The Ultimate Journey of Self-Care

Building anything in your life starts with building habits. The problem with habits is that the approach so many people use isn’t sustainable, or adaptable to their lifestyle which creates a ‘stop and start’ pattern. Habits don’t have to be complicated or overdone to work. The bigger the habit and the bigger change that comes with it the larger the chance of failure. The best approach is focusing...

The key to good communication is to ask good questions, and be prepared to listen. It sounds simple, but it’s not always easy to follow as a plan. For one, the words we choose should invite the other person into a discussion or exchange of ideas, not simply to defend their position. Brigitta Hoeferle is an international speaker and communication expert, and teaches a unique strategy to help others...

There’s so much out there about how to live a healthy and fit lifestyle. But some things just never get old, or go out of style. It’s always a good day when we can chat with another life long health and fitness professional and business owner because we can trade stories that still are relevant today–despite the changes in the industry. Lisza Crisalle is a veteran in the health and fitness industr...

Business is a lot of twists and turns. So is life. Nothing is Linear. Often we must look at the big view where we want to go, what we see ourselves doing and where we see ourselves doing the most good. That involves continually innovating ourselves and our purpose. Always be the CEO of YOU. Victoria Pelletier calls herself the ‘turnaround queen’ because she helps companies through a uniq...

How do you approach finding the right career for yourself? Most people try to picture what they see themselves doing, or what they would be good at doing. What if you approached a career from the energy of where you feel connected and what is empowering you? In short, being connected to your career in this manner IS self care. Tony Leonard is a former collegiate athlete turned career coach, and ha...

So what does it mean to ‘Find your Purpose’? Judging from what you have likely read in other places, you’d think it is something that just ‘comes to you’. But my guest tells a different story. Mary Kay Kemper is a successful entrepreneur who had to find out in her own life experience what it meant to want more, and create more for herself. In this episode, we talk about the process of deciding whe...

The most significant step you can take every day towards the future you want is to take responsibility for you. You always have the choice as to how you interpret your decisions and actions. Ultimately we decide what’s important for us. When we are upset, feeling challenged or disappointed we are often blaming something. Start with surrendering control and take responsibility. Paul Aucoin is...

Having conversations with others that are productive involve more than just speaking, asking questions and providing answers. It’s even more than just listening and asking more questions. It’s about providing a sense of knowing that you hear and understand what the other person is saying, and whether or not you can provide a real solution or assistance. Richard Blank does this every day in hi...

The way we do ourselves can have a broad based impact on our teams. It can even influence and inspire employees and the culture we want to create when serving our clients. Some of the biggest issues and problems facing leaders can involve the decisions we make on how we are being, and how we are doing ourselves. Ron Ross is a leadership expert and entrepreneur who helps other business leaders how...

Society defines ‘healing’ differently depending on where you look and who you follow. You can feel like something isn’t right in your body–yet when you get tests or labs done, the results can come back as ‘normal’. After years of not feeling good, Magic Barclay decided she had had enough, and sought real answers for herself, and decided to open her own holistic health and healing practice. She foc...

In a busy noisy world, can you get quiet? If you can find that quiet space, it can not only bring you peace, but balance too. A deep place of relaxation allows us to release tension and stress, and help balance our nervous system which runs at a high level most all the time due to the way we live. The goal is that we can learn to find balance and relaxation even in spite of the noise. Amos Sm...

What is the ‘Dolci Vita’ Life? Keeping business and life separate is often a problem for business owners. Angela Santi knows this all too well. After a health crisis and her own challenges in business, she decided to make changes. She began her own business where she helps other business owners with her signature process. The Dolci Vita Life is the ‘Italian Lifestyle’ of putting pleasure...

Our bodies are amazing at keeping balance.  The primary job of our metabolism is to establish and maintain balance. Our body systems work together to ensure this happens. But when we deviate with disordered eating, thoughts that don’t serve us and unhappy emotions–we resort to eating behaviors that take us out of balance. When our bodies are out of balance, health conditions such as insulin r...

What is Energy Medicine? It is defined as a universal life force that flows through us, down into the earth and allows us to find healing through staying connected to it. Some people refer to it as ‘source energy’. Being connected to our energy life force give us more freedom, and allows and empowers us to live a life with a higher purpose. The purpose of energy healing is to help us open up our l...

What if you could travel FULL TIME and lead a life doing it? It may seem like a far fetched concept. If you were to actually LIVE while you traveled–as in work a job, simplify your logistics, and create a real path could it work? My guest did and in this episode we talk all about it. Heather Markel became a travel coach after working in a corporate full time career, and found that she wanted to wo...

Yo Yo dieting can alter your lifestyle, and how you approach fueling your body. It can challenge your mindset around what you think is possible for you and keep you stuck in an endless cycle of believing you can’t make positive changes for yourself. It’s a primary driver for why people stay in an endless cycle and repeat loop. Lynne Wadsworth knows this well–she lived it. Until she just decid...

Close to 20% of the population suffers from some impairment of their mental health in some way. There’s a stigma associated with it which keeps people stuck. And a large part of the reason lies with chemical imbalances and the body’s inability to process and absorb nutrients in the way that can be most beneficial. Our tendency is to focus on what we can’t control, which keeps our anxiety high...

Our bodies have a unique way of communicating to us.  We interpret that often as stress, tension, or what feels good.   Our bodies communicate that info to us via physical means. The PLAY method though, outlines where we live all the time. Phoebe Leona is a coach who specializes in helping her clients get connected to their own body language and uses the PLAY method in her teachings. Lis...

How we do us is always front and center–in life and in business. In fact, psychology of self care always affects our day to day decisions in both.  And how we do us, often carries over into our work, our interactions with others and how we balance work and life. Every day our thought patterns get ‘crossed’.  How can we ensure we make the best choices so we work better with balance and sy...

Taking care of our bodies is much like harvesting crops. You weed.  You feed. And you Seed.  Repeat. To be such a simple approach, the lack of it is really is at the root of MULTIPLE health issues.  The approach refers to our gut health and the key markers for treating our body much like a prized garden which can yield in abundance for us if we do it correctly. The three markers we...

So why experiences and not stuff? For one thing, you learn about yourself. You see what you are capable of in real time. And it’s likely the best ‘on the job training’ for life. Kimberly Everling, a fellow podcast host, calls herself a ‘Gal on the Go’ who has made it her mission to teach and inspire others to give themselves EXPERIENCES. In this episode, we chat about her philosophy behind ex...

Can you turn up the heat to better your health? The use of infrared heat is a modality that is being used frequently to help with remedying common health concerns. Some of the more common ones include improving circulation, nerve sensitivity, better collagen production and overall helping the detoxification process work better which all play a role in helping our bodies function better. Then...

So what do you know about hormones? Can 7 days really lead you to better health? You can make LOTS of changes in how you live your daily life–but if your hormones are not functioning properly nothing will work. Lisa Bergin is a board certified holistic health practitioner, and helps women find out where the imbalances are and how to correct them through daily habit changes. Most of the problems we...

When taking on new habits or challenges–it’s always the DAILY things that count. That’s true for what we do, how we act, the choices we make and how we choose to direct our energy. Shawn Tegtmeier is a former smoker and cancer survivor turned runner and published author and believes 100% in her mantra of doing the LITTLE things. Listen in to this episode and get her top tips and how to formulate y...

Brain Health and Gut Health are connected and there is ample research and evidence out there to support it. But what REALLY is the connection? And with the right tactics and steps taken can Alzheimer's Disease truly be just an option rather than something that just happens? The Gut is often called the body’s ‘second brain’. And when we don’t properly fuel our bodies, a condition called ‘...