Nikki Reed: The Power of Purpose Pt. 2

Summary

The Squeeze – Nikki Reed: The Power of Purpose Pt. 2

Host: Taylor Lautner
Featuring: Nikki Reed
Date: November 12, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this heartfelt continuation of their conversation, Taylor Lautner and guest Nikki Reed dive deep into mental health, self-awareness, and purposeful living. They explore the challenges of maintaining balance amidst professional and personal demands, the evolution of wellness (and wellness products), and celebrate how individuals can honor their growth. Nikki shares her experiences from the frontlines of business, parenting, and personal healing, delivering honest reflections on what it means to live with intention and compassion—toward oneself and others.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. On Overwhelm & The Assault on the Nervous System

• Nikki, Taylor, and the co-host discuss the pressures of modern life: the relentless to-do lists, always-on communication, and feeling "wired" by technological and societal expectations.

• Nikki’s perspective:

  • "It's almost like an assault on your nervous system all the time..." [04:00]
  • She highlights how our nervous systems are in a constant state of inundation—between work, parenting, and technology, leading to continual anxiety.

• Main Insight:

  • While tasks and digital notifications feel urgent, most are not real emergencies. Stepping back, practicing humility, and simplifying priorities are core strategies for peace.

• Quote:

  • "None of these things are actually a big deal... Are we healthy? Are we okay? Are we connecting?" – Nikki [05:40]

2. Grounding and Boundary-Setting

• Nikki advocates for simple, accessible wellness tools:

  • Getting sunlight for 10 minutes.
  • Spending time in nature.
  • Turning off phones from Friday to Monday for a digital detox.

• Memorable moment:

  • Nikki recalls regularly going off-grid in an Airstream with no service, noting the profound impact on her well-being. [07:20]

• Encourages:

  • Lowering the bar instead of striving for perfection daily:
    • "If I just fed myself well today, got through a couple of the five most important things on the list... okay, yeah." – Nikki [08:24]

3. Type A vs. Type B – The To-Do List Mentality

• Taylor and the co-host reflect on the host’s tendency to start each day with an aggressive list, a holdover from nursing where the stakes were life and death.

• Insight:

  • These obsessive organizational habits often stem from survival mechanisms learned during high-pressure jobs and can persist long after.

• Nikki reframes:

  • “Most of the time, the things that we criticize about ourselves are actually tools we needed at one point to survive.” [17:35]

4. Self-Compassion & Letting Go of Judgment

• The group discusses the importance of not shaming oneself or others for past actions:

  • For Nikki: growing from someone who “ate fast food, smoked, and threw trash out the window” to an advocate for health and sustainability.

• Quote:

  • “If we don't embrace the journey, then we don't get to actually see the beauty of the evolution... what we're doing is we're shaming people into not changing, actually, if we don't honor the whole journey.” – Nikki [41:04]

5. Wellness Industry: Transparency & Effectiveness

• Nikki shares frustrations with the wellness and supplement industry:

  • People are often sold “hope” in the form of unregulated, ineffective products.
  • The body processes everything we put in it—if a supplement doesn’t work, it can still have consequences.

• Aha Moment:

  • "That lit a whole other fire under me to actually create products that you could actually feel in the moment so that it was quantifiable so you knew that they were working." – Nikki [22:51]

• On Supplement Regulation:

  • “There's crazy stats that back this up. Like, you pee out 84% of your supplements, which is wild, Right. So it's like, what are we doing? What are we putting in our bodies?” – Nikki [32:35]

6. Absorption Company – Mission and Science

• Nikki explains the science and mission behind her company, emphasizing bioavailability and tangible results.
• “People deserve to feel good. It's really that simple. And they deserve to have access to products that are honest and real and transparent.” – Nikki [26:06]
• She describes the technology ("capsoil") that increases absorption in supplements, enabling consumers to feel real effects.

7. Personal Evolution & The Right to Change

• The conversation circles back to honoring personal evolution without shame.

• “How cool that as humans, we get to evolve and learn and change things…if we don't…we’re shaming people into not changing.” – Nikki [41:04]

• Taylor's affirmation:

  • “You may not be making the change you are today if you don't go through those things.” [42:13]

• Ending thought from Nikki:

  • “If you really invest in that idea that today, maybe something about yourself you'd like to change—tomorrow, you get to do that.” [42:38]

8. Celebrating Strengths & Self-Reflection

• The hosts and Nikki share what they’re most proud of in themselves—a practice that feels foreign but healing.
• Nikki: “I'm fiercely honest. I'm fiercely protective of what I believe in, fiercely passionate about things. So maybe I guess I'm proud of those qualities. I don't know.” [45:30]
• Taylor: “How well and deeply I love people...I care and love people so deeply that even at the end of the day, if I get burnt or my heart crushed, I wouldn't have it any other way.” [46:43]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the impact of technology:

  • “Conversation feels casual but yet dire. Like you've got to reply to that text where someone just says, hey, how are you doing?... None of those things feel satiating for the soul.” – Nikki [03:35]

• On practical self-care:

  • “Go outside for 10 minutes in the sun. I don't know anyone that doesn't feel better after they do that.” – Nikki [06:53]

• On nervous system conditioning:

  • “So much of my brain is wired to be life or death. And now when I'm literally like giving notes on a social clip...my brain, like, doesn't know the difference yet.” – Co-host [16:42]

• On embracing growth:

  • “Let's talk about that. Yeah, that's so real. That was part of the journey...now is a champion for health and mental health. And how cool that as humans, we get to evolve and learn and change things…” – Nikki [41:04]

• On transparency in wellness:

  • “To have a product that people take and they immediately feel...the joy, it makes it worth even doing the things that I'm uncomfortable doing.” – Nikki [34:12]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [03:00-08:00] – Daily overwhelm, grounding tips, value of simplicity and boundaries
• [13:55-15:30] – The ongoing effects of high-stress jobs on mental habits
• [17:35-18:10] – Reframing personal “flaws” as survival skills
• [22:51-26:22] – Wellness industry critique and the origins of Absorption Company
• [32:30-34:30] – Supplement effectiveness and satisfaction from helping others
• [41:00-42:45] – Owning personal evolution, not shaming the past
• [45:00-47:30] – Reflections on self-love, pride, and personal qualities

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Tone & Language

The episode is candid, supportive, and conversational. Nikki’s vulnerability invites honesty and self-compassion, while Taylor brings warmth, curiosity, and a grounding presence. The conversation weaves between practical advice, personal anecdotes, and big-picture reflections—creating a sense of community and validation for listeners navigating their own journeys.

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For Listeners

This episode offers wisdom on balancing ambition with self-kindness, demystifies the wellness industry, and models the power of self-reflection. Anyone struggling with feeling “enough” amidst high expectations, or wanting reassurance that personal evolution—and even major change—are possible, will find comfort and practical takeaways here.

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End note: Only the main content is covered; all advertisements, intro/outro, and credits have been omitted.

Transcript

[Nyx]

The following podcast is a Dear Media Production.

[Taylor]

Nyx, you are a teacher, my friend.

[Nyx]

You called me Nyx. I haven't heard that in 15 years. Like, what about hypnosis?

[Taylor]

I never done that.

[Nyx]

Do you feel, like, open to it?

[Taylor]

Sure.

[Nyx]

He's like, sure. One time. The placebo effect doesn't work on me. That lit a whole other fire under me. It's almost like an assault on your nervous system.

[Taylor]

The problem.

[Nyx]

This is a good thing.

[Taylor]

Every morning, she makes a list. 25 things, and it's just so aggressive.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Can you see which one of us is type A and which one is type B?

[Nyx]

These are not real problems. What's the greatest solution to that?

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

I literally preached.

[Nyx]

I don't know anyone that doesn't feel better after they do that. We saw that picture of you smoking a cigarette. I'm like, yeah, let's talk about that. Otherwise, what we're doing is we're shaming people into not changing.

[Taylor]

Actually, probably not or may not be making the change you are today. And if you don't go through those.

[Nyx]

Things, something about yourself you'd like to change tomorrow, you get to do that.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

How cool is that?

[Taylor]

I respect you to the moon.

[Nyx]

Ditto.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

You touched on something that I feel like I relate to, too. And you talked about just giving, like, a hundred percent of yourself to.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Everything.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

And, you know, how you've struggled with that with, you know, with work, with yourself, of being a mom, a wife, like all. All of your business ventures. That's something that I struggle with now. And it's something that I think about even. I think also why I've kind of.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Been apprehensive and taking that except.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

And becoming a parent is because I am so, like, I'm giving.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Like, Taylor has to tell me to.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Like, close the laptop and be done with the day. Like, I am so, like, if I'm in something, I'm in it, like, 100%.

[Nyx]

By the way, sorry not to interrupt, but it's what makes you a really great nurse.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Oh, that's nice.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Thank you.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

But. But, yeah, like, that's. That is something that I've, like, struggled with. And I know that that's something you.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Have struggled with, too.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

How have you. How have you kind of, like, learned to combat those thoughts of accepting that you can't give yourself, in a sense, every single thing?

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Yeah.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

Gosh. You know, I kind of like to think of myself as, like, a student in this life, not a teacher. So as, like, the setup for that should seem like I would have a really Great answer for how to balance it all and do it all or not be disappointed in yourself when you can give everything, you know, 110%. But I have a like quintessential type A personality. Right. Like I just. Like you were saying, I don't want to close out the day without getting through the immense workload and overwhelming checklist of to do's and it's completely impossible.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

And I think if anything, if there's ever a battle with, you know, mental health in that regard, it's just this insurmountable. Constantly being inundated. All of us, right? Like all of our nervous systems are constantly being inundated all the time. Whether it's opening up your phone and seeing that you might have 800 unread emails that you just can't get to, or whether it's the fact that we communicate by text nowadays. And so, you know, conversation feels casual but yet dire. Like you've got to reply to that text where someone just says, hey, how are you doing? You're like, oh my gosh. There was a time when you used to have to pick up a phone and have like a one hour conversation, you know, once every other month. Instead of these like popcorn. Popcorn. Content popcorn. Check in. Popcorn. I'm just using that term because it's like these little bite sized moments but you can't complete anything in its wholeness.

[Taylor]

It requires so much from you.

[Nyx]

It requires so much. Yeah. And I think for me like anytime, not to get too cerebral about, but anytime I start to feel, which is like actually daily, right. I've got a farm, so I've got lots of animals that depend on me. I've got little people. I've got two companies that I don't just dip my toe into. I'm running, you know, I'm running by you with love, my jewelry company. And that takes all of me. And of course we have a wonderful team and employees and you know, you're interacting on a daily basis. And then we have the absorption company, Ian and I have that together. And we don't do anything partial. Like we are like, we are full in with everything we do. So it's a very busy life and schedule and we're all just being like, it's almost like an assault on your nervous system all the time to sit if you've got your laptop and you're working at night until midnight. Like you were just saying, how do our bodies take it? So I try to like pull myself out of it and remind myself on a daily basis that none of these things are actually a big deal. I have to remind myself and you coming from a space of like, literally seeing life and death in its transition in your face on a daily basis, which you did for a long time, and I understand that is part of why you wanted to like, birth this podcast to talk about that. We have to be humbled by those moments of being like, okay, this stuff, this is not a big deal. Someone's upset that a text didn't get replied to, five emails didn't get responded to. And so, you know, we don't have our boxes coming in in time. And that event might actually have to be canceled because I couldn't get it together or all those things. These are not real problems. They feel like it. Because our nervous systems are so wired all the time. We're staring at blue light, we're not in nature, we're not having conversation because we're conversing on our phones with, hey, how are you? I'm great. And you. And like, none of those things feel satiating for the soul, you know? So I think like the biggest thing is a, humbling yourself and remembering, like, none of these things are a big deal. Let's take a step back. Are we healthy? Are we okay? Are we connecting? And then B, what's the greatest solution to that? It's things that are free. Honestly, like, I hate to sound so simple about it, but it really is. It's like go outside for 10 minutes in the sun. I don't know anyone that doesn't feel better after they do that.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

I literally preach sunlight. That is like my favorite thing.

[Nyx]

And we have all these modalities in modern day world. It's like one problem, we're going to fix it with another thing that comes with a problem, right? It's like tech solutions for everything. So much of the stuff that we need to make us feel good is right under our feet. It's being outside. It's challenging yourself and holding yourself accountable to say, okay, Friday to Monday. I mean, this is a real hard one, but I'm gonna turn off my phone. Like, I got a flip phone, guys. And I call that my secret phone. It's not really secret, but. And Friday to Monday, like setting boundaries within the workspace. Cause I've found myself working seven days a week, 14 hours a day, and, you know, trying to find, you know, moments of joy on a farm, which of course requires tremendous amounts of work too, and little people. And you're like, sometimes you feel if you can turn your phone off for three days. It's amazing how much better you feel Friday night to Monday morning. And you know what? 10 years ago I used to do that regularly and it was no big deal. We actually had an Airstream that was out on a couple hundred acres and there was no service there. So Friday to Monday we would, you know, camp and have no phone and you felt so free. And I think we all feel this, like innate anxiety because of we're tethered to everything at every moment and then there's, you know, disappointment that comes from that if you're not responding to things in time or if you're not doing your work 110%. So I said this the other day, maybe it's kind of a weird thing to say, but like, set the bar lower. Like, let's not keep the bar so high. Let's lower the bar for a second and go, hey, if I just like fed myself well today, got through a couple of the five most important things on the list and, and was able to be a present human or friend or parent or daughter. Okay, yeah, you know.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Yeah.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

That's so good. That's so good.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

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[Unknown Female Guest 1]

I've been, I've been trying to do this like mentally of like doing one thing a day that is like for like some self care something for my mental health and that's either like working out. It could be taking my like 10 minutes of quiet time in the morning with my coffee. It could be me having a sweet treat at the end of the day. Like something that I'm intentionally doing for my mental health that I know is going to be good for my brain. Like that's something I've been trying to do and I feel like it's been, I mean you've seen me, I've been like going to the gym like it's nobody's business recently I've been a new thing.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Been loving it which I have had trouble keeping myself consistent and going just because I, I know what it does for my brain and it's. Yeah. I finally like kind of caught the bug. But when you were saying about like your nervous system firing that's something I obviously like you said like I still struggle to this day and I haven't worked in the hospital for four years. Three.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Three. Four years. Yeah, four years.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

And like I still. It was either you or a therapist and I wouldn't be surprised if it was you but it's like because my brain is so like people are going to die. Like it's hard for my brain to. When I'm doing things around the house. I'm like trying to, like, figure out.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

How to do it all at once.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

And like, if I do this, then I can go this there and like, how I would hit my patients rooms. And it's so hard, I think, for my brain to disconnect from it, even though it's been so many years and I've definitely gotten better.

[Taylor]

What's the problem?

[Nyx]

This is a good thing.

[Taylor]

It's a good thing. But yes, it drives you crazy sometimes. The problem is you wake up each morning and she gets a sheet of paper out. And I know this because when I wake up, I'll walk through the kitchen and see it on the counter or something. And she makes a list of things to do for the day, each day. And it's got 25 things. And she does that every morning. It's the first thing she does, list for the day. And it's just so aggressive. And I see this.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Can you see which one of us is type A and which one is type B?

[Nyx]

And it's a great balance.

[Taylor]

Your brain is during the day, like, oh, I've only done half that list. I gotta do this, I gotta do this. It's. You're like, so achieving a lot of structure.

[Nyx]

I am, I am very structured, but also very organized. Because, like, part of her job prior to this was making sure that things were listed out, laid out, you were doing it properly. You had to check those things off the list because it's life or death if you don't. If you don't give that patient the medication they need in room B, like, something might happen. So it's probably your brain's default mode.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Totally.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Well, I was just going to give you a compliment before you dissed me.

[Taylor]

I didn't.

[Nyx]

No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

[Taylor]

It's an incredible thing about you, but it's why you feel that.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

No, but I was going to say you've told me before, like, when I feel like, you know, like the emails, whatever it is that needs to be done. Taylor's like, is someone going to die or are you going to die? Like, just like flat out, like it does. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter. Like, yeah, so much of my brain is wired to be life or death. And now when I'm literally like giving notes on a social clip that's being posted for the pot, like, it's just like my brain, like, doesn't know the difference yet and it's learning, it's still trying to Figure that out.

[Nyx]

That's your nervous system.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Yeah, it's.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

We're working on her.

[Nyx]

It's so heightened.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

From all of that. Which is great, because you know what? I also try to think about the things that we can sometimes criticize about ourselves. I know this sounds really like, woo woo, but actually, I don't want to say thanking those qualities because that does sound very woo woo. But being. Seeing the benefit of them. So instead of hating that quality most of the time, the things that we criticize about ourselves are actually tools we needed at one point to survive.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Totally.

[Nyx]

So at one point, your body needed to do those things in order to make sure that people stayed alive.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

Make sure you stayed alive. Those things were very, very real in that moment. So then you're like, oh, I see it. I label it, I name it. I know that's why you were there. And now I can say goodbye to that. I don't need you. Thank you for your service there. I don't need you there anymore. You know, because they actually are really amazing survival skills.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

That we carry with us through our childhood. And you were talking about trauma earlier and all that stuff. Like you needed those probably to quite literally survive that moment.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Okay.

[Nyx]

Thank you so much. We don't need that anymore.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

We move on instead of hating it and, like, beating ourselves up for it, you know?

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

Or just own it. Totally. And be like, you know what? I actually still love that I make these lists. I love that it feels aggressive in the morning.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Yeah.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Oh, I will never.

[Taylor]

She's not getting rid of the list. That's for sure.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Never.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

I will never get rid of a list. But in my defense, you tell me to make you a list when I need help with things around the house.

[Taylor]

Yeah, but my list you make for me is much shorter.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Yeah. All right, we're.

[Nyx]

I'm getting. I'm sitting in that chair now.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

I gotta do more emdr. I thought it was done. I gotta go back, by the way.

[Taylor]

I just gotta point out, because I've smiled so many times at this when she said, I'm a student, I'm not a teacher, before she opens her mouth, but then delivers constantly, just, like, the most crazy wisdom every time. Like, Nyx, you are a teacher, my friend.

[Nyx]

You called me Nyx. I haven't heard that in 15 years. That's what he used to call me. That's really cute. Oh, my gosh. That's very sweet.

[Taylor]

It's full of so much wisdom. It's freaking mind blowing.

[Nyx]

Well, I Listen to people a lot.

[Taylor]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nyx]

I appreciate. I ask questions. I feel like I'm. I'm a super curious person, and I think curiosity leads us to great places because we continue to open up the door of, you know, the unknowns behind it. Sometimes those places are scary. Sometimes it's places we don't want to go, you know, within ourselves or within conversation. But it always leads to great places because, I don't know, like, if we're not learning and growing, what are we doing?

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

You know, it's so true. That's how I feel. I love that you were talking about emdr, too.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Oh, yeah.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

I did it. He didn't.

[Taylor]

I didn't like it.

[Nyx]

You didn't like it?

[Taylor]

No.

[Nyx]

What part of you didn't like it?

[Taylor]

I don't know. I just don't know.

[Nyx]

Felt uncomfortable.

[Taylor]

Problem. And I couldn't commit, but I just couldn't get into it.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

He.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

I really wanted him to try it.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Dr. Amen. Yes, he did.

[Nyx]

You see him?

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

We saw him. Yeah. And he was like, you need to do some emdr. So I was doing it. And he also was like, that would benefit Taylor. And. Yeah, I really wanted him to try it.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

You're apprehensive, and you are a very.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Loving husband, and you tried it for me, and I was very thankful you tried it.

[Nyx]

Did you just try it once?

[Taylor]

No.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

No.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

You tried it?

[Taylor]

No, because I wanted to quit after once, and she said. She said, do me a favor, give it a couple more tries. So she made me do it like, four or five times.

[Nyx]

Got it.

[Taylor]

But after, like, four or five, I.

[Nyx]

Went to her, I said, well, that's a good effort. What didn't you like, though? You felt uncomfortable?

[Taylor]

No. I don't even know. I don't even know if we got to what we were supposed to be doing, but it was just like. It was just all the, like.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Okay.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

He. Taylor struggles. I love the wooey and the stuff. Taylor struggles, I think, to get into.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

Just to get into that. Heads. I'm not questioning it. Just to get into that headspace. Like when.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

When she.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Like, it took you a couple sound baths to, like, like, enjoy a sound bath. Like. And that's like.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Not even.

[Taylor]

I like to sound bath pretty much right away.

[Nyx]

But I was gonna say interesting, because that's so soothing.

[Taylor]

No sound. Sound bath I liked.

[Nyx]

But, like, what about hypnosis? Yeah. Do you feel, like, open to it?

[Taylor]

Sure.

[Nyx]

Like, he's saying once. He's like, sure. One time.

[Taylor]

I don't know.

[Nyx]

We're not Ganging up on you. I just want to make that really clear.

[Taylor]

Done it.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

I feel like I've done, like, I don't know if I've done all the things, but I've done a lot of things. I'm just. It comes back to that same thing. Like, I'm just such a curious person that I want to know what it's like. You're such a sponge, whether or not it works. But also. A sponge, maybe, but also the placebo effect doesn't work on me, which is, by the way, I want to go back to this too. But just to also quickly touch on this, that was part of the birthplace of the absorption company is because I, as much as I live in that space of wanting to believe that all these wellness techniques and modalities work, I also, I either feel something or I don't. Yeah. Whereas I know other people that, like, you can, you know, tell them this is what it is. And their, you know, mind, body, all of it believes it instantly. And that's beautiful. The placebo effect is real, but it doesn't work on me. And so I had spent so much time exploring a lot of this stuff and the world of wellness and supplements. And I won't go into. I won't bore you with it, but I ended up in this, like, kind of crazy health scare that spanned years and years. And I was seeing, you know, as you can imagine, great doctors because I'm an information seeker, so I'm seeking out the best doctors that I can and, you know, really researching and years and years, and I couldn't figure this out. And it was making me crazy. But what was making me equally as crazy was the amount of things I was being sold that weren't working. And in that industry as a whole, which. And in the mental health industry, connecting the dots there we are, sold products all day long. And not only do they not work, but it's an industry that's capitalizing on people's hope. Right. Because they're hoping that it works and they're taking these things and they're spending their hard earned money on this massive belief that they're gonna get better from an industry that's taking advantage of them. And there's no regulation, Right. There's very, very little regulation in that industry. And so that lit a whole other, you know, fire under me to actually create then if I couldn't seek them, but create products that you could actually feel in the moment so that it was quantifiable so you knew that they were working And I live in this in between space because I love the world of, you know, non traditional medicine, but I also love, you know, western, you know, very sort of cut and dry. Like I think there's a place for all of it. And I live somewhere in the middle of this space of wellness, but also traditional medicine. I see and appreciate both, as I'm sure you do, from working in a hospital setting. There's a place for both of those things. And like my passion came from actually giving people what they deserved, something that they could feel in that moment. Not the promise of the future. Not if you do this for 30 days. You're gonna X, Y or Z. It shouldn't have to take that.

[Taylor]

While we take your money.

[Nyx]

While we take your money.

[Taylor]

Trust.

[Nyx]

Yes. And while we give you something that not only is dishonest, but the quality is not there either. So you forget, this was a big aha moment for me, you guys, and one that I only just had recently actually, which is you kind of think, okay, if I'm taking things and they're not working, at least they're not hurting me. Right. And then I had this whole realization sitting with our team and our science advisory board, where I was like, wow, that's not true. When you take, when you put something in your body, whether it's a supplement or a pharmaceutical or whatever it is, Right. Your body has to process that. So your liver is working, your intestines are working, your gut biome is affected in some capacity. You're taking something and you're requiring your body to work. So if it's not doing anything for you, you actually are. There is a repercussion or a consequence on the body that's not just totally benign. Okay, well, it's not working, so it's not hurting me. That's not necessarily true. And the supplement industry just isn't regulated at all. And for all of us, especially here, like, you know, in this space too, thinkers, people who want to see change, create change, create a shift. We're all looking for solutions, right?

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

And so that's like, that's what the Absorption company is. It was solution driven, it's mission oriented and it's. People deserve to feel good. It's really that simple.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

You know, and they deserve to have access to products that are honest and real and transparent. Like all the science behind it sounds so complicated, but it's actually very, very simple.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

So that was like the birthplace of that. And it just reminded me when we were talking about.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

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[Unknown Female Guest 1]

That's what we call our listeners.

[Nyx]

Lemon Drops.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Lemon Drops. Can you tell our Lemon drops what absorption company is?

[Nyx]

Yes. Let's see if I can fit this into a two sentence sound bite.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

So.

[Nyx]

The absorption company, we are a company that is rooted in bioavailability.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

So.

[Nyx]

There'S a major absorption crisis that's happening, if you will.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

Stemming from the fact that we have a, you know, broken food system, broken, you know, agriculture system, broken healthcare system. All these things are interconnected. Interrelated.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

And so we wanted to create a supplement that you could actually feel that was all about absorption. Giving your body something that it can absorb, that it can feel. It's that simple. Now there's science behind it and we can talk about the science if you want. You know, capsoil is the science behind it and it actually creates. There's a process in which the supplement, supplements are made that allows the body to absorb it by virtue of decreasing particle size and increasing surface area. So the visual for that is like if you imagine you have a particle that's this big, I guess you're running cameras so you can see it too. If you decreased those particle sizes, it would actually be able to be dispersed and increased. Increase the surface area as opposed to most of the time too, when you're taking something people aren't thinking about the fact that our bodies do a job like your stomach acid, your body is meant to actually break things down and it needs to get to the intestines in order to be fully absorbed. But most of the time our environments and our stomach is actually killing that process before it can even get there. So a lot of what we're sold is like, oh, it's gonna do this. But A, the quality is not there or B, it can't even to the part of your body where it needs to be absorbed. And no one thinks about that. And there's no regulation. So you can buy like a bottle of melatonin and it can say X amount of milligrams, but each pill in that bottle can actually be different. And you know, when you start to have these aha moments about how not only Is it that way for the adult supplement industry, but also kids supplements? And you start going like, oh, my gosh, what can I trust? What can I take? But if you think about it, and you open up your medicine cabinet and I were to even ask you guys this question, or anybody, what is in your medicine cabinet right now that you could point out to me or your pantry that you feel you would probably go in there, like, do it as an experiment. YouTube later. You're probably gonna go in there because you guys are health oriented, too. You care about this. And you're gonna start pointing to things and you're gonna go, okay, I like taking my vitamin C because I think that it helps me not get sick. I think, think. And then you're going to go through and you're going to go, but what about this? What about that? And you realize that maybe you would keep your, like, vitamin C or your glutathione in there, but most of what's in there, you're going to say, oh, my gosh, I don't think I've ever felt that when I take it. You hope you do. You take a big pile in your hands every morning. You hope you feel it.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

And not only are you not feeling it, but it's probably not doing anything. So there's crazy stats that back this up. Like, you pee out 84% of your supplements, which is wild, Right. So it's like, what are we doing? What are we putting in our bodies? And I think probably for you guys, this is what I was saying to you t earlier. Like, there's just so much satisfaction and, like, peace that comes from knowing that you're helping people in some way. So, okay, yeah, there's a lot that comes from having a podcast, but if five people call in and say, hey, you changed my life, it makes. It's worth it all, probably for you, right?

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Sure.

[Nyx]

And I feel the exact same way with this because people write us in. Thousands and thousands of people write in the company. And, you know, we try to read a lot of it, most of it, as much as we can.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

And they say, hey, you know, I can't, like, say this part because I can't mention different drugs, but they'll be like, I got off my X, Y or Z antidepressant because of your calm supplement, or I got off this or that because of. And. Or I'm sleeping for the very first time ever. And it's not. You shouldn't have to take a supplement for 30 days to feel it. All of these are just marketing techniques. And we are all part of that, you know, social experiment of how to get people to click, get people to buy, get people. We're all victims of that. I am. You are. Especially as women. We're marketed to all day long. And so to have a product that people take and they immediately feel, and not only do they feel it, they say it's making their life better and they feel better in that moment. The joy, it makes it worth even doing the things that like, I'm uncomfortable doing now, which is like being forward facing for a brand or, you know, whatever it is, because that's the point of it all. It's like, let's make life better.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Yeah, I love it.

[Taylor]

Do you have like, I know this is. I don't. Do you have like a favorite product?

[Nyx]

Oh, well, as you can probably tell, I don't need more energy, so I don't take. So Ian is like, we have nanometric caffeine. So the thing that's amazing about the energy is that you take it and you don't crash. And again, all these like dips in life is all part of this. Like, let's keep, keep people like hooked on the drip. Right. We see it happen in every industry, whether it's healthcare, whether it's like the agrochemical industry, whatever. So the thing that I love so much about our energy is that it's sustained energy. So you're not dipping, you're not like all day long. Oh, gosh, God. Take more, gotta take more. Yeah, but I don't need any energy and I actually quit all caffeine about seven years ago and my life got so much better really as a result.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

Again, life is a series of choices. I also don't drink alcohol, really, it's just series of choices. How do I make my life feel the best it can be? What can I cut out that's not serving me anymore? Here we go. Yeah, but yeah, life got better without caffeine. But I sleep calm, restore. So like even before we sat down here and I know I have to do a podcast and I have. I'm sure there's going to be some bites that enter into the world and I start to think about what that's.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Going to look like.

[Nyx]

And yeah, so I do, I drink Common Restore every morning. And our restore is amazing because it's not just a hydration. I mean, you know, market things how you will. Of course it has, you know, some amazing hydrating components, you know, your potassium, your sodium and it's, you know, great but it also has liposomal glutathione and the. I would consider this a. An immune boosting supplement as much as I would consider it a hydration supplement. And then you know, calm with libismal saffron. And I'm sure if you were with Doc Amen, he talks a lot about saffron and this is an area that I want to explore. I've been talking to the team about this, going full speed ahead in that department because personally I think saffron is like one of the greatest gifts to our bodies and mental health that there is.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

What does it do?

[Nyx]

All things.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

That was what he wanted you to take, but you were like, it's too many pills.

[Taylor]

A lot. I'm not good with a lot of pills.

[Nyx]

You know what's great? Take calm and put it in water and then you're not thinking about pills. Part of what I love. Yeah. Saffron. So mood boosting, calming effect. A lot of people when it's taken in a very potent form, feel like they're more balanced and more level. Which by the way, this day and age, who couldn't use them.

[Taylor]

Yeah, exactly.

[Nyx]

But I think in this time that we're all living in where we're trying to throw supplements and I mean, sorry, solutions in the form of pharmaceuticals at people. I think being able to connect with anything that feels like it's working with your body just feels good.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

You know, if you can feel it, that to me like feels like the right path. Not I. First of all, pharmaceuticals have a great place in different people's lives when it's needed.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Right.

[Nyx]

But I think we are a culture that over prescribes.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Absolutely. Right.

[Nyx]

And there's tie ins to that. Like there's no denying when you follow the, the, you know, you follow the money, you know why that is. Right. There's a probably trillion dollar industry. Although don't quote me on the. The exact number, but definitely, you know, mid billions to.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

Up there. You know, into the trillion. That capitalizes on people's desire to feel better.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. We talk about that a lot. And anyone listening, I love the energy one. Do you. But I love that I think what you were saying is I don't feel like the crash and I have to, I really need to just wean off of caffeine again because I had a lot of caffeine and then I was super anxious and then I quit caffeine and literally had to like detox from it. And then I just started drinking.

[Taylor]

You did, you didn't Pick it back up again.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

I love coffee. That's my.

[Nyx]

I need. I need in moderation.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

I love coffee too, because I like the ritual. So I had to talk to myself, like, what is it? Do I like the, like, warm beverage in the morning? Do I like something sweet? What is that thing?

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

Because coffee just always made me feel very jittery.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Yeah.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

And I am a high output, energy output person.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

So I can't afford to feel jittery. And some of the memories that I have actually of being on our sets, I was like, you know, hitting seven, eight cups of coffee in a day. Because your whole circadian rhythm, which is true with being a nurse too, is all whacked.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Right.

[Nyx]

Because you're like, okay, tomorrow you're gonna shoot nights and you're gonna show up at 4pm and work till 7 o' clock in the morning. And you're just. You're so whacked. So you're relying on things to keep you.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

Moving. And then you wake up one day and go, like, this doesn't feel good.

[Taylor]

Yeah. It's funny because there were several of those photos that we found and both of us were holding cups of coffee.

[Nyx]

Oh, gosh. Oh, gosh. Well, I only said oh, gosh because I'm also doing lots of other things, those photos too. But, you know, you have to, like, you have to own it. You know, I think part of me, just from being in the, you know, experiencing youth in the public eye, part of me is I went through a long period of time where you felt like you had to defend.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Right.

[Nyx]

Because people like to point things out. Oh, wow. You know, you. We saw that picture of you smoking a cigarette. And so you obviously aren't really into wellness because a photo's pulled up from 20 years before. And I actually have decided, as part of my own way of embracing it all, to acknowledge and validate all of those things. Like when people find things to criticize, I'm like, let's talk about that. Yeah, that's so real. That was part of the journey. Like, I'm so proud actually now that that is the journey. I didn't grow up understanding anything about health or wellness. Grew up eating, you know, I lived on fast food and I was lucky enough to. Some of my writing got me into some gifted school programs that thank goodness for that because I had teachers that really. It was just a series of luck. Right. Like, I had teachers that really nurtured that part of me. And, oh, gosh, I hate actually talking about myself. I just had this. I had to pause. I had this realization that I'm sitting here talking of just about myself. That's weird.

[Taylor]

That is what you are here to do.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

That is what you should do.

[Nyx]

So weird, though. I like talking about other people. But if we don't embrace the journey, then we don't get to actually see the beauty of the evolution, you know, like, the journey. I didn't grow up in that space at all. I knew nothing about it. I threw trash out my window. Now, I say that openly because guess what? That little girl who smoked cigarettes and only ate fast food and lived on diet sodas and threw trash out her window now is a champion for the environment and for sustainability and for health and wellness and for mental health. And how cool that as humans, we get to evolve and learn and change things, because otherwise what we're doing is we're shaming people into not changing, actually, if we don't so good. Honor the whole journey.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Right.

[Taylor]

You may probably not or may not be making the change you are today if you don't go through those things.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Yeah, Right.

[Taylor]

So.

[Nyx]

And we have to, like, I think it's really important to just applaud the thought that you can be who you are today, right now and not in some hokey, okay, you know, fake way, decide, you know, tomorrow. But if you really invest in that idea that today, maybe something about yourself you'd like to change tomorrow, you get to do that.

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Nyx]

How cool is that? You know what I mean? I just think it's amazing because it can feel really daunting for people, especially when you talk about, like, you know, the environment and sustainability and eating choices and understanding, you know, monocultures or how, you know, ag is grown or the fact that hoofed mammals play a huge part of, you know, our ability to regenerate the Earth. But yet, you know, at one. At one point in time, you had one group of people, you know, who don't eat meat and another group of people who are all about eating meat, fighting with each other over this one shared idea of, like, we want the planet to be better. Hey, let's acknowledge that both people, both parties here, want the planet to be better. There's just. We're missing something just in the line of communication, which is we all have one shared goal. Everybody. That was just one example, like a metaphor. But we all have one shared goal. At the end of the day, most of us do. Just different paths to getting there. So if we honor everybody's each individual path, instead of shaming it, I Think we find a better way of actually coming together.

[Taylor]

Amen.

[Nyx]

You know?

[Taylor]

Yeah.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

That's so good. Last question I have for you on.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

This note is I'd love to know.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

What you're most proud of yourself for.

[Nyx]

Oh, gosh.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

Yeah, I know.

[Nyx]

I know everybody that she's not.

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

I don't ask everyone that question, but I would. But I ask you that also because of you saying you don't like to talk about yourself. But I think there is such importance in taking that time to acknowledge exactly what you were just saying. Taking that time to reflect on ourselves and, you know, congratulate ourselves and honor ourselves.

[Taylor]

It's. Yeah. Tough sometimes.

[Nyx]

You know what? I listen to other people when they speak and then try to, like, apply it to life. And literally, as you said, that instead of me going into what I'm most proud of myself about, I was like, what a beautiful thing to actually ask. Thank you for sharing that just now, because it's now in my brain, like, we should be asking little people that all the time. What are you proud about today? Which is so sweet. And that is definitely something I'm gonna take into my day too. What am I most proud of? Oh, gosh, now you're seeing the cracks in the character here, because I don't know how to do that to myself. Like, what do I like the most about myself?

[Taylor]

The problem with her is she's just not good at complimenting herself.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

I don't.

[Taylor]

I can think of 10 things off the top of my head that you should be so proud of.

[Nyx]

Gosh, I mean, okay, I'm proud of. I'm proud of the fact that I feel like honesty is. I think the qualities that I maybe love about myself the most is honesty and loyalty. Like, I'm fiercely honest. I'm fiercely protective of what I believe in, fiercely passionate about things. So maybe I guess I'm proud of those qualities. I don't know.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

That's it. Let her out.

[Nyx]

There she goes, guys. There she goes. What are you proud of yourself for?

[Taylor]

She's like, can I flip this around?

[Unknown Female Guest 1]

No.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

No.

[Nyx]

Yeah. What are you proud of? I did flip it.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

It's hard.

[Nyx]

I want to hear you do it.

[Taylor]

I know mine.

[Nyx]

Oh, good.

[Taylor]

It's required thought. I don't like that question and having to think about that often as well. But having these conversations in this room has forced me to think about it. And I know my answer, and mine is.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

How.

[Taylor]

Well and deeply I love people. That's. That is definitely what I would have to point to is, you know, and it comes with, like, comes at a cost. It comes with a cost, for sure. But I, I care deeply and I, I see the good in people a lot, and I will, I will give people maybe some opportunities that shouldn't. And I just, I, I, I care and love people so deeply that even at the end of the day, if I get, you know, burnt over it or my heart crushed or whatever the bad side is, I wouldn't have it any other way. I think that's, I think it's a beautiful thing at the, at the end of the day. So that. That would be mine. Well, thank you for being here. This was a really, really special conversation.

[Nyx]

Thanks, guys.

[Taylor]

I'm so proud of everything you're doing. I mean, with your companies, but just more so you as a person and just everything you're doing in life. I respect you to the moon.

[Nyx]

Ditto.

[Unknown Female Guest 2]

Thank you.

[Nyx]

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