April 11, 2024

Living the dream with fitness expert Adrienne Simmons

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Discover the secrets to sustained energy with Adrienne Simmons on the Living the Dream podcast with Curveball! Adrienne shares her personal journey from chronic fatigue to vibrant vitality, offering actionable tips to combat burnout and age-related energy dips. Whether you're feeling the slow drain of daily life or seeking a proactive boost, this episode is a treasure trove of wisdom for all ages. Tune in to unlock your energy potential and start living life to the max!

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> Speaker A>Welcome, um, to the Living the Dream podcast with curveball. Um, if you believe you can achieve Chee Chee.

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> Speaker B>Welcome, um, to the Living a dream with Curveball podcast, a show where I interview guests that teach, motivate, and inspire. Today, I am joined by health and fitness expert Adrian Simmons, and we're going to be talking about energy levels and burnout and chronic fatigue as we age. Adrienne started noticing her energy levels were low as she got older and up there in age, and she started having issues on her job and in her life. So she decided to do some research and turn it around.

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> Speaker B>So she's gonna be giving us all some tips and letting us know what she has to offer to help us turn it around. And if you are a younger person, don't turn it off, because I'm sure these tips can probably help you as well. So, Adrienne, thank you so much for joining me today, and thank you very.

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> Adrian Simmons>Much for, um, inviting me as a guest on your show. I really appreciate it.

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> Speaker B>Why don't you start off by telling everybody a little bit about yourself?

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> Adrian Simmons>Oh, wow. You know, that's a question that gets asked all the time, and it's like, where do you even start to tell people about yourself? But because the nature of my, um, being with you, uh, this evening is all about our health, our fitness, and our wellness, I will focus on that when it comes to me. I've always been very in tuned with doing the best that I can to take care of my physical wellness, because I have always understood that it's important if you want to live a life of longevity, that physical fitness is really key. So I've always done the best that I can to keep that top of mind, honestly. Absolutely. It hasn't always happened, but I do try to make it a priority, along, obviously, with proper nutrition, ensuring that I do my best to encourage as much mental, positive thinking as I can. I know the value of surrounding myself with a healthy social network. And really important as well, too, that I feel that a lot of people do not either. Either, uh, either are, uh, not aware of it, or even if they are, they just don't make it a priority for themselves. And that's quality rest as well, too. So all of those that I just kind of listed off those kind of lifestyle choices for me, that's what I try to make sure is a priority in my life every single day. So that's a little bit about kind of Adrienne and what drives me. Um, something else that really drives me as well, too, is understanding that for the time that we are here on this planet, we have a choice.

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> Adrian Simmons>You know, we can either live life to the min, so we just kind of move through our life every day on default, or we can live life to the max. So I'm all about letting people know that if you want, only if you want to step up your game and to show up a lot better than you have been, you can if you want. And I'm here to, I guess, show, teach, instruct, and share and let people know.

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> Adrian Simmons>Absolutely. You can improve the quality of your life quite simply if that's something that you choose to do for yourself.

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> Speaker B>So kind of let people know what were the signs or the things that were going on in your life that you realized that you needed to make a change.

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> Adrian Simmons>Okay. So for myself, wow. My story goes back a good couple of years.

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> Adrian Simmons>Um, I've always been the kind of individual that had boundless energy, you know, into my thirties and even into my late forties as well, too. I just, I've always had a life of vibrancy. But that all changed when I crossed over my 50 year line. I, um, know now, but I didn't know then that as a result of the lifestyle choices that I made as I crossed over, my 50 year line did not line up with where my body was moving at that time.

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> Adrian Simmons>And as a result, for the first time in my life, I developed signs of fatigue. And it started off as acute fatigue. So that was very once in a while. But like anything else in life, if you do not make changes, what can start off as occasional, can morph into something that happens on a regular basis. And that's what happened to me. My acute fatigue morphed into a chronic fatigue where I was experiencing it a couple of times a week. With my chronic fatigue also came excessive, uh, weight gain. With that also came a lot of brain fog. I was always unsure and uncertain, and it felt like there was a heavy fog inside of my brain and the icing on the cake when I went in for my yearly physical checkup. And I was probably at that point, maybe 55, 56. For the first time in my life, I was diagnosed as pre diabetic. Now, I've always received really healthy medical, yearly checkups, so that definitely made me sit up. But what was even more startling was I was reminded immediately. It was like an immediate connection was made for me in my mind. I remember my father passed away from his diabetes in his late sixties. So if I'm 55, 56 at that point, the only thing that I'm making a connection to is I could be dead in another ten years. And for me, that's all it took for me to sit up and say, you know what? I need to make some serious lifestyle choices. My lifestyle choices prior to that were I worked full time. I went out a lot of times after work, sometimes even after I went out after work, I went to after hours. And with that, unfortunately, came a lot of alcohol drinking, a lot of party drugs in my life, and a lot of takeout food. So all of that, that was a recipe that led me to my chronic fatigue, my brain fog, and the excessive weight that I gained as well, too.

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> Adrian Simmons>Like I said, once I received that diagnosis, for me, that was my wake up call. And I decided, you have a choice.

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> Adrian Simmons>You can either continue with the same lifestyle choices you're making. Absolutely. It was fun going out after work, dancing, partying, drinking, doing drugs, eating whatever I wanted to eat.

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> Adrian Simmons>Absolutely. But unfortunately, it was taking a serious, serious toll on my overall health. And I decided, you know what? I've always wanted to live a life of longevity. I've always wanted to live a healthier life, especially to my second stage of my life. And for me, one of my role models was Betty White. Um, I hope a lot of your audience does remember Miss Betty white. And right up until she was 99, she was producing and acting on that half an hour comedy special that she put out on a regular basis. And for me, it was like, are you kidding? At 99, still directing and producing, she was always my role model. So for me, it's like, I wanna be like Betty White. Absolutely. At 99, I still want to be living a life of longevity. So I just made that decision. It's like, you know what? I prefer this option. I prefer the energy versus the fatigue. And I just kind of, I just made a whole lot of choices in my life that looked like, had to start with the mindset. It had to start with, here, why am I doing this? And then that kind of morphed into, okay, I gotta create a whole new nutritional plan.

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> Adrian Simmons>I gotta create a, a physical fitness plan. I got to create just tools that cause for me, a lot of times it was boredom. When I got bored, it was like, you know what? Let me go out.

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> Adrian Simmons>When I got bored, let me continue going out. So it was finding other resources and tools to kind of supplement when I felt that boredom. And for me, it was just joining a lot of healthier networks. The gym made a big difference as well, too. And overall, I'm going to say probably over a six to nine month period, I noticed that my energy levels started to increase. I started to feel a little bit healthier. I didn't feel that chronic fatigue on a daily basis. And like I said, over a period of time, probably by the time I hit that nine month mark, I had shed maybe a little bit over 20 pounds. My energy levels at my lowest some days, maybe a three, a four out of ten.

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> Adrian Simmons>And by the time I rebounded and cleaned up my life, my energy levels were at maybe a seven, eight, some days, even a nine out of ten. So I was able to experience and enjoy the benefits of having healthy energy from sunrise to sunset. And I still, up until today, enjoy the benefits of sustained energy from sunrise to sunset as a result of the lifestyle choices that I choose to make today versus the lifestyle choices that I made a few years ago.

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> Speaker B>Well, you also created the energy edge program. Unlock your energy potential. So tell us what that program is all about.

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> Adrian Simmons>Yeah, absolutely. So once I was able to rebuild and rejuvenate and reboost my energy to the point where I am right now, and I realized the benefits, the positive outcomes that it was giving me, and that was a lot more productivity throughout my day, productivity in my evening. I was able to show up for my team at work. I'm able to show up for my family and friends as well, too.

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> Adrian Simmons>I show up alert and energized. And as a result of using myself as my own beta test, I realized people started to compliment me all the time about my energy levels. And initially, it was, I don't understand. I wonder why they're saying something about it. But it continued to happen. And then I just started accepting it as a compliment. Okay, thank you very much. Thank you very much. Some people would even say, well, you know, if I touch you, Adrienne, can I get some of your energy? Because I am so fatigued.

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> Adrian Simmons>Others would say, you know, if I had your energy levels, you know, how much more I would be able to get done during my own workday and even into my evening. And then I started realizing, you know, what if all these people are complimenting me for something that, um, I feel is just normal?

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> Adrian Simmons>And I didn't realize that it's because it became just part of my normal life to live healthier lifestyle choices. And the results of that were rebounded energy. I'm thinking, you know, what?

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> Adrian Simmons>If people are finding this exciting, then energy must be a commodity for people who don't have energy. And those would be for individuals who are suffering from various levels of fatigue. And because I kept on getting asked, well, what is it that you're doing? What do you do? How do you maintain your energy levels? Why is it that every time I see you, you seem to be an abundance of energy? What is it that you do every single day? I, uh, realize, why don't I put together a program that encompasses what I did for myself to rebuild my own energy levels and what I continue to do every day up until today to ensure that my energy levels are still giving me the benefits that I need and hence my creating the energy edge, unlock your body's energy potential. For those who ask me, Adrienne, I know that I have so much more that I want to give to the world.

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> Adrian Simmons>I know that I want and need to show up for my team at work. I know that I need to show up for my parents because they're getting elderly and I'm the only support that they have. I know that I need to be there for my grandkids because my daughter's a single mother. She can working full time and part time, but I am just tired. I don't have the energy, but I know I need to show up.

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> Adrian Simmons>And for me, that was my motivation to create the program for so many people that would come to me and say, I want to do better, but I just don't know how to do better because I'm just tired all the time. And again, hence my making that decision. You know what, Adrienne? You have something that is obviously a gem. For me, it's like a diamond in the rough, having energy because it allows you to do so much with your life if you have it. And so those who don't have it, they really notice a, ah, huge difference.

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> Adrian Simmons>And for the clients that I have been able to support, it's like night and day what they can do from what they can't do. And for me, that's why it's always a blessing to continue to share the energy edge, unlock your energy potential.

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> Speaker B>Coaching program so in your opinion, what are some of the, uh, key energy sources that affect our daily, uh, physical movements?

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> Adrian Simmons>Okay, so our energy sources, our energy channels would be our physical energy.

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> Adrian Simmons>So anything that we need to physically move, whether it's to blink our eyes, whether it's to breathe, whether it's to eat, whether it's for our heart to beat, that's our physical energy.

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> Adrian Simmons>And that channel needs to be fed all the time, our physical energy. Next is our mental energy. Our thoughts also need energy for us to think. So we need to be able to ensure that we are also feeding our mental energy channels.

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> Adrian Simmons>Next is our emotional energy. How is it that we're feeling?

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> Adrian Simmons>How do we feel at any moment throughout the day? Are we feeling positive? Are we feeling empowered? Are we feeling a can do attitude? Or are we feeling thoughts that are drawing us down?

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> Adrian Simmons>That's our emotional energy channels. And then there's our spiritual energy channels, because we are all living beings, whether we are a human being, whether it's our dog, a dog being, whether it's a fly, a fly being, whether it's a horse, whether it's a plant, whether it's a flower. We are all living organisms. And as such, we have to coexist on, um, this one planet that we all call home. And as a result, we are all connected spiritually as living organisms. So that is our spiritual energy channels. But for a lot of individuals, if they are not getting the energy that any of these channels need, it can result in fatigue, it can result in depression, it can result in social isolation. It can result in feeling. So it's important for individuals who know that they want to, they want to show up, they want to do a lot better in their lives, but one of their energy channels may not be getting the energy that it needs. And as a result, it's manifesting itself, like I said, either in brain fatigue or in just that physical, chronic fatigue over their own bodies.

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> Speaker B>So what are, ah, uh, some of the strategies that can help a person maintain, um, high mental energy throughout the day.

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> Adrian Simmons>Fantastic. Excellent. What I recommend, if you feel that you are starting to, uh, just feeling you just feeling your thoughts.

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> Adrian Simmons>Your thoughts are just kind of going in the direction that you don't want them to go in. I always tell my clients in advance, prepare tools that you can tap into whenever you start feeling lower feelings of mental energy. So that could be inspirational quotes, that could be a playlist of motivational quotes, that could be a couple of short videos that make you laugh. You're looking for tools that will make you feel and think more positively. So for me personally, whenever I want to boost my mental energy channels, I have a playlist of inspirations that as soon as I read it, I feel empowered, I feel worthy, I feel I can now show up.

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> Adrian Simmons>So for me personally, it's inspirational quotes and it's motivational quotes. For others, it's prayers. When they pull out their prayers and they start reading some of their prayers, they now start to feel mentally energized, that they can now turn around and say, you know what? I'm, uh, moving away from those negative thoughts to higher positive thoughts. So you would have to decide what increases your sense of thinking more positively when you engage in it for others. Like I said, it's just when they watch, uh, some comedies, all of a sudden they start thinking more positively because the comedy has induced feelings of happiness within them. And with those happy feelings, they move away from those negative feeling thoughts. So again, you have to decide when you engage in something, what increases your mental thoughts to a higher energy plane. And then once you figure out what works for you, make sure you have them handy. So whenever you feel yourself going down that rabbit hole of negative thoughts, you can quickly pull them out and either read them, look at them, or listen to them until you feel those vibrations increasing back up, uh, moving closer to a seven, eight, nine, and a ten.

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> Speaker B>Well, tell us about any current or upcoming projects that you're working on that people need to be aware of.

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> Adrian Simmons>Did you say any kind of projects that I'm working on?

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> Speaker B>Yep. Anything that you're working on that people need to know about.

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> Adrian Simmons>Absolutely. Thank you so much. Um, I'm always revising my coaching program based on the needs of my audience. And what I'm working on right now is I'm working on creating a program specifically for a particular target group. Now, myself, I'm a solopreneur, obviously operating my own business, but I also work full time, nine to five. So I'm looking to create a program for solopreneurs also working full time because they experience their own level of fatigue. Because you can imagine if you are working full time and then you have to come home and then work full time in your business as well, too. That's a whole different level of fatigue. So I'm, um, creating a program specifically for individuals that have their foot in both worlds. You got 1ft in your side hustle and you got the other foot working in your full time job. So that's one thing I'm working on, is creating a program specifically for them. Something else that I'm working on is I believe that my message of living life with vitality, because at the end of the day, my anchor message will always be about living life with, uh, vitality.

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> Adrian Simmons>Why continue living your life to the min when you have an opportunity to live your life to the max? And how much more joyful, how much more fun, how much more pleasurable would life be if you could just level it up a couple of more notches and live it a little bit more fun? So what I'm doing is my second project is I'm going to be doing a lot of public speaking.

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> Adrian Simmons>So I am currently in the process of creating, uh, that message, fine tuning that message, and mastering that message that I want to bring out to the world when it comes to why live your life to the min when you can live your life to the max? And for those of you who do want to live your life to the maximum, I would love for you to allow for me to be on that journey with you to help you get to that point where, you know what?

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> Adrian Simmons>Together, we are both living our lives to the max. So those are the two projects that I'm working on right now.

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> Speaker B>Well, I should contact info so people can keep up with everything that you're up to.

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> Adrian Simmons>Absolutely. If you would love to connect with me one on one, or if you know that there's somebody in your life that after hearing how I support and what my passion and drive is, and you would love to connect them with me, please. You can reach me at energyforlife dot energy Alander. That is my scheduler again. Energyforlife dot energy Alander. I would love, love, love to be there with you on your journey of transformation, of, uh, living your life with a whole lot more vitality.

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> Speaker B>We'll close this out with some final thoughts. Maybe if that was something I forgot to touch on, that you would like to talk about, or any final thoughts you have for the listeners.

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> Adrian Simmons>You know, my final thoughts, whenever I do podcasts, whenever I do any live presentations, is to leave my listeners with a question.

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> Adrian Simmons>And my question to you is, if you had a lamp and you know, there was a genie inside of that lamp, and the genie allowed you one wish, and the wish was, I can grant you an abundance of energy tomorrow. But before I do, you have to answer one question. What would you do with an abundance of energy from sunrise to sunset if I granted your wish?

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> Adrian Simmons>So, audience, that's my question to you. If you had an abundance of energy tomorrow, what would your day look like tomorrow that it didn't look like today?

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> Adrian Simmons>And, um, on that note, always remember, you deserve to live a life of vitality and full of energy.

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> Speaker B>There you go, ladies and gentlemen, if you want to answer that question, hit Adrienne up. Let her know. Think about it. Follow rate review share this episode to as many people as possible. If you have any guests or suggestion topics, see Jackson 10 two net is the place to send them. As always, thank you for listening. Thank you for supporting the show. And Adrian, thank you for joining us and sharing your expertise.

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> Adrian Simmons>Thank you so much for inviting me once again. My pleasure.

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