Anita 0:00

If you lived in Bible times and you walked up to Jesus, what do you think would happen if you came up to Him for healing? Or if you were screaming like blind Bartimaeus, Jesus! Yeshua!" People were trying to shut him up. He would not be quiet because he wanted God. He wanted what He had for him. He desired to be well. Why do you think we desire to be well? If it's God's will for you to be sick, why do you go to the doctor? Why are you seeking healing?

Jarrod 0:28

Would you be fighting against the will of God if it is His will for you to be sick?

Anita 0:33

Right. These are the questions we need to be asking Think about all you've accomplished in life. What if you could 10X that because your body's finally backing you 100%? That's what we help Christian entrepreneurs do. Welcome to Power On Plants, the podcast where we harness the incredible power of whole plant foods and God's Word to optimize your energy and your productivity so you can maximize your revenue, reach, and impact. I'm Anita Roussell, a nurse and certified integrative nutrition health coach

Jarrod 2:12

And I'm Jarrod Roussel, a physician assistant certified in lifestyle medicine

Anita 2:16

as the plant-based productivity experts, executive performance coaches to purpose-driven Christian entrepreneurs, we show you the exciting way to fuel your body in which it was perfectly designed to thrive, so inflammation naturally fades away and your energy skyrockets, so you can finally have the body that fully backs you in living your God-given dreams. No exhausting dieting methods or stacking list of meds to manage your symptoms, or keeping up with numbers, small portions, or even willpowering through your meals you don't like in another attempt to get healthy. we know there's so much confusing information out there about how to heal your body, that it can wear you out. So if you're thinking, "I just wish someone would walk me through the exact system to finally feeling good in the way that's enjoyable so at last," that's exactly what we do inside our accelerator experience. Join the wait list to find out when applications for the next cohort are available at poweronplants.com/accelerator. Today, we're discussing something very important for you to understand as a purpose-driven leader, and it's not something that we hear a lot of people talking about in the Christian spaces, and it's the fact that we have a common enemy who does not want you well. And we titled this one But God. Have y'all ever heard that saying, "But God?" It's all throughout the Bible where you see, something's not going right for somebody, the enemy's coming after God's people, and then there's always this but God moment where God just comes in and shows up, and he just does what he does because we're his children. but somehow within the religious establishment, We've been convinced through a variety of lies- That somehow sickness is a desire or a plan of God. we need to start asking the right questions here. What we want you to start thinking about is when did sickness come on the scene? When did sickness come on the scene? That's the first thing I wanna discuss, because we have to look at when did something originate, and if it's God's will for us, wouldn't it have been there from the very beginning?

Jarrod 4:22

When did it originate and what were the circumstances around when it started? So it happened when Adam fell, when the first sin happened. So was that Father's desire for us?

Anita 4:35

Was it his design? Was it his original plan? I mean, you can look at Genesis 1:29. He tells us he gives us these foods to eat, and those are for our optimal health and wellbeing. And then he laid out loving instructions for them, things that people call law today. If you look up Torah, it's actually loving instruction of the Father. And so from the very beginning, Adam and Eve had these loving instructions from our Father for how to live, and there was only one thing that they weren't supposed to do. And oh, imagine this, the thing that brought death into the world had to do with the food choice that they made. I mean, that's shocking when you actually think about that. Now, no, it wasn't like, oh, that fruit was sinful. It was the fact of they weren't obeying what Father had laid out for us as the best, and that all comes back to not trusting him completely. And so we have to look at when did this sickness enter the world? And like Jarrod said, it came in when we didn't fully trust Father, and we thought, "Hey, we have a better way. We can figure this out on our own." And so then death came as a result. And what is sickness? We need to ask ourself, what is sickness? Sickness is slow death

Jarrod 5:45

Well, at the time, they would've lived forever. God said, "If you eat of this tree, you will surely die." Now, it didn't mean that he died immediately, but that is when death entered the world.

Anita 5:56

'cause they didn't drop dead right at that moment, right?

Jarrod 5:59

Right. But that's whenever death entered the world, and that's when sickness entered the world

Anita 6:04

So you have a real enemy, and that's Satan. The Bible's very clear who it is, and he stands up against the children of God because you are in the image of God. He hates seeing the image of God. He wants to destroy you. The Bible says he's out to steal from you, kill you, and even destroy you if possible. So I won't go into the if possible today, but I want you to understand it says his desire is to steal from you, kill you, and destroy you. Now, for years, I didn't understand that. I just read kill and destroy, and just like you do sometimes, you just keep on reading. I would always think in the back of my mind, "Why kill and then destroy? Why would it say both? I mean, is killing not destroying?" But then God showed me one day, this has to do with him stealing from you to kill you and destroy your calling. So if he can take you out, then your calling is done

Jarrod 6:59

You never fulfill what God purposed for you to do on this earth

Anita 7:03

That's exactly why he wants you sick. He knows God made you to represent or re-present him rightly to the world. did you know that's what it means to glorify God? One day our family did a study on the word glory. Look that up in the Hebrew. Look it up in the Greek. Look up glory and glorify, and do a deep study on that. It will blow your mind. 'Cause we say it, and in our Greco-Roman thinking these thought processes, these classical thought processes, and we're reasoning things out with these big, mighty ideas like glory, and we don't even know what it means. We say, "Oh God, we glorify you. We wanna glorify you. May we glorify you." Do we even understand? Have we taken the time to understand what these words we're saying and these desires we have, what they actually mean? It's not just some ethereal thought out there, "Oh, we want to bring you glory and lift you up and make you great." What it means is to look like Him, to rightly represent Him to the world. The word represent is re-present. Re-present. You were made in the image of God to re-present Him to this world, to look like Him, not just physically. Like, obviously we don't all physically look exactly alike. This has to do with how we're living our lives. You're carrying His name. You are His representative in this world. So if the enemy can make you sick and can cause you to die early and to take you out before you have fully re-presented God the way you were meant to in this world, do you think he's gonna do it?

Jarrod 8:39

And the irony is, in the fall, Satan tempted them saying, you will not die when you eat this fruit. You will be like God." But they were already like God. They were already in his image. They were already glorifying him

Anita 8:56

made in His image. So what is God's purpose for you? It's to know Him intimately, not to know religious ideas, to know Him intimately and to make Him known, to bring His kingdom to this Earth in and through you. And our enemy knows this, and he wants to stop it every chance and in every way he gets, in every single one of us. And so we have this common enemy who is out to steal from us, kill us, and destroy us, but the truth of the matter is he has already been defeated and you have so much more power given to you by God Than what you've probably even realized Oh, I know what you're thinking, "But Anita, God brings sickness to teach us things." Where does it say that in the Bible? That God is putting sickness on those who love Him and are following Him? Were we sick when He created us? When did we get sick? We just went over that, when did sickness enter the world? So it wasn't His original plan for us, and it's slow death. And then people rebelled against God in the garden as a result of the fall. It was not God's original intention for us to be sick. But Yeshua said, that's Jesus, He said, "If you've seen me, you've seen the Father." Did we see Him putting sickness on people? When they came seeking healing, when they came to become whole, when they came to want to know Him more. And the Bible tells us Yeshua healed them all. That is all over your Bible. Look it up. He healed them all. So who came to Jesus for healing that did not get healed? If you lived in Bible times and you walked up to Jesus, what do you think would happen if you came up to Him for healing? Or if you were screaming like blind Bartimaeus, Jesus! Yeshua!" People were trying to shut him up. He would not be quiet because he wanted God. He wanted what He had for him. He desired to be well. Why do you think we desire to be well? If it's God's will for you to be sick, why do you go to the doctor? Why are you seeking healing?

Jarrod 11:08

Would you be fighting against the will of God if it is His will for you to be sick?

Anita 11:12

Right. These are the questions we need to be asking Maybe you're saying, Oh, well, people just got healed all the time when they came to Jesus himself. That's why it happened. No, it wasn't. God healed many before Yeshua was born. Yeshua commissioned his followers in his final words to them, Go and heal them. Lay hands on the sick. These signs might follow those who believe?" No. these signs will follow them who believe. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover. There's a lot more there that we're supposed to be doing Read it. We need to know these things, but

Jarrod 11:51

maybe recover? No. Oh, it said they will recover

Anita 11:54

Oh, but that was just for a time. That was just for the first disciples. It was so the church could be built quickly. We need to be careful we're not taking on man's religion, and we don't really think about the Bible. It's very simple. It's harder to believe those things. Get into the Word and ask God, "What are you saying here? Strip away the things that I believed, that's man-made religion, and show me what you actually say." Because that's what Jesus said, I don't say anything the Father doesn't say. I don't do anything the Father doesn't do." So when we see Him, and He's healing all the sick, then what is Father's will? If He's only doing what Father says, what Father desires, what He sees the Father do, and all He does is heal them all, and then He says to us as His followers, "Go and heal them all," and those are His final words. What do we know s- about somebody's final words? It's the most important

Jarrod 12:50

they're very important

Anita 12:51

Right. So these signs will follow those who believe. Oh, yeah, but that was just for the time. Well, when He said that, He said, And they will take the gospel to the nations." The original disciples did not take the gospel all over the world to the nations. And then He said, "And those who believe the message that's taken all over the nations, they will heal the sick." So clearly it wasn't limited, and people weren't just getting healed in the early church. We saw it with Jesus, we saw it with the early church, and guess what? We see it on a regular basis today when we're in the atmosphere where these things are believed, when we're fully trusting God and what he says, and we can break out of the matrix of religion. The whole reason Jarrod and I are talking about this, and what we've seen time and again, is it is crucial that as a believer and a follower of Christ who was sent here to represent God to the world rightly, God is not sick and there is no sickness in heaven. Okay, again, that shows us it's not his will. His very name is Rapha. Look up Rapha. A person's name is not just what you call them, it is the very essence of who they are in Hebrew thought. So if you understand his name is Rapha because he is healing, sickness goes against everything that he stands for, that he is, that is his essence. And we see that in the garden, and we see that today, and we see that in the future. So what we want you to walk away from this episode understanding is that God wants you well. We could give you scripture after scripture after scripture on healing, how he wants you well. If you are dealing with some kind of sickness, it is crucial that you deal with it spirit, soul, and body. Jarrod and I are on here week after week, and we're talking mostly about the body because the food part is super hard for people. But what we realize is that we have a five-step framework that God has given us, and we use that inside our accelerator experience, walking you through step by step of how do you get this food part right. Because when you have been sabotaged and bombarded by all these flavor hijacking foods, And all these foods that are intentionally addictive, and you can't seem to break free from them, or you don't know how to make it stick. There are methods that make this simple, that make it quick, that make it taste amazing, where it will last. But you're convinced you need GLP-1, and you somehow have an emotional problem, and you've tried all these things and it didn't work, and you're doing what all the health gurus tell you, and it's real confusing, and it's really involved, and it's very difficult, and those methods do not last. Meanwhile, all the things you're trying to accomplish doing those things are naturally built into the way God made for us to eat according to Genesis 1:29. Yes, even GLP-1, the production of it by your body. Guess when it's produced? Guess what foods turn that on? Guess what? You naturally have that in a way that it doesn't stick around in your body and cause your digestive system to shut down. I mean, that can be one of the side effects of GLP-1. Look it up. There are testimonials online of people who are having that happen because they're taking manufactured, man-made GLP-1 that stays in your body way longer than it was supposed to. I'm just giving you one example. Jarrod and I could go on and on telling you example after example A people who have hijacked a system that God has made very simple, but the problem is when you have these things and you don't know how to break free from them, you can stay stuck in it for a lifetime. Even the thought process of what people say is healthy or how to get well, and all the lies that you're being bombarded by online, it's exhausting. You don't know what to do. You hear this is healthy, you hear that's not healthy. You hear all this stuff, and when you get to the truth of what's in the Word and you look at the reliable research... Jarrod knows how to research. He was in research at Medical University of South Carolina for years. Also, he has a cellular and molecular biology degree on top of being a physician assistant. He loves this stuff. Like, when you think about Dr. Greger, think about Jarrod. Jarrod loves digging into the research. It drives him. He loves it. So he knows how to look at these studies and go, 'This is reliable, this is not.' So is it not that every time we see a reliable research study, it's lining up with what the Word of God says

Jarrod 17:31

Oh, absolutely. And it shouldn't surprise us. Whenever science confirms what the Lord has said, what scripture has said, it really is not a surprise. We're just seeing through our human eyes what the Lord has already created. Yeah. And with everything we're talking about today, the simplicity of it all, the more you follow God, the more we dig into the Bible, the gospel is simple. God's ways are simple. It's never meant to be that complex

Anita 18:00

Right. And so you're out there being told and thinking, "I have to count calories and portions, and I have a problem with eating too much, and it's an emotional issue," and, it's all the food noise, which is actually real, but it's manufactured through the foods today. "Oh, but I eat clean. Oh, but I eat organic." Well, animal products by nature are addictive. Go back and listen to The podcasts that we've done on this, I mean, we literally have almost 400 podcasts now for you, where we have dealt with and explained a lot of these different things. come into PPN, that's Peak Performance Network, at poweronplanes.com/ppn. That is our community service group where you can come in and we serve you, and you can learn and ask questions. But you can get in there and literally, we've intentionally set it up for you to start getting results, to start gaining momentum on your health journey, because you can literally search every single podcast episode. And yes, we keep adding every single one for you. So you can search any term you're looking for. You can search GLP-1. You can search protein. You can search casein, that protein in dairy, in animal products, that's meant to bring the calf back to the cow. Okay, so if it's in dairy to bring a calf back to the cow, what's it meant to do? Grow the calf into a cow. And so you're convinced you have all these problems, and you're eating the foods that are keeping you physically addicted you were never meant to eat. So what do you do if you love all this stuff? And this is my specialty. Because I told Jarrod when we started doing this, I said, "It's gotta taste good, or forget about it. I know it's not gonna last." Because I grew up in my family's barbecue restaurant, it's gotta taste good, it's gotta be simple, it's gotta be quick. We're way too busy to spend a bunch of time. You know, we're entrepreneurs. We have a God-given mission, a God-given vision. We cannot keep letting the enemy steal from us. He's stealing from us our time, and time is the most valuable asset you have. So these foods have to be quick. They have to be simple, and your time is freed up in so many different ways. I want you to get in PPN and look up time. We've talked about this before. You think about time, and you think about how long are these foods gonna take to prepare? Well, I make them so simple. It's minimal ingredients, minimal time in the kitchen. Press start, go do something with your family. Enjoy your life. We were not meant to be chained to a kitchen doing these crazy health guru ways that don't bring lasting results. You were meant for more. You were made to walk in freedom, to live fully energized with your brain clear, your thoughts clear, able to be optimally productive so that your body's backing you 100%, not just treading water, barely surviving the day. well, this is just how it is. I'm just getting older. It's just my genes." There's so many lies you need to unlearn, And then to see the opposite of the lie, which is the truth that's found in God's word. We walk through this in the mindset. We don't just teach you how to eat these foods. There are some amazing things you need to understand and know, Like the three different simple ways to repurpose your food. Like how do you dine out? Like what do you do if you're the only person in your family who eats these things? How do I make this work with real life? What if I wanna have friends over? What if I'm gonna take a plane trip and be in a hotel room? How do I make this work when I'm working so much on my business? All these different questions that you have. Yes, we deal with the food part, but one thing that Jarrod and I have learned is that God is about spirit, soul, and body healing. if our spirit's not right, if we're not connected to the vine, we're not gonna be fruitful. If our soul is not right, that is the way you think about things, how you feel about things, and what you desire. If those things are off, there's going to be trouble. And when you're sick in your spirit or soul, it affects your body. Don't be fooled. It affects your decision-making, it affects your ability to grow as a believer, it affects your ability to grow your business, and it affects who you're able to help and how many you're able to help. And this is our mission. Think about all the things you've been able to accomplish in life. What if you were able to, at minimum, 10X that because your body is now finally fully backing you? that doesn't just go to how you eat, although that piece is crucial. the condition of your body also flows from the condition of your spirit and your soul

Jarrod 22:33

And we're not talking about doing just 10 times more work than what you're doing now, because if you're already doing 50 or 60 hours a week, there's no way you can do 10 times that. We're talking about 10 times the results, 10 times the impact, that you can exponentially grow what you're doing because of better decisions, better clarity

Anita 22:52

it's about revenue, reach, and impact. And we say, "Oh, well, shouldn't you put revenue last?" It doesn't matter the order. God wants you to prosper in this world. If you aren't prospering, who is going to help the people who have needs? Who's gonna help them? Is God's kingdom broke? Or are His streets made of gold? Are the foundations of His temple laid with all the various stones? Are the gates of one single beautiful pearl? Are you going to have mansions in glory? Is His kingdom poor? Are we rightly representing Him when we have poverty mentality? Now, I don't believe most of you that are listening to this have poverty mentality, because you are already successful entrepreneurs. I think you probably busted out of that matrix. But we need to understand what God's word says about wealth and about Him. He owns it all. He has it all. And in the area of wellness, He wants completeness and wholeness for you. Did you know that that's actually in the Hebrew what the word shalom means? It doesn't just mean, oh, peace, you know, something ethereal. Again, that thought that's way out there, that isn't tactical, that we can't understand. It actually means to be completely whole and wholly complete. Perfect, lacking nothing.

Jarrod 24:09

A restoration back to the original design of where we were supposed to be in the first place

Anita 24:14

Yes, that's what he wants for you, and that is only found inside of intimacy with him. And when you have intimacy with him, and that's where we start in Accelerator, When you have that intimacy, You're getting healed in your spirit. You're being healed in your soul, and then you understand how he originally meant for you to eat, and you start experiencing how simple it is, how great it tastes. And then the people in your home you never thought would eat this way are getting curious and at least tasting the food. And then all of a sudden, what happens is for a lot of our people, now this may not happen for your spouse or those in your family, but we've seen it happen so many times. those that came into the Accelerator experience, they applied, they were approved. They said, "You know what? let's go. Let's go. It's on. I'm ready." And they start doing this, and they're going, "I cannot believe how simple this is. I can't believe how few ingredients. I can't believe how you're showing me how to work this with my schedule, and I cannot believe that my spouse actually tried this. And not only that, now they're asking me to make this for them as one of their meals." And over time of working with our clients It's amazing to see spouses get set free. I mean, we have a client who literally, her spouse was not planning on doing this, but just watching her and tasting and adding one new thing, and another new favorite, and another new favorite. Now, although he didn't start this journey to go plant-based, he eats mostly plants. And guess what? his cardiologist actually I told him that his heart age was three years older than his actual age. And then a few years later, the same cardiologist tells him, Hey, your heart age is four years younger than your age." Okay, so what this means is seven years. Seven years to his life, and this is a spouse who didn't even apply to work with us. His spouse applied. She was accepted. We started walking her through this. She's like, "This is crazy. Rheumatoid arthritis is gone. Nexium I was on for 14 years is gone. I'm weighing the appropriate weight. I actually have energy. I felt like I was dying. I was getting scanned for these unexplained headaches that I didn't know where they were coming from. I had IBS. I had type 2 diabetes. Gone." and this is not just one testimonial. There are some people in the world that do something for a business, and they have to scrounge to try to find testimonials. Jarrod and I are like, "This is insane. There are so many testimonials." It's like blood pressure back to normal, off my blood pressure meds under my doctor's supervision with you showing me step by step what to do. Our blood pressure isn't high. My blood pressure was literally lower than it's ever been the last time I had it checked, and it, that is what's normal. Your blood pressure should go down as you age. "Anita, do you feel lightheaded because your blood pressure's less than 120 over 80?" No, I don't. I feel amazing. I have more energy than I've ever had before. We get so passionate about this. I know you've heard that in my voice, the intensity in my voice, but I'm so intense about this because we have a common enemy who wants to keep you from fulfilling your God-given purpose, and Jarrod and I are taking a stand against it, and we are here for you to join us, joining together as a community to take a stand against the enemy and say, "You are not gonna be allowed to steal from me anymore, steal my time, steal my life, steal the seeds I was meant to plant." There are people out there waiting for you. There are people in your family, in your business, future clients waiting for you. If you're limited by your body and what you can do, you can know all the best business plans and purposes and have all the right people hired on your team. You're only going to be able to do what your body is able to show up to accomplish. So it really is the foundational tool, and that's tied with your spirit and your soul. Wholeness, complete wholeness, whole completeness, that is what God has for you because He is your I Am, and in Him is everything. He is all that you need. It's not difficult. It's not hard. If you've tried a million different times, a bazillion different times, and you're saying, "Anita, I just want rid of this thing. Jarrod, I'm sick of feeling this way. I just want my body to back me up. I've got people to see, places to go, and things to accomplish for the kingdom," then this is for you. You wanna go right now to PowerOnPlants.com/ForwardSlashAccelerator and get your name on the wait list so you find out when the applications open up next we only accept a certain number of people into each cohort, and this is going to change your life. We love sharing these things with you. Yes, we talk a lot about food, that the reason we wanted to do this today is we want you to understand what our heart is, what we're fighting against, what we stand for. This is not about us showing up just helping somebody to get healthy. This is helping you to optimize your energy and your productivity so you can maximize your revenue, your reach, and your impact for the kingdom, for His glory. It's like Yeshua said, "This is what you pray. Our Father who's in heaven, holy is your name. Your kingdom come." You know what that means? Your will be done on Earth. Where? On Earth as it is in heaven. You're living on Earth today, even the give us this day our daily bread part is not asking for food. What it means is make it in my life today as it will be when you return Come into my life, heal my body, work in my finances, take over. I surrender. And then you meet with Him on a regular basis, and He's gonna show you the next steps to take. but we do these man-made ways, and then we end up stuck, and we wonder why. This is why. He is the answer. He holds the answer, and there is a system for getting out of the place that you are, even the addictions of food. We didn't even realize we were addicted to food. Jarrod and I were 75 pounds overweight. How do you feel about those pictures that I pull

Jarrod 30:12

Oh, I hate the pictures and somehow every now and then you find a new one I do they're digital, so I can't burn them. No. End up burning my computer. That wouldn't be good.

Anita 30:22

No, it was so funny, and one time, one of them we looked so big, and I'm like, we did not see ourselves that way, but we were totally that big. 'Cause we lost over 75 pounds and have kept it

Jarrod 30:31

still part of me that feels like those pictures have been doctored somehow by time, not by us. But you know how those movies we saw 20, 30 years ago and we thought, "Oh, those were so great," and you see them and you think, "Man, that, that video looks so old"? I feel like somehow we grew in our pictures. I know intellectually we did not, but I, I think it just helps me feel better that I never looked like that, but

Anita 30:54

But then there

Jarrod 30:54

know that I

Anita 30:55

No, seriously, two of those pictures I took out of a video. You literally can watch the video and see how nothing was changed. It's so funny, 'cause I pull it up, I'm like, "Hey, Jarrod, come look at this video." And he's going, "No, this is so bad." 'Cause we really did not realize. We knew we were unhealthy, 'cause we were getting all these diagnoses. We had no energy. It was hard to do anything. Y'all have heard my story, but I tell it again and again because it's gonna give you hope. Like, if Jarrod and Anita can escape this, and they were trained in the healthcare matrix, and they were able to see that, hey, you know, they don't think that medicines are evil. They understand there's a time and a place and a purpose for that. But they're way overused, and there's a natural way that God set up for us to just be set free to live. We don't wanna just live long. We wanna live well. We wanna p- have a lot of life in our years

Jarrod 31:47

And even though I don't really want those pictures to be true, I recently reached out to a doctor that I used to work for many years ago, and it's probably been upwards of 10 years since I've last seen him. And I sent a picture. He said, "Hey, you look good... thinner."

Anita 32:03

Oh no, did he really? You did not tell me

Jarrod 32:05

Yes, he

Anita 32:06

That is so funny.

Jarrod 32:08

did tell him that we, we made some changes, you know, improved our diet. Oh my goodness.

Anita 32:14

Oh my goodness. You look younger.

Jarrod 32:16

aren't lying, unfortunately

Anita 32:18

You look younger. And that was how many years ago? I mean, so many years ago.

Jarrod 32:21

That I worked with him nine, 10 years ago. I worked for him for five, five and a half years, but- We were last, it was about nine or 10 years

Anita 32:28

Yeah, we were already eating clean then, going to the farm, buying stuff, but just did not know. Nobody was telling us, "Hey, these are the foods that are causing problems. Hey, these are the foods that will set you free." Oh, but what do you eat when you like to eat this stuff? I can't live on rabbit food, right? And that's my thing. I love showing you how to make this food taste amazing. I always think of my friend Carrie. She was a client of ours in the very beginning, is still in our communities, it's so fun because Carrie says to me, she said, "Anita, seriously," she said, "when I first saw one of these recipes," she was talking about the tomato soup recipe. She's told me different things about different ones that she's just loved, and how it's just changed her ideas of these things. This taste and see experience that you get when you get a hold of my recipes, because I'm no compromise when it comes to these things tasting good. I'm like, "This has to be a primo based recipe, or forget about it. We're never gonna do it otherwise." But she said, "Anita, I literally loved tomato soup, creamy tomato soup. And so I saw your recipe and I told my husband, 'Look at this. Look at these ingredients. There's no way. There's just no way.'" And within five minutes, she's sitting down with him, that's the rapid part of our system. She's sitting down, she's enjoying tomato soup with her husband, and she's just floored. She's going, "This is so g- how does this taste? How is this even possible with those ingredients?" But you don't know until you know. And then once you do, it's like you can't unsee it. I mean, Jarrod and I say this, we say it all the time. You know, we sit here and we literally laugh, chuckling together, in joy, in excitement, in enjoyment of our food we're eating. And we'll say, "I feel so deprived." And then we just start cracking up, because it's such a lie of our enemy. And once you break free, it's not funny that anybody's stuck. but once you can get un-stuck, there's so much freedom and joy in what you're able to accomplish and do, and the fact that you never miss the old things because you found your new replacements. And then you think, I actually thought that I was gonna be deprived in this way. And I eat way more things than I've ever thought I would eat before. Not only that, I have the replacements for my old favorites. Not only that, there are things still on my list that I wanna try that I haven't even tried yet." It's like John says, John, you say this all the time. I love this so much, and I know you're listening. He says, "Anita, Jarrod, I have so many things on my list now, I don't even know what to try next. But I'm excited that maybe I'll be able to live long enough now that I'm doing this to be able to try them all, And so, our vision changes. I mean, literally John is such an inspiration. I can't wait for you to be in the communities and see him. He has a video on there of him running and j- just jumping on a sled full force. It's like as we age, this is what we should be doing. This is what's normal. We are so excited to be here helping you reframe what is normal. This is what's normal. God's ways are normal. The things you've been struggling and striving to figure out and get rid of and manage, right? That's not normal. You can live a full and productive life, and we're so honored to be a part of helping you do that Know that you are loved, you are prayed for, and we will see you again very soon