Healing, Faith & Real Joy with Miranda Berkman

Healing, Faith & Real Joy with Miranda Berkman

About Miranda Berkman

Miranda Berkman: single mama, wellness junkie, faith-driven soul, and big fan of live music and raw ingredients. I’m here to break cycles, eat clean, live loud, and remind people to be 100% themselves. Everything on me is natural and organic… except my hair color (a little flair never hurt anyone). I keep my circle small, but I’ve never met a stranger. Life’s serious, but I never take myself too seriously.

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Introduction

Good, beautiful day, beautiful, beautiful souls! This is Charla Anderson, host of the Charla Anderson Show~Collector & Connector of Fascinating People (& EVERYONE is Fascinating!), especially you.

Can’t wait for you to meet my guest today. We are both absolutely in love with life. We live with joy. We are passionate about health. We are both partners in Zinzino, this amazing wellness company, and fun is our middle name. Let’s go. We’re going to go with Miranda Berkman. 

But first, but first, we’re going to have a breathing exercise, that 22-second mini vacation. Then we’re going to breathe in some calm for seven seconds, hold for four seconds, and breathe out gratitude for 11 seconds. So here we go. Let’s breathe in some calm. Hold. Relax, release. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. 

Now if we would put our phones down for just a couple of times a day and have this little be still moment don’t you think our lives would be easier and better? Just a little centred and grounded anyway, that’s why I do that every week. I cannot tell you the blessing and excitement to be able to introduce you to Miranda Berkman. I tell you, we kind of get giddy and silly. 

I mean, we’re silly and giddy anyway, but when we’re together, we just have some fun and just can’t, you know, stop. So we’re going to have about a three-hour call today. No, we’re not. OK, anyway, Miranda, thank you. Thank you. Thank you so very much for joining me coming in this my world a bit. And let’s have a wonderful conversation about all things Miranda and Zinzino, and all this. 

But this is overcoming and a story about hope as well. So, tell us who you are in this world? What’s going on in your life? And we’re going to get into some of the incredible overcoming that you’ve done in your world and come out on the bright side of hope. So, Miranda, thanks so much for being here.

Well, thank you so much. I am so excited and honored. You know, there’s always a little bit of nerves that come with things like this. However, one of my mottos truly is if I want to hear yes in life, I have to say yes to certain things. And it’s not even so much having to, it’s getting to, right? I have the opportunity and what a blessing to be asked to be part of this. So thank you so much. Who am I? Well, I think you can tell by my fun hair and different things like that. I’m somebody who takes life seriously, but not myself too seriously. 

That is how my mother raised me. She said, don’t borrow trouble. Enough will find you. And it took me a while to realize what that meant, right? By nature, I am a curious person. I love my faith story because I was not raised around the Bible. I was not raised around faith. God spoke directly to me, so it was my own mission. That’s kind of an overcoming story in itself, and it’s just beautiful. But, you know, what actually defines me is that I believe I am a woman of faith. I truly believe in being my authentic self because that is a blessing and a gift, not only to me, 

but to everyone around us. I believe that when we act in true authenticity, we are giving the world the greatest gift. And then that also makes me a better mother. So being a mother is my greatest gift and my greatest joy and my greatest job. And in fact, right when I found out that I was pregnant, I changed my emails and everything to be mindful. Be mindful. A lot of my old passwords were, be present, right? So I live by that, being mindful and being present, because I wanted to always just act in that space to be the best mother. 

So I believe that’s what truly defines me. I try to be forgiving and gracious of the mistakes that I make. I try to always extend that grace to those that I meet and those around me. I’m somebody who has a small circle, yet I’ve never met a stranger. So I mean, that’s a little bit of me. And I take risks. So you mentioned that we’re business partners, and the truth is we are. So I did just step out into the world of being an entrepreneur, self-employed yet again, and it’s proven to be very fascinating.

Well, you have an overcoming story that is almost beyond compare, right? So, but all of these things. So I have a saying, when intriguing opportunities present themselves, and you say, yes, things show up. So we have a very similar mindset. I’m a mindset coach. I mean, I’m very mindset-oriented and every word matters. Speak your desires and you get the desires of your heart. You know, so all of those things, and we just kept, when we run into each other, we were with, we’ll just say this, we were with Zervita, which was a company we were with for, I was with since 08. So for almost 17 years, I was with this incredible company named Zervita, where you were actually working in corporate. 

And when we met, it was like, you know, we just had so much fun. Divine appointment. We just clicked, right? And then in the last few months, Zervita was purchased by another Z company, which I love, Zenzino, a 20-year-old company that has been phenomenally successful and and around 50, almost 50 other countries, I think, and just entered North America in the last, less than a year, about a year, I think. And they’re very strategic about who, when they come into a country and how they come into a country. And so because of this merger or acquisition, whatever it is, 

We have like a fresh new opportunity and with a company that’s so grounded and so centered and leads with mindset, Orion leads with mindset. I’m just like in hog heaven that we’ve run across, that we were graced with a second chance with another company, that they also still have our treasured product Zeal and all that too. So we’re gonna talk a little bit more about Zenzino and all that, but I want to go, I mean, you were born with trouble, it seems like. Was that, I mean, you want to start there and just hit the high points of some of the crazy, horrific things in a way that made you who you are today?

Well, yeah. So part of what got me involved with, you know, I like to call preventative medicine and everything, is because of my experience with Western medicine, right, throughout my entire life. So my mother, an incredible woman, I mean, just such a healthy admiration and respect for her, but our side of the family didn’t have the best genes. So my mother’s mother passed away at 40 with a brain aneurysm. Her father had Huntington’s, so that was a 10-year, very slow, tragic disease.

Her brother passed away when he was 25, I wanna say, so that was, you know, a lot of different complications, but then also drugs and alcohol. So it was an accidental overdose. My mother. became ill at 16, and they did not know what was wrong with her. So they started a series of exploratory surgeries, and she ended up having an autoimmune disease, which was not diagnosed until later, but with this came other issues. So when she became pregnant with me, she was 23 and had already lost her mom, and she ended up with cervical cancer. So they told her to abort me. 

And that I could never, you know, go full term. And this was in 1976. So, I’m very grateful that she was strong enough. And she actually said, you know, God had revealed to her who I was. She knew what I was going to look like. She knew my name. And I do have an older sister, whom my mom loved equally. But my mother and I just had a different connection. A very deep connection. I like to think that, you know, God has really had a purpose for me since day one. I think that sometimes the bigger our purpose, the more we’re attacked. And my spiritual attack started in the womb. Right. But I was born and I was feisty and I was good. I was healthy and everything like that. But my mother, 

you know, she continued to go down a path of over 18 operations. Yeah, so she ended up with Zollinger-Ellison. She had celiac. She had Crohn’s. She had two types of cancer. Only 20% of her heart worked at full function. So that’s what drove my passion toward health and wellness. And I believe that that’s also what drove my relationship with God. So there were some challenges, but so many beautiful miracles along the way.

Yeah, man, so from in the womb. She was carrying all these diseases and all that, and on it, and what a blessing that it seems that you kind of. Maybe it skipped you, right? Or maybe she claimed a shield of protection around you from the womb, right? So maybe that’s a gift.

Yeah, it’s fascinating that you say skipped me because my daughter had some challenges as well. So, I remember being at 1 of my daughter’s 1st appointments and the doctor said, Oh, well, you shouldn’t worry speaking to me. You know, it skips a generation and I’m thinking you’re sitting here with the. Skipped generate, right? But that’s a God story in itself. You know, my daughter was born premature. She was a compound breach with the cord around her neck. We couldn’t figure out what was going on. I just lost my fluid. 

There was no leak. It wasn’t like, I mean, it just was gone. So she was born, you know, seven and a half weeks early and was just a feeder and grower, but she was born with an autoimmune disease. And thank God we were able to finally diagnose it through a series of things, and we treat it through nutrition. But that’s a whole different story, but you’re right. I think that when we’re able to identify things, and that’s when I truly learned how to pray over my child, and like plead the blood of Jesus over my child, was when they told us that they thought she had cancer. 

And that was like a five-year stretch. But what I’ve learned is that you never interfere with childlike faith. So I was judged because I allowed my child at the age of 10 to be her own advocate. And I did that because there was no world in which she lived in where she believed that she was sick. So that’s a whole other story.

But it’s mindset, right? I don’t believe in getting sick. So I don’t get sick and I’m 71. And that’s a belief that I’ve had for a lot of years. No doctors, no pills, no nothing for many, many years. And what you did, worked. I mean, I mean, she’s beautiful. She just graduated from high school last week. You know, there’s a lot of amazing things that I feel like you’ve done right but on you. were doing it a lot of it alone because… Well, yeah.

So her father passed away when she was four months old, and that was tragic. And again, kind of a similar theme story, right? He had hurt his shoulder and he had been prescribed some painkillers. And it was New Year’s, and we were being so careful, right? Even my mom dropped us off, so we weren’t going to drive because we knew we were going to have two cocktails and, you know, we just were so, everything was planned out, but he had had a cold, so he had taken some Tylenol cold and flu, and then he had taken the painkiller, and he had a couple of drinks, and that interaction mixed with him having sleep apnea that was undiagnosed, He just didn’t wake up. And it was tragic. 

My daughter was four months old. And I just… But here’s the beauty. And this is what I believe. I believe that’s why my daughter was born early. Because they bonded. and they had that time together. And what four-month-old do you know that starts sleeping through the night? The day her dad passed away, she slept through the night the entire time. So it was just, it gives me chills. 

I just got chills too, man. 

I’m like, oh. She would giggle in her sleep, and once she was old enough to talk, she would tell me things like, oh, daddy was reading me books, and oh, daddy, and then she woke up doing a nursery rhyme once that I was not a nursery rhyme mother. I would make up my own, but I’m very like that. I make up my own things. If you ask me to do something that’s an actual nursery rhyme, I won’t get it right. So she woke up doing this nursery rhyme and I had to call his father and I said, do you know where this came from? 

She told me her dad taught her. And it was what he used to sing to her father when he was a baby. So that all kind of stopped around age six for her. Yeah, but I do believe that, you know, I just am so grateful that they had that extra seven weeks together. and had that time to bond. And that just brings me closer in my faith. So it was a struggle. It was tragic. It took me quite some time to get over it. I’ve been a single mother ever since. It changed my priorities, right? But I mean, we have a father and it’s God, you know? So I don’t think I ever did anything alone.

Incredible story. Oh my gosh. You know, um, that’s why I said in the beginning, I feel like you’ve got one of those, um, stories that people just go, no way. How can she still be so happy? And you’ve just said it, but God, you know, you’ve, you had a reliance on your heavenly father and you know, we’re clueless. 

We don’t know really, especially in your twenties, as you were with her and you know, trying to punch through all those, what most would call tragedies. And many people would just, you know, give up hope, you know, but you, you had no, you didn’t do it. You wouldn’t do it.

And God shows up for us, you know, like my mom had been very sick again and she was, you know, not doing well, but then she rallied and she was healthy for those two and a half years where I was trying to get my footing again. And once I got my footing again, my mom fell ill again. So even my daughter was around, you know, we all lived together and my daughter knew this was the poison box and it was grandma’s medicine, right? 

But my daughter’s a very empathetic person. So she would help feed my mom on her feeding tube and do different things like that. And my mom ended up passing away right before Audra’s fifth birthday. So it was like just enough time to get your footing and then boom again. But, you know, God spoke to me in ways. I remember when Johnny passed away and I was just beside myself and I heard God so audibly tell me, do not search for why, you will never know. And I listened to him. And I think that that was my saving grace because sometimes you can drive yourself wild wondering why, why this, how, you know.

I just knew he was in heaven and I knew I would have to grieve, but I had this beautiful child who was a gift and a blessing. You know, our children are not our property, but they’re our responsibility to raise. So I, and I’m grateful because we learned that right as parents, like our children raise us as much as we raise them. Absolutely.

Yeah. So one of your overcoming, breaking hereditary spiritual strongholds and navigating through life and wellness with a holistic approach, that’s something you wrote in the questionnaire, right? And so that’s very wonderful words, but hearing it, hearing the real story, the single mom, and just hearing God and listening. So I have, I, a few years ago, I’ve got, I don’t have to know why I don’t have to know anything. I don’t have to know. I just get to be in work and, you know, and do what’s next. And, uh, and so it sounds like you got that lesson long before I actually did.

Well, I had that lesson for a while, you know, and it was pretty much, but it wasn’t always easy and I made a lot of mistakes. And, you know, it was my father-in-law who came to me once, and he made a very strong statement, and he said, it’s up to you how long you choose to be, remain a victim. And he said, yeah, bad things have happened to you. What are you going to do about it? And that woke me up, because I was in that victim mindset for a while. I’m like, OK, two out of my three people are now gone. Poor me. Poor me. 

Well, it’s just, what do I do? I felt like I couldn’t catch a break. Everything I do, something happens. And this loving man just told it to me how it is, you know, it’s up to you how long you remain a victim. And that was right before I broke into this industry and I did a complete 180. I was actually bartending at the time because I could work four day shifts. I would not have to leave my child at night, you know, and I would make really good money. But I took it home with me, right? Because most people are not in a bar drinking during the day because they’re happy or they’re celebrating. So I needed a shift and I needed a change. 

So I hit my knees and I prayed and I said, God, I know you have something different for me, but I don’t know what it is. I was one of those victims of having a slumlord, right? So I didn’t know what to do, and I did a radical change. My daughter and I moved out of our apartment. I got a 35-foot RV. Please don’t judge me, but I did use my dad’s senior discount and his handicap plate, and we went camping for four months. We got beach cruisers. We grilled on an open fire every night. And I just prayed. And I did go through my savings and stuff. But it was through that time of prayer and reflection that I received a phone call where I met Brad Murray, who broke me into this industry. And he was trying to recruit me. 

And it was real funny the way that we met. I was getting my hair done. I was very tired. And this girl said, oh, I’ve got something you should try. And it was our Zeal, which gives you energy, right? But she kept coming at me saying, oh, my millionaire boss wants to meet you. My millionaire boss. I was not turned on by money. That’s a whole other part of my story that we won’t get into. But my mom owned an oil servicing company. I was raised around. Quite a lot of money, and it was all embezzled when she was sick. So that’s a whole other overcoming story. But I wasn’t interested in that. I was interested in purpose. But again, God told me, you’re networking. Go meet this person. So I met Brad and he tried to recruit me. And at that time I didn’t have the money. Like I didn’t have the money to buy into a business, but I walked out of those doors saying, God, I wish this company had a paying position. 

And Brad called me the next day and said, you know, man, it was like I got hit in the head with a brick last night. I woke up at three in the morning. I want you to come work for me. So I started working for him for $250 a week. Like it was just a very small time, part time, you know. But when we met, he asked me, so tell me about yourself. And I think we have avenues that we can go down. I could have said, oh, I’m a single mom. I’m a widow. My mom just died. I’m living in a campground. I’m trying to find myself. You know, that wasn’t my story. My story was, I am such a blessed mother and I have the opportunity right now to reinvent myself and I’m looking for purpose and passion. And that’s how we connected. 

And so I started working in the field and worked my way up to a decent salary with him and working in the field. And then noticed by corporate, got a job at corporate, was with corporate for six years. So in this industry, I really have started from the bottom. But even that goes back, and I’ll just say this real quick and I’ll hand it back to you, but I prayed myself into that position as a child without even knowing it. My prayers when I was younger, because my childhood was traumatic and it wasn’t always peaceful. We’re always, oh God, I just want enough money to get by. I just want to live in a small apartment. I just want to be with my daughter or my kids. I didn’t even want marriage. I spoke those words into existence and then I realized it when I was living it. So now I know to dream bigger, pray bigger. and speak bigger things into existence.

I hadn’t heard that part. One of my mentors just this last week said, somebody said that, oh, I just want enough to get by. And she goes, she said, I don’t remember who said it. She said, but I want you to know that is extremely selfish. You’re really selfish when you only want enough for you and not enough to be generous and give. Oh my goodness, that’s amazing.

But you only know what you know, and I didn’t know then that you can only bless from a place of abundance. I didn’t either. I was going from a place of protection, you know what I mean? I thought that I was acting outside of greed, you know what I mean?

No and it does sound that way. I mean, it sounds, I just want enough to get, you know, I just want to be comfortable. That’s and I’ve said it most of my life, really. And so then what you get is what you speak, you get what every word matters. You get what you speak, you get what you do. And so you. When you, in the very beginning, we talked about the vibrant, your authenticity, and I have said over and over, I coined this, right, with somebody on my flight, on my podcast one time, and I said, authenticity is the new sexy, right? 

So he’s like, I’m texting that to my wife. But so being real, and so you’ve got pink hair right now, and you’re very organic and natural in everything you do, other than the fun piece of your hair coloring. Oh, flair, you call these a flair.

It’s still organic hair color, though.

Oh, okay. Well, and I’m like, I love a touch of whimsy in my home. I want something. I had a friend decades ago and I was like, you walked into their beautiful home and all this stuff. And there was this like this dodo bird hanging over the chair, this big old stuff. I mean, I was like. Uh, and I, so she always had a touch of whimsy and I’m like, I love a touch of whimsy. So that I think that’s so much fun. 

You never meet a stranger, you keep your circle small, but you know everybody. I’m a collector and connector of fascinating people. You know, I just love people and we step into that world with that attitude, people are drawn to that, right?

And I do love people. I talk to people everywhere I go. And I am a giver and a helper by nature. I am, you know, I mean, it’s just who I am. And I don’t judge anybody else, but being a mother, especially right now, and that’s kind of why I said everything about me is natural, of course, I get a little uncomfortable sometimes. I’m 48, I’ll be 49 in a few months, and I’ve got wrinkles, and I’ve got, when I do this, my neck, all these different things, and I don’t know anybody. I don’t judge anybody for anything. 

I love people doing them. But it’s important to me that I raise my daughter in a world where she can age gracefully and not feel shamed, where there’s not an unrealistic level of expectation to have the perfect skin, the perfect this, the perfect… 

Because then, You know, I was talking to somebody the other day about perfectionism, and I believe that’s an insult to God. Because it doesn’t exist, and He is the only perfect, you know, that exists. So when we use things like that, you know, I also believe every time, and this is something that’s helped me greatly, Whenever I say, Oh, I can’t do that. Oh, I can’t do this. Oh, I can’t do that. I’m insulting my father. You know, I was just asked to possibly MC part of our event. People don’t understand that I have a huge issue with stage fright. 

It’s just the stage and lights, but I will do it scared because you show up for your team. You show up in any capacity that you can. And just because I may think I can’t do it, God has told me that I can. And so I really, that’s been my motto as well, which we’ve all heard it a million times over, but God doesn’t call, you know, or God calls the, how does it go? I just, I do it this all the time.

God doesn’t call the qualified.

He qualifies the called. Okay. Yeah, that’s it. You know, nobody in the Bible was perfect. The ones that he called Moses had a stutter, you know, all of that. Yeah. So it’s, it’s the truth. And then. Stepping into so this is where you. talked about stepping into, oh, here it is. When you find yourself overwhelmed, the way you achieve success in life is to simply do the next indicated thing, the next right thing, the next action step towards your goal. So amazing stuff. You’re so full of life and wisdom and overcoming and hope. And the hope is what we want people to leave with, right? 

That’s the big deal. Let’s talk about Zinzino. So Zinzino, you, I tell you what. I believe that the marriage of Zavita and Zinzino was as divine a marriage, of a business collaboration, as could possibly have happened. And we are so incredibly blessed to be the very first boots on the ground in North America. And so, by the way, can I just say, the owner, Orion, from Scandinavia, got this company 20 years ago this year, He’s also a business partner. And so he’s building his own teams as well. But he’s the owner, mindset guy, Brad Murray, your boss, Miranda. 

And then basically, Mark Bowen and me, so it’s, I mean, we’re in this line of, and when she’s talking about the industry, if you don’t know what that means, she’s talking about network marketing industry, which had a bad rap, bad name, but let me just tell you that’s probably the single most lucrative way to get ahead, at least for most people, right? So anyway, so Zenzino, is, comes out, I mean, they’ve got test-based nutrition. So you’ve got the product, I’ve got them right back here, but you, we’re gonna take a test, a little blood test, and find out where your omegas are, okay? 

So we know we need omega-3s, but because we have massive amounts of omega-6s, the inflammatory ones, it’s already in the news, it’s out there everywhere, we’re all talking about it. Do you, how about you, do you wanna do the, The hands, the Omega hands, do the Omega hands for us. I’ve never seen more simple, straightforward, and incredible training. Art Jonak, our North American operations dude, man, he’s so fun, and he’s so spot on with the simplifying things. Right.

He’s a master. He is a master at it. And, you know, and that’s one thing, you know, when you said that our industry real quick, you know, can have a bad rap. So can everything. I mean, how many times do we hear, oh, I’m anti-corporate America. I mean, that was me forever. I’ve only had one corporate job and it was six years and I will never go back. I want to be able to be celebrated. And I always joked about that, saying if I could buy toilet paper for my sister, I would, right? I just love supporting people. That’s another way of blessing out of our abundance. 

And I do believe that having these products and having a door into network marketing is a form of abundance. So, yes. and the omega hands. I am going to be proof that you don’t have to be perfect at doing this, but it is very simple. So on one hand, you have your omega threes, and what we’ve learned is that they are essential to your body. Your body needs them, so you have to get them from food or a supplement, and your body does not create them, right? And over here, you have your omega six. Again, it is essential to your body. Your body does not make it. You have to get it from foods or supplements or other things, and just your body doesn’t make it. But here’s the thing. Your omega-3s are anti-inflammatory, and your omega-6 are what cause inflammation, okay? 

So what I love is that we have a home health test that you can do. It’s a dry blood spot test, and it’s going to tell you your omega-6 to 3 ratio. Now, a healthy ratio is 3 omega-6, which are inflammatory, to 1 omega-3, which is anti-inflammatory. The average human tests at about 22 to 1 or something like that. So 95% of people are in what they like to call the danger zone, right? So they do not have a healthy ratio. Now, Americans are even worse. Don’t even get me started on that because I am a huge advocate for eating clean, eating healthy. 

It’s just, I believe we are at such a disadvantage with our depleted soils and all kinds of things. So we are just almost force fed. all of these inflammatory foods, right? So, Americans, the average is like a 25-to-one ratio, and that’s like 98% of people that test, test outside of a healthy ratio. So what I love about our product, On one hand, a product that we’re actually selling, sharing, however you want to say it. I’m not opposed to saying that I’m selling something. I am because I’m selling a solution as well. But it’s a test. So you do this little blood spot test. You get your results in about three to four weeks. So easy to take.

 It takes literally, it takes five minutes to do everything. But then we’re also offering you a solution. And that’s the part that I love. So in this bottle is a beautiful blend of omega-3s, but this is not an omega supplement on its own. It’s a balance oil, okay? So it is a blend between extra virgin olive oil, omega-3, and vitamin D3. And if you’ve studied anything on nutrition, you know that there need to be certain carriers, right? If you’re wanting to absorb vitamin D3, you need to take it with a healthy fat. And so this balance oil is just incredible. And what it does is it improves your cell fluidity. So within 120 days, your red blood cells turn over. So if you think of it like this, Within 120 days, if you’re feeding your body bad-for-you things, things that cause inflammation, things that increase stress, just things that wreak havoc on your body, well, that’s what’s going to reproduce in your body those next 120 days. But if you are giving yourself good, clean nutrition, then in 120 days, those turn over into healthier cells. So I am just in love with this product. I could go on and on.

So the Balance Oil, so it’s a three-second a day solution. You pour this little wonderful tasting oil into a shot glass and take a little shot of the oil. You can mix it with stuff too, but it tastes good on its own and multiple flavors as well. But a three-second daily solution, easy, inexpensive, $43 a month for that bottle of oil, and it’s got the polyphenols and all those other things in it. And what we’ve learned as well is that the vast majority of oil supplements are not manufactured well, and they are very ineffective. And that’s been proven over and over with these tests because people, oh, I take my fish oil, I take my oils, you know, I’m, you know, and they’re like, what,

I’m 20 to 1. And I’ve been, you know, I’ve been taking on, I’m the healthiest person on, on earth right now. You know what I mean? You know who I’m talking about? Like these, there’s Shanna and I mean, these beautiful, healthy people, and they’re way out of balance too, because their supplements have been maybe not, not, formulated the way that this one is, Balance Oil Plus. So the deal is, you take this little test, you take four months of a shot of oil a day, and that’s all it takes. It’s very, everybody wants a quick fix, you know, just pop a pill, a quick fix. Well, this is it. 

And you get a free test at the end of the 120 days to retest. And I can tell you how many stories we have heard. I’m 55 to 1. I’m 58 to 1. 29 to 1, and then four months later, they’re in the 5 or 6 to 1, and they’re working their way down to the 3 to 1. Unbelievable results in a very simple, effective, fast solution. And Zenzino has a ton of other products. And they also sell Zeal, which we love, that came from Zerbita. So they’ve got vitamin D tests, they’ve got HB13C or whatever that test is, and they’re really test-based nutrition that you can find out the real truth without going to a doctor, without going to a lab, without doing it. You can do it at home. It’s simple, safe, and Anonymous too, right?

It’s not, they don’t- It is, it’s completely anonymous. And you know, what shocked me the most is, you’re right, you can’t judge a book by its cover. I have got friends that are in perfect health, like maybe 9% body fat, you know, all good. And I tested better than them, but even my test was not safe. So I originally tested it nine to one, but this is what I love. You’re not just getting numbers back, you’re getting reasons why, which acids are elevated. It’s just so amazing and it’s almost too good to be true for your price. 

So for me, the one level that was elevated is what led to anxiety and depression, and I wasn’t metabolizing animal fats properly while I’m going through perimenopause. And so I’m sitting here going, oh my goodness, and doctors are like, you just have anxiety. Just by getting my omegas in balance, I have not experienced any anxiety. I have not had any issues. My cardiologist loves it. But what really got me was our children. So I eat so healthy and my daughter’s on a hormone balancing diet as well because I believe we should start eating that way from I don’t think it’s just for women in menopause. I mean, how many times do we say, oh, it’s just hormones? It’s so dismissive. It’s very important. So we eat fish, you know, four or five times a week in my house. There’s just not any way to get enough, right?

There’s no way to get enough. Well, Art says six cans of sardines a day, which I love sardines, but I don’t think six cans a day is going to work for me. And so that’s that.

And our children, you know, I tested 9 to 1, but my daughter tested 37 to 1. And our children burn through their omega-3s faster. And one thing I love is Art talks about this, you know, shopping cart analogy. And I’ve done it. So I like to challenge people. Go to the grocery store. If you’re looking at just a basic $100 cart, which is impossible these days, but look into that shopping cart, how many Omega-3s are really in there?

And I’ve done that challenge. Even with a super clean shopping cart, I had such a small amount of Omega-3s because they come from things like our olive oil, walnuts, salmon, you know, everything else has Omega-6s in it. So, you know, and I think right now I’m so grateful for the awareness that’s being brought to our country in specific, but how many foods are we allowing in our country that are completely not allowed in other countries? So the fact that we have partnered with a Scandinavian company means the world to me. And one thing that I love is, you know, to promote the company, you were talking about Orion. 

Yes, him and Hilda are the founders. But what sets us apart is they are in the field. So they don’t draw corporate salary or anything. Everything they do is field related and they believe in their vision and their goals. But that’s exactly what sets it apart. Orion doesn’t just have five and 10-year goals, 50-year goals. I mean, the man has a 500-year goal. And that, to me, is a company I can get behind.

Well, the goal is not, the goal is not financial goal. See, there’s something there. The goal is how many more people can be healthy and live in a healthy lifestyle. So he’s got this. 1 million people tested this year. And then he’s got the goal of 2030 and 2050. And then a 500-year goal of how many people by just really primarily using this one product will totally. So some people consider that if we’re not careful, they would think this, well, he’s got a 500-year plan. But it’s not for money. It’s for health. They win, we all win when we’re more of us are healthy. I have to, can I brag just a smidgen? I didn’t take a second test. My first, I will but

My first test was six to one and I haven’t heard anybody else say that and I don’t do anything special. I don’t do clean eating. I just, you know, but I don’t, I also believe mindset is huge. I don’t worry about things. I don’t worry about not eating the right things or different, whatever. And I, but I just don’t, I never stop it. I never have to stop at the fast foods and all this kind of stuff and have something in my car or a drink in my hand. I only have water usually in my Yeti.

Well, and that’s the thing though, but even then you’ll hear people say, and it’s such a human mindset. Like, because I feel like, oh, I was nine to one, that’s good. And somebody had to bring to my attention, no, that’s three times the amount of inflammation you should have in your body. So you still have two times the amount of inflammation. It’s so sad that our children and so many Americans and so many just people worldwide have you know, sometimes like 500 times the amount of inflammation in their body. And we’ve learned that that’s the root cause to so many things. Now, it’s not a cure-all. 

We have to be so ethical in what we do. But what I have noticed is by improving your cell fluidity, I believe that most people in my circle, at least, all take supplements and are healthy. Now, we all believe we’re taking the best supplements for us, but what I love about our Balance Oil is I can say to you, what if I can offer you something that will maximize the benefits of what you’re already taking? Because my supplement stack is different than my daughter’s supplement stack and different, you know. Then, yes, we have other products. They’re amazing, I love them and I use them. But when you’re able to expel toxins better and absorb what we’re all spending money on, right, already, for only $43 a month, are you kidding me? It’s like a no-brainer, and everybody needs it. My daughter takes this every morning now. But yeah, 

I’m interested to see your next test, because it tells a lot, but it doesn’t just tell you, like, this is what I love. Yes, there’s goals on getting so many people tested, right? We wanna have 50 million customers. We wanna have all these different things, but his vision doesn’t stop with how many people we can get tested. We’re nothing if we can’t offer a solution. So that’s why when you see him, and he shared this at an event that I was at, a Diamonds Retreat, You know, we acquire other companies. That’s part of their business strategy.

And it’s a very brilliant one. It’s how we partnered with them. You know, distribution, a wonderful product, boots on the ground. That’s how you launch in a new market. But they’re also acquiring other companies for patent rights and different things on how do you grow your own omegas. So it’s very scientific, just groundbreaking, revolutionary thinking. And yeah, if you get involved for health purposes, the side effect is you’re gonna make some money. If you get involved because we’re a business and you wanna make some money, your side effect is you’re gonna get healthier.

It’s a win-win. And I’m all about win-win, 100%. So this, I do, I love the, how down to earth this company is and how strategic that what you just said, they didn’t come to United States for 19 years because, and they were looking for the right company to merge with and I believe they were, you know, I love Jay Schaefer, hired CEO of Zervita that has, that orchestrated or at least put his life on the line to get this thing done and it was much more challenging. 

So we’ll just say the little test, now we’ve got $43 a month is all it takes for that one little shot of oil a day, but the first month, is you buy the test and the oil. If you bought the test just by itself, retail, it’s $125. No, that’s our price.

If you just buy the test retail, it’s 178. Oh, wow. Our price as partners, if we want to just buy the test, it’s 125. So we’re giving new customers an even bigger discount because it’s the 115.

115, so it’s basically getting the oil for free and the test at big discounts. So the first month, $115. And some people go, well, that’s a lot. And I’m like, well, how many trips to the doctor would that, I mean, compare that to a lab trip or a doctor trip or all these, it’s your health we’re talking about, right? So this one little simple blood test, and then you get it free so that you get it in four months so you can retest and decide if it’s working or not. Yeah, it’s so simple. It’s so direct. It’s so I mean, it’s just the website, their products, their training. Oh, my gosh. 

You know, and so we’re going to the very first this weekend tomorrow, I’m leaving for Houston and we’re going to dance together. But tomorrow we’re going to have I mean, this weekend we’re having the very first North American and they call it leader school. I mean, it’s just really simple, basic. Let’s just. teach people what this is all about and to move forward. And if any, you know, nobody will hear this before that, but, but, you know, this is, this is not a short term thing. And, you know, network marketing is really had, You know, there’s been a lot of shifts in that world in the last bit and a lot of companies have gone away and people are looking for a home, for something that they can really latch on to. 

And I mean, I just get giddy when I think of the synergy and the divineness of this merger. So I’m really grateful for that.

Yeah, and in our industry space, a lot of things, like you said, have shifted and a lot of companies went out of business. And I’m grateful that, like you said, Jay was able to broker this deal because our vision was always to be able to take our product globally. And, you know, sometimes God works in mysterious ways. So not only did we, you know, are we given that opportunity coming soon, but we didn’t have to wake up like a lot of people without a paycheck. We didn’t wake up without a home. 

We didn’t have to go, you know, look around. And not only that, but I think it’s the best partnership that we could ever have, because this truly is a very authentic company. It’s customer-focused. And so It’s not all the hype that follows our industry sometimes and gives us a bad name. I truly meet people where they’re at. I’m not trying to get somebody to be a business partner of mine so they can get wholesale pricing. I respect and celebrate customers. In fact, we want more customers. That’s how you become a household name. 

And going back to the product really quick, I have seen two people test in perfect balance. One was Dr. Scott Van Loo, and he’s our doctor, right? And then another one was this lady, our pastor’s really good friend, and she eats so clean and she takes omegas, but she also drinks olive oil and vitamin D3. So even though she tested in balance, she’s switching to what we have to offer because it’s a simple, more affordable solution. So I have

And I’ve had somebody switch also that was taking certain products, but they were having to take double and it costs more.

Well, and so Zeal, I’ve got it behind me here, the zeal, which is from Zervita that has been loved since 2011, when it came out. I mean, it’s nothing but superfood nutrition. You can also get that in there, but that combination of superfood nutrition and this oil, if you know, oh, I’ll look at you drink. Yeah, unbelievable, unbelievable, simple solutions, reasonable, simple solutions. And so we haven’t really talked much about, and we don’t have it a couple of minutes, but it goes so fast. We haven’t mentioned some of the results. 

So I was at a meeting and I heard a guy, his test was like 55 or something to one, and he had only been taking the oil for three weeks. He’d been taking the shot of oil every day for three weeks, and he’s a carpenter, and his hands had arthritis. Three weeks, he had no pain in his hands. And so the inflammation that causes really wrecks have it on every single, it’s what’s the bottom line for nearly all disease. And this solution, when you start doing that and your hair gets better and your, you know, how many, name one or two of your, testimonies that you’ve heard as far as people feeling better and their joints and all that.

Well, of course, my favorite testimony will always be my own because my anxiety was through the roof going through perimenopause and developing a heart condition. So my cardiologist loves this. And I have not had a single SVT. I have supraventricular tachycardia. I’ve not had a single episode since I have been on it. and no anxiety. So as far as physical things, and I’ll be very clear when I say this, it does take a full 120 days for those blood cells to actually turn over. But what’s so magical in this is the polyphenols. 

So when you start taking this, I tell people to pay attention to their hands. You see me do this a lot. My hands are so much softer. So if your skin is softening that much, that’s what it’s doing on the inside. So I have a Canadian friend who suffers with trigger finger and boom, gone. But again, a lot of it in before the 120 days, those results come from like the polyphenols and stuff. But yes, absolutely reduced pain. And I’m very moved by the cognitive stories. So we don’t tend to think of that a lot of times where inflammation in the brain and inflammation in your gut, right? And we’ve got incredible gut health products as well. 

But once you get all of that under control, things just start to fall into place. So I myself lost 13 pounds of just inflammation. And so, I mean, the stories, yeah, and now I feel like myself again, I can start working out again, you know, but you just have less aches and pains. I’ve heard a lot, quite a few testimonies. We just have to always be careful in how we share them, right?

Exactly. Well, so you just mentioned weight and this is, I hadn’t even put this together. I’ve lost weight. Yeah. I weighed this morning. I don’t weigh very often. I don’t, I’m not focused on weight. I don’t, but I, I went below a number that I was like, oh, I’ve got more to go. But you know, I’m not sure I’m not on a diet. A diet to me is die with a cross at the end. But so no, I and I’m like, Now that makes sense. 

Yay, yippee, skippy. And so all the nails and hair and all those, you know, super, and, you know, just, I feel like my skin is getting better as well. And at 71, that’s a big deal. You’re talking about them and I’m like, yeah, no.

I can never believe your age, you know, and we are very young at heart, but I mean, I like to think of it similar to our Zeal product, right? it goes to where your issue is. Exactly. So it’s almost like a mind reader or godsend, right? Like you’re going to hear testimonies from A to Z because everybody’s inflammation is in different parts, right? And that’s what sets this product apart. When people try to compare it, oh, but I’m getting all my whole food nutrition and everything through Zeal. That’s not what this product is. Oh, but my gut health, that’s not what this product is. Oh, I take fish oil, that’s not what this product is. 

This product is unparalleled to anything in the marketplace. And I challenge people to actually just Google it. What is the importance of a healthy omega six to three ratio? And then go as far as to say, I ask AI all the time, I’m like every few days just to see if something else has come up, but I’m like, is there anything in the marketplace similar to this? And there’s not. There’s just not.

Good to know. That’s a great place to end because we got to end. And it’s like, I can’t wait to see you tomorrow. This is awesome. So anyway, Miranda, M-I-R-A-N-D-A, Berkman, B-E-R-K-M-A-N. And if you are listening to this because of her, please we can reach out to her get on her team let’s get this thing rolling and if you’re listening and you hear and it’s because of me go to charlaanderson.com/zinzino z-i-n-z-i-n-o and it takes you to my little landing page that i’ve created that has my fun sheriff serious silly Omega Hans story, but and a lot of information that Dr. Rick Warhol. Yeah, 

I like to mention his name, but I, you know, I’m going to give him total credit for a lot of those things in my landing page, but charlaanderson.com. And so, you know, let’s get you and your family healthy. And by the way, I call it from babies to ages, babies to ages. So even teeny baby, little bitty kids can take this. And you can’t go wrong, especially if they eat one ounce of the fast foods out there.

Well, and if you test and balance, it’s a money back guarantee. So you really can’t go wrong. That’s great. I don’t even think I knew that. That’s good. I just say, let’s see. Yeah, you have to test in balance, right? But I just want to see where you’re at. You know, just where are you at? And we’re so confident in our product that we will send you a free test every 120 days so we can continue to prove that our product is working.

Practitioners, the medical, you know, there’s a 12 month money back guarantee for practitioners. If you’re out there as a chiropractor or a doctor, you know, one of the practitioners that wants to market this product.

I actually bought that. I’m not a practitioner, but that’s the one I bought because the way I use it, and we can talk about that later, but absolutely, that is the way to go. Wow, I had no idea.

Well, I’ll call you Dr. Miranda. Well, thanks so much. You know, everyone, every week we’re on here and these are rolling out as podcasts. And I want you to like and subscribe my YouTube channel, please. And I don’t remember to ask that very often, but I have just loved you, Miranda. I love you so much. And we you know, like we said in the beginning, you know, we just have some kind of a like thing, you know, well, so are you. Okay. Anyway. So anyway, we’re having a great time. So the Charla Anderson show, thank you again so much, sweet girl. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 

And remember to always, always, always, and I got to find that stop record button. It’s always my thing. Always, always, always choose joy.

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About Miranda Berkman

Miranda Berkman is a single mother, wellness advocate, and spiritual seeker who’s devoted her life to breaking generational and spiritual strongholds through a holistic approach to healing. Deeply rooted in faith—but not confined by organized religion—she blends soulful intuition with clean living, good food, and a love for live music. Known for her vibrant authenticity, Miranda lives by her late mother’s motto: “Take life seriously, but don’t take yourself too seriously.” Everything on her is natural and organic—except her hair color, which always brings the right splash of flair. With a small circle and a big heart, she’s never met a stranger and believes in celebrating people exactly as they are.

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