The Candace Owens Show: Gina Florio | Candace Owens Show

we all start spiraling all right come on were speeding okay guys we are rolling in to another episode of the Candace Owens show and this is going to be a real fun one ladies and gentlemen this might shock you all but I do not support the body positivity movement since I can hear the leftists shrieking already here to discuss why I don't support it why she once did and why she no longer does I have Gina Florio uh Gina Florio I was saving him a bit better their trainer and wellness coach and a freelance writer Gina welcome to the Candace own show thank you for having me Candace I've been wanting to meet you for such a long time thanks I hope I hope I live up to your expectations if the expectations are high and not low I hope so too so we were having a little bit of a conversation in the greenroom and talking about a bunch of things but I'm gonna start this with an anecdote so I went online and there's this girl I follow who does a lot of fashion stuff she's great sense of style she's amazing and she posted this picture of her she's got two kids and she was in a bikini she's very she's very thin and she said I finally got back down to my like pre body weight and she's a skinny girl instantly she got hit by the body positivity movement by telling her that she was too skinny body positivity please yeah the body positivity police decided to her body was not positive because she was too skinny and funny thing this is like the funny ironic thing is one of the people that attacked her was Amanda Seyfried I think that's how you say her last yeah she was a literal mean girl from Mean Girls she was an actual mean girl yeah she's the actress and she's and and she basically just like screencap did and wrote something on her story saying applauding her girlfriends for all attacking and bullying this skinny girl and saying that people should be more responsible and shouldn't be putting out that as a desirable body to have so since amanda seyfried attack you know she tagged her brave friend not have a lot of work right now I know she she's got no work right now she tagged her brave friend to her Roli attacked the cine girl so I go to her brave friends page and what do I see this is a woman who is posting pictures of her cellulite and her stretch marks in her belly belly and hashtag body posits a shadow of yourself hashtag health it every side that's my new favorite one and then all the comments are like yes yes Queen yes Queen it's a really funny thing isn't it because you know you talked so much about virtue signaling it's virtue signaling in the oddest way they love to take pictures of their belly rolls of their big thighs of the arms I think you know like we call biscuit dough or whatever it is and they don't know so they love to put it out there and I think to them it's encouraging women to love their body right but I think at best it's it's allowing women to make choices that you know of course are not great for their body but I think at worst this is the cynic in me I think body positivity is a tool used by the radical left and by modern feminists to control and manipulate women absolutely because if you think about I mean think about if you were 50 60 80 pounds overweight right and so first of all people say well you can't say that Candace you've never been fat you've never been obese right first of all anyone can have an opinion about anything regardless of where you come from or your experiences are what you look like what you look like whatever we're all allowed to have opinions second of all I myself have been very overweight 50 60 pounds interesting could not get out of bed in the morning I would stay in bed until noon I would eat the most rachet food you could ever possibly think of and so when you're overweight and when you have all this extra baggage on you not only is it you're literally carrying around more of you but your brain doesn't function as well when you're eating junk food and when you're not exercising and moving the body of course you're not able to think straight you're not really able to be a free thinker which is something you talk about so much so I really think that body positivity is used as a way to keep these women down because when they're not able to function at their best at their highest capacity of course they're not going to be able to see what's really happening in the world of course I'm not going to be able to make more conscious decisions and so it's a really disappointing thing so on one end it's very funny and it's hilarious because Amanda Seyfried I mean what else what better does she have to do than to go on some woman's profile and troll her essentially for not being fat but then at the same time it's a very sinister thing that honestly sometimes keeps me up at night right I really worry about and here's the thing when you start saying things like you're fat phobic right I mean first off I don't have a fear of fat people oh my god there's a fat person I have to run so I don't even I don't know what that term means okay but I actually think people need to realize the number one killer in America is heart disease right so now we're having people promote and make it seem like that there should be a token of appreciation given to women who are brave enough to show their cellulite and their stretch marks and by the way I actually think healthy body positivity is acknowledging that we don't have perfect bodies right but you don't need a 400-pound women and try to seem roll that into you know a mother that has four kids and has stretch marks so it's two entirely different things yes you should feel confident if if you you know brought the miracle of life into the world and you have stretch marks you should not feel ashamed of that and I promote that but that is not what the body positivity movement has become has become a witch-hunt on women that are thin you're not allowed to like yourself if you're thin and god forbid you you wear a bikini and say you're proud of your body when you're thin then you get routinely attacks and at the same time it's sending a signal to other women that they shouldn't want to better themselves you should want to better your size always want to better yourselves and and it's being thin does not mean that you don't have moments where you don't feel your best and that's just the truth I mean I I when I once I started traveling at the pace that I travel now it was really hard for me to get into a workout routine and I felt so gross about myself not because I was trying low energy to energy I was eating crappy airport food and I should want to change that yeah yeah and going back to what you said I think it's really important to say this fact obesity is the number one killer of Americans today and I feel like I have to say that five times for it to sink in obesity is the number one threat to American lives today if you turn on the news what are they it convinced us so trying to convince us that racism police sanity police brutality transphobia homophobia Islamophobia all of these things are going to end Americans lives right like these are the biggest threats to Americans lives I think it's so it's so disappointing that we can't even say the fact that hey we are the most developed nation we are the most incredible nation in the world and yet at the same time we have the highest rates of obesity how on earth is that even possible and it's not even just now if you look at the history 1949 the National Institutes of Health they they issued a statement saying that obesity in the 40s was an issue 1950s 1960s in the 1970s I think it was the NIH said that obesity was the most prevalent metabolic disorder of the age yeah that was in the 70s and now it's 2019 and then not only are we not addressing publicly what's really happening with obesity but we've taken it a step further we're praising or glorifying women for being obese and not for their accomplishments it's not like a woman happens to be overweight and she's accomplished something incredible because that's a different story but we're praising and glorifying women simply for being obese right simply for showing their obesity and showing their big bodies there's something really really wrong with that and there's something really sad too that - and it really it always brings me back to I think kind of the crux the foundation of the radical left platform it's it's a moralization right there's no right in those no wrong so moral relativism what might be right for one person might not be right for another so you can see this in many different ways right so abortion is a great example so abortion might not be right for one person but if another woman chooses to do it then it's okay well OBC might not be right for one person but it's okay for you and it's okay maybe for us and our ivory towers writing all these things on mainstream media outlets and distributing fake news we're gonna get married and have kids get married before we have kids but if you don't want to get married before you have kids that's totally fine you know so there's this discrepancy that's happening and it's so disappointing to see because the impacts are huge and you have these women who are walking around who are unhealthy and here's happy unhappy but here's the kicker can is you know you talk you're such a champion for black community's obesity disproportionately affects black communities and Hispanic communities absolutely it's 48 cross its the crap you're eating I mean when you know I didn't come from a wealthy family and you know I don't know what we ate every night when I was a kid we ate those frozen hungry man you know dinners the TV dinners yeah that was every night dinner that was literally how super a single night super cheap right really horrible things that are in it my dad has struggle with obesity his entire life is he goes up up down up down when my dad would lose weight when you lose a hundred pounds he felt great he was a happier person yes right and and and that's the whole idea that they're not they're selling to them like they should just be content where they are when in fact they could be so much more content if they actually got in the driver seats of their own life yeah I made some changes response responsibility is a dirty word careful no one would hear the bigoted you'll get called the racist sexist or Assizes that's a new word sizes sizes 'm I don't hang up with words I promise you they're literally plucking things out of thin air what is the sizes when did that get started it's no idea but I mean I've been accused of being Assizes before I see a lot of people online being accused of being a sizess but it's just we're afraid to say this universal truth there is a right way and there is a wrong way to treat the human body there's a right in the wrong way and that's a big part of the radical left right they don't want to say something as right or wrong they don't want to lay down these boundaries they want to say what's wrong is right what's wrong is right they want to flip it flip it yeah I only do they not want to say what's right they would absolutely flip it and that's so scary but there is a right and a wrong way to treat your body and the wrong ways to treat your body I mean and and I have to say this so much to students especially in college seeing adults because this is the time of life where it's most common to make these choices where we do a lot of reckless drugs have sex with a lot of people we binge eat we binge drink binge drink these are all objectively bad things to do to your body there's a right and a wrong way to treat the body especially coming from a Christian perspective I mean there's there's so much scripture in the Bible especially in first Corinthians talks about how our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit our bodies are a gift and everything that we eat and drink and everything we do with our bodies should be a way to honor God right right and so the farther and farther that we move away in our society from religion and from the recognition of and God's presence and his love for us the more we're gonna end up treating our bodies worse and worse and worse because we don't recognize that there is a right and a wrong right you you are similar to me and that you kind of had a big shift happen for you as well you were on the left who told me that you used to write all of these things about body positivity which you now disagree with as a movement of course yes we both would like people to be positive about their bodies if their bodies aren't within the span of normalcy and healthy but that is not a body body positivity is used to write about intersectional feminism and you used to write awful things about our current president Donald Trump is that correct I did all of those things plus some guilty and you know what a part of me feels very embarrassed that there's a paper trail of me online if you can look at any of the publication's I wrote for in the past it's no secret just type in my name online I did a Google search the other day nearly fell out of my seat of what came up but in in one sense it's embarrassing but in another way I am so proud of how far I've come and I really truly believe that I'm a testament that you can believe anything you can be so far in the depths of the radical left platform so far into modern feminism and yet you can still turn around where I see the truth and see the light I love that I think that's what people need to see more of I say we need to be more accepting and allow people to actually change and they should know that any moment that you want to wake up and you want to enter society and you want to be a productive member and you don't want to be someone that wakes up every day feeling angry and bitter you're really they're allowed to change your mind that's a part of being a human being growing and and having a fresh perspective and outlook on things yeah I mean I was the angriest of the angry I was always shouting from the rooftops about my oppression you know a lot of my family came to this country as immigrants and I used to call myself a woman of color a biracial you know I used to I used to take on all of those labels all of the labels I used and I and there's this article that performed very well for this publication I used to write for about how President Trump is causing mental illness across the country and making people depressed and anxious and ruining lives and I go back and I read this and I'm thinking to myself from like how was I even there but I mean it's it's not it's there's nothing we have to guess I was indoctrinated and brainwashed by higher education I mean I went to Harvard for my graduate school which is the we'll be the worst of the worst you know and I took classes I took a class called race ethics in the US prison system Oh perfect I first year mm-hmm and it was just what I mean they named it so you already know what sorts of indoctrination is going to have and they name it in a way that's so attractive when you come in and you're very naive and you're kind of green and you're like this looks great because socially so whoa I'm gonna be such a good person is social justice feels good it does is it feels good to be to be righteous and angry about something because I think the the non cynic in me the optimist in me wants to believe that all these people who are screaming about oppressions and about all of the the ways that our society is oppressed I think at the very end of the day they want people to live good and happy lives right you know and they want people to be well they want people to prosper I do you think so do you really think so or do you think I'm gonna pause there actually I really want to think about that I don't know what I think but I want to explore that thought because I questioned whether or not at the end of the day they're actually good people or if at the end of the day they're actually just little narcissists and there's there's an element of virtue signaling that is incredibly narcissistic where it's you say you want to help people but the second a different you you are exposed to different evidence or that that goes against your conclusion that you've accepted you get really angry and I'm a living breathing example of that they cannot accept that a black conservative exists they can't accept it it so they'd rather accuse me of being a self-hating black and we're super bright right and if at the end of the day you were just a good person who wanted black Americans to live the way that that that feels good to them why can't you accept that there might be a few of us that don't view ourselves as victims why does Alyssa Milano block me on Twitter right when I attack her her narrative that the mag AHA is the new Kate Kate Kate and I say you know what that's actually really disrespectful to my ancestors that are still breathing that had to live with the real KKK so her solution is to block me you know is she a good person on the inside yeah that's that that is definitely a question that's worth asking I think for the most part in my experience the people that I worked with you know people who are also writers who were also editors in the mainstream media I mean I'm trying people who produced and distributed fake news I mean I was in the heart of it for years I think for the most part the people that I met they really do want to do some kind of good in the world I think they've just been so brainwashed and so misguided I don't know I think Hollywood is a different beast itself I think there is a lot of narcissism there that that is both hilarious and disgusting to watch you know and so I think it's a little bit of a different scene there but part of me really wants to believe that all of these young women especially who I used to work with and who I used to work for like we wanted to create content that would help women live better lives that would help women take care of themselves better that would help women make the right choices in their lives but we were just so misguided and I think people just don't understand how much the news I'm not talking about part of the news the news platform the news is fake right and I can't I still cannot convince people that I live with in San Francisco that I know in San Francisco that the things they read and the things are outraged about it is so absolutely false is very it's scary I'm Gary and you take a bird's-eye view of it where and I always say this like when you're in school you learn about propaganda right you actually learn about propaganda you talk about yellow journalism you talk about you know certain times in America you talk about certain times in Europe right where propaganda was rich and you you are looking from the from the external and saying wow that could never happen to us like I'm educated but really actually education is the way that people are becoming indoctrinated and we are all victims of propaganda and what's sad is the people that can't break the spell because it is a spell it's a spell and it's a curse and it actually at this level it stops you from living your best life and for pursuing your goals because there's so much woke culture people tell you every day what you have to be mad at what you have to go out into the middle of the streets and demand social justice about and you're not living in a reality and and that to me is is really really sad to consider and you know what's kind of ironic is that so I grew up in a really small town in South Georgia it's a small town called Richmond Hill there's only one stoplight in my town churches on every corner I mean this is the deep south I'm talking about kind of I think probably 20 to 30 miles south of Savannah Georgia and that's where I grew up I moved there and I think I was five when my parents I moved there and I grew up to where were your parents from you said they were immigrants so my dad is Italian born and raised in America but my mom is from South Korea okay so they met in Korea and they got married the fell in love came here together and started a family here and so you know I think just having that perspective as well makes me so grateful I think every day we should wake up and be so so grateful to be in America and I see so many people whining and complaining about it and it just it drives me mad but going back to what I was saying I grew up in South Georgia a very small town and when people hear that I'm from a town that small or when I tell them about a town like that they say terrible things like I'm so sorry you had to grow up there oh that you must see must have grown up with so many rednecks and idiots and the way that we think about these small rural towns the way that we think about the working-class another example I I go to a jujitsu gym in San Francisco and most of the people I trained with there most of them are working-class I don't know many people who are intact I don't know many people who went to an Ivy League school most of them work with their hands hard labor they have kids they're married they're the salt of the earth and yet these are the people that us in our ivory towers they look down on they're the deplorable --zz but the more and more I experience especially San Francisco but just life in general the more I experience the more I go back and I'm like no they're getting something right there they're getting something right these people are so devoted to their families they're so devoted to their country they're so devoted to God they have incredible children and like yeah sure they're not going to grow up and be you know physicist that are changing the world but they're doing work that is so worthy and so needed and they are the most neglected and it really it's sad to me that we are now so arrogant and people sit in their ivory towers and they look down and say oh those are the dumb people they're idiots and I'm like they are they're smarter than you in a way there's so but they have their life figured out and you're up there screaming and writing content about how Trump is ruining the world and yet look at your personal life you're so unhappy too in shambles and they're unhappy and shamble problem is that when you talk about you know cal for near in New York is that they actually haven't visited Shore America they have a concept or perception in their mind rather of what they think sure America is and the more and more that I travel for work I've almost done all 50 states now I think I have three left every time I touch down a new state I realized how ignorant I was the day before and because I'm I get to see real America I get to see the way that people actually work and I understand that what the real political arguments are and how it impacts real people that don't live in giant cities cities that have no trees like New York and it's funny because those are people that think that they should be allowed to inform policy people that have no experience and never worked a day in their life with their hands people that have never been in nature trying to dictate how we how we should communicate with wildlife you know they're out there lobbying saying whether or not people should have guns they've never held one and never needed one they've never had bear and moose in their backyard and it makes you realize we we are we are cursed with ignorance when you grow up on the coast you really are in a major city and it is a seacoast with ignorance you know it's a unique you nailed it on the head it is a spell because I felt and I'll tell you when I watched your interview on the Rubin report with Dave Rubin that was a big moment for me I swear I felt like I'd been baptized I was like oh my gosh I was like oh my gosh and I started running through everything that I had once believed when I started running through all the things that's when my journey started the shifting days went right along with I was like something's not adding up here I jumped on the can assure me when I was lame like who was this girl what is she saying just something to change my life here something shifted in me and I started to go back to all the things I learned in school even back to high school there was always that one wacky teacher in high school that is it's very liberal I don't you want to say liberal though because liberal is different than leftist like very leftist you know and then even starting from there I would go back and run through all the experiences in my life in the classroom and what I was taught and then how it compares to the real world a real life experience and it's just I don't know what's gonna happen to higher education when I think about it now I I won't send my kids to school in this environment unless unless they want to do something that requires I mean if you want to be a doctor of course you have to you have to go to university but from what I've seen on campus these are adjustable indoctrination camps and you're you and the best part of these dr. nation camps is you get to pay $100,000 to have your child indoctrinated to be a very good deal to me so no thanks I made the mistake I went to school I didn't need to do it I didn't know what I want to do but I felt the pressure society was go go go yeah really this one a few more years for them to indoctrinate your kid and brainwash them and pollute them with things that are not practical skills that are gonna help them in the real world how could these majors are completely crazy I mean I was in did you see my I recently testified in Congress yes a doctor okay thel two PhDs and in white natter like in white and I'm like what is that eat what are you even a doctor in and no numbers she had no numbers no status she had a feeling that white supremacy was on the rise and she's a doctor yeah she went to Yale yeah and it's funny I love to watch I went to one of the campus events you did with Charlie Kirk and Dave Rubin I think him less than two years ago at UC Berkeley yeah yeah I went out there I was like I gotta see what's happening because I love to watch all the videos that turning-point releases all the videos that Charlie releases because I want to see what's happening on campus I want to see what has changed since I was on campus I want to see what the future looks like and what's so funny to me is that the higher up the higher school you know in the ranking that you guys go to the dumber the questions they ask I promise you it didn't ask the most ridiculous questions when when when you guys were at UC Berkeley the questions they were asking I was like I'm looking around what are you guys students here and I watched and you know what's funny I watched videos of somewhere like Florida State University these state universities that are not on the map and these kids are asking very useful very in-depth questions that we need to ask and yet at the Ivy League school level these kids are I don't even know what they're talking honestly Harvard or where you went I really do just sometimes I see the stories coming out of there and I just think to myself I think this is supposed to be the tippity top of the pie festival that's the best you can't get any better oh my god the cream of the crop and I'm like you guys are all morons morons all right peace up the blessing that happened to me was I was poor and I stood alone got to climb my senior year and I had to drop out so they didn't get that next year to indoctrinate me yeah I mean I had I had to develop real schools I had a hunch real skills cuz I had a hundred thousand dollars student loan debt and I figure out how to get out of it and guess what it was and liberalism or feminist protests that got me out of it it was it was conservative principles working hard saying to myself why the heck did I even sign these ridiculous loans look how much I have to pay because I had no practical skills yeah I just had emotions and fear of not going to school and you know what that let that got me into $100,000 in debt with no degree to speak of and even if I had gotten the degree in journalism who knows what I would have done that would have helped me pay down the astronomical fees that I paid for that for that degree I mean look what eyes you know I got two bachelor's degrees one in music piano performance I was a pianist from us my life and then I also got a bachelor's degree in religious arts right so okay great I'm not gonna I don't know what I'm gonna do with that so after college I was like I don't know what to do I kept being pressured to go to graduate school so I got a master of theological studies guess how much I use that degree zero what what can I do with that degree now most of the people who were in that program with me they went on to get their PhD and they're just staying in the school doing research and they'll become professors and they'll become the professors and then they'll just you know cycle the same stuff over and over again and I left school you know waited as soon as I graduated from graduate school I went to yoga teacher training I was I don't know what to do right I don't know what to do I was gonna done that without could have done that could have done that without even a high school degree you know what I mean so it's and and now what I do I'm a trainer I'm a wellness coach I don't use that degree much I mean there's some I don't want to say skills but there are some things that I learned I did a lot of counseling classes and so I use a bit of that with my clients now especially client's who come to me I want to make really big changes in their life whether it's like lose 50 pounds or shift their personal life around of course I use some of the things I learned from school there but 99% of what I do now I did not have to go to college or graduate school at all all you got to do is figure out what you actually liked and and have the courage to go after your dreams not your partnership yeah and and they don't teach that anymore it's it's it's like with a gun to your head when you're in high school you got to go to college you got to go to college and people don't pause and say wait a second do I need to go to college what do I actually want to do what am I actually good at how can I contribute in society it's not all about just taking useless courses all the time yeah and I actually want you to talk a little bit about cuz you said you were 60 pounds heavier yeah so how did you get to that point and how did you the other direction I really like telling the story because I think it can be useful for many young women so I I've always been pretty athletic I've always been into fitness I play tennis as a teenager I was really into CrossFit for a while I was teaching yoga full time and I was always this you know pretty fit person who loved to eat well and exercise and but you know everyone hits rock bottom at some point in their life and and I hit that point 2016 there was two things back-to-back that happened I was living in Australia and I was kind of like I told you in the green room I was living that lost wandering millennial life where I didn't want to commit to anything and I didn't want to be a part of the evil American capitalist society so I was traveling to South America and Thailand and doing all that stuff and I actually had a near-death experience in Australia I went to turn on the barbecue the gas tank underneath my barbecue and it wasn't hooked up correctly and there was an open flame and it exploded and ignited a fire on my body and I passed out and I was rushed to the hospital and I had first and second degree burns all over face neck arms it was it was quite a traumatic experience and I hear people you know they joke about the term PTSD but I lived with real PTSD for a while any click of a burner I would you know I'm my body would react to it and then a couple of weeks after that I had to leave Australia because I was on a tourist visa and I had to renew my tourist visa and I was illegally teaching yoga at the time so I was an editor and a freelance writer for publications in the US so that was my main source of income but as a on a tourist visa I was also teaching yoga on the side which is illegal and so when I was coming back into the country to renew my tourist visa long story short they saw that they somehow discover that I was teaching they put me in a detention prison locked me up and deported me that's a whole other story in the south Wow but when I came back to America I really came back with my tail between my legs because I started to question every choice that I had made what was I doing over there why did I spend four years just traveling overseas doing all the things that Millennials love to do doing a lot of drugs plant medicine being in polyamorous relationships I was so far from God I grew up Christian and I was atheist and I had left behind all of that I left behind my I haven't left behind my family for four years and so I was very very humbled in a way that was devastating and I had to go back to my parents house where else could I go I don't have anywhere I left to go in the u.s. so I was back in South Georgia 26 27 years old and everyday I would just wake up and eat and I was I was very depressed and I was so upset and I would just eat and eat and eat and eat and eat and it gained 60 pounds and so then I was in truly the rock bottom of my life and there are no words to describe the devastation because I had planned a life in Australia I was actually dating an Australian guy we were talking about getting married it didn't work out we were gonna get married anyway all of that and so I feel like my life had really fallen apart and in that moment was when I was like this is not working for me this this commitment to modern feminism and body positivity these values they're not working for me why is it that every publication I write for the highest performing content is weight loss and how to live a healthy life yet at the same time you're forcing me to write all this stuff about body positivity and obese women and I woke up and I was like okay I have to get my life together I found a way to lose all the weight I changed my diet I turn everything around and that's when I moved to San Francisco and started a new career there but that was you know it was really I say it again I was a rock bottom of my life and being that overweight especially haven't been having been someone who was very fit and very vibrant and healthy it was it was a big wake-up call for me right and I you know what I love that you said that that you sort of got you just kind of got back on the wagon right you should have got back in the driver's seat of your life and that's so important I think especially for fat people in general to know that if you're a fat person you want to change your life great right that means you can do something about that and I think that if we really want to talk about body positivity it would be that for of encouragement it would be sharing stories of hey I was there too and there is a way forward and you can feel better and I used to feel like you it's not the other way by saying in them good that's really good sit there that's great that's horrible why would you want someone to live in existence that doesn't make them feel good every single day whilst trying to convince them that they're happy and then the other element of that that gets added on to it as you also see that men who are not attractive to clinically obese women oh my goodness are considered but they're a bigots and and fat phobic and all this stuff and I'm like that's like trying to convince me to like like disgusting food eat it you like it no I actually don't they like people that are aesthetically pleasing they want people that that look you know desirable to them that doesn't need to be a size double zero that's not healthy either I don't want to see a girl that that looks deathly ill and at a size triple quadruple that you know zero and I don't want to see the other one at the spectrum either there is a happy medium and we're avoiding that happy medium and were lying to society and and worst of all we're lying to ourselves yeah and you know going back to this idea of personal responsibility it's both it's really hard to here as someone whose health has is is far gone but at the same time it's what they need to hear it's it's pretty harsh but I say this some of my clients your life is your fault I love that your life is your fault everything that's happening right now in your life especially your health it's your fault now the beautiful thing about that is it's your fault so you at any point you can turn things around and you know we talk about obesity being the number one killer of Americans the most amazing thing about obesity is not only is it preventable it's reversible it's not like some disease you catch that you can't get rid of it is a hundred percent reversible all it takes is personal responsibility making those hard choices because guess what guys I'm gonna say this to a camera being healthy is hard being healthy is hard working hard is hard I mean I'm sure Candace you got to the point today it was hard to get to where you are today it's not easy to to accomplish things it's not easy to be healthy it's not easy to carve moments out of your day to take care of your body drink a lot of water cook food at home instead of buy fast food or order food it's not easy oh and once you accept that it's not easy it gets easier exactly you accept that there's no magic there's no magic pill no magic wand I actually I'm just gonna have to work at this every single day it gets easier but the radical left wants to convince us that there should not be suffering in the world mm-hmm it is suffering that were humans you know and and we know that God put us on this earth as humans that we're going to suffer but we can still wake up every single day and know that we have his grace and we have his love you can renew and we can renew and and that's why I think it's it's so sad to see us move so far away from religion and from God because I think that's where a big part of the personal responsibility just fades away absolutely you know and it's it's such becomes it becomes all for naught yeah there's nothing bigger than me and this is how you see this this atheist this cult is what I see it as is this the growth of atheism it's always parallel to the growth of government and to the growth of narcissism and and and to the break away from the family and and the things that once matter that were so simple that you talk about when in Georgia in a small little town what are they getting right that they that they haven't made they haven't broken away from those values these are people that have deep values deep and and and they are surrounded by a culture and a media that tells them that there's something wrong with them because they believe in their family because they have faith and they believe in personal responsibility right and the more that we recognize our self-worth and the more that we recognize that our Worth does not come from the government our Worth does not come from entertainment from social media the more we recognize that our self-worth comes from a higher power comes from God the better choices we can make for ourselves so there's this really interesting study that was done so you know a lot of people say one of the reasons why black communities and Hispanic communities suffer disproportionately from obesity is because they don't have the same resources and the same options as we do which in a way is true but there have been studies done showing that when you provide healthy options and you provide fresh produce you provide good food to these communities they still choose the junk food in the fast food yeah they still choose it and some people will say that's a matter of culture but there's a part of me that believes people are making these choices because they don't recognize their own self-worth and they don't recognize the worth of fighting for themselves and fighting for their own health right because the government has been giving so many handouts so they feel like that's where their worth comes from they feel like there's some external source that gives them worth right but if we come back to recognize where our self-worth truly comes from that is from which the point where you can make healthier choices and that's when you're like no it's worth it's worth making this small sacrifice of not eating that birthday cake at the office it's worth that's that small sacrifice of not going out and binge drinking my friends because I know what my self-worth is right and the sense of accomplishment and that's what I think that they're missing out is the sense of accomplishment when you do get it right and knowing that you've had setbacks but you get you get back on the saddle there's a sense of accomplishment that I cannot speak enough to and like I said for me and this might seem crazy but I was literally feeling so sad because working out has always just been a part of my life I love working out I love I love breaking a sweat there's something about breaking a sweat that just sets your day right and I had sudden I started making all these excuses in the back of my head when I stopped working out because I was traveling so much and and yeah I was I'm always gonna be thin but it was I was flabby and I wasn't feeling good at all but cannas you work so much you travel so much it's fine like this it's not conducive to your lifestyle anymore but deep down when you go to sleep at night you know you can make changes either get up an hour are always excuses I'm like all I need are a pair of sneakers and now I go running outside outside of my hotels wherever I am how great it feels now that I'm back to working out I feel like myself again I feel good I feel happy stop don't allow don't allow yourself to manifest the excuses I think is what I want people to know when you see these people using the hashtag-- body positivity and and and and they're assigning that to being slobs and and to showing your cellulite they're not actually happy and they're and they're showing you to miss out and what it feels like when you actually accomplish something despite despite despite how it seems like it's impossible or can be an uphill climb when you actually get to the top of that hill you're like wow I did it yeah and there's no better feeling than that I mean I even see I have some clients that I have online and so we do a lot of Skype sessions I can see the joy in their eyes just to their computer screen and it's not because they lost weight sure that's that's a great by-product but it's because they took responsibility they took control of their life again and there's nothing more empowering than that and yet at the same time it's you know it's the fake news and the radical if they want us to give the power away you know and I mean it's little things like I posted I posted a little story slide I just said the simple fact you are allowed to have an opinion no matter your skin color no matter what your experience is you're allowed to have an opinion and this white girl responded to me and said yeah but I feel like white people should just shut up sometimes I'm like why are you trying to silence yourself why are you trying to give your power awaits within the realms of lunacy you know and it's like so you're telling yourself to shut up why do you hate yourself that much you know and it's like taking back the control of our lives and realizing that our life is our faults there's nothing more liberating than that it means we have a lot of hard work to do but at the end of the day it's the most liberating thing there is I love it I think that's a perfect place to end by telling everybody that your life is your fault I actually think that that's a that's a really good way of looking at it your life is your fault so we wrap every episode of Canada's own show by giving you the opportunity to look into this camera two minutes and you get to leave a voice message for the world I guess a video message for the world say anything you want but let it be Jeana Florio's call to action Kris is gonna put two minutes on the clock but don't look at him because we've seen people get very nervous when he does that are you ready I'm ready your mark get set world I give you Jena Florio without our health we have absolutely nothing in this world we're not able to accomplish great things we're not able to enjoy our family we're not able to enjoy all the joys of life your health is the most important thing that you have in this world don't let anyone tell you that the reason you look the way the you are is someone else's faults and when it comes to fake news in the radical left do not believe everything that you read if there's anyone out there especially on college campuses young student organizations who wants me to come in and tell you more about my experience I would absolutely love to our bodies we only get one in this life and it's a temple and it's a very precious thing so treat your body rights and take care of yourself that was great thank you so much for joining the cast on the show week and that was awesome 39 seconds we'll keep we'll keep the minute in 20 seconds thank you guys for watching the latest episode of the Candis Owens show I hope you guys enjoyed the conversation as much as I did as many of you guys already know Prager U is a 501c3 nonprofit organization which means we need your help to keep all of our content free to the public please consider making a tax-deductible donation today I would really appreciate your support