42: How to Become Your Own Best Advocate

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Hey there, welcome to mystical sisterhood. This is

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your host, Maureen Spielman. I started the show to highlight

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the intuitives, healers and other courageous women that I've

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met along my journey and continue to meet. Through

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amazing interviews, I seek to ask insightful questions to

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uncover ways in which you the listener can apply the wisdom

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and knowledge to your own life. I believe that we're all in this

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together. So sharing healing and joy, and bringing community

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together is both my passion and purpose. If you'd like to learn

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in the episode.

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Hi, and welcome back to mystical sisterhood. This is your host,

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Maureen Spielman, I am here on my own this week, I knew that I

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wanted to do an episode around health, for breast cancer

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awareness month.

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It's a month that is very near and dear to my heart. Not

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because I'm wearing pink every day in any way, shape, or form.

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But because I have gone through the journey myself. And so I

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think there's many things to be said about our health, our

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wellness, when it comes to just awareness in general. And so I

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titled today's episode, Episode, be an advocate for your health.

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And I hope today that there's just takeaways and things that

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you walk away with, to consider implementing or possibly

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changing in your own life, as it has to do with our physical

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health, but also just a theme of being our own advocate in

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general.

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There is nothing like being catapulted into the medical

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system, as so many people out there know, and learning how to

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become your own advocate, as to what's best for you in your

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journey. And a lot of times, that's not what convention tells

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you, or your conditioning, but what's right for you. And so,

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you know, that sort of pertains to the medical journey and the

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hospital journey in the end if you go along Western medicine

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journey, but there's a lot of ways we can become advocates in

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our own lives. And today, I am talking about health, but I

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think that we can become an advocate across many domains, if

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not all of our lives. So you know, usually I'm talking about

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emotional work and spiritual work, which I love. But I

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actually deeply love what I'm going to talk about today, too.

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So this episode is about October and breast cancer getting us

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here, but I really want to do a huge, huge, you know, wide open

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arms embrace. And just

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just an ode to anyone who is currently traveling this path,

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who has traveled it in the past who has traveled it with a loved

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one.

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And just just a huge embrace and compassion. And I'm like I said,

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I know firsthand that going through the process and, and all

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the ups and downs and the wonderings and the curiosities

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and the upsets and the setbacks and the disappointments and the

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fear and the, in the research and the and the crying and the

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and the the high parts to you know, they're all part of it.

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And we process it when we do as we do, but just raising my cup

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of coffee this morning to

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everyone in this moment who has been with someone on the

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journey, whether it's yourself or a loved one.

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You know, it is true that almost everywhere we turn on a weekly

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basis, we learn of someone in our circles or concentric

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circles, who has a diagnosis of cancer. So as I talked about

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becoming an advocate today for your physical health,

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you know, hopefully there's some tips in here that we can all use

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around prevention and treating our physical body

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in such a way that we are honoring we know that what we

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put on it and Intuit and surround it with is important

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also for our overall health.

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So yeah,

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I'm going to name today, just different organizations that I

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think are either good resources for our journeys in life and

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prevention and taking care of ourselves. And so take what you

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will, I'm really curious, as I put together today's episode, I

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kind of went by what I know. And so feedback from you know, you

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the audience members, and either when I post this on Instagram,

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or through my newsletter this week, or any way that you want

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to give me feedback, it's Hello at Maureen spielman.com Is my

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email. But um, I'm curious, because I will add things to a

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list that, you know, I can, I can send out to people.

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And so, as always, no perfection here. All ideas, welcome. I'm

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just going off what I know and try to practice. So

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you know, when it comes just to prevention, for breast cancer, I

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would be remiss not to mention that there are great community

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forums and

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prevention and what to look for, and signs and symptoms, for you

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to just educate yourself on breast health. And for that

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breast cancer.org. And the komen.org websites have just so

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much information. And so, you know, we can educate ourselves

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through our doctors and through our own education, maybe as

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well, I was gonna say as often as you like, and I had a doctor

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who always thought it was important, no matter if the

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federal, I guess, medical guidelines, were saying, Get

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your mammogram every two years or

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further apart, she always advocated for the annual

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mammogram. And I had no signs, signs and symptoms at all. And

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that's how mine was detected in 2018. And so for that, I'm

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grateful. And I see women posting when they go through it,

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remember to get your mammograms. And, and it is I know, there's

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controversy about mammograms, and this is not a controversial

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podcast today. But, you know, that's how mine was found. And

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I, by the time it was found, it had traveled to my lymph system.

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So I tend to be an advocate for annual mammograms, because,

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quite frankly, if I would have waited the next year, and

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another year, I don't know what would have happened. But I'll

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just say that. So I wanted to say that. That to begin with.

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But my world kind of opened up after my mom died. And she had

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also died of lung cancer, I shouldn't say also, she had died

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of lung cancer, she had been a lifelong smoker and ended up

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with small cell lung cancer and hugely correlated with smoking.

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So there's that right there.

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But then, a friend of mine, hosted a party for a beauty

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counter. And Beautycounter, you know, is a direct selling

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company, which a lot of people off the bat are like, Ooh, you

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know, it's not a good thing, because it's a direct selling

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company, you know, one person to person, woman to woman. But I

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have to tell you, that the education that goes on in a

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company, like Beautycounter, it kind of opened my eyes, and it

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opened my eyes to the advocacy I could be doing around personal

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care products, and my own health and the health of my family. And

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so for me, I was like eternally grateful. And I'm still, you

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know, on their roster as representing their products,

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because they are a cleaner source for me and for my family.

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And so I'll put that in the show notes too.

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But

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who I learned about a great organization through

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Beautycounter. And let me just say I had something to say from

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Greg Renfrew the founder. What she said is when she went to

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form that company, which is a very big advocacy company to go

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into Washington, DC for legislation, she said, and this

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is 12 years ago, in 2011, I learned that the US bans 30

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ingredients from personal care products. And for context at

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that time, the EU was at 1400. And so she started Beautycounter

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to set out to transform the beauty industry and created the

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never list.

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And it's made up now of 2800 questionable or harmful

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chemicals that they never use in their ingredients or products. I

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know that there are cleaner companies out there

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and so

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I can you know if anyone

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wants to give me feedback on what they use and what they

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found. Because today's a lot about resources, please do. And

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it all depends. I remember, you know, when I was educating

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around cleaner, safer products back then someone said, Well,

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I'm not going to put that on my face, I would only put like

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olive oil and avocado was on my face or something like that. At

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the time, I thought, like, wow,

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that's, that's a lot. But I, you know, now I'm like, hey,

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whatever you want to put on your face. But the truth of the

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matter is that most of us are using cosmetics, and personal

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care products, and many of them on a daily basis. So when we

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think about the health repercussions that can have, you

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know, it's significant, and I think it's an important

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conversation. And I, despite all the advocacy, I still think it's

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something that's is buried, and I'm going to talk about a little

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legislation that's going on as well around it. But that's why

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one of the reasons I wanted to bring it to the forefront today,

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in this conversation around advocacy and advocating for our

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health is because when I walk into a big brand cosmetic store,

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unless I'm missing it, I'm not always seeing on the door, you

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know, an app that's going to help me find the cleanest

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products. I think things are changing, though. And I've seen

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stores like Sephora

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carrying a lot more cleaner, conscious, health conscious

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products. And so it's amazing. It's really amazing. One store

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that we have here in Chicago, and I'm sure they have an online

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presence is credo, it's CR E D, O, and credo is committed to

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cleaner products, again,

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there's going to be a whole excuse me a range of what people

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consider as clean. So that's up to you. Today is just about

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resources and advocacy.

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I like to point out because I think it's really significant

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that six years ago, when I started doing the advocacy work

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around personal care products, it was an ad. At that time, I

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think it was let me start a $63 billion industry. I remember

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that being the number that was quoted and it was like, oh, you

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know, blow your socks off $63 billion industry and we know

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that's true. Because in the US here, we're just there's just so

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much around appearance and you know, what's going to create the

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the least lines and the longevity with our youth. And

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you know, those are the lotions and then the makeup to make us

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feel prettier, or whatever it is. And I'm all in man, I grew

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up in a family of girls and, and we really liked our products.

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And I raised my coffee cup to my mom, she did too. So knowing

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that there's going to be alternatives and resources for

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us is incredibly powerful for me. So, Oh, that

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$63,000,000,000.06 years ago, is now quoted at an $84 billion

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dollar personal care product industry. And it remains one of

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the least regulated in the United States. So breast cancer

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prevention partners that I became aware of their work is

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BCP breast cancer prevention partners. I think via

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Beautycounter. They partner with them and they are doing vigorous

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research and

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pursuing health protective cosmetic safety legislation. So

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I love BC pp.org I'll put all all these resources I'm going to

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have a lot today in the show notes. But they do a great job

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on education and it's it's actually kind of fun to go look

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at their site I think

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they are correlated with the safe cosmetics.org which goes

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into more information and the campaign for safe cosmetics.

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Then they've got just all these beautiful initiatives including

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the non toxic black beauty project

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because there are so many chemicals in toxic chemicals in

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the products marketed to black women. And so the work that

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they're doing around this non toxic black beauty project is

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groundbreaking I'd say and just so health promotive and so

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necessary in this world.

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Where Beautycounter has the never list and their ingredients

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that are questionable

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and they do not put in their products the campaign for safe

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cosmetics at safe cosmetics.org has the red list and they have

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different tiers and tier they have a tier one. These are do

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not use chemicals for everyone.

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Tier one do not use chemicals Of greater concern for black women.

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They have tier one PFS forever chemicals I believe those are

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the ones that sometimes coat our clothing

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And I've got a look, this might not be right. But I just saw on

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their site, their site has so much information that Rei had

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committed to discontinuing any products with whatever the

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chemical was that coats clothing. And so they've

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committed to take that

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out of any products they sell in their class in their stores. So

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if you want details on that, don't ask me go to BC pp.org.

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Yeah, so they're, they're tackling the environmental

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injustice of not only all of our health, but

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before Black women in particular, in their initiative,

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non toxic beauty for black women. They've got tips on safer

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sunscreens,

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and lots of different guides. So I just wrote out and I'll share

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with you 10 health promoting habits to take on and advocate

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for, these are always you can guarantee almost everything I

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share with you on this podcast is for my own benefit too.

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Because you know, sometimes we lose the plot, we have an

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intention to eat well, you know, do well, by our physical bodies,

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meditate, whatever it is,

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become a better parent become a better partner, and we lose the

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plot. So I'm just going to talk about 10 health promoting habits

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to take on. And if it can make a change for any of us, I want us

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to consider that the way we buy is can be culturally societally

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conditioned, you may buy the way your parents bought, you may buy

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because of marketing advertising.

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The one that I switched a long time ago was around a cleaner

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detergent and I tried to look for one with no fragrance and

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not all the bells and whistles and the colorful, you know, jug

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with the neat colors on it at Target and just get cleaner when

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it comes to that and washing my children's or my family's

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clothes, or finding a hand soap that is not also like pumpkin

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flavor for fall and all these things unless it's just cleaner

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that's put into it. But I'm going to tell you 10 tips now.

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And name some more resources. Number one is Be on the lookout

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for hormone disruptors in your products. This is really

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important for you know, our overall health, breast cancer or

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breast health I should say for sure, because there is something

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called a Zeno estrogen. It's a type of Xeno hormone false

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hormone that imitates estrogen. So for me, I had an estrogen

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progesterone positive type of breast cancer. And so estrogen

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in my most, you know, simple of understanding it fed

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or nourished my breast cancer cells I should say.

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So, you know, this can come from the outside. So looking for

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hormone disruptors and in our products is really important. So

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I'm gonna tell you some apps to use in just a little bit. These

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are just food for thought though. I'm avoiding fragrance.

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This is hard for a lot of us because perfume smell good,

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right? But the reason I say avoid fragrance, or limited is

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the word fragrance can cover up a cocktail of ingredients. They

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can it can mask carcinogens and hormone disrupting chemicals.

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And they can be found fright fragrance can be found in nearly

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half of all personal care products. So avoid purchasing

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and using products with the word fragrance or perfume on the

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label and be especially vigilant with children's products. Some

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of this information I took directly from the breast cancer

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prevention partner site so it's BC p p.org.

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Oh, I love this one. Number three. use online tools and

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official seals. So

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ditch your old daily routine and replace it with safer beauty

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products. There's apps that you can put on your phone, including

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think dirty, ew G skin deep. And the good guide. I read about

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another one called clear yet see Leary a and these apps help us

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with ratings on our personal care products. You have to have

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a little bit of extra time to do it, but it's worth it.

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Ew G's skin deep has a barcode scanner and it rates the

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products from one to 10 one being the safest lowest

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hazard and 10 being the highest. So I love that one clear area I

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hadn't heard of but it can alert on ingredients linked to cancer

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infertility, baby developmental harm hormone imbalance chemicals

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that are banned in Europe, and ingredients that cause allergic

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reaction.

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As we go along, think about which ones of these you're

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already doing. Or that you're kind of like, who I want to do

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that number for such a big one. For me, it's a, it's one and

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this is full transparency helped me with it, if you can, cleaning

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more naturally, using baking soda to neutralize order odors,

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vinegar to clean and deodorize. And you can add a cup of vinegar

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to your laundry to brighten up whites, remove voters.

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A few drops VCP says a few drops of your favorite citrus juice,

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lemons or oranges, to a vinegar based cleaning spray to fill

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your home with a fresh scent.

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Yeah, and I it's one of those areas where I think I'm

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conditioned or maybe

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to I'm just gonna say to purchase something that's a bit

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stronger. So that's an intention I have for my house and home and

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health is to get cleaner with my products.

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Number five, decreasing canned foods. Always good for us, we've

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heard this, but a lot of companies now are maybe freeze

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drying or freezing even

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the foods we can buy like if your choice is beans within a

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bag.

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Maybe it's going to take longer, but it's better not to have the

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BPA that's in the cans. Same thing goes with six getting out

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of plastic using less plastic. And the one that I'm looking at

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is using more glass. For my leftovers. I still have some

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glass some plastic. So let me know about that. I also heard

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you know, a health practitioners say to me, like just just don't

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drink from the plastic water bottles. Especially if you've

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got a plastic water bottle like in a hot car, I'm talking about

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the ones that we that we didn't grow up with. We didn't who

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bought water when we were eight. If you're my age, come on that

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type of water. So bring your own water cup. You know that might

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be that might be an easy one for people. But also, you know, we

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got to plan we got to plan when our water drinking is gonna be

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so we're not always buying bottled water. Hey, I did it

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yesterday, when I took my son on a college visit. And I was so

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thirsty. Did you even know you were thirsty when you were

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growing up?

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Gs

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seven is an important one to ditching Teflon pots and pans.

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So just toxic compounds can be in nonstick cookware.

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That's really important. A one that I learned recently was well

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not learned recently, but did something about it was

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protecting myself from the EMFs the electromagnetic frequency

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that comes off our phones. And the reason that I did something

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about it was because my guest couple months ago, Therese

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Raleigh, who talked about work with children had a friend who

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started a company, and it's called Safe Space protection.

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And I'll put that link in Safe Space protection.com. And what I

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ended up purchasing were these little smart patches that you

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can put on the back of your phone, and they neutralize the

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EMFs in six feet around you, including your phone. So others

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whose phones are around you, too. This is just like this is

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this energy we can't see right in the frequency of these waves.

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But they're not healthy for us. And so again, they always say

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don't sleep near your phone and we've just become so attached to

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these things like I think like well what if one of my kids text

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me in the night my phone's got to be next to me. Hey, give me

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some teaching on that one. But I really liked the protective

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field and safe space protection.com also has

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patches and neutralizing

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I guess products for your

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like devices at home to computers, outlets. Microwaves

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it's pretty cool.

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Oh, I heard this is a this is an interesting but funny one. Skip

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the print go online. And it's really funny because I saw Matt

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Damon is probably 10 years ago, talking about how he doesn't

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like take the receipts from the when you go to the bank and get

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money out. But I do it when I go to my grocery store because the

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Um, ink that use can have BPA, or BPA like chemicals on them.

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And touching them just opens us up to toxic chemical exposure.

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So those are what did I say? 10? I think I did. One was demanding

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out surance transparency. And I'm going to talk about that in

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one minute with the legislation. So if you are in a workplace,

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that you would like some transparency, and the big one

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that comes to mind is if you're in the hairdressing industry, or

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know somebody close to you that is, or you have a hairdresser,

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which is probably 99.9% of America, maybe 95, maybe 90, I

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don't know.

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You can ask them do you advocate what's How are the workers being

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protected, protected? So what I learned through

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the I think it was B CPP, but it's really great. You know, I

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know when Beautycounter was started that the the legislation

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was written, protecting our consumer health, and brace

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yourself, you might fall off your chair in 1938. And so

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there's been some work especially done out in

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California passing protective bills within the state. But

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right now on our house floor, and I'm not, I don't know when

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these bills will be considered. But there's a safety safer

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beauty bill package and it includes four bills. And so it

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really cool HR three 619 Is the toxic free beauty act of 2023,

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which would prohibit 11 hazardous chemicals from Beauty

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and personal care products sold in the US that are currently

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banned by the European Union, California and Maryland. That

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gives me chills. HR 3620 Is the cosmetic safety for community of

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color and professional salon workers act of 2023. Would

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federally mandate access to translated safety data data

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sheets, funding for research grants to identify chemicals of

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concern, and health impacts from cosmetics and personal care

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products used by these communities.

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HR 3621, the Federal cosmetic fragrance and flavor ingredient

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right to know act of 2023 would require companies to publicly

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disclose a full list of fragrance and flavor ingredients

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in their products on product labels and websites. And lastly,

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this encompasses hr 3622, the cosmetics supply chain

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transparent Transparency Act of 2023 would require upstream

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suppliers including fragrance houses, formulating labs and

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suppliers of ingredients, finished products and raw

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materials to provide brand owners with the ingredient

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disclosure, toxicity and safety data.

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I think when I was reading about

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just all this information, there's a HBO Max movie not so

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pretty. And I've got another movie that's escaping my mind

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right now that I want to add to the show notes. But um, I hope

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that the walk away today is that we're all here for each other.

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Sharing ideas, sharing resources, sharing courage to

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become your own advocate. And I may have said earlier in the

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episode, but I had learned that women are the principal buyers

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for their home.

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But maybe I think that's a truth. And I think that a lot of

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my listeners are women. But let's let's change that. Let's

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bring men on board caring about what we put on our bodies, what

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our families are using. Because this shouldn't just be a woman's

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issue. This should be something that we're all sort of

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advocating for. And I hope that you received one thing of

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value for you today. And as always, oh, I just looked down

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at a sheet in front of me. Let me not forget the EW G dot orgs

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shoppers guide to pesticides in protest. That's the one that I

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meant to put on my list of 10 and they've got the Dirty Dozen

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and they have the clean 15 I'm gonna say him real quick for

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you. The Dirty Dozen are chemicals that are known to have

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pesticides on the crops. He had a statistic but I don't know

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where I put it about. Like it's like 75% of us.

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Products have pesticides that are non organic. So the Dirty

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Dozen strawberries spinach, kale, collard and mustard

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greens. P

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Just pears nectarines, apples, grapes, Val and hot peppers,

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cherries, blueberries and green beans. And that's 12. And so

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these are known to have pesticides when you're not

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buying organic, and the clean 15 avocados, sweet corn,

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pineapples, onions, papayas sweet peas, asparagus, honeydew

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melon, melons, kiwi cabbage, mushroom, mango, sweet potatoes,

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watermelon and carrots. And so those are the ones that I think

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have the least pesticides. But ew G, you can sign up for these

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two guides. And they have like little you can eat a little

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like, rectangle you can cut out and you can keep in your wallet

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or your purse when you go to the grocery store. So

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this is just for us as mystical sisters in the mystical

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sisterhood. Let's keep caring for each other. Let's keep

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supporting each other in the most expansive of ways.

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And let's just ensure that our health keeps on getting better

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and better.

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Instead of falling, you know victim to things that we can

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change. And that goes for the emotional, the spiritual, and

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our physical level. So any questions comments? I'd love to

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hear them. You could always find me at Maureen spielman.com and

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email me at hello at Maureen spielman.com. And I look forward

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to being with you in the next episode. As always, you know,

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I've got my coaching practice on the side where I see women one

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on one and also the mystical sisterhood membership. If you're

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not a member consider being one because we have wonderful

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conversations in that group with a live call every week and a

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guest speaker every month. And

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yeah, that's it mystical sisterhood.com So I will leave

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it at that and

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you know, abundant health for us all.

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subscribe and leave a review and share with a friend if you're

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I'll see you in the next episode.