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Transformative Journey

When you are faced with a life and death situation, people say it makes you reassess the way you have been living. For Iza Calzado and Ben Wintle, this was their truth. “When I got sick with Covid-19 in March 2020 I wasn’t sure if I was going to make it. Everything was so uncertain. It made me reflect and I thought, what can I do better? What do I need to let go of? How can I improve not just myself, but also the relationships around me? I felt awakened to a new me,” Calzado says.

Fans, friends and family were shocked by how badly Covid affected the actress despite her fitness level. “Yes, I was healthy. But I was over training and not sleeping well. I was working too much and not resting. I was not giving my body time to restore itself and was so focused on my work,” Calzado now recognises.

During her healing process the value of time settled

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