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Hey y'all! I have the pleasure of bringing Spring Esteppe, LPN and doTERRA Blue Diamond, onto our podcast today! She worked in Emergency Medicine for 10 years, then found resolve to look for answers to support her health and found essential oils and natural healthcare! Sit back, relax and listen to this insightful podcast about empowering you towards natural health and your lifestyle! On this podcast we discuss: Spring's journey toward working in medicine and healthcare Spring's discovery of her ability to help her health goals Her journey towards launching her empowerment website How essential oils can help you! Here are the show notes from today's podcast: Frank: 00:10 I am so unbelievably excited to bring our special guest for today's podcast on today. It is my good friend, Spring Esteppe, and she has been doing doterra with us now for at least five years. The pleasure of meeting her. Matter of fact, that's how we met was through a doterra essential oils, but I have just been so honored to be able to meet her and I really wanted to bring her onto the podcast today because I just have to share with you guys. She is very well known in the wellness world and I wanted to ensure that you guys knew how a licensed practical nurse could actually be, you know, traditionally trained in western medicine and then start adopting various different integrative ideas of different wellness ideas to be able to incorporate them into not only her family, but now she has grown to the capability of being able to help tens of thousands of people. Spring: 01:15 So a spring. I just, I thank you so much for being on the podcast today. Oh Wow. Great intro. Frank. Thanks so much. I'm really excited to join you. Yeah, well we want to get started with talking all about you and so we have had the opportunity to meet your and your husband, Keith, who you guys are fabulous power couple and you all have just been so instrumental in even myself and Jackie's life when it comes to the whole understanding of wellness and a really good you can do this attitude. What'd you guys don't know about is that spring is like a traditional southern y'all. She is like, she is like, you're going to hear her talk and I just can't get over how just warm and inviting her voice and so I, I'm going to say this now and then we'll say it again at the end of the podcast, but please check her out. Frank: 02:10 She now has springesteppe.com and that is her educational platform that she has just recently released, actually just bought a couple of months ago. Right. And in order for everyday folks like you would need to be able to get on there and get some knowledge about how to start having a better lifestyle and really just achieve the wellness that you've always desired. So thanks again for joining us. Thanks for having me. All right, so let's get started with talking about like where you came from, right? Um, you know, from what you told me is that you are a licensed practical nurse and you've been a licensed practical nurse for about 17 years now. Why don't you tell me about like, what your experiences were with that, like where did you work and all that sort of stuff. We'll just kind of take things from there. Sure. Well, um, Spring: 03:00 I, I started my nursing journey. I'm 17 years ago when I actually graduated from nursing school, but even before that I was, uh, I am the daughter of a first generation hippie. My mom was very committed to natural health and wellness and I thought that she was crazy and in my teenage years I hit that rebellious stage where I was convinced that I belong in foster care, um, that my parents were losing their minds because they would never take us to the doctor. My mom was so passionate about natural medicine that I finally said, I'm going to become a nurse because I'm going to prove you wrong, and when I graduated from nursing school in 2001, I was so like, you know that that moment in your life where you kind of have dust your shoulders off and kind of market your parents and say, ha ha, I did it. Spring: 03:52 That was totally me. And then I started working in health care as a nurse and I really quickly saw that these people that we were seeing, I started out as I worked my first two years in Icu and then I transitioned into the Er and I really quickly saw that the patients we were seeing were not getting better. That we were seeing them on a lot of them on a repeat basis. And the things that we were doing in healthcare was not actually fixing anything. We were just masking the symptoms and these are orienting more sick. And that was so frustrating. As a healthcare provider, you know, we, we practiced do no harm, right? Like we want to see people get better, but the ugliest side too, like I call it sick care because it's really not health care, but the idea is that people are actually not getting better. Spring: 04:52 Like they are getting more sick as we go and it's not because of health care and it's not because of the doctor's fault. It's not. It's because it's a broken system and we have gotten away from the basic needs of health. And so through my years in working in er medicine, I was so frustrated and a lot of people will look at nurses and doctors and say, oh my gosh, they are so grumpy and they have such bad attitudes in that, you know, all the things. They're just not happy people. And I always said when I become a nurse, I'm not going to be like that, but it was happening to me. I got to where I was just angry and frustrated and felt like my hands were tied, working in medicine because I was not seeing people get healthy. So I definitely know what you mean if I May. So like an echo though are the truth. Frank: 05:51 And certified peers between what know we have this mentality of when we first walk into whatever training we're going to go do whatever medical training do we have, this sense of empowerment light's going to conquer the world. And then when the rubber meets the road, goodness gracious. It's so unfortunate that people are doing exactly what you're saying. It's like, you know, we have, we have a lot of repeat offenders is what we refer to them as you that we have a lot of folks too. We go out there and we release them back out there quoting and then they come back and then come back. So it's like, you know. So it's like, what, what did you find out? What did you learn that you needed to be able to start doing in order to have help with these folks that were just sort of like walking through your door all the time? Spring: 06:41 Well, you know, after being in er medicine for so many years, we were still at home. I'm a mom, I'm married. My husband and I have been together 21 years and we have two children at the time. My kids were young and I felt like even as a health care provider in my own home, I felt completely powerless when it came to tooth aches or the stomachaches or you know, any colds and Buddhist and my husband, he has a headache or the man called feeling a real thing by the way y'all professional diagnosis or just diagnosing. But you know, I felt powerless as as a wife, a mom, a caregiver in my home and then to come into the workspace and know that the people that I was seeing on a daily basis, they felt the same way I felt and how and I medically trained. Spring: 07:45 So knowing that in the back of my head, like it led to even more frustration and then fast forward to 2012, I'm a friend of mine offered me some essential oils to try because my husband was dealing with recurrent mouth altars and I was just kinda like rare. I'm a professional stuff does not work. This is crazy. And my husband, he has his degree in biology so he's real smart too. He thinks and we looked at these natural healthcare options as a joke because we had never actually seen anybody use national health care options and see really good results from it, but what we didn't know is that it's more than just, um, what they were using there was, there's more to it than just using the product one time. And so we jumped into the essential oil world and July of 2012 and I just started doing my research and as I researched, um, I was still working in the Er that I was seeing that there was more to just masking the symptoms, a natural health product. Spring: 08:56 Like what? Like that shift from educating yourself, empowering yourself and knowing that there's more to it than just one magic thing that fixes everything that translated across all platforms for me. So that was when I started talking to my husband more about, Ooh, we're going to dive into the essential oil world. And he thought I was crazy. We lived in the poorest area of Virginia and very, um, the Appalachian mountains, very rural. Everybody, the coal mining and railroad and they're not concerned with their health because they've never been educated and it was one of those things where I thought we have the ability to educate people and help them feel empowered whether health by just offering simple solutions to the everyday thing because I think when, you know, education is power, right? So when we know better, we do better than a lot of people don't take the time to educate when we're in the healthcare bill because we don't have time or all the regulations from administration comes down and we have, you know, five minutes with a patient and you don't have to do anything with that. Spring: 10:09 So we just got really passionate about it and that's what we do. We educate and get down to the nitty gritty. It was unfortunately uses that exactly like so perfectly in the sense of, um, remember the, when I was working in a clinic however many years was that I always had to give like a monthly when I'm available kind of worksheet. And we had a, we had a schedule to where it was like Rehab and acute appointment. No more than 20 minutes or a follow up or you weren't allowed more than 30 minutes. We sold them, had 60 minute blocks, you know, and I remember the fight with a lot of my folks kinda tooth and nail to say like, I've never seen this person before. I'm not, I'm not gonna pretend like as if like we've been friends since, you know, when and all of a sudden I could just kind of pick up where somebody else left off. Frank: 11:07 I didn't feel I didn't feel qualified enough to really do that. And even early in my career when I first got started, I was taught by a lot of lies folks to say like, you know, like really, you know when it comes to medicine, you do a lot more teaching than you expect and you really have to sit down with folks. So I remember what you just said like rings extremely true with me is that I was very frustrated that I was only being deemed to have a 20 minute session with somebody when maybe I never met them before. And I kind of wanted to find out their story and talk with them a little bit. And that's it. It's just that much more has happened now with being a, being a PA for the last 10 years. I've seen the trend a lot more of like fast medicine, you know, it's like, it's like a come in, get what you need or what the doctor believes that you need and be good with that and take off. Spring: 12:04 I talked to a lot of physicians who will recommend their patients to me and say like, well, we've done all we can do, so why don't you just have to spring. She may have some options for you. A lot of these physicians are friends of mine and you know when we're, when they're off the record and we're just having a normal conversation, the frustration is palpable event because they're trained to help heal people and help them feel better. But because of all of the things that get in the way and a short office visit, they get stuck in the monotony of just describe this and send them out the door. And then as these patients come back because they want to feel better, they truly do to these physicians want to help them that they do not have time. And I think that that is what has created this sick care because our we're doing is managing sick patients and for me, I wanted other options and I also knew that as a mom I didn't want my kids to be in their teenage years and their early twenties, you know, an adult my age and have a whole list of health issues that maybe there were answers for that we could have addressed when they were children and we could have just raised them in a healthy lifestyle. Frank: 13:24 Sure. Yeah. That makes perfect sense. And so umbrella of the lecture that I say this because with that also being, you know, we don't want the tone of this podcast where we're bad about our healthcare. Absolutely. That we live in a society where our abilities as healthcare providers are second to none. I mean, there are people literally right now saving lives. Yes, very, very unbelievably training physicians that are saving lives right now. But what we need to do is look at the same that are choosing us and coin and say, okay, that's definitely happening. People are getting saved, you know, cancers are getting removed and people are absolutely becoming success stories right now. And that's a wonderful thing. Um, but with that also being said, is that like when we look at some of the, some of the data in terms of like some of those surveys that I've seen is that now over 80 percent of Americans have some sort of a long term illness. Frank: 14:31 And then longterm illness actually equivocates to about $2,000,000,000,000 spent every year in that form of healthcare to manage that condition. And so what we need to help spur along, and people I think in spring, you definitely can attest to this, is that we need to inspire people, the managers of their own healthcare, their lifestyle. That is going to be something that they know, that they are making those positive choices in order to be able to actually have the great foundation, great healthcare. Because we still want to make sure that everybody's still going to see a doctor. You absolutely should have a physician or a PA or a nurse practitioner and persons in your life. Yes, I need to go see them on a regular basis, but there is a lot of things that we can do on our end every single day because they're not the ones that are putting the food in our mouths. They're not the ones that are telling you to go out there and get a nice walk for 15 minutes. Right? Yeah. Spring: 15:29 I like to tell people that it's not about replacing medicine. Modern medicine. I'm so thankful that we live in 2018 right, where they don't bleed and bleed into that at that you hurt your arm. We're going to have to take it off. Had a fever. Let me just. Let me just do a little bit of an incision on your carotid and drain all your life. You know that. Thank God we don't live in that high, but this is not about replacing. This is about partnering with because the frustration that we feel as a provider is not because we want to replace something. We weren't a partner with the modern practices and say, how can we make this better so that people feel better, they live longer, apply, they feel like you're in the driver's seat of their health, so thank God for modern medicine. Let's make it better. Spring: 16:20 Let's partner together. And so when you yourself started noticing these changes and stuff like that in your family, what was sort of like the Aha moment? What was like the, I have to, you know, go from all of this wonderful information that I've been trained with to saying like, okay, now I need to go out there and inspire others to take charge of their…
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