Welcome to The Wellness Compass Podcast

Welcome to season one of The Wellness Compass!

We are going to be discussing the act of wellness, practicing healthy habits that lead to better physical, mental, and emotional health outcomes. So, instead of just surviving, you're thriving.

I'm your host, Olivia Chadwick.

Thanks for being here. Okay, this is pretty hard to believe, but this is the launch of The Wellness Compass!

I want to thank you for being here, and I want to share with you everything you're going to get to experience if you stick around for all the episodes that are dropping this first season.

I want to tell you what the wellness compass is all about. It's been months in the works of visioning, creating, curating, and just gathering all the things needed to put it together. We are finally getting to launch.

I will be sharing the journey of meeting with health professionals around the world in this first season!

What is the vision for The Wellness Compass?

Are we in alignment with how we think about health? I want to share with you some of my philosophies that are in part a journey through academia, but mostly a journey through my life to share what has led me to certain philosophies and beliefs. If you're here, you're probably in alignment with these concepts. Or, if you're not in alignment with these ideas, they might be completely new to you and might illuminate new things.

In this episode, I'm going to share with you my positioning within the podcast as the person who created the vision and as the person who you're going to be spending every episode with.

For the last 20 years, I've been working as an exercise physiologist. I have a Master's in kinesiology, within the social sciences. I am completely fascinated and knowledgeable about everything regarding exercise science, understanding the body really well, how it functions, how we get it to perform well, and how to optimize it, so we're constantly feeling our best.

That is completely my jam.

The heart of what I am really into and wanting to go deeper in, especially as I get older, is the complex nature of health, the complex nature of human bodies.

When I first went out in the world as an exercise physiologist, I thought it was enough just to be really knowledgeable about science and be really skilled in the way that

I applied science with people.

What I really realized quite quickly, actually, within the work, was that my skills as a coach needed a massive upgrade.

I really needed to understand human beings, why they were coming to me, what was really motivating them, why they were feeling bad, how they wanted to feel better, what feeling better actually meant to them, what health meant to them, and why had their health declined in the first place.

This perspective or this experience led me to get really interested in human psychology.

And beyond human psychology, really understanding mental health and emotional health, and beyond emotional health and mental health is another layer that I've found to be incredibly helpful on this journey of understanding.

I hope you'll join us to hear more in this first episode!