Episode 1 - Dr. Lisa Olszewski
Dr. Lisa Olszewski is a chiropractor, naturopath and keto nutrition fanatic, known to travel across the world to meet friends for dinner and rack up frequent flyer miles. When she’s not adjusting spines in her chiropractic office, she’s passionately making healthy living simple through her online courses, virtual summits and one on one coaching so everyone can achieve a vibrant level of health. She recently made history in the state of Michigan by becoming the first female President of the Michigan Association of Chiropractors. You can download her latest hacks to better at drlisao.com
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Tina Marie (01:00):
Hello and welcome to the show. Tina Marie here, introducing another awesome soul who is here to share her journey of taking herself from, you know, those places in our lives that didn't feel like they were moving so well. And maybe it's frustrating into wisdom, and she's here to share that with you today. I can't wait to hear this story because I'm going to be learning alongside you. Let me introduce you to Dr. Lisa [inaudible] and she has a website. You're going to jot this down. It's Dr. Lisa O the letter O Dr. Lisa O D R L I S a o.com and there she shares her beautiful wisdom and amazing gifts for you. You're going to want to subscribe to her list and get all the goodies that she has. We'll be sharing more about that. So, Dr. Lisa is a chiropractor, naturopath and Akido nutrition fanatic.
Tina Marie (01:50):
I'm going to be asking her questions about that personally. And she's known to travel across the globe, especially when we're not in a pandemic. She loves to have dinner with friends, just on a whim and rack up frequent flyer miles. I love that too. And so her main gig is to help you live healthy, abundant, fulfilling, amazing lives. Thank you, Dr. Lisa, for sharing your wisdom with us today. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited about this. I am too. And so what had you become a doctor? I wanted to start there because chiropractic is a very close love of my own heart, saved me from so many years of pain and I was in the dark about how the body really worked until I found chiropractic. So help us understand what brought you to that beautiful world. You know, it's one of those things I've been under chiropractic care since I was born, actually my mom was, um, while she was pregnant with me, it was under chiropractic care. So I really been fortunate that way. And people oftentimes just the same that my dad are. My, somebody in my family was a chiropractor, but that wasn't the case. Um, my grandmother was pregnant with my dad and she was actually, um, they actually told my grandfather, they didn't tell her to take really good care of his wife because only one person would make it out of
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (03:00):
The pregnancy alive. And it was not going to be her, right. So this was the early 1950s. So she had a heart condition. Um, and literally her dad happened to see who was a milkman and on a delivery. Like literally people always laugh. I'm like, it was a milk man on a delivery. One day he saw somebody crawl into an office and walk out. But as you and I both know it was an unmarked office. So in the early 1950s chiropractics was not legal. So, um, he asked that person what happened in there and the guy told him about chiropractic. So he literally went home and told my grandfather to take his daughter into, you know, to get my grandmother into the chiropractor. And so she made it out of the pregnancy alive. She had my dad and she lived to be 92. And I grew up thinking that everybody's grandmother, this was my boot shop.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (03:49):
Right. As in Polish, um, everybody's grandmother fed them probiotics and did yoga poses and Deepak to breath like this wasn't the eighties. Right. So that's still cool. So it was always a part of my life, but that being said, my mom was a nurse. And so, you know, like I had the medical model as well. Um, but I always thought about, I remember having a migraine, like in sixth grade and going to the chiropractor for that. Um, and my piano teachers looking at me saying, why would you see a chiropractor for like your head? And because I would, I would have the auras where I would lose my vision, which is like, it makes no sense. And I just sat there thinking like, well, it makes it as a sixth grader. It makes sense to me, like your brain sends signals. So if it's not sending the right signal, that might be where my vision's off.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (04:34):
You know, like I was that stuff that made sense. So I really, um, I know it was chosen to be a chiropractor. Like I woke up one day, my junior year of high school and said, this is what I'm doing. I want it to be an engineer up until that point and just flipped it and just went through chiropractics or went through undergrad, actually had, um, I had one of my advisors in undergrad who I went and studied overseas in England. And during that time period, he said, you will never become a chiropractor under my watch. He said, well, you are in, right, exactly. This is such a blessing. Uh, while you are in England, I want you to do a paper on the differences of osteopathy and chiropractic, and you will come back and you are going to apply to Michigan state to become an osteopath because I will not allow you to go to hair, practice, school redness.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (05:19):
Right. So, I mean, I did all my research. You can even ask me to this day. I know everything between osteopathy and chiropractic. Um, and I walked into a chiropractor's office in London, England, and he looked at me and he's like, how amazing is it that you can go to Palmer? He said, I, you know, had to go to England like someplace here. Cause I didn't want to go to another country, but he's like, you have it. How many hours away? That's where this all started. And I came back and I looked at this advisor and was like, I'm going to become a chiropractor. Here's your paper. You know, here's the whole, whatever I did. And uh, he's like find another advisor. So wow. I found another advisor and he was encouraging me, wrote my recommendation for chiropractic school. And so it's a very long story, but that's how I got here.
Tina Marie (06:00):
It's a great story because Lisa, that is the hero's journey. Right? You had this vision and this knowing and this history that was supporting you, like in ancestral history, you know, there's this beautiful path ahead. And it's even, even like the Dorothy's, you know, you had all these things against you, right. And you had to get in there. Right. And the hero's journey as you stayed the course, you stayed true to your knowing inside and how many of us, you know, from whatever circumstances in life, we drop that connection of our knowing. And then we reap the, um, the little bricks on the head to say, get back on your path. So thank you for listening. Thank you for staying consistent and thank you for not listening that advisor or being, you know, swept away with his opinion.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (06:42):
Right. I know. And it is just like you had just sent in what we talk about then within chiropractic, it's our innate intelligence and really just listening to that course. And, um, I was just kind of chuckling, like my innate is good. I got this.
Tina Marie (06:53):
It was good. You know, star Wars came out. It's like, the force is strong within you. Right. And so it's, our forces are innate intelligence and I'm so glad that we've met. And then to know that you're a chiropractor. And more than that, you said history a couple of years ago, you became the first female president in the state of Michigan for the chiropractic board. Can you tell us?
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (07:13):
Yeah, so that's actually, um, it was just elected a couple of weeks ago as the first president, the first female president, but I yeah. Want to say maybe 10 years ago. Um, I, I am so lost on time anymore, but I'm became the first woman to ever to serve on the executive committee. So I've been there for a decade now. Um, but yeah, pretty,
Tina Marie (07:32):
So kind of applause here. That's awesome. Yeah.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (07:34):
It's been a really, uh, super cool and super, just humbling that it's like, wow, like, wow, here you are. Yeah. So, I mean in Michigan is one of the strongest associations probably, um, is not to be arrogant, but probably in the world within chiropractic. Right? Like it's a very strong association, so it's really cool to be doing this. And I know like, especially in this pandemic, we're probably going to have some unchartered territory. We have this last year and it's probably only going to continue. So I'm really honored that the current chairman of the board, we both went to school together at Palmer 20 years ago. So I've known him for a long time and I was like, it's, it's awesome. It's so serendipitous that we are leading this organization right now together
Tina Marie (08:12):
At this time. Right. How awesome is that? Yeah, we could talk about chiropractic all day long. Cause I love it so much and hope that everybody gets a curiosity from this discussion to go really find out what chiropractic is because it's the original innate intelligence, the way you were born. We were never born broken or deficient. We're born with everything intact and we just need to light it up. That's what the show's about light your life. Right? And so you've come through your own dark night of the soul, into this beautiful place where you now are living a life where you can help others. Where did that begin? What were those challenges that you've had to surmount?
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (08:50):
You know, so it's, it's always, it's a, it's a healing journey. I think even for doctors where always say Dr. Hill myself, right. And um, for me, I am that girl that, and it goes back to the fact of like, just being okay with who we are. Right. Like, and for me, I was never good enough. I was never skinny enough. I was never pretty enough. I was never. And so for me, I was walking into this always like relationships not working or whatever it was. And I reached a tipping point, um, in probably 2014, 2015, because I literally was eating right. You know, I'm doing, it was doing paleo before paleo was ever given the word of it. And not just that, but doing a high fat, low carb paleo, which is Quito. Um, and I was CrossFitting five days a week, like I was doing everything right.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (09:39):
And I was struggling to be like a size 12 or 14. And for me, I was like, okay, this really sucks because our society says like, if you're not skinny, you're not healthy, which is, we know that's the furthest from the truth because you can be skinny and super unhealthy. Uh, so I, um, I had a very well-intentioned friend who like literally looked at me at the fall, in fall of 2015. And she's like, what's wrong with you? And I was like, what do you mean by this? And she's like, like literally I see what you eat. I see how hard you work out. You should be a size zero. There is something wrong with your body. And so in 2016, at the beginning of the year, it was January. I started doing some really strict intermittent fasting. Cause that was about the time period that the whole intermittent fasting bandwagon has started.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (10:20):
So I was following a bunch of male bloggers and I was doing it and I was doing super, like, I love intermittent fasting when done correctly. So here's my caveat. Right? Ladies, we need to do it differently. But I was following all these male bloggers and this is, they're saying what to do. So I literally was eating basically one to two very small meals a day. So I was doing low calorie, low fat, like everything wrong. It was the perfect storm. It was everything that I knew I shouldn't be doing, but it was me trying to get that body. So people thought I was okay. Right. Like, because I would talk to my patients about not eating sugar. And I felt like I was being judged by them because they would look at me being like, Oh really? You know, like, who are you in Laney?
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (10:58):
Oh my God. I just really remember when she was like, just looked at me and was like, really like, you're fat. Like you can't eat. No, I think you're lying to me. And I'm like, I am not lying to you. I haven't had sugar in how many years. Right. Um, so I did this and I, I lost 30 pounds. Like it was great. I lost 30 pounds, but with it, I lost my health. So I went with symptoms of losing your health. Oh my gosh. I was purely exhausted. I was coming home every lunch hour to sleep. Um, what really hit me was that I was actually at a seminar in California. I was getting ready for a big gala. And during this whole time period, when I was losing this weight, like I hadn't lost a lot of hair, which I thought was really interesting.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (11:38):
Cause I always just shut a lot of hair. Right. I think a lot of women, like we do a lot of hair. This is one of our total signs of hair. So yeah. So I literally was getting ready for this, um, gala. I washed my hair and I remembered I had a chunk of hair in my hand and I was like, wow, that's really weird. Was that like, you know, six weeks worth of hair loss all at once. Like, that's, what's so weird. Um, didn't realize what had happened yet. Um, I went in and at this point I think I'd probably skipped a couple of periods and I knew I wasn't pregnant. It was like, okay, something's off. When I went into my hairstylist and she's like, Lisa, okay, first off you need to stop what you're doing. You don't look well. And she's like, you just started way too skinny at this point.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (12:22):
And then as she was coming out my hair, she's like, I have to show you something. And I laughed. And I was like, what do I have a bald spot back there? And she was, I have to show you something. And lo and behold, like I was losing chunks of hair and I went into a full blown panic attack, like kind of breathe. Right. And, um, origin. Right? So she's like, I'm calling the ambulance on you. I'm like, you're not like I'm in a town of 5,000 people. I'm the chiropractor. You are not sending me into the hospital. Everybody's going to talk. They're all going to know that I'm going to know this. And like, just give me a she's. I remember her bringing me an orange and I was able to calm down. But at that point I realized something ne I need to stop this. And so, um, and so
Tina Marie (13:05):
Quick question to the listeners, how many of us have done similar things? We want a result and we want that result so bad to the detriment of ourselves. And that can be in any area of life. Right. And so what happened after that?
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (13:19):
Great. So, I mean, I, it was such a hard climb from there. And so I remember like started to dig, figuring that, Hey, intermittent, fasting, not working for women. And literally some of you know, like, I love you guys. I love guys like, just get me, you know? But the fact of the matter is different beings. When the guys are telling us what to do. And that was when I started seeing like, the guys were like, Nope, you're just doing it wrong. Do it more. It works. It works. It's worked great for us. It's gonna work for your approach. We're not doing it. Right. That's why it's not working for you. Do it more. You're cheating. Right? Like, no. And then I sat there and had that epiphany. I was like, Oh my gosh, if I'm not even feeding myself enough for my body, of course my body's going to respond this way and say, Lisa, you can't get pregnant right now.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (14:03):
How could you ever have a baby and make another human being when you're not even nourishing yourself? So no wonder my period stopped. No wonder all of this stuff was going on. Right. And so there were several other women that were out there screaming like this isn't right. And then finally, one of the male bloggers was like, Hey, something's off here. My wife's having issues. And it was like, well, no. Like we've been saying this for how long. And you guys keep telling us that we're wrong, but it's now your wife is telling you. Right. So that, I mean, it is what it is. And that's been the catalyst of why I'm doing what I'm doing now. But it was just so much, I remember being at two different seminars and two different men walking up to me, one of them, literally that one day was like, Lisa, you look so sexy now. And I cringed because I sat there thinking I have had my hair up in a, for a year. I can't wear my hair down. I am sleeping. If I could sleep all day, I would. And you're finally telling me that, or you're telling me, I finally look sexy. I was so angry. Right. Like,
Tina Marie (15:06):
But that's, you know, at some level a part of you, not all of you, cause there's a wise part of you that knows that that isn't the game. Right. But the part of you ached for that acceptance, um, acknowledgement, love, right? That's what we all want. We want that love from our world. And then to, to be hit with it at the time where it's costing your life and realizing it wasn't, it wasn't it. Right. It was exactly it.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (15:32):
And so I think it's been such a, I mean, this is, you know, four or five years at this point. So it's so good now. Like, yeah, I guess what I've gained back weight, you know what, I probably, my body will never be a perfect size four or six. All right. Like I have a butt, like, that's the reality of what it is. Like I have hips, you know, it is what it is, like deal, you know, deal with it, guys. I got a big, but like it, and so there's so much. Yeah. And so I've just come back to that realization of like, now I am healthier. Like all my hair has come back. Like you can search my like, everything's good. Like, like I am finally back and I am finally, Oh, I have done so much energy where I have done so much.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (16:13):
And it is okay. Right. Like if a guy doesn't find me sexy, fine, tough. You know what I do? Like I like who I am. I love who I am. So for me, like to go back to that five years ago and to sit here and think like, Hey, if I started five years, Lisa, you're going to love who you are. Like what we were talking even beforehand, before we hit record some of the projects I've been working on. And how have you been able to open up and be vulnerable to help other women? And now it's a real, Oh my gosh, it is so needed. And I can't even like, my parents are gonna freak. If they ever hear me talking about some of the stuff I'm talking about, it is what it is. Mom and dad deal with it.
Tina Marie (16:54):
I, yeah, before we hit record, I was sharing that one of my radio shows back when I was on radio and it was a why men have nipples. And so my daughter is on a softball team and I was going, you know, it had already aired on Tuesday where the softball fields on Friday night starting the weekend tournaments and I'm walking up, I'm an in-between. So you're walking down this pathway and in between, on either side are the stands that the parents are in. And I can't see because they've got a screen there. Who's sitting there, but someone yells out. Now I know why I have nipples. That's a guy, one of the parents. So I had a lot of listeners in our softball teams and, uh, everybody started laughing, but that was one of the highest ranking shows right now. And by the way, fast forward, the reason why is because everybody's female up until a certain point of gestation, which I think is within four weeks and then you turn into a male. So you're welcome. Started with good foundation, all the guys out there. And that's why everybody has nipples.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (17:53):
And it's also like, um, heading a little further solve, like the same thing. We've all got the same type of stuff there on some of the topics I was talking about yesterday.
Tina Marie (18:03):
So you guys need to follow Dr. Lisa's podcast.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (18:08):
I mean, it's so crazy. Like I'm always, and you know, this I'm an introvert. So the fact like to be sitting here and to be like, so open on this, this is me forcing, but it's also, I realized like you have to play full out because it's going to help impact somebody else. Right. Like, I don't want another woman to ever go through what I went through. Right. So I am screaming from the mountains like, Hey ladies, if you're doing intermittent fasting and you're really struggling, let's, let's change it up. Right. Like, let's do something different. So how
Tina Marie (18:32):
Do women do it correctly? Wait, so we've
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (18:34):
Got to change. I mean, especially where our, our, um, our hormones, I was like, our cycles are pretty, what's the word I'm looking for it. Our hormones shift, you know, 28 days out of the month. And so the fact is we've always got to be kind of shifting that with our body too. Um, I love keto. I don't love keto 28 days out of the month though, for women. I like to break that. I like to do cyclical keto. So in and out of ketosis, um, you know, I really love eating for our hormones and that type of stuff. And so intermittent fasting for sure. Um, my biggest thing that I was just tell people is like, let's stop eating after dinner and go for 12 hours without eating. Most people can do that. Some people can't, but let's work toward that. And then sometimes, you know what, let's take a day when you just forget breakfast and go 16 hours.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (19:14):
Like, that's fine. But what I was doing was like 20 hours every single day for months on end. Let's not do that because that's, that's a lot it's. So every once in a while, yeah, I'll pull out a 24 hour fast, but I'm not doing that every day. I'm not doing that. Right. You know, so it is, I kind of like some days I play with are some weeks I'd play with a five, two rule that it's just, it's different. And I work with it for each woman. Like I always tell the ladies like pay attention to when you're craving carbs. Some of us crave carbs during our period, right. Some of us crave carbs the week before some people crave during, um, oscillation. So just really becoming in tune and
Tina Marie (19:46):
Carbs because there's a stressful situation at work. Right.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (19:51):
And so those things, they got to figure out how to adapt with those stress levels.
Tina Marie (19:55):
The form of wine. There is Quito wine though, real wine. I like that. Yeah. Help people understand what intermittent fasting is for those that may not understand why we would want to do intermittent fasting,
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (20:08):
Intermittent fasting. So, um, every single time that we eat food, regardless of what it is, there's an increase in our blood sugar. Right? So for eating a lot of carbohydrates, there's going to be an even higher increase in our blood sugar. And so, um, really to make this as simple as, as possible. So we eat blood sugar goes up and then we have to counteract it with different hormones. Right. And so when it goes up and down and up and down and up and down a lot, when it's a very stressful, um, diet, so lots of carbohydrates, lots of refined sugars, um, that's why we all, why or why we see diabetes happening, right? Because your body finally, at some point says, okay, this is too much sugar. I can't this anymore. And I think of, you know, when I was growing up type two, diabetes was called adult onset, diabetes type one is totally different, but type two was something that it took about 40 years for a bad eating habits for it to happen in somebody.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (21:00):
But we now don't call it type two, or we don't call it adult onset anymore. It's just type two because so many children are literally eating their way into diabetes within the first 10 years of life. So the process of intermittent fasting is let's decrease the amount of times that blood sugar goes up and down and up and down and up and down. So if we can open up our fasting window or closing up our eating window. So literally, like I said, if you stop eating dinner at six o'clock at night, like be done, don't do little stacks throughout, like be done at six o'clock and go 12 hours before you throw any food in your belly, you know, in the next morning. And so that gives your body 12 hours of like, without blood sugar spikes, if that makes sense. Yeah. Um, and so, you know, sometimes I've learned it through patients, some people wake up to eat a midnight snack, like that's, you know, so if that's the case, let's stop that, right. Like you don't have to have a, another meal in the middle of the night. Um, so let's look at it that way. And then, you know, let's start adding on some hours. So if you can go like 6:00 PM to 10:00 AM, that's a 16 hour fasting window. But, you know, for people that aren't used to that it might be more difficult. So let's start out with 10 hours or however it is, and just kind of work your way up on that, that fasting muscle on what working that, that up. Okay.
Tina Marie (22:14):
And what are they going to be looking forward to know that it's working for them or that this is appropriate as far as new feeling within their body or new things that they're realizing?
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (22:23):
I think they start to people will pay attention as to when they are actually hungry instead of just eating. Right. I think a lot of us just kind of eat for boredom or it's because, Hey, it's breakfast, it's habit. We have to eat. It's the most important meal of the day, right. Or whatever it is that way. Um, but what I find, cause as you start doing that, a lot of times people will kind of naturally switch more into a ketosis state of there they're actually burning fat for fuel rather than carbohydrates for fuel. And when you really get into a state of ketosis, there's such brain clarity. Um, you know, that brain fog just gets lifted. Your body starts utilizing that form for energy. So they've got more energy throughout the day and then they notice they can go longer without eating, because you're tapping into the excess fat in your body for fuel, rather than these short burst of, you know, sugar, um, sugar spikes of whatever. Maybe it was cereal and then a pop tart and then some sticker, whatever, like a candy bar or whatever, which is just a very short form of fuel.
Tina Marie (23:18):
Yeah. It's like that short distance running versus long distance running, right?
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (23:22):
Yeah. It's like running the marathon versus yeah. Doing a small item.
Tina Marie (23:26):
So, you know, I circled this back to that earlier version of Lisa that was looking for that acceptance by an outside person for culture. Right. And what I hear about for myself with a keto or any diet, I had to check inside myself first to make sure I'm doing this for me, because if I'm not doing it for me and it's outside, you know, fueled, then I can blame or resent or let it go. Right. Cause it takes too much energy to do it for other people. And have you found that as well, that whenever you tap into doing something for yourself and being in alignment with what your needs are, that there's a whole different fuel source. There
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (24:06):
It is. And I think that's the, you know, I, um, I don't do gluten and it took me years to figure out that I had a sensitivity to gluten, but I remember even being a kid, like I hated eating lunch at school because I knew I would just not feel well. And I kind of thought everybody felt bad after they ate. Right. So it wasn't until I went away to college, when I realized my roommates weren't miserable after they ate that, I was like, Oh, there's something off here. Um, and then we, you know, went to chiropractic school. So I started digging into all the supplements and then it was finally at one point that it clicked for me, like, why don't you eliminate gluten? And it was a game changer in my life. Wow. Um, that being said to fast forward, it's also going through and now healing up a leaky gut and all that type of stuff has tremendously helped.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (24:44):
But I remember being at a Christmas party several years back and one of the ladies here in town or another business owner looked at me and she was like, well, just see one of these cookies. I'm like, Oh gosh, I'm really, I'm fine. And she's like, Oh, you're just so good. And I'm like, no, great. And I was like, there's a, do you understand? Like if I eat that home miserable, I'm going to feel like I said it, it was just like, that's gotta be horrible that you have to deal with it. And I'm like, no, it's a such an amazing, I am so grateful that I figured this out. And there's no reason. I'm like if I eat that I am miserable, that I have no desire that I even want to eat that. Or is it there? And in my head, I go through and think of the ingredients in it that are all the toxic toxicity that I don't really, you know, just over the course of, like, I don't want to feed my body that because what I put into my body becomes myself and I want a healthy, vibrant Lisa, and I want every organ to be functioning properly.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (25:34):
And why would I feed it something suboptimally? Like it would be like putting really crappy fuel in my car. And then wondering why I'm chugging along.
Tina Marie (25:43):
Exactly. And for people to just say, it's okay to put the crappy Ricard this, come on. Like, why don't you go along with the show? Right? There was this one lady that did that. I used to be a vegan. It wasn't a strict vegan. I wasn't that person that was trying to change the world by everybody becoming vegan and not killing cows. And the atmosphere is being impacted. I wasn't that person, it was a choice that I led to over time realizing that my body operated a whole lot better on plant-based diet than it did on anything. Meat-based not that meat based for other people didn't work. I wasn't going to be preaching. Um, and I was at this one, so I was at a family gathering. And my, my brother called earlier to say, what do we feed you? Like, we just need to know what to do.
Tina Marie (26:26):
What are we going to feed you? And I'm like, salads, vegetables, you have those right. Like at the middle. And he goes, yeah. So salads, okay, that's all you need. Is this Island. But at that, at that luncheon, uh, at that meal, uh, I remember this lady going, wow, you know, like, isn't this bad for your health that you're not having any meat, like you're going to, you know, have you thought about what that's going to do to you? And I, I couldn't, I didn't want to give a long diatribe. Right. So I just simply looked across the table.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (26:57):
Hmm. Interesting. And then I kept thinking I'm not good.
Tina Marie (27:03):
I mean, there's sometimes a conversation is not necessary.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (27:07):
I agree. And it's just one of those things, even like, you know, like I did a little stint with carnivore too. Right. And it was like all of a sudden, my mom's like, I don't even know what to have for you when you come over for holiday meals. And I'm like, Oh, I'll figure it out. Like, or, you know, people were always like, Oh, well, what restaurant can you go to? I'm like, I will figure it out guys. Like you don't have to write it. You know? Like, and maybe that was something about like worthiness and being like, Oh, I don't, can't make everybody pick the restaurant based on me. But you know, it was just like, come on guys, whatever, like, I can figure this out. Like, it's not like, it's not like I have just choosing not to eat bread, come on.
Tina Marie (27:42):
And so now you help so many people with their health. And as a chiropractor, I know you're adjusting them as well to keep their spine healthy and, and their nervous system healthy, which is what it truly is about. Chiropractic is about the health of the nervous system. By the way, your bones just, I'm going to give a little stint for you because I'm not the chiropractor. However I've learned is that the spine houses, the nervous system, which is the, uh, guidance system for everything in your body. I also love that the spine, the spinal cord is what develops first, uh, in utero.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (28:13):
I know, I think I love it. Right. I always say that with chiropractors too. I'm like, yeah, no, absolutely. It's so important.
Tina Marie (28:20):
And then the first organ, if I'm, if I'm correct on this as the whole
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (28:24):
Yeah. That's the thing I like when I'll talk to people, I'm like, what do you think? Controls everything. The heart like, well, what, what sends a signal to the heart? Yeah. Right. What starts that? Right? What keeps that going? Let's go one more step, one more level zero, right? Yeah. Yeah. No, we're not taught this stuff in school.
Tina Marie (28:43):
I wish we were. That would be so much a blessing for our youth in our world to teach itself of its body and the magnificence that we're born with and how it actually operates our one day, one day, Hey, you're the president of the MC of the mission.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (28:56):
Yeah. Especially now that everyone's virtual, we can do those.
Tina Marie (29:02):
So I know you help so many people in your practice and you've taken your wisdom into the ethers of digital as well. And you produce summits for people so they can gather more knowledge from other experts. And then also you have your own programs that people can follow. Can you tell us a little bit about what you've taken from the physical world that you work with inside your practice and move that into digital? What can we find?
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (29:23):
Yeah. And that was the thing I, I think I realized here I am somebody that had two health degrees, like two doctorates. And even though I did know, I was like that and I failed. Like I failed, I didn't fail the doctor. I failed my body because I followed it. And I just sat there thinking I knew everything I was doing was wrong, but I was so wanting to be skinny. Um, and so that's when I was like, I have to help more people because there's so much information now online, which is, it's a great resource to have. However, it is so downright confusing and you can find every single person preaching something. And yeah, it's all so conflicting. And I just sat there thinking there needs to be a resource that gives actual information. And I get this all the time. Um, not all the time I have gotten it where people are like, actually see your health is so far up here.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (30:17):
I, I don't know if I want to get all the way up here, but you know, I could deal with this or healthy living is so there's too much to figure out. And I was like, I've got to make healthy, living simple. And this is so that's how I started the health Institute. And you'll love this. I always steal the Tony Robbins line where, you know, when we look at our children and they're crawling learning to walk, we never is, you know, falling and stumbling. They still, they continue. And we never look at them and say, you know, my kid's not a Walker. He's never going to get there. Yeah. We do it with ourselves all the time. You know, I tried that diet once. It wasn't for me, I did this. It's not for me. Hey, I went to a chiropractor once. Not for me.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (30:52):
I hate that one. Right. Like, Oh, did you try it? Dentistry wants to. And you just gave up like, come on. So, um, so that's why I started the health Institute and then with there, so it was through courses, that's the virtual summit. So we did the keto virtual summit several years back and we got the women's health summit. That's coming out here. Um, so that's when amazing, like, cause we're helping to impact not just one or two people, but thousands of people with that. And then it is like, I can't virtually adjust people, but um, I can help teach them healthy living and that's my courses. And then people, um, so people really want to dive deep and we do a lot of like healing up a leaky gut, right? Like we gotta take care of that. So that way we can actually assimilate or like, you know, actually take your vitamins and herbs. What makes sure that your body is getting the best nutrients versus just passing through.
Tina Marie (31:37):
So you grew up around this healthy living lifestyle, this, this, um, you know, the language of probiotics, the language of gluten-free, the language of the consciousness of what you're putting in your body first is going to determine the outcome and the way you feel. And I think our culture, if you would agree or share, right. Just coming into that, I mean, it's, it's like the last 20 years it's been coming and now I see and hear if I'm at a restaurant, I overhear millennial moms talking about probiotics for their kids and we need to get him off the sugar. And I don't feed my kid pizza and all these different things, which I was the weird mom. I mean, my kids, if they were on here listening for Halloween, I would give away Apple slices. Or I would, I had a RA, I had a dehydrator I'd make raw food, fruit roll-ups that were organic and I would roll them up and give away these.
Tina Marie (32:28):
They were so delicious and we made raw cookies and all this kind of stuff. And my kids came to me one year. Cause I think I did it one year. And then they were like, they ganged up on me the next year. They're like, we can't do this we're embarrassment of this neighborhood. And so they said, they went to CVS, they walked to CVS and bought a big bag of all the little bitty chocolates. And I found it and I was like, what is this doing in the house? And they're like, mom, we cannot, you can't do that anymore. People talk about us, but the day to end. And when they went off for their sleepovers, they had their, their food pack for them. Or when they went to camp, they w my, my son was the one that was bringing all the food. And people are like, what are you eating over there? But now today, they're the ones, you know, my kids are like, no, I know how to heal myself. I know to use food, to heal myself and not antibiotics. I know how to heal myself because I'm listening to my body. First, you grew up around this. Yeah. It's a, it's a natural language for you and your consciousness. What message would you love to give to the world about paying attention more and trusting that part of us that knows. Right.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (33:33):
And it's one of those things though, that it's also, it has been an evolution because I even go back to the fact that when I was in grad school, 20 years ago, I thought Splenda was a really great thing. Oh, right. So that's the reality of it is like people see where those of us are. And they think like, they don't realize that decades, that it took to get here. And it's just one little step. So if you are following, like whatever you feel that you can do right now, and this is how I try to make it simple, right? Like if all you can do is add in a couple of green veggies today and that's it, you're going to be healthier sicker tomorrow. Right? Like, and if you only do that every single day for the next month, where will you be in a month?
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (34:17):
Or, you know, like the example of like, what if you walk to the end of the driveway today, and then tomorrow you walk a little bit further and then a little bit further, again, will you be healthier or sicker a year from now? Like probably those little decisions are going to accumulate into a really nice, healthy, healthier life. So don't do it all at once. I am, when people come into the practice and they're like, I want to, you know, become a vegan and I'm going to start working out or I'm running a marathon and I'm going to do a triathlon, like all this stuff. And I'm like, have I worked out before? You know, like, like, no, let's do something. Cause I don't want you to give up on it. I don't want you to say, I tried that it didn't work. Let's make one simple change and build upon that. Maybe it's adding in a good multivitamin. Right? Like who knows.
Tina Marie (34:59):
Right. And then notice, pay attention to how that effect is. I had to keep a journal so that I would be more conscious about it because that lower mind comes in whenever, you know, you're out with friends and they're eating and you're eating and, and I'm gluten-free. And so whenever I would slip, I would pay the price. And so understanding how you work, as opposed to how other people work, this, the only person we can change,
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (35:25):
That's all it meant. Yeah. Really. It's like, we can focus on us. Like let's work on that. Is that enough curriculum for me, I'm like, I've got too much.
Tina Marie (35:37):
And so you have healthy, simple, um, healthy living, simple. That is how they find you on IgG on Instagram. So it's outside healthy, living simple. And then on LinkedIn, your Dr. Lisa [inaudible], I there's so many wonderful words together, let us together. And you've released the healthy, vibrant women summit. Can you tell us a little bit about that summit and how they can find out more?
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (35:59):
Yeah. You know what, that's something that it has been on my heart to do probably since 2018 and, um, when COVID happened and we were all, you know, like I was on an airplane every single weekend. I think the last time I flew was when I met you. Right. That was my last flight in February. Um, I, all of a sudden had a lot of time on my hands. And so after my house was cleaned and everything out to Goodwill, I'm like what I'm like, okay. It's time. Like it's time for me. So I launched the podcast and I started recording for the summit. So literally, um, I recorded for months, there are over 40 some women and they are, um, the most amazing experts, you know, you were also on it. And I loved the interview that we did, but, uh, I love how it evolved because at first I walked in like, all right, we're going to talk health.
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (36:47):
And then it got into, you know what, no, it's not just health. There's so many things that we, as women need to know about. And maybe we don't even know, we need to know about, or there's something happening to our bodies. And we're afraid to ask, to find out if it's normal, um, or whatever it was. So I had to shed a lot of layers to be able to get behind the microphone and just start talking about the stuff and get rid of, you know, anything of what people. So ladies I'll put myself on, I made myself ask the questions. So you know, different things and you think of, you know, you know, like incontinence or, or what it orgasms. Like we talked everything, we talked about relationships. Um, and what happens if there's betrayal in a relationship or what if you find yourself in a divorce?
Dr. Lisa Olszewski (37:34):
What if like all of these different things, you know, what, not every single woman's going to listen to all 40 some episodes because some of them might just totally not resonate with you, but there's other ones like, you know, how do we do this to get our partner, to help out with all of the workload at home? Because the reality is no matter the woman, like we all it's because of who we are, we carry are always juggling multiple balls in the air all the time. Like the fact that we're not dropping them is amazing. And so like, we are honoring that superhero in every single woman, I think, and just showing like, just going through all of that. So
Tina Marie (38:10):
I love it. I love it. I love that you put this together because I saw the lineup and I'm like, wow, this is so much power in this one summit. And I wish you all the best with getting that out there, literally to millions of women, because we all need to have the support system for ourselves. And then also for the gentlemen to understand that you've got so many resources for them at your website and on the podcast, because our health is the one asset that we own and control. And if we, I had to learn this the hard way multiple times, unfortunately, and whenever we, our health has gone, everything else is going to fail whenever our health is great than we are unstoppable. Right. It is. And we can take care of it. And you know, you just think of Steve jobs had all the money in the world, but you can't have no health.
Tina Marie (38:54):
So it's like, let's, let's really focus on our health and have all of it. Yeah. Thank you so much for being who you are in the world. Thank you. Thank you. So everybody take a note. You're going to first and foremost, you're going to go to Dr. Lisa o.com. That's where you're going to find everything. It's just, you're a one stop shop. A D R L I S a o.com. And there you're going to find, I know she's not going to stop here. She does have the healthy, vibrant woman summit. She's got the keto virtual summit.com a website, and she's got so much more resources there for you. You want to put Dr. Lisa, Oh, in your back pocket and keep her close to where you're going to start making your decisions for our healthier, more vibrant, fulfilling life, and may all your wishes come true. And thank you for being, there's a wonderful light in our world that we couldn't do this without people like you. Oh, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thank you so much until next time. I know we're going to have more, uh, wonderful times together. Have a wonderful time. Thanks. Thank you.
Tina Marie (39:54):
That was so energizing. I have takeaways that will help my life, and I'm sure you do too. To get shownotes bonuses gifts for you from our guests and more head over to light your life podcast.com and be sure to bookmark this podcast is one of your favorites. I am Tina Marie St. Cyr, founder of bonfire, coaching and creator of the bonfire method. Thank you so much for being connected. Now, my homework for you summon the courage to let your life a little more and go make progress on your dreams.
