Make Time Podcast with Emma and Helen

🎙️On this episode of The Make Time Pod, Emma and Helen are joined by Dr. Meenal Agarwal, optometrist, health advocate, and host of the Uncover Your Eyes podcaar. It's easy to think of your eyes as an afterthought when it comes to health but focusing on your eyesight can be lifechanging. In a world where we spend hours looking at screens, Dr. Agarwal reminds us that taking care of our eyesight is k...

🎙️On this episode of The Make Time Pod, Emma and Helen are joined by Dr. Will Cole, a leading functional medicine expert who leads the first functional medicine telehealth center. Dr. Cole hosts The Art of Being Well, a popular wellness podcast that addresses the health issues people around the world struggle to heal like chronic inflammation, autoimmune disorders, and more. Dr. Cole is also a New...

🎙️ On this episode of The Make Time Pod, Emma and Helen are joined by Senada Greca, an elite personal trainer, fitness influencer, founder of the We Rise exercise app, and cofounder of Aonic supplements. Earlier in her life, Senada trained to achieve the slim aesthetic women are often pressured to maintain. When she cast aside society's expectations to "shrink" and focused on building strength, mu...

🎙️On this episode of The Make Time Pod, Emma and Helen are joined by Dr. Bayo, a family medicine doctor, health advocate and content creator. Dr. Bayo is the Medical Director for Saint Mary's Urgent Care Group and the Washoe County Sexual ASsault Response Team in Reno, Nevado. Beyond her clinical practice, Dr. Bayo is columnist for Katie Couric Media and the founder of the Beyond Clinical Walls po...

🎙️On this episode of The Make Time Pod , Emma and Helen ae joined by Jessamyn Stanley, a yoga teacher, writer, co-founder of The Underbelly wellness app, and content creator. Jessamyn teaches yoga and meditation around the world with an emphasis on body inclusivity, self acceptance, and self-love. In her yoga practices, she celebrates those who are too often left out of yoga's mainstream image.  J...

🎙️On this episode of The Make Time Pod , Emma and Helen are joined Dr. Florence Comite. Dr. Comite is a Yale University and National Institute of Health-trained endocrinologist who has pioneered precision and longevity medicine for more than two decades. She joins Make Time to talk about the unique changes women undergo in their thirties and how we can better understand our own biology as we age. ...

🎙️On this episode of The Make Time Pod , Emma and Helen are joined by Renee Keeps it Reel, a content creator who has used Instagram to build a community built on humor, honesty, and relatable content for busy moms and women around the world.  Renee talks with Emma and Helen about how to speak your mind with confidence, how honesty can strengthen our most important relationships, building a social...

🎙️ On this episode of The Make Time Pod, Emma and Helen are joined by Mollie Eastman, the founder of Sleep is a Skill, a company that optimizes people's sleep through behavioral change, technology, and accountability. Mollie was struck by a bad bout of insomnia while traveling internationally and while she sought help from doctors, supplements, and her own research, it soon escalated into chronic...

🎙️ On this episode of The Make Time Pod, Emma and Helen are joined by friends, founders and cohosts of the Remember Me podcast, Rachael Martinez and Maria Kent Beers. Maria and Rachael began as strangers, both coping with a parent who was diagnosed with Frontal Temporal Dementia. They found each other in online support group and then started a podcast, Remember Me, to generate awareness about deme...

🎙️ On this episode of The Make Time Pod, Emma and Helen are joined by Dr. Nicole Buerkens, the world's leading holistic child psychologist. Over her 25 year career, she's worked to provide parents with effective, research-based strategies to help children overcome anxiety, mood, and attention issues. All this work has also given her unique insight into how the challenges of technology-driven moder...

🎙️ On this episode of The Make Time Pod, Emma and Helen are joined by the incredible Ann Shoket, former Seventeen editor-in-chief, author of The Big Life, and now CEO of The Li.st, a community built on women lifting each other up. We got real about something that doesn't get talked about enough: loneliness. You may have heard about the "male loneliness epidemic," but women are feeling it too. Betw...

🎙️In this special episode of The Make Time Pod, Helen Christoni sits down with her dear friend and co-host, Emma Heming Willis, for an intimate conversation about Emma's brand-new book, The Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope, & Yourself on the Caregiving Path. Emma opens up about her personal experiences as a caregiver to her husband, Bruce Willis, while balancing life as a mother, entrepr...

🎙️ Join *Make Time* podcast hosts Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni as they look back at some of their favorite moments from season two. In the last few months, we've covered a lot of ground. We talked about how to support caregivers, learned some amazing flirting tips, tapped into our femininity, and found new ways to honor our grief. We prioritized our brain health by learning about clean b...

🎙️ Join *Make Time* podcast hosts Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni as they talk with Barri Leiner Grant, founder of The Memory Circle, about making time for grief.  Barri lost her mother in her early twenties and found herself dealing with loss alone. She decided to create the space she was craving by hosting events for "motherless daughters," eventually expanding this experience into The Me...

🎙️ Join *Make Time* podcast hosts Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni as they talk with Dr. Roxanne Pero about making time for clean beauty and health. After 12 years in traditional medicine as a practicing ob-gyn, Dr. Pero began exploring holistic health. She is now a Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, a medical speciality that uses therapuetic lifestyle interventions to tre...

🎙️ Join *Make Time* podcast hosts Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni as they talk with Jamie Graber, teacher, author, Moon lover, mind-shifter, and energy mover, about the life-changing power of meditation. Jamie, the former owner of Gingersnap's Organic, now runs Organically Jamie, a coaching practice where Jamie uses her experience in yoga, meditation, reiki, and manifesting to guide other w...

🎙️ Join *Make Time* podcast hosts Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni as they look back on 2024 and set intentions for 2025. For Emma, 2024 was the year she wrote The Unexpected Journey, a book for caregivers that hits bookshelves in 2025. Helen ran three World Major Marathons, that were epic!. Together, Emma and Helen honored their 2024 intention to have more fun by doing yoga with goats, visi...

🎙️ Join *Make Time* podcast hosts Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni as they talk with lifestyle influencer, fashion icon, and "vibrant living advocate" Patti Roberts, also known as @taskyourself on Instagram. They talk about Patti's attitude toward aging and fighting the "anti-aging" language that saturates the beauty and wellness space. Patti discusses the power of making time for gratitude...

🎙️ Join Make Time podcast hosts Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni as they sit down with award-winning writer, collaborator and ghostwriter, Michele Bender. From Yolanda Hadid's Memoir, Believe Me, to 2021 Nautilis Book Award winner, Curly Kids, The Handbook, Michele helps people from all walks of life bring their stories to the page. Michelle discusses the power daily writing can make in our...

🎙️ Join Make Time podcast hosts Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni as they sit down with the amazing Dr. Kellyann Niotis, a neurologist at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases of Florida who specializes in lowering risk  for brain disorders like Parkinson's, Lewy Body Dementia, and Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Niotis emphasizes that healthy brains are stimulated brains.. Keeping our minds...

🎙️ Join *Make Time* podcast hosts Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni as they sit down with Lauren Frances who is going to help us "Make time for Love" ." Lauren has a lot to teach us about the art of connection. She shares her tips for flirting, guidelines for successful online dating, strategies for finding connection and a weekly routine guaranteed to reignite intimacy in long-term relations...

🎙️ Join *Make Time* podcast hosts Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni as they sit down with Natalie Tran, Executive Director of the CAA Foundation and co-founder of I am a voter! and the Civic Alliance. It's so important that we all Make time to VOTE! This episode with Natalie reminds us that 2024 isn't just about the top job – Senate seats, House seats, and important state positions across the...

🎙️ Join Make Time Podcast hosts Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni as they sit down with advocate, educator, and Certified Dementia Practitioner, Ty Lewis. As a caregiver for her mother Gertrude, Ty has firsthand experience supporting a loved one through illness and aging. She's shared her personal experience and expertise with people around the world on Instagram @iamgertrudejordan. She knows...

🎙️ Join Make Time podcast hosts Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni as they chat with feminine movement coach Ariel Xenia. With her classical ballet background and 15+ years of helping women own their confidence, Ariel spills the secrets of feminine presence. We dive into slowing down, finding beauty in movement, and making space for everyday pleasure. Ariel's got actionable tips to help you re...

Join hosts Emma Heming Willis and Helen Christoni for the season finale of the Make Time podcast. In this special "Ask Us Anything" episode, Emma and Helen reflect on the season, share insights they've had along their own "Make Time" journey, and answer listener questions. They talk about where they focus their energy, how to make time for themselves amid busy schedules, the power of good naps and...