Better Divorce Podcast

MD Kiley Hanish is an Occupational therapist who specializes in pregnancy and infant loss. 

Grief and trauma need to be experienced. And we all must understand that everyone experiences them differently. 

The MOVIE Return to Zero was created in honor of their son Norbert. 

HOPE: The Foundation was created 

Healing Retreat

Outreach and education

Peer support and community

Empowerment

What should women expect when they attend one of your retreats? 

15-20 women come to feel validated and feel heard, to be supported and to process their feelings and grief. 

Yoga, Niia, Talk group circles, Cognitive work, Crafts, Bodywork, Free time, Downtime, time in nature and time to rest. 

All of the women are scared and nervous at first and leave feeling loved and respected for their experience. 

There is no time limit on processing grief. Anywhere from 2-3 weeks to 35 years!

Pregnancy and infant loss is a traumatic PTSD experience that doctors and hospitals are not prepared to handle properly. 

Doctors are unprepared for stillbirth! It truly breaks my heart to know how unprepared they are. 

Calling to tell the story: Isolated and alone, Felt validated, Felt safe

Bring them together and nurture them.

I realized that time doesn't heal if you aren't going to work on it.

It brought me to my knees.

I could now relate to other people who had gone through the same

It wasn’t my job to heal them it was my job to hold the space.

Learned to feel my feelings and not push them away.

It allowed me to cry and mope around and just feel.

Gave me permission to be with myself where I was at the moment.

Honoring this in myself.

It is not going to go away.

There will be times now I still feel the pain. 

Allowing the idea of integration of the experience.

Conflict of what we are going through to the outside.

Versus what’s going on on the inside.

"I’m fine" attitude!

Safe space is created to reconnect to themselves.

I am transformed into this new fully developed human.

I embrace all parts of myself.

I choose to be vulnerable.

Kiley kept her own Divorce private and put on a brave mask. 

With does grief look like and feel like? 

The reason she created HOPE is from her own transformational growth after infant loss.

Expanding to a wider community allows a safe place for the unraveling to unfold.

Trying to rebuild yourself all in a setting and power of community. 

How can we create communities where people help people? 

I see the future of training health professionals. 

Helping men become vulnerable too!

Life is really hard. We all need help. 

Being able to accept the full picture of life is complex.

We don’t have to be defined by our pain and experience.

It wasn’t until I actively participated in our own growth that we heal.

We all need a guide. We all need someone to walk with you through your pain.

I believe Kiley is that spiritual guide.

Kiley's next retreat is in April in Northern CA

You can reach out to Kiley anytime!! 

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Kelley is a passionate lover of all things JUICE.

Juice is big business in the US, and it takes a lot of work, tons of organic produce, and precision timing to make a good clean, healthy juice.

Kelley should know...as she had made certified organic cold-pressed juice for over five years when she opened Bamboo Juices here in Georgia after making it in her mom's kitchen. Paulette met Kelley at her kitchen tour and was overwhelmed by her skill and knowledge of being able to grow a brave business as a female entrepreneur that is changing the lives of so many for the better.  Juicing can make a difference in healing and detoxifying the human body and soul.

She began her journey as a burnt-out Archeology graduate who traveled to over 40 countries studying Blue Zone cultures. Kelley found her self exhausted, eating a diet of processed foods, having severe cystic acne, and battling depression. She How did Bamboo come into fruition?

It's so crazy how things come together and transpire.

Kelley traveled around and the world and lived in tons of different places and learned so much about other culture's diets and healthy living.

After 15 years of moving from one place to the next, I came back to my hometown and became really unhealthy, which lead to an undiagnosed illness. Luckily, I came across the work of Dr. Max Gerson and became inspired to start juicing to improve my health. Slowly but surely, I began to feel better.

There was no cold-pressed juice that encompassed what I believe every juice should have to be truly transforming to your health. I started making the juices and almond milk in my mom's kitchen using spices from India, fruits from local farmers, superfoods from Asia and a whole host of other ingredients that inspired me and got me excited about health.

Friends and family started buying juices and milk and one thing lead to another. Next thing I knew I was in a meeting with the director at Serenbe, Garnie Nygren. We hit it off, and she became not only a dear friend but my business partner.

We now have our own kitchen, tons of employees, free home delivery and are selling it all over Atlanta.

I believe that when you have a product that you are passionate about, is creative, innovative, and helping others transform their life for the better, and the sky is the limit.

Reach out to Kelley personally at [email protected] and follow her on Facebook and Instagram at BambooJuices

ordering is easy and the juice is genuinely delicious www.bamboojuices.com

Paulette Rigo CDC, CDS

Consultant/Coach

Author

Speaker

Podcast Host

1:1 Retreats

Find out more about Paulette at

www.betterdivorceacademy.com

www.bettercareerproject.com

www.betterdivorceblueprint.com

www.betterdivorcesummit.com

Maureen Spencer, RN, M.Ed. has been an Infection Preventionist for over 40

years and is certified in infection control (CIC). As one of the early pioneers in

infection control, she was awarded the APIC National Carole DeMille Award in

1990 and was selected as one of the APIC Heroes of Infection Prevention in

2007. 

In 2012 she was selected as one of the "Who's Who of Infection

Prevention" and in 2017 was recognized as a Fellow of the Association for

Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (FAPIC) for her advanced

practice in infection prevention and leader within the field.

She is currently an independent Infection Preventionist Consultant from

Boston, MA and offers consulting and lecture presentations. Maureen has

published numerous peer-reviewed publications and has presented many

abstracts/posters at the national conference. She is a national and international

speaker on an array of infection prevention and control topics.

Her previous positions included Director, Clinical Education at Accelerate

Diagnostics, Tucson, AZ; Corporate Director, Infection Prevention for

Universal Health Services, King of Prussia, PA; Infection Control Manager at

New England Baptist Hospital (an Orthopedic Center of Excellence in Boston)

and Director of the Infection Control Unit at Mass General Hospital, Boston,

You can learn more about Maureen and her exceptional work in yoga, energy healing, nursing, education, infectious disease control and her speaking engagements on www.maureenspencer.com and www.findinginnerpeace.com 

Paulette Rigo CDC, CDS

Consultant/Coach

Author

Speaker

Podcast Host

1:1 Retreats

Find out more about Paulette at

www.betterdivorceacademy.com

www.bettercareerproject.com

www.betterdivorceblueprint.com

www.betterdivorcesummit.com

Kristen Coffield is the founder and owner of The Culinary Cure, a consulting business and education website dedicated to helping people harness the power of food to change their lives.

Kristen is a passionate advocate for food as medicine. She reinvented her life after a series of events that left her health compromised, spiritually depleted and emotionally drained. Taking the simple daily habit of eating, Kristen turned what was on the end of her fork into a superpower to fuel her best life.

As an educator, author and culinary disruptor, Kristen inspires people to harness the power of food and habit, take control of the controllable, and live healthier happier lives. She believes a largely plant-based diet holds the key to enhanced wellness and disease prevention; and that creating powerful culinary habits can profoundly influence longevity.

Kristen is a regular contributor on Good Morning Washington, ABC7 and Fox5, where she inspires and motivates viewers to take charge of their health with easy plant-based recipes and nutrition tips.

Her writing has been featured in DC Refined, Great Day Washington, Washingtonian and in multiple other publications. She is regularly a featured speaker and wants to inspire you to use food to “live as you mean it!”

The Kitchen Intervention is Kristen’s signature program for addressing the root cause of peoples’ frustrations with shopping, cooking and eating healthier. It is a process that reboots the kitchen to be a powerful partner in wellness transformation, eliminating useless habits and mindsets around food, and cooking, and creating new health-supporting ones.

Kristen has created a signature Master Class that is not complicated, expensive or hard to follow. The Culinary Cure Master Class is a stepping stone for creating positive life changes. It is a 4-week course that teaches individuals how to eliminate habits that do not serve the body and soul and replace them with life-supporting habits that do.

Kristen and her husband have developed Legal Wellness Education www.legalwellnesseducation.com , a comprehensive wellness education program tailored to the unique needs of the legal profession.

Kristen’s Master Class, book, articles, videos, and recipes can be found on her website: www.theculinarycure.com.

Paulette Rigo CDC, CDS

Consultant/Coach

Author

Speaker

Podcast Host

1:1 Retreats

Find out more about Paulette at

www.betterdivorceacademy.com

www.bettercareerproject.com

www.betterdivorceblueprint.com

www.betterdivorcesummit.com

Jillian Haddad is here to set the record straight on how to shift your thinking and buying power. 

Jillian Haddad, the owner of Butter Me Up Organics, started her company in 2008 after the frustration of not finding any nontoxic items in stores. She believes that what you put on your body is just as important as what you put in it and strives every day for the smallest environmental impact. She has been zero waste from the start, cruelty-free, dye and fragrance-free as well as completely sustainable packaging.

I started Butter Me Up for myself back in 2008. I was living in Pasadena and had always been VERY particular about the products I used on myself. At that time, that meant you shopped at Whole Foods or the lucky boutique you ran across once every 5 years that didn't just make things that smelled good. Finally, one day after spending $25 on body butter, I thought to myself, 'I can make this'...and Butter Me Up Organics was created. I spent the next THREE years pouring over ingredients, benefits, quality, safety, certifications and where the ingredients came from and carefully crafted each recipe with purpose. 

Each recipe is my own and many, many hours of care and research were poured into everyone. I chose things not on the cost but for the most benefit each recipe could bring. I designed everything to have the most therapeutic qualities possible in the bottle/jar/tin. I continue to hand make each product today.

Each item is packaged in glass, tin or paper. Many people tried to convince me along the way to use plastic and with the extreme added cost of glass, especially in shipping, I almost did. But I couldn't. It just seemed to negate all of the care that I put into the standards of the ingredients and the recipes.

I use all recycled paper, soy inks, sustainable printers, and recycled packing materials. It is important for me to keep this earth as green as possible for future generations.

Well here we are, years later and I'm beyond happy with the choices I made. My margins aren't nearly as high as others. I could get everything cheaper, but I feel great about the product that I'm giving. I KNOW it's the best that's out there, and that makes me feel great. Making them by hand without any synthetic ingredients, fragrances or dyes is a quality that is unparalleled.

I love emails. I've received many emails with photos about how the Boo Boo b Gone helped a child's eczema disappear the same day or how a mother bought the acne treatment and green soap for her high school son with severe acne and now it's gone. Seeing those before and afters gives me a feeling I can't even describe as anything but purpose.

I'm doing what I love, helping people with the best ingredients available here on earth. Who wouldn't be happy?

Contact me at [email protected]

Paulette Rigo CDC, CDS

Consultant/Coach

Author

Speaker

Podcast Host

1:1 Retreats

Find out more about Paulette at

www.betterdivorceacademy.com

www.bettercareerproject.com

www.betterdivorceblueprint.com

www.betterdivorcesummit.com

Linda Beach is the adventurous founder of Freedom Lifestyle Today, a multi-faceted company that offers retreats and courses and coaching. She teaches women how to create a life they don’t need a vacation from.

She’s been an entrepreneur her entire adult life, founding over a dozen businesses, including a chain of spa schools in 1998. Linda went on to become a well-known teacher, speaker, and writer for the spa industry and coached thousands of budding entrepreneurs to success.

In early 2016, Linda sold her schools, became a certified life coach, gave away nearly everything she owned and moved to the sparkling shores of Ambergris Caye, Belize with her rescue pup, Bailey.

Since then she’s traveled and lived all around the world, working from her laptop, hosting retreats, teaching others how to design retreats and having the time of her life.  

Dream Lifestyle Roadmap:

http://bit.ly/dreamlifestyleroadmap

Footloose & Fancy-Free Italy Retreat:

https://freedomlifestyletoday.com/tuscany-italy-2020/

Paulette Rigo CDC, CDS

Consultant/Coach

Author

Speaker

Podcast Host

1:1 Retreats

Find out more about Paulette at

www.betterdivorceacademy.com

www.bettercareerproject.com

www.betterdivorceblueprint.com

www.betterdivorcesummit.com

Meet Eliza!

She’s got a lot of letters after her name: Eliza Bacot, RN, MSN, ACNP-BC, Certified Wellness Practitioner. For 16 years, she worked as a nurse turned nurse practitioner in critical care with a focus on mitigating disease with pharmaceuticals.

Eliza’s wellness journey began after seeing the level of preventable illness and suffering in the ICU without discussions of the toxic culture people live in. Women are exposed to 168 chemicals on a daily basis between all the products we use… starting with your toilet paper!  Hear what you can do to avoid toxins in your food and home.

Eliza was introduced to essential oils in 2014 by her Emory graduate school instructor. With a strong desire to promote wellness and tools for preventing illness within the community, she made a career transition to become a certified wellness practitioner in addition to her nurse practitioner certification.

Encouraged by her husband, Eliza quit her job in 2017 and started her own wellness business, The Organic South, to work with individuals and corporations to encourage a wellness-based lifestyle. She finds great success in encouraging the use of doTerra essential oils, healthy food choices, toxin avoidance, and mindfulness. Other tools that her clients use is doing a home detox or GI mapping of one’s gut health.

Just like me, Eliza sees a world where people think of good health as a merger of modern and natural medicine. This is why Eliza Bacot is on a mission to keep people out of the ICU and restore their health through education of herbal medicine.

www.theorganicsouth.com 

Paulette Rigo CDC, CDS

Consultant/Coach

Author

Speaker

Podcast Host

1:1 Retreats

Find out more about Paulette at

www.betterdivorceacademy.com

www.bettercareerproject.com

www.betterdivorceblueprint.com

www.betterdivorcesummit.com

Dana Mantilia is a mother, entrepreneur, divorcee and the founder of Identity Protection Planning and the Identron ID protection product.

Dana is certified by Harvard University in Cyber Security and Risk Mitigation. She is also a C.I.P.A (Certified Identity Protection Advisor) with the IMI, Identity Management Institute.

YOGA IS MY TRUE PASSION...

The practice found me over ten years ago and has followed me around with nurturing love ever since.

My yoga experience began at Charlestown Yoga in Boston, Massachusetts while volunteering for a non-profit organization that offered alternative healing services to veterans. In exchange, I was able to take yoga classes at the studio.

I soon became a regular, sometimes taking two, even three classes each day. Simultaneously, I experienced a couple of unexpected lay-offs from my jobs in online advertising sales and this opened up some space to make what was initially a physical practice a very spiritual journey for me.

With the completion of my 200-hour yoga teacher certification in 2007, I began to pursue my teaching career in yoga. First, managing the studio part-time and then, teaching as many classes as I could in and around Boston.

This journey through my practice has paved the path for many of the challenges I would face later on in a way that nothing else could have prepared me for.

In 2011, at age 35, I was teaching yoga and running a Bed & Breakfast on Martha's Vineyard when I was diagnosed with stage 2/3 triple-negative breast cancer. My life turned upside down. Planning a wedding turned into deciding on a treatment plan for the following year. 16 chemo treatments, two surgeries and 30 days of radiation is what followed.

That is what my treatment looked like on paper, but I believe I was saved because of yoga, the community at MGH, and my 'tribe'. Students would pop up with messages of love and support when I least expected it, at hospitals, on the street, along with various other places and in moments that you couldn't predict if you tried. I practiced hot power yoga the day after chemo with a bald head, surrounded by my tribe.

This is what yoga is, a place where we can turn things off and look inside ourselves, without judgment or ego but with vulnerability and humble love. I am 7 years cancer-free, a wife and a mother of two small children. I have faith and hope and yoga taught me that.

My students and colleagues continually inspire and teach me so much about myself. This is what I hope to share with you - on and off the mat.

Namaste.

CONTACT ME

I am continually honored to represent KiraGrace as a Warrior Ambassador. KiraGrace is a  leader in Yoga Clothing Apparel and all of their clothing is responsibly manufactured in the USA. I was chosen as a Brand Ambassador because of my leadership on and off of the mat, community involvement, and seva, or service. I continually try to exercise leadership through my commitment to the betterment of this community and my teachings of yoga. To check out this amazing company, please go to www.kiragrace.com.

Paulette Rigo CDC, CDS

Consultant/Coach

Author

Speaker

Podcast Host

1:1 Retreats

Find out more about Paulette at

www.betterdivorceacademy.com

www.bettercareerproject.com

www.betterdivorceblueprint.com

www.betterdivorcesummit.com