Small Changes Big Shifts

Millennial Expert, Master Coach for Primal Health Coach Institute, Author of Expectation Hangover, and Host of the Over It & On With It Podcast, Christine Hassler, joins Small Changes Big Shifts Podcast Host, Dr. Michelle Robin to share her own wellness journey, how we can discover our true passion, and how we can let go in order to put our trust in the universe.

As you listen, Dr. Michelle and Christine discuss:

• Why Christine was unconsciously chasing a career in Hollywood because she was trying to compensate for her own insecurity.
• How she let go of the need to plan her life and future to just trust the Universe.
• Why our true passion usually comes from some sort of suffering.
• The fact that so many of us are stuck in the mundane or "rinse and repeat" life because we're more comfortable doing that than facing our fears and insecurities.

Dig deep and grow even more today by learning that:

• To know joy, passion, and feeling into what we love means we also have to feel into anger, hurt, shame, and guilt that we haven't dealt with yet.
• A coach and a counselor are two different professionals that can help you on your wellness journey.
• The importance of working with a coach or counselor that challenges you, points out connections, or ask you questions to make you think.
• There are steps you can take to find the right coach for you.
• There is something you can do if you're going to therapy but haven't made any significant progress yet.

Find out how parents can help their Millennial children thrive through life as Christine shares:

• Why it isn't your child's job to make you happy.
• The fact that it's essential that younger Millennials learn soft skills like emotional intelligence, accountability, and face-to-face interaction.
• How both you and them can stay true to your wellness journey.

In order to live a full life and reach our potential, we have to learn how to be in those moments of uncertainty. - Christine Hassler

With a positive attitude, we have the ability to change the world and defy the odds.

That is the core belief of our Small Changes Big Shifts podcast guest today, Dr. Troy Nash.

Dr. Troy Nash is an innovator, pioneer, and maverick leader who blazed a path as a successful real estate entrepreneur, public speaker, and global humanitarian. He cares about the world and the people in it.

Join your host, Dr. Michelle, and Dr. Troy as they discuss:

• His background growing up in a single-family home with no father in an economically deprived and underserved community in Kansas City.
• The military experience he had with the USA Air Force and the opportunities it presented to him.
• His mission to build his native Kansas City and help its citizens.
• Various difficult obstacles that Dr. Michelle has also experienced during her youth.

Discover what inspired Dr. Nash to break the patterns he was seeing in his community and begin to lead a different life as he opens up about:

• What desires motivated him to start down the path to success.
• The help and guidance he has had along the way from adolescence through adulthood.
• Why true change has to start with every single person and we cannot rely on someone to make that change for us.
• His passion for education and how it helped him to discover possibilities he never knew even existed before for him.
• The journey of high positivity standards he is now focusing on each day of his life.

Where you start in life has nothing to do with where you end up. - Les Brown

Start 2020 off right with this episode by learning all about:

• How to set yourself apart from negative energy by setting healthy boundaries.
• The natural cycle of building up a negative life if you surround yourself with toxic people vs. a healthy, wellness tribe.
• Why you should eat for how you want to feel for life.
• His Triple P Challenge and how you can apply it to your life.

If you want this to be your year, your decade, your life, don't sit on the couch and wait for it. Go out and make a change, smile more, be excited, do new things, throw away clutter, unfollow negative people on social media, follow positive people on social media, go to bed early and catch the sleep train so you can wake early, don't gossip, do things that challenge you, and most of all, be brave. - Dr. Michelle Robin

If you want this to be your year, don't sit on the couch and wait for it. Go out, make a change, smile more, be excited, do new things, throw away clutter, unfollow negative people on social media, go to bed early. Wake up early, don't gossip, show more gratitude, do things that challenge you, and be brave. - Dr. Michelle Robin

Founder and CEO of Coffee Lunch Coffee, Business Relationship Coach, and Author ofCoffee Lunch Coffee: A Practical Field Guide For Master Networking, joins Dr. Michelle Robin in this special January 1st episode to reflect back on 2019 and share what they are looking forward to the most in 2020.

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As you tune in, Dr. Michelle and Alana discuss:

• The Four Quadrants of Wellbeing and how they impacted Alana's and Dr. Michelle's 2019.
• The importance of being our most authentic selves at home, at work, and with our loved ones.
• How Dr. Michelle is working on using feng shui both at home and the office to help shift her environment.
• Why Alana launched her company, Coffee Lunch Coffee, and which Ted Talkspecifically inspired her.
• What made Dr. Michelle begin to think of Small Changes Big Shifts as a concept

If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams, and endeavors to live the life which you have imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau

Join Dr. Michelle and Alana as they share what they're geared up about the most in 2020 for themselves, their brands, and the Kansas City community:

• What they're looking forward to the most in 2020.
• Some new tools they've put on their wellness belt in 2019 and how they plan to use them in 2020.
• Big plans that Alana and Dr. Michelle Robin are focusing on for 2020 and how they want to help people.
• Michelle Robin's goal for what the Big Shifts Foundation can accomplish in 2020.
• The words that Dr. Michelle and Alana are focusing on for 2020: soil and access.

Advice From A Tree:

Stand up tall and proud.Sink your roots into the earth.Be content with your natural beauty.Go out on a limb.Drink plenty of water.Remember your roots.Enjoy the view!

-Ilan Shamir

You will never heal the body until you heal the heart. - Dr. Michelle Robin

Does your career bring you everyday joy and fulfillment? Or does it feel like there is something missing? That is how our Small Changes Big Shifts podcast guest this week, Former Kansas City Chiefs football player turned Performance Mindset, Trainer, Speaker, Coach, and Managing Partner of Vision Pursue, Jon McGraw, felt once long ago. However, once he shifted his focus, he performed and felt better than ever before. Through Vision Pursue, he is teaching teams in both business and sport how to also shift and take back control of what matters in order to seize the day through a life-changing "Performance Mindset."

Join Dr. Michelle and Jon as they discuss:

• His love of sports from a young age and many other interests including music, nature, and spending time with family in his small hometown.
• The lows and highs he experienced working for the NFL as a professional player for the Kansas City Chiefs.
• Why football is the ultimate team sport to him and what truly makes a great team.
• The moment he realized that his dream job as a professional football player was not as fulfilling as he had thought it would be for him.

Listen and learn all about how to shift the mind as Jon shares:

• The immense amount of pressure that athletes and coaches of all backgrounds from high school to professional feel on and off the field.
• What an advanced performance mindset looks like plus the day in the life of a professional NFL player.
• His top advice for shifting your mindset and clearing your head before you go to bed each night.

Discover how you can make stress your friend as Jon explains:

• How we can change the narrative around stress and why it can actually be a good thing for us.
• Vision Pursue's acronym to help guide you when experiencing difficult emotions and stressful thoughts: SEE - Separate, Embrace, Evaluate
• What happens to us physiologically when we believe that stress is bad for us compared to believing that the stress is there to help us.
• How to coach yourself through occasional or daily anxiety.
• The big problem with the untrained mind and how to flip the script to prepare it for greater higher consciousness and emotional intelligence.
• All about the Vision Pursue app and what you as an individual or your team can gain from it.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever. - Winnie the Pooh

Imagine a book of love stories that is actually a book about dying. Imagine a book that assists families, friends, doctors, and nurses in making end-of-life illnesses less stressful and more filled with love. The book, Loving to the End…and On: A Guide to the Impossibly Possible combines both into one.

The author and our Small Changes Big Shifts podcast guest in this episode, Dr. Lynn B. Robinson, uses her skills and experiences as a business professor, management consultant, hospice volunteer, intuitive, and after-death communicator to weave exceptional, intimate, complex, and physical, end-of-life stories with transcendent possibilities.

She recognizes and encourages the ways for anyone—everyone—to love beyond death in this thoroughly explored, engaging, and compelling mix of personal narrative and forthright reporting on end-of-life care and mis-care.

Helpful for both families and medical personnel, Loving to the End…and On: A Guide to the Impossibly Possible is part instructive manual, part counselor, and part love story. Her book gently guides us through the sadness of departure toward opportunity and love.

Tune in to this episode as Dr. Lynn and Dr. Michelle discuss:

• Examples of signs or messages that pop-up when we think of a loved one that has passed away.
• How she sees death and dying in a different light
• Her out of body experiences and what that experience was like.
• What inspired her to write Loving to the End…and On.
• The importance of checking on each other from time to time to really spread love and kindness to others.
• Why we're so afraid of death and dying.
• How she helps people who are in hospice care and what you can also do.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. - Winnie the Pooh

How can something as simple as nutrition, especially fiber, have a positive impact on your health?

Joining Dr. Michelle Robin on the Small Changes Big Shifts podcast is the Founding Director of the Culinary Medicine non-profit in the UK, host of The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast, and author of both The Doctor's Kitchen and his latest, Eat To Beat Illness, Dr. Rupy Aujla.

Dr. Rupy Aujla is a medical doctor specialized in General Practice who is a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle changes to heal and prevent illness.

In this episode, he shares his mission of helping others live healthy, enjoyable new lifestyles through deliciously accessible food.

As you listen to Dr. Michelle and Dr. Rupy's conversation, you will learn about:

• How he suffered from atrial fibrillation for years and the moment he decided to change his lifestyle and diet before fully committing to an operation.
• How nutrition and The Doctor's Kitchen became a passion of his after personally witnessing the medicinal effects of eating well.

• Why he believes we should take a closer look at consuming more fiber.

Find out how you can change your own lifestyle today by discovering:

• What small changes in your diet you can make now for big shifts tomorrow.
• How to be more mindful of your relationship with food and beverages by thinking about how they make you feel physically, mentally, and emotionally during and after you consume them.
• Why you shouldn't be overinutive with your body in case you start to notice things that aren't even there.

Learn how to build healthy eating habits as Dr. Rupy shares:

• Which foods specifically help mental health wellbeing especially fiber for better gut health.
• His favorite foods for greater gut health including nuts, legumes, cacao, and more.
• The benefits of eating slower and really enjoying your meal to help you better realize when you're full before you start to overeat.
• Why you don't have to be a vegan or vegetarian but your nutrition can improve if you are plant focused and what that means for your diet.

Find out how Dr. Rupy and others are helping change the way we see food, health, and lifestyle today.

Advice From A Tree: Stand tall and proud. Sink your roots into the earth. Be content with your natural beauty. Go out on a limb. Drink plenty of water. Remember your roots. Enjoy the view! - Ilan Shamir

Be the change you wish to see in the world - Gandhi

We are all facing our own battles. You might never know what the people in your life including the stranger next to you or even your best friend are going through until they open up and share their story.

Today, I am joined by Lyndsey Fennelly as she shares her own story and mission with us.

Lyndsey Fennelly is a sports enthusiast, entrepreneur, and former Iowa State women's basketball player. She is the co-owner of CampusCycle and serves as a color analyst for the ISU women's basketball team.

Lyndsey is married to ISU women's basketball assistant coach, Billy Fennelly, and they have two children. Lyndsey is a motivational speaker who can tailor events to meet each individual company's needs.

Join Dr. Michelle Robin and Lyndsey as they discuss:

• Lyndsey's own mental health journey and mission to end the stigma about disorders.
• How she's used social media to start to share her story.
• Her condition, Bipolar 1, and what mental health challenges she faces.
• How her family has responded to her sharing her wellness journey with them and everyone else.
• The hardest challenge she faces that her children might have the same condition as her or another disorder now or someday.
• Some of the biggest lessons she has learned so far in her story.

Learn all about her advice to caregivers, family members, and loved ones of those with a mental health disorder:

• Specific input to caregivers who are supporting those with mental health disorders.
• The importance of not making someone with a mental health disorder feel any different in what you say to them, how you look at them, or your expectations of them.
• How she finds the good in living with her Bipolar 1 and her message of searching for the perfection in the imperfections.

Find out her favorite tips for getting a good night's rest:

• Her struggle to sleep with insomnia as a symptom of Bipolar 1 and how reaching out for medical assistance has greatly helped.
• The vital importance of sleep for anyone looking to achieve greater wellbeing.
• Her top strategies for getting enough sleep at night including a no-phone rule, less photos in the bedroom, and no screen time before bed.

Learn all about her upcoming memoir and when we can expect it to be available.

Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people. - Mother Teresa

What impact can changing your environment have on your life?

Well, for our guest today, Fitness Coach and Life Changer, Rickie "Rude" Hodges, it saved his.

At the age of 22, he was sentenced to 87 months in prison and before that experience he never had much of an interest in exercise or eating healthy but then he became completely engulfed with this new love for fitness and wellness. While in prison, he lost over 100 pounds, tried new diets including vegan, and earned his first personal trainer certificate in 2003. When he came home in 2007, he launched his fitness career followed by his bodybuilding career in 2010.

After many years of successfully running his own independent personal training business, RickRude Productions, and successfully coaching many physique competitors, he decided to go back to school in 2018 to pursue his passion for culinary arts.

With the life mission to help change lives, he honors that purpose and responsibility. He believes that in giving energy to the universe, he will receive it in return. With that said, he will forever fight for the underdog and spread the message of self love and never giving up on your dreams.

You can't heal what you don't reveal.

How is the universe holding you today?

That is the question our guest this week, Rev. Cynthia Alice Anderson, asks herself every single morning when she wakes up.

In this bonus episode, Rev. Anderson and your host, Dr. Michelle Robin dive deep into how you can bring more gratitude to your life, a breakdown of her 7 Spiritual Laws of Release, and how you can take your soul's journey into your own hands.

About Rev. Cynthia Alic Anderson

Rev. Cynthia Alice Anderson has been serving as senior minister at Christ Church Unity in Orlando, Florida since 2007. Under her spiritual leadership, Christ Church Unity continues to be a thriving, welcoming community that is dedicated to transforming lives, celebrating diversity and supporting soul growth.

Rev. Anderson recently wrote 7 Spiritual Laws of Release and it is in its 3rd printing currently. She has two other books: A Grateful Life: 30 Days of Conscious Gratitude is a 30-day mindfulness and prayer book and her prosperity book, PRSPRTY 4U, is currently being taught in churches around North America.

She is also the Founder of the podcast platform, Experience of the Soul.

Discover more about Rev. Anderson as she shares:

• Her life growing up as the youngest of 9 and the struggles her family faced.
• How the church of her youth differs from her church now as a Unity Minister
• Her physical healing crisis during her late 20s that awakened her spiritual nature.
• A big shift that was created in her life when she made the small change of now longer eating any gluten.
• How she re-organized her refrigerator to reflect her new healthy lifestyle and help her build small habits.

Continue your own wellness and spiritual journey by learning about:

• Steps you can take each morning to tune into the universe and be energetically grounded.
• Why you'll be ready to let go of trauma, harm, and forgive others when the healing becomes bigger than the hurt.
• What we are learning and healing from now as a society in the USA.
• The power of acknowledging what you do have and what you can do vs. what you don't have and can't do.

Discover how to tap into a whole new level of healing and spirituality no matter your religious beliefs.

Joy is a sign of the wonderful presence of God. - Rev. Cynthia Alice Anderson

The most powerful words in the world are, 'me too.' - Anne Lamott on the positive impact of vulnerability

How can we take back the power to fuel our mind, body, and spirit?

This week, Dr. Michelle Robin is joined by mother of three, blogger, self-proclaimed lover of food, and Author of the best-selling book, Instant Loss Cookbook, and her latest, Instant Loss: Eat Real, Lose Weight, Brittany Williams.

Brittany has a remarkable Small Changes Big Shifts story as she decided to take charge of her family's health by removing processed snacks, takeout and high-calorie meals from her their menus.

She replaced those foods with healthier meals she could make in her Instant Pot. She has since lost 125 lbs and has been featured in several media outlets including Good Morning America, The Today Show, US Weekly and more.

Click here to learn more about Brittany's upcoming event at Your Wellness Connection with Rainy Day Books on December 12th!

As you listen to this episode, Brittany shares:

• The moment she decided both herself and her family needed to take better care of their health.
• Her daughter's autoimmune disease, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and the special diet she created to help reduce the symptoms.
• The diet her own parents followed at home and why they were eating so many processed foods without realizing the negative impact of them.
• How she is helping her family break the mold of poor nutrition by making small changes to her everyday life as an example for them.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglass

Find out more about Brittany and her family's wellness journey as she and Dr. Michelle discuss:

• Her experience with body dysmorphia before and after she lost the 125 pounds from eating better.
• The positive impact a healthier diet has made on her daughter's juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and is now on lower dosage of medicine.
• Common autoimmune diseases including her own thyroid disease, Hashimoto's.
• The responsibility we have to be the ones to change our health through better nutrition rather than rely on medication.
• Why going all out and cutting everything out instead of focusing on balance is not a helpful approach to lifestyle change.

Discover the top 3 things a parent can do to help a child learn healthy habits:

1. Get your children involved in the kitchen and grocery shopping.
2. Continue to make their favorite dishes but prepare them in a healthier way.
3. Don't cut out everything and focus on balance.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. - William Arthur Ward