Alexi overcame cancer more than 20 years ago by aligning the mental, emotional and physical systems of the body without any medical intervention, drugs or surgery. Besides being a multi author including a #1 Best Seller, she coaches individuals who want to bounce back after cancer diagnosis by addressing the symptoms and not treating it as a disease.
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Saylor Cooper is an inspirational figure who has begun his journey in Entrepreneurship to overcome the challenges of making a living with a disability and to demonstrate that it indeed it is possible by putting in hard work despite living with challenges! He is the creator/Host of Real Variety Radio, an internet radio station that offers a great variety of programming from all Genres of music and shows, along with the Hope Without Sight Podcast that features guests who have overcome diverse challenges and are an inspiration to the world. Of course, Saylor is not sure what is in store, but he is extremely excited for what is to come. His future goals include getting booked to speak on different types of stages and write a collaborative book with his podcast guests. Below is his contact card, which includes his website and socials: https://ovou.me/livefasetiyacehe
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My name is Matthew Tyler Evans and I am from the Northeast Texas area. I am blind like Saylor is and we have the same retinal condition. I decided to join Saylor‘s podcast because I have a strong interest in teaming up with him and I think together, we can inspire the world with others with disabilities.
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Hello, everybody, welcome to another episode of
Saylor Cooper:Hope Without Sight with your host Saylor Cooper. And normally
Saylor Cooper:my co host, Tyler Evans would be here, but I he's, he's off doing
Saylor Cooper:some other stuff. He's at a Bible group. So it's just me
Saylor Cooper:here. But on today's episode, first of all, it's episode 34. I
Saylor Cooper:have a very special person who's a cancer survivor. And indeed,
Saylor Cooper:she's overcome cancer without medical treatment, and she's
Saylor Cooper:going to tell us more how. Please welcome Alexi Bracey.
Saylor Cooper:Alexi, how're you doing today?
Alexi Bracey:I'm good. Thank you so much for having me here.
Alexi Bracey:I'm just totally delighted. Totally delighted.
Saylor Cooper:Oh, awesome. Yeah, I believe we met on
Saylor Cooper:podcasters connect and collaborate. Right?
Alexi Bracey:And it's correct. Yes.
Saylor Cooper:Yeah. And now, we're learning about affiliates
Saylor Cooper:and all that, which is great. So get me started, you know, tell
Saylor Cooper:me about yourself and the journey you've been on?
Unknown:Well, you know, I mean, just, you know, anybody that's
Unknown:listening, just imagine you get a phone call. And the voice at
Unknown:the other end says, you have cancer, we want to book you in
Unknown:for your surgery. Like, what is your your reaction? What do you
Unknown:say? You know, do you cry? Do you yell? Do you faint? For me,
Unknown:it was like dead silence. For I don't know, 10-15 seconds. And I
Unknown:just quietly said, thank you. And as I hung up, in hung up the
Unknown:phone, there was this little voice inside of me that said,
Unknown:You're gonna beat it. I mean, I remember that. So distinctly,
Unknown:you're going to beat it. I knew nothing about cancer, I knew
Unknown:nothing about health. I knew nothing about diet. And so this
Unknown:is like 23 years ago, more the availability of the internet is
Unknown:three months. For me, it was a game changer, an eye opener. And
Unknown:so I implemented a few changes. And based on that the results
Unknown:were that without any medical intervention, drugs or surgery a
Unknown:year later, I was cancer free. So how that started. So that
Unknown:started me on my journey. So primarily, it was mindset,
Unknown:definitely mindset. But, you know, we have a lot of emotional
Unknown:trauma that has been linked to various diseases if you don't
Unknown:overcome them, there's a test called ACE capital A KC capital
Unknown:B,
Saylor Cooper:adverse childhood experiences. I'm familiar with
Saylor Cooper:that. It because I've seen it on videos where they ask doctors
Saylor Cooper:that paediatric health care providers, especially they ask
Saylor Cooper:at both children and parents, parents about traumas they've
Saylor Cooper:overcome. And the each, it's a 10 point question, a 10 point
Saylor Cooper:questionnaire. And for each question, the parent and child
Saylor Cooper:endorse a yes, a child gets one point. And the higher the ACE
Saylor Cooper:score is more, the more prevalent children are known to
Saylor Cooper:have. More complications later in life, such as cardiovascular
Saylor Cooper:disease, stroke, diabetes, mental health issues, you know,
Saylor Cooper:even suicide, if it's if traumas not dealt with, accordingly.
Unknown:That's so true, you know that our cells have memory,
Unknown:and they retain that memory. And you know, it's same thing if you
Unknown:if you think of it, when you water, a plant, with good water,
Unknown:it grows. But all of a sudden, if you start using chlorinated
Unknown:water, for plants not gonna grow. Why? Because it has some
Unknown:kind of memory, the cells going, This isn't what we had the last
Unknown:time I don't really like it. So our cells in the human body are
Unknown:the same way. So you know, if you have a sore Pinky, do you
Unknown:ignore it or just let it go? If you have, then it goes into a
Unknown:sore knuckle. Do you address it? Or do you let it go? You've got
Unknown:a sore wrist? Do you address it? Or do you let it go? So it's the
Unknown:same thing with our, our emotions in our cells? Unless
Unknown:those things are addressed, they become a bigger trigger, like
Unknown:you mentioned for various diseases as we get older
Saylor Cooper:now Yeah, makes sense. Now, did you have trauma
Saylor Cooper:in your life? Right?
Unknown:Well, everybody's head trauma. You know, everybody
Unknown:Yeah. Breathing to various degrees. And today, you know,
Unknown:some of the some of it people forget about. Some people don't
Unknown:remember, some of it can be neonatal or before you're in
Unknown:when your mother was pregnant or ancestral from her, you know,
Unknown:from her background. So I had nothing significant, like some
Unknown:stories that you hear. No. And yes, I did. You know, so it's a
Unknown:matter of forgiving, because, you know, there's, there's a
Unknown:really good story, two prisoners of war, are walking on their way
Unknown:to freedom. And the one says to the other, so did you forgive
Unknown:them? To, to which the first says, no, never can watch the
Unknown:first replies, then they'd have you prisoners in your mind. So
Unknown:unless you forgive and let go, you're going to be I guess,
Unknown:haunted, or no cells are going to be all scrunched up. So you
Unknown:know, forgiveness is. That's not saying what they did was good.
Unknown:But you just forgive them for your own mental health for your
Unknown:own longevity? Yeah, you do make sense, you forgiven? Yeah, so
Unknown:another thing that I really focused on was environmental
Unknown:toxins. And I did not know how toxic a world we live in, for
Unknown:example, the umbilical cord today of a newborn contains more
Unknown:than 300 chemicals, environmental chemicals, the
Unknown:number one death, for cancer for children 16. And under is either
Unknown:brain cancer or leukaemia, again, related to environmental
Unknown:toxins, or chemicals were realised, our water, our air,
Unknown:our food, or furniture or clothing, you know, and these
Unknown:toxins play an impact on our bodies on ourselves. They should
Unknown:do. So you know, I changed I got rid of, you know, toxic cleaning
Unknown:products, and in toiletries. And you know, I've gone on to learn
Unknown:more along the way. And we just have more chemicals being
Unknown:introduced every year that are not
Saylor Cooper:government regulated. Now. So now it's
Saylor Cooper:about being educated. It's all about being educated. So you had
Saylor Cooper:no medical treatment whatsoever. So as as I'm understanding it so
Saylor Cooper:far. You You just had good positive thoughts with the mind.
Saylor Cooper:And you got rid of the you avoid toxic chemicals. Right?
Unknown:Right. And then I went on a plant based diet, it was
Unknown:raw food at the time, because it was really hot I were I was, I
Unknown:was a chef to start with. So I just switched my traditional
Unknown:chef hat to one of raw food. I'm still a supporter of a plant
Unknown:based diet versus meat. And I've been doing this for 23 years,
Unknown:I've been teaching it. I've been written about it. I've got
Unknown:recipes. And cancer does not support a meat based diet. And
Unknown:it has been proven over and over again, for optimal cancer
Unknown:recovery. It's plant based, whether it's prostate or breast
Unknown:or whatever, cancer, it doesn't matter. So you know, like the
Unknown:same goes, we are what we eat.
Saylor Cooper:Yeah. Because your diet can also affect your
Saylor Cooper:mind as well. I've heard that's very true, not just your weight.
Saylor Cooper:That's right. And so you will cancer free. Right after a year,
Saylor Cooper:like right now what cancer was it? It was uterine cancer,
Saylor Cooper:you're going I see. And that cancer never came back after
Saylor Cooper:that.
Unknown:No, no, it never came back. And I'm, you know, still
Unknown:as healthy as ever. I don't take any pharmaceutical
Unknown:pharmaceuticals. Have my own teeth. I don't have any root
Unknown:canals. I don't have any didn't haven't had hip replacement or
Unknown:knee replacements. I don't have high blood pressure. I don't
Unknown:have heart issues. I'm physically active. I don't wear
Unknown:reading glasses. You know, and what can I say? It's all about a
Unknown:positive mindset. And really being cognizant I think of what
Unknown:we surround ourselves with, be it food or toxins or chemicals,
Unknown:but also friends. We need friends that are like minded. So
Unknown:we have something to look forward to, to discuss to
Unknown:support one another. Exactly.
Saylor Cooper:surround yourself with good friends that are like
Saylor Cooper:minded that have the same ambition and avoid stress
Saylor Cooper:because stress is a killer, you know?
Unknown:Oh, absolutely, there's and there's a lot of things you
Unknown:can do for stress, you know, besides, you know, the yoga, the
Unknown:tai chi, and meditation, they're all good. But there's a lot of
Unknown:other things. What I like is a practice called Blue mind, which
Unknown:was started by Dr. Wallace Nichols, who was a Marine,
Unknown:retired marine biologist. And he said, anytime you're in on or
Unknown:near water, or hear the sound of water, you are in a semi
Unknown:meditative state. So if you think of it, why do people
Unknown:flocked to the islands in the wintertime, or going to their
Unknown:cottages in the summertime, is the calming effect of water, the
Unknown:smell of it, the waves crashing against the shore, walking
Unknown:barefoot on a sandy beach? area? You took a group of retired
Unknown:Marine veterans who were all suffering from PTSD to
Unknown:repopulate the corals down in the Caribbean. They all
Unknown:recovered. Yeah, because of that connection to water. And if you
Unknown:think about we spent the first nine months in water in our, in
Unknown:our mother's tummy, yes, we do. You know, and water Versa,
Unknown:become more popular these days.
Saylor Cooper:Yeah. And also, you know, the philosophy I have,
Saylor Cooper:as it relates to your money and work. He does indeed, that kind
Saylor Cooper:of effect stress is always put your health first. Your Money,
Saylor Cooper:money is not so important. I mean, yeah, sure you need it,
Saylor Cooper:you know, to, to pay you to pay bills and stuff. You don't you
Saylor Cooper:don't have to have the you don't have to have luxury that you do
Saylor Cooper:need, you do need my pay bills. But at the end of the day, you
Saylor Cooper:know, if you're not wealthy, it's okay. But don't Don't
Saylor Cooper:overwork yourself, you know,
Alexi Bracey:you know, but if you don't have your health,
Alexi Bracey:basic, and you have nothing. Yeah, definitely number one.
Alexi Bracey:Absolutely.
Saylor Cooper:Yeah, your health is and what I like what, because
Saylor Cooper:it's the unbecoming entrepreneur myself, I have this podcast
Saylor Cooper:seven, internet radio show. And I'm also getting into speaking
Saylor Cooper:as well. I like that I'm being surrounded by many of the
Saylor Cooper:entrepreneurs, who are working hard, but at the same time, they
Saylor Cooper:seem to have it all together. When it comes to their health. I
Saylor Cooper:mean, unless I'm missing some stuff, because of course, I'm
Saylor Cooper:not with them. 24/7. But like, when, when I'm on Zoom, they
Saylor Cooper:they just seem to be in good spirits. And, you know, I just
Saylor Cooper:I've known some people who are just overlooked, who are not
Saylor Cooper:always like that.
Alexi Bracey:Yeah, well, you have to take the time to be
Alexi Bracey:grateful to I think that's a very big, very big thing for me.
Alexi Bracey:And I think everybody should spend more time to be grateful
Alexi Bracey:for the things in your life, even the bad things, because the
Alexi Bracey:bad things teach us something like for example, for me, I'm
Alexi Bracey:grateful. I say cancer saved my life. Yeah. If I had not been
Alexi Bracey:diagnosed them, I may not very well be around today. No, no,
Alexi Bracey:no. And what I have learned, I've been able to teach and
Alexi Bracey:inspire, and Coach many people on their journey to health, you
Alexi Bracey:know, so you have to be grateful, not just for the good
Alexi Bracey:things, but for the bad things as well, because there's a
Alexi Bracey:lesson there to be learned.
Saylor Cooper:Oh, absolutely. I agree with you. But you know, at
Saylor Cooper:the same time, don't let the bad things overtake you. There's
Saylor Cooper:just a certain way of just how you deal with it, you know?
Alexi Bracey:Oh, absolutely. That's very true. Yeah, yeah,
Saylor Cooper:it's really true. And I like that we're having
Saylor Cooper:this conversation conversation. It's great. So, of course,
Saylor Cooper:you've been cancer free. Of course, my co host is normally
Saylor Cooper:here, but I want to tell you his mother beat cancer three times
Saylor Cooper:breast cancer. And each time she went to, to remission, but sadly
Saylor Cooper:she passed away in November of 2020. Whole her favourite year,
Saylor Cooper:right? No, absolutely. That's for sure. It wasn't COVID that
Saylor Cooper:she did pass away because of pneumonia. That she was a
Saylor Cooper:fighter. Also, I have a grandfather who's had lung
Saylor Cooper:cancer he thought It was died. Well, he was diagnosed last
Saylor Cooper:September with lung cancer. And he's, we weren't sure if he was
Saylor Cooper:going to make it. But I mean, he's been at one of the best
Saylor Cooper:cancer treatment facilities in the world and the Anderson
Saylor Cooper:Hospital here in Houston, Texas, and they believe he's going to
Saylor Cooper:be cancer free very shortly. Correct? Yeah.
Alexi Bracey:Like the same goes, if you think you can,
Alexi Bracey:you're right. If you think you can't, you're also right.
Saylor Cooper:Right. Right. Right, exactly. So besides being
Saylor Cooper:a chef, you're an author, you you've written books. Tell me
Saylor Cooper:about, tell me about that
Alexi Bracey:Well, they're all They're all about healing in
Alexi Bracey:some capacity, whether it's, you know, men, like I really focus
Alexi Bracey:on being emotionally available, mentally motivated, physically
Alexi Bracey:active, environmentally friendly, and nutritionally
Alexi Bracey:superior in in your food. So it's sort of like a combination
Alexi Bracey:of different things that we have to focus on. And so, you know,
Alexi Bracey:the big thing that really opened my eyes was the environmental
Alexi Bracey:toxins that we're just surrounded with every day. So I
Alexi Bracey:took extensive studies on that, and I go into homes and do home
Alexi Bracey:inspections. And I say, Well, you know, you've got got a
Alexi Bracey:metre, so I can, I can gauge how much electromagnetic frequencies
Alexi Bracey:you have, that your wiring is off, or if you've got mould in
Alexi Bracey:the corner, or you know, where you store your paint that in an
Alexi Bracey:airway that goes into into the house from your garage, because
Alexi Bracey:everybody stores their paint in the garage, which is the worst
Alexi Bracey:place to store it. Yeah, so it's a real eye opener for people
Alexi Bracey:because we never knew this kind of stuff. And these toxins
Alexi Bracey:weren't around 20 3040 years ago. So you know, there's just
Alexi Bracey:so many different different classes that encompass could
Alexi Bracey:help, you know, be a cancer or heart disease or, or diabetes or
Alexi Bracey:whatever, because none of these things are diseases, they are
Alexi Bracey:symptoms, there are symptoms of cause. Rarely, some kind of
Alexi Bracey:bowel habit that you're neglecting.
Saylor Cooper:Exactly, yeah. There's just symptoms in between
Saylor Cooper:what we've what we have known environmental toxins that can
Saylor Cooper:tell us stuff like, of course, carbon and carbon monoxide, it
Saylor Cooper:just doesn't homeless that can kill us. Yeah, that's right. And
Saylor Cooper:that's why we were thankful that we have a co detectors in the
Saylor Cooper:house. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah. So you
Saylor Cooper:Where can people find you books?
Alexi Bracey:Um, I have an app called the whole health app.
Alexi Bracey:Health academy.ca, which is the website, best places to connect
Alexi Bracey:with me is on is on LinkedIn. You know, my name on LinkedIn is
Alexi Bracey:only one Alexi Bracey. There. And for your listeners, I have a
Alexi Bracey:free quiz that they can, I'll gladly send them that they have
Alexi Bracey:access to, to determine, you know, maybe how many toxins you
Alexi Bracey:have in the house and what you can do about it?
Saylor Cooper:Yeah, yeah. Do me a favour, if you could please
Saylor Cooper:send those to my email. I'm pretty sure you have my email.
Saylor Cooper:Yeah, absolutely. Well, if you could send those to my email,
Saylor Cooper:which I'll put in the show notes, that'd be great. Because
Saylor Cooper:I did have I did ask you in Calendly. If you had any, like
Saylor Cooper:affiliate programmes, and you said you're working on it,
Alexi Bracey:I don't ever show it. I do have affiliate
Alexi Bracey:programmes are sort of having a few challenges with the
Alexi Bracey:technical stuff of it. But yes, I'm very much interested in
Alexi Bracey:supporting anybody in their capacity and help in any way. In
Alexi Bracey:closing, find me share what I have of daily practice of doing
Alexi Bracey:how I show gratitude is I like to put a chuckle into people's
Alexi Bracey:hearts by sharing a joke. So I approached strangers at the dog
Alexi Bracey:park, at the grocery store, at the ATM machine, complete
Alexi Bracey:strangers and I said, Can I put a chuckle in your heart? And
Alexi Bracey:like I said, why a chuckle because behind every face, there
Alexi Bracey:is a story. Maybe you lost a loved one, maybe you're lost a
Alexi Bracey:job. So for two minutes, I have a captive audience. They laugh
Alexi Bracey:out loud. It feeds my soul. That lowers cortisol. The stress
Alexi Bracey:hormone raises endorphins, the feel good hormones in your
Alexi Bracey:brain. And laughter has been shown to promote longevity. And
Alexi Bracey:they may think about it all day and go home and share with the
Alexi Bracey:loved one and say, Oh, I met this crazy woman at the dog
Alexi Bracey:park. She shared a joke but it was really good. So having said
Alexi Bracey:that, very quickly. A lady takes her four year old daughter to
Alexi Bracey:deliver meals to seniors for shut ins. And this little girl
Alexi Bracey:is totally fascinated by all the equipment the same as how the
Alexi Bracey:wheelchairs, the walkers the cane, and one day. One day she
Alexi Bracey:notices a set of dentures sitting in a glass of water
Alexi Bracey:She's totally mesmerised by it. She keeps on staring at it and
Alexi Bracey:staring out at the financial says to her mother, the two
Alexi Bracey:theories never believe this one.
Saylor Cooper:Oh, wow
Alexi Bracey:So just a little thing to put a smile on people's
Alexi Bracey:place faces.
Saylor Cooper:That's great. That's great. Well so like what
Saylor Cooper:are your future goals as far as entrepreneurship?
Alexi Bracey:I'd like to have long of a start my own podcast
Alexi Bracey:in April. And I'd like to have my own TV health show on beyond
Alexi Bracey:to stage loser my immediate goals, for sure. And just to see
Alexi Bracey:how other opportunities will unfold.
Saylor Cooper:That's great. Yeah. And I hope I can be on
Saylor Cooper:your podcast eventually, too. And absolutely. Paid speaking
Saylor Cooper:gigs, TEDx. So, that's wonderful. Well, I don't believe
Saylor Cooper:I have anything else for you. But as a as a standard as my
Saylor Cooper:customary ending. I like to ask everybody, what message would
Saylor Cooper:you give anybody who's struggling right now and doesn't
Saylor Cooper:see a way out?
Alexi Bracey:Yeah, hello. Yeah. Good Food for Thought.
Alexi Bracey:Absolutely. What was that? I said good food for thought
Saylor Cooper:Good food. Good food for thought. Yeah.
Alexi Bracey:And at the end of the day, what are you grateful
Alexi Bracey:for? Yeah. Great. grateful for that. It's right. All right.
Saylor Cooper:Well, Alexei, thank you so much for being on
Saylor Cooper:help without sight.
Alexi Bracey:I spend my utmost pleasure. Thank you so much, and
Alexi Bracey:I look forward to reciprocating on my podcast show.
Saylor Cooper:Thanks and stayed blessed.
Alexi Bracey:Yeah, you too. Thank you. Thanks.