What's going on? Y'all?
Robert Sykes? Keto Savage.com.
And today I've got special guest, my lovely wife and mother
to be a crystal Sykes back on the podcast.
This is not a second trimester recap.
Will. We're still going to do that.
When this is all about a 2021 recap, what we have coming 2022.
We're doing a one more limited launch of the Brick by Brick,
you know, discount because there's a little bit of wall
space. That does not yet have a name on
it. So we're going to do that.
So we go into tails on that in the podcast.
And then we talked about the baby that we're having the, the
gender, the name, the meaning behind the name.
And we talked about 20, 22 s theme the manifesto for 2022.
So super exciting to kind of like just do a high-level view
under rapid fire stuff of all that we have coming up in the
pipeline. All the things we've had just
total craziness these past few months past year.
Just kind of let y'all peek behind the curtain as to what
all is going on our life right now.
So without further Ado sit back, relax, and enjoy the June with
my lovely wife. Crystal
Boom, we are live. Y'all just missed the Chris, got
them beat box. Gonna do it again, babe.
No, I'm not. That's about what it sounded
like. Yeah.
So this is not one of our pregnancy recap videos.
We've been doing that with every trimester.
Mm. We're going to do another
podcast episode with Crystal for the second trimester.
This is not that this is a 2022, Manifesto.
This is a 2021 recap 2022 plans. This is a Brick by Brick
opportunity for an additional discount once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity. And this is also a little bit
about the baby some but not the pregnancy stuff, just a little
bit of. Yeah, so some higher level stuff
so you don't great good to be back in the podcast seat here.
Yeah, I'm getting all the spotlight here lately.
That's a good-looking sweater. You get on what you get, then
robber. Got it for me for Christmas.
Yeah, looks good. All right.
So let's start off with a Manifesto for those of you that
do not know every single year for the past three or four years
now, maybe five. I'm not sure.
I've done a Manifesto video and put it on the podcast and that
people make New Year's resolutions all the time and
I've always kind of not really been a fan of those because it's
like a, it's like a fleeting goal.
You have a goal, you have a resolution.
This is something you want to do.
There's all everybody has things that they want to do.
But unless you kind of have a theme and you put that theme
into Isn't it becomes a habit? It doesn't really, you know,
materializing, anything. So for me having like a theme
for the year which kind of underlies every decision I make
for that year has carried a lot more weight than a resolution
and 2020 ones. Manifesto is about 365.
Savage basically just doing more.
So there were some things that committed to doing every single
day. Brandon Scott, showed it to him.
He's the one that got me started doing the the one mile a day and
I have not missed a single. Single run apart from the week
following that 50 mile March. When I was on crutches still got
my model in but I was not running during that week.
I was hobbling during that week. Even on the 50 mile.
March. He ran a mile.
Yeah, like you are a son do? Yeah, that was that was
interesting cause there's like five miles left to go on that
50-mile. Mark some like yeah, but I need
to run one of them for the count.
So the only time I have not run a mile was during that week
after 50 mile March when I was literally on crutches for Luke
still crushed. Way through a mile.
Yes, I did. But like that was one of them
and then reading every single day was one of them saying
something nice to somebody every single day, posting some form of
content every single day, whether it be on one of the
platform's basically, but of all of those, the thing that's
really stuck and had a transformative impact was the
one mile a day run because there's, I mean, it takes a lot
of discipline to run a mile every single day of my life.
It's not a long distance. It's not a lot by any means, but
there's sometimes, we just don't want to get up and running my.
Oh, yeah, and they, like, you can't make an excuse for it.
So it was an exercise, and discipline and consistency,
because anybody can it's like same thing as resolutions, like,
people can make these resolutions when they're
motivated when they're excited, when they ramped up.
But when the rubber meets the road and you're like, okay, I'm
either going to do what I said I was going to do.
I'm not that is what defines you and when you don't feel like
running a mile, but you force yourself to anyways, like that.
That was a pretty That was a good thing for me.
I feel like I enjoyed that process then.
Really affect. You too much.
Chris. There's sometimes where I like
couldn't hang out with you because I could get my Milan.
Still. Yeah, it never took very long
though. There was just times where I was
sitting there like we be hanging out and he's like, I gotta go
run my Mile and like, but sounds the last thing I want to do
right now and I should have got my butt up and gone with you,
but I did not. But there was a little stint
like I was at one or two months that I was running a mile every
day. Yeah, we were.
We started going together until we started until we moved and
then I let the move get a hold of me and I stopped running.
Well, people make, I mean when you when you commit to running a
mile every single day without fail, you realize how many
excuses people make themselves when they don't do those things
because like, it'd be down pourin rain.
I'd be out there running my mouth.
There was a crazy snow storm. We had in February.
We literally had two feet of snow on the ground in Arkansas,
which is unheard of. I'd be out there running a mile,
you know, like you people make excuses for things, they don't
want to do and they're able to justify.
And their mind. But when you say, hey, look no
matter what, I'm getting my Milan come hell or high water
and you do it and say, okay. I'm going to let that transcend
the mile and, you know, go into other areas of my life and not
making excuses for them. And I feel like that is
something that anybody should benefit from could benefit from.
And like I said, earlier, running two miles, not this
impressive, physical feat, but I feel like anybody should be
capable of just simply getting up and running a mile on a whim.
So it was good from that standpoint, as well.
Yeah, the next thing. So, that was that was 20 21.
S, Manifesto kind of a long-winded approach their 2022,
been thinking about this a lot. And I think the theme that most
resonates with me and probably use well, and just kind of what
we've had coming, is Faith over fear, you know, you can take
that and make whatever you want out of it.
Some people are going to take that and make it a Biblical
thing. That's totally fine.
Some people going to take it and make it something different.
That's totally fun. You know, for, for me and for
you to Crystal This past year 2021 was just total chaos.
We move the building. We move the whole team.
There was a lot of obstacles that have come our way and going
forward in 2022. It's like like, like in any
year, really? There's there's things.
You don't always know the answer to like, there's not a playbook
for life. There's not a very defined,
right? Or wrong path with a lot of
decisions that you make in life. And for me, the whole Faith over
fear concept was like, look if I've done everything to my The
best of my ability, if I pulled out all the stops, if I put in
the work, if I have not made excuses if I've given it, my all
there is no sense in fearing the outcome.
It is what it is. I haven't cut Corners.
I just have to have faith that it will work out and whether
that's coming from God or some higher being or if it's coming
from just the the wills of the universe, who knows?
But there's a point in life and people can test this in their
own life in some form of fashion, where it's like, You
don't know where else to turn because you've done everything.
You can you just have to trust that it's going to be okay.
And this past year, that was manifested a lot 20:22.
There's still a lot of things coming.
It's still going to be manifesting that.
So I think Faith over fear and just doubling down on that
concept is, is a reasonable and a good solid theme for the
manifesto. Totally agree.
Any, any thoughts on how that could Implement you personally?
Like, how is that? Affected you with all this
stuff's going on for you outside of the business.
Just you Crystal the faith over here.
Yeah. So many ways.
I don't know. I'd feel like that.
I feel like this last year or this last little bit of this
last year, whatever. We've kind of been saying that
more and more. And I feel like going into this
next year. We have a lot of things that are
unknown and a lot of things that people want you to be fearful.
I mean, I don't think I'm purpose but they people say,
well, what if this happens or what if that or what if, you
know this that or the other and it's like they don't mean to but
they're trying to instill fear in you and I've just told Robert
unlike several different occasions.
Like I'm not fearful like I refuse to be fearful and I are I
will put everything I have into the faith that I have and to me
Me, there's a lot of those things coming up, that people
don't mean to put fear into me. But like I refuse to accept it
and I choose a faith over it. Yeah, I mean, as far as just
like the pandemic itself is concerned in like yeah, I don't
want to get into a, you know, I don't want to open Pandora's Box
here and get into discussion on vaccines not in vaccines.
All the people that are on the fence about that but regardless
of where you stand on that, it's not healthy to live life.
Fear. And I feel like throughout the
pandemic, I've seen so many people try to push the pause
button on their life. And just wait for things to
return to thing to some degree of normalcy.
Like, it was prior to the pandemic and in doing.
So, they've sacrificed relationships.
They've sacrificed potential opportunities in life, and
business, and the career path. They've just honestly just lived
in fear. They've hidden from everything,
that is a risk of supposed risk. And they've allowed themselves
to be a shell of their true potential.
And I feel like That is more. So, a result of the fear, they
have than it is towards anything tangible.
And I've just not like seeing that unfold.
So, regardless of where you stand on anything, pandemic
related politics later. Anything at that.
I think people would benefit by living a more courageous life
and not living them. You can't push the pause button
on life. It just doesn't work that way.
Like the time was going to pass, regardless.
So doubling down on what, you know to be true in your heart of
hearts and then living life accordingly is going to be
advantageous for anybody. Yeah, and just to add to that.
There are precautions that need to be taken and things like
that. Like, we just had to make a
not-so-fun decision because it's a precaution.
We are trying to take and I think that that there's a
difference between taking those precautions and and then living
fully and fear and just allowing that fear to like, overcome your
life and not taking a leap of faith.
Yeah. So Faith over fear something I
could totally get behind. Passion about what it means.
We're actually making shirts that say faith over fear.
So I'm super excited about that. I guess that's kind of like we
can bring talk about the the apparel little bit that's kind
of relevant with the shirts that were going to be making.
But we've got so from the top, we've got live savage,
apparel.com and that was correct when we make that two years ago,
your and a half ago, think 2020. Yeah, 20-20-20.
I think they've all Blended together.
No. And we have honestly not done
really well with that business because we haven't really
focused on it. Like, we should, you know, we
get a lot of the the shirts from a screen printing company in
Texas. They were all great.
So those are all the t-shirts that say, you know, brick live,
savage, keto Savage and then we from there, we started getting a
bunch of athletic lines from overseas and they were all great
to, I mean, like the quality solid, but it was not us
producing the clothes. So You know, with the bricks,
we've always kept that in house, you know, from day one.
I think that's resulted in a lot of the brand loyalty that we
have are with our customers. I feel good about it because I
can oversee all the quality control and I just know that
it's from our own hands with the apparel.
We haven't had them and I've always felt not bad but kind of
bad about that. So with the move to this new
facility, we've got enough space now to really just Hustle, the
apparel and grow that leg of the business.
So we bought a screen printing. We will learn how to screen
print. And we have also recently found
a supplier. That is US base.
So rather than everything getting made overseas like
pretty much every textile company does.
Like it's amazing how many things are not made in America
anymore. Like it's kind of disheartening.
Really I think bringing manufacturing back to our own
soil is super importance on something.
I'm very passionate about. So going forward, you know, at
least with the foreseeable future.
We found a new supplier. And that actually makes the
clothes in America and we're going to be sourcing our blanks
from them. And then we're going to be
printing all of our own designs. We're going to be actually
putting the shirts to, you know, making the shirts put the
designs on the shirts. So super excited by that, we're
going to launch that. So we can basically do a
full-blown relaunch of the apparel company, sometime first
quarter of 2022 and I feel like that's something that we can get
behind rally behind the, you know, made in America concept
for sure. So, super excited about that.
Also, we can talk about the brakes little bit with regard to
The Brick by Brick launch. So, this podcast is going out on
a Monday. When you hear this podcast, this
will be an effect. If you recall, we moved, you got
to talk more Chris if I'm doing all the talking about.
But if you'll recall, we moved the new facility in August of
2021. We were living in the warehouse
for three years prior to, that found a building bought it 2020,
spend a year renovating. It.
There's all kinds of headaches that came with it.
Renovation, process. We moved up here in August, 20,
21, and we've been here ever since when we Up here.
We did this cool unique Brick by Brick launch in which anybody,
that bought a brick in the month of August from Quito break.com.
Got their name painted on one of the actual bricks at the new
facility, at the new compounds in front of our building.
Yeah, on the front of our building.
We don't ever do discounts on the bricks because there's not
really much of a margin there to do.
Discounts. So us, doing a discount for the
Brick by Brick, was honestly, just a way to pay it forward for
the customers. For the family that is supported
us and made this whole transition possible.
So, Ellen, our amazing crew member Ellen.
She's the only one that's seen that has decent of handwriting
to, right? Everybody's names on the bricks
and not look horrendous. Yeah.
She's in such a good job, but it's like it's taken that hot
minute because she has other jobs to do.
She does all the email she packages of the order.
She does all kinds of stuff. Yeah, and the weather has not
cooperated exactly. Today, that we've needed it to.
So, every chance she gets, she's outside writing names on the
wall, or on the bricks and she's such a sweetheart.
Like I'll go out there and look at it to the window and she's
just smiling away, right names. We got, I want to say was like,
1,500 names when we did that Brick by Brick launched in
August for people to take advantage of discount and get
their name paint on the brick. So there's a bunch of names.
Yeah. Anyways, all that said, we have
pretty much wrapped up the painting of those names.
Yes, however, there's about 250 260.
More bricks left to be named. Am OCD is kicking in a little
bit. We got this beautiful painted,
black brick wall with a bunch of names on him and then a spot
without names. So, my goal is to just fill that
little spot, so that it all looks uniform.
Always consistent, all looks amazing.
So when you hear this podcast throughout the entire first week
of January 2020 to, we're going to Our then Brick by Brick
launch and we will fill that wall up.
So for that first week, in January, anybody that buys a
brick on the key tobruk website and uses the code Brick, by
Brick. Because this company was built
Brick by Brick. Bye!
Y'all! We're going to put your name on
that wall. If you've already used the code
in the past, your name is already on the wall.
Feel free to take advantage of the code.
You'll still get the 15% discount, but the the new names
will be the ones that are filling up that.
Well, yeah. So the first 250 260 names that
come through, that are brand new that haven't already been added
to the wall. Will be the ones that are added
to the bricks and then anything, after that, we were going to
have to Next. And if it's if it's a new thing
we're gonna do is X. If it's a new name that has not
yet been added will find a spot for the name for sure.
Okay. There we go.
We got another wall, it, some interior wall, but we'll find
will make sure your names on the wall somewhere for name is
already on there. Feel free to take advantage of
the 15% discount. And we will just look at your
beautiful name on The Bricks honored will honor that Brick by
Brick launch. For all the people that want to
take advantage of that first first week of January, and I
feel like kind of going back to resolutions.
Everybody's got these health goals and everything for, you
know, beginning of the year. I never really want to play into
that. We just coincidentally finished
writing all over current names on there.
But for anybody that does want to get the nutrition dialed in
get on a routine, get on a protocol.
Mm, and make the keto bricks part of that protocol.
Definitely jump on this. Start the new year off strong
with a brick at a 15% discount and rock and roll with that.
Boom. Boom.
Did we mention how long it was? That was going on for first
week. So basically it'll start at 12,
noon Central on Sunday. What is that the second, the
second and then it'll go through until the next Sunday, which is
what My handy-dandy phone, the fifth, the fifth at do.
I'm a liar. The ninth the ninth.
So from the the 2nd of January at 12 noon Central, it'll start
and it'll go through until 12 noon Central on Sunday the 9th.
Uh-huh. Let me double-check that.
Okay, 80, where's the nine on Sunday?
Okay. All right.
I trust you here is the nine
after the eight before. The ten say a trustee Baxter.
Double-check. All right.
That is the 9th. You're correct.
I mean, if you think it's a second and seven days, good
night. Yeah, makes sense.
We should have done the math should have, but yeah, we're
super excited by them. The last Brick by Brick, launch
was a huge success. The leftover jumped on that.
Y'all are freaking awesome or forever indebted to you.
We love you. It is pretty cool.
Because even the people like here, like in town have come in.
Say like, what are all the names on the wall for?
Yeah, and it's pretty cool to be able to tell him like, look, all
these people. All over the world have
purchased from us have supported us in like it's come.
It's cool to be able to tell new people who like don't know who
we are. I don't know anything about us,
you know, about all of you guys about all the people who have,
who have supported us Brick by Brick Break.
My I think I think if we're going to make Brick by Brick
shirts or something else. Pretty cool.
Yeah. My website team was here the
other day. Oh, that's right.
Yeah, me the ones that were commenting on that.
So it does not go, unnoticed. It's pretty cool to have all
yours names. Well, yeah, you wanted to do
like a 20 21 recap and then kind of going to 2022.
We have coming up. Sure.
So for you 20:21, what are some things that stood out way to put
me on the spot there Anna? I don't know.
We just had so much stuff going on.
Like we spent so much time traveling back and forth from
Fayetteville, to Bryant to like the new building to our the
facility that we were at. Just so much time driving
looking at the building. See how that's coming up along
the talking to the contractor. All the different things that
come with renovating a villa building to hiring on several
new staff members staff members crew members, that was weird,
officially, and we and then moving into the new facility and
moving into my brand-new home. It's not brand new, but it's
new. Us in moving into our new home
and getting pregnant and like there's so many different
things. So many different things like
that. A lot of that is personal.
I mean not the business part but a lot of like personal growth
and changes of happened over the last year, too.
So, I don't know, just a lot. Like I feel like I'm going to
forget so many different things because so much happens here,
but I also felt like There was such a huge piece of time where
you and I just had our heads down like working because it was
like, we gotta do all this before we can get to the new
building. And then we could do all this,
you know, after we get there and like I just feel like we kept
like grinding, you know, I don't know.
Yeah, the transition was, I'd love to say that it was a smooth
transition, but it was not relevant.
Not smooth at all. Yeah.
I mean our crew was amazing. Yeah.
I have no complaints with the crew.
All the people that have supported us have an amazing.
The yeah, the, the whole contractor Innovation thing, was
nothing amazing about. That really headache.
Headache, headache, headache, and surprises.
I'm not one for surprises. I don't like surprises.
I hate surprises. Yeah, especially when they're
bad surprises. Yeah.
Yeah, does it ever get? But, you know, you overcome, you
over dance, you evolve and, you know, we made the most of it.
So, but we're here now, which is good.
We need to be moving to the house.
We bought the house we moved in in.
Just what we move the belly. Yeah, we had the house in
December of last year last year 2020.
Yeah, and then we would go up like every weekend almost like,
work on the house. Work on the building.
So much time was spent just driving.
So yeah, I'm excited not to have to do that anymore.
Yeah, so nice to not have to drive anymore.
When did we did you get pregnant?
What month was that the end of July?
Beginning of August, end of July?
Beginning of August. Yeah, the first That's not true.
That was the end of my cycle. The middle of August is when we
got pregnant middle of August. Yeah, it's pretty crazy.
Give you the day and time. No, I'm just gonna actually how
it happened. Yeah, middle of August.
That was right before we did the, the 50 mile March.
Yeah. So you are pregnant.
Yeah. On the 50 mile March.
Yeah, which is kind of crazy to think about.
Yeah, this crazy. Yeah, pretty cool.
I'd like bragging rights right there.
Savage baby. Yeah, Savage baby for sure.
Sure, but with 2021, you know, it was just a total Whirlwind,
there are so many things, so many moving pieces up in the air
and like it was just hard to track.
Anything was hard to track training, because we had to tear
our gym down at the other place rebuild the gym here.
It's hard to track nutrition because we were never in the
same spot. At the same time.
It's hard to track finances because there was always an
unexpected expense and the whole move was an incredible expense
and then getting the building outfitted, wasn't it?
Look Spence. It's hard to like, stay on top
of flavor, launches, and keeping certain flavors in stock because
we had to like tells suppliers. Okay, we're moving here.
So don't ship your palate until this day and it was just total
chaos through and through. But I feel like we got a good
solid, you know location. Now, we've got room to grow in
this building. Our crews all up here.
They're all situated and settled in and I'm hopeful that 2022
will be our best year yet. You know, that's what we're
always hoping for. So, It'll be in the beginning
when we got up in up in the pipeline with 2022.
We have several new flavors that are going to be coming out,
which were not going to say anything about.
Don't say anything, because you're the worst at giving
hints. What's crazy is we didn't launch
a single new flavor last year and he all that is 21.
Yeah, but we have a bunch coming out in 2022 that we're very
excited about and we felt like oh my gosh, we didn't do any in
2021 like we have got to do more in 2022.
So we're super excited about it. Trying to like jump on that, get
started relaunching, the apparel.
Is really exciting. I'll be having a baby.
That would be crazy. Yeah, that would be a little bit
Whirlwind itself. Yeah, we're trying to like
prepare for that right now, which is really hard to prepare
for something you've never done before.
So not the birth part but like the having a newborn and all
that. Well, you never remember that
either. Yeah.
Thanks. Yeah, and we spent most this
past weekend putting together a crib, getting everything
situated painting. No, I didn't pay anything.
I don't paint because the pain is not see how excited my
getting the nursery. I'll set up getting the baby on
the way. I got my book.
That's launching. Yep.
Probably in January. Probably.
I don't have an official date yet, but I think it's
tentatively the 30th of January so super stoked about that.
I'm really ready for that to be out and like I'm excited to see
people excited about it because we've been excited about it for
a long time. Even working on it for a long
time. And I'm just ready for it to be
out in the world. Yeah, I feel like The people
that have sent it to to get me some like, you know, book blurbs
back, like preliminary readings of it.
You know, like Dom D'Agostino, Danny Vega, Mike muscle, gave me
some land Jamie. I mean, there's a lot of people
that have read it already and they've told me that they've
been impressed by it. So, that's good and encouraging
words to here. So I'm super excited to get this
released and out, to the public. That'd be good.
I miss is my first foray into the whole book publishing Realm.
But ketogenic bodybuilding is the name of the book.
It's going to be, I think pretty amazing for people.
I don't think there's really anything else like it on the
market. Certainly.
I mean, I read a whole bunch of books about natural bodybuilding
and they've all been great. Like, I've taken something from
them for sure. But there's not really any books
about natural bodybuilding as it pertains to a low-carbohydrate
ketogenic diet. So, really just pulling the
cover back on that and focusing on optimizing for that, I think
will be a really good resource for people, you know, because so
many people and you I can attest to this like you've competed
before, you know, the standard out there for competitors is
just carbs carbs, carbs people in the backstage eating rice
cakes and peanut butter and like nobody thinks you can Excel and
be competitive with a ketogenic approach ever my Pro card with
it. You won your show with it.
Yeah, I've had several clients when earn their Pro cards.
So just simply presenting a viable alternative to people
that would do better without the carbohydrates.
It's going to be good. I think.
Yep, totally agree. You know, you get some stuff and
Lady Savage than the in the pipeline.
Yep. I'm trying to I'm trying to set
set it up. Set lady Savage up for Success
while I am having a baby having a newborn all that.
So there's a couple of things. I've been thinking about doing
for a while course, wise things that are all-inclusive.
I have a you know, there's a huge group of people who are not
specifically keto, who follow me.
Don't follow me, specifically for Mikey do stuff that I would
really just like to help the whole group.
Like, the whole people group that to, to figure out, like,
what's going to be the best option for them nutrition-wise
health-wise fitness-wise, all of that.
So I have an idea for a course that I'm really going to start
trying to dive into here soon. That will be all inclusive and
helpful for those who Maybe Choose a carbohydrate based diet
and work to the keto diet or whatever paleo.
However, you want to do it but not telling you, like, you
should choose these macros for a card base, just because I've
been out of that world for a little while, but there are
certain foods and types of foods and oils, and like, caffeine and
alcohol. And all those things that a lot
of people just, don't understand the way that they react with
your body, why you wouldn't want a sugary item or why?
You wouldn't want to little protein or this or whatever.
It is. No matter what you're trying to
do, just to better your health, even like the verse baby steps.
Like. I feel like a lot of people will
sign up for coaching because they're so excited to change
your life. And then they're like, this is
really overwhelming. They just need baby steps.
Like little bits of information of like, why would we do this?
Why do I need this much protein? Why do I need to cut out this,
you know, process thing, why, you know, all those little
things, I feel like so many people People don't know the
basics that I would really like to bring it back to the basics
within a course that if you're a little bit more advanced new
been counting your Macros and stuff.
You might want to know some of those things.
Or if you're just starting out, that might be a really helpful
tool for you to start, you know, learning your way through and
maybe advancing over time. So I'm hopeful for that and
maybe maybe a few other things as well.
I am going to keep up with my coaching and everything through
newborn. Infancy all that stuff, but I
also want to be able to provide a different opportunity for
people who are looking for something a little different.
Yeah, I think, you know, like you said, you know, a lot of
people are a little hesitant to jump on coaching with someone
that's about to have a baby, but I feel like the way our
lifestyles are constructed right now, like the way we live our
life, like you'll be totally fine and taking on the clients,
may be able to offer a ton of value to them.
I mean, I think you would be great coaching clients that Are
trying to become pregnant or bad to become pregnant and want to
follow a ketogenic diet. Because so many people have
concerns about that. They just assumed that you can't
do it unless you're eating carbs.
They assume that the baby is going to be malnourished and our
baby has not yet been born. So I mean, maybe it's going to
pop out with like three legs and you know, orange and stuff.
But we did just see an ultrasound everything looked to
be in check. Try to get the circumference of
the biceps in the ultrasound, but they wouldn't give that
metric to me, but all that to say I feel Feel like, you know
everything we've done thus far, has been just super smooth like
your pregnancy happened. I mean literally to a tee of
when we want it to happen. The the growth and development
of the fetus is all been positive.
You haven't had hardly any of the issues that are normally
associated with pregnancy, especially first, trimester.
I mean, there was like a little phase there when you add a
little bit of morning sickness and you've been a little queasy
a couple times, but you haven't had any of the crazing Cravings.
You haven't been crazy. You haven't really deviated from
your nutrition at all. I mean, the most you've had from
a carb standpoint probably like 30 grams total carbs, any points
in a day and that's mostly been from like berries or something.
So you've basically just broken the mold for people singing have
to do during a pregnancy and you're seeing nothing but
success with it. So I feel like anybody that's
wanting to go that route wanting to get pregnant.
You'd be a pretty good resource. Just somebody to have somebody
relatable that they can talk with and be coached through.
Yeah. So yeah, I think that I'd be
great. Yeah, it's very hard.
I mean I had a lot of people like tagging me or sending me
different things and books and people I should follow and thing
diet ideas I should do and I literally ignored every one of
them which that wasn't to say like, oh you're wrong.
It was just overwhelming. Like there was so much
information. There was so many ideas and
books and in like Fitness influencers that you should
follow this person for that and this and that.
And it's just like This is too much.
How about I just listened to my body and choose do the things
that are working well with me and working with my Midwife and
making sure that the decisions I'm making for my body are also
working well for the baby and everything's been beautiful and
perfect and wonderful. And like, we're only, you know,
week 22, but everything has been really, really great.
And I think there's a lot to say for like intuition, like just
Naturally going for what feels right?
What feels good like we are going to be doing a birth class
like a birthing class and I'm really looking forward to that
but it's someone I looked up and someone who was recommended to
me by my Midwife. It's a method that I really want
to do not something that was just like thrown at me on social
media like you should do this or this person's books, the best
like I would be happy to recommend different things to
people but I'm going to wait till they asked me, you know,
and I don't know. There is so much information out
there. Sometimes.
It's just really nice to speak with one person and like, hey,
this is what I'm thinking about doing.
What do you think or how should I navigate this or you know,
whatever it is. So anyways, well some you can
trample on that. So many people are really
disconnected with their body and their mind they don't really
know like they'll have an ailment and they won't know what
the possible stimulus is. What's causing it with catalyst.
Is they won't know where to turn the automatically go to drugs
or, you know, some type of medical intervention.
As opposed to just changing their environmental factors.
And I feel like because we've competed and because we track
our macros and because we really know what the inputs that we
provide, you know, how they impact us directly.
Like we're just incredibly in tune with your body and I feel
like, you know pregnancy like you're going to that's a pretty
that's a pretty Hands-On, you know, thing.
Like you're going to you're going to be feeling and
experiencing changes on a day-to-day basis.
So like for you like you'll feel a certain way and you'll be able
to automatically associate that with okay.
This is probably because I've had too many electrolytes in
this short of a window of time and that's why I'm getting the
GI distress that I am. So let me tweak this and then
boom. It fixes the problem.
Yep, or you know, there's certain foods that you think
will settle your digestion more so than others and since you've
manipulated things so long for so long around a kitchen that
you know, what automatically would work for that.
So yeah, I think you know being more in tune with your body is
oftentimes not Given the respect it deserves.
But during the pregnancy, especially knowing what levers
to pull is going to be huge. Yeah, totally.
So I guess, since we're talking about this pregnancy stuff.
We made a video about the baby's sex and name the baby sex is
don't don't Ever. Why would an unmistakable boy to
that? Ultrasound was?
Yeah, he weighs a Sykes for sure.
Um, he was out there. He was ready to show us.
Yeah, he wouldn't show us his face forever.
We had to like literally sit in the ultrasound for 20 minutes
and took him forever to get side profile.
The face. Yeah.
Having a boy the name is going to be Robert rigel Sykes.
You may tell the story about. Yes, okay.
So first part is Robert, so my name is Robert.
My dad's name is Robert. His dad's name is Robert.
So this will be the fourth Robert, but the middle names are
different. So, my dad and his dad are both
Robert Smith Sykes. So, my dad's technically
roberts-smith Sykes Junior, they wanted to do something different
with me. They didn't want me to be a
third. They wanted to incorporate
hunting in some form of fashion. So they made my middle name
Orion, which is the constellation of stars.
In the night sky Orion's Belt in the full constellation is Orion
the Hunter and it means the hunter, the brightest star in
that constellation is rigel. So we kind of were thinking, you
know, Robert rigel Sykes. My son is going to be the
brightest part of me. So that's pretty cool.
Yeah, and also interestingly enough, his initials are going
to be our our Sykes and the only other are Sykes and the family
is royal Ray Sykes, who is, I guess like my great great.
Greats grandfather, maybe. But he's the Cornerstone person
that made the whole Sykes Farm. Like he's the one that might the
land for the farm, where we have our Thanksgiving, the Farms,
where we got married. The farm is where my parents are
going to be buried. There's a lot of the farm runs
very deep in our Bloodlines. So to have Royal Ray Sykes have
been basically the originator of the farm.
That's held our whole family close together and for our son.
Robert rigel Sykes with the significance of that is going to
be pretty cool. Yeah, I'm super excited about it
and Robert. So pop goes by Robert and his
dad goes by Bob and Robert goes by Robert.
And they the family has been two nicknames for Robert, this one.
And so I was like, what are we gonna do?
What are we going to call them? What it would call them?
Robbie call him, you know what? And so we decided to go ahead
and call him by his middle name. Rachel.
So that's what we're going to do until he decides.
He doesn't like that, or if maybe he'll use it forever, but
he wants to change it later and be called Robert or Robbie or
mr. Sykes.
Yeah. And righteous.
A unique name. I've never heard before.
It's spelled RI GTL. So the first time I saw it, I
said rygel. Yeah, you're like, oh right.
Only. How do you pronounce this?
It's like it's rigel, you know, right.
But yeah, the more I say it the less weird.
It sounds the I like it. So that's a good thing.
Yeah, at first we were both like I'm Rachel.
Okay. Alright, and now we're both like
I love that name so much. Like it's just like a hugely
grown on us. It's gonna be good.
So yeah, we're super excited.
Baby's due in May so that'll be a big part 2022, for sure.
Yeah. We spent Christmas with the
folks shared their name with them.
My mom and dad both cry, which is pretty cool.
Yeah, especially yeah. So yeah, that's that's pretty
much the Wrap up on the baby there.
We do. I want to say a lot of the stuff
in the second trimester video. So we'll do that at a later
date. Yeah, so whenever the bricks we
got, you know tens a new flavors coming out, we're doing the
Brick by Brick. Launch went over the baby stuff.
Do we have anything later in the year in 2022?
Yeah, we have a bunch of conferences lined up and things
that were conferences, that will have like booths and things like
that at Robert will be speaking. And yeah, the first conference
is I think he token in The one that will be going to.
I'm pretty sure it's July. So that's July than what's in
August if they're going to do it again.
Kitto some Omaha. Sookie do some of them home
which I'm pretty sure will be happening again.
And then after that he do Las Vegas, I think he does.
And then after that there's the keto Symposium in Connecticut,
and then I think there's one more that I'll be speaking at
not entirely sure but pretty much a conference every single
month. So the baby's born in May and
then Then June we don't anything tentatively planned yet.
And then basically July through the rest of the year.
We got a conference every month and then supposedly hopefully in
a perfect world. If all goes, well chip and I are
going to be filming like crazy on a complete, ketogenic
competition prep, online course that will kind of act as a
companion to the book, but it's all going to be laid out in like
video modules, tutorials recipes, posing technique
training. I mean, like, the the most
comprehensive competition, prep course, that has ever been
developed hands down. No questions asked, I'm feel
very confident about it. Literally be the best option out
there especially for someone as want to do a ketogenic protocol
and that the goal is to publish that and launch it before the
baby's born. So if all goes, well, that will
be the case for them. I'm excited for that one too.
That'd be really, really good. Yeah.
It's kind of like dancing. Like we've got deeper State
keto. Yeah.
I was going to actually mention Dearest a key.
Do we have a couple of new? Yeah, we got a couple new
coaches joining on deeper State keto which is also a wonderful
course like especially if you're looking for weight loss with the
keto diet. Like Robert spent so much time
with Matt and mega building that course.
And there's some really, really great information and it's
pretty basic like to me. It's like you don't have to
think about it. You just put in your numbers and
it all just calculates for you and it's like a You know, it
said full 90 day course, could be a little bit longer if you're
already if you're under eating from the beginning, but you
know, you do the onboarding and then you go through each phase
and it'll be about 90 days give or take depending on where
you're at starting but it's an awesome course.
Like, I don't know. I haven't seen like another
another like actual keto course. That's not like a coaching
one-on-one that does the same thing as They were shaky though.
Yeah, I mean, we made that is that was back in late 2017.
Something crazy. And up with Matt Mega from
Quito, connect me bouncing 2018 because it was right before I
did my show. Ah, that makes sense.
Yeah, and that's still alive and active deeper State key do.com
for that one. We do have to know two new
coaches and they will be active coach about time.
This goes live. So Greg the clamp that I just
had that aren't his Pro card and jimpat arrow who just turned her
Pro card. Are both going to be deeper
State keto, coaches starting off the being in the year, so super
excited about that. So I'm hopeful that they'll tend
to take the reins and create a lot more contents recipe videos,
live Q&A stuff like that as well and deeper sekito.
Just a really solid option for people that once, you know, a
structured protocol but aren't necessarily doing a competition
prep. So the competition Prep course,
and I'm building out is going to be very specific to competitive
athletes, but both are great resources for what there.
Kind of catering to, I don't want to sound like weird, like
pitching too, many things or sales here at all.
That these, we're going over the whole year last year this year,
all the things that, but that is a new.
That's a new thing that's happening.
Is yeah, the coaches joining in and we're super excited to
introduce them on deeper State. Yeah, they're good.
They're good people for sure. I mean like for me as a coach
working with them, the cool thing about being a coach
especially one that coaches competitive athletes is that you
learn so much about people in the process like You know, they
had so many hardships like gin, you know, she's in Canada.
So her first competition got canceled because covid ruxandra
super strict up there in Canada. So it had to be a virtual show
and then she did another show later in the year.
So we had to like basically like a mini reverse and then do
another prep and then like all kinds of family stuff and just
life stuff that happens in that long, a period of time Greg lost
his father early on in his prep. So all the emotional stuff that
comes with that. And it's just a ton of just
heartache and just obstacles that life throws at you.
But how you respond in the face of those obstacles?
I mean you learn more about something that's going through a
prep and how they respond to obstacles.
Then you learn, you know, from somebody over six years.
You learn more from somebody in six months.
When a prep then you do for somebody just kind of casual day
to day life. In six years.
I feel confident saying that so I can totally vouch for both of
those individuals. They've been a joy to work with
this, you know, clients and I view them as friends and then
more. So Anything.
And I've got no doubt, they'll be able to just rock and roll
with the deeper stake. You do protocol.
Yep. I think that'll be good.
So, what else, what else do we have hunting seasons?
Always crazy for Robert? So that'll probably be the
majority of the end of the year. His I didn't get to do this
year, the years, not over, but we do have some deer in the
backyard, you know, that drive from our house to the compound.
Yeah. Right there with that field is
yes. Well, we always always always
dear at them, halfway tempted to just like Knock on their door,
neighbor's door and see if we can hunt their property gun
season is not still going but for those of you who are
wondering why we're talking about hunting its guns, you
know, it's over but bow season is still around.
So yeah. Bow season goes to the end of
February in our yeah, which is crazy.
Yeah, but we do have a lot of meat in the freezer because we
got three deer that were harvested earlier this year
during that hunting trip that we did.
And then we got that cow that I butchered couple weeks back.
So we just go get that me. Bam, we got a half a cow.
So that's kind of cool. Yep.
Very nice. It's always nice to have extra
meat in the freezer. Always.
Well, babe. Is there anything else we've
missed or is it pretty much? A little recap?
I feel like we're going to get off of here and remember, but
I'm not going to remember while I'm sitting here.
Yeah. So the major felony things going
on. This next year.
There are the main pillars of wanted to cover.
Where the the manifesto we got that the Brick by Brick launch.
So Brick by Brick discount, 50% first week in January covered
dances, I get through the night. 2220, 21 recap 2022, things
coming up and then the baby name meaning sex like it's tough.
Yeah. So yeah, that's a wrap.
It's a random podcast. But there you go.
There's our life in a nutshell. Always a pleasure, talking to
you, baby cakes. Always.
I'll see you guys in like five weeks when we do a second
trimester follow-up. Yeah.
Are you going to round out with the beatbox?
Come on, give it to us. No.
We are closing music. No, we're not gonna do that.
Maybe next time. Okay.
All right. Sounding off.
Catch you later. Love you tata for now.