Today we have an episode that's more of a girl to girl, heart to heart, human to human chat.

Very similar to the episode that I did with my friend Krista Williams that you guys loved at the top of the season.

This episode is with Mari Luellen, who is a fellow founder in the health and wellness world and who is very much known

for her massive weight loss and health transformation.

A few years back, she lost, I think, 90 or 100 pounds and didn't do it the starvation way,

but did it the lifting way and got super strong. And it's still an

avid weightlifter and fitness gal to this day, who you can tell is just so married to the craft and

the love of it and really has this positive relationship with exercise, which is so cool to watch.

And it's been amazing to watch

her maintain these changes and build a business and kind of turn her life around. I thought it was

such a fun conversation because as I kind of started to research her to understand her story and

the inner workings of her mind and how someone goes from being in a place of feeling

totally lost and out of control in their body and rock bottom with their health, both physically

and mentally, and how that kind of a person experiences key mindset shifts or, you know, like,

come to Jesus moments where they somehow dig deep within themselves and find

the will to completely turn their lives around and create something a lot bigger than themselves

and and just enter this like locked in focus, I'm going to make it mode. And I found myself to be

really inspired by her story and also to find so many

parallels within our journeys. And the more that I learned about Mari, the more that I realized

we had very similar upbringings. We had really similar experiences in our homes, having a parent

that struggled a lot with mental illness and just with our relationship with them, that formative

like mother experience and how much that played a role in some of our own struggles with

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