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Speaker 1: Welcome to Healthy Ish and happy new Year. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for joining us on the Body and Soul podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host Felicity Hawley. To celebrate the new year, we

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Speaker 1: are dropping our top Healthyish episodes from last year and

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Speaker 1: this one was a goodie. You really liked it and

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Speaker 1: we thought it was the perfect one to play again

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Speaker 1: in the new year. When you're setting all those goals,

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Speaker 1: What does it take to get a strong body? I

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Speaker 1: was joined by high performance coach and motivational speaker Alexis

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Speaker 1: Tawersi to discuss how to let go of body ideals

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Speaker 1: and build full body strength. Now listening to extra Healthyish

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Speaker 1: as well, where Alexis joined us to talk about her

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Speaker 1: experience on the TV show Naked and Afraid. You can

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Speaker 1: catch that episode wherever you get your podcasts. I can't

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Speaker 1: believe we haven't met in person. I mean I think

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Speaker 1: we have. Well, I've been following you for a long time,

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Speaker 1: so I feel like I do know you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It's every person I've ever met in person of social

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Speaker 3: has never ever called.

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Speaker 2: Me by my real name. What is it like, well,

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Speaker 2: my full name, Like everyon's always like, oh, actional Lexa.

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Speaker 1: I've set down the busy your handle.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 3: The guys at a table next to me being like

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Speaker 3: actional Lexa, do you want an arm wrestler?

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Speaker 2: I'm like no, Can someone ask me for my number?

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Speaker 1: Are you good at arm wrestles?

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Speaker 2: I used to be Yeah, used to get me free

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Speaker 2: breakfast in Hong Kong. Well there we go.

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Speaker 1: I should call you action Alexa, sorry something like that. Okay, strong,

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Speaker 1: I mean you are incredibly strong. We'll talk about your

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Speaker 1: strong minded, extra healthy ish, but your your strength of body.

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Speaker 1: What does what does it feel like to be strong?

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Speaker 2: God? Such a great question. You know.

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Speaker 3: My love of weight training and being strong stems back

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Speaker 3: to when I was fifteen and my mom was diagnosed

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Speaker 3: with a mental illness. I was being bullied at school

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Speaker 3: for being too skinny. So my nickname at school was

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Speaker 3: that a Laxa and Arexa Gosh's cruel, aren't they?

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Speaker 2: Yes? They are?

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Speaker 3: And I went to the weights room on a mission

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Speaker 3: for muscles and it was kind of that was my

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Speaker 3: first ever experience with lifting ways and that place just

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Speaker 3: became my sanctuary and I think from then on in

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Speaker 3: it sort of it became the place where I learned

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Speaker 3: to develop physical strength. But then I also learned about

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Speaker 3: the connection between physical strength and the mental fortitude that

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Speaker 3: came alongside that, and it's just I can't describe it.

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Speaker 3: But for me, the gym isn't so much about Peb's

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Speaker 3: in the gym. It's kind of about the bad assory

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Speaker 3: that you get from lifting the heavy weights and then

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Speaker 3: how that translates into the rest of your life, because

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Speaker 3: I just feel like it's a catalyst for so many

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Speaker 3: other areas.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're so right. I mean when I go heavy,

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Speaker 1: which I like doing, not as heavy as you mind,

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Speaker 1: you you just you feel unstoppable, you do, And I

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Speaker 1: think that's what has given me the confident to do

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Speaker 1: everything else that I've kind of tried to give a crack.

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Speaker 3: And I think that feeling of empowerment. You know, not

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Speaker 3: everybody has a really positive first experience with fitness, and

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Speaker 3: I think I was just incredibly lucky to find myself

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Speaker 3: in a place where people really had my back, people

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Speaker 3: really inspired me, they really took me under their wing,

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Speaker 3: and that sense of empowerment was such a gift that

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Speaker 3: it's probably why I do what I do now, because

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Speaker 3: I think, for you know, me, as both a coach

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Speaker 3: and a female, there's nothing more rewarding than seeing a

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Speaker 3: woman become empowered in her training and then watching how

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Speaker 3: that translates into her attitude towards the rest of her life, Like,

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Speaker 3: that's the coolest thing about what I get to do.

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Speaker 1: And also linking that, I mean often we go to

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Speaker 1: the gym and we left weights and we think, oh,

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Speaker 1: we have to do this to keep fit and strengthen

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Speaker 1: our muscles, especially as we're getting older. But to translate

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Speaker 1: those same learnings from the gym into other areas of

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Speaker 1: your life, perhaps that connection isn't made enough.

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Speaker 3: No, And I think even when it comes to work ethic,

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Speaker 3: like I find that if you can cultivate like a

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Speaker 3: stellar work ethic and you're training, it often permeates everything

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Speaker 3: else that you do. So there are so many connections

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Speaker 3: that are really undervalued and not spoken about enough.

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Speaker 2: For sure.

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Speaker 1: Now on Instagram, you know you wrote you wrote that

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Speaker 1: you're forty four, but your mind says you're twenty five

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Speaker 1: when it comes to lifting weights. Now, this is probably

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Speaker 1: I think something that a lot of as scrapp are we. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I used to be able to lift this in the gym. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I used to be able to run this. I used

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Speaker 1: to be able to do this and now I can't.

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Speaker 1: How do you, like, how do you manage this and

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Speaker 1: navigate this?

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Speaker 2: Look, I'm not going to say it's easy, because I

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Speaker 2: think it's a really it's a really easy path.

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Speaker 3: To fall into, especially if you're on social media and

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of really fit, fine looking females out

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Speaker 3: there where that genetically blessed twenty year old bodies who

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Speaker 3: were doing incredible things. And I think when you get older.

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Speaker 2: With filters Monday, yeah, you know, it's not.

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Speaker 3: Everything that you see on social media is obviously not

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Speaker 3: real life. And you know, if you put two people

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Speaker 3: in front of me, who one was twenty years old

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Speaker 3: lifting incredible weights in the gym and looking phenomenal, and

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Speaker 3: then you have a forty year old lady lifting the

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Speaker 3: same amount of weights and looking phenomenal, I'm going to

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Speaker 3: be more inspired by the forty year old female and

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Speaker 3: the gym lifting weights, because man, the dedication and the

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Speaker 3: discipline and the commitment to cultivating that for so many

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Speaker 3: years of your life and still looking like that and

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Speaker 3: still being able to do like that is so much

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Speaker 3: more impressive to me. And those are the people that

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Speaker 3: I go to for education and empowerment and inspiration, and

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Speaker 3: I wish more women would look at that and be

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Speaker 3: more inspired by that, because I think the worst thing

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Speaker 3: we can do as we get older is try to

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Speaker 3: fight our bodies to get back to what we could

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Speaker 3: do when we're twenty. And I think it's natural, Like,

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Speaker 3: you know, when I was in my twenties, I had

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Speaker 3: I started out in the gym purely for esthetic reasons.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to look a certain way, and you buy

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Speaker 3: into that. But I think inevitably along the journey you

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Speaker 3: kind of then find how weights makes you feel or

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Speaker 3: how training makes you feel, and you buy into that.

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Speaker 3: You know, I shifted from aesthetics and then I went

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Speaker 3: to performance, and now I train because I want to

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Speaker 3: feel good. I want to be able to do all

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Speaker 3: the things I love to do outside of the gym,

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Speaker 3: and I also don't want to be in pain. You know,

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Speaker 3: as you get older, your body doesn't respond the same

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Speaker 3: way to either training or nutrition, and you can spend

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Speaker 3: all of your time fighting that and have your body

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Speaker 3: be like have an absolute tantrument about it and you

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Speaker 3: not get anywhere, or you can lean into what your

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Speaker 3: body actually wants, start listening to it, and start preparing

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Speaker 3: for like, you know.

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Speaker 2: Less summer bodies, more old lady bodies.

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Speaker 1: You know, like, bring on the old lady bodies, ladies.

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Speaker 3: We want strong muscles and dense bones to kind of

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Speaker 3: carry us into a really strong future. Like the statistics

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Speaker 3: surrounding osteoporosis and women quite terrifying, you know, like forty

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Speaker 3: percent of women after menopause will develop, you know, will

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Speaker 3: have an osteoproduct fracture. And by the time you're eighty,

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Speaker 3: forty percent of women will have osteoporosis. I don't want fractures.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to be falling over and getting injured

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Speaker 3: and not having functional independence when I'm old, and we

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Speaker 3: need to start preparing for that.

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Speaker 1: What does your weekly strength through team of client?

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Speaker 3: I since I had my head replacement, I had a

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Speaker 3: head replacement six seven years ago now, and it changed

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Speaker 3: the way that I train. It forced me to reassess

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Speaker 3: the way that I trained. And now I probably train

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Speaker 3: two to three times a week structured strength training in

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Speaker 3: the gym. My warm ups and my activation and mobility

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Speaker 3: and stabilization stuff are probably longer than my actual workouts themselves.

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Speaker 1: Oh interesting, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 2: Take a long time to warm up.

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Speaker 3: And then I have probably two days where I do

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Speaker 3: some pilates and more restorative type stuff where I focus

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Speaker 3: more on streets management.

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Speaker 1: Now, talking about stress management, you are coming up in

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Speaker 1: a show called Naked and Afraid Act. She's out in

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Speaker 1: the US, it's coming to Australia in December. There must

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Speaker 1: have been a lot of stress being in the Colombian

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Speaker 1: junk call Naked? Were you afraid.

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Speaker 3: God? More afraid of failure? To be honest, like, not

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Speaker 3: afraid of the jungle herself, more afraid of failure. I

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Speaker 3: think I spent my whole life trying to hit specific

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Speaker 3: goals and being out there. The goal was to survive

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Speaker 3: and that was the only thing I was really worried about,

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Speaker 3: like not pulling my own weight for lack of a

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Speaker 3: better term, out there. So I really leaned into all

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Speaker 3: the physical hard work. I was like, the way I'm

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Speaker 3: going to get through this is by being a workhorse

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Speaker 3: and using the work ethic.

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Speaker 2: That I've developed. And that's exactly what happened.

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Speaker 1: We look forward to talking about about it next Healthy

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Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on the podcast.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Hope you enjoyed this chat with Alexa Hearing from her

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Speaker 1: now we have to get her back on when her

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Speaker 1: a series of Naked and Alive drops. It is towards

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Speaker 1: the end of the year, so yeah, if you do

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