The Green Living Now Podcast

If you switched from conventional liquid laundry detergent to natural pods or strips thinking you made a cleaner choice... you might want to look closer at what that dissolvable film is actually made of. In this episode, I sit down with the founder of a zero-waste refill store, Janette Spiezio, to get into it, plus her vision for what sustainable living actually looks like. We also get into: • Why...

She spent years as a fitness and nutrition coach watching women do everything right: clean diet, regular exercise, healthy habits, and still feel terrible. Exhausted. Bloated. Moody. Cycles that hurt. Libido gone. And doctor after doctor telling them it was normal. Then it happened to her. Tierra Duncan, author of The Birth Control Illusion, shares her own journey through endometriosis, a hormonal...

I thought organic cotton was safe...until this interview. I've spent years helping people reduce their toxic load — in their kitchens, their cleaning products, their food. But, what Courtney shared really surprised me. Most of us who are paying attention to what goes in our bodies. But, we don't necessarily pay attention to the clothes we wear. Some of us buy organic cotton. We read labels...

Grocery prices are up 32% since the pandemic — and they're not done climbing. So why are most of us still walking into stores and just hoping for the best? Andy Elwood, founder of the free app Stretch Groceries, thinks there's a better way. And some of what he's learned building it will make you look at your grocery habits very differently. Andy's been deep inside the grocery indus...

What if the reason you can't heal has nothing to do with your body? Lisa Schermerhorn has bent rebar with her throat, walked 40 feet of red-hot coals, and watched a client's blood change under a microscope during a remote healing session. But what she does with the subconscious mind might be the most radical thing of all. In this conversation we get into why the symptom you've been tre...

What if the answer to feeling better isn't adding more — it's asking better questions first? Veronique Ory is a yoga teacher, author, and autoimmune disease survivor who spent years fighting her body before she learned to listen to it. As the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, she also understands something most wellness conversations skip, that what we carry in our bodies isn't alw...

You've seen the doctors; you've run the tests. And the answer is always the same: "Everything looks normal." But you're exhausted, inflamed and you're not bouncing back. And nobody can tell you why. This episode is for anyone who suspects their body is trying to tell them something that conventional medicine keeps missing. Dr. Jess Armine is a healthcare provider with 50...

Most detox advice is either too extreme, too vague, or just plain wrong. In this episode, naturopathic doctor Jen Mann breaks down the 3-step framework she uses with her patients to detox safely and effectively — starting with what your body already knows how to do. Dr. Jen was told her own labs were "normal" while suffering from chronic fatigue, brain fog, and digestive issues. That fru...

What if your feet could tell a practitioner everything that's going wrong in your body: your inflammation, your grief, your parasites, your dehydration, before you said a word? Foot zoning is an ancient healing practice that goes far deeper than reflexology, and most people in the US have never heard of it. In this episode, I sit down with certified foot zone therapist, Annemarie, who trained...

What if your body is still carrying every relationship that never got closure — and that weight is quietly driving your anxiety, your symptoms, and your inability to move forward? Dr. Adam Suzman spent 25 years as a homeopathic doctor before developing something he'd never encountered in any medical literature: layered frequency remedies designed not to treat symptoms, but to finish unfinished...

This week I'm also doing something a little different. My scheduled guest had to cancel, and rather than skip a week I'm sharing a conversation I had with my longtime friend Lisa Schermerhorn — someone who has known my work for a decade. Sometimes the most honest conversations happen when nobody's preparing talking points. This is one of those. What would you do if you found out that s...

Do you think you know what "natural fiber" means? After this episode, you'll think again. I did. Stephanie Gross has been inside the textile industry for 18 years, and what she knows about bamboo, conventional cotton, and a dozen other fabrics will change how you shop forever. Stephanie is the founder of Bumby Wool and one of Canada's largest textile manufacturers. She started he...

If you're a woman over 45 and you've ever stood in the skincare aisle wondering what to actually trust, this episode will change how you shop. Amy sits down with holistic esthetician Lynn Laporte, who has spent decades working with sensitive and compromised skin. What Lynn shares about everyday products — including ones marketed as natural — might surprise you. She also walks through exact...

If you're paying attention to what's happening in the world right now, overwhelm isn't a weakness, it's almost inevitable. But here's what most people don't realize: chronic overwhelm doesn't just feel bad. It actively gets in the way of making good decisions, taking meaningful action, and even hearing what your own body is trying to tell you. In this conversation I sit...

At 48, Cindy nearly died after a reaction that left her body in complete shutdown. Eight months later her liver enzymes were through the roof. Doctors were stumped. What she eventually discovered had nothing to do with finding the right medication or elimination diet. It pointed to something most people are never taught to look for. She spent 34 years being treated for symptoms. What changed every...

Many people have tried tapping after watching a quick video online… and wondered why it helped a little — but didn’t fully clear the emotion. In this episode of the Green Living Now Podcast, Amy talks with Sophia Torrini about clinical EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) — a structured approach to tapping that has been studied in hundreds of clinical trials and used by practitioners to help people...

I raised my daughter on organic food, in a nontoxic home, with no pharmaceuticals. I did everything right. And then she got a brain tumor. This is the episode I've never recorded before. It's my full origin story — the real reason Green Living Now exists. The raw, unfiltered truth about what it means to fight for your child inside a system that wasn't built to protect her — and what th...

Why am I suddenly so sensitive to fragrance? Can personal care products cause inflammation? And what actually contributes to scalp inflammation and hair loss? In this episode of Green Living Now, I sit down with Phyllis Benstein to talk about fragrance sensitivity, toxic ingredients in hair products, stress-related hair loss, and how inflammation may be connected to what you’re putting on your sca...

What should have been a simple road trip turned into something else entirely. That experience opened up a much bigger conversation about electric vehicles, environmental trade-offs, and how rarely we’re taught to think clearly about the decisions we’re told are “better.” In this episode with Ramsey Zimmerman, we explore what happens when theory meets real life — from EVs to pesticides to plastics...

Should you consider hormone therapy after menopause—even if you feel fine? Are bioidentical hormones really different from older drugs like Premarin? And what role do progesterone, toxins, and timing play in women’s long-term brain, bone, and heart health? In this conversation, Dr. Aimee Duffy, MD, explains what hormone therapy actually is, how bioidentical hormones differ from older forms, and wh...

I've always had tremendous admiration for disaster response people. But this week's podcast guest, Julie Colombino Billingham, took disaster response to a whole new level...like superhero status. She was sent down to Haiti after the horrific earthquake, and as she was handing out water filtration kits, one of the women told her that she didn't need that, she needed something else. What...

What if taking only what you need from nature — and putting back the same amount — still isn’t enough? In this episode, I talk with Indigenous mushroom farmer and forest educator Christopher Parker about a powerful shift: instead of just taking from nature, we can help create more abundance. But this conversation goes beyond mushrooms and farming. It’s also about learning discernment — understandi...

If you’ve been feeling tired, foggy, or “off”… and blaming yourself — this episode might be the permission slip you didn’t know you needed. Dr. John LaPuma (internist, chef, regenerative farmer) says it’s not a discipline problem. It might be an indoor problem. In this conversation, we talk about what spending most of life inside can do to your sleep, brain, and mood — and the surprisingly simple...

What happens when the medical system tells you “no”… and you refuse to accept it? In this episode, Mark shares a story that’s painful, unusual, and honestly hard to wrap your mind around. Mark was exposed in utero at Camp Lejeune — one of the most contaminated military bases in U.S. history — where the drinking water contained multiple industrial chemicals. Years later, his health began to unravel...

After seeing six medical specialists and getting no answers, Beverly Meyer finally identified what no one else caught — and within days, her decade-long nighttime headaches disappeared. In this episode, Amy Hartshorn sits down with Beverly, a lifelong health researcher who has been navigating chronic illness since the 1970s. What unfolds is an insightful conversation about learning to think clearl...