Be Ambitious

Samantha Henson is the award winning clinical pet nutritionist and founder behind Next Generation Pet Wellness. She started her career as the CPN for Premier Pet in Metro Detroit before moving on to start NGPW in 2017. Driven by a mission to help one million pets, Samantha is best known for inspiring pet owners everywhere to better care for their companions.

In This Episode:

• The biggest issue when it comes to a dog's health
• What not to feed your dog & how to find the best pet food
• How Samantha's company is helping 1 million pets
• The one thing she would do differently if she was just starting her company
• How to prioritize your family while running a successful business

Key takeaways:

"Over 50% of american dogs are clinically obsese and many are dying from cancer, heart disease."

"Meetings can be pushed, your kids' emotions can not."

Avoid food with corn, wheat or soy based - inflammatory ingredients.

Buy your pet's food from a local, speciality and/or independently owned pet store. Ask questions as the employees there should be knowledgable.

Find a business mentor when starting your business.

Book recommendations:

Traction

Essentialism

Connect with Samantha:

Website: https://www.nextgenerationpetwellness.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nextgenerationpet/

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In This Episode:

• How to start writing your first book
• How to publish your book, find an illustrator, printer, etc
• How to launch, promote, market your book
• Lindsay's vision for her children's book imprint and future books

Episode Notes:

How to start writing your book:

• Start with your idea
• From that idea comes plots, characters, location, scenery
• Make a bulleted list and then fill in the gaps
• Research
• Find an author's support group
• Research different forms of publishing and see what fits you best

Marketing your book:

• Think outside the box: collaborations with other companies and people: author signings, selling the book alongside another product
• Cross-promotion + Collaboration
• Subscription box
• Local mom groups
• Libraries

Lindsay's daughter's creativity inspired her "To create worlds for other kids"

"you can juggle every day, but you can't juggle every moment of every day"

"Find ways to connect with kids and have them connect with their parents while including characters from our books."

Lindsay's first book To The Moon and Back is available starting February 28th:

https://www.hankarooreadings.com/

Connect with her on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hankarooreadings/

In this episode I share about the Miscarriage I recently experienced at 8 weeks pregnant with my second baby. This was the hardest thing myself and my husband have ever been through. I hope that by sharing other women will feel less alone in their grief.

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Najette Hammond, C.N.P. is a Certified Holistic Nutritionist and mom to twin girls. For 6 years, Najette specialized in corporate wellness as a Holistic Nutritionist.  She took almost four years off to care for herself during her twin pregnancy and the first few years of her daughter’s lives. Now that Najette has experience raising her girls and incorporating her wellness knowledge to ensure they are as healthy as possible, she is providing that knowledge to newly pregnant mamas and new parents to assist them in empowering themselves to not only give their children the most nutrient-dense food possible, but also educate themselves, ask the right questions, and become advocates for their entire family. Najette is  the owner at Mama Bear Natural Nutrition and the author of her book The Empowered Parent.

In This Episode:

• Tips to help your toddler eat more vegetables 
• Examples of nutrition dense meals 
• What to look out for when grocery shopping for your children 
• How to ask the right questions and make educated health decisions for your children 
• How nutrition affects your child’s behavior & signs to look out for to know if it’s happening
• Homopathetic medication alternatives Najette recommends 

Connect with Najette: 

Buy her book The Empowered Parent

Website

Instagram 

Lauren Cunningham is a recipe developer and certified holistic health coach. After dealing with a few health issues of her own, she enrolled in classes at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. The goal of her business is to prove that eating healthy and cooking at home is not just another expensive fad, but is something that is affordable and attainable for the everyday person. She is passionate about helping everyone, but especially the autoimmune disease community, find their balance.

In This Episode:

• From majoring in Accounting to creating a career as a Recipe Developer and Certified Holistic Health Coach
• How her autoimmune disease has influenced her career & how she supports her clients
• Staying open minded to different forms and practices of medicine as well as career opportunities
• Not being afraid to start small
• Affordable ways to eat healthy

Connect with Lauren on Instagram and through her Website

It's the end of the year and you are left feeling disappointed by all the things you didn't do. You had high expectations and big goals that you didn't achieve and it's left you feeling like a failure....Girl, I'm with ya!

You could choose to dwell on those missed opportunities and unattained goals OR you could focus on everything you DID accomplish and the person you became along the way. Something that has helped me at the end of every year is to list out everything I DID accomplish that I am PROUD of myself for.

In this episode I give you questions to reflect on about the past year and then how to use that information to set bold and realistic goals for the new year!!!

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Do the holidays stress you out? You're not alone. It's the most wonderful time of the year right? How come we are so stressed out? In this episode I share tips on how to reduce your stress level during the holidays and have a more intentional and enjoyable season!

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Vanessa Aviles is the owner of Soul Compass, a Life & Mindset Coaching business. The coaches coach - Life and Mindset Coaching that helps coaches and online service providers shatter mindset + visibility blocks so they can level-up, show-up and earn their worth.

In this Episode:

• Your Subconscious Mind & How it Works
• Positive Psych Tools & Hypnosis
• Most Common Mindset Blocks
• Tips to Improve Your Money Mindset
• Co-creating with God

Common Mindset Blocks:

• Money Mindset
• Visibility
• Worthiness

Time Techniques: Helps eliminate negative emotions that are deep rooted in your body. Helps eliminate: negative emotion, disempowering beliefs, limiting decisions

Tips to change your Money Mindset:

• Viewing Money differently: it's neutral and a tool.
• Getting comfortable with wealth and the things you want.
• Embodying your next level self right now.

Hypnosis can help you with:

• Quitting Smoking
• Weight Loss
• Sleep Issues
• Phobias
• Self esteem, abundance, confidence

Quotable Moments:

"A lot of our thoughts, patterns, beliefs and behaviors are our paradigm and our paradigm controls over 97% of our behavior/what we are doing."

"Sometimes people think they are doing the right things. They are doing the meditations, the affirmations, the gratitude. Why isn't it working?! Because the subconscious mind isn't believing it. Everything goes back to our self image and what we do believe to be true."

"The majority of the beliefs that we have are adopted from others. Do you hear your voice or do you hear someone else's voice?"

"Abundance is a feeling and not a thing. It's a state, it's how we feel - I know that I have everything that I need and I know that it will be provided for me."

"You can't just wait for God. You gotta move! He will move when you make a move. He wants to see you co-create and you cannot co-create while sitting on your butt!"

Connect with Vanessa:

Website: https://vanessaaviles.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamvanessaaviles/

Kayla Brandon is a certified holistic health coach, former fitness instructor and podcast host of the Life Well Lived podcast, where she aims to share actionable tips on how to live a life well lived.

In This Episode:

• How to Start a Podcast
• Time Management Tips
• Living Life with Intention
• Balancing having a Career and Motherhood
• Sober Living

Reasons to start a podcast:

Connect people to information, resources, tips, experts, offer a platform for people to share their information

How to start a podcast:

• You do not need a business plan
• What you do need a willing spirit, creative ideas, go getter attitude, time management
• Create an idea for the podcast - name, mission, what it's about/who it's for
• Do your research
• Write your intro and outro
• Use Garageband and Zoom to record

Time management tips:

• Limit time on Social Media
• Put your phone on Airplane mode
• Plan in advance
• Record podcast episodes ahead of schedule

Advice for working moms:

1. Know that it's not going to be perfect every day
2. Be intentional with what your role is in every moment
3. Write your to do list the night before

Daily Habits & Rituals:

• Gratitude first thing when you wake up
• Prayer & Devotional
• Movement/Workout

Quotable Moments:

"Live with my own mortality in mind, knowing that today could be my last so what am I going to do to make it the best one?"

"Living with the end in mind makes you live a better life."

"Where you are most afraid is where you should take the most action."

"There's gotta be more. Frankly, I am talented, I am educated, I believe in myself and I have so much to give so I wanted to be compensated for that and I don't think there is anything to be ashamed of there."

"You can have a career and a side hustle and a family and no you will not be doing all of these things perfectly all at once...but you can make time and chip away at your goals little by little if you have good time management."

Connect with Kayla:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kayla__brandon/

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/life-well-lived/id1578095126

Website: https://www.kaylabrandon.com/