In the inaugural episode of the Wild Kingdom Wellness podcast, Holly King introduces herself as a holistic health practitioner with a diverse background in massage therapy, Reiki, yoga, and health coaching. She shares her personal journey from a stressful career in health insurance to pursuing wellness, highlighting the challenges and frustrations within the healthcare system. Holly emphasizes the importance of holistic approaches to health and wellness, encouraging listeners to seek support and ask questions about their health.

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All right. Hello, everyone. Holly King, welcome to Episode One of the Wild Kingdom Wellness Podcast. Ladies and gents, today is January the ninth 2026. It is Friday, the moon she is precisely in the sign of Libra and the color of the day today is pink. What am I talking about? Well, ladies and gentlemen, at start of each podcast, I will be reading to you.

Episode 1 podcast of Wild Kingdom Wellness. And so what are we going to talk about today? Well, ladies and gentlemen, today we're going to talk a little bit just a tiny bit about me and why I am starting this Wild Kingdom Wellness podcast. You are not going to want to miss any episodes. We're going to create a breadcrumb trail when it comes to finding resources that will help you, the listener and individuals find

I am going to introduce myself today in the context of who I am as a holistic health practitioner. So my background is that I am a licensed massage therapist in two states, the state of Indiana and Kentucky. I am also a Corona Reiki master teacher. Corona means compassion for those of you all that don't know what that means.

That was a journey, let me tell you ladies and gentlemen. I am also a certified health and fitness coach. I am an aromatherapist, PIST, meaning I am clinically trained to talk about essential oil therapies. I am also, ladies and gentlemen, finishing up my certified Bible coach.

certificate. I am also a certified dream coach interpreter. I received my certification from the infamous Roy Colgan, R-O-R-Y Colgan, the owner of Inner Health Today and the past president of the Louisville School of Metaphysics. So, yes, I work in the dreamscape.

want to know more about me as a human in my career. Ladies and gentlemen, I am an intermediate, intermediate, say that 20 times, an intermediate astrologer. You guessed it. I can read your natal chart in a hot flash. I'm also a tarot card reader. And to sum it all up, ladies and gentlemen, I am a spiritual life force.

minister. I do hold an ordination under the universal life church dot com, which basically means I am a preacher girl without a church. So it's funny, y'all, when people ask me about my spiritual belief systems as a predominant Christian in the United States of America, I laugh and I tell them it's complicated. So

But let's get started. why in the world would I want to start episode one in introducing myself, my career, and my journey as a health practitioner when starting episode one of this podcast? Why would you care? Why would you care to know who Holly Kim is? Well, let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, This is my second career path. I am 53 years old.

I'm a white woman ish. I guess you could call me white ish. But I'm also again, as I said, very complicated because before I became a holistic health practitioner, I was a Kentucky licensed life and health insurance broker. B R O K E R. I was a big girl. I had a big girl job. I was white collar.

I wore high-heeled shoes, I wore pantyhose that really made my thighs chaff. It was not comfortable. I sat at a desk all day. I took incoming phone calls from people who were really frustrated. Now you hear me now. Frustrated with the healthcare system, the clinical medical healthcare system as a whole. Okay, so.

was completely coming apart by the seams internally and I as an account executive of a large agency running a three million dollar with an ⁓ million dollar book of business almost single-handedly however I did have a little bit of help and kudos to the account representatives who helped me through the process of trying to figure out what the F

what to do anymore when it came to the cost and the trends and the frustrations of our health care system. And so what I did, you know, like any good classic Scorpio, which we'll talk about that later, I told my boss to take this job and stick it up there. Listen, I was not happy. I was not happy about what I saw going on in the world around me.

on itself, implode on itself. And I said I am NOT going to collapse under the weight of the stress that this health care system is putting on me personally as a powerful high octane high outputting woman in the insurance business. I said I'm out, bye. And I remember the day y'all. I remember I was sitting, I actually had moved

my family to Bowling Green Kentucky for six months in this job. Okay let me take you back again. Again this is my first career as a big girl in the health insurance industry. Okay and I remember sitting at my desk one day and it was later in the evening I do believe and I said I'm gonna call my boss and I dialed him direct from my office and I said I'm gonna quit.

I'm walking out. I'm done. I'm not taking this stress anymore because my body y'all my body my mind my spiritual person inside of me said This is insane. Like what are we doing here? What are we doing here with the trends and the cost and the biggest thing y'all and we're gonna talk about this later and in future episodes So again, you are not gonna want to miss any podcast by Holly King at Wild Kingdom wellness because I'm just gonna talk about my journey

and I'm going to be nice and I'm not going to throw anybody under the bus. And if you remember I said I am a Karuna master teacher. Karuna means compassion. So when I tell you all my story and when I talk about my experience as a large group account executive in the healthcare system, I am going to share with you all my experience for almost 15 years. Okay. Almost 15 years. And I'm going to tell you what I saw.

10 years ago and why I got the hell out of the healthcare system because I told my boss back to my my my thought I told my boss when I resigned I said I'm this industry everything's crooked okay I'm being thrown under the bus at the time I was being thrown under the bus y'all for a death claim that I had nothing to do with that on an account

inherited. Okay, because you inherit as an agency, you inherit these accounts from other agencies to try to fix their healthcare system management, the fiduciary responsibility to take care of their employees through healthcare and through employee benefits. And I had inherited a 1,000 life group account, a very large account down in southern Kentucky. Okay.

And again, I'm just telling y'all why I walked out. And I said, I'm not going and I am not falling on the knife for this. This had nothing to do with me. I can poke holes in what happened. This is a corrupt story. And I'm leaving this career making almost six figures.

without a plan. At the time I was in Bowen Green, I said to my boss, I'm moving my family back to Louisville. And I don't know what's going to happen, but I'm going to go to massage therapy school. That's what I told my boss on the phone, sitting at my desk. I remember the moment and he paused because he knew I was telling the truth about, you know, me being

thrown under the bus under this account that our agency had inherited. And he said, he was like, a massage therapist, really? And I went, yeah. And he's like, you know, they don't make a lot of money. And I said, I don't care. Let me tell you why I'm going to go be a massage therapist. I had had a massage in Bowling Green. I think it was Bowling Green. I had had a massage.

not too long before I quit my job. And it changed my life y'all. It changed my life. It was the first professional massage that I had ever had. Okay. And it was with somebody that I didn't know. But I knew that they had laid hands on me. And again, y'all, I'm a Christian ish. So they had touched me and showed me the how much stress

and up your booty. I'm gone. And so I quit my job. We moved our entire household back to Louisville, Kentucky from Bowling Green, Kentucky. And I had no idea what to do, but I had enough savings. Okay. Y'all, y'all hearing me now? Now you're, now you're listening. I had just enough savings, ladies and gentlemen, to pay for massage therapy school. And I walked in to the

massage therapy school here in Louisville Kentucky and I handed the instructor a check and I said I want to do this. He said okay no questions asked other than you know general you know why are you here you know you don't have to go through you know.

psychology 101 to go to massage therapy school. Although on the flip side after 10 years of being a massage therapist you might want to. So let me just throw that out there. Massage therapy y'all is not for the faint of heart. Not at all. But yeah I just said I'm done. So I took my savings and I plugged it into massage therapy school. There was some resistance there in the process of transition okay and I'll talk about that later because my life

was overturned. Okay, it was overturned. But I was tough. I was resilient as a woman. And I knew in the depths of my soul, I wanted to get into the wellness industry. Okay. So when I quit my job as a health insurance agent, let me back up a little bit so you understand the history before we can go forward into the future with the rest of these podcasts. When we had the Obama

when and why and what was happening during the ACA Affordable Care Act implementation and what were the rules of the game. Okay so what was the rules of the game when President Barack Obama decided to reform health care. Did he do it single-handedly? I don't think he did. I think back then that was when the executive branch of the government and the Congress and the

the Senate and the legislation and all the City Council people were kind of sort of working together to go yeah the health care system people can't afford it they can't afford their drugs you know people are getting addicted to opiates like we're gonna have to manage the cost the rising trends the cost of health care system because y'all we had back then trends of pharmaceutical reports now don't quote me on this but

Don't make me go back and get the data right now. I'm in the middle of my first episode. Okay I'm going by memory right now. This is my memory. But y'all we've had trends in the pharmaceutical, the cost of pharmacy behind the scenes. There were trends of 7, 10, 20, 40, 60, 80, 200 percent increase in cost.

You're like, so many? Why the variants? I'm gonna tell you why. Okay, it depends on the drug. Now, I am not a pharmacist. I am not a doctor. I am not a clinical therapist. This is not legal advice and I will never tell you what to do or what not to do. I will not tell you not to take your medication. I will not tell you to start medication. You do you boo!

But I'm tell you what my experience is as a previous healthcare administrator to say, you know, your generic drug might be fine. Okay, if it's costing you four bucks for your refill every month, you're paying that copay, which I doubt it's four bucks anymore. It's probably more like 25, maybe 10. Depends on your healthcare plan, what tier you're on. But anyway, just saying, your generic drug's probably fine.

But when you go listen to the white coat fellas and women and they say, yes there's this new innovative drug that is better and more effective. It's been out for six months. You saw it on TV advertised throughout your family feud episode probably six times, maybe two. I don't know. And they're like, here, let's switch it out. Let's put you on the newer drug. Let's put you on the newer drug.

And then we'll try you for four or five months and we'll go ahead and like we'll see if you're better. Okay, so What the person does the patient generally will do what I would do in the past As I would go Well, I'm in pain. I don't feel good. I'm sick. Just give me a drug I don't want to take personal responsibility for what's going on So let me just go ahead and I'll go like it's gonna cost you a little bit more How much more $25 more copay? Okay, fine, whatever

So I'm $5, $10, $15. It's going up to the second, third tier. Doctor says it's new. It's probably got better drugs in it. I'm just going to take it. So then we literally, we walk our little butts into the pharmacy and we take the brand name drug because the generic sounds like it's not going to work anymore. That's BS for the most part. That is allegedly, I'm telling you all, allegedly I feel that that's BS.

So just clarification there and why do I think that because I had enough history in the health care system to recognize the fact that the drug Constitution okay, the constituents the chemicals inside of the drug Were basically the same because when you rebrand and you repatin a drug, but you sell it for the same purposes Generally speaking ladies and gentlemen, it has the same components

as it did before, they just changed the binders, the fillers. They might add or extract a certain molecular structure in that drug, but they also spend a bazillions of dollars, allegedly.

rebranding that drug and making it nice and shiny and paying for advertising and the pharmaceutical companies no I did not hang myself in prison the pharmaceutical companies y'all they know they're like you know we'll just make it more shiny more pretty more features more enhancements smoother to swallow and then we're in charge you more and behind the scenes y'all they do this over and over and over again on top one drug on

then all of a sudden the profitability of the healthcare system of the pharmaceutical companies is astronomically you going into their pockets and you ladies and gentlemen are allegedly taking pretty much the same drug you were when you were paying five or ten dollars for the copay. Did you know that? Comment below if you can. But y'all listen I'm not mad about prescription drugs.

Listen, I'm all mama's little helper, okay? I take a little white pill in the morning. And I just started back on that anxiety medicine, okay? I just did. I was like, my brain, I have ADHD. At some point, I need to acknowledge that. Or at least at best ADD. Should I self-diagnose? No, but I do have GAD, okay? General anxiety disorder. I bet you, if you go into your MyChart, into your medical chart,

look at the history of your medical diagnoses you may may if you ever went if you have ever gone into your doctor's office and said I'm stressed and they really started talking to you about stress chances are they're gonna put in their client or patient comes in with GAD generalized anxiety disorder I learned about GAD in several yards

several of my continuing education massage therapy classes. Because why? Because so many people now fast forward into the future. Time jump with me y'all. Come on let's take that quantum leap of understanding. Y'all, the word stress is now a household name. Okay and so everybody's stressed out. And so what the doctors in my opinion as a body worker

do when somebody says I'm stressed out I don't know what to do I'm frustrated I'm aggravated and if they give them mama's little helper or daddy's little blue pill or whatever it is and they're like here you just have a case of GAD generalized anxiety disorder and from my research as a a as a patient of GAD I have diagnosed GAD

I can pull the files out and show it to you. Like, I keep a record of a lot of stuff. I'm also certified in the Akasha records, by the way. Akasha, look it up. Ask ChatGTP. Ask Rock. There's a new app, Theo Vaughn, who is someone that I absolutely salivate over, y'all. Listen, podcaster, YouTube, right? Theo Vaughn made a recommendation of a new

AIBuddy app that's not chat, GTP. It's not GROK, but it's Perplexity. Okay. I know we're on audio here, but I'm going show you the camera on my phone, this little black app on my phone in case we do show this video at some point. Y'all, Perplexity is my AIBuddy. Okay. And that, I'm not getting paid by Theo Long,

Leo, if you get this message, I saw your interview recently with Leanne Morgan, the comedian.

I her. tell her Holly King said hello. Okay. From Kentucky to Tennessee. We are the central part of the United States of America. And I've been stalking your videos lately. Stalking meaning obsessed with. I'm not stalking you Theo. I'm not.

Listen, I'm not I'm old enough to be your mama too. So me and Leanne we go we will have to be your mama. But listen, the ⁓ that's a great app. I love perplexity. So thank you very much if you catch this video. This audio this podcast. Wild Kingdom wellness all over social media. Just look for me. Okay, Holly King. But back to my story. And the yes, you should plug me. Sponsorships Theo, Theo von. Let's talk.

I got some info for you. Y'all, I'm telling you, the healthcare system has collapsed on itself. I have now leaked a decade into the future as a massage therapist, as a body worker, you know, as a mom. Now I'm a grandma, okay? I got a grandbaby. And I have spent the last 10 years of my massage therapy career working on the people that I used to work with.

in healthcare system. my clients. And they know, they know, know that I'm telling you the truth. They know, know that the healthcare system is wildly out of control. And they know, that

It was the term that we agents use because see here's the thing y'all don't think you realize about health care agents, okay? We're not the bad guy

We're not the bad guy. Healthcare agents are fighting for you to stop the insurance companies, the pharmaceutical companies, and the carriers, the reinsurance companies, from taking advantage of you, the employer, who provides insurance for the people, and you, the people, who buy insurance off the healthcare marketplace. It is not the role of the healthcare agent to go, hey, listen,

You might want to renegotiate your rates because your claims are bad. Okay, you got a lot of smokers in your group. You got a lot of obese people in your group. And again, y'all, I live in Kentucky. we're working on it. We're working on our big booty butts. Okay, I am working on my big booty butt and I can talk

300 pounds I do not anymore but we'll talk about that later. Stay tuned to this wellness podcast because you're gonna want to understand how the heck did I lose a hundred and twenty some odd pounds. Okay without Ozempic I didn't I didn't do it maybe some slim fast I might have joined a gym or two again took a yoga class that kind of stuff you know organically.

But y'all, I did not do the shot. I'm not saying you shouldn't take the shot. I actually... I'm give you little, little de-identified... non-HIPAA.

information. Most of my clients recently that have taken ozempic or monjolo or the any of the GLP one injections, they're doing okay. Like I've noticed because I'm a body worker, I do look at the the human body multiple times a day, you know, ethically, of course, ethically. We're not playing no Epstein up in my office. Sorry, not sorry. I'm not doing that. Nope.

don't do that. I'm not that kind of massage therapist. But ladies and gentlemen what I have seen are some of my clients that are middle-aged and can't get the weight off. Men and women both. That finally was like and they would tell me y'all here's the thing. They say I would say I was seeing a client for a year two years three years whatever monthly working on their body once a month.

all of sudden you know I notice and they tell me I work out I do this I try to eat right I don't know what to do and for me I don't again I'm not I'm not a doctor I'm not gonna diagnose them or tell them what to do now now I'm a health coach I might make some added suggestions when asked

know what should I do because now I'm a health coach certified so yes I could say in my health coaching certification class by Trinity School of Natural Health you know this is what we were taught as far as like it could be a resource for you or help you set a goal help you set a goal right and go okay maybe maybe maybe have you looked into this I don't say maybe try this I say have you looked into this

and the client might say yes or no. But anyway, after one, two, three, five years of my middle-aged clients not being able to lose any weight and suffering with like high blood pressure, know, higher cholesterol, what I've seen y'all recently is a whole bunches, a handful of them. I'm going to say seven to ten cases, okay, case studies. And again, this is just recently.

I've noticed the client come in for their massage therapy session and they've lost weight. Like I can tell. And here's the thing. Yes, they've lost muscle mass, but some of them were healthy enough because they were already doing the things that they were supposed to be doing in general and they were like, okay, I've lost weight.

But, and their body was pliable, when you use the word pliable enough, like a a shaman, like a two-ply toilet paper, okay? I'm gonna make y'all laugh too, so make sure you subscribe. But listen, most most bodies, if people have been exercising and not being able to lose weight, and then they go on the GLP injections, in my opinion as a body worker,

I think that it's probably okay in the short term, again, allegedly, because I've seen the results of several people that have been with me a while that I can track, okay, that I can visually track their fascia, their body, their skin, the palpability of their connective tissue, and I'm like, well, good, it's working for them.

So they're not looking like these photos that we see in the mainstream of people like, and I love you, Sharon Osbourne. Okay, I'm not saying anything bad about Sharon Osbourne because of, which is Ozzy Osbourne's wife, because right now, I'm gonna tell you right now, when I die, I'm going over to Ozzy Osbourne land. I love him and I miss his music live because he could sing y'all. Have y'all seen on Paramount Plus? Have y'all seen?

Ozzie tribute that Sharon produced his wife Sharon Osborne and his kids Kelly and I forget the dude's name sorry it'll come to me later but y'all Ozzie Osborne's family produced a documentary that dropped on Paramount Plus just a few months back maybe a year ago give or take I can't remember dates are fuzzy with me but my husband even cried y'all listen we bowed our eyes out

Ozzy was such a cool human being. He was not the psychopath that people think he was. Now he did say, and I'm going to paraphrase for a minute, Ozzy did say in his documentary, because she filmed him the last couple of years of his life, the last few years of his life, after he knew he was, you know, he's like, I don't have a lot of time. I believe it was Parkinson's. He had broken his neck in an accident initially.

that he just went downhill after that but some of the things that he was going on you know the way he had treated his body as a rock and roll star in the documentary in his younger years he was you know he admitted that he had been road hard and put up with it and he did it to himself so Ozzy was really really honest about the fact that he was a party animal but he wasn't that

y'all that that wasn't theatrical too. I don't know. I need to research the fact the facts of whether or not that was a real bat that he bit the head off of. Some say yes, some say no. I don't know. I was in my late teens early 20s but I still have Ozzie's t-shirts. I got a picture. I got a hand. I was gifted this year. Then I'll wrap up soon y'all. So I hope you're enjoying. Hold please. Coffee. Tina. If you're listening.

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You know, people just throw that shit away. But anyway, Tina, I'm drinking out of my...

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love you. Anyway, back to what was I saying? about Ozzy. Y'all, this year for Christmas, I was gifted a signed copy hand drawn 8.5 by 11 picture of Ozzy Osbourne by a local artist here in Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, and it was the best gift I had ever received in my entire life. Ever. So, so you know who she is. I'll dedicate

another podcast to her. As a matter of fact, as I wrap up this this morning with you all, because I do have to go to work. Guys listen, not only am I going to tell you all stuff about my history and my life as a massage therapist and bring to you my experiences as a woman and what I saw going on on the backside of the healthcare system, I'm not trying to throw anybody under the bus because I know what it feels like to be thrown under the bus and so I will always bring you

these podcasts and these videos from a loving heart. Like I promise you, like Ozzy, I will admit when I screwed up, okay, I will admit that I have not done everything right. Y'all, I have messed up a lot of times in my life, but I'm doing this podcast, you all, because I want you to realize, like, we're gonna have to start owning up to our decisions. Own your shit, okay?

By doing so, you might just find that your body and your mind and your spiritual health, the wellness side of who you are, might even start to come into alignment because you start to speak your truth when you say to people nicely. When you say to people nicely, listen, I hear what you're saying, but I don't agree with that. And y'all, that's the reason I walked out of the healthcare industry was because I didn't agree with the data.

the talking points. And now here I am ten years into the future, well like 16 years into the future, and there was a lot of in between and going from a corporate, high octane woman, which is a book y'all. I forget who the author is so forgive me, but we'll talk about books later. But there's a book out there, there it is on my shelf, Dr. Sherry Borg Carton.

C-A-R-T-E-R like the ex-president Jimmy. There's a book y'all that I read when I left the health insurance industry and I was a high high output person. I always had been. I always will be. I'm Scorpio. Can't help it. But I read this book and most of this book called HOT.

And the whole concept of this book said there are women in executive positions that are just high output and they deal with it. They deal with the corporate model. They deal with raising the family. They deal with washing the dishes. They deal with doing the laundry and doing the shopping and counting the money and building social networks.

and going out and doing sales and networking. There are women.

who are in corporate companies that don't like what they see going on around them and they get just high enough y'all up the corporate ladder to where they're willing to play the game because just like I was making six figures right at it and between 80 and 90 depending on the bonuses you know I was up there and again this is

13 years ago. you know, now it would be more like, you know, $120,000 a year. I wouldn't do that job in the healthcare industry as an agent for less than $120 a year as an account executive. Okay, running $3- $4 million books of business. Now I'm sure it's more because again, you got to scale the cost of healthcare 10 years into the flying future guys. Come on. But I was a high octane woman. And what I did y'all is I took

energy, that passion, that Kundalini to see people find resources and have access to good quality health care because I knew the system was tanking and I poured that much energy into my own little massage therapy practice business called the Reiki Station.

up my own business on chicken scratch seriously like I had I I took my savings I went to massage therapy school I networked I asked the hard questions of people why are you stressed why do you have anxiety why does your body hurt why why are you is this why why why why I'm the why girl now you can hashtag me why girl why why girl why hashtag why girl why

And I read that book and I said that to me I'm a high octane woman and I can do some stuff. Okay so if you are interested in learning about holistic health care coaching if you're willing to talk to your doctor about making health care change okay then I'm probably the person you should coach with at least once.

Because guys, in my own personal opinion, the healthcare system's gotten so muddied, it's not really the doctor's fault that they can't keep up with how many things you have going on with your autoimmune or whatever. Again, allegedly. Okay. But if you start working with health coaches and people in the wellness industry, massage therapists, you you start doing yoga, getting reiki, making dietary changes, that's the next cert y'all I want to go after.

certified nutritionist. Maybe. But y'all, ask the questions. Get a health coach. Talk to your doctor, your healthcare provider, your spiritual practitioner, your priest, your priestess, and ask them, do you see any value in hiring a health coach right now? Because if so, this is my call to action to you to come talk to me. Okay.

I will help you identify why why why can I not afford my medicine anymore well maybe there's a program out there that can help you okay why why am I fighting with my mom well there's a program out there that could help you let me help you find it why am I gaining weight why am I losing weight why is my muscle mass dying well being a certified fitness instructor and a yoga teacher you know you got a you got a stretch why

Why girl why? That's the question. So hit me up schedule an appointment online www.thereikistation.coach. You can also find me on social media under the hashtag wildkingdomwellness. I am Holly King. Again it is Friday January the 9th.

2026. This is episode one of my Wild Kingdom Wellness Podcast. Have an amazing, beautiful day. We'll see you soon. Bye.