In this episode, Yvonne McCoy and Deepak Saini delve into the importance of integrating personal and professional personas, the significance of small changes for health and emotional well-being, and the impact of individualized approaches to success and wellness. Deepak shares his personal journey from being a CPA to focusing on health due to his own health challenges, emphasizing the need for inner game work and addressing limiting beliefs for personal and professional progress. Yvonne highlights her own transformative experience and encourages listeners to embrace change through small positive steps.
Guest Bio:
Deepak Saini transitioned from being a CPA to focusing on health due to personal health challenges, including being morbidly obese and suffering from chronic illness. He now helps entrepreneurs with their health and emotional well-being, advocating for the importance of small changes for personal transformation.
Key Points:
- 05:42 - Importance of tying health choices to personal values and the necessity of individualized approaches to health and wellness.
- 10:18 - Addressing limiting beliefs, emotional regulation, and past traumas as crucial factors in one's success.
- 16:30 - Discussion on the impact of the school system on creativity and the importance of imagination and individuality.
- 24:55 - Action steps and the significance of identifying one's "why" before embarking on a transformational journey.
- 31:20 - Importance of recognizing areas of improvement in one's health and taking small positive steps to work on them.
Main Quote:
"Take one small step, regardless of how minor, as it can lead to building positive habits over time."
Links:
Guest's website: www.deepaksainihealth.com/freebie
Hello, everybody. We're at it again. I am so
Speaker:glad that we're here for the One Small Change podcast.
Speaker:And I'm your host, Yvonne McCoy, and I bring over 30
Speaker:years of entrepreneurial experience and passion for
Speaker:discovering growth through the power of seemingly small
Speaker:change. And I wanna thank you for joining me again this week in this
Speaker:journey of exploration and transformation. And I'm
Speaker:gonna share, and also my guests, will share some
Speaker:smaller unexpected change that had, you know,
Speaker:a remarkable transformation in their growth, either their personal
Speaker:or professional or both. And so my guest today
Speaker:is Deepak Shaney. And I just wanna say
Speaker:this, we have had some interesting experiences
Speaker:together, but I am so glad that he's still willing to talk to
Speaker:me. So so, Deepak,
Speaker:how are you today? I'm I'm doing great. The weather is nice.
Speaker:It's sun is shining. I I'm I'm doing fantastic.
Speaker:So I want our audience
Speaker:to know what you do and what
Speaker:was, you know, and why you do it and kind of what the one small
Speaker:changes that had that unexpected
Speaker:impact on you. Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. Really
Speaker:quickly, there's a couple things I I I do. I'm kind of in definitely in
Speaker:the health space as people can see there, Deepak say need health, and we'll we'll
Speaker:get to how I got here, because that was not my first, first career.
Speaker:I tend to work with entrepreneurs, and I have 2 different offerings. And I
Speaker:won't get into too much detail, but essentially, my hand high end offering,
Speaker:for successful entrepreneurs is is for those who, you know,
Speaker:they probably are saying to themselves, I'm a little bit
Speaker:heavier than I used to be. I'm a little bit more tired than I used
Speaker:to be. I'm not having the type of fun I used to have And that
Speaker:maybe is in the bedroom or otherwise, and they're ready to make those changes
Speaker:and actually really look at their life. And how many times entrepreneurs can understand they've
Speaker:built so busy building their business that they put some of their personal life,
Speaker:including their health on the back burner, and they're conscious enough to
Speaker:make that change. So that's that's kind of one group. And then the other group
Speaker:I work with are people who are more just you know, they have they they
Speaker:realize they have limiting beliefs. They have some emotional regulation
Speaker:issues, and they wanna handle that. They wanna get rid of some of those negative
Speaker:emotions, get some of those, rid of those limiting beliefs,
Speaker:and move their life forward either in their personal life or for their, business. And,
Speaker:hey, we've all been there, and it's always a it's it's a challenge. So that's
Speaker:that's that's who I work with. But, to your to your question of
Speaker:one small change, let me just take a step backwards. My first profession,
Speaker:as I said, being in the health field is wasn't my first thing. I'm a
Speaker:CPA by first profession. I was a I was a
Speaker:accountant, in, you know, corporate finance, corporate accounting for over
Speaker:20 years. I was someone who always struggled with with my health.
Speaker:You know, Ivan, you didn't know me back then, but I was morbidly obese as
Speaker:a as a teenager, a £100 heavier than I am now. Autoimmune
Speaker:condition, my my entire life, I get chronically sick, you know,
Speaker:3, 4 times a year for weeks on end. You know, you're just
Speaker:getting better, and you just think you're moving forward and get sick again. That was
Speaker:essentially me my almost my entire life. But what really was my
Speaker:turning point was, 2014. My youngest
Speaker:daughter, excuse me, was just a baby, and I hurt my back. Hurt my
Speaker:back so bad, I, couldn't bend over at the waist. I had no flexion.
Speaker:So I couldn't essentially do anything. Couldn't golf anymore. I couldn't run.
Speaker:Very painful to move. Very painful getting in and out of a chair. That
Speaker:includes the toilet. But I couldn't pick out my youngest daughter out of her crib.
Speaker:So that was my turning point in trying to heal myself and find
Speaker:the modalities to heal myself. And, I mean, we can take this line of
Speaker:thinking if you want, but, I like to say the western medical system wasted 18
Speaker:months of my health and had no answers for me. I found all you know,
Speaker:alternative means, alternative modalities, if you will, heal
Speaker:myself, and that started my transition of just thinking differently
Speaker:and what was actually available for me in in my life. And I realized
Speaker:I was thinking very, scarcity mindset, very small. And when I
Speaker:opened my mindset of what's possible for my health,
Speaker:that's what everything kind of started from changing that, and that what led me to
Speaker:doing what I'm doing today as as far as the profession. I I don't
Speaker:know that I ever shared with you that at one point I was
Speaker:£440. No. You did not share that.
Speaker:And lost a 150. Well, actually, I lost more than that, but
Speaker:I kept off a 100 and 50. And my small change
Speaker:that made that happen was that, I was gonna be a
Speaker:grandmother, and I wanted to be an active
Speaker:grandmother with my grandchild. I did not my grandmother, who I
Speaker:love dearly, I jokingly said was 5, you know, 5 by
Speaker:5. She was 5 foot tall and 5 foot ground. I mean, she just, you
Speaker:know, was a little butterball of love. But I didn't
Speaker:I didn't want that to be me. And so I think, you
Speaker:know, part of the big thing that
Speaker:came out of that is we we we know how
Speaker:most of the time. We just don't have a big enough why, and that's what
Speaker:I think taps into your vision. And that is, for me, the you
Speaker:know, I had gone to doctors. I had done all kinds of stuff. I'd done
Speaker:all kinds of stuff. I'd done all kinds of diets and, you know, what have
Speaker:you. But the fact that I had
Speaker:a grandchild coming was the big why that
Speaker:I you know, the change that I needed, why it was actually important to
Speaker:do this. Yeah. Yvonne, I just thank you for sharing that. I did not know
Speaker:that for how long we've we've known each other for, like, over a year now.
Speaker:I never heard that first. So thank you for sharing that. And, 2 things I'll
Speaker:say. Number 1, yes. Many of my clients, that come to me
Speaker:for any of the work that I do is either, a, they've become grandparents
Speaker:or recently become grandparents or they've become parents, and they wanna
Speaker:like that. It's the it's a wake up call for sure. And I love that
Speaker:you said the why because, again, for me, that's what it boils down
Speaker:to was my why. I wanted to be able to be able to pick up
Speaker:my youngest daughter and and and and be active with my older daughter. You know,
Speaker:I'm the I'm the kind type of dad, you know, at least when they were
Speaker:younger, they're they're too big now. But, you know, who'd, you know, throw the
Speaker:kids up in the air and spin them around and all these kind of things.
Speaker:I'm like, I couldn't do that anymore. So so my why
Speaker:at at that time was just to, like, be able to do those things again.
Speaker:And now my why to this day is basically the same, essentially the same. It's
Speaker:like, I remember how crummy life was. That was 10 years ago. I remember
Speaker:how crummy life was when I couldn't move and do those things, and I never
Speaker:wanna go back there. So all my personal practices for my own
Speaker:health line of in in that fashion. And, again, that's the first thing
Speaker:I talk with my clients regardless of what they're coming to me for or how
Speaker:we're working together is, like, what is your why? Mhmm. Why do you wanna
Speaker:make this change? So I love I love that you brought that up. Yeah. And
Speaker:and I think part of that has to do I think the other piece that
Speaker:was really important for me was that I
Speaker:needed to find I I I one of the misconceptions that I find
Speaker:all the time is that or at least that I had was I had a
Speaker:purse a a professional persona, and I had a
Speaker:personal persona. And what I've discovered is
Speaker:when you come up with philosophies or whatever you're
Speaker:doing and you can incorporate in them into both,
Speaker:you are so more you're so much more relaxed because there's just
Speaker:one one you. Right? And not only
Speaker:that, it reinforces itself in a lot of
Speaker:different ways. And so for me, what the one of the weird exercises that I
Speaker:came up with, mental exercises, was I said, when did I
Speaker:when did I feel like I was at my best? And it was I was
Speaker:21, and I came up with 3 words. But but the most
Speaker:powerful one was from a friend of mine who knew me when then, and
Speaker:she said you were the most adventurous person I'd ever met.
Speaker:And at £440, just going up and down the stairs
Speaker:was, like, there was no adventure. There was no sponsorship.
Speaker:And so everything after that, I would say both in my
Speaker:work and my personal, how can I make this adventuresome? How can I
Speaker:make this, you know, my husband said I was the most intriguing woman
Speaker:he'd ever met? So it was kind of like, I was writing these really dull
Speaker:reports, and it was like, how can I put something kinda quirky in
Speaker:it and intriguing? And I'm sure they edited it out,
Speaker:but it made me feel good. And so
Speaker:that's, you know, it kinda combined what I was looking to
Speaker:achieve in my personal life along with my business life.
Speaker:So that I was living it, you know, 247 in
Speaker:in, you know, all parts of it. Yeah. We
Speaker:we have to live our truth regard regardless, you know, we have to live our
Speaker:truth. We can't be living a persona or what have you. And if we
Speaker:and if we do and sometimes for a short period or whatever the purpose, in
Speaker:the end, it's not sustainable, and, eventually, it'll bite us in the butt.
Speaker:So the the question my audience is predominantly
Speaker:predominantly entrepreneurial women. And so one of
Speaker:the things that I'd like to find out from you is
Speaker:as you went into these different modalities,
Speaker:what were some of the things that you found that
Speaker:surprised you or that helped you a lot?
Speaker:Yeah. Great question. Like you said earlier, Yvonne, you
Speaker:said something to the fact of, like, I knew what to do. We all
Speaker:know what to do from a conceptual
Speaker:level. I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna answer this a little bit
Speaker:in 2 ways in 2 different aspects to give a complete
Speaker:answer. So from a from a from a physical kinda
Speaker:health point of view, yes, we all know what to do. But, again,
Speaker:tying it to your why, as we just discussed, you
Speaker:know, what's what's truly important? What's gonna sustain us when, you know,
Speaker:that it becomes hard to make that this that decision. Right? That's putting down that
Speaker:second glass of wine or passing on that cake or whatever the case
Speaker:may be in in that in that sense. So really, really tied to that. But
Speaker:also it's like there's no one size fits all. There's no one perfect diet
Speaker:for everyone or nutrition plan or exercise plan or whatever. It's
Speaker:really getting to that nuance. Again, with my with my clients,
Speaker:I you know, we're really
Speaker:I'm really big proponent of of testing and not that testing is the be all
Speaker:end all, but, you know, it's it's having, you know, your genetic
Speaker:markers, your microbiome, having your metabolics,
Speaker:blood work, etcetera, tying that to your lifestyle goals,
Speaker:your ethnicity, your cultural norms,
Speaker:your family's dynamics, etcetera, and tying all these,
Speaker:together. That's that's the secret sauce because it just can't be, like, do this or
Speaker:do that if that doesn't resonate or from a epigenetical point
Speaker:of view is not it'll it will never work because it it's not a it's
Speaker:not a a line for you. So that's that's one because that's kind of the
Speaker:physical. The other part is actually the inner game, if you'll, which
Speaker:is what I'm really leaning into more so now. And, you
Speaker:know, not only from my my with my clients, but also myself, and I'm continues
Speaker:to do this work on myself because, hey, no one's perfect. Deepak's really not
Speaker:perfect. Is, you know, what are the limiting beliefs? You know,
Speaker:what are the things holding me back? What are some of the emotional
Speaker:regulation things while much approved or not not perfect? Not and then not that they
Speaker:ever will be perfect. And I and I like to say this as well, regardless
Speaker:of where you are on your journey and how and and your success level, and
Speaker:and success can be defined many different ways. Right? And our personal relationships can be
Speaker:money in our businesses, etcetera.
Speaker:And, Yvonne, we know some of these same people or who we would both consider,
Speaker:you know, like, oh, they're so much more successful. I aspire to be them when
Speaker:they hey. They all have limiting beliefs themselves.
Speaker:Sometimes they're the same things we struggle with or this or the scale is different.
Speaker:It but everyone has them. So this I think these are things we continuously need
Speaker:to work on. And what I find, the more I I'm steeped in this community
Speaker:and the more I work with entrepreneurs, the more it actually comes up. It's that
Speaker:inner game that's actually holding them back. It's the limiting beliefs. It's the
Speaker:emotional regulation, trauma, even past traumas,
Speaker:and that type of thing. So that's been a I I don't wanna say a
Speaker:wake up call because we intuitively all know this, but now that I do more
Speaker:of this work and I work more and more with people, You know, I
Speaker:I'm I'm working I was working with someone this morning. We talked about in, you
Speaker:know, their procrastination. I know what I need to do to build my business. I
Speaker:know I need to make the phone calls. I'm just stuck. So it's okay. Well,
Speaker:let's break this. Let's break it and get you from procrastination to motivation.
Speaker:Well, the thing I you know, one of the things that I say to people
Speaker:is it's progress, not, you know,
Speaker:perfection. It's kinda like peeling the onion. And and every
Speaker:time you get a little bit better, you hear different things. You may have
Speaker:I mean, I just somebody that I did for another podcast, they
Speaker:said something on the podcast that I'm sure they've said to me for the last
Speaker:year. And I finally went, oh my god. Is
Speaker:this is this is what you've been talking about? And I think
Speaker:the other thing is you're absolutely right. I mean, I think, you know,
Speaker:what I see so often is people
Speaker:and whether it has to do with food or whether it has to do with
Speaker:their business in a program, they try to follow a guru,
Speaker:you know, and follow the steps. But what I say is you need
Speaker:situational awareness. You need to feel confident enough that you
Speaker:can adjust and tweak and make it work for you.
Speaker:Do you know? And so one of the the weird things that has just
Speaker:happened is I made a big push
Speaker:to get my cholesterol down. It wasn't bad, but my husband's was a little bad,
Speaker:and we went to more plant based eating. And so I
Speaker:just got a call from my doctor that my iron is really low
Speaker:because we'd given up a lot of meat. We haven't adjusted accordingly.
Speaker:And it's like, it was never real high to
Speaker:begin with when, you know but I said to my husband, I think that's
Speaker:probably why the last couple weeks I've been saying, I really want you to cook
Speaker:some meat. I really want some meat.
Speaker:And so Your your body will send you the signal. Will sending me the signal.
Speaker:And it you know, it's kind of like it's, you know, the making those
Speaker:adjustments. And the other weird thing is, you know,
Speaker:I used to when I first lost my first £100, I did a lot of
Speaker:health coaching. And, you know, people are like, I have to give up
Speaker:this and I have to and I'm like, no. You you know, make a decision
Speaker:about something you can live with. You know? I
Speaker:mean, I could not give up chocolate or coffee for the rest of my life.
Speaker:I mean, it maybe, but not a you know?
Speaker:And the weird thing is I have found this brownie that I
Speaker:that I make that's high in fiber and
Speaker:it's got walnuts in it and has chi chia seeds
Speaker:and oatmeal and stuff like that. And I have it every night
Speaker:and it does not spike my blood sugar. I mean, when I talked to my
Speaker:endocrinologist, he was like I said, I eat it between 8 and
Speaker:9 every night. He goes, your blood sugar looks fine.
Speaker:And my, you know, my a one c has been going down, and I don't
Speaker:crave the other junk food. It's like, you know, I've
Speaker:got my brownie every night. You know. And so it
Speaker:seems counterintuitive, you know, I don't have a whole sheet
Speaker:cake. I have a little dish, you know, but it seems counterintuitive,
Speaker:but it works for me mentally and physically, you know,
Speaker:because I've adapted it. I tried it once with bananas, you know,
Speaker:because I need potassium and that just made my sugar go up. And
Speaker:so you you have to be able to be your own advocate, and I think
Speaker:that's what we've kind of lost. And I and and to tie this back
Speaker:just in general, it comes from my explanation
Speaker:of us coming out of an industrial society because
Speaker:our educational society teaches
Speaker:you not to be creative and think out of the box. It teaches you to
Speaker:follow instructions and be a follower. And
Speaker:so now we're in the Absolutely. Now we're in the information
Speaker:society, and we have lots of information, but we don't know how to
Speaker:filter it or to implement it. Yeah. You may have key point there. There's
Speaker:so many things you just said there, Yvonne. So, yeah, the last last point,
Speaker:filter. That's the most important thing. Filter the information.
Speaker:Again, that's why it's good to listen to
Speaker:many viewpoints and not just listen to 1 channel or 1 guru
Speaker:or 1 coach and, you know, just again using myself. You know, I've
Speaker:I've multiple coaches that I work with for different things. And and and even in
Speaker:those specific realms, I look at
Speaker:various, opinions as well, and I can bring that to the person that I'm actually
Speaker:paying to to work with me for whatever that the case may be. And you're
Speaker:absolutely right. The the the education system or the system in
Speaker:general is meant to good worker bees who worked in factories in the 19 forties
Speaker:fifties. We don't live in that age anymore. Exactly, like you said. And
Speaker:I and I love, you know, you know, back to your your brownie examples. Like,
Speaker:there's no one size fits all for someone. Right? Like, just
Speaker:one ingredient in your brownie could be the thing that spikes them. It doesn't spike
Speaker:for you. Awesome. Amazing. They found the thing. For somebody else, they totally could be
Speaker:something that spikes their blood sugar or causes them inflammation, or or
Speaker:what have you. Right? So we gotta we gotta, you know, figure all these things
Speaker:out again. It's highly individualized. There's no one size fits all.
Speaker:And and I guess back to my last point to that, something you brought came
Speaker:to mind earlier, and I I don't wanna interrupt you. That's why I'm a big
Speaker:fan of, like, going back to a book. You know, every maybe 2 or 3
Speaker:years later and reading the same book again, even though you might have your highlights
Speaker:and flags and whatever someone does, or at least that's what I do,
Speaker:you're in a different place. You're a different person now, and the way you
Speaker:think and the questions you ask yourself are different. And now you're
Speaker:like, oh, now I really understand what the author is saying, or maybe
Speaker:not. It's just like, oh, I have a different perspective of what they're saying now,
Speaker:and something different come up. So, you know, you can see behind me, you got
Speaker:all these books and even the top shelf you can't see, you know, that I
Speaker:and I just periodically, you know, every couple years go back to them again and
Speaker:just get new things. Well, that's that that's my thing where I say, every
Speaker:once in a while, you just need to go back to basics. Go back to
Speaker:where you started. Right? And take a look and
Speaker:see what your frame of mind was and and and
Speaker:and and it's funny because one time I made a list of every all
Speaker:the tools that I had created, and I had, like, a list of about
Speaker:36. And when I went back and I looked at them, some of the
Speaker:ones that I did in the beginning were the best
Speaker:because they weren't, you know, they were very simple and it's like, I
Speaker:can add to this. I can now see why this
Speaker:works, you know, because I'm smarter, and I can I can add to
Speaker:it? And it's funny because I go back and I go, boy, that was
Speaker:good. This makes so much sense. I'm gonna start
Speaker:using this again because you're bringing more you know, you started with a
Speaker:certain perspective, a certain I wanna say it
Speaker:it was kind of an uncluttered perspective before you
Speaker:got so involved in other people. It was really yours.
Speaker:And now you have other things that you can bring with it. So it you
Speaker:know, when you go back to the basics and you enhance it, it's even better
Speaker:than it was before. So I absolutely agree with you
Speaker:on that. And I think,
Speaker:the industrial mindset, unfortunately,
Speaker:I think has a lot to do with
Speaker:our limiting beliefs. You know, you
Speaker:know, I one of the examples I always use
Speaker:is, you know, for a long time, even now, I don't think
Speaker:anybody in my family knows what I do. They don't quite understand what Yeah. I
Speaker:don't think they know what I do either. My family. Don't worry don't worry about
Speaker:it, Yvonne. And and and so forever my mom would say, you know,
Speaker:because I have a Wharton MBA and and, you know, so her thing is why
Speaker:don't you just get a job? You know, because that's the
Speaker:industrial way. You go and you get education and you get a job and you
Speaker:work there. It you know, it used to be that you worked for 30 years,
Speaker:but now you don't. And so, you know, even if if you do
Speaker:get a job, part of your responsibility for
Speaker:yourself is to educate yourself as much as you can from what's
Speaker:available at that job. So when, for whatever reason, you
Speaker:have to leave, you've got a better product in yourself.
Speaker:Do you know? And and and, you know, because those skills are
Speaker:portable. But, but I think the mindset is
Speaker:I have to do it this way. Nobody wants to hear what I have to
Speaker:say or, you know, it's not my job or it's
Speaker:outside my role kind of thing. And I and I and I see that
Speaker:all the time because it it's like
Speaker:it's it's like somebody grinds away the thing that makes
Speaker:you unique, You know? You started out with this wonderful
Speaker:individuality, and when you're finished, you're just a little round pebble.
Speaker:Yeah. I mean, it starts with our school system. Right? Like, there's
Speaker:no 5, 7 year olds who are stressed
Speaker:out and blah blah blah. No imagination. No
Speaker:creativity. Right? Like, we beat it out of people. Don't
Speaker:sit at your desk. Don't move. Start start the wall.
Speaker:Lines. Color Color in the lines. Yeah. Exactly. You know, the grass
Speaker:is always green. You know? I mean, that was what my remember my mom saying
Speaker:to me. You know? The grass can't be purple, but, you know,
Speaker:those kinds of things. Alright. But before we run out of time, can you give
Speaker:us a couple action steps that can help us that people can
Speaker:actually start using? Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely.
Speaker:So a a couple things here. So, maybe just go let me go a little
Speaker:bit meta and then kind of burp boil it down to some action stuff. So
Speaker:I guess the number one is I'm a big proponent
Speaker:with my clients or otherwise and certainly for myself is just, like, really, really
Speaker:focusing on what is true what do we truly want and
Speaker:what is maybe truly missing. So maybe that's doing we need to
Speaker:do some inner game work. Again, we're talking to entrepreneurs primarily here,
Speaker:and, you know, there's tons of tactics and marketing and all this stuff. But if
Speaker:you have limiting beliefs, none of that's gonna make a difference. Yeah. But yeah.
Speaker:No. I shouldn't say that. You're gonna you're gonna make some progress, but you can
Speaker:make so much more progress if you, you know, had your inner game in
Speaker:check. So, you know, whatever that is for you is really be aware of
Speaker:of of that at a at a high level, at a meta level, and then
Speaker:kinda work your way down. I'm a huge proponent of, like,
Speaker:you know, doing certain things to just, like, reset ourselves. So maybe that's
Speaker:taking a breath. Maybe that's meditation. Certainly
Speaker:doing some exercise. You're feeling struggling with a problem? Go
Speaker:outside in nature and go for a walk. Trust me. The the solution will probably
Speaker:come to you. Just do basic things. And if you can do these
Speaker:basic things, so much of
Speaker:our anxieties and our tensions and our conflicts will just melt away.
Speaker:And, yeah, there's gonna be other other stuff, and we gotta do some more advanced,
Speaker:things. But just do do the basics.
Speaker:Clean water, clean air, eat healthy,
Speaker:move a little bit, get out in the sunshine, and just
Speaker:learn to breathe properly, meditate if if you want to or
Speaker:Tai Chi or whatever is your thing, and have your
Speaker:problems resolved right there. And and you know what?
Speaker:I I think what people need to understand is
Speaker:there are things in each of those that you can do. So for
Speaker:instance, you know, I admit that I have some
Speaker:mobility issues. But, you know, if I go online,
Speaker:I I have a 10 minute Tai Chi seated Tai Chi that I can do.
Speaker:That's great because if I have, like, 20 minutes before the next
Speaker:call, I can slip that in. Do you know? I mean, that was the one
Speaker:thing that I learned was to have a variety. If you say you're gonna exercise,
Speaker:have a variety of ways that you can do that. So if it rains, you
Speaker:go, I can't go outside because it's raining. Well, you've got something else you can
Speaker:do, you know, or you can buy a raincoat, which is what I did when
Speaker:I got a dog. The dog still had to go out, and I and I
Speaker:used to say that was my exercise thing. So, Having
Speaker:a dog is a great exercise motivator because you have to get outside. And even
Speaker:if it's a slow pace and only 5 minutes, you're still
Speaker:moving. And you cannot hang your clothes on it. That's
Speaker:the other that's the other thing that's really important. That's been my experience. They don't
Speaker:like when you drape your clothes on top of your dog. That's right. The last
Speaker:thing is, what's the freebie? What's the gift you're
Speaker:gonna give us? Yeah. Absolutely. So it you know, kind of to my
Speaker:my last point there, it's it's a guide, for the
Speaker:successful entrepreneur. 7 7, action steps,
Speaker:that you can take. And so at the beginning, just to kinda read read about
Speaker:them and why why they're beneficial, not only to your health, but also
Speaker:to your business. And then at the end of it is 30 days of
Speaker:tracking. So of these habit changes or habits we wanna implement. So
Speaker:now I'm gonna be perfectly clear. Do not try all 7 at once. You
Speaker:are just you're setting yourself up a failure. Choose 1, maybe 2.
Speaker:No more than 2 at a time. Choose 1 or 2.
Speaker:Track it for 30 days. If it resonates with you, great. Keep doing that. You
Speaker:built a new habit. If it doesn't, that's fine too. Go back to the beginning,
Speaker:pick another one. And at the end of some period of time, of those 7,
Speaker:maybe there's a handful, maybe there's all 7, you picked up a new healthy habit
Speaker:for you that you can incorporate, into your life.
Speaker:Fantastic. I I absolutely believe in trackers. I don't know what your
Speaker:tracker looks like, but I have to tell you, and this is another
Speaker:thing about picking something that works for you. I am not a journaler. I don't
Speaker:want a food journal. You know, it's kind of like I know what I ate,
Speaker:and I don't wanna write it down. And the other part is it
Speaker:if I if there's a lesson I learned, I don't know how to find it
Speaker:in a journal. So I have a tracker too that
Speaker:I will share with you a different time. So here's the here's the
Speaker:the question. Here's the the teaser. When was the last time
Speaker:that you did something new for the first time?
Speaker:When was the last time I did something new for the first
Speaker:time? Great question. Let me think.
Speaker:Last Thursday. Last
Speaker:Thursday, I did I did I did something something new. Yeah.
Speaker:Do you wanna share? You wanna share. Yes. Absolutely.
Speaker:I'm a huge proponent of
Speaker:and I think there's there's great research coming out of many places at John Hopkins
Speaker:and and others as well of using the right the
Speaker:right psychedelic medicine in the right dose for the right
Speaker:intention and purpose. And I wanna be very clear about this right intention,
Speaker:purpose dose. I had the opportunity,
Speaker:last Thursday to try 1,
Speaker:psychedelic medicine that I had never tried before,
Speaker:in in, again, the right setting in in a heart heart opening,
Speaker:heart centered way in a in a in a in a mastermind,
Speaker:setting. And, Yeah. I did I was not expecting that.
Speaker:That was not on on agenda, so to speak, but it it was
Speaker:offered and and and and it made sense. So I I I tried it, and,
Speaker:yeah, it was it was fine. It was there was a little bit
Speaker:of a, a carry forward for a couple couple days, which was
Speaker:maybe not the best, but, totally open to open to trying. Because, again, I'm I'm
Speaker:a bit of a self experimenter, and I totally believe in the work you can
Speaker:do in p s, PTSD and and other things like that.
Speaker:So if these are things and, again, I don't I don't do that myself, obviously.
Speaker:But if I'm going to recommend that to a client,
Speaker:you know, with the right person and the right professional, etcetera, I wanna be able
Speaker:to share my experience. I don't like I'm not gonna test every single thing out
Speaker:there. But but, you know, I I I want I wanna be able to have
Speaker:that, experience that I can personal experience that I can relay with my
Speaker:clients if I feel that's gonna serve them, in the best way. So, yeah,
Speaker:that's that's something new that I tried. So that that really is something new.
Speaker:So thank you for sharing that with us. So,
Speaker:I just wanna make sure that everybody knows. I I I kinda
Speaker:hate to wind this up because I realized that we have ground that
Speaker:we've never explored. So we probably could go on
Speaker:talking for quite a while. But this is only a 30 minute
Speaker:show, and so I have a couple of things that I need to make sure
Speaker:that I say, and that is be sure you subscribe and share,
Speaker:and, you know, tell people about the podcast. I would love it. It's it's my
Speaker:way of trying to give back to the community and, you know,
Speaker:fueling your quest for growth and impact. And you can always,
Speaker:join me for the One Small Change podcast, every week, which comes
Speaker:out on Friday. So the last
Speaker:thing is if you had, you know, like, last words of
Speaker:wisdom to share with everybody, what would it be?
Speaker:I would say if you really
Speaker:take a moment and reflect upon yourself,
Speaker:you'll probably find that there's something that's you feel is missing
Speaker:or lacking, could be in your health, physical
Speaker:health, could be in your mental health, emotional health, whatever the case may
Speaker:be. Take one step. Take one small step.
Speaker:Doesn't matter what it is. Doesn't matter what it is. Take one positive step
Speaker:and try something out and just incrementally work on whatever your
Speaker:whatever is it is for you, and I think that's all. Don't don't
Speaker:grandeur of I need to lose a £100. Just lose 5.
Speaker:Or I need to run a marathon, get off the couch.
Speaker:What whatever whatever the the the the case is, for
Speaker:you, just take one small step, and I think that's those habits
Speaker:and those small steps build on each other. And I think then over the long
Speaker:term, where we are in our grander. So, yeah, just take
Speaker:one small step. I absolutely
Speaker:believe in that. You know, if you know, I often say
Speaker:if you keep doing what you're doing, you're gonna keep getting what you got. So,
Speaker:guys, this has been fantastic. I hope everybody got as
Speaker:much out of this as I did. And I want you to remember that change
Speaker:can be simple, but it isn't always easy. And it does require a
Speaker:certain amount of courage and resilience and a
Speaker:willing willingness I have lip lock today,
Speaker:and a willingness to step outside your comfort zone. So I hope you will
Speaker:join me again for one small change and see what innovative possibilities
Speaker:you can come up with. And until then, stay curious.
Speaker:This is Yvonne McCoy. Join us next week. Bye.
Speaker:Bye, everyone.