The Wellness Driven Life Show

Christy Uffelman has coached more than 12,000 leaders, and on the way into this conversation her inner critic still asked who she thought she was, on a podcast with April. Christy, founder and CEO of EDGE Leadership and author of Wayfinding, talks about self-trust, the critic she named Edith, and why she calls this work "less of a learning and more of a remembering." Less than a year into her firs...

A spiritual awakening at 27 brought back the gift Regan Caruthers shut off at nine. Regan, author of the memoir Tragic Magic and founder of Aset Center, talks about childhood trauma, the morning she forgave the stepfather who had been violent toward her, and the daily practice she teaches for staying loving when something triggers you. At nine she screamed for the visions to stop, and they did. Ei...

At 29, five months pregnant, Eileen M. Vélez-Vega was diagnosed with stage four Hodgkin lymphoma. She had chemotherapy while she was pregnant, and her daughter was born that December, healthy, with a lot of hair. Years later she became the first woman to lead Puerto Rico's Department of Transportation and Public Works in its 105 years. She grew up in Sabana Grande writing letters to NASA and NOAA...

What if your skin is telling you about more than your skin? Dr. Mimi Vega, PhD biochemist, former biotech executive, and founder of VGAM Biome, talks about the skin microbiome, the gut-skin connection, and how sleep, stress, and hormones show up on your skin. She started as a teenager in the chemistry club, trying ingredient after ingredient on her own inflamed skin. Years later, working in oncolo...

Letting go of a dream does not make you a failure. Dr. Kimberly Robinson, a 31-year NASA veteran, former astronaut trainer, and former CEO of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, talks about the astronaut who changed the course of her life at a high school awards ceremony, the eyesight rule that closed the door on her own astronaut dream, and why she stopped defining herself by one title. A NASA as...

AI overwhelm is the feeling that everyone else already figured this out. Eliot Prince, an AI coach and the founder of Prince AI Training, breaks down the one hour a day that changed his work, why human expertise matters more as AI becomes a commodity, and why nobody has a head start on you. Eliot went from twelve-hour shifts in France to fitting five days of work into eight hours, and the method w...

Meditation does not require a quiet mind. Jeff Patterson, founder of The Yielding Warrior and Portland Tai Chi Academy, breaks down the five regulations of the meditative arts, the three pillars of yielding, and why getting distracted fifty times in twenty minutes is fifty repetitions of finding your way back to center. Jeff has spent 37 years in the meditative and martial arts, 32 of them teachin...

🙏 The Science of Gratitude: Dr. Debra Gonsher Vinik on why thanking more, not wanting more, builds real resilience. Gratitude gets dismissed as a soft sentiment, or lumped in with tarot cards and crystals. Dr. Debra Gonsher Vinik makes the harder case: gratitude is a measurable science with real effects on the body and brain, and it holds up even when life breaks your heart. A six-time Emmy-winni...

How to rewrite the subconscious programs running your life. This is Part 2 of our conversation with cell biologist Bruce Lipton, author of "The Biology of Belief." In Part 1, Bruce showed us that our genes do not run our lives. We do. Now comes the part that changes everything: how you actually rewrite the programming you have been living inside, and why the science of it reads like a story of hop...

Epigenetics, and why you are not your genes. This is Part 1 of our two-part conversation with cell biologist Bruce Lipton, author of "The Biology of Belief." What if the chaos all around us isn't the end of the world, but the cocoon before the butterfly? Bruce Lipton has spent his career showing that our genes do not run the show the way we were taught. The environment does. And that changes what...

🐝 Overwhelmed by too much to do? Jones Loflin, keynote speaker, beekeeper, and author of "Focused as a Bee," breaks down how to focus in a distracting world, the six permissions that make rest possible, and what a hive of honeybees taught him and his daughter Sydney about presence. We spend our days busy, and end them wondering what we actually accomplished. Jones has spent thirty one years helpi...

Your closest-relationship patterns were set before you had words for them, and they keep repeating. Marc Cameron on attachment styles and how the core pattern can change. ▶️ Watch the full episode and SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss what's next: https://youtube.com/@thewellnessdrivenlifeshow?sub_confirmation=1 ⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS (confirmed against edited cut, 31:22 runtime) 00:00 The question undernea...

What if the anxiety, the allergies, the flare that keeps returning every autumn are not separate problems, but one conversation your body is having with everything it has ever met? Dr. Bernard Straile has spent thirty years listening to that conversation. In this episode, he and April sit with a quiet, provocative idea: that emotional trauma belongs on the same list as radiation and toxins as some...

Workplace burnout can make you a stranger to yourself. Jesse Favre, leadership and well-being expert, on the burnout she felt in her body and the way back. ▶ Watch the full episode and SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss what's next: https://youtube.com/@thewellnessdrivenlifeshow?sub_confirmation=1 ⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS 00:00 A stranger to yourself 02:24 From healthcare leadership to teaching burnout 02:43 B...

Isabelle Daikeler co-created Shakeology. Then a decade she couldn't walk taught her to surrender, and everything she thought gave her worth quietly fell away. Watch the full episode and SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss what's next: https://youtube.com/@thewellnessdrivenlifeshow?sub_confirmation=1 ⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS 00:00 Who Isabelle Is, and the Story She Wants to Tell 02:32 The Decade She Couldn't Wal...

Isabelle Daikeler co-created Shakeology. Then a decade she couldn't walk taught her to surrender, and everything she thought gave her worth quietly fell away. Watch the full episode and SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss what's next: https://youtube.com/@thewellnessdrivenlifeshow?sub_confirmation=1 ⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS 00:00 Who Isabelle Is, and the Story She Wants to Tell 02:32 The Decade She Couldn't Wal...

🎙️ The Coherence Effect: Mickra Hamilton on healing, breath, and becoming more. A retired Air Force Colonel who broke down at 40 shares how coherence became her way back, and why health is something we remember. ▶️ Watch the full episode and SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss what's next: https://youtube.com/@thewellnessdrivenlifeshow?sub_confirmation=1 ⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS 00:00 The question that frames i...

🎙️ The Coherence Effect: Mickra Hamilton on healing, breath, and becoming more. A retired Air Force Colonel who broke down at 40 shares how coherence became her way back, and why health is something we remember. ▶️ Watch the full episode and SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss what's next: https://youtube.com/@thewellnessdrivenlifeshow?sub_confirmation=1 ⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS 00:00 The question that frames i...

🎬 Why He Films What Heals: Keith Leon S. on Body & Belief What makes a bestselling author pick up a camera to chase the truth about how we heal? After his aunt outlived a two-week cancer prognosis and his own chronic pain finally left him, Keith Leon S. went looking for answers and put them on film. He joins April on the body, belief, and how he keeps the work hopeful. ▶️ Watch the full episo...

🎬 Why He Films What Heals: Keith Leon S. on Body & Belief What makes a bestselling author pick up a camera to chase the truth about how we heal? After his aunt outlived a two-week cancer prognosis and his own chronic pain finally left him, Keith Leon S. went looking for answers and put them on film. He joins April on the body, belief, and how he keeps the work hopeful. ▶️ Watch the full episode a...

💛 You're Not God, That Job Is Taken: Scott Silverman on asking for help, recovery, and the hope that's always there. Crisis coach Scott Silverman has spent more than forty years in recovery and in the work of helping others, and his message is simple: you're not God, and that's good news. We talk about why the three hardest words to say are I need help, what he calls funeral avoidance, why addict...

💛 You're Not God, That Job Is Taken: Scott Silverman on asking for help, recovery, and the hope that's always there. Crisis coach Scott Silverman has spent more than forty years in recovery and in the work of helping others, and his message is simple: you're not God, and that's good news. We talk about why the three hardest words to say are I need help, what he calls funeral avoidance, why addict...

🎙 Mental Wellness Lab: Charley Johnson on consciousness, scalar waves, and the shift happening on the planet. What if better leadership starts with better awareness? Charley Johnson, President of Mental Wellness Lab, joins April Chavez to talk consciousness, frequency, and why clarity matters more than ever. ▶ Watch the full episode and SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss what's next: https://youtube.com/...

🎙 Mental Wellness Lab: Charley Johnson on consciousness, scalar waves, and the shift happening on the planet. What if better leadership starts with better awareness? Charley Johnson, President of Mental Wellness Lab, joins April Chavez to talk consciousness, frequency, and why clarity matters more than ever. ▶ Watch the full episode and SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss what's next: https://youtube.com/...

🌸 The Last Human Signal: Yuly Grosman on reading people and staying human. Situational intelligence expert Yuly Grosman on why people are signals, why real safety is prevention, and the love story whose signs were there years before he met her. ▶️ Watch the full episode and SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss what's next: https://youtu.be/dt0JMnylwKo ⏱ EPISODE CHAPTERS 00:00 The signal no screen can show...