In this episode...

I sit down with Janet Madrid—holistic health advocate, mother, grandmother, and dentist with over 46 years of experience. Janet shares how oral health is more than clean teeth—it’s a direct window into your overall health. We dive into her new book Hope for Health, which uncovers the powerful, often overlooked connection between your mouth and body.

Janet reveals practical tools and strategies for optimizing your health, increasing your lifespan, and embracing a holistic approach to well-being. Whether you're seeking to improve your own health or better support your family, this conversation is packed with insights that can change the way you view your body.

Welcome to the Power

of Authority Spotlight.

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I'm your host, Michelle Prince,

founder and CEO of Performance

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Publishing Group, making a Difference.

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We'll talk about how they built

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Own lives.

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Let's get started.

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Hey everybody, and welcome to the

Power of Authority Spotlight, where

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we shine the light on entrepreneurs,

founders, leaders, people that are doing

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extraordinary things, they're making a

difference, they're sharing their story,

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and they're building their authority.

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And our guest today is Janet Madrid.

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She's a registered dental

hygienist and has been practicing

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dentistry for 45 years.

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Her passion for patient health

has inspired her to share the

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knowledge gained through decades

of experience and continuous study.

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As a mother and grandmother, she cares

deeply about her family's and patient's

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wellbeing, and she's dedicated to

advancing the holistic health movement.

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Janet has recently written an

incredible book called Hope for

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Health, illuminated the Foundations

of Health and Wellness, and I'm so

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excited to have you on the show.

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Janet, welcome.

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Thank you for having me, Michelle.

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I'm really excited.

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I can't believe I've written a book

and it's just a very exciting time.

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My grandkids can't wait to read

it, so I know I'm waiting for

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them to show up on my doorstep.

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They will be there any day, and I'm so

excited because you and I met, we were

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just talking, it's been a full year, , or

almost not even a full year in July.

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No, not quite.

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In July.

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You and I met at the RDH, , the,

the, the huge conference we were

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in Denver and, , we were part of

Evolution, which was a, a, a separate,

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, part of, of the RDH conference.

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And, , you and I just connected and I

remember, I think I, I think, I'm trying

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to think of the word I used for you.

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Was it pure sunshine or something like

that, that you just have this bright

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light about you everywhere you go, and

it was so awesome meeting you then.

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But then hearing you wanted to write

a book, do you remember that day?

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Oh my gosh, I do remember that

day and I just felt like, you

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know, I always believed that

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there's no coincidences, no accidents.

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Like I believe that you know, God

will put people in your path that

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you need to connect with because of.

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Where you're going and

what he wants you to do.

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And just when I met you that

day, I just felt this connection.

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I felt, felt like all the words that you

were speaking and all the things that you

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were saying was just confirmation telling

me, yes, you need to write this book.

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Yes, I want you to write this book.

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And just like certain things about.

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Like illumination.

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I mean that was like a word.

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And I was like, oh my gosh.

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And everything actually, the whole

evolve, every speaker, you particularly

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were just hitting these words.

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And I think I remember saying to you,

Michelle, , I've been writing this book

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and I'm saying all these things in this

book, but I'm hearing these things that

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other people are saying and I'm like.

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I don't want people to think that I'm

just copying what other people are

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saying, but then I remembered either

you said this or someone told me this,

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that there's nothing new under the sun.

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Exactly.

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And it's just our own way

to share the knowledge.

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That has been passed down and passed

down and tweaked and, you know,

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researched more and those things.

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And so it was just, you know, confirmation

after confirmation that I needed to do

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this and that I, you know, wanted your

publishing company to help me with it.

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And even your colors are my colors.

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It's like the blues, the, it's like.

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Wow, this is just amazing.

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Well, I don't believe

in coincidence either.

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And , and I do, I remember that

conversation and, , 'cause I think,

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'cause you, I juror remember you saying

something like the illuminating, right?

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Because I think I spoke on at

that conference on, or maybe

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it was already h but I spoke

on Illuminating Your Greatness.

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Yes, yes.

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You, I, i talking about lemonade,

I'm like, that is awesome because

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that just means that, that they're.

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You know, rising tides

raise all votes, right?

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And, and like you, you're gonna talk to

somebody in a way or, or or in a group

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to help them to illuminate, then I will

never get that opportunity and vice versa.

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And so I, I think it's

beautiful and awesome.

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And, and here's the

difference with you, Janet.

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If I, if, if you had any idea how

many people I talked to that tell

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me they're gonna write a book.

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And then they don't.

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You did it like here we are, not

even a year later, and you did it.

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And so I just wanna, I wanna honor

you for that and, and well, thank you.

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Thank you.

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I had been thinking about it for

nine years actually, and for some

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reason I decided to do it last year

and I think it was actually June

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that I was started to write and.

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Started to think about it.

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I didn't know how in the heck

I was gonna do it or anything.

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And I had some friends that were doing

this, you know, book challenge, but

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none of us knew how to do it either.

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And we were, you know, trying to find

resources and everything and then all of a

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sudden, poof, you were just dropped right

in my lap and your keynote was so amazing.

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And just everything and your book.

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I mean, I immediately read it like that

night and, . Just like everything that

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you talk about is just how I feel and

the positivity and the hope generation

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that, that I wanna share with the world

and that I feel like I should share with

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the world my knowledge and my giftings

like I do with my patients and my family.

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And, , I wrote the book because I wanted.

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For my patients to have a type of resource

and put all this information that I've

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gathered over years and years in one

place and give them kind of a, a starting

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point to start their health journey.

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'cause I've been on a health journey.

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We've all had our own health struggles

and there's, you know, we all struggle in

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different areas and that's why I wanted

to make a book about the foundations of

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health because I believe that God put.

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Everything that we need on

this planet, that it, you don't

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have to have a lot of money.

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You don't, you know, you don't,

you don't wanna end up on the

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path where you're having to.

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Take drugs to stay alive, you know?

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And so, , it's the foundations

and the things that body,

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mind, and spirit that we need.

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And because I'm very passionate about oral

systemic education, it's putting the oral

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health and the systemic health together

and integrating medicine and dentistry.

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That's my passion.

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My passion is patient education and just.

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Everyone.

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Education, you know, there's a lot of

information out there, but a lot of people

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don't know about it or take advantage

of it, and so I just wanted to, you

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know, have my little part of what I do.

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To write it down so that I could share

it with my family because I didn't

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learn these things growing up and I

had issues and, you know, my family,

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we have a health history of a lot of,

you know, inflammatory issues and, and

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most people do because of what, , you

know, just our lifestyle and everything.

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But, , we do have the power, , will,

, you know, the power of our own

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free will and the power to choose

and, you know, with our mind.

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To create whatever life we want.

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And so I just, you know, believe

in positivity and believe

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in, , the, the power of healing

of, of the bo of our own body.

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And so that's what this book is all about.

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It's just generating hope, educating

patients, and giving them information

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that maybe they never heard before, and

then places to go to do a deeper dive if

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it's something that resonates with them.

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Sure.

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Well, and it's an easy to read book,

which is what I love about it too.

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'cause it it, like you said, it's

all body, mind, soul, and with just

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different, , but, but I love that

you shared it initially for your

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family because you wanna document it.

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, But all of us can really benefit from it.

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I wanna come back to the book

in a minute because I, I wanna

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talk about one of the things.

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So you've been in.

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Dentistry for 45 years,

which is a long time.

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46 now.

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46.

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Okay, so walk us through, because now

you have your own business, right?

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You have a mobile dentistry Yes.

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Unit and, and so talk about your gen

journey journey of how you started and

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then what you're doing today for patients.

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So my journey in dentistry started

back in the olden days when dentistry,

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when we didn't wear gloves or

masks, and basically dentistry was a

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reactionary type field for centuries.

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You know, starting with barbers

and , you know, blacksmiths.

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If someone had a toothache, they'd

go to the blacksmith or the barber

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and they'd pull their tooth.

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And so dentistry evolved from reacting

to patients, people needing in pain.

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And it's been reactionary for a long time.

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And in 1906, , there was

a dentist named, , Dr.

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Phones that invented the dental hygiene.

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Practice.

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And he hired, he, , trained his,

, , dental assistant who was his,, niece or

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his cousin or, I can't remember exactly

what she was, but that's where the

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dental hygiene, profession started and

it was prevention based and it was go

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out and teach the communities, go into

the doctor's offices and the schools, and

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teach people how to prevent oral disease,

and that's what the dental hygienist was.

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Yeah, all about.

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And just to clarify, , you said

you started in the olden days.

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You didn't start in the

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Just just clarify.

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No, no.

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Not that In the old days of 1979.

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So back in those old days though, , you

know, I wasn't a dental hygienist yet.

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I was a dental assistant, but

I really fell in love with the

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interaction with patients and, you

know, patients were very fearful.

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And still are, there's still a lot

of people that fear the dentist

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and that's why only 40% of people

go and plus cost and everything.

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But, , you know, I really loved

being there as the assistant to

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help the doctor and to like put my

hand on the shoulder of the patient.

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Give them some comfort, you know, talk

to them about what was gonna happen.

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'cause sometimes the dentist

isn't really good about

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explaining what they're gonna do.

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So when they leave the room, then they ask

the assistant or the hygienist, whatever,

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and they say, so how is this gonna be?

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And I'm just like, you know,

it's gonna be really easy.

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You're not gonna feel anything,

you know, and I'll be right

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here and if you need us to stop.

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And so I've always been a very

empathetic person and compassionate and.

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I just loved that.

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That's what I got to do and it,

and I evolved from being a dental

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assistant that assisted the doctor

with every procedure to then.

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Doing procedures myself, I went to

expanded duties, dental assisting

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school, which I learned how to

place fillings, make temporary

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crowns and things like that.

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And the doctor was actually

gonna start teaching me how

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to do anesthesia at that time.

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And then, , 'cause Colorado

is a very progressive state.

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We have the highest scope of

practice in all of the United States.

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And so, . I didn't learn to do that.

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I ended up going to, , work at, for the

federal government in a dental, , clinic

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on Fort Carson, which is the army base.

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Well, once I did that, then I

ended up going into the Army

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reserves as a dental therapist.

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And so I did that for eight years

while I was still, you know, dental

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assisting in, , in the private

market or in the private sector.

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Then, , you know, I was married, had

four kids, and then unfortunately

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in 1996 I parted ways with my

husband, with my four daughters.

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We were living in Hawaii.

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I came back to Colorado and I decided

I was gonna go to dental hygiene

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school with four little ones in tow.

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And so I graduated from

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So, . I've been practicing for 25

years now, and I've been in clinical

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dentistry for 46 years and I still

actually, I think I'm more passionate

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for it now than I was ever, and because

now I really understand the prevention

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and the oral systemic connection.

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And after raising my

girls, I was able to start.

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You know, being affording to be able to

go get continuing education and further

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my skills with, , you know, getting

licensed, , and trained to and certified

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in laser and, , you know, in salivary

testing and a bunch of different things.

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So, , I also do screening for airway

and so now it's like I'm helping people.

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Their whole body health,

not just their oral health.

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So they're connected and that's

one thing that you know, that

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separation, people don't realize

that things that happen in their

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mouth are affecting their whole body.

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And that's really where,

where my passion is now.

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And I don't feel like I'm ever gonna

retire really, because I feel like

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I've behind the eight ball with getting

started a bit little bit late with this.

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This, , part of my life.

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But in 2020 when dental offices

closed, I was really upset

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because I said, not essential.

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What do you mean we're not essential?

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This is essential for

prevention of dying from covid.

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People need to have a healthy mouth, not

to have inflammation, chronic inflammation

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that's going to put them more at risk for.

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Dying of Covid because of complications.

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It's just like if they were a diabetic

or they had cardiovascular disease

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or anything, which a lot of the

pathogens in the mouth are linked to

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some of these cardiovascular disease,

Alzheimer's, dementia, colorectal

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cancer, adverse pregnancy outcomes, and

the list goes on and on to the tune of

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like 56 different different diseases.

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And these are things that

I find really crazy that.

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That people still don't think, they just

still think it's, you know, optional.

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It's, you know, I, you

know, and I, not necessary.

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Right.

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It's interesting.

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15 years ago, I may have

thought differently.

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We did a book for a holistic dentist

years ago, and it was all about that

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connection and it opened my eyes so much

to where it's, it's, it's almost as if,

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how do we not think they're connected now?

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Yes.

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Yes.

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And, and so I think your.

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Help.

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First of all, bringing the awareness out

there is so critical, but then, you know,

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talk about where did the idea come from?

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So you mentioned Covid, I'm guessing

this is where the mobile Okay.

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That's where the, where it

happened because I, during

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Covid, because everything was

closed down, we were at home.

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I just got online and I was

taking all kinds of extra CES

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and courses and I came across a.

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Holistic, , oral health summit.

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And that changed my life because I learned

so many more things, especially the fact

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that in my twenties when I had a liver

failure, that it was, that no one knew

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why it was a result of mercury toxicity.

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And I didn't know that until 2020.

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Wow.

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And I said, I am getting out

of conventional dentistry.

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I'm gonna go holistic all the way for my

own health and for my patient's health.

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And then I decided to, , well I saw

another, , video, , webinar thing on

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a dentist who was in Kentucky who was

still seeing patients in a mobile van,

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a Mercedes sprinter van during Covid.

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And so I was like, well,

that would be really smart.

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Everyone's being schooled from home.

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They're working from home, and my

daughter's actually homeschool their kids

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and I have a large family, and I'm like,

I still need to take care of my family.

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So I went and to Atlanta and bought

a Mercedes Sprinter van in April.

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And then, . Had it shipped to

South Carolina to be upfitted and

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worked with an engineer there.

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And then, , it was a cargo ban and

so it was, , finished in October.

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Took a little bit longer than we

thought, but in October we went and

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picked it up in South Carolina and

then, , drove it back to Colorado and

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then I started seeing patients and

that's what I've been doing ever since

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and I've just been in the world of.

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, More and more holistic and oral systemic

and feeling like, you know, that's

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the message that I wanna get out.

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I wanna get out the message

that your oral health and your

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overall health are connected.

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And, and to generate hope for

people that they don't have to

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be a victim of their biology.

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That they don't have to settle

for whatever, you know, their

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parents or grandparents had.

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Or, oh, you know, my family had bad teeth

and or my family had diabetes or whatever.

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It's like I wanna show them that there's

things that we can do and just go.

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With them along that journey and

give them all the resources that

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they need and referrals to other

specialists and places that they can go.

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And so basically.

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My day-to-day life is all

about generating hope.

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Whether I'm working in a temporary

office, filling in for someone, or whether

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I'm with seeing my own patients in my

own practice, or whether I'm speaking

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or, you know, whatever I'm doing, it's

just, , my goal is to generate hope for

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people out there that you, you have more

control over your health than you think.

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Well, and you are doing exactly that.

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I mean, everywhere you go, you bring

light and hope and, and healing.

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And, and so I, I am excited about what

you're doing and the book is for those

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of you who are listening, we wanna

make sure you grab a copy of the book.

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, You can learn more.

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First of all, I just wanna make sure we

give out the information where people

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can learn more about you and, , and

what you do, the mobile dentistry

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unit, but everything that you do in

terms of speaking the book, et cetera.

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So.

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Do you wanna give that out?

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I, I believe it's Hope for health co.com,

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correct?

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Yes.

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Yes.

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And that's also my email

address if anyone, , wants

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to email me with questions.

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I actually had a, have a patient

that lives in Oklahoma that saw me on

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Instagram, on somebody else's Instagram.

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'cause I don't post that much, but saw me.

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On someone else's Instagram that

was interviewing me at RDH under

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one roof, I believe, and she reached

out to me and I'm helping her with.

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Through tele telehealth and, , she

ordered a salivary test and I'm

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working with her long distance.

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So I, , you know, I just, anyone who's

interested in mobile dentistry, anyone's

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in interested in oral systemic connection.

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I mean, I belong to a lot

of different organizations.

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Everything from.

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The biological and holistic side to

the national network of healthcare

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hygienists who are promoting getting

dental hygienists into other practice

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settings like, you know, medical

offices and, , pediatrician offices and

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hospitals and all of that so that we can.

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Be part of the medical team that

helps to screen for other things.

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And so hope for health.

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, Co.com.

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If you wanna be a patient, if you happen

to be in Colorado, you can reach me.

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My phone number is, , is

on my website too.

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So, , texting is the best way to reach me.

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But, , go to Amazon and buy

my book and leave a review

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if you would to let me know.

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, And if you have any questions,

I would be happy to talk to you.

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My husband.

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Just cracks up because every night

I'm talking to somebody on the phone

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about something, you know, they're

asking me about this vitamin or

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this supplement, or this test or

that test, and I just feel like.

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I just wanna help people.

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And that's what you love to do.

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And that's just, I love talking about it.

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It's, I, it's an obsession.

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Well obsession because you're helping

me with helping people and, , and

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talking about the things that,

and I hear it every single day.

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They're like, no one has

ever told me this before.

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And I'm in shock because

I'm, I'm just like.

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What are we doing?

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You know, in our field, if we aren't

talking to people who have been

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going to the dentist for decades, and

they say that that's the first time

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they've heard what I'm telling them,

and they're so appreciative about it.

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And so I just want more people

to do what I am doing and.

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Join the bandwagon, especially

healthcare providers, dental

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hygienists, and anybody you know, who

just wants to improve their own life.

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I, I'm there to just help

you in any way I can.

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So reach out to me.

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Well, I love it.

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And Janet, thank you so

much for being on the show.

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I love seeing you, keep

doing what you're doing.

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Thank you.

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And I hope to see you at, at, . In

Texas in July, and thank you for and

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your team, your wonderful team if

anybody's interested in writing their

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story, , performance publishing.

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They have an amazing team that really

helped me through this journey.

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It's not an easy journey.

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But you can get the job done,

you know, and they, they give

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you all the tools that you need.

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And so, , you know, we all have something

to share with the world, and people have

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a story to tell, just like your book says.

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And I just love, I just love

the inspiration that you're,

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your, your book gave to me too.

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And, , you know, I just love

to call you my friend and co.

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Brightness.

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Skate of trying to shine our light.

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Yeah.

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Shiny co Co light shiner.

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Co illuminators.

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How's that?

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Illuminator.

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Co illuminator.

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Yes.

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Co illuminator.

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Yes.

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I love it.

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And Hope Generator.

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That's Hope Generator.

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I love it.

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Well, thank you again, Janet, so much.

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Thank you Michelle.

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Bye.

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Well, everybody, that's it for

the Power of Authority Spotlight.

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And just a reminder, definitely

go to hope for health co.com,

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hope for health co.com,

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, to check everything out that Janet does.

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But one thing that she said, I just

wanna leave with all of you as a

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reminder, 'cause I think it's a

really important message, is you

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don't have to be a victim to biology.

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It's just learning some simple things,

taking care of your health, but ultimately

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having hope that no matter where you are

with your health today, it can get better.

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We'll see you next time.

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