Age Thoughtfully with Marissa Kennerson

Age Thoughtfully with Marissa Kennerson

By Marissa KennersonEducationSelf-Improvement
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Age Thoughtfully with Marissa Kennerson episodes

  • I Get By with the Help of...a LOT of FOLKS

    Welcome to Age Thoughtfully Season Two! A little podcast snack to tell you about some of my favorite helpers! Parenting, cooking, health and weight loss, healing my vision and writing! Excited to introduce you to some of the gifted folks who help make my world go round!

    8 min
  • What is the lymphatic system and why you need to care with Dr. Perry Nickelston
    Whoa! What a dynamic, knowledgable and KIND guest we have this  week in Dr. Perry Nickelston!
    Perry Nickelston, DC, NKT, FMS, SFMA, is a Chiropractic Physician with primary focus on Performance Enhancement, Corrective Exercise, and Metabolic Fitness Nutrition and trained fromThe American College of Addictionology and Compulsive Disorders. He is an expert in myofascial, orthopedic, medical and trigger point soft tissue therapy. A member of the Board of Directors and Medical Staff Advisor for AIMLA (American Institute of Medical Laser Application). Dr. Perry teaches healthcare professionals all over the world how to successfully use Class IV Deep Tissue Laser Therapy in alleviating pain. Director of clinical protocols and training for LiteCure Medical Lasers specializing in Myofascial Laser treatments.
    Marissa and Dr. Perry cover so much good stuff in this episode!
    You can find Dr. Perry here. Or @stopchasingpain on Instagram
    They cover:
    Lymphatic system 101 - what it is and why you need to know about it. Including how to clear it. 
    How we concentrate so much on what we put in our  body but not enough on what goes out! (Think sweat, pee, poo, lymphatic system, etc.)
    Inflammation we need vs chronic
    Subconscious (80-90%) vs conscious (10-20%)  body knowledge
    Not being ashamed when we have pain - it does NOT mean we are broken
    Tai chi for circular and rotational movement a more flow state and parasympathetic relaxing effect - helical vs straight edge movements (most of ur movements) and sympathetic response
    Why dancing like no one is watching is so healing
    Why smiling connects us and increases connection and societal peace
    Eyes as part of the nervous system and why they are SO important. We need to make sure they are strong.
    Tongue strength and exercises! (Biggest muscle in body beside the uterus but many tongues get fat and weak.)
    Why baby steps are everything. (This is so encouraging!)
    1 hr 27 min
  • The Value of Joy, Movement AND Rest with Yoga Teacher Terry Littlefield

    Welcome to Season 2 of Age Thoughtfully! Wow! It has been a year since Marissa had Stacy Jackson on the premiere episode! It's summer and let's talk about joy and rest! Here to help us is yoga teacher Terry Littlefield! As a yoga and movement teacher based out of Los Angeles, Terry fancies purposeful movement, not fancy poses.  With Terry, you will develop a sustainable, life-long relationship with yoga and movement, play and rest. Get strong. Gain mobility and stability. Increase flexibility. Get to know joy on the regular. She is a passionate educator with a big sense of humor and an even bigger heart.  She loves to learn. She loves to share what she learns. She believes laughter is the best medicine, and an essential part of any movement practice. Terry's classes blend science and spirit, breath work and belly laughs, movement and meditation.  You are welcome in her class because you are YOU. Find Terry here!

    53 min
  • Curiosity is Creativity with Artist Susan Maddux

    Marissa is jumping for joy to have artist Susan Maddux on the pod this week! "Life is not to just be endured." - Susan Maddux They go deep people: Curiosity, art, flow, mindset, art's place in culture and more! Susan Maddux is a Los Angeles based artist whose work combines painting and sculpture into unique forms evocative of the colors and warmth of her native Hawaii and influenced by the arts of Asia and the Pacific. She was born on the island of Oahu in Hawaii to a hapa Japanese-American family where she absorbed the influence of Japanese folk art traditions and Buddhist temples as well as the arts of Polynesia. With a Bachelors of Fine Arts in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, she has had numerous group and solo shows in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Honolulu. After years in New York painting in her studio in Brooklyn and designing textiles for major fashion houses, she relocated to Los Angeles in 2013. Susan brings her early experiences in the lush valleys of Hawaii and thirty years of education and experience as an artist and designer to these painted sculptural works. Each piece is made of individual acrylic paintings on canvas folded to conceal, reveal and transform the materials. Find Susan on Instagram here.

    55 min
  • How to EAT, MOVE and REST During Your Cycle for Optimum Health with Dr. Leah Gordon
    Marissa welcomes Dr. Leah Gordon of Tribe Medicine to the pod!
    Dr. Leah teaches us the four stages of our menstrual cycle and goes over how to eat, move and rest for optimum hormone health and balance.
    She also talks about toxicity in feminine products like tampons and pads, and how to stay healthy using non-toxic products and why it really does matter.
    Dr. Leah is a licensed naturopathic doctor. She received her medical training from Bastyr University, the leading accredited institution for science-based natural medicine. The naturopathic doctoral program is a four year full-time integrated medical program, similar to a MD or DO degree program, but they have a few philosophical differences as well as more training in a wide array of treatment approaches. What makes naturopathic doctors unique is that they speak many, many medical languages, and they understand conventional, functional, traditional, and natural modalities making them experts in integrative medicine.
    Take Dr. Leah's Moon Medicine class here to dive deeper! Age Thoughtfully listeners get $50 off!
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    IG: @drleahgordon
    Websites:
    www.womanhoodwellness.com
    www.tribemedicine.com
    52 min
  • Perimenopause 101 with Women's Health Coach, Wanjira Njenga

    What a delight as Marissa welcomes Wanjira Njenga to the pod! Wanjira tells what PERIMENOPAUSE is, and how we can navigate it as women to feel our best! Marissa and Wanjira discuss hormones, nutrition, how to exercise to prevent injury during a women's cycle, cravings and what blood work to get from your doctor to solve pescky side effects of a changing cycle! Wanjira also tells us how to enter Menopause with grace and a positive outlook! Wanjira has completed a wealth of trainings and upgrades in the fields of yoga, yoga therapy, movement and fitness.  This also includes massage therapy, reflexology and more recently become a Holistic Core Restore Coach (Pelvic and Core Health), and a 3rd Age Women’s health coach. She is  also trained as a Functional Range Conditioning movement specialist. Winjara is passionate about helping women reclaim their best physical, mental and emotional selves and enjoy good, functional health for life. She has combined all her training in movement/yoga with her 3rd Age and peri–post menopause health training to offer services that keep women 45 years and over, strong, fit, and injury-free as they journey through all stages of their lives. Currently she is offering yoga, meditation, fitness, pelvic floor health and women’s health classes online. She also offers daily yoga & movement ideas, tips, and educational content on her Instagram and Facebook feeds. Click here for Wanjira's website

    42 min
  • How to Job Search at Any Stage of Life with Career Coach and Recruiter Mindy Worel

    Marissa welcomes recruiter extraordinaire, Mindy Worel to the pod! She makes job searching fun. Her You Tube videos and LinkedIn posts will cheer up any job searcher!

    "Let's take the mystery out of what the search process actually is and work together to set you apart from other applicants.

    Empower your resume and profile to speak to the team you want to become a part of." - Mindy Worel

    Mindy owner of the Inside Job Agency, has spent 20 years taking the mystery out of job searching and helping people find a career path that fits. She gives people the tools to find their job home.

    With deep understanding of the career landscape specific to Media, Marketing, Design, Product and, Advertising, Mindy knows what employers want and how you can position yourself to get the job you want within this space. It can be tricky without insider info and that is where she comes in--your inside source for finding your match.

    What Mindy teaches:

    • Search Skills for life - hopefully, you have a long happy career ahead of you and most of us will change jobs several times before we head off to retirement land so let’s learn how to make the best possible moves!
    • Find where you fit in the creative, marketing, and advertising ecosystem.
    • Develop a target list of those best possible places and learn how to proactively reach out and create connections that lead to jobs.
    • Then navigate through the interview process and ask to respond to interview questions in a way that tells you if this role is right for you - rather than just winning an interview.
    • Finally, Mindy will help you with negotiation and closing!

      •  Link to: MINDY'S BEAT THE BOTS FREEBIE! 


      1 hr 22 min
    • How to Take Care of Our Bodies (feet, hands - the whole package) For the Long Haul with Physical Therapist, Dr. Sarah Court
      Marissa welcomes Dr. Sarah Court, DPT, ERYT to the podcast!
      This episode will leave you feeling good! It's a great mix of the philosophical and the down and dirty practical.
       Dr. Sarah Court is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, a movement mentor, and a yoga teacher trainer. She's the creator of Quantum Leap, a continuing education program and mentorship community that makes sophisticated concepts easy for movement teachers to understand and use in their work. She teaches public workshops and teacher trainings internationally, bringing together the worlds of yoga, strength, and neuromuscular exercise. Most recently, she created yoga and movement content for the Headspace meditation app. She currently lives in Los Angeles, and splits her time between teaching and clinical work.
      Marissa and Dr. Court discuss everything from treating bunion pain and plantar fasciitis to how to take care of our feet (and hands) on a daily basis.
      They have a very interesting discussion on the complicated, subjective nature of pain, recognizing and working with our bodies' habits and how yoga instruction has changed and evolved over the years.
      You find Dr. Court on Instagram @sarahcourtdpt .
      1 hr 1 min
    • Younger Makeup Artist Eldo Ray Estes

      Younger Makeup Artist Eldo Ray Estes in on the pod!

      Such fun timing! Season 7 of Younger premieres today! We are so lucky to have four-time Emmy Winning makeup artist Eldo Ray Estes has created beautiful faces on television and film for over a decade. His work has been seen in Cosmopolitan, Elle, Seventeen and Vanity Fair; he’s given expert advice to magazines from Good Housekeeping to More. Eldo’s clients include Sharon Stone, Debi Mazar, Anna Kendrick, Sutton Foster, Lorraine Toussaint, Elizabeth Olsen and Annette Bening.

      Eldo has great story about how he got where he is today! He's also just a great human. Tune in to hear great stories about his friend, client and mentor Sharon Stone, how Eldo's cameo in Ghostbuster's is now a cult classic appearance and so much more!

      Eldo can be found on Instagram @eldorayestes .

      He has a very fresh take on Marissa's last question: 3 tips for aging thoughtfully - aging with intention and vibrancy - no matter our budget!

      1 hr 2 min
    • Co-parenting without Blame, Shame or. Games with Relationship Coach Tamar Burris
      Tamar Burris is a certified relationship and co-parenting coach. She is fascinated by the way we connect and interact with one another. She is convinced that even small shifts in perspective and behavior can really make all of our relationships stronger, deeper, and happier. Her motto in working with two-home families and divorced parents is: Co-parent without blame, shame, or games. She strongly believe that our children's needs should be front and center when it comes to co-parenting. To that end, she recently published her first children's book for kids of divorced called A New Special Friend. It follows Little Fox as he gets to know his dad's new partner, and is meant to help kids of all ages understand that they do not have to pick sides in a two-home family, and that ALL the adults in their lives are there as one big team to support them.
      You can find Tamar on Instagram @tamarburris
      41 min

    About Age Thoughtfully with Marissa Kennerson

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    Best-selling author and life coach Marissa Kennerson explores aging from 40 up with leading experts on mobility, brain health, sleep, hormones, nutrition, creativity and much more.