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Episode 123 Doing Everything Right…But Still Got Sick? How She Got Cancer at 34 Doing Everything 'Right What if your pain isn’t just physical but rooted in stress, stuck emotions, and silent survival habits? At 34, Shruti Sethi was a thriving fashion designer when a shocking stage 3 cancer diagnosis flipped her world upside down. She didn’t drink or smoke. She exercised. She thought she was “h...

Episode 122 Tired, Bloated & Ignored? It’s NOT Just Stress! Still Sick & Tired? It Could Be Your Thyroid (Even If Your Labs Are “Normal”) Is your fatigue, brain fog, bloating, or weight gain being brushed off as “just stress”? Or worse — your labs are coming back “normal” while you still feel anything but? In this powerful conversation, Healthy Habits & Lifestyle Coach Jovonnie sits do...

Episode 121 THIS Breath Trick Rewires Your Body in 90 Seconds Stress Isn’t the Enemy, Disconnection Is: Heal Through Breath, Not Burnout You’re doing everything right—yet still feel overwhelmed, anxious, and out of alignment. What if the missing piece isn’t another thing to do , but something to remember ? In this episode, Healthy Habits & Lifestyle Coach Jovonnie sits down with Raj Khedun, yo...

Episode 120 You’re Not Healing Because You Keep Playing It Safe Comfortable in Pain? Why You’re Stuck & Still Ignoring Your Body’s Cries for Help” Are you mistaking comfort for healing? In this powerful episode, Healthy Habits & Lifestyle Coach Jovonnie dives deep with Sophia on the sneaky ways comfort, people-pleasing, and ignoring symptoms are keeping women stuck in pain, inflammation, a...

Episode 119 You’re Not Broken. You’re Buried. Here’s the Truth About What’s Really Keeping You Stuck Have you ever felt like something was wrong with you—but couldn’t explain why? Tired all the time? Emotionally drained? Told your symptoms are “just in your head”? In this powerful episode, Healthy Habits & Lifestyle Coach Jovonnie sits down with Dr. Fred Moss, a former psychiatrist turned tran...

Episode 118 Food Guilt Is Stealing Your Life How to Stop Dieting & Start Living in Your Body Again Still obsessing over every bite—even though you know diets don’t work? In this powerful episode, Healthy Habits & Lifestyle Coach Jovonnie sits with certified nutrition coach Lisa Franz (53+ countries traveled!) shares how to break free from food guilt, stop yo-yo dieting, and start trusting...

Episode 117 Not Broken… Just Believing a Lie You’re Not Broken: How Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) Heals the Root Cause of Chronic Pain & Burnout What if the pain in your body isn’t a flaw—but a message? In this transformative episode, Healthy Habits & Lifestyle Coach Jovonnie sits down with Natalie Lund , certified RTT therapist and founder of The Lighthouse Therapist, to explore ho...

Episode 116 You’re Not Broken—Your Pain is Trying to Protect You Unmasking the Self: How Emotional Sobriety & Somatic Healing Set You Free What if the parts of you you’ve hidden—your triggers, your overwhelm, your emotional shutdowns—are actually your body’s way of keeping you safe? In this powerful conversation Healthy Habits & Lifestyle Coach Jovonnie sits with Natalie “NatNat” Bedard, a...

Episode 115 Tired. Stuck. Aging Fast? Here’s the Shift You Need Feeling Older or Just Out of Alignment? How to Reclaim Energy, Purpose & Health at Any Age Feeling like your best years are behind you? This episode will change everything. In this powerful conversation Healthy Habits & Lifestyle Coach Jovonnie with Longevity Strategist and Naturopath Allison Davis, we explore how your 40s, 50...

Episode 114 Is Coffee Making You Sick? Still Tired? How Coffee Might Be Quietly Sabotaging Your Hormones & Energy Feeling exhausted no matter how much you sleep or how "healthy" you eat? The culprit might be your caffeine habit. In this episode, Healthy Habits & Lifestyle Coach Jovonnie sits down with Steve Frazier—author of Release the Coffee Cuffs —to explore how caffeine can sil...

Episode 113 Feel Out of Control Around Food? This Is Why. Shame Isn’t Willpower: Why Emotional Eating Is Deeper Than You Think Ever feel like your food choices are sabotaging your healing—no matter how hard you try to stay on track? What if it’s not about discipline or willpower at all? In this episode, Healthy Habits & Lifestyle Coach Jovonnie sits down with Jessica Setnick , Eating Disorder...

Episode 112 Is This Why You’re Still Sick? Trauma Lives in Your Water? The Healing You Were Never Taught Have you ever felt like your healing was incomplete—like you’ve tried all the diets, supplements, and appointments, but something’s still off ? In this powerful conversation, Healthy Habits & Lifestyle Coach Jovonnie is joined by Heather-Ann Ferri, trauma-informed healer, author, and world...

Episode 111 Feeling Burnt Out but Doing Everything Right? High Achiever? Why Hustling Might Be Wrecking Your Hormones (and How to Fix It) Are you a high-achieving woman who’s constantly exhausted, bloated, moody, or struggling with sleep—even though you eat clean and do all the “right” things ? You’re not broken. You’re likely burned out… and your hormones are waving a red flag. In this empowering...

Episode 110 What If Everything You’ve Been Told About Healing... Is Wrong? Still in Pain? What Doctors Won’t Tell You About Cannabis & Pelvic Healing Still stuck in a cycle of chronic pelvic pain, trauma, or hormone imbalance? What if the relief you’ve been seeking isn’t more prescriptions—but something natural, powerful, and long misunderstood? In this empowering episode of Empowered Plates,...

Episode 109 Is It Really Your Fault? Or Just Your DNA? Unlocking Your DNA to Heal Naturally Have you ever wondered why diets , supplements, or workouts just don’t work for you like they do for others? The answer might be in your DNA.  In this episode, Healthy Habits Coach Jovonnie sits down with Len May—CEO of EndoDNA—to uncover how your genes hold the key to healing chronic conditions like fatigu...

Episode 108 Why Can’t I Heal? I’ve Tried Everything. Tried Everything and Still Not Healing? This Might Be Why… If you’ve tried therapy, diet changes, journaling, and mindset work—but your symptoms still linger—this episode might change everything. In this powerful conversation, Beatty Carmichael shares how 90% of emotional, mental, and even physical illnesses may have spiritual roots —not just me...

Episode 107 Still Think Shame Is Keeping You ‘Disciplined’? Shame Isn’t Helping You Heal — It’s Keeping You Stuck  Is your inner critic actually shame in disguise ? In this powerful conversation, Emma Lyons exposes how shame masquerades as humility and discipline—yet secretly fuels burnout, inflammation, self-abandonment, and nervous system dysregulation. If you're a high-achiever constantly p...

Episode 106 Why Your Skin Is Freaking Out  Skin Telling You Something? The Hormone-Skin Connection You Can’t Ignore in Midlife Are you tired of midlife skin changes, unexplained puffiness, or brain fog—but told it’s all “just aging”? This episode breaks that myth wide open. I’m joined by midlife vitality and hormone nutrition expert Alison Bladh , who shares how your skin is a mirror of your hormo...

Episode 105 Your Mind Won’t Stop? That’s the Point.  Think You’re Failing at Meditation? You’re Actually Closer Than You Think Are you “failing” at meditation—or just misunderstanding it? In this episode of Empowered Plates, Empowered Lives , we sit down with Jeff Patterson—martial artist and founder of The Yielding Warrior —to dismantle everything you thought meditation was supposed to be. You’ll...

Episode 104 Still Sick? Maybe It’s Not Your Genes—It’s Your Grocery List Food Is Medicine? The Doctor Who Reverses Chronic Illness With Her Fork Did you know that the food on your plate could be the real prescription you’ve been missing? Dr. Liz George, Family Physician and founder of the Healthy Eating Adventure, joins Jovonnie to reveal how nutrition—not medication—is reversing conditions like h...

Episode 103 Too Late to Start Healing? She Proves Otherwise… Ageless Vitality: How Mama Yoga Lost 60 Pounds & Reclaimed Her Power After 50 Still think it’s too late to get healthy, drop weight, or feel vibrant again? This episode will change your mind—and your life. At 61, Mama Yoga—coach, yogini, and community healer—has lost 60 pounds, transformed her health during menopause, and is thriving...

Episode 102 Why You Keep Eating—Even When You’re Not Hungry Still Binge Eating? Why Willpower Isn’t the Problem—It’s a Habit You Can Rewire You don’t need more willpower. You need to understand your brain. In this powerful episode, I’m joined by Amber Abila , Binge Eating Coach and host of Become a Confident Eater , to help you unlearn the shame, retrain your urges, and finally take your power bac...

Episode 101 What If Light Is the Reason You’re Still Sick? Still Tired, Even with a Healthy Routine? The Truth About Light, Hormones & Healing You’ve done the diets, the workouts, the supplements… but you still feel exhausted, inflamed, and stuck. Could your real problem be the light you live in? In this jaw-dropping episode, Quantum Health Coach Jason Yun reveals how sunlight—not food or fitn...

Episode 100 Your Energy Isn’t Gone. It’s Buried. Feeling Foggy & Fatigued? Here’s How to Reclaim Your Energy—Naturally Tired of being tired? In this episode, Vitality Coach Adrienne Simmons shares her rock-bottom-to-radiance story—revealing how to rebuild energy naturally from the inside out. Learn the real reason you're exhausted (even when you're doing “everything right”)—and the cel...

Episode 99 What If Your Breath Is Blocking Your Healing? Can’t Sleep? You’re More Disconnected Than You Think Can’t sleep, think clearly, or stop overreacting—even when you’re doing everything right? The problem might not be your routine... but your nervous system . In this episode of Empowered Plates Empowered Lives , breathwork expert and Special Forces vet Tim Thomas shares how unprocessed stre...