Not Another Wellness Podcast

Episode 42 : Wellness While Pregnant & Living With MS

Samantha Hayes

Health Coach

Episode 41: Clear Space, Clear Mind. Nat and Sam talk about the impact your space has on your LIFE. 

Samantha Mech

OrganizeDecor

Samantha Mech is a NYC based, professional organizer and founder of OrganizeDécor. As a former collegiate athlete and marathoner, she is a fitness and wellness enthusiast. Sam believes that the secret to leading a happy, healthy, and balanced life starts in the home. Her passion for organizing was borne out of her personal struggle with anxiety and the resulting desire to cultivate a clean, calm, and balanced environment in which she could thrive. Sam's expertise lies in organizing any and all parts of the home and creating orderly and peaceful spaces. Her previous career as a fashion buyer equips her with the added talent of merchandising and consigning unwanted items.

Episode 40: Meaning Less; On Choosing Self-Acceptance and Losing Respect for Others' Respect. Nat and Adam dive into the journey of self-acceptance and why it is so crucial to our livelihood.

Adam Hise

Writer, deep thinker, passionate human

Instagram: @baronvonhise

Want more from Adam? Here are some of Adam's Medium Articles:

https://medium.com/@hise311/meaning-less-74d6b89f18ed

https://medium.com/@hise311/ideals-ideas-and-symbols-746a2452cf34

Episode 39: Body Wisdom, Diet Culture, and Healing From an Eating Disorder. Natalie and Cara talk about diet culture, what it is, how it affects us, and how we can heal our bodies through practices like intuitive living.

Cara Carin Cifelli

Host of Love Your Bod Pod

Author of the book Body Wisdom

Cara Carin Cifelli is a certified holistic health coach who helps humans feel confident around food and in their bodies.

Cara is a certified holistic health coach who helps humans feel confident around food and in their bodies. Through education, positive psychology, neuroscience, intuitive development and major realness; she offers her clients a personal, integrated experience that allows them to connect deeply to the woven in wisdom of their bodies so healthy eating and healthy living is fun and easy, not full of guilt, stress and shame. Through her private mentorship, online course, podcast, and Instagram, Cara is inspiring others to live fully self-expressed, free from societies expectations of their bodies and their lives. She's been featured in Mind Body Green, Recovery Warriors, Elephant Journey, and The Feed Feed and is the author of the book Body Wisdom now available on Amazon.

Topics covered:

Episode 38: What You Need to Know About Periods And The Pill with Amanda Montalvo. Nat and Amanda explore periods, explain the 4 phases of the menstrual cycle, birth control, birth control symptoms, and how our environment impacts the way our body functions.

Amanda Montalvo

Amanda is an integrative dietitian & women’s health expert specializing in women's hormones. She helps people have an awesome period by decreasing their toxic load and balancing their hormones naturally.

https://yournontoxiclife.com/my-story/ 

Instagram: @amandamontalvord 

Topics covered:

• What is a period?
• How does birth control work?
• What is the difference between a hormonal and a copper IUD?
• How can you transition off hormonal birth control?
• How you can naturally support liver detox to balance hormones.
• Seed cycling.
• Reducing toxic load

*AND so much more

#37 Adaptogenic Herbal Coffee  // Lopa van der Mersch, Rasa Koffee. Nat and Lopa dive into the journey to creating Rasa and how coffee can negatively impact the body. How does your body respond to coffee?  Think about it for a second... Does it make you feel jittery, anxious or irritable? If so, you are NOT alone and there are healthy alternatives for you and your body! Rasa is an organic adaptogenic herbal coffee alternative with deep roots in Ayurveda and Chinese medicine.  The Rasa formula is packed with great-tasting herbs that provide lasting energy and nourish your adrenals rather than tax them.  

Lopa van der Mersch

Founder of Rasa Coffee

 https://wearerasa.com/

Instagram: @wearerasa 

Topics covered:

• How Rasa was started: Where motherhood and business intersect 
• Adaptogenic herbs and  how they are useful in the body 
• How coffee affects the body 
• Coffee & Kapha body types 
• Acknowledging and listening to our natural energy states 
• Lopa’s favorite way to made a Rasa latte 

*And so much more!

Episode 36: Sex Every Day. Nat, Caitlin and Michael dive into their book Sex Every Day and why it is as important as communication in a relationship.

Caitlin and Michael Doemner co-authored the book of Sex Every Day, a guidebook to prioritize sex in your marriage. They believe that everyone would be happier & healthier if they focus on their pleasure. They have been happily married for over ten years and have continued to have sex every day despite having four children and building several successful businesses together. In their new book Sex Every Day Caitlin & Michael share the 3-step process they use to prioritize sex in their marriage.

https://www.sexeverydaybook.com/homepage25989259

Topics covered on the episode:

• The difference between men and women and how they might approach sex
• The barriers to intimacy in a marriage, like having kids
• Body shame while naked and how to overcome it
• Prioritizing daily sex and intimacy
• How to talk about sex with your partner
• How you can use communication to enhance your relationship/marriage/sex life
• The benefits of daily intimacy
• How mindfulness can increase pleasure

Episode 35: The Mind-Body-Soul Connection // Noelle Agape. Nat and Noelle discuss Noelle's life's purpose of helping clients find balance in their lives so they can live the highest version of themselves, coaching them to self mastery; mastering their mind, mastering their ego, mastering their body, mastering their energy and mastering their souls purpose.

Noelle Agape M.A, PPS, NLP

Health and Wellness Counselor

NLP & Energy Medicine Trainer

Noelleagape.com

TV Host of The Infinite Wellness Show- available on BingTV

Instagram: @noelle_agape

Noelle Agape is a health and wellness Counselor for the past 17 years with a focus on Health and Wellness. She have 12 years of formal Education and Training in Psychology, Quantum Physics, Energy Healing, Neuro Linguistic Programing and Yoga. She is a TV Host of the Infinite Wellness Show, International Speaker and has developed and implemented wellness retreats around the world. Her goal is to help clients find balance in their lives so they can live the highest version of themselves, coaching them to self mastery; mastering their mind, mastering their ego, mastering their body, mastering their energy and mastering their souls purpose. Her practice is about connecting Mind, Body, Soul and Spirt, through emotional counseling, nutritional support, life coaching and overall health and wellbeing counseling.

Notes:

• Wellness as a mind body soul connection
• Living your purpose
• What it means to be a health and wellness counselor.
• What is NLP?
• What are limiting beliefs? 
• How emotions are stored in the body as energy and how we can connect to our body.
• Meditation as a tool to listen to our body.
• How can we tune into our bodies? We can connect to your breath. Stop what you are doing and breath in deeply and feel it through your entire body.
• 5-second breathing technique to calm you down.
• Meditation in every day life and activities to bring you back into your center
• ”Death taught me how to live life.”
• What is an alkaline diet?
• Living consciously
• What resonates with you? Follow that.
• Everything we need is already within us if we listen to our bodies.
• What brings you joy? Joy is the highest possible vibration on the planet.

#34 Share Love Everywhere | The Power of Positivity | Love Everywhere, Ashley Reale. Nat and Ashley talk the power of positivity and how it has the power to change the world! Love Everywhere is a company with a mission to spread love around the world.

Ashley Reale

https://www.shareloveeverywhere.com/

If you find one of Ashley’s cards, you can tell them where you found the card on their website!

Instagram: @shareloveeverywhere 

Topics/themes covered in the podcast:

• What is Love Everywhere?
• The corporate environment and how unhappiness in the office turned a secret mission to encourage her coworkers through positivity and affirmations
• Change, a move and motherhood and how that changed Ashley’s life
• Spreading affirmations became a hobby that grew into a website and Instagram account which lead to much, much more!
• "You are on purpose” & “Perfect is being exactly who you are"
• The power in affirmations and speaking kindly to yourself.
• How manifestation ties into affirmations
• The downside of being a people pleaser and how it can actually be damaging to your self worth
• Motherhood and how it shifts your priorities
• Why it’s important to realize that people are not thinking about you as much as you think they are and how that realization gives you a bit of freedom
• The value in learning from failure
• Ashley shares one of her failures and what she learned from it

#33 What is Collagen? & The Power of Community | Jenny Barber. 

Nat and Jenny talk collagen. What is collagen and what are the benefits? We also cover health and wellness tips and life lessons that have helped us get to where we are today.

Jenny Barber

Instagram: @jennynbarber @vitalproteins

First Descents: https://firstdescents.org

Topics covered in the episode:

• What is collagen?
• The benefits of collagen, joints, gut health, hair, skin and nails
• Jenny’s background- how it started with food: Culinary school
• How Jenny used her love and knowledge of food to heal 
• What is First Decents? 
• The power of a community and human connection
• The power of empathy
• We are here to lean on each other so why not do that?
• Giving and exchanged of energy
• Receiving and giving as a part of human connection
• Why you should enjoy the journey of your life and where it leads you
• Life lessons and advice: Enjoy the ride: Let go and let things happen without stressing about them. Living in the moment. It’s OK to not be sure. There is so much to be learned at every corner of life. Gratitude is seeing the beautiful in every moment of life. There is magic in being grateful for what would be perceived as small all the way to the grand things. There is more positivity in life when you are looking for. 
• How social media can take you out of the moment
• Wellness habits: dark chocolate every day ;) Body oils, rose quarts rollers, quiet time in the morning, working out, coffee or matcha, spending time in nature, nutrition and cooking, seeing food as energy
• Human design: the study of how we best exchange energy in the world
• Go easy on yourself, self love, compassion and grace
• "Thats why they make chocolate and vanilla.” *A grace pass*