Why Loss Lives in Your Body (and How to Release It) | Kurtis Lee Thomas | EP 491

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Close your eyes and imagine.
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What if the things in life that cause us the greatest pain, the things that bring us grief, are challenges.
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Challenges designed to help us grow to ultimately become what we were always meant to be.
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We feel like we've been buried, but what if, like a seed, we've been planted?
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And having been planted, we grow to become a mighty tree.
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Now, open your eyes.
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Open your eyes to this way of viewing life.
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Come with me as we explore your true, infinite, eternal nature.
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This is Grief to Growth, and I am your host, Brian Smith.
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Hey there, welcome to Grief to Growth.
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I'm Brian Smith, and I'm glad you're here.
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Whether it's your first time joining us or even walking this road with me for a while, I'm glad that you're here today.
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This show exists because Grief changes everything.
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It breaks open the questions most people avoid.
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Things like who are we really, what happens when someone we love dies, and is the distance between us and them as fast as it feels.
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Every guest I bring on to someone who has wrestled with those questions and come out on the other side with something worth sharing.
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Today, my guest is Curtis Lee Thomas.
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And Curtis is a man who discovered that the answer to some of life's deepest pain was hiding in the very first thing we do when we arrive in this world.
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And it's the last thing that we do when we leave it, and that is the breath.
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Curtis is the founder of the Global Wellness Movement Breath Work Detox, a spiritual healer featured on The Today Show and voted the number one employee well-being provider of 2023.
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He's the founder of the Just Breathe Foundation, which has partnered with Nike, NASA, and celebrities worldwide to bring mental health solutions to the people who need them the most.
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He's also the author of two powerful books, Breath Work Detox, How to Thrive in the Age of Anxiety, and The World Is Yours, The Secrets Behind the Secret.
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But what really makes Curtis' story resonate for me, and I think it will for you too, is that the path to his work didn't begin in a wellness studio.
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It began in suffering like it has for so many of us.
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It hit a wall that medicine couldn't fix, and he had to find his way through it.
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In this conversation, we're going to explore something that may completely change the way you think about healing.
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Curtis teaches that grief, trauma, and loss don't just live in our memories, they live in our bodies, in our tissues, and that the breath used intentionally and powerfully can release what years of trying to think our way through grief never can.
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We're going to talk about what actually happens in a breath work detox session, why people cry, see visions, and emerge feeling lighter than they have in years.
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We're going to talk about the bridge between breath and spirit, and why Curtis believes that breath is not just a biological function, but a doorway to something far greater.
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If you've been carrying loss in your body, if you feel it in your chest, your shoulders, your gut, if you've done all the right things and still feel like something is stuck inside you that you can't get out, then this episode's for you.
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If you want to continue the conversation after the episode, head over to grief2growth.stubstack.com.
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You'll find an article about today's discussion where you can comment and connect with me and with other listeners.
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And with that, let's welcome Curtis Lee Thomas.
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Thank you for having me.
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It was a great introduction.
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Yeah, it is great to have you here.
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I mentioned in the introduction that you started off going through something difficult that led to where you are today, which is recurring theme on grief to growth.
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So I know something happened in 2011 that transformed you, but was there something else, or was that the thing that was the big catalyst?
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There were phases and triggers.
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You know, 2011 was more of my spiritual awakening.
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And then the other one was the stomach condition that I was suffering with for about five years, and doctors couldn't tell me what was wrong with me, couldn't fix me, couldn't diagnose me.
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So it was quite frustrating, and I embarked on what many of us are on today, which is the journey.
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And on that journey, we have more questions than we do answers.
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So, you know, at one point, I started getting more desperate, more desperate, and, you know, started doing all these modalities, went into plant medicine.
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And then eventually, I found this breathing technique.
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And this one breathing technique I did completely eradicated my stomach condition, just like that in one session.
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Wow.
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So I'm a very skeptical, analytical type of person.
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So I'm like, well, how is that possible?
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You know, I went to the best doctors from New York to L.A. and did every test you can imagine.
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I did fasting, veganism, you name it.
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And out of all the things, even ayahuasca 14 times at that moment in time.
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And then how could this one technique do with the best doctors from New York to L.A. couldn't do?
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And then I realized it's because my issue wasn't physical.
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It was energetic.
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It was emotion.
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And, you know, that was one of the one of the big eye opening things on my own healing journey.
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Wow.
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Okay.
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And so that was prior to 2011, I assume.
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That was after 2011.
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2011, you know, I wasn't I can't say I wasn't spiritual because we're all spiritual by nature.
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And, you know, I just wasn't anywhere where I am now.
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And I had my brother that I lost him to gun violence in 2011.
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And this is when I and I'm glad you mentioned this in the beginning of the show.
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I was introduced to mediumship and I'll never forget.
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It was like two o'clock in the morning at a 7 11 gas station.
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And I go in there and there's this blonde lady who's just like staring at me and really just checking me out.
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And she starts walking over to me.
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And then she says, hey, you know, don't don't freak out.
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But your brother's here and he wants to talk to you.
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Wow.
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So I'm like, oh, I'm not from California.
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I was actually living in Rhode Island at the time I was just visiting.
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And I was like, so you got me mistaken for somebody else.
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She's like, no, no, no, no.
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She's like, I'm a medium.
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And I'm like, well, I'm a large.
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What does that got to do it?
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And she's like, no, sweetie.
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I'm a psychic medium.
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I talked to spirits that crossed over.
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And I was like, oh, hell no.
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I be lined it the other way because I grew up Christian.
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You know, so it was like, you know, voodoo, woo woo, all that stuff.
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Long story short, I ended up connecting with her.
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She gave me her card and I did end up speaking to my brother through her.
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He told me things that only me and him knew and verified many things, told me things that would happen in the future.
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All of it, you know, checked out.
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You even told me what happened to him because nobody knew what happened.
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And he told me like the whole scene, like what happened.
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And they didn't catch the people that did it.
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And he told me who did it.
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And I don't know what to do with this information because quite frankly, I wasn't sure if I even believed in any of this.
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And it kind of spooked me out.
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And then two weeks later, they ended up catching the people that did it.
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And the same names he gave me with the same names printed in the front of the Boston Boston Herald.
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Oh, wow.
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So I said, OK, what's what's going on here?
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You know, I had a conversation with a dead person.
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No, no, no.
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One of those, you know, some can't be true.
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I either didn't have the conversation or the person is not dead.
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And I know I had the conversation.
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So obviously that was my awakening of the spirit lives on.
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And I was kind of infatuated that my brother could see both past, present and future.
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So if there was like omnipresence, it was.
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And I was like, wow.
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And I just remember sitting there thinking, I was like, wait, if these spirits that crossed over can watch our every move, know our past, present and future, I'm like, there's no secrets in this world.
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And all of a sudden it was like, wow.
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And it just made me start living in more authenticity and transparency in my own life for me, for nobody else.
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And that was like one of my clicks.
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And now I'm like, wow.
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So there's like, you know, beings and I just became obsessed with the spirit world.
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I'm like, well, what's what's that like?
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I was never taught that in school.
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So that's when I developed this insatiable appetite to learn and actually found one of my teachers who I studied with for five years.
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And she was a galactic shaman.
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She was very gifted.
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And I got certified in Reiki one, two, Reiki three, and eventually Reiki master and became a life coach, hypnotherapist, NLP practitioner, pretty much started collecting certifications.
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And on that journey is when I got hit with the stomach condition, which made me go even deeper down that journey, which led me to discovering breathwork.
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And over the past decade and a half now of searching, I haven't found anything stronger, more powerful and more effective than the specific breathing technique.
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And it's multifaceted.
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It does many things.
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And, you know, I'm sure we'll get into a lot of that as well.
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Yeah.
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Wow.
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That's that's that is an interesting journey.
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And, you know, it's always interesting to me also about mediums.
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And I mentioned to you before I started that I do have mediums on the show.
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And I know that that freaks some people out.
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And a lot of times Christians are taught you can't talk to the dead and mediums are bad.
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So I understand that reaction.
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And there's a big skepticism.
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I'm curious that medium that you met is somebody that we would know or was it her name was Maggie.
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And she lived in Los Angeles.
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And she was, you know, some talk show radios.
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And, you know, I haven't talked to her in a really long time.
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But I'm sure she's out there.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It's like I said, it's fascinating.
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I have friends that are mediums that I just had one on the other day.
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Her name is Farrah Gibson.
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And she actually you tell me you live in Scottsdale.
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She actually lives in that in that area, that part of Arizona.
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And she spirit sometimes tells her go up to this person and tell them that their loved ones here.
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And it can it can change people's lives.
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It's that you want a completely different course.
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Yeah, it's pretty wild.
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You know, I get over the whole spooky thing.
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I got two of my really good friends who are psychics as well.
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And it's a gift we all have, you know, some people call it intuition, you know, and we develop these extra sensory perceptions.
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You know, some people will.
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Most people either claircognizant or clairsentiate.
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And you can walk to walk into a room if you know it's a good feeling, good vibes, bad vibes.
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And you just feel things and then you know things.
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You don't know how you know them, but you know them.
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And you know, we have those.
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But then there's other people who have those.
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But then they also are clairvoyant, clairaudient.
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They can see and hear things, which I'm totally not interested in.
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Yeah.
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I don't want to see or hear anything.
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You know, I'll just follow my intuition.
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Yeah.
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Well, I mentioned to you, you were asking about my audience before we get started.
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And I said that a lot of times there are people that are, they've gone through traumatic events.
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They've got something going on either physically in their body or spiritually, you know, with their grief and stuff.
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And they've tried everything.
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They've tried, you know, they've tried all the things that you talked about.
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Maybe even plant medicine and Reiki, et cetera.
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Why did you feel that breath work is so powerful?
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And you're not the first person that's told me this, by the way.
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So why do you think that's more powerful than some of these other techniques?
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Specifically to dealing with the emotion of grief or just modalities in general?
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Let's talk about grief.
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Okay.
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Well, it is when it comes to grief, it's by far the it's the number one modality you can do.
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And mainly because, and I heard you say this earlier about the body.
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So what I like to say is, you know, the mind always wants to look into the future.
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So he's thinking into the future.
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The soul wants to be present, but the body holds onto the past.
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The body is a living library of all of our human experiences.
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And this is why they say the body keeps score and why the issues are in the tissues.
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So a lot of the stress, chronic stress, stored trauma, unresolved emotions, all that stuff is stored in the body.
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And it has memory.
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And we've been storing this stuff since we were children.
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Because our definition of pain and trauma changes from when we were little to when we get older.
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When we were little, maybe we were pushed off the swing by a bully, or we didn't get picked, or the last one to get picked in volleyball, and then you didn't feel wanted.
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Now, if we don't have the emotional intelligence as children to process those, we start in the body.
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But the thing that happens is, you know, life keeps living.
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So these experience keep piling on.
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And then now you got compounded interest on all the trauma and chronic stress and unresolved emotions that you've been storing.
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And that's when it begins to manifest into dis-ease in the body and wreak havoc on our nervous system, which is why a lot of people are walking around, not even feeling comfortable in their own bodies because of it.
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But I want to hit your point.
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So with that being the context, certain emotions live in certain parts of the body.
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And if anyone's familiar with Louisa Hay's book, the body speaks, I think it's called.
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And so if someone has a lower back is always really, really tight, right?
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That's financial worries.
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They're constantly stressed about money.
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You know, knee issues is more of allowing your pride and your ego to get in the way of certain decisions.
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And now the emotion of grief is stored in the lungs.
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And that's where the emotion of grief is stored.
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And so when you do the breathwork detox modality, you're not just detoxing your entire body, your cells, but your lungs that's holding onto that grief.
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And people hold grief, you know, when people didn't even pass away, you know, there's all different levels and forms, you know, of grief.
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We can greet people who are living, but that emotion of grief is stored in our lungs.
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And that's why I'm probably 60 percent of the people who go through this breathwork detox experience, they end up crying and not expecting it, not planning on it.
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And I've done this for the most masculine men on the planet from war veterans, prison inmates, Navy SEALs, NFL athletes, they all cry because all crying is a huge energetic release.
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Huge emotional release from something that we've been holding onto that we just need to let it go.
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And not all the time it has to pass through the veil of your awareness.
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You know, you could be in the breathwork and you start crying and you don't know why.
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And that's fine.
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You don't always need to know why.
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And sometimes, you know, that emotion will come to, you know, your forefront.
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Maybe because there's an acknowledgement that needs to happen or a lesson that needs to be extrapolated.
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So it's quite interesting, you know, what this modality can do, but when it comes to grief, it is the number one thing for grief because that's where that emotion is stored in the body.
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Yeah, I think it's really interesting that we're finally, I was going to say coming around to, I think we're coming back around to the fact that a lot of this ease in our body is spiritual.
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It starts spiritual and then it gets lodged in the body.
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And as you said, we need to process it.
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And I tell my clients all the time when I'm working with them with grief, sometimes they'll apologize for crying in a session or something.
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I'm like, no, that's a good thing.
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We want to process itself.
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We want to move it out.
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We want to move it through.
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And we all carry traumas, as you mentioned, from childhood right up through.
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And we typically just carry those things around.
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And we don't have any idea of all the junk we've got, we've got stored in there.
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Exactly.
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And, you know, we don't need to know it all because it's like Pandora's box, right?
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Yeah.
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You know, but we hope we do hold on to it.
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And, you know, sometimes it's not the weight of the baggage, but it's how you carry it.
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And a lot of people have learned to carry it very well because you need to be strong for your daughter, you know, and your family and your wife.
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If you're an entrepreneur, you need to be strong for your employees.
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And, you know, mothers, you have to be strong for their sons.
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And, you know, everyone has these masks that we wear.
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And we're just carrying this stuff.
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And what I learned about, let's just say baggage, emotional baggage, is that you do not know what you're carrying until the moment you release it.
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If you give someone a piece of paper and say, hey, write down all the emotional baggage that you're carrying, you'd probably get five percent of it.
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So when you release it, you're just like, oh my God, I didn't know I was carrying that.
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And that's why people feel brand new.
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They feel reborn.
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They feel lighter, buoyant.
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And that is like one of the greatest side effects of that experience.
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Yeah.
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Now you mentioned your stomach issue.
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Did you ever get a diagnosis for it?
00:19:27.349 --> 00:19:29.089
So I did colonoscopies.
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I did endoscopies.
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I did a swell of pill cameras.
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I thought I had every disease under the sun.
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The only thing that physically manifested, which wasn't the real issue, just a byproduct of it, was my peristalsis in my small intestine, which is that muscle that pushes the food.
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It was really, really slow.
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And because that was slow, my digestion wasn't right.
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And SIBO began to develop.
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But that was it.
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The real issue was I had a blockage, an emotional blockage, specifically behind my belly button, which is known as your Dantian or your Wingate in Chinese medicine.
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And your Wingate is the area in your body where all the new energy comes in and all the old energy leaves.
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So I had that blockage, so no new energy was coming in.
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All stagnant energy was stuck there, and they call it like stagnant chi.
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And I couldn't undo it.
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You know, plant medicine, I did all these different things.
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And then this specific technique goes deep down into the diaphragm and it moved that energy.
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When it moved, it's like everything shifted.
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I had the old energy leave, new energy come in.
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And then my health came back online because 80% of your immune system is in your gut.
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80% of your serotonin is produced in your gut, not your brain.
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And it's the core engine of your vitality.
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So that means 80% of your health and your happiness is in your gut.
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And yet, most people are walking around doing paradoxical breathing.
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Are you telling them to take a deep breath?
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Everyone takes a deep breath and their neck, their chest, their clavicles, their shoulders, this all moves, but their belly doesn't move.
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And if you watch a baby breathe, when a baby breathes, when they breathe in, the belly moves up.
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And as adults, we don't do that.
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Because our diaphragms get tense, we get stress in there, and it locks up.
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And then on a subconscious level, we're also afraid to breathe deep down into the belly because that's where we feel emotions.
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And you've heard the feeling, I meant the saying, trust your gut.
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I have a gut feeling.
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It's because there's intelligence in the gut.
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And the amount of neurons it sends from your gut to your brain, you never heard, you know, trust your elbow or touch your thyroid feeling.
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It's touch a gut feeling because there is intelligence there that is directly connected to the mind.
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And that's why they say brain gut connection.
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So my health went back online, verbal fluency was better.
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I felt like my IQ went up because I couldn't even think straight.
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And it just did so much.
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And it was instantaneous.
00:22:10.009 --> 00:22:21.189
And that was like the amazing thing about breath work as opposed to yoga and meditation and other modalities is that the results are immediate and undeniable from one session.
00:22:21.909 --> 00:22:29.049
And I think that's the type of rare instant gratification ability that this modality has.
00:22:29.589 --> 00:22:36.649
Where the other ones, you know, you need to be very consistent to see those results over a course of time.
00:22:36.829 --> 00:22:38.889
It was three months, six months, you know, two years.
00:22:39.750 --> 00:22:43.069
With breath work, it's like you will have an experience.
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And it's different for everybody.
00:22:45.750 --> 00:22:51.829
And it's just a matter of, you know, how much you're willing to surrender and let go.
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You know, there's a saying that, you know, knowledge is how much you can learn every day.
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Wisdom is how much you can let go of every day.
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Hmm.
00:23:00.409 --> 00:23:00.990
I haven't heard that.
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Yeah, I like that.
00:23:02.629 --> 00:23:04.589
So how did you discover this technique?
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You found a practitioner that took you through it?
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Yeah, the wild and let's call it the irony to this is that on this journey, I went to Peru and the ketos with the Shippebos.
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I went to Tibet.
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I was in caves in India and Rishikesh talking the monks and gurus and sages and you know, everywhere over the world.
00:23:26.949 --> 00:23:32.309
And I actually found this modality in Los Angeles from my massage therapist.
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Wow.
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I was like literally meditating under the tree where Buddha got enlightened.
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I went to Jerusalem where Christ ascended and was like in a massage therapist in LA.
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You know, that's where I found the answer.
00:23:44.209 --> 00:23:44.649
Wow.
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So I thought that was funny.
00:23:47.049 --> 00:23:54.369
And yeah, she put me on to this technique, you know, and I go in and I'm skeptical, but I'm desperate.
00:23:54.689 --> 00:23:56.889
So my desperation was overpowering my skepticism.
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I was like, okay, let me just try it.
00:23:59.549 --> 00:24:02.990
And then I just remember, you know, there was this little tiny lady.
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She had to be like 90 pounds soaking wet.
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And then beside me, and then there was this dude from like the Rams, like who played NFL.
00:24:10.969 --> 00:24:12.469
He was there and we're breathing.
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And next thing you know, the girl starts crying and I'm like, oh, I'm thinking, I wonder what happened to her.
00:24:16.629 --> 00:24:17.729
You know, she's okay.
00:24:18.250 --> 00:24:22.269
And then all of a sudden, you know, the big six foot five NFL dude starts crying.
00:24:22.429 --> 00:24:23.289
And I'm like, wait a second.
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What's going on?
00:24:24.529 --> 00:24:25.629
I hear people in the back crying.
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I'm like, why is everybody?
00:24:27.429 --> 00:24:29.689
And before I could finish that thought, I'm like, crap.
00:24:30.529 --> 00:24:32.469
And I'm just doing the biggest ugliest cry.
00:24:33.250 --> 00:24:39.909
And in that cry, it was literally moving that energy out of me, which is, you know, which was the detox.
00:24:40.949 --> 00:24:48.529
And, you know, when I went home that night, I was floating and I woke up and I was like, oh, wow, that stomach, it feels different.
00:24:48.689 --> 00:24:50.649
It's gone and just started to get better.
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And I was like, wow.
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I'm like, and I was shocked because I was already collecting those certifications.
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I was already, you know, in this world.
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I'm like, how did I know this existed?
00:25:00.869 --> 00:25:02.849
So I started teaching it in LA.
00:25:03.649 --> 00:25:07.829
And I remember going to like, you know, some yoga teachers who's been teaching yoga for like 30 years.
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And I'm like, Hey, you know, you got to try this breathing technique.
00:25:10.250 --> 00:25:14.329
And they're like, Oh, you know, I've studied with, you know, this guru and pranayama.
00:25:14.729 --> 00:25:17.629
And I'm like, just try one, you know, one session with me.
00:25:17.849 --> 00:25:19.829
And then they do it and they're like, Holy cow.
00:25:20.229 --> 00:25:22.009
I didn't even know that was possible.
00:25:22.289 --> 00:25:23.490
Like, can you teach me this?
00:25:23.909 --> 00:25:28.169
So I started certifying yoga teachers to teach this modality.
00:25:28.169 --> 00:25:34.990
And that's what I kind of shifted from doing, you know, I went from one on ones to doing a large group events.
00:25:35.669 --> 00:25:50.089
And now I mainly focus on corporate and certifying people in this particular modality to go bring it to their community, their health practice or, you know, whatever it may be, you know, and then I'll do a virtual event once a month.
00:25:51.569 --> 00:25:56.509
So is this technique is this like an ancient Chinese technique or where did it come from?
00:25:56.509 --> 00:26:10.609
Well, I'm not sure who has the intellectual property on breathing, but my guess would be, you know, India and Tibet where a lot of these practices originate.
00:26:11.169 --> 00:26:16.169
And, you know, it's the thing about it, Brian, is that it's a very simple technique.
00:26:16.969 --> 00:26:17.990
It's very simple.
00:26:18.769 --> 00:26:30.729
And, you know, the magic of it, let's call the breath work, the content, the 20 minutes before where I'm explaining the technique, that's the context.
00:26:31.049 --> 00:26:32.149
That's where the magic happens.
00:26:33.089 --> 00:26:43.909
Because what I need to do is kind of go in their mind and play subconscious surgery and remove all the fears that they're going to have when they start to venture out of their comfort zone with this particular technique.
00:26:44.349 --> 00:26:47.309
And these things begin to come up and you begin to release them.
00:26:48.009 --> 00:26:51.729
There's certain things that you need to know that's going to allow that person to go deeper, deeper.
00:26:51.729 --> 00:26:57.429
So I spend time with them at least 20 minutes prior, and then they go and do the technique.
00:26:57.949 --> 00:27:05.169
And it is, you know, it's pretty interesting to watch, you know, all the amazing releases and the things that people do.
00:27:05.329 --> 00:27:08.689
It's, you know, but I stopped saying I saw it all, right?
00:27:08.949 --> 00:27:12.750
I saw it all because whenever I say that, the universe is like, oh, yeah.
00:27:14.009 --> 00:27:15.629
And you see something else, you know, it's crazy.
00:27:15.769 --> 00:27:31.909
But a lot of cool stories of people, miraculous, spontaneous healings and psychic powers, you know, eradication of chronic stress that was affecting their family, their work, you know, you name it, there's a, there's a testimonial from us.
00:27:32.969 --> 00:27:33.069
Yeah.
00:27:33.229 --> 00:27:39.049
So that's really interesting because you mentioned opening up of psychic ability.
00:27:40.149 --> 00:27:42.409
It's not something I was expecting for you to say.
00:27:42.669 --> 00:27:44.750
So give me, tell me something about that.
00:27:45.309 --> 00:27:45.529
Yeah.
00:27:45.649 --> 00:27:50.709
And it's not like woo woo, where it's like almost, you start breathing and next thing you know, you're holding a crystal ball.
00:27:51.049 --> 00:27:52.649
There's science behind it.
00:27:53.149 --> 00:28:01.750
So when you're breathing right around, but probably the eight to 12 minute mark, the brain goes into something called transient hypofrontality.
00:28:02.609 --> 00:28:08.509
And Steven Kotler talks a lot about this in the, he has a research lab called the Flow Research Collective.
00:28:09.349 --> 00:28:10.709
And it's a trance state.
00:28:11.729 --> 00:28:14.509
So once you get to this mark, you hit your peak resistance.
00:28:14.509 --> 00:28:21.689
And on the other side of that resistance is this like this field and they call it transient hypofrontality.
00:28:21.689 --> 00:28:25.849
And what's happening is the prefrontal cortex in the brain begins to quiet down.
00:28:26.089 --> 00:28:32.750
And that's important while you're, you know, waking in conscious is because that's the part of the brain that is your executive decision maker.
00:28:32.969 --> 00:28:33.969
It's your CEO.
00:28:34.069 --> 00:28:35.269
It judges everything.
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It says, this is good.
00:28:36.309 --> 00:28:36.729
This is bad.
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You're you are me.
00:28:37.629 --> 00:28:38.250
So it separates.
00:28:39.129 --> 00:28:44.909
And when that begins to kind of slowly deactivate all of a sudden, the monkey mind, right?
00:28:45.149 --> 00:28:49.289
The critic, the ego, it begins to quiet down.
00:28:49.409 --> 00:28:52.809
And now you can see all the pieces of your life.
00:28:52.809 --> 00:28:57.969
And you begin to connect the dots so easily and you get a tremendous amount of clarity.
00:28:58.449 --> 00:29:06.329
And that's why I love this technique for me personally is the clarity because I believe confusion is temporary insanity.
00:29:07.049 --> 00:29:09.869
No one likes to be confused of like, should I stay in this job?
00:29:10.009 --> 00:29:10.429
Should I leave?
00:29:10.589 --> 00:29:11.609
Should I go out on my own?
00:29:11.609 --> 00:29:12.589
Should I stay in the relationship?
00:29:12.849 --> 00:29:13.229
Should I leave?
00:29:13.709 --> 00:29:15.750
You know, all these things that are juggling in our mind.
00:29:16.389 --> 00:29:19.209
And when you just get that uber clarity like, oh, I know what to do.
00:29:19.629 --> 00:29:22.369
And, you know, I don't know if this is something I promote.
00:29:22.490 --> 00:29:23.209
I don't really talk about it.
00:29:23.329 --> 00:29:34.389
But many, many times there's been people that come up to me, probably, you know, hundreds at this point who, after the breath work, they got a message.
00:29:34.949 --> 00:29:37.409
And that message was, I need to leave this job.
00:29:37.949 --> 00:29:41.189
I've been in this crappy relationship for, you know, five years.
00:29:41.189 --> 00:29:42.250
I've been trying to get out.
00:29:42.789 --> 00:29:45.169
And then it just like drops in like a download.
00:29:45.509 --> 00:29:47.869
And it's like, oh, I know what to do.
00:29:47.909 --> 00:29:48.869
And then they follow through on it.
00:29:49.750 --> 00:29:58.729
And, you know, that's like one of the coolest things, you know, about it is that level of clarity is super valuable when we're on that journey.
00:30:00.069 --> 00:30:04.629
I was a little surprised when you mentioned the first time you did this that it was in a group setting.
00:30:04.849 --> 00:30:07.129
I expect this was going to be like a private thing, right?
00:30:07.289 --> 00:30:09.309
So the people typically do these in groups?
00:30:10.609 --> 00:30:11.909
Yeah, they do.
00:30:12.569 --> 00:30:17.490
And, you know, it's quite powerful when you have that much energy in a room.
00:30:17.949 --> 00:30:18.509
You can do it.
00:30:18.509 --> 00:30:19.569
You can do it one on one.
00:30:20.109 --> 00:30:31.529
I teach people how to run a one on one practice, how to do couples, couples therapy with breath work, you know, because traditional therapy and talk therapy, it can only get you so far.
00:30:32.069 --> 00:30:34.609
You know, and I've done that had a whole practice with my mother.
00:30:35.509 --> 00:30:41.609
When these things live inside the body and you can use the body, use the breath and use, you know, the.
00:30:55.339 --> 00:30:55.779
All right.
00:30:55.879 --> 00:30:57.339
We had a little glitch there, but we're back.
00:30:57.659 --> 00:30:58.679
So go ahead, Curtis.
00:30:59.439 --> 00:30:59.639
Yeah.
00:30:59.979 --> 00:31:04.839
So, you know, doing it one on one, you could do it in couples and then do it in large groups.
00:31:04.899 --> 00:31:10.119
You know, I've done it for a couple hundred people and that's super, super duper powerful.
00:31:10.699 --> 00:31:13.839
And you can also do it in person or virtual.
00:31:14.719 --> 00:31:17.079
And people always ask me, like, is it more powerful to do it in person?
00:31:17.079 --> 00:31:18.779
Is it more powerful to do it virtually?
00:31:19.740 --> 00:31:20.299
And it depends.
00:31:20.919 --> 00:31:23.759
I've had people that swear by just doing it virtual.
00:31:24.419 --> 00:31:31.519
And some people that love the energy, you know, in the room and having more people in the room could be more beneficial.
00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:44.459
But if you're somebody who is kind of more self-conscious, then maybe doing it virtually, you know, I've had people do it virtually in their closets where they got their husband taking care of four kids and they locked the closet and they're breathing in the closet.
00:31:44.459 --> 00:31:50.099
You know, so that's the great thing about this, is that there's no barrier to entry.
00:31:51.139 --> 00:31:53.979
And all the mindfulness modalities have barriers to entry.
00:31:54.359 --> 00:31:55.659
You know, look at meditation.
00:31:56.399 --> 00:32:02.079
You know, the world is stressed out and statistically, a goldfish has a longer attention span than a human right now.
00:32:02.819 --> 00:32:13.759
And if you try to get somebody who's already stressed out, to sit down, sit still and don't think about for the next 20 minutes, they're going to get more stressed out and they're going to feel like a failure.
00:32:14.619 --> 00:32:16.979
And, you know, there's a lot of mind frick going on.
00:32:17.099 --> 00:32:24.939
It's really hard to take the chaos of the sea of our thoughts and comment to a calm pond.
00:32:25.539 --> 00:32:33.159
Whereas breath work, you can take your chaotic thoughts and instead of trying to comment, you're doing something actively.
00:32:33.379 --> 00:32:39.459
You're giving the brain something to do and it's pushing the energy out of your field rather than trying to settle it.
00:32:39.459 --> 00:32:56.479
So ADHD people, this is, this is for you because it's hard to, you know, you know, focus, you know, and really, you know, just, just dial in, especially with, you know, what social media has done for us alone.
00:32:57.199 --> 00:33:03.959
You know, if you think about what meditation is, meditation is when you quiet the mind to just focus on one thing.
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It could be one mantra.
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It could be, you know, one sound.
00:33:07.779 --> 00:33:13.459
It could be one anything, but when we are scrolling on our phones, we're literally defocusing.
00:33:13.859 --> 00:33:17.019
We're practicing defocusing, literally just scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.
00:33:17.339 --> 00:33:27.439
It's like sitting on the couch and, you know, and you're watching TV with somebody and they're changing the channel every three seconds, you know, you go crazy, but yet we do it every single day.
00:33:27.439 --> 00:33:28.079
That's a good point.
00:33:28.439 --> 00:33:28.619
Yeah.
00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:30.699
We're training our brains to defocus.
00:33:30.939 --> 00:33:33.199
So huge barrier to entry there.
00:33:33.659 --> 00:33:38.179
And then yoga, 54% of the world's population can't bend down and touch their toes.
00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:40.599
And then you have, you know, body shaming.
00:33:41.079 --> 00:33:49.439
Nobody really wants to go into, you know, yoga studio with the leotard and, you know, bending in these crazy ways in front of people and performance anxiety.
00:33:49.699 --> 00:33:52.759
You know, I've not felt that before you go into a yoga class, you're brand new.
00:33:52.879 --> 00:33:59.199
And then you got someone who's, you know, bending like a pretzel has been there for 15 years and you're like, Oh man, I'm no ways near them.
00:33:59.679 --> 00:34:07.899
With breath work, you could be 400 pounds, fully clothed, lay down on your back, anywhere, breathe, and you're going to have a profound experience.
00:34:08.599 --> 00:34:08.699
Interesting.
00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:09.139
Yeah.
00:34:09.619 --> 00:34:09.719
Yeah.
00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:17.139
So you mentioned that for you, your healing of your stomach issue was in one session.
00:34:18.059 --> 00:34:24.240
Is this something people typically continue to do or do people sometimes do just one and done and they just don't come back?
00:34:24.320 --> 00:34:25.860
How often am I going to do this?
00:34:26.840 --> 00:34:27.019
Yeah.
00:34:27.320 --> 00:34:32.500
I mean, the healing aspect is one thing, but how you feel after that's the addicting part.
00:34:32.500 --> 00:34:39.059
Because you'd come out of it and you feel so lighter, you feel so happy, you feel so buoyant, you sleep the best you ever had that night.
00:34:39.820 --> 00:34:43.639
So people when something works, they want more of it.
00:34:44.039 --> 00:34:46.619
Now, the good news is this isn't like yoga and meditation.
00:34:46.860 --> 00:34:50.360
You don't need to do this, this particular modality every single day.
00:34:50.840 --> 00:35:01.880
You know, you could do it once a week, once every two weeks, and you just did it once every two weeks, you'd have more progress than if you did yoga for a full year.
00:35:02.539 --> 00:35:05.119
And, you know, that's what's great about it.
00:35:05.260 --> 00:35:08.219
Now, we do do shorter sessions daily.
00:35:08.780 --> 00:35:17.119
So we're one of the only breathwork companies that do daily live breathwork sessions, seven days a week, 6 a.m. every single morning.
00:35:17.320 --> 00:35:24.840
We have a different facilitator for every day of the week, which is great because each one has their own style, they bring their own medicine.
00:35:26.159 --> 00:35:28.139
And, you know, I look at that as the maintenance.
00:35:28.699 --> 00:35:32.099
So it's just like, you know, maybe 10 minutes of breathwork and then, boom, you start in your day.
00:35:33.260 --> 00:35:36.119
Is that something people do online or do they go into a studio for that?
00:35:36.639 --> 00:35:37.619
Yeah, we do everything online.
00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:38.500
Okay.
00:35:40.460 --> 00:35:46.320
Yeah, that's interesting because, you know, like you were saying, some of these other things do have barriers to entry.
00:35:46.940 --> 00:35:55.340
I know I'm always promoting meditation to my clients and stuff and I've been meditating in various modes for many, a couple of decades, I guess, anyway.
00:35:56.460 --> 00:35:58.380
And so many people tell me, you don't understand.
00:35:58.380 --> 00:36:11.340
I just can't meditate because, as you said, we've got that short attention span where it's just sitting down and, you know, calming the mind, being told to calm the mind, people are like, I don't even know what you're talking about.
00:36:12.619 --> 00:36:18.320
So the thing, I've done some breathwork things before and it is something that anybody can do.
00:36:18.920 --> 00:36:23.079
So that is a nice, you know, I guess, benefit to it.
00:36:24.079 --> 00:36:26.059
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
00:36:26.719 --> 00:36:29.539
You know, it's one of the best kept secrets.
00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:35.320
And I think my biggest eye opener for me is, you know, I could just kind of wrap my head around how nobody knew about this.
00:36:35.940 --> 00:36:38.420
And I'm like, man, this is going to be huge.
00:36:39.099 --> 00:36:47.519
And I remember going and like looking at all the domains and breathwork and I think I bought up like 70, 80% of all the domains and I'm like, I can't believe no one knows about this.
00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:56.579
And then sure enough, you know, it started becoming, you know, very, very popular and, you know, we were featured in Bloomberg on the Today Show.
00:36:57.019 --> 00:37:00.680
We got voted number one employee well-being provider of 2023.
00:37:01.640 --> 00:37:04.300
We had several people try to buy our trademarks and stuff like that.
00:37:04.380 --> 00:37:08.400
And I was like, yeah, I knew it was just a matter of time before it goes mainstream.
00:37:08.640 --> 00:37:10.140
And it's still fully not there.
00:37:10.559 --> 00:37:17.820
I mean, more people than ever are open to hearing about breathwork like you already knew about it before we spoke and, you know, podcasts are becoming more curious.
00:37:18.059 --> 00:37:22.120
So they want to learn more about it because it's not just a modality.
00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:25.539
It is highly empowering.
00:37:26.760 --> 00:37:28.280
It's very empowering.
00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:44.079
And, you know, it borderline threatens the medical industry because if you look at the stats of, you know, doctor's visits, 80% and I'll quote Harvard, 60 to 90% they said of all doctor's visits are stress-related.
00:37:45.260 --> 00:37:49.440
First of all, that's a huge number of doctors because then what's the doctors doing?
00:37:49.740 --> 00:37:55.019
And, you know, they're prescribing this, you know, this pill, that pill, this, you know, surgery, this whatever.
00:37:56.420 --> 00:38:03.820
And, you know, if 80% are from stress, well, then we need to work on how do we eradicate stress?
00:38:03.960 --> 00:38:05.519
You know, where's stress coming from?
00:38:06.420 --> 00:38:15.059
And, you know, stress is responsible for all different types of, you know, things that, you know, happen in a lot of talks that say stress kills and it shows how that.
00:38:15.059 --> 00:38:26.500
And what I found was breath work, this particular modality of breath work works the fastest and the most effective for eradicating stress in the body.
00:38:27.039 --> 00:38:29.280
Now, that does a lot of different things.
00:38:30.420 --> 00:38:32.099
One, it regulates your nervous system.
00:38:32.780 --> 00:38:36.820
Two, when we're stressed, the adrenals produce cortisol.
00:38:37.220 --> 00:38:42.559
Cortisol is what makes us, you know, feel, you know, kind of like, you know, just super stressed out.
00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:44.720
It also makes us crave sugary and fatty foods.
00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:48.099
And when you cut that stress out, you cut down your cortisol.
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Now you just feel more comfortable in your own skin.
00:38:50.760 --> 00:38:53.300
You're not craving those, you know, crappy foods.
00:38:53.940 --> 00:38:57.920
And one of the crazy things I learned, because I launched a program called Breath Work Bootcamp.
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It was for like releasing emotional baggage.
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But people started sending me pictures of their waistline.
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I lost 12 pounds.
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I lost 16 pounds.
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I'm like, what the heck is going on?
00:39:07.180 --> 00:39:08.539
Like, that was never my thing.
00:39:09.099 --> 00:39:11.039
And then, you know, they didn't have the cravings.
00:39:11.039 --> 00:39:15.940
And then I realized 70% of the body's toxins are released through the lungs.
00:39:16.599 --> 00:39:22.099
So we're all in these detox teas, and we don't realize 70% of all the body's toxins is through the lungs.
00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:26.900
And 8.5 out of every 10 pounds of weight loss is through carbon dioxide.
00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:28.320
It's through breathing.
00:39:28.900 --> 00:39:32.079
So it's like 85% of all weight loss is carbon dioxide breathing.
00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:35.420
70% of all toxins is through, you know, the breath.
00:39:36.440 --> 00:39:37.640
And then cutting down that cortisol.
00:39:37.820 --> 00:39:38.539
People are losing weight.
00:39:39.019 --> 00:39:41.980
So I was like, man, I can market that pretty good.
00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:45.620
You mentioned that because as soon as you said cortisol, my mind went to that.
00:39:45.800 --> 00:39:49.480
They say that our cortisol levels cause us to gain weight around our bellies.
00:39:49.980 --> 00:39:56.360
And I don't know if it's because of it, because it's the eater, because cortisol causes us to also, I guess, retain fat.
00:39:56.980 --> 00:39:59.880
And especially for men, that tends to happen around our bellies.
00:40:00.019 --> 00:40:03.300
So it's like if we could find a way to reduce our stress.
00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:06.700
And that's interesting that, you know, so much of our...
00:40:06.700 --> 00:40:16.480
And that's just what Western medicine is saying, because I guess the percentage is probably higher, because I would imagine doctors wouldn't say, would say your stomach issue wasn't related to stress.
00:40:16.640 --> 00:40:18.480
It was, you know, something physical.
00:40:19.160 --> 00:40:26.280
But, you know, you proved by your experience that it was related to this stress that we're all carrying.
00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:31.220
Yeah, you know, it's interesting, because I shared my story in a TED Talk.
00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:37.220
And I just found out recently that they banned my TED Talk.
00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:38.460
They wouldn't publish it.
00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:40.800
And I'm like, wait, what?
00:40:41.079 --> 00:40:43.200
And they wouldn't tell us why exactly.
00:40:44.200 --> 00:40:46.780
And they said we violated their terms and whatnot.
00:40:47.220 --> 00:40:57.180
And I'm like sitting here and I'm looking at all these other TED Talks that got approved on, you know, psychedelics and, you know, gun violence and I've seen one on cocaine and methamphetamine.
00:40:57.840 --> 00:40:59.599
But you're banning mine, that's about breathing.
00:40:59.599 --> 00:41:00.240
Yeah.
00:41:00.380 --> 00:41:06.720
What did I say that was so bad that you don't want to publish my talk on breathing?
00:41:07.380 --> 00:41:07.480
Yeah.
00:41:07.900 --> 00:41:13.300
You know, and my buddy was like, I think when you said this, he highlighted, and what did I say?
00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:21.099
I said, you know, mainstream media has convinced us that modalities like breath work are alternative medicine.
00:41:21.500 --> 00:41:21.840
Yeah.
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But here's the truth.
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Breath work is humanity's original medicine.
00:41:27.340 --> 00:41:27.480
Right.
00:41:27.480 --> 00:41:31.820
And everything else that came after that, those are the real alternatives.
00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:32.539
Yes.
00:41:33.140 --> 00:41:33.640
You know, so.
00:41:34.240 --> 00:41:41.940
Well, speaking of TED, TED Talks, I love TED Talks, but I've also gotten behind the curtains a little bit with TED Talks and they do have some very weird restrictions.
00:41:42.079 --> 00:41:45.059
If you mentioned the afterlife, they'll ban you for stuff like that.
00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:49.099
So you have to always have to take those things with the grain of salt.
00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:52.559
And I am a scientist by nature.
00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:54.400
I have a degree in chemical engineering.
00:41:54.559 --> 00:41:56.559
I'm all for Western medicine and stuff.
00:41:56.559 --> 00:42:05.440
But the older I get, the more I realize that some of these modalities that have been around for thousands of years are very effective.
00:42:06.180 --> 00:42:07.740
And I'm like, why not both?
00:42:08.039 --> 00:42:12.039
Let's do it and or, you know, both and type of thing.
00:42:12.160 --> 00:42:17.380
You know, we can still see Western doctors, you know, and a lot of people that do alternative methods of healing.
00:42:17.599 --> 00:42:19.980
So if I have a broken leg, I'm still going to go to the hospital.
00:42:20.539 --> 00:42:22.420
I'm not going to do breath work for a broken leg.
00:42:23.240 --> 00:42:28.720
But for many, many other things, these chronic things, that we go to doctors for that they don't cure.
00:42:28.880 --> 00:42:31.260
By the way, as you said, they give you a pill.
00:42:32.180 --> 00:42:34.920
I've got high blood pressure, high blood pressure for years.
00:42:35.200 --> 00:42:40.599
And, you know, I'm on medication and they just want you to accept you're going to take this pill for the rest of your life.
00:42:41.300 --> 00:42:46.039
But they don't talk about things that might actually reduce your stress and lead to that just going away.
00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:50.820
Yeah, I mean, that's a whole other can of worms of that world.
00:42:51.059 --> 00:43:00.500
But ultimately, my message is what you shared, which is I believe that the future is where Western medicine merges with Eastern medicine, right?
00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:06.920
And they work together because like you said, you know, you break an arm, you know, I'm not going to be breathing for that.
00:43:07.019 --> 00:43:09.039
You know, I get a cavity.
00:43:09.180 --> 00:43:10.019
Give me the Novacaine.
00:43:10.160 --> 00:43:13.200
Like, I'm not against the Western medicine at all.
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Did it fail me?
00:43:16.620 --> 00:43:17.980
No, it tried its best.
00:43:18.960 --> 00:43:19.960
And I gave it my all.
00:43:20.120 --> 00:43:21.860
I was actually so desperate at one point.
00:43:21.860 --> 00:43:23.800
I was hoping and praying.
00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:27.480
They'd come back and be like, Curtis, you're diagnosed with stage, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:43:27.900 --> 00:43:30.840
And I would have been happy because I'm like, OK, I know what I'm dealing with.
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:31.120
Yeah.
00:43:31.260 --> 00:43:31.760
Give me a label.
00:43:32.200 --> 00:43:33.039
You know, give me a label.
00:43:34.160 --> 00:43:36.760
And, you know, they couldn't find anything.
00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:44.160
And to the point where they started when I started getting multiple tests done of the same test, they said, you know, it might be in your head.
00:43:44.960 --> 00:43:46.880
And of course, that really ticks you off when they say.
00:43:48.920 --> 00:43:53.559
I've talked to so many people have chronic things in England.
00:43:53.620 --> 00:43:54.380
They call it Emmy.
00:43:55.680 --> 00:43:58.000
But you know, chronic fatigue syndrome, I think we call it here.
00:43:58.400 --> 00:44:00.380
And they'll tell people it's just in your head.
00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:01.640
It's just in your head.
00:44:01.660 --> 00:44:03.579
Well, yes and no.
00:44:03.780 --> 00:44:06.440
Everything in one way, everything kind of in our head.
00:44:06.539 --> 00:44:06.680
Right.
00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:08.980
So but it manifests through our body.
00:44:09.200 --> 00:44:11.860
So it's they're right and they're wrong.
00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:13.700
I think about that at the same time.
00:44:13.700 --> 00:44:18.180
One thing I love your Instagram handle, Man From The Stars.
00:44:19.099 --> 00:44:25.680
And your tagline on your Instagram says helping starseeds navigate their spiritual awakening one breath at a time.
00:44:26.280 --> 00:44:28.079
So what do you mean when you say starseed?
00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:31.300
OK, we're going to switch gears real quick.
00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:40.260
So, you know, I think everybody feels they have a mission, whether they discovered it or not.
00:44:40.780 --> 00:44:40.940
Right.
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They have some sort of purpose.
00:44:42.320 --> 00:44:53.940
And spiritually, spiritually speaking, it is impossible to be born without a purpose because how a soul is born, people know how a baby is born, but how is a soul born?
00:44:54.700 --> 00:45:02.180
And what happens is source prime creator scours the universe and in six balance.
00:45:02.760 --> 00:45:14.660
And when there's a need that has to be fulfilled, you know, within this universe source then pulls forth an aspect of itself to go and fulfill that need.
00:45:15.780 --> 00:45:15.880
Right.
00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:19.120
And that's the power, the omnipresent power of the divine.
00:45:19.880 --> 00:45:22.820
And this is the real reason of how we all come from the same source.
00:45:23.880 --> 00:45:35.980
And depending on how significant that need is, is how much of a strength or power that aspect, you know, source relinquishes to go create that balance.
00:45:37.340 --> 00:45:52.220
So, you know, with that said, you know, there was times I think maybe 40 years ago, 30 years ago, 20 years ago, when people think about aliens or ETs and whatever you want to call them.
00:45:52.660 --> 00:45:53.720
Those people are crazy.
00:45:54.360 --> 00:45:56.920
If you didn't believe, if you if you believed in aliens, you were crazy.
00:45:57.420 --> 00:46:04.960
I think in 2026, if you don't believe that there's higher intelligent form somewhere in the multiverse, you're crazy.
00:46:05.599 --> 00:46:07.220
I think it's I think it's very naive.
00:46:07.320 --> 00:46:09.000
Now, you don't need to understand it.
00:46:09.200 --> 00:46:11.500
Yeah, because because that's I get that part.
00:46:12.140 --> 00:46:13.780
But this universe is vast.
00:46:14.420 --> 00:46:18.200
And there's all types of beings, not just little green beings.
00:46:18.680 --> 00:46:19.440
They're out there.
00:46:19.539 --> 00:46:29.760
And we're going to, you know, you can hear the government's peppering us for the last two years with the disclosure, it will come out, you know, most likely within the next year or two, officially.
00:46:30.780 --> 00:46:37.200
And so with that said, you know, I always said that Earth was never my home.
00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:38.440
It's my mission.
00:46:40.380 --> 00:46:42.780
So there's beings incarnated here.
00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:46.539
And some of them are indigenous, but many of us aren't from Earth.
00:46:48.039 --> 00:46:49.120
We incarnated on Earth.
00:46:49.340 --> 00:46:56.079
And what's interesting about this planet and not all planets is like this is that when we come here, our memories are erased.
00:46:56.079 --> 00:46:58.059
We don't know who we are.
00:46:58.180 --> 00:46:59.260
We don't know where we come from.
00:47:00.200 --> 00:47:04.640
And we are on the journey of reawakening, which is really remembering.
00:47:06.059 --> 00:47:27.740
And the star seeds is a term for beings who aren't from Earth, who incarnated in physical 3D bodies to live a human life with their memories erased to hold the light for the planet, hence the light worker, or came with a very specific mission, which is a light warrior.
00:47:28.680 --> 00:47:30.260
Both work on the same team.
00:47:30.720 --> 00:47:35.160
The light workers are like light, love, and light, and they don't really mess with any of the darkness.
00:47:36.059 --> 00:47:38.420
Light warriors, they're here to pave a path.
00:47:38.620 --> 00:47:41.220
They're here for divine justice.
00:47:41.820 --> 00:47:42.700
They're God's soldiers.
00:47:44.420 --> 00:47:47.840
And they're in different parts of the world.
00:47:48.079 --> 00:47:48.720
Some are in politics.
00:47:48.960 --> 00:47:49.800
Some are in entertainment.
00:47:50.140 --> 00:47:52.579
Some are doctors, and some are spiritual teachers.
00:47:52.579 --> 00:48:00.720
And it's coming to a time where we're going to have the most awakened souls remembering who they are, where they come from, and why we're all here.
00:48:01.820 --> 00:48:17.880
And it's, you know, I don't know what religion you are, but, you know, out of all these religions that disagreed, and differences, and even went to war and killed each other over, you know, you know, in differences, they're all agreeing on something right now.
00:48:18.440 --> 00:48:31.500
You know, every doctrine, and they're saying that some sort of godly, phenomenon event is approaching us, and it's intersecting in the same point, time, and space, which is in this lifetime right here, right now.
00:48:32.120 --> 00:48:34.240
And we're going to witness that.
00:48:34.440 --> 00:48:42.760
Whether we like it, know it, believe it or not, you know, they'll play this podcast maybe six months, maybe six years, and we might be in the midst of it.
00:48:43.099 --> 00:48:43.960
It's very biblical.
00:48:44.640 --> 00:48:58.059
You know, I grew up Christian, but, you know, if you go in my house, I got a cross on my door, I got a Buddha statue there, I got, you know, people get really confused, you know, and actually see your Buddha right there in the corner as well, you know.
00:48:58.640 --> 00:49:32.480
So, yeah, we live in the most interesting times in human history, and things are speeding up faster than ever, and I'm not just talking about AI, you know, I'm talking about a self-knowing, a remembering, and even if you're not spiritual, you can feel something's going on, something's in the air, and you feel like something's going to happen, and, you know, and what that may be, I'll just kind of leave that with this quote from Don Alejandro, who's the great mind grandfather, and he said, and the hope is, you know, they all predicted this.
00:49:33.220 --> 00:49:42.440
They said, the very walls that we're going to see come crumbling and crashing down upon us are only the walls that kept us in prison our entire lives.
00:49:42.440 --> 00:49:45.059
Wow, wow, I love that.
00:49:45.820 --> 00:50:14.039
Yeah, that's, you know, it's interesting, I was raised Christian also, I no longer identify as Christian, and you said I've got a Buddha back there, and it's kind of funny, because for years, I looked for a statue of Jesus meditating, and I could not find one, I could only find crucifixes, or, you know, Jesus looking like, you know, a Sunday school picture, and I finally found this Jesus meditating statue, and it's been in my background for a long time, and I moved it to the hallway the other day, and my wife goes, why are you getting out religious, why did you put the Jesus statue in the hallway?
00:50:14.260 --> 00:50:31.900
I'm like, because I love the Jesus statue, I love the Buddha statue, I've got Hindu, you know, that my daughter's giving me Ganesh and other Hindu gods, because I believe all religions have a core of truth to them, and as I've studied different religions, there is 90% overlap between them.
00:50:32.539 --> 00:51:07.820
We fight about the 10%, but 90% of it is the same, and I'm hearing, you know, like you said, the government is disclosing things now, a lot of my psychic friends are like, we're coming to a peak, everybody, or not everybody, but a lot of people feel like the world is falling apart, they're like, you know, the walls are coming down, disclosure's happening, you know, not just aliens, as you said, but also what's going on with our political systems, our economic systems, and people are saying these things aren't working, so I think we're coming to some sort of, I don't know, singularity at some point also.
00:51:08.760 --> 00:52:06.300
Yeah, I mean, it's a reset, you know, not to kind of go into semantics, because there's all different types of terms for it, but yeah, those systems, they're not working, and they need to fall apart, and you know, we, you know, the people, people like you and I, need to help rebuild those systems into ones that work, you know, that's the thing of a starseed, you know, starseeds come here to study the dysfunctionality of how this planet works and try to make the correction, because that's the thing, when source sends us here, it's like, why don't you come yourself, you know, why don't you send me here, man, this place is ghetto, is, you know, we're the representation of source, you know, we're the orbs he sends out to bring back the information, because source is learning, he's learning, he doesn't know it all, he's learning through us, because if it's all evolving at all different times, then we're the ones having those experiences and bringing those experiences back to source so we all can evolve.
00:52:07.620 --> 00:52:17.980
And you talked about the questions that we have, the things that we forget when we come in, and these are the questions I open every episode with, you know, who we are, why are we here, where did we come from, where are we going?
00:52:18.240 --> 00:52:29.039
Those are the questions that most of us have forgotten, especially when people go through a grief event, we go through grief, whatever purpose we thought we might have had, suddenly it feels like it's gone, right?
00:52:29.220 --> 00:52:30.900
I don't even know where I am.
00:52:30.900 --> 00:52:35.280
How can breathwork help people refine their purpose?
00:52:36.980 --> 00:52:37.500
Yeah.
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You know, I think that a lot of people focus energy on manifesting a better life, a new life, and they do that through sometimes destination addiction, which is when we place our happiness in the future, meaning that, oh, when I get this job, then I'll be happy, and when I make this type of money, then I'll be happy, and when I get into this relationship or get married, then I'll be happy, but that's a trap because whenever we do that, we're taking our happiness and placing it into the future, which does not exist, and we're not claiming, you know, our happiness now.
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So one is that, you know, you want to manifest all these things, but, you know, I think the coolest thing I learned about manifesting is that in order to let in, you first need to let go.
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So maybe not focus so much on all the things that you want and the things you're going to do.
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Focus on, you know, liberating yourself from heavy and dense energies that no longer serve your highest and greatest good, that are only weighing you down and holding you back.
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Give yourself permission to surrender and let go, and when you let that stuff go, it's like everything comes to you so much easier.
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It's filling that space.
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You know, I love giving the analogy of an airplane at the airport, right?
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If an airplane is flying and it needs to land somewhere, and if there's something on the runway, right, air traffic controller is not going to let that plan land.
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Instead, it's going to say to do what?
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Fly in circles.
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And this is why a lot of people feel like they're just flying in circles in life.
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But once the runway is cleared, then you can land, you can take off, you can go wherever you want to go.
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We have too much stuff on our runways.
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We have too much things that we've been holding onto, and Bruce Lee said it, you know, you got to empty your cup before you fill it up.
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Yoda said you need to unlearn before you can learn.
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And I think it's a matter of letting go, you know, rather than just trying to manifest, manifest.
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It's like, okay, like, what can I let go of?
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It's so liberating, right, when you just let go of something.
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That could be a worry.
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That could be a fear, you know.
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It could just be an outcome so attached to, and you just let it go, and that is freedom, you know.
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So somebody's going through, you know, a loss, you know.
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I know what that's like.
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I lost my brother.
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I've done many modalities.
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Breathwork for me is the one that's most liberating because I never felt comfortable in my own body since a child.
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And I remember doing the breathwork, and I was like, oh, this is how I'm supposed to feel.
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And, you know, it's a constant reset.
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It's a reboot.
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And I do believe we do have the answers.
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Like, we think we need to do so much.
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We really don't.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I love that.
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Yeah, I heard something.
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I forgot where I heard it was pretty recently.
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It said, the thing is, you're already enlightened.
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You just need to realize it.
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Yeah.
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It's not like something we have to go out and chase.
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It's just realizing that it's already with us.
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Easier said than done.
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Yes, absolutely.
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Yeah, that's it.
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Like, we do.
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It's so corny cliché when we do have the power within us.
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The kingdom of heaven is inside of us.
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We do have all the answers and everything that we need in us.
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And it's like, well, how do we tap into that?
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And that's what we're all been trying to do, you, me.
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And through meditation, through yoga, becoming still.
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But for me, breathwork was the hack because when I went in, like, I could have conversations, you know, and not with beings, but with myself, with my higher self, the highest functioning aspect of myself.
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And, you know, and I know the answers.
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I know what I need to do.
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It's just clear as day.
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And to me, that's just so, so valuable because even like in the matrix when Nia was becoming Nia, you know, above the Oracle on her, on her, her door, she pointed to it and it was in Sanskrit, I think.
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And it said, know thyself.
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That's the key, right?
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Is you breathe to remember to know thyself and that remembering is that enlightenment.
00:56:59.579 --> 00:57:00.840
Yeah, completely agree.
00:57:01.579 --> 00:57:03.860
So, Curtis, I know you've written a couple of books.
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Tell me, tell me about your books.
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And then I also want you to tell me about your website and your foundation.
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Sure.
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So the foundation is JustBreathe.org.
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So we're creating a documentary.
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We wrote a children's book.
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We do scholarships for people.
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And the book I wrote and published in 2014 is The World Is Yours, The Secrets Behind the Secret.
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That is a really good book if somebody is on the awakening journey, if they have any curiosity towards spirituality or what is really going on.
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You know, that book is really good for that.
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It just encompasses the journey, you know, of spiritual awakening.
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It teaches you your powers, how and when to use them.
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And then it goes into why they've been suppressed from you, you know, which is quite interesting.
00:57:52.860 --> 00:57:56.579
And then the other book is Breathwork Detox, How to Thrive in the Age of Anxiety.
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And that is the most recent one that's connected to this modality and what I do.
00:58:01.960 --> 00:58:08.120
And it gives just tips, tools, tricks and techniques of how to, you know, get people back into their body.
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You know, how to release, how to let go.
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And it shares a little bit more about my journey.
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And then I think you mentioned the website.
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The website, my Instagram is Man from the Stars.
00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:22.460
So you can go on Instagram and message me.
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I'm pretty good about getting back to people.
00:58:25.140 --> 00:58:28.360
And then Breathwork Detox is the domain.
00:58:28.360 --> 00:58:29.400
And you can go on there.
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And if you're interested in experiencing Breathwork, you can go to a virtual event.
00:58:35.160 --> 00:58:37.059
So we do them, like I said, every single day.
00:58:37.059 --> 00:58:41.180
Or if you want to become a teacher, we do free, we give you a free masterclass.
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We do free consultations.
00:58:43.700 --> 00:58:44.980
You know, there's a link there for corporate.
00:58:45.400 --> 00:58:51.059
So, you know, if any part of the podcast got you curious, you know, go on there and just, you know, grab some of the free goodies.
00:58:51.820 --> 00:58:52.240
Sounds great.
00:58:52.559 --> 00:58:52.900
All right.
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Well, thanks so much for being here.
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Thanks for sharing what you do and for doing what you do.
00:58:58.240 --> 00:58:59.559
It's much needed.
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We all are feeling a little bit stressed right now.
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We could all use a little bit of stress reduction.
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So I'll definitely be checking it out also.
00:59:08.820 --> 00:59:08.920
Awesome.
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Thank you so much.
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All right.
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Well, thanks for being here.
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Have a great afternoon.
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