simply: health coaching

Listen in as Marc and I talk about how our mess can become our message, how one of our stressors in mission-driven work is the recognition that we hold other people's lives and livelihoods in our hands, and how trauma informs our choices of and in our work lives. bio Marc is a psychotherapist in private practice in Boulder, CO and the past President of the Four Corners Group Psychotherapy Society....

Where are you on your health journey—and are you perhaps making it more difficult than it needs to be? Join me and Carol Lee as we discuss our agency over our own health and energy, how taking a seasonal approach to our health can make the journey easier, how the phase of the moon can help or hurt our efforts to give up sugar, and how we can turn our health journey into a journey rather than a pro...

Listen in as Janis Isaman and I discuss habit change, supplements, productivity vs. pausing, the road back from burnout (the kind where even Savasana feels like it's just. too. much.) and the fact that our capacity to manage is limited to 100% of our energy on any given day. bio Janis Isaman, founder of My Body Couture, helps people feel better in their body. Like most business owners today, she s...

Please note that when Charlotte and I talk, we can get kind of potty-mouthed, so if you are listening with small kids around, you might want to put on some headphones! Charlotte has been through burnout—and recovery from it—and now serves up decluttering with a side of life coaching. Join us as we talk about her burnout story in a large higher education institution and a small nonprofit, the dark...

What's a possibilitator? Find out in this conversation with life coach Barb Klein, in which we cover that—and a lot more, including how women are prone to epic depletion because we are used to "passing" as being in control of our lives, what true self care is, and "the 4 Bs." bio The founder of Inspired Possibility, Barb Klein is a Possibilitator, a professional life coach, retreat leader, meditat...

Join Dr. Sue McCreadie and me for a conversation about head school vs. heart school, "eating acronyms," why prescriptive diets are like an ill-fitting suit of clothes while eating for your genetics is like being in a dance with your body, and the simplest definition I've ever heard for methylation. bio Dr. Sue is a board-certified pediatric physician and wellness expert with two decades of experie...

When life is hard, how is it that poking people with needles is actually a gentle form of medicine, and what exactly is acupuncture without needles?!? Join my friend and acupuncturist Melea Alexander as we dive into a new definition of the modality she practices, how she invites women back into their bodies as a first step toward reversing burnout, and how women will finally be able to understand...

Want to feel like you're in your twenties again? You need to talk to my friend Justine Altman, who is the Primary Health Ninja at Journey to Vitality! Listen in to our conversation about how much sleep we really need as adults, bedtime routines, functional testing, gut health and so. much. more. bio Justine is the Owner + Primary Health Ninja at Journey to Vitality. She helps people who want to fe...

Join Jhoanny Perez and me as we talk about burning out in the food + beverage and NGO world—and how community is a key component of reversing and preventing burnout, especially in women. bio Jhoanny Perez is a Dominican immigrant Latina woman who teaches women and their families how to create the restaurant / food business they always dreamed of. She helped her mother open three now 7-figure resta...

Hold onto your hats for this conversation—try to keep up as my friend Jack Perez and I cover fertility + utility, Bill Gates, MacKenzie Scott, women-led countries + the pandemic, boomerang children, and why women 40+ need to MAKE. SOME. NOISE. bio Through Kuel Life, an online platform that she founded in 2017, Perez champions change, redefining modern midlife for women through curated content and...

Join me in welcoming Bindi Heit to the podcast—all the way from Brisbane, Australia! Bindi talks about the severe burnout she experienced, her recovery, and how she's come back stronger than ever! Along the way, she drops a lot of great nuggets we can pick up and use for our own health journeys. bio Bindi Heit is a digital broadcasting specialist, delivering podcast production and publication serv...

I learned a lot of new vocabulary words from Arlene Santiago, including "Motor Control Restoration" and "proprioception"—and you know I love new words! Join us as we discuss what they mean—and detour to talk about hydration, butterbeer ice cream, what it feels like when you find your calling, and why sometimes it's so important to listen to that little voice in your head. bio Arlene Santiago is a...

Dr. Nisha Chellam talks about burning out, being a "recovering physician," and rediscovering the joy of practicing in functional medicine. We dive into the two questions that guide functional medicine, chronic caregiving and living for others, keeping up with the Joneses, what we pretend not to know, and the one addiction she recommends we develop. Get ready to be asked a lot of really hard questi...

Join me and Transformational Life Coach Cherisa Allen for a conversation about moving from stagnation to activation—along the way, we talk about comparison (to ourselves and others, for positive and negative purposes), what happens when women pass through the fire, and how "No" really can come across as "Yes." bio Cherisa Allen is a proud native of Ypsilanti, Michigan. As the oldest of eight child...

AaAaAhHH! (That's the sound of me fangirling!) I discovered Rusty Stahl and Fund the People when I was doing research on funding health coaching programs for women burning out in mission-driven work, and I am so excited that he agreed to come onto the podcast and discuss his work in promoting "talent investment" rather than "program investment." Rusty walks us through the nonprofit starvation cycl...

Join me for a conversation with Chrissy Kyles, who works in higher education in career services—and tries to get her students to start their work life in alignment so they can prevent burnout down the line. Chrissy is a Higher Education professional with almost 4 years of experience in Student Affairs. She currently works in Career Services full-time by day, but has also worked in a federally fund...

Fran is a fellow health coach (and much more!), and we cover a lot of ground in this conversation—from rappelling off a high-rise to the feminine wound to being happy vs. being right to alpaca farming!?! From radio host, voice-over talent, public radio development director, “domestic goddess” (at-home mother of four), alpaca farmer (!), yoga teacher, health coach, workshop/retreat facilitator, to...

Genesis A-MAH-riss Kemp is a wife, sister, and creative content writer, the author of Chocolate Drop in Corporate America, the cohost of the Progression over Perfection podcast, and a Child of God. She is a professional who now knows what her purpose in life is: it is not to sit down, muzzle her mouth, and continually let people get over on her. Join us as we talk about what it feels like to be "a...

Are you a woman burning out in mission-driven work? Are you familiar with the Enneagram? If so, this week’s episode—actually this week's and next week's—are just for you. I’m chatting with my friend Stephanie Blackburn Freeth of Adaptive Alternatives, LLC in a special 2-part series on Burnout and the Enneagram. In last week's episode, we talked about how burnout shows up for each of the 9 types; t...

Are you a woman burning out in mission-driven work? Are you familiar with the Enneagram? If so, this week’s episode—actually the next two weeks’—are just for you. I’m chatting with my friend Stephanie Blackburn Freeth of Adaptive Alternatives, LLC in a special 2-part series on Burnout and the Enneagram. In this episode, we’re talking about how burnout shows up for each of the 9 types; next week, w...

Community leader Yodit Mesfin Johnson (she/her) identifies as a Momma, a Black feminist, a race and gender justice facilitator, CEO at NEW.org and founder of Black Men Read, and has been working at the intersections of racial justice and liberatory practices for women and black, indigenous, and other people of color for nearly two decades. Join me as Yodit takes the burnout conversation to a whole...

Cris Greer is a student of the world, finding her own path and helping others along the way. She has been using Meditation, Yoga, Crystal Healing, Reiki, and aromatherapy to light her way for almost 20 years. Her love of books has helped Cris form her beliefs and discover different modalities by taking what resonates with her from every book she reads. When Cris isn't cuddled up at home with her d...

Want to know more about making healthy food choices—and maybe doing a reset or elimination diet? Meet some dear friends of mine from my SoCal days—Peggy Curry, one of my mentors for all things food, and her daughter Megan! Megs + Pegs are the mother-daughter duo behind Curry Girls Kitchen, a holistic health + wellness coaching platform. They created Curry Girls Kitchen as a space where women in an...

Diandra lives in Detroit and is a nonprofit program manager, graduate student, yoga teacher, and cat mom. Join us as we talk about her work with Volunteers of America, where she supports the Health Professions Opportunity Grant program and has a front-row seat not only to what burnout is like as a nonprofiteer but also how it feels to support those facing burnout on the front lines of the pandemic...

from the archives This interview with Mary Ceccanese comes from the archives of the (Sorta) Secret Sisterhood, a membership site I ran for women 40+ and which has since migrated to a private Facebook group . Because so many of the practitioners I interviewed there also support women in burnout, I'm repurposing many of these excellent Q+As on the podcast! This interview took place in November of 20...