September 1, 2025 • 52 mins
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What happens when a nurse decides to heal herself first? Kiana Reedy's story will stop you in your tracks.
After graduating nursing school in 2021, Kiana found herself caught in a cycle that might sound familiar – overworked, undernourished, and stuck in patterns that weren't serving her. Within two years, she completely transformed her reality – shedding 30 pounds, healing a condition doctors had labeled "chronic," and finding the courage to leave an eight-year toxic relationship that began when she was just 16.
The secret? An unwavering focus on personal wellbeing that flies in the face of nursing's self-sacrifice culture. "If it's not benefiting me, it's taking away from me," Kiana shares with refreshing directness. This mindset shift allowed her to pursue long-held dreams of acting, modeling, and entrepreneurship while maintaining her nursing career.
Particularly fascinating is Kiana's journey with gut health and plant medicine. After struggling with chronic allergic conjunctivitis that conventional treatments couldn't resolve, she discovered the root cause through holistic exploration. "Everything goes back to the gut," she explains, detailing how addressing this foundation transformed multiple aspects of her health simultaneously. Her thoughtful approach to psilocybin mushroom microdosing offers a nuanced perspective on intentional plant medicine use.
What strikes me most about Kiana's approach is her balance of ambition and self-compassion. She maintains laser focus on her goals while honoring both masculine (doing) and feminine (resting) energies. For anyone feeling stuck, her advice is disarmingly simple: journal your dream life without limitations, set three small daily goals, and build momentum through consistent action.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello, you're listening to Empowered Ease, the
show that puts a spotlight onwomen who not only overcome
adversity, but use theirexperience to lift others.
Today, we welcome Kiana Reedy.
She's a registered nurse who'smade a powerful pivot from the
modern Western medicine to aholistic path of healing and
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empowerment Western medicine toa holistic path of healing and
empowerment.
Since graduating nursing schoolin 2021, kiana has been on a
personal and professionaltransformation.
She, in 2023, lost more than 30pounds, healed from what
doctors labeled a chroniccondition, and found the courage
to leave an eight-year toxicrelationship.
(00:44):
Along the way, she finallypursued her long-held dreams of
acting, modeling and owning herown business.
Kiana blends nursing knowledgewith holistic coaching to help
people heal from the inside out.
Whether you're looking toevolve physically, mentally,
emotionally or spiritually, shepartners with you to set goals,
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create real, sustainable change.
Today, we'll talk to her abouther healing journey, the tools
she uses with her clients andhow she balances clinical
training with a whole personapproach to well-being.
It is such a pleasure to haveyou on Empowered Ease.
Welcome, kiana.
Pleasure to have you onEmpowered Ease.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Welcome Kiana.
Welcome, kiana.
I'm so excited to have you on.
How are you?
I'm doing great.
Thank you for having me.
Super excited to chat today.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Where are you located ?
You live somewhere beautiful,don't you?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I live now in Covina, california.
I just recently moved, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Okay, I was like.
I know you live somewherebeautiful with like a beach.
I always see your pictureslooking pretty.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yes, I do my best to travel to the beach.
I'm a cancer, so I love thewater.
Oh, I love that.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I love that.
So Kiana and I were actually inthe same holistic nurse
coaching program is how weinitially met, and since then
she's kind of been off on herown building her business.
So can you tell me a little bitabout what you've been up to,
how you've been coaching yourpersonal life?
I know you're like dabbling inso many things.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yes, I'm doing my best.
Juggling is what I what I callit juggling the careers multi
passionate entrepreneur.
So I started my business a fewmonths after we finished in 2024
.
Was that last year?
Yeah, I guess it was.
Yeah, oh my gosh.
(02:35):
Okay, it feels like a lifetimeago.
But yeah, I started my businesslast year and have been
coaching clients since, but Ialso did get a nursing job at a
skilled nursing facility.
So I've been doing that Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, we could do a whole episode on your
perspective there too.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, there's so many stories there, so many stories
there.
But just to continue to getexperience and then also
stability, because you know whenyou're starting out a business,
it's not as stable.
So I wanted to have you knowstable income as I.
Also, at that same time ofstarting my business, I started
acting and modeling, so Istarted pursuing my dreams as
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well in that area.
So yeah, just kind of jugglingeverything, coaching clients
while also taking care of my ownhealth and encouraging others
to do the same.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I love that.
It's so exciting to see yougoing for it, because I think
you can understand this and manyof the guests who have been on
this podcast.
But, like, stepping into thespotlight in any way is
difficult.
It's like a process.
It's not something that well, Imean, maybe some people are
born with it but I feel likeit's a process of learning to
let yourself be seen indifferent lights, and we we
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can't you can't usually justlike open that door fully.
You know it's like I'm going tolet them see this, I'm going to
let them see this, and even asan entrepreneur, I mean we've
only been doing this for a year.
I love that you highlight that,because I'm like, oh my God, the
things that I've had to learnand know that I didn't know I
needed to know since then havebeen so big.
But to step into it, to letyourself be seen in an acting
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way, in a modeling way, I meanthat just is even I can't even
imagine, because I know what itfeels like to want to shrink
from that light, even in thethings I'm really proud and feel
secure of.
So tell me a little bit aboutthat struggle and how you've
been getting through it becauseit's.
I mean, it doesn't look likeyou're struggling from the
outside, so I'm just knowingthat process.
Being like Kiana, tell us yoursecrets, tell us your secrets.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Well, I do struggle, I am human.
But yeah, I think last year2024, it was the same time that
I started my business.
I started pursuing acting andmodeling.
I didn't have my nursing jobyet and I was just living
paycheck to paycheck, gig to gigor client to client, and I was
just barely making ends meet.
I was very much, I would say inmy mind, broke and so that's
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what pushed me.
I was like, okay, I was dealingwith a lot of rejection, like
you know, clients not onboardingand then also having so many
auditions but then not gettingbooked for the gig.
It was, oh my gosh, like Ireally was depressed, honestly,
for a while.
And then I was like, okay, Igot to get back to the drawing
board and I know I don't want togive up on my dreams, but maybe
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I need to take a different step.
So that's when I got my nursingjob, to have that stability and
since having that stability andhaving you know something to
financially back me, and like,okay, I'm secure, I'm good, I
don't have to worry and be insurvival mode, now I can get
back to performing.
I think it's just breakingthrough fears.
And this year, now I'm pursuingbusiness and acting and modeling
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very differently.
I take rejection just asredirection, you know, because
it's like okay, it's just notmeant for me and that's okay.
But it's experience.
And they say also I keep thisat the forefront of my mind is
they say it takes 10,000 hoursto become a professional at
something.
And for me I'm like okay, ifit's a consultation or if it's
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an audition and it doesn't getbooked, it's okay, that's an
hour I spent learning, that's anhour towards the goal.
And success is a numbers game,honestly.
So it's like okay, if it'sgoing to take 10 consultations
for me to get a client, great,let's just keep checking it off.
How many consultations can weget?
How many auditions can we get?
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And I think, as far as beingseen, I'm like you know what?
Who cares?
I think last year was like mydark night of the soul because
also my great grandma died, mydad died, my first client that I
worked for.
He was my patient for a year.
I lived with him full time inhis house, took care of him.
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He passed away.
This year Like just goingthrough so much loss and grief
and then also rejection at thesame time.
It really taught me like nobodyelse is paying your bills.
Nobody else can do this for you.
You have to step into that.
Nobody else is going to do itfor you and nobody else is going
to believe in you until youbelieve in yourself.
And that's what last yeartaught me, because I was like
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what you know?
It's really dark night at thesoul.
So this year I'm justapproaching it as like I don't
care who cares.
You're learning this is.
You know, this is your firsttime being Keanu Reedy and this
is your first time pursuing anurse coaching business and
being an actor and a model.
Maybe in a different lifetime Idid something similar, I don't
know, but this lifetime I'mdiscovering it and I think
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failing is a part of the process.
Jessie Reyes she's a musicartist.
She said in an interview failfaster to any artists out there.
Fail faster, because the fasteryou fail, the faster you learn.
So the more mistakes you learn,the more you're going to learn
what works and what doesn't, andthen you can apply and
implement that into whateveryou're doing.
So I think, just putting myselfout there, being seen, not
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being afraid to make a mistake,that's what I'm doing this year
and I'm like, whatever happens,happens.
I just have faith that I'mgoing to make it happen.
That's how I like the baseline.
I'm going to make it happen.
That's like the baseline.
I'm going to make it happen.
I don't fuck the hell, I'mgoing to make it happen.
I don't know how.
That's not my responsibility.
You know that's God's plan forme, but I'm just going to do
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what I can and let God handlethe rest, and that's it.
I love that.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I love that.
Two of the hardest things, Ithink, for people right there
being seen and like getting pastfailure, like failure is a tool
If you look at it the right way.
It's all about perspective, andyou've mastered that
perspective.
How beautiful.
I love that.
So who?
If you had to pick someone thatyou admire or that you look up
to, or that's like someone, arole model, who would you say
(09:01):
are the inspirations in yourworld?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh, I feel like I have some in each category of my
life, but a big one would beChrissy Chella, I think that's
how you say her last name.
She's the, I think, co-founderof Honor Active.
It's a woman's athleticclothing wear brand.
She's a business owner.
She's a mom now she's engaged.
(09:25):
She is a health and fitnessenthusiast and she just empowers
women to lift weights, do yoga,do move your body in whatever
way makes you happy.
Be strong, you know, beflexible, do whatever you want
to do.
That makes you feel good.
But honor yourself and stepinto whatever space you're going
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to be in with confidence andcourage.
And also, I think working outis a big part of my journey as
well.
That's built a lot ofconfidence for me, because I
think that confidence comes fromdoing what you told yourself
you were going to do and showingup day after day.
That's I feel like I've builtrespect for myself in that way
(10:08):
of like I don't want to go tothe gym, but you know what I
told myself, this is a part ofthe plan, so I'm going to, and
then after the workout, I feelso much better and I'm like,
yeah, I'm more confident and Ihave more trust with myself
because I'm like I'm showing upfor myself and doing what I said
I would.
So she's definitely aninspiration in that way.
What's her name again?
Chrissy Chela.
(10:29):
Ooh, I love that.
Okay, yeah, another likefitness enthusiast that, I would
say, inspires me.
She's also a content creator aswell.
So you know, it's just jugglingeverything.
Like I think women who canjuggle so much and they do it
with grace and they're notafraid to make mistakes, those
people inspire me.
Brenda Anton she's also acontent creator, works with
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Honor Active.
Yeah, just really, she's youngtoo, and the fact that she's
figuring all these things out ata young age, I'm like, okay,
what's possible for other peopleis possible for me.
What's possible for me ispossible for you.
What's possible for you ispossible for me.
Like it's just an example oflike this could happen for any
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of us.
We just got to make a decision,make a goal and stick to it.
I really love Robin Sharma.
He's a motivational speaker andhealth enthusiast.
He wrote a book called 5am cluband that's one of like the
first books I read in adulthood.
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That really impacted me in apositive way because he focused
on all areas of health, not justphysical, not just mental, but
all areas.
He said heart set, soul set,mindset, health set like
physical, not just mental, butall areas.
He said heart set, soul set,mindset, health set like
physical, you know, spiritual,mental, emotional.
So he tackled all those.
I really like his books.
Also.
(11:54):
Robert Kiyosaki for financialyeah, for financial education,
business, all that.
I recently read his book RichDad, poor Dad.
That taught me a lot becausegrowing up I didn't have
financial intelligence and I waslike you know what, if I'm
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going to be a business owner andin the industry which acting
and modeling, it's a business initself I was like I need to
hear the product, I'm theproduct.
I need to know how to sellmyself and I need to know how to
.
You know, like, make a profit.
And you know, keep my money andhave it, expand and build
assets.
So he reading his book reallychanged my life.
(12:35):
I'm like, okay, I want to readall of his books now.
So financial literacy isimportant as well.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah.
I read that one too.
That was one of like.
So many people recommended thatone Like because I, as nursing
it's like you know nothing aboutthat stuff is required to be a
nurse.
So just the whole mindset shiftthat you read was what I read.
I was like, oh okay.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, yeah, a hundred percent of like okay, you
really need to work on yourskills and if you're going to
become so like narrow unionize,that was like huge to me.
I was like, okay, you know,because with acting and modeling
I'm like, okay, well, how do Iapply that to this?
But anyways, that's a greatbook.
He's a great.
He's inspiring to me in thatway as far as like actors,
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zendaya, I love Zendaya, I loveZendaya.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I think I mean she does it, and if you don't love
her like you're, the problem.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, exactly, she's just so herself on and off the
camera, exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
That's what I mean by that, like she's triggering you
because she's so comfortable.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
She is so authentic in herself and I love that.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Jessica Chastain.
She is, I think, an amazingactor.
Viola Davis, oh God I love.
I want to read her book so bad.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Her memoir.
I'm so like it's on my list.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Viola Davis says I haven't read it yet, but I want
to because she's on my list too.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, she's amazing.
I didn't know she had a memoir,but yeah, on my list now as
well.
She said a quote in aninterview that stuck with me too
is she's like it's your job tomake sure you disappoint
everyone else so that you neverdisappoint yourself own first
love and like beautiful stuffthat's such powerful, powerful
stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I love that.
One thing I love about talkingto you that is like so
encouraging to me is and it'ssomething we talk about I've
talked about a lot with othercoaches that have come on the
show, particularly nurses,because there's something about
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nursing or maybe the peopledrawn to it, I don't know.
You know we've made a lot ofthose speculations on this show
too, but about nurses kind ofoverall are kind of hard
population to treat and workwith.
I feel like sometimes we can belike the most unhealthy
population too.
I mean we I don't know aboutnowadays, but back in the day
like we were one of the highestsmokers, even when we knew that
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was bad, and I think we havethis like victim mentality
almost, and I don't want to saythat in an insulting way because
I feel like we've earned it.
Yeah, of course we've beenvictimized by a lot of things,
but the truth of the matter is,regardless of what we're owed,
what's happening is no one isgoing to come to save you but
yourself, and you know that canbe a hard shift to make in your
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head over like I've given somuch, I do so much for others.
Yes, and where you need to beputting that energy is yourself
first, and that's such a hardshift and I feel like you're not
in that victim place at all.
It's like, okay, resiliency allthe way, and I love it because
it's such a powerful place to be.
I mean, just hearing you talk,the lightness, the difference in
hearing someone who is weigheddown by that feeling, owed
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feeling.
You know there's just such adifference in your energy and so
, yeah, just your thoughts onthat, yeah well, thank you for
that.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I think a part of that comes from Well.
Honestly, I went through a lotgrowing up moving around
different family members, lotsof, lots of childhood trauma.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
That's a topic for another time, but I think I say
a lot, though that that is wherea lot of nurses come from.
That that's part of why some ofthe shit we see is so easy,
because we've already learned tocompartmentalize a long time
ago.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Exactly exactly, and I think that resilience was
built throughout my childhood.
But I think in my adulthood,the relationship that I was in,
I felt like I was giving, giving, giving, giving, giving so much
.
He was pursuing his dreams andI kind of put mine on the back
burner because I think I was sofocused I want a partner, I want
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to be in love, I want to be.
You know, it wasn't even like,oh, I want kids or I want to get
married.
It was just like I just want tobe wanted or I want to feel
loved, or I want to be withsomebody, I want to be seen.
And so, after that ended, I wasjust like I'm done holding back
and I'm done holding back andlosing weight, and just like
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committing myself to my health.
That was what got me throughthat breakup, because I was
super depressed at that pointtoo.
I was with him since I was 16years old and we broke up when I
was, what I think, 24.
So it was a big chunk of mylife and I had to rediscover who
I was and I was like I didn'tknow who I was and I was like,
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okay, I just I'm gonna go to thegym, even if it's twice a day,
six days a week.
I'm gonna just figure it out,I'm gonna journal, I'm gonna.
I just started.
One good choice just led toanother good choice and then the
snowball effect and my lifestarted changing and I think I
started showing up more formyself, building that confidence
.
It became to the point where Iwas like, if it it's not
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benefiting me, it's taking awayfrom me, and I don't want that.
And I mean the trade-off withat nursing, at my nursing job,
because I won't say that a lot.
It's my dream.
You know it's not exactly, butit's the trade-off is I'm there,
I'm still helping patients, Istill get that fulfilling
feeling and then also I'mgetting financially compensated
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for it.
And that financial compensationI can use for stability but
also use to pursue my dreams, topour back into my health.
It's just using our resourcesbetter.
So not just working ourselves tothe bone and then going and
lounging on the couch and eatingchips and just binging.
It's like, okay, if you'regoing to work yourself to the
bone, you might as well takecare of yourself to the bone too
(18:29):
.
Go get a massage, go get alymphatic drainage massage.
Go to the beach, you know, godo something, not just for, like
, your physical body, do that,go get a workout but also do
something for your spirit, dosomething for your soul, you
know.
So I think that's how I balancelike work hard, play hard.
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For me, it's like work hard,recover harder, because as a
nurse, you have to.
If not, I mean, I don't want toend up as another statistic of
another nurse that is just, youknow, overweight and now has all
these diagnoses because she orhe is not taking care of
themselves but taking care ofeveryone else.
Oh yeah, great advice.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I work with the new nurses where I'm at now.
That's kind of like what themost of what I take.
I just stepped into leadershipfor the first time in my career
and I'm kind of focusing on allof our brand new grads and the
two things I'm always liketrying to like tell them is like
you have to put you first, likeyou have to take care of you,
don't kill yourself to come inhere because you won't last very
long and they don't care.
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And boundaries is the otherthing.
Like speak it's okay to speakup for yourself, like it is more
than okay.
You will last so much longer ifyou just speak up for yourself
yeah.
So I love, I love that that'ssuch good advice and you have
such an iron like focus on yourgoals right now, like everything
you talk, it's like if it's notfocused on where I'm going, it
falls away, it's insignificant.
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I can like see it in the wayyou talk, which is also very
impressive, and I think, the waywe achieve what we want to
achieve.
So it's great, great rolemodeling.
Yeah, thank you.
Yes, thank, thank you.
I'm so excited that you came onto share this.
I know we just touched a littlebit on your story.
I kind of went over it in theintro a little bit, but you had
like a very life-shifting couplecouple years in there.
(20:13):
We um anything more you want toshare?
Tell us about that, since it'sI feel like we talked about it,
but we didn't really talk aboutit.
So I know you lost like asignificant amount of weight,
left an unhealthy relationship,you experienced a lot of death.
So I'm guessing like tell ushow that inspired you to where
you're at now.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Well, okay, to go back even a little bit further.
I am a first generation, so mymom was born in Mexico and my
grandpa and my grandma came overwith my aunt's uncle's mom and
they migrated here and I thinkmy mom is a single mom of seven.
(20:52):
So watching her try and takecare of seven kids and raise us
in different ways, that has alsogiven me that iron sharpness of
like.
I have, you know, a legacy tobuild here.
I'm blessed with an opportunityand especially with facing
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fears.
I'm like my grandpa faced thefear of him and his whole family
probably being killed trying tomigrate to America.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
So you're like these aren't real fears being killed
trying to migrate to America.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
So you're like these aren't real fears.
I'm like I can face my fears ofgetting on a stage or getting
behind in front of a camera, sothat also helps with like-.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Your family's legacy of fear facing is huge.
It sounds like I love that.
I never even thought about that.
But I'm wondering for, like,just immigrant children in
general, like because you know,I feel like there's a lot of
success stories, Like if youlook at people that are doing
really well, they are a lot ofsecond generation like
immigrants, and I wonder, ifthat's it Like, how can this be
scary if I lived my whole lifewith the stories of like real
scary things?
Sorry to interrupt, but I justthink that's such a powerful
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thing?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
No, it is, and I I truly I'm a big believer.
This is a spiritual part of methat our ancestors passed down,
like strengths and weaknessesand emotions and trauma, but
also, like I said, strength, youknow, and courage, and I think
that's something my grandpa hadfor sure.
I never got to meet him, but Ithink that he had that for sure.
So I'm like I think that's partof plays a part in why I am the
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way I am.
But also because I grew upmostly with my dad's side of the
family, my grandparents and I'mso blessed.
I like forever thank God forblessing me with the opportunity
to grow up with my grandparents, because I think that's why I'm
also a little bit more of anold soul.
I grew up with them.
My great-grandma lived with usduring high school and college,
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so she passed away last year at104.
So super wise, super loving,everybody loved her.
So I just have had really greatrole models in my own family
and life.
But I've got to see a littlecontrast because on my mom's
side it's like we're firstgeneration, still getting
developed here in this country.
On my dad's side we're a littlebit more developed.
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So I really am motivated tojust I'm like I want to see all
my family, no matter dad's ormom's side.
I want us to see us flourish.
I want to see us, you know, beabundant.
I want to see us traveling theworld together.
I want to see us doing thesecrazy big things that only maybe
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like 5% of the world do.
I want to do them and I'm like,and I want to do them with the
people that I love and that, youknow, brought me up and that's
a big, that's a big motivatorfor me, for sure.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I love that, so I was .
This is a question I hadwritten down because I've
followed you on social sense andone of the things you talk
about is like eliminatingdistractions, which talking to
you like that's kind of one ofthe things but you talk about
like, instead of going out, youknow like, I'm in the gym, I'm
reading a book, and I know youknow this, but and I, my
listeners know this, but I'mgoing to just say it like part
of health and being well roundedis having a community or a
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people you can count on yoursupport system.
So who is your support system?
Because it seems like you knowyou're very driven right now.
So who do you use for that?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
That's definitely an area I can work on.
I will be 100% honest, but it'smy family.
That's perfect, though, yeah youcan trust them, right yeah yeah
, I've made, I've become apretty independent person, which
is a great strength of mine,but then also, yeah, I can be a
weakness because I'm like, okay,oh, you know, like who's here
when I'm like, okay, I'm at apeaceful moment.
(24:31):
But I've found peace withinmyself and I'm grateful for
where I'm at, but definitely myfamily.
If I ever need anything or if Iever want anything, they're
there to hang out with or to,you know, help me with something
.
And yeah, and I'm doing it formyself, but for them, for
humanity, so it's like they'rewho I share most of that right
(24:52):
now with.
I've had some like romanticlittle things, you know, since
the big breakup, but it justdidn't stick and it wasn't
exactly aligned and I mean I waslike, okay, if it's not, if
he's not my dream man, I got tokeep going.
I like that.
I got to keep going because Iam going to attract my dream man
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when I am my dream woman.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
And it's not going to take away from any of this
right now.
This path you're on, it can't.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
A hundred percent, a hundred percent.
So that's kept me like lockedin.
And then also I got my fairshare of partying and going out
in college Nursing school didthat to me.
I had to.
I was like to stay focused, youhave to, I had to.
I'm not going to say anyoneelse has to, but I got that out
of my system and now I'm justvery focused.
(25:45):
I'm like, okay, I'm alwaysasking myself is this helping me
progress in my careers or myhealth, or is this taking away
from my careers and my health?
And if it's taking away, I'mlike all right, next, you know.
Or I let myself for a little.
If it's like watching Netflixor something, I'm like, okay,
(26:07):
let's set a timer.
You know, let's be still stayfocused, let's still commit to
your goals and what you set outto do today.
But also, you're a human beingand we can all use a mental
break and use a moment to getinspired, especially as an
artist.
Like we have to take that timeto be in nature and have rest
and take time to be bored so youcan get inspired again.
(26:30):
But yeah, I think it's just likeI ask myself, like what's the
point?
Why would I drink, why would Ido that?
That just deteriorates mymental health.
It messes up my metabolism.
I'm trying to what?
Lose body fat for, you know,different gigs or for different
roles, whatever my own healthgoals.
(26:51):
Why would I be doing that, youknow?
Yeah, that's just where I'm at.
I'm just pretty right nowstrict, but not to say that
that's where I started.
But I just I had my fair shareand I was like it's not really
serving me anymore and I canrelate to that.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I I feel like I was much wilder in my high school.
My well, my first.
I went to college a coupletimes, several times.
I think several majors.
But uh, before I went fornursing my first undergraduate,
like I was wild.
So I, that's not something Ifeel like.
Like I, I feel like some peopleare grow up a little more
stricter and go straight intohaving families.
They feel like they miss out onthat and I'm like I don't feel
(27:28):
like I missed out on that at all.
I'm I haven't drank.
I mean, I socially drink everynow and then, but I don't drink
drink.
I haven't.
In like probably three years nowmy husband and I both kind of
quit drinking together becauseour childhood trauma just didn't
play well together and we'relike this is so not worth it.
So now we both just realize allthe other effects of how good
we feel.
And even now when we're like,let's get a little tipsy, let's
(27:48):
do this, we both will have likea beer or like a drink or two
and I'm like, oh, and he's likeme too.
Enough, we never actually endup going for it because we're
like, oh, I don't feel good, Idon't want to not feel good
tomorrow, because the truth isit just makes it well for me.
It made me feel like shit a lotand I'm happy to not be doing
that anymore.
Now what we do is like kavadrinks, like all those fancy
things.
Everyone's um the alternatives,like the magnesium drinks and
(28:12):
all that people are advertising.
We do that all the time, likein the pool or getting the hot
tubs, like.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
For us it's so much better love that I know I've
been wanting to try, like themagnesium cocktail of like
before bed cocktail.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah, I love them.
They've been nice like nicelittle relaxers of like that,
just nice little aid in that atnight.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Yeah, yeah, I love that.
One thing about that is Istarted asking myself like
because alcohol after college?
It was not like something.
I was like, oh, I want to dothat, like it was just like
whatever, I would do it becausesocially right.
But for me it was plantmedicine, it was smoking, that
(28:53):
was my thing, and I started.
I was listening to Danny Morrellhe's another person who
inspires me the Higher Selfpodcast.
He's a spiritual healer.
He talks about plant medicine,a lot in which I in this past
year, this has been a huge partof my journey psilocybin
mushrooms, microdosing, and Ithink we're now shifting from oh
(29:17):
, that's drugs to no, actuallythat's from Mother Earth.
It's plant medicine and itshould be used as medicine.
Because you don't want to take.
You don't take too much ofmedicine, right?
You know that there's sideeffects if you take too much, so
it's the same thing withpsilocybin mushrooms.
They should be usedintentionally.
That's how medicine should beused intentionally, and so I
(29:39):
started usingpsilocybin-mesh-reduced
microdosing in 2023.
After the breakup it was likeduring the summer, and it was
after I was diagnosed withchronic allergic conjunctivitis.
Like my left eye was just likered for like three months
straight and I tried everythingin the book.
At first I thought it was likebacterial conjunctivitis or
(30:02):
viral.
So I was trying everything inthe book for my immune system
and I yeah.
But it was allergy related andI later discovered that it's due
to gut health poor gut health.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Oh, I see that.
Yeah, I feel like everythinggoes back to the gut, doesn't it
?
Everything goes back to the gut.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
And it's crazy because my first dose, my first
micro dose, I set my intentionof the dose because I am very
intentional.
Flow dose is where I ordered itfrom.
So if any listeners out thereare interested, do your research
.
Of course, not for anyone under18.
And I'm not promoting this foryou.
I'm just simply sharing myexperience.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
So the first episode, we have Micah on to talk about
it, which I know.
You know Micah does microdosingcoaching, so we talked about it
.
I can't wait to hear yourexperience.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yay, okay, I need to.
I need to go back and listen tothat.
Yes, so the first time I like Ididn't feel anything like right
away I went for a walk, but Iwas just super happy and I was
like, okay, I'm like I like this.
My second time dosing I thinkit was like 30 minutes in I was
like like like it hit my gut andI was like huge, like cramping,
(31:14):
like throbbing, like stomachpains out of nowhere, and I was
like what is going on?
Like I'm like okay, I did askfor you to speak to me.
I'm like I didn't.
I still didn't know what wasgoing on, but that was my
experience and I was like, okay,and also my left arm started
throbbing and I was like, okay,this is, you know, like just my
(31:35):
body speaking to me, and theleft side of the body is the
feminine side of the body.
You know, the right side is ourmasculine side.
So I knew that.
So I started kind of divinginto some research with that and
(31:55):
I was like, okay, I alsolearned that.
So let me backtrack.
So after that dose, I kind ofjournaled, took note of my
experience and then I continueddown this chapter of discovering
what was wrong.
I went to a lymphatic drainagemasseuse because I was like,
okay, it has something to dowith my lymphatic system.
The doctor's trying toprescribe me steroids, so
clearly I have inflammation, solet me start with my lymphatic
(32:16):
system and see if that helps.
I went there and she was likefeeling massaging my stomach and
my liver, my organs, and shewas like oh, this is why your
eye is red.
And I was like what?
And she was like you have poorgut health.
She was like your gut is supertight, intense.
Even your liver too.
She was like you need to drinkwater and you need to have more
(32:36):
fruits and you need to do like alittle flush.
And so I ended up doing asmoothie detox for seven days
and after that, like I was, mygut started improving like
rapidly.
My eye, like the redness wentaway, I was able to like lose
weight even better and faster.
It was my skin was clearing up.
(32:56):
It was like, okay, 180.
Like I just focused on guthealth and yeah, but I love that
.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
I've heard that, though, about a lot of things
like eczema, and I honestly,like I get like my tears get
really salty.
It's a condition I've neverbeen diagnosed, I can't remember
what it's called and it'llliterally like eat my skin raw,
but I have totally noticed thatit is also related to what I'm
eating at the time.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
So if I'm eating healthy?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
it doesn't happen.
My tears are.
I think it's the salt contentthat makes it do that, but
they're not as salty.
And when I'm eating bad, that'swhen I will get like super
irritated, even sweating.
I'll get like rashes.
But it all has to do with mydiet, Like so much goes back to
gut health.
Like this is where thisfunctional medicine people are
like totally killing it becauseprevention, there's so much
prevention If you can figureyour gut out ahead of time.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Yes, 100%.
And like then I startedanalyzing.
I was like, oh my gosh, that'swhat the mushrooms were telling
me.
During that dose they likeslammed my stomach and they were
telling me dude, you need towork on your gut health.
But then not only that, part ofwhy my gut health was so bad
was because at that point thiswas I was like going through the
(34:02):
depression and just like tryingto pour myself into the gym,
get my body physically right, Iwas having like two liquid
protein shakes a day, justprotein powder and water
Terrible for the gut, superinflammatory, like super
terrible.
And it's not to say you can'tever have a protein shake.
But it's just like I wasliterally having protein shakes
(34:23):
and then I did like a dirty bulktoo.
So I was having protein shakesand then donuts and like it was
just not, it just wasn't good.
And then I was just working outreally, really hard and working
out and lifting weights, doingsprints.
That's very much masculineenergy.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Your whole body's in, like inflamed, like stressed
out.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Fight or flight all the time I was not in rest and
digest.
And resting is feminine energyand so part of like my I
realized part of my left armbeing like throbbing and stuff
was I was not pouring enoughinto my feminine energy and
resting and relaxing enough andwhen I had dosed those times I
wanted to do nothing but just bein nature or lay down in nature
(35:06):
and it was like my body was themushrooms were telling me go
outside go outside.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
I love that.
I've never heard the rightversus left male feminine thing,
but it totally makes sense.
And now I'm like want to paymore attention to things moving
forward.
That you say that I'm like, oh,how interesting, just another
piece of the layer, I'm excitedto learn more about that.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
A hundred percent, yeah, Listen to your body of
like.
Okay, if you have somethinghurting, like what side of the
body it is?
Because also different parts ofour body hold different
emotions, Like our back holdsour upper back and shoulders.
Like people with really liketense shoulders and back are
holding on to anger from othersand like trauma or anger from
(35:49):
themselves that they neverreleased.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
So we're a lot of nurses.
This is all our resentmenttowards health care and our
shoulders.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
A hundred percent.
That's why I say go get yourmassages, because when we get
massages we're releasing thoseemotions and that tension out.
So yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Tiana, what is your go-to self-nurture practice when
things get rough?
Speaker 2 (36:17):
I love my yoga, I truly love yoga.
But it's really being in nature, like making time to be in
nature and if I can microdoseand like if I don't have any
plans I don't need to drive oranything, I'm like all right if
I can just sit outside and be onmy yoga mat and journal and
dose and really like do someinternal healing because that's
(36:39):
it, that's all it is.
You know, any issues we'reexperiencing, like let's figure
it out.
You're not going to figure itout by drinking.
You're not going to figure outyour problems by partying, by
doing all these external things,your numbing activities.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Your numbing the only way through is through, it's
through.
Yeah, you got to feel yourfeels.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Yes, feel to heal and journal it out.
Go inwards and figure outwhat's going on internally
that's causing it to happenexternally, because our physical
reality is just a reflection ofour internal reality.
So that's it.
Just figure out what's going oninside.
Your outside will change.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
I love that.
So how do you work with people?
One-on-one, kiana, what kind ofwomen do you work with and how
do you work with them?
I specialize in Both men, menor women.
Sorry, I say women, becausethat's me.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Both, but I do specialize in gut health
coaching.
So one-to-one virtual Makessense.
Yeah, just with my experience,yeah, one-to-one Virtual or
in-person, depending on location.
If they're in SouthernCalifornia and if the drive
makes sense for either of us,then we'll do in-person.
But also nutrition plans,workout plans, so yeah, and then
(37:58):
also women's health is an areaof focus, of course as well.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, menstrual, a growing
area that we're finally gettingsome attention on.
I can't even wait to see whatthe next 10 years unfold,
because we've highlighted thelack of knowledge in this area
so much.
So many people are diving in.
It's like man.
The next 10 years for women'shealth, hopefully, will be
amazing.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Yeah, just using our menstrual cycle alone and just
tracking.
So many women don't track andI'm like that's a start.
Let's just let's start there.
Just track your cycle First ofall.
See how you feel throughout thephases of your cycle, learn the
phases of your cycle and thennow let's start seeing what
foods you want to be tracking ingeneral, just looking for
patterns, pattern recognition inwhen you like.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
For me, me, one thing we talk about a lot, because my
specialty is burnout, but whenwe're ending the program, when
we're talking about like leavingand how to set ourselves up,
it's about finding that patternrecognition of like.
When do I, how am I gonna knowwhen I start to spiral?
Because half the time we likewake up, we're in the hole we've
fallen in and we're like oh,shit, shit, I didn't even know I
(39:04):
got here.
So, finding that pattern oflike, I stopped brushing my
teeth first, which for me,that's what I'm.
Also, I start avoidingjournaling, like avoiding
writing things down.
It's like if I'm avoiding thosetwo things, I need to spend
more time doing them, becausethere's something going on that
I'm avoiding.
That's what it is.
So learning that pattern is sopowerful.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Yeah, that's really good.
I like that pattern recognition.
But, yeah, what we avoid,there's like there's a gateway
to growth in whatever we avoid.
Oh yes, but that's a greatreminder for me too.
It's like journaling is one ofthose things that is so
powerfully healing for me andI've recognized that and I've
experienced that and sometimesI'm like, okay, come on, just do
it, Just do it.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
I'm like you know.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
I push yourself to do it, but it's just so beneficial
.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Me too.
I am so much more organized andon track too.
I don't know what it is.
It's like I get that out of theway, but it really is like for
me, at least right now.
Where I'm at in my life, rightnow, journaling is the thing I
have to make myself do, becausethere's something I'm avoiding
up here.
I'll figure it out eventually.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
You'll figure it out, I'm sure, by journaling.
That's one thing.
When we see our words writtendown and we can read back our
emotions, it helps bring clarity.
For whatever reason, it justhits differently when you're
reading it versus when you'rejust thinking it.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
If people are listening to you and kind of
relating with what you're saying, I guess what kind of advice
would you give people at home on, like, where to start?
I would like if they are likefeeling a little lost, you know,
like they're kind of, because Ifeel like, so your, your focus
is like, like I said, likeironclad.
But I feel like for a lot ofwomen and some other coaches
have expressed this as well whenyou start with someone, you're
(40:40):
like what is your goal?
Where do you want to go?
What do you want out of this?
And for some people it's likewhoa, I haven't thought about
that in years.
You know like that's thehardest part is like shit, do I
even know where I'm goinganymore?
Because I set a goal years agoand I've been just doing for a
long time.
So just pause, realign.
Like maybe I would you givethem at home on like what steps
(41:07):
to take first, because it soundsI could see like your shift in
this conversation from this tothis.
So where would you tell peopleto start?
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Honestly journaling, like what we were just talking
about.
I would literally say the firstthing write out your dream life
.
If money is not, don't evenquestion money.
You have unlimited.
You have abundance, unlimitedamount of resource.
What does your dream life looklike?
I love that the moment you wakeup.
(41:36):
You wake up.
What do you smell, what do youfeel?
What do you see?
Are you with somebody next toyou?
Are you by yourself in aking-sized bed?
Are you by the beach?
Do you see the mountains?
What does that look?
Are there kids running andjumping in bed with you?
Do you smell cookies baking ordo you smell, you know, like
pancakes?
What does that look like foryou?
(41:57):
Do you have a private chef?
Like?
Money is not an issue.
Money is not an issue.
Just what is your dream life?
I?
Speaker 1 (42:06):
love that.
I call that my perfect day andI tell that's one of the things
I do with my clients too is likeand it's hard for people to
like do the no limit thing.
Sometimes they want to likelimit themselves.
It's like no, literally, likereach for the stars.
Nothing got in your way.
From the moment you wake upwith as much detail and using
all your five senses yes,incorporate all your senses
(42:31):
write out your perfect day, whatyou would do from start to
finish.
I love this.
I love doing it myself.
It's just time consuming, butthat's a great, great advice.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
It is.
But that's the feminine energy,right?
That's the making, time forcreativity and imagination.
Getting back to our inner child, right?
Because you ask a child whatthey want to do.
If you ask me what I want to dowhen I was five years old, I
want to be a star.
That's what I said.
Now I'm tapping into my innerchild and I'm trying to make her
a star.
Okay, I love that.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
I love that.
I wanted to help people andthat's what I'm doing too.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
No-transcript.
Start with three simple things.
You don't want to overwhelmyourself with too much.
Just start with three simplethings, because each time you
accomplish one little goal everyday, you're going to start
building momentum.
You start building momentum,then you want to make another
(43:51):
healthier choice.
Then you want to make anotherhealthier choice.
Then you're making like, beforeyou know it, you're making 10
healthy choices a day and you'reattracting better and better
paying opportunities.
Your life changes.
As soon as I started focusingon my health boom, I attracted
my first acting gig One grand,Just like that.
(44:12):
I was like and they likestraight.
Like I didn't go out searchingfor it, I literally got a text
message to my phone hey, are youavailable and can you send us a
video of yourself in 30 minutessaying these lines?
I was like, yes, I can do that,but part of it came from was I
(44:35):
was ready.
I was ready health-wise.
I looked the part already LikeI was working out, I was eating
good.
I was the person I think it'sDanny Morrell that says be do
have you have to embody first,then you do the thing, then
you'll have what you want.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Oh, I love that.
That makes me think of theother quote like that success
doesn't happen overnight.
Quote, like but it does, ithappens overnight.
Like but it does, it happensovernight, like it really does.
But the what you don't see islike the years of work that were
put into that one night, like,sure, it does happen really
quickly, but people have built,been building the foundation for
(45:15):
that to land on for a long,long time.
And that's what this reminds me.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Yes, yes, 100.
So generally I would say firstpart get your dream life figured
out.
What does that look like foryou?
And then just set a few goalsthey don't need to be
complicated Whatever's realisticfor you.
Stick to those for at least aweek, get the momentum and then,
from there, start setting newgoals.
And if you want moreaccountability, hire a coach,
(45:41):
because really that is what wedo, that's what we do as health
coaches, that's what I do as ahealth coach is like okay, I
help you to see your dream lifeand then now we look at where
you're at health-wise, not justmentally, not just physically,
but emotionally and spirituallyas well.
We're going to look at you allin all, and now I'm going to
(46:01):
coach you through the gap.
Now I'm going to get you towhere you want to go a lot
faster than you would do it onyour own.
And help you stay focused, yeah,and help you stay focused.
That's the benefit of having acoach.
Like I hire coaches for everyarea of my life, whether it's
business, acting, modeling.
I'm like, no, I want mentorship, because speed, you know, like
(46:31):
I can do it on my own, but I'llget there faster if I have
somebody who's already done whatI'm trying to do, or at least
something similar.
So I would say accountability,mentorship is another great
place.
But start on your own, see whatyou can do and then, if you,
you know, can accomplish somestuff and you want some help,
reach out, you know.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
I love that.
I love that.
Another thing I love and thisis what I'm going to say to you,
kiana is that, like surroundingyourself with people who are in
that same mindset, like for me,this podcast has been huge
because I get to interact withpeople like you, who are like in
that growth mindset, abundancemindset, you're want to help
people, like you're focused, andso I see that I get to talk to
you Like we talked a little bitbefore you know, catch up, and
(47:01):
all these women like that's whatkeeps me also motivated,
because in my personal life Iwill now I'm actually starting
to meet more and moreentrepreneurs that are in my
area, but when I started like my.
The people closest to me didn'tget it.
They're like and I feel likethat's it's very transferable to
people's health journeys peopleyou like serve a role where you
are and sometimes change can bedifficult for people because
(47:22):
you're you know, whateverrelationship you were in, that's
going to shift regardless asyou make changes for yourself.
And some people people are alittle resistant to that.
So you need people that aremotivated, that are working on
the things you are, that you cantalk about what you're working
on together.
So if that's making it as anactor or a model, like I would
(47:45):
have nothing to.
I'd be like yeah, I don't knowhow to relate to that, but, yes,
I support you 100%.
I don't even know how to dothat, but, yes, you know what I
mean.
So it's so important to havepeople that are like no, no, no,
I've been there, I get it.
Like your struggles are valid,like because we just need to be
understood and heard by peoplethat truly get it too.
That's like another piece ofhealing 100%.
Thanks for coming to my show andtalking to me and sharing your
story.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
I'm like I could literally talk forever.
One of the things I was goingto say, based on that, is we are
a product of our environment.
So who you surround yourself,you're the average of the five
people you're closest to.
And the five people you'reclosest to doesn't have to be in
person.
It's the authors of the booksyou're reading, the people of
the podcasts.
You're listening to, theaccounts that you follow on
Instagram the five people you'reclosest to.
Who are the five people you'reclosest to?
(48:32):
And that's the trajectory ofyour life, of where you're going
to go.
You're the average.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
Yes, I love it.
That's what's great aboutsaying about socials too,
because I guess a couple yearsago I really went through and
like took everything out thatwasn't like mental health or
neuroscience focus, becausethat's the things I'm interested
in and from then I feel like mysoul don't worry, I still go
down a rabbit hole, but I feellike my socials are better used
in that way, and then I meetmore people to collaborate with,
too, 100%.
Yeah, well, before we go, kiana, is there anything else you
(48:59):
want to, oh, first of all tell?
And is there anything else youwant to, oh, first of all tell
us how people can find you.
If they're like, listening tothis and they're like, yes, I
want that iron focus, I want alittle piece of what she's got,
I want to work with you.
How do they find you?
Speaker 2 (49:12):
Yes, elevate Divinely on Instagram.
Elevate Divinely.
Underscore on Instagram thatyou can find my business website
on there as well, and my linktree.
Well, and my link tree.
So, if you want nutrition plans, workout plans, coaching or a
bundle and future PDFs anddigital products coming soon,
(49:36):
yeah, there, or Kiana Forever,is my personal Instagram, more
acting and modeling focused onthat one, but also health and
wellness tips as well.
Either any of those, either ofthose.
I have links to everything.
Speaker 1 (49:44):
So Instagram is a great place to start and yeah,
Yay, do you want to leave uswith anything before we go?
Speaker 2 (49:51):
Let's see.
Yes, you are worthy of yourdream health and your dream life
.
Don't question it.
You are worthy.
You don't have to do anythingto become worthy.
You were born worthy.
Abundance is your birthrightand you can achieve anything.
You put your mind to doanything to become worthy.
You were born worthy.
Abundance is your birthrightand you can achieve anything you
put your mind to so.
Believe in yourself.
Speaker 1 (50:10):
Beautiful.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (50:13):
Of course.
Thank you for having me.
Hello, you're listening to Empowered Ease, the
show that puts a spotlight onwomen who not only overcome
adversity, but use theirexperience to lift others.
Today, we welcome Kiana Reedy.
She's a registered nurse who'smade a powerful pivot from the
modern Western medicine to aholistic path of healing and
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empowerment Western medicine toa holistic path of healing and
empowerment.
Since graduating nursing schoolin 2021, kiana has been on a
personal and professionaltransformation.
She, in 2023, lost more than 30pounds, healed from what
doctors labeled a chroniccondition, and found the courage
to leave an eight-year toxicrelationship.
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Along the way, she finallypursued her long-held dreams of
acting, modeling and owning herown business.
Kiana blends nursing knowledgewith holistic coaching to help
people heal from the inside out.
Whether you're looking toevolve physically, mentally,
emotionally or spiritually, shepartners with you to set goals,
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create real, sustainable change.
Today, we'll talk to her abouther healing journey, the tools
she uses with her clients andhow she balances clinical
training with a whole personapproach to well-being.
It is such a pleasure to haveyou on Empowered Ease.
Welcome, kiana.
Pleasure to have you onEmpowered Ease.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Welcome Kiana.
Welcome, kiana.
I'm so excited to have you on.
How are you?
I'm doing great.
Thank you for having me.
Super excited to chat today.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Where are you located ?
You live somewhere beautiful,don't you?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I live now in Covina, california.
I just recently moved, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Okay, I was like.
I know you live somewherebeautiful with like a beach.
I always see your pictureslooking pretty.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yes, I do my best to travel to the beach.
I'm a cancer, so I love thewater.
Oh, I love that.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I love that.
So Kiana and I were actually inthe same holistic nurse
coaching program is how weinitially met, and since then
she's kind of been off on herown building her business.
So can you tell me a little bitabout what you've been up to,
how you've been coaching yourpersonal life?
I know you're like dabbling inso many things.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yes, I'm doing my best.
Juggling is what I what I callit juggling the careers multi
passionate entrepreneur.
So I started my business a fewmonths after we finished in 2024
.
Was that last year?
Yeah, I guess it was.
Yeah, oh my gosh.
(02:35):
Okay, it feels like a lifetimeago.
But yeah, I started my businesslast year and have been
coaching clients since, but Ialso did get a nursing job at a
skilled nursing facility.
So I've been doing that Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, we could do a whole episode on your
perspective there too.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, there's so many stories there, so many stories
there.
But just to continue to getexperience and then also
stability, because you know whenyou're starting out a business,
it's not as stable.
So I wanted to have you knowstable income as I.
Also, at that same time ofstarting my business, I started
acting and modeling, so Istarted pursuing my dreams as
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well in that area.
So yeah, just kind of jugglingeverything, coaching clients
while also taking care of my ownhealth and encouraging others
to do the same.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
I love that.
It's so exciting to see yougoing for it, because I think
you can understand this and manyof the guests who have been on
this podcast.
But, like, stepping into thespotlight in any way is
difficult.
It's like a process.
It's not something that well, Imean, maybe some people are
born with it but I feel likeit's a process of learning to
let yourself be seen indifferent lights, and we we
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can't you can't usually justlike open that door fully.
You know it's like I'm going tolet them see this, I'm going to
let them see this, and even asan entrepreneur, I mean we've
only been doing this for a year.
I love that you highlight that,because I'm like, oh my God, the
things that I've had to learnand know that I didn't know I
needed to know since then havebeen so big.
But to step into it, to letyourself be seen in an acting
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way, in a modeling way, I meanthat just is even I can't even
imagine, because I know what itfeels like to want to shrink
from that light, even in thethings I'm really proud and feel
secure of.
So tell me a little bit aboutthat struggle and how you've
been getting through it becauseit's.
I mean, it doesn't look likeyou're struggling from the
outside, so I'm just knowingthat process.
Being like Kiana, tell us yoursecrets, tell us your secrets.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Well, I do struggle, I am human.
But yeah, I think last year2024, it was the same time that
I started my business.
I started pursuing acting andmodeling.
I didn't have my nursing jobyet and I was just living
paycheck to paycheck, gig to gigor client to client, and I was
just barely making ends meet.
I was very much, I would say inmy mind, broke and so that's
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what pushed me.
I was like, okay, I was dealingwith a lot of rejection, like
you know, clients not onboardingand then also having so many
auditions but then not gettingbooked for the gig.
It was, oh my gosh, like Ireally was depressed, honestly,
for a while.
And then I was like, okay, Igot to get back to the drawing
board and I know I don't want togive up on my dreams, but maybe
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I need to take a different step.
So that's when I got my nursingjob, to have that stability and
since having that stability andhaving you know something to
financially back me, and like,okay, I'm secure, I'm good, I
don't have to worry and be insurvival mode, now I can get
back to performing.
I think it's just breakingthrough fears.
And this year, now I'm pursuingbusiness and acting and modeling
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very differently.
I take rejection just asredirection, you know, because
it's like okay, it's just notmeant for me and that's okay.
But it's experience.
And they say also I keep thisat the forefront of my mind is
they say it takes 10,000 hoursto become a professional at
something.
And for me I'm like okay, ifit's a consultation or if it's
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an audition and it doesn't getbooked, it's okay, that's an
hour I spent learning, that's anhour towards the goal.
And success is a numbers game,honestly.
So it's like okay, if it'sgoing to take 10 consultations
for me to get a client, great,let's just keep checking it off.
How many consultations can weget?
How many auditions can we get?
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And I think, as far as beingseen, I'm like you know what?
Who cares?
I think last year was like mydark night of the soul because
also my great grandma died, mydad died, my first client that I
worked for.
He was my patient for a year.
I lived with him full time inhis house, took care of him.
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He passed away.
This year Like just goingthrough so much loss and grief
and then also rejection at thesame time.
It really taught me like nobodyelse is paying your bills.
Nobody else can do this for you.
You have to step into that.
Nobody else is going to do itfor you and nobody else is going
to believe in you until youbelieve in yourself.
And that's what last yeartaught me, because I was like
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what you know?
It's really dark night at thesoul.
So this year I'm justapproaching it as like I don't
care who cares.
You're learning this is.
You know, this is your firsttime being Keanu Reedy and this
is your first time pursuing anurse coaching business and
being an actor and a model.
Maybe in a different lifetime Idid something similar, I don't
know, but this lifetime I'mdiscovering it and I think
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failing is a part of the process.
Jessie Reyes she's a musicartist.
She said in an interview failfaster to any artists out there.
Fail faster, because the fasteryou fail, the faster you learn.
So the more mistakes you learn,the more you're going to learn
what works and what doesn't, andthen you can apply and
implement that into whateveryou're doing.
So I think, just putting myselfout there, being seen, not
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being afraid to make a mistake,that's what I'm doing this year
and I'm like, whatever happens,happens.
I just have faith that I'mgoing to make it happen.
That's how I like the baseline.
I'm going to make it happen.
That's like the baseline.
I'm going to make it happen.
I don't fuck the hell, I'mgoing to make it happen.
I don't know how.
That's not my responsibility.
You know that's God's plan forme, but I'm just going to do
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what I can and let God handlethe rest, and that's it.
I love that.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I love that.
Two of the hardest things, Ithink, for people right there
being seen and like getting pastfailure, like failure is a tool
If you look at it the right way.
It's all about perspective, andyou've mastered that
perspective.
How beautiful.
I love that.
So who?
If you had to pick someone thatyou admire or that you look up
to, or that's like someone, arole model, who would you say
(09:01):
are the inspirations in yourworld?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh, I feel like I have some in each category of my
life, but a big one would beChrissy Chella, I think that's
how you say her last name.
She's the, I think, co-founderof Honor Active.
It's a woman's athleticclothing wear brand.
She's a business owner.
She's a mom now she's engaged.
(09:25):
She is a health and fitnessenthusiast and she just empowers
women to lift weights, do yoga,do move your body in whatever
way makes you happy.
Be strong, you know, beflexible, do whatever you want
to do.
That makes you feel good.
But honor yourself and stepinto whatever space you're going
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to be in with confidence andcourage.
And also, I think working outis a big part of my journey as
well.
That's built a lot ofconfidence for me, because I
think that confidence comes fromdoing what you told yourself
you were going to do and showingup day after day.
That's I feel like I've builtrespect for myself in that way
(10:08):
of like I don't want to go tothe gym, but you know what I
told myself, this is a part ofthe plan, so I'm going to, and
then after the workout, I feelso much better and I'm like,
yeah, I'm more confident and Ihave more trust with myself
because I'm like I'm showing upfor myself and doing what I said
I would.
So she's definitely aninspiration in that way.
What's her name again?
Chrissy Chela.
(10:29):
Ooh, I love that.
Okay, yeah, another likefitness enthusiast that, I would
say, inspires me.
She's also a content creator aswell.
So you know, it's just jugglingeverything.
Like I think women who canjuggle so much and they do it
with grace and they're notafraid to make mistakes, those
people inspire me.
Brenda Anton she's also acontent creator, works with
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Honor Active.
Yeah, just really, she's youngtoo, and the fact that she's
figuring all these things out ata young age, I'm like, okay,
what's possible for other peopleis possible for me.
What's possible for me ispossible for you.
What's possible for you ispossible for me.
Like it's just an example oflike this could happen for any
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of us.
We just got to make a decision,make a goal and stick to it.
I really love Robin Sharma.
He's a motivational speaker andhealth enthusiast.
He wrote a book called 5am cluband that's one of like the
first books I read in adulthood.
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That really impacted me in apositive way because he focused
on all areas of health, not justphysical, not just mental, but
all areas.
He said heart set, soul set,mindset, health set like
physical, not just mental, butall areas.
He said heart set, soul set,mindset, health set like
physical, you know, spiritual,mental, emotional.
So he tackled all those.
I really like his books.
Also.
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Robert Kiyosaki for financialyeah, for financial education,
business, all that.
I recently read his book RichDad, poor Dad.
That taught me a lot becausegrowing up I didn't have
financial intelligence and I waslike you know what, if I'm
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going to be a business owner andin the industry which acting
and modeling, it's a business initself I was like I need to
hear the product, I'm theproduct.
I need to know how to sellmyself and I need to know how to
.
You know, like, make a profit.
And you know, keep my money andhave it, expand and build
assets.
So he reading his book reallychanged my life.
(12:35):
I'm like, okay, I want to readall of his books now.
So financial literacy isimportant as well.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah.
I read that one too.
That was one of like.
So many people recommended thatone Like because I, as nursing
it's like you know nothing aboutthat stuff is required to be a
nurse.
So just the whole mindset shiftthat you read was what I read.
I was like, oh okay.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, yeah, a hundred percent of like okay, you
really need to work on yourskills and if you're going to
become so like narrow unionize,that was like huge to me.
I was like, okay, you know,because with acting and modeling
I'm like, okay, well, how do Iapply that to this?
But anyways, that's a greatbook.
He's a great.
He's inspiring to me in thatway as far as like actors,
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zendaya, I love Zendaya, I loveZendaya.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I think I mean she does it, and if you don't love
her like you're, the problem.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, exactly, she's just so herself on and off the
camera, exactly.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
That's what I mean by that, like she's triggering you
because she's so comfortable.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
She is so authentic in herself and I love that.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Jessica Chastain.
She is, I think, an amazingactor.
Viola Davis, oh God I love.
I want to read her book so bad.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Her memoir.
I'm so like it's on my list.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Viola Davis says I haven't read it yet, but I want
to because she's on my list too.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, she's amazing.
I didn't know she had a memoir,but yeah, on my list now as
well.
She said a quote in aninterview that stuck with me too
is she's like it's your job tomake sure you disappoint
everyone else so that you neverdisappoint yourself own first
love and like beautiful stuffthat's such powerful, powerful
stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I love that.
One thing I love about talkingto you that is like so
encouraging to me is and it'ssomething we talk about I've
talked about a lot with othercoaches that have come on the
show, particularly nurses,because there's something about
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nursing or maybe the peopledrawn to it, I don't know.
You know we've made a lot ofthose speculations on this show
too, but about nurses kind ofoverall are kind of hard
population to treat and workwith.
I feel like sometimes we can belike the most unhealthy
population too.
I mean we I don't know aboutnowadays, but back in the day
like we were one of the highestsmokers, even when we knew that
(14:56):
was bad, and I think we havethis like victim mentality
almost, and I don't want to saythat in an insulting way because
I feel like we've earned it.
Yeah, of course we've beenvictimized by a lot of things,
but the truth of the matter is,regardless of what we're owed,
what's happening is no one isgoing to come to save you but
yourself, and you know that canbe a hard shift to make in your
(15:17):
head over like I've given somuch, I do so much for others.
Yes, and where you need to beputting that energy is yourself
first, and that's such a hardshift and I feel like you're not
in that victim place at all.
It's like, okay, resiliency allthe way, and I love it because
it's such a powerful place to be.
I mean, just hearing you talk,the lightness, the difference in
hearing someone who is weigheddown by that feeling, owed
(15:41):
feeling.
You know there's just such adifference in your energy and so
, yeah, just your thoughts onthat, yeah well, thank you for
that.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I think a part of that comes from Well.
Honestly, I went through a lotgrowing up moving around
different family members, lotsof, lots of childhood trauma.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
That's a topic for another time, but I think I say
a lot, though that that is wherea lot of nurses come from.
That that's part of why some ofthe shit we see is so easy,
because we've already learned tocompartmentalize a long time
ago.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Exactly exactly, and I think that resilience was
built throughout my childhood.
But I think in my adulthood,the relationship that I was in,
I felt like I was giving, giving, giving, giving, giving so much
.
He was pursuing his dreams andI kind of put mine on the back
burner because I think I was sofocused I want a partner, I want
(16:36):
to be in love, I want to be.
You know, it wasn't even like,oh, I want kids or I want to get
married.
It was just like I just want tobe wanted or I want to feel
loved, or I want to be withsomebody, I want to be seen.
And so, after that ended, I wasjust like I'm done holding back
and I'm done holding back andlosing weight, and just like
(16:59):
committing myself to my health.
That was what got me throughthat breakup, because I was
super depressed at that pointtoo.
I was with him since I was 16years old and we broke up when I
was, what I think, 24.
So it was a big chunk of mylife and I had to rediscover who
I was and I was like I didn'tknow who I was and I was like,
(17:22):
okay, I just I'm gonna go to thegym, even if it's twice a day,
six days a week.
I'm gonna just figure it out,I'm gonna journal, I'm gonna.
I just started.
One good choice just led toanother good choice and then the
snowball effect and my lifestarted changing and I think I
started showing up more formyself, building that confidence
.
It became to the point where Iwas like, if it it's not
(17:45):
benefiting me, it's taking awayfrom me, and I don't want that.
And I mean the trade-off withat nursing, at my nursing job,
because I won't say that a lot.
It's my dream.
You know it's not exactly, butit's the trade-off is I'm there,
I'm still helping patients, Istill get that fulfilling
feeling and then also I'mgetting financially compensated
(18:08):
for it.
And that financial compensationI can use for stability but
also use to pursue my dreams, topour back into my health.
It's just using our resourcesbetter.
So not just working ourselves tothe bone and then going and
lounging on the couch and eatingchips and just binging.
It's like, okay, if you'regoing to work yourself to the
bone, you might as well takecare of yourself to the bone too
(18:29):
.
Go get a massage, go get alymphatic drainage massage.
Go to the beach, you know, godo something, not just for, like
, your physical body, do that,go get a workout but also do
something for your spirit, dosomething for your soul, you
know.
So I think that's how I balancelike work hard, play hard.
(18:49):
For me, it's like work hard,recover harder, because as a
nurse, you have to.
If not, I mean, I don't want toend up as another statistic of
another nurse that is just, youknow, overweight and now has all
these diagnoses because she orhe is not taking care of
themselves but taking care ofeveryone else.
Oh yeah, great advice.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I work with the new nurses where I'm at now.
That's kind of like what themost of what I take.
I just stepped into leadershipfor the first time in my career
and I'm kind of focusing on allof our brand new grads and the
two things I'm always liketrying to like tell them is like
you have to put you first, likeyou have to take care of you,
don't kill yourself to come inhere because you won't last very
long and they don't care.
(19:31):
And boundaries is the otherthing.
Like speak it's okay to speakup for yourself, like it is more
than okay.
You will last so much longer ifyou just speak up for yourself
yeah.
So I love, I love that that'ssuch good advice and you have
such an iron like focus on yourgoals right now, like everything
you talk, it's like if it's notfocused on where I'm going, it
falls away, it's insignificant.
(19:52):
I can like see it in the wayyou talk, which is also very
impressive, and I think, the waywe achieve what we want to
achieve.
So it's great, great rolemodeling.
Yeah, thank you.
Yes, thank, thank you.
I'm so excited that you came onto share this.
I know we just touched a littlebit on your story.
I kind of went over it in theintro a little bit, but you had
like a very life-shifting couplecouple years in there.
(20:13):
We um anything more you want toshare?
Tell us about that, since it'sI feel like we talked about it,
but we didn't really talk aboutit.
So I know you lost like asignificant amount of weight,
left an unhealthy relationship,you experienced a lot of death.
So I'm guessing like tell ushow that inspired you to where
you're at now.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Well, okay, to go back even a little bit further.
I am a first generation, so mymom was born in Mexico and my
grandpa and my grandma came overwith my aunt's uncle's mom and
they migrated here and I thinkmy mom is a single mom of seven.
(20:52):
So watching her try and takecare of seven kids and raise us
in different ways, that has alsogiven me that iron sharpness of
like.
I have, you know, a legacy tobuild here.
I'm blessed with an opportunityand especially with facing
(21:13):
fears.
I'm like my grandpa faced thefear of him and his whole family
probably being killed trying tomigrate to America.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
So you're like these aren't real fears being killed
trying to migrate to America.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
So you're like these aren't real fears.
I'm like I can face my fears ofgetting on a stage or getting
behind in front of a camera, sothat also helps with like-.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Your family's legacy of fear facing is huge.
It sounds like I love that.
I never even thought about that.
But I'm wondering for, like,just immigrant children in
general, like because you know,I feel like there's a lot of
success stories, Like if youlook at people that are doing
really well, they are a lot ofsecond generation like
immigrants, and I wonder, ifthat's it Like, how can this be
scary if I lived my whole lifewith the stories of like real
scary things?
Sorry to interrupt, but I justthink that's such a powerful
(21:57):
thing?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
No, it is, and I I truly I'm a big believer.
This is a spiritual part of methat our ancestors passed down,
like strengths and weaknessesand emotions and trauma, but
also, like I said, strength, youknow, and courage, and I think
that's something my grandpa hadfor sure.
I never got to meet him, but Ithink that he had that for sure.
So I'm like I think that's partof plays a part in why I am the
(22:20):
way I am.
But also because I grew upmostly with my dad's side of the
family, my grandparents and I'mso blessed.
I like forever thank God forblessing me with the opportunity
to grow up with my grandparents, because I think that's why I'm
also a little bit more of anold soul.
I grew up with them.
My great-grandma lived with usduring high school and college,
(22:43):
so she passed away last year at104.
So super wise, super loving,everybody loved her.
So I just have had really greatrole models in my own family
and life.
But I've got to see a littlecontrast because on my mom's
side it's like we're firstgeneration, still getting
developed here in this country.
On my dad's side we're a littlebit more developed.
(23:05):
So I really am motivated tojust I'm like I want to see all
my family, no matter dad's ormom's side.
I want us to see us flourish.
I want to see us, you know, beabundant.
I want to see us traveling theworld together.
I want to see us doing thesecrazy big things that only maybe
(23:25):
like 5% of the world do.
I want to do them and I'm like,and I want to do them with the
people that I love and that, youknow, brought me up and that's
a big, that's a big motivatorfor me, for sure.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I love that, so I was .
This is a question I hadwritten down because I've
followed you on social sense andone of the things you talk
about is like eliminatingdistractions, which talking to
you like that's kind of one ofthe things but you talk about
like, instead of going out, youknow like, I'm in the gym, I'm
reading a book, and I know youknow this, but and I, my
listeners know this, but I'mgoing to just say it like part
of health and being well roundedis having a community or a
(24:00):
people you can count on yoursupport system.
So who is your support system?
Because it seems like you knowyou're very driven right now.
So who do you use for that?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
That's definitely an area I can work on.
I will be 100% honest, but it'smy family.
That's perfect, though, yeah youcan trust them, right yeah yeah
, I've made, I've become apretty independent person, which
is a great strength of mine,but then also, yeah, I can be a
weakness because I'm like, okay,oh, you know, like who's here
when I'm like, okay, I'm at apeaceful moment.
(24:31):
But I've found peace withinmyself and I'm grateful for
where I'm at, but definitely myfamily.
If I ever need anything or if Iever want anything, they're
there to hang out with or to,you know, help me with something
.
And yeah, and I'm doing it formyself, but for them, for
humanity, so it's like they'rewho I share most of that right
(24:52):
now with.
I've had some like romanticlittle things, you know, since
the big breakup, but it justdidn't stick and it wasn't
exactly aligned and I mean I waslike, okay, if it's not, if
he's not my dream man, I got tokeep going.
I like that.
I got to keep going because Iam going to attract my dream man
(25:17):
when I am my dream woman.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
And it's not going to take away from any of this
right now.
This path you're on, it can't.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
A hundred percent, a hundred percent.
So that's kept me like lockedin.
And then also I got my fairshare of partying and going out
in college Nursing school didthat to me.
I had to.
I was like to stay focused, youhave to, I had to.
I'm not going to say anyoneelse has to, but I got that out
of my system and now I'm justvery focused.
(25:45):
I'm like, okay, I'm alwaysasking myself is this helping me
progress in my careers or myhealth, or is this taking away
from my careers and my health?
And if it's taking away, I'mlike all right, next, you know.
Or I let myself for a little.
If it's like watching Netflixor something, I'm like, okay,
(26:07):
let's set a timer.
You know, let's be still stayfocused, let's still commit to
your goals and what you set outto do today.
But also, you're a human beingand we can all use a mental
break and use a moment to getinspired, especially as an
artist.
Like we have to take that timeto be in nature and have rest
and take time to be bored so youcan get inspired again.
(26:30):
But yeah, I think it's just likeI ask myself, like what's the
point?
Why would I drink, why would Ido that?
That just deteriorates mymental health.
It messes up my metabolism.
I'm trying to what?
Lose body fat for, you know,different gigs or for different
roles, whatever my own healthgoals.
(26:51):
Why would I be doing that, youknow?
Yeah, that's just where I'm at.
I'm just pretty right nowstrict, but not to say that
that's where I started.
But I just I had my fair shareand I was like it's not really
serving me anymore and I canrelate to that.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I I feel like I was much wilder in my high school.
My well, my first.
I went to college a coupletimes, several times.
I think several majors.
But uh, before I went fornursing my first undergraduate,
like I was wild.
So I, that's not something Ifeel like.
Like I, I feel like some peopleare grow up a little more
stricter and go straight intohaving families.
They feel like they miss out onthat and I'm like I don't feel
(27:28):
like I missed out on that at all.
I'm I haven't drank.
I mean, I socially drink everynow and then, but I don't drink
drink.
I haven't.
In like probably three years nowmy husband and I both kind of
quit drinking together becauseour childhood trauma just didn't
play well together and we'relike this is so not worth it.
So now we both just realize allthe other effects of how good
we feel.
And even now when we're like,let's get a little tipsy, let's
(27:48):
do this, we both will have likea beer or like a drink or two
and I'm like, oh, and he's likeme too.
Enough, we never actually endup going for it because we're
like, oh, I don't feel good, Idon't want to not feel good
tomorrow, because the truth isit just makes it well for me.
It made me feel like shit a lotand I'm happy to not be doing
that anymore.
Now what we do is like kavadrinks, like all those fancy
things.
Everyone's um the alternatives,like the magnesium drinks and
(28:12):
all that people are advertising.
We do that all the time, likein the pool or getting the hot
tubs, like.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
For us it's so much better love that I know I've
been wanting to try, like themagnesium cocktail of like
before bed cocktail.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah, I love them.
They've been nice like nicelittle relaxers of like that,
just nice little aid in that atnight.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Yeah, yeah, I love that.
One thing about that is Istarted asking myself like
because alcohol after college?
It was not like something.
I was like, oh, I want to dothat, like it was just like
whatever, I would do it becausesocially right.
But for me it was plantmedicine, it was smoking, that
(28:53):
was my thing, and I started.
I was listening to Danny Morrellhe's another person who
inspires me the Higher Selfpodcast.
He's a spiritual healer.
He talks about plant medicine,a lot in which I in this past
year, this has been a huge partof my journey psilocybin
mushrooms, microdosing, and Ithink we're now shifting from oh
(29:17):
, that's drugs to no, actuallythat's from Mother Earth.
It's plant medicine and itshould be used as medicine.
Because you don't want to take.
You don't take too much ofmedicine, right?
You know that there's sideeffects if you take too much, so
it's the same thing withpsilocybin mushrooms.
They should be usedintentionally.
That's how medicine should beused intentionally, and so I
(29:39):
started usingpsilocybin-mesh-reduced
microdosing in 2023.
After the breakup it was likeduring the summer, and it was
after I was diagnosed withchronic allergic conjunctivitis.
Like my left eye was just likered for like three months
straight and I tried everythingin the book.
At first I thought it was likebacterial conjunctivitis or
(30:02):
viral.
So I was trying everything inthe book for my immune system
and I yeah.
But it was allergy related andI later discovered that it's due
to gut health poor gut health.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Oh, I see that.
Yeah, I feel like everythinggoes back to the gut, doesn't it
?
Everything goes back to the gut.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
And it's crazy because my first dose, my first
micro dose, I set my intentionof the dose because I am very
intentional.
Flow dose is where I ordered itfrom.
So if any listeners out thereare interested, do your research
.
Of course, not for anyone under18.
And I'm not promoting this foryou.
I'm just simply sharing myexperience.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
So the first episode, we have Micah on to talk about
it, which I know.
You know Micah does microdosingcoaching, so we talked about it
.
I can't wait to hear yourexperience.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yay, okay, I need to.
I need to go back and listen tothat.
Yes, so the first time I like Ididn't feel anything like right
away I went for a walk, but Iwas just super happy and I was
like, okay, I'm like I like this.
My second time dosing I thinkit was like 30 minutes in I was
like like like it hit my gut andI was like huge, like cramping,
(31:14):
like throbbing, like stomachpains out of nowhere, and I was
like what is going on?
Like I'm like okay, I did askfor you to speak to me.
I'm like I didn't.
I still didn't know what wasgoing on, but that was my
experience and I was like, okay,and also my left arm started
throbbing and I was like, okay,this is, you know, like just my
(31:35):
body speaking to me, and theleft side of the body is the
feminine side of the body.
You know, the right side is ourmasculine side.
So I knew that.
So I started kind of divinginto some research with that and
(31:55):
I was like, okay, I alsolearned that.
So let me backtrack.
So after that dose, I kind ofjournaled, took note of my
experience and then I continueddown this chapter of discovering
what was wrong.
I went to a lymphatic drainagemasseuse because I was like,
okay, it has something to dowith my lymphatic system.
The doctor's trying toprescribe me steroids, so
clearly I have inflammation, solet me start with my lymphatic
(32:16):
system and see if that helps.
I went there and she was likefeeling massaging my stomach and
my liver, my organs, and shewas like oh, this is why your
eye is red.
And I was like what?
And she was like you have poorgut health.
She was like your gut is supertight, intense.
Even your liver too.
She was like you need to drinkwater and you need to have more
(32:36):
fruits and you need to do like alittle flush.
And so I ended up doing asmoothie detox for seven days
and after that, like I was, mygut started improving like
rapidly.
My eye, like the redness wentaway, I was able to like lose
weight even better and faster.
It was my skin was clearing up.
(32:56):
It was like, okay, 180.
Like I just focused on guthealth and yeah, but I love that
.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
I've heard that, though, about a lot of things
like eczema, and I honestly,like I get like my tears get
really salty.
It's a condition I've neverbeen diagnosed, I can't remember
what it's called and it'llliterally like eat my skin raw,
but I have totally noticed thatit is also related to what I'm
eating at the time.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
So if I'm eating healthy?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
it doesn't happen.
My tears are.
I think it's the salt contentthat makes it do that, but
they're not as salty.
And when I'm eating bad, that'swhen I will get like super
irritated, even sweating.
I'll get like rashes.
But it all has to do with mydiet, Like so much goes back to
gut health.
Like this is where thisfunctional medicine people are
like totally killing it becauseprevention, there's so much
prevention If you can figureyour gut out ahead of time.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Yes, 100%.
And like then I startedanalyzing.
I was like, oh my gosh, that'swhat the mushrooms were telling
me.
During that dose they likeslammed my stomach and they were
telling me dude, you need towork on your gut health.
But then not only that, part ofwhy my gut health was so bad
was because at that point thiswas I was like going through the
(34:02):
depression and just like tryingto pour myself into the gym,
get my body physically right, Iwas having like two liquid
protein shakes a day, justprotein powder and water
Terrible for the gut, superinflammatory, like super
terrible.
And it's not to say you can'tever have a protein shake.
But it's just like I wasliterally having protein shakes
(34:23):
and then I did like a dirty bulktoo.
So I was having protein shakesand then donuts and like it was
just not, it just wasn't good.
And then I was just working outreally, really hard and working
out and lifting weights, doingsprints.
That's very much masculineenergy.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Your whole body's in, like inflamed, like stressed
out.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Fight or flight all the time I was not in rest and
digest.
And resting is feminine energyand so part of like my I
realized part of my left armbeing like throbbing and stuff
was I was not pouring enoughinto my feminine energy and
resting and relaxing enough andwhen I had dosed those times I
wanted to do nothing but just bein nature or lay down in nature
(35:06):
and it was like my body was themushrooms were telling me go
outside go outside.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
I love that.
I've never heard the rightversus left male feminine thing,
but it totally makes sense.
And now I'm like want to paymore attention to things moving
forward.
That you say that I'm like, oh,how interesting, just another
piece of the layer, I'm excitedto learn more about that.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
A hundred percent, yeah, Listen to your body of
like.
Okay, if you have somethinghurting, like what side of the
body it is?
Because also different parts ofour body hold different
emotions, Like our back holdsour upper back and shoulders.
Like people with really liketense shoulders and back are
holding on to anger from othersand like trauma or anger from
(35:49):
themselves that they neverreleased.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
So we're a lot of nurses.
This is all our resentmenttowards health care and our
shoulders.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
A hundred percent.
That's why I say go get yourmassages, because when we get
massages we're releasing thoseemotions and that tension out.
So yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Tiana, what is your go-to self-nurture practice when
things get rough?
Speaker 2 (36:17):
I love my yoga, I truly love yoga.
But it's really being in nature, like making time to be in
nature and if I can microdoseand like if I don't have any
plans I don't need to drive oranything, I'm like all right if
I can just sit outside and be onmy yoga mat and journal and
dose and really like do someinternal healing because that's
(36:39):
it, that's all it is.
You know, any issues we'reexperiencing, like let's figure
it out.
You're not going to figure itout by drinking.
You're not going to figure outyour problems by partying, by
doing all these external things,your numbing activities.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Your numbing the only way through is through, it's
through.
Yeah, you got to feel yourfeels.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Yes, feel to heal and journal it out.
Go inwards and figure outwhat's going on internally
that's causing it to happenexternally, because our physical
reality is just a reflection ofour internal reality.
So that's it.
Just figure out what's going oninside.
Your outside will change.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
I love that.
So how do you work with people?
One-on-one, kiana, what kind ofwomen do you work with and how
do you work with them?
I specialize in Both men, menor women.
Sorry, I say women, becausethat's me.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Both, but I do specialize in gut health
coaching.
So one-to-one virtual Makessense.
Yeah, just with my experience,yeah, one-to-one Virtual or
in-person, depending on location.
If they're in SouthernCalifornia and if the drive
makes sense for either of us,then we'll do in-person.
But also nutrition plans,workout plans, so yeah, and then
(37:58):
also women's health is an areaof focus, of course as well.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, menstrual, a growing
area that we're finally gettingsome attention on.
I can't even wait to see whatthe next 10 years unfold,
because we've highlighted thelack of knowledge in this area
so much.
So many people are diving in.
It's like man.
The next 10 years for women'shealth, hopefully, will be
amazing.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Yeah, just using our menstrual cycle alone and just
tracking.
So many women don't track andI'm like that's a start.
Let's just let's start there.
Just track your cycle First ofall.
See how you feel throughout thephases of your cycle, learn the
phases of your cycle and thennow let's start seeing what
foods you want to be tracking ingeneral, just looking for
patterns, pattern recognition inwhen you like.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
For me, me, one thing we talk about a lot, because my
specialty is burnout, but whenwe're ending the program, when
we're talking about like leavingand how to set ourselves up,
it's about finding that patternrecognition of like.
When do I, how am I gonna knowwhen I start to spiral?
Because half the time we likewake up, we're in the hole we've
fallen in and we're like oh,shit, shit, I didn't even know I
(39:04):
got here.
So, finding that pattern oflike, I stopped brushing my
teeth first, which for me,that's what I'm.
Also, I start avoidingjournaling, like avoiding
writing things down.
It's like if I'm avoiding thosetwo things, I need to spend
more time doing them, becausethere's something going on that
I'm avoiding.
That's what it is.
So learning that pattern is sopowerful.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Yeah, that's really good.
I like that pattern recognition.
But, yeah, what we avoid,there's like there's a gateway
to growth in whatever we avoid.
Oh yes, but that's a greatreminder for me too.
It's like journaling is one ofthose things that is so
powerfully healing for me andI've recognized that and I've
experienced that and sometimesI'm like, okay, come on, just do
it, Just do it.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
I'm like you know.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
I push yourself to do it, but it's just so beneficial
.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Me too.
I am so much more organized andon track too.
I don't know what it is.
It's like I get that out of theway, but it really is like for
me, at least right now.
Where I'm at in my life, rightnow, journaling is the thing I
have to make myself do, becausethere's something I'm avoiding
up here.
I'll figure it out eventually.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
You'll figure it out, I'm sure, by journaling.
That's one thing.
When we see our words writtendown and we can read back our
emotions, it helps bring clarity.
For whatever reason, it justhits differently when you're
reading it versus when you'rejust thinking it.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
If people are listening to you and kind of
relating with what you're saying, I guess what kind of advice
would you give people at home on, like, where to start?
I would like if they are likefeeling a little lost, you know,
like they're kind of, because Ifeel like, so your, your focus
is like, like I said, likeironclad.
But I feel like for a lot ofwomen and some other coaches
have expressed this as well whenyou start with someone, you're
(40:40):
like what is your goal?
Where do you want to go?
What do you want out of this?
And for some people it's likewhoa, I haven't thought about
that in years.
You know like that's thehardest part is like shit, do I
even know where I'm goinganymore?
Because I set a goal years agoand I've been just doing for a
long time.
So just pause, realign.
Like maybe I would you givethem at home on like what steps
(41:07):
to take first, because it soundsI could see like your shift in
this conversation from this tothis.
So where would you tell peopleto start?
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Honestly journaling, like what we were just talking
about.
I would literally say the firstthing write out your dream life
.
If money is not, don't evenquestion money.
You have unlimited.
You have abundance, unlimitedamount of resource.
What does your dream life looklike?
I love that the moment you wakeup.
(41:36):
You wake up.
What do you smell, what do youfeel?
What do you see?
Are you with somebody next toyou?
Are you by yourself in aking-sized bed?
Are you by the beach?
Do you see the mountains?
What does that look?
Are there kids running andjumping in bed with you?
Do you smell cookies baking ordo you smell, you know, like
pancakes?
What does that look like foryou?
(41:57):
Do you have a private chef?
Like?
Money is not an issue.
Money is not an issue.
Just what is your dream life?
I?
Speaker 1 (42:06):
love that.
I call that my perfect day andI tell that's one of the things
I do with my clients too is likeand it's hard for people to
like do the no limit thing.
Sometimes they want to likelimit themselves.
It's like no, literally, likereach for the stars.
Nothing got in your way.
From the moment you wake upwith as much detail and using
all your five senses yes,incorporate all your senses
(42:31):
write out your perfect day, whatyou would do from start to
finish.
I love this.
I love doing it myself.
It's just time consuming, butthat's a great, great advice.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
It is.
But that's the feminine energy,right?
That's the making, time forcreativity and imagination.
Getting back to our inner child, right?
Because you ask a child whatthey want to do.
If you ask me what I want to dowhen I was five years old, I
want to be a star.
That's what I said.
Now I'm tapping into my innerchild and I'm trying to make her
a star.
Okay, I love that.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
I love that.
I wanted to help people andthat's what I'm doing too.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
No-transcript.
Start with three simple things.
You don't want to overwhelmyourself with too much.
Just start with three simplethings, because each time you
accomplish one little goal everyday, you're going to start
building momentum.
You start building momentum,then you want to make another
(43:51):
healthier choice.
Then you want to make anotherhealthier choice.
Then you're making like, beforeyou know it, you're making 10
healthy choices a day and you'reattracting better and better
paying opportunities.
Your life changes.
As soon as I started focusingon my health boom, I attracted
my first acting gig One grand,Just like that.
(44:12):
I was like and they likestraight.
Like I didn't go out searchingfor it, I literally got a text
message to my phone hey, are youavailable and can you send us a
video of yourself in 30 minutessaying these lines?
I was like, yes, I can do that,but part of it came from was I
(44:35):
was ready.
I was ready health-wise.
I looked the part already LikeI was working out, I was eating
good.
I was the person I think it'sDanny Morrell that says be do
have you have to embody first,then you do the thing, then
you'll have what you want.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Oh, I love that.
That makes me think of theother quote like that success
doesn't happen overnight.
Quote, like but it does, ithappens overnight.
Like but it does, it happensovernight, like it really does.
But the what you don't see islike the years of work that were
put into that one night, like,sure, it does happen really
quickly, but people have built,been building the foundation for
(45:15):
that to land on for a long,long time.
And that's what this reminds me.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Yes, yes, 100.
So generally I would say firstpart get your dream life figured
out.
What does that look like foryou?
And then just set a few goalsthey don't need to be
complicated Whatever's realisticfor you.
Stick to those for at least aweek, get the momentum and then,
from there, start setting newgoals.
And if you want moreaccountability, hire a coach,
(45:41):
because really that is what wedo, that's what we do as health
coaches, that's what I do as ahealth coach is like okay, I
help you to see your dream lifeand then now we look at where
you're at health-wise, not justmentally, not just physically,
but emotionally and spirituallyas well.
We're going to look at you allin all, and now I'm going to
(46:01):
coach you through the gap.
Now I'm going to get you towhere you want to go a lot
faster than you would do it onyour own.
And help you stay focused, yeah,and help you stay focused.
That's the benefit of having acoach.
Like I hire coaches for everyarea of my life, whether it's
business, acting, modeling.
I'm like, no, I want mentorship, because speed, you know, like
(46:31):
I can do it on my own, but I'llget there faster if I have
somebody who's already done whatI'm trying to do, or at least
something similar.
So I would say accountability,mentorship is another great
place.
But start on your own, see whatyou can do and then, if you,
you know, can accomplish somestuff and you want some help,
reach out, you know.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
I love that.
I love that.
Another thing I love and thisis what I'm going to say to you,
kiana is that, like surroundingyourself with people who are in
that same mindset, like for me,this podcast has been huge
because I get to interact withpeople like you, who are like in
that growth mindset, abundancemindset, you're want to help
people, like you're focused, andso I see that I get to talk to
you Like we talked a little bitbefore you know, catch up, and
(47:01):
all these women like that's whatkeeps me also motivated,
because in my personal life Iwill now I'm actually starting
to meet more and moreentrepreneurs that are in my
area, but when I started like my.
The people closest to me didn'tget it.
They're like and I feel likethat's it's very transferable to
people's health journeys peopleyou like serve a role where you
are and sometimes change can bedifficult for people because
(47:22):
you're you know, whateverrelationship you were in, that's
going to shift regardless asyou make changes for yourself.
And some people people are alittle resistant to that.
So you need people that aremotivated, that are working on
the things you are, that you cantalk about what you're working
on together.
So if that's making it as anactor or a model, like I would
(47:45):
have nothing to.
I'd be like yeah, I don't knowhow to relate to that, but, yes,
I support you 100%.
I don't even know how to dothat, but, yes, you know what I
mean.
So it's so important to havepeople that are like no, no, no,
I've been there, I get it.
Like your struggles are valid,like because we just need to be
understood and heard by peoplethat truly get it too.
That's like another piece ofhealing 100%.
Thanks for coming to my show andtalking to me and sharing your
story.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
I'm like I could literally talk forever.
One of the things I was goingto say, based on that, is we are
a product of our environment.
So who you surround yourself,you're the average of the five
people you're closest to.
And the five people you'reclosest to doesn't have to be in
person.
It's the authors of the booksyou're reading, the people of
the podcasts.
You're listening to, theaccounts that you follow on
Instagram the five people you'reclosest to.
Who are the five people you'reclosest to?
(48:32):
And that's the trajectory ofyour life, of where you're going
to go.
You're the average.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
Yes, I love it.
That's what's great aboutsaying about socials too,
because I guess a couple yearsago I really went through and
like took everything out thatwasn't like mental health or
neuroscience focus, becausethat's the things I'm interested
in and from then I feel like mysoul don't worry, I still go
down a rabbit hole, but I feellike my socials are better used
in that way, and then I meetmore people to collaborate with,
too, 100%.
Yeah, well, before we go, kiana, is there anything else you
(48:59):
want to, oh, first of all tell?
And is there anything else youwant to, oh, first of all tell
us how people can find you.
If they're like, listening tothis and they're like, yes, I
want that iron focus, I want alittle piece of what she's got,
I want to work with you.
How do they find you?
Speaker 2 (49:12):
Yes, elevate Divinely on Instagram.
Elevate Divinely.
Underscore on Instagram thatyou can find my business website
on there as well, and my linktree.
Well, and my link tree.
So, if you want nutrition plans, workout plans, coaching or a
bundle and future PDFs anddigital products coming soon,
(49:36):
yeah, there, or Kiana Forever,is my personal Instagram, more
acting and modeling focused onthat one, but also health and
wellness tips as well.
Either any of those, either ofthose.
I have links to everything.
Speaker 1 (49:44):
So Instagram is a great place to start and yeah,
Yay, do you want to leave uswith anything before we go?
Speaker 2 (49:51):
Let's see.
Yes, you are worthy of yourdream health and your dream life
.
Don't question it.
You are worthy.
You don't have to do anythingto become worthy.
You were born worthy.
Abundance is your birthrightand you can achieve anything.
You put your mind to doanything to become worthy.
You were born worthy.
Abundance is your birthrightand you can achieve anything you
put your mind to so.
Believe in yourself.
Speaker 1 (50:10):
Beautiful.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (50:13):
Of course.
Thank you for having me.
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