Breathwork, Biohacking, and Warrior Woman Mode with Kristin Wietzel

This episode focuses on her journey towards self-optimization and biohacking and how she had cohabited these into her optimal wellness program for women. It will also explore the power of expression on being truly yourself as she shares her experience on not holding on with her past, working it out on self-acceptance, and the remarkable aftermath of being fully herself.

Episode Highlights

2:58 How she got into biohacking and self-optimization

7:24 On making her program approachable and why it’s woman-centered

10:39 Taking advantage of your hormones when optimizing your muscle build

19:11 Her personal experience that helped open up her personality more

23:14 The art of letting go of your negative emotions

31:21 The importance of surrounding yourself with outspoken people

35:55 Different approaches to achieve self-acceptance

41:41 Coping up with loneliness amidst the pandemic

46:28 Red Light as her favorite biohack

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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (00:03.308)
Welcome to the Beautifully Broken Podcast. I'm your host, Freddie Kimmel, and on the show we explore the survivor's journey, practitioners making a difference, and the therapeutic treatments and transformational technology that allow the body to heal itself. Witness the inspiration we gain by navigating the human experience with grace, humility, and a healthy dose of mistakes. Because part of being human is being beautifully broken.

Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (00:37.358)
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Kristen Weitzel. Kristen, welcome to the show. Thanks so much for having me, Freddie. It's an honor to be here. You're certainly in my field. You're all up in my Instagram feed. I'd say we cohabitate the Knights of the Round Table in this world of self optimization and biohacking. And your site is Warrior Woman Mode, which I love the title. I also love the colors that you use when you tell your story. You have a very specific color palette.

Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (02:54.648)
that is aligned with like this total spectrum of wellness. Can you tell the audience a little about, I guess, maybe just tell us how you got into this world of self optimization, biohacking, fitness, all of it. And then, and then I can kind of paint the scale to which you go to it. Yeah, for sure. I've always been that N of one experimenter, even when I was young. I talk a lot about, I grew up as a dancer and

There was a little bit of a stigma around ballet when I was young where it was like, you need to be a certain size and shape, i.e. and, you know, manage your physiology or your physique very, very well. And it was something that I just noticed from, look, you're looking in the mirror. started dancing at five and you're looking in the mirror all the time. And then there's this different, you know, thankfully it's not like this anymore. If you look at the, know, Copeland, who's like the lead ballerina in the New York City Ballet Company, she's just...

she's got, Missy Copeland just has a physique and a figure that's strong. And so that's a really beautiful transition that's happened. But because I was looking in the mirror all the time, I wanted to understand how I could like fuel myself as I was growing up and look appropriate for what I was trying to do with dancing. And I had this first moment, this is silly to go into, but it's just, there was a moment in puberty when I just developed overnight seemingly and

it felt like the feedback I got from the dance community and my one teacher specifically was maybe it's time for like tap or jazz or moving into another, another vertical of dance. And that was sort of sad for me, you know, like hindsight, 2020 it's fine. It taught me some lessons, but that was a challenge. But that's where I started to first get interested in food is like thinking and trying to see how women were these other dancers were managing food throughout their school career. And

I got really nerdy with it. would do, I read all these books from the diamond about food combining. And then I was juicing when no one was using that a juicer at my grandmother's. was like making green juice, reading books, like juicing for life and you know, 17 and it felt like you got a little heat for it back then. And that trajectory just continued on as I, as I grew up trying different things, vegetarianism. then

Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (05:15.638)
Eventually I was working a big corporate job and knew I needed energy and my partner at the time was like, Hey, let's read this book called Clean by Younger. And that was how to clean up your diet. was sort of the precursor to me becoming really heavily involved with paleo primal movement, Marxism, sort of the granddaddy there of the primal movement. And that led to Dave Asprey and the Bulletproof Coffee thing and biohacking and figuring out all of the...

the tools and tricks and ways that I could up level my body using modern technology coupled with the things I had been doing before. I always had yoga in my life. I always had dance in my life. I had things like that. was a theater major. So when you rolled it all up together, I think my friends thought it was kind of quirky and weird. got made fun of a lot in school. And that's, know, but it was also like, you know, braces, glasses, on like theater major, full on thing, performing arts high school. So like, it doesn't really get much more.

nerdy than that in some ways or just I liked the obscure. know, and like oddball thing, we had a guy down the block who family would like give them clothes to us. were a couple of years older and it was like the daughter and the son all mixed in one bag and I'd always like take out the boys clothes to be like, can I wear Billy Hanley's stuff to school? So this is like a tangent, but also it's like an interesting piece for me that I got. Thank goodness I was a little into the...

Thank goodness. I was like, let me see what else I can find in the world because it made me really curious. And so that's, that's the nature of me falling into the quote unquote biohacking world and how I'm, how I'm here doing what I'm doing today. That's beautiful. So you've had all these great guides and mentors, Mark Sisson, who is the woman? Her name's, I think it's Nora. She has one of the, was like one of the primal movement, primal body. Do you know what I'm talking about? I don't.

was one of the first paleo books I've, I've come to, and she was very much in the Marxist and community, Dave Asprey and you've got all these other people. So you've had some great guides and some people to stand on their shoulders. Where are you today? How have you pulled out as far as owning your platform and what you do and what's, what's unique? How have you brought like your essential essence into this? Cause you, you do some coaching and you see public speaking and some

Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (07:39.674)
Obviously some training with these high level clients. What have you brought to it? Yeah, I, it's a great question because I think everyone needs to bring their flavor to the table, right? There's definitely still not enough people like you and me in the world trying to get other people healthy and feeling well and feeling really good about themselves. think that there's an internal component to that mindset that we can talk about later. But the thing for me was, you know, I, I,

I also would be remiss to not mention Dan Garner, who's the guy who really just like gave me the tough love on nutrition and trained me to be a nutritionist. And he has a heavy focus around sports and athletes. And I've always been involved in sports or training in some way. And by that, mean lifting heavy things more than just this chronic cardio thing that happens sometimes. And for me, it was how do I take the thing that's essentially me, which is female, right?

from a physiological standpoint and how do I roll in all this data that has been pushed out predominantly by men, which is cool. Like I've had a lot of male mentors, but how do I roll it in together and how do I round the edges for it and deliver it in a way that it is aggregated data. So I am, there's a few things that I'm real attached to like breath work and cold exposure. And I continue to train in those areas, nutrition for sure, like sports nutrition, nutrition specialists, but

Most of the things that I bring to the table are things that I've been lucky and fortunate enough to have mentors around the globe and learn from people over the 15 years. And so it gives me a level of expertise. However, there are always people in the meditation vertical that are going to be well more reversed than I am. But the challenge is people can't find that, right? So I wanted to go to females specifically because there is a gap in the research and there is a gap in some of the biohacking translation.

I use the word biohacking a lot. Some people don't love it, but I use it because I want to make it approachable to everyone. It's not going away. It's in the dictionary, right? Dave coined this term and it should be all encompassing of ancestral practices and things that we do in the modern day that are super leading edge. And it's hard to swallow all that. And I think because in the beginning it was like Ben Greenfield and Dave Asprey and let's put red light on our balls. Like that was a little off putting for many females.

Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (10:02.49)
And so the intersection of female physiology and biohacking and nutrition. And then for me, a big part of it is creating an understanding around fitness variants and what we're doing to ourselves and our bodies as women specifically. I mean, I've had a couple of male clients, but predominantly I work with women. How do we work fitness into this? Because that is a piece that in my mind is quite overlooked in the biohacking world when it comes to the like sensational nature of what you see online, right? People are like,

This is a workout and no one has ever like, is biohacking your fitness. So that's varied enough. You actually get stronger, better, faster. Yeah. Let's talk about some of the shifts that you would see as far as putting together a programmatic pathway forward to feeling better, optimizing building muscle for women. That's very, very different from men. What, what do think the big mistakes people are when you're just like, I'm going to get fit? Like, what would you say that needs to be taken into account when designing a program for a woman? Well, the first thing I would say is hormones.

And I'll elaborate because it's super important. It's like today I started this, program with the gym that I'm in a leadership program for. I started a new program and I was like, I'm committing to myself to post on social or speak to the person who's coaching it to stay every day, day 22 of my cycle. Like that's where I'm at today and shared it on social because I, I, we're not as a female looking at our hormone profile and working out in accordance with it. Now I'm, that's a general statement. There are some women that are doing that, but

I continue to meet women who are highly intelligent, very into fitness and wellness and have no idea. Yesterday I spoke to a nurse and said, do you know that day six through day 14 or 16, it's a little varied, right? Because our cycles are all our menstrual cycle. That's what we're talking about. Cycles not spinning. Sometimes you're like spinning. So my menstrual cycle with our hormones, like day six to day, I don't know, 14 or so, there is a window of time where our estrogen is

spiking and estrogen is anti-catabolic. It is, it is anabolic. growing. It helps us grow muscle and we can grow muscle 35 up to 35%. Some of the studies say 44 % maximal power and muscle, but like if I average it out, 35 % more muscle during those 10 to 12 days of the month versus any other day of the month. So if there was a program that news came out for dude, there would be 4,000 programs and you could walk into a GMC and be like, let me get the 12 day muscle builder, you know,

Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (12:30.086)
Yeah. How funny is that? And so that's the first and foremost thing. And I always look at the muscle building capacity of estrogen, but we have four different phases in our cycle. I always say, I'm not four different people on 28 different people, but they four different phases in our cycle and women are not utilizing them to their advantage. You know, in some cases it's hard to something scheduled and it doesn't match maybe how you feel or what's going on with your cycle. And that's fine. But how can we optimize our calendar, if you will, so that

maybe work or fitness or the way we eat, right? Cause the same thing with estrogen being, um, anabolic, it's like, also you can take up, take some more carbohydrates into your muscles because of estrogen. So it's just, it's a really interesting thing to start to understand and take some personal responsibility about your estrogen and your progesterone, what's happening, fasting. I just interviewed Mindy Pell. She's an incredible woman. Uh, she has a book called the menopause reset. And it's about women who are a premenopausal menopausal, figuring out how they can

utilize fasting and a whole bunch of different tools to be able to just get their bodies feeling great and energy. And it's like a lot of this is sitting in the window of what hormones are in your body at this time of life, or at this time, if you are in a, in a reproductive in the reproductive years, how can we use the different phases of the cycle to like build more muscle and be able to get carbs we need and feel better and when we should rest and when we should fast and we're not doing it. That's amazing. What

What would be one of your favorite ways to get a complete look at the hormonal picture in a woman in order to make a determination on how you destructure a program? Yeah. I mean, the gold standard seems to be Dutch, the Dutch test, which is dried urine test. You can do it at home. It's really lovely because not only do they, Dutch themselves, they provide the test and all of the little things you need to do as you send it back in, but they will review your results and the way that they lay out results.

I know that you're familiar with this because a lot of times I'm like following things you're doing and I'm like, how is he reading that information? You have to study and figure out how it's laid out when you get your results. And so that's as with many things in the medical community and lab testing community. But Dutch does a really good job of making it sweetly available enough for the layman or the householder, sometimes I say. And then you get a coach and you work with your coach on those things. it's two things. It's number one, seeing where your levels are at.

Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (14:55.494)
because sometimes they're off for some reason, burnout or stress or things going on in your cycle or what have you. And you have to figure that out from a baseline standpoint, what's going on with that. then, mean, we need to know as females what day of our period cycle or what day of our menstrual cycle we are on. It's just...

I get clients and they're like, I don't know. And then I also have clients where they tell me on their application form and I keep it tracked or their intake form. keep it tracked and I'll be like, you're on link day 17. So you should be. And they're like, I am. And so I want that for the ladies in the house. I want that for females because we can use our, four phases of our cycle and estrogen specifically as a superpower. So we might as well use it instead of stigmatizing it or shaming ourselves over it or whatever. Right. Let your partner know.

Don't you think it would be a good idea for your romantic life, whether you're dating a man or a woman, and especially if you're two women, let your partner know what's going on because there's different ways that we like to be held in touch. There's different, you know, there's so many different variables. So I don't want to make the whole podcast about that, but that is a, it's a big important piece for me. And I will just sidebar this one thing, Freddie, which I think I don't know. talk about, but it's, it sort of suits the way that you so

wonderfully and openly share with your listeners is like, had a really tough time sort of as I was raised in the corporate community, I was working in marketing and stuff before I got into the wellness field and I didn't really have tough time communicating and interacting with males and I had to learn very quickly how to do that. I felt, listen, I was like, I'm powerful. I can figure it out, but it just was a shift in so many ways that I had to behave and do things.

Part of the reason that I work with women is because I spent a lot of years learning how to work like a man and communicate like a man so much so that when I got emails working for me, they were like, we'd sit down for their review and I'd say, great, and this is great and work harder on this or whatever I reviewed them. And at the end they would be like, okay, thank you so much for sitting down. Can I ask you one question? yeah, sure. Do you like me?

Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (17:05.83)
Like that's, that's when you know, but it's not that men don't communicate in that way per se, but it's like my corporate male bosses were pretty like straight shooters. Like if something was wrong, they'd get loud about it. And then you'd go to the, worked in the liquor industry and then you'd go to the bar for like happy hour. And it was like, I was so confused, like how they could be like yelling in the office and five minutes later and being like, yo, what's up? How are you? It was a very interesting dynamic, but it really taught me that I had to shift how I met, you have to shift.

managing men, women, any type of person, right? You have to shift your style for that specific human being. And also there is a distinctive difference that I felt in the workplace and a bit in the health and wellness place, which is where my passion truly lies. It's like sort of my peak expression. If you roll all the things together I've done that needed to be a little bit more neatly, soft. You know, sometimes we don't like to talk about males and females in this age, but it is like, you know, there's a,

I recently did a plant medicine journey and they talked a bit about this, like I am versus I do energy. And that's to me, you know, there are subtle differences and there are strong differences and we need to understand how to interrelate with people based on where they fall in the spectrum. I did my I ams this morning. I just woke up and I haven't done in a while. It's funny you brought that up because I just woke up and I was like feeling really, it was a crazy month. It's been a crazy two months of just.

getting projects across the finish line. And I just felt it this morning. And I was like, wow, and I have a full day today. So I was just like, you know what, I'm going to pop up in YouTube. I'm going to get my I ams. And it's amazing how it opens the doorway to possibility. don't have to, you know, you, don't have to search for the energy. I'm just kind of opening up the door for it to flow through me with that statement and phrasing it in that way, which I think is so

So powerful. Let's, let's, can we talk about your plant medicine experience a little bit? knew that it was the first time I'm talking about it. I thought you were going to ask about it. Yeah, for sure. So let's talk. Yes. Graciously allow us if you're open to it. I'm open to it. I'm so open to it. I feel like I'm open to it. Let's talk about it. Okay. So, so you did a plant medicine experience. If you want to let us know specifically what you did for your ceremony and

Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (19:29.458)
what the experience was like. sure. So let me preface it by saying that I've been a little over two years ago. I went to Amsterdam and I worked, have a wonderful best recommender over there, Casper Vander Meulen, who is at Casper's focus on Instagram. I'm sure you follow him. Interviewed him last week. Okay. Say perfect. Amazing. He's always like, you're my biggest fan. You're always cheerleading me. It's like you changed my life. Like I knew about breath. And then I went and like learned about breath from you and wow.

He helped me really like reset my nervous system. I have, I have a lot of, I do energy a lot. And so he did a lot of helping me reset my nervous system, just in a, I'm in a sort of advanced practitioners program, but so I owe him a lot for sure for that. I think he also has a really nice balance. The point of the story is I went to Amsterdam where it's legal to take mushrooms and we dabbled and because it's legal about the learning experience, we dabbled in micro dosing and

Although I've had other recreational substances in my body over my life, which we don't need to have a conversation about. I really wanted to, you know, have the full experience of being able to microdose and seeing where different dosages and cacao and things like that together gave me more creativity, more capacity for like touching into the breath and touching into different parts of my personality, my femininity, and just really being able to feel slightly expanded. And I enjoyed it.

And then I came home to the United States and continued to microdose a couple of times a week for the better part of the next few years. And I do a Samus back, I cycle it a lot. I take a month off here and there. I don't do it every day and I don't ever do it before the gym. And that's also prefaced by saying I'm not a medical doctor. I'm not recommending drug usage and I don't ever work in this capacity with clients one-on-one because it is an illegal stuff.

many, many states. But recently I went and did a medicine journey that was a whole different level than I expected. That was mostly focused around psilocybin. There's some other things mixed in there. Um, which humor was the day of which humor. was a super beautiful experience. One of my friends got me involved with a small group. It was completely facilitated. were medical people on staff or on site and, uh, there were about 12 of us and it radically shifted me.

Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (21:58.14)
especially for people like us that work so much on ourselves. And I think sometimes we might have a little bit of a default mode that's like, I got this, I got this, I got this. Be under control. Like I'm certainly don't ever feel like, you know, I feel like I'm beautifully broken. And I have traits that and things that I've had in my life that I've really learned from and failures and all of that. And I certainly don't think that I'm perfect, but I think sometimes I, you know, we have this, you know, it's like a fatal flaw. Like, okay, I know all the things to do. I have all the books, I have all the friends. can...

handle it or I can just ask someone and that there are things internally going on. There's like this book I'm sure you've heard of called the Body Keeps Score that's really about what we hold onto from childhood and traumas, right? People throw that word around a lot lately, but know, micro traumas or traumas or things that we've had to deal with and things that we've created in our own minds. And I felt like I had hundreds of opportunities for people asking me to do plant medicine prior in a larger way, in a facilitated way.

I always said, just doesn't call to me. Just doesn't call to me. this exists. way that this was introduced to me, this group felt right. And so I went and spent a, a long weekend there and yeah, it changed me radically. don't know if you want to talk about how, but I want to know how it gimme, give us the, give us a little bit of the download. So it gave me, I spent a decent amount of time alone when I was there. mean, people are around and just like off in my own.

space because I knew that this was about work, like working on like the self work, the self love. knew that there were some areas. I also think I'm really, I was primed showing up and people will say like, the medicine calls to you, the plants call to you when you're ready. And I think I was really primed. I I went, I went to Burning Man for 13 years and I know that people will hear that and be like, Oh, we're at Burning Man. It's a rave or a festival or woo woo. And it's like, it's none of those things. And it's all of those things. And it's what I find is it's always.

If you get what you need when you go. And I went 13 years and I ran a camp with my best friend and I, I learned a lot about people and I learned a lot about suffering and I learned a lot about making it in a great wide open and a lot about having a great time and really expressing myself in whatever way I wanted to. And so that helped prime me. I think I've also been through some therapy and some other things in my life that really got me open enough to be like ready. If there is a ready.

Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (24:26.362)
And then I spent a lot of time the one day specifically alone with myself and what I would like to say, like my 11 year old self, which is where I had a lot of blocks, a lot of blind spots, a lot of holding onto energy. And I described, I guess before I went in to that whole journey experience, I described it recently to someone by saying like, I have a lot of shit in my closet, like not skeleton, but just.

I'm like hoping on hope and I have a little shame and I have a little sadness and I have a little broken heartedness. I have all this shit in my closet that I'm like, you know, my, my cereal closet that I'm like holding the door closed because it's so full of self judgment and self worth issues and body shaming, whatever's in there. And I'm like, it's like, okay.

I'm okay with this. have this one thing. sucks. I'm going to put in that closet and hold the door. And I feel like for 10 years, for 20 years, for 30 years, that closet has filled up and I leaned against the door. And now I'm like living my life, like leaning against this closet door that's about to like burst and thinking I'm fine. Thinking it's okay. Like the stories in your head and all the shit you're telling yourself about, you know, you're not good enough all the time because we all have imposter syndrome and somewhere or another, we're all a little lonely. We're all a little afraid.

It's like so important to say that because other people need to hear it, especially with what's going on in sort of mental health now. But I had a relatively good childhood and upbringing and had had some wild traumatic experience per se, right? Child of divorce, things like that. But I've spent so many years holding the door closed, thinking that I'm fine. Like I'm standing and I'm relaxed and I'm easeful and it's totally OK. It takes what I learned in the journey.

by letting go of it and a lot of it, right? I've never done the learning, but I let go a lot of that. And I got to kind of come home and be like, my God, I'm not like, it took so much energy all these years to like hold the door and hold the door and hold the door and hold the door and hold the door closed. was of the closet that was filled with all this shit that I thought about myself and other people and everything, just all the things that we put in that you might put in a more negative bucket or something. And that energy, it was like, could gut.

Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (26:41.648)
get to the place when I went on this time, this journey where I felt like I met and had conversations with my 11 year old self. I talked to my, like my dad had just passed away three years ago now or so, but he was like present. I just felt him, right? And whether that's on a cellular level or you think he's coming down from the sky or whatever anybody thinks in some way, energetically, he was like there. And it was really nice to sort of have that energy and negotiate with myself and call myself.

back into myself, like recognizing that I had a few things go on when I was quite young, when I was like 10, 11, 12, 13, and that this whole time I've been worried about that little kid. Like, is she okay? She's still inside me, right? In some way, grown version of her. And whether you believe time is a construct or not, she's around. And so that 11 year old kid inside me, I've been worried about her this whole time. And I really, what I got to kind of see in sitting in down and trying to process.

all the things that happened at that age for me was she is strong as hell and she is a light. And there were moments that she was super sad, but like mostly I'm the only one holding onto that. Like, and, and this like powerful, joyful, colorful, beautiful little girl really that like lives inside of me. It's just like wanting to get out and wanting to be loved and all this stuff. And I've been like holding all this space and holding on to energy.

to try to protect her and she doesn't really need it, you know? And so that, don't know if that story makes any sense to you when I say it, but it's just like being able to really spend and understand that base with some of the traumas or the neglect or the lack of self-worth I felt about myself, the way I beat myself up as a kid. It's like I could release so much of that. And then when I came home, I just felt like I had had an opportunity to

talk it out, work it out, put her back into me in the way that I wanted, recognize that I was the one that was just, me as a grown adult is the one that was driven by this child who was just excited for the world. And I felt like I got my voice back. There was a part of me recently in the last few years since my dad passed away, since I had this terrible breakup that was like trying to find my voice again, trying to find my heart and trying, I hate this word trying, wanting to have all the colors that I have.

Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (29:06.748)
because I can be intense and it's amazing and it can also be awful, right? Everything has a shadow side. So it's like, I can be amazing. I can be intense. I can be all these things, but I want it to be fully me because that's really like what matters. coming back, having a lot of relief from that, having a lot of tears, having a lot of laughter and really feeling like it was okay to like walk away from holding that closet door of stuff because the reality is like that closet is kind of empty.

And I'm just holding the door thinking there's all that stuff in there. And it's not like if this metaphor either works or it doesn't, but there's the, don't need to do that. I don't need to effort that much on something that's like the past. It's like, it's not that it doesn't matter. It just doesn't mean anything. Hi friends. I hope you're loving the show. Let's take a quick break to hear a word from our sponsors.

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Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (31:27.62)
You know, we, we all do that to a degree. mean, I can think of, and a lot of people in this space, you know, we present as like a Johnny on the spot or a type a, or like, can get it done and I can do it. And there are oftentimes I find that that is attached to the need to feel seen or valued that look, because look at, doing all these things because I'm worthy of love or achievement or look at what a high performer I am. And that little girl at 11, when you're talking about her in the closet, I'm like, well, she doesn't

She just has it. She doesn't need to do anything. She just has it. She just is. it's incredible. And anybody who's listening to this, yes, we're not medical doctors. This is something that is, if you want to explore plant medicine, there's plenty of experts out there that can guide you and you can read wonderful, wonderful books on this. And they're doing this work in the clinical setting right now. You can go see a medical doctor to do many different types of...

therapies, whether they're pharmaceutical or they're more pure like a plant medicine. And it can really be transformative with working through some of these blocks. I think what you said is, you've got all the tools. Why can't I do it myself? And I think that's why you're you. That's why you have a coaching business. Because you can't, in my opinion, we can't coach ourselves. We can't fix ourselves with discernment. I have all the tools and all the things, but I need to have someone just go...

put their hands on me and just touch my belly sometimes be like, you're good, dude. And your body's like, I'm going to call you out on your bullshit too. Like that's really important because you know, there that happens. You mean, it's not about being mean. It's just about someone who's real honest with you. Like, Hey, I see you're doing this and maybe you should explore this other thing. Like we're just think about that. And those, you know, that direction can shift things a lot. I also will say, I always tell people about third wave because they have great

information thirdwave.co.com, the third wave. There's great information on that website. It is an amazing resource for all psychedelics and what people are doing and how doctors are utilizing them. have courses and things like that. I just, there's tons of different organizations doing that, but they've been around for like 20 years and sort of really on the fringes when it first started to grow that, know, and psychedelics. And I've done a ketamine journey under a doctor's supervision and

Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (33:49.808)
while it was interesting and I learned some things about myself, was just to be able to spend a weekend with, it was like four facilitators and small group of people. And two things really range through number one, you feel safe, which is like with anything we're doing, it's the most important thing. I have not probably not felt safer in my life. You know, maybe like, I don't know when I was a baby with my mom or something, but I felt super safe. And then I felt super accepted.

Like I could have freaked through the backyard. could have cried or laughed or screamed obscenities. didn't matter. Everyone who was there was under this agreement to, you know, it's like radical self-acceptance and radical acceptance of others. Whatever you show up with, there is no judgment. And going into that, felt, you know, I just, as we do as humans who are skeptical on the planet, and I'm also cautious in some ways because I have a lot of modalities that I work into my practice and

I had experienced with yoga in the past, people saying, that a religion? Is that woo woo? Is that this? Is that that? And it's like really just trying to delineate what I believe about all the practices I use and not... pretty science driven. And so that's for me, that's the good news. But walking into the door being like, these people are not going to judge me. Like, come on. And then really having that experience of fully being accepted for me, of being able to accept myself and for feeling safe, it gave me everything.

You know, it's like you can go and do these things, right? And give people the credit. But the reality is I just wrote a big long mushy text to them all that said, if you guys changed everything because you gave me permission to give myself permission to be who I want to be to the next level or where I'm at, or to let go of all the shit that's in my metaphorical closet, because that's what I, I just needed someone to give me permission to give myself permission. And I really feel like there's a lot of

has to be in that. Like if people could just look in the mirror and give themselves permission to be a bit more themselves, a bit more, you know, who they are. I think we'd all be healing each other better and faster. You know? Yeah. The world needs that right now. you know, you're saying this and I was like in my head, if I had my magic wand, I could say world, everybody is good. We're going to all subdivide up. Everybody's going to do some mushrooms. that would go real bad because

Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (36:11.384)
As you said, there's like work you need to do to prime yourself for that experience. And right now it's like, look at the way we're treating each other. You know, look at the way we're interacting, look at the harm that we're causing, you know, look at the misunderstandings because we're all experiencing life as this, you know, it's from Freddie's view. I'm the Harry Potter in my own ever expanding story, right? I'm turning the page. It's always about me, you know, and it's truly the hero's journey.

I think the mental picture that I love to give people or offer, maybe this is bullshit to you, but if you took like a huge sheet and the sheet went on for infinity, and if energy's all connected, if we each like pushed our finger up through the sheet, right? Like that's Freddie, like here's Kristen, here's Stephanie, here's Eddie, here's Bobby. It's all part of the sheet. It's like this little blip of a hundred years. Like we've got this energetic imprint and you really are energetic.

but energetically connected. If we get into this realm of quantum physics and we start to break that down, it's really scary to think about all the stuff we don't understand yet, you know, but it's a co-reality. There is co-reality that we're sharing. we, think we have to be tools like this remind us really, really quickly that you, are all connected and it, and my story is your story. You know, we wouldn't be here. We wouldn't be here if it wasn't a collective experience. I don't think I'm like, what's the

point. If we're not going to do it together, we're here to commune. You're not plopped on the earth to go live on an island and have your elite food in your little circle. You're here to do it together. And now because of the construct of reality, the way we communicate through technology, it's so hyper vigilant in your face. I feel I'm like, that's hard. It's hard. It's hard. I'm not sure we're all spiritually ready to handle this right now. The technology that yields this hyper connection.

Yeah, not to go on that soapbox, but it's so important that we do do this work and it doesn't need to be with plant medicine. can be with prayer. can be with fasting. can be with breath. It can be with fasting. It's like I, I had this big breath work experience that laid up like two weeks before I went on that journey that I had that I was like, okay, like I've had some amazing breath work in my life from other facilitators for years and years before I was like, I need to become a practitioner of this because it is.

Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (38:31.652)
not just, especially like with COVID, right? was like, this is the right thing. But it's like, because we are managing stress, because we are managing how we feel safe, because we're managing our health. And, but I had a breath work only like zero psychedelics, nothing else layered into it. Experienced a couple of weeks before the psychedelic, before the journey weekend, that was like, that prepped me in like just the way that my mind wandered with my breath and like thoughts and let's say like, you know, things that came to me.

that were absolutely relevant and applicable to what was going to happen two weeks later. it's like, I, you know, I, it's like, even when I went to the burn, it's like, have you been the burning man? Not yet. I feel like next year is the best year you need to go. But I mean, it's perfect for you in many ways. And also I want to say too, that like this conversation can happen right now with you because of the human being that you are, because you choose to show up, because you choose to envelop those people that you come in contact with and

It doesn't always work like that, right? So we can have that conversation. But when I went to Burning Man, the first year was 25,000 people. The last year I went, was 75,000 people. you just, even if you go and you're not buying it at all, when you have a collective of 25 to 70,000 people that all have a similar intention, there's always a few bad eggs, but a similar intention and energy for positivity and caring about the community and making things happen. It's like, there is this...

statement out there that people say the Playa provides. And it's like, it sounds hokey, but the reality is shit just happens that it's magical. And it is like far too often to be some random coincidence that is just happening. That food shows up when you need it and your bike tires flat. And then someone rolls by and is like, I have an extra tube. And like it's just on and on and on and on. And it's like, I left and said, if I didn't believe in collective consciousness before, this is it.

Like this is it's here. It's it's it's something we can touch. And I agree with you. think like plant medicine or breath work or prayer, these are all the vehicles that get us that expedite the process of us getting there faster rather than being in our, you know, if we're in our little bubble and we're not looking out too far because it's little scary out there, then we don't get to kind of see it as quickly. And we don't why spend a life of 80 years, 100 years, 180 years working on this. If we can get there a little bit faster in a way that we feel like we agree with and that it's

Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (40:52.444)
safe. And so for me, that was like, okay, this is the time, you know, I waited a long time. I did a lot of other practices. I worked a lot of myself in traditional non-traditional methods that you do in biohacking and with therapists and things. so, and it's also, you know, if we're going to come 360, it's like this, these experiences and the things that I've had in my life are the reasons I get to be a phenomenal coach for women because we can talk about these things. And I also will say that

Since coming back from the plant medicine weekend, I feel more intuitively and energetically connected to the work that I'm doing and the way that I'm speaking to clients is very different. Not so much so that they would say, who is this person? But just I see and can call out things that just feel more intuitive because I think for me, the window is clear, right? The fog is like, the mist is sort of lifted and I can see a lot more clearly what's going on with other people. And some people in the gym space and stuff, I'm like, I love you.

came home and I'm like a little more huggy and a little more people will allow it, you know, a little more like oxy independent and really understanding the power of telling people how you feel. I cleared some stuff. had some difficult conversations. So we got, came home, like conversations I've been wanting to have for a while and was like a little in fear around and just said, there's no reason to fear this. Let's like not make it a drama. Let's just have a conversation.

without being attached to the outcome. You know, I love you, I hate you, this isn't working, this is working, whatever the things are. And if we all sort of just like took an inhale and took an exhale and said to each other sweetly, like with some kindness, some things that maybe we needed to talk about, then I think we'd be better off. Yeah. I couldn't agree more. That's really beautiful. I can't wait to meet in person. Yeah, I have, I have a, just, I want to go back. said, you said,

Loneliness is a challenge right now. Everybody's a little bit lonely. How have you dealt with loneliness in the pandemic? It's one of the things that I'm really thankful for is having clients and people who are interested in working with me through technology during the course of COVID. Because the first thing that happened was my mother and my sister and I put together a little thing called the Zoom Boom Room. I don't know why we called it that. And we just did regular Zoom calls and that was really helpful.

Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (43:10.832)
My mom being like a little bit older and her man, she's dating is not in great health. Like she's very, very, very quarantined and has been, or was for well over a year. I got a chance to see her in January. So that was really beautiful. So the first thing was like create a mini community that has to do with my family to not just make sure that I felt okay, cause I live alone, but that they did. second piece is that I really believe in the power of the work that people leaning into understanding. I mean, this is, there's a silver lining of quarantine and this whole virus, which is

people are taking more personal responsibility for their health, their wellness, their immunity. And because of that, I got to have clients during the course of all the quarantine. I, I run an end week program called wow factor women optimizing wellness. And I really felt a little bit more separation anxiety at the end of every nine weeks, at the end of every nine week cycle, like a client finishes. And of course they stay in my life forever. I check in on them even probably when they don't want me to, but I, you know,

I have so much gratitude for the fact that I get to do this work and get to this work with people who are willing to share and be open enough to talk about the things they're going through. It's not always easy. And those, would say that the women that I worked with over the course of COVID and quarantine, one of whom got COVID, like lots of things going on, really they hold a special place in my heart because we just both on every call, the two of us would be able to, you know, I'm there coaching them, but there's also like a lot of conversation around what's happening in the world.

And so that was helpful. And then the third thing that happened was I am a part of a gym community. All the gyms closed down. There's one gym in LA that has an outdoor space. They closed for two months out of the course of last 16 or whatever. And because they have this outdoor yard, it gave me the opportunity to get back to the gym. And so that community, Deuce Gym is here in Venice, California. They have a location in West Hollywood as well and down in Hermosa beach and that community of coaches and like,

COVID hit and that week I wrote the owner of the gym and was like, you have this leadership program. have to write a letter of intent. want to learn from you and I want to connect. And I know this is the shittiest time ever to show up and say, I am here. I want to like learn more and dive in because no one can. And he was like, awesome, let's like do this. And so I just threw myself into that world. And it was a big piece of how I stayed mentally stable and connected to some people in person, because as you see in the city,

Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (45:32.26)
in and in many, many places, people are not leaving their houses. Yeah. And so it was like five days a week, one hour or so, up, 14 temperature checks, but getting out and seeing people and like making eye contact and trying to smile and having our own little squares outdoors so we could take the mask off while we did the workout, put the mask back on and go was, it was it for me.

I'm an extrovert and I need people and I need oxytocin. And so the power of touch is something that's been really hard to be away from for not just me, but hundreds of thousands of people, if not more in the world. Yeah. But those were sort of the three things that I did to manage all the shifts that were happening. And then look for the silver lining, go to the park and watch people get on this park parks and rec equipment. put in like 20 years ago. That's like,

flies and a pull-up bar and people are on there just being like tying bands to it and bringing dumbbells from the 60s and getting after it. What do you think? Because we're... want to be respectful of our hour on my back-to-back podcast booking. As we look at our hour here, our time together, and your expertise is obviously vast in this field of biohacking, human optimization.

Can you give the audience one biohack that you are so excited about right now that you really haven't talked about a lot on social media maybe? I talk a lot about ice on social media. So we won't talk about that. I've talked about it a little on social. It's hard to not touch on these things. I'm just vibing with red light therapy a lot. I have some involvement with Flexbeam, this brand that's like a portable red light therapy device. I like it specifically because it functions like...

there's something called the breath belt out there. And so this has like an elastic belt that straps the red light to you. And I can use it for lots of tactile feedback with breath work and it helps me sleep. I can track it in my bio strap and my aura ring and see that it's really doing some good for sleep. and also I had a shoulder injury over the course of the year from too much barbell training and it really, it just shifted that. changed the game. I did some rehab. I did a lot of red light therapy. I took six weeks off the barbell and stayed on dumbbells, but it was, I mean, just,

Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (47:37.656)
vastly different than any injuries I've tried to help from before. Amazing. I love that. We are a big fan of red light therapy on this platform. There are so many applications that are coming out and it's like, it's so easy. It's such a low price point too. It's like for under a thousand bucks, you can get a great light and everybody in the household can use it. And for me being in upstate New York for a lot of the pandemic, I just didn't get that seasonal depression. It just doesn't happen.

You're in LA. I mean, God, the light spectrum that you're dealing with is so amazing there, but upstate New York, Connecticut, New York, Buffalo, Rochester, it's dark. mean, they're the, some of the higher seasonal depression capitals of the world. that's a, that's a big one for me. And so then the other thing I need to ask is if you had a magic wand and you couldn't gift the people of the world anything, what would it be?

You know, stems off our other conversation. feel like I want to give everybody a mirror that reflects their true, true self so that I can see how beautiful that they are, you know, and this is not an, this is not, I'm not talking about aesthetic, you know, so they could see their insides. Or truth mirror. Yeah. I love that. then Kristen, where can people connect with you if they want to learn more, if they would like to have a one-on-one conversation, where would we send them? They can.

see me. Anything that's around warrior woman mode, even if you Google it, but it's warriorwomanmode.com on Instagram and most of the socials. I'm warrior woman mode. And yeah, that's where they can find access to me. They can book a call with me really easily. They can download. I launched a meal plan. That's a 30-day meal plan for warrior women that talks a little bit about what we started the conversation around, which is like how to eat right and train right for your hormones and how to cycle.

build metabolic flexibility. So it's all there, all the buttons and all the bells and whistles. That's great. And I would just implore people just, it's so, it's such a great skill. You work with your body, not against it, work with your hormonal system. And I will just offer this from my experience. I often do consults with people and they say, my hormones are fine. And I say, well, what did, how did you look at those hormones? And they've looked at estrogen or they've looked at testosterone or one, one thing and

Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (49:51.01)
The cool thing that you mentioned is the Dutch test, the dried urine, is going to look at the whole HPA axis. So every hormone in relation to every hormonal system of your body, and you're going to be able to establish like a clock, where the dials are off. I would just, again, that's just clutch. Life, we have a hundred years again, like why waste your time pushing against a brick wall when you're not going to move it until you look at the right dials.

And also year over year, especially with women who are like over 35, five, you know, this is whole truth for men, but probably a little bit more time. It's like, you should be doing it every year. I know it's a cost. I understand we're not all in a great fiscal or an economical situation, but the long-term benefits of spending on the test, if you can't get other certain tests done, but sometimes your doctor, you can get them to sort of run something that's covered if you have insurance, but making sure that that everyone's...

women specifically, like them to do it once a year because like the benefits in the long term, you want to spend $10,000 or $20,000 on some issue down the road or you want to spend $500 now. I think it's an important point to make about that because people come to me on these calls and they're like, let me send you my recent labs. And they're like four years old. I love it. So be current, be current, be on time. It has been a joy to have you on the podcast. We could talk for four hours. I hope we can do it again.

Amazing. I mean, we're going to make you come on mine and then ask you pointed questions about things you never talked about before. I'm excited about that now. is on the table. I will go anywhere with that. Thank you for being a guest on the Beautifully Broken podcast. Namaste. Does anybody think that these health upgrades sound expensive? They can be an investment. But after truly learning how money works, the inflationary nature of our fiat currency

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Freddie Kimmel and Kristin Wietzel (53:41.548)
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