Episode 44: This One Thing Creates More Wealth

Today’s episode of the podcast is about This One Thing Creates More Wealth

KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST

After identifying your future self from our last episode... In terms of your health and Alopecia... What's next? In today's episode, we will discuss how you can reverse aging holistically through mind, body and spirit.

HIGHLIGHTS YOU CAN'T SIMPLY MISS

• Investing in health is wealth. 2:00

• Investing in our health is that next level. 7:08

• See yourself as a holistic person. 10:12

• The only route for healing is the natural route. 18:48

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Transcription

Awaken to hair growth. Awaken to hair growth because there is possibility to get your hair back. Awaken to hair growth because we're not told that we're able to conquer and overcome alopecia. Awaken to hair growth because I want to be a positive light and beacon for you because I've healed my alopecia and now I help others do the same with different types of alopecia, men, women, children, of all ages, of all races and ethnicities. 

Welcome back everybody. Thank you so much for joining me to the Alopecia Angel Podcast. Awaken to Hair Growth. I am your host, Johanna Dahlman and today we are talking about your future self part two.

This is really continuing on, of last week that we spoke about your future self and how to obtain that and how to really look for that. And in my case, this kind of segways perfectly into what's next, what's next after alopecia? What's next in terms of health? And being in my forties, I start to think.

Okay, How is it that when I see myself in my eighties or in my nineties, how is it that I can be ageless? Absolutely ageless and what I mean by ageless is, I mean, thinking clear, being extremely lucid. Not forgetting where I had misplaced my keys, not forgetting the names of my children, not forgetting life events that were so important to me, not forgetting like the little inside jokes that me and my husband had, and so much more.

I want to get to old age, so to speak, in extreme healthy conditions, not worrying about anything. I wanna be disease free. I wanna have my whole hair full health. I wanna be vibrant, I wanna. Just loving life, having purpose and grabbing life by the horns really and just enjoying it.

Enjoying it, and relishing in good health because to me, investing in my health is wealth. Yes, we have wealth with our retirement funds. Yes, we have wealth with our money in the bank, but in all honesty, I believe that health. Your true wealth, because what's the point of having, um, let's say a big bank account or a big retirement fund if you're gonna be handicapped, or if you're gonna be not being able to think for yourself or not being able to drive, or not being able to walk, or not being able to be as mobile as you'd like, or forgetting the names of your family members or  what I mean?

It's just how is it that you wanna age? How is it that you want to defy the aging process. Many times I have clients who tell me, Oh, you know, I went to the dermatologist or to the doctor and they say My hair loss is because of aging, and I wanna call that out because, it's not because of aging, it's because of we are living in a way that's not supporting our bodies.

We have habits that don't lead us to better health that don't promote better hair and in all honesty, when it comes to health in general, your hair is the last thing that your body is thinking about. Let me repeat that. Hair is the last thing that your body is thinking about. So it's thinking first and foremost to keep you alive.

That's its job to keep you alive with good oxygen, with your lungs and your liver and your kidneys and your heart. Those are your main organs, Your skin is an organ too. Your hair is not in organ. Your hair is not vital for your survival. And so understanding that really shifts the way we live. It shifts, and almost, at least for me, forces me to live in a better way because if my body's not thinking about my hair, then I need to think about my hair.

Does that make sense? What can I do to move the needle to bring my hair to like better growth? More abundant growth and having it healthy overall. What can I do to mitigate the harmful things that I do, like coloring, like highlights, like this, like that, that I can mitigate and promote better health so that I have better hair, not just for today, but until I die.

Until, I'm 110 years old and if you've looked at those centenarians, right? We always love to talk about the blue zones, and we always like to talk about the centenarians and how they live long, but in what capacity are they living long? How are they living long? Are they just strapped to a wheelchair and just looking at the clock, go by every day?

How is it that they're living? And to everyone, this is a very personal, uh, approach. It's a very personal decision. Personally, I want to live healthy, vibrant, active, mind, body and spirit. Very active, mind, body, and spirit until the day that there's no more days until the day that it's done. But at the same time, it's up to me to do the work now for that to happen, right?

It's up to me to lay the foundation for that to happen. Just like I had to switch out foundations, switch out so many things for my hair to come back and heal from alopecia. Now I'm thinking about how to be ageless. And a lot of times that comes with investing in our health and when I say investing in our health, I mean learning more.

So, for example, I just got back from a health conference and I absolutely loved this health conference. It just brought so much light and education and it infused me with so much energy. It really did because there's so many gadgets and gizmos out there. There's so much technology out there. There's so much distractions, right?

To say the least. There's a lot of distractions, but there's a lot of gadget and gizmos that some work, some are worth your money, some are not worth your money and I got to play with a lot of them. I got to try them out, and I'll be talking about these gadgets and gizmos later on and in another podcast. But it's quite exciting to see how I can take aspects of my health to that next level.

How can I get to that next level? Because if we're thinking in the same mindset of before, well, all I have to do is just, watch my diet and exercise well. No, it's not that. And it's so much more, and there's so many things, tips and tricks that you can do to not have to spend half your day in the gym and not have to spend your day slaving away in front of the stove.

There's so many ways and shortcuts to better our health, and this is what I, I love learning and, and looking at, and I want to be ageless, and I want to be taking my health to that next level without Botox, without wigs. Hair transplants without any of these things that don't align with my values. I want to be natural as much as possible.

You know, get to that old age looking feeling and just exuding true health. And if you're like me, that's also what you want. Yes, I have a new program coming out for those who want to defy aging and defy the aging process. Yes, that's coming out shortly, but at the same time, there are so many things we can do.

Investing in our health is that next level, and it also starts today. Even with your situation with alopecia, investing in your health is necessary for your alopecia to heal. Investing in yourself and in your health is necessary for that next step for you to upgrade because like I said in the last week's podcast, what got you here won't get you there.

This is a huge pattern of everyone's life. Just because you went to kindergarten all the way through eighth grade doesn't mean you can graduate college the next day. You can't, cuz you're still missing high school. Right. And so just cuz you went to elementary school, you still need secondary school to get to college.

And so it's necessary. You can't just skip over. And when it comes to health and healing, you also just can't skip over. There's a. Steps involved. And for each one of us, it's gonna look very different for someone who's, for example, uh, someone who wants to take on yoga for the first time in their life. And, you know, they buy their spandex and they cute outfit and they get their yoga mat and they're like, I'm ready.

Let's do, you know, 90 minutes of Bikram yoga? Or let's do 90 minutes of hot yoga. They can't just like go into class right away. They need to ease into it because they could. Be dehydrated. They can get dizzy. They could have, they can faint. There's so many things that could happen in hot yoga, and so you need to ease into it.

You can't just jump in, especially if you've never done it before. And so these are things that, you know, for some of us it will be baby steps, and for others it won't. And you could. Kind of, you know, skip ahead or test out as I like to say, you know, putting it into school terms you can test out and test into that next level if you're ready for it.

And so if you're an eager beaver like I am, you're all about this. You're all about healthy upgrades and getting to that next level. And so investing in yourself is the, the root end of. And before alopecia, I invested in other things. I thought other things were more important than my health. And a lot of times, truth be told, I didn't understand the health and wellness industry either.

I, I was really, uh, guided, let's say by a regular shop person telling me which vitamins I needed. Uh, I didn't know exactly how to decipher or navigate these unchartered waters. Once I understood exactly how to read the labels, once I understood exactly to understand what is good, how it connects the dots, what is actually contraindication of each other and what doesn't go with what, then everything becomes very, very easy to understand, at least for me.

And this is how you're able to navigate and to take on more and to really improve. Tweak down to the last minute detail of your health. And it's not just adding a supplement. It's not just doing one thing or two things. Cuz I have these conversations with friends and family all the time about, Oh, I have this pain, or I have that pain, what can I do?

Well, the thing is you have to look at it at, at a, as a holistic program, you have to. See yourself as a holistic person. It's mind, body, spirit. So there could be many things happening with just something simple as, let's say, back pain or headache or a migraine. There could be so many things, underlining and so many things that are involved.

But if you are like a, again, if you're like me, investing your health becomes a no-brainer when it's to improve, when it's to get yourself to the next grade, when it's to get yourself to. Top tier level, high performance level of being just incredible in terms of health. And the thing is, it's like you'll see it, you'll see it in your nails, you'll see it in your hair, you'll see it in your skin today.

A family member said to me over FaceTime that I was glowing. And it's a beautiful thing to be told these things. I know he meant it sincerely. And it's a beautiful thing to, to be acknowledged because health comes from within. You know, I, I. Wear a lot of makeup, and I'm sure you've seen people who wear a lot of makeup, but you could also see the unhealthy skin that's underneath.

you've seen it. I know you've seen it. You can see that unhealthy skin that's underneath and it's just matted down. With that heavy makeup, you could also see the quality of people's hair. And for someone who's in hair, I notice people's hair and I notice people's hair, not just if they have alopecia or not, but then also the quality of their hair, because that also stems from the health of inside the body.

So many times our body leaves clues and it leaves us, you know, details. Just kind of like how if a child, you know, you send your, your child to, to go clean up their room and they hide toys and they're hiding it underneath the bed or underneath the pillows. You see how lumpy the pillow is, or the comforter, or the, the bed is.

Or the mattress, or you see like how things are hidden. You can see this within you too, and your body gives us clues about that. But going back to investing in your health, investing in your health can be in so many ways. It could be, you know, educating yourself more, dedicating more books, doing more courses.

It could also be getting consults. It could also be going to health conferences. It could also be, you know, aligning yourself with people with groups. Friends, making friends who are of the same wavelength and pattern, who are in the same energy of wanting to better themselves and you know, Have you ever thought about, let's say, doing retreats or, I've done many yoga retreats and so when you, when you see yoga retreats, you, you tend to see people who are like-minded.

Now granted, we're not all the same. We're not all from the same country. We don't all have the same diet. We don't all have the same beliefs, but our values are very, very similar. Our values, what we believe, how we treat people are all very similar. And so, For example, I connect a lot with people who are yogis or people who are into Pilates or people who are, um, you know, of a certain nature.

And so if you do, let's say one sport, I can already know that, we'll, we'll probably have some things in common. I, I met this girl the other day and she, she used to be a cheerleader back in college. And you could hear the pep in her, in her voice and in her, you know, persona that just shines through. And I was like, Oh, that's nice.

I used to be a cheerleader too, back in like fifth grade, sixth grade. And um, and so it's like we had something in common and we have many things in common too. Uh, we're not the same obviously, but. We're, we have similar things in common, and so what I'm trying to say is, you know, find your tribe, find people who are gonna up level you, who are gonna take you to that next level who are of like-mindedness.

Because if you wanna get healthy, if you wanna get, you know, your hair growing, this is where, this is where the magic happens, is by investing in yourself, by, you know, being open to buying, you know, a product or a program or investing in yourself and, you know, getting a consult or et cetera. Because this is what's.

You know, if you're trying to find everything through insurance, well wow, I have news for you. It's not gonna happen and it's not gonna happen because not only do I have experience with health insurance in the us but I also have experience with health insurance in Europe and now in Asia. Uh, I've lived in several different countries.

This will be actually another podcast in the future, but I've lived. Brazil and Argentina in the Netherlands, in the us, and not just in one state, but like in five different states. And I've also am now living in Japan. And so talk about an, an understanding of global healthcare and how to navigate that.

But at the time of my alopecia, quick story. At the time of alopecia, like in the Netherlands and in the us there was like, no, no options for. You know what they told me in the Netherlands was a joke, and what they told me in Colorado and in California was just a too aggressive or not aggressive enough.

And so I forged my own path and many times you have to do this when it comes to your health. My mom, she's in her sixties and so she has friends now who are around her age or older, and she's starting to see people who are. Dying or having heart attacks, or who are suddenly getting a stroke or suddenly having some sort of health complication.

And again, people want to attribute this to old age when it's not old age. It's what we've been doing to ourselves, It's how we've been living for so long. And in her case, with her friends, it's. She has one friend in particular who just got diagnosed with breast cancer. But if you had a breast cancer diagnosis and you, you see options with conventional medicine, I would say take a look and see what other options there are.

Look at all options. And I even recall as a child when my, when my uncle had a, um, a brain tumor, he, we, we went to, to doctors at ucla. In Los Angeles. And you know, the nurse came in as like, Oh, you have three to six months to live. And he was 24 years old. Um, just newly married. And essentially at 24, you have the rest of your life in front of you.

And so my family took upon themselves to look at other options, to look at everything from like shamans to, you know, all different types of alternative medicine, alternative therapies. And, you know, I was really young at that time. At the same time, those options have just been more proliferated now. Now there's more options than before.

So what I would say to you is don't corner yourself if you just are tied to insurance, because more than likely insurance won't cover what you need. More than likely it won't, and more than likely you're gonna have to go out of it just like I did. I had to go out of the box, out of insurance for my alopecia, and I had to do that for many other times and other times.

Insurance is great, but you have to also understand how to navigate those waters because many times, It's not enough and it doesn't cover enough. Or guess what? The weight is too long. And from what I see with all my international clients is that the weight is too long and what they're telling you for your alopecia is a joke.

But I'm gonna leave that topic of international healthcare for another podcast episode because that one is really deep and I really wanna give it the time it. But for this one, just be mindful that investing in yourself equals so much more than that. Retirement fund equals so much more than your bank account because at the end of the day, I know hair loss.

I know alopecia is driving you crazy. I know it's depressing. I know it's ridding you. Anxiety and angst. I know it's taken a huge emotional toll on you, and I know that you can get out of it. I know that you can heal. I know that you can reverse this, but again, it's a decision. It's a choice. We choose to heal.

We choose to wanna take action. We choose to wanna take that next step. So I invite you to learn more. I have tons of resources, free PDFs to download. You have my podcast, I have blogs. I have tons of information in Spanish as well. Um, I have books in Portuguese and in Dutch, so I really do try to cater to multiple languages and, um, communities out there who are struggling with alopecia because I know how hard it is to find information online about alopecia, especially going the natural route and.

If your health is important to you as it is for me, the only route is the natural route. The only route for healing is the natural route because there are no other viable solutions with medicine, with pharmaceuticals, with the serums, with the shampoos, with the RO gains and the minoxidil, none of that works long term.

None of that works for long term. Results. The only thing that can give you long term results is healing from the inside out with the Hair and Heel program. So I invite you to learn more. Check us [email protected] and I look forward to talking to you next time. Take care.

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