Get to Know The Host: Savannah and Jeremiah

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Book Mention: “Katy Faust” her book “Them Before Us”.

Podcast Mention: Alex Clark “https://www.tpusa.com/thespillover”

Jeremiah (Co-Host) interviewing our Host of Casting Seeds Savannah.

 Intro

Hello and welcome to Casting Seeds, where you, the listener, get to decide, is this topic biblically casting pearls or planting seeds.

I'm Savannah, your host. I'm a holistic health practitioner, bodyworker, alignment specialist, herbalist, and small business owner. I'm also a wife and most importantly, Christian.

This podcast is where you get to use God's singular truth for your discernment in individualized Healthcare.

First Segment 

That's me, Hello, I'm Savannah.

I'm Jeremiah.

This is my husband, Jeremiah Scagliotti, and we are playing around and starting our first ever, I guess this would be an introductory episode to Casting Seeds. I am not going to lie, I'm kind of nervous starting.

Cheers to making mistakes.

I'm kind of nervous starting a podcast, uh, one, because I feel like I am constantly learning when it comes to holistic health and biblically all the time. I know I'll be learning for the rest of my life, but I did notice that I was being asked the same questions over and over and over again when it came to holistic health and also just biblical questions as to whether or not things are okay that are happening out there, especially with a lot of new-age stuff going on and some other stuff that I just don't think is that big of a deal and tends to be more of a heart issue for most people.

Um, and most of it is individualized discernment, but there are still hard biblical yeses and nos that just come across in my life consistently. And also people have a lot of questions when it comes to healthcare. So I think that's one of the big things that drove this podcast to begin. I know Jeremiah too, he comes from a background of bodybuilding and he had a lot of questions about holistic health when we first met and when we were dating, why don't you share a little bit about that? What it's like to have a wife who does this for a living?

The best thing ever is having someone to spot you and like help coach you. But I would say the worst thing is you have to try everything. And yeah, I mean, I can say that everything has worked, but it doesn't always taste great.

He's talking about herbal tinctures. He's kind of my test dummy for a lot of those things. But I think, um, you know, throughout our experiences, I think when once like we had our first miscarriage, I think that was the biggest part of the introduction to holistic health and understanding how the hospitals work and how everything else works around Us. Because, you know, like no one talks about this stuff.

We don't get any feedback or any information on it. It's more of, you know, get pregnant and just see what happens.

Yeah. Jeremiah and I have been talking or throwing this around, especially to my clients for the past year and a half about me possibly starting a podcast. And I think that a lot of people were behind it and excited, but once things have really started affecting us personally, uh, and clients genuinely were interested. I have people who are nutritionists that I see, I have world-class trainers and athletes that I work with. And when people were saying that I would be willing to talk about that biblically on your podcast. And some of them aren't even Christian.

They just have a certain point of view and I'm allowed to ask them questions from a Christian perspective and as to whether or not they think Christians should be doing it, which is also a cool perspective that I think a lot of Christians don't get to hear.

Uh, but once Jeremiah and I started having our physical ailments, which started happening to me, I guess, more in my teens, especially when I was professionally modeling and just not making the right choices for my health and it just went downhill from there.

But Jeremiah really started feeling it in his thirties, you know, just getting old.

Uh, so that's kind of the premise of why we wanted to start this podcast to begin with and, uh, just a light overview, I guess, of who we are. Um, and biblically, I've been a Christian, I met God for the first time when I was 15, and just thought baptism would save me.

That was a lie because I continued to sexually sin. And, uh, I just thought, you know, I have fire insurance from hell. If I get baptized, I can do whatever I want. And that's not how it works. And at 19, I had a true, uh, moment with Christ where I was bawling uncontrollably in my room. And I just realized, like, I was like, I became a Christian.

Why?

And I did not grow up in a Christian home either. And I just, my only thing that I had was, you know, I know how to love everybody. And I hadn't opened up my Bible for years. I sat on the floor and I opened up to what of all chapters, first Corinthians, chapter 13, and God showed me what love truly was and what love wasn't. And when he made it clear to me that if you don't know me, you don't even know what love is. I bawled uncontrollably, like hyperventilated and gagged, like throwing, I was trying not to throw up and realized how much I needed a

Lord and Savior and here I am today. Now at 29 years old, uh, 10 years later, and I'm so thankful that I had that moment where there are ups and downs.

Absolutely.

And I think the biggest part of it was because I didn't, I never really had a true community for a long time to hold me accountable for my actions. And it was just me in the Word every so often.

Right.

And then praying all the time, talking at God consistently, but not letting him speak to me or letting his fellowship speak to me and having genuine fellowship. So I'm held accountable all the time, especially in marriage.

How about you?

What's your testimony there, especially going into holistic health? 

I would say like for holistic health, I don't know if mine pertained to, well, holistic health, I would say mine's more towards the masculinity and mental health of men. I think that that's. Which is holistic health.

Yeah.

Having a breakthrough moment there.

Yeah.

But yeah, I came to Christ when I was 30. 2020.

Yeah.

2020, 30.

Yeah.

So just getting to the point of what drew me to Christianity was masculinity and the image of Jesus as a man and as a God at the same time, a hundred percent each.

And the thought of being in servitude to the church, your wife, everybody around you that is part of your body, family and everything, it just, that's what drew me into Christianity and wanting to be like Jesus and pretty much died, died to oneself as God did for us on the cross.

Yeah.

Christ-like men are supposed to take off the cross.

But yeah, that was, that's a fun story that we can talk about another time. I'd love to do an interview and if people are interested, hear how we first met. Someone in silence, their cell phones, laptops. Um, yeah, I guess this little intro episode is just for listeners to get to know a little bit about me. And trust me and see if they even want to listen to some random girl on the internet with the five bajillion other podcasts that they can listen to out there.

Well, there's not, there's, that's the thing. Christianity on the podcast network is not massive.

You know, like there are 500,000 podcasts out there that are currently active and not even 5% are Christian.

That's crazy.

Well, like if I look for the masculine ones, just by itself for men, there's about.

Really?

And who knows if they're, I mean, probably most of them are not biblical masculinity.

I mean, most of the stuff is, you know, work hard, make money, pray for it.

Which is, that biblical work hard, play hard.

Yeah.

That's another subject.

You gotta be careful who you're listening to.

Yeah, I know.

I'm just joking, everyone.

I feel like I'm going to have to add caveats to everything.

I am joking that that is not biblical.

Uh, but Jeremiah has some questions for me. I don't know all of them. I felt like there were some that we liked that were written out. Um, and I'm going to let him decide and just use discernment on which ones he wants to ask me. There was someone who was reading them to me. I was like, like I sounded like some woman in church agreeing with everything the pastor was saying. Uh, but yeah, so I also have an Instagram right now called Savannah Marie massage, which is also my business. Uh, if we, we may start a podcast, Instagram that's casting seeds so that people can ask more direct questions. If it grows. I think it depends if we start getting probably over a hundred or 150 subscribers, maybe then it would just be worth it to start in a separate Instagram that's separate from my business. Uh, but yeah, we'll see.

  I have, you can tell this is very up in the air. We're just doing what we believe God's calling us to do, which is honestly talking about holistic health and helping, you know, figure out if you're casting seeds or casting pearls to swine. That's why we want to make sure that we're planting seeds. Like it's talked about in Matthew.

So, all right, Jeremiah hit me with the first question. Hit me with your best shot.

Question 1

All right.

Um, I think number one was really good for a beginner.

How do you incorporate biblical principles into your approach to holistic health?

That is a good question.

Um, I incorporate biblical principles into every aspect of my life.

So in that way, it is incorporated into holistic health. And if we're going to get a definition of holistic health, um, technically through Google, uh, holistic health is a junction of mind, body, and spirit where it's working with all three together. And I feel like holistic health is a biblical principle because we are trying to work through the spirit, right?

In every aspect of our life and have fruits of the Holy Spirit, the last one being self-control, um, and using that with our body and our mind. So self-control means how am I going to act when I know that I'm sick? How am I going to use God's glory and God's creation in everything that I do with the money that I use with the time that I have throughout the day?

And, uh, these are lifestyle choices and habits, and honestly, it's a choice. You have to choose the Lord every single day. So that's how I also do that through holistic health. People ask me uncomfortable questions sometimes where they want me to talk about things that maybe they're excited about, like Reiki work where I'm not so excited and I know some people are going to hear that and be like, well, I'm done with this podcast, but, uh, biblically, there are things that I just don't stand by, especially because I've been in a cult-like atmosphere before when I was younger, that was literally demonic. And they tried to teach me how to read tarot cards and do literal witchcraft.

So, um, you lead by example.

Yeah, through my life, my lifestyle choices, and you're just really open and you want to share the gospel and you communicate and I make it very clear to every single one of my clients who walks in through the door. I don't care what their background is or where they're from. They know that I'm a Christian through my website or, I mean, there are Bible verses in my office. So, um, and you know, the Bible, the word's offensive. People are going to be offended no matter what. So I might as well be truthful to my father in the meantime.

Question 2

Um, I think this is another good one because of, you know, like you're not the only person that's going to be on people's team, you know, they're going to have a team, a doctor, a, um, a physical therapist or somebody else. I think a good question to roll into is, uh, do you work in conjunction with other healthcare providers, such as medical doctors? And if so, how do you integrate your approach with theirs?

Yeah, that's a good question. Um, it is a hard line for many clients who come to me. They are coming to me, most of them, very angry and hurt and betrayed. Um, normally from allopathic medicine, which is Western medicine or like the average doctor or PT or whatever. It's not as common for someone to come to a holistic healthcare practitioner, who is upset with holistic health. But there are a lot of people who are perturbed and disturbed by the crooks, like crooks and crocks, especially in holistic health. And they never compare holistically to finances or money. They're like, oh, I'll spend like $5,000 on like a spiritual worker. But then when it comes to $5,000 for medicine, they're like, oh, this doctor is trying to screw me over, which I think is silly, um, because both of them are insane in my mind. So when it comes to working with people that I trust, I only recommend doctors, uh, other healthcare workers, whether holistic or allopathic that I've personally worked with, um, or that I've met with and had long discussions with, but I do like to personally meet with people who are willing to meet and get treated by all of the people that I recommend. Whether or not they recommend me, I have no idea. I do have some people coming in from other chiropractors or, um, I don't think any doctors personally have recommended me that I'm aware of. I have a few, um, therapists. I've had mental health therapists recommend me and I work, but that's because I've worked on them. They were looking for healthcare and they came to me and then they they're patients to me, which then became my clients. So, I mean, when it comes to holistic healthcare, I do tell my clients all the time, and I think that's why you used the word healthcare team, because that's a word that I say to my clients. And if you're a client listening to this, you're like, ah, the healthcare team spiel that she gives at the beginning of every single session. I tell my clients, whether it's myself or somebody else, as much as I'd love to be a part of their healthcare team, if I do not fit or if I'm there for just a season or even just one session, or if we're talking at the beginning of the session, it makes it, they make it very clear that I am not the right fit, then they don't pay for that session. They're not going to sit there and have to continue listening to me or get worked on by me. If it doesn't work, then that's a blessing. And I want to help them find the right healthcare team, whether I'm a part of it or not to be able to grow, because it's about individualized healthcare. It's about individualized health, the same way that every Christian has different gifts and individualized discernment. So I'm there to love on you whether or not you need my help, but biblically, I'm here to serve you as a servant for Christ. And God's called me that through healthcare and it's a blessing whether or not I'm a part of it.

So.

All right.

Well, that was, yeah.

Did you like that answer?

I did.

I really did.

Question 3

Um, I don't know if you want to touch on to like, um, a few of the topics or subjects that you kind of are against maybe?

Like right off the bat?

Yeah.

Like, so like, um, I know you were like a hard no on, if you got on Reiki, um, if you had like a vaccination within a certain point in time, or, um, I think it's called insemination or what was it?

IVF.

Yeah, that one.

Yeah.

Um, so that's kind of a gnarly question to ask in an opening.

I had to throw you a hard one.

Yeah.

Well, these, none of them are easy. Uh, cause most, I mean it's a lot of it's personal opinion, but I'm trying to make sure that it's not this that's the point of the show is that people can listen to my opinion, which a lot of it is going to be opinion, but that's the point of casting seeds. They get to decide if it really, this episode was casting a seed or, you know, casting pearls, if they're like Savannah, this is a Pearl, I hate you. I disagree. I'd be like, all right, great. Individual heart, heart concern. Um, yeah, I, I would love, I don't remember her name “Katy Faust” and I have her book “Them Before Us”. I feel like I need to look it up on Instagram, but Alex Clark does a great, uh, podcast called The Spillover “https://www.tpusa.com/thespillover”. And she interviewed this woman and I'm going to have to put it, you know, when we post this under the information, I'll just start with it. IVF commentary, uh, because a lot of people are shocked to hear that I'm extraordinarily against IVF super against it biblically, uh, I believe that children are a blessing. We, God, does not say at any point in the Bible that we are going to get married and, or going to have kids. Gift. Yeah, they're all gifts. So when people make children, people are not going to like this. I did learn that there are types of IVF that do not necessarily kill babies. You can keep all of them if you're able to afford them and your babies won't die in storage and stuff. I just personally believe that there are so many children out there that do need homes that are already born. And also, do I agree with sperm insemination or things like that? No, because I also think biblically and statistically it is proven that children do better with their biological mother and father. So if you have sperm donation, egg donation, all that to me, biblically, from what I've read and also from the research, it is playing God. So I am against most to most things like that. What was the other one you asked?

Um,

Oh, no COVID vaccination.

Like you, you have a period where you do, you will not be able to work on people.

Yeah.

So basically when it comes to individualized healthcare, I could give a rip. If you want to get vaccinated, if you want to take ibuprofen up the yin yang all day, every day, more power to you, where you live right now in a free country in America, where hopefully and prayerfully that's still able to become a stay, a choice, uh, for individualized healthcare, I am not a fan of vaccinations and I have not been for a long time and I was named as Kooky for years because of it. Uh, and I've known for a long time that they've been putting DNA into vaccinations, so it's not a new thing with the COVID vaccine, which also we can put up, uh, stuff to show that. And as well at the end of the episode, but, uh, or actually when we go into more depth with those types of things, yeah, but, um, yes, so what people don't understand is shedding is a real thing I learned it in school before COVID came out. Um, when people said that shedding was, you know, silly and people are like, oh, it's just a part of the far right telling you not to get vaccinated. Nope. Shedding is a real thing. And I was a victim of shedding and I bled uncontrollably for a long time and you were there, I was swollen and sick, and on top of that, I have an auto-immune disorder, Hashimoto's, and PCOS. Which was undiagnosed at that time I had celiac disease at that time. So, um, yeah, and I got sick because people decided to get vaccinated and not heed my warnings. And it's because my skin is touching your skin and heavy metals come through your skin, especially during massage. I mean, even my sheets will smell weird from lymphatic drainage. After people