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The BetterLife Podcast: Wealth | Real Estate Investing | Life

#16: Ginger Hansen

The BetterLife Podcast: Wealth | Real Estate Investing | Life

Brandon Turner and Cam Cathcart

House Flipping, Multifamily, Real Estate, Wealth, Investing, Business, Real Estate Investing, Self-development, Entrepreneurship, Rental Properties, Health

4.8767 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Ginger Hansen is an award-winning acupuncturist, herbal medicine practitioner & health coach with 12+ years of clinical experience in Traditional Chinese Medicine. 


In this episode, Ginger shares how she went from chronically ill to thriving better than ever before, citing potatoes and other whole foods as the revolutionary key to her health. She is currently working on her book, ‘The 5 Health Profiles’.


Ginger also speaks about:

-How fasting restores your cardiovascular health

-What she eats and why

-The science behind acupuncture and its healing benefits

-What cupping therapy is and how it works

-Her thoughts on cold plunges and the carnivore diet

-The spiritual experience of Burning Man

-The specific herbs and supplements that made her ab lines sharper

-The world of Oriental Medicine and streamlining the patient process

-The Standard American Diet (SAD) and processed foods as the cause of obesity, and what to do to fix it


Ginger's Charitable Cause:

You Are The Angel: a nonprofit working with local communities and businesses to support relief efforts in Ukraine and Haiti.


Books mentioned in this episode: 

- The Diet Cure by Julia Ross

- The Potato Hack: Weight Loss Simplified by Tim Steele

- 80/20 Running: Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training Slower by Matt Fitzgerald

- Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss by Joel Fuhrman, M.D.

- The Miracle of Fasting by Paul Bragg


Connect with Ginger on social:

https://www.instagram.com/empoweredbyginger

https://www.facebook.com/EmpoweredBodyClub/

https://www.empoweredbodyclub.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

In order for us to go back to our health

0:05.0

and restoring our health and balance in our body,

0:08.0

we really got to go back to how we used to eat.

0:11.0

Our grand grand grandparents didn't have the conditions

0:13.0

that we have today.

0:15.0

And so it's really important to kind of realize our environment

0:18.0

and change our environment and our nutrition and redesigning to bring back nature

0:23.1

into our lives. Welcome to A Better Life with Brandon Turner. That is me, where world-class guests

0:30.8

share their wisdom on building a better life. Join me as we explore the habits, the actions,

0:35.3

and the beliefs that have guided their journey with the aim of helping you apply those lessons to your own.

0:41.0

We set on signs on a better life.

0:52.7

Ginger Hansen, what's up? Hi, Brandon. Thanks for having me here. You are awesome. I am honored to have you. We've been friends for quite some time now. You've come out to Maui. We've hung out there. We've hung out in parking lots in the middle of Tampa where you kicked a pinata into a friend's head. We've had a lot of good moments together. And I'm excited to dig into your

1:11.5

story because honestly, I am a rude person and I've never sat down and asked you your story before

1:16.6

for as long as we've known each other. So today, I am making up for lost time and I'm going to

1:20.7

drill you for the next hour on questions about your past. So right now I know you as an amazing health coach, a healer and health coach. I know you've helped me,

1:28.9

you've helped a lot of my friends, you're a wealth of knowledge when it comes to health.

1:32.6

I know you have a master's in Oriental medicine. Yes. Which is awesome. I want to dig into what that

1:37.4

even means. You have an amazing husband, Ben. I love him. You're an entrepreneur yourself, and I know you eat a lot of potatoes.

1:49.7

We can't talk about that. But I want to go back way before that. I want to rewind your story to an earlier point, maybe much earlier in your life. Start us somewhere on your journey at a much

1:54.1

earlier time when you weren't the current famous Ginger Hanson. Yes. So I was born in Vietnam

2:00.6

and became a refugee at the age of six months.

2:04.2

And so we went by boat to Hong Kong and ended up at a refugee camp for two years.

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