The Cinnamon Effect - Your Insider's Guide to Looking, Feeling, and Living Your Best Life After 40

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Ready to start cutting toxic products out of your life without the overwhelm? In this solo episode, I share the non-toxic products and home detox swaps I've tested on myself over more than twenty years, none of which I'm affiliated with.

We talk about the swaps that made the biggest difference in my home, and why I've started looking at every choice as a deposit into or a withdrawal from my own health account. I walk you through room by room, from the laundry room to the bathroom shelf, and I'm honest about the products I still reach for even when I know better, because my chemical sensitivity has only gotten stronger with age. This isn't about a perfect non-toxic lifestyle, and it's not about who's the most non-toxic in the room.

You'll learn:

• Why your laundry detergent might be the first thing worth changing
• How to pick swaps that fit your real life so they actually last
• What I use to filter my water and why my food storage is all glass now
• How I choose non-toxic skincare and clean beauty I can wear every day
• Why the non-toxic makeup and clean makeup for sensitive skin I found changed my whole routine
• What made me rethink my non-toxic toothpaste, non-toxic deodorant, and even my toilet paper
• How two things already in your kitchen can clean your fruits and vegetables
• Why I lean on sauna, rebounding, and hydration to help my body keep up
• How the energy and media you let in belong in this conversation too

If you've been looking into non-toxic products, a cleaner home, and honest product recommendations you can actually trust, I hope this one gives you a place to begin.

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Kimberly

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What happens when you've checked every box you were told to check and the fulfillment never arrives?

In this episode, I'm joined by Christina L. Woods, a clinical hypnotherapist and Reiki master, who spent years leading teams across the country in corporate before going back to school and building her practice, Wise Woods Hypnotherapy.

Christina and I talk about why the doubt so many high achieving women carry can't be resolved by logic, no matter how much evidence we gather. She walks me through what the subconscious mind was built to protect us from, and why that job started long before we had any say in it. She also tells me about the moment that ended her corporate career and began her own personal transformation.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why doing more, working longer hours, and adding another credential can leave the emptiness exactly where it was
• What actually happens inside a hypnotherapy session, and why it can resemble a guided meditation more than anything you've seen on television
• How a belief you formed at seven may still be running the decisions you're making at forty
• What it can take to rewire one, including a custom recording clients play daily for twenty one to forty five days
• Why social comparison on LinkedIn may hit accomplished women harder than they'll admit
• How the root cause of overeating, drinking, or smoking can be something nobody would've guessed
• Why overcoming self sabotage depends on making a new belief familiar to your body before it holds
• What energy healing can clear, and why Christina works with clients remotely
• How three minutes of shaking out adrenaline can change what you carry into a meeting
• Why deep inner work can reach what meditation retreats and spiritual reading haven't
• How one good memory from the last twenty four hours may steady the rest of your day
• What it can take to hear your inner knowing again after years of overriding it

Whether you want to stop people pleasing without the guilt, rebuild self worth that holds under pressure, or simply understand why you keep repeating a pattern you can name, this conversation offers a way in.

Hit play and let's grow together,

Kimberly

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Website - christinalwoods.com

Instagram - @christina.lwoods

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What does midlife wellness actually look like once your twenties and thirties routines stop working?

In this episode, I'm joined by Sarah Fisher, a holistic health coach, personal trainer, and yoga instructor with over two decades of experience in the health and fitness industry.

Sarah and I talk about how she built her fitness business from group training in her backyard into online workouts and a full private studio, and how her weekly juice fast fits into the way she eats today. We also get into the daily rituals that keep her grounded as a business owner and a mom.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• How Sarah built her business from a backyard workout space into a full studio
• Why express cardio is her go-to when clients only have twenty minutes
• How consistent exercise beats intense, sporadic workouts over time
• Why she believes midlife fitness should stay approachable, not complicated
• What her blood type diet includes, and why she built it in phases
• Why her approach to fitness has changed as she's moved into midlife
• How she talks to her son about food, sugar, and moderation
• Why she moved away from cold plunges after trying them herself
• What she does for recovery, including massage and acupuncture
• How she keeps teaching multiple classes a day without running out of energy

If you've been searching for a fitness philosophy built on simple fitness and a positive mindset, this episode is your invitation to build a routine you can actually keep.

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Kimberly

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IG: https://www.instagram.com/sarahfisherpfitness/

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Why does midlife often bring old family patterns back into focus, right when we think we've already worked through them?

In this episode, I'm joined by Alyssa Scarano, a licensed professional counselor and founder of Collective Therapy and Wellness, who helps clients heal from childhood trauma and interrupt generational trauma in their families.

Alyssa and I talk about how negative thoughts and self talk can keep an old story running, why boundary setting protects our emotional healing, and what it looks like to finally begin breaking cycles instead of repeating generational patterns we never chose.

Our conversation touches on:

• How to recognize when negative thoughts are running the show.
• Why self talk can keep old patterns alive or help change them.
• What boundary setting can look like in a real relationship.
• How our body may signal what we need before our mind catches up.
• Why generational trauma can show up even when we don't repeat it on purpose.
• How midlife parenting can bring old patterns back to the surface.
• What a therapy session with Alyssa focuses on early with new clients.
• Why emotional healing often has to come from within.

If you've ever felt stuck in a pattern you can't quite explain, this episode will give you a lot to think about.

Hit play and let's grow together,

Kimberly

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Website: https://collective-therapy.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/collective.therapy.wellness

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/live.collective.wellness

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Most of us assume that if we clean up what we eat, everything else will follow. Joseph Chammas believed that too, right up until a stage four diagnosis sent him looking for answers no grocery list was going to hold.

This episode welcomes Joseph and Tawna Chammas, founders of Gratitude Garden Farm, who spent more than a decade turning five acres in Loxahatchee into a certified organic farm and retreat space. Together we get into the treatment Joseph walked away from, the food detox center he went to instead, and the raw vegan meals that became ordinary to him. The emotional healing work is the part he never saw coming. Tawna shares the botanical medicine she makes and teaches, along with the medicinal mushrooms they now help other farms grow.

You'll learn:

• Why the emotional work can be harder to begin than changing what we eat
• How the body may respond when we never come out of fight or flight
• What can shift when we grow even a little of our own nourishing food
• Why eating vegan and eating for health can be two separate pursuits
• How healing foods may do their best work alongside things that aren't food at all
• What a midlife pivot can cost us before it gives anything back
• Why our midlife health may depend on what we're carrying as much as what we're eating
• How supporting someone who isn't ready to change can show us where our limits are

For anyone who has ever suspected they’ve been treating the wrong thing, or who needs a reminder that midlife reinvention can begin long before we know where it’s going, this is for you.

Hit play and let's grow together,

Kimberly

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Connect with Gratitude Garden Farm:

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When did we all agree that bloating, low energy, and skin changes were just part of being a woman over forty?

In this episode, I'm joined by Anna Finck, a wellness architect and lifestyle designer, who healed her own reproductive health issues and adrenal fatigue naturally after walking away from a path to medical school.

Anna and I talk about the years she spent unwell, and what changed once she stopped treating each symptom on its own. She walks me through the chemical exposure in products we reach for without thinking, the plant based foods she eats for her liver and adrenals, and the money beliefs she traced back to childhood. Her approach is thorough and specific, and I think midlife women hear it differently.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why the symptoms we've been told to expect may not be normal
• What to look for in the makeup and deodorant we use daily
• How to lower your toxic load without emptying every cabinet
• Why the liver and adrenals are the organs Anna protects as we age
• Why leafy greens and fruit can supply amino acids the body uses
• How to find your energy type and what it may say about your work
• Why the money story you absorbed as a child can still be running
• How to treat financial wellness as part of your health

If you've been searching for embodied wellness, natural healing, and radiant health in midlife, this episode is your invitation.

Hit play and let's grow together,

Kimberly

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What if the most important thing about your food has nothing to do with the crop and everything to do with the dirt it grew in?

I'm joined by Dr. Jeffrey Burke, the director of education for Kokora Life and host of the Honest Health podcast, who has spent more than four decades in the natural products industry.

Jeffrey and I talk about what changes when a farm stops turning its soil, and how regenerative agriculture builds on certified organic growing rather than replacing it. Soil health is the piece most of us never think about while we're shopping, and he makes a case for why it belongs on our radar. He also gets practical about supplement labels, proprietary blends, and where someone brand new to functional mushrooms can begin.

You'll learn:

• Why regenerative growing can rebuild the soil while organic stays focused on the crop
• How over tilling has put the world's topsoil at risk and what farmers do instead
• What a bottle can tell you when it carries both an organic and a regenerative seal
• Why proprietary blends may leave us paying for something we can't measure
• What Jeffrey looks for beyond the ingredient list, from glass bottles to vegan capsules
• How someone new to mushrooms can begin with reishi and build from there
• What adaptogenic mushrooms like lion's mane and cordyceps may offer beyond the obvious
• Why immune support may depend as much on rest and walking as on what we swallow

This episode is for anyone who has ever wanted to trust a label a little more, or needed a reminder that the healthy habits costing us nothing are often the ones worth protecting.

Hit play and let's grow together,

Kimberly

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Connect with Dr. Jeffrey Burke:

Website: http://www.drjeffreyburke.com/

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What if the thing that carries you through the highest pressure days is something you can prepare for long before the pressure arrives?

In this episode, I'm joined by Heather Lowenthal of Posh Parties, a luxury wedding planner and business owner whose work has been recognized nationally, and who’s back with me for a second conversation.

Heather and I talk about what her wedding business looks like from the inside, beyond the beautiful photos. She shares how she stays grounded on a wedding day, why staying calm under pressure is contagious, and what she tells clients who are gripping every last detail. We also get into the emotional side of this year, with her oldest leaving for college, and the ways she resets once wedding season quiets down.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• How staying calm can steady the people who are counting on you
• Why advance preparation can make the difference when something goes sideways
• What to notice about your own self motivation, and why praise may matter more than money
• How hustle and heart can carry you further than the shortcut ever will
• What parenting teenagers can bring up as a college goodbye gets closer
• How movement in the morning can steady a long and demanding day
• Why a polished team can change how a crew is received at luxury weddings
• How a personal style built on timeless pieces can outlast the trends
• What to keep in perspective when one day starts to carry the weight of a whole life
• How a slower stretch can protect your energy before the next busy run
• Why live music and connection can be a genuine reset for a working mom
• What can keep you creative when a career risks becoming routine

Heather's story is such a good reminder for women business owners that staying positive and steady ambition can live in the same person, and that the extra effort we put in behind the scenes is often what lets us stay present when it counts most.

Hit play and let's grow together,

Kimberly

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Instagram - @poshpartygal

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What do we actually know about the people our children spend time with? And would our kids come to us if one of those people asked them to keep a secret?

Some conversations are uncomfortable to start, and they're the ones our children carry with them the longest.

In this episode, I'm joined by Kristi McVee, a child safety and prevention educator who spent 10 years as a police officer, specialist child interviewer, and child abuse detective in Western Australia.

Kristi and I talk about the signs of grooming she saw over and over in her interview room, and why parents kept telling her they would have acted sooner if they had known what to watch for. She walks through the body safety lessons she taught her own daughter starting at age two, and how those same lessons carry over as soon as a child goes online, where online grooming starts inside a group and then pulls the child somewhere private. She also shares the dinner table test she applies before she posts a single photo of her daughter. My son is nine and has never been to a sleepover, so hearing Kristi lay out the risk factors gave me language I didn't have before.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What she asks other parents before her child sleeps at their house
• Why more than 90% of child sexual abuse in Australia involves someone the child already knows
• How to tell a surprise apart from a secret that hides harm
• Why proper names for private parts change what a child can report later
• What predatory behavior looks like in an adult who keeps finding time alone with kids
• How grooming tactics work on parents at the same time they work on children
• Why tickling can become a testing ground for consent and bodily autonomy
• What the dinner table test says about photo sharing our kids online
• How Kristi handled online safety while her daughter gamed, headphones off and all
• Why offenders in one Australian study walked away from children who pushed back
• Why abuse prevention starts at home instead of at the school gate
• How to open safety conversations with a child who's already older than two
• What surfaced for Kristi when her own childhood trauma returned as her daughter grew

This is the conversation most of us never had as kids, and the one Kristi shows us how to give ours.

Hit play and let's grow together,

Kimberly

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Connect with Kristi McVee:

Website - www.cape-au.com

Instagram - @kristimcvee Tiktok - @tiktokcop81

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Have you ever said yes to something and then realized, a week out, that you never once asked what it actually involved?

In this solo episode, I'm sharing my night in the Everglades with Trapper Mike, better known as the Python Cowboy, and what happened when it was my turn to grab a snake.

From the friend who told me about this years ago to the deposit I put down nine months early, the boat ramp in the middle of nowhere, and the conversation with my son about whether he wanted to come, none of this went the way I pictured it. I say yes to new experiences without asking questions first. Before we stepped onto an island, Trapper Mike explained how these snakes got here and why they're a problem for a place I've loved my whole life. Then the sun went down, and facing fear became the job.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why I said yes to python hunting before I understood what it involved
• How Everglades pythons took over and why they're turning up on private property
• Why the state opened these hunts to the public as a conservation effort
• What night hunting is like with gator eyes glowing on both sides of the boat
• How to grab a python by the tail and work your way up to the back of its head
• Why nobody out there wears gloves and what that does to your grip
• Why snake hunting in the dark scared me more than anything else that night
• What I said to my son when he told me he didn't want to come
• Why I dropped a 40 pound python the first time I grabbed it
• What Trapper Mike said that sent me back in for a second try
• Why a healthy fear of something isn't a reason to skip it
• What conquering fear in real time gave me the next day

If doing things that scare you has been sitting on your list, or you've wondered what building confidence actually looks like when it's happening, I hope my story gives you a push.

Hit play and let's grow together,

Kimberly

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Website: https://pythoncowboy.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pythoncowboy/

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