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Mark Entrekin: Hello, everyone, and happy. Wednesday. We are here again at the achieving unity, success, formula.
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Mark Entrekin: building the formula so we can all grow forward together end all the anger, hate, and prejudice that is out there. We can achieve unity through the power of encouraging, inspiring, and including others.
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Mark Entrekin: personally and professionally, and you'll hear that a couple of times during this presentation, because the world gets better because of us.
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Mark Entrekin: as you'll see on the 1st screen. That is the Achieving Unity Guide, and you're welcome to go get that anytime. There is a QR code on the left.
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Mark Entrekin: They just use your phone, get the QR code. Go ahead and take a look at the guide, and I'm always looking for feedback
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Mark Entrekin: communication and collaboration are the keys that unlock that door to success. And that's where we want to be every day
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Mark Entrekin: reality, focus dynamics, creating solutions, one reality at a time, as you can see by the logo on the left. It's reality, focused solutions which is success
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Mark Entrekin: focused.
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Mark Entrekin: And I just forgot my logo.
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Mark Entrekin: Large focus dynamics, success focus solutions. I got our backwards.
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Mark Entrekin: That's what life is all about. We want to take it and make it because things do happen. And that's what we want to do is we're transforming our world today.
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Mark Entrekin: Accidents do happen.
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Mark Entrekin: Technology happens. We want to make sure that we're creating the solutions that make us better for tomorrow and our guest today, I'll introduce her in a minute. But she's going to talk about how to make our lives better, and it is what we do to make tomorrow what we want it to be
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Mark Entrekin: again achieving unity, success, formula. It is a weekly. Podcast I hope you'll add it to your calendar would like to see you here every week we want feedback
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Mark Entrekin: talk to us. Let us know.
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Mark Entrekin: Every Wednesday one Pm. Pacific. Time, 4 pm. Eastern time. Come on back. We'd love to hear from you love to have your questions. And during our podcast today, if you have questions, please feel free to ask, we'll be watching the chat
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Mark Entrekin: in reality, reality-focused dynamics delivers those success focused solutions.
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Mark Entrekin: One of the things that we do is more on the engineering side business side, but what we do is take it down to the personal side because we use agile and lean inside and outside of computer software going from good to better to best
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Mark Entrekin: agile is the ability to create and respond to changes and improvements.
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Mark Entrekin: It it enables success in uncertain and possibly struggling environments
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Mark Entrekin: by emphasizing adaptability through better collaboration
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Mark Entrekin: and communication. As I mentioned. Those are the keys to success.
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Mark Entrekin: Lean is a methodology, a study of a method that's focused on maximizing value by minimizing waste
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Mark Entrekin: helps us in optimizing our processes through continuous improvement, effectiveness, and efficiency.
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Mark Entrekin: Excuse me. We also teach that you can't be efficient until you're effective.
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Mark Entrekin: The philosophy can be used in every discipline.
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Mark Entrekin: every vertical, including our homes and our family.
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Mark Entrekin: connect with me, and I'll show you how to break down all issues, products and services from the most complex business projects, including rocket science. And yes, I have worked for Lockheed Martin and Boeing, and I know about rocket science. I've seen the buildings where they put the rockets together. Of course I can't go in. You can't go in because of the controlled environment, but I have seen them put our rockets together.
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Mark Entrekin: but we can use this same methodology
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Mark Entrekin: to the basic steps of even training our teenagers.
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Mark Entrekin: Sometimes it comes down to the wid bid rid.
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Mark Entrekin: What does that mean, write it down.
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Mark Entrekin: break it down, review its dependencies, get it done.
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Mark Entrekin: We can do that.
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Mark Entrekin: Think of even busy mornings at a family breakfast.
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Mark Entrekin: Everyone has somewhere to go from work to school to many other events or locations where they need to be.
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Mark Entrekin: We can have a family stand up meeting each evening before that horrendous breakfast, and again turn it into something where everyone shares what their needs are, what their tasks are for the day, play sticky notes on your refrigerator with the chores and responsibility
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Mark Entrekin: each person can put their to do's on there. Then the next morning they can move their sticky note from to do
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Mark Entrekin: to done, create a breakfast station with pre-portioned ingredients and a weekly meal plan, minimizing that decision, fatigue
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Mark Entrekin: and reducing the time spent searching for items, can help everyone participate in a smoother and more efficient process.
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Mark Entrekin: achieving unity
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Mark Entrekin: through encouragement, inspiration, and inclusion. If you're looking at my my blog, you'll see articles out there talking about EI.
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Mark Entrekin: Encouragement, inspiration, and inclusion.
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Mark Entrekin: Encouragement can be that powerful force.
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Mark Entrekin: that powerful force that fuels the core of empowerment.
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Mark Entrekin: empowering others. So we can all work together.
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Mark Entrekin: encourage others to help accomplish their goals.
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Mark Entrekin: inspire each other. To achieve every goal.
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Mark Entrekin: Unity is what makes us a successful team.
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Mark Entrekin: We can include others and celebrate every victory.
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Mark Entrekin: both personally and professionally together, we can overcome any and every challenge.
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Mark Entrekin: Unity starts at home, it shapes society and transforms workplaces.
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Mark Entrekin: Are you facing? Trans, are you facing relationship challenges or parenting difficulties?
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Mark Entrekin: Are you or someone, you know.
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Mark Entrekin: struggling with relationship issues or parenting time issues as a divorced or divorcing parent.
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Mark Entrekin: We can transform that frustration into understanding with what the
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Mark Entrekin: frustration, where is the value in our actions? We can turn those frustrations into opportunities.
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Mark Entrekin: We must realize that anger, a NGER. Holds no value nowhere.
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Mark Entrekin: Anger is just actions not gaining effective results.
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Mark Entrekin: How have we ever gained a valuable result from our anger.
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Mark Entrekin: Sure somebody may have done it out of
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Mark Entrekin: their own hate, their own anger.
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Mark Entrekin: But there's better ways to do that.
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Mark Entrekin: Life happens just like a few minutes ago when I messed up my own logo.
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Mark Entrekin: life happens from from personal relationships to parenting time to prenuptial agreements. And yes, it even
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Mark Entrekin: doesn't require the nuptial, because sometimes we're not getting married anymore. Our court system has caused troubles also in the
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Mark Entrekin: whole marriage process. But we can learn to embrace and enjoy every moment and every challenge together.
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Mark Entrekin: One vision, one goal achieving unity in all areas of life.
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Mark Entrekin: 7 steps to achieving unity, success, formula. My course on that starts on April 3.rd
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Mark Entrekin: We have a webinar. It's a free webinar 90 min. I'll be talking about this that's coming up on March 27th contact me find out more about it. It's a great opportunity to help us
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Mark Entrekin: and bringing that success formula into action.
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Mark Entrekin: If you'd like. Here's my website home on the left. That's the QR code
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Mark Entrekin: contact. Me. QR code on the right.
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Mark Entrekin: Let's talk. Let's get together.
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Mark Entrekin: Communication and collaboration are the keys
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Mark Entrekin: those doors that open up to the successes we see for tomorrow
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Mark Entrekin: upcoming. Podcast we have a lot of people today's guest is just awesome. And she's gonna tell us so many wonderful things. But come back next week. I was just talking to Jason a few minutes few minutes ago.
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Mark Entrekin: keeping the focus on people.
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Mark Entrekin: People are our greatest access asset.
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Mark Entrekin: Jason Jovi will be here 3, 26.
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Mark Entrekin: Storytelling, effective marketing successes. Allison Verheland will be here. April second.
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Mark Entrekin: Leadership, resilience and team retention, Rose Haro, April 9, th when, anyway, an international
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Mark Entrekin: award winning speaker, Rich Hopkins, close friend of mine. He'll be here on 4 16, the dad edge. Larry Hagner will be here on 4, 23,
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Mark Entrekin: then, for the full month of June.
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Mark Entrekin: going to have all about the father's day. We're having all about fathers and dads and what we're learning. And sometimes father and dad struggles. Then in August we're going to talk about mothers and moms and the successes that mothers and moms have made throughout the centuries growing forward, we have a lot of great podcasts coming on. So again, please put this on your calendar, hope to see you again next week
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Mark Entrekin: today. This is wonderful. Now I'm talking to Janet several times, and I'm amazed every time we talk our emails. What she's done.
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Mark Entrekin: how she helps us build a better tomorrow.
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Mark Entrekin: and as she says, they're on the screen, there is always a gap between what you know
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Mark Entrekin: and how much you embody what you know.
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Mark Entrekin: We'll be able to put that into private practice and talk to Janet more about that in just a minute.
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Mark Entrekin: Janet Mcconnell's style of fitness, coaching results is a client's embodiment of wholeness in that mind, in the body, in our spirit.
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Mark Entrekin: as a coach
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Mark Entrekin: motivator and teacher. Shannon is based in Scottsdale, Arizona. She works with clients locally and across the nation. So even though you're not in the same town, even though you live in Scottsdale.
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Mark Entrekin: contact her. She will help you in growing forward. She shares her message. That ageless beauty
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Mark Entrekin: is achievable by all.
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Mark Entrekin: Not sure. She mentions me on that one, but everyone else just kidding. She's going to show everyone how to make yourself beauty just the way you are today
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Mark Entrekin: by igniting your physical power and mental strength. Janet believes every person can discover their own unique set of goals. Yes, your goals.
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Mark Entrekin: when recognized and activated, they can lead to fulfillment, happiness.
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Mark Entrekin: thriving relationships and revolutionary shifts at any age I am very excited to bring about.
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Mark Entrekin: It's Janet Mcconnell. So if you give me just a minute, let me pull these screens over
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Mark Entrekin: and unshare the screen.
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Mark Entrekin: Okay, I've stopped that share. Let me bring Janet over to the main screen
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Mark Entrekin: her in the top of the items.
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Mark Entrekin: Janet, how are you today? I'm so glad to have you. I'm excited to have you and be with you.
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Mark Entrekin: How is your day going
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Janet McConnell: It's going very well. Thank you, Mark, and thank you for having me as a guest on this amazing podcast.
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Mark Entrekin: Oh, you're kind. Thank you so much. I am just right now. I'm working on putting you into the
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Mark Entrekin: and there. And look there we are all right. It's an honor to have you here. And again. We've only talked a few times
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Mark Entrekin: But I've always been excited about what you are bringing and helping people understand about themselves. And
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Mark Entrekin: as I was joking earlier about myself, but you truly help people
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Mark Entrekin: grow and show that beauty within yourself within themselves. Can you tell us more about that, and how you got into this
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Janet McConnell: Yes, and by beauty I want to say, I don't mean like magazine cover, girl, I mean the beauty of every human being. So in that context men are beautiful, too. It means reaching that place where everything that you are. If you can peel away all the pieces, all the layers, the crust of who you are, not
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Janet McConnell: who you took on because you thought the world wanted you to be a certain way. You're pleasing others. Peel that away, and be yourself essentially when you are your essential self. That is beautiful
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Mark Entrekin: That is, I I just so appreciate.
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Mark Entrekin: And I can. I can feel, when you talk about it, how it's coming from from your heart because everyone is beautiful in their own way.
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Mark Entrekin: and I think you may talk about this later. Our desire to
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Mark Entrekin: be visual in somebody else's eyes is not what's important
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Mark Entrekin: and I think you talk about your mission to shatter the status quo of what society thinks. Aging is
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Mark Entrekin: what what sparked your passion for this, and what are some of the initial challenges that you have faced
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Janet McConnell: I think, as most people when they reach what they call middle age, whatever that is, you start to see your life differently. You start to realize. Oh, this timeline that I'm living in is I mean, you know, you're mortal, but you don't really think about it until you get to be maybe 50 and start to realize.
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Janet McConnell: oh, in 50 years, another 50 years I'm going to be 100. I wonder what that's going to be like, and you start to realize you really do have to count your days and use your time wisely. And what legacy are you leaving? And all these questions like. Maybe you're not where you wanted to be at the middle of your life. There's so much that comes to bear with that struggle that happens in that midlife crisis that I think we call it for me.
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Janet McConnell: I felt great about it because I was. I had already kind of crossed that a little earlier in an earlier decade, where I had to take charge of my life because of a health crisis which I will talk about. But what I wanted to say to everyone is that when you reach that point where you're really starting to question everything in this second half of your life, you start to have this sense of.
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Janet McConnell: Why is everybody treating me like I'm old, like saying things like, Well, I can't do that anymore. I guess I'm getting old, or oh, the aches and pains! Oh, oh, well, it's just because I'm getting old.
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Janet McConnell: and it's all just Bs. It's not true. And I want us to start changing our mindsets. I'm on a mission to get people to understand that it gets better as we move into the second half of our life. If our mindset is in the right place.
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Mark Entrekin: So I like.
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Mark Entrekin: Which sorry, but just to toss in there. I like what you're saying, because I've noticed that some of my life.
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Mark Entrekin: and as I joke about my next birthday, I'm just turning 39 years old again, I
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Mark Entrekin: think about the pains that I have today, and I do have a knee that does give me a little bit of trouble. And because I sit in this chair all day long staring at the computer all day long. I think I'm having
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Mark Entrekin: But I thought back just this past week is preparing for this.
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Mark Entrekin: and remember that many, many years ago
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Mark Entrekin: So am I just looking at things, even though now I'm at that age, as you're saying, people say. Well, you're old now. I like to take that word out. Say, no, I'm senior. I'm I'm more senior in the process.
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Mark Entrekin: But some of the things that pains that we're thinking about now.
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Mark Entrekin: Maybe we have more time to think about them, then they're actually true pain, perhaps
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Janet McConnell: I think that it comes down to really recognizing that it's you get a kind of a free ride for being vibrant and healthy and pretty pain, free disease, free in the 1st 3 to 3 and a half decades of our life, and then that midlife time is when you start to realize.
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Janet McConnell: Oh, I'm in the driver's seat, and I'm not driving very well, and I need to be a better driver. And so you really have to, because your body will more quickly tell you
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Janet McConnell: when you're not on point. And yeah, that wallet thing is true, because when you sit on your wallet on one side, then your hip joint is a little bit off.
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Janet McConnell: And so then it's gonna be it's going to want to stay that way. And then so one side of your back is tighter. And so you learned that you made the adjustment. And that's really all it is is learning, growing
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Janet McConnell: and adjusting and honoring the fact that yes, your body is a classic car now, so if you want it to feel good and to drive well, then, you have to take care of it, just like if you've ever seen on the freeway. Some guy is cruising down along in the slow lane, going below the speed limit because he's having a grand time
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Janet McConnell: in this beautiful convertible t-bird, and it's so shiny, and the white walls are all perfect. No scuffs.
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Janet McConnell: and the chrome sparkles. There's not a dent anywhere, and he is just like has his arm up on the seat, and he's just driving. That is what we should be. And that man has created that car to be a labor of love, and that is what our bodies are for us.
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Janet McConnell: As we get older. We are classic cars. We've been around long enough now to maybe the parts aren't replaceable anymore. So I always get that metaphor when I I because I'm in Arizona, there's a lot of car enthusiasts here
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Mark Entrekin: Oh, I bet!
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Janet McConnell: And it's a big retirement area. And and it's like the the people who and the weather. The weather's beautiful. It's sunny almost all the time. And so you get to see a lot of these beautiful cars, and I just go. Oh, look! He's taking care of that car. And then, you see somebody go by in a rust bucket, and you're like, oh, that's that's kind of what some people are gonna turn out to be. If they don't paint and scrub and get the dents out
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Mark Entrekin: That's a good point. And since you mentioned that I used to have a 1967 Firebird convertible
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Mark Entrekin: Beautiful car, and I did love doing that. Now I'm 1 of those that
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Mark Entrekin: I used to be one of those people that you're talking about the old junky car flashing couldn't get somewhere fast enough
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Janet McConnell: No.
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Mark Entrekin: One of those people. Luckily I learned, and maybe that convertible help me do that
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Mark Entrekin: because I could get into that slow lane, as you're saying, and just cruise not be in a hurry now. I was in Colorado at the time those beautiful mountains, and on those warm summer days spring days get out and driving in that sun. It was so beautiful.
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Mark Entrekin: and to enjoy that.
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Mark Entrekin: But, as you mentioned, I was one of those old
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Mark Entrekin: high speed rust buckets at one time.
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Mark Entrekin: So it's a learning experience.
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Janet McConnell: Right? Yes.
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Janet McConnell: yeah. When you love your car, you take care of it. And I say, when you love your body you take care of it.
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Janet McConnell: you know, and
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Mark Entrekin: And I like the way
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Janet McConnell: Yeah, not complain about the fact that it's hard, or that you have to exercise, or that you have to eat right, or you can't have as everything and anything to feed yourself with. You know, junk, food and things like that. Well, you wouldn't put garbage fuel into a high performance car, either. You know there's a cost to that
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Janet McConnell: a rust bucket, because as a child and as a young person, I was an athlete, and, you know, very active and strong and confident, and then, when I got into the corporate world, I brought that with me. That mindset of I can do anything. I just have to practice. I have to work hard.
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Janet McConnell: and I did it too much to the detriment of self care, but it was partly because the health that I had going in was somewhat taken for granted, and I didn't understand. Oh, you actually have to do the things to keep it up, and I was busy, and I was fine, you know, and I didn't feel I wasn't. I wasn't sickly, but I was tired a lot, and just kind of like getting a little rundown, you know. Just burn out. Probably
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Janet McConnell: but this is a wide departure from when I last saw you. Your blood work shows high blood pressure, high triglycerides, high cholesterol, your borderline obese.
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Janet McConnell: But when I really thought about it, I think the fatigue should have been a sign that I just thought. Well, you know, maybe I'm not getting enough sleep. Oh, well, it was not a good way to think, but I wasn't wise yet in the ways of how to age. Well.
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Janet McConnell: Yeah, yeah, he said, let's I'll hold you to it. Let's see what you can do. I mean, he knew it was a go getter, but he knew me after my athletic days. He just knew me as a as a corporate person.
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Janet McConnell: and I told my boss, and she said, Well, you know I have this great trainer. I mean, you don't have a plan. This trainer is really fun, and he's he's very thorough. He knows what he's doing. You won't get hurt.
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Janet McConnell: and he was great, exactly as she said, albeit I had to train at 5 o'clock in the morning. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, which was all new to me wasn't thrilled about that, but it really made sense because everybody was sleeping, so there were no distractions. There were no last minute meetings causing me to have to cancel my training or anything like that. There was nothing in my way except me getting there. So that was good.
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Janet McConnell: And he was into. He was a bodybuilding resistance training trainer. You know. There's lots of disciplines out there crossfit, and you know, all kinds of interval training. And there's many different, you know, structures. But he was a resistance training person with a bodybuilding background. And so that's what I did.
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Janet McConnell: I love the lifting. I you know, I just thought, Well, I'm gonna do this. This is great. And I didn't really. I didn't change my diet. I didn't do anything else. I just went to the gym 3 days a week, and just for an hour.
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Janet McConnell: and he just he just shook his head at me and goes. I don't know, Janet. You somehow pulled it off. I've never had this happen before where somebody made a 6 month promise. Now I was still a little bit fluffy, just a little overweight, but all of my blood work was in the normal range, and I lost 30 pounds without
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Janet McConnell: So let's see if you can keep going. You're gonna be back here in 6 more months because, you know, people who get Gung Ho about something sometimes quit. So
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Janet McConnell: right? Exactly. Yeah. It's it's interesting, too, because there's a couple of things that come to mind when you say that one is that if you are absolutely determined that you are going to do something, what is gonna get in your way? Nothing.
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Janet McConnell: What if you're kind of like? I kind of like to do that, and maybe I'll give it a try what will get in your way. Everything.
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Janet McConnell: Decision, fatigue. So that's a thing I'm aware of because of the things I put in my life to take the decision out of it, and that, I think, is the essence of commitment.
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Janet McConnell: When you have a commitment decision is gone. The decision has been made done. When the air, when the airline pilot.
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Janet McConnell: And stand on the brakes. Right? We're we're all the whole plane. We're all of one mind to get up in the air. That's commitment.
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Janet McConnell: No decisions are left. And so that is really what it takes to make a big shift is to you may not have to do everything that you know, you can't necessarily start an exercise program. Get a dietician. Make sure that you're getting your sleep. It's a lot right. Commitment means you're started on your journey, and you're going to take each thing one at a time.
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Mark Entrekin: I like what you're saying, and I like that word that you used to action.
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Mark Entrekin: because that means a lot to put it into action, and I can see your doctor's point as well about people who think about it. You just talk about procrastination, but putting it into action, and what you did. You kept it in action right?
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Janet McConnell: Yeah, well, and even then. So I got over that 1st hurdle. Right? So I was like.
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Janet McConnell: Okay, cleared that hurdle. Now, what? And I thought, okay, well, number one, I'm not going to quit training, because now it's part of my lifestyle. So I had adopted it long enough where I wasn't going to quit that.
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Janet McConnell: You know, it's kind of they call it a big, hairy, audacious goal, the Bhag, you know. You need this goal. That's like, Oh, I want to do that. It's really hard, but oh, I want it so I kind of, you know. Thought about it for a week or 2. What would it be? What? How can I go to the next level? And then, about that time these 2 ladies who were friends showed up at my gym at 5 Am. Training at the same time as me
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Janet McConnell: with another trainer. So they were nearby. I could like watch what they were doing. They were stunning. They were carved and sculpted, and had washboard abs, and they looked so strong and healthy and feminine like they didn't look, you know, scary. They just looked impressive.
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Janet McConnell: Well, as it turns out, it wasn't strength at all. It was something that I hadn't done yet. And what was that diet? So I asked my trainer. Well, I noticed that they were lifting the same weights. I was lifting, you know, the 20 pound dumbbell curls, and and the and the cables and and the barbells, and they weren't. They weren't any stronger than me, Mark, they were the same.
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Janet McConnell: I said to my trainer, why do they look like that? And I look like this, and we're doing the same thing, and he goes. Oh, well, there's this other thing, Janet. They are bodybuilding competitors, and they're going to be on stage in 5 weeks. So they have to eat strategically.
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Janet McConnell: and you probably won't like it, and I think he was afraid maybe I would quit because I would get discouraged. But of course not. I said, No, no, get me the diet. I want to do this. And so I started in.
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Janet McConnell: and that changed the course of my life and made me realize I've learned something that is so amazing. I want to do this with other people. I want to help people who are middle aged and older be able to reclaim this
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Janet McConnell: So that's kind of where my corporate life came to an end.
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Janet McConnell: and then I was able to then go on and and be a trainer for people and help them with their journey. And from there came everything else, public speaking being an author, etc.
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Mark Entrekin: You're awesome. Thank you. I saw my little box here. It just went. It went bad. So thank you so much for doing that. It just wow!
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Janet McConnell: That happens sometimes. I know it's it's been in our neighborhood. They've been changing out some of the the hard wiring and stuff. And I see the I see the cable truck in the alley, and I'm like, Oh, oh, I hope it's a good Internet day.
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Mark Entrekin: And I have pretty good Internet here, and it's just it it just as we talked about earlier things happen
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Mark Entrekin: and is that about your health crisis in the mid forties is that part of just your weight? Is that? Is that just? Is that what you're talking about? Was there anything else that
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Janet McConnell: Whole doctor experience. You know that conversation. That was a crisis for me. That was that was what forced me to stop what I was doing.
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Janet McConnell: and change my course and make make changes little at a little at a time. I mean, you know, I didn't do the whole thing at once. But since that 1st since that 1st competition that I did after doing a year's training toward that goal, that was my new, big, hairy, audacious goals to be on that stage
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Janet McConnell: and I've been, I've done like, I think, 7 or 8 competitions since then. Most recently the last 2 shows I did where I was in the North American National Championship, and got trophies in the 60 and over category.
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Mark Entrekin: I think it's awesome what you're doing, and for you telling us that you're almost 70, and to look like you do, and to more than anything
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Mark Entrekin: And there's a lot of things going on right now, and you talked about your prescriptions. The doctor 1st tell you about all the pills that you would have to take, and things like that, and
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Janet McConnell: Yeah. Medications will keep you in check if you have. If you're if you're redlining, you know one of those biomarkers. But what's really important is that those medications by themselves will not create health.
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Janet McConnell: It just keeps you out of the Red Zone. It keeps you from dropping dead. But I mean is that where you want to live
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Janet McConnell: on the edge of dropping dead, you know. So it's here's a here's a caveat, you know. Some of those great big, huge gym Bros with the giant muscles, and they look like little gorillas like they're huge, right? And of course they take anabolic steroids. So people go. Oh, well, the reason you look like that is because you take steroids.
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Janet McConnell: Maybe a little road rage would be in there, but they would. But so all the all the anabolic steroids do is it works as a catalyst, so that what they're doing in the gym manifests more quickly. It's it's it's a catalyst. So it speeds up
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Janet McConnell: It's a tool to speed it up, but if so, by the same token, I don't want to, you know. Get into the whole steroid conversation. But but it's a good metaphor, for if you take, if you, you know, take any of even ozempic, you know, which helps people who need to drop fat, lose if they don't exercise while they're taking it. So that's a problem. If they're just taking the drug and thinking I don't have to do a thing. People even say that I didn't exercise, and I lost 40 pounds.
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Janet McConnell: Well, guess what came off in that 40 pounds fat and muscle, you lose both. So the only way your muscle will stay on your body is if it has a reason to hang around, and the only reason it has to hang around is if you're using it. And you're saying, if every movement I need you to stay, and I need you to grow
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Janet McConnell: so it's dangerous, because muscle is the organ of longevity. The less muscle mass you have, the shorter your lifespan. And this is scientifically backed data that's coming out in the last 4 or 5 years. It's been a real groundswell of evidence. So you're going to hear a lot of people out in social media and podcasting, who will talk, who are health, Gurus, who will talk about this? That muscle is the most important part.
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Mark Entrekin: Sometimes that it takes me back to what we talked about earlier. That old rusty car that you have. You're not taking care of yourself and doing something that's still the
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Janet McConnell: It's becoming so. We we are slow to turn around with our understanding. I mean, for the last
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Janet McConnell: 50, 60 years, where people have been paying attention to any kind of healthy practice. You know, quitting, smoking, and taking it easy on the alcohol or quitting, and also it used to be believed that you just starve yourself to be skinny. You starve yourself to be skinny, and that was the the epitome of beauty, you know, to be very thin
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Janet McConnell: so wrong, it's completely the wrong way around. So you know, we're learning well because our scientific process has improved. We've had a long enough time for longitudinal studies, you know, with with the scientific process, you need a wide enough sample size and need a long enough time to have a double blind peer reviewed research
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Janet McConnell: out finding to be really solid. And so it's been long enough now where we have that. And there are so many leaders out there who talk about this. Now it's becoming very current
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Mark Entrekin: I am so glad to hear you say that. And again with our Internet, even though I've had troubles with it today.
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Janet McConnell: But sometimes it's because we're hearing about them more
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Mark Entrekin: 20 plus years ago we didn't have a way to share this information. We always found out late. There's always some of the big news, so we are able to find out more. I'm glad to hear that you say that there is something going on
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Mark Entrekin: Yet that brings me another question. When you're talking about the fat
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Janet McConnell: per pound than 5 pounds of muscle consumes way more calories than 5 pounds of fat. So muscle is expensive. Real estate, right it you have to eat to keep it on your body, and if you are eating below, like at starvation level. Evolutionarily, what our bodies are programmed to do is to hang on to that fat, because that will save your life. If you, indeed, are in a situation where you are starving.
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Janet McConnell: So our our, you know, our ancestors, who were hunters and gatherers.
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Janet McConnell: had to maybe get a great big meal of a mammoth or some kind of large animal, and they would do everything they could consume as much as they could preserve as much as they could, but eventually there would be a dry season where they wouldn't find anything, and they just barely get by with small, you know, small animals like rodents and berries, and just little roots and things. So they were not eating enough
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Janet McConnell: That we don't have even, you know. I mean, there's food is always available for most people I know. There's, you know, there's pockets in the world where starvation is still an issue.
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Janet McConnell: but there is a a wide abundance of food available, so we no longer have that, and the food, especially the processed food. It's delicious, and it's addicting. And it's designed that way. So it's hard
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Mark Entrekin: Designed that way.
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Janet McConnell: Or to stop eating it. I'm prey to it as I have to stay away, because I'll just finish the whole bag. So yeah, I know not me.
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Mark Entrekin: That is so true, and you bring up so many good points there, and my better half mine.
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Mark Entrekin: kind of as we see all the time. Here. There's food here, there's snacks here, a lot of it processed.
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Mark Entrekin: It seems to occupy time, and she doesn't eat much, but it's just it's there.
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Janet McConnell: It's hard to turn down. So yeah, and it's only
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Mark Entrekin: It's sitting right there in front of you.
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Mark Entrekin: I eat nuts a lot from the almonds, the cashews, and the pistachios.
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Mark Entrekin: but the sitting here I eat them, but at least they're good for me. But when you have
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Mark Entrekin: You can eat those also? But but I have a very important question to ask you. We have about 9 min left
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Mark Entrekin: I don't understand the alcohol problem now. Person like me, my family and I started this long time ago. I enjoy wine.
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Mark Entrekin: Sometimes I drink more than I should. I realize that. But I'm usually a glass or 2,
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Janet McConnell: people often think that alcohol. It's the calories that keep a person from losing weight. So like, let's say, a person is trying to lose 10 pounds. And so they're upping their vegetables, and they're upping their protein. And they're trying to keep the French fries. And you know, things like that at bay because they're so much higher, they're richer, and they digest so quickly.
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Janet McConnell: But alcohol, even though it has calories and liquid calories, any any calories that are in liquid really hit the system fast
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Janet McConnell: and cause insulin to respond, and it is like it. So it gives you a sugar, a bit of a sugar bump, and then a crash.
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Janet McConnell: Here's what I say. There's a spectrum. So if you are seriously trying to lose weight, lose fat, let's say it's helpful, it is like an extra boost if you can go for that period of time with no alcohol, because
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Janet McConnell: it until you get the weight locked down, and then you can have moderation. Monitor your your composition, your fat content. But so in in moderation, it's absolutely okay in your day to day
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Janet McConnell: Normal existence, you and you can lose weight and have alcohol, but it takes so much longer. And the reason is not the calories so much.
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Janet McConnell: So the liver has like 600 jobs. But the main job it has is to keep you alive. When toxins enter the system and it has a toxin detector, and it goes, and the toxins come through in the blood, and it grabs onto those toxins and
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Janet McConnell: everything else that the liver is supposed to do. Just kind of like gets lower in priority to get the toxins out first, st because alcohol is a toxin
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Mark Entrekin: So I was just about to ask, okay.
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Janet McConnell: Yeah, it's a toxin. And so the the liver perceives this as a much. That's the top priority right now, until I get that out of your system, that's all I'm going to worry about. And this other stuff can wait. So it takes care cleanses, and it takes about depending on your metabolism 36 to 48 h to finish
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Janet McConnell: getting it all out of your system. For the most part it's a you know. It's kind of got a half life to it. Then it gets back to the business of guess what fat metabolism
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Janet McConnell: it helps you metabolize fat when you're converting fat into energy. It helps with that, and it decides when you get to do it. You don't lose fat unless the liver says it's okay. So the
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Janet McConnell: So it decides that it's so smart. The liver is very smart, but so let's say you're on a you're on a roll. You've lost 5 pounds. You're halfway there, and you're like, Oh, I go to a birthday party and have a glass of wine or 2.
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Janet McConnell: So you can see where it doesn't completely keep you from losing fat, but it slows it down. So when I'm getting ready for a show 6 months before. Show no alcohol
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Mark Entrekin: I can't go 24 to 48 h without my glass of wine.
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Janet McConnell: Yes, you can. Well, that's that's you. Telling yourself that I love
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Mark Entrekin: That's exactly right. I'm glad you said that, cause it is. It's it's me selling myself that
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Janet McConnell: I love a good Martini, but I certainly don't indulge when I am getting ready for the stage, because you have to be so lean, that you need every meal, every snack, every glass of water to be perfect. So it is extreme, and it's it is hard
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Mark Entrekin: At all.
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Janet McConnell: It is hard to do, but for a regular person just losing weight until you're in a nice healthy range, where you feel good about your body and the way you look, and you feel good, you can certainly tolerate some alcohol, but it's harder. It takes longer. So you have to decide if you want to go the slow way around or the fast track
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Mark Entrekin: Oh, you're so right! And, Janet, we only have a couple more minutes now, but that's what I tell people to. It is my whole decision making process because you can almost put a wine glass in my hand, and I feel better. I feel more relaxed. It's all self generated, and I know that, and it's I do enjoy the wine, but I think it is more mental, and I realize that and more people need to. But we have about 3 min left. I want to give it to you. I appreciate all that you're doing. Your ageless beauty
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Mark Entrekin: is achieved by all, and I want to get this out to more people.
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Mark Entrekin: You've got the last couple of minutes. How can you help us do that? I'll leave it up to you for the close
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Janet McConnell: Okay, well, I want people to know that
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Janet McConnell: 1st of all, mindset is probably the most important part of this. And I want a world. I'm working toward creating a world where aging is seen as a time to grow, not to decline.
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Janet McConnell: That aging isn't something that happens to you. It's something that is for you to really be able to blossom into the person you were meant to be. All along you come to middle age and beginning older age and senior years, with this full deck of a life experience where you can now really manifest the reason you came here. So why would you let bad habits from your youth.
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Janet McConnell: It's it's so important to have decades ahead of you that are stronger, happier, and more engaged than ever.
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Mark Entrekin: So yeah, I was just gonna say that you're stronger than you think
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Janet McConnell: And strength is about resilience and mindset as much as it is about doing, you know. Dumbbell curls in the gym.
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Janet McConnell: So that's that's my message.
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Mark Entrekin: I love that message, that, and that's a great message, and that's what I do. I work out 3 times a week, Monday, Friday mornings, and
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Mark Entrekin: value, as you mentioned earlier, into our life. What we care about we take care of.
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Mark Entrekin: and with our body. That's where we need to be.
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Mark Entrekin: Janet. This has been a pleasure. Sorry about my Internet going out. Thank you so much for carrying on. You knew how this worked, and
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Mark Entrekin: you kept it going. Thank you so much. It's a pleasure and an honor to be here if you would like. I would enjoy having you back here in a few months, maybe touch on some more and get a little bit deeper into the process.
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Janet McConnell: I would love that
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Mark Entrekin: Learn
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Mark Entrekin: and find out more about your programs and the your speeches and what you bring forward. And let's schedule something. And let's get this going. Get more people out here, teach more people about the situation with working out
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Mark Entrekin: the fat, the muscle, the alcohol. Let us learn so we can take care, take better care of ourselves
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Janet McConnell: Well, you can invite me back anytime, and I want you to know, and your listeners to know, that aging is inevitable. But decay is optional.
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Mark Entrekin: Whoa! Can you say that again
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Janet McConnell: Aging. Go ahead.
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Janet McConnell: It's inevitable.
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Janet McConnell: We can't control how many candles are on your birthday cake. Right? Aging is inevitable, but decay is optional.
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Mark Entrekin: beautiful. Let's close on that, Janet. Thank you so much. It's been a pleasure. We will be talking again soon. Enjoy your day audience. I hope to see you again next week. Thank you. All have a great day. Cheers
