Heartache, Health, and Healing

Today’s podcast guest is someone who has been a leading voice in nutrition and wellness for decades. Cherie Calbom, also known as The Juice Lady, is a nutritionist, author, speaker, and one of the pioneers behind the fresh juicing movement. She’s written 36 books with more than 3.5 million copies sold, including Juicing for Life , which helped millions of people better understand how nutrition can...

Today’s podcast guest is someone who helps people reconnect with something many of us have probably experienced at one point or another… that inner knowing or gut feeling we can’t always explain. Kate Saint Clair is a Human Intuition Expert, Psychic Medium, and Intuitive Advocate who has spent years helping people better understand and trust their intuition in a grounded and practical way. Born hi...

Today’s guest is someone who brings a really unique and compassionate perspective to conversations around grief, loss, and end-of-life care. Julie Wright Halbert is a death doula, end-of-life educator, and advocate for grief literacy whose work was deeply shaped by the sudden loss of her husband. After spending years working in public service and advocacy as a legislative counsel and national educ...

Today on the podcast, I’m talking with Allura Halliwell , a consciousness mentor and transformational guide who helps people reconnect with who they truly are. Her life shifted in a big way after a powerful experience at a meditation retreat in 2018, one that changed how she saw herself and the world around her. What followed was a deep inner awakening that led her into the work she does today. Al...

Today’s podcast guest is someone who brings a really unique blend of science, faith, and purpose to the work she does. Dr. Sarah Nasir is a dual board-certified physician in Family and Addiction Medicine, a speaker, coach, and someone who is deeply passionate about helping people break free from what’s been holding them back. Her work focuses on helping people move through things like shame, burno...

Today’s podcast guest is someone whose story really hits close to home for me. Kelly Edmondson is the founder of Timely Presence, a grief-informed advocate, and a nurse leader who, after losing her son in 2023, experienced firsthand how support often fades after the funeral—even though the grief doesn’t. And that’s something I can relate to. Being on my own grief journey over the past few years, I...

Today’s podcast guest is someone who brings both personal experience and deep knowledge to a topic that can feel really overwhelming for a lot of families. Theresa Lyons is a Yale-trained scientist, medical strategist, and autism parent who knew in her gut that something wasn’t right with her daughter—even when others told her everything was fine. After receiving an autism diagnosis, she found her...

What if the symptoms you’ve been dealing with—things like fatigue, anxiety, bloating, or brain fog—aren’t something you just have to live with? Today’s podcast guest, Dr. Chris Molda, knows what that feels like firsthand. Before helping others, he was on his own journey trying to figure out why he was dealing with autoimmune issues, chronic fatigue, digestive struggles, and hormone imbalances—and...

Today I get to bring back someone who’s been on the podcast before. Donna Kendrick is back, and this time we’re diving into her book and the work she’s doing to support women navigating one of the most challenging and emotional seasons of life—divorce. But this isn’t just about finances. This is about what happens when your life feels uncertain… when everything you thought was stable suddenly isn’...

Today’s podcast guest is someone I’m really excited to talk to, especially because this is an area I’m personally working on right now. Barbara McAfee is a master voice coach, author, speaker, and singer-songwriter who helps people communicate with more clarity, confidence, and authenticity. With over 30 years of experience in vocal coaching and a background in organizational development, she brin...

Today on the podcast, I’m talking with Desislava Dimitrova. Desi's journey into this work came from her own experience of feeling disconnected from herself and the life she was living. Like many of us, she spent years following paths that didn’t truly feel like her own before beginning the process of reconnecting with her inner voice and what really mattered to her. Through that journey, she f...

Today on the podcast, I’m talking with Donna Bond . Donna spent many years working as a marketing executive with the Ritz-Carlton, where on the outside it looked like she had everything—success, a strong career, and the life many people work toward. But inside, something felt missing. That realization led her to step in a completely new direction and study Spiritual Psychology, where she began exp...

Today on the podcast, I’m talking with Christa MacDonald , a hospice nurse, mother, and someone who has spent more than twenty years walking alongside people at the end of their lives. Through her work, Christa has witnessed some of the most honest moments we experience as humans — moments filled with love, fear, reflection, and deep connection. Over time, and through her own experiences with loss...

Today on the podcast, I’m talking with Dr. Nima Farshid . Dr. Nima’s journey into this work began at the age of 33, when he was told he had just two weeks to live. That moment sent him searching far beyond conventional medicine to understand what was really happening in his body. Through that search, he began studying the body’s energy and how stress, emotions, and imbalance can show up long befor...

Today on the podcast, I’m talking with Dr. Yi Song . Dr. Song was raised in Beijing in a long line of medical practitioners and later trained in pathology at Brown University before shifting her focus toward holistic and regenerative healing. She’s been running a holistic clinic in Boston for many years and later founded the Zenerchi Retreat in Colombia, where she works with advanced stem cell the...

Today on the podcast, I’m talking with Glenn W. Sturm . Glenn has lived many lives — he’s served in the U.S. military for over 30 years, built a career in law and education, and spent decades giving back through service and philanthropy. But alongside all of that, Glenn has also been living with incurable cancer for more than fifteen years. Rather than letting that define him, he’s used the experi...

Today on the podcast, I’m talking with Marilyn Raichle , author of Don’t Walk Away: A Care Partner’s Journey . Marilyn’s path into this work came through personal experience, when she became a caregiver for both of her parents as they were developing dementia — a role that changed the direction of her life and career. Along the way, Marilyn saw how creativity and the arts could bring connection an...

Today on the podcast, I’m talking with Peter McLaughlin , a certified hypnotherapist and life coach whose path into this work began after a life-changing leukemia diagnosis back in 2003. That experience led him to explore the connection between the mind, the body, and healing — and it completely changed the direction of his life. Peter’s work focuses on helping people heal old trauma and shift dee...

Today on the podcast, I’m talking with Jermaine Ee . Jermaine is a founder and storyteller who thinks a lot about how we spend our time, the work we do, and what we leave behind. His career has taken him through a lot of different paths, but it’s always come back to helping people think more intentionally about their lives and their futures. Right now, he’s building HeirLight , a modern will-makin...

Today on the podcast, I’m talking with Christine Trimpe , whose story began with a moment many of us can relate to — wanting to do something meaningful and realizing your body just won’t cooperate. While celebrating her 25th anniversary at Rocky Mountain National Park, Christine found herself unable to climb a mountain with her husband. At that time, she was carrying over 100 extra pounds along wi...

Today on the podcast, I’m talking with Nicole Frolick , a transformational healer who challenges the idea that healing needs to be a long, ongoing process. Nicole’s work is centered around helping people move out of constant inner work and into real-life change — the kind that shows up in their relationships, business, finances, and how they feel in their body. After spending years doing what many...

Today on the podcast, I’m talking with Phillip A. Wilson , or Phil, a lifelong learner whose path blends science, wellness, and personal transformation. Phil began his career as a mathematician, but an unexpected awakening experience in the early 1970s shifted the direction of his life and opened the door to a deeper exploration of health, energy, and well-being. For more than four decades, Phil h...

Today on the podcast, I’m talking with Elena Ruiz . Elena was born in Mexico and moved to San Diego about 25 years ago. She already had experience in payroll and HR, but starting over in a new country — and in a new language — meant rebuilding her career from scratch. Over time, Elena built a successful payroll and HR business, but what really pulled her in was helping people navigate hard situati...

Today on the podcast, I’m talking with Dr. Node Smith , a Canadian naturopathic doctor, author of The Witness & The Four Behaviors, and the founder of TEAL Holistic – Integral Health Solutions. Node helps people look beyond symptoms and understand what’s really going on, using health challenges as opportunities for growth and change. In his work, Node focuses on behavior change, getting to roo...

Today on the podcast, I’m talking with Christy Whitman , a teacher, coach, and two-time New York Times bestselling author who has spent over 25 years helping people create lives that feel more aligned and fulfilling. Even with success on the outside, Christy once found herself feeling stuck and disconnected — and that search for something more became the start of her own healing journey. That jour...