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Ed Watters: To overcome, you must educate.

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Educate not only yourself, but
educate anyone seeking to learn.

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We are all Dead America,
we can all learn something.

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To learn, we must challenge
what we already understand.

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The way we do that is
through conversation.

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Sometimes we have conversations with
others, however, some of the best

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conversations happen with ourselves.

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Reach out and challenge yourself; let’s
dive in and learn something new right now.

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Today we are speaking with Kim
Rahir, she is the creator of

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the Fabulous in 15 program.

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Kim, could you please introduce yourself?

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Let people know just a little
more about you, please?

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Kim Rahir: Yeah.

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So I’m a sixty year old German
lady, mom of three, I live in Spain,

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um, and I used to be a journalist
for the longest time until I fell

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very ill with autoimmune diseases.

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And I had sort of two bouts with
that, um, was supposed to be taking

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lifelong treatment for quite some time.

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I’m off that now and I think that’s
in part because I decided to go

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my own way and become physically
strong, develop muscle mass,

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become really like insanely strong.

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Um, and when I was taking
off my medication, I felt

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that I was onto something.

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So I started learning, uh, taking
online certifications, personal

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trainer certifications to be able to
help women around the world, um, get

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better, feel better, empowered, happier,
healthier also with the same system

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where it’s really just about building
physical strength and then have so many

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things, including your mental health,
will fall in place as a side effect.

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Ed Watters: I find that Fabulous.

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So let’s talk a little
bit about your program.

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What is it and why do women need it?

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Kim Rahir: It’s a very, very, um,
simple sort of baseline approach.

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And I think that’s what women need
because they’ve been overfed so much

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information, so much conflicting stuff.

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So, so many things they need to keep
in mind, or do, or eat, or not eat.

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And my approach helps you become strong,
mobile, um, uh, boost your energy

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levels in, you know, incredible ways
by just training fifteen minutes a day.

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It really doesn’t take more than that.

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And it’s an important part of getting
in shape because knowing what to

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do is only part of the problem, the
other part is actually doing it.

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Um, and I’m solving that problem by giving
you something that you can do in fifteen

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minutes in the comfort of your home.

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That way we lower the resistance,
uh, we remove most obstacles that get

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in the way when you want to change.

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So many women, they want to change,
they want to live healthier, they want

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to move, but they have such a tightly
packed schedule and they have some inner

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resistance too, because change is scary.

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So this fifteen minutes a day approach
takes all those sort of obstacles,

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most of those obstacles, out of
the way and make it easy to start.

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And then I will start you after
an assessment, so you will

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start exactly where you are at.

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I’m not going to prescribe just
any old program, uh, we’re going to

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really look what your situation is.

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And that is also very powerful
because when we reach middle age

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and we do those awesome workouts
from YouTube, and they are great, we

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tend to get hurt or very frustrated.

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Ed Watters: Yeah.

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I know as we age, things do get harder.

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You know, it’s not easy aging.

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But if we can age with grace,
that is really the big thing.

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It was counterintuitive when we
actually came across what you say

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is the pitfalls of healthy eating.

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What do you mean by that?

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Kim Rahir: The problem with healthy
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that it’s, it’s actually far too vague.

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When you are not twenty anymore, let
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specific and very intentional, uh, with
what you do and what you want to achieve.

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And healthy eating is,
it could mean anything.

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It means one thing for someone who’s
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someone who is an endurance athlete.

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It means a totally different thing
for someone who has food intolerances.

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So healthy eating in general
is not helpful as a concept.

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And then so many women are really keen
on losing weight, dropping some, some

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of that weight that they’re carrying.

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And healthy eating is
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You have to eat for weight loss
because even that is different.

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Now, you don’t want to stuff yourself
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protein bars just to lose weight.

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But still, the approach to losing
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healthy is a little bit different.

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And it has to be that specific because
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react more slowly or differently.

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And we really have to find out,
What is my exact specific goal and

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how am I going to eat for that?

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Ed Watters: I like that a lot.

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That explains that in a good
fashion, very palatable.

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So now, I know getting older is hard
for both men and women, but women,

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they tend to be smaller in stature
than men with their muscle mass and

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all of this, so could you talk to
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important to maintain that muscle mass.

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Kim Rahir: Yes, absolutely.

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It’s, it’s health insurance
and it’s life insurance.

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And it’s all explainable by our
evolution, how we evolved as humans.

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We have always lived and thrived
in environments in where we

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were physically challenged.

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We, our bodies optimized for being
in movement every day, our bodies

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optimized for being, you know,
pushing stuff, pulling stuff, uh,

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lifting things from the floor, uh,
getting things down from up overhead.

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Um, and it’s not something where, you
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our world has changed so much that
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uh, we drive to work, um, even our
entertainment streams into our home.

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And then we want to be healthier,

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we want to do something, so
we start moving a little bit.

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Actually, from a health perspective,
the default situation, the optimized,

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the situation is the one where we move
as much as we can every single day.

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And, and because we evolved this way,
muscle is like the tissue of longevity.

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Um, it will improve your cardiovascular
health, your metabolic health, your

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bone health, your joint health.

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And we now know that, you know,
training for muscle, moving for muscle

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mass, even, um, really improves your
mental health in a big, big way.

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Um, I think the problem with women is,
um, a cultural one, actually, because

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we are not raised with this, with this,
um, ideal of becoming physically strong.

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We’re taught to be pretty
and cute and elegant.

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And when we have like nice
parents, they’re going to

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tell us to get an education.

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Um, but basically the idea
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is not in our virtue catalog.

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Which is, um, also doesn’t make a
lot of sense because you would never,

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say, Oh, carrying around toddlers and
groceries is not feminine, you know?

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Women go to the gym,

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sometimes they pick up dumbbells
that weigh a pound and at home they

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carried pounds and pounds of groceries
or toddlers that, that weigh a lot.

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So it’s actually quite natural for
women also to, to be strong physically.

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But our culture has evolved in a
way where, um, it’s, it’s, it’s not

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like our first intuitive choice when
we start feeling age, when we start

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getting those health problems, when
the weight creeps up and we feel creaky

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and achy and, uh, and low on energy.

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Um, this is not the first idea that,
not the first thought, thought that

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we turn to, um, but it’s actually, I
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but, because it gives you so many
benefits and will take care of a lot

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of things with just one intervention.

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Ed Watters: That’s nice.

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Uh, now one thing that really makes
me curious is your bone structure.

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My wife, she has osteopenia, and it’s
kind of like osteoporosis, I guess.

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Now, this, women tend to have
issues with is that bone density.

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What, what can you do to help
that and maintain muscle mass

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along with your bone density?

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Kim Rahir: Yeah.

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It’s a one stop shop actually too, because
when you train for strength, when you

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load your body, your limbs, your, with
weight, um, you improve your bone density.

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Bone is, is very adaptive and the body
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support and it’s all about allocation
of resources actually in the body.

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It’s the, it’s the same in
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the same in the human body.

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It’s about allocation of resources.

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And the body will only allocate
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signals that they are needed.

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So if we do not load our bones, uh, the
body will not only not reinforce them and,

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and, and keep rebuilding them, but it will
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So what, what we want to do
is load the bones, weight

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bearing exercises and walking.

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And, uh, running will not cut it,
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You need to do some kind of lifting or
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you really challenge and stress your
muscles and your bones and then the

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body will respond with that allocation
of resources and make them stronger.

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Ed Watters: And, and also
pushing and pulling is a good

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category to be in on that.

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You know, pulling a wagon around
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that, that’s always a good thing.

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So tell me, Kim, what got you from being
a journalist into a coach like this?

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Kim Rahir: Well, I had like a
traumatic, um, incident, something

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really unpleasant happening to me.

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I was forty-five, I was
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My kids were small and I was struck
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next by what turned out to be a
syndrome, Guillain Barre, at the time.

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Which is a, one of autoimmune, um, attack.

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So my body started
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Um, I noticed this because I picked up my
kids from school and I was seeing double.

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So the muscles and nerves that
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had already been attacked.

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They were looking at what was
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quite some time, they weren’t sure.

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Um, and after three weeks in hospital,
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I couldn’t wiggle a toe.

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And they still didn’t really
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So that was, that was super scary.

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Um, and you end up
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You know, you tell them,
Come on, tell me what it is.

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This uncertainty is, is,
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But I learned an important lesson.

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I mean, at the time, I
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Today, I’m grateful for that experience
because what I learned the hard way is,

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you can be out of this in, you know,
one day from one minute to the next.

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When you’re a mom, I had three
kids, you always think, Oh, if I’m

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not there, nothing’s going to work.

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Everything’s going to collapse.

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I have to do everything,

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I have to be there for
everyone and for everything.

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Um, and I, I was not there
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I came home from the hospital for
Christmas and there was a Christmas

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tree and there were presents and, uh,
you know, and I hadn’t done any of it.

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So it had worked, and I find that
experience quite liberating actually.

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And it’s something, you know, I, I wish
I could sort of transmit that message

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to women who still think that if they
won’t be around, then nothing is going

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to, like the world will come to an end.

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It won’t.

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Um, and I think that can take
some of the pressure off your, off

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your life, because you know that
you do not have to do everything.

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So finally they decided it
was Guillain Barré which is a

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one of, it comes and it goes.

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And I was even lucky because
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Sometimes it can be ascending paralysis
and then you have to be ventilated.

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Um, it didn’t get that far for me.

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I got some treatment after this.

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Um, and then after a year, I
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of health and I was so grateful.

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I, I was, I already, I was much
more grateful for everything because

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you know, when one day you complain
about having to do the dishes and

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the next day you’re paralyzed in
the hospital and all you dream about

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is being able to do the dishes.

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And, um, I had learned that lesson.

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And with this clean bill of health,
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getting a new shot at life, and
I’m going to make the most of it.

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And I think, I think I became a
cooler mom, and I took everything, you

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know, with a lot of, uh, detachment.

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Um, my quality of life improved, my,
like, my mental health improved because

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I, you know, I was able to, um, sort
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easily because you realize it’s all, at
the end of the day not that important.

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As long as, you know, as long as you’re
able to walk, oh my God, you don’t know,

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don’t, don’t complain about anything else.

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Then another year went by and
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and I knew this wasn’t good.

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And, um, I went to the doctor
again, you know, you must know,

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this is all in different places.

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The first one was in Berlin, this one,
the hand going numb, that was in Paris.

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Um, and I was told after examinations
that this was, um, a different animal,

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that this was an attack of the immune
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the nerves, and that this was MS.

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And I thought that was a really low
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first thing, which was really traumatic,
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To feel totally dehumanized and,
and you have absolutely no power.

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you know, behind this.

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I had, that I was over this, that
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And then I got this diagnosis,
which is even scarier because you

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have no idea where you’re going.

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You have no idea what’s
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And, um, the, the one thing, the
only thing that I, that I knew how

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to do after, after that diagnosis,
was not look into the future.

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I did not allow myself to look into
the future because it was too scary.

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I focused on the moment, on the day.

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I wanted to spend the day as, as
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my kids, make the most of it.

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experience and the powerlessness.

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Do strength training.

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Armed myself with a book, one
of the first books that said

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women should lift heavy too.

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I became so confident.

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to be able to rely on my body again.

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Because when you have autoimmune
issues, like your body attacking

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itself, it’s a bit like a betrayal.

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Like your body’s betraying you.

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I had a Spanish neurologist, um, who,
and I was taking treatment for the MS, of

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course, you know, you get that diagnosis
you’re in for lifelong treatment.

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And after three years of watching
me, you know, sort of breezing

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through the checkups, he said, Would
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Um, that was now seven years ago, I’ve
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and without relapses for seven years.

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A second, second lease on life.

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Um, I, I’m even more
grateful every single day.

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And that was also the moment when
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something here with what I did.

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And while I don’t claim that you can
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overall beneficial effects, and we
talked about this before, um, I felt

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this urge to carry this message out there
and, and tell as many women as possible

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and help as many women as possible
to, to use this one stop shop, um, and

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to, to become happier and healthier.

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You know, with this just very
simple, simple intervention.

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Ed Watters: I think it’s important
also that you touched on, you

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know, don’t worry about it.

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Stress kills the body.

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And I, I suffer from fibromyalgia
and that, that just comes, I

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basically see it coming more
when I’m under a lot of stress.

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So stress can really affect
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Your mental, your physical, your
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at peace with yourself in many ways.

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So if we can find that, that,
that’s just truly a gift in itself.

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Kim, you used to be a journalist,
now you’re out here podcasting.

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You do this very well.

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Is there plans to incorporate a
podcast into your overall journey?

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Kim Rahir: It’s interesting because
I got asked this question like

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three times over the last two weeks.

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Um, and I’m thinking about this.

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I, I, I think it’s something that I
enjoy, connecting with people, talking

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with people, like meeting you today.

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I know that it’s a big project.

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Um, and I’m going to look at that
when I feel ready because there’s

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so many very frightening statistics
about podcasts that die after episode

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three or something like this and I
wouldn’t want to be one of those.

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Ed Watters: Well Kim, I can tell you
just from discussing here today things

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with you, you’re good at this and you
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that’s truly what podcasting is about.

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You would have no trouble at all staying
engaged and I can see that pretty clear.

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Uh, podcasters, they get this
thing, they think they’re not

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worthy of holding the position.

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It’s, it’s an inferiority complex.

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And, you know, I don’t think
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You know what you’re doing and you can
engage and articulate very well what

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you mean and it can really help people.

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So I’m always pushing people towards
a podcast and you’re, you’re one of

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those that I really don’t feel that
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So I encourage you to look deeper into it.

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And you know, we’re out here helping.

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So, you know, the more we
discover who we are and what we

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can do, it’s truly a good thing.

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Kim Rahir: I totally agree.

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Ed Watters: Uh, Kim, do you have a
call to action for our listeners today?

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Kim Rahir: Yes.

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I, well, they can look at my
website, um, kimrahir.com and go on

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there to find a health assessment
to find out where they are at.

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So if you want to know how your
strength and your health is right

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now, I think that can be very helpful
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really very clear on where we stand.

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And we could be much stronger than we
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And this questionnaire is really
about how this whole thing

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integrates into your entire life.

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So it’s not about doing five pushups,
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do when you have to lift your, your
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How, just find out, you
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And then I can, um, give you a few tips,
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So that’s something,
um, you want to look at.

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Make sure you know where you start because
you want to change, you want to go from

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A to B, you need to know where A is.

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Ed Watters: And can you share
where people can locate you

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and, uh, get in touch with you?

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Kim Rahir: Yes.

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So the first one is my
website, kimrahir.com.

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And then with my name, Kim Rahir, you can
find me on Facebook and Instagram and,

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and, um, I share a lot of information,
tips and thoughts, um, a little bit

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of my own weightlifting adventures.

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Try to make it fun, uh, like
entertaining and informative.

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And you find me there
with my name Kim Rahir.

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Ed Watters: I really like what
you’re doing and I appreciate

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that you came on here today to
share it with us on the podcast.

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Thank you for being here, Kim.

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Kim Rahir: Thank you
so much for having me.

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Ed Watters: Thank you
for joining us today.

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If you found this podcast enlightening,
entertaining, educational in any way,

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please share, like, subscribe, and join
us right back here next week for another

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great episode of the Dead America Podcast.

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I’m Ed Watters, your host, enjoy
your afternoon wherever you might be.