Have you ever witnessed a metamorphosis? Not the kind you learned about in grade school with caterpillars, but the magnificent human kind. That's the journey Kate Griffith takes us on; from Miami's glitzy nightlife and reality TV to a profound awakening as a women's empowerment coach. Alongside her, Anand Sukhadia shares his steadfast commitment to wellness, from founding a wellness center to spreading inspiration on the Limitless One podcast. Together, they create a narrative that's not just about personal transformation, but also the evolution of a relationship that blossoms into impending parenthood, filled with anticipation, love, and a profound connection.
Imagine finding love in the most unexpected places—like a cold plunge or a pandemic walk. Anand and Kate's modern-day romance story is as unique as it is touching, proving that personal growth and intimate connection can go hand in hand. They open up about their pregnancy journey, sharing the joys and challenges that come with preparing for a new life. Their discussion on birth plans, the significance of a doula, and navigating the often overlooked postpartum period provide an enlightening perspective on the transformative experience of welcoming a child.
Stepping away from the warmth of their story, our conversation takes a refreshing dive into the benefits of holistic technology and the invigorating practice of cold plunging. Kate and Anand discuss how scalar field technology and cold plunges can lead to homeostasis and mental clarity. By the end of this episode, you'll be inspired to follow the couple's adventures and maybe even take on the cold plunge challenge yourself. Connect with Kate on Instagram @iamkategriffith or her website for coaching opportunities, and Anand at @anand.life for a dose of limitless inspiration.
Your hosts: @lynnhazan_ and @tonydoesknow
follow us on social @ltkpod!
Have you ever witnessed a metamorphosis? Not the kind you learned about in grade school with caterpillars, but the magnificent human kind. That's the journey Kate Griffith takes us on; from Miami's glitzy nightlife and reality TV to a profound awakening as a women's empowerment coach. Alongside her, Anand Sukhadia shares his steadfast commitment to wellness, from founding a wellness center to spreading inspiration on the Limitless One podcast. Together, they create a narrative that's not just about personal transformation, but also the evolution of a relationship that blossoms into impending parenthood, filled with anticipation, love, and a profound connection.
Imagine finding love in the most unexpected places—like a cold plunge or a pandemic walk. Anand and Kate's modern-day romance story is as unique as it is touching, proving that personal growth and intimate connection can go hand in hand. They open up about their pregnancy journey, sharing the joys and challenges that come with preparing for a new life. Their discussion on birth plans, the significance of a doula, and navigating the often overlooked postpartum period provide an enlightening perspective on the transformative experience of welcoming a child.
Stepping away from the warmth of their story, our conversation takes a refreshing dive into the benefits of holistic technology and the invigorating practice of cold plunging. Kate and Anand discuss how scalar field technology and cold plunges can lead to homeostasis and mental clarity. By the end of this episode, you'll be inspired to follow the couple's adventures and maybe even take on the cold plunge challenge yourself. Connect with Kate on Instagram @iamkategriffith or her website for coaching opportunities, and Anand at @anand.life for a dose of limitless inspiration.
Your hosts: @lynnhazan_ and @tonydoesknow
follow us on social @ltkpod!
Hey, welcome to the Lynn and Tony Know podcast. I'm your host, lynn.
Speaker 2:And I'm Tony. We are both wellness coaches and married with kids.
Speaker 1:Join us as we talk about all things health, wellness, relationships, life hacks, parenting and everything in between unfiltered. Thanks for listening and let's get into it.
Speaker 2:Welcome back.
Speaker 1:Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2:How are we?
Speaker 1:doing, we're doing good.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Monday morning, just getting right. After it. We're a weekend of just being lazy, which is really needed sometimes. Yeah, just rest is beautiful.
Speaker 2:Although nobody's going to have any sense of what weekend that is as we roll out our episodes that's true, but just imagine a weekend where we rested. Not the weekend you're listening to this, but there was a weekend previous to right now where we took it easy, and then the Monday after that, we started recording again.
Speaker 1:Exactly, and I'm really excited about today's guests. I've been following their love story for a few years now and I feel like their love story is kind of similar to ours. They're just this conscious couple and relationship and they share that with the world and it's really a beautiful thing and I love love and they're both individually very inspiring and they are welcoming very soon. She's due like any day, and they're kind of on that journey that we were and it's really exciting to see and I'm excited to talk to them about, you know, their journey and their plans for the baby.
Speaker 2:Nice.
Speaker 1:I love babies, I love love, I love everything.
Speaker 2:You love love and babies. I love love and babies. One in one. They're the best.
Speaker 1:So I'm going to just read their bio so you guys know who we're talking about. Anand Sukadia and Kate Griffith are soon to be parents, wellness and biohacking junkies and share the passion of living a heart based life. The relationship is founded on deep love, communication, growth and contribution. Like we could have written that about ourselves. I feel like no.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I like that.
Speaker 2:We would have to change the names.
Speaker 1:Yes, kate is a woman's empowerment coach, along with being a breath work and rakey practitioner, sound healing facilitator. Her own healing journey led her to leave a successful career in corporate sales to follow her purpose and passion to guide others to find a deepened sense of self and empowerment. Anand is the owner of Ohm Life, wellness and Scholar. Scholar.
Speaker 4:Scalar.
Speaker 1:Scalar Health in Jersey City and is the host of the Limitless One podcast. His lifelong passion for wellness, holistic health, self development, spiritual growth and positively contributing to the lives of others has led him down the path he lives today. Welcome to the show, you guys.
Speaker 2:Welcome.
Speaker 3:Thank you for having us. We're so excited for today's convo.
Speaker 4:Yes, thank you.
Speaker 1:We're so excited to have you guys. So before we get into like your love story, I want to just like hear quickly from both of you about you know, your journey to where you got to today. I know, kate, you were on a popular reality show. Yes, temptation, right Was Temptation.
Speaker 3:Island. Yes, that feels like a lifetime ago. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1:So in a sense, can you summarize from you know being on this reality show to you know being single Kate, kind of your spiritual awakening to where you are today?
Speaker 3:Totally yeah. So grew up in Ohio and moved to Miami right after college, was living in Miami lifestyle and through that, after 10 years of partying going out, realized how disconnected I was from my own self, as I during that phase also got married and just realized like I woke up one day and I was like I don't know who I am, like I've been living this life and lifestyle but I have no clue. But then that led me down an even worse path of falling for someone much younger than me, moving to New Jersey, definitely not in a conscious relationship. That took us that relationship and I, on reality TV show and that's where I hit my rock bottom like rock, rock, rock bottom. And then I realized like the only like there was nowhere, like I couldn't go any further. And realized like I had to start looking internally and getting to know myself on a deeper level, which then prompted my spiritual journey.
Speaker 3:I'm single at that point, trying to find out who I am, what I'm about like, what life is. And that led me to start working with different practitioners and my whole healing journey began. I realized I had so much trauma to release. I had so much just built up, frustration and validation, seeking perfectionism and going through an eating disorder, like all the things really all the things built up, and then, through that journey, it led me to a place where I feel so much more aligned, so much more myself, and then led me again to start coaching others as.
Speaker 3:I want to offer what was offered to me to other women and empowering them to be their most authentic self.
Speaker 1:So that's the short of that. That's beautiful. That's in a nutshell, right?
Speaker 3:I'm sure there's a lot more In a nutshell, yes, in a nutshell, in a nutshell yes.
Speaker 2:What is the timeline from like how old were you when you went through that period of like who am I?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so it was like my mid 30s, early to mid 30s, when I was kind of going through that, and now I'm 38. So it's been like 2019 was when it really kicked off, when I was like okay. And then 2020 was a blessing for me because it was like the time where I was like okay, the only thing to do right now is go internal during the lockdown, during the pandemic, and so 2020 was sort of my year of exploration 21,. I was getting to really know myself. Then 22, 23, you know, into today.
Speaker 1:That's beautiful. I had the same. Yeah, like I'm kind of on the same timeline as you, I think like I had two spiritual awakenings One when I was 30 years old and I was living in New York City and I was married, I had the kid, I had the corporate job and it was like tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. I have everything, but I'm fucking miserable. Like what did I do wrong here? Like why am I so miserable If this is everything that I wanted to achieve? Why am I so unhappy?
Speaker 1:And that's when I started my spiritual journey. And that's when I started Chick P J C, my blog, and kind of led me on this other path. And then in my mid 30s, with my second kind of spiritual awakening. So before we move to you, Anand, I do have a question. You know, I'm sure a lot of women are listening to this and they're in. They might be going through something Like what? What can be the first step if they feel like they're just unhappy and like they don't know where to start? Where do you, what do you tell them?
Speaker 3:So I always say is like date yourself. So get to know yourself. The same way you're you date a significant other or someone that you're just meeting, trying to get to know them, get to know yourself. Set that time aside, whether that's a couple of minutes a day, whether that's an hour a week, whatever it is for you, just build some time into your schedule to sit with yourself.
Speaker 3:Once you begin sitting with yourself, I feel like the, the body, the mind, like you innately know what to do. But until you actually block off that time and dedicate that time to yourself, it's not going to come through if you're just doing the same, right. So, and then look into practitioners, look into people. I tried everything, right, like I tried every different modality out there and don't be afraid to find one that that works, or don't be afraid to find one that doesn't work for you. Like, just keep exploring again. The same way. You would explore a new relationship, because this is a new relationship that you're building or ever evolving humans, and I think that that's something that we forget is to date ourselves, get to know ourselves, get to know all the iterations and evolutions that we move through and build that time in.
Speaker 1:I love that tip.
Speaker 2:What modality spoke to you the most when you were exploring them?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so breathwork is the one that spoke to me the most, which then led me to become a breathwork practitioner. But I always say that I breathe life back into myself because I was working with someone on a weekly basis and every session I just felt lighter. I felt like the inner knowing started to come through even more, my intuition, like I was releasing so much like stales, stagnant energy. So breathwork is really the one that really really spoke to me.
Speaker 1:I love that. Okay, we'll talk more about that. So, anand, what about you? Like OmeLife is, for those who don't know, is a wellness center in downtown Jersey City, and I feel like you are kind of like like I think now it's getting popular all the biohacking, but I think you started before. It was like this, this trendy thing. Like you had cryo, you have you had cryotherapy, you have the floating tanks, saunas, and I feel like now there's a lot more awareness around it. Like how did you get into it? Like what's your journey to OmeLife?
Speaker 4:Yeah, just to go real far back. So I grew up very spiritually minded and self-growth minded, growing up in a Hindu household. So I've always asked myself the existential questions who am I, what am I capable of? And I always knew that there was something in me, like when you were two.
Speaker 1:That was your first thing you said and I was like mom, who am I?
Speaker 4:Yeah, who am I? Yeah, so just reading, like you know, the stories, hearing all these, just like you know beautiful connections, and going to spiritual places, I asked myself, yeah, like who is this, this being of mine? I look at myself in the mirror. But I always knew that I was an older soul and that there was something that I was here for that's a little bit bigger or different than than most. It's an individual journey. So I started this self-development journey. I did all the Tony Robbins events. I've done a lot of different things where, just reading every book I can the four agreements, the alchemists these are books that really hit me on that spiritual path. And there was a book called Autobiography of a Yogi as well that really kind of started my I guess, like real ascension. So, as I'm going through this, I think the reason why I went down this path is because I guess, growing up I didn't have a lot of confidence, I didn't have a lot of self-love, so it was always that journey to seek more and gain more knowledge, to try to feel a little bit of like filling that empty cup, I would say so I was obsessive about learning more and stuff.
Speaker 4:So by the age of 34, I was offered an opportunity to do a psychedelic called ayahuasca. I'm sure you guys are familiar with it, wow. But essentially it was the biggest blessing of my life. From the moment I drank that I knew that there was no going back. Like literally in the first couple of minutes and just to give you a little background, like when I drank it and the medicine was starting sinking in, I literally went into outer space and I was all alone in the universe. There was no planets, no stars, no beings, nothing, and it was the loneliest place to ever be and I just started sobbing. I was just crying because I was all alone and then all of a sudden, I just kept breathing through it and then all of a sudden I see this winged goddess come towards me and she wraps her wings around me and from going from the loneliest place in the universe to the most loved in the universe, it just showed me the duality of nature and how everything is a circle. It's like there's these two extremes, but as you wrap itself around, you swing the pendulum far enough it's going to wrap itself around.
Speaker 4:So that experience for me, and then going through the next couple of hours of that journey, it just gave me a life in review and essentially showed me I could continue going down the path I was going down, which was just trying different businesses, being in a lot of relationships, short-term relationships, not being happy with myself, being angry, blaming people for my problems, or I could go down a different path, which was to start living in my purpose, which is love, contribution, growth, and then also just being in forgiveness and being loving towards myself and others.
Speaker 4:So from that moment I realized, okay, I've always wanted to create a center where I could bring a community together and they can find their truest version, because I've gone through so many different modalities and different help things to find out what are the best ones. So I figured let's do something that's on a holistic side, that's bringing people in to meet their truest self. So we settled on like flotation therapy, which is an amazing therapy infrared saunas, cryotherapy but now we switch over to cold plunges, which I know you guys are huge fans of.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll talk about it.
Speaker 4:We'll talk about that, for sure, I'll jump into my plunge today because I wanted to be inspired by you guys and then, yeah, just creating the center. So I opened it six years ago, a couple years after my ayahuasca journey, just like getting all the funding and everything in place. The build out it took a while and we're six years in now and I tell you it's been the ride of my life. I know that because of that journey I've had the most incredible experiences. I met Kate through the business. I have some of the best friends through the business. I'm so fulfilled. Through the business I've had amazing opportunities to go to Egypt this past year and do all these different kind of really cool things and connect with the most amazing people.
Speaker 4:And I know that it wouldn't have happened as fluidly as if I went the other path and just chose to continue going through the motions of life. So I think for me it's all about stepping out of my comfort zones, and the more I step out of my comfort zones and the further I step away, life opens up in so much magic. So that's why I also created the Limitless One podcast. It's personally my journey of how to become limitless, and limitless is infinite potential. So how can we ever get to that place.
Speaker 4:But I'm all for trying as much as I can in the time that I have here and interviewing people that are on the same elk and that are living in passion, living in purpose, absolutely love what they do. And it's not all about money, it could be about any field, but I have so much respect for people that are living in their purpose and you're really happy about what they're doing for a living because you're exchanging your energy and time for something that you're trying to do. So if we're working at a job that is not fulfilling to us, we're just trading in our time for maybe a delayed happiness which is never going to come, so we have to be happy in the moment. So I guess that's really my journey, how it started, and then I hope to help others, create an environment for them to be on that same path.
Speaker 1:Wow, I love that.
Speaker 2:Hell yeah.
Speaker 1:Hell yeah, Hell's the yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was like sorry that was a really long ramble, no, we love that.
Speaker 2:Well, you started from birth, so yours is a little bit longer, and it's always fascinating to me to hear somebody that knew that from such an early age or was asking those types of questions from such an early age. It's kind of mind blowing because a lot of for me personally, a lot of people that I know and I work with men specifically that may not find those questions until 40, 50, 60 years old, and to hear someone come from a very early age asking those questions is always a really interesting thing to me, because I relate probably a little bit more to Kate's story. You know, some of the best partiers make the best healers at some point. That's kind of my realm as well in terms of, like the catalyst, that kind of woke me up, essentially. So very cool, but I know we're going to get deeper here in a second.
Speaker 1:Well, let's talk about okay. So you have two wonderful, amazing, you know, big hearted people and you guys meet Like you guys. Obviously you met organically, but how did that kind of start?
Speaker 4:Sure Sure.
Speaker 3:So yeah, so we met because I was a client at Olm Life again Onin's Wellness Center. I lived right across the street so, being into health and wellness, I stopped in. I actually met him when I was in a cryotherapy session. So, freezing my ass off, and he walks in and he was just this like energy, like there was just this energy, like sunshine to him. He wasn't meant to be there that day but he just like kind of popped his head in during a three minute cryotherapy session and said, hi, nice to meet you. And from there I always would go in to schedule my appointments, like in person, where most people would just do that online. Like I don't know why, I thought I should walk in, but I kind of there was just this energy to him that I wanted to see if he was there, just like to steal a little bit of that sunshine. And I don't really know if I consciously knew what I was doing, but I would always walk in and just kind of like look around, see if he was there, just to say hello, and it was just like I just wanted that 30 seconds of energy that he had. Again, don't know if I knew that's what I was doing really until later when I really like thought about it.
Speaker 3:But then pandemic hits that that was like end of 2019. Pandemic hits and I always joke. He was reaching out to some of his clients and I always joke that he is probably only reaching out to the ones that were between the age of like 30 and 35. Maybe thought they were cute. I'm not sure we was reaching out to his clients, which I thought was very sweet.
Speaker 3:I didn't know that many people here because, again, I'd only lived here for a short amount of time at that point and we started going for walks during the pandemic getting to know each other. I will say it was very intimidating to be hanging out with someone who is so self aware and on that self growth and journey that I was sort of just getting on and just his awareness and his knowledge and the growth aspect of who he was was so attractive to me but also so intimidating at the same time. But it really helped me to have the support that I needed as I was really going through this crazy journey of healing and getting to know myself. So that support meant so much to me as I was making so many crazy life changes at that time. But that's how we met and I always say, like we just kept walking, like we started going for those walks during the pandemic and then we never stopped walking from there.
Speaker 2:Just walked right into each other's hearts.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's funny because Tony and I also started dating, like during the pandemic, like the summer.
Speaker 2:Right. So yeah, ours would have started probably like eight months after.
Speaker 1:But we didn't meet organically. We did meet on hinge. But I do always joke around that like the universe just didn't know how to put us together, because he was living in Brooklyn and I was, you know, I'm living in Jersey City and I'm a single mom and like I don't go to bars and stuff like that. So the universe was like all right, what's the easiest way? Oh, those dating apps, perfect yeah.
Speaker 2:And when I started on the dating apps, my radius was very small. I was in Bushwick, I was in Brooklyn, so I wasn't here at all. And then, you know, spent a couple hours in the local area. And then I was like, okay, I'm going to expand out. And, yeah, met her on the first 24 hours I was on the app, so it feels pretty meant to be.
Speaker 1:It was meant to be for sure, 24 hours. I love that Amazing. Thanks, yeah, thanks, hinge gods, yeah. So now, okay, so you guys met, you have this love story and, like, let's fast forward to you know your due and congratulations, by the way.
Speaker 3:Thank you. Yeah, we are due. I'm almost 39 weeks, so I mean potentially today Any day, any day, any day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I mean you could. I went. I delivered a week before she was due, so you literally could be going today.
Speaker 3:Yeah, how are you feeling? Like? How's the pregnant?
Speaker 1:Yeah. Yeah, I was like I'm DM'd her. I'm like she's like I could go any day. I'm like, please wait till after we record.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, no trouble, that'll be great content yeah.
Speaker 1:That'll be funny. So how's the, how's the pregnancy been for you?
Speaker 3:So I want to say I've had an easy pregnancy, but I think that comes with perspective of being 38. We were trying for two, two and a half years. We started trying very early in our relationship because we knew right away like we wanted a family and we knew we wanted to be together. So we started trying very early and so I think that two and a half years of you know and trying allows you to have a different perspective of the pregnancy.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, a lot of things have probably happened throughout where if I would have been younger or maybe not had that perspective, might have thought differently. But otherwise I would say I've had an easy pregnancy. It's also amazing when you have a supportive partner and we're very self aware of, again, where our thoughts go and when some you know we've had some things we had to overcome and when that happens like we just come back to all the practices, like all the tools that we have in our tool belt, understanding where our thoughts are, beliefs are, and just coming back to, like, our happiness and baseline. So I think I've had an easy pregnancy. But again, with all that said, You've done amazing.
Speaker 4:I just have to say like, yeah, just so positive, so, like you know, into the research phase, but then also just like surrendering to you know, whatever happens. So I just it's an honor to witness how strong you are and I'm falling like more in love with you every single moment and I can't wait to see you guys are so cute.
Speaker 4:I can't wait to see you be a mom, because she gives this baby so much love. Every single day she talks to it, she rubs its belly. You know, like it's just, it's wonderful to witness and you're going to be the best mom.
Speaker 3:Thank you, I'm going to cry. I cry over everything, so I'm sure I'm crying during this. It's such a beautiful.
Speaker 1:It's such a beautiful you know moment to to experience as a couple, especially when you're in love and you're so conscious to your feelings and emotions and and really sharing that energy together.
Speaker 1:It's really a beautiful thing Like I love seeing couples who are really in it together, because a lot of times you do see couples where the the woman is just experiencing the pregnancy a little bit on her, on her own, when you know you're not kind of, you don't have that like emotional connection.
Speaker 1:Not everybody, unfortunately, has that and it's so important. You know, I was also blessed to have a partner to like really experience pregnancy with me and go through the, the ups and downs and the emotions and and things do come and right, things come up, especially you know your, your your hormones and and there's all these feelings and you're feeling afraid and you're feeling excited and you're feeling in love, but you're also feeling just like kind of like, oh, my God, my life is about to change. What are things that you that, if you're open to sharing things that you guys were, you know what are things that came up and how did you? You know you mentioned your toolbox like what is in your toolbox, like for couples that are expecting or going through these like huge transitional moments, like how do you get back to the baseline of your happiness?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so we had an issue where I woke up leading and no one pregnant wants to make up leading, because the day we were supposed to travel across country for family wedding it was only 20 weeks. And then, of course, like I started to spiral into all the what ifs. We call the doctor right away, of course, and they get us in to see them as soon as possible. But then I start researching and I start going down that rabbit hole and that's where he just kind of kept holding, holding, holding my hand and saying like okay, we can keep going down that rabbit hole, or we can just like come back into our heart, like we know the baby's, okay, keep talking to him, like keep staying in our meditative state, like because our stress levels are going to affect the baby, so how do we just come back to our baseline? And so it was so helpful. We ended up going for a week to the beach just to like let our nervous system relax, because I know that's what we both needed.
Speaker 3:We missed out on the family trip, the wedding that was on in Lake Tahoe, but what meant more for us to just ground, to be at the beach, relax and calm our nervous system so that we could move forward. Everything was okay. But that's where we've been throughout, is where you know there's a lot of information that comes to you from medical fields and it's a lot of fear based and if you keep going to Google and you can go down, you know a million paths of things that could go wrong, might go wrong percentages, all these things. Or you can come back into your heart and like that innate mama instinct that like everything is fine, everything's great, baby's great, we're great, and so that's where we've really had to lean on our practices of meditation, of breathing Reiki. I give Reiki to myself, to the baby, and just communication and knowing I can lean on him when I'm having those moments.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and I think a lot of it is also following your intuition going inside, like you said, because even just simple things like what supplements to take you search any supplement online and it'll like half the people will tell you you can't do it, like it's terrible for pregnancy. Other people will say, oh no, this is great for pregnancy. And then the other thing when we go to the OB, when we were going there, every single time there was, oh, your blood levels are a little bit low here or they're a little bit high here. So it's constantly fear. So there was so much of like okay, you need to do this, you need to do this, you need to do this.
Speaker 4:But at the end of the day, we just had to really see what was it necessary for us, see how we felt about things and then make the decision on our own which paths to go down and which paths to just be like okay, I think this is going to be fine At the end of the day, we take responsibility for all of our decisions in life on every spectrum, so we just have to be comfortable with that. But I think that's not allowing so many outside forces affect your mood or your ability to be positive or put fear in you. I think it's super important to just stay grounded and have that inner calm.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and my thought we actually Especially with Sorry, go ahead. No. With that, we actually decided about halfway through to start working with midwives only because we just felt like there were some questions, concerns, like we wanted more guidance. We wanted more time first pregnancy. Never gone through this before and didn't really feel like a lot of our questions, concerns were being answered. Or if they were, it was just kind of like breezing through really quickly telling me my iron's low, take this, but not offering me some suggestions, telling me only gain 20, 25 pounds, but not like really saying but these are the foods you should be eating, which 20, 25 pounds went out the window really fast. But so, yeah, we started working with midwives where we really felt like we were being heard, our questions were being answered and that we could bring any concern to them without feeling like it was a silly question.
Speaker 1:I love. I mean, we did the same thing like mid-pregnancy. I switched to we were seeing Nobiji Yen in Manhattan and I just felt like, and she was wonderful, Like she, I gave birth with her already with my first. But that experience was just kind of a little bit traumatic, I guess, because it was so like such a hospital setting and I'm like I'm not sick, like I'm giving birth, like this is Everything's fine, like why are we treating me like a patient? And the second experience was wildly different. I had a midwife and it was a beautiful experience. I mean, I didn't do natural, unfortunately, I was trying to, but other than that, like I think, just the whole experience with the midwife and they take time to really answer your questions and they gave you the birth that you want and you have a lot more control and you can just make more decisions. So what have you been doing to prepare for birth?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so I've tried to stay strong. That's always been my goal. It's not about the weight, but I've been exercising all the fun pelvic floor exercises, prenatal yoga. We've been working with a doula just helping with some preparation. We did hire a doula, so she'll be here and she's been doing some body work.
Speaker 1:You have a nod. You don't need a doula. He's going to be your birth coach.
Speaker 3:The man doula. I think the doula is more for him.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I think it's good to have both more hands on deck right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I might do all of our massages.
Speaker 1:I might hurt my hands, our doula got COVID last minute and she didn't show up to the birth, so Tony was the one taking care of me.
Speaker 2:I was channeling the doula through text into real time with her.
Speaker 1:I was like who are you texting? I'm in labor, I'm in pain right now. Who are you texting?
Speaker 3:It was like the fourth time I've heard that about doula not showing up, so you're on deck.
Speaker 4:That's why we asked the doula in the middle. I was like every single time we see him, I was like what happens if you can't make it?
Speaker 2:Everything will be fine.
Speaker 4:honestly, yeah, everything will be fine.
Speaker 2:Essentially what happens. I want to circle back to something Anon said that I think is maybe one of the most important pieces of pregnancy, but also, in general, it's the surrender part. First of all, the word surrender needs a rebrand. I think the marketing around the word surrender is terrible. If we could reclaim it as a powerful thing, then everyone would be a lot better off.
Speaker 2:Because the surrendering to people think of surrender as giving up or waving the white flag or just aimlessly flowing down the river of life, and whatever happens happens In the way that you're using it in the way that I find it most useful is that you surrender, you can number one surrender to the divinity of the timing of everything and that everything is unfolding exactly how it needs to, without fail. It's perfect. Surrender is actually more powerful in the sense that when you surrender to your own knowing of how things can go, then the Google searches and all the information that it's flying at you can be filtered through what you know to be true about your own body, about your own way of living. The surrender piece is huge. That goes for pregnancy or living in general. If we can, all four of us, work on a rebrand of surrender and take that word back and use it as I believe it can be intended. That would be an amazing thing, because that piece is crucial.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I think using surrender and then it's synonymous with faith. I think that's probably the direction of you. Know, I think where you like, what you're trying to say is just having faith. Yeah, just replacing that word surrender with faith, essentially knowing that it's going to be fine.
Speaker 1:What are your plans? So the fourth trimester is obviously very important. I feel like not talked about enough. People focus a lot about the you know on the baby and you know the newborn baby, but not enough about you know the mom and what the mom goes through in the fourth trimester and I've shared a lot about that when I was going through it. What are you doing to prepare for yourself, not for the baby? We know what we need to do for the baby to keep the baby alive somewhat. Right, they sleep, they poop, they eat and that's pretty much the cycle, right. But, as you know, postpartum, the postpartum period what are you doing to like, empower yourself for that for that period of time?
Speaker 3:Yeah. So a few things. First of all, having a winter baby is going to allow us to hibernate. I really want that time just to be skin to skin, like you know, real and raw here. Having you know, the two of us home with a baby as much as possible, getting to know his cues so that we feel really comfortable, getting to know like I know that I've felt him in my belly for the last nine months. But I want to really like get to know him and get to know ourselves in this element, how we communicate, how we work together, so that we can set that solid foundation for what's to come. And again, luckily, we have the mindset work.
Speaker 3:So I want to make sure that we're holding ourselves accountable to our meditations. Baby can be on my chest like baby can be breastfeeding, baby can be in that carrier while we're meditating, like not strained too far from the things that I know bring us back to our heart, bring us back to our baseline and our calm, and also making sure that we are being proactive in the sense of like getting my hormones tracked, vitamin levels, mineral levels, like all of that can affect who it is that I am. So I want to be really proactive in working with someone to make sure, like I'm getting back to normal as quickly as possible, or taking the right nutrients vitamins, minerals again to make sure that I'm good, so that I can be here to fully support my family. And I think, lastly, it's like as proactive as I want to be. In the sense, this might be the one time in life where I'm going to be slightly reactive because we don't know what this life is going to be like.
Speaker 3:So I haven't determined things such as like co sleeping. I haven't determined like, am I going to do a combination of breastfeeding and pumping? Can I even breastfeed? Like does it work for me? So like not being so attached to? So again, coming back to the conversation around surrender is like there's a lot of unknown and just like leaning into that unknown of who we are as parents, what this baby needs, and just fully surrendering to the experience and letting us learn as we go. And then also some postpartum doula work as well. So our doula will be working with us and also be doing some body work on the week's postpartum.
Speaker 4:The one thing I'll say is we have all the tools, or she has all the tools necessary, all the biohacking tools, all the self care stuff.
Speaker 1:It's really important because I think a lot of times people focus a lot or mostly on the newborn and not enough on the mother's needs, and I think that's like the most important part of all this and that is something I made clear with Tony before I even got pregnant. I'm like, if I'm going to get pregnant, this is like you're waking up to with the baby. I'm going to need this, this and this. You know, and he stepped up to the plate and it's really important to do it together. Like you're in this together and I know you guys will do amazing and you'll figure it out.
Speaker 1:And I think, really surrendering and going in it with you know a loose plan, you know, especially for the self care and for, you know, taking time for yourself and getting that rest that you need, but also going with like kind of no expectations because you don't. You know you and your baby are strangers to each other. Yes, like you felt him, but you don't know him. He doesn't know you, and you're going to get to know each other. Like I have a one year old and I'm still getting to know her. You know, we're still getting to know each other and it's a beautiful, beautiful time and I'm very excited for you guys. So I want to get into biohacking a little bit. Anand, what's like the next thing that's going to be cool in the biohacking world?
Speaker 4:I mean so many things. But you know we just launched this new technology called the energy enhancement system. So I'll tell you a little bit about it and I'd love to have you guys come and experience it. Essentially what it is you're in this room and you have four computer towers in each corner and they're laser calibrated to a hundredth of an inch to the center point, which is called the zero point, and these scalar waves are colliding in the middle of the room and creating a troideal field. And it's what it is, is it kind of looks like? If you were to visualize it like the Earth's electromagnetic frequency, you know how it looks like a troideal shape or an apple, or you know the electromagnetic field of a human being or any object. That's biological. It's increasing the cellular voltage of the room.
Speaker 4:So the idea behind the technology is our bodies will sink to whatever environment it's in, similar to a fish bowl. If you have a fish in dirty water, the fish is going to start degrading its health. If you have a fish in a beautiful, thriving ecosystem with all the nutrients it needs, it's going to thrive. Same thing with our bodies right. And the challenge in this world that we live in is there's so much electromagnetic smog, there's Wi-Fi, 5g, there's dirty water, there's air pollution, there's all these things environmental toxins that are harming our bodies. And our bodies are amazing. They're resilient, and if you think about all the damage we do to them and we're still living to the age of 80s it's incredible what our bodies can do. But imagine not having to deal with that. So the idea is, when you're in this environment, in the scalar field, it's increasing your cellular voltage to about 70 to 90 millivolts. That is the optimal millivoltage of cellular health. So when your body gets into balance, the more time you spend in here, your cells will rise to that 70 to 90 millivolts. It's going to put your body in homeostasis and then from there the body starts repairing itself because it knows exactly what it needs to do.
Speaker 4:I truly believe and this is one of the missions of home life is creating a holistic environment for our bodies to repair itself, and I know you guys are really into the biohacking too, with the cold plunges, saunas, all that kind of stuff. So we truly believe in the power of the body. The power that made the body also can heal the body. So this technology has been around for 30 years. It's only been around in really wealthy people's homes billionaires, middle Eastern kings and sheiks and things like that and now it's starting to come online. So there's a 380 centers that have opened up in the last year and a half just around the world, and if you go to the website of testimonials, there's thousands of testimonials on different ailments.
Speaker 4:And it's not like this technology is curing anything or treating any particular disease. It's putting the body in balance and then the body wants to start healing itself, but it just needs to be able to release the toxins that are inside of it. So it's really incredible. It's super simple. All you have to do is sit down, lean back into zero gravity chair, close your eyes and it'll feel like you're floating, but you don't have to get wet or it's not hot, it's not cold. You're just laying in a room and connecting with yourself and you're swimming in this free-footed. I love your job. I would live at home life.
Speaker 1:I would literally if I had nothing else going on, I would be at home life all day Cold plunge, sauna, float a little bit.
Speaker 2:One time we tried to go, we literally stuck in a flood.
Speaker 1:We need to go, so you just also added cold plunging. How's that been? Yes, this is just how we'd feel this puts you in place, doesn't it? Hello for you, my name's.
Speaker 2:It sounded like you were making a shift from cryo to cold. Plunging Is that right?
Speaker 4:Yes, yeah, so in order to put this new technology, I'm sorry say that again.
Speaker 2:Why is that? Oh, I just said, why is that?
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah. So there's a couple of different reasons, couple of things with the cryo, the maintenance on the cryotherapy machines, even though it's an amazing technology, there was always something happening. And the industry is moving away from nitrogen based tanks to having electric tanks, so, or sorry, electric chambers. So we were in the nitrogen phase, the cost of nitrogen were going up and the maintenance was always giving issues. And then how do I tell my members, hey, we're going to be closed for two weeks. I can't, you know, we can't see you.
Speaker 4:Then I started getting into cold plunging. I've done it a bunch of times, I've done the Wim Hof stuff, and I just felt so exhilarated from being in the cold water and even though it doesn't get down to negative 321 degrees like our cryo tank was, that's three minutes, you stay dry, but the feeling of being in a cold plunge lasts all day long. So there was a lot of our members that were like, oh, you shouldn't get rid of the cryo, we love it. But I said, just trust me, try this out.
Speaker 4:We moved the cryo out to make room for some other stuff in the center and then we moved the infrared sauna that we had into the cold plunge room. So it's a fire and ice room now. So you do a couple of minutes 25 minutes, in the sauna, then go into the plunge and I tell you, every single body person that's been a member of cryo were begging me not to get rid of it. I'm absolutely in love with it and they're coming daily. So it's so invigorating on so many levels and you guys can probably speak to this because you've been doing it so much, and I really appreciate the fact that you guys are posting these things, because I think it's tough to step into our tank inside of a warm room, but you guys are going outside breaking ice.
Speaker 1:In the snow Getting in.
Speaker 4:I was watching your video, tony, the other day. Oh my goodness, dude, that is impressive to do it outside.
Speaker 2:It was one of those things where I started. You know, I went outside. I was like I knew, knew it was going to be cold. I did not realize how much was going to be frozen and I'd already started documenting the process and I was like 30 minutes in. I was like I've absolutely painted myself into a corner with this. I have to see this through now because now everybody's paying attention and I can't not do it. But it was on a different level, the hardest one, like without even any doubt. It was brutal, it was so.
Speaker 1:And now just from to my defense, I didn't do it because I, you know I'm a woman and I don't do it during my cycle. Like it's just not healthy. You know you want to keep the womb warm, so but yeah, like watching I was like you're nuts, like I don't know if I would do it today. Thank God I had a good. Thank you, mother nature, for my excuse.
Speaker 2:I'm, you know I can't do this today, but like we're going to get back into it this week and yeah, I'm afraid outdoors is just a whole another ball game, I mean it's the only place we had to put it right, so it's not because, like, we want to be hardcore about it, just like that's where we can put it, and now it just happens to be a little more hardcore during the winter and the other. The other cool part about it is like we're not like we're not super human.
Speaker 1:We're just like, we're just regular people.
Speaker 2:We're, you know, more or less we're like anybody else that's watching us. If you see us doing it in a very simple setup and a very simple setting, it becomes more of a reality to a lot of people. Like I get asked about that more than literally anything else that I do combined. Like there are people that will call me, message me, text me, like, and they're like how do you do it? And I'm like, well, you buy the tub, you fill it up with water and then you just do it. Like there is no magic trick here, it is simple, you just do it.
Speaker 1:And it's a yeah, and anybody can do it, like you can get, you can do it in the bath. You can take a cold shower, you can do it in the bath, like biohacking doesn't need to be this unattainable thing Right Now. I'm really curious, though, for both of you what are your rituals? Like your daily rituals, like the nitty gritty, like morning routine or night routine, the things that, like you, have you do daily, because I feel like these habits are so important and I'm always curious when I talk to, like you know, biohackers or people that are into all this stuff, like what are? What is their daily routine? What is your daily routines?
Speaker 3:So mine's changed a little bit. I used to be a major sauna girl, so I would get in the sauna at least four to five times per week probably, and would love a good cold plunge or cry out therapy session. So I had to get take a little pause from from those. I cannot wait to get back to all of that, and I was listening to your postpartum journey, lynn, and on the podcast, and I know you said great things about cold plunging postpartum, so I can't wait.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, after yeah, of course after I started after I was done breastfeeding yeah, so like definitely wait to give your body time to like heal for sure, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, so that used to be part of my routine. We do a lot of I do a lot of red light therapy right now, and then morning meditation and evening meditation. So almost always go to sleep with a meditation. We have it's a headset and it has light therapy that comes through, called brain tap, and they have over like 2000 meditations on there and so right now I'm working my way through they have some, they have some child, yeah, some childbirth meditation. So I'm working my way through that. So that's kind of like the two things must do is like at night a little something and a little something in the morning. But morning routine for me is intuitive. So sometimes the last five minutes, sometimes the last couple hours between meditation, breath work, journaling, but again, like I said, for anyone trying to get into anything, it's just creating that time and that space and I think that's where we wake up early, just so we can have that time to ourselves before the day starts.
Speaker 1:What time do you wake up? What?
Speaker 3:time. Do you guys wake up? My alarm goes off at 5.55. His goes off.
Speaker 4:Today it went out 4.06, I think some of my time.
Speaker 4:So yeah, try to try to get a workout in for sure First thing in the morning. Just stay hydrated, do a workout, then I will do like my non-negotiables for the most part and every day. You can't be too hard on yourself to like. You know, if you ask me, I have a list of all these things I want to do, but it would take literally all day because I've access to a lot of things. So you know, I can't really be. I have to be realistic about it. So instead of saying I have to do this and this and this and this, it's like I can do this or this and that's fine. So mostly I do a really amazing green smoothie every day just to make sure I'm getting my greens in drinking a lot of water and meditation.
Speaker 1:Can you share the recipe?
Speaker 4:Yeah, absolutely I'd happen to.
Speaker 1:It's pretty long, so I can send it to you Do you have time? Yeah, send it to us. Yeah, send it to us. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it kind of covers everything. And yeah, just being like it's all about the intent, right? So if a morning routine causes stress, like oh, I got to do this, I got to, just then it's not part of it, because you know you can see, like online, all these bio hackers. They take like 90 supplements in a day and like, is it really like helping you that much more? Or putting all that stuff together, is it affecting your body in a positive way versus like just doing this to do it rather than the intention behind it? And you know, I know you guys are into Dr Joe Dispenza, we're big fans of Dr Joe and you know everything can be produced by the body essentially, but really it comes down to your mindset and our thoughts create our reality, right?
Speaker 4:So, like, at one point I thought, okay, I want to have an amazing partnership. I wrote down all the. You know all the things that I wanted, all the, you know the qualities and someday I found her. And I found her a couple of years ago and it's like when you think about something and you kind of focus your intention on it, feel the feelings of it, it's going to happen. So if you want a healthy life, yes, and I understand there's some exceptions, but mindset is so important on this whole part of it and, you know, releasing any kind of stuck emotions that we have, so really it's kind of like life is choose your own adventure. You can have anything that you want. It's just what you want to put your attention to. So I would say happiness is probably a priority, just making sure that I'm happy in the moment, being grateful, and everything else flows. Everything always works out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think we're both big on like just letting our entire day be a ritual. Instead of a list of half-twos they're always like a list of like we get twos and doing everything with like that pure intention. Even if it's posting on social media for the business or for my own, you know, personal page, whatever it is, it's like doing it with the right intention, like whatever is behind it, whatever the thought is. You know, we're big on like thinking something, knowing it and being it and, yeah, just living our lives kind of in that like ritualistic realm.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and I love it. It makes it a little more finalistical.
Speaker 4:And I love when you correct me. I sometimes I tell her oh, I have to go to own life in a couple of minutes. She's like no, just change your perspective. You get to go. Like how blessed are you to be able to do that. So it always just like changes my perception so quickly because it's yeah, why would I say I have to, I don't have to do anything. It's like I have the opportunity to live a blessed life and everything that I do. So thank you for that. That's great.
Speaker 1:That's really beautiful. I can, I love your story and I honestly we could talk to you guys forever. We should do dinner when you guys are free, you know, in a year, but it was really great chatting with you guys. How can people follow you and where can they find you? You know, drop all your link your socials.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so mine is. I am Kate Griffith. That's Instagram. It's also my website is I am Kate Griffith dot com. We can find all of my coaching events, broth work, Reiki offerings there.
Speaker 4:And for me on Instagram, on and dot live. It's an and dot life. All the social tags are on there. My website is on there, all the websites and all the fun stuff. So thank you guys. I really appreciate amazing.
Speaker 3:Yeah everything. Thank you, thank you for being with us.
Speaker 1:We thank you so much for your time. Yeah, what a, what a great show episode I mean all right, guys do you have anything, any last words.
Speaker 2:No, that's it. Take the point, take a cold plunge, just do it yeah just do the cold plunge.
Speaker 1:She's going to be able to, guys.
Speaker 4:Take care. Thank you so much.