Hormones Under Pressure

You can look “fine” and still be running on empty and your body will keep sending signals until you finally listen. I sit down with Dr. Alicia Newsome, physician, speaker, and women’s health advocate, to talk about what’s really happening when high-achieving women feel exhausted, overwhelmed, moody, and disconnected from their bodies, especially as hormones start shifting in perimenopause. 

We dig into functional medicine and why it focuses on root causes instead of quick fixes. Dr. Newsome explains her “test, don’t guess” approach, including advanced labs that look at how your body is functioning, from cortisol patterns and stress hormones to nutrient status and gut health. We also unpack the cycle basics many of us were never taught and why painful periods, crushing fatigue, and extreme PMS may be common but not normal. Her check engine light analogy makes it clear: covering symptoms without asking “why” only delays the breakdown. 

We also get practical. We talk savory breakfast and protein for steadier glucose and energy, small daily movement that improves insulin sensitivity, and why maintaining muscle matters as we age. Dr. Newsome shares simple stress resilience habits you can actually do with a full life, plus a smarter view of detoxification and everyday toxin exposure.

Finally, she connects health to leadership through her integrated framework of business, body, and belief and gives a preview of her book "Worthy of Rest: For the Woman Tired of Being the Strong One."

If you’ve been told your labs are “fine” but you don’t feel fine, this conversation will give you language, next steps, and hope. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs it, and leave a review with the biggest signal your body has been sending you lately.

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_01 (00:00):
Today's episode is for the woman who looks like she
has it all together on theoutside, but on the inside,
she's exhausted, overwhelmed,and wondering why her body just
won't cooperate.
I'm joined by Dr.
Alicia Newsome, a doctor, aspeaker, an author, and an
advocate for women who are donesettling for surface level

(00:23):
answers when it comes to theirhealth.
Through her own journey ofburnout, health struggles, and
rebuilding her life, she'sbecome a powerful voice helping
women uncover the root causesbehind what they've been told is
quote unquote normal, but isn't.
In this conversation, we'regetting real about hormones,

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stress, high performanceburnout, and what it actually
looks like to become powerful inyour body again.
Because let's be honest, toomany women are surviving instead
of thriving and calling itsuccess.
If you've ever felt dismissed,disconnected from your body, or

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like you're running on empty,trying to keep up with your
life, this episode is going tospeak directly to you.
Let's get into it.
Hi, I am your host, LeonetteTalley, and you are listening to
Virago 24-7.
Virago is Latin for femalewarrior, and 24-7 is for all

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day, every day.
Virago 24-7 is a weekly podcastthat brings diverse women
together to talk about life andour experiences in this world,
which share our views onself-love, mental health,
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to be talked about.
Here you will find everydaygrowth, everyday healing with
everyday warriors.

(02:01):
We've got this.

(02:24):
Well, today, guys, we have Dr.
Alicia Newsome.
And man, I was reading a lotabout you.
There's you're you're a doctor,obviously.
Uh, an international speaker.
You are a best-selling author.
You are an advocate for women,you're a trainer, you're a
coach.
I read all these things.
And so welcome.

(02:45):
I can't wait to get into it andsee like what knowledge you can
give us today.

SPEAKER_00 (02:50):
Thank you.
I'm just a regular person.

SPEAKER_01 (02:53):
Really?
Nah, you have a lot of titles.
You have a lot of titles.
So, what um let's start with thethe your medical background.
Let's start with why you gotinto medicine.
I was reading, I think you haveum, well, no, you do have a
YouTube um on your website thatI listened to, and it kind of
gives your background and yourhistory with your medical

(03:14):
issues.
So let's um start there.

SPEAKER_00 (03:17):
Okay.
Well, my journey into reallyfunctional medicine, because
that's where it really took theturn, was when my my kids were
both in diapers.
I had a two and athree-year-old, and I was
exhausted all the time.
I had just had, you know, twobabies back to back, and I was

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leaving a very volatilemarriage.
So I was just stressed out.
I was seeing patients andprivate practice, and I would go
to work all day, come home, youknow, pick the kids up from
daycare, feed them, and want toget them in bed so I could go to
sleep.
Like mama needed to go to sleep.
And on the weekends, I may headto a friend's house, but as soon

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as I sat down on the couch, Iwould fall asleep.
I ended up meeting a functionalmedicine doctor who ran some
advanced lab tests on me to helpfigure out what was going on
with me because I had lowenergy.
I had like this neck pain, backpain, I had irregular periods,
like all types of differentkinds of like issues going on.

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And ended up finding out whatwas going on with me and was
able to reverse everything, allwithout drugs or surgery.
And I was able to get my energyback, my menstrual cycles
regulated.
But more importantly, I got mylife back.
You know, it was it's hard whenyou don't have energy to get
through the day, or it's twoo'clock and you're like, I gotta

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get some coffee, you know,Starbucks run, all of those
different types of things.
So it was really impacting me onlike being a good mom, being a
good friend, progressing in mycareer, all the things.
So that's where my careerchanged, where I started doing
things more from a functionalmedicine standpoint.
And then at that time, I also,because you know, us as

(05:09):
entrepreneurs, we're alwaysdoing a lot, um, I launched
another business where I wasdoing consulting work in the
pharmaceutical industry.
So the areas that I worked inwere fibroids, endometriosis,
women's health, um, infectiousdisease.
And I did that for many, manyyears.
And I had always told myself,well, once I like get myself

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together, um, I'm going to goback and open up another
practice doing functionalmedicine.
And I launched this practicefive years ago.

SPEAKER_01 (05:42):
So I've never heard of functional medicine.
What does that mean exactly?

SPEAKER_00 (05:46):
Yeah.
So functional medicine, thinkabout it this way: if you get a
headache, and let's say you takesome Tylenol or Advil or Motron,
whatever your favorite thing isto take, you take that and your
headache goes away most times,unless there's other things
going on.
Your headache goes away.
Your headache did not go awaybecause you had a Tylenol

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deficiency.
It's not because your body waslacking that.
So in functional medicine, whatwe do is we look underneath the
surface to see like what'sreally going on, what's causing
the headache or the brain fog orthe low energy or issues with
your period.
And we resolve those issueswithout drugs or surgery.

SPEAKER_01 (06:30):
What did you do that was helpful for you?
Like what does that look like?

SPEAKER_00 (06:34):
Yeah.
So I'm a big advocate of tests.
Don't guess.
There's a lot of advancedtesting out there to find out
exactly what's going on insideof your body.
Now, this is not going to be thetraditional testing that you get
from your medical providerduring a wellness visit or
anything like that.
Usually insurance does notcover, not usually, insurance
does not cover these types oftests.

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Um, it's just a totallydifferent model of care that
insurance is not a part of.
So we ran advanced lab testingon me looking cortisol was one
of my main issues.
So that's the stress hormones.
Um, but we looked at themthroughout the day and we looked
at them in the urine.
You can look at them in theurine or the saliva.
If you look at them in theblood, typically they're looking

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more for like pathology, like uhautoimmune Addison's Cushing's
disease, things like that.
But when you're looking at it ineither the urine or saliva,
you're looking at it more fromlike how are you functioning?
So think functional medicine,like how is your body
functioning?
So I did those types of testing.
That was a major game changerfor me.
And there's other types oftesting women can do.

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You can do testing to on yourgut to see how well you're
digesting your food.
So imagine eating this healthy,amazing diet, but then your
food, your body isn't actuallyabsorbing those nutrients.
We can check and see what'sgoing on there.
Or some women may have anovergrowth of candida or some
type of fungus or bacteria intheir gut.

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We can see all of that.
Instead of guessing what type ofprobiotics you should have, we
can see what strains you'reactually low in.
Uh, we can do nutrient testingswhere we're looking at like all
of your vitamins, minerals,amino acids, antioxidants.
So there's a lot.
The thing is in uh functionalmedicine is that we can test for
days.
Yeah.

(08:20):
Uh so what I try to do with myclients is we we just test like
what's specifically needed.
And I do that through my intakeforms and looking at your health
history and everything likethat.
So in functional medicine,there's lots and lots that we
can look at genetics, all typesof lifestyle things.

SPEAKER_01 (08:39):
So then if we're not prescribing, being prescribed
like medication, so is it likein our food, the the way we eat?
Like what are the changes thatonce we find out, okay, this is
what the issue is, what's thenext step?
Like what treatment?

SPEAKER_00 (08:52):
A plan would include targeted supplementation.
So instead of like guessing,like, should I be taking
magnesium or omegas orashwagandha, we're able to
create very targeted protocolsfor you.
So you're taking exactly whatyour body needs of supplements.
It includes nutrition of whatyou need to be eating, maybe
some things that you need toavoid.

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There, um, exercise, what kindof exercise you need to be
doing, because not it, noteverything's for everyone.
Some things could be workingagainst your body and your
hormones, depending on what'sgoing on with you.
And then the other things wouldbe like lifestyle management.
I do a lot around stressresiliency because life is gonna
life, right?
There's there's gonna bearguments with the spouse,

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there's going to be stress atwork, there's gonna be financial
things, kids are gonna be kids,you know, whatever it is, uh,
your flavor of stress, maybe allof them and sometimes maybe all
of them at the same time.
But what I do is I help clientsimprove their stress resiliency.
So, what that means is let's saythat you're going by water

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rafting and you're like goingdown the river, right?
And the riverbank's like thiswide, and you're like bumping up
against the the sides, right?
You don't want that.
But that's what can happen withstress, right?
It's just like everything'shitting you.
So, what I do is I help womenincrease their zone of
resiliency so we widen it.

(10:17):
So when life still does whatit's gonna do, you're able to
ebb and flow through thatbetter.
And it doesn't impact yourhealth and your hormones as
much.

SPEAKER_01 (10:27):
Nice.
Did you have to like go back toschool to learn that part of
things?

SPEAKER_00 (10:34):
The functional combination of things because I
have certifications on top ofcertifications.
Um, but yes, functionalmedicine, learning like all the
science, everything going onwith the body holistically, and
all the different types oftreatments and interventions we
can do.
And then the stress part isreally a component that I have

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developed over the years, aframework for through other
coaching modalities too.
So I've done just a lot of work.
Like when I went through mydivorce, I did something called
conscious uncoupling.
And it looks at like, how did Ico-create this toxic dynamic?
You know, or how am I showing upum in this relationship and does

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a lot of things to like healthings from the past because
sometimes we may be wounded andthen we choose partners from
that wounded place.
So I've done that certificationand other things that are very
similar as well.
So I've combined that work withwhat I do now.

SPEAKER_01 (11:32):
That's awesome.
Yeah, I was gonna that was myquestion.
What with all the things thathappened to you, what like what
was it where you're like, Igotta change?
Like something has to give,because I feel like we all get
to a point where some peopledon't listen to that little
voice, but some of most of usare like, all right, something
has to change.
So what did that look like foryou?

SPEAKER_00 (11:55):
I feel like I've had that happen a couple of times in
life.
You know, we get a littlehard-headed and then, you know,
there's like, whoo, okay, I needto change some things.
I would say my initial one waswhen I went through my divorce,
though.
That was very painful.
It was very, it just impacted mein so many different ways.

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But it was also the biggesthealing experience of my life.
I got to heal from just a lot ofthings from my childhood and
past and past relationships.
Um, so it became an empoweringexperience for me with that.
So I think a lot of the workthat I did with just healing
myself and my body and my heart,like all of that came from it

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helped propel me into all ofthat.
Yeah, good.

SPEAKER_01 (12:46):
It's interesting how sometimes the dark, like, not
sometimes, most times ourdarkest moments, we think, wow,
this is the end.
How are we gonna come back fromthat?
And man, we just blossom intosomething so different.
And I love, I love to hear stufflike that.
I really do.
I wanted to know, like, how dowe how do we find a functional

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doctor?
Like, am I saying that right?
I've never heard that wordbefore.
So I'm like it's okay.
Function functional medicine.
Functional medicine.
Yeah, how do we find that?
And then how do we know thatthat's the right move for us
versus like traditionalmedicine?

SPEAKER_00 (13:26):
Well, you can find a functional medicine doctor just
like Google, you know, that'sthat's always a good place.
A lot of us, like myself, I workvirtually, so I work with women
all over the country, really allover the world.
I have clients in the UK,clients in Uganda.
So one good thing about COVIDwas it created this kind of

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virtual space that exists now.
So a lot of us, we we see workwith people all over.
Um and then how do you know ifit's the right fit for you?
So if you're like, I don't wantto do things, I want to do
things without drugs or surgery.
I want to take a naturalapproach to healing my body.
And there's always, there'sdefinitely a a place for that,

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right?
If I'm having, you know, sometype of emergency situation, I
broke my leg, I got in a caraccident, I'm having a heart
attack.
Like, I want medicine, right?
I'm in extreme pain.
I want medicine.
Uh, those those things can bevery life-saving.
But when it comes to theday-to-day of our health and

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then optimizing our health, wehave to step out of the
traditional conventional medicalmedical system to really get the
the help that we need.
It's it's the other system'sjust not set up for that.

SPEAKER_01 (14:43):
Um, I mean, I'm 46 and I feel like I'm not really
educated when it comes to likemenopause or I know you said
hormones is like a big thing foryou that you like to talk about.
I know nothing about any ofthat.
Like, let's talk about thatbecause I want to learn about
what to like what do I need topay attention to as I'm getting
older?

SPEAKER_00 (15:04):
I think one thing to really pay attention to is all
the things that pop up that getnormalized.
Okay.
So as we're moving throughperimenopause, one, our
generation and generationsbefore us were never even
educated about our menstrualcycle in general, right?
That our first day of ourmenstrual cycles is red blood,

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you know, not brown, not pink,not spotting, like it's bright
red blood.
And it should last anywhere fromthree to seven days, around five
days.
And then from there, we gothrough what's called a
follicular phase where our bodyis starting to say, okay, we're
gonna produce an egg here foryou in case you're wanting to
get pregnant or not.
Um, but during that time,estrogen's going up, and then we

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ovulate.
And those are the times of themonth when we are most outgoing.
It's estrogen's great, like ourskin is glowing.
Um, the right and left side ofour brain is communicating uh
more effectively during thattime.
It's a great time to be social.
Presentations, all of thosedifferent types of things.
And then estrogen goes down, andthen progesterone comes up, and

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then it stays up until ourperiod comes again.
It drops uh right before itdrops, and then our we begin to
bleed.
And that progesterone is there,it's very calming, it's uh
natural, it's the body's naturalvolume, it's anti-anxiety, it's
calming, it's relaxing.

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When both of those hormones arejust doing their thing and
they're in play, typically it wefeel good.
And it's normal to feel goodthroughout the month.
We have normalized having likepainful periods and cramping and
tender breast and PMS, likewe're moody.
I used to be incredibly moodythat week leading up to my

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period, and I would feeldepressed, I wouldn't feel like
myself, I wouldn't like myself,my kids, my husband, my wife,
any of that.
And it was it's pretty much likenormalized, like, well, it's
just PMS, right?
I should feel tired and cryingand wanting to eat everything
and all of those things, right?
It's common, it's not normal.

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When those hormones areunbalanced, you feel you feel
really good, right?
Now, take a woman who has beenliving a life where periods have
not been good, she gets moodybefore her cycle comes, fatigue,
all of that, and then go throughperimenopause where those
hormones start to decrease.

(17:38):
They're not going up every monthlike they used to.
It can be complete hormonalchaos.
It can feel like you are losingyour mind.
The highest rate of suicide forwomen is ages 40 to 60.
And I think it's because it is atime in the in our lives where

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it's like you feel like I'mgoing mad, right?
Like I'm losing, I could belosing my mind, or if you're
dealing with depression, likethink about just compounding
issues now all happening as yourhormones are changing.
Let me give you an example ofcheck engine light goes off in
your car.
Driving down the road, you'relike, okay, I gotta take my car

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over to the mechanic.
You head to the mechanic, youget there, you let the mechanic
know my check engine light cameon last week.
I've been hearing a littlerattling noise in my car.
And, you know, I don't knowwhat's going on.
He's taking notes, writingeverything down, and then he
says, All right, ma'am, well,that's all you have to do is
take this sticker and put thissticker right over that check

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engine light.
You don't have to worry about itall.
That would be crazy, right?
We would not allow a mechanic todo that.
That check engine light came onto let me know there's something
going on with my car, right?
He needs to open up the hood,run the run some diagnostic
test, see what's going on withmy car, right?
But we do that with our bodies,and we do that before we get to

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perimenopause a lot of times,especially high-achieving women.
We like go, go, go, go, go.
So imagine a life where it'slike you got low energy, 2 p.m.
hits, you're you're draggingthrough the through the day,
you've got moodiness and you'resnapping off at you know your
kids and all of this stuff.
That's the check engine lightgoing off.
Wow.
Okay.
That's a great analogy.

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And it and it's letting us knowyou got to take care of this
now.
So imagine if you left thatmechanic, you said, he gave me
my sticker, put it right overthere, and you just kept driving
that car.
It's it's gonna break down, youknow, there's gonna be more
issues that are created.
And that's what's happeningright now with perimenopause.
I think our generation, we aregeneration like pushed through.

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A lot of us are the among thefirst to like go to college and
get, you know, just like moveinto corporate spaces and do all
of these different things wheremaybe our mothers and
grandmothers did not, right?
So we we just have a differentlevel of compounding stress that
we have experienced in ourlives, along with not being
educated all while growing upabout anything about our

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menstrual cycles, when weovulate, you know, what's going
on with our cervical fluid, youknow, like we we're like, we're
just it's something we didn'ttalk about, right?
And then we enter perimenopause.
The thing is right now, and I'mnot completely against it, but
HRT is like being passed outlike candy, right?
You can you, it's pretty muchlike meals.

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You can go into them, say, youknow, give me some hormones,
right?
A lot of times they're not evenlooking at your hormones
properly, and they're puttingwomen on estrogen or
testosterone and all of thesedifferent types of things.
And maybe I'm on the other sideof things where I see women
after the fact that are nowlooking for more natural
approaches and the horror,horror stories I hear about it,

(20:55):
right?
Um, that can also be band-aids,right?
It can still be just covering upthe symptoms because there may
be other reasons going on behindwhy you might be, you know,
extremely tired or can't sleepat night and all of these
things.
The other thing is that with myclients and women in general, is

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that our bodies, when you know,I have daughters who are 13 and
14 years old, they have theircycles now, but a few years back
they did not.
I was not freaking out, and noone in society was freaking out
saying they need estrogen, youknow, like we've got to get
these girls some estrogen,right?
It is natural that our that wego through these seasons in

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life, and there's a big chunk ofour lives where we have
menstrual cycles, we're able toproduce babies, and then those
hormones go down and we're inmenopause.
The thing is, is that our bodieshave been under so much stress
that there's something called Ithe cortisol um stress hormone.
That's produced by our adrenalglands.

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And stress can come in differentforms.
It can come from toxins that canbe biotoxins, living things like
mold, fungus, parasites,candida, uh, bacteria, viruses,
all of these things.
And then there can be externaltoxins that can be things in the
environment, pesticides sprayedon your food, things in your
drinking water, um, productsthat you're putting on your

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skin, medications have toxicside effects, radiation, EMFs,
all of those different types ofthings that's stressful on the
body.
Then there's deficiencies.
You could have nutrientdeficiencies, not getting enough
your vitamins, minerals, aminoacids, antioxidants.
You need a certain amount ofprotein, good fats, very

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important.
That deficiency on the body isstressful.
Gut issues.
You could have gut issues goingon where you have an overgrowth
of bacteria, or you, you know,you have candida, or you're not
even you're eating healthy food,but you're not digesting that
food that's stressful on thebody.
Also, the gut is called thesecond brain because it has 10

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times the amount of nerves goingfrom the gut to your brain, then
your brain going all the way outor your entire peripheral
nervous system.
So what's going on in your gutreally affects your mood and
your focus, all of thosedifferent types of things.
And then also sleep, not gettingenough sleep can be very

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stressful in the body.
You might not be getting enoughstreet sleep because there's
something going on with yourhormones, right?
My point is all of these thingsare stressors on the body.
And our bodies were designed todeal with stress in just a short
period of time.
So think that if there was abear coming after you, you're
either gonna fight or flight.
So fight or run away.

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Uh, we're gonna just eliminatethe bear, fight them, get rid of
the bear, or run away.
The bear is no longer in ourpresence.
Our bodies can relax and go intowhat's called parasympathetic
activity.
But now we're in these stateswhere there's no bear running
after us, right?
And there's constant mentalemotional stress, but then
there's these underliers,underlying stressors as well

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going on inside of our body.
So our body is under thisconstant state of stress and
it's producing cortisol, thestress hormone.
When you go throughperimenopause, typically your
ovaries stop producing hormoneslike the estrogen and
progesterone, testosterone, butthen your adrenal glands they do

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pick up.
So women, even in post, youknow, postmenopausal should have
adequate amounts of uh those sexhormones during that period of
their time, of that period oflife, but not if they've been
under constant stress becausethe body's been prioritizing
cortisol.

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So I say all that to say, youknow, when right now we're in
our 40s, I believe a lot of yourlisteners are around our age
too.
It's really important to startaddressing these issues now, the
other types of stressors goingon so that as we're moving
through perimenopause and intomenopause, it's a much easier
transition.

SPEAKER_01 (25:15):
I like that because someone actually asked me
recently about hormones, and I'mlike, I don't know.
I've never even I had knownnothing about it.
And yeah, and it's good to knowthat that's not the only option.
Like if I go to a doctor andthey suggest that it's like
there's uh might be otherthings.
That's actually really good toknow because I have no clue.
I'm just like, I'm just gonnalet my body tell me what to do.

(25:36):
I'm like, I just, I just, Idon't know.
Um good to listen to our body.
Yeah, yeah.
Um when it comes to stress, um,like what do you tell your
patients?
Like how, because we can'tprevent things happening.
What do you tell your patientslike how to handle to prevent
stress overcoming us and taking,you know, taking over our body

(25:58):
and our mind and and and ourlife?
Because a lot of us just thinkstress is normal.
And I don't feel like it's anormal thing that we should be
living with.

SPEAKER_00 (26:07):
No, not at all.
That's how come when it comes tothings like heart attacks, the
first sign of the heart attack,50% of the time is the heart
attack.
The other 50% of the time,there's those beginnings that
check engine light going off,early signs and symptoms.
But we in no way, shape, or formwere created to deal with this
level of stress.

(26:28):
So there's a few things that wecan do.
I'm always an advocate of, youknow, test on guess, find out
what's going on.
And there's very targetedsupplementation that can help
with like who-sah, you know, butyou know that you're you're
taking the right thing that'ssupporting those adrenal glands,
um, those stress hormones andhelping to reset everything.

(26:49):
There's also just simplepractices that we can do.
And with my clients, all myclients are like high achieving
go-getter women, right?
Not a lot of time in the day.
And if we take just a coupleminutes in the morning, I
recommend two things to do inthe morning.
One, you write out just twogoals for the day.

(27:12):
Like, what are the two mainthings I'm gonna get done today,
or in the future, you know, sothat your mind is focused
forward on like where I'mheaded.
And then the other thing isgratitude.
There's all types of research ongratitude and what it does to
our brains and our bodies, howit reprograms us, how it's so
good for us.

(27:33):
And what I recommend is that youwrite down five things that
you're grateful for, but asyou're writing them, you really
feel them.
Okay.
You like embody the experienceof literally being grateful for
them in the moment.
So, for example, my son, I canthink about how grateful I am

(27:54):
for like his little hugs andkisses, right?
And as I'm writing that, like,really like, mm, you know, like
I love that, you know, and andthink about those things, it
really shifts the mood and italso creates physiological
changes in our body, bringing usinto that parasympathetic nerve

(28:15):
or parasympathetic state.
I also recommend before you goto bed, you do a brain dump.
And when I say brain dump and Isay to my clients, just take do
it for one minute, right?
Just one minute.
And it's kind of like that wholeconcept of telling yourself to
go to the gym.
Like, I'm gonna go to the gymfor and I'm gonna go in for five
minutes, right?
And then once you get there,you're like, okay, I can do

(28:37):
this, right?
So brain dump for just oneminute in the evening.
The goal is five, and just writedown everything that's on your
mind, everything that'sbothering you, every your to-do
list for tomorrow, all of that,because it gets it out of your
mind and onto that paper so thatyou can rest well.
And then the other thing thatyou can do in the evening, which

(28:58):
I love, is binaural beats.
And you listen to them withheadphones.
So you have to have both inbecause they have different
frequencies that they play inboth ears, and then the brain
like makes it all come togetheras one, but it puts your um puts
your brain into a state that'smore relaxing, um, more relaxing
so that you're able to go tosleep.

(29:18):
And the last thing that Irecommend is our bodies, that
fight or flight state of justlike, you know, feeling like we
we've literally got to fight orrun away.
We we we have to sometimesembody practices that allow our

(29:38):
bodies to get that energy out,to allow our that safety to come
in.
And there's just differentthings that you can do.
Like you can do that's verypractical.
Some people will do liketrimmers where they like have
their legs like relax and thenlet them like shake a little bit
that allows like energy to goout.
You could do like wall squats.
That would be something thatlike helps get energy out.

(30:00):
Exercise, running, thosedifferent types of things.
But we've got to allow the thestored up kind of like energy
and stress to be able to moveout through through our body.

SPEAKER_01 (30:10):
I like it.
I like the the dump, thedumping, because there's times I
don't do it at night, butthere's times where yeah, where
you're just like, I have towrite it down and and and then
it's gone.
But I'm gonna start doing thenight thing.
I normally do it when I'm justlike, okay, I gotta get my
calendar out because I'm oldschool.
I don't put everything on myphone.
I have my my paper calendar.

(30:30):
Um, so I'm gonna start doingthat one.
I like that.
I like that.
What do you think?
Um, I mean, I don't want to dumpon the medic medical world, but
what do you think is lacking orneeding to change?
Or are we kind of stuck back inthe you know, Middle Ages?

(30:52):
Like what is it about medicinethat we should start maybe
shifting the way we look at it?

SPEAKER_00 (30:59):
You know, it's kind of like trying to put that
square pig into a round hole.
You know, it's like we just wehave to step out of it and do
something different.
It's a lot of times we say thatit's a system that's broken, but
it's really a system that worksreally well for those that
profit off from people stayingsick and without knowledge.

(31:20):
And that's not against likedoctors or anything like that,
like who practice conventionalmedicine, but it's it's the
system.
You know, the United States isonly one of two countries in the
world that allow pharmaceuticalcompanies to advertise directly
to their consumers.
Other countries you have to likego to your doctor and tell them
what's going on, and the doctorshould like think about what

(31:43):
they, you know, you don't justwalk in and be like, I saw this
on TV and I can I try that?
Can I try that one?
You know, and we also I we makeup less than 4% of the
population of the world, but wetake over 65% of the
medications.
Wow, you know, so and there's alot, there's a lot of profit in
there.
I I have a massive career inpharmaceutical research, and

(32:05):
there's a lot of amazing thingsout there, but it is a
for-profit system.
It's it's not, you know, samething with insurance companies
is for profit.
They're not they're notnonprofits.
And so so there's that part.
And then also when it comes toconventional medicine, we're

(32:25):
trained to diagnose a disease.
So we got to wait till it getsreally, really bad.
So when it comes to somethinglike diabetes, just looking at
A1C or glucose lets you know,like once you're diabetic or
pre-diabetic, right?
But we could be looking atfasting insulin that's letting
us know how hard your pancreasis working.
So your glucose numbers could benormal.

(32:46):
So let's say glucose goes up,insulin's got to come out and
it's got to lower it.
Glucose goes up, got to come outand lower it.
And glucose goes up from youknow, sugar, carbs, stress,
those different types of thingscan cause glucose to go up.
Insulin's got to come out andlower it.
Insulin's a fat-storing hormone,too.
So when it's out a whole lot, itmakes it very difficult to lose

(33:08):
weight.
But here's the thing is that ifwe look at fasting insulin, your
glucose numbers could be great.
You're like, my fasting glucoseis 86, you know, but it took a
whole lot of insulin to get thatnumber down.
We know that you're on the vergeof uh diabetes when we look at
those numbers beingpre-diabetic.
And the crazy part is that theCDC stats, we know that 88

(33:35):
million Americans, that's one inthree American adults, are
pre-diabetic, and 84% of themdon't even know it.
Like that's knowledge that likethe CDC knows.
Like, we know this amount ofpeople don't even know that
they're pre-diabetic.
Wow.
So it's it's just not a systemto have you set up to win.
And like myself, I went, youknow, studied functional

(33:58):
medicine, got additionalcertifications, all of these
different types of things.
When you go to your PCP, even ifthey want to help you in this
way, they don't have thetraining to be able to do it.
And they also insurance doesn'tcover it.
So a lot of times they're stuckin like an insurance model, and
that's the way their practiceruns.

(34:18):
And then also, even if they did,they don't have the time to be
able to sit and understand allthese lifestyles, um, issues,
and stressors and things goingon in your life.
So with me, my clientstypically, there's actually two
ways.
So, uh, which I'm moving awayfrom because I find it benefits
myself and my clients more, ismy consultations are like 90

(34:44):
minutes, right?
There's a lot to learn anduncover with what's going on
inside your body.
I have intake forms that whenyou complete them, you're you're
like, no one's ever asked me anyof these questions before about
my health or my lifestyle and mybody.
Um, so it takes time to do thesethings.
And now I have it where myclients, you're just put into a

(35:04):
private portal with me and youfill out your forms when it
works for you.
Cause how many people need anextra meeting on their calendar?

unknown (35:11):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (35:12):
No one, no one needs another meeting.
So I realize that um with myselfand my clients.
So now you just get put into aprivate portal with me.
You fill out all of your forms,they're extremely comprehensive.
I follow up, like if I have anyfollow-up questions, and then I
put your plan together for you,like your action plan of exactly
what you need to do.
And I find that works so muchbetter than even being like,

(35:35):
okay, let's schedule a meeting,you know, do all of these
different types of things.
But all of that takes time andit takes a different, um,
different type of training to beable to do that.
So we'd have to completelyrevamp our entire medical system
to have it be that way.

SPEAKER_01 (35:53):
That really, that's really something.
Yeah, last year I my my glucosewas high, my cholesterol was
high, and I'm like, I don't wantto be on medication.
I don't want to do any of thatstuff.
So, and I work out too.
That's the thing.
Like, I I work out, I'm active.
So it's just it gets frustratingwhen your body isn't doing like

(36:13):
you think you're doing the rightthings outside of it, and then
your body's telling youdifferent.
So this is this is this is goodinformation.

SPEAKER_00 (36:21):
Um Can I say something about cholesterol
really quick?
So, with cholesterol, becausecholesterol gets a really bad
rap, but our bodies actuallyneed cholesterol for building
hormones.
It's a precursor to all of ourhormones.
And many decades ago, before thethe statin drugs came out, which

(36:41):
are cholesterol-loweringmedications, your cholesterol
could be 280 and a doctorwouldn't bleak an eye at it.
But once those medications cameon the market, that number kept
going lower and lower and lowerbecause now if if you're over
200, they're like, you need togo on statins, right?
But here's the thing is thatwhen you're looking at
cholesterol and also cholesterolmedications, there's tons of

(37:04):
research on this.
It doesn't, it doesn't reduceyour chance of mortality either.
Like people die at the samerates of whether or not they're
on these medications or not.
Statin drugs do an excellent jobof lowering LDLs.
Okay.
Excellent job.
So it does what it what it'ssupposed to do, but does that
matter as far as whether or notyou're, you know, your overall

(37:28):
heart disease and life?
Here's the thing is that when itcomes to HDLs and LDLs, so HDLs
are like your good cholesterol,LDLs are your bad cholesterol.
Think about LDLs as fire trucksleaving the fire station going
to put out fires in your in yourbody, right?
Like they're going to put outinflammation in different

(37:50):
places.
And then, and then HDLs are thefire trucks coming back to the
fire station.
So we want to look at when I'mlooking at someone and they have
really high LDLs and then lowHDLs, which is the good
cholesterol, I'm saying, okay,why are there so many fire
trucks leaving the fire stationand not coming back?
So we want to deal with the rootcause of why there's so much

(38:10):
inflammation in the body, right?
And then also we can look atsomething that are called
lipoproteins that really look atthe LDLs and see which ones are
actually high.
And there are dangerous LDLs.
There's there's little ones thatare like little BBs, think of
them like little BBs or marblesthat when they bounce around

(38:30):
inside your arteries, they'rehard, they're dense, they create
damage.
And then there's big fluffy onesthat are like beach balls that
just kind of like bounce offyour wall.
So not all LDLs are actuallydangerous either.
So we're able to look at that infunctional medicine.
These are more extensive bloodwork that we find uh we look at.

(38:50):
And then we look at otherinflammatory markers too.

SPEAKER_01 (38:53):
I man, this is I wish because like no one even
explained that.
I had to Google everything.
I'm like, what do these numbersmean?
And why that's frustratingbecause you're explaining it and
I understand it.
All they say is like they callyou up and they're like, hey,
it's high, don't eat sugar, noalcohol.
Like it's just like I'll do mybest.

(39:16):
I'll do my best.
That's pretty much oh, and thentake uh fish oil pills.
So I went into the CVS and gotmy fish oils, and I'm like,
well, I love I love my wine, andI can't stop that completely.
So it's just it's frustrating.
And then my father, he had aheart attack at a young age in
his 30s, and then it itultimately that's what what

(39:39):
killed him was his heart.
And so I take that stuffseriously.
He was 52, so young.
And so anytime it comes to likecholesterol and high blood
pressure and all of that, itfreaks me out because I've seen
in my family like what thatlooks like.
So I love that you're sayingthat it's not all the numbers
don't always mean what they whatthey are telling us they mean.

(40:01):
I I thank you, thank you.
Dang, are there more of you outthere like that?
We need more of you becauseyou're explaining it
beautifully.

SPEAKER_00 (40:11):
I plan to do a certification later this year,
and I've already worked with mylab.
So women that go through myprogram do my certification,
they'll be able to order labs ontheir clients too.
So I'm hoping to multiply that.

SPEAKER_01 (40:26):
You should, you need to, like, really.
It's it is it's very frustratingwhen you're not getting the full
picture and the fullinformation.
I this is eye-opening, likereally.
Um, and this just happened.
Cholesterol was always an issuefor me, but yes, last year was
like when it was like a bigdeal, and I was just like, oh
crap, I have to take thisseriously.

(40:47):
But like no one says anything.
It's just like I just have tofigure this crap out on my own.
Yeah.
So, like, what are some thingslike that we can start doing as
women to help regulate ourhormones and like yeah, like
what can we do?
Or is that even a thing?
Yeah, or is that even a thing?

(41:08):
Like, what can I do?
Okay, so let's talk about me.
Yeah, high cholesterol, glucoselevel.
I'm 46.
I don't even know if I'm inperimarin pause.
I've been having night sweats.
I think I am.
Um, what can I do to really?
Because I want to, if I'm gonnagrow old, I want to grow old
like one of those like amazing,just bubbly women that just

(41:28):
still has it and can walk aroundstill and can drive still.
And you know what I'm saying?
That's the kind of old woman Iwant to be.

SPEAKER_00 (41:36):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (41:36):
What can I do to get there?

SPEAKER_00 (41:38):
When you're 20, you know, 20 years from now, when
you're 67 or you know, 30 yearsfrom now, when you're 77, you
want to be able to get on thefloor with your green kids, you
know, go to the park, not needanyone to take you to the
bathroom or do any of thosethings.
Like you want to be alive andvibrant.
So what you're doing todayimpacts who you're gonna become,
you know.

(41:59):
So we want to look back 20, 30years from now, and that version
of ourselves wants to be able tothank who we are now.
Like, thank you.
Thank you for doing this.
Yes.
So knowing that you haveglucose, you know, glucose
issues, um, cholesterol, all ofthose different types of things.
One thing that's gonna be reallyimportant you for you is, and we

(42:21):
don't even know what yourcortisol looks like, so we gotta
look at that.
But we want you to start with asavory breakfast, okay?
So no dessert for breakfast.

SPEAKER_01 (42:32):
I but I don't even eat breakfast because I don't
like to chew in the mornings.
I literally don't really eat inthe it depends, it depends.
I I shouldn't say never, but ona regular day, I don't really
eat breakfast.

SPEAKER_00 (42:45):
I know.
Okay, but okay.
The 77-year-old version of youwants you to eat breakfast.

SPEAKER_01 (42:50):
Okay, we gotta eat breakfast.
All right, savory, savorybreakfast.

SPEAKER_00 (42:53):
Savory.
So savory is like dessert forbreakfast, right?
So no like muffins and bagelsand croissants and you know,
cereals, all the things we grewup on, right?
Pancakes and French toast, noneof that.
Okay, you can have them later inthe day, just not for breakfast.
And what you so savory meansprotein, at least 30 grams of

(43:15):
protein, and then add in somegood fats.
So whether you're just havinglike some olive oil that you
cooked with, or some grass-fedbutter, or um, did I say
avocado?
No, but I love avocado.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (43:28):
Okay.

SPEAKER_00 (43:29):
So my breakfast really looks like a lunch or
dinner that I have.
So sometimes I'll have like lamband some veggies and some beans
for breakfast.

SPEAKER_01 (43:42):
Okay, fascinating.
Yes.
Um and all the other cultureseat that way too.

SPEAKER_00 (43:46):
They do, and they're healthier than us.
They're not taking 65% of themedications produced on the
planet.
So that's all right, that'sright.
And they they also will say,like, eat like a king for.
For breakfast, um, a prince forlunch and a peasant for dinner.
A lot of other cultures will.
So they'll have like smallerdinners.

(44:07):
Because when you think aboutfood, it's nutrients for our
body, it's energy for our body.
And if we're about to go to bed,we don't we don't need you know
all this food before we go tobed, right?
And that disrupts our sleep, alltypes of stuff.
So you really want to have agood breakfast that is has good
fats in it and protein.

(44:27):
And then if you're gonna havecarbs, have some complex carbs.
Like I'll have like brown riceand beans or beans.
I love beans, yeah.
They're great for cholesterol aswell.
Too.

SPEAKER_01 (44:36):
I'm Puerto Rican.
We a lot I'm Dominican and weeat a lot of rice and beans.
Yes, we love our beans.

SPEAKER_00 (44:41):
So yes, yes.
So that that is great forbreakfast with some protein and
good fat.
And then the main reason is isbecause you don't want to spike
your your glucose first thing inthe morning.
Okay.
So for those that are listeningthat might be having, you know,
even if it's a Starbucks latteand you know, a muffin, you

(45:03):
know, you're spiking thatglucose first thing in the bot
in the morning, and the body'sgonna spend all day recovering
it.
So you're gonna be on this upand down roller coaster of like
where your body's literallycraving, like, okay, I gotta get
something else now, right?
And it just sets you up kind offor failure all day when it
comes to eating versus havingsomething savory in the morning.
The other thing is if you'reskipping breakfast, I don't know

(45:26):
what your um functional cortisollevels look like, but that could
be very stressful on your body.
And even though you're noteating, that stress is causing
glucose to go up.
So it's still causing a glucosespike, which then insulin's
gotta come out and it's gottalower it.
Insulin's a fat-storing hormone.

(45:47):
Um, so it could be causingissues there as well.

SPEAKER_01 (45:51):
Oh, and then I sometimes skip lunch, so that's
not good.
Don't eat breakfast, don't eatlunch.
I love dinner.
Dinner's my favorite meal of theday, but now I have to retrain
my brain, is what it soundslike.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (46:02):
And most of the women that I work with, even for
them to be able to lose weight,I have to have them start eating
more.
Yeah.
And in the beginning, they'relike, whoa, you know, but then
it's like also realizing it'ssafe to have all of this food.
The body feels safe enough tohave it.
So then it can go out of thatfight or flight state.

(46:22):
Like physiologically, the bodyfeels like it's starving, right?
So then it's holding on toeverything.
So a lot of times I work with uhmy women to add in more food
because everyone's skippingbreakfast and lunch.
It's a thing.

SPEAKER_01 (46:36):
Okay, I'm not the only one.
Okay, I'm gonna shift.
Yeah, I need to shift thatbecause I am in like this the
stage of my life where I'm, youknow, I started yoga.
I was doing CrossFit for manyyears, and that was fun.
But now as I'm getting older,I'm like, it doesn't feel good
on my body.
I try to meditate, like I'mtrying to do these things
because I do want to be healthy.
So I'm gonna start doing thefood thing.

(46:58):
Yes.
Gotta do that, gotta do that.
Gotta eat.
Um, so exercise, obviously,that's what everyone says.
The way I eat in in the morningsto start off my day is very
important.

SPEAKER_00 (47:12):
But for us, as we're going through perimenopause,
it's important that we we wannamaintain our muscle mass.
So lifting two to three times aweek, that's okay.
Okay, you know, not like aneveryday thing.
And then you can mix in yoga,walking, Pilates, those types of
things in between.
Okay.
And even if it's just you'vebeen sitting behind your desk,

(47:34):
or let's say when you starteating lunch, you eat your
lunch, and then you go for a10-minute walk, or you do 25
squats right by your desk.
What that does is it opens upthe um insulin and glucose
receptors in your muscles, andit helps with the sensitivity
there with that.

SPEAKER_01 (47:54):
Okay.

SPEAKER_00 (47:54):
Okay.
That's good to know.

SPEAKER_01 (47:56):
Okay.
I can do that.
I can do that.
Yeah.
We can do that.
We can do that.
Um so what are some habits thatwe can establish to like help us
with our our mood, our energy,our metabolism besides food and
exercise, like what otherthings?

(48:16):
So you said gratitude in the inthe mornings and and purging all
of our thoughts at night.
Is there anything else that wecan incorporate in our lives?

SPEAKER_00 (48:28):
Detoxification is really important in making sure
that you are properly detoxing.
So this is a good topic.
Sometimes women, and I've doneit myself before I, you know,
have the knowledge, I'll go do adetox and then feel sick while
I'm doing it.
That's a telltale sign thatyou're the detox is pulling

(48:49):
toxins out, but they're notgetting them out of your body.
So what happens is you can do adetox, it pulls toxins out, and
then they recirculate into yourbloodstream.
And that's why you start gettingsick.
You start feeling fatigued andhaving headaches.
We've kind of like normalizedit, like you're supposed to feel
sick on a detox, but you'rereally not.
What should happen is we'repulling toxins out, and then we

(49:10):
bind them with a good binder,which is like a supplement, and
then you poop them out.
They leave out through yourbody, through your poop, pee,
and sweat.
Um, that's really important.
And one thing that in justeveryday life is really to begin
to look at what kind of productswe're putting on our skin, what
kind of uh food that we'reeating.

(49:31):
Now, I'm not a fan of likeeverything needs to be organic,
right?
There's something called umenvironmental workinggroup.org.
It's ewg.org.
And every year they put out alist of the dirty dozen, which
are the 12 top foods that aremost heavily sprayed with
pesticides.
Strawberries is usually alwayson that.
So you can literally takestrawberries and squeeze them,

(49:56):
and it became become bugrepellent, you know, like it's
like that's how much pesticidesand things are on it.
We eat so many strawberries inthis house.
Oh my gosh.
Okay, go ahead.
So strawberries is alwaysorganic.
Uh, but look at the dirty dozenlist, and then there's something
called the clean 15, and thoseare the ones that you can just
say, yeah, we'll just get thosehowever they come.

(50:16):
They don't have to be organic.
So that's a good way, also, sopeople can save money instead of
thinking like everything has tobe organic, really just focus on
that dirty dozen.
When it comes to meat, I highlyrecommend that it's it's always
grass-fed, um, just because ofwhat they do to animals
conventionally, and then they'refeeding them like corn, and then
corn's genetically modified.

(50:36):
Corn is genetically modified tokill bugs on contact.
So imagine like what that'sdoing inside of your gut and
what that's doing to the animalsthat we eat and all of that.
So um, there's many reasons.
You know, cows are injected withhormones and the way they're
they're kept and everything.
So grass-fed beef, wild caughtfish, pasture-raised chicken,

(51:00):
and eggs.
That's the way that you'll wantit, you want to do livestock.
And then the dirty dozen clean15.

SPEAKER_01 (51:07):
Okay.
I think I need to do, I need to,I need to fill out that form
with you and get your and I Ineed to get on on something.
I need to get on some kind ofplan because this is great
information.
I mean, I'm like lovingeverything you're saying.

SPEAKER_00 (51:22):
I'll send you the link and if you're listeners as
well, please.

SPEAKER_01 (51:26):
Because I I really think I just need all my whole
body just checked out so we canstart like from from knowledge
and not just guessing because Ihave no clue what's going on
internally with me.
Um test don't guess.
Yes, test don't guess.
I like that.
That's gonna be our new motto.

SPEAKER_03 (51:43):
Test don't guess.

SPEAKER_01 (51:45):
Um I wanna, I mean, I know we've been talking about
a lot of like about medicine andstuff, and I know you do you
like leadership talking aboutleadership.
Like, can we shift?
Can we like shift to, you know,we've talked about our bodies,
but you you focus on otherthings too.
So let's talk about that.

SPEAKER_00 (52:03):
So I I have what I call the in uh the integrated
leadership framework where wefocus on business, body, and
belief.
Now we've talked a lot about thebody portion.
That's what we do in that, liketoxins, deficiencies, stress,
test, don't guess, all of that'sin the body portion.
Business is really focused in.
I also look at a lot of thewomen that I work with may not

(52:25):
have businesses, but our life isour business.
So when it comes to ourbusiness, we want to look at
like where are we asking forhelp?
How are we delegating things?
When we do delegate things, arewe releasing control so that
person can actually do what weask them to do?
Are we giving them properparameters so they have the
autonomy to fulfill it on theirown, right?

(52:48):
Um, when it comes to business,like hiring and firing, I
actually enjoy that that entireprocess.
So I help my clients with thosetypes of things, like really
finding really good candidates.
What we do is when we hire, weput a job listing out there and
then we take them through a testproject.
So it's one thing to seesomething on a resume and

(53:09):
someone fills out applicationquestions and says everything
the way that you know it needsto be said, especially with AI
now, you know, we actually takethem through a test project and
it's a paid test product.
We'll pick two candidates at atime and we take them through a
project where there may be videocomponents or technical
components, depending on therole, to see what they can
actually do.

(53:29):
And it really helps us find likegood fits.
Um, so with business, there's alot of the you know, delegating,
asking for help, um, hiring,firing.
Everyone that we hire should doone of three things.
And great if they can do allthings, all three things.
They should save us time, theyshould either save us money or

(53:52):
make us money, and they shouldreduce our stress load, like
bring peace of mind to the workthat we're doing.
So very important.
And then the belief part of theintegrated leadership framework
has to do with like who are webeing?
And we are human beings, nothuman doings.
Okay.
So a lot of times, especiallyfor high-achieving women, we go,

(54:14):
go, go.
Like we we know how to go anddo.
And a lot of that comes frominternal beliefs that we have
that may be conscious orsubconscious, where a lot of
times when we're triggered, wemay default into like I'm all
alone.
And that you might notconsciously say I'm all alone,
but you may say things like Ialways got to do everything

(54:35):
myself, you know, or no one.

SPEAKER_01 (54:37):
I say that often, actually, yes.

SPEAKER_00 (54:40):
Yeah.
So there, you know, there'sthose types of things, or I'm
not enough, or there's notenough, or you know, the world
is not safe, or people can't betrusted, right?
There we default into thesethings, and then, but it's not
an empowering place to makechoices from.
So what I do is I help womenreally reshift and reframe what

(55:03):
we're thinking because thosekind of defaults won't ever go
away, like they'll be there, butto be able to shift back into
like what the truth is, youknow, and that there are there's
lots of people in this planethere that we can trust that are
willing to help, you know.
Sometimes we just have to ask,right?
And you know, all things arealways working out for our good.

(55:25):
There's plenty in the universe,like all of those things, right?
There's more than enough.
So when we're making choicesfrom that belief system, they
are just much more empoweringchoices and get us, allow us to
really create the life that wewant when we do that.
So that's that's the belief partof the framework.

SPEAKER_01 (55:46):
I like that.
That's good.
Is there anything else that wehaven't touched on that you
would want to share that thatyou are able to provide services
for?

SPEAKER_00 (55:56):
Yes.
Um, I have a book coming out inthe beginning of June.
You do?
And okay.
Yes, and it's called Worthy ofRest for the Woman Who's Tired
of Being the Strong One.

SPEAKER_01 (56:10):
Sounds amazing.
So, what do we have to lookforward to in that book?

SPEAKER_00 (56:14):
So it's a very practical book.
It's not very like medical-basedand everything like that, like
saying like why you need to restand what it does to your body.
It's very practical.
It talks a lot about theidentity work that I just
brought up, with where we'll,you know, we say, like, I got to
do everything by myself, thosetypes of things.
And then it also talks about thedifferent types of rest.

(56:36):
So a lot of times we just thinkphysical rest, like I need a
nap, I need to go lay down, youknow, I need to go to bed
earlier.
But there's sensory rest that ifwe're behind a computer all day
or with screens or work in aplace that has really bright
lights, we need sensory rest.
We may need emotional rest wherethere may be something that we
haven't processed and grieved,or something that we're angry

(56:58):
about, you know, that we need tobe able to process.
There's spiritual rest that wemay need, there's mental rest,
there's different types of rest.
So I go into the different typesof rest and then how to like
know if like which one you need,and then how you can practically
implement them into yourday-to-day life.

SPEAKER_01 (57:16):
That's wonderful.
And what was the title again?
Worthy of rest.
And when is it coming out?
June.
June.
Okay.
I listen, I gotta read all thethings, all the things to get to
get my mind right.
Like, listen.
We're gonna get you there.
Listen, we've been on a longjourney.
We want to continue on thisjourney and do it the right way.
So I'll look forward to gettingthat book.

(57:37):
I just um did a podcast thismorning and I read her book too.
So it's just like I when I sayI'm gonna read it, I'm gonna
read it.
So I do like knowledge andinformation and wisdom, and you
know, we can always learn fromeach other.
And absolutely um, I do want to,I like for real, I wanna be your

(57:58):
client.
I I I like when it comes to myphysical, like with my body.
So figure out like what'shappening and what I can do
differently.
Yep, 100%.
Well, Dr.
Alicia Newsome, thank you so,so, so much.
You are so weird.
You you explained stuff and Ilike analogies because you can
understand that better.
Um, you know, for for the way mybrain thinks, mine is more

(58:20):
creative or like languages andscience is, you know, is one of
those things that I'm like, youknow, you kind of like gloss
over, but the way you explainedit is like wonderful.
It's like something it's a waythat I can understand it.
So I appreciate that.
Thank you.
Doctor means teacher.
Yes, yes.
But not everybody, you know,wears that the way they show
because my husband's a dentist,he's a doctor and he loves to

(58:44):
teach, loves it.
But I found that not alldentists are created equal.
So just because you have thatdoctor in front of your name to
say that we need to securewisdom, knowledge, or teachings,
you know.
So yeah, good for you.
Good for you.
I appreciate you coming on.
I really do.
Thank you so much for having me.
Thank you so, so much.

(59:04):
Yes, and thank you.
Um, on a private level, you andI will be talking and okay.

SPEAKER_00 (59:09):
I'll send you, I'll send you that link.
Okay, that's wonderful.

SPEAKER_01 (59:12):
Thank you so much.
I appreciate it.

SPEAKER_00 (59:13):
Yeah, I appreciate you too.
All right.
This is good.
Yeah, this is good.
You asked me some goodquestions.

SPEAKER_01 (59:19):
Really?
Well, I was like, okay, what canwe ask to get, you know, and
selfishly, I want to know formyself.
So, what questions pertain to meand my life?

SPEAKER_00 (59:28):
You're like, well, my cholesterol is high and my
glucose.
She's like, What do I need todo?

SPEAKER_01 (59:33):
Let's get a free consultation while we're on this
podcast.
Let's see what we can do.

SPEAKER_00 (59:39):
But it can help other people.
Exactly, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 (59:42):
Yes, yes, yes.
All right, we'll be talkingsoon.
I'll leave you all with this.
Your body is your home.
Strengthen it with movement,feed it with love, recharge it
with rest, treat it withkindness, honor it daily.

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