The Alignment Show

Melissa Jones is a decorated speaker, former Miss USA contestant, and the author of The intentional Woman Aligned with Love, a book about intentional living for women. Melissa is also the founder of Arlene Cycle Support, a womens-health company developing essential mineral and antioxidant systems formulated to aid in achieving optimal wellness and hormonal stability. Melissa is passionate about helping women connect more deeply with their body, practice self-love and activate the body’s ability to heal itself.

In this episode, we talk about Melissa's struggle with adrenal fatigue, burnout, and lack of energy -- which led her to discover the power of essential minerals and the role they play in our overall health. We discuss why the menstrual cycle is our superpower and how to optimize your health so it's not such a negative experience every month, as well as how environmental toxins affect our cycles and ways to avoid them.

Please share this with every woman in your life!

Melissa's instagram: @meliss.jones
Arlene Cycle Support instagram: @arlene.cycle.support
Arlene Cycle Support website

This topic has been trending across social media for awhile, and today I'm sharing my thoughts on the pros/cons and whether this approach will *actually* help you reach your fitness goals or not. Can't wait to hear your feedback!

Melissa's Instagram: @melissajane_fit

Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFM certified practitioner, is passionate about helping women optimize their health and lives as a functional medicine gynecologist. Through her struggles with mold and metal toxicity, Celiac disease, and other health issues, Trubow has developed a deep sense of compassion and expertise for what her patients are facing. 

She is the co-author of Dirty Girl: Ditch the Toxins, Look Great, and Feel Freaking Amazing and has been regularly featured in MindBodyGreen and Huffington Post.

She is an accomplished speaker and previously had her own television show. She is on the faculty at A4M and a speaker for their conferences, along with other national societies. She and her partner will be releasing their next book in 2024.

In today's episode, we discuss Dr. Trubow's journey with toxins herself, easy ways to categorize toxins, what to look out for, and how exactly you can make cleaner choices in all different areas of your life. We focus largely on the fact that it's NOT all-or-nothing! Living in today's world exposes us to a vast amount of toxins daily, but that doesn't mean that you can't make swaps here and there for an overall healthier life.

Environmental Working Group website
Dr. Trubow's brick & mortar site in Boston
Dr. Trubow's online practice, including chapter 1 of her book, a nontoxic guide to healthy living, and a quiz to assess your toxin exposure!

Grace Emmons is the founder of Forward With Grace and the only Reiki Master with degrees in Biomedical Engineering from USC and Psychology from Columbia! Through her work, she focuses on scientifically-backed energy healing with her clients so they can confidently pave their own path.

Between her degrees and her experience with energy work, Grace truly bridges the gap between science and spirituality and acts as a high vibrational channel for the healing of others, as well as bringing some of the "woo-woo" back down to earth and making it easily understandable.

Forward With Grace is the first spiritual consultancy of its kind facilitating transformations for CEOs, celebrities, and high-powered individuals from Silicon Beach to Malibu along with leading companies such as the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Toms, Talkspace, Revolve, Dermalogica, and LiquidIV. 

In this episode, we cover Grace's story and how she ended up in the world of energy work, how body/heart/mind coherence affects us, client transformation stories, and how to get started on doing this work on yourself. Enjoy!

Grace's Instagram: @forwardwgrace

Taylor Stone is a leader in higher consciousness, self-mastery, and energetics. Through her top rated podcast "Vibe Higher," her expansive courses and mentorship, and a health science degree, Taylor helps women create their individual heaven on earth and step into their power to impact the world - you guys are going to LOVE this episode, even if you think energy healing is a little "out there," Taylor really breaks it down and explains these concepts extremely well.

Taylor's Instagram: @iamtaylorstone

This episode includes a celebration of Lex, what we're doing to honor her, and what you can expect from The Alignment Show moving forward, among some other small updates. I am so grateful to have you here and I know Lexi is smiling big about the community we've built the last several years. We love you guys.

Download the Lex cookbook HERE
Order merch + donate to JDRF HERE *campaign closes Saturday 9/16/23*
Apply for the Lexi DeYoung scholarship HERE *applications close Sunday 9/3/23*

Alignment Instagram: @alignmentathletics
Melissa: @melissajane_fit

Today we're sitting down with Dr. Steven Quay and talking all things breast cancer prevention! Dr. Quay is the founder of Seattle-based Atossa Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: ATOS), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics and delivery methods for breast cancer and other breast conditions.

He received his M.D. and Ph.D. from The University of Michigan, was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT with Nobel Laureate H. Gobind Khorana, a resident at the Harvard-MGH Hospital, and was on the faculty of Stanford University School of Medicine. His contributions to medicine have been cited over 9,600 times.

He has founded six startups, invented seven FDA-approved pharmaceuticals, and holds 87 US patents. Over 80 million people have benefited from the medicines he invented.

His current passion is the prevention of the two million yearly breast cancer cases worldwide.

Dr. Quay's website

Are you hitting your macros, doing your workouts and cardio, taking your rest days... and STILL not seeing progress? Maybe you've tried every approach in the book but still feel stuck. This is one of the biggest struggles we hear from clients and we're here to share some solutions with you today!

After coaching for years and working with hundreds of women, we're here to set the record straight and make sure you're optimizing your *entire* health and fitness journey. Take notes, ladies!

AND - if you want more info on getting extra support, click HERE to set up a free consult call with our team. No obligation to sign up! ;)

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Lexi: @lexi_deyoung
Melissa: @melissajane_fit

Today we're sitting down & walking through one of the #1 questions we receive: should you track macros or intuitively eat? And how do you make the transition? We talk about our stories with nutrition, as well as some polarizing opinions on whether tracking is disordered or not.

This episode will lay out exactly what you need to do to be successful with nutrition and make the transition into 100% intuitive eating. Enjoy!

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Lexi: @lexi_deyoung
Melissa: @melissajane_fit

With summer nearly upon us, that means lots of travel and lots of opportunities to practice finding your health + balanced lifestyle. We know vacations and travel in general can feel super overwhelming when it comes to your health + fitness goals, but we've been at this for years and decided to compile our best tips into this episode!

Just because you're traveling doesn't mean you have to say "screw it," start again when you get home, or feel like crap! We've got you covered when it comes to preventing bloating, stress, and all the other little things that can *seemingly* throw a wrench into your fitness progress.

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Podcast instagram: @the.alignment.show
Alignment instagram: @alignmentathletics
Lexi: @lexi_deyoung
Melissa: @melissajane_fit