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How to Transform Your Body, Mind, and Business with Angelica Ventrice

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In this episode of Own the Outcome, Tyler Deveraux sits down with health coach and entrepreneur Angelica Ventrice to unpack the deep connection between health and high performance. From overcoming decades of body image struggles to building a thriving coaching business, Angelica shares her journey of transformation and the tactical habits that helped her create lasting change.

This isn't just a health talk... it's a playbook for becoming the energetic, grounded, and confident leader your business and life deserve. Discover how gut health, nervous system regulation, and setting powerful boundaries impact not only your body, but also your bank account, mindset, and relationships. If you're an entrepreneur chasing success but feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or out of alignment—this conversation will change your perspective.

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Introduction to Angelica Ventris

Speaker 1

All right, aloha and welcome to own the outcome podcast. My name is Tyler Devereaux and today we have a health treat for you. We have miss Angelica Ventris. What's up, my friend?

Speaker 2

Good job. Thank you, good job. Good job saying my name correctly, yes.

Speaker 1

Good, you know what It's's the.

Speaker 2

it's the toughest part of, uh, the entire show you should hear the way it gets, the way it gets the biggest way it gets messed up my last name vent rice vent rice vent rice.

Speaker 1

Yes people always say so. My last name is devro, has an x, and people say devrox. Oh, oh, wow, lots, or growing up I'd lived in utah, this podunk city, and so they oh wow, I would never think to say it that way, I love it so. Welcome to the show. Thank, you. Excited to have you here. You are local here on Maui and you know y'all might not know who Angelica is we met for the first time.

Speaker 2

I'm going to know soon.

Speaker 1

You're definitely going to know soon, and if you care about your health or your wealth at all, which is every single one of you.

Speaker 2

You're in for a treat today, so we met at Peak for the first time. Yes, that was an amazing event, by the way. Yeah, thank you for having me.

Speaker 1

We met at Peak.

Speaker 2

We lived on this island for so many years and never met. It's funny because it's such a small island. Yes, we've never crossed paths until then.

Speaker 1

Yeah.

Speaker 2

And then we go to Peak and then I see you on the beach the next week.

Speaker 1

It always happens that said we actually passed. Yeah, yeah, I know, on that beach so funny all the time same. Yeah, yeah, I know. So let's talk about your journey. Tell me about your background, your history a little bit, what you do, what your specialty is sure so I'm.

Speaker 2

I'm sure people will hear my accent come out. I'm originally from long island, new york. Uh, I come from a background of pharmaceutical sales. Actually, let's backtrack a little bit. I was overweight basically my whole life until my late 20s overweight, acne, depressed, miserable. My body, if you like, popped on my Instagram now you may or may not be able to tell you to scroll through some photos, but um, yeah. So I dealt with that for quite some time, got into pharmaceutical sales, great career, until I went through my weight loss journey and had this kind of ping.

Speaker 2

I'm sure you've had this too with you. Know, I feel like us entrepreneurs. We get this like gut punch when we're like meant to do something like this. This I call it following your Dharma, following your passion. So I hired my first coach, lost 40 pounds and something just kind of gut punched me. It was like you need to do this. You need to help other people not just lose weight but really feel happier.

Speaker 2

Because I was miserable, like it wasn't just about the weight, it was about I just hated how I looked, I hated how I felt. I was burnt out, I was exhausted, and I realized too that when I lost weight, my. I became like one of the number one pharmaceutical sales reps in the country, and it wasn't just because I lost the weight, it was a level of confidence that I was exuding right and my energy and just everything shifted. Um, so I got that kind of gut hit to shift my career. I left New York no job lined up moved to California because I felt like and I still feel California really is the Mecca of health you know, and I just went to a gym and I was like sold that myself.

Speaker 2

They're like so you've? You've never really done this. I'm like Nope, but I'm ready. I'm ready to train people and coach people. Started at Equinox gym, work my way up there and then decided that once again, another kind of gut punch, soul calling that like I'm meant for more than just fitness, I don't really like. Yes, fitness is a part of what I do in my wellness program, but to me it's the least important part. Yes, move your body every day, but for me it's really about like, mind, body, soul, gut health. So then I left the gym world, started my online coaching program and here we are Lone Star Shirt.

Speaker 1

That I left the gym world, started my online coaching program. And here we are. Long Story Short. That's why we connected, because when we started talking about it, I'm big on health, but it's all of those things combined right that make the big difference. So I didn't realize you left New York, went to Cali, quit your job.

Speaker 2

Yeah, quit my multi-six-figure pharmaceutical sales job. I lived in a really nice condo, oceanfront Long Beach, long Island, new York, loved it. Figure pharmaceutical sales job. I lived on a really nice condo, oceanfront Long Beach, long Island, new York, loved it, like all my friends and family there. But I just really felt the call to move and I hate the cold, like obviously I'm really tan, like I hate I hate the cold, like I always had a bit of a dream to live in a warmer climate. So, yeah, I decided, if I'm gonna switch careers, I'm also gonna move damn dude.

Speaker 1

So you just nothing lined up, you just went because of like this calling that you had.

Speaker 2

Yeah, and I knew about Equinox gym. It's a luxury gym. There's they're in East coast, they're New York and they're Cali. So I knew about that gym, so I knew I was. I'm going to go to this gym and I'm going to sell myself to them. Yeah, I've been in sales since I'm 16. So I was like I'm no problem selling myself my.

Speaker 1

my first job was selling sneakers which is why we also bought, because we both love sneakers.

Speaker 2

I have a million pairs as well. My husband's like another pair it's needed, trust me. Yeah, you just never know, you just never know. So I had no problem like walking in and I, even though I didn't have the experience, I had the passion and I really believe that's what it's about yeah, you don't need to have a million certifications. If you're passionate about helping people, the certs can come later.

Speaker 1

Yeah, yeah, dude, I agree with that. So tell me about your change first, because I mean, I had mentioned this to you, but you're you said you're glow up like you're pretty crazy, and not just like the physical side, but like literally, your glow from it Right. It's pretty crazy. So that timeframe of your life is late twenties or something.

Speaker 2

Yeah.

Speaker 1

What was that thing that you're like? Damn, it is time. Was there like this breaking point? Was what? What caused it?

Speaker 2

You know, when you're in outside sales you do. Let's just be real, you have to. You need to look good, but it feels better when you do look good. And I think I just had a point where nothing in my closet fit. I just felt disgusting. I didn't want to buy more clothes. I was trying so many different things back then in the day. It was like Atkins grapefruit diet. I was doing all the stupid things lose weight, cutting cart, like everything and like nothing was working. I just had a breaking point where, like I clearly could not do it by myself. I knew I was miserable. I couldn't remember it's hard for me to remember specific moment, but I know it had a lot to do with like staring at my closet full of clothes and being like I don't want to, like I can't, nothing fits me. I just don't feel good and I also, with the guy I was standing at the time, I felt uncomfortable, like being intimate, like you. Just it was a lot of things adding up.

Speaker 1

And then once you made the change and you started going there, then it went. It sounds like it went deeper than just I want to be able to fit in my clothes. Now, all of a sudden, you're like holy shit, like it's impacting every area of my life.

Speaker 2

Yeah, it impacted, you know, relationship with my partner at the time, relationship with my partner at the time, relationship with myself. And then, you know, impacted my I was doing pharmaceutical sales at the time Like I said, it impacted my business. At that point I just felt better, I was doing better. So I really saw how, wow. It's not just about the number on the scale. It's really about deep, deep within who you believe you are.

Speaker 1

Yeah.

From Pharmacist to Health Coach

Speaker 2

That's why I always say it's about who are you being on the journey, because we all have to take aligned action. But it's who are you being? And I realized like I'm being a completely different version of me and we all are always growing in that sense. But yeah, sure You're.

Speaker 1

You're. You're saying once you, when you say you were being a different version. You're saying once you your identity, my identity. Okay, it was changing.

Speaker 2

Yeah, it was changing. Yeah, so I was no longer this. You identify when you're overweight, you identify with this version of you. You know from the time your child like for anyone who's overweight right Into late adulthood, right, and I realized I'm like this is not me anymore. So that's where the internal work had to come in and that's where I got a life coach and I got more into spiritual coaching, cause I was like there's still a lot of work to be done. Shedding the layer of physical weight is one thing, but then it's shedding the layer of emotional weight that you carry with you.

Speaker 1

Yeah, so how do you go about that side? Like, I would love to get tactical with you, because you are very tactical in what you do and you have great concepts and principles and actionables. That's why you're a great coach. That's why you've been able to build what you've been able to build, Right, Like when you look at that, do you think that it's actually my first question?

Speaker 2

is it harder to shed the physical way or the emotional, physical, the physical weights the hardest? Okay, yeah, because the physical is a lot of. It is strategy, right? It's like do these strength training workouts, eat these foods, get your steps in. The mental. Emotional is deep. It's stuff that happened in childhood, stuff that other people said to you, stuff that your parents said to you don't eat two cookies, you're gonna get too fat. Oh, you look like you know. Whatever the kids will call me growing up, whatever I was called, all these things that are literally like stuck in you, that trauma, like on a cellular level.

Speaker 2

So, and even still to this day, still processing you know what I mean so that that work to me is much deeper and much harder oh, that's what I think, too.

Speaker 1

Sorry, I thought you were saying I misunderstood that. I thought you were saying that the physical side is the easier side than the emotional side.

Speaker 2

No, the opposite, the opposite, yeah I always say like you know you could go and google how to lose 30 pounds and like you'll get a plan like, but that doesn't mean you change who you are. That doesn't mean you shifted your identity. And without that identity shift, you're still going to revert back to some of the old subconscious beliefs that are stuck in your system and then you gain it back.

Speaker 1

You lose it, gain it back.

Speaker 2

That's exactly what happens all the time exactly, and I didn't want to do that. So I knew I needed to go deeper, because I felt myself at points reverting back when I was stressed, when I was depressed, the binge eating would sneak up. I was a very bad binge eater. I mean like I would get home from work and eat like a whole box of triscuits and a half a block of cheddar cheese and drink wine.

Speaker 1

That's what it was horrible, yeah no problem admitting it, but yeah, so it's a vicious cycle.

Speaker 2

So that's where the mindset work needs to come in, which is why that's such, that's why we bond and that's such an important piece of our program, because there's a lot of health and fitness programs out there, but if they're not tapping into your mindset, your past trauma, what's living in your system, you will revert back you'll revert back and listen, we'll put links and you know details of her program, because I know some of your clients like nicole is one of your clients and that's actually who connected us yeah, and I've seen her glow up.

Speaker 2

Her transformation is amazing. Well, now she's my director of coaching, so yeah yeah, program works.

Speaker 1

I see your testimonials you post. I see know it's an incredible program that you put together, so I would like to like walk me through this journey. Okay, let's say that give me some, I don't know. This is a deep question.

Speaker 2

This might be a hard question. I'm getting nervous.

Speaker 1

Good, okay, this emotional side, like if there's steps to help change your identity or your emotional side at a high level, like yeah, let's, let's break it down like as easy as possible for people.

Speaker 2

The first step is becoming aware and knowing what your roadblocks are, and that's often why you work with the coach, because most people aren't like, oh yeah, I have all these roadblocks. We're not just, I mean, yes, we know some of them, but a coach and a mentor can help really point them out. So the first thing is you like admitting, being open to want to be coached, having that level of awareness. That is the first stage of that identity shift. Okay, like I'm, I'm aware that I have these roadblocks, I'm aware that perhaps these things happened to me in a past relationship or when I was a child, or whatever may happen, and you're becoming aware. The next stage is like, okay, now I'm aware, now I need to rewire. And then I need to activate the new right. We have 80,000 thoughts in a day. A lot of it is programming from the day before negative, child, all these things. So now we need to start to rewire that and that comes in your conversations with your coach. This is this part I can't answer because that's so individualized right. I'm coaching a client on x. She has a childhood trauma because her dad left and her mom was this right? That's different for everyone, but it's starting to rewire like oh well, why don't I love myself? Or why do I keep self-sabotaging? Why do I lose 15 pounds to get it back? Why do I binge, like? So that's where we start to rewire right.

Speaker 2

And then the next step is like really starting to embody. So you're not at the final phase yet, which is mastery and irreversible identity, but you start to embody it, you start to live these things, you start to do the work, you start to take what I like to call aligned action. Aligned action is different for every person. Every person, depending on you, know what their goals are and what they're going through. Right, and what the past trauma was, what the stressors were, what the imprint was on their system. And then the last piece would be like you get to a point where it's irreversible identity. You've truly mastered it, which is where you are, which is where I am, which is where my director of that is irreversible identity. It's where you. You literally it's in you.

Speaker 2

I feel weird if I don't meditate. I feel weird if I don't put my feet in the earth every day. I feel weird if I don't drink my lemon water in the morning. You know what I mean it just, we do these things and you do them so often and you shift your identity that it becomes so ingrained in you. But that takes a long time. Yeah, and this is why most people and this, this goes with you know, with entrepreneurship and business as well this is why most, why most businesses fail, why most people fail in their health, because they don't get for it to be like truly a piece of who they are.

Speaker 1

Yeah, amen, and it's just it is reps, but it's, it's reps. Yeah, purposeful reps, yeah.

Speaker 2

Intentional reps, aligned action, just like with manifestation. I teach on that too. A lot of people ask well, I've been saying these affirmations and I'm like that's not. It takes more than just saying the I am statements, like you have to take aligned action. You truly have to believe, you have to feel it.

Speaker 1

You have to feel it. That's the thing with your even the affirmations. You have to act on the affirmations. But like you have to speak in a way that you believe it. Yeah.

Speaker 2

And it's the same thing with your body. You can manifest your dream body, just like you can manifest your new dream home or your new dream job. You really have to have that belief. If you're embarking on a health journey and you don't believe that you're ever going to lose that 30 pounds, guess what? You're probably not.

Speaker 1

You won't.

Speaker 2

Yeah, you're probably not.

Speaker 1

Yeah, if we believe we can. Yeah we will, if we don't. Exactly Right, yeah, so let's talk about like common misconceptions, like what is common. What are you've coached? How many people do you think you've coached at this point in the help side of things?

Speaker 2

So I only started counting when I moved my business online. Okay, so, since I moved my business online eight years ago, almost 1,000. That's awesome, yeah, but if we count all the people I trained in person, it would be higher.

Speaker 1

But I got to go back to that.

Speaker 2

But anyway. So we'll say around 1,000. Some of the biggest misconceptions yeah, calories in, calories out. Just count your macros, you just need to be in a caloric deficit. I'm not going to disagree Like, yes, you need to be in a small caloric deficit. We all know that.

Speaker 2

However, there's a lot of other things that impact our bodies. Our bodies are not just as simple as a math equation. We're very complicated beings. We just talked about identity and stress and trauma. Stress and trauma, cortisol hormones, right, especially if you're, you know, over the age of 35, male or female, your hormones shift, so there's so many things that come into play. The thoughts that you think on a daily basis affect you on a physical level, right, your gut health plays a role in it. So I really get frustrated with the health and fitness industry a lot of times because I've been in it for 15 years when I see these coaches just be like, just be in a caloric deficit, move more, eat less. It's like if it were that easy, everyone would be so fit. It's not that easy. You have to look at the way you talk to yourself, the way you talk to others, who you surround yourself with, your cortisol, your nervous system regulation, your sleep, your stress, your gut health, your hormones, your mindset.

Speaker 1

Did I say mindset, your mindset? That's the thing, though. There's so much to look at, right? So much to start with, I think it's. Do you believe people just get overwhelmed?

Speaker 2

Yes.

Identity Shift: Physical vs Emotional Weight

Speaker 1

So where's your starting point? If you're somebody listening to this, they're an entrepreneur they're starting their business. They are, you know, wanting to get you know their wealth put together. But do I focus on my wealth or my health first, and or do I do them together?

Speaker 2

Yes, you do them together Okay.

Speaker 1

Good answer yeah.

Speaker 2

You do them together for sure, because your body is your business card.

Speaker 1

Let's's be real. I've heard you say that before. What do you mean by that?

Speaker 2

your body exudes a certain type of energy. It gives you energy and also it also shows people something about you. Your body is a billboard of your choices. Also, if you're running a business, growing a business, scaling business, whatever you're doing, you need energy, literally for sure and not reliant on tons and tons of stimulants.

Speaker 2

like you need natural energy. You don't want to have brain fog, you don't want to be bloated, you don't want to be fatigued. That's not a way to build and run a business. So it really is. I don't just when I say your body is your business card, I don't just mean like from an aesthetics, like you don't need to be ripped and have a six-pack, like us. Like right, but you, you want to feel good. Right, because it's playing into every area of your life. Business being one of them. The most successful entrepreneurs that I know. They have their health in check. Yeah, they're not doing anything extreme.

Speaker 2

So if you're listening and like this sounds overwhelming, you don't know where to start, start small, just like when you started your business, you didn't do all the things. You started small, right. You maybe had one program. Now you have 10, whatever it may be. So pick one thing that you know you need to work on. If you're like, hey, I'm someone that is a really bad emotional eater, then start there. Get a coach to help you with that. If you're someone I know a lot of women that they they like to work out. So like I feel like for most people working out, maybe the easier part it's the nutrition. Okay, so what's one thing with your nutrition that you can shift? Just pick one thing and then compound effect, add on, add on, add on. Don't try to do it all at once. Don't try to fix the gut health. Get the steps. Do the thing Like pick one thing and then master that and then go to the next.

Speaker 1

Yes, I love that, that is. There's a book called Tiny Habits.

Speaker 2

You ever read that book?

Speaker 1

I've heard a great book, bj Fogg. He actually lives here in Maui, oh and I. I surfed with him all the time and then I I had read that book. Then I was like wait a minute. I saw the picture at the end of the book.

Speaker 2

I was like I know yeah, okay, wow.

Speaker 1

And he talks about this. He talks about how we stack these tiny little habits.

Speaker 2

Exactly. Yeah, a piece of who you are. So a lot of people say, oh, like, tell me one thing to do for my gut health. I'm like start with lemon water in the morning. They're like that's it. I don't need to take all these supplements. I'm like start with warm lemon water in the morning.

Speaker 1

Why does that work with your gut health?

Speaker 2

So warm in Ayurvedic medicine helps stimulate cold contracts right, so warm is good for stimulation. Stimulating the digestive system helps alkalize and just helps kickstart just the digestion in the morning.

Speaker 1

That simple I've been drinking cold lemon water ice cold.

Speaker 2

Yeah, oh yeah. No, you don't want. That's going to slow down the, that's crazy. The digestion in the morning. You want, you want to stimulate everything right, because you just woke up yes your body's sleeping, so you want to get the metabolism working. The warmth of the water is going to do that for you that's interesting.

Speaker 1

I literally every morning I have lemon water, but it's cold, it's like literally ice cold.

Speaker 2

Yeah you actually never want to drink ice cold water. It's bad for your digestive system, that's I know one. Like we live in maui and it's really hot sometimes on the beach, obviously I want my water ice cold, but in general, yeah, room temperature water is always best you can do room temp. If you can do warm, warmer would be better. But but yeah, lemon is great. So stimulating the digestive system, alkalizing and then improving the metabolism, okay.

Speaker 2

Yeah, such a simple tip, see like anyone can do that, and do that before you have your coffee, please.

Speaker 1

Yeah.

Speaker 2

Drinking coffee before any water is just going to increase cortisol. And guess what? An increase in cortisol leads to Increased belly fat. Nobody wants more belly fat, no, increase belly fat.

Speaker 1

Nobody wants more belly fat, no, so first thing warm lemon water.

Speaker 2

Yes.

Speaker 1

And then when you take someone through a coaching program, so is it your program. Is it like are you chatting with them about their individual where they're at?

Speaker 2

Yeah.

Speaker 1

And then giving them a plan of attack.

Speaker 2

Precisely. Yeah, everyone's so different. So if they're working with me one-on-one or coach Nicole or one of my other coaches, we'll do an in-depth intake form with them and an in-depth orientation, so we're really getting to know them on a deep level. Everyone needs something different depending on what they do for a living, right, if you're an emergency room physician versus a real estate agent, right, it's completely different schedule. So, based on their schedule, based on their goals, based on their past history of dieting, right, how much yo-yo dieting have they been doing? How much under eating have they taken? What supplements are they on? Are they on any hormone replacement therapy? Have they tried semi-glutamine we like? Really, we get to know. We'll ask them a ton of questions, we want to get to know them and then, based off of that, design the customized coaching program. So the way they eat is going to be different than the way we eat. Some people want macros, so they want the breakdown of the protein, the fats, the carbs, and some people don't.

Speaker 2

Some people like I don't want a log, just tell me what to eat, so I can follow it and learn how to eat better, right, some people come in with severe emotional eating, stress eating, so we're helping them with that and then, excuse me, what is standard is like when we have our coaching calls, right, so we have the mindset calls every wednesday and things like that, we have a community, but as far as, like, how we work with the clients, it's individualized okay, that's which is awesome yeah, it's important, it is it's so personal with with what you're doing and how you're doing it, and I have a question with you on the gut health side, because it's the thing that I probably know the least about.

Speaker 1

Yeah, tell me about gut health and why or how that impacts, even how it impacts your overall fitness, but then how you think that comes in line with business as well.

Speaker 2

Okay.

Speaker 1

Because this is also where we vibe. We vibe not only on the health, mindset, wealth, but like the business side of it and how it impacts it, yeah?

Speaker 2

So if you're, let's just talk about first of all so we can clarify what leads to gut inflammation, so people can understand. So there's good bacteria, there's bad bacteria. We have both living in our gut and there's a number of things that will cause gut inflammation. So even if you're like, well, I don't have any symptoms, I'm fine, chances are you've either taken something in your life that would cause your gut to be inflamed or you're highly stressed, right? So these are the things that will cause gut inflammation high levels of stress, right? Anyone listening probably has. If they're not stressed now, they've been stressed at some point in their life. Uh, severe trauma antibiotics One round of antibiotics is enough to skew the ratio of good and bad bacteria. Now let's talk about how many antibiotics we've all taken.

Speaker 1

Holy tons, yeah right okay, tons.

Speaker 2

So antibiotics is a big one. And then just over the counter. So people, I think, in my opinion, abuse like tylenol and ibuprofen, that will impact the gut too. And then, of course, we live in america. So people eating processed foods, eating fish that comes from a farm that was fed with antibiotics, right, not eating grass-fed beef or meat there are so many things, right. Toxins from the environment. I believe in grounding. I have to tell you something weird I ground, I walk on the beach every day. I got my blood works on last year. My mercury came back through the roof and I was like I don't eat that much fish. Why is my mercury through the roof? My doctor was like, do you walk barefoot a lot? I'm like, all the time we live in maui, every day, twice a day, on the beach. She's like, yeah, you just be picking up. So even though it's great to ground, there's you know, the environment has toxins. Who you spend time with, the people you are around, the thoughts we talked about that. So all of this impacts our gut, right?

Speaker 2

I would say the biggest ones are the stress, the foods we eat, or the food like the foods we're not eating that we should be eating. So that plays a role. But people often think it's like, oh, if I'm just eating processed foods, that leads to poor gut health. No, the stress and the mindset and the trauma as well, and the poor sleep.

Speaker 1

Is there? Is there one that is the biggest you think has the biggest effect, or they all just kind of?

Speaker 2

no, I wouldn't say one. I think it's. I think it's a perfect storm. I think everyone has a little bit of all of them.

Speaker 1

Dude, that's a lot it's like. So all those things, how do you?

Speaker 2

we've all had them at some point, when I was overweight I ate crappy. When I was younger, I was on antibiotics. We've all taken antibiotics. We've all had a high level of stress. So I think everyone has a little bit of all of them symptoms. There's obvious bloating, diarrhea, constipation, acid reflux those are obvious. It's obvious that your gut is off if you're not going to the bathroom regularly or you're severely bloated or you have a burning in your throat right. But some of the not so obvious are brain fog, fatigue, anxiety, depression. Serotonin and dopamine are primarily located in the gut. I've helped women come off of their anxiety meds and depression meds by just doing a strong gut healing protocol.

Speaker 2

Really and obviously mindset coaching as well, but, yeah, serotonin dopamine located in the gut. So if we want to now relay this, go into how this affects your business. If you're fatigued, if you're brain fog, if you're feeling sluggish and depressed, how are you showing up on camera?

Speaker 1

How are and depressed. How are you showing up on camera? How are you leading a team? How are you selling this property? How are you training your employees? How are you leading if you can't even lead yourself? Yeah, yeah, that's, and just.

Speaker 2

There's so many like micro decisions that you need to make yeah, and you need to be sharp, as we're as business owners, as entrepreneurs we are, we're solution oriented, so it's like fix this, do this, do this, and we need to be on our toes always. There's always not always a fire to put out, but there's always. I feel there's always something you know like it's more often so if you're brain foggy and exhausted because you have gut inflammation, how are you operating your highest level? That's what I mean, like your gut health, really, and guess what?

Speaker 2

Also, just side note, your body is the thing that holds your wealth. We have one body we live in all day. So as you grow your business and you're expanding to build more wealth, your body needs to be able to hold that. It needs to be able to operate at a higher capacity and if you're not fueling it properly, it's almost like it bursts right. It needs to be able to expand with you, not in a physical expansion we don't want you to gain weight but like in an energetic way. We want it to be able to hold that capacity and that's why you need to pour into yourself for it to do that Good visual.

Speaker 1

That's like a good visual analogy of like cause. Like you said earlier, it takes energy to create wealth.

Speaker 2

It takes energy to keep it, especially in real estate, which we're both in. Yeah, it takes energy to keep it, especially in real estate, which we're both in.

Speaker 1

Yeah, it takes energy to keep it too. Yeah, of course.

Speaker 2

And to hold it right.

Speaker 1

Yes, yeah, to hold maintaining grow.

Speaker 2

It's like that's and that's a certain type of mindset to hold it.

Speaker 1

Yes, 100% yeah. So how do you help with when somebody says you know, I have this gut feeling, I was going to talk about business, I'm going to come back to business in a second. But when somebody says I have this gut feeling, that's a real thing, right?

Speaker 2

for sure. The vagus nerve connects the brain and the gut. It's a real thing. Like I didn't realize that until, obviously, I got into gut health coaching. I'm like, oh, that's what people mean. It's like a real thing, it's a real feeling and the more and we do this in our program, um, and I could teach this to your people too. Like, really, what I think is in our society, especially high achievers like us we don't know how to sit in silence. We don't know how to slow down. This is why we have such a high level of burnout and stress. Over 70 percent of people are burnt down and stressed. They don't know how to feel, they don't know how to connect to their body, mean, they don't know how to really connect to their gut right and have that feeling. You'll hear some people be like oh yeah, I don't really. I don't feel that slowing.

Speaker 2

You gotta slow down to feel like you can't be operating in fight or flight all the time. So slowing down, to really feel that you're like, I need to slow down oh, but well, actually, what I'm thinking about is I'm thinking about you're.

Speaker 1

You're just so right, like when I find myself feeling like I'm in fight or flight, right, I'm just feeling like world's coming at me a million miles an hour, which means like in my mind, it's like I can't slow down.

Speaker 2

Yeah, which is nervous system dysregulation, which is another thing we do in our program, which is how most people operate. Go, go, go, check the boxes. You're at fight or flight, right?

Speaker 1

Yes, which the?

Gut Health and Business Performance

Speaker 2

boxes you're, you're fight or flight, right? Yes, which means your digestive system is literally like bound right. It's not, it's not resting, it's not like open, it's like tightly bound right, which affects your gut, then affects your brain, and it's like this vicious cycle, right? So when you're feeling like that, what happens?

Speaker 1

you can't make a good decision no, and sometimes I find myself in indecision. And so then what happens is I'll keep my mind busy it's funny I'm hearing you say this, because then I'll recognize patterns in happens is I'll keep my mind busy it's funny I'm hearing you say this, because then I'll recognize patterns in my life. I'll keep my mind busy, I'll be you know doing, but. But what I really need to do and what really gets me back to reset is there's a number of things, but one of them is just like literally to meditate in silence.

Speaker 2

Thank you, taking a breath, meditating in silence, being in silence, sitting with yourself, not scrolling, not talking to someone like sit with yourself. People need to learn how to sit with themselves.

Speaker 1

Yes, and it's beautiful yeah.

Speaker 2

That's where all the answers come and that's how you calm your nervous system down, which is how you release weight, release fat, release the tension that you've been living in.

Speaker 1

So yeah, that's, that's now. My next question is where do you, what are some steps that somebody could take to help with gut health, like, what are some of these things? What are some different things we can do to help with with gut health?

Speaker 2

obviously, diet, yeah so, yeah, nutrition, that's so obvious, right, yeah, eat more greens. Eat a high amount of fiber. Fiber, I'll say. This fiber helps feed short chain fatty acids, which feeds the good gut bacteria. So, eat more fiber. Eat more fruits. Eat more veggies. People don't be afraid to eat fruit. Okay, there's still, I feel like there's still fear about fruit in this day and age. It's ridiculous. Eat a lot of berries, eat a lot of veggies. Eat your fiber. Okay, drink the lemon water in the morning. Don't over, don't abuse antibiotics and medications from a physical standpoint for gut health, belly breathe. Do box breathing so easy. Inhale for four belly what's belly?

Speaker 2

breathe just like not because too many people breathe in their chest. They don't feel like, yeah, exactly, we're doing all in the belly, so it helps. If you put your hand on your belly, too many people they they start to. This is a because when you live in fight or flight, you're not breathing from your belly, you're breathing from your chest yeah, yeah, totally you want to breathe deep into the belly that's a good.

Speaker 1

Even that alone is such a great call out of like hey man, just check your breath.

Speaker 2

Yeah, check your breath, yes, when I, when I speak, I take people through a one minute breathing exercise and they're like that was amazing. All we did was breathe for one minute. That shows you how dysregulated everyone is. All we did was breathe. We just slowed down, sat and did a breathing exercise do you know who jay shetty is? Yeah of course.

Speaker 1

Okay, so he has this book.

Speaker 2

I don't know if you've read his book um I haven't, but I think like a monk or something.

Speaker 1

Yeah, yeah and he said. One of the things that really stuck out to me is he said I went to this monastery, monastery yeah montessori, montessori something montessori is a school monastery montessori, yeah, yeah and he's with these kids and the kids. He asked them like what's the first thing you learn in school? And they said to breathe. And they said you know what? What's the first thing you learn?

Speaker 2

he's like oh, reading, writing reading, writing everything external, yes, everything external.

Speaker 1

And they said to breathe and I was like damn yeah.

Speaker 2

And they probably have a much lower rate of illness.

Speaker 1

Oh, I would imagine. Yeah.

Speaker 2

Yeah.

Speaker 1

Okay, so breathing.

Speaker 2

Breathing, slowing down, yeah, taking a moment for yourself, and you know I work with busy professionals, as do you. There's really no excuse. You can take a minute in your car if you need to, you can step outside, you know, of your office. There's there's really no excuse to, to not just take one minute to do. And the easiest form of breathing, I think, is box breathing, because when you focus, a lot of people get in their heads with meditation or breathing. You can focus on the counting. So inhale for four, hold for four, exhale for four. Literally so easy yeah, yeah so easy I was.

Speaker 1

just I put marley this is swear to god. Last night I put Marley to bed and you know telling her a story or whatever we were. No, I was telling her a story and then we were talking about I didn't know how it got brought up, but anyway she said yeah, well, I'm going to do my box breathing.

Speaker 2

That's so cute and.

Speaker 1

I was like I don't think I've ever talked to her about box breathing, I'm like what's box breathing? You know, like to see, like, and she's like. She tells me she's like hold for this, and she walks me through.

Speaker 2

I was like dang, did your wife tell her it was Britt? Oh, that's amazing.

Speaker 1

Yes, I know.

Speaker 2

How old is?

Speaker 1

she, she's eight.

Speaker 2

That's amazing.

Speaker 1

Yeah, they should be teaching this in schools. Yes, they really should, because we've seen the impact of that in our lives and she's conscious of it. So it's like those of you listening to this. I believe one of the most powerful things is when you start to become aware. Once again, these levels of aware doesn't just impact you. It impacts, by default, those that you surround yourself with, because your kids, your employees, everyone, your friends, the people that you care the most about.

Speaker 1

They are going to notice the difference. You're going to naturally talk about those things.

Speaker 2

You're going to naturally talk about those things You're going to naturally impact? Yeah, totally, and a big part of our program too is meditation, because it's not like I said, it's not just enough to eat the right foods or do the right workouts. Meditation is what's going to get into your like help calm your nervous system down.

Speaker 1

Yeah, yes. Breathing and meditation. Do you do guided meditations? Do you do all?

Speaker 2

Okay, yeah, yeah sometimes complete silence, sometimes just music. I do think that at some point in the day, like in the morning, if I did a guided meditation, I still will find time later on in the day to just sit in silence. Yeah.

Speaker 2

You could do walking meditations. There's so many different forms. Don't stress yourself out. There's different apps. Just pick what feels good. When I first started, I used Headspace because I liked the guy's voice and it was easy, and I started with five minutes and that felt like a lot. Now I'm up to 30, but, like you, don't have to become Buddha. Just once again, baby step it out Like there doesn't need to be anything crazy.

Speaker 1

That's so true, and it is. It's these, just like you're. We were talking earlier with our fitness, these stair steppers. Yes, you know Nothing crazy 20 minutes, yeah, and if you've never meditated sitting there for 20 minutes.

Speaker 2

Yeah, good luck. Yeah, I mean, I'm a high, strong New Yorker. So I will tell you, when I first started meditation eight years ago, I hated it, just like I hated yoga at first, but now it's, I feel once again. Now it's part of my identity. I feel weird if I don't do it.

Speaker 1

One of my favorite things to do on the plane is literally just meditate. Yeah, just meditate, yeah, it's amazing Because it's I mean think about it. I'm on a plane, a ton traveling.

Speaker 2

Yeah.

Speaker 1

Closest flight six hours, so to just take some time. But here's what's crazy though as easy as that might seem to do it on the plane, sometimes, I don't, because you still have to consciously make a decision to do it. Yeah, and it's so easy to be distracted.

Speaker 2

I know, especially on the plane there's so much going on. I will tell you though my functional medicine doctor. When I got diagnosed with leaky gut, it was nine years ago. At this point, he prescribed me meditation. Really I was like what are you talking about?

Speaker 1

Yeah, that's cool.

Speaker 2

You're too high, strong, you're working out too much, you're running around too much. He's like you need to meditate. That's how it started.

Speaker 1

that's how it started.

Speaker 2

I got prescribed meditation from my functional medicine doctor.

Speaker 1

Then I got obsessed and I'm glad, I'm thankful, very grateful, dude. That's incredible. So do you guys, do you go through meditations and, you know, teach meditations or anything in your program as well?

Speaker 2

Yeah, so I actually have a somatic healing coach that leads through the last ones of every month. She does meditation, meditation and visualization a little bit of breath work, and then I also will do some of it nice, yeah, yeah, you're just, yeah, you're big and yeah, and I'll lead my clients through tapping. So tapping is another way to release energy. Tap on the meridians in your body. Help, that's really. Yeah, there's so many modalities. Yeah, tell me about tell me about?

Breathing and Nervous System Regulation

Speaker 1

is there a client that you've worked with that when you look at it, you're like man that transformation's? I know you have a number of them, but like is there one that sticks out? We were like man when. I when they came in, they were a wreck whatever.

Speaker 2

I know I have so many. Hmm, I mean, I will say I have a client. She's been in my program for five years and she she wasn't a wreck when she came in but she was definitely doing too much mother, two kids, pouring into everyone, not really pouring into herself, and she's a pharmacist and has her own photography business. So very busy, you know, and just like giving, giving, giving people pleasing to the max. I'm sure you you have a lot of people like that too. Sorry side note another big health tip would be to have boundaries it's not people pleasing, because when you pour into everyone else.

Speaker 2

You forget about yourself, which means you forget about your health.

Speaker 1

That's kind of where she was yes, which then limits your ability to pour into other people exactly.

Speaker 2

So just watching her go through the journey and I mean her gut health transformation is amazing. The side by side is amazing, like it looks like a different person.

Speaker 2

she went from like kind of frumpy to like goddess. Like she looks like a goddess now and also so seeing her physical transformation but then seeing how it trickled in to a healthier marriage, better relationship with her kids and then her photography business doing better. Now, just like a like it just trickles into all these different areas. So she sticks out because she's been in our program so long and she's just had this continuous transformation. And why she also sticks out is she believes in the ongoing identity shift in coaching like she's like no, I still have more room to grow.

Speaker 2

I still have more room to grow. And after all these years, still coming to the mindset calls you know, like she's never satisfied. That sticks out to me, not just because, like I said, her physical is great, but it's the mental yeah it's like she'll come on a call call. She'd be like, wow, I really need that. Learn something you know, learn something new. She has a like a strong growth mindset, which I appreciate, like you do.

Speaker 2

That's that's my favorite, Like the mindset I would have to read like a lot of the testimonials we get are like, yeah, I shed the weight.

Speaker 1

but the most important thing I learned was working on my mindset over into everything. So that's another one of my questions Like how do you believe that gut health, health, fitness transform like transfers into your business, into your wealth? How does how do they correlate? How do you see them go side by side?

Speaker 2

Um well, with, without your health, you have nothing. All the money in the world is useless If you don't feel good spending it or while you're working. I mean, yes, we all love money, money's great and wealth is great and we want to build wealth. But if you don't feel confident, if you feel exhausted, if you don't feel aligned, if you don't feel happy, what is? What is your purpose?

Speaker 2

yeah, that's how I see it fitting in, I mean besides besides the other stuff we talked about the fatigue and you know the weight gain if you're stepping on stage. Do you want to be 30 pounds overweight? Probably not. I know I, like the old me, would never get on stage now. I wouldn't even get on a podcast, let alone a video. Never, you know, I just felt so uncomfortable. So, yes, it impacts in that obvious way, but it's really the. You know the, the energy that you have within yourself and how you're feeling, the happiness, the joy, and how it bleeds into every other area, which bleeds into your business.

Speaker 1

Yes, I agree with you. By the way, like I look at, you know a little bit about my business journey. The last little bit and you know I will say anybody listen to this, if you know a little bit about my business journey I had two partners I no longer, they're no longer with me, and there's been lots of headwinds and lots of challenges and lots of and people will ask like, like, how how, yeah, how'd you stay sane, how'd you do it Right?

Speaker 1

And I would just, I would just challenge you, instead of me telling you, I would challenge you to just go look at the differences in, well, our physical and mental states, because the physical and the mental lead into everything else my ability to lead, my ability to weather challenges, my ability to continue once again on the path moving forward, my ability to continue to thrive with my family and everything along. All of that, like, just look at those details. Success leaves clues. That's one of the biggest clues that I can drop is like there's a big difference there and anybody that knows you know the different partners.

Speaker 2

Just you'll see but that's a huge difference and you decided to. When all that happened, you had a choice. You could have said, oh well, right now I'm too stressed, I don't need to focus on my health, I just I have to deal with all this business stuff. It's very easy to to do that, like when my dad was dying and he was in florida, I was. I were obviously in maui it's a long flight could have easily said, oh, I don't, I don't need a, I can't focus on my workouts, on my health right now. But I knew I would feel worse, just like you knew you would feel worse, which meant you would show up worse for the rest of your employees, for your family and all these things. It's like that is a decision we have to make yes and we have one body.

Speaker 1

Well, I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions is people think, okay, I got to go, I'm in this journey of wealth and so I'm going to focus on the wealth and then, once I got that taken care of, then I'll focus on my health or I'm going all in on it, then you just dig yourself in a deeper hole. Yeah, and create different identities that are harder and harder to come out of. That's why, like dude somebody who's starting their journey, it's like should I really start out and take on another thing?

Speaker 2

Your health and your mental? Yes, cause it's going to feed everything else. People need to have a perspective shift. It also gives you more time. They think, oh, if I, if I have to work out, I have to do a little meal prep and coach, and she tells me to meditate, now I have to do all these other things. But it actually expands your time because you have more energy. You're maybe scrolling less because you're more aware, you're more present with your kids, so you actually have more time. It's just a perspective shift.

Speaker 1

That is such a great way to view that and that is so damn true yeah we're giving you more of your life back.

Speaker 2

You're getting more of your life back when you're healthier. People just don't realize because they've had so much resistance for so long and plus they probably tried all these other stupid programs out there that make them do all these crazy things. But if you do it in a realistic way, it should really just fit seamlessly into your life. Yeah, at first there's going to be a little bit of resistance, just like there is with anything new like hello. Hello, I mean right, yeah, but it gives you hours back.

Speaker 1

Yeah, I love it, even just the mental clarity and the how much time do you waste on making a decision or, or, you know, filtering back and forth to this thing, versus just like moving with certainty and clarity and confidence.

Speaker 2

Yeah, clarity and confidence.

Speaker 1

Yes.

Speaker 2

Successful people move with clarity and confidence, but you becomearity and confidence. Yes, successful people move with clarity and confidence.

Speaker 1

But you become, you said, a huge thing too is you become more aware, become more aware of where you're spending your time, where you're spending your energy, where you're losing your energy, where you're like literally depleting energy, where you hang out with that, sucking the life out of you. Yes.

Speaker 2

Like all these things, All this people, pleasing you know if we're going to talk about like three top health tips right Focus on your gut health. Number two stop people pleasing. Create boundaries. You don't. Every time you say yes to something you don't want to do.

Speaker 2

You're saying no to yourself, your mental health, your emotional health, your physical health, spending time with family, whatever it is Every like so many people saying yes to so many things that don't light them up. It's not necessary, and maybe now that my 40s, I'm like more harsh with that, but I've I don't know, I've never been a people pleaser. It's like I have a hard boundary. It doesn't feel good to me.

Speaker 1

I'm not doing it? How do you? Let's say, I bring something to you or something that you care about, and they ask you to do something and you know that you're not going to do it, you shouldn't do it how do you approach?

Speaker 2

it. Thank you so much. Let's just say it's an invite, right? Uh? Thank you so much for the invite, but energetically it doesn't feel aligned for me right now to partake. But I appreciate it yes, simple simple, like people want to make this big thing and if the other person gets offended, that's on them, not you. Yeah, move on. Bye.

Speaker 1

Next yeah, guess what?

Speaker 2

that's probably somebody who drains your energy, exactly yeah because someone who respects your time and respects you would just be like oh all right. But some people get surprised because they're not used to people saying that like. I had a friend once here. She invited me to like some mansion party. I'm like she was shocked. I said no. I'm like no, I just, I just really want to like lay on the beach and not do anything and not talk to people and that's okay. Yeah, that's totally okay, I'm not gonna feel bad.

Speaker 1

Yes.

Speaker 2

Right, but a lot of people do feel bad about it, right? So tip number one right we said, focus on gut health, micro, micro commitments, start with a warm lemon water. Tip number two boundaries no more people pleasing. Tip number three focus on your nervous system regulation. Because if you're dysregulated, especially if you're a business owner, high level professional, it's affecting you, your team, your ability to grow the business. If you're operating fight or flight, everything is just bound and tight and you're not operating at your highest level.

Speaker 1

Yeah, so same one more time the three, three gut health focus on gut health.

Speaker 2

Pick one thing right. So we said we'll start with a warm lemon water, right? Or maybe you start with meditation for gut health, or the breath work, whichever one you choose.

Speaker 1

Can I ask you something with gut health? Yes, this kind of may be gross.

Speaker 2

No, no, please. I've seen pictures of my clients poop, so that's what I was going to ask.

Speaker 1

Have you ever done? Have you ever done a um? What do you call it Stool?

Speaker 2

test no Colonoscopy. Colonoscopy or a? No, a colonic, and she saw the parasite come out of me.

Speaker 1

And.

Speaker 2

And I was cleared out. Yeah, I would say one colonic a year is fine if you're healthy, I think it's. I haven't. Actually, I got kind of traumatized from the last one, the last two years ago. I haven't done it since, but I am due for one I did my first one What'd?

Speaker 1

you think Seven months ago, six, seven months ago, it blew my mind. It blew my mind Like I'm serious, like because I was like I did not know what I was walking into. I didn't, and I was like highly uncomfortable Cold sweats Like, oh my gosh, yeah, it's so uncomfortable, like it's, you will sweat, like I had to do like deep breathing.

Speaker 2

Oh yeah, I mean I'm super spiritual that we can do a podcast on that another day I was like having like a shamanic spiritual journey Like I got taken back to Ayahuasca. It was crazy, like it was insane.

Speaker 1

See, my first one was not like that, my first one. I walked out of there like, oh my gosh, unbelievable, like I felt different my skin started to clear up. It was nuts to me yeah my second one was absolutely a spiritual experience okay, I'm not the only one yeah, my husband was like I was fine.

Setting Boundaries and Scheduling Health

Speaker 2

I didn't feel much. I'm like you're so weird. What he's like it wasn't bad. I'm like I died.

Speaker 1

I literally died that's awesome, yeah, incredible. You've never tried that, definitely okay. So gut health gut health.

Speaker 2

Second one is boundaries. Have have boundaries. It's okay to say no, no is a complete sentence.

Speaker 1

Third one is a complete sentence. Write that down. That's so good. Write that down.

Speaker 2

And then the third one would be do something to regulate your nervous system. So you're not. You know, in America especially, we really do operate out of fight or flight. We push, we push, we, we hustle really hard, we check the boxes, we're not present, we're not aware, and our nervous systems are in overdrive, which leads to poor gut health. And our nervous systems are in overdrive, which leads to poor gut health, which leads to waking, which leads to disconnection from yourself and your partner, all these things. So do something to regulate your nervous system. That could be as simple as sticking your feet in the ground, doing a five-minute meditation, having a talk with a friend that calms you, not the toxic one that wants to talk crap about everyone, like, do something that calms you down, maybe just reading a book in the sun, whatever.

Speaker 1

Get some sunlight, yeah, just reading a book in the sun, whatever, get some sunlight.

Speaker 2

Yeah, do you schedule these things like you're the like, the meditation, and yeah yeah, in my calendar in the morning it says wake up and meditate, which has always been in there, and then, yeah, pretty much in my day is pretty scheduled like I don't have sunset walk scheduled. But I always do a sunset walk, but pretty it's pretty scheduled mine is too.

Speaker 1

Yeah, mine is very much I mean.

Speaker 2

I do also believe that highly successful people like ride or die by their calendar yeah like. If someone's like, can we talk at this time? I'm like needs to be in my calendar yes like, when we don't like, needs to be in the calendar, else not happening that's exactly how it is.

Speaker 1

For me, it's like if it's not there, but if it's there. If it's there, I'll do it same. So that's the thing too Find a system that works.

Speaker 2

Yeah, not everyone is like that, but for me I like to have it scheduled, although on Fridays I purposely don't schedule anything.

Speaker 1

Fridays yeah, Anything on your whole day on Friday. I love it. So you just do whatever you want to do on Friday.

Speaker 2

Yeah, I will work, but it's not like I don't schedule out things. I take my dog to the beach and I'll typically just like work from the beach.

Speaker 1

Love it. That's my Monday, usually Monday. I do have a couple things in the morning but then after that nothing. Yeah, Then I might take like one or two calls at like 10 in the morning but never coaching calls.

Speaker 2

Yeah, like it might be like a meeting with you or so like a masterminding, but never like a coaching call. I'm very particular. My clients know they'll be like okay, so I know you don't do calls on Fridays, so like they know, hard boundaries, like they also know, like. I don't answer on the weekend.

Speaker 1

Love it. See, that's my, that's my thing, that's my thing on Monday, dude Monday, I do not do those, those coaching calls or team calls Dude you need a day Cause we, as coaches, we pour a lot out, which I love. I love coaching.

Speaker 2

Like, I love it, but we also need a day to our own souls 110. And have energy for ourselves.

Speaker 1

In fact, if you look at my calendar, it says creation time. Yeah.

Speaker 2

Creation mode yeah, love that, that's what it is.

Speaker 1

I love that. How do people get a hold of you?

Speaker 2

Instagram is the easiest At the Angelica Ventures.

Speaker 1

Sweet and we're going to do a coaching call for our yeah, I'm excited, lights me up. And then also we can do, I'll do the mindset, we do q a at the end of it, sweet yeah because, man, and so listen, if you have questions already from listening to this, come with those questions, but then if you're part of our network, obviously be on that call and dude. She's a wealth of knowledge, man, a wealth of knowledge thank you.

Speaker 2

No, feel free to send me a dm on instagram. I have tons of free resources, a master class on metabolism reset, a gut healing meal plan, anything you need.

Speaker 1

So sweet, yeah, just I mean okay, we'll put the links and things in the show notes for sure. Any last bits of advice for somebody I want you to think of I love your three health tips alone. I feel like that's like the sign out. Those are so damn good and simple. But anything else of like somebody that is, you know, starting their business, they're feeling overwhelmed or just any bits of last bits of wisdom or advice that you would want to share with them or want them to know.

Speaker 2

Yes, I hate the word overwhelm and I hate the word try so you're either doing the damn thing or you're not, and overwhelm is created when you're not in the present moment. You create overwhelm when you look too far to the future and you're just not present where you are. Say that again you create, overwhelm you create overwhelm when you're not, when you're looking too far to the future and you're not grounded in the present moment.

Speaker 2

So take a breath, pick one thing you can do. We often feel overwhelmed because we look at this long to-do list or we think, oh my god, this is going to happen, and we worry and fear and anxiety. We live in like doomsday. Right, that's where our thoughts go as humans. We have to train our brains to be more positive. So take a breath, cut back, come back to the present moment, pick one thing. Pick one thing and that's it.

Speaker 2

And go do it and go do it and you're not trying. You're either doing or you're not.

Speaker 1

Yeah, I got one or zero. You either did or you didn't.

Speaker 2

Yeah, there's no plan B, no.

Speaker 1

It's like I can't remember if I talked about this on my first keynote or the but I talked about.

Speaker 2

I hate the word try to absolutely hate it literally it's like do it. You're either doing it or you're not. You're doing the business, you're losing the way, you're like there's no trying no there's no like I'm gonna stick my foot in the ocean, just go all the way in.

Speaker 1

Yeah, all the way in, that's it go. And if you're scared.

Speaker 2

I think fear comes up a lot, at least in the people I speak to. We have fear everyone has fear successful people act in spite of fear. We drag it along with us right when I'm going to speak on stage. I'm not like whoa, this is easy. I'm scared, yeah, I'm, I'm fear, like we all have fear, but we lean into it yeah, and fear is a good.

Speaker 1

It's a good thing. Yeah, it shows you what you, what you value, you know it makes you hyper aware to it. So it's like why am I? Why am I? Why am I feeling fear? Maybe it's excitement. Fear and excitement, yes, trigger the same types of emotions. They're very similar emotions.

Speaker 2

Yeah, and it's also. It's normal to feel these fears. It doesn't mean that it's often. I think we're people are just so scared of change, right.

Speaker 1

I'll literally paint the worst case. I'll say, okay, if I do this, what's the worst case scenario? Okay, can I live with that. What's the best case scenario? Okay, let's go.

Speaker 2

Yeah, exactly yeah.

Final Tips: Overcome Fear and Overwhelm

Speaker 1

And it becomes not so fearful. I'm so excited for you to meet with my me too, my community. You're going to love my community as well. They're the best of the best. And I'm so excited for y'all to connect with Angelica. So hit the link, follow her, connect with her, and then we'll see you soon on the coaching call.

Speaker 2

Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 1

Hey, thank you Appreciate it. Thank you for being here in office too. It's so fun to have you in office.

Speaker 2

This is my first in-person podcast.

Speaker 1

Yeah.

Speaker 2

Yeah, I've been on like 50 and I've never. They're just always online.

Speaker 1

So you just seem like a total vet pro. I would have never, it's way better than like zoom, huh.

Speaker 2

Yeah, no, this is way better than zoom. I got used to the mic. At first it was like ooh, ooh, Hit my big nose.

Speaker 1

I have that same problem.

Speaker 2

I have a big nose so I was nervous. We're good.

Speaker 1

Mine too, Mine's bigger. I promise you that.

Speaker 2

Well, I had an OJOP and I still have a big nose.

Speaker 1

Well, that's cheating. See, I've had three of them, but it still doesn't work.

Speaker 2

Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1

Hey all y'all out there, live always with loha Peace.