Being an investigator of my own health allowed me to then move into being an investigator in my own business, you know, solving problems.

So I believe that health is absolutely the foundation.

If you feel like absolute crap, how can you show up in your business and your life the way that you want to?

Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the show. I'm so excited you're here. And I'm going to start out.

I just went to the most amazing weekend you guys. I want to just be sharing little tidbits from a room full of the most incredible thought leaders, business people, authors, podcasters.

I'm just going to start leaking out a few of the quotes that I heard dropped, which I'm so excited about.

One of the quotes that I absolutely loved that Tom Bill you said was whoever has the strongest home life takes the biggest risk.

And I absolutely love that because I think that's such a focus for us this year is how do we create the network, whether it's your home life, whether it's your friends, whether it's a mastermind,

where we really feel so connected and strong within that relationship that we feel more inspired to go for it and take bigger risks.

So I want to plant that seed and have you remember that as much work as we're doing out in the world, it's so important to secure those deep connections because it's going to allow us to go and fly even higher.

And go to the places that we wouldn't normally be able to go because we feel so strong and secure no matter how high we fly, we're able to have that crash pad in our relationships.

You guys today on the show is Bridget Mellenson. She's a functional medicine dietician and the founder of gut personal. It's a supplement company that empowers everyone to eliminate gut issues for good through a personalized approach.

You guys, I love this company so much and I love what she stands for that we are investors in it and it's not just about, you know, when Chris and I invest, if you listen to the podcast, it's not just about the product, even though we love it was one of the things that got our attention, but it's the human being.

So today we not only talk about, of course, the product and what it does, but most of all we talk about how she became the person who is able to run this company and create a product and put it out into the world to be as successful as it is as fast as it is.

She built a seven figure company in just 16 months during the pandemic you guys. So let's get started.

Bridget, I am so excited to have you on the show. Thank you so much for coming on.

Oh my gosh, this is surreal. I listen to earn your happy all the time. So I'm honored. Thank you. That's a real for me to hear when people say that I'm like, you do, I almost get embarrassed like, wait, people listen to this. This is crazy. I actually had a friend today be like, oh, I'm listening to your show. I'm like, shut up. You listen to my show. That's so cool. It's just like that. Isn't that awesome. It's just simple. It's probably like how you feel when you find out maybe someone you didn't know is using your product and you're like, you use my product.

Yes, I literally texted a girlfriend that I squealed with and I saw she ordered products from us and she's like, Bridget, I've been using these for six months, but I had just seen that she ordered. So I mean, it does feel so cool. No matter what level you're at.

I love that. You guys, Bridget is the founder of Got Personal, which we are investors in. I absolutely love it. I'm obsessed. I love what you're doing out in the world. I love what you're doing with. You have so many women female investors as well, which is so awesome because there needs to be more of us in the only way to learn about it is to do it and get educated on the ride.

As you go along with it, I'm sure that you can totally like understand and relate what that journey is like and what that looks like when you decide to really make that, you know, a main point of what you're looking for. And I believe that's what you did is look for female investors, which is so cool opening that up.

Why don't we kind of just start there. What was your first experience? First tell us what got personal is and what was your first experiences trying to get this business going and raising money.

Yeah, so I'll take it back a little bit further when the pandemic started. I'm like you said, a functional medicine diet, and I had a private practice. It was in person.

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