PATH Positive Approaches To Health

To continue their celebration of the New Year, Toni and Jenny take a trip up to Cleveland, Ohio to visit their new friend and colleague Anthony Beard. Anthony is a Registered Dietitian with a vast array of personal and professional experiences, including clinical, food service and community nutrition. His private practice focuses on but is not limited to, African American families. By targeting th...

The ladies of the PATH Pod kick off 2023 by having a conversation around POSITIVE, can-do behaviors to engage in as we start the new year. Instead of the focus being on goal setting and outcomes, the two of them talk about strategies that are focused on behaviors we can control and how to weave these into our current lifestyle. They provide many resources if something piques interest for further e...

No road trip for the last episode of the year – just a conversation between The PATH Podcast co-hosts, Toni Toledo and Jenny Pitcher. They reflect on the year and the episodes that stood out to them for various reasons. The two of them share what they have learned from and about their guests and each other during this extended road trip that is now going on 6 years. Lastly, they talk about their h...

Toni and Jenny head up to Canada to talk with another duo who live in the nutrition & psychology space.  Dr. Colleen Cannon and Wendy Shah, RD founded Craving Change, Inc in 2008. Craving Change is a licensed cognitive-behavioral program for emotional eating. This transformative program digs in to the why, what and how along with what it takes to maintain the practice. The four of them have a...

Toni and Jenny head to Phoenix on this leg of the PATH Pod road trip. They meet up with Joshua Becker, author of Things That Matter: Overcoming Distractions to Pursue a More Meaningful Life. Joshua shares his incredible story of happiness and purpose that lead him to engage in this life-changing work. In his latest book, he shares the eight common distractions to a meaningful and no-regrets life....

During this episode, the ladies of the PATHPod head to Reno, NV where they connected with Bridget Wood, a registered dietitian nutritionist, certified diabetes care and education specialist, recipe developer, and media dietitian living with type one diabetes. The three of them talked a lot about inclusivity and belonging, focusing on person-first language and why it is so important for healthcare...

The PATHPod has been on the road trip of a lifetime during this episode. They are in National City, CA near the southern border between California and Mexico. National City is home to Olivewood Gardens, an interactive, indoor-outdoor classroom for children and adults from around San Diego County. Olivewood Gardens is the birthplace of the Cooking For Salud program and the graduates of that program...

The ladies of The PATH Pod are on the road again! This week they head back up to the pacific northwest to spend time with their friend Ginger Hultin. They first met Ginger on episode 70 during one of their road trips to Seattle. That conversation focused on meal planning and her book, The Anti-Inflammatory Diet Meal Prep Cookbook. This conversation revolved around her new e-book, Meal Prep For Wei...

The PATHPod Gals head to Pittsburgh, PA on their latest journey to meet up with Laura Ali, Registered Dietitian and author of the Mind Diet For Two. They jump right into the MIND diet, or the Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay diet. Although it is a mouthful, Laura was able to break it down very easily and concisely, explaining how following this type of eating plan even j...

Toni and Jenny make a road trip once again visiting our neighbor to the north – Toronto, Canada. They were able to spend some time with pal of the PATHPod, Andy De Santis. Andy was on the Pod back in December of 2020 to talk about using humor as a means of communicating nutrition information. He is back at it again – with more humor and another cookbook! This time it is all about Fatty Liver, an i...

The Ladies of the PATHPod are on the road again headed south to Atlanta, GA. During this road trip they take a deep dive into the world of Food Is Medicine with Registered Dietitian Kristen Avera. Kristen works for Open Hand Atlanta as the Nutrition Services Coordinator, providing group nutrition education as well as medical nutrition therapy to a variety of populations throughout the metro Atlant...

The ladies of the PATHPod head west once again, finding themselves in LA talking with an amazing researcher and clinician. Dr. David Wiss is a Registered Dietitian who founded Nutrition In Recovery, a group practice of RDNs specializing in the treatment of eating and substance use disorders in 2013. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) in 2022 by investigating the links between adverse...

Toni and Jenny of The PATHPod head out on the road again, this time making a beauTEAful stop in Arlington, VA to talk to the Minister of Commerce and Enlightenment at Republic of Tea, Kristina Richens Tucker. Kristina shares her vast knowledge about Republic of Tea, the mythical place she has been a citizen of since the 1990’s and defected to in 2003. Since that time, she has been steeped in Camel...

The PATHPod gals are traveling across the globe to talk with cook, writer and vegelante, Alice Zaslavsky. Alice has been shaking things up down under in her hometown of Melbourne for the last decade plus. The outcome of all that moving and shaking has been the incredible debut of her cookbook, In Praise of Veg. The PATHPod feels like they struck gold connecting with Alice and promoting her beautif...

Toni and Jenny continue their road trip, this time landing in Mt. Vernon, Ohio a little town northeast of Columbus. They find themselves with Benji Ballmer, the Dave Matthew’s-loving Dad & owner of YellowBird Foodshed. Yellowbird is an innovative food company that works with over 100 food growers and producers from Ohio to bring the food they grow and harvest to the surrounding community. Some...

Toni & Jenny take a quick road trip to the city of San Francisco to meet up with Linda Shiue - physician, chef & culinary medicine powerhouse! The three of them have a conversation about Linda’s Path and how she came to write an incredible cookbook and culinary resource - Spicebox Kitchen. Not only is Linda an amazing creative, she’s a scientist and has melded those two worlds together in...

The PATHPod ladies head to Florida for the first time in this episode that is steeped in resilience and purpose. They spend some time in Pensacola talking to Toni’s dear friend from college, Mindi Malone. Mindi is a spunky little go-getter with some serious strength, physically and emotionally. She shares the story of her path and how that lead her to a passion for racing. She has participated in...

The ladies of the PATH Pod head to beautiful Santa Barbara, CA on their next leg of the PATH journey. They sit down with entrepreneur and innovator, Ivan Pelly of IvanBar to talk all about the delicious nut and seed bars he has created. Ivan developed his bars out of a specific need – to keep himself well-nourished and fueled to support his active lifestyle. A bunch of people took notice and Ivan,...

Toni and Jenny head back out on the road and find themselves in Utah for a delightful visit with Annika Weeks. Anni is a Nutrition and Dietetic Technician, Registered, or as she likes to call herself, a Digital Diet Tech! She has created a unique business that combines her technical skills with her creative experience to help health professionals enhance their online presence. As a natural connect...

Jenny actually hops on a plane to visit Toni and the PATHPod ladies have a quick conversational "debrief" about the trip. They chat about the surreal nature of seeing each other after 2 years apart and how it feels to be back in the world again. The two of them have a lot to unpack and discover as they talk through the wonderful time they were able to spend together.

Toni and Jenny travel around the globe in this episode that spans New Zealand to London to Orange County, CA. During this epic trip they nerd out with food and biomedical sciences researcher Natalie Paterson. Natalie explains her path, which started in New Zealand where she was inspired by her Māori upbringing to explore the value of growing your own food. She then found herself in London and saw...

The ladies of the PATHPod take another trip to NYC – this time to Manhattan to meet with chef and Registered Dietitian Abbie Gellman. Abbie is all about the taste and their discussion is around making healthy food that tastes good, or as Abbie says – “Scrumptious – both healthy and hella good!” Man, does she deliver! She saw this need to bridge the worlds of health and food early in her dietetic c...

Toni and Jenny mix it up on this episode – the tables are turned as Toni’s dear friend and Pal of the Pod, Joel Giullian interviews the gals of the PATH Pod for this 100th episode!! They reminisce about the first few years of Positive Approaches To Health, their feelings of trepidation starting the podcast and the incredible connection and support they continue to feel from the PATH Pod community....

The PATH Pod ladies head up to San Francisco to meet yet another incredible human who inhabits that lovely little city. During this episode they have the absolute pleasure of talking with Erin Gordon, author of Peeps, a beautifully written story of Meg, a 51-year-old podcaster who’s spent her life afraid of “what ifs.” Toni and Jenny saw so many parallels to the PATH podcast and their own lives wh...

The PATH Pod gals continue their jaunt on the east coast, visiting Green Brook, New Jersey during this episode where they run into Lauren Harris-Pincus. Lauren is a nutrition communications specialist, author, speaker, spokesperson, corporate consultant, and registered dietitian in private practice. She is the founder and owner of Nutrition Starring YOU, LLC where she specializes in weight managem...