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Health & Fitness Redefined
Health and Fitness Redefined with Anthony Amen. Take a dive into the health world as we learn how to overcome adversity, depict fact vs fiction and see health & fitness in a whole new light.Fitness Is Medicine
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Breaking Normal: Why Health Should Be Your Top Priority
What happens when your world turns upside down in an instant? For DK Kang, martial artist of 34 years and author of "Mindset Metamorphosis," that moment came when his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, followed shortly by losing his job just after requesting flexibility to support her through treatments.
Most people would spiral into negativity, but DK reveals how he and his wife chose a different path – reframing their crisis by asking "why not us?" instead of "why us?" This powerful mindset shift allowed them to navigate ten months without income while facing mounting medical bills and the emotional toll of cancer treatments.
The conversation takes a fascinating turn when host Anthony connects DK's experience to a biblical principle about not conforming to the patterns of this world. Why would anyone want to be "average" when the average American is overweight, unhappy, and working in a job they dislike? This challenge to societal norms becomes a cornerstone of the discussion about intentional health choices and mental resilience.
DK shares practical wisdom about habit stacking – building small, positive habits onto existing routines that compound over time. His example of doing push-ups while waiting for morning coffee to brew demonstrates how tiny, consistent actions can transform physical and mental health without overwhelming lifestyle changes.
Perhaps most eye-opening is the financial reality DK reveals: a single chemotherapy treatment cost $80,000. This staggering figure underscores why preventative health measures aren't just physically beneficial but economically crucial. As DK poignantly notes, "You have one mind and one body. What are you going to do with them?"
Whether you're facing a health crisis, seeking motivation for positive change, or simply interested in strengthening your mental resilience, this episode offers both inspiration and practical tools for transforming your mindset and, ultimately, your life. Subscribe now and discover why fitness truly is medicine for both body and mind.
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This is Health and Fitness Redefined, brought to you by Redefined Fitness. What's up, everybody, and welcome to another episode of Health and Fitness Redefined. I'm your host, anthony Amen, and today we've got another great episode for all of you. Today, all about mindset, probably my favorite topic for those that avidly listen to the show. It's something I think that's super important and hopefully we can learn a little more. So today's guest is DK Kang. Welcome to the show man. It's a pleasure to have you on what got you into writing and learn about mindset.
Speaker 2:Yeah, thank you for having me uh to be on your show, uh. So what got me writing about mindset is uh. So I've been doing martial arts all my life, about 34 years now. I started at the age of five, and I mean your show talks about adversity and overcoming it, and so when you're doing martial arts, martial arts is not, it's not, it's not easy, it's, and it's small progressions, but there's also a lot of that mindset of you know, meditation, clearing the mind, breath, work, and so when I wrote this book, mindset Metamorphosis, it was actually because I was going through a challenging time. So last year, january of 2024, my wife gets diagnosed with breast cancer and then we're trying to do all this research, because I talk about a fixed mindset versus a growth mindset.
Speaker 2:Like a fixed is you kind of know everything and that's it. But growth is like how are you progressing? Like, how are you learning, how are you growing? And so when we heard the news, you know we just dug deep. We went into research about nutrition, about fitness and how we can help with diseases and with going on a plant-based diet to help, basically, heal from cancer. And so the book kind of came about is because I felt I felt overwhelmed, I felt stressed and just stuck. I'm like what do I do? Because my wife is going through this.
Speaker 2:And then I'm reading this book called the Breast Cancer Husband and it's basically talking about be there for your wife, no matter what, like to all her appointments. And then, as I'm about to finish it, the book says to let your employer know what's going on and to have more of a flexible work schedule. So then I tell my employer this flexible work schedule. So then I tell my employer this, and so it's like february 1st when I tell them that. And then they're like yeah, okay, that's fine, we'll give you a flexible work schedule. Then a week after that, on a thursday, they're like we're gonna let you go. And I'm like what do you mean? Like you said, oh, you know it's okay to have a flexible work schedule. They're like, oh, it's, it's budget cuts, things like that. But I'm like, I don't.
Speaker 2:I'm pretty sure that there's other reasons, but you know, for me I could. We could easily went down the spiral of like, oh, like the world is against us, oh, life sucks. And so we had to reframe, like how do we get through this? And so we had no income for 10 months, from February of last year to December. So medical bills added up, I mean living expenses still kept coming and so. But our mindsets really saved us because it's like like your mind is like a magnet. If you're thinking negative thoughts, you're going to get negative results, like here's an example In 2023, I ran a 50K Spartan Ultra.
Speaker 2:It's not, it's definitely for the few. And Anthony know you've done a 21k's the beast before, so you know what it's like right. So doing a 50k's pretty much double that 60 obstacles for me. Everything that went wrong went wrong. Like I tore my hands. I lost my tracker. I had to. I was already like a half mile in. I had to run back a half mile to go get my tracker. I lost my tracker. I had to. I was already like half mile in. I had to run back a half mile to go get my tracker. I lost my gloves, I had a nosebleed, I dropped a boulder on my toe, like the big Atlas carry a lot, but for me, like, my mind was like I need to keep going, I need to keep moving forward and take those steps to continue to keep going.
Speaker 2:And then, as I was, as I'm passing people that's doing the 50K with me, as you know, everyone's wearing an ultra shirt, so you know that everybody's doing an ultra and they're saying they're saying this out loud like oh, this, this 50k is way too freaking hard, or this is like I'm not going to make it to the finish line. And with that mindset, like those people did not finish, like the 50k is a 50 percent fail rate, like the guy you know he's announcing at the beginning of of the Spartan race and he's like 50, 50% of you guys are probably going to fail this. That I mean, and it's true like 600, about 620 people went in and about 300 people finished on the finish line. As you know, you see stats at the end of your, your, your race. And so me, kind of going back to that, I was thinking like, with everything going on with my wife, I'm like all right, like the mindset, like what we think is what we can control, like everything outside of that, like we you know, I can't control if I find a job or not, but you know and so we had to rely on just our mind, but like not only our mind, but like our faith.
Speaker 2:And so we had to rely on just our mind, but not only our mind, but our faith, our faith. You know, the Bible talks about in Romans, about not to conform to this pattern in this world, but to be transformed, of the renewing of your mind. And so we had to renew our minds of like what that meant. We had to renew our way of thinking and we had to reframe like, instead of saying like, oh, this is a terrible situation. You know, we ended up praying after I lost my job. And then, you know, as soon as I got home from work, when I got the news, we prayed, but instead of like kind of breaking down and crying like, I ended up just kind of laughing and I was just like, well, all right, god, well, why not us? And so I had to reframe that of like thinking instead of why me, why us? I was reframed it to, why not us? And saying, oh, maybe this, this might help somebody else that might be going through stuff Like everybody.
Speaker 2:As I'm writing this book, I'm like everybody's going through some sort of adversity, some sort of challenge, some sort of storm, and like it's not just one person is going through this. Like and I had to really think about that, and like I wanted to give people like practicals on, like how to overcome those challenges, cause if you're doing a Spartan race, there's obstacles in the way. Like, do you get over it under it, through it around it? Do you crawl under it? Like you know, we're just going to have obstacles, I, we're just going to have obstacles.
Speaker 1:I'm going to jump in on this because I think this is so important. I never knew that Romans section. Can you repeat that thing for me again In Romans?
Speaker 2:Yeah. So in Romans 12.2, it says Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. And then it continues.
Speaker 1:Stop there.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:The first line do not conform to the pattern of this world. I have been stuck on this for the last week and it's crazy, like you said, like things just kind of connect and hop in because I don't know that, I didn't know that was in there. But what I've been stuck on is I heard this last week and I've just been obsessing over it so I was being interviewed a successful CEO and he was laughing at the fact that everyone always talks about being average, right, everyone wants to fit in right, so that means conforming and fitting into a society.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But let's take the average American overweight, they have underlying health conditions from it. They're divorced, they're not happy, they're in a job they hate and can't wait to retire.
Speaker 1:So they feel like they're wasting their time, like even just those five things. So why the hell would I want to fit in and conform to that kind of society? And that flips into what you're talking about is, if you go to be just like everybody else, you're going to end up being like everybody else. If you do habits like everybody else, you're going to end up being habits like everyone else. So when someone says to me, anthony, why do you do things that way? That's because all of you go that way. So I'm going that way because I know that's not the answer. Try comparing me to that person. Screw you. I don't want to be average. Don't compare me to that person. Compare me to the top 3% in the US and those are the habits I'm going to follow, as opposed to the average American F that I even took it to an extreme.
Speaker 1:I had a conversation with my wife and she was talking about how like is this normal? She kept saying that it's like well, I do this. Is this normal? I said who gives a shit? Why do I want to be normal Like we're taking that? Said who gives a shit? Why do I be normal like we're taking? That? I know it's a saying she had in her vocabulary. Like we're taking that out of vocabulary, it doesn't matter, it no longer matters. If something is normal, don't be normal. Be different, because that's what's going to help you ultimately succeed in life yeah, I mean I, I totally agree.
Speaker 2:Um, I, for me, growing up I grew up in Missouri I was never their normal kid. Like I brought kimchi and I brought Korean food to school in the middle of nowhere of Missouri and I got made fun of. But for me, like my parents were Korean, they immigrated here and so they're like here's a lot of health benefits to kimchi. They're like here's a lot of health benefits to kimchi. And I mean I wrote a cookbook on how to integrate kimchi into dishes because there's so many probiotics and the fermentation and health benefits with your gut, brain, health, with with fermented foods and so, like I've always kind of been like that the outcast kid, kind of going against the grain. And so like, like you're saying, like I kind of didn't want to be normal, like and you know I grew up doing martial arts, martial arts isn't a normal thing to do, that everybody does. Like I didn't play basketball soccer because all the other kids are doing that and I'm like there's more. I want to just do martial arts because that helps with your mind, body, spirit and it just really helps you to overcome the adversity, the challenges, because when punches and kicks are flying at your face. What do you do? Soccer? No one's trying to kick you in the face or punch you in the face, everyone's chasing a ball. So I think you're right, just trying to not be normal and, like when my wife got diagnosed with cancer, like we didn't do the normal thing. Like we ended up seeing three doctors. Two of them were like, yeah, just eat pretty much anything you want to eat. And we're like reading this book called Crispy Cancer and it's a great resource. But you know he talked about, you know, going on a plant-based diet, whole foods and juicing, and you know a lot of that. And then, like, for some of your listeners I don't know if you know about this um, this documentary called um, uh, the game changers. It's a it's, it's a plant-based documentary and how a plant-based diet helps with athletic performance great, great documentary. And there's there's a bunch of other ones, like fork, silver knives is one um.
Speaker 2:But so you know, as we're reading this book crispy cancer we just we're like, all right, we're gonna go full plant-based and we're going to heal from this, and so that was like our mindset. We had to change instead of like, oh well, we're just going to continue to eat our diet. Well, like, if you look at cancer, cancer is not, it's not a genetic disease anymore these days. Maybe it's like 5%, but 95% it's a lifestyle disease from your environment, your eating habits, your stress, like the type of work you're doing, like all these things adds up the chemicals that we're ingesting, the processed food that we should get away from, and so we just went completely plant-based and that was like our mindset shift Because we're like, all right, we need to learn from someone that's been there before us.
Speaker 2:You know it's like. It's like, it's like fitness. You know you. You know you're a coach, you're a trainer, you're a personal trainer. You know people don't come to see you based on like, oh, I'm already at your level. It's like, no, you're training them so you can bring them to your level or even better. And you know, same for me. Like I've done martial arts, I've taught it. Like, for me, my end goal is I want my students, the people that I'm training, I want them to be better than me, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to be a slouch and not train anymore. I'm like I'm going to keep training but I'm going to keep bringing you up with me and that's going to bring you better and so so, yeah, the mindset is, is is very powerful, and I believe that so many of us don't practice mindset tools, even like habits, micro habits.
Speaker 2:Mindset tools, even like habits, micro habits, like how do we build upon another habit? Let's just say I talk about this in my book about habit stacking. And let's say you already have a habit you do every single day Like I don't know, everybody drinks coffee, right, I don't drink coffee, but I kind of use this as an example. You're brewing your coffee. It takes two minutes, right, and you're saying I want to get better in fitness. Well, while your coffee is brewing for two minutes, knock out as many pushups as you can. Do that every single day. That's going to compound. These little steps are going to compound into something bigger, because by the end of the year, you, like man, I've done a thousand push-ups just by doing push-ups every morning when my coffee's brewing, you know.
Speaker 2:So it's things like that, and and it was the book was a way for me to deal with my stress, my overwhelmed and me feeling stuck and like what are some of the things that I know that I've done that helped me, that I'm sure it's going to help other people as well, like breath work, like taking deep breaths, uh, prioritizing what's important to you, uh, so, like a lot of these things, I was just like I need to write these things down and put it in a book and I just want to help people change their minds and get active.
Speaker 2:Like I talk about hydration in there too, like you know, drinking water every day, every day, try to drink half your body weight, and so like.
Speaker 2:For me, I'm, I've been a massage therapist for 18 years now and I my main focus is athletic performance, athletic recovery and with stress management and pain management, because I know everybody's stressed, I know everybody's in pain, but a lot of my clients are athletes, like I see runners, I see golfers and um, and they're like in pain because they're like breaking down their muscles, and so I've been helping them with the body work.
Speaker 2:But then today it's also your mind, too. Like, what are you thinking? What do you? What are you feeding your mind? Are you feeding your mind garbage? And same thing, are you feeding your body garbage, to like, are you eating McDonald's every single day, which is not not good, like you know, because it's all process and we have to think like, why is the United States one of the richest countries in the world but we are the most obese country in the world as well. Like it's very. It's disheartening for me because I want people to be healthier in their mind and their body, just also like, like emotionally as well, and exercise helps with that good.
Speaker 1:Here's a good question that we can ask, and I want my listeners to really think about this. Why, in our studio, as a perfect example, do I have to push people like actively, persuade them to start taking creatine? But they'll blindly go buy a processed food at a grocery store and even, to the extreme, go inject some medicine into them, like your GLP-1s, without truly knowing what's doing to your body.
Speaker 2:You know, because it's easy. You know a doctor tells them to do this, they're like okay, I'm going to go do it, like, instead of like actually reading about it or educating themselves and having that growth mindset. Because for us, like we saw a doctor, they're like yeah, eat. Whatever you want to do, you need to do. You know 12 rounds of chemo. You need to do 10 sessions of radiation. You need to do. You know 12 rounds of chemo, you need to do 10 sessions of radiation. You need to all this. And then, as we're doing research, we're like well, why do we need to do all that? And then the doctor tells us like, oh, we over diagnose and over medicate everybody. And well, we're like well, can we cut that in half and still get the results? And they're like, oh, yeah, so I'm like well, can we do that? Like, because we did our own research. But I think when people easily just go to there because it's readily available and people want to be in their comfort zones because that's all they know, yeah, I totally.
Speaker 1:How's your wife now? How's her cancer diagnosis?
Speaker 2:yeah, so she is cancer free from January, February of 2025. But that also entailed her getting cataracts from the steroids, from the chemo treatments. The doctor says that it's not related, but her eye doctor says it is related. So you know is related. So you know it's like. Who do we trust? Uh, but she just done cataract surgery last last thursday on her second eye. So she's still recovering from that.
Speaker 2:But I mean with, with, like with cancer, it's a. It's a long and hard recovery because those drugs, I chemotherapy, it kills. The good and the bad it doesn't matter. And so, energy level, I'll tell people right now to start changing your diet right now and changing your mind. And when we had no insurance at the point when I lost my job, she had her first chemo treatment. It was $80,000 US dollars, Like for one, and she had to do 12.
Speaker 2:You would go broke if you don't take care of your body. It's more expensive to get chemo than it is to just change your diet into a whole, a whole food diet instead of eating hamburgers. And I'm I'm saying that because, like, we're still kind of in the thick of it, Like you know, I mean, luckily, our insurance kicked in, but our we, you know, we still have like $60,000 worth of medical debt like that piled up because you know we didn't have insurance and or I mean we didn't have income coming in. And so you know, I just want, I just want to help people like hey, like wake up and like this is this is real? Like more and more people are getting diagnosed with cancer, Like my father had pancreatic cancer, my best friend's mom has cancer, my wife's few friends have cancer. It's a big deal and if you can prevent it, it's going to be so much more better for you and for your family, Because when you hear the news you have cancer it turns your world upside down. I mean, it did for us, for sure.
Speaker 1:And so that's kind of mind-blowing if you hear those kind of things, and the post I was going to put up today in my social accounts actually was a lot of people choose wealth over health and yeah, it should be the exact opposite, because it doesn't matter how much money you have in the world, your health is the most important thing, as you kind of just said.
Speaker 1:If you tie, tie them together, a chemo treatment costs you $80,000. That's like how much money could you invested of that into your health? And then what do you have gotten? Would you've got breast cancer from that point? I don't know, the chances probably would have been way lower, or she would have been way better. Prognosis right. Should have way better quality of life. Yeah, better prognosis right, should have way better quality of life.
Speaker 1:And if you turn that into what you really see, with yet again tying into the average American, by the time the average person retires from work, they are on some sort of disability to the point where they can all the things they talked about traveling the world, backpacking Europe, doing this, going on this they can't do anymore because they're just too sick. So you get caught in that. Well, maybe I should have taken time off. We can't go back in time and take more time off. I mean the easier solution if you can't afford it financially is start taking care of your health.
Speaker 1:Prioritize your health above absolutely everything else. When you look at your spend as far as like your month-to-month like balancing your budget, your it really shows where your priorities actually are. Yeah, and a lot of people prioritize stupid shit and I see this time and time again as an example. Women, just I'm not picking on you, but getting your hair done, going to get a blowout and a cut at an expensive salon you're talking like 200 bucks and move some people to that bi-weekly. That's not bettering your health. Maybe cut that down and do half that, or what about going out to eat.
Speaker 1:You can go out to eat and to like a takeout like Chipotle spend 15 bucks. Or you can go out and get wine and steak at an expensive steakhouse spend 100 bucks a person. Like, look at that, that's an $ 85 difference right there that you could have used to invest into your own health. It had way better outcomes than just one hour of enjoyment. Would you rather that one hour or would you rather a lifetime and years of being able to watch your kids get married, watching your grandkids get born? Like being there for, uh, elderly parents that are in their 80s. If they're alive it's a lot, and if you don't prioritize your health, you're fucked. Bottom line, that's it, and I don't know at what point we need to have a wake-up call. I mean, we're seeing it now, at least this year, with what's going on politically, but like wake up let's, let's start focusing on our health.
Speaker 1:I don't want to hear how going to a gym is expensive and time consuming. Who the fuck cares? You're gonna be around years longer. Yeah, you're gonna feel way better, you're way less likely to get that cancer. Think about those before you start thinking about. Oh well, I've got to wake up early and go to the gym and you know you don't have to sign up for a gym.
Speaker 2:Like start small. Like go outside, get some sun exposure, get some vitamin D. Like go on walks. Like walking is just so good. Like, if you're starting out like a couch potato, like don't be mean, go do a 50K Spartan race, just get up, put your shoes on and walk to the mailbox every day and then go out a little bit further. Just add some sort of physical activity.
Speaker 2:We have one mind and one body. What are you going to do with it? If you had one car, how would you treat that one car? If you had one toyota camry, how would you treat it for the rest of your life? Like same thing. You have one mind, one body. What are you gonna put into it? Are you gonna give it?
Speaker 2:You know hamburgers and hot dogs and you know fast food. Are you gonna change your diet and add some more nutritious food that's you know whole food and try to get some exercise, and because you know fast food. Or you're gonna change your diet and add some more nutritious food that's you know whole food and try to get some exercise, and because you know when you're overweight like? I see this with a lot of my clients as well. Like I see a lot of some people just overweight because they have a desk job, because they're stressed and you know they have a lot of pain. But I'm like you know you're putting so much on your joints with that extra weight. I'm like you're going to end up getting a knee replacement or a hip replacement in a couple of years and then, once you get that and you don't lose the weight and keep the weight off, like you're going to need another knee replacement and it's not the surgeon's fault.
Speaker 2:It's. It's like we need to have ownership. We need we're not the victim we need to have ownership of our own health and our own, like, mental health as well. And what are we doing with that? You know, we just want everyone to fix us like, oh, the doctor gives me a new knee replacement, but you don't do anything about it. Then, well, it's on you you can't blame the surgeon for a new knee replacement that it goes bad in a couple years. Like you know, you got to think about these things that we need to have ownership of our own health because no one's going to take care of it besides you so in your book?
Speaker 1:what? How did you discover how to get through to people like what do you think is the answer and way to start a conversation with somebody to get them to have a mindset shift?
Speaker 2:uh, you know, I think first you have to figure out, like, what's your why? Like, think about, like, you know, some people's like I want to lose 20 pounds or 30 pounds. Okay, so, but why, like? Why do you want to lose that? You, because I just want to look good. I'm like, well, what's your bigger? Why? Like, oh, I want to be able to play with my kids.
Speaker 2:I'm like, okay, now we're getting somewhere and let's start shifting that mindset of like, all right, what do you need to do? And how do you start small from? Because you're not just going to run a 5K right now. If you're trying to lose 30 pounds, all right, well, let's just start walking and then do that for like a month. It's starting like these small habits, these small like shifts, like when you, you know, like journaling would be another one, like journal down, I'm feeling overwhelmed or I'm feeling stuck or I'm not enough, like these negative thinking patterns. And then it's like, all right, now let's start reframing it to well, why do I feel that I'm not enough? And then writing it down like okay, here's some things that I'm grateful for and why I am enough to start a business, or to lose 30 pounds, or you know, whatever it is and it's, it's starting small and building those habits, because those habits change your behavior and once you change that behavior you start seeing better results, not only in your mind, but also just in your physical activity as well.
Speaker 1:Here's a tough one for you. How do you approach, or do your approach? You know those people that you talk to and they make jokes about their health all the time and they like pretend they don't. I'm going to say, pretend that they don't care. They're a hundred pounds overweight or they're smoking and they're drinking a lot and you're just like, oh, I don't do that. How do you approach that kind of person? Is that even worth it? If, even if you absolutely love that person because, let's say, it's a spouse or a kid, what would be your response to get that person motivated? Because they're not thinking about why.
Speaker 2:they're thinking about how to pull this off um, you know, it depends on the person too. I mean, if it's like a good friend of mine, then yeah, you know I would approach them and say, hey, like that's not a good mental framework to have, because you know you're bringing yourself down and you can't help anybody else. But if it's just someone that's just like I don't know, I'm not really gonna approach them and because then I'm wasting my time and I'm wasting their time? For because usually it ends up happening is like an argument happens and they're right, I'm wrong, or I'm right, they're wrong, whatever it is. And so, like I, for me, I just rather not, because we're wasting both of our times. I mean, if you want help, like I'll try to help you, but at the end of the day they don't want help, and so it's hard to give someone help when they don't want it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just take it as a personal responsibility, and people always bring nuts because I'm usually wearing a gym shirt that has their name on it, so they'll just see me and they'll just say something, even if it's unprompted. So that's always. The biggest thing I struggle with is I do I do this because I want to help people and I save lives, but like they're going out of their way to say something, to bring it down and to make it sound not important.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you know, I think just asking the questions to that person says like, well, like, why do you talk to yourself that way, like you know, or why do you think that? And just to really kind of get in their Like you know, or why do you think that? And just to really kind of get in their heads, you know. And because then for you it's like oh, I'm just trying to help people, I want to save lives, I want this world to be healthier and better, and so you know why do you think that? But I don't want to be around someone that's going to bring me down as well.
Speaker 2:So it's a fine line, it really is. It's a it's kind of where do you cross that line or where do you not cross that line? And sometimes you just have to gauge it and it's hard because people are people, are not robots. People have emotions and you know, and sometimes I've heard that like, oh, body's shaming me. I'm like well, no, I'm trying to tell you the truth, the truth hurts, but like, if you don't want to hear it, then I'm wasting my time and energy on you, like, and so I, I'll move on to the next, next person then.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I could totally see that dk tell us a little bit about, like, where you're headed. So what are this whole mindset frame you had for yourself and going to not having a job like, where do you see yourself going in the next five years?
Speaker 2:uh, next five years. Uh, I'm working on another book about gratitude. Uh, that's something that definitely helped us as well as to get through what we're going through, uh, is just practicing gratitude every day, because when we're not grateful, it's only then when we're grateful and we don't have what we don't have anymore. And so, yeah, I'm working on another book and I just want to be able to help people in the next five, 10 years More than that is a lifeline, a lifelong thing. Be on more podcasts, spread the word about health, fitness, about mental, and really just share my story for people that they're not alone, that people can do this. People can lose weight, people can get healthier. People can lose weight, people can get healthier, people can stay healthy, and maybe even coaching one of these days, like coaching clients or something to change their mind or to build better habits or to even get in shape.
Speaker 1:I love that. So just to summarize, just to kind of wrap this all together for our final two questions here, the first one would be if you were to summarize this episode in one or two sentences, what would be your take home message?
Speaker 2:Take home message start small, change your mind, get some exercise, get some sun.
Speaker 1:Love it. And then, of course, how can people find you, get ahold of you and find your book?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you can go to my website, dkkangcom. If you subscribe to my newsletter. I'm actually giving away the first chapter of my book for free. It will be as a download. My book is on Amazon, mindset Metamorphosis, and then my other book, the Kimchi Connection Cookbook. It's about integrating kimchi into different dishes. That's on Amazon as well and that's under my actual, real name, which is Dae Q Kang, so they're both on Amazon.
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