From NASA to Nature: Mime Vega's Odyssey into Holistic Healing and Empowerment

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Welcome to night Beat Media's Living the
Dream podcast with your host Gregory Tucker,

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where we discussed the entrepreneur's journey of
turning a dream into reality, showing you

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how to learn, overcome, and
acquire strategic action steps. If you're ready

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to turn your dream into a reality, then get ready to take action.

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Here's your host, Gregory Tucker.
Today we have a truly remarkable guests joining

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us. Her journey from a debilitating
migraines to becoming a beacon of hoastic health

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and healing is nothing short of inspiring. My Vegas story is one of Resilien's

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determination and unwavering belief in the power
of holistic healing. She's here to share

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her incredible journey and the transformative impact
of holistic practices that have helped her not

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only conquer her health challenges, but
also empower countless others to do the same.

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So sit back, relax, get
ready to be inspired as we dwell

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into the world of holistic health and
living the Dream with our extraordinary guests,

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Mime Vega. Stay tuned for enlightening
conversation that may just change your life mine.

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Thank you for joining us here.
Hellonchlan, Gregory, thank you so

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much for having me. It's an
honor to be here. Thank you.

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And what we always like to ask
our guests is tell us about yourself.

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Well, just some like little facts. I am. I am a Jewish

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homeschool mom of nine. I've given
birth to seven of my own and to

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kind of inherited slash adopted. And
I'm a holistic healer. And I empower

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people to become the healers of their
home, their family, and their community

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without the need for pharmaceutical drugs,
or hospitals, or doctors or even dentists.

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Today, this show is really about
you name and about your journey.

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Now. Your journey from being a
NASA computer scientist to a naturopathic herbalist and

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holistic practitioner is incredibly fascinating. Can
you share the pivotal moment or the experience

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that inspired you to take the dermane
had a shift in your career path?

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Yeah? Yeah, this wasn't like
something that I ever thought I would be.

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Like you know when when they ask
children like, oh, what do

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you want to be when you grew
up? I never never wanted anything to

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do with the medical or health field. I was like, I want to

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be I wanted to be a computer
scientist, and that's that's what I did

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become. For a while, I
majored in computer science and I became a

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computer scientist at the NASA Ames Research
Center in Moffett Field, California. And

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it's nine to eleven today. I
was actually working at NASA when nine to

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eleven happened, and they sent us
home early because of the tragedy, since

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you know, I was at a
government facility. They I guess they probably

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let everyone home early that was working
for the government, at least at NASA

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at that time. But anyways,
and then I got married in two thousand

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and three, and then nine months
later, in November, I had my

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first child, and I was on
maternity leave, and I was thinking about

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how I didn't want to go back
to work and that I wanted to be

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with my baby and I wanted to
raise him, and I didn't want to

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put him in you know, daycare
while I was working. We had a

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really nice staycare center right next to
NASA actually, and I could even like

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visit him during lunches and stuff like
that and go back to work, but

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I didn't. I just really didn't
want to do that, and so I

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told my husband that I wanted to
stay home, and so what I decided

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to do is I decided to basically
do start my own online business, working

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from home, doing digital marketing,
you know, making websites for people,

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helping them get their business businesses online, which you know, it's part of

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It's not exactly what I did at
computer science. I mean at at NASA

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as a computer scientist, but it
was still computer related, right, so

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I could do it. I had
the skill to do it. And so

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then as I was growing my business, and then I had my second child,

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first had a son, and then
I had a daughter, and I

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was like, you know, I
was already living the dream I felt,

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you know, I I was able
to surpass my income at NASA, you

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know, and make way more than
you know I made at that time,

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probably way more than they would probably
ever pay me. You know, I'm

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not saying that. I mean,
I just I just, you know,

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I broke those ceilings. Let's say, let's just say that faster than I

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would ever have in a normal at
a normal job, you know what I

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mean, even as a computer scientist, even as a programmer. But as

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I was trying to grow my business, I mean, I don't know,

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you must know, right, Like
it can be very stressful, and you

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know, you don't have that steady
paycheck every two weeks or you know whatever

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every four weeks, two weeks whatever. You you know, it's like it's

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like being a farmer where you have
to like you have to sew and then

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you have to wait a long time, and sometimes the bugs come and eat

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up all your crops, or sometimes
there's no rain, you know, or

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something you just don't know what's going
to happen. And so farmers, you

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know, there's you know, throughout
history, farmers have always relied on God

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right to bring the rain and always
like pray, like like in the Jewish

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culture, like a lot of our
prayers have to do with bringing the rain

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because we know how important that is
for our food supply. Well. Being

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an entrepreneur, it's like it's very
much like that, you know, where

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it's like you don't you have to
I feel like you have to heavily rely

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on God and yourself. You have
to rely on God because well, I

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mean, you can work as hard
as you can, but misfortune will always

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happen, right, And you also
have to rely on yourself because you've got

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to do that work. You've got
to put in even though you don't have

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to work nine to five, you
still have to put in those hours and

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work hard and serve people and you
know, create value in the world in

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order to make money. But the
uncertainty of everything was very stressful and sometimes

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working with, you know, people
who were hard to work with, people

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who didn't understand your culture maybe or
the way you do things and didn't like

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it. And you know, just
things are tough sometimes, right, And

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so it caused me a lot of
stress. And I started getting terrible migraines,

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and you know, as you said, I thought I was going to

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die when I you know, they
just started getting worse and worse and worse

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as time went on, and I
thought, man, there's something wrong with

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me. Like the tile and all
the etceterrin, all those things, I

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just they stopped working. And so
this one day, my headaches were so

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bad that I just told my husband
to bring me to the emergency room because

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I felt like I was going to
die. I was just in so much

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pain. I had already given birth
to two children, and the pain that

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I was feeling was way worse than
even childbirth. So take me to the

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hospital, and they ran a whole
bunch of tests and asked me a bunch

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of questions, and then they called
me up finally after hours and they're like,

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you know, we can't can't figure
out, we can't buying anything wrong

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with you, but the doctor wants
to talk to you. So I'm like,

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okay. So I went to go
talk to the doctor and she was

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basically like, well, we want
to roll out the possibility of a tumor,

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so we'd like to give you a
cap scan. But it was very

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expensive and we didn't even have insurance, so she wanted to clear the expense

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with me first, and she told
me it was two thousand dollars, but

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it ended up being four thousand dollars. I'm sure today it'd be I don't

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know, maybe like twenty thousand dollars. You know, it'd probably be,

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you know, a crazy amount that
most people couldn't afford, you know.

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But so I'm like, well,
I think I'm gonna die, So what's

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four thousand dollars. Let's go ahead
and get that test. And so I

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got the test and she said,
well, good news, there's nothing wrong

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with you. You just have a
really bad headache. Here's some valuum.

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So I was like, what,
like, what I just spent thousands of

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dollars and how much did you spend
on your college education to become a doctor,

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And how much money did people spend
to build this hospital and staff all

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these people and all this expensive equipment. And you're telling me there's nothing wrong

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with me. There's obviously something wrong
with me if I'm an excruciating pain and

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I think I'm gonna die, like, there's something wrong here. And that

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wasn't the first time that I had
a major disappointment with the modern medical system,

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but that was the final straw with
me. I was like, this

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is ridiculous. These people don't know
what I'm doing, what they're doing.

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I need to take charge of my
own health and healing. And so that's

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when I started doing my own studies
and I found I found my cure.

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And you know, there were things
that I was able to do very quickly.

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For example, I was able to
take certain supplements, you know,

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vitamins for like short term relief.
But then I found out that the root

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cause was number one, my diet. I was on a vegetarian almost vegan

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diet, and that depleted my body
of B twelve mostly and this depletion of

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B twelve was also due to all
the stress that was caused by by my

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entrepreneurship journey. And so the cure
for me in that situation was number one,

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take B twelve, you know.
And there's some other herbs that helped

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to support me as well, but
that was one of the main things.

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Is just take B twelve and it
was like it worked better than tile and

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all work better than the valume that
the doctor gave me. And you know,

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get more sleep, you know,
no more like you know, quit

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burning the midnight lamp because your health
is more important than your business. And

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number three, stop trying to be
vegetarian. You know, they talk about

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how healthy being vegetarian or vegan is, but it's not for everyone, and

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it's not for every and it might
be good for some people at a certain

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point in their life, which it
was for me. It helped me with

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certain issues and a certain point in
my life. But as I you know,

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as I needed different things in that
stage of my life, I needed

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to eat meat. And I learned
that my B twelve deficiency was caused by

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my vegetarian diet and near almost vegan
diet, and so I had to stop

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that. I had to start start
eating more dairy and eggs and fish.

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I still wasn't eating like red meat
or chicken very much, but I ate

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a lot of animal products still,
and that helped me as well. And

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I was like, this is awesome, Like I can do this and I

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don't need a doctor. I need
to. I need to I need to

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really tap into this, you know, like I could have saved myself four

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thousand dollars had I known all these
things prior. And so I was like,

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I'm going to invest I'm going to
invest in myself and I'm going to

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learn the art of holistic health and
healing. So I studied nutrition, I

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studied herbalism, I studied orthomolecular nutrition, I studied life coaching. I studied

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all these different healing modalities. You
know. Now it's how many years,

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twenty years later, I can happily
say that I have raised my children.

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And back then I only had two
when I started this journey. Now you

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know, I have nine, and
we don't. I don't take them to

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see doctors or we don't. You
know, they don't They've never taken over

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the counter antibiotics, They've never been
injected with anything. Everything that has any

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problem that has ever come our way, we have been able to deal with

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it with herbs, nutrition, you
know, supplements, rest, you know,

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sunshine, getting rid of negative thoughts, you know, all sorts of

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holistic things. And I'm teaching people. I'm coaching people, and I have

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students who are already in the medical
field, like you know, doctors and

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nurses, And even had a dentist
contact me and she's like, how do

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you how do you avoid dentists?
You know, like I'm a dentist.

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I want to know how you do
it. So it's awesome, it's it's

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and it's so empowering, you know, it's so empowering to be like to

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understand what our bodies need and to
have that kind of knowledge. It's part

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intuition, like I believe that everyone
has an inner healer inside of them,

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right, and then it's also part
knowledge. You have to you have to

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you know, you intuitively know certain
things, but then you have to back

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that up also with understand understanding what's
available in the world in terms of you

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know, what's out there in creation, what's out what kind of herbs are

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there what kind of food does what
to your body? And what kind of

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vitamins and supplements you know, do
this and that to your body. And

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you know, vitamins and supplements they
might not be super natural like herbs and

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food are are, but they're natural
in terms of your body knows what to

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do with them, and they don't
have crazy side effects like pharmaceutical drugs too.

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So for example, if I had
a friend over and they took some

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kind of drug for their blood pressure, for example, and they lost one

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of their pills in my house,
I'd be like, you need to find

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that pill, because if one of
my babies found that on the you know,

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on the floor and accidentally consumed it, I would have to rush them

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to the hospital. You know that
that could be severe poisoning. But if

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I drop, you know, if
I drop some herbs on the floor,

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even if they accidentally you know,
eat it, first of all, it'd

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be pretty nasty if they stuck some
you know, dry herbs in their mouth

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they just spit it out. Anyways, Well, let's say they you know,

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they they you know, stuck a
vitamin C pill in their mouth.

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Oh well, the worst that can
happen, they'll get diarrhea, that's no

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big deal. I know how to
deal with that. You know. The

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the best thing that can happen is
that they'll boost their immune system because they've

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just taken some vitamin C, you
know. So it's so safe, it's

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so natural to our bodies, and
it's so amazing, and we are kept

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so much in the dark in regards
to these very simple, holistic natural remedies.

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It's it's amazing. I'm not a
conspiracy theorist. I'm a conspiracy realist.

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They want us, they want us
to have jobs. They don't want

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us to be independent. They don't
want us to be financially free. They

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don't want us to be free of
the need for the medical system. They

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want us to be dependent on every
every single system they've concocted, you know

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what I mean. And I just
love freedom. That's why I love entrepreneurship.

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That's why I love holistic health.
That's why a homeschool, you know,

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because I want my I want to
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important. You know, Like how
long do they study history and they don't

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even study correct history sometimes, or
the kind of history that matters to me

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sometimes, you know, Or how
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our children study science in public school? Yet they don't know the science of

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their own bodies and how to heal
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twelve years of their time studying science
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them their own health and healing.
So that's what my you know, my

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my own student, My own children
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program, not just you know other
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when family members or when some of
your ex colleague found that you left NASA's

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computer science program and started pursuing a
career in health, were there any pushback?

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a colleague or as pushback? It

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doesn't matter whether they thought so it
was appropriate for you because you did something

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that you felt you needed to do. But I just wanted to give you

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a chance to say something to that
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the same thing and that is getting
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fall to pressure. So what would
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anything on anyone but primarily, you
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as an example to other people as
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i'm a business owner, I'm a
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believe in. So whether it's you
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vitamin or supplement. And at first
people are just kind of you know,

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I'm not pushy, but you know, I'm out there, I'm emailing

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people, I'm on social media saying
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in the beginning people were like,
hmm, you know, they're just kind

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of curious, but you know,
no one was disrespectful. And if they're.

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If I ever do have people in
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just cut them out. I mean, like, seriously, life is too

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short to worry about your haters.
I mean, there are plenty of people

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that love me. I don't need
to worry about people who who hate me

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or who hate what I do.
I really don't. I really don't.

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like, you're gonna you're gonna hate
on the things that I'm talking about.

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Block on Facebook, like you're still
my family. You know, when I

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go see you for a holiday,
I will love you, i will greet

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you, i will serve you some
you know, delicious home cooked food.

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But I'm not going to let you
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media. We choose our friends,
we choose our circle. And that's you

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know, any entrepreneur because most most
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Right. You don't start out with
a big team and an advisory board and

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you know all that, you're just
yourself. So you really it's really really

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important to dig into a support system
where that is going to support you in

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your business and in your goals.
One of them would be podcasts like yours,

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right, podcasts like yours that are
helping people, encouraging people, and

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where people can get to, you
know, hear different people's stories who are

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making it, you know, and
who are succeeding in their in their goals

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and in their dreams. That's so
important. Your service is so important.

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And it's free. That's amazing,
you know, like it's apps free,

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you can just log onto your podcast. That's huge. The value that that

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podcasters give I mean like and then
of course, then there's you know,

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then there's the higher levels of support, like joining a coaching program or having

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a one on one coach. Of
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entrepreneurs and understand that's also extremely valuable. And I do have some friends like

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that, but I think it's very
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just around your neighborhood, you know, like those kinds of in person friends

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that understand your entrepreneurial journey. They're
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a group. There's some like business
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because of my children and the fact
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able to leave home a lot unless
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rely on things like podcasts, and
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have a coach. I have.
I have a life coach. I've had

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several life coaches, you know,
throughout my throughout my journey, but one

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on one life coaching is also extremely
valuable. I believe that's one of the

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reason why I became a life coach. I think having a life coach is

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valuable for for for an entrepreneur because
you know it can help them. A

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life coach can help them with their
goals, with their mindset, it can

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help them with healing, it can
help them with the relationships, you know,

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all sorts of things. A life
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coach will help you tap into the
knowledge that is within you. And the

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reason I brought that up regarding the
input from people who are within our circle

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or our sphere of influence, and
sometimes they may not intentionally mean it,

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but it may be something that they
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into a negative frame of mind or
thought process right there, because the journey,

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it's not one of those fairy tales
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lot of times we will come into
those storms and we have to solve those

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problems. So, as you had
mentioned, having a coach, someone that

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can help you or well, they're
not going to do the work for you,

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but they can help or guide you
through those storms, and they also

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help you come to find solutions to
a lot of the problems that you may

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be facing right there, because they're
continuously changing and you're never too old to

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learn something that could improve your life
right there now. Yeah, and also

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like that whole iron sharpens iron,
like you know, learning from other people

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and their experiences. Oh yes,
some of the things that you were doing

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prior to becoming a coach, they
were transferable far as to your business.

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Right now, what are some of
the skill sets that you found to be

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really invaluable first in your business?
As a computer scientist, I was very

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experimental. So I was a scientist, right So even though you know my

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sciences with computers, there's still many
experiments that can be done with computers,

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and so, you know, and
I wanted to accomplish a certain task,

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I would think about, you know, how do I do this? And

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then I test it, and then
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it doesn't work, I go back. I went back, you know,

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step by step, and I said, hmm, it failed. Let me

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let me change this, And very
methodically, I would trace back my steps

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and adjust things one at a time
until I built a until I built a

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piece of software or an application or
a function that did what I wanted it

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to do. And I didn't rely
on anyone else. I did it right.

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And that's how I approach my health
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health and healing, and that's how
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say, look it. If you
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look at all these things. One, two, three, four, fivesent

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you know, these are the things. Lay them out. Are you doing

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this? Are you doing this?
Are you doing this? Is it working

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yet? Is it working yet?
It's not working? Well? What aren't

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you doing? You know? And
we and we look at it. So,

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for example, my daughter was a
great example. She was getting really

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bad migraines, right, and so
we're like, okay, great, so

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easy fix coffee. Coffee, Okay, coffee, let's drink coffee. It

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fixed it for a while. Okay, it's still coming. They're still coming.

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The coffee isn't working anymore. Okay, what do we do. Let's

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try juicing. Okay, let's try
juicing, vegetable juicing. So she started

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juicing juicing like every few days.
She's like, yeah, that that helps.

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That helps. And then but they
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They helped, but they didn't make
them go away completely. And then for

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my other daughter, she was started
having tummy problems, right, so I

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was like, hmm, let's try, let's experiment. I said, let's

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try cutting out gluten, and she
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it's really hard for a child to
have self control. So I had to

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just stop buying gluten, no more
gluten in the house so that she could

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be gluten free, even though the
rest of us were fine, and she

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her tummy improved with going gluten free. And my other daughter, who had

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migraines, also stopped having migraines because
she stopped eating gluten. That wasn't even

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that wasn't even one of the things
we had considered trying. We were trying

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other things, you know, different
supplements and herbs and stuff like that.

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healed of her tummy aches, all
by going gluten free. So we're very

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experimental like that. But how would
I even know, How would I even

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know to experiment with vegetable juicing,
How would I even know to experiment with

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going gluten free. It's because I
studied and same thing when I was at

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NASA, when I was a computer
programmer. I would devote about one hour

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out of the eight hour workday every
day learning reading, learning more about the

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programming languages and different tools and methods
that computer scientists and computer programmers used.

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So there always has to be this
ever cycle of learning and learning and learning

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because there's always new things coming out. No matter what your business is,

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you have to keep developing yourself personally
with the education. Knowledge is power,

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So knowledge, you know, keep
keep increasing your knowledge number one and number

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two, don't be afraid to experiment
with things. And did you have a

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mentor along your journey in the beginning, No, not really, I had

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some, I mean for computer when
I became when I was becoming a computer

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science a computer scientist, I had
some really brilliant teachers I had. I

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had a teacher who he kind of
mumbled and like his hair was like never

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combed, and his shoes talked and
he just like wore like a T shirt

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and jeans, and he was the
head of the computer science like department,

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and it's like, wow, he
just he looks like a bum. But

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when so and you could, like
most people like fell asleep in class,

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and I was like, I'm gonna
I can't hear him. So I'm gonna

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I'm gonna sit in the front of
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him very carefully. And you know
what, he was brilliant. He was

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brilliant. I got more from his
lectures than I did studying on my own.

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You know, he just knew everything
deeper than than textbooks would would would

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would teach us. And so that
was extremely valuable. So I didn't have

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like you know I had. I
had a really great teacher, and I

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think that you know, I do
have like you know I do. Uh

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use life coaches right now, who
you know function also as a business coach

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for me. You know, they're
trained in business coaching, life coaching,

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you know, different kinds of coaches. But you know, for someone that

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doesn't have the budget for that yet, there are a lot of like I

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said, free information or courses and
programs that can help you achieve like anything

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and everything. Really, there's also
a lot of books on audible dot Com

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that you know, a book is
like condensed, you know, wisdom,

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years of wisdom condensed into you know, just a few pages. Books are

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so awesome and you know, with
an audible dot Com book, you can

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just listen to it while you're in
the car, while you're cooking and cleaning.

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I mean, it's just great,
all the amazing knowledge that's available to

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us these days. And that is
so true. We live in an amazing

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time right now that we have an
abundance of information. I think it's sometimes

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it can be referred to as information
overload, So it's how do you manage

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all that information? Yeah, those
are such good questions, you know what.

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I'm a religious person. I'm I'm

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a religious Jew, and so I
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my faith in God. I believe, I have faith that God leads me

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to the right sources, and you're
right, Like, for example, I

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had I hadn't. I had an
another health crisis with hypothyroidism, and when

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I started researching the the condition,
there were all sorts of opposing opinions and

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one the one of the main supplements
that I used was iodine. Iodine and

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readox okay, and both of them, but especially iodine. There's so much

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negative propaganda about iodine, saying that
it's very bad for your thyroid and it

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can make your condition worse and et
cetera. Et cetera. And I was

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like, wow, I could have
been I could have been stuck in paralysis

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had I not already had years of
experience and study under very knowledgeable and effective

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holistic healers. So I knew what
my the people that I had already you

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know, learned to trust for years
what they said over the other voices in

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the world. And I can't really
attribute it to anything, but you know,

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having taken the time to study all
those years and to find out what

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worked and what didn't work. So
if if there is someone that I'm learning

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from, whether it be in business
or health and healing or you know,

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anything and any any any avenue of
life, and you know, I know

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that if I am listening to them, that I am seeing success, that

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I am achieving my goals. You
know, I'm getting the results that I

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want. Then I then I tend
to continue to trust in the knowledge that

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they give me. And you know, you'll have to balance that with your

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own knowledge because sometimes even the different
healers, the different herbalists and holistic doctors

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that I that I do trust,
sometimes they'll have conflicting information and you know

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that just comes with experience. And
again, like I said, having the

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willingness to experiment for yourself. This
guy says this. This guy says that,

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let's test it out. Let's test
out doing this. Does it help

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me? Do I feel good?
Yes? So this is garbage. Just

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find out. You just have to
be a scientist, you know, and

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run your experiments. And that is
actually really do your research. The bottom

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line right there is do your research. Now. The next thing we want

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to talk about, and that is
your business. Your the name of your

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business is a Ruka. Yeah,
so that the website is Ruka dot com

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a r u kh dot com and
like the full name is the Ruka Holistic

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Life Academy. When someone comes to
your website, you want to give us

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a little insight on what they can
expect. Yes, so if someone comes

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to my website, this this page
is basically designed to introduce them to the

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Holisticular Certification Program and by way of
this free course eight Secrets to become a

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Holistic Healer. And in that free
course, basically you learn about the different

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things that that that I teach in
the program, the different things that you'll

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learn that have helped me to basically, you know, avoid doctors and be

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able to heal myself and keep my
family healthy naturally and uh so, yeah,

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so that's what this page is all
about. At the bottom is a

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bunch of blog articles on different health
and healing topics. You get to scroll

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a lot. It's just a lot
of information. But so if you click

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any of those buttons that you have
just scrolled past, it'll bring you to

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a form where you just enter your
information and then you get access to the

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free eight Secrets to Become a Holistic
Healer series that I created. A person

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goes on their journey that they want
to find out more information, how do

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they get in contact? Yes,
so my website is a great place,

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and my email also my Mataruka dot
com, m M A y I am

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at Uruka dot coma r ukh dot
com and you can, you know,

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you can just email me if you
have any specific questions as well and fly.

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And that is for those who are
just beginning your journey into holistic living

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healing. What advice or first steps
would you recommend for them? Don't be

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afraid. Don't be afraid. There's
a lot of fear. There's a lot

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of propaganda that that they put out, that people put out to make us

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afraid. Of holistic remedies. And
the truth is, as I said before,

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the pharmaceutical drugs are deadlier than the
holistic remedies. It's actually safer to

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not do anything at all oftentimes then
to take the pharmaceutical drugs. If you

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just slept more and exercise more and
drink more water, oftentimes you will be

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better off. That's not a blanket
statement. And I'm not trying to you

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know, take the place of your
doctor and or anything like that. But

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don't live in fear. Empower yourself
with knowledge. Oh those are some powerful

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right there, and I think that
definitely is something profound. Don't live well.

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Thank you, ma'am for sharing your
journey with us, and we hope

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to have you back and continue success
and on your journey and living your dreams.

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Thank you so much, and thank
you for allowing me to be here

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as an honor again. Thank you. Thanks for listening to night Beat Media's

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Living the Dream. If you enjoyed
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