A Second Chance at Life - w/ Maria Menounos

Stress kills and life is going to keep on hitting… so what do you do? This interview is going to change lives! Life is hard… especially right now. And as so many people across the globe are staring pain and tragedy in the face, this interview couldn’t come at a better time. Everyone’s struggle is unique. But the skills you’ll learn from this amazing guest can be universally applied to almost any circumstance to help you SMILE through the PAIN. Positive energy literally radiates from this woman and I am so excited and honored to have Maria Menounos on this episode of The Ed Mylett Show. Maria is an Emmy winning reporter, TV personality, pro wrestler, actress, and businesswoman. And even with all of her life’s achievements, she is NOT immune to the battles that life throws our way. But her ability to use the power of a smile to change her own state of mind and the state of others around her is truly transformational. In this interview, Maria takes us on her life-changing journey from learning that her mother was diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer to finding out that she ALSO had a brain tumor and would need an operation. Instead of allowing STRESS, FEAR, and DEPRESSION to paralyze her, Maria shares how she made a conscious decision to face her brain tumor head-on with HUMOR and how something as simple as a SMILE can make all the difference! Stress levels around the world are at an all-time high. Maria and I dive deep into the effects of STRESS on the body and reveal secrets on how to REDUCE the STRESS in your life RIGHT NOW. Life’s most difficult battles often open our eyes to what is really important in life and help us redefine the true definition of success. It’s almost like getting a second chance at life. Most of us are in the thick of a mess right now. But no matter what battle you’re fighting, this interview will enrich you, enlighten you and fill you with positivity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 1:45Ed Mylett?

  Welcome back to Max Out, everybody. I am really excited to have this lady on my show today because she's special. Not only is she a special human being, but she's had a very special life and a very... Very interesting last three or four years of her life as well. And so if you're on YouTube and you're watching this, you recognize her face probably immediately. If you're on audio, I can tell you that she's done a whole lot of stuff. She's maxed out a lot of areas of her life. She's, she's been a television host, she's an actress, she even dabbled in the WWE. She's a sought after person of inspiration and coaching now in the world. She's also a wife and she's become a friend of mine.

• 2:29Ed Mylett?

  And I'm excited about the conversation today because I think she's going to share with you some insights and perspective that she's uniquely qualified to deliver to you. So Maria Menounos, thank you for being here today.

• 2:41Maria Menounos?

  Thank you. I'm so honored to be on your show.

• 2:44Ed Mylett?

  Well, I was honored to be on yours. So it's, it's nice to have you finally with our audience. This is the max out universe that you're now a part of. And we could go a lot of places with your story. By the way, I haven't told you this, I didn't tell you this off cam either. I'm also from Massachusetts. I think that's why we have a connected energy.

• 3:02Maria Menounos?

  So both assholes?

• 3:04Ed Mylett?

  Yes.

• 3:06Maria Menounos?

  What part are you from?

• 3:08Ed Mylett?

  I'm from, I'm from the hood. I'm from Waymouth.

• 3:12Maria Menounos?

  Waymouth.

• 3:13Ed Mylett?

  By the way, I say that to everybody and they do that right there. Oh, that's, yeah, Waymouth.

• 3:17Maria Menounos?

  That's that far away area.

• 3:19Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, there's nothing, there's nothing, no one ever goes that. There was no like anecdote that is beautiful. All my friends from Waymouth, don't take that personally, but. And you're Medford, where were you, Medford, where were you born?

• 3:31Maria Menounos?

  Yeah, otherwise known as Medfidd.

• 3:33Ed Mylett?

  Medfidd.

• 3:34Maria Menounos?

  Medfidd, Mass.

• 3:35Ed Mylett?

  At least I did my, you see the research I did? This is impressive.

• 3:38Maria Menounos?

  Did you have an accent down there?

• 3:40Ed Mylett?

  Big time. And if I go back, I have it in about two days.

• 3:43Maria Menounos?

  Me too.

• 3:44Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 3:45Maria Menounos?

  Oh my God, I start to potty and like I get wicked tired and if I'm drunk, forget it. It comes back like in a second.

• 3:54Ed Mylett?

  That is wicked awesome. All right.

• 3:59Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, every time I go back like two days in, I bust out with the accent again. But I'm weird. I'll go to Canada and like after five days, I'm like saying, hey, Sue. So I don't, there's something wrong.

• 4:09Maria Menounos?

  I'm the same way. I'm very like, yeah, I, I catch, I catch them quick.

• 4:13Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 4:14Maria Menounos?

  For sure.

• 4:15Ed Mylett?

  I want to talk to everyone to talk about today. Well, there's a lot, but I think that, you know, we're in an interesting time. You and I just talked about this off camera. And I'm just, I'm curious for you, how have you been navigating these times between, you know, obviously COVID, no matter what time someone listens to this, it's made an indelible mark in society. You know, at the time that you and I are recording this, it seems like maybe there's a resurgence of some type happening. Obviously, there's a presidential election. Everyone's talking about that stuff. There's the social justice and racial justice issues that the world is grappling with and trying to make change in right now. What have you been doing to kind of cope or thrive during this time? Anything different or unique?

• 4:59Maria Menounos?

  Yeah, I, I think so. I'm leaning very heavily on the tools I've acquired at our mutual friend Tony Robbins seminars and books. Uh, the Gabby Bernstein's, the Esther Hicks, the Wayne Dyer's, all of the tools that I've been acquiring these last three years. Uh, or no, well, last decade, actually, because Tony was probably eight years ago when I first started going to seminars. Um, I'm leaning heavily on my tools because it is a really challenging time. Um, and then my show, Better Together, that you were on was just a once a week show.

• 5:36Maria Menounos?

  And that was really my way of continuing my education in the spiritual, emotional, physical health world. Um, and, and how to get better in kind of all areas, including even finance and, and relationships and more. Uh, when COVID hit, I, you know, I needed to be with people and I decided to take my show to every day. Um, so that I could be there and it really quickly became my same space to go to, to try to be positive, to be away from the news, to continue to keep in kind of some form of alignment.

• 6:18Maria Menounos?

  And so that's what I've been doing. I've been, you know, leaning heavily on my meditation and.

• 6:26Maria Menounos?

  And trying and then being honest when I'm faltering, like when I'm having moments. You know, today on my show, I was like, yay, there's another pandemic. There's another flu in the pigs and yep, this is awesome. And so I, I, you know, kind of confront everything head on. However, I'm feeling is how I'm feeling. I'm not going to be perfect at every moment. I'm not going to be happy go lucky, even though I'm a pretty positive person most of the time. I'm trying to give myself those moments and allow it because

• 6:59Maria Menounos?

  you have to, right? Like those are the uncomfortable moments that you can grow from. It can't always be rah rah rah sunshine and rainbows.

• 7:06Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 7:07Maria Menounos?

  Like Rocky says, life's gonna keep hitting, so.

• 7:10Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, essentially you give yourself a little bit of grace, which your industry's not really known for.

• 7:17Ed Mylett?

  You know, I think the pressure of being in your industry, being on camera all the time, appearing to look perfect, act perfect. You know, you've had a life event, we're gonna talk about in a minute, that I think gave you some perspective that's unique. But before we get to that, because it's really where I want to go for my own benefit, candidly. I've been looking forward to today. You know, there's some shows, I'm like, I'm excited to share this person with the audience. And then there's some shows where I'm excited to share this time with this person for me. And so I'm excited about that for me today. But give us one of those tools, though, you're referring to. Which one you need to, you said meditation, but is there one thing you do? Do you have a gratitude exercise? Is there something you do with your breathing, physically, water, anything you do? Specifically, one of those tools that you're relying on right now?

• 8:00Maria Menounos?

  One of the biggest things is I end my night with my prayers. But what I added to my prayers was literally listing everything that happened that day that I was grateful for. Down to the butterfly that flew near me, right? To the great phone call I had with someone that lifted me in a moment I needed to be lifted. Or the deal that came through, or my health that continues, or whatever. I list every moment of the day. And part of it is is actual strategy, right? So when you list everything you're grateful for, you are in an alignment that continues to pour more of that towards you, right?

• 8:41Maria Menounos?

  Um, that's just energy and so uh it's a smart technique, but it's also a great way to end your day because it's so easy to go through your day and remember the bad, right? And then hold on to the bad um and forget the good. And so when you do that, it forces you to say, oh, that was actually a pretty good day. It wasn't at all what I was thinking in this moment. And then you pray for more abundance and um in all areas and for protection. And so you end in a peaceful place and that's been really helpful for me. And I know the laws of attraction are really powerful and so I use it to my advantage.

• 9:24Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 9:24Maria Menounos?

  Um, and I try to teach other people like part of my prayer is like, I'll say like, please continue to flow abundance of help into my life, into my family's life. Please continue to flow money easily and frequently into my life. Please continue to flow amazing, incredible people, investors, collaborators, producers, to help bring my visions to life and to help me in my personal life. And so I keep those things like ongoing every night and it helps because every day and someone comes into my life and I'm like, I literally call it God's wings. I'm like, oh, thank you, God. Yep, you heard me last night, thank you. Yep, I'll take that person, thank you, I'll take that person, I'll take that moment. And that's what I do.

• 10:07Ed Mylett?

  Well, what it does too is it opens up, you have that reticular activating system in your brain. And when you do something late at night like that, where you start to take inventory of your gratitude, your mind starts to look for those things the following day because it knows you've got this ritual and this routine. And it begins to change the filter that you look through the world with. And you begin to see these things that were always there, but maybe you missed because you weren't looking for them. I'm going to tell you something about you that I noticed before I knew you, when I would watch you in interviews and one thing I've noticed today, when I did your show, a couple of our mutual friends have told me this about you. It's just one thing I want to tell you that you do, maybe you're not even conscious of it. I I really love people that have gifts I don't have. So um I noticed gifts that I wish I had in other people.

• 10:52Ed Mylett?

  And one of the things you do a lot, and this may seem really small, but I think it changes someone's life, is you smile a lot. And that, he just did the second one. And like, she's got this like legendary laugh too, which is kinda like this thing with you, like people kinda know when they hear that laugh, it's you. But I actually, when I look, when I listen to you, I'm talking about all the way back when I'd watch you like on E and I'd watch other hosts standing there with you. There's like a little bit of a light that comes through you. There's an energy about you. I think it's one of the reasons you're so successful in your career. I don't think most people could put their finger on it, but like, I wanna smile when I'm around you. I kinda wanna be a little bit happier when I'm around you.

• 11:34Ed Mylett?

  And I have this way that I think I do, I have an impact on people, but I'm kind of a serious look. I'm not conscious of smiling enough and laughing enough. And maybe that seems like a simple thing I'm saying to the audience, but it's something Maria really does well. Go look at a bunch of YouTube clips of interviewing people and you'll see what you see right now. More than a, more than a normal host is playing the role of host, right? And you do it on your show. That's not on purpose, is it? Is that just the way you are?

• 12:02Maria Menounos?

  So funny. Thank you so much. No one's ever said that to me. Henry Winkler calls me Holly Go Lightly. I, I will say this, when you were saying it, I heard my mom in the background, because my mom, when she was first interviewed, the very first time someone interviewed her about me, it was Teen People Magazine, I was getting some award. And they said, you know, tell us about Maria. And she goes, Maria, she was always smiling.

• 12:31Ed Mylett?

  Wow.

• 12:32Maria Menounos?

  Yeah. And I was from go, like always smiling. And so, yeah, that's, my mom saying that just connected right now with what you're saying, because I smile even in like tough moments, like it makes no sense sometimes. It's just, it's just there and I love laughing.

• 12:52Ed Mylett?

  Maria, it's a huge tool. I'm hoping everyone driving in the car, everyone on their treadmill right now goes, you know, you can change your state by smiling. You can change your state by laughing more often. It sounds so hokey and basic, but I'm, I'm telling you, you know, you learned this from Tony too. We do depression. We do anxiety. It's a physical move. We do joy though. We do peace. And one quick way is, it's very difficult to be laughing off camera, but we're on camera, we're not recording it. You were taking me through a really stressful thing you're going through in another area of your life. I'm watching you, because I'm crazy, as you're telling me the story. You're sort of smiling as you're telling me the story. It minimizes the impact that has on us.

• 13:37Ed Mylett?

  This is one of Maria's really truly great gifts, you guys, I'm telling you. And it's something you should start to add to your repertoire of being more intentional about smiling and laughing more often. And when you see people changing their state, I'm smiling more because she's smiling back at me right now. This isn't.

• 13:55Maria Menounos?

  You know what's funny is, um, is when I was doing IVF injections.

• 14:03Maria Menounos?

  I found that when you smile through the pain, like through the pain of the injection, you don't feel it. So literally just smiling through the injection, you won't feel it.

• 14:16Ed Mylett?

  Wow, guys, okay, 300 shows, 20 billion hours of personal development in business. And we've stumbled into uncharted territory right here, I'm telling you. This is breakthrough stuff, very, very good. So you are an expert now, though, on some difficult times. So smiling.

• 14:38Maria Menounos?

  Talk about smiling through. I smiled all the way through it.

• 14:43Ed Mylett?

  So, so guys, here we go. This is where you just go, wow, okay. So, um, I want to talk about, you know, defining moments in life. So those of you that don't know, Maria was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2017, I believe, on your 39th birthday, actually, correct?

• 15:01Maria Menounos?

  That's when I had surgery.

• 15:03Ed Mylett?

  Surgery on your 39th birthday.

• 15:04Maria Menounos?

  Yeah, it was like two months before I got diagnosed.

• 15:06Ed Mylett?

  And prior to that, I'll let you tell it, but prior to that, this is interesting. Your, your, your mother was also diagnosed with brain cancer prior to that. And my recollection in researching it was when it happened, you actually prayed and said, Lord, why couldn't, can I please have this? Because I'm the fighter, I'm the strong one. Is that true?

• 15:32Maria Menounos?

  Yeah, it was, it was challenging with my mom at some point. And I was so tired and sad. And I just said, God, I wish you'd give this to me, I could have handled it better. And then boom, I got diagnosed with a brain tumor. So when we talk about how powerful words are and the universe and all of that, like, listen, medically, my neurosurgeon believes it had been there for probably a decade. And I actually feel like I know the inciting incident of it. I know I was going through a really toxic situation and I remember getting all these rashes. And the doctors didn't know what they were. But now, when I look at some of the deeper research with the tumor that I have, which

• 16:16Maria Menounos?

  is called the meningioma, it makes a little bit more sense. But, yeah, I did. Um, you know, you're, you never want to see people that you love in pain. And I know now how tough I am. Uh, and I was just kinda like, I, I would fight harder. My mom fights in her way, and I have to accept the way she fights now. Um, but I'm like, come on, get up, like, walk, keep moving, like, don't give in. And so it, it, it's challenging because the brain, once it gets damaged, it's hard to overcome that damage. And so radiation and the cancer itself and the, the chemo's and all of this stuff, we've

• 17:00Maria Menounos?

  actually been very successful against it. So she was diagnosed late August 2016 with stage four brain cancer. It's called glioblastoma. It's one of the deadliest cancers you can get. I think the median life expectancy is like six to 12 months. Luckily, I didn't read that in the moment. Um, I was supposed to get on a plane that next day to, uh, London to interview Renee Zellweger for Bridget Jones Diary 2, I believe it was. And I got a phone call from my dad and they said they found a tumor and I collapsed. And I ended up somehow getting packed by a friend and sent to the airport, the last seat on the plane, flew to the East Coast and within two days, we got that diagnosis. Um.

• 17:45Maria Menounos?

  So I had to become an expert really fast and luckily with my position in this business, I was able to get the best doctors together and I created like my board of brain tumors, my board of directors and I got opinions from everybody and I I used their guidance at first, but what I realized along the way and my biggest lesson in all of this is that you have the guidance inside of you that you really need to get through a major life crisis or a major disease too. So I'm not a doctor, but what I've realized is my gut instinct

• 18:26Maria Menounos?

  and my intuition from my mom has been the most powerful and most successful tool I've had to keeping her alive now almost four years later, to all of the doctors surprise and it's one of the things I coach people on the side, so I have had over a hundred brain tumor patients at this point in the last three years that I've coached through brain surgeries and cancers. And then I've dabbled with other cancers too because I think the same methods apply and it's things that people aren't telling you, right? When you get sick, you lay your, your everything at the foot of a doctor who has maybe fifteen minutes with you every time they see you.

• 19:05Maria Menounos?

  And they don't have the time to look at you as an individual to really look at the full picture. That's why people talk about holistic. But they get the wrong idea of holistic. Got to look at what started this. And usually with cancers, there's an emotional component that people are overlooking. Um, there's a trauma, there's a deep rooted pain that has manifested over the years and then compile that with like poor diets and stuff is just, you know, has manifested into something physical. So with my mom, I knew instantly we needed to deal with the emotional. I knew we needed to deal with the spiritual and of course the physical. And part of the physical were things that they would not recommend necessarily. I started researching the ketogenic diet.

• 19:50Maria Menounos?

  And most doctors kind of, you know, they're like, oh, we see patients' families, you know, torture them all the time. Just let her eat what she wants. And I'm like, so are you basically giving in? Like, so her neurosurgeon, surgeon, when I suggested it, he said, listen, we don't have the evidence to support this, but I think it's a good idea. To me, it made sense instinctively. If you are pumping sugar into my body in an MRI to see where the cancer is, okay, let's avoid sugar. So I modified the diet because I didn't think the ketogenic diet was healthy on its own anyway, because I can't imagine ingesting that much fat is really smart. So I said, okay, we'll use the fats as a cheat since she can't have the sugar. But we're

• 20:32Maria Menounos?

  really just going plant-based Hippocrates, let food be thy medicine. And so I did a lot of this stuff. And then I supplemented her because I also think the other thing that people forget with cancer is that you can't take an ailing body, pump all these toxins and all these treatments in and not try to support it at the same time to handle all of that. And so for me, supplementing her body with as much as I could um to offset some of these things, whether it was kidney supplements or liver supplements or brain supplements, or just vitamin C, high dose vitamin C, and all of these things, um adding

• 21:13Maria Menounos?

  marijuana, all of these things made such a big difference. And then also, like I said, using your gut instinct. And so I had pre researched a facility in Mexico, knowing there might be a moment as a good producer that you might need it. And you don't want to be in that frantic moment, what do I do? You want to be like, oh, we're in this moment, got it. I know where I'm going. And so we did a lot of that. And ironically, when I took her to Mexico, I had been suffering from a lot of pains in my head, too, at the time. And so I went and I got an MRI that I had been putting off because at some point I realized, I'm crazy. I went to the doctor and I said, you know, I'm getting these headaches and yeah, I'm slurring my speech on set and all this weird stuff's

• 21:57Maria Menounos?

  happening. And then I looked at him and I go, oh, shit. And he goes, what? I go, I know you're gonna think I'm crazy, but I think I have a brain tumor like my mom. And I diagnosed myself. Yeah. So I got tested and the day I checked my parents into Mexico, I literally unpacked them, put all their things away, set them up because they were going to be there for two weeks. And the doctor called me and he's like, I don't know how to tell you this, but you have a brain tumor as well.

• 22:27Maria Menounos?

  And so I instantly started filming myself because I wanted to remember how I handled the scariest worst moment that you're ever gonna, you know, have. So I documented the entire journey and I made a conscious decision. So funny that you pointed this out and this is so crazy, but I made a conscious decision to go through it with humor and, um, and positivity because it was such a crazy lightning striking kind of moment. Um, I've had the head researcher in the country say it was literally like lightning striking. This doesn't happen. Mother, daughter tumors isn't a thing.

• 23:08Maria Menounos?

  And so my best friend was horrified, but even I had pre, this is a good one. So I had pre RSVP to a, an event for my mom's neurosurgeon, Dr. Keith Black. And it was, it was to take place on June, uh, 7th.

• 23:28Maria Menounos?

  And so then I get diagnosed, I end up in his office and like, I can't believe this is happening. He's like, um, you know, here are the dates that I have available. It was like June 2nd. I'm like, oh, I have shoot June 8th. Okay, cool. We'll do June 8th. So June 8th happened to be my birthday and I was, I was like, okay, this is happening for a reason. This is my rebirth. I'm changing my whole life, whatever. So he looked at me and he's like, um, so that event June 7th honoring me is like, obviously you're not gonna come. And I go, no, I'm gonna come. And he's like, what? I'm like, I said, I'm gonna come, I'm gonna come. And I'm gonna need the distractions or whatever. So now, mind you, I go to the event.

• 24:08Speaker 01

  Oh my gosh.

• 24:10Maria Menounos?

  And I'm seated with my family at the table. We're the only ones I know and my best friend who flew out and she's, God bless her, she stayed with me for a whole month while I healed and whatever. And, um, and we're watching them honor Dr. Black. This like who's who event in Hollywood and they're showing him operating on people's brains on the big screen and I'm like, yeah, that's gonna be me in uh four hours.

• 24:35Ed Mylett?

  Oh my gosh.

• 24:37Maria Menounos?

  Literally, I saw Dr. Black as you know, we were talking before the the sit down part and I go, hey, I'm watching you two drink minimum, you're in my brain tomorrow.

• 24:48Ed Mylett?

  Oh my gosh. Okay, okay, hold on.

• 24:52Ed Mylett?

  There's a lot to unpack. Hold, there's a lot there. First off, by the way, if you're not watching the YouTube, she smiled through that whole story, which most people when they tell you about their mom's cancer, their brain surgery. Guys, it's a huge key. I'm telling you, it's a huge key. Okay, a lot to unpack there. I'm gonna go, I'm gonna just touch on a couple of things you said there. Is it your contention that you believe, and I'm not asking, Maria's not a medical doctor, guys, I'm asking you your opinion as someone who's had a mother with stage four brain cancer, and you had a brain tumor that was operated on. Um, it, your contention that you believe there's some sort of trauma or emotional stress that might induce a condition like that?

• 25:34Maria Menounos?

  Oh, for sure. I mean, think about it. Stress kills. We all know that, right? So stress is deteriorating the systems in your body, right? Just like poor diets deteriorating, and then all of those things start to take shape over time, right? It it's like um, an accumulation of bad choices, and they just eventually catch up with you. So I always say, okay, cool, we can abuse our bodies and eat donuts and junk all through our twenties. In our thirties, things start to shift, and then you get like a thyroid condition. Oh, yeah, thyroid condition. Oh, that's easy. I just take a pill for that. And then, then it just accelerates if you don't make the changes as the bricks hit you on the head, right?

• 26:18Maria Menounos?

  The thyroid issue is the brick on the head, must change. Too much stress on the body, too much, you know, poor whatever.

• 26:27Maria Menounos?

  Lack of sleep, whatever it is that you're not doing right or well is going to accumulate. And then I do believe that the worst effect eventually is the cancer. Um, I, I just see it with people and honestly, after over a hundred conversations um, with people, the second I say, so, okay, we talked about diet, we talked about the, you know, the treatments, we talked about the supplements, okay, um, what about the emotional part? And they're like, oh, how did you know? I'm like.

• 27:03Ed Mylett?

  You, you know, I think, I must say, my dad's got cancer, he's had it for many years and multiple radiations, multiple chemos, and that my dad has what they call liposarcoma. And, and I've discussed this a little bit with my dad, although, and he's probably gonna watch this or hear this, him and my mom, so we haven't discussed it to the extent that I'm gonna say it here. But one of, now he's getting uncomfortable before he knows what I'm gonna say, but I have, I have wondered, my dad, I think, would be the first to tell you that he's sort of a chronic worrier. And has lived under a lot of stress, some real, some sort of magnified. And I have wondered, uh, because there's no really genetic history in my family of that type of cancer.

• 27:42Ed Mylett?

  I have wondered if it was a stress-induced, worried-induced, anxiety-induced, just cumulative over years, or if there was one significant event. And so, um, needless to say, everybody, I think the lesson here is that even if you think you're great at coping with stress and you thrive in it, like us achievers that are mainly listening to this, there is a toll that it's taking on you physically to some extent, whether it's aging you or giving you an illness or a disease. And we, we need to do more self-care, we need to do more things to, um, inoculate ourselves from stress. Next question I have, I'm curious, but by the way, I'm enthralled with this, like, who the heck has a mother with stage four, has a brain tumor, has the surgery on her birthday,

• 28:27Ed Mylett?

  and the night before is at her neurosurgeon's honoring? This is like, what? Like, hello?

• 28:31Maria Menounos?

  Oh, I was singing jingles the night before, I have video of this, I was like, 'twas the night before surgery and all through the house, not a creature was happy, not even a mouse. And I have video of my best friend, like, smearing at me, and then my husband looking at me with the death stare. You know, and then as we're driving in the minivan to the hospital the next day, I was like, it's my birthday party, bitches!

• 28:56Maria Menounos?

  Everyone's like wanting to murder me, but I'm like, what am I gonna do? Like, am I gonna impose more stress on my family? I have choices, right? And my choice is to go through this and make it fun because you have a choice. Like, I had a choice. And, and to me, it's another path. So if someone's listening to this, go through whatever crisis you're going through. Make your choice, how you're gonna do it. I was cracking jokes all the way through. Um, and it made it easier for me. It was like smiling through the injection. It made it better for me.

• 29:31Ed Mylett?

  Yeah. By the way, what a metaphor of smiling through the injection. Like, I, just so you know, that will be stolen by me and I will be using it.

• 29:39Ed Mylett?

  I mean, I'll credit you for it, but you guys, I, I, I think this is so valuable because first, a lot of you listening to this may know someone right now who's had a diagnosis of an illness. I think you should send them this. The second thing is, if you haven't had that, every single one of you will face a crisis, will face a defining moment in your life. And I hope you remember this show or go back and listen to it during that moment when it happens. I'm curious, because I know what it's like to find out a parent has cancer. I know that feeling. You said that you fell to your knees. I'm, if you don't mind me asking, what is the difference between hearing mom has cancer and hearing you have brain, a brain tumor? What, how did it, did it affect you differently?

• 30:24Ed Mylett?

  When you did it to your own? How did it affect you differently?

• 30:27Maria Menounos?

  Um, mine, I literally started laughing. I mean, first I started taking notes. I was like, okay, and then in Gianna, like the producer side of me is taking notes. And then I called my best friend and I go, hey, Kevin went to the store. I just found out I have a brain tumor. Don't tell anybody. I have to tell them first, but I had to get it out. I'll call you back. She still hates me for that message, for that call. And then like I said,

• 30:53Ed Mylett?

  That was a voice message?

• 30:54Maria Menounos?

  No, I, I talked to her, but it was like quick. It was like a voice message. And then Kevin came home. I'm like, we need to go outside. And we went outside and we sat in a parking lot up against this concrete wall. And I turned the camera on me and I just started talking. And I was like, so I have a brain tumor too? This is crazy. Um, I laughed and then the first thing I was concerned about was will I ever work again? Right? Are people not gonna hire me? And so, um,

• 31:21Maria Menounos?

  I was worried about that. And that's where there were a lot of pivots in my life because I realized I was valuing the wrong things. And I realized that I needed to redefine success in my life. Because success for me should be my health. Without my health, I have nothing. Um, and I should stop worrying about what outward success is, right? Like, I think we all need to redefine success, even people we were talking about before on the show, friends of ours. Um, how much is enough? And why, I mean, I'm, I'm all for goals and stuff, but when it's at your health's expense, what's the point? Right? At what point do we not sit back and say, okay, I achieved? I did amazing stuff. I can pay my bills.

• 32:06Maria Menounos?

  Like, why am I gonna continuously throw myself into the fire? What's it for? So I can continue to impress Ed and all these other people? Or am I, am I impressing myself? Do I even care anymore? Like, we have to redefine what success is in our country because we're chasing after ideals that don't even, it doesn't exist, right? All these Instagram accounts, all these things, they're all fake. None of it is real. The only thing that's real is the love you have with your family and your friends and your health. And your essence, like what makes your essence in your spirit, what makes your soul sing? That's real. Nothing else is real, right? And so, um, to answer your question more straight on,

• 32:49Maria Menounos?

  when my mom was diagnosed, I was at a charity event for dogs. And I remember there was this little dog that was like traumatized, terrorized. And it took forever for me to gain his trust and get him in my arms. And I was holding him and I was like, I'm gonna hold him all day so that this dog knows love. And it was crazy because just a minute before I got the call, I said, Kevin, you need to take him now. And I gave him to Kevin. And then I got the phone call and I walked outside and that's when I found out. And I was like thankful that the dog didn't have to feel that. Because here was this dog that was just starting to trust and just starting to feel love. I collapsed, like I fell to the ground. Um, and so.

• 33:35Maria Menounos?

  It was the most excruciating and painful thing in the world to hear your mom has a brain tumor, to have to fly across the country with that knowledge. I was trying to research on the plane. Luckily, I'm a producer and a doer, so I quickly shifted as much as I could into, okay, I have to produce her healthcare now. But when night would come and there was no more work to be done, and I had to be alone with that thought of, oh my gosh, she might die. I spent three in the morning out screaming, crying outside of Hartford Hospital in the middle of the night in a park, screaming, crying, guttural cries.

• 34:16Maria Menounos?

  And then had to go into action. That was like two, two first, two, three nights. And then when we found out what had happened, you know, what she had, and I had to start thinking of plans, I had to go into action mode. And from that moment on, it was, you know, you teeter between doing and then feeling.

• 34:37Ed Mylett?

  The, you're really eloquent, by the way, the way, I can picture it when you're saying it.

• 34:44Ed Mylett?

  That, then you unpacked, talked about a minute ago of this when's enough enough thing and the fakeness of the world and chasing it. And I've noticed with myself, when I was sort of a privately successful person, maybe five years ago, when I've become a more publicly successful, known person, I do feel that there's an addictive component to that whole thing. And I, you know, I'm looked upon to teach these things too. And there's this interesting space that exists because if you go too far the other way, where it's like, let's just be happy with our family and lay around all day and cuddle, then there's a whole element of life that you miss as well, right? And so.

• 35:25Ed Mylett?

  It's this, that message that Maria is giving you is the message for the achiever, addictive, compulsive, obsessive crazies of the world. I can tell you on the other side of it at nearly fifty years old of, you know, the first jet wasn't enough, the second jet, like it just gets to the point where like, that's just really stupid stuff. And like, the fourth jet didn't make me any happier than the first one, or houses, or, and I know people driving, they roll their eyes and say, oh wow. But I, I think there are lessons there as you chase this road. You know, you know the six needs, I know the six needs. There is a need to grow as a human being. It's a need. And to abandon that need can also rob you of some fulfillment in your life.

• 36:09Ed Mylett?

  But if it's just, if that growth you're seeking, everybody, is constantly linked to the other need of significance and recognition, I feel that that's the pathway to emptiness. Not, I think the misnomer, and the thing that is misunderstood is, this idea of wanting to grow all your life being unhealthy, that's not unhealthy. It's growth that somehow gets intertwined into recognition and significance. Don't you agree?

• 36:37Maria Menounos?

  Yeah.

• 36:38Ed Mylett?

  That's what, you know what I'm saying?

• 36:39Maria Menounos?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 36:41Ed Mylett?

  And that's the one I want everybody to be sort of leery of and look out for. Okay, day of surgery. Someone's gonna go, that you were just at his gala, making sure you only had two drinks, you know.

• 36:52Maria Menounos?

  (laughing)

• 36:54Ed Mylett?

  So, do you, was there fear you're not gonna wake up? Was there, was there clarity like, wow, what's important to me, I assume Kevin was there, is in this room right now? What, did that day in particular change you at all? The moments going in, what were you experiencing?

• 37:15Maria Menounos?

  Yeah, I think, um, you know, a few days before, I had a birthday party on the sixth, and I got to have a lot of love around me. Not everybody knew at the party what was happening, um, but I got a lot of love going in. And then, my two best friends were with me, and my parents and Kevin. I only told my parents two nights before, because I didn't want them to be burdened with that information. So, we literally snuck into their room one night, and we're like, hey guys, so guess what, I have a brain tumor, no big deal, it's not cancerous like yours, like, we're going into surgery in two days, we're gonna be in and out, all good. And we confused them.

• 37:54Maria Menounos?

  And so, um, two days later, you know, we're driving in the minivan to surgery. Uh, I had pre-written letters, so Kevin and I had gone away the weekend before. And I had pre-written letters to my dad and my mom and my husband. And, you know, the one to my dad was the most important one to me because, you know, there are certain people in your life that like you really wanna make proud. Like my mom, I didn't even have to try. She was proud of me regardless. My dad was a very proud man and, you know, I lived to make him proud. And so I had to write this letter to him to let him know that when I came out the other side, I was gonna be a really different Maria. And I wasn't maybe gonna have things for him to brag about because that was gonna change my life.

• 38:39Maria Menounos?

  It wasn't gonna be about feeding that machine, right? For other people, it was gonna be about feeding me. And so I wrote this letter to him and I said, I'm, you may not have things to brag about anymore. And I hope that you'll still love me. And that, yeah, it was pretty friggin brutal. And so, uh, I gave them to my best friend and I said, um, you know, give these to them when I'm under and, you know, um, and that was it. And it was like, all of you guys take care of each other if something happens. Um, and I knew that Kevin would take care of them and they would help him and.

• 39:16Ed Mylett?

  Maria, your face really changes when you talk about your dad.

• 39:20Maria Menounos?

  Yeah.

• 39:21Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. What, what is that? Like it's different with your dad. I could see that right now.

• 39:26Maria Menounos?

  Yeah, I mean, I love him so much. So, I, I wanna make him proud and I just, I've almost lost him a million times. It was like before my mom was sick, my dad was type one diabetic and I've had to, again, use my instinct to save him. So, I could be in school. We're so connected, so I could be in school and have this feeling like he's not okay. And I would run home and find him comatose and had to revive him. And so, um, you know, they say cats have nine lives. My dad's had a million. We knew the fire department by name. They were at our house every other day.

• 40:06Maria Menounos?

  Um, and so my dad has been like this precious thing that I've almost lost so many times. And so, um, you know, I love my parents and, you know, have devoted my life, my adult life to keeping them healthy and alive and strong and happy. And so, yeah, that was, that was the most painful one to write. I mean, it took forever. I was crying, crying. This is the first time I've actually mentioned that letter without hysterically losing it. Um, and so, yeah, it was, I wasn't, I wasn't really thinking too much that day. There were days leading up to where I was like, oh, my God, they're gonna saw my head open.

• 40:46Maria Menounos?

  This is insane. And, um, you know, Rocky Balboa's quotes have always gotten me through tough times. I know that sounds kind of funny probably to people, but um, it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much you can take and keep moving forward. And so, you know, day of surgery, um, I was, I had my Rocky theme music as they wheeled me out. Really? Yeah, I was like, I want my music. And so I got wheeled out of the like prep room with my family. Everybody kissed me. I kissed them and I was like, I'll be waiting for my birthday presents. And then that was like my last words to them. And then my Rocky theme music. And then

• 41:29Maria Menounos?

  I remember them taking me off the one bed and putting me on the other. And I remember being like, and then I was gone. So the moment where I'm now alone and, you know, you think you might know what's gonna happen, like, okay, here comes the saw kind of moment. Um, luckily I went out and when I came back.

• 41:51Maria Menounos?

  Kevin, I, you know, I told Kevin, like, film everything and he was filming and my first thing was the Rocky Balboa quote. Isn't that crazy?

• 42:00Ed Mylett?

  That's crazy. You know, we, we're, I'm just picturing you, like, the way you tell stories, I could see it. And it's funny, little things like, we were talking off care about how much it flows Tony Robbins had on so many people. So is Sly Stallone, like, of our gen- and I'm a little bit older than you, but like, our generation, like, these Rocky movies are a big deal. David Dawkins been on my show. We both watched Rocky two, like, a thousand times in our lives.

• 42:24Maria Menounos?

  Yeah. Yeah, he was at my birthday the two nights before. And so, it was, it was so funny. So when, um, uh, People Magazine had me on the cover, um, for the, the tumor. And, um, you know, that was like, when we finally told people. And, uh, they were like, "Oh, are you gonna, you know, social this out?" It was kind of like one of those awkward moments, like, "Oh, I'm gonna social out my brain tumors thing, whatever." I said, "Actually, I have something." So I socialed out the moment where I quoted Rocky. And I can barely talk, I'm just waking up out of surgery. And I sent it to Sly. And it happened to be

• 43:06Maria Menounos?

  his birthday and I didn't even realize. And I said, "If you didn't know how powerful your words are and how much they've meant to me before, I think this seals the deal." And he wrote me back the most beautiful letter and he said at the end, he goes, "P.S. Rocky would never, ever, ever want to fight you."

• 43:22Ed Mylett?

  That's awesome. He's such a good dude. He's such a- that is the best story. Jeez, I am loving today. Can we keep going a little bit?

• 43:32Maria Menounos?

  Yeah, whatever you want.

• 43:34Ed Mylett?

  How did it affect your faith? Uh, you, you want to be specific? Do you, did it imp- did it, if you had faith before, we don't need to be specific about what it is if you don't want to, but did it get stronger, weaker? Um, didn't impact it at all? The way you look at the world, energy, universe, God, anything like that? I think you go through an experience like that, you had to have reflections about it at least.

• 43:55Maria Menounos?

  Yeah, I mean, my parents, I grew up Greek Orthodox. I've always been really connected to my faith and my church and- Um, I think as I get older and more connected, and definitely these experiences have connected me so much and I've been studying a lot of like spirituality. And like I said, the, you know, the Gabby Bernstein's and the Esther Hicks and all of them. When they're talking about being connected in the universe and all of that. Um, I started to see even with my mom. Anytime I needed something, it was there. I just had to listen. I had to be still enough to hear the message and see the message. And so one of the things I'm always teaching people is like you have to,

• 44:39Maria Menounos?

  you have to know that everything's intentional, right? Things just don't happen. So I'm looking to figure out. The doctors are telling me my mom's tumor is growing. I need to make a decision and I'm praying, God, show me the way. What do I need to do with her next? And I'm on this very computer right here and I'm doing some work and all of a sudden a pop up. And it's the side effects of chemo. Oh, wow. I never read those. Okay. Click on that and I'm like, huh. Oh. Well, the side effects of chemo exactly mirror the symptoms of brain tumor regrowth. So when you start to learn about an MRI and how you don't really know how to distinguish between tumor and scar tissue and inflammation, they all look the same.

• 45:23Maria Menounos?

  I remember in that moment being like ding ding ding. Thank you, God. Okay, I hear you. Maybe this isn't regrowth of tumor. Maybe this is just inflammation from the radiation or um, some of the treatments. Maybe it's chemo overload. Maybe we need a detox her off of the chemo. The chemo's mirroring the symptoms, right? She's been doing seven or eight months of chemo. Maybe we need a detox her. So that's when I took her to that facility in Mexico. And in fact, it worked. We detoxed her off the chemo. We put her on marijuana and from that moment on, she came home two weeks later. Her tumor only shrunk from that moment on.

• 46:03Ed Mylett?

  What's a marijuana do? Pain or something more than that?

• 46:06Maria Menounos?

  No, the marijuana, you know, listen, uh, there is no, um, there's no study to back this up. But marijuana is something that uh, uh, has been.

• 46:18Maria Menounos?

  Shown by examples of people, not in studies officially yet, to help reduce tumors. And so, aside from the, you know, helping in the pain department, a one-to-one ratio with brain tumors is what they suggest of CBD and THC. And so, in Mexico, they put her on it, and I kept her on it. This last go, I took her off the marijuana because she was re-diagnosed since September. The tumor came back. And she was out of my purview at that point. She was back east cheating on her diet and not using this device called Optune, which is so amazing for brain tumor patients.

• 47:03Maria Menounos?

  It more than doubles life expectancy. And so, her tumor came back. So this time, we didn't do the marijuana because she was so weak. It really makes you so lethargic, as you know. I mean, you don't have a lot of motivation. And so, I didn't use it this time. And we had great results anyway with the medication that we did use. So, you know, luckily, we didn't. But it worked the last time, so.

• 47:32Ed Mylett?

  A blessing. You are for your mom. By the way, you're the only person I know that, when asked about their own brain tumor, spends 98% of their time talking about other people.

• 47:44Ed Mylett?

  Which I think is beautiful. This taught me what about life, you would say. Lessons of wisdom. So, most people face their death at the end of their life, when they're too old potentially to change anything about it because they're about to die. You were given a gift, to some extent, of facing a threat to your life. Right, or the way of life at least, you could have woken up and not been able to walk, talk, think the same.

• 48:14Maria Menounos?

  Oh, I woke up, trust me, I had issues, yeah.

• 48:16Ed Mylett?

  I've seen, I've seen some of the videos, which I know on YouTube, we will put up right now.

• 48:20Maria Menounos?

  Yeah, my eyes were going crazy, they thought I was, they gave me eye patches because I was seeing triple, because the nerve that controls the right side of my face is the one that was most affected, because as you tried to peel the tumor off of it, um, it was damaged. So yeah, it was a little crazy for a while. But I had solutions instantly, I was like dreaming up my like superhero character. I was gonna have this superhero like alter ego, but it was gonna be my permanent ego, I guess. And I was gonna have my patch and I was designing these like thigh-high boots. I was gonna be the sickest living superhero, but, um, you know, I love solutions.

• 48:55Ed Mylett?

  Man, I want to go back, I just curious, do you think like you were given this because you're, you, you're equipped to handle it the way you are too? Like, do you believe in it?

• 49:03Maria Menounos?

  Yeah, yeah, I do, I think that I probably was given it because I could show people another way.

• 49:09Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 49:10Maria Menounos?

  I didn't know it as I was doing it, but when I look back, I'm like, you know, it's hard to create a path, a new path, right? So when someone shows you something's possible, then you can follow, right? So to me, as I'm coaching patients through these things, I'm always like, you have a choice, like, trust me, it worked for me, like, you can do it too, why wallow and cry and call your friends? And I'm like, oh my God, I have that, like, you have a choice. And, you know, there's another path for you. So yeah, I think I'm a communicator, I think I was gonna be able to hopefully impact people and get them to understand that they are connected to something greater.

• 49:51Maria Menounos?

  And if they listen to it, the answers always appear, like that chemotherapy thing, that appeared. I, I, I meet someone new, I know it's for a reason and it's for whatever's happening in my life in the moment or to come. Um, everything is intentional, and so, um...

• 50:09Ed Mylett?

  Everything also, I don't want to interrupt you there, but like you and I are both big believers that everything you need is within you now. And you started out, you started early in the interview by saying something amongst so many brilliant things, which is that if you'll get quiet and listen, you have the answer. And I think that was so beautiful, but I don't want to cheat the audience out of letting you answer, because I asked you two questions back to back there. This taught me, what about life, would you say?

• 50:34Maria Menounos?

  Um, taught me so much. I think it taught me that your life, it really is about your choices. Um, that we have more power than we know and more, um, choices and that it really is, um, it really is about your health and your, your fulfillment and your happiness and the love you have with your people. You know, whoever your people are, that's the only thing that matters in that last moment, right? So I kinda had that moment, right? Where you're like, ooh, what's gonna happen? Um, am I gonna be okay? Am I not gonna be okay? Well, guess the only thing that mattered is the fact that I had Kevin.

• 51:16Maria Menounos?

  And that he loved me and that I loved him and my parents and my dogs and, um, and all of that, you know? I've, I've had some friends who were having some rocky times in their relationships. And, you know, it's so easy to be tempted and say, oh, I'm just gonna go have fun with all these new people and, yeah, we're gonna get divorced and that's it. I'm like, okay, but guess what? When you're sick, she's your ride or die. She's gonna take care of you. This other person, yeah, you can go have fun. That's gonna be it. And so I've actually mended a few relationships because of this knowledge and it's true, like, that's all you have in the end.

• 51:55Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 51:55Maria Menounos?

  Is your relationships and your health and your love and, yeah.

• 52:00Ed Mylett?

  I've had friends, I've had friends, wanna ask you this? Because it seems like it didn't happen with you. And I know we're going deep, guys. I know today's been heavy, but I wanna give you the gift of this woman. You know? Um, I feel like, for some reason, your story's more relevant right now, Maria, than it's ever been with all of, I think a lot of people think they're going through a crisis in their life right now. And perhaps it's, there's some perspective given here as well, also tools. But I've had friends, we've all had this, everybody. We've had an experience. We've watched a movie. And it makes us think something different about the way we're gonna be around our children or our parents, and it lasts for three days and then we're back to the world before.

• 52:42Ed Mylett?

  Or we've had a business setback or a relationship breakup and we promise ourselves, if I have another chance at a relationship, I'm gonna do it this way next time. And then we don't and we go back into our old patterns. Patterns are incredibly powerful things in our life, as you and I both know an awful lot about. But it's been, it's been a few years now for you. It seems to me that this had a real impact on you. Is it because you regularly remind yourself of the incident? Is it, because I want people to create lasting change in their lives. And even today, listening to you, a lot of people right now are reflecting on their perspectives, on their coping skills, on what really matters,

• 53:25Ed Mylett?

  on reducing their stress levels, on their nutrition, on the people they love, on all of these things, on laughing more and smiling through the shot, right? And all of those things, but this change seems to have been, I don't wanna call it permanent, but it's been long lasting for you and I hope it to be permanent. How have you done that? Was it just a massive pattern interrupt this one incident? Or is there something else you've done that you just don't allow yourself to lose that moment?

• 53:52Maria Menounos?

  Yeah, I think I was going against my grain for a really long time unknowingly. Um, and once you're in that kinda rat race, right? You just, you're in it. And so for me, when I got out of it, I was like, okay, this is a rebirth. I am making major changes to my life. Um, and I want them to stick. And so I almost like, you know, when like yogis have to practice, like they have to give up their material possessions. I wanted to give everything up. I was trying to sell everything. I was trying to go real extreme and my husband was like, ow. Um, but I knew that to hold on to it, I was gonna have to really protect it carefully. And whenever I would go out and be doing public speaking, people would come up to me and say like,

• 54:37Maria Menounos?

  I had this too, and then I went back to my old ways. And anytime someone said that to me, that was just another reminder. And so I also have the gift of still having a brain tumor. And that is my constant reminder of leading a calm life, choosing the people I want to work with, choosing the people I want to be around. Um, and all of the weekly lessons on my show keep me grounded in that space, too. And so I, I really held on to it because I needed it. I was, I was suffering so much before and didn't know how to get out of it. This was my get out of jail free card.

• 55:21Maria Menounos?

  I, I was, I was stuck in a dream that wasn't my dream anymore.

• 55:28Maria Menounos?

  So, you know, a lot of us start off in life and we have a dream and then we accomplish it. And then we kind of get stuck there because then we're accomplishing and it's easy and it's easy and it's easy and it's easy. But then you're just doing what's easy and no challenge, no growth comes, right? And then imagine if you're in toxic situations where people don't want you to grow on top of it. And they're holding you down or whatever. And so for me, I was stuck in a dream that wasn't my dream anymore. And I needed to reinvent and I needed to change my whole life. And for me, this, this new chapter has been about all of that kind of spiritual and emotional growth. And I will say, and I say all the time, if I hadn't been doing the work with Tony and those seminars,

• 56:13Maria Menounos?

  I wouldn't have been prepared for this moment because I had those tools in my belt. I had the life is happening for me, not to me. I was able to eventually apply it to my mom, too, and then realize that the gifts from my mom are what I'm learning that I can impart on people. So she's like, almost like my, my guinea pig, right? Like I'm experimenting on her and being like, wow, that works. We can apply this over here to all these people. When I look back at when I was little, I always wanted to help people. I love solutions. And um, and, and, and I, I look at my books, everything I've written, everything I've done is always about helping people. My network, Afterbus TV, it's about helping people.

• 56:54Maria Menounos?

  And so, I love helping people. So I'm able to apply those things from my mom over to everybody else. And um, and it fills me. And so, I, I knew that I had to hold on to it really tightly. And do I falter sometimes now? Like, you know, I'm going through a challenging time and I have to keep relying on my tools. And I have to keep remembering, you can't allow these situations that aren't real to take your health. And it can be challenging in moments, but I, I bounce back really fast because of all of it now.

• 57:28Ed Mylett?

  I gotta tell you, I told you that today was gonna be for me. You said when you were a little girl, you wanted to help people. I tell you, helped me today. And, and uh, I know you've helped. This, this, I hope everyone stayed to the end here. Cause that idea of being stuck in a dream that's no longer your dream. Oh man, are there millions of people, including me and some of the things I do every single day still, that those are old dusty dreams, frankly, that I'm just in because I'm good at them.

• 57:57Maria Menounos?

  Yeah.

• 57:57Ed Mylett?

  Easy for me, and I get significance and recognition for staying in that dream. And I might lose some if I didn't stay in it. And I, I think that was another one of your gems of the entire day. By the way, her show Better Together, you guys, is awesome. She has a way as a host, obviously, she's a professional host, I'm an amateur, but she has this way of um, the guest is the star, yet you contribute when you're doing it. It's a, it was a very easy experience to be on your show, and I highly recommend it to everybody because she is so unique with her background, her ability to communicate, the tools she shares throughout the show, and just her real desire that I hope I share as well, is to really serve people. So, I think you're wonderful. I'm so excited we're friends now. I'm waiting on that

• 58:42Maria Menounos?

  Thank you.

• 58:43Ed Mylett?

  Waiting on the tequila night. We're gonna get out there and do that soon, but

• 58:46Maria Menounos?

  Yes.

• 58:47Ed Mylett?

  Is there, is there anything else you wanna share with the audience? Anything? Did we, did we make sure we mentioned the things that were important for you today? Should they follow you on Instagram even though we're both saying that social media, it's, it's still an important place, as you know, for business media, for change. Where do they find you on socials? Instagram the best platform?

• 59:06Maria Menounos?

  Yeah, at Maria Menounos, M-E-N-U-N-O-S. Very simple.

• 59:11Ed Mylett?

  Alright guys, go follow her. Thank you Maria.

• 59:13Maria Menounos?

  Thank you. Oh my god, you're amazing. You know what? The best thing about hosting is when you listen. And you're an amazing listener and you're an amazing digester and you're giving so much great takeaway for your, for your audience. So you are amazing at it. Don't say you're an amateur.

• 59:31Ed Mylett?

  Thank you. I appreciate that. Hey guys, make sure you follow me on Instagram too. I run the max out two-minute drill every single day. So when I make a post, 7:30 Pacific, 10:30 Eastern, if you make a comment the first two minutes, you're in a drawing every day to win something. People have won coaching calls with me, my guests, my book, tickets to see me speak. Some people have flown on the plane, which is cool. I had never done that until I was an old man, so you could do it as a younger person. And then also, if you miss the first two minutes, make a comment on every post every day and reply to other people's comments. It increases your chance of winning. So, everybody, I hope you shared this show today with Maria, with people you love and care about, and that you continue to max out your life. God bless you. Take care.