Thrive by Additive-Free Lifestyle

In this week’s episode of The Whole Circle Podcast we talk to the Founder of Mindful in May, Dr Elise Bialylew. Mindful in May is a transformative one month online mindfulness program which brings together the world’s best meditation teachers, wellbeing experts and neuroscientists to teach you the tools to transform your mind towards greater well-being and happiness – all whilst giving you the cha...

In this week’s episode of The Whole Circle Podcast we talk to the Founder of Eco Tan, Sonya Driver. Sonya was determined to support her sister, who had a cancerous growth cut from her arm, leaving a horrible scar. Still wanting to get a tan without the risk of harmful UV rays, they sought the next best thing. Sonya and her sister began getting regular spray tans together but soon became concerned...

In this week’s episode of The Whole Circle Podcast we talk to Dr Glenn Livingston, Psychologist about binge eating. Glenn Livingston, Ph. D. is a veteran psychologist and was the long-time CEO of a multi-million-dollar consulting firm which has serviced several Fortune 500 clients in the food industry. Disillusioned by what traditional psychology had to offer overweight and/or food obsessed indivi...

In this week’s episode of The Whole Circle Podcast we talk to Melody Towns from the wonderful charity, Be Her Freedom. Be Her Freedom (the foundation arm of Be Hers) was founded by a group of girlfriends who were horrified upon hearing of the size and scope of modern-day slavery and felt compelled to do more. They are honoured to have a movement of thousands of passionate, every day women – all de...

In this week’s episode of The Whole Circle Podcast we talk to Davin a 13-year-old boy about how he embraced eating additive-free. Davin has totally rocked our world! He is a 13-year-old boy who has embraced eating additive-free and even did a school report on it! Topics discussed: How it all began How would Chantelle’s (Davins mum) family react? Davin’s school project Did his school friends give h...

In this week’s episode of The Whole Circle Podcast we uncover the truth about our food with the inspiring Vani Hari from Food Babe. We’ve totally got a fan crush interviewing Vani today! We have been wanting to interview her for a long time, so we are so excited to bring you this episode. We hope you get as much out of it as we did. Vani Hari is a revolutionary food activist, a New York Times best...

In this week’s episode of The Whole Circle Podcast we talk to the lovely Nicole Bathurst from Naturally Nic. Nicole Bathurst is a Dietician who was diagnosed with breast cancer 5 years ago. This came as a complete shock given she had lived a healthy lifestyle. Thankfully through a regiment of treatment she was given the all clear. At this point she drew on all her years of experience as a Dieticia...

In this week’s episode of The Whole Circle Podcast we are talking all things back to school. We want to focus on helping you get organised for back to school so that you can head into term 1 feeling like you are on top of everything instead of scrambling. We all know that feeling and it sucks! Having said that though, this episode is really great for anyone who is wanting to stock their freezer wi...

In this week’s episode of The Whole Circle Podcast we have an announcement to make! We are interrupting our normal schedule to let you guys know of the changes that are happening to our podcast show. As you, our loyal listeners for 149 episodes know (wow! Can’t believe it’s really that many!) we bring you an episode each week. After much careful consideration we have decided to release a podcast e...

In today’s episode of The Whole Circle Podcast we re-cap all things 2018 and give you a sneak peek into what’s instore for 2019. HAPPY NEW YEAR! Where has the last year gone?! It has passed us by so fast. We have a massive 2019 planned which we are so excited for and super proud about! But before we talk about all that, let’s take a look back at the year that was for 2018. 2018 was a ripper year f...

In today’s episode of The Whole Circle Podcast we talk to Gabriela Rosa from Natural Fertility Breakthrough. Unfortunately, in this day and age, we all seem to know someone who is going through fertility challenges. It can be a stressful and heartbreaking time in a person’s life. Topics discussed: Who is Gabriela Rosa How did Gabriela become a fertility specialist? Fertility Health What impacts ou...

In today’s episode of The Whole Circle Podcast we talk to Briony Kennedy from Adorn Cosmetics. Cosmetics and body care products are a hot topic because people sure are passionate about not only brands they use but what they put on their skin, and with very good reason. With that in mind, today we’re talking to Briony Kennedy who is the founder of Adorn Cosmetics about why she decided to create her...

In today’s episode of The Whole Circle Podcast we talk to Dr Leila Masson, Paediatrician, about all things children’s health. Dr Leila Masson is a Sydney Paediatrician who is also trained in nutritional, environmental and breastfeeding medicine. She focuses on preventing illness in children’s bodies so that they can live their best and healthiest life. The No. 1 thing we can do for a healthy life...

In today’s episode of The Whole Circle Podcast we talk about 10 easy swaps you can make to ditch synthetic fragrances from your life. Recently we watched the Netflix documentary called ‘Stink’ which we highly recommend you guys watch. It is a total eye opener and we are so glad it is bring awareness to the masses of how bad these are. Today we are giving you a comprehensive list of 10 easy swaps y...

In today’s episode of The Whole Circle Podcast we give you ideas of how you can have an additive-free Christmas. Yep, we get it, it’s usually acceptable that Christmas Day is the one day of the year where you can eat whatever you want. However, it is totally possible to have an additive-free Christmas just like us. To save yourself and your kids from feeling bloated, over emotional or simply like...

In today’s episode of The Whole Circle Podcast we breakdown what is in a tub of ice-cream. We start today’s podcast off with some very exciting news which is that we are now going to be stocking and selling our very own Additive-Free Lifestyle branded reusable silicone ice-cream moulds! Yippee! This has been in the making for over 2 years now and we are jumping out of our skin with excitement to f...

In today’s episode of The Whole Circle Podcast we fill you in on our super exciting announcement! We are so excited to be able to fill you guys in on something that for us has happened relatively quickly but something which needed to happen…..drum roll…….lol We are relocating our warehouse from Queensland to Hobart!!! For those of you that are new to our podcast show or Additive-Free Lifestyle, we...

In today’s episode of The Whole Circle Podcast Tracey fills us in on how she managed to travel to America for a month-long holiday and continue to live additive-free. Questions Answered: Tracey’s itinerary Hints and Tips Is America any worse than Australia for additives and preservatives? Additive-free plane travel hints and tips What did Tracey make to take on the plane for the flight over to Ame...

In today’s episode of The Whole Circle Podcast, Shane is interviewing Jo and Tracey as they answer all your listener questions. It’s going to be a fun ride! Questions Answered: What has been your greatest highlight/achievement in Sistermixin’ and Additive-Free Lifestyle to date? What are your go-to oils and why? If you had the opportunity to meet anyone in the health and wellness industry, who wou...

In today’s episode of The Whole Circle Podcast, we’re talking about all things Halloween…. ooooh spooky! Firstly, apologies for no podcast last week, we just couldn’t get to it as we were super busy so we’re really sorry for that. Tracey’s back from her month-long holiday in America so stay tuned in the coming weeks as she is going to fill us all in on her adventure in another episode.  She had th...

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week so in this episode of the Whole Circle Podcast we revisit a previous episode where we spoke to Mitch from Speak up and Stay Chatty. Most people in some way or another have been touched by mental illness, whether it's themselves or someone they know.  1 in 5 people aged between 16-85 suffer with a mental illness whether it be depression or anxiety which can...

In today’s episode of The Whole Circle Podcast Jo tells us all about how you can manage to still eat additive-free whilst long haul travelling. Recently Jo and Tracey travelled to America, in fact as this podcast episode was being recorded, Tracey and her family were still in America enjoying a family holiday. Thanks to eating additive-free while long haul travelling, Jo managed to avoid jetlag, f...

In this episode of The Whole Circle Podcast we talk to the lovely Leia Dillon about her journey of becoming a doTERRA Wellness Advocate and then building a flourishing doTERRA business. Topics discussed: How long has Leia been building a doTERRA business? Leia’s story So what does a doTERRA Diamond rank income look like? What was the process of caring for Mako? How much time did Mako have off scho...

In today’s episode of The Whole Circle Podcast we talk all things keto diets with Leah Williamson. Leah is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, she is also an Associate Instructor for the Nutritional Therapy Association and she is a Consultant at My Keto Clinic which is in the Brisbane CBD where they have a Keto Program which is suited for people who are looking to switch over to a ketogenic diet o...

In this episode of The Whole Circle Podcast we discuss how you can use top quality essential oils to support you and your family during long haul trips. Tracey and her family are about to head off on a USA adventure for four weeks and, well, it got us thinking about what we can do to make the long-haul flights and time away as comfortable as possible. So, if you’re about to head off on a trip, the...