What If It Did Work?
What If It Did Work?
From Dialysis Warning to Daily Discipline: Erica Muñoz on Reversing Diabetes and Raising Three Boys
A doctor’s warning can feel like a cliff edge. For Erica Muñoz, it was a turning point. As a California mom of three—including an older son with Down syndrome—she chose a different path: reverse diabetes, raise her energy, and build a life that matches her values. We unpack how she did it without cameras, crash diets, or perfect conditions—just clear goals, protein-forward meals, daily movement, and consistency that didn’t blink when life got loud.
We get real about the myths that stall progress. Ellipticals that flatter, not measure. Ab routines that won’t outwork a kitchen. The lure of shortcuts like Ozempic for blood sugar and why stepping off them takes skills, not willpower alone. Erica shares the practical playbook that works in a busy home: Greek yogurt and whey for fast 60g protein, applesauce in baking to cut oil, protein muffins for sweet cravings, lettuce-wrapped burgers when eating out, and a mindset that treats red velvet cake as a planned celebration, not a failure. We also talk fear—fear of the first gym visit, fear of posting a workout—and how good form, small wins, and genuine community shrink those shadows.
This story is bigger than weight loss. It’s about picking a why that’s strong enough to carry you—kids who need you, health you can feel, a standard you refuse to drop. We explore time honesty (yes, there’s room if you stop binging shows), gratitude journaling, and controlling the controllables so bad days don’t derail good weeks. Erica’s growth from hesitant gym-goer to coach shows what’s possible when you stack simple habits and surround yourself with positive people. If you’ve felt stuck, tired, or intimidated, consider this your nudge to start, to post the rep, and to choose fuel over feelings one meal at a time.
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SPEAKER_00:All right, everybody, another day, another dollar, another one of my favorite episodes of my favorite podcast because I'm biased and it's a friend of the show. It's one of my biggest fans. I gotta say, I love having you on. You're one of my biggest supporters. I love watching all your stuff. Erica Diane Munoz. You know, she's shoot, you're gonna be 42.
SPEAKER_04:I'll be 42 November.
SPEAKER_00:42 November 6. November 6th. Congratulations on that. That that makes you a Scorpio. Yeah, I am from Cali, Mother Three, reverse diabetes. You know what? Every everybody watches shows like the biggest loser and whatnot. But I gotta say, I've seen you on that journey, and there's there's there's never been a non-stop. You you do everything on a consistent basis. You see, a lot of reasons why that show in the grand scheme it didn't work was because they went balls out. Any anybody could lose weight. I mean, you and I could look like Mr. Olympia if they locked us up in you know in a room in a controlled environment for like six, seven, eight months. But you know, you have to learn the process. You have to, you know, that's that's not reality. Uh I mean, you had to do it and you had three boys, so it wasn't like right, if Bob Harper and Julian didn't say, Hey, Erica, I know you got diabetes, you have all these things, all these hangups, just hang out with us for four or five months, and we'll get you going. So I I have to ask you this though. Okay, what was there's always that shit moment, that moment that you know what? I'm tired. I'm tired of like walking the stairs, or I'm I'm embarrassed because I this isn't you. I'm just saying there's examples. Somebody has to hit that. This sucks. Because usually what happens, you know, it's always like, yeah, it's not that bad, it's not that bad. And then finally, it is bad. What was that one thing that you're like, man, I gotta change my life?
SPEAKER_03:For me, is when my doctor told me if you do not do something about your weight, you're gonna end up like in dialysis. And that was a big wake-up call for me. Because I was at 219, my heaviest was 260. I lost some weight on my own, but I never really sick until I joined Tyler's program. So for me, that was a wake-up call because I do have my older son that has Down syndrome. So I'm gonna take care of him for life. So I knew I had to be healthy for myself and set the example for my boys. Because if I didn't, because I'm the only parent in the home, no one is. So for me, that was a huge wake-up call that I had to change my health. I was overweight, I was out of breath, I my blood sugars were out of control, my ALC was 11. It was just really bad. I just wasn't in a good place mentally, physically, emotionally. I was in a really bad place. And that's when I joined Hilge Program. And I think within that two months, I lost about 14, 15 pounds.
SPEAKER_00:Which is incredible. And what happens is everybody watches TV, everybody watches all these shows, and like, oh, I want to lose like 50 pounds. And it's like, well, that's that's not even for a man.
SPEAKER_03:You like I said, that's really your nutrition, like it's just starting off small, small little things with your nutrition, and you know, you can walk and still lose weight, and as long as you're eating right and doing some type of physical exercise, something is better than nothing.
SPEAKER_00:Well, also, Erica, I'm sure you've you've noticed this about people, is you can work out. I mean, I I have the the thing with me is I go up and down in weight because but I have I I I know my limits, that's that's the story of my life of everything. And I I do have a mirror, so I I know when it's time to back off, but at my heaviest, every year, whatever month, there's no random, oh, I need I want to look good. I I'm at the point where it's it's like even when you're big, you can continue people think it's exercise. And at my heaviest, I'm still doing two a day, and people ask me what's the best way to lose weight. And I'd be like, you know what? Why don't you park your Peloton right in front of your refrigerator? You'll get the best results.
SPEAKER_03:Nutrition, it's nutrition, 100%. It's all your nutrition, what you intake every day. So you can't work an out, you can't work bad diet. You have to be consistent with it every single day.
SPEAKER_00:There's something wrong with things, especially after like 29. For some odd reason, God made it that once we hit 30. I mean, sure, you can eat McDonald's if if you want to feel it on you for like days and days, no matter it. It's like just one of those things. But it it's it's funny because I know you see this a lot. You see people crushing doing crunches and working on abs, and it's the the stupid, stupidest saying, but it's a hundred percent true. Abs start in the kitchen. You're you're it's all you're gonna show what you're we we we all have a six pack, but unfortunately, we either drink a six pack of coke or six pack of bud, even butt light, whatever. Eat the cake, it's there, but you know, doing doing ab work is isn't the solution. But people it it's like those, and I I know you go to a global gym, you a person hops on the elliptical, and it looks amazing because man, it says you burn it, it lies more than your ex. I I always tell people that that machine is the biggest liar because you you're on it and you're like, holy smokes! And people get addicted because they see a false number. If if only we could all lose 600 calories 30 minutes on an elliptical, because that's that's what it says. It's like you know, it throws some crazy ass number, you're like, you know, you do that for a month, there's like no progress on anything, not even your cardio, because it's I mean, literally, you're just you know in place, you're not doing I mean you're moving a little, but but not much, and you know, people I I mean I see you because even though I I don't comment because I don't want you to be like Guzo. Guzo always feels that he needs me to have the the cyber hug or the cyber, he knows I watch everything, but he it it feels extra special. But I'm lazy, I don't even like reposting my shit, or or like if somebody comments, oh you you deserve a Nobel Peace Prize. I usually don't comment, not because I don't want it, it's just because you know I'm lazy. So if the follow-up on that, but every I watch your stuff, you're the best thing on TikTok from like oh gosh, everything just watching that. Oh, you're so nice, because I mean, you're you're actually doing it because when you go to the globo gym and you see people, usually they had the tripod, they're doing bad form, lightweight, and it's usually like some 20-something year old kid, and you you just want to kill them for for some odd reason, they like doing the flies that that that's that's like their favorite machine to be on, and and I used to be afraid of posts.
SPEAKER_03:I think the first post on TikTok was a Tyler's post he posted because I never I never was a poster, I was always afraid of post because I was afraid of people think, but then I think I started posting when I started doing the challenges more with him, and that's when I got into doing my own fitness videos. I'm like, oh, I see a lot of people doing this, so that's when I got into it more. And I started recording myself when I was more confident, you know, doing it. I didn't record in the very beginning because I wasn't that confident. So that took a while to build up to like where I'm at now to build up that confidence. But um, now I record like you know, like it's nothing because I enjoy it and hope to that it would inspire someone to start their own journey. Because I always try to post what I looked like before, that it took a long time to get like where I'm at now.
SPEAKER_00:But but also you probably had like those limiting beliefs, that little bitch voice, and oh, who am I? Or you know, I saw I don't know.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I mean, I had the moment.
SPEAKER_00:Did did you ever feel like oh my like when you first started? Oh my gosh, how about if somebody takes a shot at me? I did that that's the big the biggest fear.
SPEAKER_03:I was afraid to walk into the gym. I when I first started, I was afraid to walk in the first time because I'm like, I haven't been in the gym in years, and I got a trainer for the first time because I want to make sure I was correcting my form right.
SPEAKER_00:And once I walk into the gym, it's always important, believe it or not. Form is the most important, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:It's important because I was afraid to even step foot in the gym because you know there's a lot of intimidated people that are in great shape, but I was still learning and trying things out, I was just you know experimenting, and now it's like a second home to me. Now I love the gym. Like, you know, the gym is my second home. If I'm not at home at work, you know, working with the clients or my kids or something, I'm at the gym.
SPEAKER_00:You know what the craziest thing is, everybody has this hang-up like when they're out of shape or overweight, that the gym is like some scary, like junior high or middle school.
SPEAKER_03:No, everyone's there to work on themselves, and everyone's there to just like it's like the most better themselves every day.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I don't care if it's a CrossFit gym, I don't care any gym, globo gym. Nobody's gonna shame you, nobody's gonna laugh and go, Oh my gosh, ha ha, look how big you are. No, because you had the courage to start. Yeah, most people don't have that courage, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:And it that's the hardest part is to walk in that door. It is the hardest part just to walk in the door is hard.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, exactly. And then a lot well, and then doing things on a consistent basis. Usually what happens that that's where the the yo-yo on other people, not me. I I've I haven't taken I'm gonna hit a hundred days without taking a rest aid. Not bad for a 50 something. Now I don't post.
SPEAKER_03:I do five days a week, at least at the minimum. This week I'm trying to hit six, so we'll see. I don't know, but I'm trying to do I try to do my minimum five days of workouts a week.
SPEAKER_00:Well, well, also it's like one of my life goals. Like, I don't need to do a challenge. I've done been there, done that all the 75 hard challenges. I don't need to post, I don't need the cyber hugs. I don't think you know, before it was like, oh, well, maybe if I accomplish something, you know, heaven will open up and Jesus Christ and God will shine a light on me and go, You are worthy. I I already know it. So, you know, that's why that that that's one of those things. That's why like this year I hit 225 on on my bench, which was I never thought possible. Yeah, I never posted it, never, because you know, uh a lot of times we we think someone's yes is is great, but the best yes is when you you do it yourself and you're like shit, I'm proud of I'm proud of me. So so but yeah, I I have to say, you know, your your videos, you you get the music, it sometimes you get a partner, sometimes you don't. But uh if because I I see I I follow a couple people when it comes to working out, there's you and and I love how you you you do a lot of things people don't understand is to get followers or if you want people to know you or to buy from you is they need to get to know you and give you give a compelling reason. You talk about your family, you talk you you you put your boys in in social media, and you know, a lot of times we get this oh my my ex would always get this hang up that I was doing it for uh to get father of the year, and I'm like, no, well, one I want I'm proud of my kids, but but two, where do I sign up for that award exactly? I want my trophy, and and no, I mean you're you're there, and I'm sure there's been time, especially at the very beginning, you're you're like the pain, DOMS, the delayed onset must muscle soreness. I'm sure after your first or second workout, you're like, holy smokes.
SPEAKER_03:I do two workouts a day when I do the boot camps for Tyler because I teach him twice a week now. When he first asked me, I'm like, oh my gosh, I've never instructed a workout class before. Only thing I know how to instruct is my kids. How am I gonna instruct boot camps? So the first week I got um, I cried the first week. I was like, oh my god, Tyler, I don't know if I can do this. But I kept on doing it over and over and over, just kept on practicing, trying to get better every time with this feedback. And now I love doing it.
SPEAKER_00:For all those that don't know, another friend of the show, Guzo, Tyler Guzo, the man the myth the legend. He has an online presence, does boot camps locally, does them globally. Great guy. I have to ask you though, because you're like all the way on the left coast. How the hell did you find Tyler Guzo?
SPEAKER_03:I found him on Facebook. I was just scrolling one day and I found one of his ads, and I'm like, oh, he's the trainer. And literally, this was right after my doctor's appointment. I was just scrolling on Facebook and I reached out to him and I'm like and I told him my story, my goals, and what I want to do. And it took me, I had to watch a couple of testimonials in order to join because I wasn't sure because you know a lot of people are online, don't know if they're a scam, or you just you never know. So after I watched a few, I'm like, okay, he's real. He's helped a lot of people before. I know, so I felt like right about it. So I signed on and I joined. And then, you know, that's when I was working at the gas station at the base. And I'm like, how am I gonna do this? Take care of my three kids at the same time. But I did it every day. I would get up like at 4 a.m., do my workouts, or come home after a long 10-hour workday on my feet and do my workouts. And this is this, I was starting off in my living room. I started off in my tiny little when I had an apartment before I got a house. I started off my living room doing body weights. I didn't use any weights, it was just all body weight, and that's how I started off. And I just did what they told me to do and follow up and listen to my coach, and that's when I started seeing the results.
SPEAKER_00:The crazy thing about about that story is well well, twofold. You you found someone online, and the the craziest thing that I I laugh is because Tyler's doing it like on I think he probably has more clients.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, he has a ton of clients.
SPEAKER_00:All across the country completely.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, he has almost all over the world with clients.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, and uh if you know he would he would always talk to me about advice, I would have never been like, you know what? What I I do think you should do is you should do just ads nationwide. Because usually a lot of times business people because when you you do marketing, because I know you're an entrepreneur too, you should narrow it. Because if not Zuckerberg thinks that you're an idiot, and when you throw like a ten dollar ad and you say, I want it to go to everybody, like, okay, and then give it to quote unquote everybody, and you get nothing in return. But clearly, you see, everything happens for a reason because you saw that ad and you had the you had you had two things. You had the courage in yourself to and you you had the faith. And yeah, I mean I I guess it's technically it it looks good, you know. He he he looks good, so I don't know how many testimonials you know. I I I could grab a bunch of test testimonials on anything. That that's the easiest thing. All you have to do is get you're gonna laugh. All you have to do is get like five people that you know. Don't don't use Munos, don't don't don't use people that look like you that might be related to you, and go, you know what? When it comes to nutrition, I used to eat at In N Out burger all the time. And I didn't know that that was bad. And then I'm at Erica.
SPEAKER_03:If I go there, it's a protein salad burger. That's what I get with the Diet Coke.
SPEAKER_00:No, with me, it's like shit. I I I rarely I you know, I rarely have one, so go balls.
SPEAKER_03:I don't eat out like that as much, but if I do eat out, now I know that you can still eat out and still enjoy your foods. Like if I get a burger, turkey burger, lettuce wrap, you know, if I want a cheat meal, I'll get my pickle fries because I'm a huge pickle lover.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I know that, but thank you.
SPEAKER_03:I'm a huge pickle lover.
SPEAKER_00:You're gonna you're gonna laugh. Years ago, I was on on a date with this woman, and oh god, it it it like she had like the abacus, and I'm like, I'm like, what the f you know, not just figuratively, but like counting macros and doing all this. It looked like she she was doing college algebra, and I'm like, what the hell are you doing? And she's like, Well, you know, I lost I think it was like 40 pounds, and I want to keep it off. And I'm like, you know what? You're gonna zag. You're gonna crash because you're gonna like say, fuck this shit one day. I'm like, eat the cheesecake, eat the burger, just just be mindful, and I'll I'll tell that to everybody.
SPEAKER_03:But moderation's fine.
SPEAKER_00:I've I've never done Weight Watchers, I've done everything else, but and which is crazy that I'm a believer in it, because it knows people aren't fucking robots. If you need a Big Mac, it'll tell you how many points so that you're not fucking crazy today, tomorrow, and the next day. And and that's that's the way to do it. But if you're like there and you're like going to a restaurant, because a million years ago when I I joined CrossFit for the first time and in Paleo was a big thing in carnivore, and I was going out with all these people at at the gym, and it was like a I mean, they always say it's like a cult, but no, you look like a bunch of freaking idiots. Well, I I'll have uh like uh it was like tequila, it it's called I forgot what it's called. It's like a it's a margar, it's not really a margarita, it's just tequila with like club soda, but it's called something margarita, and then it's like, well, uh, please, whatever you do, dude. I'm gonna order this burger, but I it I it it felt like they're a kosher or something, no cheese on top of it, and and like this whole list of things and ingredients, and where's this cooked and where's it the food for the beef from? And it's like, holy smokes, man. I'm glad your wife's doing this with you, because if not, she'd have just thrown you out the door and locked the door and probably called the the friggin' insane asylum on you, and but that's that's no way to that's no way to live. That's why perfect. You know, if if if you're gonna go to a wedding, it's okay to have a drink. Now, don't don't have like you know the the 12 bud lights and think you're you're you're doing good because it has light in the name, or you know, don't don't eat five pieces of wedding cake and go all out, but you know, you can't we're we're human.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, for my birthday, that's when I plan on eating red velvet cake. That is my favorite cake, and that's gonna be like a cheat day for me. I don't have any cheat days.
SPEAKER_00:You you said it right there, though. Think about it. A lot of people would be fearful, like like it's crack that once that that's that's the way a lot of people and like you know, I I'm obsessive compulsive, so when I that's why when I'm uh I'm really in shape, I'm really in shape because I'm uh uh but yeah, it I I know what I'm doing, I I know I've got a screw loose, but I I do know if I'm I'm looking like Garth Brooks and I'm I'm cramming jeans that you know two sizes too small, you know. I'm mindful, I'm like, okay, well, you know, it's time to back off, back it up. But I I've never told someone, you know, oh my god, if I have a piece of cake, it's it, man. I'm I'm I'm gonna be on six my 600-pound life.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, you have to look at food, like I look at food as fuel. What am I feeling my body with today?
SPEAKER_00:That's that's the way it should be.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, that's how I look at it. I feel like protein. Obviously, I ate protein for every single meal. That's how I'm you an emotional eater though. I was. I was I ate up with like everything I've gone through because I ate my emotions, that's why I was so big. I ate and I even did a German fitness journey when I was going through personal things, I would eat my emotions up and my weight was always up and down. But now, you know, it took me a long time to get the mindset where food is feel. What am I gonna feel with my body today? You know, something high in protein that's gonna make me full, last longer. So now, like if I want something sweet, I learned how to I learn how to bake, you know, like protein brownies or a protein cake or protein muffins. If I want something sweet, like that, I know how to make it where it's healthy and I know it's in protein within my calories, and I know I do that now. Before I didn't know any of that, so I joined Tyler's program. I everything I know is from his program.
SPEAKER_00:He gave you the tools, but you have to work.
SPEAKER_03:Yes, that's when I fell in love with nutrition. You know, whenever having three boys, I had to get really creative with food because they before I joined, we would eat out all the time. I'm not gonna lie. We had McDonald, we had fast food all the time, all the time. So, but being on my fitness journey, I had to get crazy, like, okay, what they what can they eat that we can eat together as a family? For example, they like chicken nuggets, so I learned to make my own, like groundmellow chicken, just make them healthy, and they ate them just fine.
SPEAKER_00:So McDonald's is not healthy.
SPEAKER_03:No, I give them McDonald's, I don't take it away completely for them. You know, every now and then they'll have it, but we don't eat it like we used to, like every week. They know it's like a treat every once the blue moon, not an every week thing.
SPEAKER_00:But you know how it it's it's really not because it's convenient, because we both know when I think for a long time. Yeah, but you could get healthy food just as convenient.
SPEAKER_03:That is true too. You can too. Yeah, no, that is true. Yeah, no, that's true, too. But I don't want them to look at yeah, I don't want them to look at McDonald's like, oh, we're having McDonald's again tonight. Like, no, they know McDonald's is every once in a while. Now it's not every week like we used to. It took a long time for me to get them on the same board because now we eat everything, basically almost everything together. Now, for example, today, instead of candy, they requested um those quest chocolate-coated peanut candies, they requested those instead of candy. So that's progress for me because they would want all the sugar stuff, but they wanted something healthier. It took a long time to do that.
SPEAKER_00:Well, since you're on a health kick journey and I know your your kids uh have a sweet tooth because some of their kids are.
SPEAKER_04:They do. Yeah, they do.
SPEAKER_00:And this was like um last week. I I taped it, it'll be the following week's guest. Um Omaha uh pro protein popcorn.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, I never I've heard of it, but I'm not I haven't I I've had a couple bites of it, I'm not a fan of it. I'd rather have regular popcorn.
SPEAKER_00:Of course you do.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:But you'll see. It's like, oh yeah, it's amazing.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:So it it's it's just it's when somebody's like, oh wow, the Quest chips don't take like don't taste like Doritos. Uh no shit, but if you keep on eating low carb, uh it tastes great. J just like protein cookies, yeah. Uh it I I've never thought it was Keebler cookies or you know, Mrs. Fields. But if you're at if you're eating low carb and you do it long enough, you see, I use that stuff too, like Betty Crocker.
SPEAKER_03:I use all that stuff, but the thing is, I substitute it with a sort of like, for example, vegetable oil, I use no sugar apple sauce, I use protein powder as an ingredient, is what I learned in Tyler's program. I use it a lot for baking.
SPEAKER_00:You believe it or not, it's easy, it's easy to do.
SPEAKER_03:It's but I don't think people are educated on well here.
SPEAKER_00:I gotta ask this. Do you I know this is probably your go-to? Okay. Whey protein and everything.
SPEAKER_03:Like goes, plain yogurt, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:You just mix it up.
SPEAKER_03:If I need something really fast, high in protein, I do that really fast with some with the fruit, apple, banana, something really quick, and there's like 60 grams of protein right there, maybe more.
SPEAKER_00:Look at a high protein diet. Congratulations. No, no wonder you, you know. Well, also, uh happy happy Hispanic Heritage Month.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, you too.
SPEAKER_00:I I'm I mean, I don't celebrate it because I live it every day. So I celebrate 365 days, but that's awesome. Somebody had to tell me that. I'm like, yeah, damn straight.
SPEAKER_03:So 100%.
SPEAKER_00:Ultimately, though, what would you ever want to compete?
SPEAKER_03:As a what?
SPEAKER_00:I'm not talking about Olympia. Like, you know, just a normal, I mean, you you you work out, you lift heavy weights.
SPEAKER_03:I did have a coach, you know, for bodybuilding, but he wasn't like the best coach. So I wanted to, I would that would be like a dream come to do Wednesday, but just not right now. I have too much going on right now with my kids right now.
SPEAKER_04:But but it's it's a possibility.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, it's a possibility maybe in like a couple years, you know, but right now I just have to focus on other stuff. I'm trying to finish a personal trainer's course to be a personal trainer, not to do in-person training, but just to have the knowledge for myself and the clients I have online. I'm trying to finish that, I'm trying to do one thing at a time. I'm not trying to take on so much, you know, on because I have a lot going on. So I'm learning not to like, you know, take on so much.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but everything that you do has synergy. You yeah, you're into nutrition, love nutrition. You want to help you want to help reverse diabetes with other people, yeah. Which you know, which is amazing because taking Ozempic or Mongerno.
SPEAKER_03:I took Ozempic, and when you get off of it, it is very hard because you feel more hungry.
SPEAKER_01:Really?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I felt more hungry. And this is when I was so client. I told my coach I feel more hungry, and it was very, very hard to get off of it. I didn't want to be on it no more. So I told my doctor, I I want to be off of it. I don't like the side effects anymore. I just took myself off of it. It wasn't even her choice, it was my own choice. And I just, you know, I started actually taking a product. The products I sell, I use one of those, and that's helped me lose like these last seven several pounds I'm trying to lose.
SPEAKER_00:Also, though, when when you get off something like that, it's like a shortcut in the sense.
SPEAKER_03:That's why a lot of people I took it for my blood blood sugars. I didn't do it as a shortcut. I know a lot of people have done that before.
SPEAKER_00:You you did that like for that.
SPEAKER_03:That that's yeah, that was my reasoning, but I don't want to be on a long term because I knew that wasn't a long-term way to do it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but also another Latino fat fat Joe lost all that weight, but he did it for the same reasons for diabetes, like for five, six years or whatever. It it just so happened he lost all that weight. So, but congratulations on that, you know.
SPEAKER_03:Thank you. Your your posts have helped me, like what you post, you know, daily. I watch what you post, I see what you post, and you know, if I'm like anyone else, like if you're not having a good day and you see a post that you know you know, just you're you know, it it's my my whole thing is is there's just so much shit out there, and there's just so much toxicity and negativity.
SPEAKER_00:My mission statement, just one person help one person, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I agree.
SPEAKER_00:So that that means a lot, yeah. Yeah, and you know what? Yeah, you've never seen me like and you've known I've I've gone through breakups, I've gone through divorce, I've I've gone through this. I I never post any of that, but we all do. I I've even had death in my family. It was like, hey, hashtag uncle dad, you know, he's an amazing guy. Because okay, he he was an amazing guy, but you know, why am I gonna throw that out there? People are having a bad day.
SPEAKER_03:There's one thing on social media I don't think you should post. I mean, I post like my nutrition and my workouts, and post my kids, you know, because they're my they're they're my boys are like, yeah, that's what I post, you know. Like when it comes to personal things in your life, I think there's something you should keep private and from social media. Social media doesn't need to know everything.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, it you're you're gonna laugh. I I remember like months after I got a divorce, and people were coming up to me and they're like, You you weren't posting anything about and it's like, what was I supposed to post? Hashtag going through a divorce, new changes, status update, confused, or it's like, no, why throw that out there? It that that's that toxicity is no different than the person that's yammering on their so on their social views or their political views, and they do it nonstop. And it's like, okay, well, you're pissing off half the people out there, uh and okay, so. So half the people believe your stuff and drank the Kool-Aid, but you just turned off half the people. You possibly ruined their day and you got zero conversion. I've never watched anybody's okay, you know I'm Catholic. So it's not like if some Yeah, I know. But if somebody kept on posting, you know, Protestants rule, or you know, go to this church, go to this church, I'd be like, okay, cool. You you won't, you're not gonna convert me. And that's the same way. But people think, well, if I go up here and I talk about this political candidate or the president or the person that should have been president, you're not can you're you're pissing people off, you're throwing bad vibes out there to me. I mean, we already have stuff going on in our lives. Why are you gonna keep on pumping garbage out and getting people even more riled up? Yeah, and yes, I I I originally, well, besides using it as a tool for marketing, yes, I want to see pictures of your children, I want to see pictures of the people I grew up with. What they're doing that's your life, you know.
SPEAKER_03:The reason why you do I now I do it for myself, you know, because now it's a healthy addiction where I have to work out, like you know, like I feel like if I don't work out like today was an arrest date, but I went for a jog. I did a 30-minute, you know, jog because I'm like it's a recovery jog, it's a recovery. Something just something's better than nothing. So you know, I it was like I I posted it. You know, 30 minutes of jogging, jogging, walking is better than zero minutes of doing nothing, even if I'm a rest date, because I feel weird if I don't move my body in some type of way.
SPEAKER_00:Now it must feel good though when you get that DM from someone going, thank you. Thank you.
SPEAKER_03:I've gotten that before from people saying posts have motivated me to work out, and you know, I'm still trying to. I I don't know if that's something I'll ever get used to, but I always say, you know, you're welcome. I that's why I, you know, I try to post positive things out there like that.
SPEAKER_00:Just yeah, but you you're helping change. Think about you can change somebody's life, their legacy. You're giving them years. Because how about if they never changed, they never got the motivation, and they you know, they had kids and they just stroked out or they had a heart attack. But your video motivates someone to get off the couch, to sign up for a gym, to look up Tyler Guzo, to believe in themselves. So yeah, I it always feels weird because you know you and I are like introverts. We're not we're not trying to win the the most liked.
SPEAKER_03:No, I don't care about the likes or the anything. Like I only post just so people can see like my journey, like where I started from. Yeah, like I don't care about the likes, I don't care about the follows. It's it's more just so they can see like where I started. I started at 219, and now, you know, it's like where I'm at now. It took a long time to get there, and it took a lot of hard times, you know, going through going through crap in life, but you still do it because you know, you have to, you have to keep going. You can't. I don't want to go back to I will never go back to how I looked. I was a very depressed person. Now I'm at the happiest where I've ever been happy. You know, I have a job I love, I'm healthy, I have three amazing boys, I have great, you know, amazing family, good friends, and I couldn't be more happier.
SPEAKER_00:And then you realize it's a decision. Yeah, right, to be happy.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, and I really you have to be happy with yourself inside first in order to like if you ever want to share it with someone one day, because if you're not happy here, you're just gonna bring on misery to your next uh significant other.
SPEAKER_00:And you know what also though, self-destructive patterns. You'd you'd go on that yo-yo because every time you'd get close to your goal weight, or every time you'd get close to that huge achievement, you would self-destruct and do negative behavior and stuff because being unhappy, who am I? Um you know, I I don't deserve it, and and that's why and and happiness is what once you realize it's a choice and you have to wake up every day and just hey man, I'm happy.
SPEAKER_03:Gratitude, gratitude. Every day, you know, I'll start out like right here in my guzzle journal. I write three things down that I'm thankful for in my guzzle journal every day, and you created a habit. Yeah, I just you know, I just started like you need to write down three things that I'm thankful for today, no matter what they are. And if you're feeling some type of way or I'm feeling some, I'll just journal it out, write out my feelings, and you start the day on a positive note, it's gonna be a great day. No no negativity, whatever the day throws at you, control what you can't. The one thing my coach told me that I will always remember control what you can. Sometimes I have a hard time doing that, but I'm just learning to control what I can. If it's out of my control, there's nothing I can do.
SPEAKER_00:You can't let the uncontrollable ruin your day. Like, if somebody cuts you, cuts you off, that that's the easiest one. So many people get bent and twisted, have a shit day, and there's like a 99% chance that that person that cut you off was too busy into his own shit, and they're late or you know, we're human. It wasn't like they're like, Oh, I'm gonna cut off Erica.
SPEAKER_03:Happened before.
SPEAKER_00:So, but but why let stuff like that? It's it's like those that get bent and twisted over like a social media post and and have to be.
SPEAKER_03:I learned not to let social media gets me. Social media is people post what they want to post, you will let the world think what you want to think. I really try to post just to motivate, inspire, and basically I'm not saying my life, but you know, my children and myself and my family. That's really what my post, my page is about.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but the craziest thing is you can just scroll past it if you don't like it. Scroll scroll right past it follow.
SPEAKER_03:Like, if you don't like what I post, if you don't like just unfollow. Like, there's I try to follow positive people like yourself, Tyler, motivated people that I know that if I when I'm I'm scrolling, it's all positive. It's if it's negative, I unfollow.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I'm gonna have to throw throw some garbage in there.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, I'm just joking. That's that that's that's not my nature. If you ever ever see anything like that, that I've I've been hacked. It was like when um, you know how I tell everybody you you can post, you can advertise, you can plug and promote on the what if it did work page. Well, it now everything has to be approved because like all these bots and all were throwing like pornography, and I would be getting like all these hate, like you know, why are you putting that on? And and I would look at the stuff, and I'm it wasn't even good porn, and it's not even stuff that I'd ever watch, really. But you know, people so you that that's why there's that, but overall, yeah, it and I tell you and Guzo all the time, and everybody, you know, if somebody gives you permission to post and to promote, do it and and do it just because it's so limited. Uh uh Guzo was fearful at what at the very beginning to just promote himself. I mean, he wanted to his his origins had to deal with me because he came to my store and he wanted to leave these horrible Xerox copies advertising for his his boot camp at the apartment complex across the way. And I'm like, dude, why don't you just even ask? You know, do demos, do in-person stuff. And he's like, Oh my gosh. Remember, it's always no until you ask. And when it comes to promoting, it's not their fault that they don't know what you do, Erica. It's your fault for not telling them. When I when I owned all those businesses, and and people didn't know that I I sold nutraceuticals and that I uh owned a smoothie franchise, won't promote them today. And people like, oh my god, I didn't know that you did that. It was usually at the CrossFit Gym or and I'm like, oh my gosh, no, it's my fault because it it literally is, because I'm an I'm annoying. If I have a business, it's like I'm sure you get all these people like trying to hit hook you up. Oh, I can monitor help you monetize, I can do this, I can I can all the time. Oh my god, I people think I have all these fake followers. No, it's all these fake companies trying to you know follow me and then do business. There's no offer. Either I'm extremely stupid by all these years not having an offer, or maybe literally I just want people to live their life to be the best versions of their themselves to go for it. You know, what if it did work? Never not once have I said, Hey, for the next five people, you know, one-on-one for free, right? There's no offer because there is no offer, but you know, some guy, hey, I can get you a million followers, and then you look at their thing, and there's like 50 of their own followers. It's like, well, yeah, you have all the answers.
SPEAKER_03:Like, why are people following you? Like, why would you want to? I don't know. Why would you want to like I would want real followers, like people that know me from me, like you know, they want to follow me.
SPEAKER_00:Exactly. Yeah, exactly. But but even all these people that say they they can get you from zero to hero, that's like you promoting nutrition. Hey, you're morbidly obese, sign up with me, and I'll have you in the Olympia in only 45 days. It makes no sense because it's bullshit, but people love the it's easy. Oh, hey, I was mowing lawns in La Jolla, but now I'm living in a house in La Jolla, and it's like, and it only took me two months, and people buy into that and they send the person money, and you know, social media, you're right, it's an illusion. You and I can start rent, we can rent a Lambo, we can rent a friggin' mansion on Airbnb and do reels and just say how we're rock stars and how we can get you from zero to hero. And you know, if we we have enough ad spend, we can even get like vanilla ice or someone famous to be in it too to plug and promote us and say and say word to the mother. All right, I love them guys. That's funny. So I thought I knew you'd do the nutrition with Guzo because I see the I I always want to jump on because I always I I had the invites to everything, but like I tell you, it it's always it's okay. I'm oh yeah, it but yes, I'm always watching you guys. I I didn't know about you personally doing boot camps video.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I do them Tuesdays and Thursdays. He does the Mondays now, and when he asked me to do them, I was so hesitant because I'm like, I have never instructed a class before like that. I'm not an instructor, but he has so much faith in me, and I am so thankful for him because you know, some I wasn't sure if I can do that because I've never done it. But with Tyler, I've gotten out of my comfort zone doing a lot of things, but it's helped me grow as a person, and it really helped you realize if you really put yourself and if you really want it, which I now I love doing it, you'll do it no matter what, no matter how hard it is, you'll see where you need to improve, and then you correct yourself, and then you just do it.
SPEAKER_00:It's not work if you love doing something.
SPEAKER_03:No, it doesn't feel like a job because I love being a coach on the team and I love helping people, so it really doesn't feel like work when you when you have a job or career that you love doing every day.
SPEAKER_00:Do you have the official do you wear like the official hoodie, the guzo fitness?
SPEAKER_03:I have a lot of guzo gear. Yeah, I have a lot of guozo gear.
SPEAKER_00:Now, here's my question to you about the guzo gear. When it when is it when are you gonna start printing out Munoz? Team Moon.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, I don't know if I ever left Guzzo, but I don't think I don't see myself.
SPEAKER_00:I'm not saying we okay, it's synergy.
SPEAKER_03:I don't know.
SPEAKER_00:I never thought about it be a competitor.
SPEAKER_03:I never thought about that. I never thought about that. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, you got that the wrong way. I never said, hey, you know, good riddance. I'm just saying, you know, synergy, and you do stuff that he doesn't do and that he doesn't want to do, and then you know that that's that's your brand, and you guys coexist.
SPEAKER_03:I've never thought about that. That maybe that'll be an idea one day, maybe.
SPEAKER_00:You see, I aren't aren't you glad I I now now I I planted seeds, and you know you do you have you have a strong name because there Anthony Munoz, I know he's no relation to you, but Hall of Famer, NFL guy. He's probably older than me, probably like 16 now. So, you know, you had the Munoz name, you're you're in SoCal, and you know, you people always have to dream big. I mean, think think about Guzo. The guy moved from friggin' Iowa, who nobody everybody wants to leave Iowa. I he knows I I messed with him on that, just packed up his shit and moved to South Florida, yeah. If that's not dreaming big, so that's why what stops us is our imagination stops the more we imagine, the more we dream, the more we can achieve.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I agree. I never thought I would be a coach on Tyler Steen. Never dawned on me. Nothing.
SPEAKER_00:Here you are. Yeah, I never thought keep on dreaming. That's why I say why why why can't I seen people in worse shape, like you know, start because the before picture and then competing on stage.
SPEAKER_03:I've seen that too. Yeah, I've seen that too. A lot of women, you know, are really big and they compete, and you know, it's it's inspiring to see, like, you know, I that's a dream one day to do one day, but um that it's very inspiring to see that.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and you know what I love is you found the time because the biggest lie we tell ourselves is you make time for what you want.
SPEAKER_03:If you really want something, you want to spend your time with the right people, you know, because they're positive people, and always I always believe that you should surround yourself with positive people if you know the negative, throw them out. But it's really what you make time for and who you make time for and why it's important to you, exactly.
SPEAKER_00:And I mean, if people like Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, all these um, there's other examples running two corporations and still have time to do other things. We have time, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:It's really what there's 24 hours in a day. It's like you can make time if you want something. If you're not, then you're just BSing, in my opinion. That's just my opinion.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, well, people all of a sudden have time to stream for three hours a day on Netflix, so they find time for that.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, you make time for what it's important to you for and why it's important to you, what if it matters to you or not? You make the time for no matter what, is what I really believe.
SPEAKER_00:Here, I'll I'll tell you a little secret about streaming. Remember when Netflix just started streaming? It it was just shows based here, right? Movies, shows. Do you want to know why there's shows now from like Korea, Japan, all over the world that we're we can watch now? It's because we stream so much content that they are running out of content. They're like, shit, let's get stuff from Korea, let's get stuff because people are like obsessed. That's why I said, Yes, if you have time to watch four hours, five hours. If if you have time to clip, it's like what 10 episodes a season, sometimes eight. If you can knock that out like in a day or two days, you have plenty of time to do whatever. You have plenty of time to journal. That when somebody tells me that they can't journal, they can't write down their short-term goals, they can't plan out the life they want. I'm like, holy shit, you must be like working 20 hours a day, and you know, yeah, oh no, no, but then for what you want, and that that's I really identified that.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, you make time for what you want, for who you want, and why it's important to you, or you'll you're like this.
SPEAKER_00:I don't know how to do it. And I'm like, there's Google, there's YouTube. Shit, I can't. I'm older than you back in the day. You'd have to go to the library, you'd have to do it now. There's a lot of resources.
SPEAKER_03:You have also should be back in our day, like my day, we had to go to the library for books. I mean, we had internet, we had dialogue internet, yeah. Dialogue, but you know, but now you can scroll off your phone, the internet. We didn't have all that back in my day, you know. We didn't have to do that.
SPEAKER_00:Is that the biggest lie when somebody's like, I don't know how to do it? No, when they're old, no, and older generations don't, but but people love to use that excuse when we have all the tools, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:They have all the tools and they will they don't want to do it.
SPEAKER_00:No, nobody. Um, I don't see any courses on like negative behavior, how how to be uh obsessed with spending. There's there's no courses on uh power drinking, uh, there's no how how to watch porn for free, but people seem to be able to know how to get devices. It's not like, hey Joe, how do you get on Pornhub, man? I don't know. But that's you laugh, but when it comes to negative behavior, somebody's not like, oh my gosh, you know, it it's like you you you and I don't know how to buy a crack, but if we're addicts, you or we won, yeah, we'll find a way. Nobody's ever like, oh you know, I you know, people are drug addicts. I you know, there's no course on hey, you know, here's how to here's how to buy a coke, here's here's how to buy this. But yet, when it comes to something that moves us to change our life for the better, we always wait, we always want to feel helpless, we always want to play the victim. You know, you could have been like and and trust me, your story, you were so determined, even if you never found Tyler, you have three sons that that you knew you had to raise. So you would have found a way because you are determined to lose that weight. Yeah, we we all would, you know, when you hit rock bottom, that's the biggest gift for anyone, anybody. People think it's not a gift, they blame God, they blame Jesus. I I I prayed for a Lamborghini. No, not for this, but that's when the change happens, is when you hit rock bottom. When you're in a relationship with some like some crazy person. Um not that you and I have ever done that in our lives, but I'm just saying I've I've heard about it, and you you realize, you know what? I am worthy, you know, I don't need the crumbs. That's when change happens, and and that's why it it's a gift. Yeah, at times, like, oh, this sucks, man. This lesson, this lesson's a painful lesson, but you know, the more painful the lesson is, you you never it's like that hot stove. How many people? Well, I'm sure there's some people that keep on touching it, but you know, you touch that one one time, you remember that for the rest of your life. Yeah, so okay, we're we're we're timelining, we're we're dreaming big. We're gonna have the Munio's apparel.
SPEAKER_03:Oh god.
SPEAKER_00:We're gonna compete, we're we're gonna win. Something local, and then we'll go regional. We'll we'll plan that. You'll you're you're gonna have a blog or a book on race raise being a single parent and crushing it.
SPEAKER_03:Well, thank you.
SPEAKER_00:Think about that.
SPEAKER_03:The thing is, you know, I have a lot of support too. Like, you know, who doesn't?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, nobody's a self-made person. My mom was a single person.
SPEAKER_03:I couldn't I couldn't do the stuff that I do like if it wasn't for my family and my mom and my sisters, and that's what they're supposed to do.
SPEAKER_00:But but you're still a single person, but you know, they're very helpful, like you know, you know, in our culture it it it is, it is a must. Okay, yeah, yeah. No, like I'm very simple.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, like I think too, like the support. Like, I couldn't do like all the stuff that I do for what's it for the help, you know, with with my family, because they they're a huge help with my kids.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, but yeah, when I tell you, yeah, my mom was a single mother. This of course I had my grandparents, I had my yeah, aunts and uncles, but it's still a single parent.
SPEAKER_03:At the end of the day, yeah, it's just me and the boys. Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, I I know. You you uh one of the things is it's like when compliments are like, oh no, but I don't think I'll ever get used to those compliments because I get them all the time, and to this day, it's it's still in the different for me to get used to that. But it you get you get like that with everything. I want you to notice that because what once once we start noticing things, we notice that's that's something about you that when it comes to compliments, you either try to deflect or makes you feel uneasy. Look at that, we're learning so much. We're creating these huge goals for the future, for the and I love you know, you you do you've done all these things without having to pay like for these programs because you're resourceful, because a lot of people like me, you know, I I had to pay all this money to learn common sense bullshit because that that's what that's what people do. People buy even when it comes to weight loss, ultimately, we all know you know, calories in, calories out. It's pretty simple. We we we can teach even little kids can understand that, but like, oh my god, like I'm waiting for the new diet. Do you think maybe all the you can pick up any book and if you follow that on a consistent basis, you're gonna lose weight because it's calories in, calories out. I don't care what what the book's called. I don't oh intermittent fasting. Yeah, no shit. You're you're you're you're missing one meal. There, there's no magic bullet. Well, sometimes I fast for 25 hours or 36 hours. Yes, calories in, calories out. No, but my body resets, and you know, the the glycemic, and it's like, no, because we it we always try to make things hard, just just on on love. You want to be with a person that has similar goals, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:I think that's very important to have in relationship if you don't have someone that has similar goals. But we watch movies and we're like, oh, the complete opposite, ha ha you know, I mean, opposites do attract, but it's good to have those same goals, you know.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, but but you have to have some commonality, and and the person has to like you, love you on pretty much the same level. And yes, there's days in a relationship that person loves, is does more of the love and then the other, and it's a yin and a yang, but then we're like, no, what I'm waiting for the new book on love, on relationships. It's like, yeah, because you know, it's not common sense.
SPEAKER_03:I don't think there's really I mean, maybe there's a book about that, but I've learned you know, communication is key, understanding you mean in everything, right?
SPEAKER_00:Communication everything, and everything you do, communication, respecting each other, selling because communication, understanding people is yeah, and just respect and treat people the way you would want to be treated in return.
SPEAKER_03:Because why would you act like you're better than someone when you're really no, you know, you're not?
SPEAKER_00:Holy smokes. Okay, Munoz life coach.
SPEAKER_03:No, no, no, no, no. I just I've learned from a lot from my past experience, you know, and what I've learned in Tyler's program, and now learn.
SPEAKER_00:Erica Munoz relationship.
SPEAKER_03:Oh no, no, not even close. I just learned a lot, you know what, not to tolerate. I know when you're on your fitness journey, your standards you know get higher because you want better for yourself because you know you deserve better than what you've had before.
SPEAKER_00:Because you keep on your your new floor keeps on being raised.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, you know, you deserve better, yeah. And you don't want to go back on everything before, yeah, because you know, now my standards are a little higher because I know what I want, and I, you know, you want someone with similar goals, you know, accepting, understanding of your situation, you know.
SPEAKER_00:But I feel I feel that that comes in time and God has a plan for everybody, and he so what you're saying is we should have had a time machine, we should have had a DeLorean with the flux capacitor, you know it it it's funny because you know uh we get each other, and and this is something that I want everybody to know. We've been in the same city plenty of times, but your biggest fan, because I'm one of Erica's biggest fans, and and vice versa, and it's a stranger because a lot of times that person the people that you think are gonna be your biggest clients, your biggest supporters, your biggest aha people aren't. And it's always someone out there that you don't expect. It's always that person that DMs you and goes, Thank you, Erica. This video inspired me. I was gonna go to I was gonna get a double double, and with the Neapolitan shake, I said, screw that, and I worked out instead. And you see, that's and that's what keeps you going too. Everybody, yeah, you know how many times I've wanted, and I'm not a quitter, but everybody's like, uh, like whether it's the podcast or whatnot, or these videos because somebody you're having a bad day, or somebody shits on you or says something stupid, then there's always a sign from God. There's always that thank you. Yes, there's always a sign that you're on the right path, and I know you're on the right path, and I know your three boys see you now as a rock star, they they always loved you as a mom, but now you're like the Latina superwoman, one wonder woman.
SPEAKER_03:I don't know about that.
SPEAKER_00:No, they do, they do because it I mean, you know, it it kids, you know, it's not until they're we're older. I'm sure you weren't like, oh mom, you know, thank you for everything.
SPEAKER_03:As teenagers, no matter what, you're like, oh I have a 18-year-old Nick and Noah's 12, preteen Isaiah's 10. So there's I mean, they're older now, they're older, so it's a bit easier to help them.
SPEAKER_00:But but they'll they'll tell you, you know. I mean, shit, you're the biggest, you're the biggest fan, too. That the the way it should be. You you promote everything about them the way it should be, and the way social media should be. I I know it's crazy. I you know, I mean you're you're out in California, you you can promote Gavin Newsome or whomever wants to run against him, or this and that, like so many friggin' crazy people. It's like, stop it, send that shit to your DM your friends that bullshit. I I can give a crap about someone's political views. And what I tell people all the time, your life sucked under the Democrats, your life sucked under the Republicans. Get over it. Quit blaming other people, look in the mirror. We are right now based on every decision that we ever made the good, the bad, the inconsequential has led us right here, right now, to do this episode. So we we live in a TikTok area. I I could talk to you hours per hour, but you know, it's that one hour limit for I don't know who made that. So I've got a couple questions. One's always that last question. I okay that inspiring question. But how do we find you and how how do we do business with you?
SPEAKER_03:Instagram, move nutrition underscore, Erica underscore. I'm on Instagram. I post everything, I post mostly everything on Instagram. My page is public too, so it's not private.
SPEAKER_00:Thank you. I know it is, but the biggest frigging nail on the chalkboard for me, it's called social media. If you're busy yammering at your friends that you're at Nobu or that you're frigging at Vegas or somewhere, why don't you want the whole world to know? Especially if you're an entrepreneur or You're selling something. Oh, I I nearly had a heart attack. The woman that I sold my stores to, which which we we don't get along at all, but she went private on everything. It's like that smart move, lady. But that's another story for another I have it public.
SPEAKER_03:Facebook, Instagram, TikTok. It's all public. I don't keep it private.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that's that's just insane. Could you imagine? Could could Guzo have grown and be the person that he was if he was just like, Yeah, I'm just gonna keep everything private, you know.
SPEAKER_03:No, he his his business is amazing. I'm so thankful that I'm a part of it, that I'm a coach on a C okay, and this is the final question.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, normal question. What words of wisdom do you have to tell this person? Erica, I'm like 40. I just I've I feel defeated. You know, I the only diet I'm on is like I feel like it's a seafood diet. I seafood, I eat it.
SPEAKER_03:I would ask them why. Like what what is it about it that's drawn to it? What is it that you want it? Why? And what's it gonna do for you after you eat it?
SPEAKER_00:I I can't even I I have to wear those sketch or slip-bons because I can't even tie my shoes. I can't even tie my shoes.
SPEAKER_03:I would I always add I always remember remind my clients think of their why. And engrave that in your head why you started and why. Because the what your your why is your biggest reason why you started because I have to remind myself too my why. My why is I never want to go back to being diabetic and I have my boys that depend on me. That is my why.
SPEAKER_00:Amen. Amen, sister. Thank you.
SPEAKER_03:Thank you for having me.
SPEAKER_00:You know, I and I 101. What did I always tell you? It's always no until you ask. And I made you ask, ask me because I want because you you kept on beating around the bush.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Did you notice that? That I didn't okay. That that was me putting putting you in discomfort. Because I'm sure you're already. Yeah, the the the answer was always yes. I just wanted you to know that. I just wanted you to physically ask. And that's what that literally, when you did that, like five seconds later, I I sent you the invite a book.
SPEAKER_03:I know, I saw.
SPEAKER_00:Hey, I'm proud of you. So keep on shining, keep on being a rock star.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, thank you.
SPEAKER_00:You are an inspiration. Uh think about it this way a guy that does two a days, and I find you inspiring, and I watch all your stuff. Uh TikTok, Instagram.
SPEAKER_03:Likewise, I find all your stuff inspiring. Your posts, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, what if work, everything.