All right.
Oh, I used to, but I have a friend.
I shouldn't say friend.
He's an acquaintance.
I met him at a co-working space and he is running a pretty good startup at the time
and he wrote a book, published it called The Year With No Pants.
All about working from home.
You should all have a year with no pants.
Yeah.
Awesome.
Oh, it's great.
As long as you're a professional from here up, you're good to go unless you fall into
those horror stories.
Those happen too.
So been there almost.
So you just never know.
You think that it would never happen, but when you have a studio and you go to get water
and stuff and you forget, you know, it's like-
You got to be careful at that and taking the computer into the bathroom.
Be very careful.
Oh, yeah.
I would agree with that one.
Well said.
So, Mary's leaders out there listening, like these are the power stories and tips that
you really, really need in life.
Coming in hot.
That's it.
Megan, I appreciate you being here.
We're going to dive in.
Guys, we're going to be talking about Megan's health journey and losing a hundred pounds
and keeping that off, which is absolutely awesome.
You look fantastic, by the way.
So way to do that.
And we're going to be talking about defeating negative emotions and how that holds us back
from our health.
And we'll talk about it at a lower level, like an entry level.
We'll talk about it at an extreme level, too.
Before we do that, I always want to know the resources.
Where did all this wisdom come from?
So what three resources, books do you recommend for other leaders out there?
I am I'm going to start with an oldie, buddy, goodie and go with the seven habits of highly
effective people.
I was just transformed by that book.
It really helped me get in touch with values over, you know, whatever was driving me before,
which is probably I sure hope people look at me like I'm a competent person.
So that's a big one.
That's top for me.
And I think we forget about it, but it's super foundational.
Yeah.
And another one more focused on folks who are in the health weight loss space is this
wonderful woman.
She's a coach.
She's a podcaster.
Her name is Heather Robertson.
She has this podcast that really it's full of these powerful interviews with folks who
have both lost and maintained weight and folks who are currently struggling with it.
And she just pulls this wonderful narrative of the commonalities between all of us, especially
in related to emotional eating.
So her podcast is called Half Size Me because she herself lost 170 pounds and has been keeping
it off since I think 2012.
She's amazing.
And what a great play on the original, like the OG documentary on processed foods that
supersize half size.
That's cool.
So clever.
I love it.
And the third one is Cherry Pie Paradox.
I believe the author is Joy Overstreet.
She created kind of a group weight loss program decades back.
But before that she was a professional, she was a mother, and she was drowning in this
emotional eating habit.
And she noticed a friend who could just eat half a slice of cherry pie for breakfast and
just throw it away when she was full.
And that seems so foreign to her, to Joy Overstreet.
And the whole book is about her process of trying to eat and have a relationship with
food like a person like that who has this calm and understanding relationship with food.
So those are my three.
Take them or leave them.
That is an interesting book.
I want to read that because I am the garbage disposal.
You are the garbage taking the second half of the cherry pie.
Yes, exactly.
Like I grew up in a house like that too, and my sister Veronica, I champion that.
I think the skinniest people in our family, ironically.
But it doesn't necessarily mean that we're consuming all the right things.
Anyway, I'm excited to read that paradigm and see what's there because we can always
improve.
As we improve, life gets better.
She has some amazing tangible exercises in that book that were pretty revolutionary for
me.
That's awesome.
I can't wait to dive into it.
So without further ado, we're going to get to the break a little bit.
We'll come back and we're going to talk about Megan's vision and her path to losing a hundred
pounds, keeping it off and how to help us all improve with our own disciplines, our
habits and our ability to move our health forward, our mindset forward and our spirituality
forward as well.
Throw that in as well.
We'll make sure to make some time for it.
All right.
Welcome in to Vision Pros Live with Jackson Calame.
I'm your show host.
We will be doing interviews for visionary entrepreneurs and guest leaders who are building
fantastic visions out there.
Hey what's up everybody?
Welcome in to another episode of Vision Pros Live.
I'm your show host, Jackson Calame, founder and CEO of First Class Business.
And I am so excited to have Megan Gaul on stage today because she is somebody who practices
what she preaches.
She has managed to lose over a hundred pounds in her life and maintain the goal of progressing
with her health.
And so what's really cool about that to me is it's one thing to go to a doctor who has
studied something a lot.
It's another to go to somebody and get help from somebody who's actually been what you've
been through and has that.
And you know, in America, right now I could lose about 35 pounds right now and be in a
much better health.
I was there a couple of years ago.
So this is actually a personal endeavor on this show.
I'm going to be talking to her about it, kind of picking her brain from my own standpoint
because my knees and my back felt better when I was down at that other weight.
And you know, at the end of the day, it's just a little bit more fun to look at yourself
in the mirror when you're getting close to your peak possible physical self.
Now before I bring Megan on, I want to also give a shout out to other resources that help
us out and that we love to contribute to.
So the first one is the law spot with Melissa Gray.
When she came on my show, I almost canceled the show because I don't like lawyers.
I'll just be frank about it.
Most lawyers are, they're contentious.
They're condescending.
I mean, they don't really explain things very well.
They're in such demand too, that they don't really need you and they know it and they
act like that.
Not the type of person I want to work with.
I'm glad I approved her for the show and said, yeah, let's do this.
I fell in love with her processes and what she's up to and how she portrays herself.
She's a human being first who also happens to really, really have a passion for law and
how you can protect brands out there by getting it done right first.
That's coming from a guy who had a $20,000 trademark lawsuit for a brand we already owned
and we won, but we wasted tons of time.
We didn't really win when you're a startup and you need $20,000.
And then Apple patented one of our softwares and it was like, what?
That's not fair.
If we had been in a position to where we had been wise stewards and had counsel for us,
then it wouldn't have been as scary or as painful financially as the situation was.
So if it's not Melissa, do yourself a favor, start interviewing people so that you can
be a wise steward of your venture and protect yourself.
Then there's Andrew Sosin from Recovery Unplugged.
Recovery Unplugged is an addiction recovery program that incorporates the healing components
of music into what they do.
And it goes beyond your traditional addictions, but if you have friends and family that are
struggling, it could be binge eating like we're going to talk about today with Megan.
It could be apps that they're stuck in or they're just binge watching series instead
of living their life.
There's nothing wrong with absorbing a little content here and there, but when you're trying
to replace your life with external sources of feelings that aren't truly yours, maybe
it's time to call a hotline and seek help.
Maybe it's time to call a hotline on behalf of your children or behalf of your spouse
or somebody else to find out what can you do to support those people.
I just know there's a lot of us out there who have people around us who say life is
fine, but they're really not feeling the best that life has to offer.
And we can do something about it by turning to programs like this one.
So then there's the Water Project.
This isn't something that will help any of you.
My hope is you'll join me in helping others who are less fortunate than we are.
I've never had to worry about water in my life.
I've always had access to it, even when I did live in third world Uruguay for almost
two years.
Never had to go without water.
There are millions of people who don't have access to it.
So I use this microphone to tell that story and say, you know, these kids, these family
members, they're held back in life in ways we can't comprehend.
The least we could do is tell others about the project.
The Water Project is doing such a great job of creating help for these individuals transparently.
If you give $5 to a community, for instance, you get to see the outcome of the gift that
you've given.
And these kids celebrate water like it's Christmas Day.
So we have an amazing opportunity to make a fantastic impact in the world.
I hope you meditate on the reality of what the transformation will look like for these
people if you decide to contribute.
Or if you thought of somebody just now who's like, man, I think this person, I think Stacey
would love to hear about this, then tag Stacey, give her the chance to decide if she wants
to contribute or not.
You never know how far the ripple effect will go for the good things that you do.
We got 8 billion people to help.
Let's do so together.
And lastly, if you have a project like the Water Project that you want to raise funds
for that you want to see us contribute to, go ahead and drop it in the comments.
We would love to support what's out there and what's needed.
We just want to keep giving back.
That's what this life's all about, my opinion.
So without further ado, Megan Gaul, thank you so much for joining me on Vision Pros Live.
I'm excited to dive in.
Thank you, Jackson.
I am excited to be here.
This is awesome.
Absolutely.
So let's dive into those that you're serving directly.
So what is your vision for the people that you serve?
I really want to create like a force of people who put their health first.
I want to see them doing so with self-compassion in a way that feels like them and not like
they're taking on someone else's rules.
And I want to see them doing it without guilt.
There's way too much guilt in people attempting to live a healthier life.
And I want to see that go.
I don't think we need that.
I don't either.
I feel stuck with it sometimes.
And I'm grateful that you hit that.
I did have one small discovery when I was in Mexico a couple of years ago, right before
COVID.
And there's all these trees that have mangoes and that have avocados.
And it just dawned on me how many hit the ground and deteriorate.
And it's not a bad thing.
That's just part of nature.
It's like leaves falling.
But I grew up with this mentality that like there's starving kids all over the planet.
So if I don't eat everything that's on my plate, you know, I should feel guilty.
And I've got to eat everything that's here.
But then there's this paradigm like, man, how many mangoes and avocados don't get eaten
every day and it's not hurting or helping anybody.
It just is.
How the heck do you get over that guilt?
Throwing food away.
Oh, the way you described it, because I have a strong, like innate, I don't know, from
growing up, an innate hatred of food waste because of that, you know, that you got to
finish everything on your plate.
You know, maybe we don't really get snacks between meals.
We don't know when that food's coming next.
So like that feeling of this food has to go into your body or it's wasted is really common
in, you know, I think in the US probably in many other.
It's not fun.
And it comes from well-meaning parents who are trying to make sure you have food on the
table every day.
Of course, like it makes sense.
I mean, I'll blame Captain Planet, you know, or Reuse Recycle, right?
It's cool too.
Like there's a lot of mechanisms that really help us like, oh my gosh, we got to save every
bite of food.
Yeah.
And it comes from a good place, but it has created that, especially in the health realm,
it's created this block for a lot of people in trying to eat in a way that works for their
body because they put the waste and the finances first before their physical health.
And I speak, I say they, but I have done that for many years and I've only recently in the
past few years been working on that very strongly.
And my favorite like technique to get around that is just getting real good with planning
that food, only buying what you need, you know, only buying enough for the leftovers
that you need this week.
But it's a big barrier for folks who are trying to, especially folks who are trying to reach
a healthier weight because coming down means smaller portions and smaller portions means
that food either has to not get bought or has to go to someone else.
Yes.
That very good.
Any secret psychological tips on how to get past that feeling of waste?
I have a few kind of beliefs that I've cultivated around that.
And I think one of them that I like a lot, that feels very true to me now is I don't
have to be perfect at preventing food waste in my home.
That's not possible.
There's very few to zero households that can truly be zero waste.
So if you're looking at half a plate that you're not hungry for, you can have it tomorrow.
You can throw it away.
You can find someone else to have it, but you don't have to be perfect and have it right
now so that the day, you know, so that you've hit exactly the amount of food that you needed
to eat today.
That's an important belief that is hard to remember, but it's really worth it to cultivate.
You don't have to be perfect at it.
You can try to plan the best you can at the beginning of the week, but if it doesn't always
work out, that's okay.
You don't have to be perfect.
You've inspired me.
You gave me time to meditate on it.
And like, this is why it's so helpful to have these types of conversations.
So I need to just start a compost pile.
Yeah.
Backyard.
If you have the time, go for it.
That's awesome.
Why?
I mean, maybe I don't know how to start a compost pile.
I feel like it just throw it in the corner.
You know, it's like, let nature take care of it.
I'm sure somewhere in your network, you can find someone who can help you do it.
There's like a bunny who comes in.
I don't know if it's good or not.
So you know, maybe, but I'll, yeah, I guess I'll think through that a little bit more.
But if I don't have, if I feel like it's going somewhere else positive, then I won't feel
the guilt of throwing it in a bag, you know, that goes to a landfill.
So you ever noticed that pattern of, especially at a family dinner, that whoever's hosting
wants to foist off all the leftovers on you.
Yeah.
It's because they don't want it and they don't want to be the one to throw it away.
So they're just foisting that uncomfortable moment of throwing it away because no one's
going to eat.
No one's going to eat like mashed potatoes from four days ago.
No one's going to eat them.
Yep.
Well said.
All right.
So let's dive into the vision that you have for, oh, I just, I'm sorry, the vision for
yourself.
So before we do that, if you don't mind, can you share with us the weight you were at and
the weight, you know, the hundred pounds you lost?
Because I think sometimes people can feel like, well, she's one of those people who
says like she lost a pound per day, but kept putting it back on and, you know, never really
had to struggle with being overweight.
Do you mind telling us about that journey?
Absolutely.
I, in my early mid twenties, I was around 230, 240 pounds.
That was my, that was probably the highest weight that I had had had.
I am 34 now.
I'm sorry.
How tall?
Oh, how tall?
Five, four, five, five, somewhere in there.
Five, four, about 230.
Yes.
Yeah.
So I was definitely obese.
Like that was medically obese.
And I really got there through never thinking through my food in advance, making split second
decisions and emotional eating.
That was big, big three.
Because I eventually came down over the course of about 11 to 12 months to around the lowest
I was, was like 125.
Now I'm sitting pretty at 130 to 140 and kind of working on that, that range.
You need a range.
You can't aim for one number for the rest of your life.
That does not work.
Needs to be a range.
Fair.
Very good.
Okay.
So you've, you've made it to there and do you have kids?
I do not know.
Okay.
So I'm just involved in that equation as well.
Helpful to know.
And let's dive into your vision now.
So what's the vision that you have for yourself moving forward?
So for me personally in my life.
All right.
I want to be personal business.
I mean, it's your vision, so you can go as far and wide as you want with that.
Love that freedom.
Uh, I just want to be, I don't know, I want to be a really cool old lady.
I think I want to be like a superhuman, awesome doing everything old lady.
I want to be one of those really active gals in her seventies, eighties, you know, all
that.
Um, so I want to still do all the things that I really value.
Um, I want to, I want to travel.
I want to be really close with my circle and support them.
I want to, and I really want to continue this, uh, this business that I've created of just
helping folks prioritize the health in their life.
Like that made such a huge difference for me.
And I really want to bring that to other people.
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaking of your business, we're going to, we're going to pull it up a little bit.
So partake meal planning and wellness.
I love, I love the name.
We bring that up and talk about it with the vision.
Tell us about the vision for like where it came from and where you're going with the
business.
It came from, it came from a desire to, I was so built in my confidence from actually
making a concerted effort to become healthier and reaching a lower weight where I could
just do things so much easier.
So that change in me created a big ripple effect in how confident I felt at work, what
I could accomplish with my relationships.
So that made me really want to bring that same kind of confidence to a lot of other
people because I see how much, especially women, how much we struggle with the guilt
in getting healthy, with getting started, with feeling like we can never do it and it's
not for us.
So my goal is to help people with the thing I know best, which is the kind of mechanics
of losing weight and how to do that through habit change, not something that's going to
be temporary, but long-term habit change.
So that was my vision.
That's what I wanted to do.
I moved from my nonprofit education job to a app-based text email coaching experience
for a bit, which was really helpful to get my feet wet.
And then very quickly after that, probably a year is when I started offering the service
myself, the one-on-one service.
Awesome.
And onward and upward for the next several decades.
That's right.
I really find the sea unfold.
Let's talk about leadership for a little while.
So we're going to dive into the darkest subject.
What is the worst leadership experience that you've ever had in life?
This is a rough one, but when I was 22, 23, I was the general manager of an IHOP for six
months.
It was not great.
It was awful.
I knew at the restaurant industry and the team, full of great people, but the support
was not there in that environment for me to understand what the heck I was doing.
So I felt out of my element in the supercharged line cooks versus waitresses versus hostesses
rivalries.
And I just didn't have the amount of experience to take that on comfortably.
So I took it on uncomfortably and gave it the old good college try for six months.
But I think it was the worst leadership experience only because I felt alone.
I felt unsupported and like I wasn't able to do what I was hired to do and didn't feel
great.
Did not feel good.
I get that.
Makes sense.
So International House of Poor Management.
I'm a Denny's guy.
My kids love IHOP.
It's totally the syrups.
I'm the kid I wanted to go because of this, but Denny's better.
I'm just going to leave that where it's at.
That is a good point.
If our establishment and franchise or businesses, if we as business owners don't take a hands-on
approach to helping our team members be in a position to succeed, creates unnecessary
stress, anxiety, inconsistencies, the whole nine yards.
That is a very practical reality that business owners can learn from of all types of businesses.
Yeah.
You have any thoughts on that before we go into best?
Oh, no.
Only that it gave me a great idea of what lack of support really looked like.
A great idea of what?
Of what a lack of support really looked like.
It gave me an idea of what not to do.
Yeah.
I know that that's, again, a lot of times that's what leads us to realizing like, oh,
cool.
If I do the opposite of this, then you end up with the best ideas.
So what is the best leadership experience that you've ever had?
Can I share my first positive?
Yeah, of course.
Because I've had a lot of really positive examples of growth that I'm proud of, but
I like this one because it's very early on and an early positive experience.
I was working at a nonprofit.
I was on the strategy team, recently came out of like a secretarial role almost and
was now in a manager role.
Not people manager, just work manager.
And I felt like the baby at this job.
I felt like everyone had been in it longer, knew more than me.
I had to go to everyone for help for everything.
No one came to me.
That's how I felt.
And lovely people, awesome people.
But that's how I felt.
And one day there was going to be a retreat of work from home retreat.
And I signed up to lead a cooking demo just as a little team building thing.
And it was such a transformation of energy to feel like I had something to share and
bring that was positive to these people who had been constantly, I felt like holding my
hand for a year and a half or two years.
So it was just a switch in energy.
And I felt instantly like a fellow adult in the room.
It gave me just a different level of confidence that it really helped me get in touch with
like, okay, I can lead, I can teach something, especially if I feel really confident in it
and I love it.
And I think that was one example of what helped me see.
It's not that I'm bad at everything that I feel this way.
It's that I haven't, I'm not teaching what I really love and I'm not engaging in the
work that I really love.
So let's go find that.
That's awesome.
That's multifaceted.
One, you know, it hits home for me.
I went to school at Brigham Young University and I was not qualified to be there.
And so it's hard when you're around a bunch of people that are better than you at almost
everything that you do.
You can feel very inadequate and not like, you know, you feel like you don't belong.
And so it does put you in a position where you can really doubt your strengths and you
bring up a good point.
You have the opportunity to move on from it, but you also found before you moved on an
opportunity to contribute in a meaningful way.
And so it's not always a requirement for us to leave when we can't provide value in the
existing circumstance.
Sometimes there's an opportunity to be creative and find a way to contribute in a way that's
meaningful even though, you know, you may feel like the, I don't know, the pinky instead
of the thumb on the hand.
Oh, I like that.
Yeah, I think I could have stayed there if I had, I think now looking back, I feel like
now I have the skills and the maturity and the self confidence to say, I could have made
something there.
I could have stayed there and kept going and felt more confident over time, but I'm glad
that I didn't because I took a choice.
I like the direction you went.
I made a choice that like lights me up and taught me a ton.
So that I'm, I'm so thankful that I did.
Yeah.
Super helpful.
I think both stories that really helped me because I can, I still want to, it's not my
alma mater.
I mean, at a 0.33 GPA.
So I don't think I get to say alma mater, but that there's still an association, right?
With people related to that.
And you've kind of given me an idea more so too of like, okay.
And I'm when I'm in situations like that, or when we are as leaders and it's not our
job to lead.
I love the, there's somebody who said the best leaders are the best followers.
And oftentimes that's an important mechanism to, to, to utilize and say, okay, this is
my time to follow, but here's how I can contribute as I follow.
Yeah.
I like that.
If this is, if this was literally your last chance to share a powerful lesson of visionaries
and leaders, what powerful lesson can other visionaries learn from your experience?
It's a tough one.
I feel like my, my lessons are all related to my area of expertise, not necessarily to
other visionaries, but to other folks struggling where I was with food and emotions.
So I'm going to share a lesson related to that.
If you feel like you're stuck in that spot of, of doing that emotional eating, you, there's
probably an area of comfort or an action that's restorative that you haven't explored yet.
Or that you don't want to explore or you haven't tried it yet.
So if you're stuck in that, an easy place to start is by making a list of some restorative
calming activities and doing one a day.
And I think that can apply to whenever we see a habit that we know we don't want to
be doing.
So maybe that's like avoiding work and just doom scrolling.
I'm sure people who work from home can say that they've done that once or twice, but
some people do it at, you know, to an alarming degree.
If you're in that space where you're doing something that's coping, but it's not constructive
and you want to stop, find those short lists of calming restorative actions and do one
a day and see if that makes a difference.
Wow.
I'm going to have you continue with that.
I want to try to write down what you said, because I love the aspect of these calming
restored restorative actions.
What is your list of calming restorative actions?
I love a good walk around the block if the weather permits.
I love a good physiological sigh, like just for a few minutes.
Have you ever done those?
Yeah.
You said a sigh.
Yeah, a sigh.
They're like two, one big deep breath in, one more, and then let it out real slow.
Oh, you do two of them.
Oh, that's fun.
That's the double take on that.
It's nice.
I love a good hands activity.
So whatever that is for you, some people love scrapbooking, coloring, sewing, crocheting,
knitting, all that stuff.
Something that involves your hands and not so much your head, because sometimes that
coping mechanism is to get out of your head.
Sometimes I'm coping because I don't want to process the stuff in my head, but doing
that calming stuff with your hands that you don't need your head for can really help bring
the body back into decision mode now.
Most of my family would love exactly what you just said.
I hate clutter and crafts, but very similarly, I use a very specific game for that.
I've played it a long time.
Dr. Mario.
Love that.
It's super simple.
I don't really have to do, but I can't think about multiple things at once while I'm doing
that.
Normally my brain is on like a thousand things, but if that's kind of my mechanism for it's
clean, I don't make a mess.
This is a little controller, but it's the same type of idea.
My hands are moving, my brain is unplugged, and I can just get really present really fast.
And I get bored with that for 30 minutes, so I can't get stuck in it.
It's not harmful.
And often you come out of it with a more calm constitution.
You can tell that it's not a good calming restorative practice if you come out of it
and the problem is still there, you're still wrapped up in the story that you had, or you
feel worse.
When you're emotional eating, often you feel worse after that last bite is gone.
Some people do the doom scrolling.
When you're doing that, you feel scattered when you put the phone down.
You feel like your eyes hurt, your brain hurts.
I don't know.
What is doom scrolling?
What does that mean?
It's when you're stuck on your feed.
So you have Instagram or Tik Tok or Facebook and you can't stop consuming what's happening.
So you're just going from thing to thing, looking for that, like, I don't know if it's
a dopamine hit or just something to not.
Yeah.
I'm with you.
Like I like that you have more of the knowledge than I do.
I like to mumbo jumbo is kind of what I call it.
You know, it's like I understand it from like the technical stuff.
I'm not a doctor.
So I leave the technical stuff elsewhere.
But you're right.
When I was, I took a job during COVID first time in years and I was president of a company,
but I found myself playing this game called Homescapes.
I was, I never played that like in years.
Like I just didn't have it in me.
I didn't want to.
I found myself escaping life into that, but I didn't realize it.
You know, it was like, it was like a month later where I was like, what am I doing?
I'm not a child.
Why am I doing this?
You know, and it took me a while to figure out what I was going on in life that was causing
me to want to escape my situations.
You didn't feel better.
You felt worse after.
Yeah.
And it's a difference between what you said, escape and restoring.
Like so that you can better tackle it when you come back to it.
Right?
Like the escape is like, I'm urgently needing to be out of it.
The restore is I would like to set myself up better to handle this.
That's the difference.
Absolutely.
Okay.
So we're going to use the rest of our time.
We're going to be talking about defeating negative emotions that hold you back with
health, learning more about your processes, your systems.
You got me super intrigued.
By the two meetings that we've had, I'm like, man, you got the depths to you and you've
got such an authentic story.
If you know, people are working on losing a hundred pounds, obviously this is going
to help them with their health journey.
But I'm just going to say right now, visionaries, leaders out there, this applies to your physical
wellbeing, your mental wellbeing and your spiritual wellbeing.
So let's dive in.
How do you defeat negative emotions?
I'm going to take issue with your, your word defeat or our word defeat.
I'm totally cool with that.
I love that.
Because negative emotions are going to be there throughout life and we're always going
to need to be coming out the other side.
And sometimes we need to do really hard things while we're in those negative emotions.
So my approach is not defeat.
My approach is notice and be next to almost like notice and be okay with.
Be aware, be aware.
Yes.
And there's so many ways to help you get that shift of not being the feeling, but being
next to the feeling.
And I think some of the big ones have to do with how you conceive of that feeling.
So if you conceive of it as your inner child, for example, so people love the inner child
work and I can see that being super helpful because you're thinking of that emotion, not
as something negative that like you have to squash, but you're thinking of it as when
I was young, I needed that emotion.
Like for example, if you always cleaned up when your parents were arguing because you
didn't want them to start yelling at you, you wanted them to be happy.
You might do that now.
You might see yourself viciously cleaning the house to escape something.
But if you see that emotion, like you're scared, you're feeling really stressed in your body
as an inner child, like what did you need at that time?
Maybe it was a hug.
Maybe it was rest.
Maybe it was someone to say, you don't have to worry about this.
This is not as important as you're feeling like it is.
So it's a way to look at that negative emotion and either soothe it or just be with it in
a way that doesn't need it to be defeated and quashed and get out of there.
I love that.
That's my drop out for you.
I'm going to read your original write up about the vision because it's going to double down
on what you just talked about and point out the difference between what my thought process
was in creating a title and really the value, the way you just leveled it up.
So you said, my vision is that a listener to our interview is going to feel lit up by
an inspiring story of overcoming the statistics of staying a healthy weight.
Feel reassured that small steps and daily habits can create huge transformations, reaffirm
that they want to become a better person.
Feel interested in the data, the analysis, the concrete steps that you yourself took,
Megan, to create sustainable weight loss over time and to feel that they are not alone if
they struggle with anxiety and stress and will love the concrete tips to managing this
and will feel open to challenging their preconceived notions, especially about diet and weight
loss.
So to your credit and to your point, you never said one thing about needing to defeat emotions.
That was how I interpreted how I influenced people to go from where they may be to where
you've arrived to with this lit up reality and wanting that like, well done.
Like that was, that was so awesome.
So embracing negative emotions as it can be a part of the path.
It doesn't have to be a fight or a resistance, so to speak, but more so an exercise in self
awareness.
And the faster you can be next to it, the easier it goes.
The easier it says, okay, I've been here.
I've done what I need to do.
I'm going to go.
So the faster you can like get into the habit of being okay with it, the shorter I've seen
this in my life, the shorter those periods of self doubt and downness really seem to
be so you can get back to doing the stuff you want to do and prioritizing what you want
to prioritize.
I love that.
Thank you so much for it.
So now that we've overcome my limiting belief and going towards, you know, not holding back
on our, I guess are there other mechanisms of holding back regarding health and really,
I'd like to give you five to 10 minutes to also just enlighten me.
What questions should we be asking ourselves about health and wellness?
That opportunities can open my eyes as well as the audience's eyes to really fully embracing
what it is that's helped you so we can overcome our challenges.
Hmm.
Well, as far as what questions you can ask yourself, I think the first one has always
got to be like, what, what do you want to see that's different than now?
Because it's shocking how vague we actually are.
And specificity always helps if you are looking to make a change.
So in, in my journey, I very clearly wanted, I didn't necessarily want weight loss right
away.
I really clearly wanted to treat food in a more peaceful way.
I wanted to be okay with the food I was eating and not feel that cycle of guilt every day.
So that was my very clear vision for what I wanted.
And that really helped me choose, I think, the right path for me.
It wasn't Weight Watchers.
It wasn't a personal trainer.
It was a therapist.
It was CBT, cognitive behavioral therapy.
I'm glad that I got specific on what I really wanted because it led me to something that
I think was the much better way to go and eventually get to a place where I could prioritize
health and lose the weight.
So that's always the first thing.
Get really clear on what you're doing now and what you want to see different.
So you've caught me with these philosophies, like in a good way.
You've got the principles.
That's striking me.
It's obviously clear.
And I'm really excited for people to know what the next level looks like.
So you've got some pages here on work with me.
It says one-on-one coaching, accelerator program, all coaching, a free meal planner
club.
Do you want to walk me through these and which one do you want to start with?
Yeah, I'll start with the two types of one-on-one coaching.
So partake.
They really address people at two different points or two different desires of how they
want to work.
If you're looking at partake one-on-one, it really means that you want to pursue a specific
weight loss goal and you want to do it in a clear but kind way that is not hurried.
So your goal is not long-term results.
Either way, when you're working with me, your goal is the long-term result.
You want to keep it off.
But with partake, there is no common structure that every single person takes.
It's very you.
It's very exactly what you want to see.
If you want to pursue your weight loss by adding steps in your day and increasing vegetables,
we're going to work on those very specific action plans.
If you want to do it by getting a gym subscription and tracking your calories, we're going to
do it very specifically that way.
We're going to get an action plan together, test it, work together to tweak it, track
results over time.
That's partake.
Accelerate is for folks who have a bit more urgency to their goal and would like to pursue
it that weight loss goal in an efficient way.
I don't say fast.
I say efficient because fast is not great.
It often results in losing muscle along with the fat, which is not fun.
It often results in people taking on actions that they're not willing to do long-term.
When you choose the accelerate way, you are saying, I would like to get efficient, track
my calories, understand my maintenance calories and my deficit calories, and pursue it in
that clear, direct way.
That's the difference.
In both programs, you get weekly meetings with me, email access, a lot of resources
that I've put together, and that structure.
Those are the two different people that would appeal to.
That's awesome.
Did you want to talk about the other programs?
Yeah.
I would love to talk about my free meal planner club.
I think it is such a common thing.
It addresses a very common block, which is I am winging my meals every single week.
It's a very simple offering.
It's free, and what you get is a weekly recipe, and you get a 30-minute class every Thursday,
a 330 ET, where we together make your meal plan.
We all hop on Instagram Live.
I am showing you exactly how I walk through my personal meal plan for my household.
You are able to print out my planner, plan your meal right alongside me, your menu, and
any time you get stuck, that's when the comments, the jumping in live, that is what you have
to help you get over that stuck point when you half did your meal plan, and then you're
winging the rest of the week.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
That's awesome.
I'm really grateful for your demeanor as a guide.
You've got that nurturing nature.
You've got that personal story behind it.
You're very intentionally articulate in how you're going about this, and it just, the
piece of your approach resonates really, really well with me.
It's amazing that I hosted Jack Skills yesterday, and on his agency site, I want to find the
quote.
His agency site starts with the quote, ta-da-da-da-da.
Here it is.
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
I was like, like that.
Yeah, doesn't it?
Just resonate.
That hits me right in the heart.
I recommend borrowing from that for what you're doing and how you're-
Such a simple way to say that.
Oh, I've been searching for a simple way to say that.
I have to credit him now every time I say it.
Absolutely.
If you look at his website, the agency agile, you'll see the image that goes along with it,
and it's like, oh, that just makes so much sense altogether.
It has all the feels.
Whether it's you as a leader or visionary out there, you're struggling to defeat negative
emotions rather than find out how they might be beneficial to you, or you're holding your
health back in some way or another.
I'm a huge fan of coaches.
I absolutely love coaching.
I avoid coaches who say the words, or people who say the words, I already have a coach.
It's like, you only have one source of knowledge.
Why?
Yeah.
Why would you limit yourself?
That person might be great at health or nutrition, but they may not be great at strength training
and beyond.
So finding the opportunities to level up, diving into the resources that we have, this
is how we can maximize our lives, visionaries.
We're going to have the action steps for this episode right below the episode on the landing
page.
Now, if you've got a comment about this, if you've got something you want to contribute
about Health and Wellness, please do.
We'd love to hear that in the comments.
You can, of course, reach out to Megan as well on her social media channels.
Like, subscribe if this has helped you.
We also have one more invitation for you.
If you're a visionary, you're a leader, I don't have any right to challenge that, but
if your vision is helping others or going to help others, hit the button that says,
be our guest.
Come share it on the show.
That's super important to us.
So as we get ready to wrap up, Megan, do you have any final pieces of wisdom you want to
share with the audience?
Oh, put me on the spot.
I am.
I think, I don't know, what I've learned in my particular health journey was that I kind
of knew a lot of the stuff.
So knowledge was not the problem.
It was, it was creating an environment where I felt capable of doing the things I said
I would do.
So if you feel like you've got this like health goal and you're like in an internet rabbit
hole collecting keto this and intermittent fasting that it might not be the information
that you're missing.
It might just be the clarity of the one or two things you want to change between now
and next week.
So don't go crazy with the extra knowledge.
You've probably got a lot of it already there.
Just move, just do an action.
I love it.
So my last highlight regarding Megan, you guys, I think this is what I love most about
Megan.
I can tell from her form submission, I can tell by your website, I can tell by the way
you interact, you are a super fun and energetic individual who loves to bring high energy.
And yet you've had the capacity to completely respect and honor my nature.
And you've caught that I tend to be more reverent.
Like I don't tend to gravitate towards that as much as I love and appreciate it.
And you've had this ability, the whole show you've managed to mold completely towards
that, that reverence.
And that's, that takes some serious EQ, which means you've got the emotional capacity that
help people of all different types of lifestyles, diverse backgrounds.
So again, I just, I can't say enough good things about you.
This is a lot of fun.
Thank you.
This is a great way to spend an hour, a little less than an hour.
It was a lot of fun.
So Vision Pros, you guys have a fantastic weekend.
We hope to see you in the next episode.
And again, we'll, we look forward to your submissions as well.
We hope you join us soon.
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