Gettin' Down With Her Roots

This week I  chat with Whitney Hawkins Goodman, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and owner of The Collaborative Counseling Center in Miami, FL. She throws down some truth bombs about therapy, barriers to entry, and more. She brings insight to leading and marketing your own therapy practice and how social media has allowed therapists to break the stigma behind therapy and create awareness.

 

In this episode, we talk about:

• Therapy for individuals with chronic illness
• Stress and the stress response
• Collaborative space for therapists to build their own practice
• Barriers to entry to creating a practice
• Using Instagram as market research
• Barriers to receiving care
• Steps to finding a therapist
• Preparing for your first appointment
• An integrative approach to care
• Providing empowerment

 

Where to find Whitney:

Email: [email protected]

Instagram:  www.instagram.com/sitwithwhit

Website. www.collabcounseling.com

 

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This week we chat with Melissa Fee. Melissa and I met in college. A few years later she introduced me to the world of essential oils. Today she shares her story about how they have changed her life and truly changed the quality of her life as a Type 1 Diabetes warrior. Her perspective and approach is unique in the fact that she works in transplant histocompatibility and helps individuals get new organs. Her perspective integrating modern and holistic medicine into an integrative approach is worth the listen!

 

In this episode, we talk about:

• Melissa's journey to helping people get new organs
• Being diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes
• Empowerment through little brown bottles
• Cost and side benefits of using essential oils
• Science and research behind essential oils
• Physiological effects of essential oils
• Are grocery store essential oils worth it
• Prime Meridian clinics
• Bringing essential oils into a relationship
• Integrative medicine

 

Resources & links mentioned in the episode:

• Ylang Ylang Essential Oil doterra.me/2dvgzLWc
• doTERRA Essential Oils www.doterra.com
• Prime Meridian pmhclinics.com

 

Where to find Melissa:

Email: [email protected]

 

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This week we chat with Maria Papiez. Maria and I actually grew up together! She is my cousin and my very first friend since the day she was born. Our paths have weaved in and out as we've ventured on our own purpose-filled paths but always realizing we're growing similarly in different ways. I love catching up with her and having the ME TOO moments. She is a former 2nd grade teacher, and this past year she took on a new role as a math instructional coach in grades 3-5. Going from working with kiddos to working with adults has challenged her in the best ways. She works with teachers to better improve math instruction in their classroom. We talk about embracing the grey when it comes to working with real people and whats she has found to be the most successful ways to build the trust that is essential to working together as a team. There are so many great tidbits in this episode I know you'll enjoy!

 

In this episode, we talk about:

• Transitioning from working with kids to working with teachers
• Figuring out how adults learn best
• Building trust, relationships, and community
• Being willing to be vulnerable and open up to build trust
• Embracing the grey
• Using data in the education field
• Anxiety over sharing your data
• Digging deeper and understanding anxiety

 

Resources & links mentioned in the episode:

• Onward by Elena Agulare www.onwardthebook.com
• Girl Stop Apologizing and Girl Wash your Face by Rachel Hollis www.thehollisco.com/books
• Balance Essential Oil Blend doterra.me/u63HaERo

 

Where to find Maria Papiez:

Blog: mariapapiez16.wixsite.com/coaching

Instagram: www.instagram.com/coach.teach.inspire

 

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This week I chat with Erica Jacobs. She is many things including a writer, healer, yoga teacher, Jesus loving Jew, extroverted introvert, will make you laugh till you cry, then say, "there's an oil for that," but my favorite by far is how she can have a serious conversation and be light-hearted at the same time. She teaches yoga, but secretly uses the classroom to teach about addiction, tolerance, recovery, grief, lust, desire, humility, freedom, God, Quantum Physics, and Warrior II...with a few curse words thrown in for good luck...which you'll get a taste of right here during our episode. She is building a doTERRA business and consistently makes sure she isn't falling victim to the "stop playing small/live your best life by buying what I'm selling" language, which I appreciate about her. She hates all personal development lingo and tries to cultivate a language and personal message that insists upon wholeness just for existing. We dig into many topics but the last 15 to 20 minutes are by far the best in my opinion.   

 

In this episode, we talk about:

• Her experience in the fitness world
• Eating disorder recovery
• Limiting beliefs and expectations around being a yoga teacher
• Vulnerability versus transparency
• Peek into the 12 steps
• Connecting stories into teachings in yoga and oils
• The personal development loop
• Muting unneeded voices
• Finding help and accountability
• Grace bringing up more resistance than disappointment does
• Eliminating to get to the essential
• Does any of this even matter

 

Resources & links mentioned in the episode:

• Jazzercise www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD1xSc7oRRk
• Yoga with Erica at CorePower Yoga www.corepoweryoga.com
• Brene Brown brenebrown.com

 

Where to find Erica Jacobs:

Podcast: What's Eating Erica Jacobs

Instagram: www.instagram.com/whats_eating_erica_j

Email: [email protected]

 

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Instagram: www.instagram.com/withherroots

This week I chat with Emmeline Bramble, a Verbal + Visual Apothecary for the Cunning Folk. Through guided mentorship, design services, and copywriting, Emmeline assist compassionate kindred spirits in crafting intuitively-aligned businesses with the power to support their most authentic lives. We dig into what her role as an apothecary and who she serves. We dig deep through remnants of the past and the current social consciousness and state of wellness. I really enjoyed our discussion around everything intuition and will definitely be re-listening 10 more times. She sheds lots of wisdom around energy and alignment especially when it comes to owning a business or even owning your life.

 

In this episode, we talk about:

• What is a Visual + Verbal Apothecary
• Who are the Cunning Folk
• Current feminine and masculine energy shift
• Wisdom of intuition and knowing
• Reconnecting with one's intuition
• What the heck is alignment
• How to get intuitively aligned in your business
• Finding your people in your niche
• How to use Instagram the right way

Resources & links mentioned in the episode:

• Rise Sister Rise: A Guide to Unleashing the Wise, Wild Woman Within by Rebecca Campbell www.amazon.com/Rise-Sister-Guide-Unleashing-Within
• The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoof www.amazon.com/Tao-Pooh-Benjamin-Hoff
• 1000 True Fans: Use Kevin Kelly's Simple Idea to Earn A Living Doing What You Love by Jongo Longhurst www.amazon.com/1000-True-Fans-Kellys-Simple-ebook
• Letters From A Hopeful Creative by Jen Carrington www.lettersfromahopefulcreative.com
• Emotions and Essential Oils - A Reference Guide For Emotional Healing www.oillife.com/products/emotions-essential-oils
• Green Mandarin Essential Oil doterra.me/jPUydN5e

 

Where to find Emmeline Bramble:

Website: www.emmelinebramble.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/emmelinebramble

Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/emmelinebramble

Email: [email protected]

 

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This week I chat with Stephanie Chinn, the illustrator and storyteller behind my logo. She illustrates everyday life experience that she goes through as well as experiences that  she feels connected with. She typically leans towards illustrating artwork that is centered around mental health and is currently focusing on body image (check out her artwork!). Her artwork tends to stem from life experiences that challenge her and inspires her along with initiatives that light her up. What I love about Stephanie is how raw she was in this episode and how she has navigated challenges and created something very beautiful out of them. I definitely took lots of notes during this recording!   

 

In this episode, we talk about:

• Stephanie's journey through addiction into illustration
• Courage and self-awareness
• Noticing and working through fear, patterns, and self-talk
• Impostor syndrome and being a creative
• Finding support when we don't have the answers

 

Resources & links mentioned in the episode:

• Call Me a Curator: callmeacreator.wordpress.com
• Dance group called Army of Sass: armyofsass.com
• Author, Brene Brown: brenebrown.com
• Big magic by Elizabeth Gilbert: elizabethgilbert.com
• Essential Oils for Emotional Wellness: doterra.com/US/en/p/emotional-aormatherapy

 

Where to find Stephanie Chinn:

Website: www.stephaniechinn.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/stephaniechinnart

 

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This week I talk to my college roommate, Rege, who has a lot to say about planning! Yes, I mean like the kind of planning that encourages stickers and washi tape. Not sure what washi tape is? By the end of this episode you might want to *invest* in some. She leads the life of a Policy Analyst by day in a bedazzled cubicle and breaks up the boring cub life with crafts and hockey. We dive into the world of planning, crafting, and how self-care doesn't always have to be a bubble bath and a glass of wine (though we believe in those too). If you asked Rege, she would say that planners save lives and it's totally cool to have a side hustle that doesn't turn into your career. She keeps it real, dive on in.

 

In this episode, we talk about:

• The evolution of the planning community
• How planners reduce anxiety
• Planning as a creative outlet
• Bring back pen and paper and the millennial gen
• Downfall of technology
• Using a side biz and crafting as a way to create healthy habits
• Planning as self-care
• The down low about washi tape
• The scoop on the Chicago planner conference
• What to expect at a planner conference
• Hockey, planners, and crafting do mix

 

Resources & links mentioned in the episode:

• Passion Planner www.passionplanner.com
• Happy Planner www.thehappyplanner.com
• Erin Condren Life Planner www.erincondren.com
• Hobonichi Planner www.1101.com
• Weekly Kit https://www.etsy.com/search?q=weekly%20kits
• Big City Paper Co. for big dog hockey scarves & hockey schedule sticker bigcitypaperco.etsy.com
• Balance Essential Oil www.doterra.com/US/en/education/pe/balance-grounding-blend-oil

 

Where to find Rege aka Captain Furious aka Planner girl aka Dog mom:

Etsy Site: bigcitypaperco.etsy.com

Planning Instagram: www.instagram.com/captainfurious_plans

Stanley the German Shepard Instagram: www.instagram.com/stanleyhossa.thegsd

 

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This week I talk to a woman who has been going against the grain, gettin' down with her roots, with confidence before it was even a thing… My good friend, Ilona Barnhart. She is an Artist, Yoga and Mindfulness Teacher and Human Design Analyst. While cultivating a conscious lifestyle, Ilona combines yoga, mindfulness and human design to guide individuals to the healer and guru within, resulting in a magnetic, authentic, and ecstatic life. In this episode we caught up with her since her first appearance in season one, a little over a year ago I believe! Since then she has made so many shifts in her life, especially after finding Human Design. She tells us about her joy in helping others reconnect with their authentic self through their HD type, or as she calls it your soul's fingerprint. If you're slightly interested in what that looks like or want to hear the transformations she's already experienced personally and seem clients go through, dive on in.

 

In this episode, we talk about:

• Ilona looking back at her last year retrospectively through Human Design
• What Ilona as an Manifesting Generator, accomplished thus far by following it her Human Design
• What is human design
• Testimonial from a recent client seeing an amazing shift from a rut into confidence, from touching the bottom to stocked on life after a Human Design reading
• Unraveling support
• Resources for diving deeper into your own design
• Human Design types and how to respond
• Steps to decondition
• Using Human Design to be more well, accepting, intuitively be in this world
• Animals and Human Design

 

Resources & links mentioned in the episode:

• Essential oil Ilona applied before recording Lavender
• Essential oils Veronica applied before recording Manuka & Magnolia
• Jovian Archive to dig into your design www.jovianarchive.com
• Get your chart reading www.ilonabarnhart.com/bookings
• Get your chart in the meantime www.mybodygraph.com
• Learn more about your design www.jovianarchive.com
• Heal Movie on Netflix www.netflix.com
• Suggested essential oil blends for:
  • Generator & Manifesting Generator DigestZen Blend
  • Manifestor Breathe Blend
  • Projector Peace Blend
  • Reflector InTune Blend
• Book a wellness consult with Veronica www.veronicasek.com/wellness-consult

 

Where to find Ilona Barnhart:

Website: www.ilonabarnhart.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/radandblissful

 

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