In this episode, Sheri Geffreys and Gina Gallagher share their healthy journey stories. They have an interesting past together! They were close friends in high school, went their separate ways and eventually found each other again on Facebook and rekindled their friendship. It turned out they'd each had a unique health journey that led them to seek out alternative healing methods. 



Learn how each of these women found relief and healing and eventually founded a company to help other women find better health products. Visit them at Yonder Food.



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Episode Transcript



Cheryl McColgan (00:00.897)Hello everyone, welcome to the Heal Nourish Grow podcast. And if you have been listening for a while, you might have noticed that I have been a little bit absent and some of you know that I moved out to Utah. So the podcast has been on a little bit of a hold, but we are back and I am excited to kick off being back on the air officially with two lovely women that I have with here with me today. And that is Gina and Sherry, and they will get the privilege of me being.



maybe slightly rusty, but I think it should all be fine. So welcome to both of you. Before we get started, I'm just going to share with the audience, I think, I don't think I've ever had actually two guests at the same time on the show before. So that'll be really fun. And these two ladies have been like best friends since high school. So we're going to hear all this really interesting backstory between the two of them. I'm gonna let Sherry start. So Sherry, if you're watching on video, hopefully their names show up, but Gina has the lovely dark brown luscious.



Sheri Geffreys (00:30.303)Thank you.



Cheryl McColgan (00:58.505)hair and Sherry has the lovely blonde luscious hair, which we'll get to later in the podcast, probably why that is and why I'm mentioning that. But Sherry, why don't you get started and just tell everybody a little bit about your health journey and how you got interested in being in this space and sharing your story.



Sheri Geffreys (01:17.582)sure, yeah. I mean, I mean, like you, you know, what happens in life is sometimes we have a very, you know, serious health scare. And that could also be the biggest blessing ever. Because for me, it was, you know, when I was 30 years old, and I was on maternity leave from a corporate the corporate world. And while I was pregnant, I felt a lump right here. And they just, oh, it's probably just your thyroid, no big deal. You know, we'll look at it when you



you know, like maybe three months or so after you give birth. Well, right after my son was born, I just, you know, you just kind of feel in your gut, like something's not right. Like it's way big. I went in there like immediately after he was born. And two weeks after he was born, they diagnosed me with Hodgkin's lymphoma. And I had to go immediately into chemo and radiation. And I had to bound my breasts from stop from breastfeeding. And it just like hit me and I didn't know anything, you know, cause I wasn't really.



studying the natural health space or anything. So I just didn't know anything and I just went into it and it scared me because my brother had that same exact cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma, and he got a secondary cancer from all the harsh treatment, the chemo and radiation. He got, by the time he was 25, he got like a, like from the radiation here, he got like a cancer in his glands. And then he ended up passing away. So he had, that already happened. So I just went into chemo radiation. I was freaked out.



And as soon as that was done, I just did a deep dive into natural health. I said, I have to change my genetic expression. I gotta figure out how to get this stuff out of my body. I need to change my life because I'm a mom now and moms are warriors, you know? And so I needed to be here for the long haul. And so that's when it started. And that was like, I just needed to do things. You know,