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You're someone who has ambitious goals and a deep desire to be your best self. That's why you're here. So how do you go about actually accomplishing that? In this episode, Jacob Moore hosts Sarah Baker for Part 2 of their conversation, as they build off the foundational knowledge Sarah shared in Episode 32. This time, the pair dive into practical tips and advice for starting your health journey.
What you’ll learn from this episode:
Sleep, blood sugar, and meditation all play vast roles in your life. Sarah shows us how each one can be harnessed effectively and practically.
Sarah Baker is a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, Integrative Nutritionist & Coach. Her passion is to help clients uncover the root cause of their health challenges, and to guide them through an approachable nutrition, health and lifestyle blueprint that is unique to them and easy to sustain. She has worked with clients from all over the U.S for 10 years, helping with lifestyle strategies they can implement at home, all while being a mom to her wonderful kids. Sarah is a published author of two books: Holistic Wellness and The Vegetarian Cookbook for Teens. You can also find her contributing to various morning shows in the Chicagoland area as an on-air health expert.
"The body wants to heal itself and the body wants to bring itself back into balance." - Sarah Baker
TIMESTAMPS
05:02 - What your blood sugar can tell you about your health
12:45 - Why sleep is so critical
16:10 - Using meditation to support healthy sleep
22:00 - Understand how daily routine can contribute to your hyper-vigilant state
29:10 - Your body and its mechanisms for healing
33:10 - "Test, don't guess!"
CONNECT WITH SARAH BAKER
Sarah's Instagram - @SarahBakerHealth
Sarah's Website - https://sarahnicolebaker.com/
Asana Mama - https://asanamama.com/
Green Circle Wellness - https://www.greencirclewellness.com/
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About Jacob Moore: Jacob Moore is the creator of 5 Bridges to Wellness and the founder of NoStigmas mental health support community. As an empowered childhood suicide loss survivor, Jacob writes and speaks internationally about trauma, holistic wellness design and thriving despite mental illness. In addition to being an avid user of both nature and dog therapy, Jacob practices meditation, yoga and martial arts to support his mental wellness. He splits his time between Chicago and the open road. d the open road.
If you could create the "perfect you", what would that look like? What kind of qualities would you have? How would you feel as you carried out daily life? In this episode, Jacob Moore hosts Maria-Victoria Albina who tells us that above all else, the key to feeling yourself is through nervous system regulation and slowing down!
What you’ll learn from this episode:
All too often, our sympathetic nervous systems are set off by our daily routines. How can we identify those factors and what can we do to cope? By utilizing breathwork Ms. Albina encourages us that regulating your nervous system is well within reach.
María-Victoria Albina (she/her) is a Master Certified Somatic Life Coach, UCSF-trained Family Nurse Practitioner and Breathwork Meditation Guide with a passion for helping humans socialized as women realize that they are their own best healers by reconnecting with their bodies and minds, so they can break free from codependency, perfectionism and people-pleasing and reclaim their joy.
She is the host of the Feminist Wellness Podcast, holds a Masters degree in Public Health from Boston University School of Public Health and a BA in Latin American Studies from Oberlin College. Victoria has been working in health & wellness for over 20 years and lives on occupied Munsee Lenape territory in New York’s Hudson Valley.
"We need to pause and slow things down, so we can remember that we do the most good for all when we approach life with a slowness, with presence, with mindfulness." - Maria-Victoria Albina
TIMESTAMPS
04:50 - Our nervous systems in the modern age
07:35 - Identifying nervous system triggers
09:05 - The 3 states of polyvagal theory
11:00 - Your breath as a roadmap
12:35 - Start with boundaries
18:30 - Reinforce trust in yourself through habits
21:25 - They myth of the 'silver bullet'
24:00 - Why you need to SLOW DOWN!
27:50 - How a foundation of relational independence paves the way for relational success
32:05 - The guiding nervous system sets the tone for all nervous systems
CONNECT WITH MARIA-VICTORIA Albina
Victoria's website - https://victoriaalbina.com/
Victoria's podcast Feminist Wellness - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/feminist-wellness/id1454980022
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/victoriaalbinawellness/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/VictoriaAlbinaWellness
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoriaalbina/
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Enjoy access to Victoria's free meditations! - https://victoriaalbina.com/passionandprofits
Sunsama time and task management - https://try.sunsama.com/passion-profits
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Learn More: 5 Bridges to Wellness and NoStigmas
About Jacob Moore: Jacob Moore is the creator of 5 Bridges to Wellness and the founder of NoStigmas mental health support community. As an empowered childhood suicide loss survivor, Jacob writes and speaks internationally about trauma, holistic wellness design and thriving despite mental illness. In addition to being an avid user of both nature and dog therapy, Jacob practices meditation, yoga and martial arts to support his mental wellness. He splits his time between Chicago and the open road.
Do you suffer from an autoimmune disorder, underlying health condition, or chronic pain? All too often, our healthcare practitioners target the symptoms of these ailments: the pain, the sickness, etc. In this episode, Jacob's guest Sarah Baker shares a different approach. What if, instead of addressing symptoms, medicine targeted the root cause of the problem?
What you’ll learn from this episode:
Sarah shows us that addressing only the symptoms for an illness is like putting a band-aid on a gaping wound. Maybe it will help a little bit, but until the root cause is identified and the problem effectively treated, you won't be able to move forward and be the best you, you can be. This is Part 1 of a 2 Part Series.
Sarah Baker is a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, Integrative Nutritionist & Coach. Her passion is to help clients uncover the root cause of their health challenges, and to guide them through an approachable nutrition, health and lifestyle blueprint that is unique to them and easy to sustain. She has worked with clients from all over the U.S for 10 years, helping with lifestyle strategies they can implement at home, all while being a mom to her wonderful kids. Sarah is a published author of two books: Holistic Wellness and The Vegetarian Cookbook for Teens. You can also find her contributing to various morning shows in the Chicagoland area as an on-air health expert.
"Functional medicine recognizes that there's typically a root cause, hidden stressor, or conglomerate of different hidden stressors that work together and create the perfect storm for an illness or a health challenge or an imbalance." - Sarah Baker
TIMESTAMPS
03:20 - What is functional medicine?
06:45 - How chronic stress impacts your body
09:25 - Overwhelming noise on health topics
10:00 - Prioritize Sleep and Nervous System regulation
CONNECT WITH SARAH BAKER
Sarah's Instagram - @SarahBakerHealth
Sarah's Website - https://sarahnicolebaker.com/
Asana Mama - https://asanamama.com/
Green Circle Wellness - https://www.greencirclewellness.com/
RESOURCES*
Sunsama time and task management
Thesis Nootropic Supplements
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CONNECT WITH JACOB
Learn More: 5 Bridges to Wellness and NoStigmas
About Jacob Moore: Jacob Moore is the creator of 5 Bridges to Wellness and the founder of NoStigmas mental health support community. As an empowered childhood suicide loss survivor, Jacob writes and speaks internationally about trauma, holistic wellness design and thriving despite mental illness. In addition to being an avid user of both nature and dog therapy, Jacob practices meditation, yoga and martial arts to support his mental wellness. He splits his time between Chicago and the open road.
Some days you feel your best: creative, high-energy, and ready to pour passion into your service mission. But other days, it feels like you just can't get into it. While your energy might ebb and flow, you know your meaningful work depends on your performance.
So what do you do when you're in a slump? In this quick tactical episode, Jacob Moore delivers practical tools for overcoming slowdowns and getting right back where you need to be. What you’ll learn from this episode:
These 3 steps can be a gamechanger when you're in a creative downturn. Remember not to be too hard on yourself, and rest in the hard work you've done already.
"To have a period of time where you have less inspiration, less passion, less ideas, less energy is perfectly normal. A lot of times it syncs up with seasons or with hormones, or with life events. And that's okay. Take care of yourself and do what you can. Feel confident knowing that you've done the work already." - Jacob MooreTIMESTAMPS
[01:17] - Start with grace
[03:25] - Step 1: Capture your ideas
[05:00] - Step 2: Extract key information
[06:30] - Step 3: Create your system
[08:50] - Slumps are natural
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Learn More: 5 Bridges to Wellness and NoStigmas
About Jacob Moore: Jacob Moore is the creator of 5 Bridges to Wellness and the founder of NoStigmas mental health support community. As an empowered childhood suicide loss survivor, Jacob writes and speaks internationally about trauma, holistic wellness design and thriving despite mental illness. In addition to being an avid user of both nature and dog therapy, Jacob practices meditation, yoga and martial arts to support his mental wellness. He splits his time between Chicago and the open road.
If you're a service leader, you've worked countless hours and invested costly energy into the dream you strive to grow: your organization. But what does that effort amount to if your impact isn't recognized? In this episode, Jacob Moore describes the 4 major challenges to any agency's reach and simple, effective strategies for overcoming them.
What you’ll learn from this episode:
Your mission deserves to have greater impact, and your efforts rewarded. Spread your movement with focused reach strategies, delivered through efficient content use.
"People have short attention spans, so just a little bit of content can go a long way. Once you've created awareness about your organization or what you do, share valuable content! Do it again and again. Share content that actually helps people meet a need, actually gives them something that they want. They will come back for more." - Jacob Moore
TIMESTAMPS
[02:30] - 4 huge challenges to your organization
[02:50] - Challenge #1 Budget
[03:50] - Challenge #2 Staff
[06:00] - Challenge #3 Know-how
[09:40] - Challenge #4 Reach
[10:00] - Counter-Strategy: Defining your brand identity
[18:30] - How is your content valuable to others?
[21:00] - Recommended productivity tools
[24:55] - Content Multiplier strategy
[29:30] - Strategy: Use your programs to produce content
[32:55] - Strategy: personable outreach
[36:10] - Forming alliances
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Learn More: 5 Bridges to Wellness and NoStigmas
About Jacob Moore: Jacob Moore is the creator of 5 Bridges to Wellness and the founder of NoStigmas mental health support community. As an empowered childhood suicide loss survivor, Jacob writes and speaks internationally about trauma, holistic wellness design and thriving despite mental illness. In addition to being an avid user of both nature and dog therapy, Jacob practices meditation, yoga and martial arts to support his mental wellness. He splits his time between Chicago and the open road.
Your mind is a complex biological wonder, but how do you keep it working at maximum efficiency? Oftentimes it seems our brain is a difficult beast to tame, especially when there's so much information bombarding us all the time about the do's and don'ts of optimizing your focus. In this episode, Jacob Moore tackles the subject of brain-focused supplements and drugs, and provides science-backed resources that will help you learn more about your personal health.
What you’ll learn from this episode:
Finding the right productivity approach for you can be a daunting task, but with the right resources, you can start feeling better now. It just takes a little patience, and awareness of your body.
"I'm looking for functional. What is going to just...work?" - Jacob Moore
TIMESTAMPS
[03:20] - Medication and focus: are stimulants right for you?
[05:50] - Bringing lived, functional experience
[08:00] - The pros and cons of caffeine
[15:15] - Nootropics (brain supplements, smart drugs and cognitive enhancers)
[19:25] - Find your own balance of nootropics' powerful ingredients
[23:00] - Water and exercise as medicine for focus
RESOURCES*
Sunsama time and task management
Thesis Nootropic Supplements
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REFERENCES
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Learn More: 5 Bridges to Wellness and NoStigmas
About Jacob Moore: Jacob Moore is the creator of 5 Bridges to Wellness and the founder of NoStigmas mental health support community. As an empowered childhood suicide loss survivor, Jacob writes and speaks internationally about trauma, holistic wellness design and thriving despite mental illness. In addition to being an avid user of both nature and dog therapy, Jacob practices meditation, yoga and martial arts to support his mental wellness. He splits his time between Chicago and the open road.
Does it ever feel like nothing seems to be going right? Are you stuck in the rut of grueling routine? In this episode, Jacob Moore hosts Michelle Ensuque, an expert in neurolinguistic programming, an alternative approach to self-reflection and personal change that might be just what you need to spur some action in your life.
What you’ll learn from this episode:
Change in your life, brain, and being start with the awareness of what is happening within. It's easy to get caught up in the mundane aspects of life, or you may find yourself falling into the same patterns. But have you stopped and thought...Why?
Michelle Ensuque is an NLP coach whose project management and consultant career has spanned 30 years across public and private sectors. As a former serving officer of the Armed Forces, she overcame burnout in 2013 and now helps other people to look at the world in a different way so that they can live, rather than simply exist.
"I never really stopped and thought, "If this was somebody else in my situation and I could see them running themselves ragged, working, looking after two boys, being a single parent, trying to be perfect around the house, not having a social life...what would I say to that person? Because chances are, if that was your best mate, you would be going "what do you think you are doing?" Because this is not sustainable. But when it comes to ourselves, we seem to think that we can just continue in that way." - Michelle Ensuque
TIMESTAMPS
[01:40] - What is neurolinguistic programming?
[06:05] - Service leaders are drawn to care
[10:30] - Service leaders turn past pain into present purpose
[17:35] - Thought Experiment: What if there were 2 of you in the same room?
[23:00] - Reflect on what you do and why
[33:00] - Understanding yourself in the context of unresolved trauma
[39:00] - Use your pen and paper
CONNECT WITH MICHELLE ENSUQUE
Michelle's Website
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Learn More: 5 Bridges to Wellness and NoStigmas
About Jacob Moore: Jacob Moore is the creator of 5 Bridges to Wellness and the founder of NoStigmas mental health support community. As an empowered childhood suicide loss survivor, Jacob writes and speaks internationally about trauma, holistic wellness design and thriving despite mental illness. In addition to being an avid user of both nature and dog therapy, Jacob practices meditation, yoga and martial arts to support his mental wellness. He splits his time between Chicago and the open road.
Think about the qualities of a thriving business culture. What comes to mind? You might consider efficiency, cooperation, skilled employees, and profits, but Jacob Moore's next guest, Bryan Trilli, tells us that another trait should be at the top of your list: love. Rather than seeing love as a rosy and fanciful ideal, Bryan clearly defines this strategic concept and shows how to practically apply love to your workplace environment.
What you’ll learn from this episode:
Substantial research shows that love in the workplace boosts employee morale, which leads to better productivity and a thriving culture. Entwining his years of experience with hours of research, Bryan Trilli brings us the latest strategy in helping you love where you work.
Bryan Trilli has bought or started 6 different businesses in 5 different industries in 4 different states from a brick-and-mortar service business to the #1 online company for computer vision training in the world.
After running a successful lead-gen agency, Optimized Marketing, Bryan decided that if his team truly is great at marketing, they should cut out the middle-man and buy and build companies they control.
That adventure led him to build worldwide remote teams which required an obsessive focus on culture - and love.
"If you really love somebody, what does that mean? The definition that I work off of is to will the good of another. Another word that's often used is charity. What's charity? That would mean doing something good without expectation of return. And that's essentially the same thing. That's how I would understand love." - Bryan Trilli
TIMESTAMPS
[01:10] - What makes a good leader?
[03:25] - How love is a factor in good leadership
[11:20] - The principle of "you get the people you deserve"
[14:50] - Setting up regular employee checks
[19:15) - Your personal work/life balance
[30:10] - Creating checks and balances for your employees
[38:00] - Build a culture for your business to thrive
CONNECT WITH BRYAN TRILLI
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Learn More: 5 Bridges to Wellness and NoStigmas
About Jacob Moore: Jacob Moore is the creator of 5 Bridges to Wellness and the founder of NoStigmas mental health support community. As an empowered childhood suicide loss survivor, Jacob writes and speaks internationally about trauma, holistic wellness design and thriving despite mental illness. In addition to being an avid user of both nature and dog therapy, Jacob practices meditation, yoga and martial arts to support his mental wellness. He splits his time between Chicago and the open road.
Poor employee mental health is costing your business money and time: two very critical, but limited resources. In place of examining their workplace environment, however, most employers will instead place the blame entirely on their workers, making the deadly mistake of losing them. In this episode, Jacob Moore hosts Mike Bushman, who shares about the cost advantage of retaining employees, and the simple method of employing compassion to keep your passion alive and profits SOARing.
What you’ll learn from this episode:
During his long tenure as a leader, Mike has learned many lessons about guiding his employees through difficult times. He quickly found that investing time into skilled employees makes a real-life difference, and approaching every situation with a compassionate mindset can be the difference between poor business performance and great success. This is Part 3 of a 3 Part series.
Mike Bushman is a writer, speaker and trainer focused on mental health and suicide prevention. Mike serves as a board member with the Illinois Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), a volunteer with NoStigmas and as a Youth and Teen Mental Health First Aid Instructor. Mike is the author of books Pain to Purpose: Teaching Teens to Lead, Foster and Engage the JKB Way and Suicide Escape that dive into the complexities of mental health. Mike created an evidence-based, vetted workplace mental health training program built on research, personal mental health experiences and years of managing individuals with various mental health challenges. He facilitated research groups on disclosure considerations for suicide attempt survivors for the National Consortium on Stigma and Empowerment. In addition to Youth and Teen Mental Health First Aid, Mike regularly conducts More Than Sad, Talk Saves Lives and other training programs on behalf of AFSP and has extensively shared his personal story of recovery and hope.
"When I'm struggling, my natural instinct is to withdraw. And what I've learned is that that's exactly when I need to reach out to my brothers, my friends, and other people that I know I'm going to have positive interaction with. Even though I might feel exhausted pretty quickly in dealing with that interaction, I need it." -Mike Bushman
TIMESTAMPS
[01:30]- The real cost of poor mental health in the workplace
[05:05]- The Hedge Fund study
[10:00]- The importance of connection in difficult times
[12:00]- Taking the right approach as a service leader
[20:15]- Mike's story of making the wrong call, and the lessons he learned
[23:00]- Help workplace brains function optimally
CONNECT WITH MIKE BUSHMAN
Twitter: @m_bushman
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Learn More: 5 Bridges to Wellness and NoStigmas
About Jacob Moore: Jacob Moore is the creator of 5 Bridges to Wellness and the
founder of NoStigmas mental health support community. As an empowered childhood
suicide loss survivor, Jacob writes and speaks internationally about trauma,
holistic wellness design and thriving despite mental illness. In addition to
being an avid user of both nature and dog therapy, Jacob practices meditation,
yoga and martial arts to support his mental wellness. He splits his time
between Chicago and the open road.
Progressing your business and completing day-to-day operations can feel like an uphill battle, when you're trying to manage a struggling team. People are complex and come from a variety of different experiences. They bring individual needs and perspectives to their workplace, that sweeping policies just might not effectively address. In this episode, Jacob's guest Mike Bushman relates how striving to understand your employees and making individual adjustments can turn your business into a hub of productivity.
What you'll learn in this episode:
Peoples' complexities don't have to frustrate the process of achieving great things with your business. In fact, your employees unique skills and talents are probably
why you hired them in the first place. With a few simple adjustments,
struggling team members can regain momentum and help drive your mission
forward. This is Part 2 of a 3 part series.
Mike Bushman is a writer, speaker and trainer focused on mental health and suicide
prevention. Mike serves as a board member with the Illinois Chapter of the
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), a volunteer with NoStigmas
and as a Youth and Teen Mental Health First Aid Instructor. Mike is the author of books Pain to Purpose: Teaching Teens to Lead, Foster and
Engage the JKB Way and Suicide Escape that dive into the
complexities of mental health. Mike created an evidence-based, vetted workplace mental health training program built on research, personal mental health experiences and years of managing individuals with various mental health challenges. He facilitated research groups on disclosure considerations for suicide attempt survivors for the National Consortium on Stigma and Empowerment. In addition to Youth and Teen Mental Health First Aid, Mike regularly conducts More Than Sad, Talk Saves Lives and other training programs on behalf of AFSP and has extensively shared his personal story of recovery and hope.
"You have differences in how people react to different opportunities, different
circumstances, different challenges. As a manager it's really critical that you
understand that, and that you recognize what those differences are. Make those
adjustments for individual minds." - Mike Bushman
TIMESTAMPS
[02:40] - Mike's story: Why AIM is so important
[05:00] - The benefit of making holistic adjustments
[08:05] - The business cost that makes this effort worth it
[13:00] - Bringing mental health awareness to the workplace
[19:40] - Set your employees up to succeed
[22:35] - Service Leader action item: Study accommodations
CONNECT WITH MIKE BUSHMAN
Twitter: @m_bushman
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Learn More: 5 Bridges to Wellness and NoStigmas
About Jacob Moore: Jacob Moore is the creator of 5 Bridges to Wellness and the founder of NoStigmas mental health support community. As an empowered childhood suicide loss survivor, Jacob writes and speaks internationally about trauma, holistic wellness design and thriving despite mental illness. In addition to being an avid user of both nature and dog therapy, Jacob practices meditation, yoga and martial arts to support his mental wellness. He splits his time between Chicago and the open road.
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