November 14, 2025 • 9 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Two Teas in a Pod which Teddy Mellencamp and Tamra Judge.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hi, it's Teddy Mellencamp and Tamra Judge. Welcome back to
Teas in a Pod live from Bravocon and Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
It's such a fun, busy weekend and we want to
make sure you get as many episodes as possible, so
we have a special guest co host for you.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Alexis Billina is here. Take it away, Alexis Well, Hello,
Nurse mel Oh. I have so much to ask you. Hi, Alexa,
Are you ready? Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Okay, We're so excited to have you here right now? Okay,
it's your first Bravocon. Yes, okay, what are your thoughts?
I love getting a newbie because I haven't I don't
think I've interviewed one newbie this entire time, so I'm
so excited to hear it.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
First of all, when did you land last night?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Late?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Because you didn't really do anything last night, you just
went back in. Okay, Okay, so it's only your first day.
So I'm am I your first interview.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You are whoa?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Okay? Have you does it feel weird?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Have you ran into any other bravoelebrities because they do
put us all in the same hotel, like just.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Just Camille's assistant, Kimber. Okay, that's it.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Okay, so you I can't that's This is such a
boring question because I don't really get any juice from
you because you just got here. You woke up, you
got hair and makeup, and you came to see me.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
So I did my own hair. My hotel's water main broke,
So no shower, no coffee, no food. Oh are you my.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Makeup in the dark? We have a salami and cheese
out there. Are you hungry?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Oh? I can't wait.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I'm so sad. Have you met me? I'm not gonna
eat salami? Oh I haven't.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh good point, I didn't think about that. Well, some
nurses eat salami.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I think, well, that's kind of my specialty is food
and talks.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And well that's okay perfect. I wasn't even I wasn't
ready to go here yet. I wanted to have twenty
more questions. But let's go, because you just you just
heat it up, Okay, So tell me what is that is?
Your passion is the food and the toxins. So how
about is salami because I have one child who adores it.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Well, I had a pretty gnarling microbiology class where I
had to slice pork underneath the microscope. They all have worms.
I'll never eat pork. But besides that, it's cured. It's
so salty. It's not great in any form. It was
ultra processed.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I'm literally hungry, and I was gonna go out and
have a cracker and a salt.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Now I'm not.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You're going to talk with a cracker.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Okay, Now what about the cracker.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's pure sugar. It turns into sugar. It's a protein.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
You eat.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
What do you eat before we get into your amazing business,
because now I feel like you eat nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Well, I eat whole food from the earth, all protein, vegetables.
So you're a vegan, No, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So we'll eat chicken or I eat all protein, all
protein except pork, except pork.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Okay, okay, So tell me.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You are a nurse, and I know you're out of
a divorce, but I want to ask first of all,
what age, Like, how long have you been nursing?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Oh? Since I was twenty two, okay, and.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Then you just recently divorced. Please tell the audience about
that a little quickly. I know you don't want to
get too into it, but give me a fine.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, so help me.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
To a functional medicine doctor. We kind of went back
to school together, so I learned everything that he learned
and helped him in his business. Then we left Texas
to escape his parents because they were ruining our marriage.
They followed us out to Malibu. I said I'm leaving
and started my own practice. Basically, that's the short version.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Wow, so this is how many how many months or
years is this new business?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Oh? Six years on my own okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And so tell real quick fill us in on exactly
what this business is, because then I have a few
more questions about the business.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Okay, Well, when I was in Dallas, I had an
esthetic practice, but that's not my passion. I do all that,
the bota, the lasers, all the things, but my passion
really is making people feel better and live better. So
I'm very into weight loss. I kind of got well
known for it because I was using the golp ones
before ozimpic was a word, before it came out.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I think you might need to let the listeners know
what a gop one is.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, So GLP one is like ozimpic and Waga v Mondurro.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
So ozimpic is the same as a gop one.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
That is a GLP one Oh it is okay, Yeah,
it's a GLP one agonist.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
And so you did use that or you just do?
You do give that to your patients, I mean you
personally use it.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I give it to everyone, and I use it. I
use it for inflammation. Wow. But why I was bringing
that up is because that's how it became well known.
Like I got a bunch of celebrities ready for a role, okay,
made them be really really skinny and got them back
to health. And so I'm kind of well known for that.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So when you say celebrities, is it mostly men or women?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
It's both.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So you don't have like a forty percent more than
like women sixty percent men kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Oh yeah, it's probably seventy percent women, Okay, but actor
wise it's pretty more.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Are these women or and the smaller amount of men.
Are they super overweight or are they like me where
we could just take off a couple like just a
couple shots to take off a little bit of the flab.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
It's both. I have people that lose hundreds of pounds,
and I'll let people lose two pounds.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
So you don't think that this ozembic type medication or
drug is as unhealthy for a period of time.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I think it's unhealthy if you do it incorrectly, which
is wildly what happens.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
So I dose everyone based on how they're reacting the
week before weekly and I watch their diet. I go
of their diet every week, make sure they're eating protein,
not losing muscle. But it's so prevalent now people just
take in huge doses. They're not being monitored. They're going
to and they're gonna end up worse and they won't
(05:59):
be able to come off well. And I've heard, I've heard. Okay,
this is so fascinating to me, and we don't have
enough time for this. So I've got to, like, I've
got to choose my questions. I feel like I could
talk to you for an hour about this and really
ask things that I'm dying to know right now, but
I need to try to keep it condensed. So if
when you watch their diet, does that mean you put
them on a diet plan like no bread, no crackers,
(06:21):
no salami. So No, I do not put them on
a diet because it's not realistic. I have them fill
out of food diary and slowly I change their habit,
got it so that they don't spike their insulin. That's
really what I'm going for. Wow, spiking insulin. We don't
count calories, We have enough protein, we don't spike insulin.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Do they get to have a piece of bread?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
No, So you're basically on a protein and vegetable and
starch diet like a potato kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Much.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I mean, this is good for me to know because
you know it's probably and change my meal tonight that
I order.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah, but I'm not going.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
To go on zimbic people. I'm scared.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I'm kind of scared of it.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
So is the rumor true that this does cause stomach
shoes in the long run.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
So again, if you overdose yourself, you can slow down
the motility of your gut. But that can happen with
diabetics even without it, and that's really the high risk
population that that happens too. But again, if you're being
monitored by someone that knows what they're doing, that's not
going to happen.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Wow. Okay, So I just there's so I have like
five questions. Oh I'm getting the warning right now. I've
got like five questions, So I've got to pick up. Okay,
what tell me one thing then? Since I have so
many that I want to know? What is something that
me being some a newbie learning about this. What is
something that you think is the most important thing that
(07:36):
you're going to tell people listening to this podcast right
now thinking about if they want to do a zimpic,
if they don't want to do it, what is the
one piece of information that is either misunderstood or that
is the most important to know.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
That's a big one. I know.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
That's my problem is I'm sitting.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Here trying to be an interviewer and I'm.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Like, I'm like, it's late. I've got a lot. That's
a lot, a lot of questions to ask you.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
First of all, they demonize compounding pharmacies. There's absolutely nothing
wrong with them, but there's also people selling black pep tides,
black GLP ones on the street that don't even come
from a pharmacy. You can harm you can't those harm you. Absolutely,
I've seen some crazy things happening. They put it like
all kinds of things in it.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
What have you seen?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Just really bad sepsis because they're dirty, they're not they're
not compounded underneath a sterile hood. So there, it's just
coming from China. I met somebody that was actually mixing
it in his basement and he's selling it like gangbusters.
So you have to source it, oh, with somebody that
has a license, somebody that has something on the line.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
So get it in America, everyone, Please just get it
in America.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, don't get it in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Get it from nurse mel Yeah. Okay, last question, because
I'm getting I'm getting the worst. Are you dating anyone now?
Because you're just out of a divorce? This is I'm sorry,
I have to know, this is what we're ending on. Yes,
because we just went through a lot of medical stuff.
Let's give him something fun. And are you dating anyone?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
All the men in my life? Please turn the channel off.
I feel like I need some.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I'm in alone space.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I need some alone time.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I love that answer, And you know what I feel like,
that's when somebody finds you. I feel like, right when
you are like I'm done, I'm not dating for a while,
that's when Prince Charming shows up.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
So by the way, I'm not looking and I wasn't either.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I'm here, I am married.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Congratulations, by the way.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Thank you so much. Oh my gosh, I have so much.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I need another interview with you, please, team, can we
set up another one. I need a lot more information
for Nurse em Mel.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I can't take it.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I've got to go because we've got another She's got
places to go and people to see.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
And things to do. So okay, thank you so much.
Thank you.
Two Teas in a Pod which Teddy Mellencamp and Tamra Judge.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hi, it's Teddy Mellencamp and Tamra Judge. Welcome back to
Teas in a Pod live from Bravocon and Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
It's such a fun, busy weekend and we want to
make sure you get as many episodes as possible, so
we have a special guest co host for you.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Alexis Billina is here. Take it away, Alexis Well, Hello,
Nurse mel Oh. I have so much to ask you. Hi, Alexa,
Are you ready? Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Okay, We're so excited to have you here right now? Okay,
it's your first Bravocon. Yes, okay, what are your thoughts?
I love getting a newbie because I haven't I don't
think I've interviewed one newbie this entire time, so I'm
so excited to hear it.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
First of all, when did you land last night?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Late?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Because you didn't really do anything last night, you just
went back in. Okay, Okay, so it's only your first day.
So I'm am I your first interview.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You are whoa?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Okay? Have you does it feel weird?
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Have you ran into any other bravoelebrities because they do
put us all in the same hotel, like just.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Just Camille's assistant, Kimber. Okay, that's it.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Okay, so you I can't that's This is such a
boring question because I don't really get any juice from
you because you just got here. You woke up, you
got hair and makeup, and you came to see me.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
So I did my own hair. My hotel's water main broke,
So no shower, no coffee, no food. Oh are you my.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Makeup in the dark? We have a salami and cheese
out there. Are you hungry?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Oh? I can't wait.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I'm so sad. Have you met me? I'm not gonna
eat salami? Oh I haven't.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh good point, I didn't think about that. Well, some
nurses eat salami.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I think, well, that's kind of my specialty is food
and talks.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And well that's okay perfect. I wasn't even I wasn't
ready to go here yet. I wanted to have twenty
more questions. But let's go, because you just you just
heat it up, Okay, So tell me what is that is?
Your passion is the food and the toxins. So how
about is salami because I have one child who adores it.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Well, I had a pretty gnarling microbiology class where I
had to slice pork underneath the microscope. They all have worms.
I'll never eat pork. But besides that, it's cured. It's
so salty. It's not great in any form. It was
ultra processed.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I'm literally hungry, and I was gonna go out and
have a cracker and a salt.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Now I'm not.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You're going to talk with a cracker.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Okay, Now what about the cracker.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's pure sugar. It turns into sugar. It's a protein.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
You eat.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
What do you eat before we get into your amazing business,
because now I feel like you eat nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Well, I eat whole food from the earth, all protein, vegetables.
So you're a vegan, No, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So we'll eat chicken or I eat all protein, all
protein except pork, except pork.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Okay, okay, So tell me.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You are a nurse, and I know you're out of
a divorce, but I want to ask first of all,
what age, Like, how long have you been nursing?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Oh? Since I was twenty two, okay, and.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Then you just recently divorced. Please tell the audience about
that a little quickly. I know you don't want to
get too into it, but give me a fine.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, so help me.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
To a functional medicine doctor. We kind of went back
to school together, so I learned everything that he learned
and helped him in his business. Then we left Texas
to escape his parents because they were ruining our marriage.
They followed us out to Malibu. I said I'm leaving
and started my own practice. Basically, that's the short version.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Wow, so this is how many how many months or
years is this new business?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Oh? Six years on my own okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And so tell real quick fill us in on exactly
what this business is, because then I have a few
more questions about the business.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Okay, Well, when I was in Dallas, I had an
esthetic practice, but that's not my passion. I do all that,
the bota, the lasers, all the things, but my passion
really is making people feel better and live better. So
I'm very into weight loss. I kind of got well
known for it because I was using the golp ones
before ozimpic was a word, before it came out.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I think you might need to let the listeners know
what a gop one is.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, So GLP one is like ozimpic and Waga v Mondurro.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
So ozimpic is the same as a gop one.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
That is a GLP one Oh it is okay, Yeah,
it's a GLP one agonist.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
And so you did use that or you just do?
You do give that to your patients, I mean you
personally use it.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I give it to everyone, and I use it. I
use it for inflammation. Wow. But why I was bringing
that up is because that's how it became well known.
Like I got a bunch of celebrities ready for a role, okay,
made them be really really skinny and got them back
to health. And so I'm kind of well known for that.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So when you say celebrities, is it mostly men or women?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
It's both.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So you don't have like a forty percent more than
like women sixty percent men kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Oh yeah, it's probably seventy percent women, Okay, but actor
wise it's pretty more.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Are these women or and the smaller amount of men.
Are they super overweight or are they like me where
we could just take off a couple like just a
couple shots to take off a little bit of the flab.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
It's both. I have people that lose hundreds of pounds,
and I'll let people lose two pounds.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
So you don't think that this ozembic type medication or
drug is as unhealthy for a period of time.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I think it's unhealthy if you do it incorrectly, which
is wildly what happens.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
So I dose everyone based on how they're reacting the
week before weekly and I watch their diet. I go
of their diet every week, make sure they're eating protein,
not losing muscle. But it's so prevalent now people just
take in huge doses. They're not being monitored. They're going
to and they're gonna end up worse and they won't
(05:59):
be able to come off well. And I've heard, I've heard. Okay,
this is so fascinating to me, and we don't have
enough time for this. So I've got to, like, I've
got to choose my questions. I feel like I could
talk to you for an hour about this and really
ask things that I'm dying to know right now, but
I need to try to keep it condensed. So if
when you watch their diet, does that mean you put
them on a diet plan like no bread, no crackers,
(06:21):
no salami. So No, I do not put them on
a diet because it's not realistic. I have them fill
out of food diary and slowly I change their habit,
got it so that they don't spike their insulin. That's
really what I'm going for. Wow, spiking insulin. We don't
count calories, We have enough protein, we don't spike insulin.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Do they get to have a piece of bread?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
No, So you're basically on a protein and vegetable and
starch diet like a potato kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Much.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I mean, this is good for me to know because
you know it's probably and change my meal tonight that
I order.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah, but I'm not going.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
To go on zimbic people. I'm scared.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I'm kind of scared of it.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
So is the rumor true that this does cause stomach
shoes in the long run.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
So again, if you overdose yourself, you can slow down
the motility of your gut. But that can happen with
diabetics even without it, and that's really the high risk
population that that happens too. But again, if you're being
monitored by someone that knows what they're doing, that's not
going to happen.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Wow. Okay, So I just there's so I have like
five questions. Oh I'm getting the warning right now. I've
got like five questions, So I've got to pick up. Okay,
what tell me one thing then? Since I have so
many that I want to know? What is something that
me being some a newbie learning about this. What is
something that you think is the most important thing that
(07:36):
you're going to tell people listening to this podcast right
now thinking about if they want to do a zimpic,
if they don't want to do it, what is the
one piece of information that is either misunderstood or that
is the most important to know.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
That's a big one. I know.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
That's my problem is I'm sitting.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Here trying to be an interviewer and I'm.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Like, I'm like, it's late. I've got a lot. That's
a lot, a lot of questions to ask you.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
First of all, they demonize compounding pharmacies. There's absolutely nothing
wrong with them, but there's also people selling black pep tides,
black GLP ones on the street that don't even come
from a pharmacy. You can harm you can't those harm you. Absolutely,
I've seen some crazy things happening. They put it like
all kinds of things in it.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
What have you seen?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Just really bad sepsis because they're dirty, they're not they're
not compounded underneath a sterile hood. So there, it's just
coming from China. I met somebody that was actually mixing
it in his basement and he's selling it like gangbusters.
So you have to source it, oh, with somebody that
has a license, somebody that has something on the line.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
So get it in America, everyone, Please just get it
in America.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, don't get it in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Get it from nurse mel Yeah. Okay, last question, because
I'm getting I'm getting the worst. Are you dating anyone now?
Because you're just out of a divorce? This is I'm sorry,
I have to know, this is what we're ending on. Yes,
because we just went through a lot of medical stuff.
Let's give him something fun. And are you dating anyone?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
All the men in my life? Please turn the channel off.
I feel like I need some.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I'm in alone space.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I need some alone time.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I love that answer, And you know what I feel like,
that's when somebody finds you. I feel like, right when
you are like I'm done, I'm not dating for a while,
that's when Prince Charming shows up.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
So by the way, I'm not looking and I wasn't either.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I'm here, I am married.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Congratulations, by the way.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Thank you so much. Oh my gosh, I have so much.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I need another interview with you, please, team, can we
set up another one. I need a lot more information
for Nurse em Mel.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
I can't take it.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
I've got to go because we've got another She's got
places to go and people to see.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
And things to do. So okay, thank you so much.
Thank you.
Hosts And Creators
Teddi Mellencamp
Tamra Judge
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