Lit Up With Lo

Three years ago, Amie was living in a 120 square foot hut, working a full time job as a cocktail server (dreaming of traveling the world), and attempting to start an online nutrition business. Her first online nutrition course finally gave me the financial stability and passive income to quite her serving job and go full in on her business. A few months later, she and her husband decided to start traveling the world full-time, relying solely on the income from her online business. During that time, they visited almost 20 (!!!) foreign countries WHILE simultaneously scaling into a million-dollar-online business. Now she has made more than 1 million dollars in sales  and is helping thousands of entrepreneurs find financial freedom through online courses.

In this episode, we talk about her online course empire, digital nomad lifestyle, human design (we're both the same profile!), the power of manifestation, how we met her significant others, living in Hawaii and LA, and how she went VIRAL on Instagram recently, solely through REELS (she went from 58k to 120k followers in a view months). 

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OTHER RESOURCES
Amie in Forbes
Human Design

Vanessa and I met when we were 15 at the lunch table in high school and she has been my best friend ever since. Although our friendship has evolved from ice cream dates and asking boys out over AIM, we remain each others confidants and cheerleaders.  She is an avid sports lover, playing soccer through college and now training for her first marathon. In addition, Vanessa is open about her struggles with anxiety and uses it to encourage others to make their mental health journey a priority.”

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After being diagnosed with a rare disease in 2018, Jamie Koll completely changed her lifestyle to focus on clean eating. She lived in NYC for 6 years  working as an event planner and recently moved back to Boston to focus on her business full time. She is a certified health coach and recipe developer! She loves to grocery shop, travel, and spend time with big floofy dog Bronny.

Jamie started her Instagram account @girlswhoeat in 2014 as a guide to dining out in NYC and beyond. Over the past six years, she  has worked with a number of restaurants, brands, and hospitality partners across the country and world. In recent months, she has shifted to a healthier focus as my passion for clean eating has taken a front row seat. Her goal is to bring her audience healthy eating options by guiding you to make great choices at home, at your grocery store, or while on-the-go. On her website, you will find easy to make recipes, discover amazing female-founded food brands, and tips to make meal prep simpler and snacking healthier!

In this episode, we talk about everything from recipe development, living with a rare disease, clean eating, reading labels, health coaching school, being sober curious, leaving NYC, and what a day in her life looks like. Jamie and I have known each other since we met in health coach school a year and a half ago so you'll definitely feel like you're listening to two  friends!

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OTHER RESOURCES
Apply to Institute of Integrative Nutrition (IIN) USE MY NAME FOR $2,000 OFF TUITION
IIN Curriculum Guide
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Trello

Jordan Drankoski is a healthy living blogger, former professional dancer and entrepreneur living in Los Angeles. She currently runs a digital marketing company that caters to small, women-owned businesses and her passion project is sharing budget-conscious healthy recipes, wellness tips, workout reviews and mental health inspiration on her Instagram and blog, Dancing for Donuts. Her hope is to make wellness more attainable for all, and inspire a more balanced lifestyle for overall health and happiness. When she's not working on building her business, you can find her jamming out to Beyoncé, hiking with her boyfriend and dog, or exploring new coffee shops!

In this episode, we talk about life as a balanced babe on a budget in LA, why Jordan is moving from LA and where she is going, Jordan's career as a professional dancer, hand modeling, entrepreneurship and owning her own business (the pros, the cons, and everything in between), dating apps, tricks for not drinking when we're out, the importance of positivity and kindness... and SO much more! This episode is raw and real, and I know it is the beginning of a beautiful friendship! I started this podcast to have a deep conversations with new friends and that is exactly what happened here!

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OTHER RESOURCES
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Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss
Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg

Emily Griffith is the CEO and founder of  Lil Bucks and has been obsessed with sprouted buckwheat ever since she first tasted it several years ago in a “life-changing” acai bowl in Sidney, Australia.

While living in Australia, she discovered sprouted buckwheat and created Lil Bucks, a company to make and sell the crunchy, earthy-tasting seeds. She launched Lil Bucks in May 2018 at a fitness festival in Chicago. You can add them to granola, sprinkle them on salad, and dust them over yogurt! They are  a “superfood,” but the real benefit is their fiber (5 grams in a quarter-cup), protein (6 grams in a quarter-cup), their nice texture and alluring flavor. 

In this episode, we cover the road to entrepreneurship, dealing with burnout, long distance romance, planning a wedding during a pandemic, and traveling as a digital nomad!

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Lil Bucks New York Times feature
Lil Bucks Bon Appetit feature

Tina is the co-founder and CEO of Just Thrive, a supplement company based in Chicago, Illinois, that focuses on the critical importance of gut health. Just Thrive products can be found in over 1,000 retail locations, online at www.JustThriveHealth.com and Amazon.

Her journey into the world of health had a unique start and some unusual turns. She began her career as a trial lawyer who specialized in settling cases by bringing both sides together, a personal passion of hers. Once her second child arrived, Tina left that high-stress job behind so she could focus on her family. Luckily, she was still able to use her considerable legal skills to point her career in a new direction as the in-house counsel for a family pharmaceutical company. But what Tina saw there made her change direction again. Frustrated by the many abuses in the pharmaceutical industry, Tina turned toward the field of natural health, and found her life’s work. She channeled her energy into learning all she could about disease prevention and good health maintenance. That led her to discover the importance of gut health and how connected and crucial it is for overall health and wellness. To share her discovery with the world, Tina along with her husband created a unique supplement that contains the superior probiotic strains of renowned researcher Dr. Simon Cutting. By promoting gut health and probiotics, Tina shares her passion for wellness, helping others live their best physical and emotional lives.

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OTHER RESOURCES
Tina on Wellness Mama Podcast
Tina on Food Heals Podcast
Tina on Bulletproof Radio
Tina on TSC Podcast
Heart Math / Inner Balance
Calm
I Can See Clearly Now by Wayne Dyer
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

Helen Hall is CEO and founder of Hushup X Hustle, a wellness brand focused on living an 80/20 lifestyle, free of food guilt and anxiety. Helen is the CEO and founder of Blender Bombs, a line of nutrient-dense, superfood smoothie bombs that helped her curve cravings and lose weight. She started the company with $300 and grew it to now be sold in Whole Foods, Thrive Market, and Costco. Blender Bombs have been featured on the “The Today Show" and Helen was featured in Forbes late last year. Helen is also the founder of Hustle Smoothie Bar, 80X20 Market (an online clean product and food marketplace), and Tipsy Spritzers (a clean, organic, wine-based spritzer).

In this episode, we talk about entrepreneurship, her 80X20 lifestyle, intermittent fasting, building her businesses, working with her fiance, using human design in hiring, and the 6 month cross-country road trip she is leaving for on Monday!

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@blenderbombs // https://blenderbombs.com/
@hustlecharleston // https://www.hustlesmoothiebar.com/
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@tipsyspritzers // https://tipsyspritzers.com/

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Helen on TSC Podcast
Helen on Soul on Fire Podcast
The Minimalists: Less Is Now Documentary
Spindrift
Recess CBD Drink
Human Design 

Taryn Shank is a Holistic Health Coach with a passion for healing your relationship with food. After years of struggling with fad dieting, binge eating, and body image issues she discovered her love for herself and it has completely transformed her life. Thoughtfully Thriving is her coaching practice where she helps you break free of dieting and restriction and show you how you can feel great eating whatever you want by taking your power back. She's a health nerd and loves cooking, cute cafes, and traveling. You can usually find her in her kitchen cooking up a delicious, healthy recipe to share for others to enjoy and see how fun and easy healthy living can be.

We talk about so much, from dropping out of college to soul search and ultimately find her passion by interning for a naturopath, to curing her candida, leaky gut, and parasites with nutrition response testing. Taryn fills us in on why she moved to Arizona on a whim 3 years ago and how she took the leap to pursue her health coaching business and wellness blogging full time. She lets us in on the behind the scenes of her business, from structuring her day to setting up packages and rates, and the importance of niching down to attract clients.

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OTHER RESOURCES:
Apply to Institute of Integrative Nutrition (IIN) USE MY NAME FOR $2,000 OFF TUITION
IIN Curriculum Guide
Alisa Viti
@dancing.for.donuts
The Minimalists: Less Is Now Documentary
TSC Podcast
Ed Mylett Show
The School of Greatness Podcast
The Genius Life Podcast
Genius Foods by Max Lugavere
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero
How I Built This by Guy Raz
The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz
Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday
The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod

Mike Trugman is a Life Coach who helps his clients deliberately create lives of purpose and fulfillment. He is particularly passionate about helping men live more confidently, both personally and professionally.

We dive deep into his experience with life coaching that led to becoming a life coach himself, finding passion in our careers, the voices in our head, insights from inner work, how the keys to your side hustle lie in the problems you've already solved, balancing life coaching with his full-time job, morning routines, overcoming fear of public speaking, and our mutual obsession with personal development. Mike even probes me with some of his life coaching questions and I go into the "aha" moments I've been having lately.

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OTHER RESOURCES:

Apply to Institute of Integrative Nutrition (IIN) USE MY NAME FOR $2,000 OFF TUITION
IIN Curriculum Guide
Mike Desanti
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Mastery by Robert Greene
The Skinny Confidential Podcast
Ryan Holiday on TSC Podcast
Ed Mylett on TSC Podcast
Impact Theory Podcast
Tim Ferriss Podcast
Tim Ferriss on How I Built This
Quiet by Susan Cain
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
Headspace
Stress Less, Accomplish More: Meditation for Extraordinary Performance by Emily Fletcher

MORNING ROUTINE RESOURCES:

Daily Stoic
Journey to the Heart
The Five Minute Journal
The Wild Unknown Tarot Cards
Who Will Cry When You Die? by Robin Sharma

Emily began her career as a stylist working alongside Elizabeth Sulcer, before becoming a merchant at Saks Fifth Avenue. After surviving several large layoffs and restructures at the company, Emily was left feeling lost in rapidly changing retail environment. Passionate about the health and wellness space, Emily started Detox2Retox as a creative outlet from her 9-5 job. Emily currently works as a Planner at Saks Off 5th in addition to running her Instagram account. Chicago born and raised digital talent and entrepreneur Emily Dempsey helps guide her community to living their happiest + healthiest lives. Emily is passionate about sharing her coveted wellness tips + tricks, favorite workout classes, detox remedies, minimalist beauty regime, and so much more. Her vision is to help her guide her community to become the best version of themselves. A trustworthy source of knowledge for her followers, Emily offers realistic advice in a way that feels like it is coming from your best friend, making it easy to live an aspirational lifestyle.

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Retail Czar

The Sweat Method

Dance Body