Courageous Wellness

For Breast Cancer Awareness month, this week we sit down with Charlotte Martin, breast cancer survivor and advocate. In October 2018, Charlotte was diagnosed with Stage 1 HER2 Breast Cancer at the age of 31. An extremely rare form of breast cancer, with a 1 in 10,000 chance of contraction at such a young age. Charlotte was able to detect it at an early stage, because she performed regular self bre...

On today’s episode we have an inspiring and moving conversation with Stephanie Gives-Winckler, author, illustrator, and Rett Syndrome Awareness educator and advocate. Stephanie shares her journey of raising and losing her daughter, Tiffanie Nina Simone Hayes, due to complications with Rett Syndrome in 2011. She shares how mental health plays a part in raising a child born with a rare neurological...

On today’s episode we sit down with Makenzie Marzluff. Makenzie is a serial entrepreneur, operating from her heart. She is the founder of the very successful Delighted By Dessert Dips and Hummus, selling over 15 million dollars worth of product in 5 years. All products are Non-GMO, Vegan, Gluten-Free and Kosher. She is also the founder of KAKAO Ceremonial Drinking Chocolate.  In this conversation,...

Today on the show we welcome the lovely and dynamic creator of the popular fashion blog The Fashion Lotus, Jeanelly Concepcion. The Fashion Lotus combines fashion with sustainability and wellness and Jeanelly strives to empower women to look and feel beautiful regardless of financial circumstances, body, age, or career path. In addition to running The Fashion Lotus, Jeanelly is also the Executive...

Today on the podcast we have a conversation with, Courageous Wellness listener, Lilly Brice. Lilly recently graduated from Bucknell University as a sociology and anthropology major. A kentucky native,  always drawn to cultural medicine, holistic health, and nutrition -- she spent 5 transformative months in New Zealand, conducting research on Māori culture, interviewing indigenous healers, and trav...

On Today’s September *Bonus* Solo Episode of the podcast we discuss the subtle (and important!) differences between self care, self medicating, and self soothing. We have a detailed conversation and share our own experiences, tips, and tools.  We want to hear your thoughts! Get in touch with us by visiting our website www.courageouswellness.net & you can also follow us on instagram @CourageousWell...

Today on the show we have Pallavi Sastry and Gabrielle Ruiz, friends and co-hosts of the popular What Are Friends For? Podcast.  You may have heard Pallavi on an early episode of Courageous Wellness when she came on to discuss her documentary film about Fibromyalgia, Invisible: the Film. In addition to producing, Pallavi is an actor and activist and has most recently been seen as a recurring guest...

Today on the podcast we sit down with Gabrielle Rodman. Gabrielle shares her very personal journey of experiencing debilitating pelvic floor pain and her journey to discover diagnosis and treatment. After months of experiencing symptoms including, painful sex, and painful movement in her day-to-day, Gabrielle was written off by 4 doctors, telling her that there was nothing medically wrong -- and t...

Today on the podcast we have a conversation on a plant-based, fruit centric, lifestyle with Robby Barbaro, the co-founder and author of the NY Times Best Selling book, Mastering Diabetes. Robby has been living with type1 diabetes for 15 years, and for 10 years has transformed his illness and gained control of his overall health on a low-fat, fruit-based diet.  Mastering Diabetes is a revolutionary...

Today on the podcast we welcome Tarin Calmeyer. Tarin has spent the last 10 years bringing her yoga and meditation expertise to people around the world with a teaching style that highlights her deep understanding of the body, mindfulness and conscious living. Tarin is a Yoga, Meditation, and Wellness Coach with a background in Osteopathy and has extensive experience working with brands from Puma t...

Our August bonus solo episode is here and we are answering your health and wellness questions! On this episode we cover sugar content, ideal breakfast, snacks, emotional eating tips, how to create a daily practice, our favorite at home workouts -- and how to motivate!  Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review Courageous Wellness! We release new episodes each #WellnessWednesday! You can also fol...

Today on the podcast we sit down with love, dating and relationship expert, Violet Lange. Violet's mission is to help women become empowered in love,  feel amazing in their bodies, and reclaim their feminine essence. She teaches women how to attract and maintain incredible partnerships through her signature program: Queens of Pleasure. Violet teaches that we have the power to build healthy romance...

This week on the podcast we sit down with Julianne Vaccaro a Somatic Sexologist, Spiritual Mentor & Women’s Holistic Health + Life Coach. Julianne helps powerful, purpose-driven individuals self heal, awaken their feminine, and come home to their body to reclaim an abundant life of freedom & pleasure.  On this episode we have an in-depth conversation on somatic sexology, tapping into your sexual e...

Today on the podcast we welcome Food Freedom Coach, Sloane Elizabeth. Sloane works with individuals to tap into intuitive eating, to ditch food rules, diets, and restrictions. She also works to help clients learn how to eat with love and eliminate guilt and fear around food. On this episode, we discuss Sloane’s personal journey to her work and offer practical tools and tips to cultivate food freed...

On today’s episode of Courageous Wellness, we have an incredible conversation with Dr. Que Collins, principal scientist of Deuterium Depletion Therapies and the co-founder and principal investigator, at Cignature Health Metabolic Clinic – the first clinic in the world to use deuterium and tracer technologies to describe and follow the health status of patients with metabolic disorders such as canc...

On this month's bonus solo episode we discuss the effects of stress on the body and offer tools to manage stress during this time. We also offer simple digestion tips, share the launch of our new website, and explain more about our new monthly series of "bonus" solo episodes.    We want to hear your thoughts! Reach out at www.courageouswellness.net   Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review Cou...

Today on the podcast we welcome Stephanie Cowie. Throughout Stephanie’s professional life she was a Vice President at American Benefits Consulting and she also served as a Senior Employee Benefits Consultant for Fortune 50 & 100 companies in the U.S. for the past 22 years. Today on Courageous Wellness, she shares with us a more personal story -- of suffering a stroke in her spinal cord, prior to h...

Today on the podcast we sit down with Kiley Anderson, co-founder of Jetson probiotics. Jetson is a brand that produces the worlds’ only seasonal probiotics that change along with your body.  Kiley discusses how, as a new mom, she opened her eyes to the world of probiotics and the importance of healthy gut bacteria for her own health and her baby. This inspired deeper research to create a high qual...

Today on the podcast we welcome Richa Gupta, founder of both, Good Food for Good, and Turmeric Teas! Growing up in India, Richa was used to eating fresh home cooked food, but as a marketing executive and mom, she found it challenging to find prepared shortcuts that met her expectations in terms of ingredients and taste. She grew frustrated with all the compromises she was expected to make for conv...

Today on the podcast we welcome, Amber Romaniuk, an Emotional Eating, Digestive and Hormone Expert who helps professional women achieve optimal health through mindful eating, self-care and overcoming self-sabotage with food. Her podcast “The No Sugarcoating Podcast” has over a half a million downloads and she has appeared on Canadian television 50 times in the last three years. Amber overcame her...

Today on the podcast we sit down with PLATEFIT creator and founder, Rachael Blumberg. On this episode we discuss Rachael’s inspiring journey in fitness, entrepreneurship, and the incredible technology of the medical grade vibrating plates that are used in the 27-minute PlateFit classes!  PLATEFIT classes are taken on medical grade devices that utilize rapid harmonic vibration — a unique means of d...

Today on the podcast we have the king of Kombucha, himself, GT Dave of GT's Living Foods! GT started making kombucha at home, when he was still a teenager, after seeing the positive effects it had on his own mother’s health while battling breast cancer. In the past 2+ decades GT’s Living Foods has grown to be the leading Kombucha brand, making up 40% of the US market, while remaining a family owne...

This week on the podcast we welcome Dr. Diva Nagula, author, physician, and stage IV non-Hodgkins lymphoma survivor. On this episode he shares his remarkable non-traditional battle with cancer and share tips and ideas about how we can take a more functional and integrative approach to our own health before facing health battles.    In his new book FROM DOCTOR TO PATIENT: Healing Cancer through Min...

This week on the podcast we are happy to welcome human design expert + leadership coach, Erin Claire Jones! For anyone unfamiliar with Human Design, it is described as the science of understanding yourself. Erin works with startups all over the world, supports executives in the building of companies and even works with partnerships and small teams in order for them to operate more harmoniously and...

This week on the podcast we have a conversation with plant-based culinary expert and author, Summer Sanders. As the creative force behind Local Juicery and lead instructor at the former Matthew Kenney Culinary Institute she became a champion for a plant-inspired lifestyle after beginning the journey of self-healing from a lifetime low self-esteem and disordered eating. On this episode Summer share...