We are a principal in Ayurveda of like increases like and so the more positive choices we make the more positive choices we can make and that we're inspired and strengthened to make so it's really just about taking that first step and really following or committing to something that excites you that motivates you that's like yeah, you know, I want to do that and and that was the space in which I wrote the book was what was exciting me and what would what had you know propelled me on this

journey and I think the sun is such a great role model in all of this like for me before I did any of the new lifestyle or diet choices or patterns that I've written about and shared about even though I start my book with it, I didn't start there. I actually had to start by

understanding a different way of being and of really looking toward the sun as being a role model. I remember at my teacher at Tariya Shunya had taught us about

these special practices to do in the morning, which I've written about in chapter seven, to start your day in an inspired way. And it's all about connecting with the sun because when we wake up before the sun we're able to see that transition from darkness to light.

And I think there's something so deeply healing to the human psyche about seeing that happen because it's a reminder to us that like the darkness is temporary and it passes

and gives way for the light of the sun and of the day. So to do these dark habits and destructive patterns and thoughts that we have only have a temporary existence.

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Yeah, so you know, I came across your story by way of our Mutual Literary agent, Lisa Demona and your publisher also sent me a copy of your book,

which I had a chance to thumb through and kind of look at and read and was really kind of intrigued by a lot of the ideas in it,

especially because it is something that provides us with an alternative to Western medicine for so many of the elements,

the ailments that are major issues in our lives. But before we get into all of that, I want to start by asking you,

what did your parents do for a living and how did that end up impacting the choices that you ended up making with your life in your career?

My dad was on the business side, so he started out as an plastics engineer in the Detroit, Michigan, Ohio area,

and then decided that he wanted to start a business. He met someone who had inspired him and encouraged him to go for that,

and so he moved into an international shipping business, which he founded in I think 1995, so he's just been traveling around the world

doing his entrepreneurial thing really since then, and my mom on the other hand was in the medical field.

She was working as a medical laboratory assistant doing research and, you know, being behind the microscope.

So she had a passion for science and for health care, and I think the path that I'm on definitely combines both of the career paths of my parents,

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