This is a lone bridge episode between the old and the new answering: Why did I return after 2.5 years? The truth I had to face of my own dismantling. Why Owning HER Health, in the current takeover of the US is a reboot needed more now than ever. No music, raw talk, Invite to Join my Substack so we can make this era of the show more interactive and a two way dynamic. Sponsors get a private podcast and guest invites. Tag someone who needs to hear this! 37 minutes: Forward to the clips you need via the Transcript: I'm Dr. Lisa, and we're trying out this pre-recording of the live. My podcast, Owning HER Health™, show is coming back after about a two and a half year hiatus for various reasons, which I want to explain here. I thought I'd try this out. basically this is a solo episode and I'm not going to put any music underneath. I'm not going to make anything fancy. I'm doing the show for the content of it. I'm not here to impress. I'm not here to perform. I'm hoping that the five years that I've kind of been quiet in terms of not coaching per se, not doing a lot of the group coaching. It's been about five years since I ran my last mind body brand Academy, closer to six years. Gosh, it's crazy. About five and a half years. And really the show was for that audience, which were women that, you know, uh, craved their career. lot of them were in the caregiver economy, whether they were necessarily in healthcare or not. A lot of them were because that's who I was helping primarily through my Mind Body Brand Academy. But I came back now because I was going to retire that show. But the crap show that's happened here in America, which we really can't be surprised about, although I think we're grieving. know particularly Gen X and older millennials, millennials in general, we're grieving because we genuinely, our parents were ignorant, but here in the US, we weren't. Lissette Holland (02:14.208) And yet we got seduced enough into the climate, into the comforts, into the gains we had made, into the culture and completely missed that since Nixon. The people who didn't like Nixon getting impeached or leaving put into effect a lot of stuff and a lot of things have been you know, dismantled. And I had to come back because... I am ready because I became dismantled. For those of you who are new and didn't listen to any of my old shows or know me, my whole life and structure and roles, marriage, my kids getting a little bit older, my brand, I had retired sort of the belly guru. I had been moving into you know moving online working on my ex's business to make that a family business and a family empire When I look back, you know, I can see why I was kicked out of that because of what was to come by the time we got to the pandemic I had already suffered from white collar domestic violence from betrayals and family from a lot of the the deconstruction work Lissette Holland (03:51.054) from the patriarchy and I had gone through that in my inner circles. And so I could look at it from a perspective of like, okay, everybody's gonna finally like understand what I'm saying. Cause it was always so hard for me and probably if you're neurodivergent, and I'm not even gonna say neurodivergent, I'm gonna say non-normative, non-mediocrity. You have always probably had a really hard time with explaining what you felt innately. And I understand that. I intimately understand that. But you could hold your intimate circles and you could work on certain projects and this and that. Well, now we got a big project and I couldn't retire at owning her health because everything I had created The Belly Guru for and Owning HER Health™ and moving that empowerment out into the world, regardless of your situation, is more needed now than I think it was needed 10 years ago when I launched the podcast. October 31st, Halloween Eve, I recorded my first show. But that in and of itself, being a Halloween show. (2016) was just such a different America and world. I can so relate to where we need to be here in redefining her. You're the her, but the world needs to redefine and we're finally gonna have enough men on board who are realizing this has nothing to do with my masculinity. This ultra masculinity that they're pushing, this ultrapatriarchy that has turned into anarchy almost, we're almost at the edge of that, but definitely an authoritarian fascism underlying and Christian national and all that tie in, men are now deconstructing themselves from. They're realizing the injury of the patriarchy without us saying it and them feeling shameful for falling for it. Lissette Holland (06:12.706) Listen, we all fell for it. I feel that grief as Gen X. I can feel it. It's a similar grief to what many men are feeling, especially if they're Gen X, especially if they're older millennials, where we were so close. We were the generation that really, even if it was propaganda to distract us and think we're going for a democracy and being the global regulators of all the chaos and the, excuse me, despondents and things like that. We believed it. We believed the morning cartoons, Saturday morning cartoons and the Justice League and the Legion of Doom. Like we believed the Marvel comics that the very wealthy, like bald, white, Lex Luther guys had an inferiority complex that he turned into his villain error and his power was just having money and control over people and knowing and going for their weakness their kryptonite like we understood we watched Lissette Holland (07:34.414) Star Wars and understood we were the resistance. We weren't the empire. We didn't want to be the empire. Something happened. Something happened. I'm not going to get into it. It's combination of social media, the oligarchs coming in, kind of like the monopolists of the first gilded era 100 years ago here in the US. And they just keep playing the same playbook. Now we see it. Now we see it. Now we see it. So what do we do? What do we do? Well, here's the deal. Owning Her Health is going to come back. Last time I was really publicly active, like I said, was 2017, 18, 19, 20. My anchors were dismantled. How did I get through that? How did I live even with the financial instability and quite frankly, my chosen extraction of myself? Over the past five years, I gave away probably half a million dollars in a salary, at least. I needed that. I needed that because I lost a lot of money through the divorce, through the financial infidelity, through just broken family dynamics, the cost of that when you have children and you have, they had to go to college. It was just a real big mess. How did I do that? I was following a sacred success path. I was following. This is not a cult. This is a culture Lissette Holland (09:19.314) I was following and drinking my own Kool-Aid. But I'm not a cult. I'm a culture. I'm a sacred culture. I'm a woman. I am somebody who I will live the life that I'm preaching to you. I'm not a salesman. I am a human. Lissette Holland (09:44.246) And I'm standing here right now to tell you that the positioning and the time affluence that I've had is more a matter of mindset and infrastructure. I can come back to this podcast because I had the infrastructure to come back to this podcast. I have an email list to reactivate because I had formed an email list for many years, now almost 20 years. Some of them, many of them followed me through the process into being patients and then listening to my, you know, and doing my life coaching and taking some of my programs and starting their own boutique practices. And, you know, they evolved with me. I was just a couple steps ahead to soften it a bit, but I didn't necessarily take out the challenge. My people, my people are strong, which is why I know right now that they might need the space to have the practice, to get the feedback, not as coaching, but like as consultants coming together, because they've established their own little spaces and circles. But we're about to fool around and find out fast here in America. Lissette Holland (11:10.402) Those of us who are watching it and have fooled around in our own lives and found out faster than the majority are in a very unique position right now to give the new playbook, the parallel playbook. I think before many of us, and I know myself and what I was coaching and guiding people and had created for my own clinic, boutique and wellness culture and all of that was kind of making my own silos. And that's where I was. That's where I spent the 2008 to 2010/11. I watched neighbors go bankrupt and have to leave their houses, but we kept ours. know, like I was in my own little bubble. was minding my own business. was whatever, but I was deeply hurt by 45's presidency. I woke up that next day on November the 5th, 2016, feeling like somebody beat the hell out of me. And from that moment on, I had my...reawakening. I had my night of the soul. I adjusted, but I adjusted into a silo, to work in that and thus I made the error of saying what a lot of people have. I thought our bad was done. And I think that's what got #47 president in. Lissette Holland (12:51.41) My 2018 was the US 2023. I too ran right back into what I had been working my way out of, out of this thought process that if I can just, you know, make that guy okay and use everything I had learned through the Belly Guru and my branding academy and all of that and all the success I had had pivoting from clinical care into more of like an online authority and coach. If I could just take that into his business. Then he'd be okay when I really come back and I really explode and I really fix things and I change the infrastructure and I do all the things. I thought I had time. I thought I had time, but within a year, just that push caused the return fight and flight and his fly back into his comfort zone, which was the patriarchy, which was the red pill culture, which was the victimization. My ex br
