1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:18,000 You're listening to Only the Best Herbs. 2 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:26,840 I'm back and welcome back to Only the Best Herbs, the podcast where we dive deep into 3 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:33,080 the world of natural healing, wellness, and the power of plants. 4 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:39,040 I'm your host and let me tell you it feels incredible to be back here with you all for 5 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:42,120 the start of season 3. 6 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:47,680 If you don't know who I am by now, my name is Ryan Boulda. 7 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:54,240 Feels like I'm returning home after a long journey finding everything just as warm and 8 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:57,960 welcoming as I remembered. 9 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:05,280 This season, we're reigniting our passion for herbal wisdom, sharing stories that comfort 10 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:10,200 the soul, exploring remedies that nurture the body. 11 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:19,000 It's a journey we are thrilled to embark on once again with you, our cherished listeners, 12 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,120 right by our side. 13 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:23,120 What a way to kick off the season. 14 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:29,800 Today, we have a very extraordinary opportunity. 15 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:32,960 We're going to talk with Lori Smallwood. 16 00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:38,080 She's an inspiration for those in the realms of business and wellness. 17 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:44,960 Lori coaches business owners, has developed a line of her own health and wellness products 18 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:48,880 that encompass natural healing and empowerment. 19 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:56,000 So grab your favorite herbal tea, settle in and let's embark on this season's journey 20 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:03,960 together, exploring the profound connections between nature, wellness and our daily lives. 21 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:06,720 Welcome to season 3 of Only the Best Herbs. 22 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:12,200 So tell me about you, tell me about your business. 23 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:16,360 I've been wanting to get you on here for a minute so I'm excited to hear what you do 24 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:17,920 and how you help people. 25 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:20,160 I know you do like massages. 26 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:22,120 Well, no, it's funny. 27 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:23,280 So I'm glad you asked. 28 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:24,280 I am. 29 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:25,280 Wow. 30 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:30,360 I'm a former owner of a day spa, a full service day spa. 31 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:38,000 So I opened this spa, like right before the COVID epidemic, the pandemic, whatever it 32 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:39,280 was, COVID mess. 33 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,440 And I recently closed. 34 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:47,840 I don't do massage, but I had a team that did, you know, we did massage facials, hair, 35 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:49,960 everything, self care. 36 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:59,520 I spent over 20, almost 25 years in corporate America as a director in GlobalTelcom. 37 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:04,120 And spending 25 years in corporate America, I will tell you, if you ask me how old I am, 38 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:05,120 I am 29. 39 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:10,560 You ask me 10 years from now, I am 29. 40 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:16,720 With that, you know, after being a stressed out corporate professional, one of the things 41 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:21,480 I was afforded the opportunity was travel, global travel. 42 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:28,880 So I've been Europe, I've been to Brussels, I've been to Asia, Hong Kong, Philippines. 43 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:35,240 And one of the things that I did, whenever I went on travel back then, we didn't have 44 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:39,520 all the, you know, Google and whatnot really giving you my real age. 45 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:43,200 I would just find the hotel concierge and ask for a spa. 46 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,160 So on my downtime, I would have spa time. 47 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:51,640 And so my best favorite one was the hotel Shangri-La in the Philippines. 48 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:59,080 So that's something that I enjoyed doing as a stressed out corporate professional. 49 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:04,400 And I'm going to be very honest with you, in my career in tenure, sometimes I was the 50 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:10,960 only me on these business trips, meaning I was the only black female on these business 51 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:11,960 trips. 52 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:16,880 So I didn't do all the bar and beers and all that type of stuff with the rest of the team. 53 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:21,120 I would just kind of go on my own and go have a spa day. 54 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:25,040 That's what the black chick did. 55 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:29,760 You know, it's not even, it's all that stuff, like you said, is like completely unnecessary. 56 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:33,640 Like, you don't need to go do that to have fun, you know, you don't need to go drink 57 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:34,640 that have fun. 58 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:35,640 Right. 59 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:41,160 So, so then fast forward, I created the spa, the pandemic happened. 60 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:47,120 I'm a very, you know, in tune and to everything going on around me. 61 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:52,080 So now, so when I had this, I have a skincare line, I have my own skincare line. 62 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:58,440 My signature product is region 29 again, and that's how I keep my skin looking 29. 63 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:04,880 And you struck my interest because I do have a CBD vitamins and supplements. 64 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:10,360 And I've also always been into a more holistic approach. 65 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:15,040 So remember 25 years doing tell calm. 66 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:19,720 I'd say probably 10 or 15 years ago, what is it called? 67 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:20,920 Carpal tunnel. 68 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:23,640 They wanted me to have the carpal tunnel surgery. 69 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:25,240 I'm not a surgery girl. 70 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:30,640 So what do you take for tightened wrists and muscle damage? 71 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:32,720 What do you take for carpal tunnel damage? 72 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:39,120 Well, probably like topicals most likely would probably be the best option. 73 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:45,280 And then it depends if you're like, if you're using isolate or if you're using full spectrum, 74 00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:48,360 kind of depending on what you're trying to do. 75 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:54,200 People like to use the oils a lot like sublingually, like a really fast way. 76 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,240 The holistic approach, glucosamine supplements. 77 00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:59,760 What was that? 78 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:03,840 Glucosamine is a supplement that helps with joint and pain. 79 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:05,640 It's a, it's ingestible. 80 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:09,200 So it's, you can find it in your vitamins and supplements. 81 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:13,320 So anything that has glucosamine in it is going to help with arthritis. 82 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:14,960 It's going to help with joints. 83 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:17,880 It's going to help with your muscle damage. 84 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:23,040 Turmeric and vitamin D. I also learned back then that I have vitamin D deficiency. 85 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:26,920 So that causes issue with your bones and muscles as well. 86 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:31,480 So now fast forward about the CBD. 87 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:35,960 I also have in my line CBD, the non-THC. 88 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:42,280 I don't, I personally don't subscribe to the THC, which we know has more of the, the 89 00:06:42,280 --> 00:06:44,080 get high, the drug effect. 90 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:51,160 I don't personally subscribe to that, but for like a person who like me, sometimes anxiety 91 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:53,880 or, you know, I'm like, Ooh, I got this going on. 92 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:54,880 This going on. 93 00:06:54,880 --> 00:07:00,480 I will take the CBD gummies to kind of USA, bring it down a bit. 94 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:08,080 And it goes with, it really does go with like, um, massages and facials, like the whole 95 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:15,240 relaxing vibe to it and feeling like, yeah, it's, it's hard to get some people to make 96 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:20,600 that switch from a weed to medicine type of thing. 97 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:21,600 Right. 98 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:27,720 So I personally don't subscribe to weed because I feel as though they haven't done enough 99 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,640 mind altering studies. 100 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:36,480 And I don't know if, you know, I don't know about you, where you live, but in my area, 101 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:39,400 I'm outside of Washington, DC. 102 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,800 And the, the crime and the car accident. 103 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,080 So the car accidents to me are off the charts. 104 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:50,480 And when I'm on the road, I see people just whizzing and they're just doing dangerous 105 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:51,480 things. 106 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:55,480 And I pull up to the light and what do I smell coming out of the car windows? 107 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,040 I smell that I call it the skunk weed. 108 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:00,440 I don't know how it smells out there. 109 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:07,600 But I don't think enough studies have been done to compare. 110 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,960 And you may be too young to know about mad mothers against drunk drivers. 111 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:13,760 For sure. 112 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:14,880 Okay. 113 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:23,120 So people being killed in automobile accidents due to the negligence of a drunk driver. 114 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:29,160 I don't know if enough studies have been done to say that automobile accidents and fatal 115 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:38,680 automobile accidents are due to the mind altering substance of legalized marijuana driving under 116 00:08:38,680 --> 00:08:39,680 the influence. 117 00:08:39,680 --> 00:08:46,040 So that's why I haven't really subscribed to the whole notion of, Oh, it's legal. 118 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:48,400 So I can pull up next to you in my car. 119 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:49,400 And that's all I smell. 120 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:57,400 Yeah, there's gotta be a lot more restrictions on it and education and people who are, everything's 121 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:59,560 just crazy because everything can be abused. 122 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:01,720 There's benefits in every single thing. 123 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,760 But when things are taken to the tenth power and you're not being safe and you're driving 124 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:09,040 around like not cool. 125 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:10,040 It's not. 126 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:11,040 It's really not. 127 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:12,040 It's not. 128 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:15,720 And I think that's where weed has gone. 129 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:21,960 So when I saw, you know, what you're doing and what I'm doing, I'm also, I'm also a 130 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:22,960 mindset. 131 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:24,400 I'm a, I'm a rights coach. 132 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:31,280 I'm a professional coach and I teach people, I teach busy professionals how to de stress 133 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:35,200 and to live a stress and abundantly stress free life. 134 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:36,880 You don't want to just be stress free. 135 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:38,840 You want to be abundantly stress free. 136 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:39,840 Right. 137 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:42,080 Those are my coaching programs. 138 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:47,880 So again, back to the mind altering, the mind is so powerful. 139 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:52,360 Why do you want to alter it with, you know, marijuana? 140 00:09:52,360 --> 00:10:01,720 Although depression is real anxiety or is real these things, these components are, are 141 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:06,800 these mind issues like depression, anxiety and whatnot. 142 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:12,160 Yeah, they are real and that's why they've created, you know, psychotropic drugs and 143 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:19,160 they even say on some of the drugs, if you're taking antidepressants and, and what is it? 144 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:22,800 I'm just trying to think offhand like prozac and things like that. 145 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:23,800 Heart medication. 146 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:24,800 I'm sorry. 147 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:27,640 Like heart medication blood pressure. 148 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:28,640 Right. 149 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:30,680 The warning labels say don't drive. 150 00:10:30,680 --> 00:10:34,440 So why don't we have those same warning labels on marijuana? 151 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:42,640 So if you are suffering with anxiety and things of that nature, try the non-THC, the CBD that 152 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:47,840 doesn't have the THC, try it and see how it works out for you. 153 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:50,120 I mean, I completely agree. 154 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:55,720 I completely agree because that's, that's kind of a word of like what this podcast specifically 155 00:10:55,720 --> 00:11:04,640 is, that is what we are trying to instill, you know, being responsible, being educated 156 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:08,680 and there's so many things that are going on and so many things that can help you too 157 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:12,240 and a lot of us know about because what, what was that again? 158 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,080 The, the glucosamine, what would you call it? 159 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:21,960 Glucosamine, which, you know, again, it's, it's, it's dear to me whether you're talking 160 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:28,400 cultural, ethnic or even, you know, religion. 161 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:33,840 There just should, I just feel like there should be no bias because it's just such a 162 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:35,720 big world out there. 163 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:36,720 Right. 164 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:43,000 So, and, and we were just all made to think different, move different and be different. 165 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:47,320 So you have to be able to just expand your differences. 166 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:50,000 I kind of, I agree. 167 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,680 So another question I have. 168 00:11:52,680 --> 00:12:00,720 So like, you had, you had told me a little bit about how you kind of got to this point. 169 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:06,120 What is your business kind of explained to me a normal day for you? 170 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:07,120 Wow. 171 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,120 A normal day for me. 172 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:17,880 It's so funny because now post spa, so I now, I do have a small studio that I meet clients 173 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:18,880 in. 174 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:24,960 So a normal day for me, I start my day with prayer and gratitude. 175 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:29,920 Like I will not get out of my bed and sometimes I'm like, Oh, I got to go, you know, when 176 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:32,200 you get up in the morning, you got to go. 177 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:38,240 But I make sure that my day starts with prayer and scripture. 178 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:43,600 So I don't know what all your viewers, religious beliefs are, whether they're, you know, Christian, 179 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:48,040 Muslim, Buddhist, whatever. 180 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:54,280 Start the day with honoring the Lord, God for waking you up. 181 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:55,280 So that's the first thing I do. 182 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:57,240 I start my day with honoring God. 183 00:12:57,240 --> 00:12:59,160 Thank you for waking me up. 184 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:00,480 Another 29th year. 185 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:02,360 My birthday was just two weeks ago. 186 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:04,360 So I turned 29 again. 187 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:06,920 Happy, happy late birthday. 188 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:07,920 So what would you be? 189 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:09,600 Are you, you're not an Aquarius. 190 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:10,600 What would you be then? 191 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:15,240 Um, I was a Cavers morning because you are Aquarius, right? 192 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:16,240 Yeah. 193 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:17,240 No. 194 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:20,240 I was with the Capricorn team, team Capricorn. 195 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:24,840 So, so, I mean, that's pretty much the first thing that I do. 196 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:30,360 And then the, as much as I personally don't like it, and again, it could be because of 197 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:34,320 my real big old age, uh, social media. 198 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:39,960 Sometimes I really, I look up, it's like, I've been a whole hour on social media. 199 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:40,960 It's crazy. 200 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,160 It sucks me in. 201 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:50,240 So, but I find great people like you, um, surfing social media, and I promote my business, 202 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:52,440 um, on social media. 203 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:58,600 And then I do just a lot of my, um, working with my clients and or building some of my 204 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:00,880 programs and workshops I have. 205 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:08,120 Um, I'm doing a workshop next Tuesday and Wednesday called, um, setting boundaries like 206 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:09,120 a boss. 207 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:13,320 So, it's, it's virtual so anybody can join. 208 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:16,480 Um, and if you want, if it's okay, I could put it in the chat box. 209 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:17,480 Yeah. 210 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:23,480 What I'm going to be doing is teaching you to how to set boundaries and, you know, forgive 211 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:25,800 my language, but bitchless boundaries. 212 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:30,640 Like, you don't have to set boundaries and be this mean, evil person, right? 213 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:35,560 You can set boundaries like a boss and still be a likeable person. 214 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:44,520 Okay, do you need proof that CBD hemp and all the other 540 cannabinoids help in relieving 215 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:53,160 symptoms from arthritis, anxiety, sleeplessness, pain, and many others? 216 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:58,080 Visit surgeon solution.io. 217 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:04,120 Educate yourself on some of our publications, shop our store and start feeling better with 218 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:09,000 our hemp extracts, can solutions and much more. 219 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:10,560 It'll be a sign. 220 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:14,760 It's not, it's not easy day to day because people try to test you. 221 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:17,040 Yes, they do. 222 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:18,840 People do try to test you. 223 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:23,400 So boundaries are reciprocal and boundaries are an inside job. 224 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:30,200 So I teach you all about boundaries because what I find a lot of people, um, they say, 225 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:38,280 you know, like my adult children, they push the boundaries, my job, um, my in business, 226 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:40,440 my clients, my customers. 227 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:43,880 So again, you want to have healthy boundaries. 228 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:49,360 So I will be walking through how we got programmed to be people, please. 229 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:56,040 And how we unprogram ourselves from that or how we respect each other's boundaries. 230 00:15:56,040 --> 00:16:04,240 And or again, you want to set boundaries where you're not alienating yourself and being, oh, 231 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:06,480 she's got her boundaries and her walls up. 232 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:08,120 So she's a mean, evil person. 233 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:09,880 No, I'm not a mean, evil person. 234 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:11,280 I'm a really nice person. 235 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:13,560 I just need you to respect my bound. 236 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,000 Yeah, we all got different stuff going on. 237 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,520 You don't know what someone else is going through for, you know, or where they're at 238 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:20,520 mentally. 239 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:24,720 That's big, big, big with me because I think sometimes people are where I'm at mentally 240 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:27,960 and it comes and bites me. 241 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:31,280 You know, I just have to remember we're all some, some were different in life. 242 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:34,720 So it's, it can be hard. 243 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:35,720 Exactly. 244 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:42,000 And that's the biggest thing, Ryan, to remember that each and every one of us is somewhere 245 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:43,240 different in life. 246 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:50,880 We may be the, you know, you may be in a room full of people your age, but you're all not 247 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:53,720 on the same 29 pass, right? 248 00:16:53,720 --> 00:17:01,080 You may be in, you know, in an environment, let's just say at work, you guys are all working 249 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:07,920 on the same project, but everybody working on that project thinks differently and has 250 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:14,720 a different approach to how they would handle the desired outcome of that project. 251 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:15,720 For sure. 252 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:16,720 For sure. 253 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:18,840 I notice it all the time as well. 254 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:21,960 I like so. 255 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:29,960 I'm going to include the link as well on how to join your boundaries course is how long 256 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:30,960 is it? 257 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:35,880 Two evenings, it's Tuesday and Wednesday, 90 minutes. 258 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:41,400 And the, the first night, we're going to kind of really go over, you know, boundaries and 259 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:46,640 what your challenges are, what your struggles, and then we're going to go into really how 260 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,640 to set and navigate them. 261 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:54,160 And, you know, some things do come from our childhood. 262 00:17:54,160 --> 00:18:02,880 If you, it's a lot that comes from our programming, our mind from the day from how we were raised 263 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:09,440 onward to put us in a position where we either don't set boundaries, we let people walk all 264 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:15,760 over us because we're people pleasers, or when we do set boundaries, we're just so, you know, 265 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:21,040 we're just so mean about it that nobody even wants to deal with you. 266 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:22,040 Black or white. 267 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:23,040 Black or white, purple. 268 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:24,040 Yeah. 269 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:25,040 Male, female, other. 270 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:26,040 No, I meant like people are on one extreme or the other. 271 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:31,040 I don't think it, because no matter what box you check, we're all human is where I was 272 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:32,040 going. 273 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:33,040 Right. 274 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:34,040 For sure. 275 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:35,040 Right, right. 276 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:36,040 So I don't know. 277 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:37,040 I don't know. 278 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:38,040 I don't know. 279 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:39,040 I don't know. 280 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:40,040 I don't know. 281 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:41,040 I don't know. 282 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:42,040 I don't know. 283 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:43,040 I don't know. 284 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:44,040 I don't know. 285 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:45,040 I don't know. 286 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:46,040 I'm sorry. 287 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:47,040 No, I'm sorry. 288 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:48,040 So I get it. 289 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:49,040 Sorry about that. 290 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:50,040 No, you're good. 291 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:51,040 Don't worry about it. 292 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:52,040 Because then makes sense, too. 293 00:18:52,040 --> 00:19:00,240 So let's say that I wanted to get in contact with you personally, and we wanted to start 294 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:01,240 working out something. 295 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:02,240 Right. 296 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:05,080 Are we reaching out to you on Facebook? 297 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:07,080 Facebook is good. 298 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:12,600 I have the self-care self-love group, where I just keep it positive and I embrace the 299 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:20,120 all things self care and self love. And again, I don't know what your philosophy is, but in order to 300 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:28,120 love others, you have to love yourself. In order to take care of others, you have to take care of 301 00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:34,920 yourself. So how you love and you equates to how you love and other people. And it also equates to 302 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:42,120 how other people are loving you. That's a whole nother topic about, you know, abuse and things 303 00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:48,120 of that nature. That's a whole nother topic. But he told me, because since he's been able to count, 304 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:55,400 he said, grandma, no, you're 32. And now he says, because he does, it's been a couple years, 305 00:19:55,400 --> 00:20:04,120 but now he knows my real age, right? I've been 29. And he says, grandma, no, you identify as 29. 306 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:18,920 And it's okay. Stop. He's eight, so. That's funny. It's a great year. You are in the greatest year 307 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:26,120 of your life because you are coming from, I'd say, a young adult. Like you've already, like, 308 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:31,640 physically you've entered your manhood. I don't know if you're married or have kids or whatever. 309 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:41,320 But so physically, yeah, you've entered into, but 29 going into 30, you're like at the middle 310 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:48,600 peak of your life. And like, you've got so much, you know, you came out of being a kid, a teenager, 311 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:56,040 and a young adult. Now you're like a real holodrome adult. It's a hard transition because you can get 312 00:20:56,040 --> 00:21:03,320 stuck. I don't think I knew what growing up, I don't think I knew what like growing up and like, 313 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:10,840 and trust me, I've been through quite a bit in my life. Like, like, you know, being from Detroit, 314 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:17,160 there's just like a lot of negativity gets sucked into. So I had been down that road. And 315 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:22,600 coming back to this road, I know I thought getting a job and like trying to be responsible was like 316 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:26,840 part of growing up and like becoming an adult. But it's really not like that's just kind of the 317 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:32,760 first step. Because then you have to take control of your own life. Yeah. And some people don't do 318 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:39,000 that. They kind of just go day through day to day. It's just another day. Not only do you have to 319 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:44,920 take control of your life, you have to take control of your brain. And what does that mean? That means 320 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:51,080 the decision making. Like I could tell you stories like we, you know, with my son, I have a son and 321 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:59,800 a daughter. And so a lot of it is what you, the decisions you make, the decisions you make determine 322 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:07,160 your outcome as well. You have to manage you, you have to manage you. It's hard. You can manage 323 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:14,920 everything else. And sometimes it is. And that's that's what I, you know, again, my clients, even 324 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:23,800 myself, that's why my, you know, I help busy, stressed out professionals to live abundantly 325 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:32,200 stress free. It's like I guide you and coach you into your desired outcome for a life without 326 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:39,480 all of the hustle. I noticed you said hustle. We weren't meant to hustle. I wish. I wish. I wish. 327 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:45,720 We're not meant to hustle. I agree. I agree. I wish I didn't have to. 328 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:53,400 Yeah. So that's, that's pretty much it. Definitely look up the glucose. I mean, 329 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:58,920 we're going to see back on here too. We're going to, because I like, I like, that is my audience 330 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:05,560 pretty much a lot of stressed out professionals because a lot of people are following what I'm 331 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:14,040 doing right now. A lot of them are professionals. I talked to many people like yourself throughout 332 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:20,360 the week and I guarantee you people will get a lot from what you have to say and will value that as 333 00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:27,240 well. Well, thank you. Thank you. So yeah, so that's my whole thing is to give people the tools to 334 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:36,520 avoid burnout, avoid self-sabotaging, avoid mental and physical stress, and avoid derailing their own, 335 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:42,760 their own destiny. Because you can, you can, the only way your destiny is derailed is by you. 336 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,320 I can agree with that. It always comes back down to you, right? 337 00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:55,480 It always. It really does. It really does. So that's what I work on teaching people now is, 338 00:23:55,480 --> 00:24:06,440 and I love it. I love serving busy professionals and letting them glow and walk into the positiveness 339 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:11,960 of their destiny. I love doing that. I know. I can tell. And I like talking to you about it too. 340 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:20,360 So bodyessentials.com. That's for the supplements. Yeah. But like I said, that site is still under 341 00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:28,120 construction. And then for my self-care and coaching business, it is the Biz Oasis. 342 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:37,000 The BizOasis.com. I am the Oasis for busy professionals. Feel free to reach out to us 343 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:43,240 with your experience questions or even just to say hello. Until next time, take care of yourself 344 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:48,840 and one another. Embrace the power of nature. Stay curious, stay inspired, and most importantly, 345 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:52,280 stay connected. It's been a pleasure to be part of your day today. 346 00:24:52,280 --> 00:25:17,640 If you think you have what it takes to be only the best, reach out to us operations at surgeonsolutions.org.