oday we have two special guests in studio. Dr. Alexandra H. Solomon is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University and a licensed clinical psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. In addition to writing articles and chapters for leading academic journals and books in the field of marriage and family, she is the author of the book Loving Bravely: Twenty Lessons of Self-Discovery to Help You Get the Love You Want (New Harbinger, 2017). Her second book, about sexual self-awareness, Taking Sexy Back: How to Own Your Sexuality and Create the Relationship You Want, will be published in February 2020. MD Dr. Pari Ghodsi, MD is an obstetrics & gynecology specialist in Northridge, CA. She is a board certified and active Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.Dr. Pari loves to write and speak about women’s health and issues in a relatable way. She brings a unique touch when educating, often sharing her own experiences as a woman.   We talk through a variety of mens and womens sexual health issues and try to find a common ground for the battle of the sexes.         

Life Can Change In A Moment

Understanding Your Sexual Health Panel Discussion, With Alexandra H. Solomon, PhD and Dr. Pari Ghodsi, MD

Sarah Sunshine is in studio talking about how she planned an executed  her solo travels around the world. She brought some costumes For both of us to wear which really brought the energy in the interview to another level. 

I Left My Life and Moved to Thailand, with Sarah Sunshine

Tyler Capen Ramsey is a Los Angeles–based artist known for his performance art, his "drip painting" of shoes for company Toms Shoes and for painting only with his fingers, rather than with brushes. Tyler Ramsey, the producer of “Survivor: Gabon,” recently revealed that he was fired from the competition show -- for falling in love. Ramsey opened up to explain how he met his future wife, Jacquie Berg, and subsequently got fired. Berg was a contestant on the 2008 “Survivor” season, “Gabon,” when she met “the love of her life,” Ramsey. “[Jacqui] was a contestant, and I used to be a producer,” Ramsey explained of how their paths crossed. But how does one get fired for “falling in love"? According to the producer, it was because the show had only one rule: Don’t mess around with the contestants.  

Sometimes You Have To Hide In The Jungle, With Tyler Ramsey

Sometimes You Have to Hide In the Jungle, With Tyler Ramsey

Shouvik Banerjee, Averpoint Founder    This week's guest is a very good buddy of mine, Shouvik Banerjee.  Stanford grad, Harvard Public Policy guy.  After a career in solar, he was inspired to found Averpoint.com, a movement hoping to inspire truth and facts in the public discourse by facilitating citations, check it out the website.  Shouvik can both code, and discuss politics.  Brilliant and a very good man, I'm lucky to call him a friend and enjoy talking about how we want to make the world a better place. Before we shot the episode, he told me that 2 things came to mind when he thought about life changing moments, but he didn't think they were related.  "They're related," I told him.  "Without a doubt.  And on the show, we'll discover how."  And boy were they.  Great episode, especially for all of us former athletes who grew as people during their sports careers (I know I did).  Check out his company Averpoint, their website, and SUBSCRIBE and RATE this podcast.  

I Quit Junior Year, What I Did In That Race Senior Year Changed My Life Forever, with Shouvik Banerjee

Dr. Alexandra H. Solomon is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University and a licensed clinical psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University. In addition to writing articles and chapters for leading academic journals and books in the field of marriage and family, she is the author of the book Loving Bravely: Twenty Lessons of Self-Discovery to Help You Get the Love You Want (New Harbinger, 2017). Her second book, about sexual self-awareness, Taking Sexy Back: How to Own Your Sexuality and Create the Relationship You Want, will be published in February 2020. Dr. Solomon maintains a psychotherapy practice for individual adults and couples, teaches and trains marriage and family therapy graduate students, and teaches the internationally renowned undergraduate course, “Building Loving and Lasting Relationships: Marriage 101.” Dr. Solomon is a highly sought-after speaker who works with groups like United States Military Academy at West Point, Microsoft, and The American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, and she is frequently asked to talk about love, sex, and marriage with media outlets like The Today Show, O Magazine, The Atlantic, Vogue, and Scientific American.

Saying Goodbye to Dad, and Taking Your Sexy Back, with Dr Alexandra Solomon PHD

Tricia Nelson is an internationally acclaimed author, transformational speaker and emotional eating expert. She has been featured on dozens of radio and television networks, including FOX, NBC, CBS, KTLA and Discovery Health. Tricia has successfully helped hundreds of people overcome a variety of eating disorders and addictions. Born and raised in Concord, Massachusetts, Tricia’s own struggles began in early childhood, where she attempted to cope with life’s stresses and emotional pain by overeating and other destructive behaviors. Continuing into adolescence, she began binge drinking, and eventually gained more than 50 pounds. After years of experimentation with 12-step programs, therapy and self-help books, Tricia finally hit a spiritual and emotional bottom. Tricia attended Amherst College and began her career working at the Seattle Art Museum. While in Seattle she began working with spiritual healer, Roy Nelson (who would later become her husband), who helped her recognize and heal the root causes of her addictions. By creating a lifestyle steeped in positive self-care, self-love and improved self-esteem, Tricia was able to stop drinking and overeating. She has maintained a fifty-pound weight loss for close to 30 years now. Tricia has spent the past three decades studying the addictive personality, and shares her findings in workshops and retreats both in person and online. Many doctors, psychologists and other health practitioners benefit from her insight about what drives people to overeat and how to stop. Tricia’s new book, Heal Your Hunger: 7 Simple Steps to End Emotional Eating Now, is available through Amazon.

Heal Your Hunger, With Emotional Eating Expert Tricia Nelson

Take a mental break from corona and join me today at 2pm Cali time (4pm KC time) on youtube (link below) for a discussion on gut health with the world's leading researcher on the microbiome, Dr Mahmoud Ghannoum.  I will be chatting live during this PREMIERE of episode 28 of LIFE CAN CHANGE IN A MOMENT.  We get into.   Is dairy good for gut health?  What about red meat, vegetables, donuts and fiber? What is the difference between prebiotics, probiotics and postbiotics? What is the best kind of nut for gut health? How stress, sleep and exercise affect the gut. Is Autism caused by bad gut health? Is a poop transplant for real?  (yes).  How does it work, and how might it model future new therapies? How transplanting skinny gut microbes to the obese can result in weight loss. What is biofilm, and how did it's discovery save lives?   Also available on Apple Podcasts, and many places you listen to podcasts.

The Worlds Microbiome Expert And Total Gut Balance, With Dr Mahmoud Ghannoum

Ben Gleib was named by TBS one of the "funniest comedians working today."   He’s host, head writer, and executive producer of the Emmy nominated "Idiotest" on NETFLIX. The hit comedy brain teaser game show originally had four seasons & 210 episodes on Game Show Network, and was their most watched original.   For 7 years he was one of the stars of “Chelsea Lately" on E! with over 100 appearances on the round table!   He currently can be seen in the “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot” movie, along with Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Chris Hemsworth, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Recently he pranked David Beckham on “The Late Late Show with James Corden“ which got 27 million views.   His hilarious hour-long standup special “Ben Gleib - Neurotic Gangster” which premiered on SHOWTIME is currently on AMAZON PRIME.   Gleib is also the first comedian to ever live stream a full headline set on Facebook Live, doing it in 8 straight cities on his 2016 tour, 100% improvised, getting almost 4 million views. His act is full of unique material, but he's also one of the best at crowd work, making it all up on the spot.   He hosted with Olivia Munn the “Telethon for America”. Gleib also created it, executive produced, and was head writer. It featured celebrities such as Natalie Portman, Charlize Theron, Chelsea Handler, Jane Fonda, Constance Wu, Amy Schumer, Jessica Alba, Judd Apatow, Hasan Minhaj, Adam Devine, Aisha Tyler, Pete Davidson, Ray Romano, Julia Louis Dreyfus, and over 80 others. It was the first telethon ever with the goal of raising zero dollars. Reinventing the telethon for the digital age, instead the non-partisan telethon took pledges to vote in 2018 midterms, aiming to create historic turnout, which was achieved!   Trying to offer an out-of-the-box option for the country, and seeing comedians win elections around the globe, he just concluded a run for President of the United States in the 2020 election, finishing after almost 8 months in the race, as the 15th highest fundraising active Democratic campaign. Despite this, he wasn’t able to qualify for the debates so the campaign ended. During the run he spoke at events alongside the front-runner candidates, campaigning in 13 states and territories including multiple trips to Iowa and New Hampshire, Puerto Rico on the 2-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria, was arrested protesting corruption at the capitol building in DC, joined immigration protests, LGBT parades, and stood proudly with the teachers on the picket line in Chicago. His campaign was covered by Larry King, the Des Moines Register, and countless others. Videos and information can be seen at Gleib2020.com   As an actor he just guest starred on “American Princess” an hour dramedy from Jenji Kohan (Orange is the New Black, GLOW.)   He was a regular on "The Today Show" with Kathie Lee and Hoda, with over 25 appearances, and you may have seen one of his appearances on "@Midnight with Chris Hardwick" on Comedy Central, or as a correspondent on ”The Arsenio Hall Show”.   He has toured sold-out arenas all over North America with both Chelsea Handler and Dane Cook, and has been headlining comedy clubs around the world since 2007. An accomplished voice over actor as well, Gleib is one of the stars of Kevin Smith's "Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie," is the voice of Marshall the Sloth in "Ice Age: Continental Drift," and voices Dali in "The Book of Life" starring Channing Tatum.   Esquire once called him one of “Six comedians who could be comedy’s next big thing.” The other five were Aziz Ansari, Patton Oswalt, David Cross, Demetri Martin, and Flight of the Conchords.

I Ran for President of the United States, with Ben Gleib

Since September of last year, I've interviewed 25 different guests about their biggest experiences.  This week, it's time I talk about one of mine--the accident.  In high school, I almost died in a serious car crash.  Helicopter life flight, emergency surgery, external fixator, weeks in the hospital, had to learn to walk again--the works.  This week in the show, I talk about it in detail.   In the episode, we cover:   The details of the car wreck. Rehab and recovery What the worst pain of the whole thing was Why I said i would never take pain meds again The emotional and psychological effects that trauma had years later What EMDR is, and my experience with it How my own experience led me to eventually do this show, Life Can Change In A Moment.   Reliving and sharing this story with you hasn't been easy.  Reopened some old wounds.  And going public about it has made me want to puke more than once this week.  But we talk about important stuff, and I feel compelled to bring it to you.

My Life Changed In A Moment, with Dr Larry Burchett

This week, I bring you the legend of Trek Kelly.  After running a successful marketing business and art gallery on Abbot Kinney, Trek decided to disappear.  Who does this? What does that mean? What was this crazy man thinking?   Trek's journey covers the following:   Live Your Bucket List Now: How Keeping Death Close Energizes Your Life The History of Abbot Kinney, Venice Beach, CA, and Why Trek Kelly Disappeared Why A Stranger Picked 12 Countries for Trek to Travel to     Animal instincts Return When You Live Alone in the Desert for A Year     What Is Scarier Than Death, No Toilet Paper Enjoy LB   Week's hashtags #Doctor #Host #Moments #Podcast #Show #Legend #Adventure #Life #Death #Thunder #TrekKelly     Show Notes ● [00:55] We have a great guest for you today, Trek “Thunder” Kelly, an adventure expert. As an artist, he learned early in his enjoyment in art is to live it. He lives his life in a way that is a story that’s interesting to him. So, he has something to look back, and he has chapters that laid out ahead of him as well. He recently wrote the ending of his life. He knows exactly where he is going to, and that gives him a lot of peace. ● [3:00] Trek knows where he is going to be and probably decides when he will die. Trek said that when it’s time, he is going to sit on a cliff while watching the sunset, smoke a doobie and put a blanket over him and just let it go. His parents traveled internationally as a kid. They didn’t take him, but certainly, he got curious about the world in the early ’20s and started travelling. He got out of college, moved to Venice beach, started working at a movie studio, and became an artist. At 39 he decided that he is going to disappear and told his friends and family that he’d be gone for 2 to 5 years. He sold nearly everything he owns and travelled the world. ● [5:00] He had a stranger choose twelve countries and spent a month in each country. Trek spent alone in the desert and then saw people twice a month when he gets supplies. But he wanted even more isolated, so he figured out his caloric needs and bought enough canned foods to sustain him for the rest of the year. He didn’t have a tent, a flashlight, or a fire. He lives out there for the rest of the year. For him, it was a gift to be able to do that, and in the third year, he bought an old van and drove around America. ● [7:36] One thing that Trek would recommend to people was to travel with inspiration or have meaning to you for a whole year. Because when you travel for a year or more, you interface with the world in a much more efficient and direct manner especially if you are alone. ● [9:33] Dr. Larry was wondering how these experiences changed him. Trek said that he becomes even more confident. The more world he sees, the more knowledge he gains. The more he understands the knowledge that he doesn’t have, and being older, he understands that life is coming at you pretty quickly. Americans keep death far away, but it’s important to keep death very close because death allows you to prioritize. It is not something to fear, it is something that energizes you to make the right decisions because we didn’t know when it would come. You should outline yourself like a bucket list and start knocking those off. ● [11:40] Trek believes in reincarnation because reincarnation doesn’t necessarily mean that there is life after our body dies. We can reincarnate in our lives many times. He lives three different lifetimes in those years. If you realize that change is constant, not only can we reincarnate in our own lives, but we can have power over what that reincarnation is. It can give us strength in decision making. ● [13:30] Trek graduated from UCLA. He wanted to do something fun. He applied to Columbia Pictures and got a job in the Marketing department. Working there for a year, he saw where the money was going and decided to create his own company. He left and started a promotional advertising company and immediately got orders from major studios. He makes a lot of money at that age without a lot of effort. Trek said that life has the confidence to do what you want to do and have to follow through. One day he bought a canvas and started painting and enjoyed it. He’s making enough money to have a gallery in Abbott Kinney, so he runs his advertising company out of the gallery. ● [15:40] At Abbott Kinney, he was one of several vendors that started the first Fridays around 2005. Back then, it was more focused on the stores, and they had all parties, and people could buy discounted things. For him, it was a perfect collision of creativity and the beach that California has to offer. ● [18:00] Trek said that change is going to happen. You can be flattened by it, or you can be part of it, so if there’s something you want to change, then you become part of that shift. For 16 years, he has had his company and art gallery. Dr. Larry asked him when did Trek get to the point that it was time to change it. Trek grew up on survival stories that his father told him as a kid, from Hugh Glass to Admiral Byrd. He also grew up reading Tarzan books that brought him the idea to be adventurous so he felt like he is done LA to the extent that he can. ● [20:36] The best thing to do when you decide is to announce it. Because you will be forced to be responsible for it when people start to believe it and you don’t want to let them down. Trek travels without contact with almost anybody for years. They didn’t know where he was. Dr. Larry thinks that the average person would want to get away but still want contacts of people close to them, so this is a very foreign idea for him, the disappearance part. ● [22:15] Trek said that there is stupidity in it, but there’s also a power in knowing that you are at the end of the line. If you are on the edge, you will be alert, aware, and alive. When you make it pass death a lot, it makes you feel strong and powerful. It makes you potentially risk your choices. Trek thinks that meaningful and driven travel is important. We, as humans, are meaning, driven creatures. We need to feel value, a direction, or a goal to feel more stable. ● [25:00] Trek decided to ask a stranger for the 12 countries he will travel to. So, he went to Jerusalem on the summer solstice. While in Old Jerusalem, no one looks at him until a beggar taps him on the back. He thought to himself that this was the stranger he would ask about the 12 countries. He has been to some of the chosen countries, but for him, when you make this choice, you can’t cheat. When you make this decision, you have to go through with it; otherwise, it taints everything else that you do. ● [27:11] Trek arranged the countries when he got back to the hotel room. The order of the countries was Bhutan, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Cambodia, Namibia, Mauritania, Germany, Finland, Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Haiti. After ordering the countries, he needs a reason why he is doing this, so he remembered the two keys on the ground while he was with the beggar. He decided to use keys as a totem. He will give a key to someone in each country that is meaningful for him or an amazing person in some way. ● [29:01] The two countries that the stranger didn’t choose that he wanted to go to were India and China. Trek flew to China and did the same thing in Jerusalem; he saw a kid that speaks in English. The kid leads him to an antique store, the kid chooses six keys of the Han dynasty. He went to India and asked an older man to choose six keys for him. The old man went to a store near Mother Theresa&#39;s tomb that has piles of keys. The old man spent three hours trying to find the six keys. Now he has 12 keys and a quest, so he bid goodbye to everyone on the internet, then he flew to Bhutan. ● [32:30] One of the other things Trek wanted to do was to find some people who don’t have long to live. He wants to make them a list of all the things that they want to do, and he was going to spend the next year living their dreams, and they will be connected on social media to send them videos and pictures. ● [34:46] Dr. Larry believes why Trek needs a year to spend on the desert. He said that when he was one of the mountains in Bhutan, he found an isolated house across them, and at the bottom, there was a town. His guide told him that a hermit lives up there for 15 years, and that challenge him to stay long in the desert. ● [37:25] Imagining the adventure of Trek. A lot of people would feel anxiety. It works for him because he loves meeting new people and being alone. He looks at the potential obstacles that he was going to deal with, whether it’s emotional, mental, or physical, and then anticipated it. That’s why he took a vow on silence in the desert. ● [39:00] Trek didn’t feel fear. That is probably another fault of his that would get him in trouble one day. But he has discretion more than fear. He thinks about what his options are when he is in dangerous situations. Travelling the world, he learned a lot of travel hacks and survival hacks. You can read about them, but the things that he thought that he learned were very different from the things that he experienced. ● [42:32] Once he knew that letting faith determine things worked, he went to the area of the desert. He started asking people of Navajo reservations if anybody had a Hogan. Trek was in Monument Valley of Southern Utah and Northern Arizona, a very desolate area in terms of population. He found a family that has a Hogan, he can live there, but they want him to take care of their sheep. ● [44:15] Trek took care of the flock of sheep and lived there. But he wanted more absolute isolation. That is why he figures out his caloric needs. When someone told him that there was a place out there that he could go, he found the place and one day he packed his stuff and went to the desert. Trek said that when you peel civilization away, you will realize how much your behavior is instinct. ● [46:47] Trek’s opinion about religion is that as animals, we need to be able to recognize something dangerous in a ray of information to live longer. He can’t speak for anybody else, but at least for him, we can see a face in the ray of information. Whether it is an ant face, a spider face or a bear face, but we can spot it in a second. When we see a face in a tree, we put humanness in that tree because we have this recognition factor. That is where animism comes from which is considered the first world religion. It is ascribing human qualities to something that is not human. That is where we start extrapolating personality into inanimate objects, then we sign those meanings, and that meaning becomes the various religions that we have today. ● [49:15] Being alone, he learned to appreciate the animals. Trek has huge respect for ants. He spends hours, days, and weeks following them. He followed a beetle for eight miles and was amazed by its sense of direction. The first three or four weeks when he was in the desert, he felt a little bit vulnerable and a little scared. Eventually, he realizes that he can do it. ● [51:08] Trek set up routines that help him to stay sane. He got a workout routine made out of lava rocks. He does pull-ups on a windmill two and a half miles away. He has rituals each Sunday. Dr. Larry thinks of the basic hygiene Trek does, and then he said that he realizes that when you run out of toilet paper, it was the end of civilization. He spent five months on the Navajo reservations as a shepherd and did six months alone. ● [53:07] Trek comes back because his year is over. That is the nice thing about choosing a year. It’s just long enough to own it, but it is shorter enough to see the end coming. You know that you can make it just like death. It allows you to appreciate what you have. That is why it is good to have endings on things so you can really be there to enjoy what you are experiencing. ● [55:06] When it ended, Trek felt great because he did everything he could do out there. He wanted to experience, so he had depravations at the end of each segment. He blindfolded himself for a week, and he had an earplug from Germany that was efficient. He doesn’t have a hearing for a week. He also wore a barbwire collar for a hundred days. Trek learned something from the depravations. ● [57:00] When Trek took off the barbwire collar to change he felt this anxiety because something was missing and he realized that the thing that gives him pain. He preferred the reality of having that pain than not having that pain just like a bad relationship even though its awful you prefer the familiarity of them being with you than to have it gone.

The Legend Of Trek Thunder Kelly

This week’s guest is Kim Wyman, a friend of mine, registered dietitian (RD) with a Masters in Public Health (MPH), who specializes in eating disorders.  Whose house burned down in the Woolsey Fires of LA in Nov 2018.  She’s been living in a van since, and hasn’t been happier.  This episode was soooooo good and inspiring.  Great stuff on healthy nutrition and getting deeper with eating disorders, and about loss and rebirth in the spiritual life.   In it, we cover the following:   -What Really Matters About Nutrition: Dietitian Cocktail Party Conversations -How We Use Food to Feel Better -Does Your Healthy Diet and Exercise Make Your Miserable?  How to Connect to Movement to Be Happier. -“Kim, why don’t you live in a van?” -Spiritually How to Experience A Life Changing Moment -How Kim Grieved When Her House Burned Down in the Fires #Doctor #Host #Moments #Podcast #Show #VanLife #Fires #NaturalDisasters  #Dietitian #MPH #Nutrition #Spiritual #Connection  #EatingDisorders #Anorexia #Wellness #Happiness #Healthy   Show Notes ● [1:07] We have a great guest for you today, Kim Wyman, a dietitian and has a Master&#39;s in Public Health. ● When Kim was finishing college, she was interested in preventive medicine. Someone told her that it is not the way to go to the MD route and told her to explore public health. She showed up for graduate school on the doctor&#39;s course towards public health, and she picks nutrition as her major. ● [3:22] When you are in public health, you can do women&#39;s and children&#39;s health. Nutrition is a specialty, so she chose it. When Kim tells people that she is a dietitian, they tend to ask about their diets. They asked about Keto and intermittent fasting. She honestly said to us that it is a boring conversation for her because what matters is we know about nutrition or Keto diet. Still, it is the applied action and relationship to how we meet our needs that matters. ● [5:00] If you have a breakdown and how your ability to meet your needs, like you say you don&#39;t deserve, then you&#39;re going to have a hard time in grading care. How you feed yourself is the direct basic need and immediate action of care. Disorders around food are usually disorder of self. ● [7:00] In the late &#39;90s, most of her clients were gays with HIV who had lost partners or friends. Dealing with loss and trauma, Kim thought that she&#39;s going to specialize in HIV. What happens with eating disorders primarily is that food becomes a way to regulate disruptions or emotions to make them feel better. ● [9:46] Kim said that the menu could adjust things. If you look at someone with anorexia, they&#39;re usually talented, very functional, or they might be the envy of everybody else in the room. Still, behind the scenes, they&#39;re driving themself almost to death with how they are strict about the food or walking twelve hours at night. They go to regulate a need, and it&#39;s kind of starting to take over. It could start with someone just going on a diet and if that temperament is there, it could end badly. ● [11:08]Kim said that sometimes diet conversations could be a little tricky because sometimes the information could be bad for them. You don&#39;t know all the time who that person is or what they&#39;re dealing with that&#39;s why it&#39;s an emotional peace and you have to understand them and their needs. ● [14:11] Dr. Larry asks Kim how do we reconcile meeting our needs and enjoying foods with obesity and all of the medical problems that come with all of this. Kim said that in our medical culture, they don&#39;t have time to explore the life of an obese person. They look at the labs, weight and tell them to reduce their food. It seems an easy fix on the surface but if you&#39;re looking at the environment, the stress level of that person, there are so many things that contribute to specifically diabetes and heart disease. ● [16:46] When someone comes to Kim and wants to lose weight, there is a typical approach that she would take but she has to be really careful of what else is happening to them. Kim honestly told us that if she works with an actor who needs to get ready for a role, it&#39;s just business. Their body is their business. Kim had worked with one actor that was suffering from an eating disorder, but there&#39;s a string edge, and she couldn&#39;t help because of the pressure that was going on. ● [19:00] There&#39;s a way to be in a relationship with having permission to have satisfaction and to feel a connection to the food you are eating. There is a real basic truth that the more from the “ground, cared” food is going to be better in our system than something that is highly processed. The intention is not to care, the intention is mass production and profiting. ● [21:43] Cooking a meal and having the time to do that and nurturing yourself and having that relationship fundamentally will experience different in the body than running in your car, eating a burger on the way to somewhere else. Taking the time and letting your body be nourished, allowing something to be honored and appreciated, that&#39;s a different reflection towards self. Feeling good is an indicator that you haven&#39;t stressed yourself, so overeating doesn&#39;t feel good. You have to disconnect in your natural body state and feel bad. ● [23:20] Slowing down while eating or preparing the food, you&#39;ll stay connected to the experience. There&#39;s so much disconnection from everything in our culture. That relationship to care is an intimate relationship to self. There is so much disconnection that we don&#39;t internally feel what we&#39;re doing, and it translates to movements too. Kim said that nobody in the blue zones that exercise extremely. Movement is really necessary and being active is also necessary but how we do it is also important. ● [25:44] If Kim misses yoga, she doesn&#39;t feel the natural elasticity of her body, so movement is necessary to feel good. You can also go to the gym and be on a diet and look great. It&#39;s not a matter if you can&#39;t do it and be healthy, but are you happy? ● [27:25] Talking about people who don&#39;t exercise, Dr. Larry remembered Bill Barata, a ninety-eight years old farmer who is a farmer and never exercised before. Kim explains the Maslow&#39;s hierarchy, a pyramid and on the bottom is basic needs. You can&#39;t get to the next level until you meet your basic needs, and on the top is self-actualization. ● [29:03] Self-actualization is when you&#39;re in the flow. We can&#39;t multitask very well, but when you&#39;re in the flow of something, you almost lose time. Being a farmer like Bill doing his task and that probably the antidote to stress because you&#39;re activating all connections to self. Stress distracts from our connection to ourselves and distract your ability to be in the flow. ● [31:45] Kim has many different moments in her life but the most dramatic one was when her house got burned down by the Woolsey fire. At that moment, she was possession less and homeless. She got out with her dog and a little go bag because she thought that she&#39;s going back when they have to evacuate. ● [33:00] The wind is something wicked on that day. In California, it&#39;s not just a breezy day. Its gale force 70 mph to 80 mph winds that would be qualified for a firestorm. She knows a person that works with search and rescue that called to inform her that there was a fire, but it&#39;s 20 to 30 miles away from them. He told Kim to pack a bag just in case they have to evacuate. ● [35:00] Kim&#39;s twin sister called her to know if she&#39;s going to be okay. Her sister is more anxious than she was and told her that she&#39;s not going to sleep if she doesn&#39;t leave. Kim went to her friend&#39;s house to evacuate; at that night they were focused on the news. When she woke up, she got a call from one of her colleagues at work and found out that the fire was getting close to her place, and she still thought that the fire wouldn&#39;t get to her house. ● [37:00] When she saw on channel two that her house was on fire, that&#39;s when she finally drops. Five hours after that, her friend snuck back in and called her that their whole street was gone. Her house was gone and her place of business was also affected so they were shut down. ● {39:00] Luckily, there are places for her to land, so many people don&#39;t have anywhere to go. When she went on their family trip to Kauai, Kim was thinking of her mortgage and trying to find rent in L.A. She still needs to pay the mortgage even if her house got burned down. It was really hard for her because of how much attachment she had on her space. She&#39;s trying to find something that would fit too, but it wasn&#39;t coming through. ● [41:00] When Kim was in Kauai, her sister asked if she could live in the van and then showed her a couple living in a cute van. Kim said that she can live in that van. She emailed the couple and told her story but it will take a long time to finish the van. Luckily, the very van that her sister showed was offered to her. She buys the van, quit her job and hit the road. ● [43:08] Kim got a referral and has clients all over the west coast and Canada all year and totally changed her life. She travels, climbs mountains and minimizes everything in her life. She&#39;s gone from worrying about a lot of corporate stuff or the renovation of her house, and now she&#39;s not thinking any of it. ● [45:32] Kim thinks when there is a life-changing moment, it is how you choose to experience it. You can get stuck in the perception of loss and how it happened to you versus how it happened for you. Kim said that loss is just a massive spiritual game- changer if you want to be available to know how to receive it. ● [47:00] Kim has an accessibility to do things that she loves like cooking from the road, finding little places along the way. Places that people still have connection to the food. She has some crazy experiences, connecting to our culture and also finding the variances of it and being able to feel more intimate connection to people, places and food. ● [49:00] It is sad for Kim to lose all those little things that would connect to her family. Kim said that she probably left exactly how she did because her house was a tinderbox. She always knew that if the fire came, she needed to run. There were a few things that she wanted to grab but, in that situation, it is really hard to think about what is important. ● [52:10] Kim didn&#39;t choose this path. She realizes that everything happened for us. Sometimes things feel painful and tragic, but at the same time, it&#39;s how we emerge from that experience. She feels safer, more at peace, and has less worry than she did a year ago. She spent most of her time on the west coast and in the Canada. She wants to go more and thinking to ship the van in to Europe doing a European trip. ● [54:50] Dr. Larry asks Kim how she grieves about her loss. Kim said that the fire took everything. It didn&#39;t just take her house, it took her whole world, her whole environment was like Armageddon. She has lived there for 14 years and being in the area makes her felt devastating. ● [58:21] Kim told us that part of the grief is moving through grief. You can&#39;t stay in it because it&#39;s not productive after a minute. It&#39;s productive to move with that energy and to let that move through your body, but it has to be like a wave that would come in a crash and dissipates and come in again, and eventually, you let it out. ● [60:40] Kim told us that she donated her eggs. She had a genetic daughter. Three weeks ago, her genetic daughter had a son, and she was able to go there, she has the freedom to be with people she loves and to connect in that way too. ● [62:07] Her van is a Mercedes Sprinter, and Alex and Sarah James fully convert it. It is 21 feet long. She has a king-size bed, a shower, a toilet, a stove, and a car all in one. Dr. Larry asked her if she would return when her house was built. Kim was thinking of spending half a year in her home and the other half to her van because it is entertaining for her to be elsewhere. ● [65:31] Kim has a practice site, and you can do video calls or facetime. She thinks that telemedicine is something that transitions in a lot of therapy fields and medicine. It is easier for clients too because they didn&#39;t have to drive to go in appointments. ● [67:00] Kim talks about the emotional side of food. She does not sound like an (MPH) or a dietitian. She looks like a physiologist. Kim didn&#39;t have a psychology background. Her dad was a pastor that does counseling. She deals with people, and their emotional stress tends to slice things pretty easily. ● [69:15] She thinks that there&#39;s a difference in being well and healthy versus looking a certain way. If you want to look a certain way at fifty, you have to be more specific about things because you&#39;re naturally not looking like that. If you&#39;re active, enjoying your food, enjoying your life, still doing all the physically engaging things, your body is going to be brilliant, but you might don&#39;t have a six-pack, but if you want a six-pack, there are things you have to do. ● [71:17] Some people are having enough self-awareness and enough self-love that they can play around with doing something more specific, and it&#39;s not from a place of fear. Maybe you don&#39;t want to eat carbs because of fear, and it&#39;s because that would make you feel better. Kim said that she couldn&#39;t hold judgment about a person&#39;s feelings and relationship to it because being well is simply your version of what makes you feel good, and it isn&#39;t everybody&#39;s. ● [73:40] We can find her on Instagram @our.soul.ingredient.

y House Burned, And I’ve Never Been Happier, With Kim Wyman

This is my friend Jack.  Dr Jack Song.  We went to residency together many moons ago, I've known him for almost 14 years.  To me, he's one of the people who have always believed in me, which has meant a lot in the ups and downs of this old life.   This week's episode is titled "When A Doctor Becomes a Patient," and it inspired me.  Jack talks about his experience with Ulcerative Colitis, his diagnosis, the complications, the ups and downs.  And ultimately, how it has affected how he practices medicine, and how he lives his life.  Gets me a little emotional now to write about this one, about my good friend.   In the episode, we discuss: -What is Ulcerative Colitis, and how is it different from IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) -How Jack's symptoms went undiagnosed for years, and how he finally got the diagnosis. -How becoming a patient changed Jack as a doctor -The moment Jack learned he may have a terminal condition. -How that changed the way he lives his life, and what he values -Why Jack says I am a terrible patient -Dealing with dismissive doctors -Suffering, the practice of empathy, -Living life according to what's important, the meaning of life -How me and Jack are going to run the Amazing Race -How Jack did an Ironman Triathlon with food poisoning Bio below: I’m a father of but one son; a husband of but one wife. I work as a doctor in the largest private medical group in the world, living in one of the wealthiest parts of the US. And I dream of one day moving to a place where I’m the only doctor for 100 miles and the people there pay me for my services with a roasted chicken, a necklace made out of shells or a kind word of gratitude. I have no social media presence that needs disclosing and I have nothing to promote. #Doctor #Host #Moments #Podcast #Show #Patient #Empathy #Meaning

When A Doctor Became a Patient, with Dr Jack Song

Life Can Change In A Moment - and nobody knows that better than ER doc, Dr. Larry Burchett. Explore the moments that change everything with Doctor Larry in this personal and intimate Video Podcast Series. As an ER doctor and board-certified family physician, national media personality, and author, Dr. Larry Burchett’s candor and unique perspective have opened up a broader conversation on what it means to be a modern man. Dr. Larry is the author of The Gentleman’s Diet, a recurring men’s lifestyle contributor on NBC’s Today, and serves as FOX San Francisco’s medical expert.

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Life Can Change In A Moment

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