Hi, hello, and welcome to my first ever podcast. I am so excited to be here recording this for you guys.

It's kind of blowing my mind that this is happening right now because when I look back on my journey,

I really discovered this whole world that I'm in through listening to podcasts. When, you know,

the medical system didn't make sense to me, I turned to podcasts and I

listened to other experts in the field and ultimately that's how I ended up healing.

So to be able to sit here and produce this for you guys today is just like, wow.

So this is so exciting, my first ever episode. Just so you know, I am a patient empowerment

coach. Okay. So basically what I do is I coach people who have either diagnosed or undiagnosed

chronic illnesses just to give you context. Chronic is the opposite of acute, meaning that these

are symptoms that persist over time.

So what happens is anyone who falls into these categories comes to me, and I help them hack the

system and ultimately heal from the inside out. So that means really using an integrative medicine

approach, root cause approach, if you'd like, to use lifestyle changes and food and

mindset work to ultimately heal and not experience symptoms in the future.

So it's pretty amazing how my life has come full circle to get here to where I am today

because not that long ago, I was working at a huge marketing company, working in

the government division, doing something that I wasn't passionate about. And ultimately,

I was a slave to my own autoimmune disease, which is Graves disease. Graves disease is an

autoimmune disease that triggers hyperthyroid. So you might have heard of Hashimoto's,

which is really, in essence, the opposite of Graves disease. So I was diagnosed with Graves

disease in 2012. And at that point, I was not an empowered patient like I am today. I was in

college. And, you know, I just kind of

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