Charlie Rocket, Dr. Sara Reardon, Darian Bryan, Peter Guimaraes

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I'm your host Zen Sam's up nextin our Hydration with Heart segment brought to
you by Once Upon a Coconut,we're featuring Charlie Rocket Now. Charlie was
managing one of the biggest music managementcompanies in the world when he was diagnosed
with a brain tumor. Facing deathand weighing in over three hundred pounds,
he made the choice to return tohis childhood dream of being an athlete.

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He ended up losing one hundred andtwenty five pounds, running five marathons,
competing in an Iron Man, andbest of all, reversing his brain tumor.
To top it off, he waseven featured in Nike's biggest Super Bowl
commercial of all time called Dream Crazy. If you guys recall the Colin Kaepernick
commercial. Now, at the heartof his organization lies the power of giving

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back and helping others. Dream Machinehas set on audacious goal to make one
million dreams come true. Now,this isn't just about granting wishes. It's
about fostering hope, igniting possibilities,and creating positive change in the lives of
countless individuals. Charlie leverages social mediato fundraise, educate, inspire, and
bless total strangers and families in needalong his journey. Now, researchers have

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found that people who perform a randomact of kindness tend to underestimate just how
much the recipient will appreciate it,and believing this miscalculation could hold many of
us back from doing nice things forothers more often. In fact, these
miscalibrated expectations matter for behavior. Notknowing one's positive impact can stand in the

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way of people engaging in these sortsof acts of kindness in daily life.
People tend to think that what they'regiving up is too little or relatively inconsequential.
Yet on the flip side, studiesshow that the recipients consider the gesture
to be significantly more meaningful, sono small act goes unnoticed. It will
help your own heart, maybe evenmore than the recipients. Here to chat

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charity, giving back and making amillion dreams come true. As the incredible
Charlie Rocket, Welcome to the show, Superstar. Oh, I am so
glad that we have reconnected. Weknow each other from social media, and
I'm glad that once upon a coconuthas finally united us and that we are

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featuring you in our Hydration with Heartsegments. So you have raised a great
deal of money since you started onthis journey. You have made tons of
dreams come true. What was themotivation behind dream Machine? What is your
roadmap? And talk to me alsoabout recently opening up dream Factory in La
So the motivation behind this movement was, I mean, really my wrong bottom

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moment when I was diagnosed with thebarin tumor and I was like just looking
at at the end of my life. I just said to God, I
was like, you give me outof this. I will dedicate my life
to open other people because there wasnothing I wanted more like than just to
like experience my dream. It's sosad to think humans will go their light

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and keep their dreams buried, andit happens to so many of us.
And it's really hard to chase dreams. It's hard for people who are privileged
to chase dreams. It's so justimagine somebody who's under privileged or has a
disability or has an illness. Sowhen I got out of my dark place,
I started this mission. I gotin my bus, I sold my

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houses, and I just toured acrossthe country and I just started making dreams
come true. One by one andit has turned into a wolvement and we're
just trying to really like bring millionsof people along on the journey so they
can make dreams come true with us. It's been fun, it's been exciting.
We've been able to do some crazythings. It's been an amazing journey.
But we're just getting started, andthat's when brings us here today.

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You know, we're spreading some kindnessand trying to inspire more people to think
about their dreams, but also thinkabout other people's dreams as well. It's
so important to give back. You'reright, and I know, congratulations on
Dream Factory. I know that thatwas probably no easy feat and I'm going
to circle back to that in justa bit and talk to you about,
you know, the challenges of gettingthat up and running. But I know
that you recently teamed out with One'sFund of Coconut Beverage, Brandon, So

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first of all, what do youthink about the taste? Well, I
first found out about what's upon aColdonut because the guy who founded this,
John chier Rondo, it's actually thebiggest donor for our foundation, and he's
the reason why we've been able togrow this movement the way we have and
when when she started the coconut watercompany, I mean it blew on mers

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like I'm talking about like we justtasted our brains explode and we've partnered up
and I was like, she like, this can be how we are able
to make so much more impact inthe world. Because she is a very
philanthropic person. What's upon a coconutand base she being John, She being
John for those three that are confusedabout that, that name so John Chi

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And so this collaboration is extremely importantto you. Tell me why, because
I mean, the best way tohelp people is through business. Business that
can make money, can offload moneyto be able to change lives in hat
and driven companies are how you affectmore lives. And John tier Rondo,
he's an example that Ray is anexample of that. And I think that

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this is how we're going to beable to impact the millions. So it's
a good product, it helps people, and we are creating the most impact
driven beverage right in the world.I love it. And it's one thing
to introduce a premium coconut water thattastes better than absolutely anything I've ever tried
before. In the space, butit's truly something else to give back to

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the communities and people that truly needit. And that's why for every case
of Onston sold, they donate tenpercent to a different charity monthly in addition
to everything that John has done foryour organization as well. Now, creating
a successful nonprofit requires dedication, strategy, and a lot of effective collaboration.
Can you shed light on the teamworkand partnerships outside of our beloved one's plot

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of coconut brand that drives Dream Machineforward. Yeah, it's our donors.
Like people see what we do andearn and like we get hundreds of millions
of views every month, like wejust didn't dream. For example, for
a little burned kid named Grayson,he had a lemonade stand and over the
course of a week and a half, we were able to get his business

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built. We were able to raisetwenty five thousand dollars for him, and
you know, like Travis Barker showedup to his lemonade stand and supported his
business and things like that. Youknow, we spread like we just try
to create light in this world,and then that brings in donors who are

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like, we want to see thismission continue. So I'm always mission first.
It's like, if we help people, there's gonna be people who want
to come along and join us inthat mission. So I'm very grateful for
every donor every company who stepped up. But I mean, honestly, like
it's really hard running a foundation.But then there's angels like Johns or Rondo

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who step up and you know,kind of lift us up a little bit.
Oh powerful words, they're huge,big shout out to John. Now,
the power of giving back can truly, you know, be transformative.
You witness it firsthand. Do youbelieve that fulfilling dreams and helping others can
create a ripple effect of positive changein society? Absolutely? Absolutely, especially

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with the power of like social media. You change a life, you put
somebody in a better place. Likelet's say, for example, a kid
we helped his a was Matthew.He had cerebral policy, he wanted to
have a clothe and learn. Wehelped him build his clothes line. He
did four hundred and fifty thousand insales in a week. Wow. It
didn't just affect him, That affectedhis family and affected you know, all

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the people that he's now working withor able to even employ and all the
lives that he's able to affect,and the world's is a different place when
you change a life, Like evenif you just changed weren't like like we
have a goal of changing in themeal in, but you changed one life,
you've changed the world because the aspect, the view from that person the
world is different in their eyes,So you change the world. Sometimes small

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things are more powerful than big things. I know I'm throwing around big numbers
and you know, big stuff,but it's sometimes the smallest thing. Because
when I was first diagnosed with thebrain to when I was in high school,
it was very depressed that it didn'tleave my house from Murtz and the
basketball team walked across the street andjust came to my house and said,

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Charlie, come to basketball practice.It was the simplest thing. It wasn't
four hundred and fifty thousand dollars,it wasn't a million in anything, it
wasn't nothing. It was just somebodycared. And so that changed my life.
So you don't have to do bigthings to change lives. And we
have an event coming up on Novemberthird called the Best Day Ever with Kassasa

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and we're gonna do a hundred thousandrandom acts of kindness in a day.
We're going to have five hundred meetup locations all over the country where are
followers and everybody can go and withrowna nationwide random act of Kindness party.
You are such an angel, Charlie, my goodness, you really are not

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only a person of your word,but just such a humble and gracious individual.
I mean, it really does takea special kind of soul to be
able to do what you do,and clearly you are meant to be here
for a very long time now.Making one million dreams come true? Is
and am bussiness school? Like youjust said, what are some of the
challenges that you've encountered along the way, and how do you really overcome those

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challenges and keep the mission alive andthriving? The boodness challenge is I would
say, mahow, you give alot and you don't fill up your cup.
And when you dedicate your life tohelping other people's you forget about yourself.
So I'm entering into a chapter inmy life where I'm like, I
like, I gotta figure this outbecause I never want to stop helping people,

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So I gotta make sure I'm helpingmyself as well, and I'm just
focused every day on mastering the artof living an impactful and successful and healthy
life all at the same turn.So it's like, I'm really excited about
that and I'm motivated to figure itout. You're doing a great job.

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Though. Now the concept of dreamsgoes beyond just material wishes. How does
dream machine cater to a diverse rangeof aspirations from either personal experiences to community
projects, and how do you reallygo about selecting the people that you help.
The dreams lead the way, sowe don't know who we're going to
help. We when we dive intocommunities and I find a ninety nine year

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old ladies whose house washed away inthe hurricane, it's like, okay,
let's help like less fundraise for herand let's get her, you know,
twenty thousand dollars so she can youknow, a ford, a place to
live. There might be a littlegirl with a rare disease that wants to
be a baker. It's like,okay, we need to build her a

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bakery, you know, let's buildher a bakery business. And then a
week later she does five hundred thousandin sales and five hundred I mean five
thousand people showed up to her ofit. Or it can be somebody just
simply needs stuff, forward, kidsor treatment. So we launch our online
fundraiser. We raise fifty thousand,and so the dreams lead the way.

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We don't know who we're going tomeet. We dive deep into the communities
and we're always looking for somebody whoneeds a miracle. And then me and
the dream team would come in andwe we just do the best week can
we try. That's our that's ournumber one goal is let's just try for
other people, and let's try toget our audience involved as well. That's

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why it's so important to like teamup with companies that care about giving,
like Once Upon a Cult because thatprovides so many more sources. I love
Once Upon a Coconut. I reallytruly love this brand, not only as
a mom, but as somebody whoyou know works out and likes to stay
hydrated, and even my daughter lovesit. Everybody loves it. But the
charity aspect of this company and thefounders John Mark Ray Allen, I really

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really put their heart and soul intothis, into everything that they do and
bringing on collaborators like yourself is trulytea because now you have the ability to
truly change lives through the power oflike you said, a business. Now,
one might argue that a single organizationcannot make a significant dent in the
world challenges. How would you respondto those skeptics and what advice do you

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have for those that want to initiatepositive change but in a smaller scale.
Motestly have never received any skepticism aslong as I've been doing this for five
years, it's just so much's love. Like you change a life, you
change tim We're at fifteen hundred liveschanged and we're just getting started. I'm

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gonna do this till the day andthat like I'm not going to do anything
else like this is it? Soit's like if somebody is skeptical, then
there's just wasting their energy or nothelping people. Like just you know,
there's people who light other people's candles, and then there's people who blow out
other people's candles. It's like youjust got and decide who you will beat.

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You are so inspirational and with thatwe are out of time. What
a captivating interviewed. This was anexploration of compassion, of determination, and
really the incredible potential that really layswithin every act of giving. So thank
you so much for coming on.You are quite the humblest souls. Thank
you. I appreciate you having mea little glad we were able to make

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it happen. Absolutely, guys,take part in the giving, philosophy and
impact of dream Machine by heading todream Machine USA dot org. That was
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You're listening to a moment of Zenright here on seven ten wore the voice
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We're featuring a doctor, Sarah Reardon, a board certified pelvic floor physical

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therapists with over sixteen years of experiencehelping women with pelvic floor issues, particularly
bowel and bladder issues, painful intercoursepregnancy, postpartum recovery, and staying dry
and pain free in the later yearsof life. She's the founder of the
Vagina Whisper, an online platform withpelvic floor and court exercise programs. Sarah

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is passionate about bringing vaginas into thespotlight to normalize conversations around sexual health Today.
She's here to help me demystify sexualshame, chat, women's health and
vaginal rejuvenation. Now in a worldwhere open conversations about sexuality and women's well
being are crucial now more than ever, it's my aim to shed light on

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these often overlooked areas. I'm hopingto help break down the barriers that surround
sexual shame and explore the nuances ofwomen's health. By addressing these topics with
sensitivity and knowledge, I hope toempower my sister's, challenge societal norms and
foster a deeper understanding of the importanceof holistic well being. Chatting female empowerment,

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dismantling taboos, and demystifying sexual shameis the incredible, Doctor Sarah Rierdon,
Welcome to the show, Stunner.Thank you, Zan, thanks so
much for having me. Absolutely Okay, so let's dive right in. So
we might not all want to admitit, but most of us have a
preferred word for vagina, be itFanny muff Minge, coach. You know,

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I'm all for that, but I'malso for those who prefer to solely
use the correct anatomical term. Butvagina nicknames are in fact here to stay,
and a lot of them are quitefunny. And life is just boring
when it's not spend having a bitof laugh over terms like Lady Garden.
Right, So, doctor reardon yougot you go by the handles of vagina,
whisper. That's quite clever. Whatare the top names that you have

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heard women refer to the vaginas?You just named so many of them,
but I mean I've heard everything fromCookie and Coucie and Nanni, and you
know, the list just goes on. I think what we're really trying to
do here is I think it's greatto have fun and have names for these
parts of our bodies, but wealso want people to kind of be able
to identify parts of their body.What is the vagina, what is the

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vulva, and then we can educatefuture generations about these body parts instead of
just calling them kind of fun petnames. Yeah. I couldn't agree more
because there's almost like a shame injust saying vagina. Right. I remember
when my daughter was just learning howto speak and we were identifying her body
parts. My mother in law andmy mom were giving her like code names

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or pet names, and I waslike, no, it's vagina, correct,
it's vagina, that's what it is. And there's no shame in calling
at my vagina, right. AndI still say that to this day.
Right. So finally, we're atthe beginning of redressing the wrongs and misinformations
around this neglected organ and it startswith, you know, kating our little

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girls. Now, why do youthink there's a shame and embarrassment in the
word sex in the giant? Doyou think it's cultural? Do you think
it's generational? I think both.I mean, if we look back,
it's a kind of the messaging we'vegotten growing up. And I think the
older generation's God, it was yourvagina smells, Use this scented soap,
use this wash to clean it.Oh, you leak urine, use these
paths to hide it, and it'snormal, but don't talk about it.

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And the messaging has often been leaksare part of being a lady. Painful
sex during menopause as normal, orthis is your new body after a mom,
just deal with it. And it'sbeen very much kind of brushed under
the rug instead of really brought tothe forefront and said, hey, these
are things that we're dealing with.They are just body parts, like every
other part of our body. Butwe also want help for them. We

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don't want to have to hide them, shame them, you know, cover
their sense, cover their smells,cover the leaks kind of thing. You
are so right. I just Ihad this very conversation with doctor a Mere
who trends by NYC guy note,and I I remember saying in the interview
there's a study twenty twenty two studyby gynecologists at the University of Manchester in

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England, in less than ten percentof women were able to accurately label female
genitalia. The clitterist is even moretaboo than the vagina and arguably the most
neglected human organ by medicine. Imean, it's still inadequately depicted in most
medical textbooks and barely touched upon inmedical training. And this is a serious
problem. I mean, women havebeen injured by this lack of knowledge through

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botched reconstruction surgeries and tien continence procedures, obstetric tears and repairs and volvectomies,
and so we have to start talkingabout this. Pages like yours, Profiles
like yours that women stumble on onsocial media, that are so educational,
are so critical now more than ever, because you're speaking directly to women who
need to hear this, because eventheir own gynecologists are not saying this stuff.

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So thank you so much. Forhaving a great informational page. Now,
how do you feel about vaginal andnon invasive procedures? Is it something
we should be practicing. I thinkthat everything has its place. It's you
know, I think of it moreof a cosmetic sometimes plastic surgery kind of
space where you know, there areparts of our body that people are very

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sensitive or self conscious about. Sosay you have in large labia, well
that can be something that visually isnot appealing for you. But also we
can cause irritation and rubbing in yourunderwear or difficulty wearing certain types of clothing.
So there are kind of very realreasons that people want to have these
and it's I always say that wewant to offer people options. So for
some people with respect to you know, vaginal rejuvenation, if they're going to

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it for a tighter vaginal or evenurinary leakage, I give them options.
You can try exercises, you cantry stimulators, you can try up you
know, procedures and surgeries or vibratingchairs or whatever it may be. But
I think we want to give peopleoptions, the pros and cons, and
then just really inform them of ifyou have this procedure done, you may
need to have it repeated. Itdoesn't just kind of last your lifetime.

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So you know, I think thatthey're it's just more information. I think
people are often presented with, hey, this is your only option, and
this is the direction you need togo, where there's actually a lot of
options. I also really want tohelp women know that this is not an
area of our body to be ashamedabout. I always say, people are
like, how do you work withvaginas all day? I'm like, it's
like working with an ankle, right, Like, it's a part of a

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body. If something's wrong with it, we want to fix it. So
we just want to give them,you know, kind of minimize shame,
really maximize acceptance and let them knowthat you're not alone. You're Yeah,
I love the humor in that,but you're right. But to your point,
it's as simple as that. Andin sex in general, you know,
as viewed as as taboo. Andyou know, something that we should

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talk very quietly about. I mean, the apt of sex alone can help
strengthen your pelvic floor. It's everythingyou talk about. A strengthened pelvic floor
can you know, have offer benefitsless pain during sex, reduce chance of
vaginal pro laps. I mean womenwho continue to be sexual active after menopause.
I was just saying this, tellthem, my mom, this are
less likely to have significant vaginal actrophy, you know what we call the sending

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of the vaginal walls, and thatcan cause pain during sex and your nurse
symptoms. So we must continue havingsex well. And that's one of the
things is that if you have painwith sex, you don't want to have
sex. Right. We have enoughreasons to not want to have sex.
We're tired, we're exhaustive, we'vegot kids in the bed. But I
think that we want to say,hey, if you are having pain,
what are the reasons for that,and what can help? Is it hormonal

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therapy, exercises, you know,a paraneal tear, dryness, things like
that, and really help women understandtheir bodies better. And also the medical
system. I think again, we'veoften, you know, just said oh,
this is a normal part of postpartumlife or menopausal life, deal with
it. But that is not thecase. There are so many options out
there, and again, we wantpeople to feel good in their bodies and

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experience pleasure and joy, and itssex is a great way to do that.
But if it's painful, it's somethingthat we're not going to want to
do. Yeah. I couldn't agreemore. So you've got to fix the
root now, the I mean theroot of the problem of the pain.
And what solutions are you recommending forvaginal dryness and discomfort and even something as
simple as how do you pick theright loop right? Well, there's so

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many things to think about when wethink about dryness and lubrication, and I'll
break them down into two pieces.So for vaginal dryness, I really say,
you know, this is a partof our body, just like our
skin. We put so much careinto our skin care routines for our face.
We want to think about our skincareroutine for our volva. So you
want to make sure that you're stayinghydrated and drinking plenty of water. Avoid
any products that are irritating, havechemicals that cause burning, stinging. I

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always say, if it sparkles,glitters or glows has a scent, don't
put it on your volva. Youneed all natural products down there. You
don't want to be washing with anyharsh soaps. And then you also want
to use a vaginal moisturizer at night. If you have dryness, so something
as simple as coconut oil. There'sanother products called the v Magic that's olive
oil based, so those are greatfor daily moisture. On the flip side,

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when it comes to lubricants, tonsof options. My favorite is a
water soluble lubricant. It's dries withthe tissues so it doesn't hang out in
linger and harbor bacteria, but youmay have to reapply it during intercourse.
You can also use silicone lubricants,but those can't be used with silicone toys,
so if you're using a toy thatsilicone, you have to use a

(29:25):
different type of lube. Or youcan use an oil based lubricant against something
as simple as coconut oil. Butyou can't use oil based lubricants with latex
condoms because it will break down thelatex. So lots of options. I
just recommend urinating after sex to avoidany bacteria in the urinary tract, and
also just cleansing the area with warmwater afterwards to kind of rinse any of

(29:45):
the lubes or kind of chemicals away. Great information. They're very very well
said. We were talking about thisa little bit earlier, but I had
had a radioactive idine treatment done forGraves disease and the radiation caused the lot
of dryness and down there. SoI actually discovered this product. So two
lift V and and it lifts,it hydrates, it rejuven h and it

(30:07):
was like easy. It was threeapplications and then I just did maintenance.
I mean, it really helped tightenand lift it off for me. And
I know that there's testimonials out therefor other women, and it basically uses
carbon dioxide. It's so so simple. It enhances the circulation by basically rushing
rushing oxygen rich blood to tissue andregenerates cells to improve obviously sensitivity and lubrication.

(30:32):
It was phenomenal. It worked forme, so that's something that I
recommend. And it's easy, it'snon invasive. You could do it at
home. But it took a lotof I mean I had to go through
a one hundred different products to findsomething that really worked. And then I
found I found your page. Andyour page is completely top to bottom filled
with so much information. She's herhandle is at the dot vagina dot whisper.

(30:55):
And now this subject for you know, this is subjective for everyone,
But is there a recommended frequency forwomen to be having sex and or masturbating.
So I am a fan of selfstimulation. I think that you don't
always have to have a partner tobe able to be sexually active. And
I also think that you want toexplore with your own body. If you

(31:18):
don't know what pleasures you, howcan you communicate that with somebody else.
So I recommend it. I thinkthat there's lots of different ways that we
can do that, but kind ofget to know yourself, your body,
and then you may feel more comfortablewhen there's another partner or two in the
room. With respect to recommended frequencyof intercourse, it totally varies. There
is such a wide range. There'sa really wonderful book called Come as you

(31:41):
Are, and that book really talksabout that. There's a spectrum. For
some people it may be every dayto three times a week to have sexual
activity. For others it may bethree times a month. So there is
just a spectrum. But going withwhat your normal is is really important,
and also kind of identifying what arethe factors as to why you don't want
to have sex? Is it whatare the things that are putting your foot
on the brake? Is it pain? Is it dryness? Is it body

(32:05):
confidence? Is it fatigue? Exhaustion, a disconnect with your partner and then
taking your foot off the brake andsome of those aspects. But what puts
your foot on the gas? Pleasure, lubrication, timing, you know,
different things like that for play,So kind of identifying what are those two
factors for you that can help youput your foot on the gas but also

(32:27):
help take your foot off the brake. And that's different for everyone. All
right, there you go to restassured ladies that if you're not having sex
three times a day, you arenormal. I would say three times a
day is on the high end.I would say once to three times a
week is like a more normal teasingbecause for the guys, I mean they
wake up, they go to bedand no problem, let's go and we're

(32:52):
on the clock with the kids.I mean I put everything. I put
sex on the calendar. It's ifI don't, you're not getting it.
Now. People in romantic relationships,for a fact, who had frequent sex
one to two times a week hadmore immunoglobin A in their saliva, and
people who had infrequent sex less thanonce a week had significantly less IgA.

(33:13):
Now IgA is the antibody that playsa role in preventing illnesses and is the
first line of defense against the humanpapuloma virus or otherwise known as HPV,
which is a fun fact. Ilove to throw that out there, so
interesting fact. If you want tokeep going, this is one reason.
Now, doctor Reardon, what demographicof women typically seek your services and what
is the median age of your patients? You know, I would say everything

(33:37):
from I start seeing young women inmy clinic at the age of sixteen to
eighteen and then up into their eighties. I mean, you can have pelvic
floor issues all across your lifespan,from the first time you try to insert
a tampon or have a pelvic examinit's painful, your first attempt at sexual
intercourse and it's painful. It's ahuge myth that sex should be painful the
first time or even after giving birth, in that is not the case.

(33:59):
So if you do have pain withsex, I highly recommend kind of seeking
some public coore therapy or resources forthat. And then in the later years
of life again it can be painfulsex with menopause, urinary leakage, bladder
issues, prolapse, but especially kindof in the pregnancy postpart on space.
We see the majority of our clientsbetween the ages of twenty five to forty
five. And this is also ageneration that we're saying, we want to

(34:22):
change the narrative about our vaginas.We don't want to end up in diapers,
we don't want to end up sexless. Like what can we do now
to better take care of our bodies? I'm so right. So they're coming
to us and saying like I eitherwant to be proactive or I've been dealing
with these issues and I don't wantto deal with them anymore. And so
that's I would say, the bulkof the folks that we see. Yeah,
so it's great because you're you're cateringto a necessity. You're catering to

(34:45):
a generation wanting to change this approach, which I love. Now we have
probably forty five seconds left. Buthow important is intimacy in a relationship?
You know? I think intimacy isreally important, And I think it's not
just sexual intimacy. It can beeverything from hold hands to physical touch to
verbal communication. When it comes tosexual intimacy, I think oftentimes we need

(35:06):
to have those other pieces in placeto get to that sexual intimacy part and
to what you were mentioning before.When we have orgasms, when we have
sex, we release oxytocin in ourbrains, and that is a feel good
hormone and chemical. So the morethat we're able to do that, the
better we can feel about our bodies, about ourselves, and even about our
partners and relationships. So there area lot of obstacles in the way.

(35:28):
Again, we don't want peblic orhealth to be one of them, but
I hope that these conversations can continueto help us optimize our sexual health.
Yeah, you said it, You'reright on. In this oxytocin, what's
also called the love intimacy hormone toyour point, in combination with the endorphins
during an orgasm, the combination ofthese hormones can act as a sedation,
so it's going to help you sleepbetter, and it's a headache relief too.

(35:52):
Another study showed that sexual activity canprovide full or partial relief from migraines
and cluster headaches, and if peoplewho were sexually active during their attacks,
sixty percent reported an improvement during amigraine and ninety one percent reported moderate to
complete relief in cluster headaches, whichis interesting because I typically do suffer from
migraines, so it gives me allthe more reason to you know, want

(36:15):
to cuddle up. But we areout of time. Officially, officially,
thank you so much for being sotransparent and full of information. You are
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listening to a moment of Zen righthere on seven ten wore the voice of
New York iHeartRadio. I'm your host, Zen. Sam's up. In just
a few minutes, we have ourCulinarian Wine segment, brought to you by

(38:51):
bach Kuchina. Today we're featuring celebritychef Darian Brian, one of Western New
York's hautest chefs and founder of thePlating Society. You may have seen Chef
Darian on Food Networks Chopped. He'struly a Jamaican who brought the heat to
Buffalo no pun intended. He's knownfor his private dinners and meal prep for

(39:13):
Buffalo's favorite NFL players. He specializesin everything extra, from his signature fedora
hats and chef jacket styles to hiscolossal surf and turf. He believes that
chefs are rock stars and should becelebrated as such. Their food makes people
happy, and according to Chef Darion, they should feel and see that love
too. He loves to merge Caribbeancuisine with fine dining dishes, hence his

(39:37):
nickname the Fancy Jerk. Darian isthe personal chef for Buffalo Builds stars like
Stefan Diggs, and he's even goneviral multiple times for the wild meals he
prepares before game day. Today,he's joined by Vip Peter Guimadis of New
York City, Peter's managing partner atbeeche Kuchin, a restaurant group, founder

(39:57):
of Tipsy Girl Wines and owner ofBeeche Kuchi in our restaurant right here in
Midtown Manhattan. Quite the celebrity himself. In fact, biche Kuchina is always
swarming with famous people from Mark andDonnie Wahlberg to fifty Cent, from Rod
Stewart to Bruce Springsteen. It's allthe Housewives of New York. Of course,
they all had to Peters for afun night out. To day were
chatting from Buffalo to New York.Kitchen and recipe hacks that are going to

(40:21):
make your life easy now, Accordingto a new customer Curiosity study, produce
marketers, suppliers and retailers should knowthat the overwhelming majority of trends sending food
consumers are most interested in discovering recipesthat can be prepped in less than thirty
minutes. And it's not just quickand easy meals. They crave. Global
flavors are driving the next food trends. So how will today's consumers curiosities influence

(40:46):
tomorrow's food trends. Let's find out. Welcoming now to the show is the
amazing chef Darry and Brian and VipPeter Guimadis. Welcome, superstars, Thank
you, thank you so much forhaving us, Thank you so much here.
Okay, Chef Darien, let's startwith you. So even the trend
setter want they wanted symbol these foodThese food trend setters. More than eighty

(41:08):
five percent of respondents in a recentsurvey are very or extremely curious about easy
under thirty minute meals, revealing thateven early food adopters are looking for inspiration
to save time and resources in thekitchen. What are your go to hands
on ingredients, condiments or spices whenpreparing under thirty minute meals. I'd like

(41:29):
to go for like stir fry.It's delicious, it's fast. You can
make rice in less than like tenminutes, and it's pretty much whatever ab
in or fridge. I got someeggs, I got sal beans. Everything
is going in and my kids loveit or wife love it. So it's
making easy. It can make ithealthy too. Peter, what's your favorite
go to under thirty minute meal oris there a spice or ingredients? Well,

(41:51):
you know, everybody always thinks Icould kick Italian at home, but
I stay away from the Battalian foodbecause I have it every day. You
know. When my Portuguese background,we have a really great dish which is
called the It's chick peas with boiledpotatoes, eggs, caramelized onions, black
headed olives, and you could havea vegetarian style or you can add pot
this to it and you can createall this under thirty minutes. My daughter

(42:13):
loves it. It's a real wellknown Portuguese dish. It's very easy to
make out home, and it's kindof like idiot proof, right, yeah,
yeah, Now it's it's interesting becauseyou know, as a mom,
I always keep certain condiments in mykitchen that I could grab very quickly,
like certain chicken stocks and beef stocksand flavorings. What are your go to

(42:35):
condiments that you like to reach outto really quickly to spice up meals?
All right, Well, you know, since I have a restaurant, I
have one of the biggest kitchens inMidtown, so I have all modern really
carry a lot of stuff except redbull and wine. Well, what I
do always carry in my fridge iseggs because you know, you can do
a lot what eggs. It hasa lot of protein. I work out
a lot, so I like tocome home from the gym and have eggs.
I always keep some rice around becausePortuguese people we do a lot of

(43:00):
with rice. Avocado is a must. There's always got to the avocado in
the house. You can make aquick spread, you can have ustill eat,
you can have tomatoes. So Idon't keep a lot of ingredients in
the home. No, those aregreat. What about you Chef Darien,
So for me, always got yogurts, bananas, eggs that hard boydives has
bottom at a time so they canus undergood US whip one out really quick.

(43:21):
Peanut butter is really good too.Lots of fruits because the kid my
kids are fiving four did the mornings. They don't have tend to weed for
any big breakfast, So I loveit. Now, what, Chef Darien,
you have little kids? What safepractical kitchen tips are you recommending that
parents set up younger children with forback to school? Any easy ideas they

(43:42):
can make safely. I mean yourkids are a little bit younger, but
what about that you know those tweenyears eight to twelve year old? Say?
My thing is always get your kidsin the kitchen, get them familiar
with ingredients, fresh and how theingredients and just get them involved. And
I would say lots of like youknow, beans and nuts, grains and

(44:05):
you know fruits. So that's whatI give my kids right now. LD
safe and he's nutrition and it's nutrias. Yeah. I always like to keep
fresh fruit cut up in the fridgefrom my daughter. Yeah, anything that
they could grab pre snacks. Now, Peter curiosities differ between generations. I
mean Generation Z members are most curiousabout new cooking skills and techniques, while
baby boomers, some of our oldercrowds, they rank global flavors as their

(44:30):
top curiosity and time pressed genets likeyou know, we're always on the go,
And Millennials, many of whom arejuggling family and careers, look most
towards the quick and easy meals.Now, your daughter, Michaela is now
in college. What invaluable cooking skillsdid you set her up with? And
how can you balance simplicity without compromisingnutrition? You know, it's the valuable

(44:52):
skills. I set her up witha black MX card. If he goes
to three hundred dollars old macasis anddrink, That's that's the valuable skills I'd
set her up with. But shereally loves food. She's involved in the
restaurant. She's actually a pretty goodcook. She loves to do uh wacamole
dips. She's always trying to copyour Beaches salad dressing the season one because

(45:15):
she says it's the best. ButI don't even give her the ingredients,
so she's trying to create her own. But you know, I make sure
she has her salads, make surejust she has her fruits. But she's
eighteen year old now, right,So so how's she in the kitchen?
Has she picked up cooking skills?Could she make herself the meal from scratch?
She can? She does this ashrimp dish called the shrimp musse and

(45:36):
beak, which is a spicy shrimpand she usually cooks like at the Beach
House. She loves to cook ashrimp boos and beak. She loves to
do avocado dips, and she lovesto actually create her own salad dressing,
which is always a hit or miss. I love it. Yeah, that's
that's something that I did. Mydad. He owned diners growing up,
Greek restaurants all through Montreal and evenMiami, and I was always in the

(45:58):
kitchen. It was it's invaluable toknow how to cook now. Chef Darian
First, when we talk about functionalnutrition, a lot of people want to
know about this when it comes tonutrition. While immune support and plastic platin
based foods might be among today's topfood trends, some of the people coming
into the food chain, like earlyadopters, are saying that they're most curious

(46:20):
in learning about how foods can supportcognitive and GOT health. So when cooking
for your family you have little ones, what key ingredients do you add to
your recipes to make them wholesomes,nutritious, flavor filled, but GOT friendly.
I would say ginger because growing upin Jamaica, like we use ginger
for everything. You a belly,a dizzy? What ginger your food are

(46:42):
eating? Just eat fresh ginger.Vinegar is good to opposite of vinegar.
My kids are dear, funny,eat anything whatever we eat, and you're
eating it too, So that's whatI look. They're young, but they're
not all about the chicken nuggets andall that stuff. Like whatever we eat,
they eat, which I love thatabout. Now, Oh that's so
important. And now, Peter,this question is for you first. So

(47:04):
consumers are eager to explore new flavorsand simple is the way to go,
Like close to eighty percent of earlyfood adopters. And I keep saying early
food adoptors because there's people who arereally starting to get into the food scene,
if you will, are very orextremely curious about global flavors and cuisines.
So what, Peter, what cuisinedo you enjoy cooking the most,

(47:25):
and is there a particular global flavorthat you can't resist? So I'm a
big Lingleanian clams fan. I trynot to have as much of it these
days because I'm actually watching my gut. That's the inside, but the outside
how it looks okay. So anytimeI go to a restaurant and they happenling

(47:45):
Gleaniing clams on the menu, Ialways order it because I want to compare
it against ours. And I alsowant to make sure because everybody said my
clams never have any sand in them, So I always order it from other
restaurants just to see if your clamsare better than hours. So that's usually
when I trapp have clean claims.You have to have clean claims. That
goes for everything in life. Iagree, Now, Darian, what's the

(48:10):
particular global flavor that you can't resist? Don't tell me Jamaican because you cook
a lot of that. But Iwanted, I wanted, So what's what's
yours? I would say Asian?Like my kids in love, Asian foods
are like, you know, let'sgo to the giant bass and to cook.
I would see French cuisine. That'slike might being a love of French

(48:32):
cuisines. I just merge my Caribbeanbackgir over to French cuisine. I've learned
all through culinary school and hospitality.So oh, I love it. I
love it. I envisioned a collaborationin the future between you and Peter.
You could come cook French at beacha couccina. Well, we also have
our labar concept that we're starting inPalm Beach, so oh, nice branch.

(48:55):
I can get some tips from achef there. I add a little
gym and flavor to it. Iwould love to do that. Excellent,
I'm your guy when you reneed mea ader absolutely while we are out of
time. Thank you so much,gentlemen, this was quite informative. I
always love getting you know, kitchenhacks and ingredients from different perspectives. Peter,
you are very very entertaining and chefdarian. It's always a pleasure to

(49:19):
have you on. I'll have yourglass of wine ready for you right around
three sixteen. I'm right there.Guys, you have to definitely check out
Peter Grimadi's head directly to their websiteat bicocina dot com. Now all of
this is the coolest coolest episode,But the most important thing you have to
take away is that everything in thekitchen should be calculated. It has to

(49:43):
be safe. Don't let your kidscome home and turn the ovens on.
All the tips that we talked aboutwere specifically with adult supervision, and the
best and easiest thing to do toget your kids the meals and the ingredients
they want even when you're not homeafter school is to just prep it and
put it in containers and make itaccessible for them. That was our culinarian

(50:05):
wine segment, brought to you byBechiina, celebrity chef and influencer Darry and
Brian Western, New York's Hottest Chef, founder of the Plating Society. That
was Peter Gumadis of New York City. Peter's managing partner at Beachi Kutwina Restaurant
Group and founder of Tipsy Girl Winesand owner of Bachi Kuchina. Right here
in Midtown Manhattan, head to atPeter g for NYC, at Bachi Kuchina
Midtown dot com, and at thePlating Society dot com. You're listening to

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