The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Dr. Olivia Lesslar The science of the mind-body connection and why it matters so much Ways foreign things enter the body and why understanding this is important What guardian sites are and how to support them How to get the mind, body, and emotions in alignment  It is only within a parasympathetic state that the body will heal Your nervous system responds to the neurochemic...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Olivia Lesslar What psychoneuroimmunology is and how understanding it can help improve our health How everything relates to everything and why understanding this is important What polyvagal therapy is and how addressing nervous system health is beneficial The dorsal vagal response of fawn and how this affects the nervous system How she looks at hormones differently than...

Episode Highlights With Katie Kimball Why life skills are still important (and maybe more so) in today's world  How life skills foster confidence and relate to mental health The reason for the rise in anxiety and depression in kids Chore wars and balancing responsibility and life skills with kids doing too much work Require the work, not the results The downside of being overprotective and giving...

Episode Highlights With Dane Maxwell Ways to create more space and sanity, especially as a mom Sanity is available right now if you can figure out what your mind is doing or needing  How to figure out what your mind is doing and say yes to it Why women are often not told things that are in alignment with the complexity of who we are The unconscious scripts running in our minds at all times It isn’...

Episode Highlights With Dane Maxwell How his journey led him to write a children’s book for his daughter His journey from high-achieving entrepreneur to singer How Hatha yoga helped him process energy in his body after trauma The therapies that helped him resolve past trauma How he's working to avoid passing on negative patterns to his daughter What dual sympathetic reset is and how it helped his...

Episode Highlights With Nazlie Lafefi Why most OTC medications are outdated and were created before we understood inflammation and its role The reason many products don’t address root causes and aren’t helpful in the long-term Surprising ways that many OTC medications work How to address the root cause of colds and flu at the inflammatory level The respiratory lining is similar to the gut lining a...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Why the body becomes less efficient at protein turnover with age and how to counteract this The biggest needle movers when it comes to building muscle Why not to train to get better and what to do instead How to build an effective structure for getting stronger that doesn’t have to take a ton of time Why high-intensity training even just once a week, can...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Why she went back to study nutrition after becoming a doctor and what she learned The one patient that changed her life and her career trajectory  Why we’ve been trying and failing to fix an obesity epidemic for 50 years and why we’ve gotten worse, not better Fat is just a symptom of unhealthy skeletal muscle  What happens when a person doesn’t have healt...

Episode Highlights With Caroline Alan What plant-based minerals are and how they are much different than other forms of minerals How we can get minerals from decomposed plants  The molecules inside humate: humic and fulvic  Minerals fuel the cells via mitochondria in the cells Fulvic is an intracellular molecule that removes toxins from the cell and humic hangs out in the blood to help remove infl...

Episode Highlights With Caroline Alan Why modern humans are experiencing so many mineral deficiencies The reason modern humans can’t get enough minerals from food How minerals impact mitochondria and why this is so important Your body makes amino acids but minerals must be ingested  We are often operating at 40% of the mineral levels we actually need Symptoms of mineral deficiency How mineral depl...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Olga Stevko What resilience is and why it is important  Common traits of people who are resilient  What kinds of things can lower our resilience  How the language we use toward ourselves and our children can impact us drastically A way to become the observer in a situation to shift focus and become more resilient Ways to cultivate resilience with small daily practices H...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Olga Stevko What emotional intelligence is and how it affects all areas of life We need to be able to feel to have emotional intelligence What happens when people feel too little or too much Problems that can arise if someone has very high emotional intelligence Ways to improve emotional intelligence  How unconscious programs are formed from trauma and life events or pa...

Episode Highlights With Veronica How we can befriend our bodies and nervous systems to help create the life we want The pitfalls that women especially can fall into when it comes to nervous system health How this relates to reproductive health, especially for women Deeper nervous system healing that goes beyond just affirmations and talking How to make amends with your body and start to signal saf...

Episode Highlights With Veronica What somatic healing is The way this ties into nervous system healing Somatics is a broad term that includes all things that mean healing through the body Modalities that are included in somatic healing  What somatic experiencing is How we can use the body to help resolve trauma and promote mental wellness What polyvagal theory is and why it is important  80% of th...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Mina How hormone changes affect the skin Why the skin changes at menopause and what to do about it The reason menopause isn’t a bigger part of the conversation  Why acne can happen again in menopause  The reason hair loss happens sometimes during menopause What to know about different skincare procedures  Procedures that can be helpful and what to avoid (plus risks and...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Mina What a minimalist skincare routine is and why keeping it simple can be best  Skincare is self-care but it doesn’t have to be elaborate or expensive The basics of a skincare routine that works and what you don’t need Products that can help you age gracefully without any extreme procedures Over-the-counter products that can work How a vitamin A cream can be beneficia...

Episode Highlights With Diane Ducarme You have about 100 billion nerve cells in your body and they're all orchestrated by the vagus nerve The vagus nerve was discovered in 1872 in medicine but is still not understood in the Western world Vagus comes from the Latin vaga, which means to wander, and it wanders throughout the body The things that get in the way of the vagus nerve working optimally How...

Episode Highlights With Diane Ducarme She speaks seven languages English is actually her third language The genetic aspects of migraines and why they're so intense The health benefits of letting go and how this relates to migraines Hope for migraine sufferers and how to actually resolve migraines through a root cause approach How not letting go impacts our brain and also our body in a massive way...

Episode Highlights With Robby Besner Creating the safest home environment for healing The difference between infrared and red light and how to use them both What full-spectrum infrared is and how it includes near, mid, and far ranges Ways to create a healthy home environment with protective healing frequencies How sleep drastically impacts healing and how to support deep sleep Ways to reduce EMFs...

Episode Highlights With Robby The connection between toxicity, inflammation, and energy Natural and non-invasive ways to support the body in detoxification The natural frequencies that help break the bonds of toxins and where they are stored in the body How infrared is especially beneficial and how it supports the body in healing What the healing frequencies of nature are that are found in sunligh...

Episode Highlights With Nathan What does he mean by playing chess when others are playing checkers A fascinating way Reese Witherspoon did this with a book club Other examples of flywheels and playing chess Tip: Look at anywhere you spend money in business and turn those into opportunities to make money or provide services  How Amazon does both flywheel and playing chess well His three basic princ...

Episode Highlights With Nathan What a flywheel is and the correct understanding of the term How flywheels exist in physics and how the concept is helpful in business as well The story of how building a well with a flywheel in Africa changed how he thought about business How a flywheel business system can help you have better results Importance of disconnecting effort and impact and getting leverag...

Episode Highlights With Brett and Harry How the industrialization of food changed human nutrition The biggest changes to the food supply in the last few decades and how they are impacting our health One thing sprayed on most grocery store chicken that you might not realize The real problems for animals and humans with factory farming and how to make better choices 80% of meat in the grocery store...

Episode Highlights With Brett and Harry How their own health journey got them into the work they do and taught them about the massive health crisis we are in The unique diet that completely changed Brett's health Why so many people have at least one marker of metabolic disorder and what we can do about it The markers of metabolic dysfunction and the one that is easiest to measure at home at no cos...

Episode Highlights With Elaine Glass Tips for how to clear your own spaces How she does energy clearing of places and spaces Burn palo santo to remove any negative, stuck energy Open a window or door to the outside to release the energy out of your space Places in your space where energy can get stuck (pay attention to wall intersections) Make sure to move furniture so fresh air can get behind and...