Hello, Hot Flash: Christian Menopause, Weight Loss, Hormones & Midlife Health

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Dr. David Shirazi makes some medical connections around the impact of sleep on migraines, fibromyalgia, weight gain, and depression.

If you are concerned about any of these, you’ll want to make sure you listen to this episode so you can go to your next doctor's appointment ready to discuss solutions.

Sleep apnea is a newly researched sleep disorder.  Testing to determine baseline was only done on adult white males, leaving ways of determining if you had a disorder only suitable for that particular segment of the population.  

With ongoing research, studies have shown that with a 5 or less is “normal” for an adult white male, a 4 for postmenopausal women can cause depression, migraines, and fibromyalgia.

Dr. Shirazi also explains the different types of headaches you may be having and what steps you can take to get rid of them.

From self-advocacy when it comes to talking to your doctor,  to understanding why Western and Eastern medicine can help you live your best life, this Howard University grad breaks it all down in an easy-to-understand manner. 

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About The Switch

The Switch Podcast With Stephanie Shaw is brought to you by health & wellness company Leigh & Ollie.  You can find out more about Leigh & Ollie by visiting our Facebook and Instagram page @MindBodyBusinessMethod.

You can learn more about our host by visiting StephanieLynnShaw.com.

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Emily Lyons opens up to us about her far from a normal childhood and how at 23 she, a high school dropout, started her own business with no money and no connections.  Ten years later she leads one of the leading staffing agencies in North America employing over 10,000 people.

You’ll connect to her stories around loss, grief, and sexual harassment from someone who should have protected her.  

Her story is an inspiration to those struggling to fit in and find their place in the world.

During our conversation, Ms. Emily discusses her upcoming book - MORE.  She openly shares excerpts from the book and teaches us how to hone our mindset, build confidence and overcome imposter syndrome.

Emily and I get personal as she tells about the impact cystic fibrosis had and still has on her and her family.  “We aren’t responsible for the trauma that happens to us, but we are responsible for the healing.”

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Emily is the founder and CEO of North America's top event staffing, the multi-award-winning Femme Fatale Media Group. Emily has gone on to launch and scale several other successful companies including Lyons Elite Matchmaking, True Glue Beauty, Femme Fatale Public Relations (FFPR), JWLS accessories, and The Julia Lyons Foundation. Emily is a champion for women in business, mental health, and Cystic Fibrosis.

Emily has been featured extensively in business-related pieces in Forbes, Huffington Post, Bloomberg, Entrepreneur, Global News, MAXIM, FHM, NY Post, Globe and Mail, and more. Emily has also garnered the business of brands like Warner Bros., The National Bank, Louis Vuitton, and of celebrities like Justin Bieber, Jennifer Lopez, and Drake. Emily’s social media networks total over 250,000 followers, a testament to her strong personal brand.

About The Switch

The Switch Podcast With Stephanie Shaw is brought to you by health & wellness company Leigh & Ollie.  You can find out more about Leigh & Ollie by visiting our Facebook and Instagram page @MindBodyBusinessMethod.

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Like many of us, Chelsea Zainea has a story of coming from very humble beginnings and struggling to break the cycle of poverty.

After educating herself on why the cycle is so hard to break, she discovered the secret on how to implement intentional spending;  a process she freely shares with us. 

As women, we tend to be risk-averse and operate with a scarcity mindset - what if we don’t have enough, I’m not good enough...Chelsea teaches us how to SWITCH our thoughts into a mindset of abundance so we can support our families and run our businesses.

This podcast episode is all about your financial health and how planning 13-weeks out can help you reach your financial health goal.

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Chelsea Zainea is the owner of Peak Financial Wellness LLC, an accounting firm that provides financial literacy coaching, business consulting, and bookkeeping services.  She is a CPA and Financial Literacy Coach focused on empowering women business owners to thrive and not just survive. Chelsea is passionate about helping solopreneurs take back their time and money, so they can take their business to the next level.

Business Website: www.peakfinancialwellness.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/PeakFinancialWellness

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelseazainea/

About The Switch

The Switch Podcast With Stephanie Shaw is brought to you by health & wellness company Leigh & Ollie.  You can find out more about Leigh & Ollie by visiting our Facebook and Instagram page @MindBodyBusinessMethod.

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Renée Warren is the founder of We Wild Women.  She is on a mission to help inspire and motivate over a million women to start their dream business. 

Renée has learned and implemented the tools needed to keep a balance between work and home. She quickly shares how being in a long-term hustle pattern caused her to physically back up her car into another car while looking forward. That moment in time led Renée to say - enough!

Her first change - create foundational changes in her home - “who you live with has to be your priority”. 

Renée grew a business to over a million dollars with small children in tow, her insights are thought-provoking and easy to implement. 

You'll learn how her clients get good press - and how getting that press is 100% about mindset!

After you stop laughing, the woman is hilarious, you’ll learn why you need to squash the limiting beliefs. 

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Renée Warren is an award-winning entrepreneur, inspirational speaker, author, and founder of We Wild Women, a platform that helps entrepreneurs start and scale their own businesses. She’s also the host of the celebrated podcast, Into the Wild.

Renée firmly believes that the best advice comes from someone who has successfully done it before. Her approach to coaching comes from over 22 years of experience as an entrepreneur and unapologetic risk-taker.

When she’s not coaching or podcasting, Renée can be found spending time with her family. She also enjoys working out, reading business books, and refining her drumming skills.

Instagram:  @renee_warren

Small Business Starter Kit https://www.wewildwomen.com/small-business-starter-kit

About The Switch

The Switch Podcast With Stephanie Shaw - expert interviews, life-impacting topics, and the latest secrets on how to live your best life.  Find us on Apple, Spotify, and Podbean.

The Switch Podcast With Stephanie Shaw is brought to you by health & wellness company Leigh & Ollie.  You can find out more about Leigh & Ollie by visiting our Facebook and Instagram page @MindBodyBusinessMethod.

You can learn more about our host by visiting StephanieLynnShaw.com.

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Riah comes to us real and raw. At 40 she was fired from her high-powered job, left not knowing what to do and carrying the weight of being tossed aside. But the real story here is that she bounced back. Albeit grudgingly. 

Riah, determined not to allow a brutal work environment to shape her life, decided to turn the pain of job loss and what she felt was a form of rejection, into her purpose. Helping women find rock star employees so they can uplevel to being a true CEO.

You’ll hear how Riah decided not to allow the opinions of others to impact her outcomes and she gives us loads of practical advice on how to build and maintain relationships not only with our clients but with our families.

Riah’s heart-breaking story of missing her daughter's concert is one that should make us all stop and think about how we can create a more balanced life.

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Riah Gonzalez is the founder and CEO of Linq Consulting Services, a female-focused, heart-centered virtual assistant matchmaking, and client re-engagement company. Linq is designed to help business owners build strong connections, reclaim their time and up-level by building in an “extra set of hands” that high performers are searching for with the help of a Virtual Assistant.

Linq focuses on empowering female VAs in the Philippines so that each Virtual Assistant placed is ALSO blessed with the up-leveling experience of improved quality of life and financial security.

In addition to her professional expertise, she holds her Bachelor’s, Magna Cum Laude, in Administrative Management and Information Technology, as well as decades of in-person connection experience in Administrative Management across a variety of industries. Riah is a wife and mother of 3 incredible young women and is passionate about providing mentorship and opportunities for professionals of all stripes both at home and abroad.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/linqconsultingsolutions

Instagram: www.instagram.com/linq.consulting/

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/riahgonzalez/

Twitter: www.twitter.com/LinqCS

Podcast:  https://anchor.fm/amariah-gonzalez

About The Switch

The Switch Podcast With Stephanie Shaw is brought to you by health & wellness company Leigh & Ollie.  You can find out more about Leigh & Ollie by visiting our Facebook and Instagram page @MindBodyBusinessMethod.

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Alexi Bracey provides easy-to-implement life-saving advice on how we can prevent dementia. From explaining the health and wellness practices of those living in the Blue Zone to practical advice on the effect of cell phone use and all those blue lights as you try to rest at night.

Worldwide, around 50 million people have dementia, and there are nearly 10 million new cases every year. Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia and may contribute to 60–70% of cases. 

This information becomes more and more important as we begin to age and support our parents.

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Cancer saved Alexi's life more than 20 years ago by shifting her career direction to one of a Holistic Coach and Plant-Based Chef. She has helped, inspired, and saved lives with her coaching, mentoring and private and group programs. and more recently. Another life-changing experience led Alexi to teach mature women to prevent and ward off dementia so they may thrive as they age.

About The Switch

 The Switch Podcast With Stephanie Shaw - expert interviews, life-impacting topics, and the latest secrets on how to live your best life.  Find us on Apple, Spotify, and Podbean.

The Switch Podcast With Stephanie Shaw is brought to you by health & wellness company Leigh & Ollie.  You can find out more about Leigh & Ollie by visiting our Facebook and Instagram page @MindBodyBusinessMethod.

Drinking is part of a social norm.  

Birthdays, graduations, sports events, dinner parties - serving and drinking alcohol is expected.  

It’s also the norm to have a drink after the end of a long day to relax. But what is the actual impact on your body? And is your body truly in a relaxed state?

People who drink are considered “normal” while people who decline are quizzed - what’s wrong? Are you pregnant? Got a big presentation tomorrow?  

If you’ve decided to live alcohol-free, how can you - just say no - without feeling left out?

There are so many questions, and today our guest, Karolina Rządkowolska, Alcohol-Free Coach, has scientific answers for you. She’s not here to tell you not to drink but to help you think through how this habit aligns with your deeper self.

Karolina shares her story of how heavy drinking during her college years and living for the weekend lifestyle contradicted her lifestyle of practicing yoga and meditating. She also tells us how drinking made her depressed, sleep-deprived and caused her to have high cholesterol.  

But what would happen if she stopped? Would she be labeled an alcoholic?  

Finally, she decided that was a risk she was willing to take.

Our conversation starts by delving into the stigma around what it looks like to stop drinking and quickly gets to the rewards.

Here are some highlights:

• Stopping can:

• heal liver fat by 15%

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Karolina Rzadkowolska is a certified alcohol-free life coach who helps powerful women make alcohol insignificant in their lives. She’s worked with thousands of clients through her online courses and coaching to change their drinking habit and unleash a new level of health, happiness, and potential to go after their biggest dreams. She’s the host of Euphoric the Podcast, founder of Euphoric Alcohol-Free, and her work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Authority Magazine, Greatist, and Elite Daily.  Her book Euphoric will be published by HarperCollins and out on bookshelves in January. Karolina’s passionate about helping you discover what really makes you happy outside of a beverage and design a life you love. She would love to hear from you at www.euphoricaf.com. 

Here’s your free five day course to get started: https://becomeeuphoric.com/free-course/

Business Website: www.euphoricaf.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/euphoric.af

Facebook: www.facebook.com/euphoricaf

Clubhouse: @euphoricaf

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Did you ever get that feeling in your gut - that nudge in the pit of your stomach? I sure have. For many of us we hesitate to recognize the power of that feeling. 

The power of our intuition. 

Sunil Godse captures our attention by explaining what intuition is and how we often don’t trust what we know to be true because of childhood trauma, or our need to prove something. 

He weaves in stories on how listening to intuition has led entrepreneurs to multi-million dollar success and how ignoring intuition led to the death of a close friend.

Sunil will walk us through how to understand the positive and negative signals so we can begin to trust our intuition.

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After making a series of bad decisions, with one leading to a friend being shot and killed, Sunil Godse spent thousands of hours on research and interviews to stop people from wasting time making bad decisions by sharpening their intuition.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sunilgodse/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intuitionology/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunilgodse/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sunilgodse

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/Intuitionology

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYnuPjpIjX90q2wuSMe9YKw

Seven-Day Challenge https://www.intuitionology.com/7-day-challenge/

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This episode was brought to you by health & wellness company Leigh & Ollie.

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Functional Nutrition Specialist, Kira Whitman shares her story of how she healed a lifelong illness by healing her body with whole foods.

She teaches us the role of a functional nutritionist, calling them detectives who search until they get to the root cause of your symptoms.

Kira breaks down the symptoms that are often associated with autoimmune disease like bloating and brain fog and teaches us it doesn’t matter what you call it, understanding what foods nourishes and what foods deplete your body is key to recovery.  

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Kira Whitham is a Functional Nutrition Specialist who helps women with autoimmune disease simplify their health and take control of their disease. She holds a Master’s in Health and Nutrition Education from Hawthorn University, as well as additional training through the School of Applied Functional Medicine, Metabolic Healing Institute, and Institute for Functional Medicine.

Kira combines the principles of holistic nutrition and functional medicine to help people bring their bodies back to their intended state of wellness. She is a firm believer in the healing power of food and helps her clients make empowered choices while gaining an understanding of what nourishes and depletes the body.

www.anourishedlifenutrition.com

IG: @ a_nourished_life_nutrition

FB: facebook.com/anourishedlifenutrition

About The Switch

The Switch is brought to you by health & wellness company Leigh & Ollie. 

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I love all my guests, but this woman...!!! Simply amazing!  You’ll be inspired, awakened and motivated.  

Gunjani Patel talks to us about the importance of normalizing mental health.  Her conversation touches on the power we gain when we ask for help and how a counselor can show us blindspots that we may miss or our family may ignore.

Gunjani talks about the impact unresolved trauma has on generations to come and provides practical advice on how we can change the story for our children and grandchildren.

She talks to us about the high mountains and deep valleys in her life and let’s in on her secret Switch.

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Gunjani Patel  is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Wellness & Transformation Coach,  Speaker, Writer, and now a Podcast Host of Traumatic Transformations. 

She has been  successfully running her private practice called GPatelCounseling in San Diego California  and Florida for over a decade now, specializing in Depression, Anxiety, PTSD (trauma), Addictions, Grief & Loss. She is also a wife & a new mom to a 3-year-old hyper-energetic  and very lovely boy and is in the process of relaunching herself after a short postpartum  hiatus. 

Her newfound vision in life is to spread mental health awareness and normalize it,  to break the stigma associated with help-seeking and helping people get unstuck and  transform in the process. She recently launched her very own podcast called Traumatic  Transformations to inspire people to break the cycles of their trauma and dysfunctional  patterns, to find hope, peace, and live emotionally intelligently and intentionally. Tune in  for some science-backed tips, and strategies. 

Follow Gunjani on Facebook & IG - @gpatelcounseling 

Join her FB community - Traumatic  Transformation- Emotionally intelligent and conscious living. 

Join her Pregnant & New  Mothers Mental Wellness Support Group on Facebook or  

Pregnant_Newmom_Tribe. 

Subscribe to her podcast - Traumatic Transformations with Gunjani  Patel. 

Receive her Free Self Compassion Guide - End self criticism and boost self confidence as  a gift to you for tuning in.  https://wondrous-painter-4174.ck.page/c9559424b9 

Book reference:

I’m So Effing Tired, Dr. Amy Shah 

About The Switch

Today's episode is brought to you by health and wellness company Leigh & Ollie.