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00:02:08.269Quit speaking death over your body.
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00:02:28.669If you're tired of doing all the right things and still feeling exhausted, stuck in your body and disconnected from God, this podcast is for you.
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00:02:29.469I'm Dr.
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00:02:41.310This isn't about another diet or quick fix.
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00:02:53.150Welcome to Fast to Faith, where you don't just lose weight and feel great.
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00:03:05.629Welcome back to the Fast to Faith podcast.
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00:03:07.069What is going on?
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00:03:11.550I know I am on the road and I'm so excited.
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00:03:17.229I'm sorry, Ashley, we miss you this week, but I am here with my mentor, Brooke Thomas.
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00:03:20.269I there's no way I could not do this interview today.
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00:03:22.670I'm so excited to be here with you.
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00:03:24.189I'm so excited too.
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00:03:33.789This conversation is really important because women, you know, you talk to women in the business world and how faith activates their business.
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00:03:36.909But I talk to women about how it activates their health.
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00:03:46.829So, ladies, listen up because Brooke is the real deal.
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00:03:58.909She is a powerhouse entrepreneur, she has built multiple businesses, she has an eight-figure empire empowering faith-driven-driven businesswomen to write their own rules for success.
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00:04:00.509It's called Live Out Loud.
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00:04:04.829I am in her mastermind, and I've known Brooke for a couple of years now.
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00:04:10.189But I decided to interview her for you ladies because she wrote a book.
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00:04:12.430It's called Activate Your Impact.
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00:04:22.110And I want this conversation to help you activate your healing, body, mind, and soul.
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00:04:30.269Yay! Yay!
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00:04:31.870I'm so happy about this.
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00:04:34.509I know it's going to reach a lot of people, touch a lot of people.
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00:04:39.069And shameless plug for you that was just on my podcast on the Live Out Loud Show.
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00:04:40.750Definitely go check out the episode with Dr.
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00:04:45.790So thank you again for being on my podcast.
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00:04:47.790Yeah, that was a fire episode.
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00:04:49.230Yes.
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00:04:54.350So I know this is a heavy topic for you, and you have to get a little bit vulnerable.
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00:05:09.550But you're gonna bless some women today because I know there are women that have been given a diagnosis and they feel pressured from conventional doctors to just like get it taken care of.
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00:05:14.029ASAP, don't ask any questions, no informed consent.
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00:05:25.709And you just went through this, and I want you to share with my listeners that you actually paused and had a conversation with God and didn't go the conventional route, right?
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00:05:28.670Yes, and this is the second time this has happened in my life.
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00:05:52.430I actually just recorded my first episode on what just took place because I know and I have had enough experience at this point where you've got to be really careful who you talk to, what you say out loud, what you say over your body, what you say is happening to your body until you get through it, you know, based on what you believe.
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00:05:57.069And so, first I'll start with 22 years ago when I was 26 years old.
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00:06:11.230I was pregnant in my first trimester of pregnancy, and I went for a routine checkup at the hospital, and I just thought I was there for a routine checkup, and they told me to go downstairs to oncology.
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00:06:13.389And I was like, Oncology?
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00:06:14.909I don't need to go down to oncology.
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00:06:19.149I'm just here for my, you know, get my belly measured and all that stuff.
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00:06:20.269Listen to the heartbeat.
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00:06:26.509And I had had some blood work and some other appointments before that, and I had the spot on my back that was itching.
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00:06:30.990I didn't really look at it because it was in a spot where I couldn't see it, but I had some blood work done.
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00:06:33.469And long story short, they took me down to oncology.
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00:06:46.349They told me that I had stage three melanoma, and they proceeded to show me, like on the wall, different patients, different women that were my age, the severity of my cancer.
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00:07:00.750And I just remember sitting there being like, oh, okay, um, thank you for this information, but I'll be back after I have the baby and we'll take care of all whatever we need to do.
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00:07:02.669But right now, I just I want to leave.
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00:07:04.990And you know, again, this was 22 years ago.
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00:07:10.589I was in North Carolina, you know, I was 26 years old, and they wouldn't let me leave.
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00:07:13.310They said, we're liable, we can't let you leave.
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00:07:19.469Um, we highly recommend that you have an abortion and that you have chemotherapy.
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00:07:22.109And that is the only way that you're gonna survive this.
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00:07:30.589And again, they showed me other patients, other women, that if they didn't do, they didn't do what they said, they either died or the baby died.
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00:07:34.349And they really scared me into saying that you're either gonna die or your baby's gonna die.
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00:07:35.629And it was that extreme.
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00:07:37.549And again, this is 22 years ago.
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00:07:43.389I I want to keep saying that because I feel like if it happened today, it's just the the world was different 22 years ago.
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00:07:47.870We didn't have all of these, nobody was talking about things out loud the way they're gonna be.
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00:07:49.549I'm here to tell you it still happened.
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00:07:51.629Well, I I do agree.
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00:07:56.829But but you know what, it does still happen because it almost just happened to me again in a different way.
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00:08:09.149And there just wasn't what I meant by that is like there it I did not have a community or an outlet or a place where I could go and Google and type or be on like a right.
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00:08:12.909You didn't have Instagram people talking about how you know now.
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00:08:27.870I feel like we if you get a diagnosis like that, you can go and find 20 different people or 20 different places that would it be like, oh, that happened to me and I did this instead, or you could find, you know, different outlets to at least have the conversation, even privately.
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00:08:29.310There was nobody back then.
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00:08:39.389Like I was just a scared 26-year-old that was told this, and and I, and and I was also told, you know, this is what you need to do, or you will die, or your baby was gonna die.
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00:08:46.350So I took a deep breath and I come from a family of naturopaths and you know, functional medicine doctors and chiropractors.
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00:08:50.669So I knew that like that was not my only option, but I was scared.
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00:09:00.830And sometimes when you're raised a certain way and you move away and you go away and you get married, you know, I was always told what to do, not always why.
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00:09:01.230Yeah.
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00:09:04.909And I was raised in a super healthy family, and I'm so grateful.
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00:09:07.070But not everything was explained.
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00:09:16.430So I would say when I got married, and even when I went away to college, you know, I dabbled in things that were not as healthy for a little while because I never got to growing up.
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00:09:19.149And this is why I think education is so important.
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00:09:25.549This is why not just telling people why they shouldn't do something, but like showing them why, teaching them why is so valuable.
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00:09:26.909Like it's the only way.
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00:09:33.149And so my daughters are raised the same way that I was raised, but I explain everything and I make sure they understand.
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00:09:40.590And um, so what happened was I said there has to be another way.
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00:09:44.350They said we can cut the cancer out without anesthetic, but you have to do it now.
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00:09:48.669Skin cancer grows fast and hard when you're pregnant because of your hormones.
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00:09:49.470Let's do this.
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00:09:51.710I was like, okay, I mean, they didn't really say let's do this.
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00:09:55.070I said let's do this because they I felt like those were the only options.
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00:09:58.190I didn't realize what I was signing up for.
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00:09:59.789That happens to me a lot.
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00:10:02.350I'm like, let's just jump and build the wings on the way down.
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00:10:02.750Let's go.
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00:10:04.830The first option doesn't sound good.
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00:10:05.549Let's just cut it out.
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00:10:06.430That sounds better.
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00:10:10.430Because they said we can do this other thing, we can cut it out.
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00:10:16.669But I do that this is when I felt like I was being spoken death over me, but I didn't realize it at the time.
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00:10:20.669I mean, I can I can very clearly know now that that's what it was.
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00:10:33.230But that doctor specifically said, we can do this second option, but if we do, I just want you to know that cancer will absolutely return and you probably won't live past 40.
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00:10:37.470But let's do this, get you through your pregnancy, and then we'll come back and deal with everything.
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00:10:45.149I did not realize at the time how powerful those words were over me until later when I really digested it.
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00:10:46.990But so I just handled it in the moment.
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00:10:47.710I just took care of it.
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00:10:51.230I don't know if you've ever been in a situation or anybody that's listening.
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00:10:57.230You know, back then, again, I was kind of the type of person that's like, let's just do this and we'll worry about it later.
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00:10:59.309Let's just handle this and pretend it didn't happen.
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00:10:59.549Yeah.
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00:11:04.750And up to that point, I had not dealt with a lot of things in my life that I needed to deal with.
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00:11:07.069I just took care of things and then pretended it didn't happen.
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00:11:14.110It was one of those things, again, this vein of like, let me speak death over your body, let do what I tell you to do and just handle it.
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00:11:16.189And then I just pretend it didn't happen, you know?
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00:11:19.389And it was a very, very traumatic experience.
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00:11:23.789They cut me open from like side to side, front side to backside.
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00:11:25.230It was 50 stitches.
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00:11:32.509And I didn't realize at the time in my first trimester of pregnancy, you know, I didn't, I wasn't popped yet.
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00:11:34.269Your skin wasn't stretched.
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00:11:35.629I wasn't stretched yet.
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00:11:45.949And where the stitches were from side to side and 50 stitches, as I grew out in pregnancy throughout my pregnancy, it it grew and keloided.
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00:11:52.590I mean, it looked 50 stitches is a pretty big deal when it starts to stretch, and it looked like a huge shark attack.
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00:11:54.350Like it was keloided, it was awful.
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00:11:56.029I was so ashamed, I was so upset.
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00:11:57.549I was like, why is this happening to me?
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00:12:03.870You know, and it's one of those things where you're, you know, no one, a lot of people didn't know what was going on because I could hide it.
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00:12:05.629My husband would take care of me at night.
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00:12:10.829He worked at a medical sales job and he had all the great things to help me at night.
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00:12:14.750But I just remember thinking, like, why is this happening to me?
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00:12:24.509My friends are talking about their nurseries and baby clothes and, you know, having their little babies, and I'm like just trying to like survive, like hoping that it's not gonna come back.
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00:12:26.269And those words were repeated.
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00:12:28.110I wish I could say, oh, and everything was great.
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00:12:33.470But for a couple of years, a lot of people didn't know this because I was always outgoing and positive.
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00:12:35.230And everyone would ask if I was fine.
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00:12:36.669I'm like, I'm or how are you doing?
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00:12:38.429I'm fine, I'm great, but I wasn't.
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00:12:41.309At home, I was crying, depressed, sad.
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00:12:43.230But I back then nobody talked about it.
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00:12:43.470Yeah.
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00:12:45.230They just, I feel like one of those older women.
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00:12:46.509Back then, nobody talked about it.
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00:12:47.949But they really didn't.
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00:12:48.990There was no forms.
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00:12:54.750There was no, I didn't even tell my friends, my neighbors, my family, really only Brett when he came home, I would break down.
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00:12:56.269But I was breaking down every day.
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00:13:00.110I was like sitting there, like, I should be thankful that I don't have the cancer, I think.
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00:13:01.949But like, is the cancer gonna return?
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00:13:05.789And I didn't realize how powerful those words were that the doctor spoke over me.
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00:13:09.230You you will not live past 40, and the cancer will return.
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00:13:18.110And what I did for a couple of years in silence, in secret, and I was so ashamed of even talking about this, but I can talk about it now because I know so many people do this.
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00:13:25.470Instead of speaking life, instead of thinking of all the good things, I actually researched all the things the doctor said.
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00:13:32.829I researched how I was gonna die like before 40, not how, but like I researched that cancer and how it could return.
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00:13:39.389I researched everything that he said that would happen to me because I didn't do this and didn't do that, and you couldn't find anything that you look for.
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00:13:40.429Yeah, absolutely.
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00:13:50.350I kept thinking this is what's gonna happen until one day, it was like a couple years in, and my daughter was like two, and I was pregnant with my third.
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00:13:54.429And again, every, I mean, back then, every three to six months I had to get blood work.
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00:13:56.029You know, then it turned into every year.
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00:14:00.110But at first it was like every three to six months because they wanted to make sure the the cancer didn't return.
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00:14:06.590And it was like a lot, like taking my baby to the doctor so they could do blood work to see if I had cancer.
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00:14:09.870I mean, every time it's just emotional, it's stressful.
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00:14:11.470Nobody told me that back then.
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00:14:14.669This is actually gonna add to like if the cancer comes back or not.
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00:14:23.069This is going to add to your cortisol levels being shot, or this is gonna add to depression or your, you know, your mental and emotional state.
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00:14:25.870Like nobody talked about that back then to me.
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00:14:27.470There was nowhere to find it again.
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00:14:29.470There was no like, nobody was Googling anything.
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00:14:31.470There was no Facebook pages back then.
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00:14:38.590And so I just thankfully, my relationship with the Lord, like it was nothing like it has been over the last 20 years.
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00:14:44.350But I was desperate enough one day to just get on my knees and cry out and be like, God, I need your help.
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00:14:45.629I was never angry at God.
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00:14:48.269I'm just not that girl that's like angry at God.
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00:14:51.069But I was just like, God, I just need you.
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00:14:52.110I need you to help me.
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00:14:54.110I need you to show me I need a different way.
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00:14:57.710And like I heard it so clearly, not audible, but I felt it.
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00:15:00.110Like, quit speaking death over your body.
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00:15:02.189Quit looking up all this other stuff.
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00:15:08.990Speak life, you know, like imagine yourself as the healthiest 40-year-old mom that ever lived.
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00:15:11.549And I literally, something just shifted in me.
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00:15:14.189And I like I know how to do that now.
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00:15:17.149Like, like that's what I teach, that's what I live, that's what I've lived.
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00:15:19.389But I didn't know what I was doing back then.
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00:15:28.110And I just started to lay in bed, put my hands on my body, and I just started to be like, I'm gonna be the healthiest 40-year-old mom that ever lived.
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00:15:30.269Cells come into alignment.
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00:15:33.870Like, I would speak life over my cells, over my body.
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00:15:37.309I would speak life and health over myself.
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00:15:39.549And then I got certified in nutrition.
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00:15:44.350And I'm like, I'm gonna learn every single thing that I shouldn't be eating, that I should be eating.
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00:15:48.750I'm gonna learn about supplements, I'm gonna learn what I need to be doing, and I'm gonna go after this.
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00:15:52.350I would look at my daughter and be like, I don't ever want her to feel the way I do.
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00:15:53.549I don't wanna not know.
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00:15:55.389I don't wanna just be told what to do and not to do.
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00:15:56.590I wanna learn it for myself.
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00:16:04.829And I devoured books, I devoured education, I prayed over myself, and I just envisioned, I literally envisioned, it makes me cry.
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00:16:11.309Like, like I was like late 20s, but like I envisioned being like the healthiest 40-year-old woman.
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00:16:14.750And I envisioned what I was gonna look like and how old my daughters were gonna be.
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00:16:25.470And when I mean that happened, you know, at 40, and like I became completely cancer free, 10-year, you know, at the 10-year mark, they say you're cancer free.
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00:16:36.590And I will tell you, the reason why I get emotional is because I look back now at that girl that I would say things, I would speak life over my body and I would tell everybody I'm gonna be the healthiest 40-year-old woman.
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00:16:38.909But I didn't always believe it.
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00:16:44.590I didn't know what the outcome was going to be because those doctors still, those words still rung in my mind.
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00:16:47.789And every time I would go get blood work, they still were like, I hope it does.
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00:16:54.909They say things that make you question, even though my faith was strong, I still in the back of my mind was like, but what if?
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00:16:58.990And it wasn't until right around that eight to 10 years where I was like, this is gone.
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00:17:00.269This baby is gone.
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00:17:03.710Like, I mean, this cancer is gone, like this is not my story anymore.
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00:17:05.950And I would start to say, This is not my story anymore.
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00:17:10.430I turned 40, you know, and now I mean it's been 22 years since my diagnosis.
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00:17:12.829I've been 12 years cancer free.
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00:17:20.190And I'm proud to walk around, and I've been proud to walk around saying I am health, the healthiest version that the ever.
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00:17:24.110I'm healthy, I'm well, I'm cancer like free.
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00:17:25.069That's not my story.
00:17:25.150 -->
00:17:27.789I don't even say cancer free, I'm just like cancer is not my story.
00:17:27.870 -->
00:17:29.549I'm very careful what I speak over.
00:17:29.710 -->
00:17:35.150My body, my life, like what I take in and what we're here to talk about today.
00:17:35.390 -->
00:17:37.470Yeah, before you don't spoil it, yeah.
00:17:38.029 -->
00:17:41.789Um, because something really resonated with me, what you said.
00:17:42.430 -->
00:17:54.430You know, when I started studying functional medicine and taking time to actually sit and listen to my patients and look at their entire life story to figure out the root cause of what was going on.
00:17:54.829 -->
00:18:04.269I over and over and over I kept hearing, I'm never gonna lose weight, I'm never gonna feel better, I'm always gonna be in pain.
00:18:04.430 -->
00:18:10.269And they were repeating the stuff the doctors said to them.
00:18:10.509 -->
00:18:16.269And so like once we realize we're doing that, we can actually shift.
00:18:16.430 -->
00:18:29.390And so that was a huge pivotal moment for you of like, wait a second, I'm just like believing what they said, and now I'm repeating it and speaking it over and over for a decade, or you know, for three years.
00:18:29.549 -->
00:18:46.910And so whoever is listening to this right now, start to become aware of what you are saying to your body because I promise you, you're you're speaking death that is unnecessarily creating disease, right?
00:18:47.710 -->
00:18:49.230Yeah, I just wanted to point that out.
00:18:49.630 -->
00:18:50.269It's so true.
00:18:50.590 -->
00:19:07.870And I have to just say that I always say to people, I already know the outcome of where my mind, my my body, my health, my business, my relationships go when I speak death, darkness, or defeat.
00:19:07.950 -->
00:19:11.549Yeah, it takes you down a long road to nowhere.
00:19:11.789 -->
00:19:12.589I call it the pit.
00:19:12.670 -->
00:19:12.910Yes.
00:19:13.069 -->
00:19:16.349Like I get in the pit, and I don't have a ladder, I can't get out.
00:19:16.670 -->
00:19:20.430You've got and and I actually do not like the statement, fake it till you make it.
00:19:20.509 -->
00:19:22.029I actually hate that statement.
00:19:22.190 -->
00:19:24.430I don't want to fake it until I make it.
00:19:24.589 -->
00:19:29.230But what I say is walk, talk, and act like it's done until it's done.
00:19:29.470 -->
00:19:34.589So I would say I'm gonna be the healthiest 40-year-old woman, mom that ever lives.
00:19:34.829 -->
00:19:35.950I am cancer free.
00:19:36.109 -->
00:19:37.789Cancer is not my story anymore.
00:19:37.950 -->
00:19:41.150Like I am this, I am that, I am that, I will be that.
00:19:41.230 -->
00:19:44.430And I walked and talked like her until I became her.
00:19:44.589 -->
00:19:52.670And that's why turning 40 was like such a big deal for me because I truly I have that's when I did my first big live out loud event at the Breakers in Palm Beach.
00:19:52.750 -->
00:19:56.269That's when um my daughters were at really significant ages.
00:19:56.430 -->
00:20:01.789I believe they were at um, I can't remember, I think they were at like 10 and 13 or something like that.
00:20:01.869 -->
00:20:04.269It was just like a such a mile marker moment for me.
00:20:04.910 -->
00:20:08.910And it was like after that, I just feel like I could do anything.
00:20:09.150 -->
00:20:15.629And I was like, and I kept thinking, what if I would have kept going down that road not believing this?
00:20:15.789 -->
00:20:17.710And I didn't really understand what I was doing.
00:20:17.789 -->
00:20:19.069That's why I am the way I am.
00:20:19.150 -->
00:20:21.309People think like, why are you the way you are?
00:20:21.549 -->
00:20:27.230It's why I constantly talk about how powerful our words are, what we speak over our life.
00:20:27.470 -->
00:20:30.269But you know, it doesn't always mean that everything's going to be perfect.
00:20:30.430 -->
00:20:33.150It doesn't mean that things are not gonna return.
00:20:33.309 -->
00:20:36.910And if they do, it doesn't mean that that's it, you were wrong.
00:20:37.150 -->
00:20:49.150And so again, I spent most of my life, the last 22 years, really like believing, but still just a little bit the first like five to 10 years, like what if?
00:20:49.389 -->
00:20:50.430I didn't say that.
00:20:50.589 -->
00:20:52.349It's just like we were humans, right?
00:20:52.509 -->
00:20:59.389Yeah, but once I got like to year 10, 12, I'd be like, okay, like like that's never coming back.
00:20:59.549 -->
00:21:03.150I've arrived and I know why, and I'm gonna stick to it.
00:21:03.309 -->
00:21:06.509And I feel amazing, and I'm the healthiest version that I've ever been.
00:21:06.589 -->
00:21:08.109Like I always say that.
00:21:08.509 -->
00:21:10.509So then, yeah.
00:21:10.990 -->
00:21:12.269So what happened?
00:21:12.589 -->
00:21:20.670Yeah, so I had a spot that that popped up on my face, and it was just in the worst spot possible.
00:21:20.829 -->
00:21:29.470I mean, I'm sure if anybody's listening or watching, and you you go back even the last five to seven years and you really look, I mean, there was always like this spot on my face.
00:21:29.710 -->
00:21:31.710And I I thought I did a good job.
00:21:31.869 -->
00:21:36.670I mean, my close friends and family are like, we always saw it, we always were worried about you.
00:21:36.829 -->
00:21:39.309And it was a spot that just kept coming and going.
00:21:39.389 -->
00:21:40.670It was not melanoma.
00:21:40.750 -->
00:21:45.950And stage three melanoma is nothing to uh really mess with.
00:21:46.190 -->
00:21:46.430Right.
00:21:46.670 -->
00:21:53.789You know, when you know, again, I'm so glad that I did not listen to chemotherapy and aborting the baby.
00:21:54.109 -->
00:22:01.069But I had to get extreme about, you know, food, lifestyle, mental faith, all this stuff.
00:22:01.230 -->
00:22:11.389And there was, I mean, you know, I after we cut it out, like again, you know, and I I don't know how I feel now about cutting versus, you know, I I do believe I did everything else.
00:22:11.470 -->
00:22:14.190You know, it's like you have to do it all, you know, it's not just one thing.
00:22:14.509 -->
00:22:15.470It's never one thing.
00:22:16.190 -->
00:22:19.389And you have to know that it's it's it's never one thing, and that's okay.
00:22:19.470 -->
00:22:23.309Like, and and I might not know what the one thing was out of the 12 things, but I'm okay with that.
00:22:23.470 -->
00:22:25.869It might have been the combination of the 12 things or whatever.
00:22:26.109 -->
00:22:32.349But um, the spot kept coming up on my face, and they said it was a basal cell carcinoma.
00:22:32.670 -->
00:22:36.269And basal cell carcinomas are slow growing and they won't kill you.
00:22:36.430 -->
00:22:37.629That's what they say.
00:22:38.269 -->
00:22:41.549And I took that as like, I'm not gonna worry about it.
00:22:41.710 -->
00:22:43.629I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna deal with it.
00:22:44.109 -->
00:22:46.750And when we don't deal with things, we don't heal them.
00:22:46.910 -->
00:22:49.389And things need to be revealed so we can heal them.
00:22:49.549 -->
00:22:52.109And I don't know what it was about why I didn't want to deal with it.
00:22:52.190 -->
00:22:58.269I think it was because the first doctor that told me that's what it was, they did say I needed to get like a little surgery on my face.
00:22:58.349 -->
00:23:02.109It would be a small repair, but and I think I was just, I'm always talking.
00:23:02.190 -->
00:23:08.029I'm always like, you know, in a situation where I don't really want to get my face cut on, you know, I don't know who does.
00:23:08.269 -->
00:23:08.750Right, right.
00:23:08.910 -->
00:23:11.629I don't even get laser treatment because I don't want to take a week off.
00:23:12.029 -->
00:23:12.750I don't want the downtime.
00:23:12.829 -->
00:23:13.389I don't, yeah.
00:23:13.470 -->
00:23:18.029And I'm like, I'm just gonna pray and God's gonna heal it, and I'm just not gonna worry about it.
00:23:18.190 -->
00:23:18.509Yeah.
00:23:18.750 -->
00:23:20.670And basal cells come and go.
00:23:20.750 -->
00:23:25.470So it's not like that, it was just like this stage three melanoma that, you know, they come and go.
00:23:25.549 -->
00:23:27.470So they would go away for a little bit, then they come back.
00:23:27.629 -->
00:23:28.269This one.
00:23:29.069 -->
00:23:37.069And then I got to a point where about a year and a half ago, it was it came back with like a vengeance and it was bleeding and it was cracking, and I couldn't cover it.
00:23:37.150 -->
00:23:42.349And I got a biopsy and I and I prayed and I told Brett, I said, We're gonna believe for my miracle.
00:23:42.589 -->
00:23:45.950It's it's not gonna be a basal cell, it's just gonna be something minor.
00:23:46.029 -->
00:23:47.150It's not gonna be cancer.
00:23:47.309 -->
00:23:50.829Like I believed, I said all the right things, I did all the right things.
00:23:50.990 -->
00:23:54.750And I told the doctors, I was like, watch, watch, I'm gonna be like your miracle girl.
00:23:54.910 -->
00:23:58.190Like, I don't have cancer in my body, like that doesn't exist in my body.
00:23:58.349 -->
00:24:00.269I said and did all the right things.
00:24:00.670 -->
00:24:05.950And they called me and they said, We have great news for you.
00:24:06.589 -->
00:24:08.829We have, you got your miracle.
00:24:09.150 -->
00:24:12.509And you don't have this basal cell carcinoma.
00:24:12.589 -->
00:24:13.470It's benign.
00:24:13.549 -->
00:24:15.549And I was like, oh my goodness, I got it.
00:24:15.789 -->
00:24:20.430And I remember that moment because I was in my bathroom and I I literally fell to the ground and I started crying.
00:24:20.509 -->
00:24:21.389And I texted Brad.
00:24:21.549 -->
00:24:22.990I said, come up here, come up here.
00:24:23.150 -->
00:24:25.389And I'm on the floor and I'm like, I got my miracle.
00:24:25.549 -->
00:24:26.589Like, I knew it.
00:24:26.750 -->
00:24:28.750Cancer's never gonna be in my body again.
00:24:28.910 -->
00:24:30.190Like, I'm so excited.
00:24:30.349 -->
00:24:33.150Like, and he's crying because he knew it was just like annoying.
00:24:33.230 -->
00:24:38.670I'm like, so whatever we have to do, whatever, it's you know, because if it wasn't cancer, then I the repair is just so much.
00:24:38.750 -->
00:24:43.950They didn't have to do Mo's, they, you know, they could have just done something else to, you know, make it a smaller repair.
00:24:44.269 -->
00:24:48.269Yeah, tell tell the listeners what they were threatening you with.
00:24:48.509 -->
00:24:51.069Well, well, so this is what happened to this one before that.
00:24:51.230 -->
00:24:53.710So this is the one I I don't know if you know about this.
00:24:53.869 -->
00:24:55.309So this was a year and a half ago.
00:24:55.389 -->
00:24:59.389And when they then they called me back 10 minutes after that call.
00:24:59.629 -->
00:25:03.15010 minutes after they told me it was benign, they called me back.
00:25:03.309 -->
00:25:06.509And they said, I'm so sorry, we gave you the wrong report.
00:25:07.309 -->
00:25:13.549So that's the part that I don't think I told at the retreat because we were already into the other story.
00:25:13.629 -->
00:25:15.309And so they that's what they said.
00:25:15.389 -->
00:25:24.670And so I'm telling you this because in that moment, something shifted in me where I became the root of bitterness was just like instant.
00:25:24.750 -->
00:25:27.150I was like, no, this isn't fair.
00:25:27.389 -->
00:25:28.750You said I didn't.
00:25:28.910 -->
00:25:30.589That's what I'm gonna take.
00:25:30.829 -->
00:25:32.589I'm not gonna accept this.
00:25:32.829 -->
00:25:35.389And they're like, no, no, no, you need to take care of this.
00:25:35.629 -->
00:25:36.750You need to take care of this.
00:25:36.829 -->
00:25:37.629And I was like, no.
00:25:37.789 -->
00:25:37.950Wow.
00:25:38.109 -->
00:25:41.309And so I hung up and I told Brett, I don't want to talk about it.
00:25:41.549 -->
00:25:44.349And I'm listening I I'm embarrassed to say this out loud.
00:25:44.509 -->
00:25:45.950I it feels foolish now.
00:25:46.029 -->
00:25:48.750It feels irresponsible because I don't know.
00:25:48.829 -->
00:25:49.629Like, I know better.
00:25:49.710 -->
00:25:58.829And again, taking care of it doesn't mean always listening to exactly what they said, but taking care of it means like taking care of it, like figuring out like what is my next step instead of ignoring it.
00:25:59.069 -->
00:26:03.950Well, I promise you, my listeners are connecting with you because I hear it all the time.
00:26:04.109 -->
00:26:06.430They're told you need a hysterectomy.
00:26:06.509 -->
00:26:15.950These fibroids are so huge that they're gonna interfere with your bowels and your bladder, or your endometriosis is too far gone, or whatever it is.
00:26:16.269 -->
00:26:19.470And it's like, I'm not dealing with that.
00:26:19.789 -->
00:26:27.470So there's this a part of denial and some frustration and some anger, but it's very disruptive to life.
00:26:27.629 -->
00:26:27.869Yes.
00:26:28.109 -->
00:26:28.589All the things.
00:26:29.069 -->
00:26:33.950And it's it's also, I did I just did a podcast on this because this can relate.
00:26:34.029 -->
00:26:39.629The reason why this is, I mean, my story is my story, but it relates to every area of our life that we don't want to deal with.
00:26:39.869 -->
00:26:43.950But if it's revealed, I always say it's like a beach ball that you're trying to push underwater.
00:26:44.109 -->
00:26:48.269It's like you can only push a beach ball underwater for so long, it's gonna keep resurfacing.
00:26:48.509 -->
00:26:49.869Why was this resurfacing?
00:26:50.029 -->
00:26:50.910What was really going on?
00:26:51.069 -->
00:26:52.349What did I really need to deal with?
00:26:52.430 -->
00:26:53.710What did I really need to heal?
00:26:53.869 -->
00:26:55.470What did I really need to reset on?
00:26:55.549 -->
00:26:57.710What did I really need to take more seriously again?
00:26:57.869 -->
00:27:00.589What did what, you know, all these things, but I didn't want to deal with it.
00:27:00.670 -->
00:27:03.629And then not only did I not want to deal with it, because I had plans.
00:27:03.789 -->
00:27:05.069I don't have time to do this.
00:27:05.230 -->
00:27:07.230And this is not gonna be my story again.
00:27:07.389 -->
00:27:13.710And something rose up in me, and I I feel sill silly now only because of what I just experienced and what I just went through.
00:27:13.789 -->
00:27:14.750And I know better.
00:27:14.910 -->
00:27:15.629I know better.
00:27:15.789 -->
00:27:23.710And the thing is, is that in that moment, I allowed, and this the reason why I'm vulnerable in saying this, I'm not ashamed of this now.
00:27:24.029 -->
00:27:30.109I just know what emotions also do, like you know, to your health.
00:27:30.269 -->
00:27:34.509And instead of being like, okay, I have this information, what are we gonna do next?
00:27:34.670 -->
00:27:36.109Let me go back to my roots.
00:27:36.269 -->
00:27:37.789We're gonna figure this out.
00:27:38.029 -->
00:27:47.230Instead, I allowed, I'm telling you right now, I know it was a root of bitterness, a root of anger almost rise up in me.
00:27:47.549 -->
00:28:01.710Now I look back and I know, and which didn't make things any better because I'm telling you right now, if you're not healthy in some area and you actually allow anger and bitterness, resentment to also dominate, like it's going to get worse.
00:28:01.950 -->
00:28:02.509It will manifest.
00:28:02.910 -->
00:28:03.549And that's what happens.
00:28:10.430 -->
00:28:11.470And that's what happened.
00:28:11.549 -->
00:28:14.990Like, I somehow was like, nope.
00:28:15.309 -->
00:28:19.869And I was angry and bitter and resentful inside, and I was like, oh no, I don't want to talk about it.
00:28:20.029 -->
00:28:20.990I don't want to deal with it.
00:28:21.069 -->
00:28:23.389I'm just gonna move on and it's gonna go away.
00:28:23.710 -->
00:28:26.750And it lasted about six to eight months.
00:28:26.910 -->
00:28:32.190I did different things, creams and different things that would make it go away for a week or two and came back and it would bleed.
00:28:32.349 -->
00:28:34.269I had, I had it down to a science.
00:28:34.349 -->
00:28:35.309It was ridiculous.
00:28:35.470 -->
00:28:38.109I had special makeup artists, special makeup.
00:28:38.190 -->
00:28:39.549I had liquid band-aids.
00:28:39.629 -->
00:28:45.230I knew how I could like cover it for like 15 to 20 minutes for in this thing.
00:28:45.389 -->
00:28:53.710I could also, if I was speaking on stage for an hour, I knew I could cover it with this other extreme thing, but then after an hour it would crack, and then I couldn't do anything for three days.
00:28:53.869 -->
00:28:55.230I mean, I had it down to a science.
00:28:55.309 -->
00:28:56.109It's kind of weird.
00:28:56.349 -->
00:28:57.789It's very strange what I did.
00:28:57.950 -->
00:29:07.789But it's it's like what your human mind will do sometimes to cover up what you don't want people to see or know, and you don't want to deal with it.
00:29:07.950 -->
00:29:11.230It sounds so weird and extreme now.
00:29:11.309 -->
00:29:13.629Like, Brooke, wake up, what are you doing?
00:29:13.789 -->
00:29:19.710And I purposely did not tell anybody except my husband, because I didn't want anybody to be like, What are you doing?
00:29:20.029 -->
00:29:23.549My husband was, but I don't think he still even knew how extreme it was.
00:29:23.710 -->
00:29:24.269Yeah.
00:29:24.589 -->
00:29:31.309Um, and then what happened was October, it was like end of September, beginning of October 2025.
00:29:31.470 -->
00:29:36.190I was at the Queen's Table retreat and I had all these beautiful, amazing things planned for them.
00:29:36.349 -->
00:29:40.990It was at the Waldorf in California, and we had we were going to the OC Polo Club.
00:29:41.069 -->
00:29:43.549Like I always like to surprise them with like an adventure.
00:29:44.269 -->
00:29:47.389And my face was just like, it was nonstop bleeding.
00:29:47.470 -->
00:29:49.230I had to walk around with a cloth over it.
00:29:49.389 -->
00:29:51.150Nothing was would help it.
00:29:51.309 -->
00:29:56.589And those women that I pour into, that I pray over, I think that was one of the things that hit me.
00:29:56.670 -->
00:29:58.430It was like, I pray for other people's miracles.
00:29:58.509 -->
00:29:59.309I see miracles all the time.
00:29:59.389 -->
00:30:00.190I already got my miracle.
00:30:00.269 -->
00:30:01.309I was gonna get another one.
00:30:01.470 -->
00:30:02.670This is not happening to me.
00:30:02.829 -->
00:30:03.470This is not fair.
00:30:03.629 -->
00:30:04.910It was kind of like self-pity.
00:30:04.990 -->
00:30:13.230And I don't like when people say self-pity, but honestly, when I I've researched the spirit of self-pity, and it's like that is the spirit that the devil like messes with.
00:30:13.710 -->
00:30:21.869And and when you come into agreement with self-pity, which is not what anyone wants to hear when you're struggling with something like this, it's like, come on, this is not self-pity, but it really is.
00:30:22.109 -->
00:30:28.269When you actually come into agreement with something where you're like, I feel bad for me, this should not be happening, so I'm not gonna take care of it.
00:30:28.430 -->
00:30:29.150It's dangerous.
00:30:29.230 -->
00:30:30.349It's where the devil plays.
00:30:30.430 -->
00:30:33.629It's in the dark, it's in the secret, it's in the I'm not gonna deal with this.
00:30:33.869 -->
00:30:35.230I'm so glad you said that.
00:30:35.549 -->
00:30:35.869Yes.
00:30:36.109 -->
00:30:48.829And so that's what in that moment, though, because of how I am and how I operate and the people I surround myself with, I'm so grateful that these women pulled me aside and they're like, Brooke, we're gonna pray for you right now.
00:30:48.990 -->
00:30:50.430We're gonna believe for you.
00:30:50.670 -->
00:30:54.430This you have to take care of, and we're gonna believe for your miracle.
00:30:54.509 -->
00:31:02.670And in that moment, I felt so foolish because I was like, these are my clients, like telling me something that I tell them that I know, and this is it.
00:31:02.829 -->
00:31:05.549This is my my breaking moment, and I have to go take care of it.
00:31:05.629 -->
00:31:14.589And so after that, after that retreat, we looked up like the best world-renowned doctors that could handle this and what I was gonna do about it.
00:31:14.750 -->
00:31:18.509We found the number one doctor is in Newport Beach.
00:31:18.750 -->
00:31:18.990Okay.
00:31:19.389 -->
00:31:20.029Right where you live.
00:31:20.269 -->
00:31:21.150Yes, right where I live.
00:31:21.230 -->
00:31:26.829And he handles the MOS and he handles repairs, and he's also like a plastic surgeon.
00:31:27.069 -->
00:31:29.629So I was like, okay, done.
00:31:29.950 -->
00:31:33.309And I went to go see him and I told Brett, I said, okay, it's October.
00:31:33.549 -->
00:31:34.430Do you need water?
00:31:34.750 -->
00:31:35.389Yeah.
00:31:36.430 -->
00:31:41.549Real quick, I just want to interrupt this conversation for something super important.
00:31:42.509 -->
00:31:52.829Even though we need to take care of ourselves spiritually, emotionally, and physically, we do have to take care of ourselves at a cellular level.
00:31:52.990 -->
00:31:56.269And that is why I have my Fast to Face supplement line.
00:31:56.430 -->
00:32:04.509So let's just take a minute to hear about something that might be the game changer that you need in this season.
00:32:04.990 -->
00:32:09.150We really need to up-level how we're taking care of our temple.
00:32:09.230 -->
00:32:13.309I used to treat mine like a garbage can, I will just be honest.
00:32:13.629 -->
00:32:16.190And I'm not okay with that anymore.
00:32:16.430 -->
00:32:32.190So this is one of the most important things to me, is that I'm taking high-quality supplements that are actually doing what they say they're doing, and I'm getting my money's worth, and I'm not making my body worse by putting the wrong stuff in it.
00:32:32.269 -->
00:32:41.789So let's talk about Hormone Tame Essential Multivitamin, because even though it gives you all the vitamins and minerals you need, there's extra goodness in there, isn't there?
00:32:41.869 -->
00:32:43.549I think you have a bottle sitting next to you.
00:32:43.869 -->
00:32:44.190I do.
00:32:44.509 -->
00:32:45.950Tell us about Hormone Tame.
00:32:46.190 -->
00:32:48.589Hormone Tame is five products in one.
00:32:48.670 -->
00:32:57.470Um, if you listen to the other episode, one of the things that we've talked about is oftentimes, you know, women are just people we're taking a lot of supplements.
00:32:57.710 -->
00:33:09.549And the nice thing about a lot of the um supplements that we have here at Fast of Faith is that they're just so consolidated, where you could take this and you are basically taking five products.
00:33:09.789 -->
00:33:13.150So, yes, this is gonna be a multivitamin, but there is so much more.
00:33:13.230 -->
00:33:16.990We actually kind of refer to it as a multivitamin on um steroids.
00:33:17.230 -->
00:33:20.990One of the key things that this is gonna be helping is your mitochondria.
00:33:21.309 -->
00:33:28.109All you need to know is that they are responsible for so many systems and processes in your body.
00:33:28.269 -->
00:33:34.829The reason that we need supplements is because we're just supplementing areas that we just can't really kind of get with our food.
00:33:34.990 -->
00:33:36.589So we're filling in those gaps.
00:33:36.750 -->
00:33:42.190And so Hormone Tame is inviting the body to just fill in all of those gaps.
00:33:42.430 -->
00:33:43.629So you gotta fill those gaps.
00:33:43.789 -->
00:33:46.269And hormone tame it will help to do that.
00:33:48.190 -->
00:33:54.109Okay, so I found a doctor in Newport that was actually the best in the country.
00:33:54.269 -->
00:33:55.710And that's where I was told to go.
00:33:55.789 -->
00:33:56.589I was so excited.
00:33:56.670 -->
00:33:59.470He was a plastic surgeon, he was a Moes surgeon.
00:33:59.549 -->
00:34:00.910I'm like, okay, we're gonna go in.
00:34:01.069 -->
00:34:06.509I told Brett, let's go, let's let's just take off November, December, Thanksgiving, Christmas, I'll get it done.
00:34:06.589 -->
00:34:10.590I'll have like a week or two off with stitches on my face, back to business in January, done.
00:34:10.829 -->
00:34:17.070So I go in there and he reads all the reports, he looks at everything, he touches everything, he draws all over my face.
00:34:17.710 -->
00:34:25.309And he just said, Brooke, you've waited so long that your repair is gonna be much bigger than you think.
00:34:25.550 -->
00:34:34.190He said, We don't know until we get in there how big it's gonna be, but I want you to be prepared for it to go into your nose, your lips, for your mouth to be sewn shut.
00:34:34.349 -->
00:34:36.110And he said, You will not laugh.
00:34:36.269 -->
00:34:41.710He said the words, you will not laugh, you will not smile, and you will not talk for at least six months.
00:34:42.030 -->
00:34:47.389And I was just like, excuse me, did I just hear like there's no way.
00:34:47.550 -->
00:34:47.710Yeah.
00:34:47.950 -->
00:34:49.630And he said, I'm just gonna give it to you straight.
00:34:49.710 -->
00:34:51.550He goes, No other doctor's gonna tell you the truth.
00:34:51.789 -->
00:34:53.630And if they do, they'll tell you the same thing.
00:34:53.789 -->
00:34:59.389He goes, but I don't want you to go into surgery and think it's gonna be one thing, it's really gonna be another.
00:34:59.550 -->
00:35:04.190And he said, You need to know this is not, and I said, Well, wait a second, like, what about just like four to six weeks?
00:35:04.269 -->
00:35:10.829And I can take like November and December, and then, and I'm like, and he's like, This is not, this is not like what you think.
00:35:10.990 -->
00:35:16.349He said, We're gonna have to pull your face over, it's gonna be deformed, you're not gonna be able to talk, you're not gonna be able to smile, laugh.
00:35:16.430 -->
00:35:22.349He goes, It'll probably take about a year, year and a half to be completely repaired, and you'll never look the same or talk the same again.
00:35:22.670 -->
00:35:34.670And he was drawing all over my face, and I remember in that moment, I felt like it was that same thing 22 years ago where it was like, you're gonna have an abortion and you're gonna have chemotherapy and your life is never gonna be the same and you're never gonna make that impact.
00:35:34.750 -->
00:35:35.550Like, that's how I felt.
00:35:35.710 -->
00:35:38.190You're not gonna use your voice because you start to feel defeated.
00:35:38.269 -->
00:35:38.510Yes.
00:35:38.750 -->
00:35:40.510And I was just like, this can't be happening.
00:35:40.590 -->
00:35:43.710So, of course, I cried, I looked at Brett, he's like, Let's get out of here.
00:35:43.869 -->
00:35:45.230Like, no, this is not your portion.
00:35:45.309 -->
00:35:46.430And I'm like, but what if it is?
00:35:46.590 -->
00:35:47.389He's like, it's not.
00:35:47.550 -->
00:35:48.910I remember calling one of my best friends.
00:35:48.990 -->
00:35:49.630I couldn't even talk.
00:35:49.710 -->
00:35:50.750I was hyperventilating.
00:35:50.829 -->
00:35:52.190I was like, this is what's happening.
00:35:52.269 -->
00:35:53.309And she's like, No, it's not.
00:35:53.389 -->
00:35:54.670Let's pray right now.
00:35:55.230 -->
00:35:56.590So then I was like, okay, fine.
00:35:56.670 -->
00:35:57.550I got up the next day.
00:35:57.630 -->
00:35:58.990I was like, we're gonna find other doctors.
00:35:59.150 -->
00:36:03.789I called everybody I knew, my family, people that knew people, people that knew people that knew people.
00:36:03.950 -->
00:36:06.110I had eight different doctors' appointments.
00:36:06.269 -->
00:36:08.829Well, actually, seven more after that.
00:36:09.070 -->
00:36:12.590And every single one of them, they were specialists, they were the best.
00:36:12.750 -->
00:36:16.110Some were virtual Zooms because they were in other states, I was willing to go.
00:36:16.349 -->
00:36:19.469A lot of good doctors are here locally, all said the same thing.
00:36:19.550 -->
00:36:27.309They just said it a little nicer or a little differently, but they all basically said the repair is gonna be too big, your mouth is gonna have to be sewn shut, you can't talk, you can't smile, all the stuff.
00:36:27.389 -->
00:36:30.269And some people might not think it's a big deal, but it was a really big deal to me.
00:36:30.349 -->
00:36:33.070Obviously, I talked for a living, but it wasn't just about that.
00:36:33.309 -->
00:36:39.150It was about just being told that you can't use your voice, that you can't talk.
00:36:39.309 -->
00:36:49.150Because there was one moment where I said, maybe that's just what I'm gonna have to go through and and like shut everything down for like a year and whatever.
00:36:49.309 -->
00:36:50.429I'll just go through that.
00:36:50.670 -->
00:36:58.829And thankfully, my husband's like, that is not your portion because you actually would get depressed and be depressed if you had to be laid up with your mouth shut.
00:36:58.909 -->
00:37:05.150It's not like I'd just be with my mouth shut, being like, everything's gonna be great in six months, like or a year, or like I'll be fine.
00:37:05.230 -->
00:37:06.829Let me just read all these books and pray.
00:37:07.070 -->
00:37:12.829Sometimes you have to question and know that that is not your portion.
00:37:13.070 -->
00:37:13.389Right.
00:37:13.630 -->
00:37:17.949And that's what happened where I was just like, no, I'm not accepting this, but what am I gonna do?
00:37:18.110 -->
00:37:19.949Because I can't ignore it anymore.
00:37:20.110 -->
00:37:23.710And I've talked to all these doctors, it doesn't seem like I have another option.
00:37:23.869 -->
00:37:27.710And that's when once again I fell to my knees and I was like, God, I trust you.
00:37:27.869 -->
00:37:29.949You've done this for me before, you're gonna do it again.
00:37:30.030 -->
00:37:30.909What do I need to know?
00:37:31.070 -->
00:37:35.230And I knew right then I needed to do a four four-day water fast, and he was gonna give me an answer.
00:37:35.550 -->
00:37:37.869Oh my gosh, you're so faithful.
00:37:38.110 -->
00:37:45.710I mean, it's incredible because when I read your book, Activate Your Impact, you shared your babbling Brooks story.
00:37:45.949 -->
00:37:57.949And really, this not having a voice or having a voice and not being able to use it, having it shut down, has been a lifelong thing for you.
00:37:58.110 -->
00:37:58.349Yes.
00:37:58.590 -->
00:38:04.509And so you're right, it's way deeper than I just have to have this procedure done, right?
00:38:04.750 -->
00:38:14.750Like this is getting to the root core of your identity, yes, and who you believe God is for you in your life.
00:38:15.150 -->
00:38:15.630Totally.
00:38:15.789 -->
00:38:22.429It's a pattern, like we all have these patterns of how the enemy, the devil, the giant has tried to shut us down.
00:38:22.590 -->
00:38:24.269It's different for everybody.
00:38:24.590 -->
00:38:26.989And for me, it has been my voice.
00:38:27.230 -->
00:38:28.750So it was personal.
00:38:28.909 -->
00:38:33.550It was very personal, and it felt very like just like no.
00:38:33.949 -->
00:38:36.190But I also didn't want to be irresponsible.
00:38:36.269 -->
00:38:39.070I have two daughters and a husband and a business.
00:38:39.230 -->
00:38:43.949And I also didn't want to be prideful or irresponsible and not take care of it.
00:38:44.110 -->
00:38:45.550So it's like, which one is this?
00:38:45.630 -->
00:38:47.949Sometimes you're like, which one is it?
00:38:48.190 -->
00:38:54.909And I know when I don't know, I do know there's there's spiritual fasts and then there's health health fasts.
00:38:54.989 -->
00:38:56.909I mean, I think you and I probably agree they're both.
00:38:57.070 -->
00:38:57.630I combine them.
00:38:57.869 -->
00:38:59.070I combine them too.
00:38:59.309 -->
00:39:05.389Um, but you know, I had read about spiritual fasts and I've also done health fasts.
00:39:05.469 -->
00:39:10.670And I, again, I totally combine them too and think that they're the same because I can't do business without faith.
00:39:10.829 -->
00:39:11.949I can't do health without faith.
00:39:12.030 -->
00:39:14.110I mean, that's where you and I really connect.
00:39:14.349 -->
00:39:16.670Um, but I ended up doing this four-day water fast.
00:39:16.829 -->
00:39:19.630I prayed for answers, I prayed for reprieve.
00:39:19.710 -->
00:39:20.590I prayed for healing.
00:39:20.670 -->
00:39:23.070I I thought after that four-day water fast it was just gonna be gone.
00:39:23.150 -->
00:39:31.389But what happened during that four-day water fast is somebody gave me another doctor to go to, and that doctor gave me a different um option.
00:39:31.949 -->
00:39:35.389And the option sounded pretty grueling.
00:39:35.630 -->
00:39:41.389I was not overly excited about it, but I was more excited about trying that versus the other option.
00:39:41.630 -->
00:39:41.949Right.
00:39:42.190 -->
00:39:49.070And that was, I had to do it, it was like a five to eight day kind of like process for that I had to go through three times.
00:39:49.309 -->
00:39:58.590And I did one in November the week before Thanksgiving, one in December, the week before Christmas, because I could kind of like, you know, just lay low for a couple weeks.
00:39:58.989 -->
00:40:01.070And then I did one the first week of January.
00:40:01.230 -->
00:40:05.789And it's so crazy to think that those three months, it felt like a lifetime.
00:40:05.869 -->
00:40:07.389It felt like horrendous.
00:40:07.550 -->
00:40:14.909It felt like it was traumatic, it was awful, it was so painful, it was very traumatic.
00:40:15.230 -->
00:40:18.190I mean, if you saw pictures, I think I sent you some pictures.
00:40:18.670 -->
00:40:24.909Yeah, and um, and I'm happy to share pictures, you know, it it you would never even recognize like that's what I went through.
00:40:24.989 -->
00:40:32.590And it was, but I also made sure that I I spoke a healing prayer over my body that took five minutes.
00:40:32.750 -->
00:40:33.710Like I read that prayer.
00:40:34.030 -->
00:40:34.670It was a long prayer.
00:40:35.150 -->
00:40:35.630Powerful.
00:40:35.869 -->
00:40:45.070Um, you know, all the things I needed to take and not do and not take, and you know, and I'm still doing it, you know, and and and I am completely, it's completely gone.
00:40:45.150 -->
00:40:48.750I mean, it's you can't, it's not even recognizable that it that's what I look like.
00:40:48.829 -->
00:40:49.630I got my miracle.
00:40:49.710 -->
00:40:51.150I believed for my miracle.
00:40:51.309 -->
00:40:53.710It it was like I was not gonna back down.
00:40:53.869 -->
00:40:59.630And the thing is, is that life is gonna happen, things are gonna happen, but it's what we choose to say and do.
00:40:59.789 -->
00:41:02.030And it wasn't easy, it's still not easy.
00:41:02.349 -->
00:41:04.670I do things every single day.
00:41:04.750 -->
00:41:06.909I mean, I just recorded a podcast on my morning routine.
00:41:07.070 -->
00:41:07.710It's no joke.
00:41:07.869 -->
00:41:11.550I mean, I'm not, it's not just like this cute little 15-minute morning routine that I used to do.
00:41:11.710 -->
00:41:15.789I mean, it's like a two-hour morning routine, and I will not sacrifice it.
00:41:15.949 -->
00:41:22.030And it is the only reason I'm successful in any area of my life because that is a non-negotiable.
00:41:22.509 -->
00:41:24.269And I feel amazing.
00:41:24.590 -->
00:41:37.070And I'm not willing to sacrifice and put toxins in my body, toxins in my mind, sacrifice somebody else's important busyness for what I need to do first with God, my body, my health, all that stuff.
00:41:37.309 -->
00:41:44.989So I'm happy to say that, you know, you can ask me anything else, but like I'm completely cancer free again.
00:41:45.309 -->
00:41:46.429It's completely gone.
00:41:46.509 -->
00:41:51.789It's not my story, but it was another level of learning, leaning, and understanding how the body works.
00:41:52.030 -->
00:41:54.190That's why I love what you do and I appreciate what you do.
00:41:54.509 -->
00:41:54.909Thank you.
00:41:55.070 -->
00:42:00.110And I just knew I needed to have you on the podcast when you shared.
00:42:00.269 -->
00:42:03.070Like I just prayed and fasted.
00:42:03.230 -->
00:42:04.829Like that was your go-to.
00:42:05.150 -->
00:42:16.429That is what you knew to do because no matter what the outcome is, God already knows the outcome and he's gonna meet you there, and you trusted that.
00:42:17.230 -->
00:42:19.949And it's like such an opportunity.
00:42:20.110 -->
00:42:23.710I see this all the time with women, especially with breast cancer.
00:42:24.190 -->
00:42:39.869They get the diagnosis, they get thrown into the assembly line of surgery, chemo radiation, take you know, the estrogen blockers, and there's no time to consult God or go to him or just to ask him, like, what's happening here?
00:42:40.030 -->
00:42:44.349Because it's not about your diagnosis, it's not about the treatment.
00:42:44.509 -->
00:42:57.550It is about you are developing the character that he wants you to have for his kingdom, and you're learning lessons and you're becoming stronger, and like count it all joy, getting that perseverance, right?
00:42:57.630 -->
00:42:59.230Like, thank you, James.
00:42:59.469 -->
00:43:14.989But that is truly what was happening, and you could have gone the route like a lot of the world does, where you fell into the bitterness and you just felt like God betrayed you or didn't show up for you or didn't answer your prayers.
00:43:15.630 -->
00:43:22.190So, how do you make that decision of like, no, God is for me no matter what?
00:43:22.349 -->
00:43:27.550It doesn't matter if I get a diagnosis of cancer every year until I die.
00:43:27.869 -->
00:43:30.509Like speak to that a little bit.
00:43:30.750 -->
00:43:38.269I mean, you know, the the level of faith and belief of just saying, like, I trust you, God.
00:43:38.349 -->
00:43:39.949I I'm not somebody that gets angry at God.
00:43:40.030 -->
00:43:41.469Like, I'm just like, I trust you, God.
00:43:41.550 -->
00:43:46.190Like, I'd already gone through this 22 years ago and learned so many lessons along the way.
00:43:46.750 -->
00:43:49.710And I know that our bodies heal and they're meant to thrive.
00:43:49.789 -->
00:43:54.190And I will tell you this: I studied the spirit, not in a weird dark way.
00:43:54.349 -->
00:43:56.030I studied the spirit of death.
00:43:56.349 -->
00:43:57.309I didn't study it.
00:43:57.469 -->
00:44:15.949I just researched a lot and learned a lot about coming into agreement with the spirit of death around COVID times because there was a spirit of death on a lot of people and not just people's health, which was a big one, but over their relationships, their finances, their marriage, their kids.
00:44:16.110 -->
00:44:17.630And I was just like, enough.
00:44:17.869 -->
00:44:24.829And I realized I had already gone down that road of coming into agreement with death because of what was spoken over me.
00:44:24.909 -->
00:44:26.349I was already given the death sentence.
00:44:26.429 -->
00:44:28.429I was already given the diagnosis from doctors.
00:44:28.670 -->
00:44:31.150I know what that felt like and I know what that did to me.
00:44:31.389 -->
00:44:37.070And so I started to really listen and lean in on what the spirit of death coming into agreement with that means.
00:44:37.150 -->
00:44:58.590And I I know that sounds so morbid, but it's so if you listen to the way people talk, like everyone talks, not everyone, so many people talk about death over their life, and they don't even realize they're doing it just by saying things, you know, about their relationships or their finances or their health or their future or their business.
00:44:58.909 -->
00:45:12.429And I believe that, you know, it's kind of like that John 1010, you know, that there's a real devil, a real enemy, uh a real giant that comes to steal, kill, and destroy.
00:45:12.590 -->
00:45:13.949That is the spirit of death.
00:45:14.030 -->
00:45:18.269And it could be steal your future, kill your confidence, destroy your family.
00:45:18.429 -->
00:45:18.989Yes.
00:45:19.309 -->
00:45:22.989But Jesus came to give us life and life and overflow.
00:45:23.230 -->
00:45:25.789He came so that we could live life to the fullest.
00:45:25.949 -->
00:45:26.909What does that mean?
00:45:27.070 -->
00:45:41.309And so, why am I going to partner with anything that somebody says I have, even if it's physically bleeding on my face or if it's happening in my body, why would I come into agreement with that and just say, What do you want to do with me?
00:45:41.550 -->
00:45:42.590So my mouth shut.
00:45:42.670 -->
00:45:45.230Does that really line up with what I believe God has for me?
00:45:45.389 -->
00:45:45.710No way.
00:45:45.869 -->
00:45:45.949Right.
00:45:46.190 -->
00:45:47.309So, what are my other options?
00:45:47.550 -->
00:45:48.670Well, they're not easy.
00:45:48.909 -->
00:45:49.710They're still hard.
00:45:49.789 -->
00:45:51.630I still have to take action, all the stuff.
00:45:51.869 -->
00:45:58.190But the whole thing about that is that I had to come into agreement, and this is where the purpose chapter in my book comes in.
00:45:58.750 -->
00:46:05.630That I do believe that we are all, you, all of us, anybody that's listening listening, was born on purpose and for a purpose.
00:46:05.789 -->
00:46:09.789And And we are meant to fulfill our purpose on this earth.
00:46:10.030 -->
00:46:12.349So nobody's gonna take that away from me.
00:46:12.670 -->
00:46:15.230God knows when my time is up.
00:46:15.469 -->
00:46:18.110God knows when I'm done fulfilling my purpose.
00:46:18.349 -->
00:46:19.230And that's it.
00:46:19.389 -->
00:46:25.550I am not gonna let anybody or anything diagnose me and make me think that my purpose is up.
00:46:25.710 -->
00:46:38.349And I know one of the things that I'm called to do and that I'm purposed for is to speak and to speak life over people and to, you know, allow my story and what I can do on this earth be fulfilled.
00:46:38.429 -->
00:46:43.230So why am I going to be stopped again or allow somebody to sew my mouth shut?
00:46:43.309 -->
00:46:44.909That doesn't align with my values.
00:46:44.989 -->
00:46:47.869That doesn't align with who God says I am in this moment.
00:46:48.030 -->
00:46:49.630So what is the other option, God?
00:46:49.789 -->
00:46:50.349I trust you.
00:46:50.509 -->
00:46:52.269Show me, guide me, tell me.
00:46:52.429 -->
00:46:55.150So when I had this other doctrine, this other option, I was like, done.
00:46:55.309 -->
00:47:00.190And he said there's gonna be a 98% chance that what we do will be, it's not 100%.
00:47:00.509 -->
00:47:04.590I was like, it's okay between God and you, and it's done.
00:47:04.750 -->
00:47:04.909Yeah.
00:47:05.070 -->
00:47:09.389And I had to believe it's done, and I had to speak that it's done, and I had to do things.
00:47:09.550 -->
00:47:15.230Like, I'll be honest, like I am so devoted to God and I am so consecrated, meaning set apart.
00:47:15.309 -->
00:47:29.309I will do the things that most people won't do, not out of works, not out of a spiritual um, like uh a spirit of perfection, or even like, you know, that that that thing that people do to be a good girl and then I'll get the reward.
00:47:29.389 -->
00:47:30.190It's not that.
00:47:30.429 -->
00:47:38.670It's that I have learned that there are certain things that allow us to draw closer to God and get healed, but it does take work.
00:47:38.829 -->
00:47:39.869That's why it's hard.
00:47:40.110 -->
00:47:48.909You know, even praying that prayer five minutes every day and praying every morning for 30 minutes, it's not like any of us have time for that.
00:47:49.070 -->
00:47:50.750And it does get exhausting sometimes.
00:47:50.909 -->
00:48:02.670Like I said, when the non-belief creeps into your mind while you're actually saying the words and you have to squash it and keep saying it and like get it into yourselves.
00:48:02.750 -->
00:48:06.269Like, I need to know this as truth.
00:48:06.429 -->
00:48:11.949But and it can't be a religious spirit of like I'm gonna do this because I'm told to do this.
00:48:12.030 -->
00:48:23.550And it the reason I know now that consecration and devotion to God and the way that we decide to speak life over our body and understand the word of God and be with him, spend time with him, worship, pray.
00:48:23.630 -->
00:48:38.269And the reason I know now more than ever we are meant to do that is because when we do that, there's a level of belief and faith and confidence and favor that just falls upon you that cannot happen if you just like brush it aside and ignore it.
00:48:38.429 -->
00:48:57.070And so I'm grateful that it happened to me again because 22 years ago, I'm telling you right now, it was a gift at 26 years old what happened to me, even though it was horrible, awful, traumatic, all the physical things, but it taught me so much at such a young age that I would never give up that moment because I would never be the woman that I am today.
00:48:57.150 -->
00:48:59.389I would never have done the things I've done.
00:48:59.550 -->
00:49:01.070I would never think the way I think.
00:49:01.230 -->
00:49:02.269And I'm grateful for that.
00:49:02.349 -->
00:49:05.789So it's like it's almost like another reset had to happen for me.
00:49:06.030 -->
00:49:07.789I had to have another level.
00:49:07.949 -->
00:49:12.030I I have high discipline and habits and all the things, but this was another level.
00:49:12.110 -->
00:49:18.590And I, it actually made me realize how much I had kind of fallen away from some things I used to be a lot more strict with.
00:49:18.750 -->
00:49:21.550And when I say strict, it's it's you should enjoy your life.
00:49:21.710 -->
00:49:32.509It's not right, it shouldn't feel we live in a world where like we're made to feel like it's it's almost like you're gonna suffer if you can't have sugar, or you're gonna suffer.
00:49:32.670 -->
00:49:44.269I I remember back then what I did was I like I didn't understand how how doctors would say, like, you need this diet for cancer, you need this diet for heart disease, you need this diet for diabetes.
00:49:44.429 -->
00:49:46.750And I was like, God made it so simple for me.
00:49:46.909 -->
00:49:49.630He was like, bad food is bad food, good food is good food.
00:49:49.710 -->
00:49:49.789Yes.
00:49:50.190 -->
00:49:52.909Anti-inflammatory food is anti-inflammatory food.
00:49:53.150 -->
00:50:01.309And uh, you know, it's like, so I kind of went down that road again where I was like, I know all the things I can enjoy, all the things I can do.
00:50:01.469 -->
00:50:03.389That's how I operate better.
00:50:03.550 -->
00:50:06.429These are all the things I can do, and these are the things I can't do.
00:50:06.590 -->
00:50:06.750Yeah.
00:50:06.989 -->
00:50:07.230Done.
00:50:07.389 -->
00:50:07.630Exactly.
00:50:07.869 -->
00:50:08.590It's that easy.
00:50:08.750 -->
00:50:19.309It's not like the world tells lies to us and our kids that we are suffering if we follow God, that we're suffering if we do don't do this, this, this.
00:50:19.550 -->
00:50:20.429That's not true.
00:50:20.750 -->
00:50:27.150We suffer if we actually don't align ourselves with how God created us to be and eat and live.
00:50:27.389 -->
00:50:36.349And when you actually have eyes open, the reason why I wrote the book too, and you believe a lot about being fully awake, there are way too many people numbing themselves, sleepwalking.
00:50:36.509 -->
00:50:36.750Yes.
00:50:36.909 -->
00:50:38.269And that is not a good life.
00:50:38.349 -->
00:50:40.829It's not a happy life, it's not a healthy life.
00:50:40.989 -->
00:50:42.590And so we must be fully awake.
00:50:42.750 -->
00:50:47.389A lot of my themes for my retreats or events have always been awaken to activate.
00:50:47.469 -->
00:50:51.869That's where activate your impact came about because I want to live fully awake.
00:50:52.030 -->
00:50:56.829I want people around me to be awake, awake to the truth, awake to health, awake to all these things.
00:50:56.909 -->
00:50:59.150So then we could like fully make our impact.
00:50:59.309 -->
00:51:00.670What's more exciting than that?
00:51:00.909 -->
00:51:01.150I know.
00:51:01.309 -->
00:51:06.429Oh gosh, like, oh, I just everything you say resonates with me so much.
00:51:06.509 -->
00:51:17.230And I've gone through so many of the same struggles, you know, being a high school dropout teen mom having a very traumatic delivery with a fourth degree tear that forever destroyed me.
00:51:17.389 -->
00:51:19.469Like all of those things.
00:51:19.789 -->
00:51:23.550But I can sit here today and say that I'm grateful for it.
00:51:23.869 -->
00:51:31.949And to have that kind of peace and joy is like, I wouldn't give anything up for that.
00:51:32.269 -->
00:51:33.230It's everything.
00:51:33.469 -->
00:51:42.750And I I truly believe that you had some spiritual stuff that you had to conquer, it's never about the physical body.
00:51:42.989 -->
00:51:54.590And that's I hope women listening today are connecting those two things of like you can keep getting the diagnoses and we can keep balancing your hormones and fixing your gut.
00:51:54.989 -->
00:52:06.750But if you are still in agreement with the spirit of death or the spirit of mammon or the spirit of intimidation, like you're not you have to conquer those things.
00:52:07.150 -->
00:52:08.190Yes, so true.
00:52:08.829 -->
00:52:12.829And that's why we should be grateful for all these trials and tribulations.
00:52:13.070 -->
00:52:15.070So yeah, it's so powerful.
00:52:15.309 -->
00:52:18.429Oh my gosh, I know women are being blessed right now.
00:52:19.469 -->
00:52:24.429Okay, last thing, you say what you consume shapes what you believe.
00:52:24.509 -->
00:52:28.670That's what you've been talking about, and what you speak becomes what you live.
00:52:28.750 -->
00:52:31.630That's I am in full agreement of that.
00:52:31.869 -->
00:52:34.269We have to start changing our language.
00:52:34.429 -->
00:52:43.869So share with my listeners how did you get to that place of knowing how to speak life over yourself?
00:52:44.190 -->
00:52:46.190Share your morning routine a little bit.
00:52:46.509 -->
00:52:50.590But yes, listen to Brooke's podcast episode on her morning routine.
00:52:50.829 -->
00:52:50.989Yes.
00:52:51.389 -->
00:53:00.509Well, and I I love, I I've just adopted this whole statement, and it's so easy to really say this every day and think about this.
00:53:00.590 -->
00:53:01.869And I put it in my book too.
00:53:01.949 -->
00:53:03.389And I'm just gonna say it again.
00:53:03.630 -->
00:53:09.309What you consume, really thinking about what you're consuming, who you're consuming.
00:53:09.469 -->
00:53:13.710And when I say what you're consuming and who you're consuming, this means what are you watching?
00:53:13.949 -->
00:53:14.909What are you reading?
00:53:15.070 -->
00:53:16.190Who are you around?
00:53:16.429 -->
00:53:17.710Those are all choices.
00:53:17.789 -->
00:53:17.949Yeah.
00:53:18.190 -->
00:53:25.550And I am very firm about this because sometimes people say, like, oh, well, I can't help it.
00:53:26.269 -->
00:53:26.349Yeah.
00:53:27.070 -->
00:53:28.909I had to take responsibility for my life.
00:53:28.989 -->
00:53:33.949I always say, like, nobody knocks on my door every day and says, Can I do your life for you today?
00:53:34.349 -->
00:53:36.110Can I go work out for you today?
00:53:36.429 -->
00:53:40.590Can I um make sure that I read this or watch this for you today instead?
00:53:40.829 -->
00:53:45.550We get to decide what we put on the TV, what we, what we Google.
00:53:45.710 -->
00:53:55.230Listen, there are things that we all, like guilty pleasure, whatever they call it, that we all kind of want to look at, but we shouldn't.
00:53:55.389 -->
00:54:01.150And we have to make a conscious, conscious effort, especially conscious effort, especially in this day and age.
00:54:01.309 -->
00:54:04.190Like there are many things that I'm like curious about.
00:54:04.349 -->
00:54:11.309And I kind of want to go down a rabbit hole and just kind of like check out and go watch things that I know I shouldn't watch.
00:54:11.469 -->
00:54:20.670I'm talking about like things that are going on in the world that I know certain people that are talking about it, they are not believers or they don't line up with my values.
00:54:20.829 -->
00:54:23.630Why am I going to go watch that and listen to that?
00:54:23.869 -->
00:54:24.269Right.
00:54:24.509 -->
00:54:36.509Because whatever I listen to, whatever I consume, whatever I'm around, whoever I'm around, whatever I watch, whatever I read, that will absolutely shape the way I believe.
00:54:36.670 -->
00:54:57.389If you really, I'm not gonna get into details, but all I have to say is this if you really look at what's going on in the world today and you actually understand that we are so divided because there are people that are choosing to listen to people that may or may not be right, but whatever they choose to listen to, that's what they're believing and that's what they're repeating.
00:54:57.550 -->
00:55:04.750And so there's all this confusion because people are choosing to believe what they're consuming and it might not be truth.
00:55:04.909 -->
00:55:05.070Right.
00:55:05.230 -->
00:55:21.710And so I get I part of this whole thing of being healthier and being successful and really consecrating your life to God and like devoting your life is like knowing the things that you're not supposed to watch and really not doing it in private or anything.
00:55:22.349 -->
00:55:24.989And I'm not even talking about like porn or anything.
00:55:25.150 -->
00:55:33.949I feel like when I say that, people might think I'm talking about like something like R-rated movies or but but like I know that that's true too for like men or women.
00:55:34.030 -->
00:55:35.550Like, I'm not even talking about that.
00:55:35.710 -->
00:55:44.670I'm talking about the baseline basic stuff of consuming gossip news from people that you know are not telling the truth or they might not be.
00:55:44.750 -->
00:55:46.509Why are you even going down that rabbit hole?
00:55:46.670 -->
00:55:51.070Because you might start to believe that because what you're consuming, you believe.
00:55:51.309 -->
00:56:02.190I literally got rid of cable three years ago because I kept turning on the news and they were saying the same story 20 times, you know, an hour.
00:56:02.349 -->
00:56:07.309And I was just consuming it, and then I found myself like repeating it.
00:56:07.389 -->
00:56:09.230And I was like, this is so toxic.
00:56:09.550 -->
00:56:11.630And it causes you to be feel depressed too.
00:56:11.949 -->
00:56:13.309Horribly depressed depression.
00:56:14.509 -->
00:56:16.670Like makes all these toxic chemicals.
00:56:17.309 -->
00:56:19.389Like you gotta get off of that.
00:56:19.789 -->
00:56:25.630So what you consume is what you believe, and what you believe, what you choose to believe, I'll say.
00:56:25.789 -->
00:56:31.869And this is so if you really break this down to any adult, any kids, it's just like it's true.
00:56:32.030 -->
00:56:34.989Look at anybody that you know that is telling you what they believe.
00:56:35.070 -->
00:56:36.269It's like, what are you watching?
00:56:36.509 -->
00:56:37.309What are you consuming?
00:56:37.389 -->
00:56:38.030Who are you around?
00:56:38.110 -->
00:56:42.909This is why our networks, this is why, like, who I choose to have on my podcast, who I choose.
00:56:42.989 -->
00:56:49.789Listen, I have had a lot of opportunities, I know you have too, to partner with certain people.
00:56:49.869 -->
00:56:52.030And my influence would multiply.
00:56:52.349 -->
00:57:03.710I have had opportunities to be on stages that are 10x the stages I'm on, or stages that people would pray to be on, or they're begging to be on, or that it's their big goal.
00:57:03.949 -->
00:57:05.550No way will I be on those stages.
00:57:05.710 -->
00:57:12.349I don't want to partner with anybody or anything that would cause anybody that I have influence with to think that I would believe that.
00:57:12.590 -->
00:57:14.989Because it could, it could confuse my audience.
00:57:15.070 -->
00:57:15.869And I don't want to do that.
00:57:15.949 -->
00:57:21.230And listen, it doesn't mean I haven't done that in the past by accident, but once you know, you know, you have a responsibility.
00:57:21.469 -->
00:57:25.710And so what you believe is what you actually speak out.
00:57:25.949 -->
00:57:36.030And our words matter, and then what we speak out is how we move, how we operate, how we, how we like, you know, that's why live out loud was never about being louder.
00:57:36.269 -->
00:57:43.949It was always about using our voice, speaking out what's inside, what we believe, and then taking responsibility to live it out.
00:57:44.030 -->
00:57:45.949Because what we speak out, we live out.
00:57:46.429 -->
00:57:48.429That's why the words are so powerful.
00:57:48.590 -->
00:57:53.949That's why it's so important what you consume, what you believe, what you speak out, because it is what you live out.
00:57:54.030 -->
00:58:02.750I mean, we live in a we live in an economy where, you know, some people will say it's a doomsday, you know, we're we're in this horrible place financially.
00:58:02.989 -->
00:58:04.829People will tell you, you can't move to California.
00:58:05.150 -->
00:58:05.230Right.
00:58:05.550 -->
00:58:07.309You know, people will tell you things.
00:58:07.630 -->
00:58:14.909Or you can hang out with a totally different group of people that are totally thinking like, we're in revival.
00:58:15.070 -->
00:58:17.150This is where Jesus revolution started.
00:58:17.309 -->
00:58:18.829The spirit of God is alive here.
00:58:19.309 -->
00:58:21.150There's so much opportunity for you here.
00:58:21.389 -->
00:58:24.509Do you know that you can 10x your business here because so many women need you?
00:58:24.670 -->
00:58:28.670Like, you could hang out with 50 people like that and you're like, I'm moving tomorrow.
00:58:28.750 -->
00:58:29.389It's possible.
00:58:29.550 -->
00:58:32.110Or you can hang out with 50 people that are like, why would you move there?
00:58:32.349 -->
00:58:33.469It's so expensive.
00:58:33.630 -->
00:58:35.550You know, it's it's a death trap.
00:58:35.710 -->
00:58:37.630The world's ending, the governor's horrible.
00:58:37.710 -->
00:58:46.750Like, there's so many, but like, but when you stay in alignment with God and you're looking up instead of out and you serve an audience of one, not a hundred thousand, that life is just different.
00:58:46.909 -->
00:58:58.509And so to to wrap up my like how this goes into my morning routine, I really went extreme like this year and really towards the end of last year with everything that went on with me.
00:58:58.670 -->
00:59:01.070And I've always had good habits, I've always had good discipline.
00:59:01.230 -->
00:59:04.670Brett and I, we wake up between
4:30 and
5:30 every morning.
00:59:04.750 -->
00:59:12.670We always have because we we are the type, we're not morning people, but we purposely go to bed earlier to make sure we can wake up earlier, we get enough sleep.
00:59:12.909 -->
00:59:22.590But we also are people, even when our girls were little, we love our mornings because we get things done that we will not get done once our kids are up.
00:59:22.750 -->
00:59:22.909Right.
00:59:23.070 -->
00:59:24.030Once our day starts.
00:59:24.429 -->
00:59:27.070And it that sacrifice is worth it to me.
00:59:27.230 -->
00:59:29.949It might be tough getting up at the beginning, but it's not anymore.
00:59:30.030 -->
00:59:31.230I pray before I go to bed.
00:59:31.389 -->
00:59:33.389God, wake me up with supernatural energy.
00:59:33.550 -->
00:59:43.469If I'm up in the middle of the night because my mind's racing for some reason or the pre-menopause stuff that started, but it stopped, because I literally have this process where I ask the Lord to put me back to bed.
00:59:43.630 -->
00:59:47.710I listen to an abide app that talks about scripture before I go to bed, I'm out.
00:59:48.269 -->
00:59:52.750If I wake up and I'm thinking about something, I'm like, Lord, I don't want to think about it, put me back to bed.
00:59:52.829 -->
00:59:53.949I just want to think about you.
00:59:54.110 -->
00:59:59.469I have ways that like I sing, and I'm not even a singer, but I'll sing stuff like, God, you're so good.
00:59:59.630 -->
01:00:02.670I'll sing songs that will soothe me back to sleep when I'm back to sleep like that.
01:00:02.750 -->
01:00:04.829And I'm like, God, I need you to put me back to bed.
01:00:04.989 -->
01:00:06.429I I know you'll put me back to bed.
01:00:06.509 -->
01:00:07.309I speak like that.
01:00:07.550 -->
01:00:09.150I know it sounds crazy, but it works.
01:00:09.389 -->
01:00:16.670Well, I will tell you, you said that in a podcast three years ago that I heard, and I started saying it at bedtime.
01:00:16.829 -->
01:00:18.750Wake me up with supernatural energy.
01:00:19.070 -->
01:00:19.550It works.
01:00:19.710 -->
01:00:20.429And it works.
01:00:20.590 -->
01:00:20.829Yes.
01:00:21.070 -->
01:00:22.670It's in my book, Fast to Feel.
01:00:23.070 -->
01:00:24.110Like it works.
01:00:24.349 -->
01:00:24.989Yes, it does.
01:00:25.150 -->
01:00:26.509It's like, just try it.
01:00:26.670 -->
01:00:30.190Now, I always say, Don't, don't try it and be like, well, I hope it works.
01:00:30.429 -->
01:00:32.349Again, it goes back to like, this is gonna work.
01:00:32.429 -->
01:00:33.469God, you're gonna wake me up.
01:00:33.550 -->
01:00:34.829Thank you, God, for waking me up.
01:00:34.989 -->
01:00:35.710I love you.
01:00:35.869 -->
01:00:37.949Like, I, you know, I want to feel refreshed.
01:00:38.269 -->
01:00:39.630Just ask him and it will work.
01:00:39.949 -->
01:00:41.789And and you you have to play your part.
01:00:41.949 -->
01:00:45.949You can't drink three glasses of wine and then stay up till midnight Netflix singing.
01:00:46.110 -->
01:00:47.389And be like, why am I tired?
01:00:47.550 -->
01:00:47.789Right.
01:00:48.030 -->
01:00:49.230No, you have to do it all.
01:00:49.309 -->
01:00:50.110You have to do the things.
01:00:50.190 -->
01:00:52.269You can't just be, what is it, hearers of words.
01:00:52.349 -->
01:00:54.829We have hearer of the word, we have to be doers of the word.
01:00:55.230 -->
01:01:00.590Okay, the other thing that I did that was like extreme, that uh I mean, it's extreme to most people.
01:01:00.670 -->
01:01:01.710It was kind of extreme to me.
01:01:01.789 -->
01:01:04.509Okay, so I'd gotten in this habit, you know, I'm always super honest.
01:01:04.670 -->
01:01:07.469I am, because I want to be vulnerable and I want to put it on the table.
01:01:07.710 -->
01:01:12.989I got into a really bad habit where I still was waking up early, but the first thing I grabbed was my phone.
01:01:13.150 -->
01:01:19.550And I made excuses that I grabbed it because just in case my daughter texted me that's in college, just in case.
01:01:19.869 -->
01:01:25.389Then I was like, well, I also need my phone to set an alarm so I know when to stop reading.
01:01:25.550 -->
01:01:28.030I also need my phone because I like to put notes in my phone.
01:01:28.110 -->
01:01:31.389So those are my three really great excuses that were like really good excuses.
01:01:31.630 -->
01:01:37.389But by doing that, I was also like, well, let me just check this one text and get back to them right now, because then it's off my head.
01:01:37.710 -->
01:01:41.150Then it's off my mind, not my head, it's off my mind, then I'll pray.
01:01:41.309 -->
01:01:46.030And then that turned into like five more texts that I just wanted to get back to before it got too late.
01:01:46.190 -->
01:01:47.389Then I'll pray.
01:01:47.630 -->
01:01:54.429And what that did was, I mean, literally, I could feel my nervous system like starting to go.
01:01:54.590 -->
01:01:58.429I could feel the chaos in my body starting, I could feel the intensity.
01:01:58.590 -->
01:02:04.989I would look at Brett and be like, Brett, I know you're trying to read and I know we're supposed to read right now, but I need to talk to you about this one thing, and then I won't talk to you about it anymore.
01:02:05.070 -->
01:02:06.429And then I'm ruining his morning.
01:02:06.989 -->
01:02:18.030He was like, Brooke, no, and I'm like, but do but because in my mind I had told myself, I just need to get this off of my brain so that then I could relax, so then I could spend time with God.
01:02:18.190 -->
01:02:18.750It was a lie.
01:02:18.829 -->
01:02:19.070Yeah.
01:02:19.309 -->
01:02:20.509Because it didn't work that way.
01:02:20.909 -->
01:02:23.230I was so irritated, frustrated.
01:02:23.469 -->
01:02:25.789Um, I didn't pray that same way.
01:02:25.869 -->
01:02:26.509It was a lie.
01:02:26.590 -->
01:02:29.230I and so I was just like, enough, Brooke, enough.
01:02:29.389 -->
01:02:35.550And the only way that, you know, self-control, the fruits of the spirit, they're bookend from love and self-control.
01:02:35.630 -->
01:02:35.710Yeah.
01:02:36.030 -->
01:02:38.269Like the self-control is what I needed.
01:02:38.349 -->
01:02:41.869And I was like, okay, Lord, I know what I'm doing.
01:02:42.030 -->
01:02:43.150I'm gonna be honest about it.
01:02:43.309 -->
01:02:45.070Brett, you don't have my problem.
01:02:45.150 -->
01:02:48.670So you check and make sure Reagan didn't text us, you know.
01:02:48.909 -->
01:02:52.190And he was fine because he he doesn't get like that about the phone.
01:02:52.269 -->
01:02:58.110He he's very like, it takes a while for him to respond to like text and stuff because he's not on it like I am.
01:02:58.269 -->
01:02:58.590Yeah.
01:02:58.909 -->
01:03:04.110And I I charge and I didn't even put it near my near me in my bedroom.
01:03:04.349 -->
01:03:07.630It's charging like in another room with it turned over.
01:03:07.789 -->
01:03:17.789And when I wake up in the morning, and I've been doing this for a while now, it has totally changed me, changed my just even changed my nervous system, changed just everything.
01:03:18.030 -->
01:03:19.630And it sounds so basic.
01:03:19.710 -->
01:03:21.230And people say they do it, but they don't do it.
01:03:21.389 -->
01:03:22.829I said I was doing it, but I didn't do it.
01:03:22.909 -->
01:03:24.509I I did it, but I kind of didn't do it.
01:03:24.590 -->
01:03:26.909You know, it's like ourselves all the time.
01:03:27.230 -->
01:03:27.469Yeah.
01:03:27.710 -->
01:03:36.269And so I I would walk by, I get up in the morning and I could feel like, Lord, I are you sure I shouldn't look at it?
01:03:36.349 -->
01:03:38.429Like, I'm having this conversation with God.
01:03:38.590 -->
01:03:40.750Like, are you sure I shouldn't just look at it?
01:03:40.829 -->
01:03:42.190And he's like, No, don't look at it.
01:03:42.269 -->
01:03:46.989And I'm like, but but but just and when I'm having this conversation, I'm like, oh my gosh, this is crazy.
01:03:47.150 -->
01:03:48.750And so I was like, I'm not looking at it.
01:03:48.989 -->
01:03:49.869Do I get a reward?
01:03:50.030 -->
01:03:51.230Like, I'm not even gonna look.
01:03:51.710 -->
01:03:53.389That was like the first few weeks.
01:03:53.550 -->
01:03:58.989And then I and literally I set alarms downstairs, like two hours I need without the phone first.
01:03:59.070 -->
01:04:02.590I mean, if I have to wake up at 4,
4:35, whatever, two hours solid.
01:04:02.750 -->
01:04:05.789And what I do is first 30 minutes, I'm just like chill.
01:04:05.949 -->
01:04:07.230Like I light a candle.
01:04:07.309 -->
01:04:13.070I'm in my front room that has like just it just feels like a very, a very peaceful room.
01:04:13.230 -->
01:04:18.590Um, I'm reading, I'm drinking my, I drink about 16 ounces of uh alkaline room temperature water.
01:04:18.670 -->
01:04:22.030I always put a little bit of aloe in it, squeeze lemon in it, a little bit of salt.
01:04:22.110 -->
01:04:24.030Like I just drink that slowly.
01:04:24.190 -->
01:04:27.949Um, and I just take my time and I'm just like, okay, God, me and you.
01:04:28.110 -->
01:04:29.070And I'm not praying yet.
01:04:29.150 -->
01:04:29.949I'm just reading a book.
01:04:30.030 -->
01:04:31.389I'm kind of waking up my mind a little bit.
01:04:31.469 -->
01:04:36.030Sometimes I put on worship, but I'm just like letting my body just kind of like, and I'm thankful.
01:04:36.110 -->
01:04:37.630I'm always thankful when I wake up.
01:04:37.710 -->
01:04:41.230I'm praying like that I'm thankful, but I'm not getting into the solid prayer yet.
01:04:41.309 -->
01:04:48.750And then I did a whole episode on this that um anybody can listen to on the Live Out Loud Show because it's really long when I really break down my prayers and what I do.
01:04:48.829 -->
01:04:49.949But I'll tell you this.
01:04:50.110 -->
01:04:54.429Um, I go to the sauna in the sauna, this is every morning, 30 minutes.
01:04:54.590 -->
01:05:02.750I used to go in the sauna with a book that would be all sweaty or a listen to a podcast or worship music because I just needed something.
01:05:02.909 -->
01:05:04.429I pray for 30 minutes straight.
01:05:04.829 -->
01:05:07.230And I I broke that's what I broke down in my podcast.
01:05:07.469 -->
01:05:11.469The way I pray, how I pray, what I break down to pray.
01:05:11.630 -->
01:05:12.829It is the most beautiful time.
01:05:12.909 -->
01:05:16.670I always wanted to be in the secret place and get closer to the Lord.
01:05:16.829 -->
01:05:21.150I wanted to spend more time with him, but I always felt like I don't know if I really know how to do that.
01:05:21.230 -->
01:05:24.909Even though I pray all the time, I worship, I love God, I love the Bible.
01:05:25.070 -->
01:05:32.030But I think I was still catching myself being like, every time I did that, I would still be thinking, how can I pour this out to somebody else?
01:05:32.110 -->
01:05:33.789How can I write down a note and have content?
01:05:34.110 -->
01:05:37.070God, am I like I didn't, I still was distracted.
01:05:37.550 -->
01:05:40.909So doing this has allowed me to not have any distractions.
01:05:41.150 -->
01:05:42.750It's just me and God, and I'm praying.
01:05:42.829 -->
01:05:44.590And I used to think five minutes was long.
01:05:44.750 -->
01:05:46.42930 minutes, I could do another 30 minutes.
01:05:46.590 -->
01:05:49.550Like we are in it together, and I am like all the things.
01:05:49.630 -->
01:05:52.429And again, I broke down the prayer in my podcast.
01:05:52.590 -->
01:05:54.509I would do it right now, it's just gonna take me like 30 minutes to do that.
01:05:54.670 -->
01:05:58.670Yeah, no, I think that's so important because I was praying wrong.
01:05:58.750 -->
01:06:00.509And I think a lot of us pray wrong.
01:06:00.750 -->
01:06:02.429We beg, we're beggars.
01:06:02.590 -->
01:06:02.989Yes.
01:06:03.150 -->
01:06:06.509Um, or we just think God's a genie in the bottle.
01:06:06.670 -->
01:06:08.269Like, where's my wishes?
01:06:08.750 -->
01:06:10.349Grant me this, grant me that.
01:06:10.509 -->
01:06:11.869That is not what prayer is.
01:06:12.030 -->
01:06:14.030So I'm so glad that you unpacked all of that.
01:06:14.190 -->
01:06:17.949But I love that you shared your struggle with the phone.
01:06:18.030 -->
01:06:27.710Yes, because that completely is what happens with fasting and any other situation where you you're getting a dopamine hit.
01:06:27.789 -->
01:06:33.150So physiologically, things are happening when you pick up that phone and you start scrolling.
01:06:33.389 -->
01:06:36.989Yeah, you're getting chemicals made in your body.
01:06:37.070 -->
01:06:41.710And if you're used to that, you're addicted to that, it is hard to break up with it.
01:06:41.949 -->
01:06:48.989So, women just you don't have to have willpower and feel guilty about not being able to do this.
01:06:49.150 -->
01:06:55.389This is real physiology that you're fighting against, but it's so important to conquer it.
01:06:55.550 -->
01:07:01.869And when you get still, like you know, uh David says in Psalms, be still and know that I am God.
01:07:01.949 -->
01:07:05.070Yeah, but we have to get still from food.
01:07:05.469 -->
01:07:14.670Like as soon as you take the food away, your flesh gets loud, it gets angry, it's like telling you you're starving to death, right?
01:07:14.829 -->
01:07:16.909It's speaking that death over you.
01:07:17.070 -->
01:07:18.909Um, I'm never gonna make it.
01:07:19.150 -->
01:07:31.150And really, we have to learn how to give our body love and encouragement of like, no, you can get through this, you can do this, it will be okay.
01:07:31.469 -->
01:07:37.789And I love that you just shared that example with your phone because it relates in all aspects.
01:07:38.030 -->
01:07:43.389If we cannot pull away, then we really are living of this world.
01:07:43.550 -->
01:07:46.269We are not living of the kingdom at all.
01:07:46.670 -->
01:07:56.349And God says, like, whatever happens spiritually that you come into agreement in your spirit, that is what will show up physically in this world.
01:07:56.670 -->
01:08:04.190And so it is a real struggle, it's more than your flesh, and you have to learn how to conquer it.
01:08:04.269 -->
01:08:06.030So I'm hoping women are feeling really.
01:08:06.509 -->
01:08:14.110Encouraged today, like even at your level, you know, you are financially very successful.
01:08:14.269 -->
01:08:20.430You're running this, you know, company and mentoring women, and you are just human.
01:08:20.590 -->
01:08:22.590You are just human at the end of the day.
01:08:22.750 -->
01:08:26.110You're still having real struggles in your flesh.
01:08:26.430 -->
01:08:31.630And I think once we're done conquering that, that's our last day on this earth, right?
01:08:31.710 -->
01:08:33.630So I'm not even mad about it.
01:08:33.710 -->
01:08:33.949Yeah.
01:08:34.110 -->
01:08:34.270Right?
01:08:34.510 -->
01:08:34.829Totally.
01:08:35.070 -->
01:08:37.789And it's not supposed to stay our story.
01:08:37.949 -->
01:08:42.909And so I honor you for realizing this is for other women.
01:08:43.230 -->
01:08:46.350My struggles are for the women listening.
01:08:46.590 -->
01:08:50.190And it's okay that I went through that because I'm helping somebody else.
01:08:50.350 -->
01:08:52.670So thank you so much for sharing all of that.
01:08:53.150 -->
01:08:53.869It's so powerful.
01:08:54.190 -->
01:08:55.310Well, it's what we do together.
01:08:55.470 -->
01:08:58.110I mean, it's it's how you share so vulnerably too.
01:08:58.270 -->
01:09:00.590And it's so important as women that we do that.
01:09:01.070 -->
01:09:05.070And I never want to, I don't ever, I will never feel like I arrived.
01:09:05.230 -->
01:09:12.989I mean, we have another business that people a lot of people don't even know about in our network marketing business that has over 300,000 people in it.
01:09:13.230 -->
01:09:13.630Wow.
01:09:13.869 -->
01:09:17.630And it's only by God that that has grown the way it has.
01:09:17.789 -->
01:09:24.270And there's so much responsibility, and there's so much every day that we feel like we're not doing enough or we need to do more.
01:09:24.350 -->
01:09:29.070And I used to be so caught up in like, I just want to make sure people don't think this or people don't think that.
01:09:29.150 -->
01:09:32.350And I'm like, God knows my heart and people that know me know me.
01:09:32.590 -->
01:09:42.829But my health and my routine with him and spending time with him and allowing him to fill up my heart and allowing the fruits of the spirit to lead us and our emotions get behind us.
01:09:42.989 -->
01:09:43.310Yes.
01:09:43.470 -->
01:09:46.110You know, our emotions should never run our day or our calendar.
01:09:46.270 -->
01:09:57.630And so many times when we're caught up in the phone and reacting, reacting, like I really value my husband that he is very much like not reactive to, and I'm like, we got to text this person.
01:09:57.949 -->
01:09:59.630They're like, he's like, they texted 10 minutes ago.
01:09:59.710 -->
01:10:01.550I'm like, I know, but we got to get back to them like right now.
01:10:01.789 -->
01:10:06.909And he's like, I'll get back to them when I need to get back to them, but I need to process that first.
01:10:06.989 -->
01:10:08.190And I have 20 other things.
01:10:08.270 -->
01:10:20.190And he even teaches me because like I do feel very reactive sometimes, but spending that time every morning has allowed me to say things like, God, anything in me today that's gonna be reactive, shut it down.
01:10:20.510 -->
01:10:25.150Anything that's gonna be offended or angry, like I don't want it.
01:10:25.310 -->
01:10:26.270I want to burn it up.
01:10:26.430 -->
01:10:28.110Anything in my flesh, I don't want.
01:10:28.190 -->
01:10:29.950I want everything that you have for me.
01:10:30.110 -->
01:10:40.510And taking that time, again, it's that time that most people will not take because we think we don't have it, but it is the thing that's actually gonna give you the energy, the fuel.
01:10:40.670 -->
01:10:43.070It's not like you just have supernatural energy because you're different.
01:10:43.150 -->
01:10:45.230I mean, a lot of times people be like, oh, you're just like that.
01:10:45.390 -->
01:10:47.630You're just supposed to be a morning person, you just must be like that.
01:10:47.790 -->
01:10:48.910And I'm like, no.
01:10:49.070 -->
01:10:53.070Yeah, I'm like, I I I really actually don't think I'm a morning person at all.
01:10:53.230 -->
01:10:57.310But I've created my life where I've become a morning person and I'm grateful to do it.
01:10:57.550 -->
01:11:01.630There's a lot of people that don't even have that opportunity, you know, to be a morning person.
01:11:01.710 -->
01:11:03.870So why not just take it and say it's an opportunity?
01:11:04.030 -->
01:11:07.790So anyway, so that I'm so glad we had this conversation.
01:11:07.950 -->
01:11:09.070Thank you for having me.
01:11:09.310 -->
01:11:11.870Yeah, I I know my women are blessed by this.
01:11:12.030 -->
01:11:12.590We have to be.
01:11:12.670 -->
01:11:13.630They are blessed by you.
01:11:14.110 -->
01:11:14.830Thank you.
01:11:15.070 -->
01:11:25.310And they love when I'm real and honest and I share, you know, my blunders and my struggles because you can't connect with someone who's perfect.
01:11:25.550 -->
01:11:27.310Like that doesn't even make any sense.
01:11:27.470 -->
01:11:29.390So nobody is.
01:11:29.710 -->
01:11:34.190Yeah, I feel like it's just so amazing that you're doing in business what I'm doing in faith.
01:11:34.350 -->
01:11:37.070So this was a much needed conversation.
01:11:37.470 -->
01:11:47.470And please check out Brooke if you do have a business, because getting into her room has changed not only my business, but my entire life.
01:11:47.550 -->
01:11:53.870And it's allowed me to show up for you, the Fast of Faith community, at such a higher level.
01:11:54.030 -->
01:12:08.430And it's helped me heal my trauma and my wounds and break up with spirits that I didn't need to be in agreement with, all the things like it's can we just need to continue to work on ourselves and ask God to walk alongside of us.
01:12:08.590 -->
01:12:10.270So thank you for this conversation.
01:12:10.510 -->
01:12:11.070Thank you.
01:12:11.310 -->
01:12:15.790And I want you to meditate on be still and know that I am God.
01:12:16.110 -->
01:12:18.190What does that mean for you?
01:12:18.510 -->
01:12:22.990Because I don't think that we really break that down deep enough.
01:12:23.070 -->
01:12:28.510So that would be my my prayer for you this week is that you'd really hear from God about that.
01:12:28.590 -->
01:12:30.670So go be Christ's hands to serve.
01:12:30.830 -->
01:12:31.950I love you, ladies.
01:12:32.110 -->
01:12:33.470Thank you for your time.
