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Who is January Jones. She is not a young, beautiful,
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talented actress on Madman. She is not an older, gorgeous
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exotic dancer from The Johnny Carson Show. She is an
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author and she wrote Thou Show Not Why the Eleventh
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Commandment that rates number one at Amazon dot com. She
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is a reality TV golf personality with World High Stakes
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Golf televised on hd Net. She is a huge wrist
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and whininologist expert. She is your featured host today on
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January Jones sharing success stories. So sit back, relax, and
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get ready to laugh and listen to Ms Jones with
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her eclectic roster of guests as you learn life's lessons.
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These stories plus sharing equal success. Welcome and remember beware
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because you are entering the no whining world of January Jones.
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Hello everyone, I hope you're having a g literary and
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glowing day. I'm January Jones and i'd like to welcome
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you to our podcast today. As many of you know,
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I've created a new brand called glitter Granny Gifts to
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give or to get. I'm very excited about sharing this
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with everyone, and my website is for people who love
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to shop and who like to get a lot of
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attention in my spare time. I've become an associate affiliate
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at Amazon along with my assistant, my golden doodle, ginger Ale,
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who's helping me out. So go to glittergranny dot com
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if you'd like to go shopping with ginger Ale and
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myself at glittergranny dot com. Today, I'd like to welcome
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to our show a new guest. He has never been
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on the show before, and I'm very excited about having
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him with us. He has written a new book, Oh yes,
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and it's just came out two months ago. So let
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me ask you a question. Do you let stress weigh
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you down? Yeah, I think we all.
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Have you ever.
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Thought about your own brain health? Hm? Would you like
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to improve your emotional awareness? Do you know the best
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way to maximize your energy and to regain your focus?
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Well?
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Are you ready to meet someone who will help your
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feeling of self worth, happiness and help you get some
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more satisfaction with your life? Tell me now, have you
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ever heard of a book called the Nine Pillars of Resilience,
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The proven path to master stress, slow aging, and increase
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your vitality. If you can answer yes or maybe to
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any of these questions I've asked, then you are in
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the right place, and I'd like to welcome you to
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January Jones Sharing Senior Success. So now it's time rest, relax, Go,
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get some wine, get some cheese, get some crackers, and
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join us in the no wine zone. Now, let me
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tell you a little bit about my guest today. He
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is a first time visitor on our show. He is
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the founder and former clinical director of the Stress Strategies
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Program of UCLA Santa Monica Hospital and clinical director of
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Moonview Treatment and Optimal Performance Center. It's my pleasure to
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welcome to the show today doctor Stephen Sideroff. Hi, Stephen,
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how are you doing today.
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Hi, it's a pleasure to be here. I'm doing great.
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Good to be with you.
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Oh, I've looked forward to this interview for sure. Before
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we get into discussing your brand new book, could you
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share a little bit with our listeners where your success
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story began and tell us who your early mentors were.
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Of course, of course, So actually my career began in
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brain research, brain science. I was interested in discovering and
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uncovering where and how learning and memory take place in
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the brain. And I was very fortunate that early in
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my career one of my mentors was one of the
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pioneers in neuroscience, Donald Hebb. I mean, I wrote one
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of the first books on really explaining how learning takes
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place in the brain. And he's the one who may
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said for the first time, neurons that fired together, wire together.
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Oh I love that's fair and as a a statement
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that resonates with me and continues to be something that
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I focus on in how we engage the process of
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neuroplasticity and brain change and transformation.
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Wow, those are some pretty big words, right right.
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So my story is really about wanting to help as
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many people as possible deal with perhaps the biggest challenge
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we all face, which is chronic stress. Yeah, and I've
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learned very early on some of the reasons why we
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actually have resistance to dealing with stress, one of which
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is that if you think about all the successes in
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your life, I guarantee that almost all of them have
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been associated with stress. You know, an important presentation, a test.
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Every situation that has led to success was accompanied by stress.
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So back to my mentor neurons that fire together, wired together.
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Now brains have put those two things together stress success,
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and so it's very important to realize and as a result,
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I have redefined stress and the stress response as a
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tool for success. We have to realize that there is
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a stress sweet spot, and most of us overshoot that
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sweet spot into danger zones. We have too much stress
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in our lives and that leads to physical symptoms, and
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it leads to emotional symptoms and even cognitive symptoms. So
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this led me to my book and my model, a
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new model of resilience withal of resilience, which I'm excited
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to share and talk about with you today.
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Well, you know that's why I'm so happy to have
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you with us, because this has been an extremely stressful
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time for everyone. And I'm not just talking about seniors.
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Everyone of every age has been going through this election
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cycle so much stress every time you put the news on.
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And I've had some other guests and the only thing
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they can they've come up with so far is, you know,
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turn the news off. But then I'm dealing with a
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lot of news junkies, of which I happen to be one.
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So I'd like to hear your take on some ideas
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for helping seniors and everyone else deal with stress.
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Let me start with very some very basic points. We
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have two branches to our nervous system. Our nervous system,
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our central nervous system is what GUIDs everything that takes
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place in our brains and in our bodies. And that
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nervous system has two branches. One branch is the sympathetic
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activation branch that gets triggered every time we experience stress,
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every time we experience a danger a threat, and that
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sympathetic activation activates our body, and it activates our body
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for the fight or flight response to deal with the danger.
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Even though January I will suggest that very few of
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the stresses in our lives can be handled by either
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fighting them or running from them, but our body mobilizers
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for that fight or flight response. Every time we wake
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up in the morning and we worry about am I
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going to be able to pay my bill? We trigger
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the activation of the fighter flight response. We are concerned
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about a conflict with a friend, we activate the stress response.
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So that's the one branch of our nervous system. The
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other branch is the recovery branch. It's the branch that
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you want to switch into to restore all the resources
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used up when you are stressing your body. So these
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need to be in balance. Now, I will suggest that
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for most of your audience throughout the day, we're activating
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the sympathetic the fight or flight response. But how many
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stimuli do you have in your day that says you're safe,
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you can relax. For me, I don't have any in
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my I don't know about you, about you.
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Well, the best one I have is our little puppy dog.
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Well good, yes, and puppies can serve that purpose. But
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my point is here is that we're continually activating the
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stress response, and we don't spend enough time recovering and
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restoring balance. Okay, and so the most important lesson for
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your audience is to realize we all have just a
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certain amount of personal energy. It's not unlimited, right, And
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if we're always looking for danger out there, if we're
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continually stressing and we're not giving our bodies the opportunity
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to recover, that's when our bodies overheat. That's when our
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bodies become disregulated. That's when we have physical symptoms, emotional
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and mental symptoms. So this notion of balance is at
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the heart of resilience.
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Now, you mentioned energy, and I find I'm dealing with
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a husband who wants to take naps all the time.
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And as you get older, obviously you have less and
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less energy. So what is your message for my older
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listeners today.
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Yes, so there's a few points to address this. First
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of all, is to remember that if you're using your energy,
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your personal energy, to worry about something going on in
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the outside world, you may be taking energy away from
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your kidneys that are required to purify your blood. Because
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we don't have an unlimited supply of energy. So the
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more you focus your energy out into the world, the
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less energy is available for the healing and maintenance of
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your body. You know, there was once a study done
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in which they put a ten centimeter cut in people's arms,
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and then they looked at how long it took to heal,
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and they found that the people who had higher levels
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of stress took twice as long for that to heal.
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Oh my gosh. So what's very important is that everybody
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find a particular way for them to engage that recovery
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branch of the nervous system. Now, I recommend that people
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take about ten minutes each day to practice a relaxation exercise, mindfulness, meditation,
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some form of relaxation, a breathing exercise in which you're
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focused on relaxing your body. Not the same as watching TV.
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No'll be activated by watching TV. So my first two
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recommendations are Number one is to think throughout your day
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of finding what I call zones of safety, time places
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where you could literally say to yourself safe, I'm safe
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right now, I could let down my guard and give
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my body the opportunity to recover. Particularly doing that when
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you sit down to have a meal. Oh yes, because
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if you sit down to have a meal and you're
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worrying about something, you're engaging the stress response. And when
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you engage the stress response, your body wants to shut down.
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Your digestive system. Ohka, and this is why a lot
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of people have gastro intestinal problem stressed while they're eating.
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Wow, hearing you tell it that way, that makes sense.
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I can even understand that. But right now we're going
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to take a little break and hear about what Glitter
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Granny's been up to.
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Welcome to Glitter Granny Gifts to give or to get,
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she is adding to this list almost every day with
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she says, if it ain't that blank and doesn't mean
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Welcome that with my wonderful guest today, Doctor stevensider Off.
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Is not a whiner because this man is a winner
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and he's sharing with us an amazing book that he's
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written and it's now at Amazon. And doctor, do you
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have a website that you can promote right now?
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Yes, my website is doctor dr Stephansitteroff dot com, doctor
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stephansitterov dot com. And one of the things I want
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to offer for your audience is a My Resilience Assessment booklet.
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Oh and this describes my nine pillars of resilience. But
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beyond that, it has a questionnaire that your audience can take.
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They can self score and they can identify their personal
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resilience profile along my nine dimensions. Oh wow, fabulous. And
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how where do they go to your website to get it?
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They go to my website and they can get it
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for free. Okay.
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And is it an ebook or do you get a payer?
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It's an ebook.