Welcome to the Pretty Powerful Podcast with Angela Gennari
Jan. 7, 2025

Episode 110: Darlene Greene

So excited to introduce this week's Pretty Powerful Podcast guest, Darlene Greene, a trailblazer with over 26 years of executive leadership and senior management experience spanning multiple industries. Her impressive career includes roles such as Vice President of Strategic Technology Partnerships at McAfee (Intel), Dean of Culver Girls Academy, Director of Client Services for HyeTech Networks and Security, and Senior Director at LifeWave, focusing on foundational cell activation technology.

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So excited to introduce this week's Pretty Powerful Podcast guest, Darlene Greene, a trailblazer with over 26 years of executive leadership and senior management experience spanning multiple industries. Her impressive career includes roles such as Vice President of Strategic Technology Partnerships at McAfee (Intel), Dean of Culver Girls Academy, Director of Client Services for HyeTech Networks and Security, and Senior Director at LifeWave, focusing on foundational cell activation technology.

In addition to her professional accomplishments, Darlene dedicated 20 years to military service, earning her MBA while holding three Commanding Officer positions, including serving as a base commander responsible for 1,200 personnel. In 2006, she founded the Returning Warrior Weekend Workshop, a transformative program designed to help military members and their spouses successfully reintegrate—a program that continues to impact lives across the country today.

Darlene’s passion lies in empowering people to elevate their health and vitality. She specializes in activating the GHK-CU peptide to repair DNA, reverse aging, and alleviate pain using groundbreaking photobiomodulation technology.

Join us as we delve into Darlene’s extraordinary journey, her groundbreaking innovations, and her unwavering commitment to helping others live their best lives.

Transcript

Darlene Greene

Intro: [00:00:00] Welcome to the Pretty Powerful Podcast, where powerful women are interviewed every week to share real inspiring stories and incredible insight to help women or anyone break the barriers, be a part of innovation, shatter the glass ceiling, and dominate to the top of their sport, industry, or life's mission.

Join us as we celebrate exceptional women and step into our power. And now here's your host, Angela Gennari. Hello.

Angela Gennari: Welcome to another episode of the pretty powerful podcast. My name is Angela Gennari, and today I'm here with Darlene Greene. Hi, Darlene.

Darlene Greene: Hi, Angela. It's so nice

Angela Gennari: to

Darlene Greene: be with you today.

Angela Gennari: My pleasure.

I'm really excited to talk to you for many, many, many reasons, but we've already had such a great conversation. I want to make sure that we get all the good stuff on the podcast. So Darlene Greene has over 26 years of experience in executive leadership and senior management positions across diverse industries, including [00:01:00] positions such as vice president of strategic technology partner at McAfee, McAfee.

I think I may have said that wrong, but Dean of Culver Girls Academy, Director of Client Services for High Tech Networks and Security and Senior Director of LifeWave Foundational Cell Activation Technology. During her 20 years of military experience, she earned her MBA and held three commanding officer positions, including 1200 personnel.

Darlene created the Returning Warrior Weekend Workshop in 2006 to help military and their spouses reintegrate successfully, a program that is still in existence across the country today. Her passion is helping people elevate their GHKCU peptide to activate their master foundational cells, repair their DNA, reverse age, and get out of pain through the latest photo biomodulation technology.

That's wow, that's really impressive. So, [00:02:00] uh, is the returning warrior weekend workshop similar to the yellow ribbon workshops,

Darlene Greene: actually the yellow ribbon panel funds the returning where we can work.

Angela Gennari: Okay.

Darlene Greene: Very related. They are. Essentially, um, workshops that pull the spouses and the military member together after they've come back and they spend time really kind of digging into the reintegration issues, which can be everything from the military member wanting to go back right away,

Both: which

Darlene Greene: says what, what's wrong, but when you put them in a small group and all of them want to go back, you realize it's not personal.

And then to. PTSD and what does that look like and and how do you grow transformational growth through that process?

Angela Gennari: Yeah, well, and I'm really familiar with the program because one of the things that we've done in my company so and and what I did in my past life and my previous company was we book hotels and [00:03:00] arrange all of the space for the yellow ribbon.

We actually were pretty closely tied into a lot of the military housing. Military retreats. Uh, so we actually did that a lot from my, with my company and my previous company as well. So, um, I used to work with the procurement officers to find the hotels to, you know, set up the programs. And so I'm very familiar with the programs, and I'm always, I'm always in all of what they're doing, because I think it's.

Such an important thing to do with our returning military members is to get them back into a place where they're not just going straight to their house and like, okay, now today you have to walk the dog, do laundry. And you know, you're, you're immediately thrust into this environment that is so unfamiliar to you because yesterday you were kicking down doors and searching out terrorists.

And today you're like, okay, here's your honey do list, get at it, you know? And so it's, it's a tough transition. Exactly. Well, I think that that's amazing that you created that because, [00:04:00] um, you know, again, just such a good, such an amazing thing. And you spent 20 years in the Navy. Is that correct?

Darlene Greene: I did. I did.

I, um, I want to say that it was, and, and I'm not giving away my power, I promise, but I am going to say that there was a team of us that built that returning where we can program. Um, I certainly was spearheading it. You know, I stood in front of a Navy folks at one weekend and said, I want to build a program.

That better serves you and your families. I don't know what that needs to look like,

Both: but I bet you do.

Darlene Greene: Let's talk through it. So anyway, um, That was, that was neat. And yes, I did 20 years in the Navy. I loved it. Uh, I actually am married to a Navy, uh, retired Navy captain. All of my children have served or are serving to the boys, two boys were Marines.

One of the Marines became a Navy helicopter pilot. Uh, daughter went to the Air Force Academy and my other daughter went to the Naval Academy. So it's a, it's, my dad was Air Force, retired Colonel, [00:05:00] we, you know, I think we have served and I've, I've often said, I don't care if you serve four years, I serve your country.

You'll always be proud of it. You will never regret having served and, um, you'll have a family for life. You're always found everywhere you look, no matter what service. They're your brothers and sisters.

Angela Gennari: Yeah. Well, and that makes me feel really good because my boy is 17 and his goal is he's right now applying for a Navy ROTC scholarship to get a scholarship into college.

Uh, he wants to study aeronautical engineering and his goal is to go into the Navy and hopefully God willing, become a Navy pilot. So that's his goal. So, So he's, he's already talked to many, many, um, recruiters and, and advisors. And so he said on the Navy and the next, uh, he'll be there within a year.

Darlene Greene: That's fantastic. And that's how I went to the Navy. I did an ROTC scholarship at university of Virginia. I've been in the Navy. So yeah, it was [00:06:00] really great. It's a great program.

Angela Gennari: Yeah. He's excited. We went and visited a Navy ROTC school up at university of North Carolina. And, um, they actually walked us around.

I mean, just incredibly wonderful people. So, um, we were really, really impressed with the program. So very cool. So you get, did you do any of the research that you're doing currently? Did you do any of that in the Navy or was this a newer venture?

Darlene Greene: This is a newer venture. I will say that I did a lot of research into health, uh, well, because of my own autoimmune disorders.

I did not choose wisely in my first two marriages. They were very, very tough. Yeah. Emotionally and physically abusive, and I had to get out and, and just getting out was hard. Mm-hmm . Um, the, I had PTSD, uh, I had, uh, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, you [00:07:00] know, all sorts of things that I believe were stress related.

And so I, there is no Western medicine cure for any of these, right? So they basically, sorry, we have no idea what to do. I don't, I don't actually think they know what they are or how they're caused other than, um, this is a group of symptoms. You have this diagnosis. And so I never really owned the diagnosis, but I dug in to learn a lot about health and holistic, uh, approaches and healthy living.

So on about stress management, which ended up serving me very well for building that return where you were in your weekend program, because I had been through my own EMDR. I had been through my own stress management classes. I understood transformational growth. I was able to see the pain in my, uh, Navy brethren when They're not really quick to tell you about it,

Both: but

Darlene Greene: I don't know that if I would have not endured my own, I would have even noticed there's so the, the health journey back then was [00:08:00] certainly significant.

But it was really when my husband, my current husband, the greatest man on the planet, who I finally got it right. And was diagnosed with early Alzheimer's. And he was 64. Um, very young, very early Alzheimer's. And the decline was incredibly rapid. Partly because it's early Alzheimer's. Some have said partly because he got Uh, the vaccination, and it's turbo Alzheimer's, uh, he's got the APOE44 gene type from both parents, and so I went looking for something, and the only pharmaceutical medicine available would actually cause a brain bleed in 50 percent of the people.

PoE 4 4 type. So we tried a ton of different modalities from gene mapping and microbiome intervention and testing to infrared sauna, red light therapy, hyperbaric chamber. Uh, I've heard, I think Tasha was using [00:09:00] that in one of your podcasts. Uh, yeah, certainly, um, ozone therapy, hydrogen, water, daily strength and, uh, high intensity training, a sleep protocol, you know, all of it.

Um, Um, nothing was working. We actually went out of country for stem cells four times, uh, both for him. And for me, hoping that it would help my autoimmune, I had four autoimmune disorders at the end of it. And, uh, we were hoping for it to help. And it was, it was 10, 000 plus per IV and injection and saw no results as a result of any of that.

But it, but doing that, uh, was what caused someone who knew me to say, I know you're interested in STEM cells. I have, um, been using a technology for my family that has. elevated. Uh, if you're anywhere outside of the United States, if

Both: you're inside

Darlene Greene: of the United States by FDA and FTC rules, I need to say something besides that.

So I'll call [00:10:00] them master foundational cells.

Both: Um,

Darlene Greene: and they are elevating your own to help your body. Optimizing and, you know, tap into its innate wisdom and heal itself. So honestly, I was incredibly skeptical. I had, you know, I'd spent a hundred thousand dollars, uh, in a year on medical stuff. So you're going to tell me that this tiny patch, the size of a quarter that is, uh, doesn't have any medicine in it is, has no contraindications is a hundred percent safe.

It's like a little band aid is going to change my life. Yeah, I don't believe that. So, but I was like, I'll try anything. I think what, what do I have to lose money back guarantee 99 one month supply, bring it on. So you can only imagine my shock. And I just want to describe my husband at the time we started patching him was essentially age five.

Both: He

Darlene Greene: was not speaking anymore. [00:11:00] He was no longer engaging in conversation. I think it was just too hard for him. He was not his personality. So he was no longer trying to be funny, which was core to his personality. He would ask me the same questions over and over again. And if I asked him for a glass of water, he just had no idea of what I was talking about or how to do that.

It was not, not possible. Imagine my surprise when we put the technology on him in the very first week. And the very first day he doesn't take the three and a half hour nap that he always has been taking or fall asleep at seven at night. He is chatty Cathy, like, like two years of conversation stuck and the dam broke and now it's going to all come out and it's making sense and he's with it.

And he's not three conversations behind. Um, and I was just like, whoa, what is going on? Wow. I actually, uh, I saw amazing things like in the second week, his deep sleep went from [00:12:00] 15 minutes, which was the best we'd ever gotten. And that's when the brain cleans itself, right? It lus his toxins. Mm-hmm . Uh, in that second week, he went from 15 minutes to an hour and 25 minutes of deep sleep.

Um, the best. As he was back to his funny flirty personality again and other things, you know, he regained the ability to whistle and drum and his blood pressure dropped 37 points and he regained a sense of smell, which he'd lost 15 years ago. And I'm just like, and his bald spot starts flowing up and hair starts growing from on his head.

And I'm just, wow. Wow. You know, so that was his, um, his experience. Which in one week, um, I got my husband back and, and it's not cured him. I don't want anybody to think, and I have to be very, very careful to say our products are not intended to, uh, to cure, treat, diagnose, or prevent disease. Even if they do, um, wellness, general wellness product, they facilitate the body's healing of itself.

But, um, but I will say that. Uh, I got him back in that first week and it has, uh, really the things that improved for him have [00:13:00] stayed improved for him. Others declined. So, and I still have a lot of hope actually. Um, my, uh, story was a little different. I had One of the autoimmune disorders that I had was, is called POTS, postural orthostatic tachycardia.

Not enough blood gets to the brain. You blackout and pass out. And I had it in 2005, and I had been diagnosed, uh, after two weeks of not being able to drive, and, you know, having bonked my head a couple times, and it was kind of a serious thing. So they prescribed a medicine that increases my blood pressure, called fluted cortisol.

And like, that sounds like a really bad idea. Is there no alternative? And they're like, not really, you know, compression socks and eat a lot of salts, you know, whatever. So, um, I was taking this medicine and I was hoping that those. out of country stem cell IVs that we were getting would in fact help my POTS because that was the most significant.

I still [00:14:00] had the diabetes of the, of the two, you know, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, but I had rosacea, I had other things, but I was really, that was the most significant for me. I couldn't go play, pick a ball, um, without getting overheated and passing or go to the gym and work out and do squats.

Because I would just go, you know, it was just bad. So this is my, well, from the moment, and I guess I should mention two other things. I had a broken foot. I had a sprained ankle. I had torn a ligament a hundred percent and another one, 90%. And I was awaiting surgery. And I was in a lot of pain. I was also depressed.

Um, my, my coping mechanisms that I was using to be a care provider for Alzheimer's had kind of left the building when I broke my foot because I no longer could go for walks. I couldn't work out. I couldn't do a lot of the social things that were kind of keeping me sane. And so I was depressed, and I wanted to cry every day, and that's where I was when I started, um, wearing these patches.[00:15:00]

And the first, most immediate thing was getting pain free. Getting pain free in the minute that I started patching was so remarkable to me that I didn't believe it. I didn't believe it because I just, I just couldn't believe that these little stickers could possibly

Both: possibly

Darlene Greene: take away my pain. Um, so I just thought this is the day and the five month journey that my pain goes away.

But you wear the patches 12 hours on and then you take them off 12 hours and the pain relief patch is really the only one that's going to work immediately. The others take time to rejuvenate and regenerate cells, right? But this one is instant. And so when I took this one off, um, my pain came back in five minutes, like robbing, okay, there's something to this.

And then I noticed over, you know, probably two to three weeks, my depression just completely lifted. My headaches stopped. I was no longer stress eating. Uh, I was actually dropping weight in [00:16:00] effortlessly. And this is the person who was trying three day fast, five day fast, all these, you know, uh, you name it.

I was doing it and nothing, nothing like it was just so frustrating. And all of a sudden pounds are melting off without effort. Um, you know, I didn't have any symptoms. of my autoimmune disorders. Um, and my rosacea cleared up and all of the things like it was just like phenomenal. So I started by just sharing my, with my mom, my dad, my sister, and I got to watch them, you know, my sister's microscopic colitis, she had six years and in steroids and she'd gotten stem cell.

No, um, three weeks on patches and she cleared up. And so I began to. What is this? What do I have my hands on? And dove into the science, the studies, and I learned a lot. And that's when I became this You know, person so passionate about helping other people elevate this copper peptide that's already naturally occurring in your body so that [00:17:00] you can activate your own master foundational cells.

And, and I didn't know that when you're 30, half of your step, half of your stem cells are, or your master foundational cells are dormant. And by age 60, there's just a small percentage that are active. Um, I did know enough about them because I'd gone researching them to get them out of country to know that they are the body's raw materials, right?

The first two cells that came together are these cells that can become anything in your body and they can become bone or muscle or cartilage or fat or brain or lungs or liver, you know, three potent stem cells can become anything in your body. And they also trigger the death of old cells. So You know, our company has done millions of dollars worth of research in these and, and, uh, when, when they figured out a way to put this light therapy patch on that has no drugs in it, that will help your body elevate your copper peptide, which then has been studied for 50 years.

If you Google and [00:18:00] PubMed. GHKCU, you will see all of the research that's double blind placebo controlled studies on all the things that this does. And it's, it's remarkable. It, um, it's resets genes. It resets 4, 200 genes to their younger, healthier state. It definitely increases. I mean, GHKCU is proven to increase stem cells.

It is produced growth factors. It is proven to improve brain and nerves, uh, and heart health and tissue and healing and anti cancer resetting program. Cell death of cancer cells without affecting, uh, healthy cells and actually even resetting 84 genes to fight against cancer, um, protecting lung cells, uh, improving skin and hair and lengthening telomeres, which are, you know, correlated to your health and lifespan.

So. And it is so, it's too simple [00:19:00] to even believe how it works because, but, but we, we understand, we actually understand more about phototherapy than you think. Cause I, when I first got into this, I don't know anything about phototherapy really. I had, I haven't heard SANA, I have a red light therapy, but I really don't understand it.

Uh, I just know it's good for me. Science says, right.

Both: But

Darlene Greene: I'll tell you, uh, what I've learned is. Just like when you go outside in the sun, your body gets a light signal on your skin that causes your body to make vitamin D. It's a signal molecule, right? And like your body makes melanin to protect your skin.

It's

Both: this,

Darlene Greene: that is called photobiomodulation. And that's how this little tiny patch works. It's like, um, it's like a double sided mirror. So it's made up of These, um, aminos and crystals and sugars and salts and oxygen that are hermetically sealed. And it's creating this lattice structure that's taking the light from within you.

If I looked at you with night vision goggles on, I would see light inside of you. [00:20:00] This is flexing our own light back into us at a very specific wavelength that causes this copper peptide to elevate, causing all of those amazing benefits. It's just remarkable.

Angela Gennari: Wow. That is incredible. So, I mean, there's just so much here because, you know, like I, you've listened to the episode with Tasha and all the health issues that she had.

I have another really good friend of mine who, you know, she had a very similar circumstance where her husband got early onset Alzheimer's. And, you know, he's at the point right now where he needs full time care. And so he is in an assisted living facility and he is not old. He is not, you know, at the age where you would think he would need full time care.

So it's scary to see how fast things happen. So why is this not more readily available to people? And why is this not more, um, more discussed in the news? And why aren't we all, you know, hearing about this all the time?

Darlene Greene: Well, it's interesting. Um, and it's a, [00:21:00] it's an incredibly poignant question and I was actually very mad, Angela.

I was very mad. I had done a lot of research. So imagine you find out about this from a friend and you're like, wait, to all these doctors. I have been every, you know, and what really made me mad is when I asked the doctors, have you heard of this? Oh yeah. I, I use those.

Angela Gennari: Wow.

Darlene Greene: Or doctors using these, but they are so careful with what they say.

They have to be careful about telling people to take vitamin D. They have to be careful about everything these days because of, uh, really pressures by the whole industry. But what, what I have found is. It is used by more people than you would think. Um, I found out Tom Brady, the Kansas City Chiefs, Serena Williams, David Beckham, Michael Phelps, over 300 Olympic athletes in the 2008 Olympics.

We're wearing these patches. Um, there's an anesthesiologist and I, I thought of, [00:22:00] uh, I thought of this quote when I was listening to the podcast with Tasha, because I think Tasha would agree that your health is your greatest wealth, right? There's

Both: this

Darlene Greene: anesthesiologist, 40 year physician who said, That this is the most significant medical breakthrough in my lifetime.

Um, that's what he said. And to answer your question about why, well, who owns the news? Who owns the, like pharmaceutical companies are so in bed with the medical and throughout the medical industry. And this really is problematic for their business model. Um, every pharmaceutical that you ever take, it masks, sometimes it causes side effects.

It is not getting to the root cause problem and resolving it. Um, and, and I'm not saying don't take medicines and I'm not saying don't go to doctors. I'm not, I am all for whatever you need to do to make yourself healthy. I'm just saying there are alternatives. And one of the things [00:23:00] that I find is because this is inspiring and optimizing our body and getting it to homeostasis and, and it's.

It is even, I have testimonials on people that have Bell's palsy, and MS, and neuropathy, and all the things that Tasha discussed. I have people, you know, there are all testimonies for blood pressure dropping, cholesterol dropping, um, A1C dropping, uh, diabetes, no longer needing insulin. Um, people that aren't able to walk, walking.

People that are on their deathbed and told, sorry, you have four to six months to live. Um, turning it around with no other intervention other than these patches. So there are amazing things the body can do when you activate those foundational master cells, because those are what made you and they can go kind of repair really anything but I think There is, first of all, you've, you've seen me dance around words.

We're not allowed to use. We're not allowed claims. We're not a medical device. We're a general wellness product. So there are, we have [00:24:00] to, we have to be careful. And, and I think that, uh, you know, even though there are 90 clinical studies, um, one of the questions I had for, uh, our, our global sales, uh, vice president Why don't we get Tom Brady to show himself wearing the pouches?

One commercial, right? And he's like, that is, that costs so much money, right? The cost of those, of those elite athletes or movie stars or people wearing the pouches is so high. And that's just not how our company operates. So I think that, um, I will say this, our company has grown. I mean, it's we've we've won the highest growth award four years in a row, uh, the momentum award.

And, uh, so we're, we're the fastest growing of our kind. And that's not because they don't work. It's because people like me, who Who heard about them and said, Sure, I'll try [00:25:00] them and then had these amazing results. Now we can't shut up about him because I feel like it would be a disservice to stay quiet about this.

Yeah, I know that there are people out there that are where I was five years ago and I truly believe if we would have started patching my husband five years ago we would not be where we are today at all. And I know that there are people with all sorts of issues that have lost hope, and that they, they think that the white coat doctor is the only one with the answers.

And actually your body, your body has answers. And what I love about these patches is it doesn't even matter. Um, what it is like, you don't have to name for it. You don't have to know what it is. You, you know, you can trust that your body will go where it needs to go and it will do what it needs to do, but also say this, we're available in 87 countries.

This is not, this is a 20 year old company. Um, they, they, they literally are so safe. They come to your mailbox in an envelope. You take them out and [00:26:00] you put them on like they are safe enough for kids to grandparents. Um, although the company doesn't have studies on kids. Every one of us that is patching patches or patches kids, um, and, and sees an amazing results for even my friend whose child had autism and, or a rare genetic disorder like autism.

And she went from, uh, even though 16 years old, academically kindergarten to upper third, lower fourth grade and in five weeks, five weeks,

Both: you know, five

Darlene Greene: times of changes and and not being able to ever be left alone. To, um, to being able and and the reduction of anxiety, the reduction of inflammation. Um, the improvement on heart health, every six weeks you wear that foundational master cell activation patch, your cardiovascular system becomes eight weeks younger.

There are brain images on my website. You can see where you can actually watch an EEG through time three [00:27:00] weeks and then six weeks and see the reduction in inflammation and the people, um, reported their, their nervous systems. Calm down. They had improved cognition and memory. So it's, it's a really, uh, phenomenal thing.

And I would say that for me, um, the most fun is touching people to get them out of pain. One, because they immediately feel it like within a minute, we feel it, right. They, they feel it and they, they can't believe it. And they get, they give you this. And it's even fun with my husband who forgets, right? He forgets that these are going to take him out of pain.

So if he tweaks something or if his back is hurting and I put them on him, he's like a little kid. That's just like, it's magic, you know? But, uh, because they work so quickly, people will say, okay, um, I believe that this technology is really effective. And so I'm willing to, to try those patches that take longer, you know, six to nine months to really rejuvenate and regenerate, uh, all [00:28:00] of those cells to really maybe get to the root cause and start your body's healing process and resolving some of those bigger issues that people have, but it's, it's just, It's the best thing I've ever seen in my life.

And, um, it's the silver lining, I would say to my husband's journey. Um, and it, uh, it has really helped me not focus on. My situation and the sadness of losing a partner and a, and a mate. And it really, the man who stands before me as my husband is not the same man. That was my husband. Um, But recognizing that it's as a result of his journey that I can help other people and I can find joy in the midst of grief.

Angela Gennari: Yeah. Wow. And that's gotta be really tough because I mean, when you marry somebody and you're deeply in love with them, and then all of a sudden the person changes right in front of your eyes, it's like grieving the death of [00:29:00] someone that you've known without actually having them gone physically, they're there mentally.

They're not. And it's similar to, to what my, my friend tells me and hers as well. So she said, it's not, I, it's not the man I love. I don't, I don't know the man that that is. You know, and so it's in her husband's body, but it's not mentally him.

Darlene Greene: Exactly. Um, you know, your whole relationship changes to parent child and, and, uh, things become very awkward.

Just, just showering, changing clothes, uh, you know, kissing on the mouth, like things that you just took for granted. are now like weird. It isn't that same person for you. For them, sometimes, sometimes not. Um, you know, their filters are all gone. They say the dangerous things. Um,

Both: you

Darlene Greene: know, it's, it is, it is like the death of a thousand cuts every day.

There's a different little death or a different thing lost or, um, you know, And, and yet they're [00:30:00] still there in front of you. There's still a responsibility. There's still, um, love. And every now and then, I think the hardest part is every now and then there's this, you know, This breakthrough glimpse of the old Jim, and he was and he'll, he'll hug me and look at me and I'll say, you're my everything.

And I'm just like, oh, you know, just like, yeah, open and, and I'm like, wow, and then most of the time he's, he's acting like he's four or five so You know, um, it's almost easier when he's acting like four or five. I know what to expect. It's when the, the 68 year old breaks through and next with me again, that I just kind of like, ah, the in and out.

So it is that ambiguous losses. It is really, really hard. And I am therefore. Grateful because I feel like I am handling this so much better than I was I am a much more patient care provider.

Both: Yeah,

Darlene Greene: I'm a much more patient, calmer person. I'm not depressed, [00:31:00] and I have every reason to be.

Angela Gennari: Yeah, yeah,

Darlene Greene: you know I'm able to, I actually work hard at that though I will say.

It isn't something that comes easily. I do all the things. I do the meditation. I do the walks around the neighborhood. I do work out in the gym. I do cardio. I do, um, socialization. I am, I'm, I do gratitude, right? I do a lot of things to stay in a positive mind space. Because, um, because it is. There are always going to be harder days and days, but I also give myself a lot of grace.

It's okay to cry. I have every reason to cry. You cry if you want to cry, Darlene, and you laugh if you want to laugh, you have permission to have joy. It's okay. You're not going to the ship. Do not die with your husband. You're too young like this. And that's where I thought I was before patching. I would tell you, I would, I remember saying to my sister, I just don't know how people survive this.[00:32:00]

Heartbreaking. Like, I feel like my heart is just going to break into a thousand pieces and I'm just going to lay down and I'm never going to wake up again. Like it's just that hard. So mostly because it would be easier if he was an asshole.

Both: Yeah.

Darlene Greene: Naysist guy. He is still the sweetest man. Um, he was, he was a gift from angels above.

He was everything I would ever want in a man. And I loved our love. Our marriage, it was just the best marriage of anyone I know. Uh, it was the easiest. It was, it was filled with joy and love and, and romance and, and respect and, um, and kindness and, and, and I love, I loved everything about him. He's just the most wonderful human.

And so, you know, there are a lot of people in the world that I think think down but not, Yeah. Right. So, There are times where go through that anger or cycles of, you know, why, him and all of it?

Angela Gennari: Absolutely. But honestly, like I, I believe there are no accidents in the world there, there is no, you know, [00:33:00] it just happened to be this way.

There's no coincidences. I believe everything is by design. And I think that deep love that you felt, you know, when you, when you. is what drove you to find the, the, the alternate ways to make him better. And honestly, like, if it were one of, you know, if it was somebody else, you may not have been driven to say, we're going to find the way.

And so because it's him, you know, because it is him and because you were able to feel that love and feel that deep connection, you weren't going to stop until you found a way and that way is now hopefully going to benefit Millions of other people. And so there, there's no accidents. There's, there is no coincidences in the world.

So it's amazing. So, so that, you know, you seeking out alternative ways to cure your husband, I think is, I applaud you for that because it's not easy. And, and everything that we're taught in the U S is to just trust the doctor. [00:34:00] And I'm the most distrusting person when it comes to, you know, I question everything.

I've questioned everything since I was a child. You couldn't tell me anything without me asking why or prove it. Like, I, I don't trust you. Like if you, if you're going to tell me something, I want to do my own research. I want to figure it out on my own. You're not going to tell me what to do. So I don't go to the doctor very often because I'll do my checkup.

I'll do my, my blood screen. I'll do all the things. I think for the majority of it, I think it's kind of garbage, but, um, you know, I think that your, your body tells you what's going on and it's your choice to listen or not listen. And, um, I think the best cures are sleep. a good diet, you know, um, some, some great herbal medicines, you know, in terms of like, you know, making sure that you're putting good things into your body and not putting toxins into your body.

And so I think that those are the, the cure for most things. I think that our, our country sometimes is trying to kill us with what [00:35:00] they allow, you know, we have, I think it's something like 5, 000 different chemicals in our foods. That, um, the government has approved. No other country is that high, none. Um, so no other country has that many chemicals in their foods.

And we're wondering why autism as is that an all time, all time high. You know, the, the rate of vaccinations of children is insane. And once again, the doctor's like, this is the vaccination schedule. And I was like, it's not my vaccination schedule. It's not what I'm going to give to my child. Like this might be yours and what you do to other children, but that won't be my son's.

Vaccination schedule. And so I altered it and, uh, you know, I made sure he had the vaccinations that he was mandatory to have before he went into school, but it was going to be on my schedule and not theirs. And, um, and so I think that's, you know, same thing with, uh, when I had my child, they, they insisted that I had to have, you know, they were like, we're going to schedule you for, you know, an induction.

I was like, no, you are not. My baby is coming [00:36:00] when my baby is ready to come. And so they. Yeah, they want to automatically induce you, they want to automatically put Pitocin in you and then an Epidural and the whole medicated birth and I was like, I'm not doing that. And I had to fight with the doctors all the way through my delivery, even during my delivery my doctor was calling up the nurses and saying go ahead and start the Epidural and the nurse is like, I'm not doing it like I don't think you know who you're dealing with here but I'm not going to be the one to push an epidural on this woman because she will kill me.

So, um, yeah, so, I mean, I'm like, I, I, women are made to do this. I can do this. There's no reason I have to have medicine. This is what we've been doing for thousands of years. Don't tell me I'm not capable of doing this without Pitocin and epidural, but thank you. And so, you know, I, I do feel like our country is not looking out for our best interests.

They're looking out for the interest of the pharmaceutical companies and the donors and the lobbyists and and everybody else. So it's, it's really up to us to make the decisions on our health that are going to [00:37:00] make sense.

Darlene Greene: I so agree with you, Angela. And I think so few people understand that when you look at doctors and God love them, but you know, they came through medical school, guess right.

Curriculum for medical school, pharmaceutical companies curriculum for medical school, but they learned to. And they learn drugs. They don't, they get one class of nutrition. If they get any classes in nutrition,

Both: don't know

Darlene Greene: any of these alternative therapies, um, or holistic approaches or the, you know, we think of Western medicine as, um, newer and better, but we really older Eastern Chinese medicine and herbs and all of the things that have been around really much longer are so much healthier.

And, uh, you know, they don't think prevention, they think This, these are the symptoms. This is the disease. This is the drug. That's the way their minds at.

Angela Gennari: Yeah, exactly. There's a, there's a prescription for everything. You know, when my son tells me he has a headache, I tell him to go drink a glass of water.

I don't tell him to go take Tylenol. I say you're dehydrated, you know, [00:38:00] go, go drink two glasses of water. If you still have a headache in an hour, let me know. But, yeah, yeah. And so.

Darlene Greene: It's 80 percent of headaches are dehydration.

Angela Gennari: Exactly. Exactly. So, you know, I think that, um, there's so, if, if people would only do their own research, and this is why I applaud you because so few people do it, you know, they're, they're just so willing to just follow the, what they think is the science, but it's not, you know, and, and, you know, it's no different than the vaccine thing.

And I don't want this to become political, but, you know, like, There's there's study after study after study after study that shows the vaccine was never intended to be, you know, a cure and it was more toxic than it, than it should have been. And, you know, I, I had people who, you know, we lost clients over it because they wanted us to mandate vaccinations.

And I'm like, I am not going to be in charge of anyone else's health. I'm so sorry, but that is not my job. My job as a CEO is not to mandate what people do with their health. And I'm sorry that. [00:39:00] You feel that way, but I'm not going to do that. It's it's everybody's individual decision what they do with their health.

Darlene Greene: I love that. I found it just awful when especially when you have, you know, military members who have had coven.

Both: Yeah, and then

Darlene Greene: they, they actually are mandated to get the vaccination, they've had. But they were like, what? And yeah, no, they were discharged from the military

Angela Gennari: with dishonor. It was dishonorable, wasn't it?

And which was so it was just so shocking that our government could be just so tone deaf to what was happening. But yeah, so I mean, they gave him a dishonorable discharge from the military, which was just heartbreaking. I mean, people who dedicated their, you know, their career and their, some of them, you know, their life to serving our country.

And there is Honorable discharge to not take an experimental vaccine. Like, that's ridiculous. But, you know, if you, if you also look at, you know, studies from the CIA, they used our military personnel for experimental testing back then, um, from [00:40:00] mind control to everything else. So, and that's a whole other thing, but it's all documented and, um, but, you know, I don't, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but there's, there's common sense and there's, you know, do your own research and, um, but yeah, so that, that's a, it's a scary situation, but, um.

Yeah, and then and then all of a sudden they're like, Oh, we don't have any military members. We need to get more military. Well, we'll, we'll promise we'll, we'll take away the dishonorable discharge if you just come back because once they realize that the vaccine was killing people, um, you know, heart issues and, and yeah, onset, early onset Alzheimer's.

Darlene Greene: One of the problems with anybody who's either had the virus or had the vaccination is the spike protein and that spike protein go away, right? So it's, it's going to negatively impact gut, lungs, heart, and brain. And we have three patches that in just a couple of months knock out that spike protein.

There's a lot of to knock out the spike protein. But if you don't do anything about the spike proteins, they're in your body and they're going to cause problems. [00:41:00] problems. So, uh, by just taking, uh, by wearing that master foundational stem, um, cell activating patch, as well as an anti inflammation patch, as well as a patch that elevates glutathione.

Glutathione is your body's master antioxidant. The people who live the longest in the world have the highest levels of glutathione. I was actually taking glutathione orally and via IV before I knew anything about the patches for my autoimmune disorders.

Both: Wow.

Darlene Greene: They, uh, Those three things in combination in just two months will take, knock it out.

And I, and I love that. So I feel armed and dangerous. I feel protected. Um, and I, I, you know, it's. So much of the people, so many people in the world aren't getting good sleep. You know, they don't have enough energy. They're living on caffeine or Red Bull or energy drinks. And they, and, and here is something that helps your body naturally elevate melatonin, naturally elevate [00:42:00] serotonin, naturally, um, get better sleep, better energy, um, better mitochondrial function.

You know, disease is really at a cellular level. Like it's the cell that's not healthy. So when you can go and you can create health in a cell and then those healthy cells duplicate, man, you're, you're really tapping into your own power. Powerful. So I love, um, I love this whole notion of. having your body's innate wisdom resolved.

Now, there's an issue because what happens is, um, if I've got wrist pain, and I put this patch on, uh, and I want my wrist pain to go away, and that's really all I care about, uh, I may get frustrated when these master foundational cell activation patches don't work. Just like, aren't taking away my wrist pain right away.

Why aren't they taking me? No, the pain relief patches are different, but a lot of people don't do those. So they may just do this, uh, master foundational cell activating patch because eventually it will resolve the [00:43:00] issue for you. It just doesn't matter how long is it going to take.

Both: Well,

Darlene Greene: we'll say, well, I'm not, I'm not feeling anything.

Well, 80 percent of people feel something in three to six weeks, but it can take a long time. Uh, there was a gentleman in his seventies. who was very frustrated because he really wanted, um, his feet and his knees to feel better. He had seven knee surgeries and seven surgeries. So all he cared for were his knees and his feet.

Well, in the first week he doubled his energy and then he doubled his sleep and then he had better breathing and then he no longer needed a pill to urinate after his prostate cancer situation, right? So all of a sudden, lots of things, you know, his, he has better hearing, he had better eyesight. He had all of these things improving.

But, you know, he's six months in now and he still has knee pain and feet pain. And he thought about like just stopping because he's like, well, it's just not taking care of my knees and my feet, but he kept patching. And it was seven and a half months in that his knee pain and his foot pain went away. [00:44:00] And finally he was just like, Oh, I'm so happy.

And so guess what? He kept patching. Um, he had over 120, um, precancerous cells on his, you know, basal carcinoma things on his hands. And they had to burn them off twice. And he was, he's, he described to me, um, my friend, Bob, that, that this was so painful. He just cried through the procedure. And what happened is he had to, they all grew back and he was going to have to do it again.

And he just was really putting it off because he's like, I just can't, I can't bear it. And at the two, somewhere in the two year mark of patching, he noticed they were gone. His, his pre cancerous. cells were gone. And, uh, then at the three year mark of patching, he noticed he could read without glasses for the first time since third grade.

You know, just, you know, there's a cumulative effect when your body starts reverse aging and, you know, people love that they have less [00:45:00] wrinkles and they have more collagen. Collagen is the most abundant protein in your body. So when you are And when you're improving collagen in every cell in your body, you're improving health.

We can see visually with our skin because it's the largest, most visible organ in our body, but we're actually improving the health of your organs inside kind of maybe more important organs inside. And so improving, um, organs and you can read the studies. Um, that show the improved organ health. It's just really phenomenal.

Angela Gennari: Wow. So what are some of the obstacles that you've overcome? I mean, this is, there's so much to this that, I mean, we've, we've, we've touched on one because if this is so helpful, this is so amazing. This should be everywhere, but tell me about some of the obstacles and, and we briefly touched on it and I understand, but tell, tell the audience kind of what, what obstacles you're having to overcome just to get this out.

Darlene Greene: Yeah, well, obviously we have to be careful with what we say. Um, and I, I'm [00:46:00] probably skirting a little close to, you know, the, you know, the line here, but, um, because we, we can't make claims of cure or, or treatment. And, and I always throw in like even if they do these things we can't make those claims, we can speak to symptoms and symptoms have disappeared, that kind of thing, but I'm kind of a believer role if you don't have the symptoms.

But yeah, I think, I think a couple things. One is. There are too many people who really are too close minded to even try. I think they're just brought up so much that everything the doctor says is true. And the doctors are the only people with wisdom. And then they're and they're really very trusting and maybe a lot naive about the whole medical institutions.

I have, I think one of the hardest [00:47:00] things for me to overcome Angela was, I feel so passionately that every person can benefit from these. And so I'll have a very dear friend of mine, who's got this issue and that issue and this issue and I just I just want to like, I'll buy your patches. Like, and I have, I have actually bought patches for friends and just like, just wear them

Both: and,

Darlene Greene: and, and yeah, they'll be like, no, thank you.

I'm okay. And I'm like, Oh, or I had, I had, um, one person who a very dear friend of mine. Two very dear girlfriends of mine. And you're gonna, this is gonna drive you up the wall. Both of which were like, yes, I want to start these patches. I am ready, Darlene. Let's go. And then they talked to their husbands.

And both of their husbands said no. And, um, and one husband said no because it was, um, direct sales. And that he wasn't going to have anything to do. I'm like, but you actually can buy retail. You can pay 150 if you want. You don't have to, you don't have to get wholesale pricing. [00:48:00] Right. But, but no. And the other husband was like, I just don't believe in any of that.

He doesn't believe in, in any kind of nutritional supplement. So, um, not vitamins, not anything. So I, you know, and I, I said to my girlfriends, these are, these are strong, powerful women. I'm like, let me see if I understand this.

Whether you are going to do this for your own health, something that actually by improving your own health, you are actually a better me. You're a better, you're, you're going to live longer. You're bigger error of this husband. You're going to let that, I mean, cause it's not the cost for any of them. It's and, and they were just like, yeah, I'm just not up for the fight.

And I was like, okay, so letting that go, knowing that I just, My job is to share and introduce. If someone wants to try it, great. Try it. Okay. Not my, not my problem. Like as much as I love these folks, maybe one day, um, but maybe [00:49:00] not, I don't know. Um, it's not, it's not my responsibility to go heal the world.

And I have a responsibility to share and that's really kind of it. Um, that's where it stops. And, and, and even that Angela is really out of my comfort zone. Um, share with you that I was the person that my high school friends wouldn't have known anything in my life was going on because I had posted once when one daughter graduated from the Air Force Academy and once when a daughter graduated from the Naval Academy.

And really that was kind of it like, right,

Angela Gennari: right.

Darlene Greene: That's what's going on with darling. I was very private and talking about the most vulnerable issues of my life and things that are so hard on a public forum to the world is not comfortable. It is not easy, but I am, I have mad respect for podcasters. I have listened to so many people be so vulnerable and so [00:50:00] transparent.

And by by their bravery and courage in in your bravery and courage in doing this. You know, it really has inspired me to be brave and courage, courageous and share my story. Uh, and so in doing that, I, I know I, I've helped hundreds of people who are now patching and I get a text message every day from someone who can't believe it.

Um, the woman I patched on the plane sent me a little glint of the good witch and she said, okay, my little good witchy poo. Like I had no first time in six months, like, how is that possible? And I'm just like, Your body is a magical machine. So,

Angela Gennari: yeah, that's amazing. So as you know, we talk about, you know, giving away your power and you even mentioned it in the beginning.

I'm not giving away my power. So tell me about a time that you did give away your power and another time that you stepped into your power.

Darlene Greene: Yeah. Oh, so I had to really think I'm back. I was on a walk listening to you. You, you asked this question and all of your podcasts and I [00:51:00] stopped your podcast. And I walked for five minutes trying to think of a time when I had given up my power, and I really had a hard time.

I had a really hard time thinking because I have been standing strong in my power for a really long time, but I went all the way back. And it didn't occur to me on the walk like I finally like press start again and playing but it was. One day I was in the bath and I was like, I remember a time and it was very early in my naval career.

Um, I was just a brand new 01 ensign and I had a senior female officer say to me, You know, you smile too much.

Angela Gennari: Oh, wow.

Darlene Greene: You smile too much and you're too friendly. And, um, you know, the chiefs are thinking that you're flirting with them. And I go, are they really thinking that I'm flirting with them? And she's like, well, it doesn't matter.

You're smiling too much. And, um, and they're going to think that. And so you need to not smile so much. And you need to not be so friendly. And so I sort of shut down. Um, and I was [00:52:00] sad for like a week. I was just really like. Wow. Okay. How do I, how do I do this? How do I not be me? Like, and I, I, um, I called my dad, you know, retired air force colonel.

And I said, dad, this is what this officer told me. And she's, you know, three ranks above me and I'm trying to do this and, and I, I'm not, I'm, I'm really sad. And he's like, Oh my gosh, darling. He said, no, you go right back to being the best version of yourself. And that includes all of your smiles and your friendliness.

And. You know, um, you, you will be so much more successful being true to who you are and, um, and really embracing all of that and that friendliness will serve you. And if somebody takes that wrong, it's not your issue, that's their issue. And so I, I stepped back in and I was so much happier that next week and, uh, and really being back myself again.

And, and so I, I guess that would be a time when I. When I get it and then I [00:53:00] sat back into it, but the time that I am, I perhaps, and I've heard you talk about, I've heard you talk about women who, you know, they want to apply for a job if they don't meet all the criteria, they won't, they don't step into power.

Both: When I,

Darlene Greene: the Navy, I changed jobs so frequently that by the time I came out of the Navy. I had every sense of confidence that I can do whatever you throw at me. What do you want me to do? It's just work. I can do work. That's

Angela Gennari: amazing.

Darlene Greene: I can lead a team over here. I can lead a team over there. And I remember speaking with recruiters and them saying, what industry do you want to be in?

You've done this, this, this. And I said, Um, I don't really want to pick an industry. Let's just find the right company culture. Like I really, and they're like, no, no, no, no, no. You have to pick an industry. And I'm like, do I know,

Both: you know,

Darlene Greene: anyway, um, I will share the story where I, when I was applying for the job to be the vice president at McAfee, I had a, I had a friend that was in McAfee who said, there's this job, darling, you would be [00:54:00] perfect for this job.

Um, it's like made for you. And, uh, and I was like, okay, I'll apply. Well, I didn't actually get a job description. I just, I sent my resume. Um, they got it to the, um, the chief information officer. Um, and, uh, they, HR called me and I had a, I had a pre interview. This was the pre interview from hell. You have never heard an interview go worse than this interview in your entire life.

The questions were something like this. So do you have 15 years of architectural engineering? No. Oh, well, do you have a strong CRM SAS background don't know what those words even are. No. You have. Okay, well do you know, seven questions around the job, and I am answering no to all of them. And then the question.

Well, so I see here that you live in Arizona. Would you be going, would you go to Santa Clara, or would you go to Plano, Texas, in our two headquarters and I'm like, Oh, no, no, no, I'm not moving. My [00:55:00] parents lived in Alaska for 27 years and they're finally right around the corner from me, and I had little kids and I'm a single mom and this is the first time in my life I've been around any support network and I need to stay right here I can go remote and I can, I can do remote things but Um, and she's actually, uh, she started laughing and she said, you have a very impressive resume, but I have to tell you, um, I just don't see this as a very good fit.

Like you, you don't meet any of the criteria. She said, I've seen the job description and I said, No, I haven't. Can you send it to me? So she sends it to me. I'm like, I look, well, I understand why you're saying this. So, um, a couple of weeks go by, and I get a call, um, from the same HR person who's now really not happy about this, and she says, The CIO wants to interview you in spite of my recommendations against that because this other person kept saying, I don't care what your job description says.

You need her on your team and you need her in this job. [00:56:00] And so now I know this job description and I know I need none of the criteria to interview with the CIO. And, um, And I, I basically, I really did a good job preparing for that. I, I put all of my background into, um, little stories of this was a situation when I arrived, this was the actions I took, or these were the actions I took.

And then this was the results in little vignettes and I made them sort of fit in the niches that I knew were his trouble spots at the end of this 45 minute interview, he says to me, well, do you have any questions? And I said, I do. I said, how do you see me as a fit for this job? And he said, and it was almost like you could hear him talking to the ceiling.

Like, well, I don't have to tell you. When I looked at your resume, I really wasn't sure, but. After talking to you, I realized my problems aren't technology at all. My problems are people and leadership and communication and process management and customer service and [00:57:00] organizational and all the things that you are really good at.

So I'd like you to keep interviewing. And so then I keep interviewing and now I'm up, it's just two of us and we're up in the final, we're meeting the chief financial officer and um, and the CIO is talking to me and he's saying, so um, you know, the other person and their advice. They're actually the recommendation of another vice president in the company.

They have 15 years of architectural background. They live right here in Santa Clara. It's, you know, it's a little bit tough and I'm like, yeah, I get that. And, and, uh, and I'm meeting the CFO. The CFO is really adamant about how are you going to do this job? Not locally. And I said, because I'm that good. I'm like, I am that good.

I can communicate better video and traveling and getting to places. I will make it successful because, you know, there are people that sit next to each other that don't communicate. Well, correct. Yeah, I overcome obstacles and I am very, I have never ever been not successful at what I've done. I will not disappoint [00:58:00] you.

And I really, I really knew that like. Yeah. This was not me just sort of BSing and pretending. I knew in every fiber of my being that I would be very successful. And, um, CFO's like, but you need to live here. I'm like, but I really don't need to live there. And so, um, anyway, I ended up getting the job and I had a ton of positive feedback from my team telling the CIO, this was the best hire you ever made.

Uh, the CIO said to me after a year, you were the best hire ever made. You're the best leader I've ever seen. And so it was a really, It was a really powerful moment in it and I was in and you also know I had no software background every yes network background was technology and hardware and network and security um not software so it was it wasn't a whole new world for me but But it's not that different.

People are people and problem solving is problem solving.

Angela Gennari: I agree a hundred percent. Everybody says, you know, uh, cause I've owned two companies previous to this and now I own this company. And, and people always say like, [00:59:00] Oh, you know, uh, what made you get into the security industry? I was like, it doesn't matter what the industry is.

I'm the CEO of a company and I'm good at being the CEO of a company. And it doesn't matter if we're selling widgets or, you know, services or what it is. Like if you know how to run a business, you know how to run a business. And, uh, you know, Elon Musk doesn't know how to build electric cars, but he's out there.

And you have all these really brilliant people running companies with, you know, technology companies with no software background. Doesn't matter. It's about building. It's about managing. It's about problem solving. It's. Grit, it's tenacity. It's a lot of things that, you know, maybe a doctor's not the right one to run a hospital, for example, you know, like there's, you have this and people don't understand.

But yes, I wholeheartedly agree with you that problem solving is problem solving. Leadership is leadership. It doesn't matter what it is. It's, it's the same skillset. And so, you know, hiring someone who doesn't necessarily have the background, but has incredible leadership skills is definitely the [01:00:00] way to go.

So, and I love that you didn't see the job description because I feel like if you did see the job description, you probably wouldn't have applied.

Darlene Greene: I might not have, I truly might because I, it might've just, you know, well, that's just a non starter. Like I don't even know what these words are. I went to a Barnes and Nobles and opened up a book to understand what these words were that she asked.

And I was like, I need to know what these are. And when I found out in the second interview, I'm like, I need to know what these words are.

Angela Gennari: Yeah. That's amazing. Oh my God. I love that story so much. And Hallie, talk about stepping into your power. That's just incredible because you're, you're so. So right. I mean, just your argument for getting into that position is dead on.

And I think it was very,

Darlene Greene: I love the end of the story, Angela, because the, um, when he asked me, well, do you know what the salary is for this? Um, and I, I hope he never listens to this, but I said, no, I, I have no idea. Like we haven't talked about our HR is, you know, this woman. [01:01:00] Sorry with me. She doesn't want me to renew this job.

And so, um, he said, well, it's, um, you know, if this is what I'm making, uh, right here at X, it was like, you know, three X like, It was way higher and I kept this beautiful poker face. My dad would be so proud of my poker face. Um, and I said, well, the, you know, he gave me a range and I said, well, the upper end of that range would work out quite nicely.

And he's like, okay, we'll see what we can do. Well, then as he, uh, we're closing deals and getting closer, he says, I couldn't get you the upper end, um, because you're not living in California and there's a cost of living difference between that and Arizona. But I, he said. Don't tell anybody, but ask for a sign on bonus.

Okay. I had lunch with the, um, the HR director. We're walking through, um, the, um, potential contract and such. And, um, and I say to her, um, I would like a sign [01:02:00] on bonus. She literally shot Coke out her nose. Like she laughed so hard that it hit all over the table. And she looks at me and she said, Darlene, you know, I know what you make.

Right. And I go, you know, I know, you know, and she's like, well, how can you even ask for a sign on bonus? What, why do you think, you know, that's for, and I said, well, because it's not about what I'm making now. I have another job offer. It's an equivalent job offer and I actually wouldn't have to travel at all.

And they're offering me a very nice sign on bonus. So it's not about what I'm making today. It's about what my potential is and what the, what the competitive market would bear. So. That's why I'm asking. And she said, We'll see what I can do. And it's

Angela Gennari: amazing. I love it. I love it. Oh my God. That is fantastic.

Oh my gosh. I feel like I could talk to you forever and ever and [01:03:00] ever. This has been such a fun conversation and you are like the epitome of like my perfect guest on the show. Cause you just bring such great value and good stories. Um, So, but I, I, I, I want to be respectful of your time. So, um, so one last question that I have for you is what do you wish more people knew?

Darlene Greene: Wow, so I wish more people. I can't help but say I wish more people knew about these patches. Yeah, I wish how capable your own body is and and how I wish the more people knew about copper peptide, I wish more people knew about the, the potential Of, uh, how good you can feel.

Both: Yeah.

Darlene Greene: How, um, joyful you can ha be and how good your sleep can be and how, what it feels like to live out of pain and how something that's as simple and wonderful and cheap, relatively speaking as $99, um, [01:04:00] a month, a supply of, of patches can change your life.

And, and, and I, I hope that, um, I hope that people reach out because. Even just trying, there is a money back guarantee. There is no risk. There's no contraindication. There is no medicine you can currently be on that will compete with it. So, I can't help but hope that, um, that it just gets into the hands of everybody.

Who's open and ready and wanting to try, um, to live their best life because we have emotional and physical well being and health. And when you reduce your stress. You, you save yourself for the long run. Like the stress that's killing us, this, you know, Tasha talked about stress and all that she went through.

And I can look back now and see how stress played a role. And I now, and I recognize right now, the stress that I [01:05:00] am in care providing for my husband.

Angela Gennari: Yeah.

Darlene Greene: Oh, I know. I now understand how critical it is. to take care of myself. And I just hope people understand that there are things as simple as a patch that you can do to really lower your levels of stress and improve your health dramatically.

Angela Gennari: Yeah. Oh my gosh. I love it. Well, and I think as women, that's one thing that we don't do very well of is taking care of ourself. We're such caretakers when it comes to everyone else. We want to make sure that our employees are taking care of our families, taking care of our spouses, taking care of our neighbors, our church, or, you know, whatever it is.

But, you know, we don't put that same care into ourselves, you know, then like, Oh, I'll go get my hair done. I'll go, you know, something. Simple, but really truly taking care of yourself is loving what you're putting into your body. And that's where the differences is, is what are we doing to our body? Not our physical appearance.

That's not taking care of yourself. Taking care of yourself is what's going on on the inside, not on the outside. So I think [01:06:00] that that's one of the things that people miss is, you know, take, they think self care is getting their hair done when really self care is, what are you putting into your body and how are you caring for your health?

Darlene Greene: Right. Are you drinking good water? Are you walking? Are you sleeping? I mean, sleep was the single thing I can't live without. It is. It is the breaks me the next day. And so, and that doesn't mean sleeping in that means going to bed. That means prioritize life enough to go to bed. I have an alarm that goes off time to go upstairs and get ready for bed.

Everything shuts down here.

Angela Gennari: Yep. Everything shuts down at a certain time. My phone goes on silent. My Alexa tells me go to bed.

Darlene Greene: I love that. That is valuing yourself for health enough to, um, you know, to come and show up at the world as your best version of yourself. Because when we don't get sleep, we really compromise every part of us.

Angela Gennari: Absolutely. We do. Yeah. I agree. Well, thank you, Darlene. This has been such an amazing [01:07:00] conversation. I have really, really, really enjoyed it. And, um, I am excited to see what the future holds for you and, um, and all that you can do. And, uh, I will be your biggest fan, customer, everything. So thank you so much.

Darlene Greene: And please let people know they can reach out at me at my website.

Angela Gennari: Okay. What is your website? How can people find you?

Darlene Greene: I am reverse aging. com. That's I A M R E V E R S E aging, A G I N G. com. And on that website, you can just say, uh, contact Arlene and, you know, um, but you can also, you can look at a two minute video on how this is working.

You can look at the patent, you can read the 90 clinical studies. You can see videos. That are, you know, 16 minute videos on how it works or doctors. There are NFL players. There's videos where they're working on pets, uh, horses. So, you know, there are, uh, there's a ton of information there, but I want people to please reach out, um, and, and [01:08:00] connect with me.

Angela Gennari: Absolutely. And I will also have all of Darlene Greene's information on pretty powerful podcast. com. We'll make sure all of her links are there as well. So thank you again, Darlene. And I hope everyone has the most amazing day ever.

Darlene Greene: You're pretty amazing yourself. Thank you. Thank

Angela Gennari: you. I appreciate that. All right, everybody.

Have a great day. Bye. Bye.

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