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Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast.

Today we have Karen Martel of Karen Martel.com, M-A-R-T-E-L.

She's a transformational weight loss consultant and essentially an incredible coach that helps people beyond just the food

plans and beyond just getting through what does paleo mean what is primal mean she's all about

weight loss resistance and hormonal issues and solving that for women and more we're going to get

into that she's also my co-host for the Women's Empowerment Summit this June 17th.

You can go to rise up kickass.com for that. Welcome to the show, Karen.

Thank you for having me, Elle. This is so exciting that we get to do this together.

I know. I love I want to do more videos, but this is the first one. So by the way, for people listening,

this is also a video podcast as well. We haven't done too many of those. You can probably check on YouTube for this.

So Karen, let's talk about your story because you started off kind of being put on a wrong

direction unbeknownst to you. So let's talk about how you even got involved in this.

What was the start?

Yeah.

So if I was to go like way back, sometimes I start and just say, you know, when things really

went, took a wrong turn was after the birth of my daughter about 10 years ago.

But really, if I look past that, which I have been doing a lot lately,

especially with all this women's empowerment and stuff, is I really think that things really started

out when I was about 13, 14, and I was put on birth control pill by my mother. And not to, you know to regulate periods or because of the acne,

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