All Too Well

Victoria Albina does a LOT. She’s had a holistic medicine practice, worked as a nurse practitioner, a certified breathwork meditation facilitator, a life coach, and… a good witch?  She’s practically collecting modalities right now, and that’s GREAT, because we all need some of this in 2020. We all understand what stress does to us on an experiential level, but with her expertise, she explains...

We want Megan Bruneau to be our new therapist — or at least our friend who we invite out for drinks and free advice. She’s a therapist, executive coach, and speaker who takes a no-bullshit approach to coaching. We talk a lot about sitting in discomfort and how to navigate it, as well as the dangers of using “spiritual bypassing” to avoid stress. Right now is a time of incredible discomfort for all...

Tara Stiles is the founder of Strala Yoga. It would have been lovely if all we wanted to talk about was yoga, but in light of the twin crises of Covid and racial injustice,we wanted to dig a little deeper.  We wellness folk do tend to feel things a bit more, so it’s great to talk with another feeler. She talks about how we can continue to have difficult conversations, having an open mind for...

A special encore for some extra self-care during challenging times.  Emily Fletcher is the founder of Ziva Meditation, a unique practice incorporating mindfulness, meditation and manifestation that she created after years of study.  Ziva is not an app.  It’s an online course that gives you the tools to be free of your devices for good.   Emily is a former Broadway performer who...

This episode is a special encore, while we are spending a little more time with our partners than we usually would, we thought you might appreciate some perspective!   Dr. Sonya Rhodes is a psychotherapist, relationship therapist, and the author of four books, including “ Cold Feet” and “The Alpha Woman Meets Her Match .” (Ahem... attention Santa!) She spills the beans on what makes a marriag...

So, real talk: Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is our legit hometown hero.  Before holding the title of our ACTUAL favorite sitting president, he served three terms in the New York State Senate and 22 years in the New York City Police Department. He is crazy smart, super compassionate, and his dedication and goodwill toward his community is endless. He was diagnosed just three years ago...

We’re here to talk about fiber! And no, it’s not that powder you’ve seen grandma put into her water. We’re joined by Dr. Will Bulsiewicz, the author of Fiber Fueled and a board-certified, award-winning gastroenterologist.  So, he knows his stuff when it comes to gut health. He talks about how fiber interplays with your gut health — something we’ve always been super into — and how this can be...

We are ready to show you our fruiting bodies! We’ve spent a lot of time chatting with guests about the world of adaptogens, specifically mushrooms, because it’s a category that fascinates us. Their incredible immune-boosting properties are just the tip of the iceberg.  We've been a couple of fun gals into the fungis for quite some time, as we've been hard at work creating our new business. Ea...

By now, you’ve probably seen the growing trend of functional mushrooms and understand that we ourselves are down with fungi in a big way. But what are we really getting from these mushrooms and mushroom supplements? To better understand what’s real and what’s just advertising, we sat down with one of the world’s foremost mushroom experts: Jeff Chilton, founder of Real Mushrooms and Nammex. Jeff wa...

We like to feature conversations with founders that are doing important and unique things, and Emily Schildt of Pop Up Grocer fits that bill 100%. They're the first-ever pop-up grocery store that showcases hundreds of the most innovative and exciting brands in natural food and beverage, plus home, pet and body care. She’s thinking about retail in a broader way, and Pop Up Grocer is one of the ways...

The gut is a messy place, so we’re going to dive into immunity, probiotics, and everything going on inside your gut biome with Ara Katz of Seed. We talk about probiotics, prebiotics, symbiotics... ALL of the biotics. There’s a lot of misinformation out there, and most people have no idea what they are doing when it comes to probiotics, but Ara helps us get to the bottom of bacteria and what the he...

Jenny Sansouci is the author of The Rebel’s Apothecary , a science-based and supportive guide to the wild world of fungi and CBD that will enhance the lives of anyone living with pain, anxiety, depression, a weakened immune system, insomnia, and more. Jenny saw their healing powers firsthand when her father was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer and she guided him on his health journey, offe...

We’re in the middle of a global pandemic, and things are kind of crazy. We talk (from a safe social isolation distance) to Dr. Kirk Parsley about what’s going on with this coronavirus, how we can best arm ourselves and build up our defenses, and how to make sure we are staying healthy. He also has his own perspective on how the world is responding to this and how we can help ourselves get through...

This week we’re broadcasting straight from the corona closest to weigh in on our own coping strategies in the current coronavirus pandemic. These are unprecedented times, and nobody really knows what they’re supposed to do in this situation. We hope that you are all coping well, and we have just a few tips on how you can help deal with this whole thing.  Love to you all, stay safe and healthy...

Cyrus Khambatta, Ph. D. is the New York Times bestselling author of Mastering Diabetes: The Revolutionary Method to Reverse Insulin Resistance in Type 1, Type 1.5, Type 2, Prediabetes, and Gestational Diabetes , and the co-founder of Mastering Diabetes, an online group coaching program for people with all forms of diabetes. He has been living with type 1 diabetes for more than 18 years and ha...

After a near-death experience, Francesco Clark dedicated himself to learning about skin to heal the issues he was facing, and then realized his unique plant-based formulations were more than just a hobby.  Together with his family he created Clark’s Botanicals. His story is unbelievable and we cannot get enough of this skincare line! Be sure to check out the products at clarksbotanicals.com a...

We’re back with our beloved Alisa Vitti, best-selling author of WomanCode and In the FLO , who has been helping women improve health by hacking their hormones for 20 years. In the past 5 years, at least, there’s been an influx of content online around women’s hormones, so you’d think that with all of these resources, women would be better equipped to address issues like fatigue, burnout and weight...

We’re back with our friend Dr. Jeffrey Morrison, the award-winning functional medicine MD who champions a nutritional approach to healthcare. We recorded this ep at his eponymous Morrison Center, where they offer a range of treatments and services based on integrative medicine, i.e. treating the whole person to assist innate healing and promote optimal health instead of just fixing a problem. We’r...

Emily is a former Broadway performer who found meditation through a fellow castmate after realizing that despite living her dreams, she was feeling stressed and miserable.  After her initial skepticism, Emily took a meditation class and slept through the night for the first time in 18 months. She fell in love, left Broadway, and trained in India as an apprentice before embarking on her journe...

Dr. Robert “Iron Man” Willix is a truly amazing functional medicine practitioner. Formerly a cardiac surgeon, he left that path to pursue functional medicine, and he’s had some fun stops along the way. Acupuncture, shamanism, Chinese medicine--he is a true pioneer of the modalities that as a culture, we’re only starting to talk about now. He never stops evolving and learning, high praise!  He...

Dr. Kirk Parsley didn’t set out to become a sleep expert. He became a Navy SEAL at a young age, and then went on to medical school before returning to the SEAL team as their doctor, where he was put in charge of building out and managing a sports medicine facility. He saw patient after patient, many of them former SEALs and colleagues, who were experiencing performance issues but didn’t have any k...

TedX Speaker, Author and Coach Keren Eldad is back on the pod to talk about the paradox of overachievers--how they strive to get everything right but can still end up feeling less-than on the inside.  Sound familiar, anyone? She calls this phenomenon the Superstar Paradox. We cover the ways that perfectionism can quickly become toxic, and try to understand how it has become so pervasive in ou...

Paul Kempisty is an acupuncturist, Chinese medicine practitioner, and a wealth of knowledge on the magical world of fungi. They have incredible healing properties, and it’s great to see them pop up--like mushrooms, one might say-- in more products everywhere. We get into some of the buzzwords (hello, adaptogens and nootropics), and gain more insight into relying on roots, plants, and herbs for hea...

We’ve got another Zoë and Erica minisode this week! We are (un)officially starting Season 2 of the podcast, and we’re excited for what’s to come with the show. We’ll be doing things a little differently. We start off by talking about New Year’s resolutions (spoiler: we don’t do them), what we’re excited about this year, as well as what you can look forward to on the show in the future. We’re gonn...

Dr. Joe Askinasi is a holistic chiropractor and applied kinesiologist who has worked his magic on both of us and perhaps dozens of our loved ones. He is a master of diagnosis, being able to identify root causes of issues that have nothing to do with how it's actually presenting. We love his incredibly common sense approach to wellness--it’s a refreshing reminder that it needn’t be complicated. The...