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Today, Ryan Mustone, manager and co-owner of Nutrition stop joins me and helps us understand the topic of CBD. This is a difficult topic that is hotly debated, and I wanted to take a few minutes to address it from the ground level of understanding. Ryan does an excellent job describing what CBD is and how it can provide a natural alternative to many of today's common alignments.    Ryan walks...

Today, Jocelyn Williams, M.A.Ed. and Developmental Movement Consultant, comes on the podcast and shares with us about a technique that offers hope by helping retrain the brain through a specific neurodevelopmental movement system. She teaches us about how the brain develops from the bottom up. Jocelyn encourages us to remember "tummy all the time" and get our babies on their tummies as m...

Today, Lisa Maddock, a juice plus educator joins me on the podcast and shares her journey of trauma from a broken home and substance abuse at an early age as a coping mechanism to a successful wife, mother, and businesswoman.  Lisa was able to stay clean while she was pregnant and nursing her children but admits that the pull as always there. Over the years she found herself yo-yoing back and fort...

Today, Terri Drury, owner of Above & Beyond Organizing, joins me on the podcast. She discusses briefly her journey into motherhood but goes on to explain all things home organization. Terri talks about removing the emotion from organization and "just do what you have do." She explains to us that the easiest areas to accumulate clutter are those hidden areas that have no specific visi...

Today, Sharon Blue, owner of Blue Empress Tarot joins me on the podcast and talks all things safe space. We discuss the definition of a safe space, why it may feel hard as an adult to figure out how to develop one in your household, and she gives us practical tips of how she creates that environment in her own house.  Sharon overcame an extremely hard childhood and has realized her passion is to n...

Today, Steph Darst, owner of FitCrew. Online, joins me on the podcast and shares her story of how God healed her disordered eating that started at the age of 9 and found freedom through her faith with her health and fitness. She went from restricting her calories to 1000 or less a day to no longer even owning a scale. Steph will inspire you that working out to just look better on the outside leave...

Today, Amanda Shaheen, joins me on the podcast and shares about her and her daughter's stay in the hospital after she was delivered 6+ weeks premature. After her water broke in the middle of the night, she rushed to the hospital, and it seemed like things were normal until they realized the umbilical cord was around her neck and it became urgent that she was delivered quickly. It went downhil...

Today, Elizabeth Lowder, MSW, LCSW, Founder + Lead Therapist at Sage Tree Therapy LLC, joins me on the podcast and we discuss the deep topic of family of origin. Elizabeth does an incredible job of breaking down this topic and helping us understand that how we were raised is a huge source of information. As a therapist, understanding a clients childhood gives her insight about how they might react...

Today, Sarah Hall, joins me on the podcast and shares about her journey from being diagnosed with breast cancer during the third trimester of pregnancy with her daughter, to treatment, to the anxiety that started after all the treatment was completed. She learned that even when you think you are living a healthy life if you are not making sure you manage what is causing your stress you will never...

Today, Ashley McVey, owner of Hazel and Blues boutique joins me on the podcast and share about her difficult journey through postpartum depression and anxiety. As a first-time mother it is difficult to know what to expect and easy to get overwhelmed with the task of caring for this small child that needs total care. Ashley wasn't even aware they what she was feeling wasn't normal and it...

Today, Rosie Makinney, founder of fight for love ministries comes on the podcast and shares about her inspiration to start talking about the destruction pornography addiction causes in marriage and how to help women find support and healing. She discovered early in her marriage that her husband was struggling with a pornography addiction and through much counseling, group work, and hard work their...

Today, I am joined by Candace Kluba, a Self-Love and Well Being Coach. Shares about her own journey to self-love, talking about how she learned to sit with herself and used that time to work through all the reasons she hated her body. It was in those times of being still that she was able to find healing and true love for how her body was created. Cadence explains that self-love starts with gratit...

Today, Emma Eppard, comes on the podcast and shares about her and her son's journey as he was diagnosed with severe autism as a toddler. She quickly started arming herself with knowledge and prepared both herself and her son for sucess. Listen as she talks about changing their diet, shifting expectations, and finding her people. Emma will inspire and encourage you with all of her wisdom and d...

Today, Christy Neal, author and founder of "Choose Different" comes on the podcast to discuss the circumstances the lead to her affair and all the resulting consequences. She can look back and see the choices that lead her there and was inspired to start her ministry encouraging women to fight for their family, to fight for their children, and to fight for their marriage. Christy struggl...

Today, Kelcey Gropp, joins me on the podcast to discuss her journey from believing that cooking was a waste of time to realizing that a healthy diet was necessary for all areas of her life. At the age of 35 she developed adrenal fatigue resulting in severe fatigue, depression, and anxiety. Kelcey realized the value and importance of cleaning up her diet for her health and the health of her family....

Today, Caroline Raposo, licensed professional counselor joins me on the podcast and explains how the treatment "Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR)" originated and how beneficial it can be for helping individual who are struggling with any type of trauma. Caorline did a session with me and let me tell you it truly blew me away.  She had me feeling all the feels, but I proces...

Today, Tina Asher, founder of Build U Up Consulting joins me on the podcast. Tina shares about her journey from highly successful businesswomen who had lost her identity, to a business owner who is now following her purpose. She tells us about how she had become driven to find fulfillment outside of her home and that ultimately caused her marriage to crumble. After a long dark battle, she was able...

Today, Angel Magasano, Founder and CEO of Little Black Book joins me to discuss her organization's origin story and the importance of visualization for goal setting.  Angel shares her incredible journey of not only starting LBB, but how she had a pivotal decision point whether to persevere during a difficult stage of her life or return to the corporate world. She stayed the course, and her or...

Today Kristen Tippet joins me on the podcast and discusses her family's experience with the NICU after her youngest son had low blood sugar after birth. She and her partner found several gaps throughout their stay including advocacy, expectations, communication barriers, and wishing they had someone else to talk to about what was going on with their son. After 22 days they graduated from the...

Today, Tami McCandlish joins me on the podcast and shares her painful story of bullying from an early age and how it intensified in her senior year of high school causing her to ultimately petition to do school from home. She shares how at that time the administration told her there was nothing they could do for invisible actions. Even after high school Tami continued to struggle making connection...

Today, Sarah Weeger, founder of Hey Weegs a greeting card company that makes cards for real life joins me on the podcast to talk about her journey through anxiety and depression. Her anxiety started in her 7 month of pregnancy with insomnia and was amplified by the birth of her daughter. She looks back an reflects that although it wasn't her daughter job, that is what got her out of bed every...

Today, Paula Mosher Wallace, author and president of Bloom in The Dark, a ministry teaching healing strategies 4 life joins us on the podcast. We begin our conversation hearing how Paula's faith and past trauma inspired her to start building a place that removes the shame and victim stigma often associated with recovery and helps individuals realize hope and healing is possible. Bloom is the...

Today Katelynn Scannell MA, PLPC, NCC joins us on the podcast and shares with us about her journey into motherhood. She had an unexpected pregnancy and started her journey into motherhood as a single mother. Katelynn tells us about how she had been prepared for the delivery, but when she went home alone she began struggling with postpartum depression and anxiety. She talks about the importance her...

Today Dr. Robin Murray joins us on the podcast and shares about her journey into motherhood later in life and its impact on her as she navigates through the different stages of her kids childhood. Robin also shares with us about her passion topic she teaches to her Nursing students. . .civility. She is a firm believer that nothing will ever change if you don't start from the bottom up. Learni...

Stephanie Winslow, Author of Ascent to Hope: The Rugged Climb From Fear To Faith, joins us on the podcast and shares the story of her brother's addiction to alcohol and her lessons in hope, faith, and gratitude. She talks about how she tried to "fix" her brother and ended up driving a wedge between the two of them. It took multiple God moments for her to realize that her brother&apo...