Hidden Stressors That Are Making You Sick & The Truth About Juicing - With Drew Canole

You are now listening to The Model Health Show with Shawn Stevenson. For more, visit themodelhealthshow.com. Are there hidden stressors that are driving our epidemics of chronic illnesses, weight gain, and poor mental health? That's what we're going to be covering today. In addition, we're going to be talking about some of these things that are exploding in popularity that are supposed to be geared towards improving our health. like juicing. And I'm not talking about the Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi kind, the Mark McGuire kind. I'm from St. Louis. That was an epic time. There's even a highway named after him. He hit 70 home runs. We named Highway 70 the Mark McGuire Highway. It was Big Mac Highway. They changed the name after the news came out though. I'm not talking about that juicing. I'm talking about juicing vegetables and fruits and herbs. Is it really something that is appropriate for improving our health? What types of juices are ideal, if any? And we're going to be talking about this with the guy who really, this is real talk. I've known this fella for 15 years. He was there ushering in this movement towards juicing and making fresh pressed juices right at home. He, for me, was really like a modern day Jack LaLanne. Now, at this point, when I met our special guest, I'd already been on that juice life for a couple of years. And I'm talking heavy. I ran through some juicers trying to get my own health together. But it was so crazy because there were certain symptoms that would happen. Now, my health transformed in the most amazing ways. But certain types of juices left me feeling like I had a crash of energy afterwards, where others made me feel vitalized and energetic for hours. And so what were those things? What were those missteps now that we have fresh pressed juices everywhere? Is this a good thing? We're going to ask the guy himself about it. But again, we're going to be looking at the current state of affairs in our culture. what are those things that for many of us are hiding in plain sight that can be holding us back when we have aspirations to transform our bodies and transform our health overall. And so without further ado, let's get to our special guest and topic of the day. Drew Canole is a health educator, entrepreneur, and founder of Organifi. After gaining nearly 50 pounds as a new father, Drew discovered that real health isn't about pushing harder. It's about removing hidden stressors, restoring essential nutrition, and rebuilding safety in the body. Today, he is fitter than ever and on a mission to help transform the health of our families. His work focuses on foundational nutrition, nervous system health, and helping people normalize their health without force. Let's dive into this conversation with the incredible Drew Cannoli. We've got my guy, Drew Cannoli, in the house. It's good to be here, man. 15 years, man. We've known each other for about 15 years. Yeah, I knew you back in Be Well Buzz days. The Be Well Buzz, yeah. I was the resident nutritionist. Yeah, if Larry and Oxon are watching this. Yeah, shout out to Larry and Oxon. They're probably DJing in Ibiza or something crazy. Exactly. But man, it's just been incredible because you were there in the early days and to be one of those people who helped to elevate this culture of juicing. like you were really to me like a modern day jack la lane oh and so now like it's obviously everywhere everywhere i just went to my son's basketball game at one of these you know schools he was competing with and even in these kids lunch rooms they've got like fresh pressed juices you know what i mean and so the the game has changed tremendously but having the guy here and to see the evolution of things i want to ask you about juicing yeah because a lot of people are doing juice fast, you know, right now to this day, they are looking to up-level their health, to get a lot of nutrients in. What are your feelings about juicing as it stands today? Oh gosh, times have changed. I mean, you got oxalates now, which nobody was talking about back then, goitrogenic compounds, all this stuff, but I'm still juicing three, four days a week, cucumber, lemon, ginger, turmeric, mainly greens. I wasn't really a big fruit juicer as it is, but making immunity shots for the family every day, you know, especially when the crazy weather comes in, like we're in it now. But I love it. It's a, it's a great way to get micronutrients in flooding your body with living light, as I like to say. Now I make a lot of smoothies as well. You probably do that as well, but it changes everything. My energy shifts. My body feels more alkaline first thing in the morning. It's a huge part of my life. But also I'm not only doing like juice cleanses and juice fast, which people can do the wrong way. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you for that. So for you, it's like a great add in. It's a great addition to your life. 100%. And also you mentioned about the fruit juices, because I think that that's where things can get a little bit more sketchy is if you're juicing, you know, a bunch of pineapple or just straight up pineapple or orange juice and things like that. And just having that, you know, the insulin response and all those kinds of things. So you're mentioning things like cucumber and ginger and celery, right? But what about maybe like a little something to sweeten up, a little slice of some green apple or something like that? Yeah. Green apple is great. A little pineapple is not going to hurt you either. A lot of people, pre-diabetic, diabetes, you know, you, you juice something with a lot of fruit. It's immediately impacting your liver as fructose. A lot of people have fatty liver disease, non-alcoholic. It's like gone up big time, not only from drinking juices that are filled with all these fruits and sugars and fructose and everything else, but also buying the drinks in the cans at the store where it's all processed, pasteurized, heated up. So you're losing the enzymes, the aminos, all the good stuff that you and I love anyway. But having, walking out to, let's say my pomelo trees that I have at the farm, grabbing those, putting those in the juicer in the morning that I pick them. I mean, they're picking up the biophotonic field of the humans that are living on the farm. So that's medicine for me, specifically for me. So making that first thing in the morning and drinking it, that's liquid sunshine, man. And then also staring into the sun while you're doing this, filling your body with the light from the sun and also the juice from the farm. It's an experience I can't explain on video to have people grasp it enough. Like we need to be in touch with our food. We need to be living close to our food, even if it's just herbs in your kitchen. Maybe you're not privy to a little hobby farm like I have or whatever, but even having celery and cilantro and parsley and thyme and rosemary, it's so easy to grow in your house and just sprinkle it into your food. And it's giving you so many benefits. Yeah. Amazing. Amazing. You know, you also slid in there and how we impact the food that's around us as well. 100%. And so this is something again, slow down, Drew. Slow down. Yeah. All right. Now we've got data on this, even from the U S government running experiments decades ago and seeing how we impact the, in particular, um, we see plants as basically they're not sentient beings, right? But there's this context to where all life really on planet earth has intelligence. And it's just, we are really geared towards, and even what we see is really geared towards our own kind of human senses. And so this brings me to another thing I want to ask you about, which is, you know, the original internet, essentially, which is the mycelium network in a forest, right? And that data exchange, and there's so much information coming out about that now. And Paul Stamets has been one of the leading voices in this and just understand, even with mushrooms in the context of mushrooms, they're more similar to human DNA than they are to say, what we label as a plant, like some spinach or something. It's something really interesting. There's an energy that really binds us all here and we've kind of separated ourselves from it. And so my question is, what happens when we separate ourselves from the source of where our food is coming from? Is this one of the things that is unconsciously contributing to our poor health, struggles with weight gain? Is there something missing in our relationship with food? You already know, but you're setting me up, which I appreciate. It's devastational. So you and I are big proponents of safety, feeling safe in our bodies, having the nervous system feel great. So when you're eating food that's loaded with glyphosate, you're disrupting your gut. Most people have leaky gut right now. Your nervous system's going haywire. You're ungrounded. You're getting all the blue light, all the flicker from all the lights in most people's homes. It's LED lighting. They're tanking their nervous systems. So you can't function as a normal human, a light being when you're surrounded by all this stuff. So it's good to be connected to your food so that your nervous system can actually ground down and heal. If your body doesn't feel safe, there's no way you can truly heal and be an optimized human being. So safety, number one, that's why I do eat organic food. That's why I know where my food is coming from. I know most of the farmers that I buy my meat from. I have like 50 chickens. So now the eggs, I know what they're eating, you know, the worms and the oyster shells. And I play my hand pan for the chickens. I'm playing music for them, right? They like know who I am. And it's this beautiful exchange. Most people have become so numb to just going in the store and I'm going to buy this chicken that's been bathed in chlorine, you know, taking a bath in chlorine, and then I'm going to eat that and expect myself to be healthy. No, that's why cancer rates are up from people eating conventional chicken breasts and all of the food that we've been disconnected from. So the minute you take ownership, you start feeling safer in your body. Your body heals from things that maybe you've been struggling with your whole entire life or even the past five, 10 years. It goes away because the body heals itself through principles, not products. I am the product guy, right? I run Organifi. You know this. We've been working together forever. But if you don't have the principles in place, I encourage everybody, don't buy anything that I'm selling because your principles aren't there yet. So, which is why it's so important for people to listen to your show. And we're aligned on what we say, because this is the real work, the stuff that you're giving to them every single day, the information, 80% of the nutrition we absorb in our bodies is not from food. It's from the environment and the information that we're taking on, be it light or be it the voice of Sean. Right? Oh man, I appreciate that. Yeah. And also speaking of, you got a great story that happened recently with your daughter and the chickens. Oh yeah. Share that for me. So my daughter's two and a half and I had 10 hens in a smaller coop, you know, 12 by 15 coop, not that big. They weren't free range yet because they were pullets and they're babies, they're growing. So I moved them to a much bigger coop with about an acre and a half of the best. It looks like it's in New Zealand, in California here. And as I'm walking my baby girl over, I'm holding her and she's looking me in the eyes and she puts her hand on my chest. She says, daddy-o, she calls me daddy-o, you're so generous. And I was like, full stop. I'm done. I could retire today. It's that one little affirmation from my baby girl that just, that's it. And what two year, two and a half year old even uses the word generous, you know, in the right context and everything, you know. It's just a testament, man. I'm so happy for you. Certain people is just like, I was also waiting. When is he gonna have a little cannoli? When is it gonna happen? Because you were just meant to be You meant to be a dad And she so blessed and you have her as well 100 And you know just with that said this is a big part of helping to heal and to heal our nervous system in our societies. And we're going to dig more into what that means. Yeah. A big part of that is our relationships. And a big part of the dissonance is our relationships as well. And so in this context of safety signals, and so let's, let's dive in a little bit deeper with that. So, um, I don't, well, I already, I know this to be true because I went to a conventional university. I was taught calories in calories out. If you want to lose weight, simply expend more energy than you're taking in. And that has been the, the dogma that we've impressed upon our culture. It's just a simple equation. It's a simple math equation. Left brain, like very mechanical. And it's well-intended and it has a part, but we're taking out something incredibly important, which is our bodies evolve to survive. And it doesn't always operate as far as this calculator or this manual says it's supposed to. And so our bodies can literally hold onto a resist weight loss or resist weight gain when we are in a state of chronic stress, right? We know that our metabolism literally changes. And so let's talk about that. Let's talk about why sending our body safety signals is so important in the context of better health, but in particular with weight loss. Yeah, that's the new game, man. How safe can you feel in your body? How at home can you feel as you go throughout the day. So most people wake up, blue light on their phones, TikTok, Instagram, get in the dopamine rush. But instead, how slow can you move? The slower you move, the more your nervous system is, I'm okay. I got this. I can heal, whatever it is. How much can I laugh throughout the day? How present can I really be? Like, do I need my phone in every conversation because it's a coping mechanism for checking out? Or do I put my phone away? I have a rule. I have a man cave that I work in. And then when I come back in the house, wife and baby, no phone. Because I know that I'm going to be drawn to that, that electronic tether. If I can get rid of that, I'm going to automatically be safer in my field, which impacts the coherent field of the entire house. So that's as men and as leaders as our family, I believe we get to really create that safety. So when we do that in our body, cortisol levels go down. We've seen that. Even just breathing. A couple times in, long breath out. You do that every hour. Schedule it in your phone. You know, have a reminder pop up. 55 minutes in every hour. Do that breathing exercise for three minutes. Your life will radically change. It didn't cost you anything. You just turned your parasympathetic on more often throughout the day, which creates more coherence, which creates more connection, more presence, and ultimately gives you what you want more of, which is more love and more togetherness with the people that you care about in this life. So when you're sitting in that state, I've seen miracles, situations, people enter my field versus trying to push. So, which is why I was going to play my first song that I ever made for you. It's called let go and let God. Because when we truly let go and we let spirit, God, I believe, take control of our lives, everything just becomes effortless. It's no more Drew pushing, which when you met me 15 years ago, there was a lot of pushing. There was looking at the analytics every day. What can I do? How can I be clever to be noticed, to be seen in a marketplace that was just starting out 15 years ago. Now it's how can I get so still and just allow, um, whatever is meant to be will unfold. And I've seen more happen in my life from that standpoint than anything I've ever tried to force being a CEO running multiple companies. It's just letting go and getting out of the way. And the nervous system loves it. Sideline benefit weight will fall off issues, disease in the body will start to fade away. And it's, you're the science guy. So I don't have to tell you this, there's science now backing it up, which is so cool. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I've got to circle back because one of the greatest takeaways from this episode already is to set a reminder to breathe. Yeah. Simple. You know, and we'll do whatever that looks like for, for everybody listening, that message, that the timer that can pop up on your phone could be something pleasant like hey beautiful remember to take a breath or it could be like a fool breathe remember to breathe fool you know whatever that looks like but it's a great reminder because especially as we go through the day we start to just tighten up our breathing gets shorter and shorter and our nervous system like it's so rare that we can be in that parasympathetic during the day for the average person and to couple that with something that induces more parasympathetic activity, you put your hand, and I'm on video so you guys can see this, on your prefrontal cortex of your brain, and you put one in the back. This gets rid of headaches, by the way, too. But you put it on your occipital or right above your atlas, and you just hold here, and you breathe. If you've ever done craniosacral with an experienced expert, you'll notice your body just starts to melt. Do this for yourself. Take some breaths. Two in. Longer breath out. And you literally feel like you're being held by maybe a parent that you never had. Like that's, I didn't really have parents that did that for me. And I do that now as a man, I'm holding the little boy inside of me. It sounds woo, but you'll notice immediately, I need to take a nap. You know what I'm saying? Which probably isn't the time to be doing this on the show because I'm already feeling relaxed. But there's things we can do that are free, that align the body, align the nervous system and ultimately give you what you want. Yeah, thank you for sharing that, man. Thank you. I wanna ask you about, with our, just again, we are kind of saturated in all these newly invented chemicals and complexes and obviously stressors and fields. We got 30,000 wifi going- 5G, 6G, 8G. All this stuff. Like we're existing in very different conditions than even a few generations ago. And so I wanna ask you about the impact of these stressors on our sexual function. And because in the context, I'm asking specifically in regards to not just sexual health, but even in the context of weight loss and energy, it still has a lot to do with having good sexual health. And in particular, the role of testosterone, which this is critical for both men and women. So can chronic stress, my bottom line question, contribute to dysfunction when it comes to testosterone and sexual function? Absolutely. I've been saying this for the past decade, but if you're not horny, you're not healthy. So waking up with an erection turned on for life, like where are you not turned on? And then analyze that. Is it your thinking? Start to address those. So then we go into what kind of food am I eating? What's the etheric energy from the food, more importantly than the biology, right? So where am I getting it? Do I trust the source? How is it impacting me? Am I allergic to something? Or is it really the frequencies? Am I in a house with black mold? Because molds everywhere. 80% of houses now have some type of mold. stocky botrys, different types of mold that are impacting people big time, microplastics, as we know, sperm counts have gone down 1% every year since what, 1950 or something insane, 70. So testosterone's through the floor. Stress levels are higher than they've ever been. And it's all fragmented artificial stress. It's the flicker. It's the frequencies. It's the having to keep up with the Joneses. It's the constant pursuit and chase of never feeling in your body, never feeling home. And if you don't feel home in your body, then you're, you're going to develop an autoimmune disease, an issue. If you're not speaking your voice out like the, I don't know if you saw this study, but it was women that never really owned their voice. And then they developed autoimmune issues. And it was a study. I was pretty remarkable. Actually, it was like tracked over the past 30 years. So I forget what it was exactly, but owning your voice, getting rid of anything that could be bogging you down, relationally, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, all of the different aspects. I think it's super important. Yeah. By the way, if people are watching the video, we'll put this study up for everybody to see that you're referring to. And again, these are things that we don't think about because we're so busy with the tactical things, right? And we're not thinking about our thinking, right? And how we're relating to ourselves and how important that is. And I wanna ask you about this because I first saw the guys, our brothers at Mind Pump talking about the Sheila G. And this was something, again, I've been in this field, it's getting close to 25 years for me, man. It was great, my wife pointed it out. And Sheila G was one of those things probably about 20 years ago that I didn't discover. Obviously it's been around for thousands of years, but it was presented to me and I started to research it. And there wasn't a lot of data, right? As far as like peer review published data on it, but there is this like treasure trove of anecdotal information and then just the historical use in the Ayurvedic system in particular. But now let me tell you this, man. So this particular study was published 10 years ago. This was 2015. Again, this is when the published data on Shilajee was just starting to come out. And the title of the study is Clinical Evaluation of Purify Shilajee on Testosterone Levels in Healthy Volunteers. And the test subjects were between 45 and 55, which this is one of those well-established age. 40% of 40-year-olds have erectile dysfunction. 50% of 50-year-olds. 40%. Yes, yeah. And it just keeps on elevating from there. but this is just what's normalized. It doesn't mean necessarily that it's normal. And so looking at this particular age group, this is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study. And treatment with Sheila G was for 90 days consecutively. And what they found was that test subjects had a significant increase in total testosterone and in free testosterone compared to a placebo. All right, there's something remarkable about Sheila G. And so my question for you is, what the hell is Shilajit? Yeah, Shilajit is a microbial community developed thousands of years, normally found in the Himalayas. So you got to think about everything it's gone through to create itself. It's minerals, it's decayed rock, it's light that's been mineralized, turned into this goo. It's 84 minerals, humic and fulvic acid, which actually is what really allows it to do the work. because you could take salt, Celtic sea salt, pink salt, throw it in water. I do that first thing in the morning to get some electrolytes and some other minerals from the salt. You could also take trace minerals from the ocean. But when you have shilajit in its raw form or put into a gummy like we did at Organifi, you're getting all the minerals, 84 of them, the humic and the fulvic acid actually shuttle it into your body. So that's the magic. Most minerals you're just peeing out. But when you take the Sheelajit, you're actually getting it full force in the body. And it makes all the other supplements you're taking more effective. So we are voltage beings, right? We are energy beings. Most people are so mineral deficient. There's not as many minerals in our soil anymore. In the 1950s you could have an organic piece of lettuce that was worth 40 heads of lettuce today right So adding minerals back into your life people feel it man I seen adrenal burnout like all these other things people are dealing with They get on the Sheila Jigummies and it's like, they're a different person. I have so much energy. Like I've talked to clients on the phone that have been taking it for months on end and I'm blown away at the life difference that they have now just by adding something like Sheila Jigummies. It is wild. Before you guys put together the Sheila Jigummies, I would add it to like my coffee, things like that. I've get it from, you know, different sources. And it was like, sometimes it'd be like a resin, right? And I put it in my coffee. Hard to stick with. For me, I found a way to dial the flavor into where it was enjoyable, but you put it into a package of what so many people are leaning towards today, which is utilizing different supplements and things like that in the form of these gummies. And so can you tell people about the Organifi Shilajit gummies? For sure. And by the way, you can get them for 20% off when you go to Organifi.com forward slash model. That's O-R-G-A-N-I-F-I.com forward slash model to see it right here. 20% off. And tell them about the gummies. Yeah. So two gummies a day, you're getting 500 milligrams of Sheila Jit. By the way, in this study, it was 250 milligrams twice a day. So that's exactly right on the money. It's either 250 or 500. Two gummies. I take four a day. So I'll take some at night before my workout in the afternoon. What I've noticed is my sleep's improved. I've noticed more mental clarity, more energy. I've even noticed I don't need that second cup of coffee because I feel like the stimulant or even I wake up three o'clock in the morning sometimes and I write, I make music, I write, I create video scripts. So by 12 to one o'clock being a lion chronotype, I start to fade, but taking the gummies give literally like another two or three hours of boost that I didn't have before. So take it. It's good for your ATP, good for your mitochondria, your energy. I notice it in mental clarity, my sleep, like I said, uh, what I've really seen is moms, new moms taking this stuff too, that feel a little burnout with the kid being in hypervigilance, constantly watching the little one, they take the gummies and it helps their nervous system too. So feeling safer, feeling more grounded, which is what some of these minerals can do. Yeah. So what makes it different is if you can form a habit around it, a ritual, you're going to stick with it, which if you stick with this for six to eight weeks, that's really the magic sauce. I'm a big placebo guy, but also I feel things I'm sensitive. So I felt it right away when I started taking these gummies. But you'll notice it. You'll notice the mental clarity with the 250 milligrams just to if you're a guy with low testosterone before even entertaining trt or something like that i would literally literally commit to eight weeks do this for eight weeks straight clean up your diet do some strength and conditioning lift some weights see what happens because naturally we are supposed to have seven eight hundred to a thousand testosterone levels well into our 40s and the fact that most guys are probably flatlining around four or 500, like it's just unacceptable. Yeah. That part well into your fifties. Yeah. Well into your fifties, you know, and, and this is still seen in cultures that are still, you know, living more traditional, um, lifestyle. And, you know, this is the cool thing is that we have access to things like this. And one of the things that has kept us connected for so long is your dedication to quality as well. And sourcing, because this isn't any shi le ji off the streets yeah made in a bathroom somewhere in china yeah um and who knows maybe it's a clean bathroom but i'm not nothing against where it's from but when you do the triple test you look at the coas which we do three different times we source prima v shi legit which is the best um it's clean we use all organic ingredients even setting up the gelatin molds like there's a process around making sure that there's no PUFAs or anything like that. We do it. And then we also test afterwards to see the validity of how much is actually in it. Cause you want the active levels, which even for creatine is a big problem. Cause we create creatine gummies, 1500 milligrams of creatine per gummy, three grams per two gummies. And they taste delicious, but most creatine that's put into these is absolute crap. Not to mention it's, they cook it in the creatine that they're using, it loses its efficacy after it's heated up to form the gelatin anyway. So there's just a lot of things you have to look at when making physical products like Organifi does for you to make sure it's the highest quality and the best. I'm glad you brought that up. Yeah. And it's a great segue mentioning the creatine because when you shot me a text this morning, you actually just, you had quite a trip to get up to LA today, but you were in the gym. Yeah. So tell me about your fitness regimen. Like, obviously, I mean, if people see, obviously, you're about that life when it comes to strength training. So why is that something for you that you've consistently had as a part of your life? Um, it is a non-negotiable working out six days a week, lifting weights, a cardio, incline cardio. I'm a big proponent of biggest bang for your buck. First thing in the morning, 30 to 45 minutes, you know, the deal that sweet zone to I'm trying to get three, three and a half hours a week and then strength and conditioning on top of it, because that's what gives me energy. We are human voltage beings. And like I said earlier, if you're not turned on, if you're not horny, you're not healthy Working out turns on your mitochondria. Planting your feet in the ground turns on your electric body. There's things that we can do throughout the day to have more energy. For me, working out first thing in the morning and fueling my body with protein, you do the same thing, but a gram per pound of clean, organic, grass-fed, whatever I'm eating. And I feel literally like I'm getting stronger, more tapped in, more better mental function as I'm aging. now I'm 44 than I ever have in my whole life. But it's just about clearing out the noise, the things that didn't work and focusing on the things that do. So working out, creatine works. We know it. I mean, look at the efficacious studies around creatine now, especially over the past year. It's just blown up. You and I were probably taking creatine 15 years ago, right? Yeah. For me, I was like 20. It was like 25 years ago. I remember it vividly. My mom, Mama Cannoli, I was in the kitchen. I was 16. I started training with a Navy SEAL in the gym. I was lifting weights and this guy, his name's Kelvin. He was just jacked, bro. Like he looked like Arnold's apprentice. You know, as a 16 year old, I'm training with this 22 year old guy, loved hitting the weights. And he had me on creatine at 16. You would have laughed so hard. My mom thought I was like taking cocaine or something. She ran in the bedroom, took this big tub of creatine monohydrate. I remember it like it was yesterday. Dumped it down the drain. She's like, you're not taking this. This is not good for you. Like only if I could fast forward to today and say, mom, look at the news. Like creatine. I know about this El Chapo. I know about this. Not my dream. Exactly. It's crazy, man. What are the odds? Because for me, the person who had me take the creatine was this guy who was like a bodybuilding champion, natural body champion is a nigerian guy named ata ekong all right he worked with me at the casino and he could see that i was fit but he's like sean you should come work out with me to the next level so he introduced me to drop sets oh all right so we're doing drop sets yeah oh man it was like yeah it was but just to see and my wife will tell you too like when she saw me on campus i was walking around because this was the big t-shirt dance yeah by the way we had st louis to coming back nelly right of course yeah it's all things do circles back but i was just walking around dieseled all right and it happened i mean pretty quickly by changing the way that i was training and also of course utilizing the creatine thanks to the advice of and shout out to a top wherever you are i know he's he's gonna live to be if he hears this let's send him whatever organifi he wants come on if he's listening to this right now we got him but you had the navy seal i had the I think it was like Mr. Caveman, Missouri. He had won or something like that. Oh, I'm so impressed. That's hilarious. Yeah, yeah, it's incredible. Like it's so good. This is a great segue as well, because something I wanted to ask you about, and I've been thinking a lot about, and there's emerging data on this. I'm gonna do more work around this, is the importance of having mentors, is the importance of having people in your life who provide, who don't want something from you, but just want to support you and to provide guidance and insight and to be able to answer questions. The value of having a mentor is so important. And this was something we just naturally had as a society as we evolved, again, centuries ago, whether it's like literally you are an apprentice in something or you're getting into the family business, but you're just kind of learning the steps that are gonna be coming down the way. But today there's so much, there's infinite number of things that we can do. It's insane. Ways that we can think, and it can be, it can manifest in what we're seeing today, more and more paradox of choice and paralysis, basically. Not knowing what to do because there's so much to do. And I think that's another spot for having a mentor. And so can you speak to, because this ties back to our earlier point about helping to support that feeling of safety, right? What about the feeling of lack of safety when you don't know what you're gonna do in your life or how you're going to make a living or your purpose? And this is where mentorship can be valuable. 100%. I've had mentors my whole life. I've been blessed to meet people that are of the frequency that I need at the time that I need it. You probably have too. I like to call people like us the shiny ones. So when we're lit up, when we're enthusiastic, even when I first met you when you were on Be Well Buzz, like doing that, I'm like, this guy's going places. I knew you were gonna be massively successful and you're like just touching it right now. Like there's so much more room that you're going, man. You're like a rocket. So I talk to people, I ask them questions, I meet people and I'm interested. So I met one of my mentors that I've been meeting with every two weeks for the past 12 years. He's a Christian scientist, but he's got a, he's 93. He's got a beautiful mind. And he looks at the Bible and he looks at life and he looks at reality through the lens of a scientist. He's literally a scientist. So it's the deeper meaning of absolutely everything. And I get on the phone with this 93 year old guy. You'd never know it. Sounds like he's probably in his forties. He's so enthusiastic about life. He's got so much love. I've seen him and I've witnessed it. He'll walk into a room and the whole field shifts. It's like he creates safety in every single person that's in there just by being there. He doesn't even have to say anything. So having people like Frank, like I have, my 93-year-old Sage, other mentors that I've had in business that have just come along and said, hey, you're doing great. But there's a lot of untapped potential here. and I started this company, XYZ, whatever it is, and I just wanna help you for free, right? Sometimes the best people in your life, like you said, they don't need anything. They don't want anything. They've already arrived. And just being in the field of somebody that's already arrived is completely different than somebody that's trying to go, trying to do, trying to get to that next thing. Because they're really gonna give you what you need in that moment. And it's beyond words. It's just an energy. Your nervous system feels it before you do, you know? Can you provide maybe some insight on, if somebody's like, well, I would love to have a mentor. Yeah. So can you provide any insight Like how did you get connected to Frank I followed the golden thread Like we all have this golden thread going throughout our life and it leading us and guiding us And if we just get still enough we can start to see where it's headed next. So for me at the time, I was working with a mentor who had, he started Dollar Rent-A-Car back in the day. Brilliant guy, like super, spoke five languages, classy. And I just wanted, I helped him. I'm like, hey, I'm gonna help you for free. I don't need you to pay me. And at the time I was probably broke, you know, or not where I am today, but let me help you. And I just volunteered my time and he poured into me and he was like, I actually want to introduce you to Frank. He's my mentor. So there's, you'll always meet somebody. If you come with, what can I give? Not what can I get? I think that's the big thing. And also find the energy that you're aligned with. So if you're listening to Sean's podcast and you're like, I need more people like this in my life. The more you listen to this podcast, the more your frequency is going to shift and the more opportunities you're going to have in your awakened reality to actually meet those people. It's like waking. I've been a lucid dreamer since I was five, waking up in dreams. And I learned at five to start to wake up in reality, lucid living. So the more you wake up in this reality, the more you start to see people, experiences, situations that maybe you weren't open to before will just show up naturally. And I think that's powerful. I'd be nowhere without the mentors and Frank and the people that have helped me. Cause I didn't have it. My dad was a truck driver. Like I told you, I didn't know anything about business. Frank started JC Penney in Italy, like in the seventies. Like, so to get that perspective through another human being is super valuable. So being open, tuning your field, working out, cause I believe even the non-physical benefits of lifting weights and pushing your body and demonstrating like what are the characteristics and qualities of pushing yourself beyond limits that you thought you could do before yeah you know absolutely and and being in these environments that you're mentioning it's so amazing how these good things these seemingly synchronistic things happen right being at a gym that's where i met one of my like all-time heroes like when i was a kid yeah in st louis growing up in st louis two heroes wild michael jackson who's everybody's hero my hero too right i would a thriller jacket to school not a good decision and ozzie smith all right the wizard of oz shortstop for the st louis cardinals multi multi multi-time gold glove winner all the things i met him at the gym of course you know and he was one of my guests back in st louis you know like to be able to speak to my heroes because i was in the environment yeah the environment but also as you mentioned is the focus right these top of mind for me, still aspirational in thinking about Ozzie Smith. It was one of those points. He was a point of reference in my life for excellence because of not just what he was doing on the baseball field, but the way he went about it, his energy, and just doing something unique. And so all these little things really kind of stay with me. And the same thing holds true. you just mentioned a great opportunity as well, listening. Truly, what are you immersing yourself in? Because that energy, and it's gonna tend to show up in your life in some form or fashion. And so today, more than ever, we have the opportunity to have virtual mentors, like access to the greatest minds in whatever respective field. And oftentimes they have a podcast or they're doing interviews or whatever the case might be, and you can immerse yourself in their world. I'm a big fan of like picking, you know, one, maybe two people to really kind of focus on as your teachers for a certain amount of time. You know, I'm a big fan of that. And I've, and I'm saying that from experience as well, because there's so many amazing people, but you know, for me, it was Michael Beckwith, you know, just, I just spent so much time with him virtually. And bro, like he's in your field for sure. When I first, I saw the DVD, you know, I saw the secret. I was, I was in Ferguson, Missouri. Like my mattress was on the floor in the other room, the couch I was sitting on. No way, during the secret? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then when I ultimately met him, it was in Portugal and we're both speaking at the same event. What? Like how, that's, that's impossible odds that something like that can happen. Impossible. But I, I was there, I was like, this was the days. But also undeniable because of who you were. That part. Because you don't, he shared with me, you don't attract what you want. You attract what you are. Yeah. Where you're vibrating. Right. And so I was listening during the days of conference calls, right? You call into the line and you listen on the auditory. Yeah. Right. And maybe you could push a button and then get on live and ask a question. Right. Yeah. And so just following along in my journey and along with him and to have him to be one of my greatest friends and mentors and, you know, somebody who's really helped to affirm what I'm doing. And even that sense of worthiness that you and I just talked about, you know, he's that person that just really helped me to reframe and to accept that I'm worthy of the blessings that show up in my life. I don't have to have everything be so difficult because I come from difficulty. And so I always would find a way to have another challenge so that I can rise to the occasion, you know, instead of having more ease and grace and acceptance of the blessings. And so that mentorship was, again, I spent a significant, it was like my biggest focus as far as my education. Not to say that I wasn't learning from other people. So if I can make a recommendation, choose somebody to really follow their guidance and their work and just whatever access that you can get. But as you mentioned as well, if you do ever have that in-person connection, how can you add value? Not how can I take, hey, can you fix me, fix my life? What can you do for me? But it's just how can I add value? Yeah. And oftentimes, even better than that, with people who have a lot of stuff going on, say the value that you can add. Mm-hmm. Right? Here's what I can do. Yeah, there you go. So Beckwith, Secret Days, you were sleeping on a mattress. Yeah. On the floor. My kids slept on an air mattress. How many times did you watch The Secret? I'd say probably three times. Three times. In those early days. Wow. Yeah, I watched The Secret. I feel like I watched it every day for a year, dude. I had every word memorized in this thing. And the more I practiced it, how my thoughts create my reality, the more my life started to shift. Even before I ordered the DVDs, because this was not streaming. This is what you know. It was way back in the day. Passed around on the streets, man. I was like, I wish I ordered two. And then two showed up, because I wanted to give one away to a friend that was on the same thinking pattern. So I sent it to my friend, Julie at the time. And that was revolutionary for me. And the fact that you had Beckwith like that as a mentor, that golden thread, man, that's amazing. Yeah. So one of the things that I did as well, like from that, I read the books of the experts who were on there, whether it's Michael Beckwith and his life visioning process. It was Joe Vitale as well. So I picked up a couple of his books Bob Proctor, who had the great blessing of having on the show a couple of times. Just people who figure some things out and they are willing to share. Because it's not just about this kind of micro mission that we feel we might have. It's about living a good life and also finding a way to be of service. And the people that I've really resonated with, including you, are the people who are always giving and finding a way to go above and beyond. and they also have, because you tend to be very selfless, but you have your self-care practices where you're filling your own cup. It's like this unique formula that I saw pretty consistently. Yeah, you need them, man. Like filling your own cup up first. Do you know what your human design is? Have you ever taken a human design test? So it's important, especially I'm a projector. So if I don't fill my own cup up, that's my nervous system will just tank out and then I'll end up, you know, not feeling well for days on end or whatever else. So not feeding the chickens. You're not feeding the chickens, not present with my wife and my baby girl. So the more I fill my cup up, the more presents I actually have. Super important to have self-care rituals and practices. Taking a bath every day is one of mine. So Epsom salt, baking soda, borax a little bit too. You sit in there 25 minutes. I swear it's even better than a sauna. So you don't need to buy an expensive sauna, even though you and I both have saunas, probably cold plunges, all the things, but just a bath, man, just sweat it out. It creates the electro current on your skin. Your liver starts priming the pump and flushing out toxins. Yeah. I think that's a radical act of self-love. More people need to do it. Bubble baths. Let's go. This is revolutionary stuff being said. It's easy. It's easy. Tough guys take baths too. I love it. You know, Ice Cube is taking a bath. Oh, for sure. He's the biggest proponent of bubble bath time. Probably had a rubber duck too. Amazing, man. You know, I could talk to you forever, man. I appreciate you so much. Again, can you let everybody know where they can get more information, where they can follow you? Just get more of your world. 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