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Conferences and Congresses - no matter what you call them, they are an excellent resource for health coaches.

In this episode, Megan talks about why you should consider attending health conferences, how to prepare before you go, and what to do while you're there.

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Takeaways:

• Attending health conferences provides invaluable networking opportunities with industry professionals and like-minded individuals.
• Health coaches, particularly those new to the field, should prioritize attending conferences to gain insights into industry trends.
• Preparation is key for maximizing the benefits of attending health conferences and engaging with sessions and booths.
• Engaging with exhibitors at booths can lead to unexpected partnerships and valuable conversations within the health industry.
• Health conferences can be financially burdensome; consider volunteer opportunities to alleviate costs and enhance learning experiences.
• Self-care during conferences, including proper hydration and nutrition, is essential for maintaining focus and energy throughout the event.

Chapters:

• 00:00.0 - Why Conferences Matter
• 01:17.0 - Networking Like a Pro
• 04:40.0 - Conference App Prep
• 06:15.0 - Choosing Talks and Sessions
• 08:08.0 - Expo Hall Strategies
• 11:14.0 - Budget and Self Care
• 14:04.0 - Save Money and Wrap Up

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Pricing when clients are struggling usually triggers the same instinct: lower your price. But that's often not the real question, and it's not always the right move. I look at what's being asked, what dropping your price costs you, and why holding steady isn't as unfair as it feels.

Session 5: Beyond the Plate

The food logging? Still not happening. But here's the thing—Joanna's body has figured itself out anyway. She naturally stops eating by seven, doesn't want anything but coffee until ten or eleven, and the three o'clock slump that used to flatten her? Gone. Now five o'clock rolls around and she's surprised the day is already over.

So this session, she's ready to talk about something new: movement.

Danna breaks down the basics—strength training matters more than cardio, especially for women as they age. Muscle protects bones, supports metabolism, and keeps everything working. But it doesn't have to mean a gym or dumbbells (which her kids would immediately claim as toys anyway).

Joanna already knows what works for her: Pilates. It's the thing that made her chronic back pain disappear. She just needs to find a class and commit.

The goal? Research studios. Find a time that sticks. Show up.

This is session five of Joanna's health journey.

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When you’re overwhelmed, hiring sounds like the obvious fix. But if you don’t have clear outcomes and simple processes first, you’re not hiring help, you’re hiring more questions (and more chaos). In this episode, Linda shows you the “pre-hire” work that makes bringing someone on actually reduce your workload.

What You'll Learn:

The Hook: Hiring doesn’t solve overwhelm; it often turns chaos into expensive chaos.

Reality Check: A founder hired three people fast and ended up working more because nothing was defined or documented.

The Shift: The real problem isn’t headcount, it’s missing process. Patch the holes before you add more water.

The Move: The Pre-Hire Checklist to make hiring actually work:

• Define the outcome (what “done” looks like)
• Document the process (simple steps + decision points)
• Test the process with someone else before you hire

The Wrap: Systems first, then people, if you want your time back.

Key Takeaway: If you can’t define success and document the steps, you’re not ready to hire, you’re ready to clarify.

Ready to patch the holes before you hire? Visit Connect with Linda on LinkedIn for more leadership tools and insights.

Ep. 6 It's not a process if it only works when you do it

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Our mission is simple: to create a space where Swiss life and English voices connect, bringing you meaningful conversations, expert insights, and compelling stories from all over the country.

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Fermented foods. Leftovers. Avocado. Kombucha. Spinach. All things the wellness world worships — and all things that could be absolutely wrecking you if histamine intolerance is your thing. Danna's been dropping the H-word in episodes for years and Megan finally made her explain herself. Consider this your 10-minute crash course.

What You'll Learn:

1. What histamine intolerance actually is (spoiler: it's a bucket, not a blood test)
2. The surprisingly wide range of symptoms — from migraines and skin flushing to period pain and brain fog
3. Which "healthy" foods are secretly high histamine (Popeye was not okay)
4. Yes, you can test for it in Switzerland — and yes, insurance covers it
5. Why allergy season and histamine intolerance are more connected than you think
6. How to try a low-histamine approach at home without losing your mind

Also: Megan coined "eye juice and flower sperm." We're putting it on a t-shirt.

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00:00 Morning Check In

01:00 Why Histamines Matter

01:52 What Histamine Intolerance Is

03:15 Triggers and Symptoms

05:11 Testing and Low Histamine Plan

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Speaking fees are more misunderstood than most speakers realize — and the data proves it. Alex Merry, founder of Mic Drop, shares what 500k£ in speaking engagements revealed about where the money actually is, plus the pricing journey that took him from a £200 program invented on the spot to offers he's confident standing behind.

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What needs to change when doing everything yourself stops being sustainable?

Arielle Tucker is a certified financial planner and IRS-enrolled agent who helps US expats and globally mobile families with tax and financial planning. In this conversation, we talk about what happens when your business starts working, but everything still depends on your personal capacity.

What Arielle shares:

• Why growth can start to feel heavy when the business depends too much on you
• How visibility can create trust, referrals, media opportunities, and new clients
• How contractors, content repurposing, podcasting, and AI can help you build more structure without doing everything yourself

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Arielle said, “There’s just one me, and that’s not very scalable.” And honestly, that is such a clear business growth moment. If every idea, task, decision, piece of content, and follow-up still lives in your head, your business may be growing, but it is also getting heavier to carry. This episode is a reminder that support does not have to mean a huge team. It can start with one task, one contractor, one system, or one better way of using the tools you already have.

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That's what led me to create Hey Boss Mama, a space where we talk honestly about business, motherhood, mindset, and what it really takes to stop doubting and start executing. If you're into real talk, smarter marketing, and support that helps you keep moving forward, hit follow for the latest Hey Boss Mama episodes.

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Peptides, Perimenopause & the Wellness Tool Nobody Is Talking About ft. Dr. Mary Pines

Listener Gina had a question: what's the deal with peptides — the ones that aren't GLP-1s, the ones all over social media? Are they legit or total BS? Danna immediately said: Mary. Dr. Mary Pines is back on SFH for the first time in three years, neck-deep in the peptide scene and ready to spill everything.

About Dr. Mary Pines: PhD-level functional medicine practitioner specializing in hormonal and metabolic health for midlife women. She's been working with peptides for nearly a decade and recently folded peptide therapy into her 12-week program Better Beyond 40. She also hosts The Better Beyond Podcast — and yes, Danna was a guest on it. Check out that episode.

What You'll Learn:

1. What peptides actually are and how they differ from hormones
2. The Cold War origin story of BPC-157 (Soviet super soldiers, no joke)
3. The autoimmune and allergy connection — and the peptide that can calm a haywire immune system
4. Whether lifestyle alone can boost peptide production naturally
5. Why sourcing is the single biggest issue — and what to watch out for
6. The four peptides worth knowing about as starting points
7. Why peptides are never step one, and what needs to come first

Real Talk Moments: Danna asks if there's a peptide that can kill cortisol. The answer is a compassionate "no — but also maybe." She also opens up about doing everything right and still waking at 4:30am wired and suffering. Turns out Dr. Mary's functional medicine doctor has the same problem. The solidarity was real. Megan, meanwhile, catches Dr. Mary appearing on another podcast and declares full mock-betrayal: "Cheating on me with another podcast."

Dr. Mary's Parting Wisdom: "Your body knows what to do with these things. We're really just replacing something that was lost."

Connect with Dr. Mary Pines: Everything you need to know about Mary can be found on her website: The Better Beyond 40 Program

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00:00 Peptides Who They’re For

04:00 What Peptides Are and Why They Work

11:56 Immune Balance GLP-1 and Lifestyle Boosts

19:43 Symptoms Labs First

22:08 Peptide Sourcing Reality

26:02 Top Peptides and Wrap

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Her pregnancy is “textbook” until a routine late-pregnancy check reveals high blood pressure and protein in urine, and suddenly every day feels like a decision point. We’re joined by Kaitlin, an American-Swiss mother living in Zurich, who walks us through severe preeclampsia monitoring, a surprise ICP diagnosis after relentless itching, and how quickly things can escalate when your body starts sending warning signs at 35 to 36 weeks.

Kaitlin shares what labour looked like for her: blood draws, spontaneous preterm labour, low-dose misoprostol when it stalled, and an epidural experience that doesn’t go the way anyone hopes. When her lab values shift into HELLP syndrome territory and her baby shows signs of distress, the team recommends a time-sensitive C-section. Kaitlin describes the fear, the relief, and the small, grounding moments that still break through, including meeting her baby and finding calm together even in the operating room.

The story keeps going after birth, because her hardest stretch is postpartum: the intensive care unit (ICU). In this part of the story, we hear about magnesium drip side effects, swelling and slowed recovery, and then the whiplash of going home to the newborn feeding cycle. We also get practical and honest about breastfeeding challenges, including thrush versus vasospasm pain, and what helped her keep going. Kaitlin closes with the long view: follow-up care after preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome, future pregnancy risk, and why self-advocacy matters long after discharge.

Books:

• For early pregnancy: Expecting Better by Emily Oster
• For birth preparation (highly recommend!): Nurture: A Modern Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, Early Motherhood - and Trusting Yourself and Your Body by Erica Chidi Cohen

English-speaking resources in Zurich that Katlin recommends:

• Barbara Ghisla Schibli, Katlin's amazing postpartum midwife - https://hebamme.ghisla.ch/en
• Dr. med. Theodosia Charpidou, gynecologist (FMH) at SihlGynPraxis - https://www.gynaekologie-zuerich.ch/en
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Carl Richards is a certified financial planner, the New York Times Sketch Guy, and the author of Your Money: Reimagining Wealth in 101 Simple Sketches. He moved from Utah to New Zealand with his family in a matter of weeks. His wife bought plane tickets ten days after hearing about a friend's available house. Ninety days later, they had moved.

This episode covers:

• How Carl became the New York Times sketch guy (a desperate drawing on a whiteboard)
• Why showing up and being consistent matters more
• How Carl's wife pulled the rescue cord and moved the family to New Zealand
• The detox from US money and work culture that Carl did not see coming
• Moving teenagers abroad during a senior year of high school
• Why New Zealanders ask about holidays and weekends, not jobs
• The French cafe lesson: you think this is about money. It is about food.
• The worry list: a blank page. Nothing is helped by worrying.
• The cognitive load of a simple grocery store in a new country
• Carl's daughter's advice: you thought you were going to have an adventure without it being hard
• Why Carl would spend his savings again without thinking twice

Carl and host Arielle Tucker, CFP®, EA discuss why most of what we worry about never happens and why moving abroad does not require a perfect plan.

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