As an intuitive eating nutritionist, host of the ‘Fill Your Cup’ podcast and online Quarantine Dance Parties, and ‘stress eating expert’, Rachel Molenda’s mission is to help women obsess less with food and their body and to work with them to find their own unique, effortless, enjoyable and healthy way of eating.

Rachel’s knowledge on emotional/stress-eating and sage advice are perfectly timed as we navigate our way through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. She not only describes her own battle with food over the years but also explores the causes of emotional eating and offers practical strategies that we can all implement right now.

Episode Highlights:

 

• Rachel’s story and her relationship with food
• The difference between disordered eating and eating disorders
• Emotional eating and Rachel’s strategies in dealing with it
• Rachel’s Quarantine Dance Parties
• The emotions that members of her community are experiencing during this pandemic
• Rachel’s description of, and an exercise demonstrating, ‘mindful eating’
• What’s next for Rachel, particularly her exploration into ‘breathwork’
• Rachel’s advice for those binge eating at this very moment

Resources:

• Rachel’s Instagram:   https://www.instagram.com/rachelmmolenda/ 
• Rachel’s homepage:  https://www.rachelmmolenda.com/
• Fill Your Cup Podcast:  https://www.rachelmmolenda.com/podcast

More about Joyous Health 

• Check out our award-winning blog Joyous Health 
• Check out Joy’s bestselling cookbooks
• Follow Joyous Health on Instagram
• Find Joyous Health on Facebook
• Learn more about The Joyous Health Business Program 
• Check out our full line of Natural & Organic Haircare and Body Care.

In this episode, Walker and I share how we are managing work, parenting and life in general during COVID-19. We share the strategies we are using to help manage anxiety and cultivate positivity. It's something that we are taking actionable steps towards every day. Some days I feel like we are slaying it and there are moments I am in tears -- but through it all, we are staying connected virtually to family and friends and to each other. 

 

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• Be cautious of information overload
• Turn off notifications on your phone
• Write down all the things you CAN control
• Write down all the things you cannot control 
• The benefits of spring cleaning and organizing 
• Energy flows where attention goes - focus on 1 thing and try and monotask as much as possible
• How food can help you manage anxiety
• Are you grazing all day long - ask yourself if you are physically hungry? 
• Write down what I want to accomplish each day
• How meditation has changed my life

 

RESOURCES

• How to cultivate positivity 
• I do at-home online workouts through Obe Fitness. Try a 1-week free trial and use my code JOYM30 for 30% off 
• Go Noodle - amazing YouTube channel with activities like dancing for kids
• Parenting episode with Dr. Kat and Adrian 

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Let’s face it, we’ve all had moments where we feel like we just don’t know what we’re doing as parents, and Walker and I tend to figure things out as we go along. But we don't have all the answers and that’s precisely why we are so excited to have Family Coaches and Parenting Experts, Dr. Kat & Adrian Kremblewski, join us on today’s show. 

 

These two dynamic individuals are parents themselves who have read all the books and done all the research regarding parenting that the rest of us just never have the time to do, and are here to share the knowledge, wisdom, experiences, and advice they have accumulated. As you listen to Kat and Adrian answer the questions we all have about parenting, you will undoubtedly join us in wanting to sign up for their Parent Map Course so that you, too, can learn how to ‘create the peaceful, loving environment which you want, and which children need’.

 

Episode Highlights:

 

• How one’s childhood affects one as a parent
• The importance of communication and having children observe both conflict and resolution
• The dangers of ‘labeling’ a child
• Resilience in children
• Kat and Adrian’s parenting style
• The power of ‘beliefs’
• Responding to tantrums
• Supporting and encouraging children
• Four words to use judiciously with children
• Being present in the age of social media
• The Parent Map Course
• Kat and Adrian’s most important parenting advice

Resources:

• The Parent Map homepage:  https://www.theparentmap.com/ 
• The Parent Map Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theparentmap/

 

More about Joyous Health   

• Check out our award-winning blog Joyous Health 
• Check out Joy’s bestselling cookbooks
• Follow Joyous Health on Instagram
• Find Joyous Health on Facebook
• Learn more about The Joyous Health Business Program 
• Check out our full line of Natural & Organic Haircare and Body Care.

From her arrival in Canada as a child, not speaking a word of English, through many stress filled years of employment in other fields, to recognizing her true passion and putting in the countless hours of education and work to finally realize her dream, Emilia’s story is one of courage, perseverance, and commitment that we know you will find as inspiring as it is informative. 

Join us for our chat with Emilia Wisniewski as she recounts her fascinating journey along the road to starting and running her remarkably successful Studio 1NINE1 interior design business

 

Episode Highlights:

 

• Emilia’s ‘immigrant story’
• Her road to becoming an interior designer
• Emilia’s ‘secret sauce’
• Her rituals for avoiding burnout
• Emilia’s business ‘Studio 1NINE1’
• The ‘kick in the butt’ that Joy and Walker gave Emilia

 

Resources:

Studio 1NINE1 homepage:   http://www.studio1nine1.com/

Video of one of Emilia’s makeovers:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOSWOmX0dW8

  More about Joyous Health    Check out our award-winning blog Joyous Health  Check out Joy’s bestselling cookbooks Follow Joyous Health on Instagram Find Joyous Health on Facebook Learn more about The Joyous Health Business Program  Check out our full line of Natural & Organic Haircare and Body Care.

We couldn’t be more excited about our guest this week, Julian Brass, the international keynote speaker, corporate workshop facilitator, certified health coach, yoga instructor, investor, and author of ‘Own Your Anxiety – 99 Simple Ways to Channel Your Secret Edge’. Julian lives to inspire people, and that is precisely what he does in this episode as he shares his fascinating personal story and offers practical tools and strategies to help us ‘own our anxiety so we can own our lives’. If you are looking to turn your anxiety from being ‘negative and debilitating to positive and facilitating’, you don’t want to miss this episode!

 

 Episode Highlights:

 

• Julian’s story and his current goals
• His definition of anxiety
• Some of the tools Julian uses on a daily basis to feel his best including ‘nose to belly breathing’ and ‘personal power points’
• Julian’s book and some of his favourite strategies in it
• The importance of sleep and his ‘winding down’ suggestions

Resources:  

• Get Julian's amazing book, Own Your Anxiety. 
• Learn more about Julian
• Julian’s Life Letter

More about Joyous Health    Check out our award-winning blog Joyous Health  Check out Joy’s bestselling cookbooks Follow Joyous Health on Instagram Find Joyous Health on Facebook Learn more about The Joyous Health Business Program  Check out our full line of Natural & Organic Haircare and Body Care.

Today, I’m so excited to welcome my very good friend, and host of the ‘Healthy Hormones for Women Podcast’, Samantha Gladish, to the show. In addition to hosting her podcast, Samantha is a holistic nutritionist, weight loss coach, hormone ‘fixer upper’, and an author as well who has generously taken time out of her extremely busy schedule to discuss her remarkable ‘healing journey’ toward becoming a nutritionist, and to share her vast amount of knowledge and experience in the area of women’s nutrition and health. If you want to learn how to live a healthier life by tuning into and trusting your body, Sam’s been there, done that, and tells you how on today’s very special episode.

 

Episode Highlights:

 

• The health benefits of Sam’s move to the country  
• Sam’s journey to becoming a nutritionist
• The birth control pill and Sam’s experience with it
• Her response to her Auto-Immune Hashimoto’s diagnosis
• Sam’s perspective on the most neglected area of women’s health and her recommendations to address it
• What Sam’s up to these days, including publishing her new book, ‘The 30-Day Hormone Solution’

Resources:

• Sam’s Podcast about Genetic Testing
• Healing and Dealing with Hashi’s
• Sam's new book: "The 30-Day Hormone Solution"
• Sam’s DUTCH Hormone Program
• GI-Map information

More about Joyous Health    Check out our award-winning blog Joyous Health  Check out Joy’s bestselling cookbooks Follow Joyous Health on Instagram Find Joyous Health on Facebook Learn more about The Joyous Health Business Program  Check out our full line of Natural & Organic Haircare and Body Care.

We are incredibly excited to have Dan Schawbel, New York Times Bestselling author, global keynote speaker, and career and workplace expert on the podcast today share so many knowledge bombs. He explains how we can create better connections in the age of isolation.

We get into talking about the light and dark side of technology, why everyone thinks millennials are lazy (spoiler - they are not) and how we can use technology as a bridge to relationships and not let it be a barrier between you and the relationships you want to create.

In This Episode We Discuss:

• Dan’s book ‘Back to Human’ and its message regarding technology
• His content creation strategy
• Dan’s love of research and investigating
• Some of his Instagram ‘golden nuggets’
• Those who inspire Dan
• His most memorable podcast guests
• Dan’s best career advice

Resources:  

Dan’s homepage

Dan’s Podcast homepage  

Dan’s articles on LinkedIn

Dan's latest book: Back to Human

  More about Joyous Health    Check out our award-winning blog Joyous Health  Check out Joy’s bestselling cookbooks Follow Joyous Health on Instagram Find Joyous Health on Facebook Learn more about The Joyous Health Business Program  Check out our full line of Natural & Organic Haircare and Body Care.

Natural health industry trailblazer, Alain Ménard, joins us on today’s episode to share the remarkable tale of how he and his wife courageously changed their life missions to helping people live healthier and more natural lives by starting The Green Beaver Company. 

As Alain’s story unfolds, you will marvel at his extensive scientific knowledge, you will be shocked by what you learn about conventional products and the companies that make them, but most of all you will be inspired by the passion and commitment that Alain demonstrates as he lays out the facts, presents the options, and invites you to make one of the most important choices of your life.

In This Episode we Discuss

• How The Green Beaver Company got its start
• Parabens and ‘Paraben-free’ products
• What’s scary about fragrances
• How the average shopper can choose natural and healthy products
• Aluminum in antiperspirants
• What’s next for Green Beaver

Resources

• Find Green Beaver on Instagram
• Find Green Beaver on Facebook
• The Green Beaver Company homepage

We are incredibly honoured and excited to welcome Podcast Royalty to the show as nutritionist, chef, author, co-host of The Ultimate Health Podcast, and very pregnant Podcast Queen, Marni Wasserman, joins us for today’s episode.

Marni’s journey through the world of food and nutrition is a fascinating one, and she shares many details of it with us, including a courageous transition which has impacted both her personal and professional life considerably. Not only is Marni a great friend of ours, but her podcast is also one of the top health podcasts available, so we know you will greatly enjoy listening to her uniquely well-informed perspective on everything from nutrition and diet to pregnancy preparation.

IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS

• Marni’s ‘organic evolution’ through the world of food and nutrition
• Her plant-based cooking school business
• Marni’s transition away from a plant-based diet to eating animal foods
• Her outlook on the nutrition and diet industry
• Marni’s pregnancy and how she and Jesse have prepared for it

RESOURCES

• The Ultimate Health Podcast homepage
• Marni’s homepage 
• Find Marni on Instagram
• Find The Ultimate Health Podcast on Instagram

I cannot think of a better person to kick off season 3 of the Joyous Health Podcast than Raia "Coach" Carey! I met her last year at an event I was speaking at, she was the panel host. She has a confident and magnetic personality and she's also warm and super personable. She's been through many triumphs and tribulations to get where she is at today and Walker and I were incredibly inspired by her. 

From being bullied to being the bully, overcoming racism, losing 300lbs and So. Much. More. It was a ton of fun to talk to her and I think you're gonna love hearing Raia, who like her name sounds, is truly a ray of sunshine. 

In This Episode We Discuss

• Being bullied and then becoming the bully
• How crying her eyes out in grade 4 helped her become more resilient
• The power of putting yourself out there and what can happen when you do
• Defining confidence
• How we both love Neil Pasricha’s "Rose Rose Bud Thorn" exercise for bringing more conversation, gratitude and positivity into your life. 
• Her journey in losing 300 lbs and how she did it. The benefits beyond weight loss like her hormonal balance, better period, no cramps
• How she overcame her nerves and has made a career out of public speaking
• Four key questions to ask yourself at the end of the day (Walker, Vienna and I do this all the time) 
• Cutting out alcohol in 2020
• Finding your life's purpose
• What's next for Raia!

Resources

• Find Raia on Instagram
• Find Raia on LinkedIn or her website

More about Joyous Health 

• Check out our award-winning blog Joyous Health 
• Check out Joy’s bestselling cookbooks
• Follow Joyous Health on Instagram
• Find Joyous Health on facebook
• Learn more about The Joyous Health Business Program
• Check out our full line of Natural & Organic Haircare and Body Care.