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312 : Why Whole Food Plant-Based Eating is Easier Than You Think

312 : Why Whole Food Plant-Based Eating is Easier Than You Think

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Are you tired of low energy, extra pounds, high cholesterol, and inflammation holding you back in life? Ready to transform your life with the power of the whole food plant-based diet? 

In this episode, we're shattering a rampant myth that holds many back from successfully embracing this life-changing way of healthy eating and meal prep. Once you uncover the truth, you'll find it easier than ever to get out there and fully enjoy life!

Join us as we debunk one major misconception that could be keeping you from reaching your full potential. Discover how sustainable plant-based eating can lead to the energized, vibrant life you were created to enjoy. If you're tired of feeling overwhelmed and want to enjoy the simplicity and true joy of eating whole plant foods, this episode is for you!

We'll guide you in identifying and replacing the lies of the enemy that hinder your health and well-being. 

The Power On Plants Method is so straightforward that even our children have been creating their own delicious dishes since the age of five! And if they can do it, so can you... It really is just that simple.💕 

Our 16-year-old even recently created a brand-new plant-based chicken nugget recipe that has our family doing the happy dance!

Gaining Power On Plants is about much more than just recipes. So if you're a purpose-driven Christian woman eager to finally feel your best naturally so you can fully live your calling, this is for you! 

We're revealing our "one-two punch" strategy for optimal health that will help you stop “falling off the wagon” so that plant based living becomes simple, enjoyable, and therefore, sustainalbe. 
 
So if you're ready to embrace your God-given calling with vitality and renewed purpose, then sister, you're in the right place! Pop in those earbuds, and let's get started! 💃🏻

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Chapters

00:00 - Busting Health Myths With Whole Foods

10:12 - Plant-Based Cooking

19:46 - Optimal Health Through Plant-Based Nutrition

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Hey there, sunshine.

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When you're relatively new to whole food, plant-based eating, it can be tempting to get overwhelmed, feeling like it's so new to me that, therefore, it is going to be difficult.

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I want you to understand that there are many lies that our enemy tells us in order to keep us stuck in health struggles.

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Today, we're going to do away with one of these lies once and for all.

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Hey sister, welcome to the Power on Plants podcast.

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Are you tired of staring into the fridge wondering what to eat so you can just feel better?

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Do you want to avoid spending hours in the kitchen making complicated meals in the name of health?

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Would you love to leave fatigue behind and finally have the energy to do all the things you want to do?

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Hi, we're Jared and Anita Roussel, christ followers, healthcare professionals, parents of four and big fans of great tasting food.

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We, too, tried exercising more, eating natural and clean foods, but we still found ourselves struggling with what we thought were changes that come with age or bad genes, and we weren't finding answers the traditional route.

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So we dug into the research and created our secret nutritional weapon sustainable plant-based living.

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The truth is, you can eat more whole plant foods and it's not hard.

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You just need the way that's realistic and delicious, so you never feel deprived.

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If you're ready to enjoy your meals, no longer be held back by your health struggles and actively live your life, then you're in the right place.

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So grab your favorite plant-based cup of happy pop in those earbuds and let's get started.

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We are so happy to be with you again today.

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What a blessing it is to be given another day of life, that we can live together and feel our best together and become all that we were created to be, because we finally feel good.

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Right, we finally feel like it.

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If you're not there yet, don't worry, you are in the right place, because that is what Jared and I are all about using whole plant foods in order to heal naturally, so you can finally feel like living your God-given calling.

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This is what lights us up.

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So today, jared and I want to talk to you about something that is a lie of the enemy that you may be tempted to believe.

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There are so many of these, and we are going to be busting these down and breaking these myths inside the course of these, and we are going to be busting these down and breaking these myths inside the course.

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I am beyond excited about what we're going to be sharing with you about how to recognize and bust these lies so that you can move on.

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This is more than just myth busting.

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This is building up yourself in truth, so that you don't have to struggle to feel your best anymore.

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It's just ridiculous these lies that we believe about what it takes to get healthy, and I want to talk about one of the specific things of it's going to be new.

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It's all so new to you, so it's going to be difficult.

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Well, let's talk about the truth here.

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What is truth?

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We should all always be learning and growing.

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So, no matter how long you've been doing healthy, plant-based living, you should always be learning something new.

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So, no matter how long you've been doing healthy, plant-based living, you should always be learning something new.

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So you're just at a different stage of the process.

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If you're at the beginning, yes, it's new to you, but we should always be enjoying the process of learning something new.

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Because if you stay stuck in that same old place, if the enemy can get you stuck in those same old processes, those same old thoughts, those same old place, if the enemy can get you stuck in those same old processes, the same old thoughts, the same old actions that the thoughts bring about, then you can never get to the next level, where you need to be in order to feel your best.

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So I'm talking about this specifically from a health perspective, but this works in many different areas of life.

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Our enemy's very crafty and he wants to get us off track, especially in our health, because he does not want us to feel good.

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But when we learn the truths and we replace those lies with the truth, it's then that we're free and able to do the things that we were created to do and find the most fulfillment in life.

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We no longer sit on the sidelines just wishing that we could run and play with our children or go and experience all the places we want to visit, or take our business to the next level, beyond what we've been stuck at for far too long.

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And so these are the things that we love helping you to do.

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But think about this how many times have you thought, oh, that's new.

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I don't really know much about that.

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And then the next step is you move into oh yeah, that's going to be hard.

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Just because you think it's new, it equals hard or difficult.

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But really, with whole food, plant-based.

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That cannot be any farther from the truth.

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So new should not scare us.

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But we also need to crush the additional lie of it's hard, and I think those two things kind of go hand in hand.

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Well, how many times have we been in a situation where we thought it's new, it's different, it's hard.

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Once we learned how and got beyond that quote unquote, it's hard phase, we then gained that new skill, that new knowledge, and then enjoyed it.

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It became fun.

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It became not new and difficult, but it became maybe your everyday.

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How many times have we been in this situation?

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I would think in school, maybe you've mastered a certain subject, or in work, you've mastered a specific project.

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But once you got beyond that it's hard, it became fun.

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The discovery, the learning new things, implementing new strategies, putting it all together.

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And then, once you were done, you think, wow, I have this sense of accomplishment that I didn't have before.

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I want you in this situation if you're feeling that way about whole food, plant-based, reflect upon those times whenever you felt that way, conquered the challenge, and then you felt, I don't know, invigorated, creative, whatever it is for you.

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And when you talk about school, that made me think about something that we haven't really talked about before.

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But you think back to those teachers that you love the most the mentors.

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They were mentors.

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They didn't just get up there and give you a spiel.

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They actually showed you examples from their own life and what they loved about it, and they were lit up about their subject and they knew the ways to make it simple and enjoyable.

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So it wasn't just hey, I'm going to show you how to do this thing, and then you're sitting there and it's drudgery learning.

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It's like, okay, I've got to learn this if I want to learn how to do this thing.

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No, they know how to find the joy because they've been doing this for long enough.

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If you can find that mentor that knows how.

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And this perfectly describes me and Jared in the plant-based space, because we have spent so much time on our own journey, years and years of going through and figuring out how to finally feel good so that we could do all those things that we were missing out on for far too long.

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And then there was the whole side of it that we just got tired of being the medical professional and the nursing professional who were helping our clients manage their diseases.

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We were ready to help our clients find real answers, get real results, but not in the way that involved the drudgery of the new and the I'm plodding through it methods that we are trained to believe.

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Again, I believe these seeds are craftily planted by our enemy that if it's new it's going to be difficult, and he's done it so well because of our past experiences.

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You've tried to get healthy in the past.

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You've tried to lose weight.

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Maybe you've tried to decrease your blood pressure, your cholesterol or get healthy, and we come to believe that all the miserable methods that we've been trained in in the past are the only ways we're going to get there.

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So we think we have to keep going back to those miserable methods instead of finding a mentor who's learned a way to do the thing that we know is the answer, but knows how to make it not miserable but actually fun and enjoyable so enjoyable and realistic with our regular lifestyle that we can actually do it without ever thinking the words falling off the wagon.

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I mean, really it's absolutely amazing when you can learn those strategies to make it enjoyable, to light you up and taste so delicious that you never think about returning, and you know I talk about finding your new favorites a lot.

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This is one of the things that brought this up this week, because this week our son has been in the kitchen and if you're inside our free group Podcast, insiders Experience, I want you to get on there and watch the video I've posted for you.

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You can see these chicken nuggets our son's come up with.

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He's 16 years old.

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Okay, imagine this 16-year-old boy in the kitchen cooking, creating recipes Because of the skills he's learned.

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He loves cooking.

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All four of our kids do this.

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Three of them are teens, one of them is a 12-year-old, almost a teen, and they all cook meals on the regular.

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Not only that, they're getting in there creating brand new things.

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Yes, and what I love most about this is he's created these chicken nuggets.

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What I love about this is not only that this is going to be in our volume three cookbook that will come out in the future, but I'm going to be able to walk you through this step-by-step inside the course how to make these.

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They are that good and this just lights us up because they taste amazing.

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But he's learned how to think.

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What do I love that I'm missing out on?

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And he really just decided I'm missing out on fried chicken or chicken nuggets.

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I want that flavor.

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And so he asked me mom, what do you think about this and this and putting this and this together?

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Would that make a good fried chicken nugget?

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I said it sounds amazing, try it.

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He did.

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They are ridiculous.

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I mean seriously like I'm having flashbacks to when we used to eat the crumbs off the.

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I don't know if your mom used to do this, but like when we would fry chicken or something, she would take it up and let the oil drip off and then put it on something like a paper towel, and so you've got all those little bits.

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Think like the little crunchy bits, little crunchies.

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It reminds me of Josh Sneed.

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That's hilarious.

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There's this comedian that has this little spiel about eating at Long John Silver's and how they started upcharging you at Long John Silver's for the little crunchies.

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Does he call them crunchies?

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I think so.

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Yeah, like the little he refers to them a couple different ways.

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In one part he's saying, hey, give me some of that garbage, Put some garbage in the bottom of my little treasure chest.

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And he says did I just hear this guy ask for the crumbs?

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Right.

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He heard a guy asking for the crumbs the garbage that was down there and they hit an upsell button because people started asking for them, for their so good.

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Well, with this recipe you get those for free.

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And it's so amazing because you have these chicken nuggets that are crunchy.

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So when you're in pie, I want you to go and click the play button and watch it.

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I need to add in the video for you.

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I'll do that right after we take this podcast.

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You may have to search back a little, but search chicken C-H-I-C-K-N.

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Apostrophe Okay, leave the E out.

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C-h-i-c-k-n.

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Apostrophe Chicken Nugget Supreme that's what I called it and search that at the top search bar and it will pull it up for you and you'll be able to click on it and see this.

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But I taped a video of my son holding the tray of them so you can see up close what they look like and then you can actually hear them.

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You can hear the crunch of them, rattling them around.

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It is really amazing, like we were just all flipping out and then we're dipping them in our chicken nugget sauce, called the Chick-No-Way sauce.

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Can I tell you how good that is?

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There's a certain restaurant that closes on a Sunday.

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If you're a believer, you probably know what I'm talking about.

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Okay, so they have this yellow sauce that they sell with their chicken nuggets, called their restaurant name, and then sauce it's just their name sauce, that's it.

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If you want to make the duplicate or the copycat of that, get the Power on Plants cookbook.

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This Chick-fil-A sauce is in the Thrive cookbook bundle at poweronplantscom forward slash cookbook.

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But come inside our free group, join us now, because you've got to hear this to believe it and see it.

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There's been some amazing things going on in there.

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Come to poweronplantscom forward slash P-I-E.

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You're going to wonder why you weren't there before.

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Poweronplantscom.

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Forward slash P-I-E and join us.

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Check these nuggets out.

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It's amazing.

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Ask your plant-based questions and find your new plant-based buds.

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I mean, this is a family.

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This is different than other plant-based spaces that we've witnessed or been a part of, because it's a group of believers going somewhere together, recognizing that we are a movement.

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This is not just about eating some plant-based food or getting a couple of recipes.

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This is learning the simple, enjoyable and delicious ways to doing it, but also recognizing in the beginning we have an enemy.

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He has lies.

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He tells us what are those lies, having the scales pulled from your eyes to see what the lies are.

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Now your eyes are open.

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You've got to replace those lies with truth.

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Now the truth comes in and all of a sudden you're getting set free and you're seeing why you couldn't get well before.

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Now you've got all that package of goodness.

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You're getting healed.

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You have your mind renewed to the truth.

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Now you get the skills.

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Now you get the tactics.

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This is what we're going to be doing inside the course.

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It's going to change everything for you.

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I cannot tell you how excited we are about all these things that are coming up, but right now I want you to take just this one thing, just this one thing, and I want you to think about this teenage boy.

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And it's not because he's sat by my side every time I've done things.

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He has learned the skills over the years that we're gonna be teaching you inside the course.

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I want you to think about this 16-year-old boy in the kitchen coming up with recipes, as does his 17-year-old boy in the kitchen coming up with recipes, as does his seventeen-year-old brother, as does his nineteen-year-old sister, as does his twelve-year-old sister.

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Same thing All baking, all cooking.

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Why?

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Because it's just that simple.

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They've been doing this now for over five years, all of them.

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Oh yeah, madeline, our nineteen-year-old came up with a biscotti recipe a couple years ago.

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She just decided I want biscotti and she found a recipe and did it.

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The power on plants way.

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Let's talk about the whole food plant-based chocolate chip cookies they just cranked out today.

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The girls got in the kitchen and they just wanted to do something together and they just threw together a chocolate chip recipe.

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They're amazing.

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Okay, the recipe is not available yet, but it will probably be coming up.

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All these things are going to be available.

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I'll make their way to you eventually.

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Coming up.

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But listen, just grab what you can now, because we've got a lot of the things.

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If you wonder, what in the world do I eat?

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Where in the world do I start Get the cookbooks, get started there and then inside the the course, I'm going to be walking you through a lot of the things, including some things that are already in the cookbook, so you'll get to join me in the kitchen and walk step by step through different things throughout the course.

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You need to learn basic substitutions for things.

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You want to learn how to then take those substitutions and apply them to most any recipe.

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You need to be able to learn how to do this in a time frame that is not two hours in the kitchen.

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That's insane.

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We literally have people tell us when we tell them what we're doing, when we meet them for the first time oh, I tried the whole food plant-based.

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I can't do that.

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It takes two hours for every meal.

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It's absolutely ridiculous.

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Like I cannot, you're doing it wrong.

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You're doing it wrong.

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You're doing it wrong.

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How in the world?

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How in the world is it taking you two hours?

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No, because you don't know the power and plans method yet.

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But you're going to, and when you learn the step-by-step way to do it and make it truly rapid, delicious and simple, you will not believe how easy it is.

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But the key part is that mindset that we're going to do.

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At the beginning it is really, I think it's all key, but honestly, the mindset is going to blow you away, especially as a believer.

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Some of the ways that we're lied to on a regular basis that we don't even realize has been happening in our lives.

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So today, the one thing is recognizing that you should always be learning something new and growing.

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There is always something new to learn, so don't take the thought this is all new, it's going to be difficult.

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There's so much to learn.

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How will I ever?

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I know my experiences from the past and the enemy takes it and he gets you to start thinking about the things that are lies, and then you fuel the fire by thinking on it and thinking it's going to be difficult, not knowing that there are kids that have been doing this since they were six, literally by themselves.

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That's how simple it is.

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I promise you, if a six or seven-year-old or a 16-year-old boy can do this, you can do it and you can find joy in it.

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They love it.

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They don't miss the other things.

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Every time we find a new replacement, like these chicken nuggets, it's just one more thing that knocks down another domino of ever possibly considering returning.

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And when you mix that with how amazing your body feels, the energy level that you have, how you're healing from the inside out every day, instead of dealing with the root cause, instead of trying to manage symptoms with this medication on top of that medication, on top of that medication.

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Now, if you know me and Jared, you know he's a physician assistant and he specializes in lifestyle medicine.

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He is certified in lifestyle medicine.

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I'm a nurse with my four-year degree.

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I have a lot of nursing experience, but I'm also certified as an integrative nutrition health coach, and so, all that to say, we are not against medication.

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I want you to understand.

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We don't say don't take medication.

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There is a time and a place for medication.

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But what I can tell you is Jared still works with a full-time caseload of patients.

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Some of them have taken medications.

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But what I can also tell you is many of them have come off their medications under his supervision.

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Yes, you will still need to be supervised by your doctor if you're on medications when you eat whole plant foods.

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Why?

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Because your blood pressure can come down rather quickly to normal, eating the foods that God created your body to thrive on, for example, as we see in Genesis 1.29, or in Daniel, when you look at how he chose to eat when he wanted to be the strongest.

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Okay, so these are just things that we can see throughout the Word.

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These are the foods our body was created to be fueled on.

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So these foods actually get to the root cause of the problems, which is we're not getting the nutrients that we do need and we're getting a lot of things that we don't need.

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So when we eat things that sabotage our health, that are actually bad for our body, and we're not getting the right things, it's like this double whammy.

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So when you can get both right, I call that the one-two punch, like you've got a double whammy that's in your benefit.

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So it's going to help you so much to start getting the right mindset and then learning the way to make eating whole plant foods sustainable, because it's enjoyable, because it's simple and delicious and quick, it works with your schedule, it lights you up, so sunshine always.

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Remember, no matter what stage of the journey you're in, there's always something new to learn.

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And that's not a bad thing, it's actually a great thing.

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Friend, we are here for you, we love you, we care for you and we look forward to getting to know you inside pie Again.

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You can join us there at poweronplantscom forward slash P-I-E and we will see you soon, thank you.