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truehopecanada.com today on the show I

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welcome nashka now nashka is coming onto

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the show to tell us about her son's

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experience with our Flagship product

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Empower plus neshka's son had some

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difficulties with Stress and Anxiety as

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a teenager but luckily enough she was

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able to provide him with one of the

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world's most researched micronutrient

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formulas So today we're going to be

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discussing how broad spectrum nutrition

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can support struggling teenagers enjoy

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the show okay neska welcome to True Hope

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cast thank you so much for being with us

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today how are you and what is going well

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uh hello Simon

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um thank you very much for having me

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on your podcast I'm doing wonderful

1:03

thank you amazing amazing well just as

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an introduction why don't you just let

1:07

us know who you are and what it is that

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you do please

1:11

so um

1:14

so as I said my name is meshka I uh I

1:18

work at a natural health health food

1:20

store uh here in Surrey Canada uh it's

1:24

called Aura Natural Market

1:27

um I work there as a vitamin

1:29

representative

1:31

um so I work with customers

1:35

I help them achieve

1:38

you know the full potential so to speak

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health-wise

1:43

um and I really I love

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I'm very passionate about natural health

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and yeah so that's pretty much uh about

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me and I'm also a mom I'm a parent I

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have a 15 year old son Adam

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so yeah

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that's pretty much me amazing thank you

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for sharing just before we jump into

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your because you've got a very um

2:09

interesting story in regards to your

2:12

experience with Empower plus and your

2:14

son's experience of Empower plus more

2:16

significantly but I just wanted to ask

2:17

you working in a natural health food

2:19

store What's um what's it been like with

2:23

people coming in what are people asking

2:26

for these days when they're speaking to

2:27

supplement Representatives what are

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people struggling with at the moment

2:33

uh

2:35

so I would say uh definitely stress

2:39

um mental health is

2:42

um is I would say one of the number one

2:44

topics uh people always ask for

2:48

um anything for anxiety something that

2:52

helps them fall asleep

2:55

um and just deal with stress yeah so

2:58

there's lots of I see lots of stress

3:01

um

3:02

um kind of body aches lots of pain

3:06

um

3:07

yeah muscle aches and general lots of

3:10

fatigue I noticed that quite a bit

3:12

lately uh mental and physical

3:16

all right so yeah a lot of people

3:17

struggling with their psychological

3:19

health and their physiological Health

3:21

kind of at the same time so yeah there's

3:22

clearly a lot of people out there

3:25

struggling and we're so blessed right

3:27

now that we've got the option to have

3:28

these natural options that people seem

3:31

to be more um

3:33

more guided towards rather than like

3:35

leaping to like a pharmaceutical drug

3:38

which might you know be a be a little

3:40

bit too harsh for some people that's uh

3:43

that that's great I I wonder what what

3:45

are these what are the some so when

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somebody comes in and they're struggling

3:48

with stress or they're struggling with

3:50

anxiety

3:51

um what makes you um start to think

3:54

about Empower Plus or some of our other

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products

3:58

um as an option

4:01

um well my own experience uh basically

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um

4:07

I my son uh was 15 right now uh he I

4:13

would say about over a year year and a

4:16

half ago uh he himself had

4:19

um lots of struggles in regards to his

4:23

mental health

4:26

um he had lots of anxieties

4:28

um he it was his first year going into

4:33

high school so he was in grade eight

4:36

um so obviously that's a big Challenge

4:38

and big change for a young person

4:41

and he is by nature quite he's a very

4:45

kind and sensitive uh boy

4:49

um so that just really put a lot of

4:52

pressure on him

4:53

um

4:54

so I

4:56

at that time I was working at a

4:59

different health food store a nutrition

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house and my wonderful friend and my

5:05

manager at that time Don

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she has mentioned

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um true hope and power plus

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and

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um she told me the family story and how

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it led into developing this wonderful

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product

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and I just thought you know why why not

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I mean it's uh it sounds amazing and uh

5:30

so I give it a try

5:32

and

5:33

my son has been on it I would say for at

5:36

least a year now probably close to it

5:39

will be probably a year and a half or

5:40

even longer

5:42

and I have noticed big big changes in

5:46

him

5:48

amazing that's so obviously yeah going

5:51

into high school for any teenager is a

5:54

very very big experience that comes with

5:56

a lot of nerves a lot of anxieties come

5:59

up obviously there's such a unfamiliar

6:01

unknown kind of scary territory to step

6:03

into especially for those like kind of

6:06

more sensitive

6:07

empathic individuals

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and

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did you have any hesitation in regards

6:14

to using like a natural health product

6:16

like a supplement a capsule for you know

6:19

your 14 year old did you have any

6:21

hesitation for something like that

6:23

no actually I I did not I I felt very

6:27

comfortable

6:28

um you know obviously looking at the

6:32

ingredients seemed it looked just very

6:35

natural multivitamin and mineral

6:38

and I thought

6:40

yeah I felt I have no no doubts and I

6:44

had no worries about giving it to him

6:49

um so yeah it was no problem amazing and

6:52

and how was he actually taking capsules

6:54

because that could be quite tricky for

6:55

anyone really yeah

6:58

um actually he wasn't too bad uh he he

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went through a period of time where it

7:06

had to be a gummy or a liquid but he's I

7:09

think he

7:11

went through a stage where now he's okay

7:14

swallowing capsules so it was not a

7:17

problem at all and he wasn't even

7:21

objecting or upset with me that I make

7:24

him take these

7:27

yeah there was no problem good I'm glad

7:30

to hear that yeah a lot of people

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struggle with that um I mean I've I give

7:33

Empower plus to my two and four year old

7:36

but I you know I open up the capsule and

7:39

put it into yogurts and smoothies and

7:41

different foods that you know tasting on

7:43

its own is pretty terrible doesn't taste

7:45

very good but you've been you blend it

7:47

up into some yummy foods and it's all

7:49

good and they know that it's going in

7:50

there as well they know that it's their

7:52

supplement they know it's their vitamin

7:53

that they need to take to to you know to

7:55

be healthy so

7:57

um it's not like I am silently drugging

7:59

them with natural natural Health

8:01

Products but I like they like to be a

8:03

part of the whole process of opening it

8:05

up and putting it in there so that's

8:06

really cool

8:07

um yeah so you say Adam he used the

8:10

product for a year can you tell us about

8:13

that year and kind of what you what he

8:17

experienced and kind of what you

8:19

experience as a mum as well going

8:20

through those you know going through

8:21

that that High School experience and he

8:24

was originally had those kind of

8:26

stresses and anxieties what changes did

8:28

you notice during that year

8:31

so he became just

8:36

everything was just he was more

8:38

approachable

8:40

uh way easy to talk to to have a

8:43

conversation

8:45

um just more open

8:47

more happy more relaxed

8:51

um

8:52

and he didn't struggle with going

8:56

outside because that was one thing that

8:59

um it was a really big challenge it

9:02

wasn't just it was mostly school school

9:04

related but it was also

9:08

thank you uh going to the mall going

9:12

grocery shopping like anything like that

9:15

um seeing uh friends in person was

9:18

really really hard for him

9:20

so definitely

9:23

that was a big change I started noticing

9:27

him

9:28

being more

9:30

up to doing things like oh Mom let's go

9:33

do this and

9:35

um let's go this place or I want to hang

9:39

out with my friends like just

9:41

more happy and open person that's

9:44

definitely what I noticed with him

9:46

that's I mean as a parent I mean all we

9:49

really want for our kids is happiness I

9:50

guess

9:51

um yeah to be happy kind kind people so

9:55

that must have been huge for you to you

9:59

know first of all witness your child

10:00

going through so much struggles at a

10:04

common age where a lot of kids do but

10:06

like so many people don't have

10:08

an a an outlet like you know you're just

10:11

you know you should you know you're

10:13

blessed that you're working in the

10:14

Natural Health industry and you had this

10:15

wonderful manager who listened to you

10:18

listened to what your child was going

10:20

through listen to what you were going

10:21

through and had this actual like

10:24

solution that was natural that was

10:26

healthy that made a lot of sense to you

10:28

as like a as somebody works within

10:31

Natural Health so as a parent looking at

10:34

your child's struggle to then thriving

10:36

in a you know in a tricky teenage time

10:39

what was that like for you personally

10:42

oh it was amazing it was like a big

10:46

um big load of uh went off my chest I

10:50

just felt like

10:52

like every day just seemed easier to

10:56

um to go through because we it was quite

10:59

hard every morning not knowing whether

11:01

he will go to school

11:03

um or today will be the day where we'll

11:06

be he will be staying home

11:08

um so it's it's I mean it's just like

11:12

Everest parents uh dream

11:15

to to see their child happy and

11:19

um

11:20

just wanting to participate in life so

11:24

it was I was so relieved thoroughly

11:28

that's amazing yeah I wish there's so

11:30

many more parents knew about Empower

11:32

plus knew about her other products knew

11:34

about our story and had the ability to

11:38

try these products because obviously

11:39

after the pandemic I think it's super

11:41

common now that a lot of kids

11:44

maybe don't want to go outside or don't

11:46

want to go to the playground where there

11:48

are lots of other kids going there

11:49

because they they are nervous they are

11:51

anxious about that because of that whole

11:53

nearly two-year period where we had like

11:56

lockdowns and mandates and we had all

11:58

this kind of like kind of awful stuff

12:00

that was happening especially to those I

12:02

feel so bad for those teenagers where

12:05

you know my my my whole teenage years

12:07

was about being with my friends you know

12:09

like I was kind of done with my parents

12:11

and I wanted to just be with my friends

12:12

and hang out and figure out who I was as

12:14

an individual and then having that kind

12:17

of that that freedom that right taken

12:20

away from us in such a vicious vicious

12:22

way I can only imagine how so many

12:25

teenagers would have struggled through

12:26

that period and are so blessed that

12:29

you're able to find Empower plus and

12:31

have that natural solution for for your

12:34

family it's huge oh definitely yeah I

12:37

feel so thankful uh and just yeah I'm

12:41

just blessed and thankful and

12:43

I guess being at that place in the right

12:47

time and learning about the product

12:50

um yeah I I just I love it and

12:55

um you know I have since I'm a mom you

12:58

know there's lots of other moms that I

13:00

do know that have kids in my son's age

13:04

and I definitely recommend

13:07

um Empower plus to everyone because

13:11

it does work yeah it certainly does

13:15

absolutely I mean we have also have 35

13:18

peer-reviewed Medical journals that also

13:20

show that it works so it's yeah without

13:22

question if you are somebody who

13:24

is a naturopath or and you've not heard

13:26

of our product and you know you might

13:28

think that this story is too good to be

13:30

true that a multivitamin a broad

13:32

spectrum micronutrient could have this

13:34

type of

13:35

um

13:36

very actually quite fast transformation

13:39

with an individual

13:41

it's not it's not up in the air it's not

13:43

Airy Fairy stuff it's real the science

13:45

is there to back it up and we have

13:47

thousands of testimonies like yours from

13:50

from young kids and from adults and from

13:53

so many different individuals that

13:55

benefit from getting good quality

13:57

nutrition primarily into their brains

14:00

to allow them to be able to cope with

14:02

the stresses and the anxieties and the

14:04

depressions that come with you know just

14:07

growing up and developing as a human in

14:09

this kind of wild world do you do you

14:12

use your individual story when you're

14:14

recommending a product in in stores

14:16

because I guess that

14:18

when people have got questions on the on

14:21

the on the on the sales room floor

14:23

they're gonna want to obviously know

14:26

what the product is how it works but

14:29

also like being able to add your story

14:31

and your own personal experience just

14:34

you know adds that little bit more

14:36

validity to um that recommendation so do

14:39

you use your own story

14:41

I I definitely do I uh whenever I talk

14:45

to parents who have

14:49

teenage kids or teenagers who go through

14:52

similar uh challenges

14:54

I always uh mention my son's story

14:58

um so yes definitely I think uh I think

15:02

that makes people

15:06

um

15:08

they're willing to try it way more if

15:11

they know somebody else's experience

15:15

um in that regards yeah definitely

15:18

yeah and I think when people hear like

15:20

very truthful authentic

15:22

powerfully emotional stories people um

15:26

they know that you're telling the truth

15:28

you know they feel it they they can feel

15:30

what you're saying how you're saying it

15:31

your body language your energy they can

15:33

just they they get like oh okay like I

15:36

this isn't this isn't a made-up story

15:38

this is true and it's gonna it's gonna

15:41

certainly impact

15:44

them taking their products as well

15:46

because they now have this knowledge

15:47

that this is worked in another way for

15:50

somebody else

15:51

yes definitely

15:53

wonderful how so does Adam take the

15:56

product himself now like is it just

15:58

there like it's a it's a standard thing

16:00

and he does like every day or is it

16:02

something that you as a mum have to

16:04

make sure

16:05

they'll be amazing they'll be my my

16:08

dream come true if he just came up and

16:11

um I still make it ready for him

16:15

um you know he has too many things

16:19

you know he's busy with his friends in

16:22

school so yes I still I still prepare it

16:26

for him but which is fine that's

16:29

it's not a problem for me

16:31

um you know as long as he takes it and I

16:34

see him being happy and healthy

16:39

that's that's all I need that's

16:42

wonderful yeah we've had we've had some

16:44

um we've had some teenagers on the

16:45

podcast as well talking about their

16:47

experience I think I remember I remember

16:49

a girl called Anne she was 18 on the

16:52

show and

16:53

she was at an age you know three 15 18

16:55

is a big difference there and she she

16:58

was able to to you know take that on

17:00

herself the Empower plus and taking it

17:02

daily and she was sharing her story with

17:05

her friend groups about you know some of

17:07

the things that she struggled with and

17:08

she just takes this very simple thing

17:10

that seems to just like wipe all of

17:11

those anxieties away and um yeah

17:14

hopefully that Adam when he gets in a

17:16

few years once he really realizes that

17:19

uh this product is um

17:22

very very necessary for him and uh

17:27

he might influence other people to do it

17:28

too

17:29

yeah I think so too

17:31

yeah a few more years yeah a few more

17:34

years absolutely well how I mean so

17:36

before before you got Adam on Empower

17:39

plus you hadn't had any experience with

17:42

our products or our company before you

17:44

you'd learned you'd learned about them

17:46

through your like ex manager yeah so so

17:49

how have so how has you have you tried

17:52

our products it has Adam's experience

17:54

influenced you got some somewhat

17:57

yes definitely so

18:00

um when he started being on

18:03

um Empire plus

18:05

um

18:06

I wasn't on it at that time

18:09

um so now seeing him

18:12

just being so calm and healthy and

18:17

having literally no anxieties

18:21

um I have decided actually to try it

18:23

myself

18:25

um I've been on it for maybe about a

18:27

month month and a half

18:30

um and I do feel the difference

18:33

definitely I feel

18:36

um I do get anxious like most people

18:39

um especially nowadays

18:42

we do live in pretty stressful times as

18:46

you know so it definitely makes a big

18:49

difference for me yeah I feel

18:52

just just calmer generally just common

18:57

that's incredible yeah I've I've been so

18:59

lucky to have literally thousands of

19:01

stories from people from all walks of

19:03

life with their experience of Empower

19:05

plus and our other products but mainly

19:06

Empower plus and

19:09

it's wonderful how this product can

19:11

serve

19:12

so many different individuals people

19:15

with very serious psychological

19:17

conditions and then people who are

19:19

looking to just like you know get

19:21

through the kind of stresses of everyday

19:23

life like I I don't have a clinical

19:25

diagnosis or anything like that I never

19:27

have

19:28

um I'm very lucky to to not have gone

19:30

through something like that but I've got

19:32

two young kids I you know I I have a I

19:35

have a job I have all these

19:36

responsibilities and it can be very very

19:38

difficult to find the time to

19:41

do all the other things that might serve

19:43

my mental health but I know that my my

19:45

the food I consume is not as doesn't

19:49

have the nutrition in that it that it

19:50

used to even though I eat very very well

19:53

so I know that supplementation is not

19:55

just like this

19:56

um

19:58

luxurious added thing that I haven't

20:00

have in my diet it's an absolute

20:02

necessity and I know that when I don't

20:05

take my Empower plus my patience with my

20:08

kids is it just like disappears I I get

20:11

I step into anger and frustration a lot

20:14

more quicker and when I do that I've got

20:16

the ability to catch myself and be like

20:18

oh

20:19

I didn't say I've Not Taken my Empire

20:20

plus today or yesterday you know like I

20:22

am literally nutrient deficient when my

20:25

brain is incapable of working how I feel

20:28

it should

20:30

and

20:31

there's just a very easy reminder and I

20:33

think that whether you are one of the

20:35

healthiest people on the planet which I

20:37

don't really know what that looks like

20:38

or you know somebody who's really

20:40

struggles everyone is like going to be

20:42

nutrient deficient because of the our

20:44

soil because of our food and just the

20:47

external things around our social media

20:49

Electronics

20:51

stress work family all these things like

20:54

build up and they like they they deplete

20:56

Us by putting us into a you know fight

20:58

or flight nervous system response which

21:00

really takes away very essential

21:03

resources vitamins minerals Etc so

21:07

having a daily constant supply of

21:09

bioavailable very very well researched

21:13

nutrition just to take that every day

21:15

it's super easy it's super simple just

21:17

to really cover all those bases of any

21:20

potential nutrient deficiency that may

21:22

can't come in because we're all a little

21:24

bit different in regards to what

21:26

nutrients we might be susceptible to

21:28

being reduced in

21:31

so yeah it's just a very um

21:34

amazing thing that I've experienced in

21:36

like the last six years working with

21:37

true hope that literally everybody will

21:40

benefit from this product if if they

21:42

take their own circumstances into

21:44

consideration and work with our

21:46

micronutrient support team or our reps

21:48

to make sure that they're taking the

21:49

product appropriately for their

21:51

circumstances every single person

21:53

benefits significantly from taking this

21:56

product yeah yeah I definitely agree

22:00

um I I've also started recommending it

22:02

to to adults and like my my friends

22:05

because like I mentioned I have a lot of

22:07

mom friends and

22:10

um they go through similar struggles

22:13

like like you just said you know of

22:16

everyday work you juggle work with

22:19

Family Life uh trying to find you know

22:23

some time to yourself if you can and

22:26

um so definitely I think

22:28

and like you said

22:30

um you notice the difference if you

22:32

don't take them and that's exactly

22:34

because sometimes people's you know

22:36

asking you know but how do you know it

22:39

really works you know how do you know

22:40

that actually it does work what you take

22:43

and I said well the best way to know is

22:46

when I do don't take it when I stop

22:49

taking it then I definitely see a

22:52

difference of how I feel like my mental

22:56

state and my energy

22:58

um yeah that's definitely

23:01

it shows them

23:03

yeah and it's at the end of the day like

23:05

it's it's literally it's food and a

23:07

capsule that's broken down and and put

23:09

together in a form that's so absorbable

23:11

even into even through the blood-brain

23:14

barrier so you you know you could try

23:16

this product for a month and I guarantee

23:18

most people are going to experience some

23:21

kind of benefit whether that's more

23:22

energy

23:24

um not feeling as fatigued as much

23:26

they're sleeping better their cognition

23:28

their memory is going to improve so many

23:31

unbelievable benefits just by providing

23:33

the body

23:35

the resources the nutrients the

23:36

ingredients it needs to like make you

23:38

feel amazing and your body is going to

23:40

struggle especially long term if you are

23:42

nutrient deficient for a long periods of

23:44

time people do that sometimes for

23:46

decades and they've had headaches for

23:48

decades or they feel tired for decades

23:50

or they feel anxious for decades and

23:52

they're literally just been nutrient

23:54

depleted it's so long

23:56

that that symptom that they've

23:58

experienced for so long is just like a

24:00

normal part of their normal part of them

24:01

and it's quite amazing how the body can

24:03

actually keep keep us getting out of bed

24:06

and doing all of our stuff even though

24:08

we are kind of starving it of food but

24:12

then quite simply quite easily we're

24:14

able to supplement that in a very

24:15

quality way and completely change the

24:17

lives of people

24:18

yes exactly yeah wonderful wonderful

24:23

wonderful um I was going to ask you have

24:25

you been through our

24:27

product training before you know you've

24:29

worked in a couple of different health

24:30

food stores have you been through our

24:31

product training

24:32

well I think I went through uh one

24:37

um while I was at this current place

24:41

um it I think it was I remember

24:44

correctly it was last year maybe October

24:47

November yeah

24:49

um yes yeah it was uh one of those long

24:53

long webinars uh like hour and a half

24:56

hour hour and a half I remember

24:58

um yeah it was it was very

25:01

very touching and very heart moving I I

25:05

found

25:06

um it was I have to say it's one of one

25:09

of the most enjoyed uh webinars I have

25:13

done so far

25:15

um yeah it was it was amazing

25:17

wonderful yeah we have a few different

25:19

courses that are available for health

25:22

food stores and health food store staff

25:24

you're talking about the um like online

25:27

um Zoom training that we did throughout

25:30

last year we also have it's about it's

25:33

about four years old now but it's a true

25:34

hope University course which is like

25:36

something that you can go through at

25:38

your own pace but we've actually got a

25:40

brand new course coming out this year

25:42

that we've been working on for quite

25:44

some time that is so in-depth in regards

25:47

to what our individual products do how

25:50

they actually work in combinations we

25:52

touch on some phenomenal things like

25:54

methylation which is a really big topic

25:56

now whether you have methylated

25:58

ingredients or non-methylated

26:00

ingredients so you should be able to

26:02

access that course probably in the next

26:04

month or so and really really jump into

26:07

that a little bit a little bit more and

26:08

if there are any if there's anybody

26:09

listening in any health food stores that

26:11

do carry our products or want to carry

26:13

our products you can reach out to us on

26:16

our on our website and connect with us

26:18

about that because this course is going

26:19

to be awesome I had a group I was lucky

26:21

enough to be involved in the production

26:23

of it and it really is quite phenomenal

26:25

it's really in-depth and it literally

26:27

answers every possible question I think

26:29

you could have about Empower plus how it

26:31

works who it's going to support and how

26:33

you know those amazing store staff that

26:36

we have all across Canada are going to

26:38

be able to better serve

26:40

um those individuals coming in who are

26:43

just struggling who are looking for

26:44

something natural

26:46

yes oh that's wonderful I'm looking

26:48

forward to it wonderful well NASCAR

26:51

thank you so much for coming onto the

26:52

show to tell us about your your son's

26:55

experience with the product and I'm so

26:57

blessedly and so so it feels so great

27:00

that he was able to get hold of that

27:01

because

27:02

unfortunately that your story

27:06

um that you might have of a struggling

27:08

team so many of those teenagers who do

27:12

struggle they they end up in a doctor's

27:14

office and they end up on a very serious

27:16

drug

27:17

that causes side effects can be very

27:20

very damaging in the long term and it

27:23

you know we're not it's certainly not a

27:26

solution or or a cure it's not dealing

27:29

with the root issue that a lot of

27:30

struggling teens and the struggling

27:32

people have so yeah I'm just blessed for

27:35

you that you're able to find that for

27:37

your son as a parent I know how it how

27:39

it can be and um yeah hopefully we can

27:42

spread this message get this word out

27:44

continue the um to continue to serve

27:47

individuals and

27:48

allow parents to recognize that there

27:51

are some natural solutions out there

27:52

that work and they are not going to hurt

27:55

or harm our children any further because

27:58

we just want to see our kids smiling

28:00

really yes exactly yeah thank you so

28:03

much Simon I was a pleasure to be on

28:05

your podcast thank you wonderful well

28:07

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28:24

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