 On Thursday, January 24, the Executives Association of San Francisco invited me to present a talk on my book GET A C.L.E.W. FOR LIFE!©️ during their weekly business luncheon at the Marines' Memorial Club Hotel. I took the audience on a journey 3,000 miles away with content featuring pivotal events of the 20th century. My objective is to create a massive paradigm shift by disseminating crucial health and fitness information based entirely on anatomy, physiology, the laws of physics, and empirical evidence. I serve as a prime example of that evidence from the 20th century.
Let's prevent what we can and be combat-ready for what we cannot as we enjoy and make the most of every single day! GET A C.L.E.W. FOR LIFE!®️ "CLIMB, LIFT & EAT WELL..."®️
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 The following is the introduction to my book talk at the Fairmont Hotel San Francisco January 8, 2019. (I literally put my cards on the table.) Experience is the best teacher. I firmly believe that statement, but I also know firsthand that the best teachers can, and often do, make a profound difference in the lives of their students. I am alive today because I was fortunate enough to have been educated by the very best. These dedicated professionals taught content backed entirely by empirical evidence and delivered it with honesty, integrity, and compassion. Subscribing to and living by their philosophy of education has benefitted me my entire adult life, as a wife, a mother, and an educator. Good afternoon. My name is Audrey Lasky, former New York educator turned author, certified personal trainer, and founder of The Audrey Zeitouni Lasky Company, a San Francisco health and fitness consulting company and private studio. If you take the San Francisco Bay Bridge and stay on Interstate 80 for about 3,000 miles, you will arrive at the end of the Interstate. You will see a breathtaking view of the Manhattan skyline and the last exit. This is the exit for Teaneck, NJ, home of the premier public school system which in the 1970’s had the distinction of being the number one school district in the state across all disciplines. Teaneck was also the first district in the United States to voluntarily desegregate in 1964. I am very fortunate to have been educated in Teaneck. My husband and I graduated from the majestic “castle on the hill” in 1980. Ironically, San Francisco was the first stop of our Hawaiian honeymoon in 1984. My husband and I spent our wedding night at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan and flew to San Francisco the next morning to spend two nights and three days right here at the Fairmont Hotel. I never would have guessed that 25 years later my husband and I would move to the City by the Bay. It appears we have come full circle. Although my husband had permanently moved here, I remained bi-coastal for the first couple of years and continued to get medical checkups in New York. Later, I decided to establish care at the UCSF Medical Center. By 2012, following the gamut of all the routine 50-year-old checkups and screenings, the UCSF medical staff began to urge me to make public the details of my health and fitness regimen, and in particular, a powerful story of survival, mine. My physicians and nurses were clear: “You need to tell people what you are doing. We rarely see women or men present as you do at such an incredible level of health and fitness. The public needs to see and hear from a prime example. They need to hear your inspiring survival story.” So I asked, “What do you want me to do – tell people I CLIMB a revolving stair machine, LIFT free weights, and EAT WELL? They replied, “Yes, and you should write a book.” Although I had originally planned to put certain events of the 20th century behind me, their words resonated with me. The following year I became a certified personal trainer and formed my own health and fitness LLC. By 2015, I began writing the first draft of a manuscript which became my first published book in 2018: GET A C.L.E.W. FOR LIFE!© Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stated so eloquently that we must judge a man by the content of his character, but in the 21st century, we must judge the content by its character. Knowledge can only become power once we eliminate the fear of the unknown and discard all myths standing in the way of meaningful efforts and success. But to be truly empowered, we must first understand what we need to do, why we need to do it, and how to do it safely and effectively. Otherwise, the process of becoming healthy and fit is like trying to drive a car while blindfolded. We could perhaps feel for the car door, open it, sit down, feel for the ignition, and start the engine, but we would never get anywhere. The pursuit of optimum health and fitness is both an art and a science. The ART is learning how to separate “science-fiction” from “science-fact” and the SCIENCE is learning how to implement those scientific facts based entirely on empirical evidence. ***** On Valentine's Day 1996 the lessons I learned from the outstanding Teaneck faculty and staff made the difference between life and death. As a happy and healthy wife and mother, I could never have imagined that a headache and a fever would result in such a close encounter with the unthinkable. END OF EXCERPT OF INTRODUCTION Audrey Lasky, MS EDU NASM-CPT FNS © 2017-2019 The Audrey Zeitouni Lasky Company LLC |
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