Coffee & Kettlebells

Jen Soko, a Burn Boot Camp member, joins us for this installment of the Keep Moving series. We're discussing how she overcame health struggles and grief. After the sudden death of a loved one, Jen faced the most difficult obstacle that she has ever had to deal with. This loss made her realize that she needs to live in the moment and love herself for who she truly is. When she joined Burn Boot Camp, she surrounded herself with like-minded individuals who supported her and encouraged her to reach her goals.

What You'll Learn:

• Sharing insights on how to accept love and embrace yourself for who you are right now.
• Everyone handles grief differently and should be allowed to handle it in whatever way will get them through the day.
• After losing her brother, Soko’s health was in a dark place for years after the death. In order to cope, she began to deal with things on a day-to-day basis and focused on living in the present.
• Her health journey began with a tummy tuck, but she soon realized that she wasn’t feeling fulfilled. After she found Burn Boot Camp, she found a sense of fulfillment and surrounded herself with people who encouraged and supported her.
• After attending Burn Boot Camp, she began to feel powerful, more confident, and gained a supportive social network.
• Surround yourself with people who don’t bring you down, with people who celebrate who you are, not just tolerate you.

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Dr. Will Cole, a leading functional medicine expert who specializes in identifying the root cause of chronic diseases, returns to the podcast to discuss thyroid health. Maintaining a healthy thyroid is essential because it has a wide-reaching impact on our health and is linked to mood, brain function, digestion, and more. If you’re struggling with thyroid issues, try addressing them through a functional medicine approach. This will tackle the root of the cause and has the least amount of side effects.

 What You'll Learn:

• The most common types of thyroid issues are hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism. Hyperthyroidism is caused by an overactive thyroid, while hypothyroidism occurs when the thyroid gland is not able to produce enough thyroid hormone.
• As a society, we need to look at the underlying causes of thyroid issues and illnesses, instead of merely managing the symptoms.
• Thyroid hormone physiology is incredibly complex and the conventional lab results don’t give patients a complete view of their health.
• While conventional doctors are essential and necessary for crisis care, chronic care is beginning to fall short, leaving patients looking for more.

Find more from Dr. Will Cole 

Instagram: @drwillcole

Facebook: @drwillcole

Website: Dr. Will Cole

Book: Ketotarian 

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Today, Jasmine Laura shares her inspiring story with us and teaches us that we can all be more resilient when faced with the unexpected. After becoming a mother at 17 years old and unable to lose her pregnancy weight, Jasmine turned to Burn Bootcamp to get back in shape. This led her to develop healthy habits and implement more discipline into her life. This life shift set off a chain reaction and eventually Jasmine quit her secure job, to follow her dream of becoming a makeup artist.

What You'll Learn

• The struggle of being a young mom
• How to find a strong support system
• Asking yourself the question: “Who is the person I want to be?”
• Uncovering life lessons from past mistakes and moving on
• How to cultivate a strong mindset through goal setting
• Why you should follow your dream
• The importance of food prep
• How body positivity can change your life

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If you love everything you have learned from my podcast and you feel ready to take your health, fitness and happiness to the next level, start here!

Today I have Dr. Will Cole on the show. Dr. Cole is a leading functional-medicine expert, specializing in investigating the underlying factors of chronic disease and customizing health programs for people with autoimmune conditions. Dr. Cole is a health expert and course instructor for two of the world’s largest wellness brands, mindbodygreen and goop. He's also authored two books, Ketotarian and The Inflammation Spectrum. Today, he talks with me about how his Ketotarian diet can impact your life.

What You’ll Learn

How to tailor your health to your individual needs and struggles

Ketotarian: the (mostly) plant-based plan

Carb cycling

Learning to love your body

How health intertwines with self-care and self-love

Unhealthy Keto approaches

Walking away from the politicizing of food and wellness

The definition of healthy fats

What a Keto breakfast lunch and dinner looks like

Find more from Dr. Will Cole

Instagram:@drwillcole

Facebook: @drwillcole

Work with Dr. Will Cole: Learn more here

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Welcome to part two of my Keep Moving series! Through this series, I will be interviewing Burn Boot Camp members who have all been faced with adversity, but chose to overcome it to keep moving forward in their lives. Tune in to be inspired, motivated and empowered to keep moving forward in your life, too, despite your current circumstances! 

In this episode, I chat with Burn Boot Camp Webster, New York Member, Meghan Jordan. Meghan opens up about her story of battling both Arnold Chiari Malformation and Bipolar disorder and the difficulties it presents in her day-to-day life.

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In this episode of Coffee & Kettlebells, I chat with Registered Dietitian, Mackenzie Caldwell who answers the question, what exactly is the best diet for you both during pregnancy and postpartum? Mackenzie and I share the same philosophy when it comes to nutrition and weight loss as we are both firm believers in intuitive eating. Mackenzie brings us a comforting approach to nutrition for the times in our lives when we feel the least in control of our diet ever!

What you’ll learn:

What it means to eat intuitively

How to eat intuitively when pregnant  

Why your weight should be the least of your concerns

Macronutrients to focus on during your pregnancy

Best foods for dealing with morning sickness (To learn more, check out MacKenzie’s amazing blog post here.)

Why you don’t need to “get your body back” after baby

Best foods for breastfeeding

How to eat intuitively postpartum

Find more from MacKenzie:

Instagram: @feedyourzest

Facebook: @feedyourzest

Blog: Feed Your Zest

Work with Mackenzie: Learn more here

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Carly Stein is on the podcast today. Carly is the founder and CEO of Beekeeper’s Naturals, a company that creates natural, pesticide-free bee products. Stein’s journey first began during a trip abroad that led to her contracting tonsillitis. While she faced the prospect of surgery, she desperately searched for a different solution and was able to find a pharmacy that offered bee products. These bee products allowed her to avoid surgery and enjoy the rest of her time abroad. Now she has made it her mission to bring these products to the United States and give others access to natural, alternative medicines. Stein is also an advocate for the preservation of the global bee population and works to support hives across North America.

Key Takeaway: By using natural, pesticide-free products that are consistently tested, Beekeeper’s naturals hopes to improve the health of both bees and humans.

Highlights:

• Beekeepers Naturals obsessively test their bee products to ensure that no pesticides or harmful chemicals affect the bees.
• Bee products can be an excellent alternative medication for people with autoimmune conditions or other medical conditions.
• Carly Stein, who has an autoimmune disease, was struggling for years before she found a solution in Propolis. Propolis is antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, soothing on the digestive system, and good for gut health.
• In your professional life, you should have the courage to take a leap of faith and do something that is both scary and rewarding.
• Pesticides are incredibly damaging to bees and we’re still not sure what harm they’re doing to us in the long term.
• Bee Pollen, also known as nature's multivitamin, increases endurance, raises energy and is a great source of protein.
• Raw honey can help fend off the effects of food poisoning, fights germs, and promotes relaxation.

Love what you learned from Carly? Shop Beekeeper's Naturals and get 15% off with the promo code CK15! Shop here. 

Find more from Carly Stein:

Instagram: @beekeepers_naturals

Facebook: Beekeeper's Naturals

Website: beekeepersnaturals.com

Blog: beekeepersnaturals.com/blog

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I’m here today to talk about Macros and I ask the question should you be counting your Macros? Macros are Macronutrients and they consist of carbs, fats and protein. You can count your macros using percentages or by grams. Counting macros is a great tool to have in your toolbox when you’re learning to eat healthier. You might be gaining weight just by eating too much of one macro. When counting macros, you know exactly what’s going in your body and it’s helpful with keeping you accountable. As you progress in your health journey and learn how to eat healthy, you’ll get a solid understanding of portion size and know what feels good and works in your body. When you know what works for you, you can stop counting your macros and instead focus on eating intuitively.

Key Takeaway: Counting your Macros during the beginning of your health journey is a great way to learn portion size and can help you with accountability. As you progress in your health journey you’ll experiment with different levels of carbs, fats and protein and you’ll learn what works best for you.

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I’m so excited to jump back into the world of hormones with a returning guest – Dr. Jolene Brighten! Dr. Jolene Brighten is a functional naturopathic doctor, nutritional biochemist, and the author of the newly released book, Beyond the Pill. Within this episode, we discuss the science behind hormone imbalances and natural ways that we can fix such imbalances. Just a few factors that can throw your hormones out of balance include gut health, liver health, stress, sleep, and food. In addition, we also face environmental factors, such as toxins in cleaning and beauty products, that can also cause hormone imbalances. If you find that you’re struggling with an imbalance, you can look into the hormone detox kit offered by Dr. Jolene Brighten, which takes you through a full-body detox involving small changes in food, lifestyle, and supplements.

Key Takeaway: By understanding any hormone imbalances you may have, you can make small changes in your lifestyle that will ensure that you’re healthier later in life.

Highlights:

• Discussing ways to naturally balance your hormones without the use of hormonal birth control
• Gut health, liver health, exercise, sleep, stress, postpartum, and food all contribute to causing imbalances with our hormones.
• Adrenal glands, thyroid, and sex hormones play a huge role in hormone production. You need to have strong foundational health within your adrenal glands and thyroid before focusing on sex hormones.
• In addition to toxins in beauty products and cleaning chemicals, hormonal birth control can also cause your liver to work overtime.
• By over exercising or overtraining and not consuming enough calories, it may be more difficult to lose weight because your body goes into starvation mode.
• Jolene Brighten provides a hormone reset detox, which is a program that takes you through a full-body detox involving food, lifestyle, and supplements. This detox also highlights small everyday changes and your mindset.

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Find more from Dr. Jolene Brighten:

Instagram: @drjolenebrighten

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/drbrighten

Website:    https://drbrighten.com/

Beyond The Pill:https://drbrighten.com/beyond-the-pill/

Today we’re talking about taking things personally. We all can be selfish and assume that everything has to do with us. But when others are cutting you down and being rude to you in the workplace or in society, it’s often because they have an internal conflict and they’re taking it out on you. We don’t know what everyone is going through in their personal life and maybe your success and/or actions have caused jealousy or insecurity in another person and they lashed out at you because they feel inferior. Everyone has bad days, so stop thinking that you did something wrong or that they feel a certain way about you. Their lashing out is most likely because they’re upset with themselves in that moment. When you come across someone who’s being rude or short with you, I encourage you to confront them about it a non-aggressive way and nip it in the bud before you begin to hold a grudge. In this episode, I’m going to discuss different areas in our lives where we can stop taking things personally and stop thinking everyone else’s actions are directed at us. I assure you that once you do this, you’ll be able to live your life with greater ease and more joy and happiness.

Key Takeaway: When you stop taking things personally, you will experience much more joy and happiness in your life.

Highlights:

• Projecting your own anger or insecurities onto others
• Watching others succeed can cause your own jealousy to come out
• How to develop thick skin
• Take a breath before acting on your emotions
• When someone is rude to you, it doesn’t necessarily mean it was something you did

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If you love everything you have learned from my podcast and you feel ready to take your health, fitness and happiness to the next level, start here!