 from our studios of Fink Tech Hawaii in downtown Honolulu and from my home office in Makiki. He's back. I have invited Anthony Criscoll, Mr. Fashionator himself, back to continue to educate us and to get us up and running after being cooped up for the past two years. Let's welcome Anthony Criscoll, Mr. Fashionator himself. Aloha Anthony. Aloha Wendy, how are you? Oh, I'm blessed and I've been missing you, so I hope you have good news to tell us that you're back and live, but we'll let you get to that in a minute. But let's just get right in and started. So Anthony, I understand that a project that you have been involved with since 2018, well, that's four years now, was finally completed in 2022. Can you tell me more about the Fashion Net Plastination Project? Yes, I'd love to. I am on the dissection team for this first ever Fashion Net Plastination Project, whereby we had the first human specimen that was fully dissected to highlight all of the facial structures within the body. And again, it's the first one in history. I'm proud to say I was on the dissection team. I went out there in 2018 and 2020. And just to be part of this fantastic team of like-minded, fascia enthusiasts, I was like a kid in a candy store. And the best part about it is this human form that was then plastinated with all of the facial structures from the outside to the inside, around the heart, lungs and organs, all of that. She's currently on display at the Body Worlds exhibit in Berlin. And more importantly, they're gonna be sending her to Canada for the next Fashion Research Congress in 2022 out there in Canada in September. And this is the first major step where our practice, our knowledge, our training is going to be used to teach the medical professionals, the doctors and the surgeons, et cetera, on how to think about the fascia before they start cutting these bodies open. So it's a long time coming, but we wanna teach the world that there's more to our bodies than they thought. Wow, look at you. And you do look like a kid in the candy store. This is right up your alley. And to be on that team, Anthony Kudos to you for being chosen to be on that exhibition and to be able to witness something so extraordinary. Wow. And does this model have a name? Did you all name her? Her name is Freya. Freya, right on. So we're gonna wanna hear more about Freya and her tour and all the excitement that she can create and all the education as well. That's right. Wow. So Anthony, how did the pandemic affect your ability to change lives both locally and internationally? And what did you do to adapt to the changing world in order to continue your passion, your crazy passion of changing lives through educating people about their fascia? Well, when I got back from Germany in 2020, I had already had plans to go to the Philippines for two weeks to go to university there at the veterinary hospitals there and several Pilates studios all over Manila. From Manila, I had my plane tickets to go to Tel Aviv and teach, I already had a sold out workshop in Tel Aviv. So currently there's about 150 fashionators in Manila waiting for me and another hundred in Israel waiting for me. Wow. And we're talking two days before I was supposed to leave the whole world went on shut down. Wow. To say that affected me professionally and personally was the biggest understatement ever because we were on our way to bring the fashionator all past the Pacific Ocean, all the way to Israel and all the way back. And you know what? It's gonna come back. I'm not worried about it. But what we had to do also locally was I had to cancel all my live classes. Yes, I know that. That's me because I attended. I would drive to Mililani to go work out with you and roll my body out. And the Honolulu Club closed as well. They're gone. So that only not affected my classes but it affected my retail vendors as well. So we went from top of the mountain to under the mountain in overnight. So what we had to do then was just we had to pull back. I actually took the time and hung out with my kids and my wife and learned how to sweep the floor every day. You had to do something to keep your sanity, right? Right, right. But that's what we did. And to try to overcome this loss, we decided to rewrite our professional course which it was actually approved just in February by the American Council on Exercise for 10 continuing education credits for our professionals across the world. And the other thing we did, we had to adjust like everyone else. We started doing webinars like you see here on the flyer. And this was our first webinar and I was so impressed. We had over 200 people sign up from New York City all the way to the Philippines and all the way to New Zealand. And what that told me was, you know what, Anthony? Keep doing what you're doing. There's something you're doing that is affecting people in a positive way and people still want more. And so I never lost my passion. We decided to figure out a new way to deliver that energy and we did. Right. And yeah, it doesn't sound like you lost your passion at all but you know what is silver lining to be found that now you were able to kind of test the market and now you are stronger than ever both locally and internationally. So it became a good thing for you and then you were able to rewrite and refocus on really what direction you all want to go with this and then you conquered the world. And yes, Tel Aviv and the Philippines will be there but please let us know when you are venturing to the Philippines and Tel Aviv and giving classes because like all of us we have at least a great handful of people either in the Philippines and I know many health advisors in Tel Aviv that would love to understand and learn your concept of fashion, fashion eating. So please keep us informed with that. Okay, Anthony, promise? Of course, Wendy, of course. All right. So now that we've turned the corner with the pandemic when and where are you teaching your ever popular live fashion eater classes? So can you give us some details on what one would need to come take advantage of your class? All right. Well, the first thing are our first two live classes just kicked off about a month ago and it's back where we started it a long time ago in my hometown in Mililani. If you're listening, you have a pen right this down. We have classes at 9 a.m. on Monday, Tuesday morning at rec center three. So Tuesday at 9 a.m. and Wednesday evenings at 7, 15 p.m. at rec center three also all one needs to do is bring their water, a yoga mat. If you already have a fascinator, bring it. If you don't, we'll have them ready for you. Wow. And you know, Anthony, during the last few years, people have not all had access to you. So they just kind of just lived with their pains and their issues. So you're gonna be flooded with a lot of intense hurting people that really, really need to have you back in their lives again. Are you ready for that? I was always ready. I was born ready and I could never get sick of helping people change their lives. I'll never, ever get tired of it. Oh, what a great attitude. And that's what's gonna keep you so passionate and have that kid in the candy store attitude. And that's why coming to your class is so incredible. And I mean, I personally loved it because of the energy and the passion that you deliver to wanting us to better ourselves and our bodies. And I still, Anthony, every time I see somebody limping or bent over or just saying, ah, I keep saying, you gotta go see this guy, Anthony. He can help you. He can help you. If you want help, he's there and he can help you understand why you have that pain or that limp. And if you're open and willing to hear from Anthony, he will make a difference in your life. I guarantee you and you've never let anyone down that I've sent to you and to myself as well. So, wow. During the pandemic, the large group sizes were not possible. We could not meet anymore. So were you able to do any private lessons and can you share some stories of how your fashionator method helped those people that you visited? Absolutely. These stories that I have been able to collect over the last year are nothing short than miraculous, amazing and unbelievable. But guess what? They're real. It's believable. How about I have clients who have gone to neurologists, psychologists, ophthalmologists, everyologist under the sun and they couldn't help them. This woman here, this looks like a simple picture. She's kneeling. She's showing me her garden. Well, guess what? Before she got with me, she couldn't even kneel. Her wrist didn't bend. Her hip was stuck for 20 years. She couldn't put on her pants by herself. She broke her back just reaching for a piece of paper. She had a brain tumor. She had 40 stitches in her neck from her surgery. She had seven abdominal surgeries for female related issues. And this simple picture, she goes, Anthony, I wanna show you my garden. Here, take a picture. The reason I'm showing you this garden is I'm 75. I've never been able to kneel to plant a garden. So I want you to take this picture of me because this garden I planted because of you. Well, well... She couldn't kneel. You name it, she had it. She got rid of 12 pairs of orthotics. Guess what? She even knows how to control her seizures with my gua sha scraper now. Well, that's the kind of stories we hear all the time from you and people think, nah, how can that be? I mean, guys out there, trust me. That's why I keep asking Anthony, come back, come back. So I like Anthony believe in if we can heal our body ourselves without cutting or without medication, I'm all for it. And Anthony and I stand in agreement with these concepts and he has the method that can help us to firstly understand the body and then see how simple it is to take care and to love your body. And that means going to a class, having your Anthony teach us to roll out our bodies and then the next part is taking action on your own. In between you see Anthony, you need to be rolling out your body and taking care of it. Is that correct, Anthony? You better believe it, it's a so correct example. You go to your dentist once every six months for cleaning, right? Well, do you wait six months before you clean it after they've cleaned it for you? No. You better not. Most people do this though. They clean it the best they've ever cleaned it the day before the doctor appointment. That's not good. That's not good because the evidence is there. You're going to get busted when they find all those black spots in your teeth. So it doesn't work that way. Wow. So Anthony, for those viewers who have not heard of what the fashionator is all about, what is the fashionator and what is fascia and how does the fashionator help our fascia? That's a great question. I'm going to have one right here. Oh, yay. The fashionator is number one thing. It's not a foam roller. It's not the soft foam thing that's too big around. The fashionator is a simple tool that will help you learn how to free up this tight tissue, your fascia, which was classified as the largest organ in your body only in 2012, only 10 years ago. And it's been 10 years I've been teaching people about the fascia and how to take care of it with their fashionator. And you know what, 10 years in science is like 10 seconds. So we still have a long ways to go, but let's pull up the slide of the next lady with my wife. She's holding her blue fashionator. Guess what this person had? She was another one. She could not work for 18 months. Her feet were not functioning. Her back, sciatica, vertigo. She was always getting dizzy. She felt like her eyes were getting pulled from one direction to the other. She went to neurologists, eye doctors, spine doctors, foot doctors, no one could do anything. And she called me and I said, you are the people that when you find me, it's not an accident. And get ready, because I'm going to change your life. And guess who's back to work running her restaurant? Guess what the doctor said? They did all the scans. They did her brain scan and eye scan and MRI and X-ray. They said, there's nothing there. Here, let's give you some antidepressants. It's in your head. And she's like, there's something there and no one knows. And you're the one and you fix me. And guess what? We fixed her just in time to celebrate her 40th wedding anniversary. Wow. That's right. That's amazing. And you know, a lot of times people go suffer with so much pain. They become somebody their spouse didn't marry. So a lot of them don't make it to that next anniversary because it's just too difficult for the other side to deal with the pain that they think they have and they can't find out what it is. But when they address it and they take action with what you teach them, Anthony, that's what's so valuable is that you can just help them throughout their whole system by just teaching them to take care of their whole body and by rolling out and doing exactly what you tell them to do. And that's the main thing, you teach it and you explain it to them and then we need to go home and do it. And then we come back to you for weekly refreshers which I thoroughly enjoy. And so that's how I think I want to take care of my body always. Well, that's why you are the age you are but you look 20 years younger than that and you're still both surfing. You still have your daughters. You're younger than them. I see you. Yeah, you know, so I want to share with you a little bit of my personal experience with the passionator. And I stumbled into Anthony by chance, maybe not by chance, God brought me to him because I didn't have major issues but when I used to do a lot of trade shows, craft fairs and when I do long shifts, when I volunteer, when I come home, my legs hurt. Okay, so I thoroughly understand and relate to that lady before and they would hurt and they would throb, especially when I did trade shows. I go Friday work 10 hours on my feet. I come home and like, my gosh, the pain is throbbing. My legs are throbbing. And so I need to take some aspirin. So I take two and mind you, I don't like taking any of these things but the only way I can sleep to relieve that pain is that the next day, again, more aspirins and then on the third day, more aspirins now. After even before I go to the trade show, I roll out my body to enable my body to circulate better. Then when I come home, I'm rolling out my body from my toes to my feet to my calves to my, and onwards up, I roll out. When I wake up in the morning, no pain, going to the trade show with a smile, coming home after 10 or 12 hours of standing again, rolling out the body, going to bed, no aspirin, wake up in the next morning, no pain, going the next day for eight hours only, and then cleaning up, packing up, coming home to no pain. Now, if that's not a testimony, and I know a lot of us are business people working long hours on our feet and just standing up at trade shows or volunteering somewhere, it hurts because it's so unnatural for us to just be standing there like that. But I know that I can come home and I just look forward to putting out my yoga mat and getting on the floor and rolling out my feet onwards up. And I tell you, it makes a world of difference, not taking aspirin ever since, and that makes me just so, give me such a peace of mind that I'm not putting anything in to eliminate the pain that I used to feel. So I must say to you, Anthony Mahalo, and my body says Mahalo to you for no more aspirin because I hated taking it. And I'm sure there's so many more stories like that. And you probably can go on and on and on. Mine was a simple one. I love hearing all the delicate and the intense stories that you often share with us, like those two that you shared with us earlier. That's pretty intense. Oh, yeah, well, this next one, it's gonna show the person with what we call kyphosis, which is a commission of the spine where everything is pulled forward. And I want you to at home look at the image on the left compared to the image on the right. Look at the size of the hump on his middle of his back. Yes. This gentleman is only 35 and he used to be really heavy. So because of that, he was always withdrawn into himself because he was not happy. No one ever talked to him. And I just spent time with him and his girlfriend in Kailua this weekend. And the woman said, yes. His mother said, she never saw her son smile until he was with her, right? Her is his girlfriend, his first girlfriend ever. And he thought that his spine will never be straighter, that he would never be able to change. And soon as I got with him, I said, are you ready to change your life? You are going to touch your toes today. He's like, that's never gonna happen. Never gonna happen. Never happen. It will never happen. I said, eat those words right now. Here you go. It's a sandwich of eating your words. Eat that now, because what do you see in the image on the right, Wendy? Yes, exactly. And look at this difference in the roundness of his spinal curvature. What a joyful moment. Here's the best part about this, Wendy. They sent me a testimonial the next morning. And she said that her boyfriend, he could not believe that he felt as good as he did, that he slept the best night ever. He thought he would never be able to stand up straight. And she said, oh my God, before I would just have to hope, stand up a little and give him a kiss. But now I have to stand on my tippy toes because he's still standing straighter. And guess what happened? The next day, both of them had several periods where they were crying tears of emotional release. And that is the other big thing that I've been helping people do, especially because of this trauma of losing a loved one during COVID, people in car accidents who have had been vertigo, but nothing was fixing it. And after three or four sessions, this other lady that I've been working with currently, I'm teaching her how to roll her face with her face roller. And she started crying uncontrollably. She goes, I just figured it out. The reason my migraines and vertigo, it starts here, always starts here is because five years ago, I was hit by a, I was in a car accident and the guy T-boned me. And I remember now, my head went boom against the glass of her car during the impact. And now guess what? She knows how to control her headaches. They don't come. She doesn't have the vertigo where her vertigo was so bad, she couldn't drive. And now she's driving and she's had two of these incidences of emotional release. And you know why? Because trauma and emotional experiences are also stored in our fascia. So you get ready, Wendy. The next thing I'm gonna be tackling is people with psychological trauma who've only been getting pills to mask it. And telling them it's their fault. There's nothing we can do. You're just gonna have to live with it. Well, I disagree. And not only do I disagree, we're doing it. We are changing people's outlooks and how they feel about themselves. Yes. And you know, it's just a matter of saying, yes, okay. I mean, I'm bringing and sharing your information to so many people. And the neat part is I just do that and then they call me back and they say, thank you, Wendy. And I'm like, I didn't even do anything. Introduce them to you, Anthony. And I get the thank you. So you do all the work. I'll keep getting the thank yous. And we're a great team that way. I also wanted to mention that this, my gouache stone, okay, I got this the first time I met you. And you know, it's right here. And I have it one in my first. So when I'm in traffic and I'm just sitting there, I'm just doing this. And I'm just, I don't wanna say scrub or rubbing, but I just do it every day to my fingers. And then I do it the back of my hand and I just go all the way up. And sometimes I get really carried away because I just want just to open up and have the best circulation in my body, starting with my hands, which are on the phone, which are on the computer. And I just want my hands to be the best because without them I can't hold or touch or grab or love or pray. And so this to me is so a valuable component in my daily routine. If I'm not sitting on my fashion area in my living room. That's right. Yes. And all of these real simple things are available on our website. Right. So, you know, but the main thing is I just want to get people to get excited about, you know, yes, we did coop up for a while. Yes, our butts were sitting on that chair. And you know, I say, I have Zoom butt. I have Zoom butt. One day I was on the computer for, I want to say, seven hours on Zooms. Okay. And so as soon as I can take a break, what do I do? My yoga mat is rolled out in the living room. I go there and I roll up my lower body, my glutes and I just get my body feeling better. And then I have to come back to Zooms. And that's what it was like in the last couple of years. And I'm sure a lot of people have the same story and that they couldn't go out and do as much as they wanted to. So now I just want to say, Anthony, be ready because there's a lot of pain that's coming your way. I'm ready. I'm more than ready. I can't wait to get out of the gates and keep changing lives because that's what feeds our souls, right, Wendy? Yes, yes, exactly. You know, so Anthony, if people want to get in touch with you, how do they find you? I mean, they can't even spell fashionator. I have to keep spelling it for them. You know, I say, look under Anthony Prescott or fashionator. And then they keep asking me again, so I have to text it to them. So tell us how would people find you, Anthony? Well, if you're on Facebook, I have a page called The Fashionator. We have the email, TheFashionator at gmail.com and our website, TheFashionator. Guess what else that we have? We have Instagram, guess what it is, Wendy? TheFashionator. Okay, I got it. So just make sure of people when you spell it, F-A-S-C-I-A. F-A-S-C-I-A, N-A-T-O-R. Okay, because sometimes they forget the I. Yeah, the fast shot, the I, Fast-Fashionator. They bypass one of those vowels in there and they went, you can't come up. I'm like, you're not doing the right letters there. Let me spell it for you again. So Anthony, I'm so grateful. I'm so grateful that you're back in action and get as much sleep as you can because when you're on with us, we're gonna suck all that energy out of you and take your energy and put it into our healing process because we need it. And all I wanna say that when I invite people, say you're gonna sweat like crazy, but that's good because it's all the toxins breaking up and leaving your body. And you're gonna moan and you're gonna scream, but what do we say there, right, Anthony? That's pain, leaving your body. Leaving your body. Yes. I'll leave you with one last saying, okay? Yes. The only thing you have to lose is pain. Amen, and we wanna lose that bugger. So Anthony, we run out of time for today, but I'd like to say thank you to Anthony Crisco, Mr. Passionator himself for educating us all about how to manage our passion with so much passion. I'm Wendy Lowe. We'll be back in two weeks with Dr. Teresa Wee, who is the walk with the doc in the park. I'll see you again in two weeks. And mahalo Anthony Crisco. Mahalo, thank you. Aloha. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn, and donate to us at thinktechawaii.com. Mahalo.