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Welcome to The VILLAGE Voices—a podcast by House of Heeling Co., where healing is a collective journey and every voice matters.
At House of Heeling, we believe in the power of shared experiences. Healing doesn’t happen in isolation—it thrives in community. That’s why The VILLAGE Voices is more than just a podcast; it’s a platform where our guides and members share their unique stories, wisdom, and transformative journeys.
Each episode, we step into the sacred space of storytelling, weaving together the voices of healers, thought leaders, and community members who embody the many facets of holistic healing. From spiritual wisdom and metaphysical insights to practical wellness techniques, we highlight the diverse paths that lead us to wholeness.
As we walk through our 13-month journey together, each month will align with a specific theme, offering conversations that inspire, educate, and empower. Whether it’s meditation, energy healing, eco-therapy, or ancestral wisdom, we explore the modalities that bring us closer to balance—individually and collectively.
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Beyond the Mirror: Finding Spiritual Purpose in Physical Transformation
What happens when faith meets fitness? For personal trainer Beebee, it became the foundation for a revolutionary approach to wellness that's transforming her clients' lives from the inside out.
Beebee's journey began with her own struggles—eating pizza daily as a teenager, facing body image issues that led to four boob jobs starting at just 17, and finding herself trapped in toxic bodybuilding culture where three-hour cardio sessions became her norm. After losing her beloved brother, who was just one year older and her biggest supporter, she channeled her grief into determination. Yet something was still missing.
The breakthrough came when Beebee realized she had been "messing with her temple." Through a spiritual awakening at 29, she discovered that true transformation happens when we honor our bodies as sacred spaces and approach fitness as an act of devotion rather than punishment. Her unique approach now integrates scripture, prayer, and community support alongside evidence-based nutrition and training principles.
"Find what you like, not what you see online," Beebee advises, rejecting the cookie-cutter approaches that dominate the industry. Having developed PCOS herself, she understands firsthand the importance of nutritional healing and working with your body rather than against it. Her vulnerable sharing about developing unhealthy obsessions with food tracking, body checking, and comparison offers a cautionary tale about fitness culture's dark side.
What sets Beebee apart isn't just her technical knowledge—it's her mission to help clients break harmful cycles that have sometimes persisted for generations. "There's no cheat code to this," she reminds us, emphasizing that sustainable transformation requires patience, consistency, and grace. Through daily accountability, scriptural guidance, and genuine connection, she's building a community where healing happens on every level.
Ready to experience fitness as a spiritual practice that nourishes your whole being? Connect with Beebee through her Facebook page "BB Fit, Health and Fitness" or join her upcoming programs in The Village. Your body—and your spirit—will thank you.
Hey guys, so glad you saw the light on. We left it on just for you. Come on in. Your cup of tea is still warm, and by tea I mean we've got some incredible stories and insights to share with you. I'm Carmen Marie, your favorite neighborhood shaman, on a mission to heal the world, one inner child at a time. Now get in here and let me introduce you to my friends and co-hosts.
Speaker 1:Welcome back to another episode of the Village Voices. I'm your host, carmen Marie, and I'm so excited to bring you a conversation that could reshape the way you think about wellness. Our guest is Bebe, a dedicated personal trainer, nutrition coach, family and community leader and passionate believer who weaves her strong faith into every aspect of her coaching. By integrating scripture, prayer and community support, she's helping people not just reach their fitness goals, but also deepen their spiritual walk. In this episode, we'll dive into Bebe's personal story how she discovered the power of combining faith and fitness, the common misconceptions about faith-based fitness and the breakthroughs her clients have experienced. So, whether you're curious about strengthening your body, your spirit or both, this conversation is for you. Bebe, welcome to the show. I'm excited to be here. Carmen, I'm so excited that you're here. I find you to be such a fascinating creature and I can't wait to dive in. I would love to hear about your journey and how you first discovered that passion for fitness and nutrition. How did your journey begin with fitness?
Speaker 2:Back in high school when you would go to CBS and you have those magazines, everybody in those magazines were either working out or you would run into those fitness magazines and I said I want to be on a cover in a magazine and fitness was something that I was like. I could probably do that, but the only problem that I had I was eating pizza every day. I had the privilege to have a mom who was delivering pizzas, so all the leftover pizzas she'll bring it home to us. And it took me to be upside down in a video because I used to be a video. I'm still a video robot. I used to record myself, do videos, and this was like when YouTube was hitting and I did a handstand and everything was hanging. I weighed myself, I was 165 and I was 15 at 165. And I love pizza. I don't know how I came across Bridget she was a Playboy bunny and she would do bunny boot camps and during that time hydroxycut was hitting with a slim fast or something like those shakes. They were hitting. And then we had curves, the cereal special k. They were trending, so I decided to jump on that and next thing I was eating cereal all the time because I thought it was something healthy because you see it in a commercial.
Speaker 2:And one day I literally got a lecture by my older brother and he was all like this is being healthy, and he wasn't too weight at that time and he just gave me a whole lecture. Hey, you need your vegetables, you don't need hot cheese, you don't need your mac and cheese, you need. See, we don't get told how to eat growing up, we just eat because there's food. So it was very hard to be in a household where mom is bringing pizza every day and, yes, we have food, but there's food for four kids and mac and cheese and cereals are going to be it. I know it sounds horrible, but that's what gave me the.
Speaker 2:I don't want to repeat this. I don't want to go home to eat cereal. I don't want to go buy a pizza every day. I want to eat vegetables, I want to eat fish, I want to eat chicken. And because I understand now that, as a parent, we're tired half of the time and we don't want to cook, I decided to start cooking. I decided to go to some grocery stores and look at the vegetables and actually do some research, like, what does this vegetable do to my body and seeing how my body reacted within two to three weeks from eating that vegetable and whatnot. So it was like a whole 360 cut off everything and brought vegetables, brought proteins, healthy carbs, healthy fats and the next you knew. I knew what I was doing, wow.
Speaker 1:So from a very early age you had a connection to your body and to health and fitness and food. What sparked that realization? That longevity and personal integrity, like the fast foods, the pizza, the processed foods, because at such a young age that's not something that everybody thinks about. What was that realization? When did that come about?
Speaker 2:man, I remember I wanted to wear a two-piece. I know it sounds crazy, but I wanted to wear a two-piece. We had a pool and I would never get in the pool and if I do, it was a long shirt and some shorts and I wanted to wear a two piece. And I told myself is this something that happens Because your body's changing? You're changing during the teenage years. Your body's changing, your body's still changing. I'm 30, right now, 32. And my body's still changing. If you're a food person, you would understand that it's very hard because you don't want to do the chicken and rice and broccoli. So at that time I thought chicken, rice and broccoli was it because, still to this day, I love food? Yeah, and I don't know when I'll stop eating chili. It's evolving.
Speaker 1:It's forever evolving your relationship. And I will say, culturally, you're right, I don't think that our parents really had a luxury to just have an abundance of food, and so sometimes I think, especially when we were kids, it was easier for them to make things that were quick, right, and that the quick stuff almost felt like a luxury because they didn't have it.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:You talk about really wanting to feel comfortable in a bikini and just be at the beach. Was there a time that body image really played a role in the way that you sought out food and fitness? And then where did it start to change into something you decided to turn into a career or to make a part of your life?
Speaker 2:That's a hard question. Reality is I hung out with the wrong people that made me look at my body different. They were so focused on body image and I never had the whole body image. Like, yes, I seen my tummy when I was hanging upside down, but it was never a serious thing. I could wear shorts and I wouldn't have an issue because I was never told nothing about my legs. But then you start hanging out with a group of people and now they're like oh, I have cellulites and I got this. And then I decided to fall into the whole, like, oh, now I have stretch marks which I've always had stretch marks but somehow, some way, somebody pointed oh, you have some stretch marks. And it's oh, man, now I have some stretch stretch marks. I think it was when I really got serious with it was when I lost my brother. That he was the only one that was always like follow your plan, follow your goals, follow your dreams, do whatever you want without being afraid or stopping.
Speaker 2:I think I hit 19. I started getting into more like running, weightlifting. I was really focused on an image that was not my image. Yeah, and it took me to 23 for me to push an image that I did not want it, but it was just because somebody else is doing it. And you're like, oh, I could do it too. And then you see the willpower you have along the road and next thing, oh, you're two years deep in and you're like, oh, I feel fat, oh, I don't feel good, oh, I feel bloated and it's being negative to yourself. So why not switch that? You get me, does it make sense? I think it took me until I hit 29. I think it took me until I hit 29. I know it sounds like a long road, and I hit 29 to understand that I just have to be happy with what I eat.
Speaker 1:I feel good about what you're putting into your body.
Speaker 2:Yes, but in a positive way. Not because I'm keeping it on check or not because I want to look a certain way, but because it's healing. It's nutritional healing. This makes me feel better. I'm not cranky, I'm not mad, I'm not moody over eating some chicken strips.
Speaker 1:Now let's talk about body modification right as a part of this journey with self-image and finding a good balance between being genuinely happy with who you are and how you present yourself. I know I'm someone who has had surgeries in the past. Can you tell me a little bit about the story behind any modifications that you had, about your implants and then the decision to move them and the process what that was like?
Speaker 2:So I was 17 and I would hang out with a group of girls who were in a scene where the bigger the better. So my nut tucks and they had everything done. One day, me and my bestie went to go do our toes and hands. I had just got an addition and I felt the addition because I didn't have enough. And they're like girl, you don't have enough because you don't have big boobs. If you had big boobs you would have got pissed. I had the money in the bag so I said take me where you going. They took me.
Speaker 2:Those girls made the decision for me. They told the doctor she wants big boobs, she, she wants the biggest the better. And I was an A-cup, the most beautiful athlete body ever. I kept it so consistent and I was happy. But I stepped in the wrong place at the right time. Next thing you know, I'm over there, 17, lying to the surgeon that I'm 18. I don't know how he did it, but I went under the knife and I got my first set of breast implants and they were 34 triple D.
Speaker 1:How did your parents feel?
Speaker 2:about these modifications? My parents, they're there, but they're not there. I was the last child. We don't care what you do, period. The thing was, it was me, the fact that I went and I did that, and I went to sleep, a girl, and woke up a damn porn star. And I'm saying it how it is, I'm sorry, but like it. What was wrong with me? Why and it? Then, six months later, I called the doctor and I said I'm not happy, can you make them smaller? And he said sure, come in for another thousandth for a drive over there. At the time I was like oh damn girl, are you really going through that? I wish I had a friend, my best friend, shout out to my best friend, because she could have stopped me, but she chose not to stop me. That's a true friend. She was like I'm going to let you learn from this. No, seriously, she got, she got in her car and she drove three hours home and then I drove the other way and I went home seven days later with a new boob job.
Speaker 1:But what was that like? What made you decide to take them out? What was the turning point for you of body?
Speaker 2:I think so. I know I mentioned two boob jobs, but it was a total of four. Because I was not happy. I kept going back, I kept going back and during those times the girls convinced me that I needed a booty too, even though I had a booty. But they told me I needed a booty. So obviously I was like okay, here's this much, give me a booty. And the doctor was like all right, money was coming from me. So the doctor didn't say no to me and, honestly, laying sitting on implants, on booty implants, you have to sit a certain way. People don't talk about that, but you have to sit a certain way.
Speaker 2:And it was so annoying, 10 years sitting on something that you're like what the hell? It was so uncomfortable. Even when anything touches it the leggings, the jeans it's just so irritating because it's in your body. I got into bodybuilding and I leaned out. Everybody compliments me. Everybody was like, oh, your body was this and that. And I was like, oh, yeah, feeling it, I wasn't going to admit I had my body done, because it's not his business, but I did, because if you asked me I would tell you the truth. But I guess I told the wrong person.
Speaker 2:Now, maxine.
Speaker 2:You know the telephone game is playing around and now I'm like, oh, she's fake, just like everybody else and influencers weren't even that thing on Instagram back in these days and somehow someway it got to me. What was the point of me having this if I've been unhappy for 10 years and I'm playing an image that's not even me? And by this time I'm already going through my awakening. I'm understanding that I messed with my temple when I messed with myself, whether it was even changing your body, like everything. Everything is just live your life, waking up, say a prayer, be to yourself and then do your exercise, eat the way you're supposed to eat and be happy, be humble.
Speaker 2:It took me to shut down for three years to acknowledge myself, because I was like I need to learn. I need to learn what I'm doing because I've had it with me for over 12 years. This is my passion, this is what I love to do, but I'm helping everybody. What about I help myself? So I took those three and a half years to help myself, be me and heal with nutrition, god and, naturally, loving my body. Now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wow, and so that's took you probably into your 30s, right Like into your early 30s.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's like everything because you look back. I look back every five years, every 10 years. I'm like what was I doing five years from now? What was I doing 10 years? But suddenly I was looking too much in my past and I was like, no, I need to look into my future. What is it that I love? And I love nutrition, I love fitness. I love waking up every day to tell myself worthy of something. And you just got to do it yourself.
Speaker 1:All of your yourself, your self image. I think we don't really think enough about how our self image projects and attracts the life that we want to be living. It's basically that alignment piece, right, like, you can look a certain way, you can have the surgeries, you can have all the things, but it's not going to project your true essence unless you genuinely are connected to your body. It's what we have within, right? It's the thing that we can't shed, it's the thing that we can't change, right, what's within is genuinely what projects. So, yeah, so you mentioned earlier losing your brother.
Speaker 1:How did losing your brother shape your fitness and your personal journey.
Speaker 2:My fitness. I didn't want to stop. I wanted to get on stage and I wanted to look at the light, that brightness, and I wanted to have him behind the light, holding it, saying you did it. Because I'm very a person that when I want to do it, I do it, and when I want something I get it. But sometimes you let everybody around you come and be headphones to you and you're like but it's, take those damn headphones on, throw them on the ground, step on them. It makes me not want to stop because that's the only person that truly believed that I was so much more than I ever thought I was.
Speaker 2:He was a year and a week older than me. Wow, yeah, he was a troll man. Because of him, I feel like he held me back so much in school. We were always late, we were always fighting other people. Because he was always fighting people and I had to jump in. I'm a hundred and five brother. I truly miss him. I think if he would see where I'm at today, he would be so proud of me. Because it's a passion. You keep doing it, you keep studying it, you keep going for what you want without stop. Even if you pause and stop, you get back up. Get back up. You fell, but get back up.
Speaker 1:So he's still an energy that continues to push you and motivate you to this day.
Speaker 2:Every day. There's not a day that I don't get up and I don't think about, if you were here, what we could have done together, because that was my ride. Yeah, my broski, I miss him.
Speaker 1:Wow. So let's talk about mental health for a minute, because I'm sure that losing such an integral part of your life can just feel like it's really stepping into this unknown of how you move forward. What does? What role does mental health play in how you approach your own fitness and your clients? It sounds like a journey you've really gone through. How does it affect your approach?
Speaker 2:Mental health could be very different. I worked as a behavioral aid for seven years. I understand that when we're angry, we don't know how to control it. Working with our anger and emotions, it could be one thing. It could be somebody giving you the wrong coffee at the Starbucks drive-thru for you to have a flip, for you to be like oh, I'm so angry, this totally messed up. I was about to hit the gym. Mental health is something that I didn't know existed until I caught myself. Should I go see a doctor? Because I find myself grieving and I didn't understand what grieving was and I didn't understand. We all grieve differently. So I decided to go into the human anatomy and just check how my brain works, Find out how every emotion works for us and why it would be important to read for ourselves. Reading is a big thing. I know that some of us we avoid reading, and now we have a phone and we kill time like through social media. But open up a book. It does do a big difference.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you enjoy reading.
Speaker 2:Yes, and I didn't know how to read because growing up, I was in school in Mexico and then I would come back to America and I was in school here. So it was very hard because I I was in school in Mexico and then I would come back to America and I was in school here. So it was very hard because I think I was like eight when I officially I think I was eight I was third, fourth grade and I had finally stayed in a school here in America and I was the only one who did not know how to read. I didn't know how to read Spanish, but I didn't know how to read English. Give me a book in Spanish, I'll finish it. The English book was very hard, even now, like it's still hard, but if I need help, I'll go and I'll get it and then I'll translate it and I'm like OK, this is what this means, I get it. Now.
Speaker 2:You got to find ways to clear your mentality. Like, what ways to clear your mentality? Like, what has you feeling this way? How can you work on better achieving your goals when it comes to clearing your mind? Have you ever just got your pms and you're like, two weeks before it, you're over here craving sugars and you're like I'm on chocolate and I want this and I want that, and then you put yourself like I don't want to get out of bed and as women we don't really point that out. Yeah, it could affect us at work. You could just not be feeling it. You're out working. You're just having a bad mood because someone over here is triggering. It's not even them, it's you. If it's from body, you gotta learn how to just deal with yourself when it comes to everything, because someone over here is triggering. It's not even them, it's you. It fits your body. You gotta learn how to just deal with yourself when it comes to everything.
Speaker 1:I really pay attention to what the body carries so many messages through emotions, through how we feel. If we don't pay attention and learn how to read our body, it affects us in ways that we don't intend it to right. It affects us in our daily interactions with people and I do think that it stands in the way of true connection, of feeling comfortable and feeling like you can be yourself. I don't think that gives enough support to our well-being, like how our well-being affects our relationships.
Speaker 2:And I think sometimes people try to look for coaches in one-on-one connection, but the coach has a lot of clients and they're not getting that connection. You really need a therapist. That's nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you've been creating some new faith-fueled wellness programs. You are a health and nutrition coach yourself. Could you share with us the heart behind your offerings and what people can expect from joining them and working with you?
Speaker 2:So the way I looked at it is, this is what I wanted. So, whether it was doing a simple workout, getting that positive message, or understanding that I could write something down, because some of us, we just we want to be in our phones, it's OK, put your phone down, grab a pen, grab a paper and write down your feelings. Nobody has to refill. I definitely believe that if anybody is struggling with just self-belief, where you're like I need help and I've looked everywhere. I don't know where to go Maybe this can help. It takes 66 days for a body to cut old habits and adjust to new habits, but maybe this is something that could help someone. When it comes to exercise, I need to hear a positive message with a good outcome of guidance.
Speaker 1:How important is that positive environment to a health journey, a health and fitness journey, I would say everything around you is what really makes you or breaks you.
Speaker 2:If you go to the store and there's a rotten apple, all the apples become rotten with time. I have a lot of clients tell me I have family over, I can't eat certain things, or I have family over. I had to change my ways. I hung out with this girl and now we both are eating and going out and we drink. Now you become pretty much where you're at If you put yourself in an environment, much where you're at. If you put yourself in an environment that your gut feeling is telling you you don't belong, get out of there because you're going to do this to yourself.
Speaker 2:There was a point where I was in bodybuilding and I thought I had to do what monkey see, monkey do. Everybody has the same plan. It's a cookie cutter. Everybody's doing the same thing and I thought it was for me. You know how many women ended up with thyroids? So many women ended up with PCOS. I have PCOS and I've learned among the years that I could either be a woman that cries about it or work on nutritional healing. I'm going to read the word and make sure that I understand the word, and I'm not reading it because I'm obligated to read it, so I think you could definitely catch something different. It could help most people who just feel stuck.
Speaker 1:I want to talk about the world of bodybuilding. We've mentioned it a couple of times. That's our first connection to each other. It's interesting because I think that bodybuilding from the outside, when you're first getting into, you're like okay, I'm really passionate about health and fitness, I really enjoy working on my body and it becomes that place where you can unpack your emotional shit right. It becomes the place where it's like the first therapy sessions that you've really had, because you are genuinely connecting with your body.
Speaker 1:But kind of, as you mentioned, at least for me, it started to develop into unhealthy habits and mindset because you're surrounded by people who are always pushing to look a certain way and project a certain image, and so you start to be surrounded with people who are nitpicking their body constantly. Because, why? Because your job in bodybuilding is to monitor your progress daily. Every day you wake up in the morning. The first thing you do you look at okay, what changes have my body made? What do I need to adjust in my protocol? What changes do I need to make to food? Before you know it, you're stuck on what in the mirror. You're stuck on who won their pro card last week and what they look like and how you don't look like that.
Speaker 1:Yet what starts out as something that feels really healthy and something that's going to be really good for you ends up turning into this bad relationship with your body. You're forcing food down your mouth that your body doesn't want. Your body doesn't want chicken and broccoli and rice all the time right. And you mentioned that women end up developing all these different body issues. That was definitely true for me, and I did not realize just how disconnected I had become from my body through that journey of bodybuilding until I finally did it. I won my pro show, and then I stepped back for a minute and I just felt horrible. I had so many issues. I had sleep issues, I had eating issues. My body just felt like it was giving up, even though mentally, you've just achieved what you've been working so hard for. So have you found that to be true, at least in the world of bodybuilding as well?
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, I think, because for me, my first show, I was just like I'm just going to do it. My second show it was a two week little oh, I'm just going to do cardio. But oh my gosh, drinking all those gallons of water for me was the worst. Things ended back now that I'm like why did I do that? I would do three hours of cardio because the so-called coach I had at the time wanted me to look a certain way. I looked like I was dying and here I thought, oh, I'm not lean enough. It took my whole family to sit me down and was like intervention, bebe, you talk about bodybuilding too much. I was that girl Nobody wanted to hang out with because somehow I was annoyed about everything. I would say, oh, we're eating this, and why are you guys eating that? For example, I would be like you're taking 30 years of your life with just one hot dog and everybody would be like shut up.
Speaker 1:You were everybody's coach.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I knew I had it in me and eventually people just don't want to hear you, people don't want to come around you, everything you do. Suddenly you're too worried about working out. I never want to be that person again. Yeah, I have friends that are those, but I rarely talk to them because I understand I'm going to call that a big hit. If I wasn't that big hit, I wouldn't be here today because, honestly, you got to learn how to humble yourself. Looking left, seeing somebody look a certain way and looking right and seeing somebody else look a different way and you thinking you don't look enough. I, somebody else look a different way and you thinking you don't look enough. I must admit I don't think I ever ended up with health problems because I always snuck in crumb donuts. I mean, I've always snuck in my donuts. I'm gonna have my coffee regardless my body image that I'm saying. I used to hit 120 on the scalp and I used to be like, oh my god, I need to hit 118 and right now 166.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, you know, one of the things I did learn in bodybuilding is that weight doesn't really matter as much as people think, because everybody carries muscle mass differently. Everybody carries fat differently and has a different body build. Could be 160 on you, might look different on me. Can't really use the scale to judge yourself.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and I think for many years I did that. Now I'll step on the scale once a month during my check-in Because, like you said, you wake up every day and you're like, how did I wake up with my water weight? And you're like I'm going to point something off. It's really mentally damaging. This is what I lived through, like I went back and I was just that kid in the corner. I'm going back and forth because it's a different world. It's a different world and we all trying to escape something. Reality is, we're all trying to escape something and when we're there, it's like what are you really trying to escape? Because you're trying to escape something that's yourself and yourself Got to find yourself, to believe in yourself Humble yourself.
Speaker 1:We all know that staying motivated can be tough. How do you help clients stay on track physically, mentally and spiritually through this emotional journey?
Speaker 2:I don't talk to many clients about my story, but I'm going to use an example. Last night I had one client. She mentioned that she hadn't got her workout in because she has a toddler, and I motivated her by telling her I raised my toddler by myself. I was by myself for four years. My brother had just passed away, all this crazy stuff happened to me and I was still here. I was waking up doing every hour of cardio because I thought that was an answer to it. I was eating every meal. I was freaking doing this and that you got to understand that motivation.
Speaker 2:I always tell everybody where do you see yourself? What do you really want? Are you going to be nagging? Are you going to be complaining? Because I like hearing people have, hey, this is my issue, and I'm like, ok, cool, let's work your issue. But then if it's the issues coming back every two weeks, the issue is serious and I like to point it out. I'll be like, hey, you've been bringing the same thing up and if you're not doing anything, then what is it? Is there more to it? Like you're at a plateau? Yeah, seeing that plateau. What tips do you have for daily accountability? I usually have drink your water. Easy steps, simple stuff. Drink your water. Choose something that's going to make you feel comfortable, whether it's your shoes, because some people don't realize, even shoes have a big effect on us. Find comfort. Find what you're going to eat. Plan the day before, or you don't want to plan the day before, you want to do the last minute. Figure out choices that help you be better.
Speaker 1:Yeah, be better. I think that's the benefit of working with a coach is having that daily accountability of using those check-in. You know that you're going to have to check in the next day. Things like journaling, daily scripture reading that's something that I've integrated over the last six months. At the end of every night I read a Bible verse I've never read before and then I allow that to sit in and it always helps motivate me for that next day, ending my day off knowing that I've done my non-negotiables, I've checked in, done my Bible reading. Whatever it is, having things daily that you are accountable for really makes your day. It makes you feel good. I've got to ask is there a Bible verse that you suggest for someone who is struggling with motivation?
Speaker 2:So I'm going to tell everybody the way it works. When I grew up Catholic, ok, I've always knew the word. And growing up, when I was in Mexico with my grandma because my grandma was a big part of my life she would make me read the Bible. I was bored, something was wrong with me. I had to just open the book. We would go to the ranch and she would tell me open the book and read it, but I never understood the word like that, like today.
Speaker 2:I've walked away from many times. I've chose to make wrong decisions. Like I said, my implants, whether it was making wrong choices and certain acts in life. I've learned to just always come back and pick the book up. Now, faith for me has been a long journey, but at the age of 29, I had a spiritual awakening where I caught myself. I caught myself saying, like, what brings me peace, what really puts me in a place where I'm comfortable? And they hit it was this bible verse.
Speaker 2:It was like when I opened the book, I ran into that and I learned too that, um, I was always saying, oh, I can't speak to God. When it was like you could speak to God, you can. You could have a whole conversation. You could do so much it's. Are you scared to speak to god because of everything you've done? Because I know I've done so much bad and I was like how is he gonna forgive me and how am I gonna move past this and how am I gonna? It was so much that brought me here today but it took me to read are you following you with the, with your, with the bible right now? How are you helping me?
Speaker 1:that's a good question. How I read the Bible and I don't know if you do this as well, but I read through it randomly. Every night. I do a new Bible verse and I do it at random. I open up the Bible and whatever page it's on, I read the first verse that I see and then I'll and then I might go back for context read the story. Right when I really first started working with the Bible, I started in the book of Genesis and was fascinated with the story of creation. It really did bridge the gap for me with shamanism and faith. The story of creation is an alchemical story and so it really opened my eyes and heart to reading the rest of the Bible and connecting with it.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm going to read this verse to you Galatians 4, verse 2. It says us to that God may open the door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ for which I am in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should be wise in the way you act towards outsiders. May the most of very opportunity let your conversations be always full of grace. Conversations be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
Speaker 1:Wow, beautiful verse. That was the verse.
Speaker 2:I read that one. I've never heard you love new moons, new moons, and this whole chapter talks about your spiritual fullness in Christ and the freedom of human rules, living a life with Christ. It took me to read this whole chapter to understand. We have the Ten Commandments. If you go to the book 1 John, they talk about how the Word is God and through grace we will live happy as long as we're children of God. A lot of us say, oh yeah, I'm a Christian and then do things that a Christian should not do. We have the Old Testament and the New Testament, so I think it's very important for everyone to understand that we do live in 2025. We might think that it's okay to do certain acts because it's our way, but in reality, we still got to be righteous. There's still the law.
Speaker 1:Okay. So why is it important to be righteous and follow the word of God? Because living outside of it doesn't allow us sovereignty in our lives. So God isn't like this do what I say or you're going to suffer. No, the human condition will make you suffer If you don't follow the 10 commandments.
Speaker 1:I see that as universal law, how things interact with one another. It's a guidebook as to how you can see your own human design and know that hey, if I do X, I'm going to have X consequence. So it really is intended to guide us. I really see it as a book of guidance. I'm curious how you combine your faith with holistic healing and spiritual awakening. Was that difficult for you ever?
Speaker 2:And Well, yes, it was. It was because I was having this spirit to show up. I would do drives and I would see this spirit. Her name is Iris and I would see her just show up and she was a rainbow. She's a body healer. I would see her and ignore her because I was like, oh, I know the book and there's no other way but the book. But there's messengers and I was so afraid to open the messages. I started opening the messages and I started seeing we have spirit and I need to accept my spirit. I need to accept that, yes, god, father, spirit and Son. Okay, we can't confuse that. So we need to connect with our spirit to understand that the Father is always going to give us right. We can't say we don't know, because we know the 10 commandments. I go by that I live to life, by that, I follow it every day and it doesn't matter what anyone else is doing outside of my home.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that because I really believe that intersection between health, fitness and spirituality is the sweet spot. It's where I think that's missing in the health and fitness industry. We don't really talk about God that much. We don't really talk about spirituality, right, and then in the spiritual communities you don't really talk about fitness and health. That's what I love about what you do you really embody and combine all these aspects to create a well-rounded, holistic approach to not just a body transformation but the inner transformations. Yeah, all right. So, bibi, you've shared so many insights and your beautiful story. Where can people connect with you to learn more about your programs, follow your journey and sign up to work with you? What is the best way for them to find you?
Speaker 2:I have a Facebook page right now called BB Fit, health and Fitness. I'm hoping to join the circle where I can do once a week classes.
Speaker 1:Yes, she will be officially offering her fitness programs in the village. I'm really excited about that, because bridging these worlds makes a balanced approach. You have to have that connection to your body, mind, body and spirit to see the progress you want. It's in the action of bridging all of that together. What would you say five years from now? 10 years from now? What do you hope your faith-based fitness movement looks and how do you see it changing lives on a larger scale?
Speaker 2:I hope that in five years from now. Honestly, I want everybody to break their cycles within those five years when they run into me, I want them to be damn baby, help me. Even though we don't know much about her personal life, she wakes up every day and she's not worried about that. She's here, being attentive to us. She's looking, she's like what a therapist is by just that whole therapy cost. But but being able to break cycles change their ways. Whether it comes in bad habits, whether sugar intakes, bad carbs, don't know how to take better protein, like I want to be the one that helps them.
Speaker 2:It takes time. It's not going to be overnight. There's no cheat code to this. This is long term. In five years, I hope that I have a big group where we could just get together. We could celebrate the fact that we got five more years to run this and to go bigger. We could probably have a day where I could rent out a house and everybody could just gather together and talk about. I was struggling through this, but I'm here because of this Thank you, bebe, and I want to be right there. Damn, it was me.
Speaker 1:I did it. I love that. What tip would you give to someone who really wants to develop a healthier relationship with their food on a daily basis?
Speaker 2:The best tip is find what you like, not what you see online. Find what you like. You got to go to the grocery store Not hungry. Make sure you eat something before you go to the grocery store. Go ahead. And that's me. When I go to Costco, I want all the samples. I'll be there standing my daughter's over there. There's no daughter. Everything in moderation, right Like the little cups. I'm wondering Honestly, you need to find out what works for you, because if you don't like chicken, don't eat chicken. If you don't like eggs, don't eat eggs. If you don't like steak, or you like certain steak, there's other. There's sirloins, there's lean beef that we could try. It's not hard. Make it simple, simple. I've learned that these last few months, simple living is the best living.
Speaker 1:That's actually great advice. Keep it fucking simple. You don't need some big oatmeal prep plan and this and that right.
Speaker 2:What makes you happy? Why are you going to eat oatmeal if you don't like oatmeal?
Speaker 1:That's why people burn out from it. They're like I can't do this anymore. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of options for healthy fats, there's a lot of carbs, there's a lot of options for protein. And I'm saying this from experience, because I was that person that was tired of eating the same crap every day, and now I have my good times. If I fall, I get back up. One bad day doesn't mean bad week. Right, I had to throw that out there because I used to have a bad day, and it'll be a week and then it'll turn into a month and next week was three months in and next week six months, so we got to break that. I'm here to help you get over it you know, wow, what an incredible conversation, bb.
Speaker 1:Thank you for sharing your heart, your expertise and your unique approach to faith-fueled well. I love hearing how combining prayer, scripture and accountability can create a real sense of community and deeper transformation. If today's conversation resonated with you, you're feeling that pull to explore a more faith-centered approach to health. I encourage you to connect with Bebe. You can find her on social media. We will include all of the links where she shares more about her fitness journey, her support circles. Where she shares more about her fitness journey, her support circles, practical tips for aligning body, mind, spirit coming program that dives deeper into daily devotionals, macro-based nutrition and group coaching so you never have to walk this journey alone. Definitely check that out, want more guidance and encouragement. Thank you again, bebe, for inspiring us to treat our bodies as temples and to invite our faith into every rep, every meal and every mindset shift. And thank you to all.