chandler stroud
The Healing Heroes: Holistic Wellness for Women
Welcome to The Healing Heroes: Holistic Wellness for Women where high-achieving women finally learn how to heal for real . Each week, host Chandler Stroud sits down with world-class healers—her very own “Heroes” who helped transform her life—to reveal the unexpected, science-backed, and soul-centered practices that calm anxiety, unwind stress, heal stored trauma in the body, and rebuild self-worth from the inside out. If you’ve ever felt like you should be happier, healthier, or more at peace… you’re not alone. This show is your invitation to come home to yourself.
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chandler stroud
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Jul 8, 2026
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Faith & Hope in the Midst of Tragedy & Medical Trauma: Kassy's Story | Healing Heroines 14.01.2026 1:16:21
For our first Healing Heroines conversation of 2026, Kassy shares her painful experience of pregnancy loss and her own medical trauma in a state with some of the most restrictive pregnancy laws in the U.S. Kassy recounts navigating the aftermath of this tragedy and how finding Hero and Rev. Lizzie, along with Jubilee church during the pandemic, helped reconnect her to a faith spacious enough to ho...
Healing Heroines: Women's Stories of Grief, Chronic Illness, & Healing 07.01.2026 36:24
This special Healing Heroines compilation brings together real women speaking honestly about grief, chronic illness, anxiety, faith, motherhood, and the slow rebuilding of self-trust — not from a place of having it all figured out, but while they’re still living it. We created the Healing Heroines series to make healing feel more human, more possible, and less lonely. These clips capture some of t...
Holiday Re-Release: Self-Trust Can Help You Accomplish Your 2026 Goals 31.12.2025 53:58
Already working on your 2026 mood board? Or maybe listing your resolutions and goals for the next 12 months? Well, for this special New Year's episode, we’re revisiting our end-of-year conversation with Hero Bonnie Heim about the secret to achieving even your loftiest ambitions. As an Accountability Coach, Bonnie gives insightful tips and valuable reminders for accomplishing any new goals yo...
Holiday Re-Release: Life Changing Lessons & Favorite Hero Moments 24.12.2025 32:58
If you haven't had a chance to tune into all our Heroes yet, you'll hear from each of them in this end of year roundup - a compilation of Chandler's favorite moments from her interviews with the Healing Heroes throughout 2024. We hope you'll join us! In this episode, we’re sharing a look back at some insightful moments from 2024 with Healing Heroes. Together, we explored the p...
Holiday Re-Release: Spirituality for Emotional Resilience and Cultivating Hope 17.12.2025 56:02
It’s that time of year when Amazon carts are full, kitchens are buzzing, and hearts are already looking ahead to the New Year. In the midst of all that doing, we invite you to pause alongside us. This week, we’re revisiting one of our most meaningful and relevant conversations with Hero Rev. Lizzie—a grounding reminder of what truly matters beneath the hustle. Stay tuned, new episodes are on the...
Healing Anxiety, Depression, & Grief Through Acupuncture: Stephanie's Story | Healing Heroines 10.12.2025 57:40
In the newest installment of our Healing Heroine series, Chandler sits down with Stephanie, a wife, mother, yoga teacher, and Reiki master. Stephanie reflects on her profound journey that began with infant loss and led her to a spiritual awakening. Alongside her is Acupuncturist and Hero Jacques Depardieu, an expert in East Asian Medicine and a core figure in Stephanie’s healing. Stephanie opens u...
Why Awareness Isn’t Enough: Turning Therapy Insights Into Real Change 03.12.2025 51:08
We often expect transformation to come from big breakthroughs, but as Hero and Psychotherapist Jen Baumgold explains, lasting change usually begins with the smallest shifts in day-to-day living. In this episode, Jen and Chandler talk through the daily work of integration by paying attention to the body, pausing before reacting, experimenting with new behaviors, and gently challenging long-held pa...
Your Year-End Tarot Card Reading for 2025 into 2026 26.11.2025 37:06
With 2025 coming to a close, what better time for the first-ever collective tarot reading on the show? Hero Cait DeMello, a confidence and empowerment coach, guides Chandler through the different energies rounding out the year and setting the tone for 2026. Cait frames tarot as a tool for clarity and perspective, not fortune-telling, and explores themes like reclaiming inner strength, softening...
Meditation, Dream Visitations, & Reconnecting with Your Inner Knowing 19.11.2025 52:29
In our first ever one-on-one Healing Heroines episode, Chandler sits down with Sarah Hardie Johnson, a transcendental meditation enthusiast, yoga instructor, and corporate professional turned spiritual healer for an intimate look at intuition, healing after loss, and the inner quiet we often avoid. Sarah shares why slowing down is essential for intuitive clarity, the role meditation plays in cal...
KNOW-vember: Learning to Channel and Trust Your Intuition 12.11.2025 27:22
Welcome to KNOW-vember! Throughout the month, we continue to explore what it means to know yourself more deeply. In this solo episode, Chandler maps out why curiosity (not certainty) is the pathway to trusting your intuition, how the body signals truth before the mind catches up, and simple daily practices to strengthen your inner GPS. Chandler blends personal stories, neuroscience context, and e...
Special Re-Release: Reframing Retrograde Seasons 05.11.2025 39:43
Has your life been feeling off lately? As if the energy around feels a bit chaotic all of a sudden. Maybe communication with your family, friends, or colleagues might seem disjointed and misunderstood. Or perhaps your plans keep shifting. Well, astrologers everywhere can't stop talking about the upcoming Mercury retrograde from November 9 - 29. So, what better time to re-release our retrograd...
When Heartbreak Awakens Purpose: Sarah's Story | Healing Heroines 29.10.2025 56:34
After the sudden loss of her father, Sarah went searching for answers and found them in a remarkable reading with Hero and Psychic Medium Lea Morgan. In this Healing Heroines episode, Sarah and Lea trace how one surprising session opened the door to ongoing spiritual connection with her deceased father, meaningful confirmations, and an unexpected pivot toward providing spiritual services for other...
Inhale, Exhale: The Transformative Effects of Breathwork 22.10.2025 45:30
What if the way back to yourself wasn’t through the mind, but through your breath? Hero, Somatic Therapist, and Certified Rolfer Moylan Ryan explains how breath can ground you in the present and become a direct pathway to regulation. Moylan traces the roots of neurodynamic (holotropic) breathwork, explaining why it evokes deep, nonverbal reactions and how the practice supports nervous-system regul...
Inner Child Work for Entrepreneurs: Liz's Story | Healing Heroines 15.10.2025 55:52
This week's Healing Heroine is none other than Liz, a long-time small-business owner. She joins Hero and Confidence Coach Cait DeMello and host Chandler to explore what happens when entrepreneurship becomes an unexpected path of self-development. Liz walks us through the moments that pushed her into deeper personal work — scaling a business, outgrowing a role that no longer fit, and facing th...
Yoga, Sound, & Energy Healing for Cluster Headaches: Lexi's Story | Healing Heroines 08.10.2025 51:26
Lexi, a perinatal therapist and mother of three, has lived with cluster headaches since adolescence. These headaches evoke intense, cyclical neurological pain for hours on end. In today’s Healing Heroine episode, Lexi, Hero Nicole Kim, and Chandler trace the long diagnostic journey, the limits of conventional care, and the ways energy-based practices helped Lexi notice early warning signs and sof...
Change Your Life with Accountability Coaching: Diedra's Story | Healing Heroines 01.10.2025 57:36
Chandler speaks with Hero and Accountability Coach Bonnie Heim about how compassionate accountability changed our Heroine Diedra's life. Diedra is a high-achieving finance professional with an overwhelming schedule, and had lived with an undiagnosed physical illness as well as weight struggles prior to working with Bonnie. Through Bonnie's unique approach to accountability, Diedra not o...
Rediscovering Yourself with Human Design: Lauren's Story | Healing Heroines 24.09.2025 53:05
This week's Healing Heroine is all about how to stop going through the motions, living your life on autopilot. We hear from Hero and Human Design Coach Zach Carlsen's client, Lauren. They unpack Lauren's series of life-changing moments — from a sudden loss and a medical scare to reclaiming personal agency — and explain how human design helped her make gentler, clearer decisions. Z...
Gaining Tools and Hope for Undiagnosed Dizziness with Myofascial Release: Sam's Story | Healing Heroines 17.09.2025 43:42
We're back with another Healing Heroine conversation, this time with Sam, a longtime client of Hero and Myofascial Release Therapist Karen. For over 15 years, Sam suffered from severe undiagnosed dizziness with symptoms comparable to vertigo. After experiencing imbalance, nausea, and fatigue daily, Sam desperately sought answers from countless physicians and specialists, but to no avail. Eve...
Healing After Child Loss with Mindset Coaching: Jodi's Story | Healing Heroines 10.09.2025 1:19:57
Our Healing Heroine series continues with Jodi, joined by Hero and Mindset Coach Katie Wee. Jodi opens up about her son, Pao, and her experience helping him navigate his mental health struggles. In this heartfelt conversation we discuss his passions, the community that loved him, and her journey of navigating life after his suicide learning to carry her grief while still honoring his story. Almost...
Healing Grief with Psychic Mediumship: Candace’s Story | Healing Heroines 03.09.2025 38:24
Welcome to the first installment of our new series, Healing Heroines ! You'll hear from remarkable women who've endured some of life's most challenging hardships and how they've navigated the road toward healing. Each conversation will also feature the Healing Hero who helped and encouraged them along the way. In this episode, Chandler sits down with Hero and Psychic Medium Le...
Stillness & Somatic Practices for Avoiding Burnout 27.08.2025 38:44
Are you craving calmness but struggling to slow down? Hero and Yoga Instructor Nicole Kim explores how stillness, movement, and rest work together to restore our bodies and nervous systems. With compassion and lived wisdom, Nicole shares the ways modern women are pushed into overdrive and taught to equate worth with output — and how we can begin to rewire that conditioning, one quiet moment at a t...
The 3 Things Your Inner Child Needs and Why They Matter 20.08.2025 45:18
Hero and Confidence Coach Cait DeMello joins Chandler to explore what she calls the “Hidden Three” unmet childhood needs: security, approval, and control . These ever-present necessities drive so many of our choices in adulthood, and Cait explains how these core motivators shape our approach to our relationships, careers, and self-worth practices. Whether you're a people-pleaser, overplanner...
Reclaiming Your Innate Joy by Understanding Qi 13.08.2025 49:00
What if joy wasn’t something you had to earn — but something you innately possess? Hero and Acupuncturist Jacques Depardieu helps us understand the meaning of Qi, the vital life force energy at the heart of East Asian Medicine and philosophy. Jacques shares how Qi is not something you get more of, but something you remember and embody. Chandler and Jacques explore how presence, intention, and grat...
Posture of Protection: How Trauma Impacts the Way We Carry Ourselves 06.08.2025 43:56
In this powerful conversation, Hero, Somatic Therapist, and Rolfing Practitioner, Moylan Ryan, explores how our bodies carry the imprints of past pain — and how movement, breath, and presence can help us release those old stories. Moylan explains how trauma, stress, and emotional overwhelm are woven into our physical form and how posture often reveals the ways we’ve adapted to protect ourselves. F...
Practicing Self-Compassion While Holding Yourself Accountable 30.07.2025 41:32
Healing can be a frustrating, difficult, and discouraging process at times. When you're trying to progress one day but feel like you're regressing the next, self-compassion is often the first thing to slip through the cracks. In this raw and honest conversation, Hero and Accountability Coach Bonnie Heim explores how being kind, caring, and compassionate to yourself is an essential part o...
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