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Yeah, your body goes into a shutdown mode, basically. So your hormones start to go off their regular cycle. Your body, yeah, literally goes into shutdown mode because now it needs to protect what it has and not produce the unnecessary things that a normal functioning body would require. So, you start losing your period, you start losing hair.
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So, basically, it's just your body shedding all what it considers to be unnecessary functions.
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Yeah. Even though they're super necessary, but to the basic survival. Preserve energy. To preserve the basic, super basic needs of a human. it starts to shut down all of those other functions of the body. Yeah, I did, at that point, I did lose my period. Really? And then I had to work on gaining it back.
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100%.
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Yeah, I mean, I think there's almost like no self-love. Because if I were to have any self-love, I wouldn't do that to myself, right? Because now you're basing your self-love and self-esteem on an image that you can't even see clearly. So if you can't see yourself or who you are,
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and you're wanting to diminish that image, I would say that there was almost no self-love because you don't have a clear image of yourself. And you're focusing that love on an idealistic image that's outside of you.
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A perfect image that's outside of you that you can't attain.
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you and you could attain it but in your eyes you know like you're saying let's say you're you've lost a certain amount of weight but you're still not able to see that you're still that's why it's like that you're never able to grasp for that image because you're not able to see yourself realistically so you had very little self-love at that season right yeah when
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I mean, I wasn't, I was doing all these things. I was trying to be the thinnest that I possibly could and I still wasn't happy. So that was like a, you know, a miscommunication there between like, you're, you, you know, you're going to be happy. You're going to be satisfied when you're this weight and that wasn't happening and I was constantly depressed and not happy.
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So then that came into question like where, when, how are we going to do this? Like how are you going to reach that level of happiness? Because obviously this is not working. So then I did a turning point for me was when I saw a physician, a primary care physician that she was running marathons. And she was running and she was like, I think in her 50s and running one.
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I don't want to exaggerate and say every month, but it was at least every three months she was running a marathon.
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Consistently. So she got me into running, into working out for the right reasons for that mental aspect and started to shift nurturing my body to fuel the runs and to fuel the working out. So that was like the first shift.
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I was like early 20s, yeah. Okay, early 20s, wow. Early 20s, yeah. During that whole period from like 15 to 20, early 20s, it was a struggle of like a push and pull of wanting to look a certain way and dieting and overworking out and just trying to like, you know, I went from, actually I went from
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under eating anorexia to like binge eating I never did fully go into like bulimia but like I did struggle with those two extremes because it's a you know you're you're you can only take so much when you're constricting constricting constriction and then you're going to go the opposite release you need to like yes exactly Wow it was that and it was actually a cousin to also saying
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that's not like you're not like really leaning into one of the joys of life which is eating and experiencing you know the food that you're eating and your your constant thinking is around what I should be eating should not be eating so I don't gain weight versus sitting with what you're eating and enjoyment of it Wow so that was kind of a little bit of a light bulb moment
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that eating doesn't have to be like such a chore such a you know a weighing factor but more of a joy of life and enjoyment and i know nowadays that we've there's so much information out there and so much stress around like eating what to eat when i not eat fruit is suddenly uh controversial i'm like really um
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So, it just, you know, taking it back to the basics, you know, and going back to have food is actually a joy of life. Yes, it feeds our ability to function, but it's also, at least for me, a joy, you know.
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Yeah.
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my my weight my food my my working out i'm not too extreme in one way i have a good sense of self self-image and i feel like i'm in a consistent healthy place what years was that i mean in my early 20s it was when i started to make that shift i um um if i can remember the book that overcoming overeating because that's what i was doing at that point which is this one in the same kind of you're just not restricting
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You know you're or you are restricting because you are thinking this food is good This is bad, and now you're maybe overeating the things that you think they're good, but nothing should be in excess, right?
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So that was kind of a turning point in my early 20s I was I was realizing that I could eat nourish my body and then and get the physical activity that I needed and being a stable physical weight and function properly, right? And I think it was then, later on in my early 30s, that I shifted from cardio and running and marathoning to more weight lifting.
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It shifted. That's interesting because I was doing cardio during my 20s and my weight would drastically shift. So I would go into being super thin if I was running, if I was training for a marathon, thin, not a lot of muscle definition, to then when I was not training as hard, kind of being a little bit rounder and softer.
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Um, but then when I started the strength train, I've never been so consistent in how I looked and how I feel and how I feel looked. Look, it's been years of like actually being super consistent and the physical aspect.
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yeah there's a draining aspect with that much cardio and and while you can look a certain way that maybe the society thinks that it's you know feminine thin and not a ton of muscle definition but when I shifted into strength training I leaned into my confidence and my
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self-esteem like skyrocketed because I that's where you step into your power into your true strength and occupy space and utilize what you're born with your your your you're born to have muscle definition your otherwise it wouldn't be it wouldn't be there the ability to do so so when I fully leaned into that it just completely shifted my self-confidence the way I looked at myself and
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I'm not thin enough. You know, I don't look thin enough to, like, I want to look as strong as I possibly can. I want to develop as much muscle as I possibly can. And then, you know, we can talk about that, too, like, and how that feeds into health and longevity.
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Yeah, for sure. I do get that comment a lot. Really? Or I have, not a lot. I should not say that. Every so often there will be a comment of like too masculine or, you know, things like that. And it doesn't bother me, honestly, because it's that person's perspective of me and that's not a perspective that I have of myself. That's great. And how I made that shift was basically
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Organically, because I know what feeling that that gave to me. Like I know how I feel when I lift, when I feel stronger versus when I try to diet myself to my skinniest version. I didn't love myself at that time. I did not feel strong. I felt weak. I felt frail versus now I feel strong. I feel confident. I feel strong.
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I don't want to say invisible, but there's points, yeah, when, you know, it's like that when you, when you do lift and when you're pushing yourself that you do feel invisible. You feel unstoppable.
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Exactly. Exactly.
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No, not really. I mean, you do get some endorphins from running. You do feel some of those good feeling endorphins when you run. The runner's high is real. Not in the same fashion, I would say. Not in the same fashion. It's not strength.
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Absolutely.
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And at the end of the day, yes, you can get those similar sentiments from a lot of modalities, from cardio, from running or from strength training or from Pilates or yoga, whatever, you know, that does it for you. But for me, I think of longevity.
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It's come to that point where I'm like quality life, quality longevity, being able to live unassisted when you're later years in the 70s, 80s, 90s, hopefully, and beyond.
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Absolutely.
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I think it's different for men than women. And in some situations to the higher end, it's almost when men are almost twice as able as women to build muscle. So I think for women, it's even more important to try to build that muscle when you can. I think it's so funny because I wrote this. I think in the, I'm like, I'm not going to remember all of it.
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So for, if you're going to like your forties, it's basically 2.2 to 0.7 pounds of muscle per month and then double and then 2.4 to 8.4 per year. So like on the high, on the low end is two pounds per year to eight pounds per year. If you're... Going after it. Like, true, intense, maximal strength training.
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That's your ability.
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If you run all in.
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Yeah, in their 40s.
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And how easy is... And it drops, you know, in their 50s. In the 50s, it's like 1.2 to 6 pounds of muscle per year.
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You know, maybe genetically sometimes some people can be a little bit more, but on average that's, yeah.
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It starts within like two weeks. You start to lose muscle. And you start losing muscle in your 30s. You start to lose muscle at about three to some studies say five, some studies say eight on the higher end percent of muscle mass per decade. I think it started in your 30s.
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You're going to lose muscle. So that's why it's so important to start early on, to build as much as you can. So then you can kind of offset the muscle that you will eventually lose.
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Exactly. Yeah.
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I'm not huge on like numbers on like, all right, let's draw. I don't want to get in my own head. This is, there are some people that benefit from that, but there are some people like me who have suffered through some of these eating disorders that stay away from, I stay away from weighing myself. It doesn't have that effect on me anymore.
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Sometimes if I want to hop on it just to be like, Hey, I knew that was going on. Cool. And it doesn't have that effect on me. But yeah, I try to stay away as long as in my heart, I know that I'm doing everything that I can to strengthen, train as hard as I can to eat the right way, getting the right amount of protein, carbs and fats, etc.
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If I know that I'm doing that, I don't need any measurements to tell me how I'm doing.
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it's going to dictate how you feel on that particular day. And do you really want your mood and your day to be dictated by a number on a scale? That's what I always say. Why do you want your day to be dictated by that? You know progress. Like we lie to ourselves. We're good at lying to ourselves, but we know when we're progressing, when we're regressing, when we're stagnant, right?
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So I don't want my day to be dictated by a number. Now, granted, there is, if you are able to remove that aspect and somehow not allow that number to dictate your day and simply utilize that as a way to track progress, but not every day because you're not going, your body fluctuates within a day, from day to day, but if you're measuring yourself maybe in like, at the most like weekly increments.
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Exactly.
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Because progress takes time.
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It takes a long time to put muscle on. Easier when you're a beginner, right? Because your body is going to respond right away because it's something new. And then a little bit harder if you're a more advanced lifter or person that works out. But progress takes time whether it is gaining muscle or losing weight. And that's the thing.
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I think that's why most people quit because they don't see that progress in the short term. And it takes three to six months to see true results. And people mostly drop a new program within the first like eight weeks. I think there's statistics like 50 to 65% of people will quit in the first three to six months of starting a workout program.
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And then if it's like New Year's, it's like 80% of the people will quit.
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they fail within the first two weeks i'm curious what do you think is the biggest barrier to maintaining goals then so that people don't fail so quickly when they start i think the first thing it is like those unrealistic expectations set realistic goals for me if you are just starting out if this is something completely new is set that goal of just showing up Show up every day.
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Create that consistency. Consistency is the primary goal that maybe somebody should aim for in my eyes. Aim for that consistency every day, day in and day out to then bring you to, to carry you to that point where you have created
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a new um a new habit and it takes time to create habit i mean there was a misconception of like taking 21 days actually it's much longer than that i mean 21 days is a good starting point because it's a little bit more than the two weeks but if you're really wanting to solidify a habit especially when it comes to working out it's like a little bit over two months some people say 66 days but
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Exactly. Process is the goal.
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Process is the goal.
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And are you comparing yourself to this image that you had or you were at some point?
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Can you be the best version of yourself that you could possibly be now? It is hard, because my body has changed from a year ago, from two years ago. Absolutely, it happens. But am I in my power? Can I honestly say to myself that I'm doing everything that I can with regards to working out, strength training?
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with regards to nutrition, with regards to sleep, recovery, all of the components that will bring you to that optimal self at this point in time. So that's where I'm at.
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That's where I'm at, yeah.
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why do you think that first off is that accurate that there are trends for women in their way that their body is supposed to look if so why does that change for women over the years there is definitely trending there's been like you said you know i agree with you that there's been you know the trend of being skinny and then curvaceous and i don't know that it's necessarily being thin again i hope not
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I think there's a movement. There's a true movement with being... being like strong being strong and i love and appreciate all the doctors that are coming forward and sharing their their data on how strength and and having as much muscle as possible is healthy um for a woman not just quality of life now but in their later years i think um
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Yeah, I think a lot of these studies and these doctors that are coming forward with women-specific, because I think a lot of the studies have been done on men, but with women-specific studies that show that importance. So I'm hoping that that's the new trend, and that's here to stay.
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Honestly, that was one of the main reasons why I accepted to work with Kim is because she does have this influence and she decided that she wanted to step into her strength and build muscle and maintain that muscle because also she realized that muscle is important for her health and longevity, not just aesthetically speaking.
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And for me, that was an opportunity to help her, but also help other women. that she is influencing. Obviously her reach is way bigger than mine is. So that was one of my biggest driving factors for working with her and other celebrities that I have is to send that message of strength to the women out there that strength is beautiful, strength is health and quality longevity.
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So that's, to me that was, yeah, I see that as a positive, having a positive effect on women.
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She loves it. I mean, that's not... Did she always do that before? No, she didn't. It was more cardio and Pilates and things like that, which, again, everything has a place and a space and a time, but... In my opinion, humble opinion, and I think research backs it up, strength training is queen. It's at the top of the list.
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Yeah, I mean, with all the confidence that she already has, she feels definitely more confident and she can't wait to train with me. Really? Yeah, it's amazing, you know, if she per chance happens to not be training for a few days because of her very demanding schedule, you know, she's like, I can't wait to train.
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So that to me is like music to my ears to hear that somebody has made that leap and has leaned into strength training. And I've seen her and, you know, to me, again, it's not as much about aesthetics, but about, you know, form, like, you know, walking around and doing things with great form. Injury prevention. Injury prevention and all of that. So it's beautiful.
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First starting point for me is always, have you tried doing it naturally, right? So are you able to? Because some people are just not able to get to that point, right? So for me, it's like starting with the attainable things that you can naturally, like nutrition and working out. And if that hasn't worked and you are, as a matter of fact, somebody that is a candidate for that drug, then
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There's more and more research that shows that that can be helpful in a lot of aspects, not just losing weight, but health wise. So as with any other therapies, pharmaceutical therapies, I'm not necessarily opposed to them, but there's a place and time for them. So, for me, it's like, have you tried the foundation? Which, again, we know is eating right and working out, getting enough sleep.
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Exactly. Meditating, for me, meditating is huge. Did I mention everything? Yeah. So, like, if you are, if you're focusing on having those foundation and you still are struggling and maybe it's time to talk to a professional to see if that is something that is that would be of benefit I know that again there has been studies out there with Drastic weight loss, I'm not on board with that.
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So if it's happening, even with a Zempik, if you're utilizing it and you're experiencing drastic weight loss, that is not healthy because you're losing not just fat, but you're losing lots of muscle in that process.
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But if it's done with kind of micro dosing, again, is what studies show is that you're able to maintain muscle mass while slowly losing weight.
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It is super scary. That is scary. The drastic weight loss, no matter what way it's done, if it's a drastic weight loss and if it's done because you're restricting your food intake and you're working out like crazy or whether you're doing something like GLP-1, like Ozempic, then that's not good. That is not good.
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it's to me like that my intention is to never have anybody compare me to them and and have them feel bad about themselves like that that would absolutely that is not my intention like my goal and my desire is to empower women
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to step into their strength to feel the strongest that they possibly can to embrace their their musculature their strong bodies to embrace that so for me um that's been my desire to kind of embody this strong person with muscle so that women feel empowered to to to aim to build muscle and to look in the best
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way a version of themselves not me obviously I um I have a different genetic genetic makeup you know than than somebody else like we were genetically and bio but we're biodiverse we're genetically diverse so um it might it might be unrealistic for some women to to aim to look exactly like me but nobody should want to aim to look exactly like somebody else so I always
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And I say this, you know, in my posts is I aim to be the strongest version of yourself, the best version of yourself and not utilize me as a comparison, but rather as hopefully an inspiration.
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of a woman that was struggling throughout her entire life and now has embraced her her strength and and my abilities and it took years you know it took years so i i didn't suddenly wake up lifted a couple of weights and i'm here i never i didn't always have great form you know that's one of the things that people always praise like great form how are you able to do that i
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I think the biggest, The threshold that scared me the most was hitting 100,000 followers. It was like, whoa, there's 100,000 people that are looking at what I do. And then for some reason, it kind of normalized after that.
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No, now that I take it for granted, by any means, I'm so grateful for the platform, for my audience. I never take it for granted, but it doesn't have that, you know, fear correlated with it. You know, it's not...
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because I know what I'm doing I know what I'm saying I feel to a certain degree so it doesn't when when I was just first starting out obviously you're still kind of building your confidence and and and navigating that so um but to kind of go back to I think what you were asking like how has that affected me personally in the beginning you do deal with a lot of
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this person said that so now you know am i really that or and then you just learned at least i have learned to to see that as not a reflection of who i am i know who i am i know the message that i'm trying to portray and i know
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you know that I'm there for service you know that's what makes a purposeful life is being of service to others and that's I don't get emotional but that's what fulfills me is like being of service and providing as much service as I can to as many people as I can especially women because I'm a woman and was you know I'm in a household of women I have two younger sisters so
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That always has been kind of keeping in mind what my goal is and who I am and not being affected by people that will try to speak negatively in the process.
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When did I start to think that?
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I think that's always been I think it came within the territory of experiencing depression. I think that's you know I think that sense of purpose is linked to depression somehow. So I was struggling with that for a while.
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I mean, I went to business school. I got a master's in business. And I did all of this accomplishment, graduated summa cum laude with the highest honors in three years and then in one year for my business degree. Wow.
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you know i i was accumulating all of these accolades and um and it just wasn't adding up like it wasn't feel it wasn't fulfilling to me because it wasn't you know it didn't feel like it was coming from a sense of like of of purpose or of service rather to the greater good and um
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And now where I am at, knowing what strength training and nurturing myself in all aspects, nutrition, like we were talking, sleep, meditation, and recovery, like knowing what that has done for me, for my mental health, that's been kind of my driving factor to bring that to the world and yeah.
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It started when I was in my teens, you know, like I said, dealing with the eating disorders and then realizing that there was depression that was going hand in hand with that and anxiety. You know, as I say, those monsters in the closet never go away. You just develop better tools to, to, to, to manage them, to manage them.
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So for me, working out is one of my main tools in my tool belt that, you know, I'm feeling a certain way. I know I'm going to go get a workout and it's going to, to shift my day. Everything. So there are those moments where I absolutely don't feel like working out, but I know what I will achieve on the other side of that.
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So that's, I think, one of my main motivating factors along with wanting to be independent in my later years, wanting to have a quality of life and longevity that I can rely on. I think the other one is I don't want to feel depressed. I don't want to feel anxious. I don't want to deal with those things that I know I am predisposed to deal with. You can override those.
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That's just like the hand that you're dealt. But it's like what tools and your tool belt do you utilize to best deal?
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Thank you so much. It's a pleasure being here. Thank you for having me.
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I guess I always think, am I giving my best self to my audience, to the people that I influence? That is always my thing. If there is one thing that keeps me up at night, it's that. Am I providing the best value that I possibly can out there to the world? So that's the one thing that I always strive to do better. That's why I launched the WeRise app.
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So I had an app prior to that and I relaunched and rebranded last January. So we're coming up on a year and I'm always striving to make it better. Whether it's like with the latest research and And it will be light years ahead of what it is now because we're really aiming for it to be a female empowerment and development platform, not just a fitness app.
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And yeah, that's what we strive every day to perfect.
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Yeah. You're just more conscious of that self-talk. You're just more conscious of those patterns. I think that's with everything. You just become conscious of the way that you talk to yourself, conscious of...
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negative past patterns and then you course correct and it is it is good enough it is it is good because as we were talking about earlier you know great and perfection can be the enemy of good so i'm always conscious of that to not aim for perfection but to aim for value and and and good yeah have you ever done like uh therapy also emotional therapy instead of you know workout therapy I have.
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I have.
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I'll be honest. Therapy, for me, has been... Didn't work for you? Not as much as working. Sure. But it works for a lot of people. It has... It's been a long time, honestly, since I've been in therapy and I definitely promoted like, yes, do therapy. It's definitely great. Like I said, all of these are just tools that we accumulate and then we use and whatever works best for you.
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For me, it's been more self-therapy. I read a lot of, I've read a ton of self-help books. I've read, you know, books that you'd read at a collegiate level, you know. And that's how I self-educate and that's how I self-help and self-actualize and analyze. Maybe it's a good time to say I've also done plant medicine. And that has been huge help for me and kind of being my own therapist.
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Because that's the best way that I can describe plant medicine is being your own therapist. therapist, seeing yourself from the outside and looking at your patterns and looking at everything from a different perspective, kind of removed from that ego self.
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I have a relationship with God. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know that if it's in the context of the religion in a sense or maybe it is inclusive of all of that. I just believe in the creator being the creator for all of us. One loving creator that is good and wants what's best for us and that is not judging, but that is loving.
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To continue doing this work and to really actualize that I am of help and service to others. Because I do at times struggle with that. Like I was saying before, am I doing my best? really being of service to humanity, to others. So I think really leaning into that, that yes, you know, if I actually help just one person, that that is a life fulfilled.
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If I've changed, course corrected somebody's path, even by a small percentage, then that is an accomplishment. That's beautiful. Yeah.
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I think it's good to have somewhat of a relationship with whatever you believe, kind of that higher power to be. I think it's something to lean on. I think it's something to lean on. For people, it's different. For everybody, it's different what that could be or look like and what image you have in your mind. But whatever gives you that comfort that you're here for a reason. Yeah.
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My grandma raised me to be religious and say prayers every night. And I think I lost that a little bit. And now I'm back at saying my prayers every night.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Yeah, they are. They are. My parents, I have my two younger sisters. They're all in New York. They're all in New York? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they're still around.
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My dad taught me to be strong and to persevere and to... yeah he never complained he never complained he went from being a doctor back in albania to being a janitor when he came to the united states even though we're legally here and everything but he that's what he had to do you know english but he knew to um put his ego aside and just do what needed to be done to support uh his family and um
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from my mom is to make that compassionate spirit. And also, even though it led to some things that weren't so positive in my life, like that striving to be the best also led to where I am today, I believe. So yeah, I thank her for that.
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She's a hard worker sometimes. I thought I was a hard worker. So yeah, she inspires me in that way to be a hard worker. And beautifully balances that with having a family and having four children and spending quality time with them. So having that balance, that's inspirational.
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Oh, my gosh. I need more. Bring the help.
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Thousands of women. Yeah, thousands of women. Tens of thousands of women.
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All over the world that are achieving their best, strongest selves. And I'm so excited for it.
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What they're working on? Within the app.
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So whatever experience level that you're in, so if you're beginner, intermediate, advanced, if you're working out from home or the gym, there is a program that is for them. And whether they want something to get started, like a 20-minute follow-along that I'm with them every step of the way and kind of guide them through, they got that on there. So I think for every kind of,
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walk of life there is something in the app and there is a meal planning and recipes and macro tracking uh right now we currently have an expert nutritionist and expert habits first she actually is one of like the four phds in the world that um that that works with with habits to just help people establish good habits get rid of habits that don't serve them anymore.
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Yeah, of course. Yeah. Well, so coming into the United States as a teenager presented a lot of issues with fitting in. And I think that was kind of the first if you want to say foreign to like the the issues that started at that point is how does this foreigner um fit in and and integrate and look like you know the other the other kids in the Did you speak English, too, or no?
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And then on the nutrition side, you know, speaking about like, what are macros?
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And then how do we ensure that we, you know, intake enough protein and all of that. And that's just the beginning. We have huge plans. That's great.
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Wearise.xyz.
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It's on my bio, yeah. I'm not wearing the clothing, but I also have a clothing line called Zantoa. Okay. Making women slightly a little bit more motivated by wearing some cute workout clothes. There you go, yeah. To work out. Yeah, yeah.
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Spread the word. Spread the word of strength. Spread the word that aesthetics will come as long as you put in the work to aim for health and longevity. Yeah. Yeah.
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Sonata.Greca. Sonata.Greca. Yeah. See, you see how much I love self-promoting? You know, in this whole conversation, this is probably like the most kind of slightly uncomfortable I've felt because I don't like self-promoting, but yeah. Without self-promoting, I guess what is of service, then you don't get people to take advantage of that.
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If I didn't.
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I don't want to think of the famous jobs that I've done because it was not fun. But I would do something. I would be in this space. I would be in this space somehow because I'm so passionate about it. So if I didn't have a presence...
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such a large presence in social media, I would probably do it in a small fashion, even if it was, you know, outside of the nine to five, which I was doing actually before my, I was teaching yoga classes and I was training on the side while having my nine to five.
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And then, you know, I love that aspect so much, which is what led me to kind of start doing this and putting myself out there, putting my workouts out there and one thing led to another, and here we are today.
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I had a full-time job, but then I was teaching yoga classes.
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And a little bit of strength training as well, yeah. It has advanced from that. point, the starting point to where it is now. But I was doing that on the side and obviously doing my workouts. And then I decided, let's just put it out there, like whatever I'm doing every day. And you could see probably things have shifted from earlier on till now. Just put it out there every day.
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Get up in the morning, do my workout, film it as I'm doing the workout and to see where it leads.
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Yeah, I mean, pretty, pretty fast. It started to happen. I mean, it didn't shift from like, I think I had like 2000 followers in 2019 when I started if I'm one or 2000 when I first started and it's started to happen gradually and then exponentially.
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after that I think that first period of like getting to a few thousand was probably like the hardest because it's like working out you know it's consistency and you don't see a ton of results but then you stay with it because you don't you know you just can't tell the future you can't predict it from just that short period of time so like with anything else consistency consistency consistency yeah
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I think the biggest thing for me is to do everything from a place of love. So whatever you're trying to achieve, achieve it and aim for it from a place of love. Aim to be the fullest version of yourself and not that of somebody else, but the fullest version of yourself. And the third,
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would be to treat everybody in a way that, I don't know if necessarily you want to be treated yourself, but in a way that I believe in a higher self, the higher self would want you to treat, or God, if you will, will want you to treat the fellow man and woman with just compassion and love and understanding. Stepping aside from judgments and what you have been taught to proceed.
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I was an English speaker at the time. I'd taken private courses back in Albania in preparation of either coming to the States, or it's like the main foreign language at the time in Albania, so started on that path. And the opportunity presented itself for my family to come here by winning the lottery and the green card.
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In mind. That's great.
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Thank you so much. I appreciate you saying that. Yeah, of course. Appreciate you having me here today. It was a very enjoyable conversation. Thank you.
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I think it's embodying, again, the true fullest version of yourself while being of service to others to the fullest capacity that you are able to.
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Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thank you for having me.
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So we're like legal basically citizens instantly pretty much, which was super fortunate to be able to come here at a time of unrest in Albania. civil wars and just a chaotic atmosphere. So it was great to escape that and be able to come legally into the United States. But that presented the issues of like now, okay, I'm a teenager in a new country with new challenges.
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And on top of that, I was the only English speaking person in my family. So now I had to carry the load. Wow.
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Yeah, to translate everything. I had to basically become a parent.
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Yeah, go to the doctor's office when my parents go to whatever office, go fill out paperwork. To this day, I don't want to fill out paperwork because I'm so traumatized by it. by that at an early age. And, you know, but it had to be done. It fell on my shoulders. And that, I believe, coupled with, again, being a teenager in a new country, trying to fit in.
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So that's where depression, anxiety, and even an eating disorder came to the surface. Eating disorder, wanting to fit in, depression, anxiety, because there was so much of an overload of, you know, my day to day. school things and then family issues that I had to help with and coupled I found out later in life that I have a genetic predisposition to anxiety and depression.
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So that was a more recent revelation even though I've known because my mom has dealt with it and hearing from her my grandfather has dealt with it so you kind of create that that link that it has existed, thus I'm experiencing it, but then to kind of know from genetic testing that, wow, I am predisposed to all of these things and now how do I work through them?
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Yeah, so that was kind of the back story coming to the country and kind of experiencing some of those issues that then led me to where I am today. Wow. The desire to combat those in a natural way and not saying that I did take antidepressants like I was on medication to help with that, but it never gave me the relief or the long-term relief that I needed.
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It wasn't the long term solution. It's just a cover up of the symptoms. But how, you know, always think of with anything like if it gets taken off the market, if suddenly you don't have no access to pharmacies or how are you innately going to deal with these issues? So I'm always for start with the things that you're able to do and achieve in a natural way by yourself.
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And if you need, not against pharmaceuticals and obviously not against therapy, but can you start with the basics or can you utilize them in conjunction with each other? And then hopefully it'll carry you to a point where you're able to maybe back off from pharmaceuticals because it is known that they have
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It was, you know, when you have an eating disorder, you're blind to it, right? It's more the people that are outside of you that notice it. So it was teachers and parents that started noticing it, that I was losing weight drastically. But when you have this body dysmorphia, you could be the thinnest person
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that you've ever been, that you could possibly be, that you're risking serious health problems, you don't see yourself as that.
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When you look in the mirror, you see, you know, I'm fat, I'm big, I'm this, I'm that. You're just like... the most negative, you're breaking yourself down. You just don't think that because you have such advanced body dysmorphia and looking at yourself from a different lens that you don't recognize that.
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I think it's a combination of all of what you mentioned. It's hypercritical parents. I love you, mom, but she, if I didn't get like the highest grade in class, if I wasn't first in class, you know, if you're not first, you're last kind of mentality, which comes with
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amazing side benefits when it comes to drive and achieving and overachieving in life, but it comes with a huge weight on your shoulders to be the best. And that is not always required to be successful, to be the best, to live the best. So I think it's a combination of all those things.
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I think there's the societal pressures that weigh on young people that are in their formative age, in their formative years. And yeah, the comparison of, of unrealistic beauty.
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And for me at the time was all of those factors as well as trying to figure out how to fit in, in a new place, new country, new culture, you know, trying to control something that felt controllable in months, uncontrollable, an uncontrollable situation.
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It is one of the main things that leads to that is trying to control something that feels controllable in your life.
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Interesting.
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It took a couple of years. It took a couple of years and therapists and being prevented from being in sports because sports was something that I was really interested in. So I was stopped from participating in sports.
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Because I got so skinny and unhealthy that, yeah, that was kind of one of the beginning sort of wake-up calls that, you know, I couldn't do one of the things that I absolutely loved. But again, like that voice of like, you know, you don't look the way that you're supposed to look, like persisted for a while, for a few years.
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And then I was utilizing working out again while understanding that you have to nourish yourself. So I started to increase the caloric intake, but still not to the degree that was needed. And then trying to outweigh that. With working out?
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Anorexia.
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Anorexia.
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It was very minimal. And I don't want to because I don't want to influence anybody to even consider doing anything like that because it was very unhealthy. But it was very minimal.
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Way less.
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Yeah, a few hundred calories a day.
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It's very unhealthy. Very unhealthy.