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IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER: 01:30Introduction 04:24 First Experience with Homeopathy: Son’s Tummy Bug 05:37 Poison Sumac Is No Joke 07:02 Finding Joette: Efficient and EffectiveThe Ultimate Cool Kids’ Guide to Homeopathy: Become a Revolutionary, Independent Thinker with Practical Homeopathy®Make It Stop! Escape From the Prison of Chronic (and Acute) Pain Using Practical Homeopathy®: Learn Effective Methods to Uproot Pain, Often for GoodGateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum 10:44 The Academy of Practical Homeopathy® 12:07 Launching Two Practical Homeopathy® Businesses and Continuing Education 16:45 Success Story: Rattlesnake BiteThe Survivalist Guide 19:23 Success Story: Cystic Fibrosis 20:47 Success Story: Eczema 23:25 Success Story: Blood ClotsGateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum 26:10 How Can Listeners Do This Themselves? 28:07 Quebracho for Upper Respiratory SymptomsPodcast 117: Let’s Catch Up and Learn About Quebracho 29:48 Closing Advice: You Can Do This TooGateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: JoettesLearningCenter.comJoette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group FriendsJoette Calabrese on YouTube Kate: This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 120. Joette: Hi! This is Joette Calabrese. My Practical Homeopathy® is transforming lives all over the globe by offering health freedom! They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but I say a podcast is priceless. I want you to hear — in their own words — how regular people just like you have reshaped their lives using the practical protocols I teach in my Practical Homeopathy®. So, with the help of my reporter Kate, I bring you this podcast series featuring interviews with moms, dads, teens, health care practitioners and Academy of Practical Homeopathy® students from all walks of life. With education, you can follow in these students’ footsteps. You can eliminate your fear of illness and injury by learning how to care for yourself and your family. Like them, YOU can be in control — without acquiescing to authority — to live healthier, more autonomous lives. Indeed, you, too, can heal yourself and your family through my brand of homeopathy — Practical Homeopathy®. INTRODUCTION Kate: (01:30) If you want to hear about some amazing homeopathy success stories, how to become a “cool kid” who knows about homeopathy, understand what The Academy of Practical Homeopathy is, or maybe what it looks like to create a thriving homeopathy consulting business, or even just how to help those around you and those you love: this is the podcast for you. We’ve got a lot to cover today with a very special guest. So, let’s get started. Today’s guest is Leanne Burns. She’s a physical therapist, a homeopath, a homeschool mom, and embodies all things adventure. So, everyone help me welcome Leanne to the podcast. Leanne: Hi Kate. Kate: Hi! It’s so great to be with you today. We have a ton to talk about, and I know you and I could talk for hours and hours, but we won’t do that to the listeners today. But we’re going to pack a lot in this 20 to 30 minutes that we have together, and I would love for the listeners to get to know a little bit about you before we begin. Tell us about some of your adventures, Leanne. Leanne: Oh, boy. I still like to get out in the outdoors. I’ve always been an outdoors person, so I like to ski. I like to paddleboard but prefer to kayak. I’m a little bit faster on the kayak than the paddleboard. I boat; I hike; I walk every day. I just like to be outside, and a lot of things come to me when I’m outside. So, I’ve found some animals in distress when I’m out there, and I’ve been able to help them. Also, I hike a lot with my family, so I’m always carrying remedies and always prepared for whatever comes at us. Kate: And in fact, I remember one class that we had in The Academy — I don’t remember if it was a Mastery™ or Academy — but you were actually rock climbing. And you joined us for one of our classes — our live lessons — and that was pretty fun. Do you remember that? Leanne: I do remember that. That is another thing I do. Actually, my son’s a big rock climber and has been doing camps every summer. And last year, we did something different. We went as a family, and he took a couple of friends. And the guide said, “Hey, I’ll throw you in. Why don’t you do it too?” So, I got to do it for the first time on real rocks and not in a climbing gym. And other than that, I hike on rocks and climb around on ’em, but I’ve never been roped in and being belayed, so it was kind of fun. I got to belay my son, and he got to belay me on the rocks, and it was great. Yeah, great fun. Kate: That was commitment, Leanne, to join a class while you’re rock climbing. Anyone who has an excuse, I don’t think that there is one because you joined rock climbing. So, let’s hear a little bit about your homeopathy journey. You’ve known about homeopathy for a little while, but you really became entrenched in the last few years, so tell us about that. FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH HOMEOPATHY: SON’S TUMMY BUG Leanne: (04:24) Yeah, so in 2017, my son came downstairs, and we were two days away from going skiing, and he was in probably second grade (I think it was). And he came down all dressed in his clothes for school, his backpack on. He says, “Mom, I just threw up and have diarrhea.” I’m like, “Holy cow, what am I going to do?” You know? A friend of mine, who is an acupuncturist and dabbles in homeopathy and Chinese medicine, she said, “Anytime something like that happens, call me.” I called her. She said, “Meet me at your clinic. I have the remedy for you.” And I got there, and she had a little bottle. It had “ARS 30C” on it. It was a water dose. “Just tap it 10 times and give it to him under the tongue and see what happens.” Of course, his first question was, “Is it going to taste?” And I said, “No, it’s just water.” He took it, and he never got sick again. Went on our trip; everything was great. I’m like, “Huh, wonder what’s in that?” And she said, “You need to get a kit.” So, I got a kit, and I started reading on it. And I just got, “Wow! This is complex!” You know? “How do I know? There’s so many remedies for flu and this?” And I was working full time and running my business full time, and I’m like … It collected dust for a couple of years until I got attacked by sumac. POISON SUMAC IS NO JOKE Leanne: (05:37) Poison sumac is no joke. After about 1,100 milligrams of prednisone, I reached out to my friend again. We tried a couple of things — homeopathy — and she referred me to a classical homeopath. And I hadn’t slept in three weeks, and I was still itching … my entire body. Of course, when washed the original insult, I took that scrubby that I washed it off on my hand with, and I went all over my body. Kate: Oh no! Leanne: So, I was pretty miserable. And, of course, you can’t sleep on steroids either. You could read seven books in a week on steroids. And so, I was itching as my brain was going. And so, she took my case and recommended Sulphur 30. Of course, it was classical, so she wanted it in water. She had me do it one dose and then wait. Which I was in a hurry, but I actually had a pretty significant — probably 40% — difference that night, that day. And then two days later, she split that dose. And I took a tablespoon out of that and made another water remedy, and that was all she wrote. By the weekend, I was sleeping through the night. When things changed in 2020, and my son’s STEM class got shifted out. I received a timely email from Joette, and I had gotten on her list. FINDING JOETTE: EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE Leanne: (07:02) I didn’t really realize it, but when I was in my panic about the sumac, I had gotten on her mailing list, and I had this ton of emails. I’m like, I got to get rid of these emails. And I was going through ’em, and a new one came in, and it was the “Cool Kids.” I’m like, my homeschooling son … his STEM class got shut down due to the pandemic and the fears and so forth. So, I said, “Well, let’s do something science.” Let’s do something applicable to today and that he could use in his lifetime. So, I just did it alongside of him, and I couldn’t believe it. It was all I had looked for. Going from classical to Practical. It was like, this is what I wanted. I wanted recipes. I wanted a way to be very efficient and effective. That’s how I work in physical therapy. That’s how I worked my entire life. That’s how I work in my house. I want to be efficient and effective. It just blew me away. The Banerjis … When I first got the Banerji book, I’m like, “Huh, I guess this is good to have on the shelf. I’m not sure if I’ll use a lot of it, but I have it.” [laughter] That thing is falling apart. I’ve had to re-glue the binding of it. S So, from there, I did the Pain course, and that was kind of a catalyst. I like to think things out and talk things out. So, I already had patients that, as I’m listening to the remedies that Joette’s describing in the Pain course, I’m like, “That’s so-and-so, and that’s so-and-so, and that’s so-and-so. You know?” “Doesn’t like riding on a bumpy road.” “Feels lame”. I had Ruta, and I had Belladonna. I had all these things that were just coming to mind, and I was writing their names next to all these remedies. And then I talked to them, and I could talk out those remedies and learn it a lot better. I also did something that I don’t know that everybody does. I actually did the recommended reading and classes that she had. She had the “Intro to Homeopathy” [included with course purchases] and so forth. And I found that very fascinating. That actually helped in The Academy ‘cause I’d already had the exposure to that. And hopefully, Wednesday, I’ll get to go to the Samuel Hahnemann Monument in Washington D.C. Kate: Oh, that’s right. Yeah. Leanne: Yeah. So that’s kind of where I went. After I found some of those protocols and the Banerji protocol for the flu that was going around, I started getting some people asking questions of me. Somebody had a bit of a miracle. They were able to sleep without any medications after about 12 years, by way of having the flu and then us talking about other things. She put a Facebook post out there, and then all of a sudden, I was getting calls and messages and everything. I said, “How? I can’t handle this volume. I want to help all these people.” That’s when I did the “Intro to Homeopathy” classes in the community, and I did two of them. One was for general people, and then one was for healthcare providers and massage therapists and chiros and things like that. That really did something unexpected. I didn’t expect it to take … I mean, I was just basically, “Here, this is how you use Joette’s website. Here’s how you use Practical Homeopathy®. Here’s what it is. Here’s how to use it. She has these great things — these great recipes — and if you really want to, you can take her Gateway courses and learn more.” After that happened, all of a sudden, classes started popping up everywhere in about a Tri-County region. And then more classes and more classes and more classes, and all of a sudden, we had this big community of people wanting to know more about homeopathy and really seeing the value. Kate: After that, You were teaching people how to help other people, and then, you wanted to learn more at that point, or what were the next steps? THE ACADEMY OF PRACTICAL HOMEOPATHY® Leanne: (10:44) Well, I did. It’s kind of funny because I wanted to teach them so that I wouldn’t have all the responsibility. And like, “I don’t want to do this. I don’t want to be a homeopath.” And all of a sudden, I’m like, “Yes, you do want to be a homeopath!” It’s like everything was directed. It all came together. It was just such a time as this. As a believer, I feel that it was directed spiritually as well. The people that I needed in my life, they just were right there. Everything just came. It was very fluid. It happened kind of organically. I listened to every single podcast that Joette had. I’d do it when I was gardening. I’d do it when I was out walking. I’d do it all over. And she would always mention something about The Academy. “We’re working on The Academy. We’re working on something big!” You know, on and on and on. I said, “I’ve got to do this.” So, I applied for the first cohort in — and got accepted and started in — September of 2021 and then graduated in 2022. Which by the way, 22 is my favorite number. It was my number … I used to play basketball. I was a pretty good basketball player, believe it or not, and that was my number. My dad’s baseball number was two. My grandma was born on the 22nd of February. So, it’s always been a number for me. And it’s kind of funny that I graduated in 2022. Kate: Yeah. And you did something else in 2022 as well. Leanne: Yeah, I started a business! Kate: Yes! A couple, really. LAUNCHING TWO PRACTICAL HOMEOPATHY® BUSINESSES AND CONTINUING EDUCATION Leanne: (12:07) Yeah, two. So, through The Academy and some of Joette’s employees there, Lara actually spurred me. And she goes, “You need to start taking some cases.” Where I live in rural North Carolina, we don’t have a lot of remedies around. So, it’s hard to find things. You can get a 200 potency at certain places in Arnica, but that’s it. And they don’t sell a lot of variety. So, I said, “Well, I need to start a remedy shop.” So, I had the space available in my clinic, separated that out into an LLC. So, I have an LLC taking up space in my main business, but they’re totally separate. And so, I have a shop and I started taking some cases. I was still in The Academy, so I had a lot of studying. There was a lot of coursework each week, and I was homeschooling my son. Kate: And running several businesses and … yes. Leanne: And getting outside — doing all the fun stuff — because I have to get outside. I have to ground myself. I really need that. I’m a very active person; I don’t sit still a lot. But getting outside really just connects me … connects me to God, connects me to Earth, nature. It’s part of me. So, opened that remedy shop, started taking cases, and I saw how well those were going. And, you know, I only took a few. And it was good because I could get the mechanics of it down. It wasn’t that different than physical therapy. The charting was a little bit different, but really I got my feet wet, and then, I could kind of get my rhythm. Graduated, then, in the fall. Became a study group advisor right after that. Kate: That’s for the next Academy class. You worked with the study groups and helped them to get through their Academy year. Leanne: That was fun. And it was another way of integrating and just really immersing myself. And they’d ask me good questions. I like to be asked those questions. I like to solidify the knowledge, and I like to be able to articulate it also. So that was really good and good to listen to them. I learned things from them as well. Just like in physical therapy, you never stop learning. If I don’t learn something new each week, something happened; something was wrong. Kate: And you hear the information a little bit differently each time, too, and pick up different things than you did last time. Leanne: Sure. And that’s a good point because even in any type of learning, the more senses that you have involved in that — if you hear it, you smell it, you write it, you see it, any of your senses —the more senses you have involved in that learning, the better it gets integrated into your brain. And so, when I’d hear it, like you said, from different people explained a little bit differently or using a different analogy or using it in a different way, it really helped. Kate: So, at that same time, you began to be a study group advisor for the next Academy class, and then a few months later, you went right on into our Mastery™ program. Leanne: I did. That was really good. I can’t say enough good things…
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