Coach. Podcaster. COACHCASTER.

Valentina LeQueux is here to talk about the mindset needed to combat negative thoughts, using breathwork for trauma release, her struggles with body image as a fitness lover, and her self-worth during and after an unhealthy marriage.

We can learn a lot from our pasts, but as Valentina says, we can’t fix anything there. The only thing we truly have control over is this present moment. That mindset has gotten her through the hardest of times and led her to accept what is right here, right now.

Valentina LeQueux is a BA, CPT, breathwork facilitator, and Founder of Naked Coaching and the NKED app. Valentina creates online programs to educate a wide variety of people on how to stop over-complicating training and nutrition, so your mind is clear to build the body and mind you’ve always wanted.

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Key Highlights

• Who is the non-obvious Valentina? “I’m the laziest person you’ll ever meet, not joking,” she says. Valentina talks about why she’s struggled to meet her movement and fitness goals this year, downgrading to 1-4 training sessions a week, and why she too needs a coach. She also opens up about her struggle with body image and how she’s finding acceptance of her biggest insecurity, cellulite.

• Valentina describes the inspiration and mindset behind her online fitness coaching programs, emphasizing the importance of education and community in any health and fitness journey.

• She discusses the reality of navigating low self-confidence and low self-worth after leaving a toxic relationship and how she became more aware of her negative self-talk.

• Psychedelics can be very healing, but unfortunately, they don’t always lead to healing experiences. Valentina speaks up about her unfortunate experience with psychedelics and offers words of wisdom and caution about using them. 

• Having learned so much about what she doesn’t want in a partner, Valentina is now in a very healthy relationship! Listen in as she speaks on how she was able to open up again after a divorce and why she never would have seen this relationship coming.

Powerful Quotes by Valentina 

Everything is a choice.

I’m always trying to be as fair as I can while still understanding that I am human and I have my own feelings and I have my own trauma.

Don’t stay in the past. You can’t fix anything in the past. You can try to learn from it… but the only thing that you can do is keep living in this moment in time.

Recommended Resources:

• Have a question for Valentina? Email her: coaching@fitbyvalen.com

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How do you take time to pause in your life? How do you prioritize mental and physical recovery, if at all? This episode just might change that for you… or at least shift your mindset around recovery.

Chase welcomes Jeff and Charles of Pause Wellness Studio to talk about the importance of intentional and consistent recovery and the power of taking a pause. They highlight the benefits of healing/recovery modalities like cold plunges, IR saunas, float therapy, and so much more.

Dr. Charles Tabone, ND is a naturopathic physician and Jeff Ono is a Co-Founder of Pause Studio, a recovery-focused wellness studio with locations in Venice, WeHo, and South Bay. At Pause, they prioritize recovery for the mind and body using infrared saunas, cold plunges, LED light therapy, cryotherapy, flotation therapy, and IV therapy. But are all these therapies necessary for wellness? Tune in to find out!

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Key Highlights

• Consistent and intentional recovery is beneficial for the masses, but why? Tune in to hear Jeff and Charles break down the role of recovery in both ancient and modern health and wellness.

• They highlight the mental and physical benefits of cold and heat therapy (or contrast therapy), floating in a float tank, and the other services that Pause offers. Then, Chase shares his experience visiting Pause.

• Jeff and Charles share a few ways you can receive these health benefits for free without visiting a wellness studio, like jumping in the ocean when it’s cold or letting the sun heat your body.

• Is recovery the next opportunity for health and wellness entrepreneurs? Jeff and Charles think so! Listen in to hear their thoughts on the role of recovery in the future of accessible health and wellness. Plus, they share their exciting plans to franchise Pause Wellness Studio and hopefully bring them to your city.

• Jeff and Charles share their personal practices for maintaining mind and body wellness at home. 

Powerful Quotes by Jeff and Charles 

The mind has the ability to do many wonderful things, we just don’t really listen to it.

One of the beautiful things about our brand and about our experience is that it is self-guided. Listen to your body. There’s no right way or wrong way to do a lot of these services. It’s about listening to what you need and how you feel.

I see… recovery as kind of the gym model, in terms of availability. I think that’s where we’re headed.

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Chase welcomes Dr. Julie Foucher to talk about how precision medicine differs from conventional medicine and why mental and emotional health is often more important than your lifestyle. Chase then shares his own results and experience using Wild Health’s genetics-based healthcare. 

Dr. Julie Foucher is a former CrossFit athlete, functional medicine expert, and Physician at Wild Health, a precision medicine and primary care service offering holistic, personalized healthcare based on your genetics. They provide a comprehensive health analysis using advanced testing and create a custom care plan to help you decode your DNA and unlock better health. 

Could precision medicine save us from diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular disease? We think so! In fact, it’s been clinically proven…

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Key Highlights

• What does it mean to know your baseline? Why is it important to know your baselines and health markers? So many of us don’t know our own health markers, but if we do, we’ll be better able to sustain our health and prevent disease. Tune in to hear Julie describe this in more detail.

• What is the different between functional, traditional, and precision medicine? Julie breaks these down for us and explains why you should consider leaning into functional and precision medicine more.

• Julie speaks on the importance of having a relationship with your doctor as well as the best ways to advocate for yourself and strengthen your patient/provider relationship. She also talks about how to present your health concerns to your doctor to ensure they really hear you.

• Chase describes how Wild Health helped him discover his predisposition for cardiovascular disease and the subsequent choices he made to improve his baselines and prevent the disease.

• Julie details why she worked with a mindset coach as a CrossFit competitor and how mindset shifts can significantly improve your physiological health. 

• The external is not always an accurate representation of the internal, meaning you can look healthy on the outside while being very unhealthy on the inside. Listen in as Julie reflects on the unhealthiest, most stressful time in her life: when she entered med school as a top tier CrossFit athlete.

Powerful Quotes by Julie 

There’s so much that we can optimize that then helps us build resilience for whenever something happens that’s unexpected… Covid is a great example of this. If all of your markers are optimal, then you’re much less likely to get really sick or to really be debilitated.

Talk about having a big impact on your health, your thoughts literally can change your physiology! 

The food we eat, the exercise, the sleep, that’s all really important, but probably even more important is our emotional and spiritual health.

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Jeff Byers is a former NFL player and the current CEO of Amp Human, which offers innovative products that help athletes push the limits on their performance, adaptation, and recovery.

With an interest in both sports and entrepreneurship from an early age, Jeff always harbored an interest in finding creative ways to push his boundaries for growth as a human. “I was always thinking about the little things I could do to get better,” he says. “I tried to use my brain to work smarter than always just work harder.”

After retiring from the NFL, Jeff worked for a few years in the finance space before joining an early-stage biotech startup in late 2015. This company had discovered a way to deliver pharmaceuticals through the skin, bypassing the GI system which often limits the body’s ability to optimally absorb vitamins and minerals taken orally.

Not long after joining the company, Jeff and one of his partners developed a broad vision for a business offering products specifically formulated to optimize human performance, a space in which they saw, at the time, a huge gap in the market.

Listen in as Jeff talks all things human performance and optimization and why he refers to it as a “broad spectrum”. He also discusses the benefits of Amp Human’s flagship product, PR Lotion, and its newly released D+ Lotion.

Key Highlights

• Jeff explains how to differentiate between human performance and biohacking, and how he optimizes his cognitive abilities.

• Routines are great for introducing discipline; but could they also be a limiting factor to evolving, adapting, and breaking past barriers with regard to human performance?

• What does Jeff mean by “broad spectrum human performance”?

• Jeff speaks on the relationship between mindset and human performance.

• How do Amp Human’s products, particularly PR Lotion, help humans break their limits and achieve more?

Powerful Quotes by Jeff Byers

• One of the things I learned from sports was how to make decisions, and how to make decisions fast knowing that you’re going to fail. It’s important to fail fast but how do you evaluate that and actually move forward over the long-term to really be able to create big gains over time?

• Human nature is how we continue to move forward whether we are doing it willingly or not, or knowingly or not.

• Human performance is not one thing. Human performance and optimization is this crazy puzzle that has everything in it, and the puzzle is a little different for everybody.

• Our goal at Amp Human is to deliver relevant solutions using a systems-based approach to athletes who train with a purpose, or to humans who continually seek to level up.

• We don’t know what the potential of a human is, and we won’t know.

• We believe there are three core pillars to human performance: perform, adapt, and evolve.

• How do we not just train harder, but also maximize everything around it including the mind, body, and soul?

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Chase talks with Sarah Saffari about how to ascend in your business and your life. They discuss the role of self-exploration and personal development in entrepreneurship, overcoming the biggest barriers to entry in starting and growing a company, and even how to build a recession-proof business.

Whether you have an idea that you want to turn into a business or you’re ready to take the next step in your entrepreneurial journey, this conversation is going to give you the motivation you need to start ascending.

Sarah Saffari is an entrepreneur, strategist, and marketing consultant who has founded numerous health and wellness organizations over the last decade. She’s currently the Founder of CEOwned, a consultancy that helps online fitness brands grow and scale their companies. Sarah’s expertise lies in developing systems for scaling coaching businesses to $20k+ months.

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Key Highlights

• What is the biggest barrier to entry in entrepreneurship? How do you overcome that barrier? Listen in to hear Sarah’s answers!

• Sarah speaks on why it becomes more important to work on yourself as your business and revenue grow. “Different stages of business require different stages of self-exploration,” she says.

• Sarah shares the most game-changing strategies she used to scale her own consulting business, keep her clients happy, maintain client retention, and most importantly, ascend as an entrepreneur.

• What does it mean to ascend in business and in life? How do you make ascension an integral component of personal and professional development?

• Sarah describes the best way to prevent financial insecurity as a business owner, especially during a recession.

Powerful Quotes by Sarah

You’re gonna learn the most about business and yourself in the context of actually doing business because there’s nothing else that’s actually going to put you in the position of growing and learning about yourself like doing business. 

If I’m not feeling like I’m working towards the next thing, if I’m not doing the things that are gonna get me to the next level... I don’t feel good. I feel my happiest when I’m growing and when I’m learning and when I’m being challenged.

Recommended Resources:

• Listen to EFR 068: Maximizing Your Potential to Build Your Empire with Bedros Keuilian

• Listen to EFR 587: Get Out of Your Comfort Zone & Level Up Your Coaching Business with Hansika Silva

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Laura Varney joins us on today’s episode to talk baby bodies. She’s sharing pre and postnatal workout tips, how to maintain consistency in your workouts, and the importance of mindset as a new mother., 

Laura believes that consistency and shifting your mindset are the keys to reaching your goals. Hear her delve into that more in this episode.

Laura is a NASM certified personal trainer, nutrition coach, registered yoga teacher, and creator of The Baby Body. She helps women prepare for and recover from pregnancy through her work as a pre and postnatal fitness expert.

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Key Highlights

• Laura shares why bodies do not “change back” after pregnancy, but why that’s okay.

• The importance of physical and mindset work for maintaining pelvic floor and core functionality.

• Why consistency is key and the key to consistency is sticking with what works for you.

• Laura delves into the importance of listening to your body during pregnancy and being intentional with your postpartum exercises.

• Societal pressures to “bounce back” from pregnancy can often sour the beauty of it. Laura talks about newfound strength in motherhood and why change is good.

• Many new moms struggle with feeling a loss of autonomy. Laura shares her experience going from having a career she loved to being a full-time parent, what she feels she’s gained, and why perspective is vital.

• Your life changes completely with your first child, but what is the shift like with the second? Laura weighs in.

Powerful Quotes by Laura Varney

And then postpartum. It's like, how do I get back to what I used to be before I was pregnant? Which I'm here to tell you. It doesn't happen. You're not gonna go back to what you used to be? No, but that's okay.

There were times for sure… When I was like pregnant, and I'm like, ‘Oh, I'm pregnant during the pandemic, Oh, this sucks.’ But then it's also like, ‘Oh, but I'm also at home with my family who I love.’

Be in it. Stop thinking about like, what's going to happen later, and stressing about what's going to happen later so much.

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A compelling “Why” can drive your actions and goals to great heights, and few exemplify this better than today’s podcast guest and Co-Founder of Sportiqe apparel company, Jason Franklin. 

In an effort to escape pain and discomfort he experienced growing up, Jason created a company that has given him opportunity, abundance, and community. The products he has developed have become part of culture and are worn by big stars such as Justin Beiber, Beyonce, and Jay Z. During today’s episode, Chase and Jason discuss Jason's dreams as a child, the pivotal moments that led him to realizing his calling, his entrepreneurial journey, and his why behind it all. 

Throughout school, Jason felt uncomfortable with himself and was teased. As a 9-year-old living in Chicago, Jason had crazy red hair and really wanted a hat he could find comfort in. Being a huge sports fan who grew up in Chicago, he naturally wanted a Bulls hat. As Jason also suffered from abuse at home, gathering hope for his future was challenging, but once he focused on his vision and started drawing hats, unexpected opportunities began to appear. Within a few years, Jason started Sportiqe with the goal of making the most comfortable clothes you can buy. Jason believed that having access to the most comfortable clothes would allow people to be in their most comfortable state, enabling them to be the best version of themselves. With this product, the vision was to create something that elevates the wearer's mood and hopefully allows the consumer to access their true calling and follow their passions and dreams. 

Nowadays, so many people are searching for their path in life. Jason’s belief is that if you believe in it, you can achieve it. Keeping with Jason's philosophy, he hopes that his products can provide customers with the comfort they need to find their true calling and realize their potential. 

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Key Highlights

• Jason talks about his background, starting as a young boy in Chicago with a dream of comfort and making products that could transport him out of uncomfortable situations.

• Jason’s origin story and who and what inspired his work ethic

• During Jason's "Aha" moment, he realized he wanted to do something bigger and start his own company

• Jason describes the experience of seeing something that started as a vision in his head now on millions of people, including those he looked up to 

• How can we leverage our reality, our experience, and escape from pain, darkness, and unbearable things in life? How did Jason manage to do that? The buffalo logo was chosen based on its characteristics

• How Jason keeps improving, passes on excellence, and continues learning from other experts and leaders

• How to achieve your dreams and the best advice Jason has ever received

• The impact of the past few years on Jason's business

• Jason's company culture and views on teamwork.

Powerful Quotes

Good people find a way to meet each other. - Jason

When a big storm is coming, animals have a choice, and people have a choice, in a metaphorical storm … You can run away from it, or you can take the traits of the buffalo and run right through it. Because at the end of the day, running right through it is going to be much quicker than it is to run away from it. - Jason

Eventually the storm is going to catch you. It’s coming. You’re going to get caught up in it, but the quickest way through is running into it. - Jason

We find ourselves surrounded by icons, and leaders, and movers, and shakers, and just extraordinary thinkers. There’s a perception outside looking in that we’ve made it, that we’re there and we’re the best at what we do, but I think it comes from the fact that we stay in constant pursuit of making sure that we’re not the best at what we do, or at least not the smartest person in the room. - Chase

One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was: Know what you’re good at, know what you’re not good at, and what you’re not good at, go find some really really smart people that are good at that. So that's the thing that I continue to seek in scaling the business. - Jason

I try to find the positive in every negative, and I look at every experience that I'm having, even it could be an extremely tough circumstance, and I don’t sit in it … What am I learning from this situation, and how can I move forward, and how can I become a better person from it? Those are the things I like to look at in every situation that I'm in. - Jason

I don't have all the answers. I haven't met someone who has all the answers. - Jason

Keep showing up to rooms where you have no idea how the hell you got in there. - Chase

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What’s the secret to putting together a perfectly imperfect formula to find success in our perfectly imperfect life?

Award-winning researcher and health coach Michelle Segar sits down with Chase to talk about what it takes to achieve lasting changes in our health and fitness. She explains why it’s so important to build a strong foundation of understanding around human behavior, and how these behaviors influence how we make decisions, big and small, in our day-to-day lives.

Michelle discusses the role of goal-setting and motivation on our journey of growth, and how having a strong “why” drives us forward as we make our daily choices. She encourages us to always have self-compassion, and to see the path of lasting change as an opportunity to better not just ourselves, but those we care about as well!

Michelle Segar is an award-winning, NIH-funded researcher at the University of Michigan with almost thirty years studying how to help people adopt self-care behaviors, like exercise and healthy eating, in ways that bring meaning and joy and can survive the complexity and unpredictability of the real world.

Key Highlights

• When is motivation the answer? Does it ever actually serve us or is it always going to be nothing more than a crutch?

• Getting clear on your “why” is, more often than not, the missing link between making lifestyle changes, and sustaining those changes.

• Michelle explains why she prefers to use the term “daily choice making” instead of “behavior change”.

• Not every big decision needs to be life-or-death. When we’re on the verge of making choices related to our health and fitness, having compassion for ourselves is more motivational and effective than judging ourselves harshly.

• Michelle shares how we can create our own “self-care hierarchy”.

Powerful Quotes

We should never initiate a behavioral change because we think it’s something we “should” do, but because we think it’s going to be deeply valuable for us. That is the foundation of autonomous, sustainable motivation.

When we do something instead of nothing, not only does it keep us moving forward on the path of lasting change; we also take care of ourselves. And when we take care of ourselves, we have so much more to give to the people we care about. That is what makes life meaningful.

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On today’s podcast, Chase is joined by John Fieldly, President and CEO of Celsius energy drink. With its thermogenic properties, Celsius is a ready-to-drink beverage that not only tastes great, but also burns calories and fat. To set Celsius apart from other energy drinks and become a staple in people's fitness lifestyles, its founders knew that their health claims had to be backed by science. The drink’s formula is clinically proven to function, free of artificial preservatives or flavors, and low in sodium to promote a healthy lifestyle.

Since its humble beginnings, Celsius has become one of the fastest-growing beverage brands on the market and is now a staple in many peoples’ healthy lifestyles. The company is now ranked number two on Amazon for energy drinks and partners with a number of major influencers and brands.

In this episode, John will discuss how he grew Celsius to where it is today, including how he leveraged the better-for-you movement that has been gaining traction over the last few years and how Celsius strategically incorporated itself into the lives of people who want to lead a fit and healthy lifestyle. Among the things he discusses are the markets he focused on, his advertising and social media strategies, and the importance of sales and marketing working together. 

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Key Highlights:

• Celsius's unique advantage over other energy drinks and John’s vision for the brand 

• What John did to transform adversity into an advantage for Celsius to move towards a better place 

• John describes the evolution of his leadership style as he has worked with Celsius over the years.

• John's approach to competition and staying one step ahead

• How social media plays a role in Celsius's success 

• Celsius's strategy to stay relevant in today's market and how it pushes boundaries

• How Celsius has influenced John’s personal life and his plans for the moving forward

Powerful Quotes:

Never be complacent, never give up. Everyday when you arrive, make it a little bit better than when you started. - John

With any consumer product … you got to get into the daily life of the consumer. - John

If you give it your all … that’ll make you feel good even if you fail, and you will fail. You need to learn from that and get better every day. - John

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In this very special episode from a recent Ever Forward Mentorship group coaching call, former NFL player and West Point graduate Caleb Campbell discusses how to finally start listening to your heart. Chase and Caleb share how they met and how their friendship has held unique space for each of them to grow individually as well as become more in tune with themselves and expand the relationship with THE SELF even more. 

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Sarah Fay is the author of the memoir, Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses. Pathological explores the consequences of over-identifying with a psychiatric diagnosis and how doing so can lead to self-stigmatization and self-limitation.

During this episode of Ever Forward, Sarah discusses mental health diagnoses, from what they are to where they come from, how she lived through six of them, and how we can embrace and understand them better as a society.

The stigma that society places on mental illness is well known, but what about the stigma we place on ourselves? Could that actually be more harmful? In Sarah's opinion, yes. 

Sarah discusses candidly in this episode how being diagnosed with Anorexia as a child caused her to over identify with the diagnosis and attach her thoughts and feelings to it, which led her to believe that she wouldn't be capable of doing many things in life, such as maintain a long-term relationship or hold down a full-time job. Fortunately, Sarah's perspective on her mental health has evolved to where she doesn't feel this way anymore. Her ability to reframe her diagnoses and honor her experiences has been a result of good mental health practitioners, a supportive family, and her willingness to take charge of learning more about her diagnoses and where mental health diagnoses come from. 

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Key Highlights

• Sarah discusses the experience of receiving her first psychiatric diagnosis at the age of 12 and what led to it.

• How Sarah views her diagnoses in hindsight after 25 years in the mental health system.

• Sarah discusses how a psychiatrist made her think differently about her diagnosis and how she began to investigate the history and origins of mental health diagnoses.

• How Sarah distanced herself from her diagnosis, freeing herself from self-inflicted limitations

• Sarah's views on the advantages and disadvantages of receiving a diagnosis, as well as how mental health practitioners can better communicate with patients about their symptoms and treatment options

• An evolutionary perspective on anxiety: How our brains keep us alive

• In what ways can a diagnosis empower us?

Powerful Quotes

You are not a diagnosis. Your pain is so complex. It’s what makes us human. It’s what makes you a good person. It’s what makes you have empathy for others.

The problem with DSM symptoms is they are actually common emotions, thoughts, and behaviors … things we experience everyday.

The DSM is what we have. It’s incredibly flawed. There are bad apples in psychiatry just like there are bad apples in any profession. It’s a way for us to talk about our psychic and emotional pain, and it’s all we have right now.

The three Ps are very important, and it’s people, place, and purpose.

I respect what I went through, and that’s why I live the way I do, not in fear that something is going to come back or that I live with this mental illness lurking inside me at all times.

Episode resources

• Visit Sarah’s website

• Get Sarah's book Pathological

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In this discussion, Touré and David talk about the health benefits of airway hydration and how to breathe better in a dirty world. Together, they highlight FEND, an innovative new product that hydrates your airways and helps you breathe better.

Believe it or not, we need salt to stay hydrated. We also need clean air and optimal breathing to promote longevity, productivity, optimal performance, holistic well-being, and a high quality of life. So, how can we do this? 

The cleansing power of natural salts

THE NEW FRONTIER OF HYGIENE

Our guests are Touré Roberts and Dr. David Edwards. Touré is a best-selling author, entrepreneur, producer, pastor, and serial humanitarian. Dr. David Edwards is a Harvard Professor and Founder and CSO of FEND. Together, they’re bringing impactful information along with this innovative health solution to communities around the country.

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Key Highlights

• Minority communities are disproportionately impacted by polluted air and dehydration. Bringing this information to people will save lives and improve the quality of life around the world. “I think that people are going to be FENDing the same way they’re putting on deodorant in the future,” Touré says.

• Today, we’re losing between 3-10 years of life because we’re breathing dry, dirty air. When your airways dry out, your lungs can’t filtrate properly. David breaks down the scientific research behind FEND and Touré shares why he became so passionate about changing the way we breathe.

• The duo details the shocking connection between air quality and asthma in children and minority populations, along with how this can be improved with simple technology and education.

• How do I know if FEND is right for me? David speaks on who should be using FEND, from athletes and frequent travelers to people with allergies or COPD, and the ways we can bring this health solution to the communities that need it most.

• How does your health change when you breathe better (when your airways are clean and hydrated)? David describes the symptoms of dry airways and how airway hydration improves all aspects of your health, like sleep, physical activity, and even mental health.

Powerful Quotes by Touré and David

All living organisms, whether they’re in the ocean or outside of the ocean, need salt to stay hydrated.

Breathing dirty air begins to affect us from our first breath. 

There’s a real need for us to awaken to the fact that not all breaths are equal. 

It becomes my meditation. I meditate when I FEND and I FEND when I meditate.

Episode resources:

• Visit Touré's website

• Visit Dr. Edwards' website

• Shop FEND

More about Fend...

How FEND works

Made from pure salts and water, FEND works by helping your upper airways flush out billions of tiny particles in the air by capturing them on a watery layer as you breathe them in.Together with some of the world’s top academic institutions, we’ve developed a science-backed approach to keeping your airways clean and healthy.

Scientifically proven

Pioneered at Harvard University by Professor David A. Edwards, our understanding of upper airway hydration is evolving to meet the tall challenges of breathing the dry dirty air of the 21st century.

When we inhale FEND's calcium-enriched salts through our nose, they help strengthen our natural defenses against dirty air by pulling more water in: essentially enhancing your body’s ability to clean away airborne particles.FEND precisely blends these salts with an ultra-fine mist that carries them throughout your upper airways, so they can get to where they’re needed most.

Your upper airways naturally defend against airborne particles with a special lining that captures and cleans them away. Modern environments and lifestyles can cause this lining to break down and fail. Not only does our blend of salts hydrate your airways, it actually helps your mucus retain its natural structure longer in the face of the many stresses that contemporary living brings.

Two deep breaths of FEND strengthens your airways’ natural defenses for up to 6 hours

Based upon peer reviewed research.

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