Episode 5: Beth Shaw, Founder of YogaFit - Listen to Your Body

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Hello everyone.
Welcome back to another episode

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of Role Models.
Today, I have the great pleasure

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of welcoming special, guest bath
sha, that is a creative

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Visionary, and a leader in the
health and wellness industry.

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She's an educator, she's a
best-selling, author of four

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books, a philanthropist, and
animal Advocate, and The founder

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of yoga fit which is the world's
largest yoga School through her

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work, that has influenced
transformation and empowered

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thousands of teachers students
and yoga Enthusiast around the

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world.
Welcome back.

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Thank you so much for having me.
I'm so happy that you're here

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now.
I was so excited to hear about

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your story because you were
really a front-runner.

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You revolutionized, the fitness
industry by bringing yoga into

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the mainstream over.
Years ago.

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Can you tell us how you got into
yoga and what inspired you to

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launch yoga fit?
Well, I actually started doing

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guided meditation and imagery.
When I was six years old, I

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suffer from horrible, migraine
headaches.

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And I grew up in a family,
where, where they were not too

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concerned with what was going on
with me.

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Let's just say that.
So I taught myself, I consider

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it spiritual intervention, to be
honest with you, I taught myself

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how to do guided meditation.
At age six and I really cured

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myself of the migraine
headaches.

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I was doing yoga as a child,
although I didn't really know

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what it was at the time.
I've been working out in health

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clubs since age 15 and really
developed a love of Fitness at

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an early age.
And then in college, I was in a

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very bad car accident and I got
introduced to some chiropractors

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who were former basketball
players, and they turn me on to

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food combining.
So I started studying nutrition.

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Everything just kind of came
together for me to take this

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path in life.
Amazing amazing.

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To a lot of people yoga has
become much Trends are now than

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when it was 20 something years
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So, how did you first learn
about it?

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And, of course, the meditation
and that practice may have led

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you into it but at what point
did you say, wow, this is a

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great modality and it's
something that I want to be very

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serious in.
I really got into formal yoga

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when I moved to Los Angeles from
New York City after college.

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My first teacher was 93 years
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She used to sit on a desk and
instruct and she had a great

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story.
Her name was Renee Taylor and

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she had developed cancer in the
late 1960s, went to rishikesh

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India, where yoga fit my school
actually takes people every year

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now on pilgrimages and trips and
she went to rishikesh, she

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started studying yoga
meditation, ayurveda, cure

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herself, Cancer came back to the
US and started writing books and

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teachings.
As she was my first teacher, I

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got lucky in that respect.
And there were not a lot of

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teacher training.
And remember, this is way back

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in the 90s.
There were not a lot of teacher

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trainings, you had to usually go
in residence for upwards of a

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month.
I went to take one, but I wasn't

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really left with tools.
That would help me teach in the

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health club environment.
So the name yoga that came to me

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one day in a bike ride.
I made sure.

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I trademarked it early.
And I came up with a style that

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really seemed to work for people
who are going into the gym who

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wanted a workout who didn't want
to lay around on the cold floor

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listening to the weights,
clanking, outside the room and

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yoga.
If it was born, I started to do

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cable TV show at the time and
one of my students was an

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investment guy, he liked the
brand, he liked the logo and he

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helped me raise money.
We incorporated in 1997 and

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we've been doing yoga teacher.
Training's ever since we've also

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expanded a lot, since then we do
a lot of corporate Wellness,

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programs Retreats consumer
education, and we've got over

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125 different educational
programs at yoga fit.

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We're known as the gold standard
for yoga in the industry.

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That is absolutely amazing.
Now, in terms of having yoga

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fit, be part of Jim's.
Is this a particular thing that

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any gym like that anybody would
go to Could necessarily see or

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ask about or are there, is it
mostly that there are teachers

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there that had been trained
through yoga fit?

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Can you tell us a little bit
about the organization

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combination?
It depends on where you live in

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the world.
If you go into a Good Life

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Fitness in Canada, you'll
probably take a yoga fit, sweat

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class, or yoga fit core.
And we do a lot of trainings in

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Jim's, but chances are because
we have trained at yoga fit over

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250,000 people worldwide since
our Inception.

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Chances are your instructor may
be trained by yoga fit.

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What would you consider the
differences in the way that you

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train or the way that you have
developed your program versus

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others?
Well I can't speak to others but

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I can speak to our program.
We have 65 master trainers, who

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are experts all in their
different field of study.

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We have doctors on our team.
We have psychologists, we have

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exercise science people,
ayurvedic specialist people from

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the military.
So we've got it.

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Very talented team of master
trainers.

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All of our trainings are dumb
live.

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We don't like pre-record stuff,
put it up and sell it like that.

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Our trainings are done virtually
live or in person lie

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pre-pandemic we were running 15
conferences a year across North

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America and about 1,000 weekend
trainings worldwide.

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Wow.
And again where everything we do

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is based on exercise science and
really care at yoga fit to make

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sure that whether you're taking
a training, just for your own

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Back pain or core hell or
whatever route you choose with

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us.
We're very diligent in giving

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good information and our
teaching method is quite unique.

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That's really fascinating.
I love your own personal story,

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as well as those that you've
come into contact that, have

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inspired you to put forth, yoga
fit and to help to spread this

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idea of Wellness.
Because I think that a lot of

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people these days are concerned
about the westernization of

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Wellness, the capitalism of
Wellness, And it seems like

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you're really taking it to a
place where it's about healing.

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It's about an integrative
approach to holistic well-being.

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Can you talk a little bit about
your philosophy on well-being

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and how people can incorporate
it into their lives from an

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individual perspective?
Well, I like to look at health

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and wellness as a wheel and we
all have different spokes on

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that wheel.
Obviously, yoga is one of those

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spokes meditation.
Another exercise, proper Jim

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supplementation, positive
affirmations journaling, what

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we're consuming in terms of
energetic intake, otherwise

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known as the news social media.
I think that the wheel is

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different for everyone, but a
lot of spokes have commonalities

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and that's the integrative
approach much like in the

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origins of yoga, and ayurveda,
and Vedic astrology, it was a

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three-part program, you know,
you have to understand your

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ayurvedic body type because
someone who is a con If a body

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type in ayurveda is never going
to be a size 2 and that's okay.

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They can be their best selves in
my book yoga lean.

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It is based on the three doshas
in three different ayurvedic,

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body types.
And we really go into depth and

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how depending upon your body
type.

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You can eat, you can exercise
and you can live in a way that's

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going to create the most
balanced and just make you feel

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good every day and that's really
the goal.

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It's just, you know, obviously
there are a lot of clinical

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measurements that people need to
be aware.

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Of such as body mass index and
what their fat to muscle ratio

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is, but we just want people to
feel good, feel clean, feel

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clear, feel healthy, and feel
empowered.

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And I think in the society and
the world that we're living in,

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now it's incredibly
disempowering and getting more

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so every day.
So my platform, whether it's

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through my radio show, make
America healthy or through yoga

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fit.
Or if I go out and work with

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corporate Executives or teach to
a corporation, Ian or presented

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a conference.
It's just about how you can be

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the best version of yourself and
feel good in the moment.

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I love that.
I think that is so powerful and

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to the point of your statement
earlier about understanding your

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body type or your Dosha, I found
that completely life-changing.

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When I found out that I was a
combo kapha Pizza.

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You know I just was like oh my
gosh this is exactly right.

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I feel not so great when I eat
these kinds of foods or you

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know, drink these kinds of
drinks and I feel so much better

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when I have Hardy.
Our foods and substances that

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are comforting things like that.
And it's interesting because I

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hear so many women mostly women
but also men who feel that

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they're comparing themselves to
other people.

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Oh, why can't I look like that?
Why is that person on this diet?

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And they're losing all this
weight?

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And I'm on this diet and I'm not
losing any weight and then they

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feel bad about themselves and
they judge themselves and

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beating themselves up and that
gets to be such a Negative

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cycle.
I think that the aware Earnest.

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And the understanding to your
point of saying, like, let's get

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you to the best version of you
possible is so powerful and it's

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liberating one of my favorite
philosophers krishnamurti said.

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Every time we compare, we are
disappointed.

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So, you know, comparing
ourselves to anyone else.

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Is it?
It's not empowering and because

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we all have different body
types, we all have different

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life experiences that created
our body.

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Hands.
We all have different thought

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processes that may or may not be
serving us to compare ourselves

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to others really as an exercise
in futility.

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It takes a lot of energy that we
don't need to be putting in that

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direction, you know, I'd like
people to wake up every day and

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be like, how can I be my best
self today?

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And then at night, when they go
to sleep, you know, just take

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time to acknowledge the winds,
maybe you meditated for 20

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minutes, maybe you did some type
of technology or an app that was

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like, A meditation, maybe you
exercise, maybe you're using a

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wearable, so you can track your
steps, you know.

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It's just a matter of us putting
more deposits in the feel-good

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healthy Bank every day.
Then we're doing withdrawals and

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I think most people on a deep
intuitive level if they learn

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how to listen to their body.
And again, that's what we really

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teach at yoga fit is listen to
your body.

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Your body will tell you what it
needs, which is very different

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than what it wants.
Because why?

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Are dictated by all the
advertising.

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We're seeing on television for
the worst processed foods we can

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ever put in our bodies from
magazine articles that we might

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read or from external sources.
And if people are really trained

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to learn how to listen to their
bodies and move from that place,

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that's that's what I would like
to be able to share with

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everyone is listen to your body
because your body doesn't lie

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and listen to your body because
sometimes It's just whispering,

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but if you don't listen to it,
that Whispers going to turn into

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a scream and that's where a lot
of people really fall off in

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their health is they're just not
listening.

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You also talked so much about
healing through trauma and I

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think this is part of it because
people compare themselves,

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people feel that they are
saddled with a background or

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things that have happened or
occurred to them in the past,

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that they just can't get over
and you've written a book

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recently called healing trauma
with yoga and mind-body

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techniques.
There it is, everybody.

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Take a look healing, trauma with
yoga by Beth Shaw and I would

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love for you to tell everybody
what are some of the key points

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of the book and what can they
expect?

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Well, the key points of the book
is that, you know, most people

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have encountered or experienced
some type of trauma in their

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lives.
And, you know, we've just, we're

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coming out of two years.
That has been incredibly

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traumatic for everyone and I
believe created a lot of

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different ptsds.
So even if If you weren't

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trying, if you were one of the
lucky ones, who didn't have

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childhood.
Trauma didn't have an adult

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trauma.
Chances are, you were

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traumatized in the past two
years.

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So I tell my story in the book
about overcoming my childhood,

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trauma and 13.
Other people share their trauma

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stories in the book and how they
used yoga and other mind-body

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tools to help themselves heal
and again, just feel better.

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And that's what it's really all
about right now is how can I

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Feel better.
And I don't mean like go have

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two martinis because that's a
temporary fix, but how can you

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feel better naturally and
organically and I give people

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the tools that they need to help
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sound healing.
We have a chapter on ayurveda in

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the book, a chapter on
supplements food as mood, my

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favorite chapter is chapter 12
and it's called, living your

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best life.
And in that chapter, I give just

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22 quick tips.
That people can employ every day

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to feel better.
Now, I just came off of my

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headstand machine, with my red
light, in my face, for 20

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minutes, because that's
something that I use because I

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have a mood disorder.
I've suffered from depression my

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entire life and intensifies with
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So whether it's standing on my
head for 20 minutes a day or

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making sure that I do a
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much caffeine.
There are things that people can

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do.
And again I really want people

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to take their own.
Physical and mental health into

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their own hands, I can't stress
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You have to take your own health
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time you get to a doctor or a
mental health professional, you

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may be much further down the
road than you would actually

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like to be.
That's such great advice and I

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can't wait to dive into that
book.

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I know that there's probably so
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difficult time or just want to
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Elves and their mood, and their
happiness, Little Steps at a

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time.
Now, you touched on nutrition.

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I know that nutrition has always
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life.
Can you tell us a little bit

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more aside from doshas and aside
from eating organically, what

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are some of the key things that
people can do from a nourishment

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standpoint each and every day
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their better Wellness.
Well, obviously eating as much

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fresh fruit and vegetables as
possible, you know, high water

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content Looks go a long way
because their body is 70% water.

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Also, I gave up gluten in 2012.
After I took a glutton test and

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I tested highly gluten
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That's my game changer for me
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been more with cognitive
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So I would say avoiding gluten
as an excellent strategy and

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just clean eating in America.
In particular, we're just were

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overfed where overfed and were
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So cutting portions.
Down super important.

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Our body takes up 85% of its
energy after we eat a meal, just

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to digest that meal.
Also, we can't digest more than

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25 grams of protein in any meal.
So you watch someone eat, for

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example, an 8 ounce steak.
It's like throwing half of that

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in the trash.
So, in yoga, lean, we really get

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into how to shrink your stomach.
We get into portion control, we

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get a little bit into
intermittent fasting, really,

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with food, I think, for most
people less, Is more.

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Mmm, I would love to probe a
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fasting.
I've only done a couple of fasts

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in my life, and I think that I
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might throw my body into a state
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Like if I deplete it for a
period of time, then it's almost

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like binge Purge.
Is that a fallacy?

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You know, I think that most
people can easily do a three day

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water fast.
Three days typically seems to be

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the magic number.
I think it's a great reset.

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So People can really get in
touch with what is hunger versus

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what is just Mindless eating?
Intermittent fasting is also,

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excellent.
Especially people have 25 pounds

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or more to lose intermittent
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Really, seems to work well for
people, my body type, I'm pitch

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of atcha.
So I was one of the ones during

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the pandemic where I wasn't able
to work out in the gym for a

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good three months.
I immediately lost like 8 pounds

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but probably mostly muscles.
So Taking amino acids.

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If you're fasting, also works to
keep protein going to your

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muscles without breaking the
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I've been eating a lot of a new
product.

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I found called Energy B.
Now it's spirulina and chlorella

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and it's a very high
concentration of protein and

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vitamins and nutrients that
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So I literally like, end my day
with a pack of chlorella and

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start my day with a pack of
Spirulina I just Did

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incorporating spirulina into my
smoothies that I make in the

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morning time.
So good, so good and turmeric 2.

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And we actually had the founder
of that product on my show, make

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America healthy, along with a
gentleman who lifecycle who does

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mushroom formulations, that's
Global healing.

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I also take all of their
products, but you know, I take

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like lion's mane for cognitive.
I'm obsessed with cognitive

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function.
I want my brain to work best as

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possible.
So I've been taking a lot of

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mushroom formulations to And
actually, I've been micro dosing

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with psilocybin because I
stopped taking my

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antidepressants in January as my
own silent protest against the

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pharmaceutical.
Yes.

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Not So Silent because I ever
Radio Show on Earth about that

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often.
But, you know, I believe also

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that I like to call yoga the
gateway drug because I believe

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it opens people up to trying
other health modalities.

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Whether it's plant medicine or
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And in my book, yoga lean, the
third pillar of yoga lie in

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their seven steps to being yoga
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willing to do whatever it takes
to get the results.

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And I think that having an open
mind goes a long way in that

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adopting that mindset, I think
that some people may get a

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little impatient sometimes
they're like oh I've been on

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this for a week or I've been on
this for a few days and I'm not

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getting results.
Is there a period of time that

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you think is a reasonable amount
of time for people to allow

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something to metabolize and
understand about whether this is

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working for them or not?
Well, that's an interesting

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question because Yogi Bhajan
said, it takes 40 days to create

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a habit.
And I am right now, running a

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group called SOS sort of sober.
It's an online for people who

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want to reduce their alcohol
consumption and the first seven

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to ten days.
Days are all about awareness,

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understanding your relationship
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The second seven to ten days is
getting into your action plan,

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and then, by the third part of
the Month people are seeing

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results based upon behavioral
changes and awareness.

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So I've run several online
groups for yoga lean.

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We just had a woman who lost 70
pounds since January.

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What?
So you know, What?

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We're talking about our
lifestyle changes and that

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everyday contributes to
long-term success.

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So, I'm a very impatient person.
I'm triple type am from New York

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City.
Thank God for yoga and

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meditation, at least a little
bit of a buffer there for me.

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But, you know, I'm still working
on the extra pounds of stubborn

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belly fat, that I can't seem to
shake and I think that

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practicing yoga is also very
beneficial for anyone who's

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embarking on a new dietary
change program.

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Because yoga gives you a lot of
acceptance just to feel

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comfortable in the body that you
are in, and that acceptance

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seems to go a long way in
getting the body that you want.

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That's attainable and reasonable
for again, your ayurvedic,

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Dosha, your lifestyle, and your
choices.

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I started yoga several years ago
when I was young I used to do a

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lot of dancing and I was
actually a gymnast for years and

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I always wanted to figure out a
way to keep fit but I couldn't

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necessarily Early, keep the
dance as I was getting older,

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the gymnastics into my daily
life.

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And so, once I found yoga, I was
like, this is such a great way

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for me to stay flexible and it
wasn't only until maybe after a

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couple of years of doing that, I
realized those deeper benefits,

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the meditative aspects and the
idea of putting yourself into

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the fire, like, you know, moving
this way and moving this way.

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And then simultaneously while
you look like you're standing

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still, there is so much inner
work being done of the push and

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the pull and maintaining your
stability.

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Ability maintaining your balance
breathing, all of that.

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Like that's where it started to
become so much, more powerful

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than just mere exercise.
As it were, yeah, inherent in

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the pastures and the commitment
to the practice comes, the

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opportunity to get comfortable
being uncomfortable.

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And that's a skill that you can
bring off your mat and into any

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area of your life.
Where you develop more tenacity,

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more self-discipline.
More reserved, we are raised in

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a society where it's instant
gratification people don't like

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to be uncomfortable waiting for
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If their phone blows up, they
want it to work immediately.

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If they have to wait in a line,
you press a button, Amazon,

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deliver something to your door
the next day or maybe even the

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same day.
So we almost have to retrain

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ourselves as humans, to learn
patience to learn willpower, to

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learn discipline and just to
learn to become Comfortable

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being uncomfortable.
And the more we can force feed

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ourselves those situations in
controlled environments, like

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the yoga room.
The more apt we are to move

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through life, with more ease
because we are not throwing our

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own mental roadblocks.
In the way I would love to talk

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about you.
The entrepreneur, the business

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person because I think that you
are such an inspiration to so

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many by what you've built being
a woman, having a lot of what

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you called child.
Could issues and Trauma and

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health issues and being able to
find a path.

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Almost like, converting your
pain into purpose and moving

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that forward in such a powerful
way.

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Can you tell me about that
journey of just being at the

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helm of businesses and growing?
Some of the things that you

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might have learned along the
way?

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Well, I'm definitely having a
business for over 24 years now,

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I've really grown up with it.
You know, I started yoga fit.

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I was in my 20s and I have
always been entrepreneurial but

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learning to run a business and
maintain and sustain.

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Again, I think yoga for giving
me patience and endurance and

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just the tools to whether the
many storms that anyone who has

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a business regardless of the
size and I love being around

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business owners because I know
what they go through, there's a

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lot of daily challenges, some
years, or better than others.

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Their ups there's Downs.
You have to learn to trust your

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intuition.
You will make a lot of Decisions

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that you'll look back on and I
wish I had done things

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differently.
So it's kind of like this living

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breathing laboratory in which
one is always discovering better

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ways to do things.
New markets, dealing with people

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dealing with the customer
dealing with staff, having that

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responsibility, it's a lot and I
think that people who have not

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had that Journey don't
understand which is again, why I

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presented a lot of Nors
conferences on health and

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wellness.
I love being around business

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owners.
I was talk to people when I go

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into a restaurant who own the
place because small business,

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that's the backbone of America.
If you really start to think

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about like, unless you're a
frequent team, big chain

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restaurants, or hopefully not
fast food restaurants, like that

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woman, that's behind the
register running around behind

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the barn, directing traffic,
that that's her business, that's

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her livelihood and It breaks my
heart to see what's happened to

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small business in the past, two
years in the US because a lot of

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them haven't made it.
And the statistics are not in

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your favor regardless of what
the external circumstances

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maybe.
So it's been a, it's been the

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most amazing self growth Journey
for me and then layer on if you

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will in the business of yoga and
health and wellness.

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So I have to be in Integrity
with all of those things.

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Fortunately, I'm very passionate
about.

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Everything regarding health and
wellness.

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I'm always out there to
conference learning something,

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new or researching something.
But to me, it's been an

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incredible Legacy Journey that
continues to this day and I'm

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just as passionate about it, if
not more so than when I started.

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And I've also gained the
blessing of maturity along the

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way, but it hasn't been easy.
It's not easy.

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And I think that the fact that
you've been able to sustain it

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and grow it over the past 25
years that I mean, That is a

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testament to your ability, to
see a vision and continue

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weaving your path forward.
Maybe ebbing and flowing along

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the way as any business does is
anything that we're creating

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does.
But I really commend you for

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stepping into something,
following your heart and I think

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that that's a big thing too.
Is following your bliss,

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following your passion and then
that will help guide you mostly

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on the right path, mostly mostly
on the right tab, you can get

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two words 80%, I think we're in,
good shape.

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Yeah, that's a great Point.
That's a great point that I want

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to share a quote that you said,
because I think it's really an

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amazing quote, and you said
Business Without a higher

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purpose and profit is pointless,
can you tell us why you feel

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that way?
Well, first of all, a lot of

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financial people would laugh at
that statement.

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I'm enrolled at an education
program at Harvard in the

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business school.
I feel a little strange when I'm

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there because social
contribution is not really a

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currency that you hear a lot of
in has school.

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We have a very in-depth
community service program, where

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we require everyone who goes
through their level one

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training, which is kind of
introduction to yoga fit

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everyone, who goes to that
training in order to get their

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first certificate has to do
eight hours of community service

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work teaching to a group of
people who normally would not

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have the opportunity to receive
it.

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So, as an entity yoga fit has
been responsible for over three

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million hours of community
service, work of people teaching

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people who normally wouldn't
have Access to yoga studio or a

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gym disenfranchised populations.
And, you know, if I could wave a

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magic wand over planet Earth,
one of the things obviously,

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would be that everyone was
practicing yoga and doing

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meditation.
Another one would be that

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everyone would spay and neuter
their animals and stop breeding,

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dogs cats.
And then probably, another one

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would be that we would educate
everyone especially women on

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every aspect of Health and
Wellness from A very early age

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because I believe that's sorely
missing in our educational

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system especially among certain
populations.

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And I believe that education is
the key to everything because it

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gives people options.
And really I say this in yoga,

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when I teach the one with the
most options wins, when we teach

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at yoga fit, we can several
different options for all of the

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poses to make people feel
comfortable and let them

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experience the pose at their
level.

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But really, when it comes Health
and wellness.

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The more options you have, the
more you're educated on what

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options there are the more act
you are to make healthier

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choices and that is everything
from reproductive Health, to

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physical health, to mental
health, to spiritual health, to

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energetic health.
And we're not educating people.

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Therefore, they don't even know
the options they have because

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you don't know what you don't
know.

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That is so true.
I myself a line.

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So So well with what you've just
stated because I think that we

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have a obligation.
You know being on planet Earth

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we have an obligation back to
planet Earth to regenerate.

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But also to the people, from a
stakeholder perspective to make

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sure that we're not just after
their dollars, we respect them

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and we relate to them and that
it is a cycle of community.

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So that as much as we are
receiving, if it might be energy

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in terms of dollars or what have
you that we are also giving with

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the other And so making sure
that our companies can be built

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on people and planet and then,
you know, tertiary early

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00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,300
profits, of course, in order to
be sustainable.

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And to grow, you know, we can't
really rely on the government or

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00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,300
nonprofits to be the centers of
good because we know that they

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00:29:46,300 --> 00:29:49,700
just can't do it all themselves.
And so it is up to businesses to

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00:29:49,700 --> 00:29:54,700
step in and rewrite the economic
model to really Place much more

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00:29:54,700 --> 00:29:58,000
emphasis on purpose and Mission.
Yeah, I mean again on

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Unfortunately, our society is
just based on profit and we see

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that the toll, that that takes
on so many different levels,

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starting with a supposed
Healthcare System that really

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makes its money on having sick.
Unhealthy people.

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00:30:13,100 --> 00:30:16,800
There is not a lot of money to
be made off of healthy people

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00:30:17,500 --> 00:30:21,200
unless you own a gym, you know,
or a healthy food company.

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Our society is not set up for
healthy people to win to

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encourage Health again health On
any level physical, mental

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00:30:31,300 --> 00:30:35,100
Sexual Health anything.
We're just not set up to with if

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look let's face it.
If the government really cared

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about People's Health they would
be educating us but when the

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00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,800
food companies and the
pharmaceutical companies and the

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00:30:42,808 --> 00:30:46,000
hospital systems are such huge
profit centers.

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All you have to do is follow the
money and you see that it's not

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following you down the road to
hell and I felt.

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00:30:51,300 --> 00:30:53,900
Similarly it's not just the
health industry as you know,

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00:30:53,900 --> 00:30:57,100
it's also with respect to the
beauty industry that I had been

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00:30:57,100 --> 00:31:00,000
part of a lot of Dollars were
made on making people feel ugly

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00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,500
or that it had flaws.
They had physical flaws and that

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00:31:02,500 --> 00:31:05,500
they needed to address by buying
their products, which didn't

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00:31:05,500 --> 00:31:09,500
necessarily address the flaws or
the underlying feelings of

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00:31:09,700 --> 00:31:14,600
well-being.
And that's why you see people

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00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:18,800
who do a lot of physical
alterations or, you know,

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00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,600
whatever, but that's not
addressing the root.

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00:31:21,700 --> 00:31:24,500
And the root is that we don't
make people feel good about

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00:31:24,500 --> 00:31:27,400
themselves in our society and,
you know, you were in a whole

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00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,700
industry that That specialized
in that.

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Yeah, yeah.
So cheers to us who are the

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00:31:31,900 --> 00:31:36,600
change makers who are really
doing our part to lift, people

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00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:40,200
up to let them know their glory
to let them know how beautiful

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00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,000
and Majestic that they are it.
Regardless of what the media

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00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:47,300
says, or what other brands may
say, because this is really

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00:31:47,300 --> 00:31:50,100
true, Wellness is letting
everybody know that they are

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perfect, the way that they are.
There's always this opportunity

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for our journey of improvement
and getting to that place where

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00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,100
you'd like to be.
But if you Feel good, where you

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00:31:59,100 --> 00:32:00,900
are.
If you're satisfied in your

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00:32:00,900 --> 00:32:04,200
happiness and in your place, but
are eager for more, more

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00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:08,300
development, more learning, more
experiences, more understanding

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00:32:08,300 --> 00:32:11,200
or knowledge, more wisdom than
that's the best place to be.

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I think it's the best place to
be.

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00:32:13,700 --> 00:32:17,300
And again, just doing something
like having a Daily Yoga

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00:32:17,300 --> 00:32:21,600
practice or going to the gym.
Those are things that will make

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00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:27,200
you feel good about you and just
enable you to be your best self.

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Mmm.
I want to talk about that

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00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:32,400
beautiful picture that you have
behind you.

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For those who are just listening
there is this incredible piece

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of art behind Beth right now and
it's an Indian painting, I

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believe.
Can you tell us a little bit

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about what is pictured?
There you have.

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It is an Indian gaiety.
We've got the elephants there to

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represent protection and
Goodwill.

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We have four hands two of which
are holding flowers.

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00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:00,700
One Palm is receiving and Other
hand is giving you see the

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00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:06,100
coins, coming out of the giving
hand and the, the left palm,

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00:33:06,100 --> 00:33:09,800
which is the feminine side of
our body is receiving and open.

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00:33:10,100 --> 00:33:14,200
Yeah, I actually really love the
Hindu religion and their

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00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:18,700
philosophy is and vedanta and
all of the deity's is we take

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00:33:18,700 --> 00:33:23,300
people to India every year and
it's very sacred and I believe

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00:33:23,300 --> 00:33:27,000
against is ancient wisdom that
we can all take a piece of and

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00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,100
there's not just one.
One God, but there are a bunch

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00:33:30,100 --> 00:33:34,200
of different deity's that each
represent different parts of our

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00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:39,800
path, whether it's Lakshmi the
goddess of prosperity or Ganesh,

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00:33:39,900 --> 00:33:43,600
the deity of protection.
There's there's something for

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00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:47,100
everyone and something that you
can invoke at any time.

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00:33:47,100 --> 00:33:48,100
Yes.
Yes.

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The picture reminds me.
It feels like abundance to me

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00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,600
because there are these coins
and there's the at the cycle of

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00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,600
giving and receiving.
I think it's just so beautiful.

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00:33:58,300 --> 00:34:00,700
I hear, I think you've got a
four legged friends with you.

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00:34:00,700 --> 00:34:06,000
And you this is around the time
he have Jackson, and that's

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00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,199
okay, that's it.
And he knows when I'm on the

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00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:15,199
zoom, that's its remind game and
he will get a bone and we can

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00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:17,800
stop me.
I've had him now in July, it's

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00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,600
10 years.
I adopted him when he was 16

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00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,800
months old.
I got him from Labradoodle

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00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,900
rescue, they're on Facebook,
it's called eye dog.

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00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,800
We're together almost fit.
A decade.

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00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,600
And after that decade, he's got
me very well trained.

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00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:38,000
I basically I should be wearing
a shirt instead of be Grace,

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00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,100
which is my new clothing line by
the way.

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00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:43,100
Oh okay.
Yeah, I'll be in a state of

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00:34:43,100 --> 00:34:45,300
grace.
I should have a shirt that says

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00:34:45,300 --> 00:34:53,800
Bentley's bitch.
It's a win-win for everybody.

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00:34:56,100 --> 00:34:58,700
I think that's an idea for a
clothing line for sure.

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00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,200
I've got a ziggy Smalls here and
I think I'm probably Ziggy

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00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:05,300
Smalls as bitch.
My little he's my little

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00:35:05,300 --> 00:35:07,400
chihuahua rescue but he's a
little badass.

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00:35:11,100 --> 00:35:14,500
Excellent.
Well that it has been so amazing

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00:35:14,500 --> 00:35:18,800
to have you with us today on
Role Models, everybody, I want

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00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,500
you to learn as much as you can
about Beth and what she's going

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00:35:21,500 --> 00:35:23,400
on.
You can find out more at Beth

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00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:27,100
Shaw.com.
You can also learn Yoga fit at

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00:35:27,100 --> 00:35:30,400
yoga fit.com.
She has lots of wisdom tune in

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00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:34,400
to her radio show.
Buy her clothes, my her books.

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00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:39,600
Yeah, he's chewed into my radio
show, make America healthy on

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00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,200
voice America.
If you miss the show live, you

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can also find it anywhere that
podcast live.

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Perfect.
That thank you so much for being

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our guest today, Namaste.
Thank you, namaste.