January 24, 2025 • 40 mins
In this empowering episode of Empowered Within, we welcome the inspirational Marcy Langlois. Born with a cleft lip and palate, Marcy underwent 20 surgeries and battled bullying, identity struggles, addiction, and chronic health challenges. Hitting multiple rock bottoms, she transformed her life, embracing sobriety, healing, and self-love. Today, Marcy owns a thriving business, shares her journey to inspire others, and proves that healing and living beyond your limits is absolutely possible.
Join us as Marcy shares her incredible story, her rock-bottom moments, the power of resilience, and how she reconnected with her inner wisdom to create a life of fulfillment and purpose. Whether you're facing addiction, anxiety, or life's toughest challenges, this conversation will leave you inspired to rise above and embrace your limitless potential.
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Audio Only - All Partic (00:05):
Welcome to Empowered Within, a soul
quenching, transformationalpodcast that will set your soul
on fire.
Through candid and inspiringconversations, leading experts,
celebrities, healers, and Ishare our journeys of how we've
overcome challenges to living anempowered life from within.
I'm your host, Jennifer Pilates.
Welcome to another episode ofEmpowered Within.
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Hi there and welcome to theshow.
I am honored to have with ustoday's guest, Marci Lange
Lewis.
She was born with a cleft lipand palate.
Marci underwent 20 surgeries andfaced years of bullying,
battling issues of identity, Thedarkness of addiction and
chronicle, physical and mentalhealth challenges.
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Marcy spiraled into a life ofchaos and self destruction.
However, when her life hit rockbottom, she chose to rise using
the lessons from her tumultuouspast.
She transformed her life,embracing sobriety, self
realization and personalstrength.
Marcy has learned to loveherself and built a fulfilling
life with her partner of 20years.
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Marcy owns a successful businessand uses her journey to inspire
and to guide those facing life'sadversities.
Marcy is here to remind you thattrauma does not define you.
Whatever challenges have heldyou back in life, addiction,
anxiety, family issues, chronichealth challenges, Marcy is here
to help you understand thathealing and wholeness is not
only possible, it's fully withinyour grasp.
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Though Marcy got off to a roughstart in life, she has
discovered one thing, that nomatter what obstacles are in
your path, living beyond yourlimits is not just a dream, it's
infinitely possible.
Welcome to the show, Marcy.
Oh, thank you so much for havingme here today.
I'm so excited.
I've been looking forward tothis conversation.
Me too.
I'm just so excited because likemyself, you're someone who has,
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you've been through it.
And I would love for you to takeus back on your journey.
And when you overlook life, howyou went from really one
challenge to another, to anotherand kept persevering and kept
moving forward.
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Yeah, that's a great question.
I think, honestly that I wasjust built for it.
Like, I was born into the worldwith a cleft lip and palate.
So I came into the world justneeding to fight for my life
from the moment that I was born.
And so that sense of resiliencywas instilled from me really
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from that moment forward.
I, and then as I got older and Ican name things and see things a
little bit more clearly, it'sbeen more about, really making
meaning out of what's happened,so that everything in life feels
like it has a purpose ratherthan just this, you know,
gauntlet of trauma and sufferingand whatnot.
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Right?
Like it's that purpose andmeaning that continues to drive
me sort of regardless ofwhatever it is I'm facing.
And that's so amazing.
You talk about your rock bottommoment.
in life.
And I'm wondering, do you reallythink you had one or do you
think you had a couple in there?
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And when you had those moments,you know, cause I think it's
important for people to realizelike what triggered you to go, I
need to change now.
And then what pulled you out ofthat?
Yeah, that's a great questionalso.
So yes, I've had multiple rockbottom moments in my life.
I think that's probably prettynormal for a lot of people.
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And, for me, The first one was,I plummeted into addiction and
after a multi fatality caraccident that I was in, and I
stayed in that really addictive,destructive cycle for 10 years
after the car accident.
And when I was 27, I decided.
It was like the light came onfor me that I was doing to my
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daughter exactly what was doneto me and I refused to Raise her
in a home with active addiction.
And so that was the first rockbottom moment and then Really
the most profound rock bottommoment that I've had just came
three and a half years ago I'vebeen doing all the things all
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the work all the modalities Icould find, to heal myself, to
stay sober, to face my traumaand heal my past.
But I had switched addictionsinto work and I didn't really
realize it in the moment.
Lots of people would point atthat, but no one ever really
said, Hey, you're doing this.
And, anyway, I hit rock bottomand my body completely, said no
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more.
You know, the body has that way,right?
Like it'll keep whispering untilwe, we listen and it'll start
yelling.
And, that's what happened inFebruary of 2021.
And I almost died and I wasdiagnosed with two, mass cell
activation syndrome andhistamine intolerance, which are
life threatening conditions.
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And I got it in that moment.
I was bedridden for 40 days and,it came, it became so evident to
me that I had not healed, that Ihad spent a lot of time
intellectualizing a lot of thethings that I had been through,
and that, I could process thingsmentally and reframe and name
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things differently, but thetrauma was still living in my
body, and, So for the last threeand a half years, I have devoted
my life to changing my entirelife.
Literally, there is nothing inmy life that looks the same as
it used to at all.
And it was the most profoundexperience I've ever had was
spending 40 days in bed thinkingthat my life was over and the
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doctor saying that likely itwas, you know, as I had known it
before.
That is so incredible.
And I want to touch on twopieces.
So I want to go back to theaddiction piece first, because
there's so many people that doself anesthetize and would be
like, but I'm fine.
Like, I'm totally got like, I'mglass of wine a night is no big
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deal.
What triggered you to understandthat you had an addiction
problem?
Because I think that's somethingthat's so overlooked in our
society because For some reason,you know, alcohol, prescription
drugs, whatever it is, itbecomes such a norm.
Yeah, totally.
I would agree wholeheartedly.
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I think a common misconceptionabout addiction is that it's,
um, you have to look a certainway to be an addict, right?
Like my, in my mind, it waslike, I had to be homeless
living under a bridge.
I had to lose my job, my car, myfamily, right?
Like all of these things.
But wait.
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What we're failing to recognizeactually is that addiction is on
the spectrum, right?
Like it is a spectrum disorder.
And so you don't have to loseeverything.
You can simply just be drinkingthree glasses of wine every
night, and you feel terribleevery day you wake up.
But the thought of not havingthose three glasses of wine is
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like, I could never not havethese three glasses of wine at
night.
Like, it takes the edge off forme, right?
And so for me, I knew, I, I knewreally probably when I was in,
in my teenage years that I had aproblem with drugs and alcohol
because the hallmark sign for mewas I never wanted to have just
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one of anything.
Right.
I always, my whole goal wasalways to get completely loaded,
just, you know, I was doing itspecifically to check out.
Right.
And I think that especiallyafter the last how many years
now, that's really become veryprominent again, just like
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checking out, numbing out, notwanting to know.
And it's important that werecognize that, yeah, even if
you're getting up and even ifyou do feel great having three.
Two glasses of wine, whatever itis, whiskey, whatever you're
doing at night.
It's not necessarily, like, youkind of want to go, why?
Why am I doing this?
Right.
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If you can get to that place, doyou have suggestions for someone
since you've been there?
How do they get to that place togo?
Because someone's going to belistening and be like, oh please
ladies, like, you know, I havethe glass of wine, I have the
whiskey, it's not a big deal.
But yet, is it?
Yeah, I just always encouragepeople, you know, I've sat in
thousands of AA meetings at thispoint, you know, I've been clean
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and sober for 21 years.
And so the common things that Ihear and from the people that I
work with directly, right, is,no matter how much I wanted to
stop drinking, regardless of theamount, I could not stop when I
wanted to stop.
And I couldn't choose.
How much I was going to drink,like you can't control it,
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right?
So you can just do an experimentwith yourself.
Right?
If you are having two glasses ofwine, set that down, right?
Set it down for 30 days and seehow your life changes.
See, do you crave it when you'renot drinking it?
How does your behavior change?
Do you notice that you becomemore anxious?
Do you notice that you, Becomemore angry, like what surfaces
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when you take the alcohol awayand notice all of that and then
ask these questions like, thenwhy am I drinking, right?
I think that's great.
That's excellent advice.
Because it really does take 30days to really develop that new
habit, develop a new lifestyle,so to speak.
And that would be a really greatexample for someone to taste
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test that situation for sure.
What do we.
And now when we, I want to goback and talk about being in bed
for 40 days is significant andespecially with what you were
diagnosed with and to overcomethat when you were lying in bed,
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what were you doing?
Were you working on yourself?
Were we praying?
Were we, what was getting youthrough day to day moment to
moment there?
Yeah, so that's really a greatquestion.
No one's ever asked me thatquestion before.
So that's a really goodquestion.
And, So here's the thing.
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when you have mass cellactivation syndrome and
histamine intolerance, that'swhen you're immune and your
nervous system collide,essentially.
And the immune system becomeshighly reactive and the nervous
system starts thinking thateverything in the environment is
an invader, which then causesanaphylaxis.
That's why it becomes lifethreatening.
Thankfully, I stayed below theradar with anaphylaxis.
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I just had every symptom, but,and, so what I learned in those
40 days is how intricatelyconnected our mind and body
truly is.
I've read about this for years.
I've been fascinated by theidea.
I've thought.
Wouldn't that be really awesomeif that were true?
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You know, well, lo and behold,in those 40 days, I full hand
got to experience it.
And so what I, what I wasexperiencing, the most
uncomfortable symptom that Ihad, and I had a lot of
symptoms, was tremors.
And I had tremors from head totoe and I had them in my brain.
And having tremors in my brainwas just literally terrifying.
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because you don't know, like.
What does that mean?
Where is this going to end?
You know, what, what's the bodyworking up to tell me?
You know what I mean?
Like, it's just very scary to bein that unknown place.
And so, the first like week Iwas in bed, all I could think
about was my business is that.
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I had, I had worked until Icouldn't work anymore.
The last day I worked, Icouldn't tell if my desk was
moving, if the computer wasmoving, or if I was moving.
That's how bad the neurologicalsymptoms were.
And I finally just had to saylike, I, I literally can't do
this another day.
And so I was just supposed totake a long weekend.
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So everything I had in my head,all the things like I'll get to
that Tuesday, whatever, right.
As soon as I said, I'm done.
And my company stepped in tohelp me out.
my body completely shut down,like completely shut down this
symptoms increased tenfold.
So the first week I wasobsessed, like, well, I'm just
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out of work.
You know, what is my team goingto do?
What about all my clients, allthis stuff, right?
I still didn't get it.
I still didn't understand to theextent of where I had gotten
myself.
And so after that, though, itwas so painful to be in my body
with everything that was goingon that.
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I started noticing like if mywife would bring my phone in the
bedroom, the tremors in my bodywould increase literally tenfold
because I would start thinkingabout work.
Right.
And who, and what, am I evergoing to have a career again?
Right.
All this stuff.
And if she'd take the phone outof the bedroom and I could just
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watch, you know, some silly showon Netflix and really just calm
myself down, then the tremorswould come right back down.
So, I was like, this is crazy,right?
Like I thought I was making itup at first and I did several of
these test episodes and lo andbehold, I wasn't.
So I was like, That's when Iknew that there was hope.
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That's when I knew that I hadthe capacity to heal my own
body.
Is in those moments when Istarted understanding that if I
have the power to make myselfsicker and more reactive, then I
absolutely have the power tocalm myself, to reverse what's
occurring, and to change what'sgoing on in my physical being.
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And that's what I started doing.
That is so Powerful.
So two things I want to hitupon, but I want to just keep on
this.
We'll go back to how you gotthere.
Like as far as how did you knowyou were addicted to work and
switched that?
Yeah, because I know that youdove so deep into tapping into
your inner wisdom.
So I want to stick on this for aminute because I really want to
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know how much further you doveand where you dove.
And who you dove with.
Yeah.
So this is like my favoritestuff to talk about, right?
Like this is the best, right?
So because this is the stuff Iwas so fascinated by and still
am, like I still study and readand listen, you know, all the
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things, but, for me, I, had beenmeditating with Dr.
Joe Dispenza.
Do you know him?
Are you familiar with his work?
Yeah.
Okay.
So I had chronic insomnia aspart of the ongoing chronic
illness.
I was suffering before I gotreally sick and I would sleep
maybe a couple of hours a night.
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And I found his work, Breakingthe Habit of Being Yourself.
And this was a long time ago,like 10, 12, 14 years ago.
And before he had themeditations online, all that,
right?
So I read the book and I'm like,Oh my goodness, this is me.
This is my life.
And this is what I need to do tohelp myself.
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So I started meditating to himfor insomnia originally, but I
never did any of his other work.
So the Meditation came naturalto me and I was meditating 30
minutes a day at a minimum everyday since I found his work.
Amazingly, as soon as I startedmeditating to his work, I
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started sleeping every singlenight and really I've never had
a problem with insomnia sincethen, except when this whole
thing happened with my body,right?
But in normal conditions.
I didn't have insomnia anymore.
So I went deeper in that workand then, and I also was doing
Qigong.
They're just like sort of JoeDispenza and Qigong are sort of
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like two feathers of the samecloth.
I also love Michael Singer, TheUntethered Soul, all of that,
all of that work that talksabout, it is within you, right?
Like stop, stop making themistake of searching outside of
you, right?
Everything you need to know isright here.
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And if you can access that, thenthat's great.
You'll find the answer, right?
And so I started meditating likethree and four hours a day.
I was doing Qigong.
I mean, when I say devoted mylife to healing, I devoted my
life to healing.
Literally, that's all I did.
And when I wasn't doing aspecific practice, then what I
was doing was working on mythoughts.
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Is what am I thinking, right?
And why am I thinking that?
Like, what do I believe?
What is, where does that thoughtoriginate from, right?
And so I was doing all thiswork, my body started healing in
profound, amazing ways.
My doctor is like, Oh my God,whatever you're doing, keep
doing it.
Right.
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And then all of a sudden, Mynervous system said, no more, no
more.
You can't meditate like thisanymore.
Literally, I'd put theheadphones on to meditate and
I'd start having an allergicreaction to the meditation.
I was having allergic reactionsto my thoughts.
I would literally, that is nextlevel when you start having
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allergic reactions to your ownthoughts.
And so, it was like a sort oflike a black belt training and
training my mind.
And so I couldn't meditateanymore, but I thought about the
whole concept of if I can keepmy frequency and my vibration
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elevated.
then my body is healing.
And if I can keep my nervoussystem in the parasympathetic
state, then my body's healing.
So I took those concepts and Ijust kept going with that.
And I started writing letters tomy body.
And my body started talking tome through the pen and paper,
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and I started uncovering theseparts of myself that weren't
healed.
And I started going back andhealing those parts of myself
that weren't healed, and lettingand inviting my body to release
the trauma that it was holding.
And I have to tell you.
Three and a half years later,here I am and I don't have
histamine intolerance and Idon't have mast cell activation
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syndrome and all my blood workis normal and all of my tests
show that pretty much I'mhealthy.
That is so astonishing how deepand what an amazing example you
are to you absolutely can healyourself if you're willing to go
there.
Yes, I believe it.
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I believe it's accessible foreverybody.
But like you said, if you'rewilling to go there, right?
Right.
If you're willing to go there.
Oh my goodness.
So I do want to touch on thatspot though of how you
transitioned from an addictionto addiction.
to addiction to work because Ifeel like that's really big
these days.
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I feel, and it has been for along time, people throwing
themselves in there.
Do you have any telltale signsor any advice you would like to
give for people?
For red flags of, Hey, thiscould be happening to you.
You may not go where I went, butyou should at least be aware of
what's going on.
Yeah.
So here's the sneaky one that Iknew, but I don't know that a
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lot of people see it as clearlyas I could see it is, as I said,
right, is I wanted to know wherethe thoughts were coming from.
So the beliefs lead to thethoughts, right?
These long held beliefs that wehave all the way back to
childhood, right?
And for me, my value and worthwas tied up in that, right?
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I wasn't valuable because of theway that I looked and the way
that I spoke and who I loved,right?
All these things, all of thosethings, all incorporated.
And because of that, Then I wasalways seeking external
validation, right?
My worthiness, my belonging fromexterior sources.
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So for me, I was in a salesposition.
I'm, I was a mortgage banker.
So In sales, no one's like, Oh,go home, Marcy.
It's five o'clock at night.
We'll take your phone when youleave, right?
No, it's 24 hours a day, sevendays a week.
And I wanted to be the best,right?
I wanted to be at the top of thefood chain and all of these
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things.
So when people are looking attheir own experience around
work, it's like, why are youworking the way you're working?
Right?
How are you working?
right?
Are you, not having boundarieswith your work?
Are you prioritizing your workover your family?
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I did that a lot for many, manyyears, unfortunately.
And when is enough enough,right?
For me, I always wanted more.
I would be, I'd be at The numberone person in my company, but
then it's like, well, can I benumber one in the national
level?
Can we're like how, right.
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And all of that is just based onall the beliefs that I held.
That is, you know, I just thinkthat's so important because I
feel like that's so manypeople's day to day life.
Well, if I can just get there,like that carrot, this dangling,
right, it's always going to bedangling there when you get
caught into the system versus,and it sounds like you're there
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now versus hustling foreverything.
How about aligning so thatthings come to you naturally and
in that flow versus feeling likeyou have to keep going with the
grind.
And I think that was a falsehoodthat was fed to so many of us.
For so long.
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I would agree wholeheartedly.
Yes.
Wow.
What advice would you give toothers who are struggling right
now?
Be that with addiction tosubstance, addiction to work,
numbing out.
The world and not being in tunewithin.
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Yeah.
That's such a loaded question,right?
We could talk about that forlike seven days straight, right?
Absolutely.
Yeah.
I mean, it's just, it's such aloaded question.
I think the advice that I couldgive people is sort of what I
said earlier is like all of theteachers that I studied with all
of the things that I read.
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When things like that resonatewith you and they're, you to go
deeper within yourself, heed thecall, right?
Like, you know, they're, we allknow, We all have our own
answers.
We all have our own innatewisdom.
It's part of who we are.
It's how we're wired.
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It's not that I got it and youdidn't.
It's that somehow it's gottenburied within you and you need
to uncover whatever you'veburied it with so that you can
hear it again, right?
Like for me, it was theaddiction, the work, the, all
the things.
And it's like, as soon as Icould take that stuff away, it's
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like, Oh, Right.
There it is.
And here I go, follow the road,right?
And the path becomes clear.
It just lays itself out in frontof you.
It's so amazing.
How have you taken everythingthat you've been through,
everything that you've learnedand propelled this into a
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successful business?
I think it's because I think atthe end of the day, We,
regardless of what your story isper se, right?
We all have a story.
We all have the same emotions.
We all know what it feels liketo feel grief, to feel like you
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don't belong, to feel likeyou're an imposter.
All of these things, we all canrelate.
It doesn't matter necessarilywhat caused us to be able to
feel that way.
And so it's the similaritiesthat we all have that I really
focus on.
Right?
Like that's how I coach myclients forward in life is we
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all have to go back.
to the beginning to heal thatit's you're not going forward
unless you do you so we all haveto go back to the beginning to
heal whatever needs to be healedand figure that out and we all
process emotion the exact sameway in terms of how it feels to
each person it's devastatingit's difficult it feels like
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it's going to take you out rightand then we just work through
that little by little And thenyou learn how to raise your
frequency and you learn how tochange your thoughts and you
learn how to talk to yourselfcorrectly and appropriately like
you deserve, right?
And you learn how to loveyourself and through self
compassion and self love, you'reable to translate and transcend
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some of these experiences tofind purpose in your life.
I mean, can we just have a micdrop right there?
And we just have Marcy's loveout into the entire world and
heal us all.
Ha! You know, see the angelsdescend.
I mean truly, oh my goodness.
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So when you look at your workand you're working with clients,
what is truly your favorite partthus far in the business that
you have built since everythinghas gone on?
Which is amazing that here youare, everything that you've gone
through and you're running suchan incredible, successful
coaching program.
Yeah, thank you.
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My favorite part of all of it iswhen, this is perfect example.
I was on a call with one of myclients last week and, I've been
working with her for four weeksand she said to me, Marcy, like,
I can't believe this.
My whole life is different infour weeks.
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And I'm like, well, tell me moreabout that.
And she started crying.
And she's like, I'm just sograteful.
I've stopped trolling datingwebsites for men that can't show
up for me in the ways that Ineed and deserve.
I've changed my eating habits.
I'm facing all my financialissues head on, and I'm just
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going to take care of them.
You know, I'm walking every day.
I'm in my body instead ofchecking out and I sleep better
and I just feel better.
She's like literally Marcy,every part of my life is
different, and I'm just likethat's it.
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That's it There's nothing elsefor me to do right like yes,
we'll keep working together, butyou know that's the joy I,
that's, yeah, that's everythingto me.
That is beautiful.
I love that.
So if you were to pan out fiveyears from now, what's Marcy
doing?
Well, um, I feel like you've gotsome things in the mix.
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Yeah, I don't even know whatI'll be doing.
You know, I have a book that Istarted writing that I put on
the back burner because it takesa lot of time and a lot of
energy.
I'm doing a filming with a womanup in Washington state.
later this fall because shewants to tell the world my
story.
She's a filmmaker.
You know, I don't know.
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I just know, I don't know what'sgoing on with my phone.
So I apologize.
Can't hear it.
Don't hear a thing.
Oh, good.
So I don't know where all ofthis is gonna lead to, you know,
but I'm just so certain that Ididn't go through all the things
that I went through to not sharehow I overcame it with other
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people.
My mission is to help as manypeople as I can possibly help.
And what I ask, you know, spiritconsciousness.
energy source, whatever yourefer to that as.
I just ask every day thatwhatever circumstances need to
come my way for me to do that,then I trust that's going to
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happen.
And that's such an incredibleway to live.
And to help your clients livethat way, that brings the light
into so many more people aroundthe world.
I definitely see a book, Idefinitely see a movie, and you
left out a TEDx talk.
I definitely see you doing a lotof speaking, for sure.
Without a doubt.
Easy peasy.
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Thank you.
Lots of speaking.
Mm hmm.
Coming your way.
For sure.
Which is so exciting.
And you have your own podcasttoo.
So tell me how your podcast wasborn.
My podcast was born because Iwanted to start getting my
message out to the world.
Mm hmm.
And, um, as I said, writing wasso, it's stressful for me.
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And so, I started podcastingbecause I like to talk like
that's my medium, right?
I feel like I'm more impactfulwith words.
Spoken rather than written.
And so I started podcasting inthat way and I just do a solo
cast.
So I've published like 37 or 38episodes and they're all like 10
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or 12 minutes.
And I just pick a topic.
I talk about that topic and Igive you three actionable tools
literally to walk away with andthat should help you.
If you're willing to starttoday, you know what I mean?
So that's, that was the idea islike, how can I help people
quickly?
And now I've really transferredover into like social media so
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that I can do like, you know,30, 60, 90 second clips of like,
if you're struggling with this,here's a solution, which is even
faster than doing podcast.
Absolutely.
And, you know, and through bothvenues, you're reaching so many
people and get, again, gettingyour story out there and getting
your incredible energies outthere to help so many people.
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Yeah.
It's such a pleasure and honor,honestly.
It truly is.
I love it.
Well, Marci, we're getting tothis time in the show where I
ask this one question.
Are you ready?
Lay it on me.
All right.
What is one thing that no oneknows about Marci?
I'm ready.
Oh, goodness.
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That my whole entire life hasbeen run by fear.
My entire existence was based onfear and, people look at my
life.
And if they knew that they wouldnever believe it because of what
I've been able to accomplish.
And so, you know, like if formerbusiness partners heard this,
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they'd be like, no way.
No way.
Right?
I don't see fear anywhere withinyou, but it's, yeah, it's been
the bane of my existence, but itis, one of those things that I
refuse to let win daily.
Just got to keep going.
I'm afraid every day, but I showup every day regardless.
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That's the key, right?
Constantly pushing through,leaning into the fear.
Always, right?
What part of myself is afraidright now?
Right?
Oh, I'm here for you.
I'm right here with you.
Right?
I see you and it's okay, butwe're going to do this.
It's going to be great.
That is really a pricelessstatement right there for so
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many people to be able to takeaway and use on so many
different levels in their liferight now.
Yeah, it's been a life changingstatement for myself.
I love how much love you justshowed for yourself in that
moment and I want everyone elseto really.
embrace that and work on gettingthere because that's where we
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really want everyone to get tothat place of self love and self
value and self worth.
And the more you have it within,the more you have to share.
Yeah, absolutely.
I couldn't agree more.
Oh my goodness.
So much fun.
Well, Marci, please tell ourcommunity, where can they go to
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get podcasting, all the things.
Yeah, really?
I believe you're going to puteverything in the show notes.
My website's a little bitcomplicated for coaching.
Like to name it off and somebodyremember it.
But you'll have that in the shownotes, but really if people just
like follow me on Instagram, TikTOK, YouTube, Facebook, I'm on
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there and I post content everysingle day about how you can
change your life.
What, whatever.
And my topics are varied.
So if you just, Reach out,follow me there.
And if you're interested inhaving like a one to one
consultation about whether ornot we're a good fit for
coaching, you can find mywebsite in the show notes.
Absolutely.
All the show notes in the shownotes over will be over on
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Jenniferplottings.
com.
It will have her website.
We'll have all of her, do wecall them call names for social
media?
I don't know what we call them.
Profile names, handles.
Handles.
There we go.
Handles.
See, I'm, I'm like aging myselfby the minute.
I love it.
I get it.
Me too.
Handles.
We're so cool.
All of her details will be overthere.
So you can just click over andclick through and get in touch
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with her.
Well, as we close out the show,Marci, what is one last piece of
inspiration or advice that you'dlike to leave with us today?
Yeah, it's super simple andyou've probably heard it a
thousand and one times, but itis, just don't ever give up.
Right?
The, the thing is that life ismeant to help us evolve, right?
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Things are meant to be difficultfor a reason so that we can
evolve and grow into the personwe're intended to be here.
And so know that as the goodcomes, it will pass.
And as the difficult stuffcomes, that will also pass.
But if you give up in between,then you never make it to the
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good stuff again.
You know, and that, that kept mehanging on and still does today.
It's something I use all thetime is that I just refuse to
give up no matter what, nomatter what it is.
That is so beautiful.
And it's true.
We've got so much to live forand so much to embrace in our
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world every moment of every dayif we can just take that moment
to take the breath.
And see the light.
Yes.
Marci, this has been so muchfun.
I feel like you and I, we couldtalk for days, days and days and
days.
I would love it.
Yes.
I would love it too.
So as things change in yourworld and the TEDx talks, I'm
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just putting that out there foryou for the universe.
All that stuff comes up.
I would love to help have youcome back and share.
Through your journey, becausethis is an incredible journey,
and I'm honored that you're apart of it here with our
community.
Oh, thank you so much.
I mean, really, thank you somuch.
I'm so grateful and soappreciative.
Me too.
Thank you so much.
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Well, again, everything fromtoday, all the contact
information for Marci will beover in JenniferPilates.
com.
So you can head over there andconnect with her.
Again, thank you, Marci, so muchfor being here today, for
sharing all Your incrediblejourney, all of your compassion
and love and light.
I'm just, I'm blessed.
Thank you.
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Likewise.
Thank you.
You are so welcome.
Well, as we say everyone untilnext time, may you live an
empowered life from within.
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Welcome to Empowered Within, a soul
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Through candid and inspiringconversations, leading experts,
celebrities, healers, and Ishare our journeys of how we've
overcome challenges to living anempowered life from within.
I'm your host, Jennifer Pilates.
Welcome to another episode ofEmpowered Within.
(00:33):
Hi there and welcome to theshow.
I am honored to have with ustoday's guest, Marci Lange
Lewis.
She was born with a cleft lipand palate.
Marci underwent 20 surgeries andfaced years of bullying,
battling issues of identity, Thedarkness of addiction and
chronicle, physical and mentalhealth challenges.
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Marcy spiraled into a life ofchaos and self destruction.
However, when her life hit rockbottom, she chose to rise using
the lessons from her tumultuouspast.
She transformed her life,embracing sobriety, self
realization and personalstrength.
Marcy has learned to loveherself and built a fulfilling
life with her partner of 20years.
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Marcy owns a successful businessand uses her journey to inspire
and to guide those facing life'sadversities.
Marcy is here to remind you thattrauma does not define you.
Whatever challenges have heldyou back in life, addiction,
anxiety, family issues, chronichealth challenges, Marcy is here
to help you understand thathealing and wholeness is not
only possible, it's fully withinyour grasp.
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Though Marcy got off to a roughstart in life, she has
discovered one thing, that nomatter what obstacles are in
your path, living beyond yourlimits is not just a dream, it's
infinitely possible.
Welcome to the show, Marcy.
Oh, thank you so much for havingme here today.
I'm so excited.
I've been looking forward tothis conversation.
Me too.
I'm just so excited because likemyself, you're someone who has,
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you've been through it.
And I would love for you to takeus back on your journey.
And when you overlook life, howyou went from really one
challenge to another, to anotherand kept persevering and kept
moving forward.
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Yeah, that's a great question.
I think, honestly that I wasjust built for it.
Like, I was born into the worldwith a cleft lip and palate.
So I came into the world justneeding to fight for my life
from the moment that I was born.
And so that sense of resiliencywas instilled from me really
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from that moment forward.
I, and then as I got older and Ican name things and see things a
little bit more clearly, it'sbeen more about, really making
meaning out of what's happened,so that everything in life feels
like it has a purpose ratherthan just this, you know,
gauntlet of trauma and sufferingand whatnot.
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Right?
Like it's that purpose andmeaning that continues to drive
me sort of regardless ofwhatever it is I'm facing.
And that's so amazing.
You talk about your rock bottommoment.
in life.
And I'm wondering, do you reallythink you had one or do you
think you had a couple in there?
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And when you had those moments,you know, cause I think it's
important for people to realizelike what triggered you to go, I
need to change now.
And then what pulled you out ofthat?
Yeah, that's a great questionalso.
So yes, I've had multiple rockbottom moments in my life.
I think that's probably prettynormal for a lot of people.
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And, for me, The first one was,I plummeted into addiction and
after a multi fatality caraccident that I was in, and I
stayed in that really addictive,destructive cycle for 10 years
after the car accident.
And when I was 27, I decided.
It was like the light came onfor me that I was doing to my
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daughter exactly what was doneto me and I refused to Raise her
in a home with active addiction.
And so that was the first rockbottom moment and then Really
the most profound rock bottommoment that I've had just came
three and a half years ago I'vebeen doing all the things all
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the work all the modalities Icould find, to heal myself, to
stay sober, to face my traumaand heal my past.
But I had switched addictionsinto work and I didn't really
realize it in the moment.
Lots of people would point atthat, but no one ever really
said, Hey, you're doing this.
And, anyway, I hit rock bottomand my body completely, said no
(04:57):
more.
You know, the body has that way,right?
Like it'll keep whispering untilwe, we listen and it'll start
yelling.
And, that's what happened inFebruary of 2021.
And I almost died and I wasdiagnosed with two, mass cell
activation syndrome andhistamine intolerance, which are
life threatening conditions.
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And I got it in that moment.
I was bedridden for 40 days and,it came, it became so evident to
me that I had not healed, that Ihad spent a lot of time
intellectualizing a lot of thethings that I had been through,
and that, I could process thingsmentally and reframe and name
(05:41):
things differently, but thetrauma was still living in my
body, and, So for the last threeand a half years, I have devoted
my life to changing my entirelife.
Literally, there is nothing inmy life that looks the same as
it used to at all.
And it was the most profoundexperience I've ever had was
spending 40 days in bed thinkingthat my life was over and the
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doctor saying that likely itwas, you know, as I had known it
before.
That is so incredible.
And I want to touch on twopieces.
So I want to go back to theaddiction piece first, because
there's so many people that doself anesthetize and would be
like, but I'm fine.
Like, I'm totally got like, I'mglass of wine a night is no big
(06:26):
deal.
What triggered you to understandthat you had an addiction
problem?
Because I think that's somethingthat's so overlooked in our
society because For some reason,you know, alcohol, prescription
drugs, whatever it is, itbecomes such a norm.
Yeah, totally.
I would agree wholeheartedly.
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I think a common misconceptionabout addiction is that it's,
um, you have to look a certainway to be an addict, right?
Like my, in my mind, it waslike, I had to be homeless
living under a bridge.
I had to lose my job, my car, myfamily, right?
Like all of these things.
But wait.
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What we're failing to recognizeactually is that addiction is on
the spectrum, right?
Like it is a spectrum disorder.
And so you don't have to loseeverything.
You can simply just be drinkingthree glasses of wine every
night, and you feel terribleevery day you wake up.
But the thought of not havingthose three glasses of wine is
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like, I could never not havethese three glasses of wine at
night.
Like, it takes the edge off forme, right?
And so for me, I knew, I, I knewreally probably when I was in,
in my teenage years that I had aproblem with drugs and alcohol
because the hallmark sign for mewas I never wanted to have just
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one of anything.
Right.
I always, my whole goal wasalways to get completely loaded,
just, you know, I was doing itspecifically to check out.
Right.
And I think that especiallyafter the last how many years
now, that's really become veryprominent again, just like
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checking out, numbing out, notwanting to know.
And it's important that werecognize that, yeah, even if
you're getting up and even ifyou do feel great having three.
Two glasses of wine, whatever itis, whiskey, whatever you're
doing at night.
It's not necessarily, like, youkind of want to go, why?
Why am I doing this?
Right.
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If you can get to that place, doyou have suggestions for someone
since you've been there?
How do they get to that place togo?
Because someone's going to belistening and be like, oh please
ladies, like, you know, I havethe glass of wine, I have the
whiskey, it's not a big deal.
But yet, is it?
Yeah, I just always encouragepeople, you know, I've sat in
thousands of AA meetings at thispoint, you know, I've been clean
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and sober for 21 years.
And so the common things that Ihear and from the people that I
work with directly, right, is,no matter how much I wanted to
stop drinking, regardless of theamount, I could not stop when I
wanted to stop.
And I couldn't choose.
How much I was going to drink,like you can't control it,
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right?
So you can just do an experimentwith yourself.
Right?
If you are having two glasses ofwine, set that down, right?
Set it down for 30 days and seehow your life changes.
See, do you crave it when you'renot drinking it?
How does your behavior change?
Do you notice that you becomemore anxious?
Do you notice that you, Becomemore angry, like what surfaces
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when you take the alcohol awayand notice all of that and then
ask these questions like, thenwhy am I drinking, right?
I think that's great.
That's excellent advice.
Because it really does take 30days to really develop that new
habit, develop a new lifestyle,so to speak.
And that would be a really greatexample for someone to taste
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test that situation for sure.
What do we.
And now when we, I want to goback and talk about being in bed
for 40 days is significant andespecially with what you were
diagnosed with and to overcomethat when you were lying in bed,
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what were you doing?
Were you working on yourself?
Were we praying?
Were we, what was getting youthrough day to day moment to
moment there?
Yeah, so that's really a greatquestion.
No one's ever asked me thatquestion before.
So that's a really goodquestion.
And, So here's the thing.
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when you have mass cellactivation syndrome and
histamine intolerance, that'swhen you're immune and your
nervous system collide,essentially.
And the immune system becomeshighly reactive and the nervous
system starts thinking thateverything in the environment is
an invader, which then causesanaphylaxis.
That's why it becomes lifethreatening.
Thankfully, I stayed below theradar with anaphylaxis.
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I just had every symptom, but,and, so what I learned in those
40 days is how intricatelyconnected our mind and body
truly is.
I've read about this for years.
I've been fascinated by theidea.
I've thought.
Wouldn't that be really awesomeif that were true?
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You know, well, lo and behold,in those 40 days, I full hand
got to experience it.
And so what I, what I wasexperiencing, the most
uncomfortable symptom that Ihad, and I had a lot of
symptoms, was tremors.
And I had tremors from head totoe and I had them in my brain.
And having tremors in my brainwas just literally terrifying.
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because you don't know, like.
What does that mean?
Where is this going to end?
You know, what, what's the bodyworking up to tell me?
You know what I mean?
Like, it's just very scary to bein that unknown place.
And so, the first like week Iwas in bed, all I could think
about was my business is that.
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I had, I had worked until Icouldn't work anymore.
The last day I worked, Icouldn't tell if my desk was
moving, if the computer wasmoving, or if I was moving.
That's how bad the neurologicalsymptoms were.
And I finally just had to saylike, I, I literally can't do
this another day.
And so I was just supposed totake a long weekend.
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So everything I had in my head,all the things like I'll get to
that Tuesday, whatever, right.
As soon as I said, I'm done.
And my company stepped in tohelp me out.
my body completely shut down,like completely shut down this
symptoms increased tenfold.
So the first week I wasobsessed, like, well, I'm just
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out of work.
You know, what is my team goingto do?
What about all my clients, allthis stuff, right?
I still didn't get it.
I still didn't understand to theextent of where I had gotten
myself.
And so after that, though, itwas so painful to be in my body
with everything that was goingon that.
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I started noticing like if mywife would bring my phone in the
bedroom, the tremors in my bodywould increase literally tenfold
because I would start thinkingabout work.
Right.
And who, and what, am I evergoing to have a career again?
Right.
All this stuff.
And if she'd take the phone outof the bedroom and I could just
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watch, you know, some silly showon Netflix and really just calm
myself down, then the tremorswould come right back down.
So, I was like, this is crazy,right?
Like I thought I was making itup at first and I did several of
these test episodes and lo andbehold, I wasn't.
So I was like, That's when Iknew that there was hope.
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That's when I knew that I hadthe capacity to heal my own
body.
Is in those moments when Istarted understanding that if I
have the power to make myselfsicker and more reactive, then I
absolutely have the power tocalm myself, to reverse what's
occurring, and to change what'sgoing on in my physical being.
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And that's what I started doing.
That is so Powerful.
So two things I want to hitupon, but I want to just keep on
this.
We'll go back to how you gotthere.
Like as far as how did you knowyou were addicted to work and
switched that?
Yeah, because I know that youdove so deep into tapping into
your inner wisdom.
So I want to stick on this for aminute because I really want to
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know how much further you doveand where you dove.
And who you dove with.
Yeah.
So this is like my favoritestuff to talk about, right?
Like this is the best, right?
So because this is the stuff Iwas so fascinated by and still
am, like I still study and readand listen, you know, all the
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things, but, for me, I, had beenmeditating with Dr.
Joe Dispenza.
Do you know him?
Are you familiar with his work?
Yeah.
Okay.
So I had chronic insomnia aspart of the ongoing chronic
illness.
I was suffering before I gotreally sick and I would sleep
maybe a couple of hours a night.
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And I found his work, Breakingthe Habit of Being Yourself.
And this was a long time ago,like 10, 12, 14 years ago.
And before he had themeditations online, all that,
right?
So I read the book and I'm like,Oh my goodness, this is me.
This is my life.
And this is what I need to do tohelp myself.
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So I started meditating to himfor insomnia originally, but I
never did any of his other work.
So the Meditation came naturalto me and I was meditating 30
minutes a day at a minimum everyday since I found his work.
Amazingly, as soon as I startedmeditating to his work, I
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started sleeping every singlenight and really I've never had
a problem with insomnia sincethen, except when this whole
thing happened with my body,right?
But in normal conditions.
I didn't have insomnia anymore.
So I went deeper in that workand then, and I also was doing
Qigong.
They're just like sort of JoeDispenza and Qigong are sort of
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like two feathers of the samecloth.
I also love Michael Singer, TheUntethered Soul, all of that,
all of that work that talksabout, it is within you, right?
Like stop, stop making themistake of searching outside of
you, right?
Everything you need to know isright here.
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And if you can access that, thenthat's great.
You'll find the answer, right?
And so I started meditating likethree and four hours a day.
I was doing Qigong.
I mean, when I say devoted mylife to healing, I devoted my
life to healing.
Literally, that's all I did.
And when I wasn't doing aspecific practice, then what I
was doing was working on mythoughts.
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Is what am I thinking, right?
And why am I thinking that?
Like, what do I believe?
What is, where does that thoughtoriginate from, right?
And so I was doing all thiswork, my body started healing in
profound, amazing ways.
My doctor is like, Oh my God,whatever you're doing, keep
doing it.
Right.
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And then all of a sudden, Mynervous system said, no more, no
more.
You can't meditate like thisanymore.
Literally, I'd put theheadphones on to meditate and
I'd start having an allergicreaction to the meditation.
I was having allergic reactionsto my thoughts.
I would literally, that is nextlevel when you start having
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allergic reactions to your ownthoughts.
And so, it was like a sort oflike a black belt training and
training my mind.
And so I couldn't meditateanymore, but I thought about the
whole concept of if I can keepmy frequency and my vibration
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elevated.
then my body is healing.
And if I can keep my nervoussystem in the parasympathetic
state, then my body's healing.
So I took those concepts and Ijust kept going with that.
And I started writing letters tomy body.
And my body started talking tome through the pen and paper,
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and I started uncovering theseparts of myself that weren't
healed.
And I started going back andhealing those parts of myself
that weren't healed, and lettingand inviting my body to release
the trauma that it was holding.
And I have to tell you.
Three and a half years later,here I am and I don't have
histamine intolerance and Idon't have mast cell activation
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syndrome and all my blood workis normal and all of my tests
show that pretty much I'mhealthy.
That is so astonishing how deepand what an amazing example you
are to you absolutely can healyourself if you're willing to go
there.
Yes, I believe it.
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I believe it's accessible foreverybody.
But like you said, if you'rewilling to go there, right?
Right.
If you're willing to go there.
Oh my goodness.
So I do want to touch on thatspot though of how you
transitioned from an addictionto addiction.
to addiction to work because Ifeel like that's really big
these days.
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I feel, and it has been for along time, people throwing
themselves in there.
Do you have any telltale signsor any advice you would like to
give for people?
For red flags of, Hey, thiscould be happening to you.
You may not go where I went, butyou should at least be aware of
what's going on.
Yeah.
So here's the sneaky one that Iknew, but I don't know that a
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lot of people see it as clearlyas I could see it is, as I said,
right, is I wanted to know wherethe thoughts were coming from.
So the beliefs lead to thethoughts, right?
These long held beliefs that wehave all the way back to
childhood, right?
And for me, my value and worthwas tied up in that, right?
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I wasn't valuable because of theway that I looked and the way
that I spoke and who I loved,right?
All these things, all of thosethings, all incorporated.
And because of that, Then I wasalways seeking external
validation, right?
My worthiness, my belonging fromexterior sources.
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So for me, I was in a salesposition.
I'm, I was a mortgage banker.
So In sales, no one's like, Oh,go home, Marcy.
It's five o'clock at night.
We'll take your phone when youleave, right?
No, it's 24 hours a day, sevendays a week.
And I wanted to be the best,right?
I wanted to be at the top of thefood chain and all of these
(21:25):
things.
So when people are looking attheir own experience around
work, it's like, why are youworking the way you're working?
Right?
How are you working?
right?
Are you, not having boundarieswith your work?
Are you prioritizing your workover your family?
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I did that a lot for many, manyyears, unfortunately.
And when is enough enough,right?
For me, I always wanted more.
I would be, I'd be at The numberone person in my company, but
then it's like, well, can I benumber one in the national
level?
Can we're like how, right.
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And all of that is just based onall the beliefs that I held.
That is, you know, I just thinkthat's so important because I
feel like that's so manypeople's day to day life.
Well, if I can just get there,like that carrot, this dangling,
right, it's always going to bedangling there when you get
caught into the system versus,and it sounds like you're there
(22:30):
now versus hustling foreverything.
How about aligning so thatthings come to you naturally and
in that flow versus feeling likeyou have to keep going with the
grind.
And I think that was a falsehoodthat was fed to so many of us.
For so long.
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I would agree wholeheartedly.
Yes.
Wow.
What advice would you give toothers who are struggling right
now?
Be that with addiction tosubstance, addiction to work,
numbing out.
The world and not being in tunewithin.
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Yeah.
That's such a loaded question,right?
We could talk about that forlike seven days straight, right?
Absolutely.
Yeah.
I mean, it's just, it's such aloaded question.
I think the advice that I couldgive people is sort of what I
said earlier is like all of theteachers that I studied with all
of the things that I read.
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When things like that resonatewith you and they're, you to go
deeper within yourself, heed thecall, right?
Like, you know, they're, we allknow, We all have our own
answers.
We all have our own innatewisdom.
It's part of who we are.
It's how we're wired.
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It's not that I got it and youdidn't.
It's that somehow it's gottenburied within you and you need
to uncover whatever you'veburied it with so that you can
hear it again, right?
Like for me, it was theaddiction, the work, the, all
the things.
And it's like, as soon as Icould take that stuff away, it's
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like, Oh, Right.
There it is.
And here I go, follow the road,right?
And the path becomes clear.
It just lays itself out in frontof you.
It's so amazing.
How have you taken everythingthat you've been through,
everything that you've learnedand propelled this into a
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successful business?
I think it's because I think atthe end of the day, We,
regardless of what your story isper se, right?
We all have a story.
We all have the same emotions.
We all know what it feels liketo feel grief, to feel like you
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don't belong, to feel likeyou're an imposter.
All of these things, we all canrelate.
It doesn't matter necessarilywhat caused us to be able to
feel that way.
And so it's the similaritiesthat we all have that I really
focus on.
Right?
Like that's how I coach myclients forward in life is we
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all have to go back.
to the beginning to heal thatit's you're not going forward
unless you do you so we all haveto go back to the beginning to
heal whatever needs to be healedand figure that out and we all
process emotion the exact sameway in terms of how it feels to
each person it's devastatingit's difficult it feels like
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it's going to take you out rightand then we just work through
that little by little And thenyou learn how to raise your
frequency and you learn how tochange your thoughts and you
learn how to talk to yourselfcorrectly and appropriately like
you deserve, right?
And you learn how to loveyourself and through self
compassion and self love, you'reable to translate and transcend
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some of these experiences tofind purpose in your life.
I mean, can we just have a micdrop right there?
And we just have Marcy's loveout into the entire world and
heal us all.
Ha! You know, see the angelsdescend.
I mean truly, oh my goodness.
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So when you look at your workand you're working with clients,
what is truly your favorite partthus far in the business that
you have built since everythinghas gone on?
Which is amazing that here youare, everything that you've gone
through and you're running suchan incredible, successful
coaching program.
Yeah, thank you.
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My favorite part of all of it iswhen, this is perfect example.
I was on a call with one of myclients last week and, I've been
working with her for four weeksand she said to me, Marcy, like,
I can't believe this.
My whole life is different infour weeks.
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And I'm like, well, tell me moreabout that.
And she started crying.
And she's like, I'm just sograteful.
I've stopped trolling datingwebsites for men that can't show
up for me in the ways that Ineed and deserve.
I've changed my eating habits.
I'm facing all my financialissues head on, and I'm just
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going to take care of them.
You know, I'm walking every day.
I'm in my body instead ofchecking out and I sleep better
and I just feel better.
She's like literally Marcy,every part of my life is
different, and I'm just likethat's it.
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That's it There's nothing elsefor me to do right like yes,
we'll keep working together, butyou know that's the joy I,
that's, yeah, that's everythingto me.
That is beautiful.
I love that.
So if you were to pan out fiveyears from now, what's Marcy
doing?
Well, um, I feel like you've gotsome things in the mix.
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Yeah, I don't even know whatI'll be doing.
You know, I have a book that Istarted writing that I put on
the back burner because it takesa lot of time and a lot of
energy.
I'm doing a filming with a womanup in Washington state.
later this fall because shewants to tell the world my
story.
She's a filmmaker.
You know, I don't know.
(28:38):
I just know, I don't know what'sgoing on with my phone.
So I apologize.
Can't hear it.
Don't hear a thing.
Oh, good.
So I don't know where all ofthis is gonna lead to, you know,
but I'm just so certain that Ididn't go through all the things
that I went through to not sharehow I overcame it with other
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people.
My mission is to help as manypeople as I can possibly help.
And what I ask, you know, spiritconsciousness.
energy source, whatever yourefer to that as.
I just ask every day thatwhatever circumstances need to
come my way for me to do that,then I trust that's going to
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happen.
And that's such an incredibleway to live.
And to help your clients livethat way, that brings the light
into so many more people aroundthe world.
I definitely see a book, Idefinitely see a movie, and you
left out a TEDx talk.
I definitely see you doing a lotof speaking, for sure.
Without a doubt.
Easy peasy.
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Thank you.
Lots of speaking.
Mm hmm.
Coming your way.
For sure.
Which is so exciting.
And you have your own podcasttoo.
So tell me how your podcast wasborn.
My podcast was born because Iwanted to start getting my
message out to the world.
Mm hmm.
And, um, as I said, writing wasso, it's stressful for me.
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And so, I started podcastingbecause I like to talk like
that's my medium, right?
I feel like I'm more impactfulwith words.
Spoken rather than written.
And so I started podcasting inthat way and I just do a solo
cast.
So I've published like 37 or 38episodes and they're all like 10
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or 12 minutes.
And I just pick a topic.
I talk about that topic and Igive you three actionable tools
literally to walk away with andthat should help you.
If you're willing to starttoday, you know what I mean?
So that's, that was the idea islike, how can I help people
quickly?
And now I've really transferredover into like social media so
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that I can do like, you know,30, 60, 90 second clips of like,
if you're struggling with this,here's a solution, which is even
faster than doing podcast.
Absolutely.
And, you know, and through bothvenues, you're reaching so many
people and get, again, gettingyour story out there and getting
your incredible energies outthere to help so many people.
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Yeah.
It's such a pleasure and honor,honestly.
It truly is.
I love it.
Well, Marci, we're getting tothis time in the show where I
ask this one question.
Are you ready?
Lay it on me.
All right.
What is one thing that no oneknows about Marci?
I'm ready.
Oh, goodness.
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That my whole entire life hasbeen run by fear.
My entire existence was based onfear and, people look at my
life.
And if they knew that they wouldnever believe it because of what
I've been able to accomplish.
And so, you know, like if formerbusiness partners heard this,
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they'd be like, no way.
No way.
Right?
I don't see fear anywhere withinyou, but it's, yeah, it's been
the bane of my existence, but itis, one of those things that I
refuse to let win daily.
Just got to keep going.
I'm afraid every day, but I showup every day regardless.
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That's the key, right?
Constantly pushing through,leaning into the fear.
Always, right?
What part of myself is afraidright now?
Right?
Oh, I'm here for you.
I'm right here with you.
Right?
I see you and it's okay, butwe're going to do this.
It's going to be great.
That is really a pricelessstatement right there for so
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many people to be able to takeaway and use on so many
different levels in their liferight now.
Yeah, it's been a life changingstatement for myself.
I love how much love you justshowed for yourself in that
moment and I want everyone elseto really.
embrace that and work on gettingthere because that's where we
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really want everyone to get tothat place of self love and self
value and self worth.
And the more you have it within,the more you have to share.
Yeah, absolutely.
I couldn't agree more.
Oh my goodness.
So much fun.
Well, Marci, please tell ourcommunity, where can they go to
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get podcasting, all the things.
Yeah, really?
I believe you're going to puteverything in the show notes.
My website's a little bitcomplicated for coaching.
Like to name it off and somebodyremember it.
But you'll have that in the shownotes, but really if people just
like follow me on Instagram, TikTOK, YouTube, Facebook, I'm on
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there and I post content everysingle day about how you can
change your life.
What, whatever.
And my topics are varied.
So if you just, Reach out,follow me there.
And if you're interested inhaving like a one to one
consultation about whether ornot we're a good fit for
coaching, you can find mywebsite in the show notes.
Absolutely.
All the show notes in the shownotes over will be over on
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Jenniferplottings.
com.
It will have her website.
We'll have all of her, do wecall them call names for social
media?
I don't know what we call them.
Profile names, handles.
Handles.
There we go.
Handles.
See, I'm, I'm like aging myselfby the minute.
I love it.
I get it.
Me too.
Handles.
We're so cool.
All of her details will be overthere.
So you can just click over andclick through and get in touch
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with her.
Well, as we close out the show,Marci, what is one last piece of
inspiration or advice that you'dlike to leave with us today?
Yeah, it's super simple andyou've probably heard it a
thousand and one times, but itis, just don't ever give up.
Right?
The, the thing is that life ismeant to help us evolve, right?
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Things are meant to be difficultfor a reason so that we can
evolve and grow into the personwe're intended to be here.
And so know that as the goodcomes, it will pass.
And as the difficult stuffcomes, that will also pass.
But if you give up in between,then you never make it to the
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good stuff again.
You know, and that, that kept mehanging on and still does today.
It's something I use all thetime is that I just refuse to
give up no matter what, nomatter what it is.
That is so beautiful.
And it's true.
We've got so much to live forand so much to embrace in our
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world every moment of every dayif we can just take that moment
to take the breath.
And see the light.
Yes.
Marci, this has been so muchfun.
I feel like you and I, we couldtalk for days, days and days and
days.
I would love it.
Yes.
I would love it too.
So as things change in yourworld and the TEDx talks, I'm
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just putting that out there foryou for the universe.
All that stuff comes up.
I would love to help have youcome back and share.
Through your journey, becausethis is an incredible journey,
and I'm honored that you're apart of it here with our
community.
Oh, thank you so much.
I mean, really, thank you somuch.
I'm so grateful and soappreciative.
Me too.
Thank you so much.
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Well, again, everything fromtoday, all the contact
information for Marci will beover in JenniferPilates.
com.
So you can head over there andconnect with her.
Again, thank you, Marci, so muchfor being here today, for
sharing all Your incrediblejourney, all of your compassion
and love and light.
I'm just, I'm blessed.
Thank you.
(36:31):
Likewise.
Thank you.
You are so welcome.
Well, as we say everyone untilnext time, may you live an
empowered life from within.
Thank you so much for tuning into another episode.
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