EP 35: The final episode!!! We Close One Chapter So We Can Begin A Better One Focused On Our Health!

An amazing summer of beauty, shadowed by a phone call that changed everything, and led to a decision to live with sharper purpose: Health! This finale of The "I'm Ready Now" Podcast stitches together the moments that moved Isaac from reflection to action. 

Isaac opens up about a peaceful stretch on Gambier Island, the kindness of friends, and the day he learned his father had passed. He walks through planning a service that truly honored his Pa. Reflecting on his dad's passing and how that lead him to reconsider how he had lost ground on his own health, Isaac turns in important page for this podcast. The heart of this conversation is health, specifically the importance of health span—quality of life across the years, not just the number of birthdays. Isaac recounts the coaching, habits, and community that rebuilt his metabolic health, the joyful proof points like fitting into a cherished jacket again, and the ripple effect on his kids as they chose better nutrition as he led with his health. He’s candid about setbacks, too. But all this leads to Isaac's announcement about a change in the podcast! He's closing this show and launching a new one: "How the Health Are You?" 

Expect personal stories, practical strategies, and thoughtful guests focused on metabolic health, sustainable habits, and the daily choices that expand energy, mobility, and independence. If you’ve been looking for a path back to yourself—clear, compassionate, and doable—we’d love to have you alongside us. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs support, and leave a review to help others find the show. Your future self is calling; let’s answer together.

Transcript

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I'm ready to have to help you when you're ready for the pen. I'm hoping I'm sad. As well as people have ready me. Well, I'm ready now. I'm about to. Excellent. So let's get started. Welcome back everyone. I hope you've been well. I don't know. Maybe I need to reintroduce myself. My goodness, it's been about five months uh since I put out an episode. Um I'm looking forward to sharing with you today and filling in some gaps from that time. Uh mainly though, I do hope you've been well. I appreciate your patience. Um, there's been so much change on my end. Um, I mean, geez, where do I start? Um, I guess for time's sake, I can hit the highlights as well as some pretty important life moments for me. Uh, and I'm gonna go ahead and jump right into this. Uh, first off, at the time that I uh last left, my wife and I were heading out to an amazing summer trip in Canada, Gambier Island, British Columbia. Some friends had invited us out there, um, Roland and Barbara. Uh, they have a cabin out there, and uh they are it's a situation where it just that I won't go over all the history of this, but uh a point where she was just a young girl, uh Barbara, it's her family's cabin. And uh her dad bought it with some uncles. Uh, I think it was like 50-some acres on the island. They went in and kind of split stuff up and started building their little uh DIY cabin. And over the years, of course, um remodeled stuff and and made it better, and then others started building their cabins and selling it off to one family member while the other built another one. So, bottom line is they have a cabin out there, but uh those uh original um owners like Barbara and and siblings are um handing that off to their children now. So basically their children open up slots uh for people to be able to gather, but um you know, and take certain weeks of of the year. And so Barbara and Roland were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, 50th or 50th, I believe. Yeah. And um, and so they invited us out there for a couple of weeks, uh a couple of weeks with them before their family would show up, and then we needed to end up coming home uh anyways. Um, so but it was just gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. Went on some hikes, went out to visit in uh in Vancouver, um, just hung around, did a lot of whole a whole lot of nothing. Uh the views were amazing, and got to play, uh learn a game called Block Us that uh Roland was just passionate about, and it was just a whole lot of fun, a whole, whole lot of fun eating, sharing, uh hiking together, all of that stuff. And um uh, but in the midst of our time out there, uh, the other thing uh coming that I wanted to share next was that while we were out there, my dad passed away. Now, uh while on our way out there, uh we knew um that things were a little bit dicey with his health before, and um, and sure enough, while we're out there, um, we got the news that he had passed. And uh I'll tell you though, um it was just the four of us out there, my wife and I, and Barbara and Roland. And and in that uh environment and with those people, uh, I could not have um been in a better place uh as I received that news and had to share that news with my siblings. And uh so um, you know, it was a little bit uh hectic after that of um because my dad's remains were in Tennessee with my brother and his family out there, and all the details of getting his remains brought back to California, you know, there's a lot of back and forth and then some initial planning of services. But um, but even while that was going on, we I was still able to just thoroughly enjoy some time. My wife and um Barbara and Roland were utterly patient with me when I had to step away and and be on a Zoom call with the family or take a call regarding with the hospital or whatever else. Anyways, um, but that happened. Uh, missed my dad, and uh I always, as I've I've told folks, I always um when he was with us uh in that year prior, um you know, months before, um I always just knew he's headed back to Nashville, and this may be the last time we get to see him here. And uh so just make the most of it, spend some time, have those conversations, get those hugs and let him hear um from my voice. I love you, Dad. Uh Pa, we called him Pa. Uh Love You Pa. And uh it was just it was a wonderful, wonderful moment where the whole family would get to spend time with him, but uh the individual siblings out here in California did as well. So bittersweet. And um and then we celebrated. We were back in town uh when uh we had services and we were able to honor him the best way that we know knew how. Um got a lot of compliments from fans and found friends and family that were at the service that just went out of their way, just distinct different people went out of their way and were grateful and just um loved the way that we chose to honor him and the way we uh ordered her service and uh the things that were said and presented. So we wanted to do our best for Pa. And uh so that happened. And of course, um, those of you who've been uh listening to podcasts uh at all know a little bit about me that I'm a high school English teacher. And so the new school year started, uh going right out of July, June, July, August. We jumped into school in August. So, and we're already halfway there. I'm I'm recording this on my Christmas break, winter break, um, the two weeks that we get. And uh so it's already halfway done the school year, which is great. Um, I love that part of it. We'll come back in the new year with the second semester and start pounding away and try to get the freshman year behind these kids. Uh, also teach an ELD3 class, which are English learners, great group of kids, very kids, very small class. It's it's a wonderful class to teach, and they're great kids. So everybody's out and about doing their thing, as uh my wife and I are here, which leads me to uh this next thing is that we moved. So when Lydia and I married um on June 11th of 23, we spent one year out there in San Jacinto, was which was about two hours away from my employment here in Orange County. Um, and we knew that we would just get through one school year because taking the train and Uber and when I'd miss the train, I'd have to drive my car out there to Orange County uh from the um Hammett San Jacito area was an absolute uh drag. And um so um we knew 10 months then we'll we'll get into Orange County, be a little bit closer. So that happened, and we were there for nine uh one one full year. We were there for one full year and a little extra, and then my wife and I, we just sat down knowing our financial goals and what we wanted to do. We thought we one way to save money is you could cut costs, and if we need to kind of get smaller and get a smaller space and and pay less, we'll do that. So, spur of the moment, end of October, must have been the 28th, sitting at our dinner table, just said, let's go pull the trigger, didn't know where we were going, and just said, we got one month to make it happen. We're gonna start packing and we'll we'll see where we are uh and where we'll be landing um within those next 30 days. And so we did. We just put in the letter, 30-day notice to the landlord, and started packing. It was strategic in part because we knew that um at the end of November I'd be on my Thanksgiving break. And so I can go all in once we were moved, like be moving bit by bit if we could. And then on that last uh week I'd be all in with Lydia moving stuff and and to where we're supposed to move. We we didn't know when. But we did it, and and and a wonderful thing happened. Um, I'll just share this real quick. It's it was one of those neat moments to where uh we were um on uh an app, you know, the different apps looking for you know uh rent rentals in the uh Anaheim area or anywhere surrounding my work, five, six, seven mile radius, uh, for a certain price range. And we knew if we have to get you know cut down to one bedroom and one bath and maybe no garage, and so we'll have to get storage, whatever. We were kind of you know figuring things out that way. We said if we have to do that, we'll do that. Well, it turns out uh that um at the gym one morning my wife was speaking to the uh the the coach, the workout leader, Cara, and who said, Hey, well, go on this particular app and just you know go on there and start asking people. Well, we weren't familiar with that app, so we just defaulted to the app we were familiar with. Uh it's called Nextdoor. And so we put it out on there, Lydia did. And um uh what happened was a lady saw Lydia's post on there, you know, just uh where she was sharing what we were looking for, and we, you know, the time frame of our move 30 days, probably less than that at that point. And the lady who saw her pose told a friend of hers. And that's the lady that we're renting from. It were turned out where she was moving out a friend who's in her space, a good friend of hers, but was ready for him to move on. It was just him in this uh two-bath, three-bedroom, two-story uh condo here in Anaheim. And um, and so she was moving him out and just did really didn't want to go through the whole process of getting again of you know going through all these applications and and uh all of that stuff. Uh she wants someone who of course would take care of her home. And anyways, um uh Lydia and this lady got in contact with each other and just absolutely hit it off. And um, with just some you know uh pretty standard checking, everything worked out well. We have great references, and uh she kind of saw from meeting us, just the trust went up a whole lot. We were helping her with some goals that she had in terms of getting stuff moved off uh off of this property to her place. And um, Lydia does an amazing job of selling odds and end things here that we don't need. And when this lady caught wind of that, you know, Lydia sold a sofa, a bed uh that she had, and a few other things. It just it turned out to be a wonderful uh um connection, and she's thoroughly happy that we're here and we're happy to be here, and it's just been a great thing, but it it just happened, and um, you know, we got in here at Thanksgiving, then of course Christmas came right away. But uh Lydia had a plan all along. She just said, Boy, if if we can get in, even though our month ends uh at the end of November, if we can be moving in little by little, particularly in the middle of November, even though we don't officially start until December, but get that prorated um, you know, uh those those two weeks uh prorated in our payment, and we'll pay for that. And just so we can start getting in there and get the keys, even though we're still at the other place till the end of the month. Uh, and all that worked out. So we were moving stuff, moving stuff, and she was over here setting stuff up bit by bit, whatever came over, and she could start setting up and knew what she needed to store in the garage. Uh, she was doing that, and then that last push on the week that I was off, we got things over here, and uh it was just the two of us. We had uh my son came and helped us move, uh, helped her move one day while I was at work. I really appreciate my son for doing that. And then uh my daughter, who'd been staying with us for a little bit because school was closer where we were living, you know, the university she goes to, and she packed her stuff because she was staying in a room. She packed some of her stuff out there. And then uh the neighbors, a couple buddies of us of ours uh that lived next door with some neighbors, these two guys helped us move one last bunch of stuff. Um, and that just it was one move, but that we needed the muscle, and it just it worked out, and uh boy, we we it's been more than one time that we look at each other knowing we're we're saving a ton of money, it's an upgrade. Uh it really is an upgrade. The space, the location, the home, everything. It's just we did not foresee this coming, so we're thoroughly grateful about where we're at, the type of landlord that we have. Uh, she's happy to have us, and we're settled in, and we just every once in a while just keep looking at each other and said, Man, we really love this space. And and you know, just to think that we blinked the next thing we were here. Of course, there was a hard work of packing and moving, all that is absolutely um hate, um loath, but we just got through it all. We got through it all and we're here, and we knew we'd get to this point, and here we are. Um, there is one detail here, just because of the parking, uh, we've got some storage in the garage that has to get cleared out. We have to buy some of that storage that goes up in the ceiling, you know, uh those kind of rafters drilled into the rafters so we can hold some bins up there. Because uh, if you have two vehicles, you have to have those vehicles in the garage. You cannot have one in the garage, one parked out there. Um, you have to have them in. If you have three vehicles, then you can have the two in the garage and then get a permit for the other one that's gonna be parked out there being used. Uh, we don't have that situation, so we have another week, maybe seven, eight, nine days. Um, and I'm already looking at um some solutions for that storage solutions in the garage, so we can get that done. But we want to get it done, get that out of the way, and it'll be a good thing. It's a little bit of a of uh an issue right now, but once it's all said and done, the good thing is we're gonna have our two cars parked right in the garage that leads right into the house, which we didn't have over there, anyways. It's a great thing. So um now we're on the heels of all that. We have the new year coming up, and I hope that's exciting for you. I hope you're finding that exciting. I hope this Thanksgiving season and Christmas, uh, however you celebrate that has been good for you too. Um, so that's kind of what's been happening. It's been a lot, and there's been some uh lows uh with my dad, but there's been some excitement also. Um, you know, think about with my dad's passing, I'll just jump back to that real quick. It was a wonderful moment, and I have pictures of all this where all of my siblings, all of the grandchildren were in one space uh together. And I took the passing of my dad and uh to make that happen. Uh, you know, I love the fact that there's just a massive dose of respect among my siblings and their families, so which I'm so grateful to God for that. And uh, but you know, we have my my brother who's out in Tennessee with his family, so that's that's hard to get out here. It's hard to get a bunch of us over there. Uh, we visited, and and a couple of siblings uh of my siblings have as well. But um, but regardless, we were together. It was a joyful moment. We celebrated my dad and we got together. We celebrated my elder brother's birthday. Uh so you know, uh the yin and the yang, the good and the bad, it was all uh all there, the bitter and the sweet was all together. So uh we're focusing more on the sweet uh because it was sweet. So, all right. Well, listen, uh, I'm gonna move on and I'm going to forego any standard segments I've typically had at the beginning here regarding chapter markers, uh ways to contact me, and the what's up in your world segment uh in order to get straight to today's topic, which I'm gonna call stop and go. Stop and go. I'll explain next in that order. Stop. Here's what that means. I'm going to stop producing this podcast. Uh, this is the last episode. Now, um I could come back to it at some point just because I believe in it. Um, I'm not planning on that right now. That would have to kind of show up in a certain way to where I think, man, let's go light that thing up again. Um, but uh I I absolutely believe in this. Um, it was based on a simple concept share the ideas, concepts, thought processes that helped me when I was finally ready to make some changes in my life. And um the needed changes in my life, my man, that went back several years, 10, 15 years. If if I really really kind of dissect that part of my life, I'd say at least 15 years. And, you know, it included discontent with my career, tolerating an embattled marriage that eventually led to divorce about six years ago. My physical health sucked, which led to my mindset being way less than optimal. It wasn't good. And and I'm typically an optimistic person, I just am. I think anyone who would know me um would say that. And um, and and so um, but you know, so it wasn't good. It just was not in a good place. And after the divorce, I got busy right away. Uh, I ended up hiring a high performance coach. Some of you have heard this before, this part of my story. And she really helped me reset, you know, my way of thinking, my approach to my life goals. Um, and then so I got kind of settled on that, made some changes there. There's a lot more that went into that, some extra training that I got from her. And then uh I found a health coach to help me make amazing changes in my physical health and habits related to that. It's something, uh, you know, this one decision uh made so much more of a difference than I thought it would. That that change in my physical health affected so much more about me. It actually got me my amazing wife, true story. Uh, then upon seeing the transformation in my physical health, others wanted to do the same thing for themselves. So I began coaching others to do the same thing with the program that helped me, even as I continue to be coached myself and immerse myself in this amazing community of like-minded people. And uh, these folks were from all over the country, the United States. So this was a change that I desperately wanted for myself for so many years, decades, as a matter of fact. Um, I give you one example of this, just kind of those little reminders. Any of you who have kind of battled your health and your weight and and the things that go along with that uh will relate to this, uh, you know, trying to find clothing that that that you could fit into in your closet. That you've had for several years and now they don't fit. And so now you're having to buy larger sizes and all that nonsense. Well, um, and and one just quick example when I first started at the work where I'm at, I've been there for 34 years. When I first started as an instruct instructional assistant, I got employer of the month, and this was the early 90s, and I got a nice, like a letterman's jacket, kind of looking jacket with my name stitched on it, school colors, everything. It was wonderful. I loved that. Somewhere around five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten years later, it wouldn't fit anymore. And I'd secretly go in my closet and try it on, and it would not button up. And I just hated that because I would have loved to uh put that on for work uh as a teacher now. And um, and so that was just one of those moments that when um when I did get myself healthy, I was able to put that back on. I'm able to wear that now. I I wear it every once in a while. It's a thicker jacket, it's on cooler days. Um, so anyways, that that was one of the the examples of that desperation where I thought, man, I can't even worry wear this thing that I've kept for myself just because um my my body's uh uh outgrown it, unfortunately. So I'm back to that. So I love that I'm able to wear that. But that's my point that for decades, for decades, I had wanted to be back in a place where my body would be healthy, and one of the indicators of that would be my weight and and my body size. And so, anyways, uh so that started uh to happen now. Um, so that was part of what was going on. Now, there were several books and people in my life that helped guide me to this better way that I was on now. So that's where the idea, I'm saying all this because that's where the idea for this podcast came in these critical areas of my life that needed to change for each of them. I had finally come to a place in my life where I just said, I'm ready now. I wanted to take what I had learned and use it to help others to get to the same place, their version of better. Now, several books had made a difference for me, and I needed to start with one so uh for the podcast. So I started with the book with Daily Thoughts to Start Our Day, and that was The Rudder of the Day by Dan Miller. That'll be familiar to you if you've been following this podcast and been listening. So I'd read through that book about two times for sure and had marked it up quite well because I appreciated what I was learning in there. There were journal entries there, so I'd I'd I'd write in there and I had two years worth of different notes. It was always neat to see what I had written the the year prior. So if you've been listening to this podcast for any time at all, you know that we take a daily reading and use it as our thought for the week in this case. So we take Dan Miller's thought, consider it, share how it helped or affected me, and then uh gave you the listener an opportunity to actively apply it to your life. Uh, we wanted to be doing action, not just listening. And that's where this is ending. About 30 readings, which we looked at once a week. Uh, and that's 30 readings into about 92 that would have been available to us uh that we could have continued on. Now we got to these 35 episodes because there were a few episodes where we stepped away from the book for a bit. A good example is when my wife Lydia joined me for the goal setting episodes. Matter of fact, that was last year around this time, and that was a whole lot of fun. I need to find a way to bring her back in to these because that was really, really wonderful, and there was some good feedback on that. So, this is why this podcast is ending, as well as an explanation of what is coming next. So here it is. After my father's passing and the passing of several other elderly uncles and aunts on my dad's side, um, I've just become passionate about helping others not just pursue a better lifespan necessarily, but to pursue instead something more critical, their health span. You may have heard that distinction before. Uh, we can't control how much time we have left, but we can control completely how we live out our lifespan. Now, will it be with optimal health or chronic pain because we did not pull the right levers, those health levers when we had the chance to do so, uh, making the changes earlier in life that would impact our wellness in our later years, uh, giving us that great health span for whatever our lifespan might be. So I saw my dad and others uh impacted later in life by the poor choices they made um earlier. And I noted how I was impacted by those choices. Monkey see, monkey do. Now that cliche became vivid in my own life. Uh, in other words, as I saw how my family ate, uh, all kinds of things, spent money and didn't use money wisely, or did, or all the things that we learned. In this case, I'm talking about health, and so that cliche, monkey see, monkey do, became vivid in my own life when I began to make my own health a priority. Now, at that point, my son and daughter were living with me, uh, and this was the time before I remarried, and they absolutely took on my health habits because they saw the change that was happening and they encouraged me in my own journey. It was quite amazing. It's something I'm very proud of. Uh, we could be at the grocery store and you know, we'd be looking like, no, I don't think that needs to go in the basket, dad. Or like we'd be making these choices together. Um, we dropped off of juices quite easily and sodas, just down to water, maybe mineral water. It was just a wonderful thing. I I am very proud to see how I led them, but it was just they just it's like they wanted to be led. They need to see dad was doing that. I'm the one that was had the purse strings, and so if I bought it and made it in a house, I guess that's what we're eating. So it was that concept. So as I led, they followed and they were happy to do so. Um, and so um my wife and I have since met several elderly people who are the ages of my loved ones, like my dad, who passed on, and and uh some of his siblings and others in the family. Uh these folks that we've met, their stamina, mobility, and dependence, and cognition are in great standing. And they encourage us to keep eating well and working out, and they they admonish us to adopt healthy habits for our future selves. That they're quite the gift to us. Uh, we got very close to some of them. And uh man, it it's it's a wonderful mentor friendship, but a mentorship in that area of health in other areas. And so um seeing all of this around me and living my own experience, I became excited to help others. So I did. I started helping others. Uh then transition. A wonderful transition happened. So this is going back a little bit, uh, a couple years, my wife and I, two and a half years now, the scintillating Lydia Sanchez, she came into my life again after 39 years. Now, because of the beautiful change that began happening around our meeting again, which initially happened, uh, our initial meeting with our families was in 1981. We were just kids. My dad was a pastor of a church and their family was there, and uh, I'd kick it around with her older siblings, and she's a little bit younger than me. So at that time, you know, she's playing with the younger kids. And so, fast forward these 39 years, and now in November of 2019, as we became reacquainted with each other after those 39 years, I'll share more later about that. Um, so we we got together again uh through social media. She popped in and said hello, and we we got to see each other, talk a little, well, talk a little bit, um, messaging, and that was in 2019. But our begin our relationship began to bud beginning in that November and then becoming much more serious in the summer of 22, then getting engaged in January of 23, and finally getting married in June of 23. Woohoo! Uh, I made it, I did it, put a ring on it. Well, um in the beauty of all that change, I lost track of the priority of my health. I was traveling a total of two hours to see her each weekend uh for about a year. So that means an hour over and then an hour back. She was in the San Jacinto area, I was in Chino in the time in that time we were engaged and began planning a wedding. Um and so then we were married, we honeymooned, then lived where she was two hours away from where I worked in Orange County. And I commuted by train for 10 months, sometimes driving when I missed the dang train. And it was awful. Um, you know, I I'd be leaving the house at about 445 in the morning, 4:30 in the morning. Of course, that meant getting up at 3, 3:30 in the morning to catch a train, you know, uh get uh uh transported into Orange County hour and a half later, Uber to work from there and work, uh do some tutoring for an hour after work and then catch a train back from the Fullerton station out to Paris South Station and then drive a half hour home. It was and get home at 7, 7:30. It was nuts, it really was nuts. And so, you know, I succumbed to poor eating habits and poor sleeping habits because of that commute, and I stopped making time to meet with my health coach and that health community I was a part of. I was trying my best to get five to six hours of sleep during the week because that's crucial. And it was just a bit overwhelming uh uh for me. I was missing the mark on all of those. And so after one year, we knew it'd be one year, we moved back to Orange County where I had grown up most of my life, and I was now 20 minutes away from work. Um that's with traffic, but compared to those two hours, um, I will take it. Thank you very much. And so we were there for a little over a year and we just moved again, but again, for really great reasons. Um, as I alluded to earlier. Now I'm only 12 to 15 minutes away from work, and I don't even have to take the freeway, get on that freeway uh if I don't have to. And so that's a definite win. Now, to put all this in context and perspective in regards to this podcast, I returned to re-engaging with my health goals. Um, my coach and that wonderful community I'd met before, and regained a stronger appreciation for my health and my desire to help others, you know, in their own journey. And that's the genesis of the second part of today's podcast that I briefly want to share with you today, and that part is the go part. Well, so even though we do have that stop part of this current podcast I've just explained, the go part refers to moving on to a new podcast that centers on our health. Um, hence what I just shared with you. So this has become such a critical part of who I am and how I want to help others. Um, I've made a series of mistakes in this journey that sent me backwards in my health goals. Um, I didn't go all the way back to where I started. Um, no, I mean I learned some things. That's what I love about the program. Um, that it kept me from that typical pitfall. And so I appreciate that. And um, but I did lose sight of why I wanted those health changes in the first place and the amazing good it was doing for me, for all of me. And so I'm I made my way back. And uh I was also reminded of how much I wanted to help others become healthy as I came back. I started seeing these, the health of my dad, um and my my uncles and aunts and others around me who are still alive that I knew grew up uh with the kind of just same type of values when it came to food and and exercise. Um, and so um I want I want to help others um who want to change. I wanted to help them uh see the way forward and become healthy themselves. So that's why I'm launching the How the Health Are You podcast. Now, um, here's the idea: you must care for yourself first before you can care for others. This is so cliche, yet too many of us put our well-being aside for the sake of helping others, mainly the people we love. And that needs to be unacceptable to you. Why? Because it's a lie. In the Hell the Health Are You podcast, we'll focus on your health journey, specifically your metabolic health, and strategize on how to get you to optimal health. We all have different starting points, though. So we'll consider that. However, the key is, we do need to start. Every one of us has ups and downs on this journey as we do the hard work to shed poor habits that have led to a poor lifestyle and then to poor health, of course. So when we fall, we'll get back up and learn from those potholes on the road towards health. Now, my hope is that along the way you'll learn something from my story and that we can journey on a better path to health together. So that's a synopsis of the How the Health Are You podcasts. I'll eventually have guests. Uh, I have a few wonderful people who have already shared that they would love to be a guest on the podcast. These are amazing friends of mine, and their health stories are quite compelling. I can't wait to share those with you. I hope you'll follow me over there to the new podcast. Or if you feel that this new podcast is not for you, maybe you know someone who needs help in this area. Please tell them about the How the Health Are You podcast. I'd I'd really appreciate that. Uh, I know they would appreciate you caring for them in that way. And as I said, I sure would appreciate you spreading the word about the podcast. So um I don't have a link for you right now, but you'll be able to find the podcast by searching the title and my name on all the major platforms as you found this one. Just look for the How the Health Are You podcast. And my name, Isaac Sanchez. That will be available the first week of the new year, as a matter of fact. And I may continue the same publishing schedule, uh, which was I was always shooting for Sundays at midnight or early Monday morning Pacific Standard Time here in the United States. And uh that's that's the news, folks. That's the go part. All I'll add is that I'm pretty excited about all of this. So with that, thank you, thank you, thank you for listening this last time uh to this podcast. It's always been fun hanging out with you. I appreciate it so much. Um, I do still want to end with a quote, like we typically would. Um, this one is a little different and a lot longer. It comes from the first page of the planner I use uh right when I opened the cover, it's it's right there. It's a series of admonitions, actually. So here's what it says envision it, take action, live it, take full responsibility. This is your life. Live with purpose and intention, be solution-oriented, choose gratitude, smile, have fun, inspire yourself, deliver value to others, open your mind and embark on a journey. Make new memories, savor life, live la dolce vita. Think yesterday, love today, create tomorrow. Become everything you're capable of becoming, be part of intelligent change. And that comes straight from my intelligent change productivity planner. Uh, so that's it. That's the quote. Think about it, act on it. That's all, folks. Uh, thank you so much for the time you spent with me here over the past 35 episodes. It really, really is a big deal that you would spend time listening uh through those episodes. And uh, I hope you found some value in what I shared with you. And again, if you feel that you would get some value in the new podcast, I would love for you to follow me along over there. Uh, but if not, I certainly understand. And uh, but if you know someone that is struggling with their health or wanting to make a change or wanting to stay on track with their change uh that they've made and not fall back, please share the podcast with them. Again, that's the How the Health Are You podcast, and that's with me, Isaac Sanchez. And with that, happy new year, belated Merry Christmas, and uh, and and happy Thanksgiving. I'm gonna take all of that too. Happy Halloween, everything we missed together. Uh, truly happy new year, and folks have an amazing 2026. God bless you.