The Soulrocker Podcast

Episode 34. Allison Fisher, fellow podcaster and  founder of the "Create Love Freedom" community. Allison helps women heal their wounds, restore their connection to their feminine essence and create the life, love, and freedom they desire through self-mastery, wisdom, spirituality & personal growth. In this episode we cover: Intro 00:25 The start of the self discovery journey by unde...

Episode 33. Virn Rao is an Enneagram Coach and Meditation Teacher. She works with women and those who identify with female energy to build strong and healthy relationship with self and others. Vrin uses the personality framework of which the Enneagram can help us understand our lens of where our ego sees through.   Vrin made some great concrete points around the enneagram. I appreciate and value t...

Episode 32. Nadia Rae Brackett from Denver CO, is a trained depth therapist LPCC who's focus is somatic healing through reshaping the nervous system. Nadia has been a practitioner for 4 years and is leading 1on1 coaching as well as a 90 day group program called Journey into the Mature Feminine.  In this episode we cover:  Nadia Intro and background 00:30 What is a depth-oriented therapist 01:...

Episode 31. Jamar Rogers is a certified meditation teacher and has dived into the wellness headspace,  somatic therapy and breath work. Jamar's background is a singer and songwriter. Jamar has an incredible story with his childhood and upbringing, bringing Jamar too many different coping addictions and dark day's. Jamar's singing background led him to audition for The Voice and Amer...

Welcome back to the Soulrocker Podcast Season 4! An intro to the season catching up on some things with the podcast and season. I ramble a lot (WARNING).  Please note: Yes I say Umm a lot and I am not fully clear and jump around. I also know I have quirks and play with my hair a lot etc. I am not used to recording myself, speaking and I am quite shy and nervous. I may never change these things. Pl...

Austin Stout is owner of Integrated Muscle & Health focusing on a dynamic approach to physique enhancement and health. In this episode we cover: - The impact of alcohol and weed related to both training and sleep/rest purposes. - Reducing injury with different therapeutic modalities - Stress and the different layers of it    - Training warm up protocols - Hormone recovery based on chronic diet...

Celeste is a national certified Coach and counselor helping people with overcoming food freedom and their mindset. Along with her multiple degree's in Psychology and  Clinical nutrition, she is also an Author, a NPC Competitor and also a host of one of the top downloaded fitness podcasts "Confessions of a Bikini Pro". This episode Celeste and I talk about body dysmorphia in both wom...

One of the most inspiring episodes this season with Jason Burgett is the instructor of Balistic Strength and Movement training who's starting point inspiration was a realization of where his health  and being overweight was and how that was or could be affecting him even as a parent. Like many, Jason had several starting points and struggles but he essentially didn't give up. Jason break...

Zach had an incredible and courageous mindset of diving into competing for the first time. This episode we dive into his full experience of going from a gym-goer to setting his own set of competitive goals and putting himself into multiple tests before he saw his own ability and commitment into being a bodybuilding competitor.   This is a great episode to listen if you are planning or curious abou...

Marcus Seidel is a gym owner in St Louis Missouri, lifestyle and contest prep coach, and a  competitor in bodybuilding division. In this episode Marcus shares some history background and we dive into the top 5 key components of effective training: 1. Optimal exercise selection 2. Proper execution of each exercise 3. Appropriate training volume 4. Effort 5. Sufficient Recovery This episode is packe...

This is a special episode. Juan Sebastian Delgado and I share the same last name because we are long lost relatives lol.  We open the episode sharing how we spoke for the first time and realized we have been relatives working out at the same gym for a while. This episode was very informative with everything powerlifting including prepping for meets, cardio, lifting program blocks, nutrition, peak...

Chris Barakat is the founder of school of gainz, a professional natural bodybuilder in the WNBF, researcher scientist at the University of Tampa and more. He prioritizes his research based on optimizing body recomposition. In this episode we cover some of his background history in how he got started in fitness as well as the research and publisher aspect in his career. Chris shares how one can mak...

Quon Denny Aka Mr. Royalliving had much inspiration to share with his background in being an athlete and transitioning into a trainer to athletes and also a competition coach. Quon shares his passion and entrepreneurial endeavors in persevering through his personal experiences in life. His main objective goal to help everyone reach their version of health and providing services under his brand to...

Kyle Burns is Co-owner of Team Cosmic Bodies, he has a degree in exercise science from Colorado State University and lives in Florida. Kyle also is Lauren Dannenmiller IFBB Bikini Pro Olympian Coach. Kyle shares his history on becoming a Coach and Co-Owner of Team Cosmic Bodies. He shares the pro's and con's pf being an online coach. He shares tips on getting the most out of your online...

Welcome back to Season 3! This season is dedicated to Fitness. My first guest Dennis Wayne DeYampert who is a dad, husband and NPC competitor. In this episode, Dennis talks about how he got into fitness and also how he got into competing on the stage. Dennis shares how he experienced a prep while having a 2 year old and all the way's in which he balanced prep as a dad and husband. He shares t...

This BONUS episode is another layer to Season 1 episode where I share a lot of questions or thoughts many of us have when it comes to therapy.   Sometimes we can see therapy from a different perspective  and sometimes see it as a person we can talk to when we don't have a person to talk to with a good or understanding or even judgmental way. Sometimes we need someone to simply share a differe...

This episode was not easy to record but it also felt necessary. I share a lot of my history of financial struggles that also lead for periods of jumping around to different homes with strangers and living in hotels.  Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulrockerpodcast/ Website: http://vanessaskin.com/ Get a Copy of My Published Journal - Journaling Journey - Diving Deep https://a.co/...

Happy New Year 2023. In this episode I share a little bit of some post Season 2 thoughts,  mainly expressing some BONUS episodes between season 2 and season 3 (TBD).   Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulrockerpodcast/ Website: http://vanessaskin.com/ Get a Copy of My Published Journal - Journaling Journey - Diving Deep https://a.co/d/fubMcuI All other links: https://linktr.ee/vane...

This episode raps up Season 2. Garret Rap has been the lead vocalist of the band The Color Morale, a local Rockford Illinois band that has traveled the country in it's time. But before he got into the band and music, he has had a tremendous love for BMX racing bikes of which he now still continues to be a huge support for the local BMX park. In this episode, Garret shares about some of his up...

Roni Golan is a Professional Artist of over 35 years who owns and operates his art gallery The Underground located in Rockford Il. He travels the world to share his one of a kind interactive live painting experience across a wide variety of private and corporate events.  Roni has a very mindful perspective on life. His theory of being in the present moment but also the perspective of limitless per...

Omar aka Trendy Hardaway writer and creator of Album called Pretty Girls and Smoke Sessions along with many other singles like Look At Me (2022), Juice (2019) and Run it Up (2018) is one of the most innovative visionary creators building his craft. In this episode we talk about his early days of performing and realizing how much he enjoyed it. We also talk a lot about the behind scenes of music in...

I can talk about food for hours!! This episode I am talking to Patrick Alberto, a local restaurant owner of Octane. His global cuisine and interesting cocktails won't disappoint any foodie especially if you like an Asian-American infused meal. Patrick shares a little of his history of his background and his early stages of he got involved in the culinary world. He also shares about the strugg...

Janitzza is a mentor helping women build confidence, setting boundaries and healing generational trauma. We dive into some of her own upbringing, how she got started with becoming a self employed mentor, her struggles in business and more personal and some other passions and facts about Janitzza outside of her work and more. Janitzza Contact Info Instagram https://www.instagram.com/janitzza/?igshi...

This special guest is not only one of Rockford's best Dj's but he's also fam! Ricky Hernandez aka RickMonsta is a big fan of all music. Before becoming a DJ, he was a B-Boy breakdancer and a party guru, which has helped and inspired him to later become the DJ he is. In this episode we talked a little bit of everything. Like where does the party scene come from, reminiscing about lif...

My own personal growth journey has been partly exploring who I not only am as a person but also as a woman. I always dreamed of who I would be when I grew up. What it was to be a woman that I could be proud of.      Something that caught my attention about Mariya Spasova was  she also had a similar path. One of which she describes as fear of looking deeper into her own self and the energy she had....