Vitally You, Feeling Younger While Growing Older

I’m joined by Stephanie Graves, a Functional Medicine Nutritionist, Physician’s Assistant, and founder of The Functional Healer, a virtual functional nutrition practice specializing in helping high-performing women with anxiety, chronic stress, and burnout so they can restore their vitality. I’ve spoken a little bit before about my experience with adrenal fatigue, but on today’s episode, Stephanie...

I love using my birthday to transport myself back to my younger self with curiosity and insights. On today’s episode, I share about my hometown and childhood, and my gypsy soul. I recently went back to visit my mom and it brought up some painful memories and storylines that I’ve always had about feeling different from my family.  I’ve been thinking about my own grandmother recently as I prepare to...

I’m joined by Camille Martin, a registered dietitian and public health writer. Camille is on a mission to help people release themselves from diet culture so that they can live freely and authentically. Her book, Love To Lose: Love Your Life and Watch the Weight Lose Itself , explores how to make permanent lifestyle changes to lose weight for good and reach your full potential.  Camille and I both...

I’m joined by Winnie Chan Wang to discuss kidney energy from the traditional Chinese medicine perspective, and her additional energy shadow work. She’s a trauma-informed licensed acupuncturist, Reiki practitioner, shadow worker, and shamanic Tao healer with a wealth of knowledge on the mind-body-spirit connection. You might remember Winne from episode 30 when we covered healing trauma and stress....

I’m joined by Miray Tayfun, the co-founder and CEO of Vivoo, the world’s first wellness tracker that uses at-home urine tests to provide instant personalized nutrition and lifestyle advice to its clients. The easy-to-use test strips and app provides information in 90 seconds on 11 key wellness parameters, including hydration, Vitamin C, sodium levels, urine pH, ketones, oxidative stress, and kidne...

Today, I’m joined by Claudia von Boeselager, a Peak Performance Coach who is passionate about helping people reach their next level of greatness in life, health, relationships, and business. She’s also the founder and host of The Longevity & Lifestyle Podcast, which covers lifehacks, routines, and strategies to live smarter and optimize every aspect of life. We discuss her healing journey, as well...

Rachel White, aka The Skeptical Shaman, blends real-world pragmatism, her sense of humor, and ancient tools and techniques into her practice as a trained shaman, medium, energy practitioner, self-published author, and flower essence maker. In today’s episode, we dive into the world of floral essences and Rachel shares some of the behind-the-scenes of her business.  Like so many of us who lived in...

Fathers have a lifetime influence over our lives, and our perceptions about our relationship with them determines if those memories fuel our future or diminish it. In honor of Father’s Day, I’m sharing a bit about my own dad and how my perception and relationship with him has changed over the years.  My dad gave me the most important gift of all: love. But, like all humans, he was imperfect and ca...

I’m joined by my functional nutrition colleague Christine Morgenstern Shin to discuss her insights on harmonizing the nervous system through the lens of the Polyvagal Theory. We typically use the terms “fight or flight” and “rest and digest” when discussing the autonomic nervous system, but psychiatrist and neuroscientist Stephen Porges has developed a theory that suggests that there is a third re...

In my last solo episode, I shared my thoughts about leaning in and healing humanity. The recent school massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas is further proof that humanity is truly in crisis. Different political parties will go back and forth about gun laws, but that’s only part of the solution. What we really need is to restore strong family dynamics, nurturing conversations, and un...

This week, I’m joined by Monica Paz, a Certified Nutritionist and Functional Nutrition Lifestyle Practitioner with a Master's in Human Nutrition. She guides her clients on how to use food as medicine to help them get to the root causes of their pain, so they can get back to living a full life.  Monica shares how her own health journey inspired her to reimagine what true nourishment means. Between...

As I was preparing to pack up and leave Miami Beach to spend the summer with my family in Chicago, I felt a lot of fear and anxiety bubbling up. When I was riding my bike the other day, I came to a breaking point and did something out of my norm that inspired me to think deeper about our human experience and the damage we do by trying to protect ourselves.  When I’m feeling overwhelmed, I have my...

I’m joined by Rico Caveglia, a speaker, author, personal trainer, and health coach with over 40 years of experience in the wellness space. Rico is living, breathing proof that improving your daily habits help you feel younger while growing older. Although he’s approaching his 80th birthday, his strength and mobility skills put his true Fitness Age at 35 years old. We discuss how he’s embracing the...

The word “detox” has become somewhat of a buzzword, but there's a lot of misunderstanding around what it means. I’m joined by detox specialist and Ayurvedic practitioner Tracy Stonaker to broaden the conversation around this concept and help you see it through a few different lenses. Detoxing is a deeply personal experience and more about the full mind-body system than an abrupt juice cleanse or f...

I’ve had the privilege of knowing today’s guest for about 10 years and have witnessed her take on life’s challenges in an inspiring way. Jenn Dieas is the owner of Glowout, a destination for sunless tanning and beauty co-working with locations in six states. She also coaches entrepreneurs to build healthy minds, bodies, and businesses. Most recently, she's on the road traveling, coaching, and runn...

As I approach my 32nd wedding anniversary this week, I want to share with you all how my life has been impacted by my relationship with my husband. It’s hard to narrow it down, but there are three major lessons that I’ve learned and ways that I’ve grown since becoming a bride at 24 years old. Little did I know back then that we would become a family of seven and navigate three continents as home b...

Today, I’m joined by Winnie Chan Wang, a trauma-informed licensed acupuncturist, Reiki practitioner, shadow worker, and shamanic Tao healer. We discuss how trauma and stress impact our overall health, ways to reframe darkness, and why it’s so important to practice detachment. Winnie describes the physiological symptoms that she suffered during her divorce, and how that experience inspired her to w...

Today, I’m joined by functional nutritional therapist, clinical herbalist, and yoga teacher China Rose Zamora. She has almost 25 years of experience in the holistic health field and knew from a very young age that she was called to plant medicine. China Rose is on a mission to help women discover ways to nourish themselves deeply and feel connected with that process. She’s an advocate for wellness...

Dr. Alka Patel is a general practitioner, lifestyle doctor, longevity coach, TEDx speaker, author, and podcaster whose philosophy is rooted in stress modifying and age reversing techniques. She believes in aging with vitality, intention, value, and energy. On today’s episode, we discuss her year of self discovery, bringing consciousness to your lifestyle, and top tips for setting your day up for s...

What’s your big dream? You know that one, the wild, improbable goal that you find yourself daydreaming about. Looking back to 10 years ago, I am currently living what I was dreaming about then: traveling the world and escaping winters forevermore.  In today’s episode, I’m talking about why having dreams for your future is vitally important to feeling younger while growing older. I dive into why ma...

Today, I am going to share a simple tool for calming your nervous system, mental chatter and body. Dr. Norm Shealy, one of the pioneering holistic physicians of our time, created a practice called Basic Schultz, also known as Autogenic Training. It utilizes visual imagery and bodily sensations to elicit a relaxation response and bring yourself back into parasympathetic mode.  In Western medicine,...

Healing your inner child is vitally important work. We spend our childhood imprinting all of our experiences into the fabric of our physical tissues, our mental landscape and our spiritual perceptions. Our childhood experiences can create self-protective patterns, which manifest as roadblocks later in life that can impact relationships, career, success, decision making, ability and even our health...

Understanding what's going on with your genes can make a significant impact on your health outcomes. However, historically, genetic testing has been expensive, difficult to understand, and lacking in contextual recommendations. Today, I’m joined by Kashif Khan, CEO and Founder of The DNA Company, who is changing the functional genomic landscape. Kashif and I discuss what DNA actually is and how to...

What is your healing crisis asking from you?  I am joined by today’s guest Bhadra Hinker who shares how we can activate the healing process in our own lives. I met Bhadra through Lifewave where both of us experienced the power of light therapy patching. As I got to know Bhadra, I knew that I wanted to share her story and continue to discuss the impact of aging on the recovery process.  Bhadra Hink...

Many of us will give ourselves permission to have a successful career or begin a family with our partner, but we forget about carving out time for ourselves — to meet our body’s wants and needs. So, what exactly do we mean when we talk about giving ourselves permission to feel pleasure? According to my sources, pleasure is defined as “...a feeling of happy satisfaction and enjoyment, an event or s...