#112 - Embark on a journey to wellness with Kimberly Bourbeau, Regional Vice President with Arbonne and I, your host Richard Conner, as we discuss how a blend of nutrition, hydration, and 30-Day Health Program can revolutionize your health. I'll be recounting my own experience with nutrition and hydration strategies; and Kimberly shares the ethos behind Arbonne's vegan and sustainable products, while also sharing her personal milestones of tackling fitness challenges.
Topics Covered:
Learn how to fuel your body properly on a daily basis
Find out how you may be impacted by the disparity in how many toxic chemicals banned around the world are found in everyday products
Hear how to incorporate clean eating into even the most hectic of schedules
Discover how you can make big changes in only 30 days
Today’s Guest
Kimberly Bourbeau
Kimberly is full-time corporate, Regional Vice President with Arbonne, wife, and mom of 3, dog mom, and athlete.
“Inspire to Run Podcast is truly inspiring!” <– If that sounds like you, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This helps me support more people — just like you — move toward the healthy life that they desire. Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then be sure to let me know what you loved most about the episode!
#112 - Embark on a journey to wellness with Kimberly Bourbeau, Regional Vice President with Arbonne and I, your host Richard Conner, as we discuss how a blend of nutrition, hydration, and 30-Day Health Program can revolutionize your health. I'll be recounting my own experience with nutrition and hydration strategies; and Kimberly shares the ethos behind Arbonne's vegan and sustainable products, while also sharing her personal milestones of tackling fitness challenges.
Topics Covered:
Learn how to fuel your body properly on a daily basis
Find out how you may be impacted by the disparity in how many toxic chemicals banned around the world are found in everyday products
Hear how to incorporate clean eating into even the most hectic of schedules
Discover how you can make big changes in only 30 days
Today’s Guest
Kimberly Bourbeau
Kimberly is full-time corporate, Regional Vice President with Arbonne, wife, and mom of 3, dog mom, and athlete.
“Inspire to Run Podcast is truly inspiring!” <– If that sounds like you, please consider rating and reviewing my show! This helps me support more people — just like you — move toward the healthy life that they desire. Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then be sure to let me know what you loved most about the episode!
Hi, my friend, I'm excited to have Kimberly Barbeau back on the show, as we recently did an Instagram Live and we talked about ways that you can fuel your body properly, and we share some information with you that you may not be aware of with your nutrition and hydration products today, so we're excited to share some information with you that we really think can help. Also, we talk about how you can make significant changes in your life in just 30 days with the right hydration and nutrition products, so we're excited to share this information, and we have a special announcement for the Inspire to Run community. So excited to share all this with you today and hope you enjoy.
Speaker 2:
Welcome to Inspire to Run podcast. Here you will find inspiration, whether you are looking to take control of your health and fitness or you are a seasoned runner looking for community and some extra motivation. You will hear inspiring stories from amazing runners, along with helpful tips from fitness experts. Now here's your host, Richard Connor.
Speaker 1:
Hi, my friend, Welcome to Inspired to Run Instagram Live. I'm excited for our topic tonight. We are going to talk about healthy living and what you can do to jumpstart that in your life, and I'm excited to have Kimberly Brobeau here with us tonight. She was a guest on our podcast back in episode 61, and the title is Live a Healthy and Successful Life Never Dream Possible, and she shared her incredible story. She's a full-time corporate regional vice president with Arbonne, wife, mom of three, dog mom and athlete, and it's just been a pleasure for me to Kimberly get to know her and just the incredible work that she's done and the story that she has. So welcome to the show, kimberly. I'm excited to have this chat with you.
Speaker 3:
Thank you. I always love spending time with you, richard, so happy to be here.
Speaker 1:
I appreciate that and let's just kind of get into the conversation. I'll just share a little bit about kind of my story and what led us to this conversation. So you know my own personal journey. I've spent on this journey of being able to do things that I never thought I could do before, and in order to do that I had to do things I've never done before and really kind of take on new challenges and overcome fears and obstacles, which has been, you know, incredible journey for me and you know, kind of along the way I've had a lot of help and support in that in terms of you know the people that I've met along the way. I've talked about coach Kevin all the time from underdog fitness, but also incredible people like like Kimmy. So you know there's been a few things that have really helped me kind of in my fitness journey around nutrition and hydration in particular, and you know, even being a runner since high school, I can't say that I've done. You know all the things that have really could have helped me, you know, really perform better kind of as a as an athlete, and that's something that I've been learning for the last few years in finding the right nutrition and right hydration products and the right training plan and nutrition plan to help me. So I love to share that with all of you and I've kind of shared tips and tricks kind of through the podcast and through the Instagram live, and tonight we're going to share a few things that has really helped me over the last few months and I'm really excited to share some of these things with you. So that's kind of the, that's kind of what we're going to get into tonight, so really excited about that. So you know, what I'd love to do is, you know, really kind of focus the conversation around some of those products, some of those hydration, nutrition products that have helped me in the. We're going to talk a little bit about you know how best to use those and help them. You know, help you kind of in your journey. So so we'll talk.
Speaker 1:
Kimmy, you know I'll turn over to you for just a little bit. So you know we're talking about, you know, these really great products that I just started using recently that I really love, that are from Arman, and there's a lot of things that I love about these products. You know, some of the things that I try to do is try to use some vegan products. You know, because you know just my, I've learned that my body tolerates certain things better than others and I found that some vegan products, you know, work better for me. So you know, that's one of the advantages that I love about the products that I use from Arbonne. But, just as a company you know, just as you know the philosophy around sustainability and the philosophy around community and those things. So you know, kimmy, if you could just share a little bit first about yourself and just a little bit about Arvada as we start the conversation here.
Speaker 3:
Awesome, yeah, thank you. So yeah, my name is Kim, everyone calls me Kimmy. I'll never introduce myself as Kimmy name is Kim, everyone calls me Kimmy. I'll never introduce myself as Kimmy, but everyone who knows me I'm Kimmy. So I just turned 36 years young.
Speaker 3:
I'm going to say that because I feel like I have never felt so good in my life, and it's funny because I met Richard at a DECA fitness competition. I was there presenting my Arbonne products and while I was there on the sidelines I was like I could do this. So that's why I always love like just saying how he said like challenging yourself, like never stop challenging yourself. So, at 35 years old, like I stepped into this whole new like fitness avenue of my life that I, like, I'm absolutely in love with. So, like Richard said, never stop challenging yourself. But a little bit about me. I'm 36 years old. I live in Long Island, new York. I have three kids. They're upstairs, so if they come down and make their self-presence, they love Arbonne too, they love fitness. So they can come in and chime in as well. That's why I love, you know, the ability to work from home. I still work full-time corporate. I do. I love my job. I have all these fitness goals now and by learning about my nutrition and honing into the body and healing the body naturally, I recently got my personal training certificate. I got nutrition certified too. I got all these certs too. So, again, learning how to fuel my body properly seven years ago has completely changed the trajectory of my life in like such a positive way, so super cool.
Speaker 3:
But he meant Richard mentioned Arbonne, and it was something that I never. It was just a bag of protein on my French shelf, like I was mid back squat and I was like Ooh, what's that? And like that's how this all started and that's why we're on this call tonight too. So Arbonne, you know it's a 44 year old company. Again, I've never heard of it again till I was like mid back squat. So what I love about it too is like as a busy blast I don't want to say the word busy, I'd like to say blast. Mom, is that like? I am a big label reader. I, like I'm very conscious of what I put in and on my skin is ever since I became a mom. You know, here in America, like every, but like cancer rates are high, the onset like every, everyone's sick, and that's just because of the like, the food that we put in our body, the products that we use. So I learned about Arbonne and I trust, I wholeheartedly trust. So just a little bit about the company too.
Speaker 3:
So Arbonne goes above industry standards in testing, both on our nutrition products and our skincare products. So we go above the standard. So I don't know if you guys know this in America we only ban about 14 toxic chemicals. Arbonne we ban over 2000. So again, like I'm loving and I'm kissing up on my babies all day long, I'm not scared my makeup, my skincare products, my makeup is going to bombard them with toxins, or you know, myself either too.
Speaker 3:
So we are formulated without gluten. He mentioned that we're vegan, we're cruelty free, non GMOs. So again, products used with no dairy, no soy, no nuts, no common allergens. Because the more you use these products and you realize like what's not in them, like you start to do your own research and be like, wow, like that's really not good, like I really shouldn't be eating all this dairy, I shouldn't be intaking all this gluten and stuff like that too. So it's like I said, it's completely changed my whole life by just learning and honing into this stuff.
Speaker 3:
So also about Arvon too. We believe in a holistic approach to beauty, health and wellbeing, focusing on the whole person from the inside out. So we use innovative plant based products, ingredients grounded in science and clinical research too. So, again, like high standards right there. For safety, too, we have ethical standards in Europe. Like I said, we own America. We only been about 14 toxic chemicals Europe, they've been 1600, are Arbonne 2,000. Again, like I have such trust right there, we have a huge not allowed list.
Speaker 3:
So, again, like above industry standards. And just from the beginning, like Arbonne as a company, healthy living from the inside out Like our core value started with the inception that we're just like more than just a wellness industry. It gets down to the cellular beauty, you know collagen support, plant based nutrition, mindfulness, the microbiome Like I don't know if you guys never like hear, like microbiome, like I feel, like I hear it. Like we've been above the timing and the trends before, like that was cool. So like we were gluten free and plant based before that was even a thing, like 15 years ago. So, and our bunch just takes these focuses one step further for an overall philosophy of wellbeing, supported by their integrative you know product portfolio, because there's over 400 different products, so that's that.
Speaker 1:
I love it. I love it. No, no, that's great. That's great, kim, and you can definitely explain it a lot better than I can. So you know what I'm excited to share. So the journey that I've been on I shared the journey that I was on personally, but with the podcast, you know, I wanted to take the podcast and this platform to the next level. So you know, what we've been doing for the last three years is sharing inspiring stories from athletes like Kim and also sharing, you know, the tips and advice from experts, like you know, fitness experts, nutritionists, again like Kim. So we got both in one person here. So we've been sharing those stories.
Speaker 1:
And I wanted to do more than that. Like, how can I offer, you know, some of these products and services that we talked about on the show? How can I offer that to you to help you know you on your journey? So I'm excited to share that. I've become an independent consultant for Arbonne as a way to directly do that. So, you know, I may refer you know, you, our listeners, our community to the products and services that I use. But in this way, I can directly offer that to you as an independent consultant. I'm really excited to come on and share that with you here, but also talk about some of the things that I've used, some of the products that I've used personally, again to support my running journey.
Speaker 1:
Although I haven't tried everything that Arbonne has to offer, there's a lot there and I focus on a portion of it, which is great, right, I focus on a portion of it at the moment to fuel my running and kind of my athletic activities, so I could talk a little bit about that and we have some, you know. So we have some tips and advice to share with you about our mind, what our mind has to offer. So some of the things that I've used that I've really really, really enjoyed is the first thing is around electrolytes. So I think I shared this story before on the show where you know I started running a lot outdoors and a lot longer distances. So in high school I was a runner or track runner, so kind of long distance but kind of not right. So 5K was really the longest that I did. So over the last few years I've been running a lot more longer distances. So I've talked about the half marathons I've done. Hopefully this year I'll run my first marathon. That's one of my big goals for the year.
Speaker 1:
But I found myself running a lot of outdoors and I just wasn't feeling well one day. And someone was like for like a couple of days and I wasn't really sick, I just wasn't feeling well. Someone was like hey, are you taking something like with electrolytes and I'm like I don't think so and which is super embarrassing, right, for someone who'd been running for many years and it's just basics that I didn't even know. So that's always been top of mind for me, that I've been looking for the right products to use just for my daily electrolytes. So that's the first thing that I've used is let me see if I can put it on the on the screen here there's the TrueSport right. So this is what I've been using for my, my daily hydration. I've really really enjoyed that. I've been using for my daily hydration. I've really really enjoyed that and I've also used. I know one of the more popular products from Arbonne is the Fizz, and I know Kim talks about the Fizz all the time. Is that what's in your drink as well?
Speaker 3:
It's actually a drink that I'm hydrated in. I'm a double.
Speaker 1:
So you do both, you double it up. I haven't been that adventurous to double things up, so Double it up. I haven't been that adventurous to double things up, so I've been taking one thing at a time, but I know there's a lot of opportunity to double up. So that's what I've been doing to really help me in kind of the hydration making sure I'm getting the electrolytes and the proper hydration to fuel all the things I'm doing. So it's my day-to-day life, but also all the running and working out and everything that I do.
Speaker 1:
So that's just a couple of the products that are the many that Arbonne has to offer. So we wanted to come on and share some of those with you, and you know it can certainly help you learn more about that. But also, along with the products, also what I love about Arbonne is that the company bring these products to life right. So it's not just hey, try our fizz and you'll love it and it's great, and you know, but it's also like here's an actual program that you could follow to help you get reach your goals and get to where you want to be, and that's, you know, one of the things that I love about. You know, although being new to the community, this community. One of the things I loved about what I've really seen is kind of the authenticity and it's really about really about helping others right, reach their goals and um and yeah. So that's one of the things I love outside of you know, starting to use these products and also excited to to offer them to my community.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, community is everything I mean between, like the deck of fitness community, like the Arbonne community, like I feel like I'm just surrounded by amazing people and I tell people to, like you know, take the car, take the money, take whatever, just like, give me the like, leave me the people, because, like they're just so great and everybody has the same, the same mindset. You know, like wanting to hit their personal goals, help other people, serve love, give back, and not only like I love Ar Arbonne because not only it, like it holds me accountable, to like as this fitness like person, you know, and you know my kids see me set goals, go after them, put new ones up on the refrigerator, go after them. And then I'm like guys, like what do you like? What are your goals? Like it's just this whole positive ripple effect that the world really needs right now. So and you were mentioned, the like the, the pack. So it's not just like you can just go online and you know, go on, which is Rich's website, and just like purchase the products, great. But there's like the mind body connection that I mentioned a little bit earlier to like like why you need to. You know, wake up in the morning and like drink a protein shake, as opposed to just running out the door and stopping at Starbucks and grabbing a $7 latte. That's not going to fuel your body properly nutritional wise. So it's all like synergistically connected and I love that too.
Speaker 3:
And for me, when I first approached this to my husband I was seven years ago I was like I want to do this. Like clean eating program is like, ah, chicken and broccoli for a month, and I'm like, no, like I was told there's a little bit more to it too. So it teaches you like how. So, yeah, you're going to use these products. I'd rather, personally, me like knowing what I know. I'd rather, you know, eat my, you know, fiber, eat my protein in like whole foods. But again, like busy mom I don't know if you hear my three kids screaming upstairs Like it's just not in the cards right now. So that's why I, you know I wake up in the morning and I make my protein shake.
Speaker 3:
I've been drinking a protein shake for the past seven years and, honestly, I can't even imagine starting my day any other way. I would go Ooh, it's going to be vanilla, is it going to be coffee, is it going to be chocolate? Like, am I going to add this to it Strawberries, banana and it's not just like we're giving you these products and we're like, okay, good luck. Like, no, like there is a whole like support team and group and recipes and why, okay, like why you're going to use almond milk as opposed to whole milk in your shake, like things like that. Because, like I didn't know, like I thought I knew back then, but I really had no idea and you can really, and like what I've learned from the past seven years of being an Arbonne consultant, being in touch with my body and and the food that I eat, is like you can truly heal your body naturally.
Speaker 3:
And I am the biggest person, like you know, I love doctors and everything but like, like, truly. Like have they gotten to the root cause. Like that's my thing. Like have they gotten to the root cause of the illnesses? And like I'm not a doctor, not saying it at all, I'm just saying that you can like heal your body. Like if you wake up in the morning and like step outside for 10 minutes with no shoes on like ground yourself, get that vitamin D naturally. Like go inside. Like juice some whole celery, like celery juice. Like add some semen. Like there's ways to go Like, and I've learned that over these years by just connecting and researching and like really getting in touch, and I just truly am so grateful for doing a three day program seven and a half years ago now, because now I can help other people Like you know, I have cousins with like illnesses and like like waking like, or they wake up in the middle of the night, just like with acid reflux, and I'm like can you just like listen to me, like give this a try, like for 30 days, give this a try and see what happens.
Speaker 3:
And they're like holy smokes. You know it's just amazing when you like put the focus on you because we're so quick to again like busy mom of three, like I'm not, you know I'm on the back burner, but I've learned like self-care is self-serving, not selfish. You know it's like moms like you need to hear that in order you got to take care of yourself, in order to take care of everything else. So I don't know if you want me to get into like the actual 30-day program or our green product that we talk about in the morning, our little green shot.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, let's talk about the 30-day program because you know, just thinking about it, I just realized this week like we're at the beginning of spring.
Speaker 1:
It's so crazy and I'm like, spring is already here, which I'm very happy about that, because I'm not a winter person and I'm more of a summer person, so we're one step closer.
Speaker 1:
But you know, with spring being here and summer around the corner, I know this is usually the time other than your new year's resolution. I know this is probably the time where you're thinking about gosh, summer's right around the corner and you know, I know many folks probably have goals that they want to hit by the summertime. Right, I want to be outside and I want to feel good and I want to be active and so, yeah, so let's talk about that 30-day program to, you know, help folks in the call, or maybe people they know within the community to you know if they're kind of off track from their New Year's resolution or not where they want to be. Know if they're kind of off track from their New Year's resolution or not where they want to be and summer's right around the corner and they're looking for something to help them, you know, get closer to their goal. I think the 30 day program, you know, could be that answer. So, yeah, why don't you share a little bit about that?
Speaker 3:
Definitely so. Like Richard said, if you're looking to like lose weight, like feel confident in a bikini or whatever by this summer, or you're just wanting to feel better, like if you have, like if you wake up in the morning with bags under your eyes, sinus pressure, like joint pain, like that's not normal, like you're not supposed to wake up feeling that way, and that's from the food that we eat. So I love our 30 day program because it's our most like customizable bundle and you guys can help pick your flavors and just go from there. So, and again, it's going to heal your body from the inside out. So most of our bodies, from the foods that we eat, are acidic, you know high processed stuff like that. The point of this program is to help neutralize the pH. Again, diseases can't thrive or survive in a balanced environment. So, again, like healing the body from the inside out too. And it's funny because my, my hairdresser too, like she is an Arbonne consultant too, because she's like your hair never used to grow but again, like from fueling your body differently. I just she's calling me right now. That's why I thought of that. But again, you're just like healing your body naturally from the inside out. So, and also what I love about this program too, is, like you get, like the support group. You get the recipes and. But again, if you're looking to just kickstart, you know, wanting to feel healthy, wanting to lose pounds or inches, wanting to feel better, like, this is the program for you. If you want to, like, get started with you know, like, pick up these healthy habits, like you know you're, you're getting older, you're, you can't keep up with your grandkids or whatever the case may be, like, again, start focusing on you.
Speaker 3:
And it all comes down to like the food that you eat. So, with the kit, like, the steps to success again is you know the foods that you, the products that you get. Again, it's not just like use these products and you're not going to eat foods like, no, like we're going to teach you how to you know prepare your meals as well. But, again, like, the average American needs, you know, 24 grams of fiber in their diet. The average American gets about two from their you know, from their diet that they eat on the daily. So, again, arbonne gives you a fiber supplement, for example, that has 12 grams of fiber. You just put in your shakes. Simply, again, it's to help like replenish the nutrients in your body that you need, that you're not getting from your crazy because I'm sure everyone's just as crazy as me life that you live.
Speaker 3:
So you get two bags of protein. I love our protein shakes, honestly, like we just came out with a new one. We have one with less sugar, we have a regular one, and then we have one with less sugar, we have a regular one, and then we have one called essential meal. It's made with avocado oil. There's no other protein on the market made with avocado oil. So, again, super clean. It has 20, uh, 24 grams of vitamin um, of protein. There's other macronutrients and minerals in there again, so it's like a meal. It's a literal meal in a cup that you can put in a blender, you can put in a shaker cup and just like, go about your day like fast. You know you're not going to get that from going to Starbucks or McDonald's or whatever in the morning. So that's a meal. So you can replace one or two meals per day if you want. It depends on your results. And again, you can get with Richard and you know he'll help, you know, customize this program for you as well.
Speaker 3:
You also get a pre and probiotic, again like microbiome I don't. I feel like I hear that every everywhere now, because it's like heal your gut. If you're going to learn one thing tonight, if you take care of your gut, you're going to take care of your whole entire life. Like your skin issues reside in your gut, like your sex drive, your serotonin, things that make you happy. Like, take care of your gut and you take care of everything. And you know, you hear of so many people with, like, gluten intolerance, celiac, you know IBS. Like, again, it's like all gut issues and it comes from the food that we eat. So our pre and probiotic it also has digestive enzymes in it too. You get a bag of fiber as well. You get detox tea, which helps to support the liver and the kidneys.
Speaker 3:
Fizz, which is our absolute favorite. So this is our like. People know Arbonne, they know fizz. It's natural energy B vitamins, green tea, ginseng, guarana, coq10. Like, again, that's good for the brain. Lord knows we need that. You get two boxes of that. There's so many different flavors and again, like, I'm going through this so fast but we can give you more information if you are interested. But I mean it's like wow, kim, like you just literally threw up all this product on me.
Speaker 3:
There's no wrong way to use this product. I actually had somebody recently in the DECA community use the products and he's like my wife uses it as well, but she's a nurse and she's up all night. So, like we help tweak the program. So again, like if you want to drink a tea in the morning, great. If you want to drink a tea at night, great, whatever. Like we can help customize it to you. But again, it's just, it's just decide.
Speaker 3:
Like for 30 days, like you could do anything. And like for the people who do this program and they like question themselves there by the end they're truly blown away. I always tell people like take a before picture and then take an after. People after picture, and they're like Holy smokes for me. Like when I did my first 30 day program, I lost 12 pounds, 14 inches, and that was with barely working out. So and it just goes by the food that you eat and, honestly, like I didn't even care about the pounds and inches. Like I was sleeping better at night, my skin cleared up, I was able to keep up with my kid, like I had Kenny at the time. I was able to like not feel tired after hanging out with Ken, like it was just wow and like people were just like there's something different about you.
Speaker 3:
And I'm like just feeling my body differently. So it just it's so important because, like, the food that we eat can just like totally bog us down, and it doesn't have to be that way, like you don't know how good the body is supposed to feel until you start feeling it, and I want everybody to feel that way.
Speaker 1:
So I love it. I love it Well, I definitely feel good and I definitely enjoyed, you know, learning about the products, using the products, and you know I get so much energy from Kim. So I appreciate you sharing your energy with everyone and you know all this great information about you know our bond experience there. But in how to make it actionable and how to help you in your journey is is one of the ways is through this 30 day plan, which I really, really love. So you know what I love for you to do is just reach out to me on Instagram. You can send me a DM, you could send me an email, richard at inspired to run that CEO and and just inquire about it, and we could chat about the program, we could chat about the products, we could chat about your goals, like what you're looking to accomplish.
Speaker 1:
So, again, I'm excited because we're taking the stories and the advice and the tips from the show and we're taking it to the next level. Right, and once you're inspired and you're ready to take action, here is one of those things that you could do to really get to the next level and take action, kind of in your health and wellness journey. So I'm excited to share all this with everyone. I'm excited for Kim to come on and share her experience and support me with this. So so, yeah, so thanks, kim.
Speaker 3:
Oh, anytime, anytime, I love you, richard. I'll see you in two weeks, right, three weeks.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, it's coming up soon. So everybody knows this is race season, so we've got a bunch of races I've already done two this year, so I'll talk more about that on the show, about how I'm doing this year and kind of how I'm progressing towards my goals. But, yeah, we got a couple of hybrid races and Spartan Decker races coming up and I also have, you know, a number of road races throughout the year.
Speaker 3:
So, yeah, we'll be seeing each other soon and I actually I just signed up for the mile yesterday because I was like, Ooh, Richard reminded me and I needed a good little extra push for my workouts. I was like, all right, let's get a date on the calendar, let's do it, let's do it, all right so so that's it for tonight.
Speaker 2:
Again, reach out to me. You can DM me on Instagram, inspiretorunpodcast. You can send me an email, richard, at InspireToRunco. And again we chat about your goals, chat about our bond, chat about the 30-day program. So thanks again, kim, thanks everyone for joining tonight and with that, have a great night. Bye.