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Stephanie
Hi, I'm Stephanie.

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Seth
I'm Seth, and this is the Forever Young show. The most powerful force in this world is a woman who knows who she is, why? She is here, and what she wants to accomplish.

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Stephanie
And that's where self-care comes in. As a woman, it is my opportunity and my responsibility to take care of me.

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Seth
Self-care for your mind.

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Stephanie
Self-care for your body.

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Seth
Self-care for your money.

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Stephanie
Our mission is to serve women as they fulfill their irreplaceable roles and families. Society. Business. The fabric of humanity.

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Seth
So let's get this show on the road.

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Stephanie
Britt Vanderhoff is a registered nurse and a clinical data specialist, blending the wisdom of modern medicine with Veda, a holistic medical system from India that has been practice for over 5000 years.

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Seth
She is passionate about bringing natural, evidence based solutions to women who are navigating perimenopause and menopause, helping them cultivate resilience, balance and well-being through Aya Vedic principles, nutrition and lifestyle changes.

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Stephanie
Britt is the founder of The Midlife Chrysalis, an online community supporting women through the transitions of midlife with evidence based holistic practices.

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Seth
Britt also runs workshops and group programs empowering women with tools for self-care, stress, resilience, and personal transformation. In fact, are you right in the middle of a of a group core cohort right now in Salt Lake City? Britt.

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Britt
I am starting my next one on Monday, actually. Okay. Just one up. In December. Getting ready to launch my next one.

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Stephanie
Very nice. How long do those usually last?

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Britt
12 weeks.

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Stephanie
Wonderful.

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Seth
And this. So. So the midlife chrysalis or chrysalis? I think it can be said both ways, but I'm. You call it Chrysalis? Yes. Okay. You know me with names. I'm not going to fiddle. Take us behind midlife chrysalis. Like there. There is meaning in in just the name. Speaking about names. Yeah.

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Britt
As I approached midlife, my whole life got turned upside down as I started to go through a divorce. I moved, I moved several times in the last couple of years. My kids are getting older and I'm finding they have. They just prefer to be with friends instead of mom. Now. And dealing with a lot of emotions and physical changes that we go through.

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Britt
The women just don't talk about enough. There's a lot of body changes. I started to go through, and I thought it was because of the stress of going through a divorce. And yes, that was part of it. But I was also starting to go through perimenopause. And I just remember, like, going through puberty. Thank God we had some kind of classes about it in school because my parents didn't talk about it.

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Britt
Like, could you imagine as a girl, as you started to have your period and no one had told you about it? It's like, what the hell is going on? Yeah. Think perimenopause is kind of like that. We need, like a maturation clinic. We need something like that to explain this with what to expect. These are some changes that might happen.

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Britt
And that's what I've done. We talked about the physical changes. We talk about mental and emotional issues and and we have a lot of fun doing it. As I started my practice on Ayurveda, I started to see clients one on one, and most of them ended up being midlife women with body, mind and body issues. And I found myself repeating myself over and over each day.

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Britt
And I thought, why don't I just bring them all together and let's all talk about this. And it's been fun. Because I have some older women in the group and some in like late 30s, early 40s all the way up to 60s, and the older women to be like, well, let me tell you about this. And the younger women just know they ask questions and it's incredibly empowering and supportive to be in a group talking about midlife stuff.

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Britt
And yeah, like I said, there's a lot of things that can go on with children growing up. Relationship changes, job changes, just a lot that can go on. And we like to bring the women together and kind of hold them up in this little group setting. And we come out at the end of the program transformed.

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Stephanie
Oh, I love it.

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Seth
That's the word Chrysalis.

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Britt
Yes.

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Seth
We're talking about about transformation. Rebirth, really. I mean, you know, Chrysalis a cocoon that, that is, that's a it's a transformational. It's also a birthing process in a certain sense. Right. A birth into a new life. Is that is that what you're. Was that what you were aiming at?

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Britt
Yes.

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Stephanie
Well, and I feel like, you know, going through perimenopause, Is that exactly too. You know, and it's wonderful. Women need community. They need, other women that they can help each other and strengthen each other and rely on each other. Recently I heard somebody talking about how if women don't have good friends, it's as bad as them smoking one pack of cigarets per day.

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Stephanie
That's how bad it is for their health. That's how much women need community. We need each other. So I think what you're doing is absolutely beautiful and needed. Very, very needed.

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Britt
And I'll add on. So I graduated nursing school around 2008. And back then I thought I knew everything. I thought diet and exercise, if people will just eat right and exercise, that we would all be healthier. And then a couple of years later, I came across the Blues Zone studies about community health. Even though some groups of people will smoke cigars and drink wine, which I don't recommend a word, but there's been studies showing how healthy these people are just because they're in this tight knit, loving, supportive community.

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Britt
And yes, we know with after the, the pandemic, but there's been a loneliness epidemic and we're seeing some of those effects of what happens when you live alone and you don't connect.

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Stephanie
Sadly, I feel like it's even, it's changed people like I've seen people who who, did branch out and have community or people to go to and they've become more, oh my goodness, what is the word? Introverted, more introverted, more to themselves. And and not as happy like I used to. I remember going through the pandemic and smiling at people, you know, and just the, the different, responses that I would get, you know, a lot of people would just, like, turn their heads or, or on the other end of the spectrum, I would get people that would thank me for smiling because so many people were not smiling.

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Stephanie
So many people were not connecting. They were scared to, and sadly, I think some of that has bled over with some people and they still, you know, have have that wall up maybe, with other.

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Britt
People. Yeah. So that's why I think it's so important for women to connect and come together and talk and have a good time.

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Stephanie
Yes.

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Britt
Talk about things that actually matter, too.

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Stephanie
Yes. Have those deeper conversations. Yeah.

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Britt
And I will say from some of my clubs, there are several women who have become friends now. I hope people up and accountability, like many accountability pods and then accountability partner. So they have someone to connect with each day. And if they live close to each other, I encourage you, I'm just going to walk. Go find a park.

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Britt
Just do something or reach out to a neighbor or someone in your community or church, whatever community you may be a part of already. Ask someone if they want to go on a walk, like if you go to a meeting at work for a meeting at the church, see if you can meet up ten 15 minutes early to go on a walk.

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Britt
Or stay a little bit later and just walk around the block. Just anything you can do to start moving and start moving in the direction of health and wellness with someone else who can do it with it.

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Stephanie
Yeah I know there are some women that are fine doing it on their own and and love it. I am definitely not one of them. Like if I have somebody to go walk with or my big thing is yoga or dancing, I will 100% like jump in and do it. Whereas if I'm on my own, it's like, well, that's not as fun.

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Stephanie
That doesn't sound as good. You know, like that community and that connection and the fun is what really, really helps me to go.

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Seth
Well, it's the meeting, you know, you've got the meeting, right? Whatever that meeting is, right? Maybe it's yoga or maybe it's a business meeting. Maybe it's a church meeting. Maybe it's a cohort, right? And, you know, maybe it's a therapy session, whatever those might be. Maybe it's the hike, but there's also the meeting before the meeting, the meeting after the meeting.

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Seth
And so often not not to discount the value of the meeting. The meet. Right. The activity itself. But so much of the connection, so much of the change, so much of the community happens before the meeting. Right. Try this. Well, we should try this because I try this. Show up early to a meeting next time. For some of you, that's going to be a miracle, right?

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Seth
I'm speaking to us.

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Stephanie
I can tell you that miracles happen. Yeah.

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Seth
Yes. Show up ten minutes early to a meeting and just see what happens. See what? And stay off your phone. Right. No screen time, but see who's there. Start a conversation. Stay ten minutes after a meeting, which will probably lead to 20 or 30 minutes. Right? But stay after me, because sometimes what really needs to happen is the meeting.

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Seth
After the meeting? Right. That meeting before. That meeting after. It's community. Right. So.

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Stephanie
And I would say, you know, I'm a very extroverted person, but I have to consciously go out of my way to talk to others sometimes. And, and that can be really uncomfortable. I think maybe it's the unknown, you know? But, sometimes that's also what it takes. And it's really amazing to see how many people are looking for a friend or looking for that connection, and they just need somebody to come up and say hi or ask them, you know, their name or a question about them.

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Stephanie
And, how much can build from that is incredible.

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Britt
Yes, I agree. So we do need to be the ones to initiate and be brave enough to go up and take that stuff and open our mouths and share. And I will quickly share one of my favorite opening lines, besides how are you? Is what have you been doing to take care of yourself? Oh, and maybe I'll ask you about Stephanie.

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Britt
What do you do for self-care? What have you been doing to take care of yourself?

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Stephanie
You know, I actually started a ballet class for adults and it's been a lifelong dream of mine. I'm 41, and at first I was like, I don't know, do I do this? You know, am I going to go in this class and there's going to be all these other people that are like, so good, and I've never really done ballet before.

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Stephanie
And, it's been a really good experience and it's really helped to push me outside my comfort zone in a lot of ways. In fact, I made a really silly comment and, and like the first class of the teacher was, you know, seeing the different positions and stuff, the names. And I turned to one of the other girls and I was like, man, to me, like, because she had done ballet before, you know, at least half the class or more had.

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Stephanie
And so I was like, man, it's like she's speaking another language or something. And she was like, well, she is, it's French. And I'm like, oh yeah. I thought that was hilarious.

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Stephanie
But, it's really pushed me outside, you know, have to remember steps or positions or, you know, to go and be by others. Even though some of them know each other or, I've really tried hard to, you know, connect with a few of the others and, Yeah, just just do my best. I don't think I'm going to sign up again.

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Stephanie
I think I'm going to pursue yoga more because that's really my passion. But I'm super proud of myself for for taking this big step and just putting myself out there. And, and I will say, most of the classes I've been early, which, like Seth said, is a miracle. And like just knowing that I was like the second person there made me so happy.

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Stephanie
I'm like, I can tell I'm healing and taking care of myself because I'm making those changes.

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Britt
Beautiful. That's another thing about med life is you. For a lot of women, it does open up more time because our kids are a little bit older. Life may slow down. And hopefully you finally have time to try out some things that you've been wanting to do since before kids. Or maybe you've had them. And there's so many things that you're curious about.

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Stephanie
Yes, I will say I've I've had a really hard time, expanding my vision and dreaming and knowing, you know, that I can do these extra things or these new things. And, Seth has been really good at helping me, like, encouraging me and supporting me. And, we do have two little kids. And so, you know, not having mom guilt, you know, working through that and actually being an example for them, I think has helped me a lot.

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Stephanie
To be able to do that.

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Britt
Yeah. Thank you for sharing all that. Yes.

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Stephanie
What about you, Seth? What do you do for self-care?

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Seth
What am I doing for self-care? Well, number one, I'm married, you know?

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Britt
Okay.

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Seth
I'm married. You listen like you are the best self-care protocol there. Don't take that the wrong way than I've ever had in my life. Right. So outside. Outside of my my face. But then again, you help me. You know, make make that count, too. So I, you know, you're not a pill. You're better than a pill, babe. So,

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Seth
Steph's great. You know, you're she's you're you're you you are my. You're sounding board like my communicator. When even when I don't want to communicate. Like when the windows closed. But beyond that, like, big major thing because relationships are important. Absolutely huge. Hugely important. I'm doing I've been doing a lot for my mental and physical wellbeing.

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Seth
So without going through the entire bullet list, like one. Brain cramp. I'll take one from each or two. So I'm doing some inner family systems work for my emotional health right now. We have a great, a great therapist, a great counselor, Roxann Granada, who's actually on the show. Just recently, and I've really enjoyed, what what you call what people.

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Seth
Some people call parks work. Right? That has been so interesting, so liberating. It's like the movie. What's the name of the movie?

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Britt
Inside out?

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Seth
Yes. Oh, it's like insane. I was like, wait, you're supposed to help me with that? You know I love you.

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Stephanie
And I was like, I, I know,

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Seth
We watch a lot of movies, so I can understand that. Yeah, it's like being in my own inside out movie and. And talking to me at six years old and talking to me at, at, 15 years old and really having some discoveries and some permission to forgive myself, you know, and permission to accept myself, which has been super powerful self-care.

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Seth
Very grateful for the sessions I've done. And I've got sessions pre-booked out. Okay, so in a family systems parts work, also just, at a major point in my life, I turned 50 several months ago and we're in the health care business anyway, that's so that's what we do professionally. So I've been doing for 30 years. But I will tell you, I am I'm more grateful for the good health decisions that I've been making the last 20 years than I ever have been.

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Seth
Like, I was totally ignorant about these many decisions. Good things. And yeah, yeah, there's a lot of crappy things that I've done to, you know, and, and whatnot, but without.

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Stephanie
You mean you're human?

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Seth
Yes. I'm human without focusing on those. I, I'm really just diving into this journey we call health. As health as richness. Health as a wealth, you know, from movement, you know, to, you know, just I was telling you the other day, basically, I'm really focused on movement right now, so, making sure that I'm moving 7000 steps a day.

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Seth
I know there's that 10,000 number out there. We're going to have a podcast on this about the 7000 number. Okay. 10,000 isn't necessarily the number, but, movement every day, whether that's, walking, brisk walking, you know, back and forth between the barn and the horses or up this mountain that we've got here. Play a lot of basketball.

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Seth
Yoga is has become a great part of my life.

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Stephanie
You're welcome.

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Seth
To, you know, yoga multiple times a week, strength training multiple times a week. So, And I feel great about it. I feel it's something I'm truly falling in love with, in a way that I never have before.

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Britt
I love what you're doing. I love that, and thank you for sharing. I think more people need to be having these conversations about what they're doing for health and wellness. And strength training is so important for anyone, especially women. We lose so much bone mass as we age. We can. But doing resistance training, weight training at least once or twice a week is going to help us maintain that and eat more healthily and gracefully.

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Britt

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Seth
I love what you said about bone mass, Brett, because we often think about weight training is for.

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Stephanie
Muscle.

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Seth
Muscles. Right. And some women think listen I don't want to be ripped.

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Stephanie
I don't want to bulk up I think is the biggest thing that I hear from women. I don't want to bulk up. I don't want to be bulky.

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Seth
And no question, there are so many amazing women out there who are leading the way into a in fact, we've got we've got deli strategy coming on fit mom of seven. Right. Who who is a trainer and and teaches that is teaching women leading them. There are a lot of women who are like, you kidding me?

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Seth
I do want to get ripped, you know? And I think that's awesome. And toned and and build muscle. But what we have to realize. Thank you, Brett, for winning. And we're talking about eastern philosophy. We're interweaving holistic practices and eastern philosophies are often more holistic than Western practices, right. In Western medicine as as a registered nurse. And I think, Steph, I think we're going to get into this in the next question, a little more detail about your history.

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Seth
It's about it's about hyper specialization and independent systems. Show me an independent system in your body. Like, you know, like that. They all have a role, but they're all interdependent, right? And so the role especially for women muscle mass. Yes. And I'm not talking about massive amounts of muscle. We're talking about muscle mass strength, the ability to do things, the ability to balance, the ability to be flexible.

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Seth
But that is inseparable, as you said, Brett from bone Health. And every woman, every woman knows, oh, okay. As I age, I've got that bone health issue. You want bone health, but do resistance training, do some weight training. Right. Because muscles and bones are connected.

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Stephanie
Well, and a big thing that I didn't know, but I've had to learn is, how important muscle is to the pelvic floor and how it supports all your organs and everything. Like, it's just mind blowing. What? I didn't know until I went through pelvic auger prolapse and had to learn all that the hard way. I am grateful, though, you know, I can help educate others, especially our daughters.

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Stephanie
But yeah, muscle. Muscle mass is really important for so many things.

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Britt
Yes.

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Seth
But let's let's dive in a little more to your, to some of that that, that transitioning from solely I know everything as a registered nurse. You want to dial that up, Steph?

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Stephanie
Sure. So, Brett, what are you passionate about right now and what are you doing about it?

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Britt
I am passionate about women's health and helping them transition through perimenopause and the menopause and aging more gracefully. And a big part of that is just because that's where I'm at. I'm actually like a couple steps into it. So I know how to help people as they're coming into it. And I've spent a couple of years studying women's health now from not just a Western perspective, but also an eastern perspective.

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Britt
And I this is just stuff that women don't talk about, and we need to talk about it. And I as I've studied it, there's also a lot of woo out there which sometimes I am drawn to it. But I as a nurse, I like the science and I like to find all the science as much as possible to back up what I'm sharing with other women.

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Britt
And it's interesting I didn't learn this until about a year ago, that a lot of clinical studies have only been done on white men, because when women get involved in clinical studies, they have to take into account hormones and where they are in their cycle. And there's just a lot more things to take into account.

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Stephanie
Yes.

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Britt
Oh, this is too much. Let's just focus on men. So it hasn't been until recently that more women have been involved in studies. But I do seek those out as much as I can. So yeah, I love I love what I'm doing. It's not just benefiting me, but I'm able to help other women as well. And I found in this like, yes, I can read all these books, I know all this wisdom, but I also like the accountability.

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Britt
I like having my groups holds me accountable to practicing what I'm preaching. And at the same time it's holding them accountable. It's just it's beautiful I love it.

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Stephanie
Yeah, it's a it's a win win, right? Yeah. We're all helping each other. I love that. You know, you're just learning all this and pouring into other women. And you're benefiting from it. Also, I feel like, you know, all good things come in that circle, how we we learn, but we also, you know, we learn and grow, but we also share with others.

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Stephanie
And then they get to learn and grow and turn around and help others as well.

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Britt
Yeah, yeah.

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Stephanie
So can you share with us your personal journey toward better health and well-being? What are some turning points that you've experienced?

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Britt
I would say one of my first memorable experiences was when I was in nursing school. It was around 2006, and I found myself incredibly overworked. I had two clinicals each week, like Wednesday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. I have to go home and type up a 15 page, care plan, go back to school, or go back to the hospital the next day, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. shift.

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Britt
Go home and type up another 15 page care plan. And then I had school all day on Friday. There was not enough coffee in the world that could keep me up for doing this, and I don't know how anyone else did it. So I ended up going to see my doctor and told them, what can I do to stay awake?

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Britt
And he prescribed me a medication that was originally created for, I think it was for fighter pilots to stay awake for long hours. Wow. You know, work that kept me up for three days straight. I was able to show up to the hospital, complete all my reports, show up to school, and then I would crash. And this went on for a couple of weeks.

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Britt
I ended up getting depression and anxiety and then I started having heart palpitations. So they put me on a heart medication and it was the heart medication that really made me think like that. This wasn't right. Like, I'm 22 and I'm having heart issues. Maybe I was 23. I was way too young.

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Stephanie
Oh my goodness. Yeah.

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Britt
And I went crying to my, one of my nursing teachers, and she recommended I go see a counselor at the counseling center at the school. So I did, and that lady recommended that I start meditating. And then she told me that that school offered ten free massages each semester. They were just 15 minute massages. And I still remember sitting in that office, like, rolling my eyes like I have heard of meditation.

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Britt
Like, you think I'm just gonna sit for like, a few minutes and be healed. And then I was like, didn't feel comfortable going, having a stranger touching my body and massaging me. But she kept encouraging me to do it. So I went to the local library and got some CDs on meditation. I think this was before iTunes and all these other cool music talks.

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Britt
We have, and I started listening to some guided meditations like just progressive relaxation. And I just remember laying down and I think that was the first. I still remember when I started doing it, I was like, I feel something different. What is this? I was like, oh, is this what relaxed feels like? I was just constantly on the move.

00;26;53;09 - 00;27;18;08
Britt
And then I started getting massages and I felt amazing and looking back at it now, I know I was calling my nervous system down, which I desperately needed. And after some a lot of meditation and the massages, I started to wean off, the anti-depressants and the anxiety meds. And eventually that clinical rotations stopped where I wasn't doing them.

00;27;18;08 - 00;27;46;04
Britt
Two days in a row and then going to school. So that was huge for me, learning that meditation and massages could really help. And then it was shortly after that I got involved in yoga. And, it's a funny story. I started off doing yoga at Bikram yoga, and I still remember, like I filled out the intake form with my name and date of birth, whatever.

00;27;46;06 - 00;28;09;18
Britt
And it said, what is your intention of joining this yoga class? And I thought I was so funny. I was like, I want a hot body. It's literally hot because it was hot yoga. And I thought that keep my body looking good by adding yoga to my routine to just added another level, calming my nervous system down.

00;28;09;21 - 00;28;17;16
Britt
And we didn't learn any of that in nursing school. I was trained in pharmaceuticals and medicine and how to support people. All of that.

00;28;17;18 - 00;28;18;29
Seth
That's so powerful.

00;28;19;01 - 00;28;19;11
Stephanie
Yeah.

00;28;19;15 - 00;28;51;11
Seth
I'm thinking meditation versus medication. Right. And again, we have the best critical care in the world in the United States. But we have not the best longevity health care system like we've spent. We we are the number one, number one in expenditures as a country, as a people. Right. For health care. And we're number 42 in longevity.

00;28;51;13 - 00;29;15;25
Seth
And so it just reminds me, Brit, you're talking about I need something in life. Well, here's a medication for it. You stay up three days and you'll hyperfocus and you'll get that one thing you're going to be awake at, like a fighter pilot, right? But what are all of the in this holistic environment in the body? What else does that mean?

00;29;15;28 - 00;29;45;20
Seth
Well, when you're awake for 72 hours and crushing it, that that's great. But there are always there's an ecosystem, right? It's a circle of life. Right. And maybe you can, I don't know if you want to say something about this, Brit, but I heard something recently that the the number three, you know, the, like the top causes of death, top causes of mortality.

00;29;45;22 - 00;29;51;04
Seth
Number three, prescription medications.

00;29;51;06 - 00;30;02;08
Britt
I have not heard that. I've heard medical errors, which tend to be medication errors. Or, did I say that right? I think I did.

00;30;02;11 - 00;30;08;01
Stephanie
I think so sounded right to me.

00;30;08;03 - 00;30;10;15
Seth
Yeah, yeah.

00;30;10;18 - 00;30;33;00
Britt
And I think a lot of that I don't, I haven't looked into this, but I know a lot of nurses and doctors are overworked. They're working 12, 16, 24 hour shifts. And I know at the end of a 12 hour shift, my brain is fried. It's fried. And thank goodness I was able to get my home myself home safely and just eat and go to sleep.

00;30;33;08 - 00;30;36;09
Britt
And that's about all I could do.

00;30;36;11 - 00;31;00;10
Stephanie
Yeah. I mean, it makes me concerned about, you know, what that does to all the patients that are there. Like, I've thought about that for years, you know, watching shows or whatever where there were medical doctors who were like, oh yeah, I've been here for two days or however long and it's like, how? How can you think and function, especially on the level that you need to when you're in a hospital like that, that's when you need it.

00;31;00;10 - 00;31;11;14
Stephanie
You know, your, your, your brain to function really well. And here we are, you know, running them ragged and hoping that they can save lives.

00;31;11;16 - 00;31;36;21
Britt
You know, and the nursing school at the time didn't take sleep into account. They didn't take digestion and nutrition into account. I think it took a, like a ten hour nutrition class in nursing school. And even that book booklet was funded by Big and Big dairy. And yes, they had some good information, but I think they also had their own agenda and teaching it, and it just wasn't enough.

00;31;36;23 - 00;31;47;03
Britt
But and I heard data, the, the root cause of disease is actually found in the gut and in the mind. Children. Nothing about in nursing school. And I don't think doctors learn about that either.

00;31;47;06 - 00;32;22;28
Seth
Well, I think all of this, you know, I think there's a massive movement. And of course, there have been people grassroots, like our grandmas, you know, who've been teaching health practices, common sense, health practice, sometimes many of them wise beyond the the available science at the time that you know, we're we're while on the one hand we are a runaway freight train and there is no bridge like the bridge, isn't there like it it is a precipice and that will fall.

00;32;23;00 - 00;32;50;07
Seth
And that runaway freight train is many of our current practices and and habits here in the West, which we are, which we are aggressively and very effectively sharing back to the east. Right. We're we're sending this American agenda from a health perspective. And unhealthy perspective. Right. All around the world, we've got that going on, no question.

00;32;50;07 - 00;33;25;13
Seth
And it's, you know, our diet, it's nutrition, it's big. AG it's it's big pharma. It's not health care but disease management. And we have to think of of health care differently. Like again it's like it comes to be disease management. And and that's very that's a very apropos way of naming that industry. They do manage diseases. But is it health care.

00;33;25;15 - 00;33;49;11
Seth
And there's this movement that's taking place. Right. Brit you're part of that movement. We're part of that movement of health care. And and not to be political. And because our health is not political, it's not party related. But I can get on with Robert F Kennedy Jr, you know, in this whole concept of what can we do to make America healthy again?

00;33;49;11 - 00;34;10;18
Seth
And there's no one thing, there's no one thing there are. It is multifaceted. And so many people need what we are, what you are doing for women in Salt Lake City and beyond, right. When it comes to menopause and perimenopause, and just to many people to, to make, make how about how about make the world healthy again?

00;34;10;20 - 00;34;41;23
Stephanie
Yes. Well, and I think it even goes before perimenopause. Like if we can teach the younger generations what to do to support themselves before they reach that, you know, part of their life, then they're going to be so much better for it. You know, they don't have to dread going through perimenopause or menopause. They can actually, just see it as a transition in their life instead of something that's like, you know, lock me away if I act this way or, you know what I mean?

00;34;41;24 - 00;34;45;13
Seth
Like, put her in the cave.

00;34;45;14 - 00;34;56;00
Stephanie
Yeah, they they can take care of themselves so that their experience can be a lot better, and an easier transition than what we've seen so many women go through.

00;34;56;03 - 00;35;19;11
Britt
Yeah, I agree, I wish we could start teaching more of this stuff in schools, and I. I'm working with a nurse who wants to do some of that and start to get it. And I know those changes take time. Yeah. And I have kids and I can share it with my kids. And I find the women in my group also have kids, and they go home and share what they've learned in my group with their kids.

00;35;19;13 - 00;35;49;06
Britt
It's like a trickle down effect. Yeah. I've also, met with a practitioner who is integrating some like IRA Vedic principles in school, simple things like chewier food. Well, sit down when you're eating, make sure you eat breakfast and lunch around the same time each day. Just some simple things that they can start teaching kids. And then that trickles up because those kids go home and be like, mom, you need to sit down, stop snacking in the kitchen, sit down and eat.

00;35;49;09 - 00;35;56;07
Stephanie
Kids are good at that, right? Pointing out what you should be doing, at least minor.

00;35;56;09 - 00;35;59;27
Seth
Where such a pill goes. So go ahead, Brit.

00;36;00;02 - 00;36;26;01
Britt
Oh, one healthy eating guideline that I like to share is the burp. So your stomach, once you start eating, it starts to expand and when it's about 75% full, it squeezes a little bit of air out so it has enough time to wait. It's like, okay, now that I've released the air, there's just enough room for me to expand and contract and, you know, mush all the food up and mix all the digestive enzymes.

00;36;26;03 - 00;36;44;15
Britt
And when you burp, that is your body's way of saying, stop eating if you eat any more. I'm not going to be able to, like, expand and contract efficiently, and I'm not going to be able to mix all these digestive juices, and that will help you digest efficiently. And so we listen to the birth canal at my dinner table.

00;36;44;20 - 00;36;51;15
Britt
And as my child burps, and I'm not saying like the fake burps because my kids can burp on demand.

00;36;51;16 - 00;36;52;20
Seth
Oh yes.

00;36;52;22 - 00;37;12;07
Britt
I can, but there's full burp. It's like a deep, guttural Homer Simpson burp. You can hear the difference if you start paying attention. But teaching stuff like that to my kids, because sometimes I don't notice that. And they're like, mom, stop eating. You just burped.

00;37;12;10 - 00;37;18;04
Stephanie
I've never heard that or noticed. I mean, I notice when you guys burp, but.

00;37;18;07 - 00;37;24;15
Seth
There's a lot of burping going on in our home, which I think I'm fearing is going to be leading to less eating.

00;37;24;17 - 00;37;33;12
Britt
On. Oh, you guys not heard that? Like it's an Asian tradition that they burp and it's a sign of respect if you burp.

00;37;33;14 - 00;37;41;13
Seth
Definitely heard that, but didn't know that it was communication. Yeah. From the body.

00;37;41;16 - 00;37;44;14
Britt
Yeah. Your body can speak now.

00;37;44;16 - 00;37;54;14
Stephanie
Oh it definitely speaks. Part of it is are you are you listening? And are you going to do what it's telling you? You know, practice.

00;37;54;14 - 00;37;54;29
Britt
Yes.

00;37;54;29 - 00;38;20;28
Stephanie
Yes it does take practice. One thing that, my doctor that I'm working with right now, she, she had mentioned that a lot of times our schedules are so go, go, go that when we sit down, our nervous system is still go, go, go when we eat. And so she was saying to take, you know, five deep breaths, just sit there and take those five deep breaths and that will help calm your nervous system.

00;38;21;01 - 00;38;36;27
Stephanie
And then, it will help you, you know, with your eating and digestion. And I started doing that. It's it's been really neat to see just the difference in what I'm eating and how aware I am when I do that, too.

00;38;37;00 - 00;38;57;28
Britt
Yeah. I love that your health care provider sharing information like that. There's a lot of science behind that. The taking the slow, deep breaths to get into the parasympathetic, which is I call the Rest digest and repair system, you know, because if we do sit down and we're still stressed and we're activated, you're still in the fight flight freeze.

00;38;57;28 - 00;39;18;29
Britt
And people please mode all that blood flow, not all of it, but a lot of the blood flow leaves the gut goes to the muscles in the brain figuring out how to survive and keep going versus when you can sit down. Muscles relax, focus on your breath. More blood flow does go to the gut and you do digest more efficiently.

00;39;19;01 - 00;39;25;07
Britt
And I wish more people to know that. So I'm glad you're sharing that wisdom.

00;39;25;09 - 00;39;51;24
Stephanie
She shares a lot of wisdom. It's it's incredible. She's a hormone specialist, and just. I'm learning so, so much through her. And she she is, you know, looks at you as a whole. You know, your emotions. You know, you talk about trauma or, yeah, all kinds of stuff. It's it's pretty amazing how it all comes together and affects each other, you know, like we've been talking about.

00;39;51;27 - 00;39;53;20
Britt
Yeah.

00;39;53;23 - 00;40;18;14
Seth
Don't eat and run. No eating and running. Okay. Sit down. Take five breaths. It's it comes down again. Holistic practices. We want one thing right. We want it simple. No. It's a whole bunch of things that you need to be doing. It is lifestyle that is going to affect your longevity and the quality of life. Right? Your health span, as long as well as your lifespan.

00;40;18;14 - 00;40;27;10
Seth
But I'm thinking about blue zones. What are the what do these people do in blue zones? Freaking lazy. All these people taken. It's taken. And I don't know.

00;40;27;10 - 00;40;29;03
Stephanie
That I would call them lazy.

00;40;29;09 - 00;40;56;25
Seth
I just said that for dramatic effect, but really it okay. It's not the okay, it's a working lunch. I got my I got my sack lunch here. I'm going to pump out more work, work, work. Right. And don't get me wrong, there's something to be said for production, right? But sitting around over some pasta, right. Or sourdough bread or whatever, that's not filled with glyphosate, right?

00;40;56;25 - 00;41;25;13
Seth
Sprayed with glyphosate and hybrid hybridized and GMO, I should say GMO. And just talking and laughing and sipping whatever they're drinking, right. And taking an hour or an hour and a half to do that. Man. Meant for for many of us in the West, we're getting anxiety, thinking about all the things that we're missing just by having this conversation.

00;41;25;13 - 00;41;29;27
Stephanie
Not me. I'm like, that sounds so now.

00;41;29;29 - 00;41;48;29
Seth
I think what I think what we're going to do in the gym, you know, is we're finishing out the gym in the garage. And, you know, I've been having this idea about putting all these wonderful sayings on it, right? I think one of them is going to be slow down. Another one is going to be this is a blue zone right where our our home, our homestead, even.

00;41;48;29 - 00;42;00;13
Seth
Those are tremendous amount of production and work that needs to be done. We're going to be a blue zone. We're going to create a blue zone right here at 5000ft in central. You know, in Utah.

00;42;00;15 - 00;42;24;09
Stephanie
Well, if you think about it, I know that people are so focused on production. You know, like you said, oh, we can get more worked on while I eat. If you take care of yourself and you take that time to slow down, think of how much more productive you're going to be outside of that, you know? So really, it's it's costing you, whether immediately or in the long run.

00;42;24;11 - 00;42;33;09
Stephanie
So if you slow down and take that time to take care of your well-being while you're eating, you're going to do much better, and you're going to.

00;42;33;13 - 00;42;33;24
Britt
My mind.

00;42;34;01 - 00;42;37;07
Stephanie
While you're doing it. Sorry. Yeah.

00;42;37;10 - 00;42;53;14
Britt
Reminds me of a Yogi quote where they say, if you're busy, meditate for 20 minutes a day. If you're super busy, meditate one hour a day. Yes. Will you try that and do that? It's really hard to grasp. Your mind has to be experienced.

00;42;53;14 - 00;42;54;09
Stephanie
Yes.

00;42;54;12 - 00;43;08;26
Seth
If you know you know. And until you take that step and, like, why would I want to do yoga? Why would I want to slow down? Why would I want to, you know, why would I want to get in tights right now?

00;43;08;28 - 00;43;12;23
Stephanie
Speaking from experience, what the last nine years.

00;43;12;26 - 00;43;20;23
Seth
Until you do it like like you got it. You got to take that step into the darkness, right?

00;43;20;25 - 00;43;27;10
Stephanie
All right. So what strategies have you found effective for managing stress and practicing self-compassion?

00;43;27;12 - 00;43;54;12
Britt
There's so much we can do to manage stress. I've already mentioned quite a few of them. Meditation was my gateway into managing stress and then massage. Spending time with loved ones. I try and get outside every day and walk my dog in the morning light. Journaling, practicing self-compassion, speaking kindly to myself, seeing a counselor that I have a good therapeutic relationship with.

00;43;54;15 - 00;44;25;26
Britt
Spending time with loved ones, like I do have to take the initiative and reach out to friends and invite them out to lunch or coffee, or a walk or hike or yoga. We can't always sit around waiting for people to invite us out to do things. And then my healing groups like I love, I love what I do, I love connecting with women and talking about health and watching them progress and watching a little light bulb go off and.

00;44;25;28 - 00;44;27;00
Seth
I'm.

00;44;27;02 - 00;44;52;24
Britt
Like, that nourishes me to getting a good night's sleep for sure. Going to bed at the same time, waking up at the same time that comes to my nervous system, down eating at consistent time. So at least at least a consistent breakfast and lunch around the same time. Dinner can get tricky just with kids activities and all the other stuff that goes on in the evenings.

00;44;52;26 - 00;45;14;20
Seth
Yeah. So you think about all this great, great, great prescriptive list of what we need to do. If you're not there, you're listening right now because I know women listen to the show and they're like, I need to do this, right? Yeah, you do need to do this, but you don't need to do all this right now. It's not possible.

00;45;14;20 - 00;45;34;15
Seth
Like, like, don't worry about, okay? I'm not going to even run anymore. And I'm going to get up and go to bed at the same time. I'm going to get 8 to 10 hours of sleep. I'm going to, you know, I'm going to get like I'm like, so pick one thing, right, pick one thing, do it for a couple of weeks, pick one thing and do it for a couple of days.

00;45;34;17 - 00;45;54;08
Seth
Let's just start there and then keep doing it for a couple more days and then a couple more and and then start. And then once that becomes part of your routine, because all that really matters is when it comes to health. It it's not acute treatment. When we're talking about long term health. We're not talking about disease care.

00;45;54;08 - 00;46;15;09
Seth
Right. We're not talking about about critical care, but we're talking about the next ten, the next 50, the next hundred years of your life. Listen, humans have the ability to live to 100 and 2050 right now. Sounds crazy, but they do. And that's without the advances that are going to take place. What can you do? What can you do that Brit said.

00;46;15;14 - 00;46;28;21
Seth
And make it a habit right now. Right. Take one step into the dark and then come back in a couple of weeks, a couple of months and say, okay, what's the next one thing? Right? One step at a time.

00;46;28;23 - 00;46;47;17
Stephanie
That's one thing that I love about this doctor that I'm seeing and how she will give a list, but she's like, okay, so pick some stuff that you're going to do. You know, you can't do all of them. There's so many things that you can do to help your body detox and all this stuff, but pick, you know, one or 2 or 3, you know, whatever your capacity is going to be.

00;46;47;19 - 00;47;02;27
Stephanie
And focus on that. And then I, I love when we meet with her because sometimes, you know, just because of past experience with teachers or doctors or, different, I don't even know what word I'm trying to find, but,

00;47;02;29 - 00;47;04;02
Seth
Authority figures. Yes.

00;47;04;02 - 00;47;33;05
Stephanie
With other authority figures. Yeah. Thanks, honey. You know, I'm like, oh, shoot. You know, I didn't do, like, everything or whatever. And and then meeting with her and sharing the things that I have done and her celebrating every little win has helped me to be like, yes, okay, I can do this. I can keep going, you know, and and then adding other little things and, or, you know, just having her not focus on the things that I didn't do, but celebrating the things that I did do.

00;47;33;07 - 00;47;50;24
Stephanie
And it's actually giving me permission to do that for myself. And recognizing, okay, today I didn't do the five things, but I did do the two do of the things. And I can celebrate those two things and I can build on them tomorrow. I think has been so tremendous for me and, and my health journey.

00;47;50;24 - 00;47;52;02
Seth
Absolutely.

00;47;52;05 - 00;48;06;10
Britt
Yeah. Thank you for sharing. And I love how she's breaking it down. One habit at a time, maybe two. And you have the accountability. Yes. Because if she told you to do that and you never saw her again, how likely would you be to keep following through with all that?

00;48;06;10 - 00;48;08;18
Stephanie
Yeah, not very likely.

00;48;08;20 - 00;48;26;26
Britt
So with my clients and members, I like to tell them the same thing. Like out of one topic that we discussed today, what's one new habit you think you could try? What sounds doable for you? And I give my clients dry erase markers so they can, like write it on their bathroom mirror, write it on their closet nerd.

00;48;26;29 - 00;48;44;18
Britt
I give them a stack of sticky notes. They can write it down, put it on their fridge in their car just to remind them, like, this is what we're doing this week. We're trying it out. And then I check back in, like, how did it go? Tell me about it. And I find there's a couple different types of people.

00;48;44;18 - 00;49;04;07
Britt
There's people who will see that and think, well, I can do this. I want to do this and this and this, and I'm going to keep adding to it and try all these things. And then they burn themselves out. And then there's the people who see it like, maybe I'll start tomorrow, maybe I'll start the next day, but at least it's in their field.

00;49;04;07 - 00;49;30;09
Britt
And maybe after a week they finally take the first step. But at least it's a step. You and I tell people, you know what? That's a when you're moving in that direction, it's you're either stepping in the direction of help or just ease. And I like to encourage people to just keep taking those steps, however big, however small, and then invite a friend with you to go on that path.

00;49;30;11 - 00;49;31;21
Stephanie
Yes.

00;49;31;24 - 00;49;33;24
Britt
Or else.

00;49;33;26 - 00;49;38;05
Stephanie
And like, hey, you should try yoga.

00;49;38;08 - 00;49;38;28
Seth
And now we get.

00;49;38;28 - 00;49;39;16
Stephanie
Nine years.

00;49;39;16 - 00;49;42;03
Seth
And now we do yoga together sometimes, right?

00;49;42;06 - 00;49;59;28
Stephanie
It's true, it's true. He's now he's the one that's inviting me to do yoga on days that are hard for me to do it. And I'm like, oh, I'm so glad you asked me because that felt so good. You know, even if it's just ten minutes, it's it's not just ten minutes. It's ten minutes. And it feels so good to do it.

00;50;00;00 - 00;50;20;01
Britt
Yeah. And for those listening who do have a membership to a gym, a lot of time, if you ask them, they'll give you a free pass for a friend. Or maybe they have a free week where it's like new members can try the place out either free or very low cost. And it's pretty easy just to call up a friend and be like, hey, I'm going to yoga this Saturday.

00;50;20;04 - 00;50;21;24
Britt
Do you want to go?

00;50;21;26 - 00;50;45;15
Stephanie
Yes. In fact, I just did that with, one of our previous guests on here, Stacey, and she actually had, a brain tumor removed. And so she has left side weakness. And I was a little bit nervous asking her, but I'm like, what the heck? Like, she can say no, you know, I know she just went and experienced a yoga retreat for the first time.

00;50;45;17 - 00;50;56;26
Stephanie
And, and so I asked her and she's like, yes, I'm so excited. Thank you so much for asking me to go, to a yoga class on Monday. So it is great.

00;50;56;29 - 00;51;01;22
Britt
Yeah. That's awesome. I'm so glad you did that. And I'll bet she is too.

00;51;01;25 - 00;51;13;25
Stephanie
I am too, because I've tried going to this particular class lots of times, and I know now that I have a friend that's committed to going, that I'm going to actually make it so it'll benefit both of us.

00;51;13;28 - 00;51;23;05
Britt
Stop outside is Stephanie, do you invite any male friends out to do yoga? Do I oh, so spoken by like, his buddies?

00;51;23;07 - 00;51;36;26
Seth
Yeah, like I was. I text him, I'm like, hey, dude, do you want to put your tights on? And should we go, should we go head up into the mountains and do some, some mountain yoga and, you know, that's not that's such a funny question, Brett.

00;51;36;27 - 00;51;37;27
Stephanie
It's a great question.

00;51;37;27 - 00;52;00;05
Seth
No. Yeah. Funny. Funny meaning? Wow. No. Like, I never call any of my male friends and say, do you want to go do some yoga? Like this is. I have never even considered that. Like, I do yoga. We do yoga together. We did yoga on our honeymoon, right? I mean, she asked if I would do it.

00;52;00;05 - 00;52;04;17
Seth
I'm like, it's our honeymoon. Of course I have to. Like, I don't find myself to be a flex.

00;52;04;19 - 00;52;09;19
Stephanie
Say it like that. He actually is very like. Sure, if that's what you want to do, let's go do it. And he was very good sport about.

00;52;09;20 - 00;52;43;20
Seth
I was a great sport. That was just what I was thinking. Yeah, right. Is that I'm not I don't I in the past I wouldn't define myself or describe myself as being a person of flexibility. When it comes to my muscles in my body. Right. I will tell you, one of the, one of the biggest reasons that I'm so involved in movement, and that's the integration of all the different movements I'm doing from impact with basketball and football and sports and hiking and equestrian and yoga and weightlifting is because I want to balance.

00;52;43;20 - 00;53;07;06
Seth
I want to be able to do things. It's not about bulking up and just, you know, becoming, you know, like meaty or something or being super. It's all of those. But like, I want to be flexible, like the next ten years of my life are all about promoting the whole body spirit, mind, body, spirit, flexibility in my body and in my thinking.

00;53;07;13 - 00;53;37;29
Seth
Right balance. Spiritually. Emotionally. Physically. Strength. Flexibility. Balance. Strength. So I don't know. That'd be interesting. It'd be, you know, it'd be super fun just to reach out to some guy friends and, you know, get some of the punch passes to the local yoga yoga studio or like, invite them over to the house and say, hey, I was wondering if you wanted to come over to do, like, a sound bath and some yoga and try it with 1010 dude friends?

00;53;38;01 - 00;53;40;09
Stephanie
Hey, we did it with our Thai team.

00;53;40;11 - 00;53;47;12
Seth
We have had friends in from Asia, from Thailand. Yeah. You know, and we actually hosted the sound baths.

00;53;47;14 - 00;53;48;15
Stephanie
And we did some yoga.

00;53;48;15 - 00;54;01;18
Seth
Stretching and it's and then we did yoga and we. Yeah, we and we had one, one dude who came, you know. But, interesting question. I love that you asked me that. I've never really even thought about that.

00;54;01;21 - 00;54;03;09
Stephanie
I'm excited to see what's going to happen.

00;54;03;09 - 00;54;04;29
Britt
Now.

00;54;05;01 - 00;54;07;13
Seth
You've heard of Men in Tights? I'm going to say you.

00;54;07;15 - 00;54;31;07
Stephanie
Well, I've, I actually like I had one friend who was a, hot shot firefighter and, I was shocked to hear because he was he was pretty ripped and he was like, yeah, my, my captain, on the firefighting squad or whatever you call the crew. Yes. Thank you. He encourages them to go do hot yoga all the time.

00;54;31;07 - 00;54;53;22
Stephanie
And so that's just a part of their practice now to help keep them flexible and strong for their career. Right. Helping people and, having to do a lot. And then also the yoga class that I, I've gone to several times, I've seen another guy in there, that nurse. Oh yeah. Remember. And anyways, it's I think it's always great to see men in there.

00;54;53;24 - 00;54;59;06
Stephanie
You know, expanding and gall. I don't even know where I'm going with this.

00;54;59;08 - 00;55;07;12
Seth
All I could think of, as we said, I think it's great to see men in there. And all I could do is fill in the blank. Let's say. Right.

00;55;07;14 - 00;55;08;21
Stephanie
No, they don't.

00;55;08;21 - 00;55;12;25
Seth
Where I look, actually, I do air tights, but I wear shorts.

00;55;12;25 - 00;55;16;25
Stephanie
Do you wear tights? You were saying? That means I'm in the class.

00;55;16;25 - 00;55;24;00
Seth
I know that's not what you're thinking, but what do you say, men? When you say men in? I'm going to fill it in with tights. I just.

00;55;24;00 - 00;55;52;13
Stephanie
With. No, no, I, I just think it's great because it like, yoga isn't just about flexibility, you know, it's it's also about grounding yourself and going inward and checking in with yourself and seeing what you need. And that can be really hard to do, for men and women. So I love to see when other men come and, try that out and to know what that's going to do and how that's going to ripple out for people around them.

00;55;52;16 - 00;55;54;12
Stephanie
I think it's great.

00;55;54;14 - 00;56;13;20
Britt
Yeah. I do want to share a story. As I was thinking about Seth reaching out to his friends, I love April Fool's. And when I was married to my husband, I said I hacked into his phone the night before and I sent a message to like ten of his buddies like, hey, you want to go do yoga this week?

00;56;13;20 - 00;56;23;20
Britt
And then go get some organic green smoothie this Monday after? And he got some good response. So they're like, yeah, dude, let's do it.

00;56;23;23 - 00;56;26;03
Stephanie
Oh that's awesome.

00;56;26;06 - 00;56;27;16
Seth
Thank you.

00;56;27;18 - 00;56;40;15
Britt
You took me to F because that was about his make, My husband was into. But I just thought it was funny. Oh. That's awesome.

00;56;40;17 - 00;56;47;01
Seth
My wheels are rolling. Wheels are rolling. Yes.

00;56;47;03 - 00;56;57;27
Britt
Can be funny. No smile, no yoga. Get some green smoothies and go get some tea and talk about our emotions.

00;56;57;29 - 00;57;00;17
Seth
Oh.

00;57;00;20 - 00;57;11;22
Stephanie
We laugh about it. But do you know what? What a different world it would be if men actually tried those things I get really would be so different.

00;57;11;24 - 00;57;12;20
Britt
In a good way.

00;57;12;25 - 00;57;20;22
Seth
Now. No, I guess I'm just. I'm having fun just thinking about how I'm going to. I'm going to stage this coming up. I'm coming up.

00;57;20;24 - 00;57;24;04
Britt
Okay? I want to hear. I want to hear how it goes. Absolutely. Definitely need.

00;57;24;04 - 00;57;24;27
Stephanie
An update.

00;57;24;29 - 00;57;55;14
Seth
Well, Britt, you're based in Salt Lake City, and so these, the midlife chrysalis and, your coaching, your, your cohorts take place live in Salt Lake City for women who are local, we're going to make sure that we have all of your contact information, in the show notes, so that women can find you. And what I'd like to do, what I'd like to do is we need to find a time.

00;57;55;16 - 00;58;18;12
Seth
Pardon me, where we can hop back on here because we didn't get we didn't get to to talk about today, but I. And I don't want to rush through it. But that experience with the Nepalese doctor that you had, that's like a story that every woman needs to hear. And so we always produce some VIP content that we don't release in the main show, but we release for our VIP community.

00;58;18;14 - 00;58;34;21
Seth
And we send them an email. So can we get back together in the next week to ten days in a short period of time? Doesn't have to be long. We'll hop back on the studio and want to ask about that so that we can provide that to our VIP community. Is that okay?

00;58;34;23 - 00;58;35;14
Britt
Yes.

00;58;35;17 - 00;59;01;03
Seth
Awesome, awesome. So make sure you're part of VIP if you're listening. This this, this show right now because this you when you share this with me in the pre-show, I was just like, wow, we have to have this. We have to have this woman on the show. We only scratch. I feel like we only scratched the surface of of of just the depth, that you have of your knowledge and your experience.

00;59;01;06 - 00;59;18;25
Seth
Brett, I will say that I have been hearing. I've never heard about perimenopause. I've never heard the word mentioned so many times in my life as I have in the last six months. Like like in the last six months, I've heard it more times than my entire cumulatively through the rest of my life. So.

00;59;18;28 - 00;59;25;02
Stephanie
And that's not even me. Hasn't been me bringing it up.

00;59;25;05 - 00;59;41;28
Seth
So thank you for for being a warrior, for being, a shaman, for being a guide on, on this part of the journey for so many women. And thank you for spending a few minutes with us today on the show. I feel like we could talk for another 2 or 3 hours on this list.

00;59;41;29 - 00;59;43;23
Stephanie
Really?

00;59;43;25 - 00;59;46;28
Britt
Hang out at your blue zone gym sometime. Yeah.

00;59;47;02 - 00;59;54;12
Seth
Come out. Absolutely, absolutely. And cut. It's a wrap.

00;59;54;14 - 01;00;09;16
Stephanie
Thank you so much for being here today. And thank you for sharing this episode with that one friend who needs this conversation. Thank you for all the ratings, the reviews, the comments, and especially the support. We so appreciate you.

01;00;09;18 - 01;00;23;19
Seth
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01;00;23;22 - 01;00;28;18
Stephanie
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