1 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,520 Welcome to Peptides for Women. I'm Jennifer Woodward, and this 2 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:12,280 is your podcast for smart, honest conversations about 3 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:14,600 peptide therapy and midlife Wellness. 4 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:19,160 We cover everything from GLP ones to BPC 157, plus the 5 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:23,240 foundations that still matter, sunlight steps, strength 6 00:00:23,240 --> 00:00:26,280 training, protein and minerals. So if you're ready to feel 7 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:30,160 better with science, back tools, and natural habits that actually 8 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:32,880 work, you're in the right place. Let's dive in. 9 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:38,160 Welcome back to the Peptides for Women podcast. 10 00:00:38,160 --> 00:00:42,520 I'm Jennifer Woodward, and I'm very excited to welcome Aaron 11 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:46,120 Goodman to the show today. Aaron's got a great story. 12 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:49,160 She has been in fitness for a really long time. 13 00:00:49,160 --> 00:00:53,320 She's a master trainer with Beach Body Live with the company 14 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:56,920 for 14 years and a trainer for 23 years. 15 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:01,280 And this past January, in 2025, she just felt stuck. 16 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:07,480 She started microdosing to her Zapatite and lost 25 lbs and 10% 17 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:09,360 body fat. But here's the catch ladies. 18 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:14,100 She kept her muscle up because she's teaching people the non 19 00:01:14,100 --> 00:01:17,640 negotiables and she definitely leans into the support and the 20 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:21,080 accountability factor as a fitness and nutrition coach. 21 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:25,200 So I can't wait for her to share her story because it does answer 22 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:26,920 some of those questions for people. 23 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:29,520 Why am I not losing weight? Maybe it's because you're not 24 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:34,360 optimized and, you know, can I preserve muscle while I'm losing 25 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,040 body fat? And Aaron is the answer that 26 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:40,640 says absolutely, you can. And today she's going to tell us 27 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:41,600 how. So, Aaron. 28 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:43,680 Oh, welcome to the show. Thanks for coming on. 29 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:45,880 Well, thank you so much for having me. 30 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:48,520 I'm super excited. I love your podcast. 31 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:52,080 I share it often with my community, with my newsletter 32 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:54,760 because I believe that people educate themselves. 33 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,880 They especially with GLP ones, I feel like there's so much fear 34 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:01,000 mongering and skepticalism around them that I feel like you 35 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:02,480 have to make your own informed decision. 36 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:04,280 So thank you for having. Beautiful. 37 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:07,680 Yes, thank you. Thanks for listening and sharing 38 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:09,639 the podcast. You guys can't see me out there, 39 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:11,920 but I'm just smiling so big. It makes my whole day. 40 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:15,800 So Aaron, you've been in the industry for decades. 41 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,120 You're 43 years old yourself. What got you into this industry 42 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:21,960 to start? What were you like as a child? 43 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:26,400 OK, so as a child, I was I, I actually grew up in particular. 44 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,440 And I resonate with you a lot too, because I've seen you share 45 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:31,560 some of the stuff. I feel like my mother did every 46 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:34,120 diet known to man, like every diet. 47 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:36,920 And I was like always. I was like the chubbier kid when 48 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:39,120 I was younger. So I was on the cabbage soup 49 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,480 diet. I was on the Atkins diet, the 50 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,560 grapefruit diet. I was always that person. 51 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:48,360 I felt like that was on a diet like literally go out to eat. 52 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:51,520 What's Erin's going to look at the menu for an hour before we 53 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:52,760 go. She's going to find what she 54 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:56,560 needs or I can't go have ice cream because I'm on a diet, you 55 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,200 know, just that type of thing. It always felt like that. 56 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:05,560 So I basically got into working out as a way to lose weight when 57 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:07,840 I was younger. And I always share the story 58 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:10,440 with people. Like I let it become too much of 59 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:14,680 A obsession. So I got really too, really too, 60 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,480 too thin when I was about 17 years old. 61 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:21,240 Just kind of let the, you know, restricting a food over 62 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:25,160 exercising get to me. And it wasn't until I hired a 63 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:28,840 trainer myself at 17 years old because I knew like I, I did, I 64 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:31,880 lost my menstrual cycle for two years because I was way too 65 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:34,680 thin. And I hired a trainer and she 66 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:39,960 just taught me how to actually eat, how to lift correctly, and 67 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:43,560 just showed me all the things to be strong and healthy. 68 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:47,920 And I think that's really what kind of set me into wanting to 69 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:51,840 help people in as a trainer and as a personal trainer, as a 70 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,880 master trainer with Beach Body. So I got into the fitness space 71 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:59,560 when I was 17 years old. I worked out at a local YMCA. 72 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,720 I was there all the time and they asked me if I wanted to 73 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:05,080 start teaching spin classes. So I thought that was like the 74 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:09,000 perfect route to get into, you know, the group fitness aspect 75 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,440 and the whole fitness space. So I started doing that, started 76 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,520 training clients like on the sly, wasn't even a personal 77 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:18,279 trainer yet and was just, you know, have people handing me 78 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:20,839 money and I would, I remember stuffing it down in my sock and 79 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:23,240 I would just train people in the gym, right? 80 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,320 But I, I think that really helped me to know that it was 81 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:30,440 something I wanted to do. So I, you know, I just kind of 82 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,240 got my certification through ace and alpha. 83 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:37,000 I was both certified through DID personal training and then I 84 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:41,120 decided to become a beach body live master trainer, work with 85 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:45,400 Shanti for years with our Insanity live program. 86 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:51,000 And with that I would go to local like gyms or I had like a 87 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,320 certain geographic area that I would cover and I would run 8 88 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:56,400 hour certifications to train the trainers. 89 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:02,360 So I did that, fell in love with the group fitness world and you 90 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:06,600 know, I started online training clients and just in person 91 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:10,520 training clients. I developed a macro course for 92 00:05:10,840 --> 00:05:14,720 clients and just really fell in love with the community aspect, 93 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,880 the one-on-one training. And I mean, a lot of times it 94 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:20,640 was just helping women because I feel like a lot of times women, 95 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:22,600 especially now, I still see it in the gym. 96 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:25,840 They need that guidance specifically because I feel like 97 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:28,280 there's all this around them, like don't lift heavy, lift 98 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:30,120 heavy, don't eat this, don't eat that. 99 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:32,680 So I just kind of really felt in that space. 100 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:34,520 Amazing. I love that journey. 101 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:36,280 I kind of want to go back to Shanti. 102 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:39,760 I mean hip hop really. Like I was obsessed for a while. 103 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:43,320 Tell me about that a little bit. Tell me about body in person. 104 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,400 Yeah. So with Beachbody, we would, 105 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:50,800 like I said, train the trainers. And I remember when I first 106 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,640 auditioned to be a beach body live master trainer, it was like 107 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:56,480 a cutthroat thing. Like they, they tore you down to 108 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:57,960 build you up type of thing, right? 109 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:01,520 Like, and I remember him saying this and I always LED with this 110 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:05,440 when I taught my classes is that if you're the instructor, you 111 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:08,000 should be able to walk into a room full of people and they 112 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,760 should automatically be able to know you're the instructor 113 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:11,360 without knowing you're the instructor. 114 00:06:11,840 --> 00:06:14,800 And that always stuck with me. And I think that's where like 115 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,960 the community support and the accountability factor was 116 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:22,760 because I loved going into a room and teaching for I mean, I 117 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:25,120 taught for five people. I've taught for 500 people, 118 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,600 right? And I love that aspect of just 119 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:31,680 that, like surrounded by that good energy and that community. 120 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:34,600 And I feel like if anybody knows Shanti and his workouts, you 121 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,600 could be in your living room with him on the TV and you feel 122 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,320 that, you know, so that was a big part of my journey. 123 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:45,040 God, right before my 9, before he was born, and I just felt 124 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:49,240 like that led me down a path of just just different aspects of 125 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:51,600 the fitness world too. It was, it was awesome. 126 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:53,920 I am forever grateful for that opportunity. 127 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:56,360 That is just the coolest. I love it. 128 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:57,120 What? Yeah. 129 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:00,880 What a what a fun kind of differentiating factor for the 130 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:03,120 trajectory of your career. Yeah. 131 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:04,880 It was awesome. Yeah. 132 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:07,720 Were you ever nervous teaching in front of, like, you know, 100 133 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:09,920 to 500 people? Not really. 134 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:13,360 I I would rather be nervous walking in front of people then 135 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:15,560 actually going up there and doing tuck jumps and you know 136 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:17,000 what I'm saying? And being on a microphone. 137 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,080 It was just a weird dynamic, but something about the music, about 138 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:24,120 the energy of the room, like just lit me up like nothing. 139 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:25,480 So fun. Yeah. 140 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:29,960 Early 2000s with Body Pump and Body Combat in my local all 141 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:33,280 women's gym, Total women. It was just like it was 142 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:35,200 everything. It's I would bring all of my 143 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,000 babies into the gym. I would nurse my child, 144 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,400 whichever one I was nursing at the time. 145 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:41,640 There's four of them. And then I would leave them 146 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:44,520 there for an hour, go to body combat, come back, nurse again, 147 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:47,120 maybe eat like a snack or something, go back for a body 148 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:48,560 pump. I was like, this is the best 149 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:50,240 thing ever. I'm a great mom the rest of the 150 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:52,560 day because I've gotten all the labels out and I feel like my 151 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:54,520 workout's done. They're happy because they're 152 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:56,800 playing with other kids. Great time in life. 153 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:00,360 And you surround yourself with that community of people and you 154 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:02,360 know what I'm saying? And like, something about that 155 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:04,560 was just, you know, the people that show up to the class was 156 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:06,680 just, it's unmatched, I always say. 157 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,400 Totally. Do you feel like your time in 158 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,640 Group fitness affects your choice of music now? 159 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:18,240 Oh, 100 percent, 100% So I am, I actually right now do a lot of 160 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:22,120 the Peloton workouts on like the Peloton treadmill or I do fall 161 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,800 like a lifting program. But anytime I am doing a workout 162 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,880 to music it has to be all about the music 100%. 163 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:31,920 Like I look at playlists before I even do the workout. 164 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,760 Does like. What are some of the songs on 165 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:37,640 your current playlist right now for working out? 166 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:41,600 Oh. My God, I am a big rock fan, so 167 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:46,480 I love anything by like The Killers, 3 Doors Down. 168 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:50,360 I'm just a big 80, like 80 or 90's rock, like Def Leppard, 169 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,960 like Guns and Roses, like anything like that. 170 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:55,840 And I love, I like a lot of EDM tracks too, because I feel like 171 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:58,200 there's a lot of different remixes and stuff and I used to 172 00:08:58,200 --> 00:08:59,680 use a ton of those at my classes. 173 00:08:59,920 --> 00:09:02,520 Yeah, I'm pretty much obsessed with EDM. 174 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:06,480 So fun and great to workout too. Yep, it's funny you say that too 175 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:09,440 because my youngest is 14 years old and he's trying to impress 176 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:11,640 me with his music choices sometimes because we're like a 177 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:15,240 big music family. So he put on Blink 182's damn it 178 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,040 yesterday in the car and he just started like rocking out and he 179 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:20,200 just side eyed me. He's like, I've never seen you 180 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:22,560 react this way before to any of my songs. 181 00:09:22,560 --> 00:09:27,360 I was like, bro, that's my song. Music will motivate you in a 182 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:29,160 different way. 100% believe that. 183 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:32,400 Yeah, I think that's part of the catharsis of exercise for me for 184 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:33,320 sure. Yeah. 185 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:35,800 Yeah, me too. The music that goes along with 186 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,280 it. So you basically, I mean, you 187 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:42,200 grew up in this space, right? 23 years starting at the age of 188 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,280 17. So walk me through a little bit 189 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:47,480 of your personal journey. Obviously you had a child in 190 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:52,080 there like around 10 years ago. So that changes things to where 191 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:54,960 did you get to the point and how did you get to the point where 192 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:57,360 you thought, OK, there needs to be a different tool because 193 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:01,080 things are starting to change. Yeah, so my son's nine years 194 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:02,680 old. I went through a divorce when he 195 00:10:02,680 --> 00:10:08,160 was about 6 months and at that point I utilized workouts for 196 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:10,880 more of the mental aspect. Like it wasn't about the outside 197 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:12,800 aesthetic periods. It was about like mentally 198 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,280 getting through that. I always worked out. 199 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:18,240 Like I did all of the beach body workouts for years, all of 200 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:21,280 Shanti's programs. Right now, I coach my clients 201 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:23,160 through the Faster Way workouts, right? 202 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:24,760 I haven't. I have an app and I trade my 203 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:27,760 clients. So I always was a person who was 204 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:30,560 showing up on social media, working out, doing all the 205 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:34,920 things, talking about macros. So the the switch that hit was 206 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:40,120 in January of this past year, I found myself up 13 lbs and I had 207 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:42,800 no idea why. Like I could see if I was eating 208 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:45,000 bad or I could see if I wasn't moving. 209 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:48,200 And I was just to the point where like my rings were tight 210 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:51,760 on my fingers, my jeans were tight and anybody to look at me 211 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:53,280 would have been like, you look great. 212 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:56,760 You know, I'm tall, so I carry my weight well, but I knew I was 213 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,880 just like I always said, like my fighting weight, like I just, it 214 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:04,160 was like 13 lbs over that. So I happened to see a friend on 215 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:09,040 Instagram, my friend Danny, and I was just like interested in 216 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:11,400 the GOP ones, kind of like looking at him. 217 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:15,120 And she shared her story with me and I was a huge skeptic. 218 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,720 I was like, as a person in the fitness industry, this is an 219 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:21,680 easy way out. Like 100% like I am not going to 220 00:11:21,680 --> 00:11:25,080 do what it's eat right, track your steps, do your macros, all 221 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:28,760 those things. And it wasn't till I started 222 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:32,240 basically going down a rabbit hole now of educating myself and 223 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:35,320 I was like, you know what? I have to stop being a skeptic 224 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:39,000 and just do my own education. Well, that led to podcast after 225 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,400 podcast and YouTube video after YouTube video. 226 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:44,600 And I was like, I came to the conclusion where I was like, you 227 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,160 know what, I have to just try it for three months. 228 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:50,280 I was at that point where I just did not feel good on my own 229 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:53,400 skin, right? And then scale was going up 3 230 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:57,080 lbs down, one up to down. And it just was like this 231 00:11:57,080 --> 00:11:59,680 constant yo-yo. And I actually think I was at 232 00:11:59,680 --> 00:12:02,600 the point where I was like over depriving myself, like, you know 233 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:04,440 what I mean? Like I was just like stuck in 234 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:07,640 this hamster wheel. So I started researching, 235 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:11,120 decided to do a low dose of tirzepatide, a micro dose. 236 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:14,960 And within two weeks I think I lost like 6 or 7 lbs. 237 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:17,960 But I felt like just the puffiness and the inflammation 238 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:20,680 like melted off. And I was like, I gotta start 239 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:23,360 talking about this to people, you know, because I feel like I 240 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:27,960 help so many people in that space that are doing the same 241 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,120 exact thing. And I feel like that's kind of, 242 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,880 I'm not really, I'm not like any of my social media stuff is not 243 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:36,920 really towards women who need to lose 5100 lbs. 244 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:39,880 It's like the women who are like Aaron, I'm dialed in my 245 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:44,280 nutrition, I'm getting my steps in, I'm working out and 246 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:48,720 nothing's happening. So I, I always like to tell 247 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:50,560 myself like, I got to be a product, the product first. 248 00:12:50,560 --> 00:12:53,760 So I was like, how am I gonna talk to people about this if I 249 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:57,320 don't have my own journey, my own story and my own experience? 250 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:01,000 So I looked at it from that and haven't looked back since then. 251 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:02,840 Amazing. I think your story is very 252 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:05,560 similar, I think, to a lot of people in the health and fitness 253 00:13:05,560 --> 00:13:09,480 space who kind of feel a little bit taken aback when they 254 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:12,440 realize that all these things that they've done for 1020 years 255 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:14,280 that I've always worked just stop working. 256 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:17,440 Like you said, it's not like you were sitting on the couch eating 257 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:19,480 cheese puffs, right? And watching TV and like 258 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:22,600 drinking wine every night. And I think so many women 259 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:27,160 coaches, medical professionals or lay people are in that boat. 260 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:29,840 But they, they've been, you know, sold this false bill of 261 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:32,160 goods where people are like peptides cheating. 262 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:36,000 But what you realize, you realize, you know, the thing 263 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:39,560 that really sets people apart in using peptides is whether or not 264 00:13:39,560 --> 00:13:43,160 their foundations are met. If those foundations are dialed 265 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:47,040 in, gosh, that peptide response is so much more enhanced. 266 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:49,840 So tell me some of the things because you said within, you 267 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:51,520 know, two weeks you're down 7 lbs. 268 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:54,120 That's, that's incredible. Did you change anything else at 269 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:56,880 that time or did you just keep doing what you were doing? 270 00:13:57,040 --> 00:13:59,200 All right, so tell us what those things are. 271 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:03,640 So I kept doing everything that I was doing and I, like I said 272 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:07,200 before, I manage a busy coffee shop for my day job. 273 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:10,960 I literally probably come home with 20,000 steps every day just 274 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:12,840 from being at the coffee shop, right? 275 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:17,160 And I intentionally would string train maybe four to five days a 276 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:20,960 week, maybe do one hit workout. And then I love to walk. 277 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:24,120 Like that is my mental place. Like right now where I live 278 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:26,120 right now, you can't really walk outside because it's snowing, 279 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:29,400 but I have a treadmill. I would walk for 30 minutes 280 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:32,040 every single day. All the things I was already 281 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:35,480 doing, trying, making sure I was pretty much aiming for at least 282 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:39,120 1g per pound of protein, which I, you know, teach to my clients 283 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:41,320 anyways. I was always tracking calories 284 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:44,760 and protein and doing nothing different. 285 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:49,120 And just layering in this tool was like the little push that I 286 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:50,960 needed. And I think honestly would help 287 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:54,200 me shift like from the skepticalism too was like 288 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,440 realizing that these aren't drugs. 289 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:00,040 So many people I think associate them with the big pharma 290 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:03,160 versions and realize and that it's a peptide that we already 291 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:07,200 make in our body. Like that changed my mental 292 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:09,800 aspect of it too. But I did nothing different in 293 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:12,400 those two weeks. Yeah, yeah, it's very comforting 294 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:14,640 when you understand the Physiology of what a peptide 295 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:17,320 does in humans, for sure. Yeah. 296 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:21,760 So I let's go back to the protein aspect because you were 297 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,840 on a microdose, so that's probably where a lot of your 298 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:26,880 clients would start to, I would assume. 299 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:30,400 One of the things I do hear from my women and sometimes my men 300 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,120 is, you know, I've, I know I need to eat a lot of protein. 301 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,000 I like to eat a lot of protein, but I just don't feel like 302 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,040 eating as much protein now that I'm on a micro dose and I find 303 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:41,840 it hard to get it in. So what are some of your best 304 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:43,640 tips for people struggling with that? 305 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:47,680 Yeah, so I always say let's start like start at the 306 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:49,480 baseline. So I have a lot of clients like 307 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:52,360 in my in my groups, in my community, we'll do like 100 308 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:55,160 grams a day protein challenge, right, Just to get people 309 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:57,720 started. Because I feel like if someone's 310 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:00,720 tracking their protein and they're at 50 grams of protein a 311 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:04,760 day, it's not really going to be feasible, say, to go up to 150 312 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:06,520 overnight. So let's have like little 313 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:08,360 stepping stones to get there, right? 314 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:12,040 So if you're at 50 grams of protein start, go to 75 for a 315 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:15,720 week, then try to get to 100. But I really think, I mean, as a 316 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:19,320 macro coach, I think it's important to at least know what 317 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:23,120 your current intake is like. People are always so like put 318 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:24,720 off, but I'm not tracking anything. 319 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:26,600 OK, I don't want you to track everything because I used to 320 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:29,520 track every little thing and now I just look at my protein, 321 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:31,920 right? And I feel like get yourself a 322 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:36,000 food scale on Amazon, at least track the protein grams because 323 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,760 a lot of times people think they're eating enough protein 324 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:42,280 and they're not even close. So I always like to use that 325 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:45,800 guide with people. And for me, I always start every 326 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:49,200 single day, my first meal with anywhere from 40 to 50 grams 327 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:51,840 protein. And I think that sets me up. 328 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,280 And I try to make sure my last meals around the same so that 329 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:58,720 now I'm not coming at dinner being like I have to get 100 330 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:02,080 grams of protein and at one meal, you know, and I feel like 331 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,160 it can be different. Like it doesn't have to be like 332 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:07,359 breakfast foods, doesn't have to be oatmeal. 333 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:10,000 It doesn't have to be toast and cereal, which are no protein. 334 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,000 Like I'm a big component of taking some leftover chicken 335 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,680 thighs that I made at night or some meat, throwing it with a 336 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:17,960 couple eggs. So I feel like you just have to 337 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:21,680 change that, that like what you really think would be like a 338 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:25,960 breakfast meal or a meal and just really try to incorporate 339 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:28,960 different proteins and try. I think my key is really trying 340 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:31,920 to get people the least front load their protein in the 341 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:33,200 morning. I think that's key. 342 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:35,920 I really like that and that's funny because I have the same 343 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:37,560 issue. I think the thing that I get the 344 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:40,960 most pushback from on my clients is trying to get them to eat 345 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:44,560 something besides breakfast food like oatmeal or chia seed 346 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:46,920 pudding or a smoothie. This morning for breakfast, I 347 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:50,280 had ground Turkey, rice and shredded carrots with like a 348 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:53,160 homemade peanut sauce. It was, I felt great afterwards. 349 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:55,800 It was delicious. It felt like breakfast, but you 350 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:59,760 know, switching from maybe more traditional breakfast foods like 351 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:03,720 those carb heavy crisp foods or no breakfast at all to, you 352 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,160 know, being a little bit more open minded with your protein 353 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:09,280 sources I think can be a really good benefit for people who are 354 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:10,960 starting their their peptide journey. 355 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:13,040 Yeah, yeah, IA 100% believe that. 356 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:15,760 And I think you just have to change like what you've always 357 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:18,040 known to try something different. 358 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:20,080 And I, I'm a big component of that too. 359 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:23,320 And I always tell people to at least kind of least track your 360 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:25,720 protein so you have an idea of where you're going. 361 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:28,680 Because you won't know you know what I'm saying, if you don't 362 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:30,240 start tracking it and have an idea. 363 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,960 For someone who's never tracked their protein or macros before, 364 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:38,560 where would you start? Guy I always tell people to I 365 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:42,120 mean download any app that you like one of my favorite ones is 366 00:18:42,120 --> 00:18:45,400 the lose it app it's free or my fitness pal is always a big one. 367 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:49,520 And I would say at least start tracking your protein. 368 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:53,080 So get a cheap food scale at least weigh out what your 4 369 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:56,520 ounces of chicken is, you know what your your meat is or 370 00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:58,960 anything like that. I just really try to have people 371 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:01,160 just track the protein just because I think everything else 372 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:03,360 can kind of, I mean, it's kind of like a swing. 373 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:05,800 Like some days your cars might be higher, some days your fats 374 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,840 might be higher. But I feel like take the average 375 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:11,640 of your five days. I always say like Monday through 376 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:13,480 Friday because I feel like Saturdays and Sundays are a 377 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:16,040 little different for people and look at the average. 378 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:20,200 So if you're averaging 75 grams of protein every day, let's at 379 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:24,280 least try to get to 100, right? And then my ultimate goal is 380 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:26,680 let's try to maybe get to 110 the following week. 381 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:30,560 And my ultimate goal is always 1g per pound of lean body or 382 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:33,280 your goal weight, right? And that seems to be like the 383 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:36,000 sweet spot for a lot of people. And I'm type, I could eat 384 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,360 probably 200 grams protein a day now because I always, you know 385 00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:41,720 what I'm saying? That's like what I crave now I 386 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:43,400 feel like. So I feel like just getting 387 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,400 people that on ramp system helps a lot. 388 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:47,880 What are your top three foods for protein? 389 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:51,040 I love boneless skinless chicken thighs. 390 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:55,160 I love chicken but I feel like for years I just was always 391 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,640 eating like plain chicken. Like so I'm just like over 392 00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:59,720 chicken. I just love boneless skinless 393 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:00,600 thighs. I love. 394 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:05,520 Love eggs, 100% fresh eggs. And then I love just like grass 395 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:08,400 fed ground beef. I feel like that's so easy to 396 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,280 make like a Taco bowl or some sort of bowl. 397 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:14,160 And that's my eating style. Like, give me a bowl, give me 398 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:17,400 some protein, maybe some sweet potatoes, some pickled onions, 399 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,440 some avocado. Like just throwing it all in 400 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,520 there with like some good hot sauce and I'm I'm golden. 401 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:25,480 Easy. I love it. 402 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:27,760 I did a reel this week where I was trying to explain to you 403 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,360 like how you can pull down some of the other expenses in your 404 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:33,200 life to, you know, pay for your peptides because yeah, it can be 405 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:35,280 a little bit expensive. But I was doing some of the 406 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:36,800 math. I'm like, if you sit in the 407 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:40,720 drive through line for just 10 minutes a day as opposed to meal 408 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,520 prepping for 60 minutes and literally that's what it takes 409 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:45,160 me. I DoorDash my grocery, so it 410 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,840 doesn't take me any longer. I just have to put them away. 411 00:20:48,120 --> 00:20:50,240 And then spending an hour on Saturday or Sunday meal 412 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:53,120 prepping, particularly protein and even like taking time to 413 00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:55,920 portion it out has saved me and my kids. 414 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:57,920 Really it saved my kids too, because they're all athletes. 415 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,600 So much time and so much effort, so much money. 416 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:04,720 Every time I'm like, why are you going to Taco Bell to my 16 year 417 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:06,320 old? I'm like, that's $10 at Taco 418 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:08,000 Bell of like the world's tittiest food. 419 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:09,000 Yeah, I. Know just. 420 00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:11,960 Eat what we have here. And I always, like you said, I 421 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:15,320 bulk prep like 2 proteins on Saturday or Sunday and then I 422 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:18,400 just build meals throughout the week with that, you know what I 423 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:19,640 mean? And I feel like that sets me 424 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:23,480 especially I work 10 hour days. So I need something that is like 425 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:25,760 quick and easy. I can throw in a throw in a 426 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:28,360 bowl, you know what I mean? And have a meal prep like some 427 00:21:28,360 --> 00:21:31,400 sweet potatoes. And I feel like that just helps 428 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,400 me. I feel like if you're prepared, 429 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:34,560 that's half the battle. A. 430 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:35,600 Lot. Absolutely. 431 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,840 Absolutely. I'm a big fan of planned daily 432 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:41,720 treats in my practice, like something fun just to have 433 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,160 people to look forward to. But this takes on a whole new 434 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,000 meaning when you own a chain of coffee shops. 435 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:52,120 Yeah, tell me, what is your indulgence or go to at work? 436 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,040 Oh God, at work we have everything. 437 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:56,560 Like literally, we have the most delicious cinnamon rolls, 438 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:59,400 scones, everything. But I love that you said that 439 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:04,280 because I'm a big person on you can't deprive yourself too much 440 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:06,760 because I feel like once you start saying I can't have 441 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,120 something, you want it even more, right? 442 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:12,800 So I love, I love just these little treats we have. 443 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:14,560 They're macaron. I think they're called macarons. 444 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:15,800 Macaroons. You can get them. 445 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:17,400 They're like French little cookies. 446 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,680 And I feel like it's just enough that I look forward to that 447 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:22,880 little sweet treat. And it's just it's portioned, 448 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,000 you know what I mean? So like for me, it's that. 449 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,240 And I also love like a good piece of dark chocolate or you 450 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:31,880 know, some dark chocolate with some almond butter, stuff like 451 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:33,800 that. But I always try to teach people 452 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:35,480 too. It's like I have a nine year 453 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:36,760 old. Am I not going to want to go out 454 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:38,400 for ice cream with him in the summertime? 455 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:41,120 Like, am I not going to want to go out have pizza? 456 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:45,480 So it's not this all or nothing. And I I feel like being on the 457 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:49,480 tirzepatide for almost a year, I feel like I am the most normal 458 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,480 eater I have ever been. Same. 459 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:53,360 It's crazy. It's a gift. 460 00:22:55,120 --> 00:22:56,960 Wild. Des. 461 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:01,920 I still cannot believe that but my brain just works normally 462 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,120 around food. My body just works normally 463 00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:07,120 around food. I'm like this is how my normal 464 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:11,080 size normal brained friends feel all the time and my husband all 465 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:12,040 the time. It's just it. 466 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,960 It is mind blowing. Yep, Yep, 100%. 467 00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:19,280 So when you, when you kind of started introducing this in your 468 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:21,960 own life, you were a little hesitant about it, I think as 469 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:23,920 most of us were. But then as you started seeing 470 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:26,080 the benefits, I remember you saying, like, I, I want to start 471 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,440 talking about it. So how did you start introducing 472 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,200 the concept of peptides to your your clients? 473 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:34,640 Well, I have a good presence on social media already and I feel 474 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,440 like a lot of people follow me. A lot of I, I feel like a lot of 475 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,800 people trust me. They know what my, you know, my 476 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:43,280 opinion matters. And I honestly just put it out 477 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:45,160 there, like, look, I was a skeptic. 478 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,080 Like I had this huge, huge post, right? 479 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,000 Like I was a skeptic. I thought that was the easy way 480 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:51,760 out. I thought peptides were cheating 481 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:53,880 until I started educating myself. 482 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:57,880 And what I started doing was anybody who came to me for 483 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:01,560 information, I would be like, hey, here's a great podcast I 484 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,960 listen to that, change my trajectory. 485 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:05,880 Listen to it, give me your thoughts. 486 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:10,600 I feel like I've really LED with education more than anything and 487 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,560 having people make their own informed decision like I did. 488 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,040 And I feel like, you know, having that like know and trust 489 00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:18,800 factor already from being in the fitness space and being in the 490 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:22,680 nutrition space that people knew that I wasn't just trying to 491 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:26,120 sell them anything or trying, you know, they were like, OK, I 492 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:27,720 air in a new air. I was struggling. 493 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:29,800 I was staring at before I started the peptides. 494 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,160 Like I don't know why I'm gaining weight. 495 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:34,200 I don't know what's happening. So I just feel like having that 496 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,720 education piece was like the missing piece for a lot of 497 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:39,520 people. And I still to this day always 498 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:42,640 sharing education weekly, you know, podcast, your podcast 499 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:47,840 weekly in my newsletters and not only peptides, but like today I 500 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,160 had a newsletter that went out and it was like from the Mind 501 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,280 Pump media guys, if you follow them. 502 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:55,520 And it was like how walking is so like underrated. 503 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,760 And it was like that type of education. 504 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:01,240 Like it's not all peptides, it's nutrition, The Walking, all the 505 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,600 other supportive healthy habits that we should be doing. 506 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,560 So good not discounting those things that you would do anyway 507 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,880 if you were trying to push into your health and fitness and 508 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:13,000 Wellness and midlife. This is just the amplifier and 509 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,560 maybe make some of those things work a little bit better. 510 00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:18,440 I'm curious too, a little bit about macros because I worked 511 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,920 for the company who did macros for their clients. 512 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,720 And I just, I, I actually ended up not working for that company 513 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:27,160 anymore because I felt like I was beating my head against the 514 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,640 wall with some of these clients are like Jennifer, I upped my 515 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:33,080 protein, I lowered my fat. Like I keep losing and gaining 516 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,040 the same 2 lbs over and over again. 517 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:36,480 And I just wanted to like tear my hair out. 518 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,120 I'm like, I'm so sorry. I don't know what else to do 519 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,640 with you. It's good work, but there's this 520 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:45,440 growing swell of women that were promised, you know, results with 521 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:49,080 macros, maybe got him for a period of, but then they just 522 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,160 stopped working along with everything else. 523 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:55,760 So how excited are you to be able to like use that great tool 524 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,200 because macros are a great tool for your women. 525 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,320 But now with this extra tool, are you seeing that maybe you 526 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,240 know, they're they're working better with that macro 527 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,800 component? Yeah, and I feel like they're 528 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,360 it's working better because I feel like their their food 529 00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:12,160 noises may be gone. And I feel like a lot of times, 530 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,200 like people will say they track macros and they're doing it, but 531 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,000 like then they, I don't track those. 532 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:21,640 I call it BLT's bites, licks and tastes, which we're all guilty 533 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:22,600 of that. You know what I mean? 534 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,880 Like I have a nine year old. He I'm making peanut butter and 535 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:26,160 Jelly sandwiches. You know how many times I've 536 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:27,360 licked the spoon on the peanut butter? 537 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,960 But like you don't take into account like how many calories 538 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,840 that is or your coffee Creamer, just little things like that 539 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:36,280 that you don't take into account for. 540 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:40,240 But I, I feel like macros are good for some people and 541 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,040 probably not for a lot of people, right? 542 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:45,360 So I feel like it's a tool and I feel like anybody that comes in 543 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,600 with me now, I just focus on calories and protein. 544 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,480 Like that's much easier because you can kind of let your fats 545 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,920 and carbs kind of vary throughout the day. 546 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,880 And as long as you're in a calorie deficit, if that's your 547 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:01,600 goal and you're meeting your calorie number, then you can 548 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,560 kind of let everything else kind of sway back and forth, so to 549 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:06,080 speak. But I think that's make it made 550 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,240 it a little bit easier for people just to focus on the 551 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:09,960 calories and protein. Absolutely. 552 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:11,360 I love that. Just keeping it simple. 553 00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:14,520 It can feel very overwhelming to feel like you have to track 554 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,120 everything. And I was I was teaching this 555 00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:21,560 week and there's a study that that I read that said dieting is 556 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,240 stressful for the body will raise stress hormones like 557 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,760 cortisol. But also this study showed that 558 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:30,840 even the act of tracking your calories, your protein, your fat 559 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,240 is also enough to raise cortisol in the body. 560 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,000 And I thought, that's so interesting. 561 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:36,760 And maybe that's some of the pushback I've gotten in the 562 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,400 past, like from clients is like their nervous systems are 563 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,160 already stuck in fight or flight mode. 564 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,200 They're like, I just can't do one more thing. 565 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,040 And then I'm like, well, you know, chuckle, your fiber for me 566 00:27:46,120 --> 00:27:48,320 and your potassium. You're like, Jennifer, I hate 567 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:48,560 you. Yeah. 568 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,760 I know I feel like a lot of people come into that and 569 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,160 they're just like, I don't want to do any of that, you know what 570 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:55,640 I mean? So it's like I can start with a 571 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:57,040 baby stuff. I'm just letting me know how 572 00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:58,600 much protein you're currently getting. 573 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,120 And then we'll try to like ramp it up a little bit, like one 574 00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:04,200 step at a time. I really love that urine. 575 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,240 It's kind of freeing for women for sure. 576 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,120 I want to ask you too. So within the first couple weeks 577 00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:12,800 you were down 6 or 7 lbs, but you did end up losing more than 578 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:14,360 that. So can you walk me through kind 579 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:16,960 of the rest of your journey to where you gotten now at this 580 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,840 point? Yep so I have been micro dosing 581 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:22,680 now since April. My first injection was April 582 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,320 29th so I think this past Wednesday. 583 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:25,480 I don't know why I did a Wednesday. 584 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:26,640 I just happened to do a Wednesday. 585 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:30,960 And so it's been 45 weeks. I have one of those Hume Bodpod 586 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,680 scales. I love it. 587 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,800 I'm a data nerd. So like I love it. 588 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:42,600 So I lost, I believe I lost about 20, about 20 ish pounds by 589 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:47,080 August, mid August. And then I so the cool thing 590 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:50,120 with the Hume bodpod scale is that you hear all these horror 591 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:51,880 stories of people like, oh, you're going to lose all your 592 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:53,080 muscle mass, you're going to lose. 593 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,720 But if person A is taking tirzepatide and not doing 594 00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:00,760 nothing birthday person B like myself and who I'm talking to, 595 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,240 their strength training, they're doing all the things kind of 596 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:07,920 vastly different results, right? And my muscle mass actually went 597 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,320 up. My body fat went down about I've 598 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:13,320 been now it's down about 10% since when I started. 599 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,880 And I've started kind of playing around with other peptides right 600 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:20,400 around like mid August. But so I'm down. 601 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,920 I right now I'm kind of maintaining, I'm doing even a 602 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:26,360 lower dose of a micro dose just to maintain and I've been 603 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,960 maintaining about that 25 LB weight loss within like a 1 to 3 604 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:31,880 LB normal fluctuation. Yeah. 605 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:34,880 Also, which is a gift I feel like for some, I mean just for 606 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,720 me, knowing that in the past I've, you know, I can fluctuate 607 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,080 5 to 10 lbs any given month. Just being able to know I can 608 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:44,080 wake up in the morning, put on any of the jeans in my closet. 609 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:46,640 I know they're going to fit 1 to 3 lbs and no big deal. 610 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:48,600 Before my period. It's definitely 3 lbs. 611 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,200 Oh yeah, period. I just go right back to normal. 612 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:56,520 Like I like I said, it is mind blowing and it absolutely is 613 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,600 almost feels miraculous to me. I'm like, do people just live 614 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,480 like this all the time? Because I felt like for years I 615 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,600 was just that person that was in that constant, like, you know, 616 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:09,040 it was the food noise, it was the obsessiveness, it was the, 617 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:12,840 you know, compulsive behaviors around food and around exercise. 618 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,760 And I just feel like, I just feel like a weight's been 619 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:17,680 lifted, you know what I mean? Like. 620 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,640 So physically, literally, metaphorically, 100%. 621 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,160 I'm just looking at my Hume data here and I I, I love this too. 622 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:29,240 So my skeletal muscle mass is on the high side of standards of 623 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,080 71.8 lbs of muscle, which feels pretty good to me. 624 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:34,960 And my metabolic age. I put put this up a little bit 625 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,800 ago because I was also proud of myself. 32 years. 626 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:41,080 I feel like with muscle, muscle mass a little higher, body fat a 627 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,160 little lower, bone density a little bit stronger, it 628 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,920 definitely reverses some of those effects of aging that I 629 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,080 was experiencing. You know, as I entered into 630 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:52,400 perimenopause, a lot of my blood lab markers are also down. 631 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:56,240 Hemoglobin A1C is down, triglycerides are down, LDL is 632 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,520 down, HDL is up. So being able to track some of 633 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:02,360 those things, like with the Hume or any other, I mean any other 634 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,720 scale that does that or Embody or DEXA or whatever is very 635 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,280 motivating for people because we always say it's not just about 636 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,040 the weight and it's not, but these are easier ways to 637 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,400 understand and, and you know, really take in that it's not 638 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:17,400 just about the weight. There's deeper things happening 639 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,360 in the body. Oh yeah, 100%. 640 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:22,120 And I feel like the Hume was great too for when I started 641 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,160 doing some of the human growth releasing peptides because I 642 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,520 could see the body fat going down and the muscle going up. 643 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:30,520 Maybe the scale went up 1 or 2 lbs. 644 00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:34,240 So you know, I kind of just like brought me down back to a level 645 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:35,680 to know like OK, that's what I want. 646 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,440 If the scale goes up and the body fat went down, I'm still 647 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,920 building, the skeletal muscle went up and I'm still on the 648 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,080 right track. And I always plug in all my data 649 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:47,200 every week into ChatGPT because I have a thread going and I 650 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,520 just, yeah, I say like, give me a rundown. 651 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,080 And I'm going to be working on like a body recomp kind of 652 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:53,760 thing. So I'm trying to play around 653 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:57,920 with that to give me give the trainer chat PPT is going to 654 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,520 give me my own, you know, guide to recomposition. 655 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,800 But I think it's just cool knowing those data points and 656 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:05,920 just kind of shifting your perspective around it. 657 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,920 Oh, absolutely, for sure. And there's always a next step 658 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:10,880 to get to a team, which is fun, you know? 659 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,600 So you started stacking. You didn't just stop. 660 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,400 It turns up tide. So tell me about it. 661 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:21,880 So my first peptide after Trespatide and I'm on it right 662 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:26,360 now still is, was the Tessa Moreland slash IPA Moreland. 663 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,120 I really love that one. However, I just noticed that I 664 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,360 could not take it at night. I had to take it in the morning. 665 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,440 It was, I don't know, I couldn't sleep if I was taking it at 666 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,320 night. So I actually reached out to 667 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,120 doctor Jason Peznik and he told me, he said just try it in the 668 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,800 morning and I felt a lot better in the morning taking it. 669 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,880 I did a cycle of that, cycled off of it and then I'm just a 670 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,840 big component to him. Like if I want to know about 671 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,480 these peptides, I have to be product the product. 672 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,440 I have to be able to take them and talk about them. 673 00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:01,240 And then I started doing GHK CU and I've cycled on and off of 674 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:06,200 that one since, God, maybe probably September. 675 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,360 I love that one. That's one of my favorites. 676 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,200 And then what other one did I do? 677 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:15,280 OPC 157, I've done that one for. I had like a shoulder. 678 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:19,120 It wasn't anything that showed like anything on MRI, like maybe 679 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,200 just like a ligament, something going on. 680 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:26,760 I swear to God, after 10 days of doing BPC 157, my shoulder was 681 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,960 like, I could have had so much more range of motion that I did 682 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,760 like 10 days before that. So I used that one. 683 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:36,600 And then right now my current stack is just the Tirzepatide 684 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:40,080 and the GHKCU. And then I'm still taking BPC 685 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,840 157 right now. When you were on the Tessa Eppa 686 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,240 blend, did you notice any of the water weight that a lot of women 687 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:46,920 experience? OK, tell me about that. 688 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,120 I. Noticed about a 2 LB water rate. 689 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:53,440 But when I kind of started looking into more of the Tessa 690 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,600 Eppa and knowing like look at the body fat a little bit more 691 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,840 and the skeletal muscle, I noticed that my skeletal muscle 692 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:03,880 jumped, my lean mass jumped, my body fat went down when I was 693 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,760 actually on the Tessa EPA. So I, I kind of just, you know, 694 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,239 even though I was looking at the scale number, but I think the 695 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,159 old me would have been assessed about that. 696 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,760 I knew that the body metrics, everything was going where it's 697 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,159 supposed to be going. I think it kind of subsided 698 00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:19,080 after about a month of taking it. 699 00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,440 Then, you know, the water retention went down. 700 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,639 So a. Fantastic reason to track that 701 00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:27,080 is that's. What I tell people, you know, 702 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,920 you have to track so you can just not rely on the scale 703 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:31,600 because the scales and show everything you know. 704 00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:36,440 But I noticed muscles popping like I'm excited to actually try 705 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,600 the one with the KPV here coming. 706 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:40,040 I just ordered it. Yeah. 707 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,120 Did you come today? I'm excited. 708 00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:45,440 I love that too because yeah, when I did it been Tessa in the 709 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,120 past, I did have that 5 lbs of water weight. 710 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:49,960 So I ended up giving it to Bo, my husband. 711 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:51,600 It went back to summer Ellen. He loves it. 712 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,320 But I, I preferred summer Ellen. So when I saw that KPV was 713 00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,520 compounded with the Tessa, knowing the anti-inflammatory 714 00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:02,360 benefits of KPVI was like, oh, hey, heck yes. 715 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,160 Like I'm ordering this today. So I can't wait to report to 716 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,440 everybody and and let you guys know what's going on. 717 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,640 But you know, I'll be tracking on my hum pod too. 718 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,760 Oh yeah, yeah, and I think it too, it's important to like play 719 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:14,760 around like just cuz it says it's at night. 720 00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,320 If you can't, maybe try it for a week in the morning and kind of 721 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,880 find where that sweet spot is. You know what I mean to see. 722 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:23,000 But for me, just the night time dose just made me wired. 723 00:35:23,240 --> 00:35:25,080 But if I took it in the morning, I was fine. 724 00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,840 So. GHKCU, you said that it's your 725 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:29,960 favorite and you've done a couple rounds of it. 726 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,600 So what is your experience then GHKCU? 727 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:38,200 So with GHKCUI just feel like my skin looks better than ever. 728 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:42,280 Like I feel like I just wear like mascara and a tinted 729 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:43,880 moisturizer. I don't need any kind of 730 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:47,000 foundation. I feel like the elasticity of my 731 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,160 skin is great. I feel, I feel like it's very 732 00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,000 very like kind of similar to BPC too. 733 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,480 Like what I've read about GHKCU is it's very good for tissue 734 00:35:56,480 --> 00:36:01,080 regeneration, for wound healing, the anti-inflammatory benefits. 735 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:05,000 So that's one that I recommend to a lot of women and I feel 736 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,240 like as women too, like we're big on the beauty side of it and 737 00:36:08,240 --> 00:36:11,720 to be like this hair, skin, nails, collagen, that one's just 738 00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:14,080 one of my favorites. I I noticed like a glow with it 739 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,640 so to speak. Truly, truly. 740 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,080 Yes, yeah, the. Glow. 741 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,720 The glow. So when you started introducing 742 00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:26,520 peptides to clients, what were some of the things that you 743 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:30,120 began noticing with your clientele as they, you know, 744 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:33,760 kind of ran their own journeys? Yeah, so I started noticing like 745 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,200 right off the bat, like they were sending me messages all the 746 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,920 time of, Oh my God, the scale has finally moved. 747 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:41,920 Like I think that was the biggest 1. 748 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,960 And I mean, this was a point where like they were doing all 749 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,640 the things and nothing was happening and it kind of just 750 00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,720 was that tool to get the needle moving in the right direction. 751 00:36:51,240 --> 00:36:53,680 And I feel like the micro dose is so important. 752 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,480 And that's, that's probably 98% of my clients. 753 00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,080 Because like I said, it's like the women I'm talking to are 754 00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:02,840 like 10 lbs to 20, 2020, 25 lbs is where they want to be. 755 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:07,720 And I feel like it's just enough not to crush their appetite, but 756 00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:10,960 it's just enough to get that food noise reduced, maybe to get 757 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:15,240 their cravings under control. And I, I mean, I, I always share 758 00:37:15,240 --> 00:37:17,520 screenshots of what I check in with my clients and they're just 759 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,840 like, I can't believe how good I feel, how less inflamed I feel. 760 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,320 And I think you don't know until you actually, you know what I'm 761 00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:26,360 saying, Try it. And you actually realize, like a 762 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:29,080 lot of people, like I noticed right away in my rings on my 763 00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,240 fingers when they were tight. And then like, Oh my God, you 764 00:37:32,240 --> 00:37:34,320 know what I mean? Like just little things like 765 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,480 that, You know, a big one for me too, I always share with people 766 00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:39,520 too, is like I said, I love peanut butter. 767 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,920 And I noticed one day I was like, I didn't even want any 768 00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:44,640 peanut butter. Like I didn't even want to go 769 00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:47,640 like, like, just like weird stuff like that, you know what I 770 00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:49,200 mean? But I feel like that was for a 771 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:53,440 lot of my clients was just that final, like, uh, finally 772 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,600 something is working, you know? Absolutely. 773 00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:57,520 Absolutely. Yeah. 774 00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:01,320 They're just, they're just so energized and hopeful after for 775 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:05,400 some of these women, you know, my clients, me 20 years, 30 776 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:06,920 years trying all of these things. 777 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,400 I was laughing because you brought up the cabbage soup diet 778 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,400 and I went to school, UC Davis. And I remember we in our dorms, 779 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,800 we had a communal kitchen at the end of the hall and there was 780 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,240 boys and girls in these dorms. And I remember I made myself a 781 00:38:18,240 --> 00:38:21,640 huge pot of cabbage soup and literally everyone on the floor 782 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,000 was like, what are you doing? It's. 783 00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:25,720 Yeah. Disgusting. 784 00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:27,440 Yeah. So I'm sorry I. 785 00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:30,200 Remember being in high school bringing the little grapefruit 786 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,600 juice and the grapefruit diet, like, you know what I mean? 787 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,600 While my friends were sitting here eating pizza. 788 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:37,440 It was just this, it was, you know, it was something just, I 789 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,480 always was brought up around diet culture and, you know, 790 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,800 always trying to lose weight. So it just resonates with me. 791 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,480 When I heard you say you had a a video the other day saying all 792 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,880 these different diets that you tried, I was like, Oh my God, 793 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:52,320 it's so weird. Every single one of them. 794 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,080 Thanks a lot, Mom. Yep, Yep. 795 00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,120 What's next on your wish list for peptides? 796 00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:01,240 So what do you think is going to happen the next couple months 797 00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:01,720 for you? Well. 798 00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:07,200 I'm definitely want to do the Tessa and the KPV and I'm just 799 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:11,120 really but a point now just kind of maintain and kind of feel it 800 00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,600 out and kind of cycle on and off for a few things. 801 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:17,120 I might, I might try cycling off a little bit of the micro just 802 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:19,120 just to kind of give my receptors a little bit of a 803 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:22,240 break and see how I feel. I feel like that's a big 804 00:39:22,240 --> 00:39:24,040 question. I get a lot of times is like, 805 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:25,680 oh, do I have to stay on it forever? 806 00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,360 And I'm open with people. I'm like, these peptides have 807 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,040 been around for years and they're meant to be long term. 808 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:35,360 Personally, I feel for me, if I feel as good as I do, if I go 809 00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,040 off it for a couple weeks and I, I feel as good as I do now, I 810 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:40,880 probably, this will probably be something I will invest in for 811 00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:43,200 the rest of my life because I feel so good, you know? 812 00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:47,960 And I don't know, I just feel like just helping to help women 813 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:52,200 just really be educated. Like that's a big part of who I 814 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:53,920 am. I feel like just as being a 815 00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,560 trainer and being a group fitness instructor and I feel 816 00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,840 like I'm just naturally always been some sort of a teacher to 817 00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:04,120 people in that aspect. So I feel like just helping 818 00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:07,960 people stay informed, stay educated, be advocates for 819 00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:11,200 themselves, not listen to the naysayers and all the fear 820 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,080 mongering around that. And you know, I'm just having 821 00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:18,800 fun really building that strong community of women to really 822 00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,000 kind of help educate themselves. And that's. 823 00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:23,720 Why yes, I love that you're an educator. 824 00:40:23,720 --> 00:40:26,160 We love you took our peptides for practitioners I. 825 00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:29,840 Love it. I think I finished a course in a 826 00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,160 weekend. Yes. 827 00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:36,560 Oh, you're having so much fun with that, So thank you for 828 00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:38,160 doing that. And you're right. 829 00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,960 I mean, people all get confused because there is a lot of noise 830 00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:45,640 about peptides online. Most of it's probably fairly 831 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,440 reliable, but some of it is completely unreliable. 832 00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,160 And so, you know, your clients having a source to go to and 833 00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:53,320 getting to chat with you, knowing that you've done it 834 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,880 yourself for a long time, that you are educated and getting to 835 00:40:55,880 --> 00:41:00,000 teach on it, I think provides a lot of of clarity, like kind of 836 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,920 grounding, you know, for women. I am curious, when you're 837 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,040 working in the coffee shop, are you talking about peptides with 838 00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:08,480 some of the people there? Because they have to have seen 839 00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:09,960 you and been like, Aaron, what are you doing? 840 00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:11,960 We know you do this for a living, but really, what are you 841 00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:14,320 doing? Oh yeah, no, I 100% have 842 00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,480 conversations with staff with customers. 843 00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,960 Like I pretty much in my local area. 844 00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:22,600 I've, I mean, I ran a whole gym back in my local area. 845 00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:26,040 So I have a good presence right in the community. 846 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:29,440 And a lot of people already see on my Instagram, my Facebook 847 00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:32,280 stuff, so they'll like start chatting to me about peptides 848 00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:35,160 and I'm just a social bee. So I'm like in the coffee shop, 849 00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:37,080 walking around, talking to all the customers. 850 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:39,440 And then I'll just be like, Hey, let's have our conversation. 851 00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:41,760 Message me on Facebook or here's my number, right? 852 00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:46,160 We'll, we'll connect. I'm a big person on getting 853 00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:48,480 people on phone calls. I love to talk to people. 854 00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,440 Like I literally like, let's just jump on a 15 minute call. 855 00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:56,040 Let me try to like, like, like deter you of being a skeptic and 856 00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,520 give you my journey and give you my story. 857 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:02,480 And yeah, I'm always constantly talking, talking to people in 858 00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:05,440 person online. And I feel like that that's a 859 00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,400 missing piece a lot of times for a lot of people is knowing 860 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,240 somebody who's done it and then following along on their journey 861 00:42:11,240 --> 00:42:12,520 too. It's just it's a little 862 00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:14,920 different way. Yeah, we all want human 863 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,280 connection, right? We could actually read an 864 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,000 Instagram post or a book about getting to talk to somebody 865 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,560 who's been there. I think that's why I love Amazon 866 00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:24,200 reviews. Like, I want to know exactly 867 00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:26,280 your experience with this water bottle. 868 00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:28,400 I. Hate it for everybody, for tank 869 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:29,840 tops, water bottles like you said. 870 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,240 Anything I'm always reading, I scroll through reviews first. 871 00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:34,880 I need to, it's almost like my downtime. 872 00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:37,760 It's it's ridiculous. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 873 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:40,960 But that, that human connection, especially for something as as 874 00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:45,160 relatively new for, you know, most consumers as peptides can 875 00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:48,520 be just very reassuring. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for 876 00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:49,840 sure. Yeah. 877 00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,560 And I feel like that's like where I'm leading my clients 878 00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:56,600 too, is it's just like helping them to understand and educate 879 00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,080 themselves. And I'm, I'm a big thing. 880 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,160 I think that's what happened when I was with Beachbody for 881 00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,600 years is I always had like these private support groups and 882 00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,160 accountability groups. And that's kind of what I 883 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:11,680 brought into my peptide space was like, OK, I want to check in 884 00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:13,440 on all my clients every week or two. 885 00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,280 I want to be able to, you know, text them, have conversations, 886 00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:19,720 but also have this support and accountability factor because I 887 00:43:19,720 --> 00:43:22,280 think that's a lot of times, especially with women, we're 888 00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:24,720 missing that. So if we can even be talking to 889 00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:27,440 women that are in this Facebook group that are like literally 890 00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,480 500 miles from each other, you know what I'm saying? 891 00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,480 But have that connection and have people doing the same 892 00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:36,480 similar journeys, I think that's powerful for a lot of people. 893 00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:40,240 Yeah, fully agree. Love it Aaron, this has been so 894 00:43:40,240 --> 00:43:44,360 fun getting the challenge. I just loved that we got this on 895 00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,240 this time together and I know people are going to want to know 896 00:43:47,240 --> 00:43:49,320 about you. So where can people find you? 897 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:52,680 So pretty simple on Instagram or Facebook, it's just Aaron 898 00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:57,360 Goodman on either platform. My website is work with 899 00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:01,440 resultsmatter.com. That was my, my, my business 900 00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:05,160 name was Results Matter. So work with resultsmatter.com 901 00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:08,240 or just Aaron Goodman on Facebook or Aaron Goodman on 902 00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:11,160 Instagram, Instagram and you'll see me a hot mess in the 903 00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,120 mornings, drinking my supplements and chatting to 904 00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:18,280 myself on Instagram all the time and just really having a lot of 905 00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:20,320 just one-on-one conversations with people. 906 00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:23,080 That's a big part of who I am. And what if somebody's in the 907 00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:26,200 local area and wants a really good cup of coffee in a 908 00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:28,960 macaroon? So if you're in the local area 909 00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:32,000 of Upstate New York, in Utica, Rome area, that's where I'm 910 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,400 from, we have Utica coffee roasting. 911 00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,440 We have two locations and then if you want to find us on 912 00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:41,400 Amazon, we have Wake the Hell Up, which is our our product 913 00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,360 that we actually have on Amazon right now. 914 00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:46,000 OK, Aaron, send it over to me. I'm definitely going to grab 915 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:47,840 some of that. Oh God, it's so good. 916 00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,960 We have pistachio, cannoli, all sorts of great flavors. 917 00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:52,840 Yeah, stop it right now. Oh my goodness. 918 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:54,880 OK, getting off and ordering coffee. 919 00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:59,480 All right, Aaron, thank you for your time today. 920 00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:02,720 It has been a joy. And thank you to everyone who 921 00:45:02,720 --> 00:45:05,120 listens to the Peptides for Women podcast. 922 00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:08,240 Much love to all of you. Thank you for your support and 923 00:45:08,240 --> 00:45:10,840 thank you for tuning in. We will see you next time.