Wellness + Wisdom Podcast

"In my life I've done a lot of physical things like marathons, challenge races and weight training, but vipassana was one of the hardest things I've ever done because it was so dependent purely on the mind. When we work out and go through physical pain, you can push through it because there's a stimulus there. When you sit in silence, the hardest part about it is that's there is nothing else to do...

"The point of identifying emotion and navigating emotion is not to hold on to it, but to be able to recognize it and to understand that it's trying to tell us something." - Jeff Agostinelli   It's easy to get ahead of ourselves and allow our emotions to control our lives, but that's not the purpose of our emotions. Our emotions are the tools we need to help us break through from chronic thinking. ...

"Everyone can relate to sitting in a spot and you don't feel like you're supposed to be there and you're meant for something more. You could be 45 years old sitting at a desk in an office and you feel like you're selling yourself short and you've been lying to yourself your whole life about who you are and what you're capable so you're just limiting your dreams." -Jake Ducey   We've all experience...

 " The true spiritual practice is learning to love no matter what. Not when everything is perfect. Not when you feel like loving. This is the layer that we must peel in order to access our soul." - Kute Blackson  On this week’s podcast, best-selling author, speaker, and transformational teacher, Kute Blackson ,   shares how we can  forgive and let go by observing who we are through listening to wh...

Can a lack of integrity derail weight loss? What does the avoidance and aggression cycle mean for those on the path of better health?   Welcome to a very special encore episode for this week's show!     Today's special guest, David Zappasodi, comes on the show to discuss his powerful book, Immovable Heart Unstoppable Mind. Today’s show is the perfect fit for us, because we’re talking about the mos...

"This is not like any other nutrition program you've ever stumbled across. You have to think about it differently in terms of it being just one part of a lifelong cycle." - Melissa Hartwig   Pushing Your Reset Button With Your Health, Habits, & Relationship With Food On this week's podcast, you’ll learn from an exceptional woman who has dedicated her life to driving real transformations in physica...

"Food is what you are, and you are what you eat. Food serves multiple purposes. On one hand, it's to nourish your body with physical things that it needs, but you can also use food to soothe emotions, avoid emotions, as entertainment, or when you feel sad. It allows for a certain degree of emotional manipulation." - Tony Federico   Food is an important part of our everyday life, but sometimes we a...

"The quality of our sex life is a direct reflection of our internal health." -Bob Schwenkler   On this week's podcast, trained life coaches and founders of Sex the Podcas t , Natalie Vartanian and Bob Schwenkler , join me to talk about relationships, sex, and wellness. Since joining forces as a power couple in 2015, Natalie and Bob have been the secret sexual weapon for successful men from all wal...

On this week’s podcast, floating and sensory deprivation expert, Glenn Stokoe,  shares   his personal experience with meditation and  why floating creates the perfect environment to deepen a mediation practice that helps the body and mind to recover, align and fully relax. "We store so much energy, not only in our psychology, but in our muscular skeletal system that when we float, our body gets to...

Dr. Jade Teta is an integrative physician, naturopath, and personal trainer with over 25 years of experience helping people achieve their health, weight loss, and fitness goals. If you've been counting calories and exercising as part of a health and wellness program, there can come a time when the scale suddenly stops moving. But beyond the horizon of the fitness industry's fetish with the scale a...

On this week’s podcast , Franz Snideman ,  Senior Strong First Instructor, Primal Move National Instructor, former Collegiate Sprinter and International Lecturer shares the fundamental importance of educating and coaching clients in safe, healthy and holistic athleticism. Today, Franz talks about how we can add sprinting to our fitness routines and what benefits it includes for both body and mind....

Rebecca Hazelton is a licensed Nutritionist, Health Coach, Personal Trainer, and HeartMath Coach running her own consulting business since 2001. This week on Wellness Force Radio , we discuss her latest book, Pleasure Meditation: Your Guide to Joyful Stress Reduction . Since 2001, Rebecca has been working as a coach and consultant. Throughout her career, she's found that we all face a lack of tool...

On this week's podcast, Productivity & Success Transformation Coach Craig Ballantyne , stops by the show to talk about how to beat anxiety to create your perfect day. Craig is a fitness expert and the author of the groundbreaking fat loss workout systems, Turbulence Training , and Home Workout Revolution. He has been a contributing author to Men's Health magazine since 2000 and has been the editor...

On this week’s podcast, New York Times Best-selling author and striving Yogi, Karan Bajaj , shares how sabbaticals, vipassana meditation, and living in his dharma has helped him create more power, clarity, and purpose in his life and for millions of readers. The Purpose Driven Life The sad reality is that only one out of every three Americans are now reported to be very happy . It's no surprise th...

On this week’s podcast, celebrity trainer of NBC's The Biggest Loser season 11 , Brett Hoebel , discusses how we all can discover our unique healthy life, why our struggle can be our greatest gift, and how we can get clear on the choices that will truly make a difference. On this show, Brett shares his own story about when he experienced his own “Fitting Point” moment as a teenager. This would be...

Damon Gameau, Actor, Director, Author, filmmaker and the creator of "That Sugar Film" drops by Wellness Force radio to discuss why he's started a movement to help change the way you think about "healthy foods." It's no surprise that many people you know have either dealt with or currently are in the process of breaking free from sugar. Modern day research papers from top leaders in the wellness mo...

When you hear the word, “craving,” what comes to mind? It might be a feeling or an itch, that if left unscratched, will eventually take on a life of it's own. What we now know is that cravings can be unnatural or natural depending on the manipulator that creates it based on satisfying our deepest physical and social needs. This week on Wellness Force Radio, Holistic Health Coach Kevin Geary of Reb...

For anyone new to the gym who’s looking to gain the strength to let go of old weight, lifting barbells can be intimidating, but not just because of the sweat that’s involved. In a fitness industry of macho-messaging, loud gym floors, and creepy dudes drinking protein shakes, the exercises can sometimes be the easiest thing to deal with. As with any new challenge, the hardest part is pushing throug...

The Reality: Traveling Can Keep You From Being Healthy and Fit When we're at home in our city and we have our weekly healthy routine, it's easy to focus on our goals, eat well, and get enough exercise. However, traveling can get in the way of ways and put us off course from continuing to be healthy and fit. But, as Rob Dionne, Fitness Professional and host of the Open Sky Fitness Podcast, will exp...

Award winning Chef and entrepreneur Kat Humphus is on a mission to save the art of at-home cooking by making eating savory, healthy foods more simple.  The uncomfortable data is in: with the speed of modern life, men and women collectively are spending less time at the stove than ever before. Everyone knows that eating healthy trumps exercise, yet 6 out of 10 people in the country don't ever make...

BONUS episode for a ten minute bite this week! Today, we're talking about your wellness and genetics. Yes, predisposition towards health complications do exist, but from the collective consciousness in regards to lifestyle modification, saying that genes keep you fat takes the power of positive change out of your hands. Remember when you were 7 years old and you got caught drawing with crayons on...

This week we showcase an encore interview with two of those most sought after body intelligence coaches and best-selling authors in the world.  Gay Hendricks, Ph. D., and Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph. D., are pioneers in the fields of conscious relationships and body intelligence and the authors of more than 30 books, including best sellers such as Conscious Loving, The Big Leap, and Five Wishes. During...

Whether you're a supportive coach or a person on the wellness journey looking to lose 40, 50, or even 100 pounds or more, the light at the end of the tunnel can sometimes seem dark. Hours on the treadmill. Counting calories in MyFitnessPal. Starving yourself. But what if losing weight had less to do with diet and exercise and ultimately was more about the emotional intelligence you have in your mo...

What does it take to live a life on your terms? Deep down, we all crave to live by our own design, but there's not exactly a 101 class in school that ever teaches us how. >> Review Wellness Force on iTunes < < In this week's episode, Fitness Celebrity Anna Renderer shares her 10 strategies on how we can do just that. With her story of overcoming hardship as a youth, Anna shares what it took for he...

Jeff Sanders is a public speaker, productivity coach, best selling author, and host of The 5 AM Miracle Podcast. Today on the show, Jeff spotlights how to take bold action, help us take charge of our mornings, and dominate our day before breakfast. Dominate Your Day Before Breakfast Personally, my wake up is 7am, but not everyone is a lark by nature and sometimes there just isn't enough time in th...