america's holistic sweetheart for part two of our series and we're having a lot of fun yeah but we don't miss on the last one thank you for being here on this one so we covered some ground we covered some territory with your background your experience your family a little bit how you got here into nature a path they said right there nature apathic and that's the focus on nature which i love that because that's really what it's all about  and this show we're going to get into a little bit more detail of some of the work and awareness that you're building around restored of holistic practices  lot of women have the doctor bag off and then do i need a dr back yes radio but and what better to have a louis sorry yeah so this actually it took me ten years to manifest yeah you can go on their the housewives hippies a nag because we live in such a cultural macca yap you know so it's just another delivery method another way to open conversation and start talking about my passion which is holistic oh yes  that is fantastic i absolutely love it and i love the customisation if fits right into everything we've been talking about about this work and about it being so unique and customized for each person yoga practice led me into that i started practicing yoga when i was seventeen with my best nurse stacy now you do a nurse there's the totally wasn't for her she never went back but i was inspired i've been practicing gosh over fifteen almost twenty years now so the chocolate journey i had met a young lady who i was practicing called to lean yoga wear and she asked me to be in this book collaborative and it totally resonated because i was assigned the solar plexus chopra and i had to write a chapter so this book what it does is it defines each chocorua you know what it is what it represents  lost all that weight and excess skin from my body because i knew for me that it would empower me to reclaim myself to steve rhodes share my gift to the world and this is why i'm a pro integrative nature holistic standpoint at least my opinion and the third i was reached out to by some connections that i had made and i have a mutual friend in common with les brown and that really put me on the map as far as authorship was concerned that one ended up achieving amazon the best selling status it was called step into your vision two point zero so i was a little hippie in the mix with all these corporate people that write there are different ways of manifestation and some do use like some meditative techniques sure mind i talked about vision board manifestation so in my room when i wake up every morning i have my am statements on my board i have a conversation with girlfriends twice a week with my best girlfriends what we do i am statements for fifteen minutes you know it's just something we've done together as a whole and that's what that one's about so i saw how valuable it was to have this book because when i am see these major health conferences like integrative health international and one concept conference and pure living expo enough so on and so forth i notice that you know everybody is either a bestselling author or a doctor variate you know and what i did was for my fourth book that's coming out if anybody is interested in being a co author with me but we're moving very quickly because we're actually kinda launching on the winter solstice i'm leading up a collaborative now called living with heart so it's all these integrative perspectives of how you live your truth and you live with heart and you know that impact in your life so we've got some celebrities and there but we've got some doesn't matter there are so many ways to in light invent and it's all a very personal journey so again if you're interested our him being in this book collaborative we only have a few co authorship available or else we interview are very up it sets up the platform if you are about to have a full length book too because you can tease with this one and put some promo in there and you have sent to your whole you know now you have credibility right yeah right absolutely absolutely love it and we to corporate people all master networker who and so that woman's restart of leadership series that i mentioned in our last show you know that really fits in with that concept because it's really all about how do we introduce and build awareness and experience help some of these women and some of these are top corporate leaders have access to some of this work and personally connect with it and then have them think about ok you know i'm i'm leading you know talent or i'm leading a segment of h r i'm leading all of age or in a major pharmaceutical company i look around i see the state of the union you know i see the state of the people that i work with i know my own state and is this something that could be really influential and powerful to bring into corporate america for sure and so that's kind of the path that where i and in corporate because we work with a lot of women and seeing their challenges and stresses and says women wanting it all having at all having the opportunity to have it all but not knowing how to balance that and really be centered and be peaceful and find happiness and all of it i mean sometimes we say we want it all and we go for it all but then we can find the peace in it you know and at the end of the day that's that's what it's all about and so how to reason restore that if we just took one of these you know a really broad in a meeting meaningful and brought people into it in this personal way i mean it changes after a thing if you're not doing some of these things i love the i am statements i love the road where the vision boring i what are we doing so there's this wonderful documentary film called planetary you can see it on we are planetary dot com and i'm very good friends with the director and well producers and was actually one of the   and i have helped to social media support for this film i've been to many film festivals now including the environmental film festival in washington d c with them doing live red carpet in the social media thing and this upcoming week we're actually going to the dominican republic for that country's environmental film fest and we will also on the side myself and a girlfriend of mine will be working with children's international with underprivileged children so we ordered a thousand of these stickers to give out to the kids and i have other fund gifts like worksheets and organic at and t shirts and things but i actually hosted the first well excuse me the only new jersey premiere of this film worldwide on earth day at the crossroads in garwood new jersey rockers was a little disappointed because their film fest was two weeks before that but i had already committed to holding the first screening on earth day so we do have this film available to be screened if anyone knows what it is it's a documentary thank you about the orbital perspective and how we're all interconnected and the empowering part is and what i speak about a lot is how an individual may watch this movie it's been called chuck are changing like people have had spontaneous going to leading awakening and you know go home and be a little sad about it because they don't feel empowered or like what can they do to start right there so that's what we talk about when we come in and read the film and have a panel about how you can be planetary you can start with yourself and in your own home and nutrition teach about composting there's so many ways so we really like to invite you to check out the film and if you want one of these stickers this is the first edition i've been more than happy to send you one for free again just email and when i was reading this that's what i felt i felt like listen this is about it's about love it's about caring it's about respect it's about thinking about outside of ourselves we were not brought here for ourselves so how do we think about that how do we engage with that as a relates to nature in our planet and and like you said though bringing it back into like starting right here and here and now what does that mean and something i always meditate on is you know i've i've been told that you get what you want out of life by helping others to get what they want and i don't know if you watched jim carrey commencement speech at the maharishi school of business in two thousand and fourteen you can  it on you tube it's about a half hour long but he talks about how you know his dad was a cow in and his dad really wanted to be a comedian like he is yeah but he chose to go the safe the safe route right and become an accountant and he failed at doing something he didn't live so jim decided to become a comedian you know at least let me fail trying doing something i really love but the one thing he said that really impacted me in that whole thing i mean i loved the i'm cracking up the whole thing was that people put on he brings out the best in people they put on their best selves for him you know yeah i was looking at it as wow i was working this corporate job in this private job in the city job and i would fulfill my creativity and my heart when i would go out and do volunteer work on my time off and stuff but how could i make this a sustainable lifestyle right i like showing up yeah i like bringing out the best in myself and others and this is one of my ways to do this this documentary film has you know blessed me with the opportunity i mean i've worked with other not for profit like the fruit tree planting foundation in new york open center where i've got to be around children and yet inspire them in everything but this just gives me that opportunity and the more we fulfill our creativity and our passions are you know we're able to just that's how the world is that looking and that and that caring for one another and loving of people you know i mean even incorporated mean i think you know it's it's funny because we do work with flying i don't like to fly i'm better with it ok it's a fear that's why i knew i ought to be hitchhiking or taking my boat to the dominican but i knew that i needed to overcome that yeah  you know for my destiny to do what i'm here to do and it was greater like you said greater than myself yeah you know yeah yeah yeah and divine intervention right i mean all it spills listen and help me out you know i believe you were going to die trying anyway at least blood to die trying to do it and we loved it but once like you said your destiny the dream is in your heart you're clear on your purpose everything else gets moved out of the way and how do you help get to that point is a question  take it is i am in a constant state of meditation because that means connection and peace and alignment and i'm not in for two hours in a dark water but i mean i should yeah you know that is an energy frequency yes that eventually you can strength yeah well you turn out to just good point you know what is it what is meditation we we have a couple different things that we've tried to bring in in terms of  meditation in my fullness and what does that mean what does that look like and i think again couples don't even understand you know what it is never mind how they can do and how they can think about incorporating it into their busy life  along it's different for everyone but it's like i am poor people to had to open their minds to begin that journey and not to just shut it down like i don't have time for that that's something you know i don't like i don't align with that at all  bit but i want to get into some of the specifics of some of the things that you're certified and and take me through some of this like ok so interesting lee master herbalist you've about eight minutes textures and tea and things and what that befits specifically targets in the body so this is actually the king and queen of the medicine all mushrooms so just like you know picture like a food chain right so there's a food chain in the mushroom kingdom and this would be the top of the food chain basically the king and his queen so this is just a slice of chaka this grows primarily on the birch trees and they're related species i found this piece in the catskills and it kind of looks looks like a smurfs head they kind of grow in this kind of phallic like structure and into like a smurfs had and what's wonderful is rare where did you find that i found this right to my house ok i've been hunting since i was a little girl ok and people don't notice right now rishi is really really popular a lot of people are selling these mushroom teas and these mushroom coffees and it's funny i was talking to someone i know who sells the tea and they didn't even know what one really looked like or how to harvest it or that one and it's funny because a lot of a lot of people don't know that they come in different colors the most sought after is red there's red there's the white there's purple there's black i think there might be one more but in chinese medicine the different colors are for different organ systems primarily even though the compounds will help for all the organ system so the reds primarily for heart health ok and rishi in general helps with the liver because these are why the chinese theory is these would be really good for long health and ok so in nature whatever you need is always within your eyesight so you know i was having a little bit of trouble breathing recently and you know the it's big humid out in the smog in the live right near north airport and all that i'm very sensitive and you know i'm old and whatever so i really feel like nature deliver these to me i just pick them off a dead hemlock by my house two two days ago so what you do is when you find color similar to this this mushroom rule and that will help with this sinuses in it would definitely be a time of finding and regulating thing but primarily strength and lung for my parents freak out when i started studying mushrooms because they died eating false morels which are ground mushrooms there's only one difference i don't know if you know off the top what that looks like but it's kind of very crevasse c and poorest c looking ok and there's only one difference to tell whether it's poisonous or not it has this little lip all mushrooms do when they start to grow and it looks like a fork skin almost and if it's pointing upward it needs it's poisonous but if it's pointy downward it's not but i said it's my recommendation don't try t while forger as much as dan i love you you're the greatest thank you for all your support but the rule of thumb with tree mushrooms is that they are primarily not poisonous with one exception ok which is the jack o'lantern mushroom so think like a to thank you so much for being with me and i loved it loved it and we are doing more to come on my show and i'm on your show and we're going to be doing more together it's tell our viewers 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