Thrive with Cate Stillman Podcast

Wild plants taste wild. My favorite edible invasive weed, as many of you know, is Thistle. Wild edible plants grow in your ecosystem. What is the connection between edible plants, your immune system and allergies? Listen to this podcast - to get the health, nutritional and medicinal benefits of wild edible plants.

When you connect to wild plants the inner ecosystem of your body and your outer ecosystem reintegrate. You rewild yourself. As a result - you are smarter, have more energy, and a larger sphere of care.  Wild plants are life. Their life force is 10x that which is in the grocery store.  So, know about them and consume them for availing your health benefits. 

• How to start identifying plants
• How to use the six tastes of Ayurveda
• How to rewild your body

• Foraging and Feasting Book
• The Wild Wisdom of Weeds Book
• Thistle Juice Recipe
• Allergy Relief Course
• Have a free Conversation

• What you get out of chlorophyll
• The nutritional value of Dandelions
• Purslane and Omega 3 fatty acids

Say you want to meditate. Say you want more sleep. Say you want to slim down by extending your fasting time. The habits of the person you want to become next… those habits you can make your reality more quickly if you know how to do exactly what I walk you through in this meditation. For strict meditators… this isn’t really a meditation. Technically, it’s an inquiry practice. A practice where you ask yourself a question. Then you listen. Then you stabilize the answer in your cells. The yogis knew about this forever. It’s very effective. When you mix inquiry practice with mental rehearsal, or visualization, stepping into new habits is easy. Resistance is digested by the practice. With this meditation  - if you do it a few times a week - you’ll notice you accelerate your life. You design who want to become next with ease… and with precision.

• How to meditate on the habits of your future self
• How your habits change your biochemistry
• How to attract a higher vibrational frequency

• Stop having allergies!
• Meditation: Self-Medicating With The 5 Elements Of Ayurveda
• Yes, And Meditation
• A Meditation Practice: Five Bodies (Koshas) Check-In

• Measuring your habit success
• Feeling your toxic expiring pattern
• Acknowledging your intuition

• 1:39 Defining success and your most important habit
• 5:12 Meditation for your rituals and habits of your future self

If you have been closely following our podcast and social media, you should know by now that Cate has embarked on an experimental journey with shivambu. This ancient practice consists of using your urine for therapeutical ends and the benefits cover everything from skin to dental health. 

Cate first read about urine therapy 20 years ago and recently reconnected with the concept recently after being asked about it by a Yoga Health Coaching member. When conducting research on it, she was surprised to discover how understudied the subject is. Cate then decided to experiment with it herself and report her experience to the Yogahealer community.

Listen to the episode to find out more about urine therapy and Cate’s three-week reporting on her experience.

• How to start upcycling your urine
• What to expect from urine therapy
• How to use urine to loosen ama

• Listen to Cate and Megan Macdonald’s conversation
• Get on our email list
• Email us if you know of any Urine Therapy influencers
• Reset yourself with a Simple Detox
• Get some free resources

• The results of bathing with your own urine
• Growth hormones, electrolytes, and stem cells present in urine
• The effects of urine therapy on your sleep

• 0:45 Reasons you should try Urine Therapy
• 2:55 Week 1 - Experimenting and removing toxicity from the body
• 7:12 Week 2 - The benefits of aging your urine
• 16:49 Week 3 - Understanding the lack of research

Menstruation is still a taboo. But why aren’t we openly discussing it? And why are we taught that having your period equals pain when it really doesn’t need to? Menstruation should be viewed as a reckoning. A way for your body to let you know what is working and what is not.

In modern western society, there is a lot of shame regarding not only menstruation but also topics like fertility, perimenopause, and menopause, and the result is confusion. At the same time, all your reproductive phases feed off each other, and your choices today heavily affect your future reality.

In this episode, Cate Stillman and Kate O’Donnell talk about how you can deal with all phases of your reproductive cycle in a way that will ensure you make the most of all of them.

• What women don’t talk about 
• Why you are getting a difficult period
• How to easily transition to menopause

• Email us your questions
• Check out Kate O’Donnell’s books
• Try our Simple Detox
• Get some free resources

• Cleaning excess pitta after ovulation
• The period can be a detoxing process
• Fertility and the need to focus

• 1:48 The conversation around menstruation
• 7:12 Adjusting your activities to  benefit your period
• 13:45 Having smoother menstruations
• 18:39 Surrendering to your body’s intelligence and fertility
• 24:15 Urine therapy and hormone treatment during menopause

Charlotte (46) and Georgia (13) hiked 789 miles from Mexico to Utah. It all started with boredom. Georgia was bored of being stuck at home looking at a screen due to pandemic measures. And her mom Charlotte, an experienced hiker and runner had the idea to go on a hike.

The Arizona Trail, as it is called, turned out to be a crazy, amazing trip. Meeting only other hikers along the way, they experience the diversity of the Arizona landscape, adjusted to the hard conditions, and bonded deeply.

Listen to the episode to know more about how to start hiking, preparing for a big hike, and what to expect when hiking.

• How to hike and get food during Covid
• How to deal with environmental changes  
• How much water to carry for the trip

• Take the Collaborative Intelligence Quiz
• Get Dixie’s cheap shopping list for hikers
• Check Charlotte and Georgia’s journey
• Get to know Charlotte
• Get a Simple Detox
• Get some free resources

• Prepping food for long trail hikes
• Walking 100 miles as a thirteen-year-old
• Screen addiction and how to spend time away from it

• 3:37 Adjusting your diet to hiking conditions
• 14:02 The journey through Arizona
• 21:21 Healing your brain by walking
• 32:41 Running and hiking consistently
• 43:59 Tips for walking more and start hiking

Guest Bio:

Charlotte Clews is a nature-nerd, ultra trail runner, thru-hiker, Maine Guide, mother and wunder-twin who teaches Pilates, strength training and physical rehabilitation in Downeast, Maine. She has a B.S. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell University and a M.S. in botany from the University of Vermont. In 2020 Charlotte started guiding wilderness trips for Maine tweens and teens.

Georgia is her 13 year old daughter.

When faced with the idea of drinking our own urine, most of us would shy away. But at Yogahealer, there is openness to experiment. That’s why when Megan Macdonald mentioned urine therapy on a live session, instead of dismissing it altogether, Cate embarked on a research and experimentation journey.

What if the secret to better skin, looking younger, and curing a wide array of diseases was created by you on a daily basis? Your urine is unique, and it contains the exact components your body needs at any given moment.

Listen to the podcast to learn more about urine therapy and how you can use it to your advantage,

• What urine therapy is
• How to use urine for your health
• How to incorporate urine into your beauty routine

• Madonna using urine therapy
• Jordan Peterson on disgust
• Email us your questions about urine therapy
• Get some free resources
• Start with a Simple Detox

• The reason why urine is hydrating
• Urine and stem cell therapy
• Your urine as personalized medicine

• Cate, “There are closet urine drinkers everywhere”
• Cate, “Because it heals everything in the body and that’s BIG”

• 3:29 An introduction to urine therapy
• 12:11 The composition of urine and its relation to antibodies
• 22:24 Aging and fermentation of urine
• 31:28 The right dosage and using urine for your health

Megan Macdonald’s combined training in both holistic health (yoga, meditation, reiki), and the academic study of ritual and belief provides a broad foundation from which to draw with all of her clients. It was curiosity about her own chronic pain as a teenager that led to investigating over 20 healing modalities. As her health improved, she started to not only feel the benefits in her own body and mind, but see the changes that deep health brought to every aspect of life.

She has trained in Hatha, Yin and Restorative Yoga, and most recently has been training with

Mada Dalian to be a facilitator of the Self-Healing Dalian Method. This is profound work on the unconscious, beliefs, the shadow and ego. Since 2014 she has been working with individuals and groups, both in person and online, to promote well-being, health and raising consciousness.

Her background in theatre, and organizing and delivering national events and ceremonies in Canada helped develop her knowledge in social ritual. Megan has a PhD on ‘The Performance of Belief’ from Queen Mary, University of London, UK, and has published, and taught widely on theatre and ritual. She is currently based on Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Have you ever wondered what stands between you and your deepest desires? Most times, the answer is knowledge. But what if there were a few simple rules that could help achieve, not only your current goals but your higher purpose? In yoga, we call them niyamas.

The niyamas are a set of five ancient rules or universal laws, which aim at your internal wellbeing. By following them, you will be better able to identify your goals, make peace with where you are, and develop the necessary discipline to achieve your goals. All while studying yourself and aligning to your higher purpose.

Listen to the podcast to learn more about how you can achieve peak performance in all areas of your life.

• How to use the rules of yoga for peak performance
• How to keep aiming at your goals
• How to align yourself to a deeper purpose

• Take the Assessment 
• Change Your Life Go here >> use promo code “actiontaker”
• Read some of Robert Brault's works
• Find out more about Yuval Noah Harari
• More about Craig Hamilton’s teachings
• Rolf Sovik and the Himalayan Institute
• Watch some Jordan Peterson’s videos
• Start with a Detox
• Get some free resources

• The importance of reinventing yourself
• Understanding the parts of you that need to change
• Partnering up with Universal Law

• 3:50 Where yoga philosophy intersects with peak performance
• 15:10 Start by cleaning up your act
• 22:40 Experiencing deep ease and satisfaction
• 28:52 Discipline to the target
• 35:37 The importance of self-study 
• 49:41 Aligning to a higher purpose

Alan Watts said most people walk around in constant opposition to themselves. It may seem like a bold statement, but try asking yourself - How have you been in opposition to yourself the past week? Was it that time you picked up your phone instead of having a break? When you held your tongue in a conversation? Or was it when you doubted yourself?

 Because our awareness is moving outward, we tend to outsource for information and advice we should be seeking from within ourselves. But when you start to look inward you begin to shed the self-doubt and begin to align yourself with your potential.

Listen to the podcast to learn more about tuning into yourself, the importance of insourcing, and experiencing yourself as the cosmos.

• How to insource awareness attention and wisdom
• How to stop being in opposition to your potentiality
• What happens when you cooperate with yourself

• More about Alan Watts 
• Find out more about Chip Conley
• Start with a Detox
• Get some free resources
• Start a Conversation

• Walking around in constant opposition to yourself
• The experience of yourself as a cosmos
• The social structure connected to addiction

•  “You are the rhythm” - Cate Stillman

• 1:08 Insourcing vs Outsourcing awareness
• 4:02 Fighting self-doubt by tuning in
• 15:39 The patterns of opposition
• 21:58 The importance of rituals for space consciousness

In order to achieve any goal you need to find a clear path to “how”, but if you want to get there faster, you will also need a “who”. Whether you are looking to uplevel your professional career or your personal life, you need to set long-term goals. Painful ones. The kind that will intimidate you enough to open yourself to failure.

Not all stress is negative. Positive stress will keep your mind and body sharp and will keep you young and vivacious. But how do you create positive stress instead of negative stress? By developing the right habits and surrounding yourself with the right people.

In this episode, Cate talks to Andy Stillman about leveraging your skills and the ones of people around you to achieve peak performance and personal success.

• How positive stress creates growth and evolution
• What being around the right people can do
• How to connect with long-term desire

• Learn more about SWOT Analysis 
• Mindset by Carol Dweck
• More about Jeff Carreira
• Ready to evolve?
• Start with a Simple Detox
• Get some free resources
• Find out more about Andy

• Eustress creates new neural pathways
• Utilizing SWOT in business and life
• You are the average of the people around you

•  “Knowledge or the lack of knowledge permeates all parts of life”

• 1:29 Creating positive stress in order to grow
• 6:04 The importance of investing time and energy in new things
• 10:32 The ability to understand your long-term desires
• 20:55 Who do you need to guide you where you want to go

Andy has over 30 years of experience successfully helping businesses improve by developing and executing meaningful strategies focused on the long-term success of the business. Andy has held senior roles in a number of large multinational corporations including E*Trade, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale, and Coopers & Lybrand (PWC) – often as a Chief Operating Officer or an in-house consultant.

As he was recently looking to pivot away from large companies and become more entrepreneurial, he has now partnered with his cousin, Cate Stillman, to help grow Yogahealer – leveraging his skills and experience. He is motivated by helping others and finds intrinsic value in solving complex issues large and small – putting the business in a better place and better positioned to grow.

He enjoys working across multiple levels of the organization. He approaches problems with no preconceived notions and relies on a data-driven approach. His orientation is towards simplification, transparency, holistic pragmatism, leveraging tools, and managing risk effectively.

What goals have you set for yourself? Are you getting the most out of life? According to the yogi tradition, there are simple rules you can follow in order to achieve peak performance in all areas of your life. 

But what if you have not set any goals for yourself yet? Are these rules for you? Absolutely. By following these rules you will clear your mind and body, which will enable you to better connect with what it is you want to do, and be, next.

Listen to the podcast to learn what are the rules that will transform your life at all levels.

• How to be more successful in life
• How to keep your mind and body clean
• How to have a clear vision of your goal

• Clean your body with a Detox
• Get some free resources
• Take the Peak Performer Quiz

• The importance of the Niyamas
• Creating consistency and discipline
• Integrating contentment and ease

• 1:44 Cleaning up your life and relationships
• 11:00 Being content on all levels of life
• 15:59 Taking aim and aligning your actions to your goal