Heather B. Armstrong

The Forward

Lance Armstrong

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4.5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Heather B. Armstrong was what they called a mommy blogger before that became a thing. That turned into influencer marketing and she could not take it anymore. She found herself in a deep depression that had her contemplating taking her own life. She tried a clinical trial at the University of Utah’s Neuropsychiatric Institute, where she was put in a chemically induced coma for 15 minutes at a time for 10 sessions. She writes about it in her new book titled, The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live.

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0:00.0	All right, everybody, welcome back to the forward podcast. I'm your host, Lance Armstrong. Not to be confused with my guest this week, Heather Armstrong, completely unrelated. We met the old-fashioned way over social media.
0:15.0	She used to tell people they used to ask her,
0:16.5	you know, are you related to Lance Armstrong?
0:18.2	And she would jokingly say, yes, I'm his mother. That sort of sounds like a silly way to meet,
0:25.0	but that is in fact how we met.
0:27.0	She's got a crazy story.
0:28.0	She's also got a new book out.
0:30.0	It's called The Valedictorian of being dead,
0:33.1	the true story of dying 10 times to live.
0:37.2	And it's exactly what happened.
0:39.0	She was, she had, over time, had worked herself up
0:42.0	to be in a, successful mommy blogger.
0:46.7	Had this huge following, had millions of followers on social media, myself included.
0:51.2	I had all these paid placements and paid influence on her blog and
0:56.8	it literally drove her crazy and it and her kids hated it and so she got ended up in a
1:02.4	really dark place at one point in her life
1:04.8	according to her fit bit she was walking 30,000 steps a day in her living room
1:10.0	never leaving the house never changing clothes 30,000 steps today in your living room. I took the kids to Disney World a few weeks back and my buddy had his watch on and we were doing like 19 20,000 steps. So a whole third more in your living,
1:24.8	I can't even imagine that, but she wanted to kill herself,
1:29.3	and she was miserable and a researcher in Utah approached her about a treatment protocol that no human has ever done before.
1:37.5	And so you'll hear all about that in this episode.
1:40.0	Truly fascinating story and super psyched for her that she's got her health back both physically and mentally and emotionally
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