Welcome to a meathead hippie podcast. I'm your host Emily Schramm. I don't know if I've done a more

important podcast. This has been long awaited since I had the amazing invite to go to a water is

life retreat hosted by Isabel Friend through my friend, my beautiful friend, Kaden, who is the founder

of Blue Bottle Love. And I don't know if you've seen me carry this blue bottle around,

but I carry it everywhere. And, you know, I've been in nutrition and wellness for a long time,

and I think I know a lot about a lot of things.

I know nothing about water. And even after this podcast, I'm like, oh shit, I have so much more

to learn. And I can't wait for you to be in that same place because seeing as water is 99.92% of ourselves and seeing as water is the number one reason

that we have so many environmental issues occurring and understanding that the water conversation

is only just beginning and true sovereignty comes from us all recognizing and

understanding our water source and also being advocates for water for people who

cannot speak or be advocates for themselves.

This will just blow your mind.

So Isabel Friend, she is an ambassador of water, a water goddess,

a speaker, an educator. She is incredible at blending science and spirit so that you can

really understand it from both sides. I sometimes live in just the spirit world and how water makes me

feel and how it tastes and the feel, feel,

emotion of it. But the science piece is obviously incredibly important if we're going to actually

make momentum or change anything. And so I scratched the surface with her in this podcast. I don't

even want to do a long intro. I just want you to learn.

We go through the filtration process. We talk about structured water. We talk about maybe the misconceptions of what like a Kangan water filter might be doing versus finding our own spring or creating a spring water

in our own environment. And I'll just tell you, like, I have been so blessed because I've been

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