The Simplicity Sessions

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

Today, I am so excited and honored to be interviewing one of my dearest friends and nutritionist, Julie Daniluk. Julie has been on the podcast before and today makes it extra special because we are the first podcast to be interviewing her all about her brand new book, which is actually her fourth book called Becoming sugar-free.

The work, research, and time that Julie dedicates to the craft and art of what she puts out there into the world is inspiring.

So in this episode, Julie and I talk about the impact that sugar, processed foods, sweeteners, artificial flavors, and colors can have on our digestive system and how our digestive system is quite literally the foundation of where all other elements and factors of our health begin.

We also touch on Julie's upcoming sugar-free program, starting this coming October 2021, that will delve into the emotional parts of sugar-free living and really support people step by step through a 30-day process with a live group so that people can feel that support throughout their journey.

You can find links to Julie Daniluk's multi-platform services, as well as social / websites and publications below in the 'Connect with us' section of the show notes. You will also find below-linked info about our partners and recommended products to try.

If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to [email protected] or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

Here are the main topics of today's episode:

• Introducing our guest, Julie Daniluk
• Jenn's product recommendations
• Becoming sugar-free
• Digestion and sugar intake
• Sugar-free lifestyle
• Hormone stabilisation
• Recipes
• Training your digestive system
• How do we break up with sugar emotionally?

Connect with us -

Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful.

You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.

To connect with Julie Daniluk and find direct links to her published works, programs, and supports, click here to go to her website https://www.juliedaniluk.com

To follow Julie on social media, find her on Instagram @juliedaniluk and Youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/jdaniluk

Online work with Jenn:

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/

To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.

Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from of our amazing partners

• GoodJuju make all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you, and good for the planet. If you use the code SUMMER when you spend $65 or more on any of their products, you get the free jar of the exploiting and softening mask. Plus you get free express shipping.
• Saint Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs, and articles on important topics including plant medicines that they create on women's health, digestion, allergies, on immune support, on heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order.
• Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, not animal-tested- this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. If it's your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE20 for 20% off. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order for every order after that.
• Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and Hemp-based company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered and they are third-party tested. They have a really amazing promotion going on from August 23rd until the 31st, where any product that you order, you are going to receive a free sleeve of their toasted superseeds. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the following discount code JENNPIKE to save 20% off all of your orders on their site https://eatonhemp.com

Quotes

• "In this book is I actually outlined twenty-five alternative sweeteners and some of them have naturally occurring sugars and other ones, other sweeteners are truly sugar-free"
• "There's really two levels here. The first level is let's get off of refined sugar and corn syrup. Cause those are the two evils we know are profoundly inflammatory and hormone-disrupting. And then past that everything else is on kind of a scale."
• "Sucrose is also a double sugar - half fructose, half glucose."
• "When I realized that my brain chemistry was so altered, that every day I give the sugar-free lifestyle, I actually have a joyful day where I feel calm and relaxed"
• "I know that as long as you are consuming the foods that hit the bliss point that are engineered to suck you in; It's very hard for you to intuitively know what your body wants and needs when you're trapped in that cycle of crisis.
• "Whatever you're addicted to, you're most likely intolerant to."
• "This is really about our vitality and our health moving forward"
• "A FODMAP approach is a short-term for somebody in an acute situation"

Additional Information About Jenn:

Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus.

Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

Today, we have a fantastic show with Dr. Breanne Kallonen, who is a naturopathic and integrative functional medicine doctor.

This is a really great conversation today about weight loss and the myths surrounding weight loss, insulin resistance issues with leptin and a really fantastic methodology called the metabolic reset that Breanne shares with us.

I think one of the most pivotal parts of our conversation, which is about three quarters in, is driving home this message: weight loss is the first goal for many of the clients that Breanne works with. But the key is actually being able to maintain the weight you use for as long as possible.

Now in order to really wrap your head around what I mean by that, you are going to have to listen to the full episode, as we lay the groundwork up to that point in the conversation. Our goal is that this important message resonates with you and you leave us today with a deeper understanding of your own body and how your decisions affect it.

You can find links below, in the 'Connect with us' section, to Dr. Breanne Kallonen's multi-platform health services as well as her social media and websites. You will also find below-linked info about our partners and recommended products to try.

If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to [email protected] or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts, and advice.

Here are the main topics of today's episode:

• Introducing our guest, Dr. Breanne Kallonen
• Jenn's recommended products
• Metabolic Reset
• Insulin resistance
• Sleep, stress management, nutrition
• Maintenance
• Satiety cues
• Fueling your body

Connect with us -

Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful.

You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.

To connect with Dr. Breanne Kallonen and find direct links to her published works, programs, and support, go to her website: https://breannekallonen.com. To follow Breanne on social media, find her on Instagram @breannekallonen and TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@breannekallonen.

Online work with Jenn:

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/

To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link i've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.

Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from of our amazing partners

• GoodJuju make all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you, and good for the planet. If you use the code SUMMER when you spend $65 or more on any of their products, you get the free jar of the exploiting and softening mask. Plus you get free express shipping.
• Saint Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including plant medicines that they create on women's health, digestion, allergies, on immune support, on heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order.
• Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, not animal-tested- this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. If it's your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE20 for 20% off. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order for every order after that.
• Eaton Hemp is my favourite CBD and Hemp based company. They are a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered and they are third-party tested. They have a really amazing promotion going on from August 23rd until the 31st, where any product that you order, you are going to receive a free sleeve of their toasted superseeds. To experience Eaton Hemp, use the following discount code JENNPIKE to save 20% off all of your orders on their site https://eatonhemp.com

Quotes

• "A lot of women are very busy. They have lots of things going on and it's not always easy to prioritize, getting in crazy amounts of nutrition every single day. The way that I look at weight loss, especially weight loss resistance - how can we help them to make it as easy as possible. "
• "Diving into the research and looking at the impacts of insulin and how we can use meal timing for that, and really strategic workouts."
• "Maybe being normal doesn't necessarily mean optimal"
• "Over time as our food quality has gone down, or just the types of foods that we're eating, I saw research studies showing 88% of the US population has insulin resistance. So if you're eating and you're continuing to spike your insulin all the time, insulin is a fat storage hormone, making it really hard to lose weight."
• "The reality too is that our human bodies are constantly evolving. And especially like if you're working with women, I mean, there's different times of the month. There's different phases in our life where we're going to need a different amount of each of the macronutrients in order to feel our best and for our body"
• "When you're running the functional tests, you're running the full blood lab, like thyroid panel, all of that, you're running like, are you doing GI map, test and Dutch testing, those types of things for the gut. It depends on the individual."
• "How can scaling back on exercise cause me to lose weight? Well, it's a lot of inflammation and exercise can increase your appetite too. So if you don't have your nutrition and your sleep and your stress dialed in. You're not going to see the results that you want from the exercise, or it could be detrimental."
• "Maintenance is the most important part. That's where people really struggle is how do I create a sustainable lifestyle that feels flexible, that I can sustain"
• "Some individuals are not necessarily hungry. Their satiety cues haven't caught up, but again, the point is not to suffer through hunger. If you're hungry, have something"
• "If we're struggling with resistant weight loss and the obesity epidemic and diabetes, there is no better time. Just learning how to properly fuel your body to maintain health long term."

Additional Information About Jenn:

Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus.

Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

Today's conversation is with Susan Baker. Susan Baker is the mom of two beautiful children, Andrew, 13, and Abby, 9. She is the author of Life, Love & Autism, an online blog that chronicles her family's journey of growth and challenge, including love, loss, and an autism diagnosis. She is a holistic nutritionist by training and has been in the natural health industry since 2001. She continues to inspire health in others through her online programs and social media presence. Susan lives in Toronto with her husband and children.

"Life, Love & Autism is a beautiful documentation of life as a family. Often hilarious, sometimes hard, but most certainly inspiring, Life, Love & Autism is raw, real, and relatable. The stories go far beyond autism; they are about the human connection and what brings us together. The joy, the challenge, and the learning that comes from it all. A journey-- lived, documented, and shared."

Jenn and Susan discuss how Susan's life has changed after having children and searching for ways to improve the quality of life of her eldest, Andrew, who was diagnosed with non-verbal autism. You will hear about the inspiring story of a mother that will do anything to help her child become all that he could be instead of trying the "fix" him.

If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to [email protected] or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts, and advice.

Here are the main topics of today's episode:

• Introducing our guest, Susan Baker
• Why Jenn thinks Susan is inspiring
• The loss of a child
• Autism diagnosis of Susan's first child
• The wonders in sharing your journey
• Andrew's communication breakthrough
• Andrew's want to share is experience
• Who has Susan Baker become?

Connect with Susan Baker -

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

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

Lead With Love ~ Motherhood anthology: The voices of ten different women, each with a unique experience of motherhood. Raw, real and heartfelt. Mine, one of 10 chapters, and probably the best summary of my journey as a mother and of how each of my children shaped who I am today. The love, loss and joy of it all. ~Susan Baker @lifewithsusan

Life as a Nonspeaker: An Insider's Perspective (Andrew S., nonspeaking autistic, age 12, Nov.2020) : 25-min

https://youtu.be/tm9fTEgQK4A

Connect with us -

Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful.

You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.

Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.

Online work with Jenn:

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/

To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.

Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from of our amazing partners

• Eaton Hemp Sale is on Aug 19th (1 day event), 25% discount - Jenn uses their CBD oil to recover after her workouts along with her husband.
• Saint Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including plant medicines that they create on women's health, digestion, allergies, on immune support, on heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order or use the code JENNPIKE20 at check out and save 20% off hemp products through August 17.
• Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, not animal-tested- this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. If it's your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE15 for 15% off. Use code JENNPIKE10 at check out and save 10% off your order for every order after that. Facial cleansers. Jenn keeps one fresh one that she uses to wash at night and the other one is called Pure that she keeps on a ledge near the shower. While in the shower, she lets her body get wet then she massages the Pure facial cleanser into her skin. She takes a little of the dried powder into her palms and creates a bit of a paste to which she will massage that in exfoliating her forehead, hairline and all around her face down through her neck
• GoodJuju make all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you, and good for the planet. Use code JENNPIKE10 at check out and save 10% off your first order
• Eden Hemp Sale is on Aug 19th (1-day event) - Jenn uses their CBD oil to recover after her workouts along with her husband.

Quotes

• "My spirituality really allowed me to see this unfolding in a way that was meant for my life."

• "Can it be okay to be, you know, yeah? The opposite of strong, can it be okay to accept help? Can it be okay to say, you know what? There are other people in my life who love and care for my children and they can take care of them just like I can"

• "It's not another woman, another person is being open about it. You can feel and see yourself inside of that. And that's what I think, you talk about these stories going far beyond what you and your family unit are experiencing. That's where the connection piece comes in and why people are so drawn to it."

• "What does this child need? I just said I don't know, but I will never give up. I will never give up on my child. And that wasn't me thinking there was some kind of miracle solution that I was missing. It wasn't about that, right? It wasn't about waiting to fix this child, but it. I know there's more, I know there's more and so I'm open and I don't know what that looks like. And within a couple of weeks, I met a family who was using a method of communication that involves spelling on a letter board, a very simple method, but it's one that's unconventional."

• "I am, I would say, yeah, a new version of Susan Baker, which is somebody who continues to work at this, but is so much more trusting in the process of life. And partly because I can look back on examples of where I pushed myself to trust in the process of life. And it unfolded in a way I could never have predicted, but that brought me to an incredible place because I trusted in this process and I let go where I thought I should be going, what I thought I should be doing, what I thought I should be doing for Andrew or Abby. Um, and that's very difficult for my personality, but you know, I'm 44 this year and that is who I am now is just somebody who is more open to. You know, doing things in a way, I guess I, I'm not typically programmed to do it, you know?

Additional Information About Jenn:

Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus.

Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

Last week, I was discussing Leaky Gut; what it is, what the heck is going on and what are some of the things that you can start to do or things that you can begin to be aware of and understand in your body that can make a big difference in your digestive system.

Today, we are going to talk through additional steps and tactics that you can do regarding nutrition and supplementation to support your digestive system.

Now, a little disclaimer - while I am a practitioner, I may not be your practitioner. So what I'm going to talk about in this episode, as I did last week, is not necessarily me saying, you need to go out and buy this and take this and do this, I'm going to talk in general terms.

If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to [email protected] or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

Here are the main topics of today's episode:

• Refresh on last week - Leaky Gut 101
• How to support your digestive system
• Digestive rehabilitation
• Food sensitivity tests
• Supplementation
• Healing is a process, not a quick fix
• Make the investment in yourself

Connect with us -

Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful.

To find my recipe for Bone Broth, follow the link here, Jenn Pike Bone Broth Recipe.

To find Megan Telpner's recipe via her blog, click here.

You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.

Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.

Online work with Jenn:

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/

To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link i've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.

Quotes

• "Bone broth, the reason I love it is because it contains collagen and it's got great amino acids, glycine being one of them that can really help to heal the damaged cell.
• "Fermented foods can really help to support the pH balance and microbiome as a whole."

• "Coconut products tend to do really well for people with gut issues because they're loaded with medium chain fatty acids, and those can be easier to digest than some other fats. They also work really well to help to lubricate the digestive system, keep the bowels flowing well."

• "Sprouted chia or spread and flax hemp. I find to be really powerful and quite a neutral seed for people who may have sensitivities. These are also really rich in protein and amino acids and a great source of fiber"

• "Think about those things first. Think about your stress. Your sleep, your environment pay. And then we look at the supplements that can help."

• "Probiotics are meant to help to replenish and support healthy, good bacteria. And essentially to crowd out the bad bacteria, prebiotics feed the probiotics (prebiotics are the food for the probiotics)."

• "When I'm working with somebody who has H pylori or who has CBO or who has candida, I won't start with the probiotics right out of the gate. We do a kill protocol. We do a heal protocol. We do a reinoculate rebalance protocol and it has to happen in steps for a lot of women."

• "Remember, it's never going to be just the one thing you can't go out and simply just start to take supplements and then expect digestion to be healed. You can't just remove food and add in bone broth and expect everything to be healed. It's going to be a combination. It is going to take effort, but within that, there also has to be learning and understanding"

• "Make the investment in yourself, figure out what's going on. So you can get to your healing much faster because whatever's going on in your gut or your butt or the combination of both it's impacting the rest of your health. Overall, it's going to impact your weight. It's going to impact your immune system. It'll impact your energy. Sleep, your hormones, your hair, your skin, the way that your brain functions, your cognition, your sharpness, your clarity, your focus, it will impact all of those things."

Additional Information About Jenn:

Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus.

Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

I wanted to let you know that the Thursday simplicity bites episodes of this podcast may not be happening every single Thursday. I'm actually taking some time off until around mid September. So if there's a surprise episode that decides to upload for Thursday because I've got that extra energy, consider yourself lucky. Otherwise I hope you'll tune in with us here every Monday for our weekly episodes.

Today's conversation is with Dr. Jordin Wiggins ND. She is a sexual health disruptor and evolver, a naturopathic doctor, and the author of The Pink Canary.

We're taught that we're supposed to have a sex drive, that you're supposed to naturally be hornier than you are, and that your sex life is supposed to peak. And so many women hit a point in their life where they think, "That did not happen to me, it is not happening to me- there must be something wrong with me."

We talk about issues that can impact feminine libido, including stress, communication, and health, including mental health. We don't just talk about what's going wrong; we identify some of the more common things that women are feeling and going through, and then really give you feasible solutions.

If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to [email protected] or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

Here are the main topics of today's episode:

• Introducing our guest, Dr. Jordin Wiggins ND
• Jordin's journey of understanding her libido
• Jordin's book, The Pink Canary
• Common themes that many women experience with their libido
• Jordin's program that considers holistic health and libido
• The collective experience of knowing you aren't alone

Connect with us -

Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful.

To connect with Jordin, and to inquire about and join her programs, click the following link: https://www.healthoverall.ca/practitioners/.

You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.

Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.

Online work with Jenn:

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/

To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link i've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.

Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from of our amazing partners

• Saint Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including plant medicines that they create on women's health, digestion, allergies, on immune support, on heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order or use the code JENNPIKE20 at check out and save 20% off hemp products through August 17.
• Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, not animal-tested- this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. If it's your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE15 for 15% off. Use code JENNPIKE10 at check out and save 10% off your order for every order after that.
• GoodJuju make all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you, and good for the planet. Use code JENNPIKE10 at check out and save 10% off your first order

Quotes

• "It has been a bit of a journey, but I have lost my libido three times in my life."
• "This is the hidden secret to women's health that they don't know… it's like the Canary in the coal mine, this warning sign that there's problems ahead."

• "We've all been miseducated."

• "We need to start with an individual journey, with the internal work first. And then we bring the couple in."

• "...there's just this relief of 'I'm not alone. I'm not broken. There are not only other women, but millions of other women on the planet experiencing exactly what I am.'"

• "There's health benefits to… not diminishing the essence of who we are."

• "...that is this good girl conditioning, where we have been taught to self-sacrifice, taught to not listen to our own wants and needs."

• "Be open, feel the feelings in your body."

• "These are the type of conversations that we should be actually cultivating… because I think there's a softening that happens when you recognize that you are not alone."

Additional Information About Jenn:

Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus.

Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

Today, I am speaking to one of the women in our Audacious Woman mentorship programme, Shannon Feir. She is a registered nurse and has been on the front line this entire year and a half and working in healthcare for 30+ years where she has seen a chronic level of burnout and burnout culture.

In this episode, we will be discussing how to do 'all the things' without burning yourself out, without creating a health issue for your own self and body. Shannon is real and loving and brings wonderful humour to our conversation.

Shannon has worked her entire career, decades, taking care of other people and being a nurse and really excelling at it. But she wants something more. She's raised her children and she's at a time in her life where she can start to make some different decisions. So as a nurse, a self-care and resiliency coach, and a heart math certified practitioner, she helps kickass female healthcare workers build resiliency. She does this by being on the front lines for decades and she offers coaching and programs to help women show up and do the job that needs to get done in those moments on your feet, on your toes - when you need critical thinking in the moment.

To inquire about and join The 12-week Frontline Resiliency Reset Formula program, click the following link: https://www.shannonfeir.com. You can join Shannon Feir's facebook group here: Burnout prevention for female health care professionals.

Lastly, I don't have any products to share with you today specifically, I really just want to say thank you so much to the companies that support us. Not only sponsoring the show, but for supporting us in our health and in our life.

If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to [email protected] or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

Access links to Shannon Feir's facebook group, socials and website below in the 'Connect with us' section of the show notes.

Here are the main topics of today's episode:

• Introducing our guest, Shannon Feir
• Helping women in healthcare build resiliency
• How do you support one another?
• The feeling of guilt for wanting
• We need to have that permission to be vulnerable
• Burnout prevention for female health care professionals
• Frontline Resiliency Reset

Connect with us -

Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful.

To connect with Shannon, and to inquire about and join The Frontline Resiliency Reset Formula program, click the following link: https://www.shannonfeir.com. You can join Shannon Feir's facebook group here: Burnout prevention for female health care professionals.

You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.

Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.

Online work with Jenn:

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/

To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link i've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.

Quotes:

• "I feel like over the past 30 years, things have certainly changed, in the culture of healthcare, particularly with women."
• "My mission now has been to help women in healthcare build their resiliency so that they can balance their career in healthcare, as well as having a beautiful life that they desire at home."

• "You wear the mask at work when you support people, you take their energy on, and I feel like the culture of healthcare, we have not done a fantastic job on building resources internally, whether it's your organization or from a personal perspective where we support each other"

• "We don't have the tools inside. We're not taught the tools to be able to be vulnerable, right. When you get home."

• "Like you get guilt, you feel guilty about wanting more, so you kind of stay small and then that's kind of how burnout starts. Right. It's slow, it's not just one event. It's not like one thing happens, it's this cumulative stressors that you don't process"

• "We need to have that permission to be vulnerable. And if we can't do that at home because of, you know, PHIPAA, confidentiality, whatever. You know, we need to have somewhere, we need to have a group where we can be supportive to each other and allow the permission that it's ok not to be ok."

• "I wholeheartedly believe that in order to prevent and manage burnout, you need to have a foundation that improves your personal resiliency."

• "My goal is to reach my hand out to these women, thousands and thousands of women, to show them that it doesn't have to be so hard. It doesn't have to be so separate. And by implementing some simple strategies and simple techniques that improve their resilience, improving their mindset, all of those things will help them be able to show up as a better version of themselves."

Additional Information About Jenn:

Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus.

Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Welcome back for another bite of Simplicity. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

In this simplicity bite, I'm going to chat with you all about leaky gut 101: what it is, what the heck is going on, and some of the things that you can start to do or things that you can begin to be aware of and understand in your body that can make a big difference in your digestive system.

Here are the main topics of this simplicity bite in order:

• What is leaky gut?
• Discomfort is not normal
• What can cause leaky gut?
• H pylori
• Irritants to your gut and body as a whole
• Nutrition and environment
• The Hormone Project

Please do not hesitate to book in a call with one of our team via https://jennpike.com/thehormoneproject

Links and resources mentioned in this episode are shared in the Online Work with Jenn section of these show notes.

Hoping this episode supports you on the path of knowing, accepting, and loving who you truly are. Wishing more simplicity and ease in all that you do!

To book a discovery call via email or send us a question you have, send it to [email protected] and myself or a member of my wonderful team will reach out to you.

You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.

Join our Free Facebook Group called The Simplicity Sessions Community

Online work with Jenn:

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/

Learn more about Jenn's work:

Jenn Pike

Ignite your Life with Jenn Pike

The Hormone Project

The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs, and much more!

http://www.jennpike.com/

Simplicity TV on Youtube

Quotes:

• "Leaky gut refers to an increased intestinal permeability, meaning that you have got a retaining wall around the stomach, and this is a barrier so that we are not allowing certain things to come in or other particles. So think like undigested food pathogens, bacteria viruses, to be able to pass out into our bloodstream, which is going to cause us inflammation and massive digests."

• "So what happens with leaky gut is that over time, and this can be for a few different reasons that we'll talk about, these junctions start to break down. Your retaining wall starts to falter, starts to crack, starts to have seeps and openings. And now things that should not be getting in or moving out are, and this is what creates a response or reaction in your body. This is when you start to have food sensitivities and allergies and auto-immune responses and things that are characterized like IBS, hormone imbalances, different gut infections and more"

• "When you have some level of increased intestinal permeability, which is what leaky gut is referred to, there is a crack or multiple cracks, and now we're having things get in that are causing us those issues."

• "Tons of people are walking around with something called H pylori. And if you have H pylori, which is a gut infection, this is a bacteria that specifically goes in and decreases the amount of hydrochloric acid that you can produce in your. It impacts your enzymatic ability, which all of this, what it means in English is it impacts your ability to digest and break down the food that you eat"

• "What you put on your body, what you use in your hair, your makeup, your nail polish, your household cleaners, your tampons, All of those things, they have a toll and the totality of bringing all those chemicals in is your body has to try to filter and manage that."

Additional Information About Jenn:

Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus.

Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project. Today, I am going to be discussing a new topic for this podcast, CBD. This is an insightful and educational conversation with Danny Dolgin, CEO and co-founder of Eaton Hemp.

Now, I do want to preface this by saying I did not have anxiety, I didn't have insomnia, I didn't actually have anything going on that typically people would start to use this for.

For me, I was getting so many questions from women in my community, asking my opinion about CBD and my experience. And I couldn't give my opinion, because I'd never had an experience. I'm not going to recommend something or talk about something that I've not yet used.

So after trying it myself, through a great partnership with a strong focus on education, my goal today is to help you to understand a little bit more about what CBD is and what it is not.

If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to [email protected] or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

Access links to Eaton Hemp's socials and website below in the 'Connect with us' section of the show notes.

You will also find below linked info about our partners and recommended products to try.

Here are the main topics of today's episode:

• Introducing our guest, Danny, CEO and Co-founder of Eaton Hemp
• Eaton Hemp
• What is CBD?
• How and when to utilise it
• How CBD works

Connect with us -

Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful.

To experience Eaton Hemp, use the following discount code JENNPIKE to save 20% off all of your orders on their site https://eatonhemp.com

To connect with Danny and his team at Eaton Hemp, go to their website https://eatonhemp.com

To follow Eaton Hemp on social media, find her on Instagram @eatonhemp

You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.

Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.

Online work with Jenn:

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/

To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link i've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.

Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from of our amazing partners

• GoodJuju make all-natural, plastic-free home & body products that are good for you, and good for the planet. If you use the code SUMMER when you spend $65 or more on any of their products, you get the free jar of the exploiting and softening mask. Plus you get free express shipping.
• Saint Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs and articles on important topics including plant medicines that they create on women's health, digestion, allergies, on immune support, on heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order.
• Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, not animal-tested- this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. If it's your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE20 for 20% off. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order for every order after that.

Quotes

• "Eaton Hemp...They farm it. They're a hundred percent organic, they're unfiltered. They're third-party tested. The integrity behind this company, I have been so blown away by.
• "CBD is a sort of shorthand for cannabis oil, which is a cannabinoid, basically a chemical compound that's found in the cannabis plants. Now cannabis encompasses both hemp and marijuana."

• "There's many different ways that somebody can be consuming these products too, right? Like tinctures,there's lotions, edibles, through smoking."

• "CBD works best when it, when it's part of your daily regimen."

• "It's a holistic approach - that we are a consuming bio-individual and that we're the sum of so many things that are happening and going on in our life, not just what we're eating or drinking or exercising, but literally the things that we're feeling and that are around us. And we, we don't just hand over the expectation of being healed, fixed, or our health to a singular product."

• " How CBD works is it promotes your, tells your body to produce more of things that it needs. So everyone could have a different kind of feeling to it."

• "With CBD, um, it's more going to be restoring balance throughout your entire body, um, fighting internal inflammation"

Learn more about Jenn's work:

Jenn Pike

Ignite your Life with Jenn Pike

The Hormone Project

The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs, and much more!

http://www.jennpike.com/

Simplicity TV on Youtube

Additional Information About Jenn:

Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus.

Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Welcome back for another bite of Simplicity. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

In this simplicity bite, I am going to speak to a question that I received while writing a big article for a strong fitness magazine that is all around the importance of the education that we really should have access to as women, about our cycles, cycle syncing and that level of connection.

The question was 'Why is it important for women to recognize and honor that they are cyclical and not linear beings? What's the benefit there for the average woman?' This is the kind of information you can anticipate coming out in the fall. Not only in this article, but in some additional resources that we are creating for you.

My main mission is to help women, to help young girls, to help all of us connect to this deep knowing and understanding of our bodies, because we have been given, in my opinion, the most incredible gift of life being a female.

And there's so much that we can tap into, but we don't, we don't know that because we're not educated about it. Socially, in so many areas of the world, it's not acceptable to even talk about these things, let alone understand more about what's going on.

You have to dig, you have to search. And it shouldn't be that way. The very fact that we are born women into this world means that we should have full accessibility to understanding or getting the manual for or, at the very least, a blueprint to the body that we have been blessed with.

Here are the main topics of this simplicity bite in order of priority:

• Speaking to your questions
• How every day is different
• Optimizing your hormonal health
• Observation is key to a healthy reproductive system
• Tracking your cycle
• Where is our manual, our blueprint?
• Symptoms are our messengers

So please do not hesitate to book in a call with one of our team via https://jennpike.com/thehormoneproject

Links and resources mentioned in this episode will be shared in the Online Work with Jenn section of these show notes.

Hoping this episode supports you on the path of knowing, accepting, and loving who you truly are. Wishing more simplicity and ease in all that you do!

To book a discovery call via email or send us a question you have, send it to [email protected] and myself or a member of my wonderful team will reach out to you.

You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.

Join our Free Facebook Group called The Simplicity Sessions Community

Online work with Jenn:

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/

Learn more about Jenn's work:

Jenn Pike

Ignite your Life with Jenn Pike

The Hormone Project

The Simplicity Project Shop for books, DVDs, programs, and much more!

http://www.jennpike.com/

Simplicity TV on Youtube

Quotes:

• "My main mission is to help women, to help young girls, to help all of us connect to this deep knowing and understanding of our bodies, because we have been given, in my opinion, the most incredible gift of life being a female."

• "The truth is that you are never in the same hormonal state twice a month. You were never in the same cycle phase twice. Every day is different. Your body is physically, physiologically, mentally and emotionally in a constant state of ebb and flow."
• "When you show up each day to your body, to your life, to your calendar, to your workouts, your nutrition, and you engage in the same activities of hustle and grind, energy, you are living counter-intuitively to your own body's hormonal fluctuations. And it's completely counterproductive. This is a huge energy waste for women and often leaves them exhausted and burnt out."
• "When you learn how to plan your workouts, your nutrition, your other activities of life around yourself, You'll be optimizing your hormonal health finally, to begin to understand when it is the best time of month for you to push or pull back, to put yourself out there or to take more rest."
• "The truth is that observation is the main event and the telltale sign of a healthy reproductive system. Your period is the culmination of the other three phases that lead into and result in shedding your uterine lining."
• "It is extremely beneficial for women to know this information as they transition into perimenopause. Instead of feeling like you are surprised and you just woke up one morning and everything shifted, you would be able to go back now and actually track that data that you have been collecting and start to understand and see when changes happened. Ask yourself the question, what was going on?"
• "The reason it's so important for us to track is not just to have another app in our life. It is so that we actually have our own. Interpersonal or internal recognition of what is going on in our body."

Additional Information About Jenn:

Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus.

Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.

Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you've joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

We will then be joined by Heather Chauvin, who is a leadership coach who helps ambitious, overwhelmed women conquer their fears and become leaders at work and at home. Heather draws on her professional experience as a social worker and her life experience raising three boys to create a signature approach to help her clients create and enjoy sustainability, profitability, and ease in both business and life.

Heather is the host of the Mom is in Control Podcast, where she reveals her most vulnerable truths about womanhood, marriage, parenting, living through her stage four cancer diagnosis and full remission, and running a successful business without burning out.

If you have a question for me and my team, send it on over to [email protected] or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.

Access links to Michelle Breau's multi-platform publishings as well as social / websites below, in the 'Connect with us' section of the show notes. You will also find info linked below about our partners and recommended products to try.

Here are the main topics of today's episode:

• Heather's story
• Heather's cancer and recovery journey and mindset
• Behaviour surrounding women feeling out of alignment
• Make the true investment in ourselves, as women, for our health
• Finding women role models

Connect with us:

Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful.

To connect with Heather Chauvin and find direct links to her published works, programs, and supports, go to her website http://heatherchauvin.com/

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

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/mom-is-in-control-podcast/id982980293?mt=2

Book: http://heatherchauvin.com/book-waitlist

You can connect to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.

Join our growing community via Facebook The Simplicity Sessions Community.

Online work with Jenn:

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day!

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/

To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I've shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach.

Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from of our amazing partners

• Skin Essence is Canadian-founded, organic, non-GMO, not animal-tested- this company is one that we love and have around the house. You can even talk to the company to get advice on which products may be right to try first. If it's your first time ordering from Skin Essence, use my code JENNPIKE20 for 20% off. Use code JENNPIKE15 at check out and save 15% off your order for every order after that. They are having a new summer deal. You get a free facial and jar product (exfoliant and softening mask) when you spend $65 or more (while quantities last). Go to www.skinessence.ca/shop.
• The mask helps get rid of clogged pores and blackheads, especially during the summer months when you are sweating more, or you have sunscreen on while you are working outside.
• The mask also helps you balance out your complexion and regenerate and renew yourself.
• Saint Francis Herb Farm education includes webinars, blogs, and articles on important topics including plant medicines that they create on women's health, digestion, allergies, on immune support, on heart health, brain health, and sleep. I use and recommend their products and you can use the code JENNPIKE10 at check out and save 10% off your order.
• Do you have dry, curly hair in the summer? Saint Francis Herb Farm has a specific shampoo bar for dry and curly hair. It contains coconut and hobo oil and different shay and coconut butters.
• It comes in a sweet oil and petrulli scent.
• Suffering from insomnia, anxiety, tension, irritability, cramping, mood swings, and breast tenderness then try Saint Francis Herb Farm's PMS support that comes in a tincture form. It contains don quai (an estrogenic alternative), black cohosh (a herb with hormone-balancing properties), and, burdock.
• Eden Hemp - Jenn has been working with the company for over a year and did an interview with the co-founder Dan to provide more education. They are continuing the education and providing a new deal when you put in the code JENNPIKE, which will give you 20% off of all orders.

Quotes

• "...the only thing I can control is if I have all these odds against me, what I can do is just try, do the things that you don't think you are capable of."
• "Because my son was my, why? Like that was my bigger, why, which was a great motivator and great start. And I had that energy and that like, anger of like, I'll show you I'll show I'll prove you wrong. But when you're trying to prove the world wrong, you burn out and you're doing it from an angry place, but it got me started. So. Then I fell in love with meditation and mindfulness because of his behavior, not my behavior, his behavior."
• "So now my focus is how good can it get? How good can I feel? Um, And I watch how cultural perceptions of who I need to be shows up and how far removed I am from that."
• "you have to observe your own behavior and go, why is it that when I actually create space for myself, I'm so incredibly uncomfortable."
• " I had to rise and it was, it sucked and I had to figure it out, but it forced me to take my power back. It wasn't about so much the treatment. It was the journey to get there. Um, it forced me to take my power back.

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Additional Information About Jenn:

Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature's Emporium, and Juice Plus.

Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.