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Welcome to The Model Health Show, and thank you so much for joining me for this very special 10-year anniversary of The Model Health Show.

It's been one decade of The Model Health Show, and I wanted to put together something very powerful

and to really dig in on some of the biggest things that I've learned about success and about growth over the past decade.

And having the opportunity to interview hundreds of some of the most remarkable experts in their respective fields, and also from my own experience,

I thought I would really compile this together for you and give you something that's going to empower you for many, many years to come.

Now, when sharing with you what I've discovered over the past 10 years about success, I thought it would be important to tell you why I started to come.

I thought it would be important to tell you why I started this show in the first place.

I grew up most of my childhood in poverty, but I also had a childhood that was very rich in experiences.

And growing up on food stamps and WIC, and getting food from charities, and being on the school lunch program, I had that little red ticket to get my school lunch every day.

And on the first hand, what poor health really looks like, and what a largely ultra-processed food diet looks like.

Because for me, the outcomes were right in my environment.

Most of my family members had at least one chronic illness, and the vast majority of my family members, the adults in my family, were obese, and experiencing again,

and my grandfather, heart disease, my mother diabetes, my aunts and uncles, depression, obesity, and this was just normalized around me.

And for me, and my little brother and sister, growing up with chronic asthma and allergies, and me getting diagnosed with a so-called incurable spinal condition, or a threaded condition of my spine and bones,

when I was fresh out of my teen years, and actually being at track practice, being an aspiring athlete, and breaking my hip from running when I was just 15 years old, and seeing all of this abnormality taking place, and not really knowing that there was a difference, because that's all that I knew that's what was in my environment.

And so I didn't really know what health looked like.

I didn't know what success looked like, because I grew up in poverty, but again, being rich in experiences, there was still so much beauty, and so many lessons to learn in my environment.

And so growing up in conditions where it was ripe with violence, and drug use, and we still found a way to, for example, engage in play, to be outside, to spend hours upon hours at the basketball court,

or even literally having to create up on the phone pole and playing basketball, and just finding ways to connect and to enjoy life as a child.

Now that does not mean that everything was all roses and sunshine and rainbows, but we still had accessibility to something that a lot of kids are being deficient in today, which is just being outside and playing with your friends, playing with your family members.

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