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0:34Make sure to get your tickets right now and step into greatness with us at the Summit of Greatness 2024. Head over to lewishouse.com slash tickets and get your tickets today and I will see you there. Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:56Grief is weird and it's different than what I expected. I think that I try to and for some reason this has come naturally to me which I'm so grateful for but I and I might get emotional but I reflect on the journey with my mom with so much gratitude because we had such a great relationship and that's gotten me through and I feel like grief is weird because when I think about my mom it's obviously there's this yearning and whichever else but there's an immense immense gratitude for how close we were in the life she lived and the other thing that I haven't really talked about when it comes to this is like how fortunate was I to have this job where I could go to my mom's chemo appointment edit a video while I'm sitting there with her or whichever else you know like if I worked a nine to five which I have in my life Like, you're not spending weeks and months with your mother taking care of her while she's sick.

1:59So, yeah, weird. Now I'm crying on the Lewis Howes podcast, so this is either a good or a bad thing. Not my intention, but I think it's, I'm glad you're opening up and being, you know, honest about how you're feeling. I'm curious, what's the greatest lesson that she taught you growing up? And then also the greatest lesson she taught you in the last couple of years? she really like lived every day to its fullest like she she would get up in the morning and like we will laugh now she was like a huge walker like it was like out the door what are we doing today and also at her funeral so many people sharing like such great memories and it made me reflect now on my life and think oh my gosh I want to build those amazing memories and I think it was it was a time before phones right like we spend so much time on her on her phones and where she was like in when she was my age just like doing things living life living life living life presently so that that's the biggest as I reflect on her life and like that's why I don't think I'm overcome with heartbreak because I do feel like her story was an amazing one like her life was an amazing one so i don't look at it in this kind of like negative negative light what did she teach me the last two years i mean it was rough um perseverance for sure she just kept swinging clearly that carried carried on but i might need a clean i might need a kleenex now we got if we got one bring it in please um sorry guys thank you it's all good do you ever have people cry on your podcast please don't tell me i'm the first of course 11 years of doing this every week people cry my makeup you look great don't worry about it yeah it's all good it's a safe it's a safe space with everything you've learned within your you know last five years of kind of building your social media and your business and your content machine and the lessons from the life lessons from your mother and the skills you have about recipes.

4:11What do you feel like, is there anything you feel like you could do to serve people that maybe are experiencing challenges with cancer in a greater way or preventing cancer in a greater way with all the skills you have and the lessons you have from that as well? Yeah, I think it's a big part of what I do because seeing somebody go through cancer, it's just, it's a thankless, crappy, really horrific, horrific disease. And I think the science shows that a whole food plant-based diet is really a great way of at least helping you prevent cancer. I'm not going to say it's like a silver bullet but it is certainly the most cancer proofing at least a plant predominant diet so if i can reach that message or elevate that message as much as possible that's a whole fold in to what's important to me right because i don't want anyone to go through cancer and my mom's cancer would not have been diet related but my dad certainly with colon cancer and um there's new data showing that younger and younger, particularly females, are getting colon cancer.

5:25Really? And that's scary. That is scary. Is that all food-based? Is it plastic and environment-based? Is it stress-related? I bet you it's all of it, right? It's all of it. And that's why I say, I think you can do all the right things in the world and you can still get cancer. I don't want to say that. And you can do all the wrong things and live 100 years old. I don't want to sit here and say that like, you're going to eat plant, I'm going to give you plant-based meals and you're going to be good. You don't know. One thing I learned through my mom is that we have one vessel on this earth. Like we're inside, we're walking around with this vessel.

6:03And at the end of the day, the work that you do and everything else, health is number one. You are not going to excel writing books, doing podcast interviews, whatever else, unless your vessel is in good shape. Plants, more on the plate, more fiber. I mean, 95 % of the U.S. population doesn't meet the daily recommended intake of fiber. 95%. 95%. We're all so protein focused, but there's this huge fiber deficiency, which means a lot of us are walking around constipated. And where does fiber come from? It's not in meat. It's not in cheese. It's in plants. So if you can start getting your digestive moving with plants, you can, your skin, your weight, everything kind of follows.

6:52And I think it's the best thing people can do.

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