#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.



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Kim Rahir: And I can't describe how overjoyed I felt to call my husband on the phone.



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Kim Rahir: We both cried with joy and I thought this is, you know, this is a gift.



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Kim Rahir: I'm not, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to, you know, live every day,



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Kim Rahir: every moment with my kids and enjoy every, every bit of it.



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Kim Rahir: And then a year, another year later, I felt my left hand going numb.



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Kim Rahir: And this thing that I say with neurological stuff, you feel stuff that you shouldn't



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Kim Rahir: be feeling. So I knew that sensation wasn't right and I got more checkups.



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Kim Rahir: And this time they said, oh, yeah, this is different.



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Kim Rahir: This is not the kind of immune attack that you had before. This is an attack



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Kim Rahir: of your system on the white matter in your nerves.



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Kim Rahir: And, you know, this is MS, this is multiple sclerosis.



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Kim Rahir: And you can imagine that I thought this was like



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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



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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



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Kim Rahir: you know go back to square one and by the way this time it's worse and this



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Kim Rahir: time it's not a one-off this time it's for life so the darkness that I had felt



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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.



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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



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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.



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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.



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Kim Rahir: And I think that helped me tremendously. I think when you have a diagnosis like



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Kim Rahir: this and you start imagining what's going to happen, even in two weeks or in two years or in 20 years,



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Kim Rahir: you can be so paralyzed with the uncertainty of it that you will forget,



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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



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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



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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



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Kim Rahir: women did, you know, like with this idea of achieving a certain body shape or



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Kim Rahir: staying fit in a very general way.



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Kim Rahir: And after my ms



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Kim Rahir: diagnosis i felt this desire to



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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



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Kim Rahir: from feeling so powerless when i was in hospital and i came from,



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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.



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Kim Rahir: I had just, I mean, my left hand is numb to this day, but that's about it.



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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.



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Kim Rahir: Because with autoimmune diseases, there's this bit of a feeling of betrayal



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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



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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



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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



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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



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Kim Rahir: the first that said women you know should lift heavy and because it's just as



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Kim Rahir: important for them as for anybody else and i followed that book the workouts



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Kim Rahir: the the instructions for proper form everything to a T and I got so much better it's hard to.



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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



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Kim Rahir: on this now but this was like 10 years ago where this was still all sort of



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Kim Rahir: evolving strength training is is like an elixir for your mental health you walk



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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.



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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.



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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,



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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,



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Kim Rahir: you can stop your treatment. And I did.



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Kim Rahir: And that was like seven years ago. I have been without relapse and without treatment for seven years.



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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.



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Kim Rahir: I was on to something there was you know



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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



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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



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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?



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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.



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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.



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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.



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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.



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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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