Destination Begin

A reminder of your power when life gets hard plus some sanity check holiday reminders to enjoy the holidays feeling good!

Self love and your mindset are the most important factors in transformation. In the final 63 days of 2023, use this pep talk on why you are worth transformation and how your mindset can be strengthened to do it! Also, I am so excited to share a follow up with Kate! Kate has been losing weight and changing her habits to transform all year, and her results are incredible. Finish 2023 strong!

A recent pancake lesson, my experience at a week-long meditation retreat with Dr Joe Dispenza, and are your priorities in line with what you want?

Brenda joins me on the podcast to talk about her experience of getting started on her journey back to her self, health, weight loss, and joy after life changes, weight regain and finding herself stuck in the mud. Her empowering story will show you how important it is to simply start, trust the process, and how much joy and confidence is found from day one. Brenda had a gastric sleeve just like me...

Dr Carla Caturia, Teen Coach, assistant principal and college professor, joins me in this episode to talk about teenagers! Nutrition, habits, how to talk to and listen and lead by example are just a few topics we chat about. You can find Dr Carla on Instagram @drcarlacaturia to follow and learn more strategies and encouragement from her on all things kids and teens and more! Dr Carla would love to...

The final wedding recap, plus compelling reasons why today needs to be your day one and how to implement it being your day one. I also digressed into a little narrative about the value of letting go of your victim flag.

Some of the idiosyncrasies of Minnesota, and the things that stood out on my recent trip. Plus some live reporting at the Minnesota State Fair with Roy. This episode is all fun so listen in and experience a little Minnesota with me.

A long and emotional sit down with my husband, Roy to hear the details of his life story. This is raw and unedited, in the hopes that you will hear the sincerity and emotion, and get a picture of the trajectory of his life. Over 48 years headed in one direction, repeating patterns that kept him stuck, before a hard pivot into a new direction, and the start of his second story. He tells his story s...

A freedom experience in Chicago, some of my favorite protein ideas and a deep dive into emotional eating. Why do you emotionally eat and how can you break the chains?

My next group program starts September 7 and it’s going to be a fully immersive intensive group “therapy-style” program. Freedom from food addiction, learning how to truly love on and invest in YOU and freedom from diet culture will be the focus. This is going to be life-changing and in this episode, I tell about why I chose this program to offer and who I am praying will be a part of it.

In this episode, I tell you all about my wedding, and then connect you to the power that you have to save yourself, one moment at a time. Also included is our wedding song.

Creating your future via meditation and visualization. The power of rehearsing your food behaviors and my 10 day cut for wedding weight loss.

Divorce. It’s not easy to navigate and sometimes we have horrible ex’s to get over. So how do you do it? How do you move on happily and take your life back? I share my experience on finding freedom over time and ideas on how you can indeed take your life and make it whatever you wish, ex or not.

My client, Kate is experiencing great success with consistently losing weight. In this episode, Kate talks about how she got started, how it’s going and what she’s learning in her first 10 weeks of individualized weight loss coaching with me. Listen and learn from Kate.

In this episode, I talk about meditation and learning about my brain and habits through Dr. Joe Dispenza’s work. His guided mediation and online course has been changing me, Roy and the energy in our household. www.doctorjoedispenza.com. Also in this episode, the top 8 reasons why you may not be losing weight plus how to address them.

Surround yourself with people who call you higher and make you better. A few of the life changing lessons I have learned from my best friend Amanda on her birthday - it’s wisdom we all need!

I want more joy in my 45th year of life and some of the things that will curate that make a nice little list to focus on. Maybe some of these things will resonate with you too.

A little recap about my Minnesota trip, my review of Shiny Happy People, and a list of the seven pillars of wisdom on which I frame my daily life.

A special guest this week, my friend and client Rachel Haugo! She found and read Allen Carr’s book, Quit Drinking Without Willpower - The EasyWay Method and it changed her life. This book applies also to any addiction, for me it’s sugar, and we talk about the book and it’s effect for her new sobriety and my relationship with sugar.

You don’t have to go on auto pilot doing the things that you continually wish that you could stop doing. You can take a moment and notice what you’re really getting out of the things that you do each day. See how long the enjoyment lasts and really assess if it’s something that you want to keep going in your life.

Instead of using energy to white knuckle your way away from being the old you, use your energy to mentally rehearse and prepare by creating the future you do want.

Free morning. Bask.

In this episode, I talk about the difference between fueling your body and simply eating for any other reason. I also dig into what foods to purchase at the grocery store for protein-based eating and what carbohydrates go well with it.

Your life will stay the same if you don’t allow your dreams some time in your imagination. Dream it. Visualize it. Then watch it come to you.

Nine minutes of hard work doesn’t accomplish a whole lot, but we sure think that nine minutes of extra sleep is worth delaying the start of our day. Defy the snooze button with logic.