OM18: Birgit Lueders | Let's talk about your Eyes - IRIDOLOGY

Meet Todays Guest: Birgit LuedersBirgit Lueders is the mother of two wonderful daughters Emma and Lisa, living in Philadelphia, PA. She is a certified Master Herbalist, Yoga Teacher, Iridology Instructor, and Wellness Coach. Birgit first learned the values of an organic herbal lifestyle in her home country of Austria. Since 2009 she has operated BirgitCare -- a business focusing on health, wellness, and natural healing in Philadelphia, PA. Through BirgitCare, she offers personalized wellness coaching to support her client's emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing by using modalities like Iridology, Herbalism, Nutrition, and Colorpuncture. In 2012 Birgit founded the Center for Iridology, where she is teaching Iridology Courses around the world and annually in major cities like New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia. In 2020, during the pandemic, she adapted her Iridology Courses for online certifications and was able to move her wellness coaching program online. Throughout the past 10 years, Birgit has been a known speaker in her field at numerous national and international EXPO’s, while being consistently featured on radio and TV. After being a Fellow, a Diplomat, and the Vice-President of the International Iridology Practitioner Association (IIPA), in 2020 Birgit became President of IIPA through 2023. Can You Give Us a Little Backstory on How You Became a Master Iridologist?  It's a long path. And I swear, I believe that our destiny is written ahead of us, and somehow, we come into this life with our soul purpose and soul path. And we feel like we are writing it all up and then come into this lifetime, and then we live it. And if we live true to our soul, then we have every day for fun, or we feel at ease, or balanced, right. But if we do something that was not our destiny, or wasn't our, you know, expertise, then work is work. Like then you feel like you really working all day and one of my friends who is also a colleague of mine, she said, I made my passion as my profession. And I never worked a single day. And I thought that was very interesting when she said that. Because when you're really, isn't it true when you do what you were supposed to do? I mean, just you could be different for every single person, right? But if you do what, like for example, you do right now we're getting all the women together, you don't work a single day, right? And it's the same for me. I'm in a holistic field. And I wasn't meant to be in a holistic field at all, when I started, went for school, and started a career and college in the finance world because I actually thought my destiny was making as much money as possible, as quickly as possible, and then retire early. So, then I can have fun, right? I worked really hard got into a great, great job. Very early, early age 25 in a big, pretty much main world, right? I mean, there wasn't like 25-year olds running around, you know, like me. But I was honored that I was getting, you know, moves to have this amazing career. And it was the American Express bank in Vienna. So, I still remember I had so much fun buying my expensive, like suits and, purses and march to work, right. But then there was one thing that was missing, I had no fun at that job. I had zero fun. I was good at it, but I wasn't loving it. And so, there was this problem that I was talking about to friends that it didn't show like mentally, and because then I had fun on the weekend. But then it actually made itself clear that I wasn't on my right path, Physically. I became so sick constantly in my digestive system, it didn't matter what I was eating, I felt sick, nauseous, almost vomiting every Sunday. And I had this grandmother who was very connected to nature and herbs. And one day she said to me, maybe it's not what you're eating, maybe it's what is eating you. And when she said that I was like, wow, this is true, because I was compensating not having this passion in this field, but buying...