Episode 555: Why bEHR’s Community is the Key to Your Fitness Success

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All right, we're back. You know Mitchell Portlin's podcast.
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It's hottest heck o side right now, ladies and gentlemen,
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summer's here the outside. Some of y'all are running outside,
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walking outside. Well, we're here with a.
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Man a myth legend kwame Terror, My man. How's it going?
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It's going good man? How are you?
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Hey?
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Man?
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We're here. I told you it's hottest. Hello side. But
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how's your how's your day treating you and give you
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a little bit, a bit of an introduction about who
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you are and what you what you got going on?
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Yeah, my day's going well, man. I start off with
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Soul for Sunday. It's a run club meetup that I
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host here in the city with my running club, Soul Running.
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We do, you know, about an hour movement along the
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lake here in New Orleans along the lake front, and
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then we do yoga after. So it's a nice way
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to start every Sunday. And yeah, that's that's a little
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bit about what I do really on a regular basis.
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So I was born here in New Orleans. I grew
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up in Houston, Texas. Played sports, you know, my whole
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lot growing up, basketball, baseball, football, But I was pretty
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pretty decent at running in that, ultimately landing me a
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scholarship at Xavier University Louisiana here in New Orleans. And
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so my goal is to become a doctor. So I
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was pre mad here at Xavier, but a couple of
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years into that, I got introduced to research and I started,
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you know, learning more about like the root causes of
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most of the problems that we deal with in treat
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like in the healthcare system. And you know, like ninety
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percent of our healthcare dollars are spent on preventable conditions hypertension,
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type two, diabetes, heart disease. Right, we spend like four
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trillion dollars a year in the US on healthcare, and
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again ninety percent of that is going to diseases that
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we know how to prevent. And so, you know, my
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goal as a public health professional now, because ultimately I
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went on to get my Masters of Public Health instead
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of pursuing medicine, is to get that number as close
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to zero as possible. Right, how do we set up
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societies such that the majority of people are in a
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healthy state as opposed to a disease state, and we
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can use those funds and that money to you know,
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develop treatments for things that we don't understand yet, right,
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things that we don't know how to predict and prevent.
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And that's kind of the premise behind what I do
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now focused on the black community, have a startup company
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called Bare Health. Our first goal is to communicate clearly
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to the black community our current health status. And we
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do that through a health score, so kind of like
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a credit score, but for your health, and it changes
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in real time. So if you going to run our
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walk one day, your score goes up. If you get
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three hours of sleep one night, your score goes down.
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And then based on those changes, we make recommendations for
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what you can do to improve or we connect you
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to experiences, you know, experiences like the soulcial Sunday meetups
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that we host, right just like making the healthy choice
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the easy choice for people.
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So that's a little bit about me.
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Love that love that, you know, the black culture. I'm
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over you in Canada, and we know you got a
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United States in Canada, it's North America. Were separated by
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a border. Who knows what might happen down the road.
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They saying we might be a fifty first state. I
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don't know, We're not here to talk about that, but
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speak to let's really peel the layers back when we
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talk about health and fitness in the black community and
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the things that we really need to extrapulate into not
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to make it about we're segregating other races, but it's
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really speaking deep dive of the importance of that app
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that you have there, that plight, that mission, and what
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the black culture can really understand.
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Yeah, so, I mean I think it starts with.
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Obviously, you know our experience in this country, right, we
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can't speak about any current state of the Black community
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without speaking.
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Of the past.
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And I would start there because when it comes to
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health disparities, right, So you know, the most glaring health
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disparity is the life expectancy difference. Right, So the average
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life expectancy is the Black community in the US is
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seventy two years. Average life expectancy in the US overall
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it's seventy eight years. Right, So there's a six year
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life expectancy gap. And maybe six years doesn't sound like
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a lot, but when you take into consideration how many
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Black people are in the country, almost fifty million, and
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then you and then you quantify that, you know, multiply
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that by the six years, it's like two hundred and
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sixty eight million years of life loss. Right, what could
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we do as Black people with that time? And that's
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what I really want people to understand about what we're
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doing here at Bare Health. Our goal is to recapture
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that life loss because there are stories there, right, there's
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impact there, there's financial growth there as a community, and
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it's not a matter of you know, we This isn't
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a political or racial thing. This is just a problem
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I'm interested in solved. This is a problem that affects
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Black people and it affects the country that there is
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this life expectancy gap, and we know it's driving it
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right for social environmental condition, for lifestyle have it's under
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utilization of health health care, and we focus on to
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start help low health literacy where sixty percent of Black
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people have low health literacy. Most of us don't know
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how to live well, and most of us aren't aware
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of the short and long term implications of our current
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health status. I think we understand that we need to
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be doing better, right, we need to be exercising more,
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we need to be eating better.
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But I don't think many of us know that if
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we don't get it together.
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You know, in a reasonable amount of time, we could
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have a heart attack at forty five. You know what
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I'm saying, you know, losing I'm thirty two, you know,
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losing friends my age to preventable conditions is just it's
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the emergency that I see. I don't think we all
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see it that way, but it's an emergency that I
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see because when you develop these conditions early in life, hypertension,
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type two diabetes, some cancers, your body can only live
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with these conditions for so long because it's having to
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work harder to function. And our body is just like
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any anything, you know, the work that is done to
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function causes wear and tearing, and it's limited for now anyway.
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Absolutely, absolutely, Yeah.
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So it's not that we're just like suddenly dying or
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early in the black community in their fifties. It's that
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we're aging faster. Our bodies are getting older faster. And
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so while you might be fifty four years you know,
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maybe fifty four years old birthday wise, you're on the inside,
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you're maybe closer to someone at seventy right now.
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Fortunately, we can slow stop.
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Or reverse your age and your biological age and any age,
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and that's really what we want people to help or
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want to help people understand, and what we want to
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start to work on.
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I love that. I love that, you know. It's it's
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that awareness is so key, man, It's so key, you know.
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Like I've been listening to lately. I come from the
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health and fitness background, like My Goodness twenty twelve, and
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then Pandemic ended that for me, and then I had
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to really anchor down more of the podcasts and have
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you know, great conversations like this, and it's like it's
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a big part of life. Like my dad himself still
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to this day out on the golf course. I know
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he's training, he's working out, eating good West Indian culture
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Jamaican like we have.
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We have the dishes.
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We know, we can't consume that all the time, you
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know what I mean, You're doing that every single weekend.
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Like eventually your body's just gonna like not know how
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to process it, let alone, if you're not working out
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and training and like supplementing. It's kind of like use
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those type of cuisines. I know it might be triggering
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to some, So some of my Jamaican folks and West
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Indian folds might be like Betta no, you gotta you
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gotta balance that out, man. Maybe use those as your
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like your your cheat meal or something like that, you
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know what I mean, Because it's like after a while, bro,
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you know how it is, if we're not out here,
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we're not active, Well, what's gonna happen to us?
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You know what I mean? We don't look this usefulness
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for for for a reason, you know.
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Yeah, yeah, I think, I mean think you made a
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good point, like as it relates to like the cultural
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connection to the foods that we eat that aren't good
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for us. You know, I think that this is true
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in many cultures. Our food tastes better because I think
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we a little more so a little more but a
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little more everything in it, and so maybe it is
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a little more unhealthy. But you know, like you know,
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a lot of our a lot of our cultural foods
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actually came from like our experience again with slavery here
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in the US, where those were just that was the
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only option, right, some of the foods we were eating,
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those are the only options. And you know at that
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at that period, that that's what we have to do.
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But no longer, you know, in those circumstances and we
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have a choice and we should choose life. And I'm
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not saying you can't ever eat, you know, being people
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down here being pig feed and you know all kind
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of picknuckle and things like that. You know, it's just
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I'm not saying we can't ever have those things. But
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if every weekend it's too much. Now, I'm not saying
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people out here eating pig feed every weekend, but you
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know we're eating you know, high sodium, high fat food
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every most of us every day, most of us every day.
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And to your point, like you're saying that your body
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needs to get a break, you know, we need to
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eat obviously for you know, all all intents and purposes
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of of what our bodies do. But our bodies need
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to rest as well, because while we're bombarding our body
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with things that aren't necessarily good for us, if our
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bodies never get a chance to rest and repair through
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something like fasting or just eating healthier for a while,
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then you know, your body ultimately starts to make mistakes. Right,
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some think about a system that's tired. Right, system that's
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tired is not going to do its job as efficiently.
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And one job that our bodies do all the time
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is replicate cells. And basically most people might not be
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aware of this cancer. Cancer wherever it is is really
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a cell that had made that may have made a
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mistake and has replicated itself in a way that's not correct.
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Right.
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So you can have a brain cell that is replicating
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like a skin cell. So now you have a brain tumor. Right.
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So the cancer a lot of ways are our mistakes
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that are that are made in the body in different
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parts of the body for different reasons, right, depending on
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where you putting the most wear and tear. Right, So
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if you're drinking a lot, so you're putting a lot
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of stress on the liver, and so now the liver
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might be making mistakes, right, or so.
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On and so forth.
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And our bodies have these natural cleaning systems where when
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we aren't eating right, and our body is using essentially
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itself for fuel. Right, So when you're into the fasted state,
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your body turns on this process called autophagy, right where
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based it's like cellular eating, where you're breaking down your
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own stored energy.
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To use for functioning.
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And our bodies are so smart that it goes and
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breaks down the old damaged dysfunctional cells and proteins first, right,
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so we got to give our bodies a break, but
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most of us aren't. And then so we again developed
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these conditions earlier and then and then we ultimately live
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short lives.
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But it's it's a must, man.
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I don't you know people try to have like this
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balance with it.
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It needs to be that.
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It needs to be that your baseline is a healthy
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diet period. It's not that you're trying to eat healthy
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sometimes or you know, like it just needs to be
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the baseline of of how you eat, like you should
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be eating for health peer that that should be the
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pro and the number one priority for for eating, not
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to say that it shouldn't taste good and stuff like that.
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I enjoy every every meal that I have, but that
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should be the number one priority. Is this fueling my
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body properly? Is is this taking care of this this
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one body that I have for me and my family
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and everybody that cares about me being here and being
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my best self?
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you and you and you step off a path, you know,
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on a weekend or at a family celebration. It's not
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it's not like you feel like you relapse and now
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you're just gonna go back to eating it. It's like
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you've already established a strong baseline. It's it's so easy
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now for me because then you know, I've been doing
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this now for ten years, eating healthy for ten years.
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habit for people. And you know, our goal is to
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try to make that easier for people through through what
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Love that you say that, love that you say that,
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speak to the app now like available Google Play Store,
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Apple I Store, things like that. What's the first thing
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what's the first thing they're going to look at and
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speak to the navigation process of that?
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That's spelled d A c A d oo. Dak could
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for a chance to win them. Or if you're in
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the steps tracker and you hit a certain number of steps,
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you'll be answered it for that. So that's typically what
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we're hosting. And then once they're in the challenge and
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they've connected a tracker. So our app integrates with fitbit, Garmin, Apple, hell,
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the Google Fit, Samsung Health, you know, whatever you'd use
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for the most part can integrate with the app, and
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then all of your data is tracked automatically, your resting
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your initial health score assessment, which is about three minutes.
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category of health that we track.
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well being, so like what is your mental state, like,
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Then physical or medical health, so this is where we
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track your BMI, your blood pressure, your cholesterol or your
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glucose levels, your resting heart rate, all of these kind
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of like medical informations, which are really important indicators of health. Right,
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if those numbers aren't right and you're trying to do
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all of this stuff, your health, what you're doing is
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probably not working.
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Those are the final numbers that you go to to
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determine if the workout plan that you're on or the
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diet that you're on is actually effective. Right, is this
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diet normalizing and stabilizing my blood shit real levels is
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this stabilizing my blood pressure?
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If so, great, let's keep that up.
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it's if everything that we're doing is effective, and then
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we have nutrition, then we have substance use or self
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control kind of like an indulgence score. So you know,
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are you over consuming food? How much you know, caffeine
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and alcohol, you consume things like that, tobacco, And that's
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the wheel of health that we have. And so we
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track over one hundred different metrics across those seven categories
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of health to give you a score between zero and
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one thousand. And then again that score is going to
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change day to day, week to week, depending on how
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you change. As I mentioned earlier, if you go on
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a run, score goes up. If you're inactive first few days,
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score goes down. For example, my score went down probably
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six eight points this week. One of our one of
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my run club members or birthday was this weekend, or
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it was on Saturday. But it's a whole week experience,
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you know.
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And I get it, man, I know what it is.
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We outside right.
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It's been open for the past few weeks and I
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had a great time. But naturally, you know, when you're
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drinking and stuff like that, you're resting heart rate, your
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bodies have again here it goes. Here's here's understanding how
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disease works, right, because when I understand, when I break
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down disease, it's very simple. It's the work. You break
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down the word into two parts, right, dis ease this
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meaning not ease meaning balance. And you cause an imbalance,
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right when you have too much of something that you
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don't need or not enough of something that you do
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need to Let's go back to being outside. I'm drinking alcohol.
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Now my body's having to work, livers having to work
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harder to process the alcohol. That raises the resting heart rate.
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I raise my resting heart rate. My heart is working
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harder now, right, so that's putting more wear and tear
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all my heart. That raises again my resting heart rate.
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I get that notification on the app. Now my score
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is going down, right, you can see this in relative
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real time, at least definitely by the next day. And
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then now again, now we're back out of the next day, right,
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compared to compared to the days before were my resting
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heart rate was fifty fifty two things like that. Now
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it's sixty five sixty eight, right, which is pretty significant difference.
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heart rate from you know, changing your fitness and things
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like that. And so that's so now I'm in a
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diseased state. You see what I'm saying. That's that's really
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how most of the diseases that we deal with are
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are are developed. And so now if I maintain that state,
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if I, you know, persisted in consuming alcohol, then then
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it would kind of get to this point where like
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there's a tipping point where you develop a formal condition
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high pertension type two DIAVS and now you need support.
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Your body needs support from a medication to maintain it.
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So what happens is people develop a condition, they're they're
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in a they're in a disease state, and instead of
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removing what's driving the disease, they take a medication to
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artificially balance or restabilize the body. And that's all. That's
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all that's happening, and it's and it's really simple, man,
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Because I was talking to this guy the other day
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at an event, and you know, we were talking about
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my business and he was like, oh, yeah, I just uh,
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I learned that I had hypertension about little over a
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month ago. And he's like, well I don't anymore, Like, well,
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what did you do? He said, Well, I stopped drinking,
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I stopped smoking, and I started running and it's gone,
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you know. And and again he's doing things that he needs, right,
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so he's restoring the balance on that side, and then
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he's removing the things that he didn't need. And so
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now you're the natural inclination of the body is to
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be in a healthy state. You just have to give
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it what it what it means what.
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You're speaking to now is the growth mindset versus the
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fixed mindset, because folks know to get to where you
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need to get to, you have to be in a
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growth mindset.
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It can't be in a fixed mindset.
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So a lot of folks when it comes to health
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and fiting, I notice as a training like, they made
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so many excuses why they can't get to the gym,
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all of these different things. I'm in a relationship, I
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got kids, I got this, I got work, I got
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a project. There's twenty four hours in a day. You
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can make it work if you truly want to. But
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the thing is, the importance to exercise and movement is
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so important. Like you, if you don't something, you gotta
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be able to go if heck, you know what I understand,
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not everybody wants to lift weights, but you know what,
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pick up running.
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Pick up running. It's probably the easiest thing to do. Hard,
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but easiest thing to do.
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All you need is shorts, T shirt, whatever climate you're in,
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dress warm, You're fine. You go out there, you put
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your two shoes on. Band heck, if you want to
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run barefoot, run barefoot.
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Pretty accessbul Oh you can say walking, man, Like there
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you go. You're saying something.
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Yeah, yeah, speak to speak to those because I feel
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like there's gonna be some audience members here right, Like
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I can riff on the health and fitness you more
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of an expert now because I kind of like somebody.
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Retired a little bit, you know what I mean. But
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I still train myself and all that. But speak to
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that that limiting beliefs when it comes to health and fitness.
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Like I understand you spoke with the app. You speak
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about all of the things that you're doing with that,
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but it's like the limiting beliefs when it comes down
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to the longevity. And I really want to hit on
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the folks that are growing up now that may have
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a young young children in the household and because the work,
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the nine to five or entrepreneurship is sitting in the way,
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how they need to prioritize that the ability to create
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movement and working out and things like that.
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Yeah, I mean, it needs to become a non negotiable.
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It needs to be not something extra that you do
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for like like a nice to have or a nice
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to do it. Like. People need to understand that without it,
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you cut your life short period and you don't actually
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know how much by how much because it did you know,
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depending on your lifestyle, it could be ten years, it
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could be twenty years. And obviously everyone's life is about them,
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but there is a network of people that who appreciate
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you being here, especially again if you have children. One
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of my biggest fears as it relates to all this
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is me and my friends children losing their losing their
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parents in their teenage years. One story I always tell
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my mom's friend lost their husband to a stroke at
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age forty six. Get a thirteen year old son, you know,
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yet now you have to grow with you without your
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father from a completely preventable condition. It's not fair, you know.
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And so it's like to want something, like you're saying,
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people say, you know, come with all these uses for
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why they might not be prioritizing it. But to want
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something is to be willing to sacrifice any everything to that.
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And that is what it means to want something. And
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so to me, most people don't want to be healthy.
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They may say they they may want to want to
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be healthy, but most people aren't willing to sacrifice anything
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that doesn't serve that. And that's not to say that
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you can only e clean, you can never drink alcohol,
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you have to work out seven times, you know, like
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that's not what it takes to be healthy. But again
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it needs to be your baseline and and most most
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of us again, and it's not and it's not necessarily
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like a conscious thing. And our brains, our brains are
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running the program here, you know, and our brains are
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aiming for comfort, right, convenience and pleasure you know, on
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some level, and working out in whatever.
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Form is, it's it's.
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Friction, right, and then and then the long tail they're
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long tail rewards, right, You're not going to get the
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results the next day, and and that's that's unfortunate, but
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that is just the reality. And we need to get
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reconnected to reality as people.
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Absolutely like the instant.
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Gratification is it's it is diminishing our will, and we
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need our will, we need it, and so absolutely one
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thing that I do, you know, just limit the number
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of priorities I have in my life, things that are
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capable of bringing me meaning. So I have my business,
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my health, and my family. Making progress on those things
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bring me meaning in life less so food and and
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things like. Again, I still enjoy all these things, but
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I try to limit the number of things that I
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do that require very little effort for a maximum reward,
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just because it really just really.
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Just I love that.
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And that's the thing. It's like shifting your priorities. Like
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I get it. You know, it's summertime. People want to
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do patios, they want to do all this stuff. But
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within moderation, you know what I mean. I'm telling one
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of my one of my good friends this exact same thing.
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I said, Probably by the time I get into July August,
494
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I'm probably shutting all down the summer activities because now
495
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it's being iron focused on what this podcast is going
496
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to do. Because over here we get seasons that blend
497
00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:28.359
in the seasons right in Canada, so it starts getting
498
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cold by like mid October, you sometimes get snowfall by
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orly November, you know what I mean. So for me
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now it's like knowing what you want to do, and
501
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it's like having your goals, having your non negotiables, like
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you say, you know what I mean and just do it,
503
00:24:44.279 --> 00:24:47.319
which spins the question to you, like in everything that
504
00:24:47.359 --> 00:24:51.599
you're doing, speak to the importance of your accountability partners
505
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and then your community and how important they are to
506
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your ecosystem.
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They are also non negotiable if you want to if
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you want to stay on track, you have to have
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those things because again we're we are being we are
510
00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:10.519
under attack, our attention is under attack by all these
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companies and they're doing a great job. They're doing an
512
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incredible job, honestly, but it's it comes at our expense
513
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and you know, the areas that we care about. And
514
00:25:20.880 --> 00:25:28.880
so you know, I think that when it comes to community,
515
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or when it comes to any type of goal that
516
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you're pursuing, you need a few components. You need a vision,
517
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that's that's the goal. Like you need a goal. You
518
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can't you as a person can experience positive emotion without
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00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:46.359
recognizing progress toward a valued goal that you have. That
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is how we that's that's how we justify our suffering
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as human beings because there's some some something that we're
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getting out of this experience that we regard as worth,
523
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you know, worth the fight, worth the struggle. So we
524
00:26:01.079 --> 00:26:03.519
have to have that right, Okay, So how do you
525
00:26:03.559 --> 00:26:05.759
increase the likelihood that you make progress toward a goal?
526
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Because that is where you find meeting in life, Well,
527
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you find a community that reinforces your progress toward that goal.
528
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So simple one is like, for example, if you want to,
529
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if you want to be more fit and run more,
530
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join a run club. You know, and join seems like
531
00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:28.759
as maybe it's too strong of award for what it
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00:26:28.799 --> 00:26:33.039
means to show up on Saturday morning, you know, right,
533
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why even it's not like sign up here and you
534
00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:38.599
know it's it's just go attend a event. They're happening
535
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all over the place. If they aren't, grab a few friends,
536
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make a make a make a reel and post it
537
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on Instagram. People will start showing up. It is the
538
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It is the most incredible phenomena that I witnessed in
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the past year. There there was I went to the
540
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first run club meet up here in New Orleans by
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a club called Nola Miles Club. There were like thirty
542
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people there. I led the stretches. It wasn't my club,
543
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but I kind of sponsored you the first event and
544
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someone made a very generic real that had some attractive
545
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people in it and it was posted on a kind
546
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of like a social event page in the city and
547
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they got like six thousand shares mm hm. And so
548
00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:21.400
now now there's a run club that meets up and
549
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one hundred people show up every day or you know
550
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every day that they met. So having community because you're
551
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not going to listen to yourself facts period.
552
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You don't take yourself that serious.
553
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And again I'm I'm all of that, Like you also
554
00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:39.839
have to be humble, right, I could say, I don't know,
555
00:27:39.880 --> 00:27:42.799
I don't need community support. I'm self driven, I'm self motivated,
556
00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:45.119
and that's great, and I may be, but I'm trying
557
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to give myself the best chance at the outcome that
558
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I'm aiming at. So I'm going to surround myself with
559
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the community that reinforces that. And then the final thing
560
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I would say is like connected to a specific outcome
561
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in a time time, like within a specific timeline. Right,
562
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So that could be like I want to compete in
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a five k, Right, you need a time bound goal
564
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in addition to the broad vision of I want to
565
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get fit, right, you need you want to get fit.
566
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But that's kind of like generical. What does fit really mean?
567
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What is a measure of fitness? Well, okay, let's see
568
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if you can do a five k in thirty minutes,
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you know, like that that's that could be a time
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bound goal with an event. So now you have your community,
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you have your time bound goal, and you have your vision,
572
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and those three things together are are I will say again,
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this is about giving yourself the best chance. Like, we
574
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aren't in control of the outcomes of our life. That
575
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is just that is just what it is. However, we
576
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are in control of certain aspects of what can increase
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the likelihood of that becoming a reality. And so to me, again,
578
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it's not about like there's no ego here for me
579
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to again try and pretend like I can do it
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all myself, and I may be able to do great
581
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all on my own, but I could probably do better
582
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with with these these components in place, and and and
583
00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:09.799
it's just yeah, it's just I run more now because
584
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there are a bunch of people in the city running.
585
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I ran a little bit before last year, and granted,
586
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you know, I ran across country and track in college
587
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and whatnot, so I've been running has been a part
588
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of my life. But no, in the past ten years,
589
00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:25.839
since I graduated from college, I have run more in
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the past year than I did honestly, probably the entire
591
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ten years before that. And there's a community. I hadn't
592
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thought about that. It's kind of crazy, but there's a
593
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there's an entire community of people in the city that
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your community is a big part of health. You know
595
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it in our Blueprint of health, it starts with purpose
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in community. Those are the first two things, because people
597
00:29:49.240 --> 00:29:52.359
are going to care about these diet protocols and these
598
00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:56.799
these fitness regimens if they don't feel like being here.
599
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It's so true, you know, because in and that's part
600
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of why we're so we're so addicted to the phones
601
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and stuff, is because that is serving as our meaning,
602
00:30:06.119 --> 00:30:11.000
and food that is serving as our meaning, and so
603
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that's why it's it's such a challenge and such a
604
00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:17.039
fight when you're when you're working with people to get
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them to drop some of these habits. It's like you're
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not just asking them to stop eating a meal that
607
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tastes good. You're you're you're actually asking them to remove
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part of what they regard as what makes their life meaningful.
609
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And that's tough, man, Like, you know that that's a
610
00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:35.039
hard problem, and so and so the real problem we're
611
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part of the problem that we're trying to solve is
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you know, Okay, so I'm going to define public health.
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Public health is the art and science of prolonging life. Right,
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00:30:44.319 --> 00:30:47.720
but you can prolong life in many ways. You can
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00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:51.480
keep a sick person alive for a long time. But
616
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so I think that it's an incomplete definition. What I
617
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add to it is we need to prolong the desire
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to live, because the desire to live is the root
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of longevity. Because if somebody wants to be here for
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as long as they can, then now we're working on
621
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with that intrinsic motivation to live well so that you
622
00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:18.759
can be here and experience as much of this good
623
00:31:18.839 --> 00:31:21.559
experience that we can have and When I say good experience,
624
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I'm saying the hypothetical world that we can create and
625
00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:29.279
that ultimately should be the aim of a society, Like,
626
00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:31.680
how do we set this thing up such that people
627
00:31:31.720 --> 00:31:33.279
want to be here as long as they possibly can
628
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not to miss out on this experience. That's to me
629
00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:41.039
the objective of public health, which for sure sure of
630
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a society.
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And so I get it one hundred percent.
632
00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:47.759
I get it. It's it's not like a lot of
633
00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:53.200
people aren't having a great time, you know, and yeah,
634
00:31:53.200 --> 00:31:54.119
we just got to work at it.
635
00:31:55.480 --> 00:31:55.599
You.
636
00:31:56.279 --> 00:31:58.039
I want to go back to the run club thing
637
00:31:58.119 --> 00:32:02.079
because to really on that and with folks, is that
638
00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:07.279
the sense of community. I don't think folks realize community,
639
00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:10.559
especially in run even extrapolate that if you go to
640
00:32:10.599 --> 00:32:14.519
like a networking event, you will find someone that could
641
00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:17.359
potentially be your friend that's going to champion you to
642
00:32:17.359 --> 00:32:21.160
be now your new accountability partner or having a dope
643
00:32:21.319 --> 00:32:26.960
outstanding relationship and slowly separating you from those minds that
644
00:32:27.079 --> 00:32:31.000
may be artists not on the same equilibrium. So what
645
00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:33.519
we're both speaking to right here is the importance of
646
00:32:33.599 --> 00:32:37.720
having that growth mindset to better yourself. I hear it
647
00:32:37.759 --> 00:32:39.119
all the time. It's like so many people like I
648
00:32:39.119 --> 00:32:40.880
want to better myself, but they don't want to better
649
00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:44.640
themselves because it's work you have to put in. Bettering
650
00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:49.759
yourself is not crushing a TV show that just came
651
00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:52.799
out last week on Netflix or Hulu on Amazon Prime.
652
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It's cool to do that, But at the same time, balance,
653
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you know what I mean. It's like balance that put
654
00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:04.160
work in, you know, where you can maybe have that day. Well, okay,
655
00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:06.559
you know what, today I can have put my feet up.
656
00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:09.880
Everything is done, the tasks are done, my goals are set.
657
00:33:10.039 --> 00:33:12.759
Now I can watch two episodes some of y'all out
658
00:33:12.839 --> 00:33:16.440
here simply powering crushing episodes done in like two days.
659
00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:19.160
Have I done it? Yes, depending on the show. But
660
00:33:19.240 --> 00:33:22.400
my work is done. My work has to be done
661
00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:24.640
before I do any of that. Because I do, then
662
00:33:25.119 --> 00:33:28.440
I'm like, well, oh, guess what, you know, put it
663
00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:31.079
back till tomorrow or the next day or the next week,
664
00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:34.119
and now you're just hamster wheeling, you know what I mean.
665
00:33:34.359 --> 00:33:35.599
So it's like, go.
666
00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:39.279
Out find those run groups and then find a friend,
667
00:33:39.480 --> 00:33:43.079
because I'm telling you you're gonna meet the same people. Eventually,
668
00:33:43.599 --> 00:33:45.759
somebody may comment to you on your outfit. I know
669
00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:49.400
this from prior where I work in the kind of
670
00:33:49.400 --> 00:33:52.720
for a brand right now still, but I see it
671
00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:54.720
all the time. You see the funny laughs, and then
672
00:33:54.720 --> 00:33:58.319
people go out for coffee or they run by themselves
673
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on a Sunday, and then they end up going shopping
674
00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:04.880
and then they going traveling. Like you have somebody there
675
00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:07.480
that is going to be now you're potentially it could
676
00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:09.119
say ryder or die if it came down to it,
677
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or you build an expense a very exclusive friendship with somebody,
678
00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:14.960
you know.
679
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I mean, I'm witnessing it right now. In our club.
680
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We started in August, and we started kind of by accident.
681
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We all we started off with a more like a
682
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running team. It was me and four other guys that
683
00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:35.159
had met at the Nola Miles Club run club, and
684
00:34:35.199 --> 00:34:38.079
we were always kind of toward the front. And then
685
00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:40.719
one one of them asked me to start training them
686
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because I coached as well as Xavier after I finished competing,
687
00:34:46.039 --> 00:34:48.519
and so we did a workout, and you know, the
688
00:34:48.519 --> 00:34:50.679
other guys were like, hey, I want to I want
689
00:34:50.679 --> 00:34:52.320
to train too, I want to get fast too, and
690
00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:54.840
so that led to a group chat that led to
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00:34:54.920 --> 00:34:57.559
us training together on a regular basis. We started taking pictures,
692
00:34:57.880 --> 00:35:01.559
posting content. We race at the Saints five k, this
693
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five k that happens before the Saints opening game, and
694
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we crushed it. Are we had these we had these
695
00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:11.559
branded singlets called with the Soul Brothers, so we call
696
00:35:11.599 --> 00:35:15.920
ourselves the Soul Brothers spelled so l e. And people
697
00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:19.920
just started showing up to our runs, like are are
698
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like training sessions. It wasn't like, hey, well, eventually we
699
00:35:23.800 --> 00:35:25.639
started promoting it, but it wasn't like, hey, y'all, we
700
00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:28.119
should turn this into a you know, big training club.
701
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And eventually, you know, as more and more people and
702
00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:36.239
more women came, we pivoted to Soul Running now. But
703
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but a lot of the women who especially the women
704
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who have come to this club.
705
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And you know, kind of.
706
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Had we're isolated in the city that now have like
707
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you're saying, best friends. I mean it's so powerful, man,
708
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And every every time anybody like makes an accomplishment in
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our club, the women are like making sure that they're
710
00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:01.480
recognized because you know, we as guys were like we're
711
00:36:01.559 --> 00:36:07.000
just like whatever, good job broke, you know, proud better
712
00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:09.599
next time, you know, like never really giving each other
713
00:36:09.639 --> 00:36:11.559
our flowers and so and so the women really like
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00:36:11.639 --> 00:36:15.519
serving that function. So on one of our run club members,
715
00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:18.039
he's on this journey where he's doing he's doing a
716
00:36:18.079 --> 00:36:20.280
mile a day for three hundred and sixty mile or
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more per day for three hundred and sixty five days.
718
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Wants to run a mile or more and so he
719
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hit three hundred today and you know, the girls surprised
720
00:36:27.639 --> 00:36:30.079
him with some balloons that you know, rode out three
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hundred and a little gift bag and you know, just
722
00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:35.920
those little things. And again it's this is what people
723
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are missing, that community and it's centered around movement, and
724
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we're all moving and everybody looks better.
725
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Like that's just another thing.
726
00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:43.239
Man.
727
00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:45.400
You just start to see because you know, when you're running,
728
00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:47.119
you're gonna burn a lot of calories and then in
729
00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:50.360
the way it's going to fall off. And we have
730
00:36:50.400 --> 00:36:52.920
a pretty cool team because I have the app. We
731
00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:57.280
have a guy who's like this marketing genius, graphic genius
732
00:36:57.360 --> 00:36:59.639
kind of guy, and then we have a yoga instructor
733
00:36:59.639 --> 00:37:02.880
and fitting trainer, and then we have two I was
734
00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:05.039
considered them influencer type that they got potential to be,
735
00:37:05.119 --> 00:37:06.800
you know, big in that regard and so we have
736
00:37:06.840 --> 00:37:09.079
this nice little dynamic as far as like our original
737
00:37:09.119 --> 00:37:14.199
five and yeah, so we have we have something good
738
00:37:14.199 --> 00:37:16.159
going for sure, man. But the most valuable part of
739
00:37:16.199 --> 00:37:19.840
it is that, like last night, at the end of
740
00:37:19.880 --> 00:37:23.360
the birthday week, almost we're out last night, maybe ten
741
00:37:23.400 --> 00:37:26.000
of us for someone we just met three months ago.
742
00:37:26.800 --> 00:37:30.119
But we've all been running together. And I'll tell you what,
743
00:37:30.199 --> 00:37:32.559
one thing about running, or one of the one of
744
00:37:32.559 --> 00:37:35.840
the one of the strongest ways to build a relationship
745
00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:38.159
is through shared suffering. You probably know. And this is
746
00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:41.639
why people who do sports together are like the tightest.
747
00:37:41.760 --> 00:37:44.960
You know, my best friends from college are my cross
748
00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:48.440
country teammates. I've been in each of their weddings and
749
00:37:48.519 --> 00:37:51.039
one's coming up. You know, these are my boys. And
750
00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:53.920
it's and it's that shared suffering. And you're running running
751
00:37:54.679 --> 00:37:57.719
no matter how good you are, you know, how new
752
00:37:57.719 --> 00:38:01.519
you are to it like it's it's painful. It is
753
00:38:01.559 --> 00:38:04.280
most people's. It's most sports punishments, right, That's one thing
754
00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:07.679
we always say. And so there is that element naturally,
755
00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:09.800
and I think that that's one that maybe doesn't spoke
756
00:38:09.800 --> 00:38:14.199
about as part of why the run club thing is
757
00:38:14.239 --> 00:38:19.920
working so well. It's because people are suffering together voluntarily.
758
00:38:21.599 --> 00:38:23.440
Listen, you're not lying.
759
00:38:23.519 --> 00:38:28.239
I think about the guys that playing basketball either you know,
760
00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:32.280
summer league or winter league, and we're still in close
761
00:38:32.360 --> 00:38:36.519
contact to where it's like now you're you're not lying
762
00:38:36.599 --> 00:38:39.960
running just doing a little small little run on the
763
00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:43.480
treadmill or even outside there's a track behind my house,
764
00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:48.719
Like bruh. That shit keep you honest, man, It keeps
765
00:38:48.760 --> 00:38:51.320
you honest, and you keep humble after a while.
766
00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:54.719
This running around the track and you're like, yo, I'm
767
00:38:54.719 --> 00:38:55.400
out of shape.
768
00:38:55.599 --> 00:38:58.480
Yeah you know what I mean. I mean, I actually
769
00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:00.280
made a post on National Running Day that I really
770
00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:03.159
love it and it's it's about what I love most
771
00:39:03.159 --> 00:39:11.199
about running is that you will never outperform or perform
772
00:39:11.239 --> 00:39:12.480
better than the work that you put in.
773
00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:14.159
You won't.
774
00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:17.960
There's no there's no like flute catch that you can
775
00:39:18.039 --> 00:39:20.079
make in running right where it's just like it just
776
00:39:20.119 --> 00:39:23.119
so happened that day that you just tapped into something
777
00:39:23.159 --> 00:39:25.639
and then boom. It's like your body's only going to
778
00:39:25.719 --> 00:39:29.519
go as as far and as fast as you train.
779
00:39:29.719 --> 00:39:33.079
And that is just the reality. And you know, if
780
00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:38.440
if someone that is maybe naturally talented that isn't training,
781
00:39:39.679 --> 00:39:42.000
someone that's training can beat them and that is just
782
00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:44.880
like none of us can just like you know, pop
783
00:39:44.960 --> 00:39:48.920
up on like uh, you know someone who's six ft
784
00:39:48.960 --> 00:39:51.239
six and you'll beat them in one or one basket,
785
00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:52.639
you know what I'm saying. Like, it's just like certain
786
00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:56.159
factors are just out of our control. But with running,
787
00:39:56.280 --> 00:39:59.159
everything is nearly in your control. And it is.
788
00:40:01.159 --> 00:40:03.800
You're so humble because I was, you know, on the
789
00:40:03.840 --> 00:40:06.920
Instagram and watching this like even some of your speaking
790
00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:10.280
and like the stuff that you're posting and whatnot. So
791
00:40:10.840 --> 00:40:13.599
you are who you say you are, which leads me
792
00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:16.440
to one of the one of the posts you created.
793
00:40:16.840 --> 00:40:19.119
I was actually captured by it where it says here
794
00:40:19.960 --> 00:40:23.920
why you should care more about your height to waste
795
00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:27.559
ratio than your BMI. Expound on that a little bit
796
00:40:27.639 --> 00:40:28.360
for the audience.
797
00:40:28.639 --> 00:40:34.480
Yeah, this is really important because BMI really really bothers
798
00:40:34.519 --> 00:40:36.760
a lot of people, and it should because it's an
799
00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:40.360
imperfect metric. It doesn't take into consideration body composition, like
800
00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:43.800
where the fat distribution is, right? Is it in your backside?
801
00:40:43.840 --> 00:40:46.159
Is it in your chest? Is it in your arms?
802
00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:46.519
Right?
803
00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:50.320
Is it in your stomach? And And that matters because
804
00:40:50.559 --> 00:40:52.800
some areas are problematic for your overall health, and some
805
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:56.239
areas aren't. And a lot of black women in particular
806
00:40:58.239 --> 00:41:03.400
are overweight bees in the United States. And you know,
807
00:41:03.440 --> 00:41:05.000
I think on the whole again, I don't think we
808
00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:10.360
should throw BMI out entirely, because it is very simple
809
00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:14.119
to measure, right. You need to know your height and
810
00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:17.440
your weight and you can calculate it right. And for
811
00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:21.280
the most part, I will say in the US, if
812
00:41:21.320 --> 00:41:25.400
you are quote unquote overweight or quote unquote OBEs, it
813
00:41:25.519 --> 00:41:29.719
probably is related to access fat in an area that
814
00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:33.440
you shouldn't have it in that is causing or increasing
815
00:41:33.480 --> 00:41:37.760
your risk of developing metabolic disease, so the hypertension, type
816
00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:44.159
of diabetes and cancer. So that's abdominal fat, right. You
817
00:41:44.199 --> 00:41:49.400
don't want excess fat there and most most of us do.
818
00:41:50.119 --> 00:41:51.800
And so when most of us look at our BMI
819
00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:56.199
and it says overweight or obs part of what's driving
820
00:41:56.239 --> 00:41:58.320
that is are abdominal fat. Now for some of us,
821
00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:01.199
we're just you know, you know, some black women are thick, right,
822
00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:04.320
So they're they're thick in the hibs, you know, thighs,
823
00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:08.199
but you know, in their curvy up top, but their
824
00:42:08.239 --> 00:42:14.159
waist line is stint. So what's going on there, So
825
00:42:14.199 --> 00:42:17.800
that's part of why I mentioned that. So excess fat
826
00:42:18.239 --> 00:42:20.440
in the in the on your backside, in your chest
827
00:42:20.559 --> 00:42:24.159
not necessarily problematic compared to excess fat in the abdominal region,
828
00:42:24.159 --> 00:42:26.840
where where there's visceral fat developing around your organs, which
829
00:42:27.039 --> 00:42:31.519
is causing problems. And so the better metric instead of
830
00:42:31.559 --> 00:42:34.599
height to weight ratio, which is BMI, is height to
831
00:42:34.719 --> 00:42:37.440
waist ratio. So how tall are you compared to your
832
00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:41.119
waist circumference, because your waist circumference is an indication of
833
00:42:41.159 --> 00:42:44.880
how much excess fat you have in the abdominal region. Right,
834
00:42:44.920 --> 00:42:46.320
So if you're if you you know, you've seen guys
835
00:42:46.360 --> 00:42:48.760
with kind of like you know, beer bellies and stuff
836
00:42:48.800 --> 00:42:51.840
like that, well they're they're their waistline has expanded. They
837
00:42:51.880 --> 00:42:54.320
go from you know, starting off with like a thirty two,
838
00:42:54.400 --> 00:42:56.519
thirty four you know, in their twenties, to all the
839
00:42:56.559 --> 00:42:58.840
way into a forty you know, and you know, to
840
00:42:58.840 --> 00:43:01.360
get depending on their side, in their height. So the
841
00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:05.159
ratio that you want is you want your waist to
842
00:43:05.239 --> 00:43:08.199
be half your height. So if you're if you're six
843
00:43:08.239 --> 00:43:12.440
feet tall, right, that's seventy two inches your waiste ought
844
00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:17.079
to be thirty six inches or smaller. Otherwise if it's
845
00:43:17.159 --> 00:43:20.679
if it's bigger than that, then I would say that
846
00:43:20.760 --> 00:43:24.159
your your weight is problematic. And again we're almost going
847
00:43:24.239 --> 00:43:26.599
to throw out the idea of weight as the as
848
00:43:26.639 --> 00:43:29.599
the factor. Right, it's really do you have access fat
849
00:43:29.639 --> 00:43:33.000
in the abdominal region because you're increasing your risk of
850
00:43:33.119 --> 00:43:36.840
developing the conditions that plague our community. And so again,
851
00:43:36.880 --> 00:43:39.199
now if you're if you're five to four, right, sixty
852
00:43:39.239 --> 00:43:41.920
four inches, your waist ought to be thirty two inches
853
00:43:42.360 --> 00:43:46.119
or smaller. And you can measure this with you know,
854
00:43:46.159 --> 00:43:50.360
just get a string wrapped around your waist measured against
855
00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:52.760
the measuring tape in the house, or you know, or
856
00:43:52.840 --> 00:43:54.639
go to the doctor. Doctor who measure can measure it
857
00:43:54.719 --> 00:43:57.039
for you as well. But it's again it's not as
858
00:43:57.079 --> 00:44:00.760
accessible as height to weight shoe because you can just
859
00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:03.599
step on a scale and you know your height. And
860
00:44:04.840 --> 00:44:06.280
but yeah, I would say so, so if you're a
861
00:44:06.280 --> 00:44:11.960
black woman and you're getting your five foot four and
862
00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:14.599
you measure your waist and it's below thirty two, you're
863
00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:17.079
probably fine even if even if the scale said or
864
00:44:17.199 --> 00:44:21.199
the BMI says that you're overweighter obese, because you also
865
00:44:21.239 --> 00:44:24.840
probably don't have elevated blood pressure, elevated glucose levels, or
866
00:44:24.960 --> 00:44:26.320
elevated cholesterol levels.
867
00:44:26.519 --> 00:44:28.559
And so to me, it's like those things.
868
00:44:28.360 --> 00:44:32.880
Are more important that waste circumference and those numbers. If
869
00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:35.000
your quote unquote obese, but all that stuff checks out,
870
00:44:35.039 --> 00:44:36.199
I really wouldn't worry about it.
871
00:44:37.079 --> 00:44:37.559
I love that.
872
00:44:37.719 --> 00:44:39.760
What about speaking to the men now, because I know
873
00:44:39.800 --> 00:44:42.199
you're speaking about black women like the men like now
874
00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:43.360
the difference between us.
875
00:44:43.559 --> 00:44:45.599
Yeah, I would honestly say that if a man is
876
00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:52.400
obese quote unquote OBEs by the standards, it's probably problematic
877
00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:56.440
fat because because BMI is based on like the white man, right,
878
00:44:57.400 --> 00:45:01.440
and you know, black men and white men or not
879
00:45:02.159 --> 00:45:04.960
typically as as curvaceous rights as women are.
880
00:45:05.639 --> 00:45:08.159
And so if if we're quote unquote.
881
00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:11.920
Overweight or obese, we're either an athlete with you know,
882
00:45:12.159 --> 00:45:19.880
significantly more muscle mass than the average person, or we're
883
00:45:19.880 --> 00:45:21.920
carrying too much fat in our abdominal region, right cause
884
00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:23.960
we're not gonna again and this isn't across the board,
885
00:45:23.960 --> 00:45:26.719
but on average, we're carrying our fat man in our
886
00:45:26.760 --> 00:45:30.320
abdominal region, right and then it obviously spreads everywhere else.
887
00:45:31.320 --> 00:45:34.480
But another thing I'll say on weight because you know,
888
00:45:35.960 --> 00:45:41.039
I don't want us to demonize like looking overweight or
889
00:45:41.039 --> 00:45:45.519
you know, looking looking fat, because you can be healthy
890
00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:48.360
and be quote unquote fat. And I don't think people
891
00:45:48.360 --> 00:45:52.280
actually know this, and it's but it's through like you're saying, exercise.
892
00:45:52.679 --> 00:45:56.880
So there's a study where they compared people who were
893
00:45:56.920 --> 00:46:03.119
overweight or obese two people who weren't. But the overweight
894
00:46:03.159 --> 00:46:06.119
and obese groups exercise, and the people who weren't it, well,
895
00:46:06.119 --> 00:46:06.920
they lived longer.
896
00:46:08.559 --> 00:46:09.679
Simple as that.
897
00:46:09.679 --> 00:46:12.239
That is how important exercise is to your overall health,
898
00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:15.400
even if you're quote unquote OBEs, which is a risk
899
00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:18.239
factor you know, according to all of the data, but
900
00:46:18.360 --> 00:46:22.599
you exercise. If you're not obese and you don't exercise,
901
00:46:22.679 --> 00:46:25.679
the person who's exercising is going to live longer and
902
00:46:25.840 --> 00:46:29.519
healthier life. And so I think a lot of us
903
00:46:29.559 --> 00:46:31.400
get caught up, especially if we're trying to lose weight.
904
00:46:31.400 --> 00:46:34.039
We get caught up in losing weight and if and
905
00:46:34.039 --> 00:46:36.000
if we're not losing weight, then we don't feel like
906
00:46:36.039 --> 00:46:38.239
we're making any progress or having any impact on our
907
00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:41.840
overall health and longevity. But you are. And I think
908
00:46:41.880 --> 00:46:45.360
it's more for people to really recognize that because That
909
00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:47.519
is what it's about. If you're okay, if you're happy
910
00:46:47.559 --> 00:46:49.519
with how you look at that weight, then then that
911
00:46:49.639 --> 00:46:51.599
you know, it's it's your I mean, your health is
912
00:46:51.639 --> 00:46:52.239
your choice.
913
00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:52.880
Now.
914
00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:54.880
My job as a public health professional is to get
915
00:46:54.920 --> 00:46:59.880
to maximize the the longevity of the human population. That
916
00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:01.920
my job, and so I'm going to always do things
917
00:47:01.960 --> 00:47:05.599
that I know contribute to that. But if if you're
918
00:47:05.599 --> 00:47:09.519
happy with your weight and you don't necessarily want to
919
00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:12.199
lose any I would focus on like movement just as
920
00:47:12.239 --> 00:47:16.320
a again preventative tool or to maximize your longevity, because
921
00:47:16.320 --> 00:47:18.440
even if you keeped all the weight on, you can
922
00:47:18.440 --> 00:47:18.840
be healthy.
923
00:47:18.840 --> 00:47:20.000
I mean, look at similar wrestlers.
924
00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:23.639
Those are very healthy individuals, but they're you know, they
925
00:47:23.639 --> 00:47:27.519
would be considered fat, but they're healthy. Their blood pressure
926
00:47:27.559 --> 00:47:31.199
is great, you know, blood sugar, blush, all that stuff
927
00:47:31.239 --> 00:47:31.519
is good.
928
00:47:31.760 --> 00:47:33.320
They eat a lot, but they work out a lot.
929
00:47:34.800 --> 00:47:38.519
So true, well said, I'm going to challenge you here
930
00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:39.840
now because we have some fun.
931
00:47:40.119 --> 00:47:44.480
Sure gonna like this one. So Marvel, Marvel, Marvel? Are
932
00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:45.440
you Marvel with DC?
933
00:47:46.119 --> 00:47:49.960
I like both? You know I watched Marvel attle bit more?
934
00:47:50.599 --> 00:47:53.239
Okay, good? Perfect? So falls in line when I'm worth
935
00:47:53.239 --> 00:47:53.679
to ask.
936
00:47:53.599 --> 00:47:59.079
You, if you were a character that represents yourself and
937
00:47:59.119 --> 00:48:01.480
you can't say black other, We're gonna just null and
938
00:48:01.559 --> 00:48:05.039
void that right there. If you were a character that
939
00:48:05.159 --> 00:48:08.320
represents yourself and your mission and what you're doing, who
940
00:48:08.320 --> 00:48:09.559
would that be and why?
941
00:48:10.039 --> 00:48:14.400
Character man? Okay, so I'm gonna give you the answer
942
00:48:14.440 --> 00:48:20.360
that I'm already kind of leaning into, which is iron Man.
943
00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:27.239
So I kind of figure you're gonna pick that innovation.
944
00:48:27.599 --> 00:48:32.679
Yeah, you know, innovation. You know. I like I like
945
00:48:32.800 --> 00:48:36.079
his his kind of like attitude and demeanor, which is
946
00:48:36.119 --> 00:48:40.039
like I'm going to outwork and outthink everyone. I may
947
00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:43.400
not be the biggest, strongest guy, but but I'm gonna,
948
00:48:43.599 --> 00:48:47.079
you know, develop myself in the areas that that I
949
00:48:47.119 --> 00:48:49.679
can kind of create some some separation between me and
950
00:48:49.679 --> 00:48:54.920
everyone else. And just like the swag, you know what
951
00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:58.440
I'm saying, like the the vibe as well. Yeah, So,
952
00:48:58.559 --> 00:49:01.599
like you know, I think he is billionaire philanthropists kind
953
00:49:01.639 --> 00:49:05.039
of kind of kind of brand is what I'm what
954
00:49:05.119 --> 00:49:07.159
I'm aiming for long term.
955
00:49:07.519 --> 00:49:09.119
So I would say him.
956
00:49:09.199 --> 00:49:11.559
But as far as like impact, I guess he did
957
00:49:11.559 --> 00:49:15.159
make significant impact because when one thing that I think
958
00:49:15.199 --> 00:49:21.559
people overlook when it comes to the success of entrepreneurs,
959
00:49:21.880 --> 00:49:28.079
especially technology entrepreneurs, is that through all of the money
960
00:49:28.119 --> 00:49:32.480
they're pouring into innovation, they're reducing overall costs.
961
00:49:31.800 --> 00:49:33.119
Of basic needs.
962
00:49:33.719 --> 00:49:37.199
Right. Is that is what has happened over the paste
963
00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:39.440
hundred years. Let's say, I mean it's happened over all
964
00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:43.079
the time. But but basically what happens through innovation is
965
00:49:43.079 --> 00:49:46.360
that we reduce the cost or act or reduce the
966
00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:50.719
cost to things that humans need and want. And then mean,
967
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think about what's happening right now with three D printed homes.
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That's going to drive down the cost of a house
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significantly because we can do it faster we do with
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the machine and that you know, once I'm done with
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bare health, my my focus will shift to something that
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I'm going to call a volo, which it's it's we're
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gonna invest in build companies that increase access to basic needs, right,
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that reduce the overall costs, so the housing, healthcare, education,
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and just really get creative about how do we compete
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with the current market to drive these prices down? How
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do we innovate, right, because that's what's going to drive
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it all. You know, one of the greatest innovations in
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life is like toilets and plumbing. That has saved so
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many lives. It has saved so many lives with very
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simple innovation like that. Is that is really what I
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think we overlook sometimes when when it comes to entrepreneurship,
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is that is that ultimately a lot of these innovations
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are making our lives easier. And it's part in its
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part of why we're not running around killing each other
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all the time. Although we just for whatever reason not
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to get political bomb. I don't actually know the details,
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but you know, just to drop the bomb and Iran
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and you know, I really wish we would, we would
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recognize our relationship to one another sooner than later, that
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if you do anything to someone, you're doing it to
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yourself and ultimately we all suffer as a consequence.
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But that's that's for sure for them, for sure.
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It's what you're speaking to is again the mass, the
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mass hysterian distractions. You know, you speak about it with
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the phones at the beginning part of the conversation. Then
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you have the news, then you have you know, sports
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game seven and the prior to time of recording this,
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So I'm getting my stuff like done today, so I
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have time to relax. I was out last night for
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a little bit, you know what I mean, late night,
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you know, got to get up do what I gotta
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go do. So now like, once I'm done this, I
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have a call and then I got a freaking I'm
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just gonna relax with us evening. It's chill, put the
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feet up, you know what I mean. But I think
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00:52:01.320 --> 00:52:03.960
this to kind of close the conversation, the close of
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the podcast is that we got to stop being distracted
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in life by the things that are nonsensical and really
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prioritizing the things that are actually going to amplify us.
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That's our mind, our body, and our spirit. You know
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what I mean. I get it like there's there's a
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lot that we can't we can't get away from. But
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it's like I always say, is this. If you feel
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like you're getting too sucked into that vortex, you got
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to maybe start trimming off some of those apps.
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I know people that don't have.
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00:52:32.079 --> 00:52:35.199
X because they say X is a poisonous platform, you
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00:52:35.199 --> 00:52:37.880
know what I mean. There's some informity that's there, but
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you got to know how to train your algorithm. My
1021
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algorithm is always kicking. It's either sports stuff, fitness stuff,
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pro wrestling stuff, a little bit of video games.
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You know what I mean.
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But that's just it because I know how to train that.
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I know to train that, you know what I mean.
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And like, now I'll be honest with you, Like I
1027
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find myself watching other creators, either if they're streaming video
1028
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games and I'm doing like work and I can just
1029
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like kind of listen to what they're saying and stuff
1030
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like that, or I'm listening to an audiobook. I'm not
1031
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consuming the BS anymore, because what's the point. It just
1032
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warps your brain. Like our parents talk, parents talk to me.
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But you know, there was in the city and this
1034
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and that, I'm like, sounds good, not to not to
1035
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like shy them away, but it's like, yep, sounds good.
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I'm not here to talk about that.
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If we want to talk sports, yeah, you'll get me there,
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you know what I mean, because that's something I'm like, Okay,
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that's what I want to listen to or that's why
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I want to talk about.
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But some of the stuff that's going on in the world,
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like my man can't do it no more.
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Yeah, no, I respect that man. You know. Ultimately, I
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think what we all should be doing, like each of
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us have a responsibility to become the best version of
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ourselves because if we aren't all that we can be,
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00:53:49.599 --> 00:53:51.360
we suffer more than we have to, so does everyone
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else around us. And if we all just managed to
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commit to that again at scale, then you know, my
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hope anyway, is that that we land somewhere near peace
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through all of that. But it's rooted in everyone focusing
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on developing themselves as individuals to become the best version
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of themselves. Yeah, I agree with you also when it
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comes to just kind of like removing some of these distractions,
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because what happens. Nothing stresses us out more than seeing
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a problem and not doing anything about it. Right, you know,
1057
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how you have a bunch of big to do lists
1058
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and you're getting stressed, and maybe it's a small task,
1059
00:54:35.199 --> 00:54:37.599
maybe it's a big task, but what stressing you out
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is that you're not doing anything about it. Once you
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start working on it, then then all of a sudden,
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you're not as stressed. Even if you get you know,
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you have a long long way to go on completing
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the task. And so what happens when we are exposed
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to these big problems in the world, we feel inadequate
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to accomplish or to do anything about them. But we
1067
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want to do something about them, and it's just you
1068
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have to. That's like, that's like putting two hundred and
1069
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twenty five pounds on the bench and you haven't. You
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haven't bingched one hundred pounds in ten years. We can't
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take on problems that are to be we can. We
1072
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can't give our brains problems that are too because it's
1073
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going to stress us out, it'll it'll.
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Cost it literally can cause trauma.
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And so I really think that when it comes to
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things like that, we really need to put things into
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perspective within our own environment, like the we are the
1078
00:55:31.920 --> 00:55:35.719
world and in how you interact with everybody that you
1079
00:55:35.760 --> 00:55:38.840
interact with on a daily basis affects the overall you know,
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00:55:39.800 --> 00:55:43.119
sentiment of the world and though and that's also something
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that you can manage. And so we have to put
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things into perspective and and and and you know, bring
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00:55:50.360 --> 00:55:52.639
a little bit of faith into it because anything is
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00:55:52.679 --> 00:55:56.800
possible and optimism gives us our best chance. So create
1085
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the biggest, the best vision that you can imagine for you,
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your family, your unity in the world, and sacrifice everything
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to it, because that's what it needs to want it.
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Absolutely.
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My brother's preaching preaching on a Sunday, closing this out
1090
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and all that good stuff before we get out of here.
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Plug all your information. We'll put the promo for the
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app in there as well as a write up and description.
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00:56:20.880 --> 00:56:23.000
I'll probably push that out ahead of time as well too.
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Gets on my American connects to tap in you know
1095
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what I mean, and stuff like.
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That for sure, for sure. But plug all your information,
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my man, and what you got coming up next?
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Yeah, So you can find me on Instagram and pretty
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00:56:35.079 --> 00:56:39.199
much all socials at bear Health that's b e hr
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Health and then also my personal is kwame Terra k
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w A m E t e r r A. I
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do a lot of collaboration posts between bear Health and
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00:56:49.440 --> 00:56:51.719
and my personal so you'll probably see the content one
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way or the other. Again, download our app our beta
1105
00:56:55.039 --> 00:56:57.400
app to dakud do d A c A d o O.
1106
00:56:57.960 --> 00:57:01.599
Use access code Mitchell Report to create your account and
1107
00:57:02.159 --> 00:57:04.960
engage with us. You know, whether that's a Steps challenge
1108
00:57:05.039 --> 00:57:07.880
or we did a challenge at the beginning of the
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00:57:07.960 --> 00:57:09.760
year where we gave away two tickets to the Super
1110
00:57:09.760 --> 00:57:12.559
Bowl if you took fifty nine thousand steps in a week,
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you were entered in for a chance to win two
1112
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tickets to Super Bowl fifty nine. It was nuts, it was.
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An incredible as I got my passport. I'm doing all
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these challenges every single.
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And so, yeah, engage with our community. You know, our
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ultimate goal with bare health is to not only help
1117
00:57:29.719 --> 00:57:31.960
individuals track and improve their health over time, but be
1118
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able to track and improve health on a community level.
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So we developed what we call the Health Score Report,
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00:57:38.480 --> 00:57:41.599
which is a real time database of our user health insights.
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And so we'll have the Health Score Report for the
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city of New Orleans, which will show the average health
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score overall, the average health score by gender, average health
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score by age, average health score by each category. So
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what's the average health physical activity score in the community,
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00:57:53.599 --> 00:57:55.800
what's the average mental well being scored? And then we
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00:57:55.960 --> 00:57:58.239
use all of those insights and that information to curate
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experiences that meet that need and so help help us
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00:58:03.360 --> 00:58:06.679
in that way. So, whether you need personalized health coaching
1130
00:58:06.920 --> 00:58:09.840
right now or not, just being on the app contributes
1131
00:58:09.880 --> 00:58:13.280
to helping us understand what is happening in each community
1132
00:58:13.320 --> 00:58:16.239
across the country, across the world, and what can we
1133
00:58:16.360 --> 00:58:18.599
learn from the communities that are doing well and apply
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those to the ones that aren't right to help drive
1135
00:58:21.480 --> 00:58:23.719
up those scores. But happy to say that our our
1136
00:58:23.760 --> 00:58:26.440
average health score on the app over the past six
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00:58:26.480 --> 00:58:29.480
months has increased a month over month. So we're doing
1138
00:58:29.519 --> 00:58:31.559
something right and so we're gonna try to keep keep
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leaning into that. And that's honestly been the most fulfilling.
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Part about this.
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Remember what I said earlier, like you get meaning when
1142
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you recognize measurable progress towards your goal. Our goal is
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to maximize health in the black community. Every month we're
1144
00:58:43.440 --> 00:58:46.559
watching the average health score go up and nothing has
1145
00:58:46.599 --> 00:58:48.719
made me happier in this entire your and even have
1146
00:58:48.760 --> 00:58:50.960
been seeing that, even if it's just by again one
1147
00:58:51.000 --> 00:58:55.079
average point a month, you know, it's really beautiful to see.
1148
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So I love that man, keep doing God's work like
1149
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straight up, because it's it's it's it's folks like you
1150
00:59:01.320 --> 00:59:03.920
and I that are doing what we're doing, our message,
1151
00:59:03.920 --> 00:59:05.840
our play. I know, it's podcasts, I talk about a
1152
00:59:05.920 --> 00:59:09.519
vast different things, but even bringing it back to you,
1153
00:59:09.519 --> 00:59:14.800
you're doing God's work to change lives, and that's probably
1154
00:59:14.840 --> 00:59:17.360
one of the biggest success rates that are out there,
1155
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you know what I mean? And building an amazing community
1156
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by doing it, so keep it the good work. You
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have a place here at the Mitchell port Onliest podcast.
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I don't say that to all my guests. It's not
1159
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being demeaning to all my guests, but anything you need
1160
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from me to push out.
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Things like that, I got you.
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Man, man straight up appreciate all righty cool, thanks, appreciate y'all.
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Mitchell portallys we out