1 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: This is Let's be clear with Shannon Dorny. Hello, let's 2 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 1: be clear. Family, It's Samantha Harris here. Some of you 3 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 1: might be familiar with me from my eight seasons hosting 4 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars, or many years as an anchor 5 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: and correspondent for Entertainment Tonight and Extra, and of course 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 1: for most of my professional life, I was always interviewing 7 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 1: other people. I've been passionate about sharing the stories of 8 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: so many through my career. I'm a journalist at heart, 9 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 1: and that's what I love to do. And this is 10 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:42,559 Speaker 1: going to be a little bit different because today with you, 11 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 1: I'm going to be sharing a little bit of my story, 12 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 1: but even more importantly, I'm going to share things that 13 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: I have learned that can help you to elevate your wellness, 14 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: to ignite your healthiest healthy life possible, and especially after 15 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: a health setback, how to come back even more resilient 16 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: and energized. So I'll take you back to twenty fourteen. 17 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: I was at the height of my career. I had 18 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: had four Emmy nominations. I'd start on Broadway in the 19 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 1: Broadway Show Chicago. I had two little girls with my 20 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: amazing husband. My girls were three and six at the time, 21 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 1: and I was really living the little Minnesota girl who 22 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: wanted a life in Hollywood dream where I didn't think 23 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:35,319 Speaker 1: my career could get any better or that my life 24 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 1: could get any better. I was literally the picture of health. 25 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: I mean to the point that you guys, I was 26 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: on over ten different magazine covers, from four appearances on 27 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: Muscle and Fitness hers to Shape magazine and Women's Running 28 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: and beyond. And I prided myself so much on the 29 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: fact that here I was hustling and bustling with this 30 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 1: intense and very demanding career, juggling my family, my household, 31 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 1: and was able to stay in shape and look good 32 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 1: and be on the cover of all these magazines. And 33 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: then I was blindsided. I was blindsided in twenty fourteen 34 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: by a breast cancer diagnosis. You were all very familiar 35 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: because of the beautiful work that Shannon Dougherty has done 36 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:30,079 Speaker 1: here and let's be clear and well beyond, and I'm 37 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: so sad that I'm sitting here and Shannon is not. 38 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: I want to just jump for a second to a 39 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 1: wonderful opportunity that I had to spend with Shannon when 40 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 1: I was the MC for an American Cancer Society event, 41 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:53,239 Speaker 1: Shannon was in the midst of her treatment, and yet, 42 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 1: like the consummate professional and beauty that she always was 43 00:02:56,919 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 1: from inside and out, she showed up on that red 44 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: car and to support this event and the work of 45 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: the American Cancer Society. She had been going through her treatments, 46 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:09,920 Speaker 1: and she was wearing a headscarf, and there she was 47 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 1: smiling ear to ear with a glisten in her eye. 48 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 1: And for me, at that time, it was many years 49 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: after my breast cancer diagnosis, I was thriving. I was 50 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 1: feeling energized. I had taken hold of what had taken 51 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 1: away my feeling of control, and I had taken back 52 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: my power. And here was Shannon dealing with such an 53 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 1: advanced stage of breast cancer and going through the thick 54 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 1: of it. And yet and yet here she was on 55 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: the red carpet, helping others and helping to try to 56 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: find a cure. And I just wanted to make sure 57 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 1: that for those of you who have been dedicated listeners 58 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: of Shannon here on the podcast passed, or of course 59 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 1: big fans of hers from her television career, people always 60 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: thought I was Brenda Walsh because I was the Minnesota 61 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: girl for real, and I used to love watching her 62 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 1: on Nina two one l and to see her journey 63 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 1: and her legacy that she now leaves behind with let's 64 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: speak clear and well beyond. So here I was back again. 65 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:26,280 Speaker 1: Now I'm back in time to twenty fourteen, blindsided by 66 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: this breast cancer diagnosis. And here you got to have 67 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:32,479 Speaker 1: to tell you the craziest part. I was about to 68 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:35,479 Speaker 1: turn forty. My girls again, were three and six. My 69 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:41,159 Speaker 1: dad lost my dad to colon cancer when he was 70 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 1: just fifty and fifty when I was sitting here from 71 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:47,159 Speaker 1: the viewpoint of forty didn't look that far off, and 72 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 1: I thought, oh my gosh, I can't believe how young 73 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 1: my dad was. And his mom was a breast cancer 74 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:57,719 Speaker 1: survivor lived to ninety five, and yet cancer was in 75 00:04:57,760 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: my family. My girls were young, and I thought, you know, 76 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 1: I should really set a baseline. I should get that 77 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,599 Speaker 1: mammogram thing. So I went and I got the boob squished, 78 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 1: and they looked at everything and they said it's clear, 79 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:14,480 Speaker 1: all good. And then eleven days after this clear mammogram, 80 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: everything is good. I was changing after a workout and 81 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:21,840 Speaker 1: I found a lump. Now I didn't think for a 82 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: second it was cancer. I mean again, I just had 83 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: a clear mammogram. I'm as fit and healthy as I 84 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: have ever been. But you know, I'll still call my 85 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:32,840 Speaker 1: obgyn because she's the only doctor who did a clinical 86 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: breast exam every year, and I'll just have her take 87 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: a look. And she felt it. She said, ah, Samantha, 88 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:41,359 Speaker 1: it's nothing. Don't you worry about it. You're turning forty. 89 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:45,239 Speaker 1: We have lumpy breasts. Our breast like to make lumps. 90 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: I wouldn't worry about it. And she sent me on 91 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: my way. And then a month later, that pesky lump 92 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 1: was still there, and I thought, well, you know, it's 93 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: not cancer, so I shouldn't really worry, but I'll still 94 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: go get a second opinion. And I went to my 95 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:02,839 Speaker 1: interness quick clinical exam, felt the breast, said it was nothing, 96 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 1: sent me on my way. Now four months passed from 97 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 1: finding that lump after the workout, and that lump was 98 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,160 Speaker 1: just rearing its head and it was there and it 99 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: was sizey. I said to my husband, you can see it, right, 100 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:22,280 Speaker 1: He said, yeah, I can see it. So I said, 101 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:26,040 Speaker 1: you know, I should probably look to a doctor whose 102 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:30,919 Speaker 1: profession and expertise is looking at breasts every day as 103 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 1: their specialty. So I found my way too, what else 104 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:38,839 Speaker 1: an oncology clinic, because only breast oncologists look at breasts 105 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 1: every day. Again, not thinking I had cancer, Nothing gave 106 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 1: me worry, nothing pointed me into that direction. But I 107 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 1: still wanted more tests, more diagnostics. So that breast oncologist 108 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: did a needle biopsy, a couple of m an MRI, 109 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: a couple of ultrasounds. Again said it's not cancer. So 110 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,040 Speaker 1: when the needo bibes your results came back and said, well, 111 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:05,160 Speaker 1: good news, it's not cancer. Bad news is I don't 112 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:07,280 Speaker 1: know what it is. So you know what, Samantha, let's 113 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 1: just take it out. And I thought, well, fine, my 114 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 1: boobs did what they needed to do. They got me, 115 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 1: my husband, and they breasted my kids, So take it out. 116 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 2: And we did. 117 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 1: And a week later I went back to my final 118 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: results again, expecting to hear the same thing, no cancer. 119 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 1: And that's when I found out that I had ductal 120 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: carcinoma in situ as well as invasive ductal carcinoma, which 121 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: is invasive breast cancer. And my world came to a 122 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: sudden stop. We felt like the walls were crashing around me. 123 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 1: I crumbled into my husband's arms, who held me, and 124 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 1: we cried and then we got up again. This story 125 00:07:55,960 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: that I'm sharing isn't one of heartbreak and devastation. This 126 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: is a story of enlightenment and empowerment and thrivership. And 127 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 1: I finally had this wake up call that I didn't 128 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 1: realize I needed. So let me fast forward. After many 129 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: oncologists visits and trying to figure out what my action 130 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: plan was, I opted for a double mestectomy with two 131 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: stage reconstruction. I was on an estrogen blocker for seven 132 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: and a half years. I opted not to do chemo 133 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 1: and radiation. That's a story for another time, but here's 134 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:38,679 Speaker 1: where the turn came. I am a journalist by training, 135 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 1: and when I got my hereditary tests back the genetic testing, 136 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 1: I found out that I had no link genetically. And 137 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: it was this aha moment of learning through my research 138 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,959 Speaker 1: that only five to ten percent, only five to ten 139 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 1: percent of breast cancers are genetics, and that actually the 140 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: pretty similar statistic for most cancers out there. If you 141 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: are listening and you have someone in your family within 142 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,719 Speaker 1: another kind of cancer, so what gives? Why are one 143 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:12,319 Speaker 1: and a win in diagnosed with invasive breast cancer over 144 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 1: the course of their lifetime, and I dug into that 145 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 1: research even more to find out why. And what I 146 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:22,840 Speaker 1: learned is that it is what we put in on 147 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: and around our bodies that affect our overall well being, 148 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: that turn on or leave off certain genetics switches in 149 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:35,840 Speaker 1: our body that lead to cancer or not. So think 150 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 1: of our DNA and our genetics as the loaded gun. 151 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:44,719 Speaker 1: But it's the epigenetics how our lifestyle, choices an environment 152 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:49,440 Speaker 1: are affecting us that actually fire that gun. So what 153 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: could I do? How could I change what was going 154 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 1: on in my life? This life I thought was very healthy. 155 00:09:55,760 --> 00:10:00,040 Speaker 1: But what could I do a chance to change? I 156 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:04,200 Speaker 1: started to assess. I started to assess, Okay, well, let's 157 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: look at food. I eat a group of Minnesota eating 158 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:11,840 Speaker 1: practically every part of the cow from literally tongue to 159 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 1: almost tail. So how does meat and animal product affect 160 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,559 Speaker 1: our genetics? And how does that affect cancer? I read 161 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 1: the China study from front to back and many other 162 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: books after that. I learned that when we eat a 163 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:33,319 Speaker 1: lot of animal meat, as I was, seven meals, sorry, 164 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:35,680 Speaker 1: twenty one meals out of twenty one, you know, so 165 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: three times a day's times seven meal days a week, 166 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 1: that's twenty one meals. I was eating twenty one out 167 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 1: of twenty one meals of animal protein. Well, when we 168 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 1: have a high intake of animal protein, it leads to 169 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: high levels of IGF one that's insulin like growth factor one, 170 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 1: which we know promotes cancer. So okay, perhaps I could 171 00:10:56,320 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 1: start to reduce my animal intake. Maybe I'm eating too 172 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: much junk and sugar and process because guess what I 173 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 1: grew up in the nineties, the low fat fat free 174 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: generation and hey, hello hyghertosed corn syrup as long as 175 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:15,080 Speaker 1: it didn't have fat red Die forty. These are known 176 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: you know, red Di forty and known carcinogen. So snack 177 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: well sandwich cookies, low fat fat free red vines, high 178 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 1: fertoast corncer red Die forty. All these things that I 179 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 1: thought I was doing to make good, healthy choices for 180 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:35,839 Speaker 1: my body were actually potentially slowly destroying my body. And 181 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 1: so I started to re arrange my plate so rather 182 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:42,480 Speaker 1: than meat front and center, that became sort of a 183 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:46,119 Speaker 1: side dish, and then eventually kind of went away almost altogether. 184 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: And then it became how can I get more fruits 185 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: and vegetables and nuts and seeds and lagoons and beans, 186 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 1: more plant based foods into my life. Can I slip 187 00:11:55,600 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 1: that plate and make veggies the center star of the show. 188 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: And that really was a huge change, because what I 189 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 1: found was when I started to change how I was 190 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 1: eating less and ideally none of the low fat, fat 191 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:19,680 Speaker 1: free junk, processed packaged and more of the nutrient dense 192 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: good foods that were really helping my body have what 193 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 1: it needed to thrive. I started to have even and 194 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:28,960 Speaker 1: I know this is gonna be shocking for a lot 195 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:32,200 Speaker 1: of you because I've noticed the energizer bunny, but I 196 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: actually started to have even more energy. I could go 197 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:39,080 Speaker 1: from seven in the morning till ten thirty at night, 198 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 1: even with driving around the kids and running to my 199 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 1: shoots and doing all the other things I needed to do, 200 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 1: without feeling like I needed that afternoon nap, or without 201 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 1: feeling like when I was putting the kids to sleep, 202 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 1: I had to fall asleep too because I was so exhausted. 203 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: I could stay up after I put the kids to 204 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 1: bed with my husband and actually enjoy some time awake 205 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 1: with him, watching our shows or having good conversation. So 206 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 1: I had this newfound energy that was so amazing that 207 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 1: I didn't even know I needed, and yet was just 208 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 1: within reach all that time, and I didn't know it either. 209 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:12,200 Speaker 1: So then that was the food component. Then it was 210 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 1: another big component. Well, what am I putting on my body? 211 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 1: All right? 212 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:15,960 Speaker 2: You guys? 213 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 1: I spent my career in a makeup chair, slacked with 214 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 1: these chemical bombs of little to my knowledge at the time, 215 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:28,439 Speaker 1: possible carcinogens and endocrine disruptors. Those messed with your hormones. 216 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 1: And I had a hormone positive breast cancer as eighty 217 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:36,559 Speaker 1: percent of breast cancers are endo constructors, carcinogens, neurotoxins right, 218 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:42,599 Speaker 1: leading to dementia and Alzheimer's potentially leading to some autoimmune disorders. 219 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 1: So what can I do to change what I was 220 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 1: putting on my body? Okay? So I started kind of 221 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: an overhaul, and back in twenty fourteen, we didn't have 222 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 1: a lot of really good brands that carried products that 223 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 1: not just looked like they you know, the ingredients looked good, 224 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:04,559 Speaker 1: but products that actually did the job right. I wanted 225 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:07,960 Speaker 1: something that could stay under you know, hot lights on 226 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: a set for a twelve hour day, or if I 227 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 1: wasn't shooting or for moms out there or career women 228 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:17,199 Speaker 1: who are working. You know, from the morning to the night. 229 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:18,680 Speaker 1: You want to be able to slap on your makeup 230 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 1: and have that last all day long and look awesome. 231 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 1: But you don't want to suffer with the possible other 232 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 1: side of it, which means that these chemicals are leading 233 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 1: into your body as you're beautifying yourself up. So how 234 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 1: could I change up my beauty routine? So I started 235 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 1: to slowly swap for cleaner products. And now than goodness, 236 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 1: there are so many more clean products out there. And 237 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 1: the fact actually I was shooting a game show. I 238 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: did sixty five episodes, six episodes a day, and we 239 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 1: were working for about twelve hour days under long you 240 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 1: know these long days, hot lights. And so this is 241 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 1: you know, after cancer, many years after. This is just recently, 242 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 1: and I said to my team, Okay, girls, they've been 243 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: with me forever. They're really good friends of mine, my 244 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 1: makeup and hair girls. And I said, you guys, can 245 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 1: we kind of can I task you with it something? 246 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 1: I want you to only bring hair and makeup products 247 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 1: and skincare into this makeup room that reach my really 248 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:23,880 Speaker 1: high standard of having no toxic ingredients, and so they 249 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 1: reached out to different brands who are generous enough to 250 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 1: kind of gift us some options to try. We had 251 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: a budget for the show, so we purchased lots of 252 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: items and we tried. So I have this vetted list 253 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:36,640 Speaker 1: of clean beauty and actually, anyone listening who wants it, 254 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: just send me a DM on Instagram or Facebook at 255 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 1: Samantha Harris TV. Like television at Samantha Harras TV. Send 256 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 1: me a DM that just is clean beauty, and I 257 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 1: will send you the free guide. I think it's really 258 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 1: important for us all to know that there are really 259 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 1: great alternatives from a variety of brands, and then of 260 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 1: course you need to try them for yourself to see 261 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 1: what works best for your skin type and for your 262 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 1: level of absorption. I tend to like suck makeup in 263 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 1: very quickly on my skin, and the same thing with 264 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: my skincare. I want great anti aging skincare, but I 265 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 1: don't want the toxins. So this has been a long 266 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:15,200 Speaker 1: process over all of these years of finding and trying, 267 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 1: and so that was really cleaning up the toxins in 268 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 1: my beauty routine. And then what about what's around us, 269 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 1: So I also had to go, Okay, sure, cleaning supplies, 270 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 1: I need to do a little bit of an overhaul 271 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:29,760 Speaker 1: on that, and I actually have those also some suggestions 272 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: on my Clean Beauty Guide. But then also other toxins 273 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 1: around us, like toxic people. Who are those people in 274 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 1: your life, whether they're daily interactions or occasional interactions or 275 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 1: family members who are stressing you out, who are creating 276 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 1: that high level of cortisol in your body, which is 277 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 1: the stress hormone that we need to thrive as humans, 278 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 1: but we don't need it to be constant chronic. So 279 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: how can we reduce that level of stress in our 280 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: lives from people who are toxic to us? And also 281 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:24,879 Speaker 1: how can we add more stress bussing techniques into our life. 282 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: So when I was diagnosed and I was so overwhelmed 283 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:37,639 Speaker 1: and so scared, and I didn't know how I was 284 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:41,320 Speaker 1: going to get up to even go dress my kids 285 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:44,399 Speaker 1: and feed them, let alone take care of myself. I 286 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 1: had the happy, go lucky person that I was just 287 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:52,360 Speaker 1: sort of shot out of me, just crushed with that 288 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 1: diagnosis in twenty fourteen, and I had to realize from 289 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:00,879 Speaker 1: within that that wasn't how I could continue to feel, 290 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:03,760 Speaker 1: and I needed a solution to get around that. And 291 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 1: this is something that can help you all. If you're 292 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:09,680 Speaker 1: going through a stressed you know there's a health diagnosis, 293 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 1: it's something going on with your career, just the daily 294 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,359 Speaker 1: stress that we are living and breathing. How can you 295 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 1: mitigate that? So I all of a sudden have this 296 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 1: wake up call to myself. Within this wake up call 297 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:25,199 Speaker 1: of cancer, I can't feel like this. The adrenaline an 298 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:28,720 Speaker 1: anxiety that I feel coursing through my blood is horrible. 299 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 1: And I don't want to live like this while I'm 300 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: living and trying to figure out how to thrive with 301 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 1: cancer and hopefully after cancer. So I slowly started to 302 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 1: integrate some breathing techniques. I started to learn to do 303 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:48,640 Speaker 1: positive self talk, which is a huge tool that I use. 304 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:52,359 Speaker 1: So that looks like in this example, Samantha, you have cancer. Okay, 305 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 1: well what's good about that? Well, you have great health insurance. Okay, 306 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 1: well that's good. That's really good. What else, Well, you know, Sma, 307 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 1: you have a really great support squad around you. Okay, 308 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:05,639 Speaker 1: that's really great. What else is good? Well, this is 309 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:08,119 Speaker 1: positive here? Okay, other positive self talk? Oh you know 310 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:10,680 Speaker 1: what you're in really good shape and great health otherwise, 311 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:13,600 Speaker 1: So that's going to help you to mitigate any sort 312 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 1: of setbacks during surgery or recovery. Okay, I love it. 313 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 1: Keep going. And so as you start to have this 314 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 1: positive self talk, it ends up feeding on itself in 315 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:29,160 Speaker 1: the best of ways to help you reduce that stress 316 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 1: and bring down that cortisol. And then the other really 317 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 1: helpful positivity tool that I used is to control what 318 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:41,000 Speaker 1: you can control, and worry when you have to worry. 319 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 1: So there are so many things that we worry about 320 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:47,640 Speaker 1: all day long that never come to fruition, thank goodness, 321 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 1: but yet we're consumed with worrying about them nonetheless. So 322 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 1: it definitely means we have to take a moment of mindfulness. 323 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 1: That means, Okay, I I feel myself worrying. I'm worrying 324 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:06,960 Speaker 1: a ton. I noticed myself worrying. Are these things that 325 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: I really do need to worry about right now? Or 326 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:12,400 Speaker 1: can I put them on the back burner or can 327 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:15,120 Speaker 1: I completely just say, you know what, this isn't even 328 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:18,120 Speaker 1: an issue and then worry about it when you have 329 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 1: to worry. So flash forward to the midst of twenty 330 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 1: twenty and the pandemic and everything going on, and lots 331 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:28,480 Speaker 1: of stress for all of us anyway, and I noticed 332 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 1: that the lymph nodes in my growing were very large, 333 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:35,439 Speaker 1: and I got immediately scared because I thought, of course, 334 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:39,920 Speaker 1: cancer's right, just it's on my shoulder and it comes 335 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 1: to rear its head the second you feel something is wrong. 336 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 1: And I thought, oh my gosh, God forbid, my cancer 337 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 1: has metastasized. And I realized I was so worried that 338 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:54,280 Speaker 1: those lymph nodes were cancer again. And I found the 339 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:59,160 Speaker 1: anxiety and the high levels of cortisol and stress surging 340 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: my body, and I reminded myself to worry when I 341 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 1: have to worry, But now I can control what I 342 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 1: can control. What can I control. I can pick up 343 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 1: the phone, I can call my oncologists office, explain what's 344 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 1: going on and get the proper diagnostics. So I had 345 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 1: a CT scan and thank goodness, it was just I 346 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 1: have oddly large lymph nodes, and for whatever reason, they 347 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,879 Speaker 1: happened to just be more obvious to me in that 348 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 1: moment when I discovered them. So worry when you have 349 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: to worry, and control what you can control. The enlightenment 350 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: that I had after discovering that we can really level 351 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 1: lot what we're doing in our health and wellness to 352 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,919 Speaker 1: take even better control of our lives. I thought I 353 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: was living my healthy life, and then I realized I 354 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: needed to live my healthiest healthy life. And so all 355 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,159 Speaker 1: the research that I found, I decided I needed to 356 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 1: compile into one book because no other book seemed to 357 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: be out there that had this as sort of a 358 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 1: foundation and a jumping off point of what you can 359 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,399 Speaker 1: do to, you know, just reduce the risk of the 360 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:07,920 Speaker 1: toxins to take even better control of your health after 361 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:10,679 Speaker 1: cancer or any other type of diagnosis. And so I 362 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:15,120 Speaker 1: wrote the book, Your Healthiest Healthy, and I was honored because, 363 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 1: you know, the Hollywood community, who had been people I'd 364 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 1: been interviewing for so long, came out in support of it. 365 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: You know, Chris Jenner and Christina Appligate both wrote endorsements 366 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,239 Speaker 1: and have quotes on the book. And it debuted as 367 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 1: a number one best seller on Amazon. But why the 368 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:34,480 Speaker 1: book meant something to me because, by the way, you 369 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 1: don't make any money from books, So I sure as 370 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 1: heck was not writing a book to make any money. 371 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:40,640 Speaker 1: And even if you go out and buy one right now, 372 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 1: I will not see a scent of it, and that 373 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: is okay, because all that I care is that the 374 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:49,680 Speaker 1: information is out for you to empower yourself to take 375 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 1: the insights that I have learned that I continue to 376 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 1: share in my Instagram and in my wellness community and 377 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 1: on my retreats and all the other fun stuff that 378 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 1: I get to do to share with you, because there 379 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:04,159 Speaker 1: are so many ways that you can empower yourself to 380 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:08,440 Speaker 1: take your health back, to be your own best health advocate. 381 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 1: Being faced in twenty fourteen with a cancer diagnosis and 382 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 1: a double mis deckt tomy and three surgeries, three recoveries 383 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,199 Speaker 1: was something that I never thought that I would have 384 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 1: to go through again. After going through everything that I 385 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 1: did go through, and I made all of these sweeping changes, 386 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: and then just a few days before the passing of 387 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: our beautiful Shannon, I remember so vividly and it hit 388 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 1: me so hard when the news headline said that Shannon 389 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,400 Speaker 1: Dougherty had succumbed to breast cancer, because just a few 390 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:48,000 Speaker 1: days before that, in twenty twenty four I found out 391 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:53,439 Speaker 1: I had a breast cancer recurrence. I was definitely not 392 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,399 Speaker 1: ready for that. I never wanted to see cancer in 393 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:58,439 Speaker 1: my life. Again for me or for any of my 394 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,119 Speaker 1: loved ones after having I've gone through it with my 395 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 1: dad and then for my own journey, and now I 396 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,119 Speaker 1: had teenage girls who are thirteen and sixteen, a whole 397 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:15,520 Speaker 1: completely different type of conversation, and the hardest moment was 398 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 1: telling our girls that their mommy had cancer again. But 399 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,960 Speaker 1: I this time came at it from a place of 400 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:31,320 Speaker 1: empowerment and knowledge because of the work that I have done. 401 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:34,120 Speaker 1: I went back to school after my diagnosis, and after 402 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 1: my book came out, I went back to school to 403 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,880 Speaker 1: become a certified health coach. I'd been a certified trainer 404 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 1: for decades, and I really wanted to lean even more 405 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:48,159 Speaker 1: into the education behind the wellness that I loved so 406 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,440 Speaker 1: much and wanted to share. So now I had interviewed 407 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: because of Your Healthiest Healthy podcast, I had interviewed over 408 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:59,200 Speaker 1: two hundred experts, and I had a wonderful group of 409 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 1: on call religious and functional medicine docs who I can 410 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 1: immediately pick up the phone and call to get insight 411 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 1: and then share with people what this looked like the 412 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 1: second time around, and how to help deal with it 413 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,040 Speaker 1: if that ever happened. I want to just pause for 414 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:20,640 Speaker 1: a moment. If you have had a double mestectomy, the 415 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 1: likelihood of a recurrence is very very low. It's uncanny 416 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 1: that I got it, but I did. I had that recurrence, 417 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:33,200 Speaker 1: but it's only a five percent chance of recurrence. Why 418 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: did I have a recurrence, Well, the recurrence happened exactly 419 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,400 Speaker 1: in the same location as the first time around, and 420 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,439 Speaker 1: just like the first time around in twenty fourteen, in 421 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:46,359 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four yet again I found the lump, which 422 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 1: is my big PSA moment. Ladies, know your breasts, know 423 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: your body. Notice changes, whether it's a breast lump, a 424 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 1: pain in your stomach, a mole, it looks different. If 425 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,520 Speaker 1: you don't take the time to understand what your body 426 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,879 Speaker 1: normal is, then it's going to be near impossible to 427 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 1: notice if there is a change. So I found a 428 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,919 Speaker 1: very very tiny love I mean so tiny that the 429 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:21,160 Speaker 1: ultrasound text could barely find it. The first three surgeons 430 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,760 Speaker 1: I saw, a two surgeon and my medical oncologists who 431 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,479 Speaker 1: felt it could barely even feel it, and I had 432 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:29,440 Speaker 1: to really show them where it was. They didn't even 433 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 1: know how I found it. So, you know, really making 434 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 1: sure that your body is exercising daily, moving daily, know 435 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 1: your body aim to be at an ideal weight, especially 436 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,440 Speaker 1: for all of the health markers that an ideal body 437 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 1: weight helped reduce the risk of from type two diabetes, 438 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,680 Speaker 1: to heart disease, which is still the number one killer 439 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 1: of women, to breast cancer. And then also the closer 440 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 1: you are to an ideal body weight, better able you 441 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 1: are to feel or see when something is different, when 442 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 1: it's not all hidden under the layers. So I think 443 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,199 Speaker 1: that made a big difference, right, especially the changes that 444 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 1: I made in my diet. So when I changed to 445 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,720 Speaker 1: more whole food, plant based or plant forward diet, my 446 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:23,159 Speaker 1: body actually changed in a way that really I was 447 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,359 Speaker 1: already muscular, but it sort of narrowed out in a 448 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 1: way that allowed me to, I think, feel this tiny 449 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 1: little lump and it was right again where my initial 450 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: breast cancer was. So what we have learned in my 451 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 1: many doctors now who have I've met with, from the 452 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 1: surgery that I had to take that lump out to 453 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,160 Speaker 1: the second stage of reconstruction surgery that I did yet 454 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,919 Speaker 1: again a year of more surgeries I never wanted to 455 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: go through. But what we learned is that it was 456 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 1: very likely residual breast cells that were the cancer cells 457 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 1: that were left over from the mestectomy. Again, only a 458 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:04,680 Speaker 1: five percent chance of that happening. So please, if you're 459 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: listening and going, I'm so fearful. Now, remember every breast 460 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 1: cancer is very unique. Every person is very unique. So 461 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:16,120 Speaker 1: even with for instance, our blood sugar, something really important 462 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:17,960 Speaker 1: for us to keep an eye on. And if you 463 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,520 Speaker 1: have an opportunity to grab from a prescription from your 464 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 1: doctor for a continual glucose monitor, or you can use 465 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 1: one of the many different companies out there that offer 466 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 1: a subscription based continual glucose monitor, and you can always 467 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 1: reach out to me. I have lists of all the 468 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: things that I love and have tried, and discount codes 469 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 1: and fun stuff like that. But what I love about 470 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 1: a continual glue coost monitor is it gives us real 471 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 1: time data as to what our blood sugar is doing. 472 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:48,200 Speaker 1: And we know that blood sugar when it's dysregulated and 473 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:53,360 Speaker 1: it's our insulin sensitivity has actually turned to insulin resistance. 474 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 1: I mean it takes a lot more insulin to pump 475 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 1: out in order to bring that blood sugar down. After 476 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: a surge from foods write a lot of carbs, sugars, 477 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 1: refined foods that can actually lead also to so many 478 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,760 Speaker 1: breast cancer diagnoses and even pcos and other conditions and 479 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:16,000 Speaker 1: diseases out there. So keeping your blood sugar under control 480 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,680 Speaker 1: is a really important step. And so when I went 481 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 1: more plant based whole foods, I was immediately getting the 482 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 1: nutrient density, the nutrition my body was craving, which allowed 483 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 1: me to actually have fewer cravings for all the other 484 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 1: types of foods out there that were junk. And I'm 485 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 1: not saying I don't love my French fries and I'm 486 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 1: not saying I don't still have dessert with the kids 487 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 1: or cookie or have a little sweet every night, but 488 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 1: I try to opt for maybe dark chocolate, seventy percent cacao, 489 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 1: something that's a little bit healthier, it has some polythemals 490 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 1: and good stuff in it, and then of course balance 491 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,760 Speaker 1: out with the occasional yummy deliciousness each week. 492 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Kristin Davis, and I want to know, are 493 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,160 Speaker 2: you a Charlotte? In nineteen ninety seven, my life was 494 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,080 Speaker 2: forever changed when I took on the role of Charlotte 495 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:13,560 Speaker 2: Yorke on a new HBO show called Sex and the City. 496 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 2: As we watched Carrie, Samantha Miranda and Charlotte navigate relationships 497 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 2: in New York City. The show helped push once unacceptable 498 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 2: conversation topics out of the shadows and altered the narrative 499 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,960 Speaker 2: around women and sex. We all saw ourselves in them 500 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 2: as they searched for fulfillment in life, sex and friendships. 501 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 2: Now I want to connect with you and share untold 502 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 2: stories and all the behind the scenes together with special guests. 503 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,520 Speaker 2: What will begin with sex and the City will evolve 504 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,920 Speaker 2: into talks about themes that are still so relevant today. 505 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 2: Are You a Charlotte is a much more than just 506 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 2: rewatching our beloved show. It brings the past and the 507 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:56,520 Speaker 2: present together as we talk with heart, humor, and of 508 00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 2: course some optimism. Listen to Are You a Show Charlotte 509 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get 510 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 2: your podcasts. 511 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,080 Speaker 1: There are so many things that you can do to 512 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,720 Speaker 1: become empowered. But I also want to remind you it 513 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:17,960 Speaker 1: doesn't have to be a one to eighty overnight, small 514 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,479 Speaker 1: manageable steps. It's really part of being your healthiest healthy 515 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 1: is making those changes, but incrementally because you want to 516 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,720 Speaker 1: make a change that's going to stick, right, It's like 517 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:31,720 Speaker 1: why flat diets don't stick. When people go on some 518 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 1: extreme diet of any sort to try to lose weight, 519 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 1: they usually gain the weight back. Well, the same thing 520 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 1: goes with even little habits. So for instance, if you're saying, okay, 521 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,480 Speaker 1: well I'd like to start to change how I'm eating, well, 522 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:46,880 Speaker 1: how about before you do away with any particular food, 523 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 1: just start to sit down every meal and every snack 524 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,200 Speaker 1: and say, how can I get more veggies into this meal? 525 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 1: How can I get more color and variety of plant 526 00:31:55,280 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 1: based foods into this meal. Then look at the packages, 527 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,320 Speaker 1: read the ingredients labels, both in what you're putting on 528 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,640 Speaker 1: your body as well as what you're putting in your body. 529 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,840 Speaker 1: So a simple example for a small step when it 530 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:13,880 Speaker 1: comes to food, turn those packages around. In anything that 531 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:18,120 Speaker 1: has high fructose corn syrup, I want to encourage you 532 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,800 Speaker 1: to ditch because the thing is you're not going to 533 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:22,960 Speaker 1: notice that it's gone, because there are a lot of 534 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 1: wonderful options out there that won't change the flavor that 535 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,720 Speaker 1: will still give you. We're not talking about cutting out 536 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,280 Speaker 1: less sugar or less meat or any of that. We're 537 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,480 Speaker 1: just saying get rid of hypertois corn syrup and make 538 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:37,720 Speaker 1: a swap for a product that doesn't have that. Later 539 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:41,120 Speaker 1: on you can level up again. If you love blueberries, 540 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 1: maybe start to get organic blueberries, and if you're having 541 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,880 Speaker 1: organic blueberries, you can level up to wild organic blueberries. 542 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,760 Speaker 1: Simple small steps when it comes to your makeup or 543 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,960 Speaker 1: your skincare. One simple ingredient to make sure that you 544 00:32:56,040 --> 00:33:01,800 Speaker 1: avoid parabins. Another one, fragrant. Fragrance is a catch all. 545 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,320 Speaker 1: So because it's proprietary, the brands don't even have to 546 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,920 Speaker 1: put all the different ingredients that are in that fragrance, 547 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,760 Speaker 1: which by the way, can be up to about two 548 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 1: hundred different ingredients just in that fragrance that is now 549 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:19,400 Speaker 1: added to whatever product you're using on your body. And fragrance, 550 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:23,360 Speaker 1: according to the Environmental Working Group EWG dot org, a 551 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,680 Speaker 1: wonderful resource. They give a great rating on products and 552 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 1: ingredients a one to ten, one being super super clean 553 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:35,480 Speaker 1: and green, ten being red stoplight. Don't use well. Fragrance 554 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,960 Speaker 1: is a nine so unless the company that you are 555 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:42,560 Speaker 1: using that product from discloses what's in the fragrance. So 556 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:47,840 Speaker 1: a fragrance made up of organic essential oils totally fine. 557 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:49,760 Speaker 1: Go for it, and there are lots of great options 558 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,720 Speaker 1: out there. But just start ditch the things out have paramans. 559 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:56,280 Speaker 1: I was shocked by the way when I first started 560 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:59,680 Speaker 1: with that, how many of the products in my makeup 561 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:04,840 Speaker 1: bad and my skincare drawer had pair bins known carcinogen 562 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,400 Speaker 1: and a credisruptor. Just stop it now and then level 563 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:12,080 Speaker 1: up so many small steps. If you are not moving 564 00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:15,719 Speaker 1: your body every single day, don't go try to run 565 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:20,520 Speaker 1: a marathon. Just commit every day to work to walk. 566 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:25,000 Speaker 1: Just commit every day to walk for five minutes or 567 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,440 Speaker 1: twice a week to get a twenty minute workout in 568 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,759 Speaker 1: something small. And if you set the bar low. This 569 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,920 Speaker 1: is something I tell your healthiest healthy community. Quite often 570 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:36,239 Speaker 1: we're in this world where we feel like we have 571 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:40,319 Speaker 1: to set the bar so high. Go strive, do do 572 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:44,160 Speaker 1: the person next to you stay out later, work longer? No, No, no, 573 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,399 Speaker 1: I'm going to just flip that on its head right now, 574 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:50,400 Speaker 1: and I'm telling you to set the bar low. Here's 575 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:54,360 Speaker 1: what I need. If you say we'll use the workout example. 576 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,200 Speaker 1: If you say, as a couch potato who hasn't worked 577 00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,919 Speaker 1: out since fifth grade pe class, I'm going to start 578 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,400 Speaker 1: to work out every day for thirty minutes. I'm going 579 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:06,000 Speaker 1: to tell you right now, it's not gonna happen. Or 580 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,480 Speaker 1: maybe you do and you're great for a month and 581 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:12,239 Speaker 1: then you're done. Okay, So set the bar up. If 582 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,760 Speaker 1: you have not worked out since fifth grade pe class, 583 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:20,520 Speaker 1: say I'm going to work out for ten minutes three 584 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:23,319 Speaker 1: times a week. I'm going to work out five days 585 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,120 Speaker 1: a week for five minutes, whatever it is. Because when 586 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,080 Speaker 1: you achieve that five minute mark or that ten minute mark, 587 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:35,600 Speaker 1: your cells in your body hear and feel I did it, 588 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:39,360 Speaker 1: I achieved the goal. But if you set a goal 589 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,759 Speaker 1: for five days a week for thirty minutes and you 590 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:46,080 Speaker 1: do five days a week for twenty minutes, all your 591 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:50,399 Speaker 1: body will hear and your cells and literally your insides 592 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:55,040 Speaker 1: will only hear failure, failure. You didn't do what you said. 593 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:59,279 Speaker 1: So that is my small step encouragement. Set the bar low. 594 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,200 Speaker 1: So if you want to change up your food in 595 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,239 Speaker 1: your house, maybe turn around those packages throughout the high 596 00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:07,120 Speaker 1: fruit post coin syrup. Perhaps throw out anything that is 597 00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:11,040 Speaker 1: overly packaged, or anything that has seed oils, sunflower oil, 598 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,640 Speaker 1: safflower oil. Right, we know that these are challenging for 599 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:18,000 Speaker 1: our bodies. Our bodies weren't made to process all the 600 00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:21,000 Speaker 1: junk that we're processing. I love sharing with you. I 601 00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,040 Speaker 1: know I can go on for hours on all of 602 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:26,200 Speaker 1: this I do on my podcast, and I do throughout 603 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,520 Speaker 1: your Healthiest Healthy Community and my Instagram and Facebook, so 604 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,080 Speaker 1: many other things to be able to share with you, 605 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,399 Speaker 1: and I love sharing. So if you guys have questions, also, 606 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:38,400 Speaker 1: please do not hesitate to send me a DM because 607 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:40,360 Speaker 1: I love to share and I do love to answer 608 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:42,480 Speaker 1: and get back to as many of you as I 609 00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:49,080 Speaker 1: possibly can. I would like to say that if you're 610 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:52,640 Speaker 1: taking any message from this today, as you've been listening, 611 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:56,720 Speaker 1: I want you to be an advocate for your own health. 612 00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,399 Speaker 1: If something has changed, listen to your body and go 613 00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,839 Speaker 1: seek out an expert who is the best expert in 614 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:08,480 Speaker 1: that area. If you need a second opinion, I would 615 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,880 Speaker 1: encourage you to get a second and even a third opinion, 616 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:17,040 Speaker 1: especially if it's something serious, and know your body better 617 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,720 Speaker 1: than anyone, because when you walk into that doctor's office, 618 00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:21,400 Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you, no doctor is going to 619 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,200 Speaker 1: know your body as well as you know it. No 620 00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:26,600 Speaker 1: one's going to notice the changes as well as you 621 00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:31,520 Speaker 1: who looks in the mirror every single day. I appreciate 622 00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:35,000 Speaker 1: you for listening I appreciate you for just allowing me 623 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,640 Speaker 1: the space to come on and share on Let's be clear, 624 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:45,040 Speaker 1: and I just I can't tell you how grateful I 625 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,799 Speaker 1: am to Shannon that she started this platform and her 626 00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,800 Speaker 1: memory will continue to live on here and let's be clear, 627 00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:54,000 Speaker 1: and in everyone's heart, whoever was a fan of Shannon Doherty, 628 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:58,040 Speaker 1: I hope that you will continue to reach out to me, 629 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:03,240 Speaker 1: follow me on Instagram and Facebook at Samantha Harris TV, 630 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,719 Speaker 1: like television Samantha Harris TV, and then you can check 631 00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:10,880 Speaker 1: out my podcast and book, both titled Your Healthiest Healthy. 632 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:11,839 Speaker 1: I'll see you soon.