PATH Positive Approaches To Health

On this leg of the PATHPod journey Toni and Jenny head to Austin, Tx where they find Gustavo Padron! Gustavo is an amazing yoga and meditation teacher, a personal trainer and an author of the Grounded Practice journal. He is a healer in every sense of the word and uses breath, posture and the power of words to help his clients manifest their ideal self. He understands the power of going within and...

  Toni and Jenny are on the road again in the San Francisco Bay Area. This time they meet up with another old pal from Toni’s high school days – Alicia Guckenheimer. Alicia is an artist and childrens book author, a creative soul who has been creating art as early as she can remember with her father. Eight years ago she traded in her shoe career for the colorful chaos of the classroom where she tea...

Toni and Jenny head to Marin on this leg of the PATHPod road trip. They are over the moon about their conversation with Bonnie Wan, author of The Life Brief A Playbook For No-Regrets Living. It is no mistake that this episode is dropping the same day as the total solar eclipse. The event of the eclipse is such a beautiful metaphor for Bonnie’s book – The Life Brief is a practice of going within to...

The ladies of the PATHPod head to a new state for their second National Nutrition Month episode! They traveled all the way up to Boothbay, Maine to visit fellow dietitian Jenny Shea Rawn. Jenny recently finished her first cookbook, Costal Kitchen Nourishing Seafood Recipes for Everyday Cooking. The three of them had so much fun romping through the book and talking about their favorite recipes. As...

The PATHPod gals head down to Durham, North Carolina on this leg of the journey where they meet up with Judith Scharman Draughon, AKA, Judes or “The 12 Fix Dietitian”. Judes is a registered dietitian who works in the corporate wellness space inspiring businesses, organizations and groups to adopt a healthier lifestyle with group challenge programs. Her 12 Fixes program includes a book and workbook...

Toni and Jenny continue their 5 year anniversary celebration as they dig into their intention to Shift in 2024. The two of them have a conversation about what is behind the choice of Shift and what it means to each of them. They also take some time to unpack the last 5 years and the impact this podcast adventure has made on their lives. Of course, there is a lot of talk about connection and commun...

Toni and Jenny celebrate their 5th year of The PATH Pod during this 141st episode that is the first in a two-part celebration of this amazing milestone they certainly did not see coming! They felt like the best way to mark this date of February 12, the day their trailer first dropped in 2019 would be to deconstruct courage – the superpower they both had to call up when they decided to start a podc...

The ladies of the PATH Pod close out the first month of 2024 with a trip to Denver, Colorado and another conversation around “enoughness”. Toni and Jenny gab it up with Ally Rae Pesta. Ally is a 200-hour Certified Yoga Teacher, Certified Run Coach, Eating Disorder Recovery Coach, Published Author, Speaker and Advocate. Their conversation started with Ally’s Path to writing her book, Beyond My Body...

Toni and Jenny enter 2024 with a huge SHIFT which includes a conversation about being ENOUGH. The PATHPod heads back to a familiar place – St. Louis Park, Minnesota for this powerful discussion with JC Lippold. JC is a professional homemaker – holding space for others as a nationally renowned teacher of movement and mindset, community engager, social movement trailblazer and theater director. Thes...

Toni and Jenny meet up with this dynamic duo for a second time on their PATHPod journey. They last spoke with Deb Huber and Willow Older of Today I Noticed in February of 2021. The ladies of TIN have been up to quite a bit since then! They have continued their creative mindfulness practice and have turned their TIN’s into a beautiful book – Today I Noticed, A Little Book Of Mindfulness That Will C...

Toni and Jenny are on the road again! During this leg of the journey they head back to NYC for their second conversation with Natalie “Nat” Rizzo, the dynamic sports nutritionist who published her first cookbook earlier this year. In her book, Planted Performance, Easy Planted-Based Recipes, Meal Plans and Nutrition For All Athletes she dives into all things sports nutrition looking through a plan...

Toni is traveling solo once again but luckily, she does not have to travel far! She takes a little jaunt to San Jose and meets up with Wendy Neff, one half of the amazing duo who founded Fox Tale fermentation Project. Fox Tale is a passion project turned entrepreneurial dream of Wendy and her husband Felipe Bravo. Established in 2022, Fox Tale is a community-based café-brewery serving up unique &a...

The ladies of the PATHPod stay right at home on this episode of PATH Positive Approaches To Health. Toni and Jenny do a little unpacking of Food Is Medicine concepts as a follow up to their incredible Culinary Medicine episode with Dr. Sabrina Falquier. They share their paths to using the Food Is Medicine approach during their careers and how it has shaped and molded the way they practice nutritio...

  Toni travelled solo during this leg of the PATH Pod journey, taking a short jaunt down the west coast to SanDiego, CA. She had a lovely conversation with Dr. Sabrina Falquier, a board certified internal medicine, culinary medicine and lifestyle medicine physician who was a previous guest on the show in October of 2022. The two of them discussed Doctors+ Premium , a podcast Sabrina hosts on Apple...

Toni heads to Columbus, Ohio where she meets up with Jenny and their guest, Jenn Gebhart for part two of this August series on nervous system regulation. Jenn is a master facilitator for Everyday Mindfulness and Movements in the Columbus City Schools, offering well-being and self-care in education for staff and administrators. Jenn has also shared Urban Zen at The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center...

The ladies of the PATH Pod are on the road again this month for the first in a two-part series on nervous system regulation. On this leg of their journey, they head east to New Jersey and a conversation about pain, perfection and problem solving. They sit down with Dr. Kelly Kessler, Physical Therapist and Host of the Rewiring Health Podcast. Kelly tells the story of her Path, recovering from an e...

The ladies of the PATHPod stay south, heading from Greenville, SC to Atlanta, GA. In this latest episode they meet up with Candace Doby. Candace is an amazing author, podcast host, speaker and coach who works with organizations to create a culture of courage where employees perform at their highest potential. The three of them talk about the risk of taking action and the very real risk of NOT taki...

The ladies of the PATH Pod head down to Greenville, South Carolina and have a conversation with ADHD coach and owner of Current ADHD Coaching, Bri Plyler. These three ladies dig into ADHD – they talked through what ADHD is and is not, clearing up some misconceptions around the disorder. Bri shared the story of her Path - why she became an ADHD Coach and how her Instagram presence has become an inc...

The ladies of the PATH Pod stay put for this episode on mental health in honor of mental health awareness month. Toni and Jenny talk about mental health and share some statistics on the state of things in the US. Although this is not an official road trip, they do wind through the many journeys they have taken, focusing on the multiple conversations they have had which are steeped in mental health...

The ladies of the PATH Pod stay put for this episode on mental health in honor of mental health awareness month. Toni and Jenny talk about mental health and share some statistics on the state of things in the US. Although this is not an official road trip, they do wind through the many journeys they have taken, focusing on the multiple conversations they have had which are steeped in mental health...

The PATHPod ladies head to CHICAGO during this long (Buckle Up!) but incredible episode with the co-hosts of another amazing podcast, Popcorn Psychology. Toni and Jenny sit down with the ladies of Popcorn Psych – Hannah Espinoza and Brittney Brownfield. Hannah and Brittney, along with their third co-host, Ben Stover are the mental health therapists who host this insightful and helpful podcast. Pop...

Toni and Jenny are on the road again for their second road trip during National Nutrition Month! This time they find themselves in Cincinnati, OH with Lisa Cicciarello Andrews, AKA Nutrigirl. Lisa is a registered dietitian who enjoys eating and believes in balance, not restriction and she works hard to sing that song to the masses. The three of them have a conversation around impactful strategies...

Toni and Jenny pack their bags and head out on the road once again! This time they find themselves in Maryland with Registered Dietitian, Theresa Yosuico Stahl. Theresa is the author of I’m Full, Remindful Eating – Tips To Feel Great and Make Peace With Your Plate. Her wonderful book is packed with tools and strategies for eating well, changing lifestyle behavior and generally improving health &am...

The PATH Pod heads to Houston, TX for this super-informative episode where they meet up with Andrew Hollar who is Co-Founder of FIG, Food Is Good. FIG is an app that allows people with ingredient-based diets to easily seek out foods that safely fit into their lifestyle. Andrew and their team at FIG work to improve the quality of life for anyone who has a dietary restriction by unlocking the confus...

 The ladies of the PATHPod head south for another trip to New Orleans! They once again had the absolute pleasure of talking with Molly Kimball, nutrition journalist & registered dietitian. This time, the conversation was all about zero-proof cocktails and Molly’s new book Craft, The Eat Fit Guide To Zero-Proof Cocktails. Toni and Jenny gleaned so much from Molly and her work in this space. Mol...