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[00:00:00] Speaker A: Welcome to the Authority Playbook. I'm Jeff Brandeis and today we're talking about the strategies to help you stand out, be seen and be heard. You're watching Now Media Television.
Welcome to the Authority Playbook. I'm Jeff Brandeis. And today I want to start with a reality many high performing professionals know too well.
Success can look impressive on the outside, but quietly costing you energy, clarity, confidence and health on the inside. My guest today is Dr. Raquel Bureau, functional health practitioner and founder of Rockland Health. She keeps professional men and women from sacrificing their health for their career through root cause, health work and mindset transformation. She helps clients uncover what's keeping them stuck, break free from limiting beliefs, and reclaim their energy, clarity and competence. Doctor, you're welcome to the Authority Playbook.
[00:01:03] Speaker B: Thank you, Jeff. Thank you for having me. I'm looking forward to this.
[00:01:06] Speaker A: Likewise, I'm happy you're here, too. As we begin, I want everyone watching to think about the price that you may be paying for success.
Yes, we all pay a price for success.
Are you building authority from a place of energy and alignment, or are you pushing through symptoms, stress and exhaustion because you believe that is what ambition requires?
I'm starting our conversation with Dr. Yarrow by looking at the hidden cost of achievement. This segment will position Dr. Rickel as an authority who connects health performance, mindset and professional identity.
Dr. Raquel, when you work with professional men and women who are sacrificing their health for their career, what patterns or insights do you see most often occurring in them?
[00:01:58] Speaker B: Jeff? So, yeah, that's a really great question.
A lot of patterns that I see when people are sacrificing their health for their career is they get a lot of fatigue, brain fog, they start having sleep issues, they start not feeling like themselves anymore. They'll have that common theme of I just, they, it's like they wake up one day and they're like, wait, what just happened?
I don't even feel. I don't even know myself anymore. I've been living someone else's life and all of a sudden they realize they gotta shift and change things. And sometimes they just have no idea how to do that. They just know that something's gotta change because they can't do another 20 years of this.
[00:02:36] Speaker A: Typically, we ignore those symptoms. I know, you know, most people do. I think when I was younger and on my path to corporate world, I just know disrespectfully blew them off. Okay, you know, tomorrow will be a better day, or next week I'll turn Things around. Do you see that happening a lot with, with people that you work with?
[00:02:54] Speaker B: Oh, absolutely. All the time. They're always like, I'll take care of myself later, after I take care of the kids, after I take care of my aging parents, or, you know, I'll take care of myself later on. You know, I've got this to take care of and that to do. And they push themselves to be last. It's like they don't realize, you know, just kind of like when you're in the airplane and they say you have to take care of your own face mask first before you can take care of somebody else. They don't apply that rule to anytime else. They always think that, you know what, I'm going to take care of everybody else, and then I'll take care of me. But then when they get to me, it's a really bigger job to take care of. So I have a lot of people that wait. And then we have a really big uphill journey to hit before they even start to really feel good. So it's way easier to start in the beginning and when you're younger and start with that good health and good habits then, than to wait until, you know, life makes you take time.
[00:03:50] Speaker A: Why is that? Why are we procrastinating, for lack of a better phrase, to put that off and just say, okay, I'll get to it tomorrow. So that's just our nature of our beast is human nature. Is there or some rationale or mindset that we have that does things like that?
[00:04:06] Speaker B: Well, I think there's a couple reasons. One, our society really pushes people to push, push, push, and you get rewarded for pushing. It's almost like a competition. Who can work harder, faster, better, and who can fall first. You know, like who's sacrificing their life and their health for their career, for other things that are happening.
The other thing is, is worth issues. They don't always feel like they're worthy. They don't think that they are good enough to take care of themselves or to take themselves first. And then the other one is people pleasing. We're so consumed with making sure everybody else is happy and that we, we become whoever everybody else wants us to be. That we're more in tune to making everybody else happy than we are worried about what makes us happy.
[00:04:51] Speaker A: Interesting. So when we look at.
A lot of people are very successful on paper, but they're stuck.
What does it really mean when we're depleted in real life? How does it affect our job, our role, even our Life and our relationships.
[00:05:07] Speaker B: Well, yeah, when we're stuck, and I like to use that word, stuck, but it's also like I was thinking of another word that was actually a little bit better than stuck earlier this weekend. Now it just floated through my brain. So it'll come back all of a sudden I'll be like.
But it's kind of like, it's like being stuck in the mud or you've just paused from your life. But irregardless, people start to feel that exhaustion. They no longer are able to focus. They get short tempered.
So they're a little bit more moody. They might be forgetting things that have to happen in a project.
Things get misplaced and misheard. They might, you know, their brain isn't always listening to everything everybody else is saying. And so they're hearing things differently. There's perception is projection. And so if they're all of a sudden perceiving and they're fatigued and tired and can't think straight, they're going to perceive that's what's happening in their environment. That's what they're going to get back to them is a lot of this extra pressure to put even more pressure on them because they're thinking, I'm under pressure, I can't think, I'm exhausted, I'm tired. And so when you keep thinking those thoughts, you get more of that same thought.
So that's kind of a lot of stuff which keeps them stuck. It's like they get in this nasty loop, this loophole. Like you're in the hamster wheel and you're sitting in this big loop, like, you know, and it just keeps going around.
So yeah, so I would say, you know, you're being stuck, but you're also in that loop. You're, you're going nowhere.
[00:06:34] Speaker A: So there's this. When we're stuck and we're in poor health, it helps us show up in our job, in our leadership and our decision making. Is it people see it? Can you sense it?
[00:06:46] Speaker B: Oh, absolutely, because you have to think about it. When you have a lot of energy, you're almost like a little energy bubble, right? You know, think of the Energizer Bunny. You got all this energy and people naturally gravitate towards you. You're happy, you're joyful.
But when you don't have energy and you don't feel good, well then you become grumpy, you know, so we got the seven Dwarfs now we got grumpy. Nobody wants to be around grumpy. And then everything that happens Grumpy gets a little matter. So now we got angry grumpy. So we don't want to be around those kind of people. And we want to be around the happy, easy go, lucky, energetic, the people that have it together kind of thing. And that's just a natural tendency. That's just the way attraction works. But you might get a bunch of grumpy people together that all sit around grumpy, grumpy, you know, but you know, it's like, like attracts like.
So I would say that, you know, you're gonna get where people aren't making clear decisions because they can't think straight. They're now thinking from exhaustive or they're thinking, you know, like they're in that lack mentality. So when they want to make like these creative thought processes, it's hard to do that because when they start thinking that they have to do something, they're like, oh my God, I just, I don't know if I have the energy to do that.
You know what I mean? And it's also, it's going to affect like how they communicate and talk with other people. Because if somebody asks them to do another project, you're going to see it in their face and in their body. They're just going to be like another project, another thing. You know what I mean? So it's just like you get to that point where you're just like, they shut down, they almost glaze over in the eyes.
But, you know, you got to get to the point where we can start lifting the body up so that it can heal itself. So you got to replace what is depleted. Because when you're under a lot of stress, stress depletes your minerals and your nutrients and your vitamins in your body, which makes your body not work. Right. So you've got to replenish it when you're under stress. Stress can be good and it can be bad.
So it can be go either way.
[00:08:40] Speaker A: Yes, it does. And, but, but you know, if you're a leader, you're an entrepreneur, you know, you, you're, you're leading the organization, the back, you're the backbone. And sometimes, you know, you gotta, with all due respect, suck it up and you got to put your best foot forward and you got to put that smiley face on. But yet at some point in time, this being stuck, it comes out in that show while you're actually trying to mask it, for lack of a better phrase.
[00:09:11] Speaker B: Right, right. Yeah, yeah. They do the fake it till you make it kind of thing.
[00:09:16] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. So I have a job to do, I got a role to do and I got to be able to, you know, do my job really at the end of the day and not worry about, you know, my, my health, quite honestly, because I, I got a function, I got, I have a goal to do, I got things to do. So that's what happens with most people. They fall into this idea with a later, I guess, routine because that's how they feel. Correct?
[00:09:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. And I remember, and gosh, I don't remember where it was, I heard it, but it was in a training of some sort that I was in. And you know, they're training you to like, when you go into work, basically become sort of like a machine because people, other people outside that are coming in to visit your place don't really care about your life. And so they're like, you know, pretend that you have a tree outside your office and when you're going, coming in the door, just hang up your crap on the tree. And then you walk into the office and everything is all supposed to be, you know, you're not supposed to bring your personal crap into the life. You know what I mean?
You know, like now you're on performance for making sure that you're running your office correctly or you're running your business or you're making sure that you're on. So when your clients come in and your employees or whatever, everybody you know is, can be, you know, joyful, whatever. And then when you leave the office, feel free to take your crap with you.
You know, like now when you step out, pick up this, your stuff off the tree and go home. But then they say that also when you get home, hang up the business and all the career and all the stuff outside the door when you enter your house.
So therefore you're not bringing that into your home too.
So is this about like learning to pick up your baggage, drop it off in the right places? But I think we get so used to doing that that we're just like, okay, well this baggage isn't for today. We're just going to throw it over there and we're going to move on to this baggage pack.
[00:11:07] Speaker A: I remember one of my mid year meetings that I was at, we had the Blue Angels, the guys that pilots and after every flight pattern they always come back and they, they did something called nameless frankness communication. And so forget that on the Captain, forget that Lt. If there's, forget the title. But also check your ego at the door because. And when you're flying at 5,500ft and 10,000ft up in the air and 500 miles per hour.
Everything else you know is life or life or death situation. So if I did something wrong, tell me. But it's not that ego. It's about little honesty at that point. So that's a great point you brought up. Of course it is about leaving things at the door.
Yeah. Thank you, Dr. Raquel. So what stands out to me in that authority is not only what was built through what we know, but also what we produce. It also builds through the energy, clarity and presence we bring into the room. When health starts breaking down, performance eventually follows. It's only natural, really. We're going to take a short break and when we come back, I want to go deeper into the root cause health, how a doctor or helps people uncover what is really keep them stuck beneath the surface. We'll be right back.
We'll be right back with more insights and frameworks to help you elevate your brand and your influence. Stay tuned.
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I'm here with Dr. Raquel Neuro, Functional health practitioner and founder of Rockin Health. And now I want to talk about the root cause health as a performance strategy.
Dr. Raquel, what does root cause health mean in the context of busy professionals and or trying to grow their careers or business?
[00:13:35] Speaker B: Well, we're always looking to get better faster. Faster. Correct.
So we want to get. If you want to do that, you got to get to the root because if you just take care of everything that's superficial, you're never going to get better and faster. You might get a little bit better, you might get a little bit faster, but it's not going to stay long term. It's kind of that superficial layer. So when you actually get to the root, you're getting to the real core of what is maybe dragging your health down or keeping you from achieving what you want to achieve in your life, health and career.
So when I say root, I'm saying let's get to the True root, let's release whatever that is, build it up, support the body, and give your body and your life and your mind every chance to move forward.
[00:14:20] Speaker A: How do you actually do that with, with people? Don't mind me. Just asking kind of like a high level question is, you know, what do you. Do you dive into what's going on in their lives? Do you understand why they're tired or unfocused? What's. What's the process that you kind of walk people through?
[00:14:36] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely.
So depending on if they're coming to me for the functional medicine part and that, or if they're doing more of wanting to do some breakthrough more of like releasing trapped emotions or limiting beliefs or parts of them that they just can't move forward in their career. Because some people might already have a lot of good health, but they realize that their mind has, like, sabotaging them from moving forward.
But in general, what I always do is I take people through a deep dive and I want to find out your total health history. And I'm going to ask a lot of questions because I want to understand what's actually making you be who you are. And a lot of times people even have little breakthroughs as we're going through that because they all of a sudden like, oh, I didn't even really think about it that way, or I forgot all about that.
So when I dive deep, then I can be like, okay, to connect the dots.
And then when it comes to like the functional health part of it, then it's like, okay, well, now we're connecting the dots. We need to do some testing that's going a little bit deeper, more than what the traditional tests do. So I like to go and find out, like, what is your micronutrient status like, but what's actually in the cell, not just in your serum. I want to know, do you have any food sensitivities that are actually creating like brain fog or making you crave different foods or making you moody?
And then I want to dive into, do you have toxins? Have you been exposed to mold, environmental toxins, heavy met? Those all build up in your body and create a lot of disorders and it can even lead to, like, cancer and disease.
And then I want to look at, you know, like, if we have some gut issues going on, there could be you might have been exposed to other microbiomes or your, your own gut microbiome might be not in balance. And we need to figure out, okay, well, how do we balance it so it can work better for you and then obviously always looking at hormones. I mean your whole body is composed of a lot of hormones. There's like I think 50 to 100 hormones and they all interconnect and if one goes off that they all go off. So you got to keep a good eye even on hormones.
So you know, you got to dive deep and look underneath the hood. And then sometimes you got to look into genetics. So it just depends on what the person comes into me. And those are like my top ones that I like to go with.
But sometimes you have to pull other things out of your hat and figure out what that person needs.
[00:16:53] Speaker A: So obviously AI is around us all over the place. Do you find that people start to look for answers when they start feeling tired or unfocused or stuck? Do they go onto AI before they come to you? And they think they self diagnosed themselves and it's like, oh, okay, how do you help them get over what they read elsewhere?
[00:17:17] Speaker B: Right, yeah. It's not always about chat, at least not where I am at. I'm not seeing a lot of the people going into chat or like an AI that way, but they're going into Google Docs or Google Doctor and looking up all their different symptoms, thinking what it could be and going down the rabbit hole and thinking that the worst, like they've got all this stuff that's wrong with them or they've gone to the medical doctors and the medical doctors either say they're not sick enough to have anything and there's really nothing wrong with them because their lab values aren't that bad, or they've gotten a diagnosis and they're being told, well, the drug is the only way. And people are getting sick of being told that the drug is the only way. They actually want to take back control of their health. They actually want to be in charge of their health. They want to have a choice to choose how to help themselves feel better.
So we're not really, I'm seeing a lot of people are really getting tired of the pill thing and they're really looking like, okay, well how can I change? How can I do this better? How do I, how do I clean this up so I don't have to deal with this again?
So I'm seeing a lot of that. But you can still see, I don't see a lot yet right now coming in from using AI, but I think it's a great tool to use because AI is going to kind of, hopefully they're going to use anything that's out on the web and kind of streamline it in. But it's still. It could very well easily say, you know, that's not good for you, or this is what's going on in you. Or it could also pull up different people that it could help you. So it might pull up different functional medicine specialists or different healthcare professionals or different people that might specialize and be able to help you too.
So I don't think chat or AI in general is bad or anything. I think it's a great way because it's gonna get. It's gonna help them faster, at least find who they should go work with earlier.
[00:19:06] Speaker A: You know, you hit on points about, you know, lack of sleep and, you know, hormones raging and, you know, signs, your gut. But how does people actually.
How does the person's body tell them that there's something or that they're trying to communicate to them that something important is really wrong?
Yeah, if you're overweight and lack of sleep, it's one thing, but how do you know what else your body's trying to tell you?
[00:19:33] Speaker B: Well, you'll get into some different patterns.
You're going to. I mean, obviously we've talked about the sleep and the gut and the stress, but there is going to be patterns. You're just going to start to feel like you don't feel like yourself anymore, or you start making choices that you wouldn't agree with. You're not acting from your core values and who you are anymore to the point where you're kind of losing that. So you still have the gut, which you're going to not feel. Well, you know, sometimes when the gut. But the gut can also control your brain. So you might crave different kinds of foods that might not be good for you, but yet you have these cravings because things are off, you might feel more, or you're having a hard time making decisions like you can't be decisive.
You might be secluding yourself from other people or not wanting to be out and about with other people. Your personality might shift and change just because your. Your body's not doing what it needs to do. So you'll see because if your serotonin or dopamine or your. Any of those neurotransmitters from your brain go down, you'll start to shift and change your personality or, like, want to, like some people, like, close themselves off, they. They don't want to go out. Like, maybe somebody who's extroverted will decide to become more of an introvert and, you know, or vice versa. Or somebody might go out or they might be social. You know, scroll on social media. That really can start to play with your mind. It really has that comparison thing. So then you kind of beat yourself up mentally about all of that stuff, and you just don't start to. You start to feel not so good about yourself. You start to feel like, you know, what else is out there. Kind of reminds me of the one movie Something's Got to Give, I believe is the name of it, you know, and he's like. It comes out and he's like, well, you know, this is. What if this is as good as it gets?
You know, and people don't really want to be a part of that kind of thing. So, you know, they. They have to. We want to help them figure out where things are kind of shifting. And again, it's, you know, the brain fog, the exhaustion that maybe the bloating, the constipation or the diarrhea and the other thing, like, even with the gut issues, some people are so used to them being just the way they are that they'll come to me and they'll say, well, I. I have normal. It's normal. And I'm like, well, what's normal?
Because what's normal for one person and what's normal for somebody else are usually two different things. And what's really there should be is usually completely different.
[00:21:47] Speaker A: So definitely is good. We get into. I think that's a little while our normal state, our normal body just becomes normal.
[00:21:56] Speaker B: Yeah, you get so used to it the way it is that you think that's normal. Well, normal for me.
That doesn't mean it's healthy. It's not optimal. We want optimal health, not just, I'm making the bottom cut.
[00:22:10] Speaker A: How does the root cause work? Help people reclaim their energy, clarity, and get more confident in the way that will support their career growth moving forward.
[00:22:20] Speaker B: Well, when you start looking at the root cause and like, say we have some micronutrient deficiencies and they'll start to build up in the body.
A body's going to be able to produce the hormones that are needed. It's going to be able to give the body the ability to have the serotonin or the melatonin so they can still sleep better, so they can have better moods. It's going to start to help. Like when they have stress. When you're. When you're stressed, you deplete minerals and nutrients. So when you're replenishing them, the body can still keep functioning.
When you're going also for root cause, when you get the gut healthy. It's a lot easier to go to board meetings and a lot of other meetings and to do things and feel it's okay to go because you're not looking for the bathroom or you're not like in pain the whole time. And also when you don't have any of those kind of issues going on, you feel more confident in your body because you feel, feel like, well, one, you're taking care of yourself.
Two, you already see the results are happening.
So I think when you're just doing that kind of stuff, it's huge. And then when you start taking the toxins out and you start eating for your body and you're back in charge of your, your health, then what you're going to see is now, okay, now that's going to replicate into the business because now you're taking charge of your health, you're going to take charge of your, your career better, you're going to take charge of your business better because you're going to feel better and you're going to be excited, excited because you feel better. So it all becomes like this replica or the continuation like domino effect that once you start to feel better, it keeps going. It's just like when you have the other way, when it's not feeling good, it's the whole domino effect of not feeling good.
[00:23:50] Speaker A: Question before we take our next break is are you working with people's minds and habits or are you working with their.
Providing them some, some drugs or pills or methodologies or psychological things to deal with to get the, to get at the root cause?
[00:24:11] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I work with supplements and I work with testing, so I definitely do that part because that's part of the functional medicine part.
But I also do emotional releasing. So like different traumas that can be. Have stored up in a person or when we need to release like the negative beliefs or the limiting beliefs that are keeping people stuck or sabotaging them. So it's not like a psychiatrist or counselor or anything like that. It's called neuro linguistic programming and quantum time healing and stuff like that. Quantum time techniques. So I've been trained in that. So I start helping people completely like go in and release the negative emotions, release those limiting beliefs and integrate your parts. And then just like you, I also learned hypnosis. You also learn to help people overcome maybe addictions and help them get clear or even. It could just be like sometimes you might be wanting to be really focused at one time or you really want to work out, but you just don't get it done. Well, you can use the hypnosis to help somebody, like carve out that time. You have it stack so you help them create that time so that they can get done what they want to get done, too.
So there's, there's a lot. It's not like the psychology of it, but it's more the nlp, the quantum time healing and then, yeah, supplements. It's about changing your lifestyle. It's about becoming who you want to be. You have to think about who do you want to be and why do you want to be that person.
[00:25:35] Speaker A: Awesome. Thank you so much for sharing that.
That was great. So thank you.
Here in this part of the conversation is that health is not just a side issue. It's a business and leadership issue as well. But people understand the root cause of what is draining them. They can stop biting their body and start building from a stronger foundation. We're going to take a short break and when we return, we'll talk about the mindset transformation and how limiting beliefs and keep people keep people stuck even after they know what they need to do. We'll be right back.
We'll be right back with more insights and frameworks to help you elevate your brand and your influence. Stay tuned.
And we're back. I'm Jeff Brandeis and this is the authority playbook on NOW Media Television. Let's dive deeper.
If you are building a business, leading a team, growing a brand, or trying to step into a higher level of authority, this is the segment to lean into. Because sometimes the obstacle is not only on your schedule or your strategy. Sometimes the obstacle is the belief system running underneath it.
I'm continuing our conversation with Dr. Yurov and now I want to focus on mindset transformation.
Dr. Raquel helps clients break free from limiting beliefs, but they can stop repeating the same patterns and start building a life, a career and health foundation that actually supports who they want to become.
Dr. Raquel, what limiting beliefs do you see most often in professionals who keep sacrificing their health for success?
[00:27:14] Speaker B: Well, a lot of the ones that I see are one, a lack of self worth, like they don't believe they're worthy or the imposter syndrome people pleasing.
So those are some of the main ones, but there's there are quite a few other ones, but self worth is a huge one and that they also just don't believe that they're enough, like they're not good enough to do something or they aren't a good enough person.
So I would start with that when we're working with people and he's usually like, what happens is when I'm working with them, everyone's got their own unique story. And so when we go and we dive a little deeper, we actually find out, like, what do they truly want and what's keeping them from having what they want.
And you know, there's a lot even like with money issues, people have different things. If you think about all the different myths when it comes to money, like money doesn't grow on trees or, and that's a limiting belief if you actually believe it. So then you got to break that limiting belief in person.
You know that, you know, I've, you know, there you have a wine taste on a beer budget, you know that, you know, there's a whole different kinds of different limiting beliefs that people have. And so when you look at it and you start what you, what is one of the best ways to do to find out what your limiting beliefs are is if you start noticing that you're thinking something all the time, start writing these down.
And then you're going to start to see your own pattern as you keep writing down these things that keep you from having what you want.
And as you start writing them down, you're going to start to become aware. Then you're going to start to look at it. Is this something I believe all the time or is this something I've only believed part of the time? Because if it's something that you believe all of the time, that is called a limiting belief. That's a decision that you made somewhere in your life.
That, that is a limiting belief. And a lot of living beliefs were actually formed between the ages of 0 and 7.
So many of these you don't even remember why you have them. It's just something you picked up from people. You heard them talking about things. It's like, you know, they might have said, well, I, I don't have the money to buy you that right now. Or, you know, right now we can't do that because so and so is sick.
Or, you know, something might have happened, like, you know, you shouldn't do that. You know that's bad. And so you start to, you start to create these little things in your head. And then when you get older, you, you unconsciously don't even know they're there. It's like they're so unconscious and you, you can't figure out why you keep hitting the same thing, why your head keeps hitting the same ceiling or why you keep hitting the same wall and why you can't move forward. And a lot of it is because we have been programmed from when we were little, not even purposely. I mean, it was just by accident.
And you pick these up, and if they became a part of your unconscious mind, your unconscious mind is what's driving it. And so you can't figure out why that is. So one of the things I do is I listen and I hear what you're saying without you even consciously aware of what you say. And sometimes it's about what you don't say too. So you pick that up and then you start to help people figure out, oh, I didn't even realize I was thinking that way. Because a lot of times as you're talking from a sense of lack, like you don't have something, you don't have something, so you're focusing on what you don't have.
And then you're. What that does is it tells the universe that you don't have that. So the universe is going to keep giving you your. Your wish.
You know, it's not really your wish, but it's what it keeps giving because that's what you're putting out in the energy into the field.
So if you want to change it, you gotta. You can't just, you know, you can say, I ams. You can say and do all that stuff, but a lot of times that's kind of like hitting your head more against the wall, and then you feel like you're not being true to who you are. So when you actually do the deeper work and actually figure that out, and then you do the releasing of it, then it's a lot easier to create that affirmation and truly believe it. Or if you integrate the parts of you, because if you want a goal, and if that goal you don't completely believe you can achieve it, then you got to get those two parts of you in alignment so you can achieve your goal.
[00:31:12] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like, I'm an entrepreneur. I want to make a million bucks, right? Yeah. And then. But I don't really know how or I don't think I can do it. So it's going to be, you know, that little bit of a tug going back up here at this point, so.
[00:31:28] Speaker B: Yes, exactly.
[00:31:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Get it. Is there a age group or male female that you kind of see to be more common, where this is starting to show up more and more?
[00:31:41] Speaker B: I seem to bring in a lot of more females. I do have a few men, but it's more the females that come in. And what I'm seeing Is there's a transition that they're going through in life.
So they might either be transitioning from all of a sudden their kids are graduating and they're an empty nest and are trying to figure out who they are without their K, or maybe they're changing in careers or. Or all of a sudden they want to change careers, that they've had one career pathway the whole time, and all of a sudden they're just like, I'm burnt out, I'm tapped out. I can't do this anymore, and I want to do something different. But they don't. The thing is, is when you have, like, say, if you wouldn't get back in the day, like, what people my age or whatever, you know, back in.
It was really important to go to college back in the 80s 90s and early 2000s. And now that it's 20, 30 years later and we want to do a career shift, we almost feel guilty doing that career shift because we're like, but we went to college for this, we paid all the money for this, and now we want to do something completely different.
It's like, how dare are we allowed to think that way?
And what really needs to happen is it's okay to change because I try. And even, like, when I talk to my. My son's a teenager, he just graduated high school, and he's got a lot of other of his high school friends or even the people that come into my office, talking to some of the teenagers is so fun. Somebody's like, you do realize you might change your career seven times? That's. That's average. What a person does is they change their career seven times in a lifetime. So don't get married to this career that you think you're going to have, because who knows, seven years down the road you might have a. Do a completely different career because you've changed, you've evolved, and that's what happens. What. So I get a lot of like 35 to 45 to 55 of that age group. So 35 to 55 coming in because they want a career change or something has shifted so much in their life that they don't even know who they are anymore, or they were living their life for somebody else, and then something shifted and they're like, well, I don't want to do that anymore. I want to be somebody else, or I want to be who I am. I want to know who I am.
But a lot of it is too like, people. When you get older, you lose people. So I have people come in from having lost children or a spouse that passed away.
You get people all these different ranges like that, and it's just like, then it's like, now they're like, now it's my time to take care of me.
I need to take care of me because I'm falling apart and I need someone to put me back together.
[00:34:06] Speaker A: It's. It's funny you talk about seven careers because I. I kind of. I've done my own little shifting, but I kind of phrase it as, okay, what does Jeff want to be when he grows up again?
It's kind of like you're reinventing myself. I never really thought about the way you just explained it, but I kind of go through, okay, well, I want to be when I grow up because I always tell my wife I won't grow up, so therefore, I'll always be a child in so many ways. And she will agree with you on that.
Dr. Raquel. I know there's so much pressure these days on high achievers to achieve more than even what the parents are, even really what they want to do. And now it's getting caught in the heart to slow down or even for them to ask for help. How do they actually begin to change those unhealthy patterns?
[00:34:59] Speaker B: They have to want it. They got to know their why.
You know, it comes down to your why. Why do you want this? You know, and a lot of times people want to. They do it because when they're tired of the way things are, but they want. They start to realize they want to feel good when they retire.
They want to feel good when they are at the age to enjoy life. And because they're watching their parents not feel good or not be good or have health issues. And you hear a lot of times, hey, once you retire, because people are retiring a little bit younger nowadays, and when you retire, hey, that's when all your health issues start.
So people are now getting to the point where they're like, well, I need to take care of myself because I don't want to end up like that.
[00:35:43] Speaker A: There's always, I wanted to have a better life than my parents. I want to make more money than my parents and do more than what my parents did. So it's one of those things to be able to constantly want to do better and live in a better house and all those good things and have a better life. So that's awesome. I think we're going to take our next break, and I think this kind of reminds me that authority is built from the inside out. If someone's belief system tells them rest is weakness, health is optional, or success requires self sacrifice. They will keep building from that depletion, which is what you just Talked about earlier, Dr. Ortello. But when the mindset changes, the strategy becomes easier to sustain. We'll take a short break and when we come back, we'll close with what it means to become unstuck and unstoppable in health, career and life. We'll be right back. We'll be right back with more insights and frameworks to help you elevate your brand and your influence. Stay tuned.
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I'm with Dr. Raquel Yarrow, founder of Rockin Health. And as we close, I want to focus on the outcome of her work, helping people become unstuck and truly unstoppable.
Dr. Raquel, when someone becomes unstuck in their health, what changes do you usually see in their career and in their confidence?
[00:37:45] Speaker B: Well, their career and their confidence definitely boosts up.
What you'll see is once they kind of get off that hamster wheel and they start to actually get clear and start to feel good and they get that energy and the clarity, they're able to sustain the life that they want to have now, not all the time. Do do people, like, go really fast in one direction, like, and that can happen. Somebody they have to like, super speed up their business or their career.
But sometimes what happens is people just need to pause and actually just breathe and take in what's kind of going on and just get back to nature and get back to themselves and, and they just take that time. They just realize they don't want to be on the fast track. I see that a lot that people are so busy being on the fast track of life and so used to the hustle and the grind that all of a sudden they're just like, I don't want that anymore. I want to just slow down. I want to pause. I want to be able to breathe. I want to enjoy life. I want to Enjoy my friends and my family.
And so they make different choices. They're like, I say, like, there's big rocks and little rocks, and their big rocks change. Their values change. You know, what. What is important to them shifts. And so that completely starts to shift. And they start to fill up their life with their big rocks, with their family, with their life with the things that fill them up. But also, as you start to heal, you get a whole new lifestyle, you get a whole new perspective, because you start to become aware of what broke you down to begin with and what trapped you. And so now, all of a sudden, now that you're out of that trap, you're out of that chaos, you're out of all of that now, you don't want to give up the new lifestyle because you feel good in it. And the thing is, if you go back to the way you were, your past lifestyle, those conditions are going to come right back.
You kind of have to. You're making a shift, a shift to become and evolve into who you want to be, or at least the next version, next chapter of you.
[00:39:37] Speaker A: So we talk a lot about the hamster wheel. So I'm curious.
Is it I wake up one morning and, hey, I feel much better. Someone opened the door, and I get out of my cage and I have a new lease on life.
Is. Or is it more of a, you know, a gradual compression or a gradual process for me to feel better, to get myself unstuck?
[00:40:03] Speaker B: What.
[00:40:03] Speaker A: What do you typically see with your clients?
[00:40:07] Speaker B: I honestly see it all.
People can feel amazing. Like when you first start working with somebody and they start shifting, even some of their diet, or they get a full night's rest, they're gonna wake up feeling amazing. You know, does it say sustainable? Maybe, maybe not, because it's. They're only in the beginning, but that you will feel those changes because that's what's also going to keep you moving forward. Because you felt that you started to see that there is a window in there.
And I kind of call it, like, for some of my clients, I call it the hump.
So you're kind of doing these changes, and you'll hit that hump. And sometimes that hump, you.
[00:40:42] Speaker A: You.
[00:40:42] Speaker B: What you see is now all of a sudden you're over the hill. You can see the light at the end.
And that doesn't mean that, you know, that light can be far away. And you might have many little hills that go through as you're going through it, or it might be close, and you might just be right at the end, depending on how intense you were being. Often also just how far of an intense journey you are when you first hit the hump. I mean, it can be soon and it can be later on.
So you're gonna see that. I mean, some people, do they see things gradually? Absolutely. There's a lot of things that happen gradually that they don't even notice that happen. There's so many things that are happening behind the scenes inside your body that you don't even know. We're having issues with that they start to feel better.
So I always had people filling out forms so we know where they were when they first started. And then every, like, usually quarter, they fill out their assessment form so we can see the progress. Because sometimes when you get to a year out and you're completely different, like a whole different person, you forget what you used to be like. You forget that you might have had headaches, you forget that you were actually tired. You forget just how bad it was because you're feeling so much better over here. But it took a year to get there. And so you. You. Our mind is very good at, like, oh, hey, past, leave it there, let's go forward. You know, it's very good at distorting because there's all these.
I don't know, I think there's 40 million, 40 billion, whatever, units that are coming at our brain all the time. So we learn to distort, we learn to delete, we learn to clear, we absorb some of it. So we. We make all these different choices. So as we're moving and going forward in our health, we also are going to distort and delete. What we used to remember, used to be us, because we, you know, and that's just the same thing even happened in my own life. I mean, I still have to try and remember. Like, I had to write it down so I could kind of remember where I was as to where I am now. Because, I mean, I used to fall asleep almost driving to work every day. Now I have like, tons of energy. Wow.
[00:42:38] Speaker A: Yeah. That's not a good thing.
[00:42:40] Speaker B: No, no, no, no. It was kind of scary. You'd be like, whoa, hi.
But, yeah, so, yeah, it. And now I have tons of energy. It's like, I did not. I spent years in fatigue and exhaustion and not knowing, you know, living on caffeine, living on coffee, living on the next latte, living on. Yeah, you too. Yeah. So. And now I. Seriously, I don't need caffeine. I don't need any of that. If I choose to have it. I might have it here and there but then it messes with my sleep. And because I have so much energy I can sleep better. And if I even have a little bit of caffeine in my system, I struggle with sleep. Like and that's the thing is caffeine is like this perfect like little like so called drug kind of thing like little upper. But it's designed to get you up and then when you, you come down then you're like, I got to have it again. And the body metabolizes caffeine a little bit differently. So people are, some are slow and some are fast metabolized or fast metabolizers are probably not going to notice that. They're not going to, they're like, oh, I can drink caffeine and go to bed an hour later. Well that's a fast metabolizer. A slow metabolizer is more like me.
And so if I have caffeine at 8am I might still feel it at 8pm oh wow. So therefore it's going to stay in my system which makes it hard to sleep. So when I don't have caffe or and when I eat healthy and I do what I'm supposed to do, my sleep patterns, I get deeper sleep, I sleep better, I feel better, I wake up more energized, I feel more on top of things. My brain is clear.
It's a whole different ball game when you actually are doing what you're supposed to do and you take out the foods that are toxic to you. And do I eat foods that are offer me? Yes. And then I reap the benefits or not the benefits I guess you would say. But you know what happens? Yes, it was tasted yummy but now I feel inflamed. Now I'm not sleeping. Now my brain is off. I might get a headache, my stomach might get upset, I might break out in a rash, you know, I might not feel good. My organ system isn't going to feel good. I'm not going to feel like my brain is, you know, able to do what it needs to do. It's going to feel very slow and sluggish.
And the thing is, is when we that happens some people, because they're so used to not eating healthy, they can't even recognize that there is a food that could be triggering them. I had many people come, they're like, oh, I don't have any food sensitivities. And I'm like run the test and we'll see what it says.
And then when it comes back they're like, yeah, but I eat that all the time. And I'm like, yeah, and you're always sick.
[00:45:13] Speaker A: Put two and two together.
[00:45:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:45:17] Speaker A: So you touched upon something. I kind of want to go back and I think if I was a listener, I'd like to learn a little bit more about this as well is the time frame. So I come to you. This isn't a 30 day type of diagnosis and you get me unstuck.
It's a six month to whatever time frame to figure out what's going on and see the progress to being unstuck.
[00:45:43] Speaker B: Yeah, and that can depend people who come in there. There's different levels.
So you can take like a little quiz. I'm actually creating it. I've had other ones, but I've just went and changed my website and rockinhealth.com but I have a little quiz that you can take and it'll help guide you as to what your next step is going to be. But I'm also creating one. So like you look at your symptoms and how many symptoms you have determines like how intensely off you are.
Because some people can have a lot of symptoms to be on the intense level. And there are 10. And all of those symptoms, they're going to take probably years to clear.
Then you're going to have somebody who has maybe two or three symptoms and there may be like a scale of zero to 10, maybe a two or three. So and zeros being perfect, they might need 30 days, they might need two weeks.
You know, they might just need a quick little reset and just get back on because they, you know, they might just need something quick and easy or just one little shift or change in their lifestyle. So that's usually like the people who are younger, you know what I mean? So like if you start when you're younger, it's a lot easier because you can learn that tweak that little, that little thing. You're putting that key in that lock and you're just opening it up. And now all of a sudden it's a lot easier. And if you keep using that, that's going to help you throughout your life. So that's why it can vary as to what the person is going on. It's just, you know, it's, it's very independent. It's very unique to each person's what they've got going on. And some people just want to keep figuring out because there's high performers out there that they just want to keep leveling up their body and they want to level up and feel even better, and feel even better and feel even better. And you know, it's always a progress. It's always something. I mean, you don't just work on your health and then stop. Just like if you go to the gym and you get a six pack stomach or an amazing body, what happens when you stop?
It goes right back to where it was.
Yeah, you got to learn maintenance.
So then you've got to learn what
[00:47:39] Speaker A: it takes to maintain fast food diets, all the things. And once you started and you stop it, typically people just revert back to their old self again.
[00:47:48] Speaker B: Yeah, well, if you do and that they, those habits are so entrained in them. So if you haven't broke those or release that limiting belief or that part of them or the things that are keeping them trapped, they are going to revert back to us. Just like sometimes when you take like an alcoholic, you have, sometimes you have to look at their friends and the, the lifestyle they have around that and sometimes you have to shift that. And when you get healthy, it's just kind of like there's crabs in the bucket.
The other crabs are like, oh no, you weren't supposed to eat healthy. You got to eat crappy with me. You got to eat crappy with me. You know, eat this, do that. And so they start pulling you back into their lifestyle. So sometimes you actually have to almost export yourself into a completely different phase of, and control who and what's going to be around you. Because you got to decide who do you want to be and how bad do you want it and what, how strong is your why?
[00:48:37] Speaker A: I think that's the key question. So Dr. Raquel, thank you so much. If the audience would like to learn more about you, where can they find you about rock and health or find work about your functional health and mindset transformation? What's the best way they can connect with you or find you out there?
[00:48:55] Speaker B: Yeah, you can go to my website, rockinhealth.com and it's spelled R O, C, K, Y, N because my nickname's Rocky and my maiden last name was Nev. So I'm rockin rockin health.
[00:49:05] Speaker A: I love it.
[00:49:06] Speaker B: Yeah, so it's rockinhealth.com and you can find out a lot about me on there. The breakthroughs are on there. You can sign up to work with me, you can email me, you can fill out the quizzes so you get to learn all about kind of like what I do. And I. You can email me. I would love to email me as a good way, and you got the ability to do that. And we can talk. We can have a conversation and talk about what it is that's going on in your life and what you need help with. And let's dive deeper. And you even have the ability to sign up to get. Just get. Dive right into a deep consult because you're like, I know I need to order some labs and I know I need to deep dive, and I am ready to take charge of my life. You can do that free on the website. Just connect with me and we'll get you started.
[00:49:50] Speaker A: That's awesome. Thank you so much, Dr. Raquel. I learned so much on our episode today, and I want to thank you so much for joining us and sharing your insight on root cause health. The mindset, transformation, energy, confidence, and what it really takes to build a career without sacrificing the person behind it.
And to everyone watching, we invite you to keep building authority with strength from inside out. Keep listening to what your body is telling you. Keep choosing growth that does not require you to abandon yourself. And remember, when your health rises, your leadership rises with it. So stay connected for more on NOW Media tv.
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