And Then, Be Well

You are a high-achieving mama who is struggling to do-it-all. You are listening to podcasts, taking courses on time-blocking and learning how-to’s on managing your to-do’s only to realize you’ve given yourself MORE work.  Today’s guest is the CEO & Head Mom Brain in Charge of Rally the Village, a virtual (and in-person locally) club for high-achieving career moms aimed at helping you to reduce...

Do you feel like this summer season is messy blessing!? Although we are a good 1/2 way through summer, life continues to throw monkey wrenches even during our best laid plans. We try to stick to routines, and when we don't meet the expectations of our routines we can become disdainful, stressed, hair-raising mad! Rather then embracing this season of slowing down and getting some extra Vitamin...

As mothers we have been taught to do it all. Squeezing everything into every last pocket of time. Until one day we are Googling "burnout", as guest Ruthie Sterrett, CEO of the Consistency Corner, candidly shares. Over 5 years Ruthie felt called to leave her demanding corporate job, push aside the various side-hustles and take a leap of faith into owning her own marketing firm. Ruthie sha...

Are you avoiding medical tests or trying to self-diagnose symptoms to look for an easier cause? The Perimenopause and Menopause symptom list runs deep. It is easy to look at it and say "yup that's it!". Would it be responsible though? A year ago Kristina was experiencing new and unexplained breast pain. A year later she finally checked it out. In today's episode Kristina is shari...

Are you caretaking for a loved one with a form of Dementia? Alzheimers?  Are you concerned above developing it yourself? In this two part series, Kristina speaks with Olivia Evans, Certified Dementia Practitioner (CDP) and Certified Montessori Dementia Care Professional (CMDCP), who has been working with caregivers and those living with dementia for a decade. Olivia demystifies Dementia for us. An...

Are you caretaking for a loved one with a form of Dementia? Alzheimers?  Are you concerned above developing it yourself? In this two part series, Kristina speaks with Olivia Evans, Certified Dementia Practitioner (CDP) and Certified Montessori Dementia Care Professional (CMDCP), who has been working with caregivers and those living with dementia for a decade. Olivia demystifies Dementia for us. An...

Do you dream of leaving your job to pursue your God-given calling? To work a job that never feels like a job? To build a business that allows for more time and freedom with your family? My guest today is Holly Maries Haynes, CEO of Crush The Rush and 22 year business strategist. In 2020 Holly set out to create a business she had only dreamed of. Suddenly in lockdown with the pandemic, becoming a h...

Have you ever wanted to quit drinking? Have you ever considered living life sober? Kristina shares her personal story of drinking from the first sip to the last. Alcohol played an ever present role in the destruction of her mental, physical and emotional health. Masking her anxiety and depression, using it as a crutch when things got "hard" as a mom, as a wife, during any would-be stress...

Are you trying to heal your body? From an injury, recurrent nagging pain or post-op? Today’s episode is coming to you from someone who has dealt with on-going back pain and shoulder pains and is living stronger than before. Someone who has healed what a surgeon called the “possibility of a lifetime of pain and medication” on her own, by following a drug-free, easy-to-follow life prescription. Your...

We're back this week with Part 2 of Christina's story of loss to reinvention and revival. In episode 24 / part 1, Christina shared a personal look into her life. Losing a marriage of 18 years, losing her brother, losing her long standing career, the cheating scandal that broke her second marriage, falling into bankruptcy, and becoming a shell of the person she once thought she was after lo...

From the outside looking in, Christina DeOliveira lived a picture perfect life. Loving family, old-school European values, and amazing traditions. She married the perfect husband, had the perfect house and car, with two beautiful children and a gorgeous golden retriever. Enjoying a long, progressive corporate career and financial stability. Then, as if brick by brick, her life started to fall apar...

Are you struggling to value yourself, your goals, dreams, aspirations because you are care-giving? Pouring your all into others? Your walk in this phase of life is anything but linear and your priorities can shift in an instant. This does not mean you can not initiate the calling on your heart or further pursue that passion you've already ushered in with intention and authenticity. I am so exc...

Are you someone who believes that in order to workout you need to sweat within an inch of your life?!  That you need to workout for 45 minutes or more in order for it to count? As life became progressively more stressful, or just plain blessed and busy, did the idea of a sweaty 45 minute workout make you cringe? You slowly avoided these workouts and now you are barely working out at all and feelin...

I believe the saying goes, “Once postpartum, always postpartum”. And you may be one the 1000’s of women who are feeling that…in your back, hips, knee, neck and more.  As busy women we tend to ignore and normalize our pains. Then a couple of months, or even decades later, our lack of pre and postnatal care reflects in our body by means of: -knee and back pain during exercise -feeling of heaviness i...

If you read enough articles or listen to enough hearsay about menopause and the time set before it as you transition out of your childbearing years, you’ll more than likely to be sent into a tailspin of doom and gloom.  In today’s episode, Amanda Thebe, author of “Menopocalypse: How I Learned To Thrive During Menopause and How You Can Too!”, and Fitness and Women’s Health Expert, is flipping those...

Well, well! Thank you to those of you who have been reaching out with questions! In the first half of today's episode I answer, “Have you taken food intolerance tests, which ones and what was your experience with them?” Helping you to understand a few options, if you really need to take them, and what comes after you take them. The second half of the episode was inspired by the first. I put on...

Our metabolism, our lifestyle, they all change as we age. That doesn’t mean we have to try all the fancy new gimmicks or completely leave the game.  In today’s episode I am joined by the uber intelligent, super-trainer Michael Crandall who graciously shares his 12 years of personal coaching and research experience on “hot topics” like: Are getting those steps worth it? How our daily activities set...

Does it feel like you are always scrambling for time? Trying to catch-up on life and allowing your joys to play second fiddle? As if the joys you seek, and the impact you want to make, are constantly stop and go? Heck, maybe more stop than go. In today’s episode I speak with business and life coach Geri Paige Butner on how you can consciously navigate hustle-and-grind, stepping into a state of flo...

Get out your pen and paper (or laptop if that is your jam) or just get ready to take some mental notes, because it’s time to get to some workshopping. I sit down with you this week to review a concept learned through my nutritional studies program that is applicable to all types of habitual change. In this episode I explore the "Difficult-easy vs. Difficult-difficult" concept. Asking you...

Are you someone who has spent years, if not decades, ignoring why you feel irritable bowels, fatigue (beyond exhaustion), mood swings, hormonal issues and other hard to understand symptoms? Are you someone who has gone down the traditional medicinal route to understand why you are experiencing these issues only to get a call from your GP stating you have "normal" blood work or empty resu...

Courtney Zentz is Founder of the nation’s leading pediatric sleep consulting agency, Tiny Transitions. A organization born from her own struggles as a new parent. As she stood to build this company and enjoy new motherhood, she was diagnosed with the CDH1 gene. A mutation of the CDH1 gene meant she was at risk for developing an aggressive form of stomach and breast cancer. Courtney had to make a d...

When you are feeling uncertain or concerned or doubtful, how do you realign yourself? How to get you back to solid ground? In today’s short episode I am sharing how a news headline triggered these unsettling feelings. And how God winked back, by reminding me of the story of Mary, Martha & Jesus. I am also sharing a question that will help navigate those feelings of uncertainty, concern or doub...

As we transition through life, careers, relationships, we can often be found chasing a feeling and looking for validation. How does this translate? A lack of confidence, unmet desires and expectations, a lack of purpose. And this shows up in how we present ourselves to the world, in our behaviors, through our image. In today’s episode, I am joined by besties, expert image consultants, and owners o...

Diagnosed at age 10 with a debilitating case of Psoriasis and again at 19 with Psoriatic Arthritis, Chronicon founder and CEO, Nitika Chopra has been living with chronic illness for over 26 years. For the first 15 of her diagnosis she said she felt “overwhelmed with pain, insecurity, confusion and battling depression.” This is different from the busy entrepreneur, talk show host, beauty care exper...

We often lean into what other people say as "bible", especially at times in our lives when we are overcome with stress. We just want someone else to tell us what to do in hopes that it will forever fix our dilemma. But life shifts so often that the miracle pill we just swallowed may be a flash in the pan, wearing off and leaving us back where we started. Aka we leaned in so hard that we...