Age Thoughtfully with Marissa Kennerson

Welcome to Age Thoughtfully Season Two! A little podcast snack to tell you about some of my favorite helpers! Parenting, cooking, health and weight loss, healing my vision and writing! Excited to introduce you to some of the gifted folks who help make my world go round!

Whoa! What a dynamic, knowledgable and KIND guest we have this  week in Dr. Perry Nickelston! Perry Nickelston, DC, NKT, FMS, SFMA, is a Chiropractic Physician with primary focus on Performance Enhancement, Corrective Exercise, and Metabolic Fitness Nutrition and trained fromThe American College of Addictionology and Compulsive Disorders. He is an expert in myofascial, orthopedic, medical and trig...

Welcome to Season 2 of Age Thoughtfully! Wow! It has been a year since Marissa had Stacy Jackson on the premiere episode! It's summer and let's talk about joy and rest! Here to help us is yoga teacher Terry Littlefield! As a yoga and movement teacher based out of Los Angeles, Terry fancies purposeful movement, not fancy poses.  With Terry, you will develop a sustainable, life-long relati...

Marissa is jumping for joy to have artist Susan Maddux on the pod this week! "Life is not to just be endured." - Susan Maddux They go deep people: Curiosity, art, flow, mindset, art's place in culture and more! Susan Maddux is a Los Angeles based artist whose work combines painting and sculpture into unique forms evocative of the colors and warmth of her native Hawaii and influenced by the arts of...

Marissa welcomes Dr. Leah Gordon of Tribe Medicine to the pod! Dr. Leah teaches us the four stages of our menstrual cycle and goes over how to eat, move and rest for optimum hormone health and balance. She also talks about toxicity in feminine products like tampons and pads, and how to stay healthy using non-toxic products and why it really does matter. Dr. Leah is a licensed naturopathic doctor....

What a delight as Marissa welcomes Wanjira Njenga to the pod! Wanjira tells what PERIMENOPAUSE is, and how we can navigate it as women to feel our best! Marissa and Wanjira discuss hormones, nutrition, how to exercise to prevent injury during a women's cycle, cravings and what blood work to get from your doctor to solve pescky side effects of a changing cycle! Wanjira also tells us how to enter Me...

Marissa welcomes recruiter extraordinaire, Mindy Worel to the pod! She makes job searching fun. Her You Tube videos and LinkedIn posts will cheer up any job searcher! "Let's take the mystery out of what the search process actually is and work together to set you apart from other applicants. Empower your resume and profile to speak to the team you want to become a part of." - Mindy Worel Mindy owne...

Marissa welcomes Dr. Sarah Court, DPT, ERYT to the podcast! This episode will leave you feeling good! It's a great mix of the philosophical and the down and dirty practical.  Dr. Sarah Court is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, a movement mentor, and a yoga teacher trainer. She's the creator of Quantum Leap, a continuing education program and mentorship community that makes sophisticated concepts easy...

Younger Makeup Artist Eldo Ray Estes in on the pod! Such fun timing! Season 7 of Younger premieres today! We are so lucky to have four-time Emmy Winning makeup artist Eldo Ray Estes has created beautiful faces on television and film for over a decade. His work has been seen in Cosmopolitan , Elle , Seventeen and Vanity Fair ; he’s given expert advice to magazines from Good Housekeeping to More . E...

Tamar Burris is a certified relationship and co-parenting coach. She is fascinated by the way we connect and interact with one another. She is convinced that even small shifts in perspective and behavior can really make all of our relationships stronger, deeper, and happier. Her motto in working with two-home families and divorced parents is: Co-parent without blame, shame, or games. She strongly...

Ever leaked? Are you doing your Kegels correctly? Melissa Nassaney, Physical Therapist & Women’s Health Educator is here to give us an introduction to pelvic health. Melissa's website is www.fullcirclepelvichealth.com Did you know that pelvic floor health is vital for our urinary health, all over balance and so much more? As a women’s health advocate for over 30 years and a board certified women’s...

Gina PIccalo is back on the pod to share what spring has in store for us. (It's good!) Astrologer Gina Piccalo uses cosmic cycles + common sense to heal clients of imposter syndrome, inspire self-love and guide them to their true purpose. She can be found on Instagram and YouTube and at her website ginapiccaloastrology.com "You don't have to believe in astrology for it to work," Gina reminds...

In this episode Dahlia Hanin interviews host Marissa Kennerson about why she started Age Thoughtfully. Marissa shares why she was inspired to start the pod after watching her father fight a long battle with illness after having two brain tumors removed. The show is really a love letter of sorts to him. Learn more about Marissa's training as a therapist, her career as a novelist and more. To learn...

Dr. Shanté Cofield is the creator of The Movement Maestro LLC, a social-media based company that provides both online and in-person education for movement professionals. Since starting The Movement Maestro LLC, Shanté has amassed a social media following of over 58,000 awesome individuals, which has lead to international speaking opportunities including Dubai, New Zealand, and Australia. In April...

Claire Hartley is the owner of Rising Lotus in Sherman Oaks, California. She is full of wisdom, and she talks to Marissa about breath work (Buteyko Method, Wim Hof), Neural Kinetic Therapy, how to start a mental detox from 2020 and so much more. This episode is packed with goodies and wisdom. Claire mentions: Humankind by Rutger Bregman  Pema Chodron The Buteyko Method Wim Hof Breath Find Claire o...

Meet Sleep Expert, Elina Winnel! This is your masterclass on sleep! For several years, Elina explored countless routes to find a solution to her sleeping issues but nothing worked. In her experience, conventional treatment methods for insomnia only focused on the physical element of wellbeing, such as sleep habits and patterns, neglecting the whole person. It was at this point she realized that sh...

Join Marissa as she interviews filmmaker Jacob Morrison and learns about where our water actually comes from.  River's End - California's Latest Water Wars can be viewed here from January 14-24, 2021. To celebrate the premiere, the festival is hosting a panel discussion moderated by Pulitzer Prize winning LA Times journalist Bettina Boxall. The panelists include Congressman Jared Huffman, Chief Ca...

A mini-Age Thoughtfully episode. The Marissa Rx. Marissa asks us questions about how we use social media, and how it can negatively affect our nervous system and eat up time better spent on other endeavors (like true relaxation). Marissa has a love hate with social - so don't worry - this is not preaching. These are questions aimed at personal investigation so that you can decide what is best for...

Astrologer Gina Piccalo uses cosmic cycles + common sense to heal clients of imposter syndrome, inspire self-love and guide them to their true purpose. She can be found on Instagram and YouTube and at her website ginapiccaloastrology.com Gina Piccalo: "It sounds counterintuitive, but my years as a journalist (see ginapiccalo.com) led me directly to astrology. I pitched a story about fortune-t...

This episode blows my mind! Tune in to open YOUR EYES, HEART and MIND about the possibility of improving your eyesight naturally.  Nathan Oxenfeld founded Integral Eyesight  Improvement LLC in 2013 after successfully improving his own vision using all natural methods. After depending on glasses and contacts every day for over a decade, he was introduced to the Bates Method&nbsp...

This week on Age Thoughtfully we have the amazing Rachel Goodman! She's here to introduce us to a vision of being at peace with food and our bodies!  Rachel Goodman is a holistic Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and mom of 2. Rachel understands the challenges of juggling a busy life and taking care of yourself, which is why she believes health begins with a healthy relationship with food, fosteri...

Mary Laura Philpott is the author of I Miss You When I Blink , the nationally bestselling memoir-in-essays. Her writing has been featured frequently by The New York Times and also appears in such outlets as The Washington Post, The Paris Review Daily, O The Oprah Magazine , Real Simple, and others. Across her work, Philpott examines the overlap of the absurd and the profound in life, literature, a...

Marissa calls some of her nearest and dearests and tells them how grateful she is for them. She asks them about their own relationship to gratitude and if they have a gratitude practice.  This was an exercise in love, and we hope you enjoy it and feel inspired to tell some of your people how much you appreciate them. It feels great for both parties. Happy Thanksgiving! Marissa is truly grateful fo...

Dr. Frank Lipman received his initial medical training in South Africa and emigrated to the United States in 1984. He became board certified in internal medicine after serving as Chief Medical Resident at Lincoln Hospital in New York City. Becoming more and more aware of both the strengths and weaknesses of his training, he began to study acupuncture, Chinese medicine, functional medicine, nutriti...

Dana B. Myers, is  the founder of Booty Parlor, author of The Mojo Makeover, and the creator of The Mommy Mojo Makeover. She’s a speaker, a love and relationships coach and has led over 400 sexual empowerment workshops for women and mothers. For the past 10 years, as the founder of Booty Parlor, Dana has dedicated Her life to helping women feel sexy, confident, and have more satisfying experiences...