22: He Said, She Said with Your Hosts, Ron & Lisa

Narrator

How would you like to improve your health and keep your family safe? You're listening to the healthy home hacks podcast where we firmly believe enjoying optimal health shouldn't be a luxury. healthy home authorities and husband and wife team Ron and Lisa will help you create a home environment that will level up your health. It's time to hear from the experts. listen in on honest conversations and gain the best tips and advice. If you're ready to dive in and improve your well-being and increase your energy, you're in the right place. Alright, here are your hosts, Baubiologists, authors, media darlings, vicarious vegans and avocado aficionados. Ron and Lisa Beres.

Lisa Beres

My guest today is Ron Beres. Ron is the hunky husband of yours truly Lisa Beres. We live in Orange County, California. And Ron, my husband loves the fantasy realm. And he also loves football. And by no coincidence, he likes fantasy football. He revels in making other people laugh and he enjoys avocados, but French fries are his true love. Oh, and he recently sharpened his culinary skills. And today is quite the vegan cook if I do say so. Ron does yoga and Pilates with Lisa because he's really that kind of guy. But he prefers the gym or hike. Oh, and after 18 years of marriage, he still writes Lisa weekly love notes. Ah, Ron is a belting biology environmental consultant, a published author and entrepreneur. Welcome to the show, Ron.

Ron Beres

Well thank you, Lisa. That was quite the intro. And it's actually hard to believe that five years ago, I couldn't even boil rice. So happy to be here. My guest today is Lisa Beres. And you know, Lisa is my dream girl. And before I even met Lisa, I wrote down all the things I was looking for in a wife. And I found them in you, Lisa. And, Lisa loves all things health. She revels in entertaining and hosting parties. She enjoys sunsets and organic Chardonnay. She loves fitness and trying new things. And creativity is the thread that runs through Lisa. In addition to that Lisa is a prolific writer, published author of two books are building biology, environmental consultants, and an entrepreneur. And Lisa, welcome to the show.

Lisa Beres

Thank you. Thank you for having me, Ron. So, when you wrote that list before you met me, did she have dark hair but she brunette? Because you know, as you know, I was brunette when I met you. And now I'm blonde.

Ron Beres

She did have dark hair. And now she has dark roots. So that's so that's a change.

Lisa Beres

Welcome you guys. We really wanted to give you a little background about us so we can get to know you better, and how we got started in our health journey. So just to share a little background about how I run and I got started over a decade ago. Let's go back, actually a little more than that. I was a very healthy person. At least I thought I was in fact my then fianc� Ron used to call me the poster child for health and we say I'm pretty sure I called you Hot Tamale. Okay, well, you didn't tell me that when we're dating. Thank you. So, I was working as an interior designer and my goal was to make people's homes look beautiful. I was active. I was healthy. I was a vegetarian. And the perfect date for me was a nice candlelit dinner of organic cuisine. So, after dating the man of my dreams, I wanted to move closer to him. I found this adorable, charming little beach cottage. It had a fresh new coat of paint. Newly finished hardwood floors, new carpeting, a cozy little cute gas fireplace in the corner, new white vinyl windows and sparkling white, new thermofoil kitchen cabinets. Ah, proof positive, it had the new home smell. And to make things even better. I was so close to my fancy, but things just weren't right. After moving in. I was always feeling tired and depressed and sick and just playing the law. So, I started visiting doctor after doctor after doctor trying to find out why after moving into this house, my health started declining. But I left each visit after being poked and prodded and loaded up with prescription drugs and vitamins and I didn't feel any better. In fact, I felt worse and then my birthday arrived time to ask for the number one gift on my wish list.

Ron Beres

Oh, diamonds?

Lisa Beres

No. An air purifier. And I know Ron was really happy about that. So, it was a lot less expensive but that's what I wanted. And with each healthy change to my home, switching to nontoxic cleaning products, purifying my water, organic bedding and more. I started feeling energetic and more vibrant and I began listening to my senses, and so I became obsessed with how my home was directly connected to how I was feeling. So, I studied, I researched book after book, after book, I became a building biologist. And I said, Hey, Ron, let's start a business where we can educate consumers on the dangerous hidden toxins in their homes, that they're exposed to daily, and then we can provide real solutions for them.

Ron Beres

So, we did.

Lisa Beres

Yes, we did. That's what we did.

Ron Beres

This episode is extra special, because we're going to do a rapid fire 28 questions, so you can get familiar with us and get to know us on a more personal level before you dive deep into all of our upcoming healthy home hack episodes. And after we share a little background with you about how we got started on our healthy journey, we'll share how things weren't always that way. And then we'll dive in to our personal life.

Lisa Beres

Yes. So, Ron will ask me several questions. And I'll do the same for him. And hopefully, by the end of the show, you will get to know us a little better. And Heck, maybe we'll even learn a thing or two about each other as well. Are you ready? Okay, so let's get started with a little inspiration from the late James Lipton, if you remember him from that TV show inside the Actor's Studio, got a little inspire inspiration from him today.

Ron Beres

Excellent. Okay, so, Lisa, what is your favorite word?

Lisa Beres

Love?

Ron Beres

Okay. Why love?

Lisa Beres

Um, I just encompasses everything, love of life, love of people love of, you know, it's just if you have love, I think I think if everything else is God, and you have love, I think you're rich, you're wealthy.

Ron Beres

A great, great answer. What is your least favorite word?

Lisa Beres

That would be fear.

Ron Beres.

Okay.

Lisa Beres

I guess that's obvious why right? I mean, fear is such a negative. Yeah, it's the opposite and so much fear in the world today. I think if we could get eliminate the fear, we just be, we'd all be in such a better place.

Ron Beres

Okay, this is an awkward question asked on air, but what turns you on?

Lisa Beres

Yeah, whoa, okay. We're going there. Um, well, I'll keep this G rated creativity. I mean, you said it earlier. It's the thread that runs through me and I feel like it's my life force. No matter what I do. I have to be creating in some way or I just feel, I guess, dead in some ways.

Ron Beres

Okay. What turns you off.

Lisa Beres

This one's easy pessimism. I really, really don't like Debbie downer. I just, I just I'm a half glass full kind of girl. Yeah, I got to always see the goodness and everything.

Ron Beres

What sound or noise. Do you love?

Lisa Beres

I love the sound of laughter. It can be kids laughing it can be friends. Laughing family. I just love the sound of laughter like that.

Ron Beres

I like that. What sound or noise Do you hate?

Lisa Beres

city sounds I know it sounds weird. But I really don't like the sound of hot horns honking or people screaming at each other sirens. I just, it's a really negative sound to me and I do not sleep well in big cities. Okay, fair enough. I like to visit them. I just don't. Yeah, it just rubs me.

Ron Beres

Okay. Fair enough. So, what profession other than your own? Would you like to attempt?

Lisa Beres

You know, I am doing it all right now. I love the variety of my work and being able to write and be here with you guys listening, you know, talking on a podcast, educating, speaking, offering our digital programs, all the creativity that goes into that while helping people. But I used to be an interior designer, so I love anything creative. And I've often thought maybe a party planner.

Ron Beres

Okay, like

Lisa Beres

I don't know, it seems fun. I know. It's stressful too. But something creative. Something where I get to transform.

Ron Beres

Now, would you want to be a party planner that has limited budgets? Or would you want unlimited budget?

Lisa Beres

Unlimited.

Ron Beres

So, what profession would you not like to do?

Lisa Beres

There's so many. But I think one that comes to mind is so one that nobody wants? And that would be to be a trash collector, or what do they call it a sanitation engineer. And I value those people thank god people, you know, keep our planet clean. But I really love beauty and I love I don't like clutter and dirt. And so, I think that would just be a hard environment for me to be around.

Ron Beres

Because that's why I have trash today. I take it right. Is that? Is that how I inherited that? Okay.

Lisa Beres

I don't think I've ever taken the trash out. Oh, no, you guys are really learning a lot.

Ron Beres

What is something surprising that people don't know about you?

Lisa Beres

Um, something that comes to mind that people don't know about me would be back in college. When I went to Arizona State University. I went to a robot's all the time. They were having auditions for aerobics instructors, and I had a lot of dance background, but I had never been an aerobics instructor. And I auditioned. And while I was not like the best, I got hired to teach the women's golf team at ASU. I was their personal aerobics instructor. It was really fun. And they were kind of these girls. They didn't know if I was good or not because they were kind of new to aerobics. Yeah. So together we learn. Together, we learn to get better. I had an evening class. I think it was like eight at night, and I taught them once a week. Wow. And another I'll throw in another fun one that people definitely would not know about me is that I was an actress when I first moved to LA and did a variety of different things as all actresses do voiceovers commercials, you name it. But I was the lead in a, a B, only preface that a B horror film I was the lead. And please, please don't look it up. I'll spare you the gory details.

Ron Beres

I saw parts of it was too scary. Watch the whole thing. Yeah.

Lisa Beres

It's, you know, no, not one of my finest moments,

Ron Beres

or at least so we're getting a little bit deeper on the questions here. How do you find a family and business balance without losing your sanity? or feeling guilty?

Lisa Beres

That's a great question. It's a bit it's a challenge. You know, I think we all feel it. Anyone who is an entrepreneur or Heck, even if you're not an entrepreneur, just balancing your life and finding that time to shut off. And fellow entrepreneurs who are listening, you know that it's extra challenging, because your work is like always with you, it's really hard to turn it off. The tools that I've found network are definitely meditating. If I don't meditate in the morning, my day is so different and chaotic, and I get into a very reactive energy. So, I think grounding, grounding yourself meditating. One of the things that I really have had to train myself to do is take a digital detox. And that can even be just not having my phone on during the day while I'm working on projects, to get out of that kind of fight or flight mode, where you're always on and always trying to respond to everything. Another thing that I've been doing more of lately is getting out in nature, and really finding how much that balances your, your body, your mind, your spirit, just that connection to nature can change your whole energy very quickly, actually. And then I know for us, we're on like, just we have to, we have to have conversations where we say, Okay, enough, we're not talking about business, you know, it's our evening, or it's our weekend, you know, nope, no more talk. We were really bad. In the beginning, when we started our business together, right? Oh, yeah, we had a retail store and an online retail store. And we never turned off. We talked about work. Like a lot of parents on the parents listening, you know, you probably are always talking about your kid. It's the same thing. Like it's hard to shut it off. But you notice a big difference when you give yourself that space. And let your mind rest from those thoughts all the time. It's hard to create

Ron Beres

if you're not balanced, right? Did you find that Lisa?

Lisa Beres

Oh, my God, it's impossible. Like I yeah, I mean, you could create, but it's a different kind of creation when you're, when you're balanced, and you feel settled. And for me, I have to really have an order, because I'm sorry. We're Virgos I really have to have order, I can't have a lot of papers and clutter and chaos, it's really hard for me to focus with that. So that's just some that's just how I work. Some people actually thrive in a chaotic environment. I'm the opposite. I really need like serenity and like cleanliness and kind of just a space which to which create, which to create and I need. I really need a space in which to create.

Ron Beres

That makes a lot of sense. And so, when you get away from the chaos or speaking what would be the best vacation you have ever had?

Lisa Beres

I'm curious if you're going to say the same thing. I'd say hands down are our wedding and honeymoon. I know, it's so clich�, I want to have a better answer. But just to be truthful here. I mean, it was two weeks we don't usually you and me Don't take long vacations like that. We usually a week at most, I think and so, you know, just a week, it wasn't just that we were in Hawaii, but that we were getting married and ever all your loved ones are surrounding your friends and your family and it's all just about joy. And you know, you just you know, we had a really unique wedding because we didn't do a bachelor bachelorette party. Instead, we did like scavenger hunts with all the guests through the little downtown Kona and we did a booze cruise and we did a snorkel cruise and we really made it a total destination wedding with a lot of events and then you and I jetted off to the cute island of Lanai and then also to Maui and it was just it was just amazing. You feel so relaxed you're you know you're starting your life together. It's just it's

Ron Beres

pretty hard to top no really is that was for really complex. We had the balance like you said of the family and, and us and just a full rounded well-rounded trip of just joy. Yeah. Okay, so what's the biggest mistake you've made with your health and the single best thing you've ever done for your health?

Lisa Beres

As far as mistakes, I you know, I'm a kind of person that doesn't really believe in mistakes, I think everything is a learning lesson we get better and better, like Maya Angelou quote, when you know better you do better. So, I don't really like to look at things as mistakes. But, you know, if you go back to me at, you know, when I was in my 20s, I was just, like, so unhealthy, I was 20 pounds, more than I weigh. Today, I weighed 20 pounds more, I had horrible acne, I didn't understand anything about health, except what mainstream media was throwing at me, like, a lot of people are trapped in that, you know, I will tell you do this diet, do this diet or, you know, use this skin cream, like, I just sort of took everything at face value, I didn't have any control over what was really healthy, and how to kind of heal from the inside, I had to learn how to eat better, I had to learn how to read labels, not just on food, but in my entire life, my personal care, and my cleaning products, everything. So, I'd say that was the mistake. And because I had a lot of issues. I mean, I was on acne medication. And, you know, I just kind of got sick a lot. And I had lowered immunity and all of that. So, the best thing I ever did was, obviously become a building biologist and, and start this business with you and discover, you know, how these toxins are affecting us every day, and how we all have a responsibility to ourselves. You know, I just read a quote the other day, you know, the government's not responsible, that the government isn't responsible for your health you are. And I think, whether you say the government or the or the medical system, or whatever you want to put in there, you have to take responsibility. It's time for you to read labels to understand how to create a healthy environment and do those steps and, you know, all the things that run and I teach, it's, it's everything, it'll change your life. I did 180 after I cleaned up my home in my life.

Ron Beres

Wow, beautiful.

Lisa Beres

And I'm vegan. So, I'd say go throw that in there, too. going vegan was definitely one of the best things I've ever done.

Ron Beres

Great answers. Okay, I'm not asking you this, because I don't know. But I want our viewers to hear about this. How did you and I meet? And why do you think we connected so well?

Lisa Beres

Ah, okay. Um, well, I know, you know, how we met. But for the listeners, Brian and I met in Hermosa Beach, California, little beach town. And I was out with two of my girlfriends, and he was out with his brother and a roommate. And they had just moved here from Northern Virginia. And I kind of had a chip on my shoulder, I didn't really want to go out I you know, I was kind of getting so sick of the dating scene, and thought, Oh, you know, this is not a place you'd meet somebody. You're going to take seriously, you know, we met and there was a promoter like a, what do you call those people like, I don't know, a promoter of the it was a bar slash restaurant. And she literally pushed her group together and took a photo of Polaroid. And it's really neat, because we actually have a photo of us. The instant we met. And little did I know, you know, that night that we'd end up you know, being married now. 18 years. But I we connected. We connected that night, because you made me laugh so hard. I you just were so funny, and so endearing and down to earth. And I know you had only been in Hermosa Beach, like a week, you were literally had just moved there. And my friends were like, oh, Lisa, this guy's a player. He's, he's a beach guy lives in a bachelor pad on the beach. You know, don't take this guy too seriously. So, I was like, Oh, I know. Don't worry. And then when you invited me on our date, the next day, I think or two days later for lunch, you know, you were the consummate gentleman pulling up my chair, you know, just, it was like a 180. So, I got a 180 from when I met you. I mean, just from my perceptions.

Ron Beres

I do want to add your story really quick, though. So, I know. You think that it was an accident, how we got grouped in that picture. But I certainly I scoped you out with your girlfriends� position to myself with the photographer to capture that moment. And it is funny how it was like we're a couple from the first second that were in that photo. Yeah, yeah, it was not an accident.

Lisa Beres

Girls, these things that you think are just haphazard, these guys are stalking and trying to get to know you. You have no idea. We're so oblivious. Yeah, so um, and then now like, as an as being married 18 years, like, I think we connect because we, we laugh. Laughter is the, you know, the thread of our marriage, but also, we help each other grow. I just don't think of us as just a marriage. I think of us as spiritual partners who really help each other push each other when we need to help each other be better. We want the best for each other, we respect each other. And, you know, we've really grown so much together so much of what we're talking about today. We did together, you know, so that's amazing. Don't cry. You're getting you're getting emotional.

Ron Beres

Okay, next and final question. What was the reason you decided to go vegetarian at age 17? And then when you went vegan also four years ago as well. What were those two reasons?

Lisa Beres

Well, I grew up in a home like a lot of people were, we were served meat dish meat, seafood or chicken at every dinner with a vegetable and maybe a starch like a potato or roll or something. And that was just that was just I had, we had dinner every night together as a family. You know, it was just our ritual. And I never ever liked meat. In fact, my mom told me when I was a baby, I didn't like the meat, baby food, which is pretty profound. Because I didn't even know that until years ago. But I hated eating the meat at dinner. And my parents, of course, they were doing that thing. And they made me sit at the table until I finished my food. And I didn't really like I just didn't really like any of it. And so, to compensate, obviously ate junk food and bad food. And the day I left to go to college, was the last day I ate meat, I said, I'm never eating meat again. And for me, it wasn't so much about animal rights. At that time. It was more about I just don't like it. So, it was very easy for me. And then as time progressed, I realized, Hey, you know what, I asked myself one day, do you really like chicken? Because I was still eating chicken? Do you really like chicken? Or do you like everything that's on the chicken. And then I realized, it's just the stuff on it. It's the sauces and the bread and all that. So, I gave up chicken, then little by little gave up milk and dairy and eggs. And the last thing was seafood, which we were pescatarians You and me around for a long time, most of our marriage. And you know, everyone's like, oh, they'll make us you got to get this, the fish is so healthy. I had read so many articles about how unhealthy seafood is today. I mean, whether you're doing farm raised or wild caught or this or that. It's either polluted. It's got not just heavy metals, but even pharmaceuticals showing up in fish, and just so many nasty things. So, the fish isn't the seafood that we you know, that used to exist. And so, I said, that's it. Let's get let's try it. Let's give up seafood, and see how we do. And four years later, here we are, we are full vegan, we haven't eaten any animal products in for a little over four years. And I've never felt better. And also, I'm really, really proud of us because we are big proponents of animal welfare. So, it's just a nice feeling to know that you're not contributing to that. And I know it's I know, it's a process for anyone listening. I'm there's no judgement here. I mean, it took me that long to become a vegan. It's a process and you have to do what works for you. But you know, I'm really happy with that decision. How's that for? Wow, impressive. Impressive. Yeah. Okay, so I'm going to turn the tables on you and ask you the exact same questions. And so hopefully now you know about here and hopefully get some honest answers here. Okay, so what is your favorite word?

Ron Beres

My favorite word is freedom. And I'll tell you why. And I really do put my finger on it. But really, it's the ability to do what you want to do. And I recall when I was in kidney garden, and looking at the first graders and thinking to myself, wow, they really have to do a lot of work. And I'm napping here on mats. I'm drinking Kool Aid. And this is real, this is really big things. You have to do these things. And I remember thinking, like I really valued my freedom back in the day then even when I was in kindergarten. And so, it's really having the ability to really choose what you want to do on a moment to moment basis. I mean, I've always been a hard worker. But at the end of the day, I always wanted to make those decisions and freedoms really important to me.

Lisa Beres

Yeah, I love that. I think that's so good. And you told me that early in our marriage, and I was confused back then. I was like, freedom from what do you what do you need to be free from you're free, and it's taken me a long time to understand what that really means. And it's freedom of choice. It's freedom of, you know, owning your schedule, doing the work that you love to do. Okay. Questions? Okay, let me move on to the next one. What is your least favorite?

Ron Beres

Well, this is probably no shocker. I think my least favorite word is Boss. Boss. And hopefully that ties into the freedom strike. I really like to dictate and be the leader and chooser of my own destiny on a moment to moment basis and prefer not to be reactive and rather be proactive in life.

Lisa Beres

So even a good boss?

Ron Beres

Sure, of course, and I guess probably a good boss would be someone who's in alignment with what I'm trying to accomplish and do for that moment in that day. And so, yeah, I have had a strong sense of always wanting freedom and then boss, you know, that doesn't really match all the time with freedom. So, boss is my least favorite word.

Lisa Beres

Wow, I did not know that learning so much. Okay, what turns you on, and we'll also keep this G-rated.

Ron Beres

Okay. Thanks for the reminder about that. humor and laughter, I mean, no matter if it's with family, with friends, you know, I love being with you. I find it just really just an incredible situation to be with someone who makes me laugh and who also calms my own ego and laughs at my own jokes. Very important.

Lisa Beres

But I really find you funny.

Ron Beres

Well, thank you. No, you're right.

Lisa Beres

Exactly. next question. Yeah, I know you love that and what turns you off?

Ron Beres

What really turns me off is cruelty. And that's for a variety reason you can you can think animal cruelty. You talked about being vegan. That certainly was an inspiration for me, because I just don't like the whole idea and concept of cruelty in any nature form.

Lisa Beres

I love that right? What noise or sound do you love?

Ron Beres

Well, the good news is I happen to live in an area pretty close to this sound that I love. And that sound is the ocean rolling against the shoreline, or just that. That sound of the ocean.

Lisa Beres

I did not know that. I mean, I don't think there's anyone who doesn't love that sound. It's really, it's such a soothing sound, right? Yeah, it really is. Yeah. Okay. And contrast to that. What noise or sound do you hate?

Ron Beres

An alarm clock. Yeah, an alarm clock even though I use it every day, a battery alarm clock, by the way, but I use it every day. And I don't. I don't love that sound.

Lisa Beres

Oh, man, I'm with you on that one. I could have Yeah, maybe I should have picked that too. I can't stand that sound. And I think alarm clocks should be banned. I think we need like beautiful, soft music to wake you up in the morning. A lot of people use those lights that get brighter and brighter. So, you're waking up to the natural vibes of the sun and our, our planet and all of that biorhythm. But yeah, it's just weird to wake up and think you're going to have a good day when you've been knocked over the head with this annoying blaring sound. Next, what profession other than your own would you like to attempt?

Ron Beres

This is what I'm not sure if you're going to expect this one. But I I'm certainly a huge fan of these investigative shows that look into aliens. So, there's back in the day, there's UFO Hunters, there was Ancient Aliens. So, I would love to attempt to be a UFO hunter. So, like, in the back of my mind, I thought wouldn't it be great to like check all over the globe to all these different spots that I've seen on these incredible shows. And find out for myself? What actually happened there and documented.

Lisa Beres

So, what if you see the alien? What if you meet the alien?

Ron Beres

You know, it was more about giving a better understanding as to what life is about that way cuz I think there's so much more than this and you know that I've always been inspired by that.

Lisa Beres

Yeah, I'm a fan of those shows to a lot of people that would maybe be surprised but History Channel in general, guys, we're getting some serious plugs. Okay, what profession would you not like to do we know you want to be an alien hunter.

Ron Beres

This is really strange. And I don't know what it is. It's almost like a phobia in a way. But I would never want to be a truck driver. And more specifically a truck driver. That is that like a semi-truck driving, it's the reversing of the truck and the trailer goes in the opposite direction. I've always been horrible at that; you're going to laugh at a couple different experiences. In my earlier life. When I was fortunate, I worked at the PR part of a radio station. And I had this incredible opportunity to drive the van for this radio station. But the catch was I had to drag this 21 foot trailer which resembled a radio back in the day to and not only that I had I had to charge this within a parking lot of the radio station that basically drove by all the fancy cars, normal Mercedes, you know, jaguars of all the presidents and the VP of sales and the host of the radio station. And I was petrified to do this because previously I'd worked there just doing the promotions part. It was almost a promotion to become this truck driver. And I turned it down. And that's the reason why I left this incredible job. I was going to concerts, but that was the reason I was petrified to reverse. I didn�t want the responsibility of banging into some of these cars because it's that is not my talent.

Lisa Beres

So instead you didn't want to walk through the fear. You didn't want to try it. You just said forget it. It's just too.

Ron Beres

Okay. Okay, so I attempted to walk in here and more than a fear. It was a problem with my ability.

Lisa Beres

Well, for those of you who don't know, and that's all of you run a little secret that I'll share. I hope he doesn't mind is when Ron is driving and you're in the car with him. If you're the passenger, and you have a conversation with Heck, even if you're in the backseat. If you have a conversation with Ron, he will give you his undivided attention. He will turn his whole body and his whole head and stare at you and have a conversation with you. Okay, so this is so it's very scary. The first time you did it. I was like, what are you doing look at the road. But it's a really running joke in our family because everybody knows this about Ron. One time we were with your family. And you were following your dad and your mom and brother and their car and we were behind them and you did it and we were in Virginia and you looked at me and you hit your dad. Do you remember that? Okay, okay, okay, we'll go back to trailers. But anyway, that was a fun little thing. Okay, so no trailers for Ron. So, is that your biggest fear? Or do you have a fear?

Ron Beres

My biggest fear and you talked about walking through a fear, it's kind of funny, I got to, in a roundabout way walk through this fear of driving trailers. Because I was fortunate back in the day during college, I ended up taking an internship at Walt Disney World, and as a tour guide at what was Hollywood studios at the time, and they say, congratulations, you're going to give tours to 250 people every hour. Oh, by the way, as you go through this 15-minute tour, taking people around the back lot of Hollywood studios, and you're going to have to switch with the other tour guide. And you're going to have to drive this six-trailer vehicle through the back lot. And I can I walked through; I did do it. And the reason why I did it was I had to drive forward if I had to reverse.

Lisa Beres

So that was the deal breaker.

Ron Beres

It was reverse.

Lisa Beres

That was really cool. You did that college intern. I know you had to memorize like a 33-page script.

Ron Beres

That was a great experience. I recommend it for anyone who is looking for a good college internship to look into Walt Disney's program. It's an incredible program.

Lisa Beres

Excellent. That's great. Okay, so if you could live anywhere else in the world, besides where we are here in Orange County, California, where would you live?

Ron Beres

I had a wonderful experience back in the day when I was working in corporate America where I went to a club trip to Australia, and it was the northern part of Australia. And they pronounce it Keynes even though it looks like it's spelled Cairns. And not only is it beautiful beachfront ocean living over that part of the country. It also butts up against the Great Barrier Reef and also below it in the south is the rain forest. So, you had this lush forest and you had the ocean you had everything you can possibly imagine for a beautiful tropical vacation, and I would love to live there isn't another place to live.

Lisa Beres

Yeah. You also said the people because I have never been there you said that people are the friendliest that you've ever encountered.

Ron Beres

Just the atmosphere. Everyone was happy and easygoing, very approachable. It felt very homey. So, I highly recommend it to anyone who's looking for some exotic beautiful vacation spot to go to.

Lisa Beres

Yep. Okay, so what is something about you Ron that would surprise our listeners something that we haven't talked about because we've already had a few super Okay,

Ron Beres

I dabbled a little bit and entertainment when I was in college and a little out of college. What I mean by that it was combination of putting together a video production doing acting work so I to make a long story short, I appeared in over 33 different feature films. So if you're really quick at watching if you're quick if you're slow watching films, you might see me for the split second, and films like diehard three sitting on a truck listening to Jeremy Irons give directions to East German terrorists next to my brother on a truck that was neat. And also, I produced I was an extra I was an extra I was all for some other things too. I was that some standard work, which is a little bit more than that on True Lies. So, this is a real treat. I did some acting scenes with Swartz Nagar so when they lay out the scene, they do practice scenes before at least physically for the cameras and the lighting to get a better idea. And Tom Arnold was not in the scene but Swartz Nagar was there and they needed someone to be a prop for Swartz Nagar to throw around against a car and so I got to be a prop for that. Now that was really chosen so inspiring. James Cameron was the producer that that film and then that inspired me to do my own video. And with one of my college roommates, and we produced a video we put a lot into a lot of money, a lot of effort and ended up getting some great accolades and been nominated for Best how-to video in the country back in the early 90s.

Lisa Beres

Wow, that's amazing. I love that story. I think when I was first dating you gave me that video. And ironically, the videos I have what's the name of the video? The Video Wedding Planner So you can imagine my surprise when we run our newly dating and he gave me the video. Whoa, little funny. I was like, is he proposing? No, but is very cool. No, it's good. Okay, so here's a question that came from our producer that he thought our listeners would like to know, do I share the blankets? Or am I a cover hog? Inquiring minds want to know.

Ron Beres

Let's put it this way. I think you're the most giving person when it comes to actually sharing content, sharing audio sharing videos with all of our readers, all of our listeners and you're incredible at that but when it comes to sharing sheets, I learned over 15 plus years ago, I will not survive the cold if I do that. So, I have my own special blanket. It's the second blanket that I call my blanket just so I could sleep through the night.

Lisa Beres

It's true. I am a total cover hog. I don't mean to be stealing it. I just love to roll myself in there. And I know Ron does, he has his own special blanket that we you know, crazy, but that's how it works. Say you know what you do what works.

Ron Beres

And this is not just a blanket issue, I can tell you we have a Cal King that we sleep in, it's a very large bed, and I find myself on the edge of that bed so often because the person next to me is sleeping, I don't know, horizontal or at least spread like an axe. Pretty interesting.

Lisa Beres

It's true. It's you're guilty as charged. Okay. Um, now what makes your marriage with me so special?

Ron Beres

Yeah. Yeah. So that's, that's wonderful is a very, very assumptive. And by the way, it is it is very special. So, I do want to say to you, it's your lover, my best friend, you make me laugh. I love I love just enjoying life with you. I love doing the right things with you. I love traveling with you. I love the time we share with our friends and family. It's such an enriching experience. And it just seems so balanced. Back in the day when I grew up. I really never, ever, ever envisioned or thought that I can be such good friends with someone of the opposite sex, really. I mean, I always thought, hey, you can have a great relationship, but I didn't realize how deep and how great it can be. To be truly best friends with you.

Lisa Beres

Ah, that is so nice. I feel the same way. I actually thought that too when I was younger, so that's really interesting. I didn't think I would get married when I was little. I always saw myself as a career girl. Isn't that weird? I like to career Barbie. I don't know. But maybe because my mom got divorced. I don't know where that goes back to. But yeah, I mean, marriage is incredible. When people say, Oh, it takes work. It's so hard. It's so hard. I'm like, Okay, well, everything good is but it shouldn't be that hard. If you know, it's a good marriage you put work into like you do anything, but if you feel like it's so miserably hard. I don't know, I just don't feel like it should be that miserably hard. It. It's not, it's not for us, I guess. And I just feel like, everybody has challenges. And we all have challenges in different ways. But your marriage should be the thing that sort of is, you know, guiding and helping not pulling down. So anyway, I'm not a marriage counselor. That's just my personal experience. Okay. And finally, if you could only do one thing differently when you first started your health journey, which was after you met me, although you kind of have dabbled in it before. What would it be?

Ron Beres

This actually applies to modern day to but the example really is before you because I certainly had my attempts, just not so that I agree with you. But I wouldn't have made it so hard to be on this health journey. This is what I mean by that. And this, I loved this quote, someone shared this a long time ago. You can't out exercise, a bad diet and unhealthy living environment. You can't outwork it really so you cannot do it. So, I back in the day I did an excellent job of I worked out like a horse. I can tell you by weight, I weighed 30 pounds more. I was working on at least an hour a day. And some days I played you know basketball for a couple hours. And after having a full work day, I was eating a horrible diet. This was my typical day I would get up and I'd be like okay, and there was a little deli next to where I worked I would go by this is back I was vegetarian kind of actually I was not vegan, and I was eating cheese and dairy and every once in a while fish. So, I'd have like a, I get to egg muffins and an orange juice. scarf those down. And then three hours later, I go back to that same deli and it's time for bagel tuna sandwiches, I would have to bagel tuna sandwiches, this is no joke, they would be too big. And sometimes there'd be cheese on them because that tasted better at the time for me, and then sprinkled throughout the remainder four hours before dinner. There was a wonderful service cart of snacks, cookies, potato chips, pretzels,

Ron Beres

That four o'clock craving.

Ron Beres

It was two o'clock. And then so I would gorge on this. I must have I thought about it, I must have had at least 5000 plus calories and on top it off. I would wash it down with an unfiltered glass of water throughout the day multiple times. Soda which by the way, I ended up giving up before we met too. But for that time, I wasn't I was drinking a lot of soda. And then right before dinner, I would hit the gym for the for the exercise and then have a major dinner when I got home. And the funny thing is all those what just one of those meals probably would have been enough to eat for the day. In my environment I used to I had a very different way of thinking back then. I had a good intent of working out hard I always envisioned myself like you can just do more time at the gym or you can just do that. But yeah, my environment wasn't that solid either. And it basically sprung on a situation where I had some different things happening to me some issues with inflammatory issues and that sort of thing. So, you can't outwork out a bad diet. You can't work Rarely an environment that's unhealthy in general. And this didn't include, at the time, even the air I was bringing, I certainly was not drinking filtered water. I was drinking soda. I was I was just doing all the wrong things except the exercise. I always I always get mystify when I see all these exercise videos out there and like, you can be lean and mean, there's 20 minutes a day, an hour a day. No, it's, you know, it's what you put into. It's not just what you what you work out.

Lisa Beres

Yeah. There's a quote that I love. That's nothing tastes as good as healthy feels like that. And I think, look, we just talked about a combined weight loss of 50 pounds between us. And that wasn't like a weight loss program that was just lifestyle changes. And I think it was really poignant, what you said about you, or it's almost like when you describe that bagel and all that food you were eating, like your body just wasn't getting the nutrients and wasn't getting all the vitamins and minerals that it needed. So, it just kept looking for something else and looking for something else. And so, you never satiate that hunger, when you are putting in such you know, low energy foods and foods that have no nutritional value. So that's just a little tip. For anybody listening. You'll eat less when you eat healthy, because when you eat something really nourishing, your, you know, sends the signal to your brain like, Hey, I'm full. I feel good. Now I don't need another we eat a lot less now than even when we first met.

Ron Beres

Just this the portions themselves are drastically lower that made a big difference to kind of reduce some of the weight right then.

Lisa Beres

Yeah, and we work out less. I mean, we do work out, but we work out less. Yeah, it's a win win. You save time. But gosh, that was great. Thank you for sharing. I loved your answers.

Ron Beres

That's great. Well, first, I want to thank everyone for listening today, too. We really appreciate you being part of the podcast.

Lisa Beres

Thank you so much for joining us today. We hope you got to know us a little bit better, a little personal look at our life. And we know we really enjoyed having you. So be sure to tune in next week for another episode to find out what that hack is going on in your home.

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