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okay and welcome to True Hope cast thank you so much for being with me today how are you yeah thank you for having me I'm

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great how are you I'm doing good thank you very much yeah it's a beautiful day in Vancouver and we're supposed to have

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some snow soon so I'm uh excited to see how the city Folk deal with that that's going to be exciting

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um can you just let us know a little bit about who you are what it is that you do um

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oh senior year of high school um I lived in Vancouver for about three years now and um I hope to go into

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Neuroscience in the future very exciting why Neuroscience um I think personally I've just always

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admired the way that people function and I've been very interested in just how

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um we get along and um the decisions behind all their actions and I think I've just been very

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interested in that and you're 17 right yes I am can you tell us a bit about your experience as a young person in

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school with education with your aspirations of studying Neuroscience like you know there's obviously a lot of

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stress that comes of learning about these like high intense topics so what's your experience been like through

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through school um so recently um with grade 12 right like the workload

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has been getting heavier and heavier and especially being a part of the IB program I find

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um it's just been very stressful but I feel like um with the right environment and the right people there's always

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um there's always like uh like a like a light there and so that I think that's what I focus on and that's how it helps

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me ease myself a little bit yeah yeah that's great it's so interesting that you know I've not been a young person

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for a long time I'm 38 when I was at school things were very very different but just from like an outside view view

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from my perspective it looks like there are many young people like really

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struggling with with their mental health whether that's from pressures from home

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social pressures social media all these things like what's been your experience and with your other you know with with

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your friends at school like what's the kind of like the atmosphere within school for like young people these days

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um I definitely I definitely agree with all these like pressures around especially with um the uprising and social media usage I

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can definitely see a lot of that impact that it has on these young people especially with the younger grades I can

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find a lot of them start using like um internet slang and like things like that and it's it's not in a more

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positive light I feel like because yes like while you know like technology brings us so many sources and like

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um for me like I can like um like source so many different informations and new informations but

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then there's also like um downsides to that where it's like you can it's all unfiltered right so then

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you see like all these like um things that can just easily influence the mind and things like that and so

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like you can really see that being you know projected from a certain person and the things that they're indulging during

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their free times yeah we were just talking before we jumped on air here about like you so you're you're

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interested in neuroscience and what an amazing time to be able to do that because there are professors at Harvard yay all

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these incredible schools that have podcasts now where you're able to listen to these people speak and you know not

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so long ago if you wanted to have personal engagement with those individuals you'd have to be going to those schools but like it's like anybody

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now can get access to these this phenomenal information and before you even get to school like to college or

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university you can have a big grasp of like how these people are actually thinking yeah

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what's the latest stuff going on in in this in the research in the science and that's just a really amazing positive

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thing about like about the internet social media podcasting Etc but then there's obviously like the the more like

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negative aspects of it for for young people and it's interesting I didn't grow up with it at all so I don't really

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know but there's obviously like the reality that we all live in in the real world where we deal with anxieties we

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deal with stress we deal with depressions and things like that but like when people go onto social media and look at let's say celebrities or

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like I don't use the word Role Models because that might not be quite right but you know what I mean but it's

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that reality that they see on a screen I don't know like for maybe like an insecure teenager which probably

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describes 90 of them yeah for sure seeing this false World online what is it what

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do you think that does to like young people's reflection of their of their own life

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um I to be honest I really feel like um like seeing those like images or like

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seeing those videos like you get this sense of like perhaps this like sense of like missing out or like you're feeling

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that you know your life could be like you just feel that your life is so minuscule compared to theirs right but I

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think sometimes it's just it's really hard to see that um you know your life is your life is great as well and I think it's like just

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as well as them just because you do not have perhaps like the status or like the money and a lot of that does contribute

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to that but I feel like um you know with the right people like I said um it's very easy to find well I

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wouldn't say it's very easy but I feel it is um when you recognize that I feel that it is easier to recognize that you know

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sometimes it's not just about what you see online and it's you have to take a step back and you have to see what you

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have in person and really appreciate those things do you think that that is a skill set that everybody has at that

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young young age I think that's a very mature perspective oh thank you um but I

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do not believe so because I mean personally like before I used to struggle with those things as well I

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used to constantly compare myself to like people online or like just the people around me because I felt like I

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was missing a part of myself and obviously it's not saying like I'm not insecure about a lot of things about myself right now but I think I have

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um a better grasp than I had before about these things well tell us about some of those struggles that you

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previously had um okay uh I think starting in ninth

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grade I had a really bad like falling out with some of my friends um and then it was during that time where I actually moved to Vancouver and

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so um there was that really like distance and on top of that there was that covid-19 and then we had the lockdown

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and everything so I think like that isolation like really um played around with my head I think

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and oh and like that's when I started like thinking about Neuroscience I'm like I'm really interested in like you

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know just figuring out like what's like you know like driving all these thoughts and like all these emotions because you

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know like you as yourself as this individual you don't really see the people around you and like what they think right and so like you're always

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like constantly in your head and so you're thinking well what if this person thinking about me like this way or like what if they're saying that thing so

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it's really hard to differentiate like that thought and reality and so like I think that's what's Driven me driven me

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to like um look into Neuroscience where I'm like that's sort of um I think passion perhaps but

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um after that falling out I think I was in like a really deep place and so um I mean it took me a while to get

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um to just improve I guess and like just to find like the little things in life every day and enjoy that

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and you have a very phenomenal family especially your your mum right like I've

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interviewed her before she's been on the show before and she's quite a remarkable person an incredible practitioner and she is my my top role model top role

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model yeah I look up to her every single day that's beautiful she's over there right now she's gonna be on the second part of this podcast

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um and she works a lot with Empower plus and freeminos um primarily overseas but she has so

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much experience with these products what was your experience with them coming into your life

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um I think I started taking these about two or three years ago like when it started um at first it wasn't like much of

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anything but I started feeling like um I just noticed that I wasn't

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what's it called like overthinking as much I just wasn't like thinking too much about what the other people were

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thinking about but I think I was just more focused on like and I felt more at ease I didn't feel this like like it's

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like when your heart rate's like always like speeding up I felt more calm and I felt like um I was just able to get on with

8:15

everything and like start doing things that I liked and because like during that time I couldn't really pick up like anything that I used to love doing right

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but I started taking these I was like I could start getting back into um the things that I used to love doing sounds

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like it gave a significant part of your life back to you yeah I think so yeah are there any particular aspects that

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like it like supported with them girls to like maybe getting involved more in like Social Circles it sounds like the

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word cope being able to cope with the added stresses of just being a human being right especially around the wild

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time of covid um very obviously interesting time especially for like young people who you

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know isolation is a very very difficult thing for anyone to deal with but when like going to school and being a part of

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peer grapes and your you know your sports and everything like that it's obviously a very important part of developing your personality at such a

9:04

young age and so it sounds like these products have really been able to

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give you the ability to start thinking about things maybe not

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necessarily differently like but back to kind of like an old way yeah like how it used to be before um I started taking these like more

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regularly as I started grade 11. um and that was like my first year in the IB program and during that time I

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was I think I fell back into that Loop because with the added pressures and things like that and the workload was

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just immense and I couldn't like cope with it in any way and so like during that time I think from I think it was

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just last year like March to June I had a very bad time just keeping my grades up where like things like that like I

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was I was truly struggling like it was like if I had to put in one way it was struggling but um like this year like

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this was I was taking it I think in the morning and the evenings now and so that was thanks to my mother sometimes I

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forget in the morning but yeah um I find myself like I'm able to like um focus more and I think um that's like

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really helped me a lot and you know like I've been able to find like a really solid group of people that I've just

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been able to share my experiences and just learn so much more from and I think like um that in part also played a role

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that's really cool and thank you for that being vulnerable and sharing that like those struggles because I think

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that's a massive part of the healing process is recognizing when we're in a place where we need support we need help

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and that can come in the space of a parent a mentor role model or taking a

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nutritional supplement that's able to help you deal with those times in your life or your literally your brain is

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like working overload you throw the pressures of stress and grades and that school and education into all of that

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you you're just getting depleted of resources so so quickly yeah and if

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you're able to take something that's able to like replenish you it makes total sense that you that you explain

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that and describe that experience of being able to cope again and being able to do those

11:06

things you did before and it's just amazing that like I've been working with this company for five years and your

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story is um I hear this story every week being able to like have their lives back

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and get back to the things that they wanted to do and you know you you're engaging in like a kind of high Elite

11:23

educational experience at school do you think that these products would support people who

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who are in school just dealing with the everyday stresses of just like being in school because it's a stressful environment whether it's School whether

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it's sorry whether it's grades or um dealing with dealing with other students Etc

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um I definitely think so um as like like I said before I feel like even in grade 12 when my workload

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has increased more with like uni applications I'd never there was never really once where I really felt like I

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was very overwhelmed despite everything that was like I was being hit with and I feel like that really like in part like

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really had to do with me taking these supplements and just um and I feel like I've just been able

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to put myself there more openly because um before like before any of that like

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all happened I was able to you know I was a very vulnerable I would say I was an open book

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um I loved like sharing my experiences with others and always just talking with others because I wanted to hear their

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stories right um but after that like during that period of like two years I wasn't really

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able to do that anymore and I feel like once I was able to open them up more this year

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um I was able to just I I don't want to say like go back to my old self but I think with these new

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experiences I'm able to you know become a better version of myself that I was from perhaps like two years ago so yeah

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I definitely think it's able to I think it's able to help like anyone that's like the feeling overwhelmed or anything

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because it really just puts you at ease I believe have you spoken about your experience with these products like any

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of your friends any of your mates um I definitely yes um I don't want to like share their stories

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yeah but um I definitely like I can definitely see some people who do like struggle and I always like tell them

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like you know I'm here if you want to like always talk about it and things like that and I tell them um in like a subtle way right like I

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don't want them to be like forced like I'm forcing you to take this but sometimes I go like oh yeah like by the way like I'm taking these like if you're

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ever like interested in things like that yeah I think that's for that question the best way to to support and help a

13:26

friend is by being the example yeah and sharing your experience with something something like that and then having them

13:32

have the ability to ask you like more questions or have access to it and what's it like so you're so your mum is

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a you know she's a health health practitioner what's that like been growing up with that with that influence

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because I've got I've got two young kids and I'm a nutritionist I work with this company you know I'm very very health

13:49

orientated and through myself for setting example is obviously like my

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primary thing but also like I need to I want to subtly um and help my kids incorporate these like

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healthy habits along the way what's that been like for you I think it's my mom my mom's always like

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one of like the best for us like for my sister and I when we were younger and I think it's just like followed through and it's like increased as she's

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becoming like more involved with like this aspect of like nutrition like she's always like watching like what we eat or

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like things like that like making sure we have like what we need like not just physically but also like mentally and I

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feel like um I really have to like thank for her with that because like um like it's it's like she always like

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make sure she's like um you know like if you ever go out and eat like make sure you're like you know not just like not just like nonchalantly

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but do it with purpose you know and I feel like I've also been like applying that to just it's like a metaphor for

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life like you want whenever you do something you want to have it like the best right like this is your one life

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you live you want to do it like the best beautiful um there's a lot of people young people

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especially like struggling in the world right now anxieties depressions like we see mental health just like kind of

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just all over the place at the moment and there's obviously multiple factors for that and we have things

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like micronutrients like Empower plus like free aminos and we also have things

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like exercise and not playing too many video games and eating well you know all these things that

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um incorporate a healthy holistic lifestyle when it comes to using like supplements

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so I don't think supplements is usually like a normal thing for like not like not normal but like it wouldn't most 17

15:30

year olds yeah we don't really automatically just default to thinking oh let me take some supplements right

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yeah because I mean it's relatively a new thing because you know 50 50 years ago we were we were getting all of these

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nutrients within our food for our soil right but that's just not the case anymore so hopefully we're going to be

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in a place where it's a new normal where you know kids from kind of all ages are able to

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like supplement their diets yeah with essential minerals and and to oxidants

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vitamins Etc they're about to do that do you do you I don't need to recommend

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anything for the masses of people out there but there's so many people out there struggling and I think there'll be

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a lot of people who are on the fence who are maybe using search engines to to find answers to their questions what

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would you say to people who are on the fence about using like a natural supplement that's actually got 36

16:20

medical journals to its name one of the most studied micronutrients on the planet like and you've used it you've

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had the experience you've had your mother's influence as well so you've got that um Foundation or belief behind the

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product and you obviously trust your mum very much I assume um so what would you say to those people

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who are like kind of like on the fence about because it's very easy to get into into a pharmaceutical yeah I'll be stuck

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into that for a long period of time for like a young person who's like maybe 17. it's a serious chemical to take where

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there are other options so what would you say to people who are like on the fence I would think like I would understand

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where they're coming from because it's so like widely publicized that it's like oh um if I remember like let's say I'm

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even sick for example um I'm just gonna go to you know the pharmacy I'm gonna pick up some Advil Tylenol things like that

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um the thing is I the person I've never taken any of that and it's like um like not even like oh like I've never

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taken but it's like the thing is like because of my mother right I've always taken like other supplements and I and I

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don't think it's like because it's such like a obscure like aspect right now and

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it's like an obscure idea it's like oh like supplements no one really thinks about that in the first place right and so I think like as it's more

17:34

um you know introduced into the world I feel like people would be more at ease but of course like I would recommend these to them because you know like it's

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helped me so much and I want the same thing for them as well and so like obviously I would choose you know the

17:46

supplements rather than and perhaps like with supplements I would say like it takes longer to see the effect but I

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feel that it's long term like the effects are long term uh like you know versus like you're taking Tylenol Advil

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it's a short term like that is very short term and like there's no long term and you got to keep taking it like as

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you do have to keep taking it but I feel like the effects are long term and you see it more than you do with that like

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short term have you noticed anything when you like forget to take it or you've missed a few days you notice

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anything within yourself um uh there are some times where I do forget to take it and there's sometimes

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where I just feel a bit more um just not as

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I just feel weighed down a bit more that I do would normally but that's sometimes like over a couple like let's say I

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forget like two to three days in a row I start to really like feel it but if it's like one day like perhaps I could like get through it but sometimes it's harder

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to also Focus but yeah yeah I find that um when I take it consistently which is

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most of the time but like for example I forgot to bring my like supplements to Vancouver with me which is mad but um I

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if I find that it gives me the ability to react to respond to situations

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where I'm taking a step back and I'm able to evaluate how I want to engage in this situation rather than just like

19:08

reacting with like emotions for sure yeah um that's the that's the best way I can

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describe what this this product does for me because when I yeah when I skip a couple of days I miss a couple of days I'm I'm less patient I get frustrated

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more I step into anger and those things aren't really part of my like I want to say my my balanced homeostatic

19:28

personality um so that's kind of like how I describe it like you're at like for me to like I

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think I act more like impulsively like I don't really think like I'm I personally am a very like indecisive person but I

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feel like there's like times where I do forget to take things and I'm like I'm just acting on like just an Impulse like

19:47

I don't really think about what I'm doing like oh okay like this is I want to do this I'm just going to go do that or like things like that and it just

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starts getting like everything's just coming and coming coming and then I just I can't take a step back like it's very

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hard to amazing well we're gonna do a little part two with your mum she's gonna come

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and she's been on the podcast before Sally amazing practitioner and she sounds like she's a pretty terrific mum as well she's a wonderful mom all that's

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awesome to hear um thank you so much for coming on and talking to us I honestly believe like

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it's a big passion for myself and for True hope is to speak to as many young people as possible who have used our product because

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I don't think 16 17 18 year olds want to hear from adults especially adults they

20:28

don't know tell them that this product is going to support them and help them even though it might do that and so I

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think that being able to have conversations with such wonderfully spoken educated person like

20:40

yourself be able to um explain how it supported you and hopefully through that

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story We Inspire other people to maybe take that step take that leap because

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it's a little bit of a leap of faith you know it is yeah before you were to jump into it because it's not not the most

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conventional model it's not it's not and I feel like that's why people have a hard time you know adjusting to it

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because it's not it's not conventional it really isn't and they don't see many people around them taking that and so

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it's very easy to fall into this like you know this path of like because what a lot of people are doing it so you

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you're very scared to like take that and I totally understand I totally agree but you know sometimes it is like you said

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that leap of faith and I totally support that so yeah thank you so much for having me awesome man thank you thank

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you okay Sally hi hi Simon welcome back to the podcast how are you I'm good how

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are you I'm very well thank you yeah we just had your incredible daughter on the show who I've been very excited to to

21:38

meet and get her story her experience with and power plus and

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the experience of just being a young person in the world today like it's a very interesting time to be a teenager

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yeah I think it's um like more tough than they were young right the teenager

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yeah it feels like every year it just gets harder and harder to be a teenager right so why don't you just so we had

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you on the show before and I'm not sure what episode it was but I'll put it in the show notes so if people want to get like a bit more of a background on who

22:09

you are and we spoke about extensively some examples of how Empower pluses and freeminos has really really supported a

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lot of your clients so just as a kickoff you've been working with true hope products for quite some time now

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um with bringing them into your family using them yourself did you ever have any hesitations with that because you

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can you could recommend stuff for your clients for sure but like bringing these products into your home is a different

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story oh of course I've never hesitated the room to my home to use for my family

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especially for my true teenager girls um it's not just like a mental product

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right and for the for the first thing I just use them as a like a normal

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nutrition because as long as they're taking it I don't need to worry about what they're taking in lunch at the

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school even though I make the lunch very carefully every day for them but sometimes they miss maybe just sometimes

23:10

they don't bring a lunch to the event or maybe just to library somehow in the

23:16

weekend and then I just throw them EMP I think the nutrition is enough

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yeah just as a normal nutrition basic nutrition first so that would be just like as a

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foundational thing so that's not even with thinking about the added stresses of being a teenager or the the you know

23:35

the lack of nutrients in the soil that's just something that you think about first of all yeah I just put a basic

23:41

nutrition for them every day for now and then for that for the older daughter and

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then she is very high stressed high school kids right now so she got more

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like a stressful life and then study so I just put them put it like more high

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dosage for her that's amazing and how has the how is

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your understanding of how Empower plus and free measures are working with the more experience you

24:12

have using them well yeah um I actually every product I used before I want I

24:18

would do a lot of research on ads not only in the product but also the ingredients and then the the ratio the

24:25

matching right so for EMP and then free Amino I just think it's a great

24:31

the ingredients ratio that put in one capsules so and then I think it's a very

24:37

I always tell my customer I said this is a way to go good to go uh basic

24:44

nutrition for every day for your kids but just different dosage just let me know

24:49

how old are they and then what they act at in in the base daily base and I can

24:54

just suggest you don't write dosage but so um for um for right now it's just not

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only my kids as also my uh my customers kids and all I just put them in in I

25:09

just such as lists as a nutrition for them for the multi as a multivitamins for

25:18

every day yeah what would be this is obviously very important to ask those different factors those different keys

25:24

on the individual say for example you've got like somebody who you would recommend take in power

25:30

plus it's just that foundational supplement to just you know keep their body replenished and then you've got

25:36

another individual maybe like same age but dealing with like maybe some more like anxious Tendencies how would your

25:43

recommendation change well yeah oh actually I'm the only reason I will maybe go to the

25:51

other option and instead of the EMP is the price but

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for if you have the choice our first the top recommend the EMP for any kids

26:02

ending age as a multivitamin first in the basic but if you have a like stress

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or like a mental issue like over overwhelming lifestyle then you will see

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what's the dosage you need in every day yeah it's that's only the difference is

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the dosage and then the price that you want to choose yeah yeah and it's so important I think to be working with a

26:30

health practitioner that who knows the product knows how it works has got that experience of working with different age

26:36

groups yeah yeah we've spoken before the show that you know I I use Empower plus with my kids they're 18 months and three

26:43

three years old right and um I don't know they obviously don't swallow capsules at that age but like you can

26:48

open up the capsule you can put that in different foods smoothies yogurt pancakes you know it's super easy to be

26:55

able to get these things into into these young people's bodies and it's super

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important can you tell us like why do you think it's important for kids like now opposed to maybe 50 years

27:07

ago or everybody now why it's important to supplement with like good quality well-researched nutrition oh yeah I

27:15

always tell my customer first of all because they're not very um well educated to realize or know the

27:25

supplement that can help them but I just have an example I said okay

27:30

when you're a baby you're taking baby formula actually it's just a milk base plus

27:36

mineral and vitamins but if you you can put the EMP power into a milk which is a

27:44

Formula which is a baby formula you can just take it and then the kids can grow up with it without doubt

27:51

this is a very uh simple example some sometimes they can understand sometimes

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they cannot believe in it but it's not true right um for now the Generation

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Um I would think they are not as good as um back as our age when we grow we have

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a very good resource and then not that pollution and then the soil nutrition is

28:18

rich in that moment but right now it's like a it's everything is changed so the

28:24

food that grew up and then even sometimes without sunshine and then you can you just take it but the

28:31

nutrition is way less than before so I think not just for the teenager for any

28:37

age we we should consider like nutrition support your physical health and mental

28:44

health and overall health yeah yeah there's so many factors these days

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environmental primarily and as well as just like the added added stress of like

28:54

yeah like social media like for example it's you know it's very stressful on the body like it's a very

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depleting experience for a lot of kids who do it for like you know hours upon hours

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and we're just depleting our kids like so much of these vital nutrients that they need to do

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yeah thousands of different functions within the body and it just makes total sense to me that if you're not refilling

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that part of resources that's somewhere down the line the body does amazing things but somewhere down the line the

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body is just going to like be too stressed out and that will end up manifesting within within symptoms and

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then a cluster of those symptoms is going to end up being like some sort of pathological disease yeah and by taking

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something so simple as like a micronutrient like every day I think so many people can avoid

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devastating experiences and like you know having a serious anxiety or serious depression as a young person

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like it's so where do you go like as such a young person to be able to like deal with that and then we just see like

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the suicide rates of like these young people it's absolutely just so disheartening when there are solutions

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available for people um and yeah just just obviously as a

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you're a mother I'm a father it's just like really difficult to um obviously imagine your child in like a difficult

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situation like that how do you see what's your experience of having like you've got two you've got two well

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there's 17 and what 14 15 15. so you got two like young yeah adults in the house

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yeah and watching them grow up yeah what's your been your experience about like watching teenagers grow up into

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like in today's world with like with anxieties and depressions and mental

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illness have you seen that like that unfold well yeah of course

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um I think in this generation they they were born with everything they need they

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don't need to worry about the life they they bought with the big houses and

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the cars everything they have right but um they were they only focus is on a

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study and then sometimes if they're facing challenge they don't know how to

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deal with because I think the parents does everything for them for now for

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this generation right now so and then they put less effort than than us like

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before and then so I can say maybe it's fragile it's kind of fragile it's like

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the Stress Management affordability is to lack of the forbid affordability yeah

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so um in some cases I I have is sometimes it's

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because their parents divorced or maybe they lost their loved ones and they

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changed so this is nothing you can you can change but the most important thing

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is because um one is because of the kids they cannot imagine a stress first the second thing

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is because I think it's the hormone change right now it's the most important

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things because the parents will think it's usual teenager is like that well

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actually it is like that but something that you can do to make the way correct the way

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it is that's what I thought that's super interesting because obviously like especially with women there's a

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significant hormonal change yeah yeah yeah you can see when the woman who had

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they are having a period right or they're having a baby the hormone change drives them crazy and then most of most

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uh the thing happens is in during that period like the woman uh

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when it's teenager the second thing in their childbirth and the third thing it's a menopause so the hormone change

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of fluctuates it's it's it drives your brain differently and then your thought

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it differently I always think um talk to my customer I said don't make a big

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decision when you have your own frustrate because it's really impacted

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the results because sometimes you make the decision without knowing

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actually it's just that one moment when you calm yourself down

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everything then can be fixed easily well because right now I'm dealing not only

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in the teenager health I'm dealing the woman Health a lot and then I can see

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the difference yeah totally different yeah but it just makes sense especially like

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for a teenager teenage boys teenage girls going through such a hormonal change a hormonal shift that if you were

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to continue with the same like dietary nutritional path that person may be on that may be

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like a really positive one where they're eating really healthy foods or a really like bad one where they're not they're just eating junk food all the time without having without manipulating that

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for the change in circumstances of this huge hormonal hormonal shift it just

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like leads to it's going to lead to issues and it's interesting that you said that

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they're just teenagers this is just what they do that's just the societal understanding that we have and it does

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that does I think that's a really lazy ignorant way too exactly to depict big change in somebody so yeah there's

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obviously things that we can do to help young people and anyone going through those like big hormonal shifts I don't

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like that way they said it's it's just a teenager it's like that way but actually actually I have been go through my two

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teenager girls uh when they hit their puberty it's a it's a type of station

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but right now if I do something it changes actually it's especially uh when

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they are keep taking it like day by day you can see the different yeah so

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I want to you you said something interesting about like kids these days you know most of them they grow up

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without having to worry about things don't have to worry about like where they're going to sleep what they're going to eat how they're going to get to

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wherever um and that's wonderful that we we obviously want to do the best we can for

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our kids and provide them the best that we can that's just super super normal and it's interesting that

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the less that people maybe struggle yes the less they're able to like

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self-develop responsibility and things like that um how do you how do you personally like

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with your kids like how do you how do you help them so help them

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struggle but help help them learn the responsibility because you know like in in a couple of years you might not want

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to talk about this but your your child might be going to University to college they could be going anywhere to do that and by the time your kids are like 18

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your parental work the primarily primaril the primarily the primary the

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primary and parental work is already done like you've done that and it's like

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time to like let go let go a bit because it's so important because I think about

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this all the time because my kids are young they say how am I going to help them become go from being a kid to a man

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and that like transition because we don't have that anymore like we would have like within tribal settings you

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know the the young adults or the kids would go out and into the forest for for a week or something and come back and as

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a man you know it's like a very tribal um celebration it's an experience is a

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rite of passage we don't really have that in like our Western culture so it's like how how have you done that because

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I just interviewed Anne she's an incredible young person thank you so you've done a phenomenal job you and

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your partner and and the rest of the family so how have you been able to instill that sense of responsibility

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well yeah um since they were we moved here me and my husband like it's one they'll have a

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better education too in Canada but for their growing up and then we always

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um uh let them know you have this um good life right now it's only the

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momentum that works so hard for you not yourself you're not getting it by

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yourself so once you leave this house you are independent before you leave

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this house you need to have all the ability if you want a vacation you want a car you want a new houses you need

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work hard but in order to work hard you need a very good Education First

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even though you do a late labor job you need a good attitude on edge and then

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you are not able to say well I always always say to say to my girl I said

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you need to work hard in your young age but not in your late age you need

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again a penny with very hard working because in that moment you have don't

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have a good health you don't have a passion and even though you have a lot

38:12

of debt on your own so I said if you can work hard when you're young do it but

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not to wait until you need to work hard you need that money to afford your life

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which is it's too late and then and she is very independent right now she has

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she even though she's right now has very stress for study life right now

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and she is volunteering she had her part her job and she did she doesn't spend

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any money if she needs to spend to ask the parents to she has her her own account and she

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on her own money to it and then the second one right now she's starting her

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for that job and then save her money and then we just helped her my husband

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opened account for her and Save saved education fund for her let her

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know this is part of your life you have to do we we I I think most part

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for the health on your children they're the basic needs I do a lot for them but

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for later like when they grow up they need independent life those skills ability my

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husband helped them a lot yeah cool yeah yeah well skills and ability that's something

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that you train with right and it makes so much sense that you would help them do that in the environment of the home

39:47

where they're able to like learn these skills learn these abilities make mistakes yes ask questions in the in the

39:54

comfort of home so they're prepared to be able to step out into the real world and they've got these skills and they'll

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still be able to obviously ask for support and being able being vulnerable enough to be able to ask for help when

40:06

you need it um not just like trying to fix everything yourself all the time like that's obviously part of like the whole

40:12

family dynamic as you grow up yeah um just to kind of finish off have you got any interesting uh apart from your

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own family have you got any interesting um examples of how these products have

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supported uh yeah like young kids oh yeah yeah if you want to maybe give me a

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couple of those sure like for any age though like as you said you give to your 18 month baby right I always do too I

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um like sometimes the customer come to say hey my my kids cannot sleep well I

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said okay you have to manage their diet first and then like them to take maybe

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one or two caps the EMP in a day and then free Amino in the night they can it

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can help them to calm down to go to sleep well actually if they try a week it does help this is for the young age

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and then for right now we are facing in the June in China they have a big test

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exam test to go into the university and then I put the European free Amino in a

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package and then I encourage every parent to who has their high school kids

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to take in this protocol which is um not just for the daily nutrition

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basic needs also as also for the Stress Management for the mental health because

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in that exam it's sometimes it seems like they it's a key point for their

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life if you cannot get a good offer then maybe you you start your life maybe

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weekly but this is a big exam for them you you cannot fail

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so I said as long as you can take this last two months to go for

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definitely going to help the kids have a very good mood very good memory very

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good immunity to facing that big challenge in their life

42:20

amazing yeah just talking about exams stresses me out just even thinking about it I've not done one in a long time but

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it's uh it's such a significant thing to put on a young person I know there's

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some there's um like in Norway for example and I think you may be Denmark like they don't do any exams until they're like 18. oh really which is

42:39

interesting it's not like that in the UK or in Canada um but it's very it's just very interesting in how like we expect like

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these young people who are you know The Adolescents to deal with such high amounts of stress without

42:52

supplementing or educating them about how they can how they can get through such a stressful experience yes yes yeah

42:58

I think that's quite irresponsible with like education boards Etc when there are like very very good Solutions out there

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I also helped a kids who want to Suicide for themselves and then in a two-month

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and then he finally has no that thought anymore I

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was very glad for that that's a miracle like that's incredible because it's very very

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um amazing and then thankful yeah yeah and we've got a lot of work to do to be able to get that message and get this

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product to there's thousands of people who do struggle with those Suicidal Thoughts because yeah it's it's becoming

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more and more prevalent or you have a good team too well always appreciate that and then once I have a question I

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just make a phone call the one that who helped me is called Catherine okay okay yeah she helped me

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helped me a lot and to advise any different cases what's the dosage how

43:54

that goes on and then when to stop the medication and then yeah yeah so professional very helpful yeah yeah so

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that's on my connection support team that anybody who is taking Empower plus and they're taking psychotropic

44:07

medications they should give them a call so they can able they can work with that pharmaceutical work with the Empower

44:13

plus and appropriately dose and hopefully taper off those Pharmaceuticals and obviously working with your primary care physician is

44:20

obviously very important as well but yeah that's a that's a service that we have that is quite unique and it's very

44:26

I mean we have to have it there so we know to be responsible because our product works that well and you know

44:32

Pharmaceuticals that so many people are on obviously have a big effect on people's bodies as well and we have to

44:37

be responsible with the fact that we you know we're changing the biochemistry for the good in in people

44:45

code about the um after the covet infection and then they got the mental

44:51

mental issue like or maybe worse or maybe it comes back or maybe

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um it happens I haven't no I mean it would make a lot of sense to me that you know after like

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an after an infection of any kind your body your immune system is obviously going to change it's going to alter and

45:10

we don't know too much about like the the lasting effects of like that virus

45:15

in the body and like what that ends up doing to our immune system for future infections like I don't think whether it's to to kind of too early to call on

45:22

that or the research is maybe not being done I don't know but it would make sense to me that you would just provide your body with with good quality

45:28

nutrition to allow your body to do what it does best which is to like heal you and make you feel good and yeah if I was

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to you know when I start to feel like I'm coming down with something my supplement regime changes like I have my

45:42

like day to day when I feel great it's like to optimize my health but as soon as I start to feel like I might be

45:47

coming down with something and it's usually when my kids start to cough and sneeze that's when I usually start ramping my stuff up yeah the protocol

45:54

just changed it just tweaks a little bit because I know my body needs a little bit extra yeah and um I honestly think

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that's the only really only real responsible way that you know I can help my body because you know if I'm sick

46:06

that my wife's gonna suffer my kids are going to suffer my wife's gonna suffer um and my work's gonna suffer so it's a

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thing and the other supplements can do so many things Beyond supporting your

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psychological Health you know these are ingredients that are going to get to every cell in your body

46:24

so your physiological health is going to be just as much uh just it's just going to benefit just as much

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I have tried one one case like a 10 years girl who had infected and then it

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got mental issue he cannot sleep and then he's she she cannot sleep and she's

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worried about everything and then I just give her a week maybe and it changes

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yeah yeah we'll say thank you so much for coming back on the show with me today it's a really special episode

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where I was able to interview Anne beforehand and then and then come and speak to you so I really appreciate both

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of you today for taking the time to to meet with me and to record this and I'm So yeah so grateful because I think this

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is going to go out and really support and Inspire and motivate lots of other people no problem thank you though thank

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you for having us of course well that's it for this quite special episode of True Hope cast the official podcast of

47:19

true hope Canada we'll be back with you next week and I'll leave show notes in the uh in the I'll leave links in the

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show notes below so you're able to connect with some of the other things that we've spoken about today but that's it for this week we'll see you soon

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