You are now listening to the Model Health Show with Sean Stevenson. For more, visit themodelhealthshow.com. Welcome to the Model Health Show. This is Finney Christian at Christian Extension.
I'm so grateful for you tuning in today. This is a very, very special occasion. This is a 300th episode of the Model Health Show. When I hear 300, I'm thinking about Sparta.
Right? This is Sparta. Right? This has been an incredible journey, an incredible process.
And I just wanted to share something really special with you. So I decided that I'm going to go in and look at what are 10 of my favorite, most powerful moments from the last 100 episodes and put them together for you in this episode. And it was so difficult to choose. There's so many, so many.
And even, you know, I couldn't go back any further. Just even having in the last 100 episodes, it's just been profound. And so I'm going to share some of those moments with you in this episode. But I also want to share a little bit about what this means to me.
You know, this has been the most consistent thing I've ever done in my life. All right? Outside of loving my wife has been loving this show and dedicating myself to the research and dedicating myself to putting myself in position to be able to transform lives and really taking that very, very seriously. And also understanding at the same time, not to take this stuff so seriously, and marrying that together, you know, in this message of, you know, how can we translate this information that's essential, you know, for us to be the very best version of ourselves, for ourselves.
And that trickles out into our families, into our communities, and really changing the world, but it starts with the individual and focusing on self-care, focusing on the things that we need to do as an individual that, you know, oftentimes, like this stuff isn't a part of the normal conversation. You know, I went to a traditional university and 99.9% of this stuff, I didn't pick that up there, you know, and you would think that this would just be things that are handed to us. Like when we get here, you know, learning about how our amazing body works, but it's just not the case. And also learning about other things, you know, this show is dedicated, not just to physical health, but relationship health, our financial health, our spiritual well-being, you know, mental and emotional health.
All of these things create sort of this kind of patchwork quilt that is our lives, you know, we are the result of these things that we're exposed to. If you're not exposed to information about creating a fit, healthy body, we're going to be deficient in that area. If you're not exposed to information on creating health in our finances, we're going to be deficient on that. So how can we learn this stuff is we have to make it a study, but studying can suck, study can suck sometimes.
So how can we add some, some joy to this process? How can we add some energy? How can we add some enlightenment, right? And that's what we strive to do here on the show.
And you know, this is, it really evolved out of my clinical work, you know, me having this story of going to college and having this experience of being diagnosed with the disease that I was told by my practitioners, this is incurable. You have degenerative spinal disease, you have degenerative disc disease. My bone density was so poor, I broke my hip from running, just running, running at a practice. How was that possible?
You know, I was so deficient in these key nutrients. I was so off track of what health looks like. I thought because I was fit, I had the appearance of being fit that I was healthy. I didn't know what health was.
And that experience of literally having my life stripped from me, of being somebody who's a fit person, who's an athlete, who is even cool, you know, my ego is checked. When you have to wear a back brace and the nightclub, I'm in the nightclub, like trying to do my two step and I got a back brace on it. It's not cool. Like my ego got checked and thankfully so, you know, because I was so ironically self-centered.
And this was a survival mechanism, you know, and I talked about this on the show before, you know, I grew up in a, in various environments, but you know, for the majority of my kind of conscious evolution, you know, through grades three to, you know, when I graduated high school, it was a really volatile environment. You know, there was a lot of abuse, there was a lot of, you know, there was violence, there was clear malnutrition, you know, but there was also love, you know, there were, there were moments, there were special moments, but it was an environment where I could not wait to get free of because I hadn't experienced earlier in my life of having a free life of like I had certainty, you know, living with my grandmother. I knew what I was going to wake up to. And then having that where I might wake up to someone in my family, you know, having a black eye or somebody being arrested or these various things, you know, and so that drew me in.
It really drew me in and I didn't know, I didn't want to be a self-centered person. I was very loving as a child, you know, but I became very self-centered and self-aware and self-cautious in a strange way, self-aware, but not the self-aware that I am experienced with today, but going to that experience, experiencing losing my own health and finding out all of these things that enabled me to transform my body to regenerate the tissue of my spine and my bones and my two ruffs are distracted on their own and getting this excess weight off my frame and just feeling so good for the first time in my kind of adult life. Because when I hit adulthood, I hit disease, right? This degenerative condition, this so-called incurable condition.
And I just got a scan of my spine done literally, I just got to see it two days ago, supple, juicy discs in between the vertebrae in my spine, all right? Supple. That's one of those words you just like to say, right? Supple, that's up there with like fluffy pachamas, right?
These are the words you just like to say, I supple discs, right? And the story that I was told just wasn't true. And I wanted other people to know that. I wanted other people to experience what it felt like to be free in their body to feel healthy.
And that really created the course of life for me and my dedication and my career path was now I'm shifting from this self-centered approach to being about service to others. In the deepest, most profound way, how can I serve? How can I find a way to help this person, whatever it takes, I'm going to help figure this out? And in my clinical practice, the opportunity to work with thousands of people over the years in the gym and also in my office and doing consulting I got to a place where working people coming in, type 2 diabetes or they're on statins, they're on less centiprile for their blood pressure and hypertension and they're on metformin and they're on the list goes on and on and seeing this incredibly high number of reversal rates for issues like type 2 diabetes, for attention deficit disorder, for hypertension, high blood pressure, all of these things.
And I got to a point where the patient will come in, I walked them through how this disease manifested. Like let's reverse engineer diabetes. Here's what it looks like. Can I be on the board and I make it so they felt empowered for the first time.
They're just like, oh, this is how it happened. This is how to get better. Right? Even if somebody's coming in for just general weight loss, like nobody ever explained to them, how does your body actually store fat?
Like what is the process? How does that happen? You just eat some stuff, I eat too much and I have too much meat. That's what we think.
Just like if I just eat a lot of food, I get what there are people that can eat more food than folks that are overweight and not gain weight. Right? What's going on behind the scenes? And so I would empower these folks.
And so but doing this day after day, person in the waiting room after the other saying the same thing over and over again, I was like, I need to write this down or I need to record this. I need to share with more people about this information because it's transformative. It's changing these people's lives, but this one on one context isn't going to get it. And so I decided I'm going to I'm going to make sure that other practitioners have this information.
I'm going to be helping to teach more teachers so we can really create a massive movement. And that was part of the birth of the model health show was packaging up this information in a way that makes sense, in a way that resonates, in a way that empowers. And from episode one, all the way up to 300 instilling that that heart and that passion to serve. And not just information, but profound knowledge, right?
Something that's profound that can literally transform your life every episode when you push play. That's my dedication. And also striving to bring the very best of the best people in the world and their respective fields for you to learn from. And many of the clips that we're going to share today, these are people who had a profound impact on my life.
You know, some of them even earlier in my career just changing the direction of where I was even going, you know, based on some of these conversations. So I'm very, very excited to share this with you. And I'm just so grateful for you being a part of this mission, a part of my life and allowing me to be a part of your life. And I'm telling you, I'm just I'm just getting warmed up.
I'm just scratching the surface because we've got we've got a lot, we've got a lot of great things coming up and in store for you. And but I just want to take this time to celebrate and to celebrate you, you know, I definitely have had to learn to stop and take time to smell the roses. You know, I've kind of had the personality of just onto the next thing, but I think it's important to to acknowledge the love that you give, to acknowledge when you've accomplished something special. And I really feel that in this moment.
And I'm just grateful to be able to share that with you. And so on that note today, we've got 10 of the most profound individuals, 10 conversations, 10 clips from people who've had a big influence on my life. And we're going to dive right into that. But you know, part of this process has been continue to upgrade things, continuing to get better, not just with myself, but also with my ability to distribute the information, right, to really upgrade our level of, you know, from the audio side, the video side, we've got some big things coming up for that as well.
But who's been there to support this and support that mission is this is my family at on it, you know, they've been there for years with with supporting the show. And I literally, I love them. I absolutely love them. I literally every single day utilize the emulsified MCT oil is one of the best, I think is one of the best things ever made.
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I need my coffee, five creams, right? And they're just putting in like this heavily processed artificial, whatever, they're putting that hitter in their veins that artificial right into their veins, right? And wonder why they're acting fake. All right, I hope you caught that artificial fake.
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And on that note, let's get to the iTunes review of the week. Another five star review titled Thank You, Sean, by M Zen. You can hear the genuine enthusiasm in Sean's voice. He truly cares about each topic he covers.
I love the dynamic between Sean and each guest he brings on to the model health show. I'm engaged. I'm learning and I feel like they're in the room with me as someone who is always trying to get their partner to eat, live, and feel healthier. When I finally got my boyfriend to listen to a couple episodes, he's hooked.
Thank you for leading such a great example and for putting love and great energy into what you truly care about. Thank you so much. What an incredible story. That is, that's just powerful.
Very, very awesome. And thank you for that acknowledgement and just thank you for being amazing and for sharing, you know, because that's what it is at the end of the day. It's not just about us. It's how can we influence in a kind of compassionate way that we care about so that we can all be on this process of becoming the best version of ourselves and supporting each other.
You know, that's what it's really about. But sometimes the voice is a proximity. We don't listen, right? So being able to have this is another reason why I do this.
You know, it gets in this to a family member, whatever the topic is and share it with them. And they have kind of a definitive guide in a way that can inspire them that makes sense to them that often inspires action. And so please remember, never hesitate to share, never hesitate in a concern about what somebody might think when you have something that can help, you know, because you never know, you never know what kind of transformation that can be created just by sharing something like what we do here in the model show. So thank you so much and everybody for heading over to Apple Podcast and leaving a review for the show.
Please do so if you haven't done so, I'd appreciate it so much. It sounds like myself. I'd like to introduce myself. All right.
But on that note, listen, this is a very special episode because 300 it's just kind of hard to wrap my mind around and how many hours have gone on behind the scenes of being able to show up as the best version of me and to deliver this information and to bring on the very best people in the world in their respective fields. And this episode, we've got 10 of the most influential people who I've had on the show who've influenced my life in various forms. And we're going to go ahead and kick that off. The first one that I have for you is a conversation that I had with Dr.
Bruce Lipton. Now Bruce Lipton transformed my life. He transformed my thinking. He's the one who introduced into my life after watching a lecture of his the concept of epigenetics.
You know, I didn't know what it was. I know I knew that jeans did not determine things like I was taught in school, but I didn't know that we had a whole field of science. I was looking at like, yeah, this is obvious. We've known this for decades.
And his swagger and his experience, the things that he's been through and the things that he's had to really to persevere through to get the information out in his book, The Biology of Belief is just absolutely classic. And so to have him on the show, such a special moment for me, you know, and he talks about in this clip, correlation and causation, right, which are two totally different things that often get mistaken for each other. And understanding a little bit about again, epigenetics is above genetic control and understanding. We have 20 to 25,000 genes that we share as humans.
It's not really that many. How do we have such variation in our appearance and our levels of health and our intelligence? It's because all 25,000 of those genes have thousands of different potential expressions based on the way that we live our lives and the man to share that with you and the man who brought it to my life is Dr. Bruce Lipton.
Check it out. Sean, there's two words that conventional science makes us up. Well, that conventional science is actually the media in talking about science makes us up. And these two words are correlation and causation.
They use these words interchangeably. A gene causes cancer. I go, no, no, no, a gene is correlated with cancer. It does not cause cancer.
See, so we have to get out of the belief that genes are making decisions and genes are controlling our lives. And this is why the new science epigenetics is a revolution that will change the planet. It is as much a revolution as when Newtonian physics went into quantum physics and the world changed. Today, going from genetics to epigenetics is the same massive jump that will change civilization.
And I say, well, what's the difference? They almost sound the same. I go, when I say genetic control, which is what I was teaching in medical school, genetic control simply means control by genes. So people out there believe, oh, my cancer is caused by genes, my diabetes is caused by genes, whatever it is, it's caused by genes.
That's the belief. And I go, yeah, but the fact is this, genes do not cause anything. Genes are not capable of turning themselves on and off. Genes have no way in bigger words, self actualization, meaning genes don't make decisions.
Genes are blueprints. They're blueprints that make the physical body parts. I go, well, why is it relevant? I say, because when you're building the body, the contractor calls off the blueprints, the blueprints don't call themselves up.
And then they go, contractor? I go, yeah, the mind, the brain, the nervous system reads the world and then adjusts the body to deal with the world. So, the mind calls off the genes. And now when I say epigenetic control, which is the new science, remember genetic control controlled by genes, new science, epigenetic control sounds the same, but epi means above.
So when I say epigenetic control, I am saying control above the genes. And all the other things, the genes don't control. Like, no, genes never control anything. Genes are blueprints.
Epi genetics means the environment. And here's the one that I want people to just emphasize this one, the environment and our perception of the environment is what controls our genes. And I go, why is it relevant? Because we can alter the environment and we can change our perception, meaning then the genes are under our control.
They're not under the control of genes. We control them. So the here's important data fact, less than one percent, less than one percent of diseases controlled by genes. So I say, well, I'm Bruce, wait, hold on, you got to say that again, say that again.
Less than one percent of disease is controlled by genes. There are very few diseases that one gene causes disease. Hemophilia, for example, might be one of them, tastes sax disease is another one, like that. And I say, yeah, but my gut 99% of disease didn't come from the genes.
It came from lifestyle and environment. And that's where epigenetics is the controlling factor. So, 99% of health issues are not because the body is defective. 99% of health issues is that the driver of the body, the contractor, the brain, the mind is not in harmony.
And when it's out of harmony, the body is a compliment. So the body is out of harmony. And if you look at it, it's like a little bit of beautiful sense. It says if you're sick, it's a reflection of something that's not in harmony.
All right. Next up for this celebration, 300 episodes, it's top 10 moments is a conversation I had with Lisa Nichols. All right, Lisa Nichols, she flew in, came in here in the studio to hang out with me and just such an enlightening individual, just like you feel so good being around her. She has that vibe.
She's something special through and through and she helps us to recognize how special we are. And the very best people, that's what they do. It's not about them. It's about them inspiring that life in you.
And so one of the things that we covered and this idea that I was surprised to talk about in this clip relates to this Nelson Mandela quote that carrying resentment is like drinking poison, believing that it's going to kill your enemy. And this is what we do to ourselves when we carry around hatred and resentment in our bodies, in our own minds and our own tissues. It's not just the fact of like, this sounds like something that's emotionally stressful. Like, this is a literal physical phenomenon that takes place because every thought you have creates chemistry in your body, your thoughts create chemistry in your body.
But to articulate the life behind it, to articulate the message behind what that means, there's nobody better than Lisa Nichols. My job, your job is to get up and like you and every other like on Facebook is bonus. But you liked you first. And I think the journey to liking you, the journey to getting to that place, that's where everyone's seeking.
That's what people seek when they step on my canvas. That's what people seek. And ideally, we watch people get to that point when they've studied with us for a while. And what that looks like is if you want to know my opinion, the first thing to do is to become whole and complete with every decision you've ever made.
Because we're holding ourselves hostage to our past decisions, actions, behaviors, the things we did that we felt we shouldn't do and the things that we felt we should have taken a leap on that we didn't take a leap on. So one, become whole and complete with all of your past decisions. Because when you know more, you do more. And you made all your decisions based on what you knew at the time.
And you can't measure the manner one way you are based on the decision you made back then based on what you know now. You didn't know then what you know now. If I knew then at 29, what I know now at 51, sightedly my 51, I wouldn't have made those decisions. But I knew what I knew.
And so I did what I did based on what I knew. So one, become whole and complete with your with all your decisions to recognize that forgiveness is not about partnering anyone else in your life. Decision is about opening up more internal real estate for love and possibility in yourself. So I think forgiveness of yourself and forgiveness of others.
So if you ask me the two things, one is to become whole and complete with your decisions and your actions from 20 years ago. Become whole and complete with those because you knew what you knew. That's why you did what you did. And two, recognize that forgiveness.
It's not about partnering a behavior. It's not about giving it's not about giving acceptance to what occurred. It's about opening up more real estate in your body, in your heart and in your soul for what's possible in the future because two things can't occupy the same space. So where there's hate, anger, shame, blame, there cannot be love and possibility.
Those two things if you just focus on those two things, yeah, I can give you a list of 12 things, but those two can keep you busy. So laser focus, we often operate like a floodlight, trying to cover a whole lot of ground when we should operate like a laser. Let me penetrate this. Let me master this.
Let me heal this. Let me go back when I decided to heal my to forgive my son's father. That's all I worked on for a year. That's every exercise I did was about him because I don't want to keep touching it for the next 10 years.
Now I have a beautiful relationship with him. I spotlight him at my conference. I called him on the phone. I tell him from prison.
He calls him on the phone. I put him on the mic system. I spotlight him. He's written 14 books in prison.
Like now I use him as the model example. Forget it down no matter where you are, you know, because I did the work. I forgave myself. I was in an abusive relationship where my fiancee at the time picked me up and threw me three feet across the room.
And then he choked me until I passed out. 13 years later I ran into a conference. I used to wouldn't go to his state. I was so afraid that I would run into him.
And he's six, nine, three hundred and ten pounds. He was huge. He was physically imposing as well as physically imposing in my life. And I did the work on him.
I did the work on him for nine straight years. Nine straight years. So when I ran into him, not ran into him, he came to my conference. It was very intentional.
He came to ask for my forgiveness. And I said, I needed to give myself life. So I forgive you a long time ago for me. So you just need to forgive you because I already did the work.
I had no angst or energy or anger around him. I felt a little uncomfortable, but I had no there was no residual anger because I love I had to fall madly in love with Lisa. The woman you see sitting here as simply the result of saying, what does it look like to fall madly in love with me? And not in a bragging way, not in a way that spews on other people.
In a way that I say every day I'm going to give myself a chance. Every day, every day I get to press reset. I get to press reset a thousand times. And when I get to 9.99, I get to press reset on the reset button.
And what happens if I did that? And so you're right, valuing who I show up to be means, um, pardoning myself from all my choices that I've been judging and I've had shame around. And then it also means forgiving myself and others for the times in which their actions didn't align with their heart. I think it's those two things accepting and forgiving and those have been the two biggest things in my life.
All right. Next up on this top 10 is with Mark Sisson. All right. Mark is just a based right.
He's in his 60s and he's really highlighting and you can hear the vitality in his voice that there's this idea of we have this kind of chronological age. But today we have this new term called our fitness age. And you can have your biomarkers be that of somebody, you know, five, 10, 20, 30 years younger than you, you know, and he's incredibly fit. But incredibly, there's so much vitality that just comes through when you're with Mark.
He's just, he's on another level and he's sharing with people like, this is how you do it. And that's what's so special to me about this moment is I also made it a goal to highlight individuals that can talk about longevity because I'm not that old, you know, I know a lot about the science, but practical application and experience. I do have a wealth of experience for sure. And the great opportunity is I got in this when I was very young because of out of necessity.
So I was able to kind of get a jumpstart on a lot of these things and a lot of folks who are coming into the game now in a way, you know, but Mark has been doing this for decades. And so when he's talking about longevity and the signs of longevity, listen, all right, if those ears like pull them out a little bit, poke them out, listen deeply, listen with your, with your inner ears as well. Listen with your heart because it's something very special. This is how evolved was taking time and really paying attention to the elders, right?
The people who've been there before to help you to avoid those problems and to find solutions if you are going through things, to show you the right way, you know, so you could take that and build on it. The concept of standing on the shoulders of giants, that's what I'm into. That's what I believe. And Mark is definitely one of those giants.
So here's a conversation, episode 257. There's been about two and a half million years of human evolution, by the way, hundreds of millions of years of evolution before that, all leading up to this ability to consume excess calories. So we're wired to see a big thing of food could be a grove of fruits, could be a mastodon that we just killed, could be some roadkill that some other animal got, but we're wired to eat and we're wired to overeat because the body was in this crucible of evolution. We had periods of feast and periods of famine.
And so during the periods of feast, you're wired to overeat. Now beauty of that is we are so adept at taking excess energy and storing it as fat on our bodies. Now, almost to a fault today, right? So many people are adept at storing fat.
But our ancestral, our predecessors were also great at taking this stored fat. And when there was no food for a day or two or three, take this energy that we'd stored as body fat and then put it back into circulation, burn it as fuel and use it to live on for days or weeks of the time. So it was this sort of elegant back and forth ability to store fat, take it out of storage and use it. And that's really the skill that we're trying to develop here.
We have the skill already. We all know we can store body fat, but many of us have lost the skill to be able to take that fat out of storage and burn it as fuel and reduce the amount of stored body fat on our bodies and trend toward our ideal body composition and take that energy and not have to eat a meal every four hours all day long. But to be so metabolically flexible and metabolically efficient that energy is always there for us, whether or not we're eating, whether or not we're eating enough, that energy is always there for us in the face of a business meeting that gets in the way of lunch or a trip across the country in a plane that doesn't serve food or just choosing not to skip dinner tonight because I'm not hungry. I'm not hungry.
Why should I eat? What a concept. And in developing this metabolic flexibility, we also, like this is the greatest side benefit of all, hunger, appetite, and cravings get suppressed. You no longer live your life from one meal to the next going, oh, lunch was great, but what's for dinner?
Where are we going for dinner? You think more in terms of like, oh, I've got plenty of energy, I've got plenty of money. I'm building muscle or maintaining muscle. I don't get sick.
I'm not hungry. Hey, why do I need to eat right now? Or why do I need to eat because it says it's 6.30 and that's always dinner time. It opens up this amazing new freedom and flexibility to allow you to untether yourself from hunger and advertising cravings.
All right, we're at number four and we've already covered. Listen, these three individuals have had a huge impact on my life. Bruce Lippen, that was episode 235, Lisa Nichols, episode 234, Mark Sisson, 257. But when we talk about huge impact on my life, you don't think I could do a top 10 and one of them not be my wife.
I mean, Captain Obvious, you know, it's so my wife, Ann Stevenson, having her on the show, having conversations with her. I get to talk to her every day, which is just the best. Like, I have the biggest smile on my face right now because it's just the greatest gift. I feel like she is my gift for every good thing that I've ever done in my life.
She's the gift that I get. And I'm fine with that. All right, I don't need, I don't need presents. All right, I don't need, you know, Santa Claus situation.
I'm good with her, you know. And so this conversation is very important because she's been there. She's highlighting a very profound understanding. You know, she's been in arduous situations and seeing it in her own household growing up and also, you know, in her earlier years before she met me, all right, I don't acknowledge anybody before me, but there was a life prior and she saw, you know, the various ways that relationships can go.
And so she has a bit of experience in this and understanding it's really about you knowing your value and knowing your worth and standing firm in your belief and in your truth and allowing that to guide your relationship and not living with fear, you know, stepping into your power. This is a continue theme with everybody with all of these individuals that we're highlighting today on this special episode. You know, it's not about something that's kind of abstract or, you know, something that's a very, you know, just kind of like it sounds like a good idea, but it's very actionable, you know, and for us to be the best version of ourselves, we have to step into our power and understand that it is our responsibility. It's our responsibility to live our lives the way that we decide to.
And with that, here's my wife and Stevenson. I know truly that women, we have the superpower that we want to, we try and ignore it. You know, you, I knew it was there before realizing and having home birth and all of that. It was there.
It was just like, I didn't want to own up to it. I felt that I wanted to shy away from it. But it just kept on coming. And again, situations will come forth for you to express that.
So I, first is just the realization that if you are a wife and or girlfriend or whatever, it's like, you do take control of the relationship in a different aspect, but you're able to, you're kind of the driver. You're able to, you know, they always say, you can train your man how you want them to treat you. And it's just like, wow, how am I supposed to do that? Like they, you know, they seem like they know, you know, their hard hair, they can't listen.
The thing is, they don't want to be without you, plain and simple. Like, I mean, the one, and if they don't, like, obviously, they're not the one for you. And again, it's not about abusing your power. It's you've always been able to see the bigger picture before it happens.
And I'm speaking to the ladies, we are always able to see it. Even when it's a small inkling, something happens, I know you can testify to this so many times. I've told you about something. And then sure enough, it comes to pass.
But it had to happen so many times. I think some man, he might have to take so many times for it to happen where it's like, I told you so. And he'll see, right? I feel now he just has to come be like, what do you think?
You know, but we talk about that patience of being there being like, you know what, he'll get it. But you know who you're in the relationship with and what routes you have to for you. I knew you would get it at some point. But some things we just have to go through the motions with it.
But as women, it's like standing up to that role. Because if you don't, no one else will. And I know sometimes it seems unfair. Like, well, he should, you know, no, he's busy.
He has his own role and he knows what he's here to do for you. He is the like, he can be the provider or however, whatever title that you have, the complexity of the relationship. But standing up, standing up for that because no one else will. That means you taking control of what happens in the house.
This is what we're going to do in the mornings. We're going to talk this out. I don't care what happens. No.
Yeah, you want to go. Okay. If you go, then these are the consequences. And that's another part I feel they're so afraid if they said consequences that their man will leave them.
Then obviously it wasn't for you. And I'm sorry, it hurts to say that, but it's the truth. He's been they were not there for you. Because if they are, they're willing to battle it out.
If that means they're going to sit there and y'all going to like talk for five hours straight to figure out what is going on. Because you are worth it. But it takes for you to recognize that because a man cannot is not going to shine that light for you to do that. And the thing is every woman knows this is true.
They feel it in their heart. It's just that afraid of, if I do it, the love will be taken away. I don't want to be too strong or, you know, all these small things. And a funny thing, a man will embrace that.
It will embrace it and will uplift you up even more. So I think patience, but also just following your innate gut to just follow through, stand up and being strong. So yeah. Oh my goodness.
This is like, babe, when you said he doesn't want to be without you, man, that hit my soul. Like I definitely do not want to be without you. What does it take? What do I have to do?
You know, and I'm just going through scenarios in my mind. Like, what if I'm upset? What if I'm like really heard about something? So I still don't want to be without you.
So I'm going to do whatever it takes, you know, and. And can I say something to though? You know, and when I say this, sometimes, you know, like there'll be people where it's like, I'm just going to do it and being this strong voice. But I think also to add compassion to it, like also seeing what you need to do to become that woman first, because it's always in a work to be done.
And when the more you do in a work, the more compassionate you will be for your mate and you will know the right way to say things, but still being that firm individual that is willing to stand for themselves to be that voice that they know, like it's been in their heart all this time. Up next is a conversation with one of my favorite people on the planet, Chilene Johnson. Chilene is an absolute powerhouse. She's somebody who was stepped into her power, and she's the walking, talking, living example of what that looks like.
And the reason that this conversation made it here today was Chilene had a big impact in my life, because she was one of the first people who was outwardly promoting the idea that you don't have to beat yourself to the ground in order to be successful, that you can have it all. You can have a great family life and create a great business. You can have a great family life and have great health. And this is something that I believed.
I just wasn't hearing that story. I was hearing, you know, hustle your face off, grind, grind, grind, and, you know, work, work all these crazy hours. But what about the kids? What do you stuff with these people's kids when they're saying this stuff?
How's that? What's that relationship look like? You know, what we become deficient in things if we're not paying attention to them? You know, there's this the grass is greener on the other side.
The grass is greener where you water it and we need to take care of the various parts of our life's landscape, you know, if that makes sense. And so her stepping up and saying, you know what, there is a way to find not balance, but to be able to have these sections of your life to have more integration, right, to have more flow. And it's really about structure. One of the things in this clip, she's highlighting is how our internal environment is a direct reflection of our external environment.
All right, what's going on internally with our health, with what's going on in our mind. If there's a lot of clutter around you, there's a lot of just mess. If there's a lot of stuff outside of you, it becomes a distraction, it takes away mental energy that can be going towards getting this job done and then spending time with your family or whatever the case might be. It takes away our efficiency, it takes away our effectiveness.
And we have no idea how much until this very special episode with Chilin, which was episode 287, episode 287. And we got into some of the science and it's just like, it's shocking. It just it was so profound to hear this information. And it also was so practical, it was like, of course, that makes sense.
And that's what I love about what Chilin does. So she shares that she doesn't think people should even start a new diet until they get their life uncluttered. And here's why. Because it's an obstacle.
I think it's an obstacle that most people don't recognize that chaos is not okay. Like chaos is prevents you from being present. It prevents you from being focused. It prevents you from moving forward.
And then when you so we have an obstacle that's there and we don't see it, we just keep running into it. We think, Oh, well, this diet's failed me. Oh, I'm not good at business. But meanwhile, there's this obstacle that you just keep hitting and you don't realize that's what it is.
So I just think people need to first be aware of how much chaos and disorganization is in your environment. Because it does something to your mind. It does a lot to your mind. It's it affects our bodies.
A study show that 44% of people said that they make unhealthy food choices when their home feels messy. When you know, that's a lot of people, a lot of the time, whose homes feel messy. It affects our happiness, affects our relationships. Respondent said that 55% of the time they feel much more motivated when their home is tidy.
That's crazy. They think that you can impact, you know, motivation is huge. You need motivation to be kind. Any motivation to eat healthy to exercise, just start your business to be focused to be present.
Like those things require motivation. So if you can be 50% better just by having a more organized face and that's free, do it. All right, we are at the halfway mark. That is five of these top moments in the celebration of 300 episodes of the model show.
And these are the top 10 moments we're going through, you know, these influential people in my life and just these special moments of the show in the last hundred episodes. Again, it was so so very difficult to choose. But you know, these people are just very special to me and they've delivered some profound, powerful information for all of us. And I'm just very grateful to share this moment with you and to give these highlights and these powerful nuggets for us to take with us as we continue to move forward.
And part of this process of moving forward is it's up leveling is up leveling our fitness is up leveling what we're doing with our recovery and also with our nutrition. And who's been there and has been a part of my life for the last couple years now, as far as like what I'm getting my family to feel those nutritional gaps, we're not doing the flint, I'm not giving my son a flint stone vitamin. But I did grow up on it myself and I would gladly like I'd probably if it was left on my own accord and my grandma didn't just toss me one like a Scooby snack. Like here's something like, right, right, she tosses Scooby snack vitamin and I'm on my way, I would eat the whole bottle.
I'm probably going to toxic shock. But that's not we think that that's the solution is like taking these vitamin pills when they're synthetic, they're not even from real earth growing sources. So do we actually know if they're impacting our body on our cells, our genes, because those those transcribed data directly to our genes, there is no middleman in many senses with the nutrients we bring in, they directly impact our genes in our genetic expression. All right, so keeping that in mind, what are we, what are we feeding ourselves when we're doing these synthetic vitamins trying to cover these bases because we're told this is what we should do.
My mission is to make sure we're getting these from real whole food sources. This is why I love Organifi so much. They're using real concentrated whole super foods to give us bio available nutrients, cold process, so that we're still retaining the nutrients. And that's what it's all about.
You know, something I use that I give from my family, I'm always giving away the go packs. What I'm really into right now is the Organifi gold. All right, you got to be on the green juice. That's a given.
Are you on the gold? The gold, the highlight here, the biggest part of formula is turmeric. And it's such an important thing because of all the data. So many studies showing its profound impact on inflammation.
And this carries over into things like cancer prevention, for example, compounds and turmeric have been found to have anti angiogenesis properties. So this is, this means it literally is able to cut off the nutrient supply, the blood supply to cancer cells. What do you know that can do that? It's absolutely, it's just like, and it's available for us.
This is something we have access to. And we need to be paying attention to these things as prevention as well. So we're not even in a state where we're trying to fight cancer, you know, we have several episodes dedicated to the topic of cancer, you know, cancer prevention, cancer treatment. So we'll put a couple of those in the show notes.
We got a lot of show notes today with all these top 10 elements. But I want to make sure that people know about this and know about the science behind it. One of the things in the Organifi gold, turkey tail, turkey tail. It's not like literally like a tail of a turkey, by the way, some medicinal mushroom and researchers in 2013 conducted studies on turkey tail extract and found that it had anti ulcer effects and it could selectively kill gastric cancer cells.
Yep, turkey tail. It's in the gold formula. All right. And it tastes so good.
And what I love most about it is that it seriously is a treat. It tastes got like a holiday taste to it. You know, the holidays have a taste. It's like tasting a holiday.
It's like tasting a winter vacation. All right, so good. And we've got again, two more because the highlight we got them in this little mushrooms in there. There's like some coconut in there.
It's just such a great flavor. And it's doing some incredible things for health. So check it out, get yourself on the Organifi gold head over to our GANIFI.com force slash model. That's O-R-G-A-N-I-F-I dot com force slash model, you're 20% off the green juice, the red juice, the new gold, which I'm just a huge fan of gold.
I'll do like a vanilla protein shake. And then I'll put a scoop of the gold in there, set it off like jade of pink. It's so good. All right, so let's get into our final five.
The next five here on this top 10 moments from the past 100 episodes in celebration of 300. This is part three hundred episodes of the model health. So next one is with the one and only Dr. Mement Oz.
And Dr. Oz has just been he's an icon icon alert. He's an icon in culture. And in the field of, you know, this is a he's a traditional MD.
He does heart surgeries, but it starts to become apparent to him that he could do more to prevent people from being on his operating table in the first place. And he really took a shift in his career and dedicated his life to getting some of the latest information out there. And it was a big risk. And he's taken a lot of arrows, you know, but he's such a great human being, such a great heart, such a courageous person.
And just being around him and his team and seeing how much he's just very loving and giving and focused individual, you know, he cares a lot about people. And his team just reiterated like separate conversations with people on his team just noting how good of a person and how kind he is. And you know, it's definitely something that I pick up whenever I get the chance to hang out with them. So having him on the show was definitely a great gift.
And we had some incredible takeaways, just like nugget after nugget after nugget of like insight. And some of the first things I learned about hormone function in relationship to our satiety controls in our body and how we store fat, I learned from Dr. Oz, you know, listening to his audiobooks, reading his his books and articles, you know, just such a long time ago. You know, so again, such a great gift and a joy and a great fortune to be able to have him here on the show.
And so here's a little bit from our conversation with Dr. Oz. I picked sports to college. I studied my body to be able to play sports.
I got smarter and smarter as I realized certain things would make me yawn on the sideline. And other things may be a tiger. And I began to realize I wasn't just about genetics. There were other things that I could do to hack my body to perform at a higher level.
And when I went to med school, I learned a lot about why those things worked. And I started to realize as I advanced in my life that I was helping people in the ways I thought they needed to be helped. But it was a little too little too late. And it was my wife, really, who was the catalyst who would pressure me like sports.
I heard Fauncey but Knight saying, you know, people aren't getting the message because you're not giving it to them. Doctors aren't giving the American the message that we need to hear. You're doing your best in your offices, but they need to hear it before they come to your office. So that really sinks in.
And that's why it's dedicated my life to what we're doing now. Absolutely. So was this kind of the catalyst for the you books, you, the owners manual, that was my first introduction to you. So I was just fresh out of college listening to the audio book in my my Ford Explorer.
It's just fascinating. So I just drove along your Ford Explorer, what you were hearing was a vision that actually my Lisa, my wife had articulated that took me a little while to get it. But I finally got it got on my vision board too. It made a lot of sense.
And there's a certain doctor, they Mike Royzen, who's at the Cleveland Clinic. And the two of us started collaborating because I had made a series of shows for Discovery Channel called Second Opinion. And my thought was everyone got a second opinion. And that can be actually a second opinion from someone who's knowledgeable about health, not necessarily another doctor because you want to triangulate decisions you make in your life.
And the series had run and we thought there's so much stuff here. We got to talk about with American the problem is people, they see health content is sour and sour. Everyone thinks that if it's healthy, it can't be good. I mean, I give you an example.
Companies that make food, well often not, even if they make it healthier won't admit it because they assume you'll think it doesn't taste good anymore. And so that we're in a society where people will hide the good stuff almost because they don't want to turn you off. Now that doesn't have to be that way. I'm not love understanding my body.
I adore that I can change it for the better. I think people like that when they can finally get past the fear of not understanding what's really happening. And so we started to say, okay, how do you best do that? Well, the most intricate things you have in your life, electronics, refrigerator, your car, they all have owners manuals, except you.
And then we thought, well, if we just say it's about you, well, you can't duck. And it's not the, I'm pointing at you blaming you, you it's the faun. Hey, how about you, man? What's where you with this thing?
Why don't you show up in your own life? And Mike Roysen's ancestor, relative, made the US Army posters with the guy, you know, Uncle Sam pointing at you, they're recruiting posters. And so it's that same finger. So we took that hand pointing at you, tried to make it so much went into this.
I can't tell you try to adjust your hand. So it's not a accusative hand, but it's a port of hey, come on over here, guys. We can do it together. And that was really about you.
The whole mantra was be part of us, all of us, because we all do it together. And if you come along with us, we'll make something really big happen. And that made the first book was called you, the owner's manual, because we figured the most valuable thing you own that dwarves and important is anything else you ever got from your parents, your body, all to have an owner's manual. So you actually know how to use it.
I totally agree with that. And I think it's one of the greatest gifts that you can have is to understand this amazing body that you live in. Like we're not leaving here with anything, right? And all this, like, it's kind of like a little morbid, but somebody's gonna live in your house one day.
Right? But your body is the one thing you own. Like this is your, your home. And the more that you can just basic stuff, know about taking care of your body, can empower you.
But for a lot of people, it's in a way game, right? They don't really understand their body. So they're never quite comfortable in it. Right.
And the house source it. Exactly. And then be getting the problems because then it's really hard to put the pieces together. And you don't trust the deepest, most valuable judge your own instinct.
Do you feel good with that or not? And I think that trust that becomes a problem. That's why I think we'll have trouble with diets. You're gonna diet that's so miserable.
You can't possibly do it your whole life. I mean, your life will seem longer, but it won't be longer. And so you want to get people to do what they love doing, and just happens to be healthy. And that's why I think that people wear things that way.
I mean, I'll give you a say, I've been roughly the same way. I actually lost the ways in science by football in college just because I had more muscle now, not a little weakling. But my fat content is probably not all that different. I love nuts.
I adore them. And I used to always feel badly when I was eating nuts because I knew they were fattening. And I was eating something that was gonna make me fat, but I never seemed to get fat. Now go figure.
And then I started researching. It turns out every study ever done on nuts shows that people eat nuts actually lose weight or stay the same. They don't gain weight. Then I got to thinking, well, why was that?
It's fat. If any fat, anything makes you fat, then why isn't it making me fat? And I've had the epiphany. I think that I'm one sort of acknowledges now.
And I don't know why I was so late to come upon it. The body's not counting calories. Your brain doesn't care about calories. It cares about nutrients.
Give me the stuff that I need to live my life. And if it doesn't have a lot of calories or empty calories, you'll be fine. Dr. Oz is just amazing.
Absolutely love him. So that was episode 289 of The Model Health Show. And next up at number seven of these top 10 moments is with my truly great friend, Jim Quick. This is episode 232.
He's been on the show a few times. The reason that I must, we're covering a variety of different things for sure in this top 10 because that's what health is really about. It's having health in multiple areas of our lives. And Jim is, he's all about the brain.
He's one of the smartest people that I know. I've seen him do mental feats that would just knock your socks off. There was an event where, you know, Jim was on stage. He passed the microphone around to 50 different people, had all of them say a two digit number, like 17, 41, the next person, you know, passed the mic again.
Oh, seven, past the mic again, 37, you know, just on and on 50 numbers. And he just stood there. He just stood there like the G that he is. And after he was over, he wrote all the numbers down.
From his memory, all hundred numbers, just from standing there listening, just within a matter of minutes. He just knows how to store this data. And this is what he shares in his programs and in his live events. I've been to several of Jim's events and been a part of them.
And I just think he's an outstanding being. And he did it forward and backwards. Okay, crazy pants. And by the way, he was just reciting it back.
He wasn't writing it down. Somebody was behind him writing the numbers down. And he just remembered them, you know, so the power of the mind, that's what Jim is all about. One of the biggest reasons, if not the biggest reason that I included him in this top 10 is the impact he's had on my life as a friend.
Like he's been there. I'm talking like early, early in my career when I'm just trying to figure out how do I transition this from like working with people in a one on one context to doing stuff online to doing these events and things like that. He was right there as a kind of support and just acknowledging me and he saw something he knew something special was happening, right? And he's continued to just invite me in and find ways to to pour back into my life.
And so he's been a good friend. And I've learned a lot from him and been able to again, kind of pour back into his life as well. And I just love him. You know, so here is a conversation with the one and only Jim quick.
So the multitasking, I completely agree with you. The research is showing there's a study at the University of London saying that actually lowers your IQ similar to the few stayed up all night and pulled it all night or drop it 15 points. And so the goal here is you could task and multitasking in terms of doing something physical and something mental. You could be on the phone and going for a walk.
But too cognitive intensive task is not possible to be able to do it. And so people actually it's taken anywhere from extra five to 20 minutes to regain your focus and your flow. There's a high level more of errors that's being made trying to multitask. So if you feel like you're multitasking because you want to be a better performer and more productive, it's absolutely not true.
It's actually taken away from your productivity. The goal is to do one single mental thing at a time. Really multitasking is actually a misnomer. It's the more accurate term is called task switching.
Because every time you you switch tasks, you know, you have to refocus your energy. And so it takes more time. And there's definitely more mistakes. The second thing that you mentioned is just as we're rewiring our brains for distraction is to focus as a muscle, just like your memory is a muscle for you.
Creativity is a muscle. It's not something you have. It's something you do. It's like you don't have creativity.
You do creativity. You don't have memories. You do a memory. You don't have focus.
You do focus. And the good thing about making it a process is you can duplicate it, right? There's a recipe there. And because it's a verb as opposed to just, you know, a noun.
And so with focus, it's something you could do. But every time that that's a benefit of being mindful, right? I think most of your listeners have some kind of meditation or mindfulness activity that they support every single day. If not, I would highly encourage it.
But it's not the 20 minutes or 30 minutes of meditation and getting a meds in like stage. Surely that's good to the flow through alpha and beta brainwave states and such. And what's even more important, I think, is that every single time you lose your focus and you bring it back in, you know, to a thought or to a mantra or to a point or to a space or to an energy or gratitude, a feeling, a breath, then you exercise and you build your mental focus, your muscle, your focus muscles. So it's not that you don't get lose focus.