The Art of Pre-Selling

Many people let their circumstances define their lives and tell their stories, but adopting a growth mindset is more likely to lead to success. In this episode of The Wellness Revolution, Amber is joined by thought leader Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco, an expert in personal growth. During this conversation, Amber and Mike discuss how we are all unstoppable and can live any life we desire.

From a young age, Mike displayed a talent for pointing out qualities in people that they may not have been able to see themselves, and he had an ability and desire to motivate people. Mike believes we must have conviction about the things that we know to be true, feel our power in being able to change the course of our lives at any time, and find the aspect of the story that will propel us forward.

Instead of thinking of bad events in life as setbacks, Mike encourages us to see them as lessons and investments. He says that when we are comfortable all the time, we can become complacent without even realizing it. When we are faced with wake up calls or tough events in our lives, Mike encourages people to use them to create something that benefits us. In this episode, Mike goes into this further and shares many great pieces of advice and practical ways of thinking that anyone can benefit from.

Key Highlights:

• Mike's background that inspired his career
• Keep going through the discomfort
• The importance of getting clear on what you want out of life
• You can change your path at any moment
• How our stories impact us and how to use them to our benefit
• Being thankful for life's wake-up calls
• The importance of being selective about who you surround yourself with
• The importance of having conviction about what you know
• Why you should take nothing personal
• Blooprinted: Mike's new revolutionary learning platform
• The mindset of a billionaire

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: kromawellness.com

About Mike

Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco is the Co-Founder of the innovative tech platform blooprinted, the powerhouse behind the "What Are You Made Of?" podcast, and the best-selling author of ROCKET FUEL Convert Setbacks. Become Unstoppable.

He is a performance coach, author, dynamic public speaker, tech visionary, and thought leader. He has been featured by Yahoo! Finance as one of the Top Business Leaders to Follow in 2020 and is on a mission to build unstoppable people. He is consumed with the passion to help people break free from the confines of complacency and propel to untapped levels of success.

Connect with Mike

Website: mikecroc.com

Facebook: Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco

Instagram: @mikeycroc

Twitter: @mikeycroc

LinkedIn: Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco

YouTube: Mike C-Roc Ciorrocco

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 with 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

This is part 5 of Amber's series about shifts that are necessary to achieve sustainable weight loss, keep the weight off, and create a lifestyle that feels effortless. It all boils down to habit and mindset changes that allow you to live a lifestyle that works for you and gets you off the diet wagon once and for all. If you haven't checked out parts 1-4 yet, go through them and really let those ideas sink in before capping things off with shift number 5. They lay the foundation that this final shift can't exist without because sustainable weight loss starts with your mindset and your initiative.

Shift number 5 is a shift that literally changed Amber's life and yanked her off the endless diet train and out of the vicious spiral of continually gaining back lost weight, with reinforced nasty habits to boot! What was that life-altering final step?

She hired a mentor.

Her mentor helped her unravel her limiting beliefs around food and her own body, and as a result, led her down a better path. That mentor wasn't cheap, but Amber was dead tired of doing things on her own. She didn't necessarily need more information. She needed accountability, guidance, and a streamlined process. Really, she needed somebody who could be her cheerleader without judging her for her unproductive beliefs and unhealthy habits. In other words, Amber needed someone who could give her the confidence to continue on when things weren't going as planned.

If the pain of sliding back into old habits (and your old weight!) is greater than the pain of writing a relatively sizable check for a high-quality mentor, go with the mentor! For Amber, that decision was the best she's ever made in her life, and it could be for yours, too, if you decide to take the leap.

Key Highlights

• Why diets actually cause weight gain
• How focusing on the process and not the outcome leads to a sustainable weight loss journey
• The importance of the hormonal fat loss blueprint
• Healing our relationship with food
• The life-changing power of hiring the right mentor

Episode resources:

• Join Amber's FREE 2-day event happening February 7 & 8: ambershaw.com/wellness-revolution-event
• Get your Magnesium L-Threonate from Cymbiotika here, and use code AMBER15 for 15% OFF

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

Up until recently, anyone who wanted to quit alcohol would be hard-pressed to find resources that didn't use the words "recovery", "addiction", or other similarly scary, shame-inducing terms. That's true even today. What's more, the majority of experts typically recommend either going on a highly-restrictive program or drinking only "in moderation". Our guest, Amanda Kuda, has tried (and failed) to quit alcohol using both approaches. Today she does a deep dive into how she has found a third way to finally enjoy an alcohol-free life⁠—and has since helped countless other women do the same!

Unable to find the right coach for herself, Amanda dedicated herself to mastering the principles of habit formation and personal & spiritual development, in order to gradually change her relationship with alcohol. It all started with getting clear on those areas in her life in which she fell back on alcohol as a tool to deal with life's various challenges.

"As soon as alcohol was out of the way," Amanda says, "my whole world opened up. All of the pieces that I've been putting into place before then to improve myself: to be more emotionally regulated and stable, to be spiritually happier, and to be more abundant⁠—all of a sudden, those things started working tenfold."

In this episode, Amanda shares how her refusal to live a "moderate life" motivated her to completely remove alcohol from the picture, and how she totally transformed at the physical, mental, emotional, and even spiritual level as a result. She discusses the importance of embracing the authentic you that's just waiting to be unearthed once you become content with facing the challenges of life without the numbing effect of alcohol. As she explains, the urge to drink is just the symptom. Once you identify the root, you can make healthier, more objective lifestyle decisions toward living an alcohol-free life. Tune in for more!

Key Highlights

• What does it mean to be "sober curious"?
• Why you don't need to have a problem with alcohol for alcohol to be a problem in your life (and why it's still difficult to quit)
• How "balancing" with alcohol may still be keeping you from your goals
• Using elective sobriety as a personal and spiritual development tool

Episode resources:

• Join Amber's FREE 2-day event happening February 7 & 8: ambershaw.com/wellness-revolution-event
• Kroma Wellness 5-Day Reset - Use code AMBER for 15% off: kromawellness.com

Connect with Amanda Kuda:

Instagram: @amandakuda

TikTok: @amanda.kuda

Free meditation: amandakuda.podia.com/unbottled-potential-meditation

Connect with Amber

Instagram: @msambershaw

TikTok: @msambershaw

Website: ambershaw.com

This is part 4 of Amber's series about shifts that are necessary to achieve sustainable weight loss, keep the weight off, and create a lifestyle that feels effortless. It all boils down to habit and mindset changes that allow you to live a lifestyle that works for you and gets you off the diet wagon once and for all. Check out parts 1-3 if you haven't already because they set the stage for the big game changer that is shift number 4. This one was a huge dial mover for Amber, and if you can't master this one, then none of the others really matter. Without making this crucial mindset shift, you will remain a prisoner to food, and no one wants that. The key lies in healing your relationship with food.

Dysfunctional relationships with food are so common, and many women don't even realize that their relationship with food needs healing, but here is what everyone needs to hear: Your relationship with food is not your fault. There is so much advice out there about what to eat and what not to eat, that these ideas of "good" food vs. "bad" food have been ingrained in us for so long. Mama, it's time to ditch the idea of food morality because the truth is, food is food. If you ever feel anxious about food or guilty for eating something you think is "bad", then take a look into your relationship with food and let's think about human tendencies here. As humans, when someone tells us we can't do something, what usually happens? We focus on the one thing we aren't supposed to do. By making this seemingly simple mindset shift that food is food and that you are a grown woman who can eat what you want, your relationship with food can heal and become something you can be consistent with.

When you start operating out of this mindset, you can move into your rational mind and think about, "Okay I can have this cookie, but what am I really craving? Can I have a healthier alternative that will satisfy my craving?" If you want to get off the diet roller coaster, you need to own this new mindset. It might be scary for some women because they think it will lead to binging, but Amber promises that if you can just start to make this shift, you can change the way you look at food, end the guilt spiral, and let go of the common "all or nothing" mentality. If you don't get a grip on this piece of it, everything will be "just another diet." By mastering this one shift, you will be able to be consistent with the first 3 and that is the name of the game.

Key Highlights

• There is more to the story than calories in and calories out
• Why this shift was such a game-changer for Amber
• A dysfunctional relationship with food is so common and we may not even realize it
• You don't have to be perfect to reach your goals
• Letting go of food morality
• These shifts are not about being perfect, they are all about being consistent and loving yourself in the process

Episode resources:

• Join Amber's FREE 2-day event happening February 7 & 8: ambershaw.com/wellness-revolution-event
• Get your Magnesium L-Threonate from Cymbiotika here, and use code AMBER15 for 15% OFF

Connect with Amber

Instagram: @msambershaw

TikTok: @msambershaw

Website: ambershaw.com

Nutrition is an important aspect of our lives that matters from the time we are born and all throughout adulthood, so why is there not more research and talk about what we can eat every day to live a long and healthy life? That is the goal of Amber's guest Dr. Joseph Antoun. Dr. Joseph is CEO & Chairman of the Board of L-Nutra and a Member of the Forbes Business Development Council. He has his Doctorate in Medicine and Masters' in Medical and Biological Sciences at Saint Joseph University.

His focus is on seeing people before they are sick by tailoring nutrition as medicine and aiming for longevity. The goal is to prevent disease by living a lifestyle that combats the causes of diseases instead of relying on conventional medicine when diseases are present. Conventional medicine of course has a very important role in our lives, but we want to not have to use them in the first place, and instead live a life that sets us up for health and longevity from the get-go.

In this episode, Dr. Joseph explains that a lot of diseases happen later in life due to the lifestyle choices that people make, and may not even be aware of the negative consequences. Factors such as nutrition, stress, happiness, and exercise play a major role, and this is what Dr. Joseph has dedicated his career to educating people on. He takes a deep dive into the topic of fasting and explains what happens in our bodies when we fast, the benefits of fasting, different forms of fasting, and the optimal windows for certain goals. Tune in for more!

Key Highlights

• How can we tailor our nutrition as medicine?
• Why are we not looking into food as a cure for diseases?
• Why do most diseases happen later in life?
• The benefits of fasting and different forms of fasting
• What happens in our body when we fast
• Can fasting work for menopausal women? How does it affect hormones?
• How often should we do a prolonged fast?
• What is the max women should fast on a daily basis?
• Do we get benefits from short fasts each day?
• What are the hours we should fast on a daily basis?
• Is it better to eat a late dinner or to delay breakfast?
• What does a well-balanced diet look like?

Episode resources:

• Join Amber's FREE 2-day event happening February 7 & 8: ambershaw.com/wellness-revolution-event
• Kroma Wellness 5-Day Reset - Use code AMBER for 15% off: kromawellness.com

Connect with Dr. Joseph Antoun:

Website: l-nutra.com

Twitter: @lnutraofficial

Facebook: L-Nutra

LinkedIn: Dr. Joseph Antoun

Try Prolon: prolonfast.com

Connect with Amber

Instagram: @msambershaw

TikTok: @msambershaw

Website: ambershaw.com

This episode is part 3 of Amber's series about shifts that are necessary to achieve sustainable weight loss that is effortless and most of all, works for you. If you haven't already tuned in to part 1, make sure you check that out here, and you can find part two here. While the last two episodes in this series covered some mental shifts that you need to make in order to be able to achieve sustainable weight loss, part 3 is more of a tactical shift. In order to get out of the vicious cycle of dieting, you first need to realize that diets don't work long-term and this is a lifestyle shift, not a quick fix, which means it is so important to focus on the habits and process instead of just the goal of losing weight.

The third shift that Amber covers in this episode involves using our food as medicine and working with our bodies instead of trying to do diets and crazy exercises that will actually work against us. Hormones play a huge role in fat loss, and they cannot be ignored in the equation of learning how to reach our weight loss goals in a healthy way. The key is to make sure our hormones are balanced as best as we can, and this does not have to be complicated. Amber explains the role that insulin plays in fat loss, and how we can use both food and the timing of our meals to control insulin throughout the day.

A key factor in Amber's programs is her hormonal fat loss blueprint, and in this episode, you will hear what looks like for the women that join Amber's 6-month program. While food and exercise are obviously big factors for weight loss, we also have to pay attention to the effects that stress can have on our bodies if we are not focusing on ways to mitigate it. When we think about stress, we often think of mental stress, but the physical stress we can put on our bodies is important to take into account. This means getting enough sleep, not over-exercising, getting in enough calories, and more. Weight loss is so much more than calories in vs. calories out, and we need to look at other health markers that play a role in our ability to not only be healthy, but to lose weight.

Key Highlights

• Amber reviews shifts one and two from previous episodes in this series
• Why we need to learn to work with our bodies and hormones instead of against them
• Why insulin can be a reason women have a hard time losing weight
• Intermittent fasting: do we have to be strict with it?
• Exercising for optimal hormone balance
• The importance of stress mitigation

Episode resources:

• Join Amber's FREE 2-day event happening February 7 & 8: ambershaw.com/wellness-revolution-event
• Get your Magnesium L-Threonate from Cymbiotika here, and use code AMBER15 for 15% OFF
• Get 30 Days of OPEN for free with code WELLNESSREVOLUTION: withopen.com/WELLNESSREVOLUTION

Connect with Amber

Instagram: @msambershaw

TikTok: @msambershaw

Website: ambershaw.com

Although social media is a wonderful tool that connects us with other people, so many of us fall into the comparison trap. What we need to realize is that humans are multifaceted creatures with so many unique attributes, and what we see online is only a small fraction of the full dimension of someone's life. Instead of falling into this game of sizing up your life to everyone else's and trying to be someone else that you are not, it's time to step into your authentic self and own your truth. Amber's guest is here to help you do just that.

Jessica Zweig is the CEO of SimplyBe, which is an international award-winning personal branding firm, and she is the author of #1 best-selling book, "Be. - A No B.S. Guide to Increasing Your Self Worth and Net Worth by Simply Being Yourself." Jessica shares her journey of becoming an entrepreneur and the struggle she had between what was happening on the outside of her life, and how she felt inside. There was a disconnect between what she was doing daily, and what she felt she was meant to do. After an illness and surgery forced Jessica to get still and quiet with herself, she was able to hear a message from her true self that gave her permission to just "be." She found out that when you learn to ask the difficult and uncomfortable questions and lean into them, you will hear the answer. In a noisy and busy world, it can be difficult to hear those messages. In order to hear it, you have to get quiet and embrace what it means to just be.

Jessica's message for you is to never underestimate your worth and stay open to the magic of your life and the most beautiful things will manifest. Being on a personal growth journey can be uncomfortable but you will come out the other side a better and more refined version of yourself.

Episode resources:

• Join Amber's FREE 2-day event happening February 7 & 8: 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 AMBER for 15% off: kromawellness.com

Connect with Jessica

Instagram: @jessicazweig

The Expand Your Brand 3-Day Challenge: simplybeagency.com/challenge

To get a seat to the 3-Day Challenge, you must purchase either the paperback copy of 'Be" OR "Be. The Workbook" which can be found below:

Get Jessica's Book: Be: A No Bull-Sh*t Guide to Increasing Your Self-Worth and Net Worth by Simply Being Yourself + the NEW coinciding paperback workbook for Be.

Then submit your Amazon purchase # here and you will be sent the link to join the 3-Day Challenge.

Connect with Amber

Instagram: @msambershaw

TikTok: @msambershaw

Website: ambershaw.com

This episode is part 2 of Amber's series about shifts that are necessary to achieve sustainable weight loss that is effortless and most of all, works for you. If you haven't already tuned in to part 1, make sure you check that out here. The first shift that is needed to achieve sustainable weight loss, is realizing that diets do not work. The second part is to stop focusing on weight loss. It has been proven that solely focusing on the end result of a goal is not what actually gets us there. The key is to focus on the process, which means working backward and figuring out what you need to do in order to reach your goal.

Another really important factor to mention is that the process needs to be tailored to your lifestyle or you'll have a really hard time sticking with it. If you are trying to follow the routines and lifestyle of some influencer online, and you find yourself struggling to stay on track, it's probably just not for you, and that's okay. You don't need to work out at 5 AM just because someone on Instagram said so. When you are trying to establish habits that work for your life, it is not about what works for someone else, it's about honoring and recognizing that your life is unique, so we want to find what is ideal for YOU.

If you find yourself constantly saying you "fell off the wagon", Amber wants you to know, there is absolutely nothing wrong with you as a person. Most likely, the program or habits that you have been incorporating are just not realistic for you. Amber is all about making a healthy lifestyle both enjoyable and sustainable so that you can keep it up long term and not continue to burn out and feel worse each time that a diet doesn't work out.

We want to think about the choices we can make to move the needle forward while using our food as medicine and enjoying life in the process. In time, weight loss will be the byproduct so there is absolutely no reason this should be a stressful process. Tune in next week for part 3!

Key Highlights

• The two reasons why people can't lose the weight and keep it off

• Diet culture teaches us to focus on the outcome, but we need to focus on the process
• The key is to establish routines that work for our lifestyle
• Making a "healthy" lifestyle delicious and sustainable
• Learning to use our cravings as biofeedback instead of something that is "wrong"
• Why "one-size fits all" diets don't work

Episode resources:

• Join Amber's FREE 2-day event happening February 7 & 8: ambershaw.com/wellness-revolution-event
• Get your own Serenity gummies and discover more CURED Nutrition products at: curednutrition.com and use code AMBER10 for 10% off
• Get 30 Days of OPEN for free with code WELLNESSREVOLUTION: withopen.com/WELLNESSREVOLUTION

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

After feeling burnt out at 27, Shayna and Dana decided to do some soul-searching and seek answers on a deeper level. This led them to learn about Human Design, a practice that explains how our energetic bodies work. Understanding where and how their energy should be channeled allowed them to build a life of personal alignment. They share their expertise through their company, DayLuna™, which provides tools for discovering your unique Human Design and optimizing your life.

In Human Design, every person falls into one of five categories, each combining strategy, authority, profile, and definition. By understanding our type and learning about it, we can gain a deeper understanding of why we operate the way we do, what is holding us back, and how to go about living authentically and creating greater opportunities for ourselves.

During today's interview, Shayna and Dana talk with Amber about what Human Design is, how it transformed their lives, and how it can be used in a wide variety of ways - from improving your professional life to improving your relationships or parenting.

As a combination of ancient and modern sciences, Human Design is complex, but Shayna and Dana have made it accessible to any reader in their upcoming book, Human Design: Discover Your Unique Life Path & How To Navigate It With Purpose.

Key Highlights:

• Shayna and Dana talk about their journey into Human Design
• Human Design 101
• How Human Design can help you live your purpose
• What is our energetic being?
• How understanding Human Design transformed Shayna and Dana's lives
• The benefits of Human Design for entrepreneurs
• Shayna and Dana break down Amber's birth chart
• The 5 types of Human Design

Episode resources

• Join Amber's FREE 2-day event happening February 7 & 8: ambershaw.com/wellness-revolution-event
• Kroma Wellness 5-Day Reset - Use code AMBER for 15% off: kromawellness.com

Connect with Shayna and Dana

Website: daylunalife.com

Instagram: @d.a.y.l.u.n.a Podcast: daylunalife.com/podcast

Connect with Amber

Instagram: @msambershaw

TikTok: @msambershaw

Website: ambershaw.com

As someone that was always chasing diets and falling off the wagon, Amber knows what it is like to go through the same cycle of hating her body, feeling miserable about her relationship with food, and having disordered eating habits. Being in a constant emotional purgatory with food and her body left Amber feeling so defeated and worried that she would always live in this vicious cycle. She became convinced that life would always feel this way until she made shifts in her life that allowed her to begin her journey to sustainable weight loss and finally find food freedom. Amber will share the 5 shifts needed to achieve sustainable weight loss in this 5 part series.

This episode is part 1 of this series and features the very first big shift that needs to happen to be able to make this a lifestyle and not just another fad diet that will leave you miserable. A huge part of Amber's coaching is mindset because if we don't get our mindset in check, making real and sustainable change won't happen. The first big shift you need to make is recognizing that diets cause weight gain. This might seem counterintuitive, but let's think about it. While it's true that diets may work in the short term due to calorie restriction, it is not something that you can stick to long term, which leads many to fall back into old habits and end up feeling even worse than they felt before.

The first thing to realize is that creating a sustainable lifestyle is about playing the long game. This won't be a quick fix, but it will be so worth it when you feel confident, love the body you're in, have a healthy relationship with food, don't feel restricted, and actually feel satisfied with the meals you eat on a daily basis. Doesn't that sound amazing? Well, let me tell you, reaching that point can happen for you if you make these 5 shifts and build a lifestyle that is effortless and absolutely sustainable. Tune in each week on Monday for Amber's solo episodes to hear the rest of these 5 shifts needed to keep the weight off and get off the diet train for good.

Quote from the episode:

• "Sustainable weight loss is not about perfection. It is about being consistent. Being consistent most of the time, over time with the big dial movers." - Amber Shaw

Key Highlights

• Amber's experience of constantly being in a cycle of either dieting or "falling off the wagon"
• Amber shares that she was convinced she would always feel this way until she finally made these 5 shifts
• Amber's clients are all busy and educated professionals that know what they should be doing, but need guidance to make mindset shifts and be held accountable
• Amber shares the first big shift you need to make: Recognizing that diets cause weight gain
• The problem with most diets
• Diet mentality creates an "all or nothing" mentality and that is not going to work realistically
• How do we become consistent in a way that feels doable and satisfying?

Episode resources:

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

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