#358: Motivation in Motion: One Woman’s Inspiring Journey from Paralysis to Olympic Weightlifting
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Have you ever felt like life has knocked you down so hard you couldn't possibly get back up? Kim Rahir's equally inspiring as it is motivational story of overcoming the unthinkable is sure to leave a lasting impact on your life. And how this woman would go from suddenly being paralyzed to Olympic Weightlifting will undoubtedly leave you breathless and begging for more.
Who Is This For?
Are you someone facing seemingly insurmountable health challenges, feeling stuck in life, or simply seeking inspiration to not give up? If so, you are exactly where you are meant to be. If you've ever doubted your ability to overcome obstacles or wondered how to find strength in the face of adversity, Kim's journey from paralysis to powerlifting will ignite your spirit and show you what's possible with determination and the right mindset.
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What's It All About?
This episode takes you on an incredible journey of resilience, determination, and personal growth. Kim Rahir shares her inspiring story of how she went from being paralyzed and unable to walk to becoming a competitive weightlifter at the age of 60. You'll hear about her battle with autoimmune diseases, her discovery of strength training as a path to recovery, and how she transformed her life through the power of perseverance and a positive mindset. Kim's story is a testament to the human spirit and the incredible potential we all have to overcome challenges and reinvent ourselves at any age.
Some Key Takeaways:
Discover how to find strength and purpose in the face of life-altering health challenges
Learn the transformative power of strength training for both physical and mental well-being
Gain insights on how to approach life with gratitude and make the most of every moment, regardless of circumstances
Listen now to be inspired by Kim's extraordinary journey and discover how you can tap into your own inner strength to overcome any obstacle life throws your way.
Today's Featured Guest
Kim Rahir is a 60-year-old competitive weightlifter, health coach, and inspirational speaker. After overcoming paralysis and battling multiple sclerosis, Kim discovered the transformative power of strength training. Now, she's on a mission to empower women to embrace physical strength as a path to independence, confidence, and improved quality of life. Through her coaching and personal example, Kim is changing the narrative around aging and inspiring others to push beyond their perceived limitations.
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Show Transcript
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Kevin Lowe: I want you to imagine waking up one day to find your entire world turned upside down.
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Kevin Lowe: And yet, the very challenge that has seemingly destroyed your life would end
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Kevin Lowe: up becoming your greatest source of strength.
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Kevin Lowe: Today, I'm going to introduce you to Kim, a remarkable woman who has a journey
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Kevin Lowe: from adversity to triumph that will leave you breathless and begging for more.
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Kevin Lowe: But as with most of the guests on this podcast,
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Kevin Lowe: the most important thing that you need to know headed into today's episode is
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Kevin Lowe: that you might be listening to Kim tell her story, but you must understand that
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Kevin Lowe: this all relates right back to you.
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Kevin Lowe: Because no matter where you are in life, there's always a starting point.
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Kevin Lowe: You can always start right now to becoming stronger, more resilient,
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Kevin Lowe: and ultimately unstoppable. My friend, I can guarantee that this is the episode
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Kevin Lowe: that you needed to hear right now.
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Kevin Lowe: Welcome to episode 358.
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Kevin Lowe: Hey, I'm your host, Kevin Lowe, and you are listening to Grit,
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Kevin Lowe: Grace, and Inspiration.
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Kevin Lowe: Welcome back to another awesome interview here on Grit, Grace,
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Kevin Lowe: and Inspiration. Today is certainly no exception.
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Kevin Lowe: Kim, welcome to the podcast.
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Kim Rahir: Well, thanks for having me, Kevin.
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Kevin Lowe: Oh, my goodness. Well, it is an absolute honor. And I have been looking forward to this so much.
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Kevin Lowe: And Kim, you have you have such an amazing story, such an inspiring story.
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Kevin Lowe: And I guess the best place always to begin is kind of back at the beginning.
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Kevin Lowe: And you can, you know, take it from where you want.
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Kevin Lowe: But basically, I know that, you know, a big part of your story kind of begins
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Kevin Lowe: around the year like 2008. I'd love it if you just kind of give me,
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Kevin Lowe: you know, the story surrounding kind of that time in your story.
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Kim Rahir: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And I can't believe it's, you know, that long ago.
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Kim Rahir: That's coming up on 16 years in November, at least that's when it started.
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Kim Rahir: Not that I want to go back, though.
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Kevin Lowe: No, absolutely.
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Kim Rahir: So I was, we had just moved country again. I lived with my husband.
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Kim Rahir: We were both journalists with three small kids. And we moved every four years
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Kim Rahir: from country to country, which is very exciting, never boring.
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Kim Rahir: But of course, it's challenging also, especially when you drag along kids.
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Kim Rahir: But we had arrived in Germany, which is my home country.
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Kim Rahir: And we lived in Berlin, had been living there for a year. And for the first
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Kim Rahir: time also in all our time together, I had a full-time job.
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Kim Rahir: I was employed too, because we were both journalists, but my husband had got
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Kim Rahir: the assignments and I started as a freelancer wherever we went.
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Kim Rahir: So, you know, we were in my home country. I had a full-time job, three kids.
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Kim Rahir: We lived in a beautiful house and it felt like, you know, that was it.
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Kim Rahir: I had made it. I had sort of fulfilled my dream. I'd always wanted to prove
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Kim Rahir: that you could have a family and a career as a woman, which when I was raised
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Kim Rahir: was not like, you know, a given at all.
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Kim Rahir: I was raised in a, you know, like socially very conservative Germany where the
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Kim Rahir: word career woman was an insult when I was a teenager.
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Kim Rahir: And it was always assumed that you had to choose either you had kids or you had a job.
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Kim Rahir: And I would, you know, never want that and accept that.
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Kim Rahir: And here I was and I had both and I felt like now I had made it.
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Kim Rahir: And then from one day to the next, like literally, I was struck down.
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Kim Rahir: I was out of it all. It started by me seeing double.
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Kim Rahir: I was picking up my kids from school, we were driving and I was driving a car
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Kim Rahir: and I was seeing double and I thought, oh my God, something's really wrong.
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Kim Rahir: Now this came on the heels of just, you know, like a flu infection that I'd
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Kim Rahir: had a few days before, but, you know, like any, any mom of small kids would
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Kim Rahir: do, I was back on my feet right away.
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Kim Rahir: And then there I was seeing double and I knew this time I had to go to the doctors
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Kim Rahir: because, you know, that's no small thing. That's something happening in the brain.
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Kim Rahir: And went to the doctors and I was sent straight to the hospital where I was
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Kim Rahir: to stay for six weeks because they had to do all kinds of checkups.
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Kim Rahir: They couldn't really find what it was.
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Kim Rahir: And on top of like the weird eyes, after three weeks, I was completely paralyzed
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Kim Rahir: from the hips downwards.
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Kim Rahir: No sensitivity whatsoever in my legs.
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Kim Rahir: And that was just so scary. It was so scary, especially because they,
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Kim Rahir: I mean, they thought it was something autoimmune, but they couldn't really name
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Kim Rahir: it because my symptoms were all over the place.
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Kim Rahir: And they love, you know, having that symptoms in those boxes.
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Kim Rahir: So like the eyes would have been a Miller-Fisher syndrome and legs were like
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Kim Rahir: a Guillain-Barré syndrome.
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Kim Rahir: And there I was in the middle of this, always having like students in white
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Kim Rahir: coats around my bed because I was such a weird case, which, you know,
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Kim Rahir: contributed also to me feeling a bit dehumanized, actually, because already
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Kim Rahir: you don't have any power in a hospital.
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Kim Rahir: You can't decide like anything, not when the light is on in your room,
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Kim Rahir: not when you're going to sleep, not when you're waking up, nothing at all.
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Kim Rahir: When you can't walk, you can't even decide when you're going to have a shower
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Kim Rahir: or when you're going to the toilet.
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Kim Rahir: And then on top of this, I was there sort of exposed like a study case to students
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Kim Rahir: once a week. And I even said, can you please, I don't really want this anymore.
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Kim Rahir: And then they sort of always talked me into, you know, allow that one more time.
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Kim Rahir: My life had changed like from one day to the next, from one day to the next.
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Kim Rahir: Everything that I had taken for granted, taken as a given, was gone.
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Kim Rahir: I couldn't walk. I couldn't look after my kids. I couldn't go to work.
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Kim Rahir: I couldn't do anything, basically. That was really, really tough.
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Kevin Lowe: Wow. You know, I always say it's crazy how everything in life can change in the blink of an eye.
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Kim Rahir: Absolutely.
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Kevin Lowe: Now, during this time, you went in seeing double is what prompted you to go to the doctor.
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Kevin Lowe: And then you mentioned while there, you then basically became paralyzed from what the waist down.
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Kim Rahir: Yes.
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Kevin Lowe: How did that come on? Was it something did you just wake up and all of a sudden
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Kevin Lowe: realized you couldn't feel your legs or how did that happen?
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Kim Rahir: No, that was very gradual, actually. you know, it was my immune system attacking
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Kim Rahir: my own nerves and it was mostly the sensitive nerves in my legs that it started
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Kim Rahir: like sort of gnawing away at.
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Kim Rahir: And first it was just a weird feeling in my feet.
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Kim Rahir: Like that's the thing with neurological conditions. You always have sensations
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Kim Rahir: that you shouldn't have.
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Kim Rahir: And my feet felt weird. Then I
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Kim Rahir: realized that I couldn't properly flex my
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Kim Rahir: leg muscles you know it was like very very slowly first it was weird sensations
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Kim Rahir: then it was like limitations things I couldn't do and then at some point I just
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Kim Rahir: had lost all control over my legs that it took about like you know I'd say like
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Kim Rahir: two weeks first week started after one week in hospital.
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Kim Rahir: And that's also quite scary when you see yourself you know feel yourself getting
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Kim Rahir: worse every day And they treated me with all kinds of stuff with,
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Kim Rahir: how do you call this, cortisone and then immune globulins and all sorts of things.
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Kim Rahir: And because they were also a little bit desperate because they were not sure what was going on.
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Kim Rahir: So when I felt the feeling come back in my legs, we didn't really know what
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Kim Rahir: had helped because they had tried so many different things. Could have been one or the other.
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Kim Rahir: I'm glad, you know, I was just happy to get better.
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Kim Rahir: But was still not very very clear
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Kim Rahir: what was going on i could leave the
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Kim Rahir: hospital i was in a wheelchair i could sort of stand i
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Kim Rahir: was very wobbly and it took me about six months
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Kim Rahir: to walk normally again and after i had left hospital they then after a while
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Kim Rahir: decided that this was indeed a guillain which is a syndrome that happens a lot
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Kim Rahir: to soldiers and when I look back now you know my.
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Kim Rahir: Fulfilling my dream and having a full-time job and three kids and all that I
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Kim Rahir: think I was a bit stressed out actually I was soldiering along a little bit and,
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Kim Rahir: I'm not going to say this is what caused my illness, but it somehow,
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Kim Rahir: you know, fits the description.
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Kim Rahir: And I remember one day I was at home. I still couldn't walk properly.
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Kim Rahir: It was like an icy Berlin winter outside. And I saw a couple on the sidewalk.
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Kim Rahir: They were walking along and they both had such grumpy faces.
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Kim Rahir: They both looked so angry. And I was sitting inside and I thought,
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Kim Rahir: how on earth can you be so angry when you can walk?
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Kim Rahir: Come on, you don't even know how lucky you are.
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Kim Rahir: And this sudden insight when I thought these people have stayed with me ever since.
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Kim Rahir: Every step I take today, I'm grateful and I know that it's a gift.
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Kim Rahir: So looking back, it sounds so crazy, but I'm actually grateful for this experience.
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Kim Rahir: It was very dark. It was very frightening.
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Kim Rahir: It was totally defeating. You know, I felt utterly helpless and powerless.
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Kim Rahir: But now I know that it's taught me so much about life, how to look at life and
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Kim Rahir: how to enjoy what I'm given and be grateful for all the blessings,
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Kim Rahir: you know, small blessings, they say. For me, there's no small blessing.
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Kim Rahir: Everything that I can do today, I'm really grateful for. And that makes it so
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Kim Rahir: much more enjoyable, you know.
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Kevin Lowe: Yeah, absolutely. Now, during this time, what was even just the emotional toll
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Kevin Lowe: on you as far as being a mom?
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Kevin Lowe: Because obviously, you weren't able to take the kids to school or care for them
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Kevin Lowe: like you had been. How was that on you?
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Kim Rahir: It's very painful to have your kids come visit you and you're lying in a hospital
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Kim Rahir: bed. It's just pure pain.
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Kim Rahir: But you can't show it, right? You can't show your pain.
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Kim Rahir: I didn't want to show my pain. I didn't want them to feel pained,
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Kim Rahir: you know, on top of being so, well, they weren't unbalanced,
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Kim Rahir: but sort of their routine, everything had gone away too.
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Kim Rahir: I mean, they were still going to school, but it was not me and they were still
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Kim Rahir: getting their dinners, but it was not me who made them.
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Kim Rahir: So I didn't want to show my pain, but I felt it like very badly.
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Kim Rahir: And, you know, that's, I remember my oldest son, I mean, Berlin is a huge place.
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Kim Rahir: My oldest son, he was 10 at the time and he was already traveling by himself to school.
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Kim Rahir: And one day, I mean, this was before smartphones also, I was just at the onset,
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Kim Rahir: you know, I think he had smartphones existed.
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Kim Rahir: A lot of the stuff in hospital would have been easier probably.
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Kim Rahir: Anyway, he sent me a text message and said, can I come see you?
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Kim Rahir: And then he took like, you know, public transport all across town just to come
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Kim Rahir: see me after school. even today when I think of this, you know,
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Kim Rahir: I feel like tearing up because it was just so...
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Kim Rahir: So heart-wrenching, you know, to know that your kids are missing you.
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Kim Rahir: There's also this other aspect. When I got home for Christmas,
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Kim Rahir: there was a tree, there were presents, there was food, and I hadn't done any of it.
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Kim Rahir: So this feeling that so many moms have, and this is something I really want
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Kim Rahir: to tell all the women out there who feel that if they don't do everything.
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Kim Rahir: You know, nothing's going to work, that everything depends on us, every single thing.
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Kim Rahir: And that the world's sort of
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Kim Rahir: somehow going to stop if we don't do what we have to do every single day.
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Kim Rahir: And that moment taught me that, yes, I was like out totally from one day to
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Kim Rahir: the next, but the world kept on turning and there was still Christmas and we
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Kim Rahir: still came together and there were presents and there was food even without me doing it.
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Kim Rahir: And that's a big relief actually when you realize that you are not indispensable,
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Kim Rahir: that you can take time off.
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Kim Rahir: We never do this when we, you know, like voluntarily, but learning that,
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Kim Rahir: you know, everything will still work okay if you're not there.
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Kim Rahir: I think it's really, it's liberating and it's empowering because it gives you
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Kim Rahir: the strength to say sometimes, no, I can't do this. This is just too much.
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Kim Rahir: I need some time here to do something else or to do something for myself.
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Kim Rahir: And I wish, I really wish to carry this message to all women out there who think
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Kim Rahir: that the world rests on their shoulders because it's a heavy load to carry.
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Kim Rahir: And I wish, you know, for them to get it, to get this insight without having
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Kim Rahir: it demonstrated to them so brutally as it was to me.
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Kevin Lowe: Absolutely. You, your mindset and the way that you see life, it's really beautiful.
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Kevin Lowe: It's really powerful. And the way that you can see, looking back on it now,
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Kevin Lowe: the blessings that you gained from such a terrible experience is, it's really amazing.
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Kevin Lowe: I guess what my next question is, is after this six-month period,
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Kevin Lowe: did you ever have symptoms like that come up again?
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Kim Rahir: Not the same, but unfortunately, that was not the end of my autoimmune saga
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Kim Rahir: because, well, after I got more treatment after that, after six months I could
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Kim Rahir: walk again, but I still went into the hospital once a month to get infusions and everything.
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Kim Rahir: But then after a year, I was told that yes, absolutely, this was a one-off and
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Kim Rahir: I didn't need any treatment anymore. And I was now just a normal, healthy person.
00:14:01.517 --> 00:14:08.397
Kim Rahir: And I can't describe how overjoyed I felt to call my husband on the phone.
00:14:09.141 --> 00:14:14.681
Kim Rahir: We both cried with joy and I thought this is, you know, this is a gift.
00:14:15.141 --> 00:14:19.521
Kim Rahir: I'm not, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to, you know, live every day,
00:14:20.101 --> 00:14:24.301
Kim Rahir: every moment with my kids and enjoy every, every bit of it.
00:14:24.661 --> 00:14:30.821
Kim Rahir: And then a year, another year later, I felt my left hand going numb.
00:14:31.001 --> 00:14:34.921
Kim Rahir: And this thing that I say with neurological stuff, you feel stuff that you shouldn't
00:14:34.921 --> 00:14:40.821
Kim Rahir: be feeling. So I knew that sensation wasn't right and I got more checkups.
00:14:41.061 --> 00:14:44.081
Kim Rahir: And this time they said, oh, yeah, this is different.
00:14:44.361 --> 00:14:49.501
Kim Rahir: This is not the kind of immune attack that you had before. This is an attack
00:14:49.501 --> 00:14:52.421
Kim Rahir: of your system on the white matter in your nerves.
00:14:53.201 --> 00:14:56.541
Kim Rahir: And, you know, this is MS, this is multiple sclerosis.
00:14:57.081 --> 00:14:59.821
Kim Rahir: And you can imagine that I thought this was like
00:14:59.821 --> 00:15:03.061
Kim Rahir: a really low blow because I had just overcome
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Kim Rahir: this other thing which was really kind of traumatizing
00:15:06.541 --> 00:15:10.161
Kim Rahir: and I thought I was so so happy
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Kim Rahir: so relieved so overjoyed to have left that behind me and then they said oh no
00:15:14.321 --> 00:15:18.961
Kim Rahir: you know go back to square one and by the way this time it's worse and this
00:15:18.961 --> 00:15:23.741
Kim Rahir: time it's not a one-off this time it's for life so the darkness that I had felt
00:15:23.741 --> 00:15:28.621
Kim Rahir: for the first time it came back it came back and it was even scarier,
00:15:28.801 --> 00:15:33.161
Kim Rahir: but I had learned certain sort of approaches and attitudes.
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Kim Rahir: And I think they got me through this.
00:15:35.881 --> 00:15:40.641
Kim Rahir: I didn't allow myself to look at the future, at the big picture.
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Kim Rahir: I didn't. It was too scary.
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Kim Rahir: I really focused on what I could do in the moment. I had to accept lifelong
00:15:47.881 --> 00:15:52.321
Kim Rahir: treatment after a fight with my doctor, because that's what they give you for
00:15:52.321 --> 00:15:56.141
Kim Rahir: multiple sclerosis. But I had just this hand thing that was numb.
00:15:56.301 --> 00:15:58.801
Kim Rahir: The rest had been stopped then by an infusion.
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Kim Rahir: And I could walk, I could move. And I just decided that I was going to just
00:16:04.561 --> 00:16:10.101
Kim Rahir: live every single day like this, the way I felt, thinking that I was okay and
00:16:10.101 --> 00:16:12.861
Kim Rahir: not scare myself with thoughts of the future.
00:16:13.041 --> 00:16:17.981
Kim Rahir: And I think that helped me tremendously. I think when you have a diagnosis like
00:16:17.981 --> 00:16:24.501
Kim Rahir: this and you start imagining what's going to happen, even in two weeks or in two years or in 20 years,
00:16:24.721 --> 00:16:29.701
Kim Rahir: you can be so paralyzed with the uncertainty of it that you will forget,
00:16:29.701 --> 00:16:30.941
Kim Rahir: you know, to live your life.
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Kim Rahir: And I decided, no, I'm going to just live every day because right now I'm okay
00:16:35.701 --> 00:16:37.901
Kim Rahir: and I'm going to make the most of that.
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Kevin Lowe: Yeah, absolutely.
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Kevin Lowe: So in this journey, this medical journey that we're on, where does exercise
00:16:49.381 --> 00:16:53.381
Kevin Lowe: and in lifting weights, how does that even enter the picture?
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Kim Rahir: Yeah, it's quite interesting. I mean,
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Kim Rahir: I had been a gym goer before all that happened, but I went to the gym like most
00:17:01.361 --> 00:17:06.181
Kim Rahir: women did, you know, like with this idea of achieving a certain body shape or
00:17:06.181 --> 00:17:09.001
Kim Rahir: staying fit in a very general way.
00:17:09.001 --> 00:17:12.221
Kim Rahir: And after my ms
00:17:12.221 --> 00:17:15.441
Kim Rahir: diagnosis i felt this desire to
00:17:15.441 --> 00:17:20.181
Kim Rahir: go back to the gym first of all and then to go there to become strong like i
00:17:20.181 --> 00:17:27.841
Kim Rahir: wanted to become insanely strong physically strong and i think this this came
00:17:27.841 --> 00:17:33.841
Kim Rahir: from feeling so powerless when i was in hospital and i came from,
00:17:34.401 --> 00:17:37.921
Kim Rahir: wanting to make the most of what I had in the moment. As I said,
00:17:38.021 --> 00:17:39.221
Kim Rahir: I could walk, I could move.
00:17:39.361 --> 00:17:42.961
Kim Rahir: I had just, I mean, my left hand is numb to this day, but that's about it.
00:17:43.541 --> 00:17:50.361
Kim Rahir: And I really felt this need to be strong also to be able to trust my body again,
00:17:50.501 --> 00:17:52.101
Kim Rahir: to count on my body again.
00:17:52.481 --> 00:17:57.281
Kim Rahir: Because with autoimmune diseases, there's this bit of a feeling of betrayal
00:17:57.281 --> 00:18:00.701
Kim Rahir: that you can't trust your body. It's doing, you know, like stupid things.
00:18:00.881 --> 00:18:03.881
Kim Rahir: Why, you know, it's supposed to protect you, not to attack itself
00:18:03.881 --> 00:18:06.761
Kim Rahir: i mean this is with hindsight i just felt this
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Kim Rahir: need i wanted to go to the gym and become like really strong and
00:18:10.381 --> 00:18:13.341
Kim Rahir: this is how i sort of explain where this might have come from this
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Kim Rahir: desire but it's what i did and i
00:18:17.081 --> 00:18:19.881
Kim Rahir: bought a book one of the first books out there i think
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Kim Rahir: it was from the late 90s one of
00:18:23.101 --> 00:18:27.021
Kim Rahir: the first that said women you know should lift heavy and because it's just as
00:18:27.021 --> 00:18:31.361
Kim Rahir: important for them as for anybody else and i followed that book the workouts
00:18:31.361 --> 00:18:40.041
Kim Rahir: the the instructions for proper form everything to a T and I got so much better it's hard to.
00:18:40.681 --> 00:18:43.501
Kim Rahir: You can't overstate how much better
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Kim Rahir: I got and I think it's because of something that we know now we have science
00:18:48.881 --> 00:18:52.401
Kim Rahir: on this now but this was like 10 years ago where this was still all sort of
00:18:52.401 --> 00:18:58.661
Kim Rahir: evolving strength training is is like an elixir for your mental health you walk
00:18:58.661 --> 00:19:02.941
Kim Rahir: out of there and you have a, you feel positive, you feel good about yourself,
00:19:03.121 --> 00:19:06.101
Kim Rahir: you feel good about everything and you feel good about what you can do.
00:19:06.761 --> 00:19:10.601
Kim Rahir: And I think this helped me get better, like spectacularly. And even,
00:19:10.721 --> 00:19:14.181
Kim Rahir: you know, my neurological checkups, they took like two minutes.
00:19:14.341 --> 00:19:17.461
Kim Rahir: You know, I had to check in every six months with a neurologist and they saw
00:19:17.461 --> 00:19:20.481
Kim Rahir: me the way I walked in there and they knew that I was just fine.
00:19:20.701 --> 00:19:24.641
Kim Rahir: So much so that we, I know we moved again between all these things.
00:19:24.781 --> 00:19:28.981
Kim Rahir: The first episode was in the Berlin, the multiple sclerosis diagnosis was in
00:19:28.981 --> 00:19:31.621
Kim Rahir: France. and then we moved to Spain where we live now,
00:19:32.413 --> 00:19:37.253
Kim Rahir: And after three years of watching me thrive, I really must say it like this.
00:19:37.433 --> 00:19:40.453
Kim Rahir: My Spanish neurologist said, well, you know, if you want to,
00:19:40.533 --> 00:19:42.993
Kim Rahir: you can stop your treatment. And I did.
00:19:43.193 --> 00:19:49.513
Kim Rahir: And that was like seven years ago. I have been without relapse and without treatment for seven years.
00:19:49.793 --> 00:19:55.333
Kim Rahir: And that's also when I felt, even though I, you know, I'm not claiming you can
00:19:55.333 --> 00:19:59.353
Kim Rahir: cure a mess with strength training, but I felt that was this approach that I
00:19:59.353 --> 00:20:00.793
Kim Rahir: had used instinctively.
00:20:00.793 --> 00:20:03.593
Kim Rahir: I was on to something there was you know
00:20:03.593 --> 00:20:07.453
Kim Rahir: the benefits were like so incredible for
00:20:07.453 --> 00:20:10.293
Kim Rahir: you know for overall health for mental health and
00:20:10.293 --> 00:20:13.073
Kim Rahir: it had gotten me back to living a
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Kim Rahir: normal life without having to inject myself three times
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Kim Rahir: a week that's when I got the courage up to fulfill something that I'd been dreaming
00:20:20.693 --> 00:20:24.513
Kim Rahir: about for a while which was like sleeve journalism become a health coach and
00:20:24.513 --> 00:20:29.053
Kim Rahir: you know shout it from the rooftops if you want to be happy and healthy just
00:20:29.053 --> 00:20:33.613
Kim Rahir: go strength training and most things will take care of themselves.
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Kevin Lowe: Yeah. Wow. So in this kind of fitness journey and you talk about the just profound
00:20:42.194 --> 00:20:48.634
Kevin Lowe: impact that it had on you, were your doctors surprised at this?
00:20:49.074 --> 00:20:52.694
Kim Rahir: Yes, absolutely. I mean, the very first one who gave me the diagnosis,
00:20:52.874 --> 00:20:56.014
Kim Rahir: when I asked him about exercise, he told me to be careful.
00:20:56.314 --> 00:21:00.474
Kim Rahir: And I don't know what he meant by that, actually. And I think it was a way of
00:21:00.474 --> 00:21:03.854
Kim Rahir: saying, I don't really have an idea of what you're talking about.
00:21:04.294 --> 00:21:08.334
Kim Rahir: But I don't want to take any responsibility. So I'm going to just scare you
00:21:08.334 --> 00:21:10.234
Kim Rahir: a little bit by telling you to be careful.
00:21:10.714 --> 00:21:13.554
Kim Rahir: And then, you know, for the rest of that, you're on your own.
00:21:13.894 --> 00:21:19.374
Kim Rahir: And then the next guy who was looking after me was this Spaniard who is also
00:21:19.374 --> 00:21:22.034
Kim Rahir: a bit of an expert in MS here in Spain.
00:21:23.114 --> 00:21:27.634
Kim Rahir: And when I told him that I was actually, that I had started weightlifting,
00:21:27.794 --> 00:21:31.934
Kim Rahir: because over my journey from normal lifting in the gym, I switched to Olympic
00:21:31.934 --> 00:21:33.994
Kim Rahir: weightlifting, which is something totally different.
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Kim Rahir: And again, you know, it's just, it's this sport where there's just two movements
00:21:38.354 --> 00:21:42.054
Kim Rahir: of putting, you know, the barbell over your head.
00:21:42.194 --> 00:21:46.934
Kim Rahir: And it got me totally hooked because it's so much fun and very technical and challenging.
00:21:47.314 --> 00:21:53.474
Kim Rahir: And when I told him that I was doing that sport, he was amazed and he thought, that's fantastic.
00:21:53.874 --> 00:22:00.274
Kim Rahir: And he also told me, you could be an inspiration to so many people, so many patients.
00:22:00.494 --> 00:22:04.314
Kim Rahir: He said, please keep doing this. This is great. this is fantastic.
00:22:04.694 --> 00:22:08.174
Kim Rahir: And I'm very grateful that I have met this guy.
00:22:08.354 --> 00:22:11.574
Kim Rahir: We moved to Spain. I looked for a neurologist and I, you know,
00:22:11.674 --> 00:22:18.714
Kim Rahir: I went, I Googled and I found him and yeah, he's, he's super supportive.
00:22:19.574 --> 00:22:25.474
Kim Rahir: And he, he also gave me this idea of, you know, sharing, spreading the word.
00:22:25.954 --> 00:22:32.414
Kevin Lowe: Yeah. Okay. So you mentioned one little detail that I think me and everybody
00:22:32.414 --> 00:22:35.294
Kevin Lowe: else was like, Wait, wait, wait. Hold up. Say what?
00:22:35.996 --> 00:22:43.476
Kevin Lowe: You weren't just like lifting, doing some little arm curls with the little 10 pound dumbbells.
00:22:43.856 --> 00:22:47.496
Kevin Lowe: You went on to Olympic lifting.
00:22:47.876 --> 00:22:48.736
Kevin Lowe: That's crazy.
00:22:48.976 --> 00:22:54.096
Kim Rahir: Yes, it is a bit crazy, but it's one of the best things I've ever done.
00:22:54.236 --> 00:22:56.276
Kim Rahir: So, you know, I was training in the gym.
00:22:56.576 --> 00:22:59.656
Kim Rahir: We had just gotten to Spain. I was working with a personal trainer.
00:22:59.936 --> 00:23:04.296
Kim Rahir: He was very, very glad to work with me because, you know, most women still go
00:23:04.296 --> 00:23:09.796
Kim Rahir: to the gym to spend half an hour on the elliptical one and sort of avoid anything
00:23:09.796 --> 00:23:12.316
Kim Rahir: that includes heavy metal.
00:23:12.916 --> 00:23:19.036
Kim Rahir: So I was working with him and he one day said, would you like to try Olympic weightlifting?
00:23:19.676 --> 00:23:23.556
Kim Rahir: I think he had just started himself somewhere just to try it out.
00:23:23.636 --> 00:23:27.476
Kim Rahir: He was a guy who tried all sorts of things, you know, like rugby and kite surfing
00:23:27.476 --> 00:23:31.396
Kim Rahir: and what have you. And then he was into Olympic weightlifting and said, do you want to try this?
00:23:31.616 --> 00:23:35.876
Kim Rahir: And I said, yeah, why not? And my memory of this, this is the first thing I'm
00:23:35.876 --> 00:23:37.676
Kim Rahir: going to share because that's really funny.
00:23:38.016 --> 00:23:40.976
Kim Rahir: I had a memory of Olympic weightlifting because when I was a kid,
00:23:41.136 --> 00:23:42.716
Kim Rahir: I watched the Olympics with my dad.
00:23:43.036 --> 00:23:47.116
Kim Rahir: And because I think Germany had weightlifters, that's why we watched it.
00:23:47.376 --> 00:23:50.616
Kim Rahir: Otherwise, I don't see why we would have been there in front of the TV.
00:23:50.856 --> 00:23:58.516
Kim Rahir: And my memory was of like really big, often like fat guys in weird, weird leotards.
00:24:00.736 --> 00:24:03.736
Kim Rahir: Very like heavy and hairy and like
00:24:03.736 --> 00:24:06.636
Kim Rahir: lifting insane amounts of weight over
00:24:06.636 --> 00:24:09.356
Kim Rahir: their head that's the memory i had and still i said yeah i'm
00:24:09.356 --> 00:24:13.396
Kim Rahir: gonna give it a try why not because i thought that was you know could be fun
00:24:13.396 --> 00:24:17.456
Kim Rahir: and i tried and i totally sucked at it because i can't begin to describe i mean
00:24:17.456 --> 00:24:21.196
Kim Rahir: i could talk about this for hours so you need to stop me but it's you know it's
00:24:21.196 --> 00:24:25.196
Kim Rahir: not only physical it's also physics you have to outsmart gravity because you
00:24:25.196 --> 00:24:28.856
Kim Rahir: need to put the barbell overhead so to make it as.
00:24:29.470 --> 00:24:33.170
Kim Rahir: As light as possible, like, you know, easy to lift as possible.
00:24:33.230 --> 00:24:35.050
Kim Rahir: It has to be very close to your body.
00:24:35.250 --> 00:24:37.670
Kim Rahir: It has to be close to your center of gravity.
00:24:38.050 --> 00:24:41.250
Kim Rahir: Otherwise, you know, just imagine holding a heavy weight, like,
00:24:41.470 --> 00:24:45.270
Kim Rahir: you know, on an outstretched arm far away from you or close to your body.
00:24:45.410 --> 00:24:47.290
Kim Rahir: You can, you know, imagine how that feels.
00:24:47.470 --> 00:24:51.230
Kim Rahir: It has to be close to your body, but in order to travel up, you know,
00:24:51.350 --> 00:24:54.670
Kim Rahir: with some speed and ease, it also needs to travel vertically.
00:24:54.670 --> 00:24:57.450
Kim Rahir: Vertically it's really important yeah because that's
00:24:57.450 --> 00:25:00.590
Kim Rahir: the most efficient way of lifting it up but then
00:25:00.590 --> 00:25:03.410
Kim Rahir: your body isn't vertical and especially because you
00:25:03.410 --> 00:25:06.350
Kim Rahir: need to bend your legs and and then straighten them
00:25:06.350 --> 00:25:10.850
Kim Rahir: to to give the thing a push you know it's not vertical at all so you have to
00:25:10.850 --> 00:25:15.410
Kim Rahir: find a way to sort of move the barbells close to your body as vertically as
00:25:15.410 --> 00:25:19.990
Kim Rahir: possible and then give it a good shove overhead so it's it's challenging but
00:25:19.990 --> 00:25:23.970
Kim Rahir: i loved it because it's you know it's more than just strength.
00:25:24.250 --> 00:25:28.790
Kim Rahir: And it's also something I think I appreciate it so much because you have to
00:25:28.790 --> 00:25:30.430
Kim Rahir: be totally in the moment.
00:25:30.790 --> 00:25:34.970
Kim Rahir: You cannot think of anything else while you're doing it.
00:25:35.230 --> 00:25:41.050
Kim Rahir: You need to focus 100% on this one movement that you're about to do.
00:25:41.750 --> 00:25:48.190
Kim Rahir: And I think that's what hooked me, which, and then it led me to joining a pure weightlifting club.
00:25:48.270 --> 00:25:50.670
Kim Rahir: So I left the commercial gym, went to a weightlifting club.
00:25:50.890 --> 00:25:53.870
Kim Rahir: After two weeks, they asked me if I was, if I wanted to compete.
00:25:54.030 --> 00:25:56.970
Kim Rahir: And I said, what? You know, I was 55 at the time.
00:25:57.410 --> 00:26:00.390
Kim Rahir: And then I thought, yeah, what the hell? You know, why not?
00:26:00.650 --> 00:26:05.430
Kim Rahir: Okay. I said, I'm going to compete. And I'm pretty sure that in my 30s,
00:26:05.530 --> 00:26:08.450
Kim Rahir: I would never have said yes. I would have thought, oh my God,
00:26:08.670 --> 00:26:13.570
Kim Rahir: just another sort of obligation, another stress factor, another thing to do.
00:26:14.050 --> 00:26:18.730
Kim Rahir: And then, you know, nerve wracking and you could fail. You know, but...
00:26:19.135 --> 00:26:22.435
Kim Rahir: After everything I'd been through, I was just like, what the hell?
00:26:22.595 --> 00:26:26.855
Kim Rahir: Yeah, let's have some fun and see how this goes. And it's amazing.
00:26:27.315 --> 00:26:30.755
Kim Rahir: It's so, you know, the first competition I ever did, there was a regional meet.
00:26:30.895 --> 00:26:33.655
Kim Rahir: And I thought I was going to, I felt like crying all the time.
00:26:33.995 --> 00:26:41.195
Kim Rahir: Because, not because I was sad, but the emotions were so strong of excitement,
00:26:41.195 --> 00:26:45.895
Kim Rahir: of nervousness, of fear, of, you know, wanting to go.
00:26:46.115 --> 00:26:49.875
Kim Rahir: It was just so intense. And that's something,
00:26:50.075 --> 00:26:54.675
Kim Rahir: I mean, I don't suggest that everybody start competing in Olympic weightlifting,
00:26:54.835 --> 00:27:00.735
Kim Rahir: but, you know, looking for situations where you are challenged and where you're
00:27:00.735 --> 00:27:05.455
Kim Rahir: happy to rise to the challenge, especially when you're in your 40s or 50s.
00:27:05.595 --> 00:27:10.055
Kim Rahir: You need to do that because it makes you feel so alive.
00:27:10.575 --> 00:27:13.975
Kim Rahir: It really adds zest to life.
00:27:14.175 --> 00:27:17.595
Kim Rahir: And you have to learn how to fail. I mean, of course, you know,
00:27:17.775 --> 00:27:20.935
Kim Rahir: you don't make every lift and you have to learn how to fail.
00:27:21.495 --> 00:27:24.315
Kim Rahir: And I think it's very beneficial.
00:27:24.995 --> 00:27:30.155
Kevin Lowe: Yeah. Oh, my goodness. You're amazing. This is absolutely incredible.
00:27:30.435 --> 00:27:35.035
Kevin Lowe: The fact that you didn't just get into weightlifting, but now you're doing in
00:27:35.035 --> 00:27:40.455
Kevin Lowe: a club. And so with the club, I assume that that means you got right into doing competitions.
00:27:41.315 --> 00:27:45.835
Kim Rahir: Yes, because that's a competitive place. It's a club for that.
00:27:46.403 --> 00:27:51.663
Kim Rahir: And it's wonderful because it's like a family and I lift with guys who are 18,
00:27:52.223 --> 00:27:55.163
Kim Rahir: some are 25, others are in their 40s.
00:27:55.363 --> 00:28:00.263
Kim Rahir: You know, nobody cares how old you are and everybody's got their own challenges.
00:28:00.263 --> 00:28:05.243
Kim Rahir: And the cool thing with weightlifting, the training is worked out in percentages.
00:28:05.483 --> 00:28:09.463
Kim Rahir: So, you know, you've got to go there and the coach tells you to,
00:28:09.843 --> 00:28:16.383
Kim Rahir: you know, I don't know, do five series of snatches at 75% of your personal best.
00:28:16.643 --> 00:28:21.903
Kim Rahir: So the relative intensity that you're training at is the same for everybody.
00:28:22.083 --> 00:28:28.183
Kim Rahir: The guy who lifts, you know, 400 pounds, he works at 75% of his best.
00:28:28.303 --> 00:28:33.703
Kim Rahir: And me, I lift a hundred pounds and I work at 75% of my best.
00:28:33.823 --> 00:28:39.603
Kim Rahir: So we sort of in this together and we, and there's no, you know, like no snobbism.
00:28:39.723 --> 00:28:43.683
Kim Rahir: Nobody would ever say oh you you know you're an old woman and you only live
00:28:43.683 --> 00:28:49.803
Kim Rahir: very no we know you know we know that we're doing the same so so.
00:28:49.803 --> 00:28:55.823
Kevin Lowe: So now you're the person in one of those goofy leotards that you talked about earlier yes
00:28:55.823 --> 00:29:02.883
Kim Rahir: I mean that's a bit of that's a bit of a downside i mean they look much better
00:29:02.883 --> 00:29:08.223
Kim Rahir: these days than they look then because then i think they had like like their
00:29:08.223 --> 00:29:10.983
Kim Rahir: upper their torso was somehow naked.
00:29:11.063 --> 00:29:13.663
Kim Rahir: I don't know why that was the case.
00:29:13.983 --> 00:29:17.463
Kim Rahir: Or maybe they were like very low cut or something. No idea.
00:29:17.923 --> 00:29:21.843
Kim Rahir: And now it's not quite as bad. Now it's, they look a little bit better,
00:29:22.003 --> 00:29:26.723
Kim Rahir: but it's, you know, nothing you want to really be seen anywhere else.
00:29:27.463 --> 00:29:34.563
Kevin Lowe: Oh my goodness. I love it. Now, how old are you today? I know you said you got started when you Yes,
00:29:34.883 --> 00:29:42.143
Kim Rahir: I'm 60 today and in, hang on, we're what? Yeah, in four days, I'm turning 61.
00:29:42.463 --> 00:29:43.243
Kevin Lowe: Oh my goodness.
00:29:44.180 --> 00:29:50.640
Kevin Lowe: Wow. So here you are at almost 61 years old.
00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:56.880
Kevin Lowe: You are still in the gym, still lifting weights.
00:29:57.200 --> 00:30:04.160
Kevin Lowe: I mean, talk about an inspiration to others of what is possible.
00:30:04.500 --> 00:30:09.740
Kim Rahir: Oh, absolutely. And this is something I so want to shout it from the rooftops.
00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:13.920
Kim Rahir: And I think this is why my story needs to be shared also.
00:30:14.180 --> 00:30:20.220
Kim Rahir: Because, I mean, I was unable to walk. I had no legs, no functioning legs.
00:30:20.780 --> 00:30:26.940
Kim Rahir: And now I'm competing in weightlifting. So I know how I felt in the moment.
00:30:26.940 --> 00:30:30.440
Kim Rahir: I didn't know at the time if I was ever going to walk again.
00:30:30.580 --> 00:30:33.500
Kim Rahir: And I know there's so many people out there who have problems.
00:30:33.840 --> 00:30:38.760
Kim Rahir: And it could be just dodgy knees that make you think there's so many things you can't do.
00:30:38.900 --> 00:30:43.600
Kim Rahir: Or a frozen shoulder or a sore back or whatever it is. or maybe you're carrying
00:30:43.600 --> 00:30:46.620
Kim Rahir: too much weight and you don't feel like you can move.
00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:53.000
Kim Rahir: No matter where you are, you can always start doing something.
00:30:53.640 --> 00:30:58.580
Kim Rahir: And this is also what my whole approach when I work with my clients now is based on that.
00:30:58.800 --> 00:31:02.580
Kim Rahir: We find the place where you can start.
00:31:02.860 --> 00:31:06.920
Kim Rahir: Don't go looking for stuff on YouTube. There's fantastic workouts there,
00:31:07.020 --> 00:31:12.060
Kim Rahir: but they are probably not made for you if you were in your 50s and you have
00:31:12.060 --> 00:31:16.500
Kim Rahir: high mileage knees and you haven't done, you know, exercise in a while.
00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:21.920
Kim Rahir: If you find your sort of point of entry, as I also like to call it,
00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:26.400
Kim Rahir: the one that's right for you, no matter how low you might feel,
00:31:26.560 --> 00:31:28.680
Kim Rahir: this point of entry exists.
00:31:28.860 --> 00:31:35.080
Kim Rahir: And then from there, you can start getting stronger, building momentum and like,
00:31:35.220 --> 00:31:38.700
Kim Rahir: you know, increasing your quality of life, like manifold.
00:31:39.460 --> 00:31:42.280
Kim Rahir: And you don't even need to go to a gym for
00:31:42.280 --> 00:31:45.820
Kim Rahir: that because that might be the second objection that comes up like i know i
00:31:45.820 --> 00:31:49.360
Kim Rahir: hate gyms i don't want to go to the gym you don't have to you can get stronger
00:31:49.360 --> 00:31:54.340
Kim Rahir: like in the comfort of your own home and that's what i do with my clients they
00:31:54.340 --> 00:31:59.620
Kim Rahir: start with literally 15 minutes a day at home and it you don't even have to
00:31:59.620 --> 00:32:01.320
Kim Rahir: get out of their pajamas to do that,
00:32:02.599 --> 00:32:07.499
Kim Rahir: We take it from there. So wherever you are right now, if you feel that there's
00:32:07.499 --> 00:32:12.059
Kim Rahir: nothing you can do, you know, forget that thought. There's something you can do right now.
00:32:12.339 --> 00:32:17.179
Kim Rahir: And no matter how small, but it will be like the first building block of,
00:32:17.299 --> 00:32:19.119
Kim Rahir: you know, of your castle.
00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:22.779
Kim Rahir: And, you know, even if it starts with a little pebble, you know,
00:32:22.899 --> 00:32:26.319
Kim Rahir: this is one step in the right direction and you can always do something.
00:32:27.999 --> 00:32:33.519
Kevin Lowe: Absolutely. Well, before I ask you more about what you're doing today, I want to ask you,
00:32:34.379 --> 00:32:40.159
Kevin Lowe: back when you got started lifting weights and then even kind of up to today,
00:32:40.519 --> 00:32:44.659
Kevin Lowe: what has been the response from your family, from your kids,
00:32:44.819 --> 00:32:48.539
Kevin Lowe: that mom is now competitive weightlifting?
00:32:49.099 --> 00:32:57.599
Kim Rahir: Oh, well, I think they love it. That was not even a, they didn't take a beat.
00:32:57.599 --> 00:33:02.539
Kim Rahir: I don't know if you say it like this or pause think oh my god what's mom doing it's it was just,
00:33:03.019 --> 00:33:07.199
Kim Rahir: wow that's cool wow that's amazing it
00:33:07.199 --> 00:33:10.339
Kim Rahir: was not quite as I mean that's my kids my husband
00:33:10.339 --> 00:33:16.279
Kim Rahir: he had to sort of get used to the thought and I think there's a but it didn't
00:33:16.279 --> 00:33:19.479
Kim Rahir: I mean it didn't take him long or anything and there was absolutely no resistance
00:33:19.479 --> 00:33:24.119
Kim Rahir: which is really important because I know that many women get resistance from
00:33:24.119 --> 00:33:27.419
Kim Rahir: their environment when it comes to these things but But this, you know,
00:33:27.539 --> 00:33:31.099
Kim Rahir: this cultural aspect that you're sort of talking about is really,
00:33:31.259 --> 00:33:36.079
Kim Rahir: it's really important because it's physical strength is not part of the sort
00:33:36.079 --> 00:33:38.899
Kim Rahir: of virtue catalogue for girls or women.
00:33:39.679 --> 00:33:43.579
Kim Rahir: And that's something I want to change too, you know, we need to be strong,
00:33:43.799 --> 00:33:49.379
Kim Rahir: physically strong if we want quality of life and, you know, our own power,
00:33:49.559 --> 00:33:51.699
Kim Rahir: our independence until we're very old.
00:33:51.859 --> 00:33:53.979
Kim Rahir: We just, we need physical strength.
00:33:54.704 --> 00:33:58.864
Kim Rahir: And even though it's not, it's not our first thought, you know,
00:33:59.044 --> 00:34:00.864
Kim Rahir: how are we raised as girls?
00:34:01.044 --> 00:34:05.364
Kim Rahir: I don't know about young girls today, but in my generation, it was like,
00:34:05.484 --> 00:34:06.944
Kim Rahir: you know, you want to be pretty,
00:34:07.444 --> 00:34:12.464
Kim Rahir: you want to be smart, you want to be slim, but like, you know,
00:34:12.584 --> 00:34:16.884
Kim Rahir: you want to be muscular and strong was not really part of that.
00:34:16.884 --> 00:34:25.724
Kim Rahir: And that's why it's so hard to adopt, to embrace, you know, that ideal or that goal.
00:34:25.904 --> 00:34:29.484
Kim Rahir: But it's the one that's going to give you everything else that you desire.
00:34:29.584 --> 00:34:32.224
Kim Rahir: So here I am spreading the message.
00:34:32.604 --> 00:34:34.864
Kevin Lowe: Yes, look at you, you little trendsetter.
00:34:37.604 --> 00:34:45.324
Kevin Lowe: Now, such a powerful message. I want to ask you kind of a deep question is,
00:34:45.564 --> 00:34:51.804
Kevin Lowe: do you ever deal with fear of if things come back?
00:34:52.084 --> 00:34:58.384
Kim Rahir: To be honest, not really. It's a very weird thing.
00:34:58.584 --> 00:35:04.884
Kim Rahir: And I've been thinking about this a lot because I am acutely aware every day
00:35:04.884 --> 00:35:08.284
Kim Rahir: that all of this could end tomorrow.
00:35:09.144 --> 00:35:12.224
Kim Rahir: It's not you know and it's not we all have this
00:35:12.224 --> 00:35:15.324
Kim Rahir: rational knowledge in our
00:35:15.324 --> 00:35:18.244
Kim Rahir: head we know that tomorrow is not guaranteed we could
00:35:18.244 --> 00:35:21.104
Kim Rahir: die in an accident we could be i don't
00:35:21.104 --> 00:35:24.204
Kim Rahir: know in an earthquake or whatever but i'm not
00:35:24.204 --> 00:35:27.444
Kim Rahir: talking about this this sort of rational insight i
00:35:27.444 --> 00:35:30.684
Kim Rahir: really know in my bones from my
00:35:30.684 --> 00:35:33.784
Kim Rahir: experience that you know this can all end
00:35:33.784 --> 00:35:36.964
Kim Rahir: tomorrow it could anything could happen i could
00:35:36.964 --> 00:35:39.964
Kim Rahir: not be able to lift tomorrow that's just a fact
00:35:39.964 --> 00:35:43.264
Kim Rahir: that i and and i feel it in
00:35:43.264 --> 00:35:46.564
Kim Rahir: every fiber of my body but it doesn't make
00:35:46.564 --> 00:35:55.144
Kim Rahir: me afraid it makes me more determined to make today you know the best day it
00:35:55.144 --> 00:36:01.344
Kim Rahir: can possibly be and to you know live everything that i can live today to the
00:36:01.344 --> 00:36:04.304
Kim Rahir: fullest so i don't i I don't know if that's,
00:36:04.404 --> 00:36:06.784
Kim Rahir: is there some denial in what I'm doing?
00:36:06.964 --> 00:36:13.384
Kim Rahir: Maybe, maybe, but I'm not, I'm, I'm really totally aware that this is,
00:36:13.584 --> 00:36:18.564
Kim Rahir: you know, not a given forever, that this is actually a very fragile sort of
00:36:18.564 --> 00:36:21.504
Kim Rahir: state of, of happiness and health.
00:36:21.924 --> 00:36:29.924
Kim Rahir: But instead of sort of scaring me, it just gives me this determination to make the most of it right now.
00:36:30.344 --> 00:36:31.164
Kevin Lowe: Yeah. Yeah.
00:36:31.659 --> 00:36:38.259
Kevin Lowe: I absolutely love that. You know, it kind of goes back to the way in which we
00:36:38.259 --> 00:36:40.479
Kevin Lowe: all can choose how we see the glass,
00:36:40.639 --> 00:36:46.139
Kevin Lowe: whether half full or half empty, you know, and if you have that choice to make
00:36:46.139 --> 00:36:49.939
Kevin Lowe: and you're really wanting to make the most out of every day,
00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:52.359
Kevin Lowe: why not choose to see it as half full,
00:36:52.679 --> 00:36:55.259
Kevin Lowe: you know, and that's so powerful.
00:36:55.259 --> 00:36:59.759
Kevin Lowe: Now, today, what are you doing?
00:37:00.139 --> 00:37:04.999
Kevin Lowe: Where can people learn more about what you're doing and really just kind of
00:37:04.999 --> 00:37:06.679
Kevin Lowe: stay plugged in with your world?
00:37:06.879 --> 00:37:11.579
Kim Rahir: Well, what you can do if you want to find out about what I do in my work with
00:37:11.579 --> 00:37:16.419
Kim Rahir: women, help them to become strong and lean, you can check out my website,
00:37:16.599 --> 00:37:18.839
Kim Rahir: which is with my name, Kim Raheer.com.
00:37:18.839 --> 00:37:21.739
Kim Rahir: And there's also a free health and
00:37:21.739 --> 00:37:24.659
Kim Rahir: strength assessment on there that you can take because remember that
00:37:24.659 --> 00:37:27.379
Kim Rahir: point of entry I was talking about that will give
00:37:27.379 --> 00:37:30.299
Kim Rahir: you a very good idea of where you are at right now
00:37:30.299 --> 00:37:34.419
Kim Rahir: with your health and strength and when you fill that out I can I'm sending you
00:37:34.419 --> 00:37:39.239
Kim Rahir: some pointers and tips on you know what you could do next to get started if
00:37:39.239 --> 00:37:44.279
Kim Rahir: you you know don't want to engage like that right away you can just start you
00:37:44.279 --> 00:37:48.419
Kim Rahir: can lurk a little bit on on Facebook with my My name also, Kim Raheer,
00:37:48.499 --> 00:37:49.759
Kim Rahir: where I'm sharing lots of stuff,
00:37:50.379 --> 00:37:55.799
Kim Rahir: you know, info, helpful tips, and some of my weightlifting adventures too.
00:37:56.139 --> 00:37:59.479
Kim Rahir: Same on Instagram, by the way. You know, just with my name, you can find me.
00:38:00.099 --> 00:38:04.179
Kevin Lowe: Yeah, amazing. Well, I'll be sure that anybody interested, I'll be sure that
00:38:04.179 --> 00:38:08.679
Kevin Lowe: all of that information and links, all of it is in the show notes for easy access.
00:38:09.179 --> 00:38:13.939
Kevin Lowe: Kim, it's been a pleasure getting to meet you today, to get to hear your story.
00:38:13.939 --> 00:38:22.399
Kevin Lowe: And more than just your story is getting to be enlightened by your perspective on life.
00:38:22.599 --> 00:38:31.299
Kevin Lowe: I think you are one of those real-life superheroes for the fact that you see
00:38:31.299 --> 00:38:38.039
Kevin Lowe: life differently and that you were faced with this thing,
00:38:38.319 --> 00:38:41.239
Kevin Lowe: and yet you chose to persevere.
00:38:41.239 --> 00:38:43.699
Kevin Lowe: You chose to keep going
00:38:44.487 --> 00:38:48.747
Kevin Lowe: And look at where you are today. It's such a beautiful story.
00:38:49.007 --> 00:38:50.147
Kim Rahir: Thank you so much.
00:38:50.607 --> 00:38:56.347
Kevin Lowe: Yeah, absolutely. Well, listen, I have one final question and then I'll let you go.
00:38:56.527 --> 00:39:02.687
Kevin Lowe: But my final question is, is for somebody listening today who maybe they're
00:39:02.687 --> 00:39:08.027
Kevin Lowe: going through their own struggles, whether it's something physical, maybe mental,
00:39:08.467 --> 00:39:14.207
Kevin Lowe: something that hasn't been a position in life, maybe back where you were during those six months.
00:39:14.487 --> 00:39:18.027
Kevin Lowe: What would you say to them to give them a little bit of hope and encouragement?
00:39:18.367 --> 00:39:25.047
Kim Rahir: I want to say there's only one question that you want to ask yourself in order
00:39:25.047 --> 00:39:27.667
Kim Rahir: to get better and to feel better.
00:39:27.927 --> 00:39:30.947
Kim Rahir: Do not ask, why is this happening?
00:39:31.367 --> 00:39:34.707
Kim Rahir: Who is to blame? How did this happen?
00:39:34.987 --> 00:39:40.187
Kim Rahir: Or why is this happening to me? Or don't even ask what's going to become of me.
00:39:40.407 --> 00:39:44.007
Kim Rahir: Ask this one single question. what
00:39:44.007 --> 00:39:47.607
Kim Rahir: can I do right now that will
00:39:47.607 --> 00:39:50.407
Kim Rahir: make me just a little bit better and there's
00:39:50.407 --> 00:39:53.927
Kim Rahir: always something that you're going to find and that could be the smallest of
00:39:53.927 --> 00:39:58.927
Kim Rahir: things like listening to bird song having a glass of water or calling a loved
00:39:58.927 --> 00:40:03.707
Kim Rahir: one whatever it is but if you ask that one tiny question what can I do right
00:40:03.707 --> 00:40:10.147
Kim Rahir: now that will get you on a path of doing something instead of pondering and fearing,
00:40:10.407 --> 00:40:15.707
Kim Rahir: and it will create momentum and it will help you get out of the place you're in right now.
00:40:16.387 --> 00:40:23.867
Kevin Lowe: Wow. Kim, you're amazing. You are absolutely incredible. Thank you once again for being here.
00:40:24.127 --> 00:40:27.367
Kim Rahir: Thank you so much for having me. You're such a lovely host.
00:40:27.467 --> 00:40:32.667
Kim Rahir: And I know that the feelings that I've been talking about, you know, all about them.
00:40:33.207 --> 00:40:38.227
Kevin Lowe: Yeah, absolutely. Well, for you listening today, I hope that you're smiling
00:40:38.227 --> 00:40:43.907
Kevin Lowe: as big as I am because this woman today, wow, she just brightened my day and
00:40:43.907 --> 00:40:45.347
Kevin Lowe: I hope she did yours as well.
00:40:45.987 --> 00:40:50.627
Kevin Lowe: If today's episode resonated with you, if it made you think of somebody who
00:40:50.627 --> 00:40:55.927
Kevin Lowe: could use a little boost to their day, maybe consider sharing today's episode with them.
00:40:56.087 --> 00:40:59.667
Kevin Lowe: That would mean the world to me. And I know that it would mean the world to
00:40:59.667 --> 00:41:03.587
Kevin Lowe: them. Until next time, of course, I'm your host, Kevin Lowe,
00:41:03.687 --> 00:41:07.107
Kevin Lowe: and this was another interview here on Grit Great.
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