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Health Empowerment – A Proactive Approach to Living your Best Life
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In this episode, we are joined by special guest Melissa Deally, Integrative Health Practitioner and registered Health Coach. Melissa believes in the power of optimizing your health through taking a proactive approach so that you can thrive and enjoy the true richness of a healthy life. We receive little in the form of education on the topics of sleep, nutrition, and stress – so if you feel confused and overwhelmed by competing opinions and information that is completely understandable. Listen as Melissa shares health hacks and immune-boosting tips to optimize your well-being.  It is never too late to prioritize your health because “health is your true wealth”. 

  

About the Guest: 

Melissa Deally is an Integrative Health Practitioner & Registered Health Coach, dedicated to helping her clients discover the root cause of their health issues and truly heal.

Melissa uses a 2 prong approach:1) Discover your toxic load and lower it 2) Discover your body’s imbalances and support them with natural supplements and herbs so the body can come back into balance – and heal itself 

Melissa is the winner of the 2021 Quality Care Award by Businesses From the Heart and has been featured in Pursuit 365, and Fresh Magazine. She is also the host of the “Don’t Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” podcast

 

Links:

Link to the Discover Your Toxic Load Quiz: https://welcome.yourguidedhealthjourney.com/yourtoxicload

Email: melissa@yourguidedhealthjourney.com

Website: https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/detox-programs/

Fb:  https://www.facebook.com/Guidedhealthjourney

LI:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissadeally/

Insta: https://www.instagram.com/guidedhealthjourney/

Podcast:  “Don’t Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” Podcast https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/podcast

About the Host:

I am a financial professional, who specializes in helping people to achieve their financial goals.  My absolute passion is creating new possibilities in people’s lives by showing them the ropes when it comes to money. I’m here to spark healthy and positive conversations around wealth and investment and create a world where nobody is limited by their financial situation. I believe this begins with education and shifting our relationships with money. I love getting to witness people achieving their most ambitious goals and creating new possibilities for themselves and their families! 

 

I love your questions! Reach out to me anytime at:  

Email: kalee.boisvert@raymondjames.ca

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaleeboisvert/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/wealthandwelln2

https://www.facebook.com/kaleeboisvertwealthandwellness/

 

 

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Kalee Boisvert:

Welcome to the wealth and wellness podcast with

Kalee Boisvert:

me Kaylie Bob air. I specialize in helping people to achieve

Kalee Boisvert:

their financial goals. I have a love for all things numbers, and

Kalee Boisvert:

I'm passionate about financial literacy. My goal is to spark

Kalee Boisvert:

healthy and positive conversations around wealth and

Kalee Boisvert:

investment, and create a world where nobody is limited by their

Kalee Boisvert:

financial situation. But wealth is just one piece of the

Kalee Boisvert:

equation of living our best lives. So join me as we explore

Kalee Boisvert:

both wealth and wellness topics. From your net worth to your self

Kalee Boisvert:

worth. Get ready to take confident action. Hello, this is

Kalee Boisvert:

Kaylee. And thank you so much for tuning in to this episode of

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the wealth and wellness Podcast. I'm really excited for today's

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episode, we're joined by a special guest, who very much

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aligns with my views. So I was really excited when I found her

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online and part of her I guess, statement or part of your title

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for your business's health is your true wealth. And that just

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resonated with me so much. So that's exactly you know, what I

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want to cover on this podcast, it's wealth is one piece of it I

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am always talking about but if we're not healthy and in a good

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place to really enjoy it, and you know, what is the purpose of

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that we need to have the whole package. So our guest today is

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Melissa dealey, she is an integrative health practitioner

Kalee Boisvert:

and registered health coach, she's dedicated to helping her

Kalee Boisvert:

clients discover the root cause of their health issue and truly

Kalee Boisvert:

heal. She uses a two prong approach to first discover your

Kalee Boisvert:

toxic load and lower it. And then to discover your body's

Kalee Boisvert:

imbalances and support them with natural supplements and herb so

Kalee Boisvert:

the body can come back into balance and heal itself. Melissa

Kalee Boisvert:

is the winner of the 2001 quality care award by businesses

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from the heart and has been featured in pursuit 365 and

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fresh magazine. She's also the host of a podcast as well. So

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fellow podcaster. And her podcast is called Don't wait for

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your wake up call. And so yeah, and I would highly suggest to

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check that out too. I was looking through some of your

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episodes and listening to some and you have some really nice

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short ones and which are kind of great little ones to listen to

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quickly for a little tip and then some longer ones. So I

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loved it. So Melissa, thank you so much for being here. And I

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guess just to get started for listeners, can you maybe tell us

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a little bit more about your journey and what brought you to

Kalee Boisvert:

do this work?

Melissa Deally:

Sure. Thank you very much. And I just want to go

Melissa Deally:

back on one little thing that came out there is it was the

Melissa Deally:

2021 quality care award and USA 22,001. Which I know thanks. So

Melissa Deally:

I'm gonna just correct that one only because it was last year.

Melissa Deally:

And I've been in this line of work now for seven years. So

Melissa Deally:

what led me here will again 100% agree with health as your true

Melissa Deally:

wealth. The other way I say that is that your health is your

Melissa Deally:

greatest asset. But like you with the wealth side, that's

Melissa Deally:

important to me, I actually have a commerce degree. When I went

Melissa Deally:

and got my Commerce degree, never in my wildest dreams was

Melissa Deally:

actually being in a career of health and wellness on my radar.

Melissa Deally:

But life has its twists and turns, right. So seven years

Melissa Deally:

ago, I was let go for my 24 year career in tourism, actually. And

Melissa Deally:

I was given an hour to clear out my desk and not a word of

Melissa Deally:

thanks. And it was when big fish bought little fish. So a lot of

Melissa Deally:

people were being let go. But still, in that moment, after 24

Melissa Deally:

years of service, I knew three things. I was never working for

Melissa Deally:

someone else again. Whatever I did next, how to be more of

Melissa Deally:

service to humanity and the planet. And I had no idea what

Melissa Deally:

it was going to be. But I was open to being guided. And later

Melissa Deally:

that year, I stumbled upon a company in Vancouver BC that

Melissa Deally:

specialized in brain health supplementation. And that was my

Melissa Deally:

first aha I use my brain 24/7 And no one has ever told me that

Melissa Deally:

I can do more to support my brain. And I knew there was near

Melissa Deally:

epidemic levels of Alzheimer's and dementia. And yet this

Melissa Deally:

wasn't being taught. I also had a grandmother over here who was

Melissa Deally:

99 years old at the time, still fully cognitively functioning

Melissa Deally:

and living by herself. And I started thinking well what do I

Melissa Deally:

need to do to get on her path? And that had me thinking about

Melissa Deally:

her life and she was born in little Christchurch, New Zealand

Melissa Deally:

in the bottom corner of the world way before all the toxins

Melissa Deally:

that were introduced into our world since World War Two,

Melissa Deally:

growing all their own food on that property. And then I looked

Melissa Deally:

at my life by comparison well I had the good fortune to be

Melissa Deally:

raised in Tokyo, Japan, except that it was in the 70s, during

Melissa Deally:

the height of manufacturing plants spewing out toxins that

Melissa Deally:

were getting on me. And so I knew right then and there that I

Melissa Deally:

was highly toxic compared to my grandmother, and behind the

Melissa Deally:

eight ball, right, so what more did I need to be doing? Well, I

Melissa Deally:

could do more to look after my brain clearly. So I jumped in

Melissa Deally:

started learning about the brain learning about toxins and the

Melissa Deally:

toxic effect on our body. And four months later, my oldest

Melissa Deally:

daughter got a concussion in her first grade 12 soccer game of

Melissa Deally:

the season. And she had just started using this brain

Melissa Deally:

supplementation. And I started going with her to her

Melissa Deally:

appointments, because I realized she didn't have the cognitive

Melissa Deally:

ability while concussed to go to the appointment, listen to

Melissa Deally:

everything they had to say, and then come home and tell me so

Melissa Deally:

that I could support her on her healing journey. So I started

Melissa Deally:

going with her, also for my own learning, because I wasn't

Melissa Deally:

working full time. Two months later, I'm driving to Vancouver,

Melissa Deally:

and I get a phone call from the high school that my younger

Melissa Deally:

daughter has a suspected concussion from gym class. And

Melissa Deally:

in that moment, I literally looked at his driving right by

Melissa Deally:

the ocean. And I looked out over the horizon kind of up towards

Melissa Deally:

the heavens and said, Really, this is how you show me my path,

Melissa Deally:

stop taking out my children. So now I have two very different

Melissa Deally:

concussions in the house. And concussions aren't easy. They

Melissa Deally:

don't want them. They're suffering. And I'm trying to

Melissa Deally:

support it. It's stressful. But I'm not working full time. So

Melissa Deally:

now I'm going to two sets of appointments for both of the

Melissa Deally:

girls. And then that was the next Aha, what does someone else

Melissa Deally:

do that doesn't have a mom that isn't conveniently working right

Melissa Deally:

now to support their healing journey. And I realized there

Melissa Deally:

was this gap. And around the same time, I was invited to work

Melissa Deally:

at a holistic clinic here in town, because it's a small town,

Melissa Deally:

people knew our story, people were already reaching out to me

Melissa Deally:

and asking for support in the concussions that they had

Melissa Deally:

through work or family or whatever. And I was invited to

Melissa Deally:

work there to support more people recovering from

Melissa Deally:

concussions.

Melissa Deally:

And I wanted to do that it felt like the next step, I truly felt

Melissa Deally:

guided in this work. And yet, I couldn't get insurance because I

Melissa Deally:

didn't have a certification. So ever since I've been let go, I'd

Melissa Deally:

have life coach in the back of my head, but it hadn't landed.

Melissa Deally:

But now I thought, Okay, I have to do this. But I call a friend

Melissa Deally:

who was a life coach and said, How do I, you know, where did

Melissa Deally:

you do your life coaching certification? I should do that.

Melissa Deally:

I know, you did a really good one. What was it? I should do

Melissa Deally:

that? And he said, No, you shouldn't. You don't need to be

Melissa Deally:

a life coach, you need to be a health coach. And I went, what,

Melissa Deally:

what's that? Never heard of it. But boy did that land in that

Melissa Deally:

moment. And I found an amazing health coaching course that

Melissa Deally:

night, literally signed up and started Monday. And I think that

Melissa Deally:

was a Thursday night. And their next intake was starting Monday.

Melissa Deally:

So again, perfect alignment. And I jumped in. And from the moment

Melissa Deally:

of starting that program, I knew I'd found my home, I knew I'd

Melissa Deally:

found my purpose. And I never looked back. I did complete my

Melissa Deally:

life coaching, but I didn't have the same passion for it. And so

Melissa Deally:

from that program, I then learned about integrative health

Melissa Deally:

practitioner organization. And when I saw that I just knew that

Melissa Deally:

was the next step in my journey, because the journey of my

Melissa Deally:

learning is never ending, right. And so I added tools to my

Melissa Deally:

toolbox. And that's where I added the tools of being able to

Melissa Deally:

run functional medicine labs for people to truly see what's going

Melissa Deally:

on inside the body and where those imbalances are. And then

Melissa Deally:

I'm super excited for another program that's going to take me

Melissa Deally:

through NLP, NLP coaching timeline therapy and

Melissa Deally:

hypnotherapy coming up next month. So it is a never ending

Melissa Deally:

journey. But through this process, I've truly found my

Melissa Deally:

passion found my purpose and can help people truly heal because

Melissa Deally:

we have a broken medical system. Today. We have a medical system

Melissa Deally:

that is unfortunately run basically by big pharma and Big

Melissa Deally:

Pharma prioritizes shareholder profit over human health. And so

Melissa Deally:

that's where wealth and health can be at odds. But when people

Melissa Deally:

take their own health and their own wealth into their own hands

Melissa Deally:

and that's when they can work in alignment.

Kalee Boisvert:

Amazing I love that the whole kind of journey

Kalee Boisvert:

and how you're adding more and more tools because there is so

Kalee Boisvert:

many I guess different kind of probably circumstances and

Kalee Boisvert:

things like that with the clients you deal with and sorry

Kalee Boisvert:

to hear about your daughter's I'm assuming they completely

Kalee Boisvert:

like healed well cuz we were talking about them before we got

Kalee Boisvert:

on the recording and sounds like they're doing amazing. So

Melissa Deally:

yeah, so yes, they both fully recovered from

Melissa Deally:

their concussions and yeah, it was one of them recovered in

Melissa Deally:

about four months and the other one it was a full year. Was it

Melissa Deally:

they are both thriving now. And it just goes to show how

Melissa Deally:

different you know, different concussions are different

Melissa Deally:

illnesses are where each individual's and our bodies are

Melissa Deally:

so different. And so one person's healing journey is

Melissa Deally:

different to the next. But having the guidance to support

Melissa Deally:

you through it is what leads to that success.

Kalee Boisvert:

Yeah, I love that. And I love the work you're

Kalee Boisvert:

doing. Cuz I think a lot of us are starting to recognize I hold

Kalee Boisvert:

that whole idea of the broken medical system just knowing

Kalee Boisvert:

that, yeah, you go in with all these symptoms, and it just

Kalee Boisvert:

seems like it's if they can't find you know what it is, like,

Kalee Boisvert:

if it's not strikingly obvious, it's just like, okay, that's

Kalee Boisvert:

fine, right? Like, if you're having pains or feeling bloated,

Kalee Boisvert:

or you know, digestive issues, it's just like, Well, if there's

Kalee Boisvert:

not something really obvious or a problem, then you're just

Kalee Boisvert:

going to be sort of go back to it and, and deal with that kind

Kalee Boisvert:

of thing.

Melissa Deally:

Yeah, well, I heard a crazy stat the other day

Melissa Deally:

from a pharmacist in the US, actually, who told and she's a

Melissa Deally:

holistic pharmacist, so she actually helps people come off

Melissa Deally:

their medications and use natural healing options, right?

Melissa Deally:

She told me 98% of doctor's visits result in a

Melissa Deally:

pharmaceutical drug prescription 98%, right, at their 15 minute

Melissa Deally:

appointments, or less. And so very often, the doctor doesn't

Melissa Deally:

even have time to begin to understand anything close to the

Melissa Deally:

root cause, right? So they're just looking at the symptoms,

Melissa Deally:

and then the box, and then what pharmaceutical might cover up

Melissa Deally:

those symptoms. But the problem is, is the symptoms are your

Melissa Deally:

body's way of asking you to do something differently. And it

Melissa Deally:

doesn't want to be covered up it wants to be heard. And so what

Melissa Deally:

happens is you start taking that prescription drug, and sure you

Melissa Deally:

might feel better temporarily, but then some more symptoms come

Melissa Deally:

up. And something else is happening. Because your body's

Melissa Deally:

trying to say hey, listen to me, listen to me, I want you to do

Melissa Deally:

something differently. And you go back to the doctor, and now

Melissa Deally:

you get another drug and how many people are on multiple 6789

Melissa Deally:

different medications, because the next symptom comes up and

Melissa Deally:

the next symptom comes up, and none of them are truly healing,

Melissa Deally:

which is what Big Pharma wants. That's how they make money by

Melissa Deally:

keeping us all in a state of chronic illness and needing to

Melissa Deally:

take their drugs every single day. And so our mainstream

Melissa Deally:

medical doctors don't even have access to the same labs that I

Melissa Deally:

have access to on the holistic healing side that show us where

Melissa Deally:

these imbalances are, right. So you mentioned digestive issues.

Melissa Deally:

Well, that's an area that I work with a lot of people on. And I

Melissa Deally:

can run labs that will show if we've got bacterial overgrowth

Melissa Deally:

or yeast overgrowth, mold fungus in the gut, I can teach people

Melissa Deally:

why they have heartburn and indigestion and that they don't

Melissa Deally:

need and acids. And in fact, that's the worst thing they can

Melissa Deally:

be doing. Right? In order to alleviate all of that. And

Melissa Deally:

mainstream medicine doesn't even have access to those labs. And

Melissa Deally:

so that's why they're sending people away, just you know, with

Melissa Deally:

a prescription drug or hope it gets better or telling them

Melissa Deally:

there's nothing wrong with you. And by the time people come to

Melissa Deally:

me, they're frustrated, because they know something's wrong with

Melissa Deally:

them. And I teach people to listen to their body to listen

Melissa Deally:

to those symptoms. And so it really bothers me when somebody

Melissa Deally:

does go to the doctor, because let's face it, the first inkling

Melissa Deally:

they don't just make a doctor's appointment, right. By the time

Melissa Deally:

they actually make the doctor's appointment. It's been going on

Melissa Deally:

for a while.

Kalee Boisvert:

Yeah, yeah, it's usually bad by that point.

Melissa Deally:

Yeah, now they've got up the you know,

Melissa Deally:

okay, I have to do something. So now I'm going to doctor and they

Melissa Deally:

go to the doctor, and the doctor runs labs, and nothing's out of

Melissa Deally:

ordinary or out of the normal range. And then you get told,

Melissa Deally:

Oh, there's nothing wrong with you go home until it gets worse.

Melissa Deally:

Well, that doesn't work. Yeah. And so that's where I end up

Melissa Deally:

working with people. Yes, and helping them understand what is

Melissa Deally:

truly going wrong. And when we know that root cause then we

Melissa Deally:

know exactly what to do about it. And I don't diagnose. labels

Melissa Deally:

don't matter to me. I'm not a doctor. I also don't care. I

Melissa Deally:

literally look for those imbalances, which the lab will

Melissa Deally:

show up. And then we support the deficiencies because those

Melissa Deally:

imbalances are always triggered by either deficiencies, or too

Melissa Deally:

many toxins, too much Candida too much bacteria. So sometimes

Melissa Deally:

we will all the time we also have to remove because there's

Melissa Deally:

always toxins, right? So we remove first, support the

Melissa Deally:

deficiencies. When the body comes back into balance, it will

Melissa Deally:

heal itself. That's what it's designed to do. It can heal a

Melissa Deally:

cut finger, it can heal a broken bone. But some of these other

Melissa Deally:

things going on were to deficient in our key minerals

Melissa Deally:

and vitamins. Because of stress, for sleep, poor nutrition. The

Melissa Deally:

body can't bring itself back into balance. But when we

Melissa Deally:

support it and coming back into that place of balance, then it

Melissa Deally:

can heal itself. And that's what true healing is is when we

Melissa Deally:

create that environment for the body to heal.

Kalee Boisvert:

Yeah, I love it and I liked on your website. You

Kalee Boisvert:

had something great In saying that the public health and our

Kalee Boisvert:

school system just doesn't teach us about these topics either

Kalee Boisvert:

about like nutrition, about sleep about stress, all these

Kalee Boisvert:

very much health related and I agree so much with that. And I

Kalee Boisvert:

feel the same way. Like I always say that about money and wealth

Kalee Boisvert:

and investing, it's we're not learning this. So the same thing

Kalee Boisvert:

goes for this is like we can learn, we can use so much more

Kalee Boisvert:

education in this. So we can, you know, be our own advocates

Kalee Boisvert:

and do what we can on our like for ourselves and heal

Kalee Boisvert:

ourselves. And I guess, like you said, there's other interests,

Kalee Boisvert:

though, like being protected by you know, people being ill and

Kalee Boisvert:

buying, you know, the the big farmers and their products. So

Kalee Boisvert:

that's unfortunate, because we could have more of a proactive

Kalee Boisvert:

stance on this, then, if we were learning about these things

Kalee Boisvert:

along the way, like that would just be amazingly beneficial for

Kalee Boisvert:

everyone. I think anyone would want more information on these

Kalee Boisvert:

topics.

Melissa Deally:

I 100% agree with you. And that's why I

Melissa Deally:

created my podcast. And my little mini health hacks that

Melissa Deally:

you mentioned earlier, is trying to give people that empowerment

Melissa Deally:

in their health with actionable steps that they can take today

Melissa Deally:

that will have profound outcomes on their health. Because I know

Melissa Deally:

when I started my health coaching, career and courses, I

Melissa Deally:

didn't know this either. I hadn't been taught it either,

Melissa Deally:

right. And I already had teenage girls at that point. And I just

Melissa Deally:

sat there literally going, why didn't I know this? How come

Melissa Deally:

nobody ever told me this? How come I wasn't told this for so

Melissa Deally:

many things. And then when I knew it, I realized, well, I

Melissa Deally:

want to do better, right? When we know better, we do better.

Melissa Deally:

And so I was starting to make all of these shifts in my own

Melissa Deally:

life towards lowering stress, better sleep, etc, etc. And then

Melissa Deally:

I was like, well, now I can teach this to others. Because if

Melissa Deally:

I don't know what there's probably millions of other

Melissa Deally:

people out there, through no fault of their own, don't know

Melissa Deally:

this. They're all just as busy as I was trying to raise their

Melissa Deally:

family and earn their income. And so that's where my podcast

Melissa Deally:

came from. Right? is paying it forward and putting that

Melissa Deally:

education out there for people because in so many cases, they

Melissa Deally:

really are a little tiny habits that we can change that aren't

Melissa Deally:

difficult to change, we just need to know that we can and we

Melissa Deally:

need to know why. Right? So when I'm working with people on

Melissa Deally:

sleep, for instance, our modern world today has us getting so

Melissa Deally:

much blue light in our eyes, right? Because of screens, TV,

Melissa Deally:

whether it's phone, iPad, whatever. Back in our hunter

Melissa Deally:

gatherer days before electricity, our brain knew to

Melissa Deally:

start producing melatonin at dusk. But we don't have desk

Melissa Deally:

anymore inside our houses because of electricity. And on

Melissa Deally:

top of that, we have blue light, which is the light of noon.

Melissa Deally:

Right? So that does not tell our brain that it's almost time to

Melissa Deally:

get ready for bed and I need to start producing melatonin. So it

Melissa Deally:

doesn't. On top of that melatonin is the inverse hormone

Melissa Deally:

to cortisol. Well, living in a state of chronic stress has us

Melissa Deally:

with tons of cortisol running through our body, right? So when

Melissa Deally:

cortisol is high, melatonin is also low. Is it any wonder that

Melissa Deally:

70 million Americans struggle with sleep. And they don't know

Melissa Deally:

these simple things, right? When we eject when we can look at

Melissa Deally:

what our cortisol levels are, which we can look at through lab

Melissa Deally:

testing. When we understand what screens are doing to our body's

Melissa Deally:

inability to make melatonin, we can start to change our habits.

Melissa Deally:

For every hour that we're on a screen after dusk, it blocks the

Melissa Deally:

body's ability to make melatonin for half an hour. So you come

Melissa Deally:

home and you're on a screen with blue light for three hours

Melissa Deally:

really common, right? Yeah, that's an hour and a half when

Melissa Deally:

you turn it off, that your body isn't even producing melatonin

Melissa Deally:

so that you can have a restorative sleep. But what

Melissa Deally:

happens most people turn it off, brush their teeth, hop into bed,

Melissa Deally:

want to sleep, lie awake, don't understand why. That's one

Melissa Deally:

reason. But when we put together multiple reasons, and people

Melissa Deally:

understand why, then people can start to change their habits.

Melissa Deally:

And it's just the education that's so critical. Yeah.

Kalee Boisvert:

I love that. What else was I gonna say? Oh,

Kalee Boisvert:

are there like ideas for like big, obviously too hot topic of

Kalee Boisvert:

conversation is with COVID. And people getting sick and wanting

Kalee Boisvert:

to avoid getting sick and things like that. So our immune system

Kalee Boisvert:

like ideas for boosting our immune system that you could

Kalee Boisvert:

share?

Melissa Deally:

Yeah, so I've actually done this several times

Melissa Deally:

now as an immune boosting system workshop. Oh, God, that so I

Melissa Deally:

just did it last week, the week before and a couple times in

Melissa Deally:

November, December because yes, that is what's so important. And

Melissa Deally:

yet is our media talking about that? No, they give one option.

Melissa Deally:

I'm all about pro choice. Everybody has to decide what's

Melissa Deally:

right for them. But how can you decide what's right for you if

Melissa Deally:

you don't get the other options? Right Guess who owns media, Big

Melissa Deally:

Pharma that pays for all those ads that tell you like, try that

Melissa Deally:

if you have this, this and this, then you should take this drug.

Melissa Deally:

But don't take it if you have this, this, this, this, this,

Melissa Deally:

this, this, this and this. And I hear those ads. And I'm like,

Melissa Deally:

why would it? And then it says Ask your doctor, like, why would

Melissa Deally:

anybody ask their doctor for this drug, right? But those ads

Melissa Deally:

pay media, right? So then the media tells their story. So yes,

Melissa Deally:

boosting our immune system, one thing through COVID, that is

Melissa Deally:

incredibly powerful, and incredibly inexpensive, is

Melissa Deally:

vitamin D, okay. In Canada, 100% of people are deficient in

Melissa Deally:

vitamin D, if they do not supplement. And that is because

Melissa Deally:

we live so far north, right, we do not get enough hours of

Melissa Deally:

sunlight for enough days of the year on our bare skin. Right, so

Melissa Deally:

we have two supplements, I like the drops, because you can count

Melissa Deally:

out the drops under your tongue instead of the little gel caps.

Melissa Deally:

Because I literally right now I'm taking 8000 iu a day. So

Melissa Deally:

that eight of those little gel caps and they come in a bottle

Melissa Deally:

of what 90, so that's going to last me 12 days or something,

Melissa Deally:

the bottles last me a month or more, right? So you can run

Melissa Deally:

through your mainstream doctor, it's $65. In Canada, I don't

Melissa Deally:

know what it is in the US, but you can get your Vitamin D

Melissa Deally:

tested. optimal level is 50 to 80. I also run these labs for

Melissa Deally:

people. sufficient level is considered 35. And up. Most

Melissa Deally:

people are below that. Here's the thing is back in October of

Melissa Deally:

2020, there was research done directly related to COVID and

Melissa Deally:

vitamin D. And for people that were treated with the normal

Melissa Deally:

treatment, this was done in the US. So the normal treatment 40 I

Melissa Deally:

think it was 42% didn't need to be admitted to ICU. And then

Melissa Deally:

another 40% were admitted to ICU. And then there was another

Melissa Deally:

8% that passed away from ICU. But when they gave them the

Melissa Deally:

regular treatment for COVID Plus vitamin D 98%, did not even need

Melissa Deally:

to be admitted to hospital. Oh my gosh, and 2% ended up in ICU

Melissa Deally:

and nobody died. Wow. And they have a graph that I've seen that

Melissa Deally:

if when your vitamin D level is above 34, your risk of dying

Melissa Deally:

from COVID is like negligible. Oh my gosh, when your vitamin D

Melissa Deally:

level is really low, like below 20, your risk of dying from

Melissa Deally:

COVID is significantly higher. So vitamin D is incredibly

Melissa Deally:

powerful. It helps with bones and chief health, but it helps

Melissa Deally:

with respiratory health is helping boost the immune system.

Melissa Deally:

Right. So for this particular virus, it's very, very powerful.

Melissa Deally:

Yeah. Combine that with some vitamin C, and some zinc. And

Melissa Deally:

you've got a really good strong immune support going on. And so

Melissa Deally:

that's what I do every day. Another one you can throw in

Melissa Deally:

there as quercetin which again, helps with respiratory health.

Melissa Deally:

Again, I'm not a doctor, I can't diagnose I don't know anybody's

Melissa Deally:

health that's listening to this. So this is for educational

Melissa Deally:

purposes only. And if you are on other meds, you need to check at

Melissa Deally:

least with your pharmacists first to make sure that there's

Melissa Deally:

no contraindication with any of those before you start taking

Melissa Deally:

them. But they're all inexpensive, and can really

Melissa Deally:

strengthen your immune system so that your body can fight off the

Melissa Deally:

virus and or bounce back quickly. If you were to get it.

Kalee Boisvert:

Yeah, yeah, that's amazing. And it's just

Kalee Boisvert:

understanding exactly like it would be nice to get information

Kalee Boisvert:

of what we can do you know, what is in our control, rather than

Kalee Boisvert:

just hearing the stats and how, you know, people are like all

Kalee Boisvert:

that there's a lot of fear then and you start wondering, okay,

Kalee Boisvert:

what do I do and you isolate and you do all those things. But

Kalee Boisvert:

it's nice to know that there's other things that are available

Kalee Boisvert:

that we can you can do even more to just help like so if you do

Kalee Boisvert:

feel stressed about okay, here are some things I can do. Here

Kalee Boisvert:

are some things I can control, and they will make a difference.

Kalee Boisvert:

So that's amazing. I love that and

Melissa Deally:

add in there that that's that fear and that

Melissa Deally:

stress actually weakens your immune system. So one minute of

Melissa Deally:

fear, stress or anger, weaken your immune system for four

Melissa Deally:

hours, but one minute of laughter strengthens it for 24

Melissa Deally:

hours. So the first thing I tell people to do is turn off the

Melissa Deally:

news. It's aiming to make you afraid because your brain is

Melissa Deally:

always looking to keep you safe. Right. And they know that. And

Melissa Deally:

so they deliberately, they add the music and the drama and all

Melissa Deally:

of that, because it sucks your brain in, which is on alert, oh,

Melissa Deally:

I have to pay attention, it could be dangerous, I have to

Melissa Deally:

pay attention and you get sucked in, right? But that then lift or

Melissa Deally:

turns on your whole nervous system and raises your stress

Melissa Deally:

levels way up high. And now you're weakening your immune

Melissa Deally:

system. But if you just turn off the news, and instead read it

Melissa Deally:

online, instead of watching videos, etc, you're only getting

Melissa Deally:

the story through your one sense your eyes, right. And you're not

Melissa Deally:

getting all the sound bombarding you as well. And so it doesn't

Melissa Deally:

feel as scary. And so your nervous system doesn't get as

Melissa Deally:

triggered. And you're not doing as much damage to your immune

Melissa Deally:

system as you are when you're watching the news and having

Melissa Deally:

that run constantly or checking it out on three different

Melissa Deally:

channels to hear the same story over and over again. So it's

Melissa Deally:

funny because I was actually this is years ago, now probably

Melissa Deally:

about 15 years ago, I was at a parent teacher, not a parent

Melissa Deally:

teacher night of pack a parent advisory council night for

Melissa Deally:

parents of my kids elementary school. So that's how long ago

Melissa Deally:

it was there a university now. And we were told there to turn

Melissa Deally:

off the news for all of the stress triggers that it creates

Melissa Deally:

in the household and for young children, etc, etc. And I went

Melissa Deally:

away from that, thinking, well, how will I know what's going on

Melissa Deally:

in the world, I might feel like I'm this really uneducated

Melissa Deally:

person, right? Not being able to have conversations around what's

Melissa Deally:

going on in the world. But I decided to try it anyway. And I

Melissa Deally:

turned off the news. And we used to watch it every night at six

Melissa Deally:

o'clock, we'd have dinner with the news on, we just stopped the

Melissa Deally:

news. And guess what? I still know what's going on in the

Melissa Deally:

world. Right? And even if somebody says something, and I

Melissa Deally:

haven't heard of it, I'm hearing it now they're gonna tell me,

Melissa Deally:

right? Yep. And I can read it, etc, etc. So I don't feel like I

Melissa Deally:

don't know what's going on in the world. I know what's going

Melissa Deally:

on in the world. But I get the information in a way that

Melissa Deally:

doesn't trigger my nervous system, and put me into a state

Melissa Deally:

of chronic stress, which leads to a whole myriad of other

Melissa Deally:

health issues, as well as weakening my immune system.

Kalee Boisvert:

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we could Yeah, we could

Kalee Boisvert:

have a whole episode two on strength, just stress alone, we

Kalee Boisvert:

can have a whole you probably have lots of episodes on yours,

Kalee Boisvert:

though, about that, right? So

Melissa Deally:

I do and my next workshop in March is going to be

Melissa Deally:

on stress actually, because important, it is particularly

Melissa Deally:

important for women to understand how stress is

Melissa Deally:

impacting our body, because stress is actually driving

Melissa Deally:

hormonal imbalances, right. And there's many women out there

Melissa Deally:

that are suffering with PMS, or infertility or menopause. And

Melissa Deally:

taller tolerating that. Thinking that it's part of being a woman

Melissa Deally:

that they have to put up with these symptoms. And, you know,

Melissa Deally:

they talk about it with their friends, and all they have the

Melissa Deally:

symptoms to and then we normalize it. Yeah. Here's the

Melissa Deally:

thing about our human body. It was never designed to cause you

Melissa Deally:

pain, every single month, or on an ongoing basis, or not

Melissa Deally:

procreate, or, you know, take, you know, be painful going

Melissa Deally:

through menopause. Those are all symptoms of imbalances in your

Melissa Deally:

hormones. And those imbalances are triggered by stress, by

Melissa Deally:

toxic load, those are the main two. And we can correct all of

Melissa Deally:

that. So that those symptoms don't have to be tolerated

Melissa Deally:

anymore. And for menopause, women going through menopause

Melissa Deally:

that can take, you know, eight to 10 years. Well, those should

Melissa Deally:

be the eight to 10 best years of your life, right? Not suffering.

Melissa Deally:

And I've been through that myself. My hormones were out of

Melissa Deally:

balance. And that was even before I was in my health

Melissa Deally:

coaching journey, I was struggling with hormonal issues.

Melissa Deally:

And I found a naturopath and I discovered the imbalances

Melissa Deally:

through the very same labs that I run today. Wow. And I was able

Melissa Deally:

to fix them. And that was back when I was getting migraines at

Melissa Deally:

the onset of my cycle every time. And then I was able to fix

Melissa Deally:

that. So the migraines nearly went away. And then I hit

Melissa Deally:

menopause. And they were different. So I went back into

Melissa Deally:

the lab again and found out Oh, different imbalances. So I fixed

Melissa Deally:

it. Right, because I knew I could and it's the same thing as

Melissa Deally:

people just need to know they can these labs are available.

Melissa Deally:

You can choose to run the labs and follow the protocols to

Melissa Deally:

allow your body to be rebalanced as opposed to thinking that you

Melissa Deally:

just have to live with this and you got a shitty lot in life

Melissa Deally:

that your symptoms are so awful. Yeah.

Kalee Boisvert:

Yeah, I love that. So and these are all like

Kalee Boisvert:

labs and if you're working with someone, I'm assuming this is

Kalee Boisvert:

what they can expect that you'll go through this with them.

Melissa Deally:

Absolutely. So beautiful thing is in the day of

Melissa Deally:

an age of COVID is my business is 100% virtual the labs get

Melissa Deally:

mailed to people's homes. You do the labs you've got all the

Melissa Deally:

instructions I give you a you know edition Instructions on

Melissa Deally:

doing the labs, they get mailed off, and then the results come

Melissa Deally:

to me. And then I don't work with people on just one

Melissa Deally:

appointment. Because I've seen that, and it doesn't work.

Melissa Deally:

Here's what the lab says, Now go and do it.

Kalee Boisvert:

Like you're a member, you retain maybe one or

Kalee Boisvert:

two things, and then it's like,

Melissa Deally:

Oh, this isn't? Exactly. So I've seen that I've

Melissa Deally:

seen that even with naturopaths, that, you know, you get the

Melissa Deally:

results. And maybe it's a food sensitivity lab, and it's like,

Melissa Deally:

Oh, my God, it says, I can't eat anything, right. And that's not

Melissa Deally:

at all what it says. But that's what your brain heard, right?

Melissa Deally:

And so then by the time you get home, you've talked yourself out

Melissa Deally:

of it. Yeah, I can't do this, right. Whereas I work with

Melissa Deally:

people over a minimum of four sessions up to 12, depending

Melissa Deally:

what they want, and how many things they have going on

Melissa Deally:

providing meal plans and recipes, etc, if we are changing

Melissa Deally:

the way someone eats, or supporting them through

Melissa Deally:

rebalancing hormones, etc, with different protocols, and then

Melissa Deally:

tweaking them as those hormones come into balance, and then

Melissa Deally:

weaning them off those hormones because guess what, now the

Melissa Deally:

body's back in balance, and it can do it itself. Versus if you

Melissa Deally:

get a hormone replacement therapy treatment from a

Melissa Deally:

mainstream doctor, guess what that does? The body's like, Oh,

Melissa Deally:

I've got enough of that. I don't need to make it. So it just

Melissa Deally:

stops making those hormones. And now what? Oh, you need that

Melissa Deally:

therapy for the rest of your life? Yeah. We want to get the

Melissa Deally:

body back to doing what the body is supposed to do.

Kalee Boisvert:

Absolutely. And you mentioned at the beginning

Kalee Boisvert:

to toxins toxic effect, and you have I guess, like a treat for

Kalee Boisvert:

listeners to what we will include it in the show notes.

Kalee Boisvert:

It's a discover your toxic load quiz. But can you talk then a

Kalee Boisvert:

little bit about toxins? And if someone, I guess, is going

Kalee Boisvert:

through the effects of that, like, how would they know or

Kalee Boisvert:

what are some signs?

Melissa Deally:

So yes, unfortunately, we live in a

Melissa Deally:

toxic world today. Since World War Two 144,000 manmade

Melissa Deally:

chemicals have been introduced into our atmosphere, they're

Melissa Deally:

getting into our body through the food, we eat our waterways,

Melissa Deally:

our airways onto our skin, right? And so many of the

Melissa Deally:

symptoms of a toxic load. And this quiz does go through quite

Melissa Deally:

a few. But some of the really common ones are things that we

Melissa Deally:

typically end up writing off as was aging, its genetics, it

Melissa Deally:

seasonal allergies, thinking we can't do anything about it, and

Melissa Deally:

we just have to accept it. But the reality is, that is

Melissa Deally:

absolutely not the case. So whether it be things like you

Melissa Deally:

know, headaches and mucus and sneezing and nasal drip, etc,

Melissa Deally:

you know, all signs the body's trying to get something out, or

Melissa Deally:

whether it be you know, gas and bloating and digestive issues,

Melissa Deally:

etc. Whether it be poor sleep, whether it be just brain fog,

Melissa Deally:

and poor mental clarity, whether it be aches and pains and muscle

Melissa Deally:

stiffness. All of these are signs of a toxic load. And

Melissa Deally:

because we have so many toxins in our world today, we can't

Melissa Deally:

avoid them. So instead, we have to go okay, there's toxins

Melissa Deally:

around me, what can I do about it, and we need to help our body

Melissa Deally:

get them out, because our liver is just overburdened now by all

Melissa Deally:

of these toxins. And unfortunately, undernourished at

Melissa Deally:

the same time because we've got depleted soil systems. And so

Melissa Deally:

specific nutrients that the liver needs to do its job really

Melissa Deally:

well are no longer in our soils, so they're not in our food, so

Melissa Deally:

they're not getting in our body. So then our liver can't do what

Melissa Deally:

it's supposed to do, which is get the toxins out, because the

Melissa Deally:

nutrients needed for phase two of detoxification aren't there.

Melissa Deally:

So what does it do? It stores them in our fat closets in order

Melissa Deally:

to try and not have them get into our bloodstream. So that's

Melissa Deally:

one reason for weight gain. It's not the only one, but it means

Melissa Deally:

we are toxic. And I take people through a detox program all the

Melissa Deally:

time, and I love hearing their results from wow, I have so much

Melissa Deally:

energy that I I didn't know that. I could have again, right?

Melissa Deally:

I don't need an afternoon nap anymore. I my aches and pains

Melissa Deally:

have gone right. I was on a call recently with a group of people

Melissa Deally:

and one lady's like, Well, I used to have this pain in my

Melissa Deally:

pinky finger and I just had it for years and it's completely

Melissa Deally:

gone. I had a pain in my knee. I had another lady who couldn't

Melissa Deally:

walk barefoot. On her bedroom floor or anywhere in her house.

Melissa Deally:

She had to have these special shoes all the time. And after

Melissa Deally:

doing the detox, she could walk barefoot again. She's like, wow,

Melissa Deally:

I had no idea how inflamed I was right? Because these toxins

Melissa Deally:

build inflammation and cause pain. Just people that say I

Melissa Deally:

can't remember ever feeling this good, right? Because we don't

Melissa Deally:

realize that all of the symptoms they creep up on us slowly. We

Melissa Deally:

ignore them just thinking. It's aging is genetics. It's seasonal

Melissa Deally:

allergies, and we do nothing. Right. Have a saying that the

Melissa Deally:

body when it talks to us. It first whispers The gentle touch

Melissa Deally:

of a feather. And if we don't listen, it might thump us with a

Melissa Deally:

brick. And if we still don't listen, it might walk us with a

Melissa Deally:

wrecking ball. And I like to talk or work with people when

Melissa Deally:

they're at the feather or the brick stage. So we never have to

Melissa Deally:

get to the wrecking ball stage. But every single one of us knows

Melissa Deally:

someone at that wrecking ball stage. And it's so important,

Melissa Deally:

because we now know that 90 to 95% of all disease is triggered

Melissa Deally:

by the environment we create inside our body. Right? Yes, we

Melissa Deally:

have genetics, yes, we might be predisposed to some disease

Melissa Deally:

through those genetics, but that's only five to 10% of the

Melissa Deally:

time, the 90 to 95% of the time is the environment we create

Melissa Deally:

inside our body. So if we create a toxic, inflamed environment

Melissa Deally:

inside our body, that inflammation triggers those

Melissa Deally:

genes to turn on disease. But if we create a clean environment,

Melissa Deally:

as I call it inhospitable to disease, those genes never have

Melissa Deally:

to be turned on. And that's powerful. Because we have the

Melissa Deally:

choice. And in the Western world, we're taught, oh, you

Melissa Deally:

have a shower. And that's enough for good hygiene and good

Melissa Deally:

health. But it's not because we've completely forgotten about

Melissa Deally:

our inner body. And if we look back at tribal cultures, and

Melissa Deally:

longer histories, like Ayurvedic medicine out of India, or

Melissa Deally:

Chinese medicine, you know, these are 5000 6000 year old

Melissa Deally:

practices, they still detox to this day.

Melissa Deally:

And we don't, but we should, because it's life changing.

Melissa Deally:

Right? And to your point that you're talking earlier about,

Melissa Deally:

you know, not being educated, etc, etc, in our health and not

Melissa Deally:

being proactive in our health. Back in ancient China, in

Melissa Deally:

ancient India, their doctors didn't get paid if their

Melissa Deally:

villagers got sick. Because they hadn't done their job. And

Melissa Deally:

today, unfortunately, the doctor won't see you until you're sick

Melissa Deally:

enough. It's completely backwards. Yeah. We can all take

Melissa Deally:

proactive action in our health, we just need to know how, yeah,

Melissa Deally:

don't reach out to me. And you either pay now or pay later

Melissa Deally:

coming back to the wealth thing, right? People think, Oh, I don't

Melissa Deally:

need to pay for my health now. Because I'm healthy. Or, you

Melissa Deally:

know, why would I pay you when I can go to the doctor and that's

Melissa Deally:

free. Right? But if you go that path, and you end up chronically

Melissa Deally:

ill, and the last in Canada, on average, the last 10 years of

Melissa Deally:

someone's life is spent in some kind of nursing home hospital

Melissa Deally:

bed, without any quality of life. What's the cost of that 10

Melissa Deally:

years, not only financially, but emotionally on your family, etc,

Melissa Deally:

etc. Alright, pay now to be empowered in your health, to

Melissa Deally:

live that long, joyful life and have quality life to the end.

Melissa Deally:

And it costs you far less than the other way around. And that's

Melissa Deally:

what I want. My grandmother died at 101. In bed, at home. Yeah.

Melissa Deally:

That's amazing. We're sad. But we were also celebrating this

Melissa Deally:

amazing life. Right? So I'm on her path. And I'll take anybody

Melissa Deally:

with me that wants to join me. Because that's how I

Kalee Boisvert:

want to go. Yeah, that's the path. Exactly.

Kalee Boisvert:

I want to be on that path to exactly. And it's yeah, when

Kalee Boisvert:

you're doing things for your money, same thing. It's like

Kalee Boisvert:

you're doing things now to build it for your future. And then

Kalee Boisvert:

it's what are you going to do, though, with all this money?

Kalee Boisvert:

When money can't? What if you've gone too far down that way, like

Kalee Boisvert:

you said, if it's a chronic illness, and if it's, we haven't

Kalee Boisvert:

done the things proactively now, money can maybe can't even

Kalee Boisvert:

reverse or fix that. Like there's no amount of money that

Kalee Boisvert:

can help you in those scenarios sometimes.

Melissa Deally:

Exactly. I agree. 100%. And so, to your

Melissa Deally:

point, at the very beginning, we're not taught about our

Melissa Deally:

wealth creation, and we're not taught about our health. But,

Melissa Deally:

you know, I encourage anybody who's listening to this, that

Melissa Deally:

it's never too late to get started on both right? Create

Melissa Deally:

the wealth and create the health so you have the health to enjoy

Melissa Deally:

your wealth, and vice

Kalee Boisvert:

versa. Absolutely. I love it. You

Kalee Boisvert:

couldn't sum it up better than that. I won't even try. So for

Kalee Boisvert:

people wanting to get a hold of you getting contact, like I

Kalee Boisvert:

said, I'll include that quiz. The link for the toxic load

Kalee Boisvert:

quiz, which sounds very interesting. I want to try that.

Kalee Boisvert:

How else can people contact you reach out what's the best way,

Melissa Deally:

they can just go to my website, which is your

Melissa Deally:

guided health journey.com. And there's a book button or contact

Melissa Deally:

me button, the Book button, just books a 15 minute introductory

Melissa Deally:

call so that we can get to know each other. And anybody who does

Melissa Deally:

the quiz, I will also follow up with you inviting you into a

Melissa Deally:

call to discuss the results, so that you can get a deeper

Melissa Deally:

understanding of those results. And next steps. Perfect, I

Kalee Boisvert:

love it. I want to try it seems very valuable.

Kalee Boisvert:

I'm gonna be proactive with my health. This is important. So

Kalee Boisvert:

thank you so much, Melissa, I love this conversation. And it

Kalee Boisvert:

really has, you know, given us a different way of looking at

Kalee Boisvert:

things that it's empowering. Like, it's exciting to know

Kalee Boisvert:

that, oh, I can do this. I don't have to be a doctor, I can take

Kalee Boisvert:

these steps right now myself, and make improvements.

Melissa Deally:

We just gave me full body goosebumps because

Melissa Deally:

you're right. And something that I like to tell people is that

Melissa Deally:

you are actually your own best doctor, you've lived in your

Melissa Deally:

body your whole life, right? You know, when something's off. And

Melissa Deally:

when we slow down enough to just tune in and listen. We very

Melissa Deally:

often know what's going on or that something's going on, and

Melissa Deally:

then seek that answer. And if somebody else tells you there's

Melissa Deally:

nothing wrong with you get a second opinion.

Kalee Boisvert:

Yeah, yeah, cuz it's that intuition to let's

Kalee Boisvert:

build that into ourselves Absolutely, accurately. Well, I

Kalee Boisvert:

love that. Thank you so much, Melissa, for joining us on this

Kalee Boisvert:

episode. So many great info like information tips and whatnot. So

Kalee Boisvert:

I really appreciate your time. Thank you so much for sharing.

Melissa Deally:

It is absolutely my pleasure to be here. Thank

Melissa Deally:

you for inviting me to be on the show.

Kalee Boisvert:

Awesome. Thank you so much. And thank you

Kalee Boisvert:

everyone for listening in. I will catch you on the next

Kalee Boisvert:

episode. All right, bye for now.

Kalee Boisvert:

I hope you found value in this episode. And because I'm such a

Kalee Boisvert:

proponent of taking confident action, I want to pose a

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question to you the listener. What is one action that you feel

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