287: Using Your Future to Gain Real Whole Food Plant Based Results

Speaker 1: 2:10

Hey there, sunshine. In life, we all face struggles. Maybe your struggle is extra pounds, maybe you're struggling with high blood pressure or high cholesterol. Perhaps you've gotten a diagnosis, like an autoimmune diagnosis or type 2 diabetes or something along those lines, and you find yourself thinking it's always going to be this way, I have this thing and it's defining your future. But there is a way to break free. You do not have to stay stuck where you are. In this episode, we're going to talk to you about how you can change the trajectory of your life to end up where you want to be.

Speaker 1: 2:54

Hey sister, welcome to the Power on Plants podcast. Are you tired of staring into the fridge wondering what to eat so you can just feel better? Do you want to avoid spending hours in the kitchen making complicated meals in the name of health? Would you love to leave fatigue behind and finally have the energy to do all the things you want to do? Hi, we're Jared and Anita Roussel, christ followers, healthcare professionals, parents of love. To leave fatigue behind and finally have the energy to do all the things you want to do. Hi, we're Jared and Anita Roussel, christ followers, healthcare professionals, parents of four and big fans of great tasting food.

Speaker 1: 3:22

We, too, tried exercising more, eating natural and clean foods, but we still found ourselves struggling with what we thought were changes that come with age or bad genes, and we weren't finding answers the traditional route. So we dug into the research and created our secret nutritional weapon sustainable plant-based living. The truth is, you can eat more whole plant foods, and it's not hard. You just need the way that's realistic and delicious so you never feel deprived. If you're ready to enjoy your meals, no longer be held back by your health struggles and actively live your life, then you're in the right place. So grab your favorite plant-based cup of happy pop in those earbuds and let's get started.

Speaker 2: 4:06

Welcome to the Power on Plants podcast. We are thrilled to have you here. If this is your first time listening, oh, you're so in for a treat and really seriously you're like family here. So we're just fireside in the living room talking to one another just having a conversation. We love having you join us.

Speaker 1: 4:25

It's so great to have you here and today we're talking about something that's very important and this is a bit of a mindset thing, but it can be very strategic. This is something that you really need to take time to do for yourself. You know, we love to bring you into our home, into our thoughts, into our minds, kind of, and share with you the things that we've been learning and growing in. And Jared was recently listening to something about finances and the guy shared something really interesting that we felt rang true to whole food, plant-based living.

Speaker 2: 4:57

We thought it was very profound, and sometimes it can be those little bits of profound knowledge that we say will change your trajectory. You will end up in a very different place, but in a good way. So I was listening to a gentleman talk about finances and he was saying that if you just let your circumstances, your present, dictate your future, that is very different than if you have a specific future, say you've got a certain earning goal in mind. Or if you've got a certain business, something that you want to do, then you need to let your future define your present.

Speaker 2: 5:32

And it's very backwards and counter to what we think, because obviously the present happens before the future. So what's happening now must determine what comes in the future. And that can be, but does it have to be? No, I mean, you can kind of tumble through life and just let it happen and then that will determine where you end up. But what about if you think what are my goals Now in the case of what we love to talk about here, our health, what I'm eating, what can I do that might actually reverse my type 2 diabetes?

Speaker 1: 6:06

And how do I make it sustainable? This is the big thing that Jared and I are all about. How?

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do you?

Speaker 1: 6:11

make living this way sustainable. There's doing a diet. This is not a diet at all, and people have gone through diets and we know that diets don't work. So then you come to the thought process. The next thing is oh, I gotta make it a lifestyle. Okay, I'm not dieting now, I'm gonna make it a lifestyle. But yet you've tried the lifestyle and you can't make the lifestyle work. And so the next thing you do is you come to Power On Plants because we teach you how to create a sustainable lifestyle.

Speaker 1: 6:36

That is what makes all the difference, because if you don't know how to enjoy the way you're living, it's never going to be sustainable. It's never going to last. You've got to enjoy the process, find the joy and find the foods that you absolutely love, that taste great, that are simple and easy and work with your schedule. That's how you're going to love it. And right now, if you're not inside our free group podcast insiders experience, please do yourself a favor. It's one of the most important things you can do right now and get in there and learn what you need to learn and surround yourself by the most incredible, inspiring people that you'll ever meet. This is your support team. These are your cheerleaders. They're going to cheer you on. You're going to gain ideas and share ideas, and you'll learn and grow together and get farther so much faster than you ever could have alone.

Speaker 2: 7:25

And if you don't, you're really you're missing out. And this is not one of those fake FOMO fear of missing out things, because the group is growing and we're seeing more and more people join. We read their bios, we hear their stories, testimonials are amazing.

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The testimonials.

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And it's amazing, we love it. This is the group that we always wanted to find, yes, and since we couldn't, we thought you know what? We're just going to make one ourselves, absolutely. And so please you're missing out if you don't join. On the bottom right-hand corner of the group there's a little magnifying glass that when you press that, a window pops open.

Speaker 1: 8:04

Listen this is the window to your happy future. That's what I'm going to tell you. The magnifying glass is going to make your day great, your week's great, your month's great, because this is never going to end, as Jared and I are on here making more and more podcasts for you, putting all this incredible information and you're trying to figure out. Where did I hear that? What episode was it on? How do I know how to use this thing or that thing Like? Just take one thing, one simple ingredient, like tofu. I don't know how to use it. I don't know if I'd ever liked it. I tried it before. How are they using it? Because it didn't taste very good the way I did it. You can search tofu and not only will it pull up every time we've ever talked about it, it will pull up the specific place in each episode. You can click it and start listening right there inside the platform. It is amazing.

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The poppy, and the poppy keeps growing. It's the good, healthy poppy keeps growing. It's the good, healthy poppy, it's really good acronyms and our abbreviations so.

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If you don't have the cookbook yet, why not? It is such a no-brainer. It's at poweronplantscom. Forward slash cookbook and you can get the tried and true recipes that our family loves the most. You wonder what we're eating?

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it's there this is it this is what we eat.

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We created these things because I honestly got sick of going online trying recipes and being disgusted by what I ate and thinking there's no wonder people have trouble sticking to whole food, plant-based, because the majority of the recipes I tried left me hangry, frustrated, upset because the ingredients were too hard to find or I was spending hours in the kitchen and it just didn't taste good.

Speaker 2: 10:01

And just unsatisfied.

Speaker 1: 10:02

Absolutely so. You've got to have the tried and true favorites and I didn't do just main meals. You've got several recipes from the different categories because you need your snacks and you need your desserts and you need your. Yes, you can have sweet things when you eat all the plant-based and they taste oh so good. But you want to do it in the way that is healthy for you. That will love your body back that you also love to eat right, because if we don't love it, we can't stick with it.

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So join us in pie at poweronplantscom forward slash pie after you grab your cookbook. That's at power on plantscom forward slash cookbook. But these things are going to help you to get the future that you're after and we want to talk to you about this idea that we've been thinking through again. Jared heard it when he was listening to this finance guy, but really we want to think about am I just letting life happen to me and letting my current situation and circumstances build the future that I'm going to wind up in and land in? And I was telling Jared it reminds me of a pinball machine.

Speaker 2: 11:30

Yes, and I said it's like pinball syndrome and he said nobody knows what that is. Of course nobody knows what it is, I just made it up. But really you feel like you're a ball inside of a pinball machine. The little paddle hits you and you hit the bumpers and you're zipping all over the place. Well, that's just you kind of traveling through life floating down the stream life just happening and where are you going to end up? You're going to end up down in the little hole with the other few metal balls down there.

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We do not want to end up there and you don't have to end up there.

Speaker 1: 12:02

And maybe you're at that stage where life's happening as it's busy, and things are going on and you're throwing in, sprinkling in a little plant based meal here and one there, and you're trying to figure all this stuff out and there's all this other chaos that's keeping you from it and there's all these excuses and all these things that can keep you from the future that you would love to have. But maybe you have gotten so busy you don't even take the time for yourself to figure out what that future should be. And so Jared was sharing with me how a lot of times we don't consider our future. We just let our current circumstances define our future and the future just kind of happens.

Speaker 1: 12:40

But what's so important is that you take the time for yourself, because no one else is going to do that. Take the time for yourself, carve that time out to figure out what do I want my life to look like. That's how you're going to arrive at that destination. That's when you're going to start doing the things and putting the pieces into the puzzle that are going to give you the beautiful picture that you so long for. You first have to figure out what is that picture I long for? I mean, do you want to be running and playing 25 years from now with your children and grandchildren, or even a year or two years from now?

Speaker 1: 13:15

You know, Whole Food, Plant Based, can change stuff very, very quickly for you. You could be out traveling, seeing all those places you want to see, Hiking in nature. We have members that love to get on a boat and go out and travel around on the ocean and enjoy it. Carrie girl I know you're listening she loves her boat. We have several members that like to get on motorcycles. They love getting out and doing these things, going out and building a business, helping people that are grieving and are going through hard times, because you've been through situations that have been painful and God has given you the ability to help people with that. But you can't do that if you don't feel good. You're constantly exhausted, you're constantly run down and you're the pinball in this game of life, and life is just batting you around from one thing to another thing and you haven't looked at the future you want and let it define the actions you're taking today.

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And if the pinball analogy doesn't really resonate with you, I had the idea of all right, I want to go to Publix. That's a local supermarket here where we live and it's about 10, 15 minutes down the road. Now if I just get in my car, start taking random turns, like, oh, I'm going to take a right turn here, I'm going to drive down the street, maybe take a left turn there, I very likely will not arrive to my destination unless it's just by dumb luck. But instead of just going out and just letting life happen and take some random turns here and there, not really considering where it is that you're wanting to go, you think I'd like to end up at the grocery store. But what if I say, ok, I know exactly where this Publix is. That's 15, 20 minutes into my future, that's where I want to end up. So I have very specific routes and turns and roads that I take to get there.

Speaker 1: 15:02

Right, so where you're wanting to go? Exactly when you're wanting to go is defining the steps you take.

Speaker 2: 15:09

And the steps, instead of just going, I'm just going to let this happen and hopefully I'll end up there. So I feel like too many times, really unintentionally, I think that happens and, like you said, sometimes we get a diagnosis pronounced over us and we let that just kind of define our future instead of saying no, no, no, no.

Speaker 2: 15:29

I'm going to define I know that this thing can be beat. I know that this can get better and I'm going to let that future define the steps that I take now, so that I know that I end up over there.

Speaker 1: 15:42

Yeah, it's so important that you understand that there's nothing that cannot be healed. I want you to think about that for a minute. As a believer, there is nothing that cannot be healed. You serve Jehovah Rapha. He, by nature, is God, your healer. Everything has an answer. There is an answer for it all and he has the answers. He holds the key. That's why we talk about getting back to the garden Genesis 129. He is the original creator of you. He has given you the owner's manual. He tells you how he created your body to run the best.

Speaker 1: 16:15

But we get out in the world and we get confused and it starts flipping us all around because we're listening to this person tell us to do this. This person says, oh well, you're not going to get your protein. And that person says, oh, carbs are bad for you. And you're binging around on all these things that aren't even true and you've got to get back to how did God create me to eat? What did he say I was to eat when I was originally designed? What was I created to eat? What was my body created to run on?

Speaker 1: 16:42

Then we can look at the science and see. It backs it up time and again. Our body was created to thrive on carbohydrates, but we hear all these things carbs are bad for you. Where's you're going to get your protein and all this stuff? And so we're going through life confused and not knowing what to do.

Speaker 1: 16:56

And then we don't think about the future that we want. And so if the present has defined my future in my mind, I'm not believing God's word. I'm not believing or thinking about God, my healer. I'm not even considering the fact that I could get better. But when you start seeing yourself better and then you start dreaming about the things you want to do, when you feel that way, when you're filled with power and energy and your body's thriving like God wants it to do what is going to be possible for you, then that is the future that you want to define your present. So take some time today and start dreaming. First of all, realize something that's been pronounced over you like a disease or diagnosis. Realize that nothing is impossible with God. But we also know from research that the most common diseases of our time that are labeled chronic and get laid on you get reversed, very often by whole plant foods. They can be reversed.

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By the things that the Father put in the foods for us already.

Speaker 1: 18:00

I mean, it's just there, but you have to be willing to prioritize your life. You are worth stopping and taking the time and starting to believe that you can get better and then asking yourself what are the dreams that God's placed on my heart? What am I passionate about doing in my life? Being there for my family as I age and get older not just them having to care for me, but me still being active into old age, planting seeds in their life.

Speaker 1: 18:28

I want you to go back into the book of Joshua and look at Caleb when it came time for them to come back to the promised land. He was aged, he was in his 80s and he said I've gone all this time wandering in the desert with everybody. Here we are about to go in. I wanted to go in 40 something years ago. Right, I wanted to go in, but I couldn't. I had to wander around with you people. Okay. So now he's saying here I am, joshua. I am in my 80s, but I have the same strength that I had back then and God's promises are the same today for me. I still have the same faith in those promises today that I had back then and I am ready to conquer the giants. Give me the giants land. Okay, so he dreamed big. My point is even into his 80s he was strong as he was in his 40s.

Speaker 1: 19:15

These are the things that are possible for us. God gives us these stories for a reason. They're not just sweet little stories. Moses had clear vision to the day he went to be with God. Clear vision, eyesight. We think, oh, as we get older, our eyesight grows dim.

Speaker 1: 19:33

Don't be saying this stuff like that and believing that and giving that power in your life. You don't have to accept the way things are in the world around you. This is not your home. This is not your reality. Things can be different for you because God lives inside you and he's given you the wisdom and the knowledge and the understanding of. Also, apart from the miraculous healings that are possible, he's given you the guidebook that shows you how to eat. He's given us now the medical knowledge, the nutritional research.

Speaker 1: 20:03

You're here learning all those things that he's made me and Jared passionate about. How do you make it taste good, how do you make it quick, how do you make it simple? How do you set up your environment, people, places and things so you can thrive in this walk to know which steps to take, the exact steps to take so you can reach the future that he has placed in your heart, because you've taken time to dream about it and to ask him what is it, what do you have for me, what do you want me to do? And you start seeing that future. You're going to live into that future. You're going to actually arrive there if you have the future in mind, instead of letting life toss you around like a helpless little pinball.

Speaker 2: 20:48

Because you're going to make the decisions today that will get you to the future. Your future decided your present so that you can get to that dream.

Speaker 1: 20:52

We are so excited to hear the dreams that God's planning in your heart. What are you dreaming? What are you going to accomplish as you learn how to get more whole plant foods into your life? You know we've got almost 300 episodes now. When you're listening to this it might be four or five, 600 plus, who knows how many. But regardless of that, all those are searchable inside our free group, which is where you need to be and when you come in. Your action step for today is to come into the free group and immediately post. It's to come into the free group and immediately post.

Speaker 1: 21:21

I just listened to the episode about dreaming for my future so that I can let my future guide me in my present, so that I actually end up there. You don't have to say all that, but you can just kind of briefly tell and just tell what dream has God placed into your life? That when you learn how to make whole food plant-based sustainable, you start putting more and more of these steps into practice you are going to be living out. Share that future with us. We're excited about the dreams that God's placed in your heart. We can't wait to dream with you, to pray for you and to support you on this most amazing journey of making whole food, plant-based living sustainable so that you can fully enjoy life. We look forward to seeing you inside Podcast Insider's Experience. Go right now and join us at poweronplantscom forward slash P-I-E. That's poweronplantscom forward slash pie and we will see you there. Have a fantastic week, sunshine, thank you.