Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of the Genius Life.

I'm your host Max Lugavir.

In this episode, I'm super excited to introduce you guys to my good friend Amber Ray.

She's the author of the new book, Choose Wonder Over Worry.

Now, I'm super excited for this show because Amber has had to confront many fears in order

to pursue her career as a multi-medium artist.

I relate to this a lot because although you might be most familiar with my work in health

and nutrition, I actually also very much consider myself to be an artist

and in fact believe that in some way my work to disseminate health information is an artistic

expression just as much as it is a scientific one.

Here's why.

Artists take discomfort and pain and turn it into something else.

That's what art is, in my opinion.

I've done this my whole life.

When I was 25, I went through a horrible breakup and channeled all the pain of that experience

into a number of songs that I wrote and actually published on a musical EP.

Yes, you can find this online.

I taught myself to sing and play guitar and write songs which I still actually do as

a means of taking what I went through and transforming it into something to make the

pain somewhat more bearable.

My recent work and certainly my book Genius Foods for me comes from the same exact place.

As many of you know, my mom developed dementia a few years ago and I became obsessed with learning

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