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Speaker 1: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, my friend. We have another fantastic podcast

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Speaker 1: for you today as we wrap up the first month

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Speaker 1: of the new year and head into February. February the

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Speaker 1: month of love, the month of romance, the month of

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Speaker 1: all matters of the heart. And while I have dedicated

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Speaker 1: my entire career, almost my whole life on radio, has

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Speaker 1: been spent talking about the ups and downs, the highs,

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Speaker 1: the lows, the hurt, the healing, the joy of our

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Speaker 1: emotional hearts, falling in love, the love of our children

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Speaker 1: and our grandchildren. Today, I'm going to be joined by

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Speaker 1: a very special guest that's going to encourage us to

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Speaker 1: build a better relationship with our physical hearts. Are actual

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Speaker 1: blood pumping in the chest, that organ that we all

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Speaker 1: need to live. Hearts. The month of February is American Heartment.

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Speaker 1: And when the American Heart Association encourages us to go

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Speaker 1: Red for women, the hope is that by wearing red,

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Speaker 1: it will help to bring awareness to the fact that

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Speaker 1: cardiovascular disease. Heart disease is a leading cause, the leading

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Speaker 1: cause of death for women, number one, ahead of all

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Speaker 1: other illnesses and injuries that's concerning. That's an issue that's

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Speaker 1: something we need to pay attention to because there's a

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Speaker 1: tremendous amount we can do for ourselves to increase our

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Speaker 1: heart health and reduce our chance of leaving our loved

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Speaker 1: ones behind premature ly. I mean, we gotta do what

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Speaker 1: we gotta do to stay as healthy as we can.

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Speaker 1: Write with us today on this podcast is a Force

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Speaker 1: to be Reckoned with Katrina McGee, Executive vice president of

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Speaker 1: the American Heart Association. She has been working to educate

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Speaker 1: folks about women's health issues for a few decades. Now

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Speaker 1: she knows what she's talking about. We're going to get

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Speaker 1: to the heart of the matter right after I give

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Speaker 1: my friend, how are you? How are you? I'm so

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Speaker 1: excited to get to talk to you today. I got

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Speaker 1: to meet you years ago. I think we were in

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Speaker 1: Dallas or Fort Worth. It would be in Dallas and

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Speaker 1: you as my business partner. Craig says, Remember she is

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Speaker 1: a force to be reckoned with. That was his description,

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Speaker 1: and I laughed. I said, oh, I remember her. She's

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Speaker 1: like energy plus energy. You're like the energizer bunny. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: I would you know what I believe in Burton with

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Speaker 1: gratitude and ending with grace. So I'm I'm just trying

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Speaker 1: to keep it positive all day long. Though I was, well,

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Speaker 1: if you start with gratitude and you end with grace,

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Speaker 1: how can you go wrong? I learned years ago a

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Speaker 1: little trick, well not a trick, but a little wisdom

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Speaker 1: or a little truth that few people share or teach,

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Speaker 1: and maybe they don't know it because I didn't know it.

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Speaker 1: And that is that every time I've encountered a major issue,

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Speaker 1: a major problem, something that I it was a major heartache,

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Speaker 1: every time, without fail, God used that to push me

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Speaker 1: to a much better understanding of grace, of mercy, of

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Speaker 1: goodness and I stopped looking at problems as problems and started,

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of reframing them as Okay, God, this

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Speaker 1: is an opportunity. This is like back to college. This

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Speaker 1: is the college of hard knocks. What are you trying

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Speaker 1: to teach me? That is the truth? So it absolutely is.

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Speaker 1: I believe that with all my heart. I asked out

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Speaker 1: a long time ago to help me love people like

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Speaker 1: God loves people. And I don't think I knew what

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Speaker 1: I was asking at the time, because what does he do.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't just like supernaturally cover us with that grace

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Speaker 1: and patient. No, he gives us those life lessons exactly, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, that is so true. This is you know,

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Speaker 1: this is my second time working at American Heart Association,

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Speaker 1: and I told my team the first time I worked there,

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Speaker 1: love them the life. And so that is that is

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Speaker 1: my passion. Now. It's not about trying to change the world.

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Speaker 1: It's it's one heart at a time for me. And

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Speaker 1: book by that title a couple of years ago, just

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Speaker 1: talking about that very thing that in order to change

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Speaker 1: on a small scale, by starting with the people in

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Speaker 1: your house, and then expanding to the people in your family,

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Speaker 1: and then the people in your circle and the people

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Speaker 1: that too. So I'm going to send you some copies

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Speaker 1: of my book that you can share with whoever you're

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Speaker 1: inspired to share them with. But today Katrina McGee. I

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Speaker 1: want to introduce you to my audience who have not

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Speaker 1: had the pleasure of meeting you, because you are such

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Speaker 1: a beautiful woman. God has graced you with external beauty

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Speaker 1: and internal beauty. But the thing that I love most

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Speaker 1: is that you have spent your entire career helping women

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Speaker 1: to love themselves and take better care of themselves. And

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Speaker 1: that's not a message we hear often enough. It is

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Speaker 1: absolutely true. I believe when women band together and passionate purpose,

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Speaker 1: there nothing we can't do. And it has been my

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Speaker 1: life's pleasure to teach women, equip women, empower them to

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Speaker 1: take care of themselves, of their health, to live their

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Speaker 1: lives with grace for themselves and for each other. And

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Speaker 1: so I am honored to meet your audience. And it's

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Speaker 1: been some time with you today. So we're going to

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Speaker 1: talk about a lot of things. First off, first and foremost,

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Speaker 1: American Heart Association. And I read a fact before I

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Speaker 1: that my podcast director, my my executive producer shared with

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Speaker 1: me that one out of three women will die of

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Speaker 1: heart diseases. That could that possibly be correct? Yeah, heart

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Speaker 1: our own health. How can that possibly be? When I

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Speaker 1: part of it is that we just don't know and

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Speaker 1: you know the things that we can control, like our

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Speaker 1: an amen, because that's me. That's me. I have high

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Speaker 1: blood pressure. I know I need to walk every day.

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Speaker 1: know the things that we prioritize, they're important, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: from cardiovascular disease. Yeah, it's crazy, right, and yet you

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Speaker 1: you know, women having a conversation just like you and

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Speaker 1: I think, girl, are you taking care of yourself? When's

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Speaker 1: form of cardiovascular disease. Yeah, that's that's right, not only

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Speaker 1: to have some form of cardiovafter disease, but to have

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Speaker 1: about that is there are things we can do, and

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431
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. And I'm raising my hand over here too. Right, Definitely,

432
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,639
Speaker 1: we all have. It has been a struggle to stay

433
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Speaker 1: active and to eat right. You want comfort food, you

434
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Speaker 1: feel like comfort food when the world around you is

435
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 1: in chaos. And again, you know, I I try to

436
00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 1: handle that all with grace, which means that, you know,

437
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Speaker 1: if I feel myself game, whether I feel myself pluggish,

438
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 1: I used that as a reminder to get up and

439
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:09,000
Speaker 1: get moving. I used that as an incentive to say, Okay, tomorrow,

440
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:13,119
Speaker 1: I'm going to eat a salad and I'm lean chicken. Yeah,

441
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 1: I ate Mexican food last night and it was yummy,

442
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 1: And you know, I just can't beat myself up about it.

443
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,680
Speaker 1: But I think, you know, it is that continuous pursuit

444
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Speaker 1: of good health that we're most after because you know,

445
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 1: none of us are going to be perfect all the time.

446
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 1: But Delilah, I believe if we if we keep good

447
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 1: health pop of mind, it will always bring us back

448
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,520
Speaker 1: to those behaviors that we know are in our best interests.

449
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,639
Speaker 1: And you know what, what your daughter did would make

450
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 1: a courageous choice to live fear to do with what

451
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,879
Speaker 1: was in her own best interests. And it was not

452
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,160
Speaker 1: easy because she's got you know, three kids at home

453
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 1: and her husband and she loves to bless them with food.

454
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Speaker 1: Our love language is sharing food. So it was very

455
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Speaker 1: courageous and very fierce for her to say, no, I

456
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 1: am going to take care of me. Yeah, yeah, I

457
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 1: love that. And when we see people doing that, I mean,

458
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,400
Speaker 1: how wonderful it is that she has you to encourage

459
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,919
Speaker 1: her and stand alongside her. That's what we have to

460
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,120
Speaker 1: do for each other as sisters, right, It's just when

461
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 1: somebody is trying to affirm that effort, and um, I

462
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 1: be't what go red for women is all about to

463
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 1: keep for us all encouraged, to keep us all um

464
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Speaker 1: on the path in pursuit of good health. Uh, and

465
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,440
Speaker 1: to share ideas and tips and what's working for each other.

466
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 1: So tell me about your loving on me academy. Yes, yes, yes,

467
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,879
Speaker 1: So I started loving on me because I was really

468
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,400
Speaker 1: passionate about helping women love themselves and each other more.

469
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: I had just come out of this um anxiety filled,

470
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 1: overwhelming um burnout really and I said, you know, I

471
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 1: gotta find a way to do what I love, but

472
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 1: to do it differently and paint a picture for us,

473
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: like what was going on in your life? What were

474
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 1: you doing, what choices were you making, or what was

475
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 1: your circumstances, Because there's there's two things in life that

476
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:11,959
Speaker 1: we have to deal with. One of circumstances that are

477
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 1: visited upon us that we have no say over. We

478
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 1: have no say over the family were born into, our

479
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,959
Speaker 1: ethnicity or height, are any of that. And then the

480
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 1: second thing is is things that are visited upon us

481
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 1: like circumstances of of betrayal or divorce or jobs that

482
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: are abusive. So what was going on in your world

483
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: that was leading you to this stressed out situation. I

484
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 1: was working at what I thought was my dream job

485
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 1: and we had a huge blow up with another nonprofit

486
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 1: while I was working at through the g Common, and

487
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:51,479
Speaker 1: I started to get in this cycle of every day

488
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: trying to control everything and everybody. You know how we

489
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 1: see something and we feel like, no, don't do that, no, no,

490
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: say this that You're trying to control everybody, trying to

491
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: manage situations that are often out of your control, where

492
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 1: you've developed codependent relationships and where you want things to

493
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: just go along as you perceived they should be. And

494
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: I finally hit a wall where I thought the lot

495
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: of I was having a heart attack and the struck

496
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Speaker 1: at the same time, my face was getting numb, my

497
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 1: chest was tight, and I instead of going to the

498
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: doctor right away, I doubled up on my blood pressure

499
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 1: medicine because I thought, Okay, I'm in a stressful situation.

500
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: I know what this is. I'm just gonna take care

501
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 1: of it. And finally my son said, listen, I need

502
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Speaker 1: you to go to the doctor because I only have

503
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 1: one mom and I need you to take care of you.

504
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you, I've met so many women

505
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: who have symptoms who were their body their spirit is

506
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: telling them something wrong, that they're having a life interrupted moment,

507
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 1: but they won't stop and take care of themselves until

508
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 1: something catastrophic happens. And so, you know, my son said,

509
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Speaker 1: I don't want them to be to you. So I

510
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: went to the doctor. He said, you're not having a

511
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: heart attack. You're having an anxiety attack. And you're having

512
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 1: it all day, every day, and when you feel lightheaded,

513
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: it's because your body is not getting enough there. And

514
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: I didn't I wasn't even sure anxiety attacks were real

515
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 1: until I had them myself. And he said, you have

516
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,560
Speaker 1: two choices. I can either put you on medication or

517
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 1: you can be courageous enough to change your circumstances like

518
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 1: this is not healthy for you. And so I took

519
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 1: some time off. In a way, I was suffering from exhaustion,

520
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: I was having the anxiety attacks, and it really was

521
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: a life interrupted moment. I just believe, you know, God

522
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 1: can use your life interrupted moments and take you from

523
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: what you know best to get to know him better,

524
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Speaker 1: like to really focus on what the spirit is saying

525
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:49,959
Speaker 1: to you. And that's what happened to me. And I

526
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,479
Speaker 1: started telling my story of what happened. I realized there

527
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: were so many other women around me who did not

528
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Speaker 1: understand how to love themselves enough to make the hard choices,

529
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 1: and so I ended up writing this book to take

530
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 1: people on that journey with me from being a hot

531
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Speaker 1: mess suffering from anxiety attacks to unconditional self worth. And um.

532
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: It was along that journey that I've met a lot

533
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Speaker 1: of women from around the world actually who had experienced

534
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: the same thing. And it became this movement, this loving

535
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: on Me movement, UM. And I realized, I can help

536
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: you learn to love yourself more, um, but you really

537
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 1: needed help, honestly on how to manage your advice in

538
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 1: your career too. So I set up a Loving on

539
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: the Academy, first to help people get in the driver's

540
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 1: seat of their life and to set priorities, and second

541
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Speaker 1: to learn to do what you love, to find a

542
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Speaker 1: career in what you love, or be curateous enough if

543
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: you're not doing that, to do something different. And that

544
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: that became my work for many, many years. And you know,

545
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: I really still do some element of that even though

546
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,479
Speaker 1: I'm at American Heart now, because I have always been

547
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: in love with helping women take charge of their health

548
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 1: and their life and to do the things that they

549
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 1: are most called to do. So do you have teachers

550
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: at this Loving On You Academy? I mean, do you

551
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: have classes at the academy? What does it look like?

552
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: I do. I have online classes. I have three classes

553
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 1: that are out there currently. I'm working on another class

554
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: because you know, COVID has been a master class for

555
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 1: us on many things, and so I want to set

556
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 1: up a couple of more classes for that. And I

557
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: put it online because I found that so many people

558
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 1: did not have access to what they needed, and so

559
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: I wanted to give it to the broadest audience possible. UM.

560
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 1: So I set up online courses and occasionally a couple

561
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: of times the year, I also do group coaching because

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00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 1: I believe in women helping women. Uh, And that's you know,

563
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 1: that's that's my passion. I love putting women in charge

564
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: of their lives. I just believe it is so liberating

565
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: to be who you were created to be and who

566
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: not who you thought you had to be because somebody

567
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: else that priorities for you, or you're trying to live

568
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: up or down to somebody else's expectation. Amen. So if

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Speaker 1: somebody wants to take a class that the Loving on

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Speaker 1: you are Loving on Me Academy. How do they do that,

571
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: Contrina out? Where do they go? They go to Loving

572
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 1: on Me academy dot com and they will find all

573
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Speaker 1: of the classes there. You know what, I bet probably

574
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Speaker 1: of my collars every single night are women that would

575
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: benefit from that because they call me because they're stressed out.

576
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: They call me because they're trying to control their adult

577
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: children's addictions, or their partners philanderings, or they're trying to

578
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: control the finances of their household and it's out of

579
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: control right now out and they just they call me

580
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: because their heartbroken, because they're exhausted, because their life is

581
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:11,439
Speaker 1: a hot mess. I have been there, and I can

582
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: so relate, you know. I talk about that in Loving

583
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: on Me, my first book, because it's so easy to

584
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 1: slip in a codependent relationship where we are trying to

585
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: control another person or live that other person's life for them,

586
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 1: And the truth of it is, you know, we think

587
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: that we are helping people, we think that that's the

588
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 1: right thing to do, but you are not called to

589
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: live anyone else's life but your own, and in truth,

590
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 1: those people don't love you. For that. They actually resent

591
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: for that. And so it is healthy and liberating when

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00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 1: you learn to break codependent relationship. But it is not easy.

593
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,399
Speaker 1: It is not easy. And the minute you you try

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00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: to set those boundaries, I will tell you, the minute

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00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:58,720
Speaker 1: you try to set those boundaries, the minute you start

596
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: saying no, no, no, that doesn't work for me, Nope,

597
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: can't do the Nope, not paying that, Nope, you're not

598
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 1: taking my car. Sorry, they get really mean because they

599
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: don't want they don't They don't want you to stop

600
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 1: being codependent. They don't want you to take care of you.

601
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:22,359
Speaker 1: They want you to fix them. Right. Yes, that is

602
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 1: so very true, and yet it is completely unhealthy for

603
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 1: you and them for things to stay the way they are.

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00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: This is why I believe so much in sisterhood. This

605
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: is why I believe in women helping women and understand

606
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: the need to have a good group of girlfriends and

607
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 1: connections who can speak truth to you and love because

608
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 1: often we can't see this in ourselves. And this is

609
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: whether this is our health. Are like our physical health,

610
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,399
Speaker 1: our mental health, our spiritual health. You know, we are

611
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: doing things that we would tell our friends. Don't do that. Now,

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00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,080
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, girl, you don't have to live it

613
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: that way. Of Course, you don't have to pay his

614
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 1: rent every month. Of Course you should take time for you.

615
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 1: But it sometimes takes somebody outside of your circumstances to

616
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:15,760
Speaker 1: say those things to you. Because people see us based

617
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 1: on how we're living, how we're showing up the good

618
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 1: things that we are doing. We are constantly judging ourselves

619
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: on what we perceive we should do or it could

620
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: have done or didn't do, and and it often takes

621
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Speaker 1: that outside perspective. Today it really is okay, it. This

622
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: is a good thing that you are not doing that anymore.

623
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Speaker 1: It is a good thing that you're taking time for yourself.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Katrina. Thank you for spending some time with

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00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: us today. Thank you for being passionate about women's health

626
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 1: and women's hearts and women's sisterhood. And any time you

627
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 1: want to share a healthy recipe call me. Okay, I

628
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: absolutely will do that. Now. I'm gonna see you when

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Speaker 1: you're red on February right, oh yeah, oh yeah. And

630
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: you know what, Red is one of my favorite colors.

631
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:09,359
Speaker 1: I decorate with it. My house has got red accents,

632
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 1: and I am gonna wear red. But more importantly, I'm

633
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 1: really going to make it a point to talk to

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00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 1: my daughters, my friends, especially women of color, about the

635
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 1: importance of paying really good attention to their heart. Thank you,

636
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 1: thank you. It's so important and I so appreciate you.

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00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: Let me spend some time with you today. I loved it,

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00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 1: all right, I'll talk to you soon, Okay. Take here.

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Speaker 1: You know, for more than forty years, for more than

640
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 1: four decades, I have tried to be a comfort to

641
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 1: those suffering from a wounded heart. I've tried to encourage

642
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:50,720
Speaker 1: people to live from their heart, to love from their heart.

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Speaker 1: I was a champion. I've been a champion. I've tried

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Speaker 1: to be for the healing heart, a celebrant of the

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Speaker 1: like to share stories other people's stories. Katrina McGhee does

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Speaker 1: Katrina wants you to live your best life. Live your

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Speaker 1: Please take her advice. Do I dare say it to heart,

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Speaker 1: Live fearce, prioritize your health, live purposefully, live passionately. I

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Speaker 1: encourage you every single day to love someone. That's my motto,

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Speaker 1: my slogan in life. And perhaps I don't say it enough,

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Speaker 1: You can't love others if you're not taking care of yourself.

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Speaker 1: So take care of yourself, take care of your heart

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Speaker 1: so that you will have the strength and the energy

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Speaker 1: to take care of everyone else that you love. Valentine's

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Speaker 1: in for the greatest love songs, the greatest love stories

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Speaker 1: of all time. I share those with you every night

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Speaker 1: this year. When you're making your plans for the loves

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Speaker 1: The month of February is a great time to kick

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Speaker 1: to go Red and Ladies. If you're looking for tips

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Speaker 1: Loving on me academy dot com Loving on me academy

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Speaker 1: Join me next time I Love Someone With Delilah, We're

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