Hi, I'm Natalie Jill, fat loss expert turned lifestyle and high performance coach. Welcome to Listen

Up, the podcast. On this podcast, I do what I do best, taking complicated information that is

relevant to us now and breaking it down simply with actionable steps you can implement to level

up your life.

I also regularly interview some of the most inspiring and courageous men and women on

the planet who, at their worst, learned how to achieve success greater than anything they

ever dreamed possible, creating everything from nothing.

If you are new here, I encourage you to go back and listen from

episode one when this podcast was previously called Leveling Up for the full transformative

experience. Welcome back to Listen Up. So I didn't record a podcast last week. I didn't release one

last week. It's the first time in two years I ever skipped a week recording or releasing an episode. And the reason I didn't do it is I was actually very, very sick. And I had the big C. I had COVID. I did. My husband had it. And I'm going to share on this episode a little bit about my journey, what I went through, what I found

out, what I learned, where I am on the other side. That's what this episode is going to be about.

Those of you that have known me for a while, listened to me, followed me, worked with me,

you know that I do share a lot of opinions about things, but I've remained very neutral

on this topic this last year. In fact, there's a lot of topics I've remained neutral on,

not because I didn't want to shout from the rooftops my opinions, but because there's a lot

of unanswered questions I still have. There's a lot of things that are in the unknown to me.

There's a lot of things that I'm not extremely black and white about this year, especially.

And it seems that this world this year and last year, 2020, 2021, the time of this recording

seems very divided. People want very black and white answers to be a for or against

something, to be all in on one topic and not on another. And that's just truly not who I am or how I

operate. I find myself being a neutral person in a lot of ways, very inquisitive, and I don't have a lot of

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