Oct. 11, 2023

Be Your Own Advocate

Be Your Own Advocate
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Season 1

Your host, Maureen Spielman, joins you today to educate you on how to be your own advocate when it comes to your body and your physical health. Maureen is a breast cancer thriver who learned a lot about the personal care industry following her mother’s death from cancer. In a world inundated by information that an often be difficult to wade through, Maureen provides some tangible action steps to protect your health and that of your family. Join her and grab some takeaways as you become your own advocate!

EPISODE TAKEAWAYS (what you’ll learn):

  • 10 tips to consider for your physical health
  • Applications to help you research product safety
  • EWG’s Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen lists
  • Resources for breast health
  • Legislation for health protective laws
  • A company protecting consumers with EMF products

References mentioned:

● Apps: ThinkDirty, EWG Skin Deep, Clearya

● Safe Space Protection

● Breastcancer.org and komen.org

● Breast Cancer Prevention Partners (BCPP)

● Credo Cosmetics

● Environmental Working Group

● Maureen’s Beautycounter link (10% of all October proceeds go to BCPP)

About the Host:

Maureen Spielman is the Founder of Mystical Sisterhood, a podcast dedicated to bringing more joy, healing and expansion to the world. She is a seasoned life coach who supports individuals through one-on-one coaching, groups and workshops.

Connect with Maureen:

● Check out her Instagram: @maureeenspielman

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Transcript
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Hey there, welcome to mystical sisterhood. This is

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your host, Maureen Spielman. I started the show to highlight

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the intuitives, healers and other courageous women that I've

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met along my journey and continue to meet. Through

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amazing interviews, I seek to ask insightful questions to

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uncover ways in which you the listener can apply the wisdom

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and knowledge to your own life. I believe that we're all in this

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together. So sharing healing and joy, and bringing community

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together is both my passion and purpose. If you'd like to learn

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more about the mystical sisterhood community I'm

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building please visit www mystical sisterhood.com See you

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in the episode.

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Hi, and welcome back to mystical sisterhood. This is your host,

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Maureen Spielman, I am here on my own this week, I knew that I

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wanted to do an episode around health, for breast cancer

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awareness month.

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It's a month that is very near and dear to my heart. Not

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because I'm wearing pink every day in any way, shape, or form.

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But because I have gone through the journey myself. And so I

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think there's many things to be said about our health, our

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wellness, when it comes to just awareness in general. And so I

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titled today's episode, Episode, be an advocate for your health.

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And I hope today that there's just takeaways and things that

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you walk away with, to consider implementing or possibly

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changing in your own life, as it has to do with our physical

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health, but also just a theme of being our own advocate in

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general.

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There is nothing like being catapulted into the medical

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system, as so many people out there know, and learning how to

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become your own advocate, as to what's best for you in your

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journey. And a lot of times, that's not what convention tells

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you, or your conditioning, but what's right for you. And so,

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you know, that sort of pertains to the medical journey and the

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hospital journey in the end if you go along Western medicine

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journey, but there's a lot of ways we can become advocates in

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our own lives. And today, I am talking about health, but I

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think that we can become an advocate across many domains, if

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not all of our lives. So you know, usually I'm talking about

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emotional work and spiritual work, which I love. But I

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actually deeply love what I'm going to talk about today, too.

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So this episode is about October and breast cancer getting us

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here, but I really want to do a huge, huge, you know, wide open

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arms embrace. And just

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just an ode to anyone who is currently traveling this path,

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who has traveled it in the past who has traveled it with a loved

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one.

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And just just a huge embrace and compassion. And I'm like I said,

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I know firsthand that going through the process and, and all

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the ups and downs and the wonderings and the curiosities

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and the upsets and the setbacks and the disappointments and the

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fear and the, in the research and the and the crying and the

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and the the high parts to you know, they're all part of it.

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And we process it when we do as we do, but just raising my cup

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of coffee this morning to

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everyone in this moment who has been with someone on the

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journey, whether it's yourself or a loved one.

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You know, it is true that almost everywhere we turn on a weekly

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basis, we learn of someone in our circles or concentric

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circles, who has a diagnosis of cancer. So as I talked about

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becoming an advocate today for your physical health,

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you know, hopefully there's some tips in here that we can all use

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around prevention and treating our physical body

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in such a way that we are honoring we know that what we

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put on it and Intuit and surround it with is important

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also for our overall health.

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So yeah,

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I'm going to name today, just different organizations that I

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think are either good resources for our journeys in life and

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prevention and taking care of ourselves. And so take what you

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will, I'm really curious, as I put together today's episode, I

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kind of went by what I know. And so feedback from you know, you

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the audience members, and either when I post this on Instagram,

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or through my newsletter this week, or any way that you want

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to give me feedback, it's Hello at Maureen spielman.com Is my

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email. But um, I'm curious, because I will add things to a

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list that, you know, I can, I can send out to people.

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And so, as always, no perfection here. All ideas, welcome. I'm

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just going off what I know and try to practice. So

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you know, when it comes just to prevention, for breast cancer, I

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would be remiss not to mention that there are great community

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forums and

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prevention and what to look for, and signs and symptoms, for you

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to just educate yourself on breast health. And for that

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breast cancer.org. And the komen.org websites have just so

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much information. And so, you know, we can educate ourselves

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through our doctors and through our own education, maybe as

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well, I was gonna say as often as you like, and I had a doctor

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who always thought it was important, no matter if the

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federal, I guess, medical guidelines, were saying, Get

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your mammogram every two years or

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further apart, she always advocated for the annual

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mammogram. And I had no signs, signs and symptoms at all. And

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that's how mine was detected in 2018. And so for that, I'm

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grateful. And I see women posting when they go through it,

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remember to get your mammograms. And, and it is I know, there's

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controversy about mammograms, and this is not a controversial

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podcast today. But, you know, that's how mine was found. And

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I, by the time it was found, it had traveled to my lymph system.

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So I tend to be an advocate for annual mammograms, because,

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quite frankly, if I would have waited the next year, and

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another year, I don't know what would have happened. But I'll

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just say that. So I wanted to say that. That to begin with.

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But my world kind of opened up after my mom died. And she had

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also died of lung cancer, I shouldn't say also, she had died

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of lung cancer, she had been a lifelong smoker and ended up

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with small cell lung cancer and hugely correlated with smoking.

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So there's that right there.

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But then, a friend of mine, hosted a party for a beauty

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counter. And Beautycounter, you know, is a direct selling

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company, which a lot of people off the bat are like, Ooh, you

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know, it's not a good thing, because it's a direct selling

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company, you know, one person to person, woman to woman. But I

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have to tell you, that the education that goes on in a

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company, like Beautycounter, it kind of opened my eyes, and it

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opened my eyes to the advocacy I could be doing around personal

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care products, and my own health and the health of my family. And

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so for me, I was like eternally grateful. And I'm still, you

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know, on their roster as representing their products,

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because they are a cleaner source for me and for my family.

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And so I'll put that in the show notes too.

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But

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who I learned about a great organization through

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Beautycounter. And let me just say I had something to say from

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Greg Renfrew the founder. What she said is when she went to

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form that company, which is a very big advocacy company to go

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into Washington, DC for legislation, she said, and this

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is 12 years ago, in 2011, I learned that the US bans 30

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ingredients from personal care products. And for context at

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that time, the EU was at 1400. And so she started Beautycounter

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to set out to transform the beauty industry and created the

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never list.

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And it's made up now of 2800 questionable or harmful

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chemicals that they never use in their ingredients or products. I

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know that there are cleaner companies out there

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and so

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I can you know if anyone

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wants to give me feedback on what they use and what they

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found. Because today's a lot about resources, please do. And

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it all depends. I remember, you know, when I was educating

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around cleaner, safer products back then someone said, Well,

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I'm not going to put that on my face, I would only put like

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olive oil and avocado was on my face or something like that. At

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the time, I thought, like, wow,

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that's, that's a lot. But I, you know, now I'm like, hey,

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whatever you want to put on your face. But the truth of the

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matter is that most of us are using cosmetics, and personal

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care products, and many of them on a daily basis. So when we

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think about the health repercussions that can have, you

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know, it's significant, and I think it's an important

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conversation. And I, despite all the advocacy, I still think it's

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something that's is buried, and I'm going to talk about a little

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legislation that's going on as well around it. But that's why

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one of the reasons I wanted to bring it to the forefront today,

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in this conversation around advocacy and advocating for our

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health is because when I walk into a big brand cosmetic store,

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unless I'm missing it, I'm not always seeing on the door, you

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know, an app that's going to help me find the cleanest

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products. I think things are changing, though. And I've seen

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stores like Sephora

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carrying a lot more cleaner, conscious, health conscious

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products. And so it's amazing. It's really amazing. One store

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that we have here in Chicago, and I'm sure they have an online

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presence is credo, it's CR E D, O, and credo is committed to

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cleaner products, again,

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there's going to be a whole excuse me a range of what people

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consider as clean. So that's up to you. Today is just about

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resources and advocacy.

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I like to point out because I think it's really significant

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that six years ago, when I started doing the advocacy work

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around personal care products, it was an ad. At that time, I

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think it was let me start a $63 billion industry. I remember

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that being the number that was quoted and it was like, oh, you

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know, blow your socks off $63 billion industry and we know

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that's true. Because in the US here, we're just there's just so

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much around appearance and you know, what's going to create the

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the least lines and the longevity with our youth. And

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you know, those are the lotions and then the makeup to make us

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feel prettier, or whatever it is. And I'm all in man, I grew

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up in a family of girls and, and we really liked our products.

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And I raised my coffee cup to my mom, she did too. So knowing

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that there's going to be alternatives and resources for

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us is incredibly powerful for me. So, Oh, that

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$63,000,000,000.06 years ago, is now quoted at an $84 billion

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dollar personal care product industry. And it remains one of

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the least regulated in the United States. So breast cancer

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prevention partners that I became aware of their work is

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BCP breast cancer prevention partners. I think via

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Beautycounter. They partner with them and they are doing vigorous

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research and

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pursuing health protective cosmetic safety legislation. So

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I love BC pp.org I'll put all all these resources I'm going to

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have a lot today in the show notes. But they do a great job

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on education and it's it's actually kind of fun to go look

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at their site I think

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they are correlated with the safe cosmetics.org which goes

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into more information and the campaign for safe cosmetics.

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Then they've got just all these beautiful initiatives including

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the non toxic black beauty project

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because there are so many chemicals in toxic chemicals in

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the products marketed to black women. And so the work that

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they're doing around this non toxic black beauty project is

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groundbreaking I'd say and just so health promotive and so

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necessary in this world.

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Where Beautycounter has the never list and their ingredients

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that are questionable

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and they do not put in their products the campaign for safe

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cosmetics at safe cosmetics.org has the red list and they have

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different tiers and tier they have a tier one. These are do

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not use chemicals for everyone.

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Tier one do not use chemicals Of greater concern for black women.

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They have tier one PFS forever chemicals I believe those are

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the ones that sometimes coat our clothing

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And I've got a look, this might not be right. But I just saw on

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their site, their site has so much information that Rei had

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committed to discontinuing any products with whatever the

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chemical was that coats clothing. And so they've

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committed to take that

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out of any products they sell in their class in their stores. So

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if you want details on that, don't ask me go to BC pp.org.

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Yeah, so they're, they're tackling the environmental

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injustice of not only all of our health, but

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before Black women in particular, in their initiative,

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non toxic beauty for black women. They've got tips on safer

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sunscreens,

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and lots of different guides. So I just wrote out and I'll share

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with you 10 health promoting habits to take on and advocate

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for, these are always you can guarantee almost everything I

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share with you on this podcast is for my own benefit too.

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Because you know, sometimes we lose the plot, we have an

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intention to eat well, you know, do well, by our physical bodies,

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meditate, whatever it is,

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become a better parent become a better partner, and we lose the

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plot. So I'm just going to talk about 10 health promoting habits

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to take on. And if it can make a change for any of us, I want us

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to consider that the way we buy is can be culturally societally

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conditioned, you may buy the way your parents bought, you may buy

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because of marketing advertising.

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The one that I switched a long time ago was around a cleaner

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detergent and I tried to look for one with no fragrance and

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not all the bells and whistles and the colorful, you know, jug

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with the neat colors on it at Target and just get cleaner when

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it comes to that and washing my children's or my family's

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clothes, or finding a hand soap that is not also like pumpkin

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flavor for fall and all these things unless it's just cleaner

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that's put into it. But I'm going to tell you 10 tips now.

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And name some more resources. Number one is Be on the lookout

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for hormone disruptors in your products. This is really

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important for you know, our overall health, breast cancer or

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breast health I should say for sure, because there is something

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called a Zeno estrogen. It's a type of Xeno hormone false

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hormone that imitates estrogen. So for me, I had an estrogen

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progesterone positive type of breast cancer. And so estrogen

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in my most, you know, simple of understanding it fed

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or nourished my breast cancer cells I should say.

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So, you know, this can come from the outside. So looking for

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hormone disruptors and in our products is really important. So

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I'm gonna tell you some apps to use in just a little bit. These

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are just food for thought though. I'm avoiding fragrance.

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This is hard for a lot of us because perfume smell good,

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right? But the reason I say avoid fragrance, or limited is

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the word fragrance can cover up a cocktail of ingredients. They

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can it can mask carcinogens and hormone disrupting chemicals.

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And they can be found fright fragrance can be found in nearly

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half of all personal care products. So avoid purchasing

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and using products with the word fragrance or perfume on the

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label and be especially vigilant with children's products. Some

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of this information I took directly from the breast cancer

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prevention partner site so it's BC p p.org.

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Oh, I love this one. Number three. use online tools and

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official seals. So

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ditch your old daily routine and replace it with safer beauty

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products. There's apps that you can put on your phone, including

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think dirty, ew G skin deep. And the good guide. I read about

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another one called clear yet see Leary a and these apps help us

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with ratings on our personal care products. You have to have

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a little bit of extra time to do it, but it's worth it.

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Ew G's skin deep has a barcode scanner and it rates the

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products from one to 10 one being the safest lowest

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hazard and 10 being the highest. So I love that one clear area I

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hadn't heard of but it can alert on ingredients linked to cancer

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infertility, baby developmental harm hormone imbalance chemicals

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that are banned in Europe, and ingredients that cause allergic

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reaction.

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As we go along, think about which ones of these you're

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already doing. Or that you're kind of like, who I want to do

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that number for such a big one. For me, it's a, it's one and

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this is full transparency helped me with it, if you can, cleaning

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more naturally, using baking soda to neutralize order odors,

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vinegar to clean and deodorize. And you can add a cup of vinegar

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to your laundry to brighten up whites, remove voters.

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A few drops VCP says a few drops of your favorite citrus juice,

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lemons or oranges, to a vinegar based cleaning spray to fill

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your home with a fresh scent.

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Yeah, and I it's one of those areas where I think I'm

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conditioned or maybe

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to I'm just gonna say to purchase something that's a bit

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stronger. So that's an intention I have for my house and home and

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health is to get cleaner with my products.

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Number five, decreasing canned foods. Always good for us, we've

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heard this, but a lot of companies now are maybe freeze

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drying or freezing even

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the foods we can buy like if your choice is beans within a

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bag.

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Maybe it's going to take longer, but it's better not to have the

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BPA that's in the cans. Same thing goes with six getting out

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of plastic using less plastic. And the one that I'm looking at

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is using more glass. For my leftovers. I still have some

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glass some plastic. So let me know about that. I also heard

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you know, a health practitioners say to me, like just just don't

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drink from the plastic water bottles. Especially if you've

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got a plastic water bottle like in a hot car, I'm talking about

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the ones that we that we didn't grow up with. We didn't who

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bought water when we were eight. If you're my age, come on that

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type of water. So bring your own water cup. You know that might

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be that might be an easy one for people. But also, you know, we

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got to plan we got to plan when our water drinking is gonna be

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so we're not always buying bottled water. Hey, I did it

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yesterday, when I took my son on a college visit. And I was so

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thirsty. Did you even know you were thirsty when you were

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growing up?

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Gs

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seven is an important one to ditching Teflon pots and pans.

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So just toxic compounds can be in nonstick cookware.

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That's really important. A one that I learned recently was well

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not learned recently, but did something about it was

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protecting myself from the EMFs the electromagnetic frequency

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that comes off our phones. And the reason that I did something

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about it was because my guest couple months ago, Therese

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Raleigh, who talked about work with children had a friend who

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started a company, and it's called Safe Space protection.

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And I'll put that link in Safe Space protection.com. And what I

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ended up purchasing were these little smart patches that you

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can put on the back of your phone, and they neutralize the

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EMFs in six feet around you, including your phone. So others

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whose phones are around you, too. This is just like this is

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this energy we can't see right in the frequency of these waves.

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But they're not healthy for us. And so again, they always say

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don't sleep near your phone and we've just become so attached to

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these things like I think like well what if one of my kids text

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me in the night my phone's got to be next to me. Hey, give me

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some teaching on that one. But I really liked the protective

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field and safe space protection.com also has

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patches and neutralizing

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I guess products for your

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like devices at home to computers, outlets. Microwaves

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it's pretty cool.

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Oh, I heard this is a this is an interesting but funny one. Skip

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the print go online. And it's really funny because I saw Matt

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Damon is probably 10 years ago, talking about how he doesn't

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like take the receipts from the when you go to the bank and get

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money out. But I do it when I go to my grocery store because the

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Um, ink that use can have BPA, or BPA like chemicals on them.

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And touching them just opens us up to toxic chemical exposure.

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So those are what did I say? 10? I think I did. One was demanding

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out surance transparency. And I'm going to talk about that in

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one minute with the legislation. So if you are in a workplace,

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that you would like some transparency, and the big one

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that comes to mind is if you're in the hairdressing industry, or

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know somebody close to you that is, or you have a hairdresser,

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which is probably 99.9% of America, maybe 95, maybe 90, I

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don't know.

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You can ask them do you advocate what's How are the workers being

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protected, protected? So what I learned through

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the I think it was B CPP, but it's really great. You know, I

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know when Beautycounter was started that the the legislation

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was written, protecting our consumer health, and brace

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yourself, you might fall off your chair in 1938. And so

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there's been some work especially done out in

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California passing protective bills within the state. But

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right now on our house floor, and I'm not, I don't know when

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these bills will be considered. But there's a safety safer

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beauty bill package and it includes four bills. And so it

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really cool HR three 619 Is the toxic free beauty act of 2023,

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which would prohibit 11 hazardous chemicals from Beauty

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and personal care products sold in the US that are currently

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banned by the European Union, California and Maryland. That

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gives me chills. HR 3620 Is the cosmetic safety for community of

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color and professional salon workers act of 2023. Would

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federally mandate access to translated safety data data

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sheets, funding for research grants to identify chemicals of

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concern, and health impacts from cosmetics and personal care

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products used by these communities.

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HR 3621, the Federal cosmetic fragrance and flavor ingredient

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right to know act of 2023 would require companies to publicly

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disclose a full list of fragrance and flavor ingredients

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in their products on product labels and websites. And lastly,

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this encompasses hr 3622, the cosmetics supply chain

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transparent Transparency Act of 2023 would require upstream

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suppliers including fragrance houses, formulating labs and

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suppliers of ingredients, finished products and raw

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materials to provide brand owners with the ingredient

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disclosure, toxicity and safety data.

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I think when I was reading about

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just all this information, there's a HBO Max movie not so

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pretty. And I've got another movie that's escaping my mind

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right now that I want to add to the show notes. But um, I hope

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that the walk away today is that we're all here for each other.

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Sharing ideas, sharing resources, sharing courage to

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become your own advocate. And I may have said earlier in the

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episode, but I had learned that women are the principal buyers

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for their home.

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But maybe I think that's a truth. And I think that a lot of

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my listeners are women. But let's let's change that. Let's

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bring men on board caring about what we put on our bodies, what

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our families are using. Because this shouldn't just be a woman's

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issue. This should be something that we're all sort of

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advocating for. And I hope that you received one thing of

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value for you today. And as always, oh, I just looked down

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at a sheet in front of me. Let me not forget the EW G dot orgs

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shoppers guide to pesticides in protest. That's the one that I

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meant to put on my list of 10 and they've got the Dirty Dozen

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and they have the clean 15 I'm gonna say him real quick for

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you. The Dirty Dozen are chemicals that are known to have

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pesticides on the crops. He had a statistic but I don't know

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where I put it about. Like it's like 75% of us.

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Products have pesticides that are non organic. So the Dirty

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Dozen strawberries spinach, kale, collard and mustard

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greens. P

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Just pears nectarines, apples, grapes, Val and hot peppers,

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cherries, blueberries and green beans. And that's 12. And so

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these are known to have pesticides when you're not

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buying organic, and the clean 15 avocados, sweet corn,

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pineapples, onions, papayas sweet peas, asparagus, honeydew

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melon, melons, kiwi cabbage, mushroom, mango, sweet potatoes,

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watermelon and carrots. And so those are the ones that I think

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have the least pesticides. But ew G, you can sign up for these

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two guides. And they have like little you can eat a little

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like, rectangle you can cut out and you can keep in your wallet

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or your purse when you go to the grocery store. So

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this is just for us as mystical sisters in the mystical

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sisterhood. Let's keep caring for each other. Let's keep

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supporting each other in the most expansive of ways.

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And let's just ensure that our health keeps on getting better

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and better.

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Instead of falling, you know victim to things that we can

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change. And that goes for the emotional, the spiritual, and

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our physical level. So any questions comments? I'd love to

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hear them. You could always find me at Maureen spielman.com and

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email me at hello at Maureen spielman.com. And I look forward

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to being with you in the next episode. As always, you know,

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I've got my coaching practice on the side where I see women one

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on one and also the mystical sisterhood membership. If you're

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not a member consider being one because we have wonderful

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conversations in that group with a live call every week and a

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guest speaker every month. And

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yeah, that's it mystical sisterhood.com So I will leave

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it at that and

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you know, abundant health for us all.

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Thanks for listening to this episode of mystical sisterhood.

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I'll see you in the next episode.