The Entrepreneur's Handbook For High Performance Living with Dr. Rajka Milanovic Galbraith & others

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we have doctor Reika Galbrith. She'sa physician, author and founder of this

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Simply Health Institute. And she alsohas a new book coming out called Energized,
Feel Fantastic Forever. Also joining usis Naima Rix and Cecilia Ris,
the authors of the Empowerment ABC's andDerek Johnson, who is the founder of
Fit with Derek. He's a fitnesscoach and a life coach. But before
we get to our distinguished guests,it's time now for IP in the News.

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And IP in the News this weekis about Mariah Carey and she has
this favorite song of mind that shesings all the time. All I Want
for Christmas is you Right. It'sa very famous song, it is,
and it's also achieved almost three milliondollars in royalties over the last years.
Well, it turns out that somebodyis suing her for copyright infringement, and

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the suit alleges that Carrie copied thecompositional structure of an extended comparison between a
loved one and the trappings of seasonalluxury right, And it also states that
it also includes some of the lyricsfrom the song, and I think you
know it's an interesting suit. Thefunny thing is is that they released their

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version in nineteen eighty six, sothat was a long time, and it's
kind of a long time to waitto bring a lawsuit. You know,
lots of times artists get sued becausethey make a lot of money on their
songs, and people sort of comeup with excuses to kind of cash in
on that. So, Kenya,what are your thoughts on this situation?

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Talk about a delayed response, right, that's a long time. So I
feel two ways. First of all, I'll go on record and say I
love Mariah Carey, so shout outto Mariah. But secondly, it's been
a long time, and I feellike, wasn't there some point in the
process of making the song where theyhad to get permission? I can't imagine
that someone skipped over that entire process. And I have a question for you,
Richard. Is there a statue oflimitations on and when someone can actually

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sue someone over something that's practically beengoing on for over twenty years? Right?
And there is actually a statute oflimitations at six years, and so
they're well past the statutory period,and so there's probably a good chance that
the suit would get dismissed. Hopefullythis is just a publicity stunt and they're

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really not serious about it. ButI can't really appreciate how somebody could bring
a suit. The song's been outthere for so long. So you know
what I would do to solve thiswhole thing. She's made millions. I'd
write them a nice little check andyou send them on their way, send
them a thousand dollars or something,test anything, Doctor Reika, what do
you think about all this? I'mwith Kenya who cannot love Mariah Carey and

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just is such a great, upliftingsong and it's kind of like energetically like
why bother now? And so I'mwith her, Naima and Cecilia, what
are your thoughts. I believe thatartists should be compensated for their work.
Back in the day, a lotof artists were their music was stolen by
other people and there was no formof compensation. I do believe that if

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I wrote a song, I shouldbe compensated for the song, especially if
it becomes famous. Like doctor Rakasaid, Mariah has been singing this song
for decades now, so why wouldyou wait this long? And I think
a lot of people are writing onEd Sharon's story where he just got sued
for the same thing, but hewas proven that he didn't do it because

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he is an actual artist and hecreated his own music. So I kind
of think they should have a seat. It sounds to me like they just
woke up and realized maybe they area little broke, right, just saying
that's all I have to say.It sounds like they woke up a little
broke and said, let's make somemoney today. So one of the things
that's really challenging by being a recordingartist is lots of times you don't have

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a lot of money, and sometimesif there is a copyright infringement, you
don't really have the money to pursueit. You can't afford to hire a
lawy. And we get that atour practice. A lot people will come
to us and they'll say, well, we think our song is being infringed
by one of these artists, andthey may actually have a decent case,

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but it costs so much money toput on that case, and especially if
it's a big artist with a bigpocketbook. So I still think they should
have done something sooner, But maybethey just couldn't afford to do it,
and maybe now they're in a positionto do it. I don't know,
Derek, what do you think Iagree with you. I think the time
period and probably the financial struggle,or they did the analytics. They looked
at the numbers to see how muchhe's making per month every month because it

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plays a year round, not justholiday season, So they looked at the
numbers, were like wait a minute, and they reverse engineered how much money
they could get back. So Ithink they're trying to get some investments.
Somebody's trying to retire, so they'retrying to set up their kids, if
they have kids. I don't knowanything about the individual, but I think
they're trying to get a quick gameplan to retirement. Yeah. I mean,
most of these lawsuits end up failing, and it depends on the attitude

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of the artists. But of timesthey just say, look it, I'm
not going to put up with this, sort of like Ed Sharon decided he
was going to take a stand.But then you take a big risk that
something could go wrong, or youjust write a check and get on with
your life. You know, It'slike Mariah Carey has already got more money
than God, right, so youknow I can see her saying make it
go away, doling make it goaway. Well, that's amazing and if

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free consultation. So all of thatsaid, now it's time for our guest

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doctor Raika Galberth. Welcome to theshow. So nice to see you again.
We met a while ago one ofthe Clint Arthur seminars. You said
that you were very anxious to beon the show, so we're glad you
could finally make it. Thank youfor having me. Enjoy sharing my message
and I can hear the passion behindyour voice that you're of the same vein
when it comes to your field.Absolutely absolutely, so tell us about what

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you do. So I was atraditionally trained medical doctor in the field of
family medicine. I delivered babies allthe way, took care of them from
birth, i'd like to say,through the geriatric age, and pretty quickly
in private practice, I realized Iwasn't curing anyone, and it took me
about a decade, and I foundanother field of medicine called functional medicine,
where we look at identifying the rootcauses of inflammation and removing those triggers for

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inflammation to restore balance. And it'sbeen both life and career altering. And
as a practice, I restore theenergy of my patients, particularly the high
performers that come in business owners,entrepreneurs, we see a lot of that.
I do that, and then wesegue into not only recovering them,
but helping them live along well throughsome anti aging longevity protocols that I've in

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place. So why did you feellike you weren't curing people when you were
a medical doctor. I mean youstill are, right, but when you
practice traditional medicine. So one ofthe most common symptoms that came in back
in the day was fatigue. Andhere's what the training in allopathic medicine entailed
was you would do the exam.And now with seven minute visits, I

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think the exams are falling on thewayside. There just simply isn't that time.
You do the blood work up andmore than ninety percent of the time
the labs were normal, and thenwe were to suggest to the patient and
this is the way we were trainedthat perhaps they were depressed. So within
a few months of practice, Ihad a woman come in save scenario.
Labs were normal, So I said, could you be depressed? And I

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knew it in my heart of heartsand I could see it on her face.
She absolutely was not depressed. Andas I walked her to the lobby
and opened the door to escort herback to her family member that was waiting,
and it was a friend, andshe says, does she know what's
wrong with you? And she saidthat dumb doctor doesn't know what's wrong with
me. And at first you're butmore than that, it was what am

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I doing? Then I came outto cure, to heal, to help,
and it's becomes as we'd said,the book is energized to feel fantastic
forever, And it really describes mytheory behind why people acclimate to lower levels
of energy that I'd love to sharewith you. Yeah, I think that's
really insightful because I will be honestwith you, most experiences I've had going

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to the doctors has just been verylike prescription based, right, So it's
like there's a pill for that whereI feel most people have that experience when
they go and they don't leave withany real resolution. So would you say
a lot of your diagnosis is basedon blood work, based on life physical
symptoms, Like how do you comeup with how to treat someone. It's
a combination of everything. So wedo a really in depth. My intake

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form is over twenty four pages long, and it looks at what they eat,
what someone eats, how they sleep, what is their purpose in life,
who's their support system, what dothey do for movement, what is
their job, and just like howthey rate all aspects of their life.
What was their birth history, theirfamily history, so we get clear on
the history. I do an exam, you know, maybe once a year

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I find something that's been missed,which is I'm grateful. I can do
that a lot of times. Itcontributes as far as you can tell nutrient
deficiencies which are vitamins and minerals bya skin exam or their nail exam.
And then I'll do the labs.And it's more than just your standard metabolic
panel, blood count, maybe avitamin D and a lipid panel. It's

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pretty extensive and in fact, sometimeswe have to break it up into two
lab draws so many and then wehave specialty tests that look at what is
going on in our intestines or microbiomeor all the bacteria in our intestines,
and how does that contribute largely toour immune health and to our mental health.
And we could do testing on whattoxins has someone been exposed to.

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So we decided each visit what arethe next best steps? And I've identified
over the last ten years what arethe rights steps to take so that I
can quickly improve someone's energy. AndI describe that it's I call it the
three D energy protocol. It's awesome. So how do you discover whether somebody
is depressed or fatigued because they havea physical problem? So lots of times

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I hear people talk about, well, I'm depressed, but you said earlier
that sometimes that's because they're physically notwell. So how do you distinguish between
the two? They oftentimes go handin hand. And you know, as
far as the depression, you wantto make sure they don't have suicidal ideation
that they're not they don't have aplan, so you're looking for that and
those are the more serious cases.So you're not going to take six weeks

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to try to remedy that, andyou may, you know, use an
allopathic approach, which is a prescription. So it's always the first and most
important thing is to protect the patientand do no harm as well, but
they often go hand in hand.What I would say is that within that
four to six week time period,if someone does modest amounts of the protocol

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I've asked them to implement, whichis diet, lifestyle, gentle supplementation movement,
they usually get at least a fiftypercent improvement. And so if they
lift that quickly with no medication,then you're on the right track. So
we are asking the right questions toensure it's not florid depression or are they
just secondarily depressed, So it's alittle more nuanced, and we're looking for

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any serious signs so that we cantake a slower approach to it so that
we restore health. And even inany case, even if it were depression
or as I'd said, the microbiome, which are all the bacteria in our
large intestine, make about seventy percentof our serotonin. So if the gut
bugs are off, then your mentalhealth can be off. That's interesting you
say that because I think a lotof people just think about the vitamin D

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level and that is the main areaof focus. But I love that you
mentioned the microbiome because, like yousaid, it's like a little chemistry experiment
that's going on in your body,and if that's at a whack, then
you're going to have a different experience. Absolutely, you see me shaking my
head. I'm just like absolutely,that's absolutely right. So how do you
get an appropriate microbiome? Everybody's different, right, so do we all have

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different microbiomes? And then how doyou tune up yours? Okay, excellent
question. So we found there wasa documentary that was done a little while
ago called The Gut Movie, andit paralleled and kind of followed a producer
from Australia who ate the standard Australiandiet and he did a stool test to

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look at what was the bacteria inhis gut, and then he flew to
Namimbia and he ate just what wasgrown in the land and what they hunted,
and they retested him and he wentfrom a very inflamed profile to non
inflamed in seven days. So largely, what you eat is going to dictate
whether you have a good microbiome ornot or a we call it you want

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it imbalance, and when it's outof balance, we say dyspiosis. So
we eat a lot of raw leavesand berries. We go out. Now,
how do you like an American dietand have a good microbiome or is
it just you can't do it?You can't do it? So yeah,
I mean so that you want tobuild resilience and sadly, if diet were
just it, and that's where mysecond step comes in. If diet were

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just it, antibiotic use, evenone time can eradicate some very important bacteria
to our health, and it canbe challenging to restore. And there are
certain probatics, spore based probatics thatwill help restore that imbalance. And sometimes
you get a bacteria that's a triggerfor immune system and what happens is our
body recognizes the bacteria's foreign as faras the protein and the bacteria, and

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then the protein in that bacteria mimicsour own body tissue. So if it's
our joint, it could be rheumatorethritis. And there's a fancy term for that,
and not to bore the listeners,it's called molecular mimicry, so the
body gets confused. So then thereare herbal protocols, and believe it or
not, you can even use antibiotics, but I typically don't, right.

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I mean, we've had some professorson from Ruckers University who also created a
movie, and they were talking abouthow the overconsumption of microbiotics, starting with
children from a very early age predisposesthem to serious diseases later in life.
And they theorize that it's because theirmicrobiome systems keep getting challenged by these antibiotics

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and it makes their microbiome systems moreand more weaker and weaker and weaker,
and that makes them susceptible to cancer, heart disease, diabetes, all sorts
of conditions. So it really issuper important. But I still want to
know, is there a way thatI can improve my microbiome If I come
to you, do you test forthat? And then do you say,

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okay, you should try this,that and the other thing. Yeah,
so we would start with the threeDA protocol. So we talk about diet,
and I've created you know, ifyou ever wonder why one diet works
for one person and another doesn't,it's because we're all genetically different. So
we have people track things and addthings that are missing first, and then
we usually ask them to do anelimination of foods for a short period of

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time to see which are their triggers. And then we have a mad back
in and we can actually help youfigure out how to eat. So that
is the first step. The secondstep would we'd run you through like what
makes proper digestion and you can turnaround and look in the toilet. As
unglamorous as that may sound, allI know, but you want to be,

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you know, having boub movements oncea day and I always say one
long snake once a day. Itmeans your digestion's working right. It's it's
a poor man's test to say it'sworking right. The toilet is very selling
lovely. I do want to talkabout the big H hashimotos disease because I
feel like it's becoming more mainstream interms of terminology, but a lot of

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people still don't know what it is. They still are underdiagnosed due to it.
So can you talk a little bitabout it? Absolutely, because I
myself have hashimotives thyroiditis and there's thisargument between the naturopathic doctors and allopathic doctors.
And the allopathic doctors are like,it's believe it's not your thyroid,

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because they will have women come inor men saying I'm fatigued, And in
one aspect, I will agree withthem. When I was diagnosed, it
was about ten years after I hadsymptoms, so I felt horribly for ten
years. However, I'll give themthis. It wasn't my thyroid. It
was everything that led to the imbalancethat needed to be corrected. So what

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are the symptoms of this disease?So hashimotos thyroiditis is your body attacking your
thyroid gland and it can manifest asdepression, fatigue, dry skin constipation,
maybe a little brain fog. Mybig manifestation was a fatigue and I simply
needed almost ten hours of sleep atnight, and I just wasn't rested and

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couldn't recover very well. And whenI was put on adequate medication, I
went to sleeping eight hours a night. That was my main symptom. Everyone
presents a little bit differently. Wow, you have a new book coming out,
tell us a little bit about that. So the book is energized to
feel fantastic forever, and it reallyexplains my theory on why do people become

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fatigued and whether for anyone listening,whether you feel tired or not, I
can bet that you've probably if youdon't feel tired, of acclimated to a
lower level energy. And I seethis in my twenty year olds. When
we're done walking through diet, digestion, detox, those are the first three
steps they will say, Wow,I didn't know I could feel. That's

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fantastic. And that's someone who doesn'thave symptoms at all. And what happens
is we're born and I've been testingvitamins and minerals we call them nutrients and
people for over a decade and mostadults have three to five deficiencies, Vitamin
D being at the top of thelist, zinc and magnesium, and even

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if you ate a whole food's diet, you could still be efficient. But
over the last decade that number iscrept up more like five to seven.
And we need certain vitamins and mineralsto make our energy or ATP. And
then as we age, the mitochondria, which are the responsible for making our
energy go down in number. Andthen on top of that, when we're

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stressed, stress eats up magnesium andB vitamins, which makes it even harder
to make energy. And then youmix in a little bit of everyday toxin,
so air pollution from car exhaust,what you put on your face,
and that damage is our mitochondria.So it's this vicious, never ending cycle
that kind of gets the ball inmotion. And the name should have of

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the books should have been like,how to prevent or cure mitochondrial dysfunction?
But that's pretty boring. Nobody's goodnobody, But nobody's going to get that.
Now we'll be a best seller.I don't know. Yeah, let's
say I'm going through a super stressfulperiod in my life. Are there any
eating changes that we should consider thatcould help kind of address the stress?

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Yeah, so you want to watchthe sugar intake. So sugar drives insulin
and it makes a heart. Thenyou put on the weight, and you
know, over time your body becomeless resilient. So that's one. Number
two is we teach all of ourpatients a modality that increase something called heart
rate variability, and it's I useI teach every single patient that walks through

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the doors because it allows them toregulate the stress response and it's just using
your breath to regulate the heart rateto get you out of fight or flight.
And how heart rate variability is usedin medicine otherwise is remember if you've
ever delivered a baby, they slapa monitor on you and you want to
see wavy pattern with the baby's heartbeat. But as it starts to get erratic,

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that's a stress state. But I'llsee that in my executives. They'll
have that stress state. But thereare some herbal supplements that I'll use to
help people while we're implementing the lifestylechanges, and so it's not just stress
will take you out, but thecontribute. So you know, think about
being on our devices, probably nota good idea till right before when you

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fall asleep. Yeah, I'm gettinginto the habit. I turn my phone
off when I go to bed,and then I turn it on when I
get up in the morning, usuallyone of the first things, but at
least I don't have it on,so I'm getting all sorts of alarms and
alerts, you know, during theevening. And then lately I've been turning
my emails off at around six o'clock, which I think shocks a few of

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my clients and other people because they'reused to getting responses. But I also
think it helps me relax a littlebit more before beds. It's no disciplined
and impressive. Well, you canget with your cell phone. Now you
can set it up so that justturns it off automatically. Yeah. That,
But I'm just saying that to havethe discipline to actually do that,
Like, I totally don't want todo that. Well, now I know

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we can get you twenty four orseven, can you know? It's just
hard for I think it's hard foreverybody to disconnect, right, But I'm
yess that. Yeah, I lovethat, Richard. I think that is
super discipline because it's easier said thandone. And I'm going to challenge you
to do. One thing is toturn the phone off an hour before you
go to bed and see if thatmakes a difference with sleep. Anything you've

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ever seen that has been incurable.If a disease process gets to us too
late, there is a thing likedon't wait till it's too far gone.
Because even you know, memory lossesstarts as brain fog. So if you're
forgetting you know why you walked intoa room, identify it early. Uh,
Oh yeah, h did you forgetwhy you're here? Richard, No,

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I know that, but yeah,I mean I think there is a
good emphasis now, especially in functionalmedicine of preventative medicine. Right, traditional
medicine is just people getting cured assoon as they get really bad symptoms and
get to the end. Now,there's so much we know and we can
do. We can kind of hadsome diseases off, right, and you

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know, good diet, good sleephabits I think are important. I think
exercise is important. Yeah. WhatI'd like to say is you want your
life span to equal your health span, so live long well. Doctor Reika
Galbreth, physician, author and founderof this Simply Health Institute, and she
also has a new book coming outcalled Energized, Feel Fantastic Forever. Passage

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here with Kenya Gibson, and weare here with doctor Reika, author of

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the book Energized, Feel Fantastic Forever, and she's also a functional medicine doctor.
She's a board certified family physician andfounder of the Simply Health Institute.
So we've been talking about all sortsof functional medicine philosophies and treatments and approaches.
One of the things, doctor Reika, that we speak to on the

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show is the health of entrepreneurs becauseit can be a very stressful way to
make a living. And one ofthe things that you mentioned during the break
was that oftentimes you treat executives whoare going through difficult and challenging periods,
and maybe you could talk a littlebit about that. So we do have
a higher proportion of both entrepreneurs andhigh level executives. And you're right.

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When you're an entrepreneur, the jokeis you trade forty hours a week for
twenty four to seven, so youdon't want to do that. And earlier
in my days in functional medicine,these high level clients would come in and
I'd recover them, but then they'dended up back in my office. I
said, hmm, how do Ikeep this from happening? And one thing
people should know is when you're thathigh performing, you may not actualize stress

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internally. The common complaint our retortI got was, but Doc, I
don't feel stressed, and so wecan run a stress test. You can
do a blood test first thing inthe morning. Preferable is I'll do a
SLAVI test over four different time periodsof the day, first thing in the
morning, thirty minutes later, midday, in the afternoon, and even before
bed. And when you move tothese high performing people, look, your

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cortisol is through the roof and thoseclients feel wired. Alternatively, with time,
the cortizolt production the morning will golow and then it'll increase at night,
which is what you don't want.So those patients will wake up between
two and four am. So ifyou are waking between two and four am,
this may be a problem for youthat you're so stressed out. It's
taking a toll. And those peoplefeel tired but wired, and then you

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can flatline just like with the heartrate variability and have low cortisol and those
people are just plain old tired.So if I were to explain this people,
they say, oh, okay,and I wouldn't have to test.
But I find for my higher levelprofessionals having that test is tangible, and
they say, wow, I needto do something about this. I have
those symptoms. By the way,I do, I find myself getting more

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jazzed as the day goes on,and then I usually wake up between two
and four in the morning. SoI don't know, So what what do
I do? What do you do? I'm going to give you a simple
strategy where you don't even have tohave a device to bring you yourself out
of fight or flight. So manyof us stay in fight or flight.
Many of us breath hold when we'redoing emails. So we're going to practice
something called box breathing. Have youever heard of that? No? No?

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Okay, So box breathing is whereyou inhale for four seconds, you
hold for four seconds, you exhalefor four seconds, and then you hold
for four seconds. And if youjust do rounds of that, maybe set
a time on your phone and oncean hour do five minutes or ten minutes.
In the office, we teach heartmath, which is a form of
biofeedback and why I like that frommy high level executives entrepreneurs. It's a

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sensor that clips onto your ear andyou use a breath pattern, and believe
it or not, most of usare over breathing, and you need to
breathe six seconds in and six secondsout and you can see you can actually
watch the screen, not that welove screens, but it will tell you
are you out of fight or flight? And so it's teaching, it's training

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you how to get your body outof fight or flight. The statistics on
the movement over six to nine weeksare pretty profound. So it reduces depression,
fatigue, focus, improve sleep,and oftentimes as kind of a fun
social media posts. I'll just takea screenshot of the benefits they've seen and
I say, what drug leads tothis? And you get everyone guessing and

(29:15):
it's not a drug. And soif you don't have the device, just
do some box breathing. If youdo over time, and if you're really
jazzed up, particularly at night andyou're waking up, there are herbal formulations
we can use, including ashwagonda andwhat we call that as an adaptogent.
It'll bring up cortisol or if you'retoo high, it brings it down,

(29:37):
so it dampens that. And morethan that, I really like something called
fossful title searing. So it's justa fat found in our cells, helps
feel the brain and it dampens thatcortosol response and it kind of takes the
edge off while we get you utilizingthe other modalities. And so that was
really key. And our body hassomething called the limbic system. It's an

(30:00):
our alarm system for the body.And if you're exposed to a major threat
or it could be a traumatic experience, you'll be stuck on all the time.
And so an entrepreneur that I hadrecovered now twice. There's various training
programs out there that'll teach you allthe modalities, and one is called the
group to program. And when weadded that, he said this was a

(30:22):
missing piece. So he remember hehad relapsed and I saw him like three
years apart, and I said,yeah, well we've been implementing it now
when we see fits. So butyeah, the cortisol is definitely key in
protecting yourself from just being taken upby anything. Do you think that?
And because I consider myself to bea high performer, but I'm really good
at masking symptoms, right, sobeing in denial about like what I'm feeling,

(30:45):
Like maybe I'm tired, but I'mlike, nope, i have five
other things I have to do,or I'm stressed, and I'm like,
that's not stress. I'm just goingto push pass. So do you think
that we're better at masking symptoms?Absolutely, I think just by personality type,
by perhaps even how you were raised. And another high performer said the
same thing, I don't feel stressed, but she'd always get GI issues,

(31:07):
so she was manifesting. Remember thegut, the microbiome is so powerful,
and so think about people getting nervousbefore they talk, they might be racing
off to the bathroom because there,you know, the brain is communicating down
to the gut saying, whoa,we got to get you out of here.
You know this is scary. Butyeah, So does the cortisol create
the stress or it's a manifestation ofthe stress, so manifestation. So we

(31:30):
normally cortisols should be higher in themorning and gently decline overnight, like a
rolling hill. So if you canimagine that, and when you're constantly stressed,
the whole curve will just elevate andthat's where we're wired, and then
it'll invert and so it'll be lowin the morning and then high at night,
and that's the tired but wired.I want to just take it to
childhood for a second, because youmentioned something really key about stress and coping.

(31:55):
Do you think like in someone's childhoodthey've had a very stressful, overwhelming
environment and that they've learned how tocope with that as a survival mechanism as
a child, that they carry thatover into their adult life and that could
in the long term help them overcompensatefor symptoms that they might be experiencing.
Versus someone who had a healthier childhood. Absolutely, and let me tell you

(32:16):
it's in the twenty four page questionnaire. So embedded in there, I've inserted
the Adverse Childhood Event Questionnaire and it'sten questions. The higher the score,
the more likely you will have adysfunctional cortisol response for life, and having
a height we call it ACE scoreis associated with chronic diseases. So that's
why I need to know, andso that's why I teach these modalities,

(32:37):
and I believe it or not,everything we're exposed to get stored down at
a cellular level. And think aboutlike as high performers, we all do
a lot of the trainings that willhelp elevate our energies, the mental energies,
and when you vibe hi, don'tyou and you're smiling and you attract
all those people, it's the same. Is that you can affect cellular function
with prior experiences and it's all ata subconscious life level. So it's super

(33:00):
important to know and super important toaddress. So doctor Ricca and your book
Energized Feel Fantastic Forever you talk aboutdetoxifying your body. We haven't talked too
much about detoxifying, but what doesthat involve general detox is hydrating, it's
eliminating via sweat, urine or poop. I love talking about but no tz

(33:22):
I just it's really come up acouple of times. It's super important though.
I joke, you know, whenI was a went to my first
functional medicine conference, I'm like,yeah, we're just like those Hollywood stars.
They all walk away with swarowsky encrustedphone cases and we had a poop
test to take. There you go. But at any rate, yeah,

(33:43):
so you the generalities are you wantto make sure your natural ability to detox
is working. So that's hydrating,it's eliminating, it's movement of the body
to move the lymphatic system around.So that's why you'll sometimes it's popular the
rebonders just jumping up and down.So kids have it easy, right,
they like to jump on the trampoline. But more than that, it's also
aligning, believe it or not,what you eat, having the right nutrients,

(34:07):
vitamins and minerals to detox. Sothe B vitamins are crucial. Having
enough protein in our body, andI think one of our the next guests
we'll be talking about protein is ifyou our protein breaks down into amino acids,
and you need those to clear toxins, so toxins get broken down into
a more toxic byproduct. And ifit gets stuck in that phase, you'll

(34:29):
feel really sick. And you needit to be wrapped up in a water
loving molecule so you can eliminate it, and that requires protein precisely amino acid.
So if you do a juice cleanseand you haven't done anything, you
can be made to feel very,very sick. So it's not something I'm
a fan of for someone who's notdone one before and doesn't have everything lined

(34:50):
up, because you're not supporting thatsecond phase of detox What about fasting.
I've heard that fasting is also away that people can detoxify. Yes,
I love fasting, and so oneof the keys I don't. By the
way, it's hard. My bloodsugar drops and I'm like done after like
thirty minutes. Okay, we're talkingafter the show, and well let's explain

(35:13):
it. So the first thing mostpeople should be able to do is a
twelve hour fast, and I thinkall adults should be eating a long time.
You should eat between say seven amand seven pm. That's something that
most people can achieve, and noteveryone needs to fast for six hours,
so that would mean eating in aneight hour window, so that's a little
bit harder. But what fasting doesis it increases our body's way of cleaning

(35:35):
out the clutter. We call thatfancy term autophagy, and so that's super
important because if that's not happening,if you have a cluttered house, you're
going to start tripping. Same withthe body. The body's not going to
function as properly. And I doa longevity test in the office and it
looks at how fast someone is aging, and you want to age one year
less than one year per one year. So I tested myself in January.

(36:00):
I'd love to share those results.I was aging at point nine years for
one year. Sounds pretty good.But I thought, let's see if we
can improve this. So I undertooka five day fast three months in a
row, and I'll describe how wecan make that easy. And I repeated
the testing and I was at pointseven to two years. So that's a
significant drop. So it means everyfour years I'm going to gain a year.

(36:22):
If it makes is it like howold you are in door gears.
It's just how fast your bodies ageit so I'm aging slower and it's definitely
one of the best tests. Sowe call it pace of aging. Is
that a chemical test, it's ablood test. And the blood test it's
a blood test. It's a fingerprick. So it's pretty easy. You can
do it at home. And Iabsolutely love it because it says is everything

(36:44):
that you're doing benefiting your body.But the five day fast I did,
now, doesn't that sound daunting?It sounds impossible. It sounds impossible to
me. The good news is,Richard, they've invented a fasting mimicking diet
where you can actually so you caneat and fast at the same time as
it mimics fasting modern technology. Ilove it. Yeah, And so it's

(37:06):
done over five days, so it'svegetarian for those five days, and that's
how one of the ways you candouble your energy is that you feel amazing
by the time you're done, andyou typically within a day. Interesting,
So all of this is in yourbook. Yeah, all of this is
in the book. And then wehave a resource page coming out soon that
will have kind of more detailed stuff. And even the double your energy in

(37:29):
five days is a bonus content thatsounds great? Where can people find you
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two four forty five ninety six.Passage to Profit continues with Richard and Elizabeth
Gearhart time for Power Move with KenyGibson. So this is our first official
Power Move for twenty twenty four.We just had a young man who was
here in the studio with us beforeor we tape the show, by the
name of al Bayaner see Eugene.He is the creator of a faith platform

(40:06):
called What's the Word. And Ihad a really great conversation with him just
about his walk with God, abouthow he's taking a practical approach, about
how he connects people to God andjust showing people how they can create self
love for them and just hope andfaith. And you were here, Richard.
I think convers amazing. He wasone of the most interesting people to
talk with. I really recommend thatyou check out his podcast. He was

(40:30):
very inspiring and he was very downto earth, a very grounded person.
You know. He had such strongbeliefs in a non religious way though,
which I liked. I liked histake and even when he felt called to
what he was doing, he didn'twant it necessarily, which was also very
interesting. So now he kind ofhe's become an incredible leader and he has

(40:51):
millions of followers, and that's becausehis message resonates, he's good at being
himself. I like the way yousay that. And where can you find
power move? You can find poweron YouTube. So Elizabeth has been very
gracious to be my YouTube podcast coach, so you can find it on YouTube.
That sounds great. So, yeah, Elizabeth isn't here today, but
she asked me to make a plugfor Fireside. And as you know,

(41:14):
Fireside is a directory of small businessesand she's in the process now of remarketing
it and revamping it. What theidea is is that individual businesses, coaches,
service providers, just about anybody cancreate a short video that gets put
in this directory, and then thedirectory promotes the video, and if people

(41:36):
are looking for somebody in your servicearea, then they can click and they
can watch just a few minutes ofwhat you have to say. And by
putting all of the videos together,it makes it really easy for potential customers
to kind of go through and seewho they like right, rather than spending
a lot of time on the phone. So we're very excited about the project
and she's deeply involved in it andshe's making progress every week. Hi,

(42:01):
Elizabeth, here, have you heardabout Podfestexpo? If not, listen up.
Podfestexpo dot com is where you wantto go for information. But I'll
tell you why I'm so excited tobe going, and why Richard is excited
to be going too. Podfest Expobrings together podcasters from all over the world.
It's in Orlando, Florida, Januarytwenty fourth, through most of the

(42:22):
weekend. I think it is Sundaymorning. It's just an amazing event.
This is the tenth anniversary. They'vebeen doing it continuously for ten years.
The guys that started this really notherstuff. I met Chris in New York
saw him give a short presentation,and there was so much info jam packed
into that one short presentation. Iwas like, Okay, I'm going to

(42:43):
Florida in January. I got tosee what else these guys have to say.
The lineup of speakers is amazing,but there's also going to be incredible
networking. So most of my podcastingfriends that I've talked to about this are
planning to go, and I plannedto meet new people too. There's also
going to be a few fun parties. This is going to be a great
way to kick off twenty twenty four. If you're thinking about podcasting. If

(43:04):
you have a podcast, I knowthey have presentations on monetization, on growing
your audience, and also they're veryforward looking. So what's going to be
different in twenty twenty four and howcan we stand out? Those are things
I'm hoping to take away. Soif you're interested, it's Podcastexpo dot com.
Podcastexpo dot com. If you signup, let me know and we'll
look for you and I hope tosee you there. Now it's time to

(43:30):
go to our guests, and thesepeople are the authors of The Empowerment ABCS,
which is a really magnificent book forencouraging young people to be empowered.
Naima and Cecilia Rix, thank youvery much for joining us and tell us
a little bit about Empowerment ABCS.Yes, thank you for having Hi everyone.

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I'm doctor Naima Vix and I'm herewith my lovely mother Cecilia Dallas Ricks,
the co authors of The Empowerment ABC's. You know, it was just
great hearing from the first speaker todaybecause this book was truly inspired by my
career and my passion. I beganmy career working in higher education for many
years, where I worked with collegestudents and oftentimes I would feel like I
kind of got to them too late. I would hear stories about my friends'

(44:13):
kids and just seeing like kind oflike the things that they're going through in
life. And then when I wouldwork with my college students, I'm just
like, we need some empowerment.I'm doing empowerment workshops for them in college,
but I'm like, this is toolate. We need to start younger.
So after going out to brunch withmy girlfriends, I came home and
I told my mother, we're gonnawrite Well, actually, I said I'm
going to write a book, andshe and then I told her my idea.

(44:36):
She said, We're gonna write abook because I'm gonna make it even
better, okay, And that's whereit became about where I just started writing
it honestly on my phone. Thiswas all through actually the pandemic. Thank
you stimulus check, because my stimuluscheck was my investment into this. Okay.
So with that, we came upwith the idea of the empartment ABC's
and we came up with the ideaof really writing a book that was simple

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for all ages, so you canpick it up if you're having a bad
day and just say I want tobe empowered. And what's great about our
book is that throughout the book it'scolorful and all of the pictures. Some
people have names, some don't.But what's great about it is that you
can create your own names and clearit up to your own characters in the
book, and they all kind ofrelate to some things that happen in our

(45:21):
lives. So, for example,Kay is for kind and on that page
you'll see a young girl who isin a wheelchair. And when I was
younger, I had to be homeschoolfor quite some time because I was in
a wheelchair. My school was aneighty eight compliant And I'm just so grateful
for all those folks who are kindto me, and I want other people
to be kind to one another.So that's the inspiration behind our book.

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And I'll let my mom share alittle bit more about it. What she
failed to mention my daughter, doctorRix, is that years ago she and
her best friend started and after schoolprogram as part of a community service event
where they tutored young children, andnow she is the executive director of a
program that tutors children after school.It's just a wonderful testament to what she

(46:05):
has become and where she's going.And like she said, she came running
in like she did with all ofher projects in school and during girl Scouts,
and she said, Mommy, thisis my idea, and I'm like,
wow, let's go with that.You know. One of the things
she failed to mention our children aremulticultural, because that's the world we live
in. We live in a multiculturalworld. On our cover, it speaks

(46:28):
to children on top of the world, and the back says the child is
holding up the world because that's whatwe're gearing our children to be, to
grow up and hold up this worldof ours, to empower themselves. There's
so many different references to people powerfulpeople. We mentioned President Obama, we
mentioned Beyonce, We mentioned Muhammad Ali. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is my favorite page

(46:52):
who speaks to justice. You know, back in the day, she wasn't
even allowed to practice law because shewas a woman. A lot of people
don't know these facts. So we'rehoping that not only will you read the
book, but you'll be encouraged tolearn something else about the people we have
highlighted in your life. Well,you both seem like you're very empowering people

(47:13):
to me. So when you talkabout empowerment, can you talk a little
bit about what that means to you? Sure? I would say what empowerment
means to me is to is tobe Actually you know what I'm actually going
to go to how we describe itin the book, so E is for
empower to give official authority or powerto We describe the word and also give
the definition for each word as wellas use a sentence. So in our

(47:36):
book here it says we can empowerothers to accomplish their goals. So that's
what empowerment means to me. Itmeans to take something small and just empower
a friend and empower a colleague toreally just go on and take the world
and accomplish their goals. That's whatit means. And our page which talks
about bullying, which is really importantin our lives, we teach our children

(47:57):
how to stand up to the bully. You stand up to a bully by
staying united. So if I seedoctor Riker being bullied, I'm going to
go to her help and say,look, leave her alone. And then
if that doesn't work, my daughter'sgoing to step in and say, hey,
leave her alone. And if thatdoesn't work, you're going to step
in and say leave her alone,because it becomes a community thing so that

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this can be stopped if we allstick together and just leand a helping hand.
I love that this is like across transformational tool, right, and
that you're tapping into like that multiculturalcomponent where it teaches us kind of how
to how we need to be toone another cross culturally, because I think
sometimes we silo ourselves in these wedo sectors, right, and then when

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it comes time for us to worktogether, the social skill set that we
need is not necessarily there. SoI love that you're starting on a ground
level with children and giving them agreat tool that's going to help them on
later on in life. Yeah.Absolutely, and we even try to also.
The book is rather challenging. It'sactually at a fourth grade reading level,
so a lot of the words arelike optimistic. You know, it's

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kind of hard for our first gradepossibly to pronounce that word, but we
actually have the conjugation of the wordand how to say it out loud,
and you know, thinking about thosepassions that a person might have. We
use my brother's name, his nameis Dallas. Got to give him a
little shout out. But for pis for passion, intense striving and overmasting
feeling. And so the sentence thatwe have for passion is my brother is

(49:22):
passion passionate about baking delicious cookies.He is like, you could eat all
things. My brother is six tofive and he loves to play basketball.
He does not like to bake cookies. But you know, we're passionate about
eating cookies. So we thought thatwe would still incorporate, you know,
still to some friends and family andjust encouraging that passion for folks there.
So part of your role, doctorRix is to teach children and to empower

(49:46):
them. So what are some ofthe things that you do to empower children.
Some of the things that I doto empower children are to number one,
Like I would say, always remindthem that they are strong, that
they are loved, and that theyhave many folks around them who are there
to support them. I really dothat within my work and my professional work.
As my mom mentioned, I alsowork for a nonprofit where we provide

(50:07):
after school programming for young kids.So with that, I really just try
to remind them that they're empowered.Do different social emotional learning activities and keep
them engaged. Sometimes it's just amatter of saying to someone you can do
it, you know, at encourage, just saying you can do it,
you can do it. I've workedwith even adults at my job. I've
had people say to me, youknow, I don't know if I'm qualified.

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Okay, that's what they want youto think. So when you see
a child who says I can't dothis, you say, yes, you
can, let's try it. Andif you can't because of some physical thing,
we're just gonna keep trying till weget it done right, you know,
or we're trying till we get itdone wrong. And that's okay as
well. But we have to saylet's try it and encourage that motion and

(50:52):
action to do. You know,a lot of time kids are on tablets
and they're sitting home playing games andXbox and stuff. I used to kick
my kids outside. My kids hadall those games. But you got to
go outside for a little while.Let's get some exercise, let's get some
air, let's get some vitamin D, you know. And I speak to
that in the book Getting Sunshine.These are things that keep us thriving and

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keep us going. So where didthe inspiration for this book and this movement,
where did that come from? Theinspiration came from my background as a
higher education professional. I used towork for many colleges or universities in college
student personnel administration as well as anadjunct professor. So with that, I
was constantly providing workshops empowerment sessions forthem, and so I really wanted a

(51:37):
way to inspire them to empower notonly my college students that I work with,
but the youth that I work with. Growing up my entire life,
I was a girl Scout, SoI thought about all the it's still a
girl scout I and I, youknow, think about all the young girls
that I was still working with,you know, in my professional career.
So just thinking about a simple yeteffective tool for people to be empowered,

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people to feel good. You canwake up and be like, what's the
word of the day and kind oflike kind of take it from there and
just really just feel light and aday. This is beautiful as a tool.
So I guess my question for youis how are you incorporating it into
like learning systems and like how areyou actually getting kids to pick up and
read it and use it? Weactually align ourselves with our local library,

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and our librarian or library director hasbeen very very supportive in getting the word
out through the libraries. So wego out to the libraries and we read
in the libraries. We've read atschools. We've had our political figures.
We have a commissioner who actually goesto school and reads out a book.
So it's really doing the legwork goingfrom door to door, so to speak.
And we meet children, we'll givethem out as gifts for two small

(52:44):
children, or people who are havinga baby will put it in the baby
basket. But it's been a journey. Mm hm. Can you read a
couple of other pages from the book? Oh? Absolutely? Oh it's for
optimistic. Optimistic is an adjective ofrelating to, or characterized by optimism,
feeling or showing hope for the future. Being optimistic about new ideas has led

(53:07):
to fantastic discoveries. I want toread one. But how about c is
for courage? I always knew whatthe definition of courage was, but when
you see it in this context,it's just very moving and powerful. Right,
So see is for courage mental ormoral strength to venture, persevere,
and withstand danger, fear, ordifficulty. It takes courage to put an

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end to bullying. That's one ofour favorite pages, along with Elle is
for leader. So when you thinkabout empower, you might think about leaders
in your life. So leader isa noun a person who leads. So
my teacher the sentences, My teacheris a great leader. She inspires her
students every day. And in thispicture for this particular page, you can

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see a teacher standing over the childrenin the classroom. And so a lot
of folks, when you think aboutwho a leader in your life is,
often like a professor or a leaderor a teacher in your life who may
have had that great impact in yourlife, who has inspired you and has
empowered you. That's great. Sowhat are your plans for the future for
this project? Our plans for thefuture. We you know, when we
wrote this book, it was justagain it was on a whim. I

(54:10):
think I missed the pandemic because atso much time, I you know,
I was like, let's write thisbook, let's create a website, let's
do all this. So that's whenwe started the Empowered brand. So we
could see we're wearing empowered hoodies rightnow. So not only do we want
you to feel empowered, but wewant you to wear the Empowered every day.

(54:31):
So our plans for the future tocontinue to grow the brand we have
discussed like our next book, andthen also you know, we want to
encourage folks to purchase our Empowered hoodies. They are available on naima rix dot
com. So those are the plansfor the future. Have you thought about
doing an audio version of the book? Oh, we just have, Yes,

(54:53):
that is the media may Yes,that's a great suggestion. I like
to encoura parents. When my kidswere little, I would read to them
every night before they went to bed. So I like to encourage parents to
read the book to their kids atnight. And that's when, like Naima
said, for the pages that don'thave a person's name in, you fill

(55:13):
it in, you know, useyour imagination. The book is very geared
towards using your imagination so that youcan take it even further. Talk about
a page at night, talk abouta letter at night, and just focus
in on that word. Then youcan have a discussion with your child as
to what it means you. Well, there you go, everybody. Cecilia
and Naima Rex the Empowerment Project they'vegot an amazing book and can you get

(55:36):
this on Amazon? Yes, itis available on Amazon, so you can
do a search for the Empirement ABC'sor for my name Naima Rex on Amazon.
And you can also find us onsocial media via Naima Rex as well
as my website Naimarex dot com andas nai m a Riicks dot com.
Well, thank you so much forjoining us. Make sure that you check

(55:57):
out their website. It sounds likea perfect gift for the youngster in your
family that doesn't involve some sort ofdevice, right, so absolutely perfect for
that. Thank you. Now weare going to turn to Derek Johnson.
Derek is a fitness guy and he'sgot all sorts of good advice for us.
Derek, welcome to the show.Tell us what's going on. I'm
a US Army veteran. I wasin the US Army for ten years and

(56:21):
so is my father. So growingup seeing all the changes that happen to
military families, to their kids,and to the general public, I ay
was always inspired to help people ina deeper way. So my main thing,
my main mission is help people identifypatterns that are not serving them so
they can go from just surviving tothriving. And what I mean by that

(56:42):
is the individual that crushes it insales but they can't keep a relationship to
save their life, or the personthat has had multiple divorces but they're amazing
at other things. So there's alwaysone thing that all of us want to
attack, and we bring that intothe light rather than wait till January.
First, it's holiday season. Youknow I'm gonna get around to it.
We face it, and then wetake control of that thing. Because there's

(57:05):
usually one main thing and it usuallystarts from their childhood, whether it's bullying,
whether it is something with family,a physical trauma, mental, But
we pull those things out so thatway they don't carry that thing into everything
that they do, so they don'tfeel like they hit a ceiling in their
life. That's the main thing Ido. I hope people identify what that
pattern is so we can break thatso they can start to thrive and they
feel like I can breathe again.That thing. I've been carrying that into

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every friendship, relationship, business presentationand they're just like, can I just
get rid of that? So that'swhat I help people get rid of so
they feel like he or she hastheir power back. I love that because
I think sometimes we just get focusedon the physical fitness portion of our lives
and like you know, being inshape or eating healthy, right, but
we don't really dissect like the innerstuff that's going on that could be leading

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to why we can't master being healthyin other parts of our lives. So
you do everything. So you gotthe fitness stuff, you have the mind
body stuff. Yes, yeah,that's all. I appreciate it, so
the whole intense. I was apersonal trainer since I was fifteen years old.
I'm thirty four, but fitness wasalways my passion performance helping people with
nutrition. But when I got aroundtwenty one, I realized that people that

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I work with that wouldn't see mefor months or years, like after our
program duration, they lost progress.Younger version was like, oh, they
just got lazy, But mature olderversion said, you know what, it's
my fault. I didn't give himor her the mental tools they needed to
break those patterns. So that's whatgot me deep into life coaching and psychology.
So nowadays, people less likely evergo backwards even after the duration,

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because they know their mind and bodyand they got rid of that thing?
So what are the tools that youuse to uncover this? If I were
to come to you and say,all right, assess me, what would
you do? The first thing I'ddo with anyone is create a eliminate sheet.
And what I mean by that wegrab a piece of paper, grab
a pen, and we ask ourselvesthe question, what is something that I

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could get rid of that would helpme get more progress. So the most
common thing nowadays is attention span.People's attention span all humans is lower than
ever, emails, texts, TikTokmedia, Drake has a new song,
this is happening, economy, thisthat my dog needs me and my girlfriend
needs me, like all this stuffhas happened. And people's attention span is
all over the place, so it'shard for them to make much progress in

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their life. But that's one example. So that person could say, you
know what I need to eliminate mindlessscrolling. That's their eliminate. For someone
else, it's like, hey,ten PM, I'm always on Uber Eats
or I'm in the kitchen and theydon't realize it until eleven They're like,
I need it, let me getmy butt to bed. So whatever their
thing is write out there, eliminatelist, but be honest and transparent with
themselves, but neutral opposed to saying, oh, January first, I'm going

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to start my resolution. We justface it, and it's usually the small
thing what we consume, what weeat, what we drink, how we
speak to ourselves, and most importantly, what we're looking at online. A
very common one that I see ispeople wake up and they just start scrolling,
or they wake up and they hitsnooze five to ten times and they're
like, man, why am Iso foggy? Caffeine's not helping? On
motivational videos not helping. It's areally good point because if you look at

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all the things that you do ashabits, you spend a lot of your
life doing that habit. You know, if you go to the refrigerator every
time there's a commercial on TV,you're spending a lot of time at the
refrigerator if you do that for fiveyears, right, exactly. And so
it really does make sense to takea look at what your habits are and
make sure that they're the right oneshundred percent. And so that's what we

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face. We face what that patternis, and we look at a default
setting so default setting is like whatis your automatic level of operation? So
in the military, we could seeby someone's physicality what their normal operation level
is. So in life, it'slike, we have a friend that's always
kind of negative. Oh you know, it's not gonna happen. Oh you
know, holiday season, I'm stillsingle. They always have these little side

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comments, but they say it's somuch that eighty percent or more of their
verbiage. They text it, theypost it, they speak it. It's
something that is not empowering and theydon't realize it because that's just their default
setting. And then the other friendis like always upbeat, life is amazing,
We're blessed, you woke up,be happy, And that's their default
setting. So they're not actually usingmore or less energy, that's just where

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they operate. So what we dowe identify where's your normal operating and how
can we raise it? And stepone is first to get rid of things.
So my intent is not to showme your schedule. We're gonna flip
it, show me your fridge,We're gonna throw away at the top two
shelves. And we were just likeoverwhelmed the person. It's more so,
what is the main thing that youfeel you could eliminate. I'm glad you
mentioned the military because I was goingto ask you, was there anything that

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you learn from being in the militarythat has helped you develop this type of
a programming for the people that youwork with. Yes, great question,
one hundred percent. And it's mainlyworking with different cultures. So working with
such diverse cultures. Also myself,my father's African American and my mother's German,
so as a child, I grewup in Germany, so being around
the German culture, being around differentpeople. I realize that military brats,

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which are just kids that have militaryparents, they're more open minded only because
they traveled or they've been around somany people that once they come back to
America or wherever they're at, theycan click with anyone so easily because they're
so used to it. So I'mbringing that up because being mixed, being
military and just living in different places, and also like my own childhood trauma,

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I was just always that quiet kidreading the room. I would just
absorb, absorb, and the olderI got, I could just speak to
people at a different level because Irealized that everybody that's been through trauma,
what you were not getting as achild you give to others. I was
not getting the love and support asa child or teenager. So that's why
I give it so much opposed tocontinuing the negative cycle. So that's why

(01:02:45):
I challenge people to do, islike what were you not getting as a
child or teen And usually we're searchingfor that in people when we should actually
give that thing to others. Sothat is ultimately like what got me into
the path because drugs and alcohol runboth sides of my family, and I
was just on the physical, verbal, mental brunt of it for most of
my life. But I was alwayscalm and they're like, how are you

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so calm? But I would justwork out and just try to help others
instead of just being angry. Yeah. So do you find that the exercise
piece is sort of central to yourprogram or is it now sort of a
partnership between the mental and the physical. It's definitely a fifty to fifty partnership
because an example, some athletes thatI work with, they're amazing in sports

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physicality, they do marathons, theyhave the local five k, whatever they
want to do, but maybe mentallythey're lacking in public speaking confidence or social
settings, and then on the flipside, the person they love the social
settings, but they don't know whatto do in the gym. So I
see a fifty to fifty based onthe person because once we can get them
in alignment with their goals, theirmind, their body, and to give

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them their power where they're like thelight bulbs are going off, they have
the clarity. That's my whole intentwith anybody to give them clarity, like
I'm not the kedo guy, I'mnot the liver king guy, I'm not
this. I'm just is your schedule? What is something we can get rid
of, learn about their upbringing andall that, and then we tailor it
to that person. So nothing isjust like a one size fit all.
But the whole intent is to breakthose patterns that aren't serving them and they

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get rid of those things and itusually stems I go back to bullying a
lot, and you mentioned it earlier. Bullying is a huge thing because that
can dictate why people have a lotof eating disorders. Yes, there's other
medical things, but in that person'smind, they might still feel like that
heavy twelve year old and dad andaunt talk to them a certain way and
they carry that with them. Soeven if they do lose weight in their

(01:04:34):
brain, there's still that twelve yearold obeskid no matter how many roundab applauses
they get from people. So wereally identify that and give them their power
back because the powers within us,we're just overshadowed by stress, mindless scrolling,
or whatever else is going on.So that's a good point. I
do want to pivot to doctor Radcoldthough, because this is in your wheelhouse.

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So do you have anything that youwanted to ask or contribute, Derek,
just hit the nail on the headif you don't address all the patterns
that come about, because we heara lot of excuses, but you're looking
at, you know, reframing that, you know, where, what can
you do because a lot of peopletell you what they can't do and they're
not being empowered. So and that'sour job is to coach them to be

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empowered. And just to add tothat, mindless scrolling they actually found in
high performance. There's studies that havebeen done that if you scroll within the
first thirty minutes of wakening, yourperformance goes down. So you should at
least not scroll for that yourself.Okay, And one of the things I
was going to say about entrepreneurs isprioritize yourself, and what I do is

(01:05:38):
and what helped me through the pandemicwas I really had to shut out the
noise and focus on taking care ofmyself first. And one of the talks
I give is moms, put youroxygen mask on first. But that's it
should be. Everyone put your oxygenmask on first. And what I do
at home is what I do here, and how I eat at home is
typically help, you know, Andso that's how I stay healthy because I'm

(01:05:58):
keeping similar routines and that if Ihave a busy day, I might be
just taking ten brass in the morningand reflecting on what I'm grateful for and
instead of hitting this news, lookingat what's that joy I'm going to find
today. I started Friday Funday awhile back, and it really initially involved
taking my daughter out after school andso we just walk around, get a
tea and was nothing big, spendtime together. But I'm like, hey,

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why don't we make every day afun day? So, Derek Johnson,
I wanted to get back to somethingthat you had to say, and
that was people tend to kind oflose some of the training over a period
of time, and you feel thatthis approach helps to keep them on track,
So maybe you could talk a littlebit more about that. So the

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whole intense is to give somebody longterm results. I'm not the sixty day
tred guy or the five week bootcamp and all that. Those things do
work, but it's not going togive somebody long term results because usually that
extreme training or eating, they can'tsustain that more than one or two months,
and after that they jump to thenext thing. So we look at
is their current life career, ifthey're a mother or father, or if
they're not. We look at everything, and longevity is the key to give

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them their power back in terms ofmental health and physical health, so they
can live a better life than thrive. So when they do get stress from
life, from work, from whateverhappens in the world, they're proactive because
they took care of themselves. Becausewhen we're selfish, it's not selfish,
we're selfless. So like my example, I wake up early every morning to

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have an hour or two hours ofmyself. I work out, spend time
my girlfriend, my dog, resetmy mind, and then I could speak
to anybody because the rest of theday, I'm just calm and controlled.
But the intent is to be proactivein your morning. We've all done it.
We've hit snows five times, stressand anxiety goes up. Everyone on
that moment needs you, emails,text calls. You're like, can I
get ten minutes of myself? Sowe just try to have a proactive morning

(01:07:50):
to take control. But everything islongevity. The more AHA moments and clarity
that they have, the more they'relike, that's why I did that.
In relationships, that's why couldn't publicspeak whatever it was. The more moments
they have of that long term,they make better progress and better results.
So do your clients find these momentsthemselves or do you help unlock them?

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We work together, so essentially wedo two things. One I have a
private coaching app which is all fitnessnutrition, and two we do zoom calls
or if we live in the samearea, we do it in person and
on the zoom calls or conversations.That's where the quote unquote magic happens.
Because we dive deep into the topics. You can usually read the person.
So an example could be Susie.Susie's overwhelmed and I can tell so today's

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topic is irrelevant. She just needsto vent, And as a coach reading
that person, she's not going toabsorb the information of today's topic. So
I'll let her vent for twenty minutesand they say, you feel good?
How long do you want to feelthis way? She's like five minutes and
we release it. We go fromthere, and after she released, she's
open to absorb the next information.So it's more so looking at that person

(01:08:54):
where they're at to assess the situation, opposed to just saying, well,
today this was on the agenda.It's like, no, they're human and
I'm human. Identify where they're at, and then go a different approach.
So approaching it that way, it'sa it's a fifty to fifty. We
meet each other in the middle andthey're like, wow, nobody really let
me rants. And sometimes this goesfor anybody. We just actively have to
listen because every human just wants twothings. We want to be heard and

(01:09:16):
understood. Heard and understood. Familyusually doesn't do it. Friends sometimes don't
do it because they're busy texting andscrolling. Oh yeah, yeah, I
was listening, So what was yourreading of me? As I was inhaling
a plate of macaroni and cheese andwalking around. I forgot you were a
fitness person by that. I'm like, oh my god, I just dawned
on me that I did that.So hopefully you weren't chudging me because I
do work out, and I onlywork out so I could eat. I

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wasn't judging. I don't know yourroutine. I can't believe I did that,
but it's okay. So what areyour plans for the future and building
your practice and what is it thatyou want to accomplish in twenty twenty four?
Not even to put nine percent ofthe business is online, so I
have a coaching app and then I'lldo all the calls on Zoom. But
in twenty twenty four, it's tobring to in person workshops and master minds

(01:10:00):
to it, and not a pitchfest. So we've all paid for a
ticket before and we want to learnthat one thing. But then we got
a level up to the Diamond packageand the Gold package, and you're like,
how many packages do I got togive before I learned that thing?
Nothing like that. It's a threeday thing. Day one, we go
hiking to the top of a mountain, and we release trauma. We're at
the top, we do breathing exercises, we move the body, a lot

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of natural modalities, no drugs oranything. But basically, imagine twenty to
one hundred people hiking up a mountaintogether and we're not climbing it. We're
just hiking pushing each other. Youget to the top and we have this
level of energy, we're proud ofeach other. And then from there we
start to build up. Somebody mightneed to release tears, which is totally
fine to cry for a couple ofminutes. Somebody else might just need to

(01:10:43):
yell. Somebody else is excited.But imagine all those people at the top.
Then from there we walk down.The rest of the day, we
have some food and all that.Day two that's where we dive deep.
And the reason this is so effectiveis because we've already embraced the suck.
We say this an army. Weembrace the suck together, meaning we hiked
up it. His back was hurting, we helped her. So day two
we dive deep into their traumas onwhat they want to get rid of.

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And then day three we have funto have camaraderie, but they all go
home with tools that they can uselong term. There's not like another level
or package, So it's the teamaspect in person. Again, that sounds
great. I think a lot ofpeople would benefit from that, and it
sounds like it could be really motivating. What else do you have in store
for twenty twenty four? Honestly,just continuously getting better as a person and

(01:11:29):
as a coach so I can helppeople in a deeper way. Because anytime
that I learned something new that canhelp somebody, even if it's a stranger,
not just a client, I'm excitedto tell them because I can sense
where they're at and they're like,thank you. That's that one golden nugget
that I needed. So just givingpeople that because I know what it feels
and not have that, So againI feel like we just give what we
didn't receive as a child, orwe continue the negative paths. That's good,

(01:11:49):
Derek. Where can people find you? People can find me on social
media Fit with Derek two the numbertwo and that's d r Ick. The
only right way to spell Derek fitwith Derek too, or on my website
is fit with Derek dot com Onthere. I'd just like to show real
people with real results. So picturesand videos they tell their story and it's

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not just fitness, but I loveshowing the videos so they can sense the
person's calmness, confidence and so likefrom the outside they just see the fit
military gobble. When they see thepeople are like wow. We focus on
deep trauma and that's what it's about. So going from just surviving to thriving.
Derek Johnson, thanks for joining us, and you're listening to Passage to

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retrospective. Noah Feischman is our producerhere at Passage to Profit, and he
has a way of putting his bestmemories in perspective. When they said,
and the little child shall lead them, they didn't mean that of a parking
lot after a concert at a symphonyhall. But fifty years ago, that's
exactly what this child did with hismother and his aunt, the Reluctant Disciples.

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You know, it's great that theyhave that invention that Nick's the car
blink and make noise at a distancewhen you're looking for it in a parking
lot full of cars that look alike. But back then you really didn't need
that in order to find a snowwhite Bublic Electra two twenty five parked in
between a brown Chevy Nova and agreen Bolkswagon. But for the light for
them, neither one of these twowomen could actually see it. Only this
kid did. And it took twowalking circles around that parking lot for me

(01:14:19):
to get their attention while they weretelling me, will you be quiet,
we're looking for the car. UltimatelyI did get their attention, and we
boarded and shoved off and not anotherword was said about it, Thank goodness.
It was kind of worrisome. Imean, could they have lost me
that easily? Well, when westopped off on the way home and went
to the store, I got outof the car and went in with them.

(01:14:40):
I certainly wasn't going to wait inthe car. Now more, with
Richard and Elizabeth passage to profit Kenya, I think that this was just an
amazing show in so many ways,wasn't it? That's fun? We had
a really good conversation. So itis now time for the question. And
so Elizabeth always asks everybody on theshow at the end end of the show
a question, all right, andI'll see if I can do it as

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well as she does. What personinspired you the most in your life?
And why? Doctor Raika? Whatabout you? What's your most inspiring person?
If I had to pick one personand be my mom, she just
got things done. And more importantly, she just showed up every time that
I needed or she just showed up, Cecilia, I'm gonna say my mom.

(01:15:25):
She worked hard and she persevered.What I got from my mom was
her bad language. So you guys, did she spoke her mind? And
I think I do too, SoI think I got a lot of that
from my mom. For me,this is naima. I would say what
inspires me and people who have inspiredme are number one. People who have
always told me that maybe I'm notgood enough or maybe I can't do something.

(01:15:48):
I still remember when I was completingmy PhD, I told my professor
I'm getting ready to go to Vegasfor the weekend. He was like,
well, when you get back,you neat the buckle down. I don't
think you can travel and be adoctoral student. And I kept traveling the
entire time while I completed my PhD. So that inspired me because he thought
I couldn't do it right. Whata grouch, I mean exactly. So

(01:16:15):
people like that what inspires me.And also, of course my mother inspires
me because and I'm grateful to behere with her today. She really continues
to inspire me, even sometimes whenI think I can't do something. I
was at, you know, ina room with a lot of like you
know, say, big people intown, and I was like, oh
my god, I can't believe I'min this room and my mother. I'm
not going to use her profound words, but in her playing words, she's

(01:16:36):
like, you know, you poppingsis, And she tells me, I'm
popping to be in a room withyou know, these big dignitaries who I
was with. So, you know, it's grateful that she always inspires me
and continues to push me to begreat and to do better in the world.
That's really nice, Derek, Iwould say Tony Robbins. When I
was eleven years old, that's whena lot of trauma started happening with family,

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like drunk parents screaming rage and allthat, and I'm driving in the
backseat of my dad's car and hehad the cassette tapes and Tony Robbins quote
and I'm eleven hearing this, butI'm just so beminded because you see a
lot of wild stuff. And hesaid, if my mother gave me the
love that I wanted as a child, I wouldn't be the man I am
today. And I'm eleven hearing this, and I was like getting chills.
Tell my friends, like, whatare you talking about? And then I
learned more about him, and Iwas like, I want to do that.

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Yeah, he's a powerful guy.I met him once on an elevator.
He was just in the hallway andI was like, oh my god.
And he has that presence to himlike he was a big guy,
but even just his whole spirit waslike he's big in the spirit too.
Interesting. Doctor Raka is publishing anew book, Energized, Feel Fantastic Forever,
And we had Cecilia and Naima Rexwith the ABC's of Empowerment and they're

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a dynamic duo bringing a lot ofpositive energy and positive messages to the world.
And you can find their book onAmazon, and after them, we
had Derek Johnson, a very inspiringyoung man who helps people figure things out
both emotionally and physically, and he'llhelp you live at the next level.

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