Up For A Chat

Health is a combination of many things, including good food, movement, sunshine, connection and even quiet time. But how do you quieten a mind and life down in this hectic, information pact life we now live. Carren holds the fort here and takes Kim and Cyndi on a journey of how to quieten the mind. By the end of the podcast you to will have the skills to stop the mind and calm both mind and body....

Nicole Hannan is a Naturopath on the Gold Coast and has a special interest in children’s health. It’s amazing that a mother will probably do a better investigation then the CIA when it comes to their children. Nicole has an amazing survival story to tell about her daughter who was unable to keep any food down including Nicole’s milk, and no one could tell her what was happening. Through persistenc...

Mel Kent is the coach of the Changing Habits Healthy Living Club, she is also an incredible mother, wife and has a story to tell. Mel has lost 55kg over the past few years, defied the odds of pregnancy (she was told she would never conceive naturally due to PCOS). Not only did she get pregnant but managed to rid her ovaries of multiple cysts. Her journey from young slim stunning teenager to sick w...

Charlotte Carr – lives in Sydney with her husband Wes and son Willow, she is famous for “THAT FORMULA” with too much vitamin A and the cook book Bubba Yum Yum.  Listen in on this incredible story about her son Willow and how he went from sickly and not thriving with tendency’s of Autism to a healthy thriving young boy.  It was not a conventional drug treatment but rather one soaked in culture and...

MINDD Your Family – Houston we have a problem.  Kim and Cyndi spent 3 days at the MINDD conference in Sydney and decided to do a podcast on what they learnt.  Kim, Cyndi and Carren realise that what they do is impart knowledge to educate people to have choices to improve their life.  It is the people who take that information and act not only for themselves but for their families that will have th...

This week the Up For A Chat girls are off around the country training and speaking! So this week, we flash to an oldie but a goodie. We have one of the top 3 most downloaded episodes for you to enjoy… How to break a habit. Habits help us in our daily life, but they can also be our undoing. Learn the five top ways to break and create habits &  be blown away by the girls revelations and connections...

This week the UFAC girls get to hear from an incredibly special soul, Amanda Rootsey. Amanda is an eco model (working exclusively with ethical, vegan and eco-friendly businesses), she is a blogger, life coach and mentor for teen girls through her program Shine From Within. Amanda was diagnosed with cancer at just 24 years of age. Throughout this interview we hear her story on how she came to terms...

Is this a true statement?  Beauty is Pain.  Really?  Kim, Carren and Cyndi broach the subject of plastic surgery and why the trend is increasing in both males and females of all ages.  The Up For A Chat girls don’t necessarily discuss the health aspects of the procedures but rather the reason why we enhance our bodies and faces on a psychological matter.  There is a general consensus but the girls...

What did you learn this week, personally and professionally?  This was the question asked in the Up For A Chat podcast today.  Education Experience and life lessons are a lifetime pursuit, no matter how old we are or how much we think we know on a topic it never surprises, Kim, Carren and Cyndi how much they learn in a week. Download your transcription here : UC 126 Transcription The post UC 126:...

Many questions are asked on the Up For A Chat Facebook page, one recently was questioning taking THE PILL which then lead onto questioning medications, their short term and long term affects as well as what are other options.  Kim Carren and Cyndi talk about their experiences through puberty and the availability of the pill, their nativity and their knowledge now.  The discussion leads to the poin...

This week The Up For A Chat girls talk with Leanne Anders otherwise known as Primalmum. Leanne has two children who have PKU, a genetic disorder that prevents the amino acid phenylalanine from being broken down which then builds up in the the brain and causes mental retardation. Every child when they are born is tested for PKU and if the result is positive then a special diet will help prevent the...

Tanja Mitton is a Neurolinguistics master coach and Mindset Coach for the Australian High Performance Dressage and Para Squads.  Carren and Cyndi are fascinated how Tanja uses horses to show people that we respond to people how we feel about ourselves and how horses give instant feedback by responding to teach you  how you are feeling and acting.  It’s a quick feed back loop that shows perception...

Dr Greg Clark has worked with Kim in formulating skin care and understanding plant ingredients in the past. He is back in Kim’s life to find new ingredients and formulations for her thriving skin care business – twenty8. Dr Greg is a specialist in the secret life of plants, listen in and learn about the way plants; communicate, protect themselves, have hormone systems and how they can help us in o...

Astroturfing, or fake grassroots movements funded by political, corporate, or other special interests very effectively manipulate and distort media messages. Is this what is happening in the media today against homemade DIY baby formulas and the Paleo, Real Food Revolution.  Have you heard that Vitamin A is toxic, and that bone broth has bone fragments, perhaps it’s astroturfing that is creating a...

The Up For A Chat girls managed to sneak an interview with the gorgeous, life changing Melissa Ambrosini. Melissa found herself 5 years ago in hospital, sick and hopeless. She reached out to Jess Ainscough and her life has never been the same. Melissa started changing her lifestyle and now heads up an amazing company to help women understand who they are and to get rid of the ‘mean girl’ that sabo...

It’s been a very hard couple of weeks for the Up For A Chat girls, their dear friend Jess Ainscough also known as the Wellness Warrior passed away.  February 26th 2015. This last week has been consumed with being with Jess’s family and friends and thus have not put a podcast together.  So they decided to dedicate the next two weeks to Jess.  Carren, Kim and Cyndi interviewed Jess in 2014 and thoug...

Last week was a very hard week for the Up For A Chat girls, their dear friend Jess Ainscough also known as the Wellness Warrior passed away.  February 26th 2015. This last week has been consumed with being with Jess’s family and friends and thus have not put a podcast together.  So they decided to dedicate the next two weeks to Jess.  Carren, Kim and Cyndi interviewed Jess in 2014 and thought you...

What’s a bucket list, is it about materialism or is it an experience you wish to have in your life.  Carren Kim and Cyndi explore why people have bucket lists, but as usual the conversation changes to rights of passage and culture and tradition, which then leads onto why we need bucket lists in modern life.  Listen in as the Up For A Chatters explore the importance of distinguishing in stages of l...

Kim and Carren find themselves on a bus in Melbourne, without Cyndi, on the way to the Wellness Breakthrough… They asked the unsuspecting participants of the breakthrough if they were… Up For A Chat! They we captivated by their amazing stories and intentions behind why they were attending this life changing retreat. Come along for Listen In The post UC 116: The Wellness Breakthrough appeared first...

Up For A Chat this week gets into emotional eating.  By the end of the podcast the realisation that no one modality has the panacea but rather delving into mind, body and spirit.  Things that need to be addressed are; the health of the micro biome and thus the health of the body and brain.  Remembering the mind is related to the brain and the brains health depends on the health of the body.  We al...

Education this week is in the forefront of the Up For A Chat podcast. Kim is in the throws of getting her two children back to school. Her oldest Tayla comes home from the first day of her last year at school to let her Mum know that it was her last first day, that sends Kim into a bit of melancholy as we talk about the first day of school ever for our children. Cyndi talks about the challenges of...

It’s funny how the podcasts start.  The Up For A Chat girls have a topic and then the topic takes them places they never expect.  Today was no different.  Cyndi is talking about her next adventure in creating a documentary and the steps she took from the initial thought to it now being a reality with top name health professionals from all over the world saying yes to an interview.  From there Kim...

The Paleo Diet is all the rage at the moment, so Kim and Cyndi (without Carren – she is a vegan!) decided to talk about what it is, how it is helping people and why it is working so well to change health and weight issues. Most people think the Paleo approach is a fad, but in actual fact it is closest to the diet that humans lived on for thousands of years before the invention of the grocery store...

Matt Horner is the third generation of chiropractors with no less then 13 in his family.  He was born at home, bought up with a vitalistic lifestyle, free from antibiotics and medications and adjusted by his father regularly without any visits to a medical doctor.  He then meets Chelsea, someone with a different out look on life, health and upbringing.  How do two people come together with two dif...

Kim and Cyndi do a podcast without Carren, they decided to talk about something that Carren may not have much knowledge on, pregnancy, birth, breast feeding and introducing solids. We can already see Carren yawning. Cyndi and Kim explore the beginning of new life and the importance of looking after yourself preconception and pregnancy. There are many pearls of wisdom from Cyndi and Kim as they not...