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Episode 10: The 11th Recording and 10th Release Welcome back to another episode of A Friend for the Long Haul! I'm happy to have Wanda Belisle join me for this episode. Wanda is a Registered Health Coach who's aim is to help people with ME/CFS and Long Covid. In this episode, Wanda and I dive deep into her story and the work she's doing: Wanda's Prior History with Post-Viral Illness and ME/CFS: We kick things off by exploring Wanda's own battle with post-viral illness and ME/CFS, which started in her teens, giving us a glimpse into her resilience and strength. The Possibility of Contracting Covid-19 in February 2020: Wanda shares her story of possibly having Covid-19 early in the pandemic and how it contributed to a severe flare. Finding an Improved Baseline: Through her work with practitioners and her own efforts, Wanda has managed to find a better baseline. She opens up about the strategies and treatments that have made a difference in her life. Starting Her Health Coaching Business: Wanda's passion for helping others led her to start a business as a health coach years before the pandemic. We discuss how her business has evolved since the pandemic began. Challenging Ableist and Ill-Informed Notions: Both of us reflect on the ableist and ill-informed pre-conceived notions we had about post-viral illness before experiencing it ourselves, and how our perspectives have shifted. This portion may be a bit difficult for some listeners as we confront and name how ignorant we were in the past about these matters. Tips for the Newly Diagnosed: Wanda offers advice for those newly diagnosed with ME/CFS or Long Covid, providing practical tips for navigating this challenging journey. Future Plans for Her Coaching Business: Finally, Wanda shares exciting plans she has for her coaching business and her vision for the future. Join us for an inspiring conversation filled with insights, personal stories, and practical advice. Whether you're dealing with ME/CFS, Long Covid, or simply looking for a story of resilience and hope, this episode is for you. Tune in, and let's get through this long haul together. PS I am not a client of Wanda's and this is not an ad or promotion. I'm highly selective about any wellness or health professionals I have on this podcast because I am very protective of this community. I have a lot of time for Wanda because of her transparency and openness. Make sure to subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with anyone who might benefit from Wanda's story. You can find her at https://www.wandabelisle.com/ and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/wandabelisle Don't forget to follow me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/afriendforthelonghaul/ And check out my website at https://sites.google.com/view/friendforthelonghaul - check out the Providers link to find a living Google doc full of long hauler submitted and approved healthcare providers! Resources mentioned in this episode: Byron Katie: https://thework.com/ Jarred Younger's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@youngerlab Solve M.E. Videos featuring Jarred Younger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJB95m4FLa0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxdzaWD5wfU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU0UgWGyi0A Ally Boothroyd's YouTube Channel for Yoga Nidra: https://www.youtube.com/@SarovaraYoga Jennifer Piercy's Insight Timer page: https://insighttimer.com/jenniferpiercy Don't forget to check out the podcast playlist on Spotify using this link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3n0GXLFRWqDJyifglNNM4K?si=e67cfc837de84b5d

Jocelyn Pepe is a mum, a passionate mental health and wellbeing advocate, an eternal learner, a truth seeker, daughter, sister, niece, and partner. She's also a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and Registered Health Coach, and as a founder of TrU Living, Jocelyn has co-created profound change globally, partnering with individuals and organizations to develop healthy habits to truly thrive. She is passionately committed to every individual realising the benefits of having their total wellbeing aligned.In this episode of the show we discuss all things being a mother and balancing a successful career, spirituality, intuition, addiction, mental health, and more.Enjoy the show, subscribe and let us know what you think!To get in touch with Jocelyn or to find out more:- Jocelyn's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jocelyn-pepe/- Jocelyn's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jocepepe/ - TrU Living Website: https://truliving.ca/- The Show with Ardeshir Mehran: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2072571/14175240 Podcast Chapters:0.00 - Intro1.02 - Looking at Star Signs2.31 - Jocelyn's Mental Health Journey5.49 - A Personal Story of Addiction8.45 -  A Transition to Her Purpose13.30 - Looking at Spirituality17.30 - Being a Mother, Running a Company, and Finding Balance22.45 - The Early Years of Having Children26.39 - How Do You Find Your Purpose?32.42 - Meditation and Exercise41.53 - How Do You Become More In-Touch with Intuition?45.58 - Outro and Takeaways(Michael Hanson is the host of the COSMIC Bridge podcast that inspires its listeners to find their higher purpose and connect their material and spiritual life through stories of breathwork teachers, shamans and stroke survivors. He is also the CEO of Growth Genie, an international B2B sales consultancy)

Melissa Deally grew up spending much time in Japan. When she settled down to a career she found herself in a sales position with a hotel chain assigned primarily to bring in Asian visitors to her hotels throughout the United States. After a 24-year successful career she suddenly was terminated as the hotel group downsized. Suddenly she needed to find a new income source. I can but wonder what any of us would do if literally overnight we were confronted with this problem. As you will hear in our episode, Melissa literally pivoted based on life circumstances you will hear about. She has become a well-known and successful Integrative Health Practitioner & Registered Health Coach, who is also trained in NLP, Time Line Therapy and Hypnotherapy.  Melissa will present us with some extremely useful insights about ways we can improve our physical and mental beings. I hope you will find what she has to say useful and invaluable. Thanks for listening and I hope you will let me know your thoughts about our episode and the Unstoppable Mindset podcast by emailing me at michaelhi@accessibe.com.   About the Guest:  Melissa Deally is an Integrative Health Practitioner & Registered Health Coach, who is also trained in NLP, Time Line Therapy and Hypnotherapy.  She is dedicated to helping her clients discover the root cause of their health issue and truly heal. Melissa's business is 100% virtual, and she works with the entire English speaking world. Melissa uses a 2 prong approach: 1) Discover your toxic load and lower it 2) Discover your body's imbalances and then guides you on bringing your body back into balance, at which point it will heal itself. This is done through the use of Functional Medicine lab tests, mailed to your home!  Melissa offers a very high level of support, to ensure her clients' success, as we navigate the path bringing the body back into balance, while creating new lifestyle habits to ensure lasting results.  Melissa  is the winner of the Alignable 2022 Local Business Person Of The Year Award for Whistler and the 2021 Quality Care Award by Businesses From The Heart.  Melissa is also the host of the “Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” podcast, an podcast offering practical education around health, which ranked in the top 5% of Global podcasts by Listen Notes in the first 3 months of launching.  When not serving her clients, Melissa can be found on her paddle board, or backcountry hiking & camping with her daughter(s) or downhill skiing or cross country skiing, or planning her next trip for her Girl Guides (Girl Scout) unit or working on her passion project, Girls Matter, helping keep girls in school in Uganda, breaking the poverty cycle, one girl, one family, one village at a time.  Link to my Discover Your Toxic  Load Quiz: https://welcome.yourguidedhealthjourney.com/yourtoxicload Contact:  Email: melissa@yourguidedhealthjourney.com Website: https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/detox-programs/ Fb:  https://www.facebook.com/melissa.deally/ LI:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissadeally/ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/guidedhealthjourney/ Podcast:  “Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” Podcast https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/podcast  About the Host:  Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/  https://twitter.com/mhingson  https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson  https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links  https://accessibe.com/  https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe  https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!  Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast  If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review  Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.     Transcription Notes Michael Hingson  00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by Michael Hingson  01:20 Well, Hi, and welcome back to another episode of unstoppable mindset. Glad you're with us hope that you're having a good day, wherever you are. And with whatever you're doing. I want to tell you just briefly about Melissa Deally, our guest today. So Melissa is an integrative health practitioner and health coach, and she's trained in NLP, we'll get to that timeline therapy and hypnotherapy. That's a lot. That's a mouthful. And I won't go further than that, because I'm going to let her tell the story. But I think you're going to find this an interesting episode. She has gone through some unexpected changes in her life, and we'll get to that as well. But for now, Melissa, welcome to unstoppable mindset. Thanks for being here.  Melissa Deally  02:11 Thanks so much for having me, Michael, I'm excited to be here.  Michael Hingson  02:15 Tell me a little about kind of you early on growing up, or whatever you want to talk about with regard to that. Melissa Deally  02:24 Well, I'm gonna actually not go back quite that young yet. I'm gonna start years ago,  Michael Hingson  02:29 a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Right.  Melissa Deally  02:32 There you go. That's right. Yeah, exactly. Seven years ago is where I had that turning point, that unexpected turning point that you mentioned. And that was when big fish bought little fish. And the company I was working for was the little fish. And I'd worked there for 24 years. And one morning, I was given an hour to clear out my desk, and no word of thanks. And in that moment, I knew three things. I knew that I was never going to work for someone else again. I, whatever I did next needed to be more of service to humanity and the planet. And that I had no idea what it was going to be that I would do next. But I was open to being guided. And later that year, I came across a company that specialized in brain supplementation. And I found that really interesting because I realized I use my brain 24/7. And no one's ever told me that I could be doing more to support my brain. And meanwhile, I was well aware that we had near epidemic levels of Alzheimer's and dementia on the one hand, but I also had a grandmother who was 99 years old, living at home by herself fully cognitively functioning. And it made me think, well, how do I make sure I get on her path, something inside me, told me that just having good genes might not be enough. And I started thinking about her life compared to my life. And she was born in little old Christchurch, New Zealand back in 1916, and the bottom corner of the earth long before all the toxins we have in the world today growing all their own food on the property. And I had the good fortune to be raised in Tokyo, Japan. And that was a wonderful childhood. And I know you've traveled there a couple of times. And it was in the 1970s and we lived there for all up 11 years. And we're unfortunately at that time spewing out toxins from manufacturing plants. And so it made me realize that I was much more toxic than my grandmother was and that I was behind the eight ball. If I wanted to get on my grandmother's path which was to live you know I'm fully cognitively functioning right to the very end. And so that was an aha for me, I needed to do more for my health for my brain. And I started learning about brain health, I started learning about toxins and how they impact our the health of our body. And about four months later, my oldest daughter got a concussion in her first grade 12 soccer game of the season. And I started going to her appointments because a I could, I wasn't working full time. And B, I realized she didn't have the cognitive function with a concussion to go to the appointment, and then come home and tell me what the practitioner said she should do to advance her healing. And so I went with her. Two months later, I was driving to Vancouver, and I got a phone call from the high school, asking me to go and pick up my younger daughter who was in grade eight at the time, because she had a suspected concussion from gym class. And in that moment, I looked out at the heavens above, and I said, Really, this is how you show me my path, please stop taking out my children. So now I have two very different concussions in the house. And I'm going to two sets of appointments first to support both girls. And that was my next Aha, what do other people do that don't conveniently have a mum who isn't working to go to all their appointments with them. And I realized there was a little bit of a gap in the medical model in that people that are struggling with their health and struggling to recover from something need that extra support. The body doesn't heal in a stressed out state. And when we don't know what's going on, and we don't know, if we're doing things the right way, we're still in a stress state when we're trying to figure it out on our own. But when we have that support, then we can relax into the process and be guided and the body can start healing. So that was the start with my journey into health and wellness. Michael Hingson  07:08 So one question before we go further, what were you doing for the company you worked for, for 24 years until you were laid off? Melissa Deally  07:18 I was in sales, it was a hotel company, Delta hotels, which is a Canadian hotel brand, we had over 40 hotels across the country. And I worked for national sales, and I was bringing in Asian tourists from all over Asia, because of course, having grown up in Japan, I do speak Japanese. And I was in charge of all of our Asian business across the country. Michael Hingson  07:42 So the reason I asked that is what you just described and the journey that you started going through, took a lot of self analysis, a lot of looking at you and exploring some options and so on. What I'm curious about is how did you get to the point in your psyche, in your world where you were able to do that a lot of people when something like what you just described happens to them aren't able to move forward and just are struggling with Oh, my gosh, how am I going to go anywhere from here? And I can't do that. I don't know what to do. And I'm not saying you didn't go through some of that, although you can you can say whether you did or not. But still, what is it that made you be able to analyze and start down the road you did? Well, Melissa Deally  08:41 I had the good fortune of already having been introduced to personal growth work before I was let go from my corporate job. And it wasn't introduced to me through my corporate world, but through my personal life. One of the books that I had read was by Carol Dweck, the mindset, all about the growth mindset and the closed mindset. And I really enjoyed that book. And I also had the have the good benefit of having a mother who always taught me to look at the positives. And then when every door closes, another door opens. And so when this happened, yes, there were tears. There was that sense of why Aren't I good enough? Because some salespeople were kept on not very many saw more, but you start questioning yourself, why wasn't I the one that was kept on? Why aren't I good enough? But I realized going down that path wasn't going to serve me. And I needed to recognize that. In reality, things always happen for us and not to us. And when we can approach life from that perspective. It allows As to release some of the stress and the turmoil and the beating ourselves up and to instead look at what benefit can come out of this. And I decided to look at this as an opportunity to do something completely different with my life for the second half of my career, as I called it, then what I had done before. And I was also in a place where if I took on that mindset, I really didn't have any option to do anything different because I am in a small town. And if I stayed in hotels, I would have taken my career backwards 10 plus years, and I would have ended up working for a single hotel instead of the entire brand. And I simply wasn't interested in that. So I had to look at what are the opportunities. And once I was let go, I had a lot more time on my hands. So I was able to dive into that personal growth, experience even more, and I read a lot of books and learned a lot about myself, like you said, journaling and diving deep, and who am I? And what do I want to do? And what do I want my legacy to be? And how can I make the world a better place? Michael Hingson  11:17 I'm curious, from a sales standpoint, what what is your philosophy of sales? What was your philosophy? And has it changed at all with all that has happened in the last seven years? Melissa Deally  11:34 So my philosophy, I don't think it's changed in those last seven years, I so I come from a numbers background as well, I have a commerce degree. And I was in accounting before I ever got into sales, which I know that in and of itself is a bit of an anomaly. But when I was working with my clients, I always was putting myself myself in their shoes, how could I serve them? And how can we come together? How can I serve them while serving me, you know, our interests, the hotel interests as well. But also in the negotiation piece. Because I have that numbers background, I relied on those numbers, and I would show them their numbers, right. And once we had the numbers on the table, and I made my proposal, they really didn't have a place to argue back and forth one way or the other. And you know, he can make it a whole elongated process. And I found that to be very, very effective. But I was always wanting to come at it, where I would listen to them and understand what their needs were, and try to meet their needs to the best of my ability while also looking after the needs of the club. Michael Hingson  12:46 And that was in a sense, really why I was asking the question, because I know that when I was suddenly thrust into the need to make a decision, do I want to go into sales or look for a job elsewhere, which which did happen to me, I was doing some human factors studies and other things at the time and literally, unexpectedly was told that I would be let go, or I could go into sales. And as I, as I love to tell people, I took a micro nanosecond to make the decision that I'd lower my standards and go into sales from science, right? But but the reality is that as I as I went into sales, and I took Dale Carnegie sales courses and other things, what I was taught was that good salespeople, look at the situations that they're going into with different customers, they look at the customer's needs, they listen most of all to the customer. And ultimately it comes down to you can't sell the customer, anything they have to want to buy in your job is to be a counselor, and a person to guide them. And the good salespeople do that. Melissa Deally  14:06 I 100% agree with that. And that that was my kind of, you know, natural, innate approach. And you asked me has it changed in the last seven years? And I would say no, because I still need to listen to my customers needs, we're talking about their health, I want to understand their health goals. I want to understand if I'm even the right person to be working with them. Right. And, and that they need to buy, they need to be ready to invest in themselves, their own self worth and their health before I can even work with them, right because I don't do the work for them. I guide them they still have to be willing to do the work. Michael Hingson  14:44 And that's is true in a straightforward regular sales job is it isn't the kind of coaching and the teaching that you do today and that's exactly the point. But it means that you need to dig and learn and understand And, and analyze as you go along. And that also means that you have to look at you, as you're working with any customer in sales or whatever you're doing to make sure that I'm really doing the best thing for my customer or my client, and I'm listening to them. And my position, even in a regular sales opportunity is, I hope that even when I'm successful at selling, I learn more from my customers than they learned from me because every one is different. And I believe that every customer has a lot to teach the salespeople with whom they work. Melissa Deally  15:48 Absolutely, I agree, 100%. And I would say the one difference between selling in my corporate world and selling now is a molars to selling in the corporate world, I was selling a product, but I was also selling on behalf of someone else. Now I'm selling a service. And really, I'm selling myself, right, they're not buying my program, they're buying what I can do for them through that program. And so I did have to get comfortable with selling myself because that was different to selling on behalf of someone else. Right, I have to listen. And I learned from my clients as much as they learned from me, if not more, Michael Hingson  16:29 except I think ultimately even in sales. Yes, you want your customers to buy a product. But in reality, when you are working with a customer in sales, what are you selling? Are you selling the product? Or are you selling yourself because you're the teacher and the guidance, the guide or and the counselor, I once interviewed someone, he was my best sales guy. And whenever I whenever I hired a salesperson, I always asked, What are you going to be selling for me because I wanted to see how they would respond. And usually people said, well, we're going to sell your, your products, your CAD system, or later it was tape backup systems. And this is what they do. When I asked this particular person's name is Kevin is Kevin still. When I asked Kevin, what are you going to be selling for me, he said, The only thing that I really have to sell is myself and my word, products are stuff. And ultimately, they're going to buy from me if they trust me, and I have to demonstrate to them, my knowledge, my understanding of what they need, and sell them on the fact that my word is my bond. And I expect that you would have to back me up on that. But everything else is stuff. And I still subscribe to that, that the products aren't really what you're selling, even in the most basic use car name car, or, you know, in a clothing store stuff. Ultimately, they're going to mostly buy from you. Because you have gained their trust, which means you've sold yourself. Melissa Deally  18:09 Right. And I agree with that, actually. And that's very true. And it's good to for you to point that out. Because you're right, that I still have relationships with those clients to this day, because of the strength of the relationships that we built over all of those years and their trust in me. And it was all always their choice to work with me versus someone else, you know, they had that choice to make, because we weren't the only hotel in town. Right? Michael Hingson  18:40 Yeah, it's it is really, ultimately all about us. And when we have that kind of mindset, what we are really doing is adopting a mindset of ongoing analysis. And that is, of course, what you really did. And I think that that's really important, because you are very much involved in analysis. You analyzed a lot of things after you were let go. And so you went into a different kind of sales after September 11 When I was selling for a computer company, and then people started calling and saying would you come and tell your story and tell us what we should learn about September 11. Ultimately, what I realized was that I had the opportunity to sell something a whole lot more basic than computer hardware, and helping people which was still a good thing but helping people make sure their data was secure and and stored and handled okay, but rather, now I got to sell attitudes. I got to sell a whole different kind of concept of being prepared to deal with emergencies on We're standing that blindness isn't the so called disability that they think it is teaching people to have attitudes that say, I can do more than I thought I could. Yep. And that really is as good as it gets. Melissa Deally  20:17 Yeah, I love that. And that's such a positive message that you were able to share out of something that was so horrific. Right. Michael Hingson  20:25 Right. So you went off, and you did a lot of analysis, and you had two daughters who had concussions, but obviously also prove that as a result, they had hard heads, right? Yes. Melissa Deally  20:42 They have both recovered, fully recovered, Michael Hingson  20:45 which is a good thing. So how did you then actually end up being a coach and a healing practitioner and so on? Melissa Deally  20:57 Yeah. So after I realized there was this gap in the model, and it made me wonder what other people did. I actually had people start contacting me, because it is a small town and they knew our story, how often does one household have two concussions, right? And they were calling me and saying, Oh, my husband got a concussion? What do I do? Or I have employers calling me saying, I have an employee with a concussion? How do I bring them back to work. And around the same time a holistic clinic was opening, and I was invited to work in the clinic to help other people that were struggling with concussions recover, and bring that nutritional piece to it that wasn't being addressed by other practitioners, because we have many experts in town when it comes to concussion. But I couldn't get liability insurance to work there because I didn't have any certifications. So I, again, had to decide, do I want to go down this path or not? And I decided that I did. But now I need to get a certification. So I'm thinking life coach, because that had been bouncing around in the back of my head ever since I've been let go. But it hadn't landed. And I thought, Okay, well, now I guess this is the time I need to do this. And I called a friend who was a life coach and said, Hey, you're a life coach, where did you do your training, I need to train to become a life coach. And he said, You don't need to be a life coach, you need to be a health coach. And I went, what, what's that I've never even heard the term health coach before. And I felt like that was just another, you know, drop from the universe for me as it directed my path. And I started searching health coaching courses online, I found one that I absolutely aligned with. And within 10 days, I started that training. And from the moment I started that training, I knew I had landed in my passion. I couldn't get enough of it. I just wanted to study more and more and more. And I started learning things going, Wow, how come I never knew that about my own body? And then why didn't somebody hasn't somebody ever told me this before. And I realized that after all those years in the corporate world and raising kids and being a wife that I just hadn't had time, or then the inclination to do extra learning on my health. And if I didn't know this stuff, there was probably millions of other people out there that didn't know it either. And that maybe I should be making health information more accessible for people. So that was one idea that kind of came out of that. And as I went through my health coaching, I did my life coaching but didn't enjoy it as much. I definitely stuck with the health coaching, then I came across the integrative health practitioner organization. And I love that because now we're using the science of functional medicine labs to understand what's going on inside the body. Because people don't know we obviously can't see inside our body, right, but our body is always trying to work for us, despite what we might be doing to it. But when it's out of balance, that's when we start to have, you know, sickness and disease set in. Or maybe it's, you know, weight gain, et cetera, et cetera. When we know what's going on, when we know where the imbalances are, we can guide the body back into balance by supporting the deficiencies by releasing the toxins because unfortunately, we do live in a toxic world as I learned when I was thinking about myself versus my grandmother, and bring the body back into balance. And when we do that the body takes over and heals itself, because that's what it's designed to do. And so that's the work that I've done for the last three years now is helping people understand the imbalances in their physical body, and how we bring that back into balance. And our modern world has is out of balance because of poor sleep, poor nutrition and high stress. Those are the three big factors. Yep. Michael Hingson  24:56 You have talked about the idea of over blowing trash cans and detoxing. Can you or would you please talk to us about that what what that means, why it's important and what the significance of all that is? Melissa Deally  25:10 Sure. So I like in our liver and kidneys, to the trash cans of our body, they are our detox systems, and try to help us get the toxins out. It's just like overflowing trash cans that you see in a city park, right? The reason our trash cans inside our body are overflowing is because since World War Two, we have had 144,000 manmade chemicals introduced into our environment that are getting inside our body through our waterways, the waterways, airways, we put them on our skin through personal care products we use, they're getting into our body to our food, because of pesticides and herbicides, etc. And as a result, our liver is overloaded. And our and undernourished is what I like to say. So all of these factors that our livers trying to deal with, its tasked with keeping our body clean, cleansing our blood every six minutes, but it was never designed to have to deal with this overload. And at the same time, we have nutrient depleted soil systems as a result of industrial agriculture, and take take take from the land without allowing the land to rejuvenate the nutrients. And if the nutrients aren't in the soil, they're don't grow into our food, then we're not getting them into our body. So our liver is undernourished and overburdened. And as a result, our bodies are struggling with a myriad of symptoms that people are very quick to accept as aging, as seasonal allergies, as genetics. And the reality is, is all the chronic illness that we have in the world today. So much of it, we don't need to have if people understood the importance of detoxing, and helping their body release these toxins. Michael Hingson  27:10 So we live in a world where, at least from my standpoint, I love drinking water. A lot of people don't they drink other things. And you know, there's something to be said for bourbon. But by the same token, we're talking about water. Yeah. So how, how do I deal with that? Because if we're drinking tap water, as you said, there are chemicals introduced. So what do you advise people just to make sure that they always have good glasses of water, Melissa Deally  27:41 get a good filtration system in the house. That's the best way you want to really ensure that you're getting a filtration system that is actually getting out a lot of the heavy metal toxins, some of what you're naturally coming into our water just from water coming down mountains and rocks, etc. As well as the chemical toxins. Berkey filters can be quite good, the Brita filters are pretty useless, they don't do much, Michael Hingson  28:10 or they don't taste that good. Melissa Deally  28:13 Or an actual filtration system that honestly is the is the best thing. And then also to recognize that we can't avoid the toxins anymore in this day and age, but you can choose to do something about them. And that's why I run guided detox programs for people to teach people how to safely detox in a way that's easy. I provide all the recipes, they're delicious. And you know, people don't have to take vacation to do a detox they can do it in their regular everyday life. And it's interesting because in a Vedic medicine, which goes back 6000 years, they still promote detoxification, to this day, Latin American medicine, same thing. Asian culture is still detox to this day. It's only in the western world where it's been forgotten. And we're told just to have a shower or a bath and wash your outer body. And that's enough for good health and good hygiene, but we're completely ignoring our inner body. And we do have to look after our inner body. Because as Hippocrates said, 1000s of years ago, all disease starts in the gut. When we look after the gut, we're boosting our immune system because 70% of our immune system is in our gut, our liver and kidneys are part of our gut. And what we know today through the science of epigenetics is that we have so much more control over our health outcomes than we were led to believe. It used to be that if your parents had such and such a disease that you'd be told you would get it too because of the genetics, but the genetics are actually only five to 10% of the equation. And the other 90 to 95% is actually the lifestyle that you live and what you're putting into your body and How you're looking after your inner body. And when you keep your inner body clean, and you're improving lifestyle habits, that's when you are shifting your health outcomes. And that's where we can eliminate chronic illness. Michael Hingson  30:17 So how do we go about detoxing, doing detoxification? Melissa Deally  30:25 So the way that I teach it is it includes putting the body into a state of something called autophagy, which is I just call it deep cleaning. And that's fasting. So we use a powdered shake, which has all the vitamins and minerals that the body needs in it to be supported and nourished while we don't eat any real food. And so what that allows the body to do is start cleaning house. You see, every time we put food in our mouth, that turns on digestion. And because we need to eat to live, digestion trumps the other system, right. But if we stop for long enough, and don't put food in, and instead, we have a shake with the vitamins and minerals in it, and it's very diluted, and we sip it slowly so that in sipping it, the body can absorb it easily without turning on digestion, we allow the body to go into deep cleaning mode. And the longer we're in it, the more it can do so after about 12 hours, we're in the state of autophagy. And then 24 hours now we're starting to clear up dead, dead cells and damaged cells, and sorry, at 12 hours, and we're getting rid of toxins, right? Then we're getting rid of dead cells and damaged cells. After 36 hours. Now we have the human growth hormone kicking in and starting to regenerate new young, vibrant cells, which give us new vitality and new energy. And then after on day three, now we start having some meals, we're spacing our meals apart, though, so that we can eat the meal and have time for digestion have time for cleaning, before we eat the next meal, instead of just grazing all day long, which has become a real problem through COVID. And everybody at home and the refrigerators just there and we just continue to eat and the body never gets a chance to get into any deep cleaning. And so it can't do the extra work that's needed to help support the liver and the kidneys. And then we use some supplements as well to support the liver and kidneys to. Michael Hingson  32:28 So how do you how do you respond to or what would you say about old products like nutrient systems where when you're trying to lose weight, they have a lot of special food. And they suggest that you eat a number of small meals every day, and shakes. But that what you're doing is you're changing your metabolism. Is that something that's totally contrary to what you talked about during the whole ongoing detox process? Or does it sort of coexist? Or how does that work? Melissa Deally  33:05 I'm not familiar with their program per se. We do need to change people's metabolisms when they're trying to lose weight. And it depends where each individual is at in that journey. Some people when they're trying to lose weight have been you know, roller coaster or yo yo dieting for years and years. And all they know how to do is eat fewer calories and eat fewer calories and eat fewer calories. But while that might sound like it makes sense, if I eat less, I should lose weight. The body is designed to protect itself, and the body doesn't want you to starve it right. And so as you start lowering your calories lower and lower and lower, people will often find Well, I'm not losing weight anymore. And the reason is, is because the body is now holding on to every little bit of morsel of food that you're putting in not knowing when the next morsel is going to come and it doesn't want to starve. And so it's slowing down the metabolism. In order to have that have you tried to feel satiated for longer, right? And to protect itself from starvation and take longer to break down that meal? Will we need to actually be speeding up the metabolism and getting you moving? In order to have you actually lose weight? So again, it's kind of counterintuitive for people and if they're coming from that place, then having smaller meals more often might make sense. But I would be looking Michael Hingson  34:35 really if it's really doing the job of helping to increase your metabolism. Exactly. And yeah, I'm not either yet but I'm starting to learn about it. But it makes sense if if it changes the metabolism. Clearly that's a good thing. Melissa Deally  34:55 There are yes there's other ways we can be changing metabolism as well. little bit, I would be going to first. Michael Hingson  35:03 Yeah, understand, but it is, but it is all about changing habits. It's all about changing mindsets, and it's all about giving the body what it really needs. And the things that you are saying are not magic. And I have heard them many times before. We, I know Karen and I tried to eat in a very healthy way. So we don't eat a lot of fried foods, we don't try to eat any more foods with chemicals than we have to we get food, we get meats and so on from sources where there are not preservatives introduced and things like that, although I'm sure that there are still some chemicals that exist. But still, it's, we do have to eat better. So chips aren't necessary every day. Melissa Deally  35:51 Correct. And I love what you're saying is you're trying to make those healthy choices. But you're also recognizing that you can't do it 100%. So we do the best we can. And then we support the body in helping it to detox to get rid of the rest. And you're right chips aren't needed every single day. I teach the 8020 rule, right. So when people are finished their detox with me, I teach them how not to retox after the detox because that's obviously a really important step. If they've done all of this work, right, and they're feeling good, they don't want to go back to feeling the way they used to feel. And I'd teach them to make it a lifestyle, because you can't just do one detox in your life and think you're good to go. It's you know, do a 21 day detox to start, but quarterly do a seven day detox because the toxins are always coming in. And you need to keep always getting them out, right. And in between, we're living by the 8020 rule, where 80% of the time, you're choosing to eat in a way that nourishes and serves your body, and 20% of the time, okay, maybe that's not the best choice for your health, but you're out with friends, or it's someone's birthday, and you're celebrating a cake or you're watching a hockey game, and there's chips, whatever it is, you can plan around that in your week, because you know, when you're gonna have social things, and you don't have control over your food, and then you know, when you're at home, and you do have control over your food. And when we eat 80% of the time really well. And only 20% of the time we're not eating well, the body can cope with that. And it's not causing undue inflammation on the body and undo breakdown, etc, of cells and, you know, causing ill health. But when we do it the other way around, and 20% of the time we're eating well and 80% of the time we're not and we're living at fast food, joints, et cetera. That is where we're going to, you know, cause the ability to break down. Michael Hingson  37:44 There is something to be said for the concept of Girl Scout Cookie, Thin Mints, however. And we we buy to support the Girl Scouts, but I put them in the freezer, we asked, I usually like to buy a case at a time, which is 12 boxes. Yeah, this year, somehow accidentally, when the order came, it was two cases which is worse. But unfortunately for the Girl Scouts being in the freezer and out of sight, those two cases will probably last us two or three years. Right. And, and it really is a treat, to eat to eat them. Both of us, fortunately, are not snackers, which is great. So we and we eat dinner. And that's basically it. And we sometimes will have dessert and sometimes not. But at the same time, you're right 80% of the time, we should really be eating as healthy as we can and we should be working in a way to keep our systems is free from chemicals and so on as possible. And for us, even 20% is probably high of the other, which is great. Melissa Deally  38:55 Right. And so a couple of things that you've said there, you know, not eating after dinner is really beneficial for the body as well. Because that allows digestion to be completed before you go to bed. Ideally, we want to finish dinner two to three hours before we go to bed. Because when digestion has finished before we go to bed, then the body when you fall asleep can start detoxing. And that's when the body is designed to detox is overnight. But if the body's still in digestion mode because you ate and then went to bed, like within half an hour, the bodies too busy digesting to start detoxing. So you're not getting the same window of detoxing happening overnight. Plus you're not sleeping as well when the body's still in digestion mode, right because that uses energy too. So I just wanted to share that with you. So yeah, keep that up. And then also your comment about Girl Scout thin mint cookies. I know them very well because I'm a girl guide leader here in Canada have been for 17 years now. Both my daughters have funded trips to New York City. You to Europe by selling girl scout cookies among other things. And, and so is interesting because they're in the freezer, they are absolutely delicious. And sometimes when people are buying them, my daughters would give them tips on how to best enjoy them. And we would always be saying put them in the freezer, or maybe you crush them up and serve them over ice cream. I know Dairy Queen, here, the owners had a daughter and Girl Scouts or Girl Guides. And so at one point, they were serving Girl Guide, cookie, Dairy Queen ice cream sundaes and things. But those, they were something that I enjoyed, but I also had them in the freezer. So they were out of sight out in line. And we didn't buy case we buy a box or two, but they would last a long time. And they were very much a treat Michael Hingson  40:49 when we buy a case, because we can afford to do that for the next couple of years. And so it's it's supporting the girls. And I want to do that too. So and that's Melissa Deally  41:00 awesome. And you have many more flavors than we do. You've got like 12 flavors in the States, we just have the the mint slices. And then we have the chocolate vanilla creams in the spring, Michael Hingson  41:09 we get pretty fixated on the Thin Mints. And so that's what Melissa Deally  41:14 you have like 12 flavors there. But just back to our conversation on sales, I just want to say that my younger daughter in particular has developed, she's now at university, but she has developed incredible sales skills because of all of those years of selling girl scout cookies. And my older daughter did a really good job with it as well. And she what I found with her is she got really strategic at the age of five. And she figured out if I stand outside this store right in front of the exit so that people can actually go left or right, and they have to listen to me, I increase my sales. Michael Hingson  41:53 The we have a market near us. And when you go into the market, there's an entryway. And you go into this little kind of area where the carts are stored and so on. And then you go into the store. And the girls have very strategically put themselves right between the two doors. Right? So you can't you can't miss them. Right? And then the really smart ones have learned to say things like, I would really appreciate it if you would buy a box or whatever of cookies as opposed to would you buy a box of cookies? Because the typical answer is going to be no but it is a lot harder, rightfully so to resist, I would appreciate it if you would write. Very sales tip for all the girls listening out there for next Melissa Deally  42:46 year. One of the one time when my daughter really surprised me was somebody came along and she was outside a store and she had her cat blanket over a shopping basket and all the boxes of cookies decorated on top. And they said, Oh no, no, I don't want any cookies. I've bought too many already. I've eaten too many. And when chic. That lady came back out of the store, my daughter said to her, I know that you said you've eaten too many. But how much would your colleagues love it if you took some cookies to work with you tomorrow? There you are. And the lady bought cookies. And then my daughter went on and said, and probably you have some neighbors that would love a gift of a box of cookies. And so she ended up walking away with several boxes of cookies after that, so I thought that was brilliant. She came up with it on her own, I was just standing there for moral support. So as a selling cookies teaches these girls have, you know, a lot. And as we discussed at the very beginning, we are always selling no matter what what stage of life we're in. And so it's a very foundational skill, but they're learning. Michael Hingson  43:58 So tell me a little bit more about deep tax programs. You have detox programs. And I believe that you can go to the store and other places and buy T dot detox programs. How are yours different? How did you get into that? Or where do you get them from love to know more? Melissa Deally  44:15 Yeah, so my detox programs are created by a naturopathic doctor and my mentor who I did my integrative health practitioner training through and they're based on exactly what our physical body needs understanding the fact that we have overburdened and undernourished liver and kidneys. Whereas the programs that you buy in stores very often it's a detox tea, or it might be just a, you know, generic detox program, that if you think of an overflowing trash can, they might scrape off the amount that's overflowing but not actually empty the trash can. Whereas the program that I offer is literally picking Yep, that trash can and emptying it. And it's also guided, because it's very individual. And so I put clients on an app so that they can track how they're doing all of that information flows through to me, so I can support them. If they're struggling, I can cheer those on that are doing well. They have the ability to ask questions of me throughout. I provide recipes, because I want my clients to have that kind of success. And they get that by being supported. When you go and buy a program at the store. You don't have that support. You have to, you know, do it yourself, and how often do we give up on ourselves, right? We don't give up on other people, but we tend to give up on ourselves. So that's the main difference is the accountability piece, the support the guidance to customize it for each individual, because they're coming to it from a different place of health, as well as the fact that it's created by a medical doctor who studied Ayurvedic medicine, Chinese traditional medicine, and naturopathic medicine and taking the best of that to create this program. Michael Hingson  46:03 Of course, the question that one would think of is, oh, gee, this must be pretty expensive. How, how much does it cost? I mean, obviously, no price is too high when you're truly trying to take care of your body. But economics are economics. Melissa Deally  46:19 Exactly. So what is your health worth to you? Right, so the detox kit itself is 269 US dollars for the three weeks, that's not per week, that's for the three weeks, and for six of those days, you're not eating any foods, so you're saving on your grocery bill. So pretty reasonable price for a three week period. And then it depends whether people want to work with me in a group program or a one to one program as to what price point they pay for my services. And as you said, what it comes down to is what is your health worth to you. And while it might be a stretch for some people, when they start out working with me, by the time that they're through the detox program, they are so ecstatic by the results they've had, how much better they're feeling that they're telling me that I should be charging three times what I'm charging. So Michael Hingson  47:09 I will also bet that for those who are interested in it, and are concerned about doing it, you will also lose weight from it. Or most likely you will Melissa Deally  47:24 you absolutely you will, it starts the weight loss process for people in a really healthy, natural way. Because those toxins weigh something. And at the same time, I'm teaching about digestion, I'm teaching about eating the right way for your body and understanding nutritional myths and supplements. I'm teaching about sugar, where it's sneaking into your diet, et cetera, et cetera. And then as I said, how not to retox after your detox. So it starts the weight loss journey, that people then have the skills and the ability to maintain beyond the end of the program. And I put them into a detox grad membership program for people that do my group program with me and get all of this learning so that they can have monthly calls with me just to get their questions answered. And there's no charge for that. It's because I want to allow them to continue stepping into this choice of living healthy and improving their health and be connected to a community of like minded people. Michael Hingson  48:26 What do you like best about what you're doing now? You obviously you're very enthused about it, what, what really stands out to you about what you're doing now. Melissa Deally  48:35 I absolutely love seeing the results my clients get it is so fulfilling for me. And it brings me such joy from whether it's detox clients that are ecstatic that their, you know, long standing pain has gone away that they're sleeping like they've never slept before they wake up with energy, like all of those are big wins for people in our busy life. Right, too. You know, recently I had a client who suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome for 40 years, and tried to get help from various doctors along the way. And then was referred to me by a mutual friend. And I suggested we run lab tests and see, you know, where her imbalances were. And she did that because she'd never been offered that before. And I suspected that there was probably some heavy metal toxin issues going on. And sure enough, there were and we started resolving that right away. I could see where her mitochondria levels were at. And you know, there are energy powerhouses, if they're not functioning properly, it's hard to have energy so we're able to support that I could see where her cortisol levels were, and why she was sleeping at such odd hours. Not to mention something as simple as blue light blocking glasses helped her sleep better. So all of these things that we implemented together just within two weeks of are starting my wellness protocol, she messaged me and said, I can't remember feeling this good. You've just given me 40 years of my life back. And I spent the last three days sewing a new quilt and pillowcases for our bed. And I work nine and 10 hour days. And I haven't been able to do that in 40 years. And messages like that just melt my heart, because I love those stories. Michael Hingson  50:24 You mentioned lab tests. So how does that work? Because you do everything virtually right? Melissa Deally  50:28 I do. And so the lab tests get mailed to people's homes, with the instructions on how to complete them. And then they mail them back to the labs and I get the results. And we review the results over zoom. And I write the wellness protocol for you. And I continue with a minimum of three follow up sessions. So we never just do one session. Again, that was a little bit of a gap in the market that I saw, it's great for people to be told what to do, but then do they actually go and do it. Right? Sometimes we already know what we need to do, and we're not doing it. So by having multiple follow up sessions, people are much more inclined to actually take action, follow the protocols, they know they can check in with me in between if they have questions, etc. And again, that support keeps people on track and gets them the results they're looking for. Michael Hingson  51:21 So do you ever tell people to get the lab tests? And to do it right, go to the doctor's office? Are your tests the same? Are they different or what? Melissa Deally  51:30 They're different. So the regular medical doctors don't have access to these, these are functional medicine lab tests. And I don't ever send anybody to a clinic, they literally get mailed to their home. And they're either a urine test saliva test, blood test or clipping of hair from the nape of the neck. And the blood test isn't a blood draw like you do at the doctor's office is literally prick your finger, and then let drops of blood fall down onto a card. And then you let the card dry. And you nail that off to the lab. So it's very easy for people to do their own labs at home. And they get very different information to what they've ever seen before. So they're powerful labs. Michael Hingson  52:11 Which is, which is pretty cool, huh? Melissa Deally  52:14 Yeah. So in terms of some of the information that people can get, as I said, we can assess for heavy metal toxins in the body, we can assess for mineral levels in the body, which is really important because in our stressed out world, we burn through our minerals when we're under stress, and then we become deficient. And then the body is you know, out of balance and can't bring itself back as we talked about earlier. And it also shows our mineral imbalances. So not only do we need to be deficient across the board with our minerals, but they need to be imbalanced with each other. There's another lab that shows if we have Candida, or bacterial overgrowth in our gut, mold or fungus, and it shows our neurotransmitter levels, because of the gut brain connection, it shows our vitamin levels, another lab shows our inflammation levels, people know or have heard that inflammation is the trigger of disease, it's not the root cause the root cause triggers that inflammation, and then that ongoing inflammation can trigger cells to turn on disease. But this test will assess our inflammation levels. So we know what's our risk, and can we bring our inflammation levels down. And when we know what they are, we absolutely can do that. Another lab looks at all of our hormones very, very important. Our sex hormones, or cortisol levels, or thyroid, insulin levels, vitamin D, and they're all interconnected. So having all of that in one lab is very powerful. And we can do food sensitivity labs. And then we can also do stool labs looking for parasites, h pylori, and all that kind of fun stuff that people don't want to talk about or know about. But there are reality, even in North America, they're not just developing country problems. Michael Hingson  53:58 The the idea of, of doing a lot of these tests certainly must give you absolutely quantifiable information, then, as you pointed out earlier, you're a numbers person. So that probably gives you a good base then for helping people understand what they really need to do. And I would assume that for the most part, people accept that unless they're just incredibly skeptical and don't trust anything. Melissa Deally  54:24 Usually those people don't buy the labs in the first place. And I've had some of those people and they question it and they go to their doctor, and their doctor will tell them that there's no validity in any of those labs. And that's fine. Like I'm not holding a gun to anybody's head, but for the people that are looking for answers or that really want to prioritize their health, that, you know, I always offer a discovery call to understand what their goals are, and I can show them what the lab results look like so they can get an idea of what they're going to get. And when people jump in and do the labs. They're excited to get their results and most of the time They're also excited to take action, because they want to feel better. And they've already done their detox with me at that point, because I start everybody with a detox. And they already know they're feeling better. And now they just want to continue that journey. And the reason I start everyone with the detox is a the reality we live in a toxic world and be, there's no point me giving someone a healing protocol, where they haven't done the detox and cleared out their pathways, because the healing protocol isn't all going to get to the cells that need it. If we clear out the pathways, it will, and then they get much faster results. It's kind of like that overflowing trashcan, again, it will stick an apple on the top, it's healthy, and you want it to get down inside the trashcan, if you put it on the top of an overflowing trash can, it doesn't go down inside, it just falls on the ground on the side doesn't get where we want it to go. Michael Hingson  55:49 And you really you're really passionate about what you do. Were you ever this passionate when you had a career working in the hotel industry and so on. You Melissa Deally  56:00 know, I absolutely loved that career as well. But it was a different kind of passion. And I, this passion that I have now about what I do is far greater simply because there is more fulfillment from it. Because I am changing lives, I am helping, you know, make the world a better place. Michael Hingson  56:22 So what would you say to people that have encountered an unexpected thing in their life, a change some experience that they didn't expect? What would you say to help them become more of a mindset of feeling unstoppable, and being able to move on? Melissa Deally  56:45 I would definitely encourage them to step back. And to as hard as it is, in the moment, to just keep reminding yourself, everything happens for us, not to us. And as I walk this path that will become apparent to me as to why this has happened. I don't know the answer right now. But to know that there's a reason. But when I look back with 2020 hindsight, I'm going to actually appreciate that this happened. And when we can bring ourselves into that headspace, we can release the regret, we can release beating ourselves up, we can release the sadness and the anger. And we get to move forward as opposed to staying stuck in our misery. Michael Hingson  57:42 One of the things that I would add, I think the one major thing I would add to that is, when something unexpected happens, we worry about all sorts of things, we sometimes let our mind go in different directions. And I advise people don't worry about the things that you can't control, it will only stress you out, focus on the things you can, and the rest will take care of itself. And if you read thunder dog, if you get thunder dog, we talk a lot about that, because that's a major part of my experience in the World Trade Center. And recognizing that we have to focus on what we can control and not worry about the rest. Melissa Deally  58:20 That is so very true. And I agree 100%. And at the start of the pandemic, I was doing daily meditations and just some learning for people. And that was one of the first lessons that I was teaching is to let go of what you can't control. Stop worrying about all the unknowns, and focus on what you can control. And when you bring yourself down into that space, again, you can release a lot of external stress. Michael Hingson  58:48 What final things would you like to say to people, we're going to have to wrap this up? But do you have any final words that you would like people to remember when when we end this? Melissa Deally  58:59 Sure i i would love people to remember the power of their mind. And their mindset and the way that they talk to themselves impacts their outcomes. And to think about how you talk to yourself and ask yourself if you talk to your best friend that way would they be your best friend. And if not, start talking to yourself as if you were someone that you love. And as you start to do that, life improves. And the other piece of that that I want people to know is that you can be empowered in your health. And if you're feeling that you're not, then definitely seek out practitioners that will help you get to that place of empowerment. Michael Hingson  59:50 There's nothing wrong with using coaches coaches are to guide and to help teach they don't solve problems, but they're great teachers. Melissa Deally  59:58 Exactly. We don't do it for you Are we guide? Michael Hingson  1:00:00 Well, Melissa Deally welcome, or thank you very much for being here and welcome, everyone to Melissa's world. I hope that you've enjoyed this. I really have learned a lot and greatly appreciate the advice and suggestions that you brought us. And I hope that we get to do this again soon. Melissa Deally  1:00:23 Well, thank you so much for having me, I really appreciate the opportunity to share this message and start changing the global the health of our global community and improving it for the better. Michael Hingson  1:00:35 So if people want to reach out to you and learn about the courses that you teach and the programs that you have, and how to take advantage of them, how do they do that? Melissa Deally  1:00:46 Best place to go is my website, which is yourguidedhealthjourney.com. And people can book a complimentary call with me if they would like to discuss their health goals, they can also find my discover your toxic load quiz on my website, as well and take the quiz to figure out how toxic you are. And don't be shocked if the score is high. It's great to know that because then you know that you can bring it down. Michael Hingson  1:01:13 You see though the website one more time, Melissa Deally  1:01:15 yourguidedhealthjourney.com Michael Hingson  1:01:19 There you go. Well, Melissa, thanks very much. And I want to thank you for listening to us today. Please give us a five star rating. I think that what Melissa brought us in the way of a message deserves that. And I hope you do as well. So we'd love a five star rating. We'd love you to reach out and let me know what you think of our episode today and unstoppable mindset in general. 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Melissa was in the corporate world for 24 years and 7 years ago she was let go. She was given no word of thanks and 1 hour to clear out her desk. When big fish bought little fish. That is when she decided to never work for anyone again. Her oldest daughter ended up with a concussion. Held her accountable to her goals. 2 months later her younger daughter had a concussion. People that are trying to recover from something. When they are in the thick of it. They are in a stress state. The body can't heal in that state. She is all about helping people get to the root cause of their health concerns and bring the body back into balance. This episode also covered : 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with thyroid disease Her Podcast- Don't Wait For Your Wake-Up Call What can we do for are hormone health? Testing your hormones levels with salvia tests Melissa Deal is an Integrative Health Practitioner & Registered Health Coach, dedicated to helping her clients discover the root cause of their health issues and truly heal. Melissa's business is 100% virtual, and she works with the entire English-speaking world. Melissa uses a 2 prong approach: 1) Discover your toxic load and lower it 2) Discover your body's imbalances and then guides you on bringing your body back into balance, at which point it will heal itself. This is done through the use of a Functional Medicine lab test, mailed to your home! Melissa offers a very high level of support, to ensure her clients' success, as we navigate the path of bringing the body back into balance while creating new lifestyle habits to ensure lasting results. Melissa is the winner of the Alignable 2022 Local Business Person Of The Year Award for Whistler and the 2021 Quality Care Award by Businesses From The Heart. Melissa is also the host of the “Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” podcast, a podcast offering practical education around health, which ranked in the top 5% of Global podcasts by Listen Notes in the first 3 months of launching. When not serving her clients, Melissa can be found on her paddle board or backcountry hiking& camping with her daughter(s) or downhill skiing or cross country skiing, or planning her next trip for her Girl Guides (Girl Scout) unit or working on her passion project, Girls Matter, helping keep girls in school in Uganda, breaking the poverty cycle, one girl, one family, one village at a time. Link to my Discover Your Toxic Load Quiz: https://welcome.yourguidedhealthjourney.com/yourtoxicload Contact: Email: melissa@yourguidedhealthjourney.com Website: https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/detox-programs/ Fb: https://www.facebook.com/melissa.deally/ LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissadeally/ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/guidedhealthjourney/ Podcast: “Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” Podcast https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/podcast About the Host - Amanda Elise Love is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist who teaches women how to cook simple but delicious allergy-friendly healthy meals and to integrate a holistic approach through mind, body, and spirit. Amanda also has a long history of illness which culminated with the diagnosis of Fibromyalgia at the age of 20 in 2010. Which caused debilitating pain and other aspects of her life because of this, she made it her life mission to teach others how to cook allergy-friendly food and lead a holistic life. She holds a diploma as a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, and certifications in gut health, culinary nutrition, and more. Join the Cooking with Love Facebook Group: https://bit.ly/3y67neb (https://bit.ly/3y67neb)  Connect with Amanda on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amandaeliselove/ (https://www.instagram.com/amandaeliselove/) 

Lisa Masé is a Board Certified Nutritionist, Registered Health Coach, herbalist, and intuitive eating guide in central Vermont and beyond. In this episode, Lisa discusses: How we all have the power to heal ourselves with food How she healed herself after a decade of chronic parasites, anxiety and depression, an eating disorder, infertility, and food allergies Living in Italy as a child and the culture shock she experienced moving to the U.S. as a teen Her time in Indonesia Starting a textile export business in Bali to assist the indigenous community  Her studies and exploration of the relationship between linguistics and food Food and emotions Food and heritage Her philosophy regarding nutrition Intuitive eating The resiliency of a healthy digestive system Sugar How she works with clients The value of doing a simple nutritional reset Blue zones Food and mental health Orthorexia  Lisa's website: https://harmonizedcookery.com/Find cool totem animal, cosmic, psychedelic t-shirts, blank notebooks and journals at the Lucid Path Etsy Shop! https://www.etsy.com/shop/LucidPathLucid Cafe episodes by topic: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/lucid-cafe-podcastListen to Lucid Cafe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSseC4eLwkov3lFSZVkYDYATo contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/★ Support this podcast ★

Melissa Deally is an Integrative Health Practitioner & Registered Health Coach, dedicated to helping her clients discover the root cause of their health issue and truly heal. She shares protocols on how to remove unwanted subcutaneous injected material. Melissa's business is 100% virtual, and she works with the entire English-speaking world. Melissa uses a 2 prong approach: 1) Discover your toxic load and lower it 2) Discover your body's imbalances and then guide you on bringing your body back into balance, at which point it will heal itself. This is done through the use of Functional Medicine lab tests, mailed to your home! Melissa offers a very high level of support, to ensure her clients' success, as we navigate the path bringing the body back into balance, while creating new lifestyle habits to ensure lasting results. Melissa is the winner of the Alignable 2022 Local Business Person Of The Year Award for Whistler and the 2021 Quality Care Award by Businesses From The Heart. Melissa is also the host of the “Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” podcast, a podcast offering practical education around health, which ranked in the top 5% of Global podcasts by Listen Notes in the first 3 months of launching. When not serving her clients, Melissa can be found on her paddle board, or backcountry hiking & camping with her daughter(s) or downhill skiing or cross country skiing, or planning her next trip for her Girl Guides (Girl Scout) unit or working on her passion project, Girls Matter, helping keep girls in school in Uganda, breaking the poverty cycle, one girl, one family, one village at a time. https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/Support the show

Join me as I speak with Melissa Deally, health empowerment crusade, coach, podcast host, and speaker. Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner & Registered Health Coach, and she is dedicated to helping her clients discover the root cause of their health issues and truly heal. As you listen to this episode notice how Melissa has taken so many of the challenges in her life and used them as fuel to discover and create a business that is completely driven by her curiosity and passion.   Featured on This Show:https://candy-motzek.mykajabi.com/work-with-me (Click here to find out how to work with me) Your Guided Health Journey, Melissa Deally: https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/ (https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/) https://bit.ly/mytoxicload (Discover Your Toxic Load Quiz)

Nicole Borghi and Beverly Zeimet Interview Melissa Deally Melissa Deally is an Integrative Health Practitioner & Registered Health Coach, and trained in NLP, Time Line Therapy and Hypnotherapy. She's dedicated to helping her clients discover the root cause of their health issue and truly heal. Melissa's business is 100% virtual, and she works with the entire English speaking world. Melissa uses a 2 prong approach: 1) Discover your toxic load and lower it 2) Discover your body's imbalances and then guides you on bringing your body back into balance, at which point it will heal itself. This is done with Functional Medicine lab tests, mailed to your home! Melissa offers a very high level of support, to ensure her clients' success, as we navigate the path bringing the body back into balance, while creating new lifestyle habits to ensure lasting results. Melissa is the winner of the Alignable 2022 Local Business Person Of The Year Award for Whistler and the 2021 Quality Care Award by Businesses From The Heart. Melissa is also the host of the “Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” podcast, an podcast offering practical education around health, which ranked in the top 5% of Global podcasts by Listen Notes in the first 3 months of launching. When not serving her clients, Melissa can be found on her paddle board, or backcountry hiking & camping with her daughter(s) or downhill skiing or cross country skiing, or planning her next trip for her Girl Guides (Girl Scout) unit or working on her passion project, Girls Matter, helping keep girls in school in Uganda, breaking the poverty cycle, one girl, one family, one village at a time. Link to my Discover Your Toxic Load Quiz: https://welcome.yourguidedhealthjourney.com/yourtoxicload Contact Melissa: Email: melissa@yourguidedhealthjourney.com Website: https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/detox-programs/ Facebook @melissa.deally Linkedin @melissadeally Instagram @guidedhealthjourney Podcast: “Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” Podcast https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/podcast Hit the LIKE & Smash the SUBSCRIBE!!! Find us Facebook @wisdomspeakspodcast Rumble @360Media Odysee @360wisdomspeaks When you visit our sponsors it helps us create more content. Sponsors: 360 Media Advertisement https://calendly.com/nborghi/360advertise Frequency-https://www.healy.shop/en/partner/?partnername=sabotagesmasher Virtual Reality & Real Estate-Metaverus https://rhinoxrstudios.idevaffiliate.com/1071.html --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/360wisdomspeaks/support

Nicole Borghi and Beverly Zeimet Interview Melissa Deally Melissa Deally is an Integrative Health Practitioner & Registered Health Coach, and trained in NLP, Time Line Therapy and Hypnotherapy. She's dedicated to helping her clients discover the root cause of their health issue and truly heal. Melissa's business is 100% virtual, and she works with the entire English speaking world. Melissa uses a 2 prong approach: 1) Discover your toxic load and lower it 2) Discover your body's imbalances and then guides you on bringing your body back into balance, at which point it will heal itself. This is done with Functional Medicine lab tests, mailed to your home! Melissa offers a very high level of support, to ensure her clients' success, as we navigate the path bringing the body back into balance, while creating new lifestyle habits to ensure lasting results. Melissa is the winner of the Alignable 2022 Local Business Person Of The Year Award for Whistler and the 2021 Quality Care Award by Businesses From The Heart. Melissa is also the host of the “Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” podcast, an podcast offering practical education around health, which ranked in the top 5% of Global podcasts by Listen Notes in the first 3 months of launching. When not serving her clients, Melissa can be found on her paddle board, or backcountry hiking & camping with her daughter(s) or downhill skiing or cross country skiing, or planning her next trip for her Girl Guides (Girl Scout) unit or working on her passion project, Girls Matter, helping keep girls in school in Uganda, breaking the poverty cycle, one girl, one family, one village at a time. Link to my Discover Your Toxic Load Quiz: https://welcome.yourguidedhealthjourney.com/yourtoxicload Contact Melissa: Email: melissa@yourguidedhealthjourney.com Website: https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/detox-programs/ Facebook @melissa.deally Linkedin @melissadeally Instagram @guidedhealthjourney Podcast: “Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” Podcast https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/podcast Hit the LIKE & Smash the SUBSCRIBE!!! Find us Facebook @wisdomspeakspodcast Rumble @360Media Odysee @360wisdomspeaks When you visit our sponsors it helps us create more content. Sponsors: 360 Media Advertisement https://calendly.com/nborghi/360advertise Virtual Reality & Real Estate-Metaverus https://rhinoxrstudios.idevaffiliate.com/1071.html Frequency-https://www.healy.shop/en/partner/?partnername=sabotagesmasher --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/360wisdomspeaks/support

Do you want to discover your toxic load and lower it, and discover your body’s imbalances and then bring your body back into balance, at which point it will heal itself. This week on My Dead Dragon, Katherine is joined by Melissa Deally, an Integrative Health Practitioner & Registered Health Coach, dedicated to helping her clients discover the root cause of their health issue and truly heal. She tells her story of starting Your Guided Health Journey. KEY TAKEAWAYS Melissa compared the life of her Grandmother to hers. Her Grandmother was born in 1916, in New Zealand, growing all her own food. Melissa grew up in Tokyo in the 1970s, the height of manufacturing plants spewing out toxins. Her Grandmother lived in her own home and died in her sleep at 101, whereas in the US today, people die over 10 years in a nursing home. When we know the imbalances, deficiencies, and the toxic load in our bodies, then we know exactly how to remove them and bring the body back into balance because the body is designed to heal itself. When one door closes another one opens. You have to have the right mindset and choose to step past that and through the new door. There are so many little steps we need to take on our journey, and our journey isn’t always a straight line, it zigzags. Making connections and learning from others is a great way to grow as a person and move towards your goals while being supported. BEST MOMENTS ‘Wow, I’m over 40 years old and I never knew this about my body’ ‘I landed in a place of passion and purpose’ ‘I burned the boats and I wasn’t going back’ ‘I embrace the learning’ EPISODE RESOURCES Newsletter Sign Up Link https://katalystcoaching.kartra.com/page/subscribeFree Downloadable Vision Mediation Link https://katalystcoaching.kartra.com/page/FreeMeditationhttps://www.facebook.com/melissa.deally/ https://www.instagram.com/guidedhealthjourney/https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissadeally/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTYG85CdWUA5MZ0NDCs-Z3Q/videoshttps://yourguidedhealthjourney.com Free gift: Discover Your Toxic Load: https://welcome.yourguidedhealthjourney.com/yourtoxicloadBooks mentioned: The Mindset, Thinking Grow Rich, Atomic Habits, The Universe Has your Back ABOUT THE GUEST Melissa Deally is an Integrative Health Practitioner & Registered Health Coach, dedicated to helping her clients discover the root cause of their health issue and truly heal. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual, and she works with the entire English speaking world. Melissa uses a 2 prong approach: 1) Discover your toxic load and lower it 2) Discover your body’s imbalances and then guide you on bringing your body back into balance, at which point it will heal itself. This is done through the use of Functional Medicine lab tests, mailed to your home! Melissa offers a very high level of support, to ensure her clients’ success, as we...

Melissa worked in the Corporate world for 24 years, until one day big fish bought little fish and she was given an hour to clear out her desk and no word of thanks. This led Melissa on a journey to re-invent herself and 7 years later she is an Integrative Health Practitioner & Registered Health Coach, dedicated to helping her clients discover the root cause of their health issue and truly heal. But it wasn't always that way. Melissa's business is 100% virtual, and she works with the entire English speaking world. Melissa uses a 2 prong approach: 1) Discover your toxic load and lower it 2) Discover your body's imbalances and support them with natural supplements and herbs so the body can come back into balance, at which point it will heal itself. This is done through the use of Functional Medicine lab tests, mailed to your home! Melissa offers a very high level of support, to ensure her clients' success, as we navigate the path bringing the body back into balance, while creating new lifestyle habits to ensure lasting results. Melissa is the winner of the Alignable 2022 Local Business Person Of The Year Award for Whistler and the 2021 Quality Care Award by Businesses From The Heart, and has been featured in Brainz Magazine, Pursuit 365, and Fresh Magazine, featuring 365 Canadian Women who lead by example in the every-day pursuit of success, happiness, and achievement. Melissa is also the host of the “Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” podcast, an podcast offering practical education around health, which ranked in the top 5% of Global podcasts by Listen Notes in the first 3 months of launching. When not serving her clients, Melissa can be found on her paddle board, or backcountry hiking & camping with her daughter(s) or downhill skiing or cross country skiing, or planning her next trip for her Girl Guides (Girl Scout) unit or working on her passion project, Girls Matter, helping keep girls in school in Uganda, breaking the poverty cycle, one girl, one family, one village at a time. www.yourguidedhealthjourney.com https://bit.ly/mytoxicload (https://bit.ly/mytoxicload) melissa@yourguidedhealthjourney.com Mentioned in this episode: Network without talking to strangers Did you know that you can network without ever talking to a stranger? It's true. Networking is not about awkward conversations and elevator pitches. It is about making connections and creating value. I'll teach you how in a two minute video at https://www.guywhoknowsaguy.com/innercircle Get my MP3 I have recorded my book in audio form. Get your copy for free at https://www.guywhoknowsaguy.com

In today's episode, I interview Melissa Deally an Integrative Health Practitioner and Health Coach who believes that most of us have been raised to not prioritize our health. Melissa is on a mission to educate people about their health so they start to look at their health as their greatest asset. By prioritizing our health, we find the energy to do the things we love so we can continue to do them for a very long time.  Highlight's from this episode: Shocking stats - living longer but not living better  Toxin overload in the body - malnutrition in first world countries Making the mind shift to health is wealth The power of talking back to yourself to make that shift Treating your body as the precious asset it is 90 - 95% of disease is based on lifestyle choices, not genetics Health Hack - hydration - how much you should consume About Our Guest Melissa Deally Melissa Deally is an Integrative Health Practitioner & Registered Health Coach, dedicated to helping her clients discover the root cause of their health issues and truly heal. Melissa's business is 100% virtual, and she works with the entire English-speaking world. Melissa uses a 2 prong approach: 1) Discover your toxic load and lower it 2) Discover your body's imbalances and support them with natural supplements and herbs so the body can come back into balance, at which point it will heal itself. This is done through the use of Functional Medicine lab tests, mailed to your home!  Melissa is the winner of the Alignable 2022 Local Business Person Of The Year Award for Whistler and the 2021 Quality Care Award by Businesses From The Heart and has been featured in Brainz Magazine, Pursuit 365, and https://freshmag.ca/pursuit-365-day-108-melissa-deally/ (Fresh Magazine), featuring 365 Canadian Women who lead by example in the every-day pursuit of success, happiness, and achievement. Melissa is also the host of the “https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/podcast (Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!)” podcast..    Link to my Discover Your Toxic  Load Quiz: https://welcome.yourguidedhealthjourney.com/yourtoxicload (https://welcome.yourguidedhealthjourney.com/yourtoxicload)  Contact:  Email: melissa@yourguidedhealthjourney.com Website: https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/detox-programs/ (https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/detox-programs/) Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/Guidedhealthjourney (https://www.facebook.com/Guidedhealthjourney) Linkedin:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissadeally/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissadeally/) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/guidedhealthjourney/ (https://www.instagram.com/guidedhealthjourney/) Podcast:  “Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” Podcast https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/podcast (https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/podcast) Thanks for listening! If you want to learn more about what I teach around finding clarity and creating a life you love full of purpose, passion, and joy, I encourage you to join our community at Joyful Inspired Living. Here's the link: http://www.joyfuljourney.ca/ (http://www.joyfuljourney.ca/) About your host: I'm your host, Anita Adams, an award-winning leader and the founder of Joyful Inspired Living, an organization dedicated to teaching people how to access their highest most authentic selves so they can find clarity and create a life of purpose, passion, and joy. In addition to hosting the Joyful Journey Podcast, I offer retreats, both live and online, and private coaching programs to further guide my clients on their journey to their highest selves. Leave us a review We truly appreciate your ratings and reviews, which help others find us so we can reach more people with our message and ultimately bring more joy into the world. If you have a minute, an honest review on iTunes goes a long way! Thank You!! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get...

Melissa Deally is an Integrative Health Practitioner & Registered Health Coach, dedicated to helping her clients get to the root cause of their health issue and truly heal. She uses a 2 prong approach to discover your toxic load and lower it and discover your body's imbalances and support them with natural supplements and herbs so the body can come back into balance.In this episode, she gives us a detailed dive into what foods altar our mood, what sugar is doing to your body, and the sleep-energy-food connection.Melissa is  the host of the “Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” podcast, offering practical education around health, which ranked in the top 5% of Global podcasts by Listen Notes in the first 3 months of launching. Take the Discover Your Toxic  Load Quiz: https://welcome.yourguidedhealthjourney.com/yourtoxicloadContact Melissa: Email: melissa@yourguidedhealthjourney.comWebsite: https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/detox-programs/Fb:  https://www.facebook.com/GuidedhealthjourneyLI:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissadeally/Insta: https://www.instagram.com/guidedhealthjourney/Podcast:  “Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” Podcast https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/podcastAre you coming to Win the Food Fight Live?!Discover how to lose the next, stubborn 15lbs with EASE and SPEED in a fun 1/2 day workshop. It's me and you LIVE in a life-changing event that will give you the tools you need to be 100% done fighting with food.Register today so you won't miss it!Register at: https://www.winthefoodfightlive.com/The event is only $17.  PLUS, when you register in January, get over $700 worth of bonuses by upgrading for the VIP pass for FREE!!  Can't wait to see you there!!Join the Win the Food Fight Facebook Community!!Wanna come hang out?  If you're interested in LIVE interaction with myself and other plant-based eaters in a non-sales-y space, join us in the Win the Food Fight Group for our regular, Virtual Garden Parties -You'll connect with like-minded plant eating enthusiasts to bond, build each other up and blast through barriers!I'll see you there!https://facebook.com/groups/winthefoodfightchampionTo learn more about our programs and get coached by Michele, visit: https://michelevilseck.com

Connie's motivational quote for today is by – Kierra C.T. Banks, “Health is the new wealth!”   YouTube: https://youtu.be/gFwuP8vCOs8   Check Out These Highlights: My parents are 91 and 92 and in relatively good health given their ages.  I believe that their good health is a result of them not taking any medications through the years.  My sister is a pharmacist and sees people with varying levels of health in all age groups.  She often tells my parents that not taking medication for every ailment they have had through the years is serving them well today.   I think as a society we have been raised to believe that when we get sick and go to the doctor, the doctor will provide the medicine necessary to help us feel better.  Has this caused us to not be proactive in caring for our physical well-being?      Our health is our greatest asset, without it, we can't build our business, raise our family, earn an income, live our purpose, and yet I think many of us have taken it for granted.  Where do you fall within this topic?   The objective of today's conversation is to inspire you to change your perspective on your health, stop accepting symptoms as normal, recognize that symptoms are your body talking to you, asking you to do something different, and my guest, Melissa Dealy, can help you get to the root cause of your health issue, and truly heal instead of masking symptoms with drugs.   About Melissa Deally: Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner, Registered Health Coach, Speaker, and host of her “Don't Wait for Your Wake Up Call!” podcast. Melissa's business is 100% virtual and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don't have to figure it all out on your own.   Melissa has a 2-pronged approach to working with you that ensures we get to the root cause of your health issues, by using functional medicine lab tests that help you “see inside” your body to know exactly what is going on, and then we know exactly what to do about it!   How to Get in Touch With Melissa Deally: Email:   melissa@yourguidedhealthjourney.com Website:  https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/ Discover Your Toxic Load Quiz:  https://bit.ly/mytoxicload   Stalk me online! Enlightenment of Change Facebook group: tinyurl.com/EOCFacebookGroup   Website:  https://whitmanassoc.com   Connie's #1 International Bestseller Book - ESP (Easy Sales Process): 7-Step to Sales Success:  https://whitmanassoc.com/resources/   Download Free Communication Style Assessment:  www.whitmanassoc.com/csa   Subscribe and listen to Enlightenment of Change podcast on your favorite podcast streaming service or on YouTube.  New episodes post every week - listen to Connie dive into new sales and business topics or problems you may have in your business.  

Melissa is a registered health coach and an integrated health practitioner. Originally employed as a business executive in the hotel industry, getting let go when big fish bought little fish and then the reality of both daughters suffering concussions from sports injuries caused her to reassess priorities and refocus on a different journey; one that has led her to her current work. As the quote on the banner that sits behind her in her home office reminds us “Health isn't everything but without it, everything else is nothing.” Helping others improve their health journeys has become her life's passion and purpose. And it shows! Words like new found energy, gut health, and dealing with brain fogginess certainly caught my attention! A recent winner of the Quality Care Award, Melissa shares her wisdom through her podcast Don't Wait for Your Wakeup Call!, her YouTube channel Your Guided Health Journey, and the programs she offers. She joins us today to share some of those invaluable health tips; tips meant to help each of us on our own health journeys. About the Guest – Melissa DeallyMelissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner, Registered Health Coach, Speaker, and host of her podcast Don't Wait for Your Wake Up Call and her YouTube channel Your Guided Health Journey. Melissa works with her clients to better understand what might be creating health challenges. She helps get to the cause of the health issue and then creates a personalized program - a guided journey back to a vibrant, thriving, perfectly balanced state of wellbeing, mind, body, and soul – an attainable goal well worth every effort to achieve. As Melissa notes, this elemental wellbeing is our birthright, deeply foundational to everything we could ever want in life, the solution to most if not all of the problems we are experiencing on every level. She asks, “Do you keep getting told nothing is wrong with you or that they don't know what is wrong with you?” or are you “Tired of the only option being offered is a drug that you have to take for the rest of your life?”. She shares “Well that was me….my migraines had become so frequent, and all my doctor offered was more drugs. I wanted to know WHY my migraines were suddenly more frequent. When I turned to holistic health, I was able to do a lab test that showed my hormones out of balance. When I fixed that, my migraines went away.” And, “When my 6-year-old daughter got tummy aches every day, I was told ‘all little girls get tummy aches, she'll grow out of it' except there was no answer as to how long that would take. Again, I turned to functional medicine labs, and learned she was intolerant to gluten and dairy, so we removed those and voila! The tummy aches were gone!”Melissa's experiences taught her that there are often answers that traditionalmedicine doesn't provide. There are other solutions, and now, as an integrativehealth practitioner, she helps many people who are struggling and looking foranother way.Some of the common challenges she can help with are:➤ Getting to the root cause of your health issues➤ Removing toxicities➤ Boosting deficiencies to help your body come back into balance so that it canheal itself, and give you newfound energy, and a renewed joy of life.She uses functional medicine labs that get mailed to your home and help"see" what is going on inside your body and then provides a personalwellness protocol to guide your healing journey.We haven't been taught the importance of managing stress, optimizing sleep, orwhat we put in our mouths.AND - we have a food industry that doesn't care about our health and a healthindustry that doesn't care about our...

Join Jen + Jane with their guest, Integrative Health Coach Melissa Deally as they discuss the power of owning your health journey from head to toe. From the value of an Integrative Health approach to figuring out what a toxic load on the body can mean, the conversation dives into the value of investing in your health at the front end, rather than waiting for a wake-up call that may have more serious and long-lasting implications.Guest Bio:Melissa Deally is an Integrative Health Practitioner & Registered Health Coach, dedicated to helping her clients get to the root cause of their health issues and truly heal. Melissa offers a very high level of support to ensure her clients' success, navigating the path of bringing the body back into balance, while creating new lifestyle habits to ensure lasting results. When not serving her clients, Melissa can be found on her paddleboard, or backcountry hiking & camping with her daughter(s) or downhill skiing or cross country skiing, or planning her next trip for her Girl Guides (Girl Scout) unit (service trip to Thailand in March 2022 if borders re-open!) or working on her passion project, Girls Matter, helping keep girls in school in Uganda, breaking the poverty cycle, one girl, one family, one village at a time. Email: melissa@yourguidedhealthjourney.comWebsite: https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/detox-programs/Fb: https://www.facebook.com/GuidedhealthjourneyLI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissadeally/Insta: https://www.instagram.com/guidedhealthjourney/Podcast: “Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” Podcast https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/podcastAdditional Resources/Reading:Take Melissa's Toxic Load Quiz: https://welcome.yourguidedhealthjourney.com/yourtoxicload Disclaimer:On the No Halos Here Podcast, we explore a wide range of topics broadly categorized as well-being. We encourage you to do your own research and make informed choices about your health and wellbeing. The information we provide is never a substitute for qualified advice specific to your individual needs. In listening, you take full responsibility for implementing any suggestions shared on the podcast and you agree to indemnify us completely against all consequences arising directly or indirectly from your choices.About Jen and JaneJen LangJen believes in the power and wisdom of women's voices. She's a guide for women who want to tune into and align their inner voice so their outer voice can shine; uniting physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual energies into a powerful voice ready to share your message.Jane StarkPassionate about energetic alignment and living life from a place of personal power, Jane is a heart-centered leader, certified health and life coach, and marketing strategist. She leads others to play bigger and feel lighter by helping them see and navigate their blocks and connect more deeply with...

We are so excited for this week's guest, Melissa Deally. She is an Integrative Health Practitioner, Registered Health Coach, Speaker and host of her “Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” podcast. Listen as Melissa shares her experience from the corporate world to entrepreneurship and how self-care is essential, not selfish. Your health is your greatest asset. She explains how her use with function medicine labs allows her to locate where the body is out of balance. She is then able to create a plan to lower inflammation and create an environment to allow the body to heal. Disease is not genetics. 90-95% of the environment determines whether our cell's pre-coded genes will cause disease. Melissa also shares about her non-profit, Girls Matter and the amazing work they are doing to keep girls in school in Uganda. About the Hosts: Blair Kaplan Venables is an expert in social media marketing and the president of Blair Kaplan Communications, a British Columbia-based PR agency. As a pioneer in the industry, she brings more than a decade of experience to her clients, which includes global wellness, entertainment, and lifestyle brands. Blair has helped her customers grow their followers into the tens of thousands in just one month, win integrative marketing awards, and more. She has spoken on national stages and her expertise has been featured in media outlets including CBC Radio, CEOWORLD Magazine, She Owns It, and Thrive Global. Blair is also the #1 best-selling author of Pulsing Through My Veins: Raw and Real Stories from an Entrepreneur. When she's not working on the board for her local chamber of commerce, you can find Blair growing the “I Am Resilient Project,” an online community where users share their stories of overcoming life's most difficult moments. https://www.blairkaplan.ca/ (https://www.blairkaplan.ca/)  Theresa Lambert is a High-Performance Lifestyle and Success Coach, Speaker, and Bestselling Author of “https://www.amazon.com/Achieve-Grace-elegance-effectiveness-workplaces/dp/B08DSYSJZP/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1596137449&sr=8-3 (Achieve with Grace: A guide to elegance and effectiveness in intense workplaces). She founded her coaching and consulting firm, Theresa Lambert Coaching & Consulting Inc., to help ambitious women succeed with more elegance and less struggle so they can lead with focus and nourish themselves to the top. Drawing from her nearly 20 years of experience in the hospitality industry and most recently her 6-year tenure as the General Manager of Nita Lake Lodge she brings both a real world view and proven applicable tools to support her clients. Theresa has been recognized as a business leader in https://issuu.com/whistlerpublishing/docs/whistlerprofiles2017_web (Whistler's Profiles of Excellence), featured in https://thriveglobal.com/stories/lead-with-courage-compassion-and-empathy-with-theresa-lambert-and-parveen-panwar-mr-activated/ (Thrive Global), https://medium.com/authority-magazine/theresa-lambert-how-to-slow-down-to-do-more-beab26000e94 (Authority Magazine), https://www.hoteliermagazine.com/hotelier-theresa-ginter-nita-lake-lodge-whistler-b-c/ (Hotelier Magazine), and https://beyourown.org/single-post/2019/07/11/beyourown-meets-theresa-ginter/ (Beyourown), and spoken at Women in Hospitality Leadership events, including Empower Her. Originally from Stuttgart, Germany, Theresa now lives in Whistler, BC where you can most often find her on the golf course in the summer months or relaxing by a fireplace in winter. https://www.theresalambertcoaching.com/ (https://www.theresalambertcoaching.com)   Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get

“Wellness means having the energy to do whatever it is you want to do in your life.” ~ Melissa Deally In this episode, we dig into the grey area of wellness, how we get energy from food and sleep but there are so many things draining our energy like stress and poor sleep. We discuss how we haven't been taught to make our health a priority. We have been raised in a sick care system, when you are sick you go to the doctor. We haven't been taught the grey area of prevention, of proactive health.  Surprising Fact; ·        For the same amount of fruits/vegetables, you ate if you lived in 1950, if you ate those fruits in 1999 you would only get 62 percent of the energy compared to the 1950 version of the fruit or vegetable. ·        68% of North Americans are deficient in magnesium Ever wondered what toxic load means in regards to your health? You might be surprised to hear what Melissa has to share. We dig deep into this powerful topic of wellness and some simple steps you can take to make a big impact in your life. Melissa was dropping truth bombs everywhere. Did you know that our microbiomes go back 4 generations on our Mom's side! I am so excited for you to grab all the nuggets in this episode. Wellness Nuggets; ·        You can supplement your nutrient deficiencies ·        Take small actions to detoxify your home ·        Your health journey will be unique to you   We invite you to ignite the Wellness Warrior in YOU! About the Guest: Melissa Deally, is a wife, Mom, Girl Guide Leader, world traveller and an Integrative Health Practitioner, Registered Health Coach, Speaker and host of her “Don't Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” Podcast. Melissa's business is 100% virtual and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing, using the power of functional medicine lab tests so that you don't have to figure it all out on your own. Email; melissa@yourguidedhealthjourney.com Web;https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/ ( https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com) LinkedIn; https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissadeally/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissadeally/) Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/Guidedhealthjourney (https://www.facebook.com/Guidedhealthjourney) Instagram;  https://www.instagram.com/guidedhealthjourney/ (https://www.instagram.com/guidedhealthjourney/)   Resource link/Giveaway Complimentary call; https://yghjappointments.as.me/30-minute-consult (https://YGHJappointments.as.me/30-minute-consult)   Discover Your Toxic Load Quiz:  https://welcome.yourguidedhealthjourney.com/yourtoxicload (https://welcome.yourguidedhealthjourney.com/yourtoxicload) About the Host: Jenny Ryce is a Mindset and Accredited Executive Coach, speaker, podcast host and the President of Your Holistic Earth, a global community advocating holistic wellness, connection and professional collaboration. Jenny is passionate about connecting others to the power of mindset and wellness. When she is not pursuing her professional passions, Jenny can be found spending time in nature, getting grounded and finding inspiration. Jenny is the proud mother to two amazing daughters and the wife of a military veteran. You will often hear her say that they fuel her passion. It is time to redefine your wellness and experience first-hand what Winning with Wellness can do. Jenny believes that you should always capitalize on your greatest asset, YOU.   Learn More about Holistic Earth Website: http://www.yourholisticearth.ca/ (www.yourholisticearth.ca) Free Wellness Membership for Your Holistic Earth: https://yourholisticearth.ca/join/ (https://yourholisticearth.ca/join/)   Find Us on Social Media Facebook Page: @yourholisticearth or https://www.facebook.com/yourholisticearth (https://www.facebook.com/yourholisticearth)  Facebook...

Melissa Deally is a highly regard integrative health practitioner who has deeply explored the positive and harmful elements of western modern medicine. Her research and practice have allowed her to find information and formulate approaches to better individual and, by extension, better community health. In this episode she shares the pitfalls of a health industry driven by profit, the consequences of pharmaceuticals that are not sold primarily for healing but for corporate financial return, and that now is the time to take charge of our own healing through holistic approaches, including improving nutrition, reducing stress, being judicious with western medicine, and incorporating wellbeing approaches that have been successfully used for centuries. With this episode, learn how each one of us has a choice and the power to take ownership of our own health; we have a health care system that does not care about our food, a food system that doesn't care about our health, and big pharma that prioritizes shareholder profits over human health; that marketing should not have a place in medicine; that freshly graduated mainstream doctors have taken only one class in nutrition; and how modern technology allows each one of us to take diagnostic tests at home for integrative practitioners to study and then offer their “prescription” for patients; that your gut has nine times more influence on your brain than your brain has on your gut; and that, when all is said and done sleep, relaxation, stress reduction, exercise, and healthy food are cornerstones to healthy individuals and communities.     About the Guest:  Melissa Deally worked in the corporate world until six years ago, when she found herself let go after 24 years with one company. In that moment, Melissa knew three things: a) She would never work for anyone else again. b) Whatever she did next had to be of service c) She had no idea what she'd do next but was open to being guided.   Melissa is now an Integrative Health Practitioner, Registered Health Coach, speaker and host of her podcast “Don't Wait for Your Wake Up Call!” She has done extensive research into the abuse of pharmaceuticals in an industry that largely focused on profit. Her understanding of western and eastern medicine has led her to create a personalized healing program for each client that incorporates nutrition, mindfulness, the disingenuous pull of the corporate health industry, and more. Her interest is in individual and community wellbeing, as evidenced by her desire to formulate a plan with you to realize ways of life that are focused on people thriving. Melissa's business is 100% virtual. She specializes in guiding you to your own healing.     https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/ (https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/)     About the Host:  Ken Streater shares eye-opening and heartening global experiences that reflect our shared dreams and concerns. A former international river guide and adventure travel outfitter who has worked and played in 50 countries, Alaskan bush teacher turned social good entrepreneur, Fortune 500 consultant, bestselling author, and keynote speaker, Ken has seen first-hand how common ground blooms greater good. From angry hippo showdowns to nuclear missile attacks, from billionaire shenanigans to Siberian soccer wars to quiet conversations with everyday heroes, these and other interactions inspire him to create good change.   Ken's just released #1 Amazon international bestselling book, Be the Good: Becoming a Force for a Better World, is receiving rave reviews from movement leaders and readers alike. His podcast, Good Change: Conversations About Making a World of Difference is “where movement makers, industry leaders, visionaries, voices of hope, and everyday heroes gather to share ideas, laugh, and inspire action for greater good.”   http://www.kenstreater.com/ (www.kenstreater.com)  ...

The body is so good at healing when we create the environment for it to be able to do so. –Melissa Deally On this episode of the Plan Simple Podcast, I’m really excited to talk with Melissa Deally, an Integrative Health Practitioner focused on brain and gut health. Gut health can be hard to wrap our minds around. It’s inside. We can’t see it. It doesn’t sound particularly appealing. And yet it has such big effects. Melissa and talk about the benefits of getting interested in (even excited by) gut health.  The idea that gut health is the root of all health goes way back to Hippocrates, and then we lost that idea for a long time. But gut health and our microbiome is starting to get attention again. Knowing that 90 to 95% of all disease is triggered by the environment we create inside our body, we can learn to create an environment that is inhospitable to disease. Instead of going to the doctor for a pill when you get sick, why not be proactive in your health. Melissa and I explore steps you can take to do that, and show how quickly you can start to feel better when you make change.  We talk about:  Recognizing that some of the physical ailment or discomfort we feel is not normal How brain fog and gut health are connected Breaking emotional attachments to foods that no longer serve us Using functional medicine labs to see what’s happening inside the body so you can find a path to healing Finding what your body wants you to eat and reframing that from being to deprived to being a choice Helping our kids and recognizing those common complaints and even learning issues can be related to gut health and food BIO Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner, Registered Health Coach, Speaker and host of her “Don’t Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” podcast.  Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures, but helps bring your body back into balance by helping you discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa gets to the root cause of your health issue, using functional medicine lab tests that help you “see inside” your body to know exactly what is going on, and then she provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements.  Melissa’s business is 100% virtual and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own. LINKS www.yourguidedhealthjourney.com To book a complimentary 30 min call with Melissa: https://YGHJappointments.as.me/?appointmentType=16156436 Discover Your Toxic  Load Quiz: https://welcome.yourguidedhealthjourney.com/yourtoxicload   Doable Changes from this episode: NOTICE HOW YOU FEEL. Start by noticing how your body feels. Do you have stomach aches? Headaches? Are you stuffed up or feeling like allergies all the time? Do you feel lethargic (always or in certain parts of the day)? Do parts of your body hurt? Do you feel heavy or weighed down? These are just a few of the questions you can ask. Do a body scan? What feels good? What feels off somehow? What have you told yourself was just “normal” for you? What have you told yourself was just aging? What if you started from the premise that not feeling good isn’t normal? GET TESTING. Functional health testing can help you figure out what’s happening inside. That information can save you a lot of time testing and trying. It can give you information to start making plans on healing or making changes that will help your body feel good. MAKE IT A CHOICE. Know your why. Know that the food choices you make are to make your body function well and feel good. Know why you are changing your eating and focus on your why. Instead of saying, “I can’t have X,” say “I’m choosing foods that make me feel good” or “I’m choosing foods that help me (fill in your why).”  

After the door from the security of Melissa Deally's corporate job closed due to being let go, it ended up being a wonderful gift because it led Melissa to learn about brain supplementation which was a huge help after both her daughters received concussions within two months of each other!! Ouch!! Now that's painful myrony!! Melissa shares how the first concussion was a blessing in disguise for her one daughter but the second one was maybe a message for her because she didn't pay attention to following this path with the first concussion and sometimes it takes a couple of times before we get the hint. So sorry to Melissa's younger daughter for going through the injury but thank you for being the catalyst because it wasn't until after Melissa saw the myrony of a specific license plate that she felt truly was a sign guiding her that helped her continue her path to be an Integrative Health Practitioner and Registered Health Coach. Hear also the beautiful story of her sister's wedding day and also how Melissa recognizes her dad's presence during special events after losing him at a young age. In this episode you are going to hear some wonderful myronies while also learning more about integrative health and in the spirit of the holidays in 2020, Melissa has a wonderful gift for all of us so make sure to scroll further to see the links!! About the Guest: Melissa Deally was in the Corporate world until 5 years ago, when she found herself let go after 24 years with 1 company. This was the kick in the pants she needed to move into an entirely different field, where she could actually help people lead better lives. Melissa has since gone back to school to become a Registered Health Coach and then Integrative Health Practitioner, and has found her true calling. She loves to help people get to the root cause of their health issue instead of only being given options of masking symptoms with drugs, or worse, being told there is nothing wrong with you, when you know there is! Too many people are struggling with low energy, brain fog, fatigue, weight gain, menopausal symptoms, bloating, gas and digestive struggles and not getting the help they need. Melissa specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing, so that you don't have to try and figure it all out on your own. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then offers a personalized wellness protocol to support your deficiencies using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures, but helps bring your body back into balance by helping you discover your “toxic load” and then removing toxicities as well as supporting deficiencies, so your body can begin to heal itself, as it does a cut finger or broken arm. Melissa has also pursued another passion and that is to start a non-profit organization to help educate girls in developing countries. She feels that doing so can have great impact on breaking the global poverty cycle. If India could educate just 1% more girls, they could grow their GDP by $5.5 billion! It's a simple solution, but not easy. Girls Matter has funded 11 girls since March 2016 to finish High School in Uganda, as well as one girl graduated from University in 2019, and another started University in 2020, but there are still many more who need financial help. Linked In https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissadeally/fb: https://www.facebook.com/Guidedhealthjourneyinstagram

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