And Ingrid de la marck any I'm the CEO and founder of the method she's also my wife and she's the smartest woman I've ever met. First of all, she's my mom and she's really cool. She's all that and she's a Superhero. This is the part of my French podcast. - on this episode you'll hear about wellness fitness French autism and lifestyle a train fucking Chic gangster podcast hosted by Fitness and Wellness French adonys mm Guru and creator of the method to body Yours Truly Ingrid de la marck any live from Monte. Monaco on this show, you'll find a mix of audio entertainment including listener and audience questions answered about health Wellness Lifestyle Family and relationships and my friend holistic tips to be healthy have your best body and transform both your body and your mind set into the happiest ever as well as leaving labelled Z lifestyle like a Chic French gangster. Hello and welcome to pardon my French episode 24. I am Ingrid de Lamar Kenny and I am live from Monaco today lucky for you. I'm not having one of those rambly monologues. I am joined by someone. I have a lot of respect for her name is Katherine the very well-known Montreal blogger kg M TL. I know a lot of my Canadian audience and even my North American audience from the United States got really excited when I connected with Our over Instagram. I am super excited to bring her on what I absolutely love about Katherine is that she is not uncensored. She's on sponsored. This is to feel that I get from her. She is very knowledgeable what how well care she has amazing daily tips and tricks. She has some incredible recipes. She even has just an Instagram for her rest. He pees she's talented in the kitchen. Everything is so healthy, but not boring. She eats real food all of the advice and content she has to offer is so valuable. Everything has so much Integrity you feel I know the word authenticity is overrated. That's why I like to stay on sponsored. Of course, she'll have a few discount codes here and there and she you know, we'll probably advertize here and R4 few companies but most of the valuable content and knowledge. She shares with us on her Instagram comes from her being an amazing business woman. Let me explain. I always said that to have a successful business a business owner has to be its products its products own guinea pig and I always said about inulin or anything even the method I was the methods guinea pig. I tried the method on myself. If first two whole protocol the exercise, I you know all the trial and errors. I'm the one who kind of like tested them out with Katherine. I feel like everything that she preaches everything that shows us everything that she endorses and I'm not even talking about an advertising endorsement. I'm saying things that she swears by or practices everyday are completely unspun surd and unbiased she has so much Integrity. She Says it like it is. I think that you will find a lot of value in our story especially because it's so real also because she tells it all she explains that she was on, you know, the heavy side before and she's had to Lost to lose a lot of weight. She's had skin issues. We've shared our fertility Journey or Fells and our hopes. We've also spoken about the hardship of being in the public eye. She's well. The public hi, sorry in the public eye. She is. Well known in Montreal Montreal is really small. So she talks about, you know, the exposure and how to deal with it sometimes and you know how people sometimes you know cross the line. So I think that you will find a lot of value in this interview is very real. We've had some small technical difficulties. You have to realize and I'm sure most of you do she is in Canada, I mean Monaco so we depend a lot on Wi-Fi and I think we had a few you ins and out on inner connection. I did not have it edited because I wanted to lose not a beat of the conversation everything that Catherine discussed has so much value as far as I'm concerned. I'm sure that you will agree with me. Once you get to meet her on my podcast and I eventually hope that she will get her own podcast. She's really a natural. She gives it all she gives it to her or she gives it her whole as well. She is very very generous with her trial and errors and with the information that she puts out there. She works really hard. She has the camera interface from the morning when she wakes up and pretty much tells you how she goes about her day. I saw her making a bulletproof Bulletproof Coffee, you know, and even though I'm not a fan of bulletproof I hear out. I want to hear what she has to say about certain products about, you know, the goodness in some of the food that she eats. And I kind of tend to listen to her and have definitely my ear totally tuned in to what Katherine has to say. So I thought that you would love to hear from her and I have no doubt that you will fall in love with her the way I have fallen in love with her and her realness her knowledge her content and the hard work that she puts into being social media Superstar as she is so without further. We do here is Catherine Garbarino de famous Montreal kg M TL. Hi, Katherine. Hi. Thank you for joining me on pardon my French. I'm so excited. This is my first podcast ever your podcast virgin. Yeah gonna popping my cherry Happy Well, I like that. I am so excited to have you on I'm going to tell our story and how we met in a second. But first I so you need to know right before we play this. The podcast is pre-recording pre-recorded. Obviously, I record an introduction so you will get to discover the introduction that I recorded about you and it's very nice. Don't worry when you listen to the podcast like everybody else. But so I summarized pretty much who you are and you know, like why I brought you on for anyone who doesn't know you but I think a lot of my audience already knows you my I know my Canadian community. Was thrilled when they found out that we started tagging each other. Yeah, and for me too, by the way with my audience also loves you, that's so cool. You're really well-known in Montreal. You really well known in Canada, but believe it or not for me. It's an American friend who actually made me discover you she's in New York, and she was watching your story. She's was following you for a little while and she sent me a post about something and she wrote. This is you but in Montreal this is you in Canada. She's the same person and I went and I started looking at your story and I wrote to you and I was like, oh my God. Yes, so true and then I heard you cursing and I'm like, oh my God, I love her and then I and then I heard you sing it like it is and I was like, oh my God, it's true. She's exactly like me. So I and and it ended up being so true. I watch your stories religiously. I find you too. So yeah, like a girl crush but even better because for me it's like you really say it like it is your very very very authentic and I know a lot of us today. I hate this word because it became like a million-mile kind of word, but you're very authentic you stayed like it is sometimes I find you even harsh but I like it. I think that it's so different from people that are constantly sugarcoating and something I noticed about Canadians unlike Americans and I You know part American is that they sugarcoat a lot less and they like sugar coating a lot less than Americans do. So this is where you want I'll do that's true. I always dance is Ron unfiltered like apple cider vinegar. You are and but in a good way like you could see that your when I watch your stories, I could see that you want to give everything. You want everyone to have your best tips. And we're going to talk about that because you have amazing tips about Health Fitness lifestyle decoration. I excused going on those shopping Expeditions and bringing back stuff for your house. I think you just moved also. So you like this been redecorating stop me if I'm wrong but everything. About you is extremely raw. And another thing I admire so much about you is that you do a lot of videos of yourself whether you're wearing makeup or not, whether you just woke up or you're all made up. It's like we see you all day long sometimes I watch you on silent. I don't even listen to you. I just look at your videos because you're so pretty and then I listened later on the people around me or something and I just you're very present. Your present is like is is is amazing your there and I love that. Thank you. That means a lot that's really sweet. So you you know, I'm not sweet. I say like it is nice tell you this all the time and I love it whenever yeah, Mike and I mean when you say that I'm like I love I'm like that means it's really true that it is it is I swear. So tell me you told me you started only two years ago. So your name on Instagram is not Katherine. It's kg M TL. You have an insane following I have Canadians that literally it like wrote in uppercase. Oh Oh my God, I love Catherine. When I started posting you. Do, you know you have an insane following these women are so passionate about you, but you only started two years ago. Yeah, so I basically have been on Instagram before Instagram was a social media platform. So I was using Instagram to filter and edit like pictures. I don't know if you how long you been on Instagram but when like back when Facebook was still yeah, they're still the thing. Yeah, you know, we take pictures on our phones and then Instagram used to be an app that you would use to actually they had like, I don't know eight or 10 preset sort of filters like Valencia and expert. Yeah, and the horror You could put to remember that one there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you could put the you could put exactly you could put the border around it. Right? Yeah, so I used to actually use Instagram and then take those pictures and upload them to Facebook to like my mobile uploads or whatever and then eventually it became a social media platform and my name was cagey MTL because my first since I can remember everyone calls me kg because my name is Katherine Garbarino and Mt. L stands for Montreal. So about two years ago. I was kind of in between jobs and business. Like I had I was in the clothing business. I had a legging company where I made leggings with my sister's I have two younger sisters that are twins and we had a company and it's a really long story. But basically I was not doing my accounting right because I was doing everything myself and I got audited for like a large amount of money because the sales tax had changed in Ontario and we kind of alike Let's put the business on pause for a minute. Let's figure out what I'm going to do. And at the time I was in just met my now husband my life was in a bit of a world wind and I went into consignment sales and I was telling you know, these wealthy women's things on eBay like they're you Chanel bags or shoes or whatever and it wasn't a passion really, right. So I was kind of just like floating and I got married and then one day I was talking to a woman who's kind of my mentor and she's like, you know you I was like, I don't know do it my life. And she's like you're the business like people want to know what you're doing. I had lost a lot of weight. I had cleared up I had cystic acne and I you know, I there's just so many things have changed physically with me and like Montreal's a small City. So people are always stopping and asking me for questions and I already had maybe like 4,000 or 5,000 followers on Instagram and she's like just start sharing your life whether it's a blog or this or that and insta story had just started. So I was like, I'm just going to start sharing everything I do like or whatever just Did with a tip and I just kept going and the engagement was there and my following grew and that's kind of how it happened. So it's been two years now, which is like crazy to me because you had same growth like your your audience. I am I learned I know you know that I'm really good friends with Lauren from the skinny confidential and I learned from her. I love her she's a lot like us and I'm sure you'd get along with her. Actually I speak I speak to her about you all the time. That she seems like she just seems like our typa she you know, she didn't say yes. So she's super Instagram Savvy. She's like really a like a Savvy blogger and I'm a little bit older than both of you. I'm 41. So I'm learning a lot from her. I've been on Instagram for as long as you mentioned it took me a while to get onto stories took me a while to be open about my life because it was complicated with the past that I have with my children with you know, my past go into And would like my changing business and all of that my divorce like trying to protect my ex-husband but she's taught me something in the past year, which now I realize it's very important. She was like being verified is not that important anymore and I don't give a shit about I noted and I used to think it was important. But then again I was like who the fuck am I to get verified? And as long as you're not verified no one takes you seriously, but then again who the fuck am I to get verified and I was doing this back and forth in my head today. I felt like I just say say one thing about being verified sure some me. Okay, like I understand that it's like kind of like clout like it's like it's like internet clout but I feel like most of the people that are verified that like quote-unquote shouldn't be there's a lot of because yeah, it's because they know someone they know someone on Instagram and so it's all about, you know a connection and to be honest if I'm going to get verified, I want it to be because there's a reason for me I don't care like, you know exactly I so agree with But she stopped me something and I look at your account and your engagement and I know she's right and I of course it's harder to see it with perspective on yourself. So from on the outside looking in the engagement is 10 times. If not, a hundred times more important that the likes that you get then the amount of followers that you have and I'm looking at your engagement the amount of people that are tagging you just I follow my followers. I follow a lot of my followers once they Not having a dialogue with me. I start following them. I kind of look at their lives. I love getting to know them. I should do more of that. You should do more of that you get yeah, I should credible people and on top of it. They you know, I always tell them I deal with what wellness and health and I feel like when it comes to Wellness and your health, it's not about having a fan club. It's much more serious than that. That's why I follow a lot of my followers and following these followers that start a dialogue with me the minute we start talking. That to exchange. I see a lot of them tagging you. I see a lot of them going as per kg M TL like you have incredible engagement, but you're also have a presence to minute. I wrote to you you answered me within 5 minutes. That's yeah, I admire that so much because I answer that every single DM and it's a lot of time but people are like you're crazy. Why do you ask them get an assistant to do it? I'm like, no. I that's one of the things I I love the most is like I've it's changed me being on Instagram for some people it changes them for the worst and it makes them narcissistic and it makes them like think that they're like so special for me. It's humbled me it's like wow like yeah the amount of women who I can relate to who like who knows where there's I have followers in Alaska like like literally and I'm like, holy like and we can literally be like on the same page about like different things in our lives and it's so cool and it's like, what's the word? It's like a camaraderie like between people that think is So amazing and it's humbling, you know you I agree with you. I stayed all the time and I feel so humbled by it. I view level you have a little bit more followers than me. You also have a lot of Engagement. You are extremely present I think today this is a full-time job for you. Yeah it is and we gonna get yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, I want to get to that because we you know, I announced to on the previous podcast episode the one that came out this week. We're recording all ready for Friday, but the one that came out this past Friday I announced that you were coming on some I was so excited about it. And I know stupid my followers. I'm excited to add so many people are already excited. They knew I gave it. I gave it up right away and said you were coming on well, but I went on I'm so excited. I was like a lot of people happy by coming on but we did and I do want to talk about it. We'll talk about our fertility journey and you're going to tell us what you want to tell us but there's the other aspect that we must absolutely absolutely speak about like you said, you don't have a podcast yet, but I think you will very soon. Yeah, it's super important that you tell my audience your audience what you told me about, you know boundaries when it comes to your life. So we'll talk a little bit about fertility. And then after that I do want to talk the fact that you're so engaged the fact that you love your foot. Lowers that you answer them does not necessarily mean that you have to answer to them and that you have to give up every little bit of your private life. And I think it's important we talk about it. Do it now. Let's do it. So we'll start with the fertility part though the way that you and I met like I said, I was Dara my friend Derek a who's amazing. She's been on my podcast before she came to talk about the FDA. She's very knowledgeable about, you know health and wellness because she's in public relations, but when it comes to public relations for you know, Health beauty products wellness products, so she was He's really knowledgeable about that stuff and I do believe that's why she was attracted to your account and following you in the first place. She's the one who sent me a story you gave an opinion about something and she said, this is the version of you in Canada, and I started to follow you. I instantly fell in love with you. We started talking and I watched her story about Wellness. I watched to making your Bulletproof Coffee and I said to Catherine, I think I want to send you in your lane and I never ever do that. I never do that. That for the simple reason that I've been wanting in your lane to take over the world organically. So I never send in your lane for free to bloggers. I really feel like today the way that people are influenced is no longer like before where a blogger or an influencer get something for free and within the minute they open the box. They go I love this product and I didn't want candy in Europe. And so I remember I said I'm going to New to you, but please promise me that you will not talk about it until you try it and you love it. And you said oh my God that is exactly who I am. I would never talk about it unless I know what I'm talking about. So I wanted you to try it because I could see that you had so much knowledge when it comes to Wellness and that you were doing all the right things. Like I watched you eating, you know, healthy fats and I watch you not being like on a, you know, actually the Meant that you had made was about a diet. And you said like it's too low in calories. It's too restrictive. I don't like it this and not and I sent you a Newland and when you receive that you started asking me questions about fertility. So we had to get a little bit more personal and I did between us because as a professional if you ask me stuff, you know, I'm going to draw my conclusion go. Oh, maybe she's pregnant. Maybe she wants to get pregnant. But whatever reason you ask me those questions. I answered them the best I could and then you open up and you said I'm trying to have a baby. I've gone through different stages. This is where I'm at. And this is what's happening with me. And so that's how we started our kind of fertility talk and we grew closer because I also you know had like seven miscarriages and the last one was in June last June and when you and I started to talk I said she will I had a miscarriage in June since then I decided to give my body a break because in the course of the last four years I have been getting Pregnant and ending up with no baby. I needed a break. This is what's happening. And this is how we exchanged. It's exhausting. I know you've sure you've shared part of your journey. I want to I want to talk about it with you. I kind of want to you know, bring in a little bit of your story and I'll talk about me a little bit and then we'll talk a little bit about in your lane, even though so far. It has nothing to do with fertility. But you know, I did mention to you that it can help it has helped people regulate their cycle and things like that. But let's put in your line aside. Let's talk about what you have been through and I know you shared some of that with your audience before. Yeah. So basically, you know, when I first got married, I really just want to get pregnant right away kind of I hate to say it and to make like a generalized statement, but I'm a Jewish girl and I live in Montreal and that's kind of what we do. It's like you get married. I'll have a baby and it's like Bam Bam Bam. So originally that's what I thought and if you don't have the baby everybody. He's like, oh my God. Why isn't she having a baby? Yeah, right. And then even if you do have a baby it's like your second baby and it's like never end. I know but I guess that's just society and I think eventually I think over and over the next 10 years that's actually going to change but point being is that I basically tried to get pregnant for a good I'd say year and then there was just different things that we started to know test and then I was kind of like, okay, let me just wipe in For a year, there's so much going on. We were moving. I was like, let's just give it a break or never went to go see a fertility doctor everything kind of looked totally fine. And I have to say this and this is something that I think some people don't understand about fertility. Is that sometimes there is in fact something once was that a reason why maybe you're not getting pregnant or why it's not working but very often and this is my own theory on it. It's about the mix of the of the to people sometimes sometimes. Um, yeah, the man's sperm and the woman's egg like that sperm is not going to crack that egg got whatever it is, you know, so I agree with you, you know, so I could be made with someone else because I've been pregnant in the past and I got pregnant when I was on the birth control pill when I was 22 10 years ago and it was like I you know, I was listening I had an abortion I wasn't ready which is by the way a hard thing to swallow now, but it was the best thing yeah in the time but the point is is that sometimes it's not really that there's something specifically wrong and I think that's like a big misconception but it's just the mix of the two people maybe for whatever reason, you know, it just isn't working or it's taking too long or it's whatever so I had done five inseminations which in my opinion is, you know, it could work but it's so so so such a small chance that it's going to work but in Canada have most things are on Medicare and the way that they want you to do things, especially when you're young if you're under 30 35 they're not in a rush to get you pregnant. So they're like you have you know do Nation doing cementation, you know, so if I could go back now, I wouldn't have wasted so much time I thought but I did and I did my inseminations and didn't work and then I did most of them naturally did someone hormones and then I finally decided. Okay. I'm going to do IVF did my egg retrieval I was over stimulated. So I had to take like, you know, I had to not do a an immediate transfer which is usually how Works and then last summer toward the end like in the end of July. I did an IVF transfer and I it was the most like traumatic disastrous experience because I basically ended up having an ectopic pregnancy. But for those women who are listening it's the words and for anyone who's listening who had an ectopic pregnancy. First of all, if you get pregnant naturally, it's almost worse because you don't even realize that It's an and all of a sudden you could just be in like doubled over in pain and you have to rush them. Yeah, and you could literally God forbid die, but but in my case because I was doing IVF. They really monitor you and they're always taking your you know, Apes your beta HCG. So your pregnancy hormones and they're seeing and they can kind of like see okay, something's not right, you know, and so they figured out pretty quick that I had an ectopic. But so for me, it was like I want to get pregnant so badly. I did all this stuff and then I couldn't wait to not be And it took me so long for my mother feeling. Oh my God. It's like, you know, it's such a weird mental shift to go through life. Yeah dying to be pregnant to be dying to not be pregnant and just get your period, you know, and to me did you go through the did you go to food that weird moment where you kind of like ask them if they can save the pregnancy because I have I was like can we save it and they looked at me like are you like insane? Are you retarded? Do you know what it's like, you know, it's like shit, you know. Like I'm finally pregnant. Yeah not viable like yeah, you know, it's really yeah, it's really really hard for sure. Like I mean, I I mean listen they weren't finding it on an ultrasound for weeks. So it took so I kept having hope that they kept saying well your levels are still a bit low and maybe it you know, there's different bell curves and maybe it's their maybe it's not anyway, they ended up doing a 3D ultrasound finding it. So yes for four weeks. I had this like I had such high hopes as I could get, you know, I It's so mentally exhausting to go through that because your life is it is it not like you said your you want it? So badly that even if when you look from a medical perspective, you're like, okay, this girl's gotta like, you know realize that this is not happening right now, but when are in it, you just want it to happen that you could believe anything, you know. So anyway, long story short it ended up not being viable. It ended up being an ectopic and I decided I had to share it because like I said, Said it was so exhausting. I was three to four days a week. Just trying to because that you have to do blood tests all the time to see if your levels are lowering and then I still ended up with internal bleeding in the hospital. I didn't I didn't rupture my to but I still end up in the hospital and so I just felt like I'd been through so much and my whole thing with my Instagram is that I wake up and it's not really that I plan. Oh, I'm gonna this is plan and that's fine. It's like this is my life and I share what's going on in my life. no, and so even if I do my morning segments where I'm giving information on something all be saying hi to my love or the right reason why I'm talking about it started to feel I feel like okay like I'm not. I'm getting up every morning. I'm putting on a sport making a bulletproof coffee that I'm not drinking. Well, it's like there was so much going on that was not real anymore and it started to make what I love about the Instagram is I'm shedding helping other people and I started to feel like I'm not like helping other people and I'm being a bit of a fraud. Okay. So when I say this it sounds wrong, but my whole thing is that I'm being real. So I'm kind of lying to the follower right? I'm going to work. I'm going to do this everything's great. And it's not great. I'm going through this if I'm going to share all the good stuff and all these amazing packages I get and all these whatever this health tip and I feel great. I have to also share this the downside to things and what I really wanted to convey was number one. I want to free myself of these lies and a sense number one and number two. I wanted people to understand that. You know, what you see on social media is not Not always the whole story. So I'm going to I'm not going to go fight with my husband which we all have sites with our husbands and our friends and our family and our this I'm not like oh, hey, I just had a fight with my husband and film it. You know what I mean? So there are downsides everyone shares. Yeah highlights of their life and I felt like I needed to share it. I felt like there's got to be tons of other women going through something similar with fertility and I want and I don't want to be an advocate for them. But I wanted to freaking taboo like a lot of women. And I've been told by like their older parent or you know a sister and I don't like we don't talk about it. We don't talk about it so I could become so taboo that it's depressing and it's ridiculous because forget ectopic pregnancies but 1 in 4 to 5, let's say 1 in 5, so 20 percent of pregnancies end in miscarriage, which is a huge statistic. I can't even if I took a group of 10 women, you know, three or four would have had a miscarriage or more than one miscarriage and and for me, what was a very He difficult was wrapping my head around the fact that like my whole life. I've tried not to get pregnant and now I can't and then when I do this happens or that happens, and I wanted to talk about it. And so I did and I was it was the most freeing experience ever and it was cathartic and I got to hear so many other women stories and I got to you know, I didn't really get much negative stuff out of it. Thank God. Luckily. I know that it can go both ways. A'ight, you know, I definitely found it to be healing but then like, you know the results of the other side of it where months would pass and you know, I wasn't talking about fertility because I don't want my whole like my life is not just about fertility. I have so many different dimensions, right? It's like you try not to make it about fertility. I've had friends who have gone divorced over this because the husband couldn't take it anymore where it's always about fertility. That's why I took a break I might Last miscarriage was in June. It was an amazing pregnancy was going really well for three months. And I thought you were even three months. Yeah, we would like three months two weeks and you know, she'll and I were like wow, this is you know, this one feels right? We would go to the doctor the heart beat with great the ones the ones before sometimes problem with the heartbeat or it was this or was that it wasn't attached. Well this time it was like it seems perfect and you know, when when we lost the baby again I had to go Through the DNC and all of that stuff and like you said, I went from being pregnant and loving being pregnant too. I couldn't wait to not to be not pregnant anymore like get it out and that and that process took a week and that was horrible because I had a baby inside of me that would that was no longer alive, but going through that whole process after the month of June. I kind of looked at she'll and said, you know what I'm 41 years old to doctor said that my eggs still look quite young. I'm still fine. I can still get pregnant. So I don't have a problem getting pregnant. I have a problem. Staying pregnant, you know, so I think we're going to take a break and I did it mostly for a marriage because if you let it fertility can take over your life and I have kids and my kids started to feel it. So it was like we took a break I you know took a break. We're still on the break. We're going to start trying again soon and I felt like this is a break to prepare my body but also to get close to my husband again without it having to be about fertility. Yes, and I think it's Super important to look at it that way so when you're saying people are starting to ask you this is what you said before like. Well, how about the baby? You're not talking about anymore. It's like you're trying to not make your marriage just about that because they were my life to your life. Yeah. It's like with our, you know, grandparents like in the Jewish families. Yeah, it's all about that. Like the woman has baby. It's about fertility, but not today anymore, and we don't want to let it be that way anymore. So at some point you just need to take a fucking break and people have to hey you, you know if you Well my fertility Journey like when's your last IVF transfer and it's like first of all like number one unless I get it all the time. That you know, obviously there are going to be we're all raised differently right and people don't I think for the most part I think most people don't have a bad intention. They're not asking to try to trigger me. They're not asking to try to make me feel shitty. I just know that for me and what like I was raised to never ask those kinds of questions, but not everyone was raised that way and not everyone has the same boundaries that I have and we're all different, you know, so it wasn't trying to attack that specific person. It's just In that moment. I was like, you know the fact that someone could say to me. When's your next IVF transfer? It's like I want to be I'm sorry. When are you going to go have sex with your husband tonight? Like The Next Period that's like people who don't think like and I was just like you don't know what's going on with me. Maybe, you know everyone and like you said earlier, you know, you see my whole life. I'm always on. I'm always sharing that it's not just one part. It's all the time. So I've put myself in this position. Okay, but But with that being said, I'm still allowed. I'm still a human being I so I'm someone who's going through my own stuff. Not every single minute of my life is on camera. And you know, these are things that are like like when I have something to share and when I'm by ably pregnant and I'm ready. I cannot wait to share it with my followers and I cannot wait to you know, go through that with myself and my husband and I Think about certain things are not, you know meant to be shared until they're meant to be shared and you know, even if there's other things that have gone on or whatever unless I really think that my reasons are right meaning that like when I shared in Maya Topic in my whole fertility Journey, it's it was partially to like free myself of the quote-unquote stigma and the secrets and the whatever. Yeah, but it was also to help other women and to be like yo, you guys look up to me because you think that I have it all together, but But I'm also going through this. I'm a human being this is what's going, you know, people look at us because we film our life as characters. They don't see us as people not as Ramses on plans, you know, so when I shared it it was like yeah like I mean look at JLo, I don't know if she did IVF, but I'm just saying like we look at I think she did. Yeah, like we look at dad, you know, we look at these celebrities and that helped me also like it sounds so stupid, but I would listen to like Chrissy Teigen and her IVF stories and like when I was going through it and I was Oh my God, like she went through it and it made me feel this like Sisterhood and I was like, okay these people literally no me my followers literally like no me so I need to share this because if one in eight women do IVF or 15% of women get help, you know conceiving that's a really like, so that means probably that 15% of my followers or you know have have done IVF. And so I think I'll actually when you shared with me I felt closer to you and hey, I'm almost 10 years older than you but I automatically we're talking about in your land and all of the sudden you shared that with me and like automatically I shared with you and I felt closer. I was like, oh my God, I'm not the only one and one thing where we totally connected which was very hard for me. And I think it's important we talk about it because you said the same thing and sometimes I'm thinking. Oh my God, I'm being such a bitch but very often I look at some women being pregnant and I'll see them at the restaurant eating french fries and a hamburger and they don't you know their Doesn't look really good and whatever and I go. Oh my God, like she's eating. So unhealthy. She doesn't look like she does any sports and she managed to get pregnant and there for me. That was like that's something that's hard like I'd so healthy and you know, I you're doing everything I don't diet. Yeah, I do real probiotics. I don't bite, you know crazy vitamins on Amazon that I you know that I swallow every day. And I know for you is the same thing as you said that to me and I was like in right you said it to me where I retrospect I had already been through That you know train of thought and I said to you. Oh my God, I have the same train of thought Catherine. You can't think like that you remember? Yeah. Well, I was like when I went This might be the story of the journey. Whatever. Yeah, I hate and I were allowed to swear. Everyone gets one. So, you know weird for me, but I have been so blessed with so many amazing things and And I have my health and I have an amazing blessings that actually instead of being bitter and I know a lot of women that go through fertility or even if they're not infertility, they're having miscarriages or having problems getting pregnant and they become bitter and for me, it's actually been the exact opposite. It's made me grateful for the good things and realize how lucky I am for so many things because everything in my life before this was exactly what I wanted all the time. I never, you know, really did. What I wanted and so it taught me a lot. But yeah, so when I was in when I was going through the atopic when you were the atopic Clinic is and where you know, the pregnant women go to do their ultrasounds in their checkups and whatever it's all the same waiting room and there are these like drunk women coming in like I was there often we talk bellies and I was like, they're probably gonna have a perfectly God knows God. I hope they're babies are healthy, but they're probably have a perfectly normal child and they're pregnant. It's no problem, and it's Like and I would sit there and be like what hat like I of course, I believe in God trust me, but sometimes I was like, I just don't get it. Like I just but there's got to be a bigger reason, right? So definitely and I have to tell you I got to know and understand that it does not always have to do with what you eat or what you're not eating or you know, like what you're doing with your body your work out whatever it has nothing to do with I got I got to learn that. Yeah, which speaking of which I absolutely The fact that you cook because you know that I cook. Yes. So it's any I wanted to rare from even somebody else. I have to thank I'm gonna send you the cookbook. I actually have a hard copies and soft copies coming with an Eco book of until now, but I was waiting to get the soft cover and hardcover to send you on so you can make the vinaigrette because it's in there, but I see that you cook you actually even have an Instagram account just for your cooking which is so nice because you're so young. Young and today a lot of young women do not cook with the passion that you cook with everything looks so delicious. Thank you, but everything is also I love love love. It's so Savvy but it is not new age Kettle or shmatte. Oh, it's like you literally make a grill food. And I love that. I love that about you. Please explain to me how you were able as someone who's young because you're a generation right before me and I find that your generation is even my generation it's like I'm changing people's mind about it now, like my audience is starting to go back to the old ways kind of you know, but how is it that you also stepped away from all of these new age stuff like the keto and you know, all of these diet kind of new trends and gluten-free and I see that you make real food and it's not always necessarily one of those diet trends that surround so for me like number one, my father is I don't want to use the word psycho because it's not it's not a nice word. But he's Health perspire life. He's a saint but he cycles and very very educated and smart about herbs and all these things and so it's sort of always been around me and I was overweight for years. I always struggled with my weight. I was a huge Stoner in my I know that my Team that in my twenties. I was a stoner and I would just eat all kinds of crop at night and make cupcakes and Crepes and what you do when you're you know stoned you eat munchies and all these things and you know one day listen for me. It was a slow like thing. It wasn't just like one day the next. Okay. I'm going to be completely this way, but it never felt natural for me to ever cut out a food group. I don't feel like that's normal. I do not need the dairy. I don't eat dairy not because I I think that Dairy is the Satan I don't eat dairy because it triggers acne and eczema for me and I've done elimination diets where I've cut things out to sea. Okay, like my exam has been so bad in my life. I've always struggled with eggs Matt and I was just cut things out to sea. Okay. Let me just like you don't tolerate I understand daily right guy, so Your diet and a fine thing. You got to look them doing repeat might be caught and I always tell people that not just my skincare. Oh, it's not really like to me and it's a warning sign from your body because I don't like this. However, it is so I never got into any it's or any of these facts because first of all drifting myself very and soak them it where you can't do this make me want to do it. So I agree like let me to you know things that I do it in a better way. Yep. No, no, I'm here. And so, you know for I eat grains and I eat carbs at almost ever because if I if I crave sugar and it's I think that all this stuff lasting doesn't need to go with Quito. A people group them together. It looks like shit. I don't know then that over and eat a few can eat fruit. It's like a something that God created that's like exam natural and say no you can't eat it. Like I just find it insane. I think we all need to eat a bit of everything and I think I think everyone wants to reinvent the wheel and make things more complicated and that's what I always say. It's like it's just not that complicated. Is it real food? Did it walk didn't grow didn't have a life. Okay, then you can eat it. You know what? I mean? Just don't eat like five goals of it. I love the fact that you're saying that because this is is what I preach all year long. I'm like can you got recognized it as a real food? If yes, then have it. It is a powder if it is something that your God was not created to recognize then don't have it. That's what I always say and I love love love how you were doing it and I could see that it's not something you got from somebody else. God knows we have copycats out copycats out there, but it sounds like you're so authentically believing in that and when I look in your kitchen, I see you making bronzino and Vegetables and all that stuff. I could really see that this is your belief and believe it or not. I make a life and a living today even with a retreat that we just did an amazing. Thank you out of showing women. Like does he look like a vegetable? Does it look like something that grew then just eat it. Why are you so scared of a sweet potato? I mean it's it's insane and it's over comp so scared of that. Everyone's overcomplicating, you know, exactly. So I love watching your You know your kg kitchen account and we're going to link it in the show notes this just to show people that I'm not the only psycho that's always in. My kitchen cooking. There is somebody else out there like me and your recipes looks super easy. It looks super simple and delicious. See you happy because the eating out like I live in the south of France. And so and like tell me if I'm wrong. I've been there before but I go to Europe and I can eat out and I don't really gain weight and I don't get triggered my Eczema and stuff because I think that you know, the European government just cares more about their citizens and they don't put crap as much crap in the food obviously still have to be careful. But cooking for yourself. You'll never know what people are really putting in your food. So for the bulk of your time, you really should be you know, you don't have to be a wolf. It's really not that hard people like, oh, I'm the worst cook what's so hard about cutting up a sweet potato putting a bit of you know avocado oil or something and a little sea salt and pepper like come on. It's it's like you're making it hard because you're mentally telling yourself. You can't do it before you've even tried, you know, it's exactly that and I'm so happy to hear you say it I see you practicing it I also so you so it's really funny because I don't know if you know, but I have a Prebiotic called simply Cafe. Here, I really wish I knew you wrote that to me the other day. I should have known and I saw you making a coconut. So now I understand you can't have I didn't know that you can't have lactose like chose product which by the way, I think if I lived in North America whether Canada or the states still because I used to live in New York before I would consume a lot less of yay. I would be scared of like night and day from what we're getting. Exactly so I can totally relate to that and so when we create it and I you know, I didn't create kiss your by any means it's like ancient it goes back to ancient times. You know, it's Turkish. It's like it's I mean we go back to the Caucasian, you know mountains but centuries ago and it was like a family kept secret. I found a culturist in the Caucasian Mountains who agreed that perhaps we could have water kefir grains that could create some sort of vegan yogurt with coconut milk and like every other culture is that I try to work with was like no they have to be milk grains and the world tell me but don't worry, even though they may all grains once it ferments. Do you know the lactose goes away and I'm like no Americans and never going to go for that. Everyone has become so so scared of lactose and milk products that even if you tell them the fermentation, you know takes away the lactose they might not believe it. It might be your Of this and I saw you actually going to a girl that made them for you making this Prebiotic proof yet free, but no was it a probiotic? Yeah probiotic yogurt ISO and I was like, I can't believe this because it's like there's no way you got this for me. You did not steal the idea for me. You were not following me at the time. We were going back and you highlights like months and months. Yeah. So it was like, you're like my soul mate we are and then I saw that I was not crazy. A about but you can correct me if I'm wrong or if you know something that I don't is that I discovered and I know dr. Gondry said the same this bunch of doctors in Europe that are against now the probiotic powders and the probiotic, you know, yeah. They think we can't like a bourbon this right. They think that the bacteria is do not withstand. Do you know the manufacturing and now that I make my own probiotic yogurt I realized that I'm walking I'm walking. I think a very thin line with those bacterias kind of living through the process of it all so that's the only thing where I'm like wondering do you actually feel the difference when you have the one that I like it more because you're not going into a supermarket and buying the coconut cult. No. Oh my God. Yeah because I don't believe this does add anything biotic. Well coconut according as they put maltodextrine in their yogurt and I'm like I heard you talking about like, what are you talking about? Well, so so with the Biotics, honestly, I'm going to I'm going to be honest because everything with me is like so up and down a lot of things got better when I've been taking probiotics for years, like literally years inside my whole family. We take them. I get them from a company that's actually based out of Montreal and it's kind of they do everything in really small batches. So I don't know because there's so much that I do to be honest that I don't know what no wasn't working but I will say this I also eat Sauerkraut every single day. It's amazing. Yeah, I so so for me, I do believe that eating fermented foods bone broth. I have the selatan. I have collagen. There's a lot of probiotics in the food that I'm eating. So whether it's the pill whether it's so for me, I'm like, okay if I take the pill it's not harmful to me, right? It might do shit really might do nothing. I don't know what it is that's working. But I definitely have as a beauty of sauerkraut. I love kimchi, it's not part of kimchi every Is this coconut? That's literally almost like a coconut water? It's not very healthy. Yeah, that's not it's not it's not like a yogurt like it's really like a water and it will send you a picture of it. here in Canada It's because it's really just fermented all its excellent. Actually, dr. Gangemi just wrote a book that came out in March and it was talking about the coconut yogurt that I that I make with the kefir, which is not talking about mine, but he's talking about it in general and then he was talking about the real coconut milk like that looks almost like water. Yeah. I was thinking how good it was for the God and the thing is the most people unlike you and me are so scared of the sugar and fat content in that that they Have it which is a big mistake. And then they are still having such an easy time going on Amazon is running on Amazon. They are buying stuff called probiotics and that's what I love about you. A lot of what I've seen on what you do is that you actually like know what you're talking about when you don't know you go ahead and maybe that can't hurt. I don't know what's working. I love the honesty behind it. But a lot of what you say is actually more knowledgeable than some registered dietitians that I see out there and I love that. I love her. How much you're informed but also in many senses sometimes you go I start this but I made a mistake. Yeah, you know after I've seen you doing that before and I think this is why your audience loves you so much. You have to be filed and errors in real time and it's really not possible to get everything right and not just that but like even with the inulin time loving it, I do actually feel a difference from it and I have to say like everyone's like the minute that I got it and even like last a few weeks ago. I got the Hyaluronic serum from dr. Barbara Stern, which is expensive and people like the minute I get something that people are talking about. So whether it's your inulin or if it's the because they probably see it on yours or they see it on Laurens page, right? So it's a Hot Topic right and they want to know and they want me to stop. I'm like listen. Let me do 30 days like which by the way is by the way. Anyone can go on Google and search what it is and understand it. I don't want to just get I don't want to regurgitate what Google is saying. I want to tell you here's a little bit of information on what it is that you can get on Google or let me and what I felt. I'm not trying to just regurgitating for me. I want to also give my of what a difference is that it be removed. So that's why people love you. I'm convinced that and I do believe that but I think we will have try it anymore. Right? So both said that glow cream from a boring. Yes, like like I don't do it all. If I'm a me, I'll put it a little bit in but when we strides are this is my absolute. Yeah that you can know you're gonna love it from the beginning. It's a cream that has an instant effect and it's a temporary effect. I mean, it's not fake like bullshit product where I was like, whatever and then someone tries something you suggest and it works for you. You're like you gain their trust You don't need offers I turn down. I'm sure it's the same for you and a day like, you know, because any time you have a following and you have a loyal following like people like, oh we're going to send you these bars. Are you going to do a post for us? Well, let me eat the bar. Let me see if I feel like shit after let me see if it if I say not hungry like I'm not just gonna like feed information to people for a few hundred dollars or a thousand dollars and then in a year, no you're saying because I've lied to everyone or I've just sold. Doubt, you know something that era is done. I think that era finished with do you remember now? She goes under her real name. She goes under the net and the named Ariel Sharon has but I remembered when she was something Navy. She made a ton of money just tagging in like to know or how or outfits that's how she originally made her money. And now she's selling stuff from her own line. But the truth is I would never actually I was never attracted to her again. I have nothing against her. I think she's cute. But I think she's very business-savvy but I was never attracted to her account because I knew that literally everything he showed us. She had gone Bonkers. Yeah, and she was and was sponsored. So for me, it's it was you know, I think for my age Ranch and my personality that's something that I never gravitated towards and that's why I didn't want to send my product to anyone for free up until to the other friends become a blogger. I don't know that's like her new shtick and she might be listening and she might get upset with me for saying that and she goes Yeah, I'm going to write about a new line. So why don't you send it to me and I was like babe. I don't send in your lane to bloggers for free. I want people to be extremely passionate about Newland. I want them to go through the process of ordering it. I was waiting for it. You know, I don't want to do that. Sorry. I think you're smart for that. It's funded but I just I don't think something like in your lane, which is first of all the first 10 days are not so pleasant. I don't know how it was for you. You told me you had a little bit of bloating the first few days, but Is nothing less than the first few days, you know, it's it's just it's just how it is. It can it's gonna alter your guides for some people it goes really well the first few days and they like, oh my God, I'm not hungry at all the first few days, but the majority of people will have a few days of slight discomfort. Yeah, and it's a process and I think it's worth it to have someone like you or someone like Lauren or you know, even I say from the beginning, you know, what at the beginning it's not all fun and games, but hey, You want something to change right? So then you have to deal with it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but the authenticity of it all actually pays so much and I think this is why you have like this community of women that respects you so much and they come to you and I'm sure you get like thousands of questions all day long because they value your opinion. I value your opinion you make me think twice about everything you talk about now because I know that if you're talking about it it's worth it. You I appreciate that. It means a lot because you you I feel the same thing when you're talking and I think it's a formal education on nutrition or anything like that. But it's like you just get I think experience is speaks more, you know, and I think it's like today there. It's like there's something that goes off like once it just makes sense that all makes sense. Okay what I mean bring me this make I mean, I'm good, you know everyone wants a quick fix everyone wants with the keto and what we invent the wheel like it's just not you know, a lot of people are now going for you know, diets and regimens that are one size fits all and if we've learned anything from our conversation today is that it's obviously not one-size-fits-all one next to me might not work. You or it might work differently. So, you know, I think that yeah, some of it is common sense. I love that. You said people can go on Google do their research. People are super lazy. Sometimes you have to tell people like please go on my highlights and they go back. Why don't you just answer me? It's much easier and it's like, you know, I put a lot of work into getting my information researching it. All you have to do is go search a little bit for my highlight. No big deal. I do think that putting the effort to educate yourself. To do your own research has become such a potent and Powerful tool back to your intuition and I see that what you're doing is very intuitive. I had no idea that you were overweight before so I think it's like I think that makes you even more relatable but that also goes to show because I don't you dieting and I do feel like you're probably Anti Diet like I am I'm super Anti Diet and you look healthy. You look beautiful cute and healthy in none of your pictures. Do I find you or overweight or bloated or I say, oh she could lose a few pounds, but I also don't go and look at you and go. Oh my God. She's too skinny ocean you the sandwich. I love ya. I mean the body that looks I'll see ya. I mean I point I was never not healthy, but there were points before I was infertility where I was a little bit more like like like just tight and but right like the same but I don't have it's not you know, like you fluctuate, right and my goal right now is not to be like I always say Miss can fit Pro because here like, I mean everyone knows bodybuilding everywhere, but there's a bodybuilding competition called can fit Pro. I always say I'm not trying to be Miss. Unfit Pro. Like I'm not trying to be like the most buff ripped person, you know ever I'm trying to get pregnant. I want to be healthy. I want to see a clean but I want to I'm not the most no stick figure. Yeah all the time. I just want to feel I really want want to feel confident that the most perfect thing, you know is feeling confident and then you put out your best self. So I think you're doing the right thing. I often tell people that come to me by the time they come to me they've tried diets. They've tried about a bunch of things. They've tried going to a nutritionist dietician a doctor and I save a few here at this time. It's because you're just as concerned about your health then about being skinny a lot of people when they go to a dietitian. It's no longer about health. It's about losing weight and they get lost somewhere in between. I find that it shouldn't be separate like if you want to lose weight you should do so, but still keeping. Your health in mind and especially for your me that are trying to get pregnant. I think it's so important to kind of remind ourselves that and remind our audience that I've had people write to me about, you know, the cookies that you make remember when you put in you land in them. Yeah, I put tahini in mine and I've had women writing and go but tahini is really high in calories and I'm like who the fuck cares? It's also really high in sassy me, which is an extremely good fatty acid for hormonal balance, which is what I'm concerned about. So I guess we're not concerned about the same thing. Yeah, and you know like but like real nasty comments. Like how can you call this cookie healthy? It has to hynnyín it. Well, first of all the fiber evens out the score when it comes to the carbs, but I'm not a fucking accountant. So I don't count the calories or whatever. I don't even know but you know, these people are very passionate about the carbs of the fat in something. My concern is completely different today. My concern is that it's about being healthy and very often the way to be healthy. Who needs two skinny, which is great. Right gray, by the way, the oh, we're in my life. When I've dieted. I remember before my sister's wedding. I don't know what was going on in my body, but I just couldn't lose weight. I was swollen. I was I don't know what it was and your hormones. Yeah, probably and yeah, I remember that I think leading up a week like it's for everything work. It's like so bad for Digest. And I thought like and I just put it was so obviously so to actually, you know, get those nutrients and it's going to give you everything you need and then you're not going to be hungry, you know, exactly and you're not going to be starving for carburetor food. You'll starve for healthier food, which is what I see on. On your plate since you're showing us a lot of your life. Yeah, I do want to take away from this. We spoke about something before we record it. And I know you have to go and you told me you were busy right after this. I'm Gonna Let You Go, my dear Summers coming. Yeah. Oh cool. So he might ring the bell and say hi to him. I'll let you go. I promise. But before we do for people that know you from Montreal for that, you know may be following you from New York or anywhere else. I wanted you to give a real Insight into the life of kg MTL I understood and I can totally relate but in Monaco people are little bit less Savvy and nosy when it comes to Instagram Monaco is a really small place and very often. I'll be in a restaurant and people will be looking at their phone comparing the real picture the real life person kind of them to picture they look at us and my kids will be like, oh my gosh these people on their phone you taking pictures of us. I think they recognize you from Instagram, but Mom I It was a little bit more discreet these people that are so famous hear that someone that's a little bit popular on Instagram is no big deal. Your life is something else Montreal is small and people know you so I just wanted you to kind of give us a quick idea of what it's like for you in Montreal with people that kind of recognize you that's how small Montreal is. So that's what I make. Your account is getting yeah. Well, you know the thing is so it's like her so and sometimes I'm Girls or people and it's they're super sweet and they're excited and oh my God, like whatever and I'm so down to earth that it's like not uncomfortable for me, but I'm just like no, I'm just like you like it just Instagram, you know what? I mean? Like I'm so not that person but at the same time then there's also people who you know will pretend they don't know me. It's like I heard to use alienated quite often. I think I'm in. My own head about it. I feel them may be comparing or descriptive scrutiny. That's pretty that's to your score tonight to be expected on one hand because when you put yourself out in the public and you know, that is what happens, you know, and you have to kind of had a skin built this people. I have like a heater like this thing called. I don't want to say the name of it. But attention we don't want to give it a Not even on Instagram. It's like on the internet and they've posted pictures of my parents house. Like they've done like crate. Like I had to like I'm list my family's names from Zeb from the foot like from the phone book and from being able to for the for one one and you know, so I think it's like there's there's good sides and bad sides to it. But I definitely feel alienated. I'll see people who I've known for years and they watch me every day. So when I see them, I'm like I want to have a human connection and I can't because they're just like, yeah. Yeah, we already know. I can't repeat a story that they've heard me say on Instagram because I would definitely gets you know goes on and you know, even I just moved into a new house and my neighbor like they have kids and like I have a lot of followers like No, you know they'll you know, it's kg and she's it and it's like sometime the dog. I'm so sorry here so hard to look at our great but it's like being in a fishbowl. I do feel a little bit like it has made me a little maybe more guarded feel a little bit alienated in a sense because I like I said earlier. I just think that sometimes people don't see me as a person anymore. They see me as like a vehicle to either promote a product for them. They don't see me like, okay. She's a normal person. Like maybe she's having a bad day. Maybe she like I've been going through fertility now for over a year. Maybe sometimes I'm bloated. Maybe I'm on handling. Maybe I'm not on hormones. Maybe I'm pretty this is what I wanted to say. I wanted you to until you have your podcast. Yeah, and I'm going to totally push you to get one because you're so good. Look, you're a natural. The winds came to you like you you're so amazing. So I think you should have your broadcast. I know I know that my community and even followers that I got from you when you tag me I had Like a hundreds of women that started following me and that send me messages going. Oh my God kitty loves you and I love you and I like her and you know, I'm so happy that you guys met each other. I'm so happy. I you know, I got my Newland and that it out and they love you they adore you but I do think that they don't have a podcast for you. So yeah, so that's the thing some people don't always see you as human. I agree the fact that Montreal is so small makes you a local celebrity which and people feel like you know what you which I never asked but I never asked to be either so people some people do see me out because you take a video of yourself right off the bat in the morning and give you know, a tour of your house or show how you unpack your boxes people think it's actually you asking for it and I think this is where you need to draw the line and I think this podcast is sometimes a great platform because people are not looking at your hair did not look at your beautiful eyes, erase your Glowing skin, you know you're talking and you're talking sense that's listening is all about that. That's why when you came on the podcast I said, you know, we've become friends. I want you to use it as a platform to kind of get your message across and also be heard, you know, not just be seen and not just giving advice but also be heard, I think you're a natural. I totally manifest that you started podcast. I'll be your first listener. You really really like first person on my podcast and that will be my Honor, but I also thought it would be super important to end this with like this message. Like hey, I'm a real person I go through real shit. I learn and I teach from what I'm learning, but also, you know, it's like I have my life. I have my feelings. My family doesn't ask for this diagram ask for every aspect of it. So I thought it was super important that we mentioned that so being couldn't exactly but you're nice. I seen you. The I see how you answer. No. I honestly I've seen how you answer some of the questions and I find you nicer than I am. Sometimes I can be really rough. Like when I get really annoyed at you know, the nerve of some people but I also have an edge that you don't have yet and you will and you will deal with it a lot because you probably knew wrote like when you wrote If you don't say Hi, how are you to me? And you're just like, I'm not gonna answer. Yeah, you're like screen on like people do to all the time. They're like, they're like, oh shoot We're bitch the hello to me. I'm telling you. I was like dying. I was like she is amazing because it takes it in the position. You can't understand and I always human anymore usual feel like this. You're like, you know here in formation desk. Look I said vehicle to warn you. I mean you have a few years before you get there because a child has to grow before the child is scrutinized as well. They don't do it as much with babies, but when people start with your fucking kids It brings you over the edge and that's like, you know, my kids are on board. They love what I do and you know, like they have like friends in school that follow me and people that they know from school that don't follow them and follow me and I will be like, yeah, this bitch doesn't even follow me that follows you and then you know things like that. Yeah, they are on board, but I have a way of protecting them. But if you're dealing with what you're dealing with right now, like put your boundaries, it's super important kids come into play. Is you know, it will evolve you'll be fine. It will evolve and you get better at it. I think having your podcast I'm going to keep on pushing it on. You will definitely need that your message across you need it. Look you have I think it's a great way of expressing yourself and being heard. Like I said because you don't have to worry as much about the image and you don't have a 50% take away. That's just appearances. So I think it's really nice and And you're a natural. Thanks. So, I'm glad I'm so glad you came on. I loved you before you like definitely my kind of bit, but I love you and more now, and I love love love that. You also showed your soft side. I think it really shows to your attent acidity. Thank you, and I thank you so much for having me on and so nice to talk to you and and I'm excited my followers and it was really fun. Cool. I'm so happy. I love you so much and I'm gonna let you go to your plumber. Thank you. He's not even here yet, but I'm gonna go eat something for so thank you so much for having me and I can't wait to hear this. I'm excited. So so, you know, we're gonna crimp you out on the street and me out on your accounts anything else that you so you have to be sure you have Katie MTL, which is your main account. You have a new one where you're selling also clothing I so yeah, but don't that's just my closet. It's Just because everyone wants to buy my some of the things I wear and so yes. Yes. Okay, cool. Love you so much. Thank you Nan. I know that everybody in Montreal that is following me. I even have my mom's family that's living in Montreal loves you, and they were so excited that we became friends. So I know I'm making a lot of girls Happy by having excited have the best day you to thank you so much. I'll speak to you soon. Bye right. I hope you enjoyed this interview with Katherine. We've had some mishaps as I mentioned before with the sound, but I hope that the majority and the length of the interview with valuable to you. I absolutely loved and enjoyed interviewing Catherine. I felt like I was sitting for coffee with her and having real talk. I found out things about her that I did not know before and that made me respect her even more. So what she does what she preaches what she says and the realness that she drops on a daily basis. I truly hope that you will follow her if you don't already. I know she's extremely popular with my audience to start with. I know that a lot of people started following me after she started tagging me and I am so thankful to her for that because she has an incredible supportive engaged community, and I'm so happy. Be that I got to meet a few of them. I hope that we can convince kg to go and get her own podcast because she has so much to offer. So make sure that you go and comment on our last picture or send her a message. This girl's incredible. She answers most of our messages if not all and she does so with it minutes. I was so surprised the first time I reached out to her. She answered me right away. She was sweet and kind. But do reach out to her and let her know that we want her to have a podcast that it's definitely something that she is so good at on this note. I am going to let you go. I think that this interview is more than enough for this week. If you are interested in getting the hardcover or softcover of my cookbook Simply the Best it is now out The shop and I'm so excited about that because I did not expect it to you know be as successful at it as it was when it came out as in the cookbook originally. I created the hardcover and softcover for people like my mom that are challenged by technology and that are like, what's an e cookbook? I need to have a book in my kitchen to cook. So in the end and do too, you know. Popular demand we ended up publishing it and it is now a hardcover and softcover. It is available on the website. And in three to four months from now it will be available on Amazon also, but for now you can get it on our shop. This is going to be posting on the show notes. We have our veal the hose fucking beautiful rose oil from our cash coming out this week's not on the website just yet if you're listening in today on Broadcast release date, but it's coming out in the course of the next days. So if you're listening to this podcast, right the minute that I've published it and released it. The rose oil is not on there yet the hardcover and softcover for the book is available already. We've also released a virtual platform The Retreat experience. If you've been following my stories on Instagram and all our adventures and listen to the previous podcast episode you You know, we had an amazing amazing retreat at the iconic called to tell you cafe ha with some amazing women incredible women. I did a cooking class during this Retreat that is also posted on YouTube. We're going to post the show The Links in the show notes as well. You can watch me making my famous Moroccan style cafta veal meatball, which is also in the ACOG book and the cookbook heart. Simply the Best and this of cover as well to not confuse you so all of that is in the show notes. We also had a breakfast and Beauty moment and event I should say at the retreat. We also posted a medley of our stories or Instagram stories on YouTube so you can watch the whole breakfast in Beauty session with all of my favorite products. The link is in the show notes. I took about my beauty routine my favorite skincare my favorite makeup Up how I do it why I love it. None of it is sponsored. All of it is completely on sponsored all of those products that I talked about I buy with my own money and because I love them so you can go and watch the video on our TV channel on a YouTube TV channel. Also, the link will be in the show notes as far as the retreat experience. I think I got sidetracked but the virtual platform we released the I said Master session The Retreat experience which is a 50-minute. That's the longest session of them all 50 minute Master session supercharged the same Master session that are retrieved guests performed for the length of the retreat which was six days most of them. If not, all of them were completely transformed. We've shared some of the Transformations on Instagram. We saw some amazing abdominals coming out some amazing. Sculpting deeb looting all of it. Of course. Thanks to two masters sessions per day. So if you are not on the virtual platform yet. You want to join you want to become a monthly member to have access to the seven videos. They're currently on the virtual platform that can transform you to the method Master session The Retreat experience 50 minutes with my future Master Certified Master Ela. She's currently a trainee she joined me on this video and perform with me for 15 minutes the exact same experience Master session as to retreat ladies followed and they did so did did attend sessions all together. So you can evaluate that if you do about ten sessions like this one or like the others on the platform, you will get the same type of Transformations that delete yet The Retreat did of course you can complement that with this. This simply inulin Prebiotic fiber are flat. Tummy powder. It is available on the website on shop that the method MC.com or simply click a few probiotic was also served at The Retreat and can do wonders for your gut and weight loss as well. I'm sure you've heard all about this. So I'm going to spare you the details. We've come out also with our limited edition Lee decision special the skinny confidential which is our pink Char limited edition with Laura never its face on it and a very limited edition Design This is currently available on the website Lauren from the skinny confidential also has her own stock and we'll be doing giveaways and give bags when she does meetups. So the only place where you can actually purchase it currently is on our website to link will be in the show notes as well on this note. I hope you really enjoyed this episode as much as as I enjoyed recording it with Catherine make sure to follower if you don't already and make sure to post on my latest picture on Instagram and let me know what you thought about this episode on this note. I am on my way to Marrakesh tomorrow where I am going to make sure that all of our shipment shipments of Simply real the hose rose oil called fucking Beautiful are being shipped to us for all of you guys as well as our new product also launching next week. So to build a hose. The rose oil is going to be out in a day or two on the website, but the amber rocks buff and Ambiance. So Ambience perfume Amber rocks from Marrakesh are also on their way to us and I'm just going to Marrakesh to kind of make sure that all of that goes smoothly and have a little bit of time. With my love shield and hopefully convince him to buy me a few peacocks while we're there. So yeah, if you are not following my stories on Instagram. You're probably missing out on all of the peacock. I don't want to say drama the peacock Saga. Let's call it on this note. I wish you a beautiful day wherever you are bisou bisou from Monaco.
Today Ingrid interviews her girl crush KATHERINE GARBARINO aka KGMTL the Montreal “it-girl” blogger around-town. She kind of has that uncanny realness thing about her that gives her so much integrity when she talks health, wellness, beauty, skincare and fertility. Ingrid & Katherine are dead-Ringers for one another, they literally agree on everything except maybe on bullet-proof coffee ! But that’s alright because Katherine swears by Simply INULIN In hers ! Show Notes: Follow Ingrid on Instagram at instagram.com/Ingriddelamarekenny   Purchase Ingrid’s COOKBOOK SIMPLY THE BEST in hardcover or softcover book.themethodmc.com   Watch Ingrid cooking class “THE RETREAT EXPERIENCE” how to make her Moroccan kefta style meatballs on our YouTube channel here https://youtu.be/UOqlm7hVZjc  Watch Ingrid’s BREAKFAST & BEAUTY EVENT, the retreat experience at Grand Hotel du Cap Ferrat, and find out her favorite skincare, beauty routine and make-up all unsponsored - on her YouTube channel here https://youtu.be/0f0QBguG9J8  Follow THE METHOD® Instagram.com/themethod.mc  Follow our product line SIMPLY GANGSTER CHIC Instagram.com/simplygangsterchic     Find our Simply INULIN by THE METHOD®|THE BODY - INGRID’s SIMPLY THE BEST E-COOKBOOK & SPICE, and THE NEW PURE PROBIOTIC Simply Kefir Champagne Lacté at shop.themethodmc.com   For our amazing FREE GUT HEALTHY FLAT TUMMY Simply Inulin chocolate chip cookies á la fleur de sel and GANGSTER CHIC BRIÔCHES simplyrecipes.themethodmc.com   For more info about our transformation retreat go to retreat.themethodmc.com   Do THE METHOD Free FLASH WORK-OUTS — no equipment needed Flash-Workout # 1 https://vimeo.com/250033415/a161c4a0f9   Flash-Workout #2 https://vimeo.com254216501/8983e725b8    You can workout with THE METHOD ORIGINAL MASTER SESSIONS from the comfort of your home ANYWHERE ANYTIME by subscribing to the monthly membership at virtual.themethodmc.com The RETREAT EXPERIENCE 50 min workout master session is currently available and newly released. Request some reading material from the retreat by emailing retreat@themethodmc.com   BOOK your Transformation RETREAT week for our 2020 session at the ICONIC GRAND HOTEL DU CAP FERRAT here retreat.themethodmc.com      You can leave us a voice message with questions or comments we may future on the next episode here:https://anchor.fm/pardonmyfrench    You can find information about Ingrid’s one on one Mind-Body power mentor sessions here bodymindmentor.themethodmc.com   For all recipes mentionned in this podcast FREE at simplyrecipes.themethodmc.com  Follow this week’s episode guest KATHERINE Instagram.com/KGMTL And her recipe account Instagram.com/kgskitchen 