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Hormones, Healing, And Life After 40
Feeling “off” isn’t a personality trait—it’s data your body is handing you. We sit down with Dr. Oemil Rodriguez, hormonal nutrition specialist and co-founder of Melo Wellness Center, to explore how midlife health can be calmer, clearer, and far more joyful when you align hormones, sleep, and sustainable habits.
We dig into the mindset shift that turns 40 and beyond into an opportunity: optimize hormones, protect brain and heart health, and trade fear for intention. Dr. Rodriguez breaks down the long-standing myths about hormone therapy and explains how modern evidence paints a more nuanced picture, especially for cognition and cardiovascular support when used wisely. You’ll learn why normal lab ranges don’t always equal optimal health, and how symptoms like 2 a.m. wakeups, brain fog, low libido, and stubborn weight signal imbalances worth addressing. We also spotlight the unsung hero of hormonal balance—restorative sleep—and share practical steps to improve melatonin rhythm and lower cortisol.
Weight loss gets a reality check too. GLP-1 medications like semaglutide and tirzepatide aren’t cheating; they’re tools that demand structure. Dr. Rodriguez outlines a smarter pathway that pairs medication with protein-forward nutrition, resistance training, and coaching to preserve muscle and prevent rebound. We explore supportive therapies used at Melo Wellness—red light therapy for inflammation and collagen, IV nutrients like glutathione for oxidative stress, and lymphatic drainage for recovery—plus how portion control and cultural foods can fit into a nourishing plan without rigid rules.
You’ll also hear Dr. Rodriguez’s personal journey from the Dominican Republic to Tampa, the creation of a “healing space” rather than a clinic, and a chapter she titles Rooting in Passion. If you’re ready to trade guesswork for guidance and turn midlife into a season of clarity and energy, this conversation gives you a map. If this resonated, follow the show, share it with someone you care about, and leave a review to help more people age with intention.
Welcome to another episode of the Let's Get Comfy Podcast. I'm your hope, your favorite black bearded ball guy, Norman Harris, uh owner and founder of Comfort Managers Consulting. And I have a wonderful guest, Dr. Omel Rodriguez. How did I do? Perfect. Perfect. I did it. I did it. So, as tradition, we always allow our guests to introduce themselves on the show. Dr. Rodriguez has already uh informed me that she doesn't want to do that at all. However, she's gonna do it for me today. All right, Dr. Rodriguez.
SPEAKER_03:Well, thank you. Thank you for the invite to get coffee. I love the name. Um, I'm a hormonal specialist in nutrition from Dominican Republic. Here in Tampa, I'm a co-founder of Melo Wellness Center. It's a, I don't want to say it's a clinic, it's a healing space that we are just about to open. Um, an author of 40 and thriving, my first book, My Baby. And my passion, my mission in life is to help women and men get control of their health, balancing their hormones, living with intention. I create a space where science meets the soul and medicine become a tool, not just for and not just for treatment, for transformation.
SPEAKER_01:For transformation.
SPEAKER_03:That's what my passion.
SPEAKER_01:All right. So give them a wonderful introduction, by the way. Uh, and thank you for allowing our guests to know where uh who you are, what you do, uh, but Melo Wellness Center, right? Uh, so what's your service you offer uh for our for your?
SPEAKER_03:We're gonna be offering from advanced medical weight loss to IV therapy, hormonal replacement therapy, body and facial aesthetic, and holistic therapy like red light, lymphatic drainage, we're gonna offer all that aside from the nutrition and the coaching and the guidance.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. Um, do you have a certain target market or target area? Uh patients.
SPEAKER_03:Women no, we women and men that just want to take control of your health.
SPEAKER_01:Okay.
SPEAKER_03:Because when you go to a traditional doctor, sometimes you're feeling like not yourself and had all the symptoms, and then you go to traditional doctors and they just dismiss you. They don't get to the root of the cusp. Right. So we want to get back, we want to be doctors again and do medicine, not commercial medicine.
SPEAKER_01:Not commercial medicine. So lymphatic drainage is actually uh um I do business development for a holistic health uh practice as well. So uh one thing I've noticed in the skilled nursing industry, uh, some facilities don't offer uh lymphatic drainage.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Uh do you go into skilled nursing at all or is it only inpatient? Inpatient, yes. In patient. Okay, that's okay. Uh they can always set appointments outside of the facility.
SPEAKER_03:And we, yeah, we do, we we want to implement concierge medicine too. I like that. Like we go to them, but we have to build that trust.
SPEAKER_01:So we have to open and then build the trust, and then we go to so just speaking back on the trust, uh, for our families out there who are listening, uh, why should they choose you? What are you gonna bring different?
SPEAKER_03:Well, Mellow Wellness Center is not a clinic, it's a healing experience. We take the best of functional medicine, emotional support, and uh cutting-edge science to give to our patients so they can thrive long term. It's not just a quick fix, it's uh the accountability. They we guide yourself, we see you, we listen, and we guide you to get control of that.
SPEAKER_01:From a holistic standpoint, right? Not a targeted area, but just the body as a whole. Yes. All right, uh, so uh when you look at your website, uh, look at uh Dr. Omel Rodriguez. You know, I had to practice that several times uh before the show. You got it, you got it. But uh you're the 40 and up queen, you know, uh 40 and up queen. So thank you.
SPEAKER_03:Nobody else telling me like that.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah. So uh health over 40 spokesperson, as I put here on my uh question card, why you? You tell us why you.
SPEAKER_03:Well, because I'm being there. Being there done that. I was the mom, the professional, the taking care of the kids, the house, and then my health with the fifth place in life. We always put ourselves last. We take care of everybody, and then when we get to the fourth floor, gotcha, everything goes downhill, and then we just like it's aging, it's stress, and it's it's a not that sentence. Yeah, it's a new era of the life, it's a new chapter of our life that we just have to know our bodies and take control and have a very quality of life.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, yes. So 40 years old, you're not old. No. You're not old, you still can thrive.
SPEAKER_03:You're thriving.
SPEAKER_01:Right, right. And uh, right here in your book, actually, 40 and thriving, uh, as we lead to our next question, what's the number one mindset uh shift that unlocks uh vitality after 40?
SPEAKER_03:That being getting close to menopause after 40 is not a death sentence. It's uh an opportunity to take that power and live with intention, knowing your body. And everything starts with the hormones. Once you get your hormones in balance, you fail your thrive. You have more vitality, you sleep better, you don't have mood swing, you don't have hot flashes, and everything is start with that hormone balance.
SPEAKER_01:That hormone balance. Right now, uh, just from a uh patient population, I guess, uh, would you say a lot of your patients are over the age of 40? Or what we what percentage of the people are?
SPEAKER_03:Well, in the era that you can say 70.
SPEAKER_01:70.
SPEAKER_03:But in the era that we live in right now, there's more men and women, 35, 37, 29 with hormonal imbalance because of the way that we live, the lifestyle that we have, what we eat, yeah, the exercise that we're not doing. Right. So other medication, other supplementation they use get you to hormonal imbalance. I'm not talking about menopause or andhropaths. I'm talking for your body has an imbalance. It's not, um, it's not, I don't want to say too many technical medical terms. So I don't lose everybody. You know, like it's not, it doesn't have an omostasis, it has to equal balance all your vitals.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, okay. Uh so just going into that, and you discuss your patients over 40. So, what's the biggest uh hormonal myth that women have over the age of 40?
SPEAKER_03:They hormones. Yeah, hormones get you can get cancer when you use hormones, when you are in hormonal replacement therapy. 20 years ago, research, there was a big research that um just did a bad publicity for hormones. And then after that, in medical, like gynecologist, traditional medicine, they do know you cannot do hormones. It's gonna give you breast cancer, it's gonna be give you uterine cancer, it's not like that. That study study, that research that was done, um they only saw the publicity, all hormones cause cancer, but they didn't specify the group of women they use in the group in the study, the type of hormone they use in the study, and the age of the women that they use in the study. They just say and put all the hormones. Yeah, yeah. Okay, and then 20 years later, they still do research and then find out that estrogen is the hormone for a woman, prevent Alzheimer's. It's a cardioprotected hormone. So we need an imbalance in our body to prevent other disease. Yeah, but good publicity don't sell.
SPEAKER_01:No, right.
SPEAKER_03:And then a doctor, after a research comes out, you need from eight to 13 years to change your practice, the way you do medicine.
SPEAKER_02:Wow.
SPEAKER_03:So we are getting there. Now it's more in favor of this function of medicine and that hormones control your body from mood to metabolism is all hormones.
SPEAKER_01:Right. So with that case study without without uh that you're referring to, without that transparency aspect, you think that was a sort of a ploy to, you know, kind of uh scare people from holistic health or uh hormonal therapy at all?
SPEAKER_03:I don't think so. Just how marketing works is they don't do it the right way or they don't give give all the information to say something they just want to sell.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, yep. I agree with that.
SPEAKER_03:So you have to go back and go in and read it and understand.
SPEAKER_01:I was just about to say, if you don't educate yourself and take time to research it, you're just looking at the headline and that's what you're going with.
SPEAKER_03:And that happens even in the supermarket when you see a product healthy, a gluten-free, fat-free, sugar-free, but then in a very nice label, and you you're caught in that marketing, and the product is not even healthy.
SPEAKER_01:Nope. I actually it's crazy you mentioned that. I actually uh just watched a YouTube video uh YouTube University, um, where like I didn't know why like fruits they have this particular barcode, and the first number of the barcode are actually indicates uh like if it was uh GMO modified, you know, and uh if it's organic, um, if it's has conventional sort of um, I guess like chemicals and those things sort of produced. So I never knew that at all. I you never see that, right? You never see that advertised. Yeah, but if it has a number nine, I do remember that that means it is organic uh fruit. So if you look at the barcode on fruit out there, yeah, uh the number nine indicates organic. Yeah, it's interesting. See, I really be licking up this stuff sometimes, you know. Uh so uh what's one overlooked daily habit that supports hormonal balance uh and long-term wellness that you would advise our our viewers out there?
SPEAKER_03:Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. You need a good night's sleep, a recovery sleep. The one that you wake up feeling relaxed with energy. It doesn't matter how many hours you sleep, and if if it's a good sleep. When you don't let your body recover, your hormone cortisol, that is the stress hormone, gets more up than it should be and starts inflammation. Once you have inflammation in your body, all this cascade of cornoving diseases start to pop out.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, I would have never thought your ass would be sleep. But see, now is there somewhere out there where people sleep too much?
SPEAKER_03:Well, no, if you have a medical condition and then you sleep too much and then you wake up tired, you don't you're not sleeping well.
SPEAKER_01:Gotcha. Okay. So but so getting quality sleep. Quality sleep. Quality sleep. And so you wouldn't be able, will you would you be able to give a guidance on how many hours you say?
SPEAKER_03:It can be three. Three hours. Okay. But it's a quality, good sleep. Yeah, so rested.
SPEAKER_01:Gotcha. Okay. So me and Corey be up two o'clock in the morning, those type of things. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we get quality.
SPEAKER_03:Not like that, not like that.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, gotcha.
SPEAKER_03:Like you have to have a very um healthy routine before you go to bed, like no phones, no electronics, the lights of the AC, all that. You have to be in a dark room. So the melatonin is the hormone for sleep. Gotcha. Gets released in your body, needs to be dark.
SPEAKER_01:So I asked you then, Dr. Rodriguez, where do you keep your phone at night? Like when you go in the bedroom? In the bathroom. In it really?
SPEAKER_03:So when you go lay down when my kids are home. Or not home, they're it's close to me. It's close to you.
SPEAKER_01:Gotcha. All right. I had to ask you that because mine be right by my head. And I read about that too. It's not good to have, it's not good to have your phone or any type of devices near you when you sleep. Uh so if someone was uh wants to feel more energy, sexier, sharper after 40, uh, where should they start?
SPEAKER_03:They can start if you don't, because your body starts telling you the sign. Your body speaks what you don't want to allow you to say out loud. So with the lab work, you can start doing a blood panel of your hormones and this, but sometimes the lab lab scop can't come back with a normal range. Gotcha. Okay, but they're not an optimal level for you if you have symptoms. If I have a patient that comes, I don't sleep, I wake up two in the morning and then I cannot go back to sleep. I'm tired, I'm moody, uh, my libido is low, I have dry uh vagina dryness, all those symptoms. I'm gaining weight, I cannot lose it. And then laughs are normal. That doesn't mean she's crazy or he's crazy. It just didn't mean that those labs are no optimal numbers for that person, has to be very individualized. So there's an imbalance. There's like a cascade of symptoms that tells you that there is an imbalance. Like one simple one. You get up from the kitchen to the living room, then you go to the living room, and I'm like, what did I come from here? Those laps of your memory that is not sharp is an imbalance in your home hormones. Really? So your body starts telling you things. The thing is, we don't listen. We don't, oh no, I'm just aging. Oh no, that's stress. Oh no, we don't listen and we keep going with life. So stop. Yes, stop because if you're not feeling like every morning energized or the joy to do things, there's something wrong.
SPEAKER_01:Something wrong. Got it. Okay, all right. I'm just thinking now, like you're thinking about let me do the checklist.
SPEAKER_03:It happens so many times.
SPEAKER_01:I can walk in the kitchen all the time and forget what I'm about to do.
SPEAKER_03:You feel it more and more when you go to the fourth floor. Your mind is not that sharp. Before, 10 years before, you can read a book and fast. Now it takes you a little bit longer to understand something. That's your mind is not sharp, it's getting to that. Got it. And it's part of getting old and aging. But we have the power of aging well.
SPEAKER_01:Aging well. Yeah. Aging comfortably. Empowering listeners to age more comfortably. Yes. That ties right into that. We're gonna chop that up too. So going into weight loss and wellness, uh, so this is our keep it real moment for you. All right, because you know I am a user as well of this, so I want to hear your feedback. So using uh Ozepic and Majaro, right? It has healed, uh, helped people, you know, get a lot of their weight loss goals accomplished. Um, wonderful stories out there about weight loss uh journeys with the assistance of these medications. Um, so in your mind, are those individuals cheaters?
SPEAKER_03:No, no, they're not. It's a tool, it's a tool that sometimes we need to use it because we need to get those patients in the right mindset. But it's a very good tool if you use it right. If you use it with the guidance and the nutrition that has to be behind that injection, it's not just the injection, the quick fix. It's teaching that patient how to eat. Because of the injection, you forget to eat. You don't eat it because you don't get hungry. So you have to have that person coaching you, guiding you, that because if you're not hungry, you still need to eat because that weight loss is mainly uh muscle mass.
SPEAKER_02:Really?
SPEAKER_03:And when you lose your muscle mass, you get other complications. So it's a good tool, but if it's used the right way and the with the right uh coaching behind, not just give me the the the shot and I will see you in three months. No, and that's the different how we want to do weight loss in Mellow. We want to guide you, we want to give you the nutrition tools so you can learn because you're not gonna be in the injection the rest of your life. No, so you need to have create better habits and learn what to eat or when to eat certain food.
SPEAKER_01:So at mail mellow uh wellness is something you would uh offer or you know, even guide patients uh to utilize, but of course, having you know, right.
SPEAKER_03:They need to come in, they need to see the nutrition, we need to be on top of them. It's not it's the I want to say it in Spanish. I don't remember that.
SPEAKER_01:You can say it in Spanish.
SPEAKER_03:Accompanamiento is the uh like I'm going with you the whole way. The whole way holding your head and we're gonna get when you get to your goal, you're not gonna rebound because you have learned some healthy habit.
SPEAKER_01:Gotcha. We'll put a translation underneath the uh the caption. But I knew exactly what you just said, though. All right, so uh, what's your secret uh to helping patients losing weight and keeping it off without fat diets?
SPEAKER_03:It's just guide them, um, teaching them. It's not um, I don't like to say you cannot eat this or don't eat that. It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle.
SPEAKER_02:Lifestyle.
SPEAKER_03:It's um aliment is food habits. Um, so teaching them what uh food are better for your body to nurture your body and they learn. It's not a quick fist, it's not fast. It gets you have to be determined and consistent, and you have to be willing to open to guide let us ask guide guide you to be to work. Right because you need to put the work, you need to be able to, the desire to do the change in your life. But you lose 10 pounds and you're not seeing those 10 pounds again. You don't get the Jojo diet.
SPEAKER_01:Gotcha, gotcha. Yeah. So here in the US, I find that uh a lot of foods uh are allowed. Uh and you know, our practice of you know, shopping, groceries, uh, and and uh our what our FDA approves is different in other countries as well. A lot of countries utilize more natural fruits, organic fruits. People go to market, you know, on the regular, you know, instead of now, you can go to market here once a week, have your fruit for a week or two that lasts you, but you know, it may be GMO modified, you know, to some aspect. Oh, they say healthcare is not interesting. I beg to differ. At Comfort Measures Media, we're proving every day that healthcare is entertaining, educational, and full of stories worth telling. We deliver knowledge, resources, and real advocacy in a way that engages, inspires, and connects. Florida, number one, healthcare edutainment station. I am Norman Harris, the networking solution. Let us highlight the organization and give it the voice it deserves.
SPEAKER_02:Ooh!
SPEAKER_01:So you're from Dominican Republic. Yes. Uh, what is just habits there as far as you know, shopping for foods, and how would you prepare your daily meal? Just daily.
SPEAKER_03:Well, we have there what we call The Dominican flag is uh rice, beans, chicken, or or meat, but and salad, and it's always more the carbs and just a little bit of meat. If you you can still eat the Dominican flag, but change the portions. You can still eat the rice, the chicken, and the beans, but it's the portion. Moderation is the clock, is the key. So it's the same food, just portion control. Portion control. You can eat your I'm not saying that you're not gonna ever gonna eat a pasta or a burger or pizza or have a cup of wine. It's just no when. And not go moderation. Moderation. So moderation.
SPEAKER_01:Well, just generally for you, what are your daily snacks? What you like to snack on?
SPEAKER_03:Well, I my favorite, my favorite is apple and peanut butter.
unknown:Apple and peanut butter.
SPEAKER_03:Green apple and a peanut butter. That's my favorite.
SPEAKER_01:That's a good snack.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I wish I had it. My own favorite snack. I like ice cream sandwiches. You know, uh, what else? And hot hot fries, hot Cheetos. Hot Cheetos, that's bad, right?
SPEAKER_03:Or Takis. Oh my god. No, I don't like Takis. My kids.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that's for kids. I like hot Cheetos. What alternative would you advise?
SPEAKER_03:That is one that I have to tell you. You need to cut that up. You need to cut that up. Yeah. No, but you can indulge yourself, something that you don't do every day. Like my I eat 90%, 85 to 90% good, healthy meals. But then I do my cup, my wine, my pizza, my pasta, but it's something that I don't do every day. Got it. Once you get to that healthy weight. I have patients sometimes that we start in a journey, and then three weeks in and they're like, Can I have a burger? I'm like, no, not yet. Not yet.
SPEAKER_01:Got it.
SPEAKER_03:So you have to get there first.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. I have to have my mind right before I come see you, huh? Yeah. So one thing I love about uh you just when I did my research is your engagement, you know, to in the impact of social media. So uh just why is that such a focus for you and how does it fuel, you know, your your business and you becoming sort of a trusted resource to the community?
SPEAKER_03:I like to educate. Education is power. When you there's a lot of misinformation out there right now. There's a lot of people doing throwing information and a lot of people buying that information. So you have to be, you have to know from where you get your sources. And if I can be one of the good sources that you can rely and trust, then we are doing medicine for helping you, not just to sell you a product. I'm gonna, I I keep doing it. And I can get to a lot of people.
SPEAKER_01:I like that. That's really good. Uh so um holistic health, holistic wellness. Uh, one service that you all offer is uh the red light recovery and boosting uh longevity. So um, if you can tell you how you incorporate that in your practice and what patients can actually um, if you have any testimonials to share from patients, the red light you can do, everybody can do it.
SPEAKER_03:It's very good because go to the deep of the cells and tiger inflammation and um like the puffiness when you do it in a facial, you put it in your face after a facial, it just gives you back and stimulate your estrogen cells so you can produce more collagen, and then you aging is not just outside. We it's aging from the inside out.
SPEAKER_02:Yes.
SPEAKER_03:So we stimulate those cells to okay produce more collagen.
SPEAKER_01:So for those uh, I guess women out there that may be like uh losing, what is it, Botox?
SPEAKER_03:Uh we have Botox.
SPEAKER_01:You offer that, yes. Okay, uh but red light recovery, if it's done sooner, you don't really necessarily need that. Yes.
SPEAKER_03:And if you have like a knee or ankle pain, that in combination with the IV, like glutathione is the master of the antioxidant. So helps it it helps your body get rid of the free radical that give you inflammation. So when you do that combination, IV, red teller, red light therapy, um you target inflammation in the inside. So you helping yourselves, yourselves with the aging process. With the aging process. Everybody's gonna go there. We all gonna go there, we all gonna feel something. Yeah, but we're just trying to have better quality of life while we age.
SPEAKER_01:While we age, I like that. Uh in uh lymphatic, I saw your services uh with combining uh massage, scratch, and lymphatic uh services uh to accelerate recovery and anti-aging. Uh, do you would you uh do you find or have any patients that suffer from like edema, swelling, anything like that, where you use your lymphatics?
SPEAKER_03:Okay, lymphatic to drain, to get rid of inflammation. Yeah, um there's certain foods that give you inflammation. Um, but we don't see it because we spend 10 years eating in a way, and you don't feel like you're you retaining water and your body is in inflammation. So those massages and everything, in a weight loss journey, you feel the difference.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. And so I read recently, well, listen recently, that uh like uh our bodies actually are made to sort of uh dilute a lot of times. We have inflammation and water retention to dilute some of the chemicals, uh metals that's in our food that we eat. So a lot of times you have water weight when we lose weight, it's a lot of times that water weight, but your body is also ridding itself from like uh you know those toxins and those things.
SPEAKER_03:Your body, sorry, I got excited.
SPEAKER_01:It's okay. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_03:Your body is meant to protect you, to keep you alive. So it will do everything and it it will adjust to anything that you put on. And we are not very grateful for our body, and we just put everything and we don't see what we put in our body, and his function is to maintain us alive, yeah. So he will adjust to everything, trying to keep us alive.
SPEAKER_01:So, so my philosophy, which is bad, so but I love for you to have your comment on my my philosophy. So I've been trying, you know, weight loss has been a journey for me for many years, right? But so what I always said to myself, I said, what I'm gonna do, if I'm gonna put bad things in my body, I'm gonna try my best. The same percentage of bad things, same percent, same percentage of good things, right? So I do sea moss, I do you know ashwagonda, I do ginger tea, I do all those things. What's your what's your thoughts on that? I'm still gonna die about the same rhyme same time. What do you want me to say? What do you want me to say? Like, do you you just I'm gonna just case you exercise?
SPEAKER_03:Uh I now well try to incorporate that, and that will give you a few years more.
SPEAKER_01:A few years more, okay. Dang, that didn't give me any confidence at all. Thank you, Donna Rodriguez. Welcome here now. Yeah, but thank you. So uh going to uh just a little more about you, if you'd uh go just tell us your journey here to Lutz, Lutz, Florida. Yeah, in brief, in brief. You'll have to tell everybody.
SPEAKER_03:My journey to here, Tampa, yes, Florida. Well, I just moved here August last year, so it's been 10 months, 11 months. It's gonna be a year so fast. It's been fast.
SPEAKER_01:Bye, bye bye.
SPEAKER_03:Um, family matter, we got relocated here. I still have my practice in Dominican Republic that I go once a month to see all my patients there. I see it from here, telehealth. Um, and then I decided to I need to respond. And then when Mellow Wellness Center came to a dream came alive. Vision, a vision came alive. Um, so here the state, it's just for my kids, my husband, we're here, and trying to do the best wherever I go, leave my sea and help everybody that I can.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, yeah, yeah. I think I like I drew to the energy. I love the book aspect too. You know, for uh 40 thriving uh 40 plus. So uh because I'm reaching that age as well, so um I was very intrigued by that, but also your engagement and just your following too on online as well. So I think a lot of people can you know tune into that. If your career wasn't were a movie, uh what would you title this chapter you're in right now?
SPEAKER_03:Rooting in passion.
SPEAKER_01:Doing what you love, yeah. That's good. I like that. You can like that. You thought about that one day.
SPEAKER_03:Well, yeah, a little bit.
SPEAKER_01:All right, so my next one is uh what's the most surprising thing you've learned about yourself uh since you transitioned here, I'll say to Tampa Bay?
SPEAKER_03:Uh it's been a big transition. I live in the state before, so that part is like I knew what I was getting into. Um but the whole new fam new family, new husband, my kids, like everybody together has been a little bit challenging sometimes with my kids, but we're getting there. And then having my occupating my mind in creating mellow has it's been like it's been great. It's been great. Everything has been a blessing. I've been networking and I have had a lot of support from people that I just meeting.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Um and I like I like the energy, it's different. This is my third business. So this one is different from the others. I think it's I don't know, it's the experience or that I've been done that before, and I did the first and the second with a lot of work, like it was a hard challenge. And here is it's getting it's smooth. I don't know, it's going so smooth. I don't want a jinxed. I don't want a ginster, but it's going so and the the energy of the people here are very different from San Antonio from Dominican Republic. And Dominican Republic, when I got there in 2017, it took me a while to get where I am right now. And then I opened right before the pandemic hit. Oh so I can say it's been three years in the Dominican clinic that now I'm you know who is Dr. Oemil Rodriguez.
SPEAKER_01:Oemiles. Yeah, yeah, we know who you are. They don't know who you are after this Let's Get Comfort Podcast. I know. The largest, the number one healthcare entertainment station in Florida. Yeah, we're gonna.
SPEAKER_03:And I got invited. It's an honor for me.
SPEAKER_01:It's an honor for us too, right? So we want all everybody in the Dominican Republic, please subscribe to Let's Get Comfy Podcast. Well, right now we're at CMC Media on YouTube, okay? Everybody, come on. We're gonna blast it too. You're gonna glow me up in the DR. All right, and my next question, uh, accomplishment-wise, uh, what's one of your largest accomplishments or biggest accomplishments that you're just really proud of um just today?
SPEAKER_03:Today, I'm I'm gonna say 40 and thriving. It's been in my mind for a couple of years. I started, I let it go, I write out a little bit, and then when I got to Tampa, I sit down and I finish it.
SPEAKER_01:It's from the heart. No Chat GPT. No, got it. That's good, Dr. Rodriguez. From the heart. All right.
SPEAKER_03:Um it's funny that you said Chat GPT. The other day, I went on page and said, No, because Chat GPT told me I'm like, okay, I'm gonna be out of work with this Chat GPT.
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SPEAKER_01:So we're closing up, and we I love to ask the guests uh just in life in general, okay? This is not related to it, can be related to what you wanted to, professional or personal. What was your life biggest pivot?
SPEAKER_03:Pivot?
SPEAKER_01:Biggest pivot in life.
SPEAKER_03:I want to say I had a few. I I've been having a few pivots. But my biggest, biggest of all was my divorce. Trying to stop being the wife of the doctor and being me and becoming the doctor that I was supposed to become.
SPEAKER_01:Got it. Okay. Really coming into your own brand.
SPEAKER_03:Yes.
SPEAKER_01:Establishing yourself as a boss. I like that one. That's a good pivot. All right. And we wrapped up today's show uh with holistic health with Dr. Rodriguez. Uh, what she's focused on from a wellness standpoint for uh patients uh here in the Tampa Bay area. Uh, she's someone that actually serves DR to Tampa Bay. So um, wonderful uh individual here. Uh, and I really recommend uh listeners out there to definitely see Dr. Rodriguez. Uh, as you can see, she's very personable. All right, she's gonna tell you the truth. Uh, and she don't mind being a little vulnerable as well. So I'm glad you joined the show. If you can tell the audience where they can find you, your social media website, etc.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, thank you for inviting me. It was an honor. Um, you can find me on Instagram is D-R-A-O-E-O-E-M-I-L. Then we have the Melo Wellness Center Instagram, and the website is mellowwellnesscenter.com.
SPEAKER_01:Right, right. And final message from you um to your patients out there, future patients, community individuals, what message do you share with them?
SPEAKER_03:Listen to your body. Listen to your body, your body is trying to talk to you. Don't say is the stress of the age. Your body's trying to tell you something.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, you get signs before my mama used to always say, Warn to come before description.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Warning. I used to hate when she said that too. I don't hear that one. That's what I used to say. But yeah. But uh, all right, so at CMC Media on YouTube, we have changed up the brand, you know, Let's get Comfy Podcast. We're building out our entire platform of media content, uh, providing knowledge and resources so that you can age uh comfortably. All right. Uh so all right, so definitely uh get check our website out. Uh follow us on uh comfort measures consulting on Facebook and Instagram. Uh, but make sure you subscribe, like, and comment uh on this episode. All right. We want to make healthcare popular, right? So we need your support. All right, tune in next show. Thank you so much, Dr. Rodriguez, again. Thank you.
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