The After Action Report
We are committed to helping veterans and their families thrive in their post-military life. We discuss topics such as employment, finding purpose, identifying who they are “now”, hidden injuries, mental health, wellness practices, relationships, and life after the military. We interview other veterans and community leaders on these and other current topics. Our goal is to engage, empower, and encourage all listeners to be resilient in their post-military life, or life in general.
The After Action Report
Running, Resilience, and Revolutionary Drinks
Ever wondered how one goes from Marine to dental hygienist to crafting groundbreaking caffeine supplements? Join us in this episode of the After Action Report from the Eden Project as Bren Briggs and Michael Stuart engage in a lively chat about the sweltering Georgia heat and life's little quirks. We proudly present our mission to support veterans in underserved areas and welcome listeners from across the nation.
We are thrilled to have Cynthia Jenkins, a Marine turned entrepreneur, sharing her journey of resilience and innovation. Learn how her passion for running and her Marine Corps background led her to develop a gut-friendly caffeine gummy, despite the hurdles posed by the 2020 pandemic. Cynthia's story of transitioning from a 20-year dental career to launching her product during a global crisis is nothing short of inspiring.
We'll also introduce you to Cynthia's latest creation, "Exuberance Go," an energizing electrolyte drink mix packed with green tea, ginger, and bioavailable vitamins. Discover the challenges of getting it on Amazon and taste-test the surprisingly pleasant flavor. As our season wraps up, we reflect on memorable moments, upcoming plans, and the importance of normalizing mental health conversations. Join us, share the journey, and support our mission to bring essential services to our veterans.
Well, hello everybody and welcome to the After Action Report, a podcast from the Eden Project. I'm so glad you're here. I'm Michael Stewart, one of the hosts. Bryn Briggs is the other host and look, there he is.
Speaker 2:Hey man, how was your week? Fantastic. Yeah, you had a good week, great time. The weather is crazy hot, crazy hot. I love the heat, it's the humidity.
Speaker 1:It's the humidity and then everybody. That's where everybody goes. Well, go to Arizona. It's a dry heat, Right, right. Yeah, if you didn't know, we broadcast from Georgia. We are just south of Atlanta today, in Trillith, but we live in and amongst this area and it is hot. Last week in particular, I know for a fact, on Thursday heat index was about 111 and we were right at 100 degrees in the early afternoon. So it's been.
Speaker 2:It's kind of nice right now. The humidity is down, feels great. Well, it was 66 this morning when I woke up, I hope I'm not getting to be one of those old guys. You know I was. I was watching a commercial and they talk about don't be that old guy who always talks about the weather or the pain.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, Well, I mean, if I ever become that one, tell me like you know, let's talk about let's talk about how terrible our country is right now or you know whatever the case is going on.
Speaker 1:So terrible our country is right now, you know, whatever the case is going on, so if you've never listened to us before, we have a podcast that we've been doing all this year and for many, many more years to come. Uh, we, we hope that you'll continue to follow us that long. But, bryn, tell everybody what the Eden Projects, uh, the After Action Report's all about.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So the Eden Project, specifically as a, as a veteran organization, our main goal is to help veterans and their families really with anything they need. This part of Georgia, we're told, is a veteran service desert. Well, we're that oasis in the desert, if you will, because we provide whatever services a veteran needs. So if they need housing, clothing, jobs, you know we're there to help with that. The podcast is basically an extension of that. It helps us reach people that we couldn't reach before. Exactly so that's what I think is pretty exciting about this part.
Speaker 1:And we have a lot of people that tune in and also reach out from all over the country.
Speaker 2:Yep, yep. So it's growing and I'm super glad that you know to hear folks from, and each week we have people from different areas we have where was it? Oklahoma, pennsylvania, florida, those are the states that I can think of right now that kind of jumped to mind, so it's kind of cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's nice, so, uh. So, if this is your first time, thank you for being here. Hopefully you'll share us on your social media. That's the thing Word of mouth Spread the word about the After Action Report. Now you have a guest, a lovely lady, sitting next to you.
Speaker 2:I do so before we get to the lovely lady, I'm going to let her take a breath into it, because she's really nervous. Let's reinforce what you just said. If you like what we're doing. Like it, share it, send it off to your friend. There's two ways to get a hold of us. You can obviously listen on any place you want to listen to it. Wherever you're podcasting from, it's on our website, eden-projectcom.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we say that dash because sometimes people forget that it takes you to a weird environmental place in Europe or somewhere somewhere over there. So it's eden-projectcom.
Speaker 2:yeah, they're doing great work in europe, but it's not the work we're doing so.
Speaker 1:We want to keep them here.
Speaker 2:But if you know the website doesn't work for you or you want to, you want to try different means, you can always call us or text us at 678-632-5383 and we'll share that with you again a little bit later on the show too so now back to what you were talking about.
Speaker 2:Drum roll please. Ladies and gentlemen, well, I'm super excited to meet a new friend of mine. She was introduced to me by another, a fellow veteran, starting a business. He said listen, she's a Marine, you're a Marine. Did you guys know each other? I mean, how many times you hear that? Hey, were you in the Marine Corps? My grandfather was in World War II. Did you know him? Just because we're Marines, we don't always know each other, but I'm super excited to have Cynthia here. I love her story. I love even more the business that she's involved in, so I'm going to let her kind of talk about all that stuff.
Speaker 3:Okay, so without further ado my good friend Cynthia Jenkins.
Speaker 2:Cynthia we're glad you're here, good morning.
Speaker 3:Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2:Let's start with kind of. I will say go all the way back to the beginning. You know we talked about when you were, how tall you were when you were born.
Speaker 1:I was born a small white girl.
Speaker 2:Some people know that reference. Not everybody remembers that. I think it's hilarious. I was thinking about that this morning. I thought will people even get that anymore?
Speaker 1:I don't know, man, as the older we get, the more and more you know the things that we knew, as in our youth they kind of like fade away. It's lost on our youth of today.
Speaker 2:So the movie was the jerk. But who was the actor that said that? Steve Martin, steve Martin, steve Martin, one of my favorite top five movies of all time.
Speaker 1:But anyway, back to where we were. You don't have to go that far back. Yeah, really, but wait a minute, so wait. So you met, was it Joe, that?
Speaker 2:told you about your joke.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, joe D, and so you're kind of fairly new to knowing her Me I'm just meeting her for the first time. But really tell us a little bit about you. Like you know your background, where are you from? What's your story? There you go.
Speaker 3:So I was born and raised in Georgia and I went into the Marine Corps at 19. I served one enlistment four years. I went to Quantico and I went to Okinawa and when I got out I went to college to become a dental hygienist and I was a dental hygienist for almost 20 years.
Speaker 1:Wow, okay, you do have nice teeth.
Speaker 2:Thank you when we were talking pre-show about my interests. I'm always excited to talk to other veterans and if they're a Marine that's an added bonus and she said the same thing I hear from so many other vets I didn't do a lot, I only served one enlistment. So I'm going to tell this again specifically to you and all the other four people who are listening right now.
Speaker 1:Thank you, that's what I was waiting for.
Speaker 2:My personal opinion, it doesn't matter if you served two years or 22 years, if you had a combat tour, a non-combat tour, if you, you know, whatever you did. To me, you enlisted by choice. You joined the Marine Corps because you wanted to. There was some reason there and, regardless of what the Marine Corps or the Army, navy, air Force, whoever, whatever they did with you was that. So it's not a I only did X. You served Less than 6% of the population ever served in the military. Less than 1% were ever in the Marine Corps. So to me, that in itself is something to be super, super proud of, whatever you did in the Corps you served your sword and we're proud of that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Thank you, I didn't know you were at Quantico. I was. What did you do at Quantico?
Speaker 3:That was my first duty station and I was quite devastated when I was sent there straight out the gate. It wasn't where I was hoping to go, but I worked at the ammo dump out there Cool, and it was brand new at the time.
Speaker 2:When were you there?
Speaker 3:I was there 97 to the very beginning, almost 2000.
Speaker 2:I was at Quantico in the early 90s. I worked at the basic school. You know where they trained the lieutenants.
Speaker 3:They were like our biggest quote unquote customer, customer, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I was in the enlist what they call EIs enlisted instructors so we worked out there and helped them be. You know, I was going to say be all you can be, but that was an Army thing. So, yeah, taught them how to be. So after you left Quantico, I went to Okinawa. By choice.
Speaker 3:Yes, actually.
Speaker 2:Nice, okay, I wanted to go to Okinawa, yes.
Speaker 3:Wow, so I spent my last year in the Marine Corps in Okinawa.
Speaker 2:And did you like Oki?
Speaker 3:It's a beautiful place, but it's not the funnest place to be as a Marine because they were really tight on us. But it's a beautiful place. I'm thankful for the experience.
Speaker 2:So because you were at an ammo dump, you probably were around a lot of the ground guys. It wasn't maybe the really super comfortable places. You dealt with a lot of the infantry guys.
Speaker 3:We did. But when I was in Okinawa I worked with a unit, so I actually got lucky. I was supposed to go to the ammo dump there but I had gotten married right before I went and I was able to finagle my way into staying on Kinzer and working with the MRB there. So I was very happy to stay down there and not have to be at Hanson. Yes, yeah, I would have been up that direction.
Speaker 2:So yeah, was it an accompanied or unaccompanied? Tour?
Speaker 3:It was unaccompanied. That's why I was. I say we were really lucky. We. We each got our own separate orders. We had to request permission to live off base and live together, and so that you know that was difficult.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So you did an enlistment and you decided you know, this just isn't for me, or what was next?
Speaker 3:No, actually I loved the Marine Corps. I had so much fun being a Marine. My personality worked really well as a Marine, Like it was a good fit. But because I had gotten married, my priorities changed and decided to get out and go back to college.
Speaker 1:So did you get married while you were in the Marines?
Speaker 3:Yes, I got married in Quantico.
Speaker 1:Oh, is that where you met him?
Speaker 2:Yes, and there's more to that too.
Speaker 1:I was going to say there's got to be a story in there.
Speaker 2:Come on, now, pull that string. I was going to say there's got to be a story in there, so come on, now, pull that string, come on.
Speaker 3:What else? Yes, he was a motor T driver, so he was an ammo driver. So we met at the ammo dump. To a civilian. What does motor T mean?
Speaker 2:Transportation, oh okay, he's military too.
Speaker 1:He drove the truck.
Speaker 3:Yes, he drove the truck that hauled the ammo to TBS usually. Actually, he was with TBS. Actually, he was with TBS.
Speaker 1:Was it love at first sight? Like, hey, I love your ammo, you know what I mean. How about that truck? Can I get it out of here?
Speaker 3:Something like that. Something like that, cool, cool.
Speaker 1:And so how long have you been married now?
Speaker 3:Well, that was my first husband.
Speaker 1:So there's the twist. Oh, I didn't know that part. Sorry, we have something in common so yeah, that was my first husband so.
Speaker 3:But I am married now to a veteran also. But he served in the Navy, in the Reserves.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, that's the one I. I thought that's what she was talking about.
Speaker 3:Sorry, I realized as we were getting into that like, oh, he doesn't know that plot twist.
Speaker 1:I'm sure everybody's okay with it Life happens, it does. Well, that's interesting. So your, you know priorities change and you say you know what I'm kind of like, maybe done with this for now type of deal Is that?
Speaker 3:I just didn't want us to spend large amounts of time away from each other, so I kind of somewhat reluctantly decided to get out and go back to school. So I went back to school to be a dental hygienist after that.
Speaker 1:So fast forward into that. Did you do that around in this area, particularly here in, say, fayetteville?
Speaker 3:I did, I did, I worked in Peachtree City for about six years or so, and then I worked in Smyrna for about five years, 10 plus years. So and I've worked all over, cause I did temp work as well, so I've worked in offices all over Atlanta.
Speaker 1:I gotcha and yeah, and if you're not familiar with it, when we say Atlanta, there's Atlanta which you know from to, to go from the South side of Atlanta to the North side it's like an hour and a half, it's just, and that's only 30 miles.
Speaker 1:I know, yeah, exactly. And so places like Smyrna, marietta, or I have a friend who lives in between, them calls it Smyrnetta but these are all places in the surrounding areas of Atlanta, like, for example, fayetteville, peachtree City, sharpsburg where we're all located. It's just on the Trillith south side of Atlanta, so you can look that up on a map. But you said you're not doing the dental stuff anymore.
Speaker 3:Right, I did that for, like I said, almost 20 years and it was a great career. I still have my license, I can go and clean teeth if I choose to. But you know, I hit around 40-ish and I realized that I was passing on some opportunities and some ideas that I had not developed, and I realized that if I got to the end of my life and had not tried them, that was going to be my biggest regret.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 3:And so I finally had the courage to step out and do something different.
Speaker 2:I gotcha, I like the little tease there. She hung that out there, didn't she? Well, I mean yeah, because we're going to go into it.
Speaker 1:I'm just sitting here thinking, but how can we get like a free cleaning after this? I put this on the insurance, so that led you into doing something that's kind of been in your heart now so kind of maybe kind of tease or share that with us.
Speaker 2:You know, that's the part I'm excited. Yeah, you know, you haven't tried it yet, have you? No, I haven't no.
Speaker 1:But she brought a packet over there. She did. Can I just pour it right on my tongue?
Speaker 3:Well, you can try it. I don't know that you're going to like it as well, it's not the way it's designed, michael.
Speaker 1:You can do a lot of things. So what was this thing mean? What was the whole process? Tell me what that is.
Speaker 3:So I the Marine Corps made me a runner and I stuck with it after I got out of the Marine Corps and I eventually learned to love it obviously because, I've stuck with it for over 20 years now and I learned that caffeine is very beneficial in that I learned to love caffeine as well.
Speaker 3:But you know, not only does caffeine help with athletic ability, but it really helps with your mood, and so that has also been a hook for me with caffeine, because I'm not particularly a morning person, but it helps make us morning people when we're not. So I was looking for a good nutritional boost before my runs in the morning and I wasn't finding what I was looking for, so I decided that I could just make it. That's really cool.
Speaker 1:So Red Bull and vodka was out, All right.
Speaker 2:So then you were like I'm going to do my own thing. So you made a caffeine drink made a caffeine supplement.
Speaker 3:Actually, the idea started out not as what it is now. It started out very different.
Speaker 2:You know there's a caffeine supplement out there now, right this morning, right Coffee, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Coffee is also very hard on an empty stomach. Well, not for everyone. Not for everyone, but for me it is. And for a lot of people it's very hard on an empty stomach.
Speaker 1:No-transcript. Woke up. Did not have coffee this morning in my early rise.
Speaker 2:He's off his game today. That's right. No, I mean, I'm actually I don't know.
Speaker 1:Maybe I might start doing that, alternating and having it a little bit later, like I did now. But so what was the original product or the idea of what you, what you were doing?
Speaker 3:so the big idea initially was really revolved around the caffeine, and I wanted an easy, tasty way to get the caffeine in on an empty stomach before going on an early morning run. So ideally I wanted it initially to be a gummy. So I spent a lot of money with a food scientist company and developed a really great recipe for a caffeine based gummy and I haven't been able to use it because it was crazy expensive to get a first order of a gummy supplement, because by the time I had everything ready to go, 2020 had hit and the whole world had changed and it became astronomical to place a first order for a gummy supplement.
Speaker 2:Wow, so didn't do the gummy. And when I think caffeine, I don't think anything besides coffee. This isn't a coffee thing, is it?
Speaker 3:It is not coffee, okay, it is not coffee. I really wanted to go clean. I thought, thinking clean and green, so I went towards green tea for the caffeine. So there's, not only am I a runner, I'm also a cancer survivor, so I wanted to. I wanted to incorporate as much good nutrition and antioxidants and all that good antioxidant activity in the product as I could. So as it developed and as it flushed out, it's got green tea caffeine. It has ginger, which is also good for the empty stomach, but those are both just huge with antioxidants and anti-cancer activities and anti-inflammation and all of those good things. Wow.
Speaker 1:Ladies and gentlemen, elevate your hydration with keto-friendly exuberance Go energizing electrolyte drink mix. Unleash the power of green tea, ginger electrolytes and bioavailable vitamins in every sip.
Speaker 3:That's right.
Speaker 1:So it's called exuberance.
Speaker 3:Exuberance yes, it's called exuberance. Right before it launched, I added the Go because I came up with an idea for my next product in the line, so that will be the differentiator once I'm able to expand now go.
Speaker 1:Is that like to help you?
Speaker 3:poop is that, not that kind of go.
Speaker 1:Okay, because you know sometimes people drink a cup of coffee that's another bad thing about coffee before running. I wasn't going to say that happening while you're running or passing out.
Speaker 3:I wasn't going to say that, but since you mentioned it, yes, We've been in a few of those formation runs right.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, you start running faster so keto-friendly, non-gmo vegetarian, no artificial colors, fda-registered facility. I mean, it sounds like a great thing. So where are we? Is it out? Can the public get it? How long has it been out?
Speaker 3:So it's been out for almost a year now, about a year, and it is almost entirely online. It's on my website, it's on Amazon. That's just been a recent development this summer.
Speaker 2:So it is on Amazon.
Speaker 1:Thank you.
Speaker 2:That's not easy to do.
Speaker 3:No, it's not. It was a much bigger process than I anticipated. Good for you. That's what I hear from a lot of people who put things on there.
Speaker 1:And no offense to it. I mean I think it's a great way to get it out there, but it also takes a little money out of your pocket when you go through there because it's got to. Your website is exuberance4lifecom. Exuberance4lifecom.
Speaker 2:Yes. So in full disclosure, when I first met Cynthia and I heard about it, I'm thinking sounds great. Sounds great caffeine, I'm all in Coffee. Okay, it's not coffee, but I'm not a ginger guy. So, I thought, oh man, but I wanted to try it, just because of Joe and because of you. I love this. It's not at all what I had anticipated. It really, really, is a good drink, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think ginger is something that people have to either get used to. Now, of course, in the Gilligan's Island days I was a Marianne guy. See those old references right there. But no, seriously, seriously, I think it's an acquired taste. You know people, it's a, usually with asian type foods and uh, things like that, so I haven't tried it yet, but hopefully she's gonna. Let me have one of those as a sample and it's not so.
Speaker 2:You know, asian, it's not that maybe it's supposed to be, but it's not that kind of ginger, because that's what I was expecting and I I really shy away from that. This has got a, a really pleasant I don't know, I just and I'm not saying this because you're sitting here it really, really is.
Speaker 3:Well, there's a sweetness to help mask, because the ginger and the green tea flavors both could be very bitter. So it was a real process. I had to work with a really great company to mask those flavors. Wow.
Speaker 1:That's real ginger right there, buddy. But when you mix that with B vitamins and your vitamin C, like you know, in the lemons and things like that, and the green tea and you put it all together, you somehow got this nice.
Speaker 3:It's really good, it's really good, and I'm not a huge fan of the flavor of ginger either.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I'm a huge fan of the effects it has on the body, but the flavor not so much. So, and I love it. I drink it every day, obviously, but I drink it literally every day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh well, I guess nobody's out there making ginger sandwiches and things like that, but you know I get that.
Speaker 2:So did you drink this? I've got to bring up the past event this last weekend. Did you drink this before that?
Speaker 3:event. I absolutely did yes.
Speaker 1:You said, she blew everybody in the dust or something.
Speaker 2:So she's really unassuming. I wish we had this on video because she's not this Superman or giant Amazon type woman, very small statue, very small frame, very quiet. So it was called what was called Battle of the Brave and I'll talk about that. There's three different events they had to do. Do you mind if I tell this story a little bit? Sure, go for it.
Speaker 1:At least I don't have to talk right.
Speaker 2:This is from my memory of how the day went. So we set up a booth. It was done by one of our partners, and we have a booth set up there and there was I don't know 20, 30 participants and and I'd went over to to her booth. She had a booth too, and her husband was working it and, um, the way they did it, it was in teams, so they had paired her. You didn't meet this guy beforehand, did you?
Speaker 3:I did not, actually did not come to run the race. I came just to run the booth and I I told Tori. I said hey, you know, if there's any teams that need, since my husband's here, he can be on the table. I can team up if someone needs that. And she said we absolutely do need that. So she popped me on the team.
Speaker 2:So that explains the conversation I've heard. She's she's standing there with her, her new, her new team, her new partner, and they're kind of talking. She's like are you fast? He's like yeah, I'm pretty fast and she goes. Well, when you cross the line first you might need to wait for me. I'm like okay. So they all line up and they take off. The starting line was maybe 20 yards from where my booth was, so I meander back to the booth and I swear she's done with a 5k portion of the race before I get back to my booth oh, that might be an exaggeration blows through this race.
Speaker 2:The next person across the line was her partner and, and it was probably 10 minutes before the next person came through. I'm sweating walking from this, walking from the starting line to my booth. I don't think you were even breathing hard, oh I was.
Speaker 2:She gets across the line, you know she's like, yeah, whatever, you know I'm back. And then then comes her partner who purely coincidence coincidence, I'm sure was also a Marine. So the two Marines blew that leg of the event out of the water. The next event was a tire pull. They had a. Was it 50? They said 50 yards, but that wasn't 50 yards.
Speaker 2:I know, yeah, it doesn't seem like it was that long yeah but they had this massive tractor tire on a rope and they pulled the tire from one know, from one end you and the same guy you ran with.
Speaker 1:Is it the same partner, or yeah it?
Speaker 2:was just he and I on the team, okay, um but you, you did it by yourself I did yes, so she dragged this and then he dragged it the other end, and then they had to do land.
Speaker 2:Now they went and found two um two different points out on the trails yes um, so not only did they win the 5K, I think they were completely done with the entire thing before the next guy even came across the line, at least that's how I remember it. At the very end of the event there was a ceremony and they, of course, they won the entire event. So that was pretty impressive. That was, I mean, I thought that was kind of you know, kind of a cool thing, and all because of your drink.
Speaker 3:Right, it was a very fun event too. I had a great time doing that.
Speaker 1:It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3:Yes, they really did.
Speaker 1:Did you win anything?
Speaker 3:Yes, we have this really great goodie bag. It had tons of great stuff in it, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. So it has nothing to do with your training and all your money, it's just the drink.
Speaker 3:It's just the mix, it was all the drink If I hadn't had that, you heard her.
Speaker 2:She said she showed up not prepared to do this. Yeah, Kicked everybody's butt Like Popeye and his spinach. You know she's down to drink and she was gone.
Speaker 1:Yes, that was exactly like that part of exuberance, your product that you have out now. So kind of tell us what that is and what can we look forward to?
Speaker 3:So the next product in my line I would love to be something very similar, another drink. It's going to be loaded with antioxidants. It's probably still going to have the ginger in it, but it will probably be well masked as well. I'm looking for maybe some more vitamins to more natural support for the body. You know I want to get all the good stuff I can in one single drink. So, and ideally, eventually it's going to go into some stick packs. It's going to be even more convenient and I really feel like this is something that could really serve our military. Anybody who is taking the mres, it would be a great addition to mres. So once it gets into some stick packs, we can really support our troops with good nutrition with something like this what a cool idea, yeah, um yeah, because the mres aren't like, known for their they're not necessarily the healthiest thing in the world, so it'd be nice to get some good vitamins and healthy stuff in there.
Speaker 2:What a great idea so if anyone's listening and has that contact on how to get into the MRE world, that'd be great, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Reach out Eden dash projectcom.
Speaker 2:So Cynthia's site is on our site, so I've got a spot on there with our specifically veteran owned companies. I think it's under partners or something, or yeah, it's probably partners. So, her site if they forget the other stuff. Another way to find her is through our site.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you have a lot of people. My website, I think, or something of mine is on there, my face.
Speaker 2:I don't know your face. Something's there, your voice.
Speaker 1:But yeah, you do well know, sharing the love of people that you work with and such and so I also have social media, thank you, I have.
Speaker 3:I am on instagram at exuberance, the number four life so and that also links to my website and purchases can be made there. And then there's also good information on there. I try to really highlight the different ingredients and what they do for you and how they serve you on there as well, what about Facebook?
Speaker 1:You got a Facebook page.
Speaker 3:I have a Facebook. It's also Exuberance the number four life as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you're really really young it's TikTok, that middle age it's Instagram, if you get a little bit older, it's Facebook, and if you're like really, really old, they're still using myspace.
Speaker 2:I was gonna say surely myspace is not around. Yeah, I used to get on that with the aol dial up. I think I follow you on it's probably instagram and you got a lot of there's always like really good, uh, information out there about different vitamins and different things. Right, other people can follow you there too.
Speaker 1:That's cool sweet Sweet, so Instagram, facebook, exuberance.
Speaker 3:Exuberance. The number four, lifecom.
Speaker 1:There you go. You can find that on the website there.
Speaker 3:I also brought a really great coupon code that I have not shared with anyone else. It is strictly for your listeners. Drum roll please, All right.
Speaker 1:So, ladies and gentlemen, if you want to try this product she's not offered this anywhere else Tell us all about it.
Speaker 3:So this is on my website only exuberance4lifecom. When you check out, enter coupon code TRYME50, t-r-y-m-e, the number 50, and that will save you half off your purchase price 50% off yes, but wait but wait.
Speaker 1:50% off yes, but wait but wait. Act now and order now. So try me 50.
Speaker 3:Yes, try me the number 50, and that will get you 50% off your order. And then, once you try it and love it, come back and subscribe and save off the website as well. That also saves you money.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. That's really good. I like that, so check that out. I'm so glad that you came and shared some of your story with us and and excited about your product, and hopefully that will continue to grow and grow and grow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what did we forget? Did we forget anything that you want to add in there?
Speaker 3:Not that I can think of, but I'll probably think of it when I walk out the door.
Speaker 1:She'll go home and her husband will say did you talk about me? No, I'm talking about my ex Right so well okay. But thank you so much for spending some time with us in here and I'm so glad and hopefully we can maybe have you back in the future and you can tell us how the especially when the new product comes out.
Speaker 3:Absolutely. I would love that. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1:So, bren, the rest of this month, here we are in August. We talk about a hot thing, and for people who listen to podcasts, you know you could be listening to this three or four years from now. At this point we've actually kind of considered taking a little bit of a break, for maybe, you know, miss one or two, one or two and wrap up season one, yep, and then we'll roll into. You know, like I always love, you know, spring is that new beginning and new growth, but fall is where things kind of kind of go to sleep and hibernate and start looking into how do we get better when we come back and do that, and that's what we've been kind of tossing around and debating with, and so we just might be doing that yeah, so it what we'll probably do, maybe the next show or the show after somewhere, the next um, the next month or so.
Speaker 2:Maybe do like a best of. I think what would be kind of funny is to catch all of these I don't like the word cackle, cause that's attached to somebody else lately, but all the laughing that that I've heard over over the, you know, the last year or so. But we'll do a best of show, Um, and then we're going to launch into. We had a great. We have next season already lined up. We have great guests lined up for next season. We have some topics that are a little deeper than this season, but it's going to be fun. So we'll probably take a little break. That doesn't mean they have to stop listening.
Speaker 1:No, I mean when we do the best of. Obviously, if you heard it before, I kind of get it. But you know you might know it, because we'll kind of tie in a couple of shows together within one. I'll have some narration that I'll put together. But also, if you've been listening to this and you know a little bit about each one of us, that's fine, we're actually going to do some where you get to know the host, and I mean, like you know.
Speaker 2:We're going to do a deep dive Like deep dive into our lives and tell all about us and such. I'm glad you kind of you started out that way.
Speaker 1:So the very first one is a deep dive into Michael Stewart. Oh, I thought you were the first one. Wait a minute. Now I'm the first one talking asking You're the boss.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, whatever you're the boss, so whatever you want to do, yeah, so I'm excited about those. Those will be fun and I hope that folks will continue. And again, it's all about sharing this. If you get any kind of laughter or enjoyment or information, intelligence, anything out of this, or even like when we talk about our guests and say, hey, I want you to hear this, share this in your social media. Share it with people that you know, family and friends. Again, our website is eden-projectcom and, obviously, wherever you're listening to your podcast, share that with your friends as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so I don't know if I said this in the very beginning, if I did or didn't here it is. The idea for this particular podcast has always been mental health to make mental health a conversation we can have every day. It's not a conversation you have in the dark that you have to hide and be embarrassed about. It's something we can talk about and maybe not laugh at, but laugh with.
Speaker 1:Laugh with. Yeah, I know a lot of people. You know, early days when mental health kind of thing, you know it was always you know, oh, it was dark and you don't talk about it.
Speaker 1:Just, you always felt like, oh, I have to whisper, but no, it's not like that anymore. This is the thing that I think that society has been trying to share for many years. Is that if you get out there and you talk about it and you make it for lack of a better word I don't want to say it's normal, but if you make it a normal part of it, it's easy to talk about.
Speaker 3:It's easy.
Speaker 1:And you can also kind of have lightheartedness within the subjects.
Speaker 2:It should be as easy to talk about as a broken arm or a stubbed toe, exactly. So that's the goal. If we get there, great. If not, well, we'll keep working. Yeah, we'll just keep doing it.
Speaker 1:So thank you for spending your valuable time with us here. We appreciate it each time that we're on here with the After Action Report and until we meet again, be well, see ya.