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Louis Vitiello Jr. is a Board Certified Health Coach who has not only lost over 200 pounds, but has regained control of his health and wellbeing. Louis’ has been taught by some of the world’s top health and wellness experts, such as; Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dr. Andrew Weil, Dr. David Katz, Dr. Walter Willet, Geneen Roth, and many other industry leaders.

His signature program entitled, “Simple Steps – Health Plans for a Busy Life” has been featured on the internationally televised show “Breaking Free” and in local media outlets such as Indy Week. He’s considered amongst his followers as a “guru of holistic health”, ladies and gentlemen, without further a’do I present to you; Louis Vitiello Jr., Integrative Health Coach.

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Episode 21

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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers shared their stories to inspire

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you

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now join host Joe Pardo as he interviews
a dreamer who’s living their dreams

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yeah

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yeah

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yeah

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welcome to the dreamers podcast I’m your
host Joe Pardo and today I’m

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interviewing louis by Telo who is living
history through inspiring others

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welcome to the show louis hi Jones such
a pleasure to be here thank you so much

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for inviting me to your podcast

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thank you so much for agreeing to be on
it’s been great to finally catch up with

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you after ten years

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yeah no kidding i agree just the same my
friend so let’s get started with some

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background about yourself so i have
already mentioned to your viewers my

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name is Luis fight lol jr. and i’m a
board certified health coach

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however I wasn’t always the health and
wellness guy in fact at one point in my

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life I was 398 pounds just under the 400
mark and I you know I was always an

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individual Joe that struggled with
weight loss i tried different diet

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programs all the time and I did the ups
and down roller coaster

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you know i always joke around and I say
hi call Jenny but she hung up on me and

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I did the weight watchers and all i do
is just watch my weight go up every

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single week so i kinda just like got to
a point where I just gave up I got tired

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of throwing tons of money and wasting
all my time eating cardboard food and

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all that sort of things so I just said
you know what the world needs fat people

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to have a really good fat person so I’ve
had years of experience at it some

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really efficient at it and I just kind
of forgot the whole weight loss journey

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and that was pretty much status quo
until I was about the age of 25 and my

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life changed drastically very very
rapidly in the course of one week i was

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told that i had less than 10 years to
live

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two days later had a very good friend of
mine collapse and went into a diabetic

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coma and he was such a overweight large
man that they couldn’t do any normal

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procedures to save his life he literally
as his body was shutting down on him

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they gave him less than five percent
chance there was nothing they could you

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and then the very next day one of my
best friends died of a heart attack

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so not only did I get my own time my
ticking talk here right 10 more years to

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go until I’m dead in six feet under

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but two of the people who really close
to me and not part of time in my life

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are dead and gone and that’s where I
sort of had my personal wake-up call

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where I realized you know I could be
honest it it was it was almost like I

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felt like my friends kinda were
sacrificing themselves to prove me a

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message like that’s how I felt in the
moment I know that’s not what happened

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but that’s how I felt in a moment and I
was thinking you know how foolish is it

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for me how self-centered is it for me
that i have less than 10 years to live

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and it literally walked down to the
doctor’s office when I heard that news

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thinking well i got ten years to figure
it out in plenty of time to okay you’re

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in a hospital literally on your deathbed
and now my best friend is dead because

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he had a heart attack and it’s just the
whole concept of it all was a really big

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wake-up call

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so what happened was is through this
through this life-changing moment i

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decided that this was it and it was
going to be the first day of my new life

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so I lost 207 pounds into year journey
and I haven’t looked back and now I take

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my own personal experience of being the
overweight fat no beasts guy that

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couldn’t fit in a normal airplane seat
that couldn’t go to movie theaters

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because i couldn’t fit that had to back
out of social events because I couldn’t

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go to the theme parks because I didn’t
want to hang out by the strollers

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couldn’t go to certain restaurants
because i couldn’t fit in their boots i

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mean really affected my whole life but I
gave up and all that and now i take that

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experience and combine it with my
education to help others that suffered

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through the battles of obesity just like
I suffered to help them reach their

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goals in your dreams so they can be the
person that they really deep down inside

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want to be

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wow that must’ve been just a short time
after we knew each other

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yeah i would say that so I started when
I was 25

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I was i reach my final goal weight of
losing 200 pounds with my goal on my

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second year anniversary was 27 was what
I lost those 27 and now i’m going on 32

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so it’s been quite some time yeah so
what would you say inspires you

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so what inspires me when it comes to
work is actually seeing people grow and

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develop to see them do two things that
they always felt or deem was impossible

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to do and when I come to work every day
and see people transform their lives

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literally right in front of me it is a
true inspiration and get up every

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morning and come to work what I do now I
don’t feel like I work a day in my life

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that’s truly inspirational for me when
it comes to jizz general life and just

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creativity and being involved with
different products the inspiration I

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think just comes from beaming off about
the people i really take the time to sit

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back and absorb and listen and sort of
be in the moment and I think when you

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can shift your mindset to be in a moment
almost anything at that point can be

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inspiring so how did your dream come
about as far as when you started to

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coach other people to lose weight and to
have better and healthier lives and and

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not i guess not through dieting but
through the entire life transformations

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it’s a very good question on you know
it’s funny because I didn’t even realize

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that this was a dreamer passion until
somebody else woke me up to the idea at

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the time I was a senior microsoft
network engineer so I had a really comfy

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cozy job at the 41 k the benefits you
know sort of the dream job and I was

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doing quite well and it wasn’t until I
met somebody that hadn’t seen me for a

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long time that literally was taken back
by the transformation i took and they

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asked me to tell them my story and I did
and by the time i was done she was

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literally in tears and she asked me she
says Louis she says how long you been on

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IT and i said at the time I was a 94
about seven years or whatever equal

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wasted then she says you’re really good
this

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aren’t you I said yeah I i can do I TMI
sleep this is what I was meant to do and

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she said no is not what you’re meant to
do what you’re meant to do is share your

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story with others and inspire them to
make changes because you can reach

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people that have been suffering i know
so many people that have tried

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everything to lose weight and if they
heard your story you would inspire them

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to be a different person you might not
know it yet you might not know how

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you’re going to get there but one day
you’re gonna figure out how you can take

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your message and bring it to the public
and really inspire change and what is

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definitely necessary to be done in our
country so i didn’t think anything of it

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i just said well hey thanks you know I
appreciate it you know a nice compliment

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and then I spent some time you know it
was actually what happened was joking i

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was laying laying down in bed one night
and I was kind of like board and

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couldn’t fall asleep so I pulled out my
laptop and I just started Google in

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about I saw as an IT consultant i was
googling like health consultant you know

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because that’s what makes sense in my
little world and i stumbled across

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health coaches and I had no idea that
such a thing existed i figured only the

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type of health and wellness gurus are
like personal trainers and dietitians or

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nutritionist I didn’t know there was
such a thing in health where people take

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a whole picture like a holistic view
looking at the whole picture of every

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person’s characteristics you know really
taking in does your work life does your

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career life their relationships does
your spirituality does your activity

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effective food choices they’re making
and if so how do they affect them and I

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didn’t really gather that concept until
I stumbled across the Institute for

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Integrative Nutrition which is the
world’s largest nutrition school based

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on in new york and i started to read
about the programs and materials that

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the school covers and learn that the
school what I really liked about it was

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bio individuality and I felt like that’s
what it was for me that’s why the Jenny

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Craig and weight watchers and all them
didn’t work for me and it worked for

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people i know is just because it was
meant to work for them but not me I’m my

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own person

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we’re all unique we all look different
at different talk different have

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different backgrounds have different
families have different interests

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why should we all eat the same if we’re
different in every other aspect in life

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why can one meal work for everybody

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it just doesn’t it doesn’t you gotta
look at so many other things and it

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still gives you over a hundred different
dietary theories lifestyle suggestions

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and is from like world-leading people
you Deepak Chopra bernie siegel geneen

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roth David Katz you just show me i mean
i could go on but over 40 different

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professors and public speakers are
enrolled in this program so i got really

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excited and I’m rolled on and that was
really the one that started my journey

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through the school in the program and
materials and through my own life

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experience i was making it so many
connections and I’m like oh that’s why

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you know that’s why I had success doing
it this way and that’s why I had success

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doing it this other way

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so when I really found out what health
coaches were because somebody else

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inspired me to take a look at that
that’s when I really found what I was

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meant to do it just felt right at that
time

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that’s how he discovered that this was
where my dreams like so how does your

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family received that and and your
friends as well that you

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well first we’re going to lose a bunch
of weight and then later on down the

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line you’re like hey I know I’ve done IT
all my life not gonna do it anymore

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we’re gonna we’re gonna do this thing
that I googled because somebody you know

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planted the seed in my head

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yeah how is all that received now he you
know I it’s funny because I don’t think

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my family still truly understands when
idea who it might my father i think on a

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daily basis asks me when I’m gonna get
back into iit so easy when you’re gonna

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go back into your real job you don’t
like I have a real job you know but to

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answer your first question to weight
loss you know it’s funny I’m so I had a

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dream to be skinnier and healthier it
wasn’t just about losing weight but it’s

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actually get healthier i was faced with
a lot of different elements a lot of

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different chronic diseases that plague
America today I had I know what it’s

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like to to take multiple prescriptions
and have to spend 250 300 dollars a

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month on a reoccurring expense every
every month at the pharmaceutical

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companies near walgreens CVS you name
them so I i get all that and then what

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happens is when i was starting to get
success so many people started to

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discourage me i would get mad are you
sick

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what’s wrong with you are you okay are
you feeling well you seem to be losing a

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lot of way and then when I lost around a
hundred pounds because people weren’t

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used to seeing me that skinny in their
whole life it was wow you look really

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initiated you need to eat so I had this
whole battle the whole time through all

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these other people that you know there’s
supposed to be influential your family’s

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supposed to support your friends are
supposed to support you but it just

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didn’t really didn’t work out that way

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surprisingly enough um I don’t think I
meant miss intentions they just they

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just weren’t seeing the same dream that
I see but I knew where I wanted to go I

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knew exactly where I wanted to go and
not a time there people think I look

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fantastic by the way my parents couldn’t
be any more support of in the changes I

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made in my lifestyle they they truly do
feel like what I’ve done is the best

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thing that could ever happen to me which
is great on and at the same thing with

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the job you know I i talked to a lot of
individuals in the area about where they

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want to go they feel like I inspired
them to do what they’re really meant to

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do you know there’s a great video on
youtube by Alan Watts it says if money

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was no object what would you really do
and I really feel like that video

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resonates with me that this is what i
would do I would just help people

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wherever I can help them to sew and I
feel like that’s destined dream for me

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is just go out there and help people to
be a part of the little ripple effect to

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change people’s lives but actually it’s
funny I was just referencing that it’s

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video to somebody i was talking to
earlier to that hey that’s a great video

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it is it is so what steps did you take
to get started the steps for me when it

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came to becoming are starting to lose
weight really was about making a

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commitment of a lifestyle change to
change my behavior to change my mindset

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that’s what to me was the missing link
right I her diet and exercise diet and

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exercise didn’t work so what I wanted to
do was figure out

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why these things just didn’t work for me
and I just spend countless time

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researching and studying all these
different theories and I kind of use my

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body as an experiment you know did this
worker did this work and never worked i

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just kind of wrote it down and
documented it and moved on but I think

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it’s important that you create goals i
think goals are important step because

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without creating goals you really don’t
know what you’re working towards you

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just aimlessly wandering around the
streets and this is the same when

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starting my businesses so first you need
to create goals and it could be any type

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of goals but they need to be smart goals
as in specific measurable attainable

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realistic and timely they need to be
smart goals because if they’re not smart

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goals then you really don’t have
anything to measure it against simply

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saying i want to exercise more is not as
good as saying I want to go to the gym

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three times a week by December first
that’s more manageable and attainable

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showdown what you want to do is you want
to take your goal and create objectives

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and these objectives are basically two
step so you need to take to finish your

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goal to get to your goal

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so what you do is you write down all the
different objectives all the different

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steps that you need to accomplish your
goal and he create little checkmark

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boxes next to them and you can just
start checking them off you go through

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the process so every time you check on
those little boxes off it’s like a mini

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when you just accomplished a mini goal
so you really just kind of go through

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that system and eventually reach your
goal

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I think if you follow that system no
matter what you do you’ll be able to

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take some of the dreams some of the
goals that you’ve always had and be able

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to put them in reality but the first
step is to take whatever’s in your head

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and write it down and then develop a
plan to make that plan come into reality

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so was there any roadblocks that you hit
with losing all the weight and you

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mentioned that you know your family your
friends are almost fighting you on

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losing weight but then down the road
when you became a health coach what

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roblox did you hit then that’s a
fantastic question on there’s tons

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roblox in the weight-loss journey and to
be honest with you i mean anybody out

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there that’s tried to lose even 10 or 15
or 20 pounds it’s probably note

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sometimes you just plateau and you just
go flat line and no matter what you do

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you can exercise more you

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can eat less calories you can be more
mindful it doesn’t matter you’re still

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stuck on i think one of the things that
really helped me overcome roadblocks and

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barriers was that I had my ending sort
of inside I knew where I wanted to go

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but I just didn’t get caught up in a
journey getting there yeah i use this

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analogy I share this a lot with clients
that I feel struggling and you’re so

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caught up in details on where they want
to be especially when it comes to things

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that you’re dreaming about the goals and
ambitions they have and it’s been things

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in your head that they’ve had for years
maybe the lifetime but they never got

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there so i don’t know a hundred years
ago there was this movie that was

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created and it’s it’s a movie that we’ve
all seen we’ve all seen this movie it’s

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it’s world-renown on being even still
gets played sometimes annually in

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certain movie theaters and got a
fantastic story and when they were

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designing the original movie poster for
this movie they actually designed a

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really cool inspirational poster that
they knew a hundred years later Luis

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would be using this in his talks so I’m
glad that they had the forethought to

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really keep me in mind when you’re
designing their billion-plus dollar

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movie but I think it’s really beneficial
for everybody and the movie i’m about to

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mention is one as soon as I say what it
is you’re gonna be like oh I know

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exactly what you’re talking about and
that’s great

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the movie is the wizard

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Abbas and in the movie poster there’s
Dorothy tinman and scarecrow toto the

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car really lying and all are standing on
a hill on the yellow brick road and in

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the distance is this gorgeous sparkling
very awesomely detailed Emerald City now

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there are 0 miles ages away the Emerald
city’s huge but it’s all in that

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distance man they can see it standing on
that hill but there’s an interesting

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concept that happens here that hill

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goes down goes off to view of the poster
and it whines and turns and twists and

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it goes through valleys and trees and
forests see Dorothy and her crew are

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standing on top of this hill they see
where they need to be all their dreams

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our desires everything that they want is
in that distance but they don’t get

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caught up in the journey they don’t get
caught up and where this road goes they

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just take one step after another and you
just keep following that yellow brick

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road and what happens

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well you know they have flying monkeys
and get kidnapped and there’s witches

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and there’s all this craziness that
happens right but eventually they just

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try to draw this all these unseen things
these roadblocks and barriers that you

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would have probably came up with if you
pre-planned it right what’s it well

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maybe possibly would around into a which
may be possible to run into this right

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but they didn’t worry about that they
just kept trudging board and through

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that process of just trudging forward to
finally reach their goals and it got all

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the answers they ever desire but here’s
the interesting part of all this

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see their story was show amazing really
when you think about it all right

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the concept here is not to get called
into the past and all the details and

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where that path goes but just focus on
what your end goal is focus on what you

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really desire and just keep putting one
step forward and then handle the

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situations as they come up don’t get
caught up on what them before they even

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happen because all you’re gonna do is
wear yourself out of ever reaching your

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goal instead just keep going forward and
you know what maybe just maybe you’ll

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have such a fantastic story you have
such a great adventure

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they’re gonna make a movie up the two
yeah there’s it would be awesome to have

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your story made out into a movie you
gonna play me Joe haha what you do that

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would you be honored enough to do that
right can I be honored for you to blame

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me

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how did you overcome some of these
roadblocks breathing you know not

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getting stressed not worrying about what
others think just worrying about what I

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thought and i’m the only one that really
knows where I wanted to go truly

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understands me

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I mean I can tell friends and family it
can be supportive but you’re never

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really going to graph that

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reality of where i want to go because
they didn’t have to go through the same

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things I did Nate none that nobody i
knew at the time had been through such a

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journey that I was going through so
nobody could sit there and say oh I

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edify with you or I can relate with you
they could because they just can’t

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because they didn’t so that’s just
reality of it all what i did is just

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took each moment each challenge each
struggle just took it for what it is

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worth took a deep breath and said okay
so this is just one thing I mean really

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just one thing right now that I need to
work on that I need to figure out let’s

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just figure it out we’ll put together a
plan to get through this hurdle and I

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knew again it’s like that movie just
figuring out what’s on the distance

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focusing on that emerald city and not
getting caught up on the witches that

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are trying to stop me from getting there
just focus on emerald city and

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eventually everything is going to work
itself out

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I feel like the universe has this really
weird thing that eventually things do

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figure itself out that things end up
having a purpose or turn around

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sometimes you have to wait a couple
years for that to happen but it will

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come from an unlikely source but if you
just have patience and due diligence and

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continue to move forward you’ll
eventually get to where you want to be

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the problem I see is people quit

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well before they ever get to where they
want to be and if they would have just

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put the time into it day-by-day
week-by-week grieve a month-by-month 2 3

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4 10-15 years later they would totally
be in a better place than it would have

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been if they just just kept going
instead of stopping so is there any

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parts of your dream that haven’t quite
worked out or not worked out yet

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well I think everything works out the
way it’s supposed to be so when I plan

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or envision something that doesn’t work
out it’s actually it’s probably the way

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it’s supposed to work out you know it’s
I can ask for things i might get a no in

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response but that’s that’s the way it
was supposed to work out that’s just the

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way I feel now I have a lot of great
things in the future that i would love

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to happen on I don’t want to be just a
soul coach I want to have a greater

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outreach to people i want to be part of
a larger rippler wave to help inspire

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others to do so and I think being a part
of these I being fortunate enough to be

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on your podcast

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this is one of those ways to make that
happen you know because maybe just maybe

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this podcast will reach somebody that
can help put me in a position to further

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my message even to a grander scale so i
take every opportunity i listened to

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every single person because it’s not
about them sometimes it’s not about me

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sometimes it’s about everything else and
and and how everything is connected they

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might know something that could help me
tremendously and if I prejudged them or

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if I feel like all this is gonna be a
waste of time talking to this individual

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you never know what’s gonna be I mean
Joe we kept in touch and we known each

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other when we were a lot younger I would
never thought that you would had such a

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successful podcast and then be asking me
inviting me to be part of the show 10-15

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years later you just never know what’s
going to happen with people as they grow

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and develop so i just take things I
don’t know man I just I just keep taking

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day by day and today is always a greater
day than it was yesterday you know for

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me especially with having ten years to
die clock I mean every day I’m grateful

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every day is a good day for me because i
would probably not be here if I didn’t

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make a change so I’m happy everyday for
sure and I’m happy to have you on the

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show it’s really amazing what 10 years I
mean it’s been about prob about 10 years

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since I’ve seen you so it’s amazing what
10 years can bring and I I can’t echo

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what you said enough about everybody
just giving other people a chance to to

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just hear them out because you never
know where that might lead you whether

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it’s for you or for someone somebody
else down the road every turn is a whole

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nother life experience but the goal in
front of you is the most important like

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you alluded to with the Emerald City

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I think that’s a great analogy that you
worked out there thank you

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so I need to ask if you were stranded on
a deserted island with your family

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what are three things you couldn’t live
without that’s it that’s a very good

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question part of this is going to be the
health coaching me and I got to give two

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answers that you probably not looking
for but i’ll be sure to give you one

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that you are i’ll of course i would say
i need water and food so there’ll be one

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and 2i would definitely want I
definitely need food

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I know that’s not too and I mean to cop
out on you

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her but I would say that the third thing
I would need is laughs I mean because

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the only way that I could stand being
stranded with and i’m assuming all my

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family not just some of them not the
ones that I just get along with in like

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hopping but if I was with everybody man
i would just hope that we would have

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lots of laughs and those last can be
brought by other things if it’s a if

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it’s alcohol-induced last well sometimes
you need to do what you need to do and

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that’s coming from your health coach I’m
punta you know i would just think if we

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have enough humor nothing else would
matter and laughter is a great way to

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pass the time when most of us at cell
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one person said computer i would throw
my cell phone in the water given the

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chance you know I think that we’re to
plugged into shiny square objects you

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know maybe a couple of good books would
be really good and how about some just

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time time away from everything just to
self-reflect you know I think there’s a

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lot of cultures like Buddhism that takes
advantage of that to really find your

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true purpose so depending how long I was
stranded out there i think it could be

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really great development opportunity I
have nothing but sitting there anyway

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right i mean you’re stranded you have
nothing else to do so modest will take

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that times that being bored but take
that time to maybe meditate a reflector

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really figure out what you two purposes
so it hopefully it gives you a couple

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more three things there so I know you
touched on what your dreams for the

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future are would you like to elaborate

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that’s a good question Joe you know we
get sometimes so caught up into our work

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that’s all we focus on sometimes and I’m
definitely guilty of that running my own

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company but dreams far beyond just a
coach and goes to just having a good

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wholesome and charm life

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I you know I would love to look at the
future and start a family

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I’m with a very loving woman right now
that I believe is going to be sort of

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the answer solution to that dream but
i’m not there yet and I’m not worried

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about the road and pass we’ll get there
you know people ask me well are you ever

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going to get engaged to her when you
gonna propose it’s not a matter of

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question of

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if it did it it’s there it’s not really
for me it’s not even a question of when

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it’s it’s wearing a moment when things
just seemed right and lined up for it to

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happen so my future dreams is to to
really start a family and raise the

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family that’s surrounded by love and
connection infection and not be the ipod

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and computer parent but be a parent
that’s there and supportive and allows

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them to be open to so many different
ideas and concepts so they can make

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their own decisions and what they feel
is best

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I don’t want to be an influence of my
opinions down to them I want them to be

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same with the knowledge to make their
own decisions so they can be their best

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unique person so they can get back in
whichever way that they feel like they

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want to get back when they’re of age to
do that that’s a beautiful answer I I

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feel the same exact way man that’s also
we need to interview you and ask these

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questions you sometime you have a
reverse interview because somebody’s I

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want to ask you and it would be great
way to catch up alone i don’t know maybe

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I was so 100 will say there you go meet
some people are asking if you call me

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for that when I’ll interview you an
episode 100 I i I’ve very might well

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might take you up on that would be
awesome i love that

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well thank you so before we get going is
there any last thoughts you’d like to

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share and then we’ll if you have any
plugs you’d like the plug

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yeah my last thought to share is really
at the end of the day if you want to

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achieve your goals your dreams your
passion your desire you need to put that

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out there in the world i see a lot of
people that kind of runaround miserable

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and it kind of runaround depressed and
he kind of run around with the well as

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me attitude and they say i wish i could
do this or I wish could be a better job

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i wish i can have this or I wish I could
do this and stop wishing

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stop complaining about it in reality of
it nobody wants to hear you complain i

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hate to say it but I never ask somebody
how they’re doing

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I asked him what’s new and good because
i want to hear the negative i have

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enough drama and things going on in my
own left i need to balance out so when

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you start really showing passion in the
world

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and take the moment to say help a
stranger or to be a part of something

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that may be greater than you and not
worry about what you get out of it just

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worried about being there in a moment

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kid not only benefit you just there in
that time but help you tremendously in

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your desires in your passions and in
your dreams like i mentioned earlier it

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can take sometimes years for things that
come full circle but unless you start

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playing with manipulating that system
now to your favor you’re never gonna get

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there and you’re always going to live
the well as me and depressed life so you

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got to just stop that you gotta unplug
that I you gotta cut away from people

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who instilled that on to you that that
always are negative and toxic when I

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have this rule if I have somebody what’s
new and good and they start telling me

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all the negative stuff i stopped them
and I say no I just maybe didn’t hear me

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i was asking was new and good you know
and if they’re constantly negative i

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just tend to try to stay away from them
as much as possible because i’m a firm

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believer that that negativity wears off
on you on time and it not only wears

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often you but also wears you down and it
starts making you feel negative and once

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you start feeling negative and you start
feeling depressed then you’re never

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going to reach your goals and ambitions

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so instead live life through passion
live life through desire live life

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through love do things that go out and
make you feel free tree today like

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today’s the last day you’re alive and I
bet you’re going to have one hell of a

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day because i know it could have been my
last day several times on this earth and

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I’m very grateful for every day I get
now and I treat life like that i’m very

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grateful and I give gratitude to people
who are around me and I get gratitude to

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myself

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we gotta love ourselves we got to get
passions to others and we gotta we gotta

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dream big but also put plans to
accomplish those streams make dreams

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reality all four plug i’ll do a
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they’re tired of banging her head
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cardboard foods and are tired of having
people shove meal planners down her

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throat and they feel like you know
they’re just tired

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being tired i would highly recommend
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that simple steps weight loss . com that
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and my website is actually filled with a
bunch of free information free resources

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blogs etc

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I’m not asking you to buy anything on my
website it’s not the point and purpose

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I’m throwing you there is that when I
write my articles on my website I really

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do put time and passion into them and I
really do give advice that I feel has

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helped me achieve the goals I want to
achieve and are not always just weight

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loss a lot of them to your lifestyle

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I’m and how to live a more harmonious
and try my life so it could really

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benefit I think a lot of people in
different areas of their life so that’s

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my shameless plug but thank you for
giving me the opportunity to be

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shameless about it it’s an honor to have
you on the show and and I’m so happy to

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hear a success story from somebody
that’s from my past quite important in

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my past actually thank you for all that
and thank you for your compliments to

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the show

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hey and let me just thank you Joe
personally for everything that you’re

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doing and giving people at the
opportunity that you are given them i

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think it’s amazing what you’ve
accomplished and i really do think

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episode 100 should be a special episode
about Joe so we can all learn about the

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man behind Mike but i also want to take
two seconds to thank all the listeners

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because without the listeners not only
what I not be on the show because Joe

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wouldn’t have attendance but there would
be no point on being here because if

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nobody can hear what we talked about
them what is the point of talking and

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say better myself

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thank you so much for being on the show
I really appreciated thank you thank you

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for joining us for this episode of the
dreamers podcast

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