February 9, 2024 • 51 mins
Have you ever witnessed a metamorphosis? Not the kind you learned about in grade school with caterpillars, but the magnificent human kind. That's the journey Kate Griffith takes us on; from Miami's glitzy nightlife and reality TV to a profound awakening as a women's empowerment coach. Alongside her, Anand Sukhadia shares his steadfast commitment to wellness, from founding a wellness center to spreading inspiration on the Limitless One podcast. Together, they create a narrative that's not just about personal transformation, but also the evolution of a relationship that blossoms into impending parenthood, filled with anticipation, love, and a profound connection.
Imagine finding love in the most unexpected places—like a cold plunge or a pandemic walk. Anand and Kate's modern-day romance story is as unique as it is touching, proving that personal growth and intimate connection can go hand in hand. They open up about their pregnancy journey, sharing the joys and challenges that come with preparing for a new life. Their discussion on birth plans, the significance of a doula, and navigating the often overlooked postpartum period provide an enlightening perspective on the transformative experience of welcoming a child.
Stepping away from the warmth of their story, our conversation takes a refreshing dive into the benefits of holistic technology and the invigorating practice of cold plunging. Kate and Anand discuss how scalar field technology and cold plunges can lead to homeostasis and mental clarity. By the end of this episode, you'll be inspired to follow the couple's adventures and maybe even take on the cold plunge challenge yourself. Connect with Kate on Instagram @iamkategriffith or her website for coaching opportunities, and Anand at @anand.life for a dose of limitless inspiration.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, welcome to the Lynn and Tony Know podcast.
I'm your host, lynn.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And I'm Tony.
We are both wellness coachesand married with kids.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Join us as we talk about all things health,
wellness, relationships, lifehacks, parenting and everything
in between unfiltered.
Thanks for listening and let'sget into it.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
How are we?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
doing, we're doing good.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Monday morning, just getting right.
After it.
We're a weekend of just beinglazy, which is really needed
sometimes.
Yeah, just rest is beautiful.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Although nobody's going to have any sense of what
weekend that is as we roll outour episodes that's true, but
just imagine a weekend where werested.
Not the weekend you'relistening to this, but there was
a weekend previous to right nowwhere we took it easy, and then
the Monday after that, westarted recording again.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Exactly, and I'm really excited about today's
guests.
I've been following their lovestory for a few years now and I
feel like their love story iskind of similar to ours.
They're just this consciouscouple and relationship and they
share that with the world andit's really a beautiful thing
and I love love and they're bothindividually very inspiring and
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they are welcoming very soon.
She's due like any day, andthey're kind of on that journey
that we were and it's reallyexciting to see and I'm excited
to talk to them about, you know,their journey and their plans
for the baby.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I love babies, I love love, I love everything.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
You love love and babies.
I love love and babies.
One in one.
They're the best.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So I'm going to just read their bio so you guys know
who we're talking about.
Anand Sukadia and Kate Griffithare soon to be parents,
wellness and biohacking junkiesand share the passion of living
a heart based life.
The relationship is founded ondeep love, communication, growth
and contribution.
Like we could have written thatabout ourselves.
I feel like no.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
We would have to change the names.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yes, kate is a woman's empowerment coach, along
with being a breath work andrakey practitioner, sound
healing facilitator.
Her own healing journey led herto leave a successful career in
corporate sales to follow herpurpose and passion to guide
others to find a deepened senseof self and empowerment.
Anand is the owner of Ohm Life,wellness and Scholar.
Scholar.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Scalar.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Scalar Health in Jersey City and is the host of
the Limitless One podcast.
His lifelong passion forwellness, holistic health, self
development, spiritual growthand positively contributing to
the lives of others has led himdown the path he lives today.
Welcome to the show, you guys.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Welcome.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Thank you for having us.
We're so excited for today'sconvo.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
We're so excited to have you guys.
So before we get into like yourlove story, I want to just like
hear quickly from both of youabout you know, your journey to
where you got to today.
I know, kate, you were on apopular reality show.
Yes, temptation, right WasTemptation.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Island.
Yes, that feels like a lifetimeago.
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So in a sense, can you summarize from you know
being on this reality show toyou know being single Kate, kind
of your spiritual awakening towhere you are today?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Totally yeah.
So grew up in Ohio and moved toMiami right after college, was
living in Miami lifestyle andthrough that, after 10 years of
partying going out, realized howdisconnected I was from my own
self, as I during that phasealso got married and just
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realized like I woke up one dayand I was like I don't know who
I am, like I've been living thislife and lifestyle but I have
no clue.
But then that led me down aneven worse path of falling for
someone much younger than me,moving to New Jersey, definitely
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not in a conscious relationship.
That took us that relationshipand I, on reality TV show and
that's where I hit my rockbottom like rock, rock, rock
bottom.
And then I realized like theonly like there was nowhere,
like I couldn't go any further.
And realized like I had tostart looking internally and
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getting to know myself on adeeper level, which then
prompted my spiritual journey.
I'm single at that point, tryingto find out who I am, what I'm
about like, what life is.
And that led me to startworking with different
practitioners and my wholehealing journey began.
I realized I had so much traumato release.
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I had so much just built up,frustration and validation,
seeking perfectionism and goingthrough an eating disorder, like
all the things really all thethings built up, and then,
through that journey, it led meto a place where I feel so much
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more aligned, so much moremyself, and then led me again to
start coaching others as.
I want to offer what was offeredto me to other women and
empowering them to be their mostauthentic self.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
So that's the short of that.
That's beautiful.
That's in a nutshell, right?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I'm sure there's a lot more In a nutshell, yes, in
a nutshell, in a nutshell yes.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
What is the timeline from like how old were you when
you went through that period oflike who am I?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yeah, so it was like my mid 30s, early to mid 30s,
when I was kind of going throughthat, and now I'm 38.
So it's been like 2019 was whenit really kicked off, when I
was like okay.
And then 2020 was a blessingfor me because it was like the
time where I was like okay, theonly thing to do right now is go
internal during the lockdown,during the pandemic, and so 2020
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was sort of my year ofexploration 21,.
I was getting to really knowmyself.
Then 22, 23, you know, intotoday.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
That's beautiful.
I had the same.
Yeah, like I'm kind of on thesame timeline as you, I think
like I had two spiritualawakenings One when I was 30
years old and I was living inNew York City and I was married,
I had the kid, I had thecorporate job and it was like
tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.
I have everything, but I'mfucking miserable.
(06:36):
Like what did I do wrong here?
Like why am I so miserable Ifthis is everything that I wanted
to achieve?
Why am I so unhappy?
And that's when I started myspiritual journey.
And that's when I started ChickP J C, my blog, and kind of led
me on this other path.
And then in my mid 30s, with mysecond kind of spiritual
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awakening.
So before we move to you, Anand, I do have a question.
You know, I'm sure a lot ofwomen are listening to this and
they're in.
They might be going throughsomething Like what?
What can be the first step ifthey feel like they're just
unhappy and like they don't knowwhere to start?
Where do you, what do you tellthem?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
So I always say is like date yourself.
So get to know yourself.
The same way you're you date asignificant other or someone
that you're just meeting, tryingto get to know them, get to
know yourself.
Set that time aside, whetherthat's a couple of minutes a day
, whether that's an hour a week,whatever it is for you, just
build some time into yourschedule to sit with yourself.
(07:38):
Once you begin sitting withyourself, I feel like the, the
body, the mind, like youinnately know what to do.
But until you actually blockoff that time and dedicate that
time to yourself, it's not goingto come through if you're just
doing the same, right.
So, and then look intopractitioners, look into people.
I tried everything, right, likeI tried every different
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modality out there and don't beafraid to find one that that
works, or don't be afraid tofind one that doesn't work for
you.
Like, just keep exploring again.
The same way.
You would explore a newrelationship, because this is a
new relationship that you'rebuilding or ever evolving humans
, and I think that that'ssomething that we forget is to
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date ourselves, get to knowourselves, get to know all the
iterations and evolutions thatwe move through and build that
time in.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I love that tip.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
What modality spoke to you the most when you were
exploring them?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah, so breathwork is the one that spoke to me the
most, which then led me tobecome a breathwork practitioner
.
But I always say that I breathelife back into myself because I
was working with someone on aweekly basis and every session I
just felt lighter.
I felt like the inner knowingstarted to come through even
(08:57):
more, my intuition, like I wasreleasing so much like stales,
stagnant energy.
So breathwork is really the onethat really really spoke to me.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I love that.
Okay, we'll talk more aboutthat.
So, anand, what about you?
Like OmeLife is, for those whodon't know, is a wellness center
in downtown Jersey City, and Ifeel like you are kind of like
like I think now it's gettingpopular all the biohacking, but
I think you started before.
(09:31):
It was like this, this trendything.
Like you had cryo, you have youhad cryotherapy, you have the
floating tanks, saunas, and Ifeel like now there's a lot more
awareness around it.
Like how did you get into it?
Like what's your journey toOmeLife?
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Yeah, just to go real far back.
So I grew up very spirituallyminded and self-growth minded,
growing up in a Hindu household.
So I've always asked myself theexistential questions who am I,
what am I capable of?
And I always knew that therewas something in me, like when
you were two.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
That was your first thing you said and I was like
mom, who am I?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Yeah, who am I?
Yeah, so just reading, like youknow, the stories, hearing all
these, just like you knowbeautiful connections, and going
to spiritual places, I askedmyself, yeah, like who is this,
this being of mine?
I look at myself in the mirror.
But I always knew that I was anolder soul and that there was
something that I was here forthat's a little bit bigger or
different than than most.
(10:28):
It's an individual journey.
So I started thisself-development journey.
I did all the Tony Robbinsevents.
I've done a lot of differentthings where, just reading every
book I can the four agreements,the alchemists these are books
that really hit me on thatspiritual path.
And there was a book calledAutobiography of a Yogi as well
that really kind of started my Iguess, like real ascension.
(10:51):
So, as I'm going through this,I think the reason why I went
down this path is because Iguess, growing up I didn't have
a lot of confidence, I didn'thave a lot of self-love, so it
was always that journey to seekmore and gain more knowledge, to
try to feel a little bit oflike filling that empty cup, I
would say so I was obsessiveabout learning more and stuff.
(11:12):
So by the age of 34, I wasoffered an opportunity to do a
psychedelic called ayahuasca.
I'm sure you guys are familiarwith it, wow.
But essentially it was thebiggest blessing of my life.
From the moment I drank that Iknew that there was no going
back.
Like literally in the firstcouple of minutes and just to
give you a little background,like when I drank it and the
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medicine was starting sinking in, I literally went into outer
space and I was all alone in theuniverse.
There was no planets, no stars,no beings, nothing, and it was
the loneliest place to ever beand I just started sobbing.
I was just crying because I wasall alone and then all of a
sudden, I just kept breathingthrough it and then all of a
sudden I see this winged goddesscome towards me and she wraps
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her wings around me and fromgoing from the loneliest place
in the universe to the mostloved in the universe, it just
showed me the duality of natureand how everything is a circle.
It's like there's these twoextremes, but as you wrap itself
around, you swing the pendulumfar enough it's going to wrap
itself around.
So that experience for me, andthen going through the next
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couple of hours of that journey,it just gave me a life in
review and essentially showed meI could continue going down the
path I was going down, whichwas just trying different
businesses, being in a lot ofrelationships, short-term
relationships, not being happywith myself, being angry,
blaming people for my problems,or I could go down a different
path, which was to start livingin my purpose, which is love,
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contribution, growth, and thenalso just being in forgiveness
and being loving towards myselfand others.
So from that moment I realized,okay, I've always wanted to
create a center where I couldbring a community together and
they can find their truestversion, because I've gone
through so many differentmodalities and different help
things to find out what are thebest ones.
(13:00):
So I figured let's do somethingthat's on a holistic side,
that's bringing people in tomeet their truest self.
So we settled on like flotationtherapy, which is an amazing
therapy infrared saunas,cryotherapy but now we switch
over to cold plunges, which Iknow you guys are huge fans of.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah, we'll talk about it.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
We'll talk about that , for sure, I'll jump into my
plunge today because I wanted tobe inspired by you guys and
then, yeah, just creating thecenter.
So I opened it six years ago, acouple years after my ayahuasca
journey, just like getting allthe funding and everything in
place.
The build out it took a whileand we're six years in now and I
tell you it's been the ride ofmy life.
I know that because of thatjourney I've had the most
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incredible experiences.
I met Kate through the business.
I have some of the best friendsthrough the business.
I'm so fulfilled.
Through the business I've hadamazing opportunities to go to
Egypt this past year and do allthese different kind of really
cool things and connect with themost amazing people.
And I know that it wouldn't havehappened as fluidly as if I
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went the other path and justchose to continue going through
the motions of life.
So I think for me it's allabout stepping out of my comfort
zones, and the more I step outof my comfort zones and the
further I step away, life opensup in so much magic.
So that's why I also createdthe Limitless One podcast.
It's personally my journey ofhow to become limitless, and
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limitless is infinite potential.
So how can we ever get to thatplace.
But I'm all for trying as muchas I can in the time that I have
here and interviewing peoplethat are on the same elk and
that are living in passion,living in purpose, absolutely
love what they do.
And it's not all about money,it could be about any field, but
I have so much respect forpeople that are living in their
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purpose and you're really happyabout what they're doing for a
living because you're exchangingyour energy and time for
something that you're trying todo.
So if we're working at a jobthat is not fulfilling to us,
we're just trading in our timefor maybe a delayed happiness
which is never going to come, sowe have to be happy in the
moment.
So I guess that's really myjourney, how it started, and
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then I hope to help others,create an environment for them
to be on that same path.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Wow, I love that.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Hell yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Hell yeah, Hell's the yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, I was like sorry that was a really long
ramble, no, we love that.
Well, you started from birth, soyours is a little bit longer,
and it's always fascinating tome to hear somebody that knew
that from such an early age orwas asking those types of
questions from such an early age.
It's kind of mind blowingbecause a lot of for me
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personally, a lot of people thatI know and I work with men
specifically that may not findthose questions until 40, 50, 60
years old, and to hear someonecome from a very early age
asking those questions is alwaysa really interesting thing to
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me, because I relate probably alittle bit more to Kate's story.
You know, some of the bestpartiers make the best healers
at some point.
That's kind of my realm as wellin terms of, like the catalyst,
that kind of woke me up,essentially.
So very cool, but I know we'regoing to get deeper here in a
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second.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Well, let's talk about okay.
So you have two wonderful,amazing, you know, big hearted
people and you guys meet Likeyou guys.
Obviously you met organically,but how did that kind of start?
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Sure Sure.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
So yeah, so we met because I was a client at Olm
Life again Onin's WellnessCenter.
I lived right across the streetso, being into health and
wellness, I stopped in.
I actually met him when I wasin a cryotherapy session.
So, freezing my ass off, and hewalks in and he was just this
like energy, like there was justthis energy, like sunshine to
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him.
He wasn't meant to be therethat day but he just like kind
of popped his head in during athree minute cryotherapy session
and said, hi, nice to meet you.
And from there I always wouldgo in to schedule my
appointments, like in person,where most people would just do
that online.
Like I don't know why, Ithought I should walk in, but I
kind of there was just thisenergy to him that I wanted to
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see if he was there, just liketo steal a little bit of that
sunshine.
And I don't really know if Iconsciously knew what I was
doing, but I would always walkin and just kind of like look
around, see if he was there,just to say hello, and it was
just like I just wanted that 30seconds of energy that he had.
Again, don't know if I knewthat's what I was doing really
until later when I really likethought about it.
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But then pandemic hits that thatwas like end of 2019.
Pandemic hits and I always joke.
He was reaching out to some ofhis clients and I always joke
that he is probably onlyreaching out to the ones that
were between the age of like 30and 35.
Maybe thought they were cute.
I'm not sure we was reachingout to his clients, which I
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thought was very sweet.
I didn't know that many peoplehere because, again, I'd only
lived here for a short amount oftime at that point and we
started going for walks duringthe pandemic getting to know
each other.
I will say it was veryintimidating to be hanging out
with someone who is so selfaware and on that self growth
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and journey that I was sort ofjust getting on and just his
awareness and his knowledge andthe growth aspect of who he was
was so attractive to me but alsoso intimidating at the same
time.
But it really helped me to havethe support that I needed as I
was really going through thiscrazy journey of healing and
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getting to know myself.
So that support meant so muchto me as I was making so many
crazy life changes at that time.
But that's how we met and Ialways say, like we just kept
walking, like we started goingfor those walks during the
pandemic and then we neverstopped walking from there.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Just walked right into each other's hearts.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
It's funny because Tony and I also started dating,
like during the pandemic, likethe summer.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Right.
So yeah, ours would havestarted probably like eight
months after.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
But we didn't meet organically.
We did meet on hinge.
But I do always joke aroundthat like the universe just
didn't know how to put ustogether, because he was living
in Brooklyn and I was, you know,I'm living in Jersey City and
I'm a single mom and like Idon't go to bars and stuff like
that.
So the universe was like allright, what's the easiest way?
Oh, those dating apps, perfectyeah.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
And when I started on the dating apps, my radius was
very small.
I was in Bushwick, I was inBrooklyn, so I wasn't here at
all.
And then, you know, spent acouple hours in the local area.
And then I was like, okay, I'mgoing to expand out.
And, yeah, met her on the first24 hours I was on the app, so
it feels pretty meant to be.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
It was meant to be for sure, 24 hours.
I love that Amazing.
Thanks, yeah, thanks, hingegods, yeah.
So now, okay, so you guys met,you have this love story and,
like, let's fast forward to youknow your due and
congratulations, by the way.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Thank you.
Yeah, we are due.
I'm almost 39 weeks, so I meanpotentially today Any day, any
day, any day.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, yeah, I mean you could.
I went.
I delivered a week before shewas due, so you literally could
be going today.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Yeah, how are you feeling?
Like?
How's the pregnant?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah.
Yeah, I was like I'm DM'd her.
I'm like she's like I could goany day.
I'm like, please wait tillafter we record.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Yeah, yeah, no trouble, that'll be great
content yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
That'll be funny.
So how's the, how's thepregnancy been for you?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
So I want to say I've had an easy pregnancy, but I
think that comes withperspective of being 38.
We were trying for two, two anda half years.
We started trying very early inour relationship because we
knew right away like we wanted afamily and we knew we wanted to
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be together.
So we started trying very earlyand so I think that two and a
half years of you know andtrying allows you to have a
different perspective of thepregnancy.
So, yeah, a lot of things haveprobably happened throughout
where if I would have beenyounger or maybe not had that
perspective, might have thoughtdifferently.
But otherwise I would say I'vehad an easy pregnancy.
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It's also amazing when you havea supportive partner and we're
very self aware of, again, whereour thoughts go and when some
you know we've had some thingswe had to overcome and when that
happens like we just come backto all the practices, like all
the tools that we have in ourtool belt, understanding where
our thoughts are, beliefs are,and just coming back to, like,
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our happiness and baseline.
So I think I've had an easypregnancy.
But again, with all that said,You've done amazing.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
I just have to say like, yeah, just so positive, so
, like you know, into theresearch phase, but then also
just like surrendering to youknow, whatever happens.
So I just it's an honor towitness how strong you are and
I'm falling like more in lovewith you every single moment and
I can't wait to see you guysare so cute.
I can't wait to see you be a mom, because she gives this baby so
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much love.
Every single day she talks toit, she rubs its belly.
You know, like it's just, it'swonderful to witness and you're
going to be the best mom.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Thank you, I'm going to cry.
I cry over everything, so I'msure I'm crying during this.
It's such a beautiful.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
It's such a beautiful you know moment to to
experience as a couple,especially when you're in love
and you're so conscious to yourfeelings and emotions and and
really sharing that energytogether.
It's really a beautiful thingLike I love seeing couples who
are really in it together,because a lot of times you do
see couples where the the womanis just experiencing the
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pregnancy a little bit on her,on her own, when you know you're
not kind of, you don't havethat like emotional connection.
Not everybody, unfortunately,has that and it's so important.
You know, I was also blessed tohave a partner to like really
experience pregnancy with me andgo through the, the ups and
downs and the emotions and andthings do come and right, things
come up, especially you knowyour, your your hormones and and
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there's all these feelings andyou're feeling afraid and you're
feeling excited and you'refeeling in love, but you're also
feeling just like kind of like,oh, my God, my life is about to
change.
What are things that you that,if you're open to sharing things
that you guys were, you knowwhat are things that came up and
how did you?
You know you mentioned yourtoolbox like what is in your
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toolbox, like for couples thatare expecting or going through
these like huge transitionalmoments, like how do you get
back to the baseline of yourhappiness?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah, so we had an issue where I woke up leading
and no one pregnant wants tomake up leading, because the day
we were supposed to travelacross country for family
wedding it was only 20 weeks.
And then, of course, like Istarted to spiral into all the
what ifs.
We call the doctor right away,of course, and they get us in to
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see them as soon as possible.
But then I start researchingand I start going down that
rabbit hole and that's where hejust kind of kept holding,
holding, holding my hand andsaying like okay, we can keep
going down that rabbit hole, orwe can just like come back into
our heart, like we know thebaby's, okay, keep talking to
him, like keep staying in ourmeditative state, like because
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our stress levels are going toaffect the baby, so how do we
just come back to our baseline?
And so it was so helpful.
We ended up going for a week tothe beach just to like let our
nervous system relax, because Iknow that's what we both needed.
We missed out on the family trip, the wedding that was on in
Lake Tahoe, but what meant morefor us to just ground, to be at
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the beach, relax and calm ournervous system so that we could
move forward.
Everything was okay.
But that's where we've beenthroughout, is where you know
there's a lot of informationthat comes to you from medical
fields and it's a lot of fearbased and if you keep going to
Google and you can go down, youknow a million paths of things
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that could go wrong, might gowrong percentages, all these
things.
Or you can come back into yourheart and like that innate mama
instinct that like everything isfine, everything's great,
baby's great, we're great, andso that's where we've really had
to lean on our practices ofmeditation, of breathing Reiki.
(26:05):
I give Reiki to myself, to thebaby, and just communication and
knowing I can lean on him whenI'm having those moments.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Yeah, and I think a lot of it is also following your
intuition going inside, likeyou said, because even just
simple things like whatsupplements to take you search
any supplement online and it'lllike half the people will tell
you you can't do it, like it'sterrible for pregnancy.
Other people will say, oh no,this is great for pregnancy.
And then the other thing whenwe go to the OB, when we were
going there, every single timethere was, oh, your blood levels
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are a little bit low here orthey're a little bit high here.
So it's constantly fear.
So there was so much of likeokay, you need to do this, you
need to do this, you need to dothis.
But at the end of the day, wejust had to really see what was
it necessary for us, see how wefelt about things and then make
the decision on our own whichpaths to go down and which paths
to just be like okay, I thinkthis is going to be fine At the
(27:01):
end of the day, we takeresponsibility for all of our
decisions in life on everyspectrum, so we just have to be
comfortable with that.
But I think that's not allowingso many outside forces affect
your mood or your ability to bepositive or put fear in you.
I think it's super important tojust stay grounded and have
that inner calm.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Yeah, and my thought we actually Especially with
Sorry, go ahead.
No.
With that, we actually decidedabout halfway through to start
working with midwives onlybecause we just felt like there
were some questions, concerns,like we wanted more guidance.
We wanted more time firstpregnancy.
Never gone through this beforeand didn't really feel like a
lot of our questions, concernswere being answered.
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Or if they were, it was justkind of like breezing through
really quickly telling me myiron's low, take this, but not
offering me some suggestions,telling me only gain 20, 25
pounds, but not like reallysaying but these are the foods
you should be eating, which 20,25 pounds went out the window
really fast.
But so, yeah, we startedworking with midwives where we
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really felt like we were beingheard, our questions were being
answered and that we could bringany concern to them without
feeling like it was a sillyquestion.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I love.
I mean, we did the same thinglike mid-pregnancy.
I switched to we were seeingNobiji Yen in Manhattan and I
just felt like, and she waswonderful, Like she, I gave
birth with her already with myfirst.
But that experience was justkind of a little bit traumatic,
I guess, because it was so likesuch a hospital setting and I'm
like I'm not sick, like I'mgiving birth, like this is
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Everything's fine, like why arewe treating me like a patient?
And the second experience waswildly different.
I had a midwife and it was abeautiful experience.
I mean, I didn't do natural,unfortunately, I was trying to,
but other than that, like Ithink, just the whole experience
with the midwife and they taketime to really answer your
(28:56):
questions and they gave you thebirth that you want and you have
a lot more control and you canjust make more decisions.
So what have you been doing toprepare for birth?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Yeah, so I've tried to stay strong.
That's always been my goal.
It's not about the weight, butI've been exercising all the fun
pelvic floor exercises,prenatal yoga.
We've been working with a doulajust helping with some
preparation.
We did hire a doula, so she'llbe here and she's been doing
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some body work.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
You have a nod.
You don't need a doula.
He's going to be your birthcoach.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
The man doula.
I think the doula is more forhim.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Yeah, I think it's good to have both more hands on
deck right.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah, I might do all of our massages.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I might hurt my hands , our doula got COVID last
minute and she didn't show up tothe birth, so Tony was the one
taking care of me.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I was channeling the doula through text into real
time with her.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I was like who are you texting?
I'm in labor, I'm in pain rightnow.
Who are you texting?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
It was like the fourth time I've heard that
about doula not showing up, soyou're on deck.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
That's why we asked the doula in the middle.
I was like every single time wesee him, I was like what
happens if you can't make it?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Everything will be fine.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
honestly, yeah, everything will be fine.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Essentially what happens.
I want to circle back tosomething Anon said that I think
is maybe one of the mostimportant pieces of pregnancy,
but also, in general, it's thesurrender part.
First of all, the wordsurrender needs a rebrand.
I think the marketing aroundthe word surrender is terrible.
(30:46):
If we could reclaim it as apowerful thing, then everyone
would be a lot better off.
Because the surrendering topeople think of surrender as
giving up or waving the whiteflag or just aimlessly flowing
down the river of life, andwhatever happens happens In the
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way that you're using it in theway that I find it most useful
is that you surrender, you cannumber one surrender to the
divinity of the timing ofeverything and that everything
is unfolding exactly how itneeds to, without fail.
It's perfect.
Surrender is actually morepowerful in the sense that when
you surrender to your ownknowing of how things can go,
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then the Google searches and allthe information that it's
flying at you can be filteredthrough what you know to be true
about your own body, about yourown way of living.
The surrender piece is huge.
That goes for pregnancy orliving in general.
If we can, all four of us, workon a rebrand of surrender and
(31:48):
take that word back and use itas I believe it can be intended.
That would be an amazing thing,because that piece is crucial.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah, I think using surrender and then it's
synonymous with faith.
I think that's probably thedirection of you.
Know, I think where you like,what you're trying to say is
just having faith.
Yeah, just replacing that wordsurrender with faith,
essentially knowing that it'sgoing to be fine.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
What are your plans?
So the fourth trimester isobviously very important.
I feel like not talked aboutenough.
People focus a lot about theyou know on the baby and you
know the newborn baby, but notenough about you know the mom
and what the mom goes through inthe fourth trimester and I've
shared a lot about that when Iwas going through it.
What are you doing to preparefor yourself, not for the baby?
(32:36):
We know what we need to do forthe baby to keep the baby alive
somewhat.
Right, they sleep, they poop,they eat and that's pretty much
the cycle, right.
But, as you know, postpartum,the postpartum period what are
you doing to like, empoweryourself for that for that
period of time?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Yeah.
So a few things.
First of all, having a winterbaby is going to allow us to
hibernate.
I really want that time just tobe skin to skin, like you know,
real and raw here.
Having you know, the two of ushome with a baby as much as
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possible, getting to know hiscues so that we feel really
comfortable, getting to knowlike I know that I've felt him
in my belly for the last ninemonths.
But I want to really like getto know him and get to know
ourselves in this element, howwe communicate, how we work
together, so that we can setthat solid foundation for what's
(33:37):
to come.
And again, luckily, we have themindset work.
So I want to make sure thatwe're holding ourselves
accountable to our meditations.
Baby can be on my chest likebaby can be breastfeeding, baby
can be in that carrier whilewe're meditating, like not
strained too far from the thingsthat I know bring us back to
(33:57):
our heart, bring us back to ourbaseline and our calm, and also
making sure that we are beingproactive in the sense of like
getting my hormones tracked,vitamin levels, mineral levels,
like all of that can affect whoit is that I am.
So I want to be reallyproactive in working with
someone to make sure, like I'mgetting back to normal as
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quickly as possible, or takingthe right nutrients vitamins,
minerals again to make sure thatI'm good, so that I can be here
to fully support my family.
And I think, lastly, it's likeas proactive as I want to be.
In the sense, this might be theone time in life where I'm
going to be slightly reactivebecause we don't know what this
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life is going to be like.
So I haven't determined thingssuch as like co sleeping.
I haven't determined like, am Igoing to do a combination of
breastfeeding and pumping?
Can I even breastfeed?
Like does it work for me?
So like not being so attachedto?
So again, coming back to theconversation around surrender is
like there's a lot of unknownand just like leaning into that
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unknown of who we are as parents, what this baby needs, and just
fully surrendering to theexperience and letting us learn
as we go.
And then also some postpartumdoula work as well.
So our doula will be workingwith us and also be doing some
body work on the week'spostpartum.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
The one thing I'll say is we have all the tools, or
she has all the tools necessary, all the biohacking tools, all
the self care stuff.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
It's really important because I think a lot of times
people focus a lot or mostly onthe newborn and not enough on
the mother's needs, and I thinkthat's like the most important
part of all this and that issomething I made clear with Tony
before I even got pregnant.
I'm like, if I'm going to getpregnant, this is like you're
waking up to with the baby.
I'm going to need this, thisand this.
(35:58):
You know, and he stepped up tothe plate and it's really
important to do it together.
Like you're in this togetherand I know you guys will do
amazing and you'll figure it out.
And I think, really surrenderingand going in it with you know a
loose plan, you know,especially for the self care and
for, you know, taking time foryourself and getting that rest
(36:18):
that you need, but also goingwith like kind of no
expectations because you don't.
You know you and your baby arestrangers to each other.
Yes, like you felt him, but youdon't know him.
He doesn't know you, and you'regoing to get to know each other
.
Like I have a one year old andI'm still getting to know her.
You know, we're still gettingto know each other and it's a
beautiful, beautiful time andI'm very excited for you guys.
(36:39):
So I want to get intobiohacking a little bit.
Anand, what's like the nextthing that's going to be cool in
the biohacking world?
Speaker 4 (36:50):
I mean so many things .
But you know we just launchedthis new technology called the
energy enhancement system.
So I'll tell you a little bitabout it and I'd love to have
you guys come and experience it.
Essentially what it is you'rein this room and you have four
computer towers in each cornerand they're laser calibrated to
a hundredth of an inch to thecenter point, which is called
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the zero point, and these scalarwaves are colliding in the
middle of the room and creatinga troideal field.
And it's what it is, is it kindof looks like?
If you were to visualize itlike the Earth's electromagnetic
frequency, you know how itlooks like a troideal shape or
an apple, or you know theelectromagnetic field of a human
being or any object.
That's biological.
It's increasing the cellularvoltage of the room.
(37:35):
So the idea behind thetechnology is our bodies will
sink to whatever environmentit's in, similar to a fish bowl.
If you have a fish in dirtywater, the fish is going to
start degrading its health.
If you have a fish in abeautiful, thriving ecosystem
with all the nutrients it needs,it's going to thrive.
Same thing with our bodiesright.
And the challenge in this worldthat we live in is there's so
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much electromagnetic smog,there's Wi-Fi, 5g, there's dirty
water, there's air pollution,there's all these things
environmental toxins that areharming our bodies.
And our bodies are amazing.
They're resilient, and if youthink about all the damage we do
to them and we're still livingto the age of 80s it's
incredible what our bodies cando.
But imagine not having to dealwith that.
So the idea is, when you're inthis environment, in the scalar
(38:18):
field, it's increasing yourcellular voltage to about 70 to
90 millivolts.
That is the optimalmillivoltage of cellular health.
So when your body gets intobalance, the more time you spend
in here, your cells will riseto that 70 to 90 millivolts.
It's going to put your body inhomeostasis and then from there
the body starts repairing itselfbecause it knows exactly what
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it needs to do.
I truly believe and this is oneof the missions of home life is
creating a holistic environmentfor our bodies to repair itself,
and I know you guys are reallyinto the biohacking too, with
the cold plunges, saunas, allthat kind of stuff.
So we truly believe in thepower of the body.
The power that made the bodyalso can heal the body.
So this technology has beenaround for 30 years.
(38:59):
It's only been around in reallywealthy people's homes
billionaires, middle Easternkings and sheiks and things like
that and now it's starting tocome online.
So there's a 380 centers thathave opened up in the last year
and a half just around the world, and if you go to the website
of testimonials, there'sthousands of testimonials on
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different ailments.
And it's not like thistechnology is curing anything or
treating any particular disease.
It's putting the body inbalance and then the body wants
to start healing itself, but itjust needs to be able to release
the toxins that are inside ofit.
So it's really incredible.
It's super simple.
All you have to do is sit down,lean back into zero gravity
chair, close your eyes and it'llfeel like you're floating, but
(39:40):
you don't have to get wet orit's not hot, it's not cold.
You're just laying in a roomand connecting with yourself and
you're swimming in thisfree-footed.
I love your job.
I would live at home life.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
I would literally if I had nothing else going on, I
would be at home life all dayCold plunge, sauna, float a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
One time we tried to go, we literally stuck in a
flood.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
We need to go, so you just also added cold plunging.
How's that been?
Yes, this is just how we'd feelthis puts you in place, doesn't
it?
Hello for you, my name's.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
It sounded like you were making a shift from cryo to
cold.
Plunging Is that right?
Speaker 4 (40:22):
Yes, yeah, so in order to put this new technology
, I'm sorry say that again.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Why is that?
Oh, I just said, why is that?
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Yeah, yeah.
So there's a couple ofdifferent reasons, couple of
things with the cryo, themaintenance on the cryotherapy
machines, even though it's anamazing technology, there was
always something happening.
And the industry is moving awayfrom nitrogen based tanks to
having electric tanks, so, orsorry, electric chambers.
So we were in the nitrogenphase, the cost of nitrogen were
going up and the maintenancewas always giving issues.
(40:50):
And then how do I tell mymembers, hey, we're going to be
closed for two weeks.
I can't, you know, we can't seeyou.
Then I started getting into coldplunging.
I've done it a bunch of times,I've done the Wim Hof stuff, and
I just felt so exhilarated frombeing in the cold water and
even though it doesn't get downto negative 321 degrees like our
cryo tank was, that's threeminutes, you stay dry, but the
feeling of being in a coldplunge lasts all day long.
(41:12):
So there was a lot of ourmembers that were like, oh, you
shouldn't get rid of the cryo,we love it.
But I said, just trust me, trythis out.
We moved the cryo out to makeroom for some other stuff in the
center and then we moved theinfrared sauna that we had into
the cold plunge room.
So it's a fire and ice room now.
So you do a couple of minutes25 minutes, in the sauna, then
(41:32):
go into the plunge and I tellyou, every single body person
that's been a member of cryowere begging me not to get rid
of it.
I'm absolutely in love with itand they're coming daily.
So it's so invigorating on somany levels and you guys can
probably speak to this becauseyou've been doing it so much,
and I really appreciate the factthat you guys are posting these
things, because I think it'stough to step into our tank
(41:54):
inside of a warm room, but youguys are going outside breaking
ice.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
In the snow Getting in.
Speaker 4 (42:00):
I was watching your video, tony, the other day.
Oh my goodness, dude, that isimpressive to do it outside.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
It was one of those things where I started.
You know, I went outside.
I was like I knew, knew it wasgoing to be cold.
I did not realize how much wasgoing to be frozen and I'd
already started documenting theprocess and I was like 30
minutes in.
I was like I've absolutelypainted myself into a corner
with this.
I have to see this through nowbecause now everybody's paying
(42:26):
attention and I can't not do it.
But it was on a different level, the hardest one, like without
even any doubt.
It was brutal, it was so.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
And now just from to my defense, I didn't do it
because I, you know I'm a womanand I don't do it during my
cycle.
Like it's just not healthy.
You know you want to keep thewomb warm, so but yeah, like
watching I was like you're nuts,like I don't know if I would do
it today.
Thank God I had a good.
Thank you, mother nature, formy excuse.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
I'm, you know I can't do this today, but like we're
going to get back into it thisweek and yeah, I'm afraid
outdoors is just a whole anotherball game, I mean it's the only
place we had to put it right,so it's not because, like, we
want to be hardcore about it,just like that's where we can
put it, and now it just happensto be a little more hardcore
during the winter and the other.
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The other cool part about it islike we're not like we're not
super human.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
We're just like, we're just regular people.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
We're, you know, more or less we're like anybody else
that's watching us.
If you see us doing it in avery simple setup and a very
simple setting, it becomes moreof a reality to a lot of people.
Like I get asked about thatmore than literally anything
else that I do combined.
Like there are people that willcall me, message me, text me,
(43:49):
like, and they're like how doyou do it?
And I'm like, well, you buy thetub, you fill it up with water
and then you just do it.
Like there is no magic trickhere, it is simple, you just do
it.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
And it's a yeah, and anybody can do it, like you can
get, you can do it in the bath.
You can take a cold shower, youcan do it in the bath, like
biohacking doesn't need to bethis unattainable thing Right
Now.
I'm really curious, though, forboth of you what are your
rituals?
Like your daily rituals, likethe nitty gritty, like morning
routine or night routine, thethings that, like you, have you
(44:21):
do daily, because I feel likethese habits are so important
and I'm always curious when Italk to, like you know,
biohackers or people that areinto all this stuff, like what
are?
What is their daily routine?
What is your daily routines?
Speaker 3 (44:34):
So mine's changed a little bit.
I used to be a major sauna girl, so I would get in the sauna at
least four to five times perweek probably, and would love a
good cold plunge or cry outtherapy session.
So I had to get take a littlepause from from those.
I cannot wait to get back toall of that, and I was listening
to your postpartum journey,lynn, and on the podcast, and I
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know you said great things aboutcold plunging postpartum, so I
can't wait.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Yeah, well, after yeah, of course after I started
after I was done breastfeedingyeah, so like definitely wait to
give your body time to likeheal for sure, yeah.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
Yeah, yeah, so that used to be part of my routine.
We do a lot of I do a lot ofred light therapy right now, and
then morning meditation andevening meditation.
So almost always go to sleepwith a meditation.
We have it's a headset and ithas light therapy that comes
through, called brain tap, andthey have over like 2000
(45:32):
meditations on there and soright now I'm working my way
through they have some, theyhave some child, yeah, some
childbirth meditation.
So I'm working my way throughthat.
So that's kind of like the twothings must do is like at night
a little something and a littlesomething in the morning.
But morning routine for me isintuitive.
(45:53):
So sometimes the last fiveminutes, sometimes the last
couple hours between meditation,breath work, journaling, but
again, like I said, for anyonetrying to get into anything,
it's just creating that time andthat space and I think that's
where we wake up early, just sowe can have that time to
ourselves before the day starts.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
What time do you wake up?
What?
Speaker 3 (46:13):
time.
Do you guys wake up?
My alarm goes off at 5.55.
His goes off.
Speaker 4 (46:17):
Today it went out 4.06, I think some of my time.
So yeah, try to try to get aworkout in for sure First thing
in the morning.
Just stay hydrated, do aworkout, then I will do like my
non-negotiables for the mostpart and every day.
You can't be too hard onyourself to like.
You know, if you ask me, I havea list of all these things I
want to do, but it would takeliterally all day because I've
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access to a lot of things.
So you know, I can't really be.
I have to be realistic about it.
So instead of saying I have todo this and this and this and
this, it's like I can do this orthis and that's fine.
So mostly I do a really amazinggreen smoothie every day just
to make sure I'm getting mygreens in drinking a lot of
water and meditation.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Can you share the recipe?
Speaker 4 (47:00):
Yeah, absolutely I'd happen to.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
It's pretty long, so I can send it to you Do you have
time?
Yeah, send it to us.
Yeah, send it to us.
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (47:08):
Yeah, it kind of covers everything.
And yeah, just being like it'sall about the intent, right?
So if a morning routine causesstress, like oh, I got to do
this, I got to, just then it'snot part of it, because you know
you can see, like online, allthese bio hackers.
They take like 90 supplementsin a day and like, is it really
like helping you that much more?
Or putting all that stufftogether, is it affecting your
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body in a positive way versuslike just doing this to do it
rather than the intention behindit?
And you know, I know you guysare into Dr Joe Dispenza, we're
big fans of Dr Joe and you knoweverything can be produced by
the body essentially, but reallyit comes down to your mindset
and our thoughts create ourreality, right?
(47:50):
So, like, at one point I thought, okay, I want to have an
amazing partnership.
I wrote down all the.
You know all the things that Iwanted, all the, you know the
qualities and someday I foundher.
And I found her a couple ofyears ago and it's like when you
think about something and youkind of focus your intention on
it, feel the feelings of it,it's going to happen.
So if you want a healthy life,yes, and I understand there's
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some exceptions, but mindset isso important on this whole part
of it and, you know, releasingany kind of stuck emotions that
we have, so really it's kind oflike life is choose your own
adventure.
You can have anything that youwant.
It's just what you want to putyour attention to.
So I would say happiness isprobably a priority, just making
sure that I'm happy in themoment, being grateful, and
(48:35):
everything else flows.
Everything always works out.
Speaker 3 (48:38):
Yeah, I think we're both big on like just letting
our entire day be a ritual.
Instead of a list of half-twosthey're always like a list of
like we get twos and doingeverything with like that pure
intention.
Even if it's posting on socialmedia for the business or for my
own, you know, personal page,whatever it is, it's like doing
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it with the right intention,like whatever is behind it,
whatever the thought is.
You know, we're big on likethinking something, knowing it
and being it and, yeah, justliving our lives kind of in that
like ritualistic realm.
Speaker 4 (49:15):
Yeah, and I love it.
It makes it a little morefinalistical.
And I love when you correct me.
I sometimes I tell her oh, Ihave to go to own life in a
couple of minutes.
She's like no, just change yourperspective.
You get to go.
Like how blessed are you to beable to do that.
So it always just like changesmy perception so quickly because
it's yeah, why would I say Ihave to, I don't have to do
(49:35):
anything.
It's like I have theopportunity to live a blessed
life and everything that I do.
So thank you for that.
That's great.
Speaker 1 (49:43):
That's really beautiful.
I can, I love your story and Ihonestly we could talk to you
guys forever.
We should do dinner when youguys are free, you know, in a
year, but it was really greatchatting with you guys.
How can people follow you andwhere can they find you?
You know, drop all your linkyour socials.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
Yeah, so mine is.
I am Kate Griffith.
That's Instagram.
It's also my website is I amKate Griffith dot com.
We can find all of my coachingevents, broth work, Reiki
offerings there.
Speaker 4 (50:24):
And for me on Instagram, on and dot live.
It's an and dot life.
All the social tags are onthere.
My website is on there, all thewebsites and all the fun stuff.
So thank you guys.
I really appreciate amazing.
Speaker 3 (50:37):
Yeah everything.
Thank you, thank you for beingwith us.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
We thank you so much for your time.
Yeah, what a, what a great showepisode I mean all right, guys
do you have anything, any lastwords.
Speaker 2 (50:48):
No, that's it.
Take the point, take a coldplunge, just do it yeah just do
the cold plunge.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
She's going to be able to, guys.
Speaker 4 (50:54):
Take care.
Thank you so much.
Hey, welcome to the Lynn and Tony Know podcast.
I'm your host, lynn.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And I'm Tony.
We are both wellness coachesand married with kids.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Join us as we talk about all things health,
wellness, relationships, lifehacks, parenting and everything
in between unfiltered.
Thanks for listening and let'sget into it.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Welcome back.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
How are we?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
doing, we're doing good.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Monday morning, just getting right.
After it.
We're a weekend of just beinglazy, which is really needed
sometimes.
Yeah, just rest is beautiful.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Although nobody's going to have any sense of what
weekend that is as we roll outour episodes that's true, but
just imagine a weekend where werested.
Not the weekend you'relistening to this, but there was
a weekend previous to right nowwhere we took it easy, and then
the Monday after that, westarted recording again.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Exactly, and I'm really excited about today's
guests.
I've been following their lovestory for a few years now and I
feel like their love story iskind of similar to ours.
They're just this consciouscouple and relationship and they
share that with the world andit's really a beautiful thing
and I love love and they're bothindividually very inspiring and
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they are welcoming very soon.
She's due like any day, andthey're kind of on that journey
that we were and it's reallyexciting to see and I'm excited
to talk to them about, you know,their journey and their plans
for the baby.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I love babies, I love love, I love everything.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
You love love and babies.
I love love and babies.
One in one.
They're the best.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So I'm going to just read their bio so you guys know
who we're talking about.
Anand Sukadia and Kate Griffithare soon to be parents,
wellness and biohacking junkiesand share the passion of living
a heart based life.
The relationship is founded ondeep love, communication, growth
and contribution.
Like we could have written thatabout ourselves.
I feel like no.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
We would have to change the names.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yes, kate is a woman's empowerment coach, along
with being a breath work andrakey practitioner, sound
healing facilitator.
Her own healing journey led herto leave a successful career in
corporate sales to follow herpurpose and passion to guide
others to find a deepened senseof self and empowerment.
Anand is the owner of Ohm Life,wellness and Scholar.
Scholar.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Scalar.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Scalar Health in Jersey City and is the host of
the Limitless One podcast.
His lifelong passion forwellness, holistic health, self
development, spiritual growthand positively contributing to
the lives of others has led himdown the path he lives today.
Welcome to the show, you guys.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Welcome.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Thank you for having us.
We're so excited for today'sconvo.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
We're so excited to have you guys.
So before we get into like yourlove story, I want to just like
hear quickly from both of youabout you know, your journey to
where you got to today.
I know, kate, you were on apopular reality show.
Yes, temptation, right WasTemptation.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Island.
Yes, that feels like a lifetimeago.
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
So in a sense, can you summarize from you know
being on this reality show toyou know being single Kate, kind
of your spiritual awakening towhere you are today?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Totally yeah.
So grew up in Ohio and moved toMiami right after college, was
living in Miami lifestyle andthrough that, after 10 years of
partying going out, realized howdisconnected I was from my own
self, as I during that phasealso got married and just
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realized like I woke up one dayand I was like I don't know who
I am, like I've been living thislife and lifestyle but I have
no clue.
But then that led me down aneven worse path of falling for
someone much younger than me,moving to New Jersey, definitely
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not in a conscious relationship.
That took us that relationshipand I, on reality TV show and
that's where I hit my rockbottom like rock, rock, rock
bottom.
And then I realized like theonly like there was nowhere,
like I couldn't go any further.
And realized like I had tostart looking internally and
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getting to know myself on adeeper level, which then
prompted my spiritual journey.
I'm single at that point, tryingto find out who I am, what I'm
about like, what life is.
And that led me to startworking with different
practitioners and my wholehealing journey began.
I realized I had so much traumato release.
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I had so much just built up,frustration and validation,
seeking perfectionism and goingthrough an eating disorder, like
all the things really all thethings built up, and then,
through that journey, it led meto a place where I feel so much
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more aligned, so much moremyself, and then led me again to
start coaching others as.
I want to offer what was offeredto me to other women and
empowering them to be their mostauthentic self.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
So that's the short of that.
That's beautiful.
That's in a nutshell, right?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I'm sure there's a lot more In a nutshell, yes, in
a nutshell, in a nutshell yes.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
What is the timeline from like how old were you when
you went through that period oflike who am I?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yeah, so it was like my mid 30s, early to mid 30s,
when I was kind of going throughthat, and now I'm 38.
So it's been like 2019 was whenit really kicked off, when I
was like okay.
And then 2020 was a blessingfor me because it was like the
time where I was like okay, theonly thing to do right now is go
internal during the lockdown,during the pandemic, and so 2020
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was sort of my year ofexploration 21,.
I was getting to really knowmyself.
Then 22, 23, you know, intotoday.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
That's beautiful.
I had the same.
Yeah, like I'm kind of on thesame timeline as you, I think
like I had two spiritualawakenings One when I was 30
years old and I was living inNew York City and I was married,
I had the kid, I had thecorporate job and it was like
tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.
I have everything, but I'mfucking miserable.
(06:36):
Like what did I do wrong here?
Like why am I so miserable Ifthis is everything that I wanted
to achieve?
Why am I so unhappy?
And that's when I started myspiritual journey.
And that's when I started ChickP J C, my blog, and kind of led
me on this other path.
And then in my mid 30s, with mysecond kind of spiritual
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awakening.
So before we move to you, Anand, I do have a question.
You know, I'm sure a lot ofwomen are listening to this and
they're in.
They might be going throughsomething Like what?
What can be the first step ifthey feel like they're just
unhappy and like they don't knowwhere to start?
Where do you, what do you tellthem?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
So I always say is like date yourself.
So get to know yourself.
The same way you're you date asignificant other or someone
that you're just meeting, tryingto get to know them, get to
know yourself.
Set that time aside, whetherthat's a couple of minutes a day
, whether that's an hour a week,whatever it is for you, just
build some time into yourschedule to sit with yourself.
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Once you begin sitting withyourself, I feel like the, the
body, the mind, like youinnately know what to do.
But until you actually blockoff that time and dedicate that
time to yourself, it's not goingto come through if you're just
doing the same, right.
So, and then look intopractitioners, look into people.
I tried everything, right, likeI tried every different
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modality out there and don't beafraid to find one that that
works, or don't be afraid tofind one that doesn't work for
you.
Like, just keep exploring again.
The same way.
You would explore a newrelationship, because this is a
new relationship that you'rebuilding or ever evolving humans
, and I think that that'ssomething that we forget is to
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date ourselves, get to knowourselves, get to know all the
iterations and evolutions thatwe move through and build that
time in.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I love that tip.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
What modality spoke to you the most when you were
exploring them?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah, so breathwork is the one that spoke to me the
most, which then led me tobecome a breathwork practitioner
.
But I always say that I breathelife back into myself because I
was working with someone on aweekly basis and every session I
just felt lighter.
I felt like the inner knowingstarted to come through even
(08:57):
more, my intuition, like I wasreleasing so much like stales,
stagnant energy.
So breathwork is really the onethat really really spoke to me.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I love that.
Okay, we'll talk more aboutthat.
So, anand, what about you?
Like OmeLife is, for those whodon't know, is a wellness center
in downtown Jersey City, and Ifeel like you are kind of like
like I think now it's gettingpopular all the biohacking, but
I think you started before.
(09:31):
It was like this, this trendything.
Like you had cryo, you have youhad cryotherapy, you have the
floating tanks, saunas, and Ifeel like now there's a lot more
awareness around it.
Like how did you get into it?
Like what's your journey toOmeLife?
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Yeah, just to go real far back.
So I grew up very spirituallyminded and self-growth minded,
growing up in a Hindu household.
So I've always asked myself theexistential questions who am I,
what am I capable of?
And I always knew that therewas something in me, like when
you were two.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
That was your first thing you said and I was like
mom, who am I?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Yeah, who am I?
Yeah, so just reading, like youknow, the stories, hearing all
these, just like you knowbeautiful connections, and going
to spiritual places, I askedmyself, yeah, like who is this,
this being of mine?
I look at myself in the mirror.
But I always knew that I was anolder soul and that there was
something that I was here forthat's a little bit bigger or
different than than most.
(10:28):
It's an individual journey.
So I started thisself-development journey.
I did all the Tony Robbinsevents.
I've done a lot of differentthings where, just reading every
book I can the four agreements,the alchemists these are books
that really hit me on thatspiritual path.
And there was a book calledAutobiography of a Yogi as well
that really kind of started my Iguess, like real ascension.
(10:51):
So, as I'm going through this,I think the reason why I went
down this path is because Iguess, growing up I didn't have
a lot of confidence, I didn'thave a lot of self-love, so it
was always that journey to seekmore and gain more knowledge, to
try to feel a little bit oflike filling that empty cup, I
would say so I was obsessiveabout learning more and stuff.
(11:12):
So by the age of 34, I wasoffered an opportunity to do a
psychedelic called ayahuasca.
I'm sure you guys are familiarwith it, wow.
But essentially it was thebiggest blessing of my life.
From the moment I drank that Iknew that there was no going
back.
Like literally in the firstcouple of minutes and just to
give you a little background,like when I drank it and the
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medicine was starting sinking in, I literally went into outer
space and I was all alone in theuniverse.
There was no planets, no stars,no beings, nothing, and it was
the loneliest place to ever beand I just started sobbing.
I was just crying because I wasall alone and then all of a
sudden, I just kept breathingthrough it and then all of a
sudden I see this winged goddesscome towards me and she wraps
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her wings around me and fromgoing from the loneliest place
in the universe to the mostloved in the universe, it just
showed me the duality of natureand how everything is a circle.
It's like there's these twoextremes, but as you wrap itself
around, you swing the pendulumfar enough it's going to wrap
itself around.
So that experience for me, andthen going through the next
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couple of hours of that journey,it just gave me a life in
review and essentially showed meI could continue going down the
path I was going down, whichwas just trying different
businesses, being in a lot ofrelationships, short-term
relationships, not being happywith myself, being angry,
blaming people for my problems,or I could go down a different
path, which was to start livingin my purpose, which is love,
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contribution, growth, and thenalso just being in forgiveness
and being loving towards myselfand others.
So from that moment I realized,okay, I've always wanted to
create a center where I couldbring a community together and
they can find their truestversion, because I've gone
through so many differentmodalities and different help
things to find out what are thebest ones.
(13:00):
So I figured let's do somethingthat's on a holistic side,
that's bringing people in tomeet their truest self.
So we settled on like flotationtherapy, which is an amazing
therapy infrared saunas,cryotherapy but now we switch
over to cold plunges, which Iknow you guys are huge fans of.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah, we'll talk about it.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
We'll talk about that , for sure, I'll jump into my
plunge today because I wanted tobe inspired by you guys and
then, yeah, just creating thecenter.
So I opened it six years ago, acouple years after my ayahuasca
journey, just like getting allthe funding and everything in
place.
The build out it took a whileand we're six years in now and I
tell you it's been the ride ofmy life.
I know that because of thatjourney I've had the most
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incredible experiences.
I met Kate through the business.
I have some of the best friendsthrough the business.
I'm so fulfilled.
Through the business I've hadamazing opportunities to go to
Egypt this past year and do allthese different kind of really
cool things and connect with themost amazing people.
And I know that it wouldn't havehappened as fluidly as if I
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went the other path and justchose to continue going through
the motions of life.
So I think for me it's allabout stepping out of my comfort
zones, and the more I step outof my comfort zones and the
further I step away, life opensup in so much magic.
So that's why I also createdthe Limitless One podcast.
It's personally my journey ofhow to become limitless, and
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limitless is infinite potential.
So how can we ever get to thatplace.
But I'm all for trying as muchas I can in the time that I have
here and interviewing peoplethat are on the same elk and
that are living in passion,living in purpose, absolutely
love what they do.
And it's not all about money,it could be about any field, but
I have so much respect forpeople that are living in their
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purpose and you're really happyabout what they're doing for a
living because you're exchangingyour energy and time for
something that you're trying todo.
So if we're working at a jobthat is not fulfilling to us,
we're just trading in our timefor maybe a delayed happiness
which is never going to come, sowe have to be happy in the
moment.
So I guess that's really myjourney, how it started, and
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then I hope to help others,create an environment for them
to be on that same path.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Wow, I love that.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Hell yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Hell yeah, Hell's the yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, I was like sorry that was a really long
ramble, no, we love that.
Well, you started from birth, soyours is a little bit longer,
and it's always fascinating tome to hear somebody that knew
that from such an early age orwas asking those types of
questions from such an early age.
It's kind of mind blowingbecause a lot of for me
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personally, a lot of people thatI know and I work with men
specifically that may not findthose questions until 40, 50, 60
years old, and to hear someonecome from a very early age
asking those questions is alwaysa really interesting thing to
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me, because I relate probably alittle bit more to Kate's story.
You know, some of the bestpartiers make the best healers
at some point.
That's kind of my realm as wellin terms of, like the catalyst,
that kind of woke me up,essentially.
So very cool, but I know we'regoing to get deeper here in a
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second.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Well, let's talk about okay.
So you have two wonderful,amazing, you know, big hearted
people and you guys meet Likeyou guys.
Obviously you met organically,but how did that kind of start?
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Sure Sure.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
So yeah, so we met because I was a client at Olm
Life again Onin's WellnessCenter.
I lived right across the streetso, being into health and
wellness, I stopped in.
I actually met him when I wasin a cryotherapy session.
So, freezing my ass off, and hewalks in and he was just this
like energy, like there was justthis energy, like sunshine to
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him.
He wasn't meant to be therethat day but he just like kind
of popped his head in during athree minute cryotherapy session
and said, hi, nice to meet you.
And from there I always wouldgo in to schedule my
appointments, like in person,where most people would just do
that online.
Like I don't know why, Ithought I should walk in, but I
kind of there was just thisenergy to him that I wanted to
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see if he was there, just liketo steal a little bit of that
sunshine.
And I don't really know if Iconsciously knew what I was
doing, but I would always walkin and just kind of like look
around, see if he was there,just to say hello, and it was
just like I just wanted that 30seconds of energy that he had.
Again, don't know if I knewthat's what I was doing really
until later when I really likethought about it.
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But then pandemic hits that thatwas like end of 2019.
Pandemic hits and I always joke.
He was reaching out to some ofhis clients and I always joke
that he is probably onlyreaching out to the ones that
were between the age of like 30and 35.
Maybe thought they were cute.
I'm not sure we was reachingout to his clients, which I
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thought was very sweet.
I didn't know that many peoplehere because, again, I'd only
lived here for a short amount oftime at that point and we
started going for walks duringthe pandemic getting to know
each other.
I will say it was veryintimidating to be hanging out
with someone who is so selfaware and on that self growth
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and journey that I was sort ofjust getting on and just his
awareness and his knowledge andthe growth aspect of who he was
was so attractive to me but alsoso intimidating at the same
time.
But it really helped me to havethe support that I needed as I
was really going through thiscrazy journey of healing and
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getting to know myself.
So that support meant so muchto me as I was making so many
crazy life changes at that time.
But that's how we met and Ialways say, like we just kept
walking, like we started goingfor those walks during the
pandemic and then we neverstopped walking from there.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Just walked right into each other's hearts.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
It's funny because Tony and I also started dating,
like during the pandemic, likethe summer.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Right.
So yeah, ours would havestarted probably like eight
months after.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
But we didn't meet organically.
We did meet on hinge.
But I do always joke aroundthat like the universe just
didn't know how to put ustogether, because he was living
in Brooklyn and I was, you know,I'm living in Jersey City and
I'm a single mom and like Idon't go to bars and stuff like
that.
So the universe was like allright, what's the easiest way?
Oh, those dating apps, perfectyeah.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
And when I started on the dating apps, my radius was
very small.
I was in Bushwick, I was inBrooklyn, so I wasn't here at
all.
And then, you know, spent acouple hours in the local area.
And then I was like, okay, I'mgoing to expand out.
And, yeah, met her on the first24 hours I was on the app, so
it feels pretty meant to be.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
It was meant to be for sure, 24 hours.
I love that Amazing.
Thanks, yeah, thanks, hingegods, yeah.
So now, okay, so you guys met,you have this love story and,
like, let's fast forward to youknow your due and
congratulations, by the way.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Thank you.
Yeah, we are due.
I'm almost 39 weeks, so I meanpotentially today Any day, any
day, any day.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, yeah, I mean you could.
I went.
I delivered a week before shewas due, so you literally could
be going today.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Yeah, how are you feeling?
Like?
How's the pregnant?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah.
Yeah, I was like I'm DM'd her.
I'm like she's like I could goany day.
I'm like, please wait tillafter we record.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Yeah, yeah, no trouble, that'll be great
content yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
That'll be funny.
So how's the, how's thepregnancy been for you?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
So I want to say I've had an easy pregnancy, but I
think that comes withperspective of being 38.
We were trying for two, two anda half years.
We started trying very early inour relationship because we
knew right away like we wanted afamily and we knew we wanted to
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be together.
So we started trying very earlyand so I think that two and a
half years of you know andtrying allows you to have a
different perspective of thepregnancy.
So, yeah, a lot of things haveprobably happened throughout
where if I would have beenyounger or maybe not had that
perspective, might have thoughtdifferently.
But otherwise I would say I'vehad an easy pregnancy.
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It's also amazing when you havea supportive partner and we're
very self aware of, again, whereour thoughts go and when some
you know we've had some thingswe had to overcome and when that
happens like we just come backto all the practices, like all
the tools that we have in ourtool belt, understanding where
our thoughts are, beliefs are,and just coming back to, like,
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our happiness and baseline.
So I think I've had an easypregnancy.
But again, with all that said,You've done amazing.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
I just have to say like, yeah, just so positive, so
, like you know, into theresearch phase, but then also
just like surrendering to youknow, whatever happens.
So I just it's an honor towitness how strong you are and
I'm falling like more in lovewith you every single moment and
I can't wait to see you guysare so cute.
I can't wait to see you be a mom, because she gives this baby so
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much love.
Every single day she talks toit, she rubs its belly.
You know, like it's just, it'swonderful to witness and you're
going to be the best mom.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Thank you, I'm going to cry.
I cry over everything, so I'msure I'm crying during this.
It's such a beautiful.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
It's such a beautiful you know moment to to
experience as a couple,especially when you're in love
and you're so conscious to yourfeelings and emotions and and
really sharing that energytogether.
It's really a beautiful thingLike I love seeing couples who
are really in it together,because a lot of times you do
see couples where the the womanis just experiencing the
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pregnancy a little bit on her,on her own, when you know you're
not kind of, you don't havethat like emotional connection.
Not everybody, unfortunately,has that and it's so important.
You know, I was also blessed tohave a partner to like really
experience pregnancy with me andgo through the, the ups and
downs and the emotions and andthings do come and right, things
come up, especially you knowyour, your your hormones and and
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there's all these feelings andyou're feeling afraid and you're
feeling excited and you'refeeling in love, but you're also
feeling just like kind of like,oh, my God, my life is about to
change.
What are things that you that,if you're open to sharing things
that you guys were, you knowwhat are things that came up and
how did you?
You know you mentioned yourtoolbox like what is in your
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toolbox, like for couples thatare expecting or going through
these like huge transitionalmoments, like how do you get
back to the baseline of yourhappiness?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah, so we had an issue where I woke up leading
and no one pregnant wants tomake up leading, because the day
we were supposed to travelacross country for family
wedding it was only 20 weeks.
And then, of course, like Istarted to spiral into all the
what ifs.
We call the doctor right away,of course, and they get us in to
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see them as soon as possible.
But then I start researchingand I start going down that
rabbit hole and that's where hejust kind of kept holding,
holding, holding my hand andsaying like okay, we can keep
going down that rabbit hole, orwe can just like come back into
our heart, like we know thebaby's, okay, keep talking to
him, like keep staying in ourmeditative state, like because
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our stress levels are going toaffect the baby, so how do we
just come back to our baseline?
And so it was so helpful.
We ended up going for a week tothe beach just to like let our
nervous system relax, because Iknow that's what we both needed.
We missed out on the family trip, the wedding that was on in
Lake Tahoe, but what meant morefor us to just ground, to be at
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the beach, relax and calm ournervous system so that we could
move forward.
Everything was okay.
But that's where we've beenthroughout, is where you know
there's a lot of informationthat comes to you from medical
fields and it's a lot of fearbased and if you keep going to
Google and you can go down, youknow a million paths of things
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that could go wrong, might gowrong percentages, all these
things.
Or you can come back into yourheart and like that innate mama
instinct that like everything isfine, everything's great,
baby's great, we're great, andso that's where we've really had
to lean on our practices ofmeditation, of breathing Reiki.
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I give Reiki to myself, to thebaby, and just communication and
knowing I can lean on him whenI'm having those moments.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Yeah, and I think a lot of it is also following your
intuition going inside, likeyou said, because even just
simple things like whatsupplements to take you search
any supplement online and it'lllike half the people will tell
you you can't do it, like it'sterrible for pregnancy.
Other people will say, oh no,this is great for pregnancy.
And then the other thing whenwe go to the OB, when we were
going there, every single timethere was, oh, your blood levels
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are a little bit low here orthey're a little bit high here.
So it's constantly fear.
So there was so much of likeokay, you need to do this, you
need to do this, you need to dothis.
But at the end of the day, wejust had to really see what was
it necessary for us, see how wefelt about things and then make
the decision on our own whichpaths to go down and which paths
to just be like okay, I thinkthis is going to be fine At the
(27:01):
end of the day, we takeresponsibility for all of our
decisions in life on everyspectrum, so we just have to be
comfortable with that.
But I think that's not allowingso many outside forces affect
your mood or your ability to bepositive or put fear in you.
I think it's super important tojust stay grounded and have
that inner calm.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Yeah, and my thought we actually Especially with
Sorry, go ahead.
No.
With that, we actually decidedabout halfway through to start
working with midwives onlybecause we just felt like there
were some questions, concerns,like we wanted more guidance.
We wanted more time firstpregnancy.
Never gone through this beforeand didn't really feel like a
lot of our questions, concernswere being answered.
(27:42):
Or if they were, it was justkind of like breezing through
really quickly telling me myiron's low, take this, but not
offering me some suggestions,telling me only gain 20, 25
pounds, but not like reallysaying but these are the foods
you should be eating, which 20,25 pounds went out the window
really fast.
But so, yeah, we startedworking with midwives where we
(28:02):
really felt like we were beingheard, our questions were being
answered and that we could bringany concern to them without
feeling like it was a sillyquestion.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I love.
I mean, we did the same thinglike mid-pregnancy.
I switched to we were seeingNobiji Yen in Manhattan and I
just felt like, and she waswonderful, Like she, I gave
birth with her already with myfirst.
But that experience was justkind of a little bit traumatic,
I guess, because it was so likesuch a hospital setting and I'm
like I'm not sick, like I'mgiving birth, like this is
(28:36):
Everything's fine, like why arewe treating me like a patient?
And the second experience waswildly different.
I had a midwife and it was abeautiful experience.
I mean, I didn't do natural,unfortunately, I was trying to,
but other than that, like Ithink, just the whole experience
with the midwife and they taketime to really answer your
(28:56):
questions and they gave you thebirth that you want and you have
a lot more control and you canjust make more decisions.
So what have you been doing toprepare for birth?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Yeah, so I've tried to stay strong.
That's always been my goal.
It's not about the weight, butI've been exercising all the fun
pelvic floor exercises,prenatal yoga.
We've been working with a doulajust helping with some
preparation.
We did hire a doula, so she'llbe here and she's been doing
(29:32):
some body work.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
You have a nod.
You don't need a doula.
He's going to be your birthcoach.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
The man doula.
I think the doula is more forhim.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Yeah, I think it's good to have both more hands on
deck right.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah, I might do all of our massages.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I might hurt my hands , our doula got COVID last
minute and she didn't show up tothe birth, so Tony was the one
taking care of me.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I was channeling the doula through text into real
time with her.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I was like who are you texting?
I'm in labor, I'm in pain rightnow.
Who are you texting?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
It was like the fourth time I've heard that
about doula not showing up, soyou're on deck.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
That's why we asked the doula in the middle.
I was like every single time wesee him, I was like what
happens if you can't make it?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Everything will be fine.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
honestly, yeah, everything will be fine.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Essentially what happens.
I want to circle back tosomething Anon said that I think
is maybe one of the mostimportant pieces of pregnancy,
but also, in general, it's thesurrender part.
First of all, the wordsurrender needs a rebrand.
I think the marketing aroundthe word surrender is terrible.
(30:46):
If we could reclaim it as apowerful thing, then everyone
would be a lot better off.
Because the surrendering topeople think of surrender as
giving up or waving the whiteflag or just aimlessly flowing
down the river of life, andwhatever happens happens In the
(31:06):
way that you're using it in theway that I find it most useful
is that you surrender, you cannumber one surrender to the
divinity of the timing ofeverything and that everything
is unfolding exactly how itneeds to, without fail.
It's perfect.
Surrender is actually morepowerful in the sense that when
you surrender to your ownknowing of how things can go,
(31:28):
then the Google searches and allthe information that it's
flying at you can be filteredthrough what you know to be true
about your own body, about yourown way of living.
The surrender piece is huge.
That goes for pregnancy orliving in general.
If we can, all four of us, workon a rebrand of surrender and
(31:48):
take that word back and use itas I believe it can be intended.
That would be an amazing thing,because that piece is crucial.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Yeah, I think using surrender and then it's
synonymous with faith.
I think that's probably thedirection of you.
Know, I think where you like,what you're trying to say is
just having faith.
Yeah, just replacing that wordsurrender with faith,
essentially knowing that it'sgoing to be fine.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
What are your plans?
So the fourth trimester isobviously very important.
I feel like not talked aboutenough.
People focus a lot about theyou know on the baby and you
know the newborn baby, but notenough about you know the mom
and what the mom goes through inthe fourth trimester and I've
shared a lot about that when Iwas going through it.
What are you doing to preparefor yourself, not for the baby?
(32:36):
We know what we need to do forthe baby to keep the baby alive
somewhat.
Right, they sleep, they poop,they eat and that's pretty much
the cycle, right.
But, as you know, postpartum,the postpartum period what are
you doing to like, empoweryourself for that for that
period of time?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Yeah.
So a few things.
First of all, having a winterbaby is going to allow us to
hibernate.
I really want that time just tobe skin to skin, like you know,
real and raw here.
Having you know, the two of ushome with a baby as much as
(33:15):
possible, getting to know hiscues so that we feel really
comfortable, getting to knowlike I know that I've felt him
in my belly for the last ninemonths.
But I want to really like getto know him and get to know
ourselves in this element, howwe communicate, how we work
together, so that we can setthat solid foundation for what's
(33:37):
to come.
And again, luckily, we have themindset work.
So I want to make sure thatwe're holding ourselves
accountable to our meditations.
Baby can be on my chest likebaby can be breastfeeding, baby
can be in that carrier whilewe're meditating, like not
strained too far from the thingsthat I know bring us back to
(33:57):
our heart, bring us back to ourbaseline and our calm, and also
making sure that we are beingproactive in the sense of like
getting my hormones tracked,vitamin levels, mineral levels,
like all of that can affect whoit is that I am.
So I want to be reallyproactive in working with
someone to make sure, like I'mgetting back to normal as
(34:21):
quickly as possible, or takingthe right nutrients vitamins,
minerals again to make sure thatI'm good, so that I can be here
to fully support my family.
And I think, lastly, it's likeas proactive as I want to be.
In the sense, this might be theone time in life where I'm
going to be slightly reactivebecause we don't know what this
(34:44):
life is going to be like.
So I haven't determined thingssuch as like co sleeping.
I haven't determined like, am Igoing to do a combination of
breastfeeding and pumping?
Can I even breastfeed?
Like does it work for me?
So like not being so attachedto?
So again, coming back to theconversation around surrender is
like there's a lot of unknownand just like leaning into that
(35:06):
unknown of who we are as parents, what this baby needs, and just
fully surrendering to theexperience and letting us learn
as we go.
And then also some postpartumdoula work as well.
So our doula will be workingwith us and also be doing some
body work on the week'spostpartum.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
The one thing I'll say is we have all the tools, or
she has all the tools necessary, all the biohacking tools, all
the self care stuff.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
It's really important because I think a lot of times
people focus a lot or mostly onthe newborn and not enough on
the mother's needs, and I thinkthat's like the most important
part of all this and that issomething I made clear with Tony
before I even got pregnant.
I'm like, if I'm going to getpregnant, this is like you're
waking up to with the baby.
I'm going to need this, thisand this.
(35:58):
You know, and he stepped up tothe plate and it's really
important to do it together.
Like you're in this togetherand I know you guys will do
amazing and you'll figure it out.
And I think, really surrenderingand going in it with you know a
loose plan, you know,especially for the self care and
for, you know, taking time foryourself and getting that rest
(36:18):
that you need, but also goingwith like kind of no
expectations because you don't.
You know you and your baby arestrangers to each other.
Yes, like you felt him, but youdon't know him.
He doesn't know you, and you'regoing to get to know each other
.
Like I have a one year old andI'm still getting to know her.
You know, we're still gettingto know each other and it's a
beautiful, beautiful time andI'm very excited for you guys.
(36:39):
So I want to get intobiohacking a little bit.
Anand, what's like the nextthing that's going to be cool in
the biohacking world?
Speaker 4 (36:50):
I mean so many things .
But you know we just launchedthis new technology called the
energy enhancement system.
So I'll tell you a little bitabout it and I'd love to have
you guys come and experience it.
Essentially what it is you'rein this room and you have four
computer towers in each cornerand they're laser calibrated to
a hundredth of an inch to thecenter point, which is called
(37:11):
the zero point, and these scalarwaves are colliding in the
middle of the room and creatinga troideal field.
And it's what it is, is it kindof looks like?
If you were to visualize itlike the Earth's electromagnetic
frequency, you know how itlooks like a troideal shape or
an apple, or you know theelectromagnetic field of a human
being or any object.
That's biological.
It's increasing the cellularvoltage of the room.
(37:35):
So the idea behind thetechnology is our bodies will
sink to whatever environmentit's in, similar to a fish bowl.
If you have a fish in dirtywater, the fish is going to
start degrading its health.
If you have a fish in abeautiful, thriving ecosystem
with all the nutrients it needs,it's going to thrive.
Same thing with our bodiesright.
And the challenge in this worldthat we live in is there's so
(37:55):
much electromagnetic smog,there's Wi-Fi, 5g, there's dirty
water, there's air pollution,there's all these things
environmental toxins that areharming our bodies.
And our bodies are amazing.
They're resilient, and if youthink about all the damage we do
to them and we're still livingto the age of 80s it's
incredible what our bodies cando.
But imagine not having to dealwith that.
So the idea is, when you're inthis environment, in the scalar
(38:18):
field, it's increasing yourcellular voltage to about 70 to
90 millivolts.
That is the optimalmillivoltage of cellular health.
So when your body gets intobalance, the more time you spend
in here, your cells will riseto that 70 to 90 millivolts.
It's going to put your body inhomeostasis and then from there
the body starts repairing itselfbecause it knows exactly what
(38:39):
it needs to do.
I truly believe and this is oneof the missions of home life is
creating a holistic environmentfor our bodies to repair itself,
and I know you guys are reallyinto the biohacking too, with
the cold plunges, saunas, allthat kind of stuff.
So we truly believe in thepower of the body.
The power that made the bodyalso can heal the body.
So this technology has beenaround for 30 years.
(38:59):
It's only been around in reallywealthy people's homes
billionaires, middle Easternkings and sheiks and things like
that and now it's starting tocome online.
So there's a 380 centers thathave opened up in the last year
and a half just around the world, and if you go to the website
of testimonials, there'sthousands of testimonials on
(39:19):
different ailments.
And it's not like thistechnology is curing anything or
treating any particular disease.
It's putting the body inbalance and then the body wants
to start healing itself, but itjust needs to be able to release
the toxins that are inside ofit.
So it's really incredible.
It's super simple.
All you have to do is sit down,lean back into zero gravity
chair, close your eyes and it'llfeel like you're floating, but
(39:40):
you don't have to get wet orit's not hot, it's not cold.
You're just laying in a roomand connecting with yourself and
you're swimming in thisfree-footed.
I love your job.
I would live at home life.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
I would literally if I had nothing else going on, I
would be at home life all dayCold plunge, sauna, float a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
One time we tried to go, we literally stuck in a
flood.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
We need to go, so you just also added cold plunging.
How's that been?
Yes, this is just how we'd feelthis puts you in place, doesn't
it?
Hello for you, my name's.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
It sounded like you were making a shift from cryo to
cold.
Plunging Is that right?
Speaker 4 (40:22):
Yes, yeah, so in order to put this new technology
, I'm sorry say that again.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Why is that?
Oh, I just said, why is that?
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Yeah, yeah.
So there's a couple ofdifferent reasons, couple of
things with the cryo, themaintenance on the cryotherapy
machines, even though it's anamazing technology, there was
always something happening.
And the industry is moving awayfrom nitrogen based tanks to
having electric tanks, so, orsorry, electric chambers.
So we were in the nitrogenphase, the cost of nitrogen were
going up and the maintenancewas always giving issues.
(40:50):
And then how do I tell mymembers, hey, we're going to be
closed for two weeks.
I can't, you know, we can't seeyou.
Then I started getting into coldplunging.
I've done it a bunch of times,I've done the Wim Hof stuff, and
I just felt so exhilarated frombeing in the cold water and
even though it doesn't get downto negative 321 degrees like our
cryo tank was, that's threeminutes, you stay dry, but the
feeling of being in a coldplunge lasts all day long.
(41:12):
So there was a lot of ourmembers that were like, oh, you
shouldn't get rid of the cryo,we love it.
But I said, just trust me, trythis out.
We moved the cryo out to makeroom for some other stuff in the
center and then we moved theinfrared sauna that we had into
the cold plunge room.
So it's a fire and ice room now.
So you do a couple of minutes25 minutes, in the sauna, then
(41:32):
go into the plunge and I tellyou, every single body person
that's been a member of cryowere begging me not to get rid
of it.
I'm absolutely in love with itand they're coming daily.
So it's so invigorating on somany levels and you guys can
probably speak to this becauseyou've been doing it so much,
and I really appreciate the factthat you guys are posting these
things, because I think it'stough to step into our tank
(41:54):
inside of a warm room, but youguys are going outside breaking
ice.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
In the snow Getting in.
Speaker 4 (42:00):
I was watching your video, tony, the other day.
Oh my goodness, dude, that isimpressive to do it outside.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
It was one of those things where I started.
You know, I went outside.
I was like I knew, knew it wasgoing to be cold.
I did not realize how much wasgoing to be frozen and I'd
already started documenting theprocess and I was like 30
minutes in.
I was like I've absolutelypainted myself into a corner
with this.
I have to see this through nowbecause now everybody's paying
(42:26):
attention and I can't not do it.
But it was on a different level, the hardest one, like without
even any doubt.
It was brutal, it was so.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
And now just from to my defense, I didn't do it
because I, you know I'm a womanand I don't do it during my
cycle.
Like it's just not healthy.
You know you want to keep thewomb warm, so but yeah, like
watching I was like you're nuts,like I don't know if I would do
it today.
Thank God I had a good.
Thank you, mother nature, formy excuse.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
I'm, you know I can't do this today, but like we're
going to get back into it thisweek and yeah, I'm afraid
outdoors is just a whole anotherball game, I mean it's the only
place we had to put it right,so it's not because, like, we
want to be hardcore about it,just like that's where we can
put it, and now it just happensto be a little more hardcore
during the winter and the other.
(43:19):
The other cool part about it islike we're not like we're not
super human.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
We're just like, we're just regular people.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
We're, you know, more or less we're like anybody else
that's watching us.
If you see us doing it in avery simple setup and a very
simple setting, it becomes moreof a reality to a lot of people.
Like I get asked about thatmore than literally anything
else that I do combined.
Like there are people that willcall me, message me, text me,
(43:49):
like, and they're like how doyou do it?
And I'm like, well, you buy thetub, you fill it up with water
and then you just do it.
Like there is no magic trickhere, it is simple, you just do
it.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
And it's a yeah, and anybody can do it, like you can
get, you can do it in the bath.
You can take a cold shower, youcan do it in the bath, like
biohacking doesn't need to bethis unattainable thing Right
Now.
I'm really curious, though, forboth of you what are your
rituals?
Like your daily rituals, likethe nitty gritty, like morning
routine or night routine, thethings that, like you, have you
(44:21):
do daily, because I feel likethese habits are so important
and I'm always curious when Italk to, like you know,
biohackers or people that areinto all this stuff, like what
are?
What is their daily routine?
What is your daily routines?
Speaker 3 (44:34):
So mine's changed a little bit.
I used to be a major sauna girl, so I would get in the sauna at
least four to five times perweek probably, and would love a
good cold plunge or cry outtherapy session.
So I had to get take a littlepause from from those.
I cannot wait to get back toall of that, and I was listening
to your postpartum journey,lynn, and on the podcast, and I
(44:58):
know you said great things aboutcold plunging postpartum, so I
can't wait.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Yeah, well, after yeah, of course after I started
after I was done breastfeedingyeah, so like definitely wait to
give your body time to likeheal for sure, yeah.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
Yeah, yeah, so that used to be part of my routine.
We do a lot of I do a lot ofred light therapy right now, and
then morning meditation andevening meditation.
So almost always go to sleepwith a meditation.
We have it's a headset and ithas light therapy that comes
through, called brain tap, andthey have over like 2000
(45:32):
meditations on there and soright now I'm working my way
through they have some, theyhave some child, yeah, some
childbirth meditation.
So I'm working my way throughthat.
So that's kind of like the twothings must do is like at night
a little something and a littlesomething in the morning.
But morning routine for me isintuitive.
(45:53):
So sometimes the last fiveminutes, sometimes the last
couple hours between meditation,breath work, journaling, but
again, like I said, for anyonetrying to get into anything,
it's just creating that time andthat space and I think that's
where we wake up early, just sowe can have that time to
ourselves before the day starts.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
What time do you wake up?
What?
Speaker 3 (46:13):
time.
Do you guys wake up?
My alarm goes off at 5.55.
His goes off.
Speaker 4 (46:17):
Today it went out 4.06, I think some of my time.
So yeah, try to try to get aworkout in for sure First thing
in the morning.
Just stay hydrated, do aworkout, then I will do like my
non-negotiables for the mostpart and every day.
You can't be too hard onyourself to like.
You know, if you ask me, I havea list of all these things I
want to do, but it would takeliterally all day because I've
(46:40):
access to a lot of things.
So you know, I can't really be.
I have to be realistic about it.
So instead of saying I have todo this and this and this and
this, it's like I can do this orthis and that's fine.
So mostly I do a really amazinggreen smoothie every day just
to make sure I'm getting mygreens in drinking a lot of
water and meditation.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Can you share the recipe?
Speaker 4 (47:00):
Yeah, absolutely I'd happen to.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
It's pretty long, so I can send it to you Do you have
time?
Yeah, send it to us.
Yeah, send it to us.
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (47:08):
Yeah, it kind of covers everything.
And yeah, just being like it'sall about the intent, right?
So if a morning routine causesstress, like oh, I got to do
this, I got to, just then it'snot part of it, because you know
you can see, like online, allthese bio hackers.
They take like 90 supplementsin a day and like, is it really
like helping you that much more?
Or putting all that stufftogether, is it affecting your
(47:30):
body in a positive way versuslike just doing this to do it
rather than the intention behindit?
And you know, I know you guysare into Dr Joe Dispenza, we're
big fans of Dr Joe and you knoweverything can be produced by
the body essentially, but reallyit comes down to your mindset
and our thoughts create ourreality, right?
(47:50):
So, like, at one point I thought, okay, I want to have an
amazing partnership.
I wrote down all the.
You know all the things that Iwanted, all the, you know the
qualities and someday I foundher.
And I found her a couple ofyears ago and it's like when you
think about something and youkind of focus your intention on
it, feel the feelings of it,it's going to happen.
So if you want a healthy life,yes, and I understand there's
(48:13):
some exceptions, but mindset isso important on this whole part
of it and, you know, releasingany kind of stuck emotions that
we have, so really it's kind oflike life is choose your own
adventure.
You can have anything that youwant.
It's just what you want to putyour attention to.
So I would say happiness isprobably a priority, just making
sure that I'm happy in themoment, being grateful, and
(48:35):
everything else flows.
Everything always works out.
Speaker 3 (48:38):
Yeah, I think we're both big on like just letting
our entire day be a ritual.
Instead of a list of half-twosthey're always like a list of
like we get twos and doingeverything with like that pure
intention.
Even if it's posting on socialmedia for the business or for my
own, you know, personal page,whatever it is, it's like doing
(48:59):
it with the right intention,like whatever is behind it,
whatever the thought is.
You know, we're big on likethinking something, knowing it
and being it and, yeah, justliving our lives kind of in that
like ritualistic realm.
Speaker 4 (49:15):
Yeah, and I love it.
It makes it a little morefinalistical.
And I love when you correct me.
I sometimes I tell her oh, Ihave to go to own life in a
couple of minutes.
She's like no, just change yourperspective.
You get to go.
Like how blessed are you to beable to do that.
So it always just like changesmy perception so quickly because
it's yeah, why would I say Ihave to, I don't have to do
(49:35):
anything.
It's like I have theopportunity to live a blessed
life and everything that I do.
So thank you for that.
That's great.
Speaker 1 (49:43):
That's really beautiful.
I can, I love your story and Ihonestly we could talk to you
guys forever.
We should do dinner when youguys are free, you know, in a
year, but it was really greatchatting with you guys.
How can people follow you andwhere can they find you?
You know, drop all your linkyour socials.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
Yeah, so mine is.
I am Kate Griffith.
That's Instagram.
It's also my website is I amKate Griffith dot com.
We can find all of my coachingevents, broth work, Reiki
offerings there.
Speaker 4 (50:24):
And for me on Instagram, on and dot live.
It's an and dot life.
All the social tags are onthere.
My website is on there, all thewebsites and all the fun stuff.
So thank you guys.
I really appreciate amazing.
Speaker 3 (50:37):
Yeah everything.
Thank you, thank you for beingwith us.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
We thank you so much for your time.
Yeah, what a, what a great showepisode I mean all right, guys
do you have anything, any lastwords.
Speaker 2 (50:48):
No, that's it.
Take the point, take a coldplunge, just do it yeah just do
the cold plunge.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
She's going to be able to, guys.
Speaker 4 (50:54):
Take care.
Thank you so much.
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