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Yulady Saluti ~ Be Kind All of the Time

January 24, 2023 Todd Mclaughlin / Yulady Saluti Season 1 Episode 100
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Yulady Saluti ~ Be Kind All of the Time
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I am pleased to present to you........ YULADY SALUTI!
It is with great pleasure I can bring to you yoga and running celebrity Yulady Saluti. Yulady is an inspiration and motivation to thousands of yoga practitioners and running enthusiasts. She is an Ostomate and Breast Cancer Survivor who has beaten the odds many times. During this podcast she shares her passion and enthusiasm for motivating the masses.

During this podcast she shares:

  • what got her started in yoga
  • the catalyst that got her started on her journey of healing and recovery
  • how she became addicted to drugs and found sobriety
  • getting past the fear of honestly telling her story
  • Yulady's mission to share and spread kindness
  • what her vision is for the future &
  • how to find balance in your life

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Todd McLaughlin:

Welcome to Native Yoga Toddcast. So happy you are here. My goal with this channel is to bring inspirational speakers to the mic in the field of yoga, massage bodywork and beyond. Follow us @nativeyoga, and check us out at nativeyogacenter.com. All right, let's begin Welcome to Native Yoga Toddcast. I am so excited for today because it marks an anniversary. Today is episode number 100. Yes! I had the goal of getting here. And I've made it. I can't believe that I remember after my first episode, which when I go back and listen to now I'm like, Oh, I've learned a little bit since then. I remember thinking I saw other podcasters that 100 episodes and thinking, "oh my gosh," I just gotta get started with one here. And then two, and then little by little and interview by interview and person by person. You know, it's just been such an incredible experience for me. Every time I get a chance to interview somebody around the world who has passion for yoga and has learned something from their experience with yoga, their passion for bodywork and their ability to teach and to share and the stories that I've heard over these last 100 episodes, about overcoming challenge the willpower that exists in us as human beings, the ability to jump hurdles and or to get knocked down and to come back up again and, just be here for each other and to listen and to foster open communication. For me, this is just an honor, a privilege, and I love it so much. And because of you and all of your feedback and all of your encouragement and support. You know, we're all here together still trucking along. On that note, as a special guest for episode number 100. I am pleased to announce that today's guest is you Yulady Saluti. There's so much I could try to say to introduce you to you Yulady, but she's going to tell you everything that you need to know. She's incredible! She's inspirational! And I love her passion and her honesty. So without hesitating. Let's go ahead and begin. I'm so excited to have this opportunity to bring you Yulady Saluti to the podcast today. Yulady, how are you doing?

Yulady Saluti:

I'm great. How are you? Nice to meet you.

Todd McLaughlin:

I know, I'm so excited, because we tried to get this to happen for a little while now. So now that the moment is here, I'm just thankful. So, thank you very much.

Yulady Saluti:

No, thank you for being so understanding, of course, of course. So I have a lot of questions for you. I've been following you on Instagram. And I find that you have a very inspirational message. And I guess to get started, the first thing I noticed on your Instagram, the very first thing you have written is nollie. Stan, and so obviously that you're your baby, yes, that's my granddaughter. That's your granddaughter. Okay. All right. All right. So a little background on me. My husband and I have been together 20 years and we are a blended family. So when I met him, I had a daughter from a previous relationship. And he was he had three kids from a previous relationship. And then we have two together. We had two together so we're like six altogether. And we're we're a big family. So my my oldest, I call them all my kids. I hate this term stepchildren because I grew up with a stepdad myself and he hated when he said that and you know, eventually I was like, Yeah, I get it. I get it. Well, he doesn't like step step kids. That bad. So I called all my kids so my older my older son Jerry got married during the pandemic. to a lovely girl in they had a baby on last September, so I decided that I was going to turn my Instagram account into a nollie fanpage.

Todd McLaughlin:

Yeah. She's the best. Can you share what it's like to be a grandparent?

Yulady Saluti:

Oh my god, it's I was here today, as I said to my husband, because I was babysitting. I babysat her for a few hours, all by myself. I just had her old and now it's like, this cannot get any better than this. And this goes for people that have their own children, like picture that feeling when you have your own baby and then magnified by like, 100. That's the greatest feeling. And you just like I can't believe like, I'm lucky enough to be part of like this. This baby is mine, like not mine. But like it's it's my baby. Because my grandkid is a different type of love than a child love. It's like bigger. I don't know if that makes it any justice. That gives it any justice. Yeah, that's a

Todd McLaughlin:

great explanation. It's funny. I have a friend who used to always say his grandpa, and he said, It's double happiness. And I said double happiness is like, well, I'm so happy when they show up. And then when their parents come to pick them up on I'm even happier.

Yulady Saluti:

You get you get to do all the hanging out in the like, I get to drive home and sleep all night.

Todd McLaughlin:

Right, you get a full night's sleep, and then have the joy the next day. Oh, that's amazing. Gulati. That's cool. Yeah, yeah, awesome. Well, you know, I mean, where do I even begin? I mean, how about can you talk about what got you started on the journey of yoga practice? I know you have a lot of talents. And I definitely want to go down the track of what you're really passionate about right now as a runner. But I want to kind of start where your intro into yoga and healing began?

Yulady Saluti:

Well, yoga is my, I guess, was my my number one passion. First passion probably will always be my number one passion. would get out of work. Yeah, our first thing was to get to that yoga class, he was like this, this wonderful reward at the end of the day. And so, two weeks into it, I mean, no, two months into it around, I got sick. And I noticed that like, I just couldn't handle any physical and not not the heat, and that the physical part of it, nothing like I was in and out of hospitals, and a lot of pain. I mean, like maybe like 10 out of 10 pain in nobody could figure out what was going on. And I had to I have had a surgery. Two years prior to, to that Oh, and and then another one a year later for these masks that was that they found in my colorectal area, so very high up into the rectum, like right where the colon the rectum meet, and it was by absolute in and at that time, I didn't have great health insurance. So I didn't question anything. I said, Okay, let's get a biopsy in. I went to get the biopsy. And that night, I got really I got really sick. And then he got really, really infected. And I ended up with like, some pain and another surgery to fix it. And then another surgery and then he gave me like a year of relief. And that's in that year is when I met my husband we met shortly after that we moved in together and then he and then that's how I, I I found yoga. So my yoga life took a pause for many years because I was sick for many years after that. And then I went to have children what happened in part of my house my my medical journey was I needed a colostomy bag, which is for those who don't know what a colostomy bags is, they essentially pull your intestine out of your body in so to the outside of your stomach, in your poop out of there. They cut the intestine the cutting person out and they put it out so you don't no longer poop out of your rectum you know your your don't use that area anymore, you poop into a bag that you change all the time, like couple times a day if you need to. Yes. And I was very young I was in my early 20s, I was very uncomfortable. Having that, like, I didn't want to share it with anybody I was I kept very to myself, many people that didn't know me. Like, if you met me, you wouldn't ever know that. I wouldn't ever mention it. And I so that kept me from ever going back even when I started to feel better. Ever going back to a yoga class. Do you

Todd McLaughlin:

feel like because of the fact that it would be noticeable that you had that in relation to whatever outfit you had on? And or? Yeah, yeah, got it.

Yulady Saluti:

Yeah. And also another thing, which I'm very comfortable with now, and it actually took me many years to get where I am was, when you have this, when you pass gas, you have no control over it, you know, because there's no muscles holding. So it just comes in it makes the noise in same thing with poop it comes whenever you want to. So that always made me so uncomfortable. Like I don't want to pour in public and shut somebody. So to me that was like, Oh my God. Now I happens all the time. And I'm with clients. And I'm like, Oh, I'm sorry. And it just we just laugh, you know? Yeah, yeah. So it took me a long time to get comfortable with it.

Todd McLaughlin:

I believe. I hear ya. did. So you when were you able to then actually go and take a yoga class in a setting where you did was it that you walked in and thought I'm so uncomfortable? I'm so nervous. I don't know, how am I going to deal with this? But you overcame that fear and did it anyway? or was there some

Yulady Saluti:

my after my, after my last child who that was born in 2008. I said to myself, like I started working out in I got my bag river I was about to like in the process of getting my bag reversed or anything but I like I say that I would love to like, go up but like think about manifesting, right? I said I like you know, like, by getting my bag reversed. I'm gonna go back to yoga. Like I cannot wait to go back to yoga. And I've manifested that within weeks because then a yoga studio opened up in my town. I mean, minutes from my house. So I got my bag reversed and I was given the okay to go back to to exercising. So I'm like, Alright, let me go back to yoga. And this was different. This was a hot yoga studio, but it was it was vinyasa it was, you know, the flow of vinyasa. So it remember my first and only experience with yoga before was Bikram? Yeah. And there's no down dogs. So it was a learning process from like, I don't know what you're doing. I don't know what to do. I don't know the names. What are these names? But yeah, I just, I just finished a class and I, the feeling that I had was such a good feeling. And I fell in love immediately. And I said to myself, I'm like, What is this, like, I want this again. Yeah. And like a good overachiever that I that I am type eight person I started coming every single day. And then I'm like, telling my husband like you, okay, you got to come back to yoga. Like, this is amazing. And he took me like, a few, a few weeks, but then he was there with me every night. And practicing every night. And I you know, very quickly, I noticed that it came very natural to me. I was very flexible. I was like, okay, so then that it's like a very, it was like a boost. You know, here I am being sick, raising children. I'm like just a mom, I have been I've been the sick person and a mom for many years. And I stepped into onto my mat. And now I'm good at this yoga thing. And not only does it make me feel good, but I'm good. So it gave me a boost. That's cool. That like, I guess fit my ego a little bit kept me coming back, you know, in the more that I did it, the more that I fell in love. And I decided that I think it was maybe it wasn't even a year into it. It was like I had somebody had told me like I had asked somebody at the yoga studio, like how can I? How can I do a yoga training? Like, I don't know, that I want to teach but like, I want to learn more like I want to know, oh, they told me like you could do a teacher training. And I think I think that the you that you need to be able to do a headstand in the middle of the of the of the floor without using a wall and that like Damn it, like have a practice that I don't know if that's true. That's what I was told. And that that's when you're ready to do you know, do a teacher training. So I was like, Oh, well, okay, I've been practicing for a few years. I mean for a few months, and I could do a headstand in the middle of the, you know, in the middle of the floor without a wall. So I'm gonna do it and then I started researching. I started researching all over this yoga stuff, but before that, I'd been in that spirituality path before yoga. Since I was pregnant with my I'm with my second child through meditation. So, again, my husband showed me meditation and I said, I'd get a book about it. And then I tried all these types of meditations. And so prior to even finding yoga, I was really into that. And Deepak Chopra was like, my guy likes, I love everything he, he talked about. It's almost like he resonated with me. I understood him, even though he will use Doctor terminology, but like, why don't we get this guy like he was just really, really and I started, I started to read his stuff. And I bought DVDs about haste in learning stuff. So I went online and I something came up about Deepak Chopra's yoga teacher. And then I was like, I went in, I saw her in her name is terraced house, and I was like, Oh, she's in New York. Awesome. I'm like, 40 minutes at a time I live 40 minutes, maybe outside of New York, as I've heard of Manhattan. And I, I think I maybe emailed and it's like, I'm really interested in doing a teacher training. And it in I went, and I met her and her husband in right away, we had a connection, like an instant connection. And that's how I started my yoga teacher training. And it was really great, because it was like, it was, it was only on the weekend. So it really helped me because I had, you know, six children at home. It was the weekends in, there was no need to do a PET scan renewal. There were no requirements, you just said you just want to be here and learn. You know, that's my, that's my journey into into yoga. And in then, you know, obviously, much more came after that. But I don't want to take all your time talking because I could talk for the whole hour.

Todd McLaughlin:

You're making my job. So easy. I love it. Thank you. A couple things that I thought of what your while you're speaking, you said that you started meditation practice. And when you were pregnant with your was your first or second child. Your second? Was there like an intuition that you had beat from being pregnant that caused you to feel like there was some type of communication process that was happening that was beyond just say, the verbal communication we have, like, in our experience, as a mom, what was the catalyst that kind of got you piqued your interest about yoga and spirituality?

Yulady Saluti:

Well, from when I was, when I was growing up, I was alcohol was always around. And it was never a taboo. So nobody ever wanted to like, I was born and raised in Colombia until I was 13 moved here. And it was never a taboo. Like I noticed when I moved here, all the American kids were obsessed with drinking. In my house, my parents said if you want to drink, go ahead and drink. I never did. Drinking wasn't like, it wasn't anything that was an issue for me. In drugs were never an issue for me either. But when I was 21 years old, I was in a relationship where I had been in a relationship for like a year already where I like I gave a lot of myself and this person that I was in a relationship with. Didn't give as much as I did. And at this, at least, that's how I felt. And then one day, I was really sad, because I inherited from him all day, right? Like, this is it this is just in my head. This is where I was at the time. And I remember I was out with some friends and they're like, Hey, do you want to do some coke? And I've said, I've said no to drugs many times before I don't like I never liked smoking pot. And that moment, like the sadness that I had, that to me was like, oh, like, this person doesn't like me. And that's why he hasn't called me all day. Then I was like, All right, and then that sadness left. For those 20 minutes that I did that and I was like, I'm in love with this job. Stroke ever. I want it all and unlike in I didn't know anything about drugs. I didn't know nothing. You know, being from Colombia. Like we know cocaine comes from Colombia. It's like our parents, like never know coke and like, and like so we're like, afraid of it. So even pot it's like yeah, so so like that I fell in love with in in, you know, came to realize, I also had ADHD growing up and had a hard time in school. And so this all starts to fall into place like now I'm self medicating and all these all these very strong feelings that I'm having. I've been muted with this drug and I love it. And I'm a teen mom. I had my daughter at 19 years old. So I was 20 years old when I did this drug And I'm in love with it. So very quickly, I became addicted to it very quickly, I realized that like, oh, I can't do this, I have a child, I have somebody to take care of, like, I can be doing this then because that that kid, you know, her life depends on me. And the I happen to have a good support system at the time to like that the boyfriend that I was with at the time, he like, got his big boy pants on and got me a rehab and got me on the process of like, you know, like getting clean and sober. And obviously, that relationship didn't work. But he did his part. He helped me a lot, you know. So then in rehab, I learned all about like, oh, like these drugs really could take you down like I could, I have to really be careful that I learned from people sharing that in a in a very similar to the same steps the same everything is exactly the same. But what I started to notice and what people had shares in NA, the a sobriety people like they were, they would just be sober longer, you know, like they would just, and they weren't a lot of relapses in and out. So I chose to go with AAA when I came out of rehab, and I even stopped drinking too. So because I wanted to be completely not only sober because I you know, one load my drug leads to another and it was true. Like there were a few times you know, sobriety was not linear. So there were a few times that I would have a drink and then yes, guess what, immediately I would relapse. And so I stayed completely sober from coke in in alcohol. And that's during that process is where I met my husband as well. He is also sober he is we met in the rooms of AAA, which is one of those stories that if you ever hear like, relationships like us like that we meet in a they don't work, they don't addicts getting together like that is a hot mess. But here we are. 20 year late 20 years later, yeah, we did work. And so that takes me to like him, him in a meeting getting sober together. Like we weren't he was just sober from alcohol. Alcohol was his drug of choice. And, you know, and he would, you know, and I would, I would see him I would be like, Oh, okay, you're, you know, you're suffering a little less than me, like, what is it? And he's like, Oh, I, you know, I read Eckhart Tolle, in, you know, the power of now and then I tried reading the power of now and I'm like, I don't get it, you know. And that's how I found Deepak Chopra. Because I heard something appears in much more complicated, but I got it, you know, like, but then then that went back to Eckhart Tolle, and then I been understood it the night, the night then I got the message. So I know, I knew, during that, that, like, I know that that there was like, there was something like there was something missing from me that I was feeling I that I, you know, and it was a very quickly like, I met my husband when I was 23 years old. So like, my, my drug addiction didn't, you know, I got it under control. almost right away. Yeah. So it was like, it wasn't, you know, thank God because a lot of you have to have a lot of bottoms to to get clean and sober. I didn't I you know, I pretty much the first item that I hit, I was like, I gotta get out of here, you know? Yeah. So knowing that and I think going through all of that and all the drugs I mean, the drugs in the you know, in the the feelings that I got when I had it when you were coming down from it, knowing that I knew something was missing in me like I know, there's something there's something that like that it's missing in me in I need to need to or, or something not miss not not missing, but something that okay, in me, yeah, and how can I do the work to fix it or to make it better? And, you know, I'm in early 20s I didn't know what it was. But I knew that when I read when Jerry told me about my husband, Jerry told me about meditation that whenever I close my eyes and I can focus on my breath, it was almost like that feeling of cocaine like the worry not immediately like went away but just kind of got a little better. And then the next time I did it, I got a little better. And then I then I started to have control over my feelings. Like I don't have to react every time something happens. So that was how come I started to meditate and it happened to be when you know my when I was pregnant with my when my first my second my first son, my second child, that that that happened but yeah, I think is because something so shocking happened to me.

Todd McLaughlin:

That is a great answer. You love it. I love I appreciate that you You backed up far enough to give me the backstory to help me understand that that answer. So that's amazing. I definitely appreciate how honest and open you are about your life and your story. What is some advice you could give me and or if you're listening, whoever's listening, that is like, Man, I want to be open like that. But I'm scared to speak my mind, my heart, my truth. What kind of coaching Could you give us to help help us like break a barrier there break through something.

Yulady Saluti:

Think about the consequences that you think are going to be going to happen. If you are going to share your pain like that, right? So possibly, you know, you're gonna lose a job that you probably shouldn't write. To me, I decided to share very openly, my, my experiences my hardships, because I wanted to help others. Because selfishly, it helps me to help others, right? That's like, number one. I'm selfish. I want to feel good. And I want to help, too. I wanted to be very straightforward with my children, and say, Listen, I did I did this. I say, my kids are all between the ages of 14 and 2829. And once they were of age, I said to them, except Except for my last my last two lessons. Lesson one, I have a funny story about that. But I said to the older ones, I was like, listen, I Sorry, I had a fumble. I said, I, I am a cool kid. And it only took me that one line, the first line to get addicted to that's it. So you're probably a cool kid, and you're probably gonna get addicted to this, you know, it's so be careful. Like, that's only take one time. So I want you to hold I wanted my kids to be aware of that, that that's a that's that's a possibility. And he happened to me, it could happen to you. And then when I decided that I was going to be open like this, I let my oldest my oldest four children know and they were really behind as they knew their father was a recovering alcoholic. And my you guys are probably alcoholics who are because so be careful. Just I'm not telling you not to drink. Just be like, no, they take an inventory of yourself when you are doing because it has it does run the family. In my two little ones. I wasn't ready. I didn't know when I could have this conversation with them yet. And my my, my second child, my my oldest boy Googled me. He's a computer person. Yes, like loves he, he knew how to use the computer at two years old. And because of that, he learned how to read by looking at the computer on his own. I had my other son, he's all equally the same way like just like, two boys. So they, they like much sooner than I thought I was going to have to have a conversation with them. And then then he comes to me and he's like, Oh, my God, Cookie daddy, like crying and I'm like, okay, hold on a minute. What happened? And he's like, I just Googled you. And he said here because I've written an article that kind of went viral in the yoga world, called Confessions of a co creator and Yogi, and that he read that I had to explain to him that, you know, like, Yes, I had a cookie and problem. And I haven't done cocaine many you know, since before you were one in he was very like, Ah, he like he goes Okay, so you don't do that? And I'm like, no, no, no, no, this is a this is why I wanted to share it. You know, now he's 16 and my other one is 14 and I did tell them to I was like your father is an alcoholic, your mother's a cocaine addict. Like the the the chances that you probably have some issues with addiction is probably very high. So that's what I wanted to do. That's why I wanted to share to help others and to also bring their awareness to my own children that this could be a problem so be careful.

Todd McLaughlin:

Yeah, that's a really good point. Because that is a challenging thing to navigate with Chip when we have children is like how much of my past do I want to let them know about and how much should I

Yulady Saluti:

know? Yeah, and I'm telling you with Google Now you just if it's out there, they'll find out when they're so my my second thing that I would data that I would like, help people like once you see the consequences would be like, why not? Like, why do you have to lose? Right? Yeah. Put it out there. In know that just you might feel alone right now, we all have felt alone, that no matter what you're going through, somebody else out there has is going through exactly the same thing that you're going in, they're going to see your story. And they're going to be like, Oh, I'm not alone, and you're going to help that person. So you have nothing like if you don't have nothing to lose, like, I'm telling you do it. It gets easier each time you're doing it. Like the first time that I sat in front of like, something arose something. I was sweating, I was shaky. And here I am, you know, with you today. It's like, it's not no longer no longer scared. But my story and a longer skirt was going to happen. It's like, this is me. This is who I am. But yeah, it was scary at first. Yeah. Like, it's you gotta get past that.

Todd McLaughlin:

That was a great answer. Another good answer. Thank you, Laurie. I mean, I can feel your excitement and passion. So it's infectious, it makes me want to be a little more open just here. Which is amazing that I've done my job. All right. Um, I am curious to I want to touch upon, I noticed that you are a huge inspiration in the breast cancer survivor world as well. Can you speak a little bit about your experience? I mean, you've had this like, major health issue that you were able to overcome. And then another one comes to you at this point, do you feel like I've been through this before? I know I can get through this? Or do you have a major kind of coming to terms with life and death moment as this next issue comes along? Can you talk a little bit about that?

Yulady Saluti:

Yes. So when I first got sick, and I first was going through all those surgery here. So yesterday, I got very depressed, I remember I told you, I was very quiet with it. Nobody knew I had an ostomy until my ostomy was reversed. Like, I wouldn't talk about it. Nobody I was it was so private to me. And I was so uncomfortable with it. That, I think holding on to that and going through all those horrible experiences to hospitals and failed surgeries. And that that's when I noticed is where I had relapses from, you know, from being sober. Like I said, sobriety is not linear. It's you know, you realize you pick up your pants, you pick up your, you know, take your panties on the next day, and then you do it again. Yeah, that's what I noticed that died. That's when my dark times where I was holding all these shame, all these dark stuff that my body like, had in, when I found out that I had breast cancer. I said to myself, I don't want to go back to that, to those dark times. And I don't want to ever do drugs. I don't ever want to, like feel like I felt those days. So I been as like, okay, so I have to then do something with this because I've had 20 surgeries, and an ostomy and fill surgeries in you name it. I mean, we've had in our marriage, my husband and our 20 years we've been together 20 years, married, married 19 And I mean you name it has happened to us, okay, in our personal lives in our in his business, and it's like, so you would made it through a lot. So I was like, the fact that if you believe in God, God or the Universe has given me this is because I need to help others. And how can I help others. So after finding out that I had breast cancer, like this is like Mother's Day weekend back in 2012. I had going back to my first yoga teacher, which is Paracels Park. So Tara Stiles, was then and still is now a yoga celebrity in the internet community, and even much more than that, so when we did the teacher training with her one of the things her big platform at the time was YouTube, I don't know if she YouTube's anymore, but like she she was huge platform on YouTube. So she said as part of your teacher training, I want you guys to blog vlog like on YouTube, like go in there and just talk to the camera, Talk Yoga, none yoga, whatever you want, like just develop you develop your skills, whatever so i i did and it was really uncomfortable again at first because like talking to like we're used to talking to computers now in talking to foreign that back in 2012. That was not something that like I was coming I was really really uncomfortable. But she made us do that. That was part of our teacher training, develop a blog, a blog, so I had like my first blog on like WordPress, and like that's so to like, get your name out there because as a yoga teacher, you need to get your name out there. So people come to your classes and she gives us like his marketing genius that she is to us. So, so I've so I've already had like a YouTube channel, I started yoga, I was already a yoga teacher, I already had my, you know, following my local following. Nothing too big on, like on on social media, but some social media stuff because of hairstyles, you know. So I picked up my phone. And it was the morning after I found that I had breast cancer, and I opened my phone and my husband and I were in bed. And I turned the phone on, put the video on and I said, I woke up, like literally, I just woke up and I have to my husband and hit him and I like, like, we're, we're so like, we're so alive. So like he follows my lead, I follow his lead wherever he wherever it is, like, help him and he's he wakes up. He's the world's like happiest person in the morning. So no matter when you wake him up, it's like gov. sites have too many. And I say, Good morning. And he's like, Come morning. And then he's like, I'm like, can you believe that breast cancer and then he's like now, and then we just continue to have that conversation. Like I said, just a button up believing like, after all I've gone through after we have gone through like now here it is. And then he started to be a daily thing, sometimes even multiple times a day, I would, then I would upload him to face I mean, YouTube, then Facebook, you know, and then it became a thing. Then I had a friend stack row for the elephant journal, and they're like, Hey, can we put your videos on the elephant journal? And then then I started to be more like, oh, okay, I'm getting this audience. Okay, what else can I do? I will share everything. And one of the first things that I did is I back in 2012, I would Google like double mastectomy is. And you would see a lot of women like I never saw a face of a double mastectomy. Like it would just be from chest to like the bottom of Yeah. And I was like, I want to give that a face like I want to. So I took I had, I think maybe even one of our kids. I had no shirt on after my double mastectomy. And my husband like stood behind me. And I just stood with my arms on my waist kind of like a Superman, Superman Superwoman pose. And I was like, Yep, this is me. And this is a jet. I said, spacers, no nipples, nothing. And the scars were fresh. And then that also kind of went viral on like, the yoga, elephant journal stuff. And then I started then, then I started to post more and more about that. And I would get emails and comments and stuff, people like, I'm going through the same thing. And I'm not the same process as you, thank you. Because Oh, like I'm right behind you. So like, now I know what's coming. And one of the ones that would always stay with me, it's, the women would would, would message me say like, Oh, your husband, because he was there with all my videos. If it wasn't next to me, he was taking them. Like, your husband is so amazing. Like, my husband left me when he found that I had breast cancer. And it's like, shocking to me, because I had I got so many of those messages, like husbands that left their wives, when they found that their breast cancer because they couldn't handle a woman would know breast, they couldn't handle going through the you know, whatever they were going through. And he was crazy to me. Wow. It was crazy. And yeah,

Todd McLaughlin:

especially if you had that level of support that you did to think about what to go through that experience and not have that kind of support to actually have the opposite of that to have people walking away from you. That's incredible. I can see where then that connection that you've made on a global community in relation to offering some inspiration and honesty and like, just straight up like, this is me. I can see where that's powerful.

Yulady Saluti:

Yeah, it was it these women that I heard from, what their experiences were powerful to me tilde that like to hate to hear that and also, I I felt very lucky to have the husband that I had like, always constantly reminded that like, wow, like, I already knew he was the greatest but like now after hearing the story, and he's even greater, you know? Oh, yeah.

Todd McLaughlin:

Right. That improved your relationship because it was validation of what you do have almost like you could take that for granted. Like, isn't everybody's husband just supporting them like this? Yeah, I'm

Yulady Saluti:

still Yeah, like guess. Oh, like don't worry me. I'm okay. I don't care what you look like I'm here. I'll, I'll even pay for everything. You know, like, that's, like, not everybody has been like that.

Todd McLaughlin:

Imagine your body that the support would be so overwhelming to the maybe tiny little portion then that would mean, did you ever receive any criticism and or kickback from? Because anytime we break through cultural and customary norms, you know, there's going to be someone's going to get their feathers ruffled or no in this case, was that not it? Because I hear like,

Yulady Saluti:

very, very, very small percentage of people that would be like Ill Why would you share that? Yeah, but it was so it was maybe like in a post maybe two comments, three comments. I've always been very lucky that I don't get much hate stuff in my social media channels like much more inspiration, people, you are an inspiration. You're inspiring me then like you're like, yes, there are a few of them, but not many not enough that even bother me.

Todd McLaughlin:

One thing that I would guess that could be a lot is because you're overcoming serious life challenges. Like, you know, that not everybody survives, you know, not everybody survives these different illnesses and health issues. I mean, just right now, I kind of thought, uh, hopefully, I don't get the feeling any question I asked would be, you'd be opposed to but did you? Do you ever have survivor's guilt? Sometimes I hear people that have so much do you feel that?

Yulady Saluti:

Yeah, so much, especially, some of the women that I met through the journey didn't make it, you know? Yeah. And yeah, there was there was Oh, for sure. Every time somebody that I know dies from cancer, like festers up a little bit, like, like, Why them like why was I giving a second chance? In then it then I'm like, okay, then that's when he makes me think like, this is why you just have to be kind and like, you know, I started a hashtag on Instagram. years ago called Be Kind all the time. Because I was I was not kind to somebody in an Instagram post. And it was I was neat to her like, she was having a bad day. And she posted about a I can say her name because she she she's a she's a dear friend of mine. And we talk when I talk I always make jokes about it. But Yoga Girl Rachel breathing. I said something. She is that a bad day? And I don't know, it just rubbed me the wrong way. And I did. I'm not to make up excuses. But I used to suffer from chronic Oh, I still suffer from chronic constipation. And I was like, on day nine of no pooping and if you ever had constipation, you know, like, that's the worst feeling in the world. And it was like a day No, no, no pooping and I was so like, angry. And then she says something nice, Ma said something mean about her. And I think in my own posts, or in her post or whatever. And I felt so bad because I'm not mean spirited person. Like, I am a nice person. I think it comes from you know, I was born this way. Like, I don't want anybody I don't even know like competition. Like, I don't want to win. Because me somebody loses. And then I feel bad. Like, that's the person that I am. So like, I don't have like a mean streak like that. And then the next day, like I was so mean to her, and then like expired, like some older stuff. And the next day I feel so bad. I emailed her and she was so kind. And she accepted my apology. And then we bit we went on to become friends and a part of her I was part of her one way teaching and she came has come and stay here with me and we went to Aruba to stay with her. So when I was going through all that stuff, I started this this hashtag and I was like, be kind all the time you lady. I don't care what you're feeling. If you're on day nine day 20 never not pooping. I don't care. I don't care. If you're like if you're like just become even if they're jerks to you just be kind be kind all the time. So I started that. That the hashtag in I like to think that whenever I'm feeling does guilt, I'm like, Okay, now I just gotta show kindness to somebody I don't know, like, just just be kind to somebody, like, compliment somebody shoes or like, just really look at somebody and see the beauty and then tell them about them. Like, you know, like, so I try to spread kindness is my thing is my my kids. I'm always telling them kind of like time I dropped them for school before I've been kind of a time you know. So like, that feels like that's how he helps me when I get these these feelings of like, Why me why why did I survive and so many didn't?

Todd McLaughlin:

Yeah. That that now Your mission is to spread kindness. So if you have this, that's amazing. Your body. You know, I'm really thankful to John and Mandy Coleman because John introduced me to you and he, you know, besides everything you spoke of, he says Oh my gosh, you got to talk to this woman, you Lottie. She is just out of this world. She is so amazing. You're gonna You got it. You got to reach out to her. He said, she is just phenomenal as a runner. He's like, I mean, I've coached people and you know, running. And I mean, I just can't even believe what, what I like, she just blows my mind. And so, we haven't even talked about that part of your life yet. And I'm curious. How did you start? How did you how what is your story with cultivating a passion for run? And where are you at currently with your run love?

Yulady Saluti:

Okay, so getting back to Jen and Mandy, also the kindest, nicest humans in the world. I love them. And I'm so thankful to yoga for have put them in our lives. My husband and I both love them very much. They're amazing. And, yes, you're lucky to know them.

Todd McLaughlin:

I agree. Thank you.

Yulady Saluti:

So okay, so what what happened is, after having many years of constipation, chronic constipation, my body shut down. And it stopped just going to the bathroom altogether. And I'd had my ask me, but first asked me reverse. Now I've had like 26 surgeries, 25 surgeries, all due to like breast cancer, asked me in tumors and everything. So then finally, after my body shuts down or not pooping, I go back to a doctor and the doctor, my doctor says, Listen, I think we have to go back to your colostomy bag. And I'm like, Yeah. And he's like, okay, that I don't think anything else is gonna work. So I went back to it. I was like, All right, radical acceptance. I'm like, okay, I get my bag is gonna save my life. If I get the bag, it doesn't work. I have, like, from I get this bag in 2015, and up to 2018. I'm in and out of hospitals, people pain that I paint that I've never had before. People, people doctors can't figure out what's wrong. This ostomy bag I'm so mad. This time I'm much more I'm sharing all of this online like in our everyday world knows I have an ostomy the world knows how to bring a bag. I'm not keeping that stuff anymore. So I go back to so in this in this from fifth 20 2015 to 2018. I can't practice very much yoga. Every time I go do yoga, download, like I haven't very tight into chest from double mastectomy, that my chest in my belly would get tight and I wouldn't poop. And so I have to start like doing yoga and I it's my number one thing. I practice yoga, sometimes multiple times a day for many years. I went into a depression again. And I was like, okay, when I went back to after my second son was after my first son was born, and been sober for a long time from cuddling. I'm not doing cocaine. I went back to drinking. I had like, did an experiment. I was like, I you know, if you're in the program, I don't I don't suggest you do this. But this is my personal journey. My personal, you know, like, I had a glass of wine and because it's so my husband has like, I don't think I have a drinking problem. I just stopped drinking because I didn't want to do cocaine and my husband's like, yeah, go ahead. And he he went to the liquor store and got me a bottle of wine and that'd be having one ever since. So I don't have a drinking problem. I drink like a normal person. So what are we talking about? I lost my pen.

Todd McLaughlin:

No, that was actually really interesting a bit, but we're going down the track of how you got inspired to run.

Yulady Saluti:

Oh, to run okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I, I do drink. And I'm gonna sad to say because I got depressed. And how I noticed I was depressed was because I was drinking a lot. I was having wine every day. You know, it's okay to have one every day. But like, it's okay not to have a bottle every day. I knew I was in trouble. Because I was sick all the time. And I was in pain all the time in the hospital all the time. So, my family, they came to me and they said, I think we think you have you think we think you're depressed? Like I'm still functioning. But whenever I'm not needed as mom and as an as wife, I'm on the couch watching Netflix. And no, like, that's not me. And I can't practice yoga because it hurts. I've never done cardio my whole entire life. So I can't do it. Everything is hurting my body. Yeah, so I knew that it was a problem. So I was like, Alright, when I met a friend who done Vipassana meditation, yeah. And she said, you helped her a lot. And I don't know what that came to mind. I was like, all right. Let me read Say everything in my brain in my body, I will go see a psychiatrist and I will go on medication if I need to. But let me just do my way like this. Let me do it this way. I need 10 days, I need I'm gonna go on a silent retreat. And I've done like three days before years ago and I loved it. The 10 days is that commitment to big one I have children in in like they have to go to school. And this was in September, like when my mother in law who is the greatest human being my I have the best in laws. And my husband said you go to that. Yeah, we'll take care of the children.

Todd McLaughlin:

Isn't it amazing? And they did. Oh, my gosh, and you did your first day course?

Yulady Saluti:

Yeah, did my first day take 10 day course in, it was life changing. It was a reset of the brain, I came out a different person, I can explain to you or happens, what happened? Like, like, in my brain, but I just know that when you sit in silence for that long, something happens, like do you can run away from you?

Todd McLaughlin:

I've done I've done a few myself. Oh my gosh, like, yeah, how can you possibly explain that? You have to just go do it, you have to just go do it.

Yulady Saluti:

Yeah, you have to go through it, experience it. And then I came out and I was okay. I was no longer depressed. I was able to do you know, to be just, you know, mom and everything continuing my meditation practice. I'm sad to say I don't do it as often as I should anymore. But I'm finally fast forward to 2018 I had a really bad hospital stay. And then they found the problem. The issue of my problems of it was a huge blockage in the stomach. So I got really blocked up I was in the hospital for nine days. An NG tube, feeding tube, but the doctor fix the problem, and I haven't had any issues knock on wood ever since. And so that was all 12 Then 2019. The whole year I like just like, I was waiting for the other shoe to drop. I'm like, it's just gonna happen again. I mean, it's been happening for years, I'm going to be in the hospital. Again. It never did. So I was like, Okay, I have to start doing something because obviously I'm not getting sick again. Like I could work out. So I started with, I was like, Alright, I'm about to be 40 years old. So I think I want to do cardio because I've never done cardio my whole entire life. I hate running. I don't have a bike. So I'm going to get my kids have jump ropes. So like I'm gonna get jump ropes. So then I started jump roping. Yeah. And I did months of that. And then this is the my 40th birthday was coming at the end of 2019. And I said to my husband, I want a peloton bike like I know it sounds crazy. I know they're expensive, but like I want one and he like he looked like it's not that bad. We could find me and say Ebola. So and then I fell in love with the peloton bike and I started I got my cardio up with that. And I loved it. I was dedicated to it. Then one day during the height of the pandemic in 2020. I decided August 2020. I was like, I kept seeing this little boy that runs around my neighborhood. And at the time, we didn't know his name, we call them Frank. Now we're friends. I told him that he inspired me to run his name is Ian. But at the time, you know, we didn't have we didn't know his name. Frank would run and I was like, I'm gonna go for a run. And then my husband's like, go for a run. And I'm like, Alright, so I went. And I didn't die. Like I try to. I try to run before because one of my kids is a runner. And I hated it. And I just couldn't breathe in. It was not a comfortable experience for me. And this time, it was fine. I loved it. I was like, Oh, I can do this again. So I kept doing it until one day I came I went out and did five miles like the primary loop. And I came in and my husband's like, Wait, did you do that loop? And then he knew what the loop was? Because he's a biker. Yeah. So he knows like, he knew that that took fine. Because well, it does kind of fast for five runs, or somebody just started running like, three, four weeks ago, and then run with a watch or anything was like, I don't know, like, and then he didn't give me a watch. His watch is Garmin, and then he's like, okay, and he started timing me and he's like, Oh, babe, I think you're fast. And I'm like, okay, and then I started just pushing myself. And then one day I knew that John was John was a very successful coach. Yeah, a running coach. Like he. He coached college and so I just I was like, John, can you help me out here and then he he would give me these workouts like a Monday you'll do this on Tuesday. Usually, on Wednesday you do this and then I would just like give him my my, my splits and he's like, okay, like this is good. And then like he had me do mile rip needs and then I would go faster than why he asked because obviously I want to show off. And then he, he's like, Okay, you have a talent. And I'm 40 years old, you know, like, I don't have anywhere to go with this just like running because I want to hook you up with this lady. Her name is Diane de Aveiro, in, she runs up, right? She's run code running coach and she runs a group or where men blah, blah. And then I'm like, Yeah, whatever. Let me just, you know, and who do not like I didn't take it seriously. And a few weeks later, a few months later, I heard her on the radio because she's a radio. She's nervous. She's in a radio show. And I was like, Okay, this is the I have to I have to call I have to call this lady. So I did. I hooked up with her. And then in the meantime, I, I was she said, I told her I'm training for a half marathon in a marathon, which was AC half in the Philly full. And she's like, Alright, when you're done with that, let's get together. And you know, we'll run together. So I did the AC half well, so I did it first a 5k. And I came first women's with the 5k. And I did it completely wrong. I went out too fast. I died. But it was still a sub sub 25k. So I was really happy with it. Yeah. And then I did. And then I ever hired a different running coach like somebody that would just give me like, a, you know, every day that still doing because I know John is retired, I don't want to bother him. And then she gave me I use the AC half as a training run for the Philly fool. And then I win and I ran in an hour and 27 minutes and five seconds in Kane second women. And I want money for that. I was so excited. Yeah.

Todd McLaughlin:

Well, you're pro now your

Yulady Saluti:

husband says like, you're a Pro Runner now like yay. So I was really excited because again, like I in yoga, I was good at yoga. I never played any sports in school, I never had any any means to play sports. So again, I'm like, Oh, my ego is boosted like, oh, so I'm like, I'm gonna go with it. I fell in love even more. And then I ran Philly 2021 in like every my first marathon or without too fast. I died towards the end. But you know, but I did it I did in three hours and 12 minutes. And I had that then I had that marathon, you know, bug. And now then I then while I was I got injured in. But before I got injured, I joined Diane de Oliver in her running team. And we did a bunch of track stuff. So like we went to Nationals, where I won first for the 3000 in my age group. And then we went to the Penn relays where our team won first place. And then we then didn't just like local stuff we did I love running with this lady, because out of all of them. I'm not the fastest, and I love them because some of them are even older than me. And they're faster than me and so inspiring. Like, yeah, this is it. We're a good community. And then what else have I done? So I just ran Philly last November with

Todd McLaughlin:

with that I followed you on Instagram for that one. And it looked like it was brutal. Just like afterwards you were like, you're like never again or I don't know if that's how you feel now but it just because of the wind and because of the temperature and then you said something about you went like the not the wrong way or something the way they redirecting you down the course you were like, they weren't really clear about which way you had to go. So it just seemed like fusion and the experience which are

Yulady Saluti:

beginning Yes, at the beginning of the they direct us before the marathon started. So we have like minutes to get to, to the starting line. And we're like, oh my god, that do you have to walk around. So like now we're all stressed like, then we got to start stressed and it's just awful. Then I like I knew it was gonna be cold because it was that week, the whole week was in the 20s. And he felt like he was lower than the 20s. But I didn't know it was gonna be this windy. And I didn't run with a pace group because they didn't have a piece group that matched my pace. And now that I look back, I should have just ran with the pace group. But you know, it you live you learn. And so I started in I think, like, I don't know, I would say three four miles like a mile three. I knew something was wrong. I knew something was wrong because I just didn't feel that good. And again, something that I know when I stepped onto the onto the starting line that a marathon. I know that this is going to happen sometimes maybe all the time is I have constipation issues if I don't poop that morning. That's it. And you feel like poop if you don't,

Todd McLaughlin:

I saw I saw you post I saw you posting kind of like yeah, oh no, I haven't pooped yet. Yeah, this is not good. This is Oh, yeah,

Yulady Saluti:

I drank my coffee. I drank my juice. I was like, not good. Nothing's coming out like, and that carb loaded to for like three days so like I have a lot in me. It needs to come out quite sluggish and stuff but I was like, Alright, I've ran like this before and I've made it through so that's okay. Yeah, then the cold I'm like, It's okay. It only had leggings on the whole time and I didn't which was like my legs were just numb from the cold. Yeah, but like I was like, I could do that then the wind like, like a mile eight the wind just like, Oh, yeah. Molly's like a little hill you climb in the wind was so it just like took my soul. I was like, Oh my God, no, please. No, no and Philly's, not flat. And many people will tell you Philly's flat. And it's not. It's up and down. And up and down, up and down. And then like, it felt like every time that I was running up a hill, the wind was just like in my face. And it was it was it was awful. So I couldn't keep my pace completely. And by the time I got to mile 20, which is like a hill that I'm climbing. And as as like I lost it. I was like, I'm just I kept telling myself my mantra was finished is to finish this race. Don't Don't DNF. But just finish a note that you don't ever have to do. Ever have to do it again. That was my mantra. Finish this you don't have to do this again, finishes. So that kept me I crossed the line. I called my husband, I was like, I am not running Boston to run Boston in the spring. And I'm like I there's no way I could do this again. This sock. This was really bad. I finished in three hours and 15 minutes. Honestly, I thought I was gonna finish in three hours and 45 minutes, because that's how slowly like I was running.

Todd McLaughlin:

He's still powered. You still powered? Yeah, that's a fast time. For anyone that doesn't understand marathon times. That's a fast time. It's a very, very impressive even while you're feeling like absolute crap. You're still pumping out a crazy fast time. So what, Where's this coming from your body?

Yulady Saluti:

I don't know, maybe was always there. I like I like to say that. I like the pain that I feel when I run because it's a self inflicted pain that I can doing it to myself that the pain that I lived before, like all those many years in and out of hospitals and pain that, like, I go there sometimes and be like, I've done that I could do this. So it's like, this pain that I feel when I run. I could hang here for a long time. 26.2 miles because I've been there before in different places of my life. And I think that has helped me stay in pain, accept the pain because that's what marathoning is. marathoning is yes, it's gonna hurt no matter how fast or slow you're going right? Even if you are slower than me. 26 Miles hurt. Yeah, it's getting comfortable with that. Can you can you stay there? Can you be there? Then the I think I think a lot of that perseverance or like wanting to run marathons and it'd be good at them. It's because of the pain that I had before. This speed. I don't know. I just I maybe like I maybe I was definitely probably born with it, you know, and just never really tapped into it. Because I never ran.

Todd McLaughlin:

Yeah, yeah. That is amazing. Milady

Yulady Saluti:

Thank you. Thank you.

Todd McLaughlin:

That is amazing. I mean,

Yulady Saluti:

so let me tell you, I it took me an hour to get from Philly to New Jersey. I get in the shower, and I'm like can't wait to run Boston. So excited

Todd McLaughlin:

came back that fast. It only took that long. So obviously, obviously you are going to run the Boston. And can you can you give me I know. We scheduled in for an hour and we're coming on on our times on our time allotment

Yulady Saluti:

that my kid came home and told to please please, please.

Todd McLaughlin:

And I had someone cancel after for me this one. So I'm not on a crunch right now, which I'm happy about. But please tell me if something happens and you have to run. Literally, let me know. But um, so what is your vision for the future? I'm not that you need to go into the future. I know as you know, as Yogi's, we need to just be really content with the present moment. But I also know you have you're a visionary. I mean, you seem like a visionary. You've overcome so many obstacles that surely at some point you've done manifestation work and or you are an example of manifestation work, at least from being able to overcome these hurdles. So Oh, if you when you do that type of work now if you do, what are you seeing? What is your goal? What do you what do you want to achieve even beyond what you have achieved?

Yulady Saluti:

Ah, that's a good question. There's so many, so many things I want to achieve. Like in my running career, I like to get faster. So I like to, to run a marathon faster. How fast? Honestly, I don't know. I don't care anymore. Just I want to do better than I did my last one, you know. So that's, that's what I want. That's what I want to do. I want to be the world's greatest grandmother, to my little nollie. And hopefully, I have much, much more. I have the most amazing family, right? I have. I've always said that I didn't have my health for many years. And maybe I still don't, because I still have some issues. And right now I'm good. I'm not I'm fine. I live in I live in a lot of discomfort all the time. But that's something that as long as it's not paying, I can handle it. So I don't have fully 100% My health but I do have the best family and the best husband really like he is amazing. So I want to enjoy my time with him. Like now, our kids are getting older they go on some we got 40 years before they all go to college. I one I want to hang out with him. I want to travel I have because I've had children for since such a young age. I've never I haven't really gotten to see very much of the world. Yeah, I've traveled to India traveled to Thailand, but like my dream is to just like, pick up in like, if you say like I'm hosting a retreat in, blah, blah, blah. I can just be like Todd, I'm coming. You know, like, so like, I want to go to a location and with my husband do yoga go for a run. That's what that's where my what I think of when I think about the future. What else and just like be very present about it and, and spread kindness everywhere I go.

Todd McLaughlin:

That's amazing. That's a great dream. That seems like a really grounded dream like you've already found a certain you've achieved you've embodied a certain level of contentment. So now it's just the icing. Icing on the cake. Yeah,

Yulady Saluti:

exactly. Right. It's it's I don't I don't want to I don't want to get away from what I have. I just wanted to travel to see the world but I want to bring everything that I have in my daily life with me because my daily life it's perfect. Yeah, like I'm so content you write I'm so content with everything. I don't want to run away from any from anything. Like I said, that's really cool part of it.

Todd McLaughlin:

Thank you, that's really cool. Because sometimes, in the endurance sport world, we'll come across this idea that will runners and or triathletes and or crazy people that do these crazy endurance events are just trying to get away from something like, there must be something there and we're just running to get away from it. And, and but I don't know the way that you've presented this idea. And through your example. It's almost not so much to run away from something maybe running towards something. I mean, I know it's, but yeah, yeah. But I do believe it's possible to be present and enjoy these type of activities and not have some demon that we're running from. Or it seems like you're there. Do you have you encountered those ideas, though? And your own sort of healing process

Yulady Saluti:

area? Yes, yes. And I'm so glad we were talking about this because yeah, I don't have to run away from anything. I don't Yeah. And I do hear about endurance athletes, you know, having some demons that they have to run away from and you hear that a lot and not me, I feel very content with I know when I when I did have a lot of demons and this is how I know that I'm healthy. It's because when I wasn't healthy, I needed to have people around me and listen, I couldn't be alone. Now with my thoughts now with myself. Now, I love being alone. You know, it's not something that I want to do all the time. But when I when I am alone, I'm like, Okay, I like me. I look in the mirror I like I like what I see. I look next to me, I like my I like the children that I've raised. I like the husband that I picked. Everything is not I don't want to run away from any of these. So yes, I'm running towards something out like a wonder why I wonder I want I wish I could give you an answer. What am I running towards? But I don't know. Yeah.

Todd McLaughlin:

Yeah, that's good. That's good. You know, I recently read a book that was pointing out, you know, heal yourself. And you if you've been to every single doctor in the world, and they don't have an answer for you, you can tap into self healing, you're somebody who has, in my opinion, benefited greatly from the medical community and establishment. Maybe probably maybe wouldn't be here, if you hadn't had that type of level of care. You also seem like somebody who appreciates you are somebody who appreciates meditation, yoga, and all of the elements that come with that. What is your experience of finding the balance between accepting help from the medical community and self healing and self care?

Yulady Saluti:

Great question. I. One of my things that somebody asked me, if you if you want to go back in time, where would you go back? And I always say, I guess it. It changed in the past year. But before that, and I'll tell you, why change in the past year. Before that, I would say that day when the doctor said, Let's do a biopsy, actually. And I would go back and say, no, let me get a second opinion. And a third opinion, no, why? You know, I didn't question I was like, All right, you know, and that's what snow like, that's how it everything snowballed into my medical illness, because my medical illness was was manmade, you know, it wasn't something I was born with. So it has changed because my dad died last year, and it's February. So now when people ask me that I said, I just want to go back to a time when my dad is alive. You know, that? That's why it has changed. But for many years, it was the other one. Yeah. So yeah, so like, I guess, that have had to have happened. To me, I had a hard time trusting the medical field. And then I learned how to ask questions. I learned, you know, can I get a second opinion? There were times where, for many years, I could have gotten like a harsh procedure. But you know, to help me I, I chose go, I used to be I was raw vegan for a while. And that helped me. At that time of my life. It didn't help any more. So I went back to just a regular diet. But like, instead of going for another surgery that helped, you know, instead of getting for another six years of colonics, help, you know, help me live six years instead of having another surgery. So there had been that been like a nice level, like educated guess, you know, educated answers, like, this is where I want this is, when it came down to cancer. It was very, very apparent to me that I wanted to live and the only answer to me was chemo radiation and a double mastectomy. Yeah. Yeah. Many people would, would, would email me and said, tried to go some method, try this, try going raw try. And I'm like, I will try all that but I'm still gonna do chemo and radiation and all the stuff because that's how I feel then an educated like, educated research that I did, and talking to many friends that were doctors talking to my husband and my in laws were crazy smart people. It's what you know what? That's why I came to that conclusion. So yeah, I mixed a little bit of both, you know, I went through all my chemo, my radiation while I was still eating a very healthy diet, like I did both, you know, so yes, there's there's a happy medium that I encourage everybody to find on their own.

Todd McLaughlin:

That's great advice. I think that's another thing that you that I'm appreciating listening to you talk is having the ability to find that balance and and you are here now you Lottie, like you're here now so that's pretty amazing. I like it for that the decisions. Decisions you made have. If we if we wanted affirmation. Were they good or not? I think so.

Yulady Saluti:

Yeah, that's I my life is not perfect. By any means. But I love all the imperfections. Yeah, in my journey has made me you know, realize figure out to appreciate everything. Yes. Did you sneeze God bless you.

Todd McLaughlin:

Oh, yeah, turn my volume down so I could sneeze. God bless you. Thank you. Oh my gosh. Well, you Lottie I am. This is a real big moment for me. I feel honored to have this opportunity to speak with you. I I love podcasting. I'm super excited because I'm going to release this podcast next week and it's going to be my 100th episode. And I was like planning this around you because I was or I was trying to coordinate it were. And then when we had to cancel the last time, I was like, oh, no, am I gonna pull this off? Am I gonna pull this off? And then when we got this date, I'm like, it's gonna work. It's gonna work. She's gonna be number 100. So thank you. Thank you. Oh

Yulady Saluti:

my god, thank you for being so understanding that the night of the podcast that you that the night before I was so sick, I would first of all, I have a little bit of an injury on my on my on my knee from running it's it's nothing majors, he is on his way to healing. And then I just getting over COVID in my stomach was a hot mess all night. So I was up all night and I was like, I'm gonna I'm not gonna be able to like, answer his question. Know, one of my biggest fears is sounding dumb. So it's like a dumb when your question is gonna go on one ear and not the other and I had. So it built up that fear of like, I'm gonna sound dumb. And I was like, and he was good that it canceled because I was in, like, trance state all day. I could honestly go all day without eating two days without eating and I'm fine. One night on asleep. I'm a mess.

Todd McLaughlin:

Well, you are the opposite of dumb. You're very smart. And whatever you did last night to this point here. Good job. You seem great spirits. You said you feel pain. You said you feel pain regularly. I don't pick that up off you. So how you pull that off? Amazing. Yeah, yeah, it's super inspirational. Your body will. Again, thank you. This is amazing. I really appreciate it. I hope that I get a chance to meet you in person and your husband. He sounds absolutely amazing. And your children and your grandson. So you know, you know I was going to end it with asking do you have anything you want to close with and or something inspirational, but I feel like you've covered all the bases already. But on that note, before we do sign off, is there anything else that you would like to add? No, listen, just be kind all the time, right. Thank you Lottie.

Yulady Saluti:

You're welcome. Thank you for having me.

Todd McLaughlin:

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