How Listening to Your Gut Changes Everything with Geta Barbu

In this powerful episode, Geta Barbu, a gut health practitioner and certified nutritionist dives deep into the emotional, physical, and spiritual landscapes of wellness and risk-taking. Geta opens up about her bold life choices, the invisible burdens of chronic illness, and the surprising link between your belly and your bravery. Whether you're here for health tips or human truth, this conversation goes far beyond surface-level advice.

🔍 What You’ll Uncover:

• A personal story of “moving for love” that transformed one woman’s life—and tested every part of her being.
• The subtle, sneaky signs of chronic illness and why so many are missing them (hint: it’s not just about food).
• The "Crazy" Decision to Burn Her Own Ships: She had a fantastic job, a beautiful three-bedroom condo, and a stable life in the US. Then, Geta bought a one-way ticket to Spain, leaving everything behind for a relationship that was barely months old. Most people called her "crazy." Find out why it was the smartest move she ever made. 
•  Geta reveals the profound, painful decision to quit gymnastics, a "first love," and how that seemingly devastating loss ultimately opened the door to her authentic path and current success. 

• Follow Geta Barbu on Instagram: @getas.digest

#GutHealth #ChronicIllnessSupport #MentalWellnessMatters  #HealthTransformation #DecisionFatigue #MindsetShift #NutritionHeals #LifeRisks #HealingJourney

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James Dunn: All right. Hello! Hello! Hello! And welcome back to the show, everybody. You know. I say this before every single episode. I swear to God. But it's true, because it's true. Every single time I am so excited to be here tonight, and especially excited tonight to have an awesome and amazing friend that I haven't got to talk to in quite a while. So it's really good that we get to reconnect here tonight and have a great conversation that hopefully all of you listeners will get to benefit from. So Jenna. Welcome to the show.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Yeah, I'm so happy to be here. And, man, I I've just missed talking to you. I've missed our chats. I've missed seeing you. I'm happy. I'm really excited.

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James Dunn: Yes, this is, I'm excited to like, say, even if nobody else fucking listens this episode, I'm excited that we can chat. But I but I,

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James Dunn: yeah, absolutely

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James Dunn: that are going to love this episode and love getting to know you like, I've gotten to know you over the years. But I do know some of your history, but give the people who don't know you yet a little bit of an introduction to who you are and what you're all about.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Yeah. So what I do. I'm a gut health practitioner and certified nutritionist. And I specialize in chronic illness. That's really what I do. There's a lot more, obviously, and we'll we can get into that. But

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): that's what I do.

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James Dunn: That's you, awesome. Well, sweet. So my, my goal with this podcast and specifically, this interview series that I've started doing here recently

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James Dunn: is reaching out to people who, I feel are successful in some some form in life. You know whether it be financial success, whether it be relationship, success. However, we don't want to find a sec. Success. Man, I can't speak tonight. I'm just so excited. I, fucking can't even talk anymore. But anyway, it's just reaching out and connecting with people and having them share their stories, because I feel like the more that people share their stories, especially the challenges, the struggles. Maybe they've gone through

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James Dunn: and the hurdles they've had to overcome to get to where they're at in that successful version of their life.

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James Dunn: the more we can normalize that the more people realize that. Hey, I'm not alone. I'm not the only person who's ever had a challenge or a struggle or something not go exactly the way that I wanted it to go. And again just normalize that and help people, you know, work through that a lot faster. So does that sound like conversation. You're down for tonight.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Yeah, absolutely. And also, too, I think it's important to have these conversations. So then people know that they're also not alone in this, because it's it's a. It's a wild world out there, especially in today's world. And I and I feel like we've been saying this for the past like since the pandemic. But I really feel that this year there's something different about it. I feel like a lot of people have more decision, fatigue. A lot of people have are developing

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): more chronic illness, which is, unfortunately, you know that background of you know. What if I'm alone? What if I you know? What if I'm the weird one. What if I'm this? What if I'm that, you know? And it just

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): builds up? So this is also what you what you do. James is also so helpful, mindset, wise mental health, wise and overall wellness wise. So I know it's not a wellness, podcast but

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): yeah, really is.

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James Dunn: It is so.

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James Dunn: Yeah, because I mean, mindset is such a huge piece of all of that component and and like, I said, I love the fact that you brought that up because that really is, you know, you're not alone in this. There are so many of us out there, and there's communities all over the place, and I know those have had massive impacts on my life is, you know, connecting with people, and whether it.

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James Dunn: you know, can start out as a, podcast you know, start out with being people, you know, on podcasts connecting with them through that. But then branching out into more of a, either online communities or in person communities where that happens to be. But at least hearing these stories and going. Whoa, wait a minute. Okay, there are other people just like me? Holy crap!

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James Dunn: Yes.

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James Dunn: pretty cool, so awesome. Well, let me dive into my 1st big question I've got here, and what it is is what's the biggest risk that you've taken, or the biggest challenge you've had in life. And what did it teach you.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Moving for love.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): That was by far the biggest challenge financially. Health, wise mindset, wise risk, wise. I think that was the biggest risk that I ever took. I take big risk. And I actually just talked about this on Instagram stories last night.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): James, we're in the middle, me, my husband and our 2 kids. We are in the middle right now of moving from the Us. So we are here right now, currently in Michigan, and we are moving back home, which is back in Europe, in Eastern Europe, and more specifically in Romania. It's 5,000 miles away, and neither of us have actually lived there since we were

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): children like neither of us, and he, my husband, lived in Spain, and I lived in the Us. And then I, when we met, we actually, at the time he was living in Spain, I was living in the Us. And at the time we were actually on vacation in Romania

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): at the same time, and we met 18 h before I actually had my flight to come back home. So I was there for a month, and we met the last 18 h.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): and a lot of people assume that they hear this story like Oh, it was, you know, love at 1st sight, or whatever. But it really was just like I never knew you existed. This is cool that you exist cool, and we just had a conversation. It was so beautiful, and I left, you know I left to come back home.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): and at that time I was doing Hr. And and marketing, and a lot of like background work for a home care, occupational and physical therapy space.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): and I came home and I told so. I came home on like a Saturday, and that following Monday had work, and I walked into work, and my boss was like you miss the love of your life, didn't you? And I was like what I was like what, and we just kind of talked about it. And he was. He's he's a spiritual guy, right? Like super spiritual super, you know, all this stuff. And he's like.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): he's like, yeah.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I mean, if you want to leave my job, it's okay. You know, it's like, I'm like, nowhere near that right now, but

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): what I can tell you is on the flight back home. My flight was from Romania to Germany, Germany to Detroit, right, and on the flight from Romania to Germany. I! Cried James, for the 1st time ever over over a person, not over a friend, not over a man, not over like a person.

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James Dunn: Wow!

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): 1st time I ever cried because I was thinking, what if I never meet this guy again? What if I never talked to him? What if I and this was in 2016, like as if there wasn't like Facebook? There wasn't Instagram as if there wasn't like what was.

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James Dunn: To actually still, connect. Yeah.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Right. I'm like, what was I thinking, you know? And so yeah, I had told him, like, I think I think there's something there. Maybe I'm weird, maybe you whatever. And he felt the same way, and then we just couldn't communicate it. And that, I think itself is is a challenge within itself is, you're forced to communicate, you know, over a long distance relationship you're forced to communicate. You're forced to, you know. You can't like do anything active. You can't. It's you got to communicate. You gotta use your best

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): tools to communicate what's happening. What's wrong? What's not? You know all that stuff, and so

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): So then I went to visit him in December, and I actually proposed to him in December.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Yeah. So we yeah. So we met in September. And then in December I went to go visit him, and it went so well that I proposed him, and then he goes, well.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): it's just fast. And I was like, sure, yeah. And for some reason I didn't feel bad about it. I was like, that's fine, like it really is fast, like, right? Like, we're at an age in life. You know where

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): you need time. You need time you need, you know, thinking you need Whoa, you know. Okay.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): So I went back home and went back to the Us. And I was like, All right. Well, since you can't come here, because in order to come here, you have to have a visa I was like, and I'm not doing that. I don't want you to get a visa. I'm not. That's not my style, you know.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I was like, I'll come. I'll come, hang with you. I'll come be with you, you know, in Spain, and

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I ended up getting a 1-way ticket in April, so we met in September, December. I went to go visit him. I then proposed to him, and then in April I went to move to Spain.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): and absolutely no one, no one except my one friend, my best best friend who? We've been friends since 18 years old, and she's been through the thick and thin with me and with each other. Really.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): she was the only person that was like, I totally get it. And I was like, Okay, because no one else understood it. And I think that was another piece that I was like, I'm giving up my job that clearly my my boss was my boss was a good friend of mine, too. It was not just like right. It was family for me. It was my location. I had a I had a 3 bedroom condo with a backyard like who had that at like 24 years old. No one, you know, like

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I was living such a great life, and it was so good, and there was so much freedom, and there was so much time and space. And it's like, Yeah, I'm about to give all this up

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): for love in a country that I've never, even, you know, been to like I only in visitation and in December. That was it.

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James Dunn: Yeah.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I don't really know the language I do. Romanian, Spanish is kind of similar, but it's a different Spanish versus, like Latin.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Spanish, you know, like Latin America, Spanish.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I was like, Okay, all right, I got to find a job. I got a place to live. I got to do all this stuff I was like, all right, let's do it.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): So that was, I think, personally, till this day one of the biggest challenges. But and then the second part to that question was, what did I learn from it that alongside all these other decisions that I had made prior to this big decision is that I always move in alignment. There has been a part of me that I have started to notice. Even this big move that we're making now is not comfortable at all.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Not at all. Not one bit of it is comfortable. There's so much processing. There's so many moving puzzle pieces to moving with 2 kids across the world like, it's a lot.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And we're we're technically like, still kind of new in our relationship, like we've been married since we came back to to the Us in 2018. Right? So. And we're recording this in 2025 like we're not. We don't have like 2030 years of marriage we don't like. This is still kind of brand new to us. And so I think it just is.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): that's what I learned about myself is that I there's a lot of boldness in me. That

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I think it's okay sometimes to move and make big decisions based on alignment based on your values based on your morals, and it makes no sense to anybody but James. I tell this to everybody.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): If I hadn't moved to Spain, I don't know what would happen to me now.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I don't know if I would have had 2 kids. I don't think I would have been married. I don't think so like. I guess we'll just never know now. But it's this life that I've always wanted, always dreamed about, and I always like it was just that that I was like, I just want to be married to my best friend. Have 2 or 3 kids, whatever whatever like God blesses me with and like just live, whatever we want to do. If you want to go, move if you want to go to. Then that was my. I always wanted, like the

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): the flexibility in being in a marriage and being a mom and being, you know, just like Vibe Vibe.

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James Dunn: What do you.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): You know, and still have your personality and like don't feel like, Oh, marriage is hard and la la like.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): and I'm not saying marriage isn't hard, it definitely is, but that's what I learned is that if you move in alignment it doesn't need to make sense to anybody. I was lucky that it made sense to one person.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): But yeah.

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James Dunn: It made sense to you, and that was the most important thing. And and that's a very important thing to maybe kind of dig it a little bit deeper into is, you know, you talk about moving, you know, in alignment, and what feels right to you. But it's very uncomfortable. A lot of these movements that you make so for you. How do you distinguish that, you know, when something is uncomfortable? But you're like, you know, I know this is in alignment for you. Is there some way that you can kind of explain how you know when this is a move I should make, and when it's like Nope, I shouldn't do that.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I did a pros and cons list for every single move like this in my life.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Pros and cons list literally a pros and cons list

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): right before I moved. Actually with my friend Kara, the one person that understood me. We got a brown paper bag out, because for some reason that was the only thing that I had near me, and I got a brown paper bag, and I put a line in between, and I said pros and cons. I wrote pros on the left and cons on the right.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): and we wrote it out, and we were thinking together. And I was like, Here are the pros of moving to Spain. Warmer weather. Here are the cons. You do not know the language pros, you know, and there were so many more pros than there were cons, and my cons seem to be something that

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I could learn. I could learn the language. I could learn the Metro system right, because they had. They had like the subway, they call it Metro. So.

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James Dunn: Yeah.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I could learn the subway, I could learn how to get around Madrid. I don't need a car. Do I need a car, you know, like that kind of thing, the logistics of it. Those are my cons, the other one, the the pros were like.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): If it doesn't work out, you can move back.

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James Dunn: Nice. Yeah, no harm, no foul. You can just move

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James Dunn: no harm, no foul yeah. And I think I think that itself, I think, was like.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): If I don't do this, I think this was like the ultimate thing of like I picture myself.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): If I don't do this, what would I feel

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I did this when I was 2425.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): What would 80 year old? Me 70 year old? Me!

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): What would she say? Would she be like, you freaking idiot? Would she do that like? What would she say? And so I don't know. Sometimes it's kind of weird to say that you know that like way you make you make decisions just on a pros and cons list. But

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): the helps a lot.

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James Dunn: Yeah, well, I I think it probably helps give you clarity, because even I feel

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James Dunn: that I have. I have a pretty good feeling that even if there was only one pro like this could be true love and every other thing like there's 20 cons, you would still, once you put that on a piece of paper, just feel that one pro was more than enough for these 1520 cons that were over there. But just getting that clarity in your brain by putting it on a piece of paper helps you.

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James Dunn: regardless of what, again, what anybody else happens to think about. Well, look at all these things over here? No, these are. This is a reason why you should stay. No, yeah. But there's just that one reason, man, that's the only one I need. That's enough for me to do this thing, because in my heart of arts and in my soul I can feel that's the one.

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James Dunn: Yep, yeah, I love that.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And to make it, and to make it logical, too, because we could feel like, I think that's where a lot of the miscommunication and people are not satisfied with their choices is because the logistics, or whatever it was, was like, Yeah, but that's the one. But like, okay. But also

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): you have to think, okay, if it doesn't work out.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): then what right? And it's like, I'll cross that bridge when I get there.

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James Dunn: Yeah.

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James Dunn: Yeah. Well, that leads in perfectly to the next question. I've got. So what is one failure that you've had in life, but that eventually you found out. Maybe it was actually a good thing. But something in the moment you're like, Okay, I'm going to go. Follow my, I'm going to follow my my intuition here and then like, Oh, shit! That didn't work out quite the way that I wanted it to, but in hindsight you can look back. You know what? I'm actually kind of glad that happened.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Quitting gymnastics.

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James Dunn: Okay, tell me about that.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): So I was nationally ranked. And then I ended up actually qualifying for worlds and being part of the junior Olympic team. And I till this day. Gymnastics is my 1st love. That's what you know. To kind of get people to visualize like how much gymnastics means to me. Right.

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James Dunn: Yeah.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And then after that, after I quit, I actually coached it up until I left for Spain. So gymnastics was part of my everyday day in and day out, from 6 years old, until I left to Spain, which was, I was about to be 25, which is a long time.

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James Dunn: Yeah.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And I quit, and that decision was very hard to make within itself.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): But I would say that the quitting itself to me felt like I was losing a part of me

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): right? Because that was how I identified for such a long time. Right like with, you know. What were you doing on the weekends, going to competitions done? What are you doing like, you know?

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And when you just like anything in life, you quit something

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): besides the fact that you lose yourself. But there's a part of you that you're like. I don't really know what to do.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): and I think that limbo was something that I thought was going to be easier. I thought it was going to be a break. I thought it was because I quit, because my body was so broken I had. I mean, this is why I do. What I do now is because I had so many chronic symptoms. I had severe insomnia. My periods were so bad I was bleeding for my 1st year

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): hopefully, that's not too tmi, but like

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): it was a lot for my body, I became anemic. I had severe acne I got at 1 point like scanned for like skin cancer, because I had like patches, and all this stuff all over my body, my knees, my my wrist, like everywhere. And it was a lot. It was a lot at a very young age, and I ended up quitting at 16, which is you're you're mature.

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James Dunn: 16.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Gymnastics.

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James Dunn: Yeah, yeah.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And I actually ended up. I was that summer I had signed up to work out and get trained by Michigan State University, so I had Msu looking at me, and they were like, okay. And they noticed that I had this knee injury.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): and it was a constant knee injury that I've had since I was 13 years old. So I'm just kind of like hanging out, you know, with a really bad right knee for 3 years, and in the girl that that would come to my gym at my club to come train me.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): She was the 1st person that said, I think you need surgery. So we went to Orthopedic, and that orthopedic told us that I would need surgery on my knee. I have water in my knee. I got ligament issues tears, you know all this stuff, and I was like, Oh, my gosh! And then she told. She told me, and my parents and my coach and my entire team like, Hey, this is what's gonna happen, and then

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): If all goes well, then she'll go on the on our gymnastics team. But for her 1st year on the team, she would but kind of be benched.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And so I was like, I don't know if that's worth it, you know I don't. I don't know. And at that time I was thinking about like my education and like, what am I going to do? And you know all this stuff, and it was a really big decision. It wasn't as hard as moving to Spain, I'll tell you.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): but it was. It was big because of like, that's what I was. And so.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): these big things and actually like the opposite happened, and I was like, why did I quit? Why did I do this? Oh, my gosh, la, la! La! And I felt like at that time I couldn't see my friends, because that's those are the only friends that I had at that time.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): It was like this massive thing that I was like. I made the wrong choice. I made the wrong choice. Fast forward

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Because I had quit gymnastics. I actually had a lot more time to research about what was going on with my body. I ended up going to Wayne State, and I actually ended up going to Wayne State because I had that like time in between. If you will.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): When I graduated high school, I was like, I want to go to Wayne State. And I'm gonna figure out I'm gonna go to school to figure out what's wrong with me. And again, my my parents and everyone was like, No, you go to school to get a degree, and I'm like.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Nope, I'm gonna take classes that like I need to know. And

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): that's how I ended up doing what I do now. So yeah.

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James Dunn: That's wild. Yeah. I mean, you had to give up. You gave up your entire identity. So that was major culture shock and.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Yes.

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James Dunn: To to be able then to turn that around and basically end up creating your brand new identity in this whole new world. Yeah, it can be a very, very scary transition. But making that leap was was pretty awesome. So

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James Dunn: there had to be a belief that you had to give up during that whole thing, you know, that moved you from this state. You know the state of I'm unsure about myself. I don't really know what's going on. But then, you know, to move to this unstoppable state? Was there a specific belief that you gave up to to make that transition.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I don't want to say that I gave up a belief, but I want to say that I learned a new belief.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And I learned that there's always more.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Whenever I feel that there is something that like maybe that wasn't the best decision, there's always more. It's not, it's not the end until is the end of you.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): There is always like, as my grandma used to say. If if God wakes you up in the morning, and you got 2 legs, and you can walk, and you got 2 arms, and you can do all these things. You could do whatever you want in the world. You got health on your side, and you're waking up in the morning. That's it.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Good to one.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): So to me, that's what kind of I learned that. Actually, it's not the end of the world. If I'm not a gymnast anymore.

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James Dunn: I was. Gonna say, it's really funny, because my daughter and I were having a conversation in the car yesterday morning, and I forget exactly what prompted it. But it was basically about failing, or something along those lines. And she was asking. She asked me this question after I said something absolutely. But did it kill you? I'm like, no, and I mean she knew. Obviously I'm in the car with her, so it didn't kill me, but she was making as a joke, because that's something she likes to ask her friends like, was it to kill you? I was like? No, no! And it's such a wonderful question to ask, because if it didn't kill you, you've survived it. Now you can learn from you can grow from it. You keep going. Keep moving.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): It is so so cliche,

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Like what didn't kill you made you stronger.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): But there really is more to that. There's more to do. What I thought back then I was like, that's it. Gymnastics in school, that's all there is to life, and I'm going to go to college, and then I'm going to get a degree. And then I'm going to go help people and do something, and then and then I'll go coach on the side like

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! And I'm over here like 1415, 16 years old, talking like this.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): To life. There's always more. And when you think there isn't, there is, you just have to search for it. You gotta be like, okay, here, here's the next move.

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James Dunn: Yeah, I mean, do you think, do you think that gymnastics training helped teach you just to keep pushing? Keep going through that because you fall so often, you mess up so often, you just gotta get back and keep going. So that really helped.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): My my coach absolutely. My coach was the kind of coach that he cussed left and right. And

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Obviously, as as a you know you're young, you know.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): (101) 112-1314. You're like, Oh, f this F, that.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Effing toes like. That's how that's how our coach talked. And he used to do this thing with us where he would tell us an assignment.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): and he would leave either like, leave the premises like he'd go to the office or he would hang out and like go beyond like phone calls all day, like he would be in the

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Right, but he wouldn't like sit there and coach coach coach. You know what I mean like.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Okay, push. Okay, point your toes. Okay, straight legs, you know. You don't do that.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And so he would have these days where he's like, okay, here's your assignment and assignments would be

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): fairly approachable. It would be like, stick 5 beam routines in a row. Do 8 bar routines, you know, and stick the landing right. They were pretty approachable. There was some challenge to it, but pretty approachable.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And he's like, Okay, and you have until the end of practice to do it.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): and most of the time we wouldn't know what would happen if we didn't end up finishing the assignment. And a lot of the times if we did not finish the assignment we used to at the end, and like the back of like the gym, there was this really really Big Hill, and he would make us do that 10 times like run up and down 10 times.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And it was like things of this nature, so conditioning right.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And so

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I learned a lot about staying true to your word at that time, too, so definitely like falling and getting back up, but also, like you got to stick to your word, which I think is another part of just in general. Whatever you think, success is.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): whatever you think you gotta be super real with yourself, because if I wasn't real with my like, he didn't know if I stuck 5 beam routines I could be like, yeah, I stuck 5 beam routines like, yeah, whatever right? And and there were so many of us that did that, you know.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): But there was a point at a time where it would like it would show up in competition. It would show up if we did like because we we would. He would build like teams in the gym. And you'd be like, Okay, team, red and team blue you get, you know, points, it would be like a point system. And it'd be like, okay, this team, you know, based on this, this, how many points you get based on that right? And.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): He would do these kinds of things to definitely, obviously build teamwork and stuff like that, but also like truthfulness to you and like.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And I very much think about this often. And I actually just had this conversation with one of my clients is that I think it's beautiful at the fact that he would do that. And then and then, if I asked him for help, he would be like no, that was not a good routine actually back to 0. I'm like, huh!

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): What you know.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And I don't even want to ask him now. But it was those things that gymnastics taught me a lot about being true with yourself being honest with yourself, facing a lot of your

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): facing a lot of you know things that happen in in mindset wise, you know, to get you that 1% better. And the things that you do for just 1% right.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): So that kind of thing. And so I think you're absolutely right, James. I think gymnastics taught me just like in every other sport, too. I think it teaches you the agility and the very strong mindset to keep going, because there's always more.

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James Dunn: Yeah, yeah, was there. I mean, when you think back about your time with your coach, and it could be anybody else either, you know, too, was there ever any specific piece of advice that you can remember that somebody gave you? This really helps you kind of push through doubts and fears and things like that.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): You're talking like in general, or like at that time.

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James Dunn: scary stuff, you know. So maybe it wasn't gymnastics, maybe it's something else you know where again, you talk about following your intuition and just trusting your gut, you know, and believing in yourself. You know.

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James Dunn: Just is there anything that you can think of? Somebody's like man? That was just the greatest advice that they've given me, and if there's not, you know that doesn't some scream out at you, don't worry about it, but just just curious. If there's something that you can remember.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I wouldn't say advice, but I would say, that there are a few people in my life, my husband actually being one of them that

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): with time. As I watch my husband as I watch these people, that they're close to me, and I see them, you know, risking and and giving up a lot for somebody else, or for something else, or for something that is outside themselves, right.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And they do it with a smile on their face.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I'm gonna give you this example of like when I moved to Spain right, the image that I wanted the image, because we all make these images in our head because we saw a ROM cop movie because we saw someone else go through it. Because whatever right like, we make these expectations in our minds, right? That this is how it's going to be.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): and then it's not. And then we feel so bad we feel like it didn't work out, you know. Things start to pile up kind of.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And I've watched these people. That kind of inspire me, and that kind of like make me say like

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I am no one but a speck on this earth, in a universe, on a rock.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Floating through space.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Because what is life at the end of the day? If it's not just like creating something, I really, truly believe that's what life is is just creating something.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Want. You know whether it's babies, whether it's a good relationship, whether it's houses, whether it's art, whether it's whatever. But we're always in a state of creating.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And I like, I said, my husband is is one of those people that I really like. Sometimes I wonder how he works like 12 h day. He did this, for since we've had this house up until now, because we're literally about to put the house up for sale.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): he's done this for over 3 years now he worked 12 h days, and then would come home at 9 o'clock, 10 o'clock at night.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): and then would work until 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock in the morning. He did this for 3 years, straight straight from Monday through Saturday.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): and I'm just like Oh, my gosh! And don't don't get me wrong so hard on me. I felt like a single mom for the longest time super hard on me.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): but at the same time I was inspired because I can't imagine what he felt.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Because he didn't get time with his kids.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): He didn't get time with his wife. He didn't have personal time. I, at least got personal time.

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James Dunn: Yeah, that's great. I mean, that's that's some serious commitment by that husband of yours.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Yes, yes, right? So to me, it's like, all right.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): like, if we can create something that brings us joy.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Not all the time the success ends up. Looking, however, our expectation. How our mind created it to be

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): sometimes the bar is set so low that sometimes we're like, Oh, my God! This exceeded my expectations.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): You know, but sometimes it's like, what if I just didn't have expectations? What if I just I show up authentically? I show up fully, and I'm like.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): yes, I'm going to honor myself. I'm going to honor the people around me. I'm not going to hurt anybody in this in in this season of my life, while I'm trying to do this big, miraculous thing.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And but I'm going to be honest and real with myself. And here's the way that I'm going to do it.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And be open to how that looks. You know.

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James Dunn: Yeah, it's like, say, letting go of those expectations. It's 1 of those things that you know your expectations, what creates reality. And so if you go into a specific situation or event having this

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James Dunn: one specific expectation, it doesn't work out to be exactly that. Then you're like, Oh, this sucks! This wasn't what I thought it was going to be. But if you can just keep your mind open to the idea that I've heard a long time ago, which like this or something better.

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James Dunn: Yeah, it's not gonna look exactly like I thought, but it can be this or something better if I just will allow it to be that so? So give yourself that space to to see. Maybe again doesn't look exactly like I thought I was going to. But if I can look at the longer game. Okay, what did I learn from this? How can I grow from this? What is something positive that came out of this like, oh, okay. So I didn't again. I didn't get that thing that I wanted, but I got something so.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Verbatim.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Verbatim. I literally just told my husband like, we're never doing this ever again. I love you. I never want to see you work like this ever again, like, thank you so much. You're amazing! God bless! Oh, my God! Amazing.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): It's marriage time. Now it's marriage time. It's friendship.

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James Dunn: Celebrating that. Yes.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Yes.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Yes.

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James Dunn: Is there one habit, as you look back over the course of your journey and and life, and getting to the point where you're at now, is there one specific habit that's really helped you? You know. And if so, what would it be.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Through this like through my life.

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James Dunn: just getting to a place of where you're at in terms of your mental fortitude and your belief system and just happiness in general. And all these things, you know, you know, we talk about people have gone through struggles and challenges. Has there been any specific habits that you've used like, you know, some of the things that I'll use like meditation journaling being part of communities, things like that. Is there any one specific habit that's really really helped you on your journey.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Okay, I'm going to answer this kind of in like a full circle type of thing, right? So doing. So doing what I do? Obviously, yes, there's a plethora of habits

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): getting up and not touching my phone instead. Put my eyeballs towards the sunlight. Yes, helps especially from someone that had, like severe sleep problems, and I have a very high liver dysfunction, that's what that's my chronic illness. That's what I have. And so there's a lot of things that I have to do on the daily

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): we could talk about a later time. But people have really complicated health, right? And so I actually have, like a basics checklist where it's like, okay, you're not touching your phone. And from, you know, 9 9 am. Like, that's when you're starting. Your day is that, or that's when you're touching your phone is that 9 Am. Before then you're not.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): You're not touching it. It doesn't say it's on airplane mode, right? Getting outside, moving my body every day, journaling, reading the Bible and connecting with someone, whether it's through the phone, whether it's with my husband and we're chatting at like 10 o'clock at night when he gets home like whatever whatever it may be, it's connection. It's connection.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Connection with a friend. Connection with my neighbor. Connection just connection, right? Not being alone, not.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): However, however, I think the the best thing, the best habit.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): and this is, however you want to do it. The best habit is to practice gratitude. And again, it sounds so cliche, it sounds so blah. This is nothing new.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I recently started waking up, and because that that to me felt so dry, you know, like, when something is like, you taste something you're like, okay, I've had this so long, like, I'm kind of bored with it, you know.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): It's a book, and it's on. It's on spotify now, which is so weird. But anyways it's a book, and it's wonderful. And it talks about how you can be like better at faith driven and being an entrepreneur and finding rest in being an entrepreneur. And I was like, Well, I'm about to sell my house, and I absolutely love what I do and who I work with. I feel like

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): My gosh! And in my mind being, you know, type a perfectionist, you know.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): So I started waking up, and I started asking myself, How can I be engulfed in greatness?

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James Dunn: Yeah, wild, what? Just a little bit of gratefulness can do, because then you also show up.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Grateful.

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James Dunn: Well, I mean, you mean, just think about even the fact that you can breathe. You know there's some places that are full of smog, and you know there people are living out on the streets. They have to go forage for their own food. I mean, I can literally go walk in the other room, and I've got all kinds of food. Feed me for days.

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James Dunn: You know all these things. We just automatically like, I got light bulbs. You know that I can like I can flip a switch. I got light. Wow! What? This is awesome, even if you forget about these things until, like the power goes out in the middle of a storm, you're like. Oh, shit! I don't have a light. I can't see anything. Oh, my God, you know! Or if you run out of gas, you're like, Oh, I don't have a car to get me here anymore. We don't tend to really stop and think about these things until they're gone. And so I love

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James Dunn: up that be grateful for them. Now stop and really appreciate the things that are just right. Appreciate the fact that you can stand the fuck up and walk out of a room if somebody's annoying you, I mean, not everybody has that ability. There's.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): See if they annoy you. Be fact, be be happy that you can even see them for them to annoy you, because there are people that can't see the things that you're like. Oh, my God! Somebody spray painted graffiti on that thing over there.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Yes, I think it just brings that the kindness in the world. And I think for again to me again, we're coming back to this about life is about creating. Like, if we're here, we're recording this podcast we're having this conversation. Someone is going to hear this on the day that they're like, well today sucked well today. And I hope

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): that's the beauty of this is that we just need one person to hear this and to feel this, because at the end of the day it took only one gratefulness moment to turn my whole day around.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Just it took one person, just one person that I met to be like. I finally believe in love again. It didn't take 50. It took one.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): To sell this house. We only need one person right? And it's gonna have a big impact on on our lives, right? Like, those are the things that if we sit there and it's like.

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James Dunn: Yeah. And it's and it's cliche for a reason, because there is truth to it. You know, people.

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James Dunn: they're looking for these big monumental things that are hidden under a rock in the back of a cave somewhere that's miles and miles and miles away from anything that everybody's ever seen. But no, it's all these little bitty things that are right here in front of your face right now.

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James Dunn: and when you hear enough people enough of us talking about these things you're going to finally get. It's like, stop looking for these crazy, hidden gems. It's what's right here in front of you.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Right here.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): You know how the news is like so good at telling, like negative news.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Right. You know what I think about like every single time, like when I think about this, when I'm like, Okay, how can I be engulfed in in greatness. How, how can I? And like, I'll do this with my clients. It's like, Okay, what is the best thing right now that my clients need. And now it's not all the time like another food or another this or another, a lot of times. It's just like.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): hear them out! Hear them out, Jenna, like, you know, listen to their voice message and like do it when you're you're no like in the Zone, and like right like just having that approach.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And I think about this, that I think the news is so good. And I think it's so addicting for so many, because it's negative news, because it's so normalized, especially in in a 1st world country like the Us. My background

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): again, we we could talk about this. I don't know if it's cool to like talk about my background and like kind of where I'm coming from. But.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Okay.

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James Dunn: They don't fuck off, man, we're here. We're having a good time, and hopefully you enjoy.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Yeah, yeah, my background is, I was adopted at birth, and and then I was kept a secret for my 1st 2 years of my life in a hospital, and then I was put in an orphanage. Now, if you know anything about Eastern orphanages, they are neglectful food wise, you know nutrition wise all that, emotionally, mentally, I had. I shared my crib, and at 3 years old look at a 3 year old right now I shared a crib with another 3 year old.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): So these are. I didn't eat my 1st banana until my my parents, my adoptive parents, my adoptive parents, are my parents.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): My parents came, and they met me for the 1st time, and they gave me a banana, and I tried to eat the banana with a peel at 3 years old.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And I think about that. And I think about like these things. And a lot of people would be like, well, yeah, of course, it's like easier for you to be grateful because, like, look where you came from. And I'm like, yeah, look where I came from, and look where I am now, because some people were like, Hey, like we should adopt. And that's a whole different story, because adoption is not always like the best scenario for the kids. And there's a system. There's a huge system issue in there. But what I can say is that

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): We are like, what is it called? Where like you see so much of like desensitized.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): You're like desensitized from like, Oh, my gosh! I can get like this much food and like it's not going to go bad because I have a fridge to keep it in. What do you mean? And it's like, Wait, I'm coming from like, I don't know what a banana is. Yeah, hold up, you know. And so these are the things that I think that's why news is news does so good

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): in the wellness industry. And again, I'm talking about this, because that's what I'm in. But the wellness industry does so well on fear mongering, because it's like.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): what do you mean? I don't have to take a supplement. Oh, Ps, yeah. Sorry. I should have said that. I'm not for pushing pills or supplements

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And there's so many people out there that are like, Oh, you have this. Take a supplement. You have this. Take a supplement.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): and it's becoming the new pill thing, and it's the same mindset that got us there that got us from, you know. Oh, well, you know, having showing gratitude or having gratitude every day is so cliche, it's the same mindset.

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James Dunn: Yeah. And you know, you talk about being adopted. And I don't know if you remember this. But I'm adopted as well. And so maybe it is easier for you and I

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James Dunn: to really stop and think about it, because something that's crossed my mind many times when I think back about it. I was adopted by the time I was 6 months old, but I still just. I don't know my biological parents, and just like yourself, my parents are my adoptive parents, that's all I've ever known. I have 0 interest in finding my adoptive. I have 0 interest in finding my biological parents no offense to them. I've just. This is my life. I'm cool, I'm happy.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Yeah, but.

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James Dunn: I stop and think about my biological mother had to make that decision, to carry me to full term, and then to have me, and then to give me up. I literally could have ended up, you know, and on a hospital floor I don't have abortion. I don't know how abortions work, but I mean, you know, I literally could have not been here.

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James Dunn: Had made the choice just like I don't want to go through with this so fucking. Of course I'm going to be goddamn grateful for every single fucking second on this planet. But, like you said, if you didn't have a situation like that, you should be even more fucking, grateful. You had parents that raised.

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James Dunn: That you were born that loved you, that cared about you, and maybe they weren't perfect, I fucking guarantee they weren't perfect because no parents are perfect, but that should give you even more reason to be grateful. And if you're not, then what the fuck is wrong with you in the nicest, most polite way I can say that. But seriously, just

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James Dunn: it will help you through the darkest of days, when you can.

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James Dunn: Okay, yes, this sucks. This is terrible.

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James Dunn: But even go circling back, you know, if we were talking about circling back to things, you know. Oh, motherfucker, I just lost the circle, son of a bitch.

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James Dunn: Oh, what was I gonna say? There? It was always no just persevering. And knowing that this is not the end, you know. Maybe today sucks. Maybe this isn't thing, but I know that when I look back at this, a week from now, a month from now, 6 months from now a year from now, whatever it happens to be, I'm gonna look back like, you know. Wait a minute. Yeah, that sucked. But there was something really great that came out of that I learned from it. I you know whether it be that, like you and your husband, we don't want him to have to work that much ever again. We're going to go over here. We're gonna move to this new country or the old country. However, you want to look at it. You know, we're gonna move.

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James Dunn: place. And you know, we're we're going to create this new lifestyle. We're not going to live the way that we've been living in the past. We're going to do these other things here. So just always finding that gratitude. It's it's huge. It's huge people

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James Dunn: So let me ask you, I mean, you mentioned a book, but one of the things I love to do in this podcast. It gives is, give people a very practical place that they can go. Look, is there a specific book, or a podcast or something like that that has had a massive profound impact on your life that you you would recommend that people might go check out.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Yes, absolutely immediately. When you said you mentioned books. I'm like I have one in mind.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): So I obviously am a fan of like self-help books. I'm a fan of understanding how our body is connected with our mind, and our gut is connected to our brain and all that stuff. It's what I study. It's what I do. It's awesome. I have Cptsd from very clearly so much abandonment at a very young age, and it shows up in the wildest of ways. And so

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I went to therapy, and that was itself like being a Romanian, and you're going to therapy. Oh, my God!

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): So bad. That was another tough, tough choice, but it had to be done. It had to be done.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): and my therapist actually showed me this, and so thankful for her. Jacqueline, if you're if you ever hear this, you're amazing, love you, but it's actually an audible. It is not a book, but it is an audible, and it's called the Science of Compassion.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): It is so wonderful. She's a she's a neurologist that studied compassion.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Which is insane to think about like what? That's something that can be studied absolutely. And it's so wonderful because she breaks down what compassion means, because a lot of people think compassion is like

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): empathy, and we confuse compassion for empathy, and it also she has a great way through the entire book. She kind of takes you from like.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Here's how we view compassion. And here's what we can do to help others.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Here's what self compassion is. And here's what we can do to help ourselves. Here's how we can now actually do both at the same time. And then there's even more. It's a lot. It's like it takes you through the steps. And it's so wonderful. It's actually a tool that I help, for I use with my clients as well. I'll tell them, like specific chapters, to listen to whatever

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): helps a lot. Self-compassion is another way of showing that you are grateful and showing that gratitude for our body and for our mind, because at the end of the day our mind always wants to keep us safe, but doesn't know real from from false right, from.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Reality right? And so it does that. So when we think about these things, when things are happening, when we're going through the movements, when my husband wasn't home. I'm like, Oh, my God! Am IA good parent? Oh, my God! Did I mess up my children? You know.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Some compassion. Here's what you did today. Here's what you you know, like all this stuff, right? And so it very much helps to to not just stay grateful, but also stay in the creation.

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James Dunn: Yeah, yeah, I'll definitely have to check that one out, because I'm a big fan of I just say, give give yourself, Grace, you know, saying we're thinking about the same basic concept is just stop beating yourself up. Stop trying to tear yourself down. You know you did the best you could always always talk to people and share with them, you know, as I'm working with them, saying, Hey, listen! You did the best you could at that time like the person that you were at that moment. You made the best decision for you. It's not like you said something. How can I fuck up my.

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James Dunn: You literally thought about it. What is the best decision I can make, based on the experience that you had based on the knowledge that you had based on the possible scenarios of what made sense to you at the time. Now, a year later, 5 years later, however far it is back. You're you're looking at it from the perspective. Now you can say, Oh, here's what else I could have done. But you didn't know that at the time. Now you do so give yourself that compassion. Give yourself that grace and just breathe. So I'll definitely have to check out that book. That sounds awesome.

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James Dunn: So all right, the the name of this podcast is the unsure to unstoppable. Podcast so with my final main question, before we give a chance for people to figure out where they can connect with you and what you got going on. What's 1 piece of advice you give someone who feels stuck and unsure of their potential.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Wow! Good question, what would I say? Yeah.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I don't know what I would say to be honest, because because here here's the thing.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): a lot of people that feel stuck.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And then what was the second half, and how they can move forward.

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James Dunn: We're just what's 1 piece of advice you give someone who feels stuck and unsure of their potential right now.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Of their potential. Okay, that was it. So if they feel stuck and then unsure of their potential.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I don't know what I'll say, because here's here's my thought process on that.

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James Dunn: Okay.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): When I felt stuck and I still feel stuck. Let's say that. Okay.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): when I feel stuck, when I'm unsure of my potential. Oftentimes it's because

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I'm filling the wrong cup. Let me explain.

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James Dunn: Okay. Please.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I keep myself busy, and I'll like, be like, oh, I'm doing things for my business. Oh, I'm doing things for my family. Oh, I'm doing things. La, la! But it's like.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): did that need to be done at 10 PM. At night?

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James Dunn: No.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): You needed to put your butt to bed. You know that kind of thing.

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James Dunn: Yeah.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And we really like to be overworked and undernourished.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And that itself again. I'm just thinking about like my clients in in kind of like what what I see in my world, right? What I'm surrounded by. And I think environment also matters a lot here.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): but I think it's really asking yourself

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): what cup needs to be filled. My social cup, my

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): my self-love cup, my connection cup.

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James Dunn: Yeah.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Being stuck.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I just find that question so good staying stuck

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): and not knowing and being kind of stuck in in your potential.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): We have so much potential.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I think about this as like kind of like like physics. Right? Something in motion stays in motion.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): You're stuck because you're not in motion.

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James Dunn: Yeah.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): What gets it to be? Emotion.

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James Dunn: Yeah, just gotta move. You gotta start taking action.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Move.

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James Dunn: Yeah, gotta do something.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Yeah, sweet.

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James Dunn: Awesome. Well, cool. That's that. That was my initial round of questions for you. There, Jetta, this has been so awesome. Working.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): I love this. This was.

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James Dunn: Yeah, where can people find you? And what's the best way to connect with you? And is there anything that you want to share with people that you got going on or coming up here pretty soon.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Yeah, thank you. So you can definitely find me on Instagram jettas dot digest GETA s dot digest DIGE. ST.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And then on Facebook, I have a private Facebook group that's called Jetta's Gut Health, and everything is centered around faith and chronic illness and not pushing pills and supplements and a lot of self-advocacy in there. And right now I actually have what's called a food as medicine guide, and it's a 4 in one guide. It's helping people so much in making grocery, shopping.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): healing.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): and a lot more flexible in their budget. A lot more flexible in their health. You know that kind of thing, and giving them a peace of mind because there's a lot of fake health advice out here, and people are scared of eating so much food. And we're just not created for that. That's a great actually think of like how we can get stuck is because.

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James Dunn: Yeah.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): And so, having that, as you know, we're talking like broths. There's seasonings that are going to help you, and it's as simple as as like seasoning your food and knowing how to season your food, can help with your estrogen. It can help with your sleep. It can help with your periods it can help with your headaches. It can help with any of these chronic symptoms. I think I mentioned this already. The broth recipes. There's a grocery shopping swap.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): so you can literally take that grocery shopping and be like, oh, yes, cool. I will get this brand. And I will, you know. Yeah. And then the last one is about the blood sugar. So what snacks to eat? So then, our blood sugar, our immune system, all that kind of stays.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): you know, happy and flowing. And we're not, you know, we don't like hate like that like 3 pm, you know what I mean. So, yeah, that kind of thing. So yeah, the Widow's Medicine Guide. It's 87 books, and it's yours forever. And yeah, that's that.

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James Dunn: Awesome. Well, cool. We'll have to make sure to get a link from him. We'll drop it in the show notes so that way people can get directly to it, and not have to spend too much time searching for it. But I'll make sure we link up your Instagram and everything else form in the in the show notes as well. So, Jet, as I said, this has been awesome. It's been great. I do have one final question for you before we wrap things up. How do you define? Unstoppable in your own words?

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Oh, how do you define unstoppable.

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James Dunn: Yeah.

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Geta Barbu (@getas.digest): Being scared and doing it anyways.

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James Dunn: Yes, just do it, anyway. People

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James Dunn: feel that fear and do it. Anyway. That sounds like an awesome way to wrap up this show. Jetta, thank you so much for being on here. As I said, it's it's always good to talk to you, and I'm glad I get to share you with my audience, and I hope they love you just as much as I do. So with that. Everybody get out there. Have an amazing fucking day, and we'll see you next time.