season according to the 13 sign system (June 20-July 16) and how she has been working with astrology. She shares her approach of taking a more reflective and personal approach to astrology rather than relying on forecasts and predictions. Jess discusses the characteristics of Gemini, such as their love for communication, curiosity, and socializing. She also explores her own chart and how she has unlocked the energy of Gemini season through her Mercury placement in the third house. Jess encourages listeners to embrace their own unique chart and use astrology as a tool for personal growth.

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Connect with Jess:

Instagram: @jess.monteggia, @journeyinpodcast

In this episode, Jess sits down with friend and energy healer Lily Fanok (featured guest on episode 11), as Lily does an in-depth interview with Jess on where she’s currently at with her nutrition journey, her spiritual journey, and with her business. We dive deeper into nutrition than Jess has gone in a long time, so buckle up for all the tips and insights.

 

What the episode covers:

-Jess’ Human Design, Big 3 in Astrology, and life path number in numerology/her interpretations behind it

-Jess’ big vision that she’s always had around factory farming and Regenerative Agriculture, and tips for accessing higher quality meats as a consumer

-Where Jess started with her business in nutrition and how she shifted her business into Human Design after her spiritual awakening

-Jess’ current views on nutrition and the role it plays in her life

-What led Jess to release her business completely 

-Her current viewpoints on Human Design in the spiritual space

-Insight into aspects of both Jess & Lily’s profiles in Human Design and how they embody them

-What Jess’ current spiritual practice looks like

-Jess’ tips on how to eat intuitively and how to tap into and understand different types of cravings

-Eating for your inner child

-Jess’ advice for how to get started in creating your own conscious diet as a consumer

 

Connect with Lily on Instagram: @lilyfanok_

Connect with Jess on Instagram: @jess.monteggia

Email the show: [email protected]

In this episode, Jess sits down with Professional Chef Kelly Scott to talk all things nutrition, cooking, and most importantly, how to keep things interesting in the kitchen. We dive into why people struggle in the kitchen, and Kelly's top tips and tricks for getting out of a rut with your cooking in a way that's easy and keeps things fun and interesting, because eating healthy doesn't have to (and shouldn't) be so boring!

Kelly is a chef and creator behind Kelly's Clean Kitchen. She is a nutrition focused personal chef in Southern California, culinary instructor, and author of "The Basics of Cooking." It is her passion to help inspire others in the kitchen to cook and eat great!

What the episode covers:

-How Kelly overcame her eating disorder (orthorexia), and it led her to her passion for cooking

-How she pivoted her life journey from law school to culinary school

-Her experience in overcoming her orthorexia going into culinary school and how it helped her overcome her food fears

-How her experience of having an eating disorder has impacted her approach when working with clients

-Kelly’s advice for those who are new to cooking

-What inspired her first cookbook, The Basics of Cooking

-How she pivoted from working in the restaurant industry to opening her private culinary business

-What her different services include within her business

-Her top tips for easy meal prep

-Her advice for those who want to eat healthy but feel you don’t have time to cook

-Kelly’s top 5 kitchen staples

-Kelly’s top kitchen tool recommendations

-Why Vegan meat alternatives aren’t a healthier option

-Differences between grass-fed and conventional corn-fed beef

-Her favorite part about being a chef

-Deets on her next cookbook and an idea as to when it will be released! 

-What Kelly does for fun outside of being a chef

 

Connect with Kelly and order her book:

Instagram: @kellyscleankitchen

Website: https://kellyscleankitchen.com/ 

Book: https://kellyscleankitchen.com/product/the-basics-of-cooking-cookbook/

 

Connect with Jess on Instagram: @jess.monteggia

Email the show: [email protected]

In this episode Jess sits down with Natalie Kelley, mostly known as Nat. Nat is an LGBTQ+ advocate, lifestyle creator and mindset coach based in Sacramento, CA. She founded Plenty and Well in 2019 to help other folks with chronic illnesses have easier access to mindset work tailored to the chronically ill experience after her own struggles to find resources that actually helped her on her own journey. To this day, she has helped over 200+ chronically ill folks around the world find acceptance and confidence on their journeys through her 1:1 coaching and group program, Path to Empowered Acceptance. Nat also speaks openly on social media about her journeys with queerness, self-care and self-love and makes content that she hopes inspires others to be their most authentic selves and prioritize themselves daily. When Nat isn't working or creating content, you will find her doing hot yoga, going on long nature walks, looking up Airbnb’s in faraway places, reading personal development books or queer romance novels, journaling, meditating, baking gluten free goodies or exploring a new coffee shop.

 

Connect with Natalie:

- Chronic Illness IG: @plentyandwellwithnat

- Chronic Illness Website: plentyandwell.com

- Lifestyle IG: @itsnataliecass

- Lifestyle TikTok: @itsnataliecass

 

Natalie’s Offerings: 

-Guided journal (physical copy): https://www.amazon.com/Rooted-Flow-Journal-Chronic-Illnesses/dp/B0BPGQ5TB1/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3MZLRTSLHF2UW&keywords=rooted+in+flow&qid=1672690121&sprefix=rooted+in+flo%2Caps%2C169&sr=8-2

-Guided journal (digital copy): https://nataliekelley.podia.com/rooted-in-flow-a-guided-journal-for-folks-with-chronic-illnesses

-"Self-love is a superpower" merch and "find joy in the little things" merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/plenty--well-with-nat/ 

 

What Nat & Jess talk about in this episode:

-What Nat’s day-to-day/self-care rituals look like

-Nat’s guided daily journal that she created, Rooted in Flow

-What spirituality means to Nat

-What motivated Nat to start her own business in Chronic Illness Coaching

-Nat’s perspective on ‘quitting’ and allowing herself to pivot when things no longer feel aligned (Hey, Manifesting Generators)

-What motivated her to pivot and start her health & lifestyle brand 

-Nat’s coming out journey

-The pressure she felt to dress and present as more masculine after coming out

-How she learned to authentically express herself and embrace her feminine energy after coming out

-How embracing her sexuality led to more self-acceptance and has empowered her to step into her authenticity 

-How having a queer therapist has helped her step into embracing her sexuality

-How her life shifted & how her family reacted to her coming out

-Her journey with sobriety & what motivated her to go sober

-Her advice for those who are curious about going sober but are scared to step into it

-Her favorite mocktail recipe &thoughts on spiritless alcohol 

-Jess shares an oracle card pull she did around the episode 

 

Connect with Jess on Instagram: @jess.monteggia

Email the show: [email protected]

In this episode, Jess sits down with Reiki Practitioner and Emotional Alchemy Coach, Lily Fanok, to dive into what Reiki is and how it can help you along your healing journey. Through her work, Lily helps women reconnect with their bodies and enliven their spirit. Utilizing the powerful avenues of energy work, nervous system informed embodiment and coaching approaches, and the healing powers of nature, Lily's work with clients initiates raw self-exploration and depth. After years in academia, emerging as a published author in the environmental field with a masters of science, Lily turned inward and through her own self-healing journey, landed in the space of energy and emotional work. Today, Lily uses energy work as a healing tool within group and individual settings to facilitate deep emotional healing and release. She also uses energy work in every aspect of her life and business!

What the show covers:

-How Lily’s journey with her illness led her to spirituality and opening her own business

-What is Reiki? 

-What receiving a Reiki energy healing session with Lily can be like

-Advice on how to integrate what you receive in a session

-The importance of being open-minded to energy work if you are newer to the modality in order to get full benefits

-How Reiki can support emotional healing

-How Reiki can support healing on a physical level

-The power you have in your healing journey and in choosing a Reiki practitioner 

-How your practitioner should empower you, not tell you what to or future predict your life

-How often Lily recommends her clients receive an energy healing session 

Connect with Lily:

Instagram: @lilyfanok_

Email: [email protected]

For questions about the show or to contact Jess email [email protected]

In this episode Jess sits down with Kelly Roland to talk about sex, intimacy and relationships. Kelly is a women's empowerment mentor who specializes in weaving esoteric tools and systems with somatic practices. She supports people to liberate their authentic expression through understanding their unique soul codes, deepest heart desires and unlocking the courage to embody that in the world.

What Jess & Kelly cover in the episode:

-Different aspects of the feminine

-Kelly’s journey around deconditioning shame experienced in her childhood around her sexuality

-What is intimacy? With the self? With others?

-Kelly’s perspective on moving through intimacy/sexual blocks

-How we can utilize our relationships to dive deeper into our blocks to intimacy

-How do we know if a trigger that comes up is something to lean into or something to shy away from?

-Healing within love relationships

-The power of setting intention before calling in a partner

-The difference between intentions and expectations when going into a new relationship

-Kelly’s practice with celibacy

-Stigmas around sex

-How to gain a deeper understanding of yourself and your sexuality through the lens of your astrological birth chart (what turns you on, what you’re attracted to, etc.)

To access Lilith in your astrology chart, go to Astro-charts.com. Enter in your birth information (must be exact) and then click ‘Settings”, check the Lilith box.

OR access your birth chart on The Pattern app (free, does not include Lilith placement).

Connect with Kelly:

IG: @itskellyroland

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.whenthestarsaligned.com

In this episode, Jess sits down with Dr. Mona Wiggins, a doctor of nursing practice, integrative health practitioner, and certified fertility awareness educator with over 15 years of medical experience.

Through her own gut, hormone, and mental health struggles, Dr. Mona found herbal and root cause medicine, fertility awareness, and Human Design. Combined, these practices radically transformed her life, her health, and her beliefs surrounding what true wellness is. Through this experience Mona committed to shifting her medical practice and began to seek deeper education in yoga, Human Design, integrative and functional medicine, and sexual and reproductive health. From this beautiful marriage of western and eastern practices, Mona founded Medicine with Mona, a wellness business dedicated to the education, empowerment, expansion + guidance of other womb holders.

Mona's passion is helping others re-discover the power, sovereignty, and deep wisdom they already have within while expanding their ability to heal and support their bodies through traditional Wise Woman Practices. Mona offers guidance through comprehensive online courses, holistic health consults + protocols, 1:1 mentorship,  functional + integrative testing, and more. For more information you can visit her at www.medicinewithmona.com

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Website: www.medicinewithmona.com

Insta: @medicinewithmona

In this Episode, Jess & Mona Discuss:

-How hormonal birth control damages the gut and physiologically impacts the body

-Where to start when coming off hormonal birth control

-The fears instilled in us around coming off hormonal birth control

-Common myths around hormonal birth control

-When you are fertile in your cycle

-How to avoid pregnancy when not on hormonal birth control

-The power we have as women to choose our journey with birth control and our fertility methods

-The concept of free bleeding

-How understanding your cycle can help you understand your anxiety on a deeper level

Connect Further with Jess:

IG: @jess.monteggia

Email: [email protected]

In this episode Jess dives into how to use a really fun personal development tool called Human Design to understand your unique energy ebbs and flows that are very specific to you! She explains how understanding this aspect of yourself can help to create more ease and release resistance when it comes to creating an exercise routine that feels GOOD for you. It's easy for us to get caught up in our heads in terms of what we "should" do for exercise and to get in shape, but are we really benefiting if it feels like a drag? Listen in to find out how you can better curate your exercise regimen to feel easy, resonant, sustainable, and in flow for you. PSA this is not an exercise plan.

To pull your Human Design chart go to www.myhumandesign.com and click 'Get Your Chart'. You'll need your birth information to include the date, location & time (exact if possible).

Connect with Jess on Instagram: @jess.monteggia

Email the show: [email protected]

In this solo episode Jess gets vulnerable and dives deeper into her journey with nutrition and how the process of healing her gut led to disordered eating. She explains what her experience was like and how she was able to move through her disordered eating to finally find food freedom. 

Disclaimer: This episode is based on Jess' subjective experiences and is not meant to be professional or medical advice. If you struggle with disordered eating, it is important to seek help from a qualified practitioner. 

Connect with Jess on Instagram: @jess.monteggia

Send in an email to the show: [email protected]