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Your Health is Your Responsility.

Welcome to the Project Rook podcast! I’m just here to challenge you to eat & think well. Nah, I lied. I’m also here to call you on your bs, remind you of some uncomfortable truths, AND light a fire under your ass. First you get mad, then you get better :)

Visit www.projectrook.com

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You keep trying to duck and life keeps punching. You keep trying to run and life keeps punching. The more you resist, the more it punches.

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Life is offering you lesson after lesson but you keep missing them. It is my hope that life never lets up until you finally surrender...to who YOU are calling yourself to be.

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You keep trying to duck and life keeps punching. You keep trying to run and life keeps punching. The more you resist, the more it punches.

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