Lara Gwyn started her health coaching business, Lara Gwyn Wellness, after being in the corporate world for 20 years. Focusing on nutrition and movement she guides clients to meet their wellness goals while focusing on mindset. Her model is based on the deep belief that we can be kind to ourselves and meet lofty goals at the same time.

 

I really enjoyed this conversation with Lara because she is just so honest and real about the journey of following your passion and starting a business based around it. She shares about quitting her safe corporate job and doesn’t sugarcoat the process.

 

If you’re in the space of feeling like you know that your corporate path isn’t for you, but are terrified about what leaving that looks like… this is the conversation for you.

 

We talk about:

 

• Knowing deep down that her corporate career wasn’t right for her.
• Understanding when an environment is bad for you - even if it might not be on paper or for others.
• Making the leap and quitting - what it looked like and how she did it.
  • And why “understanding that you’re on the right path” is the ONLY thing you need to do this.
• “Remember that when you make a change, something else is on the other side of that that you don’t know right know. There will be other doors that open up for you.”
• “I would wake up every day elated. I’m getting back to ME… I can finally live from my true self.”
• “Let me tell you - I am never going back to the way things were.”
• “Every day that we have - every moment that we have - makes our life.”
• “If you don't feel alive - it probably means you have something to work on."

 

Guest info:

http://www.laragwynwellness.com/

 

IG: https://www.instagram.com/lgwynwellness

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Ben’s Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/benjamin.m.fritz

 

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Intro/outro music:

Jeff II - Wait For Me

https://youtu.be/YuBBSQI2XDQ

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Lindsey Antman is a certified mind body nutrition coach and yoga teacher. Inspired by a personal history of disordered eating & thinking around food, as well as her training in nutrition science & psychology, Lindsey founded her coaching business, Mind Body Kitchen, in 2018.

 

Through her personalized programs, Lindsey guides her clients to transform their relationship with food and dives deep into their unique life experiences in order to realize the true roots of any unwanted eating behaviors, excess weight, poor digestion or low energy and mood. Lindsey's passion is helping people live their life with health and confidence, find freedom, and discover their wholeness from the inside-out.

 

We talk about:

 

• “I’ll never forget the moment - I stepped on the scale, I saw 100, and I was like, ‘Holy cow, I did it, woo-hoo! And I was happy for like a split second… and then I was at a complete loss.”
• Why losing weight is the worst way to boost your self-confidence.
• Help people reach their goals without meal tracking, calorie counting, etc. and to actually move away from those things; they aren’t sustainable long term!
• It’s a never-ending journey - if you don’t have a sustainable method & tools, you’re doomed to long term failure.
• Saving yourself months, or even years, of frustration and unhappiness with your body… by understanding WHY do you want to reach X lbs or look a certain way.
• What is the feeling that you’re searching for?
• Learning to handle emotional eating and habits that are sabotaging your goals.
  • Intuitive eating 101

 

 

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Guest info:

www.mindbodykitchen.org

https://mindbodykitchen.vipmembervault.com

 

IG: https://www.instagram.com/mindbody_kitchen/

FB: https://facebook.com/mindbodykitchen/

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Why the World Needs You Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/whytheworldneedsyoucommunity/

Ben’s Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/benjamin.m.fritz

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Chels is the CEO of Living Lean Coaching, LLC & founder of the Living Lean Method - a woman's weight loss and body confidence program that has transformed dozens of women's lives both mentally and physically.

 

We talk about… 

• Struggling with body image when she was younger… falling into “every trap there was.”
• How that led to formulating the Living Lean Method over the past 5 years to give women a full lifestyle transformation.
• The difficult road to finding this meaningful, fulfilling work…
  • Always knowing that she wanted to create something - just not sure what.
  • Feeling pulled to “something more” while working “normal” jobs.
  • People in her life just not understanding her vision.
• Realizing that she was capable of doing the work that she wanted to and how that changed everything.
• The importance of finding, and connecting with, others who can relate to your vision.
• Showing up as the person you want to be as a consistent practice.

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Guest info:

https://livingleancoaching.mykajabi.com/llmwaitlist

IG: https://www.instagram.com/chelsvaccariello/

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Why the World Needs You Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/whytheworldneedsyoucommunity/

Ben’s Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/benjamin.m.fritz

 

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Intro/outro music:

Jeff II - Wait For Me

https://youtu.be/YuBBSQI2XDQ

 

 

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We talk about:

• Hitting personal rock bottom and realizing:
  • “I think I’ve just been fucking lying to myself… about who I am, what I want… and I think that’s evidenced by the fact that I don’t know who I am and I don’t know what I want.”
• The danger of fear-based decision-making (by far the most common way to make a decision):
  • “If you make too many decisions out of fear - your own life strangles you.”
• Wishing that others would “get it” and why trying to change them or their mind is a fruitless pursuit for everyone involved:
  • “You can’t make anybody do anything; we will change when we want to or when life forces us to.”
• The importance of, and power in, leading by example. Be a light!
• How your beliefs shape your experience:
  • “Your belief isn’t what you say - your actual belief is how you act.”
  • “If you’re acting as if your belief is true, does it make your life better or worse?”
• Creating massive change in a world that is desperately in need of it:
  • “Your entire world is a reflection of your inner world. We won’t have peace in this world until people have peace in the heart.”
  • “You can’t change a reality you don’t accept.”

 

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• Want to give back, make a difference, and find meaning & purpose?:
  • “If your life is the curriculum, what is the lesson?” Learn, understand, and share that.
• What we’re all searching for:
  • “We all actually want the same thing. We are on a quest for wholeness.” 

 

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Guest info:

www.rickalexander.com

IG: https://www.instagram.com/rickalexander_

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Why the World Needs You Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/whytheworldneedsyoucommunity/

Ben’s Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/benjamin.m.fritz

 

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Intro/outro music:

Jeff II - Wait For Me

https://youtu.be/YuBBSQI2XDQ

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We talk about:

• Having a lot of exposure to home births being Dutch (as hospital births didn’t become much of a thing until the 1960’s.)
• Why birth isn’t actually supposed to be an excruciatingly painful experience.
• How the hell to reach that ideal.
• The necessary “ingredients” to make a healthy baby!
• Why you need to know the importance of the microbiome and understand what affects it (especially as it pertains to decisions you are making!)
• The keys to a successful birth:
  • Stop worrying and relax.
  • Just do what you can - there is no such thing as “doing everything right.”

 

 

 

Guest info:

www.connecting-life.net/home

IG: https://www.instagram.com/connectinglifecoach

FB: https://www.facebook.com/ConnectingLifeHC

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Why the World Needs You Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/whytheworldneedsyoucommunity/

Ben’s Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/benjamin.m.fritz

 

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Intro/outro music:

Jeff II - Wait For Me

https://youtu.be/YuBBSQI2XDQ

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Do you ever feel like you're just going through the motions?

 

It can be difficult to feel joy and fulfillment when you aren't engaging with things that light you up on a regular basis.

 

Here's a simple practice for how to find these things in your life and how to use it as a foundation for creating a life you love.

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We talk about:

• Being bullied intensely as a teenager.
• It became bad enough in high school that she developed an eating disorder, depression, and thoughts of self-harm.
• Having a teacher tell her she wasn’t good enough because she wasn’t a size 0 and the impact that had on her.
• Eventually getting hospitalized because of how bad the situation became.
• Switching high schools halfway through because the health professionals she was working with warned her and her parents that she would end up dead if she didn’t.
• Once self-esteem tanked, it was a vicious cycle: “the thoughts of others became the thoughts about myself.”
• Was able to overcome the “Why me?” mentality thanks to a friendship with a friend with cancer.
• Working through reframing negative thoughts that she was getting from external sources (aka kids calling her a fat cow.)
• How she started sharing her story to help youth understand that they are not alone.

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Guest info:

http://kdmotivates.com/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/kristin_decker/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/kdmotivates/

 

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Why the World Needs You Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/whytheworldneedsyoucommunity/

Ben’s Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/benjamin.m.fritz

 

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Intro/outro music:

Jeff II - Wait For Me

https://youtu.be/YuBBSQI2XDQ

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit weareinterconnected.substack.com

We talk about:

 

• Leaving work one day because she didn’t feel well… passing out once she got home… and waking up hours later on the floor paralyzed.
• The very real and incredibly detrimental impacts of stress.
• Why people (like her and I) end up going to alternative medicine practitioners. (It isn’t because we want to or think that it is better or “right.”)
• Are crazy mystery health issues your body’s way of telling you that you’re out of alignment in your life?
• How you end up in a place so far from your True Self.
• Stepping into spirituality in a non-religious sense (and what “spirituality” actually means.)
• The drastic effects of being ignorant to our interconnectedness.
• “Crazy is underrated.” How listening to herself and her intuition allowed her to sell all of her things and leave her home in NY to travel the world for a year. “It was the most freeing and liberating thing I have ever done.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Guest info:

www.photo-diaries.com

IG: https://www.instagram.com/cyndierabbit

https://www.instagram.com/everywherecyndie

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Why the World Needs You Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/whytheworldneedsyoucommunity/

Ben’s Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/benjamin.m.fritz

 

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Intro/outro music:

Jeff II - Wait For Me

https://youtu.be/YuBBSQI2XDQ

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit weareinterconnected.substack.com

We talk about:

• Her dad passing away when she was 23 and how it helped her shift her life.
• • “The thing that was the most painful and devastating was also the thing that made me wake up and live my life.”
• Creating a life around how she wanted to feel:
• • Fulfilled
  • Excited
  • Experience new things
  • Deeply alive
• Starting a business doing something that lit her up… even though she liked her 9-5 job enough.
• How to become a digital nomad like her.
• The disempowered state of women’s healthcare:
• • “To me, informed healthcare is good healthcare; and so much of women’s healthcare right now is not informed.”
• Trusting your instincts as a woman. If you feel something is off, keep searching for answers - be your own health advocate.
• Understanding what gives your life meaning and what being happy means for you (truly - not what you think should.)

 

Guest info:

bewellandwander.com

IG: https://www.instagram.com/bewellandwander

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Why the World Needs You Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/whytheworldneedsyoucommunity/

Ben’s Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/benjamin.m.fritz

 

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Intro/outro music:

Jeff II - Wait For Me

https://youtu.be/YuBBSQI2XDQ

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We talk about:

• Words convey energy - they matter!
• How - as a grown woman & mother - questioning all of her beliefs helped her become who she really is.
• How true friends will stick with you through you figuring things out.
• Why investing in a coach/mentor is so important and improves everything (her passionate belief - I didn’t bribe her!)
• On parenting:

 

• • “I parent my children from the space of: it is not my job to impose my ideas and beliefs and values on my children. They are separate human beings. Therefore they have a right to choose their own path. It is my job to be there through all their highs and lows in a way that supports them - each one for who they are, what they need, and what they want.”

 

• On starting something late in life:

 

• • “I’m not afraid to start anything. All my friends are retiring and I’m just starting to live - and I love it. I don’t want to retire. I don’t want to be at home with my husband making lunch for him - no thank you.”

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Guest info:

www.sharireinhart.com

FB: https://www.facebook.com/shari.reinhart

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Why the World Needs You Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/whytheworldneedsyoucommunity/

Ben’s Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/benjamin.m.fritz

 

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Intro/outro music:

Jeff II - Wait For Me

https://youtu.be/YuBBSQI2XDQ

 

 

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit weareinterconnected.substack.com