The Squeeze - Nikki Reed: The Power of Purpose Pt. 2

Episode Date: November 12, 2025

This week, Tay and Taylor are back with part two of their conversation with actress, entrepreneur, and sustainability advocate Nikki Reed! If you haven’t listened to part one yet, start there to hear Nikki and Taylor reminisce on their Twilight days, what it was really like being part of a cultural phenomenon, and how Nikki’s journey led her to focus on wellness, family, and purpose-driven living. In part two, Nikki opens up about what it means to give 100% of herself to everything she does, and how she’s learned to let go of the pressure to be “all in” in every area of life. She shares how she sets aside intentional time for herself and her family, the role therapy plays in her mental health, and what balance looks like for her today. Nikki also dives into the inspiration behind The Absorption Company, the science behind their highly absorbable supplement formulas, and the products she personally uses to help her body repair, rehydrate, and recover overnight. To close, Nikki reflects on what she’s most proud of in herself, and Taylor shares what he’s most proud of her for. Check out part 1 of Nikki’s episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BURpBfV6K28&t=1250sBe sure to follow Nikki https://instagram.com/nikkireed/!Check out The Absorption Company and use code SQUEEZE15 for an additional 15% off first subscription orders! https://www.absorbmore.com/To email us your questions or share your story, you can reach out to [e-mail] sure to rate, review, and follow the podcast so you don't miss an episode! Plus, follow us on all of our socials:The SqueezeInstagram: https://instagram.com/thesqueeze/TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@thesqueezepodcastTay LautnerInstagram: https://instagram.com/taylautner/TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@mrstaylautnerAmazon Storefront https://urlgeni.us/amazon/FDXj7 Taylor LautnerInstagram: https://instagram.com/taylorlautner/TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@taylorlautnerTo learn more from The Lemons Foundation, follow https://instagram.com/lemonsbytay/ and visit https://lemonsbytay.comEpisode Sponsors:Thousands have already trusted Rula to support them on their journey toward improved mental health and overall well-being. Head on over to Rula.com/squeeze to get started today. After you sign up they ask you where you heard about them. PLEASE support our show and tell them our show sent you. You deserve quality care from someone who cares. #sponsoredBlack Friday Preview is on! For a limited time, Tonal is offering our listeners $1,000 off your Tonal 2 purchase.For a limited time, you can get 15% off on your entire first order at happymammoth.com — just use the code SQUEEZE at checkout.Shop SKIMS Fits Everybody collection at SKIMS.com. After you place your order, be sure to let them know we sent you! Select “podcast” in the survey and be sure to select our show in the dropdown menu that follows. And if you’re looking for the perfect gifts for everyone on your list — the SKIMS Holiday Shop is now open at SKIMS.com.Take the guesswork out of your dog’s well-being. Go to ollie.com/squeeze and use code squeeze to get 60% off your first box!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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You are at teacher my friend. You called me 15 years. Like what about hypnosis? I never don't know. Do you feel like open to it? Sure. He's like, sure, one time.

The placebo effect doesn't work on me. That lit a whole other fire under me. It's almost like an assault on your nervous system. The problem is... This is a good thing. Every morning, she makes a list 25 things. And it's just so aggressive. Can you see which one of us is type A in which?

Which one is type B. These are not real problems. What's the greatest solution to that? I've literally preached. I don't know anyone that doesn't feel better after they do that. We saw that picture of you smoking a cigarette. I'm like, yeah, let's talk about that. Otherwise, what we're doing is we're shaming people into not changing, actually.

Probably not or may not be making the change you are today if you don't go through those things. Something about yourself you'd like to change. Tomorrow, you get to do that. Yeah. How cool is that? I respect you to the moon. Ditto. You touched on something that I feel like I relate to.

And you talked about just giving like 100% of yourself to everything. And, you know, how you've struggled with that with, you know, with work, with yourself, with being a mom, a wife, like all of your business ventures. That's something that I struggle with now. And it's something that I think about even, I think also why I've kind of been apprehensive and taking. that I except in becoming a parent is because I am so like, I'm giving, like, Taylor has to tell me to, like, close the laptop and be done with the day. Like, I am so, like, if I'm in something, I'm in it, like, 100%. By the way, sorry not to interrupt, but it's what makes you a really great nurse. Oh, that's nice. Thank you. Um, but, but, but yeah, like, that's, that is something

that I've, like, struggled with. And, um, I know that that's something you have struggled with to, how have you how have you kind of like learn to combat those thoughts of accepting that you can't give in a sense every single thing in life yeah gosh you know um I kind of like to think of myself as like a student

in this life not a teacher so as like the setup for that should seem like I would have a really great answer for how to balance it all all and do it all or not be disappointed in yourself when you can't give everything, you know, 110 percent. But I have a like quintessential type A personality, right? Like I, just like you were saying, I don't want to close out the day without getting through the immense workload and overwhelming checklist of to-dos and it's completely impossible. Yeah. And I think if anything, If there's ever a battle with, you know, mental health in that regard, it's just this insurmountable

constant, constantly being inundated, all of us, right? Like all of our nervous systems are constantly being inundated all the time. Whether it's opening up your phone and seeing that you might have 800 unread emails that you just can't get to, or whether it's the fact that we communicate by text nowadays. And so, you know, conversation feels casual but yet dire. Like you've got to reply to that text where someone just says, hey, how are you doing? You're like, oh my gosh, there was a time when you used to have to pick up a phone and have like a one hour conversation, you know, once every other month instead of these like

popcorn content, popcorn check-in, popcorn. I'm just using that term because it's like these little bite-sized moments. but you can't complete anything in its wholeness. It just requires so much from you. It requires so much. Yeah. And I think for me, like any time, not to get too cerebral about it, but anytime I start to feel, which is like actually daily, right,

I've got a farm, so I've got lots of animals that depend on me. I've got little people. I've got two companies that I don't just dip my toe into. I'm running, you know? I'm running by you with love, my jewelry company. and that takes all of me. And of course, we have a wonderful team and employees and you're interacting on a daily basis.

And then we have the absorption company. Ian and I have that together. And we don't do anything partial. Like we are full in with everything we do. So it's a very busy life and schedule. And we're all just being like, it's almost like an assault on your nervous system all the time to sit.

If you've got your laptop and you're working at night until midnight like you were just saying, how do our bodies take? take it. So I try to like pull myself out of it and remind myself on a daily basis that none of these things are actually a big deal. I have to remind myself and you coming from a space of like literally seeing life and death in its transition in your face on a daily basis which you did for a long time and I understand that that is part of why you wanted to like birth this podcast. It's to talk about that. We have to be humbled by those moments of being like, okay, this stuff, this is not a big deal.

Someone's upset that a text didn't get replied to. Five emails didn't get responded to. And so, you know, we don't have our boxes coming in in time and that event might actually have to be canceled because I couldn't get it together or all those things. These are not real problems. They feel like it because our nervous systems are so wired all the time. We're staring at at blue light. We're not out in nature. We're not having conversation because we're conversing on our phones with, hey, how are you? I'm great and you. And like none of those things feel satiating for the soul, you know? So I think like the biggest thing is A, humbling yourself and remembering like none of these things are a big deal. Let's take a step back. Are we healthy? Are we okay? Are we

connecting? And then B, what's the greatest solution to that? It's things that are free, honestly. like I hate to sound so simple about it, but it really is. It's like go outside for 10 minutes in the sun. I don't know anyone that doesn't feel better after they do that. I've literally preached sunlight. That is like my favorite thing. And we have all these modalities in modern day world. It's like one problem we're going to fix it with another thing that comes with a problem, right?

It's like tech solutions for everything. So much of the stuff that we need to make us feel good is right under our feelings. feet. It's being outside. It's challenging yourself and holding yourself accountable to say, okay, Friday to Monday. I mean, this is a real hard one, but I'm going to turn off my phone. Like I got a flip phone, guys, and I call that my secret phone. It's not really secret, but and Friday to Monday, like setting boundaries within the workspace, because I've found myself working seven days a week, 14 hours a day, and, you know, trying to find, you know, moments of joy on a farm, which of course requires tremendous amounts of work too, and little people. And

you're like, sometimes you feel, if you can turn your phone off for three days, it's amazing how much better you feel Friday night to Monday morning. And you know what? Ten years ago, I used to do that regularly, and it was no big deal. We actually had an airstream that was out on a couple hundred acres, and there was no service there. So Friday to Monday, we would camp and have no phone. And you felt so free. And I think we all feel this like innate anxiety because of we're tethered to everything at every moment. And then there's, you know, disappointment that comes from that if you're not responding to things in time or if you're not doing your work 110%. So I said this the other day. Maybe it's kind of a weird thing to say, but like set the bar lower. Like let's not keep the bar. So hi, let's lower the bar for a second

and go, hey, if I just like fed myself well today, got through a couple of the five most important things on the list and was able to be a present human or friend or parent or daughter. Okay. Yeah. You know. Yeah. That's so good. That's so good.

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been trying to do. And I feel like it's been, I mean, you've seen me. I've been like going to the gym like it's nobody's business recently. I've like, been loving it, which I have had trouble keeping myself consistent and going just because I, I know what it does for my brain. And it's, yeah, I finally like a kind of caught the bug. But when you were saying about like your nervous system firing, that's something I, obviously like you said like I still struggle to this day and I haven't worked in the hospital for four years three three four years um yeah four years and like I still it was either you or a therapist and I wouldn't be surprised if it was you but um it's like because my brain is so like people are going to die like it's hard for my brain to when I'm doing things around the house I'm like

trying to like figure out how to do it all at once and like if I do it. this, then I can go this there and like how I would hit my patient's rooms. And it's so hard, I think, for my brain to disconnect from it, even though it's been so many years and I've definitely like gotten better. Well, it's for the problem, this is a good thing. It's a good thing. But yes, it drives you crazy sometimes. The problem is you wake up each morning and she gets a sheet of paper out. And I know this because when I wake up, I'll walk through the kitchen and see it on the counter or something. And she makes a list of things to do for the day, each day.

And it's got 25 things. And she does that every morning. It's the first thing she does, list for the day. And it's just so aggressive. And I see this. Can you see which one of us is type A and which one is type B? It's a great balance. Your brain is during the day like, oh, I've only done half that list.

I've got to do this. I've got to do this. you're like so achieving. A lot of structure. I am very, but also very organized because like part of her job prior to this was making sure that things were listed out, laid out, you were doing it properly, you had to check those things off the list because it's life or death if you don't. If you don't give that patient the medication they need in room B like something might happen.

So it's probably your brain's default mode. Totally. Well, I was just going to give you a compliment before you diss to me. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. It's an incredible thing about you, but it's why you feel that. No, but I was going to say, you've told me before, like, one, I feel like, you know, like the emails, whatever it is that needs to be done. Taylor's like, is someone going to die or are you going to die?

Like, just, like, flat out. Like, at the end of the day, it doesn't matter. Like, so much of my brain is wired to be life or death. And now when I'm literally, like, giving notes on a social clip that's being posted for the pot. Like, it's just like, my brain, like, doesn't know the difference yet. And it's learning. It's still trying to figure that out. That's your nervous system.

Yeah. We're working on her. It's so heightened from all of that, which is great because you know what I also try to think about the things that we can sometimes criticize about ourselves? I know this sounds really like woo-woo. But actually, I don't want to say thanking those qualities because that does sound very woo-woo. But being seeing the benefit of them. So instead of hating that quality, most of the time the things that we criticize about

ourselves are actually tools we needed at one point to survive. So at one point, your body needed to do those things in order to make sure that people stayed alive. Make sure you stayed alive. Those things were very, very real in that moment. So then you're like, oh, I see it, I label it, I name it, I know that's why you were there. And now I can say goodbye to that. I don't need you. Thank you for your service there. I don't need you there anymore. You know, because they actually are really amazing survival skills that we carry with us through our childhood and you were talking about trauma earlier and all that stuff. Like, you needed those probably to quite literally survive that moment.

Yeah. Okay. Thank you so much. We don't need that anymore. Yeah. Yeah. Instead of hating it and, like, beating ourselves up for it. Yeah.

Or just own it totally and be like, you know what? I actually still love that I make these lists. I love that it feels aggressive in the morning. Yeah. Oh, I will never. I love that. She's not getting rid of the list, that's for sure. I will never.

I will never do. rid of a list. But in my defense, you tell me to make you a list when I need help with things around the house. Yeah, but my list you make for me is much shorter. All right. I'm getting, I'm sitting in that chair now. I got to, I got to do more AMDR. I thought it was done. I got to go back. By the way, I just got to point out because I've smiled so many times at this, when she said, I'm a student. I'm not a teacher before she opens her mouth. But then delivers constantly, Just like the most crazy wisdom every time like, Nix. You're a teacher, my friend.

You called me Nix. I haven't heard that in 15 years. That's what he used to call me. That's really cute. Oh, my gosh. That's very sweet. You're just full of so much wisdom. It's freaking mind-blowing.

Well, I listen to people a lot. Yeah, yeah. I appreciate. I ask questions. I feel like I'm a super curious person. And I think curiosity leads us to great places because we continue to open up the door of, you know, the unknowns behind it. Sometimes those places are scary. Sometimes it's places we don't want to go, you know, within ourselves or within conversation.

But it always leads to great places because, I don't know, like if we're not learning and growing, what are we doing? Yeah. You know? It's so true. That's how I feel. I love that you were talking about EMDR, too. Oh, yeah. I did it.

He didn't like it. You didn't like it? No. What part of you didn't like it? I don't know. I just don't know if it was my own problem and I couldn't commit, but I just couldn't get into it. He, I really wanted him to try it. Dr.

Amen. Yes. Did you see him? We saw him, yeah. And he was like, you need to do some EMDR. So I was doing it. And he also was like that would benefit Taylor. And I really wanted him to try it.

You were apprehensive and you were a very loving husband and you tried it for me. And I was very thankful you tried it. I just try it once. No. No, because I wanted to quit after one. And she said, she said, do me a favor. Give it a couple more tries. So she made me do it like four or five times.

Got it. But after like four or five, I went to her. I said, I can't do this. Well, that's a good effort. What didn't you like though? It felt uncomfortable. No, I don't even know. I don't even know if we got to what we were supposed to be doing.

But it was just like, it was just all the like, okay. He, Taylor struggled. I love the wooey and the stuff. Taylor struggles, I think, to get into. Yeah, just to get into that heads. I'm not questioning it just to get into that headspace. Like, when she would... Like, it took you a couple sound baths to, like, enjoy sound bath.

Like, and that's, like, not even... I like to sound bath pretty much right away. But... I was going to say, interesting, because that's so soothing. No, sound bath I liked. Like, what about hypnosis? I've never done to. Yeah.

Do you feel, like, open to it? Sure. Like he's saying once. He's like, sure, one time. I don't know. We're not ganging up on you. I just want to make that really clear. You've done it?

Yeah, I feel like I've done, like, I don't know if I've done all the things, but I've done a lot of things. I'm just, it comes back to that same thing. Like, I'm just such a curious person that I want to know what it's like. You're such a sponge. Whether or not it works, but also a sponge maybe, but also the placebo effect doesn't work on me, which is, by the way, I want to go back to the, this too, but just to also quickly touch on this, that was part of the birthplace of the absorption

company is because I, as much as I live in that space of wanting to believe that all these wellness techniques and modalities work, I also, I either feel something or I don't. Whereas, yeah, whereas I know other people that, like, you can, you know, tell them this is what it is and their, you know, mind, body, all of it believes it instantly. And that's beautiful. The placebo effect is real, but it doesn't work on me. And so I had spent so much time exploring a lot of this stuff and the world of wellness and supplements. And I won't go into, I won't bore you with it, but I ended up in this kind of crazy

health scare that spanned years and years. And I was seeing, you know, as you can imagine, great doctors because I'm an information seekers. So I'm seeking out the best doctors that I can and, you know, really researching in years and years and I couldn't figure this out and it was making me crazy. but what was making me equally as crazy was the amount of things I was being sold that weren't working. And in that industry as a whole, and in the mental health industry, connecting the dots there, we are sold products all day long.

And not only do they not work, but it's an industry that's capitalizing on people's hope, right? Because they're hoping that it works. and they're taking these things and they're spending their hard-earned money on this massive belief that they're going to get better from an industry that's taking advantage of them. And there's no regulation, right? There's very, very little regulation in that industry. And so that lit a whole other, you know, fire under me to actually create then, if I couldn't seek them, but create products that you could actually feel in the moment so that it was

quantifiable. So you knew that they were working. And I live in this in-between space because I love the world of, you know, non-traditional medicine, but I also love, you know, Western, you know, very sort of cut and dry. Like I think there's a place for all of it. And I live somewhere in the middle of this space of wellness, but also traditional medicine. I see and appreciate both, as I'm sure you do from working in a hospital setting, there's a place for both of those things. And my passion came from actually giving people what they deserved, something that they could feel in that moment,

not the promise of the future, not if you do this for 30 days, you're going to X, Y, or Z. It shouldn't have to take that. While we take your money. While we take your money. Just trust. Yes, and while we give you something that not only is dishonest,

but the quality is not there either. So you forget, this was a big aha moment for me, you guys, and one that I only just had recently, actually, is you kind of think, okay, if I'm taking things and they're not working, at least they're not hurting me, right? And then I had this whole realization sitting with our team and our science advisory board where I was like, wow, that's not true. When you take, when you put something in your body, whether it's a supplement or a pharmaceutical or whatever it is, right, your body has to process that. So your liver is working. Your intestines are working. Your gut biome is affected in some

capacity, you're taking something, you're requiring your body to work. So if it's not doing anything for you, you actually are, there is a repercussion or a consequence on the body. That's not just totally benign. Okay, well, it's not working, so it's not hurting me. That's not necessarily true. And the supplement industry just isn't regulated at all. And for all of us, especially here, like, you know, in this space, too, thinkers, people who want to see change, create change, create a shift. We're all looking for solutions, right? Yeah. And so that's like, that's what the absorption company is. It was solution driven.

It's mission oriented and it's people deserve to feel good. It's really that simple. Yeah. You know? And they deserve to have access to products that are honest and real and transparent. Like all the science behind it sounds so complicated. It's actually very, very simple. Yeah.

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Can you tell our lemon drops? That's what we call our listeners. Lemon drops. Can you tell our lemon drops what absorption company is? Yes. Let's see if I can fit this into a two-sentence sound bite. So the absorption company. We are a company that is rooted in bioavailability.

So there's a major absorption crisis. that's happening, if you will, stemming from the fact that we have a broken food system, broken agriculture system, broken health care system, all these things are interconnected, interrelated. And so we wanted to create a supplement that you could actually feel. That was all about absorption, giving your body something that it can absorb, that it can feel. It's that simple. Now, there's science behind it, and we can talk about the science if you want.

you know, capsoil is the science behind it, and it actually creates, there's a process in which the supplements are made that allows the body to absorb it by virtue of decreasing particle size and increasing surface area. So the visual for that is like if you imagine you have a particle that's this big, I guess you're running cameras, so you can see it too. If you decreased those particle sizes, it would actually be able to be dispersed and increase the surface area as opposed to most of the time too when you're taking something, you know, people aren't thinking about the fact that, you know, our bodies do a job, like your stomach acid, your body is meant to actually break things down and it needs to get to the intestines in order to be fully absorbed. But most of the time,

you know, our environments and our stomach is actually, you know, killing that process before it can even get there. So a lot of what we're sold is like, oh, it's going to do this, but A, the quality is not there or B, it can't even get to the part of your body where it needs to be absorbed. And no one thinks about that. And there's no regulation. So you can buy like a bottle of melatonin and it can say X amount of milligrams. But each, you know, pill in that bottle can actually be different. And, you know, when you start to have these aha moments about how not only is it that

way for the adult supplement industry, but also kids supplements and you start going like, oh my gosh, what can I trust? What can I take? But if you think about it and you open up your medicine cabinet, And I were to even ask you guys this question, or anybody, what is in your medicine cabinet right now that you could point out to me, or your pantry, that you feel?

You would probably go in there, like, do it as an experiment you two later. You're probably going to go in there because you guys are health-oriented too. You care about this. And you're going to start pointing to things and you're going to go, okay, I like taking my vitamin C

because I think that it helps me not get sick, I think. And then you're going to go through and you're going to go, but what about this, what about that? and you realize that maybe you would keep your vitamin C or your glutathione in there, but most of what's in there, you're going to say, oh my gosh, I don't think I've ever felt that. When I take it, you hope you do. You take a big pile in your hands every morning.

You hope you feel it. And not only are you not feeling it, but it's probably not doing anything. So there's crazy stats that back this up. Like you pee out 84% of your supplements, which is wild, right? So it's like, what are we doing? What are we putting in our bodies? And I think probably for you guys, this is what I was saying to UT earlier, like there's just so much satisfaction and like peace that comes from knowing that you're helping people in some way.

So, okay, yeah, there's a lot that comes from having a podcast. But if five people call in and say, hey, you changed my life, it makes, it's worth it all probably for you. Right? Sure. And I feel the exact same way. with this because people write us in thousands and thousands of people write in the company. And we try to read a lot of it, most of it, as much as we can. Yeah.

And they say, hey, you know, I can't like say this part because I can't mention different drugs, but they'll be like, I got off my X, Y, or Z antidepressant because of your calm supplement or I got off this or that because of and or I'm sleeping for the very first time ever. And it's not, you shouldn't have to take a supplement for 30 days to feel it. All of these are just marketing techniques and we are all part of that, you know, social experiment of how to get people to click, get people to buy, get people, we're all victims of that. I am, you are, especially as women, we're marketed to all day long. And so to have a product that people take and they immediately feel and not only do they feel it, they say it's making their life better and they feel better in that

moment, the joy, it makes it worth even doing the things that, like, I'm uncomfortable doing now, which is like being forward facing for a brand or, you know, whatever it is. Because that's the point of it all. Like, let's make life better. Yeah. I love it. Do you have, like, I know this is, I don't, do you have, like, a favorite product? Oh, well, as you can probably tell, I don't need more energy, so I don't take it. I don't take it. So Ian is like, we have nanometric caffeine. So the thing that's amazing about the energy is that you take it and you don't crash. And again, all these like dips in life is all part of this like let's keep people like hooked on the drip.

Right. We see it happen in every industry, whether it's health care or whether it's like the agrochemical industry, whatever. So the thing that I love so much about our energy is that it's sustained energy. So you're not dipping. You're not like all day long. Oh gosh, got to take more. Got to take more. Yeah.

But I don't need any energy. And I actually quit all caffeine about seven years ago, and my life got so much better. Really? As a result, yeah. Again, life is a series of choices. I also don't drink alcohol, really. It's just a series of choices. How do I make my life feel the best it can be?

What can I cut out? That's not serving me anymore. Here we go. But yeah, life got better without caffeine. But I sleep, calm, restore. So like even before we sat down here and I know I have to do a podcast and I have to, I'm sure there's going to be sound bites that enter into the world and I start to think about what that's going to look like. And yeah, so I do. I drink calm and restore every morning.

And our restore is amazing because it's not just a hydration. I mean, you know, market things how you will. Of course it has, you know, some amazing hydrating components. You know, your potassium, your sodium and it's, you know, great. But it also has liposomal glutathione and. And I would consider this an immune boosting supplement as much as I would consider it a hydration supplement. And then, you know, calm with lebsomal saffron.

And I'm sure if you were with Doc Aman, he talks a lot about saffron. And this is an area that I want to explore. I've been talking to the team about this, going full speed ahead in that department. Because personally, I think saffron is like one of the greatest gifts to our bodies and mental health that there is. Yeah. Of all things. That was what he wanted you to take, but you were like, it's too many pills.

That is it. The happy saffron. Yeah. I'm not good with a lot of pills. You know what it's great. Take calm and put it in water and then you're not thinking about pills. That's part of what I love to. Saffron.

So mood boosting, calming effect. A lot of people, when it's taken in a very potent form, feel like they're more balanced and more level, which, by the way, this day and age, who couldn't use them? Yeah, exactly. But I think in this time that we're all living in where we're trying to throw supplements and, I mean, sorry, solutions in the form of pharmaceuticals at people,

I think being able to connect with anything that feels like it's working with your body, just feels good. You know, if you can feel it, that to me feels like the right path. First of all, pharmaceuticals have a great place in different people's lives when it's needed, right?

But I think we are a culture that overprescribes. Absolutely. Right? And there's tie-ins to that. Like, there's no denying when you follow the, you know, you follow the money,

you know, why that is, right? There's a probably trillion-dollar industry although don't quote me on the exact number, but definitely, you know, mid billions to up there, you know, into the trillion, that capitalizes on people's desire to feel better. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. We talk about that a lot.

And anyone listening, I love the energy one. Do you? But I love that. I think what you were saying is I don't feel like the crash. Yeah. I really need to just wean off of caffeine again. I had a lot of caffeine and then I was super anxious and then I quit caffeine and literally had to like detox from it. And then I just started drinking.

You did pick it back up again. I love coffee. That's my, I need to just. Everything in moderation. Yeah. I love coffee too because I like the ritual. So I had to talk to myself like what is it? Do I like the like warm beverage in the morning?

Do I like something sweet? What is that thing? Yeah. Because coffee just always made me feel very jittery. Yeah. Yeah. And I am a high output, energy output person. Yeah.

So I can't afford to feel jittery. And some of the memories that I have actually of being on our sets, I was like, you know, hitting seven, eight cups of coffee in a day because your whole circadian rhythm, which is true with being a nurse too, is all whacked, right? Because you're like, okay, tomorrow you're going to shoot nights and you're going to show up at 4 p.m. and work till 7 o'clock in the morning. and you're just, you're so whacked. So you're relying on things to keep you moving.

And then you wake up one day and go like, this doesn't feel good. Yeah. It's funny because there were several of those photos that we found and both of us were holding cups of coffee. Oh gosh. Oh, gosh. Well, I only said, oh gosh, because I'm also doing lots of other things. But you know, you have to like, you have to own it.

You know, I think part of me just from being in the, you know, experiencing youth in the public eye, part of me is I went through a long period of time where you felt like you had to defend, right? Because people like to point things out. Oh, wow. You know, you, we saw that picture of you smoking a cigarette. And so you obviously, you know, aren't really into wellness because, you know, a photo is pulled up from like 20 years before. Yeah. And I actually have decided as part of my own way of embracing it all.

to acknowledge and validate all of those things. Like when people find things to criticize, I'm like, let's talk about that. Yeah, that's so real. That was part of the journey. Like, I'm so proud, actually, now that that is the journey. I didn't grow up understanding anything about health or wellness. I grew up eating, you know, I lived on fast food,

and I was lucky enough to some of my writing, got me into some gifted school programs that thank goodness for that because I had teachers that really, it was just a series of luck, right? Like I had teachers that really nurtured that part of me and oh gosh, I hate actually talking about myself. I just had this, I had to pause. I had this realization that I'm sitting here talking about myself. That's weird. That is what you are here to do. That is what you're here to do. It's so weird though. I like talking about other people. But if we don't embrace the journey, then we don't get to actually see the beauty of the evolution, you know? Like the journey. I didn't grow up in that space at all. I knew nothing about it. I threw trash out my window.

Now I say that openly because guess what? That little girl who smoked cigarettes and only ate fast food and lived on diet sodas and threw trash out her window now is a champion for the environment and for sustainability and for health and wellness and for mental health. And how cool that as humans we get to evolve and learn and change things. Because I, Otherwise, what we're doing is we're shaming people into not changing, actually, if we don't honor the whole journey. Yeah. Right?

Yeah. You may probably not or may not be making the change you are today if you don't go through those things. Yeah. Right. So. And we have to like, I think it's really important to just applaud the thought that you can be who you are today right now and not in some hokey, okay.

you know, fake way, decide, you know, tomorrow or somewhat. But if you really invest in that idea that today, maybe something about yourself you'd like to change, tomorrow you get to do that. Yeah. How cool is that? You know what I mean? I just think it's amazing because it can feel really daunting for people, especially when you talk about like, you know, the environment and sustainability and eating choices and understanding, you know, monocultures or how, you know, ag is grown or the fact that hoofed mammals play a huge part of, you know, our ability to regenerate the earth, but yet, you know, at one point in time you had one group of people, you know, who don't eat meat and another group of people who are all about eating meat, fighting with each other

over this one shared idea of like, we want the planet to be better. Hey, let's acknowledge that both people, both parties here want the planet to be better. There's just, we're missing something just in the line of communication, which is we all have one. one shared goal. Everybody, that was just one example like a metaphor, but we all have one shared goal at the end of the day. Most of us do just different paths to getting there. So if we honor everybody's each individual path instead of shaming it, I think we find a better way of actually coming together. Amen. You know? Yeah. That's so good. Um, last question I have for you on this note is, um, I'd love to know what you're most proud of yourself for. Oh gosh. Yeah. She's

I know, I know. You don't ask everybody that. She's not good at that. I don't ask everyone that question. But I would, but I ask you that also because of you saying you don't like to talk about yourself. But I think there is such importance and taking that time to acknowledge exactly what you were just saying. Taking that time to reflect on ourselves and, you know, congratulate ourselves and honor ourselves. It's, yeah, tough sometimes.

You know what? I listen to other people when they speak and then try to like apply it to life. And literally as you said that, instead of me going into what I'm most proud of myself about, I was like, what a beautiful thing to actually ask. Thank you for sharing that just now because it's now in my brain. We should be asking little people that all the time. What are you proud about today? Which is so sweet. And that is definitely something I'm going to take into my day too. What am I most proud? Oh gosh. Now you're seeing the cracks in the character here because I don't know how to do that to myself. Like what do I like the most about myself? The problem with her is she's just not good at complimenting herself. I don't. I can think of 10 things off the top of my head that you should be so proud of.

Oh gosh. I mean, okay, I'm proud of. I'm proud of the fact that I feel like honesty is, I think the qualities that I maybe love about myself the most is honesty and loyalty. Like I'm fiercely honest. I'm fiercely protective of what I believe in. Fiercely passionate about things. So maybe I guess I'm proud of those qualities. I don't know.

That's it. Let her out. There she goes, guys. There she goes. What are you proud of yourself for? She's like, can I flip this around? No, no. Yeah, what are you proud of?

I did flip it. It's hard. I want to hear you do it. I know mine. Oh, good. But it's required thought. I don't like that question and like having to think about that often as well. but having these conversations in this room has forced me to think about it.

And I know my answer, and mine is how well and deeply I love people. Oh. That's, that is definitely what I would have to point to is, you know, and it comes with like, comes with a cost, for sure. but I, I, I, I,

I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I will,

I will, I will give people, maybe some opportunities that shouldn't, and I just, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I,

I, I, I, I, I, I, um, deeply that, even at the end of the day, if I get, you know, burnt over it,

or my heart crushed or whatever the bad side is, I wouldn't have it any other way. I think that's, I think it's a beautiful thing at the, at the end of the day. So that, that would be mine. Well, thank you for being here. This was a really, really special conversation. Thanks, guys. I'm so proud of everything you're doing, I mean, with your companies,

but just more so you as a person and just everything you're doing in life. I respect you to the moon. Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode.