From Trauma to Transformation: How Personal Power and Mindfulness Helped Natalie J. Clayton Overcome Cancer and Redefine Purpose Ep 61

In this powerful and emotional episode of the ANEW Body Insight podcast, Dr. Supatra Tovar welcomes Personal Development Coach and former law enforcement officer Natalie J. Clayton for an inspiring conversation on healing, resilience, and the transformational power of personal agency.

Natalie shares her deeply moving journey—from her high-stakes career in law enforcement and undercover operations to facing one of life’s greatest challenges: a diagnosis of aggressive stage 3 colon cancer. She opens up about the traumatic year when her son was hit by a bus and underwent 38 surgeries, her marriage ended, and she received her cancer diagnosis—all within months.

What emerged from that pain was a new calling. Natalie talks about how she made the courageous pivot from public service to personal transformation coaching, founded her business Tilt Synergy, and began using her intuitive and empathic abilities to help others break through limiting beliefs and reclaim their lives.

Listeners will gain insight into how childhood narratives and cultural expectations shape our identity—and how mindfulness, self-awareness, and inner faith can guide us through even the darkest moments. Dr. T and Natalie explore how food, energy, and holistic health supported her healing, and how reclaiming your power is the first step toward lasting transformation.

Here is social media channels about Natalie J Clayton : https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliejclayton,  https://tiltsynergyinc.com/,  https://www.amazon.com/Amazing-Bitty%C2%AE-Awaken-Leader-Within/dp/1950326926,   https://www.threads.net/@coachnataliej,  https://www.facebook.com/natalie.clayton.58/?locale=en_GB . 

Whether you’re navigating a health crisis, burnout, or feeling stuck in your current life path, this episode offers tools, hope, and inspiration to help you evolve into your most authentic self.

✨ Don’t miss this emotionally honest and empowering conversation.
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Transcript

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Welcome to the ANEW Body Insight podcast,


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empowering and inspiring your journey to optimal health.


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Hosted by Doctor Supatra Tovar, clinical psychologist,


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registered dietitian, fitness expert and author of Deprogram Diet Culture:


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Rethink Your Relationship with Food, Heal Your Mind, and Live a Diet-Free


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Life, and Chantal Donnelly, physical therapist and author of Settled:


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How to Find Calm in a Stress Inducing World.


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Here at City Club Los Angeles, we follow our guests journey to optimal


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health, providing you with the keys to unlock your own wellness path.


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Tune in and evolve with us.


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Hello and welcome to the ANEW Body


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Insight podcast at City Club Los Angeles.


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I am Dr. Supatra Tovar
and we are very excited


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to have personal development
coach Natalie J. Clayton with us today.


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Thank you.


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I'm going
to read a little bit about Natalie,


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and then we are going to get right
into our questions.


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Natalie J. Clayton is an accomplished
visionary leader,


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personal development coach,
and bestselling author of her book, Awaken


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the Leader Within: 15 Steps to Shine
Your Light.


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Natalie is the founder
and CEO of Tilt Synergy,


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a coaching, consulting
and IT software group.


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She is a former law enforcement
and undercover officer with over 20 years


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as a police officer, special agent,
parole agent,


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and criminal justice professor.


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She has a solid background
in all aspects of people management,


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crisis management,
diversity, and case management.


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Natalie is also the current chair
of the Women of City Club


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Committee, Los Angeles.


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Yes. Yes.


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As a personal development coach,
Natalie teaches individuals through her


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intuitive insight and empathic abilities,


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how to embrace their fear inside.


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In doing so,
her clients develop self-mastery


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and move forward for positive life
outcome experiences.


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Thank you for joining us, Natalie.


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Thank you for having me.


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I'm really excited. Wonderful.


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Thank you so.


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Much.


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Well, my first question
is about law enforcement.


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It's amazing
that you have this extensive background.


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Tell us a little bit about this
and how you made your transition


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away from law enforcement and towards
executive coaching.


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What was your inspiration?


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Well, when I let
people know that I was a police officer


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and in law enforcement,
that's the question. What did you know?


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People want to know about it
and what was it like and so forth.


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I decided to,


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have a career in law enforcement because
I was interested in helping people.


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And, initially when I went to school,
I was going to major in accounting,


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and I realized
I didn't want to push numbers.


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And I am a people person.


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And, I had this epiphany
that I could save the world,


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believe it or not.


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And, I decided to do something
that was nontraditional and,


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become a police officer
because it was gave me the ability


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to work in the community and, carry
a gun and do it.


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I wanted a career that was different,
and it was very different.


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No day is the same. And so,


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yeah, I started out with San Diego
Police Department,


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and interesting enough, when I was
in a police academy, I never shot a gun.


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And I was afraid of guns.


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My father had this,


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when I was a kid.


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I thought it was a big gun.
It was a 38 special.


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So I don't know
if anyone knows about guns.


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Is this a. It's a little toy gun.


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Not a gun person.


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But I shot some before they’re kind of fun.


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Yeah, there is very fun. It's you.


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If you're stressed out,
it's a good way to get rid of stress.


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But, Yeah, so it was San Diego PD.


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I worked in the community.


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I was investigation,
I did a lot of undercover work.


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did I transition to the Department
of Justice for the State of California?


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I worked with, the Department of Bureau
of Narcotics Enforcement,


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and we were investigating meth labs
throughout the state of California.


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Yeah, it was it was very scary.


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Yes. Really nasty stuff out there.


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And, from there,
I transitioned to, parole.


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There are
some issues with the Department of Justice


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and that I won't go into that because
that will be in my, my, legacy book.


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Then I'll write about that. And,


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and then I was doing my work


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and, five years
in with the Department of Corrections


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rehab, and, I was diagnosed with cancer,


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a very aggressive stage 3 cancer,


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colon cancer. And,


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so from that point on, I,


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you know, from that treatment
and, the surgery,


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I made a decision
that this was a pivot point in my life


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where I needed to stop and evaluate
my life and to see,


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you know, what was going on with me
and to take care of myself.


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And so that was the huge transition.


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It was something else
that happened before that to my son.


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There were three major
things that happened to me in that year.


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My son was in a horrible accident.


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This is 2011,


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where my son was hit by a bus.


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He was dragged 300ft.


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He was in a hospital for ten months.


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He had 38 surgeries.


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My marriage fell apart, and
and then I was diagnosed with cancer.


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Oh my Goodness. So I was like, okay.


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I was like, really? Yeah.


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And so I just had to just be still.


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And what I know now is that,


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you know, I had this gift
of intuitiveness, an empath.


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My whole life.


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I can remember being a kid,


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you know, when I was probably three years
old, just knowing things.


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And but, you know, as a kid, you stuff
it down cause you don't understand it.


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And then, you know,


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moving forward, life happens,


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and then you're still,
and then you start realizing,


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oh, okay, this is I there's there's
something going on here. And,


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yeah,
I so I've been a coach my whole life.


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I've always coached people.


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From the time I was little,
I just had this gift.


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I could look at a person


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and I would be able to assess them
and just figure things out.


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And so when I had to be still


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because I was a super woman,
I had an S on my chest.


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You know, I had three kids.


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I was,
and my second marriage was a divorce.


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first marriage was divorce.


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You know, I had three kids.
I was a single mom.


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So I had this super S on my chest and


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and I had to take the S off my chest
and just really pour into myself.


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Take care of my son, too.


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And pour into myself. And.


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Yeah,
I just decided that this is, I'm done.


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I'm done with this because my health with
my life is more important.


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Yes. Yeah.


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And I think, you know, a lot of women


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carry
so much of the burden and the workload.


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Yes, they are always putting the S on
their chest, but and putting everyone else


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before themselves and often times
their health suffers because of that.


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And so, you know,
you mentioned that you had to be still.


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And you were using your intuition
and your empathic abilities.


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I want to know more about that.


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What does that feel like?


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And, and how do you use it?


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Well well I'm going to go back to my son.


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So when the so before


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my son had his accident in 2011,


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I had this premonition that with a bus
and my son


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and I couldn't figure out what it was,
and like I was going back.


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I've always had this
premonition of things happening,


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and I was like, okay, it happens.


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Okay,
maybe it's this luck or whatever, but,


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but when my son had his accident,


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I just remember,


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getting a phone call
from my daughter, and,


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my daughter was,


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hysterical


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because she got a call from the police,
and the police told her


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that you have five minutes
to get to the hospital.


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Your brother's going.
Not going to make it.


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And so


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I was in Sacramento at that time.


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And I just


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remember thinking like, no,
this is not going to happen.


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And I just I remember falling on my face


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and well, first of all, calming
my daughter down


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because she was hysterical
and she was trying to get to the hospital.


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So I had to, you know, had to put on this,
you know, cop hat,


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you know, order,
you know, and calm her down


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and help her to navigate
to Cedars-Sinai hospital.


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That's where he was.


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And, then call my family.


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So I was that person doing everything.


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And then after all that happened,
I just remember


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falling on my face,
and I was praying to God.


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I said, you know what?


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Just save my son.


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And then in my soul, I felt my son's
spirit and I felt his energy.


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And I just started speaking to him.


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And I told him,
I said, you're going to make it.


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You're not going to die.


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And I just hold on,
because I was in Sacramento


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at that time
and I go, I'm going to be there.


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And I was just speaking to him.


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That's the only thing
I can remember that I felt,


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the energy going to my son.


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And then and I know people think
this is kind of woowoo, but I started


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speaking to, the enemy and the devil
or whatever you call it, the darkness.


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And I said, you can't have my son
take your hands off him.


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You cannot have him.


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And, I couldn't get to to LA at that time
because it was


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it was almost midnight
and all the flights were, you know,


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it was the earliest
flight was 9:00 in the morning.


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So I just
this remember telepathically speaking


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to my son and telling him that he's
going to make it, he's going to make it.


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And he survived. He survived.


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And by the time I got down to the
hospital, I had no idea that,


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he was dragged like almost 400ft by a bus.


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Horrible.


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And he was I didn't know what it,
to the extent of his injuries were,


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but I just remember saying to him
that you're going to make it.


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And I never left his side at that time.


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So it's just it's it's


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what what was the the pivoting point
for me was just believing


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that my son was going to make it
and believing no matter what


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the situation or circumstances
looked like, that he was going to make it.


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And so from my belief of,


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being a Christian and following God


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and understanding the Word of God,
I just use that to my advantage.


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Because when I in my church, we believe
that the Word of God is a breath of life.


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So I just said,
you know, I'm honored to speak this,


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and I believe this is going to happen.
And it and it did.


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And despite everything that
I saw and my son was having,


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Three surgeries a week


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and I lived in the hospital
for ten months. Wow.


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And but what I realize
is that we have the power, within us.


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And if you,


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if you have an awareness of the divine,
whatever you call it, I call it God.


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the Holy Spirit, divine,
your higher source.


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You can tap into that spirit and you can


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you can either speak life into
your situation or you can speak death.


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And so I choose I chose to speak life.


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And so when I'm working with clients,


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you know, I


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will sit down with them
and have an assessment


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with them and figure out
where they are in their lives.


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And you know, what internally is
stopping them from,


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from getting to their next
or whatever their next is.


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and, and


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I spend time with them
to kind of understand that their mindset


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and where they're at
and what's blocking them, because


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it's always some type of mental blockage.


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And so yeah, it depends.


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And when we focus on
what is the most pressing issue,


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you know, in their lives that's preventing
them from moving forward, you know,


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and so that's yeah, that's
that's what I do.


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Without going into too much detail.


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It sounds like that's
what you did for yourself.


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You had three major life events


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that were so stressful and so frightening.


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and you had to tap into that yourself
for your son


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in order to be strong for him,
in order to help him heal.


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And then you had to do that for yourself.


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So I just want to know a little bit more
about how you how you beat it,


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how you beat cancer,
and then what happened


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after for you
to found your company TILT Synergy?


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Okay.


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Well, after my son, you know, survived.


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I mean, after ten months
and all the surgeries and,


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you know, all of the things
that he went through and,


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my faith was, like,


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way up here, you know,
I think you have to have,


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you have to make a decision,
a conscious decision in your mind


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to believe what you want to show up.


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And so when I,


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ironically,
when I got diagnosed with cancer,


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I just, you know, I
it was almost like the wind


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was knocked out of me, and I was like,
you've got to be kidding me.


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I mean, I was seriously, I was like, what?


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You know?


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But I just said, okay.


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And I remember,


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I called my mom.


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My mom is no longer here,
but I remember calling her and we cried.


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We cried for 30 minutes on the phone.


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I mean, I was just, like,
hysterical crying.


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And I said, and I'm like, okay,


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I get that out of my system
as time to go to work, you know.


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And I believe that I'm going to be healed.


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So I went back in, I had to do an EKG
and all the things you have to do


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to prepare yourself and I just chose
to believe that I was healed.


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And so,


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and then I


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did research
because you have to be proactive


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in your life, you know,
faith and work goes hand in hand.


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So you have to have faith,
but you have to put in the work.


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So you can't have faith without work.


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You cannot work without faith.


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And so I decided to do research


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on how to cure cancer naturally.


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And there's a book called
How to Cure Cancer Naturally.


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And it's it's like 270 pages, I think.


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And, to this day,
I have no idea where the book is,


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but I managed to find it at that time,
and I started doing research.


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I, decided that I would, hire a,


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a holistic practitioner.


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And, and then I had an my oncologist
and I had an interesting part.


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I had a doctor who, just shared with me.


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He's like, get that out of you.


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He said, go cut it out of you.


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He's as your numbers are low,
go get it out of you.


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And so, again, instead of being defeated,
I just thought, I'm going to win.


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You know what?


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I have the power to to overcome this.


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And I'm going to overcome this


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despite of what the doctors were saying
and all those different things.


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I just it's
you have to make a conscious decision


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that you're not going to let what's,
what's told to you or what


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you see to keep
to make you fall into a sunken place.


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And I refuse to do that. So,


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I remember my oncologist,


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this was I had shared with him
that I was going to go


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to a holistic practitioner, and he was
he told me everything. Do.


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No, don't do it. Don't do it.


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Don't do it, you know. Typical.


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No, no, no. 


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And I was like


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and so I just listened to him and,
and he was like, you know, you don't eat,


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you know, legally vegetables
don't when you go to the gym,


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I wouldn't recommend you go to the gym
and, you know, wear a mask.


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And I was like, no.


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I said, listen,


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that's in my mind.


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If I do those things, I'm
going to I'm telling myself that I'm sick


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and I'm telling myself I'm defeated.


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I said, I'm not going to do that anyway.


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So we battled back and forth,
and so I finally decided, you know what?


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This is my life.


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This is my body.


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I'm going to do
what I know is best for me to do. And,


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and then and then one period of time,
I mean, it was rough.


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I'm telling you. It was. It was rough.


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I remember getting a call from him,


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and he had shared with me that,


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they thought that the cancer
had metastasized to my liver,


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and I was like, I don't believe that.


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And then he was like, well.


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And he was.


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Tell me all these different things.


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Well, if it does,
we can take a portion of your liver,


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I mean, all this negative stuff. Right?


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And so I said, no,
I said, I tell you what,


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I don't want you
to do a biopsy of my liver.


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You know,


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I said, you need to do a biopsy
of my liver, and then we'll go from there.


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And so I had a biopsy of my liver.


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And I remember I never forget this


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cause I was sedated and the doctor said,
you know, I did a biopsy of your liver.


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Your liver is fine,


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but what I did was I did it, I detoxed,
I did a cleanse of my liver.


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you know, I was just thinking.


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I was just thinking, you know,
what can I do to help my body? Yes.


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I'm super curious about. Yeah. The.


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You know, because I'm a dietitian.


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Did you really change up your diet?


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Oh, yeah, I changed my diet.


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I, let's see.


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I stopped drinking coffee.


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I stopped drinking sodas.


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I didn't drink a lot of sodas.


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All sugar.


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I stop,


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any type of, granulated sugar.


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I stopped, I stopped drinking, eating,


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white flour, rice.


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I started making juice.


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Juicing, you know, just just a regular
things that God created on earth.


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And what I realized is that everything on
this earth was created for our bodies


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and to heal our bodies.


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And you can heal your body of anything.


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there's.


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It was created as, you know,
it's from the motherland.


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And so I just incorporated
that into my diet.


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I hired a holistic practitioner, and,


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she she put me on what she did,


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and then I decided that I would do chemo
because after I had my surgery,


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you know, actually,
the Lord told me, he says you're healed.


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No matter what you do,
you're going to be healed.


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And so I believe it.


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So I so I said, well, you know what?


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Let me I'm not going to push aside
Western medicine because it's needed.


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And I saw how it was so effective
with my son because my son was trauma,


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I was internal and he was trauma.


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So, it's there is a use for it,


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but I think you have to take control
of your temple.


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And so what we did was


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we for four months,
I built up my immune system.


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And with her treatments and,
and then I decided that


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if that's what I want to do, do chemo,
I would do it.


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And so when I went to chemo,


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I didn't have any side of what
only side effects I had.


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My hands were black.


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My feet were black. Wow.


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so I did it for six months.


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I remember when I would have my treatment.


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it felt like I was swallowing glass
when I.


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Right after the treatment.


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When I ate food,
I couldn't drink cold water.


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It felt like I was swallowing
broken glass and nails. Wow.


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And so that was
six months of my life. And,


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but again,
I had I built up my immune system


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and so my body was able to sustain that,


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and I just believe that, okay, I'm,
I'm going to be healed no matter what.


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So I think that the mindset that you have
is everything.


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And setting an intention
with your mindset.


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Yeah.


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And moving forward using science,
using medicine, but also using food


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and food is especially when you look


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at whole foods, lots of plants.


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They are naturally healing.


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And you can, yeah, abate cancer or,


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you know, get rid of an entirely right
just through diet alone.


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But I'm glad
that you used everything in your arsenal.


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I use everything and, interesting enough,


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my holistic practitioner,
she I mean, she did.


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I mean, so it was holistic.


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So she did a a test.


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She checked my urine, my saliva,
and then she took


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a piece of my hair
from behind my ear, and she.


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I forget what it’s called,


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but she did a diagnosis of it,
so it checked all of my everything.


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All of the minerals and


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everything that was in my body.


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And it showed that my deficiencies,
it showed


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where I had over too many minerals
and so forth.


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And then from that, it created a diet


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that my body needed to become strong. So,


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so a lot of times the studies come out
and they say, okay, if you have this,


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you shouldn't eat this, this,
this and that.


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And what my body needed
was completely opposite of that.


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So you really have to
everyone is and are individual.


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You know, people


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and your body may need certain things
that other people may not need.


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You have to figure that part out.


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And yeah.


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So it was it was very interesting.


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You know, for me, it was an interesting
journey, life changing for me.


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And then I started realizing like, wow,
okay, I'm on to something here because,


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not only that, I my son's life,
you know, I was directing the doctors.


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I'm like, no, you need to do this, this
and that with my son. You need to.


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I mean, I was just like. Like,
who's this little woman coming in here


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telling us when to do? His mom.


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But, you know,
I just it it just made me realize that


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setting your


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intention, understanding
the power that you have within you.


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Because you.


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We each have the power within us.


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But having an awareness
of understanding the power that you have.


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And you can overcome
anything in your life.


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And it's I mean, it's
just that's my belief.


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And, you you choose to either


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sink or you choose to swim,
and I choose to swim, I love it.


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Yeah.


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That's wonderful.


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Yes. That deserves applause for sure.


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So when you went into
personal development, who who did


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you want to work with?


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initially I wanted to work, with women
and I did.


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I work with women
and, leaders, business owners.


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now I'm starting to attract men.


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It's interesting, attracting men.


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But I think it's for me,
it's just people who have gone through,


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some of the things that I've gone through,


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whether it's your health, cancer,


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a divorce, you know, trauma, like my son


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just pouring into people and helping to,
to shift the way that they think.


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Not on that.


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I call a dot on the wall, you know,
because it really is.


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If you think about how, how big and how,


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powerful God is,


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whatever you call
God divine, your higher source


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and all the things that we go through,
this is a dot, it's a dot.


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And if you focus on that dot,
that's all you're going to see. So,


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so it's to me, it's, it's men and women
and even children to overcome.


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And so I'm going to tell you this story.


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So when I,


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after I went through my cancer
and my son was healed,


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my friend, and I sought, you know, prayer,


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through one of my friends.


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She's a minister.


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And, I went to her church, and I said, I,


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I need to
I need you to pray over me because I'm.


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I'm going to have this, you know,


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that biopsy that


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I was telling you about earlier, I said,
and I need you to do this, pray over me.


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And so she asked me to come in and
and speak at her church about faith.


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And so I did myself and and,
two of my sons came, but one of my,


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the one that was in his accent came
and we spoke, on faith.


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And so,


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I just spoke from the heart.


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And when I was speaking,
she says, you know,


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you are a healer by the words
you speak of laying of your hands.


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And I was like,
I was like, oh, no, not me.


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I ran, I, I ran, I'm like, I'm not.


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No, I'm like, I'm not doing this.


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but you know, it has God has


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a way of bringing you
to what he wants you to do.


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so I'm shifting my my,


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clients to people who have gone
through cancer or are going through cancer


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because I've gone through it, you know,
I know the the the ebb and flow of cancer.


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I know the things that you think about.


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You know, even when you survive it,
you still have this thing in your mind


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like, okay, oh,
I have this little pain over here.


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What what is that?


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You know,
being being human and being, transparent.


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People need support
and people need to figure out


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how to navigate their way through
whether it's chemo.


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or, you know,
whatever it is that you, your outcome


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that you, you want to experience.


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And so my, that's my mission
now is to move into that.


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And I was
that was my calling. But I ran from it.


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I was like, oh, no, I'm not doing that.


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No, you meant to do it!  Like I'm not doing
well, you know, it's interesting because


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I remember,


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when I, when my


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son overcame it and I overcame those
and I'm sharing my story,


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to a woman and her sister,
you know, passed away from cancer.


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And after I shared my story,
she was like, well, we're believers and,


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you know, we're followers.


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And my sister didn't survive.


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And it this it trumped me
and I, I just like, oh my God, am I,


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am I being haughty?


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Am I saying, am I seeing this away?


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Am I saying this the wrong way.


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So I shut down.


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And I said I'm not going
to, I'm not going to talk about it.


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God is very funny and what he does.


00:26:16:22 - 00:26:21:12
And so I you know everywhere I went
somebody was like oh I got cancer


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or I'm going through cancer.
Like when I had brain surgery for cancer.


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Like I have cancer of this.


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And I'm like, and I'm sitting there.


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And so my soul was—


00:26:29:05 - 00:26:32:05
Felt horrible because I'm thinking like,
oh my God,


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you know, I need to pour into this person.


00:26:35:09 - 00:26:39:19
And so finally I said, okay, when is the
time is right for me to speak to a person?


00:26:39:19 - 00:26:43:08
If it comes up to me one more time,
I'm going to speak to this person.


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And then and I did, but I still ran.


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I was like, oh no, I'm not doing that.


00:26:47:18 - 00:26:49:13
I'm not calling. You’re called to do it.


00:26:49:13 - 00:26:51:22
But I missed my calling.
So I'm finally surrendering.


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We are so glad that you're doing that.


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We're so glad that you're healthy
and with us today.


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We are going to take a pause because
we are out of time for this episode.


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But we will be coming back


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for the second part of this episode
next week.


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Thank you so much for joining us.


00:27:08:16 - 00:27:13:01
Tune in next week for the second half
of this thought provoking interview


00:27:13:01 - 00:27:16:21
with personal development
coach Natalie J. Clayton.


00:27:16:21 - 00:27:18:03
Thank you so much.


00:27:18:03 - 00:27:19:09
Thank you.


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