Colorful Eats

Today we are chatting with Jessi of the popular food blog, Jessi’s Kitchen, about her autoimmune disease diagnosis and how she has learned to “live beyond” and find joy within the challenges of her diagnosis. Jessi shares her passion for good food and how changing her diet made a world of difference in her health journey.

She talks dream meals and cocktails and lets us in on her recent guilty pleasure and shares some awesome encouragement for others dealing with autoimmune disease or other health hardships.

We had a great time talking with Jessi and if you want to try out some of her delicious real food and cocktail recipes, check out her blog, Instagram, Facebook or Twitter!

 

Thank you to the Nutritional Therapy Association for sponsoring this podcast episode.

On today’s episode of the Colorful Eats podcast, we are digging into protein powders and dissecting those famous label claims of weight loss and six pack abs. Is the powdered form of protein all it’s cracked up to be or should be reconsider our go-to protein powder?

We share our favorite protein sources and how adding them to foods and smoothies can amp up your usable nutrient intake as well as provide some pretty incredible support to your beauty regimen. And since smoothies are a place we tend to sprinkle our fave protein powder into, we take a look at how they can fall in line with those “healthy” food items that can be really unhealthy and take you through some ways to optimize your everyday smoothie into a total powerhouse. As always, we’ve included links to all the products and superfoods we talked about during this episode below.

We’d love to hear what some of your favorite smoothies superfoods are! Let us know in the comments!

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Highlight Reel:

5:10: Caroline’s dreamy France trip and her perfect vacay

13:30: How we really feel about most protein powders on the market today

19:00: When smoothies can be a good option

20:50: Our fave brand + types of protein

Link Love

Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides

Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides (travel packs)

Vital Proteins Collagen Beauty Greens

Vital Proteins Gelatin

Sun Potion Ashwagandha

Sun Potion Cordyceps

Maca Root Powder

Celtic Sea Salt

Raw Cacao Powder

Raw Cocoa Nibs

Vanilla Bean Grass-fed Ghee

Episode 30: Stop the Glorification of Busy

Today we are honored to welcome our sweet friend and fellow Nutritional Therapist, Amanda Koch of My Well Balanced Life to the podcast. She’s a passionate real food lover, military wife, mama and a woman with a story of great loss and incredibly beautiful gain.

Amanda shares her story of multiple miscarriages and how her faith and the knowledge she gained from holistic practitioners changed her health and her journey in an incredible way.  Amanda opens her heart to share her story, not to talk about herself but to help other women through a difficult time in their lives and talk about a subject that maybe isn't talked about that much.  

We chat both the emotional and physical stress of miscarriage, how her husband encouraged her through every step of the way and how nutrition and non-toxic living has played a huge role in her journey and beautiful family!

So for some of you listening, this may be a difficult episode to listen to and for some this may not exactly pertain to you.  But, chances are, everyone listening has known someone who has gone through this struggle or will know someone in the future, so we hope this is encouraging to everyone.

You will love Amanda’s genuine and heart-felt approach to the topic of miscarriage, so grab the tissue box and get ready to be encouraged today!

Read Amanda's complete story of miscarriage and her rainbow baby.

Highlight Reel

04:20 | Amanda’s story of life and 7 miscarriages

10:20 | What kept Amanda going and out of bed, despite the pain

17:24 | Why she finally opened up about the real struggles

30:10 | How her husband supported through this intense loss

Thank you to the Nutritional Therapy Association for sponsoring this episode.

We are really loving this whole “simplifying” craze that’s happening in the world right now because as you know, we are all about being more mindful in life—your stressors, messes, what’s draining you, what’s filling you up, how food makes you feel and so on.

We believe that you need to be mindful in order to know what and how your life needs simplifying, but figuring out how to actually put this into practice can be a challenge. We totally get it.

The thing is, it’s not necessarily about doing more or less, but more about doing the right thing.

So on today’s episode, we are giving you 10 ways to simplify your life—from cleaning out your closet to checking your email less and a few more good ones in between. Maybe you’re kicking butt at a few of these, but other areas are leaving you overwhelmed or exhausted.

We challenge you to put one or two of the points to practice in the coming week. And since we love to give you ways to make what you learn in the episode as actionable as possible, we have created a free download that’ll help you kick butt at #4, one of our favorite points from this episode.

Download your FREE journal, “4 Ways to Prioritize Your Life”!

 

Highlight Reel

02:30 | What simplifying your life actually means day to day

09:15 | Why you should get dressed and ready each morning

23:05 | Only checking your email 2 times per day

31:24 | Say “no” so that you can say the right “yes” for your life

 

Link Love

Episode 35: Stress-Less Entertaining with Lauren Kelp

Dailygreatness Planners

Rifle Paper Co. Planner

4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris

 

Thank you to the Nutritional Therapy Association for sponsoring this episode.

As the weather begins to brighten up, we find ourselves with a hankerin’ for some entertaining. A long table set up outside, some fresh flowers and your favorite cocktail. Sounds lovely, right?

The fact of the matter is that entertaining can oftentimes feel a tad bit overwhelming and stressful, but we don’t think it has to be that way. Today we’re hanging out with the fabulous Lauren Kelp of LaurenKelp.com talking all about a less stressful approach to Spring entertaining.

From simple strategies like having enough seating for your guests to hang and relax to creating a playlist to set the vibes, Lauren shares her entertaining philosophy and how she hosts without all the fuss and stress. One of our favorite aspects of her philosophy is her focus on creating community, breaking bread together and maybe even making a new friend of two, not so much about presenting the perfect table scape or menu.

This is the perfect episode to help inspire you to get your favorites together for some much needed laughter, community and delicious eats!

You can find more entertaining and simple living tips from Lauren over on LaurenKelp.com, Tablemakers and Instagram.

Please do us a huge favor and go hit the “Subscribe” button on iTunes and share the podcast with your favorite humans! And if you love the podcast, please leave a review on iTunes!

 

Highlight Reel

04:35 | Lauren’s entertaining philosophy

10:12 | Key elements to  stress-less entertaining

25:00 | Just open your home

Welcome back to another episode of the Colorful Eats podcast! This week we are digging into the infamous “cheat day” and revealing some not so satisfying facts about why these days of gorging on donuts, pizza and anything else you can get your hands on isn’t the best idea for encouraging a healthy body and mind.

We’re sharing the ways a “cheat day” can cause physical and emotional messes in your life and how cheat days can reveal deeper life issues that may need addressing. Most importantly and the reason for doing this episode, we lay out how to create a lifestyle of balance so that you’ll never need to rely on a “cheat day” to eat that bowl of ice cream or pour that second glass of vino and really enjoy your life.

Please do us a huge favor and go hit the “Subscribe” button on iTunes and share the podcast with your friends and family! And if you love the podcast, please leave us a review on iTunes!

Highlight Reel

1:30 | Why the logic of “cheat days” is so flawed

5:34 | Metabolism and your body on a cheat day

16:00| How a cheat day can become your every day

24:08 | Action steps

Thank you to the Nutritional Therapy Association for sponsoring this episode!

Today’s episode is all about YOU, our incredible listener and friend. We love to come up with fun, actionable content for you to listen to, but we also love to hear about what you’re most interested in, what you want to learn more about and where you need extra knowledge and support in your health journey.

In today’s episode, we answer 5 questions that some of our faithful podcast friends sent in. From how to address a picky spouse and our take on intermittent fasting to what inspired us to become Nutritionists and how to address hormones naturally, we are digging into some of your burning questions and creating more clarity on the topics that interest you most.

We had so much fun with this episode and we’d love to do this again. Feel free to leave your nutrition and lifestyle questions in a comment below!

Thank you to the Nutritional Therapy Association for sponsoring this episode!

 

Highlight Reel

06:04 | How to eat healthy together with a picky spouse

20:04 | Our take on intermittent fasting

28:38 | Hormone replacement therapy and natural ways to support healthy hormones

35:50 | A holistic take on Type 1 Diabetes and creating love within a difficult diagnosis

 

Link Love

All American Paleo Table by Caroline Potter

Eat the Yolks by Liz Wolfe

Practical Paleo by Diane Sanfillippo

Fed + Fit by Cassy Joy Garcia

Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes

The Bulletproof Diet by Dave Asprey

The Loving Diet by Dr. Jessica Flanigan

Episode 32: 10 Things We’re Learning Lately

Thank you Primally Pure for sponsoring this episode. Be sure to listen along to get your free lip balm with any order!

 

Welcome back to another episode of the Colorful Eats podcast! Today we are getting personal and sharing 10 lessons we have been learning lately with the hope that maybe you’ll be able to relate to some of our struggles or successes and know that we’re all in this together.

Being open and honest with what life really looks like can be tough, but what we’ve begun to realize is that living intentionally and sharing what’s really going on behind the Instagram photos can be an incredible way to connect and even encourage others who may be experiencing some of the same life lessons.

We each share 5 recent life lessons, some have to do with nutrition, stress and emotional health and of course how to experience more joy in your life. Because we do love us some joy!

So, grab a cup of broth and relax or your mop and DIY kitchen spray (I’ve heard many of you have enjoyed listening while cleaning!) and enjoy friends!

Thank you Primally Pure for sponsoring this episode. Be sure to listen along to get your free lip balm with any order!

Highlight Reel

01:45 | Thank you to Primally Pure for sponsoring this episode + free lip balm

04:33 | Caroline’s first lesson on how emotional stress impacts her blood sugar

18:30 | Justine’s second lesson on creating food convenience for more family time

30:20 | Caroline’s fourth lesson on slowing down to be more productive

36:07 | Justine’s final lesson on “me” time

 

Link Love

Episode 13 | Beauty from Ashes: KICKcanER with Season Johnson, NTP

Episode 30 | Stop the Glorification of Busy

Thank you the the Nutritional Therapy Association for sponsoring this episode—real education for people who believe in real food.

 

We both love sunshine and the life and energy it brings into our daily lives! And we better because we both live in sunny, warm areas of the world! Funny thing is, we rarely lather up with sunscreen, really only if we’re going to be in the sun for long periods of time.

Today we are talking about just how vital sunshine is to our health and why choosing the right sun protection is so important. We’re sharing some hard facts about vitamin D and the importance of getting in some good ol’ sunshine daily for overall health and wellbeing.

We share some awesome, simple ways to protect your skin naturally using foods and our favorite non-toxic sunscreen! And since summer is fast approaching, taking action in your life with this episode’s practical “Action Steps” will help make sure your skin is naturally protected, well-nourished and safe!

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Highlight Reel

08:20 | Importance of vitamin D and sunshine exposure

13:45 | The best way to get your vitamin D

19:30 | How to naturally protect your skin with food

28:15 | The beauty of summertime produce and their skin protecting effects

29:00 |  Why choosing safe sunscreen matters

34:40 | Action Steps

 

Link Love

The Environmental Working Group’s Sun Safety Campaign

EWG’s 2016 Sunscreen Guide (2017 will be out sometime this spring)

Pure Synergy Turmeric

Protect Stick Sunscreen (Body)

Protect Stick Sunscreen (Face)

Protect All Over Sunscreen

Thank you the the Nutritional Therapy Association for sponsoring this episode—real education for people who believe in real food.

Thank you Primally Pure for sponsoring this episode.  Be sure to listen for your free lip balm!

 

Welcome back to another episode of the Colorful Eats podcast! This week we’re getting all deep and philosophical on you and you’re going to love every second of it. Because we’re giving you permission to take a step back from life, sort out the “busy” and create healthy ways to recharge and take a breather from it all. In fact, I think we even make “the hustle” look a little uncool.

We live in a time where, “I’m so busy”, is something just about everyone utters at least once a day. But is all this busyness really doing anything positive in our lives? Is our joy and our relationships suffering because of how “busy” we make ourselves?

In today’s episode, we challenge the “glorification of busy” and offer up 8 strategies to lessen the fluff and noise in your life, creating more time to do what you love and more opportunities to bring joy to your life. We’re also giving you permission to be YOU and we think that’s pretty powerful. Plus, we’ve got five action steps to help make it real for you and challenge you to take steps forward.

We’d like to ask that this week, you share the podcast with a friend or two who may need a little recharging of their own. We’d love to be a little light in their lives!

 

Link Love

Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist

Chasing Slow by Erin Loechner

 

Thank you Primally Pure for sponsoring this episode.  Be sure to listen for your free lip balm!