ik doctor tell me what this is tell me how you found yourself here i think most importantly i want to frame out what is this ok well how are you doing medicine we always try to maintain homeostasis and then as a last or extreme resort we begin to look at different plants or foods or then take a more integrated approach to balance whatever our ailments are but it's really just about being in a relationship with yourself and loving and accept yourself and knowing what works for you right and accepting the different transitions we go through  and just that that's part of the journey in the process which is so different for every person in the more that we talk and we do we do work in the medical field and we have conversations like this with you know doctors  different people involved in medical practice and you know the reality is how we this relationship that we have and this caring and nurturing that we have her selves the facts obviously our health but effects medical practice you know and and and thinking about doing the right a thing up front per bennett is really caring for ourselves and not just waiting until something breaks to get it fixed is just you know a different concept for some americans so that's totally interesting let's talk about how you got started with all this talk about your family then we can talk about how you get to where you are there and my grandmother was the eldest of sixteen and she was sort of like the oversight of the bakery and the grocery store or after you know my grandma great grandparents had left it to her so i was very fortunate that she raised me and taught me you know like love that show and all about spaghetti and all about just really implementing wild foods and fresh whole fresh foods and live it i don't call them diets because we're not it's and we don't want to die right so my parents both had worked full time for the state and for the government and you know leaving me home with her to really experience this this magic you know this is this wisdom that was passed down yeah about you know reading through your bio and getting to know you i mean you have just such incredible certifications and experience in all these different levels and i'll just share with you a little bit  we started to talk about this ally our firm is starting this women's restorative leadership series and what it's about is bringing some of these holistic restorative practices to women in corporate america yes who are stressed and tired and struggling and balancing and trying to make sense of it all and you know it's some of this you know we get into reiki we get into some of these practices and i like wh want to sarge on their lunch break yes definitely a gap in understanding and education around what is this and at the end of the day what is this going to do for me and by the way that this ends up being four or five or six different practices in my life you know and what i'm looking for and so in this restored of a series i mean that's what we're trying to do we're trying to bring in these different practices modalities and introduce them to women in a really comfortable small low key environment some good food good you know ability to network and get to know each other and then experience some of these things and really think about is there an opportunity to bring this into corporate america  everything we're talking about you know fits into where i think our heads are in thinking about education and awareness and introducing these types of things so let's let's really talk about  a grandmother with all this wisdom and this you know healthy nutrition when she you know eventually was not in the picture anymore i went from superior nutrition to inferior nutrition had at that time  my parents had introduced more fast food into my diet because that's just what kept up with their lifestyle it was on the go you know over a forty hour work week and you know there's just that you know maybe lack of education in a sense of what this does to the person so what i experienced firsthand was all of the different physiological and nora logical responses to it so you know that could come in the form of acting out or rebellion or depression why am i why am i like this why am i not level you know and that has to go along with like the nervous system and everything like these women in corporate let's let's go in there were all over the place our minds you our job so same thing and you know i i went through the superior versus the inferior nutrition saw firsthand at my heaviest weight i went from ninety eight pounds to two hundred eighty back down to one hundred thirty five  retention and all kinds of things so i made it my life's work to really understand how substances not only substances and i say substances i mean food but emotions how all of this plays a role in the body because you know some of the holistic beliefs are that for instance when you're when you're fat when you're like right around your belly fat it has solar plexus protection mechanisms sometimes wonder if our chalk rows where like our will you know resides it's all about  and this protection well so i want to understand how that worked because i'm not like that it's like like a lawyer and levels so i my mother got me a job working for the state i was a compliance officer with m v c and d o t for thirteen years and i made myself a promise when i was eighteen years old that i would get out by the time i was thirty all i wanted to do was be an art therapist and they weren't having it because their philosophy was and still is that you get a job with a steady paycheck you know with a pension and you ride it out until you're sixty three if you're lucky enough to live that long and hopefully you school of hard knocks a jersey that i worked for jobs around the clock and put myself through my natural health education and sure enough it did two months after my thirty first birthday resigned in good standing i lov but i figured i could do make more of a accelerate differend outside of the system then yeah yeah and that's what i've been doing and toward the toward the end of working for the state i had taken  a volunteer gig over at the new york open center which is the largest holistic urban learning center in the world and of course the you know i take i started taking classes there years ago and i'm trying to inquire well you know how do  to get a job here how do i get to be a volunteer here so i can have discount classes because this stuff adds up you know this whole it's except it's a really expensive hobby and yet so i started inquiring and put in an application and months later when i just forgot about it i get a call out of the blue and it offered me friday night storing the summer i mean who wants to do friday nights where we want to be at the shore right and i just knew that if i took this that it would just be a pivotal turning point for him or my interest so he did and they kept me on and it's turned into where i've part of to couch served across the nation on my first holistic health crusade to kind of check out you know where what people were doing to live a fun and healthy lifestyle in different parts of the country and i had a lot of friends because i again i built my network over the past fifteen years kind of undergrad i didn't really put myself out there publicly when i was working for the state because you just can't you make one tweet on your lunch break and let so i went out there and through the help of some friends i ended up with a stipend gig at the colony art coordinator for hollywood heart it's a not for profit that works with youth impacted with hiv aids and i had an apartment in the valley right down the street from the university of north ridge where we would meet and we would go out on different trips and we were affiliated with like cord on blue and the to paint a canyon children's work in a garden and we teach them nutrition and things so one day i'm sitting at my desk and i'm coming up with the curriculum you know what we're going to do that next week and one of my mother's colleagues called me a blow and he says  congratulations i don't like on what he goes you know county college which was where i started going to school cranford campus had wrote a little paragraph about me just that what i'm doing now and i'm some holistic health crusade or whatever i'm like well i couldn't find it on one of like mail it's a major base so that subsequently got me nominated for and i won the two thousand and fourteen higher achievement award through the american  tragic medical association which led me to nominations for dr oz's health hero what should lead me to usa hometown hero which it goes on and on and on  am right and so for you is it more about building awareness education in that piece of it are you working at this point one on one with clients is all of the above so i think kind of all of the above at this moment i mean that's what pays the bills at this point in time besides some stipends i get to coordinate holistic workshops and big adventures that i get stipends for but my well i came back to jersey because i ended up manifesting the first holistic lifestyle show on public access television your which is on t v thirty four and what i was on my holistic health care say and i was sitting backstage with david wolfe and truong tell the new trouble a guy you know you see them on t v with a neutral right and they just don't you go so what are you up to now and just out of my mouth this mean what does it mean and i meditated on this for like a year and this actually ties into how i met you so i meditated on what does this mean to me now i'm i'm i'm a cancer sun sign you know i'm extroverted out of necessity i just want to be home with yeah i decided it to me this means the fastest way to elevate consciousness and even you know make my own runner verse a better place and have access to things that i love and so i meditated on for a year what this means to me and i felt that through conscious media like what we're doing now is the fastest way to accelerate you know growth and awareness t v show on national television optimistic subject matter and the more i speak it and the war i say it asked even though at first like people would like to laugh at me like a lot of people jumped on the red wagon show or you know if there's that youtube video ever google it where it's like all the one hit the starts dancing on the hill yeah it's leadership from the dancing guy actually and so much of our stuff it's about the first followers i was that i had and someone ok first responder at the firefly festival in flagstaff arizona about a year ago and i'm in my tent i mean i lived this festival it was all like high vibe yoga holistic workshop obstacle and i'm sitting at a transformational festival so i'm in my tent meditating and like oh my god this this jersey i mean we love to party here right so why not make it a sustainable party why i do things that are going to make us healthier then stay in the air for two days you know we go back and do it again yeah so i saw that vision come true when your son patrick is the one of the producers for the future of art and  revolutionary minds festival here in this state will farm fest he actually developed to develop he sat at our kitchen table and said you know what i really want to deal is develop a festival where i can bring people together or they can just have a wonderful and his i guess one of his friends had reached out to me through my family and i had been booked a year and a half in advance to be an likes it or not that we come for a different festival and when i saw it was in new jersey i was like i need to be here i need to be supported and even you know sometimes you feel so alone out there but you can come to a festival like this recharge with these all mays and people may have more friends and then your friends all over the world if you want to go on vacation then it is it is a pretty incredible experience you know i'll definitely say it is i told me before it's like a subculture it's its own culture the festival world is very different i mean you know i'm older and work in corporate america so that world is very different yet what people are craving and starving for in terms of connection and opportunity to experience something together is the same you know you know how are we moving forward marching forward with some of this and then certainly all of the art and even some of the nutrients you know transformational components of that they're bringing to the table the yo reiki even just some of the people there were there to present on different practices i mean that's again building awareness and a lot of folks in festivals there you know this they're like  it we get there were all made of energy we're all connected how we love and care for each other is really foundational the most important thing the only thing so it's how are teaching the rest of the world like dr wayne dyer you coach it just met him as well at a workshop in the mouth so yeah yeah i mean listen he left and a huge mark on everyone's world and everyone's heart and anyway if we can plug into those practices and we can all active fate our potentiality our destiny what we're called to do here you know i am a favorite part of the of the  need for competition there's never scarcity it's always how can we help each other right over how do we come together to bring each other to the next level yeah yeah there's so much there we could do a whole shift  absolutely is it absolutely is and i think you know even reading through your background and in our next show i definitely want to get to talking more about your books and and some of the work you've done in these different areas but you see all that come out in the way you describe yourself is say you're very aligned with all that and i like the way we open where you know we're not one size fits all for instance us farm fest i offered hair mineral analysis because you know i don't like to really get public shows and like to give the band aid fix of first things right because what i see out there in the media is want to say a big name or celebrity says oh like you know  where it's at yet they don't give a disclaimer about is it right for you can follow me actual health care professional that's that i like the natural market all sold out of it so what i do is an individualized approach where i do a whole herrmann all else just to see you know what you lacking what you're over assimilating what the toxic elements are and sometimes looking back you can see the patterns of what work in the system or what ailment could come into play if it's not balance right so that's what i do with people it's wonderful because it just since i travel so much i'm able to do this remotely as well how do you do that type of analysis so we actually do need to send a piece of hair to the lab but i can do that through the mail i mean if anybody's interested please you know contact me it's booking at laura laurie now dot com yeah but you know we send it out we get a three month metabolic profile on a person and we go from there and this report so wonderful that you can take it to any professional medical doctor nutrition asked whatever and they can derive insight out of it and help to balance you because again it's your preference what's your goal you know what passed you want to take to get there right area and it's not the same i don't think she does that per se but she partners with all the health care professionals right so it's never one answer this is your magic bullet right it is it  complete picture and it sounds like you've got like a piece of all that i got a guy who's got to go yeah person kind of coming into this field it's been really interesting for me to try and measure engage who knows what they're talking about you know who really knows their stuff in this area and you'll hear people even people of just experiencing reiki so first of all so much about that and we're going to get into that in our next segment is about the individual being open and ready to experience and there's a there's a face that comes with a lot of this and but different people experiencing reiki for the first time and one person said that was an absolutely incredible experience and i had a pin you know in my left arm me personally my experience working with someone in reiki for one session and that pain disappeared and there were reasons behind that she help me understand that to another person experiencing and saying no don't do a thing for me talk about you know some of these practices approaches modalities a little bit more specifically i want to talk about what you're doing next with planetary auto i'm so excited i want to thank you so much for being on the show and can you give our viewers websites phone number contact information how they learn more about and how do they connect with absolutely well i'm a jersey girl so i'm high court and based here and i do offer hair