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Health coach turned podcaster, Chase interviews industry leaders in fitness nutrition and mindset. Messages to help you live a life EVER FORWARD.

Chase Chewning, MS, ACE CHC

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By popular demand, I am so excited to share with you this solo episode about my stance on cannabis. In this episode, I share how my religious and conservative upbringing deterred me from ever even considering trying marijuana, my years in the military and what would have happened to my career if I did use any recreational drugs, my horrible first experience ever getting high, and all the way to now and how through years of finally doing my own research and formulating my own belief system around cannabis why I now use it on a semi-regular basis. This episode is solely my own experience and insight and is in no way recommending anyone do anything illegal but also to encourage you to be a study of one, to trust but verify.

 

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Join your host Chase Chewning as he interviews Autumn Smith, Co-Founder of Paleovalley and Wild Pastures, wellness enthusiast and mom. Here she will touch on her journey to overcoming acne as well as debilitating digestive and mental health issues with using food as medicine. 

In this episode, Chase delves deep into Autumn’s evolving journey. They discuss mind/ body relationships, checking-in on yourself, overcoming obstacles and most importantly, setting and honoring your own boundaries daily. Stay tuned to learn Autumn’s secret to owning your body and how that enables you to own your life. A key system that you and everyone around you can benefit from. 

“I learned about kind of finding the root cause and with time, I’m happier than I’ve ever been. That like calm and peaceful girl I remember when I was a really small girl. She came back and so I became like kind of very very passionate about helping people figure out how to not just be fit, but to also be well….‘health is coming back to the self’ and I think in my definition of wellness, that’s essential” 

Key timestamps

[0:0 ] Autumn introduction: key talking points for episode

[0:35] Ad. Break- recommended Paleovalley products & savings 

[1:25 ] EverForward Radio introduction

[2:00] Intro to topic: audience self-reflection questions: pause & reflect

[3:10] Autumn Smith’s summarized Story by Chase

[4:41] Chase’s Paleovalley daily staples 

[6:33] Autumn Interview begins 

[7:04] Autumn 2020 adjustments- child schooling 

[8:26] Community, tribe shift

[10:48] Time blocking hacks 

[12:08] Honoring your personal time

[13:06] Breaking traditional expectations for women 

[15:00] Biggest Secret: Sunday Swap 

[16:07] Autumn’s wellness model beginning- present

[18:57] Intuition and body connection 

[19:33] Finding Identity inside and out 

[24:15] How to recognize intuition and act accordingly 

[29:16] L-theanine

[30:55] Where Paleovalley came from 

[32:37] Red meat affect 

[34:44] What makes Paleovalley different?

[36:00] Climate change with foods consumed

[37:45] Paleovalley Immune-health products 

[37:47] Apple cider vinegar complex

[41:01] Turmeric 

[42:38] Immune C complex 

[44:13] Camu camu 

[47:50] The organ complex 

[51:35] Where you can go to learn more about Autumn Smith and Paleovalley: sister company- Wild Pastures meat delivery service 

[52:36] How Autumn Smith lives a life EverForward 

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Internal, External Relationships with Autumn Smith 

Do you want to feel well inside and out? Are you having a difficult time developing a mind and body relationship but don’t know where you should begin? Finding the balance in life is hard enough as it is due to societal normalities and expectations for varying genders in a busy world. It often leaves us overly stimulated and feeling rundown. When it comes to health and wellness, we owe it to ourselves to honor our needs and establish a lifestyle that supports them. 

In this episode, Autumn Smith shares her personal battles and triumphs to finding the balance she implements in her life daily, today. She discusses the importance of foods we consume and how internal health connects our minds and bodies to be able to live our lives to the absolute fullest. Tune into the interview with her on EverForward radio to discover valuable insights about owning your life. 

Three Value Bombs: Why You Should Listen to the Full Episode

  1. Autumn gives her secrets on how she time blocks, honors personal time and implements eating more well-rounded foods. She also explains why she does it all.

  2. Paleovalley emphasizes quality over profit and stays true to that. It is in fact everything the name stands for. They also have a sister company, Wild Pastures, a meat delivery service. Key links, websites and discount codes featured throughout the episode. 

  3. Explains thoroughly what goes into her products, where she finds them and why they are so pure in form. 

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Episode Highlights

Autumn’s Routine

  • Autumn time blocks.

  • So in the morning she wakes up, it is her and her son Maverick until her husband gets up. They usually have an hour where she’s completely mindful and present with him to do whatever he wants. She just lets him take the lead each day during that time. Makes her feel good as a mom and allows her to transition into her work environment afterwards without any residual personal life worries.

  • The teacher for Maverick then comes to the house and she had a solid six hours of work time ahead.

  • When Autumn’s work is done, she goes right back into family mode which is then followed by a little time for herself at the end of the day

  • Autumn likes to take that end of the day time to simply relax in her sauna she has downstairs in her home

  • This same day is repeated daily 

  • Overall, Autumn’s time blocking is summed as six hours of professional focus, at least two hours with her son, at least a half an hour with herself and an hour at the end of the day with her husband or whatever friends they might want to bring into the situation that day. She of course ensures she implements some sort of exercise in there as well. 

Insights on Life

  • Time block and honor yourself by sticking to it 

  • Establish an intuition and act accordingly from it 

  • Investing in you, your health and wellness results in an overall internal, external relationship. Not only in how you look and feel but the people surrounding you as well. 

Why Autumn Smith Developed Paleovalley 

  • Autumn suffered acute digestive issues since she was young

  • Years of numerous experts had failed time and time again to identify and resolve the ongoing issue 

  • Autumn’s husband, Chas, did research that resulted in his stumble across the paleo diet

  • Together, the Smith’s implemented the paleo diet to trial it’s methods and landed on HUGE results. Autumn’s IBS was completely resolved. 

  • This inspired her to quit her job as a personal trainer at the Tracy Anderson Method, and earned her degree in holistic nutrition. 

  • Realizing that many foods currently on the market were not truly as healthy as they claim to be, they and Chas’ brother, Matthew, launched Paleovalley. 

  • “Everything you eat and every added ingredient is an opportunity to either detract from your health or improve it.” Autumn chose to improve it within herself and is now determined to encourage and help others to do it too. 

Being The Brand, Staying True To It And Why It Matters

  • Autumn was a traveling health and fitness entrepreneur and is currently a wellness enthusiast, a super mom and Co Founder of Paleovalley and wild pastures; a company that emphasizes “eating well and living vibrantly with nutrient-rich, organic Superfoods and dense paleo products.” 

  • Her mission is to “create products that live up to her own strict standards and always prioritize health over profit. Paleovalley creates products with integrity that are free from problematic ingredients and teeming with ingredients that promote vibrant health.”

  • Autumn strives to inspire people to “view every dietary choice for what it really is: a profound opportunity to love and care for oneself.”

  • “Paleovalley products are a labor of love, and her only hope is that she help your family feel as vibrant as hers.”

  • What inspired this? Autumn suffered acute digestive issues since she was young. Numerous experts failed time and time again and it took Autumn’s husband, Chas’, research to finally stumble across the paleo diet. They then, together, implemented the paleo diet to trial it’s methods and landed on HUGE results. Autumn’s IBS was completely resolved. This inspired her so much that she quit her job as a personal trainer at the Tracy Anderson Method, and earned her degree in holistic nutrition. Realizing that many foods currently on the market were not truly as healthy as they claim to be, they and Chas’ brother Matthew launched Paleovalley. 

  • “Everything you eat and every added ingredient is an opportunity to either detract from your health or improve it.” Prior to this acknowledgement, Autumn has to trial and error varying lifestyles. But with this discovery Autumn was able to finally choose to improve it externally and within herself. Now that very journey and impact is the driving fuel that keeps her determined to encourage and help others to do it too. 

The Problem with Today’s Dynamic

  •  Societal expectations and normalities implement a heavy standard that conflicts with our ability to establish a sense of identity. Identity is the very source of being able to have an intuition that we can, individually, can trust enough to act accordingly.

  • Mass production food companies press quantity over quality and prioritize profit over the well-being of the people consuming their products.

  • Traditional gender roles, if not redefined early on or actively demonstrated for the youth, places a false sense of what “should be”. Ultimately robbing women or men from the potential to honor themselves with time that’s necessary for their health, wellness, grounding, regrouping, decompressing, etc. 

Advice for Listeners 

  • Exercise is the gateway for developing the urge to learn more about yourself. It propels you into the next phase of wellness, diet. Diet then opens the door to mindset: how to change, control and exercise it. Try challenging yourself to trying a new, structured approach to life, the odds are, you’ll come across positive outcomes in more ways than one

  • Do your research, learn yourself and your body's needs. Actively get tests done to know what exactly you need nutritionally. Supplements, vitamins will vary depending on deficiencies and non-deficiencies. Under consumption is equally harmful as overconsumption 

  • Budget out your time to achieve overall wellness and balance in each day 

Autumn's Vision for the food industry 

  • Mission is to help people reclaim vibrant health by providing products that “prioritize nutrient density in an industry that prioritizes everything else.” Paleovalley’s belief is “that every dietary choice and every added ingredient is a powerful opportunity to love and care for oneself.” 

  • Paleovalley aims to set a tone that leaves all hands involved feeling morally at peace by creating products that live up to their own strict standards. Ultimately setting them apart in the food production market for they prioritize health over profit. Their products are made with “integrity that are free from problematic ingredients and teeming with ingredients that promote vibrant health.” 

  • Overall, all hands involved in Paleovalley genuinely strive to develop a platform where products provided to consumers are a result of a labor of care and more than anything, love. Thus pushing the notion to “help other families feel as vibrant as theirs.”

How Autumn Lives Ever Forward

  • Autumn used to be someone trying to perfect and be something someone else wanted her to be. No she lives a life EverForward by focusing inward. Strictly comparing herself to who she was the day before and actively revising her actions for the days to come. She exercises the art of shielding from distraction to live a life that provides internal and external value. 

5 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

  1. “Bring back traditional forgotten superfoods into my diet so that we can all live a life that we’re proud of and that we’re inspired by and that we feel capable of doing everything we’ve ever wanted to do.”

  2. “I learned about kind of finding the root cause and with time, I’m happier than I’ve ever been. That like calm and peaceful girl I remember when I was a really small girl. She came back and so I became like kind of very very passionate about helping people figure out how to not just be fit, but to also be well….‘health is coming back to the self’ and I think in my definition of wellness, that’s essential” 

  3. “Women feel selfish for taking care of themselves but they have to. We have to, I’m such a better, calmer, more peaceful and mindful mom when I’m actually just like taking care of myself too AND we want, we want to raise our children to believe that that’s okay and that that’s actually essential for us too…”

  4. “Food is medicine. I just don’t think that we can replicate food and the benefits… nature provided us these foods that are really nutrient dense, like organ meats, they’re actually the most nutrient dense foods in the world, gram for gram, highest natural source of vitamin B12 and vitamin A and just the full range of B vitamins. And so I had to get them into my diet.” 

  5. “My product was that, I can't stomach organs and so we put them into capsules so everyone can have all of these forgotten superfoods in a way that like- fit in with the pallet of, you know, Americans today.” 

More About the Guest:

Autumn is a former travel health and fitness entrepreneur and currently a wellness enthusiast, mom and Co Founder of Paleovalley and wild pastures. Paleovalley emphasizes “eating well and living vibrantly with nutrient-rich, organic Superfoods and dense paleo products,” inspired by her own digestive struggles. 

To see more of her content and products, visit ​Paleovalley Website .


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More than 70% of our immune system exists in our gut, so if we want to truly focus on our wellness and increase our body's ability to fight off disease and illness we must put more of a focus on improving our gut health. Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum is the scientist who is now known as the leading microbiome researcher in the world and leading fungal community scientist. In fact, he named the mycobiome! In this episode, Dr. Ghannoum and his son, Afif, a corporate lawyer specializing in the biotechnology industry, discuss exactly why the gut is critical for our total wellness, cutting edge new research on gut bacteria and how to improve the microbiome and so much more!

 

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More about BIOHM and Dr. Ghannoum:

Over 40 years ago, a lone scientist began exploring this critical, but neglected, inhabitant of the human body. Born and raised in Lebanon, Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum is Director of the Center for Medical Mycology at Case Western Reserve University, one of the top 25 medical research universities in the United States (according to US News & World Report).

He began his scientific journey in England, studying Candida, a species of fungi that, when allowed to grow uncontrolled, can cause Candidiasis, an infection that afflicts millions of people worldwide.

This provoked his curiosity about the whole area of fungal microorganisms in the human body. Through the next four decades of research, he discovered that while there was a massive rise in studies of bacteria, fungus was largely ignored.  One reason is that fungal organisms tend to be highly unstable, making them extremely difficult to study.

For the longest time, Dr. Ghannoum’s work was known only to a minority within the scientific community. While many have heard of Candida, few people have any idea of the critical role that fungus plays in human health.

Through his research, Dr. Ghannoum established that fungal organisms constitute an essential part of the microbiome. In fact, in 2010, Dr. Ghannoum was the first scientist to identify over 100 native species of fungi in the oral cavity.

Like with bacteria, there are good fungi as well as bad fungi. And just as it was startling to discover that we need positive bacteria in our guts, most people today are shocked to learn that their health depends on flourishing colonies of helpful fungi.In fact, good fungi and good bacteria work in synergy to sustain a healthy microbiome. Unfortunately, the villains of the story also collaborate!

In 2016, Dr. Ghannoum discovered that harmful fungi and bacteria join forces to create digestive biofilm. This thin, gooey lining forms throughout our intestines, and very much like dental plaque, it serves to protect bad germs hiding beneath the biofilm’s protective shield.

This is why taking care of your whole microbiome—fungi and bacteria—is so critical.

Recognition of Dr. Ghannoum’s work came slowly—but it did come. Today, he is acclaimed as the international authority on fungus within the human body.

Afif, his son and coroporaet biotech lawyer, suggested that the two of them should join forces, combining their different talents to launch a company. BIOHM was the result, a company founded to bring Dr. Ghannoum’s science to the world creating products based on new understandings of the microbiome.

“Our mission is to help people,” Dr. Ghannoum explains.   “I just felt that we had to take my father’s expertise out of the ivory tower, and turn it into products that could really help people.”

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Nearly seven months later the world is still enduring its first true global pandemic. Dr. David Minkoff, MD is a board-certified physician and lifetime athlete here to provide current scientific insight into COVID-19 and the protocols we integrate into our lives now that allow us to stay active while also keeping ourselves and our communities safe. Dr. Minkoff is an avid athlete himself and has completed 43 Ironman Triathlons. To keep his fitness maximal, he lives the lifestyle he teaches to others and tries to set an example for others, so they can enjoy a life free of pain and full of energy.

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Dr. David Minkoff graduated from the University of Wisconsin Medical School in 1974 and was elected to the “Phi Beta Kappa” of medical schools, the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Medical Fraternity for very high academic achievement.  He then completed both a Pediatric Residency and a Fellowship in Infectious Disease at the University of California at San Diego.

He worked at the University of California and Children’s Hospitals in San Diego as an attending physician in infectious disease while conducting original research on Ribaviron, a broad spectrum anti-viral agent to fight disease. He also co-directed a neo-natal intensive care unit and worked in emergency medicine.

In 1992, Dr. Minkoff’s wife Sue, a Registered Nurse, became interested in nutrition and health and began to go to lectures from some of the experts in the field. At the time, Dr. Minkoff was pretty fixed in his view of traditional medicine and it took a lot of convincing to get him to come to one of these lectures. After hearing Dr. Jeffrey Bland speak, Dr. Minkoff had a eureka moment and began pursuing the alternative field with a vengeance.

Based on this new knowledge Dr. Minkoff and his wife set up a small clinic in 1997 to help some friends with their medical problems. What began as an experiment blossomed into Lifeworks Wellness Center, one of the most successful clinics for complementary medicine in the United States.

In the process, he gained expertise in Biological medicine, integrative oncology, heavy metal detoxification, anti-aging medicine, hormone replacement therapy, functional medicine, energy medicine, neural and prolotherapy, homeopathy, and optimum nutrition.

He studied under the masters in each of these disciplines until he became an expert in his own right.

Dr. Minkoff is one of the most in-demand speakers in the field and wrote an Amazon best-selling book called The Search For The Perfect Protein.

The demand for the products and protocols he discovered became a catalyst for founding BodyHealth.Com, a nutrition company that now manufactures and distributes cutting-edge nutritional solutions for the many health problems of today.

Matthew Paetz helps purpose driven entrepreneurs and individuals  step into who they want to be the rest of their lives by learning how to use their story to connect with purpose. Purpose being the key word as that is exactly what he talks about in this episode. Matthew describes the scientific way we solidify and hold onto emotions and traumas and how we can learn to access them in a safe manner that leads us to long term healing and puts us on our path to purpose.

Both a model and a prominent dating and life coach, he attracted additional media attention when he began dating Glee star Lea Michele in the summer of 2014. Since that relationship ended in 2016 Matthew has devoted his life to personal development and helps others find fulfillment in their own lives, relationships and careers.

 

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Brendan Brazier is the formulator and co-founder of Vega, bestselling author of the Thrive book series, creator and host of the Thrive Forward web series, and editor in chief of Thrive magazine. He’s also a former professional Ironman triathlete and a two-time Canadian 50km Ultra Marathon Champion. Brendan is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on plant-based performance nutrition, and therefore works with several NHL, NFL, MLB, UFC, and Olympic athletes. Brendan now invests in and works with socially responsible food & tech companies whose mandate is to fix our food system and reduce the environmental strain of food production. In this episode, Brendan shares exactly what it takes to perform at the peak level of an ultra endurance athlete, his entrepreneur journey and how he has found the solution to how to safely enjoy alcohol as an athlete through the powerful and wonderful world of medicinal mushrooms.

 

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EFR 381: Learning From Pain and Using it to Build an Optimal Body with Jen Esquer

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Pain. It can be what stops us from moving forward or teaches how to move forward... quite literally! Jen Esquer, PT, DPT is a top-40 physical therapy influencer. With a Doctorate in physical therapy, she is ranked as one of the best fitness trainers on Instagram by Shape Magazine and has been featured in Self Magazine, Men’s Fitness, Muscle and Fitness and many more. In today's episode, Doc Jen shares her origin story of why movement is so important for the human body (and mind), how pain can be our greatest teacher if we learn how to properly listen to it, building an optimal body and so much more!

 

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More about Jen:

As a self-proclaimed “mover”, Jen has spent more than 2/3 of her life upside down. She graduated with a B.S. in Kinesiology, and received her DPT degree from Loma Linda University. After schooling, she went on to accept a job at VERT Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation in Santa Monica.

Through VERT and furthering her education, she was able to meet some amazing individuals who further fueled the expansion of her knowledge base. She studied the Myodetox methodology directly under co-founder, Vinh Pham, took a RockTape course with The Movement Maestro herself, and learned from so many other brilliant minds in the rehab game.

Nowadays, she offers private sports therapy, online programs, workshops and speaks at global engagements, attracting audiences from stay-at-home moms to Hollywood actors and Olympic athletes. Her mission is to help those who are willing to listen to their body, reverse aging, eliminate pain and establish sustainable health.

Identity. One word that we all can relate to and we all, at least at some time, have struggled with or will. Nowadays we all may be finding ourselves wearing a mask in public but perhaps we already were wearing another one. Is it really thatdifficult for us to grasp our own reality, to come to terms with how we see ourselves and how we think others perceive us to be? In this episode, Chase and May discuss how throughout various seasons of life our truth can come under question and how we can take actionable steps today to consciously choose not only how we define our identity but bring that into alignment with others' perception of us as well.

 

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Tom Fabbri understands firsthand the heights we can attain once we give ourselves permission to dream. Whether training to become a helicopter/jet pilot, climbing the world’s Seven Summits, or diving with great white sharks, Tom has learned to harness fear to achieve his dreams. He now uses his unique insight to inspire and motivate others through his books, blogs, and personal coaching/training. The author and inspirational speaker is constantly challenging himself and his body, while acquiring valuable life lessons of inner strength, passion, and motivation.

 

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Tom is a world class adventurer who is on a journey to complete the Adventure Grand Slam, summiting the tallest peaks on each of the seven continents and skiing to the North and South Poles. In one year, February 2010 to January 2011, he climbed four of these peaks in his quest to fulfill this dream – Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa, Mt. Elbrus in Russia, Mt. Kosciuszko in Australia, and Aconcagua in Argentina. On July 5, 2013, Mt. McKinley became his fifth successful summit. His most recent climb took him to Mt. Vinson Massif in Antarctica, where he faced a storm with hurricane force winds and extreme temperatures to summit on December 7, 2016. With the "mother of all mountains" left, Mt. Everest, and skiing to the poles, Tom is well on his way to becoming part of an elite group of mountaineers.

While Tom has achieved abundant successes, they were only reached after a rough and tumultuous journey in his early years of life. In his twenties, Tom lacked direction, as he was caught up in drug and alcohol use—eventually joining the military where he spent a short amount of time in the brig. Lacking motivation, he left the military and drifted aimlessly through jail, bankruptcy, failed marriages, and eventually ended up homeless and sleeping in his car. This place of rock-bottom became the catalyst that pushed Tom to find his purpose and passion.

It was during this dark time that Tom's eyes were opened to an opportunity to change his life forever. At the age of 28, while working for minimum-wage fueling and cleaning private helicopters and jets, he took the first step towards pursuing the purpose and passion he had been looking for. It all started with one question..."What do I need to do to sit in the cockpit of one of these machines?" After being told to forget about it because he was probably too old, and he didn't have a college degree, he not only became a pilot, but earned the title "Captain" at a major airline. He also has the rare distinction of being a dual-rated ATP, flying both helicopters and jets. He was the pilot for the owner of the Cleveland Browns for two years and has flown celebrities, CEO's, and billionaires. This was just the start of Tom's pursuit of his dreams and passions.

Achieving one dream became the start that Tom needed to see there are endless possibilities one can achieve. At the age of 52, an avid natural bodybuilder, Tom landed the title of Mr. Natural Universe. He then moved on with diligence and strength of purpose to graduate from culinary school, to become a certified personal trainer, to become an author of two books, and to become a modern day adventurer. His formula was simple – if he wanted to do something, he made the decision, and then did it.

As an author, Tom has written two books....Ageless You: The Boomers Guide To Beginning Again and Ageless You Adventure. He is currently working on companion books Juicing For An Ageless You and Cooking For An Ageless You. He, also, speaks nationwide about health, wellness and achieving dreams, while sharing his knowledge through coaching. 

This very special episode is meant to highlight what is possible when we stop accepting our circumstances as ultimatums. Casey Adams, fellow Virginian, is an incredible example of what is possible when you decide to take your life and your future into your own hands by putting yourself on the path of personal development and saying "Yes!" to opportunities that others may not think twice about.

While he was a sophomore in high school something happened that would change the direction of his life forever. He was diagnosed with interspinous ligament damage while playing football and was told that he could have potentially been paralyzed. During this time in his life he was told by the doctors that he would never be able to play football again. This was shocking news because football was his absolute passion. Furthermore, he was told that he had to be in a neck brace for over 10 weeks.

All of this negativity came into his life so quickly and he became very depressed and had no idea how to handle the situation. This was the turning point in his life that changed the direction of his future.

Getting into personal development led me into many different industries, and overall allowed me to find my purpose. Since then I have became a #1 New Release Author on my book "Rise of The Young," as well as I've started my own Snapchat Marketing course to teach people how I was able to monetize Snapchat. I helped many people along the way, and even got featured on Forbes, ABC Channel 8 News and The Huffington Post, and much more. After networking with many successful individuals on social media, I was invited to speak on stage with many successful individuals such as Gerard Adams, Jeremy Haynes, Joshua Earp, Caleb Maddix, Matt Maddix, and many more successful individuals. I was also personally invited out to Beverly Hills, California to feature in Tai Lopez's Travel CEO course. In Tai Lopez's course, I go over how to leverage media sources to gain credibility for your brand. He now helps many individuals with developing their brand story on social media.

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Getting into personal development led him into many different industries, and overall allowed him to find his purpose. Since then he has become a #1 New Release Author with his book "Rise of The Young," as well as started his own Snapchat Marketing course to teach people how he was able to monetize Snapchat.

He has helped many people along the way, and even got featured on Forbes, ABC Channel 8 News and The Huffington Post, and much more. After networking with many successful individuals on social media, he was invited to speak on stage with many successful individuals such as Gerard Adams, Jeremy Haynes, Joshua Earp, Caleb Maddix, Matt Maddix, and many more successful individuals. He was also personally invited out to Beverly Hills, California to be featured in Tai Lopez's Travel CEO course. In Tai's course, he goes over how to leverage media sources to gain credibility for your brand. He now helps many individuals with developing their brand story on social media.

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After battling years of her own eating disorders and battling self-judgement Amanda Meixner Rocchio finally took ownership of her health. Amanda has not only triumphed over poor eating habits that could have left her gravely ill but gone on to thrive as an Instagram sensation with over 1.4 million followers and has truly become a role model for healthy food alternatives, recipes, workouts, meal prep tips, and so much more. In this episode Amanda shares her story and how she overcame the woman in the mirror, grew her social media following, and how she thinks we can help develop better approaches to healthy living than what a lot of modern diet culture has to offer.

 

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Doctor of Physical Therapy and co-host of The Optimal Body podcast Domenic Fraboni, PT, CSCS, DPT is here to provide a session on the three M's: mindset, movement, and meals. "Doctor Dom" spent years as an athlete and has recently transitioned his in-person practice of rehabilitating others back to health to educating the masses through the power of social media. In this episode, Dom breaks down not only the framework that has helped his personal and professional life but dives deep into more systemic issues in the modern American healthcare system and how we can become more informed and empowered in our wellness journey.

 

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