In this episode of the Love Your Gut podcast, Dr. Heather Finley chats with Bridgitte Mallinson, dietitian and founder of Gut Personal. Bridgitte shares her experience of dealing with GI issues like chronic bloating and constipation while managing motherhood and growing a business. She talks about how she launched her supplement line, the challenges of balancing work and family, and the gut health strategies that helped her feel better. Whether you're a busy mom dealing with GI symptoms or an entrepreneur looking to grow your business, this episode offers practical advice and real stories that can help you manage your health and your career. Tune in for straightforward, actionable tips and a behind-the-scenes look at the life of a mompreneur.
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Dr. Heather Finley (00:03):
Welcome to the Love Your Gut Podcast.
I'm your host, Dr.
Heather Finley, registereddietitian and gut health
specialist.
I understand the frustration ofdealing with GI issues because
I've been there and I spent overtwo decades searching for
answers for my own gut issues ofconstipation, bloating, and
stomach pain.
I've dedicated my life tounderstanding and solving my own
(00:24):
gut issues.
And now I'm here to guide you.
On this podcast, I'll help youidentify the true root causes of
your discomfort.
So you can finally ditch yoursymptoms for good.
My goal is to empower you withthe knowledge and tools you need
so that you can love your gutand it will love you right back.
So if you're ready to learn alot, gain a deeper understanding
(00:46):
of your gut and find lastingrelief.
You are in the right place.
Welcome to the love your gutpodcast.
Welcome back to the next episodeof the Love Your Gut podcast.
I'm so glad to be here todaywith a fellow dietitian,
Bridget, and she is a dietitian,a mom, and the founder of Gut
(01:07):
Personal.
So we're gonna talk all thingstoday, motherhood, building
businesses, supplements, andprobably wherever the tangents
take us.
So I'm so excited for you to behere, Bridgette.
Thank you so much.
I'm so excited.
Let's just get started.
If people don't know you, youhave a very interesting
business.
So you have a gut healthcoaching business, but you also
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have started gut personal, uh,probably what, like several
years ago now?
Three years ago.
Three years ago.
Okay.
And it's been fun watching yougrow the supplement side of your
business and now you have theGut Personal Wellness Club,
which is really cool.
So I would love to hear justkind of your passion for gut
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health and why you got into it.
I know many of us get into itfor our own reasons, so tell us
your story.
Yeah, so I was an undergrad tobecome a dietitian, and I was
starting to have all thesehealth issues.
You know, I was diagnosed withhypothyroidism, I had adult
onset A DHD.
I was always constipated, youknow, that was my story like
(02:14):
growing up and I.
Um, grew up on a lot ofantibiotics as US nineties kids
do.
And um, yeah, I was in, I was inundergrad where like health
started to deteriorate eventhough I was taking really good
care of myself and eating well.
And then when I went to gradschool, things really shifted in
a.
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Problematic way.
I was bloated all the time.
My food sensitivities keptincreasing.
You know, I felt like I just hadto keep removing foods to feel
good.
And, um, it really felt likeschool was failing me because I
was eating healthy and I wasconstipated, bloated, nauseous,
like all of these terriblesymptoms.
(02:58):
And my schooling wasn't reallyhelping.
Doctors were failing me.
You know, I was going to.
The best of the best in Bostonfor not only like GI um, issues,
but also for migraines.
I was going to, you know, one ofthe best neurologists in the
country and none of them weregiving me the right answers.
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It was just always anothermedication.
So it was when I was in thesecond year of, uh, my master's
program that I started to hearabout functional medicine, and I
got an internship with Dr.
Mark Hyman in his Ultra WellnessCenter, which is out in
Massachusetts.
And.
I was sitting there in thisinternship and was realizing
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people were coming from all overthe world to see Dr.
Hyman and to see his dietitians,and I had the same symptoms as
them.
I'm literally sitting acrossfrom this person who had just
come from like Belgium and wehad just had lunch, and my
stomach hurt so bad.
I was so bloated.
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Food was just sitting in mystomach.
And it was this aha moment thateven though I had started
learning about functionalmedicine, that this was really
an issue that like not only, youknow, was my gut an issue, an
issue, but all of these otherthings that I was being
diagnosed with were probablyrelated to it.
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So, you know, my.
That was my aha moment.
And then everything changed forme after I did a poop test and a
SIBO test and figured out I hadall the things and, um, really
started my career in privatepractice.
Um, and, and loved it.
Loved like gut was always myfocus.
I loved helping women fix theirgut because I knew it changed my
(04:46):
life.
Our stories are literally likecopy paste.
Which is, which is no wonderthat we get along, but it's
like, yeah.
Same thing.
I feel like I hit my lowest oflow points in school and I'm
like.
What the heck am I doing?
You know, I'm paying all thismoney to be here and I'm getting
worse.
(05:06):
Or just, yeah, it's crazy how,how life takes us.
And you know how once you end upfinding relief from your own
symptoms, it gives you hope thatmaybe things can change for
other people.
So you're a dietitian.
You have now.
Started this business.
You're seeing people in privatepractice and you're probably
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starting to recommend varioussupplements and products, and
this is probably several yearsprior to starting the supplement
line, but tell me about thejourney there, because I find
that really interesting.
You probably started thesupplement line for a very
distinct reason.
(05:48):
So tell us about that and why.
You did what you did and why youhave the products that you have
and all of those things.
Yeah, so in the early days of mycareer, this is probably 12, 10,
12 years ago, I loved, you know,doing poop testing on all of my
clients and then, you know,recommending those personalized
supplements.
(06:08):
Well, that was in privatepractice, but then I move my
practice actually into aholistic pharmacy.
And that was a couple yearslater.
And so in this holisticpharmacy, I had my one-on-one
clients, you know, where I hadfood test results, um, for them.
And I could create that customplan, but it was also a retail
space for supplements.
(06:29):
So I, you know, changed mypractice to just being
one-on-one to also being thesupplement buyer.
Um, for a retail space.
So, you know, it was pretty coolbecause I was, I, I knew this
custom supplement, supplement,um, recommendation space, but
then it was like, oh, I'm, I'mkind of buying for the masses
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more so.
Um, so I got really educated onhigh quality supplements, what
they were doing.
Um, you know, got the behind thescenes of all the big brands.
And while I was there it wasreally great because people
could walk into the pharmacy andif I didn't have a client, they
could tell me, Hey, I'mconstipated, I'm bloated all the
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time and I can't sleep.
And I'd say, okay, like, let'stry these two things.
Go try them, come back, like,let me know how it goes.
And um, it was wonderful becausepeople got really good results
with like one or two or maybeeven three supplements, um,
without, you know, doing guttesting with them.
(07:33):
And it was this aha moment withsupplements that.
Wow, the, like big supplementcompanies are doing such a great
job formulating, but whatthey're not doing a great job
was building community andintegrating practitioners in a
really.
Great way.
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And, you know, health coachesand, and people who, um, you
know, wanna say, Hey, take amagnesium for sleep, you know,
and pooping.
Um, I just felt like the bigsupplement companies weren't
building community, but then youhad these influencer supplement
brands that were really great atthat, but their supplements were
crap.
Yeah.
I wanted to bring'em together.
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I wanted to have really superhigh quality supplements that
worked that you could helppersonalize.
And we have an online quiz, um,from all this education that I
took for, you know, a decade oflooking at poop tests and
figuring out what the root causewas for people.
I.
I love that I didn't know thepart about the pharmacy.
(08:34):
What an interesting pivot foryou that then launched this
whole other sector of yourbusiness.
So what was the first productthat you formulated or that
maybe you came out with a coupleat a time, but what were the
first products that you had?
Yeah, we launched with a coupleproducts, but what I always knew
was that magnesium would be ourstar product.
(08:55):
And it is, yeah.
Um, and all of our productsyou'll find have really funky
names.
Um, and I've come up with all ofthe names.
I always called Magnesium themiracle worker to my clients.
And so when I launched my ownsupplement company, I was like,
wow, I can call it the MiracleWorker.
Um, so that's what ourmagnesium's called and um, it
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really is our star product.
Well, for a good reason, right?
So many people need magnesiumfor so many reasons.
Tell us why you chose the typeof magnesium that you have in
your product and why it works sowell for people.
Yeah, so we chose a bisglycinate form.
So for a long time in practice Iwas using citrate for
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constipation and glycinate kindof for everything else.
And what I noticed is that, um.
If I had clients on justglycinate, they would get better
results with a higher dose.
Um, so when I kind of changedthat in practice and, and moved
to just a bis glycinate form,um, I.
(09:59):
And I, I just, I just felt likeit was absorbing better and it
was kind of helping people withmore than the things and kind of
trying to just streamlinepeople's supplement protocols
and saying, okay, you need thismagnesium for this and this
magnesium for this.
I kind of found it was workingfor all the things.
Yeah.
So you have the magnesium.
Yeah.
What are your other productsthat are really, really popular
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and why do you think they're sopopular?
Yes.
Okay, so we have this product, Inamed it the Healer.
It is deeply healing to yourimmune system.
I know you love it.
Um, it's our immunoglobulins,which I like to say is basically
a dairy-free colostrumalternative.
Um, colostrum is getting a tonof press right now for good
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reason.
I mean, I think there's.
So many healing properties weuse.
Um, basically, uh,immunoglobulins come from the
serum of a cow, so basically theblood and they don't have the
dairy, um, properties, you know,that are typical colostrum
would, which is great for peoplewith gut issues.
As you know, like a lot of uswhen we're healing our gut are
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sensitive to dairy.
Um, so this works really well.
It's deeply healing to the gut.
Um, supports, you know,bacterial balance of the gut.
I love that it like naturallybinds to bad things in the gut
and gets rid of them, and thenit's really supportive to the
gut lining too.
So it is just such a powerhouseand I love it.
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I mean, it's one of my favoriteproducts.
Probably the most common productthat we use with clients is
immunoglobulins, and I have, ifyou're curious, the difference
between colostrum andimmunoglobulins, I'll link an
episode in the show notes whereI talk about more of like the
science behind that, if anybodyis wanting to nerd out on that.
(11:45):
But you're right.
Immunoglobulins are, I think,far superior to colostrum for a
lot of reasons.
And one of them being thatthey're way better tolerated,
they're more potent, and theyjust do so many things for you.
So really, regardless of whatyour gut issue is, they will
help in some way, shape, orform.
(12:06):
And so at some point on ajourney with us, our clients
typically end up usingimmunoglobulins for.
However long.
But talk to us maybe about, themagnesium probably that's
something that people use quitea bit for like a longer period
of time.
The immunoglobulins theyprobably use for longer periods
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of time.
Yeah.
But you mentioned before werecorded that your other top
seller was SaccharomycesBoulardii so break that one down
for us.
Why do you think that's alsolike in your top three products
and.
Is it a short or long-term thingfor people and like what would
they use that for?
Yeah, I mean, I love Sac Bii.
(12:49):
I think I fell in love with thisstrain when I personally had
SIBO and couldn't tolerate otherprobiotics.
Yeah.
And so I just thought, oh, Ican't do any probiotics.
So Saccharomyces Boulardii,is abeneficial yeast train.
Um, it's really good at gettingrid of the bad guys.
Um, in the gut super gentlyinstead of going on, you know,
uh.
Antimicrobial protocol.
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It's kind of just gently gettingrid of some bad guys.
It's really incredible postantibiotics or if you're
traveling and you get terribletravelers diarrhea or
montezuma's revenge.
It's so powerful there.
We even have some clients, um,who are doing gut testing with,
who have really bad things likec diff, um, yeah.
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So it's really good at gettingrid of the bad guys.
And a lot of women that come tous are really looking for a
solution like, Hey, I've gotquite a bit of gut issues.
I'm not really interested indoing testing.
We put them on, uh, a four stepprotocol that we call the gut
fix reset, which is themagnesium, um, the
immunoglobulins, our sac bii,and then kind of like an
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L-glutamine aloe blend.
Um, so it's really great.
I mean, just.
They're all kind of really greatat kind of giving you just that
little reset that you mightneed.
Yeah, I know.
I love Sacro Myis, ARDIspecifically for travel.
Whenever we have clients thatare like in the middle of a
protocol and they're like, Ihave made so much progress, but
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I'm going to Mexico and I do notwant to come back with
Montezuma's revenge, like yousaid, I'm like.
Pick up some SaccharomycesBoulardii and start taking it
before your trip.
Take it the whole trip, andthen, you know, just basically
finish out the bottle becauseit's amazing.
It's amazing product.
And the combo of immunoglobulinsand scro ballardi together is a
(14:35):
powerhouse.
So, yes, that I imagine is whyyou made that into your little
bundle that you have.
Um.
Tell us just kind of some ofthe, like behind the scenes,
like what's it like to own asupplement brand or what have
been, I guess, your highesthighs and maybe something that
(14:57):
was like challenging that youdidn't expect and Yeah.
Um, give us the behind thescenes.
Yeah.
I mean, all of my education isin nutrition, so I took one
business class.
It was entrepreneurship 1 0 1.
Same.
Right?
Oh my God.
We have literally the samestories.
I love it.
And it was terrible because itwas nothing about
entrepreneurship.
(15:18):
I think they were telling you,you know, about like classes of
business, you know what I mean?
Like or what class your businesswould fit into.
I ridiculous.
And, um, I love being anentrepreneur.
I love being an entrepreneur.
When I had my private practice,the vision that I set for Gut
personal was really to helpmillions of women.
You know, I love supplementsand.
(15:39):
I believe in the power of them.
I, I wanted to help women in abigger way.
What I didn't know, um, aboutstarting a supplement company or
a physical product company ingeneral, it's super expensive.
You know, I have to purchase.
We have, um.
5,000 prenatals coming to thewarehouse today.
Like that's tens and sometimeshundreds of thousands of dollars
(16:02):
that you have to put out beforeyou make any money.
And so I think with, you know,not, not having a business
degree, whether that would helpor not, I.
Um, has been challenging, butalso really fun.
Um, I think the finances side ofit is harder.
To me, it was harder than havinga private practice.
I had so many expenses.
(16:22):
We have so many expenses.
Um, but the payoff is really.
To help more people and thenalso to build a business to
sell.
Um, that is also a reason Istarted Gut Personal and we
actually have 30 female angelinvestors.
Women, you know, just like you,who are business owners and
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entrepreneurs who want anotherspace to put their money other
than, you know, the typicalstocks in real estate.
And, um, growing wealth forwomen is actually a really big
mission of mine too.
Um, because, you know, I wannabe part of the big conversations
of building a business, even,even though I don't have a
business degree and I'm a woman.
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So, um, it's been really fun,but I mean, can be very
challenging.
And then adding children intothat, um, makes it even more
challenging.
Yes.
So let's chat about that.
So you are a mom of two, we'lljust call it two since you're
pregnant and expecting and yeah,throwing children into the mix
(17:26):
when you own and are growing abusiness definitely creates.
A little bit of chaos in mostlythe best way possible.
And so talk to us about that.
Like I imagine you started yourbusiness before kids, and I
imagine having kids totallychange things for you.
And actually, the way that weconnected was.
(17:47):
We weren't in the same cohort,but we were in the same
mastermind for women who are inbusiness that are moms
specifically, and that's how wegot connected.
So yeah.
How has that journey been foryou and from even like a gut
health standpoint, like why isthat important to you as well?
You know, when you think aboutfor me, when I'm pregnant, I'm
(18:08):
like, I'm passing down mymicrobiome to my children.
Like that's really important.
So anything like that that'skind of stuck out to you on your
motherhood journey?
Yes.
Oh my gosh.
Where to start?
I mean, I think I'm themicrobiome.
I'll start with that first.
I, um, am still breastfeeding mydaughter.
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I'm pregnant with our second,um, my first daughter who's 20
months, does not want to stopbreastfeeding.
So, um, that has been trickyfrom a microbiome standpoint
because I think after having myfirst daughter, it things really
shifted.
Um, I think, of course, youknow, there's so many things
that impacted the, the bur.
(18:49):
Uh, being pregnant labor itself.
Um, the stress of having anewborn, the lack of sleep and
the lack of, um, like rest yourdigestion gets, right.
Constantly snacking.
I mean, there's so many thingsthat in pregnancy and early
motherhood that just screwed up,screw up any woman's gut, but
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kind of screwed up mine.
So, um.
About a couple months ago I dida GI map and it showed me there
was a lot going on and I said,okay, great.
I'm gonna stop breastfeedingbefore I get pregnant with my
second, got pregnant with mysecond before I could address
some really bad guys that werein my gut.
(19:32):
Um, so that's been.
A little challenging, honestly,mentally, because I, you, you
know, you and I aspractitioners, we know there's,
we pa we're passing alongeverything.
I mean, we're passing along ourmicrobiome.
We're helping, you know, I'mgrowing another daughter.
We're helping her grow her eggsfor her fertility.
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You know what I mean?
There's so many things that I'mdoing to support her right now
and um, it's been a littlescrewy with my mind knowing that
my gut is not a hundred percent.
And so we kind of got pregnant alittle earlier than we thought,
um, which is a blessing.
So that's been a little tough.
Um, and then, you know, with thebusiness, I am a super
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optimistic person and I'm.
Not risk adverse in the lease.
So starting a business was greatand the vision of scaling it was
great.
When I was pregnant, um, Iactually spoke on a lot of
stages.
It was really important to me toshow this pregnant woman, you
know, us moms doing it reallydifferently.
And I thought that would justcontinue into having a child,
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you know, she's just gonna comealong with me to all these
events.
And while some of that is true.
There's, there was a lot morechallenge and a lot more of me
integrating into her life that Ithought, oh, she'll just
integrate.
Perfectly into mine and I didn'trealize how much, you know, I
would need to integrate intohers, you know, and, um, that
(20:59):
was challenging.
And, uh, when she was 10 monthsold, we moved across, basically
across country, um, and startedour life here in North Carolina.
We were in Boston before, sothere were all these big life
shifts that were super positive,um, but were, you know, a little
mentally tough.
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Yeah, I love that.
And I mean, I think that's sucha good reflection of like you
integrating into hers and herintegrating to yours.
It's never a one-sided thingever, which is so beautiful, you
know, in so many ways.
Um, and yeah, as moms, I thinkit's just, there's so many
layers too, of.
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Just stuff.
So you had some stuff on your GImap that you wanted to address
and you got pregnant.
Yeah.
There's lots of things that youcan do for your gut while
pregnant.
So let's talk about that becauseI think, like you said, you're a
super optimistic person.
We often work with tons of moms,whether they are pregnant,
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breastfeeding, trying toconceive in between having
children.
Um, for good reason.
Moms have GI issues for all thereasons that you mentioned.
So if someone's listening tothis and they're not in a place
where they can go through somekind of intense gut protocol, I
mean, that's what I'm in rightnow.
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I'm breastfeeding and I have aalmost five month old.
What can you do or what wouldyou, what are you focusing on
being that you're nursing andyou're pregnant?
I.
Yes.
So, and I would love yourthoughts on this.
Um, I, I'm doing a double doseof our immunoglobulins.
I'm on our, um, spore basedprobiotic, a double dose of
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that.
Um, I actually had eczema popup.
I.
Uh, over my eyelid, and that'swhat actually got me to do the
GI map.
So my gut issues were showing onmy skin, which they had never,
never, never, never before.
So no surprise to us, but ashock to, you know, a lot of
people is like, wow, my gutissues are causing my skin
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issues.
Um, so I'm doing that.
Those are the main things I'mdoing for my gut.
And then of course, my prenatal,um, which we added, we actually
added a littlescSaccharomycesinto our prenatal.
Okay.
I was actually gonna ask youabout that.
Mm-hmm.
So, that was one of the thingswhen I was pregnant, you were so
kind and you sent me yourprenatal vitamin, which I took,
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and I love that it is sixcapsules and not anymore because
it's.
Hard to take a prenatal whenyou're sick and you're nauseous
and all the things.
And also if you're trying totake other stuff, like I took
immunoglobulins for a lot of mypregnancy also.
And you know, you might haveother vitamins or things that
you wanna take, so it justbecomes overwhelming, like the
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amount of capsules or powders orwhatever.
Why did you decide to add theSaccharomyces Boulardii to the
prenatal?
I love it personally, yes.
But I'd love to hear from you.
Oh, well, thank you.
I mean, it's an i I love that.
You love it.
Um, I, you know, as I wasthinking about like a pregnancy
journey, I was really thinkingabout, you know, get passing
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along, you know, yourmicrobiome.
And I think so many women goaround and have bad things in
their gut and they just don'tknow about them.
So, you know, my reasoning was alow level of Saccharomyces,
boulardii might support the bodyin gently getting rid of, um,
some of the bad guys andboosting the good.
Yeah, I think it's great.
(24:33):
Thank you.
If somebody is pregnant, likewhat are some of the baseline
products that you have that yourecommend?
So we've talked about themagnesium.
Yes.
We've talked about the prenatal.
That's, that's obvious, but whatare some other things that you
think can be beneficial to addin, you know, based on maybe
circumstances that someone mightbe struggling with?
(24:53):
Yeah, we, um, I also love, youknow, fish oil.
Yes.
Um, EPA and DHA.
We have a fish oil, like superwell tolerated.
Um, so that's called the omega.
So I love those three are likethe must-haves.
And then I think we also have,um, the women's probiotic, which
is a specific, two specificstrains that help reduce group
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group B strep, um, mm-hmm.
Yeah, so, you know, I kind ofbattled with adding that one or
adding SAC mys into ourprenatal.
I go back and forth, to behonest.
I'd love your candid opinions onthat after the show.
Um, but, you know, um, so wehave support for group B strep,
so I'll start taking that.
I.
Soon too.
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Um, those are my biggest things.
I mean, in vitamin D in thewinter, especially third
trimester, although I love, um,if you can get your vitamin D
checked every trimester, um, andjust pay the$50 that insurance
won't pay for it.
Um, those are my, those are mybig things.
Yeah.
(25:57):
No, keeping it super simple, notcomplicated.
Yeah.
Still supporting the gut.
I love it.
Yeah.
Good.
Okay, so we've chatted aboutentrepreneurship, motherhood,
building a supplement line.
What is next?
Or what do you think kind oflike see on the horizon or what
do you maybe even like wrappingup as you prepare to have baby
(26:18):
number two or Yeah.
What's next?
Yeah, I think I feel so far awayfrom wrapping up, so thank you
for even like projecting thatquestion because I'm like.
We will be wrapping up heresoon.
Um, so I'm due October whenwe're recording this.
It's April.
Um, so I'm really preparing fora long, um, long quote unquote
(26:40):
maternity leave.
I'd love to take the year off,so that would be like 10 weeks
off.
So we're preparing for that now.
Um, we are fundraising actuallyfor gut personal right now, so
that's, you know, something Ihad never done before.
Like I said, we have.
All female.
Mainly all female angelinvestors.
And um, so we're really workingon fundraising before I head out
(27:03):
and, um, really working ongrowing our community.
You know, we're in a really bigseason right now of growth and
um, it's really exciting, butcan also be really scary.
You know, we're building all ofthis momentum right before I
have my second girly, so.
Yeah.
(27:23):
Um, it's, it's somewhat scary.
Mostly really exciting.
And, um, yeah, thanks forasking.
It's, it's an exciting nextchapter.
I think you're having a baby atlike the perfect time of the
year.
I've had a September baby andthen I've had a November baby
and like you're right smack dabin the middle of that and it's
perfect because like the weatheris good.
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You can go on walks.
Then you just like kind of easeinto the holidays.
It truly, the fall is the besttime to have a baby.
I will argue that all day longit is the best time.
Amazing.
My last girl was smack dab inthe summer.
Oh yeah.
No, it was kind of brutalbecause also with like our
supplement company, blackFriday's really big and so I had
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to like get back into the swingright before Black Friday.
This time I'm gonna be like.
Friday is figured out in July.
So that's been a funny thingtoo, with the difference of a, a
service base versus a productbase.
We like plan things so muchfurther ahead.
Like, I love the, Hey, are wedoing a masterclass next month?
You know.
Hey, I'm gonna launch this like,you know, program and it's gonna
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start in two weeks.
Yeah.
Yes, yes.
I still do that to my teamsometimes, and they're like,
okay, chill it out.
We're gonna need like five moreteam members before we can, you
know, do this vision.
So.
Totally.
Anything that we didn't chatabout that you wanna share or
you feel like would be importantfor anybody listening to hear?
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Yeah, I mean, one of our, one ofour beliefs that got personal is
that you deserve to feelamazing.
I, I know that you believe thatbecause of the work that you do
and is so important.
Um.
I think as women, especiallymothers, if you're a mother
listening to this or you wannabecome a mother, knowing that
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putting ourselves first andputting our oxygen mask on is so
important, but also knowing thatwe don't just deserve to feel
okay, we really deserve.
To feel amazing and knowing thatinvesting in that, whether it's
immunoglobulins or gut tests,you know what I mean, really
investing and putting yourenergy where you need to to feel
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amazing.
So I'll just urge anyone who'slistening, um, to, to move in
that direction, to take actionto feel better.
It's so true.
I mean, we see it all the time.
I was on a call with a womanyesterday and she's like, I have
two kids, and I am so bloated.
I'm so constipated, I'm soexhausted.
She's like, I can barely take mykid to the park because I am
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self-conscious of the bloating.
I like, don't wanna be away froma bathroom.
You know?
You have to fix this for yourkids.
If anything.
If that's how you have to thinkabout it.
Like you have to fix this foryour kids and also for you of
course, too, but it's like yourkids deserve the best version of
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you and that that requires youto take care of yourself and put
yourself first, even thoughmaybe you might feel like you
don't have time or resources orwhatever.
So.
I love that so much.
It really is so important.
So, and you know what?
I just wish sometimes peoplecould understand how good they
can feel.
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You know, we had a clientrecently who's like, why didn't
you tell me how good I'd feel?
I was like, I did, I just can'tforce you to take action.
You know what I mean?
She wishes she would've donewhat she did, you know, gut
testing and supplements yearsago.
And I think, you know, for youand I as practitioners and
healers and we see thetransformation.
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We do our best to scream it fromthe rooftops, but at the end of
the day, we need you to say yesfor us to help you.
Totally.
Which actually to like tie up aloose end, how long did it take
you to find relief from thechronic stomach pain and
constipation and things that youdescribed when we first started
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chatting?
What's a realistic, for somebodylike you and I.
That struggled with it probablyour whole lives.
Like what did that journey looklike time-wise for you?
Yeah, I think I felt better eachmonth, right?
Like a little bit better eachmonth.
It really took.
Six months for a most of thesymptoms to go away in a year.
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It took like a year to fullyfeel better.
And I always say, and I wonderif this is something along the
lines of what you say, it'lltake one to two months for every
year.
You felt bad?
Yes.
That is what I tell people allthe time.
I'm like, at least a month forevery year, you know?
Right.
Which doesn't mean, I love thatyou said I felt better every
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month because Yes.
I think often we can think, ohgreat, I've been constipated for
20 years.
It's gonna take me almost twoyears to feel better.
But that doesn't mean you're notgonna feel better along the way.
It's just that gut health isnever linear and it's also not a
destination like, it's not likeyou do the protocol and you
never have to do anything again.
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We always are having to takecare of ourselves.
Like we always need to beinvesting in whatever it is to
keep things healthy.
That's just part of the deal.
So.
Yeah, that's, you know, that wasexactly my story.
I, 12 years ago was the, thatinitial healing of my gut.
And then six years later I had asuper stressful time in my life.
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So gut symptoms came back alittle.
And then in another six years,which is right now, I'm going
through gut stuff, you know,because I have another big life
change of being pregnant, youknow, twice in a row.
So, yeah, totally.
Yeah.
Gotta keep working on it.
Always.
So that leads me to my lastquestion, which I always ask,
which is, how do you love yourgut?
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Or what's one way that you areloving your gut?
I'm taking my supplements everysingle day.
I figured that would be theanswer, but you know, you bet.
It's the easiest, most simplething you can do.
Yes.
Okay.
Well tell all the people wherethey can find you, where they
can hear all the things,purchase the supplements, all
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that.
Yes.
So I'm Bridget Malson onInstagram.
If ever anyone wants to come sayhi or if something resonated
with you, I'd really love toknow.
I love feedback and.
If, if anything sat with youthat'd be great, um, on
Instagram or gut dot personalgut personal.com/dr.
Heather, we'll get you adiscount and you can go check
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out the products that we tried,check out the gut fix reset, um,
and yeah, let me know if youhave any questions.
Awesome.
Well, this was so helpful, Ithink just in so many ways,
whether somebody is wanting tostart a product business,
whether you're a mom, whetheryou're curious about
supplements.
So many good things.
So thanks so much for joiningme.
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Oh my gosh.
Thank you so much for having me.
I.
Welcome to the Love Your Gut Podcast.
I'm your host, Dr.
Heather Finley, registereddietitian and gut health
specialist.
I understand the frustration ofdealing with GI issues because
I've been there and I spent overtwo decades searching for
answers for my own gut issues ofconstipation, bloating, and
stomach pain.
I've dedicated my life tounderstanding and solving my own
(00:24):
gut issues.
And now I'm here to guide you.
On this podcast, I'll help youidentify the true root causes of
your discomfort.
So you can finally ditch yoursymptoms for good.
My goal is to empower you withthe knowledge and tools you need
so that you can love your gutand it will love you right back.
So if you're ready to learn alot, gain a deeper understanding
(00:46):
of your gut and find lastingrelief.
You are in the right place.
Welcome to the love your gutpodcast.
Welcome back to the next episodeof the Love Your Gut podcast.
I'm so glad to be here todaywith a fellow dietitian,
Bridget, and she is a dietitian,a mom, and the founder of Gut
(01:07):
Personal.
So we're gonna talk all thingstoday, motherhood, building
businesses, supplements, andprobably wherever the tangents
take us.
So I'm so excited for you to behere, Bridgette.
Thank you so much.
I'm so excited.
Let's just get started.
If people don't know you, youhave a very interesting
business.
So you have a gut healthcoaching business, but you also
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have started gut personal, uh,probably what, like several
years ago now?
Three years ago.
Three years ago.
Okay.
And it's been fun watching yougrow the supplement side of your
business and now you have theGut Personal Wellness Club,
which is really cool.
So I would love to hear justkind of your passion for gut
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health and why you got into it.
I know many of us get into itfor our own reasons, so tell us
your story.
Yeah, so I was an undergrad tobecome a dietitian, and I was
starting to have all thesehealth issues.
You know, I was diagnosed withhypothyroidism, I had adult
onset A DHD.
I was always constipated, youknow, that was my story like
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growing up and I.
Um, grew up on a lot ofantibiotics as US nineties kids
do.
And um, yeah, I was in, I was inundergrad where like health
started to deteriorate eventhough I was taking really good
care of myself and eating well.
And then when I went to gradschool, things really shifted in
a.
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Problematic way.
I was bloated all the time.
My food sensitivities keptincreasing.
You know, I felt like I just hadto keep removing foods to feel
good.
And, um, it really felt likeschool was failing me because I
was eating healthy and I wasconstipated, bloated, nauseous,
like all of these terriblesymptoms.
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And my schooling wasn't reallyhelping.
Doctors were failing me.
You know, I was going to.
The best of the best in Bostonfor not only like GI um, issues,
but also for migraines.
I was going to, you know, one ofthe best neurologists in the
country and none of them weregiving me the right answers.
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It was just always anothermedication.
So it was when I was in thesecond year of, uh, my master's
program that I started to hearabout functional medicine, and I
got an internship with Dr.
Mark Hyman in his Ultra WellnessCenter, which is out in
Massachusetts.
And.
I was sitting there in thisinternship and was realizing
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people were coming from all overthe world to see Dr.
Hyman and to see his dietitians,and I had the same symptoms as
them.
I'm literally sitting acrossfrom this person who had just
come from like Belgium and wehad just had lunch, and my
stomach hurt so bad.
I was so bloated.
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Food was just sitting in mystomach.
And it was this aha moment thateven though I had started
learning about functionalmedicine, that this was really
an issue that like not only, youknow, was my gut an issue, an
issue, but all of these otherthings that I was being
diagnosed with were probablyrelated to it.
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So, you know, my.
That was my aha moment.
And then everything changed forme after I did a poop test and a
SIBO test and figured out I hadall the things and, um, really
started my career in privatepractice.
Um, and, and loved it.
Loved like gut was always myfocus.
I loved helping women fix theirgut because I knew it changed my
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life.
Our stories are literally likecopy paste.
Which is, which is no wonderthat we get along, but it's
like, yeah.
Same thing.
I feel like I hit my lowest oflow points in school and I'm
like.
What the heck am I doing?
You know, I'm paying all thismoney to be here and I'm getting
worse.
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Or just, yeah, it's crazy how,how life takes us.
And you know how once you end upfinding relief from your own
symptoms, it gives you hope thatmaybe things can change for
other people.
So you're a dietitian.
You have now.
Started this business.
You're seeing people in privatepractice and you're probably
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starting to recommend varioussupplements and products, and
this is probably several yearsprior to starting the supplement
line, but tell me about thejourney there, because I find
that really interesting.
You probably started thesupplement line for a very
distinct reason.
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So tell us about that and why.
You did what you did and why youhave the products that you have
and all of those things.
Yeah, so in the early days of mycareer, this is probably 12, 10,
12 years ago, I loved, you know,doing poop testing on all of my
clients and then, you know,recommending those personalized
supplements.
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Well, that was in privatepractice, but then I move my
practice actually into aholistic pharmacy.
And that was a couple yearslater.
And so in this holisticpharmacy, I had my one-on-one
clients, you know, where I hadfood test results, um, for them.
And I could create that customplan, but it was also a retail
space for supplements.
(06:29):
So I, you know, changed mypractice to just being
one-on-one to also being thesupplement buyer.
Um, for a retail space.
So, you know, it was pretty coolbecause I was, I, I knew this
custom supplement, supplement,um, recommendation space, but
then it was like, oh, I'm, I'mkind of buying for the masses
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more so.
Um, so I got really educated onhigh quality supplements, what
they were doing.
Um, you know, got the behind thescenes of all the big brands.
And while I was there it wasreally great because people
could walk into the pharmacy andif I didn't have a client, they
could tell me, Hey, I'mconstipated, I'm bloated all the
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time and I can't sleep.
And I'd say, okay, like, let'stry these two things.
Go try them, come back, like,let me know how it goes.
And um, it was wonderful becausepeople got really good results
with like one or two or maybeeven three supplements, um,
without, you know, doing guttesting with them.
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And it was this aha moment withsupplements that.
Wow, the, like big supplementcompanies are doing such a great
job formulating, but whatthey're not doing a great job
was building community andintegrating practitioners in a
really.
Great way.
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And, you know, health coachesand, and people who, um, you
know, wanna say, Hey, take amagnesium for sleep, you know,
and pooping.
Um, I just felt like the bigsupplement companies weren't
building community, but then youhad these influencer supplement
brands that were really great atthat, but their supplements were
crap.
Yeah.
I wanted to bring'em together.
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I wanted to have really superhigh quality supplements that
worked that you could helppersonalize.
And we have an online quiz, um,from all this education that I
took for, you know, a decade oflooking at poop tests and
figuring out what the root causewas for people.
I.
I love that I didn't know thepart about the pharmacy.
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What an interesting pivot foryou that then launched this
whole other sector of yourbusiness.
So what was the first productthat you formulated or that
maybe you came out with a coupleat a time, but what were the
first products that you had?
Yeah, we launched with a coupleproducts, but what I always knew
was that magnesium would be ourstar product.
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And it is, yeah.
Um, and all of our productsyou'll find have really funky
names.
Um, and I've come up with all ofthe names.
I always called Magnesium themiracle worker to my clients.
And so when I launched my ownsupplement company, I was like,
wow, I can call it the MiracleWorker.
Um, so that's what ourmagnesium's called and um, it
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really is our star product.
Well, for a good reason, right?
So many people need magnesiumfor so many reasons.
Tell us why you chose the typeof magnesium that you have in
your product and why it works sowell for people.
Yeah, so we chose a bisglycinate form.
So for a long time in practice Iwas using citrate for
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constipation and glycinate kindof for everything else.
And what I noticed is that, um.
If I had clients on justglycinate, they would get better
results with a higher dose.
Um, so when I kind of changedthat in practice and, and moved
to just a bis glycinate form,um, I.
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And I, I just, I just felt likeit was absorbing better and it
was kind of helping people withmore than the things and kind of
trying to just streamlinepeople's supplement protocols
and saying, okay, you need thismagnesium for this and this
magnesium for this.
I kind of found it was workingfor all the things.
Yeah.
So you have the magnesium.
Yeah.
What are your other productsthat are really, really popular
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and why do you think they're sopopular?
Yes.
Okay, so we have this product, Inamed it the Healer.
It is deeply healing to yourimmune system.
I know you love it.
Um, it's our immunoglobulins,which I like to say is basically
a dairy-free colostrumalternative.
Um, colostrum is getting a tonof press right now for good
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reason.
I mean, I think there's.
So many healing properties weuse.
Um, basically, uh,immunoglobulins come from the
serum of a cow, so basically theblood and they don't have the
dairy, um, properties, you know,that are typical colostrum
would, which is great for peoplewith gut issues.
As you know, like a lot of uswhen we're healing our gut are
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sensitive to dairy.
Um, so this works really well.
It's deeply healing to the gut.
Um, supports, you know,bacterial balance of the gut.
I love that it like naturallybinds to bad things in the gut
and gets rid of them, and thenit's really supportive to the
gut lining too.
So it is just such a powerhouseand I love it.
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I mean, it's one of my favoriteproducts.
Probably the most common productthat we use with clients is
immunoglobulins, and I have, ifyou're curious, the difference
between colostrum andimmunoglobulins, I'll link an
episode in the show notes whereI talk about more of like the
science behind that, if anybodyis wanting to nerd out on that.
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But you're right.
Immunoglobulins are, I think,far superior to colostrum for a
lot of reasons.
And one of them being thatthey're way better tolerated,
they're more potent, and theyjust do so many things for you.
So really, regardless of whatyour gut issue is, they will
help in some way, shape, orform.
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And so at some point on ajourney with us, our clients
typically end up usingimmunoglobulins for.
However long.
But talk to us maybe about, themagnesium probably that's
something that people use quitea bit for like a longer period
of time.
The immunoglobulins theyprobably use for longer periods
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of time.
Yeah.
But you mentioned before werecorded that your other top
seller was SaccharomycesBoulardii so break that one down
for us.
Why do you think that's alsolike in your top three products
and.
Is it a short or long-term thingfor people and like what would
they use that for?
Yeah, I mean, I love Sac Bii.
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I think I fell in love with thisstrain when I personally had
SIBO and couldn't tolerate otherprobiotics.
Yeah.
And so I just thought, oh, Ican't do any probiotics.
So Saccharomyces Boulardii,is abeneficial yeast train.
Um, it's really good at gettingrid of the bad guys.
Um, in the gut super gentlyinstead of going on, you know,
uh.
Antimicrobial protocol.
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It's kind of just gently gettingrid of some bad guys.
It's really incredible postantibiotics or if you're
traveling and you get terribletravelers diarrhea or
montezuma's revenge.
It's so powerful there.
We even have some clients, um,who are doing gut testing with,
who have really bad things likec diff, um, yeah.
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So it's really good at gettingrid of the bad guys.
And a lot of women that come tous are really looking for a
solution like, Hey, I've gotquite a bit of gut issues.
I'm not really interested indoing testing.
We put them on, uh, a four stepprotocol that we call the gut
fix reset, which is themagnesium, um, the
immunoglobulins, our sac bii,and then kind of like an
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L-glutamine aloe blend.
Um, so it's really great.
I mean, just.
They're all kind of really greatat kind of giving you just that
little reset that you mightneed.
Yeah, I know.
I love Sacro Myis, ARDIspecifically for travel.
Whenever we have clients thatare like in the middle of a
protocol and they're like, Ihave made so much progress, but
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I'm going to Mexico and I do notwant to come back with
Montezuma's revenge, like yousaid, I'm like.
Pick up some SaccharomycesBoulardii and start taking it
before your trip.
Take it the whole trip, andthen, you know, just basically
finish out the bottle becauseit's amazing.
It's amazing product.
And the combo of immunoglobulinsand scro ballardi together is a
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powerhouse.
So, yes, that I imagine is whyyou made that into your little
bundle that you have.
Um.
Tell us just kind of some ofthe, like behind the scenes,
like what's it like to own asupplement brand or what have
been, I guess, your highesthighs and maybe something that
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was like challenging that youdidn't expect and Yeah.
Um, give us the behind thescenes.
Yeah.
I mean, all of my education isin nutrition, so I took one
business class.
It was entrepreneurship 1 0 1.
Same.
Right?
Oh my God.
We have literally the samestories.
I love it.
And it was terrible because itwas nothing about
entrepreneurship.
(15:18):
I think they were telling you,you know, about like classes of
business, you know what I mean?
Like or what class your businesswould fit into.
I ridiculous.
And, um, I love being anentrepreneur.
I love being an entrepreneur.
When I had my private practice,the vision that I set for Gut
personal was really to helpmillions of women.
You know, I love supplementsand.
(15:39):
I believe in the power of them.
I, I wanted to help women in abigger way.
What I didn't know, um, aboutstarting a supplement company or
a physical product company ingeneral, it's super expensive.
You know, I have to purchase.
We have, um.
5,000 prenatals coming to thewarehouse today.
Like that's tens and sometimeshundreds of thousands of dollars
(16:02):
that you have to put out beforeyou make any money.
And so I think with, you know,not, not having a business
degree, whether that would helpor not, I.
Um, has been challenging, butalso really fun.
Um, I think the finances side ofit is harder.
To me, it was harder than havinga private practice.
I had so many expenses.
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We have so many expenses.
Um, but the payoff is really.
To help more people and thenalso to build a business to
sell.
Um, that is also a reason Istarted Gut Personal and we
actually have 30 female angelinvestors.
Women, you know, just like you,who are business owners and
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entrepreneurs who want anotherspace to put their money other
than, you know, the typicalstocks in real estate.
And, um, growing wealth forwomen is actually a really big
mission of mine too.
Um, because, you know, I wannabe part of the big conversations
of building a business, even,even though I don't have a
business degree and I'm a woman.
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So, um, it's been really fun,but I mean, can be very
challenging.
And then adding children intothat, um, makes it even more
challenging.
Yes.
So let's chat about that.
So you are a mom of two, we'lljust call it two since you're
pregnant and expecting and yeah,throwing children into the mix
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when you own and are growing abusiness definitely creates.
A little bit of chaos in mostlythe best way possible.
And so talk to us about that.
Like I imagine you started yourbusiness before kids, and I
imagine having kids totallychange things for you.
And actually, the way that weconnected was.
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We weren't in the same cohort,but we were in the same
mastermind for women who are inbusiness that are moms
specifically, and that's how wegot connected.
So yeah.
How has that journey been foryou and from even like a gut
health standpoint, like why isthat important to you as well?
You know, when you think aboutfor me, when I'm pregnant, I'm
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like, I'm passing down mymicrobiome to my children.
Like that's really important.
So anything like that that'skind of stuck out to you on your
motherhood journey?
Yes.
Oh my gosh.
Where to start?
I mean, I think I'm themicrobiome.
I'll start with that first.
I, um, am still breastfeeding mydaughter.
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I'm pregnant with our second,um, my first daughter who's 20
months, does not want to stopbreastfeeding.
So, um, that has been trickyfrom a microbiome standpoint
because I think after having myfirst daughter, it things really
shifted.
Um, I think, of course, youknow, there's so many things
that impacted the, the bur.
(18:49):
Uh, being pregnant labor itself.
Um, the stress of having anewborn, the lack of sleep and
the lack of, um, like rest yourdigestion gets, right.
Constantly snacking.
I mean, there's so many thingsthat in pregnancy and early
motherhood that just screwed up,screw up any woman's gut, but
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kind of screwed up mine.
So, um.
About a couple months ago I dida GI map and it showed me there
was a lot going on and I said,okay, great.
I'm gonna stop breastfeedingbefore I get pregnant with my
second, got pregnant with mysecond before I could address
some really bad guys that werein my gut.
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Um, so that's been.
A little challenging, honestly,mentally, because I, you, you
know, you and I aspractitioners, we know there's,
we pa we're passing alongeverything.
I mean, we're passing along ourmicrobiome.
We're helping, you know, I'mgrowing another daughter.
We're helping her grow her eggsfor her fertility.
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You know what I mean?
There's so many things that I'mdoing to support her right now
and um, it's been a littlescrewy with my mind knowing that
my gut is not a hundred percent.
And so we kind of got pregnant alittle earlier than we thought,
um, which is a blessing.
So that's been a little tough.
Um, and then, you know, with thebusiness, I am a super
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optimistic person and I'm.
Not risk adverse in the lease.
So starting a business was greatand the vision of scaling it was
great.
When I was pregnant, um, Iactually spoke on a lot of
stages.
It was really important to me toshow this pregnant woman, you
know, us moms doing it reallydifferently.
And I thought that would justcontinue into having a child,
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you know, she's just gonna comealong with me to all these
events.
And while some of that is true.
There's, there was a lot morechallenge and a lot more of me
integrating into her life that Ithought, oh, she'll just
integrate.
Perfectly into mine and I didn'trealize how much, you know, I
would need to integrate intohers, you know, and, um, that
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was challenging.
And, uh, when she was 10 monthsold, we moved across, basically
across country, um, and startedour life here in North Carolina.
We were in Boston before, sothere were all these big life
shifts that were super positive,um, but were, you know, a little
mentally tough.
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Yeah, I love that.
And I mean, I think that's sucha good reflection of like you
integrating into hers and herintegrating to yours.
It's never a one-sided thingever, which is so beautiful, you
know, in so many ways.
Um, and yeah, as moms, I thinkit's just, there's so many
layers too, of.
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Just stuff.
So you had some stuff on your GImap that you wanted to address
and you got pregnant.
Yeah.
There's lots of things that youcan do for your gut while
pregnant.
So let's talk about that becauseI think, like you said, you're a
super optimistic person.
We often work with tons of moms,whether they are pregnant,
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breastfeeding, trying toconceive in between having
children.
Um, for good reason.
Moms have GI issues for all thereasons that you mentioned.
So if someone's listening tothis and they're not in a place
where they can go through somekind of intense gut protocol, I
mean, that's what I'm in rightnow.
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I'm breastfeeding and I have aalmost five month old.
What can you do or what wouldyou, what are you focusing on
being that you're nursing andyou're pregnant?
I.
Yes.
So, and I would love yourthoughts on this.
Um, I, I'm doing a double doseof our immunoglobulins.
I'm on our, um, spore basedprobiotic, a double dose of
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that.
Um, I actually had eczema popup.
I.
Uh, over my eyelid, and that'swhat actually got me to do the
GI map.
So my gut issues were showing onmy skin, which they had never,
never, never, never before.
So no surprise to us, but ashock to, you know, a lot of
people is like, wow, my gutissues are causing my skin
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issues.
Um, so I'm doing that.
Those are the main things I'mdoing for my gut.
And then of course, my prenatal,um, which we added, we actually
added a littlescSaccharomycesinto our prenatal.
Okay.
I was actually gonna ask youabout that.
Mm-hmm.
So, that was one of the thingswhen I was pregnant, you were so
kind and you sent me yourprenatal vitamin, which I took,
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and I love that it is sixcapsules and not anymore because
it's.
Hard to take a prenatal whenyou're sick and you're nauseous
and all the things.
And also if you're trying totake other stuff, like I took
immunoglobulins for a lot of mypregnancy also.
And you know, you might haveother vitamins or things that
you wanna take, so it justbecomes overwhelming, like the
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amount of capsules or powders orwhatever.
Why did you decide to add theSaccharomyces Boulardii to the
prenatal?
I love it personally, yes.
But I'd love to hear from you.
Oh, well, thank you.
I mean, it's an i I love that.
You love it.
Um, I, you know, as I wasthinking about like a pregnancy
journey, I was really thinkingabout, you know, get passing
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along, you know, yourmicrobiome.
And I think so many women goaround and have bad things in
their gut and they just don'tknow about them.
So, you know, my reasoning was alow level of Saccharomyces,
boulardii might support the bodyin gently getting rid of, um,
some of the bad guys andboosting the good.
Yeah, I think it's great.
(24:33):
Thank you.
If somebody is pregnant, likewhat are some of the baseline
products that you have that yourecommend?
So we've talked about themagnesium.
Yes.
We've talked about the prenatal.
That's, that's obvious, but whatare some other things that you
think can be beneficial to addin, you know, based on maybe
circumstances that someone mightbe struggling with?
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Yeah, we, um, I also love, youknow, fish oil.
Yes.
Um, EPA and DHA.
We have a fish oil, like superwell tolerated.
Um, so that's called the omega.
So I love those three are likethe must-haves.
And then I think we also have,um, the women's probiotic, which
is a specific, two specificstrains that help reduce group
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group B strep, um, mm-hmm.
Yeah, so, you know, I kind ofbattled with adding that one or
adding SAC mys into ourprenatal.
I go back and forth, to behonest.
I'd love your candid opinions onthat after the show.
Um, but, you know, um, so wehave support for group B strep,
so I'll start taking that.
I.
Soon too.
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Um, those are my biggest things.
I mean, in vitamin D in thewinter, especially third
trimester, although I love, um,if you can get your vitamin D
checked every trimester, um, andjust pay the$50 that insurance
won't pay for it.
Um, those are my, those are mybig things.
Yeah.
(25:57):
No, keeping it super simple, notcomplicated.
Yeah.
Still supporting the gut.
I love it.
Yeah.
Good.
Okay, so we've chatted aboutentrepreneurship, motherhood,
building a supplement line.
What is next?
Or what do you think kind oflike see on the horizon or what
do you maybe even like wrappingup as you prepare to have baby
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number two or Yeah.
What's next?
Yeah, I think I feel so far awayfrom wrapping up, so thank you
for even like projecting thatquestion because I'm like.
We will be wrapping up heresoon.
Um, so I'm due October whenwe're recording this.
It's April.
Um, so I'm really preparing fora long, um, long quote unquote
(26:40):
maternity leave.
I'd love to take the year off,so that would be like 10 weeks
off.
So we're preparing for that now.
Um, we are fundraising actuallyfor gut personal right now, so
that's, you know, something Ihad never done before.
Like I said, we have.
All female.
Mainly all female angelinvestors.
And um, so we're really workingon fundraising before I head out
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and, um, really working ongrowing our community.
You know, we're in a really bigseason right now of growth and
um, it's really exciting, butcan also be really scary.
You know, we're building all ofthis momentum right before I
have my second girly, so.
Yeah.
(27:23):
Um, it's, it's somewhat scary.
Mostly really exciting.
And, um, yeah, thanks forasking.
It's, it's an exciting nextchapter.
I think you're having a baby atlike the perfect time of the
year.
I've had a September baby andthen I've had a November baby
and like you're right smack dabin the middle of that and it's
perfect because like the weatheris good.
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You can go on walks.
Then you just like kind of easeinto the holidays.
It truly, the fall is the besttime to have a baby.
I will argue that all day longit is the best time.
Amazing.
My last girl was smack dab inthe summer.
Oh yeah.
No, it was kind of brutalbecause also with like our
supplement company, blackFriday's really big and so I had
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to like get back into the swingright before Black Friday.
This time I'm gonna be like.
Friday is figured out in July.
So that's been a funny thingtoo, with the difference of a, a
service base versus a productbase.
We like plan things so muchfurther ahead.
Like, I love the, Hey, are wedoing a masterclass next month?
You know.
Hey, I'm gonna launch this like,you know, program and it's gonna
(28:30):
start in two weeks.
Yeah.
Yes, yes.
I still do that to my teamsometimes, and they're like,
okay, chill it out.
We're gonna need like five moreteam members before we can, you
know, do this vision.
So.
Totally.
Anything that we didn't chatabout that you wanna share or
you feel like would be importantfor anybody listening to hear?
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Yeah, I mean, one of our, one ofour beliefs that got personal is
that you deserve to feelamazing.
I, I know that you believe thatbecause of the work that you do
and is so important.
Um.
I think as women, especiallymothers, if you're a mother
listening to this or you wannabecome a mother, knowing that
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putting ourselves first andputting our oxygen mask on is so
important, but also knowing thatwe don't just deserve to feel
okay, we really deserve.
To feel amazing and knowing thatinvesting in that, whether it's
immunoglobulins or gut tests,you know what I mean, really
investing and putting yourenergy where you need to to feel
(29:38):
amazing.
So I'll just urge anyone who'slistening, um, to, to move in
that direction, to take actionto feel better.
It's so true.
I mean, we see it all the time.
I was on a call with a womanyesterday and she's like, I have
two kids, and I am so bloated.
I'm so constipated, I'm soexhausted.
She's like, I can barely take mykid to the park because I am
(30:02):
self-conscious of the bloating.
I like, don't wanna be away froma bathroom.
You know?
You have to fix this for yourkids.
If anything.
If that's how you have to thinkabout it.
Like you have to fix this foryour kids and also for you of
course, too, but it's like yourkids deserve the best version of
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you and that that requires youto take care of yourself and put
yourself first, even thoughmaybe you might feel like you
don't have time or resources orwhatever.
So.
I love that so much.
It really is so important.
So, and you know what?
I just wish sometimes peoplecould understand how good they
can feel.
(30:44):
You know, we had a clientrecently who's like, why didn't
you tell me how good I'd feel?
I was like, I did, I just can'tforce you to take action.
You know what I mean?
She wishes she would've donewhat she did, you know, gut
testing and supplements yearsago.
And I think, you know, for youand I as practitioners and
healers and we see thetransformation.
(31:05):
We do our best to scream it fromthe rooftops, but at the end of
the day, we need you to say yesfor us to help you.
Totally.
Which actually to like tie up aloose end, how long did it take
you to find relief from thechronic stomach pain and
constipation and things that youdescribed when we first started
(31:28):
chatting?
What's a realistic, for somebodylike you and I.
That struggled with it probablyour whole lives.
Like what did that journey looklike time-wise for you?
Yeah, I think I felt better eachmonth, right?
Like a little bit better eachmonth.
It really took.
Six months for a most of thesymptoms to go away in a year.
(31:50):
It took like a year to fullyfeel better.
And I always say, and I wonderif this is something along the
lines of what you say, it'lltake one to two months for every
year.
You felt bad?
Yes.
That is what I tell people allthe time.
I'm like, at least a month forevery year, you know?
Right.
Which doesn't mean, I love thatyou said I felt better every
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month because Yes.
I think often we can think, ohgreat, I've been constipated for
20 years.
It's gonna take me almost twoyears to feel better.
But that doesn't mean you're notgonna feel better along the way.
It's just that gut health isnever linear and it's also not a
destination like, it's not likeyou do the protocol and you
never have to do anything again.
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We always are having to takecare of ourselves.
Like we always need to beinvesting in whatever it is to
keep things healthy.
That's just part of the deal.
So.
Yeah, that's, you know, that wasexactly my story.
I, 12 years ago was the, thatinitial healing of my gut.
And then six years later I had asuper stressful time in my life.
(32:55):
So gut symptoms came back alittle.
And then in another six years,which is right now, I'm going
through gut stuff, you know,because I have another big life
change of being pregnant, youknow, twice in a row.
So, yeah, totally.
Yeah.
Gotta keep working on it.
Always.
So that leads me to my lastquestion, which I always ask,
which is, how do you love yourgut?
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Or what's one way that you areloving your gut?
I'm taking my supplements everysingle day.
I figured that would be theanswer, but you know, you bet.
It's the easiest, most simplething you can do.
Yes.
Okay.
Well tell all the people wherethey can find you, where they
can hear all the things,purchase the supplements, all
(33:38):
that.
Yes.
So I'm Bridget Malson onInstagram.
If ever anyone wants to come sayhi or if something resonated
with you, I'd really love toknow.
I love feedback and.
If, if anything sat with youthat'd be great, um, on
Instagram or gut dot personalgut personal.com/dr.
Heather, we'll get you adiscount and you can go check
(33:59):
out the products that we tried,check out the gut fix reset, um,
and yeah, let me know if youhave any questions.
Awesome.
Well, this was so helpful, Ithink just in so many ways,
whether somebody is wanting tostart a product business,
whether you're a mom, whetheryou're curious about
supplements.
So many good things.
So thanks so much for joiningme.
(34:19):
Oh my gosh.
Thank you so much for having me.
I.
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