Hey friend, it's episode 386 of the keto diet podcast. I'm so excited to have you

here today. We're talking about mental health on keto. Last week we talked about how to

know when it's time to go beyond the food and this week we're kind of keeping up with

that theme with my friend Autumn Smith. I've known Autumn a really long time. When

I went to my very first conference, it was a paleo, I think it was paleo effects. That's

what they were calling it. I met Autumn and her husband Chaz and I fell in love with

them. They had this little table in the corner and some meat sticks. I think it was just

the meat sticks. It hadn't even come out yet and I was so excited to meet them. We really

hit it off. She was a trainer and you know when you meet those people and you're like,

I want to be your best friend. You're so cool. That was in, I want to say 2014-ish and a couple

months later she texted me and said, hey, my parents are in Montana. They have meat sticks

for you. If you can drive across the border from Canada because that's where we were living

at the time and go pick up some meat sticks. They're yours. My husband and I went into

our RV. We traveled all the way to Montana for these meat sticks because I loved them so

much and I really want to just support a small business. Fast forward to now. Paleo Valley

is such an amazing brand. They've been so supportive of my small business and I've tried

to be supportive of theirs and it's just so great. If you own your own business or you're

in that hustle, having friends that you connect with and really love their products and

believing them and want them to succeed and it is a mutual experience. It's just so special.

So to be able to have autumn on after eight years of knowing this amazing human, talking

about keto, talking about mental health, both of us have grown so much. Oh my goodness.

The stuff we're talking about. We never would have talked about eight years ago. So it's

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