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What we talked about on this episode:
- Tips for choosing a topic for the book.
- Why is it so important to create your reader avatar and know your audience.
- How getting caught up in perfectionism can be a roadblock to writing.
- Why it isn't necessary to be perfect or an expert when writing a book.
- Organizing,writing and deciding upon content.
- Why is it important to have a deadline for your book.
- How to engage more readers.
- When and where to test our book ideas.
- How to create products that tie into our book.
- Great Pre-sale or Pre-launch ideas.
- Great ways we can monetize our books.
- Ideas on how to get a book signing.
- Creative things you can do at your book signing to get people engaged.
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This is a great episode LIVE with Doctor Fred Pescatore.New York Times Best-Selling author most recognized for his books The A-List Diet and The Hamptons Diet
Fred Pescatore, MD, is a traditionally trained physician practicing nutritional medicine in Manhattan. He is the author of several books, including the New York Times best seller The Hamptons Diet and the No. 1 best-selling children’s health book Feed Your Kids Well. Prior to opening his own practice, Dr. Pescatore worked closely with the late, great Dr. Robert C. Atkins, as the Associate Medical Director of the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine.
“Dr. Fred” is internationally recognized as a health, nutrition, and weight loss expert. He is president of the International and American Association of Clinical Nutritionists and a member of the American College for the Advancement of Medicine, and belongs to many other professional organizations.
He is a regular contributor to In Touch, US Weekly, First for Women, and Women’s World magazines. Major network television shows like Extra, The View, Rachael Ray, and Today have sought out Dr. Pescatore for his expert health advice. His practice has become a haven for the rich and famous, drawing a roster of clientele that reads like a “Who’s Who” of Hollywood’s elite.
On this episode of the "The sisterhood of SWEAT Podcast" we talked about
- What type of dieter are you?
- Why the same diet doesn't work for everyone.
- Starving yourself doesn't work long-term.
- Slow down the aging process from within.
- Create a environment for yourself that makes being healthier simple.
- Exercise - first find five minutes then make it 10 minutes
- Get the sugar out.
- Fruit and yogurt are not the answer to weight loss for peri-menopausal women.
- Ways to get enough Vitamin D.
- Listen to your body.
- Balancing hormones and the Bio-identical route.
- Gut health, yeast, leaky gut, and probiotics.
- Sitting is the new disease.
- Why you don't need to count calories.
- Dairy and your diet.
- The difference between Grass-Fed Beef and regular Beef.
- Protein structure of meat versus vegan or vegetarian alternatives.
- The best alternatives for alcohol.
- Tips for managing menopause and HRT.
- Tips for males going through Andropause.
- Getting A-Listers in shape quickly.
- Dr. Fred's special A-List Detox
- Skinny shaming and fat shaming.
- Healthy tips for eating out.
- How to feed your children.
Follow Dr. Fred Pescatore on Social media
DrFredPescatore.com
A-ListDietBook.com
Instagram- The official A-List Diet
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram- Dr. Fred Pescatore
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Susan Irby, CFH, CFNS, Author, Public Speaker, Award-winning network television host and radio personality
“Living a healthy lifestyle requires courage, focus, persistence, and motivation. Your diet and lifestyle goals matter.” – Susan Irby
Certified in Food Healing and Fitness Nutrition, Susan Irby is one of the nation’s foremost experts in plant-based nutrition and food as healing. An accomplished author, public speaker and media personality, Susan holds a particular expertise in the areas of individualized nutrition programs and recipe development. Her 17+ years in the culinary industry, the past 14 in healing foods, spiritual wellness and active lifestyles, have earned Susan recognition as the leading healing plant-based and specialized nutrition lifestyle expert empowering others to better understand their personal health needs and empower them to enjoy lasting lifestyle change through her trademark 3-prong approach to mindful healing, health and an active lifestyle.
“Food is the ultimate nourishment and healing for the body. Remember, what you eat and drink matters.” ~ Susan Irby, CFH
Susan is author of 9 books on wellness that include over 2,500 recipes collectively. Her 6-week Food Healing Nutrition Program, in conjunction with Ward Bond, PhD, has proven success among both celebrities and non-celebrities and led to the development of her customized 6-week Food Healing Kitchen Makeover program. While not a vegan herself, Susan’s food healing programs and education supports the plant-based diet approach that many of her clients adhere to.
Included in her published works are: Substitute Yourself Skinny, ranked twice by FOXNews.com in the Top 10 Best Diet Books and Amazon quinoa recipe top sellers, The Complete Idiot’s Guide Quinoa Cookbook. Susan’s work as a freelance wellness and nutrition author can be seen monthly in Max Sports and Nutrition of which Susan has been a contributor for over 6 years. Other freelance works have been featured in prestigious media outlets such as FIRST for Women, Self, The New York Post, and numerous other media outlets both in the USA and internationally acclaimed outlets such as The Mail on Sunday and BBC Radio. She is the award-winning host of The Bikini Lifestyles® Show which was twice awarded “Best Health and Fitness Television Program” by The TASTE Awards and also aired as a weekly radio program for 5 years on 790 KABC Los Angeles.
Internationally recognized as leader in the “food as healing” approach to a plant-directed healthier lifestyle, Susan has worked with noted schools, colleges, professionals, families and national grocery markets to share how to transform their lives through spiritual wellness, a highly plant-based diet and an active lifestyle. Among them, Los Angeles Unified School District, Cooking Up Change, American Federation of Teachers, Women Chefs and Restaurateurs, grocers such as Whole Foods, Gelson’s and Dole Foods. Susan has made appearances on FOX11 Good Day LA, ABC7, CBS2, KCAL9, NBC, and numerous syndicated radio shows, international conferences, national magazines, newspapers, and websites.
An award-winning television and radio host, Susan has interviewed culinary and fitness icons and celebrities such as Venus Williams, Billy Bush, Wolfgang Puck, Giada De Laurentiis, Sara Moulton, Chef Art Smith, Gene Simmons, Bill Engvall, Duff Goldman, Barbara Fairchild, Nancy Silverton, Olympic Gold Medalist and LA Sparks' DeLisha Milton Jones, Cincinnati Bengals' Coach Chip Morton, Cincinnati Reds Coach Matt Krause, reality TV star Lisa Vanderpump, teen star Reed Alexander, and more culinary, fitness and celebrity stars.
Susan holds a degree in Journalism from the University of Georgia, is Certified in Food Healing, and is a Certified Fitness Nutrition Specialist. She originally developed her culinary skills by working with master chefs in Italy and France. Susan is the creator of and driving force behind the successful brand, The Bikini Chef® which promotes food that heal through “figure flattering flavors”. She is the creator, producer and host of The Bikini Lifestyles® Show and Healing Remedies and Recipes. Extensions of her brands include Bikini Cuisine®, and Bikini Cuisine Power Snax®.
What we talked about in this episode:
- Getting in shape without a gym membership.
- Step up your workouts and set intention.
- 52 year old Susan says eating right is 90% of your results.
- You can't exercise away a poor diet.
- Don't take your health for granted.
- Put the best fuel possible into your body.
- When it comes to your health; you pay now by buying. healthier foods or you pay later with hefty medical bills.
- Good healthy food can be like medicine.
- Healthier ways to cook your favorites.
- Re-train your taste buds to appreciate the natural flavors of non-processed foods.
- Great healthy snack substitutions for junk food cravings.
- The more sugar you eat the more sugar you want.
- Carbs are not the enemy.
- Your PFF'S are your BFF'S. PFF'S are Lean Protein, Fiber, Good Fats. Your BFF'S stand for Best Friends Forever.
- Potato chips are not a high fiber food.
- 7 stalks of celery a day help to lower your blood pressure.
- You can eat your water instead of drinking it.
- What healthy fats actually are.
- The types of nuts that are best.
- Good Fats keep you saitiated and your blood sugar from dropping, thus creating less cravings.
- How Susan got her name 'The Bikini Chef"
- What season of life are you in? Menopause, Perimenopause or 20's or 30's.
- Your body needs 'REAL" Food.
- Pre and Post Biotic foods for a healthier gut.
- Tips for building healthy bones.
- Exercise for vitality. Move it or lose it.
- Why Susan doesn't count calories.
- Put good gas in your car. Your body is your car, food is your fuel.
My recipe from The Sisterhood of SWEAT
Pumpkin Spice Latte –
You no longer have to stand at the coffee window and drool. Now, you can make your own healthy
pumpkin spice latte!
Ingredients:
2 cups coconut milk (unsweetened)
2 cups black organic coffee or 2 shots espresso
Stevia or coconut palm sugar (sweeten to your taste)
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon ginger
¼ teaspoon cloves
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
1½ teaspoon pure vanilla
½ cup cooked pumpkin
Instructions:
1. In a medium saucepan on medium-low heat, mix together the spices, pumpkin, and coconut milk.
2. Stir to keep it from sticking until pumpkin milk is steamy.
3. I like to send my hot milk mixture through the blender to make it nice and frothy.
4. Pour your hot coffee into your pumpkin spice mixture.
5. Stir and serve.
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Patrice Washington, “America’s Money Maven”
Patrice Washington is a nationally recognized best-selling author, featured columnist, television commentator, transformational speaker, spokesperson, radio host and leading authority on personal finance, entrepreneurship and success for women and youth.
A licensed real estate professional by her sophomore year in college and a real estate and mortgage broker at 21 years old, Patrice took her boutique brokerage from the dining room of her 700-square foot condo to a 7-figure real estate empire by just 25. After losing her fortune in the Great Recession, she dedicated her life to not just rebuilding and reinventing her own life, but helping the masses move from debt management to money mastery.
Nationally known as “America’s Money Maven”, Patrice has had tremendous success with her “money mindset” approach to personal finance. Her teachings go beyond coupon cutting, budgeting, and credit repair, and focus on shifting mindset, earning more, and living your purpose. Patrice is committed to redefining the term “wealth”, encouraging women to have “wealth” in all aspects of their lives by pursuing their dreams, being fulfilled, and earning more without ever chasing money.
She has built a thriving community of engaged women committed to taking their personal finances, careers, and lives to the next level, and continues to invest in women worldwide through her work.
Today, Patrice’s wisdom on money matters has been tapped as a recurring voice by national brands such as NBC, FOX News, Black Enterprise, The Huffington Post, Essence Magazine and more. She’s been profiled by The New York Post, SUCCESS Magazine and Women of Wealth Magazine and is most known as the personal finance voice of the top-rated and nationally syndicated Steve Harvey Morning Radio Show where she hosts her own weekly segment, Real Money Answers with Patrice Washington. Additionally, she is the consulting producer for Steve Harvey's FUNDERDOME, from Mark Burnett, a top-rated, seed-funding competition reality series where two budding entrepreneurs go head-to-head to win over a live studio audience to fund their ideas, products or companies. Each year she electrifies tens of thousands as a sought-after speaker from colleges to churches and conferences nationally and has shared the stage with renowned speakers such as Lisa Nichols, Laila Ali, Paul C. Brunson and Steve Harvey. Most recently, Patrice appeared on Centric TV’s, The Round, delivering a dynamic and empowering talk on success.
Besides professional achievements such as receiving the Outstanding Georgia Citizen Award at the State Capitol and an Honorary Kentucky Colonel recognition, Patrice believes her greatest accomplishment is marrying her college sweetheart, Gerald Washington and raising their energetic daughter, Reagan.
Learn more about Patrice at:
What we talked about on this episode:
1. Don't turn your nose up at free knowledge.
2. The conversation around money is so much deeper than material possessions.
3. Don't chase after money, people, or things, what is yours will come to you.
4. How almost losing everything caused Patrice to "Redefine Wealth".
5. How Patrice's persistence paid off and landed her a job as an intern on the Steve Harvey Show.
6. When you fall hard, you have to give yourself permission to get back up.
7. You may have lost all your money but your mind isn't bad.
8. Many of us may be feeling the who am I to do this syndrome when we are realizing our purpose.
9. If your always sitting back hiding your not going to be able to help the people that truly need to hear what they could only hear from you; from your voice, from who you are, and who God created you to be.
10. Push past fear, do it afraid.
11. Everyone feels afraid when doing something out of their comfort zone. You have to step past the fear and "JUMP" just like Steve Harvey says.
12. Know your worth, invest in yourself.
13. Do the work and success will come.
14. What good is money without your health?
15. Good health is a key to wealth.
