exercising.
How did you find that healthy balance m hm. So
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that's one of the great things is that I I've
been open of my journey. I used to struggle with
horrible cystic acne um, thinning hair, low energy, and it
came from a lot of different things of wanting to restrict,
which fell into the habits me maybe restricting or overeating.
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And through my journey of learning what true health is,
I've been able to find balance in understanding that health.
I think my my perception of what I wanted to
be maybe thin or beautiful, has changed. Instead of it
being this on the physical aspect of you know, wanting
to look a certain way, it's changed to how I
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want to feel. And when you live your life based
and choose your healthy choices based on how you want
to feel, it changes completely because if you want to
feel good, that might mean having toast with bacon. Um,
well bacon. You know, we don't want to have every
single day, but some days we need to treat ourselves.
And learning that I've been having bacon literally every single
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day for like two weeks, and I finally said this morning,
I was like, Okay, I need to stop, which is
just so random and funny, but I'm obsessed but bacon. Like,
you know, there are properties in moderation of foods that
you people might think like it's not healthy to have,
but changing your mentality of you know, there are health
benefits maybe in bacon once in a while, keyword once
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in a while. I need to like take that advice
for myself. That's so funny, But how can you learn?
Like I think a lot of but ask me because
they see I'll post something and like a workout outfit,
and I have no answers because I've done absolutely no
studying or research. So I'm just kind of like pushing
the questions onto you, but learning to listen to your
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body and figuring out like this is what I need
this day, and this is what I don't need to do.
Mm hmm totally. So it I was before this in
a phase of training to be a professional boxer where
I was working out twice a day in sane diet
and sane routine, and I reached a complete burnout. And
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so I have been on the extremes of all the
spectrums and then like not wanting to work out because
I don't have the motivation to understanding that health is,
you know, having good active daily physical activity to get
your heart rate up, to get the blood circulation, focusing
it on more on how you're going to feel. But practice,
if you can practice, for me, what helped transition from
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to find balance in listening to myself was scheduling. I
needed to first make a schedule for myself that I
felt was achievable and manageable. So, for example, UM, I
recommend people to do to to do at least to
do two to five maximum workouts a week UM, and
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then schedule in your rest days the weekends. I love
to rest, um even the weekends I like to go
out and have a treatment with my boyfriend. And and
so making a schedule that you feel like when you
look at it your week it looks balanced. There's health
and wellness and relaxing and enjoy So it really helps
when you can map it out and make a plan
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in a schedule to kind of follow. And see. Obviously
you've always been absolutely drop dead gorgeous, but looking at
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you on this zoom and I haven't seen you in
so long. I mean, you seriously are like glowing from within,
and your hair it's so bright in here. I'm like,
I'm trying to figure out. No, you look so good though,
and your hair looks so like thick and long and
healthy and I and your skin actually looks flawless from
the zoom, and so I just want to know, like,
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what does a day in your life look like in
terms of what you're putting in your body and the
types of exercises you're doing and the length of those,
just because I think that will be really helpful a
for me, I'm selfishly asking, and then be for people
listening that don't really know where to start. So my
I'll go through just a typical day. So I wake
up at six thirty, I have well I'm having another
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one today, but I have Glowing Greens which is our
Greens powder with my favorite juice, okay, with a fruit
like a banana or an apple pre workout. So before
your workout, you want quick fast side your sting energy
boost of that's easily accomplished through sugars um and the green.
Our Greens powder has caffeine from green tea, so you
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have a more effective workout when you have a little
bit of fuel and energy in the caffeine from our
green teeth. So I have that pre workout. Post workout,
I have a protein smoothie with our protein powder, fruit, almond,
butter ice, you know, just a nice protein smothe oral
to protein pancakes or protein waffles or protein oatmeal. That's
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my morning routine always if i'm not working out, I
just take away the fruit from my green so I'll
have my greens with whatever breakfast I'm having, I don't
have the extra piece of fruit. Then workout wise, I
love to do resistance training. Weight training. It's some of
the best ways to boost your metabolism and the best
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way to get shape and tone to your tonality to
your body. So it definitely focus on weight training instead
of like cardio or you know a lot you get
a lot more result from doing heavyweight training. I found
from all of the different classes and all the different
styles of training I've done. So I do an upper
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weight day super heavy like arms and chest and upper
body and court, and then another day I do lower
body legs, foody calves and court. So at least one
upper day, one lower day, and one in one cardio
day a week, so three days a week. If you
can do that one upper day, one lower day, one
cardio day, that's the perfect recipe for your workouts. And
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then if you want to go on a walk or
hide the other day or whatever. But I always I
always get in those three days. For lunch and dinner,
it's always the same. I do a portion of protein
lots of greens of salad or vegetables, a carb rice,
keen wa bread, um pasta, and then for snacks, I
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listened to my audy of how I feel, um apples
and almond butter, one of my favorite dark chocolate, dark
choc with me all the time and love dark chocolate.
It's amazing because it's a high potency of antioxidants. And
what antioxidants do is it helps your body eliminate toxins
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that could be sitting in your liver and kidneys. So
aging happens when there's stress on the body. And what's
so interesting is that aging can happen at any age.
I know I'm going off onto a different topic, but please,
aging can happen at any age um with when you
have stress on your body. So that's an important concept
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I feel like for all of us to know is
aging doesn't only happen when you're sixty. It can happen
when you're eighteen years old, depending on the lifestyle, how
much strain you're putting on your body. That's why there's
some eighteen there's some twenty year olds that look a
lot healthier than other twenty year olds because of the
lifestyle choices. So that's something that I've learn about chocolate
is it's a great way to get rid of any
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built up toxins if it's you know, of course, like
dark chocolate, not like a TwixT bar or something. Right. Oh,
that's kind of nice, so people will love to hear that.
So I have dark chocolate every day. Um, dark chocolate
every day, and you know snacks I've always Then it's
great if you can mix a fat in a car,
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that will keep you a little fuller for longer. So
if you're gonna have a fruit habit with a handful
of nuts, um, if you're gonna have banana, maybe it
was some dark chocolate, it will really help keep you
fuller for longer and not spike your blood sugar levels
and then they crash sooner. So you just have more
stability all throughout the day, and your body can burn
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more all throughout the day, and you can optimize feeling better.
Got it? Okay, Well I'm curious because I feel like
anytime I surround myself with maybe certain friends or certain
partners or whatever it is, you can either gain motivation
or fall into a different type of habit. And I
know you've been dating your boyfriend for quite a few
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years now, right, Yeah, gonna be three years in August. Wow,
So does his lifestyle align with yours? And if it doesn't,
then how do you maintain it on your own? And
if it does, well, then I guess that's great. Thankfully,
my current boyfriend and hopefully future husband do align on
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a lot of things, including nutrition and wellness. So that
has been a huge blessing because we really do help.
He helps keep me in check if I'm not really motivated.
We help motivate and inspire each other, and that's made
it a lot easier. Previous relationships have definitely not been
the case, and m definitely not one of the best
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times of my life for my health too, so that
there's no coincidence that your relationships do influence the decisions.
So I definitely would recommend having support system that lives
the life that you want to aspire to have, because
otherwise it's just another challenge that's really hard to face. Yeah,
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through though, it is possible to make healthy choices with
people who don't necessarily want to live that lifestyle. For example,
my family, they're not super into health and wellness. They
love like treats and you know, my mom wakes up
and has like a Snickers bar and pat and I
grew up with like, you know, tons of processed foods,
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and I was always able to make it work. So
I just had my independence and like I would have
my little hard of the pantry that was like my
snacks and my healthy, little weird things that nobody understood,
and I just made it made it work. Yeah, what
type of things are you kind of working on or
upcoming or is there something you're really focused on? I
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know you said that with it with Kambrie. You have
like three years down the line of product and stuff
that you're thinking of doing and planning right now. But
is there anything else here like specifically focusing on. We
really are focusing on expanding the product line. Like I said,
with the supply chain issues, we have to plan where
like three to five years in advance of inventory of
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planning the next products. So we have awesome products coming
out with new technologies that help your body absorbed even better.
So definitely look out for our new products. They're gonna
be right now. Our current products are great stable day today.
You know, everyone can have no matter your lifestyle, no
matter what you're doing, your job, you're in school, or
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not to help you just feel better. The products that
we're developing are like groundbreaking technology. So that's super exciting.
I feel like it's gonna it's gonna take a catapult us,
you know, to the next level. That's super exciting. Um,
we're working on I do cleanses and detoxes, but we're
working on cleanses with more focused on specific goals. So
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instead of like you know, wanting to look good for summer,
which can come with you know, maybe restrictive eating because
summers two weeks away. Shoot, whatever we're gonna do, We're
focusing on cleanses that can help improve your health for example,
or next one it's going to be how to eat
for your gut and that's something that can be applied
all year long that will really that will really have
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long term effects on your health. So we're working on
specific cleanses and foods to incorporate in your diet that
will improve your hair, your health, and UM, that's super exciting. Yes,
are you still doing the because I remember the cleanses
you're kind of talking about. You would do it like
you'd sell them on your website or sometimes they'd be
like free with like with the emails and you you
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still do that. Yeah, so we still do that. And
we're working on a new one called UM focused for
your Gut Health, so that one will be coming out
soon to help teach people what foods UM some tips
on to incorporate easy tips. For example, one of the
tips is add variety to your diet. So I know
a lot of people can get from my experience for
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myself and the habit of having the same thing for breakfast,
same thing for lunch for like you know, or until
you're sick of it and then you want something else.
So the more variety you can get in your diet,
the better for your gut and your health, because you're
the microbiome the bacterias, and your gut can expand and
you'll have more variety of bacteria and your stomach, which
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will help your gut be stronger, will give you more
access to different vitamins and nutrients. So it really is
focusing on having a nutrient dense diet that will your
body can absorb and that will come out and how
you feel, how you look, and and and a lot
of improvements in your life. Wow. Okay, well I feel
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like I've learned a lot this episode. If people want
to buy your products, you sell on fit with Cambrie
dot com. Correct, but with Cambrie dot com. For anyone
who's in my audience listening or Olivia's audience, you can
you just code women twenty five off your first for
just how exciting. Well, thank you so much for coming
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on the podcast and you know, teaching about anything to
do with health and wellness, especially for me. I'm so
passionate about it, but I have no idea what I'm
talking about, So this is great, not only selfishly, but
for those listening as well. Thank you so much for
giving you the opportunity to speak on this platform. And
I'm so happy to see that you're doing well and
(30:26):
I hope to see you soon. I know you too. Okay, bye, guys,
thanks for listening. Hi,
This is Conversationous with Olivia Jade in My Heart Radio podcast.
Hi guys, it's Olivia Jade. Welcome back to another episode
of Conversations. Today's guest is somebody I've known for a
really long time and she's honestly a huge inspiration to
me because she's dedicated, she works hard, and she's inspired
(00:23):
so many young girls to hop on this fitness journey
that she's created a few years back. UM. Her brand
is called Fit with Cambrie. So please welcome miss Cambrie Schroeder. Hi,
how are you doing so good? How are you? I'm good.
It's been forever, I know. Wow, crazy, crazy crazy, So
(00:47):
will you give maybe the listeners a little intro as
to who you are? What we're starting right off the bat? Awesome?
So yeah, I'm Cambridge rode around, the founder out Fit
with Cambrie, who helped how inspire women to improve their wellness. Um,
it's for women of all kinds. We want to just
feel better and that's the great thing that we aspire
(01:08):
to teach is that it doesn't matter what you look like,
it doesn't matter your body shape. Health is a feeling,
So it's super inclusive and that's something that we really
try to convey our messages and our content and our products. Yes,
I remember when you I don't know if I remember
when you started Fit with Cambrie, which is Cambrie's brand,
and she has you know, so many you have like
(01:28):
training videos on YouTube from that I remember from like
back in the day, and then you've expanded into like
protein powders and different equipment, and you've helped so many
young girls transform from like the most insane before and
after photos, um, and I want to know like how
you got into that and where this love for fitness
(01:51):
and health started. Yeah, So I felt I grew up
in Hollywood industry similar like Olivia. We come from similar
backgrounds of how many parents who are in the industry
and me personally, I felt like I was lacking support
and guidance in my life. I didn't I wanted to
be healthy and feel good, and I didn't have a
(02:11):
mentor or the tools to get there. And so I
went on a journey of trying to find people to
surround myself that would help guide me through my personal
journey and that I wanted to then help inspire others
who might feel alone or lost in their process and
be the guidance that I needed for them. So we
started off. I started off teaching dance classes to girls
(02:35):
and mouth but though some of our mutual friends, and
then I wanted to be able to reach more people
besides just my smaller community, and knew that would be
through products that could help change their lives. Through just
you know, making a nice protein smoothie in the morning.
Just by doing that you could start yourself on a
positive trend of feeling better. So that's where it started.
(02:58):
You was kind of like trial and error for you,
because I think I can relate to growing up in
l A and growing up in this kind of world
where you feel like you have to look a certain
way and put on like a certain image, and definitely
I feel like I'm still dealing with it of trying
to like fit in and waking up some mornings and
being like, oh I I don't look good enough, or
(03:19):
now I look this way or whatever it is, and
how did you how do you feel like you? Um,
I don't know, just kind of like honed in and
focused on the health aspect of it, so it was
like healthy to you instead of feeling like, oh, I
have to do this for a certain image or look. Yeah,
I definitely felt that pressure for many, many years, and
I realized it took me nowhere and I never felt
(03:40):
good And you never feel good enough and never feel
pretty enough, you never feel accepted enough. So once I
kind of understood that that's not where my wellness would lie,
I went the journey of understanding that that can be
through you and good and how do you feel good?
That's about taking care of yourself, nourishing your body, surrounding
(04:00):
yourself with people who are living a healthy life style
that you can learn and grow from. So it took
me a long time to like go of like you
don't want to with having a certain image or be
accepted and um, so that's been the journey that I've
been on, and I hope to inspire other people to
put more emphasis on feeling good instead of looking a
(04:21):
certain way. And that's that we all equally have the
ability to do yes. And you know what I'm also
really curious about. Obviously you've said you're from l A.
We come from very similar like backgrounds and lifestyles, but
you moved, you kind of got out of that whole atmosphere,
and I'm wondering was that just because you want to change?
Was there something that was holding you back? What are
(04:43):
the differences that you notice within yourself from leaving Los Angeles.
I feel like I needed just a you when you're
going through, when you're wanting to change, being in the
environment that was maybe hard to grow in. It's almost
impossible to make changes in the environment that could have
been toxic for you. So I felt like I needed
(05:04):
to remove myself to see things clear, to work and
focus on on myself. And that doesn't mean, you know,
like I'm never going to move back to LA or
New York or be in those places, but it was
hard for me to manage some of the social pressures
and you know, the culture as I was trying to
evolve and grow in that was very hard. Um. So yeah,
(05:28):
I'm saying now time between Miami and Ecuador. Oddly Ecuador
my boy, Yeah, oh no way. So he's there and
we've just been going like months a month back and
forth between Miami and Ecuador, and UM, it's been awesome
because I've really been able to focus on expanding. It
was Cambrie. We have in supplement line that we currently have,
(05:52):
but technologies that we're developing. We have plans for three
years in the works of expanding our line of groundbreaking technology.
So I've really been able to put my focus on
my passion and not be distracted by things, you know
that that are hard for me to manage right now.
I love that. Okay, So I think that this is
a pretty general question I see a lot with any
(06:13):
time I'm having somebody that's created their own business come
on or on my YouTube, people are always wondering how
do you start? Like where do you start? And let's
say somebody wants to create any sort of line of
something that they're passionate about, what were your first starting
steps to get to where you are now? I think
the important thing with wanting to start and starting to
(06:34):
be a business owner, which is also has become like
a trend almost right now, like a lot of people
and there's like starting their own brands and and I
think that's great. But I have a vision of wanting
to be like a you know, I have a dream
of point I p O and having a corporation. We
have a full staff of a huge company. And there's
a difference between being a startup and you know, wanting
(06:57):
to just like launch a like you know, whatever it
is you want to launch and wanting to take it
to the growth of being a public company. That's the
transition that I've been in because I have been a startup.
I started with Cambrie when I was eighteen and twenty
five now, so I've been in the journey of you know,
anyone can these days start a company. So what is
it that makes it different of taking it to that
(07:19):
next level? Which is the journey I've been going through.
And the biggest thing that I can say is is
surrounding yourself with experts who in the field, who who
can help guide you because doing it alone and doing
anything alone, it's challenging, and the more supporting guidance you
have the better. Also, just perseverance. Every day is a challenge.
(07:42):
Every day is a challenge comes up that you know
could almost take you out. So having that resilience to
just wake up and be that like, have that entrepreneur
mentality this is this is this is plan A and
there is no plan B. So that's in my day
to this. What's the hardest thing's been through with that process.
(08:05):
There's been everything from like because we do rigorous testing
on our supplements. We put them through like a lot
of testing before they make it out of the warehouse.
So there's been batches before We've been sold out for
you know, six months, and the cash flow stops because
we're sold out, but still there's there's salaries to maintain
(08:26):
and the financial pressure is still there and there's nothing
to sell. So and then the batch comes back and
it's contaminated with something and we have to for the
whole batch away that that is stressful just thinking about it.
But that's probably one of the hardest things that I've
I've been through is is not knowing UM. Also with
(08:47):
the with COVID, and there's been a lot of issues
in recording, and we get our products from all over
the world, resources quality from all over the world, so
there's been a lot of issues with logistics, UM things
that are out of your control. Which you're entrepreneur, you
want to be in control of everything, which is just impossible.
(09:08):
So I think that learning to for me, I see
this as a lifelong journey and to let control the
day today has been been part of the plan here.
That's amazing, honestly that you keep persevering through it, because
if that happened to me, I would have a panic attack, genuinely.
So I know that you have to have a strong
(09:28):
mentality to get through it. And I remember when this
has to be years ago now, but your YouTube videos
when you would be fit with Cambrie like packaging the
protein powders to ship them out in your apartment. So
do you still ship them out yourself or now do
you have like a factory or manufacture something? That I
love that you've been able to see the growth and
(09:50):
the thing because, like Olivia saying, we started, I bought
one protein at a time. So buy one protein, I
would sell it, ship it out my self, pack it
up and then you know, so ten of time, hundreds
of time, and then I had, you know, had to
figure out you know, okay, it can't be sending my
whole dage packaging boxes. Now we have a full we
(10:11):
have a full warehouse, ship impact facility. It's crazy how
much we've grown and expanded, so tens of thousands of
units a month. That's so insane. It is really fun
(10:38):
that you've been able to document it too, so you
can go back yourself and look at the growth. And
then people that have been on the journey with you
for a while. What makes your product different than the rest,
and what research are you putting in that's different from
somebody else's protein powder. So it's also been a challenge
because there has been now a trend, as I'm sure
(10:58):
you've seen, of a lot of like gut health supplements
and like a bunch of protein. It's like a whole
trend right now, and that's been hard to face because
I've needed to grow the people inside of my company
to help guide me, to give me better direction. But anyways,
what makes the Gaber Supplements different is we have a
(11:19):
board of in house experts who help develop the formulas
the highest quality potency that can really have an effect
on your health. I noticed that a lot of companies
put such small quantities that doesn't really it's a lot
cheaper to do that way that it doesn't have much
effect on on your health. Whereas we we are adamant
(11:39):
on having super high potent, the highest quality formulas that
really can improve your health. For example, our greens powder.
A lot of people just think, you know, greens are healthy,
and greens are greens are amazing and so essential to
have in our diet. But if they aren't combined with fiber.
They sometimes just go right through you and can cause
like stomach senses, sensitivities and irritate your your gut. So
(12:03):
a lot of people think, like I'm gonna be healthy,
drink a bunch of green juice a bunch of stomach pains.
So we made sure to formulate our greens powder with
a fiber blend inside so that your body can, your
gut can more easily and more effectively absorb the nutrients
that you're ingesting. So we really make our products well rounded.
For example, our protein powder, we combine with healthy fats
(12:25):
and carbs in the right amount of protein for women
to digest, because you know, some proteins are so much
protein it as your stomach ache, you're feeling completely sick afterwards.
So we really want to make we take me being
a woman and working with a board of experts who
understand the needs of women, we have created products that
will help the specifics the specific needs of women with
(12:48):
their gut health with protein and take wanting to you know,
building muscle um. All of our products are super well
rounded in that sense that we look after the needs
of women, their gut health and and their hormones there,
the ability of their hormones to build or not build muscle,
and how much protein it needs to get that done. Okay,
(13:09):
So I feel like there's a lot of science behind this, obviously,
and I think for me, I like to like at
least attempt to have a healthy lifestyle, but I don't
know the ins and outs of everything. What's the importance
of having protein? Do you have protein every day? What's like?
What do you tell people in your guide on fit
with Cambrie, like what a day of eating should look like,
(13:30):
because I think some people have a misconception that like,
carbs are really bad and you should only eat really
lean sort of protein and no carbs at all and
no refined sugar. And what would you say is like,
I guess maintainable as well, because I think when you
restrict yourself that much, it becomes a little unrealistic totally.
(13:51):
So the first part of the question I love that
you asked is why do you need protein? Like, but
what does that do for your body? And when you
learn about what protein does for your body, you also
almost want to drink it more because you're like, Okay,
I really I want these effects. But protein is based
off of amino acids. And amino acids are the building
(14:12):
blocks for so many things of our body. Our hair
is built up, amino acids are nails. Every organ in
our body needs amino acids to function properly. So people
they protein like, oh, I'm just gonna get mussel. It's
to optimize every part of your body. So if you're looking,
you know, you want to have feel good and maybe
have like thicker hair and stronger nails. Protein is essential.
(14:34):
So protein is essential in every meal, regardless if you're
working out or not. Mhm. And then with just overall
eating um and something that could be maintainable for people
to apply into their day to day life is to
just focus on having well balanced meals. Protein, carbs, fat, fiber.
(14:55):
Like you said, people sometimes they're afraid of eating. Cards
and carbs are so essential for not only build it
helping to build we muscle, to build we muscle mass,
but also for our gut health. Carbs help our body
absorb nutrients better. Specifically, my favorite is oats. Oats are
the best. So if you can have, you know, a
breakfast with oats, it will help your digestion so much
(15:19):
and combine it, you know, with a scrip of protein
or a side of eggs. Try to get in every
food group. The more variety you can have in your diet,
the better. The more range of vitamins you can get in,
the better. Um. And that's the thing about health as
it doesn't need to be an overwhelming, daunting, you know journey.
(15:39):
It can be just one day at a time, learning
to adding a little more protein, drink a little bit
more water. Sometimes even having a rest day or sleeping
or taking the morning off that can be considered a
healthy choice. So it's really about listening to your body,
understanding what your body is feels like it needs in
that day. Maybe you need a big your breakfast, maybe
(16:00):
you need to not have such a big breakfast. Really,
learning and understanding your body is is super important on
your health journey. Yeah, and you've been pretty open throughout
the years about how you kind of restricted your diet
when you were a little bit younger or over exercising.
How did you find that healthy balance m hm. So
(16:23):
that's one of the great things is that I I've
been open of my journey. I used to struggle with
horrible cystic acne um, thinning hair, low energy, and it
came from a lot of different things of wanting to restrict,
which fell into the habits me maybe restricting or overeating.
(16:45):
And through my journey of learning what true health is,
I've been able to find balance in understanding that health.
I think my my perception of what I wanted to
be maybe thin or beautiful, has changed. Instead of it
being this on the physical aspect of you know, wanting
to look a certain way, it's changed to how I
(17:05):
want to feel. And when you live your life based
and choose your healthy choices based on how you want
to feel, it changes completely because if you want to
feel good, that might mean having toast with bacon. Um,
well bacon. You know, we don't want to have every
single day, but some days we need to treat ourselves.
And learning that I've been having bacon literally every single
(17:27):
day for like two weeks, and I finally said this morning,
I was like, Okay, I need to stop, which is
just so random and funny, but I'm obsessed but bacon. Like,
you know, there are properties in moderation of foods that
you people might think like it's not healthy to have,
but changing your mentality of you know, there are health
benefits maybe in bacon once in a while, keyword once
(17:52):
in a while. I need to like take that advice
for myself. That's so funny, But how can you learn?
Like I think a lot of but ask me because
they see I'll post something and like a workout outfit,
and I have no answers because I've done absolutely no
studying or research. So I'm just kind of like pushing
the questions onto you, but learning to listen to your
(18:12):
body and figuring out like this is what I need
this day, and this is what I don't need to do.
Mm hmm totally. So it I was before this in
a phase of training to be a professional boxer where
I was working out twice a day in sane diet
and sane routine, and I reached a complete burnout. And
(18:33):
so I have been on the extremes of all the
spectrums and then like not wanting to work out because
I don't have the motivation to understanding that health is,
you know, having good active daily physical activity to get
your heart rate up, to get the blood circulation, focusing
it on more on how you're going to feel. But practice,
if you can practice, for me, what helped transition from
(18:58):
to find balance in listening to myself was scheduling. I
needed to first make a schedule for myself that I
felt was achievable and manageable. So, for example, UM, I
recommend people to do to to do at least to
do two to five maximum workouts a week UM, and
(19:19):
then schedule in your rest days the weekends. I love
to rest, um even the weekends I like to go
out and have a treatment with my boyfriend. And and
so making a schedule that you feel like when you
look at it your week it looks balanced. There's health
and wellness and relaxing and enjoy So it really helps
when you can map it out and make a plan
(19:41):
in a schedule to kind of follow. And see. Obviously
you've always been absolutely drop dead gorgeous, but looking at
(20:04):
you on this zoom and I haven't seen you in
so long. I mean, you seriously are like glowing from within,
and your hair it's so bright in here. I'm like,
I'm trying to figure out. No, you look so good though,
and your hair looks so like thick and long and
healthy and I and your skin actually looks flawless from
the zoom, and so I just want to know, like,
(20:25):
what does a day in your life look like in
terms of what you're putting in your body and the
types of exercises you're doing and the length of those,
just because I think that will be really helpful a
for me, I'm selfishly asking, and then be for people
listening that don't really know where to start. So my
I'll go through just a typical day. So I wake
up at six thirty, I have well I'm having another
(20:48):
one today, but I have Glowing Greens which is our
Greens powder with my favorite juice, okay, with a fruit
like a banana or an apple pre workout. So before
your workout, you want quick fast side your sting energy
boost of that's easily accomplished through sugars um and the green.
Our Greens powder has caffeine from green tea, so you
(21:09):
have a more effective workout when you have a little
bit of fuel and energy in the caffeine from our
green teeth. So I have that pre workout. Post workout,
I have a protein smoothie with our protein powder, fruit, almond,
butter ice, you know, just a nice protein smothe oral
to protein pancakes or protein waffles or protein oatmeal. That's
(21:31):
my morning routine always if i'm not working out, I
just take away the fruit from my green so I'll
have my greens with whatever breakfast I'm having, I don't
have the extra piece of fruit. Then workout wise, I
love to do resistance training. Weight training. It's some of
the best ways to boost your metabolism and the best
(21:53):
way to get shape and tone to your tonality to
your body. So it definitely focus on weight training instead
of like cardio or you know a lot you get
a lot more result from doing heavyweight training. I found
from all of the different classes and all the different
styles of training I've done. So I do an upper
(22:14):
weight day super heavy like arms and chest and upper
body and court, and then another day I do lower
body legs, foody calves and court. So at least one
upper day, one lower day, and one in one cardio
day a week, so three days a week. If you
can do that one upper day, one lower day, one
cardio day, that's the perfect recipe for your workouts. And
(22:36):
then if you want to go on a walk or
hide the other day or whatever. But I always I
always get in those three days. For lunch and dinner,
it's always the same. I do a portion of protein
lots of greens of salad or vegetables, a carb rice,
keen wa bread, um pasta, and then for snacks, I
(22:59):
listened to my audy of how I feel, um apples
and almond butter, one of my favorite dark chocolate, dark
choc with me all the time and love dark chocolate.
It's amazing because it's a high potency of antioxidants. And
what antioxidants do is it helps your body eliminate toxins
(23:21):
that could be sitting in your liver and kidneys. So
aging happens when there's stress on the body. And what's
so interesting is that aging can happen at any age.
I know I'm going off onto a different topic, but please,
aging can happen at any age um with when you
have stress on your body. So that's an important concept
(23:42):
I feel like for all of us to know is
aging doesn't only happen when you're sixty. It can happen
when you're eighteen years old, depending on the lifestyle, how
much strain you're putting on your body. That's why there's
some eighteen there's some twenty year olds that look a
lot healthier than other twenty year olds because of the
lifestyle choices. So that's something that I've learn about chocolate
is it's a great way to get rid of any
(24:02):
built up toxins if it's you know, of course, like
dark chocolate, not like a TwixT bar or something. Right. Oh,
that's kind of nice, so people will love to hear that.
So I have dark chocolate every day. Um, dark chocolate
every day, and you know snacks I've always Then it's
great if you can mix a fat in a car,
(24:24):
that will keep you a little fuller for longer. So
if you're gonna have a fruit habit with a handful
of nuts, um, if you're gonna have banana, maybe it
was some dark chocolate, it will really help keep you
fuller for longer and not spike your blood sugar levels
and then they crash sooner. So you just have more
stability all throughout the day, and your body can burn
(24:44):
more all throughout the day, and you can optimize feeling better.
Got it? Okay, Well I'm curious because I feel like
anytime I surround myself with maybe certain friends or certain
partners or whatever it is, you can either gain motivation
or fall into a different type of habit. And I
know you've been dating your boyfriend for quite a few
(25:05):
years now, right, Yeah, gonna be three years in August. Wow,
So does his lifestyle align with yours? And if it doesn't,
then how do you maintain it on your own? And
if it does, well, then I guess that's great. Thankfully,
my current boyfriend and hopefully future husband do align on
(25:29):
a lot of things, including nutrition and wellness. So that
has been a huge blessing because we really do help.
He helps keep me in check if I'm not really motivated.
We help motivate and inspire each other, and that's made
it a lot easier. Previous relationships have definitely not been
the case, and m definitely not one of the best
(25:50):
times of my life for my health too, so that
there's no coincidence that your relationships do influence the decisions.
So I definitely would recommend having support system that lives
the life that you want to aspire to have, because
otherwise it's just another challenge that's really hard to face. Yeah,
(26:10):
through though, it is possible to make healthy choices with
people who don't necessarily want to live that lifestyle. For example,
my family, they're not super into health and wellness. They
love like treats and you know, my mom wakes up
and has like a Snickers bar and pat and I
grew up with like, you know, tons of processed foods,
(26:31):
and I was always able to make it work. So
I just had my independence and like I would have
my little hard of the pantry that was like my
snacks and my healthy, little weird things that nobody understood,
and I just made it made it work. Yeah, what
type of things are you kind of working on or
upcoming or is there something you're really focused on? I
(26:53):
know you said that with it with Kambrie. You have
like three years down the line of product and stuff
that you're thinking of doing and planning right now. But
is there anything else here like specifically focusing on. We
really are focusing on expanding the product line. Like I said,
with the supply chain issues, we have to plan where
like three to five years in advance of inventory of
(27:14):
planning the next products. So we have awesome products coming
out with new technologies that help your body absorbed even better.
So definitely look out for our new products. They're gonna
be right now. Our current products are great stable day today.
You know, everyone can have no matter your lifestyle, no
matter what you're doing, your job, you're in school, or
(27:35):
not to help you just feel better. The products that
we're developing are like groundbreaking technology. So that's super exciting.
I feel like it's gonna it's gonna take a catapult us,
you know, to the next level. That's super exciting. Um,
we're working on I do cleanses and detoxes, but we're
working on cleanses with more focused on specific goals. So
(27:58):
instead of like you know, wanting to look good for summer,
which can come with you know, maybe restrictive eating because
summers two weeks away. Shoot, whatever we're gonna do, We're
focusing on cleanses that can help improve your health for example,
or next one it's going to be how to eat
for your gut and that's something that can be applied
all year long that will really that will really have
(28:19):
long term effects on your health. So we're working on
specific cleanses and foods to incorporate in your diet that
will improve your hair, your health, and UM, that's super exciting. Yes,
are you still doing the because I remember the cleanses
you're kind of talking about. You would do it like
you'd sell them on your website or sometimes they'd be
like free with like with the emails and you you
(28:40):
still do that. Yeah, so we still do that. And
we're working on a new one called UM focused for
your Gut Health, so that one will be coming out
soon to help teach people what foods UM some tips
on to incorporate easy tips. For example, one of the
tips is add variety to your diet. So I know
a lot of people can get from my experience for
(29:01):
myself and the habit of having the same thing for breakfast,
same thing for lunch for like you know, or until
you're sick of it and then you want something else.
So the more variety you can get in your diet,
the better for your gut and your health, because you're
the microbiome the bacterias, and your gut can expand and
you'll have more variety of bacteria and your stomach, which
(29:22):
will help your gut be stronger, will give you more
access to different vitamins and nutrients. So it really is
focusing on having a nutrient dense diet that will your
body can absorb and that will come out and how
you feel, how you look, and and and a lot
of improvements in your life. Wow. Okay, well I feel
(29:43):
like I've learned a lot this episode. If people want
to buy your products, you sell on fit with Cambrie
dot com. Correct, but with Cambrie dot com. For anyone
who's in my audience listening or Olivia's audience, you can
you just code women twenty five off your first for
just how exciting. Well, thank you so much for coming
(30:05):
on the podcast and you know, teaching about anything to
do with health and wellness, especially for me. I'm so
passionate about it, but I have no idea what I'm
talking about, So this is great, not only selfishly, but
for those listening as well. Thank you so much for
giving you the opportunity to speak on this platform. And
I'm so happy to see that you're doing well and
(30:26):
I hope to see you soon. I know you too. Okay, bye, guys,
thanks for listening. Hi,
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