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Any health-related information on the following show provides general information only.
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Content presented on any show by any host or guest
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should not be substituted for a doctor's advice. Always consult
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your physician before beginning any new diet, exercise, or treatment program.
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And now it's time for Pet Health Cafe, where your
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pet has a voice. And here's your host, Bill, the
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Pet Health Guru.
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And welcome to the Pet Health Cafe, the show where
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your pet has a voice. Bill, the Pet Health Guru,
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along with my special guest host, Michelle. How are you doing, Michelle? Fabulous.
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And you know, glad to have you here today. You know,
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we do this every week now. That's getting crazy. Anyway,
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as we always start on the show, we want you
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any of these. Because we always have a good wide
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range of topics that we're going to cover. We had
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a special one tonight. The chat is open. So we
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encourage you to say hi, ask your questions, and kind
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of give us a lift along the way because your
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thoughts matter. You're the one that has to deal with
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your pets every single day. And you know what goes
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on with them and how they're acting and everything else.
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And it's leading us into the topic itself for tonight
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because we When we look at where we ask for advice,
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you know, we're always asking our veterinarians and our groomers
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for advice. You have to realize they only see your pet,
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you know, a veterinarian sometimes may, unless it's really a
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problem once a year, once every six months, the groomer
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every six to eight weeks. So you're the one spending
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24 seven with them. And, you know, we want to
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start preventing things from happening so we don't have to
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worry about, that once there's a problem, a condition, then
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all of a sudden we're faced with life-changing and life-altering
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lifestyle changes that basically, as our title said, where's the fear?
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Feel the fear and do it anyway. You know, you're
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asked when sometimes there's a problem, you know, we accept
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that a doctor gives you a prescription, a tumor will
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give you a you know, therapeutic baths, supposedly. But are
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these really what your animal needs?
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I don't think so, Bill. But, you know, going on
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our topic tonight, fear, one of the reasons we chose
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this topic is because we're dealing.
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With clients every day.
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We hear from them. We love hearing from you. And
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we hear fear in your voices. For us, fear means
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an Other people, of course, face everything and rise.
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But what does that really mean?
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That acronym face everything and rise. You know, it's easy
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for people to say it, but it's not easy all
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the time to do it, to apply it. And as
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part of our lives, we face fear every day.
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You know, fear.
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Will this work?
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Is this product going to be good for my pet?
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Will my pet be OK if he or she's on
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raw food? What about the herbal supplements? How is my
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pet going to fare? How will the stool be? Will
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there be loose stool? Should I put gloves on? You know,
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I hear, and we hear, I should say, so much
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fear in your voices. And that's why we decided to
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talk about this. Because you, as the pet owner, you
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also have fear. And your fear is going on to
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your pets. Your fear is, Your pets feel your emotions 100%,
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if not more. And that's where it's really at. You know,
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if you're not in balance, your pets probably aren't in
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balance either. And I don't mean it just with food.
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I'm talking about overall.
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Just in life in general. Life in general. You know,
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if you don't like lightning and loud noises, guess what?
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Either of those are pets. And, you know, the other
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thing is we accept too much on face value. You know,
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a client today I know that asked you something about
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just giving herbs. Now, let's face it. We've all cooked.
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Most of us have cooked anyway. And we add seasonings and,
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you know, herbals and things of that nature to our food.
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We're ingesting them. So why would you need gloves? to
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handle that. Does that make any sense, Michelle?
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Let me just preface and say we're not making fun
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in any shape or form. Please understand where we're coming from.
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We have a lot of clients who come forth and
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express their fears. They're upset because X, Y, Z is happening.
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They're not sure. You know, feeding a raw diet, and
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I applaud anyone who goes and tries to do something different.
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Because that shows me that you're in charge of your fears.
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That shows me that you've stepped out of the fear.
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Because we all have fear. It's not just fear of
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how we're going to feed our animals. It's not just
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fear of, oh my goodness, we're moving and my dog
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is going to be around other dogs. We're not talking
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about just that fear. When I speak about fear as
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a health coach, I talk about how people have to
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be in balance with the seven elements of wellness.
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So what do I mean by that, Bill?
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I'm saying if you're out of balance emotionally, if you're
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out of balance even financially, spiritually, mentally, environmentally, all of that,
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when you're out of balance, that's when fear creeps up.
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Think about it. But if you're in balance, if you're
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sure of yourself, if you're confident, if you say, well,
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this too shall pass. I've been through this a million times.
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I can do this. If you say that, then that fear...
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It's not that it's going to dissipate. You always have fear.
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You'll have fear when you have a new project to do.
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It's normal.
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It's part of life. How those challenges, how we tackle
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those challenges, that's where it's at.
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You know, I mean, again, you're right. We don't think
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a lot about a lot of the little things like this.
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I know myself, okay, as you well know now, I
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engage in a lot of different around-the-home type projects. I
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build things, I fix things, I landscape, I do repairs,
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all that. Much of that I've never done before in
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my life. So I have to take a step back,
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assess the situation, finally determine how the best approach to
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it is. Am I scared when I start some of
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this stuff? Absolutely. You know, I start to cut something,
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you know, a tree. I mean, we, you know, I'm
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looking at I had to do a major landscaping here,
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and I had to go into a neighbor's yard to
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take down weeds and vines that were on the fence.
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And along the way, I discovered there was actually a
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gate to my backyard that was totally hidden. And of course,
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here I am in this kind of order. So it's
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almost a jungle-like situation sometimes. Are there spiders? Are there bugs?
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Are there snakes? What kind? What am I going to encounter?
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I know because I've been in nature for so long
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that most of this stuff is going to run away
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from me. But still, it's, you know, actually most of
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my fear was because I was working in a basically
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a drainage area where there's deep banks and stuff like that.
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My fear was that I was going to fall on
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my butt and not be able to get up because, again,
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I'm not a kid anymore. So, you know, these things,
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you know, I had to feel the fear and do
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it anyway. And at the end of the day, it
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was done. And it was done in record time, really,
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when I look at it, because I just jumped in,
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kept working at it, working at it, working at it.
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Same thing goes when we have to do a, you know,
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a health change with our animals. So hopefully, and this
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is our hope, is that you don't wait until your
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animal has health challenges before you start making lifestyle change.
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You know, everybody's afraid, okay, my dog is now sick.
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I can't give him, especially when we talk about real
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food diets. Well, I was told by the authorities that
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we need something gentler like processed food. So you're going
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to give your animal that's been on processed food filled
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with chemicals his whole life more of the same. It
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didn't work in the first place. So, you know, you
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have to ask, why am I continuing to do bad stuff?
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You know, just because the name on the package, just
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because of the name of the supplement or drug changes,
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that doesn't mean that the lifestyle has changed.
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What it is to fear is people are afraid of failure.
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If you think of FAIL, the acronym First Attempt in Learning,
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every time you think you're going to fail, you remind
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yourself about failing. and step up to the plate we're
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not in kindergarten you know we're not in school anymore
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we're adults and it's okay to fail I'm a teacher
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38 years I don't like failing anyone I don't feel
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there's failure I feel that everyone has a chance I
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feel first attempt in learning we're learning So you make,
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there's no.
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Mistakes in feeding wrong.
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You feed once a day, you feed twice a day,
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you feed half a day, you skip a day.
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It's okay.
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There are no mistakes. You cannot make a mistake. You
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cannot mess this up. And I think that's the real
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reason people are afraid to start something new. You know,
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my biggest fear, I stepped out of teaching for 38
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years and I came back into my health coaching, which
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I love because I love helping people. I love helping parents,
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and I just love my paleo pen. You know, I
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love the whole concept of it. So my fear is, well,
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oh my goodness, am I going.
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To do it?
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So what do I do with that fear? I step back.
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I take a step back. I put myself within my
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love bubble that I've created within my own brain. And
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I ask and I tell myself, you've done this before,
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you can do it again. And I'm always reassuring myself
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that I can do it. And once you step out
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of that lack of then you're allowing the fear to
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step in. Now, those of you who don't have the
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ability to just change and have that confidence right away.
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That's a building step.
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That's building blocks. And that's something that I could go
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into in detail, you know, at another time. But you
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need to be able to grab hold of that fear.
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You know, your babies, your pet babies, even your own children,
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they rely on.
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You know, it's interesting that we accept what the big
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pharmaceutical companies have done. It was ultra-processed, chemically based, petroleum based.
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I think at last week's show I said, I asked you,
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would you drink a glass of gasoline or a glass
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of motor oil? That's what most drugs are made from.
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That's what most of the food dyes that they use
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are made from. You would never do it Yet we
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do it every day because it's called something different. You know, it's,
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you know, I don't understand it. You know, I mean,
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I like to eat, and you can attest to this.
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I love good food. I want clean food. I want
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to be healthy. You know, we don't always agree on
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concepts and putting things together all the time. But, you know,
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you being a health coach, you know, you were indoctrinated
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into the exercise world. You know, go to the gym,
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work out, everything else. I've lived 75 years, over 75 years,
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without going to a gym and working out. And yet
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I was thinking about, you know, I mean, I made
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some comments to you about it earlier. But when I
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stop and think about it, I mean, I got 20
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and 30 and 40-year-olds, 50-year-olds coming into my store every
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day that, you know, yeah, they look good. They've been bodybuilding.
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They've been exercising. Half of them live at the gym.
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They work at the gym. They have their own gyms.
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And listening to them talk about their blown out knee,
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their bad shoulder, their bad elbows, you know, bone on bone,
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you know, all these problems that I don't have. So,
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you know, if I look at the usual analysis, that
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gyms cause all these problems. Well, it's not that I'm saying, Bill,
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you must go to the gym and lift like a bodybuilder.
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All I'm saying is, is maybe once a week or
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twice a week a few weights and also some stretching.
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To me, stretching is extremely important. It relieves stress. It
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helps with cortisol levels. And I take my dogs out.
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I have three dogs now. I take each one out individually.
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I'm running up and down with each one. I'm doing
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squats in the middle of the dogs. That's neat becauseâ
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That relieves my stress.
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Well, that was a part of one of the, you know,
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I've done this a number of times. One of the
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problems when I looked at exercise programs is you're doing
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the same thing the same way. When I started a
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walking program five, six years ago, when I first started
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working with the patches and stuff like that, you know,
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I'm looking at my walking. Yeah, I'm doing really good.
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I'm doing three miles, four miles, sometimes seven miles on
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a Sunday. And that would seem fine. As soon as
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I got off the street and the sidewalk onto a rocky,
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uneven park, I was tipping over because I was only