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Hello, we're super excited today to have Terry Cochran.

She's an internationally known health expert, specializing in complex and chronic

conditions as well as bringing elite performers to their highest potential.

She recently authored the Amazon number one new release book the wilditarian diet living as nature

intended can't wait to hear more and her thriving practice is based in the

metro DC area welcome Terry oh thank you so much it's a good to be with your audience. We're excited to have you here and you know we love to back it up and start at the beginning. So for you, you started your career as a banker and a portfolio risk manager, which seems a little

different from what you do now. But we understand that you had a son who had some

health challenges. Can you please tell us how kind of walking with him on that health journey led you to this health and wellness field?

Absolutely.

If you would have asked me 20 years ago where I would be today, the last thing I would have said would be in the health and wellness.

But you know sometimes life throws something at you that really has you look at it with a different lens and as you said I was in the banking industry and a portfolio manager and I in my latest tour of duty in my 20 year career

in that sector, I ran one of Freddie Mac's departments

in their multifamily division.

So I was charged with the health and the risk management of billions

and billions of dollars of assets.

And I found myself becoming a risk manager then for my son's health. At the age of three we were told that he would not be normal,

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