There's a dynamic I see so often with ambitious women...and I've felt it myself too. You know you're leading a big life. You know your mission matters. AND you desire to feel resourced while you do it.

Recording this powerful conversation with Kristin Rowell felt like a deep exhale.

Because what moves me most isn't just that she's fit. It's the way she relates to her body. Kristin has a powerful way of honoring both the physical body and the energetic body, inviting us to honor our bodies as the beautiful temples they are.

She invites us into caring for ourselves from a place of self-love, not performance. To trust that you are 99.99% energy. To remember that simplicity is the highest expression of self-love. And to see this human body as a vessel that just holds your divinity in form.

In this week's episode of Elevate Daily, I sit down with Kristin to pull back the curtain on what it really takes to lead resourced, not depleted.

In This Episode We Explore:

Why high-achievers get stuck in information overwhelm when it comes to health. Should I eat eggs or are eggs going to kill me? Should I be vegan or carnivore? Is HIIT going to spike my cortisol? There is no shortage of conflicting information online, and for the woman running a family, a household, and a mission, it becomes its own full-time job. Kristin shares how to cut through the noise.

The difference between caring for your body from self-love vs. treating it like another performance metric. Your mission, whether you realize it or not, is so about self-love. Making it to the gym in the morning is an act of self-love. Everything shifts when you care about yourself so much that you are the priority, not another optimization project.

What it means to nourish the energetic body, not just the physical body. You are 99.99% energy. Until you get at the root patterns energetically that have kept you stuck, the physical thing is showing up as a manifestation of what's happening with the energy. This human body is a vessel that just holds your divinity in form.

Kristin's three practical non-negotiables for cultivating health & vitality. Hydration with electrolytes. More healthy fats instead of empty carbohydrates. And strength training, which she calls one of the most spiritual things you can do because it puts you fully into the present moment with your body. Simple, specific, and powerful for women leading big lives.

Her simple morning rituals to resource yourself before the day takes over. One physical, one energetic. A 10 to 15 minute meditation in that in-between space when you're kind of awake but kind of asleep, followed by lemon water with electrolytes. The more complex they are, the less likely you are to follow-through. Start with simple, notice how good you feel, and expand from there.

Why simplicity is the highest expression of self-love. Kristin's Gene Key 23 moves from the shadow of complexity to the gift of simplicity to the siddhi of quintessence. She is a living embodiment of cutting through the noise to what actually matters most, and her invitation is for us to do the same with our bodies.

Meet Kristin Rowell

Kristin Rowell is a business trial lawyer turned Functional Nutritional Therapist and Energy Healer and the Founder/CEO of Energetically Efficient™. She believes that each of us is responsible for taking control of our own health and longevity, and she firmly believes that doing so starts with tuning in and listening to the signals our bodies are always sending us. As a former high-stress business litigator turned health coach, Kristin serves what she calls the “old” her: high achieving, stressed-out professionals who desire to prioritize their health and wellness but need accountability and support from an expert. She is the “go-to health coach” for many successful executives around the country.

Kristin's Gene Keys Illuminated In This Episode

Gene Key 23 - Complexity → Simplicity → Quintessence

Connect with Kristin

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Welcome to Elevate Daily, the podcast for those ready to elevate their life one intentional day at a time. I'm your host, Alexia Usgaard, here to give you a permission slip to unapologetically savor the beauty and richness of life. Join me as we explore modern rituals, self-leadership, the Gene Keys, and the art of elevating your health, wealth, love, and leadership. It's time to elevate. Let's dive in.

Hello, hello and welcome back to Elevate Daily. I'm Alexia Usgaard, and I am enthused as always to have you here for this conversation where I am honored to welcome Kristin Rowell. Kristin is a former business trial lawyer turned functional nutritional therapist, energy healer, and the founder and CEO of Energetically Efficient. She serves what she calls the old her, high-achieving, stressed-out professionals who desire to prioritize their health and wellness but need accountability and support from an expert. She's the go-to health coach for many successful executives. And frankly, what I love most about Kristin is not only her vibrant inner glow and her simplicity, it's that in a world of 400-step biohacking routines and what feels like endless conflicting advice, I find she has a beautiful way of cutting through the noise to what actually matters. She also doesn't just focus on the physical body, she also honors the energetic body too.

She doesn't believe in aging and then falling off, she believes in aging in crescendo, that it just keeps getting better. And she believes that real vitality starts with tuning in and listening to the signals your body is always sending you. In this conversation, we explore why high achievers are so depleted right now, the difference between optimizing your body versus loving it. And of course, I share one of Kristin's Gene Keys, Gene Key 23, which moves from the shadow of complexity to the gift of simplicity to the siddhi and highest frequency of quintessence, which frankly illuminates her entire life's work in so many ways.

We also talk about the three non-negotiables for sustained vitality, why strength training is a spiritual practice, and you know, I'm so here for that, and how to treat your body not as a product to manage, but as wisdom to lovingly honor. This episode is for the woman who's ready to lead feeling resourced and make self-love the foundation of everything she builds. So, without further ado, let's dive in.

Kristin, it is such a pleasure to have you on this podcast, at this time, on this day.

I am so excited to be here and thank you for having me and I just love being in this vortex of space with you.

I want to start with something that I love to ask anyone who comes on the podcast is, what at this time is feeling delicious in your life right now?

I love this so much because I relate in so many ways. And to your point, I think you named something that most people necessarily wouldn't call delicious, because it's oftentimes the part that everyone wants to run out of as quickly as possible. And think that they can only relax when they get to the other side of it. And I know this is, I feel like you've so deeply named something I experienced in my own experience right now as we're recording. I am pregnant in my third trimester.

And something I've really noticed is this in-between moment of both a lot of the excitement and anticipation for what's coming and this moment of embracing any discomfort that arises in my physical body as it's expanding and continuing to grow and go through its journey and also savor this moment of what my life's experience is, know, sacred moments with my husband that maybe after are going to be a different experience, know, cuddling my dog extra, you know.

That's right.

Because y'all, for all of you listening, you gotta see what Kristin looks like, because this woman glows. Like when I say she glows, I don't mean a slight glow. I'm talking glows. Then on top of it, you see her and you're like, this woman is so strong, so fit. So she is, to us, like the epitome of reverse aging. Take all the stereotypes, take all of the mainstream norms of what is health.

What is aging? What is vitality? And then you look at Kristin and you're like, you are demystifying so much of what we've been shown. And so in this conversation, I'm like, Kristin, got, okay, first off, we gotta get all the secrets. We gotta know what it is and how do you see the world? Because then also as someone, I feel lucky to feel like I've gotten to experience you in many different ways and just see how much you really embody so much of what you share and that we all know is why you are the living walking embodiment, in my opinion, of health and vitality while choosing to live a big life. And so I've got to just start off by saying like, what, how did you get here? How did you get yourself to this place where you are this embodiment of really someone who steps outside a lot of the mainstream norms because you were a high power, high stress business litigator. And yet look at you now, the founder of energetically efficient, serving so many people. I mean, come on. So we got to go there.

I love it. Thank you so much. receive all of that so well. I completely forgot about the funny Benjamina button, but that is, I remember when she came up with that, that is just such a great name for so many reasons. I love her. And one of my friends, I would actually call him a mentor in certain ways, but you mentioned the term reverse aging, which I use that term a lot. He, and I don't know if he coined this or he read it somewhere, but I just thought this is the most amazing word to use, a delicious term.

He refers to it as aging in crescendo, which I love so much because anyone who knows anything about music understands that the crescendo truly is the peak. It's a pinnacle. It's the best. And it's a real way, in an interesting way, I think, to just reframe aging in general, that there isn't this peak and then everything falls off. It's your age in crescendo and it just keeps getting better. So I've lived my life by that motto for many years because I heard it a very long time ago and think it's so true. And what you mentioned about lawyering, now, the industry that I was in, not only just as a lawyer, but as a trial lawyer, and then not only as a trial lawyer, but as a business litigator. So, I mean, many people would refer to it as some of the most high-stakes stuff you can do, truly. I mean, we had a client one time at our firm because we were a litigation boutique firm. So many firms, as people know who understand lawyers, in a large firm, you have different departments. You have people who do real estate transactions. You might have people who divorce. You might have people who draft contracts all day. You might have people who litigate some of those cases for those other lawyers and their clients. Or you can hire what one of our clients referred to us as SEAL Team 6, because all we are is 20 litigators who do nothing but business litigation. that type of lifestyle, I'll just call it.

That practice, that lifestyle could lead to a very unhealthy being. It could lead to drinking too much, working too much, not sleeping enough, eating crappy food, eating whatever's put in front of you in the two seconds that you have to take a break and eat. And for whatever reason, fairly early on in my legal career, I just decided that that was not going to be my path. In fact, when I started law school, I started law school, which they say the first semester of law school is pretty much the most intense semester of your life at that point because you're literally learning a whole new language and being thrown into the deep end of the pool. I'm sure you have stories about Z and his time in law school. And I decided that year to sign up for the Chicago Marathon to do it at the same time I was in my first semester of law school. And I intentionally did that thinking, well, I've heard that law school is really busy and I've heard that you don't have any time for yourself. And maybe if I sign up for this race, it will force me to actually continue to exercise, continue to prioritize my physical health.

And lo and behold, it did, which is amazing. And so I started my legal career saying, ⁓ you can be in law school, you can run marathon, you can practice law, you can run marathon. And I always prioritize that. So that was just, I mean, a brief answer for you is just that was sort of my start and everything sort of blossomed from there. So I'll start with that and I'll let you ask me something more if that's useful right now.

I think that sums up such a huge piece, which is what I wondered with you. And honestly, when I think about so many people, when I think about people who I feel like are thriving and not depleted as they lead and choose to lead big missions, they know that health and vitality has to be at the center. And when we think about you in your lawyering, working in such a high stakes field,that must have made you such a differentiator because even though you were in these environments and like you could have just gone down so many times, you could have gone easily into default and fallen into trying to be like everyone else, trying to fit in like everyone else, but you didn't. And what edge did that give you?

Yes.

Right, I could have gotten the,completely, like I could have gotten into the pressure of, I should just be at my desk at 7 a.m. instead of being at the gym and showering at the gym and blah, blah, It's like, no, I am so much better focused. My brain works better. I have more energy. I'm not slumped over at my desk at two o'clock. I don't need 16 coffees to get through the day. don't, all of that set me up and allowed me to realize that I had sort of a different energetic battery than other people doing all that because I was taking care of my health.

To me, that was everything because I really was thinking about it in a place of, this actually is going to make me more successful. And how come no one else has figured this out, right?

Which is huge. I mean, I think of it because when I think about this conversation with you, when I think about my clients, most of them are running big missions. They've got multi-six, seven-figure beyond companies and lots of team and pressure and demand, and they don't plan on shrinking their ambition anytime soon. And though, they desire to do it resourced. They've hustled, they've grinded. I'm sure you know very well, and I know very well.

And they're at this place where they're like, but I know that my next edge is going to come from my energy and this like a different way of honoring myself, honoring my body. But then here's where it gets tricky. Then they look at health and so much of society is like, have a 400 step biohacking routine. Before you go to bed, before you go to bed, 16 steps you have to do for skincare.

Right?

Like it's just, everything's complicated, right? Which then becomes this dynamic where for a high achiever, gosh, I got to add this to my optimization projects. Like let me put it on my boards, you know? And what I love about you is I feel like in your core, because I also know your Gene Keys, we're going to go into this later, you honor, you keep it simple actually in many ways. And so what do you notice for your clients who are, you cause you work with high performers, those who are out there. What do you find is their biggest tension and also,like what keeps them from actually naturally supporting their health and vitality? And do they have this dynamic too where they're like, I wanna do it, but man, it has to be like 400 steps. And I think I'm always doing it wrong before I've even started. Is that something you see?

Yeah.

Yes. I would say the biggest theme I see, Lex, when I'm working with people for the first time, especially because like you, my clients are all high achievers. They're successful. And for whatever reason, they, and I would say they use this term, I don't, but they'll say, I just, I've let myself go over the last several years, or I need to get back to feeling like me. I know, or it might be for some moms. They've had a busy career and they've had three babies and they're like, I want to lose the baby weight. It could be a combination of a number of different circumstances, but the theme that I hear most often, which you sort of spoke to so beautifully in your description, was information overwhelm. Like, huh? Should I eat eggs or are eggs going to kill me? Should I be a vegan today or try keto? What's this carnivore thing all about? my God, I think I'm supposed to do HIIT. Nope, HIIT's gonna spike my cortisol and cortisol is gonna make me gain belly fat. There is no shortage of conflicting information online. And it is obviously because it's my full-time job to sort through it. I mean, it truly is a…just a landscape, I think, in today's modern society, especially with social media, where there's no way the average person who is running a family, running a household, running his busy career, trying to expand in all the ways can also figure all this out on their own. I mean, that's truly why I'm in business. So I do it for them. And obviously, my approach is to be individualized for every person. I work with both men and women. And some of them want to go deep, deep, deep down the rabbit holes of all of the fan-dangled cutting edge things between PMF mats and red light therapy masks and peptides and whatever. And some are like, can we just start with what's gotta be on my plate? Because I'm at that level, right? And there's every sort of iteration in between. So I think the information overwhelm I think is the biggest. And then having that accountability partner, because you mentioned it earlier, people that have big missions truly need to be resourced.

It's just the way it is. Okay, I have a coach for this. I have a guide for this. I have a practitioner for this. And my partners at the law firm actually used to tease me. They're like, you've got a coach for everything. I was the first associate who hired a business coach as a lawyer. And I said, well, I want to expand my book of business. And so I want to get there in the shortest way possible, which is to work with someone to help me. What are the tools and the strategies and things I need to employ? Because you guys aren't teaching me about it.

I'm supposed to just watch and learn. No, I'm going to the shortest distance between two points. When I decided to start bodybuilding, I hired someone to help me with that. When I, you name it, if I want to learn French, could I listen to Rosetta Stone for weeks and months on end? Sure. But I'd rather hire a French teacher who sat my butt in a seat and we would practice together. And then they would send me to Paris and drop me off in the deep end of the pool and I'd have to learn it. You know? So I just think there's such a benefit to hiring, especially if you are a...high touch expansive person with a mission who has a lot going on to hire one or more guides to bring you through that process and lighten your load.

I couldn't agree more. And I think you and I probably, if we think about the people we know and the people that we see, they all have multiple. We have multiple. have multiple. I'm not, I am, ⁓ it's like you have to have your core people because the only way you can be held, I think people often forget that the visionaries need their visionaries and that also we all have our areas. Like this is where leadership is getting completely redefined.

Yes.

There's no hierarchy consciousness that's here for us to stay in because I'm not sitting at tables where I think I need to be the person who knows everything. I'm like, I know my zone. I know my area of purpose. I know what I bring to this table and I am a humble human to the incredible other people at this table who are elevating. So I love that you name it because I think there's so many dynamics where people can be like, is it too much, especially as women, right? Like, is there too much in me wanting even more support?

And what if, because I imagine for you, there's also people who are in your life who you have served, who, you know, because a lot of times with health, right, there can be that dynamic of someone only receiving support if something's really wrong. If they think something's wrong and needs to be fixed versus you're always whole, even if there's areas that want to be supported to be even more vital. And you really help to also increase that performance, but not from a, from a deep place of self-love, I feel in your frequency more than a I'm going to break you down. I think there's something totally wrong with you. Think that it's not a fixer concept. You're really an expander. Like let's expand into possibility together.

I just love that you said that because I'm having goosebumps right now because I have this note. It's on one of these little post-its that I have in front of me. One of my coaches said to me sometime in the last six months, you really like your mission, whether you realize it or not, is so about self-love. It's so about figuring out how to help people, successful people, realize how to love themselves so much that they prioritize their health,that they put good food into their body, that they realize making it to the gym in the morning and making that priority even when they want to hit snooze or whatever is going to change the trajectory of their day. Because it's an act of self-love to care about yourself so much that you are the priority. And I think I, for whatever reason, figured that out at a fairly young age and feel so lucky that I did because then I can guide people in a way in my leadership, speaking of leadership, because he used that term, I am so obsessed with that term lately because I think that's truly the forefront of what we're on with so many of us who have our snowflake abilities. You're a snowflake, I'm a snowflake, we could name 20 of them in our ethers, who are all different, who all bring their gifts. And so we're moving into this society where we're showing up in our leadership for what we're here to guide and lead for, because of course, like Ram Dass said, we're all just walking each other home, which is so true.

And I feel like the calibration that can happen between us when we get together in a room, when we hold each other up. You know, we have one of our dear friends, Kate, of course, who always says that. It's like, get in the room that expands you and stop thinking that you are going to win some medal at the end of this race if you did it alone, if you go alone. Like, this is crazy. I think about your pregnancy journey, and you're gonna laugh at my analogy, but I can only analogize it to running a marathon, and you're, let's say, at mile, what are you at right now? You're probably at mile 23 of 26.2. You're somewhere real far at the end.

And for me, every...

I'm even having calf muscle cramps these days, which feels very relevant to your marathon situation.

Well, and where are we at with our magnesium intake? Because I can fix that for you with more magnesium. I'm instantly going into how we cure this. Right. So I'm thinking, for me, in all of the 25 marathons, miles 21 through 23 are the grindiest grind of all of it. You're at that point where you're like, my god, I still have this many miles left. And it's not until 23 where you can kind of be like, OK, I'm getting really close to the finish line because a three mile run is nothing, right?

I know, I had no doubts.

And so going back to our, what you asked me about the deliciousness and just being in it, it's like, if you can't figure out a way to enjoy miles 21 through 23, why are you even running this thing? Why are you, it's, there will be those periods of suck and joy. There will be periods of elation at mile 13 and, my God, I crossed a halfway mark. And, and I think so often in life, just in general, we're rushing, rushing, rushing to get to that end. And then we get to the end, like, now what? Okay, next goal.

Next marathon, gotta sign up for something else when really the magic of the unfolding is being in mile 22, which I think you're in right now, if not 24. You're getting real close. You might be at 25. I mean, wow.

I'm right in there. I'm with you. The analogy is spot on. Because to your point, and I love that leadership is a topic you're thinking about a lot, it's also something I feel like I think about all the time. And something I've really noticed in people, I think just something that's not talked about enough, is whatever you choose to do in your mission, it has to be something that you are gonna be so devoted to the delicious process of.

Yes.

And this is why knowing your highest gifts, like to me, it's not surprising that you were the one who knew health early on. You were the one that was a high stakes lawyer and was already doing things differently. Like it didn't just become you're a unique story and that it didn't just become, but I actually think this is most of the people when I think about like people who really go into their soul service. Yeah. Okay. People usually easily see it can be very easy with your story to be like, okay, she was this and then she became this. Then she went into nutrition and then she went into this part of her life. But if we actually look at you as a holistic being in your journey, all of it was part of the guiding that you were giving along the way, just in different ways and different levels of expansion.

1 million percent and it's so funny. Well, and let's be honest, it's not like this is our first rodeo on this earth plane. You and I have been here probably thousands of times at this point. So it's like, how many times was I iterating like being the healthy one in the journey? Well, this life clearly came out and there's so much that society as you and I know, places upon us in terms of the programming that it was actually my mother who recently reminded me of this. She said, did you realize that in high school?

You know?

You and your best friend at the time had said you were gonna open up like a smoothie shop, like a health store. I said, I did. I had no recollection of that. No, because of course the programming was I wanna be successful. I have to be a lawyer. And part of my soul's mission was, well, of course you have to go on that path because it's gonna allow you to actually fulfill your soul's purpose of serving in the way that you do now because you have all this quote unquote societal credibility, whatever you wanna call it, from my lawyer days.

And I can serve that group of humans in a way that I wouldn't have been able to relate to them had I not understood what it looked like to grind it out all of the time 24 seven for that many years.

So true. And I think it's so relevant, I think for anyone listening, right? There's gonna be all this pressure where you think you are too slow. I mean, how many people have stories of, I'm not moving fast enough. Ooh, why did I have to go on that detour in their career, in their relationship life, in all their different lives? If it's healthy right now, maybe you're in a moment where you're watching a detour and sometimes contrast also with some of our greatest teachers too. And so I think about that so much with you. And I think that's when I think about you, and who you serve now to your exact point, it wouldn't be as powerful if you hadn't like for who you're truly here on a soul level to serve. You wouldn't be able to fully relate, but your story is so visceral. You can feel them in their bones. You can feel them in what they're walking with. You know, there is such a way you're able to relate. And I feel like this is actually an interesting segue into your first Gene Key I wanted to share with you in this episode because I feel like, I mean, okay, of course I had to share with you in particular, I had to share your health code. So for those new to the Gene Keys, the Gene Keys is a system that gives you a map, a blueprint of who you are and who you came here to be on a soul level. We have 11 different placements and each placement gives us a huge understanding of what it's going to be in a lot of ways, our soul curriculum in that particular area of our life. And so I'm going to speak about your health code because of course,

Yes.

What do you live and breathe and what are you such an embodiment other than health and vitality? And this is that one actually you and I shared in your Illuminate experience. So I'm thinking, I'm wondering if we actually spoke about this one. And so your health code is Gene Key 23. And with every Gene Key, I'm going to share the shadow frequency, the gift frequency in the Siddhi, the shadow is what's going to sabotage you, hold you back, be the challenge.

The gift is what you're like most here to just naturally embody in your truth. And then your city, your superpower, your area of mastery when you just are you. So with you having Gene Key 23, it moves from the shadow of complexity to the gift of simplicity to the city of quintessence. So in the shadow,

Yeah.

Oh amazing, I love that word.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Think about it. You're going to love this. I just know when I saw this, I was like, my gosh, Kristin is going to go no way. The shadow of complexity. It's the information overload. It's thinking that everything has to be a hundred different ways that you have to do things a million different ways. For you, you would know that clutter in your life actually holds you back from being as vital as you're meant to be. You like less clutter in your physical space. You like less clutter in your mental space. Hashtag why you love to meditate. You know, it's also what happens is the shadow is very rooted in fear and that reactive tendency, right? Which is why we make everything complex. It's like, I just have to follow the most complex biohacking routine. Whereas you've learned the gift of you is simplicity.

Mmm.

It's cutting through the noise to what actually matters most. It's keeping things so refined to what's personalized to the individual person. And it's because your simplicity creates the spaciousness for these people to really be their channels of creative expression, which I know you deeply care about and in a lot of ways self-love like you named. And then quintessence is your essence beyond your essence, like that purest essence of just who you came here to be.

Yes.

I love that. I love it. Yes. Well, it's so interesting. It's resonating in so many ways, but just a very specific present example is one of my clients recently went through a major surgery. He had fallen skiing and had an accident, and had surgery on his leg. So we were corresponding this morning because he's actually having, we got his body as ready as possible before the surgery. We're treating him like a professional athlete. He's coming back from this better than ever, very successful…

So does this resonate at all for you?

…a career person, of course, and he's having some setbacks as a result of this because there have been some complications post-surgery, going back to the doctor today. And I left him this message early this morning and I said, I need you to hear me on this. I know that it feels hard because you're in it right now. You're in it and this is for you in a way that we can't even understand right now. Like I really made it very simple because it can feel very complex in that circumstance. It can feel like, Oh my God, I've already spent all this money on coaching and I was doing so well and I was making all this progress and now this is a setback and now I'm gonna have to start over and what's gonna happen to business and blah, blah, all the noise, right? And I said, let's completely reframe this. This is happening for you. You have been through difficulties in your life in the past and I just named a couple of those having known this person. And I said, and this is going to expand you in a way that you can't even understand yet. So your job as you're in this rest and recovery is to ask, I'm so curious what this is here to teach me. I'm so curious why I called in this circumstance. I'm so curious about what I am going to learn as a result of this experience. And he had left me a message back this morning just saying this was like the most helpful reframe because he's swimming in the complexity and confusion of all of it. And just to be like, pop out of your circumstance, look at yourself from a higher level, be that higher self, watching your human body flail and struggle and all the dumb stuff that we come here to do as humans sometimes. And just the clarity that he had following our exchange this morning, he's like, okay, I have got this. I'm like, this may be, we don't know. I'm not gonna project onto you what it may be, but a piece of it may be, look at the resilience, the extraordinary amount of resilience that you have getting through this. And for all we know, he's gonna be on stage speaking about this someday. We don't know, right? Exciting.

And notice how you made it simple. You could have gone to him with this protocol and we need to do this thing and you need to fix that. You know, there could have been that energy, but you know on a soul level that you probably can imagine. Cause a huge gift in this Gene Key is an ability to pause. There's a knowing in the beauty of the pause. Because simplicity lives in the pause.

Yes, very.

And so I can just, the whole thing in what you just named, I had this moment where I pictured you hearing the news about him, hearing what he's walking with. And if you had been the shadow, you could have easily been like, well, I need to send him 400 different things to make him feel better. If I, knowing you, I guarantee what happened was you listened, you took a moment, you really sat with it, felt into your channel and then got to this very seemingly simple truth because you're now in connection with him. So you're like so tuned in, tapped into him too. And then you shared the exact message that came through you and let it land. And then him going, my goodness, you know, that, like that is such an embodiment of you being in your gift and the way it literally ripple effects to somebody else.

Yes.

Well, and with this key, like you mentioned with key 23, it's also, I think, a piece of it, if I'm not mistaken, and maybe this is somewhere else in my gene keys, but this is just more about the, and maybe this is part of my human design projector stuff, but the living embodiment of me, because of course, you know, 15 years ago, 10 years ago, I fell and broke my leg in 10 places. I was him. I understand what it can sometimes look like in the physical plane for the universe, your higher self, God, source, whatever your term is to try and wake you up. Like I've been there more times than I care to admit frankly, between hospital visits and breaking things and falling and et cetera. And so there is this beautiful gift and blessing in surrendering to whatever is coming up even when you're in the midst of struggle. In fact, even more importantly when you're in the midst of struggle because all of it can be a very massive test of surrender which I think especially for high achievers especially for successful people, it can be so hard to do that, I know that that's been a big lesson for me in the last several years, because we think that we got successful because we're in control of everything. We're not, newsflash, you're not. You think that that's what's making you successful? It's actually, in my opinion, oftentimes what's holding you back from becoming even more successful because this calcified control program that you're operating in is limiting what could be a huge, huge next layer for you or the next 10 layers if you could just let go and surrender into it.

Just letting that land for a moment. We just have to be with that one for a moment. It's just the truth mic drop. That simple piece. Because when I feel you and the way you invite us to connect with our bodies, I really, in truth, like when I was feeling into this episode, I kept feeling into this idea of the body as a temple, the body as our oracle, actually in many ways. That's giving us so many messages all the time.

But are we listening? Are we actually listening or how loud does it have to communicate? And I say that very humbly as someone who's had her body really have to communicate to her at different seasons. And I think this is such a key part of what I love so much and what you share and how you show up in the world is you don't just focus on the physical body. You are deeply devoted to the energetic body as well and how those two work together.

Exactly.

You know, and how for you when you look at that, right? There's the physical, but I mean, I can't even say for myself, it's funny because I was just an example, which we can use if you want to. I had gut health stuff. Years ago, I was working at a microbiome company because I was deeply trying to figure out why my gut was out of whack. And I was like, what is this? You know, and I went out all the complex rabbit holes. can, I feel this. I get it. And to this day, yes, there were some aspects of very specific things I changed.

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

But when I really tune into my body, what really helped was processing my emotions and completely shifting my relationship to trusting that my body is something to come into deeper self love like you named. And so when someone's in your space, how do they, if someone's like first off, let's actually go here. If someone's like, I think in my...

Yeah, yeah, that's exactly it.

Community people are pretty used to me talking about energy, but let's just name, how do you see the energetic body?

Yeah, fantastic question. This is truly one of my favorite topics. I love it so much because, and you know all these statistics as well as I do, but it just, I think it bears repeating. I say this as many times as people need to hear it. You are 99.99 % energy. It is the vast majority of who you are. And the problem is because we've been raised in a society that doesn't teach you that in a level of education, you can go to kindergarten, first grade.

Mm-hmm.

Second grade, I could take you all the way through 12 different degrees, you're never gonna be taught about your energy. Now, I think the world is changing. And so the homeschool and some of the other alternative school systems, certainly that's more of a priority, but as a general rule, you're not taught this. So when you start learning about this, whatever age you are on your awakening journey, it's somewhat confronting, somewhat unbelievable, and probably mostly somewhat, sort of confusing and over my head and that really doesn't make any sense to me and I just live here. So what I do with clients is I just, depending on what level they're at in terms of how open they are to understanding and learning about energy and most people who find me, their higher self is trying to find me in some way to say, honey, you think this is about the physical body, but what we're really here to do is a lot deeper than that. It's more energetic work. so, so I like to think of it as, and I've learned this from various mentors over the years, but just that your human body, this physical vessel, this rendering, is dictated 100 % by your frequency resonance, the level of your energy. And energy can be a broad term that encompasses a lot of things, but because it is an outside-in job from energy to physical body, you could think of it as an inside-out from your energy inside your body to your physical body.

But because that's dictating it, truly until you get at the root patterns energetically that have kept you stuck, like you mentioned in this beautiful example with a gut health and the trauma and processing the trauma, it's never really about the physical thing. The physical thing is showing up as a manifestation of what's happening with the energy. So I had this download several weeks ago as I was putting together some notes and things for, I think it was something I was gonna give my social media team. But it was...basically a message that I was sharing about that the journey is really to self-love and that the real flex is accepting, understanding, and embodying that this human body is a vessel that just holds your divinity in form.

And your highest expression of your divinity and form is to treat this vessel like the amazing temple that it is, because it is holding the most bright, beautiful, divine, energetic creation that has ever lived. And then you're just expressing coming through the physical body. Did that answer your question? I know I just sort of said a lot there.

I'm here for it.

I love the way you word it because I just so deeply relate. And I just know in my bones as I hear you name it, that's why I brought forward my gut health story, because it's been interesting. So over the years when people ask me like, well, how did you heal that? Because you know, it's something actually a lot of people navigate in various ways. And...

It's like I've had to get to that place where I think for a long time I'm like, well, it's because I shifted this in my diet or that, or I did this. And yes, like I said, there were a couple of key physical shifts I made and a lot of it was. When I...

Sure, sure. I mean, of course there's a physical component to it as well, of course. I mean, you can't eat Doritos all day and expect to be this bright, shiny vessel and expect to have excellent gut health. There is, of course, a physical component. But just to give kind of more of an extreme example, I used to host ⁓ retreats around the world. And I haven't done one for a long time, but in one, I remember there was a woman who was lamenting about this tremendous amount of excess weight that she was holding around her hip area and had even had sort of a cancer scare, like around a female part. I don't remember if it was, you know, cervical or uterine or it doesn't matter. And of course, over the course of the retreat, she finally revealed that she had suffered from some sexual abuse when she was younger. And it's like, well, of course it would live in the body that this extra layer of protection that would, for whatever her circumstance was, showed up as excess body fat was a protective layer that also was having some traumatic experiences move through it that were showing up as a form of a cancer scare. So I think, I just think that even though we've been talking about, you and I have known about this for a long time, I don't think it's woven its way into mainstream life yet where people realize how much the energetics actually impact what's happening on the physical level.

Yes, I feel you. I think more and more people to your point are waking up, noticing, and exploring. And if I really go back to what you said about self-love, if I really had to root it down to the difference between when I was in so much inflammation, people are shocked when they see pictures of me from like, let's see, would it like eight years ago or something, it's inflammation all around my face.

Huh. Okay.

It's such a different body, different, there's so much. But it was a lot of holding.

But okay, so think a lot of holding and then think about how you had to work through that and recognize that and release it and go on whatever health journey you were so that you are like the most pristine physical vessel to bring this amazing creature in who's coming in anytime soon and not doing it when you were starting out from a lens of a fully inflamed body. Like that's just not an enjoyable experience for the baby that's gonna gift us on earth soon.

Oh, well I feel that and I receive that. And I think what I also realized was like your point about earlier, like you said about the crescendo of aging. I remember at the time when I looked back everyone was like, your 20s. I was like when I was in my 20s, your 20s, that's like the prime time of your life. This is when you're supposed to feel your best. And I laugh because I'm like, my 20s were a lot. I met the deepest levels of grief in my 20s. It was not, it was not. There was a lot I was holding and carrying. And I think it's such an invitation, whether 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, whatever age you're at, of what you invite so many of us to see in ourselves is no matter where you're at, this can be the best time. What if it just keeps getting better? And to your point, look at that exact thing. I didn't know at that moment in my 20s when I finally opened up to that journey that I would, in theory, I knew I would one day want to start a family in those things.

Yes. Yes.

But to your point, what a gratitude now to sit in my pregnant body now and be like, thank you, thank you to that version of Lex who went through a lot of discomfort, felt a lot of feelings, and just was willing to shift her relationship to her body and really see her body differently. And I think when someone's on a journey, I think someone might really feel, because you name the self-love piece, and I think for a lot of people, self-love can feel pretty...

Right?

Depending on where you're at on your journey, can feel so tricky, especially for a lot of women, a variety of life experiences. I mean, we can talk about objectification. We can talk about so many life experiences people, especially women walk with. How would someone know, or how have you found with clients you can distinguish when someone's seeing their body, almost working on their body as a project to optimize in that way, or they're really honoring their body,from an embodiment of self-love. Like how are you able to distinguish the difference?

Yeah, I'll give you two recent examples, one male and one female. So I was corresponding with a female client over the last couple of days, and actually she and I saw each other yesterday. And I have my clients fill out this short questionnaire before our meetings, because we meet every other week. And I say, you know, something that makes you feel proud that you've come up with. What are some challenges that you've had? They're really intentionally deep questions because I want them to self-reflect coming into our time together.

And it was so fascinating because we have six months together and we're probably on month four, almost five. And this is a particular client who it was so funny because in the first month of us working together, she was saying, I feel so confronted by the fact that I realized how much of my life revolved around food and alcohol to have fun. You know, and she's like, and it's not something I was even conscious of, but she said, honestly, Chris, I'm asking this question. What do healthy people do to have fun?

It was so funny. And it was such an honest, real question from her. And then came full circle, the last meeting we had yesterday, our most recent meeting, and she said, I literally barely even drink alcohol anymore and I don't even think about it. It is crazy how I have transformed my relationship with alcohol because I just started to make more intentional and conscious choices because I wanted my body to physically feel better. And so she's transforming into someone who loves herself more throughout the course of our journey rather than I think the mind version of that would be in the beginning. Well, I just got a white knuckle up for six months with Kristin and I shouldn't drink alcohol and that's gonna make me healthier. But I told her from day one, your journey with alcohol is your journey. I am never gonna tell you you can't drink. I'm gonna educate you on what it does to the body. I'm gonna help you understand other choices that you could consider making instead of the habit that you've gotten into on the nights or the weekends, et cetera. But ultimately you get to decide. And so as she is, because of education and because of wanting a deep desire to feel better has started to love herself more. And it's just happening in real time, which is so exciting. And so one other example, I wrote this down in all caps on notes that I had with a male client because he's someone who, you know, doesn't reach out as much in between meetings. I kind of have to prod him to get in touch with me. But in one of our last meetings, he said, I'm, I don't know how to say this other than I'm literally becoming more conscious of everything. And I thought, I didn't even give him that word. That's so exciting. You know, that's exactly my goal. I want people to become more conscious and intentional about what they put in their body, how they spend their time, how they move their body so that they're truly living a life of intention and not just running on autopilot, being in their unconscious programming all day long, literally going to the grocery store and picking things off the shelf that it's like, well, my mom used to buy that when I was growing up. So I guess that's just what I buy because there's no intention around it. So, those are two simple examples, I would say. And then the other thing I just wanted to share is just an example of you. Like we talked briefly before we started recording, you're moving your body throughout your pregnancy, your strength training, you feel amazing pregnant. Are there hard days? I'm sure, I don't know. But for the most part, people are like, wait, you're about to have a baby? I'm so confused because you're such an example of health because you are on and have been for so long on a journey of self love and truly do love yourself and honor your body in a way that is honestly available to everyone if they could just get out of their own way.

It's so, I love how the three different examples play out because so much of it to me in all three is illuminated by the way each person is choosing to perceive their current experience.

Yes. Yes.

That's consciousness. Because it's not, everyone wants to fixate on the habits, on the behaviors. And yet I would imagine, at least one thing I've seen a lot, is identity is usually the key in the beginning. So would you say for those two other clients, I know for myself on my journey, I went into pregnancy and I had, it's like you set your intentional identity honoring that there's going to be, guys, I wake up and suddenly like in pregnancy I've had days I'm...

So nauseous, you go through so many feelings and like discomfort in my ribs. There's been meetings I've been in where I'm like, okay, all right, because you're just feeling so much. And I kept going back.

Have you ever had a meeting, have you been in meetings where you're getting kicked or anything? I always think that's so funny. Really? I love it. Okay.

Yeah, yeah, she's been kicking during this conversation. I feel like I find it hilarious because I feel like she's my little muse. So when she makes little kicks or does things, I just kind of chuckle internally because it feels like it's a secret language with her and I. I'm like, uh-huh, you know? But that's again how I perceive it. I just choose to perceive it that way. It can be very easy to be like, that's uncomfortable. But instead I'm just like, hi there, that's cute. What are you telling me now? know, because for me, I like to operate in life with like...

Love it, love it.

All is working with me. What are the signals? What are the signs? It makes me feel meaning. And I would imagine...relationship with her and you're communicating with her and in communication all the time, which is just so beautiful. So I love that.

Right? And so I think it's that identity I had through it, which was, I'm gonna do pregnancy my way. I'm gonna just be conscious through the process and I'm gonna savor this experience and all that it presents because it's also to me an embodiment of expansion. I'm like, this is the most physical expansion in my physical body that I've ever navigated. But going back to your example about deliciousness in the beginning,I think people forget you can choose to either see the discomfort in any expansion as something that you need to really grit and drive yourself crazy through the process. Or you can go like, ha, this is part of the process. And here we are. I mean, think about all the marathons you've run. And that's why you can give that analogy so clearly. The metaphor is because you've walked, you've run what? Like 26 times through that 22 mile moment. So you know it.

Yeah. Yes.

Viscerally, you know, and so I love it. And when you think about those other two clients you named, the one with the alcohol, who like really broke herself free from that and him with the consciousness, would you say that that's like one of the first things you notice that really starts to elevate your clients is they first just start to see themselves differently. And then from there, the behavior starts to just naturally shift or is there something else that you notice like really flips it for them first?

Yeah.

No, I think that's a really good way to explain it. I would say there's for sure in the beginning, because I think there can be a little bit of a learning curve depending on people's background and what they understand coming into my coaching, that I always tell them it's experiential learning. You are here to experientially learn with me. Yes, I'm creating customized meal plans for you. Yes, you're gonna follow them and you're gonna feel really good as you do it. And I'm gonna be educating you in between meetings and where we're in our meetings.

But if I just talked to you every time we got together and you didn't actually start to be able to embody or practice or feel into the physical changes that the way I'm recommending that you change your lifestyle actually works for you. So I feel like that just allows the process to accelerate more quickly. It's like I keep giving my example of speaking French, which I do not speak, which is going to Paris and being left to your own devices when no one else around you is speaking English would be a really effective way to learn it. And if you were taking French classes on top of it, think of how much more quickly you would learn it than sitting in a country where no one speaks French and doing, you know, books on tape to try to learn it. It's just that immersive experience I feel like is more a catalyst for change than doing it another way. So yes, to answer your question, I for sure see a change in them.

Where it turns into their beingness as they realize, and I usually do have to reflect it to them, do you see how different you are right now than you were four months ago, than you were two months ago? Like, do you see how everything you have now learned, you can't unlearn because you now know? And so it just causes you to be more intentional about everything. But what I've observed is that it really does accelerate into or morph into self-love.

It's so beautiful too, because I think for you, it's not about some quick fix, one big change that just changes everything. It's the honoring of the small devotional choice. Day in, day out. It's also lifestyle oriented, I feel for you. It's like how you choose to perceive your lifestyle. It's not just, I'm trying to get some end result. It's what lifestyle are you consciously choosing?

Yes.

And so to ground this, I feel like I'll grind a couple of the practicalities. Cause I know you've got a toolkit and I know it is personal depending on the person. And that's one of the biggest things that makes your work so powerful is honoring that it is unique to someone's, I would imagine eight life stage circumstances. There's a lot of different factors. And if we were to let's say, pick like your three non-negotiables for someone who's leading a demanding life, and though wants to be nourished, wants to feel resourced and vital in the journey, what would you share?

So three things specifically in the physical, I'll give these, these came to me very easily and very quickly. Number one is, do you see I'm holding the bottle and showing you the hydration? The amount of hydration I have sitting around me right now, like you've seen me as we're doing this interview. So hydration is so important. Very few people realize water actually gives you energy, that hydration is energizing, that, a lot of calamity that happens in the body, starting with headaches to muscle cramps, all sorts of things, are caused by dehydration. So drink more water, drink more water, drink more water, and most specifically, drink more water with electrolytes in them that can help because, amazing, you have your electro, yes, see, perfect. So, electrolytes, which means, I call them the E-ums, magnesium, sodium, potassium, and calcium.

Right, there's a couple others, let's, the E-ums, electrolytes. So they are called electrolytes because they actually are responsible for supporting electrical charges, literally, conductions of electricity happening in your body. So when you do a bicep curl, when you do a squat, when you do a muscular movement of any kind, it's calling upon tons of those electrolytes because you're creating an electrical charge.

Wow, I never realized that.

So number one would be water with electrolytes. Number two would be…

I have one double-click question. I have one double-click question on this. What about food that's hydrating? Do we think of foods like watermelon? That's just the one I noticed I crave a lot in pregnancy as an example. Do you find that that's also a big way people hydrate too?

Yes. Huge. And so if you find yourself craving things like watermelon, a very big one is cucumber. I read a book a few years ago, and I recommend this to anyone who's interested in learning more about hydrating foods. It's called Quench. And it's a fantastic book. And it's all about how we can hydrate through certain foods. And you'll notice if you're more dehydrated, you will generally crave more of those kinds of foods. So that's excellent. Yes. Quench would be a good read for people wanting to go deeper on that. So yes to that and then second, and I would say this is probably more specific to America, but it could apply in other countries as well. As a general rule based on the age at least that most adult successful people are somewhere between the age of 30 and 80, we were all raised in a society where there was more of a focus on carbohydrate rich foods than on either healthy fat rich food or protein rich food or fiber rich food. It was all focused on empty carbohydrates. I mean, I love to show this example, which is that I thought I was winning in life in, know, senior year of high school when I would sit there and lunch and eat my fat free pretzels with my carrots and you know, like a row of snack wells cookies because that was healthy because it had no fat in it. So, you know, we've come so far obviously as a society, but there is still deep programming. And I see this with a lot of my clients who hire me that literally have no concept of where to reach for fat. They don't even know. They're like, wait, what, what does, what foods have fat in it? Where do I get more healthy fats? And so we are very essential fatty acid deficient as a collective in general. And that causes things like headaches, extra sunburn, essential fatty acid deficiency is very disruptive to your sleep. So I tell people if we can, kind of switch the transition to less carbohydrates, more fats. So less bread, more salmon, less rice, more nuts, less pasta, more avocados and olives. Just shifting really how we think about food on our plate in that way, I think can be very beneficial, especially if people want to optimize their energy, optimize their brain health, those kinds of things. And then I'm happy to come back to a double click on that if you have one. And then third, would be strength training. I love strength training. Third, you know I'm a broken record about strength training, but it really is, and we know this now because science has caught up with the trend of strength training over the last several years, that we know it prevents dementia and Alzheimer's, it's good for cancer prevention, it's amazing to do if you've been diagnosed with cancer and you're working on your recovery. Strength training has so much insane benefit for the body in every different cell.

I'm just happy to hear it. I'm just happy to hear it...

That I think that's the most important thing people can do.

I smile so deeply when I hear all three, because again, I can only smile so deeply because it's so folk. I've learned so much of the power of these three. And also though, how I relate to you on the I mean, gosh, I think the big joke was, what is that cereal like panda puffs or something like I feel like in college, I like lived off cereal, you know, just like to your exact point, it was always like simple carbs, like you just get simple carbs in like whatever just like exist.

And then to your exact point, I remember when someone said, you really, cause actually for me, was strength training that I started doing. And then through strength training, I started realizing, wait, I need more sustenance to navigate my hunger and what's happening for my muscles to actually develop. And so I couldn't agree more. And it's so interesting. Cause I mean, I think we're finally at an era where more and more people are realizing the importance of strength training. Cause I used to relate very much to being a yoga Pilates girl, you know and then I will tell you, I will tell you, when I really shifted into my I called it my strong era where I said, I'm ready to be strong, shifted so many things, so many things…

I love it. I love it. When did you start your strength training journey Lex? How many years ago did you do that? Was it recent? it?

A couple of years ago. So my sister, I think we've talked about my sister, my sister is big on strength training and she now runs a gym, a beautiful gym and recovery space. She, it's funny because so many people assume when they first meet her and they don't know yet what she's up to, they assume that if she owns a space, she must be yoga pilates. And she's like, nope, I do like full on strength training, HIIT training.

Mm-hmm.

You know, all of that. I also just feel like you two would just have conversations for days when I think about it. And it was her. It was her. It was that lens because I think the other piece you name is I think a lot of where, at least I'll say my holdup was, which I share for anyone listening who might have had a similar experience is strength training. If you've never been, if you never experienced it much, you really got to start simple.

I will meet her someday. I will meet her. Yeah, good.

And a lot of classes, you gotta find the right place who usually can teach you about your form and teach you properly because I know for myself I would get injured. What would happen is I'd go to classes that were kind of just made for everybody and then I wouldn't know what I was doing. Because like anything, like going back to what you said earlier, find the guides, find those who can really support you. I would get injured. I wouldn't know what I was doing or I would put too much weight on initially thinking that's what I should do. And it just was like over time.

Yes!

Yes.

Diligently, lovingly, devotionally, that I built up strength in my body and worked through that. It's also the mental part of the stronger I've gotten in my physical body. can see how it's impacted how I see myself in other areas too.

Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Yes.

Well, I'm so glad you mentioned that because I think the other thing that society has done a really good job of programming us around is that the most spiritual way to work out is to do yoga or Pilates. It's so spiritual to be, and that's true. It can be very spiritual and very grounding and those kinds of things, but what's truly spiritual is when you can put yourself in the present moment of space and time and be in your body in this moment. And if you are in an intense strength training workout, I swear part of the reason I love it so much is because it is laser focusing me on this present moment and I am here. My higher self and my human body are together. We are one. We are not escaping. We are not forward thinking. I'm not thinking about the past. I'm in the moment. And so I do think it's very spiritual and very energetic. And I think that that's a gateway or a portal for people to connect more to their higher self. I really do.

I love it and I relate and I think for anyone who's been thinking about it or who's been curious, what would you say would be a great way for someone to start with? Let's just focus on this strength training part probably, because I think that's definitely one of the ones that I imagine hits people the most, but maybe any of them, any of the three you just named.

Well.

Sure.

So that's what I would say. would say start that way until you feel more comfortable. And then if you want to walk into a brick and mortar gym, I really recommend people hire a trainer. And we obviously do that at Discover Strength all over the country of America, at least right now.

Yes, I personally can just advocate for my own experience and what I've watched and others in my life. And going back to the pregnancy thing, like I think I said to you, can't remember if it, I think it was before we clicked record. If there's one piece, I'm very mindful that everyone's walking their journeys and there's a lot of dynamics with pregnancy. But if people ask me like, what's one thing? I go, honestly, I think one of the things I did prepping that has had the greatest sense of support for me during the process was strength training before and then being able to do it during.

Exactly Lex. because you have prepared your body so well and did it before you got pregnant I guarantee you you are going to have the most beautiful experience of entering this baby into the world through the delivery because of how well you've prepared your physical body. My friends who have strength trained and had babies are like these two pushes and the baby was out. This was nothing. Yes it was pain in a way but it was more pressure than it was pain and these are also women who did hypno-breathing classes and really learned about how to breathe through the pain, you've already trained your body so well that I just can't wait to hear about your birth experience because it's going to be magical.

Putting all the good juju your way as I'm in full surrender and deep trust in the whole process. And as we begin to...

Well, and just the fact that I told you she chose to be in this magical portal between February 17th and April 17th, like she's here for a mission. Wow. Like look out. Yeah. I mean, she's really, she's really going to activate. I'm sure you're very aware of this, but activate everything in you that you came here to do. Like it's going to be like, okay, okay, she's here. Now we're tenfold expansion. Thank you. Thank you for joining me on this journey.

I love it. I love it. I love it. Mm-hmm.

fully receive your download on that. Cause I just go, mm-hmm, full truth bumps. She's like, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, get ready mom. She's like, get ready mom. You know, buckle up. She's also coming in the fire horse year, which I went to, right. Of course, of course. Well, okay. As we begin to wrap, I feel like you and I could just go into so many more threads that I'm like, ooh, but as we, exactly.

Yep. yes.

Of course. Duh. Yes.

What day is it? What day is it? I'm like, what day?

I don't even know what's going on. Yes, thank you. I'm in a portal.

But as we begin to wrap up, I would love to, of course, you know I stand for ritual. I love to give that feeling. We've given some really powerful, practical, I mean, very clear next steps that everyone can take. But if we think about a ritual, what is your go-to or what would you recommend is a powerful ritual for someone to connect with if they're really desiring to feel more resourced and vital at this time?

Yes. I'll give, if it's okay, I'll give one physical and one energetic. So these are just two things, these are two things that I do every single morning. So number one is before I even get out of bed, I take myself through a quote unquote morning meditation when I'm still kind of in that in-between space. So mine tends to be about 14 minutes, 10 to 15. Sometimes I do it guided with an app, sometimes it's just on my own, but it's that in-between space when you're kind of awake but kind of asleep.

Here for it.

That can be so powerful for connecting to the other side. And I just intend in that meditation, my primary goal is raising my frequency resonance as high as possible to start my day so that my day is more magical and expansive than it would have been without that meditation. So that's one. And then in my physical body, after I get up from doing that, the first thing I do is make my lemon water with electrolytes. So I have the juice of one lemon in my water every morning with Redmond's Relight electrolytes. I do this almost now on autopilot, but it really helps set my energy for the day and I feel so good. And then I'm starting my day out hydrated instead of pouring a ton of coffee down my body before I even had water.

I love it. I love it so much. Simple. Goes back to your Gene Key. Simple. Keeping them simple.

Easy. Good.

Simple, simple, yes. The more complex they are, the less people are going to comply. It's just simple, start with simple. Notice how good you feel with those two practices, and then you can expand from there. You can layer on after that, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. And even if your meditation in bed is you take two breaths, start there, you know, and then ease. It could just be like, wow, I woke up this morning. Hello, body. In the way that you speak about self love, like, hello, beautiful vessel that I get to have the gift of walking within this lifetime. Thank you. That could be it too. So, Kristin is our absolute divine guide in keeping it simple and knowing that the simplicity is actually what creates the deep vitality and resourced experience of succeeding, of living, of leading the fullness in its beautiful way. Well, Kristin, I would love for us to share where people can connect with you. I know you're really focused on your one-on-one, your amazing one-on-one experiences and a program that you are really devoted to, but please tell us all the best places for, we'll put the obviously certain links in the show notes, but in general, where's the best way for anyone listening to connect with you?

Thank you. Yeah.

So my website energeticallyefficient.com, which is currently under construction, but we're working on some new rebrand stuff, which I'm very excited about. And then I'm most active on Instagram. So it's Kristin, which is K-R-I-S-T-I-N underscore Rowell, R-O-W-E-L-L underscore.

And then I also have my own podcast. So I have The Energetically Efficient show, which I recommend that people watch on YouTube or on Spotify, because I do a video format each week. And those are the best places to find me.

Well, thank you. Thank you for being here. Thank you for following your path. Thank you for following your highest calling. It's such a gift to know you, to walk with you, to dance with you on this journey of life, to be expanded and to be consistently reminded. You are an expander on my journey of always remembering that as I look forward and as I look at different stages of life, can I just consistently trust goodness of how powerful and how much opportunity we have to feel vital and resourced on the journey. Thank you for honoring your highest expressions and your frequency. And thank you to all of you who tuned in for sharing with us your time, your energy, your presence. We hope that this really deeply gives you that extra nudge, that extra devotional loving hug to go really honor that beautiful vessel that is your body in both the energetic and the physical form.

Yes.

And would love for you to send a message. Kris and I both love connecting. So if you feel called to send either of us or both of us a DM sharing what has really stuck out to you from this episode, it'll be an honor and a gift to hear from you. And as always, we hope that you continue to elevate your life one intentional day at a time. Thank you so much for being here and thank you for being you. Big heart hugs always. Thank you, Kristin.

Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. I had so much fun. Time flew by and I just, I adore being with you and in this space and I can't wait to hear what sort of feedback you get about this conversation. This was lovely. Thank you.

Thank you, thank you. Times a million.

Mwah!