Well, HELLO, my lovelies!
Did you miss me last week? Did you wonder if I had fallen down the (proverbial) toilet bowl of life with my hemorrhoids? Did you wonder if my facial hair had overtaken me and I was now auditioning to be the bearded lady in The Greatest Showman Part 2? Did you think that I had my very first public speaking gig since 2019 and I wore so many Spanx it took 8 days to remove them from my body?
The answer is YES to all those things.
But in the middle of all of those delicious tidbits, something wonderful happened! David and I hosted our very first 5 Day Challenge called Inside Out: From the Gain to the Brain. Did you hear about it? Did you happen to notice the 46,000 emails that came your way about it? (Don’t yell at me – that was David’s idea!)
You guys. It was WONDERFUL. If I do say so myself. For SIX DAYS – not five (we are extra) – we took notes, we asked questions and we spoke with some of the most outstanding speakers on the issues of health over weight loss, that I have honestly ever heard. It was so FREEING.
Let me put it to you this way: I sat at the hibachi grill the other day with my family in a SLEEVELESS shirt. (Let us take a moment and pray.) At some point this summer, I am whisking David Radke away to Cancun and he will probably see me in a bathing suit. Not a two-piece, no. But a nice, one piece, without so much fabric that I drown when I get in the water. And then, if I you’ll allow me a moment of transparency, we will go back to our hotel room and we will have sex. And I will not let my body size and shape determine what I get to do or not do with the man who is in love with me.
At the end of last week, so many (hundreds, literally) of women became a part of our new monthly community called Burn Your Boats. Each week they will receive a podcast straight from me and my heart. Because I have not beaten this thing yet…so I am one of them…fighting the good fight…burning the dang boat. They will get a video sent to them once a month of me interviewing some prominent names in the industry on such topics as Intuitive Eating, Intermittent Fasting, Weight Loss Therapy, Body Shame, and more. They’ll receive an extra article each week dedicated to our journey; most likely it will be an article literally ripped from the pages of my journal. But even more than all of that, they are already on the BRAND SPANKING NEW Melissa Radke app (you can find it in the Apple App Store and the Android App Store) falling in love with the Community. Hundreds of women from all over the world are talking and sharing and finding other women in their very own cities that are doing this and they are meeting – maybe for the first time ever! – and I am crying just thinking about it.
Whoever wrote the African Proverb, If you want to go fast, go alone. But if you want to go farther, go together, I am going to find them and kiss them on the mouth.
There is power in numbers.
There is power in community.
There is power in saying, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore.”
Matthew 11:12 says, “…the Kingdom of heaven suffers violence – but the VIOLENT take it by force.”
Know what that means? You, my friend, are the Kingdom. And you’ve been treated poorly by a toxic culture that tells you that you are your jean size and that you are not enough. It’s treated you poorly. It’s ravaged you. It’s been abusive to you. It’s lied to you. It’s manipulated you into thinking that you cannot trust yourself. As long as you cannot trust yourself then maybe you’ll trust WW or Jenny Craig or Nutri-System or Optavia.
But the time has come…and you can take it all back. And you can be violent about it. You can fight for it. You can fight for freedom from chains that were never supposed to have enslaved you.
For each of you fighting the good fight. I am right there with you.
This year, we take back what was always ours. If you’d like to join us – we’d love to have you. Either way…
FORWARD!
Melissa
P.S. If you would like to listen to the incredible training from last week in the challenge, go to the Challenge Facebook Page and you will find all the Live Recordings under the Guide Section.
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I signed up for the challenge and was getting emails, then nothing and could never join the meetings. Hopefully I’ll catch up with the FB page, really wanted to participate!