Down To Earth

Many of us live a super fast paced lifestyle.  Although we may make time for a daily workout or a quick meditation, we often find ourselves out of balance and in need of true alignment.  In this episode, our hosts, Laurena and Jonathan, sit down with acclaimed author and wellness leader, Aaron Alexander.  Aaron is the founder of the Align method, an all-encompassing approach to seeking physical, mental and emotional alignment.  In this episode, Aaron shares valuable insight with us on the importance of mobility and flexibility, the importance of spending time in nature, the power of getting in touch with our roots, and finding daily practices that allow us to feel our best.  This is an episode you don’t want to miss.  Cheers to Good Health!

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While leading our often busy lives, it’s important for us to still find ways to keep our balance and prioritize our personal needs.  One of the best ways of doing that is through nourishing our bodies with whole, real foods.  Our guest today is acclaimed health and fitness expert, model, and author, Nikki Sharp.  Nikki is the author of the 5 day real food detox, and has helped countless people make positive dietary and lifestyle changes.  Nikki is a firm believer in the power of detoxing through real foods rather than just liquid fasts, prioritizing healthy eating through meal prepping, and taking time out of each day for taking care of one’s physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs.  Nikki also discusses her journey as an entrepreneur and the real life challenges and triumphs of running your own business.  Cheers!

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Hey, what sign are you?  Haven’t we all been asked that when meeting someone new or going out on a first date.  We might often take this question as a cute way to break the ice and start up some small talk, however, what if there is a deeper meaning to our individual astrology than we realize?  We’ve all heard the term, written in the stars, but do we actually realize how much of our life path is predetermined for us?  Astrology is an ancient field of study that observes information about human affairs and terrestrial events by studying the movements and relative positions of celestial objects.  According to astrology, the day, month, time, year, and location of where we are born determines who we are, our life path, and experiences that we may encounter along the way.  In this episode, we chat with Micks, an acclaimed astrologist who is the founder of the popular and informative instagram page, astrology_lyfe.  During our insightful conversation, Micks does an astrology deep dive with us and goes over astrology basics, how big of an impact our zodiac sign may have on our life path, relationship compatibility between the zodiac signs, and tips on how to manifest effectively.  If you’re looking to learn more about astrology this is the episode for you.  Cheers!!

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We’re living in a time of immense innovation and technological advancement.  While there are many great benefits to this, there has been a shift away from nature, introspection and and learning more about ourselves and our needs.  In this episode, our hosts sit down with acclaimed Shaman and best-selling author, Alyson Charles.  Alyson had a fascinating personal and career journey that eventually led her to a powerful realization about her true calling in life, shamanism. Alyson shares powerful insight with us on how we can all strive to become our most authentic selves, the power of nature and plant medicine, the symbolic meaning of animals and our interactions with them, energy healing, and how we can all strive to become our healthiest and most fulfilled selves.  We go deep in this episode and left our conversation with Alyson feeling recharged and inspired.  This is truly an episode you don’t want to miss.  Cheers to Good Health!!

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While we may aim to live as clean and healthy of a lifestyle as possible, we are surrounded by external toxins on a daily basis that can overload our system into an unbalanced state.  In this episode, our hosts are joined by Vanessa Fitzgerald.  Vanessa is an acclaimed health and life coach, recipe developer, and wellness expert.  Vanessa learned important health and wellness knowledge through her personal health struggles with PCOS and a reliance on adderall.  Vanessa shares her tips for proper detoxification, weening off of adderall, overcoming symptoms of PCOS, as well as the integral mental and emotional aspects to our overall health.  Vanessa is an uplifting and knowledgeable wellness leader who shares invaluable wisdom that she’s learned along the way.  Cheers to Good Health!!

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We've all heard the phrase “listen to your gut”.  We may not fully realize it, but our gut plays a pivotal role in our overall physical and mental health.  While proper nutrition, supplementation, and mindful lifestyle habits play a large role on our gut health, there are also deeper psychological factors that we need to be mindful of as well.  In this episode, our hosts sit down with acclaimed integrative health physician and author of Happy Gut, Dr. Vincent Pedre.  Dr. Pedre is the President of Dr. Pedre Wellness and is a Board-Certified Internist in a private practice in New York City since 2004. His philosophy and practices are a blend of both Western and Eastern medical traditions. He is also certified in yoga and Medical Acupuncture. Dr. Pedre is also a sought-after speaker and writer on sustainable health, prevention, and integrative and functional medicine.  This episode shares a lot of valuable information on how we can all strive to better our health.  Cheers!

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We’ve all heard the phrase, “you are what you eat” and studies now show that there is more truth to this statement than we thought.  Our food and beverage consumption has a huge impact on our overall health and quality of life.  Over the past decade, information about nutrition has become more easily accessible, and consumer spending on wellness has significantly increased.  However, disease rates continue to rise and the health of society as a whole continues to decline.  It’s clear that we still have more to learn about proper nutrition and how we can implement better dietary choices into our lives. Our host, Jonathan, is joined by acclaimed integrative nutritionist and food activist, Courtney Swan.  Courtney is the founder of Real Foodology, a blog and instagram account where she aims to educate consumers on the dirty practices of the food industry and the proper way to eat more healthfully, through consuming real wholesome foods.  Courtney shares so much valuable wisdom with us on how we can all strive for better health through our consumption and breaks down some common nutrition myths.  Cheers!

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We are all filled with limitless potential yet we often get in our own way and do not follow a suitable lifestyle to achieve it.  Attaining success requires structure, discipline, consistency, a healthy routine, and the ability to see past failures as a part of the journey to success.  In this episode, our hosts sit down and chat with Eric Hinman.  Eric is a professional athlete and entrepreneur, and he’s built his dream life by consistently structuring his days with the activities that best allow him to maximize his full potential.  In this episode, Eric shares his tips on fitness, nutrition, mindset, how he achieves flow state, and his views on business and the world of social media.  This episode will leave you feeling inspired and will help you realize that we can all achieve more by introducing more structure and healthy routines into our lifestyles.  Cheers!!

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Have you ever dreamed of starting your own business?  Are you looking to optimize your full potential?  The truth is becoming the best version of yourself often requires the need for healthy habits and routine.  In this episode, our host, Jonathan, sits down with Michael Chernow.  Michael is an acclaimed restauranteur and entrepreneur who believes in the power of human optimization. Michael shares his story and entrepreneurial wisdom that he's learned along the way.  He also shares how he was able to overcome addiction through incorporating healthy habits into his daily routine.  This episode will leave you feeling inspired and will have you looking at discipline and routine in a new way.  Cheers!!

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There are so many facets to truly living well, including the power of the words we speak and thoughts we have.  Did you know that the way you speak to yourself can have a huge impact on your overall health?  And that expressing gratitude for what you already have can open your life up to even more blessings?  In this episode, our hosts sit down and have a deep conversation with the one and only Chef Serena Poon.  Chef Serena Poon is a celebrity chef, certified nutritionist, and reiki master, who takes an integrative approach to helping people achieve optimal health.  In this episode, we go deep and discuss the importance of keeping a positive and grateful mindset, the power of reiki energy healing, how we can all work through energy stagnations on our own, and the importance of consuming a colorful plant rich diet.  Serena also shares her top wellness tips that we can all incorporate into our routines.  This is an eye-opening conversation that reminds us all that we have more control over our health and quality of life than we realize, and that we can truly transform our lives by incorporating small but consistent practices throughout our day.  Cheers!!

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