A Beautiful Life with Elizabeth Molina

About A Beautiful Life with Elizabeth Molina

Welcome to "A Beautiful Life" with Elizabeth Molina. Recognized among America's top Models, our exploration into the essence of beauty transcends the superficial. Dive into a blend of holistic beauty tips, biohacking insights, mom hacks, and more, presented in compact episodes ranging from 30 minutes to an hour. Our guests? An eclectic mix ranging from the world's top beauty and health professionals to visionaries. All sharing their unique journeys and tools to enhance the beauty in life. Each episode reinforces the core message: we are all navigating life in our distinct ways, and there's immense beauty in that individuality. Let's redefine and recognize the beauty in our everyday lives, one story at a time.

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Elizabeth Molina

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arts · education

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en

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No

First episode

29 Jul 2020

Latest episode

22 Sept 2021

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22 episodes in the feed.

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   22 Sept 2021

   Ep.21 - Let's Talk About The Beauty in S-E-X! w/ Susan Bratton

   Elizabeth Molina: [00:00:00] Hello, my beautiful people, I'm Elizabeth Molina and I am your beauty guru in this podcast, I will share with you all you need to know about beauty from the inside out. You will gain access to the latest beauty trends from head to toe mind. And so you will hear from experts themselves. The trendy influencers, celebrities, athletes and of course, myself on all things beauty. This is definitely the place to be biohacking, beauty, hacking, life hacking into the why for your beauty routine. Are you ready for your global obsession? Welcome, guys. You know what day it is. I'm going to keep it short and sweet, because today is going to be a hot episode. We have an amazing guest. It is Susan Bratton. She is an intimacy expert to a million. She is a champion and advocate for all of those who desire intimacy and passion. She is the co-founder and CEO of Two Corporation's Personal Life Media Inc, a publisher of a heart connected love making techniques in the Bedrooms, Communication Skills and 20-20, LLC, a manufacturer of organic and botanical supplements that enhance sexual vitality. You heard that right, guys? We are going to have a spicy episode today. She's a bestselling author and publisher of 34 books and programs, including Sexual Soulmates, Relationship Magic, Revive Her Drive, Ravish Him Steamy Sex Ed, The Passion Patch, Hormone Balancing and Hot to Trot. Susan has been featured in The New York Times and on CNBC and The Today Show, as well as frequent appearances on ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox and NBC. Hi, Susan. How are you, Elizabeth? Susan Bratton: [00:01:48] I am radiant and glowing, as we all should be. Elizabeth Molina: [00:01:52] You truly are for you guys. We are also recording this video, so you have to see her. She is truly radiant and glowing and looking as hot as ever. And so I'm excited to have her on. But let's let's talk a little bit about what you do. Let's talk about sex, baby. Let's get into the conversation. You are the expert. You have really helped millions of people. You are the expert in this case. So I'm I'm intrigued. What does that mean that you've helped you become the intimacy expert for millions of people? Susan Bratton: [00:02:24] Well, about 15 years ago, my husband and I was closer to 20 years ago. Now my husband and I had a really rocky point in our marriage, and I didn't really want to make love with him anymore. You know, I had been doing it for over a decade, and it wasn't that satisfying for me. And I really pulled away. And then that made him emotionally disconnect. And then we were on the verge of divorce and we decided to do something about it. So we sought therapy, which was a part of the solution. But really what helped us was going to sex workshops. It was our sex life. You know, they say that either couples have trouble with their sex life or with money and money wasn't the problem for us, nor was it for all our friends who we saw getting divorced. It was really our sexuality. And what had happened was, you know, in hindsight, 20, 20 vision, we had been having sex. And what I would call today, the patriarchal way, the way that men want to have sex because they don't know any different. And there are there are masculine sexual leaders. And so they're doing the best they can, but they don't live in our bodies or understand our arousal and our libido and how different it is than theirs. And when we did sex workshops, we began to understand orgasm skills and have sexual communication skills that were much, much stronger. Susan Bratton: [00:03:39] And we really went through a renaissance in our sex life to the point where we decided to start a company together, essentially taking these incredible transformational sex workshop experiences and putting them online so that people could do them in the privacy of their own home. And what I like to say is that my job is to transform having sex into making love. It's also translating the masculine and feminine for each other so that you that you can get into your partner's world. Because though I support full gender spectrum expression, most people are in a heterosexual monogamous relationship. So that's where my sweet spot is. My sweet spot is, hey, this is what she needs from you. Hey, this is what he needs from you. And here's how you can get into a more of a balance that satisfying for both people, because so much of the media and pretty much all of porn is both degrading to women and doesn't follow at all what I would consider to be the matriarchal needs of our sexuality. So I've published over 45 books and programs. You can find them all, by the way, at Susan Bratten dot com. If you look under my products link, there are all of the published programs that I've created, all of my supplement company products. But also there's about 30 free gifts because. And you could just help yourself, you can have as many as you want, because Elizabeth Molina: [00:05:03] I love that. Thank you. Susan Bratton: [00:05:04] Different places in their sexual evolution, and you could be stuck in an entirely different place than the next person, than the next person, than the next person. So what I really did was I created a constellation of things that help remove the obstacles to your intimacy and satisfaction wherever you are. Because one of the things I can tell you is that good sex can be can get better and better your whole life long because you can get better in bed your whole life long. And sex is really a learned skill. Procreation, we kind of can figure out. But passionate lovemaking. We're not getting taught. And not only that, but the media and pornography is making it worse for us women then and not making it better. So I really feel like I like to break through all of the wrongdoings, the misunderstandings, the myths, everything from our orgasmic potential to being afraid to talk to your partner or to not knowing what you want. You do know what you want. I tell her that. Yeah. And and I think those things are all of the ways that I can really help and support people and meet them wherever they are. And I've worked with people from 19 to 90 around the world, from all different cultures. So I really have a big heart for actually how sexually emancipated we are here in America compared to the rest of the world. They're still in a very backward paradigm. So that's kind of who I am and what I do. Elizabeth Molina: [00:06:34] I have a ton of questions. I'm like, what can you just quickly like tell us, because I know we're going to get into this, but like the pandemic has been huge for couples with this sexual arousal. Being with your partner all day, being in the same small space, how do you find them attractive no longer getting dressed, you know, waiting. There's so much we're talking about beauty here, which we will get into. But give us a short OK, you're showing us something. What are you showing us? Susan Bratton: [00:07:01] So I'm going to show you. And remember, you can go to YouTube and see these images as well. And it's worth going to YouTube and seeing these images, because what I'm actually showing you is the internal mechanisms of a penis. Yes. And really what I want to do is I want to tell you two things that will make a big shift for you. The first is that our men, if we're in a relationship with a penis owner, he has this. The benefit of something called hemodynamics and hemodynamics means that he has these big spongy chambers of erectile tissue in his penis and they fill in very quickly with blood. The blood just runs straight into them. But if you look at what our vulva looks like and I want to show you two images here. The first image is the inside the X, the outside of our vulva. So we're pretty familiar as women with the the the outer labia, the inner labia, the vestibule, the opening, the the clitoral tip, the shaft, the hood, the urethral exit, where our PRP comes out, the vaginal opening, the G spot inside. We're pretty familiar with what the rover looks like, though. I bet we don't look at our own enough. Probably if I peel away the skin and I just take the layer right off the top here group, this is what it looks like underneath our skin and all. Susan Bratton: [00:08:30] All of this meaty tissue is our erectile systems, and we have as much erectile tissue in our vulva as our male body partners have in our in their penis. But we don't have it. I always say that if a man's like a banana, a woman's like an English muffin. She's got all these nooks and crannies that have to be filled in with blood and it seeps in more slowly. And we have the clitoral glands, the clitoral shaft, the clitoral arms or Kaura, the clitoral legs or vestibular bulbs. We have the urethral sponge, which people call a G spot. It's not a spot. It's a long tube that both comes out on the face of the vestibule of the vagina, as well as going deep into the vagina. And then we have a perineal sponge on the bottom. That's also erectile tissue. And our vaginas are literally wrapped, embraced with erectile tissue. But we women put our attention. We've been told your orgasm starts in your clitoris. And we think our clitoris is this little tip that shows under the hood when actually this entire structure that wraps around our vagina is our clitoral structure. And we have a urethral structure and a perineal structure, and we have sex too fast. And the reason that we do and this is the matriarchal versus patriarchal view, is that he is, number one, testosterone dominant where we are estrogen dominant. Susan Bratton: [00:09:59] And so he has not only the benefit of hemodynamics, he has the benefit of test, more testosterone, which makes him ready to go and ready to penetrate us. And so the thing is that he gets an erection. He wants to stick it in, but he sticks it in way too early and doesn't allow our entire vulva to become engorged or swollen with blood. We need a lot of stimulation, manual oral toys, you know, vibration to get all that tissue plumped up. Because if you think about it, a man wouldn't have and would not have sex with a flaccid penis. He would want it to be plumped up. Correct, because there's more surface area to send pleasure signals to the brain. So here we are having sex too fast without enough stimulation and enough time to get engorged. That's why women struggle to have orgasms from intercourse. So many sexperts say intercourse is overrated. It's all about the clit. And we need pleasure in the clit, etc cetera. And they are wrong. We can have orgasms from intercourse without even touching the tip of our clitoris. If we get everything fully engorged, if we slow down. If we take our pleasure, if we give ourselves time and the older we get, the harder it is to get that tissue engorged. Susan Bratton: [00:11:22] Because not only do our hormones decline, but something called our nitric oxide production declines. And one of the very first tips I have for beauty also works for sex and orgasmic pleasure, and that is nitric oxide supplementation. When you can't get enough blood flow, nitric oxide controls your vascular system and how much blood goes where. And if you don't get enough blood flow to your vulva, you can't get fully engorged. So you can't feel the orgasmic pleasure that you deserve. And then you have to spend all the time jangling the nerves of your clitoral tip just to try to orgasm, when all you would have to do is get enough blood flow and engorgement to your vulva that you wouldn't even have to touch the tip of your clit because it's getting stimulated through intercourse. So I really believe and know for a fact that every woman can come from or from intercourse without even stimulating the tip of the clitoris, which is called the glands, by the way. And that's the only part of the clitoris. That's not erectile tissue. Interestingly enough, it has a lot of nerve endings. But your entire vulva can be absolutely activated with pleasure. You can have you can have an orgasm from the tiniest little touch on the edge of a labia. You don't need to have all this mass stimulation to the clitoral tip. Susan Bratton: [00:12:46] And so the thing that I tell men is, if you want to make love to a woman and have her really appreciate it, which is what they want more than anything in the world, they will give up their pleasure for your pleasure. It's important to them. They just don't know what they're doing. Then slow down and slow down some more and then four down 10 times more than that. I love and put a lot of attention on manuell pleasure or pleasure. Toys get our vulvas, our pop and get our clitorises, our recht. We need a Clate erection. It takes about 20 minutes to pop your clit, and that's a good indication that the rest of it's beginning to fill in. And so slowing down and getting into sensation and pleasure and. Devoting the whole volver means you'll begin to want to have great sex with your partner and you'll literally be able to do what I call Krock crossing the orgasm chasm, being able to have an orgasm from intercourse with your partner, and then you can go on to having multiple orgasms. You can have g spot orgasms, you can have expanded orgasms, you can enjoy female ejaculation, you can have peroneal orgasms, you can have boob orgasms and lip orgasms and brain orgasms and belly orgasms and foot orgasms and fantasy orgasms. And, you know, you name it there. Elizabeth Molina: [00:14:04] The list goes on, Susan Bratton: [00:14:05] The kinds of orgasms that are available to us. And we're having one. And it's more like a sneeze than a really good, intense experience. So the good news is there's so much more you can learn and learning makes you better in bed and gives you more pleasure. And all of sex is just learn skills. Some people got lucky and they could do it automatically, but very few. And so I always say to women who think, oh, I'm just not the kind of woman who can have an orgasm from intercourse. I'm like, nope, you're just not one who's had it yet. Oh, well, the woman can have that. And if you're in a relationship with a male body partner, that's something you guys need to work through and figure out so that you can come and come and come the whole time he's in jail. And you can just have a fantastic time and of course, incorporate toys, incorporate oral, incorporate all those things. That's really the trick. And it starts with nitric oxide, which brings vascularization, which brings blood flow to your whole body, including your face and your skin. And what vascularization? Our blood flow, Gattu, is oxygenation and healing, because we take a lot of hits to our skin, to our beauty, to our hair, to to our cognitive function, to everything with all the toxins that are in the world and all of the, you know, the external assaults on our beauty. This is literally the number one foundation of she's pointing to. Elizabeth Molina: [00:15:30] And, yeah, she's pointing to this bottle flow. So do you take this daily? Do you take this before you know you're having intercourse? Like how does it how does it work? Tell us a little bit more about this, because like obviously our listeners are like, what are all these orgasms? How do I get them? And we know that when you experience real pleasure. Yeah. You have a glow, you're happier. You're releasing a whole bunch of great hormones, happy hormones. You're just in the state of happiness. I mean, you you can see that there's nothing to be angry about. You're in a state of bliss. So tell us about this product. How does it work? How do we get it? We want to know, OK. Susan Bratton: [00:16:10] It's really easy. Flow is a product that I developed because there weren't any organic nitric oxide supplements that I liked out in the marketplace. This is made from organic watermelon citrulline is a very bioavailable version of a nitric oxide precursor. It also has spinach and bitter cherries in it. And all of those things help you create nitric oxide, which helps you get blood flow to your vulva and to your pelvis, which helps you get lubrication and orgasmic intensity. You can take it about 20 to 30 minutes before lovemaking, which just take it just before you start having sex and, you know, spend half an hour in foreplay and then make love and it'll give you increased lubrication and an orgasmic pleasure and sensation and then take two at night every night just to keep your organic, not nitric oxide stores up once you hit 40. By the time you're 50, you have half the nitric oxide production you did when you are 20s. So women, a lot of times they think it's a hormone issue that's creating the loss of lubrication and lack of pleasure, when in actual fact, yes, estrogen loss does thin the vaginal tissue. But and I'm going to talk a little bit more about some other things I do to keep myself plump and young. So where you get flow is on Amazon flow, organic nitric oxide, or you can get it at the 20 store dot com with my promo code, Susan. And there's a discount that way, which is always OK. So flow is it. And if you want me to send you some Elizabeth, let me know. I'd be happy to ship them off. Elizabeth Molina: [00:17:46] That's that's a no brainer. I like. Yes. Susan Bratton: [00:17:49] Ok, good. We'll have that. Elizabeth Molina: [00:17:52] I'm like, I need this. Let me try it out. Let's experiment and like. Wait. Question. What if you take this? This is like a I basically I'm here like a Viagra for women. Is this like kind of like that or. No? Like will I take it? And I'm like, I need to stop my day, cancel my calendar. I'm fully like in the mood to do things. Susan Bratton: [00:18:13] Well, you know, for for us women, so much of our sexuality begins in the mind. But when your when you're vaginas lubricating and wet more, you actually do feel more turned on. So there are many women who've reported to me that they're walking around wet again. For the first time in a long time, and that naturally makes us feel like we could be more open to having sex. And one of the things that really helps reverse the drying out and shriveling up is partly taking a nitric oxide supplement, as well as making sure you have your essential fatty acids. And some what I like, I like collagen, but collagen alone is not enough. I've got a really sneaky, awesome hack for you that'll make me knowledgeable. Tell us, keep your tissues plumped up. There is there's a bacteria, a probiotic. It's called El Rouda. Ri l r e u t e u r i locked the lizard, derides and studied by Stanford. It's been studied by many, many. There's a lot of clinical data on the fact that this particular bacteria creates scaffolding in our tissue on which the collagen hangs. And without it. And my other hack, which is highly iranica acid and I like this brand, neo cell. Neo cell is a highly ironic acid that helps hold the moisture in the tissue. Susan Bratton: [00:19:52] So between the collagen and the HRA and this particular bacteria, and I put these in my spice grinder, I take 10 capsules, put them in my spice grinder, grind them up, put them in my yogurt maker with my you can use dairy or nut milk and a little inulin, which is a prebiotic fiber. That's what the bacteria eat. You put the inulin in there, you sternal up, you put it in 100 degree yogurt maker, you leave it on for thirty six hours, very slow at one hundred degrees. And it cultures and you get this wonderful yogurt. And that's what I put in my morning smoothie, which I have right here. This is my morning smoothie. I'm still drinking it. And so I have the LRAD rye yogurt in here. And then I also put in. That the collagenase. So I like a brand called Organics. And I'm also like bulletproof when you make it with the yogurt and the collagenase. You're doing a fantastic job giving your body what it needs to hold on to the collagenase so they can stay there. And then I also use colostrum. I use colostrum in my smoothie, and I use a cream that is an organic cream from a company called The Cream. Susan Bratton: [00:21:12] That is a colostrum based natural skincare product. So colostrum are very good. And going back to the hotel, you're on a acid's there are a couple of different things you need to know about HIV. You want there's there's something called high molecular weight and low molecular weight. How URAC acid. Yes. And the low molecular weight, which nacelle makes is very good for your skin. The high molecular weight, which is lubra ocen L'Abri is why. And that's good for your joints. If you're cracking when you're moving, that's a loss of age in the joints, in the synovial fluid. And so that you need the higher that you actually get this to racecourses, you need the high molecular weight. And then I also think that topical, highly irenic acid can't hurt a bit. The truth is that anything topical is only going to do so much. Your beauty starts from the inside out and you have to have enough. You have to have enough collagen. You have to have a structure for it to sit on with the L root rye. You have to have good, essential fatty acids, which I want to talk to you about. Elizabeth Molina: [00:22:23] Check out the video she's showing us, literally the pictures. I was very impressed with the picture of the vulva and all I didn't like. I come I think that I'm pretty educated, but like I learned so much in this little, we didn't even go into so much detail. So I'm like, holy moly, Shmuley, I need to learn is so much more. And I love that you talk about beauty is an inside job. And, you know, we are talking about sex and we're talking about getting it hot and steamy. And before I want to go into the beauty part, I want to go into because you have this shy and you have this pizzazz about you that I can tell you're having a lot of fun, not just in real life and in your bedroom, but in in your mind as well and in your body. But quickly, I want to touch up on two things before we go into the beauty and continue the regimen, because they're all linked together. Right. Your beauty, your skin, your face, your sex organs, like the collagen you're talking about, all of this is linked together. And it's no surprise. I it was the first time I've even heard about it. I always thought it was the hormones that you're decreasing lubrication for women. It was like, oh, you're getting menopause, you're getting dry. I mean, I'm not in that age yet, but I'm in, you know, the biohacking space with women over 50. Elizabeth Molina: [00:23:38] I love to learn. And like I'm going to be there, you know, not soon, but like eventually. And I'm like, what's what's in store for me? I want to learn how do I, you know, hijack that? How do I biomech that? And this is the first time I've heard of this. And it makes total sense, I have to say, like everything you're saying makes sense. The proof is in the pudding. Look at you. You look like not a day over like twenty eight. So I'm just like, how do I get there? How do I do that? But we are still coming out of a pandemic. Slowly, some places are closing back up again. And as you know, I'm sure you've heard it in your industry. Couples are suffering. Couples are suffering. Singles are suffering. And I mean, that's a whole nother episode. I feel like single during the pandemic and getting, you know, sexual pleasure and all that kind of good stuff. What may be freebee was you had that you could recommend to couples to kind of spice it up, you know, especially having maybe young children in the home under like 12, just, you know, finding it very difficult to be in each other's space. Not feeling that zests. Give us something to go on. What can they download today, right now that can like bring some fire back? Susan Bratton: [00:24:44] The first thing that I'd recommend now you can find everything I'm talking about at Susan Bratten dot com. I have a page that mentions all my products. Flow is on there, for example, but it also has all my free gifts. And I have over forty five programs on there, and many of them are free. So help yourself to anything you want, because everyone's at a different place in their sexuality. So I can't guess where any individual would be the most helped. But I'll tell you a couple of things based on what you ask me. I'll give you some directions. So when you get to the page and look at those things, the first is that I've really written about why it's not your hormones that are drawing you out. You know, when you have a loss of estrogen going through perimenopause and beyond you, your vaginal tissue gets then your vaginal mucosa gets thinner and it can become very painful. There are many things you can do to fix that, one of which is this product, the V fit, the V fit. If you go to Joi Lux dot com slash Susan, there's a special page two. This has red light therapy, which uses photo bio modulation, low level laser light therapy, Bagnoli, along with heat and vibration for Kagle toning and recolonization. It helps with incontinence, thickens up the tissue. It reverses that painful sex along with perhaps a plant based estrogen and DHEA cream rubbed internally if you don't want to do bioidentical hormone replacement. Susan Bratton: [00:26:13] I have thirty eight fascinating facts that supercharge your sex drive. It's called Hot to Trot and it's that hot to trot book dot com or you can find it by going to Susan Bratten dot com. And it goes more into these kinds of things that are it's not actually your hormones hits all these other things. Here's some things you can do. It includes the information about the L root rye probiotic and all kinds of things in there. So that's one. The second thing is talking more about how our female genital system works and how to pleasure it in the way that it needs to be measured, not in the way that is shown in television, on movies and in pornography, which is actually hurting us, not helping. And that's at arousal tips dot com. Ok. And then as far as spicing up a sex life, there's a couple of things I always say that couples that play together stay together, especially in the bedroom. It's either sex or money that tears us apart. And most of the time, if we were with we both have jobs. It's usually around sex. It's around sex more than people want to admit. You can learn pleasuring skills. You can do fantasy and roleplay. You can do lingerie, fashion shows, you can do new sex positions. You can have sex in new locations. You can incorporate toys into your lovemaking. Susan Bratton: [00:27:33] You know, there's lots of ways that you can invigorate your sex life. But honestly, one of the most simple ways to get started doing something new is to try a new sex position. And I have a book called Seven Stimulating Sex Positions, that it's at seven positions dot com, the number seven positions dot com or at Susan Bratten dot com. All roads lead to Rome. And what I like about that is it's my seven favorite sex positions and it's an illustrated guide there. The illustrated couple is dressed in lingerie and things like that, but it is really fun to just work your way through all seven and try them out. And there are things that generally anyone can do, even if you've got joint problems or weight problems or what have you. So seven positions is something that I'd start with to get your sex life going, because when you learn new things together, when you begin as beginners together, it generates that new relationship, energy that's gone missing. Everything that I've been doing is inside, out, outside, in natural as possible. One of the things that I do love a good skin brush, but one of the things that I think is the most important is a good fatty acid profile. You have to have a lot of good fats. So, for example, I make my own salad dressing. And, you know, in order to eat healthy, raw vegetables and good salads, I like to call this the undressing dressing. Susan Bratton: [00:29:05] I like to call it Visegrád, because what it really does is, you know, we lose the blood flow to our pelvic bowls, both the masculine and feminine, because we get plaque in our arteries from eating bad fats that clog everything up and then our blood flow is restricted. So when you make a good salad dressing out of, you know, like an organic avocado, oil is what I like to use as a base. Yeah. And if you take a cup of organic avocado oil, a quarter cup of a nice sherry vinegar. Yeah, that's nice. Old sherry vinegar and then a tablespoon of Dijon mustard and some salt and pepper. And then I use one of two dried herbs. I'll use fresh herbs. But I honestly think the dried herbs taste better. I use either savory or marjoram. Don't mix them. They don't taste good together. And you just keep those all those ingredients are dried ingredients you can keep in your house all the time. There's nothing up in that that you can't just store. So you can make fresh salad dressing, shake it up in a jar. And then I like to add a salad. I think a salad diced very fine, gives the dressing a delicious dimension. Everybody always wants my dressing people when I'm coming over to their house for dinner pre pandemic, they'd be like, can you can you make me some of that dressing and bring it over? Elizabeth Molina: [00:30:25] It sounds yummy. Susan Bratton: [00:30:26] Yeah, it's delicious. And so I think making sure that you're not eating bottled dressings is very important. Make your own vinaigrette and then take cod liver oil every day, a big tablespoon of it because cod liver oil. And you can get the orange or the. Strawberry flavored I like the Nordic Naturals. It's on Amazon. The cod liver oil has a very good, essential fatty acid profile. But I also use a lot of these activation products. I use the black Couchman oil well like that, the Stari and Pumpkin, which is great for breast and prostate health. And I also use this five seed blend. And so I'll just take a tablespoon of one of these oils along with my cod liver oil. So I eat my avocados, I drink my avocado oil, and I eat my oils. And then I also take something called Puram response, which is it's called a pro resolving mediator. And what this is, is basically essential fatty acids that also really help lower inflammation. A lot of inflammation comes from cellular debris. So when you see yourself aging and you think, OK, what do I do to stem the aging? What you actually have to do is go, I know you like prolon the fasting mimicking diet, and I like that as well. So doing intermittent fasting either with prolon a kit of food that you buy or food window eating gives your body a chance to clean the dead and broken cells out. Elizabeth Molina: [00:32:01] It's all connected. It's all connected. Beauty, health, vitality, sex like function, like when you are inflamed, you don't have a drive. And it doesn't surprise me because there's so many things blocking that blood flow. Yeah. That vitality to come through to get you like you're not feeling yourself. Like how can you you're inflamed. Your body's fighting something, OK? You are Covid. You look fantastic. Like I can only hope and wish that like I will look like you Susan Bratton: [00:32:29] Could really be you know, it really ruined my skin. It was so depressing. It was weird because, you know, I lost my cognitive function. I couldn't work for a year. I'm a CEO of two companies. And my my whole team had to run the business without me. Wow. I couldn't even run the. I'm really not back yet. I'm doing I'm doing a lot of these kinds of experiences getting myself back out in the world because they're easier for me to do than sitting down in meetings and things. I still have concentrate, etc.. But I'll tell you of all the stuff, because I'm so vain, you know, I feel in my life that I've gotten prettier as I age and I want to be beautiful for the joy that it brings me and everyone who gets to look at me, Elizabeth Molina: [00:33:12] Really, I just Susan Bratton: [00:33:13] Love it. We're not supposed to say stuff like this out loud, but you know what? I say stuff out loud and I've been given a gift and I I've worked very hard to maintain it. Now, when I got Covid, it ruined my skin and half my hair fell out. And I, I like to call myself follicular challenged. I've got that Scandinavian baby fine hair. So I'm wearing a hairpiece. I'm wearing what's called an integrated hairpiece. And basically what it is, is it's like a little custom fitted cap that has lots of holes in it, kind of like those old frosting kits. It has these little clips all the way around the base. And I take the tail of my hair, my rat tail of my comb, pull my own hair through it. I have my hair is dyed to match underneath, but my own hair is is very thin and baby fine. And I lost half of it. So I put on this integrated hairpiece. When I do public appearances, the things that I've been doing that are more procedures are number one, I got preppy hair. Yes, I got it. They call it the fam vampire hair left, but it's PRP punched into your head. That then helps new hair growth. And I've got probably a good three inches of hair. But to support that growth, what I do is I use a laser hair hat every day for 10 minutes, just like the laser I use into vaginally to keep my vaginal mucosa strong. I use a laser hair. I sometimes I have the hair cap on and I've got my V fit inside my vagina. And I just sit there on Instagram. Elizabeth Molina: [00:34:57] That's like the ultimate bio hacker. Let's speak about what you're doing, your beauty routine, what you're drinking, what you're eating, because you look fabulous. And obviously we know you've got the bedroom down, but you know, for the bedroom, you also need to feel good. You need to feel good in your skin. You need to feel good in what you're in, in your suit, which is your body, your vessel. Susan Bratton: [00:35:16] Well, we've talked about the internals now, the outside job, again, to keep it as toxin free as possible. And one of the things that I always like to do, if I can, is have the deluxe version and then the ghetto cheap. I'm broke. So I like a product line. If you've got lots of money, I like a product line. And it's kind of these are my real ones, of course. So it's kind of greasy. But I like a brand called Mother Mutty. Elizabeth Molina: [00:35:44] Oh, I love Susan Bratton: [00:35:45] That mother makes body butter. They make and a body oil and they make a body. Sarah and I think these are a very nice quality product with excellent absorption, with a really nice non-toxic profile. Yes. So mother is very good. But if you can't afford mother and I understand that you can't. Here's my ghetto option, which I use a lot for sex, too. This is a mango butter. And all it is is organic, refined mango, but it's literally just mango butter. Elizabeth Molina: [00:36:24] What do you do with this for seeds? Susan Bratton: [00:36:26] I rub it all over my body. I have sensual massages with it. I don't use it internally, but I use it externally. The only reason I don't I would use it internally the first time I use it. But when you have up something, you dip your fingers in to it. It's going to get bacteria and. Yeah. Not use it into your vaginally. Because I always say that if you wouldn't put it in here, you shouldn't put it in here because your vagina is the other end of your alimentary system. Essentially, it's just a tube. And so it's the same tissue and your mouth is very, very similar to your vaginal mucosal lining. And it's really quick to absorb everything. And the problem is that lubs are an FDA class two product, and they have to have preservatives in them to keep the bacteria's out. Right. And the problem with that is that the preservatives are toxic. So I don't I don't recommend if you've got stuff from CVS and Walgreens and all those places that are lubs, just stop using them and switch to an organic refined oil like whole hoeber sweet almond avocado. Those are three nice vaginalis lubricants. And make sure you have them in a squirt bottle so you're not touching them at any time and introducing bacteria and use them quickly so they don't get rancid. Susan Bratton: [00:37:46] They last for quite a while. And if you are a condom user, you need to use a poly urethane or polypropylene condom with an oil based lubricant because oil will break down latex. But so many people have latex allergies now that I don't think anybody's using latex condoms these days, but maybe they are. The other thing that I would say about condoms is that semen is very, very healthy for us women. And we've been kind of scared off of semen because you you're going to get pregnant if you can get a Nestea, you know, all this kind of stuff. But I really like the fertility awareness method using a daisy tracker or another tracker like that so that you don't have to use a condom necessarily if you're with a safe partner who's been tested. Right. You can't do that. The problem is condoms. You know, there's over 20 studies, and only if condoms only protect you from a couple, most estes's your skin to skin contact, which is why I say that until you have your potential partner tested, you should never put your mouth on their genitals. They should never put their mouth on your genitals. And you should never do genital to genital contact. You should keep it to kissing in hands, which are pretty safe as long as they've been Covid tested and vaccinated semen. Susan Bratton: [00:38:57] When you can get into a relationship where where you can actually have the semen in your vagina is very good for you because it has luteinizing hormones that regulate your menses and regulate you even after menopause. Also, serotonin for mood lifting and elevation, zinc for cognitive function, testosterone for courage. And go getter, go get Earnest's. So, you know, we are although I support same same sex relationships with equal vigor, the masculine the male female sexual relationship is a very healthy and symbiotic one. And there's nothing to be afraid of around semen. So that's a long winded talk about STIs and safe sex and contraception and lubrication. But it it all comes down to, you know, non medicated IUDs and fertility awareness met that are the least toxic birth control pills and lubs you get at the grocery store are the most toxic. And the chances are that your listeners are maybe doing one or both of those things. So it's it's important to talk about. So the inside job around toxin's these these can be oils. You know, they're cheap. You get a big vat of it. They're very nice. And these are really good for the rising of the externals. Elizabeth Molina: [00:40:19] Yes. And you said something about the sperm and how like it's great. You know, obviously, if you're practicing safe sex, use Daisie, Tricor, et cetera, et cetera. If you know your cycle, be responsible like, you know, obviously don't email us and say like, hey, I became pregnant, it's your fault now, like take care of this baby. What about swallowing sperm? Like, how does that affect? Because I know so many women who are concerned with the cat. Calories, I know this sounds crazy, but they talk about calories. Are going to stay in your body. What is that going to damage you? Like there's so many conversations about this and it's still taboo. But I figured you're here. Why not? Like, let's just get it out of the bag. Susan Bratton: [00:40:58] Well, your vaginal mucosa is a very spongy tissue. So it's going to pull in all that goodness and distribute it through your body when you ingest semen. Your stomach acid is really killing it off. So you're not getting the same benefits. And with regard to caloric content, that's a Google global fact. I'm not worried about calories at that level, myself personally. Elizabeth Molina: [00:41:23] And so, like, let's continue with the regimen. Susan Bratton: [00:41:25] Yeah, I like Doctor Dennis Gross. I like his alpha hydroxy daily skin refinishing and his body refinishing. Ok, Hydrox, these are fruit acids. They're quite natural. There's not a lot of chemicals in these daily body buffers and weekly body buffers. And they're very good at keeping your skin soft. I've always worked my whole life to keep my skin feeling like velvet. I want it to be plump, wrinkle free, but I don't mind getting tan. I don't know if you can see, but I'm a tan woman and there's no tan lines. Elizabeth Molina: [00:42:01] Guys, you have to see this whole diet and do that again. I mean, like that was hot. Look at this. Oh, my God. Ok, dude, she's like a 28 year old. Like, fuck what? Ok, we don't have to like play this back and clip this for like micro content. Like she just lashed us. And it was not and I'm not sad about that. I was on a hot flash twice. Sorry. You're doing a great job that mother oil is really working. I would order all a whole bunch of that today. Susan Bratton: [00:42:32] I like sunshine. Now, the problem is I don't let it get on my face and my neck and deckle touch. So I wear a really good sunscreen. And the one that I like is called Eclipse SPF. I wear this. But I also this is one of my this is one of my places where I make an exception. I use Chanel Foundation and it has some shitty chemicals in it, but I don't care. Elizabeth Molina: [00:42:55] And I love that you said Susan Bratton: [00:42:56] That you got to choose your battles, 80-20. Yeah. The eclipse under. And then what I like is that CC cream from Chanel because it is pretty thick but doesn't look thick on. And it's a fantastic barrier. If I took my breath, I have my makeup matching my tan because I sit out in the sun every day naked in my backyard and I get 15 or 20 minutes worth of sun. And I do have some aged spots, which I continue to whack back with Fraxel. So I get the spots and I whack the spots. That's my process. I don't love it, but that's what I do, because I want the viit, the natural sun, the natural color, the natural vitamin D. It makes me feel better. And feeling better is even more important than age spots for me. So I've got a white face and a brown body. And so what I do is I use the Chanel cream, the Chanel CC cream, which is also a really nice ESPs. I have a double SPF on my face because I don't want to lazarre the crap out of my face. Now, there's some other things. So this is a product that I've been using and it's very expensive. It's three hundred dollars a bottle. Elizabeth Molina: [00:44:05] What is this? Susan Bratton: [00:44:06] It's from skin medaka. Everything I own has grease on it. I mean, literally, that's Elizabeth Molina: [00:44:11] Because you use them. Susan Bratton: [00:44:13] I am just I am so lubed up. I am like a slippery little devil all the time. This skin, medaka tiens, advanced serum. This is a single pump in the morning, single pump at night. And essentially this is a firming, smoothing, tightening anti wrinkle. Good for us, old six year old broads. So I use skin medika. And this is one where I'm like, I'm just doing it. It's got some stuff in it, but it's working. It's really getting rid of the surface, the small fine lines and giving me some plumpness. So I've done the PRP into my skin. I get the facials. I do a couple of other things. Here's two more things that are natural. One is castor oil. I use castor oil. When I shampoo my hair, I put a dropper full of castor oil with the shampoo and shampoo with the castor oil in it. It's very good for hair growth and emollient, see, but you have to put it with the shampoo and then kind of scrub it out and it leaves a little a little deposit of that. And that's been very good. You can use this on your eyebrows. If they get thin as you age, castor oil will regrow your eyelashes and your eyebrows. And then I just got on to this one of my mentors, Dr. Patti Taylor, who's well, a little older than I am. Let's just put it that way. She's a redhead, so she's got super fair, thin skin. And I was telling her about how Covid just really. Took my skin and just made it so bad. And she said, try this hoe hoeber oxygenated skin cream, it's called pure 03 P oh three. Elizabeth Molina: [00:45:56] Oh, I've heard of this is amazing. Susan Bratton: [00:45:57] It's really it makes your skin really nice and plump and it's all natural and organic. So I really like this activated oxygen. Oil. It's basically ozone. Elizabeth Molina: [00:46:10] One thing. Susan Bratton: [00:46:11] And they shoot it with ozone. And you can use it if you get like fungal infections on your nails, your toes or your nails. Elizabeth Molina: [00:46:19] Can I say that that's also great for like acne scars, like the healing, like a rash or anything like that. Mosquito bites like that is amazing. Amazing. I love that Susan Bratton: [00:46:30] Stuff. And it's so simple. It's just how horrible oil and ozone, you know, it's great. It's like castor oil. These are our grandmother's recipes and remedies that we're coming back to that I think are very powerful. Now, of course, I also do things like topical estrogen. I have a compounded estrogen topical that I do, and I do this maybe once a week. It's estriol, progesterone and organic shea butter. It doesn't absorb very well. You're not going to get any you're not going to get your estrogen boost that way. I do bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. And I have a little a little clicker that puts a little bit of shea butter with essed biased. When you do estrogen replacement, you need to take two kinds of estrogen estriol and estradiol, because the third kind of estrogen is estrogen. And that's the one that gives you breast cancer. So you have a ratio of estrogens throughout the three estrogens. You want to increase the pie of the two good ones, which decreases the pie of the bad one. So it's a biased that I use intravenously. So it goes right into my system because it's just like I would be eating it, but I'm putting it where I want to thicken the vaginal tissue. Ok. I also take progesterone sublingual at night and I put testosterone cream around my labia on my clitoris, and that's how I get my testosterone. And so I take testosterone, progesterone and biassed as bioidentical hormones for hormone replacement. But I also do a topical estrogen on my face and forearms and hands because the tissue gets thin. Yes. My neck and décolletage. Elizabeth Molina: [00:48:19] So I just want to make sure that everybody knows, like you want to be seeking out a professional. Don't go out there and buy weird estrogen testosterones from China that you don't know where you're sourcing them from. Like this is very, very important. Guys, she is working with someone she didn't like, just Google this and she's like, oh, I heard this on a podcast. Let me figure it out. Like just I just wanted to put that disclaimer out there. Ok. Tell us the next the next stuff. Susan Bratton: [00:48:44] Well, the other thing that I do for the age spots it's topical is hydroquinone, Treant annoying and Kojak acid. And this is my from my derm and this is what I put on the little age spots that appear because, you know, they do you do get sun. You just do. And what's come out. So this is what I use on my face to kind of mitigate those. It would be similar to what you would do if you use like O'Bagy. It's kind of like better than O'Bagy because it's scrypt not off the shelf, but it's very similar. It's like, you know, it'd be like skin cuticles or O'Bagy or something like that. But it's a prescription strength. And that's the that's the little combo that I use for my derm for the age spots. And then the last thing I want to tell you about is bone structure. As we age and everything droops. A part of the reason that it droops is that we're losing bone mass in our face. We lose the bone density, and that's what actually causes our face to collapse. I chew something called tears of Cheetos. This is this is a resin. It's called Mastec. It's it's a resin. I get this on Amazon. It's a resin that comes from a pomegranate tree on the island of Chios in Greece. It's a natural product and it's like gum, but it's tougher and natural. And every day I chew for as long as I can to my jaws get worn out. I chew this, you know, kind of like tough thing to give my jaws a workout, to keep my system strong so that I don't have bone density loss. Elizabeth Molina: [00:50:24] So I love to ask everyone, like you are thriving in so many categories, but I also love to you know, you said Covid really got you. And like we're human and we can do all that we want to do. And we can be like the water expert, the sleep expert, the sex expert. But we may we have our days. So I want the audience to know like. Ok, you're human, too. Like you're also sometimes excelling in one category, sometimes you need a little bit of extra care. So where would you say that you are excelling in the beauty circle and where would you say you could use a little bit more attention? Susan Bratton: [00:50:57] For me, it's about building back my stamina and regrowing all of the muscle tissue that I lost, the sarcopenia that happened from laying in bed. So one of the things that I'm worried about is getting started again now that my energy is such that I keep getting all these little little infections because my immune system is so compromised, you know, so I've been I'll get up and then I'll get hurt and I'll get up again, and then I'll get hurt and I'll get up again and I'll get hurt. So I'm trying to go to the source and got it do autophagy and fix my immune system. But I'm also needing to rebuild muscle without hurting myself. And one of the things I'm planning to do this summer is a series of M Sculp. Yes. Yes, because I think that if I can use a machine, it uses electromagnetic vibration to contract your muscles like 12000 times in a you know, in a treatment I'm going to do this summer is do a lot of ocean swimming and dive the waves and things like that. That's what I'm in and making love. Not that I'm going to you making up for lost time, but definitely my weak spot right now is the musculature and my strength, my flexibility, my balance, because Covid also does a lot of brain trauma. So I've lost a lot. I've lost flexibility and muscle lying in bed, and I've lost stamina from being ill and I've lost my balance from the Covid brain injury that I got. So I'm really working on that. The stamina, the flexibility that Elizabeth Molina: [00:52:39] The bowel movements. Yes, all Susan Bratton: [00:52:41] That's the next Elizabeth Molina: [00:52:42] Thing. Ok, so where is it? So now we know where you're lacking. Where are you thriving? Susan Bratton: [00:52:46] I'm thriving in all of the things that I've learned my whole life are coming together in ways that I can really say, things that help people understand quickly how to have the intimate connection that they want and to understand that it's not their fault. They haven't been doing anything wrong, that you just didn't know. And now, you know, and it's going to be easier. Elizabeth Molina: [00:53:07] I love that we're coming to the end. And I like to ask all my guests, what is one piece of advice, something that you wish you would have told your younger self like today, Susan, today, right here, right now, sitting with me. What would you have told the younger version of yourself? Susan Bratton: [00:53:21] Every time insecurity creeps into your mind about your looks, about your body, about all of that physicality, you're never going to look better than you do right now. You're you're always going to it's just going to get worse and worse. And if you spend your whole life holding yourself up to some thing of imperfection that you can't get trying to push yourself to become, that you're making yourself miserable. And what people what people think about you is how you make them feel about themselves, not how you look. And the less that you worry about those little things that come into your mind and the more you realize that it's just your estrogen making you feel that. Let lack of confidence and that judgment. It's just your mind trying to keep you safe. But sometimes our minds aren't programmed quite right and they're hard on us. And the more that you can let go of worry about those imperfections and the more that you can put your energy into heart connection and joy, the better life you will have. Elizabeth Molina: [00:54:32] That's such great advice. And not just for yourself or your younger self, but for anyone listening in right now. There's so many people who need to hear this message. So I am so happy that you're sharing that with us. And we have come to the segment where most of my guests are so humble, they don't love to over brag about themselves or boast about their accomplishments. So I made a section called Breaktime where you get to brag about yourself. Tell us what you're doing. It doesn't have to necessarily be business related. It could be like you learn to paint with your toes or something like, I don't know, you know, like something random, something fun that you're proud of that you want to share with us. So the floor is yours, like brag away. Susan Bratton: [00:55:18] I learned how to scuba dive just a few years ago, and I've done over 30 dives already. And I find being in the ocean a deep connection to Gaia, to Earth, to all living things. And I think that you can learn new skills at any age. And mine was scuba diving. Elizabeth Molina: [00:55:37] Oh, I love that, I love that brag about yours. I'm excited to try it one day. I definitely on my bucket list. Yeah. Have you seen any sharks or dolphins? Like did you get to. Did you scuba dive in like the ocean in that way or no? Susan Bratton: [00:55:51] I have seen sharks. I haven't seen any dolphins. I haven't been where there are dolphins, but I have seen sharks and manta rays and all kinds of amazing animals that so beautiful under there. Elizabeth Molina: [00:56:03] Thank you so much for coming on. I really do appreciate it. I know that my listeners have gotten so much information. We went from sex to skin to the beauty inside out to scuba diving to you, flashing us with. We can tell that you're definitely putting in work because your skin looks amazing and it definitely shows. So if you guys didn't get to watch the anatomy pictures in the beginning or Susan flashing us or all of the amazing products that she's using. Definitely. Check out the YouTube video, check out the TV and follow her. If I were myself, I put everything in the show notes and we are excited to order this product that you talked about in the beginning. And I'm excited to get some of it and see what happens. Flo. Yes. Awesome. Thank you so much. And again, thank you for being a guest on here. Where can our audience connect with you? Where can they find you? Yeah. Susan Bratton: [00:56:55] Susan Bratten Soussan be a teto and you can find me on Instagram. You can find me on my website. You'll find me. I'm out there. Elizabeth Molina: [00:57:05] Well, thank you so much. And definitely check out all of her freebies. I am excited. Definitely. We have to do alive and we have to like keep on connecting because I've made you my mentor. So, yeah, the audience is going to get a lot of you. Bye, guys. I just want to say, if you did not learn enough in this episode and if you want more, definitely sent us a message, sends a DM, we're going to do a live. So stay tuned for that. But definitely put something of the comic guys. I mean, this was such a bomb conversation. And I want to see the other stuff. But I do want to be respectful of all of our listeners because we have all ages. And I'm just trying to make it work for everyone, really. I have been left wanting more. Having a thousand more questions. It's so interesting. And, you know, she has been so, so nice to have so many free guides on her website. I will have everything linked in the show notes. And again, you know what I'm going to ask you know what I'm going to say? I'm going to say sharing is caring. If you have a friend, a girlfriend, a partner, anyone who you think would benefit from the female anatomy and learning more about the female body. Elizabeth Molina: [00:58:17] Also, even aging, you know, the way that Dr. Susan talks about in the things that she's going through or has gone through, please share this with that and do not be greedy. This is totally free and have them subscribe because we're going to have to really interesting more conversations to come. Also, if you would like to know about a certain topic, if you want to know more about something specific, if you have any questions, if you know a guest, that would be great for the show. Send me a message. Elizabeth at Elizabeth Melina Inc.com. There's never enough information. So I'm here to bring you experts. I'm here to answer your questions. You haven't subscribed. I don't know what you're waiting for. And also, if you haven't left a review, please do so now. It takes 30 seconds and that would make my day. And this would also help the podcast be more known and be more seen. So I would gladly appreciate you doing that anyways, guys, until next week. I'll see you then. Bye

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   8 Sept 2021

   EP 20. The Beauty of Advocacy with AnnaLynne McCord

   Elizabeth Molina: [00:00:00] Hello, my beautiful people, I'm Elizabeth Molina and I am your beauty guru. In this podcast, I will share with you all you need to know about beauty from the inside out. You will gain access to the latest beauty trends from head to toe mind. And so you will hear from experts themselves. The trendy influencers, celebrities, athletes and of course, myself on all things beauty. This is definitely the place to be biohacking, beauty, hacking, life hacking into the why for your beauty routine. Are you ready for your global obsession? Welcome back and happy hump day. And I'm so honored that you are spending some part of your Wednesday, hopefully with us here listening to today's interview. Today's guest is AnnaLynne McCord. She's an American actress, writer, director and producer. She is known for playing the vixen vamp and roles of darker nature. McCord first gained prominence in 2007 as a seeming add lord on the effects television series Nip Tuck, which I personally loved, followed by credits on the CW and nine 00 to one 00 TNT. Dallas Stalker on CBS Foxes Jerry Bruckheimer produced pilot Lucifer, top TV's comedy Let's Get Physical and ABC's Secrets and Lies. Her turn as a disturbed and delusional teenager in the 2012 film Excision was widely acclaimed for her role in Excision. McCord won best actress at Megalo International Week, a fantastic cinema in 2012. Anna's recent film, 68 Kill, won the audience award at the ASX ACW, and her performance has been hailed strong, fierce and powerful and is currently filming in New York City on Starz 50 Cent's show produced power prequel, raising Kanon during her free time, Anna has contributed to various charities stating that working with charitable organizations and giving back has been her saving grace as it has taught her how to rescue herself. She is the founder of The Love Storm, a campaign which raises awareness for those victimized by human trafficking and sexualized violence. In 2009, Anna was awarded a U.S. congressional honor by the Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, for her anti trafficking work in 2019. AnnaLynne was nominated for the best actress at Madrid's International Film Festival for her role in the Milkshake Girls, a short film about sex trafficking. In 2014, Anna revealed that she was sexually assaulted when she was 19 by a male friend. In March of 2015, while speaking at the United Nations in support with the U.N., WFP, a McCord announced her alignment with the NFL support, aunty's sexual assault and anti domestic abuse project. The No More Campaign in 2018, while undergoing MDR in neurological treatment for PTSD, Ana has limited memories of her years of childhood abuse resurfaced. She has since become an advocate for profound treatment and the remarkable transformation to which it has led her to be as intense speaker and advocate and activist and meditation leader. And it continues to engage audiences at colleges, events and private engagements with her transformative tools and candid outlook on sexualized violence, domestic abuse, human trafficking and slavery, which touches seven billion people, as well as obviously mental slavery. Elizabeth Molina: [00:03:32] So there is no coincidence, guys, why Anna and I came together. We were supposed to do the podcast a couple of months ago, and I had some emergencies, and she was so nice to reschedule. We rescheduled twice, I believe, and it was about working out a movement because I was just so adamant about, oh, my God, I need to release this podcast. They need to be all the ten categories and then I can do other kinds of interviews. And then I realized that was just not working out. So we started talking about trauma and we started talking about trafficking, violence, domestic violence, just all of these things that are happening that we're not really giving a voice to. So we thought that this message was stronger. And obviously we're going to talk about a lot of things. You guys have to just stay tune in here. We we had an amazing conversation and you definitely have to watch if you're able to that video portion of this so you can see our faces and see what's happening in the background and you get to see her beautiful. So I'm going to leave you guys to it and I'm going to introduce our guest. Hello. Welcome to the podcast. I'm so excited to finally get you on. How are you doing, AnnaLynne? AnnaLynne McCord: [00:04:33] I'm good. How are you? Elizabeth Molina: [00:04:35] I'm good. I'm excited. As you can tell you guys, this is an audio and video podcast, so you're going to be able to watch us and see all of our faces. Mine. I look a little orange today, but that's OK. And you look beautiful as always. So I want to before I like let you talk, I want to just preface this like I was so excited to get you on the podcast and. You were so gracious enough to reschedule, I had something come up and you were so sweet, you're like, it's OK, life happens, like we'll make it work. And I think it happens for a reason. Everything happens for a reason, I don't think. And that podcast would have been about working out and meditation and which is great. They're great tools. And it's part of my beauty circle where I talk about movement and, you know, and being one with your body and meditating. And I was like, it's going to be great. She's this beautiful person inside and out and she's going to talk about it. And she has experiences that have brought her here. But today, we're actually going to detour from that original concept. If you're OK with it. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:05:42] Absolutely. Elizabeth Molina: [00:05:43] About things that are. In my humble opinion, just more important. And you know, this is going to air after the date that we're going to talk about, but it's still things are still happening around the world. So before we get to that, I just kind of want to get to know a little bit more about you. We know that you are a well-known actress like your. Your credentials are pages long. You're stunning. And you know you're pretty famous. Right. So let's get into this just a little bit. How did you get into this business? Tell us, like, how you got started into it. What made you want to become an actress? AnnaLynne McCord: [00:06:27] Well, there's the story that I always tell when I'm asked this question. And then there's the story that perhaps is more appropriate to the shifts that we're both making and this podcast experience. I could give you the easy. I was nine years old. I dreamed of being an actress. I grew up in a trailer park, and it was never going to happen. But then I made it happen. And voila, here I am, which is lovely and sounds great and fits the stereotype of, you know, stereotypical horae Cinderella story that we all know and love. And I am grateful for all aspects of that part. But it is a story. And this thing about stories is. There are lovely things to hear and read about, but who are you really and why are you really here matters more to me. So since we're doing what matters more on this episode, I without knowing it in my nine year old conscious mind, but certainly knowing in my spirit consciousness, I had a little mission I was embarking upon at nine years old, and I thought being an actress was the way to get me there. And I'm so grateful that I wasn't wrong, because it is it created a remarkable platform for me. But the mission that I am on that I came to planet Earth to accomplish is. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:07:48] For less about the nine year old children like me that were dreaming to be an actor and more about the nine year old children like me that were experiencing sexual abuse and experiencing marginalization, experiencing poverty, I kept all the boxes. I am here on this planet now because that little nine year old inspired me to stick around. I was suicidal. I was self harming. I was depressed. I was anxious. I would not be here if it hadn't been for the deeper meaning of of why my spirit consciousness knew I was here and my nine year old self was on this nothing. Because she she had the things that she wanted me to do that I'm only now just beginning to to realize. And so I dreamed of being an actress. That was the top layer of the story. And I did. I graduated from high school at 15 years old. I was homeschooled my entire education. So I never went to a normal school. And as a result of that, I was able to take the reins and get in control of my own education and graduate early, graduated with honors, all the things that make everybody in the world go, yeah. You're doing such a great job, I think. Have so congratulations. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:09:12] Like the world's smallest violin, the the emphasis that we put on education in college and the right schools is like, I want to shoot myself in the face. Like everybody's missing all of everything while they're so focused on my child. Going to an Ivy League school like that makes me feel good about yourself in your circles at church. And I'm so glad for you. And also, wherever you find joy, please find it. So you raise the vibration of this very low vibrational frequency that's in our world right now, but also really that that's your biggest focus. How about who is your child is a human being? Do you even know? Who are they? Who? Why did they come here? Why did they come here? Who are they? Of the spirit consciousness. There's a little essence inside of that beautiful little body that you keep telling them to cut their hair and wear the right clothes and make mommy and daddy look good, because we want to talk about you in our circles. So we feel better about ourselves because we're trying to pretend like we're not getting old and. Oh, well, we are because age happened, bitches. It's like it's just I'm a maybe you caught me on a cynical moment, but I'm just like I'm so over's raw. Elizabeth Molina: [00:10:24] There's so many people, parents, children who need to hear this because they need to hear this. This is real. This is this is how we get to higher consciousness. This is how we start letting these little people who are going to be the future, AnnaLynne McCord: [00:10:37] The future, Elizabeth Molina: [00:10:38] We give them a chance to really be in their true spirit without breaking them. And this is how we get a better future. So I love this, what you just explained. So tell me more. I love this nine year old girl. Like I need to be friends with her, AnnaLynne McCord: [00:10:52] Itemise, know I've got friends in there now. I like chicken. I'm like, hey, are you in there? Can we hang out? She she was an arrogant little thing. And I am obsessed with her. People were in Brazil to me half the time. Everyone was telling me I would never make it in my dreams. My dreams would never come through all this stuff. I was just I thought everybody was was a moron. I was like, where is this confidence coming from? Zaal Um, I'm so grateful that I was a little nine year old who who had much more of her shit together than I do now. I'm thirty four, but she got me she got me through a lot. And I think it was my it was perhaps that arrogance and childlike ignorance that allowed me to believe in something that we suppressed. As we become as adults, we push down and we end and we we squelch and squeeze the lemon dry of anything that resembles dreaming or imagination or creation or all the things that make our world beautiful. And when I look at the people in our world and the people that I was surrounded with as I became an actress, I did become successful. I did make it in Hollywood. And I this is the line I literally say to everyone, I live in a town of visionaries with no vision. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:12:09] I'm dealing with something right now where I'm doing something outside the box and I get a response that's redacting everything I've written and putting it into the structure of the format of the way it's supposed to be said and done, because this is how we do it over here at this corporation or this, you know, bureaucratic establishment. And and it's like, OK, so I'm going to do a speech for your bureaucratic establishment and I'm going to say it in a way that grabs your heart and shakes you to your core and makes you feel something because you're a human being. And in so many ways, we're not. And we numb ourselves. If we're not numb enough, I'm going to make you feel in ten minutes of your day you're going to be like, wow, I didn't sit through another humdrum speech. I actually got spoken to. I was seeing and I felt that I could see this person. They were showing me themselves. I got to actually be shown up for today. No, we're going to redact all that. We're going to make you do a structured, terrible, horrible stage, which I'm still going to change. But all that you tell Elizabeth Molina: [00:13:17] Or this is this is your night. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:13:19] This is what this is to me. Thirty four year old Annalyn channeling the nine year old Anna. Yeah, the irony is that the changing the structure to fit the inside the box for all of the people who they think need to hear this inside the box, but all of those people would much rather be at a dive bar having a beer with me, talking the way I would talk to them in my speech as I wrote it in. And it's is like this crazy, ironic thing where we walk around, we live in these circles, we wear these masks. And I don't mean COVID 19 masks. We wear masks as who we are. And and I went into an industry where I thought the masks that I was going to wear were on set in costume and hair and makeup. But what I found was that everywhere I went, you had to perform. I was performing more off camera than I ever was on camera. I was I was smiling on the red carpet that this life that everyone told me was so great and I was miserable. I was I was using sex as a vice because sexuality had been used against me. And I started to use it for myself, but it was still technically being used against me by me. You know, I was harming my own body. I was in situations where I was provoking really dangerous sexual experiences to just get a high to get a feeling, to get a dopamine hit, to feel anything at all, because I was so fucking numb. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:14:38] I mean, it just literally all of the things behind the behind the veil, behind the mirage, you know, where I was living them out. And and I got to a point at a very early point of. Life where I was over it, I wanted to quit, I call it my young life crisis, I was being offered the show and I don't, you know, and I said, no, I don't want to do this show. I don't want to be an actress anymore. I called my old acting partner in New York, who is a good friend and an incredible humanitarian. And I said, Jess, I'm done. I'm out. I don't want to live in L.A. I don't want to be in this town. I want to be in this industry. It's not what I thought it was when I was nine years old. I you know, I I'm going to move back to New York to work at Starbucks and find a new passion. And she's like, well, no, you're not, because that's stupid as fuck. She was last me because I embellish her words. She's very sweet and kind. And she would never tell me something stupid as that. But she essentially ran a very nice politically correct way, was telling me, yeah, I was this stupid, this like so. So she said, you have such a platform, you have such an opportunity with what you're about to embark on to change the lives of other individuals you've never even met. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:15:57] Are you going to give up on all of that because you don't like that people are a little bit egotistical and the only place they're egotistical is in your town. They're not eager to. So you could mystikal in New York City, you're really like the like. So some of the most elitist people in the world. So she changed her mind. We went to Cambodia where I had my entire world turned upside down. I met survivors of human trafficking and these little girls who I thought, you know, I'm going to go help some kids in another country and be such a good person. The girls changed my whole life and saved me. It was not it was completely the other way around. They saved me in a million ways. And I know that I know that this is so very personal to you. But, you know, the fun of the of survival and what that what that state creates and living in that and then surviving that and then healing from that and coming out of that, it's such an incredible journey. And I had a little six year old little girl, a little three year old little girls who are looking at me with more forgiveness and more grace and more compassion and in their short little lives that have been so, so horribly traumatized than I had and all these years of living in a free country and all the things, you know. And I was really, really impacted by that. Wow. Elizabeth Molina: [00:17:27] I mean, I'm like, just take me on your carry on and like, let's go do something, because this just sounds like beyond life changing. But before we move and move forward, because this is what we want to talk about today, really, like this is the real conversation that needs to be heard, that needs to be spread out to millions of people so that we can make a difference. One person at a time, a voice at a time or millions at a time. Guys, it's up to you. Share this if you really want to help us with this mission. But can I know or can we know what was that straw that broke your back in? How what was that like? I'm done. I'm done. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:18:10] Yeah. Well, I'll tell you, it's ironically surrounding human trafficking, which was something that was not yet my cause. And I was on the set of a film I did called Fired Up. And it was it was such an ironic moment to happen in life. And this historic aspect of it, there was a massive writers' strike that was going on because of the switchover from the pre digital age to the digital age and who was going to get what types of percentages and all the things when when suddenly people were streaming things online and half the world's like, no one's going to watch anything streamed online. Langan's, that's so not going to be the thing. And then the other half of the world made a lot of money in the stocks because everybody watches things streamed online. But so at that point, back in 2008, I was finishing up Nip Tuck on Fox, and I watched at all times. I was going to say I was very proud of being to be on that show. That was a lot of fun. Sorry. My cat is trying to make an appearance. Hi. What would you like to do, Chloe? Because you're about to walk all over. Mommy's OK. I'm going to just pick you up. This is Chloe. I know. So Nip Tuck, we got shut down temporarily because of the writers' strike, because we ran out of scripts so the writers couldn't write any more of our scripts and continue the season. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:19:48] So in the interim, I did a film called Fired Up about like a comedy about cheerleaders and the whole thing. And I mean, I worked with some very at the time because they were 12. I hope I hope it's because they were 12. Some very vapid individuals in the in the same mall that I had been in the process. And I had met with the director and Mike, who was I was in talks about doing this film that centered around the story about human trafficking. It was an incredible film. It was so amazing. It was so well-written. It was so enthralling and action packed and entertaining while highlighting an issue that nobody in the world was talking about back then. Because when I got involved with this issue 13 years ago, no one was talking about this. They have no idea what human trafficking was. The writers strike happened. The film got canned. It got shelved. Money pulled out. So essentially it got canned. It wasn't going to be able to they weren't going to be able to complete the rewrites. So it just got shelved. And so I'm doing this movie and I'm sitting in the makeup chair and I'm hearing like, oh, my God, Gołąbek you. They didn't have parents for less than fifty thousand dollars. And my manager never let that happen. You have to, Tozzer. Oh, my God. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:21:08] Totally like totally. And I'm like, what am I doing with my life? I had this whole moment where it was just like if it was a movie, it's just like everything slows down into like slow motion. It's like, all right, well, my heart be like, oh, God, no. What have I done? I was there all my whole existence away, so. I was I was having this existential crisis. I get off of the thrown out and I was just like it wasn't even a thought. It was just like, no. Like, I I'm I'm I'm I'm fired up and I'm around kids my age. And I want to knock them out because they're literally like they thought that the other cheerleaders thought that we were actually really at war with each other. And I was like, okay, well, I was hired to act. I don't know about you guys, but I don't think that I actually hate you in real life because, oh, gosh, it was I literally went to shake one of the girl's hands and she just like stared at me while she was on her sidekick like her. And I was like, OK, so you're going to shake my hand because my head is not going to stand here and hang in the air and not get shaken. So I just kept my hand there until she finally was like shakes my hand. I was coming off of this acclaimed show with adult humans who go home after work to their families and actually treat people with some human decency. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:22:30] And it was weird to be thrown into this mix of 20 somethings who I just never been around, humans who acted like that. And now I was going to do a show called Nyota, went out with a bunch of 20 somethings who I was so afraid we're going to act like that. And thankfully, I had a lot of cool humans on that show, but that was a very different experience and definitely had some flavors of the previously mentioned. But but for the most part, you know, we had each other's backs. But, yeah, I was I was like, nah, not not into it. And as a result of that experience, I, I that was kind of the that was the the overt straw that broke the camel's back kind of thing. I was like, no, no, I, I signed up to be a lesbian. And this is not what I want to do. What I was like. And then and then I did go on the show and then I did experience, you know, quite a bit of success as it is determined by the society and culture that we live in the very in the box version of success, where you want to kill yourself in your best, but you don't tell anyone about that because you're too busy smiling on a red carpet and making everyone think everything's all great. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:23:42] So that was the kind of success I achieved. I would continue on with the suicidality being a part of my narrative for many years after that period and would ultimately end up in PTSD treatment. When the older I got and the safer I got in my world and my life, the more I slowed down. You and I discussed this like the when you slow down, you're you're getting to a safer point and you are inviting and the healing that ultimately can occur if you if you allow it. I wanted to get over whatever it was that was creating these negative cycles, these horrible relationship dynamics and all these things. I had no idea what I was going to discover. I did ayahuasca in 2017, which is a plant medicine that I highly recommend, but give fair warning. It's not for the faint of heart. So it's something to really decide I'm going to surrender. I did not surrender at all, and therefore I went to hell. But if you do, if you decide to surrender and then actually let yourself release control something, I did not know how to do it. That's time you can have a you can have an immediately life transforming journey. Mine took about 13 months, 13 months after ayahuasca. I had childhood memories of sexual abuse return that were latent for almost 30 years. Elizabeth Molina: [00:25:08] And they return during the ceremony or like after like in bits and pieces. I'm just curious, AnnaLynne McCord: [00:25:14] Almost 13 months to the day I was in it, I ended up in a as a result of ayahuasca, I started making lifestyle changes that I, I don't think I otherwise would have made. And as a result of the lifestyle changes, I got safer in my own personal space. And then things started to bubble up, but I didn't have any attachment to what they were. They were all body stuff and energetic stuff. And then I realized that some of them were causing me PTSD, like panic attacks, things that sound very not positive. They're awesome. They're amazing. We love panic attacks. You know why? You know why we love panic attacks? Because they are alerting us to something that is wrong and need your attention and pay a fucking attention to it. So I paid a fucking attention to that and I went episode. Elizabeth Molina: [00:26:05] Oh, Regan, good episode. Because you are literally we're entering a new age, a new world, a new time, new dimensions. Vibrations are raising high. People are no longer wanting to be in that little box, that little box, and who knows where, what like how many hundreds of thousands of years ago. That doesn't work anymore. You cannot use that same structure today. It doesn't work. So you are saying things that somebody needs to hear right now. Today they're listening. Listening to this conversation. And they're like, yes, yes. Oh, my God. I feel that to the core. I'm going to go get help. This is not something to be shameful of all of these symptoms that we feel, even if it's a cough or a cold sneeze, an allergy, whatever, it can be superficial. It can be like deep inside, like some some kind of like what's going on. I want to eat. I need to feed myself, comfort food, because I'm feeling something. These are all, like you said, wonderful, because there are signs of like, hey, it's like a flag there. Like, I need attention. Come to me. Come to me. And you with your platform are sharing this message because for a long time we were in this box and they were telling us, no, that's shameful. Hide that sign, hide it, hide it, bury it, take medication, hide it. You don't need to know about that side. And then one day it hits you and you're like, what happened to me? Had I seen all those signs, my car would not have been destroyed. Check endin like him on. I should attracted put the fluid in. I should have done that. Oh, the gaslight like wow. Oil change. Right. Those little things. If you don't pay attention, what happens? Right. And so I love that you're saying that because this is what we need to hear. And I love that we're not talking. Movement is great. Meditation is great. And there are tools to use to get there. But our last our initial interview was going to be about that. But, yeah, it's so important. And so I'm so thankful that you are just on fire. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:28:09] And I am a little fired up today. Oh, I love. But I won't say I'm fired up about meditation and my practice because those have been massive tools for my healing with when I went in when I began treatment from that those panic attacks that were I'm grateful for those panic attacks because they highlighted the issue that I needed to look at. And I was refusing to do so because I was taking care of everything else and everyone else and not myself. And my body kept saying, how well do you want me to get? Because I'm all going to get loud. I'm going to make you sick. I'm going to do whatever it takes to stop you in your tracks and slow you down. And what it did was it sent me into a depression for six straight months that I didn't think I was ever going to get out of, because because my body knew that anything intense, I was going to still laugh off, joke it morbid humor right away. But depression, I couldn't see a future for myself. I couldn't see a way out. And that was my body and mind got clever and said, you know what, let's depress her. Let's depress the shit out of this bitch. Because if she gets depressed enough, she's a she's a go getter and she's a mover and a hustler, and she's not going to be able to go get anything. She's not gonna be able to move and she's not gonna be able to hustle. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:29:22] And she'll finally pay attention to the needs that are going on inside this body of hers that she's been ignoring for thirty years. And I'm so grateful to my depression. I'm so grateful to my remarkably incredible brain and consciousness that did this for me that said hello. Whatever it takes, we're going to get your attention. And I coincided MDR, which is eye movement desensitization and reprocessing and very, very, very powerful tool for post-traumatic stress disorder. It is used for war veterans by the United States government. That's what we offer our vets. And it became popular for survivors of sexual and domestic abuses. And I started that treatment that coincided that with Kundalini and ngonyama breathwork hall tropica breathwork, really intense breathiness. I just did one last night and it was beautiful and releasing and clearing. And it is, like you said, with the oil change check engine light, this is maintenance. You don't do just like a one off thing like this is my work now. This is our job and here I am healed. No, you until you die, you're healing. And you literally go into if you believe in the. Clive, you're going into the next. I wish it to heal, so this is a lifelong journey of self investigation, cultivating silence, looking at the parts of you that you don't want to see and asking, why are you here? Hello, panic attack. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:30:42] Why are you happening? We don't ask why? Why don't we ask why we're so? Because someone's already answered a question we all have to ask. They said, you know what? You got this issue. I got a pill for it. You got this thing. I got a drink for it. You got this thing I got to do to suck for it. Like anything you want, anything you want to not have to think about. Why, you might need to ask the question why. We've got a we've got a tour of, you know, any kind of medicinal anything that you want right here, almost over the counter sometimes. And I was I didn't I didn't drink. I didn't do drugs. I never smoked up until I was 30 years old. I never drank a drip of alcohol. I do love a little bit of wine these days. I'm not going to lie. But but my vice was. I use sex against myself because that's what I was taught to do as a child. And I continued that abuse against myself and I had to detox. And now I'm learning about all of these practices, sacred sexual practices, ANCSA types of rituals that are modernized now for us to use today. I use orgasms. I get myself off thinking about how I'm going to change the world in the future like I do these manifestation orgasms. The wild thing, first of all, it's not sexy to be like, let me think about how I'm going to change the world while I'm like rubbing one up, you know? Sorry, guys. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:32:09] I'm I'm very like I'm beauty is like all things to me. And one of the most beautiful things you can do is pleasure yourself. And I love that. I really love that. But I used to think about really toxic things. And our minds are incredibly powerful. So it's visualizing with one of the most powerful energies. The orgasm is life. Force is creation. You created life. You're a little girl like you made a human in your body. That is one of the most insane things that we can do. And no one thinks about it like that. But like a human person grew inside of you, there was nothing. And then there was a fucking human person like that's wild to me. That's so wild and it's bizarre. But think about if you have the energy in your body to grow a human person, how powerful must that energy be when harnessed? So I harness the energy of what it takes to create a human person, and I'm using it to create the life I'm going to live. Ten years from now, two years from now, two weeks from now, I'm pulling in the one I'm calling in these things that are beautifying my life in the way I define beauty, which is at the very end of my life when I take my last breath on this planet and I breathe no more on earth and I turn back into stardust, what what did I do? What is the legacy that I left? Who? Who did I help? Who do I love? Who loved me? Where did I lay down my life for something bigger than me? That's beauty in the world to me, and the the tactics that you had to use to be able to get you and your little girl out of that horrible situation that you experienced all those years ago when you were taken and literally held against your will for months. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:34:16] The the acting performance you had to pay, the sacrifice you had to make because of a little girl and I know you weren't making them a half as intensely for yourself as you were making it for that little one taken away from you. Right. Right. So this is what this is what we're capable of inhumanity. And we are not just capable of it with our own biology. I don't have any personal children. Every child in this world, yours included, matters to me because they are the future of this planet. And the beauty of human beings is our ability to want better for someone else than we even have for ourselves. There's something profoundly beautiful in that song. And I'm I'm so grateful to you. I'm so grateful that you created this platform that you're shining a light on true beauty. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:35:07] I love your flow chart. I was looking at them. I was like, OK, OK, wait a second. So I am super, really way. Amazing guide. Add water and take. I've got water and everything everywhere at all times. Anyone who knows me knows I'm a water fiend. Yes, I drink Chongjin water. Y'all ionize the water molecules so that it absorbs into my pores. I'm like crazy about water. Obviously, I'm crazy about spirituality. Sleep is something that I work very hard on. But sleep has been difficult. Trauma kids, all the kids notoriously have difficulty with sleep. So it's a dance. I use brainwave technology. I use nighttime meditations. I used to wake up 40, 50 times a night in my three or four hours of sleep window that I would actually get. I'm grateful to say that turning on a meditation really quickly can put me back to sleep, which I never used to be able to fall asleep again. So that's an area I'm working on. But I love I love your beauty flow chart. It makes me really happy. I was like, this is so cool. This is a little reminder of like, hey, look at celebrate the wins, the joy. I'm a joyful person now. I used to get I could not stand people who were happy. I was like you. Why are you so happy now? I'm just like it's a love or. Elizabeth Molina: [00:36:26] Oh, I love that. I know. I love that you loved it. And you found some find it helpful because that's why I created it. I wanted people to have those wins. I wanted people to see that they could do it. And it was easy. And that's why there are ten categories so that you could like feel positive about it. So I, I love it. And I love that you love it. And I love that you love water. Everyone who knows me as well, like I have water everywhere. I get a picture like it's just so good for you. But OK, we I mean, I feel like we could talk for hours and hours and go off on every tangent possible. And like I. I need to meet your nine year old. I know she's here. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:37:07] Yes, I'll bring her out. Elizabeth Molina: [00:37:09] Just bring her out. And she give me like my five year old and we just have fun. I mean, these are like our babies ourselves, like our younger selves. Yes, a five year old. But I want to talk about the love storm. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:37:22] Yeah. Elizabeth Molina: [00:37:24] Tell us about that, because human trafficking, as we spoke, is very dear to our hearts. Sexual violence is also like something that you and I have experienced and we have been very open about this, sharing our experiences with the public. And by sharing our messages, people can feel, you know, safe to maybe share their story and start the healing process, because that's really where it starts. When you let it out and you welcome in that healing, it's a good burden. But then the whole opens up and you can let in that light. And it is not as rainbows and butterflies and crystals that people say it's it's it's hard work. It's a lot of also, like you said, meditation. There's so many tools out there. Yum, yum, d-r. I think it's called REI. I always go. It's such a great therapy. There's so many different things. And I have to send you something for sleep, which I think is going to be great for you. It works on your nervous system. It's been amazing for me. Like it actually like makes your nervous again, makes it like act normal again, meaning like, wow, is it normal? But like sometimes we know it wasn't heavy trauma. Elizabeth Molina: [00:38:33] You stay stuck in that pattern and you need to press that little reset button. It is really hard sometimes to do that. So I'm going to send you that. I remember. But oh, Glenfield, how did you start this? How did you wake you woke up and you're like, OK, I'm awake now. I'm healing. I'm freaking breaking this box like f this box. I don't live in these little parameters like I am more this nine year old came back and she's like, you were here for something. You are here for a mission. We're going to trigger you. We're going to press all your buttons. Like you said, we're going to make you so depressed that you have to do something. So how do you go from all of that where you have repressed memories, right. Like you don't even really know. You just knew that you had this tool. You're beautiful, you're gorgeous. And a lot of times I will tell you, like women who have experienced this at a young age, like myself as well, we use that because someone took our power and AnnaLynne McCord: [00:39:28] And we want to get it. Elizabeth Molina: [00:39:29] That happens is we we completely let people keep us taking the power or we think that we're taking it back by giving it out, because now we're in power, but we're also hurting ourselves in the process. Yes, that's what I would go. Yeah, I know. Well, too. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:39:46] Yeah, I for thirteen years, I work fighting human trafficking with an organization that has a ground team in Cambodia. And I with the exception of Covid, which has been really hard for me, it's the first time in a decade that I haven't been to Cambodia. I go every holiday. I bring Christmas and Santa Ana sleigh. I come in with all the Christmas presents and all the things, and I'm with my girls. And it's an incredible experience every time. And I tend to go a couple of times a year. This work was piece by piece, chipping away at obviously my personal journey and getting into where those memories could finally be realized. But the the major shift and the reason for the launch of the campaign, the love storm, was because it had become the amalgamation of the fight I was doing on the outside, this work that is so important. And I am so grateful to everyone in the field fighting human trafficking. But we have had modern we have had slavery in our world for thousands of years. We have not eradicated slavery because we keep doing the same things, expecting different results. And in some circles, that's called insanity. So I was like, you know what? I've been called insane and I'm super cool being insane in certain ways that put me outside the box. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:41:11] But when it comes to actually being stupid, like I'm not in it, I try to do the same thing and expect different results. We learn from history that we don't learn from history. I want to be the exception to that rule. And what what the amalgamation of this tangible fights in human trafficking and spinning our wheels as we have. And anyone who's worked in this field, they can tell you a lovely speech at a party. But at the end of the day, they're exhausted, they're burnt out, and they're seeing very little change on a large scale. And it's it's it's heartbreaking because we're doing it the wrong way. We're we're trying to clean up the outside while the inside it's all nasty and mucky. I wouldn't invite you over and I probably will invite you over, but I wouldn't invite you over to a dinner party, lets you see my beautiful lawn with all my roses. And then the inside has got laundry all over the place in my disgusting house, has never been cleaned on the inside. Like, what am I going to have you eat on the ground? Like, I have to clean up the inside. We need to clean up the inside. We need to fight slavery from the inside out. We have mental prisons, seven point eight billion of us. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:42:21] No one is exempt. A certain point in our. Lives at any point. It can happen, but at a certain point it will happen that you will be enslaved to a school system, to a belief about yourself, that you're not good enough, not pretty enough, not wealthy enough, not successful enough, not smart enough, not whatever enough to be who you actually are just as you are. That is slavery. And slavery is an idea. You can't kill an idea. You got to have a better one. And the better idea for me is freedom. That starts with personal freedom. We don't end human trafficking of forty eight million people with seven point eight billion people are enslaved inside their own minds. It will never happen. So we have to take personal responsibility. The love storm is an invitation that if you never, ever set foot into the world of fighting human trafficking, may you, at least as a human being, show up for yourself and end the slavery of your own mind. May you at least break the chains, the invisible, as they are inside your head that tell you you're not enough because you fucking are. So the love storm is a fierce love because I don't do pansy love. We are storming the planet with love. And my love is ferocious, like a tsunami or a hurricane. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:43:37] So it's called a love storm for a reason. And the event itself actually features a meditation. So the connecting dots between all of this work, all of what I've done for 13 years, what I learn from the girls who were the survivors that I thought I was going to help, that changed my life. What I learned from them was forgiveness. I learned compassion. I learned love. I didn't believe in those things. I didn't understand those things. And I certainly did not want to extend those things to traffickers and pimps like my girls told me to sister. No, we forgive the trafficker. We forget that. But I'm like, no, I'm from I'm from America. And we get really big guns and we blow things up. That's what Americans do. So, no, we don't forgive and we don't love. And the girls like no, sister, we don't kill the trafficker. We don't kill the pimp. We forgive them. I'm like, I don't like this lesson. And I know a decade or so later, I have memories of childhood sexual abuse come back and the healing process the way out of my suffering, the way out of my slavery was to find compassion for the person who sexually abused me because he was a little boy who never wanted to hurt anybody when he was a little two, three or four year old child. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:44:48] Then somebody did something to him and the system failed him. Where did we go wrong? Where do we go wrong, where we began creating traffickers and creating bullies and rapists and abusers? Because we had to create them. They did not come here as children. Children are innocent and perfect. We did this and we have to be the ones to undo this. So the love storm is an invitation to take personal stake in the fight to end slavery from the inside out. That means modern day slavery, fighting human trafficking, bringing the hands together of all these little organizations that are like tiny little waves on the ocean. I want a fucking tsunami, right. But if you aren't involved in that aspect of it and you just want to help with the idea of slavery, you can do that in your own home. You can do that in your own home, in your body, in your mind, and break those chains. So I invite you to love storm yourself or join the movement at w w w dot the love storm dot com and and love storm the world with me. That's what we're doing. That's what Tony Tony connected me with you. And Tony has been love storming the world since the day he was born. He's such a love storm. Elizabeth Molina: [00:46:02] He is. He is. I'm so grateful to him and for meeting you. And this message really. I literally I usually speak so much that I'm just like mostly quiet because you're either reading my thoughts and just answering or you're just saying things that I've been thinking for a long time and I didn't have anyone else to like. Your radical your thoughts. What are you doing? How can you think like this, having the wrong people around, right. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:46:32] Or just people who are or just accidentally ignorant because there are ignorant people and then there are people who just just don't know. And that's an accidental ignorance. Elizabeth Molina: [00:46:43] Yes. But then there are people who actually don't want to know. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:46:46] Yes. Yeah. Those sort of. Elizabeth Molina: [00:46:49] Yeah. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:46:49] I love having come out about them. Elizabeth Molina: [00:46:53] Oh, God, you're invited. Let me know. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:46:56] They're my favorite. I love to just rip the carpet out from underneath those people that all that show I mean, love I have. Elizabeth Molina: [00:47:04] Oh, well, it's going to happen one day. And I would love to see that because that would be a challenge. I know the person and. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:47:10] Oh, so send me a Zemlyak, honey. Elizabeth Molina: [00:47:15] That would be awesome. Ok, so tell us a little bit more like how can people get started in this, Lofstrom? Because I'm like, where do I sign up? How do I go to Cambodia with you? What what do I need to do? Like sign me up? And everyone listening right now got so much like their clubs are overflowing with not just information, but also love. Every single word that you had said is going through their bodies, through their cells, are probably pausing this screen shotting this going back to that. They're going to quote it. They're going to tag us on Instagram and all the other forms. But the most important thing is sharing this message. And unfortunately, we're not going to get this out for human world trafficking day, but that's OK, because it's still happening every day. Unfortunately, human trafficking is very lucrative. And I'm not saying this to go into the business of it, but this there's so much like you said on the inside that you have to change, not just on your mind, but there's just so much that has been the system has created this, and we have to break that box, that system to to to start dismantling what atrocities have been made in the world, in the universe. So I am like my soul is so deeply touched and just like on the same like how do we what do we do? Like, let's but like let's get the stuff and let's just start going in there AnnaLynne McCord: [00:48:38] And just shooting. Yeah, well, there's a you know, there's always room for a McColley moment, like bring out the sword. Elizabeth Molina: [00:48:46] But yeah. Yeah, you know, we'll deal with LA. We'll do the love bomb like a love. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:48:50] Yeah. Well, love Bomu. Exactly. But yeah. So if you if you'd like to join the movement, we have a little button you can click on. Go to the W WW dot, the love storm dot com click join the movement. It gives you an opportunity to let us know if you'd like to see the love storm come to your town. We're doing it virtually right now because there's a lovely little COVID 19 virus that once we fully open back up, it is a global tour. It's a global campaign. And we had launched it on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day back in twenty twenty before Covid hit us so hard. And we had 22 cities around the world that we were intending to visit. We do still intend to visit those cities and those communities to bring this message, bring the connecting dots for other organizations to be able to link arms and continue this fight on the outside. And we invite you to show up so that we can learn about this from the inside out. So the love storm dot com at the love storm. Give us the follow on on social or you can find me at the Annalyn McCord. Social and I'm always updating about these things. Elizabeth Molina: [00:50:00] Awesome, OK. And we're coming we're wrapping up the session because, you know, we're going to do a live eventually. We're going to do a live and we people have can have more questions. And I'm respectful of your time. My time, because time is precious and we are on a mission to storm up the world with a lot of love. And I'm so excited that we connected so to things that I always ask my guests. And I'll ask the first one, what is one thing that you would have told your younger self before? Like from today, like today, what would you have told your younger self? Like any piece of advice and this doesn't have to be about beauty, it just anything that you're like, this is what you need to hear. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:50:38] Well, I wouldn't have told her. I would have asked her, how do I stay just like you? How do I stay and wonder of it all? How do I stay a dreamer? How do I stay? Childlike and kind and loving and trusting. Even when I'm being subjected to horror, how do I do that? Because I'm going to forget and I'm going to get really, really hurt because I forget. And it's only in the moments in my thirties when I remember to be like you that I'm going to get it together again. Can you tell me now how to just stay just like you? Elizabeth Molina: [00:51:15] Oh, I'm so. That's a beautiful, beautiful question and message. And I'm sure that all of the listeners we have so many listeners from different ages, some people in high school, some grandparents who listen. So this this fits for everyone, because I think that's the part that we're missing. That character that we spoke about earlier, that little human, that little child that we keep on trying to make them fit into the mold. Boy, say I don't have emotions. Don't do this, girls. Make sure you suck in your stomach. Make sure you're like really cute and you have your pigtails and your nails and all these things. We're making them into something that they're not. And so I love that you're reminding us to connect, to stay true to that, stay more aligned to that person, because wonderful things will happen to you. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:52:00] Yeah. Elizabeth Molina: [00:52:01] Thank you for that. And then last but not least, I had ragtime. Oh, mazing guests on the show. And I found that the more amazing the people, the more humble they are. And they don't really love to brag about themselves. Now you get to brag about yourself. Tell me about I know you have a podcast. I want to hear about that, too. But like this is a time where you get to Tommy Élisabeth, like I taught my cat how to eat with a spoon. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:52:29] Oh, that would be something to brag about for sure. Elizabeth Molina: [00:52:34] You bought those buttons where like she gets to speak, you know. Have you seen those yesterday? AnnaLynne McCord: [00:52:43] Yes, I have not done any of that Elizabeth Molina: [00:52:46] Brag about anything you want is what I'm saying, like the floor is open to anything, like there is no structure here. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:52:53] Ok, well, one of my wellness practices, breathwork led me to half them off. And he does breathwork. That leads you into ice baths. I am notoriously the coldest person on earth and an ice that sounds like my worst nightmare. So what did I do? I decided let's challenge ourselves and I will totally brag about this because I am incredibly proud of myself. Not only did I start doing ice stats every day back in October of last year, I changed my vascular system. I do not get cold anymore. In fact, I run quite hot. I like literally my vascular system had just gone dormant because it was used to me putting on coats and blankets and all this stuff. And now I'm like, it's all in here. And everyone's like, it's winter beds and you're in the Hamptons or there's snow. Like, why are you saying it's hot? Two or three months ago, I broke my own record. 20 minutes in the ice bath. Whoo! I do. I should. I posted it. I posted the whole video on Instagram because I was talking about the mental health aspects of this. And one of my this is the braggy part for me. One of my gurus, who's an incredible yoga teacher extraordinaire in New York, Eddie Stern. He called me and he said, I want you to know that a minute eight and something, whatever, whatever on the video, because it was the 20 minute, you know, of me doing this. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:54:19] He said, you slipped into bliss. And I started crying. It was such a beautiful moment because it just it it's it was impossible to describe. It was just a perfect moment, and it brought tears to my eyes. And this is someone who, like, trained in India and, you know, he's like he knows all the amazing chants and like leads these things. And I was just. And then the world to me that that he saw something that yogis, as you know, aspire to that I was able to do for myself, for that little nine year old girl inside of me, to to bring her into just ultimate joy and bliss in a space where my mind is not yelling things at me. And I'm just in silence. And it's wonderful and it's freezing cold that I didn't know it because my energy field was heating up. That water is so hard. It was like I could feel the outline of my energetic field in the water, just heating the water. It was wild. And I try to explain it. And then you see me just get less and less coherent on the video because you literally get high like you get must. Like you should not drive a motor vehicle after doing this because you literally can't function properly. But it's amazing. Definitely. Elizabeth Molina: [00:55:31] Check that out a little piece of it. But now I'm going to have to watch the whole thing. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:55:35] Yeah, there's a there's a little time one, but there's an actual video and you can just fly through. And I try to I try to walk people through what I'm feeling. And then I just like I'm just goodbye, everyone. I'm in heaven. Elizabeth Molina: [00:55:46] Oh, my gosh. That was cool. You've inspired me because I am you sound like me. I'm the coldest person ever. Yeah. And maybe perhaps my. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:55:54] It's your vascular system. It's dormant. Yeah, it's it's gone dormant because it's like, oh, well, you know, Elizabeth going to put a big warm coat on me so I don't need to warm her up. And I, I do you know, I went on the podcast actually because of all of those he invited me on. I was like, fangirl so hard. But I literally go on there and we were talking about it. And it's you talk like you start talking to your to your autonomic nervous system. And all the doctors and scientists are like, you can't tell your autonomic nervous system. And I'm half as like, yes, I can watch me. And he does. And he he's I mean, he's incredible. But the but what I do when I'm in the cold, I say, OK, body. You're cold, but I'm not the body, I'm not my spleen, I'm not my liver, I'm not my elbow, I'm not my skin, I'm not my body, I'm not my brain. I'm the consciousness beneath between like inside, right beneath it all. So consciousness doesn't get cold. What's going on? I am not cold. My body is cold. So I still my consciousness. I'm like, heat my body up, warm it up, stop shivering. And you see me on the video and I'm like, shivering, stopped. And my body starts and I start going into a space where I'm feeling fine and a really cold tub. That tub is about forty three degrees temperature like Fahrenheit. So fucking cold is shared by anything under 60 is just like hubba, hubba, hubba. Yeah, but but totally this has been transformative, like life changing for me. I just looked at the time I actually have to go, but I know I could talk to you forever. AnnaLynne McCord: [00:57:36] I guess I have a podcast, too. It's called Unzipped. It is my old Niños, you know, co-star, because I did say yes. And I do. And I and I did do that over five years. And my old co-star and I, she and I got someone talked about us behind our back screen, created a feud between the two of us without us realizing it. We hashed that out on episode one of the show. I hated her for five years. And now we're doing a podcast together. So we talk about that on episode one. And then all of the episodes are us diving into topics where we just ask you to come on beyond that, share with us what's going on. You have to come, obviously, on the show and tell us your story. Right now, she is going on mat leave because she's about to have a break. She created a human in her body. And we've been talking about how God is good and he will be here in a couple of weeks. So after that, at some point, I would love to have you on. But see all of your listeners, you are so beautiful because I see your soul. I don't have to see your faces and your know what clothes you wear in cars you drive. But I don't measure your beauty by that. I measure it by the starlight you're made of. And I can see that sparkling all the way from here. So I'm so grateful to be able to be a part of your journey for this lovely little period of the sidecars. Thanks for having me. Elizabeth Molina: [00:58:47] Thank you so much, Anna. And everyone don't crash. When you go watch her video, we will do so. I appreciate you for coming. Have an amazing day and we will talk soon. Bye. All right, guys, thank you so much for tuning in and listening to this amazing conversation and these amazing topics that sometimes we don't want to talk about. We only want to talk about what's really beautiful on the outside and on the surface. But these are things that are happening every day. If you are interested in checking out the love storm campaign. Please do so. I'm going to put the links in the bottom. Also, check out Anna's podcast. And if you haven't already subscribe to this podcast, I don't know what you're waiting for, because I have to tell you that they're going to be some amazing guests coming and amazing conversations that you do not want to miss. Please share this episode with at least five people, you know, have them subscribe. And if you haven't already, tell people that, hey, this is a podcast worth listening to. So, guys, until next week. See you then. Bye. Exclusive Discounts to my audience: www.kenzzi.com/discount/elizabeth Apollo – Molina10 for 10% off Branch Basics – use Elizabeth for 15% off starter kit Clearlight Sauna  - Heal with Heat Acoustic Sleepphones (https://www.sleepphones.com/?aff=537) – use Elizabeth10 for $10 off Earthing – use Elizabeth for 10% off Thrive Market – use 13895805* to get 25% off + free gift BioPure Supplements – use EM10 for 10% off Ophora Water – use Glow10 for 10% Kettle & Fire (https://www.kf91trk.com/XM694S/9B9DM/) – use Elizabeth for 15% off Vital Reaction – to get 10% off Connect with Elizabeth Molina and make sure to join The Beauty Circle. Check us out on YouTube and Follow our page on Instagram.

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   25 Aug 2021

   Ep. 19 - The Beautiful Transition of Menopause

   In this episode of Your Beauty Guru w/ Elizabeth Molina podcast, Elizabeth Molina talks with Dr. Michelle Gordon AKA Dr. G. She is a TV Host, Surgeon, Athlete and Author. She was the former Host and Executive Producer of the Reality Docu-Drama, called Life Matters with Dr. Michelle Gordon that aired on the SciFi channel; It was about 7 women they were addressing aging while enjoying the adventure of a lifetime in Spain, she is a board certified general surgeon and founder of the Gordon Surgical group a multispecialty group practice in 2005. She also co-authored a book called Life Matters cookbook with Chef Cassandra Catoia recipes for living including a low carbohydrate and paleo inspired delicious meals you can prepare at home. She is the founder of the menopause movement and it is a community for women to flourish through menopause and life. She founded this menopause movement when menopause hit her hard, and it was very frustrating for her especially as a doctor that there wasn't very much out there. We're going to hear about this during the interview but she set out and she started learning and getting information and this information really transformed her life, not just menopause but her life in general and so she created this community and so she is out there to help other women experience the same transformation she has. Make sure to take away the notes! Conversation Highlights: [00:02:17] This is such an important conversation to have, because as women I feel like there is not a lot of information in general about our menstruation and why it's good to have it, what it means, and there's alot of shame around it. What age were you when you first got your period? Pill and no period? Surgery coming off the pill?! Butt injection while performing a surgery!?! [00:05:32] So we started with the period, but no one talks about this period, like this whole thing and like even the days like what that means. As a surgeon, as a physician, as someone who is educated..How do you take this news? In your brain, how do you receive that? Oh this is happening.. Are you mechanical about it or are you the woman behind it? I want to know about your experience, it’s not often we get to hear from the doctor who has been diagnosed with something and have to experience it like their patients Biology: Why do women have biological clocks? There’s types of Menopause?! Who did I turn to for help? ...The answer might surprise you! Most common symptoms [00:12:25] In your training being a surgeon or doctor did you learn about nutrition? When i take my 2 dogs to the vet the first thing they ask is, what’s their diet, how much protein, fibre, etc? But when I go to see a doctor I never get asked about it.  Why is that? What I learned in medical school How I changed my perception to make now the best time of my life [00:17:10] Do all women experience menopause the same? It doesn’t suck, It’s a privilege! [00:18:00] Is there a diet that can help us women have an easier transition into / prepare us for  menopause? Maybe!? Sugar v fat: Who is the real enemy? Politics and food?? The No No list: 3 C’s and 3 S’s 5 Guys is the healthiest fast food [00:28:18] What are some common symptoms that women will experience that indicate menopause? Are periods shameful because of society being patriarchal? What is feminine energy? Do women have an expiration date? Or are they like wine? People pay to look like babies?! Quantum physics..Double slit experiment and how to manifest during menopause [00:41:11] What are some common mistakes women make surrounding menopause? You don’t have to suffer through it Serotonin inhibitor and its impact on orgasms? [00:45:10] Now this is a beauty podcast, can you tell me what your definition  of beauty is? Beauty is your thoughts and perception of yourself Be excited for menopause here’s why! No more biological clock..menopause is freedom? [00:48:20]So looking at my beauty circle, what areas do you think you excel in and why? Movement - I am training for a 7 mile race, from Woodsboro to Falmouth [00:51:02]What’s one thing you would have told your younger self before reaching where you are today? What advice would Dr. G give to her 18 year old self? [00:51:55]BRAG TIME!!! This is your time to tell us more about what you’re currently working on, or doing in life. Studied classical voice for 15 years, was a first soprano in college Help so many women, create the lives they always wanted through the mastery program. Reach Dr. G on: www.menopausemovement.com/betajoin Instagram - @DrMichelleGordon Facebook - @DrMichelleGordon Twitter - @MichelleEGordon Clubhouse - @DrG TikTok - @DrMichelleGordon Exclusive Discounts to my audience: www.kenzzi.com/discount/elizabeth Apollo – Molina10 for 10% off Branch Basics – use Elizabeth for 15% off starter kit Clearlight Sauna  - Heal with Heat Acoustic Sleepphones (https://www.sleepphones.com/?aff=537) – use Elizabeth10 for $10 off Earthing – use Elizabeth for 10% off Thrive Market – use 13895805* to get 25% off + free gift BioPure Supplements – use EM10 for 10% off Ophora Water – use Glow10 for 10% Kettle & Fire (https://www.kf91trk.com/XM694S/9B9DM/) – use Elizabeth for 15% off Vital Reaction – to get 10% off Connect with Elizabeth Molina and make sure to join The Beauty Circle. Check us out on YouTube and Follow our page on Instagram

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