Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Welcome back to the she Said podcast with Amy and Lisa. We're on episode six.
[00:00:05] Speaker B: We're here. We made it. Let's go.
[00:00:07] Speaker A: Six episodes.
[00:00:08] Speaker B: Yes. I. I hate to ask, how was your weekend? Because I imagine it was probably difficult.
[00:00:13] Speaker A: It was awful.
[00:00:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:14] Speaker A: I'm sorry.
[00:00:15] Speaker B: It was tough. I'm sorry. Don't cry. I'm sorry.
[00:00:18] Speaker A: Why can't you ever talk about it? And here's my other question. Why does your throat constrict?
[00:00:23] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:00:24] Speaker A: And then you sound like Mickey Mouse. Yeah, it was tough, and I wasn't expecting it to be tough. And I think what happened is Friday I asked my dad to come over and spend Easter here, which they've been coming to my house for the past several years for Easter, and he didn't want to.
[00:00:39] Speaker B: Oh, he didn't.
[00:00:41] Speaker A: He wanted to be at home. And he said, you know, this is my first time without her. I don't want to go anywhere. And I just thought, oh. And then when I was there Sunday, he actually told me that that was their very first day, it was Easter Sunday. And so I thought, well, that makes sense. But it's hard because he's always the guy that rolls with the punches, like, never lets anybody get. So to see him not doing well, it just breaks my heart. And so Saturday, I couldn't get up. I couldn't get out of the house. I couldn't get dressed. I couldn't do anything. I didn't get out of my pajamas until four, which I can't even tell you the last time that's happened. I'm just. I'm always that person that gets up and gets dressed and gets her makeup on, and. And I couldn't do it. And so then about halfway through the day, I'm like, do I just let myself live in this? Have I let myself actually just spend a day grieving? And I don't think I had before because I always try to be cheerful for my dad and, you know, try to keep him so he doesn't get down. And so I just thought, okay, I'm just going to live in this, and maybe that's going to help. But it didn't help. I mean, I was just blubbering mess. And every friend that called me started from the beginning and just, you know, and her sister texted me last night to see how I was doing. And I'm like, I'm struggling. I'm not doing well. And then her birthday's coming up, May 2, and then mother's Day. And so a lot of firsts. Yeah, it's hard.
[00:01:51] Speaker B: Okay. It's not abnormal. You're lucky. That's what we have to remember. We're lucky to have been able to love somebody that much because there are so many people who don't have that. Don't have that. I mean, I have many friends who are like, yeah, I just. It was a relief for them to have had someone.
[00:02:09] Speaker A: Wow, pass away. Can you imagine?
[00:02:11] Speaker B: No, I can't. I mean, and I've heard a lot of sad stories like that.
[00:02:14] Speaker A: So somebody said to me the other day that the grief you're feeling is the love that you have no place to send it, because it always went towards your mom and now she's not here. So that love is. There's. It's. There's nowhere to go with it. And it's just the hardest thing ever. But, you know, kind of to back up a little bit. The reason I really wanted to start this podcast was for kind of what we're doing. We're just. We're just talking about where we are in life because there's lots of ups and downs. And, you know, social media makes everything look so cheerful. And everybody's life is great, their marriages are happy and all. Everything's perfect and it's not. And so that's what kind of made me want to start this to begin with. And then right after, when I created everything, then my mom started getting sick, and so I didn't have the bandwidth to do both. I couldn't focus on my company that I've had for 25 years and, you know, help them and do this. And so I just sort of put it on the back burner. And a year ago, I had you come over and we recorded one. Cause I thought I was ready. And then she broke her ankle. And so then it started over again. And then now, as soon as she passed away, I just jumped right into it. And sometimes I question, am I ready for it yet? Did I do it too soon? Because does everybody want to hear me crying every time? And. But I knew you would understand because you've been through it with both parents, which I can't imagine, and you lost them really close together. So I'm glad we're here doing this. But I also know that we're going to have some sad podcasts. We're going to have some happy ones.
[00:03:35] Speaker B: It is. You know, it is shocking, though, the amount of people that I can think of, two people that I know of, and one of them are some clients of mine that I just had the pleasure of working with. And they lost their parents so close together that they ended up having. They buried them together.
[00:03:53] Speaker A: Oh gosh.
[00:03:54] Speaker B: And I know somebody else that that happened to. Parents died within 24 hours of each other. I just cannot even fathom. So when we think we have it so bad, there's like so much. There really is always something or someone always going through so much more and somehow they. They pull through. But it's a journey. I mean, it is a journey. And the things that you're talking about, like that's why I ducked out. Like I really hit out for a long time. That me stepping out, this is so new. Like when I tell you I stepped away from my family, I'm not gonna cry.
I stepped away from work. I stepped away from responsibilities. I mean, for years I quit going up to my kids school. I just didn't want to be seen. I didn't want to be asked, how are you? Because man, I wasn't good. I wasn't. And there's still lots of times I'm not. I still have a lot of healing to do. But I think there's so many times that people are hiding in their grief and we don't talk about it because we do have so many responsibilities. But I did. It changed me as a person, so. But here I am. I'm trying. Thanks to you. I do feel like everything is kind of aligned, you know, at the right time for me to kind of persevere. And it's amazing how many messages we've gotten. People who just wanted to share. Like just in my messenger and I got some text messages and people who talked about their trauma. Like someone named Jill sent a message and talked about how she's been going through edmr, I think, is that correct what it's called and how much that has helped her in her journey. Another lady has talked about her acupuncture and how she was concerned about hearing about your lack of sleep because she knows how important that is. And she mentioned an acupuncturist that she goes to, but something that she's been taking for her cortisol levels that has helped her. Just people reaching out and sharing. Another lady who was like ready to end her life over her postpartum depression and the doctors talked to her like she was crazy. And she was just like, this is what you guys coming out and just talking about things. Nobody would talk about any of this. So she was just encouraging in how having people talk about real grief and things that you walk through is so important. So. But these were real messages that we've gotten and it's been pretty encouraging.
[00:06:09] Speaker A: Yeah, it's been fun hearing from people. And the fact that people are really listening to it and really enjoying it and actually giving us feedback, which is great. And telling those stories because that just again, further proves that we're all living in it. We just don't always talk about it.
[00:06:24] Speaker B: Yes. And these are really not people that you would ever, ever suspect had this stuff going on. So just know, man, we are walking among hurt people. Yeah.
[00:06:35] Speaker A: Every day.
[00:06:35] Speaker B: Every day. And like just to. Just to have more patience with people, truly, to stop and smile even through your own pain. Really, a smile is contagious, but everyone's walking through something. And that is why patience infuses can run very short. But people shut down. So.
[00:06:53] Speaker A: Yeah. And I'm reminded, I remind myself of that often when you see someone and you're just, you can tell and you just think they're, you know, horrible people. And it's like you have to remind yourself, look how you're feeling today. Yeah, they're probably going through something. Just like you're going through something and trying to keep that in mind when someone cut you off in traffic or all those things. And it's. Yeah, we're all in the middle of it. And the fact that we get to talk about it and share what's happening to us, I think people can relate to it because they're in the middle of it too, in so many levels. I mean, we've talked about this before, how fortunate we were to have our parents as long as we did because a lot of my friends lost their parents long time ago.
[00:07:30] Speaker B: Long time ago.
[00:07:31] Speaker A: And I'm so fortunate. My mom was going to be 90 May 2nd and my dad's 90 almost in September. So very lucky. And I feel so fortunate. But it's also makes it our harder when they're gone too, because the sadness. What I did realize on Saturday when I finally was like, lisa, get up. You've got to do something with your life. You can't do this anymore. And I got up and I got showered and got my makeup on and actually got dressed and I, I just left the house. I thought I got to run errands, I got to get out. And doing that is just what astounds me so much about how that uplifts your spirit. It is so good getting up and getting your makeup on.
[00:08:07] Speaker B: It really is. I don't know that my mom was a very simple person, but there is one thing I just do not recall her ever doing. And that is going without makeup. She had a very simple face, and she was not a bougie person by any means. But my mother was put together even for a day in the house. She was put together, and my mom just always seemed to have it together. And I feel like at this generation, we've gotten so comfortable with being so casual all the time and yoga pants. Yeah. You know, and like, for instance, today, I thought it was interesting because two older gentlemen. And when I say that, I mean, I'm talking men in their 70s. Like, I have on high heels today with jeans. And for people that can't see, it's like blazer and heels and jeans. And I don't think we really don't see heels that often anymore. I love high heels. It kills my knee. So it's. I'm going to be a very limited amount of time that I can wear them. I thought it was really interesting how they went out of their way to tell me how much they liked my shoes. Like, they liked my high heels. And Steven reminded me this weekend how his grandpa, whenever his grandmother had passed away, she always wore high heels. And his grandpa had said, oh, Amy, how about I give you Mary Lee's high heels? Like, he just loved that she wore high heels. Wanted to make sure they went to a good home where they would, you know, get worn. Which, I mean, I. I don't recall ever getting any of her high heels.
[00:09:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:34] Speaker B: Is it, you know, our heels. Our heels and getting dressed up like that, becoming a thing of the past and still something that's still really desired and we forget. Good. It makes you feel to push through the tennis shoes and let's, you know, still get dressed up sometimes.
[00:09:47] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm not crazy about the tennis shoe phase going on.
[00:09:51] Speaker B: And I'm guilty. I mean, I had. No. I'm not worn really with dresses, but I'm guilty of having a lot of tennis shoes now. Cute. Tennis shoes.
[00:09:57] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:57] Speaker B: Because I'll wear them with my jeans or whatever. But, you know, we've kind of gotten away from getting dressed up, but I think people still appreciate it. Yeah.
[00:10:05] Speaker A: Yeah. I get dressed up every day. You know, I.
[00:10:07] Speaker B: You do. You're always dressed up.
[00:10:09] Speaker A: I have to. I just. I. I worked from home briefly in my. I've had the company 25 years, and in. In the very beginning, I worked from home for about six months, and I knew quickly I had to get out. I couldn't do it from home. And then in the middle of that, about 09, I was back home for maybe another six months. And I don't work as well. Like, I have got to get up and get dressed and get my makeup on and actually, weird. I don't wear. I don't even have really many casual clothes or like, you know, slouchy clothes. I really dress up every day because that's what makes me work better.
[00:10:41] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:42] Speaker A: And even my mom in skilled nursing would have me do her makeup and hair every single day. The physical therapist came in the first day I did it, and she's like, whoa, look at you. She goes, look good, feel good, I guess. Huh. And I thought that's exactly what my mom was doing. Yeah, she needed it because it made her feel better and not sick where she was. And so I've just always had that mentality and it just makes me work better when I get up and get out. And that's why I have an office. I'll have always have an office.
[00:11:10] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm talking to my sister today. And after Covid was all over, they sent part of their office back to three days a week at least. And her husband still gets to work from home five days a week. But we were just talking today about that and she said no. She enjoys being able to at least get out, you know, have a purpose. Because she's a little worried about retiring because she's like, I don't know that that's a little bit of a concern to like, what am I, you know, what am I going to do every day to get up, get dressed? It's easy to lose that.
[00:11:36] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it does make a huge difference.
[00:11:39] Speaker B: Okay, so let's talk about like getting up, getting dressed, all that. I tried a new self tanner last week. I don't think we talked about this last week.
[00:11:47] Speaker A: No, you didn't. You brought it. You were telling, telling me afterwards, I.
[00:11:50] Speaker B: Think, okay, so I went and tried the Bondi because I've always been an avid fake bake. You would never get me out of fake bake. I've always used that for still fake. 25 years. Yes. Like, fake bake was my. Is my go to. Well, I didn't get my hands on it this time. I needed a new bottle. So I went and I tried this Bondi One Hour Express. You can get it at Walmart. You know, Walmart actually has the best price on it. You can get it at Target, but the Walmart has the best price on it. Love it. It did a great job. I still apply with rubber gloves. That's how I learned with fake Bake. I put it on rubber gloves and you can use the mitt to kind of pat it out if you want. I will say the odor. I'm very sensitive to those odors and it drives me crazy. So after it it to set for an hour for sure. It did a great job. I did a second application the next day. Had a great tan. I also had a great nasty smell that I could smell. So I have heard. I've heard two tips which is really interesting because I heard you could get you go to the Dollar tree and literally get a ph balance the vagene wash from the Dollar tree and they say if you bathe your whole body in it and the ph. Because it's a ph balance.
[00:13:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:02] Speaker B: It will alter that. I was too embarrassed to go Dollar tree and go buy the jean wash.
[00:13:07] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:13:08] Speaker B: So I continued to research with my friend Chat GTP and they said that making a baking soda just baking powder wash would do the but so that's what I did. I mixed it with my soap. I bathe with baking soda and totally balanced neutralize the odor.
[00:13:26] Speaker A: It did.
[00:13:26] Speaker B: It worked.
[00:13:27] Speaker A: No, you said bathe. Do you mean in a tub?
[00:13:30] Speaker B: No. I got in the shower and I just mixed it with my soap.
[00:13:33] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:13:33] Speaker B: Yeah. And then just let it set for a little bit. Like when I say a little bit like a minute. I don't have that much patience. It got rid of my odor. Have not had an issue with it since. So that worked.
[00:13:43] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:13:45] Speaker B: I can't believe you're still using arm and hamburger.
Yeah, still use it.
[00:13:49] Speaker A: You were selling it when I.
[00:13:50] Speaker B: That's what I worked for. Yeah. Many years ago.
[00:13:53] Speaker A: That's hilarious.
[00:13:53] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:13:54] Speaker A: Okay. Have you ever had a CO2 laser.
[00:13:56] Speaker B: To change the subject now refractional. I've done professional. I used to get that done once a month for quite a while. But.
[00:14:05] Speaker A: I have not usually have to go under.
[00:14:08] Speaker B: Oh, I don't know. I want to do it but I don't know if I'm brave enough.
[00:14:12] Speaker A: I'm scared too because I have horrible reactions to everything. I'm that person that after I get anything done I text a picture back.
[00:14:19] Speaker B: To my divorce families.
[00:14:20] Speaker A: Saw that scary. But I saw a picture of a mother daughter and her mother is in her 60s and she looks better than her daughter gun wise. And so everybody always asks this girl who's in her 30s what her mother does. And her mother's in real estate. She lives in Colorado what her mother does to keep her skin. And she said religiously CO2 lasers.
[00:14:41] Speaker B: How often does she do it.
[00:14:43] Speaker A: I don't know. I didn't. I didn't get that.
[00:14:45] Speaker B: I remember a friend of mine getting one, and I was like, holy hell, I will not do that. Like, it scared. Like, it was crazy.
[00:14:51] Speaker A: It's like. Like major.
[00:14:53] Speaker B: So I don't know. I mean, I don't know. There's a lot I'm willing to do.
[00:14:57] Speaker A: But that one, you have to have a lot of downtime. I mean, you just have to know you're down. You're in the house for a week.
[00:15:03] Speaker B: 25 years ago, I don't even know. I was so dumb. I mean, when you work in a salon, you're dumb enough to really try anything because you go to beauty shows. You.
[00:15:12] Speaker A: You know, you hear it all.
[00:15:13] Speaker B: Oh, and a friend was learning how to.
Well, she worked at a plastic surgeon's office, and she was starting to do makeup tattooing. She's like, come on over. So I went over to her house, and I laid on her dining room table and, like, let her tattoo my lips. It's not there anymore, so. Thank you, Jesus. That was the most excruciating pain I've ever. You remember Wanda off a Saturday Night Live? Remember the black character? Big old lips. Like, that was the big deal was a little. That was my face. And I thought. I didn't know. They were just swollen with blood. The worst thing I could have ever done. I mean, it went away.
[00:15:52] Speaker A: I've heard that it's horribly painful.
[00:15:54] Speaker B: It was horrible.
[00:15:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:56] Speaker B: So. Yeah, I don't know about that. Laser.
[00:15:58] Speaker A: Well, they. They're either. You're either on the laughing gas or whatever that's called. I guess there's a medical term for it, not laughing gas, but you're either on that, or they'll give you something because it's pretty intense. And so I've never done it, but it's the thing to do if you really want to get your.
[00:16:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:15] Speaker A: Get your skin back. But I think that's the other thing, and you and I. I think a lot alike, is that it's. I think we realize that aging is not so much. It's on the surface, but it's deeper. It's at the cellular level. And I think that's where, like, yes. What your brother is doing and all the things that cellularly, it's not surface. I mean, surface helps, but you got to take the right kind of supplements and you've got to do all that to actually for sure get. You know, get it fixed on the inside. And I think. I mean, I just. I think we're fighting a battle that unless you start doing it internally as well and taking the right kind of supplements. And, like, I take a collagen that saves my joints if I take it like I'm supposed to, and if I don't, then I. I suffer for it because I definitely feel it when I'm not taking it. But.
[00:17:01] Speaker B: So he gave me a tip the other day when I was talking to him, because, my gosh, I have so much to learn when it comes to putting anything on my skin and. And taking supplements. And, um, because it's so easy to get deceived by the supplement market. You know, so much of it is just made in the lab and it's, you know.
[00:17:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:18] Speaker B: But he was like, his rule of thumb is, is it electron giving or is it electron taking? Meaning, does it, you know, does it give life or does it take it from life? So even if you go into Chat GTP and you put in a supplement that you're considering or an extract or, you know, like black seed oil by a certain company, you can literally ask it, is this electron giving or is this electron taking? And it will answer your question. It will tell you if, yes, this is exactly. This is the route you need to be thinking it. This is a great brand. It is organic. Like, again, you hear me say it all the time. Like, Chat GTP is like my best friend. I can. I don't even look at Google.
[00:18:00] Speaker A: I love it.
[00:18:01] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. And yes, it is so good. But you can really break down every single thing that you're taking, and you can just tell it every herb or every supplement, every pill that you have to take. And it will say, would you like for me to give you a daily schedule that works so they're not working against each other? And it will give you a chart of the best time to take each supplement, if it needs to be with food, if it needs. Even for your teen. Like, I give my kids, you know, vitamins. Hey, do you want me to. It makes me a PDF. Like, no work is involved other than me telling it what they take.
[00:18:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:34] Speaker B: So if you are not using Chat gtp, you're. I mean, you're missing out.
[00:18:38] Speaker A: Talk about his product that he has. Seems pretty fascinating to me, man. It is.
[00:18:42] Speaker B: And here's the thing. I. I asked him today, here I was like, george, have you ever put in your oil into Chat gtp? And he's like, I don't even have it. I've never used. He's like, I've done all this by My own research and, and all that. And so like I've said before, I mean he's an engineer by trade, but I always say he's like an engineer of body. Like he would. His knowledge is fascinating.
[00:19:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:04] Speaker B: And the hours that he's put into this is insane too. So he has something called. Oh, so if you did. The easiest thing for me to say is go to Solar Essence Skincare and it's one bottle full of all kinds of like non hybrid oils. It's organic. You can't. Now you. He can't advertise that. You can take it internally. I do. He does. Kids do like it. We take it internally. You just put some drops under your tongue. That is nothing that can be advertised by him. It's just what I do. You can put it all over your face, you can wash your face with it. It's an oil, but it is a. It will control your oil. It works with every skin care. Now I did find out on. When you look at the website from your phone, I had to let him know something was going on with his testimonials. Like it looks like there's a big blank and there aren't because I knew he had a bunch on there. Apparently there's a glitch and they're working on it today and you have to scroll all like, just keep scrolling through this blank space and then you'll see testimonials. But it's helped people with rosacea and like eczema, all kinds of things. And the smell is just so clean and so good and it's so good for you. He did give me a code and it's Amy 15 and he said that can be a reoccurring code. So if you become a re. You know, if you reorder, you can keep using that code to get 15% off.
[00:20:23] Speaker A: Oh, that's cool.
[00:20:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:25] Speaker A: So say the website again.
[00:20:27] Speaker B: $Essence skincare.com and it is like if you're really, if you're into, you know, the nerdy stuff and want to read, he has put the information in there for people to see. Like his thought process behind this and what all he's put into it and it's mind blowing.
[00:20:43] Speaker A: So crazy. Well, it looked pretty fascinating. I'm definitely ordering some today. I'm excited about it.
[00:20:49] Speaker B: It's good.
[00:20:49] Speaker A: Do exercise.
[00:20:50] Speaker B: That was funny you should say that because I have started going to the gym again.
[00:20:54] Speaker A: You have?
[00:20:55] Speaker B: And I have. Yes, I have. I've started lifting weights again. Um, and this was not anything I've. I've put it off a long time ago because of injuries and was like, well, I guess I'm just done. But since I had started going to physical therapy so much, I, you know, it really kind of made me a little more confident. And so, yes, I have actually started. I can say it now is that I have started going back and lifting weights again.
[00:21:18] Speaker A: So that's. I'm. Yeah, too. I stopped about six years ago now. I. I worked out, you know, before diagnosed eight years ago. Always work 15 times a week.
[00:21:27] Speaker B: Yeah, you are insane with that.
[00:21:29] Speaker A: Crazy. And I continued that to some degree. During chemo. I asked my oncologist, can I still work out? And he said, keep doing what you're doing. Don't try to run a marathon if you haven't run a marathon before, but definitely keep doing what you're doing. So I did. And I don't know if I just. Because, you know, obviously chemo destroys every cell in your body. And I don't know if. Because I was working out, trying to keep it at that same level, obviously some days I couldn't. Afterwards, I could never recover. Like, I was sore all the time. I could never get over that horrible deep muscle soreness. So finally I was like, I gotta take a break. I need to just get my body. And what I. I think I was telling you earlier is that a hysterectomy because of cancer, your hips just kill you. I have the worst hip pain. And I would go, I. I went six different CT scans. Talking oncologist into giving me CT scans because I'm convinced I have bone cancer. Well, then I found out it's just. In fact, last week I was talking to Karen, my client, that's a nurse practitioner, and I said, why is it that when you have a hysterectomy, you're bone, your hips hurt so much? And she goes, I said, is it because your organs are different? Because you've lost a big chunk of an organ that sits there? And she goes, lisa, it's the depletion from a thousand to zero of hormones. And so, you know, I just have this achy body where my joints just kill me. And so I just have not gotten back into it. And I, I know, I get it, the age. You got to lift weights, you got to keep your fear. If you're not lifting weights now, when you're 80, you're going to be able to function. I watched my mom do that. And so, you know, I keep reading about just walk and do some, you know, lightweights. You don't have to be, you know, like, I was literally 15 times a week. I worked out. I couldn't get enough of it.
[00:23:07] Speaker B: You were always doing it.
[00:23:08] Speaker A: And so I can't, you know, obviously I'll never get back to that point, but I get it that you have to do something. And so I'm.
[00:23:14] Speaker B: I'm so my friend, she is honestly chronically in pain and she just started going to that club, Pilates, that has the tables. Yeah, he loves it, like. And hear her say that she loves it. This is pretty shocking to me. And she's been going so that my. And she has a lot of pain.
[00:23:33] Speaker A: Yeah, I tried that after chemo. I tried everything after chemo. Just. And I hated it. I didn't. I didn't enjoy it at all. The stretching, legs in the air. Yeah. Yeah. It's a. It's. Everything's very slow. I mean, I was, you know, I came. I did boxing.
[00:23:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:49] Speaker A: Classes. So it was all fat.
[00:23:51] Speaker B: Totally different.
[00:23:52] Speaker A: Try to kill me to see how fat, how hard they could get my heart rate up. So I didn't enjoy Pilates, but I got to do something that's funny as my body's just going downhill rapidly. And I tried the red light goggles, by the way, today. They came in the mail yesterday.
[00:24:05] Speaker B: How do I look? Do you see?
[00:24:07] Speaker A: I see you very well.
[00:24:08] Speaker B: Pour on my face.
[00:24:10] Speaker A: It's really weird. So you wear them for only three minutes and they suggest you do it in the morning. And to just recap, these red light goggles are supposed to help with farsightedness, supposed to improve your vision, and it helps seal the myochondria, which is at the back of the eye. And so you suggest that you do it early morning but have it done by mid morning. I guess your eyes are more receptive early morning than later in the day. And you do it every five days. The feeling that takes. It's not going to hurt you if you did it more. But there's no proof that it actually makes it right. Improve faster. You wear them. And as you're. It's red, obviously, when you put them on because it's red light. And as you wear them, you're. It turns every color under the rainbow. It's purple and then there's yellow and then there's green. Never goes back to red. It's always a different color, which is weird.
[00:24:56] Speaker B: In fact, that's your own eyes doing that.
[00:24:58] Speaker A: It's your ret. Yeah. It's not the light, it's saying red. But your retina is doing all that and so then it shuts off after three minutes. And when it said your vision will be a little different when you're done, it was like looking through a kaleidoscope or something. My. It was so clear.
[00:25:15] Speaker B: Hd.
[00:25:15] Speaker A: It's almost like when you put those sunglasses on when you're out in the sun that are have that almost a blue color to them. So everything just looks beautiful. Yeah, that's what it looked like for just, like 30 seconds. 60 seconds. It didn't last long. Yeah. So we'll see if by, you know, a week from now. Well, not probably a week because I've only. Will only do it one other time before our next podcast, but interesting.
[00:25:36] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:25:37] Speaker A: I'm gonna have 20. 20. Yeah, exactly. If I don't have to use reading glasses, I will be so happy.
[00:25:44] Speaker B: Yeah, I can only imagine.
[00:25:46] Speaker A: So crazy. But, yeah. So I, I, I was excited to get those. And then another recap from last week.
[00:25:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:52] Speaker A: I'm wearing a nicotine.
[00:25:55] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:25:56] Speaker A: I don't feel any different.
[00:25:59] Speaker B: Well, I haven't tried it yet, so.
[00:26:01] Speaker A: I want to know. This is my second day to wear it. I wore it.
What's today? Tuesday. Friday. Like three hours. I didn't really notice anything. I mean, I don't know what I'm gonna notice because I don't have, you know.
[00:26:13] Speaker B: How many grams did you get?
[00:26:15] Speaker A: I did seven, and I cut it in half.
[00:26:17] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:26:17] Speaker A: And so I'm wearing a half.
[00:26:19] Speaker B: So I wonder what would happen if you.
[00:26:20] Speaker A: Maybe I need. Yeah, I might be swinging. Right.
[00:26:24] Speaker B: The shame.
[00:26:25] Speaker A: I don't know. But I don't really feel any different. But I don't know what I'm gonna feel like. I don't know.
[00:26:29] Speaker B: I wonder. I'd have to ask my friend how much they take. But I do know the people that I know have adhd, which I think you said you do not.
[00:26:36] Speaker A: I do not. Yeah. I do think that that's also long covet. It's supposed to be coming with those symptoms, and I don't have that. It's also just for autoimmune, which sometimes I wonder if I have an autoimmune. I've never truly been diagnosed, but. But I think that takes a while to get diagnosed. I'm getting ready to do some more blood work, so I don't know, let's.
[00:26:54] Speaker B: Keep it up for maybe a week and see what happens. If you notice.
[00:26:57] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm going to keep drawing and see if I notice a big difference. But anyway, so.
[00:27:02] Speaker B: Well, okay, so we had talked about the chin strap, but for Two different reasons.
[00:27:09] Speaker A: Oh yeah.
[00:27:11] Speaker B: Okay, so I won't name any names of people that I know that. Okay, we'll just. I know lots of people that snore.
[00:27:19] Speaker A: Oh yeah, Okay.
[00:27:20] Speaker B: I know lots of people that snore. It is not me. I'm just gonna go.
[00:27:24] Speaker A: You don't snore?
[00:27:24] Speaker B: No, I do not snore, but I know lots of people that snore. Family members, whatever. But you know, and I have a family member who's had to take a CPAP when we bomb place. I'm like, man, that's a lot for her to go through to bring places. So I'm like, those are very cumbersome to take places. So we read about these like Amazon chin straps that you can get like just to help keep the mouth shut.
[00:27:45] Speaker A: You're sleeping.
[00:27:46] Speaker B: Yeah. While you're sleeping. Cuz like I heard people like sound like they're going to die.
Like, are you going to come back to life when you're. So this chin strap has completely fixed the issue. So if there's anybody out there looking that like at a cpap, like going the extreme of a CPAP machine, they need to consider this $10 chin strap or snoring off of Amazon because it will potentially absolutely solve your issue before having to do that cpap.
[00:28:18] Speaker A: And so does it. Was it designated as that?
[00:28:21] Speaker B: Yeah, you can chin strap. So then when I saw what you were talking about, they looked very similar. You said there were some that like kind of hold your chin up. And I remember seeing that because I was like, well, maybe I need that for my neck.
[00:28:32] Speaker A: Yeah, Well, I got one in my red light mask that I bought for my face. Came with a chin strap that you. It's like, it looks like someone that sets the hip.
[00:28:43] Speaker B: I'm not scared.
[00:28:45] Speaker A: So I tried it for the, you know, the turkey neck that we all have as we get older. And I'm telling you, I've done it three times.
[00:28:52] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:28:52] Speaker A: And I do feel I see a difference.
[00:28:55] Speaker B: Oh, I'm telling you. And you know, I did the neck exercises where, you know, from when I had that surgery, I'm real paranoid about where I do have.
Except like, I don't like it.
[00:29:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:06] Speaker B: So I started doing just exercises where you lift your chin up and you kind of just gape your mouth open, you pull your neck.
[00:29:12] Speaker A: Right.
[00:29:13] Speaker B: My neck was so sore. It was so obvious I had not been working those muscles. So when they tell you to do neck exercises, do them like they do you you that they're doing something because I can tell You. It was like I had just done barbells on them because they hurt. My neck hurts so bad after that. The soreness in it.
[00:29:30] Speaker A: Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean I. I didn't. I'd never thought about it for snoring, but that totally makes sense because when you, when it's on there, it keeps.
[00:29:37] Speaker B: Your mouth shut and you don't.
[00:29:38] Speaker A: It is. Yes, it shut work.
[00:29:40] Speaker B: So I mean for $10 and a little bitty chin strap, I mean it didn't like the hottest looking thing.
[00:29:46] Speaker A: Well, no, I think there's a cpap.
[00:29:47] Speaker B: I mean, come on, let's be honest.
[00:29:49] Speaker A: I can't even imagine a cpap. Well, I laugh because I think, man, if people could see what I look like in my house in the evenings. It's got mask and chin straps. But boy, you got to do something because that little turkey neck just keeps getting worse and worse. So that's so funny though. I'd never thought about it for snoring, but it totally sense.
[00:30:09] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:30:09] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:30:09] Speaker B: So you can get them on there. It's like a two pack for 20 bucks that you can get them where they have individuals. But by the two pack you're bound to lose one.
[00:30:16] Speaker A: So we will be back next week. We'll put links for. For whatever we talked about today on our Instagram, which is just she said Sed is how we spell said. And then we have a private group on Facebook if you want to follow that. We'll get you on that page and we'll post links and then.
[00:30:33] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:30:33] Speaker A: So we'll see you next week.
[00:30:34] Speaker B: Bye.
