Rebellious Wellness Lifestyle

Today’s episode has so many great one liners, ahas, takeaways. Listen if for all the goodness but I’ve listed the ones that grabbed me and I hope will give you something to think about. Dee Wooldrige’s bio is rich with highs and lows just like many of us who have lived many decades. Her life began as the 9th of 13 children. Because of this she felt, she said, “forgotten, invisible, fearful and unw...

Nadine Kelly is a retired pathologist, experienced yoga instructor, American Council of Exercise certified Health Coach and Senior Exercise Specialist, founder of YOGI M.D. and host of the YOGI M.D. Podcast. For years, she was a practicing physician in a thriving community hospital setting. But despite having reached what she thought was her ultimate goal, something was missing – a sense of true f...

You might think that a conversation with a genetics expert might be tough to follow or dry. My guest, Dr. Judy Ford , is both easy to understand and anything but dry. She is able to explain how all the pieces of the complex puzzle that is aging fit together: Telomeres, Senescence, Fat Metabolism, Mitochondria and Inflammation, and more. Here’s what you’ll hear in this episode: How a game of backya...

My guest, Annette Cashell, is a Restorative Exercise Specialist and Pilates instructor. You may recognize yourself in Annette. For many years she had a “real job” aka, sit at a desk for a long time every day. She took up Pilates to help with her lower back pain and did that for 16 years. “I still had issues with my wrist, with my knee, and eventually I had an issue with my neck. I had terrible chr...

Justin Benton and his wife are the founders and owners of 101CBD products. They created their Organic, Raw, Whole-Plant, True Full Spectrum CBDa oil to assist their child after a diagnosis of severe, regressive autism at age two. Their relentless search for a holistic solution led them to raw hemp as well as lifestyle changes. Having experienced a miracle for their family, they are on a mission to...

My guest today is Christina Eanes and get this, she was an FBI agent and trained other agents. How cool is that? Through more than fifteen years of public service with a California police department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Christina worked on an array of programs, including the FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program and the FBI’s Leadership Development Program, where he...

My guest today is Brenda Fredericks, mother and former middle school teacher turned Transformational Coach. She is the founder of Body Love, a method designed to show women how to create a new healthy relationship with their bodies so they can experience more joy, ease, and sexiness in their lives. As a body love skeptic myself Brenda’s boldness about her journey intrigued me. Here’s a bit of how...

My guest today, Claire Snowdon Darling, is a specialist in menopause and hormonal imbalances, adrenal issues and chronic fatigue and emotional issues such as anxiety and the connection between them all. She is the visionary founder and senior practitioner at Balanced Wellness, the UK’s leading Alternative Health Experts, and The College of Functional Wellness , a training School offering accredite...

My guest today, Deborah Ivanoff is a Master Business Coach, Certified Mediator, Speaker, Author & Facilitator. She helps people resolve the delicate “business in their heart” so they can “get back to their business” in the world. Her signature approach addresses the root challenges that keep high-achieving people from the success and fulfillment they know they deserve. With her “inner to outer...

Yes, you can control your thoughts in any situation Erin McCollough is a Certified Infinite Possibilities Trainer, studying under Mike Dooley. While getting certified, it became clear to her that her life’s purpose is to help businesspeople find joy, purpose, and meaning in their lives. She coaches and conducts her own trainings on changing the way we think so that we are in control of what we can...

Terry teaches adults and kids — imagine that — how to meditate. Our conversation was different than any others I’ve had about meditation in that, Terry makes the how to, simple. He has helped clients get out of unhealthy relationships and into healthy ones, launch their business, start their careers, and explore their inner spirituality by teaching them meditation and coaching them into fulfillmen...

Dr. Cynthia Green is a psychologist and a leading expert on cognitive wellness. We’re talking about our brains, girls. Cynthia has written six books on the topic and has been featured as a media guest of all the great places in the world to be included. I She even did a book with National Geographic on your best brain ever. Her company, Total Brain Health offers brain training tools for individual...

Dr. Angela Cortal is an Oregon based naturopath who has made it her mission to change how we approach and treat chronic joint pain by reversing the causes. WHAT? Reversing the causes of things like arthritis or chronic pain? Yes ma’am and without invasive surgery or prolonged treatments that keep you coming back for more rather than setting you free. We’re talking about reversing the causes of thi...

Jennifer O’Brien helps people talk about caregiving and end of life. She encourages compassionate, real conversation through her book, The Hospice Doctor’s Widow: A Journal , where she shares her story of caregiving through collages and writings. After years of caring for people with serious illness as a physician, Jennifer’s husband, Bob Lehmberg, was diagnosed with a stage IV, metastatic cancer....

My guest, Carl Reader, addresses the root causes of pain. He is a Functional Movement Coach, Personal Trainer and have a background in Exercise Physiology and Pilates. What this means for you is the possibility of exercising safely without risk of pain and injury or getting to the root cause of your pain so you get relief. I had a virtual session with Carl during which he corrected my posture gett...

For twenty-five years, Mary Shomon about that I have been out in the thyroid trenches fighting for decent care and awareness and doing what she can to help support her fellow thyroid patients. She has written 15 books and the majority of them are on thyroid and autoimmune health and hormonal health, many of them are New York Times best sellers. She took on the powers that were, back in the 90s but...

Dr. Bob Bollinger is a renown epidemiologist and currently a Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Medicine, and serves on the Advisory Team for the Johns Hopkins Precision Medicine Center of Excellence for COVID-19. He has more than 40 years of experience in international public health, clinical research, and education dealing with such global health pri...

Vedic astrology is the astrology of India. Prema and I talked about how this ancient Indian science can be used to support us on our journey physically, mentally and spiritually. There’s no one time of life that we feel more drawn to get readings or explore our personalities, what makes us tick, but midlife is certainly a time when women especially begin to look inward after decades of being outwa...

My guest is Dr. Joe Casciani. He has a 30-year history in long-term care as a psychologist and mental health, and an expert in mental health practices. He is most interested in the aging part, how the psychology of aging is applied and how we can age better . His new business is called Living to One Hundred Joe believes that successful aging is more about a mindset than we give that attention. “My...

Every woman worries about becoming old and frail, has shuddered to think they might experience that fall that changes everything when we break a hip. The way conventional wisdom says we should measure bone density is with a DEXA scan. And yes we should all get them at 50 for a baseline. But there’s a new test in town, and my guest Irma Jennings is going to tell you what it is and what it does. Sho...

Every thought we think and bite we take feeds us well or ill. Did you know that your thoughts, what media you consume, and what comestible food you eat all cause many of the same chemicals to be released in your body? If you listen for food metaphors in your day to day conversations, podcasts, even the books you read, you’ll realize we associate food and feeding with every aspect of life. The sign...

Food is more powerful than most people believe and we discuss how you can change your life and your health, one bite at a time. If we ate what our great grandparents ate, we would simplify the food thing. Kristen endured an entire decade of soul sucking events, cancer–hers and her mother’s, Alzheimer’s her dad’s–marriage challenges, overwork, under caring for herself, more wine, more coffee, feeli...