Welcome to the

Peak Revival Podcast.

My name is Vesta, and

today I'm gonna talk about

your 2026 health strategy.

What every high performing

woman should be tracking.

I was doing a training this

morning with a pretty high

level entrepreneur and she

talked about, you know,

one of the biggest blocks

that she sees in founders

in their business is.

Not their team or their

sales or marketing or

their strategy, or their

offer or their product,

whatever it is, right?

The biggest block

is the founder.

The founder is the biggest

block to the business, and

she shared a story about

how someone was stuck at

a particular revenue in

their business and, uh,

couldn't really, his ego

wouldn't allow for him to

see that it was really him.

And, and, you know, she

had a conversation with

him and he was like, right,

so who do I need to become

to get to that next level?

And she said, within

24 months he had.

Gone from 5 million

to a hundred million

dollars business, which

is crazy amounts, right?

It was really interesting

and I really liked the story

that she shared because she

really brought it back to the

person, to the business owner.

So I think, you know,

oftentimes, and I talk about

this in in my work and in my

podcast, we are looking for

the right team or the right

mentor, or the right coach

or the right, whatever it is.

But really it

comes back to us.

A lot of growth that I've

seen in my business has

come from not being in any

masterminds, or I've only just

started in a mastermind this

year, but for 10 years I was

leaning into my own wellbeing,

my mental bandwidth,

my emotional bandwidth

with mental clarity.

But I'm gonna talk more

about health specifics today

and really bring it back to

you as a business owner, as

an executive, as a leader.

And it could be your

leading your family,

your community, right?

So bring it back to you.

And your personal

operating system, right?

Your personal operating system

is what's impacting everything

around you and feeds into

everything that you do.

So how you show up on

a day-to-day basis,

you're mirroring that

for your team, right?

And on what discipline looks

like about what meeting, um.

Deadlines and about taking

care of yourself and

emotional regulation and

all of those things we

mirror to our team, right?

So it's one thing to say

something, as you would know,

if you have kids, one thing

to say something, it's another

thing to act it out and do it.

That's the way that we

teach people around us.

And so really, you don't

see very successful people.

And I'm not just talking

business success, but success

in the business world and

in family and home life.

You don't see people like

that who are tired and grumpy

and snapping and surviving

off caffeine or soft drinks

or whatever it is, right?

There'll be days where

they're not at their best,

but majority of the time

they're operating at a really

high level because they've

got their personal operating

system really dialed in.

So what you need is

a health strategy,

not just health goals.

So this idea of just

having more sleep and lose

losing a couple of kilos,

or you want more energy

is not sufficient, right?

We need goals and systems

and things that we can track

to make sure that you are

fully optimized to operate

at your highest level.

So just like you have

things that you track in

your business, there are,

business plans and business

dashboards and all the

things that we look at

in our business, but your

health is the same, right?

And so if you wanna be

metabolically mentally and

emotionally strong, these

are the things that I would

recommend that you look at.

So I'm gonna talk about five

metrics that matter most

for high performing women.

Number one is your

metabolic markers.

Things in your blood tests,

which I recommend you

do them, is things like

fasting insulin, fasting

glucose, looking at your

waist circumference, right?

Your cholesterols,

your triglycerides.

All of these things point

to your metabolic health.

There are more detailed

tests, but that is a

really good place to start.

You may have even had that

test already when you went

for your recent checkup

with your doctor, and he

may, he or she may have

done those tests for you.

So looking at your

fasting glucose, like I

said, fasting insulin.

Waste circumference and

your cholesterols gives you

an idea of, is your body

burning energy efficiently?

Is it able to burn off body

fat for fuel, or is your

energy completely unstable?

Your brain is not

getting enough fuel.

So you've got brain fog,

you've got 3:00 PM slump,

you know, energy's all

over the place, right?

These are warning signs of

insulin resistance, where

metabolically, what that

means is less energy, less.

Performance, more weight gain.

Okay.

And that's what

we want to avoid.

It's very hard to be

high performing when

your metabolism is

really suffering, right?

Because we are just

not getting that energy

production from the metabolism

if it's not healthy.

Okay?

So it's already reducing

your capacity significantly.

The second one is your

stress recovery curve.

Like looking at things like

morning cortisol levels,

your stress hormones,

are they within range?

Looking at what you're

doing for rest and or

re restoration, right?

That was one of the questions

that came up in the training.

Someone said,

well, what is rest?

Which I laughed.

Um, and she was like,

rest is restoration.

So whatever is.

Stores, you whatever

feels restorative.

So you know, it could

be running, it could be

sleeping a bit extra.

It could be just

sitting out in the sun.

It could be reading a book.

It could be sitting

down with a cup of tea.

Whatever it feels

like for you.

That is restorative.

That's your rest time.

And how often are you

incorporating that rest

into your day, week?

And you need to really

schedule it in like meetings.

Okay?

So without the rest, you

cannot be at an optimal

personal operating system

at all.

Okay.

So in one of the other

previous episodes I talked

about wintering, which

I talked about a time

where we can, you know,

self-reflect and rejuvenate.

You know, we wanna have

pockets of this throughout

the week and through our day.

So our body is

constantly recovering.

It's constantly

resetting itself.

The other thing that you

want to track, number three

is your sleep quality.

probably one of the biggest

things that I hear that women

have issues with is sleep.

And so either getting to

bed late, being a night

owl, not getting enough

deep sleep time, right?

So really tracking.

Are you getting to bed

before 10 00:06:35

00 PM and are

before 10 00:06:36

you getting eight hours?

before 10 00:06:38

Right, because otherwise,

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if not, you're not

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getting your REM.

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You're not getting

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that deep sleep time.

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That's important to do.

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The repair work.

before 10 00:06:46

The mental restorative

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work, it kind of clears

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up the brain, right?

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Detoxifies the brain.

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It clears our emotions.

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It's important for

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emotional regulation.

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It's important

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for mental health.

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There's so many

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benefits to it.

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We are not machines.

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We need the downtime, the

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repair work that happens

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overnight, but if we are

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not getting that deep sleep

before 10 00:07:03

time, it's not happening.

before 10 00:07:04

Okay.

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So are you getting

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to bed on time?

before 10 00:07:07

Are you able to sleep through

before 10 00:07:08

or are you waking up multiple

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times through the night?

before 10 00:07:11

And it's driving

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you bananas, right?

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So that needs to

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be tracked and that

before 10 00:07:13

needs to be addressed.

before 10 00:07:15

So no matter how bad

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your sleep patterns are,

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they can be improved.

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They can go back

before 10 00:07:20

to normal, okay?

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They can go to a

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place where it's very

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healthy sleep patterns.

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And without that proper

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sleep, we have very poor

before 10 00:07:27

emotional regulation.

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We don't have mental

before 10 00:07:29

clarity and we just,

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our metabolism is really

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struggling at a low level.

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Number four, tracking

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mental bandwidth.

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So we do this tracking

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tool where we trap track

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how much deep work you do.

before 10 00:07:41

Okay?

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So your mental clarity,

before 10 00:07:44

your focus, your you know,

before 10 00:07:46

mental reactivity, right?

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So the amount of.

before 10 00:07:49

Deep work that you can

before 10 00:07:51

do for a period of time

before 10 00:07:52

without interruption

before 10 00:07:54

gives you an indication

before 10 00:07:55

of your mental bandwidth.

before 10 00:07:56

Okay?

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And so people will find that.

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They'll sit down to

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do something and they

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get distracted by all

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these different things.

before 10 00:08:01

When they're tracking what

before 10 00:08:01

they've done, they're like, oh

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man, I'm all over the place.

before 10 00:08:04

Like someone with

before 10 00:08:04

a d. D, right?

before 10 00:08:06

Not so.

before 10 00:08:06

Okay.

before 10 00:08:07

Just that mental

before 10 00:08:07

bandwidth isn't there.

before 10 00:08:09

Right.

before 10 00:08:09

That mental focus, that

before 10 00:08:10

clarity, that ability to

before 10 00:08:11

concentrate for long periods

before 10 00:08:13

of time without getting

before 10 00:08:14

distracted with like busy

before 10 00:08:16

work or notifications or

before 10 00:08:18

just having a break, right?

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Having that follow through

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power is tracking your mental

before 10 00:08:23

bandwidth, which is honestly.

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One of the biggest resources

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for your business, okay?

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It's one of the most

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important capital for

before 10 00:08:30

your business, okay?

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Without your mental bandwidth,

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you cannot create, you cannot

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grow, you cannot do all the

before 10 00:08:36

things that you need to do.

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You can't even see the

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things that you need to do.

before 10 00:08:39

Okay?

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So tracking, you know,

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and I'll give you a PDF.

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So at the end of this

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podcast, there'll be a link.

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You can download the PDF of

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what, what I'm talking about

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here and the things that I

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would recommend that you track

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and looking at what you're

before 10 00:08:53

getting done through the day.

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And do these all for

before 10 00:08:55

seven days and really

before 10 00:08:56

start to see a picture.

before 10 00:08:58

'cause my clients start to

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see a picture very quickly.

before 10 00:09:00

They're like, oh wow.

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I am really not

before 10 00:09:02

that productive.

before 10 00:09:03

I'm.

before 10 00:09:04

Hell busy, but I'm

before 10 00:09:06

not actually getting

before 10 00:09:06

that much out.

before 10 00:09:07

Not completing things,

before 10 00:09:09

tasks, projects,

before 10 00:09:10

bigger projects, right.

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They really get a very

before 10 00:09:12

good snapshot of what's

before 10 00:09:13

going on there, and then

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we can correct it, right?

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We can have a look at

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what is causing this.

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'cause often it's very

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much diet, metabolic,

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cortisol, mental stress,

before 10 00:09:23

lack of bandwidth, you

before 10 00:09:24

to long stress over time.

before 10 00:09:26

But we can identify that

before 10 00:09:28

through this simple process

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and start to correct it.

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Number five, is your emotional

before 10 00:09:32

regulation probably one of

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the most important tools or

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skills in leadership, right?

before 10 00:09:37

Because do you

before 10 00:09:38

get overwhelmed?

before 10 00:09:39

Do you catastrophize?

before 10 00:09:41

Do you have a meltdown?

before 10 00:09:42

Do you find it hard

before 10 00:09:43

to let things go?

before 10 00:09:44

Do you feel very reactive

before 10 00:09:46

to problems that occur

before 10 00:09:47

and feel like you are in

before 10 00:09:49

a constant mental stress

before 10 00:09:50

or mental busyness?

before 10 00:09:52

Because that is going to

before 10 00:09:53

reflect on your performance.

before 10 00:09:54

It'll reflect on how you.

before 10 00:09:55

Speak to people every day.

before 10 00:09:57

Your team, your

before 10 00:09:57

loved ones, right?

before 10 00:09:59

Because when your mood

before 10 00:10:01

is unstable and when

before 10 00:10:02

you're overwhelmed and

before 10 00:10:03

stressed, you're more

before 10 00:10:03

likely to snap at people.

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You're more likely to

before 10 00:10:06

be short with them.

before 10 00:10:07

You're less likely to

before 10 00:10:07

be present with them.

before 10 00:10:08

So you know, you'll come home

before 10 00:10:10

and you'll just be in all

before 10 00:10:11

sorts of different places.

before 10 00:10:12

People are talking to you,

before 10 00:10:13

you're just not with it.

before 10 00:10:15

You know?

before 10 00:10:15

You're not present with the

before 10 00:10:15

kids, you're not present

before 10 00:10:16

with your partner, and it

before 10 00:10:17

all starts to have an impact.

before 10 00:10:19

So looking at tracking,

before 10 00:10:20

well, what are the days?

before 10 00:10:21

When am I feeling

before 10 00:10:22

very stressed?

before 10 00:10:23

When am I over

before 10 00:10:23

catastrophizing?

before 10 00:10:24

Is this something I already

before 10 00:10:25

recognize about myself?

before 10 00:10:27

So there were the five

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metrics, looking at your

before 10 00:10:29

metabolic markers, your

before 10 00:10:30

stress and recovery curve,

before 10 00:10:32

your sleep quality, your

before 10 00:10:33

mental bandwidth, and

before 10 00:10:34

your emotional regulation.

before 10 00:10:35

And you also wanna

before 10 00:10:36

look at your pathology.

before 10 00:10:37

Okay?

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And I recommend

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this twice a year.

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We do it more regularly

before 10 00:10:40

for our customers or

before 10 00:10:42

clients in our program

before 10 00:10:43

because we wanna look at

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one, what is the baseline?

before 10 00:10:45

Where, where are they

before 10 00:10:46

starting at in terms of.

before 10 00:10:47

Cortisol hormones, metabolic

before 10 00:10:50

markers, kidney function, pH

before 10 00:10:52

levels, liver detoxification,

before 10 00:10:55

so much more, right?

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We wanna look at, well,

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what's their baseline?

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Where are they at

before 10 00:10:59

in three months?

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Three months from there?

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What has changed?

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What do we still

before 10 00:11:03

need to work on?

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Right?

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So everyone comes differently.

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Everyone has their own

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background, their own health.

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Journey, their own

before 10 00:11:09

stress journey, right?

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And so therefore, not

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everyone's at the same place.

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And so we need to be able

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to customize that and

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look at, well, this is

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your baseline right now.

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And in three months we revisit

before 10 00:11:19

that and we're like, this is

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how far you've come, right?

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But this is what we need to

before 10 00:11:22

work on next to optimize you

before 10 00:11:24

to really high performance.

before 10 00:11:26

So making sure that you

before 10 00:11:27

don't put these things off.

before 10 00:11:28

Don't put off getting your

before 10 00:11:29

pathology report done, right?

before 10 00:11:30

It's really important

before 10 00:11:32

to really track,

before 10 00:11:33

do I need to detox?

before 10 00:11:34

Do I need to take

before 10 00:11:35

some downtime now?

before 10 00:11:35

Like what do I need to do?

before 10 00:11:36

What is the best possible

before 10 00:11:38

action I can do right now that

before 10 00:11:39

will influence my health and

before 10 00:11:41

my outcomes in my business

before 10 00:11:42

and in my personal life?

before 10 00:11:44

And then finally, this

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kind of shift from.

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You know, maintenance

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to mastery

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for some women they're

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kind of maintaining

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where they're at, right?

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And just kind of pushing

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along and they're used to

before 10 00:11:53

operating at that level.

before 10 00:11:55

And until you can see how

before 10 00:11:57

much better you can feel and

before 10 00:11:59

how much more energy you can

before 10 00:12:01

have, and how much you can

before 10 00:12:02

wake up feeling refreshed and

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excited and, and inspired,

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like perhaps you did at the

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beginning of your business.

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And how you can still feel

before 10 00:12:10

that today regardless of

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what's happening around

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your life or what your

before 10 00:12:13

health journey has been.

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Right?

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So going to this level of

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mastery in order to bring

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your best in the work that

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you do, particularly if your

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work is to make a difference

before 10 00:12:22

and has an impact on.

before 10 00:12:24

People's lives and community

before 10 00:12:25

around you, but also to

before 10 00:12:27

show up as the best version

before 10 00:12:29

of yourself at home and

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with your family and to

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the people that love you.

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So going into 2026, I really

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want you to look at, well,

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how can you master your health

before 10 00:12:38

and what do you need to start

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tracking now to identify

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where are your biggest gaps?

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Now, you'll see a link below,

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depending on what platform

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you're on, you'll see a link.

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If not, come to my website,

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click on the link, and

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you can download the PDF

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of the tracking sheet.