Knowledge Bomb: Dr. G reviews what to look for when buying kombucha. 

Product Review: Best and worst kombucha brands of 2022.

Mona Sharma joins the show to tell us about her story. How changing her fast-paced lifestyle to a more present and intentional one, has changed the lives of herself and whoever she comes across. We learn the two most valuable questions to ask yourself in life. We also receive some gems on the importance of ritual habits throughout the day, for better mental and physical health.

Mona, a busy mom of two, teaches us her secrets into how she makes time for herself and her rituals to keep balance in her personal and family life. She gives us some tips on how to be more mindful with every activity in the day, so to decrease our stress levels and create more peace day to day. She teaches us how to create more mindfulness and emotional awareness for our children. We learn about how judgement of ourselves holds us back from creating are healthiest life.

Lastly, Mona teaches those of us who have children, on how to bring more awareness to their emotions and what practices we can teach them for daily growth.

Guest Bio:

Mona Sharma is a dynamic leader and entrepreneur in the health and wellness industry who works with high profile clients around the world. As Will Smith, Julianne Hough, Jay Shetty, and Hrithik Roshan’s nutritionist, she has a reoccurring role on the Facebook series Red Table Talk where they profile her work with Will, and the entire Smith family’s healing journey. Having grown up living on an Ashram, Mona has seen first-hand the healing power of food and mindfulness. Her approach is rooted in this philosophy - food as medicine, movement as therapy and mindfulness as the journey to optimize health. This was the foundation that led to her recovery from two heart surgeries, debilitating anxiety and ultimately changed her career path from a high-profile corporate job. Mona is also the founder of Xicama an innovative line of functional beverage products that deliver gut health and immune boosting benefits of the superfood jicama, and broke sales records as an official beverage of Coachella 2019.

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Special Guest Segment: Azrya and Benjamin “Bee” Bequer join the show to take us on a radical truth journey on relationships and self growth.

We learn about how the ego and child trauma plays a role in sabotaging relationships. The reason why fall into constant fighting with our partner(s) and how to take accountability. We also learn about what the “honeymoon” phase is and why that disappears. What are masculine and feminine traits and how do we embody a healthy balance? Ultimately we are given the awareness and tools on how we can show up better in relationship.

Azrya and Bee go into the world of shamanism and how plant medicine has become a tremendous guide to self improvement personally, in relationship, and in purpose to the world. We learn first hand how these gifts can change our life.

This show is for anyone and everyone. Whether single or in relationship we learn that it always ends up on how we show up in the world. This couple has disseminated all of their gifted learnings through life for us to put into action and ultimately improve ourselves and each other.

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Special Guest Segment:

Mark Groves, relationship specialist, joins the show to talk about all things relationships. He teaches us about attachment styles, where they come from, and how they trigger each other. He also teaches us what the remedies are when you are in an insecure attachment style. We also learn how important decisions are when faced with conflict, and how to communicate effectively and efficiently with your partner. Mark teaches us what signals to look out for when we are not communicating effectively and creating distance with our partner. He also teaches us how to attract the partner that we want, and how to be chosen. If you are in a relationship, or single, this podcast is for you. Enjoy all of these gems of information to better ourselves and our relationships

Meet Mark Groves: Human Connection Specialist, founder of Create the Love and Mine'd and host of the Mark Groves Podcast. In other words, he's a speaker, writer, motivator, creator and collaborator. Mark's work bridges the academic and the human, inviting people to explore the good, the bad, the downright ugly, and the beautiful sides of connection. His purpose? To empower individuals to step into their power, transform the way they relate to themselves and others, and create authentic change for a life + love they’ll look back on with a resounding “f*ck yes!"

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Knowledge Bomb: Dr. Gonzalez talks about the importance of bringing perspective to the concept of death. As it has become so taboo to talk about it takes away from us being able to truly live life. He gives us a new lens of which we can see and talk about death to deepen and expand our life experience.

Special Guest Segment: Dr. Amy Killen joins the show to share her expertise on longevity. Considered one of the top healthspan doctors in the country, she teaches us all about stem cells and their place in longer, healthier lives. Additionally, we review skin health topics like hormones, prp facials, stem cells, and Botox. Lastly, we talk about all the things that take a toll on our sexual health and how to improve our sexual vitality.

Dr. Amy Killen Bio:

Dr. Amy Killen is a leading anti-aging and regenerative physician, specializing in “Skin and Sex”. 

After working as a board-certified emergency physician for more than seven years, Dr. Killen saw the effects of unchecked, chronic disease and on her patients and decided to transition into anti-aging and longevity medicine in hopes of offering her patients alternatives to the traditional aging paradigm. 

An international speaker, clinical practice owner, entrepreneur, author, and frequent media guest, Dr Killen has become an outspoken advocate for empowering people to look and feel their best by merging lifestyle modification, integrative medicine, bio-identical hormones, energy modalities and stem cell therapies.

After treating a number of prominent biohackers and longevity-seekers, Dr Killen and her colleague, Dr Harry Adelson pioneered the Full Body Stem Cell Makeover, one of the most innovative regenerative procedures currently available.  In her portion of the procedure, Dr Killen combines stem cell and exosome injections with light, sound and other energy-based therapies to give patients unparalleled synergistic regenerative effects for skin, hair and sexual systems.

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Special Guest Segment: Blu joins the show to talk about the root of all health. How to come back to your unique self and celebrate it. She speaks about what factors in society dim our authentic selves and how to tap into our unapologetic uniqueness so to come back to our true health.

Blu Bio:

Blu is a heart-led woman, with a love for creating. She inspires others to activate their full potential, and live their purpose. Through Plant-Medicine, Gene Keys, Public Speaking, and the Deja Blu Podcast- Blu creates space for the expansion of others. 

Blu has been a Student of the Plants for just over a decade. Forever in awe and honor of their wisdom, she is devoted to sharing her insights and teachings of the intelligence of the plant world through all of her creative outlets. 

Blu is also a student and facilitator of the Earth Temple Center of Prayer and Shamanic Arts. 

After finding out that she had a hereditary and ‘incurable’ hearing disorder, Blu left everything behind and traveled the world to discover life beyond the veil- beyond everything we’ve been taught since we were born. After unlearning and learning, to come home into her authentic truth, she launched a podcast called Dejá Blu. Which is a clear reservoir of consciousness for which souls thirsty for purity, relief, and love can drink.

In the year and a half since the podcast has been birthed, she has interviewed many prominent thinkers, and shared her message with almost 1 million listeners world-wide. 

She is a reminder that in a world of over seriousness- play, love, and creativity are some of the greatest medicines that exist.

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Knowledge Bomb: Dr.G goes all in on alternative sweeteners. From artificial sweeteners like sucralose, aspartame, and saccharine to sugar alcohols to plant sweeteners like stevia and monkfruit. Dr. G reviews what the science says about them and if they are beneficial for our health. If you consume any alternative sweeteners this show is essential for informed consent.

Special Guest Interview:

Danielle Ryan Broida is a herbalist, mycologists, and nutritionist. She joins the show to talk about all things functional mushrooms. We review just how important mushrooms are to human and environmental health. We learn how to shop for mushrooms and what to look for to ensure it’s safe and effective. We talk about the most popular mushrooms like Reishi, Lion’s Mane, Cordyceps, Chaga as well as more popular culinary mushrooms. Additionally, we review the world of adaptogenic agents that help lower our daily stress and increase our resiliency. A awesome guest with a wealth of empowering information.

Guest Bio:

Danielle Ryan Broida, RH (AHG) is a pivotal voice in the nutrition and functional mushroom and adaptogen space. As a Registered Herbalist (RH) of the American Herbalists Guild (AHG), Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Instructor of Mycology, and National Educator of Four Sigmatic, Danielle is teaching the world about the importance of functional foods and herbal medicine for a vital life. Prior to joining forces with Four Sigmatic, she received her BA in Environmental Studies and Philosophy from Whitman College. She went on to study Ayurveda in India and became a Certified Yoga Instructor on the banks of the Ganges River. Then she became a Certified Raw Chef and Detox Coach while working with a Naturopathic Doctor in Indonesia. But it was leading trekking adventures into the backcountry of Thailand where she became particularly fascinated by herbal medicine (while becoming fluent in Thai). After several years in Asia, she landed in Boulder, Colorado to formalize her education in holistic medicine. Upon completing her graduate studies at the Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism (CSCH), she opened her private practice where she worked with hundreds of clients specializing in functional mushroom-based treatment for individuals with autoimmune conditions. She was invited to become the Instructor of Mycology at CSCH, where she still teaches. Danielle brings her passion and expertise in herbal medicine, clinical practice, teaching, formulation, and her deep love for fungi to everything she does.

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Knowledge Bomb: Dr. G goes into the latest research on coffee. Is it healthy? Should we drink it? How often? Is it for everyone? Essential for all coffee drinkers.

Product Review: 2022 best and worst coffee brands. Learn what to look for when shopping.

Special guest segment: Movement coach Aaron Alexander joins the show to talk about getting back to your nature. He talks about important topics that we can integrate into our day that will help us optimize our long term health. From breath work, to time in nature, ancestral inputs, accountability mindset, posture, home environment and much more. A can’t miss show with an awesome expert.

Aaron Alexander Bio:

Aaron has worked with some of world’s greatest professional athletes, performers, celebrities, and everyone in between, to relieve pain while creating greater strength, flexibility, and ease in their mind and body. 

After working with thousands of clients and spending years backpacking around the world, being immersed in various cultures, he has come to the conclusion that the healthiest people are not gym rats. Instead, they naturally integrate the foundational principles outlined in The Align Method to strengthen their bodies, balance their minds, and activate their innate systems of healing in daily life.

Aaron has simplified ancient techniques for cultivating vitality and assimilated them into modernized, simplified, movement-based principles for you to easily integrate into any situation throughout the day. When you do, every moment becomes an opportunity to develop greater strength, flexibility and confidence to truly step into your physical potential and drop the baggage of pain and limitation.

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Knowledge Bomb: Dr. G talks about the top 3 disruptors for fertility. If you are planning on having a child, these are the top interventions to address. 

Guest segment: Maral and Allison of the Tourmaline Collective join to educate us on midwifery. They teach us what a midwife is, how they work with the parents, and dispel any myths on this process. Is a natural birth safe? What does a holistic approach to pregnancy look like? How do we support the parents pre-conception and post-partum. All these and more in this special segment. 

Maral Shabak Bio:

Maral began her Midwifery career in 2014 when she was accepted into Nizhoni Institute of Midwifery. Leading up to finding her path, she earned B.A. degrees in Anthropology and Women’s Studies. Her experience at the University of California, Irvine taught her that we must use our specific skills to bring forth positive change. Maral was born in Iran and moved to the U.S. at the age of 6. Going through such a large transition from one culture to another taught her that we must be open and flexible in order to move forward; we cannot hold tightly onto traditions simply because we haven’t been exposed to another way. Maral’s goal is to bridge the gap between M.D.s and Midwives so that we may blend our cultures and select practices that are truly optimal. She firmly believes that if we can provide choice, confidence, and peace at the moment of birth for families, we can ensure a future full of those same qualities.

Allison Tartari Bio:

Allison found her way to midwifery care through the pregnancy and birth of her fourth child. She knew she wanted to help support women during pregnancy, and avoid the unnecessary interventions she encountered with her other children. She became passionate about educating families on other, safer options for birth. She became a D.O.N.A trained doula and followed that path for 8 years, attending many births in and out of the hospital setting. It became clear to her that most people are not aware that they have rights, that they can say “No” to a doctor or nurse. She had to share this knowledge and decided to become a midwife. She applied and was accepted to the Nizhoni Institute of Midwifery in 2014. During her doula career and experience as a student midwife she learned that consistency in care provides better outcomes, which is a major component our system is lacking. Out of this passion for holistic, integrative healthcare Tourmaline Birth and Wellness Center was born.

Allison, Josie and Maral, Licensed Midwives came together to create Tourmaline Birth and Wellness Collective. As midwives they saw a need for collaborative holistic care for the growing families that they serve. As three different generations of midwives they are committed to serving families at each and every stage. Whether it be preconception, family planning, pregnancy, postpartum, miscarriage or well women care. One of our goals at Tourmaline is to improve maternal mortality rates in the United States. The United States was recently labeled one of the most dangerous places to give birth in the developed world, with more than 60% of pregnancy-related deaths in the US being preventable. Tourmaline's partnership with Thrive Wellness Collective a 501c3 expands midwifery access and education to everyone, regardless of economic status to improve birth outcomes and lifelong wellness one family at a time.

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Knowledge Bomb: Dr. G reviews the science behind energy drinks. Are they safe? Should there be more regulation? Are there health benefits to consuming them? All in this shows knowledge bomb.

Product Review: Dr. G reviews the best and worst energy drinks on the market. 

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