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Today I'm talking with gut-health expert Julie Davey about the importance of gut health and how changes in our gut health can impair our well-being. Julie has over 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry and has helped people transform their lives through her coaching program.

Seven years ago, Julie started making the change to holistic wellness for herself and her family. Having gut issues her entire life, Julie decided to figure out how to heal her gut. She wants to share her journey to gut health with others to help them recover their lives.

Find out the components involved in gut health, what exactly is gut dysbiosis, and signs and symptoms of gut imbalance. Learn why an imbalanced gut microbiome can cause an inability to lose weight and how specific harmful bacteria can cause emotional imbalance.

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[01:44] How Julie became interested in working in the field of gut health.

[03:36] Physical symptoms and patterns that show up when you have gut health issues.

[07:10] The gut-brain connection and how your gut can affect your mood.

[10:14] How to get tested for gut imbalance.

[14:15] Why traditional medicine protocol doesn’t work for everyone.

[16:05] Factors that lead to poor gut health and small changes you can make for better gut health.

[21:20] The difference between digestive enzymes and probiotics.

[25:53] Your five-day gut reset guide with meal plans.

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Today I'm here to talk about burnout. We were all hoping 2021 would feel different, but unfortunately it’s starting out pretty much the same. If you didn't feel burned out and exhausted in 2020, you’re probably feeling it now! In this episode, I'll walk you through five reasons you may be feeling burned out. Listen in to learn strategies you can implement to boost your energy.

More and more, we are feeling burnt out and exhausted! Although we can use caffeine and sugar in the short term, these short term fixes aren't great ways to boost energy in the long run.

Find out which five everyday daily activities can leach your energy and create burnout and why sleep is so important. Learn why you must prioritize your to-do list and how you can change these five aspects to make a more positive impact on your daily life!

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[01:29] Most people tell you they are busy or tired when you ask them.

[02:12] Reason #1: You’re not getting enough sleep

[04:42] Your never-ending to do list can burn you out.

[08:53] Estimating time for your big three of the day.

[10:35] Why you want to incorporate regular exercise into your daily routine.

[13:00] How self-doubt can burnout your brain resources.

[15:16] Stop worrying about what everyone else thinks about you.

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Today I'm joined by Noelle Beauregard. She is a registered nurse, coach, and host of the Simplifying Mom Life Facebook Page and mother of three. Her personal mission is to help moms make simple changes around their home to live a more present, joyful, and stress-free life.

Noelle learned while she was working as a nurse how much stress and lifestyle management can impact your health.  "It's amazing to me how much sickness and chronic illness can be prevented." She shares why emotional stress can be a cause of disease, and how lifestyle cleansing can improve your health and wellbeing.

Find out how to be more present in your life, why you should change your overfilled time schedule, and how lifestyle cleansing works. Learn how you can avoid "yes burnout" by sorting out your priority list, how to set boundaries with others, and how you can delegate work to other family members.

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[01:29] Why Noelle chose working with life cleansing.

[03:40] What we can do to create a more positive lifestyle.

[05:36] We talk about how busy is the new normal.

[07:27] How lifestyle cleansing works for busy moms.

[13:15] Holding your ground with your new boundaries.

[15:29] Modeling healthy lifestyle behaviors for our children and families.

[19:34] The physically impossible to-do list and why we need to ditch this habit.

[22:46] How to start to say “no” to favors that other people ask of you.

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Today I'm joined by Kristen Boyle, an internationally certified yoga therapist, somatic coach, single mom, and entrepreneur who shares with us how we can use yoga therapy and the Embodied Living Practice to avoid burnout and thrive in life.

She started teaching yoga when she went through a nasty divorce from a dysfunctional relationship. Realizing that yoga's practice was supporting and sustaining her through her trials, she decided to take up yoga therapy as a practitioner. Kristen's goal is to show others how to bring the body into the full conversation of our well-being.

"The mind and body are incredibly integrated. The more attuned to the signals of the body we have become, we can use this to guide us and our choices." She finds that we are used to not paying attention or understanding our bodies. Kristen shows others how they can connect with the deeper layers that are missing.

Kristen talks about how we live in a world of overwhelm that leads to burnout, why we are unconscious about receiving signals our bodies are giving us, and when we are in a state of overwhelm, why it's hard to see how we can bring ourselves back into a state of balance.

Find out how to recognize the impact your story is having on your body, why your body doesn't have a wrong physical response, and the importance of recognizing what is happening emotionally when you have a physical response.

Show Highlights

[01:21] How Kristen started down her path of yoga therapy.

[03:12] The approach of yoga therapy and how it applies to the mind-body connection.

[05:27] Connecting with the deeper levels of our body.

[07:36] Why the medical field has lost sight of the mind-body connection.

[11:02] The practice of Embodied Living and how the process works.

[15:09] Components of practicing with a somatic coach.

[17:44] Yoga therapy as the psychology aspect rooted in the layers of being. 

[20:23] How physical injuries can create emotional trauma.

[25:14] What Kristen does to prepare for her work as a yoga healer.

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Today I’ll walk you through the top three reasons New Year’s resolutions fail and give you my insider tips on how to stick to your resolutions this year. Statistically, 80% of us will give up on our resolution by the end of February.

You start the year pumped and are on track the first week. By the third week of January, more projects are added to your calendar, and you start making excuses for not moving towards your resolution.

We quickly lose motivation to stay on track because of our brain’s natural defaults. I’m going to tell you three ways your brain will try and throw you off track when you’re trying to change your habits. 

Find out how you can stay on track and reach your goals this year, why it takes tons of mental resources to change your habits, and why we need to override our mental default for comfort.

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[01:28] 80% of New Year’s resolutions fail by the end of February. 

[03:20] How our brain’s natural default derails us from new habits. 

[03:36] Reason #1 your brain’s default is to stay the same. 

[08:04] Reason #2 your resolution isn’t specific. 

[11:11] Reason #3 you didn’t create a plan around your resolution. 

[13:09] Tips on how to stick to your resolutions. 

[16:25] The benefits of measured goals. 

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Today we are joined by Danielle Bettman, owner and parenting coach at Whole Heartedly. Danielle helps families with strong-willed toddlers, and parents with a good-cop, bad-cop dynamic find sanity and solutions. Through one-on-one coaching, she helps parents extend their patience, troubleshoot parenting strategies that work, and rewire their parenting mindset and beliefs. She hosts the Failing Motherhood podcast, showcasing the struggles of parenting.

Danielle shares how her second daughter was very challenging and didn't fit into any "normal'' parenting methods. She explains how she had to rethink her parenting strategies, and soon realized that other parents were in the same dilemma as she..

In this episode, we talk about how different personalities parent differently, how you can be sending mixed messages to your children, and how to recognize when your home situation is starting to become unglued. 

Find out why it’s hard to problem-solve when we are emotional, how your own personal fear affects parenting, and how our fears are projected onto our children.

Show Highlights

[01:46] Why Danielle decided to enter the field of parent coaching.

[03:54] How her second child was much different than her first when it came to personality and parenting. 

[05:00] Jumping into entrepreneurship in her new role as parent coach.

[07:14] Good-cop, bad-cop parenting

[10:21] Why we don’t get time to talk about the deeper issues of parenting.

[14:00] Phrases and words from childhood that we bring into adulthood as a parent.

[15:06] How the story playing out in your head is impacting your parenting today.

[17:13] The stories we tell ourselves as parents.

[20:36] Why parenting isn’t a “natural” behavior we inherently understand.

[23:44] Danielle’s five-step approach to parenting.

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Today we are talking about procrastination. Stick around to learn the two reasons most of us procrastinate and a step-by-step approach to overcoming this annoying habit.

I used to be an expert procrastinator - if I could put it off, I would! No matter what the activity, it was put off if it wasn’t fun. Because procrastinating worked out for me, this behavior was reinforced in my brain. And sometimes the task I decided to put off would resolve itself, which just reinforced my procrastination!

Our brains are great at reinforcing actions that keep us in our comfort zone. The short term comfort that we receive is offset by the long term negative consequences of falling into the habit of not taking care of our responsibilities. Besides, your brain will continuously remind you of that task you were supposed to finish because your brain is keeping this activity on your to-do list. After all, it’s not complete. This process takes up valuable brain space and resources.

In this episode, find out why procrastination wastes your brain resources, why we procrastinate, how to free up your mental resources, and the two reasons we procrastinate.

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[01:24] How I fell into the habit of procrastinating. 

[03:19] Negative consequences of procrastination.

[05:34] The first reason we procrastinate. 

[07:32] How to decide if you are procrastinating. 

[09:55] Creating a game plan to get activities done. 

[12:03] The second reason we procrastinate. 

[16:30] How fear leads to procrastination and avoidance.

[20:29] Learning true confidence.

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Today I'm joined by author and speaker Pattie Grimm, who is here to share with us how to be bold without being bossy, confident, not cocky, and how to successfully achieve being an assertive female leader. 

Pattie is an empowerment expert for leaders and women, and she herself was a leader for several global Fortune 100 companies. Patti was recognized as a top leader in Who's Who of Women Leadership and is the author of a best selling book: Quiet Women Never Changed History.

Her personal mission and vision in life are to "Make a difference, empower women and girls to be the best they can be in any endeavor they choose."

In this episode Pattie talks about how women have come a long way, but we still have much to do to kick open the workplace's glass ceiling. Patty speaks on the topics of imposter syndrome, the differences between a leader and a manager, women's social pressure to be perfect, and how to speak and show up with confidence in your body language.

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[02:07] How Patty jumped into female leadership early in her career.

[04:00] Changes Patty has seen in the field of female empowerment over the past three decades.

[11:40] How unconfident body language reinforces negative thought patterns in your brain. 

[15:36] Options on leadership tactics to be collaborative instead of bossy.

[19:42] Why you’ll never be liked by everybody.

[21:19] Differences between a good female and a good male leader.

[28:48] Patty’s recommendations for where to start your journey to become a confident leader. 

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Today I’m joined by Ama Brew, a best-selling author, keynote speaker, life-balance strategist, and certified wellness coach. After a career in Human Resources, Ama started a childcare business and lost herself in her business for years. She struggled to create a better work-life balance and shifted careers into her current position as a life-balance strategist.

Ama realized early on that in the corporate workplace environment, “you needed to be all in to succeed.” When her premature twins were born, she realized that the corporate world wasn’t a good fit for a new mom of two children who needed extra care. Ama started a daycare business to have her children with her during the day. What she came to realize was that it wasn’t corporate that was burning her out; it was her lifestyle.

Ama now works with highly-driven, goal-achieving women who have a vision and want to “do it all” minus burnout. Ama uses her system to give her clients a way out of a hectic, stressful life.

We chat about the misunderstanding of work-life balance, why people resist taking care of themselves, how to prioritize self-care tasks, and activity ideas that can fill you up and recharge your life batteries.

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[02:03] How Ama became interested in work-life balance. 

[05:10] What is a certified wellness coach?

[10:01] Self-care is the best tool we have for breaking the stress cycle.

[12:56] Ama’s system to replenish and renew your energy.

[20:26] Why you should save yourself before you save the world. 

[27:06] Don’t be afraid to reach out for help.

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Today I'll share a common mental trap when it comes to confidence and why you shouldn't wait to feel confident to take action. I explain why taking action, especially when you're scared, is the most effective way to stop this mental trap and boost your confidence level.

Two false beliefs happen when we don't take action. First, our brain thinks that confidence is a feeling that will "just happen if we wait long enough." Second, we wait for some external reinforcement to make us finally feel confident. Unfortunately, that magical feeling of confidence isn’t going to suddenly appear because confidence is a skill that requires practice!

Waiting for confidence actually takes confidence away from our brains as this relinquishes control to our external environment. Confidence isn't a virtue we are born with. We have to develop confidence with practice. We need to think of confidence as a skill that we can learn daily.

Show Highlights

[01:18] A common mental trap is waiting to act until we feel confident.

[04:58] Why waiting for confidence gives up control.

[06:47] Negative statements about confidence and what they do to your brain.

[12:36] Confidence can become automatic through practice. 

[14:21] We can also learn confidence through adversity.

[15:47] It’s actually good for our confidence to have setbacks and obstacles.

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