Better Divorce Podcast

Chiropractor Pilates Teacher shares her story of raising a family in an unconventional way and watches them thrive.  JULIE LORD Most know Pilates instructor Julie Lord as Dr. Julie Lord, the local chiropractor!   Dr. Lord graduated from Life University in Atlanta. Julie brings her therapeutic touch to the mat by focusing on making classes healing and balancing for the body. With an undergrad in psychology from Campbell University in North Carolina, she likes to add a zen touch, ending each class in a short relaxation/meditation moment. This also makes her Pilates practice unique. Julie credits her style to her first Pilates teacher and mentors Cathy Jackson in Athens, Georgia who was trained by one of the first certified classes by the PhysicalMind Institute. Dr. Lord is certified through SCW certification programs.  Julie Pilates' teaching career started in Athens Georgia for the UGA Ramsey Center and at Sangha yoga studio in Athens. Julie resides with her husband Shane, teenage son Koby, and daughter Skyler in Serenbe.

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

Taylor Wells and Paulette met in Nantucket during the Nantucket Yoga Festival while Taylor was teaching and Paulette was soaking up the sun and the vibe. Taylor blew Paulette away and the two have been friends and sisters ever since. \

✨ Happy SuperMom of 5✨

✨Graduate of Brown University and Columbia University.✨

✨Founder of 5 Prana Power Yoga Studios✨

✨Author✨

✨Entrepreneur✨

✨United Nations

Yoga Peace Ambassador✨

✨Founder of Prana Restaurant - the first raw vegan restaurant in Newton Massachusetts✨

✨Juice PLUS+

Sales Coordinator✨

✨Law of Attraction Mindfulness based Coach✨

✨Law of Attraction Mindfulness based Therapist✨

✨Scout and Cellar Consultant✨

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TaylorWells.me

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Taylor Wells, M.A., M.Ed., RYT

Founder of Prana Power Yoga™, Author & Entrepreneur

Taylor speaks, teaches, and inspires at conferences all over the world, including The Nantucket Yoga Festival, The Young Presidents’ Organization, Prana Fest, Women’s Wellness, Longevity Now, The Yoga Chant Fest, and Yoga for Peace.  

She is an author, entrepreneur, and founder of Prana Power Yoga™ (5 studios in Massachusetts and New York), United Nations Yoga Peace Ambassador, Law of Attraction & Mindfulness-Based Therapist, Law of Attraction & Mindfulness-Based Coach, Boston Herald Columnist, Boston Herald Blogger, Master Yoga & Spiritual Teacher, Creator and sole writer of Super-mom.com, Wellness, and Healthy Lifestyle Activist with Juice PLUS+.  

A graduate of Brown University (A.B.) and Columbia University (M.A., M.Ed.), Taylor trained over 100 yoga teachers a year in her renowned Prana Power Yoga™ Teacher Training Program in both Massachusetts and New York and taught 25 times a week at all of her PPY locations for 16 years. 

She is a happy Super-mom of five, including twin nine-year-old boys, and resides in her happy place, Barrington, Rhode Island. 

Taylor’s best-selling book—Create The Best Life Ever:  Real Life Stories to Get Inspired, Inspiration Card Deck, and DVDs are available at TaylorWells.me, Amazon.com and selected stores.

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

Megan is a lover of art and community. She is the director of The Art Farm at Serenbe and is dedicated to bringing art to everyone in all of its forms to share its beauty and healing qualities. 

Join Paulette and Megan for this candid chat as they discuss the healing aspects of art and how important it is to the community. 

Megan Schaeffer is the Art Farm Director at Serenbe. After receiving a BA in Arts Management from the College of Charleston, Schaeffer completed the Sotheby's Institute of Fine Art intensive program on Gallery Management and Curatorial Studies. She was a founding team member of the Charleston, SC chapter of Creative Mornings, a monthly breakfast lecture series focusing on leaders in the creative community. Her time as Outreach Coordinator for Artist & Craftsman Supply, an employee-owned art supply company, led to a love of art supplies (ask her about types of oil paint, she'll keep you a while) and, more importantly, arts education.

Most recently, Schaeffer was the Artist Liaison & Art Resource Coordinator for a prominent Atlanta art consulting firm. Since moving to Atlanta in 2015, she has worked with ArtsATL, an arts publication, on its programming and sponsorship, and serves on the advisory board of ArtsNOW.

She is driven by a passion to build creative communities and create meaningful opportunities for artists.

You can find Megan Schaeffer on

www.meganschaeffer.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

RYT500 Melissa joins Paulette for a heartfelt conversation about how yoga can change your life for the better. 

Melissa McKim from Marshfield MA is a student and Yoga Alliance registered graduate of Sacred Space Yoga School's 500 hour Yoga Teacher Training. 

Melissa started her healing and transformation journey back in the late 90’s when she felt lost, confused and hurting and she had no idea why. 

Her life looked great on the outside but it felt ugly and painful on the inside and it was yoga that saved her. 

Paulette invites Melissa to be her guest as she knows how common Melissa's experience is. 

We all at some point in our lives struggle with feelings of anxiety and yoga and the study and practice of pranayama are highly effective. 

Melissa's Video with Rodney Yee, hot power yoga classes were the start of her journey but she still didn't feel any lasting effects of the practice. 

She would take classes and sit in my car, break out in hives and try to calm herself down. 

Melissa continued to go but knew she needed something deeper, something more soothing, something tangible. 

She knew she needed to find a yoga teacher training to be able to understand the history, theory, and philosophy of yoga and not just a choreographed sequence of movements. 

There was something that was helping her and she needed to know what that was and why it was working.

Heated practice was throwing Melissa's (Pitta) fire on fire.

Melissa found Maureen Spencer, Paulette's original mentor, and guru. 

What we see in group classes is effective but her teachers weren’t giving her the science behind it.

In 2014, RYT500, Reiki Master

Owner director Unplug and Be Mindful Yoga in Marshfield MA

Developing your own YTT and how that affecting your teaching

More aware and patient, Handle daily life with ease

Still passionate able to channel them in a different way

Called to open the studio

Moving into healing energy of Reiki 

Balance the subtle energetic body

Very peaceful experience 

Helping the whole person heal instead of just the body symptoms 

How can yoga help me in a healing way?

Where are they in their life?

We meet people where they are

Have perception looking for exercise

Given that there are 5500 RYS and 60,000 yoga teachers registered with YA

80% of Yoga teachers are only 200 hour

a lot of pieces of training that are quick programs held over a month. 

I was called to teach deeply

Give them a really good base

Teaching adults and teens with Anxiety

Anxiety is still taboo

Indie films "Angst"

They suggest tools to go grab some ice cubes and put them in your hands

I use ice cubes to build sympathy for expected fathers for the mother in labor

I ignore him and give my attention

Didn’t touch on breath or yoga

Mother of 3 amazing kids and one in particular with special needs

Definition of dedication to causes with many Philanthropic causes and chairs

Last year got involved with a group

Help Imperatives

Battered women

Escaping dysfunctional relationships and marriages

Go into their house to teach children

They really need to be brought out of their environment

Trauma-informed yoga

Give them choices

Ask permission

Aware of boundaries

Boston Trauma-informed yoga sensitive teacher

Teach yoga to women incarcerated and on probation

Things can come up

Forget at 37:17 all of the pictures that you see online

Yoga is felt and experienced

The Future of Yoga Studio and their ability to be focused on holistic wellness POV and “exercise”

Paulette and Anne go way back. Anne was instrumental in allowing her to access that part of her that had the courage to dig deep, ask the right questions and change her life for the better. 

Anne is the creator of Grace Path and Grace Notes. She was a life coach before life coaching was cool. 

Anne Barry Jolles is a renowned life coach, award-winning author, TEDx speaker, and creator of Grace TrailⓇ. Blending life experiences and research, Jolles created the Grace Trail and has shared it with tens of thousands as it evolved for over a decade. 

The trail has many forms, including an actual trail in Plymouth, MA, virtual trails, workshops, webinars, retreats, and products, and has been featured by Good Housekeeping, NPR, Boston Globe and more.  Jolles thrives on helping courageous people take five steps to their best lives through her message of joy, hope, and resiliency. 

The Grace Trail is a simple five-step process that starts with gratitude and ends with hope.  

By asking and reflecting on the five Grace Trail questions… 

Gratitude: What am I grateful for? 

Release: What do I need to release to move forward with my life? 

Acceptance: What is calling out for acceptance? 

Challenge: What is the next challenge of my own choosing? 

Embrace: What can I embrace as possible? 

You will find that you are walking off your worries and accessing hope and possibility. 

Anne explains her personal terrifying journey of despair before she goes on creating the actual, now-famous Grace Trail in Nelson Park in Plymouth, MA by gathering the beach stones, writing the words and questions on them and placing them along a 1-mile trail that thousands have discovered and walked.   Now, the Grace Trail has become a global movement, with trails popping up all over the world, including an indigenous reservation in British Columbia and Egypt!   

But...hold on, You don’t have to come to Plymouth to walk Grace Trail!  You can create your own Trail at your home, work, office, church, hospital, school, senior center, college, recovery center, park, convention center, workshop, backyard or kitchen windowsill. The wonderful thing about the Grace Trail is that it can be adapted to meet the needs and objectives of any group. It can as big or small as it needs to be. As a result, Grace Trails are showing up in the most amazing ways.  

A wide range of services are available, including Grace Trail products, keynote speeches, Grace Trail workshops, webinars, fundraising, retreats, installation of permanent Grace Trails, and much more. Grace Trail has been featured by Good Housekeeping, Boston Globe, and NPR.  Large-scale Grace Trails (picture hundreds to thousands walking the Grace Trail at the same time) have been run through the Massachusetts Conference for Women, Rose Kennedy Greenway / FIGMENT Festival, Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Foundation Passport to Survivorship and more. Anne gave a TEDx Talk entitled “Cracking the Grace Code”, which has been viewed over 6,000 times. 

Every week, Anne sends out weekly, free messages of hope and possibility to subscribers that are very popular and shareable. Inspirational, fun images are accompanied by relevant messages – hope in 100 words or less! Key takeaway - By asking and reflecting on key questions about the five components of GRACE - Gratitude, Release, Acceptance, Challenge, and Embrace - you will find that you are walking off your worries and accessing hope.  A good question can be the beginning of a great adventure. All you have to do is just show up and start walking. 

You can find Anne at www.gracetrail.com She will be happy to help you find GRACE in your life towards healing and transformation

Dr. Melanie is a graduate of Life University where she received her Doctorate of Chiropractic degree in 2017. She is an advocate for a natural, holistic approach to patient care. Dr. Melanie emphasizes patient education, giving her patients the confidence to take an active role in their personal journeys to health and wellness. She stresses the importance of whole-body wellness, which includes a properly functioning musculoskeletal, immune and nervous system to achieve optimal health and wellbeing. She is a member of the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association and is Webster Certified. She is a firm believer in promoting wellness in pediatric patients from the very beginning of their lives.

The fact that Melanie trained with Paulette's Chiropractor Martin Rosen in Boston made her feel all that much more at home at her new home here in Georgia. The first thing Paulette did was research to find a chiropractor and made an appointment immediately. She was lucky enough to meet Sam of the Brainery who just opened a location in Serenbe. In no time she felt aches and pains disappear, the tightness in her muscles relieved and the lack of range of motion improve. Sam and Melanie confirmed Paulette's firm belief in the healing qualities of chiropractic. 

Since 1990 Paulette has been a patient of MD Martin Rosen in Wellesley MA. Marty, as he is affectionately called by his patients, is a master of his practice and Paulette is living proof that healing is more than possible.  After a lifetime of dancing and teaching, she had abused her joints, ligaments, and tendons and her back, hips, knees, and feet were constantly aching and painful. Many dancers at the end of class would come to her and comment about the pain they were in or lack of mobility and weakness and she immediately recommended seeing Marty. Marty and his brilliance recovered all of them. 

But it wasn't until the birth of her first child where 18 hours of labor gave Paulette a severe temporal headache and numbness in her hips. Marty was able to relieve her headache and free her hip joints in just 3 visits. Later she came down with a debilitating case of tinnitus and after visits to numerous eye, ear, nose and throat specialists, it was sacral cranial SOT therapy that allowed the noise and pain to subside enough to alleviate the depression and anxiety the tinnitus produced. 

Paulette has firsthand witnessed miracle after miracle but you know what? The skeptics are everywhere and the disbelievers and rampant. 

Melanie and Paulette discuss the disbelief and the science behind the healing results of chiropractic. If you are a believer you will gain insight and if you are a skeptic you will learn just how the practice heals and works. 

Melanie is a native of Ohio and a wife and mother of her daughter Sage. If you would like more information about Serene check out www.serenbe.com and her practice The Brainery www.thebraineryATL.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

Paulette and Vicky met last March in Florida at the launch conference of The NADP and it changed everything about how she views the divorce process holistically. Join in this candid conversation to clearly understand how The NADP and coaches like Paulette are changing the stigma and overwhelm involved in the difficult decision-making journey resulting in creating your best life ahead of you.

Vicky Townsend is the co-founder and CEO of National Association of Divorce Professionals, NADP. 

Vicky is a former radio executive and CEO of Inspiration University. Vicky, along with her partner Liz Becker designed a company that is dedicated to assist the licensed and certified professionals that help couples through the divorce process, provide better service to their clients. The NADP’s tag line is “because it takes a village” because it takes a village to help clients through this difficult transition. 

Vicky and Liz wanted to create an environment so that members can connect with other professionals, and grow their businesses through education, networking and team-building opportunities, and business development. Vicky’s experience in producing high level and highly attended events, as well as creating specialized networking groups, has been instrumental in the development and success of National Association of Divorce Professionals. 

Vicky is determined to make lemonade out of the lemons of her own divorce has led her to a path that will change the face of divorce in this country, creating an organization that informs and empowers the professionals that touch on the divorce process to make it a kinder and gentler process for families. Vicky is dedicated to helping those that have a calling to serve divorcing clientele learn more about the process from a holistic point of view so that they can work collaboratively with other professionals to get those clients on their way to a new life with as little collateral damage as possible. 

Vicky and the entire team at NADP believe that families can be changed and don’t have to be destroyed. If you feel the same way, the NADP may be for you! There are many legs to the divorce process and the real estate transaction is a very big part of this process. It is her pleasure to work with committed realtors to build their business and their brand in the divorce industry, as the real estate transaction will always need a human touch as families go through this difficult transition.

 This industry will not be overcome by the impersonal web, but will need the in-person, wise and educated specialist that this process deserves. Because it takes a village... 

CEO National Association of Divorce Professionals 

www.TheNADP.com 

Find out about the benefits of being a member 

"criminal law is bad people on good behavior 

family law is good people on bad behavior"

Let's change that! 

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 

Post-Partum Depression is a deeply difficult topic and one Kara is well versed in. 

Paulette and Kara share the common myths about motherhood, postpartum anxiety and depression and the recovery process. 

Kara bravely shares her story and gives hope to all women who battle the darkness a way out to experience the joy of motherhood they deserve. 

Kara thought at 6 weeks she was well past the time frame of being diagnosed with postpartum anxiety and depression and could not understand why at the 6 month birthday of her son the darkness began...so much so leaving her bed was an enormous undertaking. 

She silently uttered "I'm pretty sure something wrong with me" but didn't know what to do or where to turn.  

She was afraid of being stigmatized and branded a bad or incompetent mother so she tried to be brave and tough it out. She took the advice of her dad and went for walks in nature, she took the advice of her sister and went to yoga, she took the advice of her friends and went out for wine and girls weekends away....but nothing worked. 

Join Paulette and Kara for this scary, beautiful and moving of recovery and motherhood. 

Kara shares her favorite quote she learned from this experience. 

"Just because you don’t see the reason does not mean it’s not there!"

Kara sponsors "Climbing Out Of The Darkness" events annually at www.serembe.com where she lives and can help with more information about hosting one in your area. 

IF you or someone you know is struggling with Postpartum Anxiety or depression please go to: 

www.psi.com 

Postpartum Support International is an amazing organization that can help!! 

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

Lori Rourk: 7 surgeries of reconstruction Breast Cancer Survivor makes an impact  

Lori is a southern bell in every possible angle. 

Lady

Entertainer 

Hostest with the mostest 

Successful Interior Designer 

Family girl 

And one damn strong firecracker. 

Don’t let her perfect hair, nails, makeup, clothing and home fool you for one second. She is a fighter and one strong determined diva. 

Join Paulette and Lori for this funny, powerful, and inspirational story that is so needed. 

So many women feel ashamed of their bodies after breast cancer and they commonly feel as if their body has failed them. Instead Lori took the bull by the horns and changed her perspective. 

Lori is a shining example of what positivity and courage can do as we embrace adversity in all its forms. 

You can find Lori Rourk for support and as a resource for Breast Cancer or her passion of Interior Design at www.lorirourkinteriors.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

Marjorie Scriven AKA Margie Pargie: The Aerial Yoga Goddess Content Magician!!

Margie and Paulette chat real, raw, and honest about polyamory, delaying marriage and relationship, nomad life, living in the "far out" land of Maui, being an online social media presence and the 

Margie originally from Sarasota FL found yoga after a marathon injury. She later manifested a scholarship for aerial yoga training and never looked back. She soon opened her own aerial yoga studio and began her social media journey. 

But Margie longed to find her independence and yearned to seek a different community. Kundalini yoga resonated with Margie and her brand is growing stronger now that she has landed in the slow chill vortex of "far out" Maui. 

Maui is a community of healers but "if you are not okay being alone, it's not the place for you." 

She shares the tools to develop an online presence by sharing from your heart, excavating childhood beliefs and showing up fully, how to cope with putting yourself out there and the haters that come along with the territory, waiting to get involved in a relationship and delaying the societal need to get married and knowing that being together is enough. 

Margie is now launching her own TV show and preparing for the WBFF (World Beauty Fitness and Fashion) competition held this November in Miami 

You will love her 3 tips to success online: 

You will find Margie on Instagram: Aerial Yoga Goddess 

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