March 7, 2024 • 36 mins
Discover the transformative journey of Mime Vega, as she shares her fascinating pivot from NASA computer scientist to a naturopathic herbalist and holistic healer. Mime's story is one of resilience, a testament to following one's passion for natural health while juggling the duties of homeschooling nine children. This episode promises to reveal how she dealt with health challenges and the stresses of entrepreneurship, and embraced a lifestyle that exemplifies independence and empowerment in both wellness and business.
Join us and be inspired by Mime's commitment to living out her beliefs, even in the face of skepticism. Her passion for natural remedies over traditional pharmaceuticals, and her insights into the role of community support, shine a light on the importance of remaining focused on one's goals. Mime's experiences serve as a powerful reminder of the impact of a supportive network and the significance of filtering negativity to maintain clarity on our paths.
Tune in as Mime Vega extends an invitation to fearlessly explore the world of holistic healing with her Aruka Holistic Life Academy, and shares the importance of knowledge for leading a healthier, more empowered existence. Her story is not just an anecdote of personal transformation—it's a guide for anyone looking to blend the values of self-sufficiency and holistic practices into their life and work, encouraging continuous learning and growth. Share this episode with those in search of inspiration on their journey to holistic health and entrepreneurship.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/night-beat-media-living-the-dream--2752105/support.
Join us and be inspired by Mime's commitment to living out her beliefs, even in the face of skepticism. Her passion for natural remedies over traditional pharmaceuticals, and her insights into the role of community support, shine a light on the importance of remaining focused on one's goals. Mime's experiences serve as a powerful reminder of the impact of a supportive network and the significance of filtering negativity to maintain clarity on our paths.
Tune in as Mime Vega extends an invitation to fearlessly explore the world of holistic healing with her Aruka Holistic Life Academy, and shares the importance of knowledge for leading a healthier, more empowered existence. Her story is not just an anecdote of personal transformation—it's a guide for anyone looking to blend the values of self-sufficiency and holistic practices into their life and work, encouraging continuous learning and growth. Share this episode with those in search of inspiration on their journey to holistic health and entrepreneurship.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/night-beat-media-living-the-dream--2752105/support.
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Welcome to night Beat Media's Living theDream podcast with your host Gregory Tucker,
where we discussed the entrepreneur's journey ofturning a dream into reality, showing you
how to learn, overcome, andacquire strategic action steps. If you're ready
to turn your dream into a reality, then get ready to take action.
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Here's your host, Gregory Tucker.Today we have a truly remarkable guests joining
us. Her journey from a debilitatingmigraines to becoming a beacon of hoastic health
and healing is nothing short of inspiring. My Vegas story is one of Resilien's
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determination and unwavering belief in the powerof holistic healing. She's here to share
her incredible journey and the transformative impactof holistic practices that have helped her not
only conquer her health challenges, butalso empower countless others to do the same.
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So sit back, relax, getready to be inspired as we dwell
into the world of holistic health andliving the Dream with our extraordinary guests,
Mime Vega. Stay tuned for enlighteningconversation that may just change your life mine.
Thank you for joining us here.Hellonchlan, Gregory, thank you so
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much for having me. It's anhonor to be here. Thank you.
And what we always like to askour guests is tell us about yourself.
Well, just some like little facts. I am. I am a Jewish
homeschool mom of nine. I've givenbirth to seven of my own and to
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kind of inherited slash adopted. AndI'm a holistic healer. And I empower
people to become the healers of theirhome, their family, and their community
without the need for pharmaceutical drugs,or hospitals, or doctors or even dentists.
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Today, this show is really aboutyou name and about your journey.
Now. Your journey from being aNASA computer scientist to a naturopathic herbalist and
holistic practitioner is incredibly fascinating. Canyou share the pivotal moment or the experience
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that inspired you to take the dermanehad a shift in your career path?
Yeah? Yeah, this wasn't likesomething that I ever thought I would be.
Like you know when when they askchildren like, oh, what do
you want to be when you grewup? I never never wanted anything to
do with the medical or health field. I was like, I want to
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be I wanted to be a computerscientist, and that's that's what I did
become. For a while, Imajored in computer science and I became a
computer scientist at the NASA Ames ResearchCenter in Moffett Field, California. And
it's nine to eleven today. Iwas actually working at NASA when nine to
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eleven happened, and they sent ushome early because of the tragedy, since
you know, I was at agovernment facility. They I guess they probably
let everyone home early that was workingfor the government, at least at NASA
at that time. But anyways,and then I got married in two thousand
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and three, and then nine monthslater, in November, I had my
first child, and I was onmaternity leave, and I was thinking about
how I didn't want to go backto work and that I wanted to be
with my baby and I wanted toraise him, and I didn't want to
put him in you know, daycarewhile I was working. We had a
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really nice staycare center right next toNASA actually, and I could even like
visit him during lunches and stuff likethat and go back to work, but
I didn't. I just really didn'twant to do that, and so I
told my husband that I wanted tostay home, and so what I decided
to do is I decided to basicallydo start my own online business, working
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from home, doing digital marketing,you know, making websites for people,
helping them get their business businesses online, which you know, it's part of
It's not exactly what I did atcomputer science. I mean at at NASA
as a computer scientist, but itwas still computer related, right, so
I could do it. I hadthe skill to do it. And so
then as I was growing my business, and then I had my second child,
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first had a son, and thenI had a daughter, and I
was like, you know, Iwas already living the dream I felt,
you know, I I was ableto surpass my income at NASA, you
know, and make way more thanyou know I made at that time,
probably way more than they would probablyever pay me. You know, I'm
not saying that. I mean,I just I just, you know,
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I broke those ceilings. Let's say, let's just say that faster than I
would ever have in a normal ata normal job, you know what I
mean, even as a computer scientist, even as a programmer. But as
I was trying to grow my business, I mean, I don't know,
you must know, right, Likeit can be very stressful, and you
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know, you don't have that steadypaycheck every two weeks or you know whatever
every four weeks, two weeks whatever. You you know, it's like it's
like being a farmer where you haveto like you have to sew and then
you have to wait a long time, and sometimes the bugs come and eat
up all your crops, or sometimesthere's no rain, you know, or
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something you just don't know what's goingto happen. And so farmers, you
know, there's you know, throughouthistory, farmers have always relied on God
right to bring the rain and alwayslike pray, like like in the Jewish
culture, like a lot of ourprayers have to do with bringing the rain
because we know how important that isfor our food supply. Well. Being
an entrepreneur, it's like it's verymuch like that, you know, where
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it's like you don't you have toI feel like you have to heavily rely
on God and yourself. You haveto rely on God because well, I
mean, you can work as hardas you can, but misfortune will always
happen, right, And you alsohave to rely on yourself because you've got
to do that work. You've gotto put in even though you don't have
to work nine to five, youstill have to put in those hours and
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work hard and serve people and youknow, create value in the world in
order to make money. But theuncertainty of everything was very stressful and sometimes
working with, you know, peoplewho were hard to work with, people
who didn't understand your culture maybe orthe way you do things and didn't like
it. And you know, justthings are tough sometimes, right, And
so it caused me a lot ofstress. And I started getting terrible migraines,
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and you know, as you said, I thought I was going to
die when I you know, theyjust started getting worse and worse and worse
as time went on, and Ithought, man, there's something wrong with
me. Like the tile and allthe etceterrin, all those things, I
just they stopped working. And sothis one day, my headaches were so
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bad that I just told my husbandto bring me to the emergency room because
I felt like I was going todie. I was just in so much
pain. I had already given birthto two children, and the pain that
I was feeling was way worse thaneven childbirth. So take me to the
hospital, and they ran a wholebunch of tests and asked me a bunch
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of questions, and then they calledme up finally after hours and they're like,
you know, we can't can't figureout, we can't buying anything wrong
with you, but the doctor wantsto talk to you. So I'm like,
okay. So I went to gotalk to the doctor and she was
basically like, well, we wantto roll out the possibility of a tumor,
so we'd like to give you acap scan. But it was very
expensive and we didn't even have insurance, so she wanted to clear the expense
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with me first, and she toldme it was two thousand dollars, but
it ended up being four thousand dollars. I'm sure today it'd be I don't
know, maybe like twenty thousand dollars. You know, it'd probably be,
you know, a crazy amount thatmost people couldn't afford, you know.
But so I'm like, well,I think I'm gonna die, So what's
four thousand dollars. Let's go aheadand get that test. And so I
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got the test and she said,well, good news, there's nothing wrong
with you. You just have areally bad headache. Here's some valuum.
So I was like, what,like, what I just spent thousands of
dollars and how much did you spendon your college education to become a doctor,
And how much money did people spendto build this hospital and staff all
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these people and all this expensive equipment. And you're telling me there's nothing wrong
with me. There's obviously something wrongwith me if I'm an excruciating pain and
I think I'm gonna die, like, there's something wrong here. And that
wasn't the first time that I hada major disappointment with the modern medical system,
but that was the final straw withme. I was like, this
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is ridiculous. These people don't knowwhat I'm doing, what they're doing.
I need to take charge of myown health and healing. And so that's
when I started doing my own studiesand I found I found my cure.
And you know, there were thingsthat I was able to do very quickly.
For example, I was able totake certain supplements, you know,
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vitamins for like short term relief.But then I found out that the root
cause was number one, my diet. I was on a vegetarian almost vegan
diet, and that depleted my bodyof B twelve mostly and this depletion of
B twelve was also due to allthe stress that was caused by by my
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entrepreneurship journey. And so the curefor me in that situation was number one,
take B twelve, you know.And there's some other herbs that helped
to support me as well, butthat was one of the main things.
Is just take B twelve and itwas like it worked better than tile and
all work better than the valume thatthe doctor gave me. And you know,
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get more sleep, you know,no more like you know, quit
burning the midnight lamp because your healthis more important than your business. And
number three, stop trying to bevegetarian. You know, they talk about
how healthy being vegetarian or vegan is, but it's not for everyone, and
it's not for every and it mightbe good for some people at a certain
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point in their life, which itwas for me. It helped me with
certain issues and a certain point inmy life. But as I you know,
as I needed different things in thatstage of my life, I needed
to eat meat. And I learnedthat my B twelve deficiency was caused by
my vegetarian diet and near almost vegandiet, and so I had to stop
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that. I had to start starteating more dairy and eggs and fish.
I still wasn't eating like red meator chicken very much, but I ate
a lot of animal products still,and that helped me as well. And
I was like, this is awesome, Like I can do this and I
don't need a doctor. I needto. I need to I need to
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really tap into this, you know, like I could have saved myself four
thousand dollars had I known all thesethings prior. And so I was like,
I'm going to invest I'm going toinvest in myself and I'm going to
learn the art of holistic health andhealing. So I studied nutrition, I
studied herbalism, I studied orthomolecular nutrition, I studied life coaching. I studied
all these different healing modalities. Youknow. Now it's how many years,
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twenty years later, I can happilysay that I have raised my children.
And back then I only had twowhen I started this journey. Now you
know, I have nine, andwe don't. I don't take them to
see doctors or we don't. Youknow, they don't They've never taken over
the counter antibiotics, They've never beeninjected with anything. Everything that has any
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problem that has ever come our way, we have been able to deal with
it with herbs, nutrition, youknow, supplements, rest, you know,
sunshine, getting rid of negative thoughts, you know, all sorts of
holistic things. And I'm teaching people. I'm coaching people, and I have
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students who are already in the medicalfield, like you know, doctors and
nurses, And even had a dentistcontact me and she's like, how do
you how do you avoid dentists?You know, like I'm a dentist.
I want to know how you doit. So it's awesome, it's it's
and it's so empowering, you know, it's so empowering to be like to
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understand what our bodies need and tohave that kind of knowledge. It's part
intuition, like I believe that everyonehas an inner healer inside of them,
right, and then it's also partknowledge. You have to you have to
you know, you intuitively know certainthings, but then you have to back
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that up also with understand understanding what'savailable in the world in terms of you
know, what's out there in creation, what's out what kind of herbs are
there what kind of food does whatto your body? And what kind of
vitamins and supplements you know, dothis and that to your body. And
you know, vitamins and supplements theymight not be super natural like herbs and
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food are are, but they're naturalin terms of your body knows what to
do with them, and they don'thave crazy side effects like pharmaceutical drugs too.
So for example, if I hada friend over and they took some
kind of drug for their blood pressure, for example, and they lost one
of their pills in my house,I'd be like, you need to find
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that pill, because if one ofmy babies found that on the you know,
on the floor and accidentally consumed it, I would have to rush them
to the hospital. You know thatthat could be severe poisoning. But if
I drop, you know, ifI drop some herbs on the floor,
even if they accidentally you know,eat it, first of all, it'd
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be pretty nasty if they stuck someyou know, dry herbs in their mouth
they just spit it out. Anyways, Well, let's say they you know,
they they you know, stuck avitamin C pill in their mouth.
Oh well, the worst that canhappen, they'll get diarrhea, that's no
big deal. I know how todeal with that. You know. The
the best thing that can happen isthat they'll boost their immune system because they've
just taken some vitamin C, youknow. So it's so safe, it's
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so natural to our bodies, andit's so amazing, and we are kept
so much in the dark in regardsto these very simple, holistic natural remedies.
It's it's amazing. I'm not aconspiracy theorist. I'm a conspiracy realist.
They want us, they want usto have jobs. They don't want
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us to be independent. They don'twant us to be financially free. They
don't want us to be free ofthe need for the medical system. They
want us to be dependent on everyevery single system they've concocted, you know
what I mean. And I justlove freedom. That's why I love entrepreneurship.
That's why I love holistic health.That's why a homeschool, you know,
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because I want my I want toteach my children what I think is
important. You know, Like howlong do they study history and they don't
even study correct history sometimes, orthe kind of history that matters to me
sometimes, you know, Or howmuch How much do they How much do
our children study science in public school? Yet they don't know the science of
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their own bodies and how to healthemselves. Like why why should we spend
twelve years of their time studying sciencethat will not be personally intimately beneficial to
them their own health and healing.So that's what my you know, my
my own student, My own childrenare also students in my in my certification
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program, not just you know otherpeople. So with that and said,
when family members or when some ofyour ex colleague found that you left NASA's
computer science program and started pursuing acareer in health, were there any pushback?
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Do you get anything from you ora colleague or as pushback? It
doesn't matter whether they thought so itwas appropriate for you because you did something
that you felt you needed to do. But I just wanted to give you
a chance to say something to thateffect because someone else out there maybe experiencing
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the same thing and that is gettingready to make that transition and they may
fall to pressure. So what wouldyou First of all, I didn't,
So this isn't network marketing, youknow, Like I'm not trying to push
anything on anyone but primarily, youknow, I tried to live my life
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as an example to other people asto what is healthy. And of course
I'm i'm you know, because i'ma because I'm a business woman, because
i'm a business owner, I'm aI'm all always promoting the things that I
believe in. So whether it's youknow, an herbal formula or you know,
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vitamin or supplement. And at firstpeople are just kind of you know,
I'm not pushy, but you know, I'm out there, I'm emailing
people, I'm on social media sayingthis and that and whatever. And probably
in the beginning people were like,hmm, you know, they're just kind
of curious, but you know,no one was disrespectful. And if they're.
If I ever do have people inmy circle that are disrespectful, I
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just cut them out. I mean, like, seriously, life is too
short to worry about your haters.I mean, there are plenty of people
that love me. I don't needto worry about people who who hate me
or who hate what I do.I really don't. I really don't.
And as far as family members go, I've even blocked family members. I'm
like, you're gonna you're gonna hateon the things that I'm talking about.
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Block on Facebook, like you're stillmy family. You know, when I
go see you for a holiday,I will love you, i will greet
you, i will serve you someyou know, delicious home cooked food.
But I'm not going to let youhate on me in public or on social
media. We choose our friends,we choose our circle. And that's you
know, any entrepreneur because most mostentrepreneurs, they start out as solopreneurs.
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Right. You don't start out witha big team and an advisory board and
you know all that, you're justyourself. So you really it's really really
important to dig into a support systemwhere that is going to support you in
your business and in your goals.One of them would be podcasts like yours,
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right, podcasts like yours that arehelping people, encouraging people, and
where people can get to, youknow, hear different people's stories who are
making it, you know, andwho are succeeding in their in their goals
and in their dreams. That's soimportant. Your service is so important.
And it's free. That's amazing,you know, like it's apps free,
you can just log onto your podcast. That's huge. The value that that
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podcasters give I mean like and thenof course, then there's you know,
then there's the higher levels of support, like joining a coaching program or having
a one on one coach. Ofcourse, having good friends that are also
entrepreneurs and understand that's also extremely valuable. And I do have some friends like
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that, but I think it's veryhard to find people like that, like
just around your neighborhood, you know, like those kinds of in person friends
that understand your entrepreneurial journey. They'revery hard to find unless you join like
a group. There's some like businessgroups where it's like a business referral group.
Those kinds of groups can be supportive. But you know, with me,
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because of my children and the factthat I homeschool, I'm not really
able to leave home a lot unlessit's with my children. So so I
rely on things like podcasts, andI also have you know, I also
have a coach. I have.I have a life coach. I've had
several life coaches, you know,throughout my throughout my journey, but one
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on one life coaching is also extremelyvaluable. I believe that's one of the
reason why I became a life coach. I think having a life coach is
valuable for for for an entrepreneur becauseyou know it can help them. A
life coach can help them with theirgoals, with their mindset, it can
help them with healing, it canhelp them with the relationships, you know,
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all sorts of things. A lifecoach is just help. A life
coach will help you tap into theknowledge that is within you. And the
reason I brought that up regarding theinput from people who are within our circle
or our sphere of influence, andsometimes they may not intentionally mean it,
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but it may be something that theymay say that could derail or send you
into a negative frame of mind orthought process right there, because the journey,
it's not one of those fairy talesor a story book stories that a
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lot of times we will come intothose storms and we have to solve those
problems. So, as you hadmentioned, having a coach, someone that
can help you or well, they'renot going to do the work for you,
but they can help or guide youthrough those storms, and they also
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help you come to find solutions toa lot of the problems that you may
be facing right there, because they'recontinuously changing and you're never too old to
learn something that could improve your liferight there now. Yeah, and also
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like that whole iron sharpens iron,like you know, learning from other people
and their experiences. Oh yes,some of the things that you were doing
prior to becoming a coach, theywere transferable far as to your business.
Right now, what are some ofthe skill sets that you found to be
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really invaluable first in your business?As a computer scientist, I was very
experimental. So I was a scientist, right So even though you know my
sciences with computers, there's still manyexperiments that can be done with computers,
and so, you know, andI wanted to accomplish a certain task,
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I would think about, you know, how do I do this? And
then I test it, and thenI see if it works, and if
it doesn't work, I go back. I went back, you know,
step by step, and I said, hmm, it failed. Let me
let me change this, And verymethodically, I would trace back my steps
and adjust things one at a timeuntil I built a until I built a
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piece of software or an application ora function that did what I wanted it
to do. And I didn't relyon anyone else. I did it right.
And that's how I approach my healthas well. That's how I approach
health and healing, and that's howI teach my students to do. I
say, look it. If youwant to be healthy, you need to
look at all these things. One, two, three, four, fivesent
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you know, these are the things. Lay them out. Are you doing
this? Are you doing this?Are you doing this? Is it working
yet? Is it working yet?It's not working? Well? What aren't
you doing? You know? Andwe and we look at it. So,
for example, my daughter was agreat example. She was getting really
bad migraines, right, and sowe're like, okay, great, so
easy fix coffee. Coffee, Okay, coffee, let's drink coffee. It
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fixed it for a while. Okay, it's still coming. They're still coming.
The coffee isn't working anymore. Okay, what do we do. Let's
try juicing. Okay, let's tryjuicing, vegetable juicing. So she started
juicing juicing like every few days.She's like, yeah, that that helps.
That helps. And then but theystill kept coming back, right,
They helped, but they didn't makethem go away completely. And then for
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my other daughter, she was startedhaving tummy problems, right, so I
was like, hmm, let's try, let's experiment. I said, let's
try cutting out gluten, and shewas you know, she's young, so
it's really hard for a child tohave self control. So I had to
just stop buying gluten, no moregluten in the house so that she could
be gluten free, even though therest of us were fine, and she
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her tummy improved with going gluten free. And my other daughter, who had
migraines, also stopped having migraines becauseshe stopped eating gluten. That wasn't even
that wasn't even one of the thingswe had considered trying. We were trying
other things, you know, differentsupplements and herbs and stuff like that.
But once she finally cut out gluten, she also was healed of her migraines.
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So my older daughter was healed ofher migraines, my younger daughter was
healed of her tummy aches, allby going gluten free. So we're very
experimental like that. But how wouldI even know, How would I even
know to experiment with vegetable juicing,How would I even know to experiment with
going gluten free. It's because Istudied and same thing when I was at
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NASA, when I was a computerprogrammer. I would devote about one hour
out of the eight hour workday everyday learning reading, learning more about the
programming languages and different tools and methodsthat computer scientists and computer programmers used.
So there always has to be thisever cycle of learning and learning and learning
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because there's always new things coming out. No matter what your business is,
you have to keep developing yourself personallywith the education. Knowledge is power,
So knowledge, you know, keepkeep increasing your knowledge number one and number
two, don't be afraid to experimentwith things. And did you have a
mentor along your journey in the beginning, No, not really, I had
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some, I mean for computer whenI became when I was becoming a computer
science a computer scientist, I hadsome really brilliant teachers I had. I
had a teacher who he kind ofmumbled and like his hair was like never
combed, and his shoes talked andhe just like wore like a T shirt
and jeans, and he was thehead of the computer science like department,
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and it's like, wow, hejust he looks like a bum. But
when so and you could, likemost people like fell asleep in class,
and I was like, I'm gonnaI can't hear him. So I'm gonna
I'm gonna sit in the front ofthe of the room. I'm gonna listen
him very carefully. And you knowwhat, he was brilliant. He was
brilliant. I got more from hislectures than I did studying on my own.
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You know, he just knew everythingdeeper than than textbooks would would would
would teach us. And so thatwas extremely valuable. So I didn't have
like you know I had. Ihad a really great teacher, and I
think that you know, I dohave like you know I do. Uh
use life coaches right now, whoyou know function also as a business coach
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for me. You know, they'retrained in business coaching, life coaching,
you know, different kinds of coaches. But you know, for someone that
doesn't have the budget for that yet, there are a lot of like I
said, free information or courses andprograms that can help you achieve like anything
and everything. Really, there's alsoa lot of books on audible dot Com
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that you know, a book islike condensed, you know, wisdom,
years of wisdom condensed into you know, just a few pages. Books are
so awesome and you know, withan audible dot Com book, you can
just listen to it while you're inthe car, while you're cooking and cleaning.
I mean, it's just great,all the amazing knowledge that's available to
us these days. And that isso true. We live in an amazing
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time right now that we have anabundance of information. I think it's sometimes
it can be referred to as informationoverload, So it's how do you manage
all that information? Yeah, thoseare such good questions, you know what.
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And you know, I'm a religiousI'm a religious person. I'm I'm
a religious Jew, and so Ireally I have to just go back to
my faith in God. I believe, I have faith that God leads me
to the right sources, and you'reright, Like, for example, I
had I hadn't. I had ananother health crisis with hypothyroidism, and when
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I started researching the the condition,there were all sorts of opposing opinions and
one the one of the main supplementsthat I used was iodine. Iodine and
readox okay, and both of them, but especially iodine. There's so much
negative propaganda about iodine, saying thatit's very bad for your thyroid and it
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can make your condition worse and etcetera. Et cetera. And I was
like, wow, I could havebeen I could have been stuck in paralysis
had I not already had years ofexperience and study under very knowledgeable and effective
holistic healers. So I knew whatmy the people that I had already you
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know, learned to trust for yearswhat they said over the other voices in
the world. And I can't reallyattribute it to anything, but you know,
having taken the time to study allthose years and to find out what
worked and what didn't work. Soif if there is someone that I'm learning
from, whether it be in businessor health and healing or you know,
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anything and any any any avenue oflife, and you know, I know
that if I am listening to them, that I am seeing success, that
I am achieving my goals. Youknow, I'm getting the results that I
want. Then I then I tendto continue to trust in the knowledge that
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they give me. And you know, you'll have to balance that with your
own knowledge because sometimes even the differenthealers, the different herbalists and holistic doctors
that I that I do trust,sometimes they'll have conflicting information and you know
that just comes with experience. Andagain, like I said, having the
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willingness to experiment for yourself. Thisguy says this. This guy says that,
let's test it out. Let's testout doing this. Does it help
me? Do I feel good?Yes? So this is garbage. Just
find out. You just have tobe a scientist, you know, and
run your experiments. And that isactually really do your research. The bottom
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line right there is do your research. Now. The next thing we want
to talk about, and that isyour business. Your the name of your
business is a Ruka. Yeah,so that the website is Ruka dot com
a r u kh dot com andlike the full name is the Ruka Holistic
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Life Academy. When someone comes toyour website, you want to give us
a little insight on what they canexpect. Yes, so if someone comes
to my website, this this pageis basically designed to introduce them to the
Holisticular Certification Program and by way ofthis free course eight Secrets to become a
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Holistic Healer. And in that freecourse, basically you learn about the different
things that that that I teach inthe program, the different things that you'll
learn that have helped me to basically, you know, avoid doctors and be
able to heal myself and keep myfamily healthy naturally and uh so, yeah,
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so that's what this page is allabout. At the bottom is a
bunch of blog articles on different healthand healing topics. You get to scroll
a lot. It's just a lotof information. But so if you click
any of those buttons that you havejust scrolled past, it'll bring you to
a form where you just enter yourinformation and then you get access to the
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free eight Secrets to Become a HolisticHealer series that I created. A person
goes on their journey that they wantto find out more information, how do
they get in contact? Yes,so my website is a great place,
and my email also my Mataruka dotcom, m M A y I am
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at Uruka dot coma r ukh dotcom and you can, you know,
you can just email me if youhave any specific questions as well and fly.
And that is for those who arejust beginning your journey into holistic living
healing. What advice or first stepswould you recommend for them? Don't be
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afraid. Don't be afraid. There'sa lot of fear. There's a lot
of propaganda that that they put out, that people put out to make us
afraid. Of holistic remedies. Andthe truth is, as I said before,
the pharmaceutical drugs are deadlier than theholistic remedies. It's actually safer to
not do anything at all oftentimes thento take the pharmaceutical drugs. If you
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just slept more and exercise more anddrink more water, oftentimes you will be
better off. That's not a blanketstatement. And I'm not trying to you
know, take the place of yourdoctor and or anything like that. But
don't live in fear. Empower yourselfwith knowledge. Oh those are some powerful
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right there, and I think thatdefinitely is something profound. Don't live well.
Thank you, ma'am for sharing yourjourney with us, and we hope
to have you back and continue successand on your journey and living your dreams.
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Here's your host, Gregory Tucker.Today we have a truly remarkable guests joining
us. Her journey from a debilitatingmigraines to becoming a beacon of hoastic health
and healing is nothing short of inspiring. My Vegas story is one of Resilien's
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determination and unwavering belief in the powerof holistic healing. She's here to share
her incredible journey and the transformative impactof holistic practices that have helped her not
only conquer her health challenges, butalso empower countless others to do the same.
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So sit back, relax, getready to be inspired as we dwell
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Thank you for joining us here.Hellonchlan, Gregory, thank you so
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much for having me. It's anhonor to be here. Thank you.
And what we always like to askour guests is tell us about yourself.
Well, just some like little facts. I am. I am a Jewish
homeschool mom of nine. I've givenbirth to seven of my own and to
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kind of inherited slash adopted. AndI'm a holistic healer. And I empower
people to become the healers of theirhome, their family, and their community
without the need for pharmaceutical drugs,or hospitals, or doctors or even dentists.
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Today, this show is really aboutyou name and about your journey.
Now. Your journey from being aNASA computer scientist to a naturopathic herbalist and
holistic practitioner is incredibly fascinating. Canyou share the pivotal moment or the experience
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that inspired you to take the dermanehad a shift in your career path?
Yeah? Yeah, this wasn't likesomething that I ever thought I would be.
Like you know when when they askchildren like, oh, what do
you want to be when you grewup? I never never wanted anything to
do with the medical or health field. I was like, I want to
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be I wanted to be a computerscientist, and that's that's what I did
become. For a while, Imajored in computer science and I became a
computer scientist at the NASA Ames ResearchCenter in Moffett Field, California. And
it's nine to eleven today. Iwas actually working at NASA when nine to
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eleven happened, and they sent ushome early because of the tragedy, since
you know, I was at agovernment facility. They I guess they probably
let everyone home early that was workingfor the government, at least at NASA
at that time. But anyways,and then I got married in two thousand
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and three, and then nine monthslater, in November, I had my
first child, and I was onmaternity leave, and I was thinking about
how I didn't want to go backto work and that I wanted to be
with my baby and I wanted toraise him, and I didn't want to
put him in you know, daycarewhile I was working. We had a
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really nice staycare center right next toNASA actually, and I could even like
visit him during lunches and stuff likethat and go back to work, but
I didn't. I just really didn'twant to do that, and so I
told my husband that I wanted tostay home, and so what I decided
to do is I decided to basicallydo start my own online business, working
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from home, doing digital marketing,you know, making websites for people,
helping them get their business businesses online, which you know, it's part of
It's not exactly what I did atcomputer science. I mean at at NASA
as a computer scientist, but itwas still computer related, right, so
I could do it. I hadthe skill to do it. And so
then as I was growing my business, and then I had my second child,
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first had a son, and thenI had a daughter, and I
was like, you know, Iwas already living the dream I felt,
you know, I I was ableto surpass my income at NASA, you
know, and make way more thanyou know I made at that time,
probably way more than they would probablyever pay me. You know, I'm
not saying that. I mean,I just I just, you know,
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I broke those ceilings. Let's say, let's just say that faster than I
would ever have in a normal ata normal job, you know what I
mean, even as a computer scientist, even as a programmer. But as
I was trying to grow my business, I mean, I don't know,
you must know, right, Likeit can be very stressful, and you
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know, you don't have that steadypaycheck every two weeks or you know whatever
every four weeks, two weeks whatever. You you know, it's like it's
like being a farmer where you haveto like you have to sew and then
you have to wait a long time, and sometimes the bugs come and eat
up all your crops, or sometimesthere's no rain, you know, or
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something you just don't know what's goingto happen. And so farmers, you
know, there's you know, throughouthistory, farmers have always relied on God
right to bring the rain and alwayslike pray, like like in the Jewish
culture, like a lot of ourprayers have to do with bringing the rain
because we know how important that isfor our food supply. Well. Being
an entrepreneur, it's like it's verymuch like that, you know, where
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it's like you don't you have toI feel like you have to heavily rely
on God and yourself. You haveto rely on God because well, I
mean, you can work as hardas you can, but misfortune will always
happen, right, And you alsohave to rely on yourself because you've got
to do that work. You've gotto put in even though you don't have
to work nine to five, youstill have to put in those hours and
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work hard and serve people and youknow, create value in the world in
order to make money. But theuncertainty of everything was very stressful and sometimes
working with, you know, peoplewho were hard to work with, people
who didn't understand your culture maybe orthe way you do things and didn't like
it. And you know, justthings are tough sometimes, right, And
so it caused me a lot ofstress. And I started getting terrible migraines,
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and you know, as you said, I thought I was going to
die when I you know, theyjust started getting worse and worse and worse
as time went on, and Ithought, man, there's something wrong with
me. Like the tile and allthe etceterrin, all those things, I
just they stopped working. And sothis one day, my headaches were so
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bad that I just told my husbandto bring me to the emergency room because
I felt like I was going todie. I was just in so much
pain. I had already given birthto two children, and the pain that
I was feeling was way worse thaneven childbirth. So take me to the
hospital, and they ran a wholebunch of tests and asked me a bunch
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of questions, and then they calledme up finally after hours and they're like,
you know, we can't can't figureout, we can't buying anything wrong
with you, but the doctor wantsto talk to you. So I'm like,
okay. So I went to gotalk to the doctor and she was
basically like, well, we wantto roll out the possibility of a tumor,
so we'd like to give you acap scan. But it was very
expensive and we didn't even have insurance, so she wanted to clear the expense
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with me first, and she toldme it was two thousand dollars, but
it ended up being four thousand dollars. I'm sure today it'd be I don't
know, maybe like twenty thousand dollars. You know, it'd probably be,
you know, a crazy amount thatmost people couldn't afford, you know.
But so I'm like, well,I think I'm gonna die, So what's
four thousand dollars. Let's go aheadand get that test. And so I
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got the test and she said,well, good news, there's nothing wrong
with you. You just have areally bad headache. Here's some valuum.
So I was like, what,like, what I just spent thousands of
dollars and how much did you spendon your college education to become a doctor,
And how much money did people spendto build this hospital and staff all
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these people and all this expensive equipment. And you're telling me there's nothing wrong
with me. There's obviously something wrongwith me if I'm an excruciating pain and
I think I'm gonna die, like, there's something wrong here. And that
wasn't the first time that I hada major disappointment with the modern medical system,
but that was the final straw withme. I was like, this
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is ridiculous. These people don't knowwhat I'm doing, what they're doing.
I need to take charge of myown health and healing. And so that's
when I started doing my own studiesand I found I found my cure.
And you know, there were thingsthat I was able to do very quickly.
For example, I was able totake certain supplements, you know,
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vitamins for like short term relief.But then I found out that the root
cause was number one, my diet. I was on a vegetarian almost vegan
diet, and that depleted my bodyof B twelve mostly and this depletion of
B twelve was also due to allthe stress that was caused by by my
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entrepreneurship journey. And so the curefor me in that situation was number one,
take B twelve, you know.And there's some other herbs that helped
to support me as well, butthat was one of the main things.
Is just take B twelve and itwas like it worked better than tile and
all work better than the valume thatthe doctor gave me. And you know,
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get more sleep, you know,no more like you know, quit
burning the midnight lamp because your healthis more important than your business. And
number three, stop trying to bevegetarian. You know, they talk about
how healthy being vegetarian or vegan is, but it's not for everyone, and
it's not for every and it mightbe good for some people at a certain
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point in their life, which itwas for me. It helped me with
certain issues and a certain point inmy life. But as I you know,
as I needed different things in thatstage of my life, I needed
to eat meat. And I learnedthat my B twelve deficiency was caused by
my vegetarian diet and near almost vegandiet, and so I had to stop
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that. I had to start starteating more dairy and eggs and fish.
I still wasn't eating like red meator chicken very much, but I ate
a lot of animal products still,and that helped me as well. And
I was like, this is awesome, Like I can do this and I
don't need a doctor. I needto. I need to I need to
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really tap into this, you know, like I could have saved myself four
thousand dollars had I known all thesethings prior. And so I was like,
I'm going to invest I'm going toinvest in myself and I'm going to
learn the art of holistic health andhealing. So I studied nutrition, I
studied herbalism, I studied orthomolecular nutrition, I studied life coaching. I studied
all these different healing modalities. Youknow. Now it's how many years,
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twenty years later, I can happilysay that I have raised my children.
And back then I only had twowhen I started this journey. Now you
know, I have nine, andwe don't. I don't take them to
see doctors or we don't. Youknow, they don't They've never taken over
the counter antibiotics, They've never beeninjected with anything. Everything that has any
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problem that has ever come our way, we have been able to deal with
it with herbs, nutrition, youknow, supplements, rest, you know,
sunshine, getting rid of negative thoughts, you know, all sorts of
holistic things. And I'm teaching people. I'm coaching people, and I have
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students who are already in the medicalfield, like you know, doctors and
nurses, And even had a dentistcontact me and she's like, how do
you how do you avoid dentists?You know, like I'm a dentist.
I want to know how you doit. So it's awesome, it's it's
and it's so empowering, you know, it's so empowering to be like to
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understand what our bodies need and tohave that kind of knowledge. It's part
intuition, like I believe that everyonehas an inner healer inside of them,
right, and then it's also partknowledge. You have to you have to
you know, you intuitively know certainthings, but then you have to back
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that up also with understand understanding what'savailable in the world in terms of you
know, what's out there in creation, what's out what kind of herbs are
there what kind of food does whatto your body? And what kind of
vitamins and supplements you know, dothis and that to your body. And
you know, vitamins and supplements theymight not be super natural like herbs and
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food are are, but they're naturalin terms of your body knows what to
do with them, and they don'thave crazy side effects like pharmaceutical drugs too.
So for example, if I hada friend over and they took some
kind of drug for their blood pressure, for example, and they lost one
of their pills in my house,I'd be like, you need to find
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that pill, because if one ofmy babies found that on the you know,
on the floor and accidentally consumed it, I would have to rush them
to the hospital. You know thatthat could be severe poisoning. But if
I drop, you know, ifI drop some herbs on the floor,
even if they accidentally you know,eat it, first of all, it'd
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be pretty nasty if they stuck someyou know, dry herbs in their mouth
they just spit it out. Anyways, Well, let's say they you know,
they they you know, stuck avitamin C pill in their mouth.
Oh well, the worst that canhappen, they'll get diarrhea, that's no
big deal. I know how todeal with that. You know. The
the best thing that can happen isthat they'll boost their immune system because they've
just taken some vitamin C, youknow. So it's so safe, it's
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so natural to our bodies, andit's so amazing, and we are kept
so much in the dark in regardsto these very simple, holistic natural remedies.
It's it's amazing. I'm not aconspiracy theorist. I'm a conspiracy realist.
They want us, they want usto have jobs. They don't want
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us to be independent. They don'twant us to be financially free. They
don't want us to be free ofthe need for the medical system. They
want us to be dependent on everyevery single system they've concocted, you know
what I mean. And I justlove freedom. That's why I love entrepreneurship.
That's why I love holistic health.That's why a homeschool, you know,
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because I want my I want toteach my children what I think is
important. You know, Like howlong do they study history and they don't
even study correct history sometimes, orthe kind of history that matters to me
sometimes, you know, Or howmuch How much do they How much do
our children study science in public school? Yet they don't know the science of
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their own bodies and how to healthemselves. Like why why should we spend
twelve years of their time studying sciencethat will not be personally intimately beneficial to
them their own health and healing.So that's what my you know, my
my own student, My own childrenare also students in my in my certification
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program, not just you know otherpeople. So with that and said,
when family members or when some ofyour ex colleague found that you left NASA's
computer science program and started pursuing acareer in health, were there any pushback?
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Do you get anything from you ora colleague or as pushback? It
doesn't matter whether they thought so itwas appropriate for you because you did something
that you felt you needed to do. But I just wanted to give you
a chance to say something to thateffect because someone else out there maybe experiencing
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the same thing and that is gettingready to make that transition and they may
fall to pressure. So what wouldyou First of all, I didn't,
So this isn't network marketing, youknow, Like I'm not trying to push
anything on anyone but primarily, youknow, I tried to live my life
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as an example to other people asto what is healthy. And of course
I'm i'm you know, because i'ma because I'm a business woman, because
i'm a business owner, I'm aI'm all always promoting the things that I
believe in. So whether it's youknow, an herbal formula or you know,
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vitamin or supplement. And at firstpeople are just kind of you know,
I'm not pushy, but you know, I'm out there, I'm emailing
people, I'm on social media sayingthis and that and whatever. And probably
in the beginning people were like,hmm, you know, they're just kind
of curious, but you know,no one was disrespectful. And if they're.
If I ever do have people inmy circle that are disrespectful, I
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just cut them out. I mean, like, seriously, life is too
short to worry about your haters.I mean, there are plenty of people
that love me. I don't needto worry about people who who hate me
or who hate what I do.I really don't. I really don't.
And as far as family members go, I've even blocked family members. I'm
like, you're gonna you're gonna hateon the things that I'm talking about.
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Block on Facebook, like you're stillmy family. You know, when I
go see you for a holiday,I will love you, i will greet
you, i will serve you someyou know, delicious home cooked food.
But I'm not going to let youhate on me in public or on social
media. We choose our friends,we choose our circle. And that's you
know, any entrepreneur because most mostentrepreneurs, they start out as solopreneurs.
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Right. You don't start out witha big team and an advisory board and
you know all that, you're justyourself. So you really it's really really
important to dig into a support systemwhere that is going to support you in
your business and in your goals.One of them would be podcasts like yours,
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right, podcasts like yours that arehelping people, encouraging people, and
where people can get to, youknow, hear different people's stories who are
making it, you know, andwho are succeeding in their in their goals
and in their dreams. That's soimportant. Your service is so important.
And it's free. That's amazing,you know, like it's apps free,
you can just log onto your podcast. That's huge. The value that that
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podcasters give I mean like and thenof course, then there's you know,
then there's the higher levels of support, like joining a coaching program or having
a one on one coach. Ofcourse, having good friends that are also
entrepreneurs and understand that's also extremely valuable. And I do have some friends like
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that, but I think it's veryhard to find people like that, like
just around your neighborhood, you know, like those kinds of in person friends
that understand your entrepreneurial journey. They'revery hard to find unless you join like
a group. There's some like businessgroups where it's like a business referral group.
Those kinds of groups can be supportive. But you know, with me,
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because of my children and the factthat I homeschool, I'm not really
able to leave home a lot unlessit's with my children. So so I
rely on things like podcasts, andI also have you know, I also
have a coach. I have.I have a life coach. I've had
several life coaches, you know,throughout my throughout my journey, but one
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on one life coaching is also extremelyvaluable. I believe that's one of the
reason why I became a life coach. I think having a life coach is
valuable for for for an entrepreneur becauseyou know it can help them. A
life coach can help them with theirgoals, with their mindset, it can
help them with healing, it canhelp them with the relationships, you know,
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all sorts of things. A lifecoach is just help. A life
coach will help you tap into theknowledge that is within you. And the
reason I brought that up regarding theinput from people who are within our circle
or our sphere of influence, andsometimes they may not intentionally mean it,
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but it may be something that theymay say that could derail or send you
into a negative frame of mind orthought process right there, because the journey,
it's not one of those fairy talesor a story book stories that a
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lot of times we will come intothose storms and we have to solve those
problems. So, as you hadmentioned, having a coach, someone that
can help you or well, they'renot going to do the work for you,
but they can help or guide youthrough those storms, and they also
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help you come to find solutions toa lot of the problems that you may
be facing right there, because they'recontinuously changing and you're never too old to
learn something that could improve your liferight there now. Yeah, and also
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like that whole iron sharpens iron,like you know, learning from other people
and their experiences. Oh yes,some of the things that you were doing
prior to becoming a coach, theywere transferable far as to your business.
Right now, what are some ofthe skill sets that you found to be
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really invaluable first in your business?As a computer scientist, I was very
experimental. So I was a scientist, right So even though you know my
sciences with computers, there's still manyexperiments that can be done with computers,
and so, you know, andI wanted to accomplish a certain task,
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I would think about, you know, how do I do this? And
then I test it, and thenI see if it works, and if
it doesn't work, I go back. I went back, you know,
step by step, and I said, hmm, it failed. Let me
let me change this, And verymethodically, I would trace back my steps
and adjust things one at a timeuntil I built a until I built a
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piece of software or an application ora function that did what I wanted it
to do. And I didn't relyon anyone else. I did it right.
And that's how I approach my healthas well. That's how I approach
health and healing, and that's howI teach my students to do. I
say, look it. If youwant to be healthy, you need to
look at all these things. One, two, three, four, fivesent
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you know, these are the things. Lay them out. Are you doing
this? Are you doing this?Are you doing this? Is it working
yet? Is it working yet?It's not working? Well? What aren't
you doing? You know? Andwe and we look at it. So,
for example, my daughter was agreat example. She was getting really
bad migraines, right, and sowe're like, okay, great, so
easy fix coffee. Coffee, Okay, coffee, let's drink coffee. It
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fixed it for a while. Okay, it's still coming. They're still coming.
The coffee isn't working anymore. Okay, what do we do. Let's
try juicing. Okay, let's tryjuicing, vegetable juicing. So she started
juicing juicing like every few days.She's like, yeah, that that helps.
That helps. And then but theystill kept coming back, right,
They helped, but they didn't makethem go away completely. And then for
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my other daughter, she was startedhaving tummy problems, right, so I
was like, hmm, let's try, let's experiment. I said, let's
try cutting out gluten, and shewas you know, she's young, so
it's really hard for a child tohave self control. So I had to
just stop buying gluten, no moregluten in the house so that she could
be gluten free, even though therest of us were fine, and she
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her tummy improved with going gluten free. And my other daughter, who had
migraines, also stopped having migraines becauseshe stopped eating gluten. That wasn't even
that wasn't even one of the thingswe had considered trying. We were trying
other things, you know, differentsupplements and herbs and stuff like that.
But once she finally cut out gluten, she also was healed of her migraines.
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So my older daughter was healed ofher migraines, my younger daughter was
healed of her tummy aches, allby going gluten free. So we're very
experimental like that. But how wouldI even know, How would I even
know to experiment with vegetable juicing,How would I even know to experiment with
going gluten free. It's because Istudied and same thing when I was at
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NASA, when I was a computerprogrammer. I would devote about one hour
out of the eight hour workday everyday learning reading, learning more about the
programming languages and different tools and methodsthat computer scientists and computer programmers used.
So there always has to be thisever cycle of learning and learning and learning
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because there's always new things coming out. No matter what your business is,
you have to keep developing yourself personallywith the education. Knowledge is power,
So knowledge, you know, keepkeep increasing your knowledge number one and number
two, don't be afraid to experimentwith things. And did you have a
mentor along your journey in the beginning, No, not really, I had
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some, I mean for computer whenI became when I was becoming a computer
science a computer scientist, I hadsome really brilliant teachers I had. I
had a teacher who he kind ofmumbled and like his hair was like never
combed, and his shoes talked andhe just like wore like a T shirt
and jeans, and he was thehead of the computer science like department,
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and it's like, wow, hejust he looks like a bum. But
when so and you could, likemost people like fell asleep in class,
and I was like, I'm gonnaI can't hear him. So I'm gonna
I'm gonna sit in the front ofthe of the room. I'm gonna listen
him very carefully. And you knowwhat, he was brilliant. He was
brilliant. I got more from hislectures than I did studying on my own.
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You know, he just knew everythingdeeper than than textbooks would would would
would teach us. And so thatwas extremely valuable. So I didn't have
like you know I had. Ihad a really great teacher, and I
think that you know, I dohave like you know I do. Uh
use life coaches right now, whoyou know function also as a business coach
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for me. You know, they'retrained in business coaching, life coaching,
you know, different kinds of coaches. But you know, for someone that
doesn't have the budget for that yet, there are a lot of like I
said, free information or courses andprograms that can help you achieve like anything
and everything. Really, there's alsoa lot of books on audible dot Com
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that you know, a book islike condensed, you know, wisdom,
years of wisdom condensed into you know, just a few pages. Books are
so awesome and you know, withan audible dot Com book, you can
just listen to it while you're inthe car, while you're cooking and cleaning.
I mean, it's just great,all the amazing knowledge that's available to
us these days. And that isso true. We live in an amazing
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time right now that we have anabundance of information. I think it's sometimes
it can be referred to as informationoverload, So it's how do you manage
all that information? Yeah, thoseare such good questions, you know what.
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And you know, I'm a religiousI'm a religious person. I'm I'm
a religious Jew, and so Ireally I have to just go back to
my faith in God. I believe, I have faith that God leads me
to the right sources, and you'reright, Like, for example, I
had I hadn't. I had ananother health crisis with hypothyroidism, and when
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I started researching the the condition,there were all sorts of opposing opinions and
one the one of the main supplementsthat I used was iodine. Iodine and
readox okay, and both of them, but especially iodine. There's so much
negative propaganda about iodine, saying thatit's very bad for your thyroid and it
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can make your condition worse and etcetera. Et cetera. And I was
like, wow, I could havebeen I could have been stuck in paralysis
had I not already had years ofexperience and study under very knowledgeable and effective
holistic healers. So I knew whatmy the people that I had already you
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know, learned to trust for yearswhat they said over the other voices in
the world. And I can't reallyattribute it to anything, but you know,
having taken the time to study allthose years and to find out what
worked and what didn't work. Soif if there is someone that I'm learning
from, whether it be in businessor health and healing or you know,
(31:11):
anything and any any any avenue oflife, and you know, I know
that if I am listening to them, that I am seeing success, that
I am achieving my goals. Youknow, I'm getting the results that I
want. Then I then I tendto continue to trust in the knowledge that
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they give me. And you know, you'll have to balance that with your
own knowledge because sometimes even the differenthealers, the different herbalists and holistic doctors
that I that I do trust,sometimes they'll have conflicting information and you know
that just comes with experience. Andagain, like I said, having the
(31:52):
willingness to experiment for yourself. Thisguy says this. This guy says that,
let's test it out. Let's testout doing this. Does it help
me? Do I feel good?Yes? So this is garbage. Just
find out. You just have tobe a scientist, you know, and
run your experiments. And that isactually really do your research. The bottom
(32:15):
line right there is do your research. Now. The next thing we want
to talk about, and that isyour business. Your the name of your
business is a Ruka. Yeah,so that the website is Ruka dot com
a r u kh dot com andlike the full name is the Ruka Holistic
(32:37):
Life Academy. When someone comes toyour website, you want to give us
a little insight on what they canexpect. Yes, so if someone comes
to my website, this this pageis basically designed to introduce them to the
Holisticular Certification Program and by way ofthis free course eight Secrets to become a
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Holistic Healer. And in that freecourse, basically you learn about the different
things that that that I teach inthe program, the different things that you'll
learn that have helped me to basically, you know, avoid doctors and be
able to heal myself and keep myfamily healthy naturally and uh so, yeah,
(33:23):
so that's what this page is allabout. At the bottom is a
bunch of blog articles on different healthand healing topics. You get to scroll
a lot. It's just a lotof information. But so if you click
any of those buttons that you havejust scrolled past, it'll bring you to
a form where you just enter yourinformation and then you get access to the
(33:45):
free eight Secrets to Become a HolisticHealer series that I created. A person
goes on their journey that they wantto find out more information, how do
they get in contact? Yes,so my website is a great place,
and my email also my Mataruka dotcom, m M A y I am
(34:07):
at Uruka dot coma r ukh dotcom and you can, you know,
you can just email me if youhave any specific questions as well and fly.
And that is for those who arejust beginning your journey into holistic living
healing. What advice or first stepswould you recommend for them? Don't be
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afraid. Don't be afraid. There'sa lot of fear. There's a lot
of propaganda that that they put out, that people put out to make us
afraid. Of holistic remedies. Andthe truth is, as I said before,
the pharmaceutical drugs are deadlier than theholistic remedies. It's actually safer to
not do anything at all oftentimes thento take the pharmaceutical drugs. If you
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just slept more and exercise more anddrink more water, oftentimes you will be
better off. That's not a blanketstatement. And I'm not trying to you
know, take the place of yourdoctor and or anything like that. But
don't live in fear. Empower yourselfwith knowledge. Oh those are some powerful
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right there, and I think thatdefinitely is something profound. Don't live well.
Thank you, ma'am for sharing yourjourney with us, and we hope
to have you back and continue successand on your journey and living your dreams.
(35:44):
Thank you so much, and thankyou for allowing me to be here
as an honor again. Thank you. Thanks for listening to night Beat Media's
Living the Dream. If you enjoyedthis podcast, please live a comment or
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