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"Redefining Wellness: Dr. Robin Tellez's Journey from Nursing to Holistic Health Coaching"
What if you could transform your chronic illness management through simple lifestyle changes? Join us as we chat with the remarkable Dr. Robin Tellez, who brings over 40 years of nursing experience and an inspiring journey rooted in personal tragedy. From losing her mother to asthma at a young age to becoming a leader in healthcare administration and a dedicated health coach, Dr. Tellez’s story is a testament to resilience and innovation.
Throughout this episode, we highlight the critical importance of preventive healthcare, discussing everything from regular check-ups to the impact of diet and exercise. Dr. Tellez shares her unique approach to health coaching, focusing on holistic strategies to manage chronic diseases like diabetes through nutrition, stress management, and habit formation. Listen in for a success story that underscores the transformative power of family involvement and dietary changes. This episode is packed with actionable advice and motivational stories, all aimed at empowering you to prioritize your health and well-being.
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Welcome to another episode of Follow the Brand. I am your host, grant McGaugh, ceo of 5 Star BDM, a 5 Star personal branding and business development company. I want to take you on a journey that takes another deep dive into the world of personal branding and business development using compelling personal story, business conversations and tips. Development using compelling personal story, business conversations and tips to improve your personal brand. By listening to the Follow the Brand podcast series, you will be able to differentiate yourself from the competition and allow you to build trust with prospective clients and employers. You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Make it one that will set you apart, build trust and reflect who you are. Developing your five-star personal brand is a great way to demonstrate your skills and knowledge. If you have any questions from me or my guests, please email me at grantmcgaw, spelled M-C-G-A-U-G-H at 5starbdm B for brand, d for development, m for masterscom. Now let's begin with our next five-star episode on Follow the Brand. Welcome to another exciting episode on Follow the Brand. Welcome to another exciting episode on the Follow Brand Podcast. I am your host, brent McGaugh, ceo of Five Star BDM, where we help you build a five-star brand that people will follow and we bring you the most intriguing and inspiring stories from leaders around the globe. And today we have an exceptional guest whose journey in the nursing and healthcare industry is nothing short of remarkable.
Speaker 1:Dr Robin Taleb, a dedicated nurse with over 40 years of experience, has transformed her career into a thriving health coaching business, from her early days of overcoming personal tragedy to becoming a beacon of resilience and innovation. Robin's story is both moving and motivational. Her journey began with a deeply personal experience that ignited her passion for nursing. At the tender age of 13, she witnessed the devastating impact of losing her mother to asthma, a moment that would shape her future. Determined to make a difference, robin pursued a career in nursing, starting at Miami Dade College and quickly making her mark at Jackson Memorial Hospital, and then on to a stellar human resource career at Baptist Health, south Florida. Throughout her career, robin has seamlessly blended her clinical expertise with a keen focus acumen, enabling her to navigate the complexities of healthcare administration with ease. Her transition from the bedside to the boardroom highlights her unique ability to speak the languages of both nursing and business, ensuring that patient care and operational efficiency go hand in hand. As a health coach, robin now focuses on empowering individuals with chronic illnesses to take control of their health through lifestyle changes and preventative care. Her dedication to wellness and prevention than just treatment marks a significant shift in how we approach healthcare today. Robin's story is not just about professional achievements. It is about overcoming personal challenges, advocating for better healthcare practices and continuously striving for excellence. She embodies the spirit of resilience, leadership and innovation, making her a true inspiration.
Speaker 1:In today's episode, we will dive into Robin's remarkable journey, her innovative approaches to health coaching and her insights on the future of preventative care. We will explore specific examples of her work, including how she's helped individuals manage chronic illnesses through lifestyle changes. So join me in welcoming the extraordinary Dr Robin Tellez to the Follow Brand Podcast, where we are building a five-star brand that you can follow. Welcome everybody for another great episode of the Follow Brand Podcast.
Speaker 1:We are going to take it back into the healthcare field and I tell you, the nursing field is a fantastic field and without nursing, the health care field would fall flat on its face. I said it, I said it. I want everyone to know this, because without great nursing, without great nurses and great nurse leadership, we would not have the health care delivery that we do have in the United States and I want to talk to someone who has been in nursing for a few years to tell her story and why it's important from the career development, business development aspect, to understand your trajectory when you take this up as a career. So, dr Tellez, would you like to introduce yourself?
Speaker 2:Hi, I'm Dr Tellez and I live in Miami-Dade, florida. I am a nurse for over 40 years and I have actually progressed to own my own company doing health coaching.
Speaker 1:I love that, I love that. So now you've 40 years of nursing, then you got into coaching, so that that you know. So now you've got to where you want to go. Uh, and that's kind of the end of the goalpost, right? If you're into football, right, that's the other end. Let's take it back to the very beginning, but how you got into the game. What prompted you to become a nurse in the first place?
Speaker 2:Well, it's interesting, because my mother died at home, and so that was I was 13. And so that was a huge element in my life is to realize she had asthma, really, really bad, and so she had been hospitalized and within two days actually, I was woken up by my father who says and how he knew is that she fell out of bed, and so that made such an impression on my life that that's when I knew I wanted to be a helper, I wanted to be a nurse and I wanted to help others.
Speaker 1:That makes sense. All right, sorry, that trauma and I've heard that from others that trauma kind of got them into the profession because they saw it close up and it takes a certain type of character to be a, a life giver, to give, to give care to, to nurture. Where did you get your, your education in the nursing field?
Speaker 2:actually, I graduated in um at Miami Dade College. I had my associate in nursing degree and soon, actually, I was working at Jackson Memorial Hospital as a graduate nurse, and after I passed my boards I stayed there for a couple of years and then began to decide to go back to school, and after one semester of nursing BSN, I decided it was much of the same and I really wanted to do something that would benefit the nursing, and so I decided to go down the business route, and it has been a tremendous help.
Speaker 2:So, and especially as I progressed to a leader.
Speaker 1:I was able to speak the language of business to administration and speak the language of nursing to nurses. That's so important and because a lot of people when they get into nursing you know it's a lot of hours, you've got to do some work, there's a lot in the bedside, but making that transition into administration takes a certain change in mindset. I mean, you discovered you went to school, you got your education, but I like how you just said that you were able to speak the language of business so they understood that the business or the administration understood what the nursing experience was like so they could make better choices. Is that a true statement?
Speaker 2:Yeah, actually I'll give you an example as a charge nurse back in the day, when it wasn't electronic, whenever we took out supplies we had to use stickers, and so what would happen is nurses would go in the supply room, they would not use the stickers and, of course, what does that do to the hospital budget? You're losing money. So I was able to explain to them that we could have another nurse to help us if they would start using those stickers, so that we could benefit from the monies that would be charged back and that it would benefit us. So you had to put it in their language. Very much so.
Speaker 1:And then must have gave you like ha ha, we have somebody that we can talk to, let's bring her into a meeting, sit her down and see what's really going on. When did you realize that you could be a nurse leader? When did the light bulb go off Like huh, I think I can do well in this field.
Speaker 2:Well, interestingly enough, when I graduated from nursing school, there was an opportunity for an internship. It was a year internship at Jackson Memorial Hospital and it included leadership. So it was expected that when I graduated from that program that I would become a leader, and I did. I became a charge nurse. So that was great for me because it combined working with being a nurse, helping people as well. As you know, some of the duties of leadership are assigning nurses, assigning nurse helpers and actually helping them also to get along, because sometimes that's not compatible.
Speaker 1:So all that kind of goes into that leadership role, as well as being able to work with your director and administration to represent the nurses and what their needs are. I think that's so important. That being a leader is about understanding people understanding their goals, aspirations, what they're trying to accomplish outside of your own circle of influence, and is understanding what those things are. If you had to give advice to someone that took your road, meaning they just got out of a leadership training course, maybe they graduated from a college, they're now on the floor, they're now gaining experience, they have book knowledge, they don't have experience what type of advice would you give to that person floor? They're now gaining experience, they have book knowledge, they don't have experience.
Speaker 2:What type of advice would you give to that person? Well, most hospitals and most of us start in hospitals, by the way, I worked in hospitals, I've done home care, I've done long-term care and I've been a wound care specialist. So one of the things that I did is to really most hospitals have leadership courses, because when you graduate as a nurse, typically you don't get a lot of business, for instance, you don't get budgeting, you don't really get a lot of leadership information. So many of them like even like with Baptist Hospital they had South Florida they had a lot of different opportunities for nurses to take the courses on site if they can get off the floor, and so, rather than to jump into going to get a business degree, start where you are, you know, start at the facility that you are and see what opportunities you have to learn about leadership at that point.
Speaker 1:That's very important to understand that you've got to start where you're at and make good choices and then commit. You have to commit. You know it's going to take some time. Clear what your schedule for the next year two years, wherever it may be, but always look ahead, because that's what a lot of good executive leadership. What they do, they look three years out, they look five years out. This is where I want to be in three years. What does it take to get there? This is what I want to accomplish. You've been able to do that. Now you've also got your doctorate. Is that correct?
Speaker 2:Correct A doctorate in management and organizational leadership.
Speaker 1:Do you use that now in your coaching career?
Speaker 2:I do, I think, even when.
Speaker 1:I was in.
Speaker 2:HR, many of the skills that I use and you think what are you going to use a business degree in? One of the things that I did in HR was my role really was the director of engagement for nurses and my role was to really engage the nurses and be able to find out information in order to take that information to the executive nursing leadership as well as HR. So one of the things I did as a doctor, I needed to get my. You have to complete a dissertation and part of that is really research. So I was more interested in meeting, having focus groups, meeting with the different groups of nurses and being able to take that data back and be able to present it to executive leadership so that they can come up with a strategy in order to retain nurses.
Speaker 2:And right now, that's one of the real challenges of healthcare leadership right now, because nurses they come in, maybe they didn't realize what nursing was. So how do we keep them engaged so that we can? And it's not just about the money, it's also about and they make great salaries, but it's also about the environment of where they're working and you know people leave their leaders, so you need to have a program where you can actually train your leaders to be able to engage their nurses so that they can stay with them instead of popping and leaving the organization because it cuts.
Speaker 1:It costs thousands of dollars to replace every everyone that you lose that is true and I know that happened a lot during the overtime period where you had options to do trauma, nursing, other things that came up and maybe because of the long hours and just got burned out. I didn't want to be exposed to some things and now you find a shortage in your workforce and, if I heard you correctly, what you're doing is that you're taking a pulse of that nurse, understanding where they're at, what they need, and then making sure that leadership can provide it so that they stay, so that they can maintain their employment there and they can keep moving forward. Are you doing that as a consultant now for the hospital system specifically or for anyone that's interested in understanding nursing and leadership at Ohio?
Speaker 2:No. Once I left my role at Baptist, I pretty much retired, and then this is how I created my own business, because I retired and I'm sitting around and I'm like you know, I got too much in my head to not share it and what I did is I wanted to go back to my roots in nursing. I wanted to be able to. Actually my niche is the name of my company is Robin Cares Health Coaching P-O-L-C, and my. My niche is really to help adults that have chronic illnesses, such as diabetes, autoimmune disease, cardiovascular, be able to reduce their comorbidities, their complications, and we do this through changing their health lifestyle.
Speaker 2:And if you had a recent experience in the healthcare field, I hate to say it, but it's really like a sick system. They really focus on you when you're sick, but there's not much in between to keep you from being sick. So you know, I like to work with those, especially those who have parents or siblings that have chronic illnesses, and they might be in line. If they don't get, if they have pre-diabetes, which is reversible, which diabetes is not, if they can do anything in their lifestyle change to prevent them from becoming a diabetic, that's on the table. So that's what I love to do. That's my passion. And for those who have the disease, how do we keep them from losing a foot? How do we keep them? How do we reduce some of those medications that they need to take because they're eating correctly and they're exercising and they're doing the things they need to do?
Speaker 1:This is so important. I'm glad you brought that up. Wellness Wellness is so important. I'm glad you brought that up. Wellness wellness is so important. There's a big um like gap there, as you just mentioned, between if you're not, if you're well right now I said recently, well, right and then we're at a point where you need to be, uh, hospitalized. It's a big change and they're there to really alleviate your critical situation. You're in acute care right, that's what really a hospital is about, acute care. And then there's urgent care, but just day-to-day care, caring about yourself. If you could give us some tips and I know these lifestyle is a big thing. That causes could be a root cause of some of the things that lead you to an urgent or an acute care episode. What are some things that you can help our audience to be aware of?
Speaker 2:I think the first thing that you need to do is you need to at least have one annual, if not two, at least one annual checkup with lab work. That's where you're going to find out what's going on with you. I don't know. I just heard a statistic about colon cancer that people younger and younger, you know, and they're 30, there's 35 and older, and it's because of a lot of the fast foods and the things that we eat that we shouldn't be eating Diabetes. So if here you are, all of a sudden you're in the emergency room. You haven't been to the doctor in five years. Well, suppose you could have prevented that. Suppose you could have prevented any of those acute illnesses. Just by one visit to the doctor, one lab work, you can catch everything from kidney disease, diabetes, um, you name it. Um, what's the we? Just somebody, one of the sports people, just ended up with prostate cancer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a blood test.
Speaker 2:That's a blood test. I mean you could save your life. You could save your family's life, and I know we do have a day that we take our family to the doctor day. So, if you're listening to me now, I'm going to challenge you all to. If you haven't had a checkup in six months, if your family hasn't seen the doctor in six months, I'm going to challenge you all to. If you haven't had a checkup in six months, if your family hasn't seen a doctor in six months, I urge you to go.
Speaker 1:I think that's so important. We take care of our cars. We get car. We do an indicator Newer cars they'll tell you like hey, it's time for an oil change Before the red light comes on. It's that time. Take me in and have me checked out, you get all my vitals done and then I'm going to run smoothly for you know, the next few months. And we don't really have that on our bodies unless you have a Fitbit or you have some kind of device or something. Or, like I said, if you don't have a medical doctor that you see routinely, that's going to call you like hey, grant, it's time for your annual checkup. So, so important, but we need to really take a stock in take care of ourselves.
Speaker 1:And food you mentioned food, food. What are we putting in our body? Like I have a premium car, right, so I have to put in gas. If I don't put in that premium gas, it's not going to run right, it's going to have a major problem. So if we're putting it into our bodies fast food, high sugar, high fats we got to go talk to Dr Teletra. She's going to tell you well, this is probably gonna be your hope absolutely, and it's very.
Speaker 2:I think that's so important, but it's one of the major things that's hard to change. We're so used to the type of foods that we eat, but it takes a conscious, conscious effort to make those changes. And although, yes, vegetables and fruits, they cost a little bit more, but what I found is those that are that eat red meat and pork, those are the ones that actually have quite a few issues it causes, because if you think about what they do to the animals to make them big, there's hormones in there. There's all kinds of things in your food that really you don't eat. So you know, having a, I would say, a plant-based diet I'm not saying to go vegan, but think about those things in your diet If you can put more grains, more fruits, more vegetables, drink plenty of water, stay hydrated, those are the things that are going to keep you healthy, as well as your activity level.
Speaker 1:I think that's so important. I live in Florida, you live in Florida. I drink water all the time. I notice the humidity. It's a tropical environment but I always have, at least you know, anywhere from three to four to five bottles of water naturally every day. And I notice when I travel and I go to other parts of the country they're not drinking a lot of water they're drinking either.
Speaker 1:They're drinking a lot of caffeine, they drinking a lot of sodas and other things other than water. Like you know, water is like a thing for me. I have to have my water, but understanding that, what water does to your body and how it survives, it's not even going to talk about. 70% or more of your body is made up of water, so it might be a good source, but when you put strain on your kidneys, on your liver, and then over time, if you're not putting in natural substances, it'll begin to wear you down. Talk to us a little bit about because I know that there's energy. Do you talk to your certain? Have consultations with people about how they possibly will feel if they start changing their lifestyle.
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Speaker 2:Oh, yes, and it usually. Like I said, it usually takes time and that's one of the reasons why usually I?
Speaker 2:have a program that's three months or six months, because you're not going to change a chronic illness over six weeks. But over the time we usually meet, I have education with them, Tell them, explain to them what their disease process is, what are the complications. One of the things I notice when we go to the doctor we might not necessarily get as much information because they have a limited amount of time that they're going to be with you and a lot of it is focused on medicine and your labs and that sort of thing, and so it's really kind of medicine-based. But being able to help them to understand and get the light to go off about how what they eat and what they their activity and over time at least the first four weeks they notice a difference If they're following what they need to follow.
Speaker 2:Part of what I do as a coach is not only to help them with a plan they set goals but also we have accountability goals. So it's one thing to make a goal, it's another thing to actually do it. So when we meet every week we have those conversations about that and give them tools, like being able to have a food journal to kind of, when they write it down and then you share it. Then you can kind of put two and two together as to why the blood sugar is sky high and it won't go down or the a1c doesn't move. So that's one of the things we do is just really to help them be more self-reliant in their care, so that when you're finished coaching after three months or six months, that's something that's going to be a part of their lives, so they can be sustained.
Speaker 1:I like that. It's like muscle memory. You know you've got to do it and you've got to change it. In the mind it's a creature of habit so you've got to then work on it to change that. I know my parents. They're very good at this. I watch them do it. They count their calories so they know exactly. Now you can eat certain things.
Speaker 1:You don't have to change your diet completely, but you need to know how many calories, what's your intake look like and what is the composition of that intake, depending on your situation if you have diabetes or you're prone to heart disease or any kind of cancer that's been in your body all these different things a lot of times. I've heard story after story of people changing their diet, changing their intake, being able to bring in the right kind of nutrition that helps the body to heal itself, and these are good things. I wanted to talk about another topic, which is exercise. Exercise and some people. You get middle-aged and you get elderly and you hire up and you're like exercise. Are you kidding me? But you need to understand what a sedentary lifestyle can do to you. Can you just give us some of your wisdom around being? You have to needing to exercise.
Speaker 2:Well, again, when you think about calories and even if it's weight loss, it doesn't even have to be weight loss calories, and even if it's weight loss, it doesn't even have to be weight loss. But remember, what goes in is going to be countered by the activity level that you have. If you're trying to lose weight, you have to have less calories in or you're burning more calories than you have in. Um most time you can start out with just walking. Just walking. It doesn't have to be anything. You don't even have to go to the gym. Some people they love to go. It's great, it's social.
Speaker 1:But some people might say I don't feel comfortable going to a gym you don't have to.
Speaker 2:You can either have equipment at home or you can just simply walk 15 to 20 minutes after you eat and just make it a consistent habit, become a habit, almost, and find a friend to walk with you. Just get a walking club, put together a little walking club. But yeah, it doesn't have to be anything strenuous, sometimes it's just a matter of and that's burning calories. So whether you're walking, strolling, whatever level that you decide, depends on your goal and your comfort level and your ability.
Speaker 1:You know some people just don't feel comfortable or they're not able to. Yeah, no, that's true, there's certain levels. So you've got to do what you can do. Don't focus on what you can't do Exactly. And do those things Because, as my father always says, if you stop using it, you'll lose it.
Speaker 2:You know. So thank you Absolutely.
Speaker 1:So try to use it as much of it as you can. I want to know more about your program and your business. You talked about it that it's a three to six month engagement. I think you said it's like a weekly coaching. Tell us more about your program so people can get more information and then possibly look you up and take advantage of it okay, um, I just lost my picture, but I will go through um just to give an example.
Speaker 2:I'm just trying to figure out what happened there. I am okay. So just to give an example, uh, we do introduction and goal setting. We start out with that. Then we talk about nutrition and diet and it's specific to whatever their um disease process is. Typically, I start out with a 30-minute discovery call. It's free and we get to what it is that they need. It's all about them. I'm just the coach, so a lot of it is okay. So, so you have diabetes? Ok, so talk to me about you know your blood work. Talk to me about these.
Speaker 2:There's certain things that I'm looking for I'm going to ask you about and then talk to me about are you coachable? Let's start with that. Do you feel like this is something that you can make change? Because it is going to be about making change. And then one of the things we also do is we also look to see if we're compatible, if they feel comfortable with me as their coach, as well as whether I feel like they will be coachable. So that's the first thing. Then, once we decide that this is something we can move forward with, then we have some models that we go through. Like I said, nutrition and diet, physical activity, stress management and mental health, because that's a big one. Disease management and medication adherence that's a big one because we have a lot of polypharmacy. I have a client now that takes nine pills in the morning and they take three pills at night. Once they pull those bottles out, they can be very confused.
Speaker 2:One of them I found that had a piece of cardiovascular disease and he has a valve. He has an issue with one of his heart valves. He was taking an old medication, Clavix, as well as a new medication that were both blood thinners, so we got a problem right there. So a lot of it is going through their medication, making sure they're taking it correctly, and I usually recommend a pill box, which makes it so much easier. We sit down, we go through, we set it up for the week and they don't have to worry. They just open for the day or night and they're good to go. The other thing is lifestyle modification and habit formation and then we review it toward the end and we do some future planning. And I do provide them, again, like I said, with some tools, whether it's we're going to do some meal planning or maybe we're going to do a journal, food journal or whatever their needs are, and then I usually will provide them with some articles or some resources that they can use as well.
Speaker 1:This is so important that you have a process and a proven formula, and I like how you said it. We got to first find out if we're a good fit, because it's not going to work. You would be wasting your money, wasting your time if you're not going to take this seriously. And I know we talked about diet and we talked about exercise and you just brought up another just fantastic point, which was your mental state Stress, stress, stress, stress. This is such a big factor. Whether you have stress from not having enough, you have a scarcity situation. You just don't have enough resources. We talk about social determinants of health and a lot of that is definitely mental stress, and mental stress can cause a lot of undue episodes, whether if you're diabetic, maybe you have more episodes, or episodic, or whatever the case may be. Talk to us a little bit more about how stress is a big factor in the overall care plan.
Speaker 2:Well, usually for stress, I also do. I kind of do an inventory to find out where they are. If it's someone who's working, they might be having stress at work. They might be having stress at home. There might be outside factors that are affecting their stress and mental health, and one of the things I also teach is meditation, having a change in mindset and just being able to, even if it's deep breathing. You're at work and you got that phone call. Just you don't have to do a 10-minute meditation, you can do some breathing exercise. So really being able to help them recognize when, when, these stressful events are happening, as well as how do I deal with it in a realistic manner, whether it's I have an app that walks me through guided meditation or is it just breathing exercises, just having some way to minimize that, because it does affect your mental health. The prolonged stress will definitely put you in a mental health state.
Speaker 1:It is. And if you don't know, if you're having an onset of a stroke, onset of a heart attack, sometimes there's cursors that are out there and if you're not paying attention, you know you're setting yourself up and then undue stress will just trigger everything to end up in an urgent care situation, as we talked about earlier, which we don't want to be able to do. That to end up in an urgent care situation, as we talked about earlier, which we don't want to be able to do. That. But you can manage some of your health care at high level I want you to talk about and I'm sure you have some, it's just a success story Someone who has come to you, taken your program, got through to the other side and you're doing better.
Speaker 2:Well, I had an individual who had diabetes, she had cancer, she had breast cancer, she had had surgery and she really was struggling with being able to manage the side effects of the chemo. She had pretty much finished the chemo but there were some side effects of the chemo. She had pretty much finished the chemo but there were some side effects. And then managing the blood sugar she was considering we were trying to figure out why she kept spiking and the issue was on insulin and a lot of different other medications and she, she was kind of complicated but we were able to first of all change her diet. And many, many times it's not just the client, it's also the family. When we're talking food, we're not talking cooking two separate meals. You know you got to, you have to work and sometimes I work with the family as well to help them to understand why these changes need to be made even finding recipes and this is someone who was Jamaican and so I would look for recipes.
Speaker 2:First of all, talk about plant-based diet. There was a client that actually had her husband had gout. There was a client that actually had her husband had gout, so it mostly ate meat. So trying to move them and moving them to a plant-based diet was a challenge, but we were able to see some changes just from being able to make a few changes, and so it's not always zero to a hundred. Sometimes you've got to compromise, but as long as they're making changes and she was able to really manage her diabetes much better, we even got a continuous monitoring device to try to figure out, okay so what's happening, and if you keep a food diary, you kind of figure out what might be contributing to these spikes in your blood sugar. So that was one of the one of my cases that was really excited for, because I could really see a change that they've made.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's a life-saving change. That is huge. I really like your career, what you've done in your life to help others. Going all the way back from the beginning you talked about the experience with your mother, come all the way to full circle, how you're helping this individual with their care plan. I think that is wonderful and before I leave, you just tell us again the name of your business, how to contact you. I think that's so, so important and I want to answer this one question, or maybe it's a statement to help not only because a lot of females they get involved with their nurse or with their care, or males like myself. We put that on the bank. Just explain to us why that's not a good decision to make.
Speaker 2:Well, my company name is RCHC, which is representative of Robin Cares Health Coaching PLLC. Of Robin Cares Health Coaching PLLC. You can reach me at and actually book a discovery, free discovery call at www. Robincares R-O-B-I-N-C-A-R-E-S the number four, the letter U, com.
Speaker 2:I really and you make a good point too I would say men typically are the breadwinners. They, unless they're bodybuilders or someone who's really self-focused, they focus on others, they focus on everybody else around them. But it's okay to take care of yourself because think about it the more the healthier you are, the longer you live and the more you can provide for that family. Or you're at a point where you get so sick that you can't even your quality of life is poor and you have people taking care of you. So by actually making it a point of taking care of yourself, you're really taking care of others because you're going to be able to be there for them. They can love you longer. You can do more things, be more active, and you know it just makes sense to do it. But it's hard. It's hard. But I think females, they, they need to encourage it also I agree, I agree and I have to remind myself.
Speaker 1:I just did an annual checkup and they went through everything. Actually, I had to get life insurance. Well, and you never know, as you're getting life insurance uh, all the things that they go through to make sure that you are a good risk. So if you've got a lifestyle that has been what you would call unhealthy, you might find it difficult to get life insurance or life insurance at a reasonable amount of monthly expenditure, those type of things. So you're going to really think about your lifestyle, how you're living your life and how it's going to affect you as you go forward. This has been a wonderful, wonderful conversation. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1:Oh well, without going through this, it's been wonderful and I encourage your audience to listen to all the episodes. These are the types of conversations I like to have, to all the episodes. These are the types of conversations I like to have educate the population, educate my audience how to take care of themselves. All these different things, all these things roll up into one. So this has been wonderful. You can reach me at www.5, that's the number five star BDM, that's B for brand, b for development, infomasterscom. This has been wonderful and I hope to see you and I hope to see Ms Adrienne McCoy at some point. She's wonderful, she is.
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