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Speaker 2: This listensch says it shut work out, this patch workout.
Speaker 3: It's Later with mo Kelly. We're live on YouTube. That's
Speaker 3: real important because Claudine Cooper joins us in studio. The
Speaker 3: nice exercise lady. You can go to Claudinecooper dot com. Claudin,
Speaker 3: it's great to see you. How are you this evening?
Speaker 3: Turn on that microphone.
Speaker 2: There I'm doing.
Speaker 4: There we go.
Speaker 2: How are you doing?
Speaker 4: I'm doing well. How you drive in?
Speaker 3: Because I'm always appreciative when you drive in with all
Speaker 3: this craziness outside.
Speaker 5: You know, it wasn't too bad. I just was listening
Speaker 5: to my Beyonce Cowboy Carter. Since going to the concert,
Speaker 5: that's kind of been on rotation.
Speaker 4: Oh you went? Did you walk to the concert?
Speaker 2: I indeed walked off.
Speaker 3: My goodness, you just gonna rub it. It didn't have to
Speaker 3: park ninety dollars park and I'm just.
Speaker 4: Gonna stroll too.
Speaker 5: Even better than that, I taught my plate's class, showered
Speaker 5: at the gym, put on my outfit, and walked straight
Speaker 5: from work.
Speaker 4: You didn't even go home?
Speaker 3: No, it must be nice to have most of your
Speaker 3: life stuff contained in a small area.
Speaker 5: I gotta admit people were like, oh, what are you
Speaker 5: gonna do about living next to a stadium and all
Speaker 5: these things going on over there, But honestly, it's been
Speaker 5: really great for us. I mean, minus the traffic every
Speaker 5: now and then you run into it. But you know,
Speaker 5: for the most part, I'm not one to complain. I
Speaker 5: also am not one to start to think about a
Speaker 5: negative outcome before it even happens.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I wish I could be you, because
Speaker 3: I'm always worried about the negative life. Look if I
Speaker 3: go out to this party tonight, I have to worry
Speaker 3: about this. I have to worry about that, you know what,
Speaker 3: time about to.
Speaker 4: Get up in the morning.
Speaker 3: I'm always thinking about these contingencies of if I choose
Speaker 3: to do this, how might this adversely affect me?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 5: I feel like so for me, I was raised in
Speaker 5: an environment where a lot of people lean towards the
Speaker 5: negative outcome of everything, right, so take advantage. Take, for example,
Speaker 5: me moving out here to La La is such.
Speaker 4: A scary play from where at that point?
Speaker 5: Oh, I mean, like I've lived all over But let's
Speaker 5: just use from my hometown Minneapolis, and the people who
Speaker 5: were the most like LA is a scary place, It's
Speaker 5: a terrible place. Are the main ones who are like, mmmm,
Speaker 5: the winter's getting cold. Sure would love to come visit
Speaker 5: in La. You know, I've been here for twenty five
Speaker 5: years now, so it ended up working out for me.
Speaker 2: But mainly, I believe that our.
Speaker 5: Thoughts manifest, our thoughts come to fruition. If you continue
Speaker 5: to think negative about things, there will most likely be
Speaker 5: a negative outcome.
Speaker 2: If you believe that the positive is possible.
Speaker 5: More than you ruminate on the negative, chances are you'll
Speaker 5: have a positive outcome.
Speaker 3: Look at you coming in here preaching, but in a
Speaker 3: good way. Let me ask you about that. In a
Speaker 3: roundabout way, I gave you this story about the rise
Speaker 3: of what is called the crunchy teen wellness influencer. YEA
Speaker 3: long story, short is there is this health and wellness
Speaker 3: movement amongst teens as far as diet and lifestyle, which
Speaker 3: is supposedly opposite the generation before them and parents. But
Speaker 3: the downside of this, to connect it is some teens
Speaker 3: start obsessing thinking about the negative regarding health and wellness,
Speaker 3: diet and exercise, worrying about what diseases they may get
Speaker 3: in the years in the future, what life is going
Speaker 3: to be like for them, because someone in their family
Speaker 3: might have gotten cancer. They're just worried about all these
Speaker 3: other things that they shouldn't be worried about.
Speaker 5: Yet you're saying that they're ruminating on a possible negative outcome. Correct, Okay,
Speaker 5: that's not what I gathered from reading this article.
Speaker 4: So go ahead.
Speaker 2: And here's the thing too.
Speaker 5: How we receive information is through our own lens, our
Speaker 5: own perspective. When I read this article, what I saw
Speaker 5: was teenagers who are willing and able to disrupt the
Speaker 5: generational patterns of poor health. And they're doing it, and
Speaker 5: they're on a journey, and they're putting it on social media.
Speaker 5: And sure, they're sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years old. So
Speaker 5: do they have all the scientific backing and the education.
Speaker 2: And all the things. No, they don't.
Speaker 5: But what they do have is a passion for not
Speaker 5: being medicated for their whole adult life, because they've made
Speaker 5: choices at sixteen seventeen, eighteen nineteen that will then have
Speaker 5: to be undone at thirty nine, forty and forty one.
Speaker 3: We're talking about this article in the New York Times
Speaker 3: called the rise of the crunchy teen wellness influencer. And
Speaker 3: you may think young people are disinclined or less inclined
Speaker 3: to worry concern themselves with their diet. I'll say, the
Speaker 3: genealogical history what they may be predisposed to. But it's
Speaker 3: a different type of thinking for teenagers because they're usually
Speaker 3: just thinking of whatever is in the moment. But now
Speaker 3: there is a rise in i'll say thought surrounding the
Speaker 3: subsequent decades in front of them.
Speaker 5: Here's what I read, Okay, I read that there are
Speaker 5: teenagers they're calling the crunchy teens. Because crunchy refers to granola,
Speaker 5: that's what we used to call it. It refers to hippie,
Speaker 5: it refers to all natural, no medication, holistic. That's why
Speaker 5: they're called crunchy. However, what I'm getting from this is
Speaker 5: that the crunchy teen does not want to eat ultra
Speaker 5: process No. No, they do not want to go get
Speaker 5: fast food. They want to try alternative ways to stay healthy. Now,
Speaker 5: the negative outcome that I gathered from the article was
Speaker 5: that this could potentially promote people into eating disorders. Yes,
Speaker 5: now that's a whole nother subject that I don't know
Speaker 5: enough about to weigh in on. But what I can
Speaker 5: say is that any time you're taking in content, videos,
Speaker 5: posts from people on social media, take it with a
Speaker 5: grain of self, whether you're sixteen, twenty six, or seventy six,
Speaker 5: because what you are receiving through the video and through
Speaker 5: content is simply one person's point of view.
Speaker 3: I always say that not all opinions are created equal,
Speaker 3: and we should distill them through a common sense filter,
Speaker 3: if you will, because everyone has an opinion about everything,
Speaker 3: but not all opinions are created equal. Some are more informed,
Speaker 3: some are less informed, some are altogether uninformed, And I
Speaker 3: have to look at each opinion or each editorial or
Speaker 3: each post, each thought and distill it through some sort
Speaker 3: of like calllender, if you will, and kind of shake it.
Speaker 3: It's like, Okay, is this person credible? Are they knowledgeable?
Speaker 3: And we'll go from there.
Speaker 5: What a sixteen year old who is weighing in on
Speaker 5: the health and wellness industry as a whole have a
Speaker 5: vast amount of information?
Speaker 2: I mean they're sixteen.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think they have a lot of information
Speaker 4: about anything.
Speaker 3: If that sounds dismissive, is because life experience does matter.
Speaker 2: It matters.
Speaker 5: Also, there's another scientist in this article that says, there's
Speaker 5: a whole educational background that you have to have to
Speaker 5: start weighing in on nutrition as well. Right, However, these kids,
Speaker 5: being that I'm a parent of children of this age,
Speaker 5: these kids have access to a lot of information and
Speaker 5: they have the ability to research in ways that would
Speaker 5: take us days, weeks, hours, months. Right, So now they
Speaker 5: can gather information that will support their point of view.
Speaker 4: They call that confirmation bias.
Speaker 3: Yes, they're more ways to investigate, but there's all so
Speaker 3: more misinformation, more disinformation, more confirmation bias out there. If
Speaker 3: I believe the world is flat, damn it, I'll be
Speaker 3: able to find something that confirms my belief that the
Speaker 3: Earth is flat.
Speaker 2: Just google it exactly, Just google it.
Speaker 5: And I say that to say, you said, oh, I
Speaker 5: filter it through my calender of common sense. But I'm
Speaker 5: gonna tell you my day I used to say common sense.
Speaker 3: And all that common It's later with Mo Kelly and Claudinancooper.
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Speaker 3: conversation with Claudinecooper Claudinecooper dot com. If you want to
Speaker 3: know more, I encourage you to go there. But in
Speaker 3: the last segment, I mean, we were talking about this
Speaker 3: New York Times article, the rise of the crunchy teen
Speaker 3: wellness influencer, and how both of us extracted different things
Speaker 3: from it. We interpreted it differently, but at the end
Speaker 3: of it all, it had to do with teen wellness
Speaker 3: influencers exerting their influence over their peers. As far as
Speaker 3: dietary choices, I found it strange, if only because teens
Speaker 3: don't really have any say right wrong, and different as
Speaker 3: far as what they eat in their individual households and Carnesia.
Speaker 3: You were telling us about someone who wrote in the
Speaker 3: YouTube chat that go ahead and tell us real quick
Speaker 3: tourn your might there.
Speaker 5: Yes, Reep said, I do not support teens controlling their
Speaker 5: health when their brain is still developing.
Speaker 3: There's something to that, because teens think a whole lot
Speaker 3: of stuff which really should not be given the time
Speaker 3: of day, me included when I was a teen. We
Speaker 3: think a lot of things, probably not well informed. I'm
Speaker 3: the mother of teens and I am a crunchy mom.
Speaker 3: What Yes, I am a crunchy mom. I allow my
Speaker 3: teens to have a say so. I want them to
Speaker 3: weigh in on their nutrition. I want them to eat
Speaker 3: or cook for themselves. I actually wanted to. I love
Speaker 3: that comment. By the way, thank you for leaving that
Speaker 3: comment in. Anyone who's watching, please leave us comments.
Speaker 2: We love it.
Speaker 5: I will say this, I take my kids to the market.
Speaker 5: We all get our own little basket and we get
Speaker 5: the things that we need to meal prep and to
Speaker 5: cook for the week. It's a way to foster independence
Speaker 5: as well as allowing them a freedom of thought. I
Speaker 5: don't want to control my children. Control is not love.
Speaker 5: But you're gonna get me on a parenting vendor right now.
Speaker 3: We need to have this conversation and maybe a generational
Speaker 3: But I grew up in a household which is the
Speaker 3: exact opposite.
Speaker 4: You're gonna eat what I put in front of you.
Speaker 3: And you're not gonna have a say in whatever's gonna
Speaker 3: be chosen at the supermarket. You might have a vote
Speaker 3: for what maybe for dessert on a given evening, or
Speaker 3: do you want to have breakfast for dinner on a
Speaker 3: given evening as a as a treat. But other than that,
Speaker 3: I was very much from the scene, not her generation
Speaker 3: of children raising.
Speaker 5: I'm I'm of that generation, and I hated it.
Speaker 3: But are you that Are you the cool mom that'll
Speaker 3: have a party let all the kids drink.
Speaker 2: We're not gonna try.
Speaker 5: Oh momo, I'm gonna just say this. My garage is
Speaker 5: the landing pad for all the kids in the neighborhood.
Speaker 5: A war has been say no war, and it always
Speaker 5: has been. I want my kids around me, and I
Speaker 5: want to have an been, honest and trustworthy relationship with
Speaker 5: my children.
Speaker 2: I do not want to control them.
Speaker 5: I do not want to assert my authority over them
Speaker 5: so that they are scared enough of me to lie,
Speaker 5: because that's all you're getting. You're not getting kids who
Speaker 5: are going to adhere to your strict rules. You're getting
Speaker 5: kids who will lie to you because they fear you,
Speaker 5: and that is not a relationship.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you that because I grew up in
Speaker 3: the fear me too complex me too because my father
Speaker 3: was going to beat my ass.
Speaker 4: Yes, and he did and did.
Speaker 2: We are victims of abuse.
Speaker 3: But but but but I can't say they protected me
Speaker 3: in the sense of we would rather you fear us
Speaker 3: that engage in behavior which may lead to your demise.
Speaker 3: The reason why I'm Marse paul O'Kelly, my father am
Speaker 3: so hard on you, Morris William o'kelly's because I would
Speaker 3: rather teach you boundary reason parameters so the police don't
Speaker 3: have to so the world doesn't have to so you
Speaker 3: don't end up in either jail, prison, or the morgue
Speaker 3: or some combination thereof.
Speaker 2: And thank god you're sitting here right now.
Speaker 5: Butjah, but I can tell you right now that that
Speaker 5: method doesn't always work. But what you did say that
Speaker 5: does work is that Morris Paul O'Kelly was in that house.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, Now, that I can say is probably the
Speaker 5: bigger game changer than me telling you you need to
Speaker 5: eat what I put on this plate or you're not
Speaker 5: getting up out of this pet.
Speaker 4: Got to sound just like my mama. Work for words.
Speaker 4: Let me watch it right now.
Speaker 5: Only because I had to say, Mama.
Speaker 4: Hello, true story, but let me tie it all together.
Speaker 3: There is something to be said for the health and wellness,
Speaker 3: the emotional wellness of a child in an environment where
Speaker 3: he or she feels they have a say, and my
Speaker 3: sister say in our household had to do with like,
Speaker 3: for example, if we want to go to a party.
Speaker 3: If I want to go to a party, my parents
Speaker 3: will say, why should we allow you to go? What
Speaker 3: is the argument?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 3: I want you to think through this. It's not how
Speaker 3: are you going to get there? Who's going to be there?
Speaker 3: What problems might you have? And it got me to
Speaker 3: think about safety in a different way and also learning
Speaker 3: how to articulate these things which I may want in life.
Speaker 3: I didn't know it at the time, but looking back, oh,
Speaker 3: that's what they were doing. But there is a wellness
Speaker 3: component to this parenting thing right.
Speaker 5: In my opinion, social and emotional wellness starts at home.
Speaker 5: It starts at home with the relationship the children have
Speaker 5: with their parents. And if the child feels unseen or unheard,
Speaker 5: as you said, I feel like they will continue to
Speaker 5: show up in life smaller than what they should be
Speaker 5: and could be. Now I will say this, I was
Speaker 5: not asked for a whole dissertation on why I want
Speaker 5: to go to the party. I had one parent who
Speaker 5: was like, I'll drive you to the party and i'll
Speaker 5: pick you up from the party. That way I know
Speaker 5: where you are. But I had another parent who was like,
Speaker 5: you not going to the party, and that's that on
Speaker 5: that and I'm not.
Speaker 2: There's no doubt wat here because.
Speaker 5: I said so yes, and I promised myself I would
Speaker 5: never do my children like that. You can pitch your
Speaker 5: argument and I'll listen and we can come to maybe
Speaker 5: some middle.
Speaker 3: Ground that's completely foreign to me because I did not
Speaker 3: have a vote. Now I may have had the floor
Speaker 3: to make an argument, but I didn't have a vote.
Speaker 3: That vote and that final say was going to come
Speaker 3: from her or him or them, but it wasn't going
Speaker 3: to become coming from me.
Speaker 4: Look, if you get to.
Speaker 3: The right endpoint, then I don't quibble too much about
Speaker 3: the journey in the path to get there.
Speaker 5: Well, you don't get to quibble because guess what, it's
Speaker 5: the person's journey, it's the parents' journey, it's the child's journey.
Speaker 5: And that's another thing too. I stand on business when
Speaker 5: it comes to my kids. They're going to go through
Speaker 5: their own journey and they're going to face their own consequences,
Speaker 5: and they're going to have to live with those consequences.
Speaker 3: Hopefully it won't be prison or death. That's what my
Speaker 3: parents were worried about. Yeah, well you don't always get
Speaker 3: a say either.
Speaker 4: That's true.
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Speaker 2: That's a nice exercise.
Speaker 4: Mark, Mark, don't let the title fool you.
Speaker 2: You're welcome, Welcome for that, appreciate you.
Speaker 4: Claudie Cooper is always a pleasure to see.
Speaker 5: Always a pleasure to come into the studio with you
Speaker 5: mouth thank you.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 5: In next week, I won't be here guys, Just so
Speaker 5: you know, I'm doing a corporate wellness event with the
Speaker 5: NFL headquarters.
Speaker 2: Did she?
Speaker 4: Did you hear how she just threw that out there
Speaker 4: like she's big willie little humble bragging. Yeah, she could
Speaker 4: have just pulled it off off air, but she said no,
Speaker 4: let me tell on air.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me tell him what's up?
Speaker 3: She just she just big time does I can't come
Speaker 3: in because the NFL is calling.
Speaker 4: I think she's too big for this show.
Speaker 5: Now let me come back the next week.
Speaker 2: I'm not too big for you, guys.
Speaker 5: Love y'all.
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