Chatting with Casey Budd; YouTube Channel & content creator, photographer

Today I chat with Casey Budd. Casey, originally born in an uninspiring small town in New Jersey, is now creating freely and living naturally in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a content creator, managing her self titled business CBUDD, which involves every aspect of her creativity. 

She currently creates content on her YouTube channel focused on holistic and spiritual healing, her travels of extensive passport stamps, and finding thrift store gems to embrace her style to an audience of around 50,000 subscribers. She is no stranger to the camera and has been shooting photography for at least eight years as well. 

 

In addition, she is a breathwork facilitator and hosts one on one video chat/in-person breath sessions with individuals around the world. She has been living a Pranic lifestyle for over a year and has dedicated herself to the power of the breath and sharing it with others. Breathwork has truly been a gift that she has discovered and trusted in completely, allowing it to completely transform her overall presence and perspective of life, which is why she’s so eager to share. With extensive research in pranayama and fasting/detoxing techniques, she is known for assisting others in tuning into their inner peace and thriving within it.

 

This series features conversations I conducted with individuals who have dedicated their research, businesses, lifestyle, and health to various forms of Fasting and the science of Fasting. This podcast series is hosted by Patricia Kathleen and Wilde Agency Media. Patricia Kathleen Podcasts

 

TRANSCRIPTION

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[00:00:00] In this episode, I speak with YouTube channel and content creator and photographer Casey Budd, key points addressed were Casey's extensive history with fasting and how she combines it with breath work to retain optimal living. We also discussed how Casey has taken her expertize and created a massive YouTube and social media following that benefits from her online course and coaching programs developed and thriving over the past year. Stay tuned for my fascinating talk with Casey Budd.

 

[00:00:36] My name is Patricia Kathleen, and this series features interviews and conversations I conduct with experts from medicine and science to health and humanitarian arenas in an effort to explore the world of fasting from a variety of angles. This dialog is meant to develop a more complete story about the information, research, personal stories and culture in and around the science and lifestyle of fasting. If you're enjoying this podcast, be sure to check out our subsequent series that dove deep into specific areas such as founders and entrepreneurs. Vegan life and roundtable topics. They can be found on our Web site, patricia Kathleen .COM, where you can also join our newsletter. You can also subscribe to all of our series on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Pod Bean and YouTube. Thanks for listening. Now let's start the conversation.

 

[00:01:28] Hi, everyone, and welcome back. I'm your host, Patricia.

 

[00:01:30] And today I'm elated to be sitting down with Casey, but she is a YouTube channel content creator and she's also photographer. You can find out more about her efforts and everything we talk about today on her Web site. It is C dash bud dot com. Welcome, Casey.

 

[00:01:47] Hi. Thank you for having me. Hello. Hello.

 

[00:01:50] Hi. I'm so excited. I love talking with the YouTube channel and content creators and people who are really prolific because it's a it's a very vibrant back and forth. And so I'm excited to unpack everything. You've got such an amazing amount of content out there. And I love what you're doing and how you've tied your enterprise of fasting and breath work and everything that you are together. And so I can't wait to unpack that with you. No one is ever watching and listening. I'm going to give you a quick roadmap for today's podcast. It's going to follow the same trajectory as a lot of these in this series. So I'll first look at unpacking Casey's history with academic backgrounds and occupational life to kind of garner a platform of who she is as a person. Then we'll look at unpacking her history and story with fasting personally as well as professionally. And then we're also going to look towards cases, enterprise, attaching, fasting or accompanying it with things like breath work and things that she uses regularly and has become very well known for. I'll also ask her to define terms as they are for her. Liquid arean fasting, all of these things that people have different definitions for in their own life. And then we'll do a bunch of rapid fire questions for people who've written in wanting me to kind of inquire to specific areas of fasting as they relate to Casey. But before we get to all of that, a quick bio on Casey before I start peppering her with questions. Casey Budd, originally born in an uninspiring small town in New Jersey, is now creating free freely and living naturally in Atlanta, Georgia. She's a content creator managing her self-titled business, C Bud, which involves every aspect of her creativity. She currently creates content on her YouTube channel focused on holistic and spiritual healing. Her travels of extensive passport stamps and finding thrift stores gems to embrace her lifestyle to an audience of around 50,000 thousand subscribers. She's no stranger to the camera and has been shooting photography for at least eight years as well. In addition, she is a breath work facilitator and hosts one on one video chat in person breath sessions with individuals around the world. She has been living a product lifestyle for over a year and has dedicated herself to the power of the breath and sharing it with others. Breath work has really been a gift that she has discovered and trusted in completely allowing it to completely transform, transform her overall presence and perspective of life. Which is why she is so eager to share with extensive research and Prunty Yama and fasting detoxing techniques. She is known for assisting others in tuning into their inner peace and thriving within it. Whether it's connecting with the breath or blogging a day in the life, Casey thrives on any opportunity that allows her to freely express herself creatively and naturally. So here's a love that that that bio, as is so perfectly I have to say. After I researched, you and my team did it so perfectly. You and I love describes everything about your practices and the work that you do. And I want to get into that. But before we do that, I'm hoping that you can kind of describe to for me your academic background and professional life so that we can kind of garner a sense that, like what brought you to launching your company?

 

[00:05:17] Yeah, sure. It's actually kind of funny to answer that question, because, like a year ago, I wasn't doing any of the things that I'm doing right now. Like, not even close to it. So just to rewind a bit, I went to University of Tampa for college and I went for advertising and public relations. Graduated there in 2016 and kind of had the plan of like following the steps of life and getting a job. And I was supposed to work as a marketing photographer for this company down in Tampa and things didn't work out. And just finding how life always does that. You, like, really heartbroken in the moment, but it's like this whole redirection that I'm so glad happened. And to make a kind of long story short, once I didn't get that job. I kind of took the entrepreneur route and I was like, OK, I do this YouTube thing. I was doing it as a hobby before in college. I was just kind of like something for fun. And then I was like, OK, people do this and I buy houses and cars and I can live, you know, freely. And it was always kind of just like a struggle back and forth between this entrepreneur and professional life and like following the steps of life, but also like knowing that I kind of always was an independent kind of creative.

 

[00:06:33] And so eventually ended up moving to Atlanta, Georgia. One of my best friends from high school lived here. So kind of just like timed out perfect. We ended up moving in together and working odd jobs. But I think when I finally moved here, I was kind of like a new chapter and I really just like drove into YouTube. Things I learned in college definitely like helped. And I applied and like building my brand. But overall, it was definitely more of just like my personal growth as a person. And like spiritually, I think, like, the more I get comfortable with myself, it got easier to express myself online. And then that chance. No, I think that became more transparent to my audience. I also got involved with, like social media marketing, which is something at one point I was chasing and running and trying to make happen for so long. I wanted to create my own agency. And it's just funny. Within the past year, since incorporating this lifestyle of chronic living in the breath work and all of these things we mentioned, all of these things just seem to found me like for the longest I wanted fifty thousand subscribers.

 

[00:07:36] For the longest I wanted the creative agency and I thought I'd have all these degrees. Once I started learning the breath, I was like, it would be so cool to start teaching the breath. And all of those things I can say fully right now, just like found me a yoga studio. I reached out to me. They wanted me to teach breath work. I started to do the one on ones my own. I just through my research and through my own learning. My oldest brother is who introduced me to breastwork. He's studied it for a very, very long time. So in a sense, he's kind of like a mentor and then social media, like, I guess as my attraction started to grow people's out of reach out to me to manage their Instagram and their Facebook. And now I have like five to six clients. And I like I guess I have the agency I always wanted. And it's just funny how we like you might think how something's going to look. It's completely not like I just sit fifty thousand subscribers and it's just there was a day there was times when I was looking at that so heavily every day and now it's like, oh it just happens when you just start to like move from a different space of like love instead of lack, you know, instead of like chasing it and wanting it and expecting an outcome, just kind of like doing it from like, I just really love to do this. So it's funny. I don't always know if it's necessary, like a professional background I have, but I think it's more so just like a dedication I have to my practice and to my work that created it to be its own business and stand on its own two feet. It's just it just didn't look or go how I thought it would go at all. But I'm really happy it all worked out.

 

[00:09:07] And when I researched your story and kind of who you are.

 

[00:09:11] Business for me is also like what you just said.

 

[00:09:14] It's like the proof of your business is the business. It's amazing things. Just kind of it seems like as you started to employ techniques and things like that, it became the work. And then it sounds like it just unfolded everything that you had prior previously set out as as goals. And I like to that end, I want to start unpacking and I'm not sure if I have the right chronology, but when I was looking at your work on YouTube and things like that, it seems like the retreat or the visit out with your eldest brother in Arizona. Was that the first time that you actually started looking at fasting? And what was your education prior to that when going there? And what did you determine? How do you define fasting on that particular trip?

 

[00:10:00] Yes. So previous to that trip, I had definitely experimented with fasting before. I've been so college and went vegetarian and then after college went began. And then like there was probably leading up to last February before that trip. Maybe like two to three years rabbit experiment with fasting. Never to like the extent of what I do now. But I think one of my longest fast before that was just a fruit fast for the month of August.

 

[00:10:27] I just do like nothing but through kind of fruitarian route for a minute. But it was always a little more resistance, a little more like trying. Like, again, like I was talking about the jobs and the professionalism and things we want. It was like, okay, 10 days or 30 days or whatever it may be like I have to reach this goal. And it was more of like an effort. And then once breath work, I learned in February with my brother at the retreat in Arizona. I once I learned that technique, it was like so effortless. And I just didn't even think that that was possible with fasting. I always thought it was gonna be like a challenge or like, you know, like a force in a counterforce and implementing the breaths, like, really nourished the body in a different way than I've ever experienced before. So in that sense, like the fasting in the past was just just way more challenging, was way more hard. I think, like I said, long as it was 30 days through and before that, maybe a couple like water fasts for like a day or two. But, you know, fast forwarding to February of twenty nineteen, I think fasting changed for me in a sense of like.

 

[00:11:35] I mean, and anyone who does fast, I think they can relate like you feel really, really. I mean, there's moments where you don't feel really good, but you feel so light and you feel so good. You have like always room for thought and clarity and you start to just move at a different octave in a sense. And it was like, so why does it have to be just such a temporary thing? Like, what if we just lived like that? And I know that's a big learning thing for people to, like, kind of digest at first, like, we'll know ask to be this temporary, like, detox. But I think that switched from me last February. I was like, well, why wouldn't you just, like, stay like that? Why would you want to go back and then have to be clean and then go back? So I guess fasting became more of a lifestyle for me now.

 

[00:12:15] I don't really think about it as like, OK, I'm doing this right now and this will happen like it's definitely more of a cycle low and very just like effortless. Like it's not like I'm trying to fast anymore or like today I'm not going to do that is just like not even a desire exists.

 

[00:12:32] And I think I always kind of say this and I might be rambling, but I think a lot of times we're in this, like, pursuit of happiness instead of this happiness of pursuit, like we want to want you know, we're like we're in our no side. We're the happiness of pursuit and not the pursuit of happiness like we're so used to wanting. And no, there's no better feeling than not needing anything. And I think a lot of people are kind of scared of that. So kind of switched from me. Right? I guess I became un scared of that. Like it was good to not want or need anything like desire and peace can't kind of really coexist. So to be I like a peaceful place where you're just like I'm content, like I don't need anything. And it just became more more than just about food, I guess.

 

[00:13:14] Yeah. Relationships with contentment and things like that you talk a lot about and some of those key aspects, especially with breath work and really acknowledging, you know, what's happening and reexamining your relationship with Thyer and things like that, things that come from food, you know, things that we think we want wondering how do you define fasting for yourself? Do you find do you define it as a lack of, like chewable food or is it complete nutrients like up for you? How do you consider yourself to be in a fasted state?

 

[00:13:49] Sure. Right now, currently, I'm just doing juices for the month of June. I don't know. I'm going to keep going. But in general, for me, it's been more of just like liquids, only like a liquid area lifestyle. We have to put a arean or egen on it, a liquid arean lifestyle. So just basically for the past month, the basis of everything. And if I do have to food, because I have in the past year, like since learning breastwork, it's not like I've never will eat food ever again. I think a lot of people think so. But it's been my raw Vegan if I do have any food. But it's just like a lighter density diet. I guess you could say. I don't like the word diet, I just lifestyle.

 

[00:14:28] So just like smoothies, juices, teas, water, coconut water, that's kind of like the basis for me. Fasting looks like it feels like like I said, it's been today's day. Twenty five of just juice and coconut water and water.

 

[00:14:43] So how do they get lighter advice or do you take did you take any advice along the way or did you let your intuition lead you like do you look towards I think a lot of people here about fasting and the more understudied or naive will say, you know, that's.

 

[00:15:00] Dangerous are things like that, but I think a lot of people would say, well, you need to be under the tutelage of some school of thought. How do you personally come at it?

 

[00:15:12] I definitely think there's a big value in research before you get into something. I know I get messages all the time about how to fast, how to go Vegan, how to, how to, how to. So I think it is important to reach out to people that could help you or read books and others. A few books and people on you too, like John Rose. My brother's a big, huge mentor for me. Tyler on Instagram, there's just like a lot of research I think is definitely important before you just dove into it. A lot of people might end up doing it and then be like this didn't work or like this felt really bad. And, you know, it can it could easily have a different perspective if you don't really know what you're getting into. For me, I definitely, I think had it already in my life. My brother had did a lot of fast in front of me and a lot of my peers kind of were stepping into that room. Like I just started to kind of track that environment in a sense. And I saw people doing it. It became like real like, wow, this person, you know, my brother went like a year on just liquids. And I was like, OK. He looks great and he's moving great and everything, like, you know, became like, OK, I can connect those dots. And I think, yeah, just like seeing that and kind of experimenting on my own for sure. Like knowing my limit, knowing like my I guess you could say like my intuition of like, OK, this is too much, too little. But again, I'm like it's a broken record. I feel like I say every day. But the breath really, really made it so much easier.

 

[00:16:42] Yeah. Well, you for us, let's talk about what you were referring to. We talk about breath work and for people who haven't even heard of that and how linking it with your fasting endeavors on a day to day basis.

 

[00:16:57] So, yeah. So Branzburg is just more of like active or conscious breathing pattern or, you know, focus, breath moreso than meditation, meditation, sense to kind of be daydreaming in a sense. A lot of times we can just be sitting there and like wandering off and there's nothing wrong. I think meditation but breath work is such a like present active, conscious practice. It's a very, very ancient one. It's becoming a little more trendy now, but it dates back to like Egypt and Africa, like forever, forever. You know, centuries ago it's been been happening much like a lot of these trendy things that are now trendy. But essentially for me, what it looks like is an hour of conscious breathing every morning, first thing in the morning, before tea, before water, just completely off of your drive. Fasted state, no for you, for your breakfast or break fast with the breath work so I could nerd out about it a lot. If anybody wants to know more, I'd love to do like one on one sessions with anyone. But essentially, like you're breathing from the diaphragm, from the lower lungs. There's so much blood there that we neglect. We're really caught in the shallow breathing a lot of times. And there's a difference, you know, in fight or flight, arrest and Digest's and it's eighteen or more breaths. A minute is fight or flight. So a lot of times we're walking around and fight or fight and moving with more thinking and like more anxiety than awareness. And, you know, you emotionally eat because you have this like emotional hunger. Like, you know, you start to crave things that are really just like emotional cravings or, you know, you eat out a celebratory or habitual or just filling voids with substance. And so when you start to replace that with the breath, the cells become so oxidated oxygenated and nourished because we're breathing from this from this lower part of the lungs that we neglect, like I'm saying, and really, really helping the digestive system also get massage because you're like breathing out fully from the belly. It really, really like shows you where your true appetite is, I guess you could say. And starting the day with that is is in a sense I mean, it sounds a little hippie dippy, but starting the day with your heart, your heart is the the air, the element of air.

 

[00:19:16] If you familiar with the shockers at all, it's that element of air. And I think for me, like everything comes down to alignment and harmony. So like waking up and kind of giving that respect to the elements, like waking up with the breath, first air. And then I always follow that up with like herbal cup of tea, which it's like fire, water and earth. You know, it's hot water.

 

[00:19:39] Herbs are for grounding and setting up that alignment just really, really kind of shifts and changes and shapes the day. I have a day without it, in a day with it. It's like so transparent. The breath really like nourishes the body instead of just filling it like you do. It's food like you really feel true nourishment. I think there's a big difference in being full. Nourished. And they go so many directions. But in a sense, it also just detoxifies the body so hugely, like 70 percent of your elimination is done through the breath. Like not in the bathroom. Like we lose toxins to breathing. More than anything. So, yeah. And it's just I think just knowing about it fascinated me so much. I guess that's why we're here today and like how much I dedicated to it, because it was just so like aparent. It's kind of one of those things. I don't know if anyone will fully digest until they do it. And so you just consciously grieve or even ten minutes you'll be like, OK, wait, this. I feel different. And all I did was breathe. It's this constant thing, you know, it's here with us since we were born. It's always here. And we just kind of neglected or subconsciously don't even realize where it's at. But yes, bringing that awareness to it is essentially like breath work is it doesn't have to be this huge, complicated thing.

 

[00:20:58] Well, what I love about it is the simplicity of it is really overlooked.

 

[00:21:02] And I will say, like using myself as an example, you know, having done yoga, practicing, being avid practitioner due to my faith as a Buddhist, you know, of daily meditation, I would I would be the first person to erroneously say I yeah, I practiced breath work all the time. When you talk. Yeah. What you do is so distinctly different, you know, with breath work and just eliminating all of the other very good aspects of yoga or meditation that also incorporate the breath. But just singularly being the breath is the activity in that moment, I think really crystallizes what the breath is actually doing in all of the other activities as well. Yeah, totally different. It's also interesting to me that it's this missing piece of anyone who talks about fasting from any different realm, from science, from health, for meditative and mental clarity. All of those things that people come to fasting for. Right. They they frequently that there's a large part of the dialog about the emotional treasury and drudgery of fasting. You know, of of people they eat. A lot of people talk about it from a medical standpoint. That's your body switching over to fat reserves, yada, yada, yada. Insulin release, not released all of those things. However, there's always that emotional element that people are addressing that's incredibly difficult. And what's interesting and what I've when I've looked at what the work you were doing is the breath work is kind of this answer, you know, and this key piece about like this, the only aspects of fasting that people will say it was awful is, you know, that that feeling of of longing or missing all of those attachments and things that when you talk about work, you know, is an answer to that. You know, it's like this. This aid, you know, that you get kind of communicate with it. And I think that this because of that, they go so tangibly together. I it's interesting that fasting doesn't talk more about breath work and things that kind of answer to that. I'm wondering, with your own personal experience, it's clear that it's it's accompanied it and things like that. But have you can you imagine fasting without doing your breath work anymore? Or is it like it's become so intertwined?

 

[00:23:18] No, it's a great question.

 

[00:23:19] I think about it sometimes because, like even yesterday, I didn't really do like a full session of breath work and cravings were, like, happening at night. I mean, the only thing that changed was I didn't do my full hour in the morning. And so, yes, I do two hours now and I'm doing just like a lighter, lighter density of just use.

 

[00:23:39] But I mean, I definitely think you can fast without it. I just like I said, I feel like there's just more resistance and more of like a measurement when it comes to that. Like, I just know so many people, like I was almost at day seven and I failed at day five and like it just for me. Doesn't even become that kind of mentality for fasting anymore. Is this really like.

 

[00:24:02] Like, I prioritize the breath and it all kind of falls in line. OK. You have to worry or think about that.

 

[00:24:07] And it's just it's the craziest thing that I try to explain. Because you're like, wow. How do I just not want these things anymore? Well, yeah, I don't know. I don't think I can really imagine doing it without it. I think it's just so transparent for me now. Like it in the past. And I would fast and I would fail so many times. I can't share how many times I would say I'm going to do a three day fast, get to the end of day one and binge out on Vegan cookies.

 

[00:24:32] I, I every Vegan being like, yeah. And you create a really unhealthy cycle for me.

 

[00:24:38] And I have talked to a lot of other people that experiment fasting and they relate a lot to that. And I don't think people talk about that enough, really. It's just like how unhealthy you can kind of go with the bingeing and fasting and just like yo yo that we kind of do. We're trying to do this healthy lifestyle easily. Just wake up and binge out.

 

[00:24:55] And I'm like, OK, tomorrow I'm fasting and we just have to justify everything and bounce back and forth through.

 

[00:25:01] It's it raises like it's it's it's a crippling irony, you know, when you get into healthy measures and how it can kind of facilitate neuroses and like a disorder with food and the way that you consume it. You're right. All of the conversations and negotiations that go down with the fast before the most sage faster, you know, we'll have this kind of wild. I'll be talking to a colleague that's getting ready for a fast and she's, you know, just voraciously consuming everything in her right point of that guy.

 

[00:25:33] Yeah, that's it's. So. Yeah, yeah.

 

[00:25:36] Gry and the breath work sounds like it helps, like, return the conversation to where it needs to be, which is about, you know, I kind of like just brings you back to like OK, like because Reft literally if you look at the definition of spirit is breath like they translate to each other. Inspirer means to breathe like a lot of things just come back to breath. So it's like, OK, where's my spirit lagrima breathing from right now? Like a lot of times those thoughts and those cravings, they're really not even you. Like all other conversation. But they can be like parasites or they can be influences from other things that are you might not even be aware of that. And so you just come back and like, take a moment for clarity.

 

[00:26:13] Absolutely. All right. We're going to climb into some rapid fire questions that we've collected from audience members. All right. So the first one is, how long have you been practicing fasting?

 

[00:26:26] Let's see. It's probably been twenty, twenty four years, I'd say, in total, just like like experimented with fasting last year.

 

[00:26:37] What is your preferred fast method is always used method or length. So like it sounds, I mean, you're doing liquid dairy and diet right now are fast. But do you prefer. Do you tried. Oh man. Have you tried all of the different forms of fasting?

 

[00:26:54] The only one I guess I specifically can remember really trying is like intermittent fasting. I think that's kind of how I got into it. Like gradually I just got into lighter lifestyle. But I preferred I guess like I always kind of start with like a three day and then see where that goes.

 

[00:27:10] Yeah. When do you advise your clients or followers to fast. Have you ever, like, gotten to a place where you are advising these people with breath work or anything like that to incorporate fasting, or does it naturally happen?

 

[00:27:23] It comes a naturally happen. I, I tend to kind of step out of the way for that. I don't want to ever really like push somebody to something they're not ready for. I will say like the new moon, if anyone follows the moon cycles and stars or anything, the new moon tends to be a good time to start anything new.

 

[00:27:37] So I definitely recommend starting a fast or any type of new detox on a new.

 

[00:27:44] Nice to have you ever have goals yourself personally? We've had we had people ask about like because you have this like very fluid, like things are just kind of ways leading on way for you. Do you set goals ever with fasting based on clarity or desire?

 

[00:28:03] I guess you could say this month was kind of a goal. I wanted to do just 30 days of juice and just see what that was like. I'd cut fiber out because the smoothies have a lot of fiber. So because I still somewhat like, definitely hit little balls and things, I don't put too much pressure or stress on it. And I kind of try to just ebb and flow with intuition.

 

[00:28:21] Right. And can you define liquid arean as it as it refers to you? Does that mean that anything in a liquid form? So it is in essence, can you puree a broccoli? And as long as it's liquid, drink it. What does that mean for you.

 

[00:28:34] Yeah. Hundred percent.

 

[00:28:35] I know it sounds gross or crazy, but I like raw Vegan soup is really, really good if you can find really good ones. So for me it's like raw Vegan soups, teas, movies' juices, coconut water, even like vérité. I just, just all anything that you could not to as a liquid. Yeah. That counts for me very personally.

 

[00:28:59] And what about the chronic lifestyle that you talk about living? Can you define what that is, in essence for you?

 

[00:29:06] Sure. So Prana is essentially all around us. That is achee. The energy sitting in the sun, you charge up literally from the sun, literally from the sun, you get frohna. So essentially, it's just kind of for me personally, I'd like to just say it's it's getting back to the natural living naturally and living off of what already exists within you. I'm not depending on external things. And just having that internal peace, I guess you could say, of knowing, like, you can literally eat from the sun, from the air. There's prana, there's water vapors in the air that you can get that hydration from is just coming back to the natural, in a sense, depending on like Mother Nature, to really nurture you.

 

[00:29:49] Yeah, yeah. What about in your videos, you talk about the death of the ego. There's so many different things that you get into.

 

[00:29:58] And it's almost a therapeutic like and you have, in fact, mentioned, you know, two hours of talk therapy or one hour of breath work, you know? And you get into things that breath work and fasting that have led to for you emotional release, the ability to cry without, you know, as a scribing pain or judgment to it, anger that comes up, sadness, good and bad. You know, not all this like flowery, lovely moments, but you talk about how they come about with breath work and the utility of that. Like it's not being a bad thing anymore.

 

[00:30:33] You talk about the death of the ego and things like that.

 

[00:30:38] Do you feel like it's accompanied with fasting or do you think all of that is just brought about with breath work, as is fasting?

 

[00:30:47] Does giving the ball like both of them tie together? And I will say, like in this past year of practicing breath work and everything, I think in a sense and with fasting, like you give everything up to receive everything. You kind of like make room, in a sense for. For you to receive more from one of my favorite books, the dad teaching is kind of like my lifestyle. If anyone familiar with that book, just like you give everything up to receive everything and like pass, you have gotten rid of so many clothes. I don't wear makeup anymore. Like, my friends have kind of changed around, like just over my you know, you're a magnet in a sense. So you attract a different reality when you start to be at a different density. And so, like, I'm feeling a lot lighter. I feel like that kind of shifted everything around me to like, again, needs just kind of drop like, OK, food wasn't as crazy of a value to me anymore. So neither was like material things and desires in these temporary, you know, satisfactions of like new shoes or whatever, you know, makeup and all that kind of like ego, ego esque, you know, dressing the vessel up to look a certain way or whatever. It's not like I don't like dressing up anymore or anything like that. It's just I guess attachments just kind of shifted, you know, once I got into this lifestyle.

 

[00:32:01] Absolutely. So when you coach, you do one on one coaching, is that correct? You still do?

 

[00:32:06] Yes. Yes, definitely.

 

[00:32:08] So if someone's looking to get involved with it and things like that, do they just sign up for a one on one session with you for their breathing, or do you recommend that they educate themselves first?

 

[00:32:17] How does that work?

 

[00:32:19] I have yeah. I would definitely say I just you can go ahead and book a session with me. I tend to love when people get. I have like a one on one just one session and then there's a three pack that you can get for like once a week for a whole month. And that one is kind of I get to be a bit a little nerd out with you a little bit more and like teach you a little bit more. And also lead you through a couple of sessions. I also just released a six week video course that really, really like if you don't want to listen to me ramble too much, you can just do the whole chorus that kind of introduces you to breath work, how to breathe, how to properly fast the herbs that I take, just like kind of getting into this like. So that kind of helps with that, too. But in general, like, you know, experience is needed. You could have never even heard of breath work. I've worked with people that have done it for years. And, you know, today I had somebody that's like never done in their life. So wherever you're at, I can meet you for sure.

 

[00:33:13] Well, I like that. And that's so the six week course, all of that's on like the sea.

 

[00:33:18] But I mean, find that. Yeah, on my website, I just really sit, like, on Sunday, I think. So it was like a baby I've been nurturing for a while. So good to release it to the world. Yeah. And a book with innovations. And there's kind of information.

 

[00:33:33] Yeah. When people don't have like exactly what you're saying, the herbs and you know, it's nice to have like the whole picture.

 

[00:33:40] And Yeah. And sometimes it can be a lot to like pour onto somebody at once, you know, like sometimes you need to take bites as they go. OK. This week we're doing this, this week we're doing this. And that's kind of how I formatted it. Like each week you kind of like take more steps into the water, into your food, hopefully.

 

[00:33:57] Well, lately, I imagine there's been a lot of conversation about the covered 19 pandemic, at least in some of the communities you function in. There have been nothing but in the ones that I function in when it comes to health and and diet and wellness and the immune system. Do you have any, like, key takeaways that you and your community talk about when it comes to, you know, the overall state and health of you personally or the world on a whole?

 

[00:34:28] Yeah, I mean, it's a big picture to look at and to dove into, but. I mean, with so much emphasis on breathing right now, it's just I can't I can't be just ironic. You know, like I mean, just one the agrarian season we may be in of just knowledge and information. That's an error sign. And then, you know, George. George Boyd, I can't breathe. And that includes a respiratory infection and the face masks. It's just like like I said, the breath detoxifies the body more than anything you could do. So like, I don't know, a lot of conversations I've been having with people is just just really like turning internal to fix the external, I don't know, fixes the word I want to use. But it's a big reflection, you know, the internal versus external. And the more and more I think we prioritize just the simple thing of just going internal and getting that piece right in the breath. Right in spirit. Right. I think I could really, really shift the literal pressures of the world. Every time you do breastwork, you are kind of shifting through the, you know, the pressures. And so, I don't know, it's it's like a good and I don't know what where to put on it, but it's definitely just like a wake up that's happening in the world. And yeah, I guess like with Earth and everything is in this big fast herself just detoxifying. And I think it's is a big reflection and I don't know, I can't say like I'm not excited or excited for what's happening. I just think, you know, nothing changes if nothing changes. So in a sense, it might be what's necessary for people to kind of open their eyes a little wider. 20/20 vision. Yeah, I think I think a lot of it, though, if we prioritize like peace as much as we do a lot of other things and kind of turn to ourselves for the sources that we look to the TV for, so much like, can you go inside and see what's really needed here instead of these external validations and sources?

 

[00:36:20] Absolutely. I agree. And I love the way that you're coming at all of that. You know, I think that that you had there's an incredible tie in, you know, with the breath that you just kind of did this incredible trifecta, quite frankly, the world, the earth, our our society and the United States, with the murder of Judge Floyd, like all of those things, the breath kind of relating back in the earth, everything. I think it's a beautiful thing. And I I think that it's we do need to make sense of things. You know, we do need to be able to take tragedies and and actually do something with them. Work is actively doing that, you know. A hundred percent. So cool. I love how you came at fasting. I love this story and your combination with it. I think it's so wonderful, Casey. And I really appreciate you taking the time to speak with us today.

 

[00:37:08] Thank you so much. I appreciate all of your questions are really, really fun to answer and reflect on. So I appreciate being here. Thank you.

 

[00:37:15] Absolutely. And for everyone listening, we have been speaking with Casey, but she is a YouTube channel and content creator, as well as a photographer. She has a company, a consulting. You can find out more on her Web site. That is C dash, but B, you, D, D, dot com. And thank you for giving us your time today until we speak again next time.

 

[00:37:37] Remember to stay safe, eat well when you do eat and always bet on yourself. Slainte