Holistic health coach, Maya Top, shares her experience with healing her trauma around grief and loss. We learn how the physical manifestation of her trauma led to her life’s work of teaching women how to advocate for their own mental health and overall wellness. Maya’s story provides a timely reminder that we do not have to over complicate our healing process. When creating life-changing habits, we can start small so that we keep our word to ourselves to build confidence and trust in ourselves and our ability to heal. 

Topics We Discuss: 

• Holistic Health
• Loss
• Mental Health

In the Episode, We Learn:

• What her experience was like growing up in a small town.
• How she became independent at a young age.
• How losing her mom affected her when she was graduating college.
• She turned to fitness to cope with the death of her mom.
• How her childhood influenced her interest in Holistic Wellness.
• How to set micro goals so you don’t overwhelm yourself.
• How her trauma manifested in her body.
• The importance of figuring out the root of your physical pain holistically versus treating the symptoms.

Resources:

• Maya Top IG
• Maya’s Website
• Institute for Integrative Nutrition
• Melissa Wood Health IG
• Atomic Habits by James Clear

Partners:

• Fiona Moss: www.FionaMoss.co.uk
• Challenge the status-quo, re-write your rules, create change
• Get $150 off 1:2:1 coaching sessions with Fiona Moss with our code 
• Code: RGS 
• Schedule a call discovery call with Fiona here
• OSEA Malibu non-toxic skincare
• Living Libations organic and wildcrafted

Tedi Serge, CEO and Co-Founder of Girl Powerful, has dedicated her life to serve and empower young girls. We love the work she is doing and the tools she has created to help girls build confidence, cultivate self-love, two things that are especially difficult in this modern age of social media. We are inspired by her pursuit to balance the graceful and gritty parts of herself for we are not just one thing...we are darkness and light, grace and grit, and we are all powerful.

Topics We Discuss: 

• Girl Powerful
• Self-Esteem
• Childhood Development

In the Episode, We Learn:

• About her experience growing up with a single mom.
• About the confidence gap that can happen to children.
• Her deep connection to her sister and best friend.
• How moving to Missouri at 8 years old affected her.
• How and why she dimmed her light as a kid.
• Why she started her non-profit, “Girl Powerful.” 
• How she works with young girls to build self-love, confidence, and address their triggers.
• The power that positive behavior modeling can have on young girls.
• About her spiritual practice as a Kundalini Yoga teacher.
• Her insight into how social media is impacting young girls.
• How the Kundalini Yoga spirit is in Girl Powerful.
• Why she believes in mantras so much.

Resources:

• Tedi’s IG @teditalks
• Girl Powerful’s IG @girlpowerfulproject
• Girl Powerful
• The Secret by Rhonda Byrne 

Partners:

• Fiona Moss: www.FionaMoss.co.uk
• Challenge the status-quo, re-write your rules, create change
• Get $150 off 1:2:1 coaching sessions with Fiona Moss with our code 
• Code: RGS 
• Schedule a call discovery call with Fiona here

• OSEA Malibu non-toxic skincare
• Living Libations organic and wildcrafted skincare
  

Tess Palma-Martinez, wellness chef and lifestyle & nutrition coach, goes deep with us in this beautifully vulnerable episode. We got to witness this gorgeous, colorful, bright light bravely share some of her deepest shadows with us, inspiring us to confront our own shadows literally in this episode. Tess authentically lives her completely golden lifestyle in all that she does and teaches women around the world how to “Build the Goddess” within, transforming us just from this one conversation.

Topics We Discuss: 

• Shadow
• Food & Nutrition
• Sexuality
• Authenticity

In the Episode, We Learn:

• About her childhood being raised by a single mother.
• She went to Brazil for the first time when she was 23 and realized this was the other part of her she never understood until then. 
• She never spoke Portuguese, but could speak it when she got to Brazil.
• Some things are just instinctively in you without you even knowing.
• About her childhood struggle with her weight and eating habits.
• Her menstrual cycle was so out of balance that she was having two bleeds a month.
• She had an intuitive ping as to what was causing her irregular menstrual cycle.
• What living Completely Golden means.
• How she incorporates her authentic code into her life and business.
• Her fears and shadows.
• How she is leaning into her caregiver traits to bring nourishment to her community.
• About her course, Building the Goddess.
• What mirror work is.
• Her tips on how to align with your authentic self.
• Her tips on how to get greens into your diet daily.
• How learning that she was manifesting-generator was very liberating.

Resources:

• IG @iamcompletelygolden
• Website: www.completelygolden.com 
• Schedule a session with Tess
• Tess’ course Building The Goddess
• Find Your Authentic Code at www.ToBeMagnetic.com
• Foxercise
• Astrologer/Mystic Natalia Benson
• The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
• The Bean Protocol with Unique Hammond
• Sakara Clean Boutique products
• For menstrual health: Woman Code by Alisa Vitti
• Owl Venice 8 day reset program

Partners:

• OSEA Malibu Black Friday Offer through 11/30/20
• Gift with Purchase of $135 or more of a full size of the Hyaluronic Sea Serum
• Grow Your Practice with Erica Galia from Rooted Being 11/30/20-12/27/20
• Get $100 off with our code
• Code: RGS
• Fiona Moss: www.FionaMoss.co.uk
• Challenge the status-quo, re-write your rules, create change
• Get $150 off 1:2:1 coaching sessions with Fiona Moss with our code 
• Schedule a call discovery call with Fiona here
• Code: RGS 
• Living Libations

Life coach, entrepreneur and Regional Vice President of Arbonne, Mills Gray, shares her transformative story after a trauma that led her to shake up her life. She left her job, moved around the world, became a scuba instructor, and embarked on a healing journey. As a life coach, she helps women around the world literally get shit done and we are so here for it. As Mills says, “jump and the net will catch you.”

Topics We Discuss: 

• Life coach
• Entrepreneurship
• Spirituality
• Arbonne

In the Episode, We Learn:

• About her experience growing up in boarding school.
• She grew up with a strong work ethic background.
• She got her entrepreneurial spirit from her father.
• She started her first business, a beautiful painting school in Portugal, with her father.
• About the trauma she experienced that changed her life.
• After her traumatic experience, she moved across the world to become a scuba instructor.
• The deep breathing from scuba diving is what helped heal the trauma.
• How she developed a few different income streams.
• All of the tools she has in her tool box to deal with anxiety. 
• What a heart map is.
• About her life coaching business and how she helps women get shit done.
• When she decided to offload the things that weren’t lighting her up, it completely changed her life.
• The amazing systems you can use as a new entrepreneur to help you streamline.
• About Arbonne and why she loves it so much: The products are vegan, GMO free, gluten free, band 2,000 ingredients, and the company is a certified B-corp company.

Resources:

• IG @mills_gray
• Book a Curiosity Call with Mills here
• Esther/Abraham Hicks 
• Shop Arbonne w/Mills
• Xero for accounting
• Calendly to book sessions
• Her favorite products: Fizz sticks (an alternative to coffee)
• Signs by Laura Lynn Jackson
• You Are A Badass by Jin Sincero 
• Brené Brown
• Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis (anything by her)
• The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins 
• The Universe Has Your Back by Gabrielle Bernstein 
• Super Attractor by Gabrielle Bernstein
• Untamed by Glennon Doyle 

Partners:

• Fiona Moss: www.FionaMoss.co.uk
• Challenge the status-quo, re-write your rules, create change
• Get $150 off 1:2:1 coaching sessions with Fiona Moss when you use code RGS
• Schedule a call discovery call with Fiona here

Reiki Master and yogi, Aubrey Miller, shares her story with unwavering levity and humor reflecting on a serious health scare that completely shifted her views on women’s health, energy healing, and spirituality. As a spiritual junkie, Aubrey inspires us to develop and evolve our tool kit just as she does. She truly is a breath of fresh air, cracking us up and leaving us energized with a renewed sense of Play. It's never too late to pursue what lights you the eff up.

Topics We Discuss: 

• Reiki
• Spirituality
• Mental Health

In the Episode, We Learn:

• Was nudged into the traditional path of security.
• Although her teachers said she had ADD and needed medication, her mom would not allow that and instead started giving her books to read that might help her focus.
• Her mom’s influence on her curiosity for alternative healing.
• She wanted to be a writer when she grew up.
• When she was 22, she was diagnosed with Melanoma.
• Her mom started giving her a lot of books about spirituality and energy healing.
• How Reiki came into her life and went and then came back into her life for good.
• We naturally give Reiki to ourselves all the time.
• What Reiki is.
• Hospitals are incorporating Reiki now and Reiki practitioners can volunteer.
• About the Reiki principles.
• Her experience during each of the Reiki attunements.
• Her special experiences during her Reiki Master ceremony.

Resources:

• IG @aubviouslyme
• Aubrey’s Reiki Teacher, Lisa Saylan
• Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander 
• Super Attractor by Gabby Bernstein
• Woman Code and In Your Flow by Alisa Vitti 
• Medical Medium by Anthony William
• The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
• A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
• The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
• The Line Podcast IG

Partners:

• Fiona Moss: www.FionaMoss.co.uk
• Challenge the status-quo, re-write your rules, create change
• Get $150 off 1:2:1 coaching sessions with Fiona Moss when you use code RGS
• Schedule a call discovery call with Fiona here

Holistic facialist and founder of Honest Rituals, Elizabeth Carter, shares her beautiful experience from a childhood surrounded by nature and the journey that led her to lean into holistic skincare and her own beauty rituals. She reminds us that we all do not have to follow a traditional path in this life and that once you get truly clear on what you want your life’s work to look like, you can unleash so much wisdom that has laid dormant inside. Time to awaken.

Topics We Discuss: 

• Ritual
• Holistic Beauty
• Herbalism

In the Episode, We Learn:

• She grew up on a piece of land outside of town where she was connected to nature.
• If she was ever sick as a child, her parents would always give her natural remedies.
• She graduated from aesthetics school in skincare.
• After her natural upbringing, she rebelled and worked at a plastic surgeon office to learn about medical aesthetics before realizing it did not align with her.
• After leaving what she thought was her dream job, she took a year long off.
• She has always taken care of her skin holistically through her own beauty rituals.
• What facial massage is and its benefits.
• All about her personal rituals.
• About her Lunar Cleanse Facial and its benefits.
• Her rituals and why they’re important to her.
• How once she decided what she really wanted to do, so much information was downloaded to her. 
• How one of the most challenging times of her life became the catalyst for her starting her own business.
• How to make anything a ritual.

Resources:

• IG: @honest.rituals
• Elizabeth’s website: honestrituals.com
• Living Libations for oil cleansing rituals
• Eye of Horus 
• Vapour Beauty
• Renegade Beauty by Nadine from Living Libations
• Witchery: Embrace the Witch Within by Juliet Diaz
• Mother Wit by Diane Mariechild
• Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs by Rosemary Gladstar
• Rosemary Gladstar’s Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health by Rosemary Gladstar
• High quality herbs: 
• Mountain Rose Herbs
• Starwest Botanicals

The beautiful open-hearted soul that is Erica Galia teaches us the importance of cultivating heart-centered living and where to start. Prior to this conversation, we were lucky enough to experience Erica’s incredibly supportive connection sessions first-hand and could not wait to hear her story. Erica’s sessions include guided meditation, therapeutic channeling, energetic release, heart connection, and left us wanting more. Lets just say, we need more humans like this in the world. 

Topics We Discuss: 

• Open-Heart Living
• Connection
• Meditation

In the Episode, We Learn:

• Kindness was instilled in her at a young age.
• She started getting panic attacks when she worked in advertising.
• That getting laid off forced her to explore what she really wanted to do with her life.
• Why she started meditating and developing mindfulness.
• How, as a society, we have been disconnected from our heart the effects of that.
• The collective can truly transform when we all live a heart-centered life.
• The first step to connection is connecting with yourself.
• What connection sessions are and how they cultivate heart-centeredness.
• She meditates on her client’s energy and pulls Inner Compass cards before she meets with them for a connection session.
• She follows-up a connection session with a connection footprint to help you continue the work on your own.
• Your heart can pick up someone’s energy/vibration from up to 5 feet away and then that energy/vibration is sent to the brain for further processing, which is where judgments can come in.
• Where someone can start when first embarking on meditation.
• She offers meditation and connection sessions.
• She co-created a meditation collective called Rooted Beings, which offers meditation courses that you can do on your own.

Resources:

• Osea
• Living Libations
• @ericarachelgalia on IG
• Erica’s Website
• @rootedbeings on IG 
• Rooted Beings Website
• Inner Compass Cards
• The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
• The Inner Work of Racial Justice by Rhonda Magee
• Heart Talk by Cleo Wade (anything by Cleo Wade)
• A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson
• Forest Bathing by Dr. Qing Li

Inspiring us to embrace all sides of ourselves, Maxine Goynes shares how she designs her life to reflect all of her passions, and she has many. There is no way she can be put into a box. As an actress, wellness coach, trainer, and podcaster, Max will bravely dive into the trenches with you and does not shy away from being vulnerable. Her beautiful perspective on adversity and grief reminds us that there is nothing that we cannot overcome. 

Topics We Discuss: 

• Grief
• Health & Wellness
• Storytelling

In the Episode, We Learn:

• How her childhood and specifically her father’s job in the prison system influenced her value of awareness.
• How important sisterhood is to her.
• How she has reframed losing her father as one of the hardest moments of her life, but one that taught her so much about perspective.
• Grief can come in waves over time.
• Her belief of how your body holds trauma and how it can manifest over time into disease.
• How she embraces her multidimensional self.
• Her love for storytelling and how that shows up in every area of her life.
• How she designed her life through aligning with her core values.
• About the MG Method.
• Why health is such a huge priority for her.
• About her podcast and how she hopes to go deep and get into the trenches with people.

Resources:

• @maxinegoynes on IG
• @mgmethod on IG
• MG Method Podcast
• The Body Keeps Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
• Claim Your Power by Mastin Kipp
• Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger
• Embody: Learning to Love Your Unique Body by Connie Sobczak

Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith

Samantha Meis, entrepreneur and multidisciplinary designer, gets real about her mental health journey, completely blowing us away with her strength and honesty. As an entrepreneur who made an investment deal on Shark Tank while in college, she has learned all about the work habits that support and hinder your mental health. We also love how open Sam gets about her struggles, her successes, where she is in her life and what she’s working towards.

Topics We Discuss: 

• Mental Health 
• Entrepreneurship
• Work Culture
• Suicidal Thoughts

In the Episode, We Learn:

• How her passions were supported by her family growing up.
• How her mother's passing affected her and still affects her today. 
• Her dad has been her most influential business mentor.
• About her own experience with suicidal thoughts.
• Her fears around talking about her mental health.
• Although she was exposed to depression as a child, she did not really understand it until she was going through it herself.
• Why one of her main core values is kindness.
• About what Brené Brown calls the “vulnerability hangover”.
• How our body stores emotional pain.
• About the close link between mental, emotional and physical bodies.
• Tips to support your mental health as an entrepreneur.
• The importance of starting a conversation around mental health in the workplace.
• The power and importance of saying “no”.
• How Friendly Feels, a mental health community for women, was started.
• About her experience on Shark Tank with Misto Box.

Resources:

• Follow Sam on IG @samantha_meis
• @friendlyfeels - Mental Health Community for Women
• Brené Brown
• The retreat center Sam is attending: Survivors at The Meadows 
• Benshen Course with Desirée Pais
• The Social Shift created by Jenni Adishian
• The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris 
• Your Body Keeps Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
• The Year of Knots by Windy Chien
• The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
• Misto Box 
• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-8255

This conversation with Nadya Pecherskaya, holistic nutritionist and wellness entrepreneur, gave us a huge dose of relief in all forms. It is no coincidence that she created a beautiful CBD oil company that does just that. From growing up in Russia in a high-stress environment to pursuing a holistic lifestyle to starting her own company, we are completely blown away by her endurance. 

Topics We Discuss: 

• CBD Oil
• Mental Health
• Holistic Health
• Trauma

In the Episode, We Learn:

• How growing up in Russia influenced her life.
• Her experience with growing up with eating disorders.
• How she realized her childhood influenced a cortisol addiction.
• Studied finance in college before going to nutrition school.
• The rock bottom she went through that led her to trying CBD for the first time.
• What cannabinoids are and what they do to you physiologically.
• The Benefits of CBD: improve sleep and reduce anxiety, stress, pain, and PMS symptoms (moodiness, cramps, etc.).
• CBD helps regulate your hormones and helps you manage cortisol and melatonin as well as serotonin levels.
• CBD decreases inflammation in the body and works on the transmitters in your brain so you feel less pain long term.
• The biggest lesson she learned after starting her business was making sure to set your retail price correctly - do your numbers ladies.

Resources:

• Icaria: Nadyay’s beautiful CBD oils
• Follow on IG @icaria.co
• The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
• You Are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero
• Untamed by Glennon Doyle
• Naval Podcast