In this episode I am joined by Jen aka Vegan Queen V, Animal Activist, Musician, Song Writer, Performer, Well-Being Facilitator & a F#cking Unicorn. Jen is a free spirit that travels all over the UK & Globe performing in person at festivals, events, gigs, weddings and more. Jen has just released her album Freedom Warrior and will be touring and performing over the summer months. Jen has had her own journey with Bulimia, perfectionism and finding her voice. Join us as we chat about Jen's story of music, life and experiences. Jen aka Vegan Queen V also facilitates day retreats of Happiness to help others connect, find happiness in what is already abundant to us and just to spread the love. This wonderful human is a breath of fresh air and I cannot express the gratitude for our connection. Thank you Jen for lighting up my life from the moment I first connected with you.Check out Jen's latest album, link below. 

Utube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VeganQueenV

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/veganqueenv

To purchase click: https://veganqueenv.bandcamp.com/album/freedom-warrior (LITERALLY INCREDIBLE)

Today's guest is the super talented & inspiring Liam Browne. Liam is a man of many talents and creations from his book 'Dealer to Healer,' Actor, Yoga Instructor, Life Coach, Podcaster plus Liam is the co-founder of Stone Cold Sober with Joanna Barnes. Together they have been putting on Sober Conscious events, retreats and experiences for the past 2 years. Formed in 2020 they let nothing hold them back and kept providing the life blood that people needed, connection, community, accountability and positive growth. Over the past 10 years he has become renowned for his spectacular Cacao Ceremonies and his depth of experience and knowledge with this magical plant medicine. Last year he set up his Cacao Teacher Training with Greg Garrett and recently launched his own Cacao brand FULL POWER CACAO.

In this episode we explore Liam's sensational journey from childhood to where he is at now, with hints and tips from his experience to help shift your energy, and make yourselves a priority. Liam's vibrant energy and words of wisdom will have you smiling, laughing and uplift you to make some changes on your journey. Liam focuses on empowering people to step into their own truth, to show the world the person they have always really been. He makes you accountable and gives you the confidence to take ownership of your uniqueness, letting nothing hold you back from all that is yours by divine right. He knows you are the person you have been waiting for and he will empower you to revel this to yourself. He provides a safe space for you to feel the confidence to 'let go and glow’, leaving people on another planet, feeling fully alive, inspired, and filled with love.

Check out the links below and I am super excited to be teaching at Stone Cold Sober Festival 18th-21st June at Sawbridgeworth CM21 0RL. We look forward to seeing you there!

Cacao God founder @fullpowercacao

SOBER EVENTS cofounder @stonecold_sober

Podcast https://www.liambrowne.com/podcast & Life Coach. Liam 

Stone Cold Sober Festival 18th-21at June 2022 (CODE AMYSCSFEST for Booking) https://www.stonecoldsoberevents.com/booking 

Todays guest is Claire Bloom who has been a friend/guru of mine for over 15 years now. Claire has been teaching fitness for over 22 years inspiring so many of us to move into the fitness worlds, helping me then mentor others into the fitness world. Claire has been into fitness from a young age, and is so passionate about helping keep others moving their bodies and back in 2009 Claire fell into the world of Triathlon Training which has led her to travelling all over the world competing in Great Britains Age Group Triathlon (Age Group 45-49). Claires first time for Great Britain competing in 2011 and came 6th place and showed us that anything is possible when you put your mind to something when you decide to try something out of your comfort zone.

Since the pandemic Claire and myself stepped into the world of online teaching, despite having no clue about the digital world and absolutely winging what we was doing to begin with! We are still muddling our way through the world of technology, social media and marketing but having Claire on this journey too has helped me through my ups and downs of the online entrepreneurial business world. Both of us has stepped away from the gyms and totally changed how we move our bodies, stepping away from punishing our bodies to taking the less is more approach, plus we both now appreciate how important stretching is! Claire specialises in the over 40's age group for training and shares tips to get you moving, creating a routine to looking after our bodies with her words of wisdom.

Claire teaches a variety of low impact fun online classes LIVE weekly on Facebook, designed for all ages and all levels and has since gone viral on Tik Tok! 

Check Claire out on utube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRf9E-xzzmN48Ct-2AlM1PQ

Facebook: Claire's Fitness

Tik Tok: clairesfitness

Insta: @ammieelou_PT

Facebook: Amy Mercado Personal Trainer

Website: www.themercadomethod.co.uk

Utube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWrMJZGYl7Cfc-xNLhbuLKA

In this episode I begin to explore what our elements represent in our internal world that then can mirror in our outer worlds. For harmony in ourselves it is important to work with ALL the elements (Earth, Air, Fire & Water) to produce our ETHER (Balanced expression of all the elements). Pre-lockdown was aware that I am an Earth Sign (Virgo), however my environment had meant I mirrored a stuck AIR molecule that had just gotten burnt out and my life had gotten repetitive and predictable. My energy was low and always feeling heavy. This all flipped to the polar opposite after the lockdowns and I became an over-charged AIR molecule that was erratic and explosive, I was over stimulating my mind and not grounding myself so I was all over the place and an anxious mess that was so jittery. The past 12 months I have been spending time on slowing down, connecting to harmonise my EARTH element so I can now use the tools to RESPOND rather than REACTING to triggers. It has been a work in progress and I am continuing to allow myself to find the balance with AIR & EARTH.

Insta: @ammieelou_PT

Facebook: Amy Mercado Personal Trainer

Website: www.themercadomethod.co.uk

Utube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWrMJZGYl7Cfc-xNLhbuLKA

Sally is a Naturopath, 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙘 𝙒𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣'𝙨 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜, 🌝𝙈𝙤𝙤𝙣 𝙈𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧,𝘾𝙮𝙘𝙡𝙚 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨, 𝘿𝙤̄𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙍𝘼 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝙂𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙚 +𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧💧,𝙃𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚💞𝘾𝙖𝙘𝙖𝙤,🌱𝙍𝙖𝙬 𝙏𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧 and works with the DoTerra brand (Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade (CPTG) and has an abundance of knowledge.

Insta: @ammieelou_PT

Facebook: Amy Mercado Personal Trainer

Website: www.themercadomethod.co.uk

Utube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWrMJZGYl7Cfc-xNLhbuLKA

Join me and Beccy as we dive into the world of working with crystals. Beccy has a vast knowledge on crystals, how to care for them, how to work with them, which crystals work for different purposes. The world of crystals is still very new to me still so I ask plenty of questions around which crystals are great to start with, where to source them, what their properties are, how to use them, how to cleanse them, charge them and much more. Beccy is a Reiki Master, reflexologist and crystal healer and also has her own Etsy store. https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ReikiCrystalsLondon

Insta: @ammieelou_PT

Facebook: Amy Mercado Personal Trainer

Website: www.themercadomethod.co.uk

Utube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWrMJZGYl7Cfc-xNLhbuLKA

In todays episode I speak about what I once thought strength was from ignoring my emotions, pushing my body with gruelling exercise, never stopping to rest and just being a warrior always on the go to nowadays where STRENGTH to me is being vulnerable, sitting in stillness, resting, trusting in the unknown, trying new things, doing things for me, reconnections and new connections and so much more. Strength I realise now doesn't have to be me on my own fighting always, it is about letting others in, having open honest communication, allowing yourself to be seen and heard and loved. I hope you enjoy xxx

References for Morning Gloryville Sober Conscious Connections: @MorningGloryville

Rise n Shine: @RiseandShineParties

DJs Instas: @DJShaneB @KrystalRoxx

Insta: @ammieelou_PT

Facebook: Amy Mercado Personal Trainer

Website: www.themercadomethod.co.uk

Utube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWrMJZGYl7Cfc-xNLhbuLKA

Today I was joined by the wonderful Jo who has now been 5 years sober. Jo is a high energy woman, mum of 2 who shares her journey of giving up alcohol, the ups, the downs and her story and how different life is now. We met 15 years ago when we did our Aerobics teacher training and we just clicked. We lost touch over the years but Jo reached out last year when I began my podcast and shared her battles which I had no idea at the time when we met, ironically I was struggling with bulimia at the time whilst Jo was struggling with her demons. Jo has now been sober for 5 years yet went through a breakdown 3 years ago after replacing drinking with a need to push harder and harder at work for everything to finally come to a head and hit a wall where Jo has taken a step back to figure out who she is and what makes her happy.

We discuss the normalisation of drinking, what Jo went through, substance abuse, working through acceptance and forgiveness, the experiences from growing up and how they affected us in our teens to now, what kept Jo pushing through her recovery, how Yoga changed her life plus plenty of real talk.

Jo has a blog over at Jobirdisinrecovery.Wordpress.com  Insta: @Mrselliottj

Insta: @ammieelou_PT 

Facebook: Amy Mercado Personal Trainer

Website: www.themercadomethod.co.uk

Utube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWrMJZGYl7Cfc-xNLhbuLKA

Join me and Carly as we explore our journey of working through anxiety, eating disorders, gruelling ways of training, searching for happiness externally, addictions and body shaming. The lockdown really began both our healing journeys of taking responsibility for our behaviours, changing our mindsets and moving our bodies in a much more loving way, slowing down and allowing ourselves to feel our feelings rather than eat them, drink them away, medicate them away and smoke them away. Carly was diagnosed with Type I Diabetes at 17 and shortly after developed bulimia and a drinking problem and it was since last year that Carly found breathwork and went through recovery to begin to break these cycles. Carly is a Personal Trainer and mum of 2 and we cover her journey and the shifts in the household too since her healing began. We still battle our darkness however we both share our tips and tools that allow us to reflect, process and release or integrate without the old bullsh*t stories of shame and judgement. We also cover suggestions for kids and teens to help them express themselves on their journeys too.

Insta: @ammieelou_PT & @carlyb_t_t_c

Facebook: Amy Mercado Personal Trainer

Website: www.themercadomethod.co.uk

Utube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWrMJZGYl7Cfc-xNLhbuLKA

In this episode I cover some of the things that have come up on my journey that I feel we should be comfortable around discussing & exploring, becoming more familiar with and also taking into consideration how we can perhaps trigger others by putting pressure on what we have been conditioned to believe is "society norms." I cover topics of plant medicine, grounding, nipples, body hair, tree hugging, society pressures/beliefs and more. There will be a part 2 for this episode as much more has come up since this was recorded and I feel needs to be also brought to light. I offer ways to get more comfortable around exploring or trying some of these suggestions also in this episode.

Insta: AMMIEELOU_PT

www.themercadomethod.co.uk