Dr. Aaron Hartman, MD, joins the podcast today to talk about how food is information for our body. Dr. Aaron is board certified in family medicine and integrative and holistic medicine. He is also a published clinical researcher and currently practices functional medicine at Richmond Integrative & Functional medicine where he is empowering his patients with the information and resources they need to harness their own bodies power to heal.

Learn more on the show notes: https://www.badtothebowl.com/43

Connect with Dr. Aaron:

https://richmondfunctionalmedicine.com/

https://www.instagram.com/rvaintegrative/

https://twitter.com/aaronhartmanMD

On this episode, Sarah talks with Erica Merrill, health coach and certified personal trainer about the definition of wellness. Erica shares with us the subjective measures we need to think about when starting a new health journey - whether that be a new fitness or nutritional change and how those subject measures can actually be what fuels us to stay on our new wellness journey long term. Erica also shares with us how action can actually fuel our motivation (not the other way around!) and have the snowball effect of leading us to true change. We go over how SMART goals apply to wellness and how looking back can help you move forward. 

Connect with Erica & learn more about her Fit 4 Change program:

https://livethrivegrow.com/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/LTGFitnessInsiders

https://www.facebook.com/LiveThriveGrow

Chelsea Baxter from Mama Has Her Mindful joins the podcast today to talk about how her family transitioned from a standard American diet to a plant based vegan diet. She shares so many great tips on how to talk with your kids, and how to acknowledge everyone's feelings while transitioning! Chelsea also gives us her best mindfulness tips - on how to start, how not to be intimidated by mindfulness and how to be present more in our everyday life.

Get the show notes: https://badtothebowl.com/41/

Connect with Chelsea:

https://www.instagram.com/mamahashermindful/

https://www.facebook.com/MamaHasHerMindful/

Danielle is teaching busy families how to savor their kitchen time and enjoy family dinners that build memories, Danielle is teaching busy families how to savor kitchen time and enjoy family dinners that build memories, connection and conversation through simple, approachable tips that focus on counting the colors on your plate vs. the calories.

Get the show notes: badtothebowl.com/40

Connect with Danielle to learn more about her coaching, recipes, cooking lessons and more!

In this episode Sarah talks with Karla Salinari, the Latina Health Coach about how to flip our relationship with food. Food is fuel and we need understand that what we put in our bodies matters. Karla shares her own journey to educating herself about using food as fuel and then now sharing that message with her community. She is on a mission to help others understand that food is not the enemy and that you don't need to give up the food you love, you just need to learn to upgrade it - or in her words 'flip it'! She also shares her perspective on how each of us has our own bio-individuality and how that applies to our plate. Each of us is unique and our food journey should be too!

Get the show notes: badtothebowl.com/39

Connect with Karla to learn more about her coaching:

https://www.instagram.com/thelatinahealthcoach/

Learn more about Flipbox and how you can make healthy cakes with your family, right in your own kitchen!

Mushroom expert Jeff Chilton joins the podcast today to talk all about the wonders of mushrooms and how they are beneficial for our health! Jeff has been studying mushrooms his whole career from growing them, to writing a book and now cultivating them for supplements. Mushrooms are often thought to be the 'forgotten food' and Jeff is on a mission to change that! On this episode, Jeff educates on why mushrooms are so beneficial to our health such as:

Jeff loves to spread the message about using food as medicine, and mushrooms are a huge part of that! He also gives the behind the scenes look into the mushroom supplement industry and what to look for as well as what to avoid when supplementing with a mushroom powder.

Connect with Jeff: [email protected]

On this episode, Joe and I give a behind the scenes look into what it was like for our whole family (kids included) to get COVID. We go over our symptoms, timeline and how we are feeling now. Joe and I had slightly different symptoms so we share what that was like, as well as what our kids symptoms were! It was a stressful 20 days of being in quarantine and then we also talk about how you don't feel 100% for weeks after getting sick with the virus. We also share some other crazy things that happened while we were sick, including adding a puppy to our family!

Connect on social media: https://www.instagram.com/badtothebowl/

In this episode, Sarah interviews Barb Webb, author of the new book Getting Baked: Everything You Need To Know About Hemp, CBD, and Medicinal Gardening. This book is a great place to start if you are interested in learning more about how the plants around us can help support our health and wellness goals. From CBD to herbs and spices, Barb gives us the background and tips on how to use medicinal gardening for its healing properties.

Show notes: https://www.badtothebowl.com/36

https://www.instagram.com/barb_webb/

https://www.facebook.com/ruralmoms/

https://www.youtube.com/user/ruralmoms

In this episode, I talk with Katey Chambers, founder of RI4Wellness all about how to support your gut health! Katey gives us the scoop on what is gut health and 4 easy ways we can improve our gut health. The gut microbiome is known as the body’s second brain, since it’s linked to our digestion, immunity, brain function, metabolism, and hormones. It plays a huge role in our health. As we age, our microbiome changes, becoming less diverse and prone to the growth of more bad bacteria, requiring more support to increase the levels of good.  Our goal is to increase the level of good bacteria. Listen to this episode to learn 4 easy ways you can start improving your gut health today. 

Get the show notes: https://www.badtothebowl.com/35

https://ri4wellness.com/

In this episode, Sarah interviews Elaine Gordon, founder of the website Eating by Elaine and cookbook author of Rock Your Blender. Rock Your Blender contains 31 smoothie recipes + 7 additional recipes that accompany smoothies. In this interview, Elaine gives us her best smoothie tips, tells us how to add nutritional value with smoothie boosters, how to prep your smoothies so they are easy to make in the morning and more! This interview will have you craving a smoothie especially when Elaine talks about her favorites from the book such as the Strawberry Almond Butter Smoothie, Key Lime Pie Smoothie or the Almond Joy Smoothie. 

Get the show notes: https://www.badtothebowl.com/34