Episode 193

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Published on:

1st Jul 2025

EAP 193: Free Reality - How a Physician Reclaimed Purpose Through Holistic Healing with Dr. Michelle Clay

In this inspiring episode of the Early Accountability Podcast, host Kimi Walker sits down with Dr. Michelle Clay, a physician turned holistic wellness expert and founder of Freeality, to discuss her transformative journey from conventional medicine to whole-person healing. Dr. Clay shares how she pursued her childhood dream of becoming a doctor, only to realize that true healing extends beyond prescriptions and test results. After a personal tragedy, the loss of her younger brother to suicide, and her own struggle with uterine fibroids, Dr. Clay began embracing holistic approaches that addressed not just the physical, but also the emotional and spiritual dimensions of well-being.

Throughout the episode, Dr. Clay offers practical tools and heartfelt wisdom on navigating health challenges, supporting loved ones, and aging with intention, especially for what she lovingly calls her “fabulous sisters over 40.” She recounts how she helped her father manage his blood pressure and cancer treatment through whole food nutrition and herbal tonics, and introduces listeners to her brand, Freeality, which provides premium herbal teas and retreats for midlife wellness. Her parting affirmation, "I am worthy of the very best in life. I now lovingly receive it," is a powerful reminder that healing begins with self-worth and the courage to choose better every day.

Topics Covered in This Episode:

  • Dr. Michelle Clay’s journey from medical doctor to holistic wellness advocate
  • How personal loss and health struggles sparked a healing transformation
  • Natural remedies for managing fibroids and chronic conditions
  • Supporting loved ones through nutrition and holistic care
  • Empowering women over 40 to thrive through perimenopause and beyond
  • The importance of mindset, self-worth, and slowing down for wellness

About Dr. Michelle Clay

Dr. Michelle Clay, a Physician, Certified Holistic Health Counselor, Clinical Nutritionist, and Executive Coach, empowers women over 40 to live with purpose, age gracefully, and navigate midlife transitions with ease. Through her company, FREEALITEA, she blends conventional medicine with natural remedies, offering premium herbal teas, wellness programs, and retreats that release stress, recharge health, and enhance intimacy.

With a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) degree and certifications in Holistic Health and Clinical Nutrition, Dr. Michelle specializes in executive coaching, helping women leaders align their personal and professional lives for success, especially through transitions. She combines Native herbal wisdom with modern health practices to create a premium wellness experience that helps women thrive, embrace their fullest potential, and lead with purpose.

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Transcript
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Kimmy Walker here.

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Welcome back to the next episode of

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the Early Accountability Podcast.

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I am very lucky to have our

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guests here with us tonight.

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We've been on the road with the doctors,

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the physicians, excuse me, the medical

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doctors, the trained and credential.

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Medical doctors, medical physicians.

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Today we have Dr. Michelle

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Clay, a Free Reality.

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She is a physician who transitioned

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from conventional medicine to holistic

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health and she has free reality.

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She's gonna come here today to talk to

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us a little bit about her company, what

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she does, and a lot of transitions and

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pivots that she's made in her life.

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Help others make in their life when it

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comes to wellness and holistic being.

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So Dr. Michelle, thank you

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so much for being here today.

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I'm so happy to have you here 'cause

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you are my, a fellow wellness warrior.

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So y'all know I love wellness,

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and wellness is everything.

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, So why don't you just tell the

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audience a little bit about who you

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are, how you got to where you're

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doing what you did today, your journey

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into medicine and holistic health.

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Dr. Michelle: First of all, thank

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you so much for having me here.

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I'm so excited to share with you

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and to all of your listeners and the

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intention today for me, which is always

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that I say something that impacts you.

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Deeply for your transformation that

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confirms the little small still voice

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in your head that says, go forth, do it.

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But you've been hesitating.

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Okay.

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But so first of all, my role to being a

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physician, I've always known not always,

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from the time I was five years old,

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I knew that I wanted to be a doctor.

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There wasn't any doctors

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in my family at all.

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And for people who are listening in, if

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you think about from the time you were

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a child, what it is that you really

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want to do, what resonated with you?

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What spoke to you?

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A lot of people grew up and

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they're not doing that thing right.

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But that was something that

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was just annoying in me.

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So I did what was necessary.

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That's, listen, I'm.

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50 plus phenomenal woman.

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Okay?

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So that's before the internet

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and all those things.

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So you had to do the old school

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Encyclopedia Britannica, go to the card

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catalog and find the number and find the

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books in the library to study on what

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did it take to become a physician, right?

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And so then that's what I did.

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And then.

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I got to medical school finally,

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I actually got early acceptance

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into medical school, so I could

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have chosen not to graduate from

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college and start medical school

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Oh wow.

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Dr. Michelle: Yes.

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But I chose to finish out my

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senior year because I went to.

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The greatest college ever.

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Xavier, university of

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Louisiana in the X grad.

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I hope you're listening in.

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So I want to finish there.

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And I went to Ohio University College

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of Osteopathic Medicine in Appalachia.

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It's in southeast Ohio.

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Okay.

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Totally new experience for me leaving the

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HBCU, but I've realized my childhood dream

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and medical school, of course, was tough.

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And honestly, I'm gonna

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be completely transparent.

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Is that okay?

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Please be.

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Dr. Michelle: Please speak.

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Is that

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the information in the content in

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medical school really isn't that hard?

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I'm gonna be honest with you.

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What's really challenging is the

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microaggression and sometimes

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straight aggression that I encounter

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and a lot of other people that

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look like me encountered as well.

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That's what made it so challenging because

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if you weren't already intelligent and

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had some brilliance about you, you never

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would've made it into medical school.

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And then you get there and it's all of

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these programming and messaging that

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says you're not supposed to be there.

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You don't deserve to be there.

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But nonetheless, I made it Through

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graduated, I realized my childhood dream.

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I was in my residency seeing patients,

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all this, and then it wasn't what

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I thought and I was disenchanted

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about the whole thing because what

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I was seeing was a revolving door.

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And what that revolving door

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entailed was patients will come,

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we order tests, we give them

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certain treatments, and they leave.

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And they may be back a week, a month,

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three months later with the same thing.

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And I was having these encounters where

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the patients were like, oh, Dr. Clay, can

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you pray with us or can you pray for us?

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Nurses asking me, come

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to teach Bible study.

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I.

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I'm not breaking the Bible with me

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to see patients, but there must have

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just been something about me that

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they wanted more than just the blood

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tests, the x-rays, the CT from me.

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And.

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I started rethink.

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I wasn't happy with what I was

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doing because I felt like I wasn't

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doing enough to really help people.

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And that was the draw.

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That was the push for me

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of going into medicine.

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And I didn't know what

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else to do with my life.

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But what happened was my younger brother

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at the age of 21 committed suicide,

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Oh

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Dr. Michelle: and at that moment.

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I said, I don't wanna do anything that

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makes me that unhappy that could take me

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to that place where all I want to do was

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the PA in the pain, that emotional pain.

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And so that's the thing about wellness

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that probably was missing and what I was

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doing in just conventional medicine was we

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were only addressing the physical aspects.

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But not the spiritual, the

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emotional, the social aspect.

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That all goes into wellness and

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wellbeing and how you can live

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and not just survive, but thrive.

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So I decided to take a little

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break just to get myself together.

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As you can imagine, that

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was a major disruption and

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trauma and pain in our family.

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Right.

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Dr. Michelle: I remember when I flew

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home and I saw my mother and when I

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hugged her, that's the first thing I did.

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But her eyes, it looked like some of the

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life had drained out of her eyes, and

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yes, her youngest child and her only boy,

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Oh my.

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Dr. Michelle: 'cause

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it was just two of us.

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And that's her baby boy.

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And he like, so mama's in their

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sons honey, and he used to tell her

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mom, we're always gonna be together.

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And she said Tanya, you could get

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married and have children and you know

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you're gonna be living with your wife.

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He said, no, mom, I have a house

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out back for you or something, but

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we're always going to be together.

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That's what he always used to say to her.

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So there was that.

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That closeness and that was gone from

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her, that just drained out of her.

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You know what I mean?

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And so what really led me to the holistic

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aspect of medicine was my own healing

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journey of having uterine fibroids.

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And so studies show up to

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97% of African American women

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suffer from uterine fibroids.

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So if you are sitting in a row and

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it's all African American women, I

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guarantee you to your left and to

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your right, the cyst has fibroids.

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Okay?

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And my message, I'm a very spiritual

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person, in case you haven't noticed.

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I guess the patients notice that,

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that's why they want me to pray

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with them and for 'em, okay?

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In the hospital and in the clinic was.

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You can do this naturally, you will

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be able to shrink these naturally.

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And once you do, you share that

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information with other women so that they

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know that they know that it is possible.

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And that's what led me to.

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Researching and studying all

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these different herbs and

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foods and what causes fibroids.

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And what I identified was that all of

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the toxicity in our food, particularly

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growth hormones, that they get to the

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animals, which then we ingest when we

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eat meat, it's embedded in their muscle.

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And I changed my life.

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Like overnight.

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I stopped perming my hair.

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I stopped eating meat.

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And they did actually shrink.

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And then that's when I went back to

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school to get my certification in

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holistic health and clinical nutrition.

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And that was part of really

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what led me right here today.

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There's a lot of lives in this one life

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that I have in these 53, almost 54 years.

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But I feel like I've talked too long.

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No.

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One thing you said a little

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off topic, but just me coming.

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I've done stuff with wellness, people

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know, and I've worked on some grants.

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I worked on a grant at one time

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through Office of Women's Health

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and Office of Minority Health.

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And one of the big things especially

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for women of color, and I think two

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men of color, it is early detection.

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That can help us as far as even

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detecting some of these things

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earlier when we may be more apt to

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I guess the word we like maybe adapt

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or get the treatment we may need.

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What role do you feel that plays or

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how does that come into play when you

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say, as you say, from a holistic lens

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of still trying to encourage people to

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go see people who are trained like you,

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who are physicians and still seeking.

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But being able to keep like

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a holistic lens as well too.

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Dr. Michelle: So early detection is

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important, but like the old people say,

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which still pertains to this day, an ounce

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of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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So for me, I'd rather you little

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by little adept adapt a healthy

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lifestyle because studies show, they

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talk about a genetic predisposition.

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So for instance my dad had

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diabetes, his father had diabetes.

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So my daddy used to tell me, oh, it runs

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in our family, so you're gonna get it too.

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And I said no, and sir,

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so I chose to live.

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A healthier lifestyle, so that

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never even shows up in me.

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Okay, so prevention.

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So you can detect things early, which

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is gonna help with treatment, but

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from a holistic perspective, let's

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just prevent it in the first place.

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So even when you are getting tested with

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your mammograms, colonoscopy, your blood

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work, all the things, it will always.

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Show up normal for me,

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that's really the goal.

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And so studies show, like I was

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saying that even if you have a

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genetic predisposition for something

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that based on how you live your

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life, a healthier lifestyle, you may

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be able to control whether or not

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those genes are expressed or not.

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Correct.

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Yeah.

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I, now, I agree with that.

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Genetics can load the gun and

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your lifestyle de determines

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if the trigger's pulled or not.

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And so with a lot of things, and

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I know there's some things we.

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It just was what it was.

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Okay.

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So if you genetically, you just were

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gonna get red hair you got red hair.

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And so there's some things, but there

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are things that we can do in our

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lifestyle that can stop, like you said

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this from going forward or to lessen

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it, or to make it less painful or to,

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experience less symptoms or what have you.

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And I think that's important to know too.

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It's not just oh I know African

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American diabetes, so everybody

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gonna get diabetes right.

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So I can just eat what I want.

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No, especially if, we should even be

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more, like on top of it or trying to

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see what we can do because there are

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things that can be done preventatively,

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like you said, to lessen that or to

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decrease the time before somebody even

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does have to seek, medicinal treatment.

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And people forget that sometimes.

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I think a lot.

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Now I know you experience

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your fa your father.

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Battled with illness too.

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Correct.

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And on your website and that you

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talk about you were preparing like

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his nutrition and tonics for him

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and getting him into Whole Foods.

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How were you able to help your father

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with consistency when you were caring

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or trying to teach these practices to

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somebody that it may have been outside

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of what was normal to them or the

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norm, especially at a older age, where

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you're set in your ways and to caring

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for somebody who you know care for you?

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Dr. Michelle: One of the biggest

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catalyst for change for people is pain.

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Okay.

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Like I said, my dad was diagnosed with

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diabetes, and so that came with the

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whole, what we call metabolic syndrome.

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So that's gonna be the diabetes,

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high cholesterol, and high levels.

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So my daddy was a over the

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road driver, 18 wheeler truck,

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and yes, and because of that.

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Every year they have to pass

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a physical with a Department

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of Transportation every year.

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Okay.

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And there was one year where he actually

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went and his blood pressure, what?

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First, before he went to the DOT

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physical, he went to see his primary

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care physician and his blood pressure

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was elevated to the point that he

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would not pass the DOT physical That

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was coming up in two and a half weeks.

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So I've been telling him.

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Daddy, you really can come off of these

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medications if you just do this, and this.

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And his response to me was these

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medications allow me to cheat.

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I'm, and my response was, the only

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person you're cheating is yourself.

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When he want to keep driving, he

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came to me and was like, baby,

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is there something that I can do

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to get my blood pressure down?

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I'm thinking

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Oh, good.

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Dr. Michelle: have two.

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So what I did was I told him

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exactly what to eat and I made him

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a customized herbal formulation.

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Okay.

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And I told him to drink this at

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least twice a day, which he did.

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And his blood pressure went down

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15 points in two and a half weeks.

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That allowed him to pass his

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DOT physical and continue to

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drive that big 18 wheeler truck.

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Okay.

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So he knew that it worked, but he was

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not willing to implement that lifestyle

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permanently only as a quick fix.

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Okay.

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Got it.

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That's important.

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So

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Dr. Michelle: that's

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important right there.

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But then you fast forward when

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he was diagnosed with laryngeal

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cancer or throat cancer, and so

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the catalyst for his transformation

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at that point was fear and pain.

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And pain because he was unable to swallow

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because the tumor had grown to the point

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that it was difficult for him to swallow.

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So they placed what they call a

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G tube, and G stands for gastric,

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which goes in the stomach, right?

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So a stomach tube.

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So that is what I was

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preparing all the nutrition.

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I would take Whole Foods like.

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Turnip greens, collard

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greens, turnip bottoms.

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I would make homemade bone broth and

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put all these things in garlic and

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some of the, a lot of the herbs and

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herbal teas that I already had, and

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that would be the nutrition that we

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would put into his tube in order to

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help him gain weight, not waste away

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from the cancer, and definitely not get.

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Stick and even more side effects in

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his body deteriorate more from the

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radiation and the chemotherapy that he was

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receiving for the, what's it called it.

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And that's the only thing

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that was going in his tube.

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Not the Ensure or the boost or those

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none of that.

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Dr. Michelle: Because when you

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look on the package, it's a lot of

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words that you cannot pronounce.

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So that means it didn't

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grow from the earth.

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It grew from inside in a laboratory.

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And so I always say, why do you

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put dead things into a living

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being you're very particular

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about the gas you put in your car.

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So you know, some cars.

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Yeah, you can put 87 Octane in, but it

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is really gonna pop with that 93 Octane.

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So that's the same way with

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our bodies who are vehicles.

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And to me, I'm a luxury vehicle,

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so I need that 93 octane.

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So what does it

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look like for you now?

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So what are you, what do you do?

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What are your like programs look like?

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What do you implement for people?

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How do you help people

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make these kind of changes?

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And I guess you brought

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up a really good point.

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How do you pick, how do you teach

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and educate people on and I come from

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that, I've lost over 120 pounds on

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my own through diet and exercise.

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So it is not just, it's

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cool when it's cute, right?

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And you like you seeing the dress

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sizes and then when it's okay,

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this is I gotta do this forever.

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It was okay when you were, you

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had the momentum and the energy,

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but then it's hey, like what?

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Like less than 10% of people

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gonna keep it off for five years.

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You start to get, get in your head.

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How do you help people implement things

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that are like, these are gonna be.

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Lifestyle change?

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Is it just to get on the beach or to

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look cute or that those might come

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with it, but where is like that pivot?

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And so what are things that you

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do to help people with that?

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Dr. Michelle: So my godmother told me

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long ago who was one of those natural

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healers, root woman type of person.

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She told me that you should be

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able to help anybody, but you're

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not supposed to help everybody.

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Translation.

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You may have the knowledge and wisdom to

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help them, but only certain people are

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supposed to meet and unite together and

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commune together on the healing journey.

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All right.

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So I really focus a lot right now

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on what I call my fabulous sisters

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over 40, because we got some special

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and different things going on, okay?

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And I'm super passionate

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about that because that is me.

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And even though I'm a whole physician.

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I was in perimenopause for seven

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years and didn't even know.

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Because in school and in our training,

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we are not taught that there are

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36 symptoms of perimenopause and

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menopause and what that looks like.

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And then our mothers then

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teach us that as well.

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And so now that there's a little more

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buzz about it, and more and more women

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are going to their physician and saying,

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I'm having this may not have a hot flash.

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If I'm having this, and this,

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I feel something is off.

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Something is different.

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I looked online.

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I think I might be in perimenopause

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and they're dismissed.

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Their own physicians.

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Sometimes women physicians

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will even dismiss them.

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Say, oh no, you're too young.

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Oh no, it can't be that.

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And then refuse to even test and

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see where their hormones are.

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Okay.

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So I'm super passionate about

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that, not only in I hate to say

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just education, but awareness.

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So the first step of healing is awareness.

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Physicians do it.

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We don't just randomly, give a

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prescription, you're gonna run a

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blood test, take a chest x-ray or

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something because you have to know

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what it is that you were treating,

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not just shooting in the dark, right?

Kimi:

So I want the women to be more aware

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of what's happening to their bodies

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and then next, giving them solutions

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and natural solutions because a lot

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of women are afraid to take hormones.

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Particularly because they're synthetic

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and there was a lot of studies that came

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out a few years ago, which now some of

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them have been debunked, that you have

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an increased risk of like breast and

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ovarian cancer when you take estrogen.

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Me having a very strong family

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history of breast cancer with my

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mother and her sister, then I was

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apprehensive about taking hormones,

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so I had to find another solution.

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And different solutions.

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Natural solutions gonna be

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your food and various herbs.

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But the real piece, and this

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answers the part B of your question,

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how to keep people on track.

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It's really about mindset.

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It is hashtag mindset is everything okay?

Kimi:

And really about keeping you

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calm, mitigating the stress

Kimi:

response as much as possible.

Kimi:

Because studies show that chronic

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stress will A, have women going

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into perimenopause earlier.

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B, having more frequent symptoms, C,

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increase the severity of symptoms.

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Chronic stress actually affects

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every system of our bodies from the

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hair follicle down to the toenails.

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All right?

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I wrote a book about it.

Kimi:

It's a bestselling book called Conquering

Kimi:

the Chaos, the Super Wonder Woman's 12

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Step Strategy for a Stress-Free Light.

Kimi:

And it breaks down what chronic

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stress does to each of those systems.

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The cardiovascular system,

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respiratory nervous system, immune

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system, all the things right.

Kimi:

And superimposed on that lens is also

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with menopause, because menopause

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is a multisystem thing going on

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because we have estrogen receptors

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throughout our entire bodies.

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That's why, girl, it's all

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the symptoms happening and

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every day is a different day.

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One day this joint is hurting.

Kimi:

The next day you have palpitations.

Kimi:

The next day you can't sleep.

Kimi:

The next day what's the next day?

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The next day you're having a hot flashes.

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Just all these things.

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But if I can, and what I do is I really,

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through mindfulness based stress reduction

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techniques, really helping to shift

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the mindset to a more abundant mindset.

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People can stay on track.

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They're encouraged and they're

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reminded that they are powerful.

Kimi:

They're not a victim.

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They are a victor, and you can be a victor

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over your own power, health, wellbeing,

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vision, desire, purpose, dreams, goals.

Kimi:

If you really put your mind to it

Kimi:

and you have to talk yourself through

Kimi:

it, like I call it girl, sometimes

Kimi:

I have to preach to myself, okay?

Kimi:

You do?

Kimi:

No, sometimes I tell people

Kimi:

that sometimes you have to.

Kimi:

Yeah, you do.

Kimi:

Yeah.

Kimi:

I, there were days I would, I

Kimi:

sometimes I couldn't do it for myself.

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Sometimes I have to do

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it for other people.

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'cause we're used to being givers.

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I'm get up today and exercise for this

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person 'cause I don't have it for me.

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But the habit, although I'm not in

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the habit of no kind of exercise

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right now, but yeah, it's still

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the habit and what you have to do.

Kimi:

You said that mindset of learning

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what you have to do, what you have

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to alter for yourself is important.

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Tell us

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Dr. Michelle: Having support

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oh, that's huge kind of.

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Dr. Michelle: Especially with women.

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Sister circles where people

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are truly supporting you on

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your journey are so important.

Kimi:

And plus it's a scientific thing.

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So we know the stress response

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is the fight or flight when the

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sympathetic nervous system is

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activated, the parasympathetic,

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what they call rest and digest.

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But there's something with women.

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That's why when we gather, we

Kimi:

feel better tend and be friends

Kimi:

that will also activate the

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parasympathetic and help calm you down.

Kimi:

Okay, so tell us about your team.

Kimi:

Dr. Michelle: So reality

Kimi:

is not a tea company.

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It is a premium wellness experience.

Kimi:

And so with that premium wellness

Kimi:

experience, I do specifically help what I

Kimi:

call, like I told you, the fabulous women

Kimi:

over 40 maneuver, midlife, transitions

Kimi:

with grace and east and age with elegance.

Kimi:

Yes, I'm a billboard.

Kimi:

I'll be 54 in July and come closer, honey.

Kimi:

This is not ai.

Kimi:

This isn't, this is live.

Kimi:

It's not ettes, it's not

Kimi:

Photoshop, it's not a filter.

Kimi:

So I actually live and take

Kimi:

in everything that I share.

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With you.

Kimi:

So through that transition and to age

Kimi:

with elegance through premium loose

Kimi:

leaf herbal teas, that they're really

Kimi:

relaxing escapes of wellness in the cup.

Kimi:

They're really transformational wellness

Kimi:

tools and retreat experiences and

Kimi:

transformational wellness program.

Kimi:

So the relaxing escapes of wellness in

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the cup and the one that people always

Kimi:

say honey, what's your favorite one?

Kimi:

I'm like, I don't have a favorite one.

Kimi:

Every day a different

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one just calls to be.

Kimi:

And that's that being aware, being in

Kimi:

tune and in touch with your body so

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you know what it needs, not what it's

Kimi:

craving from an emotional sense, but

Kimi:

what it needs so it can be operate

Kimi:

as the luxury vehicle that you are.

Kimi:

Okay reality officially launched and

Kimi:

started September 8th, 2021 when I

Kimi:

was in the midst of caring for my dad.

Kimi:

When he was going through his

Kimi:

treatment of laryngeal cancer, and

Kimi:

not only was I putting some of the

Kimi:

reality blends in what I would fix

Kimi:

him, his nutrition to go in his

Kimi:

Got it.

Kimi:

Okay.

Kimi:

Dr. Michelle: It also became the one

Kimi:

moment of solace that I had in the

Kimi:

day from caring with him, caring for

Kimi:

him because it was very demanding.

Kimi:

demanding.

Kimi:

Yeah.

Kimi:

Dr. Michelle: Exhausting.

Kimi:

And I remember him saying,

Kimi:

you don't sleep enough.

Kimi:

You don't eat enough.

Kimi:

I'm thinking, man, I'll take

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care of your kind parts.

Kimi:

So I don't,

Kimi:

but just even if it was just for

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five minutes, that was my me time.

Kimi:

From the time that I would boil the water.

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And they say a watch pot never

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boils, so you can't rush.

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The water getting to the appropriate

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temperature, and then you can't

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rush the steeping of the tea.

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And the, what's important is that every

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tea, every root, every herb has a certain

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timeframe that it has, is optimal flavor.

Kimi:

And drawing out that essence of

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it, you can't rush that process.

Kimi:

And then, so I would take those

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moments as mindful moments for me,

Kimi:

and then as I would take an inhale

Kimi:

and exhale very slowly and blow into

Kimi:

my cup to cool it off, and then I

Kimi:

would sip and soothe my mind and

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Oh

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Dr. Michelle: soothe my soul.

Kimi:

And then those five

Kimi:

minutes, it was just for me.

Kimi:

Yeah.

Kimi:

Wow.

Kimi:

Where can the audience go to find

Kimi:

out more about you, more about your

Kimi:

offerings, you have so much going on.

Kimi:

You have, like you said, the

Kimi:

whole wellness experiences for the

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fabulous ones, over 40 women over 40.

Kimi:

Where can people go to find out

Kimi:

more about you, Dr. Michelle.

Kimi:

Dr. Michelle: Absolutely.

Kimi:

So you can go to free reality.com.

Kimi:

That's F-R-E-E-A-L-I-T-E a.com.

Kimi:

And then you will see at the top of the

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page I have what I call the midlife reset.

Kimi:

Five steps to thriving Wellness over 40.

Kimi:

And so it's a midlife and menopause

Kimi:

masterclass because once you know

Kimi:

better, then you can do better.

Kimi:

You'll see that at the top of the page.

Kimi:

And also you can choose the blend that

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is right for you through either the

Kimi:

relaxation collection, the wellness

Kimi:

collection, or the sensual collection.

Kimi:

Okay.

Kimi:

And you also have some events

Kimi:

coming up too that people

Kimi:

might be on the lookout for.

Kimi:

Dr. Michelle: Yes, absolutely.

Kimi:

So definitely look out

Kimi:

for the masterclass.

Kimi:

The Midlife and Menopause

Kimi:

masterclass called the Midlife Reset.

Kimi:

And in September I am having

Kimi:

the Soulful Awakened Weekend.

Kimi:

It's a me Time Mountain Retreat up in

Kimi:

the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia.

Kimi:

Okay.

Kimi:

Georgia.

Kimi:

Okay.

Kimi:

Okay.

Kimi:

Dr. Michelle: on the Georgia side,

Kimi:

Is that so they can find

Kimi:

out about that on the website?

Kimi:

Dr. Michelle: absolutely.

Kimi:

Okay, we'll make sure we'll

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have all of that in the show notes.

Kimi:

We'll make sure we have all of those

Kimi:

things linked so people can learn about.

Kimi:

So even if they're not here in

Kimi:

Georgia or away near, far, sounds

Kimi:

like you have options for everyone

Kimi:

that they could, whether it's for

Kimi:

them or for someone who they love.

Kimi:

And I do wanna shout you out

Kimi:

'cause you know you are hometown.

Kimi:

We are definitely both from Indiana.

Kimi:

So I had to shout out Dr.

Kimi:

Michelle, my nap person.

Kimi:

Dr. Michelle: Absolutely.

Kimi:

Born and.

Kimi:

she is hometown.

Kimi:

Yes.

Kimi:

So it just hits a little different, right?

Kimi:

So definitely to all of my people

Kimi:

as my, all my family, my mom,

Kimi:

whoever, will be out Indianapolis.

Kimi:

You've definitely gotta

Kimi:

show love to Dr. Michelle.

Kimi:

So tell people, what are some words

Kimi:

that you live by Dr. Michelle?

Kimi:

What's a mantra?

Kimi:

What are some things?

Kimi:

I know you have many, but

Kimi:

give us what, A few of them.

Kimi:

A couple of them.

Kimi:

Dr. Michelle: Okay.

Kimi:

You know what?

Kimi:

I'm gonna leave you with

Kimi:

an affirmation for my book.

Kimi:

Yay.

Kimi:

Dr. Michelle: Okay.

Kimi:

Let's see let's choose a good one.

Kimi:

And so that's how I preach to myself

Kimi:

is I say affirmations to myself

Kimi:

because you become what you speak,

Kimi:

you become what you think about.

Kimi:

So if I'm thinking something rather

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negative, if I say it enough, then it

Kimi:

shifts to I think positively and not

Kimi:

just think I can see my way positively.

Kimi:

Okay.

Kimi:

Ooh, this is good right here honey.

Kimi:

There's a lot of good ones, but I'm gonna

Kimi:

open up, I'm gonna go with this one.

Kimi:

I am worthy of the very best in life.

Kimi:

I'm now lovingly receive it.

Kimi:

We need some affirmation.

Kimi:

We need a little affirmation

Kimi:

set from that book.

Kimi:

That's the next

Kimi:

Dr. Michelle: yes.

Kimi:

Yes.

Kimi:

Dr. Michelle Clay, thank you so much

Kimi:

for being here, free reality and

Kimi:

everything, and bringing all of your.

Kimi:

Just a life of experiences and so

Kimi:

many different things and showing

Kimi:

us, physician, holistic healer,

Kimi:

wellness warrior, eh, all of it.

Kimi:

Wellness curator.

Kimi:

We appreciate all of your time

Kimi:

and thank you for coming here

Kimi:

on Early Accountability Podcast.

Kimi:

We are we are very lucky to

Kimi:

have had you on your show.

Kimi:

Thank you.

Kimi:

I really can't say thank you

Kimi:

enough, especially in hometown.

Kimi:

It just, it means a lot to me.

Kimi:

I don't how to meet people watch

Kimi:

up from Minneapolis, so I always

Kimi:

it hits a little different.

Kimi:

So thank you so much.

Kimi:

I really appreciate all your

Kimi:

time and it's to everybody else.

Kimi:

Thank you for tuning into the podcast.

Kimi:

Until next time.

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