All Too Well

Just like Shel Silverstein’s classic children’s book “The Giving Tree,” the Baobab tree just keeps giving and giving. A “lost crop” known locally for its many benefits, Dr. Luc Maes is a naturopathic doctor on a mission to bring it back. His company, KAIBAE, is focused on offering Baobab-based beauty and wellness products, encouraging the growth and development of this incredible plant, and provid...

Licensed psychotherapist Terri Cole has a book , blog , and business all about setting better boundaries. Why is it so damn hard to say “no” — especially as women? We don’t know how to set boundaries naturally because nobody taught us – but we can still learn how. In this conversation, Terri talks about why we need boundaries now more than ever, how to end the glorification of self-sacrifice, and...

Elissa Goodman is a holistic nutritionist with a bent on lifestyle cleansing--emphasis on lifestyle, this is about more than just food.  Her personal health journey has had more than its share of ups and downs but the result is a success story we all need to hear right now. A cancer diagnosis at age 33 was the first wake-up call that she needed to make some changes, but the hard learning didn...

Read 'em and weep:  75% of people with vaginas have some degree of pelvic organ prolapse 66% of people with vaginas have some degree of bladder leakage 43% of people with vaginas have a form of sexual dysfunction Dr. Stephanie Schull is the creator and founder of Kegelbell,  the first FDA-registered, externally-weighted kegel system designed to treat and prevent the negative effects of a...

We’ve never been so excited to talk about constipation and diarrhea. If you have a persistent tummy ache, it’s very possible you have a form of SIBO, or small intestine bacterial overgrowth. Shivan Sarna — author and patient advocate who literally wrote the book on SIBO — is here to tell us what it’s all about. She’s had a host of health issues both causing and being caused by SIBO, so she knows j...

While the last year of pandemic live has had far-reaching effects on everyone involved, it’s clear that doctors — who already deal with a ton of stress during “normal” times — are burning out fast. Dr. Michelle Thompson set out to work with her colleagues when she saw that people were reaching their limits, quitting their jobs, or worse. Approximately 400 physicians commit suicide a year which is...

Ok time for some major girl talk. Lauryn Evarts Bosstick is the founder of The Skinny Confidential, the truth-telling, real talking, and often hilarious blog that she has brilliantly turned into a book, “The Skinny Confidential Lifestyle Guide,” a podcast, a monthly subscription app that provides workouts and meal plans, and more. Girl is kicking ass and taking names.  We get the real scoop f...

We have a strict policy for 2021: No assholes. Let’s leave them behind in 2020. We all need to respect each other’s space and just move on. In this quick and honest chat with just us girls, we trade stories about some less-than-pleasant interactions we’ve had with folks recently, how we’ve (maybe sometimes regrettably) handled them, and how we’re trying to draw the line between letting things go a...

Rob Willey is Chief Marketing Officer at Emil Capital Partners, a private equity firm based out of New York City that invests in and manages many companies mostly within the natural food and beverage space. He was part of the early dream team at Method, one of the earliest examples of powerful category disruption that  created a superstar brand still beloved today. He is as excited as we are...

Tune in for a quick and dirty (not really) chat with friend of the pod and leading functional medicine expert, Dr. Will Cole, author of “Ketotarian,” and private practitioner.  We talk wellness trends for the year ahead, with a specific focus on how we are thinking more about proactive and preventative health rather than reacting with quick fixes.  He talks all about why this trend is ha...

Daina Trout is the CEO and co-founder of Health-Ade Kombucha. Along with two friends who set out to make a mark on the world, they created an entrepreneur club where they would brainstorm solutions to their everyday challenges.  Including hair loss.  But after learning about an unexpected link between hair loss and scoby—the “mother” of kombucha—they promptly shifted gears and wound up w...

Eli Finkel is a social psychology professor at Northwestern University who studies romantic relationships and American politics, and has been named by The Economist as “one of the leading lights in the realm of relationship psychology.” He set out thinking—and intending to prove—that we were ruining the institution of marriage by putting so much pressure on our partner to meet many of our emotiona...

The excellent Dr. Ellen Vora is on the podcast today, and we’re big fans because yes, she’s really cool, but she’s also not down with the over-prescription of meds as treatment. Ellen believes that the power to heal lies within each of us. She’s not anti-medications, but she is all about trying other, more holistic approaches to healing first. Today we’re talking all things functional and holistic...

Katherine May, author of fiction and nonfiction, wrote her new book “Wintering” — which, published in February, now comes across as almost prophetic. In the book, she recognizes that we all have dark periods in our life where nothing seems to be going quite right and that there really isn’t a good way of talking about them without feeling ashamed. She opens up about her own wintering moments, and...

Todd White is the founder of Dry Farm Wines, with a great story and a fun and lively approach to life in general.  A self-described biohacker who practices daily meditation, Wim Hof breathing, cold thermogenesis, a ketogenic diet, and daily 22 hour intermittent fasting, he wanted to find a better way of enjoying an evening glass of wine without it interrupting his lifestyle, and from this cam...

Every overnight success is actually years in the making, and Charles Coristine, CEO and President of Lesser Evil Snacks, is here to share his journey to making the greatest paleo puff snack of all time (IOHO).   He takes “failure is not an option” to an extreme, and it really works for him. We get good and business-y in this one, and Charles is transparent about the uphill climb he had to go...

Dr. Michael Roizen, Emeritus Chief Wellness Officer of the Cleveland Clinic, and chief medical consultant on “The Dr. Oz Show,” is the co-author of “The What to Eat When Cookbook,” which we talked about with his colleague Dr Crupain in episode 105. He completely walks the walk when it comes to science-based diet planning based on the clock, (and he legit walked on his treadmill during the entire i...

Because we are Hamil-nerds, sometimes we start with a quote: “Immigrants, we get the job done”  basically tells the story of Julie Smolyansky, CEO of Lifeway Foods, who moved from Russia to Chicago as an infant. Her parents brought with them a centuries-old tradition used in their homeland for generations — kefir, the hard-to-pronounce probiotic that does wonders for the gut — and began to sh...

Take a deep breath, because it might be your last without giving it some serious thought from here on out.  NY Times Bestselling Author and journalist James Nestor is taking years of incredible research and self-experimentation and applying it all to the world of breathing, sharing all the benefits it can provide with the world. This conversation with James may very well be the most eye-openi...

Dr. Michael Crupain is the medical director of “The Dr. Oz Show," chief medical officer of Sharecare and co-author of the upcoming The What To Eat When Cookbook . He is board certified in preventive medicine, a fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine and part-time faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.  He and his partner co-authored “What to Eat When,”...

Is there something going on in your Venus? Haley Houseman, who’s in charge or brand and content at Sanctuary, knows all about astrology. While we are in a complete state of mess over the last few months, it’s times like these where people are drawn to finding some information or sanity to the world, and astrology can do that for a lot of people. She gives us a crash course in astrology that goes w...

This episode is a little bit of catharsis for us as we talk about the struggles we’re facing when it comes to finding a sense of normalcy. We’re all still dealing with the isolation that comes with COVID, as well as wading through the poo that comes with building a startup, and maybe it’s getting to us a little bit. It’s a strange experience to feel lonely in your own home, even when you’re not th...

At the beginning of her career, Bozoma Saint John turned down a job at Goldman Sachs and, shortly afterwards, found herself temping for Spike Lee. Since then, she’s worked in C-level roles for the likes of Apple and Uber (being tasked with repairing their reputation after mistreatment of drivers and reports of sexual harassment surfaced) and is now Chief Marketing Officer at William Morris Endeavo...

Kendall Dabaghi has spent the last ten years working at different tech startups, but it was the variety of health issues he faced his whole life that led him to his best work yet. After developing acute digestive issues traveling abroad, and seeing a range of specialists, nothing seemed to work. He started reading up on the gut biome and after adding a variety of fermented foods to his diet, the p...

Lulu Ge is the founder of Elix, an herbal nutritional supplement company that helps women balance their hormonal cycle. When she stopped taking hormonal birth control, she found herself unable to move her body for 2-3 days a month around the time of her cycle—and her doctor’s only suggestion was to start taking birth control again.  Her grandfather connected her to a renowned Chinese medical...