I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow more. Welcome back. I have been traveling for quite a bit recently and I have to say I really

really missed my wonderful conversations with my friends here on Slomo.

Today I found myself in the UK for a few days in London,

so I asked my wonderful friend Kate Dowdy, the renowned British artist.

If she was around and she said she wasn't, but she wanted me to use her beautiful studio.

I've come to this place so many times to witness Kate in her own flow and creativity

and it is beautifully messy with beauty and art all over the place it's really a place

of freedom and I felt that it would be a lovely

place for us to have our conversations. A few of those I'll record here. The first of which is a guest I have waited to chat with on Slomo for a very long time.

We met two years ago around the end of COVID, if you want, and she told me her story which was by all means

incredibly incredibly inspiring. My guest today is Lavinina Meta, who during COVID decided out of nowhere to help hundreds of thousands, millions of people as a matter of fact find health and purpose by doing modified forms of exercise that basically were available

to everyone for free on the internet. For that she was honored by the Queen as an

MBE a member of the British society and then she went on to discuss publicly, very vulnerable and beautifully, intelligently her journey with

Menopause online.

She's a patron of the Menopause mandate.

She is a proud advisor or member of

diabetes UK and the Alzheimer's society.

When we spoke two years ago

Lavina basically told me about her approach to what she calls exercise snacking,

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