Iris Davis
In light of more and more research linking longevity and robust health to exercise and physical strength, Iris Davis is living evidence of its power. She's no average 75 year old women. She has, however, faced and endured many of the same obstacles that all other women have faced. Yet she attributes her 51 year-long dedication to Physical Culture as the reason she doesn't just endure, but thrives. To heck with accepting aging gracefully. She's kicking age's a$$!
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[00:00:00] Hey, welcome back to another episode of superhuman radio. We have an amazing show plan today. You know, I hate it. When dr. Andrew Weil used to tell people learn to age gracefully Just go with it and I have been a staunch proponent of not just going with it, but fighting back against aging because you can win the battle.
[00:00:55] And you know me saying it is one thing but then we have people in [00:01:00] our community that actually live the life and I want to introduce you to someone today. Her name is Iris Davis. How you doing? Iris, I'm doing great lovely to talk to your call. So thank you Iris. The reason I have you on the show today is because you embody what agent can really be like we.
[00:01:24] A lot of people in the world today that are aging poorly disease States. It's very very sad quite frankly. And in fact, I would venture to say that the greatest threat to American sovereignty is not terrorism and it's it's not immigration. It's the the weight of taking care of people for the last 40 or 50 years of Their Lives who can't take care of themselves and quite frankly.
[00:01:54] Anyone can do better at aging but it's not easy. You have to make some [00:02:00] certain decisions. You have to live a certain way and but a lot of people may think well if you have a Charmed Life it's easy for you, but that's not your case at all. And really I want to start at the very very beginning of your life because this isn't in very very important story.
[00:02:16] You were 75 years old now, correct? Yes, correct. Okay. So let's go back to the very beginning you you were born in Ireland. The correct, correct? Yes and tell us your story the way you told it to me the other day you were young girl in Ireland. You were married pretty young to talk about it. Okay.
[00:02:35] Well, I'm going to start with the childhood and talk about my family a little bit good because you know we are. We are what we are in childhood. It just stays with us our entire life. So I was born into a family with 14 children. I think I was number seven. So I had five younger [00:03:00] and seven older six older seven brothers and Seven Sisters to Mom and Dad.
[00:03:07] We were not very wealthy at all. We were we went the poorest in the neighborhood. But we weren't very wealthy and everybody in the neighborhood was on the same income bracket, which was kind of poor. So what my family background had a lot of class and although we were poor we were not ignorant. But it was very hard to grow up in a family that big and consequently to this day.
[00:03:37] I've learned to love my own company. So when I do anything I don't. Anyone, I don't depend on anyone it's just myself. Okay. Now that that that that attitude is carried you a long way. So let's kind of fast forward to your you getting married. Yeah, you getting married. [00:04:00] Yeah, right. Well I met this wonderful man who was a student at Trinity College Dublin, and I actually bumped into him in the street and I remember looking at.
[00:04:12] Thinking. Oh my God, like I was 17. No, actually, I was 16. I remember looking at this guy. He was 22 at the time and he was very handsome even to this day. I can remember the second. I saw him and then a couple of months later. I was going to like a social club in Dublin where we thought we would all go and Dad have a great time and I bumped into him again there and he danced to Italy and we got talking and we fell madly in.
[00:04:42] Love and got married at 17. So at the time I was working a very menial job because most people My Generation in Ireland at that time, most people they left school at [00:05:00] 14. That was the school leaving age. And I was one of them I left school at 14 and I went to work and I selling Factory. I made my own clothes.
[00:05:12] And my wages was a dollar a week was 10 Shillings at the time which is now which is $1 and out of that $1. I had to buy my own clothes. So that was my work and then I met we'll call him Johnny. I met Johnny and he could see I was extremely smart and bright and even though I don't even went to school to life gone to school till I was 14 he.
[00:05:41] Set me back to a secretarial college and I did a two-year secretarial course. I did it in six months past everything in six months. Where's the other girls would go home and do one lesson and evening. I would go home and do 20 or 25. The [00:06:00] teacher was quite amazed like past everything in six. And then I went to a paralegal school again.
[00:06:08] I passed that very very fast because my husband was a student at Trinity College Dublin and he is was studying every night. So while he's studying I studied with him and consequently, I have a lot of self learning and self knowledge, which is carried me through. So anyway, we got married and I had my first son.
[00:06:32] Boy also called Johnny and life was nice. I had a nice life beautiful apartment. Not short of money doing well. And I had my first son at 18. Unfortunately, he died of crib death pneumonia when he was 2 months old. [00:07:00] And that was very devastating. I had to learn to cope with that, but I coped in my way.
[00:07:06] I thought you know, I can't lie down on the bed and die with him. I have to carry on so I really didn't grieve because I thought you're not supposed to grieve don't walk around with the big sad face. Just carry on. I didn't even go to see him buried because I didn't want to see a very he's in buried in that Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.
[00:07:30] So I just went on my life. That's when I went back to school actually to become a paralegal. And I tried many times to have another child. I had five miscarriages some of them as late as five months. I had five miscarriages and then when I was 22, I had another son cats. And [00:08:00] tragedy struck me again.
[00:08:02] I was still living I was living in London by now. Two months after Kaz was born my husband died in a tragic accident. And I was left with a two-month-old with no money. No work experience whatsoever. Really no education that you could talk about, but I was still very smart. And started to think about my future.
[00:08:41] So that was my first time I experienced depression and drama. So in order to combat the depression, I used to just walk up and down the streets. I would be crying my eyes out the entire time, but I don't know when you when you told me this first story. I was thinking about [00:09:00] something there's been times where I felt Panic where I feel like I just need to start.
[00:09:04] Was it that kind of situation where you were you so anxious ridden about the future and about how you were going to deal with, you know back when you're talking about it wasn't very easy for a woman to just go out get a job and start doing things and raise a single be a single mom. It wasn't hard.
[00:09:20] So what was it the so much the weight of the panic so great that you just had to move you had a walk. I had to move. Yes thing. I could lie in bed all day or have to move and for me move. Image was connecting with some kind of universe. That was helping me. Right I would walk I would have long conversations with myself long conversations and I get you know, I just got the great answers that way but I looked around remember I'm like 22, no World experience.
[00:09:56] I looked around at other women in my situation [00:10:00] who had a baby and a lot of them. I'm married, but they all had this attitude of oh my God. Look at me. My life is over. I have a baby help me somebody give me clothes. Give me money. Give me something cause I need it and I deserve it. I have a I have a baby and and you know, I'm poor and I'm sad.
[00:10:27] I like couldn't stand that attitude because that wasn't me. I was born I was there and I was depressed but I knew I was my own help. It was nobody's going to come out of the Woodworks and say Here's a week's wages for nothing. Here's a bag of clothes. No one was going to do that. So I thought really hard and I thought what can I do living in them London?
[00:10:50] I am not well off at all. So I just decided you know, what? At that time the Mary Poppins movie was [00:11:00] very popular. Good English. Lanny's I'm talking about the early 60s now. And I went to an agency in London and they said I said, I want a job in America as a nanny. My son was two months old memory.
[00:11:16] So they said well, you know, you've got two babies two months old. I don't think we're going to be able to find you a job. And I said, well, I'm assuming that it will probably take you two years to get me a job. So by then my son would be to he'd be a little Wilder and he be able to walk rather than maybe I could you know, bring him to work with me or not.
[00:11:38] So I put that idea in their head, you know, try to find me a job with young children. Who doesn't mind taking in another child, right? So I thought it was two and a half years. I thought okay. It'll be 3 or something. Hi Janet. It'll be 3 or something when I get a job anyway to my big shock. I got a [00:12:00] job a week later.
[00:12:02] Wow, I couldn't believe it. I had a doctor in Massachusetts who was widowed with 4ch for young children beyond the youngest one being about 18 months and I got offered a job immediately. Which I wasn't expecting so I legally came to this country. In 1966. I'll never forget the date 17th of December because my son was exactly 6 months old the day I landed and I had $10 in my pocket and I went to work in a Tiny Town of Sherburne, Massachusetts.
[00:12:44] So talk about how you were first introduced to the the old-style gymnasium and what the men thought about you that you want that I mean women didn't walk into gymnasiums back then now there was [00:13:00] lots of Kim's wouldn't even allow me to enter real cause I was you know, when I took the job as a nanny.
[00:13:09] I was I had already. After working out because I wanted to work out for my sanity. The only place I had any relaxed or relief was when I was in the gym. I when I was walking and walking and walking just took down crime one day. I saw some guys get big man with big stomachs, you know, big body walking into the gym, and I don't know what happened, but I just walked in behind them now.
[00:13:39] I'm 22q. I've got long blonde hair down my back. you know, but I was miserable absolutely miserable and. they saw starts at you doing here. You're the last person in the world that needs to be in the gym. And I said well, I just need to [00:14:00] be here because I want to learn to do some exercises. So I copied all the men.
[00:14:04] I didn't never had a trainer. I just copy them and they were very helpful because you know, they knew that I really. I needed to be there and I found out the longer. I stayed in the gym the more relief. I was getting I was able to think clearly I was able to do my job. I have four children to look after now plus my son cast it was turned out to be a wonderful man, and that's how it started.
[00:14:31] So I started just teaching myself. So all the years I knew that I couldn't stop because if I stop and I mean today if I stop working out today, I will be in severe depression by Friday, right? So I chat exercising has been the elixir of life. You guys kept me sane not to mention all the benefits.
[00:15:00] [00:14:59] I'm having now. I'm youthful. I'm vivacious. I have energy. I'm passing on my knowledge to other seniors and youngsters. So I have trained quite a few Champions myself and. So I continued working as a nanny till my son was fine. And then when he was five, I decided I could get an apartment because of a I could put it into daycare and go on and get some other jobs.
[00:15:31] So you won't hear about that. Now. I want to have I have some questions for you. Okay, and I didn't want to interrupt you because it's really one of the things. I want people to hear about you is we all have challenges in our lives and it to our individual perceptions. They are tragedies. My father used to have a saying that if everybody on the Block through their troubles in the street, and then we went out to trade our troubles [00:16:00] with someone else.
[00:16:00] We'd come home with our own troubles when we realize that we're a lot better off than we think we are and and the thing that I think that's really important to come away with from this. Point in the discussion is that tragedy does not mean it's the end of your life it and and you're a living example of that.
[00:16:20] Now you do have to have ways of coping with tragedy. You just can't go to bed and wake up in the morning think it's going to be gone and for you it was physical culture you learned at an early point in your life that when I exercise I feel better. So probably in the early days for you you would wake up in the morning and all of your troubles are always there in the.
[00:16:39] You first wake up. You can't help but you'd all you think about is all this and that and you and you but you you made yourself go you made yourself trained and I'm sure like me when you walk out of the gym, you're all better everything that you were worried about in the morning seems to be in perspective the things you thought you were not going to be able to do you feel like I'll [00:17:00] be able to do that now and to me that's medicine that really is real medicine not pills not potions not injections, but.
[00:17:09] Fact that you can walk into a building and spend an hour there and walk out and feel marvelous. So that was for you. That was true. Yes, I actually skip up the gym. I skip out like I'm a five-year-old even to this day and even to this day I practically most days of all did you literally have to grab my cell phone?
[00:17:38] Harris a time to go you've done enough right as I can never have enough ever. So so let's so let's talk a little bit about how you train now. I mean, you've had some amazing accomplishments you've been training for 51 years. As of this point in time, right? Okay, [00:18:00] and so you've had setbacks you've told me there have been setbacks where I had to just go into the gym and all I could work out with was was to pound weights what happened at those periods of life that that you had a literally fight back just to be where you were before.
[00:18:17] Well, even though I was Physically Active I still had to go through my grief. Which I never called with. I have two deaths to cope with and I never cope with either of them because I thought this is good. Just pushing the pizza. Was she behind me. It'll it's fine. So when I entered my 30s. I. Rain and San Francisco.
[00:18:49] I had a great job there in the bank in San Francisco. And that's when I entered my nervous breakdown period to tell [00:19:00] anybody but now I realize it was part of my life and I had to go through this be where I am talking to you today my first bout of depression. I always remember it because it was the it was 1969.
[00:19:16] And Leah Armstrong had just landed on the moon and I'm sitting in a psych ward at a hospital in Massachusetts, and I'm looking at it and I don't never forgotten for that reason. So every time I see someone on the mood it brings me back there. I was I was like 24 or 25 something like that and I'm still gorgeous.
[00:19:38] I always kept looking after myself what's so miserable and so depressed so crying and could. Move couldn't talk to people couldn't look at people suffering a nervous breakdown and that was my first of three nervous breakdowns that I had to be hospitalized for because I haven't [00:20:00] grieved and I still didn't get my grief out.
[00:20:02] Then my first breakdown. I still didn't realize that. I had to let the grief out it was still in I never thought about it never told anyone about it was my business and I didn't want to put on a sad miserable face. So I didn't tell anyone. And then finally I had to it just comes out. You know, it's really interesting to hear this because the whole time that I'm listening to you talk.
[00:20:30] I'm thinking about the fact that. You know we all and I beat this drum often because we all have tragedies in our lives. But what what what do you think it is about people when you tell them if you just get into the gym if you just move your body if you just do these things you'll feel better. But yet they won't do that.
[00:20:51] They'd rather go to the doctor and get an antidepressant or or Xanax or something like that when the true answer is just being being more [00:21:00] active. Well, I can talk from experience. So a lot of people listen to me and when I tell them to do something they know I've been doing it for 50 years. So I know what I'm talking about.
[00:21:12] So I actually meant her hundreds of women right now hundreds. They write to me daily. I tried to answer them all because if they're going to open up their hearts to me, at least I should do a handsome but there might be some people listening now that didn't get an answer and. Actually, I get carpal tunnel from going on my phone too much right?
[00:21:36] I'm fucking thing motivating and they're all sad stories. And I have a lot of clients who came to me specifically when they have to look after elderly parents and they saw what the elderly parents are going through and they said that's not going to happen to us and I have some great examples of that and I don't just train [00:22:00] seniors.
[00:22:01] Young men to our term last year alone. I got a 23 year old young guy up on stage he be with you six months training and I know he went home with two 12 pieces for Show Champion, you know, it's interesting. You said that about caring for I have never really been depressed in my life, but I went through several bouts of depression when I when I watched my father died, it became very painfully obvious to me that I was going to die someday for some reason.
[00:22:29] I never thought about. Until I watched him die and I thought oh my God, that's going to be me. Someday. Am I ready for that? And then I took care of my mom for a couple years and I really caretakers become severely depressed because they're they're faced with the the tragedy of watching someone that they love fade away and it's in and that was the only time I ever became depressed in my life was when I was taking care of my mom and again if it's something because [00:23:00] caretaker, And up 20 years taking care of a person.
[00:23:03] I mean, it's a very sad situation for them. Yeah, that is a very sad situation and the carers have to realize that one day they're going to need looking after themselves and they need to start looking after themselves. That's important. And that's what I want to pick up on the other side. I want to take a quick commercial break.
[00:23:24] When we come back, I want to talk. I want to share a theory of mine with you and see if it's something that you to believe in as well. Now if people want to reach out to you who are watching this live or watching it on YouTube or even on Facebook at a later time listening to the podcast. How can people reach you because you're in South Carolina, right?
[00:23:49] Yes. I'm in the North Georgia Mountains. Yes. Okay, so there. For probably listening to this that would probably want to maybe work with you that are in close vicinity to you. How should people reach [00:24:00] you Iris? Well, I haven't my Facebook page is full. I can't take any more friends on Facebook. But my Instagram page is at Irish Davis official all lower.
[00:24:16] I received official and there are my email I can give you the email. Yeah, give me give me email address out to people. Yes. Okay email is very simple slimness. At AOL.com SLI MRIs slim risk, that's really weird that where did that come from? Well when I was a kid, my brother nickname is slick and because I was always Slim Right.
[00:24:42] I'm unlucky to this day. I the only time I lose weight is when I have to go onstage right now. I'm about a hundred ten pounds. If I'm going on stage. I'll have to get down to about 98 pounds. All the fat will go and I'll be. Great [00:25:00] great. Great big muscular lady I've seen I thank you for doing that and showing people your biceps because it's pretty amazing.
[00:25:06] You know, I have to keep reminding myself that you're 75, and that's because the average 75 year old woman doesn't look like you she can she can and we're going to talk more about that later. Yes. Yes, who am I age and look like me and I want we're going to talk more about then. We're going to take one quick commercial break.
[00:25:26] We'll be right back with more of Iris. If it's stay tuned you're listening to or watching super human radio, welcome back. So let's let's cover a couple comments that people have made while we're talking here. Pamela. Garvin says, I'm helping my 92 year old Mom. It's so hard and it is and we talked about that a second ago about how difficult it is being a caretaker.
[00:25:52] And you kind of surrounded by depression when you're a caretaker, you know, Iris what? Oh, yes, you [00:26:00] are. Yes. It does very little joy in your life when you're a caretaker, but that is what that but. That's why it's important to reach out to other people. I know and one of the things I love about you already because one of the things you said is that you're not a person who thinks that entitlement is real like, oh I'm entitled to someone helping me because I have a baby.
[00:26:20] They should give me a bag of clothes. Like you said before and you've got to go crazy today in the United States with the attitudes of entitlement that so many people suffer from but but this is an area of life. I believe where Community is critically important. If you're somebody who's a caretaker you actually need some people to help reduce your burden because you can you can literally become ill being a caretaker from just the constant sad.
[00:26:51] Yes. Yes also also Julie love can I hope I'm pronouncing. Maybe it's just nine beautiful. My beautiful friend. Yeah. [00:27:00] She said she hopes it will she could listen to this later cause she has to leave and absolutely you'll be able to come back to this Facebook page and see the whole video in its entirety.
[00:27:09] It will also be up on my YouTube channel. If you search for superhuman radio on YouTube and then of course is the podcast for people who just want to listen to it and not necessarily watch. The entire video and then of course Brian guile. He says keep inspiring amasses Irish. You're awesome. And I think you're awesome.
[00:27:29] Thank you, Brian. Yeah, let's see. We've got we've got Juanita love coming back. I want to be like you now and I'm 51 years old young you can be you can be like Iris them. Yes, you can and I just got a lovely message from my son on the screen. Oh, which one was that? It came down privately. His name is Cass.
[00:27:53] He's from England. Oh and listening as well. Yeah, look [00:28:00] look at this how mileage yourself all the people showing their admiration and love for you. It's really inspiring and you know more all here. I'm her ex trainer. I'm a former trainer. That's another thing. I find interesting and kind of come back to.
[00:28:16] The topic that I want to cover, you know, you are a personal trainer you train other people. I have I have an old saying you can't get up a hill your you can't help someone up a hill without getting their yourself. Do you subscribe to that? Absolutely. Absolutely. I know what works. I know what doesn't work and my favorite saying to my client is.
[00:28:42] If I can do it you can do it. And also I will never give them something that they cannot do because I know before they even know whether they can do it or not, right? I never take my eyes off their face. I'm a very unusual trainer. I get rid of all negative [00:29:00] attitudes before we even start and no one is allowed to say they don't like this because once you say you don't like it, you're never going to like it right like people don't like leg, press some.
[00:29:11] Like situps, I won't listen to any moans. If you're modeling you have to go home. In fact, I believe the things that you don't want to do the most are the ones you have to do because those that that's the only way you can break new ground. Is that because we always we always want to do the things that we find easy, but we want to avoid the things we want we find hard.
[00:29:34] Well, those are the things that you have to do. Yes, absolutely. You know, I mean I can I can easily. Easily due to three hours of apps a day easily. No problem. Right how how many contacts since you are at the gym meeting with clients? Do you work out in between them or did you spend most extent you give you [00:30:00] probably spend a lot of time at the gym?
[00:30:01] How frequently do you train yourself every day? Yeah. I have a lot of clients that I work with. So I have a lot of ladies. Page for example and while they're training I'm training with them and if they're using five pounds and using five pounds if there isn't 50 pounds, I'm usually 50 pounds. I'd become their partner.
[00:30:24] Not just the trainer. I become their partner. And of course, I encourage the whole time. I never take my eyes off and not allowed to talk in between sessions because they're paying me good money from my knowledge and my time and my commitment and that's what I give and I'm very very. Excessive amounts of training very very successful.
[00:30:43] I've been at it so long now that you know, you're not going to do anything wrong when you're with me. I stopped you on the phone right away and it's not perfect. I teach them how to think. I do what I call neuro linguistic training. [00:31:00] Oh, I know what that is. She's don't I tell them if you let me into your head anything is possible and sometimes they don't believe it for a while, but then eventually they'll go.
[00:31:10] You know, you're right if I let you in here anything is possible if you soak it in believe it think it Vision Vision it so here I do a lot of that. Here's a question from Pamela Garvin. Can you work out at home or do. To recommend going to the gym. What are your thoughts on that? Well, you definitely can work out at home.
[00:31:31] However, let me tell you working out at home is actually quite hard. I work out at home, but I do prefer to go to the gym. The reason being the equipment's there the motivations there was other people working out as well that and can't stop if you're in the middle of a set. And you think ah, you really have to finish as well as when you're at home the phone will ring you pick it up.
[00:31:59] You [00:32:00] stop and you think oh, I'll just stop now come back later, but you don't come back later. And I know I've done all this so you're actually not for off getting up and going out just the fact of preparing yourself. Putting on your nice clothes and don't ever tried going to the gym say, ah, I can't wait to get to the gym.
[00:32:23] You see my page Facebook was my happiest part of the day spot from the evening when my husband and I just like to sit on the couch happiest part of my days in the gym right again, and I can buy heavy workouts when everybody's gone. That's what I because why do you wait till everybody's gone? Well because I get a lot of questions and I have.
[00:32:45] Stop and take noch mehr phones and answering them. I rather just. Yeah, 45 members want to start machine and get it over with and I can do that when there's no one there. I you know, I've learned that right but I like and I always advise my clients, but your [00:33:00] phone's off. Especially when they do and I said concentrate on something so anybody walking by they're not into the I find the answer is eye contact.
[00:33:11] I'm like you people come up to me and want to talk. I've been going to the. Jim now for 20 years and I know everybody and I love the community. I have workout equipment at home that Eliza and I can use in a pinch. You know, I bought my attitude is you you may like to eat out but you should have a refrigerator and stove at home just in case you can't get out to eat and I look at the gym the same way.
[00:33:36] I like to go to the gym because I'm more motivated when I get there. I think that ritual and regimentation add to the experience. It's but what I do is I have my headphones on I put my hoodie on and then if somebody is approaching me and the middle of a set because they want to talk to me. I just don't make eye contact and eventually they walk away.
[00:33:56] That's what I do. That's what the [00:34:00] people who are not used to working out the people who just sit there and do that and see them like 10 12 years later. They're still doing that with no development whatsoever. They don't understand. I've got to connect with you. Don't connect. You're not getting anywhere.
[00:34:13] Right? Right. I have 72 year old ladies who are doing a hundred sit-ups with 85-pound already. Are you kidding? Holy mackerel. I have a 75 year old lady just like me. She came into the gym at 65 years old. She's never been in a gym in her life, and she is now. She's on my side. She's on the Aging Evolutions.
[00:34:38] Like she's just fabulous. I all my ladies look like that. Everybody always says, I'll Body by Irish. I like them. I like this. So Rockin Rodney gray wants to know what your website is. Do you have a website Iris sure. I don't have a website to keep saying I should get one but rub me I am [00:35:00] going to get one, but my Facebook now my.
[00:35:04] I'm Pages Iris Taylor's official and I would love to see you on there. Yeah, this harder the photos and videos of me on there, but I will get a webpage and Janice deal says I love working out at home and at the end of the day, I think the real answer to whether to train at home or whether to train at the gym is where are you most like watching consistently?
[00:35:30] In yeah. Yes at the end of the day. That's really and if you if you if you like to train at home and you've always traded home and if you have to train at the gym, you only get there once or twice a week then by all means train at home. Yeah, I do something every day. Okay. So let me ask you this question.
[00:35:49] Obviously you are of great. Robust Health you you. 40 years younger than you are but you must be do you [00:36:00] surround yourself with younger people? Do you find that from a friendship standpoint socializing you find women your age either are intimidated by you or or they're just they just don't have anything in common with you.
[00:36:16] No, I don't think anyone is intimidated by me because I don't think I'm anyone special I go into the gym every morning to the silver sneakers class all the ladies in there all my age and I greet them every morning a little girls. We have a great laughter My Generation. We know what we're talking about.
[00:36:36] I also have younger people. I find sometimes strange as it may be younger women are. Kind of jealous of me and I don't know why because that's good. That's a good thing in my neighborhood jealous of me, which is a big shock. That's good because I never knew anyone would ever ever jealous of me.
[00:36:59] Here's an [00:37:00] interesting question. I'm front mall. They say to me. Oh, I'm really surprised and one lady was come up to me actually.
[00:37:11] Oh what happened? We lost Iris, you know what? This is a good place to take a commercial break while we reconnect her. We'll figure that out a little technical difficulty here. Stay tuned you listening to superhuman radio. Iris will be right back. I promise and we'll place. That was a quick commercial break that we just fit in there because of some technical issue.
[00:37:35] We lost you there for a second and we have questions Iris, we have lots of people want to ask you questions Iris. So the first one let me see. I got to work work work. I got to work my way back down here. The first one is from Kathy Nagel. It looks like let me get oh, yeah. Yeah, she says what kind of supplements I'm sorry Nagel Baker.
[00:37:56] Do you supplements and just curious if you do what do you [00:38:00] recommend? Socially and honestly, I don't use any supplements when I was younger between the ages of 50 and 60. I did a lot a lot of competing and the only supplements I ever took was a good quality protein powder and a supplement from the vitamin store called NSM from my joy.
[00:38:26] Right and that it helps with the cartilage recovery. Other than that, I don't take any supplements whatsoever. So Rodney the reason he asked about a website. He says it's actually for my parents who are your age? I'm trying to give them motivation. I would imagine this is common for you. I would imagine that a lot of people come to you because they want to tell their parents about you.
[00:38:52] That's true. Yes, I'm always flattered. I'm always. I have I have ladies come they passed by the gym and they just [00:39:00] come in to say hi to me, which is always very flattering. I say come on in people, you know people have said to me. Oh, I didn't think you were talk to someone like me. Really? I think what you know like everybody I am nothing special.
[00:39:16] I just found my passion years ago secure my own life. That's all I you know, and I know you know, I just know it feels fantastic to be fit. And look good Mary Jane Cole is my new producer. She's telling me will you please ask her about a pull-up record? It's incredible. And that's really so one of the things I learned about you from Tammy nesland and he sent me she sent me a picture of a video of you doing pull-ups.
[00:39:49] And it was like viral. It had like a million or so views on it over 4 million 4 million and so talk about that. How did that how did that I've even occur [00:40:00] and you are a world record holder. Are you not? Yes pull-ups. Well, I've always done pull-ups. They've never been difficult for me, but I never did 21 the most I had ever done was fine.
[00:40:16] And of course I have. Beautiful sponsor called Aging Evolution and they are what I'm all about. They got in touch with me and said we'd like to try and promote you because I've been doing this for 51 years and I've never had any recognition whatsoever. I see people who've been doing it for two years and then making videos and.
[00:40:38] You know, I kind of get sick looking at it because top of them doesn't want to talk from the other half don't know what to do. I've been doing it for 51 years. I've trained trainers and so finally aging Evolution came along and gave got me some publicity by all my videos went viral when I put them [00:41:00] on the Aging Evolution fight.
[00:41:02] I've appeared in a movie that I have to go back to Las Vegas in. Apron finish the movie. but I'm digressing here while we wait for you take could you tell us the name of the movie so we can watch out for it don't know the name of the movie yet, but it's myself and five other members of Aging Evolution plus some stars that I don't know yet.
[00:41:25] They're feeling that filming it right now today in Las Vegas were filming segments. I went out to. To Los Angeles last September to good gym out there to film so I filmed my bets. Okay, then right now, they're filling filming some. Oh, it's going to be celebrities people from all walks of life all getting their segments in the interim, but it was aging Evolution got me on the map and I'm very very great and their website is is that aging Evolution.com?
[00:42:00] [00:41:59] Yeah. Www aging a. Russian yeah you go. So people have not the videos of me on there and other amazing athletes, right Pamela Garvin wants to know do you train people in person or do you only do online consultations? Well, can you do it online? No, I don't do any online. I only do online to special friends.
[00:42:24] My training is one on one. I will try and couples I love to train husband and wives together love to join us and watch it's great because each one is usually as strong as and most women are so strong, but they don't know they don't know what women are very strong. Yeah, they don't think they think all I can't do that and I go.
[00:42:45] Yes you can you share music. And they go where I say. Yes, you can once they know they can then they'll do I say give me one I don't say give me 10. I'll say give me too. Let's lift. It was all you can do that's a set to me you'll do turn. So how many pull-ups [00:43:00] did you do actually to win the world record 21.
[00:43:04] Wow, they went out on live TV. Good morning, Texas. And I did 21. I broke the record by 1100 like not just by one or two by 11. Wow, that's amazing. That's amazing. Now. Obviously you how do you feel about trainers who who trained long-distance or remotely over the Internet? Do you really think you can train a person if you're not there watching them do things?
[00:43:38] I have done it you have but if it takes hard work because you have to see them what they're doing. Yeah, you have to let me take the camera into the gym video take them because remember this form does how you stand is how you put your knee. Even your lower back how you stand how you look your posture how you breathe?
[00:43:57] If you don't read you're getting nothing out of it [00:44:00] and I prefer one-on-one, but I have thought because so many. You're asking me to do online that maybe I should because I'm spending a lot of time just talking and motivating. Anyway that I think if I had a website I might be at it all day long.
[00:44:18] Well, you know It Cece I think you're right about something here that you said and and this is so a lot of people who train online they want to be able to train a thousand people and they just give them the same notes get everybody gets this everybody gets that but what you just said and I thought about it.
[00:44:34] I thought you know if you really want to do. Right, you have to actually have people videotape their entire workouts. I mean, it doesn't have to be videoing from them going from one machine to the other but each movement should be videoed which means that you have to spend the same amount of time watching those videos as if you went to the gym with them.
[00:44:54] Yeah, and I'd have to charge them a lot of money. But because I would movement when I'm looking [00:45:00] at them on just sitting. You know, I'm not holding in my stomach. I'm not clenching my glutes. I'm just sitting right so the advantage the advantage of going to the gym is endless. Yeah. And so what that make my clients don't when my client sits down on the machine and he just sits down he or she sits down and they pick up the weight they go and make them stop.
[00:45:26] I tell them no, you can't just do that when you sit down. That machine that machine LED becomes your friend. I wish is going to help you. So when you put your hands on the cables are on the handles, you've got to go into his own right there find your contact. Don't blink. I think what you do send your message you tell yourself.
[00:45:48] That you're going to do and how you're going to do it and then you start. And I can read I read the face. I read the face if they lose contact as they blink if they look over there. I say no, [00:46:00] you got maybe two good reps out of that side of town. You've got to make every single rep count. You know, it's funny.
[00:46:10] I've interviewed Frank Zane a couple times in my career and he would love what you just said because Frank is all about mind muscle connection. Frank is all about, you know training should be almost Zen almost meditation and you have to have your mind in it in order to do it, right? So that's that's really interesting.
[00:46:30] We have more questions. This one is a virus that some people can't afford a trainer for those. Can you recommend an app that. They can use. I really can't I wouldn't want to because the only app I would recommend would be mine and I don't have one. I've seen some trainers who are not trainers and I've seen some great trainers.
[00:46:57] So unless I know them personally I can't. [00:47:00] I can see because you are and what you say is really interesting because I over the over the past couple decades. I've started to think more and more about the way I trained and what I've known to be true and what I've found out isn't true. And the reality is that when you work with a personal trainer, it's like you're in University.
[00:47:24] So you're learning that you're learning all the individual pieces. Then you get out of University and you start to assemble them the way they work for you. And so, you know, you wouldn't expect to just buy the books that a given our curriculum and go home and go I can learn to be a surgeon know there's more to it and there's a practical side of it and I kind of feel like there's a lot of there's a lot of personal trainers out there that if you go to them and say I really can't afford a personal trainer, but.
[00:47:59] No, [00:48:00] I need one. Can you work something out with me? They will they'll they'll like some of them some of them belong to what's called Red Feather agencies where whatever you can afford is what you'll pay them and they will train you and you just have to be trained by them one time. In other words of this movement that movement then after that you're off on your own.
[00:48:20] You don't need a trainer forever. No, no if you can afford it. It's a great luxury, but I absolutely agree. Two three lessons, give them the idea what they need to think how they look how they should dress even and definitely when you sit down and pick up that weight you gotta I don't know if anybody seen any of my move my videos.
[00:48:44] There's loads of them on Instagram, but you'll never see me waiver from my phone or my concentration never and when I when you're doing it, and I'm your trainer. I never take my eyes off. You never the second I take my eyes off you. Going to do something wrong [00:49:00] second. So so since I've been studying aging well and I've been doing this show.
[00:49:07] I'm in my 14th year. Now one of the things that I always can see and people aged well is routine. And regimentation they get up at the same time. They go to sleep at the same time. They eat their meals at the same time. They eat the same meals, you know, and I had the luxury of meeting George Burns when I lived in Las Vegas and George had a couple martinis a day.
[00:49:31] He smoked a big old cigar day, but he had routine he got up in the morning. He had the same breakfast. He went to sleep at the same time. And even I've come to the conclusion that when you have routine even some things that are. For you don't hurt you because the body likes routine, it likes to predictability and it lowers stress.
[00:49:52] Are you a person of routine? Yes. Yes. I I do exactly that. I look forward to getting [00:50:00] up. I put my makeup on like I'm going to the ballet every day. I make sure my clothes for the gym are always nice and bright and cheery. I don't like to wear dark colors. If I were not goes, I feel like I'm going to a funeral but I always wear something bright specially up here, you know look after my skin and just I go to work singing I turned on my radio like a 15 year old and I'm singing and dancing the entire way.
[00:50:29] And when I get to the gym, sometimes I have to sit there for a minute or two just to finish the CD. And I just you know, yeah, and of course my gym has beautiful music playing in it. Are you a big proponent of protecting your sleep. Do you have a sleep routine? Yes. Yeah. Yeah now my husband goes to bed rather early.
[00:50:50] I always like to be in bed by 11:00. Okay now get up at 6:00 and in my you. I suffered with [00:51:00] insomnia depression racing thoughts my entire life and then when I hit menopause about 57, I was before I could honestly say I get a good night's sleep before that seven o'clock in the morning, and I'd still be trying to get ten minutes sleep before I got up to go to work.
[00:51:21] And by the way, a lot of people don't know this, but I entered my very first bodybuilding show at age three. Wow, an engram then even I was competing against women much younger than myself but no one has ever heard of a 50 year old lady getting up on stage. Of course. It's quite common now, right but what do you think that up on stage which was 25 years ago.
[00:51:44] There were no 50 year old bodybuilders getting on stage and compete. And I have I've won 11 first place titles. I have to Florida state championships and from age [00:52:00] 57 to 63. That's when I won ten ten NPC shows all level fives first place wins. So that's so impressive. So last night. I was 66. When I last competed.
[00:52:19] and I was in the best shape ever at 66 even one than when I was 50. So I want a since you mentioned Bob your husband I want to and if he's back there, we'll have him jump into the the screen here. Yeah, I had to go back to his office. Oh, okay. Okay. Well, we're going to we're going to take a quick commercial break and when we come back, I've got some more questions for you.
[00:52:45] I'm really intrigued and I can't tell you how fond I am of you and what you're saying because it validates what I have believed. And so I feel like yeah, I'm on the right track. So we're going to take one quick commercial break, but [00:53:00] we'll be right back with more you're listening to superhuman radio or watching supremum radio.
[00:53:04] Stay tuned. Welcome back. Okay. So one of the questions I want to ask you irises about menopause because. There are some women who go through menopause and it really affects them terribly. It literally derails their lives and then there's some women who just waltzed through it. They say, you know, I really didn't notice much of anything and in both of those cases one thing that most postmenopausal women do have a problem with is the accumulation of body fat did anything change for you as far as the way you had to train or the way you had to eat or anything like that when you went through menopause?
[00:53:44] Honestly, I have to report no and a lot of it is because I just wouldn't let it I worked harder. I walked longer I changed my diets. And I just checked myself almost daily. If I [00:54:00] saw two pounds coming on those two pounds came off because now don't anybody take this as vanity. This is loving myself loving the way.
[00:54:11] I looked lovingly. Well, I always look and wondering how long I could keep looking like this and I'm deliriously happy that I'm 75 and still look like this. I still have the 25 inch waist still have nice hips. I got, you know, I'm not over muscular, but I'm very fit and very toned and menopause. I got Moody, of course, but I didn't let it change.
[00:54:46] I didn't let it change me. And also I had a hysterectomy. And I didn't let that change either two weeks after the hysterectomy. I'm out dancing in a nightclub. Everybody said you [00:55:00] better go sit down, but I felt great and so I've had a lot of illnesses one. Illness is I don't know if you met I mentioned it to you, but I got Encephalitis.
[00:55:12] Hmm at the age of seven. And I was bedridden for two and a half years. At what age 47? Oh my goodness. Yes 47. I was working at a bank in London. I was living in London then was working at a bank in London and. One morning. I went to work. I opened my computer. I didn't recognize anything. I didn't recognize anything.
[00:55:42] It was my work my desk my computer but nothing registered and that again, I'll never forget this. Somebody asked me for a iris you have, you know, Fred Smith phone number a number that was on the tip of my tongue and I might going phone number [00:56:00] phone number. What does phone number me? I didn't know anything pressure pressure on the brain you have practiced.
[00:56:09] It comes from stress and working too hard. When I was in the bank. I was working sometimes 18 19 20 hours a day. That's the truth. I did that for like five years. And it's low blood flow to the brain rain doesn't receive any blood and what happens is you can have all the symptoms at once or you can have them five or six at a time when I'm talking about all the symptoms.
[00:56:34] If you can imagine your toenails paint hurting all the way to the tip of your head and even your hair painting you couldn't look at any life whatsoever the lightning and you couldn't talk but like. Stuttering idiot and I suffered with that for two and a half years. Oh my God, and as soon as I was 47, and as [00:57:00] soon as I could I went back to the gym where I'd always been, you know bit of a.
[00:57:05] People would look and say my God, you look great and then I turned up two and a half years later. They say happened to you. I look like I've been in prison I was pale and I couldn't even turn the door handle. This is all true could not lift the butler way. So I started back completely from scratch lifting 2 pounds 2 pounds know like prices, but I could do leg lifts and.
[00:57:37] I remember lying on the floor in my house in London and lifting my legs for two hours straight just to try and get some mind muscle connection because I couldn't do it and yet. a year later at age 50 was when I. Is my first show? Up there with 22 year olds. Did you did you ever did you [00:58:00] ever ever feel sorry for yourself?
[00:58:01] You know people feel all why me. Why me? Yeah. No, I am responsible for me. If I'm sorry for myself. It's because of something I let happen to me. I am not sorry for myself. I you know, of course I'm alone at times but I'm not sorry for myself when I know when I see where I was born and what I've come through I lay down at night in bed when I go to sleep and I'm deliriously happy I say to God look at me.
[00:58:34] Now who would have said something. I never even dreamed about I never knew. I was being a Trailblazer back 50 years ago with the only woman in the gym when Jay and farmer came on the scene. I'd already been doing it 20 years and then all of a sudden there's like aerobics. I'd already been doing that for 20 years and then it was personal training.
[00:58:57] You know, I'd already been doing that for [00:59:00] 30 years. So I did it all before I even knew I would make a living out of it. Um, but I mean, where did you get this message of carry on mom? Dad was there was there a message in the household the family was very proud and we stand on our own feet and don't ask for anything.
[00:59:20] And where did you get that message? Yeah. Well, my father was serving in the British royal Air Force he was in the RAF when we were growing up. And so it was my mother in the household with all the kids. And we were not allowed to tell anybody how poor we were because my mom and my dad, although we were poor they came from very good families.
[00:59:49] In fact, I've seen some of my ancestors photos amazing, you know, very lace and silk and leather shoes and everything, but there it's called a sir. [01:00:00] Satin silk and satin Irish right as opposed. Can TI right? I've heard some I've heard both of those terms growing up in Brooklyn. So go ahead. Yeah, you know, both our parents had these wonderful Heritage that's just it was a sad time in Ireland and but we were never allowed to tell anybody never there's many places.
[01:00:20] My mother could have gone through to get free stuff. Like there was the Vincent de Paul you could go down there and get free clothes. She would never go. Million years when she met her self-esteem down there at any time. She did go out. She was always proud well-dressed loves at everything and we were always very proud of her because she was my grandmother was the same very good very straight and very proud.
[01:00:43] So we picked that up from our parents. Yes interesting. And I said onto my beautiful granddaughter Roxanne. Oh, I love that name Roxanne. That's great. My grandson Billy. So you earlier in the interview? You said that [01:01:00] you know, you do this because you love yourself. This is self-love and and something that I had to come to terms with at a point in my life.
[01:01:07] Eliza once said to me, you know how when you're on the airplane they tell you put your oxygen mask on first and then help somebody else and and she says, you know, that's like a good way to lead your life. If you take care of yourself, then you can take care of other people if you don't take care of yourself.
[01:01:26] You can't help anyone. In fact, you become a burden to other people and and I looked at life through those sunglasses for a long time. Now. Do you think that you subscribe to that same approach to life if I'm strong if I'm healthy then I can help others, but of because a lot of people would look at you and say, you know Irish you're just too self-absorbed.
[01:01:46] You're just too worried about yourself. Oh, yeah, I get that all the time. I have people who I know laugh at me behind my back. And I just say look at you and look at me, right? [01:02:00] That's why our answer right? You know, I walk into a restaurant you walk into a restaurant who are the people going to remember?
[01:02:07] Right? Right, right, and I don't I don't envy anybody because whoever has what they have they worked for it, right? I admire people who've worked for Stuff. Nobody's ever given me a penny. I've just worked for everything I've ever gained and I'm doing quite well my husband and I do real well we.
[01:02:25] Been married 35 years. and he was 23 years old. So we talked about that. You said you said one of your friends said Irish you are the original cougar. You never you never heard that term cougar before right and my husband was 23 and we met in, California in San Jose. And I was on my way back to England because I was just took no I was just about to turn [01:03:00] 40.
[01:03:00] I remember. And you know I said to myself I'm turning 40 now. I must get sensible. So I had beautiful long hair. I cut the hair. And I was traumatized one side, but I have this thing about all I don't need to be living in America. I need to get back to England get back to my family. So I was I was in the middle of plants to go back to London where my family had all moved to.
[01:03:28] And I did but before I get I just I just met Bob. And he was 23 and I was turning 40. and. Within a month of me being in England he packed up everything him followed me to London. Wow together since that's 35. In fact, next Sunday will be our wedding anniversary. Oh congratulations. That's wonderful.
[01:03:56] That's wonderful. Let's answer this question before we go on to my next [01:04:00] question. So this is from Pamela Garvin. Do you find you need to increase your protein as you get?
[01:04:11] Now I don't want to overdo on protein now. I know last Friday I had to protein drinks and thinking uh, should I do that? No, not necessarily not lesser. You only need so many grams of protein per day for your body weight and don't over the protein. So so what so what is your your approach to grams of protein per pound of body weight is at one pound one.
[01:04:34] I'm preparing the body weight. Yes. Yes. Yeah, but that's probably still more than the average person eats because I'm 230 pounds and I eat somewhere between 230 and 270 grams of protein a day. And when I tell my friends who are the same age as me. I'm you know, I'm still young I'm 60, but I say, you know, I eat 230 250 grams of protein a day and they look at me.
[01:04:59] Like [01:05:00] how can you do that? Like that's so much food. Well if you eat four or five or six meals a day. It's really easy, you know. Yeah, I always start off my morning with three eggs three eggs fried eggs. I don't scramble up. I like a fried egg. I have three spots to slice of toast and my three eggs, and that's why that will that's my fuel because you must have carbs.
[01:05:23] You cannot exist without carbs. You need the carbs carbs and your energy at your food is that you know, it feeds your brain as well. So do you do you eat red meat a lot of. It seemed to as they get older they stopped eating red meat. I love my red meat. I love my steak. I don't like poor but I love steak.
[01:05:42] I like fish. The majority I eat is chicken because it's so easy. I'm not a cook anymore. Let's one thing that happened to me when I had my encephalitis. I lost my ability to cook really and I was I had I was a great cook I [01:06:00] would follow recipes and when I got through with the Encephalitis, thank God.
[01:06:04] Remember to have to still go to the gym. I've lost all my tricks in the kitchen of gone real every all of you is a very Bland very very glad. That's so interesting when we went to I told you that Eliza and I went to Ireland recently and we loved it. We love the people there and Irish people are very strong people.
[01:06:24] They've endured a lot as a civilization. So do you ever plan to have you go back to Ireland at all? No, I have not been back to Ireland. I have family there are lots of nieces and nephews and I'd like to give a big shout-out to them if I could but no I haven't been to Ireland. I'm waiting for some Irish talk show host to invite me on his show.
[01:06:52] But we have we have people who listen to this show in Ireland. And in fact when we went to Ireland, we got a chance to meet some of them John Braun and John Bolger [01:07:00] specifically, I know we do have people who listen to the show in Ireland. So if they're listening maybe they could submit your name to one of the local TV shows.
[01:07:10] They're in Dublin than get you on the air. That would be wonderful. That would be a great reason for you to go back and visit as well. Can I just mention that on the 7th of February? I? We taking a trip to Florida. I'm being featured on the European TV stations. There's a producer who's going to come and video me as a trainer while I'm in action as a trainer and that's going out to all the European TV station.
[01:07:41] So I've had feel free to put what we're coming to the end of the interview and I'm going to ask you in a couple minutes couple final questions. Anyone you want to plug so we already have. Age Evolution.com, right? That's one. Yes, and then the folks that are letting you use the computer at the the beautiful Russian [01:08:00] administrator the Beachwood in and Clayton, Georgia, wonderful North Georgia Mountains, and they are bed-and-breakfast Cordon Bleu.
[01:08:09] Look Hooks and I'll see if they hear that they come in come in and say hello. Okay, David. These are actually my clients to I'll hear what was so we're gonna we're gonna zoom in. It's on you so that we could see them standing behind you here comes Dave. Yeah, and someone else who's gonna get these are the Proprietors.
[01:08:28] Can you get in here and you come around this way again? So Telltale, so tell my audience tell my audience where exactly hi David tell my audience exactly where you're located. So those of them who live in the area can come and stay with you folks sometimes. Where exactly we're in Clayton Georgia the very Northeastern corner of the state of Georgia right up against South Carolina, North Carolina, and this is beechwood in Georgia's Premier Wine Country in so if you love food why this is the place to come [01:09:00] so you have do you have a Vineyard on the property there?
[01:09:03] We make us several varieties of wine in cooperation with local Vineyards. We're chefs and cooks and winemakers, but we're certainly not Vineyard managers. So we buy grapes from local venues nearby. And so that means I'm now I know that when a Lisa gets to watch us because she's on the road today when she gets to watch her.
[01:09:21] She's going to say we need to come and visit you guys because we like to go to different places that you know, bed-and-breakfast Vineyard type places and spend weekends. So this is going to be. Very cool. Yeah, not even needs nearby us. We have four right here in Raven County that people can visit in addition.
[01:09:36] We have a wide spectator Award of Excellence Wine Cellar. So we have over 5,000 bottles of wine in their Cellar a couple hundred different varieties. So when we come that those will all go on a weekend, so just very very cool. Thank you so much for letting Iris do the show from your. The [01:10:00] property today it did the video is Flawless.
[01:10:02] So really worked out good good. She's a great person. We work with ourselves. She's our coach. So we enjoy her life. So let me ask you a question working with Iris because of the age similarities. Let's say do you think that brings something special to working with her that you wouldn't get if you work with some, you know, 30 year old kid down at the gym.
[01:10:25] No, I think she's tough on us just like we were 30 year old kid. She's she really makes us work. You know, she doesn't give us a break just because we're 70 years old ourselves. She she make sure that we get a good workout and she make sure that we don't injure ourselves. She is really safety-conscious.
[01:10:46] And she was a lot of weight in the gym there too. Because other kids can really do some silly things and she'll walk up there and she'll tell you know, you could hurt yourself. Right? Right. Yeah, that's great. We have a couple more questions [01:11:00] about thanks so much for coming out and saying hello to the audience.
[01:11:02] I'm going to bring the take you take care take the solo off. So we have another question for you Iris from Sherry. Yeah, no thing. She says what is your skincare regimen? You have beautiful skin. What do you do? I've been looking after my skin since I was a teenager, I remember when I was 17 years old making sure I never got these rubbery elbows and I put vitamin E on my skin right now.
[01:11:34] I've been through a lot of beauty regimen but right now I have a shower and I also use coconut oil a lot on my skin so I get out of the shower. I'm still wet. I'll put the coconut right on the ones that does is the real pure coconut right there kind that you would cook with and eat right? Exactly.
[01:11:54] Yeah. Yeah, and it's the health benefits from it are incredible. So I use a [01:12:00] coconut oil and vitamin E and that's I'm not even though I'm expensive vitamin E and I'll either daily. That's all right. I don't know. I'm surprised I still have good skin because I was washed. I mean, I used to follow the Sun for the last Ray but I haven't been in the sun personally for about 15 years because if you're a bodybuilder, like I am I would rather spend four hours in the gym done an hour on the beach.
[01:12:29] Well, you just need to train on the beach and get them both covered know. I love my gym. I work at a wonderful Jim. I don't know if you want plug it. Yeah, say their name sure Fitness and Clayton, Georgia. It's the best chicken ever if they don't have it in my gym. You do not need it or you've never seen it or heard of it very cold very marvelous and it's also it's a gym [01:13:00] for everybody who have a lot of seniors and we have youngsters.
[01:13:02] So before we end this interview, is there anything specific that we didn't cover that you want the audience to know about you personally.
[01:13:16] Oh God, ha ha ha. I'm just very very normal. I'm down to earth. Yeah, I know I go into Walmart everybody in their I greet them all they all asked for my picture. I'm very normal. I've got to. Let me see. I yeah, I'll plug myself. I'm going to be a featured in a movie that may have some Hollywood stars.
[01:13:39] I have 11 titles in bodybuilding first lifestyle changes are trained Champions. I'm doing an interview for European TV. I've been in 23 magazines. And I still have people who hate me. That's okay. My good friend a good [01:14:00] friend of mine. Anthony Roberts told me that you're not officially successful until you have at least one hater.
[01:14:06] So the more haters you are the better off you are so just remember that I love haters. I love when people post horrible things about me because I know that that it's working then everything is working. That's funny. Well, listen, I want to thank you so much for taking time to do this interview today.
[01:14:20] I hope that people will reach out to you. Yes. Yes, go ahead. Say hi to my son casts his beautiful wife Desiree. My granddaughter Roxanne and my grandson Billy and all my friends and Ireland which are too many to mention and I'd like to give a big shout-out to Kimberly land. So with Britain's first female bodybuilder, and I never we grew up not far from each other, but when I was in London, and I never knew she existed and she never knew I existed till I saw her out on a billboard one [01:15:00] day.
[01:15:01] Blew my mind. She was fantastic and we've become very good friends and still are to this day. That's wonderful. Very very good. Very good powerful Bob. I wanted I wanted to get him I want yeah. I wanted to get him on camera. I thought he was going to be there but Bob's a great guy very very and thank you for all of his technical support and getting us to have video today.
[01:15:22] Yeah, I've done it without him. You can't do a bodybuilding career without the support of your loved one. Yeah, that's time. So grateful to you to do this interview. I hope you've all learned something and learn how important it is to keep your form and look after yourself. I love it. I love it.
[01:15:40] Okay, Iris, thank you so much for being with us. And I'm sure you and I will talk again and that's the end of today's show and keep in mind if you're watching this for the first time the website is super. Radio dotnet we've been doing this for we're going into our 14th year, and it's all about living stronger and living longer.
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