Failing Forward With Nikou Lohse Podcast Nikou Lohse

In this episode, Nikou talks to power couple Angela and Shawn Blymiller who create content sharing their health journey as well as the challenges of raising an autistic child.
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KEY TAKEAWAYS
We were always on the go and fell into the routine of eating convenience foods, but when our son was diagnosed with autism Angela did a lot of research and said we need to go gluten free and dairy free. I fought it for a while, but only having one person commit to that diet is really hard. I thought it was hippy logic, but I said fine, I'll give you two weeks so I can prove you wrong and I never want to hear about it again.There was a lot of pain and suffering that we had to go through before we got to the diet change. Feeding a toddler, there are so many meltdowns where he wants what he wants, and I needed my husband to be on board and not just feed him anything.I feel that we're all born with a toxic load that we can take according to your genetic makeup and the different mutations your body might have in enabling your body to detox.A lot of chronic illness, that's rampant in this country, is due to toxic overload.Adverse events are real and the slogan is that they're rare, and the CDC posts that on their advertisements all the time which is so infuriating for us as a family, because it's not rare if it happens to you.When you see the pain and the trauma that it causes, not just to the individual that suffers the adverse event, but the family that supports that individual.The pain caused by  brain inflammation from Theo's “injury” became so server that when he was almost four he was diagnosed with PANDAS (Paediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcal infections), which is an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation in his brain.When he had aflare it would be hours and hours of him screaming in pain and us not knowing how to help him because his brain feels like it's on fire.We had to do cyclical antibiotics for a while, but that destroyed his gut and his microbiome. So, we ended up doing faecal microbiota transfer. 70% of our immune system is housed in our gut.The gut brain access is so real, and we've seen that with Theo. But through doing the diet together we've got less brain fog as well. If you focus on your gut health your brain health will improve. 
BEST MOMENTS
‘One week into the diet change, Theo regained eye contact and started responding to his name again, both of which he had lost after the “injury”.'
‘The blood brain barrier doesn't always fully develop until a child is two or three, it's a physical barrier that prevents toxins in your blood from going into your brain.'
‘The thing that makes us upset is that people can be so rude and dismissive.'
‘It's always the dads out there that hold everyone up, so dads, listen to this story please!'
 
ABOUT THE GUESTS
The Pure Family's mission and purpose is to help you take better care of yourself while providing hope and direction for your future. They want to create a community to empower parents to do more for themselves and for their kids.
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Pure Living Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pure-living-family-podcast/id1565836396 
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ABOUT THE HOST
Nikou Lohse is a mom of three, wife to former MLB pitcher Kyle Lohse, Master Pilates instructor, yoga teacher, and lover of all things MOVEment, MINDFULness, and commUNITY. 
Nikou is a serial entrepre

In this episode, Nikou talks to Dr Wendie Trubow who has been through a healing journey physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and in business. They discuss how she's got to where she is today – personally and professionally – as well as the incredible things she's had to go through to get here.
 
KEY TAKEAWAYS
I got into the field of functional medicine, prevention and toxins because I am the poster child for terrible genetics piling it on, ruining my health and being sick as a dog. I felt called to heal.My husband had a dream to open a multi-specialty, integrative and functional medicine centre that really pulled the best of the best and did all the best technology and functional medicine and eventually moved to a large site where we had a farm, a school and a medical centre and brought all of the best providers in the area to this place.We violated the three rules of business: 1) Don't grow too fast. 2) Have enough cash on hand for rainy days. 3) Don't hire jerks. In 2015, we were 7 years old, and we saw the biggest snowfall in a winter for years. Telemedicine didn't exist back then and people stopped going to the doctors. Because we didn't have enough cash saved away because we'd grown too fast, it became clear that we didn't have the right people on the team and we were closed by August the next year we were closed.We lost all our money and our family's money that had been invested into the business, we lost the property, and my husband declared bankruptcy. The good news was that we didn't have enough equity in our house for the court to come after because we'd leveraged it. But we lost everything else. We had to start over in our mid-40s with four children.The choices were to do it again or leave medicine, which didn't feel right. We did a lot of soul searching.My husband is an innate optimist and could never have imagined that things could have occurred the way they occurred. We went into deep conversations about what his thought processes and how it works… I was just as guilty because I allowed it to happen.We've now worked together for 14 years and now I'm confident to say: “I can't explain why, but something feels wrong and you need to honour it”. Every fricking time that I said it was wrong in the past, it was wrong.My story has two parts, the first is pre-Celiac which starts at birth. I have two genes for Celiac, I then piled on lots of 70s ‘cooked' meals and microwaved meals in the 80s, then the stress kicked in when I became an OBGYN. All of those things meant I was diagnosed with Celiac at 35, but I was sick for years.Part two is post-Celiac, getting the diagnosis was transformational because I stopped getting so sick. I was able to get back to a reasonable baseline and then hit peri-menopause which I chalked a lot up to that, but in reality it was actually toxic exposure. It's so hard to diagnose and heal yourself.The toxins are all around us and it's impossible to live on this earth without being exposed to toxins. It's not about being toxin-free, it's about minimising the impact of what we're being exposed to so that our bodies can optimally function.Eat like a pregnant woman all the time.Think about what's going in you (food, water, alcohol), what's going on you (clothing, beauty products, make up), what's going on around you (herbicides, insecticides, pesticides, what you clean your house with). Think of these as buckets and then you can start to empty those buckets. It's not about perfection but making improvements and keep improving.The symptoms of mould are manifold: skin issues, respiratory issues, gut issues and difficulty losing weight. Test around you and test yourself.If you don't fail you don't grow. It's OK to fail, from that failure comes something you won't be able to imagine, so don't give up. 
BEST MOMENTS
‘At our peak we were the largest functional medicine facility in the country, which by extension means the world because America is really leading the charge in f

In this episode, Nikou introduces season 3 of the podcast by talking to former NFL players Reggie Walker and David Carter about failing forward and how to find your best self through trials, tribulations and adversity.
 
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Mental health is something everyone needs to maintain and suffers from from time to time.You become very aware that football carries a 100% injury rate, they tell you in the NFL that it's not an ‘if' thing, it's a ‘when' thing. As soon as you're thinking about not getting injured, that's your time to get out of there, because to do the job you need to be in a very special place.If anything's bothering you, you shouldn't be on the field. With anything other than what's in front of you on your mind you will get hurt, as soon as you hesitate.Any professional coach will tell you that sports are 90% mental and 10% physical. There are some monsters out there that can bench-press the world and can outrun a cheetah, but they'll be cut and out of league next week. The ones that last are the ones who have their mental down, they understand what their strategy is, what their tools are, what their weaknesses are. It's the same in life too.You need to be regimented, you need to know you're putting the best possible product out there. You're competing each and every day, so you need to eat right, manage your relationships in and outside of the building.Sports is all about relationships, the rest of the team could win without me and don't absolutely need me, but I can help to win more. So you have to be a good leader, a good follower, support people, gain their trust. You need to have a set of tools to bring to the game, not just one.There's a lot of weight on you because it's a game of inches and there are 53 players on a team and only 11 on the field. I've seen guys get cut because they were around the guy who made the mistake! Keeping the negativity from the press, the internet and the commentators – I have a special place of dislike for those guys, when you're watching a game, you can't ever tell definitely who made a mistake in a play.When you tell yourself ‘I'm not gonna do this or that' you're kinda telling yourself to actually focus on these things. You need to say ‘I'm doing this solely and nothing else matters'. Meditation helps with that.I've always brought curiosity to what I do and get excited About exploring something different, finding out something new about yourself and seeing where that takes you.It's all about the setup. I've gone through a lot of abuse – mental, physical, sexual. I do belly breathing because it's hard to control thoughts popping up, but you need to get rid of those things to focus on what you need to get done. I go on a lot of walks throughout the day to think things through, sometimes I'll let the bad thoughts catch me as well sometimes and I'll sit with it and understand it because running and hiding from things can be damaging. Sometimes those things need to be processed and you need to listen to them.An executive is the leader of a company, you have to come up with the ideas that make the money, you have to create a healthy environment for your employees. The best way to do that is to slow your ass down, look at what you have in front of you and come up with the best solution and figure it out. A lot of people make decisions when they're too close to the fire and they get burned, take a step back and look at all the perspectives. Meditation allows you to break things down in painstaking detail.When I have any time to myself, as a Dad of three, I work on my breathing. You can always find a minute in a day to do this, even if it's while you're driving or in the bathroom.The first 27 years of my life was filled with a lot of trauma and abuse. Sports was a safe haven for me and was where I could be happy. It wasn't the healthiest thing, looking back, but it drove me.When I realised that I wasn't feeling better, despite getting all my emotions out on the fiel

In this episode, Nikou shares her show with The Cosmic Love Antenna podcast, hosted by Harrison Maegher. Their conversation about love and energy reflects the mission statements of both podcasts, hence the simulcast.
 
KEY TAKEAWAYS
A big part of The Cosmic Love Antenna podcast is about love in everything that we do. This is where we first connected, in seeing love in everything.You reflect the idea of building a powerful community.From the age of 0 to 7 is where the subconscious mind is being programmed. Every experience and every relationship informs your future character.Children watch everything, my son mimics the words I use. If I speak lovingly, he speaks lovingly, if I yell, he yells. They soak us up like a sponge, we establish a lot of their belief systems. It's our job as adults to be very aware of the energy that we bring when we talk to a child. Don't be angry when they do something wrong.I had incredible opportunities given to me because my parents wanted me to have a better life than they did. But through some things I witnessed and experienced I became an emancipated minor in my early teens and lived on my own and supported myself while I was at school.At that time I was eating poor foods and poor foods wreaked havoc on your internal system – the energetic, emotional and mental being. Damaging the gut affects every other aspect of your system because the gut is connected to everything. It affects your mood, thoughts, ability to make clear decisions, and confidence.I was literally full of poop, I was not eliminating. I got pent up and wasn't releasing. I felt anxious and like I had no control and that caused depression. Each chakra has a masculine and a feminine side. Getting shit done and not letting go or receiving is a masculine energy. Look at the balance in your life from a gut perspective, where can you release and rest?I became fearful of eating because it was making me bloated and I was modelling so that wouldn't go down well. I became fearful of food. The bloating then became acne, which became cystic acne, which became depression because I didn't like the way I looked, that led me to anxiety as I did more to become accepted. The bad bacteria built up in my gut and I got SIBO (small intestine bacterial overgrowth) and even when I was eating healthy food I was bloating until I looked like I was 5 months pregnant.It took doctors 18 years to diagnose my CIBO. You can either take three weeks of antibiotics or do what I did, which was create a protocol that includes nutrition, exercise and mindfulness. Within 5 weeks I healed myself of CIBO.The attracting of negative vibrations makes us feel like the victim. But you're attracting it so you can see it within you and come to a state of health. Once we can see where we're at, we can start to move forward.I'm always asked what are the keys to success and selling a successful business. It's three things: attitude, mentality and work ethic. You don't have to work really hard all day, you just need to be willing to do the things others won't. But you won't get there if you don't have the work ethic to form new habits.The best coach, practitioner that we have is inside of us and when it speaks we should listen. Not every ‘diet' works for every human being. It's about your context and what your body needs at the moment. It's all changeable, you shouldn't make it your lifestyle.Get out in nature and into the sun in as little clothes as possible, the vitamin D will give you a sense of security, safety, support, self-care and self-love that you need as a foundation upon which the rest of your body thrives. There's a direct correlation between being able to get out in the sun and your mood.We have no control over the past, obsessing over the past leads to depression… though the future leads to anxiety!What we don't heal in ourselves, we pass on to others. This is why we get depressed when we spend time around depressive people. But you need to look at what you'r

In this episode, Nikou broadcasts from Clubhouse and talks to Credit Ninja, who works with celebrities, high-level executives and professional athletes on repairing and unleashing the power of their credit.
 
KEY TAKEAWAYS
 
In 2008 I ran a tech company and it was going under because of lack of funding and low risk appetite in the market and I had to leave my CEO position. People were losing their homes.My bank account got frozen so I started living off credit cards to get through the month. After months of this I owed $165,000 and I got a federal lawsuit filed against me. It wasn't a good feeling defending myself in federal court with no attorney, I had to learn to be my own attorney for three and a half years.I finally got retribution and was released from the lawsuit and was left with nothing.When you're at the deepest, darkest part of your life and there's no way for you to pay the bills, and your house is being foreclosed on, what do you do? I wanted to climb the highest building in Las Vegas and jump off, but I didn't have the credit card to book the hotel room!I started selling my clothes and purses and eating 15 cent packets of ramen noodles. I had to decide do I put fuel in my car or food in my mouth.When you get to the top after being at rock bottom you have a responsibility to help others.I think of credit cars as a float through. If you buy something on there you'd better have a plan to pay it off as soon as possible. Make sure you're doing it to harvest the credit points as a by-product. Ask if the purchase is making you money?If you open a credit card or store card over Christmas and you forget about it, it will damage your credit. Be organised and aware.Health is the new wealth and wealth is the new health. If you don't mange both you'll have an issue. If you don't pay attention to it it'll leave you, same goes for friendships, relationships, health and wealth.Knowing how to play the game, knowing the rules and when to have a debt at the right time. Make sure you have $0 on there on the day the bank reports and then start spending on it again before paying off by the next report date.If you're born poor it's not your fault, but dying poor is your fault. There are so many resources and ways to connect with successful people who give back their time and knowledge to help you.There's always something to learn from others, be a sponge.Because I travel to meet people a lot, and have a lot of meetings, diet is important. Before being the Credit Ninja I was a Pre-Med so I know what I'm talking about. 
BEST MOMENTS
‘Life sometimes hands you a purpose, you can't choose it.'
‘When you don't have any finances you learn to be resourceful.'
‘Interest does kill you.'
‘What comes in must go out, it's a flow.'
 
ABOUT THE GUEST
Credit Ninja started working a safe job in corporate finance. At least until the housing market crashed in 2008. Credit Ninja's job dissolved as she became a victim of fraud. In short, Credit Ninja's world stopped spinning. She lost more than $20 million. The bank took her home and her bank accounts were frozen. After a 4-year lawsuit fuelled by meagre poker winnings and ramen noodles, Credit Ninja's credit was wrecked.
 
Yet, Credit Ninja fought day-by-day to protect and build her life back up, and she did. Over the following months she went from the low 400s well past the 800 range. Her close friends and colleagues took notice. One by one, Credit Ninja shared her credit “cheat codes”. She helped them master the credit game to get the business funds, car loans, house loans, and even executive travel “hacks” as only a true Credit Ninja can. And the name stuck!
 
That's why today Credit Ninja goes beyond credit repair alone. Credit Ninja's passion is sharing the big picture of true wealth, by using credit as a wealth-building tool.
 
Website: https://www.creditninjamentor.com/
 
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Email: nikoulohse@gmail.com
Instagram: @nikoulohse
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In this episode, Nikou speaks to Dr Janie Lacy, a master in her field of working with women with adolescents, marriages and families overcome trauma, anger, conflict resolution and helping them find joy and a place of unity. They talk about her journey to where she is today as well as giving tips on how you can have better quality relationships, better communication and how to manage toxic emotions like anger.
 
KEY TAKEAWAYS
A lot of us weren't taught to feel. My Dad was an alcoholic and my Mom wasn't raised by her mother. So, they bought a lot of trauma when they had children. Us children were seen and not heard. Then in your 20s you don't know who you are, how you're feeling or how to react to situations.I find a lot of women – and men – if we don't have a template, and we try to enter a relationship, we don't know who we are and it makes a mess.Women don't ask for what they want in relationships, business and life because subconsciously we don't feel like we deserve it. This can sabotage things when people are really showing up to be there for us or compliment us. We push them away and expect them to chase us and then when they don't we wonder what's wrong with them?!A lot of women end up in the same kinds of relationships where they're treated less than they deserve. What we find on a healing journey is that there's some reflection of how we really feel about yourself. We expect people to treat us better than we treat ourselves when 69% of our own thoughts about ourselves are negative.I ask people to make a list of who they want to be in a relationship with and then ask them to list the kinds of person those people would want to be attracted to. Usually, it's not the person making the list! The friends I had at school I had to avoid the pain at home. My Dad was dealing drugs out of the house, my sister was in a toxic, abusive relationship and I found my grandmother dead when I was 12. I ran track, played basketball, I became a hustler because I didn't want to become like the women in my family, reliant on men.My biggest mission is to help people enter their purpose and the process of entering God's plan for them. In the process of looking at how I saw myself really determined how I was going to see my future. Being able to know that there was more for me, even though I couldn't see it (which is what we call Faith). My friends were pivotal people in my life to get me to where I am now. I was running away because I knew what I didn't want but I didn't know what I wanted yet until I had my own life tragedy. After being married for 12 years I realised I'd married my father, my husband had addictions, but I got pregnant and that's what made me realise there was something greater for me to run towards. I left my husband when my son was 10 months old because I saw what I was becoming.Right now I'm running towards that  every single person that I interact with is better due to my presence. I'm breaking generational legacy, curses, building a foundation for my son to be who God wants him to be and I now have peace of mind. Peace is priceless.I see in women sometimes hyper-independence at our own detriment. There are many women working in corporations, but when that all goes away they don't know who they are.It's not their fault, but many women will contribute to the demise of their relationships than they will even take ownership for. It's hard for women to step into their vulnerability.When I had my child, I was scared I would lose my life because it seemed I was losing my freedom to do what I wanted. I couldn't name my fear at the time. But we have to name it and then build a support system, with no Mommy guilt. I got nannies and babysitters and cameras in my house so I can check up on him. You can still do all the things you want to do while being a Mom. It's not and/or, it's both.Sometimes we make decisions based on social norms that are wrong, like mothers having to be housewives and homemakers to the detriment of