Soul Shift

What if the reason you struggle to stay consistent has nothing to do with willpower?

In this empowering conversation, Soul Shift welcomes Dr. Amy Behimer, pharmacist, board-certified health and wellness coach, and host of the Autoimmune Health Secrets podcast. After receiving multiple autoimmune diagnoses, including Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Amy became determined to create a life that was healthier after diagnosis than before it.

Together, Amy, Ali, Mindy, and Christine explore why so many people know what they should do to improve their health but struggle to follow through consistently. Amy shares the science behind habit formation, the role of the nervous system in creating sustainable change, and why tiny actions often create the biggest transformations.

Dr. Amy Behimer is a PharmD and board-certified health and wellness coach (NBC-HWC) who helps people with autoimmune disease build habits that actually stick.

Combining her clinical expertise as a pharmacist with practical coaching tools and lived experience, Amy helps people create sustainable habits that improve energy, reduce overwhelm, and support long-term health. She is the host of the Autoimmune Health Secrets podcast and creator of CLUB Habit Hub.

This episode is a powerful reminder that healing doesn't require perfection. Through small, intentional shifts, self-compassion, and consistent practice, it is possible to build trust with your body, create habits that actually stick, and move from overwhelm into sustainable wellness.

Whether you're navigating a chronic illness, trying to improve your health, or simply feeling stuck in cycles of starting over, this conversation offers practical tools and a refreshing perspective on what real transformation looks like.

In This Episode, We Discuss:

• Why health can improve after a diagnosis
• The shift from fear and control to partnership with your body
• Why most people struggle to reach their health goals
• The six common reasons goals fail
• How to create habits that actually stick
• The power of "trusting in the tiny"
• Why consistency is a habit, not an identity
• Small shifts that create lasting transformation
• The connection between habits, safety, and the nervous system
• How thoughts and emotions become habitual patterns
• The role of self-trust in behavior change
• Why community and coaching accelerate growth
• How to reframe limiting beliefs about health and consistency
• Creating sustainable wellness without perfection
• The ripple effect of personal transformation

Connect with Dr. Amy Behimer

Website: www.amybehimercoaching.com

Instagram: @amybehimercoaching

Podcast: Autoimmune Health Secrets 

Resources & Links:

• Explore Mindy’s work at www.thefreedompromise.com
• Connect with Ali at www.aliandersonwellness.com
• Learn more about Christine at www.radiantheart.health  

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What if the key to feeling calmer, more focused, and more confident isn’t working harder—but creating rhythms you can trust?

In this inspiring conversation, Mindy Gorman-Plutzer and Christine Morgenstern Shin sit down with keynote speaker, leadership coach, and creator of Winning Rhythms: The Finish Line Formula™, Amy Jo Esser. Together, they explore why so many high-achieving women feel overwhelmed despite their success, and how simple daily rhythms can help restore clarity, consistency, and self-trust.

Amy Jo shares her personal journey from growing up on a Wisconsin farm to becoming an award-winning IT executive and leadership expert. Along the way, she discovered that sustainable success isn’t built through willpower alone—it’s built through intentional habits, self-awareness, and leading from a place of love rather than fear.

This conversation dives into the powerful connection between nervous system regulation, daily routines, mindset, and personal leadership. Amy Jo introduces her framework of Awareness, Winning, and Continuity Rhythms, offering practical ways to create momentum, finish what matters, and build a life that feels both successful and deeply fulfilling.

A former IT Quality Executive, Amy Jo built an award-winning department and led high-performing remote teams long before it was common practice. She later worked with the Roger Love organization, blending elite communication training with real-world leadership systems. Known for translating discipline into devotion, Amy Jo inspires people to finish what matters—one winning rhythm at a time.

Whether you're navigating a season of transition, struggling with burnout, or simply looking to create more calm and consistency in your life, this episode offers a grounded and empowering roadmap forward.

In This Episode, We Discuss:

• Why high-achieving women often feel overwhelmed despite outward success
• The difference between leading through love versus leading through fear
• How daily rhythms create emotional steadiness and nervous system safety
• Why consistency creates calm and builds lasting self-trust
• The connection between self-leadership and effective leadership of others
• How small daily actions compound into meaningful personal transformation
• Amy Jo’s three-part framework: Awareness, Winning, and Continuity Rhythms
• The role of mindset in reducing stress, overwhelm, and burnout
• Why finishing what matters can be a powerful act of healing
• Practical ways to create sustainable habits during challenging seasons of life
• How movement, routine, and intentional morning practices support resilience
• The importance of identity-based growth and becoming the person you want to be
• Building confidence through consistency rather than motivation
• Creating winning rhythms that support both personal and professional success
• How to cultivate greater peace, momentum, and fulfillment in everyday life

Connect with Amy Jo Esser

Instagram: @amy_jo_esser

LinkedIn: amyjoesser

Special Resource: Comment "FINISHER" on Amy Jo’s Instagram or LinkedIn to receive her 67 Day Championship Guide.

Resources & Links:

• Explore Mindy’s work at www.thefreedompromise.com
• Connect with Ali at www.aliandersonwellness.com
• Learn more about Christine at www.radiantheart.health  

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What if the fear, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, and survival patterns you carry are not who you truly are?

In this deeply moving episode of Soul Shift, Mindy Gorman-Plutzer sits down with transformational spiritual authority, healer, speaker, artist, and award-winning author Atousa Raissyan for a profound conversation about trauma healing, awareness, nervous system regulation, and reclaiming the authentic self beneath the layers of conditioning.

Atousa shares her personal transformation from engineer to healer and explains how awareness-centered healing helps people move beyond fear-based living, reconnect with inner safety, and release the emotional patterns that keep them stuck.

Together, Mindy and Atousa explore the nervous system’s role in trauma responses, survival patterns formed in childhood, inner child healing, emotional regulation, forgiveness, self-love, and the process of becoming fully authentic without masks, labels, or roles.

This conversation is a powerful reminder that healing is not about fixing yourself — it’s about remembering who you truly are beneath the fear, stories, and conditioning.

In This Episode, We Discuss:

• What it means to live from awareness instead of fear
• How childhood survival patterns shape adult behavior
• Nervous system dysregulation and emotional healing
• Why safety is the foundation of transformation
• The role of forgiveness in healing trauma
• Releasing identities, labels, and protective masks
• Inner child healing and re-parenting work
• Why fear feels familiar — and how to move beyond it
• How self-love creates emotional freedom
• Using breath and body awareness to return to the present moment
• The connection between creativity, spirituality, and healing
• Atousa’s transformational artwork and augmented reality art
• How awareness helps us reconnect to our authentic selves

Resources & Links

Connect with Atousa Raissyan

Website: www.AtousaRaissyan.com

Instagram: @atousar

Facebook: Atousa Raissyan

TikTok: Atousa Raissyan—Trauma Healing

YouTube: Atousa Raissyan

Book: Change Yourself, Change the World

Resources & Links:

• Explore Mindy’s work at www.thefreedompromise.com
• Connect with Ali at www.aliandersonwellness.com
• Learn more about Christine at www.radiantheart.health  

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What if healing isn’t just about what you eat — but about how safe your body feels?

In this deeply compassionate and eye-opening episode of Soul Shift, hosts Ali Anderson and Mindy Gorman-Plutzer sit down with Functional Nutrition and Lifestyle Practitioner Allison Samon to explore the hidden connections between chronic illness, nervous system dysregulation, emotional pain, inflammation, and true healing.

Allison Samon is a Functional Nutrition and Lifestyle Practitioner who helps people recover from chronic illness, mystery symptoms, fatigue, inflammation, and chronic pain through sustainable lifestyle and nervous system-centered healing approaches. Her programs include Reboot from Chronic Illness and the Chronic Illness Recovery Blueprint. Allison is also the author of Detoxing Endocrine Disruptors: Essential Checklist and a featured author in the Amazon International Best Seller Teach Your Expertise.

After struggling with unexplained chronic pain for over a decade — while grieving the sudden loss of her father — Allie began questioning everything she thought she knew about health. Despite doing all the “right” things, she still felt exhausted, inflamed, and stuck. Her healing journey ultimately led her to discover that food is more than calories — it is information for the body — and that lasting healing requires more than protocols and supplements.

Together, they unpack the powerful role of nervous system regulation, emotional safety, mindset shifts, self-compassion, and identity work in chronic illness recovery. Allie shares how emotional eating and cravings often function as coping mechanisms rather than failures of willpower, and why healing begins when we stop fighting our bodies and start listening to them.

This conversation is a reminder that your body is not your enemy — it’s your messenger.

Resources & Links

• Allison Samon Official Website
• Chronic Illness Relief Roadmap
• Reboot Cleanse Special Offer
• Use coupon code: SAVE200

Connect with Allison Samon

• Instagram: @healthallie on Instagram
• Facebook: @healthallie on Facebook
• YouTube: @healthallie on YouTube

Resources & Links:

• Explore Mindy’s work at www.thefreedompromise.com
• Connect with Ali at www.aliandersonwellness.com
• Learn more about Christine at www.radiantheart.health  

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What does real confidence actually look like?

In this deeply honest and emotionally resonant episode of Soul Shift, Mindy, Christine, and Ali sit down with confidence and connection coach Kim Carter to explore the difference between performative confidence and true self-confidence.

Kim shares her personal story of growing up feeling unseen, misunderstood, and emotionally unsafe — including a painful childhood moment that shaped how she viewed herself for years. Through vulnerability, self-discovery, and courage, Kim learned that confidence is not about becoming louder, more polished, or more impressive. It’s about finally feeling safe enough to become fully yourself.

Kim Carter is a confidence and connection coach who helps entrepreneurs and leaders build authentic relationships and develop grounded self-confidence.

After growing up feeling unseen and misunderstood, Kim transformed her personal experiences into a mission to help others stop shrinking, trust themselves, and show up authentically in life and business.

Her coaching focuses on meaningful connection, emotional safety, self-worth, and helping people build confidence rooted in alignment rather than performance.

Together, the conversation explores:

• The hidden emotional impact of childhood labels
• Why so many women perform instead of authentically connect
• The nervous system’s role in belonging and visibility
• The difference between confidence and self-confidence
• How entrepreneurs and leaders can build genuine relationships
• Why vulnerability creates deeper connection
• The process of rejecting labels and reclaiming identity
• Learning to stop shrinking and start showing up

This episode is a powerful reminder that your hiding does not have to become your identity — and that authentic confidence begins the moment you decide to trust yourself.

Connect with Kim Carter

Website: KimCarterCoaching.com

Instagram: @KimCarterCoaching

LinkedIn: Kim Carter Coaching

Book collaboration 

Heal to Lead Volume #2 

Available on Amazon and other book sellers published by RavenandGracePress. 

Resources & Links:

• Explore Mindy’s work at www.thefreedompromise.com
• Connect with Ali at www.aliandersonwellness.com
• Learn more about Christine at www.radiantheart.health  

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What if the symptoms you’ve been pushing through are actually your body asking you to slow down?

In this deeply personal and insightful episode, the roles are reversed as Mindy and Christine turn the spotlight onto their co-host and wellness practitioner, Ali Anderson. Known for her grounded presence and expertise in functional wellness, Ali opens up about her own journey, from being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at just 15 years old to navigating the consequences of a fast-paced, high-achieving lifestyle as an adult.

Ali shares how her body communicated through subtle whispers before eventually demanding her attention through more serious symptoms. Through these experiences, she discovered the power of regulation, the necessity of slowing down, and the importance of building a sustainable, supportive relationship with her body.

This conversation is a powerful reminder that wellness isn’t about perfection—it’s about partnership. It’s about listening, responding, and creating rhythms that allow you to not only function, but truly thrive.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why your body always communicates and what happens when you ignore it
• The difference between “looking healthy” and truly being well
• How chronic stress can quietly impact your health over time
• Why regulation is a daily practice - not a destination
• The importance of slowing down, even if you thrive in a fast-paced life
• How Ali’s MS diagnosis shaped her lifelong approach to wellness
• The power of small, sustainable shifts over extreme changes
• Why wellness is about partnership, not control

Ali’s Framework: Listen, Translate, Empower (LTE)

Ali shares her signature wellness framework designed to create sustainable change:

Listen:

Slow down and truly hear what your body is communicating—before it has to scream.

Translate:

Use patterns, symptoms, and functional testing insights to understand what your body needs.

Empower:

Make small, personalized shifts that support long-term vitality and alignment.

Connect with Ali Anderson

Website: www.AliAndersonWellness.com

Instagram: @agingwellwithali

Facebook: Ali Anderson Wellness

LinkedIn: Ali Anderson Wellness

YouTube: Ali Anderson Wellness

YouTube: Aging Well With Ali

Resources & Links:

• Explore Mindy’s work at www.thefreedompromise.com
• Learn more about Christine at www.radiantheart.health  

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What if healing isn’t about fixing yourself… but learning to listen?

In this deeply moving and vulnerable episode, Amandine Le Roux Hancock returns to Soul Shift to share her personal journey through disordered eating, self-worth struggles, and the long path back to inner safety and self-trust.

This conversation goes beyond mindset and into the body — exploring how sound, presence, and nervous system regulation can help us break free from patterns we can’t think our way out of.

Together, we explore the illusion of control, the voice of the inner critic, and the profound truth that you are not broken — you are responding to a world that often disconnects you from your true self.

Through powerful storytelling and experiential practices, Amandine reminds us that healing is not about force — it’s about gentleness, consistency, and coming home to the wisdom within.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why you are not broken — and never were
• How disordered patterns are often rooted in a need for safety and control
• The difference between intellectual understanding vs. embodied healing
• How sound healing bypasses the mind and speaks directly to the body
• A simple physiological breath technique to regulate your nervous system
• The role of co-regulation and community in healing
• How to shift from shame to gratitude as a healing pathway
• Why consistency (not perfection) is the key to transformation
• How to begin listening to your intuition and inner wisdom

Key Takeaways

• Healing is not linear — it’s a practice of returning to yourself again and again
• You cannot think your way out of patterns rooted in the body
• Safety is the foundation of all transformation
• Small, consistent shifts create lasting change
• Your body is not the problem — it is the pathway

A Moment to Remember

“You are not broken. You are responding perfectly to a world that has disconnected you from yourself.”

Practical Tools Shared

• Physiological Breath Technique:
• Inhale → inhale again → slow exhale (repeat for 30 seconds to reset your nervous system)
• Sound Awareness Practice:
• Using sound to shift from thinking → feeling → presence
• Gratitude Reframe Exercise:
• Reflect on what your body has done for you, not how it looks
• Micro Shifts:
• Listening to small intuitive nudges (rest, movement, nature, connection)

Connect with Amandine

Website: www.harmonicodyssey.com

Instagram: @amandine_lrh

✨ DM her directly to access her Sound Reset Ritual — a 23-minute immersive sound experience designed to help you reconnect with your body and inner calm. 

Resources & Links:

• Explore Mindy’s work at www.thefreedompromise.com
• Connect with Ali at www.aliandersonwellness.com
• Learn more about Christine at www.radiantheart.health  

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What if leadership isn’t about titles, authority, or external success—but about how you show up for yourself?

In this powerful episode of Soul Shift, hosts Ali Anderson, Mindy Gorman-Plutzer, and Christine Morgenstern Shin sit down with leadership coach, speaker, and author Eliana Barousse to explore what it truly means to lead from within.

Eliana shares her deeply personal journey from corporate success and burnout to discovering a more conscious, heart-centered approach to leadership. Together, they unpack how self-awareness, nervous system regulation, and emotional healing are not separate from leadership—they are the foundation of it.

Eliana Barousse is a leadership coach, international keynote speaker, and author of The Leader Within Me. Through her heart-centered approach, she helps leaders reconnect with their inner wisdom, regulate their nervous systems, and lead with clarity, courage, and compassion.

With over 16 years of leadership experience, Eliana blends storytelling, emotional wellness, and practical tools to support both personal and collective transformation.

This conversation is an invitation to reconnect with your inner voice, embrace your humanity, and step into leadership in every area of your life—no title required.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• What it really means to lead from within
• Why self-awareness is the foundation of authentic leadership
• How your nervous system shapes your decisions, communication, and presence
• The power of vulnerability and compassion in leadership
• Simple, practical tools to regulate yourself in high-stress moments
• Why you don’t need to fix yourself to lead—you need to know yourself
• How small daily practices can transform your leadership and life

Practical Tools from This Episode

Open-Hand Reset Technique

In moments of stress or conflict:

• Unclench your hands
• Place them open on your lap
• Signal safety and openness to your nervous system
• This simple shift can help you stay grounded and present.

Micro-Regulation Practices

• Take 5 minutes outside in the sun
• Focus on your breath
• Listen to one song fully 
• Step away briefly instead of pushing through

Self-Awareness Pause

Ask yourself:

• What am I feeling right now?
• Am I truly present?
• What do I need in this moment?

Connect with Eliana

• Website: www.elianabarousse.com
• Email: [email protected]  
• Book: The Leader Within Me (available on Amazon and her website)

Special Offer

Use code SOULSHIFT for a discount on Eliana’s coaching programs. 

Resources & Links:

• Explore Mindy’s work at www.thefreedompromise.com
• Connect with Ali at www.aliandersonwellness.com
• Learn more about Christine at www.radiantheart.health  

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What if the transitions in your life aren’t something to push through but something to truly listen to?

In this episode of SoulShift, Ali Anderson, Mindy Gorman-Plutzer, and Christine Morgenstern Shin sit down with functional nutrition counselor, Air Force veteran, and educator Kate Smith to explore the deeper meaning behind life’s biggest transitions, and how your body holds the wisdom to guide you through them.

From military deployment and motherhood to perimenopause and becoming an empty nester, Kate Smith shares her powerful personal journey through multiple life transitions and how years of living in survival mode eventually led her to reconnect with her body, her health, and her purpose.

This conversation dives into the connection between nervous system regulation, functional nutrition, and emotional healing, revealing how symptoms like fatigue, hormone imbalance, and brain fog are not signs of failure, but messages from the body asking to be heard.

Together, they explore how to move through the “messy middle” of change with awareness, compassion, and curiosity. You’ll learn how to reframe symptoms, reconnect with your intuition, and begin making small, sustainable shifts that support long-term healing and transformation.

Whether you’re navigating perimenopause, career shifts, identity changes, or simply feeling out of alignment, this episode offers grounded, empowering tools to help you trust your body and embrace the season you’re in.

Small shifts create powerful transformations.

What We Discuss In This Episode

• What transitions really look like beyond the surface
• Kate Smith’s experience with military deployment and identity shifts
• How the body stores stress during survival mode
• Why symptoms are messages - not problems
• The connection between nervous system health and physical symptoms
• How long-term stress can lead to fatigue, brain fog, and hormone imbalance
• The “messy middle” and why naming your experience matters
• How to communicate your internal experience with loved ones
• Navigating perimenopause and midlife transitions
• The importance of grief in personal transformation
• Practical steps to reconnect with your body and intuition
• Using awareness and curiosity instead of judgment in healing 

Connect with Kate Smith

If this episode resonated with you, Kate Smith would love to support you on your healing journey.

🌐 Website: www.essentiallyhealthywithkate.com

📸 Instagram: @essentiallyhealthywithkate

📘 Facebook: @essentiallyhealthywithkate

💼 LinkedIn: @essentiallyhealthywithkate

🎁 Special Offer:

Use code SHIFT10 for 10% off the Online Functional Foundations Course - a simple, foundational program designed to help you better understand and support your body.

Resources & Links:

• Explore Mindy’s work at www.thefreedompromise.com
• Connect with Ali at www.aliandersonwellness.com
• Learn more about Christine at www.radiantheart.health  

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What if burnout isn’t the end of your story—but the beginning of your most aligned life?

In this powerful SoulShift episode, Ali Anderson, Mindy Gorman-Plutzer, and Christine Morgenstern Shin sit down with career coach, singer-songwriter, and former tech recruiter Haley Scruggs to explore how burnout can become a catalyst for deep transformation, renewed confidence, and authentic self-expression.

After years of high achievement in the tech world, Haley Scruggs hit a breaking point—physically, emotionally, and spiritually depleted. What followed wasn’t just recovery, but a complete redefinition of success. Through embodiment, creativity, nervous system awareness, and what she calls “messy action,” Haley rebuilt her life from the inside out.

In this conversation, Haley shares how burnout shows up in the body, why confidence is a skill—not a personality trait—and how small, imperfect steps can lead to powerful transformation. Together, they explore the connection between mindset, somatics, and healing, offering practical tools for women navigating exhaustion, identity shifts, and the desire for something more aligned.

You’ll learn how to recognize burnout before it takes over, reconnect with your inner self, and begin rebuilding trust in your body, your voice, and your path forward.

This episode is for anyone feeling stuck, disconnected, or running on empty—and ready to find a lighter, more sustainable way forward.

Small shifts create powerful transformations.

4. What We Discuss In This Episode

• What burnout really is and how it shows up physically and emotionally
• Haley Scruggs’ personal burnout story and breaking point
• Why confidence is a skill you build—not something you’re born with
• The role of the nervous system in burnout and healing
• How “messy action” builds resilience and self-trust
• Signs you’re approaching burnout before hitting rock bottom
• The power of growth mindset vs. fixed mindset
• How perfectionism and people-pleasing fuel burnout
• Simple somatic practices to regulate your energy
• Reconnecting with joy, creativity, and your inner child
• The importance of boundaries and non-negotiables
• Using mistakes as data for growth and transformation

Connect with Haley Scruggs

If this conversation resonated with you, Haley Scruggs would love to hear from you and support you on your journey.

📩 Email: [email protected]

📸 Instagram: @haleyirenesings + @hellohaleyscruggs

🎥Youtube: haleyscruggsmusic

🎵 TikTok: @haley.scruggs

💼 LinkedIn: haleyscruggs

Haley shares insights on confidence, mindset, creativity, and building a more aligned life through her content and coaching.

Resources & Links:

• Explore Mindy’s work at www.thefreedompromise.com
• Connect with Ali at www.aliandersonwellness.com
• Learn more about Christine at www.radiantheart.health  

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✨ Let’s shift — gently, together. ✨