In this episode, Nikou talks to power couple Angela and Shawn Blymiller who create content sharing their health journey as well as the challenges of raising an autistic child.

To view Gut-Brain axis video go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcRZxd1WJ_A 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• We were always on the go and fell into the routine of eating convenience foods, but when our son was diagnosed with autism Angela did a lot of research and said we need to go gluten free and dairy free. 
• I fought it for a while, but only having one person commit to that diet is really hard. I thought it was hippy logic, but I said fine, I'll give you two weeks so I can prove you wrong and I never want to hear about it again.
• There was a lot of pain and suffering that we had to go through before we got to the diet change. 
• Feeding a toddler, there are so many meltdowns where he wants what he wants, and I needed my husband to be on board and not just feed him anything.
• I feel that we're all born with a toxic load that we can take according to your genetic makeup and the different mutations your body might have in enabling your body to detox.
• A lot of chronic illness, that's rampant in this country, is due to toxic overload.
• Adverse events are real and the slogan is that they're rare, and the CDC posts that on their advertisements all the time which is so infuriating for us as a family, because it's not rare if it happens to you.
• When you see the pain and the trauma that it causes, not just to the individual that suffers the adverse event, but the family that supports that individual.
• The pain caused by  brain inflammation from Theo's “injury” became so server that when he was almost four he was diagnosed with PANDAS (Paediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcal infections), which is an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation in his brain.
• When he had aflare it would be hours and hours of him screaming in pain and us not knowing how to help him because his brain feels like it's on fire.
• We had to do cyclical antibiotics for a while, but that destroyed his gut and his microbiome. So, we ended up doing faecal microbiota transfer.
•  70% of our immune system is housed in our gut.
• The gut brain access is so real, and we've seen that with Theo. But through doing the diet together we've got less brain fog as well. If you focus on your gut health your brain health will improve.

BEST MOMENTS

‘One week into the diet change, Theo regained eye contact and started responding to his name again, both of which he had lost after the “injury”.'

‘The blood brain barrier doesn't always fully develop until a child is two or three, it's a physical barrier that prevents toxins in your blood from going into your brain.'

‘The thing that makes us upset is that people can be so rude and dismissive.'

‘It's always the dads out there that hold everyone up, so dads, listen to this story please!'

ABOUT THE GUESTS

The Pure Family's mission and purpose is to help you take better care of yourself while providing hope and direction for your future. They want to create a community to empower parents to do more for themselves and for their kids.

Website: https://purelivingfamily.com/ 

Pure Living Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pure-living-family-podcast/id1565836396 

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VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Instagram: @nikoulohse

@elev8tedtribe

Elev8ted Tribe LIVE & on demand workouts/community:

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Gut Reset program details (email me nikoulohse@gmail.com if you would like to join the next group, or for more information to start today on self-guided course!)

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ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

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In this episode, Nikou talks to Dr Wendie Trubow who has been through a healing journey physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and in business. They discuss how she's got to where she is today – personally and professionally – as well as the incredible things she's had to go through to get here.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I got into the field of functional medicine, prevention and toxins because I am the poster child for terrible genetics piling it on, ruining my health and being sick as a dog. I felt called to heal.
• My husband had a dream to open a multi-specialty, integrative and functional medicine centre that really pulled the best of the best and did all the best technology and functional medicine and eventually moved to a large site where we had a farm, a school and a medical centre and brought all of the best providers in the area to this place.
• We violated the three rules of business: 1) Don't grow too fast. 2) Have enough cash on hand for rainy days. 3) Don't hire jerks. In 2015, we were 7 years old, and we saw the biggest snowfall in a winter for years. Telemedicine didn't exist back then and people stopped going to the doctors. Because we didn't have enough cash saved away because we'd grown too fast, it became clear that we didn't have the right people on the team and we were closed by August the next year we were closed.
• We lost all our money and our family's money that had been invested into the business, we lost the property, and my husband declared bankruptcy. The good news was that we didn't have enough equity in our house for the court to come after because we'd leveraged it. But we lost everything else. We had to start over in our mid-40s with four children.
• The choices were to do it again or leave medicine, which didn't feel right. We did a lot of soul searching.
• My husband is an innate optimist and could never have imagined that things could have occurred the way they occurred. We went into deep conversations about what his thought processes and how it works… I was just as guilty because I allowed it to happen.
• We've now worked together for 14 years and now I'm confident to say: “I can't explain why, but something feels wrong and you need to honour it”. Every fricking time that I said it was wrong in the past, it was wrong.
• My story has two parts, the first is pre-Celiac which starts at birth. I have two genes for Celiac, I then piled on lots of 70s ‘cooked' meals and microwaved meals in the 80s, then the stress kicked in when I became an OBGYN. All of those things meant I was diagnosed with Celiac at 35, but I was sick for years.
• Part two is post-Celiac, getting the diagnosis was transformational because I stopped getting so sick. I was able to get back to a reasonable baseline and then hit peri-menopause which I chalked a lot up to that, but in reality it was actually toxic exposure. It's so hard to diagnose and heal yourself.
• The toxins are all around us and it's impossible to live on this earth without being exposed to toxins. It's not about being toxin-free, it's about minimising the impact of what we're being exposed to so that our bodies can optimally function.
• Eat like a pregnant woman all the time.
• Think about what's going in you (food, water, alcohol), what's going on you (clothing, beauty products, make up), what's going on around you (herbicides, insecticides, pesticides, what you clean your house with). Think of these as buckets and then you can start to empty those buckets. It's not about perfection but making improvements and keep improving.
• The symptoms of mould are manifold: skin issues, respiratory issues, gut issues and difficulty losing weight. Test around you and test yourself.
• If you don't fail you don't grow. It's OK to fail, from that failure comes something you won't be able to imagine, so don't give up.

BEST MOMENTS

‘At our peak we were the largest functional medicine facility in the country, which by extension means the world because America is really leading the charge in functional medicine.'

‘I'm committed to my marriage and have it be a great role model for my children.'

‘The absence of suffering is not necessarily the presence of health.'

‘Ignorance is bliss, knowledge is power, and we all land somewhere on that spectrum.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Dr Wendie Trubow is passionate about helping women optimise their health and their lives. There are so many different challenges in a woman's life – work, home, relationships, spirituality, health – and they all matter! 

Although her credentials give a solid medical backdrop to help women achieve vitality in life, her own journey gives just as much support to to methods of care. Through Wendie's struggles with mould and metal toxicity, Celiac disease, and a variety of other health issues, she has a deep sense of compassion for what women are facing when they come to her. 

When not helping patients in our practice, you can find Wendie alongside Ed and their four kids creating a beautiful ecosystem in their yard that provides nourishment to both their bodies and souls.

To learn more about her journey to health and how you can replicate what she has done, pre-order her book here: “Dirty Girl: Ditch the Toxins, Look Great, and Feel Freaking Amazing!”

Facebook: @fivejourneys 

Instagram: @5journeyshealth

Twitter:@5JourneysHealth 

Website: www.fivejourneys.com  

Free gift: www.fivejourneys.com/promo 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Instagram: @nikoulohse

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ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In this episode, Nikou introduces season 3 of the podcast by talking to former NFL players Reggie Walker and David Carter about failing forward and how to find your best self through trials, tribulations and adversity.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Mental health is something everyone needs to maintain and suffers from from time to time.
• You become very aware that football carries a 100% injury rate, they tell you in the NFL that it's not an ‘if' thing, it's a ‘when' thing. As soon as you're thinking about not getting injured, that's your time to get out of there, because to do the job you need to be in a very special place.
• If anything's bothering you, you shouldn't be on the field. With anything other than what's in front of you on your mind you will get hurt, as soon as you hesitate.
• Any professional coach will tell you that sports are 90% mental and 10% physical. There are some monsters out there that can bench-press the world and can outrun a cheetah, but they'll be cut and out of league next week. The ones that last are the ones who have their mental down, they understand what their strategy is, what their tools are, what their weaknesses are. It's the same in life too.
• You need to be regimented, you need to know you're putting the best possible product out there. You're competing each and every day, so you need to eat right, manage your relationships in and outside of the building.
• Sports is all about relationships, the rest of the team could win without me and don't absolutely need me, but I can help to win more. So you have to be a good leader, a good follower, support people, gain their trust. You need to have a set of tools to bring to the game, not just one.
• There's a lot of weight on you because it's a game of inches and there are 53 players on a team and only 11 on the field. I've seen guys get cut because they were around the guy who made the mistake! 
• Keeping the negativity from the press, the internet and the commentators – I have a special place of dislike for those guys, when you're watching a game, you can't ever tell definitely who made a mistake in a play.
• When you tell yourself ‘I'm not gonna do this or that' you're kinda telling yourself to actually focus on these things. You need to say ‘I'm doing this solely and nothing else matters'. Meditation helps with that.
• I've always brought curiosity to what I do and get excited About exploring something different, finding out something new about yourself and seeing where that takes you.
• It's all about the setup. I've gone through a lot of abuse – mental, physical, sexual. I do belly breathing because it's hard to control thoughts popping up, but you need to get rid of those things to focus on what you need to get done. I go on a lot of walks throughout the day to think things through, sometimes I'll let the bad thoughts catch me as well sometimes and I'll sit with it and understand it because running and hiding from things can be damaging. Sometimes those things need to be processed and you need to listen to them.
• An executive is the leader of a company, you have to come up with the ideas that make the money, you have to create a healthy environment for your employees. The best way to do that is to slow your ass down, look at what you have in front of you and come up with the best solution and figure it out. A lot of people make decisions when they're too close to the fire and they get burned, take a step back and look at all the perspectives. Meditation allows you to break things down in painstaking detail.
• When I have any time to myself, as a Dad of three, I work on my breathing. You can always find a minute in a day to do this, even if it's while you're driving or in the bathroom.
• The first 27 years of my life was filled with a lot of trauma and abuse. Sports was a safe haven for me and was where I could be happy. It wasn't the healthiest thing, looking back, but it drove me.
• When I realised that I wasn't feeling better, despite getting all my emotions out on the field, I figured I needed to start with myself. Once I found that out, the chip on my shoulder disappeared and my need to play football went away and I never picked it back up.
• The shocking thing was when I opened up about my abuse, I can't remember a single other player who didn't have a similar experience, but had never opened up about it.
• A lot of star athletes who surround themselves with people that speak positively to them all the time. But the people who are the most valuable are the ones that not only tell you straight, but the ones that come with facts, the why and the because of what's actually happening. Some of the most valuable information you can get in life is also the most painful.
• We can't learn things if we can't talk about things.

BEST MOMENTS

‘As the mind goes, the body follows.'

‘We need to sculpt our ability to focus, like a muscle, so you can get the best results from what you're doing.'

‘Cutting all the noise out is really hard, which is why focus is one of the biggest abilities to have.'

‘Humans are like computers, we only have so much bandwidth. You need to focus on what you want to create whether in sports or business.'

ABOUT THE GUESTS

Reggie Walker: Grew up a military brat.  Had the blessing of living in situations where I was a minority, part of the majority population, situations where I had money, and situations where we were so poor we had to get food from the church.  All of these different circumstances aided in creating a very unique perspective in taking on the world.

Also, from the age of 4 to 12 I experienced getting molested by a family friend.  Growing up as well as my experience In the sports realm I experienced a lot of physical, mental, and emotional abuse as well.  These unfortunate events had a profound impact on my mental well being.

To combat the effects of my trauma I funnelled all my feelings and emotions into sports.  Sports became a saving grace in dealing with a mind filled with toxicity from the trauma I experienced.  Sports became an environment in which I excelled, leading me to be a top high school football player, a college football starter, and eventual NFL athlete and team captain of 7 years.

In retirement, my journey of healing has led me to two stays at a treatment facility where I created the Personal Mastery School, a program built to help anyone find answers to how to find themselves, their purpose, and a plan.  Using all the knowledge from my experiences, strategies that have helped me as well as others succeed in horrible environments, as well as knowledge from therapy, I put the Personal Mastery School together as an answer to questions I have known many of us as having in dealing with life and leading a good, successful, productive life.  

I have also become a mental, physical, and sexual abuse survivor advocate, Tedx speaker, public speaker, consultant, connector, and problem solver for individuals and businesses.  With my unique perspective from my varied experiences I have found myself to be of value in many different environments as a problem solver.

My goal is to help those who don't have guidance learn the essentials to guiding themselves towards their dreams and goals, find peace and confidence within themselves, learn the techniques to being a master strategist in their own lives in dealing with issues or problems, have the knowledge and system of effectively solving problems in their own lives, and be equipped with the knowledge to plan with an emphasis on fluidity.  I want others to learn all these skills more so they can win the battle against their biggest enemy themselves and the unknown to move with confidence and tenacity towards their life mission.

David Carter: From football to food justice, David Carter aka the 300 Pound Vegan. Born in Los Angeles, CA, David began his commitment to strength and success on the football field playing college football at his alma mater UCLA, and ultimately the National Football League. David played for major teams including the Arizona Cardinals, Chicago Bears, and Dallas Cowboys. During his professional football career David discovered the other side of pro sports; injuries, prescription medication, and excessive eating to maintain 300 plus pounds on his 6' 6” frame. One fateful evening, watching the documentary Forks Over Knives changed his personal and professional life. David abandoned meat and dairy, and embraced a vegan lifestyle.

For the past three years and counting David has used his NFL connections to spread the word about his mission to build awareness and educate the masses living in “food deserts” globally. “Food deserts” are defined as areas deprived of fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthful whole foods due to a lack of grocery stores, farmers' markets, and healthy food providers. David spoke of “Oppression in the food system” at many universities around the world including Harvard, Penn State, NYU, UCLA and more. David is also a film producer and participant in leading NETFLIX documentaries Game Changers (including James Cameron, Bill Clinton, etc.) and What The Health.

Plant Based Athlete, Former NFL Food Justice Activist,Wilhelmina Model David has a multi-tiered career in food justice activism, film production, modelling (Wilhelmina Modelling Agency), public speaking, and music festival production. David has received press placements from; CNBC, Sports Illustrated, NFL Network, The New York Times, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times and other media outlets. Now David has moved his skills to Entrepreneurial, and Business Development working with Light Grove LLC.

GUEST RESOURCES

Instagrams:

@iamdavidhcarter

@rwalk56

LinkedIN:

Reggie Walker

David Carter

The Game within the Game book https://amzn.to/3GmWJmt 

TedX talk: https://youtu.be/JTanRQMitV0 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Instagram: @nikoulohse

@elev8tedtribe

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ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In this episode, Nikou shares her show with The Cosmic Love Antenna podcast, hosted by Harrison Maegher. Their conversation about love and energy reflects the mission statements of both podcasts, hence the simulcast.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• A big part of The Cosmic Love Antenna podcast is about love in everything that we do. This is where we first connected, in seeing love in everything.
• You reflect the idea of building a powerful community.
• From the age of 0 to 7 is where the subconscious mind is being programmed. Every experience and every relationship informs your future character.
• Children watch everything, my son mimics the words I use. If I speak lovingly, he speaks lovingly, if I yell, he yells. They soak us up like a sponge, we establish a lot of their belief systems. It's our job as adults to be very aware of the energy that we bring when we talk to a child. Don't be angry when they do something wrong.
• I had incredible opportunities given to me because my parents wanted me to have a better life than they did. But through some things I witnessed and experienced I became an emancipated minor in my early teens and lived on my own and supported myself while I was at school.
• At that time I was eating poor foods and poor foods wreaked havoc on your internal system – the energetic, emotional and mental being. Damaging the gut affects every other aspect of your system because the gut is connected to everything. It affects your mood, thoughts, ability to make clear decisions, and confidence.
• I was literally full of poop, I was not eliminating. I got pent up and wasn't releasing. I felt anxious and like I had no control and that caused depression. 
• Each chakra has a masculine and a feminine side. Getting shit done and not letting go or receiving is a masculine energy. Look at the balance in your life from a gut perspective, where can you release and rest?
• I became fearful of eating because it was making me bloated and I was modelling so that wouldn't go down well. I became fearful of food. The bloating then became acne, which became cystic acne, which became depression because I didn't like the way I looked, that led me to anxiety as I did more to become accepted. The bad bacteria built up in my gut and I got SIBO (small intestine bacterial overgrowth) and even when I was eating healthy food I was bloating until I looked like I was 5 months pregnant.
• It took doctors 18 years to diagnose my CIBO. You can either take three weeks of antibiotics or do what I did, which was create a protocol that includes nutrition, exercise and mindfulness. Within 5 weeks I healed myself of CIBO.
• The attracting of negative vibrations makes us feel like the victim. But you're attracting it so you can see it within you and come to a state of health. Once we can see where we're at, we can start to move forward.
• I'm always asked what are the keys to success and selling a successful business. It's three things: attitude, mentality and work ethic. You don't have to work really hard all day, you just need to be willing to do the things others won't. But you won't get there if you don't have the work ethic to form new habits.
• The best coach, practitioner that we have is inside of us and when it speaks we should listen. Not every ‘diet' works for every human being. It's about your context and what your body needs at the moment. It's all changeable, you shouldn't make it your lifestyle.
• Get out in nature and into the sun in as little clothes as possible, the vitamin D will give you a sense of security, safety, support, self-care and self-love that you need as a foundation upon which the rest of your body thrives. There's a direct correlation between being able to get out in the sun and your mood.
• We have no control over the past, obsessing over the past leads to depression… though the future leads to anxiety!
• What we don't heal in ourselves, we pass on to others. This is why we get depressed when we spend time around depressive people. But you need to look at what you're feeling and why and where you're feeling it. It's likely this is triggering something in you that you also need to heal. These are hallmarks of something that's passed down generationally.

BEST MOMENTS

‘One of the places in the body where the ego is formed is in the gut – the solar plexus.'

‘If you've shifted out of an unpleasant childhood, standing in this power brings a lot of new elements and opportunities. But everything needs balance, not enough power or too much requires balance.'

‘Years of surviving and living in flight or fight meant that I wasn't resting from the age of 15-27. I wasn't sleeping or digesting.'

‘Shame and guilt vibrate at the lowest frequency, the universe gives back the same vibrations to you.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Harrison Meagher is a Personal Trainer and Holistic Health Coach from Coffs Harbour, Australia, whose goal is to provide you with all the tools needed to heal through chronic pain, trauma and DIS-EASE by connecting you back to a true sense of Holistic SELF-LOVE.

His podcast, The Cosmic Love Antenna, sets the intention and holds the foundation of creating a much-needed conversation around combining holistic inner self-connection and outward loving expression. From spiritual depths, emotional feelings, mental structures, and physical rejuvenation come connected into your holistic self-love, pull back the layers restricting alignment/health, and let me walk you home to your powerful loving light.

GUEST RESOURCES

Website: https://www.harrisonmeagher.com/ 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Instagram: @nikoulohse

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Elev8ted Tribe LIVE & on demand workouts/community:

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Gut Reset program details (email me nikoulohse@gmail.com if I would like to join the next group, or for more information to start today on self-guided course!)

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ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Nikou broadcasts from Clubhouse and talks to Credit Ninja, who works with celebrities, high-level executives and professional athletes on repairing and unleashing the power of their credit.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• In 2008 I ran a tech company and it was going under because of lack of funding and low risk appetite in the market and I had to leave my CEO position. People were losing their homes.
• My bank account got frozen so I started living off credit cards to get through the month. After months of this I owed $165,000 and I got a federal lawsuit filed against me. It wasn't a good feeling defending myself in federal court with no attorney, I had to learn to be my own attorney for three and a half years.
• I finally got retribution and was released from the lawsuit and was left with nothing.
• When you're at the deepest, darkest part of your life and there's no way for you to pay the bills, and your house is being foreclosed on, what do you do? I wanted to climb the highest building in Las Vegas and jump off, but I didn't have the credit card to book the hotel room!
• I started selling my clothes and purses and eating 15 cent packets of ramen noodles. I had to decide do I put fuel in my car or food in my mouth.
• When you get to the top after being at rock bottom you have a responsibility to help others.
• I think of credit cars as a float through. If you buy something on there you'd better have a plan to pay it off as soon as possible. Make sure you're doing it to harvest the credit points as a by-product. Ask if the purchase is making you money?
• If you open a credit card or store card over Christmas and you forget about it, it will damage your credit. Be organised and aware.
• Health is the new wealth and wealth is the new health. If you don't mange both you'll have an issue. If you don't pay attention to it it'll leave you, same goes for friendships, relationships, health and wealth.
• Knowing how to play the game, knowing the rules and when to have a debt at the right time. Make sure you have $0 on there on the day the bank reports and then start spending on it again before paying off by the next report date.
• If you're born poor it's not your fault, but dying poor is your fault. There are so many resources and ways to connect with successful people who give back their time and knowledge to help you.
• There's always something to learn from others, be a sponge.
• Because I travel to meet people a lot, and have a lot of meetings, diet is important. Before being the Credit Ninja I was a Pre-Med so I know what I'm talking about.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Life sometimes hands you a purpose, you can't choose it.'

‘When you don't have any finances you learn to be resourceful.'

‘Interest does kill you.'

‘What comes in must go out, it's a flow.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Credit Ninja started working a safe job in corporate finance. At least until the housing market crashed in 2008. Credit Ninja's job dissolved as she became a victim of fraud. In short, Credit Ninja's world stopped spinning. She lost more than $20 million. The bank took her home and her bank accounts were frozen. After a 4-year lawsuit fuelled by meagre poker winnings and ramen noodles, Credit Ninja's credit was wrecked.

Yet, Credit Ninja fought day-by-day to protect and build her life back up, and she did. Over the following months she went from the low 400s well past the 800 range. Her close friends and colleagues took notice. One by one, Credit Ninja shared her credit “cheat codes”. She helped them master the credit game to get the business funds, car loans, house loans, and even executive travel “hacks” as only a true Credit Ninja can. And the name stuck!

That's why today Credit Ninja goes beyond credit repair alone. Credit Ninja's passion is sharing the big picture of true wealth, by using credit as a wealth-building tool.

Website: https://www.creditninjamentor.com/

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Instagram: @nikoulohse

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ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Nikou speaks to Dr Janie Lacy, a master in her field of working with women with adolescents, marriages and families overcome trauma, anger, conflict resolution and helping them find joy and a place of unity. They talk about her journey to where she is today as well as giving tips on how you can have better quality relationships, better communication and how to manage toxic emotions like anger.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• A lot of us weren't taught to feel. My Dad was an alcoholic and my Mom wasn't raised by her mother. So, they bought a lot of trauma when they had children. Us children were seen and not heard. Then in your 20s you don't know who you are, how you're feeling or how to react to situations.
• I find a lot of women – and men – if we don't have a template, and we try to enter a relationship, we don't know who we are and it makes a mess.
• Women don't ask for what they want in relationships, business and life because subconsciously we don't feel like we deserve it. This can sabotage things when people are really showing up to be there for us or compliment us. We push them away and expect them to chase us and then when they don't we wonder what's wrong with them?!
• A lot of women end up in the same kinds of relationships where they're treated less than they deserve. What we find on a healing journey is that there's some reflection of how we really feel about yourself. We expect people to treat us better than we treat ourselves when 69% of our own thoughts about ourselves are negative.
• I ask people to make a list of who they want to be in a relationship with and then ask them to list the kinds of person those people would want to be attracted to. Usually, it's not the person making the list!
•  The friends I had at school I had to avoid the pain at home. My Dad was dealing drugs out of the house, my sister was in a toxic, abusive relationship and I found my grandmother dead when I was 12. I ran track, played basketball, I became a hustler because I didn't want to become like the women in my family, reliant on men.
• My biggest mission is to help people enter their purpose and the process of entering God's plan for them. In the process of looking at how I saw myself really determined how I was going to see my future. Being able to know that there was more for me, even though I couldn't see it (which is what we call Faith). My friends were pivotal people in my life to get me to where I am now.
•  I was running away because I knew what I didn't want but I didn't know what I wanted yet until I had my own life tragedy. After being married for 12 years I realised I'd married my father, my husband had addictions, but I got pregnant and that's what made me realise there was something greater for me to run towards. I left my husband when my son was 10 months old because I saw what I was becoming.
• Right now I'm running towards that  every single person that I interact with is better due to my presence. I'm breaking generational legacy, curses, building a foundation for my son to be who God wants him to be and I now have peace of mind. Peace is priceless.
• I see in women sometimes hyper-independence at our own detriment. There are many women working in corporations, but when that all goes away they don't know who they are.
• It's not their fault, but many women will contribute to the demise of their relationships than they will even take ownership for. It's hard for women to step into their vulnerability.
• When I had my child, I was scared I would lose my life because it seemed I was losing my freedom to do what I wanted. I couldn't name my fear at the time. But we have to name it and then build a support system, with no Mommy guilt. I got nannies and babysitters and cameras in my house so I can check up on him. You can still do all the things you want to do while being a Mom. It's not and/or, it's both.
• Sometimes we make decisions based on social norms that are wrong, like mothers having to be housewives and homemakers to the detriment of your health and relationships.
• How do you feel when you say “no”? Are you justifying them? This could be a sign you're codependent and putting other people's needs before our own. This won't serve us as wives, mothers, friends, business partners, etc.
• The very thing that we struggle with is sometimes the very thing we're still suffering from, like including the quiet person in a group because that's who you've been or still feel you are.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Healing is so important to everyone's life.'

‘I didn't know what I didn't know. We need more tools to understand our own stories. We have to make sense of it first.'

‘If you look in the mirror and think “I don't know her”, how do you expect someone else to know her?'

‘I knew there was more to life than where I grew up. I've always asked “how can I get that” rather than worry about the barriers.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Dr Janie Lacy, LMHC, NCC, CSAT-S is a Licensed Relationship Trauma Psychotherapist who has over fifteen years of experience in the field of relationship trauma. She is also a faculty member with the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals and an entrepreneur who took her counselling business from a solo practice to a group specialty practice. Dr Janie helps women overcome toxic relationships.  She's the creator of Woman Redeemed, an intensive experiential group experience that uses proven therapy strategies to start women on their healing journey.

GUEST RESOURCES

https://linktr.ee/JanieLacy
www.JanieLacy.com
Woman Redeemed Monthly Program :https://bit.ly/3IkFbc8

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Instagram: @nikoulohse

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ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD
Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Nikou speaks to one of her life mentors, David Meltzer, whose sports agency (Leigh Steinberg Sports & Entertainment) inspired the film Jerry Maguire. He is now co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing which tried to recruit Nikou when she was doing B2B and B2C marketing a few years ago. The pair talk about David's goal to empower one billion people to encourage each other to be happy.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The three key ingredients to the pragmatic world of happiness are: make a lot of money, help a lot of people and have a lot of fun. You can reconcile this with the spiritual world as well by having faith.
• I never lacked love from my mother and my grandmother as a child, but I did have a keen interest in being rich. It was the only thing missing in my life, the only area of scarcity.
• Motivation is very important and is a lot different to inspiration, motivation always got me up, back up, started and restarted. I got my butt kicked again and again in life – physically, mentally, emotionally, financially – and all the lessons I've taken from that led to a world of more than enough.
• By my mid-30s not only was I was a multi-millionaire, but I had access to things billionaires could afford: Throwing out first pitches, standing on the sidelines at the Super Bowl, and I had the money, and I had my dream girl… but I wasn't happy.
• My motivation for money when I was young was originally to help my Mom and then to help everyone else. Although I had the right intentions, I went from living in a world of not enough, where I was a victim of things that happened to me, to a world of just enough where I wanted to give everything in order to receive back, in a zero-sum game. Economics always dictates my self-value.
•  When you appreciate what you have it adds value to it, to acknowledge what you have, you have to lose it, give it away, have it stolen, manipulated or removed from us. What's left is a bigger space created by the fact the universe is constantly expanding and we have expanded with it. Most people then don't ask for more and they dissipate and dissolve back to relying on other people for their health and wealth.
• Appreciation is one thing, acknowledgement is easy. We live in a world of abundance, therefore it is your duty to ask for more. You can't be a resource unless you wish or ask for more.
• Don't just think it, say it, do it, and believe it, but we need to feel it. Feel what it's going to be like to own that home, to have a mutually beneficial loving relationship with your dream boy or girl. Feel it because it's already done, you're already happy, healthy and wealthy. What are you doing that's interfering with it?
• Gratitude is the only common denominator of happy people. It's impossible to be happy without gratitude.
• Coherence of gratitude is the ability to remember and do. Despite the fact it takes 0.1 seconds to say “thank you”, most of us – even I – will forget to say it and appreciate it. 
•  The first and last thought of every day is “thank you”.
• My tomorrow starts today in an unwinding routine that starts at 9pm, I put my mind and soul in a position of recovery and access. I awake at 4am with thanks and gratitude in my mind, into theta meditation, elevating my vibration to be aware of more so I can utilise and download what I received the night before. Every day I start at a higher self, closer to my potential.

BEST MOMENTS

‘I began with a lot of love in a lot of poverty.'

‘Nine months out of law school I was a millionaire. Lots of people would consider that a success, but it was failing forward.'

‘I didn't appreciate what I had, in fact I took for granted what I had wished for my whole life.'

‘I'm the king of gratitude.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

David Meltzer is the Co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing and formerly served as CEO of the renowned Leigh Steinberg Sports & Entertainment agency, which was the inspiration for the movie Jerry Maguire.

His life's mission is to empower OVER 1 BILLION people to be happy! This simple yet powerful mission has led him on an incredible journey to provide one thing…VALUE. In all his content and communication that's exactly what you'll receive.  

He is a three-time international best-selling author, a Top 100 Business Coach, the executive producer of Entrepreneur‘s #1 digital business show, Elevator Pitch, and host of the top entrepreneur podcast, The Playbook. His newest book, Game-Time Decision Making, was a #1 new release, David has been recognized by Variety Magazine as their Sports Humanitarian of the Year and awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honour.

GUEST RESOURCES

Website: https://dmeltzer.com/ 

Text community: 9492982905

Email: david@dmeltzer.com 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Instagram: @nikoulohse

@elev8tedtribe

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ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD
Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode Nikou speaks to Bobby Del Rio who works in the TV and film industry. He became super famous in his native Canada recently when he secured a deal with a Hollywood producer through Clubhouse. The conversation starts off about Bobby's career but he soon turns the tables on Nikou and proposes an opportunity for her.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I originally went to school for economics before acting school, I was going to go into finance. I was a Math guy, I'm a really big dork.
• The most underrated aspect of being a professional performer is the mental aspect. People think it's about looking good and memorising lines, but most of that is easy, the difficult part is the grind and managing the uncertainty.
• I've had a good pandemic, career-wise, and the reason is that I'm pretty good at navigating uncertainty. Even from a financial perspective, I'm so used to the most volatile things happening that I had prepared for these conditions 10 years ago, just out of paranoia – I saved a lot of money, paid off all my debts just in case something happened where I wouldn't have an income for two years and still be fine. Then the pandemic hit.
• If anything, I doubled down during the pandemic, giving myself more projects, more possibilities than ever before because I'm always prepared for the worst-case scenario.
• I can very clearly identify the greatest accomplishments in my career at the time and compare them to my worst personal failures. I don't know why that is, if I'm reframing the narrative, but it's so pronounced that it's almost a joke to me: professional success – personal failure, constantly.
• The pandemic year has been the hardest personal years of my entire life. I had many disastrous things happen. Great things were happening to me and I was supposed to be elated but my heart was broken.
• I hope this changes over time and I wonder if I'm doing this subconsciously.
• Since I got divorced six years ago a negative pattern has emerged that was not present for, I don't know if it's the kind of women that I've dated or my approach to dating, but something fundamentally shifted in my after the divorce where I haven't had a healthy relationship since – not throwing anybody under the bus or blaming them.
• When I find a woman I like I try to focus on her and making it work – I'm a one woman person – but again I feel like I'm unable to make it work and that's frustrating, but I keep moving forward and failing forward.
• I was studying commerce and the University of Toronto doing economics, accounting, calculus, etc and I became so unhappy doing it that I stopped attending my classes and skipped months of school at the time.
• I took improve classes where I would show up 10 minutes before the start of rehearsals at night. I thought, it's not that I'm incapable of honouring commitments, it's that I'm unwilling. The show was called ‘The Bob Goes to Hollywood', which is so funny now that I think about it. I've never said that out loud before.
• That made me realise that acting was what I wanted to do.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS

‘The link between sports psychology and success in the film and television industry are exactly the same.'

‘I struggle deeply with maintaining a balance between work and relationships.'

‘With dating apps, people don't like to fight things out anymore, they just give up on it.'

‘Ladies: If you're listening or watching this podcast and, just like in Nikou's family, you feel the need to drive to Canada to meet me, do it.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Bobby Del Rio has a 20+ year career in the film & television industry.

He has been interviewed over 400+ times, and recently became national news in Canada for getting an agent in Hollywood from the social audio app Clubhouse. He has become one of the top social audio influencers in the world. 

He secured a distribution deal for The Market during the pandemic, a feature film Bobby wrote/directed. Currently available on Amazon Prime in the US & UK. 

Upcoming: Bobby plays TOMMY in several episodes of “Poly is the New Monogamy”, created by Cat Hostick. 

GUEST RESOURCES

Clubhouse and Instagram: @bobbydelrio
Twitter: @Bobman 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com
Instagram: @nikoulohse
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ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Nikou speaks to Melani Ismail who – like Nikou – is the wife of an athlete, so shares some of the same experiences of being associated with her husband first in most people's minds. Nikou invites Melani on to the show to tell us who she is, how she lived before meeting her husband, while her husband was playing and now he's retired, how she has come into herself.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I was a very good barber in LA, which got me into the entertainment world, especially the music space. I wanted to get into A&R and worked alongside P Diddy.
• I met my husband after 5 years of grinding in the business when I met my husband. I was 23 years old and within 8 months we were married. It was the most shocking PTSD moment in my life. Neither of us was really ready for something so big.
• Within a year, I was pregnant and the Raiders moved location, so it was just me and my son. Then, 3 months after that, he got traded to Carolina which was a major move away from family and friends.
• 3 years later we moved again when he joined the Cowboys. I was about to have our third baby. The football playing days were just one constant blur of moving while having babies every 20 months.
• At 32 years old, a year before his contract was coming to and end, he broke his neck on the field and was paralysed. It was rough. He did regain use of his limbs, but it had aftereffects.
• I started a record label in Texas, but my timing was terrible because we were supposed to release an album with him on it the week he broke his neck. I felt responsible for my employees' wellbeing, but we needed to focus on his recovery.
• I wasn't always there for my kids when I was trying to rebuild the record label, I was happy building my business but miserable because I was missing my kids growing up, or tucking them in.
• All my kids are incredible entrepreneurs, they watched what I was doing all those years.
• Then, when I was just about to release our second album my Dad died. That was God's way of saying “you're not listening to yourself right now, you're concerned about everybody else, but you're suffering”.
• Nobody likes to feel invisible, no matter who you're married to. We all want validation, to be seen and respected.
• I feel the pain and trauma now more than I did back then, because I had to just keep going.
• I pray tat if any woman goes through that that God gives you the grace to get through it and he'll comfort you whenever you need to grieve.
• Guys go through a lot when they retire and all of a sudden they don't have the camaraderie that they had when playing sport. He went into a dark, isolating space. Luckily the NFL now reaches out to retired footballers and reintroduces them as a support network.
• I knew that somewhere I wasn't addressing my purpose, I wasn't fulfilled. So, I started going to conferences (business and religious) and nothing felt good. So I fasted and shut myself away for 30 days. At the end of it I asked myself what I really want to do. I thought I want a church, but a fun church. The Fun Factory is faith based, but working with children to find what's fun for them.
• In 2018 one of the kids in our neighbourhood shot another one. I cried for most of 2018. We lost three kids to gun crime in 2018, none of whom were really into any kind of trouble.
• Watching my son's mental health spiral because of his friends dying was the impetus to start up the Fun Factory. It's the most rewarding work I've ever done in my life, despite having to go through all that pain.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS

‘I had a plan of what my life was going to be, but I had to put everything down to follow him and whatever he did became my life and what I did.'

‘I look back over that time and I was in the thick of it, just surviving.'

‘It wasn't easy, laid back, enjoying a lot of money, it was traumatic for the both of us.'

‘Sometimes the trials that you're put through make you who you are.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Melani Ismail is a Conceptual Visionary. She is consistently cultivating her artistic reach through business ventures including music, literature, film, and television. She has executive produced music and film projects as well as consulting for Artists, media personalities and entertainment start-ups.

Melani speaks to a variety of audiences on various topics related to business, entertainment and personal development.

Melani is the wife of retired Football Legend, Raghib “Rocket” Ismail. They are the proud parents of four amazing children. She and her husband recently launched a non profit, The Fun Factory to provide a fun learning environment to serve the needs of the young entrepreneurial community through music, film/television, the arts and technology.    

GUEST RESOURCES

Websites: www.melaniismail.com & www.funfactoryint.org

Instagram @melaniismail

Course: www.livewithmelani.com

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

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ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode Nikou speaks to Joy Farley, a real estate broker who specialised in new construction out of Charlotte, North Carolina. Joy and Nikou met on Clubhouse a year ago and this podcast is a chance for them to get to know each other a little better.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I am the ‘friend collector', I meet someone and can connect with them right off the bat. When I hear your voice, I know your spirit.
• Despite being an entrepreneur, I grew up under the poverty line, me and my six bother and sisters were home-schooled by our Mom.
• My parents always gave us everything that they could give, not just monetary. We all went to college, one of my brothers in inn the NFL, another is a great dancer and the dean of a school in Los Angeles.
• I went to college wanting to be a business major, so I could walk into an office in a pencil skirt and stilettos until I took a psychology class and found I wanted to help people. Then I realised the there was a lot of number-crunching involved and I ended up in real estate by accident after everything fell apart at the last minute.
• My parents had never owned a home, I knew nothing about construction or sales, but I had people skills.
• Authenticity is a buzzword now, but my Mom was always telling things as they were and people see things in people like that makes them want to help. It's a superpower.
• Don't be embarrassed to struggle. We all do, that's what makes us human.
• When you grow up seeing sacrifice and authenticity, you see things can't always be solved with money, sometimes it's giving time, resources or energy.
• When you can show up and people can hear your heart and they don't have to guess what you're really like, you're actually like you are on social media in real life, that's the best. Real people are attracted to real people.
• Instead of apologising all the time, say thank you.
• I might not always have money, but I'll never be a poor person. I'll always have something to give, even if it's just a smile.
• I'm always looking around to see people's needs and trying to meet them. Givers always gain. Every time you give your heart fills up, especially if you know what it's like to be on the receiving end.
• In real estate, referrals are life. If you know someone who's looking for a home they shouldn't be looking anywhere but me. People want to work with YOU because no one can do what YOU do or bring what YOU bring to the table.
• I used to have a mental picture of what success looked like and to be taken serious in business. Recently I've thrown all of that out the window and have started wearing what I want and bringing all of myself to work. It's a win-win because when you're being yourself you become a person people want to be friends with not buy something from. Things don't have to be a struggle.
• Life doesn't have to be a struggle to be successful. Don't feel guilty if things feel easy compared to the struggles you've had in the past.
• When you start the day genuinely happy in the morning you do great work. People want to be around happy people.
• There's a difference between happiness and joy; life can take away your happiness because it's based on the happenings around you, but joy is on the inside and it's contagious, and you can choose to be joyful.
• I want to constantly be learning about new things. Be in conversations with people who are ahead of you and read books.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS

‘There's something about colour that intrinsically makes us happier.'

‘As I get older, I recognise the sacrifices my parents made for their children.'

‘I've always been divinely positioned to be where I need to be.'

‘If I've got something, you've got it.'

GUEST RESOURCES

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joyfarley7/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joy.farley.31 

Instagram: @jumpforjoy4089 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Instagram: @nikoulohse

@elev8tedtribe

Elev8ted Tribe LIVE & on demand workouts/community:

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Gut Reset program details (email me nikoulohse@gmail.com if would like to join next group, or for more information to start today on self-guided course!)

now.nikoulohse.com

ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode Nikou speaks to Jodie Ellenor, an expert in holistically helping heal anxiety and is here to answer questions some of us have about anxiety and how to deal with it, including having a hard time during the pandemic, the end of the year and the holidays.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I lived in Tanzania for a year and a half a long time ago and picked up a gut issue that I couldn't resolve. When I came back to Canada, I thought I'd be able to have it treated, but that's not what happened and I started to get anxiety about it.
• It turned out I had a parasite which was causing chronic loose stool. I was told it was IBS but I knew it was a parasite. It took 8 years to get answers.
• It was disappointing for me not to have an answer because you don't know how to heal.
• Women are told it's all in their mind, especially when we're dealing with anxiety. Physical symptoms are being labelled as a mind problem and so we end up second-guessing ourselves and not understanding there is a root cause that they can heal.
• If we're not absorbing the proper nutrients, if we have leaky gut, that's going to cause inflammation in the brain and cause leaky brain as well. That will affect neurotransmitter production which will lead directly into experiences of anxiety.
• Copper deficiency is something a lot of women suffer from. Levels naturally raise during pregnancy and if you can't detox copper properly after pregnancy you're going to start feeling super-anxious and copper-toxic.
• Oestrogen-dominance is something you can test for. If you've been on birth control for two years or more your body's had an experience of feeling like it's oestrogen-dominated. The body will store copper, which is stored in the brain and the liver and simulates the adrenal glands which is where we respond to stress.
• My copper was three times higher than the test would measure and I thought well it seems like we might have found a reason that I feel like I'm going crazy!
• Traditional medicine is not going to help, they look for disease and copper toxicity and leaky gut is not a disease. They're looking for serious medical conditions. Their secondary role is to eliminate symptoms without asking the why. So, if you want a different level of testing you have to go to somebody who does that.
• We look at imbalances – before they're at a disease state – so you need to go to a functional medicine practitioner that runs functional lab testing.
• Hair testing looks for copper toxicity. Most labs wash the hair though, I don't because some minerals are washed out.
• You have to really understand the patterns around hair testing and go to someone who's really well trained.
• I saw three functional medicine practitioners before somebody picked up that mould was a big part of my issue.
• I was living in an apartment that I thought was haunted until I moved out and I realised there was water damage to the walls. I didn't see the mould, but I put the pieces together that I was susceptible to the mould because I wasn't healthy to begin with.
• When you remove wisdom teeth and root canal you can get cavitation in the hole where the tooth was which is tissue growing in the jaw bone, which stops you healing as well.
• I get asked is this going to work and am I wasting my time with this? The answer is, it takes time and you might have to go to different practitioners who treat different things. Each one will help you on your journey.
• Healing is like Jenga, you can pull blocks and nothing happens, but one time you'll pull a block and everything falls down. 
• You can be on supplements and medication for life if you don't tackle the root cause.
• The biggest thing I'd like to share is hope. I know what it feels like to not have hope of healing, but the answers are out there.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS

‘If you don't have a reason something's happening you start to feel like you're going crazy which feeds the anxiety.'

‘No one can have a worm living in them and not feel anxious.'

‘There might not be anything external that's triggering and yet we might feel like we're on a rollercoaster.'

‘It took three practitioners and about six years to figure out what was going on with me.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Jodie is an anxiety expert extraordinaire. She is on a mission to help women heal anxiety holistically so they can spend more time enjoying life and less time fearing it. She helps women eliminate worry, racing thoughts, panic attacks, concentration challenges, and sleepless nights. Not only does she explore the mindset factors that lead to anxiety, but she also uses functional lab testing. She combines her training as a therapist, functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner, and yoga instructor to truly offer a mindbody approach to healing.

Jodie became passionate about functional medicine through her own health journey. She spent 15 years seeking answers to gut issues and anxiety after living in Africa. When she isn't talking about anxiety, you will find Jodie outdoors. She has a love affair with nature and is an avid photographer. She also fell in love with surfing during a trip to Costa Rica, though she usually ends up under the waves more often than she rides them.

GUEST RESOURCES

Website: https://go.healingjourneyservices.com/5ways-1 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/HealingJourneyServices  

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Instagram: @nikoulohse

@elev8tedtribe

Elev8ted Tribe LIVE & on demand workouts/community:

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Gut Reset program details (email me nikoulohse@gmail.com if would like to join next group, or for more information to start today on self-guided course!)

now.nikoulohse.com

ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Nikou speaks to actor, comedian, host and voice-over artist Eric Artell who shares his empowering story of failing forward to get where he is in life today. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Actors have experienced more failure than anyone else you've ever met. Imagine if 99% of the times you've tried to do something you've been told “no”. That's what being an actor is like.
• I have friends that are massive stars who appear on busses and billboards, and they are not satisfied. You would think that whatever line of work you're in the pinnacle would be to be the star of the movie, having your own show, being the Supreme Court Justice. A lot of people who achieve this need something else on the side to satisfy themselves.
• When I was young, I thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but certain things happened in my life that I believe steered me to what I'm doing now. For example, I was told being a lawyer was all about reading not convincing a judge and jury that my client was innocent.
• I then chose economics because I like playing with numbers, then I started interviewing with consulting firms and investment banks and realised it was not what I wanted to do. Money doesn't motivate me that much. It didn't justify the terrible journey that was laid out in from of me.
• Sometimes the perception of the acting world is it's full of terrible people and it'll chew you up and spit you out. I thought, who says you can't be a good person and an actor?
• It's not a failure if you don't use your degree. Gaining the degree still taught you something and gave you tools that will help you excel in whatever you go on to do.
• Discovering improvisation was a big thing for me as well, not just as an actor but as a person. It can help in work, business and in relationships as well.
• Improve is the study of creation, it's not just acting without a script or making something up on the spot. It's the study of development and construction.
• “Yes, and…” is a lifechanging principle when you apply it to your life. It means you accept what has been offered to you and then you constructively add to it. The opposite is “no, but…” which derails the conversation.
• Don't immediately shoot down an idea, say “yes, and we can put this on top of it” and then someone else can “yes, and…” it. This works in business and relationships too, not just in improvisational comedy.
• Where the magic happens is that as you start doing this you condition you brain to be constructive, which relates so well to failing forward because when you apply the principle of “yes, and …” to a situation where you feel like you've failed you accept it and then ask what you can now do from there rather than deny it.
• When it comes to making genuine relationship, you should be respectful of others and cultivating those relationships in a genuine way. Being that way has had a huge effect on my journey.
• Some people don't realise they're burning bridges. You can see it happen sometimes in the way they treat others. No one will want to work with that person again and you never know where those people who you're disrespecting will end up. Treat everyone with respect and be enjoyable to work with because you never know when that will help you further down the path.
• Something else you learn in improv is just jumping in and doing it. We lose your sense of wonder and play as we grow out of childhood and we started to question and doubt ourselves and improv brings that playfulness back.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Failing is one of my favourite topics to talk about!'

‘Life is so little bout the destination and so much about the journey.'

‘One of the most basic, fundamental principles of improv is “Yes, and…”'

‘Using improv trains your brain to react to things in the same way as training your body to react to physical things.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Eric Artell is an actor, comedian, and host from New Jersey. After studying Economics, the acting bug was too strong, and he began acting professionally while in Salt Lake City. His first professional job came with a role in the independent feature "Net Worth" opposite Daniel Baldwin. Since making the move to Los Angeles, he's guest starred on a variety of TV shows (Scrubs, Monk, Zoey 101) and starred in dozens of national commercials (and even hugged Smokey Bear). Eric has also been the Host for numerous shows, including America's Funniest Videos' (AFV) digital series "Have You Seen This" and PBS' Emmy-Award-winning science show "DragonFly TV".

Off-camera Eric has lent his voice to video games, radio and TV spots, and animated shows. He's also been teaching and performing improv comedy for over a decade after studying with LA's the Groundlings.

He resides north of Los Angeles with his family, and he enjoys in his free time (if he ever has any!) playing sports (basketball, golf, tennis, softball, soccer, ping pong, you name it), reading, and napping.

GUEST RESOURCES

Website: https://improvwizards.com/  https://school.improvwizards.com/course?courseid=yesandyourself 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com
Instagram: @nikoulohse
@elev8tedtribe

Elev8ted Tribe LIVE & on demand workouts/community:

https://app.heymarvelous.com/elev8tedtribe/buy/product/13842

Gut Reset program details (email me nikoulohse@gmail.com if would like to join next group, or for more information to start today on self-guided course!)

now.nikoulohse.com

ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Nikou speaks to Teri Tkachuk, a serial entrepreneur with many previous careers who was born and raised in Canada but has lived in nine cities across North America, she's travelled all around the globe – you name it, she's been there and done all the things while not losing her shine and burning out.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• If you walk into a room and you feel judgemental eyes and women aren't being kind to each other, maybe those women have done that to others. If you smile you make life more beautiful.
• I don't think there should be competition between women anymore, there's so much room for us to succeed.
• As you get older you realise what's most important to you.
• So many women feel that things aren't easy and you're going to fail more times than you succeed. It's how you come out of that that you're defined by.
• So many women go through ebbs and flows being a new parent, especially if you don't have a support network around you. I didn't know what postpartum depression was in 2005 but I had it. Relationships with other women at work helped me out of it.
• So many doors can be closed on you, but you just need to keep trying.
• I'd never seen myself on the side of a building before, I started crying and I couldn't believe that I was on the side of a Lifetime building in Phoenix!
• We all feel like we have the pressure of all the things we feel like we're holding up. But no one can take away your ‘you-ness', that's something you own and you can manifest inside yourself.
• Look in yourself and realise what makes you happy because no one else can make you happy, you have to find it and write down 10 things that make you happy, 10 things that bring you joy every day, and take an honest look at that and ask if you can realistically do any of those things today. If not, try to do them tomorrow.
• Look to your closest girl-friends for help and ask for it. What if one person you reached out to changes your life with how they help you?
• You're not a burden to your friends and family who care about you.
• Pilates, yoga and being out in nature moving your body is so healing and does so much good for your brain, your soul, your spirit. Our bodies are not designed to sit behind a desk. Every 90 minutes you need to get up and get moving, even if it's just around the house. It's my medicine.
• You have to think about every bite of food or sip of a drink you take. The old saying “you are what you eat” is true in every aspect. Read the labels, don't put anything canned or processed into your body. In Europe everything's fresh unlike in the US. What are they approving here in the US that we're putting in our bodies?
• Don't wait to start a new years' resolution, just start living that life now.
• Fill your life with positivity, hope and be your true, authentic self. Take a look at what you can do for yourself before you can do it for others. To lead the exceptional, extraordinary life that you truly want to lead you need to look from within.
• Join a community or find someone that has a similar mindset as you, because if you're going to fill your day and be around people that take away your energy, that don't fill you up, you need to take a really hard look at the people around you to see who is bringing that energy, who is like-minded, they will hold your heart, hold you together and make you live out that stellar mindset and will champion you so you can champion others.
• Guys get a bad rap; there are a lot of stellar guys out there.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS

‘There's always a way to figure it out and make it happen.'

‘You put out there what you give back.'

‘Reinventing myself every few years doesn't scare me anymore.'

‘I create jobs for myself by seeing the void I need to fill and not accepting no for an answer.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Teri attributes her inner STELLARGIRL to the relentless pursuit of an extraordinary and adventurous life.  Like many women, Teri's values were formed from life lessons — some hard-won, some immensely rewarding — but all contributing to her own STELLARGIRL journey.

Teri grew up with a spirited, global perspective thanks to parents who taught her that beyond their home in a small prairie city in Saskatchewan, Canada, a world of possibilities and wonder awaited. Her early adventures found her traversing North America and Ukraine as a folkloric dancer. She went on to earn a BA majoring in languages and speaks English, French, Spanish and Ukrainian.  She has lived in nine cities across North America, re-inventing herself each time to align with her belief that doing what you love with people who uplift you personifies a stellar life.

Teri's world travels have taken her to over three dozen countries throughout Asia, South East Asia, the Middle East, North America, South America, Africa and Europe and they all have taught her that women living in different cultures and countries have much more in common than not.  In her career, that belief motivated her to support women from all walks of life as they reach for their own “gold.” She's held positions as a fashion editor, a television style host, a wardrobe stylist, a fitness and commercial print model, a personal trainer, and bolstered superstars during her tenure in talent management.

Living boldly has inevitably offered challenges to Teri, but she soared above them with the support of friends and family who propelled her forward. She wants the same for STELLARGIRL – to create a community that celebrates and supports women who aspire to be extraordinary.

Today, Teri lives and works from the mid-west with her true love and their four children.  She is an entrepreneur, model, charity advocate and, as co-founder of Stellargirl, a champion of women who strive to live their individual “stellar-ness” through truth, strength, laughter and compassion.

GUEST RESOURCES

Website: https://stellargirl.com/

Instagram: @stellargirlofficial

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Instagram: @nikoulohse

@elev8tedtribe

Elev8ted Tribe LIVE & on demand workouts/community:

https://app.heymarvelous.com/elev8tedtribe/buy/product/13842

Gut Reset program details (email me nikoulohse@gmail.com if would like to join next group, or for more information to start today on self-guided course!)

now.nikoulohse.com

ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Nikou speaks to Marcus Black, a fellow Breakfast of Champion, a man with a heart of gold and an inspiring soul who's on a mission to impact millions of lives globally. If you've listened to previous podcasts and you love the content and conversations and they've changed your lives for the good, go and share this podcast with at least two friends. People need to hear Marcus' voice, especially as we're all juggling lots of things in preparation for the holidays.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• A big part of my story is my Dad trying to fight to become and find himself. He had a big hole in his heart because of the absence and lack of faith and he tried to fill that hole with all the wrong things: alcohol, gambling, women. Nothing can fill the God-sized hole in your heart except for a spiritual focus and a foundation.

• At nine years old I was visited by a real monster, not one from the closet or under the bed, but the same one that haunts a lot of you: Anxiety. And this kept happening up to the age of 18 where I manifested one of my worst nightmares: A high-speed car crash where I thought I was about to die without having ever lived.

• I began to fear death, I internalised the pain and the traumas and bullying around me and I stopped wanting to do what kids do. Look out for that in your kids, if they're struggling you might feel like you don't have the answers, but you do. Just being there and caring is enough.

• Too few people care enough to go back to where they came from and say: “I've been there”.

• Before the car crash, I had faith, but it meant nothing to me. That moment sent me on a journey because I had a lot of questions I wanted answers to.

• The question was never “why? And “why me?”, it was “what?” and “What is it for”. When I shifted my perspective it opened my eyes. I don't know why I'm here, but I made a promise to God that I'm going to spend the rest of my days trying to figure out how to love, pour in, support and take care of the people around me.

• In the wilderness is where you want to throw in the towel and give up, but here's what I learned about the wilderness: While I felt like I was dying and let behind, the entire time God was there giving me what I needed.'

• You don't have a good relationship if you don't have quality time and communication. Every day I get outside (and this helps with anxiety) and get into nature, mostly around a body of water, and silence the noise. I feel the breeze on my face, the waves crashing around me and I pray, meditate and talk to God. Then I'm living in the moment.

• If you've been living in a state of depression, it's probably because you've made a choice to loop your nightmares in your mind and play your traumas on repeat and you feel a perpetual state of depression. Anxiety is the opposite, where you think of all the worst situations and possibilities that could happen and you replay those on loop in your mind. These things may never come. The way you alleviate both of those is to live in this moment; yesterday's gone and tomorrow's not promised.

• You have heard the voice of God you just don't think you have. The faith doesn't do a good job of the way we present that to people who don't have that type of faith. God is spirit and his spirit lives in all things. There's a spirit that you posses and an intuition that you feel, when you're seeking your higher purpose in the world and your heart is committed, that's when you'll hear his voice. If you're busy, like a hamster on a wheel, you won't hear it.

• People haven't been turned off by It, they've been turned off by the people that represent It. People are imperfect and there will be people that represent God's heart wrong, including religious leaders and teachers. God hasn't hurt you, people hurt you. The heart of God is love in all things, he wants you to have an abundant life. To understand it, don't start in the deepest scriptures, start with the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

• If your universe revolves around you, that's the loneliest place in the world to be and is a recipe for heartache, heartbreak and let-down. You feel the greatest when you're giving back and serving others.

• People think it's bad to have questions or doubts. Don't believe that. No one has all the answers. Many of the closest people to Jesus had questions despite seeing the miracles he performed. It's not about perfection, this journey's about direction.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Failing isn't failure, it's a vital part of the process to becoming everything you're meant to be.'

‘Don't worry about the shots you miss, just stay in the game.'

‘You're not defined by any of the things that happen to you. As long as you're moving forward, you're good.'

‘Faith is an anchor. It may not stop you from feeling the elements and getting tossed around, but it tethers you to the ground and keeps you from getting lost.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Marcus Black is a former pastor and current urban missionary providing leadership and mentoring programs to several inner-city schools through YFC international. Recently named one of LA Weekly's Top 10 keynote speakers to watch in 2021, he is a bestselling author, traveling speaker, Life Coach, host of the Vitalize Podcast & co-pilot of the Embrace Your Ambition traveling Faith-based personal development experience. He is deeply dedicated to spreading his message of love, hope and positivity to the entire world. He has spoken to tens of thousands all over the USA and several countries around the world.

GUEST RESOURCES

Website: https://www.mblackspeaks.com/

All other social media platforms, but mostly Clubhouse and Instagram: @mblackspeaks

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Instagram: @nikoulohse

ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

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In this episode, Nikou speaks to Michelle McLain who has an incredible story to share about how she's failed forward in so many aspects of her life – through mental health, weight loss (130lbs in 9 months), being down at the bottom and pulling herself up to become a badass in business.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Every day I wake up and my goal in life is to change, inspire or save just one life. When you go through what I went through your whole life changes. On November 16th 2016 every single thing that I thought I knew about life changed.

• I went to bed at 10pm and at 2am I woke up in the lifeless, cold arms of my husband. A couple of days later I found a suicide note.

• About a year later I was spiralling, drowning myself in a couple of bottles of wine a day and I grew to the biggest I'd ever been in my life.

• You look at yourself in the mirror and you have these people that see you as a ray of light and an inspiration to people, but I see the person on the inside that's screaming to get out.

• I needed a trainer would wasn't going to listen to my excuses as to why I was 300lbs.

• Every day I had to think that no matter how I feel and how I felt about doing the work, I had to do it. I looked at pictures of my kids and thought, they're not going to have a Mom if I don't discipline myself.

• I couldn't walk up and down stairs without getting out of breath and feeling sick.

• I've stuck with keto and intermittent fasting for over a year. It doesn't work for everyone, but it works for me. Finding the right diet is trial and error.

• When we figured out what it was that I wasn't responding to, that's when the game changed and I started losing weight quicker than I'd ever imagined. I wasn't in the gym for 4-5 hours a day or killing myself with cardio, I literally did 45 minutes of cardio and some strength training with weight, but the one thing I had to do every single day was drink a gallon of water and get 10,000 steps. I literally lost half of my weight doing just that and watching my calorific intake.

• Once I saw the initial results and I got into that routine I'd write notes to myself on post-it notes to myself and stick them around the house and in my car.

• Another thing that was super powerful for me was surrounding me with the right kind of people. I left an emotionally abusive relationship in July 2020 with someone who I never should have been with. It was about eliminating people, places and things in my life that didn't bring me joy.

• I started documenting every step of my journey and that attracted other people in the same situation as me who were inspired by my journey which made me accountable.

• Putting on those size 6 jeans yesterday and they fit was the culmination of the whole last year's journey. I did it. It's indescribable.

• My kids were kidnapped by a cult after my husband died and I've been trying to get them back since 2017.

• Sometimes we call out to god, or a higher power and ask why things have happened to me. But I wouldn't be the person I am today had I not had to go through all that and had to figure it out myself the hard way. I wouldn't trade any of it.

• Every single day you should take out 10 minutes for mindful meditation.

• You're one connection away from your best life.

• If there's one thing I've learned over the past few years is that no amount of guilt we have over the past and no amount of anxiety we have about the future can change the present. You have to learn to live in the now, there's no guarantee that you're going to have a next week, day or 10 minutes. When I did that, everything in my life transformed.

• Focus on fixing one thing at a time, continuous forward momentum. Understand that you're not alone, every single one of us goes through horrible things in life and we've just got to pick ourselves back up a move forward.

BEST MOMENTS

‘In the blink of an eye, everything you think you know about life can change'

‘I physically started with one step with the goal of getting to 10,000 steps and lose 50lbs.'

‘Don't ever use you scales as a measure of success, look at how your clothes fit and how your energy levels are.'

‘Every single thing you want in life starts with a mindset shift.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

On November 16, 2016, Michelle McLain's life changed forever. She woke up in the lifeless and cold arms of her husband and would ultimately discover that it was his own doing; there aren't enough words to describe that kind of pain.

Michelle was months into launching her business and after experiencing that loss, began a downward spiral that she didn't know how to pull out of. She ultimately had to make the choice of victim or victor and after a year of drowning in her own misery, Michelle took a leap of faith, bet on herself and decided that she would WIN, no matter what challenges she faced.

What began as a journey of self-discovery, turned into a complete life and physical transformation. Michelle took control of her health and fitness and through diet and exercise, managed to lose 130+ lbs in 9 months. She changed the people, places and things that were holding her back from her best self and began connecting with those that had a growth mindset rather than self-limiting beliefs. Michelle started to use her pain for a purpose and by pouring into others, her life began to transform in ways that she never could have imagined.

Michelle is a successful brand strategist, CEO and influencer, better known as The Queen of

Clubhouse: “People are my passion. My goal is to impact lives and use my journey to help others navigate theirs. Your story is your greatest asset and it deserves to be told.”

GUEST RESOURCES

Website:www.michellemclain.com

Clubhouse: @werisetogether

#werisetogether

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Instagram: @nikoulohse

ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

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In this episode, Nikou explains some tips she's used in the past to deal with feeling down, including suffering from depression that can help to lift your mood and get you out of the ‘down' state of mind.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• When your energy is really low, you're low flowing and its slower to do your normal morning routine, if you're doing that properly at all. Perhaps do a 10-minute HIIT workout or prayer meditation
• Are you doing so many things for everyone else? You need to tune into yourself.
• Find a support system, so you're not trying to do this by yourself. They could also catch the signs that something's wrong, like not eating breakfast. Go for a hike together, go shopping, just find someone way to love yourself and get friends to help you get there.
• Set attainable goals. When we're not in a good place we can set unrealistic, unattainable goals and if you don't meet then you're probably going to feel worse, which won't help the situation you're in.
• Little wins will help you come back to the best version of you.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Jolt the flow'

‘Fill up your love cup'

‘SMART goals: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time constrained.'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Instagram: @nikouela

ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

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In this episode, Nikou speaks to sleep specialist Dave Gibson who has over 20 years' experience in healthcare, providing advice and supportive intervention across a wide range of conditions to promote good sleep patterns and quality sleep. His background is in all things wellness; having worked as a hypnotherapist, a naturopath, an osteopath and has multiple degrees in osteopathy and food science, and he's on the [podcast to talk all things sleep with Nikou.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• A lot of my clients, as an osteopath, suffer from bad sleep because of their jobs and technology they use – as did I – which is how I got into sleep science.
• We fit our sleep around our life rather than putting our sleep first and at the centre of our well-being.
• There are sleep disorders and disordered sleeping. Sleep disorders include sleep apnoea and restless legs, and disordered sleep is someone who is consciously depriving themselves of sleep and not worrying about it, or people that suffer from insomnia.
• Depriving yourself of sleep is the same as depriving yourself of water, your thirst centre turns off and you don't know that you're dehydrated. Same with sleep; you body goes with the flow until the point that you crash and then you're in trouble because your immune system is gone, the detox of your brain's gone, your cognitive processes are down, you have a higher risk of cancer and then there's all the long-term bits.
• There's no animal on the planet that actively deprives itself of sleep, just humans. It's vital we get 7-9 hours each night.
• 40-50% of people in the UK are sleeping less well than they were doing before lockdown due to adrenalisation.
• Cavemen saw the sun go down, and darkness is the biggest single trigger of sleep, meditation and yoga can help in these days of over-stimulisation by relaxing the body and slowing down our breathing.
• If you can fall asleep within 30 seconds, you're not good at falling asleep, you're sleep-deprived. Our brains don't naturally switch off – especially if you take your phone to bed with you.
• 60% of people that use apps before bed are more likely to grind their teeth due to fear of missing out.
• The Circadian Rhythm looks for the difference between light and dark. Device screens literally give out the same light as the morning light. To combat this you can dim the screen light, used blue-light-filtering glasses and ‘flux' filters for the screens for the devices.
• Regularity is the key to your Circadean Rhythm. If you can't keep to a routine, because of shifts or whatever, make sure you get up at the same time and top up with naps to balance out your sleep and avoids social jet lag, which happens when you bounce your sleep around.
• Some people have taken the extra hours that they used to commute, now they work at home, and are either working longer hours or watching more TV rather than using them for exercise or something that keeps them healthy.
• People look at two things on their fitbits: deep sleep and REM sleep. Exercise helps elongate that. Top athletes sleep longer hours than most people because their bodies need to recover from their training.
• Sleep is a rejuvenation process, if you sleep too long and you're waking up tired that's something you should go to your GP for. It could be anaemia, depression, seasonal affective disorder.
• A good night's sleep is to get up at the same time every day without needing an alarm and feeling great.

BEST MOMENTS

‘You'd think with all my qualifications I'd be getting good sleep, but I have to really work at it.'

‘The care we take with children's sleep is something we switch off in adulthood'

‘There's a lot of kudos and machismo still attached to under-sleeping.'

‘It's harder to lose weight if you under-sleep than if you properly sleep.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Dave has over 20 years in healthcare providing advice, advice, support and intervention across a wide range of conditions to promote good sleep patterns and quality sleep.

His wellness training and qualifications include being a registered hypnotherapist, naturopath and osteopath, with BSCs in Osteopathy and Food Science. He works both online and face to face treating a range of conditions from back and neck pain as an Osteopath to low self-esteem, overeating, addictions and anxiety as a Hypnotherapist and specialises in sleep advice and support. Dave's extensive background and expertise in Wellness enables him to bring a wealth of knowledge to solving sleep problems.

He launched his well-regarded sleep blog, www.thesleepite.co.uk in 2014. Dave has worked with the national press and BBC National and local radio, along with major commercial stations and has also worked on BBC's Strictly Come Dancing as their Osteopath.

Dave's sleep service includes bespoke one to one advice, help with family sleep problems and running webinars and workshops for companies.

His sleep interventions are always tailor made to the individual. They are holistic, built on selecting specific lifestyle changes with nutrition, exercise, meditation, and relaxation techniques at their core. He creates bespoke hypnotic recordings to help improve the quality of your sleep too. 

“My belief is that sleep plays a huge part in our lives. It affects how we feel, how we behave and our ability to perform, whatever the age. I believe it is the fundamental pillar of physical, mental, and emotional wellness. My aim is to help you feel more energised by learning how to improve the quality of your sleep to leave you feeling fresh, boosted and ready for your day – whatever that may look like.”

GUEST RESOURCES

https://thesleepsite.co.uk/

Instagram: @devesleepexpert

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Instagram: @nikouela

ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

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In this episode, Nikou speaks to Ben Azadi, founder of The Keto Camp and one of the main people in the industry that's getting into bio-hacking and teaching people how to be successful in the ketogenic diet, how to do intermittent fasting correctly and helping you find the root cause of your problems not just treating the symptoms that – as Ben says – is true healthcare, not just sickcare.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I was following a stupid American diet being unhealthy growing up which made me obese and gave me low self-esteem. Books helped me open up my eyes and they helped me take responsibility and ownership and I started to eat, think and exercise better and transformed my physical appearance as well as my mental health.
• We've seen depression and suicide skyrocket in the last 18-20 months thanks to what's happening in the world. I've been there, looking at ways to kill myself on the internet but then thinking of my Mom and stopping, which became a cycle. What helped for me was to really understand the thoughts that we think.
• We have 60,000 thoughts per day, but 90% are from the day before, you need to change your paradigm to thoughts that serve us. Every time I had a negative thought I'd let it pass, like a cloud, and choose a better thought.
• If you change your environment and move away from negative people you begin to think less negatively.
• It's proven that thoughts are a frequency, or a soundwave, that penetrate your cells, and there are receptor sites on your cells that allow these frequencies to get inside your cells and communicate with your DNA. Negative, fearful or hateful thoughts will tell your DNA to produce proteins that are inflammatory and can lead to disease. Positive thoughts produce healthy protein that leads to health.
• The food you eat will determine the thoughts you think. Processed foods give us peaks and troughs in glucose. Eating healthy food puts you into ketosis and your brain loves that.
• I think all diets work, but not long term. Our ancestors changed their diet from keto to vegetarian when they didn't have animals to eat. That variation makes your digestive system and cells to grow stronger.
• Plants have anti-nutrients in them, like toxins, that put predators off eating them. When you eat plants all the time for an extended period of time if damages your gut causing all kinds of problems. You need to remove them from time to time and reintroduce them later. Meat that has been pumped full of medication and fed grain are bad for you, but free-range animals are healthy and can reduce your risk of heart disease.
• Intermittent fasting is just like keto and our ancestors did this too, so it's not new either. It's such an important tool. A lot of people eat too frequently, this will raise glucose an insulin throughout the day – even if you're eating healthily.
• Fasting leads to autophagy – eating thyself. Your body will enter into a state where it looks for damaged cells/proteins/mitochondria/fats and will use those for energy. This is good for fighting disease because it gets rid of cells that could cause disease replacing them with healthy cells.
• Dr Thomas Seyfried (Cancer is a Metabolic disease) says that if you completed a 7 day water only fast once a year you will reduce your risk of cancer by 95% thanks to autophagy.
• Women and men need to do keto and fasting differently due to differences in hormones pre- and post-menopause.
• Bio-hacking includes red light therapy, wearing blue-light glasses. But the best thin you can do for your body is going out every day and get a dose of vitamin D while walking between 11am and 2pm.

BEST MOMENTS

‘I want to empower people to become their own health detective.'

‘When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.'

‘People think affirmations are ‘woo woo', but they've changed my life.'

‘If you thinking is stinking your dreams are shrinking.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

In 2008, Ben Azadi went through a personal health transformation of shredding 80 pounds of pure fat. Ever since, Ben Azadi, FDN-P, has been on a mission to help 1 billion people live a healthier lifestyle.

Ben is the author of four best-selling books, Keto Flex, The Perfect Health Booklet, The Intermittent Fasting Cheat Sheet, and The Power of Sleep. Ben has been the go-to source for intermittent fasting and the ketogenic diet.

He is known as 'The Health Detective' because he investigates dysfunction, and he educates, not medicates, to bring the body back to normal function.  Ben is the founder of Keto Kamp; a global brand bringing awareness to ancient healing strategies such as the keto diet and fasting.

Ben is the host of a top 15 podcast, The Keto Kamp Podcast; and the fast growing Keto Kamp YouTube channel with over 130,000 subscribers, and TikTok channel with over 135,000 subscribers.

GUEST RESOURCES

Website: www.benazadi.com   

Instagram: @thebenazadi

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/benazadi/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/thebenazadi

YouTube: www.youtube.com/ketokamp

Clubhouse: @thebenazadi

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Instagram: @nikouela

ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

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In this episode, Nikou speaks to Michael Huey about gut health, sleep, nutrigenomics and bio-hacking. All of this makes Michael the perfect guest for the Failing Forward Podcast. However, they get onto their relationships with God, spirituality, fitness and mindfulness meaning that there will have to be a part 2 in the near future.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• 70% of how we function is through what we put in our mouths, I just missed qualifying for the Olympic finals in 1996 and three of my team-mates made the Olympic team, which is very rare from a single college. I realised that there was going to be a shift in the role nutrition plays in performance. So, I switched my drive from athletics to serving – reading in the bible how God wanted us to take care of our ‘temple'.
• It's physical first, spiritual second. Without taking care of fitness first I can't serve well and I'm setting an example.
• I believe a lot of people's physical health problems are spiritual.
• Makes sure you have no co-dependant relationships, they're toxic. Self-examine your relationships from time to time. You make better decisions when you're in alignment with God's plan and purpose for your life than making emotional decisions, like bringing someone into your business because they talk a good talk but could be a liar or narcissist.
• The Devil will always try and defeat you in your mind, your will and your emotions because he knows he can tug at them. But, when you have a real experience with God nobody can negate that experience.
• I want to be a person that doesn't judge people, that forgives, that walks in unity and oneness. But, I also want to be the person that stands up and is held accountable to the bible, not to man and what man thinks. If I deny him before man he'll deny me before the father.
• You have to be intentional in every area of your life.
• Men don't have best friends. 1 in 10 men have a friend they feel comfortable sharing life stuff with and 1 in 20 have a best friend. To me, that's scary. I don't want to have somebody who will encourage me but someone who will correct me. I think a lot of us gravitate towards people that tell us what we want to hear nit what we need to hear. But never correct without encouragement.
• You need to get rid of people in your life who are constantly negative and surround yourself with people who encourage you, sharpen you, makes you better in every area of your life, sets an example for you. Look for people that are good in the area where you're struggling and learn from them.
• Your identity is not in your failures, it's in who you are and who God created you to be minus the shame, minus the guilt, minus self-doubt.
• The difference between wisdom and knowledge is taking action on what you've learned.
• I could be depressed or have anxiety if I wanted, but I choose to be in the present. I can't control what I can't control. I control what I can control and leave the rest up to God.
• Turn your mess into a message.

BEST MOMENTS

‘My identity is in the one who created me, not the letters before or after my name.'

‘You were bought at a price, therefore honour your bodies.'

‘Don't sweat the small stuff, let these things go.'

‘Pray for hope and have faith.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Michael was born in Lancaster, Ohio where he attended Ohio State University as a four-year letterman of Track and Field where he earned a degree in Nutrition, Exercise Science and Sports Management. He also has an 8-year Theology degree in Christian Studies from the Christian Life School of Theology and is a licenced minister. He is a Master Educator for the American Council of Exercise with 25+ certifications from fitness, nutrition to anti-ageing, is the founder and CEO of HeFluence, the number one problem solving coaching company on the planet.

In 2019 he received a Monumental Achievement in Business Award at Thrive, which has been voted by Forbes Inc and Huffington Post as the number one entrepreneur event of the year for the past 5 years.

He has lived in Tampa, Florida for 25 years, 13 of which with his wife, Lisa. They both love God and serving others.

GUEST RESOURCES

https://www.michaeldavidhuey.com/ 

Instagram: @michaeldavidhuey 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michael.huey.739 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-david-huey-b5176652/ 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com 

Instagram: @nikouela 

ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com 

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

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In this episode, Nikou speaks to Josh Aryeh, the founder and CEO of Lion's View Development, he also has a charitable organisation called Smiles Through Cars where he dresses up as Batman and drives beautiful, exotic cars, taking children who are battling illness, disease or cancer and takes them on rides to raise smiles on their faces.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• People see the cars, the private jets and the money, if you're a successful entrepreneur. What they don't see is the stress and the struggles you went through to get there in the first place.
• There's no point in greed. The only reason I want to make more is so I can give me. It's great for generational wealth and there are benefits to that, but in terms of my actual goals it doesn't add to anything I'm trying to do.
• When I was younger, I wanted to be Bruce Wayne rather than Batman until life changing events showed me what was truly important in life – surprising 8-year-old Jessica, who was diagnosed with cancer, with a ride in a Lamborghini.
• A lot of the success that I've had is purely because I found my ‘X-Factor', it was all about making more so I could give more which gave me the motivation to push harder and do more than I was capable of than if it was coming from a negative place of selfishness, pain and jealousy.
• I was doing acts of random kindness long before this, it starts with saying ‘good morning', holding a door open, paying for someone's cup of coffee, saying ‘hi' to a homeless person. You don't have to give tons of money, but you can donate your time. That's where you get the satisfaction.
• If money didn't matter to you what you want to do with the rest of your life? What would truly make you happy? For me it was volunteering, I want to retire and do volunteering work for the rest of my life. The reason I am an entrepreneur is that no one would hire me knowing that any hours of the day or night I'll be out volunteering.
• ‘Yet' is a huge mentality that entrepreneurs need to have to succeed. You need to look to the future. What can I take out of what occurred today to make tomorrow better? Failure is one of the best things that can happen to you as an entrepreneur. Learn from the failure, don't let it hurt you, learn from it.
• No one can control what happens to them in their lives, but you can decide how you're going to react, if you're going to be a survivor or a victim and dwell on it for the rest of your life.
• Love is endless, you can keep giving and giving and giving and it never takes away from your love for anything and anybody else. And it makes you feel better.
• My greatest success through failure was the struggle to start the non-profit, I didn't start off to set up a non-profit it just grew and grew and grew naturally through authenticity and people wanting to give back and I didn't have access to more than one car and manging all these things was tough. So, I decided to partner with people who donated money for me to buy cars or to privately rent out water parks or ice-skating rinks for hundreds of kids to use. Sometimes you need help from other people who know what they're doing, it's OK to ask for help or lean on other people, you can't do everything on your own. I now have lots of mentors that help me with everything from finances to my own mental health.
• I was brought up to look to people who didn't have what I had growing up who would wish for things that you take for granted. How many people don't have those things? Appreciate the things you have. That shaped my definition of wealth. Rich for me is someone who is happy with what they have, not how much money you have.
• It's awesome to get up and put on my Batman suit than my business suit. All day people just smile and take pictures.
• I can't cure the kinds' illnesses, but if I can make them forget about their illness for a minute it's worth everything. What can I do to the cars or my costumes to make their experiences better and special?
• No matter what you're going through in life remember that there are other people going through worse, and that through the dark times there will always be light at the end of the tunnel no matter how deep and dark that tunnel seems. It may not be easy but you will get through it. Keep pushing forward and remember it's OK to ask for help, everyone has the ability to change the world for the better. My only goal is to be better than myself yesterday, I don't measure myself against other people. Happiness starts within.

BEST MOMENTS

‘I can learn anything from anybody. Doesn't matter who they are or what they do.'

‘If I can have an impact with such a stupid thing as a car, then I need to dedicate my life to this.'

‘Greed never satisfies you.'

‘I didn't know how much I enjoyed helping people until I want out and actually did it.'

ABOUT THE GUEST

Josh is the founder and CEO of Lion's View Development, he also has a charitable organisation called Smiles Through Cars in 2008 which has a growing team of superheroes on a mission to change the world, one smile at a time.

This mission began with an introduction between Josh and Jessica, an 8-year-old girl in Queens, New York, who was battling a rare form of cancer. Jessica had lost sight of the joy in her life and Josh knew there was something that had to be done. Car enthusiast, Josh borrowed a family member's sports car, hit the road, and headed out on a mission to make her smile. A simple joy ride, an escape, and a moment where nothing else existed for both Josh and Jessica.

Since 2008 Smiles Through Cars has visited 30,000 children, raised $2m and the plan is for the charity to expand to have teams of superheroes in cities all over the world, making a difference.

https://www.smilesthroughcars.com/

Instagram: @batmanrealaccount

GUEST RESOURCES

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com

Instagram: @nikouela

ABOUT THE HOST

Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 

Nikou is a serial entrepreneur. She started her first company at 21 doing sales & marketing for Fortune 500 companies, made her first million at 24, and decided to exit at 30 in order to pursue her passion for helping others. She became a yoga, Pilates, barre, and mindfulness instructor, but her own struggle with SIBO and postpartum depression led her to redefine the way she took care of her body. Now, as a holistic health coach, she is on a mission to empower women and help them heal their gut through nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and spirituality. 

CONTACT METHOD

Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com 

Podcast Description

Failing forward is about the successes we find after enduring failure. Each episode is an opportunity to hear interviews and stories from professional athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, doctors, and loved ones who have fallen down, struggled, and transformed.

They'll be sharing how they got to where they are today, and the lessons they learned along the way. We'll be covering topics in entrepreneurship, careers, relationships, holistic wellness, mindfulness, gut health, and finding your competitive edge. With raw human moments and empowering information, this podcast is here to inspire you, remind you of your greatness, and give you the knowledge to up-level in every area of your life. 

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