Transformation with Melissa Krivachek
On today’s show we’ll look at transformation… and we’ll talk to my quest who transformed her body, her self confidence and her life and went from spending 6 days in jail and weighing over 300 lbs to running her first half marathon, becoming a 2 time international best selling author, on an international tour and trading a 24 Pepsi(s) a day addiction for an Outdoor High Intensity Interval Training (H.I.I.T.) habit!
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About Melissa
A young entrepreneur, highly regarded business expert and superstar coach are just a few ways people have described Melissa Krivachek. Over the last 10 years, Melissa has evolved from managing retail locations for two prominent Fortune 500 companies to becoming a highly sought after small business expert, author, coach and speaker focused on inspiring anyone who will take a few minutes to listen.
In early 2014 Melissa wrote her first book followed by two more the same year. Be Ballsy! How Not To Suck At Love, Success, & Happiness, and Be A Baller! The Blueprint To Have It All hit store shelves less than 56 days apart. In the first book Melissa shares her personal story of struggles and triumphs. In the second Melissa shares the 25 characteristics, qualities, and traits required to go from rags to riches. Finally, in September Melissa released BOLD! Helping You Unleash The Hero Within which was done in collaboration with Les Brown and 12 other incredibly successful entrepreneurs from across the globe who share their extensive expertise and passions while helping you realize you too have greatness within.
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transformation… said the difference between the 12 people that
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make it on the cover
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the magazine and all the other individuals who don’t
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is small decisions made every day
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and that’s what adds up to this lifestyle that you see people have and that
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you desire
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welcome to the outside health and fitness podcast we are getting
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outside the box outside our comfort zone and outside in in shape if you’re bored
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with the same
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fitness routine at the gym something new
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in this is the show for you we’re exploring new and fun ways to get fit
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on the trail on the water on the slopes outside
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hi this is Steve Stearns from outside health and fitness dot com
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thank you so much for joining me for another episode the outside health and
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fitness podcast
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if you’re new to the show we like to stay fit and active by having fun
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we like to ride, slide, run, walk, hike, bike, golf, swim and ski
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if it’s fun outside and it keeps us healthy we love it so if you’re like us
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new wanna be healthy
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active and have fun outside then you’ve found the right place so today show is
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all about transformation
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and transformation is a thorough and dramatic
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change can be a change with regard to your
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body your self-confidence or even your entire life
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and my guest today transformed
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all of those things in her life and we’re gonna talk to her about that
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you’re gonna here a story about somebody who
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went from spending six days in jail
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being fifty thousand dollars in debt weighing over 300 pounds
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she went from that to you running her first half-marathon becoming a two-time
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international bestselling author
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on international to our she traded 824
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pepsi’s a day addiction for an outdoor
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high-intensity training have it what a transformation she completely
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turn things around it’s a really inspirational story also I’ve got
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Jessica Bailey back on the show and she’s gonna share a tip
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on helping you get more from your pushups this week
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in a sassy girl exercise to knapsack to take you for that
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why would I do that so it was 2011
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and things were not going well for Melissa
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she wasn’t healthy she felt like she had no purpose in life
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her way with outta control she was drinking upwards up 24
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pepsi’s a day and she topped the skillet over 300 pounds
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but things actually got worse she spent six days in jail
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was over fifty thousand dollars in debt and she even had a car
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repossessed fortunately her story does not end there and I’m excited
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to have her on the show today to share with you how she transformed
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her body she found purpose and dramatically turned her life around
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so let’s get started and jump right into my interview
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with Melissa
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okay Melissa I’m so happy to have you on the show and I
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can’t wait to hear all about your success in this
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in this journey that you’ve been on I guess to start with that
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I really like to find out what prompted you to
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get started on this mission on this goal to transform your body
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well for Steve thanks for having me and
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you know what prompted me to be on his journey really was very low self esteem
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and low
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self-confident low self-worth and I knew that if I wanted to you
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you know think more myself value myself higher
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and attract what I wanted to attract in life there is no greater way to do that
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than to start a journey
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transformation you know in hands you know that transformation is not just don
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in the Jan but it’s on in the kitchen and it’s done by drinking water and
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doing
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you know healthy eating every single day whether you want to or not
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right yet they can develop these healthy habits right yeah I know and I think
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there’s no
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are times I don’t want to do it than I do yeah insisted today
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I know that every small step by today forward it going to impact my body and
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its
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really just helping me create longevity and adheres to my life our
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weren’t there or have you always struggled with
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your self-esteem and all that or is this kind of a newer thing for you as you
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went through different changes in your life show I think I would say I’m always
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struggle with something issues up until the last
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probably year-and-a-half where I’ve just be calmly incredibly competent to take
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over the world
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pain but harm you know
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it still an issue and I think a lot of having body issues whether you want to
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admit it or not
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and thing and you know you look in the mirror and say to yourself Lake
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re: really that bad and most of us aren’t even really that bad
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or are you that skinny are do we have a have to have his body type or you know
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whatever the case did
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not tall enough I’m you now short whatever
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yeah it doesn’t matter but the point is that you know I’ve struggled for most my
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life with that
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and ever tomorrow but many riders Lake not had
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the coffin and I knew I should have orkut have yeah
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and that was really like killing productivity and everything else around
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and kinda thing we r Baxter record a factor
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family in a fax up we’re dating it affects so many more games than jest
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you we have low self esteem in low confidence it just kinda bleeds into
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every aspect of your life yes sir you’re gonna be the person not flake
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native man seen walking around complaining that the fact is falling hit
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a you really sure we are because now I’m noticed that and
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you know I have become extremely common and extremely passionate that
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many the people that you know first walk into jams or
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first getting to finance are really %ah
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while they’re scared they’re fearful they don’t know
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white the journey is going to look like and they really don’t understand how
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hard it’s going to be
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yeah because everything that you hear on TV makes it seem like its
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it’s easy just put in this tape and do this thing and BAM you look like this
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written
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yeah but the other day it definitely not
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EDU but your once you get started and make the commitment to work out to eat
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healthy decal water near body every single day
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you find what works for you then you’re gonna be more successful at it and it’s
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going to be more sustainable long-term
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what I find people like doing a at the beginning of the year
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all let’s go to the gym for three hours a day
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workout relate this for 14 days and then what kancelar gym membership right
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right that not sustainable your try to bite off too much
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eaten too big a chunk yeah and they do it with water to dock
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intake way to pound the Water Day for like the first 40
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under white bottoms drowning in water and
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meet most people don’t know this but there is a point where you don’t drown
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yourself now and actually are storing back because
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yeah you’re drinking too much water right it’s a balancing act
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when you and I were talking before we get started here
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you reminded me that there’s this term that you made up that I just love can
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you explain that
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that term yeah it called jam intimidation and basically wanted
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it did men and women who are intimidated
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by going to the jam to simply because they’re comparing themselves
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to the people that are there who are muscular who are
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bit to have you know the perfect body type
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there even is one yeah and the do this outside in their real-life
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everything all day so they’re doing is comparing in the mall at work online
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everywhere ended in that we’re talking about it
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factors of healthy in terms of competence so much more so
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shoot imitation is really just a factor I love
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men and women competing against each other
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in a way that benefits absolutely no one
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yeah any can be particularly when you get started
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no matter what shape your and it can be really intimidating as you
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you’re walking into a new place with people you don’t know
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with strange equipment you know exactly sure what you’re gonna do yet or if you
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can do it
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on top of comparing yourself everybody that’s their
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yeah and then released Oct 21st get started I’ll have a hidden
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her home
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in God because you’ll are on
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something that you really never done before and then you’ve got the thoughts
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running through your head like
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in my going to be successful right and even when you get to the point of having
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the body that you desire
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I the standard get raised once again and your back at square one
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thinking you know can I really do this right
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you’re the crazy thing is it that no matter where you are
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in your situation you there’s always somebody that you look at and go all man
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I wish I was in
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I wish I had that job I wish I had you know that
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lifestyle or that your body image or whatever it is
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but there’s always somebody looking at you saying the same thing
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oh yeah you know yeah i keeping that in mind right yeah
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the big thing is like nothing is going to be more important to you during the
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href fitness or any other journey you decide to embark on and your life
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beside your mind set your mind that is when a make or break you every single
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time but it
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specially true and fitness yeah what are some other things that
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you learned and I want you to at some point reveal
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how successful you been in this journey cuz I’m I’m so impressed with his great
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but what are some other things that you learned along the way
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if you were to talk to you your former self
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when you were getting started waterson what some in the advice that you give
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don’t think you can do it all without accountability
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because you’ve never done it before so when I first started
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I thought I could do everything without somebody holding you accountable or
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somebody
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helping me go step by step and create the road map along the way
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cell I you would find myself but most will James ball club memberships and I
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would
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go therefore you know to three hours at a time
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where I saw how and now I’m at the point where I just literally
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do actors 5.5 12 to 20 minutes a day
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twice today once in the morning one
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the evening and as a result they’ve been able to do we lose half my body way over
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the last year or so
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as incredible yeah well thank you but it’s not over
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in not over but the thing is that you really have to focus on
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this small steps every single day sorry no
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the water a healthy their hearty that
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the difference between it well people that make it on the cover
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big fat magazine and all the other individuals who don’t
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is small decisions made everything all day
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so even if it’s your birthday you’re not gonna be found eating cake you’re gonna
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be found eating salad and that’s what
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adds up this I’m eating lifestyle that you see people and that you desire but
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you don’t have the discipline and its tacit
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actually although it grows it’s funny cuz I’ve talked with some
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some other people on the show before who said very similar
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things that I think one of my favorite ones is my
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my friend Jessica Bailey I do another show with her and she said
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what you eat in private you wear in public and its so true it’s
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you have to you really have to make those good decisions
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throughout the day another you deprive yourself but you have to do you do have
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to make
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really good judgments in good decisions and understand that
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there’s consequences to everything positive and that’s a positive
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oh and there definitely is like I can tell you I was
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a yet soda or pop act like you would find me drinking soda like
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law I prolly drained a 24 pack a day
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why I mean I Drake happy like
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there was like a market for drinking pepsi I just have to drink Pepsi
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every single day at every hour every minute of the day you would find me
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drinking pepsi
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the last year %ah the guy I was dating at the time
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said dole think about taking yourself of a packed the
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all at one time because you’re gonna find
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yourself sick and I was like don’t tell me what to do and bad is when the
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journey began
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and I have not picked up any kind of pop star defense while
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as amazing that alone had to be
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a tremendous boost to your system cuz I mean the sugar and
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I mean a 24 pack a day Wow oh my god
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wat you even believe actually a I think I lost a significant amount of weight by
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just stopping
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the Pappy yeah and people in real life this but
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the sugar that you’re addicted to you whether it’s pepsi or knots
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the amount that you put in your body actually a fax your mind much more than
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you know
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I’m so you’ll notice when you get of this sugar types substance
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that your clarity increases your productivity increases your
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mmm mind that can actually focused on what you really want to achieve and as a
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result
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everything in abundance increases it’s a very addictive
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substance you take a look at a piece a cake sometimes and and you know
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everyone’s heads the peer pressure thing everyone says celebrating or never
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and you look at you go you know I really don’t wanna have the whole well I well
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you have it and within two minutes after eating you go
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%uh huh it’s like this addiction thing that’s really
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it really got a hold the people yeah I think sugar is more addicting than like
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marijuana cocaine or any other drug on a planet right now
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is something that people are absolutely addicted to you and completely unaware
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up
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yeah it in so many things for sure you were talking about
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that you like to spend and he said twelve the 20 minutes a day outside
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exercising so yet so what exactly are you
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what do you do what what I puff exercise you doing
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hits work out so high intensity training and I love them because
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I’ve studied the difference between full body workout which is what had training
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essentially is me and I can’t even work right now basically work out where you
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work
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run by
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current time and a different is the up molecular
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an physiological changes that happen inside the body so when you do I hate
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work out a high intensity training
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you actually burner nine times more fat
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and it burns for 48 hours after you do the workout versus training one part of
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your body like by factor the legs or whatever day
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at a time so you get that much more
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up back from a higher intensity who lower standard work out so to speak
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yeah yeah I’ve I had gotten into the
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Tabata training which is very similar to you too high intensity training is just
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its it’s like getting a and hours worth
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they standard workout in a compact period time because you’re just going
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full out as hard as you can for short periods right
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yeah the funny thing is you’ll notice even the most I’ll be
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businesspeople have a difficult time doing this kind of work out because it
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didn’t go in 10
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yeah and in I remember working out with this guy
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and he made Bowl Lord be with know compared to beat everybody else out
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where he had never granted
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outdoor picnic I or and you literally like collapse and I’ll play
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%uh you know why don’t you get up into work it out harder
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any her collapsed again because he what he has or information back in like he
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should be better never be out between someone’s
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better than everybody else right the reality is these workout are
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extreme yeah they are you and in as an essay with the the time that it doesn’t
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work as if you approach it
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the way that you would approach another workout wear your pacing yourself
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you know you can go i’ve got I’m going to do this for half an hour to pace
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myself in just don’t go full out
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have you experienced that oh yeah I like I’m training for Half Marathon in April
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and you now they say E okay I’m totally not a runner
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I’m back or not I rather lift weights or do I intense fear whatever
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but nara yeah
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that but I had promised my friend I was like hey ya hold you accountable and as
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a result
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saying that I am NOT signing my upper half marathon
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haha good for you that’s awesome well so they feel like run three miles the first
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week and then do you like seventeen weeks in this training wall
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I know while most people buy it can handle running a I’m not going to push
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my body and handling running I’d rather exercise my mind bad
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to keep myself going for thirty-mile then to exercise my body for 17 weeks to
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prepare for something that’s going to take more
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willpower than its gonna take up you know
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being fit right it’s gonna be a mental thing at at a certain point is to keep
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going
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exactly and dog while she’s you know busy running
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hmm 3 35 seven-mile day I’m like of I’m not doing that now
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yeah is this going to your first
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half marathon SN death in my first time running anything
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Wow sorry and really see you skip the 5k in the tanking array2 half marathon
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yeah only because I told her I’d help her be accountable I
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I thought node in and maybe she can afford you a little bit to rate so
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SEP on my you yesterday she was asking what
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Aki used to keep ourselves accountable and i was thinkin right
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fell arm I’m doing when they work out to a hospital demanded
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decade I that’s right all we have to do is call each other that’s it
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good right now trade right now %um you also
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are big and in this makes a lot of sense because you’re very into
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you know the mindset and success in goals in all that your you’re a
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best-selling author too can you talk about
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some love your as above your books yep so I know you ask me I mention this
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earlier and
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I am a two-time international bestselling author and award-winning on
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screen or sell my job is to really help people achieve
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their next level 6i whatever that looks like for them personally or
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professionally
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and no I’m not a fitness instructor so you won’t be see me do that but
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I do know what it takes to transform your body and I’d love to help
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inspire people to do
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that in 20 I can just be there for them about of
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but you know I wrote three books in 2014 bball the how not
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to stop and loves to fuck my happiness I
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haha be a baller the blueprint to have it all which is basically 25 traits and
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characteristics
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entrenar or people need to have in order to attain a level six of a walk no
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matter
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it in finance and directed and how yeah and then
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finally Bowl helping you on a leash the year with an
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yeah and basically you know that about taking rest and getting rewarded
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you know I actually have a close friend of mine in the fitness industry does
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happen million dollars a month in revenue
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and it’s because you know she went from having
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two small children and oMG endorse
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with her husband was cheating to I realizing that she was 75 pounds
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overweight and needed to make the transformation
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but you know for myself I actually went from the world
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retail over I was over 300 pound I was late
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cook I don’t know what my passion was I ended up spending six days in jail was
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fifty grand and that
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Mac App I’ve credit cards have my car vast and white really really stop for me
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at the point
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I decided to make a decision to change and now
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jest four years later I am going on an international tour with last brown
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I am named often by the National Council
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American executives as the top one percent
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%uh executive in the US in 2014 and you know I bet on the cover
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abolition magazine at their top power-play are under 48
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so a lot has changed but it’s only because
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I’ve decided to change your as amazing
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I have to have you back to tell me that story cuz that’s incredible
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wow that is just amazing Melissa you just went from
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one extreme to the other with your life and
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I was gonna say I love the fact that no you your writing books about
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getting everything you want being successful how to do it how to be bold
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and you not just writing the book you’re actually doing it
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you know so you have a tremendous amount of credibility yeah and that’s it
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being like my writing style is super different than any other offer
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I’ve I’ve read and i’ve red a week I read handbook the month so I read way
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more than the average person but the reality it
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that I’m speak from my own experiences then i would tell any my clients or
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anybody else
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did you what I’m not doing everything all day so
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yeah I’m making a commitment I’m making the decision
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i’m following for you I’m and doing what I need to do to inspire the world by
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just being me Wow I love those stories are just
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truly inspirational it that you have that the fortitude it to
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but those things in place in fallen through and get what you want I love the
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turnaround
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you have to tell me that story sometime absolutely I
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if someone wants to get your books or find out more about you or get in touch
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with you how can they do that
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and make it super simple everything is Andrea la Rionda com including the story
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in video format
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to get me through the good times and the bad news yet and then
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that like Ingram great alright at I think there’s some hidden meaning in
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there for sure
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at Ashby for me all the time like change near company it’s ok of cocaine and Mike
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and Bob changing anything about it because they have significant meaning
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yeah absolutely and its unique you know Zachary get unit infused with somebody
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huge no I’ll make sure to have a link in the show notes
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know what your cell work busy and then do everything in your power to make sure
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stands for what you think your Melissa it was awesome having on the show thank
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okay it’s time for the sassy girl exercise tune up with my good friend
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sum up your favorite exercises see you can get the maximum benefit from the
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yes thanks for coming back to help us with our exercises make sure getting
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the most out of them when we talk about this week so this week we’re talking
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about
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the mechanics of pushups okay in it i wanna talk about just
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glaring at the elbows Anna sky clearing up the nostrils but
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it’s not the nostrils Noel hadn’t batted
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all not okay so internally rotate your hands like turning inwards causing be
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able to play out
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but many times when people put their hands straight
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they still where their elders our mom and
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create Noah upgrading the network throughout
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up all closer into the body and if they like 45 degree he doesn’t have to be
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straight out your elbows don’t need to be in line the shoulders and they don’t
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have to be right next to the body I would think someone and then I’ll
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happy find a happy medium okay as perfect so again I’m going to experience
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them before I’ve
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I flared my elbows out and it seems like it gets
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easier in terms of the the push-up mechanics
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and I have my elbows read against my body it’s a lot harder and it also feels
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like I might
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be ready to hurt myself in saudi out when your elbows are in close
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you’re working your triceps yeah I think that’s where
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but yeah course if you bring yourself to low you’re gonna puts stress on your
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shoulders and you’re not probably put stressing your low back
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cell ray Routh out just a little bit away from the body there have to be an
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real tight
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with Melissa
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okay Melissa I’m so happy to have you on the show and I
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can’t wait to hear all about your success in this
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in this journey that you’ve been on I guess to start with that
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I really like to find out what prompted you to
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get started on this mission on this goal to transform your body
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well for Steve thanks for having me and
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you know what prompted me to be on his journey really was very low self esteem
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and low
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self-confident low self-worth and I knew that if I wanted to you
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you know think more myself value myself higher
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and attract what I wanted to attract in life there is no greater way to do that
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than to start a journey
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transformation you know in hands you know that transformation is not just don
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in the Jan but it’s on in the kitchen and it’s done by drinking water and
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doing
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you know healthy eating every single day whether you want to or not
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right yet they can develop these healthy habits right yeah I know and I think
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there’s no
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are times I don’t want to do it than I do yeah insisted today
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I know that every small step by today forward it going to impact my body and
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its
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really just helping me create longevity and adheres to my life our
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weren’t there or have you always struggled with
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your self-esteem and all that or is this kind of a newer thing for you as you
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went through different changes in your life show I think I would say I’m always
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struggle with something issues up until the last
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probably year-and-a-half where I’ve just be calmly incredibly competent to take
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over the world
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pain but harm you know
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it still an issue and I think a lot of having body issues whether you want to
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admit it or not
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and thing and you know you look in the mirror and say to yourself Lake
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re: really that bad and most of us aren’t even really that bad
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or are you that skinny are do we have a have to have his body type or you know
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whatever the case did
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not tall enough I’m you now short whatever
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yeah it doesn’t matter but the point is that you know I’ve struggled for most my
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life with that
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and ever tomorrow but many riders Lake not had
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the coffin and I knew I should have orkut have yeah
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and that was really like killing productivity and everything else around
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and kinda thing we r Baxter record a factor
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family in a fax up we’re dating it affects so many more games than jest
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you we have low self esteem in low confidence it just kinda bleeds into
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every aspect of your life yes sir you’re gonna be the person not flake
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native man seen walking around complaining that the fact is falling hit
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a you really sure we are because now I’m noticed that and
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you know I have become extremely common and extremely passionate that
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many the people that you know first walk into jams or
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first getting to finance are really %ah
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while they’re scared they’re fearful they don’t know
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white the journey is going to look like and they really don’t understand how
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hard it’s going to be
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yeah because everything that you hear on TV makes it seem like its
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it’s easy just put in this tape and do this thing and BAM you look like this
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written
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yeah but the other day it definitely not
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EDU but your once you get started and make the commitment to work out to eat
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healthy decal water near body every single day
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you find what works for you then you’re gonna be more successful at it and it’s
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going to be more sustainable long-term
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what I find people like doing a at the beginning of the year
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all let’s go to the gym for three hours a day
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workout relate this for 14 days and then what kancelar gym membership right
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right that not sustainable your try to bite off too much
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eaten too big a chunk yeah and they do it with water to dock
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intake way to pound the Water Day for like the first 40
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under white bottoms drowning in water and
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meet most people don’t know this but there is a point where you don’t drown
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yourself now and actually are storing back because
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yeah you’re drinking too much water right it’s a balancing act
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when you and I were talking before we get started here
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you reminded me that there’s this term that you made up that I just love can
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you explain that
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that term yeah it called jam intimidation and basically wanted
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it did men and women who are intimidated
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by going to the jam to simply because they’re comparing themselves
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to the people that are there who are muscular who are
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bit to have you know the perfect body type
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there even is one yeah and the do this outside in their real-life
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everything all day so they’re doing is comparing in the mall at work online
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everywhere ended in that we’re talking about it
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factors of healthy in terms of competence so much more so
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shoot imitation is really just a factor I love
9:29
men and women competing against each other
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in a way that benefits absolutely no one
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yeah any can be particularly when you get started
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no matter what shape your and it can be really intimidating as you
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you’re walking into a new place with people you don’t know
9:45
with strange equipment you know exactly sure what you’re gonna do yet or if you
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can do it
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on top of comparing yourself everybody that’s their
9:53
yeah and then released Oct 21st get started I’ll have a hidden
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her home
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in God because you’ll are on
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something that you really never done before and then you’ve got the thoughts
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running through your head like
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in my going to be successful right and even when you get to the point of having
10:12
the body that you desire
10:14
I the standard get raised once again and your back at square one
10:18
thinking you know can I really do this right
10:22
you’re the crazy thing is it that no matter where you are
10:25
in your situation you there’s always somebody that you look at and go all man
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I wish I was in
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I wish I had that job I wish I had you know that
10:35
lifestyle or that your body image or whatever it is
10:38
but there’s always somebody looking at you saying the same thing
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oh yeah you know yeah i keeping that in mind right yeah
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the big thing is like nothing is going to be more important to you during the
10:50
href fitness or any other journey you decide to embark on and your life
10:54
beside your mind set your mind that is when a make or break you every single
10:58
time but it
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specially true and fitness yeah what are some other things that
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you learned and I want you to at some point reveal
11:06
how successful you been in this journey cuz I’m I’m so impressed with his great
11:11
but what are some other things that you learned along the way
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if you were to talk to you your former self
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when you were getting started waterson what some in the advice that you give
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don’t think you can do it all without accountability
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because you’ve never done it before so when I first started
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I thought I could do everything without somebody holding you accountable or
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somebody
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helping me go step by step and create the road map along the way
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cell I you would find myself but most will James ball club memberships and I
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would
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go therefore you know to three hours at a time
11:45
where I saw how and now I’m at the point where I just literally
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do actors 5.5 12 to 20 minutes a day
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twice today once in the morning one
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the evening and as a result they’ve been able to do we lose half my body way over
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the last year or so
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as incredible yeah well thank you but it’s not over
12:06
in not over but the thing is that you really have to focus on
12:11
this small steps every single day sorry no
12:14
the water a healthy their hearty that
12:17
the difference between it well people that make it on the cover
12:20
big fat magazine and all the other individuals who don’t
12:24
is small decisions made everything all day
12:28
so even if it’s your birthday you’re not gonna be found eating cake you’re gonna
12:31
be found eating salad and that’s what
12:33
adds up this I’m eating lifestyle that you see people and that you desire but
12:38
you don’t have the discipline and its tacit
12:40
actually although it grows it’s funny cuz I’ve talked with some
12:43
some other people on the show before who said very similar
12:47
things that I think one of my favorite ones is my
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my friend Jessica Bailey I do another show with her and she said
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what you eat in private you wear in public and its so true it’s
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you have to you really have to make those good decisions
13:02
throughout the day another you deprive yourself but you have to do you do have
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to make
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really good judgments in good decisions and understand that
13:09
there’s consequences to everything positive and that’s a positive
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oh and there definitely is like I can tell you I was
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a yet soda or pop act like you would find me drinking soda like
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law I prolly drained a 24 pack a day
13:24
why I mean I Drake happy like
13:28
there was like a market for drinking pepsi I just have to drink Pepsi
13:32
every single day at every hour every minute of the day you would find me
13:36
drinking pepsi
13:37
the last year %ah the guy I was dating at the time
13:40
said dole think about taking yourself of a packed the
13:44
all at one time because you’re gonna find
13:46
yourself sick and I was like don’t tell me what to do and bad is when the
13:51
journey began
13:52
and I have not picked up any kind of pop star defense while
13:56
as amazing that alone had to be
14:00
a tremendous boost to your system cuz I mean the sugar and
14:04
I mean a 24 pack a day Wow oh my god
14:07
wat you even believe actually a I think I lost a significant amount of weight by
14:12
just stopping
14:14
the Pappy yeah and people in real life this but
14:17
the sugar that you’re addicted to you whether it’s pepsi or knots
14:22
the amount that you put in your body actually a fax your mind much more than
14:26
you know
14:26
I’m so you’ll notice when you get of this sugar types substance
14:30
that your clarity increases your productivity increases your
14:35
mmm mind that can actually focused on what you really want to achieve and as a
14:40
result
14:40
everything in abundance increases it’s a very addictive
14:44
substance you take a look at a piece a cake sometimes and and you know
14:49
everyone’s heads the peer pressure thing everyone says celebrating or never
14:52
and you look at you go you know I really don’t wanna have the whole well I well
14:56
you have it and within two minutes after eating you go
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%uh huh it’s like this addiction thing that’s really
15:03
it really got a hold the people yeah I think sugar is more addicting than like
15:07
marijuana cocaine or any other drug on a planet right now
15:10
is something that people are absolutely addicted to you and completely unaware
15:15
up
15:15
yeah it in so many things for sure you were talking about
15:20
that you like to spend and he said twelve the 20 minutes a day outside
15:24
exercising so yet so what exactly are you
15:27
what do you do what what I puff exercise you doing
15:31
hits work out so high intensity training and I love them because
15:36
I’ve studied the difference between full body workout which is what had training
15:40
essentially is me and I can’t even work right now basically work out where you
15:45
work
15:46
run by
15:46
current time and a different is the up molecular
15:51
an physiological changes that happen inside the body so when you do I hate
15:56
work out a high intensity training
15:58
you actually burner nine times more fat
16:02
and it burns for 48 hours after you do the workout versus training one part of
16:08
your body like by factor the legs or whatever day
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at a time so you get that much more
16:14
up back from a higher intensity who lower standard work out so to speak
16:20
yeah yeah I’ve I had gotten into the
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Tabata training which is very similar to you too high intensity training is just
16:28
its it’s like getting a and hours worth
16:32
they standard workout in a compact period time because you’re just going
16:36
full out as hard as you can for short periods right
16:39
yeah the funny thing is you’ll notice even the most I’ll be
16:43
businesspeople have a difficult time doing this kind of work out because it
16:47
didn’t go in 10
16:49
yeah and in I remember working out with this guy
16:52
and he made Bowl Lord be with know compared to beat everybody else out
16:57
where he had never granted
16:58
outdoor picnic I or and you literally like collapse and I’ll play
17:04
%uh you know why don’t you get up into work it out harder
17:08
any her collapsed again because he what he has or information back in like he
17:13
should be better never be out between someone’s
17:15
better than everybody else right the reality is these workout are
17:19
extreme yeah they are you and in as an essay with the the time that it doesn’t
17:24
work as if you approach it
17:26
the way that you would approach another workout wear your pacing yourself
17:29
you know you can go i’ve got I’m going to do this for half an hour to pace
17:32
myself in just don’t go full out
17:34
have you experienced that oh yeah I like I’m training for Half Marathon in April
17:39
and you now they say E okay I’m totally not a runner
17:43
I’m back or not I rather lift weights or do I intense fear whatever
17:47
but nara yeah
17:50
that but I had promised my friend I was like hey ya hold you accountable and as
17:53
a result
17:54
saying that I am NOT signing my upper half marathon
17:57
haha good for you that’s awesome well so they feel like run three miles the first
18:02
week and then do you like seventeen weeks in this training wall
18:06
I know while most people buy it can handle running a I’m not going to push
18:10
my body and handling running I’d rather exercise my mind bad
18:14
to keep myself going for thirty-mile then to exercise my body for 17 weeks to
18:20
prepare for something that’s going to take more
18:22
willpower than its gonna take up you know
18:25
being fit right it’s gonna be a mental thing at at a certain poin