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The Light Watkins Show

148: Jamie Hess on How to Make The Big Ask in Order to Overcome Addictive Behaviors

The Light Watkins Show

Light Watkins

Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.9960 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

In the chaos of life, it’s easy to get caught in the mess of it all, forgetting that your pain and struggle can actually be turned into a motivational message of strength and perseverance. Today’s guest has valiantly turned her mess into her message, and it is a pleasure to be joined by fitness influencer, speaker, coach, @NYCfitfam creator, and the founder of The Big Ask Method, Jamie Hess. After Light and Jamie reminisce about when they first met, we get a sense of Jamie’s childho...

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I found myself in a space where I had gotten a little off the rails and I had experienced

0:08.8

eating disorders as a teenager, both Anaraxia and bulimia.

0:11.8

But it took a all in, right?

0:14.6

It had gone far enough that I had seen a therapist,

0:17.0

but I had pulled it back from time to time.

0:19.8

And what happened after I had this baby

0:21.3

was I started keeping a secret which was that I had

0:24.1

fallen into bulimia and it felt exactly the same as when I was using drugs.

0:29.4

Hey friends and welcome back to the Light Watkins show where I interview ordinary folks just like you and me who've taken extraordinary leaps of faith in the direction of their path, their purpose, or what they've identified as their mission.

0:45.8

And in doing so, they've been able to positively impact and inspire the lives of many other people

0:51.8

who've either heard about their story or people who've witnessed them in action helps people ask for the help that they need.

1:12.0

She is also a huge fitness influencer. Her name is Jamie Hesse. So Jamie grew up in New York City. She grew up in a privileged life as the daughter of Joan London, who some of you may remember as one of the anchors of Good Morning America.

1:31.0

And at an early age, Jamie, like many privileged young teenagers, got involved in drugs and alcohol.

1:39.0

And later she started working in PR and she became a high functioning addict, those are her words, until an

1:46.8

accident got her addicted to Vicodin and then later on that spiraled into an addiction to

1:52.4

Adderall, which she described as being

1:54.8

far worse than any street drugs she'd ever tried.

1:58.4

And her mom had ridden her off and then had a change of heart and came back and tried to convince her to go to recovery and this

2:05.1

time it actually worked.

2:06.6

Jamie was able to turn her life around and that's when she became a fitness influencer.

2:12.1

Then she met her now husband. They were set up on a blind date and then he

2:16.3

ended up proposing to her at Barry's boot camp and together they started a platform called

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