Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Eurich. I'm the founder of 1000 Hours

Outside and I have just read a book that I absolutely loved. It has actually, I think it's going to

change my life, Rochelle. It is called Naturally the herbalist guide to health and transformation.

And I have learned that I am an herbalist. And I'm so excited.

And the author, Rochelle Robinette is here.

Michelle, welcome. Thank you so much. What an intro. I'm thrilled to be here. And I'm so happy that you know that you're an herbalist now because you are. I'm thrilled about the book and they have to show you. So people ask me this a lot. We've had over 500 episodes on this show.

And people are like, well, you read all these books.

Do you actually do the things that the people say? And I would like to show you that I have tea. Fantastic. Okay, tell us what kind of tea. Okay, I don't know. But I read your book and I immediately, I went to home goods and I was like, I'm convinced.

But here's the story.

I've got two pieces of a story.

I switched from having births in the hospital to having home births about 15 years ago.

So I had two kids in the hospital and then the next three kids we had at home.

And my midwife was like, you need to start drinking tea.

And she gave me this whole bag of, I mean, I'd never,

never done it, Rochelle. So she gives me this whole bag. It looks like a bag of, you know, weeds from your yard or, I mean, you know, in this big bag. And she teaches me how to do it. You know, you put it in the pot and you let it go overnight and then you strain it. Anyway, it tasted like, I don't know, a barn. It was so gross. And then I didn't know how do I heat it back up. I was microwaving it. She was like, no, absolutely don't do that. Then we got rid of our microwave. Anyway, it was just kind of one of those things that I didn't really understand. And I couldn't get on board. It tasted gross. So I let it go. I, you know, she would try here and there to

get me to drink it. And I was like, I don't like it. But my grandfather, my mom's dad, did that. He did a big

old pot, you know, like a gallon or more, I don't know, a big pot of tea every day. And he drank it.

And he lived until his like mid to late 80s, never once had a doctor's appointment. I mean, and he drank it and he lived until his like mid to late 80s never once had a doctor's

appointment. I mean and he passed away in his sleep. He was like healthy even though he also drank

and smoke. It was really pretty overweight. So I've always sort of been intrigued by this.

I'm like talking so much. I've always been intrigued by the tea. So I couldn't get on board. And then I read your book

naturally in every single page. I was like, wait, I need this. This is actually what I need in my life.

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