Black Boomer Besties from Brooklyn
Black Boomer Besties from Brooklyn
Ep145 Joy Over Fear: Your Body Deserves More Than You're Giving It
Dr. Dianah Lake shares her journey from personal crisis to fitness transformation, creating a holistic wellness program specifically designed for high-achieving women who prioritize everyone else's needs above their own. Her approach addresses not just physical fitness but mental health, hormonal balance, and the unique challenges women face during perimenopause and menopause.
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Meet Dr. Dianah Lake
6:09
Finding Fitness Through Personal Crisis
13:41
Self-Agency and Commitment to Wellness
21:49
The Program: More Than Weight Loss
31:37
Inflammation, Menopause, and Nutrition
38:24
Building Community and Finding Resources
44:07
Final Thoughts and Upcoming Retreat
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Hey Ange, hey Liz, how are you Double thumbs up, Double? Oh my gosh With the thing. What is going?
Speaker 2:You're five years old, she ready, she ready, you are five years old.
Speaker 1:Five years old I'm excited.
Speaker 3:This is a good day. This is a good day. You guys just wait to hear what we're going to bring you today. Just wait, just wait. It's going to be another double thumbs up, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:Don't do that. I cannot with you.
Speaker 1:Welcome to another episode of Black Boomer Besties from Brooklyn, and that's Leslie, my best friend of almost 50 years Good God, almost 50 years. We are two free-thinking 60-something-year-old Black women and we have decided to be more bold and joyful in our lives as we live out the rest of our lives. We invite you to join us, and today we're going to be talking about we have a series going on called Finding the Joy Through the Fear Getting to joy. You got to get to fear sometimes to get to joy, and so today we're going to be talking about aspects of our health and how some fears that we have around aging and living a sub-optimized life, how that could interfere with our joy, and so we have brought a former classmate of Leslie to talk to us about what she's doing to help women like us to move out of the fear and into the joy.
Speaker 3:So I have to talk about this dynamic young lady that you see right here. All right, I'm going to read part of her bio. Oh, not me, that wasn't me.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, my bad, I'm going to read part of her bio.
Speaker 3:But listen, but there's two bios really, because there's the bio that I have personally with her and then there's her official bio, so I'll read part of that official bio, okay. So, dr Diana T Lake MD she's also known as Dr Di. She's an emergency medicine physician, a best-selling author, a speaker, fitness and weight loss coach. She's a menopause wellness expert, an autism parent advocate and founder of Dr Dye Fitness. Using her clinical experience as an emergency physician, emergency medicine physician and her knowledge and expertise as a fitness and weight loss coach, dr Dye promotes a holistic approach to disease prevention, healthy living, fitness, weight loss, menopause, wellness, longevity and overall wellness. I'm checking every box.
Speaker 3:Let me tell you.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you Every box.
Speaker 3:She is sought after to speak on various health and wellness topics for churches, conventions, conferences, summits, podcasts, magazines and TV shows. She is a leader and sound voice in the health and fitness space. Clients go from feeling drained, exhausted, overwhelmed and overweight to fit fierce, fiery and fabulous.
Speaker 1:Oh every box. I want every box. I want every box Now.
Speaker 3:I bring to you my dear friend of over 25 years. We graduated from medical school together. We sat up in the trenches studying all night together, girl, and we're now forever friends. And this is Dr Diana Lake, also known as Dr Di Fitness. And let me just say before she comes on, I'm also a client.
Speaker 1:Thank you, Jesus no. Hey girl hey, welcome Welcome. You are too much.
Speaker 2:You are too much. I love it. It's how we do. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited. Oh my gosh, we've got so much to cover.
Speaker 3:I know it's a short amount of time, but we'll get it. And people getting older, we really fear not the age or the chronological part of it, but rather the disability that often comes with it, yeah, and it's not even the death of it, it's the between now and death.
Speaker 3:What is life going to be like? Because we're living longer, but it doesn't necessarily mean that we're living healthier, more joyful lives, absolutely. So our spans may be longer, but there could be a longer span in disability, and I got to tell you what made me run and independence.
Speaker 3:What made me run to get you on this podcast. I listened to a master class you conducted. I've always known that you were into fitness and health and weight loss, of course, but when I listened to your master class you really were speaking to me personally and that was when I not only signed up, but I said other people and our podcast listeners need to know you and know what you do, so you can start anywhere you want. You can start at how, how did you get on this? Who are you.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm. How did you get?
Speaker 3:this because, first of all, she's a superwoman. Did you hear her bio?
Speaker 1:I heard the bio, I would agree.
Speaker 2:Well, you know the the idea of fear. It's really something that's worth talking about, because for me it was going. It was when I was going through my divorce. So this was 2012. Wow, that was my transition into fitness.
Speaker 2:Was I was mourning my dad. My dad had passed away from complications of a kidney transplant, from diabetes, you know, dialysis when he got the kidney. The kidney lasted two months and so he passed away from complications of that. And basically I was in this mourning, right, I was mourning my dad. We had a young son who we weren't sure at the time that he was autistic yet, but we're doing all the testing. And I found out on social media that my marriage was in trouble. Right, what, the what? Yes, so my you know, my ex was having an affair and the person he was doing it with decided to post it on social media and tag him. Oh shit, yeah. So my cousin says who is this woman on Instagram, you know? And so that's where all of this came from.
Speaker 2:For me was I could dig a hole, get in it and cover myself up. I was embarrassed, right, the humiliation, um being this, quote unquote power couple, ivy league, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know all the things on paper, but here I am miserable and just thinking, okay, what do I do now? I didn't sign up for this where we are right now and so, basically, through the separation we figure out, my younger one has autism, you know, adhd, all this stuff, and I'm still really mourning my dad because I'm like if he was here I would have that.
Speaker 2:You know, my mom was fantastic too, but you know, I just had this relationship with my dad that him not being there through all the stuff that was going on, was really challenging, and so I saw myself just being in this pity party, right, and I think I was like 37. I'm 50 now. I think I was 37 or 38. And I'm like, who's going to want me? Right? That's the fear, right, who's going to want someone divorced with a special needs kid? When you know what I mean, like, because you know our brain, our brains will take us there.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Our brains will take us to that fear first, that damn amygdala.
Speaker 1:We need that on a T-shirt. That damn amygdala.
Speaker 2:Because that's the part of our brain that wants to yeah, it wants to keep us safe, right? So it's constantly telling you don't do that, don't do this. You know, yes, and and we have to be able to just tell it to have a seat, because there are times that is telling us to just be comfortable with things that are not right for us. Right, yes? And so looking the fear in the face and saying this is not who God put me on this planet to be.
Speaker 3:That thing right there.
Speaker 2:Sitting on the floor in the bathroom crying Seriously, I was like, look, we need to get this together.
Speaker 3:For me it was my closet, ange had a closet, and we've all had those moments where this is our bottom line, this is our this is rock bottom right now.
Speaker 2:This is rock bottom.
Speaker 2:And how am I going to pull up? Yes, how am I going to pull up out of this and move on. And you know so. When I moved here to Maryland I'm in Maryland we moved, you know, from the New York area to Maryland and I joined this group called Mocha Moms right, mocha Moms Incorporated, and I've been in it for gosh, probably 16 years at this point, and they truly have been. There's chapters in New York, um, and so one of my mocha mom friends, you know, saw where I was in going through this divorce, like, I mean, it was just draining every joy out of me, ounce of joy, and she said let's go for a run. And I looked at her like girl, I do not run, I do not run, I ain't got time to run that morning yes, yeah, you know, and for me fitness was not.
Speaker 2:I mean, I had a gym membership like everybody else, but I didn't go religiously, I didn't. It was just one of those things that you check the box. That I know is healthy for me to do, so I have it, but I was not really implementing, I wasn't really following any kind of plan. So when she said let's go for a run, I said, girl, I do not run but I walk. And she said, look, we'll do like a run, walk, run, walk, run, walk, kind of you know in between. Look, we'll do like a run, walk, run, walk, run, walk, kind of you know in between. And so we did two miles that day.
Speaker 2:This was June 2012. I mean, I remember it so vividly, it was June 2012. And when I came back to the house, I had this sense of accomplishment, this sense of joy, this sense of for the moment. I know my life is upside down right now, but I will take this. Wow, right, I will take this moment and I want it again. I was like I want it again. Okay. So, diana, stop right there for a second.
Speaker 3:Here. You are, a mom of two, you're a doctor doctor, for goodness sake, you, we but you got through four grueling years of medical school and you also got through years of residency and yet and still, the accomplishment that you felt after a two mile run was so significant that that changed your life that's perspective right there, wow that's perspective, absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 2:And you know, for each person is going to be something you guys hear me, we do, sure, yeah, well, okay, and for each, okay, it's got it. Got it stuck for me for a moment. But for each person in life, I feel like your turning point is going to be different, absolutely Right. It's going to be something that just hits a chord for you, that makes you say that I don't want this, I want Right. That's not serving me. I can see the benefit in this, right here, right, and that exhilaration, that man, those endorphins, they said, that run us high. Those endorphins kicked in. It was like I had nothing else going on in my life but that moment and I was like, wow, it didn't even seem like a lot to do when we were doing it, but when I came back, I just felt so good inside and then I did that. That. I created that Like. You know what I mean. It wasn't something outside of me, it was something I could rinse and repeat yeah, oh my gosh and I was like I can do this.
Speaker 1:My God, I got to say something about because we say this a lot here about finding your community. Whatever that is, find your community. Whatever that is, find your community. Because you mentioned Mocha Moms. That was your community, where there was someone who got you what you needed in that moment, that you didn't even know, but you had community.
Speaker 3:Yes, you were not by yourself.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3:You have to you have to Wow.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you were like I want some more of this and being seen and being appreciated Right, being seen, heard, appreciated and somebody saying you know, let's get out of this rut right now, let's go do something else, let's get out of the house Right. And it's funny because all these years just had her my friend, her name is melody, she just had her her 57th birthday and we went to a spa here a couple, like maybe two weeks ago, you know, and I mentioned to her. I was like do you remember that run we did? She doesn't she?
Speaker 3:didn't even know, it was not her thing. Critical because because that one was for you, diana, that was not for her. Yes, something else was for her she had no idea.
Speaker 2:She was a critical part in that turning point for me to do all this stuff I'm doing now because it all started on that day and that was the day I committed to myself that I get to take care of me. I get to.
Speaker 2:I get to take care of me. Yes, because I've been putting so much energy out taking care of the patients. You know, you know, being the wife, being the mother, being the all the things right, you know how we do. And then our own wellbeing is on the back burner and at that moment I was like it ends today. Right, it ends. Today. We turn a new leaf and I get to create a way of being that supports my own wellbeing Right, so that I can continue to do the other things I'm doing. Well.
Speaker 3:Right, and that's self-agency right there.
Speaker 1:Right there, yeah, so so what kept you? Because we oftentimes get that moment, or we get that moment sometimes, and then we allow all those things that you mentioned about life to rob it from us. You know, oh yeah, even do it for a week, but then it's like, okay, do you know what I mean? What kept you? What kept you?
Speaker 2:from me it was. It was a clear. You know distinction from the woman on the floor crying in the bathroom.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I wasn't going back there, right, I just was not, yeah, right. So it was whenever I got that moment where, you know, I felt like I wanted to just be lazy, just be, have a lazy day, you know, and just not, you know, do whatever it was I knew I needed to do. I would think about OK, do I want to? It's almost like you're settling, yes, right.
Speaker 2:A lot of times we settle and that's what it will feel to me, because I've had many times where I've gotten there where I want to just not do the work, not implement. I've gotten there where I want to just not do the work, not implement. Not, you know, put in the effort and just, you know, slack. We all have that moment right where we're like, look, we're just going to give ourselves a break, you know we're going to, you know, take it easy. But then when you say that and you don't put any time frame around it and you kind of just let it just continue on and on, before you know it's been two months, you haven't done any exercise right, it's been six months.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's harder to um. I mean, it's physics, right, it's harder to get going from a stop than it is to keep rolling right and go faster. It's much harder to go from a stop to a start, wow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so what I remember and so I kept thinking that was I don't want to go back there, so I created this thing very early on was I cannot go more than three days without a workout.
Speaker 1:Ah, okay, right, Put that stop. That was a commitment to myself.
Speaker 2:when I would see myself falling off track, one of the thing was okay, I'm not going to go more than three days without movement. Right, movement truly is medicine. Right, and especially for women over 40, women over 50, right that strength training is going to support our skeletal structure, so we don't have that hunched over kyphosis look, you know, you see the older ladies kind of hunched over like that with the demineralization of the bones and all of that. So strength training, picking up some weight, it's really important for women over 40, right to support your skeletal structure, your posture, your you know your bone density, prevent osteoporosis. These are all longevity goals. It's not for today. You're doing this for what your body's going to be doing from a functional standpoint when you're 50, 60, you know those years later on your future self Doing the movement now.
Speaker 2:Doing the strength training now is actually for the long haul right.
Speaker 3:It's for your future self, diana. I have a question. So what I remember is that you started posting your workouts so I mean with like muscles and your contests that you were doing and competitions and all of this stuff but you were never one that you were doing and competitions and all of this stuff, but you were never one that you were never overweight. I never saw you as a person who was out of shape, you know Yet, and still you said that this is where you're going to put your energy.
Speaker 1:This is how you're going to take care of yourself.
Speaker 1:But weight and health and bones and all of that, aren't they different things? Because I remember when I was at Penn, there was this upperclassman and she was someone who you know was always slim right and a friend of mine, dave, always was always slim Right and, um, a friend of mine, um, dave, he was a runner and he wouldn't make fun of her because she was so unhealthy. I mean, it was just, you know, because he, he was this runner and you would look at her, you know she's slim and so on, but he knew like she couldn't chase him down the street or she couldn't. You know what I mean, she, he would mess with her all the time. And that kind of clicked in my head, in my, and it comes back right now just because you, you don't, you're not carrying weight, it doesn't mean that you're not, that you're healthy.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we and those two things. So add even to that is sometimes you'll have people who are a healthy BMI right, the body mass index. So for their height, the weight they have is, you know, adequate, However, their cholesterol, their glucose right, their blood pressure their stress management.
Speaker 3:Metabolically, they're a mess.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So, all those things could be all over the place, but they may have the right weight for their height. So you can't always assume that because someone fits for their height, what the weight is that from a metabolic standpoint?
Speaker 3:that they're actually well and that doesn't portend good health for the future. Absolutely, they portend good health for the future.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, so you could have somebody that's even 20, 30 pounds overweight have better endurance, better strength, right, and be able to run circles around that person who, you know, may be a lighter weight for their height, but they just, you know, they don't have the physical fitness to go with it. Right? I'm a huge proponent of personal development, so I went to an emotional intelligence training, right, and that's where fitness coaching came in for me, because all of this just lined up beautifully. I had done the bodybuilding competition, right, I was doing therapy.
Speaker 3:Not right. Wait, wait, wait. She's like I'm doing bodybuilding, right.
Speaker 1:It's like wait, like no, not right, like what do you mean? You don't get to just jump over that? What?
Speaker 3:You got to see some pictures. It's like what?
Speaker 1:You know, with the poses Please yeah, I went down, don't do this like. Please yeah, I went down, don't do it like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I went down 30 pounds and lost all the baby weight. Abs came popping out like what. That was funny.
Speaker 3:It was like abs where you been. It's so funny because my abs right now they're like you can't hit me now.
Speaker 2:They're coming, they're coming, yeah, so that was so transformative as well is going through the whole process of doing a bodybuilding competition and learning about my body, like learning what works for me when it comes to learning what types of movements to do right, because not everyone needs to be a runner Right, I ended up learning to do to play tennis. That was my form of cardio. So, being open to various types of movement, being open to learning to swim Right, a lot of us don't know how to swim and it's a great cardio, especially for women in, you know, forties, fifties and beyond, because it has no weight bearing Can we hold on to the side.
Speaker 1:You said some of us don't know how to swim. That was a conviction here. Can we just hold on to the side? Can we get? Can?
Speaker 3:we get, but we can. No, you can wear floaties, we have floaties there you go adult floaties. Okay, that's right, they don't have to be adult. They don't have to be adult. You'll wear the toddler ones with um?
Speaker 1:no, no, they just have to be floaties with funfob square pants on them. Floaties that fit, floaties that fit, floaties that fit.
Speaker 2:That's it you don't have to categorize. Swimming is a great cardio. You could burn enough calories swimming like you were doing a Tabata. You know like Tabata, high intensity workout you don't know what Tabata is.
Speaker 3:You're speaking like wah, wah, wah. She's like a Tabata. Is that a steak on Tabata? Wait what?
Speaker 2:Tabata is a type of HIIT routine right, yeah.
Speaker 3:HIIT.
Speaker 2:It's a type of HIIT routine, but it's super, super effective, high-intensity training.
Speaker 1:High-intensity interval training, right? Is that HIIT? Yes, high-intensity interval training it's. Is that it? High intensity interval?
Speaker 2:training. But what makes it Tabata is when you have a two to one ratio, Unless when we talk. The next time you and I talk, you're going to learn all about Tabata. Guess who's going to be doing it, you Lose my number.
Speaker 3:This lady is a mom of two. This lady is a doctor of two. This lady is a doctor. I signed up with her program and you got to see the materials and the way that she put her fitness and wellness program together. It is off the chain. She has videos, there's a meal prep and meal programs. Sundays are for meal prep. You get yourself together. She talks about macros and nutrient training, about how we should be eating every day. Listen, I'm in Now, now, now, but let's talk about the long term.
Speaker 1:I'm also kind of full of it.
Speaker 3:Haven't started reading this stuff yet. She even gives CME to medical professionals or people who can use the CME continuing medical education. The program is amazing and we're obviously going to put links and invite you to her next master class and tell you how to sign up and consultations and all of these things.
Speaker 1:What was most?
Speaker 3:interesting to me is that she really spoke about the things about menopause and you know we've done our menopause series the impact of some of these fitness tips and different mindsets, how it can help your menopause journey and make it less unpleasant.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's awesome. Okay, diana, the floor is yours. You're going to tell us about your program, and who are you thinking about?
Speaker 2:Who's the woman that you have in mind when you think about how you developed your program? I had a woman that's like me, right. I had an African-American woman, a woman who's super smart, you know, gifted in so many ways, serving so many people, doing amazing things, but quietly suffering, quietly, not well, she's the strong one, right, she's the one everyone comes to for support and she's giving, and you know, and doing, just giving, giving, giving and doing all those things for everyone else. She has an amazing career, you know, um, she's got team, she's got the OR, she's got the ER, she's got boardroom. She's got, you know, she's got businesses. You know she's got all this stuff going on.
Speaker 2:So, on paper she looks fantastic, right, but her wellness is in turmoil. It's the one space, it's the one area that she just can't get it together. You can't get her meals right, right? She's dressing up the fat, right, we do that a lot, right, we dress it up, um, say it like that dressing up, the fat dressing up, the fact why you gotta say that it is a fact that we dress up the fact I have a dwarf of Spanx black.
Speaker 2:But this is the thing no horizontal stripes. Yeah, we feel that, look, you know, it's not that bad, right, we always kind of just minimize what this is. But then I see us in the ER, right, because, remember, I'm an ER doctor, so I see what we look like when we show up, right, and when we show up. So much of what we, as black women, are showing up with are things that are preventable. Right, there are things that are preventable, but we have not made it a priority. Let's just call it what it is right, we haven't made it a priority.
Speaker 3:Because we're busy. We're busy and helping other people.
Speaker 2:Well, everyone else is busy, right, everyone else is busy across all. You know ethnicities, right, but we haven't been trained, right, we haven't been indoctrinated we have. You know, fitness and wellness hasn't been something that has been indoctrinated in us. To look up to doing that Right For our counterparts, you know that right for our counterparts, you know, uh, white women, other women of other races, fitness is a big deal for them, right, a lot of them make the effort and when I first started my program for the first few years, it was almost all white women coming in and I was like what is going on? Yeah, this was not.
Speaker 3:It's not a priority.
Speaker 2:I hope this. This is not how I hoped it would go, but those are the people who came in and you know they understood that this was important to them. They came in. They did amazing.
Speaker 2:Um, I continue to not give up on, you know, targeting black women because our statistics are terrible. Right, four out of five black women are either obese or overweight. That's 80 percent of us, right. So, you know, some people may say, oh, you know, we've got big bone and this, that, and you know, no, this is real data. Four out of five of us are obese or overweight. Right, a lot of us are pre-diabetic and don't even know it because we're not going to the doctor asking for our hemoglobin a1c level, which we should be asking for, right. So anyone that comes in to work with me, we're literally doing preventative care, even though I'm not their physician. But anyone that comes in, I'm going through a list of have you had your magnesium check? Have you had your thyroid check? Have you had your iron check? Because so many people are fatigued and they don't know why they're fatigued. It could be some sort of deficiency.
Speaker 1:Right, it could be a deficiency and that interferes with their energy to work out Right, it could be a deficient, and that interferes with their energy to work out.
Speaker 2:So it's a cycle, yeah. So if you don't, if it's something as simple as a supplement you can take you know B12, folate, magnesium, you know iron, one of these things or is it menopause that's making you so fatigued? Because fatigue is a major symptom. You know of menopause, right? Major symptom. You know of menopause, right? So is it that that's making you fatigued, right? Is it what you're eating? You have a lot of sugar in your diet, right?
Speaker 2:So then we start looking for causes of why you feel the way you feel. You're not coming in to just do a meal plan and a workout plan. You're coming in literally for a holistic transformation of your overall wellbeing. We're talking about your mental health. I have people who come in, I have guest speakers who come in to talk about our mental health. Even two of my current clients are psychiatrists and both of them are gonna be guest speakers in the program. I have somebody come in to do meditation. I have somebody come in to do meditation. I have somebody come in to talk about trauma. Right, I had a trauma psychiatrist come in to talk about how trauma affects your ability to see yourself as a healthy person, as an athlete, right, yeah. So, just when we walk around with all of this stuff going on inside of us and it hasn't been called out, you haven't named it, you haven't addressed it. You know what I mean, and so it's not just about weight loss. So this is the perspective I take on this. It is a longevity game. It is a longevity game. It is thriving through perimenopause, is thriving in your nutrition, is understanding which foods you need, so you don't even need medication.
Speaker 2:Sometimes. If you're starting your day with a sugary drink, you're starting your day basically shutting down your ability to burn fat because your body's too busy trying to get all the sugar out of you, right, and out of the bloodstream, wow. So, instead of starting with that, if you start with green tea, green tea is a natural fat burner, right? Green tea is anti-inflammatory. Menopause is a cesspool of inflammation. That's all it is, because everything that was protecting you in your 30s and 40s is gone. All you're left with estrogen is a potent anti-inflammatory chemical.
Speaker 2:So, when estrogen is gone, your joints hurt, your back hurt, right? You've got vaginal dryness. You've got, you know, hot flashes. You've got all this inflammation flared up in your body and you wonder why you feel like crap, right? So how do you reverse that? By eating well. But if I just told you go eat well and I didn't give you the backstory, it wouldn't make sense. That's right, yes, when I understand it. Then if I'm not doing it and I know that it's good for me and I know why it's good for me and I'm not doing it then I need to call myself out. There you go again, diana, self-sabotaging. Why are you doing that? What are you afraid of? Yes, right, are you? Are you in your mind still thinking you cannot do this? This is not going to work for you, so you're finding ways to prove yourself. It's not going to work, so you're self-sabotaging.
Speaker 3:Let's talk about it wow, this is all right, stop right there real deal, holy field tell our, tell our audience how they can reach you.
Speaker 3:All right, what's the best way? Obviously, we're going to put all the links in the episode notes so you all will be able to reach out to her and her socials and all of that. But you see why I brought this lady to you all. You see why I brought this lady to you all. I'm telling you, I was convicted, and here I'm doing my little workouts and this and doing my best, but I understand that I'm also self-sabotaging, yeah, and the mind-body connection was what hit it for me and I said look, I can't go down like that.
Speaker 1:I can't go down like that. I'm definitely going to check it out and it's like once you know you can't unsee it yeah. Right.
Speaker 2:Once you know, okay, I am the common denominator, it's all my business.
Speaker 3:It's got to be me Right.
Speaker 1:Stop with the cutting, Stop with the come on now.
Speaker 2:It's the inner work. This is an incredible body of inner work. Okay, and in all honesty.
Speaker 3:I love that about you because so much of fitness, a lot of it is not the inner work. When I signed up for training and joined the gym, the first thing they said to me was how much weight do you want to lose? And I said in all honesty, I said I don't. I'm not here to lose weight, I'm here to get stronger.
Speaker 2:There it is.
Speaker 3:I'm here to get stronger and I know from being a physician that when you get stronger and when you move your body and exercise, the weight will come off. But I really want.
Speaker 2:I want to be strong and people are like what's going on? You know it doesn't even feel like I'm doing a lot, but you are doing a mental work right. You're taking ownership.
Speaker 2:And that's what's different, different you're taking ownership of your life now, right, and you're being responsible in a way you haven't before. You're eating with purpose, you're. You know, I went to a birthday party last weekend and did not drink alcohol, girl, you know what I mean. Yeah, and and I would not have been able to do that some time ago, because you have to get in. That mindset, you know, of this is where I am right. This month, we're going alcohol free, right, let's give our liver a break, right? But to answer your question, people can find me on Dr Di Fitness, which is my Facebook page. It is the public Facebook fitness page. That's where I post, you know all the webinars and you know masterclasses and events and things that are coming up.
Speaker 2:Dr Di Fitness, so it's D-R-D-I. Then fitness On Facebook, on Instagram, is Dr Di Fit Life, all right, d-r-d-i-f-i-t-l-i-f-e. Yes, so those are the two. Me, I have a LinkedIn. I have a. Linkedin as well.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:I have a free fitness accountability group for professional women. It's called Professional Women Getting Fit. It's a free group. I do five day challenges in there. We did a back in May. May I gave away a Peloton. I don't know if you remember Les.
Speaker 1:I gave away a Peloton bike.
Speaker 2:So we did a five day challenge and I gave away a Peloton bike. So that group is great because it's got a lot of content. I've had that group for eight years so it's a lot of training. You know in there that you can listen to and you know, just to get you started, I have modules in there to follow to get started, but yeah.
Speaker 3:And for people. She even offers CME or continuing medical education credits for people who are able to use that in their professions.
Speaker 2:Yes, so we have 35 hours of continuing medical education credits because the program really is for your wellbeing, right? We know that physician women are a very high risk group for, you know, mental health right For suicide. We're 2.7 times more likely physician women 2.7 times more likely to harm ourselves and kill ourselves than any other professional female population in the US. Deal with long work hours and medicine is structured in a way that the longer you work and the more you grind yourself into the ground. They praise that right. Taking time off is not something that is applauded, right, and a lot of us we we don't talk about it stress the burnout and all the things we're going through.
Speaker 3:So who do you talk to. Very often you know people see you as this able and capable physician. What you? You know that suffering and silence is is real.
Speaker 2:And that's what I said at the top of this this talk was you look amazing on paper but you're truly suffering in a way that I mean you don't feel like you can go out and talk to somebody about it. Right, Because you're the person everyone's coming to. So to have this community that I've created, where the women in there you know, I've got a client right now who's a VP for a university in West Virginia Right, We've got physicians in there, We've got you know. So these are really top level women, right, and this is where they come to talk about how they're feeling, because they know these other women get it Right, yeah.
Speaker 3:Right yeah.
Speaker 2:And then we can get on our one-on-one sessions, you know, and really tweak the program to meet their specific needs, whatever it is for them, whether it's energy strength you know mobility, you know sleep, you know stress management. I've had people leave this program and get raises at work, right. I've had one client start a whole business, wow, from this program. So it's something that really supports your personal development and giving you these 35 hours. Any kind of medical professional can use this physicians, nurses, dentists, right. I don't know if veterinarians, but dentists, you know. Psychologists, you know social workers. So it has a pretty broad coverage of who can use those continuing credit and you can use your FlexPending account.
Speaker 3:I was just going to mention that Wonderful. This is a wellness program. So you can use your HSA and FSA accounts to cover the costs of this program. It's amazing If you have those benefits, beautiful, wow. So I think we're at the end. Any other last question or comment Ange?
Speaker 1:No, it's, you know. I'm just thinking about the future self because we've had a conversation I think we have an episode recorded about the future you, and I think I asked the question what is your future you thanking you for, for what you're doing now, and so that's where my head has been. Like I'm planning to move abroad. It's okay. What is? What is that person um applauding me for, for having, um chosen the path that I did right now, and so, um, this is yeah you may be, I may be coming up pp cluck cluck behind you, les.
Speaker 2:I might be doing just that, I mean it's a beautiful way to celebrate yourself Right, it's a beautiful way to celebrate, and we do retreats too, so we have our retreat coming up in January we're going to Jamaica.
Speaker 3:Tell her again where we're going. I told her Where's Jamaica.
Speaker 1:What part of Jamaica?
Speaker 2:Well, that's the next step, because we're trying to lock down the hotel. So we're looking at Negril or Montego Bay, negril is the one.
Speaker 1:Do Negril. I can go visit my family. No, negril, I'd vote Negril.
Speaker 2:It's like A you know, I've done Montego Bay before myself. So I'm actually leaning toward Negril because I've done my Jigga Bay before myself. So I'm actually leaning toward Negros because I've never done.
Speaker 1:Negros, negros is beautiful but yeah.
Speaker 2:so you know we get to celebrate ourselves at the retreat and, you know, get to meet each other in person and we do fabulous. You know, things at the retreat, Like the last one we did in Turks and Caicos, we did the clear kayak photo shoot with the drone on top. I don't know if you guys seen those and you're laying in the kayak and you've got pedals around you.
Speaker 3:I gotta get bikini ready, ready no, you don't you.
Speaker 2:you get to show up how you show up it's a change, it's a change. Thank you so much, Diana. Thanks so much for having me. This is wonderful.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I had to bring her. I had. I told you, you did, you told me you told me.
Speaker 1:You told me I believed you. But it's good to experience it. But you had to see for yourself.
Speaker 3:It's good to experience it. Thank you so much for being with us. Thank you, my dear Love you always. And this has been another episode of Black Boomer Besties from Brooklyn.
