Ep. 127: Nicole DeBoom - See Every Setback as an Opportunity
PLANTSTRONG Podcast
Rip Esselstyn
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2022
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
“When your body is fit and strong, your mind is fitter and stronger too.” - Nicole DeBoom
Today’s episode dives into a topic that is so important for the New Year - mindset and attitude. We're treated to a conversation with long-time PLANTSTRONG ally, Nicole DeBoom.
Like Rip, she’s a former top-level swimmer, turned professional triathlete, turned entrepreneur, who recently sold her popular company Skirt Sports and started a new company called Aesop, where people can book interviews and record their memories for loved ones.
Why will this conversation resonate with you?
Well, because, like all of us, her journey has not been linear. There have been stops, starts, struggles, and plenty of setbacks along the way. She discusses her battle with alcohol, the tension in her marriage, as well as health and self-image struggles. She. Gets. Real.
Through it all, though, Nicole has remained relentlessly curious and passionate. She has used her struggles to gain the muscle and confidence to keep going, even though it’s never perfect.
Today, she is almost 14 years sober, she’s PLANTSTRONG, and as curious as ever! Guess what? She’s still not perfect – and neither are we!
But, as you listen, we hope you’ll be inspired to keep forging ahead and continue to make smart decisions about your body because, as she says, “When your body is fit and strong, your mind is fitter and stronger too.”
Episode and PLANTSTRONG Resources:
Aesop Nation - Share Your Story. Record Your Memories Now.
Nicole DeBoom Website and Social Channels
Your Guide to the 7-Day PLANTSTRONG Challenge
Join the free PLANTSTRONG Community
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https://youtu.be/rhV_DIoebmU
Your Love by Atch
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License: Creative Commons License - Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe you can do this little exercise that might be able to help you get some direction. |
| 0:05.5 | And she said, why don't you go home and write down all the times in your life that you felt the |
| 0:10.0 | most alive, that you felt the best about yourself. And she was just right. Right, all of it, |
| 0:16.6 | big stuff, small stuff, whatever. And then just see what comes up. And I wrote it all down. |
| 0:22.4 | And what came up was a very clear trend or pattern. And from that pattern came this mantra that |
| 0:31.8 | I still use in my life. It's like a founding foundational block for me. And it is that when your |
| 0:38.4 | body is fit and strong, your mind is fitter and stronger too. I'm Rick Bessleston and welcome |
| 0:45.3 | to the Plan Strong podcast. The mission at Plan Strong is to further the advancement of all things |
| 0:52.0 | within the plant-based movement. We advocate for the scientifically proven benefits of plant-based |
| 0:57.6 | living and envision a world that universally understands, promotes, and prescribes plants as a solution |
| 1:05.4 | to empowering your health, enhancing your performance, restoring the environment, |
| 1:11.1 | and becoming better guardians to the animals we share this planet with. We welcome you wherever you are |
| 1:17.5 | on your Plan Strong journey. And I hope that you enjoy this show. |
| 1:23.5 | All right, my Plan Strong peppercorns. My name is Rick Bessleston and I want to welcome you back |
| 1:28.7 | to another episode of the Plan Strong podcast and give a special shout out to all the new listeners |
| 1:36.0 | who have joined us over the last couple of weeks since we launched into |
| 1:41.8 | 2022. Our download numbers have almost doubled and so I want to thank and appreciate all of the |
| 1:52.0 | new people that are exploring all the benefits of plants. I think it's fair to say that 2022 |
| 2:01.3 | is off to a leafy green and peachy keen start. Today's episode is a particularly fun one for me |
| 2:10.3 | because I get to dive into mindset and attitude to things that are just to me so absolutely |
| 2:18.3 | integral in life with my longtime pal Nicole Dub Boom. Now like me, Nicole is a former top-level |
| 2:28.8 | swimmer, turned professional triathlete, turned entrepreneur, who recently sold her popular |
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