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Tosca Reno is a New York Times best selling author, founder of the Eat-Clean Diet® health revolution, health and wellness expert, transformation coach, motivational speaker, Star of a Gemini Award Winning reality TV show, physique competitor, and mother of 4.

Reno started her career at an age when most would consider retiring, earning her first Oxygen cover at 43, after losing 84 pounds and healing herself. She has competed in numerous physique contests and endurance events. 

The founder of the Eat Clean® series that kicked off a food revolution by the same name, Reno has sold millions of copies in several languages. She has helped millions lose weight and become well, thanks to Eating Clean®. Once 204 pounds and officially obese, Reno has maintained this using the Eat Clean Diet® method.

Reno is best seen live, where she rivets the audience with her gut-wrenching authenticity. She loves life, and is a tenacious woman who has endured intense personal loss including the passing of her son, her husband, and ultimately the family business and home. Reno is a force.

Reno is an expert health and wellness advisor for Canfitpro where she speaks, lectures and conducts wellness seminars and online education programs.

What we talked about in this episode:

• How Tosca and Robert Kennedy wrote  and founded "The Eat Clean Diet"
• One of the principle of eating clean is nourishing yourself.
• Why you shouldn't be afraid of having fat in your diet.
• What a day looks like on "The Clean Eating Diet".
• Tosca tells us how she went from 85 pounds overweight to cover model in her 40's.
• To make significant changes you must take action.
• Taking action requires you to find the spark within you that lights you up.
• Tosca shows up raw and real and doesn't not wait for things to be perfect to show up for life.
• Eating flowers are actually extremely healthy for you.
• Eating raw and healthy nourishes your gut microbiome.
• How to make Kiefer and why it's healthy.
• Why its important to take a probiotic that have many different strains.
• How your gut health effects your hormonal, brain, and overall health.
• Two Thirds of the population are wandering around constipated.
• How Tosca left an unhappy marriage of seventeen years, met and married Robert Kennedy and completely changed her life.
• When you make a decision to step into your truth unapologetically, things just start happening.
• Tosca's defining moment was when she walked a flight of stairs and she was so overweight and unwell she couldn't make it up the stairs without her heart slamming in her chest to say good night to her girls
• How to come back when you lose everything.
• What you still have left after great loss.
• Tosca said her self-care habits really helped her through tough times but,she had to stop and grieve and learn to take care of her emotional health.
• Tosca focuses on the three pillars of wellness: eating, exercising, and the emotions.
• What Arnold Scwarzeneggar is like and how he motivated and gave Tosca a little coaching for her first show after Robert died.
• How to cope and recover from severe loss.
• You recover one little step at a time and by owning what has happened to you,
• Give yourself space to feel and breathe.
• Unhook from perfection and find the gift in your struggle.

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Obi Obadike is the current Telly Award winning TV co-host of a national syndicated health TV show called Lifestyle Magazine over the last 4 seasons.  And he has won 3 Telly Awards associated with that show as a TV host.

This show airs every week on the Hope Channel, Family Channel, NRB Sky Angel and other national faith based network channels. The health TV show airs in many international different countries around the world.

He is a nationally recognized celebrity fitness/nutrition expert who has graced the cover of over fifty fitness magazines and has written over 100 articles, making him one of the most published fitness experts over the past decade. He has graced more fitness magazine covers than any African-American fitness professional.

He recently co-wrote a diet and exercise book with Hollywood TV Actor and movie star Morris Chestnut called "The Cut". Obi has been featured on major national Daytime TV Talk shows as a co-author guest with Morris Chestnut such as Dr Oz, Wendy Williams, Rachael Ray, Access Hollywood, ABC News Radio with Candice Williams, Steve Harvey The Chew, etc.

He has been featured in mainstream fitness magazines such as Women’s Health, Shape Magazine, Muscle and Performance, Men’s Fitness, Muscle and Fitness and other domestic and international fitness magazines.  He has been a fitness expert writer/columnist off and on for more than 8 different magazines and popular fitness websites over the last decade.

In 2015 he was the co-host and co-judge on a fitness reality competition show, Sweat Inc. on Spike TV, which was also hosted & judged by Jillian Michaels & co-judged and co-hosted by Randy Hetrick, Founder & CEO of TRX

Obi's handles:

Twitter: Obi_Obadike

Instagram: obiobadike

Facebook: @ObiObadikeFitness

Website: www.obiobadike.com

http://www.thecutbook.com/

Tiaja Piere is a focus group participant in the book, The Cut by Morris Chestnut and Obi Obadike. She is also a Licensed Private Investigator who helps people of all walks of life. Tiaja is also part of Beauty Underground which you will see often at New York Fashion Week and Denver Fashion Week.  She is currently the titleholder as Mrs. Wash Park 2017 for The Mrs. Colorado America USA Pageant. She is also a former Ms. Fitness USA and Ms. Fitness World competitor.

In addition to being a working mother and wife, Tiaja is full of energy and is always willing to give a helping hand to all. She volunteers her time and gives back to the community by giving free facials to those going thru cancer, advocating for women and children and feeding the homeless, just to name a few.

Tiaja feels that no matter the challenge, with perseverance anything can be accomplished.

Tiaja’s handles:

Twitter: Tiaja_Pierre

Instagram: Tiajamaisondebeaute

Facebook: @thecut.tiajapierre

In this episode we debunked the following fitness myths:

• Carbs are the enemy.
• Eating 5-6 small meals boosts your metabolism
• Lifting weights will make women bulky.
• Only women are obsessed with the scale.
• Tilapia is the only good source of protein.
• Cardio is the best way to get in shape.

In this episode we also discussed:

• What a sample eating plan on The Cut Diet would look like for different individuals.
• The transformations that took place after Morris and Obi reached out to recruit participants to do “The Cut” via Facebook.

 On a personal note:

I literally tuned into Steve Harvey's TV show and my friend Tiaja Piere was on talking with Steve Harvey, celebrity trainer Obi Obadike, and movie star Morris Chestnut. Obi and Morris co-authored the book "The Cut". Basically, Obi thought it would be a great idea to write a book after Morris had gotten into tip top shape in 12 weeks getting ready for the sequel to "The Best Man" his plan. People actually talked about Morris’s physique more than they talked about the movie. Obi and Morris decided to get together and write a book based on the training protocol that Obi used to get Morris into shape. The dynamic duo actually reached out to people on Facebook who would like to be part of the study. Tiaja Piere responded to their Facebook invitation to get in shape with many others, and as they say the rest is history. My friend Tiaja's transformation was astonishing and really peaked my interest, as I have known her for years. I also heard Obi and Morris on"The Model Health Show" with Shawn Stevenson and thought I would love to have them on my podcast. How is that for the power of positive thinking. You have to ask for what you want and then act upon it!

About Ward W. Bond, Ph.D.

Dr. Bond Health-related Accomplishments:

• First to create the only oral nutritional program for Interstitial Cystitis.
• First to bring awareness to the use of Hyaluronic Acid for Arthritis.
• Created a very successful Hepatitis C Support Program to help reverse elevated liver enzymes and viral load counts, as well as reduce damage to the liver.
• Created a very successful Multiple Sclerosis/ALS Support Program to help stop MS flare-ups and provide vital nutrients that feed the myelin sheath and the nervous system.

Publications:

• "Dr. Ward Bond's Vitamin, Mineral & Antioxidant Guide"
•  “The Top 20 Life-Changing Nutrients You Can’t (Shouldn’t) Live Without!: Volume One”
• “The Power of the Lion’s Mane Mushroom: Regenerate Your Brain with Lion’s Mane” Edition One

Dr. Bond and Celebrity Chef Susan Irby “Healing Remedies & Recipes” Online Class

This new online learning experience was birth March 7, 2016 after the success of Dr. Bond’s teachings at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas in the ‘Healthy You’ classes. The information is placed in a very easy readable format with the incredible additions of the healing recipes created by celebrity chef Susan Irby, the author of nine healthy cookbooks. This online E-Classroom has grown very quickly and continues to receive new members on a daily basis.

Dr. Bond’s THINK NATUARL Television Program

Dr. Bond hosts the daily television program, “Dr. Bond’s THINK NATURAL” for the past 11 years, which airs daily across the United States and Canada in 41 million households on Christian Television Network, DirecTV (Channel 376) and Dish TV (Channel 267) Dr. Bond has filmed over 1,800 episodes of THINK NATURAL.

Dr. Ward Bond’s Life Changing Wellness Radio Show

Coming September 2017 to RadioMD is The Dr. Ward Bond Show! Dr. Ward Bond will host this half hour radio program on the RadioMD Network. This program about natural health solutions. He will be interviewing the top experts in health, nutrition, herbal medicine and more.

Social Media:

Website: DrWardBond.com

Twitter: @DrWardBondTV and @ThinkNaturalTV

Facebook: DrWardBond

Instagram: DrWardBondTV

What we discussed in this episode :

• Your future health is built by what you are putting in your mouth everyday.
• Taking a good probiotic is important to good gut health.
• Maca is Dr. Ward Bond’s go to for balancing hormones, for fertility, peri-menopause, and menopause
• Up until the age of 40 the hormone’s are producing well, as hormone’s diminish the adrenal glands begin taking over for lack of hormonal function. This is part of the reason for hypothyroidism.
• Progesterone helps to improve hypothyroidism.
• Bupleurum root helps to remove stagnant hormones out of the liver
• If you can go to sleep but you can’t stay asleep, it is your adrenals that are keeping you awake.
• Holy Basil, Rhodiola, are great supplements to help turn your adrenal health around.
• You must first clean out the liver in order to be able to get good use out of bioidenticals, synthetic hormones, or natural remedies.
• Good gut health is so important for your overall health as well as hormone balance.
• There is a link between our gut health and our mental health.
• 90 percent of serotonin is created in the gut.
• Fiber is number one in reducing the risk of colon cancer
• Most people have 3-5 meals stuck in their digestive tract.
• Ribose is great for reduction of pain for fibromyalgia.
• Cordyceps is great for the immune system, lung health, and athletic performance and endurance.
• Chaga is a great for energy.

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