Be Still and Live | Overcoming Overwhelm and Finding Peace in a Busy World Through Faith and Stillness

Success. Achievement. A full calendar. From the outside, it can look like you've made it. But what happens when success alone still leaves you feeling empty? In this episode of Be Still and Live , I sit down with Anna Robinson—a soul activist, poet, and tea ceremonialist—to explore the deeper journey of spiritual awakening and why external success can never fully satisfy the longing for meani...

Money stress rarely comes from numbers alone. It often comes from what money represents: safety, freedom, security, success, and the stories we carry from the past. In this episode of Money Mindset, we sit down with personal wealth strategist Roxy Zalucky for an honest conversation about personal finance, investing, wealth building, and developing lasting financial confidence. Drawing on experienc...

The moment you stop asking “What’s wrong with kids?” and start asking “What’s happening in their bodies?” everything changes. In this episode, we sit down with David Bidler, founder of Physiology First, to explore youth mental health through the lens of human physiology, nervous system regulation, and parenting in the digital age. We discuss how anxiety, attention challenges, and emotional overwhe...

AI is changing the economy fast, but the bigger shift is what it’s forcing us to face: if your job disappeared tomorrow, would you still know who you are and what you’re here to do? That question sits underneath so much modern anxiety, burnout, and quiet misalignment, especially for people who look “successful” from the outside but feel scattered or spiritually off-course on the inside. I’m joined...

Your body isn’t failing you, and it isn’t being dramatic. It might be trying to protect you the only way it knows how. In this powerful conversation, we talk with Cindy Costley, founder of The Underlying Answers and creator of the Electromagnetic Body Desensitization Technique (EBDT), about what it looks like to treat symptoms as meaningful signals instead of enemies to silence. Cindy shares her p...

Success can be loud, public, and impressive, and still leave you feeling strangely far from yourself. We sit down with Kathrine Parnell, founder of Stone and Sky Retreats and author of Authenticity, Keeping It Real, to name what so many people carry in silence: the gap between achievement and alignment, and the quiet longing for something more true. Kathrine shares how running a multi-million doll...

A child hands you your phone and suddenly you realize it is not just a tool, it is part of how your family sees you. That moment sits at the center of my conversation with Alicia, a mental health professional and digital detox coach with 14+ years of experience helping families rebuild peace and connection. We talk about the quiet “slow drip” of screens and notifications into everyday life, and wh...

A busy schedule can look fine on the outside while your mind feels like it never stops. When that “fog” rolls in, the instinct is to push harder, scroll longer, or search for the next solution. We go the other way and it is surprisingly practical: slow down, get honest, and return to the Source. I’m joined by Jolien Sterre, a worship leader and songwriter calling in from the Netherlands. We met ye...

Fear is loud, fast, and contagious and our bodies are paying the price. If you’ve been waking up anxious, feeling wired but exhausted, or wondering why you’re suddenly more reactive than you used to be, you’re not alone. I’m joined by Dr. Rochelle “Dr. Roe” Vogt, a mindfulness researcher and trauma resolution specialist, to name what’s happening underneath the surface: nervous system dysregulation...

Your days can be full and still feel misaligned. That tension is what we’re naming out loud today: the quiet sense that the life you built no longer fits the person you’re becoming, and the fear that changing course means blowing everything up.  I’m joined by Chalene MacLeod, a business coach and mom of three who helps awake, purpose-driven women step away from the traditional nine-to-five track a...

Stress can look like productivity while your nervous system is quietly waving a red flag. If you’ve ever thought, “I’m functioning, so I should be fine,” yet you feel wired, exhausted, reactive, or stuck in a loop of scrolling and pushing through, this conversation offers a different explanation and a real path forward. I’m joined by Sophia Torini, a neuroscience based emotional rewiring expert tr...

If you’ve been telling yourself you’re failing, falling behind, or somehow “too much,” consider a different diagnosis: you might not be broken, you might be depleted. That one reframe changes everything, because depletion is fixable, and it doesn’t require extremes or perfection to turn around. We sit down with Dr. Matthew Campbell, a clinical psychologist and co-author of Our Primal Five, to talk...

Your calendar can be packed and your life can still feel strangely thin. We’re surrounded by speed, noise, and nonstop inputs, yet our bodies are wired with a Stone Age nervous system that reads a tense email like a life-or-death threat. When that stress becomes chronic, it doesn’t just steal peace; it steals clarity, health, and the ability to lead well. We’re joined by Simone Luti, best-selling...

Your days can be packed and still feel oddly empty. That’s the paradox we sit with today: we live in a world that constantly asks us to consume, but rarely invites us to create. When we lose our connection to creativity, we don’t just drop a hobby, we lose access to a part of ourselves that knows how to heal, adapt, and feel alive. I’m joined by Devorah Brinckerhoff, a mixed media artist and trans...

A restless heart can be loud, but sometimes the clearest direction arrives in quiet. We sit down with Ted Van der Zalm, founder of Wells of Hope, to trace a lifelong journey from a Dutch greenhouse to drilling rigs in Tanzania to Camp Esperanza in Guatemala—where clean water, education, and basic healthcare help communities flourish. Ted’s story begins with a black-and-white image of a hungry chil...

In a world of constant input, your brain is always adapting — to noise, to stress, to what you repeatedly tell it is normal. In this conversation with board-certified health coach and adjunct professor Wendy Francis, we explore how real change begins not with more effort, but with clearer signals to the mind and body. We name what’s actually keeping people stuck: information overload, ultra-proces...

Ever feel constantly “on” yet strangely absent from your own life? That quiet ache—of busyness without meaning—sets the stage for a candid conversation with Mason, who made a radical, practical choice at 25: he ditched his smartphone and rebuilt his days around presence, purpose, and real community. What follows isn’t a tech-bashing rant; it’s a grounded look at how attention gets stolen, how stil...

What if the turnaround you crave doesn’t come from doing more, but from pausing long enough to hear what your life is asking for? We sit down with Rebecca Ogilvie—traveler, mother, and founder of The Detour Co.—to explore how stillness, simplicity, and small rituals can quietly rebuild a joyful, values-led life. From a one-way ticket through Southeast Asia to a forest studio in Muskoka, Rebecca tr...

Ambition can build a beautiful life, and still leave the soul tired. In this episode of Be Still & Live , I sit down with kingdom-minded coach Colt to talk about burnout, the red line we don’t notice until we’ve crossed it, and why choosing stillness may be one of the bravest leadership decisions we make. Colt shares how chasing money, image, and approval led to exhaustion—and how a simple rea...

The calm you’re craving isn’t hidden in another storage bin—it’s found in the space you create when you let go. In this episode of Be Still & Live , I’m joined by Amy from Simplify Buffalo , professional organizer and mom of three, to explore how simplifying our homes can restore not just order, but peace. We talk about the connection between visual clutter and the nervous system, why empty sp...

Ever feel like life is full, yet something inside you feels thin or unsettled? In this episode of Be Still & Live , we sit with licensed counselor and author Frank Healy for a grounded conversation about memory, meaning, and the quiet power of intentional stillness. Frank lives with hyperthymesia—an unusually vivid autobiographical memory—giving him a unique window into how past experiences ca...

In this episode of Be Still & Live , we sit with movement artist and coach Elvie Schooley for a grounded, heart-centered conversation about what becomes possible when we slow down and listen inward. Elvie introduces the “Jewels Inside” metaphor—an invitation to see life’s hardest chapters not as wounds to conceal, but as raw material to be gently polished into wisdom, self-respect, and purpose...

Feeling off doesn’t mean you’re broken. More often, it means your body has been living too long without safety, stillness, and breath in a noisy world. In this episode, we sit down with breathwork guide Steve Beattie , whose journey from chronic inflammation and repeated hospital visits to a more calm, grounded way of living began not with force—but with a simple, daily return to the breath. Along...

What if intention isn’t something you set , but something you inhabit —a way of being that changes the atmosphere wherever you go? In this conversation, we sit with Kim Stanwood Terranova , spiritual teacher and counselor, to explore intention as an inner practice that moves us from reactivity to coherence. Kim invites us to see intention not as a wish for outcomes, but as a steady orientation tow...

Some health stories look polished on the outside while quietly falling apart behind the scenes. This conversation moves in the opposite direction. In this episode, we sit down with Jess — a mother of four and grounded health coach — for an honest conversation about healing body image anxiety, releasing disordered patterns around food, and stepping out of the all-or-nothing mindset that keeps so ma...