The Art of Pre-Selling

Are you tired of yo-yo dieting and feeling like you're not making progress toward your health goals? Dr. Jessie Hehmeyer joins Amber on the podcast to discuss the importance of finding your middle ground and cultivating confidence to make sustainable changes. As a functional medicine practitioner, Dr. H has extensive experience helping patients address weight loss resistance, digestion issues, and hormone imbalances.

Dr. H emphasizes the all-or-nothing approach to weight loss is not effective long term, and encourages people to focus on finding their middle ground. She guides her clients through the process of creating a vision for their future selves and taking action in service of that intention. By building good habits, sustainable weight loss becomes a byproduct of a healthier lifestyle.

In the episode, Dr. H breaks down the three most common root causes of weight loss resistance: elevated inflammation, suboptimal insulin sensitivity, and clogged detox pathways. She provides practical tips for reducing inflammation such as consuming whole foods, adding cruciferous vegetables and anti-inflammatory supplements to your diet, and reducing alcohol and fried food intake.

Dr. H's approach is grounded in the belief that cultivating confidence is a journey that takes time, and that being guided can be beneficial. By focusing on building habits and reducing inflammation, she helps patients achieve sustained weight loss and improved overall health.

If you're struggling with weight loss or looking to make sustainable changes to your health, this episode is a must-listen. Dr. Hehmeyer's expert insights provide listeners with actionable steps toward achieving their vision of vitality. Don't miss out on this insightful information-packed conversation.

Key Highlights:

• Mastering your middle ground starts by getting clear on the what and why of your goals
• Creating Your Vision of Vitality is a tool used by Dr. H to help clients step into their confidence
• Relying on external factors like the number on the scale is not sustainable and only raises the bar
• Ask yourself what your why is and what not achieving it is costing you
• Understand the cost of your current reality to motivate change
• The three most common reasons for weight loss resistance
• Tips for reducing inflammation naturally
• Setting yourself up for blood sugar stability is key to achieving sustainable weight loss
• Antioxidants, including the body's most potent antioxidant glutathione, are essential for overall health

Quotes:

• "The diet paradigm is so broken and so when people start to get, 'it's not me it's you,' it's really transformative."
• "Losing weight is not a goal, it's a side effect."

Episode resources:

• Amber's Little Black Dress Bootcamp: ambershaw.com/little-black-dress-bootcamp
• Kroma Wellness 5-Day Reset: Use code AMBER for 15% off at kromawellness.com
• Use code "Amber15" for a 15% discount on ceremonial-grade matcha and other wellness products at cymbiotika.com

Connect with Dr. Jesse Hehymeyer:

Website: wellempowered.com

Instagram: @wellempowered

Connect with Amber

Instagram: @msambershaw

TikTok: @msambershaw

Website: ambershaw.com

Are you a high-achieving woman who struggles to maintain consistent, healthy nutrition habits? Your perfectionism and all-or-nothing mentality has most likely served you very well in your life and led to great success with your career, but can be detrimental when it comes to your nutrition. In this series, Amber covers the nutrition pitfalls of high-achieving women and the habits that often keep you stuck in a miserable diet cycle.

In part 1, Amber broke down the all-or-nothing perfectionist mentality and how it can often be a double-edged sword. Part 2 of this series dove into the pitfall of not prioritizing nutrition and planning ahead. In this episode, Amber addresses another area that so many women struggle with, and that is negative self-talk. When you speak poorly to yourself, it is going to show up in other areas of your life. As a high-achieving woman, you are used to excelling and achieving your goals, but if you find yourself struggling with your nutrition, Amber encourages you to reflect on how to talk to yourself.

A key component of Amber's nutrition programs is allowing yourself to get curious about your cravings. If you are stuck in the cycle of putting yourself down about your food cravings, you will not allow yourself to explore what may be causing you to want certain foods. Your cravings can reveal things about your body, but if you just beat yourself up for wanting certain foods, you will stay stuck in that negative loop. To take charge of your nutrition once and for all, you have to reconnect with your body, learn to detach from emotions, and let go of guilt. Own the fact that you're a grown ass woman and can eat whatever you want. Taking your power back in this way is incredibly freeing and allows you to take a deeper look into why you feel drawn to certain foods. So for all the high-achieving women out there that struggle with a perfectionist mindset, you are a powerful and strong woman, but you need to learn to soften that in some areas because the very thing that excels you can also be the thing that takes you down in other areas.

Episode resources:

• Amber's free intermittent fasting guide: ambershaw.com/fasting
• Kroma Wellness 5-Day Reset: Use code AMBER for 15% off at kromawellness.com
• Get your Serenity gummies and discover more CURED Nutrition products at: curednutrition.com use code AMBER10 for 10% off

Key highlights:

• How Amber's negative self-talk kept her stuck in a cycle of unsuccessful diets
• Amber offers a reframe to get out of the loop of speaking poorly to yourself
• What to explore about your cravings instead of beating yourself up about them

About Amber Shaw

Amber is a Mind and Body Transformation Expert, Founder of The Wellness Revolution, motivational speaker, and NBC Health and Wellness Coach. Having built a lifestyle that allowed her to embrace work, children, exercise, and well-balanced eating habits, Amber now works helping and coaching women to achieve the same level of serenity and empowerment through a sustainable way of living.

Connect with Amber

Instagram: @msambershaw

TikTok: @msambershaw

Website: ambershaw.com

In this episode of the Wellness Revolution, Amber and Erin Gilmore discuss how trauma-informed yoga, meditation, and breathwork can help you reconnect with your inner self. Erin teaches Bhakti vinyasa yoga and specializes in trauma-informed yoga in San Francisco. Erin shares her personal journey of overcoming an eating disorder and how yoga helped her become more accessible to herself. Amber and Erin also explore the importance of gratitude, intention, nonviolent communication, and focusing on how you want to feel as a way to guide your actions toward tending to your needs.

We spend a lot of time being bombarded by messages from others that we do not spend the time to get into our body and reconnect with how we are feeling. Erin emphasizes the importance of having tools to reconnect with ourselves during moments of fear, self-doubt, and tension in relationships. She believes that incorporating these tools into your daily routine doesn't have to be a daunting task. You can start with just five minutes a day, and a little bit goes a long way.

For those seeking additional resources to support their wellness journey, Erin shares about her Living Room Yoga sessions that are available online, as well as the Open app and website that offers mindfulness classes in breathwork, meditation, and movement. Be sure to check out the episode resources below for a discount code to receive 30 days of free access.

Key Highlights:

• Erin shares her personal journey of healing from disordered eating habits and how she reconnected with herself through yoga
• The importance of finding tools that work for you to practice radical acceptance of your body and life
• Amber and Erin explore the power of gratitude and provide creative ways to incorporate it into your daily routine
• The power of focusing on how you want to feel, rather than what you want to have, as a way to guide your actions
• Erin explains what nonviolent communication is and shares tips on how to gain the tools to control your nervous system.

Quotes:

• "We think it's that it's this perfect experience–once we step back into that size two jeans or once we have washboard abs, then we'll be happy or once I get this much money in my bank account, then I'll be happy… It's this paralysis that we place our happiness over there in that house but it's not over here."
• "Stop. Breathe. Connect to how you're feeling. Connect to how you're feeling until you give a shit who in front of you is feeling what they're feeling because if I'm not connecting to me, it's very unlikely that I'm going to connect to you… that is the most fundamental thing that I hope anyone takes away from nonviolent communication… It is about an internal shift in you."

Episode resources:

• Amber's Little Black Dress Bootcamp: ambershaw.com/little-black-dress-bootcamp
• Kroma Wellness 5-Day Reset: Use code AMBER for 15% off at kromawellness.com
• Get your Serenity gummies and discover more CURED Nutrition products at: curednutrition.com use code AMBER10 for 10% off
• Experience Open for 30 days free with promo code WELLNESSREVOLUTION. Link to claim: withopen.com/WELLNESSREVOLUTION

Connect with Erin Gilmore:

Website: eringilmoreyoga.com

IG: @eringilmore

FB: Erin Gilmore Yoga

Connect with Amber

Instagram: @msambershaw

TikTok: @msambershaw

Website: ambershaw.com

Are you a high-achieving woman who struggles to maintain consistent, healthy nutrition habits? In the previous episode, Amber shed light on the all-or-nothing and perfectionist mentality that often hinders progress in this area. But that's not all. In this episode, Amber dives into another pitfall that many high-achieving women face: not prioritizing nutrition and planning ahead.

We all know how easy it is to make unhealthy food choices when we're unprepared and short on time. But with Amber's game-changing strategy, you can prioritize nutrition without sacrificing taste or time. She'll reveal her grocery shopping and meal prep tips that take as little as five minutes and can be done the night before.

Don't let a lack of time or prioritization stand in the way of your health goals. Tune in to this episode to learn how to change your nutrition habits and make them a priority in your busy life. Amber's one big habit could be the game-changer you've been looking for!

Key Highlights:

• Unpreparedness often leads to choosing easy but unhealthy food options
• Amber shares her strategy for prioritizing nutrition without sacrificing taste or time
• Grocery shopping and meal prep can be done quickly and easily the night before
• Consistency in prioritizing nutrition is key to achieving health and nutrition goals
• Amber shares a game-changing strategy for changing nutrition habits

Quotes:

• "You know what good nutrition looks like. If you're struggling to stay consistent with it, most likely you're not prioritizing it."

Episode resources:

• Amber's free intermittent fasting guide: ambershaw.com/fasting
• Kroma Wellness 5-Day Reset: Use code AMBER for 15% off at kromawellness.com
• Use code "Amber15" for a 15% discount on ceremonial-grade matcha and other wellness products at cymbiotika.com

About Amber Shaw

Amber is a Mind and Body Transformation Expert, Founder of The Wellness Revolution, motivational speaker, and NBC Health and Wellness Coach. Having built a lifestyle that allowed her to embrace work, children, exercise, and well-balanced eating habits, Amber now works helping and coaching women to achieve the same level of serenity and empowerment through a sustainable way of living.

Connect with Amber

Instagram: @msambershaw

TikTok: @msambershaw

Website: ambershaw.com

Have you ever driven somewhere and not remembered exactly how you got there? Or maybe you had a bad day and comforted yourself with certain foods to find that you lost control and you don't even know what happened. In those situations, that is your subconscious taking over and it can run the show without you even realizing it. In order to find your true purpose and authentic self, it is essential to tap into that subconscious and dig deep into what is going on there. Through healing the negative energy that we unknowingly have inside, we can release it to make space for limitless possibilities that align with our highest self. Dr. Elizabeth Lambaer is an amazing resource that teaches people all over the world how to do just that.

Dr. Elizabeth Lambaer is an inspirational speaker, social media creator, human potential expert, and best-selling author of the book, "Skinny Dipping in the Fountain of Youth." She is an expert in the fields of intuitive intelligence and energy healing work. She combines science and spirituality by using her medical education and decades of spiritual training to help individuals achieve their greatest potential and manifest the life of their dreams. Dr. Elizabeth helps people break free from the vicious cycle of limiting beliefs, and negative programming. These cycles can manifest as unhealthy relationships with food, and then we find ourselves feeling guilty and beating ourselves up, and the cycle continues.

In this episode of The Wellness Revolution Podcast, Dr. Elizabeth explains that so many of us are walking around holding onto energy that is not serving us, and ultimately leads to self-sabotage. The good news is that this energy does not belong to us, and once we take the step of being aware of that, we can begin to heal and ultimately harness the energy of abundance and receive everything that is meant for us from the universe. From this episode, you will be enlightened to dive into what is really blocking you from living your best life and have the encouragement and confidence to make that shift. It all just starts with the willingness to take that first step.

Key Highlights:

• Why it is so important to release negative energy and make space for freedom
• Why does emotional eating happen?
• The difference between lifestyle 1.0 and 2.0
• How negative energy can cause you to self-sabotage
• The first step to healing emotional eating and releasing energy that isn't serving you
• The tools Dr. Elizabeth uses to help people heal their energy blocks
• Accessing our intuitive intelligence
• Why you should fill your cells with positive energy and inspirational messages

Episode resources:

• Amber's Little Black Dress Bootcamp: ambershaw.com/little-black-dress-bootcamp
• Get your Serenity gummies and discover more CURED Nutrition products at: curednutrition.com use code AMBER10 for 10% off

Connect with Dr. Elizabeth Lambaer:

Website: www.DrElizabeth.com

Instagram: @DrElizabethLive

YouTube: Dr. Elizabeth Lambaer

Email: speaker(at)drelizabeth.com

Connect with Amber:

Instagram: @msambershaw

TikTok: @msambershaw

Website: ambershaw.com

On this episode of "The Wellness Revolution", Amber kicks off a series exploring the reasons high-achieving women struggle with staying consistent with their nutrition. Despite looking like she had everything under control, Amber has dealt with her own body image issues, and she understands her clients' struggles. Her approach focuses on retraining the brain and creating new habits that become a part of your identity, making it possible to lose and keep off weight sustainably.

This episode covers the first pitfall high-achieving women face when it comes to staying consistent with nutrition: the all-or-nothing mentality. One characteristic of high-achieving women is the perfectionistic mentality, which can be a double-edged sword. While it can be a strong suit, it can also be a downfall because it leads to an all-or-nothing mentality that bleeds into nutrition and exercise. If you relate to this mentality, this episode will increase your awareness and help you take the first step towards releasing this mindset.

The upcoming episode will address the second pitfall, so stay tuned.

In the meantime, don't miss Amber's previous episodes, where she shares tangible tips for healing the all-or-nothing mentality.

Key Highlights:

• Why high achieving professional women commonly face challenges with staying consistent with their nutrition
• How negative body image impacts your interpersonal relationships
• Why an identity shift is necessary for maintaining consistency with your health goals
• How perfectionism is sabotaging your progress

Quotes

"Sustainable weight loss is more than just counting calories and counting macros. That can get you weight loss, but that's not going to get you sustainable weight loss. Sustainable weight loss is more so about shifting your identity."

Episode resources:

• Join Amber's FREE 2-day event happening April 4th & 5th: ambershaw.com/wellness-revolution-event
• Use code "Amber15" for a 15% discount on ceremonial-grade matcha and other wellness products at cymbiotika.com
• Kroma Wellness 5-Day Reset - Use code AMBER20 for 20% off: kromawellness.com

About Amber Shaw

Amber is a Mind and Body Transformation Expert, Founder of The Wellness Revolution, motivational speaker, and NBC Health and Wellness Coach. Having built a lifestyle that allowed her to embrace work, children, exercise, and well-balanced eating habits, Amber now works helping and coaching women to achieve the same level of serenity and empowerment through a sustainable way of living.

Connect with Amber

Instagram: @msambershaw

TikTok: @msambershaw

Website: ambershaw.com

In this episode of the Wellness Revolution, Amber is joined by Nick Carrier, a master fitness expert on goal achievement and habit formation. Nick is widely regarded as the transformation expert for busy professionals looking to make a change. With his expertise as a certified personal trainer, corrective exercise specialist, and fitness nutrition specialist, he has coached over 5,000 fitness classes and helps people around the world effectively lose body fat and build muscle.

In this conversation, Nick shares his insights on how to overcome fear, take the first step toward success, and form positive habits. He emphasizes that success is not just about achieving external results, but becoming a person of integrity and alignment. Nick also discusses the importance of focusing on the process instead of the outcome and shares his principles for forming habits, including being specific, setting measurable goals, and approaching oneself with curiosity instead of criticism.

Nick emphasizes the importance of defining one's "why" and shares his expertise on adapting our relationship with comparison, forming our identity, and living in alignment to make lasting changes. Tune in to hear from Nick on how to start taking the first step toward transforming your life.

Key Highlights:

• Nick's journey to becoming a transformation expert and entrepreneur
• Overcoming fear and taking the first step towards your goals
• How Nick defines success to his clients
• The importance of focusing on the process instead of the outcome.
• Nick's principles for forming habits
• The three components needed to define your why.
• Nick's advice on going from insecure to confident
• Adapting your relationship with comparison instead of avoiding it.
• The significance of forming your identity and living in alignment with it to transform your actions and behaviors
• Shifting the narrative instead of labeling certain behaviors as bad

Quotes:

• "You have to take step one before you know what step 50 is."
• "Drop the notion that success is that external result and gain the notion that success is becoming a person of integrity, becoming a person of alignment."

Episode resources:

• Join Amber's FREE 2-day event happening April 4th & 5th: ambershaw.com/wellness-revolution-event
• Use code "Amber15" for a 15% discount on ceremonial-grade matcha and other wellness products at cymbiotika.com

Connect with Nick Carrier:

Website: www.nickcarrier.com

IG: @carrier_bestyou

FB: Nick Carrier

LinkedIn: Nick Carrier

Connect with Amber

Instagram: @msambershaw

TikTok: @msambershaw

Website: ambershaw.com

Are you struggling to prioritize yourself or feeling like there's never enough time to focus on your own well-being because you're constantly attending to the needs of others? Many women grapple with putting themselves first, pouring out their energy into their families, their partners, or work until they're left depleted. Failing to prioritize oneself can trigger feelings of frustration, defeat, and resentment because the way we spend our time is ultimately a testament to how much we value ourselves.

Constantly agreeing to others' demands could be a manifestation of a need for validation, and we all have a natural human desire to feel valued and cherished. However, it is essential to evaluate the benefits gained from repeating these behaviors and determine if they truly serve your long-term best interests.

In this episode, Amber dives into three things to think about when you're feeling like there's just no time for yourself. If this topic strikes a chord with you, make sure to tune in as this episode is packed with insights to help you begin concentrating more on yourself and your well-being today!

Key Highlights:

• Why actively striving to prioritize yourself is essential
• How your allocation of energy and focus reveals what matters to you
• The issue with always saying yes and the message it conveys about ourselves
• Three things to consider when self-care seems out of reach
• The significance of disrupting inherited patterns across generations
• Reframing our perspective on the concept of self-care

Quotes

"We have to get out of our own way and stop thinking small. Think big picture. Think about not what you're taking away but what you are giving back."

"You are worth it. You are worth making yourself a damn priority, because if you don't do it first, nobody else will."

About Amber Shaw

Amber is a Mind and Body Transformation Expert, Founder of The Wellness Revolution, motivational speaker, and NBC Health and Wellness Coach. Having built a lifestyle that allowed her to embrace work, children, exercise, and well-balanced eating habits, Amber now works helping and coaching women to achieve the same level of serenity and empowerment through a sustainable way of living.

Connect with Amber

Instagram: @msambershaw

TikTok: @msambershaw

Website: ambershaw.com

In this inspiring podcast episode, Amber interviews Lisa Odenweller, the founder of Kroma Wellness. Lisa shares her story of resilience and transformation, from building a successful wellness company to losing it all and starting over. She emphasizes the importance of inner work, taking accountability, and finding strength in pain to overcome challenges and achieve success.

This discussion also covers the challenges of fundraising for a startup, the support Lisa received from celebrity investors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Amy Schumer, and the benefits of the Kroma Wellness Reset Program, including weight loss, reduced inflammation, improved brain function, and better sleep.

Listeners will be inspired by Lisa's entrepreneurial journey and her dedication to creating a healthy lifestyle through the Five Day Reset program, which is customizable and designed to be a lifestyle change rather than a short-term diet. Kroma Wellness products were formulated with love and attention to detail, with the goal of changing the relationship with food and promoting a healthy lifestyle.

This episode is perfect for anyone looking to learn more about wellness, entrepreneurship, and personal growth. Tune in to discover Lisa's inspiring story and the power of taking control of your health and wellness.

Key Highlights:

• Lisa's journey to wellness and creating Kroma Wellness
• The importance of starting with the root cause of health issues
• How Lisa healed her and her daughter through an anti-inflammatory diet
• Lisa's entrepreneurial journey: Building a company, making mistakes, and choosing the right partners
• How Lisa's inner work transformed her as a person, mother, partner, and business leader
• How Lisa created the Five-Day Reset to change the toxic diet and cleanse culture and make food something to look forward to
• Benefits of the Kroma Wellness Reset Program and what differentiates it from other cleanses

Quotes:

• "My mission was so big and my why was so big that nothing was going to stop me."
• "It's the choices you make every day that really lead to living a lifestyle of wellness and making healthier choices."

Episode resources:

• Join Amber's FREE 2-day event happening April 4th & 5th: ambershaw.com/wellness-revolution-event
• Get your Serenity gummies and discover more CURED Nutrition products at: curednutrition.com use code AMBER10 for 10% off
• Kroma Wellness 5-Day Reset - Use code AMBER20 for 20% off: kromawellness.com

Connect with Lisa Odenweller:

Instagram: @lisa_odenweller

Website: kromawellness.com

Facebook: facebook.com/kromareset

Connect with Amber

Instagram: @msambershaw

TikTok: @msambershaw

Website: ambershaw.com

Do you want to know the secret to finally being free from the diet roller coaster that so many of us have been on for years? It's telling yourself "yes". "Yes, I can have another serving of food." "Yes I can have a cookie." Now stay with us, because you may be thinking that sounds counterintuitive to weight loss, but it's actually the key to shifting your mindset from relying on willpower, to owning your power and ability to be in charge of your body.

For so many women that have a long history of dieting, they have lost touch with their body and ability to tune in to what their body is saying. Our bodies have a miraculous ability to tell us what we need, but if we continue to try to follow someone else's diet plan and white knuckle through our cravings, we lose touch with that biofeedback. Part of going through Amber's lifestyle coaching program is to re-learn how to tune in to what your body is saying. Your cravings can give you insight into what your body needs, and if you trust yourself to make decisions that are best for you, you can take back your power from the diets that do not support a sustainable and effortless lifestyle.

Amber coaches women in her program to remember the mantra, "The answer is always yes." This is key in switching from a mindset of "I can't have the food I want" to a place of "I'm a grown ass woman and can make decisions for myself." That sounds scary at first, but trust that magic happens when you make this shift. It doesn't mean that you're going to eat a bunch of food that won't nourish your body, but it means you are going to trust yourself to make your own choices that align with your goals. What so many women think is that they will lose control and go backward in their progress, but by making this mindset shift, you can finally move into a place that will foster a lifestyle that feels great for you and will be sustainable long term, because that's the name of the game here.

Episode resources:

• Join Amber's FREE 2-day event happening April 4th & 5th: ambershaw.com/wellness-revolution-event
• Get your Serenity gummies and discover more CURED Nutrition products at: curednutrition.com use code AMBER10 for 10% off

Key highlights:

• Amber shares a nugget from a recent coaching session with a client that found herself in a place of negative self-talk and fighting cravings
• Why Amber focuses on habit and lifestyle changes that work for each of her clients
• The key to staying consistent is learning how to reconnect with your body
• Every time you ignore your biofeedback, you are contributing to a future binge
• Amber explains that her process for clients is helping them relearn to trust themselves
• The answer is always "yes", but that doesn't mean you have to act on it

Connect with Amber

Instagram: @msambershaw

TikTok: @msambershaw

Website: ambershaw.com