Today we chat with Natasha Adamo from the relationship, wellness, beauty and lifestyle blog, Post Male Syndrome. You'll hear about:

-How Natasha started her blog, Post Male Syndrome -How to determine what your calling is  -How you don't need to be healed to help someone -What is emotional survival mode? -How "checking off the boxes" doesn't help anyone grow. -How helping other people helps you heal.  -What makes people depressed -What happens when you have an unhealthy level of self-obsession  -How Natasha overcame feeling like she wasn't enough and a low self-worth -How Natasha came to her self-actualization that people are not born insecure  -Why security is habitual and it takes practice everyday  -How you have to get out of your head to heal and solidify your healing by helping someone else  -How Natasha still struggles with liking herself and accepting who she is now -How making her younger and older-self proud channels her positive affirmations  -What the key to self-acceptance is -How taking care of an animal or child teaches you how to prioritize self-love -How practicing self-worth helps you maintain a relationship  -Why you're the only person who shows up consistently every day  -Why you can't really change someone -What to do if you want to change someone  -What dating looks like now because of dating apps -How to preserve your self-worth while on dating apps -How to be successful on dating apps -What the biggest mistake in dating is for most people  -Is taking a break from dating to focus on yourself a good idea or bad idea? -How competing against other people will never validate you  -What Natasha's self-care practice looks like  -What healthy habit Natasha can't give up -What piece of advice Natasha would give her 20 year old self -What Natasha hopes her 50 year old self tells her -What person in business Natasha looks up to    Connect with Natasha Blog: postmalesyndrome.com IG/TW: @natashaadamo   Join the Healthy Maven Tribe to ask guests questions and find out who will be on the show before anyone else! facebook.com/groups/THMTribe

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Today I'm chatting with blogger and author Jordan Younger of The Balanced Blonde and Breaking Vegan. We talk about content creation, how we decide what to share about our lives publically and Jordan's self-care routine.    You'll hear about:   -Why Jordan Younger is no longer a vegan  -What the public transition from no longer being a vegan was like -How Jordan balances the interconnection between her blog and life -How Jordan decides what to share publicly -What Jordan's boundaries are on sharing things publicly  -How Jordan's friends and family handle her documenting her life for content -How Jordan decides how curated her content should be -Being more authentic and in the moment on social media -Why Snapchat and Instagram Stories make bloggers more relatable  -What keeps Jordan inspired -The pros and cons of working with brands  -How Jordan and Davida keep boundaries when working with brands  -How to navigate around dramatic changes -How to handle rude comments and negative feedback with such grace -How the media manipulates headlines to make things sound more dramatic  -What it was like to handle the negative backlash around her transition from veganism -How self-care has become a priority for Jordan -What is panchakarma is and how she is incorporating it into her self-care routine -How Jordan tries to keep from over committing and over working -What Jordan's self-care routine looks like. -What Jordan's morning routine looks like -How getting a pet has changed Jordan's life  -The surprising thing people don't know about Jordan.  -What healthy habit Jordan can't give up -What piece of advice Jordan would give her 20 year old self -What Jordan hopes her 50 year old self tells her -What person in business Jordan looks up to    Connect with Jordan Blog: thebalancedblonde.com IG/TW: @thebalancedblonde   Join the Healthy Maven Tribe to ask guests questions and find out who will be on the show before anyone else! facebook.com/groups/THMTribe   Please don’t forget to rate + review in iTunes if you love the podcast. Your comments and subscriptions help us make the best podcast for you!

Episode 4 — Beyond Kegels: What Does Reproductive Health Really Mean?

Today we talk with Elise Maxwell from OVA Woman, a hub for women to find the most innovative women's intimate health products, such as menstrual cups and absorbent underwear. 

We talk about:

-How did Elise become interested in reproductive health?

-How Elise started OVA Woman.

-What’s the lowdown on pelvic floor health and why it is important.

-What are kegels and why you need to do more than just those to strengthen the pelvic floor.

-How a lot of women are impacted by pelvic floor health but they don’t know.

-Are men impacted by pelvic floor health as well?

-What are long-term implications for ignoring your pelvic floor health?

-How practicing good pelvic health can prevent surgery later on.

-What are the regulations around feminine hygiene products and why should you care?

-How the ingredients in feminine hygiene products could be affecting you.

-Tips for how you can change your feminine hygiene routine if you’re having issues with dryness, irritability, etc.

-What are alternatives to tampons and maxi pads?

-What are the best feminine hygiene products on the market?

-How can you try a new feminine hygiene routine without feeling intimidated or scared?

-What feminine hygiene products Elise recommends.

-What are the best brands of menstrual cups?

-How to bring up feminine hygiene routines with your friends to get the conversation going.

-Who Elise looks up to in business.

-What one health habit Elise could never give up.

-What Elise would tell her 20-year-old self.

-What Elise hopes her 50-year-old self tells her.

 

Links:
The Healthy Maven Tribe: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thmtribe/

Season 1 Survery (and win a $50 Amazon gift card): https://goo.gl/forms/hqeole4xczau1jNX2

BWOM App: https://www.b-wom.com/en/

FDA regulation on tampons and their verdict on asbestos and dixoin: http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/AlertsandNotices/PatientAlerts/ucm070003.htm

Protest for more transparency on ingredients: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/business/under-pressure-feminine-product-makers-disclose-ingredients.html

Ova article on LENA cup: http://ovawoman.com/blogs/ova-stories/115131334-two-thumbs-up-for-the-lena-cup

Ova article on tips for trying the cup for the first time: http://ovawoman.com/blogs/ova-stories/89731846-5-tips-for-trying-the-menstrual-cup

 

Follow Elise and OVA Woman:
Elise’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elise.maxwell.1

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OVAWoman

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Today we talk with blogger, podcaster and upcoming cookbook author Jessica Murnane from One Part Plant and the One Part Podcast. She tells us about her health journey with endometriosis and how she healed her body and hormonal issues through food.

 

We talk about:

-Can you heal your hormones with food?

-Can food help heal endometriosis issues?

-Does food affect chronic pain symptoms?

-How a plant based diet saved her from having to have a hysterectomy in her early 30s.

-What happens to her body when she eats gluten or sugar.

-How she defines “plant-based eating”.

-What effect eating inflammatory foods has on her body.

-How “messing up” when it comes to eating a plant-based diet helps reinforce the behavior.

-How eating a plant based diet has affected her PMS symptoms.

-Does being dogmatic about your diet set you up for failure?

-Why food guilt is unnecessary.

-The biggest surprise for Jessica when she moved to a plant-based diet.

-How Jessica was able to get everyone to accept her plant-based diet.

-How One Part Plant launched.

-How Jessica was able to get restaurants to start adding plant-based options to menus.

-What pushback Jessica has gotten from her lifestyle choices.

-How to help people accept your lifestyle.

-The importance of being flexible with traditions and making new traditions.

-What made Jessica decide she was going to eat a plant-based diet and what made her stick with it.

-Why Jessica Murnane’s decided to adopt her child.

-Whether her endometriosis influenced her decision to adopt a baby.

-What surprise chefs contributed to her cookbook.

-What celebrity wrote the foreward for her cookbook (!!)

-Who Jessica looks up to in business.

-What one health habit Jessica Murnane could never give up.

-What Jessica would tell her 20-year-old self.

-What Jessica hopes her 50-year-old self tells her.

 

Links:
The Healthy Maven Tribe: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thmtribe/
Jessica Murnane’s Website: http://jessicamurnane.com
One Part Podcast: http://jessicamurnane.com/onepartpodcast/
Jessica’s Blog Post on adoption: http://jessicamurnane.com/on-never-wanting-to-pregnant/
Jessica’s Mind Body Green post on adoption: http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-22884/my-son-is-adopted-here-are-the-questions-im-constantly-asked-what-id-really.html

Follow Jessica:

Instagram: @jessicamurnane
Twitter: jessicamurnanes

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OnePartPlant/

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Davida sits down with Lee of the fitness website Fit Foodie Finds to talk about a kind of uncomfortable topic — can you work with your best friend? They also talk about making friends with other bloggers, strategizing your business and comparing yourself with others and accepting that it’s okay to have different goals.

You’ll also hear about:

• Making friends with other bloggers.
• How Davida from The Healthy Maven and Lee from Fit Foodie Finds met.
• Reaching out to bloggers you admire.
• At what point Lee decided she needed to hire another person to help run her business.
• How Linley, Lee’s first full-time hire, is an integral part of Fit Foodie Finds.
• How Fit Foodie Finds and Davida transferred their blogs into a business.
• The challenges best friends have working together.
• Do acquaintances make better business partners than best friends?
• What success looks like for Lee.
• How Lee started creating a strategy for her blog.
• Whether Lee is afraid to test and learn and take risks.
• How getting rejected from design school gave Lee her inspiration to start her website.
• Why Lee started Fit Foodie Finds as a creative outlet rather than business.
• What would Lee tell new bloggers knowing how saturated the blog industry is now.
• Why Lee doesn’t call herself a blogger.
• What Lee and Davida say when people ask them how they make money.
• Where Lee sees the future of Fit Foodie Finds.
• What Lee’s new business is.
• What Lee’s one health habit she can’t give up.
• Who she looks up to in business.
• The entrepreneurial spirit of the Twin Cities.
• What she would tell her 20 year old self.
• What Lee hopes she knows at 50 years old.

You can find Lee on Instagram/Snapchat/Twitter/Pinterest/Facebook: @fitfoodiefinds.

Andie Mitchell, New York Times bestselling author of "It Was Me All Along" and "Eating in the Middle" speaks about finding balance in health, work, life and blogging as a business. 

You'll hear about:

• How Andie Mitchell started blogging.
• How she uses a standing desk to keep her energy up throughout the day.
• Is blogging a difficult career?
• What it was like to write and shop her book proposal?
• How we use food to channel negative or positive energy.
• How we use our blogs to channel positive energy.
• Struggles with social media and keeping reality in check.
• Over-sharing on social media.
• Separating your brand from yourself on Instagram.
• Dealing with food restriction and binge eating disorder.
• Why celebrities saying they love their bodies is a disconnect at times.
• Knowing that you will feel differently about your body every day.
• What a day in the life of Andie Mitchell looks like.
• Andie Mitchell's third book proposal.
• What’s the one health item you can’t live without?
• What advice would you give your 20 year old self?
• What do you hope your 50 year old self would tell you?

And more!

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