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
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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 2Hey 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 1It'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 2It'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 1Yeah, 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 1So 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 2Yeah. 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 1And we have a lot of people that tune in and also reach out from all over the country.
Speaker 2Yep, 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 1Yeah, 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 2I 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 1Yeah, 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 2yeah, they're doing great work in europe, but it's not the work we're doing so.
Speaker 1We want to keep them here.
Speaker 2But 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 2Drum 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 3Okay, so without further ado my good friend Cynthia Jenkins.
Speaker 2Cynthia we're glad you're here, good morning.
Speaker 3Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2Let'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 1I was born a small white girl.
Speaker 2Some 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 1I 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 2So 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 1But 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 2told you about your joke.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 3So 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 1Wow, okay, you do have nice teeth.
Speaker 2Thank 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 1Thank you, that's what I was waiting for.
Speaker 2My 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 1Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Thank you, I didn't know you were at Quantico. I was. What did you do at Quantico?
Speaker 3That 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 2When were you there?
Speaker 3I was there 97 to the very beginning, almost 2000.
Speaker 2I was at Quantico in the early 90s. I worked at the basic school. You know where they trained the lieutenants.
Speaker 3They were like our biggest quote unquote customer, customer, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2I 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 3Yes, actually.
Speaker 2Nice, okay, I wanted to go to Okinawa, yes.
Speaker 3Wow, so I spent my last year in the Marine Corps in Okinawa.
Speaker 2And did you like Oki?
Speaker 3It'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 2So 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 3We 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 2So yeah, was it an accompanied or unaccompanied? Tour?
Speaker 3It 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 2Yeah. So you did an enlistment and you decided you know, this just isn't for me, or what was next?
Speaker 3No, 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 1So did you get married while you were in the Marines?
Speaker 3Yes, I got married in Quantico.
Speaker 1Oh, is that where you met him?
Speaker 2Yes, and there's more to that too.
Speaker 1I was going to say there's got to be a story in there.
Speaker 2Come 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 3What 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 2Transportation, oh okay, he's military too.
Speaker 1He drove the truck.
Speaker 3Yes, he drove the truck that hauled the ammo to TBS usually. Actually, he was with TBS. Actually, he was with TBS.
Speaker 1Was 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 3Something like that. Something like that, cool, cool.
Speaker 1And so how long have you been married now?
Speaker 3Well, that was my first husband.
Speaker 1So 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 3But I am married now to a veteran also. But he served in the Navy, in the Reserves.
Speaker 2Oh, okay, that's the one I. I thought that's what she was talking about.
Speaker 3Sorry, I realized as we were getting into that like, oh, he doesn't know that plot twist.
Speaker 1I'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 3I 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.
Entrepreneurial Journey Into Caffeine Supplements
Speaker 1So fast forward into that. Did you do that around in this area, particularly here in, say, fayetteville?
Speaker 3I 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 1I 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 1I 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 3Right, 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 2Wow.
Speaker 3And so I finally had the courage to step out and do something different.
Speaker 2I 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 1I'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 2You 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 1But she brought a packet over there. She did. Can I just pour it right on my tongue?
Speaker 3Well, 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 1You can do a lot of things. So what was this thing mean? What was the whole process? Tell me what that is.
Speaker 3So 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 3But 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 1So Red Bull and vodka was out, All right.
Speaker 2So then you were like I'm going to do my own thing. So you made a caffeine drink made a caffeine supplement.
Speaker 3Actually, the idea started out not as what it is now. It started out very different.
Speaker 2You know there's a caffeine supplement out there now, right this morning, right Coffee, oh yeah.
Speaker 3Coffee 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 1No-transcript. Woke up. Did not have coffee this morning in my early rise.
Speaker 2He's off his game today. That's right. No, I mean, I'm actually I don't know.
Speaker 1Maybe 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 3so 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 2Wow, 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?
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Speaker 3It 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 1Ladies 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 3That's right.
Speaker 1So it's called exuberance.
Speaker 3Exuberance 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 1Is that like to help you?
Speaker 3poop is that, not that kind of go.
Speaker 1Okay, 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 3I wasn't going to say that, but since you mentioned it, yes, We've been in a few of those formation runs right.
Speaker 1Yes, 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 3So 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 2So it is on Amazon.
Speaker 1Thank you.
Speaker 2That's not easy to do.
Speaker 3No, 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 1And 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 2Yes. 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 1Yeah, 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 2You 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 3Well, 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 1That'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 3It's really good, it's really good, and I'm not a huge fan of the flavor of ginger either.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3I'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 1Yeah, oh well, I guess nobody's out there making ginger sandwiches and things like that, but you know I get that.
Speaker 2So did you drink this? I've got to bring up the past event this last weekend. Did you drink this before that?
Speaker 3event. I absolutely did yes.
Speaker 1You said, she blew everybody in the dust or something.
Speaker 2So 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 1At least I don't have to talk right.
Speaker 2This 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 3I 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 2So 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 2The 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 2She 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 2I 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 1Is it the same partner, or yeah it?
Speaker 2was 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 2Now 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 3Right, it was a very fun event too. I had a great time doing that.
Speaker 1It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3Yes, they really did.
Speaker 1Did you win anything?
Speaker 3Yes, we have this really great goodie bag. It had tons of great stuff in it, oh yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah. So it has nothing to do with your training and all your money, it's just the drink.
Speaker 3It's just the mix, it was all the drink If I hadn't had that, you heard her.
Speaker 2She 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 1Yes, 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 3So 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 2What 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 1Reach out Eden dash projectcom.
Speaker 2So 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 1Yeah, you have a lot of people. My website, I think, or something of mine is on there, my face.
Speaker 2I don't know your face. Something's there, your voice.
Speaker 1But 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 3I 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 1You got a Facebook page.
Speaker 3I have a Facebook. It's also Exuberance the number four life as well.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 2I 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 1That's cool sweet Sweet, so Instagram, facebook, exuberance.
Speaker 3Exuberance. The number four, lifecom.
Speaker 1There you go. You can find that on the website there.
Speaker 3I 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 1So, ladies and gentlemen, if you want to try this product she's not offered this anywhere else Tell us all about it.
Speaker 3So 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 150% off yes, but wait but wait. Act now and order now. So try me 50.
Speaker 3Yes, 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.
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Speaker 1That'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 2Yeah, what did we forget? Did we forget anything that you want to add in there?
Speaker 3Not that I can think of, but I'll probably think of it when I walk out the door.
Speaker 1She'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 3Absolutely. I would love that. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1So, 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 2Maybe 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 1No, 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 2We'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 1So 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 1Okay, 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.
Destigmatizing Mental Health Conversations
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 1Laugh 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 1Just, 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 3It's easy.
Speaker 1And you can also kind of have lightheartedness within the subjects.
Speaker 2It 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 1So 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.