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>> Hello and thank you
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for joining us on
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It Is Written Canada.
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Our guest today is
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Carolyn Nichol who is a
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certified wholistic
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nutritionist and also the
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co-owner and manager of the
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Energy Shack Juice Bar which
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is really a family company in
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Scarborough, Ontario.
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>> Carolyn was not always
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a certified wholistic
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nutritionist.
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Her energy and drive to help
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her family and her community
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came from a burning desire to
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follow God's leading
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in her life.
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When she was transformed
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by the power of God,
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Carolyn became an agent of
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healing and wholeness for
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everyone she met.
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Carolyn, thank you
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for joining us on
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It Is Written Canada.
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>> René, Mike, thank you so
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much for having me.
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It's really a privilege to be
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here, I've been a long-time
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fan of It Is Written so
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to be here today with you
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is such a blessing.
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>> It is an honour
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to have you.
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Your story is fascinating to
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us and we want to really
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focus on that and so
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let's go back to your early
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childhood years, what it was
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like in your family when you
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were growing up.
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>> Sure, so growing up I
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wouldn't say we didn't have a
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Christian home.
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My mom was Baptist,
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my father was Greek Orthodox
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so he's Palestinian,
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my mom is from England.
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So there was a little bit of
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tug-of-war in the family as
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far as religion goes,
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but I have an older sister,
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younger sister,
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a younger-younger brother
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so, you know, we had
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a good size family.
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My mom did her best,
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middle class family, as they
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did to make sure that we had
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all the necessities, but when
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we were younger she brought us
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to church.
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So it was a little Baptist
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church, we'd take the bus,
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but, you know, life gets busy
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and she babysat for a living,
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part of it anyways, and there
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was a lot of kids in the house
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so after a while, Sunday
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morning she got pretty tired
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and we started missing the bus
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that would take us to church.
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>> OK, so, Carolyn, tell us
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about Christianity.
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When was your first
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conversion experience?
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>> So it's interesting because
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when I look back at my
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childhood, I feel like I was
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just always in conversations
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with God.
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And I have this distinct
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memory, and maybe I'll only
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find out in heaven if it
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actually happened, of when I
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was in this Baptist church one
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Sunday morning, I remember,
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I must have been like six or
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seven years old, I feel like I
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went up for an alter call and
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it would make sense to me
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because from then, none of my
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other family members would do
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it, but I'd always pray before
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bed, I'd always be talking to
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God, if my friends didn't show
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up for recess, me and God
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would have conversations,
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you know, if I said a bad
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word, I felt bad and I'd say
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sorry to God.
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So I had this little
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relationship with God
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that I think started
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very, very young.
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>> Health is a big part of
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your life right now.
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How was your health when
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you were young?
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>> So, you know, of course,
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child growing up in the 80's,
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you know, white bread,
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cupcakes, and milk is,
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you know, part of a healthy
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diet with Bologna between the
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two slices of bread.
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So that's pretty much what we
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grew up on.
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Of course, you know, my mom
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made every meal and she fed
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like about fifteen kids on one
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can of ravioli, but this was
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our diet.
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And the truth is is that I
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always had stomachaches,
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there was really no limit on
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the sugar that I could eat,
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it was encouraged. [laughs]
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We should all have a treat.
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So I definitely jumped into
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that and did not eat well,
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but I didn't put that together
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with the fact that I always
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had stomachaches, I always had
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headaches, I would very
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regularly get colds,
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I would always get this really
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bad swollen gland to the point
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that we were thinking that I
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might have to take
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out my tonsils.
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So, you know, although
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happy-go-lucky, very,
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you know, optimistic kid,
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I was sick a lot.
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>> So, Carolyn, I have
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a question.
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With regards to your
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commitment to Jesus, you said
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this happened when you were
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six years old so you were
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really young at that time,
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did that stick throughout
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your teen years?
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>> Ahh, that's a great
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question, René.
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So I definitely, although I
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didn't read the Bible much,
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I read Bible stories that I
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would get as gifts from family
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and friends and I would always
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be talking and in conversation
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with God and desiring to
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go to church.
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So when I was about, I think
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about thirteen or so,
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I got a letter in the mail and
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it was inviting us to to a--
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to enjoy-- to join a
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youth group.
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None of my family members
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wanted to go so I just went by
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myself and my friends from
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school joined me, you know,
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we're young kids and happy
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to go to church.
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So we started going to this
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church on Friday nights and
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soon they invited us so we'd
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have a devotional and then
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we'd play basketball and
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finish the night with the
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vending machines.
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So eventually, of course, as a
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good church would, they were
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leading us to come to church
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on Sunday and so we started
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going to church on Sunday,
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but again, it was just me and
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my friends or sometimes my
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friends wouldn't come, but
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because I had this love for
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God, I just wanted to go.
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So I would go every Sunday
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morning by myself, sometimes
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drag my little sister along
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with me or my little brother.
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And then that started to grow
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into where the church is
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saying, "You know, you've"
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"been coming here for a"
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"while, why don't you try,"
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you know, "study to become"
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"a member?"
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There was no real baptism to
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become a member, but you would
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just go through a class.
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So now we're pressing on
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sixteen years old, my friends
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are getting a little older,
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church is not as enticing to
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them as it was to me and,
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you know, we started going to
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all-age clubs, boys started
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getting in the picture,
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friends would go away for a
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weekend and they're like,
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"You know, we could raid the"
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"alcohol cabinet."
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I'm like, "OK, let's try!"
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You know, so I had a few
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situations, incidents of,
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you know, binge drinking and
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then we'd pull out-- somebody
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found some pack of cigarettes
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and so I'd smoke a whole pack
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in a day and both my parents
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at the time were smokers so I
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knew how to smoke really well
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just from watching them.
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But, you know, my conscience,
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the Holy Spirit was speaking
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to me through all of this and
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I distinctly remember a night,
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I was in the club and the
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music was playing and the guys
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were there and we were dancing
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and all I could hear in my
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head was hymns.
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And I'm just like,
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"I don't wanna be here."
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"I just don't wanna be here."
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And I remember calling my mom,
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God bless her, you could call
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her at any time.
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She knew I was at the club,
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she'd let us do things like
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that if that's what we wanted,
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I said, "Mommy, I want you"
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"to come and pick me up."
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She's like, "Where are you?"
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I'm like, "I'm all the way"
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"downtown on Spadina"
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"and something."
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One o'clock in the morning,
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she pulls up in front of the
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club and I get in the car.
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She's like,
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"Is something wrong?"
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I'm like, "I don't think"
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"Jesus wants me to be here."
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You know?
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So that was-- that began for
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me, just a pulling away, God
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calling me saying, you know,
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"There's something"
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"better for you."
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[Mike & Rene] Mm-hmm.
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>> So you had a very
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sensitive conscience...
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[Carolyn] Mm-hmm!
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>> And then God was leading
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you further into deeper, what
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you call a true conversion.
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>> Yes!
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[Mike] What did that
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look like?
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>> So...you know, I wouldn't
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say I never went back to clubs
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or with friends, but it was--
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I was starting to pull away a
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little bit because the Holy
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Spirit was speaking to me.
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And I remember one Sunday
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morning after another clubbing
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night, I was just really tired
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of it and I remember walking
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to church and I was just
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holding my Bible so tightly
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and I said, you know, "God,"
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it was Easter Sunday and I
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said, "Lord, if I could"
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"just-- if You could just"
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"lead me to truth..."
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Because at home there was
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confusion with religion.
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My parents didn't tell me to
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go to church, my dad is a
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different religion than my
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mom, my friends all have
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different religions.
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And I said, "Lord, if You"
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"could just lead me to truth"
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"I will never leave You."
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"I will follow it."
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So that Sunday morning I sat
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in church near the back pew as
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usual and I'm listening to my
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pastor talk, telling us to
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turn to John 20, verse 1.
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And if I could backtrack a
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little bit, one of the friends
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I was going to clubs with all
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the time, wouldn't come with
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us anymore on Friday nights
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'cause she would say,
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you know, "That's the Sabbath"
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"and I'll go Saturday night,"
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"but not Friday night."
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And then when I would tell her
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about what I was doing at
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church, she would always say,
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"You know you're going on"
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"the wrong day."
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And I would say, "At least"
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"I'm going to church!"
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"You could worship Jesus"
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"any day!"
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So anyway, so that was also
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playing with my mind and as I
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sat there and he read from
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John chapter 20, verse 1 and
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in his Bible he said,
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"On Sunday morning when Mary"
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"Magdaline went to the tomb."
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And in my Bible it said,
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"On the first day of the week"
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"Mary Magdalene went"
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"to the tomb."
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And honestly, I don't remember
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anything else he said after
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that, all I could feel was the
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Holy Spirit saying, you know,
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"Sunday's the first day of"
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"the week, Carolyn, not the"
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"seventh."
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So as soon as service
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finished, I went to talk to
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the pastor, and I said,
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"You know, I'm a little"
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"confused."
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"Why are we going to church"
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"on the first day when"
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"Saturday is the Sabbath."
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"Aren't we supposed to be"
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"keeping the commandments"
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"of God?"
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And he proceeded to tell me
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that we're here to worship
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the resurrection now,
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not the Sabbath.
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He said, "But, Carolyn, this"
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"is all too much information."
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"There's a lot of people that"
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"I want to talk to."
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"Why don't you come"
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"Wednesday after school?"
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So I did and he opened up to
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me that, you know, a long time
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ago Emperor Constantine had
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changed some things so instead
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of Sabbath they were worship--
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they were celebrating the
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resurrection and I was blown
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away that--
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I said, "Pastor, can you show"
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"me in the Bible then where"
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"it says man can change the"
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"laws of God?"
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He said, "Well, it's not"
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"really changing the"
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"laws of God."
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I said, "Then why aren't we"
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"keeping the true Sabbath?"
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And he says, "Well, Carolyn,"
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"you know, maybe that's"
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"something between you and"
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"God that you have to"
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"figure out."
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And I went to the library
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because we'd to go to
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libraries then, not the
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internet to find information,
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and there it was in history
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books, this whole history of
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Emperor Constantine and how so
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many things came to pass and I
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went to my friend at school
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and I said, "You know what?"
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"Bring me to your church."
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"I wanna see what a"
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"Sabbath-keeping church"
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"is like."
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And I had told my pastor at my
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Sunday church that,
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"I need to find a Christian"
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"church that keeps the"
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"true Sabbath."
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And it was shortly after that
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that she started bringing me
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to her church, that there was
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an evangelistic series going
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on at church and all I was
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seeing was truth after truth
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after truth and when I'd ask a
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question to the pastors it
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wasn't their opinion or what
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history told them, they would
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show me in the Word of God.
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And that to me was just--
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that this-- that was my answer
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to prayer and this is where
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God needed me to be.
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>> Wow, so, Carolyn, now you,
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after learning all this you
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are really on fire for the
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Lord, it sounds like it,
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and with your experience.
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So how did this lead
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to marriage?
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>> Mmm, so of course I still
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had, you know, I'm always
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sorry that I ever had any
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experience of clubbing or
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smoking or drinking because
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those things do stay in you,
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you know, and to some degree
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it was just sort of hard to
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get away from this,
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my husband's not gonna like
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this, but this rude-boy
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mentality, you know?
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That's what I was growing up
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with is that, you know, all
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our girlfriends were just
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like, "We like the rude boys."
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And so I became attracted to
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this rude-boy looking guy who,
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God bless him today, he's the
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most gentle soul, but...
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[laughter]
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So, you know, I start dating.
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I didn't date a lot, you know,
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I always had my commitment to
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God about keeping pure in
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relationships so not a lot of
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guys wanted to stay around
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very long with me.
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But, you know, I'm about
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nineteen years old and I
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start-- I was working at
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McDonalds for probably a good
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six years of my life, since I
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was thirteen, and he'd come in
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every day to get
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his boss coffees.
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And just for a year we kinda
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looked at each other and then
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finally, I mean the attraction
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was so much there that one day
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we exchanged numbers and we
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went on a few dates.
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He was such a rude boy and we
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had, honestly, this could be
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another episode for another
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time, but had such a rough
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dating and courting
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experience.
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We both have no idea who we
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ended up married.
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I mean, there was so much
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fighting, there were so many
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arguments, there was so much,
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you know, we knew we were
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attracted to each other,
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but I'm not sure it went
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past that.
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But God was really speaking to
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me, crazy enough.
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I mean, I would get
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phone calls, "Don't marry"
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"this guy!"
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"You're on fire for the Lord,"
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"what are you doing with"
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"this guy?"
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But I had some refining to do
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and I tell you He brought us
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both together because we both
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needed some changing.
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So I ended up marrying this
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good-looking rude boy and life
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wasn't easy for a long time.
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But I tell you, that really
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became my most refining
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moments was in my first few
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years of marriage.
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>> So you went through quite a
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number of experiences, what
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brought you to the place where
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you wanted to go into
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nutrition as a profession?
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>> Yeah, so that's a great
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question because since I
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changed my diet, as I
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mentioned, when I came into
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the church, I was about
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sixteen, seventeen years old
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when I was baptized, and it
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was at that time that
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Dr. Thomas Jackson came up to
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our church.
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So he's a natural doctor,
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PhD doctor, but practices the
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laws of health and he came and
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explained them to the
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congregation.
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And when I heard this, I'm new
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in the church, I'm like,
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"Boy, Lord, You are giving"
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"me so much truth!"
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"No more cupcakes and"
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"pork rinds and," you know,
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"white bread? What?"
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He said, "The whiter the"
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"bread, the quicker"
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"you're dead," I'll never
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forget that. [laughs]
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And so from there, I just
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changed my diet.
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I'm just-- I came home and I
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told my parents,
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"I'm never eating meat again."
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And my father, you know,
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Palestinian, he said,
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"You're gonna die."
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"You can't not eat meat!"
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But then, you know, and it
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was, I would say, by the time
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I was 22, 23, I'm just like,
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"Hey, I haven't been sick"
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"for a while."
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"I haven't had a stomachache"
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"or a headache."
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And I was just, I was so
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convinced that it was just the
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way I changed my diet and so
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once I got married, so now I'm
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in my-- I've got my own
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platform here, I've got my
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own opportunity.
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I got pregnant pretty quickly
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so, you know, raising children
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I thought, "Here I am with"
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"this opportunity."
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"I've learned truth from"
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"the Lord, I've learned truth"
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"from the health message,"
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"I'm gonna apply it to"
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"everybody's life because,"
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you know, "they don't need to"
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"go through those"
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"stomachaches and headaches"
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"and swollen glands."
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So I began to try it out
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on my family.
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They never took
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over-the-counter medication
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or medication of any sort and
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I just became so passionate
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about it that people that I
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met, I just wanted to share
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truth, I've always
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loved truth.
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[Mike] So when you're talking
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about your family, you're
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talking about your children.
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[Carolyn] Yes.
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[Mike] So your children were
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so healthy because you just
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got them to eat this way...
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[Carolyn] That's right, I just
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got them to eat this way.
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[Mike] And to live this way.
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[Carolyn] Yeah, I mean,
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it took my husband a
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little while.
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He's been ten years completely
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eating on the eight laws of
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health so it took-- it was a
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little bit of tug-of-war, but
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I mean our entire family at
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one point was completely
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eating by the laws of health,
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but because I saw the change
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in me and everybody I shared
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it with, I knew, like I was
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just so passionate about our
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body being the temple and how
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this transformed me that I
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knew this was just something I
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really somehow wanted to share
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with the world.
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I just-- I wasn't sure how
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that was gonna be.
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[Mike] Mm-hmm.
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So, Carolyn, a big topic for
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me, something I really enjoy
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is nutrition, but before you
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talk more about nutrition
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we're gonna join Bev in the
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kitchen and she's going to
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share with us a very
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delicious recipe.
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>> Bev is gonna make for us a
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totally plant-based recipe
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called, "Fresh Marinara Sauce"
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"and Zucchini Noodles."
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Take a look at this.
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>> Hi, everyone, I'm Bev and
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today we're experiencing life
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in the kitchen.
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If you love pastas and pasta
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sauces, but are a little bit
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afraid of the calories that
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can accumulate, you're gonna
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be happy about today's recipe.
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I'm gonna be making a fresh
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marinara sauce and by "fresh"
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I mean raw and fresh
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zucchini noodles.
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So let's talk about
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the ingredients.
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First of all, we're gonna be
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using four smallish-medium
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sized Roma tomatoes and then
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as well we're gonna be using
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some bell pepper and then one
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of my favourites, we've got
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garlic, fresh garlic.
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As well, we're gonna be using
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some fresh basil, we're gonna
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be using some other spices
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like dried basil and some
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Italian herbs, cayenne pepper,
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chili flakes, garlic powder,
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onion powder, some "Nooch"
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which is nutritional yeast,
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and some salt and we've got
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sun-dried tomatoes as well.
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And we've got about a cup of
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these, we've softened them by
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soaking them in some hot water
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for a little bit just to make
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them nice and tender for when
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we put them in the food
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processor and then we've
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drained it.
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So that's gonna be the base of
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our fresh marinara sauce and
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then I'm gonna put this aside
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and we'll work on the
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zucchini noodles.
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And I'll introduce you to one
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of my favourite toys in the
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kitchen, but first, let's get
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the sauce happening.
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So that's one large red bell
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pepper and then we're gonna
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put in our tomato and I'm
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gonna put the fresh basil in
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towards the end.
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I'm gonna put the garlic in
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and we're gonna put in
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our sun-dried tomato.
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And I'm gonna start the
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process off by just having
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those things so I can get them
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going and then then I'll add
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the salt and the spices
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and the oil.
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So let's get this going.
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[processor whirring]
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We don't want it puréed.
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We still wanna have some nice
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chunks in there.
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So let me put in now, I've got
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about a quarter teaspoon of
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chili flakes and just a dash
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of cayenne.
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You know when you're using
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cayenne you don't have to use
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a lot, it can be overpowering.
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And then I'm putting in three
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quarters of a teaspoon of
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Himalayan salt,
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putting in one to two
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tablespoons of the nutritional
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yeast, putting in two
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teaspoons of garlic powder and
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then instead of using fresh
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onion for this, we're gonna
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use the onion powder.
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So two teaspoons of
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onion powder.
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We've got our Italian
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seasoning here and our basil.
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So that's about one tablespoon
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of the dried basil
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and two teaspoons of the
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Italian seasoning.
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Whip that a bit, hold on...
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[processor whirring]
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Doesn't take long.
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And now I'm gonna add in
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the fresh basil.
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'Cause we still want it to be
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nice and fragrant
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when you eat this.
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OK, we've got that and the
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oil, I do have an eighth of a
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cup of olive oil and I'm going
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to add that in slowly through
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the top of the processor.
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So here we go.
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[processor whirring]
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And voila, it's done.
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Look at that, fresh pasta
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sauce ready to go.
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And it smells heavenly.
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So now let's make our
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zucchini noodles.
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Start with a good-sized
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piece of zucchini.
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There's different types of
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spiralizers you can find.
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Here's what I'm gonna
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do with it.
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I'm gonna position my zucchini
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in the middle.
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I'm just going to do this
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and hold on, you're gonna see
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zucchini noodles coming out.
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Look at this,
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fresh zucchini noodles!
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And now I'm going to put on
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the marinara sauce that we
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just finished making and we're
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gonna put it on our pasta.
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And now, have any parmesan on
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hand, any cashew parmesan
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on hand.
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And so now you have got
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a fantastic take on the
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traditional pasta
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and marinara sauce.
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And look at that, beautiful!
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Hardly any calories, chock
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full of vitamins, minerals,
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all kinds of nutrition.
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So do your body a favour,
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your body's gonna love this
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one, and go raw for a
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little bit.
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Enjoy this in good health.
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[Carolyn] Amazing!
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That looked so good!
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Definitely zucchini noodles
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are so much better to palate
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than actual pasta noodles, but
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that was so delicious,
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I could eat it now.
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>> Oh, it tasted so good.
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I ate that recipe, so did
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René, it was really good,
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very nutritious.
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[Carolyn] I bet, I bet!
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So just, I mean and just
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looking at that recipe, that's
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basically what I was growing
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my family up on, what I was
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making for everybody and I
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just-- when the time came I
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had a very cushy sales job,
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but my desire and passion was
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for nutrition and when the
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opportunity came up, I went
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back to school part-time while
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working full-time and being a
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mom and that's really when my
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career in nutrition started to
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take off is once I graduated.
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>> Wow, that's wonderful!
00:23:29.74\00:23:31.31
So, Carolyn, tell us when and
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how the Energy Shack
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came to be.
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>> Well, so really quickly is
00:23:36.38\00:23:38.31
that after I finished school,
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I started to just, through my
00:23:39.85\00:23:42.25
case studies, started to work
00:23:42.25\00:23:43.45
with people, ensuring the
00:23:43.45\00:23:45.02
eight laws of health, getting
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them off their medication, it
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was just, I mean, I wouldn't
00:23:47.86\00:23:49.02
get them off, but they'd have
00:23:49.02\00:23:50.26
to come off because their life
00:23:50.26\00:23:51.46
was changing and I worked
00:23:51.46\00:23:53.09
with, from All Dunamis,
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Dr. Higgins who had a
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chiropractic doctor-- who is a
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chiropractic doctor and I was
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working with nutrition
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with her clients.
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And one day, as she was
00:24:01.74\00:24:03.84
growing out of her Scarborough
00:24:03.84\00:24:05.11
facility, she said,
00:24:05.11\00:24:06.57
"Carolyn, I want you to come"
00:24:06.57\00:24:07.68
"look at this new facility"
00:24:07.68\00:24:09.04
"that we are going to open"
00:24:09.04\00:24:11.38
"up, maybe you wanna put a"
00:24:11.38\00:24:12.85
"little juice bar in our gym."
00:24:12.85\00:24:14.55
So my husband and I came to
00:24:14.55\00:24:15.78
look at this plaza and he
00:24:15.78\00:24:18.69
said, "Carolyn,"
00:24:18.69\00:24:19.55
"you know what,"
00:24:19.55\00:24:20.59
"we're not gonna put a little"
00:24:20.59\00:24:21.42
"juice bar in the gym."
00:24:21.42\00:24:22.56
"If we're gonna do this,"
00:24:22.56\00:24:23.29
"we're taking over"
00:24:23.29\00:24:24.03
"a whole unit."
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And we basically had less than
00:24:25.26\00:24:27.60
four months to get the
00:24:27.60\00:24:28.66
Energy Shack that we didn't
00:24:28.66\00:24:29.93
even know would exist,
00:24:29.93\00:24:31.80
recipes, everything together
00:24:31.80\00:24:34.04
so that we could be open in
00:24:34.04\00:24:35.10
less than four months,
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it was incredible.
00:24:36.04\00:24:37.11
>> How did that affect
00:24:37.11\00:24:38.61
your family?
00:24:38.61\00:24:40.04
How did it affect your life,
00:24:40.04\00:24:41.64
opening up a whole restaurant?
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>> Yeah, so in the beginning,
00:24:43.85\00:24:45.48
my husband worked full-time
00:24:45.48\00:24:47.48
for the first eight months,
00:24:47.48\00:24:48.98
he took some time off work,
00:24:48.98\00:24:50.62
but, you know, he's not a
00:24:50.62\00:24:51.52
nutritionist and I was working
00:24:51.52\00:24:54.96
very full-time and we were
00:24:54.96\00:24:56.36
dependent on my income,
00:24:56.36\00:24:58.03
but there just came a time,
00:24:58.03\00:24:59.46
I was always home with my
00:24:59.46\00:25:01.00
kids, understand, I always
00:25:01.00\00:25:02.33
worked from home.
00:25:02.33\00:25:03.70
They always saw Mommy morning
00:25:03.70\00:25:05.13
and evening and afternoon.
00:25:05.13\00:25:07.00
And in November of 2016 I had
00:25:07.00\00:25:09.74
to go to the Energy Shack and
00:25:09.74\00:25:11.67
work full time and my family
00:25:11.67\00:25:14.14
almost never saw me again,
00:25:14.14\00:25:15.31
but I gotta tell you,
00:25:15.31\00:25:17.15
it was the best thing that
00:25:17.15\00:25:18.31
happened to everybody.
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[Mike] Why was that?
00:25:19.61\00:25:20.95
>> Because I think for so long
00:25:20.95\00:25:22.72
I was everybody's Holy Spirit
00:25:22.72\00:25:24.72
at home and as I pulled away,
00:25:24.72\00:25:27.46
everybody worked out their own
00:25:27.46\00:25:28.49
salvation and got to know God
00:25:28.49\00:25:30.93
for themselves without Mommy
00:25:30.93\00:25:32.19
telling them, "You have to"
00:25:32.19\00:25:33.13
"say sorry now!"
00:25:33.13\00:25:34.46
So it was really wonderful and
00:25:34.46\00:25:36.43
I just began this incredible
00:25:36.43\00:25:37.70
prayer for my family
00:25:37.70\00:25:38.37
in the background.
00:25:38.37\00:25:39.30
My husband stepped up, my kids
00:25:39.30\00:25:41.07
got more bonded with him,
00:25:41.07\00:25:42.70
it really wasn't just
00:25:42.70\00:25:43.91
beautiful for the Energy Shack
00:25:43.91\00:25:44.77
and what we're doing in the
00:25:44.77\00:25:45.61
community, but it really
00:25:45.61\00:25:46.91
actually blessed my family.
00:25:46.91\00:25:48.58
>> Aww, well, Carolyn, we need
00:25:48.58\00:25:51.15
to have you back so we can
00:25:51.15\00:25:52.75
hear more about the
00:25:52.75\00:25:53.65
Energy Shack.
00:25:53.65\00:25:54.52
[Carolyn] Absolutely!
00:25:54.52\00:25:55.35
>> So before we go, can I ask
00:25:55.35\00:25:57.12
you please to pray for us?
00:25:57.12\00:25:58.75
[Carolyn] I would love that.
00:25:58.75\00:25:59.52
Let's pray.
00:25:59.52\00:26:00.32
Father, thank You for this
00:26:00.32\00:26:01.09
amazing opportunity.
00:26:01.09\00:26:02.42
I'm grateful to be able to
00:26:02.42\00:26:03.93
share and I pray that the
00:26:03.93\00:26:05.96
story that I have share has
00:26:05.96\00:26:07.50
inspired many, Father, to come
00:26:07.50\00:26:09.23
to know You as their personal
00:26:09.23\00:26:11.33
Lord and Saviour and that
00:26:11.33\00:26:12.97
people would truly ask You for
00:26:12.97\00:26:14.60
truth 'cause You said,
00:26:14.60\00:26:15.67
"Seek and you shall find."
00:26:15.67\00:26:17.47
So I pray that for all of our
00:26:17.47\00:26:18.97
viewers today in Jesus' name,
00:26:18.97\00:26:20.41
amen.
00:26:20.41\00:26:21.14
[Mike & René] Amen, amen.
00:26:21.14\00:26:22.64
>> Carolyn, thank you so much
00:26:22.64\00:26:24.65
for coming and joining us.
00:26:24.65\00:26:25.91
You really do have to come
00:26:25.91\00:26:27.15
back again.
00:26:27.15\00:26:27.82
Next week I hope you can
00:26:27.82\00:26:29.18
join us?
00:26:29.18\00:26:29.88
>> Absolutely!
00:26:29.88\00:26:31.05
I would love to be back next
00:26:31.05\00:26:32.72
week and share with you some
00:26:32.72\00:26:34.22
amazing stories of not just my
00:26:34.22\00:26:36.69
life transformed now, but how
00:26:36.69\00:26:38.69
other people's lives have
00:26:38.69\00:26:39.83
truly been transformed.
00:26:39.83\00:26:41.10
[Mike] Wow, I love success
00:26:41.10\00:26:42.23
stories so hearing those
00:26:42.23\00:26:44.40
stories, we're looking forward
00:26:44.40\00:26:45.40
to that and we look forward to
00:26:45.40\00:26:47.64
seeing you again next week.
00:26:47.64\00:26:48.70
[Carolyn] Alright,
00:26:48.70\00:26:49.40
see you then!
00:26:49.40\00:26:50.24
Thank you again,
00:26:50.24\00:26:51.14
Mike and René.
00:26:51.14\00:26:52.14
I appreciate this opportunity.
00:26:52.14\00:26:53.21
>> It was wonderful.
00:26:53.21\00:26:54.71
Friends, between now and next
00:26:55.48\00:26:57.38
week when Carolyn visits us
00:26:57.38\00:26:58.88
again, you might have a lot
00:26:58.88\00:27:01.78
more questions about health.
00:27:01.78\00:27:03.82
So we have a free offer
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>> Our free offer for you is
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>> Before you go, we wish
00:27:21.64\00:27:23.20
to pray for you.
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If you would like to send us
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Tell us your request and we
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latest programs, including our
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exercise workouts called
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Experiencing Life and our
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short spiritual messages.
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>> They are all there for you,
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free to watch whenever you
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choose because we want you to
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get to know the Lord as your
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own personal friend and
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saviour through reading
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the Bible.
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You can experience the truth
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found in the words of Jesus
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when He said, "It is written,"
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"man shall not live by bread"
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"alone, but by every word"
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"that proceeds out of the"
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"mouth of God."
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