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Speaker 1: Okay, it is New Year's Eve. Um, you know what today is, Bobo. Besides New Year's Eve. You don't because you didn't know me, then I don't. Okay, this is UM today Ben and I my husband, we celebrate thirteen years of marriage. Congratulations today. Thank you. That's awesome for obviously pre recording this because we're not UM doing. But yeah, when people are listening to this, I'll be celebrating years. That's super cool. It's crazy. Um wow, yeah, like a lot our lives. Then we've done a lot of different things in our marriage. But hopefully people UM had a great Christmas and they're ready to tackle UM. And so I've got a quote. I'm going to start off with a quote from Bobo since he's here, and this is something I saw him post on instat stories and I took a screenshot and saved it for this UM because I thought, like, this is deep. This is Bobo getting deep and said had said true hard work requires immense sacrifice and takes you to a place of intense discomfort, but in the end, it is the hard work that leaves you the most fulfilled and spawns the most growth. Bobo. So I thought that that was fitting for the new year's episode because a lot of people probably put in the work in twenty nineteen or they're looking forward to what's to come in and how do they want to approach it. And you are an entrepreneur, started a business with your friend and y'all have turned irritate into like something pretty special. But you're grinding. But I mean, so you could speak to people that might be in a similar place face of maybe chasing their dreams in their because this isn't something you've always done, which at Nashville is that? Why don't you say in a nutshell what it is quickly? We're a health and wellness company centered around IVY hydration and performance space medicine UM with vitamins and different supplements. But some of his clients require him too, I mean too in order to work with them, he you have to travel the country and you know it's really taxing you. I saw you know one night you were like getting off a flight after doing like a long day's work I assume or wherever, working with whomever, and you went straight to a client's house, UM because even though it was late, but your client needed to do so with that client's house, the other night at one in the morning, I mean crazy. So but that's your dedicated to what you're doing. You love being able to help people, and um, it says here true hard work requires them and sacrifice because you miss out on things with friends and family and like, I mean even I'm assuming, like when you spent Thanks to Me with us, you had to fly out the next morning to go to some be at some f to Philadelphia the very next morning for the Eagles, and so you didn't go home, probably to Birmingham to be with your mom because you was like too much travel. So like it's that's a sacrifice, big tim Like it's just like Christmas, Um, I can only go home for two nights because I have to see certain clients the day or two days before Christmas. So I missed well on his birthday normally don't, but the way it falls this year, I have to see clients those days and then the day after Christmas, that Friday after Christmas, I have to be on a plane to Philadelphia. So I don't really have a choice, but I gotta go. So if some of you are listening and you're like, oh man, it's just been one of those years. And but you're if you're passionate about what you're doing, like the sacrifices is going to be worth. It might be a little uncomfortable right now, but you'll grow, you'll be fulfilled, it'll pay off, and you will always have to be this crazy, but you're in the growing stages. And I think too that I try to remind myself to like relish the discomfort and relish the the the sacrifice, so to speak, because this will only last so long, and I don't want to look back and be like where I've always expected and wanted to be and feel like I just discredited all this time, and not not live in the moment of this time and and and truly enjoy the moments that I do have with my friends and with my family, and and they might be like I had a friend that played a show which would have been a couple of weeks ago. It was actually last night. I missed the whole thing. I showed up. I saw on Instagram. You're like, I missed the whole thing, but I showed up at thirty minutes later just to give him a hug and say I love you, bro, I'm proud of you. I wasn't here, but I wanted you to know I didn't see any of your show, but I'm pumped for you. So it's like those little moments I think. I try to like take in every bit of it because a eventually won't be like that. But I don't want to miss all those little things mentally and emotionally, um, just because I'm trying to rush through this phase of my life to the next thing. And you make a good point to of like you don't know how long something's gonna last. I kind of feel that way with the Bobby Bones Show and what we do. I'm like especially with radio, and I mean, I feel like some opportunities that come my way, I kind of have to take them right now because in ten years, five years, they may not be there. I might be the old wash up co host from some radio show from back in the day. Like I don't know, I mean, you don't like stuff that comes my way, even though it might feel like some weeks my world is like I can't. I've suffocating between all the things because it's I've got kids and a husband and pimp and joy and a squa and it saw was like a huge passion of mine and Obviously Pimp and Joy is very important too, but it's not as it doesn't require as much work as a spot, and then the show and the podcast, and then there's other stuff like on the Horizon for Bobby's kind of talked to me about, and in my mind, I'm like, how am I going to add that? How am I going to make that happen? Um? But I'm like, shoot, I kind of have to figure out how do I it happen because like three years from now, I may not even get an offer like that. So at least I do it while I can grow from it, learn from it, challenge myself and then look back and be thankful that I did it and that I got to do it exactly. And I also try to tell people to to not romanticize what you see on my Instagram because there are times that I have my close little internet family friends type people in my life that I've went to I struggle, like I do have breakdown moments like it's not all pretty travel grind, like oh I'm gonna get to this point and it's all good, Like yeah, I missed up, but I'm good. Like I'll throw these quotes out there like no like I struggle at times, and it's okay, Like if you're like going through it and you're like you fill up, you're breaking down, You're not like you're not the only one like it. It's tough to go after something you really want, and like I just want to say, like I'm in the trenches with that person, like I feel that just don't always look to the people's instagrams or like they've got it all figured out and they know how I'm struggling to I'm struggling to Oh yeah, I'm a freaking hot mess. Uh chases over here on the couch. He can attest to that, say Halla, okay, yeah I I am, and I've been with here right now. He would say it too. And you know, even Mary who runs the Shot Forward, like she'll get messages sometimes like I want to start a you know, a business that gives back and I want to do this and I just, you know, how do you do it all? And she's like, oh man, I want to help them. But like she had a clothing business before the Shot Forward and was able to piggyback that business the Shot Forward stuff into that, Like she has the warehouse and the resources and she knew how to do it and make it all happen, so she doesn't want to ever give a false like um fairy tale on Instagram that like yes, do you everybody can do this, but I mean, she's she's everything on that company, like she's the web girl she is. Sometimes it's funny I'll be talking to her and sull it just made me think of this you're talking about, don't ever fall for my Instagram being like, oh, you know, it's such a grind, it's so great. Yeah, I mean because you're trying to put your best foot forward a lot of times online for Mary too, like it's so much work when you're setting out like it is. It's a lot. And sometimes something will be going on her website and she'll be like, oh, I'm gonna fire my web girl. But it's her. She just she does all of it. And when you're an entrepreneur, I guess I just say this is encouragement of like, yes, we're we're all like in this together and nobody has it figured out. Um, and the best thing you can do is at times try to be transparent with that, which is what we're trying to do right now. I just always remember you're never finished. You know, you're never finished. We're always at I don't want to come to We're like a piece of art that's that's never finished. So you're always working. So I do know you're always working on yourself and just cut yourself some slack, but keeping but keep grinding. Yes, And I think, yeah, I learned. My Bin is grinding with his company he started, which let's for New Year's let's give been some more followers on Instagram. He's now running his drone company account. It's tough stump if you haven't, yeah at tough stuff because I see him work so hard, he's grinding at it. Um, he's an inspiration to me. With that, I see Mary working so hard, she's an inspiration to me. And then Bobo, you are an inspiration to me. And since this is the four Things podcast and yeah, look he only has like seven posts, but yeah, oh he'll notice that. He'll be like, god'll follow so uh, since this is fourth Thing podcast, I'll throw Bobby in the mix too, because he's someone that's around me that I see grind and he does not stop. And you know it's cool, but not that's not that you have to live the life of grinding, but um, it's it's sort of contagious. And if you're if you're looking to grow and stretch, like, surround yourself with people that are are going to grow and stretch you exactly. Um, so you want to get into some questions real quick and answers. We kind of just did a little a little chit chat there, but going into the new year, it seems good. Which speaking of that, a lot of people might be drinking a little bit more than usual because it's New Year's Eve or whatever the case. They're around family or whatnot, and they might be indulging in more. So, do you have any go to tips for um that if you drink a lot of water, drink a lot of water. Um. I'll also tell you to wash your hands more because that drinking is gonna drop your immune system a little bit. So um. And you're around a lot of people shaking hands, touching people, people are not washing their hands, a lot of food, a lot of finger foods, people's hands on stuff, so you're just exposed to potentially more virus stuff. So just wash your hands and then kiss. Kiss. Some of us are single, and uh, if you need a new Year's Eve kiss in Nashville. I already get emails. Is Bobo single, Bobo single? Um? I left those out of the Q and A because I mean, answer he's single at at Mobo hit him up slide No. Uh, But what I do if I know there's going to be a time that I'm over indulging. UM. Not that I plan to drink a lot, but if I do, UM, I usually take some form of electro like tablet, electrolyte, capsule. UM. I don't I'm not gonna tell you a specific brand because you can just find the electrolyte thing on Instagram on on Instagram, but on Amazon and UM that's probably just the best way to do it. Something very plain simple, no additive, no sugar, no sweetener, just an electro light tablet. And then about an hour and a half after that, I'll take activated charcoal. I use um A uh what's his name that does bulletproof. It's the same It's the same as the bulletproof brand UM, and that will help absorb pretty much anything you put in your system. So if you add the electrolyte tablet at the same time, you're going to absorb that completely. So you'll waste that as well. I thought I had an electrolyte tablet in my bag, so I was digging for it while you were talking because I wanted to show it to you to be like like this, But I don't know where it went. But yeah, that's great, or you can use I use another like none have you heard of? None? In? You? In? In? Is that the name? That's probably a fine one too. I haven't ever used. I haven't looked at their labels, so I can't speak to that. But I take keen ton water, which is that it's a whole another podcast. But I take that every time before I fly and when I land. But so how do you take it when you land? You? I pack it in my carry on your little glass ampules. Oh it's little strongly carry on with four ounces. These are like what are they? It's basically nothing but sea salt water. But it's taken from the portion of the sea at the level where the plankton and okay, okay, okay, there was a plankton pretty much lives, so it's really in they're feeding, so it's really linked in an animal. They're like crustaceans like shrimp. Okay, but plank it's like what fish eat, okay, but those smaller fish eat, but they it's at that level. So it's super nutrient dense water and they extract it from the ocean and just purify it. You drink that now daily, not daily when you fly, but before I fly, when I land, um before I if I go out, Can I just throw some sea salt in my water? Yeah? But this is just really good, like hypertonic hype, like super salty water. That's all it is. And I just take a just break the ample. But it's so like it's not as bad as drinking any alcohol shot. I mean, it just tastes like salt water and it's gone. It's not like a really bad aftertaste. Okay. So maybe something like that ye helps you absorb more water. I mean, what if like for your drink like those none tabs. I think that's how you spell it inuite and I don't know, but they have like you know, cheery flavor or whatever. You drop that in water and then you put your tequila or vodka in that. Are you with the electrolytes in your alcohol? Are you hydrating while where is that? Now you're adding Now you're adding a artificial flavor and color to it. That's the other thing. Okay, but that's an electrolyte tablet. They all have that, right, No, I take a capsule that's literally just a capsule of like potassium sodium chloride, like it's just a plane. Well, so now you're saying that, maybe then my non tablets aren't good. I didn't know they were flavored. Sorry, they were pink and pretty probably refrain from that. It's just like the drip drop and the liquid ivy. Are those those work? Yes, but they have a lot of added stuff that isn't necessary. So my clients that want to use those type products I tell them just to use keen On water instead because it's basically can you get keen toon on Amazon? It's on Amazon. I couldn't have been more fun. Do you a in t o n Keeneton water? And I used the hypertonic salty version of it. Amazing. Okay, So that was just a question I thought we were addressed in general since New Year's Eve like a hangover thing. It's not from anybody in particular. Um, but speaking of hydrating, I did get an email from Jenny uh and she was it was a long email, so I'll just paraphrase it here real quick. But she basically would try to consume, like she was drinking a hundred and sixty ounces of water a day. Yeah, oh it is okay, so um, around four pm, she would get really groggy and lightheaded and nauseous, and she was like, what the heck, I'm not dehydrated, so what's the deal. So she called her doctor. They started talking about the water intake, and they said that she was suffering from water intoxication, so like too much water, I guess, and that she cut it back to like seventy to a hundred ounces a day and she's feeling fine. But she didn't know if you had any thoughts on this, because have you? Did you ever hear about um? That radio stunt called WE for a WEE? Okay? So it was which it changed the way radio contests were done, and this is back years ago, but it does affect how we can do contests with listeners. She they were The contest was to drink as much water as possible, but not who can hold their p the longest and whoever could hold their WE for the longest one a we. This is in the WE video games were really popular, so it's we for a we get it or hold your wee. And she died. A girl died because she was holding her p and it created she had like some toxic I don't know, something in her bladder, like I did something. That's so, did you win? I don't know, Bobo too much rest like the rest of beast. She I don't know if she won, but it's terrible. That's awful. It's terrible. Obviously she had something really going on. She's probably predisposed to have whatever, but to it just I don't know what made me think of weed for a weed, but this water toxication made me think of it, because like, can we have too much water? You're gonna have too much pure water where it's toxic to us. Yeah, it's it's it's hard to do um, but you have if you're eating and you have other electrolytes in your system. So the issue is like if you're drinking water, fountain water, you've pretty much just got florade water. It's just a ton of florade in our water, our public water. So I got a full house water filtration system from Culligan. Water is an endorsement shout out like I'm not ashamed to like give them like all the plugs in the world, because I've always wanted one of those, but I didn't want to invest in it. And obviously when I do, I did want to invest in it, but it's it's an investment. But I was like, is it worth it? And now door endorsement aside. I mean, of course, I like jumped on endorsing it because I was like, yes, I've always wanted one, but now that I have one, it's so amazing. If we move, which we might have to move for the kids schooling, I will want. I will call up call ag in and pay full price any day because it is. And obviously when I do my commercials from them, I can tell like I'm super passionate about it because it's so amazing. It's so good. The water is so good. I love showering in the water, I love drinking the water so good. On that same point, for people who can't afford it, you can buy that same type of system where Colligan probably has their own system that isn't under the sink system where just your sink water you don't have to get the whole your cost is drastically cheaper, and you're able to cook, drink that water, use that water, and you're basically only supplying one faucet that so sure your showers aren't, but it's still an upgrade from your tap water. And if we're trying to sing, we use bottles, which I'm terrible at. I know, if we all need to be better at um, it's a great way. So, but water quality plays a role in how much water you're consuming, because so you're having Yeah, but I think the issue is not just water quality, but it's hers was probably an electrolyte deficiency because you made because yeah, you're not drinking so much water, you're flushing out electrolytes, you're flushing like you're also creating a different sodium content in your bloodstream, which will make you your your cognition is not as well. You're not as sharp, you're tired, you're lethargic, you're your body feels sluggish. So you're you're altering your blood chemistry by just putting a bunch of pure water into your system that has none of your basic electrolytes or um bodies on, like plasma protein. I'm trying to not make it too medical, but you're basically just drinking pure water, which is great, but at a kington water in there? Add um food in there, you know, I know. I tell everybody you know your staple numbers, drink a gallon of water a day. But it goes back to everything we've ever talked about with diets and food and fasting and everything. Listen to your body and if your body functions really well off of water, well, don't drink a gallon, you know, listen to your body. Yeah, with that, everybody's into is going to be different. But on average, what would you recommend somebody that? Is it? Like? Do you base it on weight? No, it's more of a lifestyle thing. I say, your gold number is a gallon of water a day. How much is a gallon? Again like a milk jug? But how many is that? Just a big gosh, I'm not getting anywhere near that lately. I would especially if you exercise and drink coffee. If you drink coffee and you exercise, or you drink tea that is like a green tea, diuretic green tea. If you do that and you exercise a gallon of water, it's like your staple number of like go for that and that will boost your energy levels, it will make your skin better, you'll eat less food if you I don't want to say it that way, that's a that way to put it. A lot of hunger cravings are by dehydri because your body's source of fluid from your diet, so your body will send that same signal. Sometimes when I'm super snacky, like later in the night, i think back on my water consumption for the day and I'm like, shoot, this isn't that I'm hungry, It's that I did not have enough water today. So your body is just looking for water. Yeah. Um, okay, So next question, Oh, this has to do with intermittent fasting. Is bobbo is kind of like the I F guy? Um? Is it only beneficial if you do it on a consistent, long term basis? Do you still still see benefits when doing it for a day or two a day or to total, or a day or two a week, a day or two total you do anything? I will tell people, let's think about working out. How if you work out once or twice total, you're not gonna get you benefit your life for a week. Oh it's in a week? I mean you guys, you'll get benefit. Okay, uh any anything is better than nothing. But if you really are trying not to do it all the time, try to do it on weekdays. Usually people have more structure during their week days, whether you work at nine to five or whatever your work set up is, or if you're a nurse and you work through the weekends, whatever your work schedule is. Trying to do inter minute fasting on your work days and take your whatever your weekend is off, that's a good way to do it. So five days on two days off, if that's your work set your work set up, I mean once or twice a week, it's not really gonna be the same benefit. Like if you're looking for true cancer prevention and sell turnover benefits and longevity benefits, because that's really what I preached to people about inter minute fasting. It's not to lose weight, and I want people to know that, Like you know, there's triggers for in a minute fasting for people who have eating disorders and things, and I'm not telling people that to do this to lose weight. It's a eye product of doing inter minute fasting a lot of times is toning up and burning more fat. The biggest benefits are increased energy levels, improve mental function, um, your self turnover. I've talked about autof a g before, I think, but it's basically self cleansing and eating partially parts of itself too then turn over those parts. So there's a big cancer prevention benefit there too. And that's why I inter minute fast Um, So doing it like five days a week is still great. You know, you don't have to do it every day, but once or twice is a little light. I would say it is probably the best way to put that. Yeah, that's yeah, you might as well. If you're gonna do it, do at least five and like I like that week days and then weekends you can give yourself a little bit of a break. But doesn't mean like just go crazy do whatever, right, And you know, just to hit on that one more time when I talk about women's over men's fasting, I think, if you look at my Instagram at Adam Bobo, I posted one of those stories that stays whatever those are called highlight and it's just about inter minute fasting and it does hit the points of like women's inter minute fasting versus men's just talking about that hours and stuff. Yeah, that's awesome. Um, But women, when you fast, if you're gonna push to fourteen hours, which I think is okay, do that on day as you, um, don't work out, So like I say, twelve hours if you're working out, because women need that calorie amount coming in. And then if you let's say you you exercise three days a week and two days and the other four year off, so you're only gonna fast five days. So what I would do is fast twelve hours for three days, in fourteen hours for two days, and then on the weekends, just eat clean but don't fast. Okay, gotcha like it? Um? So, are there any vitamins or supplements aside from vitamin C that you would suggest using during this cold and flu season? In any product you would suggest if you're starting to feel cold coming on? Number One thing, wash your hands. I talked about this on Bobby Bones Show the other day. I've talked about it all the time. Well and you just mentioned it as part of like the New Year's thing. Like I didn't think about that. Your hands. People are dirty and even if they're not sick, they care. We we all carry viruses you bump into and come in contact with people all the time, and I think about it myself, like if you sneeze, or you wipe your nose, or you touch your face, you have stuff on your hands. And then did you shake somebody's hand. I could have passed some little cold flu virus to them that wasn't affecting me but affected someone else. But if you wash your hands is the is the You're not gonna over wash your hands with soap. Your hands might get dry, find a good lotion, UM, but definitely wash your hands. And then feeling stuff coming on, like preventions better than treatment. I mean it's hard once you're already sick. Sometimes these things just have to run their course. But zinc has been shown to decrease the duration and decrease the effects of simple cold olden flu viruses. UM and then Elderberry I love. I take an elderberry if I feel anything kind of coming on, I take an elder berry syrup. And I try to find the most plain, basic, non additive elder berry that I can find, not a specific brand. I just whatever's got the least you know, flavored, weird process stuff in it is what I use. Right, Okay, good stuff to take note on. Um, Okay, well, just last question. I've started training for a race and have been experiencing some joint aches more than usual. What would you suggest doing to improve joint health? UM, non supplement type stuff. Take stretch like mobility, UM, stretch after your run. It's like where that society of minimal time? So we just, oh, my gosh, I'm the worst that stretch. Just get out and run and you're like, yes, and what are you like? Shower out of time? Time, day has to keep going. And it's just so I usually will tell people, if you're gonna run for thirty minutes, make you run twenty minutes and stretch for three to four minutes before, and then stretch for seven minutes after and loosen out and only run for twenty minutes. If that's all you've got set thirty minutes. Do mobility, flexibility stretched stuff. That's the kind of stuff you can literally YouTube and find any kind of stuff to do. UM. You know there a lot of flexibility mobility stuff has been associated with longevity anyway, So the more flexible you are, the longer healthier theoretically you live. UM. The other thing is CBD again, CBD creams, CBD tinctures. Uh, basically a natural anti inflammatory. It's great. Um, a couple of different products and brands. But is air Tase CBD coming out? Uh hopefully. I've been so busy with football season that I don't have a set date, but early spring, early spring. And then topicals. A really good product right now is the one that Grant has a CBD medic and it actually is a really good topical product. Um. Oh, that's good to know. I have some stuff called like Mary Jane balmb for something I don't know. My sister got it for me in Colorado and it's I put it on my back and it really helps. I will say that topicals when they have parts of th HC in them, work exponentially better. Yeah. I think this is because it's from Colorado. They do work a lot better with th HC. There's like a synergistic effect or a compounded effect with the CBD and th HC that make it work much better and something that I um believe to be true for joint health and that I take every day. And again I'm not as stayed with them at all, but I love vital proteins like the collagen peptides, so I take like a scoop a day, maybe or two scoops a day, but it's like in one scoop it's got the collagen in it too, but protein. But one thing I wanted you to clear up with people if they want to try to use that for joint health, UM, is that it's not a protein. It's not what you would want to supplement if you're trying to get all your amino acid chains. Am using the right language, okay, because it's not a complete source of protein, and so there's confusions sometimes I'm kind of just throwing this part in. There is like another question UM that a lot of people ask me about are like, Okay, well wait, what are the benefits of vital proteins? Like why do you take it? And my main reasons are joint health. Um, I see a difference in my skin, um, just overall I noticed when I take it out. And my sister even started adding it to to her coffee every day, and she's noticed a difference like in her skin on her face, um, less breakouts and stuff like that. But she's also at the same time cutting out when she added that in, she cut out gluten and dairy. So she's like, oh shoot, which is it. Well, then she went through a phase where she ran out of vital proteins and wasn't doing it and certain stuff started popping up again. So then she was like, oh, yeah, I figured out that that. Yes, the gloom in the dairy are part of helping her too, But that was a big component of keeping some stuff clear, like even hormonally for her. Um, because I think for women are hormones. I've even gone to a couple of different people that have recommended that that can help keep your like adrenal levels good. Like there's a lot of stuff that's happening in our bodies. But um, when you're looking at vital proteins collagen peptides as a protein supplement, that's not the case, right, No, it's not a complete protein. Like so on the back label it'll say protein, uh, twelve grams per serving or some version of that. It's not the same twelve grams of protein that is in a chicken breast. They're too different. Like, it's just not a complete protein. So if you work out, you don't want to use collagen peptides as your post workout like I'll add it to a protein shake. You can do that, But you also need to add some other source of real complete protein. Like I'm not going to get into what protein powder, because that's a different debate of like p protein verse way protein verse. I have one that I love, so I'll shout out here in case people want one. But it's pro mixed. It's all my Amazon page radio Amy dot com if you want to access that, and it's a chocolate vegan pro mix. And our friend who I met through you, Mackenzie, she's the one that recommended that one to me. And she knows what she's talking about. Yeah for sure, Like she's hardcore, right, So, oh, I mean I and I really like that one. So that's what I use, Like if I'm going to be working out or I know I haven't had a lot of protein for the day or something, it's like an easy way for me to get it in and I just it's good mixed with water or I mix it with like Califia Farms unsweetened vanilla almond milk, and I throw some fresh mint in and maybe like a handful of spinage or something, and it's so yummy and it's vegan. Two. In case you happen to be vegan, it's not like a way or anything like that. Um so yeah, alright, well, I guess that will wrap our little Q and a sesh with Bobo. I like at the beginning we had a little motivational talk based on your quote. But that's good. People are going to start the new year off strong. Um, if you have resolutions, good luck. I don't really set them, do you. Uh No, I don't. No, I set goals, but they're kind of throughout the year. Yeah. I think it's good to maybe set intentions for uh twenty, any of the new year to come, Like what are your goals? What do you want to do? What do you want to accomplish. Some of my friends like make an actual like vision book or like a vision board, but they put it in like a journal. They just like cut out pictures or like make drawings or sketch and like it's good to have that visual. But yeah, I think a lot of times people set goals, you know, resolutions, and you don't meet them because they're usually pretty lofty, and life gets in the way, and then you beat yourself up, feel defeated, and then you don't even try anything for the next eight months of the year because you're like I just couldn't do that try anything else just throughout the year. I think it's good to just, like whether it's journal or make lists and write things down and put intention to it without you know, necessarily making two twenty. I'm gonna do these things. Oh we don't. Oh I don't have one with you to give you right now, But I'm going to give you our our gratitude journal that we made because it's tied eye like you're this is. I just have the sample right here. This isn't even the real legit coffee, but here I'll be able to write down every day for things get at four Things podcasts four Things UM that you're thankful for and their stickers and like prompts like that, questions in the back in case you're stuck on like what you could be thankful for? UM? And they support Haiti obviously, but and there's different quotes like mixed in all throughout, Like the first quote is when I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. Willie Nelson. Have you ever had someone talk about gratitude and journaling like gratitude and the benefits to like overall health we have. But I want to have one of my friends that well that I lived with to my old roommate and we went to college together. We were in the same sorority. She um uh works for Benet Brown now and she's like, so I have been messaging with her like in hopes that maybe, um, we could get Burnet on. We actually quoted Burnet in the Journal there is no joy without gratitude her quote. Um, this is another quote that's in there. This is a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before, Maya Angelo because it's so good. Um, talking about our problems is our greatest addiction. Break the habit talk about your joys. Um. But uh yeah, so never let the things you want make you forget the things you have. That's san Cheetah Pandy anyway. Uh No, I need to have like an expert. I mean, I know Burnet is a lofty goal, but she's on my vision board, like I'm gonna keep up there, like she's gonna be actually Mary and I would like for her to. Maybe We're gonna do different additions like the tight Eye edition of the journal, like once We're sold Out, which were sold out of the first round, but we did a reorder and once that order is gone, we're not gonna do tight anymore. That's like the first edition. The next cover will be different quotes, similar format, but different cover. Thataly, people can collect the different editiones um. But our goal would be to maybe have burtnet like endorse it. You know how you get endorse from the book, like on the like she can write the forward or something. Why do you know somebody that could come on and talk about gratitude. There's just so much. There's so much, Like there's actually medical literature that supports like that's the I thought it was hokey at first. It's not. It's there's medical research that actually supports like depression treatment, like increasing serotonin level, like all just by journaling and writing down things you're grateful for every day. And I have a lot of guests that come on the podcast where at the end, like I just have them shared quickly like like you would in that journal. Some things are going to be deep. Some things might be you know, you're awesome coffee that you have to drink in the morning, um, or you know your friends that you got to hang out with for Christmas or New Year's or whatever, Like it can just be really quick, Um, it can be your computer, because I mean, if you think about it, not everybody has their own laptop. I mean it's something we take for granted every day because we have our computers or our cell phones, but some people don't have that. Um. And I often ask guests before they go, like, share quickly, four things you're grateful for, So let's do that with you. Grateful for the hardships, and only because that's something we just talked about with that quote, like the tough stuff. Grateful for my friends who support me, and without them, this whole vision of Arete and what I'm trying to do would not be possible because I would go insane. Um. Grateful for my mom and excited to see her and excited I got to see her last before Christmas. But it's stick with it and callie it mess it up, and then I'm just grateful, like for today. You know, I think that we take each day for for granted sometimes and I do it. But in this moment right now, I'm grateful for the day and the opportunity to be on this podcast and and and just grateful for all the opportunities that I've been afforded as of late and so I'm grateful for today. Awesome. Okay, well thanks Bobo, You're awesome. And maybe I'll have you come up maybe before I get burnet, I'll have Bobo come do a thing on gratitude and her like wax me on my golf her stuff, or maybe I'll tell her maybe maybe finally they'll get back to me and be like, hey, yeah, you wanna um, you wanna have Berne on and be like, well, I kind of already had Bobo on. We're good. Maybe you can write the forward in our next officially endorsed by Bobo exactly, Dash Bobo, Dash Bobo. Okay, Happy New Year, everybody. Let's let's all yeah, Chase, you yell too. Happy New Year one, two three, Happy
Speaker 1: Okay, it is New Year's Eve. Um, you know what today is, Bobo. Besides New Year's Eve. You don't because you didn't know me, then I don't. Okay, this is UM today Ben and I my husband, we celebrate thirteen years of marriage. Congratulations today. Thank you. That's awesome for obviously pre recording this because we're not UM doing. But yeah, when people are listening to this, I'll be celebrating years. That's super cool. It's crazy. Um wow, yeah, like a lot our lives. Then we've done a lot of different things in our marriage. But hopefully people UM had a great Christmas and they're ready to tackle UM. And so I've got a quote. I'm going to start off with a quote from Bobo since he's here, and this is something I saw him post on instat stories and I took a screenshot and saved it for this UM because I thought, like, this is deep. This is Bobo getting deep and said had said true hard work requires immense sacrifice and takes you to a place of intense discomfort, but in the end, it is the hard work that leaves you the most fulfilled and spawns the most growth. Bobo. So I thought that that was fitting for the new year's episode because a lot of people probably put in the work in twenty nineteen or they're looking forward to what's to come in and how do they want to approach it. And you are an entrepreneur, started a business with your friend and y'all have turned irritate into like something pretty special. But you're grinding. But I mean, so you could speak to people that might be in a similar place face of maybe chasing their dreams in their because this isn't something you've always done, which at Nashville is that? Why don't you say in a nutshell what it is quickly? We're a health and wellness company centered around IVY hydration and performance space medicine UM with vitamins and different supplements. But some of his clients require him too, I mean too in order to work with them, he you have to travel the country and you know it's really taxing you. I saw you know one night you were like getting off a flight after doing like a long day's work I assume or wherever, working with whomever, and you went straight to a client's house, UM because even though it was late, but your client needed to do so with that client's house, the other night at one in the morning, I mean crazy. So but that's your dedicated to what you're doing. You love being able to help people, and um, it says here true hard work requires them and sacrifice because you miss out on things with friends and family and like, I mean even I'm assuming, like when you spent Thanks to Me with us, you had to fly out the next morning to go to some be at some f to Philadelphia the very next morning for the Eagles, and so you didn't go home, probably to Birmingham to be with your mom because you was like too much travel. So like it's that's a sacrifice, big tim Like it's just like Christmas, Um, I can only go home for two nights because I have to see certain clients the day or two days before Christmas. So I missed well on his birthday normally don't, but the way it falls this year, I have to see clients those days and then the day after Christmas, that Friday after Christmas, I have to be on a plane to Philadelphia. So I don't really have a choice, but I gotta go. So if some of you are listening and you're like, oh man, it's just been one of those years. And but you're if you're passionate about what you're doing, like the sacrifices is going to be worth. It might be a little uncomfortable right now, but you'll grow, you'll be fulfilled, it'll pay off, and you will always have to be this crazy, but you're in the growing stages. And I think too that I try to remind myself to like relish the discomfort and relish the the the sacrifice, so to speak, because this will only last so long, and I don't want to look back and be like where I've always expected and wanted to be and feel like I just discredited all this time, and not not live in the moment of this time and and and truly enjoy the moments that I do have with my friends and with my family, and and they might be like I had a friend that played a show which would have been a couple of weeks ago. It was actually last night. I missed the whole thing. I showed up. I saw on Instagram. You're like, I missed the whole thing, but I showed up at thirty minutes later just to give him a hug and say I love you, bro, I'm proud of you. I wasn't here, but I wanted you to know I didn't see any of your show, but I'm pumped for you. So it's like those little moments I think. I try to like take in every bit of it because a eventually won't be like that. But I don't want to miss all those little things mentally and emotionally, um, just because I'm trying to rush through this phase of my life to the next thing. And you make a good point to of like you don't know how long something's gonna last. I kind of feel that way with the Bobby Bones Show and what we do. I'm like especially with radio, and I mean, I feel like some opportunities that come my way, I kind of have to take them right now because in ten years, five years, they may not be there. I might be the old wash up co host from some radio show from back in the day. Like I don't know, I mean, you don't like stuff that comes my way, even though it might feel like some weeks my world is like I can't. I've suffocating between all the things because it's I've got kids and a husband and pimp and joy and a squa and it saw was like a huge passion of mine and Obviously Pimp and Joy is very important too, but it's not as it doesn't require as much work as a spot, and then the show and the podcast, and then there's other stuff like on the Horizon for Bobby's kind of talked to me about, and in my mind, I'm like, how am I going to add that? How am I going to make that happen? Um? But I'm like, shoot, I kind of have to figure out how do I it happen because like three years from now, I may not even get an offer like that. So at least I do it while I can grow from it, learn from it, challenge myself and then look back and be thankful that I did it and that I got to do it exactly. And I also try to tell people to to not romanticize what you see on my Instagram because there are times that I have my close little internet family friends type people in my life that I've went to I struggle, like I do have breakdown moments like it's not all pretty travel grind, like oh I'm gonna get to this point and it's all good, Like yeah, I missed up, but I'm good. Like I'll throw these quotes out there like no like I struggle at times, and it's okay, Like if you're like going through it and you're like you fill up, you're breaking down, You're not like you're not the only one like it. It's tough to go after something you really want, and like I just want to say, like I'm in the trenches with that person, like I feel that just don't always look to the people's instagrams or like they've got it all figured out and they know how I'm struggling to I'm struggling to Oh yeah, I'm a freaking hot mess. Uh chases over here on the couch. He can attest to that, say Halla, okay, yeah I I am, and I've been with here right now. He would say it too. And you know, even Mary who runs the Shot Forward, like she'll get messages sometimes like I want to start a you know, a business that gives back and I want to do this and I just, you know, how do you do it all? And she's like, oh man, I want to help them. But like she had a clothing business before the Shot Forward and was able to piggyback that business the Shot Forward stuff into that, Like she has the warehouse and the resources and she knew how to do it and make it all happen, so she doesn't want to ever give a false like um fairy tale on Instagram that like yes, do you everybody can do this, but I mean, she's she's everything on that company, like she's the web girl she is. Sometimes it's funny I'll be talking to her and sull it just made me think of this you're talking about, don't ever fall for my Instagram being like, oh, you know, it's such a grind, it's so great. Yeah, I mean because you're trying to put your best foot forward a lot of times online for Mary too, like it's so much work when you're setting out like it is. It's a lot. And sometimes something will be going on her website and she'll be like, oh, I'm gonna fire my web girl. But it's her. She just she does all of it. And when you're an entrepreneur, I guess I just say this is encouragement of like, yes, we're we're all like in this together and nobody has it figured out. Um, and the best thing you can do is at times try to be transparent with that, which is what we're trying to do right now. I just always remember you're never finished. You know, you're never finished. We're always at I don't want to come to We're like a piece of art that's that's never finished. So you're always working. So I do know you're always working on yourself and just cut yourself some slack, but keeping but keep grinding. Yes, And I think, yeah, I learned. My Bin is grinding with his company he started, which let's for New Year's let's give been some more followers on Instagram. He's now running his drone company account. It's tough stump if you haven't, yeah at tough stuff because I see him work so hard, he's grinding at it. Um, he's an inspiration to me. With that, I see Mary working so hard, she's an inspiration to me. And then Bobo, you are an inspiration to me. And since this is the four Things podcast and yeah, look he only has like seven posts, but yeah, oh he'll notice that. He'll be like, god'll follow so uh, since this is fourth Thing podcast, I'll throw Bobby in the mix too, because he's someone that's around me that I see grind and he does not stop. And you know it's cool, but not that's not that you have to live the life of grinding, but um, it's it's sort of contagious. And if you're if you're looking to grow and stretch, like, surround yourself with people that are are going to grow and stretch you exactly. Um, so you want to get into some questions real quick and answers. We kind of just did a little a little chit chat there, but going into the new year, it seems good. Which speaking of that, a lot of people might be drinking a little bit more than usual because it's New Year's Eve or whatever the case. They're around family or whatnot, and they might be indulging in more. So, do you have any go to tips for um that if you drink a lot of water, drink a lot of water. Um. I'll also tell you to wash your hands more because that drinking is gonna drop your immune system a little bit. So um. And you're around a lot of people shaking hands, touching people, people are not washing their hands, a lot of food, a lot of finger foods, people's hands on stuff, so you're just exposed to potentially more virus stuff. So just wash your hands and then kiss. Kiss. Some of us are single, and uh, if you need a new Year's Eve kiss in Nashville. I already get emails. Is Bobo single, Bobo single? Um? I left those out of the Q and A because I mean, answer he's single at at Mobo hit him up slide No. Uh, But what I do if I know there's going to be a time that I'm over indulging. UM. Not that I plan to drink a lot, but if I do, UM, I usually take some form of electro like tablet, electrolyte, capsule. UM. I don't I'm not gonna tell you a specific brand because you can just find the electrolyte thing on Instagram on on Instagram, but on Amazon and UM that's probably just the best way to do it. Something very plain simple, no additive, no sugar, no sweetener, just an electro light tablet. And then about an hour and a half after that, I'll take activated charcoal. I use um A uh what's his name that does bulletproof. It's the same It's the same as the bulletproof brand UM, and that will help absorb pretty much anything you put in your system. So if you add the electrolyte tablet at the same time, you're going to absorb that completely. So you'll waste that as well. I thought I had an electrolyte tablet in my bag, so I was digging for it while you were talking because I wanted to show it to you to be like like this, But I don't know where it went. But yeah, that's great, or you can use I use another like none have you heard of? None? In? You? In? In? Is that the name? That's probably a fine one too. I haven't ever used. I haven't looked at their labels, so I can't speak to that. But I take keen ton water, which is that it's a whole another podcast. But I take that every time before I fly and when I land. But so how do you take it when you land? You? I pack it in my carry on your little glass ampules. Oh it's little strongly carry on with four ounces. These are like what are they? It's basically nothing but sea salt water. But it's taken from the portion of the sea at the level where the plankton and okay, okay, okay, there was a plankton pretty much lives, so it's really in they're feeding, so it's really linked in an animal. They're like crustaceans like shrimp. Okay, but plank it's like what fish eat, okay, but those smaller fish eat, but they it's at that level. So it's super nutrient dense water and they extract it from the ocean and just purify it. You drink that now daily, not daily when you fly, but before I fly, when I land, um before I if I go out, Can I just throw some sea salt in my water? Yeah? But this is just really good, like hypertonic hype, like super salty water. That's all it is. And I just take a just break the ample. But it's so like it's not as bad as drinking any alcohol shot. I mean, it just tastes like salt water and it's gone. It's not like a really bad aftertaste. Okay. So maybe something like that ye helps you absorb more water. I mean, what if like for your drink like those none tabs. I think that's how you spell it inuite and I don't know, but they have like you know, cheery flavor or whatever. You drop that in water and then you put your tequila or vodka in that. Are you with the electrolytes in your alcohol? Are you hydrating while where is that? Now you're adding Now you're adding a artificial flavor and color to it. That's the other thing. Okay, but that's an electrolyte tablet. They all have that, right, No, I take a capsule that's literally just a capsule of like potassium sodium chloride, like it's just a plane. Well, so now you're saying that, maybe then my non tablets aren't good. I didn't know they were flavored. Sorry, they were pink and pretty probably refrain from that. It's just like the drip drop and the liquid ivy. Are those those work? Yes, but they have a lot of added stuff that isn't necessary. So my clients that want to use those type products I tell them just to use keen On water instead because it's basically can you get keen toon on Amazon? It's on Amazon. I couldn't have been more fun. Do you a in t o n Keeneton water? And I used the hypertonic salty version of it. Amazing. Okay, So that was just a question I thought we were addressed in general since New Year's Eve like a hangover thing. It's not from anybody in particular. Um, but speaking of hydrating, I did get an email from Jenny uh and she was it was a long email, so I'll just paraphrase it here real quick. But she basically would try to consume, like she was drinking a hundred and sixty ounces of water a day. Yeah, oh it is okay, so um, around four pm, she would get really groggy and lightheaded and nauseous, and she was like, what the heck, I'm not dehydrated, so what's the deal. So she called her doctor. They started talking about the water intake, and they said that she was suffering from water intoxication, so like too much water, I guess, and that she cut it back to like seventy to a hundred ounces a day and she's feeling fine. But she didn't know if you had any thoughts on this, because have you? Did you ever hear about um? That radio stunt called WE for a WEE? Okay? So it was which it changed the way radio contests were done, and this is back years ago, but it does affect how we can do contests with listeners. She they were The contest was to drink as much water as possible, but not who can hold their p the longest and whoever could hold their WE for the longest one a we. This is in the WE video games were really popular, so it's we for a we get it or hold your wee. And she died. A girl died because she was holding her p and it created she had like some toxic I don't know, something in her bladder, like I did something. That's so, did you win? I don't know, Bobo too much rest like the rest of beast. She I don't know if she won, but it's terrible. That's awful. It's terrible. Obviously she had something really going on. She's probably predisposed to have whatever, but to it just I don't know what made me think of weed for a weed, but this water toxication made me think of it, because like, can we have too much water? You're gonna have too much pure water where it's toxic to us. Yeah, it's it's it's hard to do um, but you have if you're eating and you have other electrolytes in your system. So the issue is like if you're drinking water, fountain water, you've pretty much just got florade water. It's just a ton of florade in our water, our public water. So I got a full house water filtration system from Culligan. Water is an endorsement shout out like I'm not ashamed to like give them like all the plugs in the world, because I've always wanted one of those, but I didn't want to invest in it. And obviously when I do, I did want to invest in it, but it's it's an investment. But I was like, is it worth it? And now door endorsement aside. I mean, of course, I like jumped on endorsing it because I was like, yes, I've always wanted one, but now that I have one, it's so amazing. If we move, which we might have to move for the kids schooling, I will want. I will call up call ag in and pay full price any day because it is. And obviously when I do my commercials from them, I can tell like I'm super passionate about it because it's so amazing. It's so good. The water is so good. I love showering in the water, I love drinking the water so good. On that same point, for people who can't afford it, you can buy that same type of system where Colligan probably has their own system that isn't under the sink system where just your sink water you don't have to get the whole your cost is drastically cheaper, and you're able to cook, drink that water, use that water, and you're basically only supplying one faucet that so sure your showers aren't, but it's still an upgrade from your tap water. And if we're trying to sing, we use bottles, which I'm terrible at. I know, if we all need to be better at um, it's a great way. So, but water quality plays a role in how much water you're consuming, because so you're having Yeah, but I think the issue is not just water quality, but it's hers was probably an electrolyte deficiency because you made because yeah, you're not drinking so much water, you're flushing out electrolytes, you're flushing like you're also creating a different sodium content in your bloodstream, which will make you your your cognition is not as well. You're not as sharp, you're tired, you're lethargic, you're your body feels sluggish. So you're you're altering your blood chemistry by just putting a bunch of pure water into your system that has none of your basic electrolytes or um bodies on, like plasma protein. I'm trying to not make it too medical, but you're basically just drinking pure water, which is great, but at a kington water in there? Add um food in there, you know, I know. I tell everybody you know your staple numbers, drink a gallon of water a day. But it goes back to everything we've ever talked about with diets and food and fasting and everything. Listen to your body and if your body functions really well off of water, well, don't drink a gallon, you know, listen to your body. Yeah, with that, everybody's into is going to be different. But on average, what would you recommend somebody that? Is it? Like? Do you base it on weight? No, it's more of a lifestyle thing. I say, your gold number is a gallon of water a day. How much is a gallon? Again like a milk jug? But how many is that? Just a big gosh, I'm not getting anywhere near that lately. I would especially if you exercise and drink coffee. If you drink coffee and you exercise, or you drink tea that is like a green tea, diuretic green tea. If you do that and you exercise a gallon of water, it's like your staple number of like go for that and that will boost your energy levels, it will make your skin better, you'll eat less food if you I don't want to say it that way, that's a that way to put it. A lot of hunger cravings are by dehydri because your body's source of fluid from your diet, so your body will send that same signal. Sometimes when I'm super snacky, like later in the night, i think back on my water consumption for the day and I'm like, shoot, this isn't that I'm hungry, It's that I did not have enough water today. So your body is just looking for water. Yeah. Um, okay, So next question, Oh, this has to do with intermittent fasting. Is bobbo is kind of like the I F guy? Um? Is it only beneficial if you do it on a consistent, long term basis? Do you still still see benefits when doing it for a day or two a day or to total, or a day or two a week, a day or two total you do anything? I will tell people, let's think about working out. How if you work out once or twice total, you're not gonna get you benefit your life for a week. Oh it's in a week? I mean you guys, you'll get benefit. Okay, uh any anything is better than nothing. But if you really are trying not to do it all the time, try to do it on weekdays. Usually people have more structure during their week days, whether you work at nine to five or whatever your work set up is, or if you're a nurse and you work through the weekends, whatever your work schedule is. Trying to do inter minute fasting on your work days and take your whatever your weekend is off, that's a good way to do it. So five days on two days off, if that's your work set your work set up, I mean once or twice a week, it's not really gonna be the same benefit. Like if you're looking for true cancer prevention and sell turnover benefits and longevity benefits, because that's really what I preached to people about inter minute fasting. It's not to lose weight, and I want people to know that, Like you know, there's triggers for in a minute fasting for people who have eating disorders and things, and I'm not telling people that to do this to lose weight. It's a eye product of doing inter minute fasting a lot of times is toning up and burning more fat. The biggest benefits are increased energy levels, improve mental function, um, your self turnover. I've talked about autof a g before, I think, but it's basically self cleansing and eating partially parts of itself too then turn over those parts. So there's a big cancer prevention benefit there too. And that's why I inter minute fast Um, So doing it like five days a week is still great. You know, you don't have to do it every day, but once or twice is a little light. I would say it is probably the best way to put that. Yeah, that's yeah, you might as well. If you're gonna do it, do at least five and like I like that week days and then weekends you can give yourself a little bit of a break. But doesn't mean like just go crazy do whatever, right, And you know, just to hit on that one more time when I talk about women's over men's fasting, I think, if you look at my Instagram at Adam Bobo, I posted one of those stories that stays whatever those are called highlight and it's just about inter minute fasting and it does hit the points of like women's inter minute fasting versus men's just talking about that hours and stuff. Yeah, that's awesome. Um, But women, when you fast, if you're gonna push to fourteen hours, which I think is okay, do that on day as you, um, don't work out, So like I say, twelve hours if you're working out, because women need that calorie amount coming in. And then if you let's say you you exercise three days a week and two days and the other four year off, so you're only gonna fast five days. So what I would do is fast twelve hours for three days, in fourteen hours for two days, and then on the weekends, just eat clean but don't fast. Okay, gotcha like it? Um? So, are there any vitamins or supplements aside from vitamin C that you would suggest using during this cold and flu season? In any product you would suggest if you're starting to feel cold coming on? Number One thing, wash your hands. I talked about this on Bobby Bones Show the other day. I've talked about it all the time. Well and you just mentioned it as part of like the New Year's thing. Like I didn't think about that. Your hands. People are dirty and even if they're not sick, they care. We we all carry viruses you bump into and come in contact with people all the time, and I think about it myself, like if you sneeze, or you wipe your nose, or you touch your face, you have stuff on your hands. And then did you shake somebody's hand. I could have passed some little cold flu virus to them that wasn't affecting me but affected someone else. But if you wash your hands is the is the You're not gonna over wash your hands with soap. Your hands might get dry, find a good lotion, UM, but definitely wash your hands. And then feeling stuff coming on, like preventions better than treatment. I mean it's hard once you're already sick. Sometimes these things just have to run their course. But zinc has been shown to decrease the duration and decrease the effects of simple cold olden flu viruses. UM and then Elderberry I love. I take an elderberry if I feel anything kind of coming on, I take an elder berry syrup. And I try to find the most plain, basic, non additive elder berry that I can find, not a specific brand. I just whatever's got the least you know, flavored, weird process stuff in it is what I use. Right, Okay, good stuff to take note on. Um, Okay, well, just last question. I've started training for a race and have been experiencing some joint aches more than usual. What would you suggest doing to improve joint health? UM, non supplement type stuff. Take stretch like mobility, UM, stretch after your run. It's like where that society of minimal time? So we just, oh, my gosh, I'm the worst that stretch. Just get out and run and you're like, yes, and what are you like? Shower out of time? Time, day has to keep going. And it's just so I usually will tell people, if you're gonna run for thirty minutes, make you run twenty minutes and stretch for three to four minutes before, and then stretch for seven minutes after and loosen out and only run for twenty minutes. If that's all you've got set thirty minutes. Do mobility, flexibility stretched stuff. That's the kind of stuff you can literally YouTube and find any kind of stuff to do. UM. You know there a lot of flexibility mobility stuff has been associated with longevity anyway, So the more flexible you are, the longer healthier theoretically you live. UM. The other thing is CBD again, CBD creams, CBD tinctures. Uh, basically a natural anti inflammatory. It's great. Um, a couple of different products and brands. But is air Tase CBD coming out? Uh hopefully. I've been so busy with football season that I don't have a set date, but early spring, early spring. And then topicals. A really good product right now is the one that Grant has a CBD medic and it actually is a really good topical product. Um. Oh, that's good to know. I have some stuff called like Mary Jane balmb for something I don't know. My sister got it for me in Colorado and it's I put it on my back and it really helps. I will say that topicals when they have parts of th HC in them, work exponentially better. Yeah. I think this is because it's from Colorado. They do work a lot better with th HC. There's like a synergistic effect or a compounded effect with the CBD and th HC that make it work much better and something that I um believe to be true for joint health and that I take every day. And again I'm not as stayed with them at all, but I love vital proteins like the collagen peptides, so I take like a scoop a day, maybe or two scoops a day, but it's like in one scoop it's got the collagen in it too, but protein. But one thing I wanted you to clear up with people if they want to try to use that for joint health, UM, is that it's not a protein. It's not what you would want to supplement if you're trying to get all your amino acid chains. Am using the right language, okay, because it's not a complete source of protein, and so there's confusions sometimes I'm kind of just throwing this part in. There is like another question UM that a lot of people ask me about are like, Okay, well wait, what are the benefits of vital proteins? Like why do you take it? And my main reasons are joint health. Um, I see a difference in my skin, um, just overall I noticed when I take it out. And my sister even started adding it to to her coffee every day, and she's noticed a difference like in her skin on her face, um, less breakouts and stuff like that. But she's also at the same time cutting out when she added that in, she cut out gluten and dairy. So she's like, oh shoot, which is it. Well, then she went through a phase where she ran out of vital proteins and wasn't doing it and certain stuff started popping up again. So then she was like, oh, yeah, I figured out that that. Yes, the gloom in the dairy are part of helping her too, But that was a big component of keeping some stuff clear, like even hormonally for her. Um, because I think for women are hormones. I've even gone to a couple of different people that have recommended that that can help keep your like adrenal levels good. Like there's a lot of stuff that's happening in our bodies. But um, when you're looking at vital proteins collagen peptides as a protein supplement, that's not the case, right, No, it's not a complete protein. Like so on the back label it'll say protein, uh, twelve grams per serving or some version of that. It's not the same twelve grams of protein that is in a chicken breast. They're too different. Like, it's just not a complete protein. So if you work out, you don't want to use collagen peptides as your post workout like I'll add it to a protein shake. You can do that, But you also need to add some other source of real complete protein. Like I'm not going to get into what protein powder, because that's a different debate of like p protein verse way protein verse. I have one that I love, so I'll shout out here in case people want one. But it's pro mixed. It's all my Amazon page radio Amy dot com if you want to access that, and it's a chocolate vegan pro mix. And our friend who I met through you, Mackenzie, she's the one that recommended that one to me. And she knows what she's talking about. Yeah for sure, Like she's hardcore, right, So, oh, I mean I and I really like that one. So that's what I use, Like if I'm going to be working out or I know I haven't had a lot of protein for the day or something, it's like an easy way for me to get it in and I just it's good mixed with water or I mix it with like Califia Farms unsweetened vanilla almond milk, and I throw some fresh mint in and maybe like a handful of spinage or something, and it's so yummy and it's vegan. Two. In case you happen to be vegan, it's not like a way or anything like that. Um so yeah, alright, well, I guess that will wrap our little Q and a sesh with Bobo. I like at the beginning we had a little motivational talk based on your quote. But that's good. People are going to start the new year off strong. Um, if you have resolutions, good luck. I don't really set them, do you. Uh No, I don't. No, I set goals, but they're kind of throughout the year. Yeah. I think it's good to maybe set intentions for uh twenty, any of the new year to come, Like what are your goals? What do you want to do? What do you want to accomplish. Some of my friends like make an actual like vision book or like a vision board, but they put it in like a journal. They just like cut out pictures or like make drawings or sketch and like it's good to have that visual. But yeah, I think a lot of times people set goals, you know, resolutions, and you don't meet them because they're usually pretty lofty, and life gets in the way, and then you beat yourself up, feel defeated, and then you don't even try anything for the next eight months of the year because you're like I just couldn't do that try anything else just throughout the year. I think it's good to just, like whether it's journal or make lists and write things down and put intention to it without you know, necessarily making two twenty. I'm gonna do these things. Oh we don't. Oh I don't have one with you to give you right now, But I'm going to give you our our gratitude journal that we made because it's tied eye like you're this is. I just have the sample right here. This isn't even the real legit coffee, but here I'll be able to write down every day for things get at four Things podcasts four Things UM that you're thankful for and their stickers and like prompts like that, questions in the back in case you're stuck on like what you could be thankful for? UM? And they support Haiti obviously, but and there's different quotes like mixed in all throughout, Like the first quote is when I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. Willie Nelson. Have you ever had someone talk about gratitude and journaling like gratitude and the benefits to like overall health we have. But I want to have one of my friends that well that I lived with to my old roommate and we went to college together. We were in the same sorority. She um uh works for Benet Brown now and she's like, so I have been messaging with her like in hopes that maybe, um, we could get Burnet on. We actually quoted Burnet in the Journal there is no joy without gratitude her quote. Um, this is another quote that's in there. This is a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before, Maya Angelo because it's so good. Um, talking about our problems is our greatest addiction. Break the habit talk about your joys. Um. But uh yeah, so never let the things you want make you forget the things you have. That's san Cheetah Pandy anyway. Uh No, I need to have like an expert. I mean, I know Burnet is a lofty goal, but she's on my vision board, like I'm gonna keep up there, like she's gonna be actually Mary and I would like for her to. Maybe We're gonna do different additions like the tight Eye edition of the journal, like once We're sold Out, which were sold out of the first round, but we did a reorder and once that order is gone, we're not gonna do tight anymore. That's like the first edition. The next cover will be different quotes, similar format, but different cover. Thataly, people can collect the different editiones um. But our goal would be to maybe have burtnet like endorse it. You know how you get endorse from the book, like on the like she can write the forward or something. Why do you know somebody that could come on and talk about gratitude. There's just so much. There's so much, Like there's actually medical literature that supports like that's the I thought it was hokey at first. It's not. It's there's medical research that actually supports like depression treatment, like increasing serotonin level, like all just by journaling and writing down things you're grateful for every day. And I have a lot of guests that come on the podcast where at the end, like I just have them shared quickly like like you would in that journal. Some things are going to be deep. Some things might be you know, you're awesome coffee that you have to drink in the morning, um, or you know your friends that you got to hang out with for Christmas or New Year's or whatever, Like it can just be really quick, Um, it can be your computer, because I mean, if you think about it, not everybody has their own laptop. I mean it's something we take for granted every day because we have our computers or our cell phones, but some people don't have that. Um. And I often ask guests before they go, like, share quickly, four things you're grateful for, So let's do that with you. Grateful for the hardships, and only because that's something we just talked about with that quote, like the tough stuff. Grateful for my friends who support me, and without them, this whole vision of Arete and what I'm trying to do would not be possible because I would go insane. Um. Grateful for my mom and excited to see her and excited I got to see her last before Christmas. But it's stick with it and callie it mess it up, and then I'm just grateful, like for today. You know, I think that we take each day for for granted sometimes and I do it. But in this moment right now, I'm grateful for the day and the opportunity to be on this podcast and and and just grateful for all the opportunities that I've been afforded as of late and so I'm grateful for today. Awesome. Okay, well thanks Bobo, You're awesome. And maybe I'll have you come up maybe before I get burnet, I'll have Bobo come do a thing on gratitude and her like wax me on my golf her stuff, or maybe I'll tell her maybe maybe finally they'll get back to me and be like, hey, yeah, you wanna um, you wanna have Berne on and be like, well, I kind of already had Bobo on. We're good. Maybe you can write the forward in our next officially endorsed by Bobo exactly, Dash Bobo, Dash Bobo. Okay, Happy New Year, everybody. Let's let's all yeah, Chase, you yell too. Happy New Year one, two three, Happy
