Can't Be Contained

Why is loving yourself so challenging sometimes? In this episode, I had on Katrina Ubell, a former pediatric physician who now helps physicians prioritize their health and achieve permanent weight loss. She is a Master Certified Life and Weight Loss Coach and has seen herself the struggles that come from being busy, overwhelmed and not prioritizing yourself. We talked about her own journey of relearning how to eat when she was hungry and stop when she was full. Katrina and I discuss putting your mental health before your body image, how she learned to love herself unconditionally and how she stepped away from the need to control.

About Katrina Ubell:Katrina Ubell is a Master Certified Life and Weight Loss Coach and host of the popular Weight Loss for Busy Physicians Podcast. After completing her pediatric residency at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Dr. Ubell worked in a private pediatric practice for over 10 years during which time she gained and lost 40 pounds again and again. She finally solved her overeating and weight problem without surgery, pills, unhealthy crash diets, or fitness apps and has kept it off for years. She has leveraged her experience as a pediatrician and as a mother to help other busy doctors prioritize their health and achieve permanent weight loss.

Inside this episode, Katrina shares:

• How laughter is medicine
• How nature makes Katrina feel most alive
• What she's done to step away from control and step more into safety
• How she relearned eating intuitively when she was hungry
• Why you have to prioritize your mental health over your body image
• How Katrina got to a place where she unconditionally loved herself
• Reframing what's happening with you in a way that gives you the result you want

You can find more about Katrina at:Website | Instagram | Facebook

Links:Hungry for Happiness Book

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I decided to do something a little different today. In this episode, I'm answering some of the top questions that you guys asked me over on Instagram. These are the top 10 questions you asked on breathwork and life in general. It's my intent that this episode will bring you a little more clarity on this thing we call life!

Inside this episode I jam on:

• What you need to know about mindset work and spirituality
• My daily breathwork routine
• How to start with breathwork
• What to do if breathwork makes you anxious
• How I am able to travel so much
• How you can create wealth from nothing
• What I do to "balance" life, work, friendships and relationships
• My favorite country artist
• How I stay fit and healthy

Links:Hungry for Happiness Book Breath Challenge

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If you've gone through a divorce you might be wondering how you can begin to rebuild yourself. Divorces are extremely challenging but there are parts of divorce that should be celebrated because it means you've acknowledged and honored your truth. In this episode, I had on Amy Pamensky, a spiritual teacher and mindset coach. We talked about her divorce and what made her realize it was time to move on from the relationship. She and I discuss what you should do if you're worried you're not in the right relationship, the resistance she faced when going inward to find her truth and how you can start to show up as the best version of yourself.

About Amy Pamensky:

I'm a spiritual teacher and a mindset coach. Instead of following the path that I thought I should take. I got divorced, I started a new business, and I moved to a new area. Seemingly out of nowhere, I started to meet incredible new friends. For the first time since 4th grade I finally started to feel like I could be myself and fit in. My business took off, my health improved, I lost weight with ease, and I felt confident to be the most authentic version of myself. I've turned my pain into purpose and now I have the honor of teaching hundreds of women how to do the same through my group coaching program called Light Up Your Life. Because I believe that HAPPINESS is your birthright and that you get to live a life LIGHTS your SOUL on FIRE.

Inside this episode, Amy shares:

• How being in service and seeing other women come into their power makes Amy feel most alive
• Her mindset before getting married
• The shifts that made her realize it was time to end her marriage
• Amy's advice for someone who knows their not in the right relationship
• Her resistance to going inward and finding the truth
• What she believes about living in your truth
• A truth she's found about herself and money that's had a big impact on her
• The new story she's created for herself
• How to discern the difference between your truth and limitations
• The identity shift she had when going from her married name to her maiden name

You can find more about Amy at:Website | Instagram

Links:Hungry for Happiness Book

Check out our Hungry for Happiness community for more details, programs, and tips on how to thrive as a wellness coach!

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The Hungry for Happiness podcast combines personal development, deep conversations, and comedy to shake up the way you connect with yourself and the world. Be sure to subscribe on iTunes so you don't miss an episode!

I am super excited to be bringing you today's episode where I will be sharing something that is super special to me. I asked my publisher Hay House if I could share a chapter of my book with you guys on the podcast and they graciously agreed to let me do it. I can't wait for you all to have this book in your hands and I am incredibly grateful to share this very vulnerable part of my story. This chapter is from some of my darkest days which makes it a little scary to share but there's so much growth that can come from really sharing, expanding, and leaning into our pain and past wounds.

In this episode I jam on:

• Why you should keep your heart open when it's wanting to contract
• A chapter from my book, Hungry for Happiness: Stop Emotional Eating & Start Loving Yourself

Links:

Hungry for Happiness Book

Check out our Hungry for Happiness community for more details, programs, and tips on how to thrive as a wellness coach!

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You can create exactly what you want in the world by stepping out of your own way and unsubscribing to your old ways of being. In this episode, I was joined by Stephanie Mansour to talk about how you can make this happen and turn your deepest desires into your destiny. Stephanie shares how she got her own tv show, how she chose dreams that were exciting for her and her mindset around pursuing those dreams. You'll learn why it's not always just about hustling your way to the top but much more about evolving your alignment and energy and getting crystal clear on your desires.

About Stephanie Mansour:

Stephanie holds her BA in Communications with an emphasis on Women's Studies & Psychology from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!), her personal training, yoga, and Pilates certifications, as well as her professional life coaching certification. Prior to starting Step It Up with Steph in 2008, she worked for Oprah's XM Radio show host Marianne Williamson, the Dr. Phil show, Lifetime TV, and WNET PBS.

For the past decade, Stephanie has been helping millions of people "Step It Up," every day in their lives with weight loss tips, lifestyle hacks, and fitness secrets to up their game. Steph coaches you on how to be the rockstar of your own health that you always knew you could be. She gets real and fast results, and provides easy tips and tricks that work no matter how busy you are. She'll help you finally rid yourself of the weight – both emotionally and physically – to get the life you want. In fact, she coached one reality TV star to lose almost 90 lbs in 3 months!

Inside this episode, Stephanie shares:

• How being present makes Stephanie feel most alive
• What she does to regulate her nervous system and get back in the flow
• How she chose dreams that were exciting to her and pursued them relentlessly
• The evolvement of her tv show
• Her mindset around the ruthless commitment to her dream
• Why you should rely on alignment and energy rather than hustle

You can find more about Stephanie at:Website | Instagram

Links:EP 161: SOLO JAM SESSION: #1 TACTIC TO MANIFEST ANYTHING (EVEN WHEN IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE) Hungry for Happiness Book

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The Hungry for Happiness podcast combines personal development, deep conversations, and comedy to shake up the way you connect with yourself and the world. Be sure to subscribe on iTunes so you don't miss an episode!

The universe is so eager to give you all that you desire. The beauty is that we all have the ability to create the life that we want to live. In this episode, I am breaking down the system that I use for manifesting abundance in my life. I share some tips around giving yourself permission to question what you truly yearn for and why you need to be energetically clean when making manifestation requests. Be sure to listen closely as this episode will help you to unlock everything you could ever dream about!

Inside this episode I jam on:

• How you deserve everything that you desire
• Observing the surface of what comes up about yourself
• The steps you should take when manifesting what you want
• Why you have to be energetically clean about your manifestation requests
• How there is infinite possibility for you in this life
• What the bottom-up approach is
• Why you should question the things that you believe

Links:Pause Breathwork Facilitator Training Hungry for Happiness Book Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

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You have the ability to change and become whoever it is that you want to be. If you're ready and committed to having more, you have to become more. In this episode, I had the chance to speak with John Assaraf, author, founder and CEO of NeuroGym. He gets into how you can unlock your brain's hidden powers by committing to upgrading your habits and patterns. John dives into how you can use the 4R process to train your brain. He talks about his own experiences with mentorship, his relationship with money (and how he was able to cultivate abundance) and so much more!

About John Assaraf:John has built 5 multimillion dollar companies, written 2 New York Times Bestselling books and featured in 8 movies, including the blockbuster hit "The Secret" and "Quest For Success" with Richard Branson and the Dalai Lama.

Today, he is founder and CEO of NeuroGym, a company dedicated to using the most advanced technologies and evidence based brain training methods to help individuals unleash their fullest potential and maximize their results.

Inside this episode, John shares:

• How gratitude and the complexity of life itself makes him feel most alive
• How to begin to focus your brain on the things you truly desire
• Why you can develop almost any skill
• What you can do to shift the brain and get what you want
• The disillusionment that people have around manifesting
• Why it's not about working "hard"
• John's thoughts on why mentorship and coaching is critical for success
• His breakthrough moment with his own mentor of deciding between being interested or committed
• What his relationship with money is and how he's been able to cultivate abundance
• What the "automatic self" is and how it challenges most people
• How to use the 4R process to train your brain

You can find more about John at:Website | Instagram | Facebook

Links:EP 131: TURNING CRISIS INTO SUCCESS WITH RICHARD & CHARLY JAFFE Pause Breathwork Facilitator Training Having It All: Achieving Your Life's Goals and Dreams The Answer: Grow Any Business, Achieve Financial Freedom, and Live an Extraordinary Life 7 Day Millionaire Mindset Quickstart Program

Check out our Hungry for Happiness community for more details, programs, and tips on how to thrive as a wellness coach!Website | Samantha's Instagram | HFH Instagram | Facebook | Book | Certification Program

The Hungry for Happiness podcast combines personal development, deep conversations, and comedy to shake up the way you connect with yourself and the world. Be sure to subscribe on iTunes so you don't miss an episode!

For so many people, breathwork is such a new topic and healing modality to be explored. That brings a lot of questions and curiosity to so today on the podcast I did something a little different. I grabbed all of the questions you guys asked me on Instagram to do a Q & A session all about breathwork. In this episode, you'll hear a live breathwork session as well as the answers to all of the most common breathwork questions. I answer everything from how often to do breathwork, why I think it's easier than meditation, what you should do after breathwork and so much more!

Inside this episode I jam on:

• How breathwork helps you get into your body
• The 3 things I use to make decisions
• A tri-active breathwork exercise
• Why safety in breathwork is important especially for those with trauma
• How breathwork can bring up anxiety
• How often you should practice breathwork and why it's easier than meditation
• How Pause Breathwork is different from other breathwork philosophies
• Practices that you can do post-breathwork
• Why I am so confident and passionate about breathwork
• How to use breathwork as another revenue stream after becoming certified
• Why I started Pause Breathwork
• A quick one-minute breathwork session for beginners

Links:Pause Breathwork Facilitator Training Breathwork Q & A IGTV Hungry for Happiness Book

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Is your dosha out of balance? If you're wondering what dosha is or how to get it in balance then you're going to want to hear today's episode with Sahara Rose. Sahara is an author, podcaster, speaker, and founder of Rose Gold Goddesses. We explore her path to embodiment through dance and we talk about how movement (specifically twerking) can help you connect with your other side. Sahara shares the three different archetypes of Ayurveda, how these perpetuate and show up in our lives and what you can do to help get your dosha back in balance.

About Sahara Rose:

Sahara Rose is an ancient soul in a modern body. She has been called "a leading voice for the millennial generation into the new paradigm shift" by Deepak Chopra, who wrote the foreword of her books. She is the best-selling author of Eat Feel Fresh, Idiot's Guide to Ayurveda, A Yogic Path and the upcoming Discover Your Dharma. She also hosts the Highest Self Podcast, the #1 spirituality podcast on iTunes with over 16 million downloads.

Sahara is the founder of Rose Gold Goddesses, the sacred sisterhood collective all about embodying the goddess within, with over 2000 worldwide members.

She is a keynote speaker, speaking on stages at Google and Facebook, as well as being featured as the nutrition speaker for Michelle Obama's Let's Move Campaign at Harvard Medical School and in Vogue, Forbes, NBC and more.

Recently on the cover of the nationwide print magazine, Yoga Journal, Sahara Rose is on a mission to remind people of their highest selves so they can share their gifts with the world and raise the vibration of the planet.

Sahara is known for making spiritual + Ayurvedic wisdom fun and relatable so it can serve the needs of today's people. She believes the key to spirituality is embodiment. When she's not writing books, recording podcasts or facilitating workshops, you can find her dancing, DJing and drumming.

Inside this episode, Sahara shares:

• How embodiment makes her feel most alive
• Her path to truly learning to trust and love her body
• The story of discovering ecstatic dance and the transformation this led her to
• Why you need to find your unique language, mannerisms and movement through your body
• What twerking is and how it helps you connect with the other side of you
• Sahara's advice for using dance as a meditative practice
• Why people are resistant to joy
• Examples of people's dosha and the different archetypes of Ayurveda
• How you can eat and exercise in alignment with your archetype
• How to get your dosha in balance

You can find more about Sahara at:

Website | Instagram | Facebook

Links:

Pause Breathwork Facilitator Training

Dosha Quiz

Ayurveda (Idiot's Guides)

Guided Dance Meditations

The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity

Eat Feel Fresh: A Contemporary, Plant-Based Ayurvedic Cookbook

Check out our Hungry for Happiness community for more details, programs, and tips on how to thrive as a wellness coach!

Website | Samantha's Instagram | HFH Instagram | Facebook | Book | Certification Program

The Hungry for Happiness podcast combines personal development, deep conversations, and comedy to shake up the way you connect with yourself and the world. Be sure to subscribe on iTunes so you don't miss an episode!

Healing from past wounds takes the ability to reconnect with yourself and the drive to regulate your nervous system. I am so excited to share this conversation on healing with today's guest, Nicole LePera. Nicole is a Holistic Psychologist who helps people on their journey to wellness and healing themselves. We talked about so much in this episode including the empowerment that comes through your own healing and the power that comes from knowing you can destroy the parts of you that aren't serving you. She shares how you can use future self journaling to create a more conscious awareness around patterns and behaviors you've developed, how to trace mistakes back to childhood wounds and her thoughts on psychedelics for healing.

About Dr. Nicole LePera:

Dr. Nicole LePera is a Holistic Psychologist who believes that mental wellness is for everyone. She evolved her more traditional training from Cornell University and The New School to one that acknowledges the connection between the mind and body.

Dr. LePera views mental and physical struggles from a whole person perspective and works to identify the underlying physical and emotional causes. She understands that balance is an integral part of wellness and empowers individuals to heal themselves, supporting them on their wellness journeys.

Dr. LePera founded the Mindful Healing Center in Center City Philadelphia. She recently expanded her work online creating a platform for teaching these often overlooked components of mental wellness to individuals and practitioners around the world.

Inside this episode, Nicole shares:

• How presence makes Nicole feel most alive
• What was the catalyst that her on the path of healing
• What prevents people from truly being their embodied self
• How to trace back mistakes to childhood wounding
• Tools to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with yourself
• Why you have to learn to be with your discomfort
• Her thoughts on using psychedelics for healing
• How she uses future self journaling
• How she's learned to be passionate

You can find more about Nicole at:

Website | Instagram | Facebook

Links:

Pause Breathwork Facilitator Training Future Self Journal (Sign up to Nicole's email list for free download)

Check out our Hungry for Happiness community for more details, programs, and tips on how to thrive as a wellness coach!

Website | Samantha's Instagram | HFH Instagram | Facebook | Book | Certification Program

The Hungry for Happiness podcast combines personal development, deep conversations, and comedy to shake up the way you connect with yourself and the world. Be sure to subscribe on iTunes so you don't miss an episode!