#50 Naturopathic approach to entrepreneurial success
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Guest: [00:00:00] I don't think I've ever had a medical experience where someone actually put together all of my symptoms and said, here's where to go from there.
They gave me brilliant little clues and breadcrumbs and I put the pieces together of my own puzzle. So I was a really severe version. Of health, I've had to be the person to fix myself.
Claire: Hello everyone. And welcome to another episode of the small town entrepreneur podcast. I'm your host Claire Bouvier, and we have someone extra. Extra awesome, special. And I will personally say she has transformed my life in many ways. And so this is both a personal episode [00:01:00] and this is going to be something that potentially may change your life.
So stay here with us. I'm going to introduce the one and only Dr. Sarah Wilson, ND is a naturopathic doctor focusing in women's health. Practicing at Advanced Women's Health and the founder of Women's Health, Advanced Women's Health, with locations all across Canada. With a passion for evidence based natural medicine, Dr.
Wilson focuses on complex hormonal conditions, digestive issues, And energy production, she is known for her research based protocols and no nonsense approach to healthcare, empowering women to achieve optimal health. Dr. Wilson is also a sought after lecturer and advocate for evidence informed practice in naturopathic medicine.
Welcome, Sarah.
Guest: Thank you for having me. I'm always so excited to push this message forward about how much health impacts everything, right? We talk about [00:02:00] this all the time, you know, you can't separate them, right? The KPIs in business and KPIs in health are, they should be the same thing.
We need to have them for both. And I think for me, Being a business owner and running such a large business now, honestly, accidentally, which we can get into.
Claire: Sarah has what six X your business in the last year and a half. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So there's two things at play here and I'm going to jump in before we get deeper because I for wherever you're listening, maybe you just need this day to just chill and listen to this podcast, you're driving, whatever it is, promise you that you can't ignore this topic because.
This has been transformational. I will say I've been so blessed from a young girl. I was introduced to naturopathic medicine, and I truly believe there's a place for the modern medicine world, naturopathic medicine whatever your beliefs are. But I, can tell you that for [00:03:00] me, it was finding Sarah because why she's so unique in this space is that I'm a data girl.
And I like numbers and I know Sarah likes numbers and it's not guesswork. It's not like, you know, this woo woo, like, Oh, here, take this and it might help. And so I think it's really powerful that what has changed. I thought I was some unique person that had all these unique issues. Yeah.
Guest: Everyone were laughing because we were talking about this before and I call it like special little flower syndrome where everyone comes in and they're like, I'm the only one that experiences this.
I'm the only one dealing with this struggle. And I'm like, you are only the fifth person today. And you, like, you are a unique manifestation of those symptoms. But I believe, I believe structure and the research. Suggest that I'm correct, is that there's only five to seven causes of disease. So that means that everyone is only a combination of two or three of those things.
So your two to three combined to give [00:04:00] you a very specific symptom set, but it's still at the root, like deep down, it is still really just a couple of those elements that we need to focus on to get you moving forward. So I think it also really reduces the overwhelm, right? That's what it is.
Claire: That's what it is.
I want people listening because this is what's really been transformational is that, okay, there was that like second of like, Oh, I'm not unique, but you're like, well, do I want to be unique? Because being unique means that there's a way more complex system of like healthcare that would be needed for something like that.
But a lot of the times what I've learned is like energy is a huge one, sleep, huge one, finding the diet that works. It's like, it's so nice that you were the answer, like, you're like, Hey, I've seen this a million times over and over. Like you fit into this category and we're going to tackle this.
So can we talk about like. Fundamentally, where someone comes, a woman comes, gets their blood work done. [00:05:00] What are these? You say we're in buckets of like these different five to seven health conditions, so to speak. And this is obviously excluding someone that has something outside of this realm that's a little more severe, but it's not, I will
Guest: put my stake in the ground to say, I don't care how severe it is.
It's one of those five to seven.
Claire: Wow. Right. And people are always like,
Guest: are you serious? So let's get some context to this. I think it'll be really, really helpful. So the reason I got into naturopathic medicine was because I was in and out of the hospital, my entire youth, right. At some point, a doctor told my mom, she might have cancer and be dying.
We don't know. So I, then at that point, naturopathic medicine was which medicine. So my mom's like, I'm going to take you to this doctor. I don't know what's going on. Right. And that was the point at which things really changed for me. And then I did what everyone else did and I avoid my calling.
Right. So I go into research, love data, kept getting handed natural [00:06:00] health compounds, presenting on the research on how effective these things are at conferences. People are like, that's so great. Maybe doctors will use it in 10 to 17 years. And I was like, F that. I'm going to be the doctor to use that. I'm going to be the doctor to change healthcare.
But I say that because I've had to be the person to fix myself. I don't think I've actually ever had a medical experience. And like, this is a very bold statement. And I get that. But I don't think I've ever had a medical experience where someone actually put together all of my symptoms and said, here's where to go from there.
They gave me brilliant little clues and breadcrumbs and I put the pieces together of my own puzzle. So I was a really severe version. Of health, you know what I mean? When someone says we don't know what's going on. She's 100 pounds overweight now She can't stop losing weight. She's got endometriosis. I didn't have a period for six years Like i've had so many health issues that no one could [00:07:00] figure out and I figured them out So that's where whenever people come to me and they're like what i'm dealing with is so Significant i'm like, yes, it is.
It totally is. I feel that for you And you're still in that Five to seven, which we can get into
Claire: you know what I will say to just have the comfort of being like, someone says, I see what you're struggling with. And there is a plan. Obviously you have to follow the plan. And I know I'm like, it's hard.
It's hard because it's like, okay, you're going to have to exercise for the next 90 days. And you're like, okay, no, I know you didn't say that. I'm just saying. No, no, no. Sarah did not tell me to do this. I'm just saying for me, Claire's getting a
Guest: lecture, by the way, in this podcast, I know because
Claire: it's okay, like ADHD or not.
And we always laugh about everyone says they have ADHD and it's probably comes to the five, seven things. Okay. But at the end of the day, I [00:08:00] recognize that. You have to believe. And I think the problem is when you start to feel better, it's really easy to kind of be lackadaisical with following, but the listeners like, what did, what was the biggest struggle?
Well, it's like, I think, like, I want to know, like, what do you hear the most and especially you can feel it in the world. I don't know about you, Sarah, but I feel a weight amongst humanity, not to be all dramatic and philosophical, but I talk to businesses and there's justice. Sense of weight, whether it's fatigue or it's sickness or it's just.
this complacency. what are you seeing consistently showing up in the healthcare symptom world?
Guest: So there's something I can categorize a lot of different specifics, but there's something that I think is going to resonate with the most people here. And I lovingly call it the IBSC, the itty bitty shitty committee because that's what we're dealing with.
We're [00:09:00] dealing with this group of people that just have had Significant immunological, like immune system changes, which cause significant hormone changes. They were isolated and lonely. You know what I mean? Eating habits, movement habits changed. And what happens is all of those things in isolation added 5%, 10%.
And I use a bucket analogy when I talk about life, health, business, everything. We're all one bucket, right? So if your bucket is filled with mental, emotional stress to 90 percent capacity, Right? And then you add 5 percent immune stress and 5 percent blood sugar dysregulation and 5 percent hormonal stress.
You've now overflowed your bucket, right? So you could handle the mental The threshold of
Claire: everything, yeah.
Guest: Exactly. You could handle the mental emotional stress, but now you can't handle the mental emotional stress plus immune system stress, plus hormonal stress, plus glucose dysregulation stress. And the overflow is symptoms.[00:10:00]
So now people are like, all of a sudden I don't feel like myself. I don't feel good. I can't recover. I've lost my resilience. And they look to the mental emotional stress in their life as the source. But how disempowering is that? I need to meditate on the top of a beautiful mountain in order to feel better.
And it's like, no, you need to deal with what got you into this bucket, the immune system, your hormones, your blood sugar. We have these like little energy producing pockets. They're called mitochondria, like dial way back to biology in high school, right? That's all I remember. But those are damaged by viruses.
So now your ability to make energy has been damaged, and this is all recoverable. I want to make this super clear. This is all recoverable. But what happens is you get all of those little stressors, then your nervous system is kicked off, but then your nervous system being kicked off now drains your resilience bucket, and so you [00:11:00] feel like you're treading water and you can't get out.
And that's what we're seeing right now. And people are going to their doctors, they're going to other practitioners. Honestly, even like, I train naturopathic doctors as well. But they're going to see other naturopaths. And medicine has changed everyone. I don't do the same protocols, quote unquote, now that I did five years ago.
And so if you don't have a practitioner that stayed up to date on how medicine and the human body has changed, let alone how business has changed and all these other things, you're probably not getting the most accurate care. And I think that's why research is so important to me as well. And honestly, volume.
Like, we see thousands of patients every month at Advanced Women's Health. So we're like, didn't why didn't that work? And then you have to pivot protocols and you get to a completely different place. So
Claire: that's what we're seeing. You're seeing such high volume. And this is the thing, I think it seems like a no brainer.
You know, if you need to get your car fixed, you go to [00:12:00] a mechanic, you know, if you need your, you know, let's say your sink broke, broke, breaks in your house, you call your plumber, like it's specialization, like we want someone, if you're you know, a woman and you get your menstruating every month and you're on the cycle and you're having the same problems. I want someone that sees thousands of women a month. Because they're seeing reoccurring patterns, they're changing their protocols.
And so it's, it's almost like, do you want the surgeon that has operated 100, 000 times on this surgery or the first time doing it? Like to me, it's a no brainer.
When it comes down to it, would there be one symptom that you hear every single day?
Guest: Yeah. Well, I want to comment on two things, right? It's, it's the power of community. So like we have docs across our whole business that meet every day. So it's also like, are you getting the power of one brain or are you getting the power of 10?
Right. We see that in business all the time. That's why we have board of directors with multiple opinions. But in terms [00:13:00] of one symptom, there's a lot of this where hormones and inflammation interact at the level of the brain that we're seeing. And that's kicking off, it's the same symptom, it's the same root cause, right?
So I like to dial this down to symptoms, right? So, because that's what people feel in their bodies. So when hormones and inflammation interact, what essentially we're seeing is, you know, when you have the flu, like the day before you have the flu.
Your mood is low. You just want to go to bed. You're not motivated. You just feel off. Your patience is down and you're like why is today such a bad day? And then you wake up with sore throat and you're like, Oh, so that is an example of what we call acute inflammation. So that acute inflammation, your immune system has seen a bacteria or a virus that it needs to kill.
And it's creating a response to try to take that down. But in the process, it causes inflammation. Inflammation. Okay. So in a chronic sense, that also happens for a number of reasons. One, [00:14:00] a bacteria in your gut or body has not gone away to a virus that has not gone away. We know those live chronically in the body or three, Your immune system gets so confused because it's so used to inflammation being there. And like this, just again, this low grade fire being there that. It's we were talking about this a couple weeks ago. It's called sterile inflammation, meaning your body doesn't actually have a reason to be inflamed anymore, but it's inflammation for the sake of inflammation.
It's like your body has forgotten how to calm down. And even when I say that to people, your body's forgotten how to calm down. They're like, yes, I'm available for that. I feel that. But the hormonal piece is where it cycles. Right. Right. So it's like, if you get the pre period flu, if you feel like one week, two weeks, three days before your period, you can't focus, your mood is off, you're [00:15:00] struggling, that just hormones is not going to do that.
And just, Inflammation is not going to do that. It's where those two come together that is causing brain fog and fatigue and motivation changes and all of these different things.
Claire: Wow. I'm always still learning when I talk to you. I'm like, okay, so our listeners [00:16:00] like, Amen.
I'm feeling these, but like, I know if anyone's in my shoes or feels that way, they're like, okay, what do I do? Yes. Call up and get someone to help look at your blood and data. And then you have a roadmap, a plan, but what would you say someone that's, you know, that's, they're going to be doing that. I always like to think, what could they do start doing today that could just make an improvement.
And I know. We live in a world where you're like, give me the pill and I want it all to be fixed by tomorrow. That's not going to happen. I can probably assume you will say that, but what is something that they couldn't just do today that will make drastic. Some improvement over time.
Guest: So, and I think this is the thing, right?
Is all good treatments start with pattern recognition. And so, the first thing you can do, whether that treatment is pharmaceutical, whether that treatment is a supplement, whether that treatment is food All [00:17:00] of it starts from a place of pattern recognition. So I always say, how are you measuring your outcomes and your success?
And then look at how health is impacting that. This is a perfect example, like a perfect example. You wake up in the morning. Right. And you run around the house, like a chicken with your head cut off,
but from that standpoint, if I just woke up and.
Grabbed a bagel or you know what I mean? Like whether that's gluten free or not Just grabbed some kind of carb on its own you drink juice. You have a super sweetened coffee How do you feel at 10 a. m? Yeah, you're like I can't focus this person is so annoying What's going on? I'm exhausted. I need another coffee and you perpetuate the cycle But because people are so used to feeling that they truly feel like it's their employee's problem You For their juniors.
Problem, right? They're like, if that person wasn't so annoying, then I wouldn't be upset right now. They're [00:18:00] breathing heavy. Exactly. But it's, is it that? Or is it the fact that your blood sugar is on a roller coaster because you haven't eaten protein and fat? So that's one way, right? The other way you can start to monitor things is to is not just symptoms based, it's on your friggin arm.
Right? But having the smartwatches that we have on our phone, so many of them now have a measurement called heart rate variability.
And we've all seen in the movies when they're like, the baby's not doing well, they're stressed, but they're measuring heart rate variability. So your heart, right, should, should be like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, not boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. When it's going like that, when there's no variability in the beats, that's telling us that your nervous system is in a stressed state.
And so if you can see on your watch that your nervous system is in [00:19:00] a stressed state, you can ask, why? Is it mental emotional stress? Is it blood sugar? Is it inflammation? What is, what could be the source of that stress? So we can get data just on our phones.
Claire: Oh my gosh. Is this hilarious? everyone.
This isn't real time. I'm like, I have one of those Apple watches that I keep meaning to charge it, but having just that reason will motivate me to get it on because I think, wow, that is powerful. And then Making it work for you. And this is where, okay, we haven't, we've kind of danced around it.
Female entrepreneurs, people working for themselves, people working. We talk about this for companies and they're entrepreneurial. They're cognitively using so much energy. It is, I think we've entered a point in life where we look at the numbers. We look at labor shortages from debt to all of these things are happening in the world, we can't afford physically, emotionally, [00:20:00] mentally, spiritually, any more to be not.
Functioning at optimal levels, because. We can see as as a whole, we're not doing well. And this is like, I hope whoever's listening, like, I promise you I'm on, I'm coming all over on the other side here. I've been in the trenches for a long time. And like I said, I was a big balloon, just kind of like inflamed too.
And it's getting better. And Sarah, this real time here, but I'm feeling freaking awesome. And I'm usually the week before my period, I would never be able to record a podcast. So this is like, awesome. Like, I'm feeling inspired, energetic, and I'm like, how long is this going to last? But I'm loving it. So I promise you I actually could never do anything in a week before my period.
Like I was exactly what you're saying. It was almost like I had to have like like something to hold my eyeballs open. And so I think this is where it comes down to [00:21:00] ignoring health when you're running a business, you're working, can like, we can't ignore this anymore. And there's more and more data than ever.
So I want to like, how does this, when you talked about stress and the gut brain connection and how does that impact our work?
Guest: Yeah. I want to start with a statement that I think is really, really important. And again, like I, I love a good controversial statement, but we have accepted that you have to choose one or the other.
And in 2023. As Claire said, we like 5. 5, almost six times our business, right? We opened six clinics in seven months. When I say I fell into it accidentally, I did. I followed intuition and inspiration and motivation and I am not a demand and I'm not, that's what,
Claire: that's what's happening right now. There is a demand.
Guest: People need, yeah, and I was probably in the best health I've been in a decade. That is [00:22:00] so you don't like I had more stress, quote unquote, mental emotional stress, learning stress, people stress than I have had ever in my life, and my physiological. Yeah, like my physiological stressors were in such a place that I could handle that without sacrificing myself.
So it is freaking possible. Thank you.
Claire: Honestly, shout out to women like you, because this is like so inspiring being like, if you can do it, why can't I do it?
Guest: And I think that's my point to say that is like, we need to start having these conversations because the first point with female entrepreneurship is that.
Being like, you don't have to let your period sideline you, you don't have to let pregnancy and kiddos be the reason why you can't move forward in your career and business and life, and I think there's just such a cultural norm around it. Your health, your [00:23:00] hormones, your kids, your this, your that, holding you back.
And like, don't get me wrong, it's curated. Like, I curate my life to allow this to happen. But at the same time, if no one stands up and says, this is possible, then no one's going to try to achieve anything. It's all, I always talk about like, the first time someone ran a four minute mile, all of a sudden, a whole bunch of other people did it afterwards because they believed it was possible.
Claire: My husband's going to love this because this is a conversation. He might be like, it wasn't a four minute, but there's a four minute miler that also, it was the beer mile. So he drank a beer or whatever it was like now it's like at another level, but. Thank you for that analogy because that's what it is.
if you look over time of history of everything, right, we keep, there's better technology, there's better resources, there's more data and we keep becoming better. And like, we are predicted to live longer. Like my financial planner is like, before we were predicting 94 years, that was your, now it's 116.[00:24:00]
Do you know what's F'ed Claire?
Guest: Is that we have a generation right now that is going to have a longer lifespan and a shorter health span than our parents. So what that means is if we don't change things, we're going to live longer and have more unhealthy years in front of us, which is why I'm here.
Which is why I'm doing PR and pushing this message because it's like, if you're going to live that long, effin enjoy it. You know what I mean? Like, well,
Claire: yes, because I say. So people always say this thing, life is short. I'm like, okay, life is really long when you're on healthy and life is really short and enjoyable when you're healthy.
And yes, I think it comes down to, and I will say, you know, you were in a place where you're like, yeah, things have to change and you're that kind of person. And some people are like, I'm, I have so much other crap going on in my life to make the sacrifice to not grab that bagel small [00:25:00] or take those supplements or make sure I get out for a walk in nature, whatever these things are.
It's not that easy and I get it. Like it's actually to like have a mindset shift. Now that's what I want to ask. Like, I'm always curious when we're in this, like, I would say this is another epidemic. Inhumanity, and it's a new systemic shift in so many ways. Do we tackle is it a self discipline thing? Is it a mindset shift? Is it a informational, like where do we start on being like. I need to take action because I can tell you for someone for like me, it has to be enough is enough.
And then I'm like, where do I go? Whereas like, why aren't we preventively knowing if you're saying we're going to live a really long life and I'm on a road to like, I'm eating McDonald's three times a week. And I have an exercise because like, I feel like I'm so overweight and I had a baby and you know, works crazy and you can always justify, but like.
Where do we start with this mindset, [00:26:00] like where do you help people to start with?
Guest: Yeah, so there's three pieces to this. One is the mindset work is really critical. So we'll talk about that and integrity with self. But I think the other piece that we cannot avoid is that the reality is
so many women are so afraid to start because they have failed so many times. That the thought of even getting started is so debilitating to their self esteem that they would rather stay where they are. And I get you, but that's, that's where I say you need to be working with someone who's going to give you what I call a two week wind.
How can your energy be better? How can you shift your belief in yourself within that two week period of time so that the mindset change becomes easy because changing your mindset is repetition, space, and time until you get a result. And then it's belief.
Claire: I agree. Can I, can [00:27:00] I jump in for that? Because, okay.
Yeah. Yeah. I desperately called Sarah, I've had a cough for 20 days straight, and I did all the things from doctors codeine and cough syrup and honey, drinking honey. And I said, Sarah, I am going to lose my mind. I have to speak at three from two conferences, workshops. I was like, I can't. I can't. Have a coughing fit and pee my pants in front of people.
Like, I just not going to sign up for that right now. Like, please. And I was like, you know, I get there's this longevity and you have to sign up for things that take time. But I was like, what do I do? You gave me two suggestions. I nailed my speeches. I felt amazing. And I like that was a win. So then I come home and I'm ready to take on more.
So that for the listeners recognizing, I had to take some supplements and do some couple of things that you recommended and it worked. And like, that's the thing Yeah. I love that. Like, real talk, you took
Guest: two supplements though. Like, it doesn't have to be this huge thing. It doesn't have to be like, I'm gonna go gluten free, [00:28:00] dairy free, egg free, air diet for two weeks.
It's like, you can shift things really quickly to then get the wind to open the capacity. And like, I'm sorry. I'm also, I'm a business owner. Like, if you tell me that there's no way in the world that you can choose a protein over a bagel, I will tell you, you need to work on your mindset. Because like, there are mornings where I run out of the house and either one fast, because that works for my body.
It might not work for yours. Or two, I'll grab cold meat with half an avocado and there's protein and fat and I'm good to go. So it doesn't need to be perfect. It needs to be perfect. Physiologically, meaning like how your body works functional,
Claire: I can relate to the grabbing the like floppy meat running out of the door and in scooping an avocado.
This is literally answering some with everything bagel spice.
Guest: Like that
Claire: is
Guest: to
Claire: be clear. It's really funny because like, yeah, like it's [00:29:00] like, I make an egg for you. I make an egg for me and that's what I'm, you know what? And it's true because I have tested it. Yeah. It's a no brainer, the bread, and this is the thing from, from not to go too deep into this.
But if you look at the history of bread making in itself, why is bread sitting in our, on our shelves for so long? It's because there's so much bloody crop in it and sugar, like the sugar and bread. Look at it. It's, it's mind blowing. I agree. And I agree.
Guest: And I think that's, that goes back down to the conversation of where do we start and kind of what we've been trickling throughout this whole thing, right?
So KPIs are important to me in life and business. And health, right? We're measuring your smartwatch data. We're measuring key symptoms, right? So if your key symptom is you get menstrual headaches, you get mood changes and fatigue.
Right. We're measuring those things over time. And the inner
Claire: bitch comes out. [00:30:00]
Guest: Right. I was like, what can I say? I'm not allowed. Can I swear? Can I not? Right. But like the rapid de escalation of mood,
Claire: right? Yeah. You're like your mood. I'm like the inner bitch comes out.
Guest: She's nasty. But that's the thing, right?
If that's what we're measuring, and that's how you're feeling, then we look, and I zoom out, and I say, okay, the five to seven causes of disease is blood sugar and insulin dysregulation. If you want to induce the stress response, in the research, the way we do that is to cause your blood sugar to crash.
blood sugar dysregulation, right? We've got inflammation and immune changes, right? So that's the getting sick, feeling off. If you're always sick or never sick, it's both an issue, to be clear. We've got gut microbiome, right? So the bugs, the bacteria, That live in your gut have been shown to change how your brain and your hormones work.
So we have that. We have the liver health, [00:31:00] which everyone loves to talk about a liver detox. But I swear to you, there's a lot of reasons why your liver is critically important. It's a signaling system in the body. Not
Claire: just alcohol that everyone talks about.
Guest: Exactly, exactly. Then we look at how your body produces energy.
Right? And then we're looking at your hormones and your stress response. So those are the things. That I am looking at as a doctor and I'm saying, how's your digestion? How do you feel after you eat? Because again, let's, let's bring this back to symptoms. How do you feel after you eat? Right? Brain foggy, fatigued.
Do you get a huge spike in energy? No one should feel a difference when they eat. You should just feel full. So in of itself, if you feel a change when you eat, that's a sign of dysfunction. Like you want to
Claire: pass out and sleep. Yeah,
Guest: exactly. Exactly. Exactly, right? So that's a sign of dysfunction. When we look at, do you have aches and pains?
Do you have mood changes, [00:32:00] brain fog, depression? That's an immune system, right? Do you have bloating and gas, constipation, diarrhea? That's a digestive issue. Right. Are you super sensitive to smells and scents and products and like that's your liver. But I like the thing.
Claire: But, but it's coming a long way. I used to be all these things and now I'm like, okay, no, I know that eating protein now doesn't create that crash, you know, for listeners.
Yeah.
Guest: And it's these small changes, right? We go through, we say, okay, is your energy. shit, right? Do you struggle with your energy throughout the day? Do your symptoms cycle with your hormones? Do you feel like you are constantly revved up? You can't bring your body down. You have sleep issues. Those are the symptoms we're monitoring and looking at each category.
And just like in business, right? You look at your PNL and you're like, Do I deal with my cogs first? Do I deal, like, do I deal with payroll? What do I deal with? [00:33:00] We go through and say, where's the priority list? What's the most important thing to get you to energy profitability,
Claire: right? We, we, or maybe not even a you that you've never even experienced.
And I think that was what has changed. And that's what I see changes for people. Yeah. Okay. I am like, I'm so excited. We're going way over time that we had planned because I was like, Oh, no, I just introduced, but okay. We're talking. I have business, like I'm running out a business series to help women.
This is like my jam, as you know, and here you are the guru, but you have your specialization. Let's propose to the audience today. Let's make a, the one stop launchpad program. You get Dr. Sarah and you tackle your health. And at the same time over here. Your business is being helped too, because are we like, we have so much and same with you.
Like we go [00:34:00] over to this store to get help with our business and we're driving way the hell over here to get help with their health, but they're, they're so interconnected that one without the other doesn't perform. Let's,
Guest: well, even you and I were talking, right? So you and I were talking last week and we were sitting there jamming and saying, okay, because I also, I have a corporate wellness program as well.
So we were jamming on that and like the importance of employee wellness in the workspace and executive wellness and all of those types of things. But this is the same thing, right? The reality
Claire: businesses. So this is a huge shout out. I'm going to say this, Sarah's running. An amazing corporate wellness that is like non negotiable.
Now we're seeing, no one wants to stick around in their jobs because they're not getting fulfillment. They're exhausted. I hear 66 percent of people were like, I need to exit my job. And you are coming in and changing. From the inside out helping companies to create wellness programming. So thank you.
And if you're [00:35:00] interested, show notes, all the details, but sorry, I interrupted. I had to give a little plug there because I really believe in this.
Guest: Thank you. I love that. But we were talking about that and then we got again off talking about ourselves. So this conversation today, that's where that came from is it was like, I'm asking Claire about business.
Claire's asking me about health. Aren't we so effing lucky to have each other?
Claire: Yeah.
Guest: And then. Exactly. And how can we give that to other people? How can you have this space, right? I love that we're talking about this and we want your feedback. Like we want to hear from you guys. What do you want to learn?
What do you want to take away? Because the reality is if you don't have the energy for sales, if you don't have the confidence in your body, what's going to happen to your cashflow, right? Like they're not separate. And I, I have so many patients that are C suite entrepreneurs and they're coming to me being like, Yeah.
I am not executing on my potential and it's crushing me. And so how can you help me get my health back so that I can [00:36:00] finally actualize my potential? And that is Like my belief structure is that when women are healthy communities, families, businesses, the government changes. We have more women in government.
If any of you are listening, I'm technically it's, it takes a while to get into my practice. My other NDS are available and I support them every day. But if you are at the head of government, I am here for you because that's where change is happening, right? It's happening at these levels and I really want to help those people because every single person I touched, like I help you, you just helped a thousand people.
And so
Claire: every
Guest: person water flows and I, it's so important to me. Like I clearly, I got passionate about it.
Claire: Well, I think because it comes from something extremely relevant, personal to you that you were able to transform your own life. It's, it's, that's the best powerful way that you're like, Hey, I.
Can relate to you, [00:37:00] but this is not how you have to live your life. So if you're listening to this episode and you're just like, you've almost pulled over on the side of the road, because I know when I start seeing Sarah, it's like this moment where you're like, I'm seen, I have finally been seen, even this is Mike, just an introductory and you just want to learn more all in the show notes, you can start.
Nerding out and learning about advanced women's health and what they're doing. And they're always helping and teaching and webinars. And there's tons of opportunity to get involved, but more importantly, to actually have a customized plan for you and know that you're not alone. I'm sitting here and I was all the things that she was naming off plus more.
I feel, I was not happy. I was very, very, I was a really sad woman and you don't have to go on like this. You know, this is why we're here is to shorten that, length of walking around feeling like a zombie. So Dr. Sarah Wilson, you are an inspiration to me, to women all around the world. And I think you are [00:38:00] someone that is drastically changing positively the landscape for healthcare.
And thank you for being on the show today. And we're so excited. We're going to continue this conversation on the inside. Send us a message. Let us know what you want from this program. We're going to make it happen.
Guest: And what do you want to learn? Like, I think that's the big thing that Claire and I are always talking about is like, how can we help?
Like, neither one of us, and I think this is kind of the fun thing about being in business for a while, is that like, neither one of us need to do this. We desperately want to do this and we're doing it for you. So from that standpoint, right? Like, what do you want? What do you want to learn? when I hear podcast episodes or creators on Instagram saying, what do you want? I have made it a habit to always comment because the reality is I want to consume relevant content. And on the backend, we are always sitting here being like, is this landing?
Is this not? Is this helping? Is this not? So really do reach out. And honestly, [00:39:00] the people who reach out, I have had some of the most. Amazing connections with through social platforms and through all of these different things. So like we're doing this because we're deeply passionate about women in business.
We're deeply passionate. You gave me that stat of how many people have more than million dollar businesses. Like, let's change that. What was that again? Oh,
Claire: this is like, it was 90 percent percent of female entrepreneurs in North America have their business is revenue is less than a hundred thousand dollars, less than a hundred thousand dollars.
Guest: Right. So it's like, let's change that. Like, let's be at the table. Let's make some decision. There's no
Claire: need for it to be. This landscape. Yeah. Is changing. And this is, this is the next chapter for you and for us. And I'm actually so excited. I love this, Sarah. I love you. Thank you again. And I know you're.
far away from me right now. Right? Like we're not, I'm in Kelowna right [00:40:00] now. Yeah. You're in Kelowna. Shout out to, I love, I, okay. I say I love clone. I've always wanted to go. I can't believe I haven't been, I have some lovely, actually. Can I just do a shout out? Because I'm hoping to get her on the podcast.
Melinda Elmore is in Kelowna and she is the only women marathon are going to the third Olympics. Talk about entrepreneur. She's running her own coaching business. She is. I don't even know how old she was. It doesn't matter, but she has two boys going to her third Olympics, a marathon runner, and she's such an inspiration.
So we've got to get her on the pod to talk about, yeah. Talking about optimal health Thank you, Sarah, for your busy, busy life and bringing all your knowledge and so much incredible stuff that you're doing and sharing with us. You are awesome.
Guest: Thank you for having me.
I'm so excited to hear from everyone. And yeah, just keep carrying on this combo.
Claire: Awesome.
Guest: Cheers.
