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Welcome to another sort of screw the cloud. My name is Steve Staluelis. We have another

amazing episode today right now on this very, very interview stage.

She's a health and wellness guru. She's an international spokesperson and a well-renowned author,

and there's a lot more than that. Trust me. And we're going to touch into a lot of this today.

We have Ms. Desi Bartlett. How are you doing, Des? I'm doing great. Aloha.

I love that you call it. It makes me feel right at home. I'm originally from Chicago and all my

people at home call me Des. Des. Well, again, that's a New York, Chicago thing. We go right to

the laziness and just cut it right short. So again, we know you've been doing this health and wellness thing for a long

time. What I'd like to do is, how did you even get into that? Was it something that you always were

into, or is it something that kind of swayed you that way? Usually, when someone gets into something

like this, it's because something happened or how did that organically happen for you?

So my mother was a hippie, and she was a disciple of Goswami Kriyananda at the Temple of

Korea Yoga in Chicago. So I learned how to meditate and receive my first mantra when I was six years

old. Wow. And that was always something that was present in my life. But fitness, not so much. I took a lot of ballet

classes. I loved dance. And then when I went to college, I was in a dance class and I started to have a lot of

knee pain. I went to the doctor and he's like, no problem with your knee. You just need to

strengthen your quads. And I said, what's a quad? And go to the gym. And as fate would have it,

that same evening, I met second place Miss Olympia that year, Jackie Paisley. I actually remember

Jackie Paisley. Jackie was a dear friend. I went to school in Arizona. And so she took me to

Bovay's gym. and my junk is that once I

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