The Welcome back to the podcast.

I'm your host, Evan Brand.

Thanks for joining me.

I'm a certified functional medicine practitioner and a functional nutritional therapy practitioner.

I work around the world helping people get to the bottom of their health issues. I love what I do. So funny, I ran into a client of mine from years ago just the other day

and we got to go swimming and paddle boarding. And it's funny when it sounds cheesy, but when you

wish for things, when you manifest things, reality can happen. I've been just thinking, thinking, like, I really need a friend who's fragrance-free,

who doesn't smell like dryer sheets, who likes to do paddleboarding.

And turns out it was my client, ran into her at the health food store.

How funny is that?

After several years, it's just interesting how life works out and today's topic is

about stress and feelings of overwhelm and i think in the modern world it's so easy to be

frazzled because your phones the notifications social media everything's pulling pulling

pulling you out of the present moment. And I think that's very

dangerous. And you can choose, like I did this morning, to live in an alternate reality. My wife and I

and our friend, we went swimming and paddleboarding and we talked to some people and socialized

and we weren't on our phones and we were living in the present moment and

admiring the pine trees and smelling the fresh breeze and I was like wow just imagine

someone else right now is sitting on their couch watching the morning news eating cereal it's like

what a different life we chose this morning.

And I want to do that every morning.

So that's really what life is about.

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