This one is for all you health and nutrition nerds—myself included! This episode is a fun and informative conversation with Megan Lyons, board certified holistic nutritionist and founder of The Lyons’ Share Wellness. She walks us through what blood sugar is and why it matters for your health, as well as her super intriguing experience using a continuous glucose monitor on her arm. She gives actionable steps on how to improve your blood sugar balance, and signs yours may be out of whack. Let’s dive in!

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Megan Lyons has shared her game-changing approach to wellness with thousands of people through personalized health coaching, corporate and group wellness programs, and motivational and educational speaking. As founder and owner of The Lyons’ Share Wellness, she’s deeply passionate about inspiring others to feel their healthiest and happiest.

Megan received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and her MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She is also a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, has a Masters in Holistic Nutrition from Hawthorn University, and is Board Certified as a Holistic Nutritionist. She lectures widely at hospitals, corporations, and organizations. When she’s not health coaching, you can find her doing all types of workouts, cooking, reading, traveling, and cheering on the Dallas Mavericks. She currently lives in Dallas with her husband, Kevin, and adorable dogs, Maverick and Riley.

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There’s nothing more exciting than a story about a super successful brand that has truly made it, and began with such small humble beginnings, purely looking for a way to solve a problem for their own family. Nada Moo is the best dairy free dessert out there— if you’ve tried it, you know! Based in Austin, Texas, you can now find Nada Moo at most major grocery stores across the US. In this episode (35), I sat down with Daniel Nicholson, the CEO and President of Nada Moo. He’s been with the company for nearly 15 years, so he has some super cool stories to tell about how the brand grew and also some of the ins and outs of being a dairy free ice cream brand. It’s not as simple as you’d think! Alright let’s dive right in.

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All about Daniel Nicholson:

Daniel Nicholson graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Soon after, Daniel left for Madrid, Spain, as he was accepted into the Fundacion Consejo Espana-Estados Unidos program. The program landed him with a 9-month job with Iberdrola Renovables, where he enjoyed working in the sustainable energy sector, as he had a desire to be a part of the industries of the future.

When the program was completed, he moved back to Austin and began reconnecting with his friends and his Austin network. It was at this time that he was introduced to a product that would change the trajectory of his life. Daniel discovered NadaMoo!, for himself, in 2008 after an introduction he received to the founder and her CFO business partner. Since immediately falling in love with the product and brand, NadaMoo! has become his sole focus for the past 13+ years. He started as the Controller, and after 3 years of this accounting, operations related work, the founder of the company was ready to step out to pursue other opportunities. In that moment, after much thought and reflection, Daniel decided to step into the role of President & CEO, and he never looked back.

Since 2011, the company has grown its revenue over 50x, from being distributed in just a few hundred stores to now when it is in over 10,000 stores nationwide, and it is beginning to be distributed more widely in Canada. NadaMoo! has been the driving force, for Daniel, to help build awareness around health, wellness, and sustainability. These are the problems he and the NadaMoo! team want to continue to solve.

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Welcome to episode 34! Today we sit down with Brit Shimansky, also known as Britsbarre on Instagram. She has an awesome following on IG, and she teaches at a local studio in Austin called Mod Fitness, and now she’s working on her very own project. Brit is excited to be launching an on-demand virtual studio so she can reach more people—and it’s going to be GOOD. Join us in this chat to learn how she’s getting her on-demand platform off the ground, her pre and postnatal specializations and why those are important and much more.

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All about Brit Shimansky: A former professional ballerina in New York City, Brittany discovered barre while rehabbing from a serious ankle injury. Her fitness career began at Flywheel Sports where she quickly became one of the most in-demand Master barre instructors in NYC. During her tenure at Flywheel, she became the Northeast Regional Manager of FlyBarre and trained hundreds of barre instructors around the country. In 2017, Brittany arrived in Austin, TX. She became the Director of Training for Mod Fitness, an instructor for Equinox, a National Academy of Sports Medicine certified personal trainer, and a pre/postnatal certified trainer. This Spring Brittany is launching her Britsbarre on-demand virtual studio which will deliver a premium boutique fitness class experience in the convenience of your home.

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Disclaimer: Kate Naumes operates in Texas as a wellness consultant, not as a physician (MD, DO). These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and any recommendations or supplements Dr. Naumes provides are not intended to diagnose, treat or cure any disease. This podcast episode is for informational purposes only, please consult with a licensed healthcare professional for your health care. Guidance for Covid-19 continues to evolve. Please see the CDC for the latest.

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Welcome to episode 32 of The Fitness Insider podcast! Today’s guest is Hensley Ellefritz, the founder of her own Hensley Ellefritz Fitness Consulting. Not only does she have a cool name, but she should legit consider writing a book about how fitness studios can optimize their brands and businesses. She’s extremely well spoken and has so much information and advice to give—and a decade of success in fitness sales, so she’s seen some things in her days. She helps gyms successfully launch, grow and thrive through her own methodology that is proven to work. This episode is perfect for any studio owners out there as well as anyone in the fitness industry—or if you’re just curious to see what goes on behind the curtain. Beware: we nerd out pretty hard in this one.

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All about Hensley:

Hensley lives in Dallas, Texas and is the founder of her own consulting company called Hensley Ellefritz Fitness Consulting. She began her career at Equinox, then the fastest growing premium fitness brand in the U.S. Earning consistent recognition as a top sales performer within the brand, she spent subsequent years at the sales helm over two of the largest household boutique fitness brands. Hensley worked closely with hundreds of studio owners, most of whom wanted to expand their business success but didn’t have an approach or methodology to deliver predictable results. Having listened to their stories and partnered in their journeys, she developed her own methodology to help boutique fitness studios successfully launch, grow and thrive. She’s packaged her 10 years of knowledge working with three of the most well-known fitness brands, into three 12-week programs, targeted toward the three primary challenges I’ve witnessed studios struggle with. Her programs will drive you fast and long-lasting revenue. And she has the proven track record to back it up.

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And we’re back with episode 31! I called it episode 32 in the actual episode—ignore that :)  Our guest today is Henry Richardson, the founder of DEFINE body & mind and Supermom CBD.  He’s one of those go-getter, infectious positive energy kind of entrepreneurs who is always creating something exciting and inspiring. Not only is he a super successful founder with 17 locations in his franchise, but he’s also an expert in positive psychology. I’m not sure about you, but I needed this pep talk, and we could all use some tips on how to harness our positive mindsets to be happier and more joyful even during a pandemic and tough times. One of the coolest things about Henry is that he has never boxed himself into one category. He proves that you can follow multiple passions and still be successful and live a happy life.

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All about Henry:

Henry’s entire mission for starting DEFINE was centered around service and education. His goal is to educate clients on how to live their best life in body and mind. Through this, he hopes to build sustainable health and wellness communities that share their sense of positive emotions, engagement, meaning, and accomplishment to everyone they interact with. It is DEFINE’s belief that using a holistic lifestyle approach to wellbeing is the most effective way of creating physical and inner strength goals, as defined by them. Henry is a native Houstonian, and DEFINE was conceived through his personal journey of integrated body-mind pain management and post-graduate study. He is deeply committed to individuals living their absolute best life, in an effort to be contributors towards community wellbeing. Henry is constantly focused on developing new programs, products and relationships to continue to lead the industry and break further ground in the mind, body, spiritual, and positive psychology arena.

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All about Mada:

Mada Lavey is a personal trainer, mama, and lover of all things health and fitness. She’s from Celina, Texas and graduated from TCU in Fort Worth. Mada got certified in personal training and led bootcamps and classes with her friends her senior year of college. After college, she moved to Dallas and did personal training and then began instructing at a few boutique fitness studios in the area. She also loves to cook and started The Defined Dish with her sister Alex, where she was focused on the “defined” portion of the blog, the fitness aspect. Mada ended up focusing on her new (at the time) marriage and starting a family and has come full circle back to her fitness program by just launching her own virtual training platform. She loves clean living and non-toxic beauty, baby-led weaning and all things health and fitness.

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Welcome to the final episode of 2020, Episode 29! Today is a solo episode where I (Natalie, your host) walk you through the wellness predictions for 2020 and comment on those as well as reveal Well + Good’s wellness predictions for 2021. I’ll save you all the reading time and you can just listen. I did a lot of research and took lots of notes to touch on the most important aspects of each prediction so you don’t have to. Hope you enjoy. Let’s get this party started!

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Welcome to Episode 28! Today’s guest is a fireball of a human, an entrepreneur from head to toe whom I’ve looked up to for over a decade. Her name is Brandi Marino and she’s the founder of a boutique fitness studio franchise called BEYOND Studios, which began here in Dallas. Brandi is the definition of a pioneer in the fitness industry especially in Dallas. She’s real, #unfiltered and has a lot to say. Don’t miss this one!

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Brandi has been a pinoneer in the fitness industry for years. Her fitness career started in Los Angeles after leaving the medical industry. She worked for many years at UCLA, USC, and Cedars-Sinai in spine orthopedics. She traded her scrubs for spandex and started training a group of neurosurgeons at Cedars Sinai in Beverly Hills. She then opened BEYOND Studios in Dallas, Texas. The motivation behind BEYOND was finding a way to help people incorporate fitness into their life daily. She founded BEYOND with the idea that traditional fitness needed to be turned upside down. She knew if she could provide ENERGY in a studio, clients would be more likely to BELIEVE it is possible to go beyond their LIMITS and be EMPOWERED to make positive changes in their lives. These four words are what you see every day when you walk into a BEYOND Studio. Brandi franchised BEYOND Studios and now lives in Fresno, California near her family and also opened up a BEYOND Studios and BEYOND500 there as well.

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Episode 27 centers around one of my favorite topics: optimizing your health. Today’s guest, Taylor Dukes, is a functional medicine nurse practitioner based in Fort Worth, Texas. She owns a private practice where she meets with patients one on one, as well as a new wellness center called Restore + Revive where clients can meet with Taylor for anything and everything functional medicine, get nutrition counseling, IV therapy and shots, infrared sauna, massages, facial, fitness and more. Taylor is a wealth of information, so we had plenty of topics to cover that I think most people will be interested in.

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All about Taylor:

Taylor owns a wellness center called Restore + Revive as well as a private practice where she works with people 1:1 to heal their guts, balance hormones, increase energy, improve sleep and optimize detox.

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