Speaker 1: This is let's be clear with Shannon Dherny. Well, let's
Speaker 1: be clear about a couple of things.
Speaker 2: Number one, Shannon and the nineties and stop the Insanity.
Speaker 2: I am Susan Powder, otherwise known as Stop the Stop
Speaker 2: the Insanity, Lady of the nineties, Fitness nineties and nine
Speaker 2: oh two one oh. So it's such a pleasure, such
Speaker 2: a pleasure to be here, and let's be clear. And
Speaker 2: there's a lot I would like to be clear about.
Speaker 2: So I was thinking last night. I was thinking last
Speaker 2: night about obviously doing this podcast, and I was thinking
Speaker 2: about Shannon. I was thinking about the experience she shared, good, bad,
Speaker 2: or indifferent, the sharing of it and what used to
Speaker 2: be known as storytelling is now a very different thing.
Speaker 2: I know that because what stopped the insanity was, and
Speaker 2: for those who don't know it was, it was the
Speaker 2: nineties of wellness and eat, breathe, move and think and
Speaker 2: you know, lean strong and healthy and crazy woman with
Speaker 2: short white hair that did not exist anywhere else, screaming
Speaker 2: on TV and blah blah blah. But what stopped the
Speaker 2: insanity was it was storytelling. And what used to be
Speaker 2: storytelling is now information sharing. And that's what Shannon did
Speaker 2: for years and years, through a horrifying battle and a
Speaker 2: brave battle. She shared an experience that nobody really I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, the last thing you want to share.
Speaker 1: Probably is HI, I have cancer.
Speaker 2: But that sharing of the experience, I know, changed thousands
Speaker 2: and thousands and thousands of lives, made millions of people
Speaker 2: aware of things you may not have thought about. Stop
Speaker 2: the insanity literally started, and it was massive. It started
Speaker 2: by me sharing my experience. I just talked about an
Speaker 2: experience of being single mother in Garland, Texas in the eighties.
Speaker 2: Stop the insanity. It was the nineties. I would like
Speaker 2: to just make that clear. The eighties was when I
Speaker 2: woke up one day with two babies a year apart,
Speaker 2: and then we call him the Prince Forever, decided.
Speaker 1: He was an into marriage anymore and left.
Speaker 2: So going through a divorce, single mom a year apart,
Speaker 2: my children were and I woke up one day and
Speaker 2: there I was at way over two hundred pounds, not
Speaker 2: liking the way I looked or felt at all. I
Speaker 2: did not like the way I looked and felt. I
Speaker 2: didn't like the energy I didn't have. I didn't like
Speaker 2: the disconnection from my body. I changed the way I
Speaker 2: looked and felt. I lost well over one hundred pounds.
Speaker 2: I got strong, I built lean, muscle mass, I built
Speaker 2: cardio durance. How I did that is the story and
Speaker 2: was the story of Stop the Insanity. But the reason
Speaker 2: it became anything was because I spoke with other women,
Speaker 2: literally in the supermarket I would be the supermarket. Piggly
Speaker 2: Wiggly was the supermarket in Garland, Texas in the eighties.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it may still exist. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: I had never heard of a supermarket called Piggly Wiggly,
Speaker 2: but that's where I shopped with my two babies, and
Speaker 2: women would say, like passing babies.
Speaker 1: We had babies, you know.
Speaker 2: I had a one and a two year old sitting
Speaker 2: in the cart, and they would say, oh, you look
Speaker 2: so good. You just had And I would say, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: you don't understand I was. I'm telling I was two
Speaker 2: hours and sixty pounds. And all I did was change
Speaker 2: the way I eat, and I changed movement, and I
Speaker 2: added oxygen to my life. And women would gather in
Speaker 2: the aisles of the grocery store. There was no TV,
Speaker 2: there was no seven books, there was no nine Platinum videos.
Speaker 2: There was no Simon and Schuster, Time Warner, every television,
Speaker 2: there was none of that.
Speaker 1: There was none of that.
Speaker 2: Everything that Stopped the Insanity was was based on sharing
Speaker 2: my experience of a single mother going through a divorce
Speaker 2: in the early eighties in Texas.
Speaker 1: And while you're.
Speaker 2: Doing that, trying to reconnect again with my body, it
Speaker 2: is the women that blew that whole thing up, and
Speaker 2: they understood a message.
Speaker 1: The message that is simple.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's no physiology degree, there's no there's no anything.
Speaker 2: I heard a few things that dramatically changed my life.
Speaker 1: We didn't have the internet.
Speaker 2: Then everybody listening knows that, like you don't have to
Speaker 2: be past. I have three sons, the two boys that
Speaker 2: everyone in Stop the Insanity grew up with, and they
Speaker 2: know the prince is and was the ex husband. And
Speaker 2: what people don't know years later is I adopted a
Speaker 2: baby at forty so I have forty two, forty one,
Speaker 2: and a twenty seven year old. And that twenty seven
Speaker 2: year old knows absolutely nothing about Stop the Insanity had
Speaker 2: nothing to do with it. Like years and years and
Speaker 2: years later, but when I heard, I heard basic things.
Speaker 2: We didn't have the Internet, and I say, to my
Speaker 2: twenty seven year old all the time time. You have
Speaker 2: no idea what it took to get information. And it
Speaker 2: wasn't that long ago, you know. You know, if you're
Speaker 2: I would say now, I don't know whatever, younger than
Speaker 2: forty otherwise you know what I mean when I said
Speaker 2: to get information back then, to go and find the
Speaker 2: books that explained, like how do I lose all this way?
Speaker 2: How do I lose so much weight? How do I
Speaker 2: feel strong again? How do I change my body back
Speaker 2: to anything I recognize?
Speaker 1: I want to look and feel different.
Speaker 2: I heard a couple of facts that change my life forever,
Speaker 2: just like I'm sure all of you who are loyal listeners,
Speaker 2: I mean loyal listeners and care ver enough about this
Speaker 2: podcast that it's still going strong, which is kind of
Speaker 2: thrilling and bravo Shannon. I mean for real, you know,
Speaker 2: to get information then wasn't as easy as here on
Speaker 2: the phone. I heard a few facts at two hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty pounds that changed my life. I'm sixty seven,
Speaker 2: so I was. I don't know how old I was
Speaker 2: twenty something? You know, who knows when I had the
Speaker 2: first two? You forget after a while, take it from me.
Speaker 1: I heard that.
Speaker 2: Lean muscle mass was metabolically the most active tissue in
Speaker 2: the human body. Now where I heard that was from
Speaker 2: a bodybuilding book that I was reading in Garland, Texas,
Speaker 2: and I thought at two hundred and sixty pounds, I thought, well,
Speaker 2: I could use some active tissue internally, didn't know what
Speaker 2: it meant, didn't know how to do it, had no
Speaker 2: idea what. I also heard that fat burns in oxygen,
Speaker 2: and the only way to get oxygen into your body
Speaker 2: is to move in it for thirty minutes or more
Speaker 2: in oxygen.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: I heard those two facts a thousand years ago. I
Speaker 2: had nobody to share it with, to say the least,
Speaker 2: but it ended up being shared with millions of people
Speaker 2: all over the world. That's my point exactly, with experience sharing,
Speaker 2: which we can do here, we can do it so
Speaker 2: much more easily now, and we can continue to do
Speaker 2: with women like Shannon, who built a platform that gives
Speaker 2: us the privilege of continuing to do it. So that's
Speaker 2: why I'm grateful to be asked to do this. It
Speaker 2: was sharing the information. I had to find it, you know,
Speaker 2: much more difficult ways. But once I heard heard just
Speaker 2: those two facts, I applied them. I didn't have childcare,
Speaker 2: I didn't have any money. I was a single mother Garnland, Texas.
Speaker 2: Enough said, babies a year apart, two ten pounds babies
Speaker 2: a year apart. Every mother, grandmother about to be a
Speaker 2: mother listening understands exactly what I'm saying right now. And
Speaker 2: women now are having these babies like you know, one
Speaker 2: after the other after the I know how difficult that is.
Speaker 2: Back in the day, I didn't have childcare, I didn't
Speaker 2: have a babysitter, I didn't have I didn't have anything.
Speaker 2: And I did not like the way I looked and felt.
Speaker 2: So what I did was I put my babies under
Speaker 2: a tree in the front yard, literally, and I walked
Speaker 2: back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back
Speaker 2: and forth.
Speaker 1: I didn't go.
Speaker 2: Further than a quarter of a block, obviously, because every
Speaker 2: time one crawled, I would go, and here's your little toy,
Speaker 2: and we're going to be doing there, and here it is,
Speaker 2: go ahead, God put there.
Speaker 1: I just went back and forth, back and forth, back
Speaker 1: and forth.
Speaker 2: And I did that for thirty minutes every single day,
Speaker 2: for seven days a week. I did it every day.
Speaker 2: I didn't even know what I was doing. I didn't
Speaker 2: know what I was doing. I just knew that fat
Speaker 2: burns in oxygen. I had a ton of fat on
Speaker 2: my body that I didn't want to have. I wanted
Speaker 2: to get leaner. I wanted to feel stronger. I wanted
Speaker 2: to be reconnected to my body. I wanted to wake
Speaker 2: up with energy. And what was frightening, really frightening to me,
Speaker 2: is I would I would say, I would say, I
Speaker 2: start two thirty coming, and you know you have to
Speaker 2: babies a year apart you gain weight, You're breastfeeding two babies.
Speaker 1: I get it. I get it.
Speaker 2: Then months go by and all of a sudden, it's
Speaker 2: like to ten to thirty to fifty, And I just thought,
Speaker 2: what's next? I mean, it just keeps going up. I
Speaker 2: have to I have to reverse it, and I have
Speaker 2: to change it. So I heard two facts that changed
Speaker 2: my life forever. That burns in oxygen and lean Muscle
Speaker 2: mass is metabolically the most active tissue in the human body. Well,
Speaker 2: I could use some activity internally, didn't want it. Didn't
Speaker 2: even think I don't want to be a bodybuilder. I
Speaker 2: even remember the book Corey. I can see her in
Speaker 2: my mind's eye. I remember the book that I got.
Speaker 2: There was no female bodybuilders talking about anything, but it
Speaker 2: was a book by Corey and I will.
Speaker 1: Find her and acknowledge her.
Speaker 2: And she explained what lean muscle mass was metabolically the
Speaker 2: most active tissue in the human body. So I started
Speaker 2: biceps tricep, building a little bit of lean muscle mass
Speaker 2: and walking back.
Speaker 1: And forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
Speaker 2: I knew, just like you, I know, just like everyone knows.
Speaker 2: America is the most documented country in the world. If
Speaker 2: you want to know any fact or figure, you can
Speaker 2: find out. It does not change behavior at all. That's
Speaker 2: why knowledge is not power, actually unless you know how
Speaker 2: to apply it to your daily life to get you
Speaker 2: the end results you want.
Speaker 1: But you know the foods that aren't I know.
Speaker 2: I changed what I started putting in. I found out
Speaker 2: another fact. I found out that there are two things
Speaker 2: that slow down your metabolic rate if you live in
Speaker 2: a human body. This is for anybody who lives in
Speaker 2: a human body. I found out that two things slow
Speaker 2: down your metabolic rate. One is lack of movement and
Speaker 2: the other one is lack of fuel dieting. So when
Speaker 2: you're dieting and not exercising, dieting to lose weight, you
Speaker 2: are greatly affecting your metabolic rate, whether you have a
Speaker 2: slow or a fast one. And if you've been told
Speaker 2: that you were born with a slow metabolism for your
Speaker 2: whole life, I just have a question to your doctor.
Speaker 2: Follow it up with, but there are two things you
Speaker 2: can do to greatly increase your metabolic rate. That would
Speaker 2: be eating on a regular basis, Fueling on a regular basis,
Speaker 2: because food is fuel and activity that activates internally your
Speaker 2: metabolic right. Okay, So I started finding out these little
Speaker 2: facts that I started applying, having no idea, having no idea.
Speaker 2: Never once, never once did I ever say, well, I'm
Speaker 2: going to write a New York Times bestseller, let alone
Speaker 2: three of them. I never once it never crossed my mind,
Speaker 2: never crossed my mind. Never once did I say I'm
Speaker 2: going to do videos with Time Warner. What happened, And
Speaker 2: this is the reason I'm explaining it a for a
Speaker 2: lot of people who may have no idea what stuffisanity
Speaker 2: is be for everyone who does remember and has never
Speaker 2: heard the story of how it happened. I can tell
Speaker 2: you how it happened. Is I started talking to other
Speaker 2: women about my shared experience. I'm exhausted. I have two
Speaker 2: kids a year apart. I don't like the way I
Speaker 2: got so much fat on me. I don't know what
Speaker 2: to do on the size, you know, eighteen, like I've
Speaker 2: never in my life.
Speaker 1: I don't feel great. I don't like the way I look.
Speaker 2: And it's hard and I hate him, and divorce is
Speaker 2: hard and I'm going to be broke because I just
Speaker 2: started talking to other women and it was the sharing
Speaker 2: of the experience.
Speaker 1: Does it matter what the experience it is is that we.
Speaker 2: Never had a way to say, you know, I feel
Speaker 2: the same way, Like that's exactly how I feel. And
Speaker 2: that's why when I think of Shannon, and when I
Speaker 2: think of millions of women who are going through whatever
Speaker 2: it is and simply tell the truth about the fear
Speaker 2: and the joy and the sadness and the revelations along
Speaker 2: the way.
Speaker 1: It's such a privilege. It's such a privilege.
Speaker 2: And I know what it can do when you no
Speaker 2: matter what it is, and now you can do it
Speaker 2: so easily, it's like ridiculous compared to what we had
Speaker 2: to go through. You have no idea how powerful it is.
Speaker 2: You have no idea how powerful it is, or who
Speaker 2: is going to hear what they need to hear and
Speaker 2: how it can change their lives. When I think of
Speaker 2: stop the Unstanding, I think of a lot of things.
Speaker 2: I just wrote a memoir, which you know I'll do
Speaker 2: an Amazon whatever, And I wrote it because a nobody
Speaker 2: knows about the story of how it happened, and nobody
Speaker 2: knows what has happened since. And I can promise you
Speaker 2: it's a hell of a story. The reason I told
Speaker 2: the story of it is because what it always meant
Speaker 2: to me. Because no corporation wanted me. They were not interested.
Speaker 2: Nobody jumped on it. Nobody thought it was going to
Speaker 2: be successful. I did an infomercial. They didn't even care
Speaker 2: what I wore. They didn't It was a five camera
Speaker 2: shoot with thirty five hundred women. Those women in that audience.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: I have so many stories to tell, but let me
Speaker 2: just stick with the one I'm talking about now.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's storytelling.
Speaker 2: I think it's sharing experiences and you just have no
Speaker 2: idea who it affects. I didn't know then what it
Speaker 2: was going to blow up to be, just as far
Speaker 2: as a career and amazing experiences and doing incredible work
Speaker 2: and meeting hundreds and thousands of unbelievable, unbelievable people at
Speaker 2: every event in seminar. But it really the cell of it,
Speaker 2: the cell of it was me sharing an experience of
Speaker 2: being completely overwhelmed, first of all, about how my body
Speaker 2: had changed. Second, single mother, never expected that. Third, may
Speaker 2: I say it living in Garland, Texas? No thank you,
Speaker 2: no thank you. You know, the eighties, you can add
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of stuff that the isolation of mothering.
Speaker 2: We were not isolated anymore, the isolation of anybody. People
Speaker 2: were not isolated anymore. So you know, when I thought
Speaker 2: of let's be clear and what it means, what immediately
Speaker 2: came to mind was, let's be clear about how lucky
Speaker 2: we are that we can get to each other now
Speaker 2: so simply, and what all the negative?
Speaker 1: I know what the Internet is. I'm not delusional. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I couldn't be more excited about the Internet.
Speaker 2: I kind of sound like I kind of sound like
Speaker 2: an idiot when I talk about I mean, I'm like
Speaker 2: to my son all the time.
Speaker 1: Do you realize what a privilege he was raised with it?
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, okay, now I get it. Mom.
Speaker 2: But you know after a while it's a little I
Speaker 2: just think it's an opportunity for all of us. But
Speaker 2: the power, the power that I witnessed personally in my
Speaker 2: life was sharing your true experience, sharing a story, good, bad,
Speaker 2: or indifferent, and your authentic fears and your authentic joy
Speaker 2: and your authentic experience in that sharing effects more people
Speaker 2: than you could ever ever imagine. I never would have
Speaker 2: known back then a thousand years ago. I mean that
Speaker 2: those two boys now from Garland, Texas, back in the
Speaker 2: day just before Stop the Insanity happened and the reason
Speaker 2: it did, are forty two and forty one now, so
Speaker 2: that many years ago, that impact that it had was
Speaker 2: a woman with two babies in Piggly Wiggly who had
Speaker 2: dramatically changed I dramatically and by.
Speaker 1: The way, I've forever, forever, forever.
Speaker 2: So I wanted to be lean, strong and healthy for
Speaker 2: the rest of my life, and I found out that
Speaker 2: it was an incredible I'm not going to say simple,
Speaker 2: because I know what it feels like if you're listening
Speaker 2: and you're not comfortable and not physically where you want
Speaker 2: to be. I know that when someone goes it's really
Speaker 2: simple to look it is obnoxiously offensive. I understand that
Speaker 2: what I'm going to tell you is what I said
Speaker 2: a thousand years ago, because the message has not changed
Speaker 2: one iota, not one iota. If you live in a
Speaker 2: human body, If you live in a human body, your
Speaker 2: body can burn fat, period the end.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what your genetic does. Your body can
Speaker 1: burn fat.
Speaker 2: If you live in a human body, your body can
Speaker 2: increase lean muscle mass, which is metabolically the most active
Speaker 2: tissue in the human body, if you live in one.
Speaker 2: I can tell you that if you live in a
Speaker 2: human body, you can feed your metabolic rate every day.
Speaker 2: You can feed it. I don't just mean fuel what
Speaker 2: you eat. I'm not even going to get into the
Speaker 2: It is regular fueling on a regular basis.
Speaker 1: Think about this.
Speaker 2: If you have the fireplace and you're going to build
Speaker 2: a fire, but no wood, no wood, you just there's
Speaker 2: no wood. You're not going to have a fire. There's
Speaker 2: not going to be heat. You're not going to have
Speaker 2: a flame. Same thing with barbecuing. But I don't I'm
Speaker 2: not don't call me to your next event and ask
Speaker 2: me to barbecue because you don't want me in charge.
Speaker 1: Of that grill.
Speaker 2: I can promise you that I learned that I can
Speaker 2: feed my metabolism. I learned that I can build the
Speaker 2: most active tissue in the human body. I learned that
Speaker 2: fat burns in oxygen. I learned that the human body
Speaker 2: can get leaner, stronger, and healthier.
Speaker 1: And I learned that it is far simpler. It is.
Speaker 2: It has been ridiculously deliberately complicated by many an industry.
Speaker 2: When I said that back and stop the insanity nineties,
Speaker 2: that's when stopped the insanity was the women. They just
Speaker 2: it was this rally of like, oh my god, I've
Speaker 2: been to every die place they lied And I'm like, yeah, totally,
Speaker 2: I did the same thing they will just and I said,
Speaker 2: you are sure. You should be so pissed off, like
Speaker 2: you're being ripped off, you're being lied to. They don't
Speaker 2: know what the hell they're talking about. And it's much
Speaker 2: simpler than they're making it seem. That would be the
Speaker 2: fitness industry. That would be the diet industry. Don't even
Speaker 2: with the diet. That would be the a That would
Speaker 2: be a whole lot of people, a whole lot of people.
Speaker 2: The facts of the of the if you live in
Speaker 2: a human body matter made so much sense to me,
Speaker 2: and I applied the simple things and have never.
Speaker 1: Stopped applying them.
Speaker 2: So what I would like to be really clear about
Speaker 2: is I am very grateful for the privilege of being
Speaker 2: able to now, in this day and age, reach I mean,
Speaker 2: reach anywhere and everywhere. I'm very, very grateful to the
Speaker 2: women who fought the battles, like Shannon, who were courageous
Speaker 2: enough to share the truth, the absolute truth, which I'm
Speaker 2: sure affected gazillions of people. Gazillions of people. That's incredible power.
Speaker 2: That's a lasting legacy, and I mean, that's just powerful,
Speaker 2: powerful reality. So I was thrilled to be asked. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm glad to be able to We had major zoom things.
Speaker 2: I don't know everybody had a zoom thing today apparently,
Speaker 2: so I got to do this on my phone, which
Speaker 2: I think is the most exciting thing on the planet Earth. Again,
Speaker 2: I sound like it just a crazy person when it
Speaker 2: comes to Hey, do you know about this thing called
Speaker 2: the Internet? It's amazing, It's amazing. So that's what I
Speaker 2: would like to share. What I would like to share
Speaker 2: is I don't see it as storytelling. I see it
Speaker 2: as powerful, wonderful, courageous people sharing their experiences, and those
Speaker 2: experiences just there's just a light.
Speaker 1: And I guess I mean it's true.
Speaker 2: I mean, Corey writing that book in nineteen whenever the
Speaker 2: hell she wrote it changed my life.
Speaker 1: When I learned what she had to say.
Speaker 2: So if you've got something to say, you can now
Speaker 2: and if you're authentically saying it, it can be very powerful.
Speaker 2: And I just want to hear more and see more
Speaker 2: and share more. And that's my goal. So thank you
Speaker 2: for having me. I appreciate it.