Rocking Wellness from the Inside Out with Laura Cross

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Tim Melanson: Hello, and welcome to today’s episode of the Work at Home Rockstar podcast. Excited for today’s episode. We have the owner and founder of White Sands Self-Care, LLC, and what she does is she helps people reclaim their health by uncovering the root causes of discomfort and guiding them through personalized detox and wellness practices.

So I’m very excited to be rocking up today with Laura Cross. Hey Laura, you ready to rock?

Laura Cross: Absolutely. Absolutely. Thanks for having me.

Tim Melanson: No problem. So we always start off here in a good note. So tell me a story of success that we can be inspired by.

Laura Cross: Okay. Well, um, I, I, I would say my, my business and my working from home and my life is all a, a success now. And, uh, but that wasn’t always, you know, easy because when you’re doing what you love and you’re making an impact, it’s really not work. And you learn so much from so many other people. So not only has it helped my own health and my own life, but it, you know, it helps business and stuff too.

So.

Tim Melanson: And isn’t it interesting that like, [00:01:00] uh, you, you say that it doesn’t feel like work and that’s like, wouldn’t it be the goal? Right? But but isn’t it weird that we think that work should feel like work, right?

Laura Cross: Well, when you grow up in that generation, I am a Gen Xer, so I, I grew up in the generation where, you know, you go to school, well go to school, go get a degree, go work for somebody. Uh, you know, that’s what we were taught to do. And even when, I don’t know if you remember when people asked you when you were younger, what do you wanna do when you grow up?

Did you ever come anywhere close to that? Because, you know, you had ideas, but then things happen, things change. Um, you know, I was actually going to college for a couple years when my dad kept bringing up the Air Force and I wound up going into the Air Force. So, you know, my life just kind of took all kinds of different turns and, um, I, I learned a lot.

I, I don’t regret my path. My path is what got me to where I am now. I can sit here and say, I wish I got here sooner. But you know what? Things happen for a reason and [00:02:00] they’re in their time. And so, uh, I gained a lot of skills, a lot of knowledge, a lot of knowledge about what I wanted to do, what I don’t wanna do.

Um, and it, it unfortunately, it took a tragic event for me to get a different perception on life and to lead me to where I am now. So now, yeah.

Tim Melanson: Well, I mean we do talk about the bad note, so I’m wondering, can you share that with me then?

Laura Cross: I, I, I can absolutely. Um, so my, uh, husband and I, my late husband, we were both Air Force. My husband was 36 and we were laughing at lunch, and he was dead by 10 o’clock that night, um, of an aortic arch dissection slash heart attack. He was a year and a half away from retiring from the Air Force. And, um, it was, it’s genetics.

Uh, it was genetics, it was he, um, health stuff. But basically the doctors ignored his family history and did the wrong tests and it cost him his life. So that was when you lose, he, [00:03:00] he was 36. I had just turned 37. And at that age, you feel like you still, you know, got the life of, you know, you’re, you have all these big plans of what you’re gonna do, you know, when you retire or how you’re gonna spend life.

You never expect it to just. And abruptly. And that’s exactly what it did. And it, it took me a long time to go through that. But as I started to get through it and learn about more and more different things, um, I learned to me how precious life was. And I did not want to spend my time anymore answering to other people and them telling me when I could have time off or when I can be there.

I love being able to be there for my family, my friends, um, you know, when I need, you know, when they need me. And, um, it got to the point within 13 months after his death, there was, I was in four hospitals, three different funerals. I had enough. And when you’ve got people coming to you making comments like, well, I don’t know if I wanna be friends with you, everyone around you [00:04:00] dies.

I’m like, you know, people say, people will say the strange, strangest, or rudest things and not, not realize what they’re saying. Um, but um. That’s what put me on this path, you know? And it took me a lot of years to realize had that not happened, I would not be on this path that I am. I would still be busting my butt at some job that I could do, and I could do well, but I wouldn’t be truly happy.

But it would be making ends meet still. And there’s a difference. There’s a big difference with that.

Tim Melanson: Yeah. And you know, it’s interesting when like when someone’s going through something and you’re trying to talk to them, like, I mean, being on the other side of something. Bad. That ended up being good. You know, you can sort of see like, hey, you know, maybe there’s a blessing in this right now, but it’s very difficult to have them see that at the time.

Right. You’re like, you know, everything’s kind of exploding on them [00:05:00] and, and they’re, you know, they’re trying to figure out where, where they’re going. And you know that, hey, when you get through this, this is gonna be part of your story, right? I mean, yeah. ’cause when you, when you hear about people even like you, that.

Are doing what they enjoy doing. Something usually happens to get them there, right? Like, why don’t we just do we, we should be doing right from the start? Why does something bad have to happen? Right?

Laura Cross: That, well, that’s exactly why I do what I do. ’cause if, if I believe in being transparent, you can ask me anything. If, if my journey or my challenges help someone to avoid that and to do something better for their life, then. That’s a win for me. So, and that’s exactly why I, why I do what I do. It took me a lot of years though.

December 21st will be 21 years, um, since he passed away. And so it, it took me a, a lot of years and, um. I, I, I have multiple businesses. The first thing of course I went into and started was travel. And I’m still a travel [00:06:00] agent, um, because I love to travel. But traveling on your own and traveling for military are, again, two different things.

Two different things. It’s not the same. Yes, you get to experience great places, but when you can do stuff on your own terms, it’s a whole nother world.

Tim Melanson: Yeah. Yeah. I, I used to travel a lot for business and it is, uh, it is very different. Like your personal trips are totally different than your business trips unless you have a very flexible business, I suppose. Right. Um, but yeah. Okay.

Laura Cross: if you have a flexible business, you should put it aside. To enjoy that time and to reset. E everyone needs that personal time. I hate seeing people like, you know, still trying to work, do all this stuff. It’s like, just let it go. It’ll still be there. Uh, you know, it’s, it’s still gonna be there in a couple days.

It’s not gonna, it’s not gonna go away.

Tim Melanson: Yeah. Yeah. But then on the other hand, you know what, if you really love your business, what if you love what you’re doing and you like, that’s hobby.

Laura Cross: Well, that’s true. And, and everybody has to find their [00:07:00] balance because it’s different for everybody. But a lot of us that go into business for ourselves and our, our business owners, it’s so we can have time and better quality time with our family and to do stuff. But if you’re always working, then you’re not truly there or present for your family.

So you’re really doing almost more damage than good. You’re not, you’re kind of going opposite of what you intended, because it can take, because it can take over. So it’s finding that balance, but it’s different for everybody. And that’s why I love creating the judgment free spaces, because what works for me may not work for you, and it may not work for someone else.

But if you are, you know, feeling stressed or you know, uptight, or you start noticing symptoms of stuff, then you or you’re not happy and you can feel that you’re not happy, then you gotta step back and take a look at what you’re doing.

Tim Melanson: Yeah. Yeah, and, and you know what? I think that. People. Um, it, it’s, it’s funny because we sort of intuitively know that our [00:08:00] bodies know, know, right? That, that we, we have these gut feelings, but we discount them a lot, don’t we? Like, you know, you sort of go, I kind of had a feeling this was gonna go this way, but you just don’t listen to it.

’cause your head kind of goes, well yeah, but on paper it doesn’t make any sense. Right.

Laura Cross: I always tell people their body is their best, MRI. You just gotta know how to listen to it, and if you don’t get so caught up in the rat race and doing things to where all of a sudden, oh, this day, morning turned into night, this one and this, and it just keeps going and going. You know, and then how many times do we sit back and say, oh, it’s ’cause I’m getting older.

Oh, well this is gonna, and, and you just start accepting things. But it doesn’t have to be that way. I know 86, 90 year olds that are out here still working farms, healthy, doing all kinds of stuff. It’s, it’s mindset. It’s what you do. And, you know, taking care of yourself is a big, it’s a big component against all things business, family life.

It goes across all.

Tim Melanson: [00:09:00] And I also know young people that live like they’re eighties. Right. It’s just, you know, it, it depends. I mean, your mindset has a, a, a big impact on your health overall as well, right?

Laura Cross: It’s amazing what we get used to. Um, there’s a, I forget the name of, you know, like the phenomenon or whatever they wanna call it. But when you’re in a certain world, it’s kinda like, that’s all, you know, you know, like. When my fiance and I are racing cars, you start to know just all the tracks, all the people that are racers.

You start seeing different things. You can see the numbers, you can tell they’re racers and stuff, but if you’re not in that world. You probably would not even recognize or know that you don’t know what’s out there. And so it’s the same with your health. We are. I was raised and brought up in one thing, you know, where okay, you don’t feel good, you go to the doctors, they throw stuff at you, you know, uh uh.

And then you still have issues, you know, didn’t know about the whole other world of holistic and everything. And the fact that we can actually change a lot of stuff. And so when [00:10:00] you’re open and you get to learn different things from. All over the world. I mean, it’s, it’s amazing what’s out there.

Tim Melanson: Yeah, it is amazing what’s out there. Uh, and, and we, we have become, as a society, uh, well, may, may, I, I think that’s kind of taken a turn now, but we had become very dependent on the experts, you know, kind of going outside and they’re gonna tell me what I need to do to be healthy. Whereas really, most of the answers are right within ourselves, I think anyway.

Laura Cross: They’re, yeah, you are correct. And they are experts in their area. But that’s the problem is when they’re too specialized in their area and we’re not looking at things or the body as a whole, you’re missing out on a whole lot of things that could have helped fix something else. So,

Tim Melanson: Yep. I think everything has its place. I mean, I, I’ve had had this conversation many times where, you know, if, if I, you know, break my arm or, you know, something happens, well I need to go to somebody who’s gonna fix my arm. A clear void is not gonna help me with that. [00:11:00] Right, right. It’s just, it’s one of those things.

But, you know, if I’m, you know, on the other hand, you know, if I’m just not feeling right, maybe a, a doctor is not necessarily gonna give me, you know, a. The, the pill may end up creating more problems than actually going to somebody who might be able to help me with just my lifestyle. You know, just fixing, maybe taking more naps.

It could be as simple as that. You know, I, I hate to minimize it. Of course, you know, there, there are some complicated things out there, but, but there are tools out there to help us. And I think, uh, that just having a little bit of maybe, uh. Maybe trying different things. Uh, but I don’t, I I, I definitely caution on the whole, I’m just gonna take a pill, you know, that’ll, that’ll just fix everything.

’cause you know, you just, you see it. I mean, you see it in our grandparents and you know, where they’ve got this, all these pills and this pill, you know, works for the side effects of this pill, which works [00:12:00] with the, you know, you know, that can’t be, that can’t be it. Can it? I don’t know.

Laura Cross: It, it, it’s not, and I really got to the point where I can’t stand the commercials. They want you to focus so much on this happy joke, you know, person jumping around and forget about the whole long laundry list of things that could go wrong, including death. You know, I’m like, and I, and I’ve been there.

I’ve been through the spinal injections, I’ve been on the muscle relaxers, the painkillers, none of that ever did anything for me, but cause side effects. And after my husband passed, I realized what the side effects were. And now I don’t touch any of ’em. I’ve learned how to fix it with massages, chiropractor, acupuncture, just move simple movement, frequency, healing, you name it, there’s a lot of stuff you can do a a as you can see.

So I, I don’t go to doctors. I actually, uh, fell in August on my, on my way back to Col before we left to Colorado to help my mom out. My foot caught on the concrete, my ankle rolled down. I went and I smashed up my wrist to where it had lumped up this bad. And then my [00:13:00] fiance’s like, do you wanna go to the doctors?

I’m like, do. Nope. Gimme an nice pack. Let me see. I was like, Nope. I can move my fingers. It hurt, but does this, I, Nope. And then I have a scan. I did my own voice scan. There’s like, there’s nothing broken and fractured. I just gotta heal it. But it’s hard when it’s your primary, when you’re right-handed and it’s your primary.

So it takes a little longer, but I got the swelling down myself. Now the, the tendons and the, and I could tell are still healing. But, uh, I know my mom would, would like, would like me to go see him. I was like, I’m don’t need to get radiated with an x-ray. I’m good. You know? Now there are times when yeah, if you’ve damaged something severely, yeah, you need to go.

But I’ve learned there’s a lot of things that I can do to help and fix my own. So, yeah.

Tim Melanson: Yep. No, I, I, I agree. I’m, uh, I’m not. I, I very, very rarely, I, I can’t remember the last time I went to a doctor and I, you know, I think that a lot of that did come from my, my mom when I was growing up. She was a stay at home mom, and she didn’t really take us. I, I don’t remember. [00:14:00] I mean, it was, we, we had to be really sick in order to go.

’cause you know, for her it was just like, no, well, I’m home. I’m just gonna bring you some soup. You’re gonna just need to get some rest. And we would, we would heal and then. Then off you go. But I mean, yeah, if you break a bone or anything like that, well then, you know, there are some, some circumstances where it just makes sense.

But I just think that we just have access to all these tools and there’s different tools for different things, but it’s just the, the marketing that goes into the, you know, drug side of it is just been so heavy that it’s just people will just look at that first rather than just thinking maybe I just might need a nap.

Laura Cross: Yeah, yeah,

Tim Melanson: know? And so, uh. Some sort of recharge. But anyway, so let, let’s talk a little bit about other practices that you have. I mean, it sounds like you’ve got a lot. So tell me, tell me actually, what do you think it’s important to practice?

Laura Cross: Well, I do have a, so I have a, I have a few for one. Um, you know what I always tell [00:15:00] people is especially if you’re looking at becoming a business owner or work from home, you can make money at almost anything if you, it’s something you love and do. But if you, I always tell people to take that time, that quiet time, block out all the negativity and stuff, but go inside and figure out what really lights you up.

Um, because if what you’re doing doesn’t light you up. You’re, you’re gonna burn out. You’re, you’re gonna not be happy. And to me, life is too precious to spend time going through life that way. So, you know, there’s a lot of things you can do. Um, I practice it all the day, so I, I always set my schedule. I, I have my own, uh, meet me time, self-care time, whatever you wanna call it, where people can’t even book in appointments with me until 10:00 AM I’m done by 5:00 PM.

I only set so many meetings, so many recordings. I give myself time for those lunch breaks to go out and go walk around to take care of the dog, um, or just sit outside for a [00:16:00] little while. I came across a recent stat that there’s prisoners that spend more time outside than people do, and we’re choosing that, you know, because we’re staying so locked up in front of computers and inside all the time, and it’s not healthy.

You know, it’s not healthy, and when you’re working from home, you really have control of that. I’ve let my schedule get outta hand every now and then where all of a sudden I’m meeting me, me, all of a sudden I was like. Okay, the day’s done, I didn’t even take anything out for dinner. I haven’t eaten and I’m like, that’s just not the way to go.

So I went into Calendly and backed it down to where you can’t book more than, you know, three of this and no more than one recording a day. And, you know, you schedule it out and everything else will wait. It, it fall, you know, falls into place. So it’s just, um, yeah, I, I’m, I like guided meditation that I can do.

Um, but for me, meditation is almost just going out and walking around on the property, feeding my critters, you know, doing stuff that I enjoy. [00:17:00] Music dancing. That’s another one of my happy places that that’ll, that’ll help balance me out and forget anything, you know, going on. So I always have different things.

Some people it’s working out. Um, and I do do exercises and stuff. It just, I change it up. ’cause even a self-care routine can get boring or can burn you out, you know? So change things up, whether it’s reading or listening to a podcast, there’s so many different things you can do. Um. You know, to help your self care.

Tim Melanson: Yeah. Well, I think, uh, it’s, it’s interesting because, uh, sometimes, and maybe I’ll just like. Challenge people to try this. If you spend too much time in front of that computer, working, working, working, it seems like there’s like a diminishing results that you get, you, you get less productive the more time you spend in front of that computer.

Whereas, ’cause, and, and I discovered this, um, and I, I can give you a music analogy actually as [00:18:00] well. Actually, maybe we’ll start with there. When you’re learning a, uh, an instrument, when you’re learning your, your guitar or whatever it is, sometimes you’re just learning this piece. You play it, play it, play it, and you’re kind of doing okay.

And then after a while it’s like you’re getting worse at it. Like, like how, what the heck? I was just doing it right a second ago and now I can’t do it anymore. And the more you try, the harder it is. It’s, it’s the most bizarre thing ever. And then you put the, you put it down, you go away ’cause you’re frustrated, right?

And then you do something else. You come back, you pick the instrument up and boom, it’s right there. Like, isn’t that. That is just the most fascinating thing ever, and it seems to be the same with work, is that you’re pushing away at something, pushing away at something, and then you can’t get it. It seems like you’re getting worse and worse, and then you go away and you know, do something else.

You come back and it’s like you’re super productive. All of a sudden it’s all clearheaded. You find that too?

Laura Cross: Absolutely. So [00:19:00] I had the opportunity, um, well, I shouldn’t say opportunity anyway, I, I guess that’s an opportunity. I had the opportunity to go back to school. I had the fry nine 11 from my late husband, so I went back to school and got a bachelor’s in Master’s. Well, now I’m gonna school when I haven’t been to school in 30 years, right?

So now I’m doing all this reading. I’m writing these papers, and these papers are due, and I’m an overthinker anyway. And so I keep overthinking things. I keep all the, I keep racing, keep doing this, gimme that. And I’m like, oh my God, but I just gotta get it done. Okay? So now I am tired. I’m, my back hurts. I got 10 million other things on my mind.

But I learned if you just get up and walk away, go do something else. Even if it’s for five, 10 minutes, put on your favorite tune. Go, go look at something. Just make your mind just totally shut off from that and focus on something else. And it’s like, and you come back. It’s like. Why in the world did I make that so hard?

Because everything just comes. But when you keep taxing your brain like that and keep thinking, oh, I just gotta push through, pushing through is [00:20:00] not always the answer. It’s kinda like slowing down to go forward faster.

Tim Melanson: Yeah.

Laura Cross: and, and it, it’s with anything and it’s with work and, and so when you can do that and you can break away, your creativity comes back.

You’re, you know, all kinds of things will come to mind. You know, instead of doing this and then submit it and then later and thinking, oh crap, I should have done this. You know, this would’ve been better. You know, but instead, maybe you didn’t get, maybe you didn’t, uh, get the grade you want, or it wasn’t as well received because, you know, you just went ahead and pushed through and did it walk away.

Just, just walk away.

Tim Melanson: Yep. Which, which is counterintuitive. I mean, your brain tr tries, tries to go, no, but you just gotta finish this. And you, you, you start to feel guilty ’cause now you’re not working and you gotta get this thing done and now you’re on a walk. Right. You know, you feel like you’re being unproductive, but in reality it actually is increasing your productivity.

Laura Cross: It is. And if you try it and you get into that [00:21:00] habit, um, then you can see, and it doesn’t really matter what anybody else thinks, you know how it works for you and that you can get more done. That’s a big thing too, is, is putting aside what everybody else thinks.

Tim Melanson: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Laura Cross: yeah.

Tim Melanson: Like one oh.

Laura Cross: That, that, that is, I, I was guilty of that for a long time. When you come up as a, kinda like a follower or a people pleaser and you’re learning, learning, learning, that is great. But you know, you’re learning stuff, that’s fine. But you start to lose who you are. And when you figure out, you can take those lessons and be who you are.

And it doesn’t matter what other people think. If you are good with who you are, people are either gonna resonate with you or they don’t. And that’s okay. Not everybody’s gonna like you.

Tim Melanson: Yeah, that’s true. So what, what does your jam room look like? How, like how do you have that set up?

Laura Cross: My jam room. So if you no, haven’t noticed the blues, and it’s not just for Air Force, um, I have always been drawn to water and dolphins. [00:22:00] Um, so my whole entire room is painted, uh, like a Caribbean blue, the lighter blue, um, and I have my picture of me swimming with the dolphins, my travel pitchers. It’s my happy place.

It’s, it’s my colors and my happy place. That’s another thing that people don’t realize that affect them. When you’re at home, your room should reflect you and how you feel because the colors and the things that are in it put off a vibration and those colors and stuff. That can also determine how productive or unproductive that you are.

So I tell people, I say colors have vibration and frequency. Also, there’s a reason restaurants are painted a certain color and spas are painted. A color one wants you to eat and drink more. The other one wants you to relax. Um, because there’s a vibration and frequency to it, and a lot of people don’t realize that.

So your environment and what you’re Now, I realize people that are in jobs don’t have control of that. But guess what? When you work from home and you create your own office space, that’s all up to you. You create [00:23:00] that.

Tim Melanson: I agree and, and I mean, when I asked you about your jam room and your smile came out, I think that that’s kind of the key, right? Everybody when, when someone says, Hey, you know. You’re thinking about your home office, you should be smiling like that. You should be like, yeah, I love that place. That’s awesome.

It’s my happy place. Like, why? Well, else would you go in it if it wasn’t, if it wasn’t exciting you, you have to be like, I mean like, ’cause that’s the thing is that when you’re working for a job, someone’s paying you a paycheck, you know you’ve got somebody cracking a whip, all that you have to go. But when you work for yourself, it’s really easy to just not work.

Right.

Laura Cross: Oh well, and it’s easy to not get paid. You don’t work. You’re not gonna get, you’re not gonna get paid.

Tim Melanson: Eventually yes. You know, you’re gonna realize. But, but I mean, that’s the thing, the, the more exciting and and happy you can make that room, the more likely it is that you’re gonna wander your way into it and start to work, right?

Laura Cross: Yep. I mean, normally behind me, I used to [00:24:00] always have my, um, there’s like a blue butterfly that tells you to relax and it’s got me swimming with the dolphins. But, um, I’m, I’m on season 10 in my show, so I changed up my background because this quilt was done for me by the ladies from the quilt of honor. Um, for my service in the Air Force and so I, I swapped it out and I put my quilt ’cause I never talked to ’em, they never asked me any questions, but damned if it didn’t come with my blues in it and, and the colors.

And I do love eagles too, so you know, it is, got the eagles in it, so I swapped it

Tim Melanson: So you. What about instruments? What about some of the tools you use in your business?

Laura Cross: So I love ai. I know a lot of people don’t like it and it may not be popular, um, but AI helps me for one. I have a platform that helps me put together descriptions and stuff. That sound like me and, and stuff because you, you have, you’re gonna have days where you’re not necessarily creative and thinking, but when you’re hosting a show like this or you host a show, show’s gotta go on, [00:25:00] right?

You have to come up with these things. Um, and then my, my, my tool I love the most, I, I would say is Opus Clips Pro. Um, my Mindful Mondays is an hour long segment, and when we first started shows, I’ve seen people, like, right now they’re trying to remember when was the most exciting part. You know what, you just dropped the episode in there.

I can tell it to go less than 30, less than 60 seconds. It click, it does the snippets for me. It puts the ai, the, the words to it. It tells you what kind of engagement you would get out of it. I can schedule it up to go to LinkedIn and YouTube so I can schedule stuff out, take me like five minutes to schedule that stuff up and boom, they go up automatically for me.

It is such a time saver. Huge time saver.

Tim Melanson: Yep. I use it too actually, and, uh, and I’m getting, I, you get, you get better at it as well. You can even put like the background music in there as well. It makes it sound pretty professional. It’s. Actually

Laura Cross: haven’t, I haven’t got that far with it. I’ve made it my branding colors, so my brand colors will come up when people [00:26:00] talk. Um, so I haven’t gotten super fancy with it, but it is a huge time saver rather than trying to, if you’ve worked with any editing software to try and cut stuff out and you know. I’m sure you might have had to do it before, but when you’re trying to cut out just these fraction of a seconds, you know, ’cause you have some guests that says, oh, can we cut that out?

But then they keep talking. It’s like to catch that and not cut somebody off is almost impossible. So, which is why I do not edit. I do not edit.

Tim Melanson: Yeah. Yeah. I used to have to edit everything, like totally manual when I first started this. But now, now actually the tools, even though there’s another tool called De Script, I’m not sure if you’ve heard of that one before, but that one you can actually cut it out by the words rather than the the Wave file.

Um, but yeah, the, the tools these days and ai, I, I just find the hardest part is that blank page and AI helps you get through that. You just, you, you tell her what, what it wants. And it’s not necessarily that it’s perfect, but at least. You have something to work with, right?[00:27:00]

Laura Cross: Right. And that’s a lot of times what I’ll do. It, it, it almost kind of helps me brainstorm ’cause. Again, overthinking. I can have a lot of stuff going through my head or a lot of ideas, and I can write it down and tell it to like, write my bio and here’s what I do, blah, blah, blah, blah, and just, I just list it all off.

It’s not necessarily in an order. Throw it out there and it kicks out a bio. Now I always reread through everything. I don’t, I don’t think anybody should just, oh, the AI did it. It’s fine. Slam it up. There, um, I reread through it, make sure it makes sense, or it reads the way I want it to. If it doesn’t sound like me, which I do not use Embark and Delve.

So I’m like, do not use those in my descriptions. You know, you, you can train it, uh, you can train it, but I always still read ’em and make sure that it is something that I would’ve said. I just like that they put it together so much smoother than maybe what I was coming up with at the moment.

Tim Melanson: It, it’s a, it’s a big game changer. I, I mean, I, you’re right. I think there’s a lot of people that are a little afraid of it, but I mean, it is here and I don’t think it’s going [00:28:00] anywhere. Uh, so I mean, the people that kind of jump on board and start using it a little bit are gonna have, you know, especially.

For those of us who are self-employed or solopreneurs, I mean, you’ve got somebody working for you. Right. And yeah, like you say, I mean, running ideas by, by somebody. I don’t know if you’re like me, but I mean, I, I find I learn a lot by just running an idea, by something, by a person. But, but now you’re taking their time.

Right?

Laura Cross: Well, I have friends and community that help me with that. Otherwise, I am a solopreneur. I just now started working with um, two VAs, which are wonderful. So I’m learning some other new platforms now that we can do for free and act as a team. And so, uh. Always learning and, and there’s always stuff to learn.

It is really cool. Um, but, uh, yeah, I, I don’t recommend taking on everything yourself, especially when you’re running multiple businesses, but sometimes you have to, and, uh, I’ve always been good at doing what I have to, so,

Tim Melanson: You bet.

Laura Cross: [00:29:00] but I look forward to the day that a lot of that can, you know, come off my plate or I can, you know, do stuff.

But I, I love, I love what I do, so it’s okay.

Tim Melanson: that’s awesome. So speaking of what you do, it’s time for your guest solos. Tell me what’s exciting in your business.

Laura Cross: So, well, I, you know, a couple of things and they kind of, for me, they all, all kind of play together. Everything I do is about c um. Building holistic judgment-free communities. Um, because of the things that I’ve gone through and stuff, I want people to know that they’re supported. There’s someone out there that has gone through something similar to what you’ve gone through, and if hearing any of their journeys or challenges can help people to not go through the same thing, then that’s great, which is why I do Mindful Mondays with Laura Cross.

Um, my TV show. And I have different guests on. I created a community with self-care. Um, but the thing I love when it comes to health is one of my newest tools that I’ve learned about is the AO voice scan. And it [00:30:00] absolutely blows people away. I mentioned a little bit, ’cause I was talking about vibration and frequencies.

It takes rife frequencies, Nicola Tesla’s technology together. 10 seconds of your voice and I can light you up head to toe and tell you what foods are causing you inflammation, which ones are causing dysfunction? Are you pre-diabetic? Do you have this going on? Um, do you need to watch out for this? It’ll tell you what emotions are blocked and trapped that are causing problems within your system.

It’s why I did my voice scan to find out if I had any fractures or breaks in my wrist, whether I really should go to the doctors or not, because I can tell you, I, I colored my hair. One time I try not to use toxic stuff, but I, the, the natural stuff wasn’t working. So I went to the L’Oreal. I got a little bit of it in my eye.

I scanned myself the next morning, boom, hair, toxins, damage to the right eye, and just from my voice, it can tell what’s going on with my body.

Tim Melanson: Wow, that’s

Laura Cross: So I love using that to be able to help people, give ’em a starting place and then give them lifestyle changes, some things they [00:31:00] can do to change lifestyle and supplements that can help them to improve their health, and seeing people have more energy.

During the day not having to take naps or they feel better or get off medications, which I don’t tell people to get off medications. They will just naturally get better and they’ll either decide themselves or their doctor will say like, okay, we don’t need this anymore. Um, so, you know, like I said, it’s not, it’s not a tool to diagnose people, but it will identify the root cause because people don’t realize.

Traumas that you haven’t dealt with, um, that whether it’s lose losing a spouse or abuse or falls, all that stuff, if you do not release it, it holds in your body and it actually causes pain and different dysfunctions in your body. It, it will show up in different ways. It’s more than just, I fell and did this, or I’m getting old.

There are things in there. Um, it’ll show you your chakras, your [00:32:00] meridians, which you know, is your whole life force of how your body works. And, um, so it shows you everything. So it gives you a good place to start and to identify with. And so, and some people are open to it, some people are not. Some people just cannot wrap their head around it.

It’s, it’s more eastern. Um, you know me, it’s stuff that’s been around for thousands of years. Holistic and natural has been around for thousands of years. It’s just not what we were brought up in, you know, ’cause you had the Western medicine and there’s nothing wrong with either, you know, you can do a combination.

The thing is, is you have a choice and it’s your choice. It is absolutely your choice. You should not be forced to have to do anything. It’s your body. It’s your choice, but know what’s out there and then you decide.

Tim Melanson: Yep. Well, I, I agree with that a hundred percent. Yeah. It, it is interesting though that the, the, the, the medicine that’s been out there for longer is not the one called traditional. I’m like, huh, that’s an interesting choice of words.[00:33:00]

Laura Cross: No, it’s called holistic, or it’s called woo woo or whatever titles people wanna put on it. It’s just because I’m like, you know, before all of this stuff, all these drugs and stuff were even invented, how do you think they healed themselves?

Tim Melanson: Yeah. Yeah.

Laura Cross: and practices that have been around, but when you haven’t been exposed to it or you’re not open to it, you have to be open.

You have to be ready to change, and you have to be open. If you’re not, there’s nothing I can do for anybody. It, it has to be their choice.

Tim Melanson: Yeah. Yeah. It’s all tools, right? I mean, there’s like, like you said, I mean, there’s a, there’s a, a, a purpose of all these tools and you know, why not expose yourself to a wide variety of tools rather than just one? Right?

Laura Cross: Yeah. Yeah. To learn more and more of stuff that’s in our stuff that shouldn’t be there, which some of them, they’re now taking out, which isn’t even allowed in Europe and all this, it, it’s just, it’s mind blowing and people will be like, they wouldn’t dare do that. Uh, yeah, they do. You should take a look at your stuff.

Tim Melanson: Yeah.

Laura Cross: But you know, [00:34:00] again, you know, you, you can stay in, in your little world or you can be open-minded and, and learn and learn what’s out there and be open to it. You don’t have to be judgy about it. Just learn and then decide whether it’s for you or not. It’s your, it’s your choice. I’m not here to judge you.

Either way, you decide to do what you wanna do.

Tim Melanson: Well, and that’s exactly it. I mean, you know, if there’s something that’s, you know, maybe some sort of like real urgent thing that you need to get taken care of right now, well then, you know, your options of like checking it out might, might be limited. But on the other hand, if it’s something that you’ve been living with for a long time, like what?

Why does it hurt to take an extra few days to, you know. Explore some different avenues maybe that you might not have thought of before to see if maybe it might help. Right. And you know, like you say about the, the traumas and all that stuff, I mean, we all, we all know that stress is a big deal like that it actually does hurt us.

So reducing stress, wouldn’t that make a big difference?

Laura Cross: It would, and some people think they control it fine, just fine, or [00:35:00] they think they’re fine. I can’t tell you how many times people have said, well, work’s work, and home is home. I got news for you. There is no such thing. If you’ve got something that’s really upsetting you at work, I don’t care how much you go home and try to smile, it comes out in your tone.

Your body language, your demeanor, it’s still affecting your home life. Every, everything’s connected. Everything’s connected.

Tim Melanson: and, and people, people will use like, you know. You know, either drugs or alcohol or, or some other way to escape that. And, you know, but they don’t necessarily think about that as being a bad thing, right? I mean, hey, you know, everybody has their thing, but, but on the other hand, like, you know, whatever that tool is that you’re using, they’re all tools, right?

So it’s, it’s, we all have a choice, right?

Laura Cross: They’re all tools. Yep. And they’re, and you decide which ones work for you.

Tim Melanson: That’s right. So tell me more. How, how do we find out more about your, about what you do?

Laura Cross: Uh, so you can go to my website at wine, uh, white sand selfcare.com. There’s a lot about me, my different products, different things that I do. You [00:36:00] can book for an AO voice scan or to be a guest on Mindful Mondays with Lower Cross. Um, you can also catch my show on YouTube or on E 360. Hit me up on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram.

If you put in Laura Cross White Sands, you’re gonna find me. You should be. You should be able to find me. I got everything under Laura Cross White Sands, so,

Tim Melanson: Laura, hardest question of the day. Who’s your favorite rock star?

Laura Cross: oh my God. Uh, I, I ha I have a lot. I am an eighties child. I ha I have a lot of ’em. Um, and it depends on your definition, definition of rock. Um, oh. Oh, you had to ask me that, didn’t you? We listen, we listen to Hair Nation all the time, so I’ve, I’ve had a lot of rock groups that, um, I love, but, um.

Tim Melanson: big hair, eh?

Laura Cross: Yeah, I, I, I, I’ve been to autograph, you know, Def Leppard Night Ranger, you know, which some of ’em are, it depends.

My, my fiance is Hard Rock Heavy [00:37:00] Metal, so some of what they call Rock, he does not call Rock, you know, Motley Crue Kiss, uh, you name ’em. Love those guys. Yeah, I, I listen to Hair Nation a lot or eighties and I also like nineties two thou. I like all music, so yeah, I can pretty much, can pretty much rock out to any of ’em.

I love Kiss and Motley Crue though, too.

Tim Melanson: Oh, that’s awesome. Right on. Yeah, they put on great shows.

Laura Cross: I

Tim Melanson: You gotta, you gotta give it to them. I mean, gee, they, they didn’t make ’em like they did in the eighties. Didn’t do that.

Laura Cross: No, they didn’t and it was different to see ’em when they just took the makeup off.

Tim Melanson: Yeah.

Laura Cross: Yeah.

Tim Melanson: Yeah. Right on. Well, thank you so much for rocking out with me today, Laura. This has been a lot of fun.

Laura Cross: Absolutely. Thank you for having me.

Tim Melanson: Awesome. And to the listeners, make sure you go to workathomerockstar.com and we’ll see you next time at the Work at Home Rockstar Podcast.