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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast
Speaker 2: where we choose to become empowered patients and take our health into our own hands.
Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Shannon Hansen, a Christian entrepreneur, a
Speaker 2: mom of three, and after dealing with my own health mystery, I made it my mission to learn everything I could about the thyroid.
Speaker 1: I soon became certified as a holistic wellness practitioner, a functional nutrition practitioner, and a functional diagnostic practitioner, and so much more. After that, I founded the revolutionary thyroid program, The Hansen Method.
Speaker 2: As a health professional and a mom, I fully understand the importance of having a fun, simple, and sustainable plan for achieving a responsive thyroid. So I share actionable and practical strategies for developing a responsive thyroid so that the ambitious moms and women can gain freedom from fatigue and lose the thyroid weight once and for all. Each week, I will be here for you.
Speaker 1: Along with my guest experts, we will be sharing simple and tangible tips that work for not only your thyroid, your hormones, your family, and your mindset so that you can get back to living the life that you envisioned for yourself Welcome to the Thriving Thyroid Podcast. Alright, you guys, welcome back to part two of my story and how I got started with natural health and remedies and all the things.
And so in the last episode, we left off on my first baby being six months old, and I started cross-diperine and using essential oils. So fast forward from that, what happened is my husband and I, it was a mutual decision. We decided that it was time for him to go back to school and he was a German welder at the time. And that lifestyle just didn't fit with what we wanted to do, and he always wanted to be an engineer. So we packed up all of our things and we moved to Idaho to allow him to pursue his dreams and his passions so he could support the family.
Well, come to like a lot of things I think aligned for me at that point. So my husband was going to school. I had baby number one.
We got up there shortly after. I was like, I feel like baby number two needs to come. And make a long story short, I ended up getting off birth control.
We planned for baby number two, had baby number two, and I felt very strongly that it was time to go back to school with both kids. It was a lot of work. It was a lot of sacrifice.
And it was a lot of conversations. Obviously, like this wasn't the original plan. The original plan was for my husband to go to school. And if I wanted to, I could go back to school when he was done. It just seemed like such an impossible task to financially for both of us to be going to school at the same time. Well, fast forward and I just kept having this feeling like it was time. Here I had my brother or not my brother, my sister and my husband both going to school. And I was watching their growth and progression as people, as individuals. And I was like, I want that.
I wanted that so bad. And, you know, obviously my husband and I have lots of conversations and one of the conversations about me going back to school was. He wanted me to pursue a education in something that I was passionate about or that I wanted to learn about versus going to school to become an accountant or a teacher or something where like just essentially brought in money. Which was really nice and refreshing to be able to have the support of someone to just say, go take classes for personal development. Essentially, and I thought I had wanted to study herbal medicine. I don't even know where I got that idea from to be honest. But long story short. I did a ton of research.
I looked for several different programs and I just couldn't find one that resonated. So in my, my discovery and my researching process, I found a school called the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts. And they offered a program as a holistic wellness practitioner. And in that program, the focus was nutrition.
The minor or the understudy was urban farming. And then there were all kinds of other intro modalities to several different healing modalities. I don't know what the right word is. I was introduced to a rick-o-therapy, herbal medicine, homeopathy, box flowers, reflexology. I know I'm missing stuff in this list. But it basically introduced me to just about every kind of healing modality.
on at least a introduction level. And several people have asked me, oh, what program did you do? What program did you get started with? And the program that I originally went through is no longer in existence. So it's super sad because I felt like it was such a great program that allowed me to find different things, right? Like I, and in, I laugh about this now, but when I was originally looking at all of the things, the thing that really drew me to this program was the wide variety, obviously. But I was like, in my mind, I said my family every day, so I was like, yeah, I could learn about nutrition.
That sounds great. It'd be really good and important to learn more about feeding my family properly. And also, urban farming.
I have a garden, let's learn how to garden better. And that was kind of the original thought process that I had at that time. Well, obviously that shaped and molded me into a lot of different things that I am now doing. So fast forward, completed that program. While I was completing that program, I was nine months pregnant doing my internships in like a local farm. That was one of my requirements to pass off urban farming is you had to do an internship.
And so I'm out there doing all the things and documenting all of the things and turning them in. And it was one of those things that I honestly didn't even know that I had to do. I must have missed it or forgot about it or something. And it was like time to graduate. And I was like, what the heck is going on? And I was like, oh yeah, you didn't do your intern or like you need to turn in this stuff.
And I was like, what is going on? So anyways, it was a super fun process and that's where I learned how to butcher chickens and do a lot with obviously gardening and things like that. So it was a really good experience. I don't even think it was maybe like 20 hours. Like it really wasn't a lot of time. At least maybe it was more than that.
I don't know. It's been several years. I slept a few times. So I learned a lot.
I was able to study what I wanted to do. So then had baby number three and we moved. Well, we moved while I was pregnant. I was like 20 weeks pregnant. We moved from Idaho back to Arizona where our families are originally from.
And then three months after I had her, we moved into a different house. And in that process, I started gardening again. I started teaching gardening classes to little kids. I started like we started our quote unquote little homestead and it's been, it was wonderful. I started because of what I was doing, I started organically having friends, people that we go to church with ask me, what are you doing? What is your background? What is your certification?
I know you graduated, you know, whatever. And so I started seeing clients here and there. Well, it became growingly challenging, became more challenging.
That's the word. It became more challenging to take clients because first of all, I was trying to take them out my kitchen table and my kids are around and I could not focus. So then, you know, my husband started taking them to go to me and I grew up in his house. And then I was like, okay, it's really not working at the kitchen table. Like I need more of a space. So my husband built me a little office outside.
I started seeing people. I would have a babysitter come over and hang out with the kids in the house and I'm in the backyard. It was still difficult and challenging because people would cancel on me. And I would, you know, all of the different things.
Like you could just imagine kids canceling or not being able to find someone and still having a client and, you know, all of these different things. And then I'm like, I'm spending, one, I was not charging enough, by the way. I don't even want to tell you guys what I was charging per session because I look back now and I was like, by the time I paid a babysitter, by the time I like worked, because just so you guys know, that you may spend 30 minutes to an hour with your practitioner, but if they do quality work, they're usually spending an hour, two, three, four hours behind the scenes working on your case, working on recipes, working on meal plans, working on your protocols, working on all of the different things.
When I do HCMA testing for my clients, it's probably two to four hours, depending on what that person has going on. And that is a significant amount of time not with my family. So, and I wasn't sleeping at night, cause I was doing that night and I couldn't find babysitters and all of these different things. And I was getting tired, I was getting exhausted. And I started to see more and more people move online. Now, keep in mind that this was pre-COVID. Now I feel like practitioners are like everybody's online.
But at the time, I was like, maybe that's the answer. Maybe I work with clients online through Zoom and through virtual coaching and things like that. So that my kids can be playing in the background. My house can look crazy. And I can have people come over and it was fine. I could arrange it so it was during nap time. I could, you know, whatever the case was.
I did set up videos. There was a lot more flexibility that felt very family friendly in this capacity. So I made a significant investment once again. I went back to become, well, in the mix of this, I went back and became a functional nutrition practitioner. And then I made a significant investment into learning how to set up an online business. And I spent $10,000 on a program that taught me how to set up all of the tech, how to build everything out, how to track everything, how to market.
And this is a perfect example of what it's like behind the scenes. My baby decided to come in and she needed her mom. So now we have babies in the background while we're recording podcasts. And I wouldn't have it any other way. So I just really needed something that was going to support my family. And so in that $10,000 program, it taught me obviously so much about business, marketing, setting things up from a technical standpoint, how to reach people online, really so much of my business. And thankfully, I made that 10K investment back within the first six months. And so I launched my program online in January of 2020.
And we all know it happened a few months later. So that was quite the adventure for me. And one of the things people like asked me is, you know, how was that for you? And I always tell people that it was really actually kind of a good thing because I feel like people started to take their health a little more serious. I had a lot of clients for a long time who were very interested and very serious about not only getting help, but really improving, not just improving thyroid function, but improving their health overall. I had a really high success rate in terms of compliance with my clients. I would say, take this supplement and they would do it.
I would say, eat this food and they would do it. And, you know, obviously, I didn't have too much. I mean, I had probably two years of experience prior to all of the, like, prior to COVID, working with clients, but it was very, very part-time. And it's been crazy.
It's been a wild ride. But so anyway, that's kind of the technical standpoint of how I got started online. But then the personal side of it. So, wow, a lot of this was happening or actually prior to me deciding to work with thyroid specifically, I had my own thyroid story or scare. So, backing up when I was in school, my mom was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and my dad was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer that had metastasized and went to his brain and he ended up passing away about 30 days from his diagnosis and everything.
So, it happened really, really fast. And my mom called me and she was like, just so you know, tomorrow I'm having surgery. I'm having my thyroid down. You know, I have cancer. It's the best kind of cancer, you know, you could have.
And I was kind of caught off guard with all of this and I didn't really know what to do. So, fast forward, I was after baby number three, I was experiencing a lot of constipation, a lot of fatigue, a lot of classics, I worried symptoms and my doctors are saying, oh, everything's normal. Everything's fine. And I just knew that something wasn't. And so I was bouncing back and forth between natural pathic doctors and conventional doctors. And I was really just trying to seek answers.
I was just trying to figure out what was going on. And I ended up getting a referral from a friend for an endocrinologist and they tested everything. I brought in a list of my symptoms, brought in medical history, went over everything and the doctor, she was very sweet and she just reassured me. She's like, you know what, sounds like something's really going on here. We're going to do all of the testing and, you know, we're going to find you answers.
And I was like, okay, great. In the office that day, they did blood work and they did an ultrasound of my thyroid. I wasn't allowed, like at certain points, they made me turn my head and I wasn't allowed to look at the monitor. And that was really kind of scary, given my mom's history with thyroid cancer. And, you know, the doctor came in and went over everything and basically said that I had some masses on my thyroid and that because of my mom's medical history, I needed to have a biopsy done. And I was pretty nervous at that point because we really didn't know what it was.
I did all of the other cortisol testing and, you know, everything. And I remember we were driving up to Utah to go visit family after dropping off the test results. And I was sitting in the back with kiddos and they were all sleeping and I was listening to the song Warrior by Avril Lavigne. And she had been, she has been clinically ill for a long time and that new song came out after her experience and kind of taking her healing journey. And so I felt like I was.
at that point, at that tipping point, where I could go one way or another. And I think, I can't remember exactly if we had my thyroid test results back, but I remember thinking I had Hashimoto's, and because I was told I had damage to my thyroid. Essentially, I had holes in my thyroid, my thyroid was shriveled up, and so I just remember thinking I have Hashimoto's, I have an autoimmune condition, and my life is forever changed. And I, like, some things I've had my blood results back. I don't think the results were back, because that was before I had my biopsy, and they did my biopsy when I came back. So I must not have had results. It must have just been that they told me there was visible damage to my thyroid, and I knew what that meant.
Well, fast forward from that. I went in for my biopsy, we went over blood lobs, and I was told by that endocrinologist that everything was fine and my blood lobs were normal, and I should just go see a dietician to help me lose weight. And I was devastated. I was absolutely devastated.
We did the biopsy, got a call a week or so later, and once again, everything was normal, everything was fine, and come back in a year to re-biopsy everything. And that was that tipping point for me, where talking to my mom and my sister, and they're like, now this is why you have done all of this work, and you've gone to school, and you're doing all these things, and now this is your story. Now this is going to help you help other people. And it was at that point when I really buckled down and started researching and learning about thyroid, because nobody was coming to save me. I was there. I had to do it on my own, because nobody else could, would, should.
Like, you know, I don't know. And so that was really what set the tone for me in working towards restoring thyroid function. And again, ultimately, when I decided to invest in the $10,000 program and do all of these things in addition to the education and certificate programs that I've joined, that was the deciding factor for me. Because I do not want women, families, moms to struggle without answers the way that I did. It was challenging at that point for me to play soccer with my kids, because then I would need to go take a nap. So I would play with them for 10, 15 minutes, and then I would go sleep for two hours. You know, I would be standing at the sink, and I would be crying in pain because my body just hurt so bad.
And I knew, I knew that couldn't be my forever story. So with that being said, you guys, that is why I love thyroid. That is why I work online. That is why I am so passionate about what I do is because I struggled for a long time. And I honestly, there's so many more pieces of this story, but I wanted to give you a starting off point and really kind of hound in like why I'm here and why I stuck around for the last three years online and rode the entrepreneurial wave and done all the things.
And my kids go swimming and I stay home and work. And I choose to do this because I want you women to experience what I now have. And I don't want you to struggle with the fatigue. I don't want you to have the hair loss.
I don't want your confidence to be shaken. I don't want you to play with your kids or your grandkids for five, ten minutes and then have to say no to them for two or three hours because you physically have to recover. That stuff is not normal and society has made it normal and told you, oh, you're just aging. Oh, you're just menopausal. Oh, you're just the mom. Oh, you're just blah, blah, blah, blah. No, don't accept that story if you don't want to. All right, you guys, I'll see you on the next.
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