Creating Wellness From Within

Creating Wellness From Within is a podcast devoted to empowering you to live your best life by taking accountability for your own personal wellness … brought to you in part by Integrated Health Systems located in Denver, CO. 

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine & The Brain Health Magazine, and author of several books. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is:  Shari Leid

Former litigator Shari Leid currently operates An Imperfectly Perfect Life, LLC, a professional mindset coaching business serving clients who are in those tricky middle age years, helping them create the life of their dreams. She is the author of the Friendship Flow transformational book series, which includes The 50/50 Friendship  Flow: Life Lessons  From and For My Girlfriends and Make Your Mess Your Message  - More Life Lessons From and For My Girlfriends.  www.animperfectlyperfectlife.com

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Creating Wellness From Within is a podcast devoted to empowering you to live your best life by taking accountability for your own personal wellness … brought to you in part by Integrated Health Systems located in Denver, CO. 

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine & The Brain Health Magazine, and author of several books. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is: Virginia Walton

Virginia Walton is a Certified Professional Coach helping executive women maximize their productivity and avoid burnout.  She spent 24 years in the banking and finance industry starting as a teller at a local community bank and achieving the level of Senior Vice President by the age of 38. She now runs her own Executive Coaching and Speaking firm, the family tree farm and serves on several nonprofit and community organizations.

www.virginiawalton.com

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Creating Wellness From Within is a podcast devoted to empowering you to live your best life by taking accountability for your own personal wellness … brought to you in part by Integrated Health Systems located in Denver, CO. 

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine & The Brain Health Magazine, and author of several books. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is: Crystal Cave

Crystal Cave is a celebrity stylist turned style educator and fashion designer. She is the Founder + Creative Director of Poppy Row, a size-inclusive, eco-conscious clothing line.
 
Following her employment in branding + marketing, Crystal decided to follow her dream of becoming a celebrity stylist and worked between NY and Los Angeles on the teams behind many major brands including Taylor Swift, Usher, Willem Dafoe, Kate Upton, Mercedes, Billboard Music Awards, among many others.
 
After working with women across the globe, she realized there was a need in the marketplace for functional, transitional and stylish staples that were sustainably made, which lead to the creation of Poppy Row, a Los Angeles-based line of size inclusive, modular staples made from eucalyptus, carrying sizes 2-40.
 
Crystal’s style advice has been seen by over 1 billion people globally. She’s the recipient of Rent the Runway's Project Entrepreneur Class of 2018 and has been seen in Elle Magazine, Essence Magazine, ABC, NBC, CBS, Bustle, The Boston Globe, Live About, Mind Body Green, Huffington Post, The Curvy Fashionista, and many more.

https://www.poppyrow.com/


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Creating Wellness From Within is a podcast devoted to empowering you to live your best life by taking accountability for your own personal wellness … brought to you in part by Integrated Health Systems located in Denver, CO. 

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine & The Brain Health Magazine, and author of several books. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is: Petranka

Petranka is a recipe developer, blogger, and anorexia survivor, who is on a journey to finding freedom with food. She has been in therapy for a few years now and is currently working on looking at wellness through a new lens, one without control and obsession. She has learned so much about the connection between the brain and the body, and is willing to share it all with others who are struggling with some form of eating disorder and feel stuck.

www.sunglowitchen.com


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Creating Wellness From Within is a podcast devoted to empowering you to live your best life by taking accountability for your own personal wellness … brought to you in part by Integrated Health Systems located in Denver, CO. 

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine & The Brain Health Magazine, and author of several books. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is: Brenda Billings Ridgley

BRENDA RIDGLEY is an author, speaker, and girlfriend guru who loves helping women connect, find success, and discover joy through friendship. She holds an MA in human resources and has spent decades cultivating her own Tribe. In her spare time, Brenda enjoys hiking in the Rocky Mountains and creating memories with her family and girlfriends.

https://www.brendaridgley.com/


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Creating Wellness From Within is a podcast devoted to empowering you to live your best life by taking accountability for your own personal wellness … brought to you in part by Integrated Health Systems located in Denver, CO. 

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine & The Brain Health Magazine, and author of several books. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is: Mary Beth O'Connor

For Mary Beth, childhood abuse and other traumas led to substance use disorder (addiction).

Beginning with alcohol at age 12, she spent several years abusing various drugs. She found methamphetamine at 16 and started shooting up at 17. Mary Beth struggled with meth until she was 32 years old.

By incorporating ideas from multiple sources to build a secular (not 12-step or faith based) recovery plan that works for her, Mary Beth has accrued 27 years of sobriety. She used similar techniques to address the trauma and related anxiety as well.

Mary Beth is a board member for LifeRing Secular Recovery and She Recovers Foundation. She speaks on behalf of these organizations and about multiple paths to recovery.

In 2020, Mary Beth published two opinion pieces about substance use disorder and recovery in major national publications.

She has published memoir pieces and completed a book-length memoir.

Professionally, 6 years into recovery, Mary Beth attended Berkeley Law. She worked at a large firm in Silicon Valley, then litigated class actions for the federal government. In 2014, Mary Beth was appointed a federal Administrative Law Judge, a position from which she retired in 2020.

junkietojudge.com



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Creating Wellness From Within is a podcast devoted to empowering you to live your best life by taking accountability for your own personal wellness … brought to you in part by Integrated Health Systems located in Denver, CO. 

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine & The Brain Health Magazine, and author of several books. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is: Dani Solorio

dani solorio (they/them) is a renowned herbalist and the founder of Compton Heath Bar, an holistic wellness space in Compton, California on Tongva land. Driven by their mission to bring health to the hood, Dani helps people reconnect to ancestral healing practices through their all-natural herbal remedies. Since 2012, they have been at the forefront of the wellness movement in Compton, as well as for the Latinx and LGBTQ+ community across the country.  Dani and their movement to make holistic health more accessible have been featured in a mini-documentary by BESE, along with dozens of features in CBS, PBS, Found/LA, Los Angeles Business Journal, Voyage LA, LatinX, and numerous podcasts. They are also the residential herbalist for Telemundo’s hit show, Acceso Total.

Listeners receive 15% off their order with code "wellnesswithin"
https://comptonhealthbar.com/


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Creating Wellness From Within is a podcast devoted to empowering you to live your best life by taking accountability for your own personal wellness … brought to you in part by Integrated Health Systems located in Denver, CO. 

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine & The Brain Health Magazine, and author of several books. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is: Adriana Cowdin

Adriana L. Cowdin is a 4-time entrepreneur and “retired” Corporate America C-level marketing executive who served as the Division Vice President, Social Media & Mobile Marketing for a $40B retailer overseeing 150 brands; the Chief Digital Marketing Officer for a household name home security company and Chief Marketing Officer of a PE-owned (KKR) manufacturing company. In 2015 Cowdin founded Dekaf Digital, a social media marketing agency, and continues to lead it.
 
What’s unique about Cowdin is her passion to give back and balance life.  In addition to living with 10 chronic diseases and having undergone 27 procedures in the last 5 years, she serves on several Boards of Directors for non-profit organizations and is a regular volunteer in her community.

She has been featured on ABC News, WGN TV, Forbes, Inc. 500, FoxBusiness, CNNMoney, Yahoo!, The Huffington Post, Authority Magazine, Thrive Global, Reuters, Hoovers, The NY Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, NJ Ledger, The Houston Chronicle, The Denver Post and over a dozen podcasts broadcast around the world.

www.adrianacowdin.com

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Creating Wellness From Within is a podcast devoted to empowering you to live your best life by taking accountability for your own personal wellness … brought to you in part by Integrated Health Systems located in Denver, CO. 

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine & The Brain Health Magazine, and author of several books. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is: Megan Swan

Megan Swan is a mindset and wellness coach that designs custom, approachable wellness lifestyles for the ambitious woman.

She helps women optimize their wellness through nutrition, mindfulness, mindset and movement so that they can feel magnetic energy + confidence in their own skin so that ultimately they can accomplish their dreams and stop playing small.

She is a certified IIN Health Coach, Plant-Based Chef, Detox Expert, Yoga Teacher with over 10 years of integrative wellness experience.

www.meganswanwellness.com

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Creating Wellness From Within is a podcast devoted to empowering you to live your best life by taking accountability for your own personal wellness … brought to you in part by Integrated Health Systems located in Denver, CO. 

Women in particular have a tendency to take care of everyone else around them first, while putting their own self care and wellness on the back burner. This podcast is designed to give you actionable advice and tools to help you power up your own wellness journey, and live the best life possible!

I am your host, Amy Zellmer. I am editor-in-chief of MN YOGA + Life magazine & The Brain Health Magazine, and author of several books. Additionally I am passionate about yoga, photography, wellness, and all things glittery! You can find out more about me at www.creatingwellnessfromwithin.com

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Today's guest is: Shahada Karim

Shahada Karim believes the most effective way to connect is through plain speech, clear direction and decisive action. She grew up ‘dabbling’ in forms of yoga, to stretch overworked muscles from too many hours in the gym. In 2012, she committed to learning as much as she could about yoga with her first certified training in Hatha Technique. She’s since been certified in Hot Power Fusion (Hatha/Bikram Hybrid), Yoga Sculpt (external weights and resistance) and Yin Yoga. She also studied Mat Pilates, Barre, Yoga 4 Cancer and Yoga Nidra.
She has specialized training in anatomy and physiology, kinesiology, energetic cultivation and transfer, sound therapy, meditation, and breath-work.
 
In 2017, she expanded her studies to Ayurveda and its specific connection to Nutrition and Physical Expression. In 2018 she founded Habibi Sport, to focus on sustainable choices and habits that encourage health and wellness for life. She developed NOURISH: a personalized nutrition program that works with an individual’s unique taste proclivities, habits, and emotional triggers - to help them reach optimum health and wellness. She also developed the Habibi Technique, which focuses on ‘center out’ movement and utilizes breath to target specific muscle engagements. The physical exercises promote conscious muscle contraction and extension. Results include a strong, lean, flexible body and expanded lung capacity. The energetic result is courage of self- expression, self-confidence, self-love, self-honesty, and the fortitude to hold space for oneself and others.

habibibodysport.com

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