[00:00:00] Hey, hey, welcome back to another episode of superhuman radio.  It's Monday. I like to start Monday's off with a really special show. And today is a really special show, you know being able to roll with life circumstances is really the key to a successful person sometimes things change and if you.

[00:00:56] Kind of try to force yourself into a situation [00:01:00] where it's not good for you anymore. It's not smart. My guest today is Jillian Revell. How you doing? Jillian? Hi. Thanks for having me on again. Yes. Yes. So Jillian has been on before Julian has been a formidable competitor for many years. Within the fitna other figure area of bodybuilding physique.

[00:01:24] I'm sorry. Yes, thank you. Yes, I get them confused because some of them, you know figure is starting to look like the Zeke. But anyway in the more than that, that's a much more severe much more difficult much more dedicated. Area to physique competitor for many many years. How many years did you compete all together Joey?

[00:01:43] It was 11 years, but I started out in figure because when I started competing there was just. Figure Fitness and bodybuilding. So I started out in figure. I was actually one of the first girl [00:02:00] to turn pro in the women's physique division in 2011. I turned pro at Junior Nationals. So it was Dana and Amanda that turned pro at jr.

[00:02:10] USA's and then Junior Nationals was Jennifer Robinson and myself. Yeah. So this is this is a this is a major achievement and and I am I. Would be hard-pressed to find guy or gal to show the level of level of drive and dedication that you've shown throughout your career. And and I we're going to explain why I say that in a second because some some people may never have heard the last interview I did with you and so we're going to we're going to start we're going to start off with this.

[00:02:39] We've established how long you have been competing. You have an amazing amazing physique. We've talked about your genetic. You have long muscle bellies. You have a very very attractive smile. You're a pretty feminine looking girl. You have the ability to carry a lot of muscle. You have a great stage presence and you brought that all to Las [00:03:00] Vegas to the Olympia, right?

[00:03:01] Is that where that happened the yes. Yes. It's tell her the story the first it was the first Olympia for women's Physique in. Game, that was the first year we were invited and. The Tuesday before as I was leaving to the airport, I started to get a really bad headache and blurry vision and you know by the time I got to the airport.

[00:03:25] I was working with Factory at the time and he's like, maybe your blood sugar is low. You know, why don't you drink a Gatorade have a piece of chocolate or piece of candy and see if you like, you know, start feeling better. And he also told me, you know, you got to drink your, you know, three to four liters of water on the flight to Vegas because.

[00:03:42] In the end of New York and was like stay hydrated other that we'll check in tomorrow. So I get to Vegas still having this severe headache, you know severe migraine because I did have a history of migraine in my 20s and. You know [00:04:00] getting up the next few days leading up to the actual competition because back then it was Friday and Saturday.

[00:04:07] We were competing Friday was prejudging Saturday with finals now, they just do it in one day for physique, but. You know, I couldn't see getting on the stage. They you know, tell you okay walk out through the curtain and you walk to the X the middle of the stage. I was like, I hope I don't fall off the stage because I can't see literally the only thing I could see when I got to that X was Steve Weinberger, and I arrested the entire Arena was blurry.

[00:04:41] I couldn't see anything. Toronto is make sweet Taco because the next day, you know, I did my routine flawlessly, but I couldn't see so like no one knew how bad it was and one of the expediters might you know, he was like, I really think you need to go to the [00:05:00] hospital. And I'm like, this is the Olympia I used to do final tomorrow.

[00:05:04] He's like no, I really think you should go to the hospital. Like I'll go after finals. So I actually even went to hospital after the men's Final on Saturday night. I didn't go to the hospital till Sunday and I was married at the time. So I was with my ex-husband and we went to hospital in Vegas.

[00:05:21] And that's when they told me I had suffered a rather large stroke and that they needed to run more tests, but that they thought I had what is called a PSO and it is a heart condition. It's a birth defect. So, you know at the time I was like 34, so I was like what the hell how do you get the 30 for not knowing right extremely common and people don't have they don't know they have a PF o usually until they have a stroke interest in and also in my 20s the severe migraines I was having was like a precursor.

[00:05:59] That was [00:06:00] like a signal to not let me know. I had the P fo but I had no idea. Wow, so people who have migraines that they may want to be screened for this heart condition. I mean to be honest it's if you have insurance it's worth it. Yeah, because I mean if you have insurance. Like I am so thankful.

[00:06:24] I wish I think I probably got married the first time so that I had coverage during my heart surgery and everything like it got me through but uh, but yeah, I mean it was the bills from the hospital in Vegas alone were over 200,000 dollars. And I was very lucky my heart's like that was covered and then my actual heart surgery was covered by what where did you have the heart surgery done back home?

[00:06:53] Oh, yeah, because I was I told my ex-husband I like you don't go to Vegas for heart surgery right get me home. [00:07:00] Yeah, and actually the story is kind of funny because I. Oddly enough his uncle was one of the top heart surgeon P fo closure people in Connecticut. So I went to him and he was like we have to do open heart surgery we have to do this because they're an athlete, you know, if we do anything else you're at risk, you know, injuring your heart and my blah blah blah, so I was set to go and get the open heart surgery and like a week before I youtubed open heart surgery.

[00:07:33] And I watched what they do and they're cracking how they crack your chest. Yeah, are you? Okay? Yeah, like it's like a horror movie right? So literally I panicked and I also you know had implants above the muscle like what's going to happen to my boobs, you know, vanity kicked in a way that's gonna happen to my boobs, right?

[00:07:56] So I actually went to my surgeon in the [00:08:00] city. Might that did my breast augmentation and he referred me to a doctor that he was friends with at Columbia Presbyterian. And he was like do not do open heart surgery. There's so many other ways to do this, you know procedure and you know, actually Jerry Beck had also told me right about a way to do it differently because at the time the girl that he was dating worked at Cleveland Clinic and she was telling him that like there was a different way to do it.

[00:08:28] So I went to the. Doctor in at Columbia pres and sat me down and he was like, nope. What we could do is go in through the artery of your point in your groin up with a catheter close the hole with the Helix device. As a reason what they were able to do that is because of the size of the hole was smaller, right if it was a large hole or multiple holes, they would have had to do some form of open heart, but also to now they could do open heart through your.

[00:08:58] Yeah, I was [00:09:00] just gonna say that opened. I was I was just going to say that now they actually go in between the ribs with more like what's with the office with scope devices where they have actual tools at the end and that's why I don't know. I mean unless you are having like quadruple bypass surgery.

[00:09:18] I don't think anybody is cracking anybody's Lorax open anymore. I mean, I don't think they do if you think about it, you know this. Doctor here in Connecticut. Like that is what he does. Yeah, that is what he's amazing. He has a hammer and everything else is a nail. That's it. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

[00:09:39] Yeah. So I mean I was just really working it that I Googled it and that my you know, my surgeon referred me, so I canceled the open heart surgery and two weeks later. I had the procedure in New York and. November 2013 now think about this all of the [00:10:00] heavy work you've done in the gym to build your body to the degree that you did and and that was an underlying thing just this bit was just there.

[00:10:12] Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. That's yeah and you know, it's funny because you know, some of the doctors are like, oh cardio must have always sucks for you. I was like how the hell am I supposed to know if it would have been this way my whole life and I was a swimmer growing up like yeah cardio always sucks.

[00:10:31] But I didn't know it wasn't supposed to go. Right exactly. It's a reference it against right? Yeah, like I've always hated cardio. So right now I still hate cardio and even though your heart works better. You still hate car? So how long did it take for you to recover from that surgery, even though it's a minimal surgery.

[00:10:51] I'm sure that there was a period of time they didn't want your training or anything, right? Yes. They did not want me to do the surgery was November [00:11:00] 2013. I got back in the gym. I think April 2014. And my goal at that point was to re-qualify for the Olympia. It was just a personal goal for myself.

[00:11:14] And you know, I did I recall if I'd and I didn't, you know at the first of the I placed sixth in the second OMB I placed 8th, but, you know, just the fact that I overcame everything and I was also going through a divorce. Cuz I got divorced like a month. I started my divorce a month after my surgery.

[00:11:34] So, you know going through all of this stuff, you know training and competing to be seen and it kept me on track and because I was going through, you know, a pretty awful time. Furthermore anyone first. First of all coming out of a surgery like that. Number one, right that shakes you up. Yeah, and then know there are I don't know of any divorces that are good.

[00:11:57] I mean I hear people have but I think it's kind of like [00:12:00] the Bigfoot you hear that these out. He won yourself so badly. It's all the more Society. Yeah, so but yeah, but I qualified it that year and made it. So that was a huge accomplishment and then you can you continue you continue to compete what so so you you have competed for 11 years.

[00:12:22] Yeah, and and and and and you have been so such a dedicated. Athlete I mean you did not sway from the life for 11 years except at these points where you had have surgery obviously hell. Yeah, so that's people don't realize you know, I always say this. Bodybuilding is the most extreme sport because in the offseason you're expected to get better like what a basketball player or football player is in the offseason.

[00:12:51] He kills it becomes a regular human being for a while, but not a bodybuilder a bodybuilder access to double down and squeeze every ounce of [00:13:00] possibility out of their physique during the offseason. So really there is no offseason and bodybuilding. There's just a season for growth and a season for competition and that's.

[00:13:11] Right, exactly. And of course, you know, I was always one of the smaller competitors and like you mentioned earlier like my stage presence is really what carried me because I was never and I had never been one of the bigger girls. I was always. Like quite small in comparison and you know, I here to here that's all I heard, you know, you need to get bigger.

[00:13:36] You need to get bigger. You need a little more size and you are size. So it was a struggle because you know how much sighs can a female really put on quote unquote healthfully, you know also being careful with their health, right? You know and also being comfortable with oneself and their own body image, you know, [00:14:00] so it was it was tough because you know, a lot of I think a lot of people competing.

[00:14:08] Unfortunately. I think they have a really bad self image to begin with body dysmorphia. Most of us have body dysmorphia. It's why we get into this. Yeah. Yeah, but like that was never the case with me. I was an athlete and I was doing this because I wanted to win I never doubted myself. Physically.

[00:14:30] I always knew from the day. I started competing. I always knew I was going to be on the Olympia stage. I knew I might not be number one, but I knew I deserved the up there, but when you start bulking and feeling like such crap. That's really where I struggled with because I was like, I just don't want to be this big right in my real life.

[00:14:52] Right? Right. Yeah, what a one of the things that you had on your side that I think worked in your favor was that you [00:15:00] have very long muscle bellies. We talked about this. Yeah in a previous interview and I think you actually attributed it to your death. If I remember my memories isn't as good as you used to be but I think you said your dad had you know that type of physique as well, but you have very very long muscle bellies that give you.

[00:15:15] The illusion of being much bigger than that you so so you had that working for you, huh? Oh, yeah for sure. I mean so many people. You know would see pictures. I think this does happen in some a lot of cases anyway, but people would see pictures or see me on stage and then the next to me and be like, whoa, you're this little girl.

[00:15:36] You're not the same person Benji of Columbo always used to say you guys like. Danny here. You look like nothing but can't you on see if you look like somebody I'm like, yeah. Thanks. And then and then you do have a smile that lights up a room. You've always had that big beautiful smile. You can't help but but make people look at you when you smile.

[00:15:55] So it's you had all that. Yeah. So so, you know it's about to is because I [00:16:00] absolutely loved what I was doing. I loved competing. I love being on stage. I loved performing. Performing. I mean honestly, that's the only thing I miss is like the routine. I truly miss performing. I really do so all of a sudden, you know, I'm I used to always follow you on Instagram as the comment and you know, love seeing your pictures and stuff like that and then all of a sudden I was one day I was thinking I haven't seen Jillian on Instagram lately.

[00:16:28] So I went to your wall and I saw a picture. And I think you were going in to do a Zumba class. You will like I'm going in to do my first Zumba class or something like that, you know, correct me and I messaged you and I said honey, you know, are you not training anymore you said no.  And I was like what?

[00:16:51] Yep, it was Orange Theory and yeah, I actually you know, because I [00:17:00] back up a little because I. Ended up getting pneumonia in December of 2017. Okay, and that is when I decided I was not going to compete anymore. I just was it was a really rough time. I was like home for like two weeks and I really don't know what came over me but it hit me and I was like I can't do this anymore.

[00:17:29] I can't put my body through the stress. I'm going to train, but I'm just not doing this anymore. I'm not going to compete. I'm not going to get up get on stage, but Flash Forward to November 2018. I actually got my breasts redone and I literally had not gone into the gym until a few weeks ago a regular gym.

[00:17:54] I had not gone in from the from November to a couple weeks ago. Okay, so so let's [00:18:00] back up to 2017 just for a second you get you get pneumonia you decide yeah, I'm done the the initial months or weeks even or days. Did you feel lost where you worry? Did you vacillate now? Nothing? No, and you know why because.

[00:18:20] Competing had turned into my stressor when it had been my stress relief prior because I got to say, you know the 11 years. I did confirm it literally saved my life in so many ways. Tell us we go. Okay. Yeah, but what was going on that that became your channel there? Well, you know the relationship I did have with my ex-husband was not.

[00:18:48] Okay, it was so competing became my Escape From My Reality became the gym was my swear. I got my Solace [00:19:00] where I was able to be happy and you know things started to shift in my life where I didn't need the gym to make me happy because my life was happy. My life was now happy. So it was like you don't need to like kill yourself day in day out like because everything in your heart is whole right?

[00:19:24] So that was a big realization and. I mean, it's so crazy because for years that's like all I could think of, you know, I miss birthday party is I didn't need Christmas dinner so many times or Thanksgiving I didn't eat and now like the cam is still closed.  My family my friends my self. Of course my dog, really really really King Willie.

[00:19:55] But yeah, you know for that whole year I still train I was still training with Evan some tapani. [00:20:00] He was my coach and I was feeling like once or twice a week with his company but wasn't the same but yeah, it would just it came time for me to hang up the suit because it wasn't doing the it wasn't giving me the same joy that it had before.

[00:20:18] What about your diet? So you spent so much time prepping food and eating on time and taking your supplements and all that sorts of did that just stop. Did you just go all the hell with it? I'm just going to eat what I want or did you still adhere to some type of dietary restrictions? Yeah. I actually will after hat getting us back with pneumonia.

[00:20:40] It was a struggle for me to get well and I actually started working with zombie you that you had on the show before and he really helped me so much to like get my body back on track, you know, because I wasn't losing weight. I would like totally inflamed. [00:21:00] I just my body wasn't right and I think it was just a rebound from the strip.

[00:21:06] Dietary restrictions for so long. I think my body kind of just like read that was in a rebound from all of it and no son really helped me to balance all of my levels out. I mean, I have like high metal High mold toxicity. I'm like, how does that happen? But really actually quite easy. He really helped me change a lot of things in my life live a healthier lifestyle.

[00:21:34] And you know, I actually like dabbled in Tito for a little while. I write paleo and then I was doing like Autoimmune Paleo. Like I just wanted to try different ways of eating and what has happened is I've really pulled back from eating so much animal protein. I really only eat animal protein like once a day now.

[00:22:00] [00:22:00] Interest like my diet is very it's really nutrient dense with like vegetables and fruits and what I want to know, what is your animal protein of choice right now? It's ground turkey. Okay, that's nice. Yeah, like I. For some I don't know if it's because I ate chicken so much for so long. Like I can only eat a lot of chicken like ever I never make it at home.

[00:22:26] Right? I actually just made at the other day, you know for my boyfriend for the first time. I was like, oh my God, it's so weird to cook chicken. Yeah, right and you know, I only eat red meat when I'm feeling a craving for it. And if at that time if I want to eat like two fillets like I will do it, right.

[00:22:44] I've really been trying to commit tension chemo. What my body is really craving and needing, you know, not like craving like donuts or stuff like or service but like if my body tells me like you need to eat some more, you [00:23:00] know spinach today, like go ahead finish all day long or if it's just e ground turkey all day if that's what's making you feel good like you do it.

[00:23:10] So do you so I would imagine you don't crave sugars or did you start to Crave sugars when you started to change your diet entirely? I've always been a sugar person. Really. Yeah, like I've always been cakes cookies. Like I always have had those Cravings, but I have always. Had a high level of candida in my system in my God my intestinal tract.

[00:23:34] Like I've just always for me. That's just something I've always had its and it's not candida is like just really not easy to get rid of and you know, you go on one date and you're back to square one. So candida is something I always break have battled West but I really think it's under control now, but yeah, I mean if I want to eat, you know, If I want to eat snacks and stuff, I'll do [00:24:00] it, but it's not like I'm eating it every day all day long, but you know like five for Father's day whenever to my parents house.

[00:24:06] My mom had some crumb cake. I usually don't wait. Wait, wait, wait. Wait, what was it Entenmann's? It was people don't deploy thinking what are they talking about? Entenmann's crumb cake East Coast. I could take a glass of milk and eat an entire crumb cake this so going so good. I love I first heard.

[00:24:25] The first thing I do is I pick all the really big big crumbs off and eat them buying bottles. I said, he eat like a little bit off the bottom so that there's just like a little bit of sponge cake left with like tons of frosting stuff on the top. Right, right. The crumbs are so big in this. Yeah, that sounds are so good.

[00:24:44] So so it sounds you know, I've and I visited your wall. I see pictures of you. Now, you look you look happy in a different way than you did back on stage. You looked happy on stage. But you have a kind of look [00:25:00] of peace now I do I really do. I think it's. You know the first time in my life, I really I'm like content and really happy with my life.

[00:25:15] You know, my business is going really well. It's running really. Well, you know, I love where I live. Everything is going really well with my parents and my brother I'm dating like the most amazing wonderful man and his namesake. His name is Andy Andy Andy and he's a shooting instructor. Right? I saw the pictures of him at the bank.

[00:25:41] Yeah. Yeah, he actually he'll probably like kill me for like saying this but he'll so yeah II and we actually met. Because you know after competing I still have a [00:26:00] competitive nature. So I wanted to do something and I was like, you know what I've always been around one spot gums before I was like maybe I can get into competitive shooting very care as an outlet, you know, and so I went to the range that was up near the gym and.

[00:26:18] By chance one day the owner kind of directed me and like oh, you should just take a lesson from you. And so I took my first lesson and that was it. We got together. I think from like March of last year all the way till October and then I finally asked me out on a date. So I mean we had a really great relationship as friends going into our relationship.

[00:26:45] So it's. Yeah, yeah. Yep. That's that's the best. That's the best when you begin friends first before anything becomes physical. So what is your favorite handgun? I'm assuming you're going to compete with a nine millimeter, right? Yes. [00:27:00] And right now I've been. I own a Glock 43 which I don't really like anymore.

[00:27:07] It's just a smaller got for concealed. Carry, that's fantastic. But like shooting in the range and for a competition it's not regulation size. So I've been shooting with the Glock 17. Yeah, but I really kind of want to get for my carrier. I want to get the new 19 because it's a 17 and a 19 combined.

[00:27:30] So and so. You don't you don't have your CCW yet?  And I have like here. I am I carry but I have my carry permit like everything like that. I own a pistol right? I just don't I haven't done any competitions. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Just curious. Yeah. Yeah, and like I have my Connecticut permit. Actually, I just took the test for to carry in Massachusetts.

[00:27:55] I also have my Utah carry permit, so. Do you talk [00:28:00] carry permit you can carry and like 32 different states, right? And that's what I have because I'm my carry permit is from Louisville, Kentucky from Kentucky. And so I can carry every place except California. I can carry in Pennsylvania, but I can't carry in Jersey or New York or New York's probably not not not not New Jersey New York.

[00:28:21] I can't carry in, Illinois. Current like I could I could carry like every place else and I'm not you know, I'm fine with that. In fact, I travel with my lawn I lock it up and put it on the plane and when I get off get off in a state where my my permit is recognized, I just put it right back. I carry inside my belt appendix.

[00:28:40] I like it up front where I can get to it quickly. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I actually for women there's yoga pants. They actually have yoga pants where you can. Have your but you have a pocket for your concealed carry. Wow, that's very very cool. Now you do you do any dry firing drills or anything like that.

[00:29:00] [00:29:00] We don't really do much dry fire like yummy doing that in the beginning but now we just go in there and he's awesome because he's set up like different scenarios and you know, like. Reloading on the move and all that type of snacks and you know at the rain go through they actually have a virtual range.

[00:29:23] So it's a kind of rooted with the projector. And it actually has scenarios. It looks like on this huge projecting screen that you actually can fire into it. Looks like you're in like walking into a school or Tom and it you know has a scenario going on and you have to try to. You know hit the right target not should not shoot the innocent bystanders.

[00:29:48] Yeah, like don't use the nurse.

[00:29:53] Yeah, but it's crazy, you know going from the range into a situation like that like it is, you know, the [00:30:00] first few scenarios. I just stood there and I was like, oh my God like this is so different. But I mean I think and it's crazy because a lot of police departments don't even think that I'm like how the hell like, you know firing on the ring is one thing any you know, you could train a monkey to do that.

[00:30:17] Yep, but like in a real life situation like you it is so different like and I just it is very lucky that this one range has this and that all the police departments in that area go up the train there. You know, I think it's fortunate because the scariest scary world out there. I know you got to be prepared today.

[00:30:40] You know, I got the people say to me. Why do I carry? Like I have like my own daughter. She gets mad at me one time. We went out to a restaurant. She says you're not going to bring your gun. I said, of course I am she goes. Yeah, just leave it home. I said no I said I'd rather have it and not need it than.

[00:30:55] Not have read it I said so I'm wearing a black lie. And so that's yeah, I like, you know, [00:31:00] I own my own business and some nice. I'm leaving at 7:00 8:00 9:00 at night, and it's not that it's a bad area, but there are certain elements. In the area that you know could be a threat and also, I mean, I do have Willie And if anyone has seen my page like he is the most lovable dog ever, but if you don't know him, I mean, he's a Shepherd Pit mix.

[00:31:24] Yeah, so like people are going to stay away from me, but. You know if they come up to us, like he'll just like love them too - yeah, you don't but you don't know that because dogs are very intelligent. They know when not to love and want to protect I want to take a break and when we come back I want to talk about your business.

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[00:33:21] Shr use the code s HR and save 15% off. Your first order Jillian Revell is with us today. We're talking about life. This is a really exciting show to me because. What you have done gives a lot of other people permission quite frankly to change directions in their lives. If you can't change directions in your life life is going to really suck for you if you just keep on trying to be the square peg in the round hole.

[00:33:46] It's just not going to work for you. So what is your business you refer to your business a couple times now? What is your business? Yeah, actually. I let's see five years ago when I [00:34:00] just finish my divorce, I you know my last like year and a half two years and I was with my ex I didn't work so I was able to focus on competing but when we got divorced I was like what am I going to do with my life?

[00:34:17] I had prior to that worked on Wall Street, and then I have gone back to you get my Masters in Education. I just really didn't know what I was going to do and one day a kind of just like hit me that I wanted to become a colon therapist. And for people that don't know what a colon therapist is. It's kind of like a glorified enema.

[00:34:40] It's a irrigation of your colon removing legal matter and toxicity. Through moving it out three in and so I went to the woman because I have been going to a colon therapist 2009. I actually haven't had had a blockage and my colon. I was using a fiber product. [00:35:00] Right? Did I lose you Jill Jillian. Are you there?

[00:35:04] Oh, we have to play some music. Hold on a second. Let's just do something. I'll have to call I have I think I'm gonna have to call her right back. Hold on one side. It's going to get interesting.

[00:35:19] That's.

[00:35:43] I get paid the big bucks to do live radio. Anyway, so you had a blockage you'll using a fiber product and I have some thoughts on fiber to I'm going to talk to you about that. Now that you brought it up good. Yeah, it's it's interesting because the products that I was using had so much DeLeon [00:36:00] in it and clearly in my body just could not handle the amount of psyllium.

[00:36:05] And I also was not drinking enough water. So I ended up with the blockage and my colon went to the hospital. They just told me to start taking, you know, something to help like laxatives to help get rid of everything. But my mom was the one who said oh you should try calling therapy. I was like what the hell is that?

[00:36:26] You know, my mom was like. Way ahead of her time like even when I was a kid, she's taking us to a homeopath a natural path, you know, like she's always on the holistic route with so funny that I'm on that now and so I went to this colon therapist and I've been going to her ever since so when I decided that this is what I wanted to do, I got in touch with her and I did all my training hours with her.

[00:36:52] I did over a hundred training hours and then I went out to the school in California, and I took the [00:37:00] course and I became certified I started working at the business here in Connecticut and within a few months she decided she wanted to move. So she sold me the business. Wow. I'm coming up. Yeah, like it really was so awesome how things worked out and it was great because I already knew client-side already been working there.

[00:37:23] So it wasn't like this huge. Yeah. Yeah. So everything worked out like so wonderfully and I really absolutely love what I do and shockingly I am very very busy, you know, my clients range from people that like just are doing cleanses or generally constipated or people that are like very severely ill, you know with like cancer or Ms.

[00:37:55] Or yeah, they're trying to end it. Pick up that yeah, they're trying to get. Oh [00:38:00] really Lyme disease as well, huh? Oh horrendous here. Yeah. Yep, but, you know a lot of the medications people take for certain diseases it prevents them from going to the bathroom. And even you know, they'll invest or whatever the heck the, you know doctor puts them on me relax.

[00:38:16] I mean, that's crap.  Shit literally and it actually does more damage to your system then. You know that help in the long run. So I have a lot of clients that are chronically ill. Yeah, so it's it's really something I love doing because I get to be a part of every single person's health Journey no matter where they are if they're starting ending if they're you know, really sick or if they've gotten better.

[00:38:48] Like I just feel like I'm doing such good work that I'm helping them to achieve their goals. And I really love what I do. You know, I've actually done shows about [00:39:00] people's poop. No, no because you don't like like nobody everybody is like afraid to look in the toilet after they go to the bathroom.

[00:39:07] It's like the the most important thing you can do is look at your your waste product. Is it if it's soft and mushy like you're not eating the right Foods. It should be it should be firm. It should yeah, if anything it should look like. Like either like a cigar or it should be shaped like a cigar but made of lots of smaller round balls pressed together, right and and maybe to be a like you don't have to guess what foods work for you.

[00:39:38] You just need to stop paying attention to what your poop looks like, but you will not believe right now like yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, like like me I no see I can talk to you about this now. I know. Like I am yeah, I feel like if you need to keep I can literally wipe and there's nothing there. And Tammy had said well, that's that's the way it should be because if [00:40:00] you think of yourself long from an evolutionary standpoint, like if you and this goes for your pets too if your dog like has like if you have a long-haired dog like a Shih Tzu and he's got always got crap stuck in his hair.

[00:40:13] He's eating the wrong food. They should poop very like boom. Boom. When you go out in the woods and you see a wolf's poop. It doesn't look like mush. It does it. Why is it I mean so but the funny thing about this is it's so weird because like you could talk about anything but as soon as you start talking about poop get people get really uncomfortable.

[00:40:33] Like I know people when I have this conversation, they're like no I would never look. I don't look I just flush it. I don't want to see it. Like, what are you doing? You're missing the greatest opportunity to determine whether or not you're healthy or not every single day of your life.  Yeah, exactly.

[00:40:48] It's so funny. I mean. Just think of what people say or think when you know, I think that I'm like what are you feeling like Oh, I'm a colon therapist. I guess they're they're like, [00:41:00] oh yeah, like colonoscopy is I'm like, oh no, it's so different. I mean they want to know and you're like, why do they want to know so badly right where they're like, oh God literally like I don't need to know anymore.

[00:41:12] I don't want to know what you do. I know they get so uncomfortable about their own poop. This is so weird. But it's that really your bowel movement is the greatest opportunity on a day-to-day basis, see how healthy you are or if at least at least. The food you're eating if it's contributing or detracting from your health.

[00:41:30] That's the bottom line. Yeah so far, so, okay. So let's talk a little bit about bodybuilding for a second. So now that you've stepped away from it and and you're not in that world anymore. You must have a different perspective of the sport or do you not I definitely do. You know, I definitely like for myself.

[00:41:55] I actually have like over the past year or so. I've really only [00:42:00] been following men's bodybuilding because that was my initial love and that initially is what brought me to the sport is men's body building because I loved seeing the evolution of all these competitors. I kind of just got disenchanted with.

[00:42:21] Like my own division, which is sad, but for me, I just you know, I of course respect wholeheartedly respect their Drive dedication. You know, I know what it takes to get on stage and look the way they look but for me, it's just I think for women's physique. I think most athletes now have just gone overboard.

[00:42:49] I do think it's leaning on the side of female bodybuilding and like that's not what we were created to emulate at [00:43:00] least started the women's Physique in the beginning and I know everything of all but it's kind of sad because I mean that's also another huge reason why I, you know decided to hang up a suit because I just.

[00:43:14] My look was a look of the task and my luck was not going to win any more and I do that and I was just not prepared to either push my physique or push the limit to get where I might be accepted, you know, and for what down. And for what right? I mean exactly. Are you doing such a niche sport? It's not like a stone.

[00:43:39] Yes, you're going to somebody's going to walk up to you and give you a ten million dollar contract for risking your life and your health exactly and I think that is also what really kind of like hit home for me is, you know, I had two full-time jobs. I was a competitive bodybuilder and I was running my own business.

[00:43:59] But I was [00:44:00] having two full-time jobs and only getting paid for one, you know the last year I was competing. If you really start, you know, obviously being a business owner. I was finally finally trying to be financially smart and you know, you start out in the red, you know, your suit could be anywhere from what depends if you have a sponsorship, but luckily I did have somewhat of a sponsorship but you know my suits were worth.

[00:44:26] You know fourteen fifteen hundred dollars. Wow, right off the bat. I didn't even know that expensive. Oh God. Yeah like my suits were I mean completely covered in crystals. And so you start out with that and then you start out I wasn't sponsored. So I had my hair my makeup. My tan the hotel's the flights.

[00:44:48] So you're already in the hole like five Grands and then if you know, I won it would only be like $2,000 so [00:45:00] and then on top of it, I'd have to take off three to four days of work. Which I'm even more in the hall. So I was like, this is just not panning out for my life anymore. You know, if I had someone paying for everything might be a little different but when you see the message of Christ like I could be buying a house or I could be competing like what's going on.

[00:45:25] Well, then what about the health aspect especially for women, you know when we look at the older female. Bodybuilders who died they all died from heart disease and it's because of the high levels of androgens that they using that that literally causes fibrotic tissue to build up in the heart and they you know, they all they all pass away in their 40s and 50s very few of them make it to 60.

[00:45:52] Yeah. And so it makes you wonder like is that really worth it as is put is destroying your health. For [00:46:00] that sword and that metal. You're not stupid sword that they give out a bodybuilding competitions. I don't know why they do that. But so you had a you had a that had a create a little angst in you over the years, right?

[00:46:12] Yeah. Well, you know what, I guess to like. Luckily. I was always one of the smaller girls and there's a reason for that right, but you probably weren't using the drugs that a lot of these other girls you yeah. Yeah, and I. And I also think I don't know how any maybe this is always happened and I just.

[00:46:33] just being younger in this morning getting going through and I just I don't understand how everyone expects to do one show and then to be a pro and win a pro show. Unlike change your physique from bikini to Physique in like a year for that like this is insane. Like I mean, if you look at my pictures from back when I did my first show in 2007, like I mean till to the end of [00:47:00] my career, I'm still not even that big, you know, it took a long time to gain the muscle and to structure it and you know, It just it takes so much more time and a lot of people are willing to give and I think that's a huge issue and you know that too like I wasn't willing to push limits because a because of my heart issue from prior.

[00:47:29] I mean, yes, it was a birth defect but what the hell you never know when something else is going to happen, right? You know, I just was like I'm going to be 40 and a month and I just you know, none of it is worth it. You know what's worth it to me. I got to fly out to San Diego last week and surprise my goddaughter.

[00:47:51] And you know surprise her for her graduation unlike you can probably go on my Instagram and see the video store. I saw you you pulled [00:48:00] up in the car and he came running down you had the balloons and she she was laughing screaming and crying and laughing at the same time. Yeah, and you got to me is worth more than ever getting on stage again family and like making a difference in people's lives that I love.

[00:48:17] And that you know, I mean and don't get me wrong. Like I'm not even knocking competing. I loved it. I got me through so many shitty times in my life. But like it had its chapter and I closed that chapter, right? And you know, I just hope that like people are just aware of their own health and they're not doing something today that can you know, Cause them to have joy in their life later.

[00:48:45] I mean I even went through last year and I don't mind talking about this at all. I have been told by a couple of people a couple different doctors such that, you know, I would never have children but this was back started in my mid-twenties, even before I [00:49:00] started competing now, you're never going to have kids because of your levels because of this that you're never going to have kids and.

[00:49:08] One of my other friends was told the same thing and she actually went to a doctor here in jacket last year and she was told no you can definitely have children and see I want to see now you you I wanted to take our last commercial break because that's what I wanted to ask you. What is the future having a door?

[00:49:25] And because you know, you look like you'd be a great mom and I think and whenever I look my ex-wife had her lab had we had Sydney and she was 40. Want to 42 when she delivered Sydney so he was born healthy. And so let's just do this. Let me just take this one last obscene profits break and I'll be right back with Jillian Revell stay tuned the so right has literally changed my back.

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[00:50:17] So you will save 40% off altogether. So check it out. Don't miss out on this opportunity. We're talking with Jillian Revell. We're talking about where she goes from here. So, where do you see a life go? I was going to ask you. Do you see children in your future, you know, lots of women deliver in for it 44 45.

[00:50:36] Yeah, actually, you know as before the break I was talking about how he had been told I couldn't have kids and I went through all the procedures to see if I could have children last year and they literally were like you for your age you are like totally fine likes better than what we expected. So yeah, Andy, and I have talked about having kids and he does have [00:51:00] three children with his ex-wife but they're a little bit older 15 and.

[00:51:05] Tease the girls are 16. They're twins and a boy. That's 15. Yeah, they're awesome. So but yeah, we've talked about some time in the future. We're not sure when but it's definitely something that's been discussed. So and that would make me really happy but you know what to do. If I don't have my own children I kind of have.

[00:51:30] I've come to the realization because I had been told for somebody who's I couldn't have kids like I'm going to be okay like in my heart if I don't have kids, but if I can if I do and I'll be very happy, you know, what having your own genetic children versus having a child in your life that you can endow with knowledge and lessons and love.

[00:51:55] You're still a mother. There's no there's no two ways about it. So, you know and [00:52:00] and quite frankly. I know a lot of people who would have been better off adopting after seeing some of their kids, you know, I mean, there's no that don't matter. It's still it's still a genetic Lottery, you know, you don't know what you're gonna get.

[00:52:13] Ya some kids are not being horrible. So, you know, but yeah, but I mean there's a lot that you have learned in your life that you can teach a child and love a child and. And give and so that that it like I said, it doesn't have to come out of you just for you for to be your child. It really doesn't yeah, and I think seeing that that's why I'm so close with my God kids, you know and I have been for years.

[00:52:35] So what else what else is in the future for Jillian Ravel? What else? Do you see yourself doing your show you you want to do some competitive shooting as anything else that you thought, you know, yeah. You know what? I actually am taking a course right now to become a detox comfor and not detox through like going through, you know, drug or alcohol detox, but [00:53:00] just detoxing the body from our everyday things that we run into, you know from heavy metals all toxicity.

[00:53:11] Plastics, you know everything everything that's in our lives and causing our bodies to be toxic and some waiver form. So I'm taking a course right now. It's become a detox counselor. So that's you know, and just growing my business and growing my family and that's really, you know, living the dream.

[00:53:31] I guess. That's it enjoying life. It's all about enjoying life. Yeah, you know we become so narrowly focused on certain goals. We go down that rabbit hole. So deep that we forget what it felt like like just to be a human and just enjoy life and sometimes just sit in the chair and not do a damn thing.

[00:53:52] You know, we're all like apples. I know. I know I'm sure you can relate it's like, you know II had to be doing something know [00:54:00] sometimes in fact, the study just came out that showed that the best thing for your children in the summer is to find periods of time where they're bored. Because out of boredom manifests changes in.

[00:54:13] In the brain for children and this whole idea that nothing got to go to camp and they got to go to soccer and then they've got to go here and they got it. We're destroying our children by doing that man. You know when I was a kid, my mother said go out and play she didn't know it was just don't just don't come home until dinner time.

[00:54:31] She told me so, you know, we went out and meandered around we sat and and you know, when the when the water would run down in the gutter we put popsicle sticks in there and then chase after them like they were boats. I mean we. Stupid stuff but most of the time we were bored and actually that turns out to be really good for children, and it's probably good for Youmans in general people in general.

[00:54:52] Yeah, people like don't really know how to like really relaxed and more. Yeah, and they feel no, you know what it is. They know how to [00:55:00] relax. But they feel guilty for doing it. We've been we've been given a message that if you're not productive, if you're not crushing it, you're not getting up at 4 a.m.

[00:55:08] And going to sleep at 1 a.m. And crushing it. You're somehow your Europe. You're a weakling. You're a wimp your you're no good. And the reality is the exact opposite is the truth. The exact opposite yeah screw that like, I love going to bed at 8:30. Me too. I'm in bed at nine nine eight thirty nine under that and that's called me and I love the fact that you know, I have an infrared sauna in my house and I.

[00:55:35] You know turn that's on on before I go to bed get in it. And then I shower and go to sleep. Boom out the whole night and that's okay. That's fantastic. Good for you. God bless you. I'm glad that you are at this point in your life. You you think you know an amazing athlete when you made that your thing and whatever you make your thing.

[00:55:55] I know that you're going to rock it because you have that level of dedication and focus. [00:56:00] And thank you good for you. I'm very very happy for you and Andy very very happy. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for coming on and sharing your story with us. Okay. Yes, of course. It was awesome, and I always love chatting with you.

[00:56:11] So thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk everybody. Hi Jillian. Talk to you soon. Okay. All right. Thanks tonight. And that's it for today tomorrow. We have the blueprint Power Hour. So make sure you tune in for that. We got good shows the rest of the week to I got to go look at the calendar and I'll let you know what they are.

[00:56:26] But thank you for listening today.