The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Rui da Silva, Founder and Head Coach of Balanced Rebel, a Health Coaching Company

Episode Date: October 26, 2023

Rui da Silva, Founder and Head Coach of Balanced Rebel, a Health Coaching Company balancedrebel.com Here is a summary of the key points from the podcast transcript: Rui DeSilva is a health and stress management coach who founded Balanced Rebel, an online health coaching company. He helps busy professionals manage their energy, sleep, nutrition, and stress through lifestyle changes. This allows them to perform sustainably, age stronger, and transform ordinary habits into an extraordinary life. Strategic breaks are essential for recovery and stress management. People need to make time to move, breathe, listen to music, etc during the workday. Recovery is a necessity, not a luxury. Sleep regulates brain function, muscle repair, cortisol, and more. It is critical for peak performance. Many compromise sleep to work more but it backfires. Nutrition provides energy to the body. People often eat for emotional reasons versus energizing the body. The 80/20 rule provides structure: 80% of meals energize, 20% are emotional/social. Rui offers corporate and personal coaching, online programs, free resources like stress assessments, and a monthly subscription model for continued support. His website is balancedrebel.com. The key is realizing we can control our habits and making small improvements daily. Tiny gains compound over time for extraordinary results.

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As always, and I said before, we have the most amazing guests on the show, and today we have another, and I think he's going to inspire. He's got some great energy. Rui Da Silva. Let me cut that again. Rui Da Silva is on the show with us today. And he's going to be joining us to talk about his amazing company and what he does. He is an expert coach in stress management.

And as I mentioned before, there's a lot of stress in the world. He has a proven track record of transforming and enriching people's lives globally. He's also known as Kutoshi. Do I have that correct, Clay? Kuchi. Kuchi. Kuchi. Kuchi.

Yeah. Wasn't that Charles' line? Yeah, that's exactly where it comes from, from looking very young. There you go. I remember Charles on the love boat. Was it Charles on the love boat? Yeah. She was always so wonderful she ruined my uh uh her and dolly

parton ruined uh what i searched for women um he is a founder and head coach of balanced rebel a health coaching company with over two decades of excelling as a regional director for satellite companies worldwide he possesses an in-depth understanding of the immense pressures placed on professional executives. He is acutely aware of the toll that constant travel, multimillionaire targets, and other stressors can exact on individuals striving to maintain a balance between their professional and personal lives. Balance Rebel was established as a holistic health coaching company to be a guiding light for busy professionals facing life's myriad of challenges, providing them with tools to improve their energy levels and to reclaim their lives on their own terms.

His mission, his mission, if he chooses to accept it, he already did. His mission impossible is to unlock their greatest potential for success one step at a time. And he offers the tools to reclaim your life on your terms, unlocking your greatest potential towards your success one step at a time. And he was also named as one of the top five coaches to look out for in 2022 by Entrepreneur's Herod. Welcome to the show, Rui. How are you? Thanks. Thanks for having me, Chris. Welcome to the show, Rui. How are you? Thanks. Thanks for having me, Chris.

It's a pleasure to be here. It's a pleasure to be here and have you on as well. And you're all the way from Egypt, too, as well. Yeah. Yeah. From Seniguna. They call it the Egyptian Riviera. It's very nice, actually.

Ah, there you go. The land of the pyramids. Exactly. A bit more south. I'm 450 kilometers down the pyramids. Well, that you go. The land of the pyramids. Exactly. A bit more south. I'm 450 kilometers down the pyramids. Well, that's okay. I think, did the aliens build those things? You're from Egypt.

I honestly do believe so. I honestly do believe so. There you go. We have an official, folks, right there from the ground. So, Rui, give us your dot coms. Where do you want people to find you on the interwebs? Sure. You can find me on balancedrebel.com.

So, www.balancedrebel.com altogether. Or you can follow me on Instagram as i.coach with a K. There you go. So, I've set it up. But give us a 30,000 overview in your words of what you do and how you do it. Of course. Of course. your words of what you do and how you do it of course of course so basically balance travel is an online health coaching company that is focused on managing stress sleep and recovery right we

understand that we need energy to live and we can't make our own energy and the ordinary habits that we keep repeating day after day these are the ones responsible for keeping us energetic. And sometimes we neglect those habits. We neglect the way we sleep. We neglect the way we eat. We neglect the way we have joy. We neglect the way we actually age stronger. Understanding that aging is a reality and the way we age and the way we deal with our ordinary habits is gonna lead us in the directions we want to go so what we're going to do when what we do at balanced rebel is helping individuals transform their ordinary habits into an extraordinary life by energizing them by understanding that if you want to be a sustainable human performer, either you work or you're a housewife or you just live your life, you need energy to live.

And I speak about the body, physical energy that we need to use every day. So what we help is individuals managing it. Like you manage your bank account, right? Wait, I'm supposed to manage my bank account? Is that why I'm getting all those notices from my bank? I'm not managing it? Yeah, I guess so. I guess so.

They keep asking for more money, and I'm like, I already gave you some. What, you want more? Here you go, here you go, here you go. Well, I still have checks. There must be plenty of money in there still. It's an old checkbook joke. It's a little bit like that. Jim's ears are like, what are checks?

Yeah, I know, right? Yeah. These old jokes. But so the concept is we help people managing their fatigue inventory and their energy inventory, right? So in a nutshell, if you are a CEO or a director or if you're just a a teenager we need to learn how to manage our energy if you want to be a sustainable human performer and aging stronger we all gonna age that's a reality we all gonna age it's part of life right the way we age will be defined by the way we're dealing with our ordinary habits. And that's it.

That's basically it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm laughing because I do a callback joke on the show where I'm like, you know, I drank hard for 20 years and, and I didn't mean I, I wasn't addicted to people,

please. It wasn't an AA. It was that kind of thing. I just abused myself. And I'll admit to that. And I do the call admit to that. Um, and, uh, I do the callback joke that at 55, I can feel like every drink I did for 20 years. It sometimes feels like that, but it's kind of a joke, but, um, but no, you're, you're right. I mean, the way we live our lives, um, do you, do you find that a lot of people, a lot of executives that you work with,

um, you know, we kind of entrepreneurs, we kind of have this thing. And I was super guilty of it. I'll eat better later. I'll take care of myself later. I'll go to the gym later. I'm trying to make this money now. I'm trying to build this business now. You know, when I started my first company, I weighed 120 pounds or something.

I was like a rail you could you could probably push through my stomach and touch my spine i could eat like 10 tacos and like it would just they would just instantly ignite and evaporate in my stomach um and then when i started my first company you know i started living at mcdonald's and and taco bell you know all the places three times and three to four times a day it was just you know Bell, you know, all the places three times and three to four times a day, which is, you know, and then, you know, starting to drink it. Oh, I didn't start drinking on my thirties, but, uh, uh, you know, and, and I was like, well, I'll make it up on the backend. We'll make the money now and I'll go catch up on the gym later. And, you know, then,

you know, you try and have the energy, you're eating shit, you're living shit, you're not going to the gym, your health is shit. I ballooned very quickly into an incredible weight, and then you feel like shit, so you eat more shit because you think it'll make you feel better. And so it just became a spiral. Do you find a lot of people get into that mode where it's like, I'll do it later, and then later never comes yeah yeah yeah and it's all related to stress and the brain imbalance right because we we look into uh oh we we put all our effort into pushing a company up and running i'm

an entrepreneur right i manage my own company so i understand when we put all the effort there but we need to understand that our effort comes from the energy we have from the sleep we do from the way we eat from the way we move by being physically inactive but not looking into our nutrition habits by not looking to our sleep what we are doing is starting to run on empty tank and what's going to happen the brain will be in imbalance and what we're going to do we're going to start rewarding ourselves and because the brain is in imbalance mode and our stress levels are very high and stress can be anything stress can be emotional mental sensorial physical work related relationship anything can be stressed right and as more as our stress builds up and there's less stress management recovery strategies we do have in place, more rewards we look for.

And food, sex, drugs, alcohol, everything can be a distraction. Rock and roll. Yeah, rock and roll, screen time. Sorry, you listed them all there. I just had to add that. I know, I know. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll, baby. There you go.

I missed the rock and roll part. So anything that serves as a distraction from our stress levels that's how the brain is going to search for so that's why what you just described that happened to yourself when you were managing your first company is what's happened to a lot of people and we're currently facing a fatigue and stress epidemic because people are running on empty tanks and therefore they're too tired to cook at home so they start ordering and they're ordering they're actually not caring for the nutrients they're putting inside they compromise their sleep to staying watching netflix or other things nothing against netflix i'm just saying that as an example but they start watching screen times and other

things so to distract from the real stress problems they have and the vicious cycles continues and their sleep gets compromised and as your sleep gets compromised you have your ability to manage your stress creates compromise and because your ability to manage stress gets compromised your food choices will become worse your your you start looking for rewards your physical inactivity and then it comes as you exactly described the frustration the, the anger, the fear, and you start feeling guilty because, oh, I know I should be living, but I'm not living like that. And that starts building even more stress on your back.

So what we're looking at is exactly breaking that cycle, understanding that if you want to perform and if you want to be a sustainable performer, you need to manage your energy carefully as you manage your bank account. There you go. Assuming you manage your bank account well. Assuming you're managing a bank account. But, I mean, usually if you, I guess a good point to put a bow on that is if you treat your body and your soul well, you'll probably

end up having a good bank account because you take care of the... Our bodies are kind of like a performance car and we demand all this stuff out of them to make money and build businesses and be successful in what we do. But if you're

running the oil low in the car and the gas low and sucking up all the dirt out of the gas tank and, you know, trashing it and parking it in poor places, I suppose, that could be issues. So one of the things you build on your site is how to age stronger and experience transformation, how to basically age stronger so that you improve the quality of life it doesn't digress and I thought that was kind of interesting you talk about the power of strategic breaks for stress management and energy replacement and that's been something I've had to really try and focus on lately the past few months have been really busy for us. And I've had to go, hey, man, we need strategic breaks.

So tell us more about that. Yeah. So people think that recovery is a luxury. No, recovery is a necessity. No, no, recovery is a necessity. So if you need recovery, just put yourself as an Olympic athlete. Do you know any Olympic athlete that is constantly working out? No.

And probably before their big competitions, they're actually resting. Why? Because recovery is important for the human body to perform. Now, one of the big things we struggle in life is time management, right? We overbook the day with more tasks than the day can actually handle and what's going to give us the sense that we don't have time for ourselves we don't have time to do anything we like so strategic breaks are breaks that you can do it on a daily basis on a weekly basis on a monthly basis and on an annual basis that will allow your body to recover from the accumulated stress because recovery like stress

they go hand in hand right because stress accumulates recovery accumulates so as more blocks of recovery you have during your day and there's more blocks of recovery that during your week and so on as more ability you become you have to manage your strength so strategic breaks are very important if you you're performing in a company right and you're going to be there nine hours a day you have to move you have to make a small break and listen your favorite song go have a conversation with your colleague about something that it's not work related call your mother your friend your partner whoever you want just to say look i miss you i remembered you do a couple of squats in the office it's a way of

trying to introduce a little bit of movement in your life without compromising your time right go for a walk for a 10 minutes break go outside give a couple of deep break to help yourself having the sense that i'm doing something for me during my busy day without compromising time because most people are going to say oh I don't have time for any of this. You don't need to have time. You have to make time because no one has time. We have to make time for the things that are important and negotiable in order to sustain our performance and strategic

breaks. And I always say it's not a luxury. It's a necessity. And today in today's life, a luxury. It's a necessity. And today, in today's life, companies are burning human capital like crazy. And people are willing to compromise their health and their life for anything. And they forget that if they want to be in the long run, if they want to be a marathon runner, then they need to have the ability to recover. And how do you manage your recovery? By sleeping well at night and by doing strategic breaks during the day. I myself do my strategic breaks during the day. If I have tough sessions, and trust me, I do have some tough sessions. I go outside and I go for a couple of deep breaths. I do a couple of squats. I do play with my animals.

I, I do things differently in order to sustain my reasoning. Otherwise what's going to do building up your mental fatigue and your emotional stress. And at some point you just don't want to listen and see anyone. Yeah. And in your, and like you say, it affects how you deal with people. You know, you can end up being frustrated. You could be on edge, you know, you know, I know how you deal with people. You know, you can end up being frustrated. You could be on edge.

Yeah, of course. You know, sometimes, you know, I know if I don't get my sleep, I'm going to be punchy. I'm going to be irritable. I know that if people say stupid shit to me, I'm going to want to rip their head off. And I'm not going to be Mr. Pleasant. And the judge says, I can't do that anymore. The cobracelet comes off next week. But the judge says, I can't do that anymore. A cobrasa comes off next week. But the

parole is still there. But no, you can't, you've got to recognize that. In fact, sometimes I'll tell people around me, I'm like, I haven't had my sleep today. So you need to just be wary about the Chris Voss. So keep your shit away from me. Keep your bullshit off my

plate. You can bring it tomorrow. Just do that. And avoid people that think that it's fun to punch your buttons when you're in that state. But being able to identify when you're in that way is really important. Tell us about your journey. How did you get down this pathway?

What influenced you? Well, actually, i used to work i used to be the regional director for satellite companies uh put satellites in space and slicing and dicing capacity for the 5g and things like that and in the meantime in the meantime covid hit the fan and and i was transiting through portugal So I'm originally Portuguese. And I went to see my mother and the world stopped. And I had the luggage of a week stranded at my mom's house. And I could not travel to my houses because the borders were closed and everything. And what was supposed to be a week ended up being three months and a half.

And during COVID, people thought that, oh, we can't do much. I think the opposite we've been given the gift of time because we always complain we don't have time for anything and now we had plenty plenty of time to do everything i was lucky that uh all my friends were stranded abroad so i could use all their houses wow that's a good deal that way was a good deal for me so what i did was i isolated myself and because there's not much to do anyway so i isolated myself from the world and i did emotional reprogramming i had i was uh doing it on online through through a spain-based company

i did emotional reprogramming to understand oh i reach i'm 46 so at that time i was 40 43 and i said okay i reached 43 and i want to know what i'm does my software need an update like the phones that they need an update maybe i need an update so i realized that i didn't want to live in a big city anymore i was living back in dubai at that time um and and i thought do i want to do the same thing do i want to be to live in a big city anymore i was living back in dubai at that time um and and i thought do i want to do the same thing do i want to be keep living in hotels and airports and planes and a lot of pressure on my back i was doing multi-million dollars deals and i realized that this was the type of life i was not envisioning for myself in the next years but i still not very

not very sure and then i came across with the health coaching and i said i'm gonna try it to see what it is so i signed up for the for the largest nutrition school in new york and uh and on the spot i said okay this is gonna be my new career i'm gonna set up an online company and helping these individuals then during this time i realized that uh i wanted to elevate the game and uh and i took the first world certification on stress management sleep and recovery from a canadian school from a canadian school so and uh and in the meantime i built up balanced rebel and the name came because uh balance rebel came from the fact that we're rebelling against established belief system that we're too old our best days are gone this is the way or this is it

right but screw those people who say that but but on a balanced way because we believe we don't believe in restrictions we don't believe in restrictions. We don't believe in diets. We believe there's time and space for everything in life as long as we understand what type of relationship we want to have with those variables. So Balanced Rebel came with the name. We built up the company. We were very successful since day one we had customers,

which is something unheard for the health coaching industry. Yeah. And since day one we had customers, which is something unheard for the health coaching industry. And since day one, we had customers sign in and, and from that moment, we will be, we've been building up and then we recently changed for the concept on this year. We started aging stronger concept, understanding that we don't want to just focus on these individuals. We want to focus on anyone that wants to age stronger meaning that you can be at your top peak performance when you're 40 you can get your topic peak performance when you're 50 when

you're 60s it all matters what we do today with your body there's the saying that says if you want to know what your thoughts were yesterday look to your body today if you want to know how your thoughts were yesterday, look to your body today. If you want to know how your body is going to look tomorrow, look the way you think today. And that defines a lot how you're going to age. And that's what we put in practice. And that's where we are. And we're building a very happy where we are now. We do corporate health coaching.

We also help organizations to manage and educate their workforce on the ordinary habits. So to sustain mental well-being and peak performance in the organizations, we do one on one coaching to help depending what type people come to me for from weight loss to eating disorders, addictions. You can name it because sometimes it's related with most of these things are related with stress. So understanding how the brain works is how what we help people understanding what relationship they have and we just launched this week the monthly online subscription where we're going to put it a very low price the the the subscription-based model with group sessions and resources for people do

self-coaching at home with a couple of exercises to do alone or in the office or with the family so that can actually improve their life for those who cannot afford those one-on-one sessions or the companies are not investing so just trying to help individuals to age stronger you know and this all makes sense There's so much data on it. I was watching an interview with one of the billionaires we've had on the show with Jeff Bezos, another billionaire. And they were talking about what Jeff Bezos' daily kind of operation mode was. And one of the most important things, I think he said he had like three things or five things that were the most important things it's an interview people in google but the the number one thing he had was get eight hours of sleep a day and that was his thing he goes get eight hours

of sleep a day that's the most important thing if you don't have eight hours of sleep a day especially at an older age you're not performing at your peak performance. Your brain's not going to function as well. I know if I don't get eight hours of sleep a day, I'm off. I can feel that I'm off. I'm off my game. Sometimes, you know, I mean, there's some times where I'll get six hours, I'll get four, I'll get five, but then I catch the other four on the flip side of a nap in the afternoon or something but it has to be eight like that i have to get that eight otherwise i can just feel the drag i can feel the yeah the change and and a lot of people think that they can cheat on that

one and i don't think you really can and you know part of it is what you talk about the reset um you know the one thing i the hardest thing i had to learn with lifting weights and going to the gym was giving my body time to reset and and and and uh to recover from from stuff and sometimes you got to do different modalities like you know whether it's protein or potassium or vitamins or just going you know there's some days I go to the gym and, you know, if I did arm day, I'll sit in the massage chair and really kind of break up all those muscles and all those toxins that have built up from working out and trying to recover. But your body needs those eight hours to, to, you know, read cell, generate, re reset everything, you know, fix all your pains and get everything.

It basically is repair mode when you sleep at night. There's a reason for us to sleep one-third of our life. And the reason is not people, it's not linked with waste of time. Most people think that sleep is a waste of time because they actually don't know what happens from a physiological point of view. For example, during your sleep, your brain shrinks 60% in order to create space so that your metabolic waste in the brain gets into the lymphatic system. It's a simple thing. So if you don't sleep, there's no housekeeping.

And if your metabolic waste keeps accumulating, it's just clutter. And the cells produce metabolic waste. Our body your metabolic waste keeps accumulating it's just clutter and the cells produce metabolic waste our body produce metabolic waste so it's that's one of the examples when your your muscles they disconnect from the the skeletal in order to repair and do low-grade inflammation your heart rate goes down your ability your cortisol levels decrease so that you're able to face the next day right so when you start compromising your sleep when you don't manage your stress levels and because your cortisol adrenaline and penephrine all the stress hormones are on the pick that gets everything compromised because the

body doesn't prepare and we live in a society of the instant gratification so we want to be extremely energized in the morning and we want to have the most repair sleep at night for and thinking that the body is a switch no we're not a switch we we work like a wave so we have time to wake up we have time to fall asleep we can't just coming from stress stress stress stress stress and and things to do and kids and traffic and commuting and office problems and then coming home and expect that all suddenly that stress goes down it doesn't happen like that if we don't help the body to process those things what's going to happen is that it will build up and that's when

physical things start happening to you yeah you said it pretty well if you don't sleep you get cranky and moody and irritable your food choices get way worse because you start compensating the lack of energy with foods that are ion sugar and process so that to give you a sense of pleasure to the brain so a lot of things happens during sleep and sleep is not it's again it's not a luxury It's a necessity for us in order to age stronger. I always start my sessions by asking, how do you sleep at night? Because the way you sleep at night is going to dictate most of the functions you perform during the day. And the same happens for companies.

If I'm in the HR department of a company, the first thing I would ask to someone that i'm hiring how do you sleep at night because that defines your ability to sustain your performance throughout the years most definitely you know i i when i was running three companies that's when i started drinking and for me it was fuel so it was kind of a sugar going in my system and i'd be like yeah and be i was so stressed out that the alcohol relaxing me, what I thought was relaxing me was, it's really toxifying you. But what I thought was relaxing, we would make it so I could work longer. I'd be tired and I drink some vodka and I'd be like, oh, okay. I got some energy again.

I've kind of relaxed from the stress. Blood seems to be going again and let's, you know, do the counting work or whatever the hell it and and let's you know do the accounting work or whatever the hell it was and uh you know so i thought it was a fuel the problem was i was doing it at night so i was like i'll have a night cup get some work done on the computer and and uh you know uh get it going on and then i go to sleep you know drunk uh and you know i actually thought for probably two two decades i actually probably thought i slept better and people argue with me you don't sleep better when you drink it's bad for you i'm like no i actually do and i you know you actually don't it's the worst thing for you

to do right before you go to bed that and coffee but that's another story yeah but you know why because some people actually use alcohols particularly red wine because it makes you a bit more sleepy to fall asleep but the problem that happens that when the effect passes your brain is going to be at the same spot as it was before you're drinking so you're actually denying the body the ability to regenerate because the body doesn't have the process of winding down so it's going to compromise the sleep quality because sleep is measured into ways the ability to fall asleep and the sleep quality throughout the night so alcohol does interfere on the sleep quality tremendously seeing it helps you to immediately to collapse you if you

want to use the word it collapses me because people don't fall asleep collapse on alcohol but then you're going to wake up on the same thing and you use it exactly as you describe it chris you said i'm using it to relax i'm using to get the energy why because you are in a state of imbalance from a brain point of view and your stress levels are too high and the brain doesn't know recovery strategies. So the brain knows rewards. So the brain is going to ask, give me some pleasure. Give me some fun so I can cope with this imbalance that I'm feeling. That's exactly what's happening.

There's a lot of fun on booze. I know. I'm still, I think there are some states that still have my kidney or liver in them. Don't get me wrong. I'm Portuguese and I enjoy my red wine, but I put it on the place that I needed to place it, you know. Because the brain triggers very much on rewards. And we just need to understand, is this a reward that this is a need or this is a want so sometimes you just need to make sure that there's no arm in drinking what is the arm is

when we use these rewards as a relics relaxation technique because they're not really in relaxation techniques they're just distraction yeah plus the bloating you know your body overcompensates for when you when you dehydrate yourself and you flush out all your potassium and your vitamins that's what it does too and your microbiome yeah and it kills your gut uh and so your body like would blow it up it saves water and so you know i drink all this water after i drank and before i go to bed and i'm like pop a bunch of vitamins and vitamin b and I'm like I'm gonna make up so I don't have a hangover in the morning and I would wake up and just feel like

a rub tub tub full of water and and it would take two or three days to that to go my kidney liver would hurt my body would be just like fuck you man what the fuck and I it just came to a point where after three days I was like enough the enough. The same thing with nutrition. Let's talk about nutrition and why that's important. You know, what you put in your pie hole, what you put in your face hole is really important. It's not trash, too, because whether it's toxins like alcohol or bad processed food, that's another thing that can affect your energy. Of course, because, again, why do we eat? What's the function of the food the function of the food is to provide your body with energy yeah we don't eat because we're hungry angry being

hungry is the cue to eat right because your blood sugar levels decrease and then your body needs energy but the function of food is to provide energy then we give it the function of being emotional and social right because we're social human beings and emotional because sometimes we eat our emotions, right? And most of the times, unfortunately. And what's happening now is because we don't have time. We're so busy working. It's so important. Work now became a matter of life and death.

Even sometimes we're in the fashion industry. They're selling bags. It's not the life or death situation. But everybody still acts like everything is the life or death situation. And then you ignore your eating. You eat at your desk. And if you ask to 90% of the people, I'm taking 10% because they're probably aware,

but 90% of the people, they don't even know what they ate yesterday. And what you eat is going to become you. It's going to be yourself, your hair, your nose. What you eat today becomes you tomorrow. Exactly. So if you don't know what you ate yesterday, how can you manage your nutrition at all? My scale knows what I ate yesterday.

That's for sure. I see that every morning. Yeah. Or what I didn't eat. And, you know, it's funny, too. My scale sees when I sleep eight hours. If I don't get eight hours of sleep, my body will put on weight. And usually it's water weight.

And also you deregulate your appetite and you're hungry almost. So everything is related. Don't forget when things increase. We are an integrated complex of different dimensions, all connected. So your existential, your physical, your emotional, your sensorial, the way you move, everything is interconnected. And sleep is the rock star of everything because it controls and regulates so many things and also regulates the brain which regulates our ability to survive which then it's in its state controls how the way we eat our relationship with our emotions our relationship our thoughts and all this situation so how you eat determines your

energy and i do a lot of exercises on myself i do biohacking and i try experiments on myself and and yeah yeah so just to make sure that i walk your talk you know so if i want to tell someone that what i experience and why nutrition is important because if you eat highly processed foods even if you have a business meeting for example or if you have a business lunch there's strategies to engage your peak performance to your best, right? Because what you want to minimize is the impact of spikes on your blood sugar, like the breakfast we have or the lunches we do. So we need to make sure that your body has a lot of energy, not a lot of sugar,

not a lot of foods that will affect your reward system. That's not the point of eating. The point of eating is not to have pleasure. we can do have pleasure while we're eating but the point of eating is to provide the body with energy i'm not saying with this that we need to eat tasteless food on the opposite what i'm saying is that there's time and space to eat all these type of foods not necessarily eating my emotions or my stress on a daily basis or eating on the run or in front of the computer just to send one extra email with hopes that work is going to be over.

Work is never going to be over. So we need to establish those boundaries for ourselves in a way that are beneficial from a work point of view and from a personal point of view. So maybe establish boundaries on your food when you're consuming maybe? That sounds like a good idea i've never thought of it that way well yeah we we we encourage people to to practice the 80 20 rule because we don't believe in restrictions or diets so what we we encourage our our customers or athletes i call them athletes because we are all athletes in life right we're all in a journey right so what we encourage our athletes to do is the 80 20 rule and where 80 of your food choices are going to

be energetic and 20 of your foods are going to be emotional and social and that it means that you have time and space to eat all types of foods without restrictions you can be on a weight loss journey without that with with on that on that way you can manage and control what you're eating and you have the power to choose because that's something we we ignore that we all have the superpower we have the superpower to choose how we want to control our ordinary habits and we're keeping we keep ignoring them and and neglecting them right and with the 80 20 rule we you can eat energetic and energetic doesn't mean that you need to eat broccoli and boiled fish every day that's not what i'm saying what i'm saying is you diversify your nutrient intake you make sure that your food choices work

for you and you make sure that they provide you with the energy that your body requires. And the other 20%, go crazy. Do whatever you want. Be an animal if you want. Enjoy life as much as you care. So give us your final thoughts as we go out. Tell us your pitch. I notice you've got some free e-books on your website. How can people onboard with you

get to know if you guys are a fit, get your coaching, all that good stuff? Sure. So I totally encourage everybody to visit our website. There's a lot of free stuff there. There's stress assessments that you can take. There's cooking books where we explain and help individuals how to start eating energetic and space for emotional eating also because it's part of our life and we can't neglect that you can book sessions online with us directly you can reach out to us and book a complimentary session so in order to start your journey you can subscribe to our online subscription model that we just launched this week

there's live group sessions once every month pre, talking about different topics. And we have a lot of free articles that have been written by me or the team that help you on self-coaching and transform your ordinary habits into your extraordinary life and promoting your aging stronger concept. So that's so much stuff that you can do. If you don't want to engage with ourselves directly, you can also try and navigate and explore the site. There's a lot of free content there, and we're pleased. By all means, do it.

There you go. Give us the.com one more time. www.balancedrebel.com. There you go. Thank you very much for coming on the show, Ray. We really appreciate it, man. It was a pleasure. A pleasure to see you.

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