Be Well by Kelly Leveque

Candace Burch is a hormone health educator and founder of Your Hormone Balance, a hormone testing and consulting practice that helps people of all ages correct hormone imbalances that negatively impact health and longevity. She’s also a co-founder of the educational non-profit Women In Balance, and her mission as a wellness advocate is to educate, inspire, and guide women towards safe, natural app...

There is such a lack of awareness and understanding around women’s health issues and diagnoses, and it’s important to be our own advocates. To that end, Melissa Groves Azzaro is going to help us all understand women’s health better. She’s an integrative and functional medicine dietitian specializing in women’s health and hormones, PCOS, fertility, and hormone testing. Melissa launched her first bo...

In celebration of Be Well By Kelly hitting the massive milestone of 2 million downloads, we’re releasing two bonus episodes this week, sharing interviews I did on two other podcasts. This interview first broadcast on the Whiskey & Work podcast, where my friend Kelsey Murphy and I both open up about emotional experiences we’ve had in 2020 and give a sneak peek into our personal lives. This is a con...

In celebration of Be Well By Kelly hitting the massive milestone of 2 million downloads, we’re releasing two bonus episodes this week, sharing interviews I did on two other podcasts. This interview first broadcast on the Off The Record podcast, where host Annie Tevelin, founder of the beauty and skincare line SkinOwl, dug in deep into my birth story with Sebastian, which went far differently from...

Morgan Jackson is a Registered Nurse and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant who founded Prepared Beginnings because she is passionate about women and infant health, growth in motherhood, and seeing families thrive. I’m a month away from giving birth(!) and I don’t remember how to breastfeed, so I’ve been paying close attention to Morgan’s Instagram and all of the practical breastfe...

What we feed our children will affect not only how they feel, how they learn, and how they behave today but how they function in the future. So, it’s our job as parents to look out for them and make sure they’re nourishing their bodies — unfortunately, it’s really easy to end up with a lot of sugar in your diet in today’s world, with sugar-loaded processed foods conveniently and cheaply available...

Lauren Roxburgh is an international bestselling author, speaker, and wellness educator who’s often dubbed “the body whisperer.” She’s the founder of the Aligned Life Studio, the Aligned Tribe community, and the Aligned Healing Tools. As we start to put our bodies back into alignment, we start making better choices. She shares all about the fascia and the importance of listening to it, why some cal...

Aaron Alexander is a manual therapist, movement coach, podcast host, author, and founder of The Align Method. He believes there is a direct connection between how we perform physically and how we feel mentally and emotionally. So, by aligning our mind, body, and movement, we can completely upgrade the quality of our lives. He shares the ways we can incorporate simple movements into our lives throu...

Vani Hari is basically the food version of Carmen Sandiego. She’s like a detective, going after all the big food businesses and pulling back the curtain to show people what’s actually going into their food and informing them in order to rally around making change. We need more people like her in the world, because if we don’t start fighting back on what’s in our food, nobody else is going to do it...

Dr. David Minkoff founded the Lifeworks Wellness Center in 1997, which is now one of the largest alternative medical clinics in the United States, and BodyHealth in 2000, a nutrition company offering a unique range of dietary supplements for the public and practitioners. He has a diverse background as a board certified pediatrician, a fellow in infectious disease, an ER physician, and as the co-di...

Dr. Morgan Cutlip has a passion for helping couples develop and maintain healthy relationships at Love Thinks. She coaches couples on how to find balance, have a healthy sexual and romantic relationship, and survive through the turbulence of having kids. The key to a successful marriage is having a plan, and she shares how you can develop a plan together and stay consistently on the same page with...

David Johnson is the co-founder of Genexa, a clean medicine company. When he and his co-founder had kids, they began to look at the medicine world and wondered why nearly all of the ingredients used out there weren’t necessary. They set out to find out if there was a way to make the pharmaceutical industry and medicine cleaner. David shares the story that led to the founding of the company, where...

Building foundational habits is the secret sauce to consistent change. James Clear has become synonymous with habit formation with the breakout success of his book “Atomic Habits.” He makes the process of building habits more accessible than ever before, and with that, people can set out to make positive changes in their lives immediately. We’ve been told again and again about the importance of go...

Being an entrepreneur, it can sometimes feel like you’re all alone until you start networking and putting yourself out there and then you realize that entrepreneurs are everywhere. Even within that world, though, there are so many personalities. Kelsey Murphy knew that she wanted to be surrounded by like-minded people and that doing so would help everyone grow. So she started a mastermind where sh...

Dr. Jolene Brighten is the perfect person to take us back to the basics of sex ed and explain what is happening in our 28-day cycle (if we’re lucky). She believes that you shouldn’t have to go to medical school to understand the body you live in, and she wants to help people understand how to work with their body and end the rhetoric that the only way to be successful as a woman is to suppress wha...

Carly Stein is the founder of Beekeeper’s Naturals. She shares the story of how propolis helped her and her immune system when antibiotics weren’t working and her body was inflamed and under attack. It’s a beautiful story of finding healing and taking action, ultimately using that knowledge to build a company that also helps others. She takes us back to bee school by teaching us all about the bypr...

Brigid Titgemeier is a functional nutrition dietitian, graduate school instructor, and functional medicine patient. Her passion for helping others use food as medicine comes from her 15 years of experience battling her own personal health issues. When she realized that traditional medicine only cared about treating illness and disease instead of preventing it, she learned to heal herself through a...

Jessie De Lowe is manifestation coach, an art therapist, a certified yoga instructor, and the co-founder of the wellness platform How You Glow. He gets into manifestation on today’s podcast, and the way he talks about it is surprising. It’s not about materialism or aspirational goals in life. It’s about getting out of your own way, living in the present moment, and harnessing joy—perfectly timely...

Dr. Stephanie Canale specializes in family medicine at UCLA and is the CEO and founder of Lactation Lab, which was founded with the mission to bring scientific advancement to the field of breast milk research and, for the first time ever, offers a comprehensive, personalized analysis of the mother’s breast milk. I’m halfway through my third trimester, so breastfeeding has been on my mind. Dr. Cana...

Stevie and Sazan Hendrix are the cutest couple! Right out of college, Sazan ran a blog for fun and started putting all of her energy into it without even knowing you could make money off of a blog. When she realized all the success others were having with their blog, she knew that she could make a living off of it too. They started reaching out to small businesses and created partnerships that qui...

I love Dr. Gabrielle Lyon because she has a unique practice that focuses on muscle-centric medicine. She fights protein food shaming with research-backed science on how protein intake supports fat loss and prevents sarcopenia, and she explains how muscles and proteins play a role in decreasing inflammation and how protein deficiency can manifest in disease. Dr. Lyon received her doctorate in osteo...

Dr. Caroline Leaf is a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist who has spent the last 30 years researching the mind-brain connection, the nature of mental health, and the formation of memory. She was one of the first in her field to study how the brain can change with directed input, or neuroplasticity. Throughout her years of clinical practice, she’s helped hundreds of thousands of...

Melissa Christenson is a cosmetic chemist with degrees in both chemistry and marketing, plus over two decades of experience in product development and brand management. She partners with both emerging and established brands to lead the research and development of clean and effective health, beauty, and lifestyle innovations. Leveraging the duality of her experience, she bridges the gap between R&D...

I am fascinated by how food and our diet affects our mood. Dr. Uma Naidoo founded and directs the first hospital-based nutritional psychiatry service in the United States. She’s the Director of Nutritional and Lifestyle Psychology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Director of Nutritional Psychiatry at MGH Academy. While serving on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, she was considered Harva...

Lily Nichols is a registered dietician and nutritionist and certified diabetes educator. She’s devoted her entire career to researching real food nutrition for pregnancy and gestational diabetes—and she’s uncovered a wide gap between current prenatal guidelines and what’s actually optimal for both mother and baby. She found out that, in mothers with uncontrolled blood sugar, the child is up to six...