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Betty Jean Bell is on a mission to help women love their bodies and feel their best. She’s been through a hero’s journey from facing physical, emotional, and spiritual crises that left her suicidal, to her rise from the ashes learning to truly love herself and teach other women to do the same.
In this episode we covered:
- The bullying she experienced as a youngster
- How her singing career came to a screeching halt and the loss of identity when she couldn’t sing anymore
- How she started to using food to cope with negative emotions
- The danger of looking outside of ourselves for love, validation, and purpose
- Her journey gaining and losing weight in her 20s, and how in her 30s, her hormones changed and she blew up
- The turning point on her 33rd birthday – where she almost tried to take her own life and when everything changed
- Her purpose morphed from achieving into doing what felt good emotionally, physically, and spiritually in the moment
- Be Do Have vs. Have Do Be
- Mindset – belief is what possible for you + current quality of ideas and power of mentors to help us get there
- Transformation happens in immersion
- The importance of finding a mentor who has been through what you have
- Inflammation Theory
- EMDR
- Her Virtual PJ party on Zoom with her group coaching program
- The healing is in the hangout
- Mitochondria will use our thoughts and inner voice to convince us to use sugar if you’re burning the
- Why she doesn’t prescribe a diet
- Betty Jean’s struggles with Gastroparesis
- Anti-inflammatory theory
- Why Weight Watchers, Bars and Shakes can be problematic
- Her secret to sales calls
- And much more!
Bio
Betty Jean Bell, founder of BeingBadass.com, has helped successful women around the world to lose weight, improve their health, and love their bodies now, regardless of shape. All while running their businesses, families, and lives. She believes that when you love the body you have, it becomes the body you want. With her radically transformative program You Are A Babe, and with a badass army of ambitious, inspiring women in 20 countries, Betty Jean Bell helps entrepreneurial women transform their confidence, body image, and health with meaningful science, psychology, spirituality, and uncommon action that works.