Active Ingredient Podcast

Today's episode is about three books that have had a massive impact on my life. These books helped me find peace, meaning, and most importantly, a direction in my journey, and I feel they are a must-read for anyone interested in personal development and growth.  In This Episode, You Will Learn: How "The Big Leap" from Gay Hendricks helped me understand my self-sabotaging conduct (3:12) Why it...

This week's solo is all about the importance of spending time alone with yourself. For the majority of my life, spending time alone was something I just simply did not do. I didn't like it, didn't think I needed it and was scared of what would come up. In this episode I get into how it's been one of the most important tools in my life and learning to not feel guilty when I need to ask for alone ti...

This episode is brought to you by Seed - Use code ACTIVE for 15% off your first month of Seed's DS-01™ Daily Synbiotic  https://seed.com/daily-synbiotic?utm_source=active_ingredient&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=15p In today's episode, I'm interviewing one of my best friends, and literally one of the best in the PR/brand building space, Ian Edwards.  In this episode, we ge...

This week's episode is about being discerning about where we spend or mind share. Every day, millions of companies are fighting for our attention. If we're not careful we'll fall prey to really smart advertising, influencers, mindless scrolling, sales, new launches it's just so much. That is why it's so hard to focus on something and focusing is what actually moves the needle in anything in life....

Clayton Olson joins us today to talk about the relationships we build with others and ourselves and how to navigate personal growth within them. Clayton is an International Relationship Coach, Author, and Facilitator, with over 15 years of experience enhancing and optimizing human behavior and social dynamics. Throughout our conversation, we delve into the evolution of Clayton's relationship with...

Before doing something, we tend to pay more attention and get worried about what could go wrong; in most cases, those things are one, totally irrelevant, and two, created by fear. Although fear's reasons to show up are to protect ourselves, the power of deciding whether doing something might be dangerous or not is ours.  In this episode, we talk about doing the things we want, especially if t...

The last couple of days have been overwhelming I'm not going to lie; I was surprised by an overwhelming feeling bigger and stronger than my habits, structures, and the systems I have in place to deal with such emotions.  But again, the universe showed up in the form of a mind-blowing book, "The Untethered Soul" by Michael Singer, which taught me exactly what I needed to learn about our though...

Today's episode guest is my amazing business coach Ben Easter. He revisits us to talk about the zone of genius, what it is, how finding our own will help us thrive in our lives and our businesses, and what we can do to stay as much as we can in it.  Our conversation revolves around the importance of honing our craft in our zone of genius, the practical ways we can use to discover our zone of...

The guest of this week's episode is Samantha Jade who is the founder of the BySJ method and app, SoulCycle instructor, mom and overall massive inspiration to me and so many others. On this week's episode we get into Sam's journey in the fitness world, the injury that forced her to slow down and re-evaluate every part of her life, why she chooses to share her struggles publicly and the importance o...

This week's episode is with Angelo Grinceri who is an amazing trainer and founder of a recently launched fitness studio in NYC called Happie Space that offers regenerative strength training, breathwork and sound meditation.  On this week's episode we get into Angelo's journey and commitment to staying true to himself even when it meant letting go of everything that he thought he wanted,...

This week's episode is with branding wiz and truly one of the most empathetic leaders I personally know Madison Utendahl. Madison is the Founder & Chief Creative Officer of Utendahl Creative: the all-female, Black-owned, full-service branding, and design agency behind brands like Simon Huck's Judy, Halsey's About Face, and Lena Dunham's Good Thing Going Production...

Although feeling a pit in the stomach is as human as any feeling can be, the more we sit with it, the more prolonged its adverse effects will be. So, my invitation is for you to try these techniques and see if they serve you well.  In This Episode, You Will Learn: We must learn to recognize when we are in the presence of a pit (3:10) Movement is life. We must shake that feeling out of our bod...

The guest of the show this week is Melanie Masarin, the founder of Ghia, which is an insanely delicious non-alcoholic beverage inspired by the Mediterranean and Melanie's grandmother. Melanie is truly a force in the branding world. Prior to launching Ghia, she worked at Dig Inn (now called Dig), American Eagle, and was the head of retail and offline experiences at Glossier and also consu...

Trigger Warning: This episode has brief mentions of drug consumption and suicide. *GIVEAWAY* We'll be giving away a few Kreatures of Habit oatmeal to a few listeners. To enter, just give the podcast a 5 star on apple podcasts + Spotify and send a screenshot to @sophieiweill on DM. Also, if you want to buy Kreatures of Habit, use code ACTIVE at checkout - this is not sponsored just a friendly disco...

"You can turn your poison into your purpose." This was one of the many teachings from my yoga teacher training. On March 25th, 2012 I went through what I would consider the hardest day of my anxiety journey (I will never ever forget it). It was the day the poison was the most potent. That day and that experience is what started my yoga journey - I started going to ease the anxiety, to heal my...

Our guest of the show this week is Yasmine Cheyenne and if you don't follow her already please do yourself a favor and follow immediately. Yasmine is a self-healing educator, author, speaker, and mental wellness advocate who helps people learn how to cultivate daily practices to build healthy, joyful lives.  She has an online community of over 150K followers, is the host of The Sugar Jar...

This week's short solo episode is all about the importance of paying attention to your bodily cues to let you know if something is in alignment or when it's not In This Episode, You Will Learn: Our body is constantly sending us cues of how it feels about the situations we put ourselves in (2:47) Your body loves you; you should listen to what it is trying to tell you (4:53) Let's connect! Active In...

Feeling inadequate, not included, or purposeless usually makes us ask why we are like this or make the choices we make. The problem with asking "why" is an endless path. We'll discover we react in a certain way because we were conditioned to, and then we'll ask why those who conditioned us did it, which will lead to answering another why, and then another, and another.  Instead, we should loo...

Since this thousand miles journey started almost three years ago, I've never stopped learning. The show's concept changed in its essence, and the answer I thought I was looking for evolved. I discovered that the element that pushes us out of bed every morning is active because it is an active search for our truth and also because it is actively working on itself. Today, we explore the 10 most impa...

This week’s episode is with my beautiful Yoga teacher Mimi Ghandour. Mimi is a Miami based yoga instructor and creator of MimiYoga.com her online platform where she shares her workouts and live streams classes daily.  On today's show we talk about Mimi's life pre-yoga - not a lot of people know this but she actually discovered yoga at the age of 30 and had an extremely successful business bac...

Being an accepted member of a group, also known as belongingness, is a human emotional need. It is also considered a significant source of motivation and one of Maslow's five human needs. However, when the necessity of acceptance intersects with the fear of suffering rejection, it can severely affect our growth and evolution.   In this episode, we talk about what I feel is one of the cor...

I've realized that consistency is the most potent fuel we can use to propel our self-discovery and personal growth journey. Some time ago, I started asking myself a couple of questions before starting my day, basically to ensure my actions would feel in alignment with my true self.  Throughout the years, I refined that practice into asking myself the three questions that turned into my North...

After a severe head injury that compromised the parts of the brain responsible for processing language and social interactions, Ben Easter found himself in a tough spot. Like every other human, he strived for connection and belonging, which the consequences of his accident were clearly making more difficult. Ben devoted his entire being to achieve a fast recovery, and within 6 months, he was alrea...

The constant bombarding of edited images of unattainable beauty standards has multiple effects. They set the expectations of what beautiful and desirable bodies look like, especially for women. They push millions of people into absurd and unhealthy diets, and, most importantly, they reinforce the idea that we don't know what's good for us. They mine our intuition, and we develop a limiting belief:...

We are so used to being constantly entertained that boredom has become almost a bad word or an ancient sensation virtually no one remembers how it felt. We exist in a world where silence is a rarity. We live surrounded by noise, and our society, as a collective, has decided that it is entirely normal to do everything while we consume content.  Today, in this solo episode, I take a moment to t...