Small Changes Big Shifts

The body is sick because of two reasons; it's either toxic or deficient. - Dr. James Chestnut

As healthcare continues to evolve, the role that functional medicine plays is increasingly important. Individuals are feeling empowered to take a more active role in their own health and health coaches are a rapidly growing segment of the industry.

This week, Dr. Michelle Robin is joined by Dr. Sandra Scheinbaum of the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy.

As a Health & wellness practitioner and educator. Dr. Sandi is passionate about transforming our broken healthcare system and empowering people to become CEOs of their own health.

She believes that a great health coach is the ally each of us needs to make healthy changes that actually last. She founded the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy, in collaboration with The Institute for Functional Medicine, where her Health Coach Certification Program has trained over 1500 coaches and counting.

A clinical psychologist for over 35 years, she is an expert in positive psychology and mind-body medicine, and the author of Functional Medicine Coaching, Stop Panic Attacks in 10 Easy Steps, and How to Give Clients the Skills to Stop Panic Attacks.

Join Dr. Michelle and Dr. Sandra as they talk about:

• How to stop your panic attacks in several easy steps including a simple breathwork practice.
• What functional medicine is and how it differs from western medicine.
• Common things that can wreak havoc on the body without even realizing it.
• How to become the worst host for COVID19 by boosting your immune system with a personalized nutrition, exercise, and mindfulness practice.
• Why toxic words you think or say can also act as chemicals that harm the body and mind.
• Predicted after effects of COVID19 and why coaches are needed more than ever to help people who have been and will be impacted emotionally, financially, and physically.
• How to follow a process so that tiny habits stick over time for big shifts.

To remember who you are is what you do when life hands you a pile of poo. - "Pile of Poo" song from the Emojiland musical

Guest

• Sandra Scheinbaum
• Clinical Psychologist
• Author
• Health & Wellness Practitioner
• Educator

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Mentioned In This Episode

• Dr. Sandra Scheinbaum
• Functional Medicine Coaching Academy
• The Institute for Functional Medicine
• Health Coach Certification Program
• BJ Fogg
• Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg

Books by Dr. Sandra Scheinbaum

• Functional Medicine Coaching
• Stop Panic Attacks in 10 Easy Steps
• How to Give Clients the Skills to Stop Panic Attacks

There is nothing to fear but fear itself. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Neuroscientist, Entrepreneur, Podcast Host of Untangle, and Co-Founder of Muse: the brain sensing headband, Ariel Garten, joins Dr. Michelle Robin this week on the Small Changes Big Shifts podcast. About Ariel Garten Ariel Garten's driving purpose is to empower and help others overcome mental obstacles in order to live healthy, happy lives and reach their maximum potential.

Garten is Co-Founder of InteraXon, the makers of Muse: the brain sensing headband. Muse is the award-winning wearable technology that assists and trains meditation and mindfulness. Before founding InteraXon, Ariel was not only trained as a neuroscientist and psychotherapist but also started her own international clothing line while she worked in labs researching Parkinson's disease and hippocampal neurogenesis.

Join Dr. Michelle and Ariel as they talk about:

• What meditation means to her and why she sees it as a form of training.
• How to use Muse while you focus on breath meditation.
• The various benefits of Muse for both beginner and long-term meditation fans.
• Common problems that happen when people first start meditation and how Muse corrects them.
• Why some people find meditation easier than others.
• What to do with thoughts that arise while you're meditating.
• Self-care practices you can start today to help you let go of feelings of stress, uncertainty, and anxiety.

People crave connection, not perfection. - Rev. Patricia T. Bass

Guest

• Ariel Garten
• Co-Founder of Muse
• Neuroscientist
• Entrepreneur
• Podcast Host

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Mentioned In This Episode

• Ariel Garten
• Muse: the brain sensing headband
• Untangle - The Meditation Podcast
• Rhythm & Resilience with Dr. Michelle Robin

If you fall down, try to fall down on your back because if you can look up you can get up. - Les Brown

Are suffering from fatigue, brain fog, muscle pain, insomnia, depression or inflammation?

Our Small Changes Big Shifts podcast guest this week, Sherry Thacker, is on a mission to help people realize that their health is non-negotiable.

Over the past decade, she has helped thousands of women create their new healthy identity. Using her proven 6 week transformation strategies, she has helped women take back their health into their own hands after they have neglected their bodies while caring for the people that they love.

These women have said goodbye to their old destructive ways and are now focused on creating a beautiful relationship with food by ending sugar cravings and embracing new foods that keep them young, alive and vibrant.

Join Dr. Michelle and Sherry as they talk about:

• How to manage stress during the coronavirus pandemic.
• Her own wellness and weight loss journey.
• Why your health and your investment in it is absolutely non-negotiable.
• All about her 6-week challenge and why it's unlike any other program out there.
• How to create a healthy lifestyle that is unique to you.
• Why fasting is not the next diet craze; it's normal for the human body.
• How to determine how often you should fast and for what reason.

Listen and discover the 6 Pillars of Functional Medicine:

1. Fasting
2. Inflammation
3. Gut Health
4. Stress
5. Sleep
6. Detox

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck, who keeps right on going, is the man who is there when the good luck comes and is ready to receive it. - Robert Collier

Guest

• Sherry Thacker
• Fitness, Nutrition, and Stress Coach

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Mentioned In This Episode

• Sherry Thacker
• My Health Is Non-Negotiable 6 Week Challenge
• 30 Days Free Access To Sherry's Online Gym
• Small Changes BIg Shifts - Ep. 218 Dr. Jaime Hope
• Small Changes BIg Shifts - Ep. 248 Julie Reisler
• Small Changes BIg Shifts - Ep. 118 Dr. Janice Hughes

Greatness is a lot of small things done well every day. - Lewis Howes

What can you do today to begin living life at the highest level of peak performance for mind, body, and soul?

This week Dr. Michelle Robin is joined by Alvin Brown who is the Author of Journey to Personal Greatness: A Blueprint for Life Balance and Self-Mastery and the upcoming book, The Entrepreneurial Code. He is also host of the podcast, Journey To Personal Greatness, and the CEO and Founder of The Centre for Healing and Peak Performance,a multidisciplinary health, wellness and peak performance centre located in Ontario, Canada.

Join Dr. Michelle Robin and Alvin Brown as they talk about:

• His childhood experiences and life transition leaving Jamaica with his mother for Canada.
• What mentors and leaders guided his life growing up especially in athletics and dancing.
• The disconnection he felt in many of the sports and extracurriculars he participated in yet they positively impacted his life in some way.
• What makes a great coach and where to find one including from a book.
• When it's time to start seeking outside help to help you focus on your goals.
• The first steps to finding your purpose and what makes you feel alive.
• Why there's no such thing as an end goal; we're always evolving and growing.
• Upcoming plans including the Design The Exceptional Life program that he plans to launch in June.

For things to change, you have to change. For things to get better, you have to get better. For things to improve, you have to improve. When you grow, everything in your life grows with you. - Jim Rohn

Guest

• Alvin Brown
• International Speaker
• Author
• Podcast Host

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Mentioned In This Episode

• Alvin Brown Journey to Personal Greatness: A Blueprint for Life Balance and Self-Mastery
• Journey To Personal Greatness
• The Centre for Healing and Peak Performance
• Strong Business Academy
• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield and Shawn Coyne

There will never be another you. The planet desperately needs your unique purpose, passion, and presence. - Julie Reisler

Are you ready to become the You-est You?

Joining me this week is fellow Podcast Host of The You-est You™ Podcast, Author of Get a PhD in YOU, Creator of the School Of Sacredology, and Life Designer®, Julie Reisler.

With a Master's Degree in Coaching and more than 12 certifications in health and wellbeing, she is also the founder and CEO of Empowered Living, a Life Design and personal development company.

In her book, Get a PhD in YOU: A Course in Miraculous Self-Discovery, Julie authentically shares the extensive personal-growth wisdom that came from her own struggles with body image, relationships, and feeling "not enough."

As a speaker and faculty member at Georgetown University's coaching program, Julie is enamored with helping you to master your inner world so you can master your outer world.

Join Dr. Michelle Robin and Julie Reisler as they talk about:

• The immense amount of pressure and self-comparison Julie experienced in her environment.
• Her lack of connection to self and how that impacted her mental health.
• The support groups and personal development programs she joined to help her get better and get a "PhD in herself."
• Michelle's own similar struggles with food and people pleasing.
• Julie's mission to help people design their life: mind, body, and spirit.

Learn how to reconnect with yourself during COVID19 by:

1. Creating an evidence list comparing your gut feelings vs. what is actually true.
2. Julie's Heartmath Hack - Put your hand on your heart and breathe deep for 5 breaths to build heart coherence.
3. Playing and practicing with your inner guidance to build greater self intelligence.

Tune in and discover how to get out of your head and into your heart.

The Universe rewards you for taking risks on its behalf. - Shakti Gawain

Guest

• Julie Reisler
• Life Designer®
• Podcast Host
• Author

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Mentioned In This Episode

• Julie Reisler
• Get a PhD in YOU: A Course in Miraculous Self-Discovery
• The You-est You™ Podcast
• School Of Sacredology
• Julie Reisler | Insight Timer
• Get a PhD in YOU | Julie Reisler | TEDxLadyBirdLake
• Words That Get In The Way | Julie Reisler | TEDxUMD
• Small Changes Big Shifts Ep. 2: Sonia Choquette – Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Heart
• Julia Cameron
• HeartMath

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. - John Muir

As our medical professionals are hard at work to heal people from the COVID 19 virus, the Earth is also healing.

It's an incredible thing to witness as this is just one of the many lessons we are learning throughout this difficult time.

Joining Dr. Michelle Robin this week to discuss how we can further help Mother Nature second-time guest, Sami Aaron. Sam is a retired software developer, meditation & yoga teacher, master naturalist, and both Founder and Board Chair of The Resilient Activist.

Join Dr. Michelle Robin and Sami Aaron as they talk about:

• What led her to launch the organization, The Resilient Activist, after the death of her oldest son.
• The interesting shift we are seeing as pollution clears and the plant is healing during COVID 19.
• Resilient tools for people who are struggling emotionally with climate change.
• How to schedule a mindfulness practice into your day including your shopping habits.
• What mindfulness practices you can do during COVID19 depending on what personally resonantes and feels better for you.
• Simple ways to make your home more 'green' and to teach your family about caring for the environment.

Learn all about the 5 Essentials For A Resilient World:

1. Reconnect with nature
2. Respect all life
3. Regreen our planet
4. Replenish our resources
5. Revamp our spending

Guest

• Sami Aaron
• Founder and Board Chair of The Resilient Activist
• Meditation & yoga teacher
• Master naturalist

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Mentioned In This Episode

• Sami Aaron
• The Resilient Activist
• Upcoming Events with The Resilient Activist
• COVID-19 Angst: Building Resilience
• Christine Julian
• Climate Council of Kansas City
• The 2020 Earth Festival ONLINE with Climate Council of Kansas City
• Climate Psychiatry Alliance
• Climate Psychology Alliance
• Climate Aware Therapist Pledge
• Zero Waste Living KC Native Gardening resources:
• Deep Roots KC
• Missouri Prairie Foundation's Grow Native

Local Kansas City resources for kids and nature connections:

• Blue River Forest Experience
• Well Wilderness Kids
• Clement Waters

Parks and Recreation sites for kids programming

• Johnson County Park & Rec District
• Missouri Department of Conservation's Anita B. Gorman Discovery Center
• Lenexa Parks & Rec

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What if 2% of your day could optimize the other 98% of your day? This week Dr. Michelle Robin is joined by the Author of Vital Force, Rajshree Patel, to discuss how we can fuel our energy, purpose, and performance with ancient secrets of breath and meditation.

Rajshree is a highly sought-after self-awareness coach, mind management and meditation expert, trainer and speaker. Through insight, intuition, breathing and meditation techniques, she guides people to identify what's working and not working in their personal and professional lives.

Over the course of more than 30 years, she has conducted programs in over 35 countries for individuals and at organizations covering topics as diverse as mind management, self-awareness, leadership, conflict resolution and workplace diversity.

Join Dr. Michelle Robin and Rajshree Patel as they talk about:

• How she came to write Vital Force in the midst of her own health challenges and difficult times in her family.
• What steps we can take to use our source of resilience as we face life challenges.
• How lessons of past uncertainty can help boost our resiliency in present moments of crisis.
• Why it's so important to slow down our mind and how we can begin to do that today.
• The power of breathwork to aid our internal landscape, thoughts, and emotions.
• How to be strong, centered, and focused on mental hygiene during the pandemic of COVID 19.

Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others. - David R. Hawkins

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them. - Epictetus

Do you suffer from decision fatigue on a daily basis? Are you feeling run down with a busy schedule, emotional roller coasters, or a demanding job and not sure how to implement change?

This week, Dr. Michelle Robin is joined by an expert on detoxing the brain, Dr. Austin Perlmutter. He is a board-certified internal medicine physician and New York Times bestselling author. He received his medical degree from the University of Miami and completed his internal medicine residency at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland Oregon.

His focus is in helping others to improve decision-making and quality of life. He is also interested in methods of understanding and reducing burnout in the medical field.

He is the co-author of Brain Wash with his father, Dr. David Perlmutter. He also writes for Psychology Today on his blog, The Modern Brain.

Join Dr. Michelle and Dr. Austin as they talk about:

• Why he felt called to study medicine during his sophomore year of college.
• The decision he made to switch from internal to mental health.
• Big impact that chronic disease is causing on our health on a global scale and why we need to create greater awareness around it.
• The top reasons why people are facing burnout before, now, and after the COVID 19 pandemic.
• Tops reasons why 50% of medical doctors and those in the healthcare field are facing burnout on a regular basis.

Turn small changes to big shifts today as we learn:

• Biggest surprises and takeaways from writing Brainwash with his father, David Perlmutter.
• How you can reframe anxiety so that it's either helpful for you or something you can avoid.
• The fact that uncertainty will always be a factor in our lives and how to accept that.
• Why we can't control everything that goes on in the world but we can control what goes on inside of ourselves.

In this episode we will also learn how to apply the acronym, TIME, to our lives:

• Time restricted
• Intentional
• Mindful
• Enriching

Listen and find out how you can work through any anxious thoughts or emotions caused by COVID 19.

Guest

• Austin Perlmutter
• Board-certified internal medicine physician
• Author

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Mentioned In This Episode

• Dr. Austin Perlmutter
• Brain Wash
• Dr. David Perlmutter
• The Modern Brain
• Brain Wash by David Perlmutter, M.D., and Austin Perlmutter, M.D. - Book Trailer
• Small Changes Big Shifts episode 243 with Tom Rath

In this special April 1st BONUS episode, Dr. Michelle Robin is joined by her good friend and retired KCTV-5 News Anchor, Barbie Hill, to discuss how COVID 19 is impacting their lives, what self-care practices they are focusing on to stay well at home, and the power of staying present.

Join Dr. Michelle Robin and Barbie Hill as they talk about:

• COVID 19 and the fear people might be feeling during this time.
• Difficult moments Barbie and her family have endured and how they have worked together to heal.
• Why she and her husband did the 12 steps besides their son as he was recovering from his addiction and how it transformed their lives.
• What gifts COVID 19 could give us when we look back at it in the future.
• Michelle's own experience growing up with a father who was an alcoholic.

Discover how to continue to stay well and positive at home as they share:

• How they're staying healthing while practicing self-isolation at home.
• Self-care practices to help you stay in the present moment and let go of anxious or negative thoughts.
• Easy hacks to help you stay fit and strong at home.
• How Dr. Michelle came to create all of these quote decks that have inspired her over the years.
• What you can do during this time to spread kindness, gratitude, and love in your home and community.
• How you can help local, small businesses through this difficult time now.

Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That's just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it's breathtakingly beautiful. - L.R. Knost

Mentioned In This Episode

• Dr. Michelle's Inspiring Quotes Card Decks
• Down Dog app
• Your Wellness Connection
• Wellness on a Shoestring®
• 21-Days of Kindness
• Small Changes Big Shifts – Put The Odds In Your Favor!
• 21-Days to Align Your Posture
• 20,000 Days and Counting by Robert D. Smith
• Happy Food Co.
• blue bird bistro
• The Belfry
• Enjoy Restaurant

Instead of following your passion, finding our greatest contribution. - Tom Rath

How can you make the world a better place by maximizing your contribution?

Small Changes Big Shifts is excited to share Tom Rath's message with you this week! Tom is an author and researcher who has spent the past two decades studying how work can improve human health and well-being. His 10 books have sold more than 10 million copies and made hundreds of appearances on global bestseller lists.

Tom's first book, How Full Is Your Bucket? was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller and led to a series of books and activities for kids that are used in classrooms around the world. His book, StrengthsFinder 2.0, is Amazon's top selling non-fiction book of all time. Tom's other bestsellers include Strengths Based Leadership, Wellbeing, Eat Move Sleep, Are You Fully Charged?, and his latest, Life's Great Question.

During his 13 years at Gallup, Tom was the Program Leader for the development of Clifton StrengthsFinder, which has helped over 10 million people to uncover their talents, and went on to lead the organization's employee engagement, wellbeing, and leadership practices worldwide. Tom has served for the past five years as a Gallup Senior Scientist.

Join us as Tom explains how our natural talents are the best place to understand how we can best help the world to maximize our contribution and figure out where we have the most potential to make a difference.

Tune in as Dr. Michelle Robin and Tom Rath discuss:

• His mission to help people lead better lives through their organizations and how that creates a trickle down effect in the world.
• How we can get to the point where our work serves a greater purpose than just a paycheck.
• His current thoughts on purpose now that we are experiencing the COVID 19 virus.
• The positive impact finding purpose in our work has on not only us but others as well.
• How you can best apply your strengths to your personal and professional life.
• Why we sometimes mismatch who we are with what the world needs and how to correct that mistake.
• Three activities you should include in each day of your life.

Find out why it's better to first figure out what kind of contribution you can make in our world instead of following your passion.

Life's most urgent and persistent question is, "What are you doing for others?" - Martin Luther King Jr.

Guest

• Tom Rath
• Author
• Researcher

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Mentioned In This Episode

• Tom Rath
• It's What You Can Contribute Speech by Ben Horowitz
• Life's Great Question
• How Full Is Your Bucket?
• StrengthsFinder 2.0
• Strengths Based Leadership
• Wellbeing
• Eat Move Sleep
• Are You Fully Charged?