Weird, cool, exciting stuff
In both my private coaching and on the TED stage, I work with people who do weird, cool, exciting stuff. When I discover anything else that fits into this category, I get so excited I can barely stand it and want to share it with everyone. The following companies offer amazing, life-changing stuff that I've become obsessed with and am thrilled to recommend.*
LiveKAYA healthy chocolate
A company hired me for help with their branding, and I fell in love with the family who founded it. LiveKAYA is a direct sales company based here in Reno that combines the world's best dark chocolate (from Valrhona of France) with meticulously-sourced wellness ingredients like US-grown hemp CBD oil and a powerful double-barreled probiotic. They also make a fat-burning chocolate (fat! burning! chocolate!) and a fabulous hemp CBD oil Infusion for people and their pets. The CBD saved me after a hip surgery and for everyday aches. The probiotic? Can't remember the last time I got sick. Delish, effective, and lab-tested. I LOVE how my body responds ... and wow is it good.
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Muse Meditation brainwave reader
I've long wanted to improve my focus and be a better meditator. Trouble is, I've never been able to get past the struggle and feel like I'm blowing my best chance to be my most powerful self. (Anyone else relate?) Then I found Muse. A headband wired with EEG leads tracks your brain activity in real time. In the app you can choose a soundscape (rainforest, say) and as you quiet your mind, the rain gets quieter. Start getting distracted? The rain gets louder. IT'S SO FUN! Then you can see how you did (click the image to enlarge). The day my Muse came I meditated four times! I had no idea this could be so fun or that I could actually play games with my brain. Now when I wonder what to do with some spare time, I think oooh! Muse! and dive in.
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Force of Nature super sanitizer
I found out about Force of Nature from my friend Elise (who also introduced me to her OsteoStrong center in Happy Valley Oregon) Elise is a relentless researcher, constantly exploring the latest science to learn how we can be safer, stronger, and smarter—how we can biohack our health. Force of Nature figured out how regular folks (not just hospitals and institutions) can create electrolyzed water—tap water containing precise amounts of vinegar and salt that has been chemically charged by electrical current and imbued with insane cleaning and sanitizing super powers. Click on the website above—it's explains this better than I ever will. The net net? A very inexpensive, very powerful cleaning and sanitation solution that is 100% non-toxic—a game changer in these covid days. Watch the video where the mom spritzes the baby's pacifier with Force of Nature. (?!!!)
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OsteoStrong
Imagine a center full of high-tech, sci-fi health and wellness equipment—like a gym from space. But instead of spending hours pumping iron in a normal gym, an OsteoStrong session lasts 15 minutes, and you only go once a week. The cutting-edge science of "osteogenic loading" basically means we can strengthen our bones by compressing them with a brief application of maximum force. Compressed bones become more dense, which leads to all kinds of performance gains and health benefits, such as reversing osteoporosis and type 2 diabetes. Seriously! My 85-year-old mother and 20-year-old son both love it. There are other NASA-level modalities like the HydroMassage (omg). When I heard an OsteoStrong was opening in Reno, I was there. Every week I get measurably stronger, improve my balance, and strengthen my bones. Each week I feel epic after only 30 minutes. Want in? Find an OsteoStrong in your town.
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Breuners Furniture
Our family has a history of messing around in the shop. A long time ago, that proclivity led a German ancestor to start a furniture company in the middle of the California Gold Rush. As kids, we messed around in our grandpa's shop, and our dad's. When the shutdown happened, my sister and her husband headed into the shop to mess around. The result was an utterly unexpected shocker: a Tahoe table that became a twin sister powered family business that turned a pandemic pause into a wild success. I'm a tiny bit proud of them. (Click any pic to enlarge.)
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*I receive an affiliate fee from purchases made from these links. (Except my sisters—they give me cookies and let me play in the shop.)
