Many of us, including myself, started January with a plan.

I'm gonna do this, I got goals, I got my strategy, I figured out how I'm gonna get it, I've got the drive, I've got the ambition, I've done my schedule to allow me to show up every day, and then the unexpected happens. And when the unexpected happens, if you're not prepared, holy smokes guys, it can derail you more than you can even imagine. And that's exactly what happened to me right here in LA as the fire started to happen.

And what I didn't expect is something like that ends up derailing everything. It impacts how you feel about yourself, it impacts your identity if you think you're strong woman, like I do, and then I started screaming fire and freaked out. You better believe that takes a look at your identity. When you start building the tools of how you're going to handle adversity and then your crumble when it hits. All of those can start to be so hard to deal with and that's what today's episode is about. Guys we tell the story so I'm not going to share it in this intro, me and Mindy to share the story but down she was in the heart of the Palisades and she hit me up and I said come on over home and for four days it was. I wouldn't say a nightmare, but it was interesting to say the least. Now apart from just the fires itself which we share the story, we also talk about the knock on effect, the anxiety, that then comes with it, the fluctuations, the difference between us women and men and how my husband and her husband dealt with it very differently than how we dealt with it We talk about friendship and how we end up being there for each other in the moments that was so difficult We talk about the challenges of getting back on the horse when you fall and off We talk about how to handle fear and when fear Supposes and then you get another notification that you have to evacuate again. What do you do in the fear compounds? Or what do you do with your health? How do you get back on track there? Mindy and I talk so real on this IG live and share exactly what happened. The stories, the ups, the downs, the tears, the laughter and then the knock on effect of how we're dealing with it and how yes, we are back on that damn horse. So guys, I hope this episode brings you value. Let let's dive in with the tactics and tools that you can use in your life if ever you find yourself, probably not in an LA fire, but in any situation that actually feels like to you. It's an emergency and it calls for a metaphoric evacuation. So without further ado, let's dive in with me and my girl Mindy on this very, very exclusive special Instagram live about the fires and how we dealt with it. I'm just gonna give you some context. Mindy Pearls is my doctor. She came with my show with women of impact and I was discussing about how difficult it was for me to navigate aging and my bummer. I thought I don't want to. I was just giving a little quick introduction of how we met and how we became buddies. So you ended up, do you put on my show? I'm telling you about my hormone issues. You're like, well, Lisa, do you need help? I'm like, absolutely, yes, I need help. So you came on board and it was so helpful that in the last year, we've been working together and learning about hormones and things like that that you've really been able to help me. So, and so we've been talking about how as women,

as we get older, then navigating aging and things like that, but I was also going to

share the experience that me and you have just gone through over this month and living

you back in the city of Dutt. So, I started telling it, I was like, I want to wait for you. I want to wait for your audience so we can tell the story together. It's a good story. It's a really good story. All right. So as we start to talk about aging and on nervous systems, we had a plan. Mindy sat down, we're like, all right, this is a plan for January, Lisa, as you get old, I'm going to help with your hormone.

When you hit January, this is what I want you to do. I want you to do these. I was doing these patches for my, what they call, the cast cell patches. Oil, thank you for my liver. I was taking magnesium tablets in the evening. I was having my bean minerals in the morning. like you gave me such a great plan for me to be able to follow.

So January comes, I was having my bean minerals in the morning, like you gave me such a great plan for me to be able to follow. So January comes, I've got my plan ready, and then of course the unexpected happens and fires break out in LA. So number one, how common is that for so many people that they have a plan, they have a dream, they have a goal, and then something happens in the life where it completely changes their plan. So that happened to us, so I'd love to talk about how we navigate it, how we go back to habits and health habits to actually start to regulate ourselves and then things that mean you did. So let's just flash forward to, I hear about the fires and I call you up and I'm like, Mindy, you okay? You want to start there? Yeah. So, you know, I, so I was, my house in LA was right in the palisades. And so our street was one of the first to learn. There was even a fire. And I learned it by my neighbor sending pictures of smoke coming over the top of our house. And I could smell the smoke. I was I was on. I was on a call talking about how to bring some fasting. a fasting bar you and I've talked about this to the world.

Like I was creating something really cool

that we more on that.

And anyways, it was smelly and smoky and I'm like, what's going on? And I went out into my backyard and it was like the whole canyon behind my backyard was on fire. Couple of things I learned in that moment, all of a sudden, and we've talked about this, everything in my house became insignificant. The only thing that became important to me was to get in my car and be safe. And that was fascinating how we spend so much time accumulating stuff, we spend so much time thinking about things and in the moment of a fire like that, all I could think was save my own life because the back canyons on fire. So I ended up in a hotel evacuating and I was in a hotel in Santa Monica when you called me and you were like, oh my god, it's the fires and the palisades are you okay? And I was like, yeah, I'm safely in a hotel at Santa Monica and you remember, you were like, you should come here. But I just want to say that it's funny what we do is women because I could have easily texted you and been like, Lisa, fire, I'm coming. Yeah. I could have, I could have just drove to your house and showed up. The question is why didn't I do that? And it was because I didn't want to be a bother. Yeah. And you texted me and I didn't even see it. And it was only like 20 minutes later that I saw it. No, no, that was the second. Actually, I'm skipping ahead. That was your second evacuation. That was an evacuation. Second evacuation. Yeah, yeah. But I really want to quite something out because you're an incredible friend. But as a woman, we have been conditioned and I'm still fighting this to be like, I don't want to bother you. My house was potentially burning. I was running from fire. You're an incredible friend who said, let me help you any time. Like why, what was going on inside of me that was like, I'll just get a hotel room. I don't need to bother Lisa. I mean, that is, starting gets worse. It gets worse.

It gets worse. So then, so then I'm like, okay, I'm in a nice hotel and now you're you and I are talking and you're like, look, you called me and you're like, if anything, if you need anything, you just let me know I've got plenty of room here. And I, in my brain on that first day, I was like,

well, I've got the hotel for two nights.

I'm like safely sitting in this nice hotel, I'll be okay. And then I don't know, like an hour later, I'm watching the news and it says that they're evacuating north of San Vassani. And I'm like, I'm north of San Vassani. I'm in Santa Monica, north of San Vassente. They're evacuating us. And I go downstairs to the front desk. And I'm like, am I, are we being evacuated in the livens like, yes, take your get your stuff. Everybody in the hotel needs to evacuate. And one guy says, one guy says, we're evacuating from the evacuation site. But once again, I just want to say once again, I was like, okay, so I packed my stuff up and I put it in the car and I'm trying to get my car and I'm thinking where am I going? It's now eight o'clock at night. I think Lisa goes to bed early. I don't want to bother Lisa, so I will text Lisa. I'm still, I know. I said, what is that? As if texting is an emergency code. No, I mean, it looks at Texas as emergency. Why did I just drive to you? So I really think this is, I don't think this is a Mindy problem. I think this is a woman problem. I mean, I might have it to an extreme degree of like, I don't wanna bother anybody, but how interesting in a real official crisis with a beautiful human like Lisa, who was like, I will help you anytime that I didn't want to bother you. So you choose day night as I've now in my second evacuation. Yeah, so you text me. I don't like in trep for an interview or something and so I don't see it for 20 minutes. So I see it. I'm like, oh my god. Okay, wait, it's only been 20 minutes. I call you and you're already on your way to somewhere else. Oh yeah, let's about that. I was like are you sure? I don't know where you're going but I've spared bedrooms Mindy. You're more than welcome. You're like no I've gone to my friends. I've got a place to stay. So I'm like amazing. Yes. Ben you're like I'll come to yours tomorrow. Guys listen to this because I really want you like I want everyone to start hiding or like doing the fire emoji if you were like, I'll come to yours tomorrow. Guys, listen to this because I really want you, like I want everyone to start hiding

or like doing the fire emoji if you were like this. So, men is like, no, no Lisa, I got it. So worry, I'll come to you tomorrow. She comes to me and I'm like, oh, are you okay? She's like, yeah, I slept on the couch. And I was like, okay, but why don't you sleep on the couch when I had to spare room and you're like,

well, I don't want to upset my friend.

You're doing what?

You're doing what?

You're doing what?

Stop your sleep. Why does people on the couch run out of spare room? And you're like, well, I don't want to upset my friend. What?

You're going to eat twice. So you're sleeping on the couch. What does your daughter say? Your wife, what is happening? I was like, this has been reason to the empty way, how many? I've been like, your life is all day in danger. You run into your house and you're sleeping on the couch, but you're worried about offending your friend

by saying you're gonna go somewhere else.

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