Episode Highlights With Melissa

• Her story that led to the work she does now
• What she means by you’re not broken, just misaligned 
• Her journey through Lyme and Mold toxicity 
• How two-minute micromoments can shift the whole baseline of our lives
• Different brainwave states and how they affect our mood and other parts of life
• A short tool that she uses daily that shifted her brain waves dramatically 
• How to align with our brainwaves to be able to be more present in the moments that matter
• Self-care needs a rebrand 
• How lighting affects brain waves
• The power of play and how it can be so effective for shifting overwhelm 
• What regulation reps are and how this 2-minute activity can make a huge difference 
• How to access theta brain states and why this is so important

Resources Mentioned

• The Connection Code Book
• Self-With Checklist
• Urgency Reset Masterclass: Real Time Nervous System Downshifts For High-Capacity Women
• Dr. Melissa's website
• Follow her on Facebook and Instagram
• Be Inspired Mama podcast
• Healthy home lighting

LMNT
I talk often about the health benefits of salt and electrolytes and I am a big fan of LMNT canned drinks and packets. Go to drinklmnt.com/wellnessmana for a special offer.

Bioptimizers
I love and use so many products from them, but I especially love the magnesium and digestive enzymes. Visit bioptimizers.com/wellnessmama and use wellnessmama15 at checkout to get the best deal

Episode Highlights With Andrew

• His health crisis that led to a spiritual journey and the work he does now
• We are not just electromagnetic beings but truly beings of light
• Science and history show that we are light beings and can transition with our bodies into a higher dimension
• What he means when he talks about ascention and the two types he encountered in his research
• Examples of this light ascension from various religious traditions
• How our bodies have more energy in them than nuclear power plants. We are mostly space with frozen light that has incredible potential power
• The observer theory and our thoughts/emotions creating reality and how this relates
• We know from quantum physics that everything is connected
• How we can each apply some aspects of this into our lives to shift into our greatest potential 
• The “holistic diet” of everything we encounter with food, information, interactions, etc.
• We know scientifically that our emotion's wellbeing and our physical health depend on our emotional feelings, especially ones like love and gratitude

Resources Mentioned

• Illumine Consultants
• Andrew's website
• Bodies of Light - Andrew's book

LMNT
I talk often about the health benefits of salt and electrolytes and I am a big fan of LMNT canned drinks and packets. Go to drinklmnt.com/wellnessmana for a special offer.

Episode Highlights With Katie

• Drama triangle roles and the language that sustains each
• Family and relationship examples: how roles rotate and recruit each other
• Sneaky savior behaviors and why they keep the cycle spinning
• The Law of Request and why consent protects dignity and growth
• Language shifts: identity, experience, should, choice, fixing, witnessing
• Role-specific practices to move toward Creator, Challenger-with-care, and Coach/Companion
• Repair scripts and weekly check-ins for real-life change

Resources Mentioned

• Zach Bush MD on Forgiveness, Leadership, and The New Humanity | Conscious 500 Speaker Series
• Kelly Brogan podcast
• The Reclaimed Woman - by Kelly Brogan MD

Bioptimizers
I love and use so many products from them, but I especially love the magnesium and digestive enzymes. Visit bioptimizers.com/wellnessmama and use wellnessmama15 at checkout to get the best deal

Hiya
Hiya created a super powered chewable vitamin for kids that packs twelve organic fruits and vegetables plus fifteen essential vitamins and minerals into every dose. Try it at hiyahealth.com/wellnessmama for 50% off your first order.

Episode Highlights With Katie

• Perimenopause vs menopause vs post-menopause (high level)
• Hormone replacement therapy (HRT): estrogen, progesterone ± testosterone, different delivery methods
• Why hormone replacement is such a hot topic right now
• What the new HRT label changes do and don’t mean
• My core philosophy – foundations before hormones and why I’m cautious about jumping straight to HRT
• The light & mitochondria lens
• Cell danger response & safety signals and what that means for perimenopause & hormones
• Pros & cons of HRT as I currently see them
• What I’m actually doing now to prepare for perimenopause

Resources Mentioned

• Upgraded Formulas Trace Minerals
• Eidon Multiple Minerals
• Healthy lightbulbs

BONCHARGE
I like so many of their products - from their red light products to their sauna blankets. Red light has been so helpful for me during my recovery from Hashimoto's. To find out more, go to boncharge.com/wellnessmama and use code wellnessmama for 20% off!

Bioptimizers
I love and use so many products from them, but I especially love the magnesium and digestive enzymes. Visit bioptimizers.com/wellnessmama and use wellnessmama15 at checkout to get the best deal

Episode Highlights With Miki

• Her amazing story, growing up half Indian and half Japanese and the winding journey of her entrepreneurial success
• How she went from being a professional athlete to opening a gluten-free restaurant in NYC, to other start-ups as well
• Every baby goes through up to 6,000 diapers that take hundreds of years to break down
• Her revelation with diapers and baby poop and how this led to a product that's helping address the plastic problem
• The unique way that fungi can break down plastic in a completely safe way!
• Diapers are actually the #1 source of plastic waste
• 91% of plastic is not recycled and ends up in landfills and oceans 
• The planet is running a fever, and humans are the viruses it’s trying to get rid of if we don’t fix the problem
• What ecosystem consciousness is and how we can shift our thinking 
• How they’re shifting from reduce, reuse, and recycle to reduce and regenerate, and how this shifts things
• What sacred reciprocity is and how this shifts the model
• Her audacious mission in life is to elevate people and the planet 
• What new paradigm parenting is and how this framework shifts things for families
• Other ways we can make small shifts that contribute to sacred reciprocity 
• 24% of all landfill waste is food waste! How home composting can help
• Trees are the greatest technology of our time
• Why she's so anti-toilet paper, and what to try instead! 
• Emergence and Cultivation in parenting and what we can learn from nature
• Nature is our greatest technology, and it can even shape the way we parent
• The very real way that fungi have the potential to reverse some of these massive planetary problems

Resources Mentioned

• Follow Miki on Facebook, Instagram, and X. 
• Follow Hiro Diapers on Instagram
• Hiro Diapers - get a discount at this link
• Tushy Bidet

LMNT
I talk often about the health benefits of salt and electrolytes and I am a big fan of LMNT canned drinks and packets. Go to drinklmnt.com/wellnessmana for a special offer.

Hiya
Hiya created a super powered chewable vitamin for kids that packs twelve organic fruits and vegetables plus fifteen essential vitamins and minerals into every dose. Try it at hiyahealth.com/wellnessmama for 50% off your first order.

Episode Highlights With Jessica

• Menopause is not a pause but a biological evolution
• Her perspective to give women the information to make informed and empowered decisions
• The dichotomies that we set up that are not helpful to women and the gray area in between
• Misconceptions that still exist around menopause and hormone shifts
• Does hormone therapy actually cause breast cancer? What the data actually says
• We no longer use the synthetic progestin that was used in the study that showed harm 
• What data actually shows is the best approach when it comes to hormones
• The actual benefits and risks of hormone therapy and how to make an informed choice
• Heart disease is the number one killer of women and some of this is related to the decline in estrogen 
• Muscle mass and how this comes into play with hormones
• Foundation habits that support hormone health with or without replacement 
• How important sleep is and why women need more than men

Resources Mentioned

• Modern Meno
• Pvolve - Use code wellnessmama for 15% off (limited time)

BONCHARGE
I like so many of their products - from their red light products to their sauna blankets. Red light has been so helpful for me during my recovery from Hashimoto's. To find out more, go to boncharge.com/wellnessmama and use code wellnessmama for 20% off!

LMNT
I talk often about the health benefits of salt and electrolytes and I am a big fan of LMNT canned drinks and packets. Go to drinklmnt.com/wellnessmana for a special offer.

Episode Highlights With Jessica

• What the gender health gap is and how this negatively impacts women 
• The reason women weren’t included.. It wasn’t necessarily malicious, just assumed that the physiology was the same and just adjust based on height and weight
• Women and men’s physiology is very different and this impacts a lot in medicine and fitness
• How hormones come into play in fitness
• Why functional training is especially important for women and how to strength train in functional ways 
• The importance of the time between age 40-60 that impacts things later in life
• Hormones are chemical messengers and how to understand female hormones to train differently 
• Her personal and clinical 80/20 that she suggests for biggest impact for women

Resources Mentioned

• Dr. Jessica's website
• Pvolve workouts - Use code wellnessmama for 15% off (limited time)

Hiya

Hiya created a super powered chewable vitamin for kids that packs twelve organic fruits and vegetables plus fifteen essential vitamins and minerals into every dose. Try it at hiyahealth.com/wellnessmama for 50% off your first order.

Episode Highlights With Phoenix

• Most people aren’t stuck, they’re predictable and they’re playing it safe
• How to break the pattern of predictability 
• Presence helps break the predictability issue and the overwhelm and how to do it
• Anxiety comes when you’re living in the future or the past, not the present 
• Why motherhood is perhaps the biggest identity shift a person can go through
• How to surrender without losing ourselves as moms
• Why the perfect balance is a farce for moms
• How to surrender into being ok with not being “prefect” and letting go of mom guilt
• Navigating trauma especially as a mom and how to do it without it becoming your identity 
• Surrender without bypassing and how to navigate this
• What quantum fusion is how it talks to the operating system, so it's less about wishing and more about reprogramming the hardware 
• How things can start to shift in 17 seconds
• Engaging your senses to help rewire the hardware 
• Survival mode is killing you and how to solve it… she has a free course on this
• How to reprogram your inner algorithm 
• Her take on psychedelics and important caveats for moms to know
• They can hold a mirror that bring us back to ourselves

Resources Mentioned

• Redefining Strong - Phoenix's book
• Phoenix's website Sacred Celestial - use code WellnessMama for 10% off events or ceremonies
• Survival Mode is Killing You - free online course

Bioptimizers

I love and use so many products from them, but I especially love the magnesium and digestive enzymes. Visit bioptimizers.com/wellnessmama and use wellnessmama15 at checkout to get the best deal 

Episode Highlights With Katie

• What photobiomodulation (PBM) is and how red/NIR light affects cells
• Core mechanism in plain English: cytochrome-c oxidase, nitric oxide displacement, ATP boost, secondary ROS and Ca² signaling
• Wavelengths and depth: red (630–660 nm) for skin/surface; NIR (810–850 nm) for deeper tissues; why 980 nm behaves more thermally
• Evidence overview: where PBM helps most (pain, recovery, tissue healing, some skin outcomes) and where data is still emerging
• “Free” red/NIR from sunrise and sunset: why the spectrum shifts, circadian benefits, and practical outdoor habits
• Device fundamentals: wavelength, irradiance (mW/cm²), energy dose (J/cm²), distance, and session time
• Best-practice protocols: example dosing for skin vs joints/muscle; frequency and cycling (start low, titrate)
• Safety and cautions: eyes, heat load, photosensitizing meds, pregnancy/active cancer care, implanted electronics
• Home tips: avoid staring at LEDs, position perpendicular to target, measure/estimate dose rather than chasing wattage
• Sleep support stack: morning outdoor light + evening low-intensity red environment (not bright blue at night)
• Skeptic’s view: helpful when wavelength/dose are right; underwhelming if misused or sold as a cure-all
• My routine: sunrise/sunset outside first; add targeted device sessions for DOMS, skin, or joint recovery and track results over 4–8 weeks

Resources Mentioned

• BON CHARGE
• JOOVV red light 
• Red Therapy red lights use code wellnessmama for a discount
• Mito red light
• Higher Dose

BONCHARGE

I like so many of their products - from their red light products to their sauna blankets. Red light has been so helpful for me during my recovery from Hashimoto's. To find out more, go to boncharge.com/wellnessmama and use code wellnessmama for 20% off!

Episode Highlights With Christina

• Her ten-day silent retreat and what she learned from this experience (and my four days in a dark cave, also in silence, and what I learned)
• Why she loves playing truth or dare as a social hack, and why she uses it at events
• People also actually love being told what to do
• The four pillars of conscious relationships and the paradigm shifts they offer
• Mastering conscious aloneness and how to actually cultivate this 
• Growth first, without attachment to outcome 
• She was afraid of public speaking and was challenged by a teacher about her ego being big as the reason she was afraid to share
• Your intimacy journey is your life story
• Nothing real is ever threatened 
• Her prayer she often says around relationships 
• The proactive formula and how to use this to transform reactivity into growth

Resources Mentioned

• Christina's personal Instagram and WeDeepen on Instagram
• Follow Christina on Facebook