February 28, 2025 • 33 mins
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Dive into the riveting journey of Lakin Cunningham, a national rodeo champion who's now paving her way in the world of chiropractic care. From being crowned the 2021 National Little Britches Rodeo Association Goat Tying World Champion to navigating the complexities of chiropractic school, Laken's story is one of resilience and passion. She reflects on her unique path influenced by a deep family legacy in rodeo while also exploring the vital role that nutrition plays in health and fitness.
Throughout our engaging discussion, Lakin shares insights about her experiences with gut health and why it matters for everyone, especially athletes. Learn about the innovative clear protein she champions, a game-changer in the world of protein supplementation that tantalizes taste buds while providing essential nutrients. With a balance of nutrition advocacy intertwined with her academic pursuits, Lakin emphasizes how chiropractic care dovetails with her love for helping people live their best lives.
Listeners can expect not just a peek into the rodeo world but also valuable takeaways about nutrition, resilience, and the interconnectedness of health. Tune in to discover how Lakin combines her love for rodeo, her knowledge from chiropractic studies, and a passion for health into a platform that inspires others. Let her story motivate you to embrace wellness and rethink your health strategies. Don't miss out and be sure to join us for this enlightening episode. Be sure to subscribe, share your thoughts, and participate in Laken's journey!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey Spandex and Wine listeners.
If you've been following me onInstagram, you saw several posts
on protein that I had.
Last week, I came across a newclear protein on Facebook and
reached out to the contentcreator that I saw sharing it.
She agreed to chat with me andI learned what a remarkable
young lady she is.
Take a listen to myconversation with Laken
(00:22):
Cunningham as we talk rodeochiropractic care, supplements
for gut health and, of course,protein.
Hey Laken, welcome to theSpandex and Wine podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Hi, I'm glad to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I'm so happy to have you.
I was so intrigued by a lot ofyour posts where you were
talking about clear protein.
It just sounds reallyinteresting and I want to get to
that.
But first I have to, number one, tell you that I love your name
.
It's very cool.
And two, okay, I have to readthis because I saw on your
profile that you are 2021National Little Riches Rodeo
(01:00):
Association Goat Tying WorldChampion.
That's so cool.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yes, that was, it seems like yesterday, but it's
almost been four years now,which is really crazy, because I
that was my senior year of highschool and I am now supposed to
be in my senior year of college.
But I'm past my senior year ofcollege so yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
So tell me about your background with the rodeo and I
, I mean, I don't know muchabout it.
I have friends that theirgrandkids and their kids have
participated, but I'm just socurious, tell me about, tell me
about that yeah, so I am a thirdgeneration rodeo athlete.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
my grandparents got into it.
They were both lived.
They both lived on a ranch whenthey were younger and then they
got married and decided theywanted to be teachers and after
married and decided they wantedto be teachers and after that
they decided they wanted totrain horses and do that and
they have a lot of other thingsgoing on.
But that's kind of how we gotinto the whole rodeo scene was
them.
And then my mom and my auntboth grew up rodeoing and they
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were both very successful andthen I kind of took into their
footsteps and I have beenrodeoing now since I was six and
I've been riding horses sincebefore I could walk.
So it's just always kind ofbeen a part of my life.
And my sister is a professionaltrick rider and Roman rider,
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which is basically hangingupside down off of horses and
she also stands up on two horsesat once.
She's kind of crazy.
Um, and then my brother alsokind of was in it too, but not
as much anymore.
He has now graduated highschool and was more into just
high school athletics.
But it's, I've always been apart of it.
I have never stopped doing it.
(02:39):
I've done it all since I wassix, basically all through the
ranks.
So, wow, that is cool.
So you still compete.
I do still compete.
I sometimes feel like I'm alittle crazy for doing that just
because of my crazy schedule.
Right now I'm in chiropracticschool and a lot of people are
done rodeoing, or at least donecollege competitively rodeoing,
(03:03):
by the time they get to thatpoint in their schooling career.
And I decided that I wasn'tready to be done and I actually
got my bachelor's degree in twoyears and I rodeoed where I went
and got my bachelor's degree.
I went there to rodeospecifically and just kind of
get all my prerequisites out ofthe way for chiropractic school.
(03:24):
And I still got a bachelor's aswell.
But then I decided I stillwasn't ready to be done rodeoing
after those two years.
So I decided to rodeoindependently through my
chiropractic college for a yearand then last year I was
approached by another rodeocoach who actually went to a lot
of rodeos with my mom as a kidat Northeastern Oklahoma A&M
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University and I'm now rodeoingfor them and getting my
associates while I'm alsogetting my chiropractic degree.
So I am thinking that afterthis year I still have one more
year of eligibility in thecollegiate scene, but I think
I'm going to be done after thisyear because it will be four
years and I feel like my time isabout up.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
So, oh my gosh, that's a lot of your schedule.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That is crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yes, so what drew you to chiropractic care then?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
So my aunt's actually a chiropractor.
She's been a chiropractor for30 years I think now a little
over 30 years and it wasn'tsomething I always wanted to do.
I always kind of had it as asecond choice.
But I never really thought youknow, I'm going to be a
chiropractor.
I don't want to go to schoolfor that long.
I for a long time wanted tomajor in ag communications and
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ag business and kind of go thesales route and market in terms
of sales in the Western industry.
And my junior year of highschool I had committed verbally
to Oklahoma state to do that.
My mom was actually buying ahouse.
And then, um, about a yearlater, covid happens, or COVID
happened, I guess, my junioryear of high school and I
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decided about peak COVID, thatthe whole sales thing I could do
without a degree with for whatI really wanted to do, and there
wasn't really a point in megoing to school for four years
to do that, especially when Ihave a mom who has a background
in sales and I have a grandpawho has a background in sales.
I didn't really need thatdegree and so I was like maybe I
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should take up chiropractic,and by that point I had already
taken quite a bit of collegecredit hours in high school and
I didn't really want to be inschool for eight years like most
chiropractors are, because it'sa four year degree and then
another three and a half yeardegree after, and so I ended up
taking more classes for thatroute in high school and I
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graduated with 43 credit hours,which is how I got my bachelor's
in two years.
So I'm actually the youngestone in my chiropractic class.
But I'm also not only like is myaunt a chiropractor, she's also
an animal chiropractor andthat's kind of what drew me to
the whole thing.
It's kind of a funny story.
I was visiting her that summerbefore my senior year, and she
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was adjusting all of her horsesand I'm like you know what?
Maybe I should do this so Idon't have to pay to have it
done all the time.
And you know that's a veryexpensive degree for me to do
that.
I'm spending a lot of money.
But in the long run, theconvenience I was like this
would be nice and so that's kindof what made me decide that was
the route I wanted to go.
(06:22):
But I also really enjoy helpingpeople and I love health and
wellness and I love holistichealth and I've always been
somebody that loves watchingothers feel their best and
perform their best, andchiropractic was kind of a way
that allowed me to not go tomedical school but also tie all
(06:42):
of that in.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yes, oh my gosh, that is very cool, and I love how,
with chiropractors, I know theyfocus more on nutrition than
most traditional medicine.
So if you would just tell us alittle bit about, like, how you
got interested in nutrition andwhat it is that you do is your
the protein that you show onFacebook and Instagram?
(07:06):
It just looks so interesting soI want to hear about it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yes, so my parents got divorced when I was eight,
and with that my mom decidedthat she was going to be raising
three little kids on her own,and she needed a different
source of income.
She was a college professor,and so it led her to Zingular,
which is what I am currentlydoing now, and she's been doing
it now for 13 and a half yearsand so I watched her.
(07:31):
I basically grew up watching herdo that from age eight until
now and she lost a whole bunchof weight on the system.
But that wasn't really what shegot started for.
She got started for the moneybecause she wanted an extra $500
a month just to help providefor three little kids as a
single mom.
We were eight, five and mysister was 11 months old at the
(07:54):
time and we had just moved out,and so that was kind of why she
started doing.
That was just that reason, andshe is now almost a $7 million
earner with the company, and soI watched her be very successful
.
I watched her help a lot ofpeople.
I watched her go from basicallyliving paycheck to paycheck
(08:15):
with my dad to.
We now live on an 80 acre farmand in a very large house and it
was actually our dream house.
We used to drive by it everysingle morning to school and my
mom and I would always be like,wow, that house is so pretty, we
love it, it would be so greatto live there one day.
And I think she bought it whenI was 12 or 13.
So we've had it for eight ornine years now and watching all
(08:38):
of that, it inspired me, um, andI knew it was something that I
wanted to do later on.
Um, I could have started when Iwas 18.
I did not, um, because I wasgetting my undergrad in two
years and I felt like thechiropractic, like people, would
like it just a little bit moreum and kind of understand and
(09:01):
relate to what I was doing.
And so I waited to start untilJune of 2023, which was right
after I got graduated with myundergrad, because I graduated
in May of 2023.
And I got started.
I lost 15 pounds in like amonth and a half on just our gut
(09:23):
health line, our brand new guthealth line that had come out at
that point, and at that point Igot really, really interested
in gut health.
Um, and chiropractic school hasalso taught me a whole bunch
about gut gut health, and soI've been super, super
interested in that.
And then our newest productthat came out two weeks ago is
now the clear protein.
Um, but beside the productsmyself, I have been with the
(09:48):
company now for about a year anda half and I have been I
already earned a free trip atthe age of 20 with my boyfriend,
so we were able to go to ParkCity, and what was really cool
about that is my mom actuallytook us on all of the trips that
she won, so we got to go toBora Bora and Dubai and Italy.
(10:08):
We've been all over the placeas little kids, and Park City
was the very first trip that shehad won and I got to go on it
with her.
And then I earned it aboutalmost a year ago now, in March
of 2024.
And I got to go on it last May,so that was really cool and
really exciting and now I'vekind of slowed down.
(10:28):
I went really really hard atthe business side for a long
time and took the products andtook care of my body.
And then chiropractic schoolpicked up just a little bit and
I've slowed back down.
But it's still really nicebecause with chiropractic school
I don't have time for a realjob because I'm in school for 10
hours a day, five days a weekand I and then I have horses.
I have four horses that I'mriding on top of that and
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rodeoing on the weekend.
So I truly don't have time for areal job.
And a lot of people hate onnetwork marketing and things
like that, but I watched itchange my mom's life and it's an
easy, simple way for me to beable to make 400 or 500 a month
when I'm not really doing much.
I mean, I'm working an hour orso less a day, basically, and
(11:12):
it's really convenient, easy forme and I love the products and
they work for me.
So that's also really nice.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, oh, that's great.
Well, and it's called Spandexand Wine, because I used to be a
wine consultant for Travel andCare, and so it was a direct
sales company too.
Such a neat way to meet otherpeople, to get that fulfillment
without having to be in afull-time job, you know, and the
financial freedom that you cancreate for yourself.
I think it's just, it's a greatway to go.
So it sounds like you're doingamazing, so congratulations.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Thank you, thank you yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
So tell us a little bit about your gut health
products, and then also theprotein.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah, so I have all of them like lined out right
here so I don't forget aboutthem.
When I first started, we justlaunched our gut health line.
It was brand spanking new and Ilove it because it has
award-winning products in it,and that's crazy because there's
a lot of different health andwellness companies out there and
a lot of people have greatproducts, but not very often do
(12:13):
you find companies that actuallyhave multiple award-winning
products, and so that was reallycool when I started and I was
able to tell people that, assomebody who didn't know a ton
about the products, I could belike, oh well, this literally
won number one in industry-wideproducts.
And so the first one is ourprobiotic.
It actually was the 2022supplement of the year, so not
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only was it like probiotic ofthe year, it was supplement of
the year like worldwide in 2022.
So that was really cool.
I take two of those a day and Idon't necessarily know that
it's because of the probiotic,but I also kind of think it is.
I have not been sick or hadseasonal allergies since I
started taking it, and that'scrazy to me because I've always
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been somebody who has always hadseasonal allergies and been
sick and had the winter crud andmy sister even had COVID three
weeks ago and my mom and I wereboth avidly on our probiotic and
gut health system, did not getsick and we were around her and
that was really cool.
Who knows if it's actually dueto the products, but I will
believe that it is becausehealing your gut can do so much.
(13:21):
Um, the next product that hasbeen award-winning is our trend
stick, and you can see it.
But, um, I really like itbecause I'm somebody who can't
do energy drinks.
I have a caffeine intoleranceand even like 75 milligrams of
caffeine just makes me havejitters and I can't do it.
(13:42):
And so our trim stick has 50milligrams of caffeine and it's
just the perfect amount for meto have all day energy without
jitters and things like that,and it also helps curb cravings
and boost your blood sugarlevels.
So that's really nice also, andit's something that I do like
two times a day, one in themorning and one in the afternoon
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if I really feel like it,because it's all natural and it
really helps with my energy whenI can't have extra caffeine.
And then my next favoriteproduct is our Complete Collagen
, and I have mentioned that I orI guess we've talked about how
much I rodeo and everything likethat.
(14:24):
So with that comes reallyreally bad joints and muscles
and ligaments and all of thethings.
And this is probably myfavorite story of all of
everything with Zing singular isthe collagen.
I started taking it and Ididn't even realize it was
happening.
But when I started taking itabout two months and I noticed
that I didn't have joint painanymore and I had had consistent
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joint pain since I was 14 yearsold and it was it was crazy.
It wasn't something I expected,because people think collagen
and they're like, oh, hair, skin, nails, that kind of thing.
But, at the same time, like italso helps with your joints and
rebuilding your bone structureand everything like that, and
(15:11):
your collagen production startsdeclining after in your 20s,
after in your twenties.
And for me, I started takingone scoop a day and about two
months in I noticed like Ireally don't have that much
joint pain and even in thewinter I would have horrible
joint pain, couldn't even move,my joints would be achy, they
would get stuck.
It was crazy and I hardly haveany joint pain at all anymore.
(15:35):
Um, and that that's amazing tome because I truly never thought
that at 20, I would ever live alife not having joint pain,
because most people don'texperience that until their
forties.
Um, I was told that I have nocartilage left in my knees two
years ago, and that was at 19.
(15:55):
So I basically had knees of a45 year old, and so I I'm
basically bone on bone or myknees and they've always given
me pain and they don't anymore.
And that's crazy.
I mean, I still have some painwhen I'm exercising and stuff
like that, but the everyday,just constant pain is gone,
which is really really nice.
(16:16):
Ah, yes, um.
So then our next product wehave five or six in our gut
health line is our prebiotic,and it goes hand in hand with
the probiotic.
Um, if you didn't know, theybasically work to clear out good
and bad bacteria out of yourgut and to help stabilize
everything in there.
Um, so I take both of thosethings every single day, and a
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prebiotic is also fiber, so ithelps your intestinal tract move
and keeps everything moving umin there.
Um, so that is four of ourproducts on our gut health line.
And then the other one I don'thave with me for whatever reason
.
I couldn't find it but it's ourdigestive enzymes and so we
basically just take that everysingle day before we eat to help
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us digest.
And it's probably one of myfavorite underrated products,
because not only is it in ourgut health line, but a lot of
times, like you can, just it'sour, it's our cheapest product,
but I feel like it's our mostbeneficial because enzymes are
what helps break down our foodand everything in our gut and we
don't get enough of those.
And taking one of those, like II don't drink very often, but
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if I don't feel good or have atummy ache after I drink and
this is just something that Inoticed a couple of weeks ago
actually is, I had a very sugarycocktail and I was like, wow, I
don't feel very good and I justwent, took a digestive aid and
within minutes it, my wholestomach, just felt better and I
think that had something to dowith that.
Digestive enzymes, sure, yeah,and then that.
(17:47):
So those are our five productsthat we have in our what we call
gut collective.
So we have the probiotic, thecollagen, the prebiotic, the
trim stick and then thedigestive aid.
So all that tied togetherreally, really helps your gut,
but it also helps with energy,your immune system, like all of
it, um, which is really nice andwhy I take all of them Um.
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And then last year, right aboutthis time, we came out with um,
a GLP one supplement.
Um.
Everybody knows about Ozempicand everything supplement Um.
Everybody knows about Ozempicand everything and that is like
basically injecting the GLP-1hormone synthetically into your
body, which is fine I don't hateanybody who does that and
that's what they choose to do.
But singular decided a year agothat they wanted to be very
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first company to come out with anatural GLP-1 hormone producer,
and so they came out with GLP-X, which is basically the same
thing, except it's not going togive you the side effects as
like something that the shotwould.
It's going to help produce thathormone naturally and your body
does it already.
But when you start taking theshot, it basically stops that
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hormone from producing and it'sin that it's.
It's synthetically injects itinto your body, um.
So GLPX helps you produce thathormone on its own to help you
lose weight more naturally.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
And it also has other benefits too, but I don't even
know what they are.
It's a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
But if I had, if I had the thing in front of me, I
would know.
But I know it has a lot ofother benefits.
But we did come out with thisabout a year ago and it was a
huge hit.
We sold out of it in 10 daysand we never sold out of a
product ever before and thatsold out in 10 days.
And now we knew, with the clearprotein, that it was going to
be a really big hit too and tohave a lot more on hand just
(19:30):
because of that.
But this, like, for instance,with my mom's business, boosted
it like, I think, times 30% whenit came out just last February
and it's also what helped meearn my free trip, because so
many people are looking forstarting on the shot or losing
weight and this was an easyalternative.
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So that is what comes in ourgut gut health line and I kind
of went off on a tangent on allof that.
But I've been using all of thatfor a year to a year and a half
and not only do I just feelbetter, I've lost weight and I
can perform better, with myjoints not hurting, and my hair
(20:13):
and my nails also.
I have a nail story.
I ripped off my nail um,completely riding horses, of
course in September, and it'ssupposed to take six months to a
year to grow a nail back, andmine was completely fully grown
back in three months.
Oh, wow, I know that probablyhad to do with all of that as
well, um, so yeah, that's ourgut health life perfect.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
yeah, it's insane and you know, it seems like there
is a common thread through a lotof my guests about the
importance of gut health and yes, and how it's just related to
all illnesses and inflammation.
Body, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I mean your immune system.
I think it's 70% of your immunesystem is actually in your gut,
so a lot of people don't knowthat.
So, and I also think that's whyI don't get sick and have the
seasonal allergies like I usedto, because I've fixed my gut
and now I don't get sick becauseso much of my immune system is
also in my gut, and then I alsothink it's 95% of serotonin,
(21:13):
which is like your happy hormone, is also produced in your gut,
and so I also have noticed ahuge shift in my mood and I'm
not I'm definitely not as crankyand everything throughout the
day either just because of that,which is really nice.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Good, awesome.
And then your protein, and Iwant to know, why, yes, okay.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
So, um, we have two flavors and I had no idea when
this came out what I was goingto think of it, because I hate
protein shakes.
Like, we have a protein shakeand I don't even like it.
I don't like, I don't like anyprotein shakes.
I've tried probably 30 of them.
I can't do them.
I think they're gross.
I don't like the texture.
I've thrown up a couple of themand so I'm just like no, and so
(22:03):
I was really nervous when thiscame out.
I had heard of clear proteinbefore.
Um, not very many othercompanies have it and we're the
first network marketing companyto come out with a clear protein
.
Um, but I'd heard of it beforeand I had always.
I'd always been curious.
I never looked that much intoit until our company said, hey,
you know, we're coming out withthis.
It's going to be a game changer, because so many people are on
the protein shakes and theyreally don't like them.
(22:24):
It's like choking them down.
Yeah, and so the clear proteinis basically it's.
Ours is also powder.
I think there's other companiesthat might not have a powder.
I'm not sure, um, but ours is apowder.
But when you mix it up, this iswhat it looks like.
Mixed up, it's very clear.
This one is not like.
It's basically clear.
(22:44):
Um, this is our lemonade flavor.
Um, it's not chalky, it's notchunky.
It goes down like really easy.
Ours has digestive enzymes in itto help you digest it.
A lot of protein powders don'thave that and they have lactose
in them, so it's some.
Sometimes it's really hard forpeople to digest protein powders
.
Ours is lactose free also, andin order to do that I don't know
(23:08):
the exact process, but I waslistening to somebody within our
company talking about it and Iguess, in order to do that, they
basically take something and itgoes through like three
different processes to make itlactose free, but it's basically
just the protein that's left,and so when you mix ours up, it
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froths up, so, like on the topof this, you can kind of see
like the little layer.
That's basically just likesaying, oh, there's no lactose
in it.
I guess that's what I got fromthat.
I don't know a ton about thescience behind it, um, but I do
know that it tastes like juice.
It's not chalky like this onethat I have here is our lemonade
(23:51):
, and then we also have a blueraspberry flavor and they're
both really good.
I didn't know I mean, you neverknow when you get something if
if it's really going to tastetruly like that or if it's just
kind of going to have somewhatof a lemonade taste.
I, I true, wholeheartedlybelieve it tastes exactly like
lemonade and I want to sip on itall day long.
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Um, ours specifically has 20grams of protein in one scoop Um
.
It also has the digestiveenzymes that I mentioned.
One scoop, um.
It also has the digestiveenzymes that I mentioned.
It's only a hundred caloriesand it's less than one gram of
sugar.
So there's not very many drinkseven out there that you can
find for that that also have allthe benefits of the enzymes.
(24:35):
And this also has the aminoacids in it.
So, um, leucine, which is Idon't know a lot about the amino
acid I should, because I'velearned about it, about it in
chiropractic school, butsupposedly it's really, really
important for your body.
Um, yes, um, are.
This protein has the sameamount of leucine as four eggs
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or one four ounce steak.
So you basically like, I drinkthis in the morning and it's
like I have four eggs, but it isa lot better in my opinion and
I don't have to cook it, sothat's also nice because.
I can just stir it up and thenget out the door and have my 20
grams of protein and my 2.6whatever gram I think it's 2.6
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grams of leucine, and then Ialso think it has 5.6 BCAAs or
BC.
Yeah, bcaas, I think that'swhat you say, uh, how you say it
?
So I don't know a ton about it,but I do know it's gluten-free,
soy-free, uh, lactose-free andthen everything else that I
mentioned, and it's going tohelp with muscle gain,
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optimizing recovery, all thethings that protein would do.
But it's not like protein shake, it's like you're drinking
juice.
And it really is like you'redrinking juice.
I'm not even joking, it tasteslike lemonade and it tastes like
.
The blue raspberry to me tasteslike a blue raspberry slushy, if
it was melted Interesting, andit's not like too sweet tasting.
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No, I don't, I don't think so.
My mom is very much not.
I'm not a sweet person, I'dmuch rather have salty.
And my mom's not a sour person.
Um, she, she doesn't likeoverly sweet.
She's weird.
She doesn't like overly sweetlemonade.
She doesn't like overly sourlemonade, but she really likes
this lemonade.
Protein, protein, because it'skind of like right in the middle
.
Um, okay, and the blueraspberry it's kind of hard to
(26:27):
explain, like my boyfriend, Iguess, explains it as almost
like a propel water type flavor.
Um, it's like a flavored water.
I think it's a little bit likeit's not milky, but I feel like
it kind of has a creamy type oftaste to it, but it doesn't go
down creamy.
It's not milky, but I feel likeit kind of has a creamy type of
taste to it but it doesn't godown creamy.
It's weird to explain, but it'sreally good.
(26:48):
And I was very surprisedbecause, like I said, I hate
protein shakes and I it's hardto get.
I'm supposed to get a hundredand almost 50 grams of protein
in a day and that's really hardto do and I've been doing two
scoops of this and that's 40grams really hard to do and I've
been doing two scoops of thisand that's 40 grams.
And then our collagen also has.
I think it has nine grams ineach scoop and I do two scoops a
(27:10):
day now.
So I basically do that in themorning and I do one scoop of
the protein in the morning andthat's 40 grams of protein.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right.
It is hard to get all theprotein and unless you're just
really really strict about whatyou eat and follow that, and I
like to get as much of myprotein from whole foods as I
can.
Yes, sometimes you know youhave to have a supplement to get
exactly where you need to be.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah, and my boyfriend's been on it too.
He is very picky, like.
He has tried a lot of ourproducts and he likes them, but
he doesn't take them all thetime.
He's not a regular at it, Iguess, but he literally asked me
.
I guess he started taking ittwo weeks ago when we came out
with it and then he's alreadywent through a whole bag of it.
(27:55):
Okay, yeah, he's drank a lot ofthis protein, which makes me
think that he really likes it,because he is a pop guy through
and through.
He will drink Dr Pepper andSprite all day long, he'll drink
Gatorade and now he's like atdinner hey, where's your protein
?
Can I steal a scoop?
And I'm like sure, why not?
(28:16):
And he just bought actuallyanother bag from us, the other
day so he's now two weeks in,already gone through one bag and
is already on a second.
And my favorite flavor is thelemonade, I think.
I don't know what kind ofchanges during the day.
But him and my mom both reallylike the blue raspberry flavor.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Okay, no, I like that .
I'm anxious to try it becauseit does sound, sounds really
good, because you're right,sometimes, like the, just the
milky and the coating of theprotein shake can give you
aftertaste, so I like to trythat yeah, yeah, and I'm not a
way like protein type personeither, and this is made with
grass-fed whey isolate, but itdoes.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
It doesn't taste whey at all and it's lactose-free
anyway.
So a lot of that like wheylactose stuff comes out when
they go through all the processof making it clear yeah, sure,
okay, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Well, I appreciate you sharing.
Is there anything you wanted toshare?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I don't know.
I mean I I've just really likedthis company and I think it
fits really well into my life,not only the products, but also
the business aspects and likewith, with rodeo and with
chiropractic, and then with thisI am able to help people in all
different aspects, because Ialso give lessons when I do
(29:35):
rodeo stuff.
So, um, I'm helping people learnhow to better themselves in
rodeo.
And then I'm going to schoolfor chiropractic and I have this
, this idea that I want topotentially get a master's in
nutrition.
I haven't completely decided onthat yet.
I'm for sure going to begetting a master's in human and
health performance so that I canreally treat the athlete side
(29:57):
of the world um, withchiropractic.
But, um, that way I'm helpingpeople in the chiropractic realm
and all different aspects,because that you can branch off
into so many different aspects.
And then with this I can helppeople one financially and two
with these amazing products.
And it's also nice because ourcompany has a 45 day money back
(30:18):
guarantee and not a lot ofcompanies do that they also have
a 94% success rate with theirproducts.
So with those two things, it'seasy to tell people.
If this doesn't work for youwhich I really believe it will,
you can get your money back andit's not that big of a risk.
Right so that's really nice too.
(30:39):
And then a couple I guess itwas a year and a half ago they
started offering the paymentplans, like a lot of different
places do now.
So that was really nice.
And I always love like for mewhen, especially when I'm doing
rodeo lessons people are alwaystelling me that I need to up my
price.
And I'm like you know, I wouldrather help people affordably
(31:00):
and help them be their best thantaking their money.
Taking their money is not mygoal, which is why when I get so
many of these people startedand I'm like hey, you know, we
have a 45 day money backguarantee and we also have a
payment plan If you want to getstarted sooner and you can start
making money that way or youcan better your health that way
and truly, if it doesn't workfor you, you can get your money
(31:20):
back within 45 days and you'regoing to know whether or not
it's going to be for you or ifit's not going to be for you.
And I feel like that's part ofwhy direct sales gets such a bad
rap is because people thinkthat we're just taking your
money and that's.
That's not the case.
It's at least for what I'mdoing.
I can't speak for other people,but I truly just want to help
people one better their healthand two better their financial
(31:43):
finances, I guess.
So that's just kind of why I'mhere and what I'm doing what I'm
doing, and it's also reallyeasy because and a time saver, I
guess, because I don't havetime for a job with my
chiropractic life and my rodeolife.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
So, yes, yes, oh, I appreciate you coming on the
show and sharing for everyonehow they can find you.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, I'm on Facebook , Instagram and TikTok.
I, my Facebook is just like inCunningham.
And then my ticker my Instagramis also the same.
And then my TikTok I believeit's like in Cunningham, and
then there's a zero at the endand you'll know it's me because
I have a lot of cowgirl stuffand post a lot about this.
(32:27):
So it's I'm not.
I'm public on everything, soyou should be able to find me
super easy okay, and I'll makesure I put all that as well.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Well, lakin, thanks again yes, thank you so much.
I was glad to be here.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Right.
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Thank you.
Hey Spandex and Wine listeners.
If you've been following me onInstagram, you saw several posts
on protein that I had.
Last week, I came across a newclear protein on Facebook and
reached out to the contentcreator that I saw sharing it.
She agreed to chat with me andI learned what a remarkable
young lady she is.
Take a listen to myconversation with Laken
(00:22):
Cunningham as we talk rodeochiropractic care, supplements
for gut health and, of course,protein.
Hey Laken, welcome to theSpandex and Wine podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Hi, I'm glad to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I'm so happy to have you.
I was so intrigued by a lot ofyour posts where you were
talking about clear protein.
It just sounds reallyinteresting and I want to get to
that.
But first I have to, number one, tell you that I love your name
.
It's very cool.
And two, okay, I have to readthis because I saw on your
profile that you are 2021National Little Riches Rodeo
(01:00):
Association Goat Tying WorldChampion.
That's so cool.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yes, that was, it seems like yesterday, but it's
almost been four years now,which is really crazy, because I
that was my senior year of highschool and I am now supposed to
be in my senior year of college.
But I'm past my senior year ofcollege so yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
So tell me about your background with the rodeo and I
, I mean, I don't know muchabout it.
I have friends that theirgrandkids and their kids have
participated, but I'm just socurious, tell me about, tell me
about that yeah, so I am a thirdgeneration rodeo athlete.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
my grandparents got into it.
They were both lived.
They both lived on a ranch whenthey were younger and then they
got married and decided theywanted to be teachers and after
married and decided they wantedto be teachers and after that
they decided they wanted totrain horses and do that and
they have a lot of other thingsgoing on.
But that's kind of how we gotinto the whole rodeo scene was
them.
And then my mom and my auntboth grew up rodeoing and they
(01:58):
were both very successful andthen I kind of took into their
footsteps and I have beenrodeoing now since I was six and
I've been riding horses sincebefore I could walk.
So it's just always kind ofbeen a part of my life.
And my sister is a professionaltrick rider and Roman rider,
(02:18):
which is basically hangingupside down off of horses and
she also stands up on two horsesat once.
She's kind of crazy.
Um, and then my brother alsokind of was in it too, but not
as much anymore.
He has now graduated highschool and was more into just
high school athletics.
But it's, I've always been apart of it.
I have never stopped doing it.
(02:39):
I've done it all since I wassix, basically all through the
ranks.
So, wow, that is cool.
So you still compete.
I do still compete.
I sometimes feel like I'm alittle crazy for doing that just
because of my crazy schedule.
Right now I'm in chiropracticschool and a lot of people are
done rodeoing, or at least donecollege competitively rodeoing,
(03:03):
by the time they get to thatpoint in their schooling career.
And I decided that I wasn'tready to be done and I actually
got my bachelor's degree in twoyears and I rodeoed where I went
and got my bachelor's degree.
I went there to rodeospecifically and just kind of
get all my prerequisites out ofthe way for chiropractic school.
(03:24):
And I still got a bachelor's aswell.
But then I decided I stillwasn't ready to be done rodeoing
after those two years.
So I decided to rodeoindependently through my
chiropractic college for a yearand then last year I was
approached by another rodeocoach who actually went to a lot
of rodeos with my mom as a kidat Northeastern Oklahoma A&M
(03:45):
University and I'm now rodeoingfor them and getting my
associates while I'm alsogetting my chiropractic degree.
So I am thinking that afterthis year I still have one more
year of eligibility in thecollegiate scene, but I think
I'm going to be done after thisyear because it will be four
years and I feel like my time isabout up.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
So, oh my gosh, that's a lot of your schedule.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That is crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yes, so what drew you to chiropractic care then?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
So my aunt's actually a chiropractor.
She's been a chiropractor for30 years I think now a little
over 30 years and it wasn'tsomething I always wanted to do.
I always kind of had it as asecond choice.
But I never really thought youknow, I'm going to be a
chiropractor.
I don't want to go to schoolfor that long.
I for a long time wanted tomajor in ag communications and
(04:34):
ag business and kind of go thesales route and market in terms
of sales in the Western industry.
And my junior year of highschool I had committed verbally
to Oklahoma state to do that.
My mom was actually buying ahouse.
And then, um, about a yearlater, covid happens, or COVID
happened, I guess, my junioryear of high school and I
(04:57):
decided about peak COVID, thatthe whole sales thing I could do
without a degree with for whatI really wanted to do, and there
wasn't really a point in megoing to school for four years
to do that, especially when Ihave a mom who has a background
in sales and I have a grandpawho has a background in sales.
I didn't really need thatdegree and so I was like maybe I
(05:18):
should take up chiropractic,and by that point I had already
taken quite a bit of collegecredit hours in high school and
I didn't really want to be inschool for eight years like most
chiropractors are, because it'sa four year degree and then
another three and a half yeardegree after, and so I ended up
taking more classes for thatroute in high school and I
(05:38):
graduated with 43 credit hours,which is how I got my bachelor's
in two years.
So I'm actually the youngestone in my chiropractic class.
But I'm also not only like is myaunt a chiropractor, she's also
an animal chiropractor andthat's kind of what drew me to
the whole thing.
It's kind of a funny story.
I was visiting her that summerbefore my senior year, and she
(06:01):
was adjusting all of her horsesand I'm like you know what?
Maybe I should do this so Idon't have to pay to have it
done all the time.
And you know that's a veryexpensive degree for me to do
that.
I'm spending a lot of money.
But in the long run, theconvenience I was like this
would be nice and so that's kindof what made me decide that was
the route I wanted to go.
(06:22):
But I also really enjoy helpingpeople and I love health and
wellness and I love holistichealth and I've always been
somebody that loves watchingothers feel their best and
perform their best, andchiropractic was kind of a way
that allowed me to not go tomedical school but also tie all
(06:42):
of that in.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yes, oh my gosh, that is very cool, and I love how,
with chiropractors, I know theyfocus more on nutrition than
most traditional medicine.
So if you would just tell us alittle bit about, like, how you
got interested in nutrition andwhat it is that you do is your
the protein that you show onFacebook and Instagram?
(07:06):
It just looks so interesting soI want to hear about it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yes, so my parents got divorced when I was eight,
and with that my mom decidedthat she was going to be raising
three little kids on her own,and she needed a different
source of income.
She was a college professor,and so it led her to Zingular,
which is what I am currentlydoing now, and she's been doing
it now for 13 and a half yearsand so I watched her.
(07:31):
I basically grew up watching herdo that from age eight until
now and she lost a whole bunchof weight on the system.
But that wasn't really what shegot started for.
She got started for the moneybecause she wanted an extra $500
a month just to help providefor three little kids as a
single mom.
We were eight, five and mysister was 11 months old at the
(07:54):
time and we had just moved out,and so that was kind of why she
started doing.
That was just that reason, andshe is now almost a $7 million
earner with the company, and soI watched her be very successful
.
I watched her help a lot ofpeople.
I watched her go from basicallyliving paycheck to paycheck
(08:15):
with my dad to.
We now live on an 80 acre farmand in a very large house and it
was actually our dream house.
We used to drive by it everysingle morning to school and my
mom and I would always be like,wow, that house is so pretty, we
love it, it would be so greatto live there one day.
And I think she bought it whenI was 12 or 13.
So we've had it for eight ornine years now and watching all
(08:38):
of that, it inspired me, um, andI knew it was something that I
wanted to do later on.
Um, I could have started when Iwas 18.
I did not, um, because I wasgetting my undergrad in two
years and I felt like thechiropractic, like people, would
like it just a little bit moreum and kind of understand and
(09:01):
relate to what I was doing.
And so I waited to start untilJune of 2023, which was right
after I got graduated with myundergrad, because I graduated
in May of 2023.
And I got started.
I lost 15 pounds in like amonth and a half on just our gut
(09:23):
health line, our brand new guthealth line that had come out at
that point, and at that point Igot really, really interested
in gut health.
Um, and chiropractic school hasalso taught me a whole bunch
about gut gut health, and soI've been super, super
interested in that.
And then our newest productthat came out two weeks ago is
now the clear protein.
Um, but beside the productsmyself, I have been with the
(09:48):
company now for about a year anda half and I have been I
already earned a free trip atthe age of 20 with my boyfriend,
so we were able to go to ParkCity, and what was really cool
about that is my mom actuallytook us on all of the trips that
she won, so we got to go toBora Bora and Dubai and Italy.
(10:08):
We've been all over the placeas little kids, and Park City
was the very first trip that shehad won and I got to go on it
with her.
And then I earned it aboutalmost a year ago now, in March
of 2024.
And I got to go on it last May,so that was really cool and
really exciting and now I'vekind of slowed down.
(10:28):
I went really really hard atthe business side for a long
time and took the products andtook care of my body.
And then chiropractic schoolpicked up just a little bit and
I've slowed back down.
But it's still really nicebecause with chiropractic school
I don't have time for a realjob because I'm in school for 10
hours a day, five days a weekand I and then I have horses.
I have four horses that I'mriding on top of that and
(10:50):
rodeoing on the weekend.
So I truly don't have time for areal job.
And a lot of people hate onnetwork marketing and things
like that, but I watched itchange my mom's life and it's an
easy, simple way for me to beable to make 400 or 500 a month
when I'm not really doing much.
I mean, I'm working an hour orso less a day, basically, and
(11:12):
it's really convenient, easy forme and I love the products and
they work for me.
So that's also really nice.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, oh, that's great.
Well, and it's called Spandexand Wine, because I used to be a
wine consultant for Travel andCare, and so it was a direct
sales company too.
Such a neat way to meet otherpeople, to get that fulfillment
without having to be in afull-time job, you know, and the
financial freedom that you cancreate for yourself.
I think it's just, it's a greatway to go.
So it sounds like you're doingamazing, so congratulations.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Thank you, thank you yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
So tell us a little bit about your gut health
products, and then also theprotein.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Yeah, so I have all of them like lined out right
here so I don't forget aboutthem.
When I first started, we justlaunched our gut health line.
It was brand spanking new and Ilove it because it has
award-winning products in it,and that's crazy because there's
a lot of different health andwellness companies out there and
a lot of people have greatproducts, but not very often do
(12:13):
you find companies that actuallyhave multiple award-winning
products, and so that was reallycool when I started and I was
able to tell people that, assomebody who didn't know a ton
about the products, I could belike, oh well, this literally
won number one in industry-wideproducts.
And so the first one is ourprobiotic.
It actually was the 2022supplement of the year, so not
(12:37):
only was it like probiotic ofthe year, it was supplement of
the year like worldwide in 2022.
So that was really cool.
I take two of those a day and Idon't necessarily know that
it's because of the probiotic,but I also kind of think it is.
I have not been sick or hadseasonal allergies since I
started taking it, and that'scrazy to me because I've always
(12:58):
been somebody who has always hadseasonal allergies and been
sick and had the winter crud andmy sister even had COVID three
weeks ago and my mom and I wereboth avidly on our probiotic and
gut health system, did not getsick and we were around her and
that was really cool.
Who knows if it's actually dueto the products, but I will
believe that it is becausehealing your gut can do so much.
(13:21):
Um, the next product that hasbeen award-winning is our trend
stick, and you can see it.
But, um, I really like itbecause I'm somebody who can't
do energy drinks.
I have a caffeine intoleranceand even like 75 milligrams of
caffeine just makes me havejitters and I can't do it.
(13:42):
And so our trim stick has 50milligrams of caffeine and it's
just the perfect amount for meto have all day energy without
jitters and things like that,and it also helps curb cravings
and boost your blood sugarlevels.
So that's really nice also, andit's something that I do like
two times a day, one in themorning and one in the afternoon
(14:03):
if I really feel like it,because it's all natural and it
really helps with my energy whenI can't have extra caffeine.
And then my next favoriteproduct is our Complete Collagen
, and I have mentioned that I orI guess we've talked about how
much I rodeo and everything likethat.
(14:24):
So with that comes reallyreally bad joints and muscles
and ligaments and all of thethings.
And this is probably myfavorite story of all of
everything with Zing singular isthe collagen.
I started taking it and Ididn't even realize it was
happening.
But when I started taking itabout two months and I noticed
that I didn't have joint painanymore and I had had consistent
(14:50):
joint pain since I was 14 yearsold and it was it was crazy.
It wasn't something I expected,because people think collagen
and they're like, oh, hair, skin, nails, that kind of thing.
But, at the same time, like italso helps with your joints and
rebuilding your bone structureand everything like that, and
(15:11):
your collagen production startsdeclining after in your 20s,
after in your twenties.
And for me, I started takingone scoop a day and about two
months in I noticed like Ireally don't have that much
joint pain and even in thewinter I would have horrible
joint pain, couldn't even move,my joints would be achy, they
would get stuck.
It was crazy and I hardly haveany joint pain at all anymore.
(15:35):
Um, and that that's amazing tome because I truly never thought
that at 20, I would ever live alife not having joint pain,
because most people don'texperience that until their
forties.
Um, I was told that I have nocartilage left in my knees two
years ago, and that was at 19.
(15:55):
So I basically had knees of a45 year old, and so I I'm
basically bone on bone or myknees and they've always given
me pain and they don't anymore.
And that's crazy.
I mean, I still have some painwhen I'm exercising and stuff
like that, but the everyday,just constant pain is gone,
which is really really nice.
(16:16):
Ah, yes, um.
So then our next product wehave five or six in our gut
health line is our prebiotic,and it goes hand in hand with
the probiotic.
Um, if you didn't know, theybasically work to clear out good
and bad bacteria out of yourgut and to help stabilize
everything in there.
Um, so I take both of thosethings every single day, and a
(16:39):
prebiotic is also fiber, so ithelps your intestinal tract move
and keeps everything moving umin there.
Um, so that is four of ourproducts on our gut health line.
And then the other one I don'thave with me for whatever reason
.
I couldn't find it but it's ourdigestive enzymes and so we
basically just take that everysingle day before we eat to help
(16:59):
us digest.
And it's probably one of myfavorite underrated products,
because not only is it in ourgut health line, but a lot of
times, like you can, just it'sour, it's our cheapest product,
but I feel like it's our mostbeneficial because enzymes are
what helps break down our foodand everything in our gut and we
don't get enough of those.
And taking one of those, like II don't drink very often, but
(17:23):
if I don't feel good or have atummy ache after I drink and
this is just something that Inoticed a couple of weeks ago
actually is, I had a very sugarycocktail and I was like, wow, I
don't feel very good and I justwent, took a digestive aid and
within minutes it, my wholestomach, just felt better and I
think that had something to dowith that.
Digestive enzymes, sure, yeah,and then that.
(17:47):
So those are our five productsthat we have in our what we call
gut collective.
So we have the probiotic, thecollagen, the prebiotic, the
trim stick and then thedigestive aid.
So all that tied togetherreally, really helps your gut,
but it also helps with energy,your immune system, like all of
it, um, which is really nice andwhy I take all of them Um.
(18:08):
And then last year, right aboutthis time, we came out with um,
a GLP one supplement.
Um.
Everybody knows about Ozempicand everything supplement Um.
Everybody knows about Ozempicand everything and that is like
basically injecting the GLP-1hormone synthetically into your
body, which is fine I don't hateanybody who does that and
that's what they choose to do.
But singular decided a year agothat they wanted to be very
(18:30):
first company to come out with anatural GLP-1 hormone producer,
and so they came out with GLP-X, which is basically the same
thing, except it's not going togive you the side effects as
like something that the shotwould.
It's going to help produce thathormone naturally and your body
does it already.
But when you start taking theshot, it basically stops that
(18:53):
hormone from producing and it'sin that it's.
It's synthetically injects itinto your body, um.
So GLPX helps you produce thathormone on its own to help you
lose weight more naturally.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
And it also has other benefits too, but I don't even
know what they are.
It's a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
But if I had, if I had the thing in front of me, I
would know.
But I know it has a lot ofother benefits.
But we did come out with thisabout a year ago and it was a
huge hit.
We sold out of it in 10 daysand we never sold out of a
product ever before and thatsold out in 10 days.
And now we knew, with the clearprotein, that it was going to
be a really big hit too and tohave a lot more on hand just
(19:30):
because of that.
But this, like, for instance,with my mom's business, boosted
it like, I think, times 30% whenit came out just last February
and it's also what helped meearn my free trip, because so
many people are looking forstarting on the shot or losing
weight and this was an easyalternative.
(19:51):
So that is what comes in ourgut gut health line and I kind
of went off on a tangent on allof that.
But I've been using all of thatfor a year to a year and a half
and not only do I just feelbetter, I've lost weight and I
can perform better, with myjoints not hurting, and my hair
(20:13):
and my nails also.
I have a nail story.
I ripped off my nail um,completely riding horses, of
course in September, and it'ssupposed to take six months to a
year to grow a nail back, andmine was completely fully grown
back in three months.
Oh, wow, I know that probablyhad to do with all of that as
well, um, so yeah, that's ourgut health life perfect.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
yeah, it's insane and you know, it seems like there
is a common thread through a lotof my guests about the
importance of gut health and yes, and how it's just related to
all illnesses and inflammation.
Body, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
I mean your immune system.
I think it's 70% of your immunesystem is actually in your gut,
so a lot of people don't knowthat.
So, and I also think that's whyI don't get sick and have the
seasonal allergies like I usedto, because I've fixed my gut
and now I don't get sick becauseso much of my immune system is
also in my gut, and then I alsothink it's 95% of serotonin,
(21:13):
which is like your happy hormone, is also produced in your gut,
and so I also have noticed ahuge shift in my mood and I'm
not I'm definitely not as crankyand everything throughout the
day either just because of that,which is really nice.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Good, awesome.
And then your protein, and Iwant to know, why, yes, okay.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
So, um, we have two flavors and I had no idea when
this came out what I was goingto think of it, because I hate
protein shakes.
Like, we have a protein shakeand I don't even like it.
I don't like, I don't like anyprotein shakes.
I've tried probably 30 of them.
I can't do them.
I think they're gross.
I don't like the texture.
I've thrown up a couple of themand so I'm just like no, and so
(22:03):
I was really nervous when thiscame out.
I had heard of clear proteinbefore.
Um, not very many othercompanies have it and we're the
first network marketing companyto come out with a clear protein
.
Um, but I'd heard of it beforeand I had always.
I'd always been curious.
I never looked that much intoit until our company said, hey,
you know, we're coming out withthis.
It's going to be a game changer, because so many people are on
the protein shakes and theyreally don't like them.
(22:24):
It's like choking them down.
Yeah, and so the clear proteinis basically it's.
Ours is also powder.
I think there's other companiesthat might not have a powder.
I'm not sure, um, but ours is apowder.
But when you mix it up, this iswhat it looks like.
Mixed up, it's very clear.
This one is not like.
It's basically clear.
(22:44):
Um, this is our lemonade flavor.
Um, it's not chalky, it's notchunky.
It goes down like really easy.
Ours has digestive enzymes in itto help you digest it.
A lot of protein powders don'thave that and they have lactose
in them, so it's some.
Sometimes it's really hard forpeople to digest protein powders
.
Ours is lactose free also, andin order to do that I don't know
(23:08):
the exact process, but I waslistening to somebody within our
company talking about it and Iguess, in order to do that, they
basically take something and itgoes through like three
different processes to make itlactose free, but it's basically
just the protein that's left,and so when you mix ours up, it
(23:29):
froths up, so, like on the topof this, you can kind of see
like the little layer.
That's basically just likesaying, oh, there's no lactose
in it.
I guess that's what I got fromthat.
I don't know a ton about thescience behind it, um, but I do
know that it tastes like juice.
It's not chalky like this onethat I have here is our lemonade
(23:51):
, and then we also have a blueraspberry flavor and they're
both really good.
I didn't know I mean, you neverknow when you get something if
if it's really going to tastetruly like that or if it's just
kind of going to have somewhatof a lemonade taste.
I, I true, wholeheartedlybelieve it tastes exactly like
lemonade and I want to sip on itall day long.
(24:14):
Um, ours specifically has 20grams of protein in one scoop Um
.
It also has the digestiveenzymes that I mentioned.
One scoop, um.
It also has the digestiveenzymes that I mentioned.
It's only a hundred caloriesand it's less than one gram of
sugar.
So there's not very many drinkseven out there that you can
find for that that also have allthe benefits of the enzymes.
(24:35):
And this also has the aminoacids in it.
So, um, leucine, which is Idon't know a lot about the amino
acid I should, because I'velearned about it, about it in
chiropractic school, butsupposedly it's really, really
important for your body.
Um, yes, um, are.
This protein has the sameamount of leucine as four eggs
(24:57):
or one four ounce steak.
So you basically like, I drinkthis in the morning and it's
like I have four eggs, but it isa lot better in my opinion and
I don't have to cook it, sothat's also nice because.
I can just stir it up and thenget out the door and have my 20
grams of protein and my 2.6whatever gram I think it's 2.6
(25:20):
grams of leucine, and then Ialso think it has 5.6 BCAAs or
BC.
Yeah, bcaas, I think that'swhat you say, uh, how you say it
?
So I don't know a ton about it,but I do know it's gluten-free,
soy-free, uh, lactose-free andthen everything else that I
mentioned, and it's going tohelp with muscle gain,
(25:41):
optimizing recovery, all thethings that protein would do.
But it's not like protein shake, it's like you're drinking
juice.
And it really is like you'redrinking juice.
I'm not even joking, it tasteslike lemonade and it tastes like
.
The blue raspberry to me tasteslike a blue raspberry slushy, if
it was melted Interesting, andit's not like too sweet tasting.
(26:04):
No, I don't, I don't think so.
My mom is very much not.
I'm not a sweet person, I'dmuch rather have salty.
And my mom's not a sour person.
Um, she, she doesn't likeoverly sweet.
She's weird.
She doesn't like overly sweetlemonade.
She doesn't like overly sourlemonade, but she really likes
this lemonade.
Protein, protein, because it'skind of like right in the middle
.
Um, okay, and the blueraspberry it's kind of hard to
(26:27):
explain, like my boyfriend, Iguess, explains it as almost
like a propel water type flavor.
Um, it's like a flavored water.
I think it's a little bit likeit's not milky, but I feel like
it kind of has a creamy type oftaste to it, but it doesn't go
down creamy.
It's not milky, but I feel likeit kind of has a creamy type of
taste to it but it doesn't godown creamy.
It's weird to explain, but it'sreally good.
(26:48):
And I was very surprisedbecause, like I said, I hate
protein shakes and I it's hardto get.
I'm supposed to get a hundredand almost 50 grams of protein
in a day and that's really hardto do and I've been doing two
scoops of this and that's 40grams really hard to do and I've
been doing two scoops of thisand that's 40 grams.
And then our collagen also has.
I think it has nine grams ineach scoop and I do two scoops a
(27:10):
day now.
So I basically do that in themorning and I do one scoop of
the protein in the morning andthat's 40 grams of protein.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right.
It is hard to get all theprotein and unless you're just
really really strict about whatyou eat and follow that, and I
like to get as much of myprotein from whole foods as I
can.
Yes, sometimes you know youhave to have a supplement to get
exactly where you need to be.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah, and my boyfriend's been on it too.
He is very picky, like.
He has tried a lot of ourproducts and he likes them, but
he doesn't take them all thetime.
He's not a regular at it, Iguess, but he literally asked me
.
I guess he started taking ittwo weeks ago when we came out
with it and then he's alreadywent through a whole bag of it.
(27:55):
Okay, yeah, he's drank a lot ofthis protein, which makes me
think that he really likes it,because he is a pop guy through
and through.
He will drink Dr Pepper andSprite all day long, he'll drink
Gatorade and now he's like atdinner hey, where's your protein
?
Can I steal a scoop?
And I'm like sure, why not?
(28:16):
And he just bought actuallyanother bag from us, the other
day so he's now two weeks in,already gone through one bag and
is already on a second.
And my favorite flavor is thelemonade, I think.
I don't know what kind ofchanges during the day.
But him and my mom both reallylike the blue raspberry flavor.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Okay, no, I like that .
I'm anxious to try it becauseit does sound, sounds really
good, because you're right,sometimes, like the, just the
milky and the coating of theprotein shake can give you
aftertaste, so I like to trythat yeah, yeah, and I'm not a
way like protein type personeither, and this is made with
grass-fed whey isolate, but itdoes.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
It doesn't taste whey at all and it's lactose-free
anyway.
So a lot of that like wheylactose stuff comes out when
they go through all the processof making it clear yeah, sure,
okay, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Well, I appreciate you sharing.
Is there anything you wanted toshare?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I don't know.
I mean I I've just really likedthis company and I think it
fits really well into my life,not only the products, but also
the business aspects and likewith, with rodeo and with
chiropractic, and then with thisI am able to help people in all
different aspects, because Ialso give lessons when I do
(29:35):
rodeo stuff.
So, um, I'm helping people learnhow to better themselves in
rodeo.
And then I'm going to schoolfor chiropractic and I have this
, this idea that I want topotentially get a master's in
nutrition.
I haven't completely decided onthat yet.
I'm for sure going to begetting a master's in human and
health performance so that I canreally treat the athlete side
(29:57):
of the world um, withchiropractic.
But, um, that way I'm helpingpeople in the chiropractic realm
and all different aspects,because that you can branch off
into so many different aspects.
And then with this I can helppeople one financially and two
with these amazing products.
And it's also nice because ourcompany has a 45 day money back
(30:18):
guarantee and not a lot ofcompanies do that they also have
a 94% success rate with theirproducts.
So with those two things, it'seasy to tell people.
If this doesn't work for youwhich I really believe it will,
you can get your money back andit's not that big of a risk.
Right so that's really nice too.
(30:39):
And then a couple I guess itwas a year and a half ago they
started offering the paymentplans, like a lot of different
places do now.
So that was really nice.
And I always love like for mewhen, especially when I'm doing
rodeo lessons people are alwaystelling me that I need to up my
price.
And I'm like you know, I wouldrather help people affordably
(31:00):
and help them be their best thantaking their money.
Taking their money is not mygoal, which is why when I get so
many of these people startedand I'm like hey, you know, we
have a 45 day money backguarantee and we also have a
payment plan If you want to getstarted sooner and you can start
making money that way or youcan better your health that way
and truly, if it doesn't workfor you, you can get your money
(31:20):
back within 45 days and you'regoing to know whether or not
it's going to be for you or ifit's not going to be for you.
And I feel like that's part ofwhy direct sales gets such a bad
rap is because people thinkthat we're just taking your
money and that's.
That's not the case.
It's at least for what I'mdoing.
I can't speak for other people,but I truly just want to help
people one better their healthand two better their financial
(31:43):
finances, I guess.
So that's just kind of why I'mhere and what I'm doing what I'm
doing, and it's also reallyeasy because and a time saver, I
guess, because I don't havetime for a job with my
chiropractic life and my rodeolife.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
So, yes, yes, oh, I appreciate you coming on the
show and sharing for everyonehow they can find you.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, I'm on Facebook , Instagram and TikTok.
I, my Facebook is just like inCunningham.
And then my ticker my Instagramis also the same.
And then my TikTok I believeit's like in Cunningham, and
then there's a zero at the endand you'll know it's me because
I have a lot of cowgirl stuffand post a lot about this.
(32:27):
So it's I'm not.
I'm public on everything, soyou should be able to find me
super easy okay, and I'll makesure I put all that as well.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Well, lakin, thanks again yes, thank you so much.
I was glad to be here.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Right.
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