Thrive with Cate Stillman Podcast

What if the crisis you're trying to fix is actually an invitation?

In this intimate and wide-ranging conversation, I sit down with Dr. Claudia Welch to explore near-death experiences, menopause, identity collapse, and the spiritual art of surrender.

After surviving a life-threatening case of MRSA pneumonia, Claudia found herself stripped of certainty, control, and even aspects of her professional identity. What emerged wasn't just physical healing—but a profound shift in how she relates to death, leadership, and the second half of life.

Together, we explore:

• The true meaning of "sacrifice" — to make sacred

• What illness can dismantle (and reveal) about identity

• Why menopause is mythological—not just hormonal

• The danger of over-identifying with being the expert

• "Sell your knowledge, purchase bewilderment"

• Death awareness as a clarifier of what truly matters

• The Vanaprastha (forest dweller) stage of midlife

• Leadership beyond hustle and control

This episode isn't about optimizing harder.

It's about loosening your grip.

If you're navigating midlife, health changes, burnout, or a quiet internal shift you can't quite name—this conversation will meet you there.

Notable Quote: "Be ready to leave everyone and everything at any time."

Listen in for a deeply reflective dialogue on surrender, maturity, and what it means to lead—and live—from depth rather than dominance.

Connect with Dr. Claudia Welch: Website: https://drclaudiawelch.comMenopause Chronicles: https://drclaudiawelch.comBook: Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life

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In this episode of the Thrive with Cate Podcast, Cate Stillman is joined by spiritual author, intuitive guide, and former lawyer Patrick Paul Garlinger for a rich, multidimensional conversation on bending time, identity, depth work, and awakening within modern professional life.

Patrick shares his unconventional journey from Spanish literature professor to New York City lawyer—and ultimately into a life devoted to spiritual inquiry, intuition, and channeled wisdom. Together, Cate and Patrick explore how deeply ingrained identities, cultural conditioning, and productivity-driven mindsets shape our experience of time, growth, and selfhood.

At the heart of the conversation is Patrick's concept of "Bending Time" not as a productivity hack, but as a spiritual and relational practice of seeing the present without projecting the past onto it. They unpack how we unconsciously relate to people, work, and ourselves through old filters, and how true transformation requires slowing down, entering vulnerability, and allowing depth to emerge organically.

Cate weaves in reflections from her work with Club Thrive, including the distinction between growth paths and depth paths, somatic healing, leadership, and the necessity of safe containers for professionals undergoing identity shifts. Patrick speaks candidly about depression, childhood trauma, intuition, channeling, and why not all healing is fast or meant to be.

Rather than offering surface-level self-improvement, this episode invites listeners into a more honest relationship with time, becoming, and the unknown where awakening unfolds one step at a time.

• What "bending time" really means in daily life and relationships
• Why we often relate to people through past versions of them—and how to stop
• Growth path vs. depth path: why both are essential
• Identity, professionalism, and the cost of predictability
• Vulnerability and intimacy as gateways to transformation
• Channeling, writing, and capturing insight before it disappears
• Why healing often requires slowing down not fixing faster

• Official Website and Endless Awakening: www.endlessawakening.com

Cate Stillman is an Ayurvedic practitioner, author, and founder of Yogahealer and Club Thrive. For over two decades, she has guided individuals and wellness professionals to reconnect with body intelligence, ancestral wisdom, and aligned leadership rooted in biological reality. 🌿 Yogahealer → https://www.yogahealer.com 🌿 Club Thrive → https://clubthrive.global

Where are you living from an old version of yourself and what might become possible if you allowed the present to meet you fresh?

In this episode of the Thrive with Cate Podcast, Cate Stillman is joined by spiritual teacher, Ayurvedic lineage holder, and author Maya Tiwari for a deep and necessary conversation on Shakti, ancestral healing, and embodied feminine wisdom.

Together, Cate and Maya explore what modern wellness culture often avoids: the role of darkness, descent, illness, and loss as initiatory forces in true healing. Maya shares how **Shakti—the primal feminine intelligence—**is not something to be optimized or bypassed, but something remembered through presence, surrender, and devotion to biological and spiritual truth.

Drawing from her lived experience, classical Ayurveda, and decades of spiritual practice, Maya reframes healing as remembrance—of ancestral memory, cellular intelligence, and the cyclical nature of creation and dissolution. Cate weaves in reflections on leadership, motherhood, illness, and navigating spiritual truth within modern systems.

Rather than offering surface-level self-improvement, this conversation invites a deeper reckoning with what it means to live in alignment with body intelligence, feminine sovereignty, and sacred rhythm in a world shaped by extraction and control.

• Shakti as a biological, ancestral, and cosmic intelligence

• Why darkness and descent are essential to regeneration

• Ancestral memory, vasanas, and embodied healing

• The loss of feminine rites and womb-based wisdom

• Surrender as a radical act of sovereignty

• Living spiritual truth inside modern culture

This episode is especially meaningful for women and seekers navigating identity shifts, illness, grief, or a deeper call to embodied leadership and remembrance.

🌿 Website → https://www.mayatiwari.com 📘 Featured Book: NEW – I Am Shakti 📘 I Am Shakti → https://www.mayatiwari.com/i-am-shakti

🔹 Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/mayatiwari 🔹 Wise Earth Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/wiseearth 🔹 YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/mayatiwari

🌿 Yogahealer → https://www.yogahealer.com 🌿 Club Thrive → https://clubthrive.global

📘 Body Thrive → https://www.yogahealer.com/body-thrive 📘 Primal Habits → https://www.yogahealer.com/primal-habits

Cate Stillman is an Ayurvedic practitioner, author, and founder of Yogahealer and Club Thrive. For over two decades, she has guided individuals and wellness professionals to reconnect with body intelligence, ancestral wisdom, and aligned leadership rooted in biological reality.

What part of your power is asking to be remembered—not fixed?

In this grounded and insightful episode of the Thrive with Cate Stillman Podcast, Cate Stillman is joined by Sujatha Reddy, Ayurvedic practitioner, educator, and wellness guide, for a deep conversation on what it truly means to build health and a life from alignment rather than pressure.

Sujatha shares her lived experience of Ayurveda not as a rigid system, but as a practical, compassionate framework for restoring balance in modern bodies navigating stress, inflammation, hormonal disruption, and chronic depletion. Together, Cate and Sujatha explore how subtle daily habits - sleep rhythms, digestion, nervous-system regulation, and self-trust—shape long-term vitality far more than extreme protocols or willpower-driven discipline.

This episode weaves ancient Ayurvedic wisdom with modern lived reality, offering listeners a refreshingly humane approach to healing that honors both physiology and intuition.

Rather than asking, "What's wrong with my body?" Sujatha invites a different inquiry: "What is my body asking for right now?"

🌿 Ayurveda as a Living Practice Sujatha reframes Ayurveda as an adaptable, responsive system, one that meets people where they are instead of forcing them into idealized routines.

🧠 Nervous-System First Healing True balance begins with regulation, not restriction. When the nervous system feels safe, digestion, hormones, and immunity naturally follow.

🔥 Small Habits, Big Shifts Sustainable change comes from gentle, consistent practices that support circadian rhythm, metabolic health, and emotional resilience.

🧍 Listening Over Fixing Healing accelerates when we stop overriding the body and begin cultivating awareness, curiosity, and trust in its signals.

🌸 Embodied Wisdom in Daily Life Ayurveda becomes most powerful when translated into everyday choices—how we eat, rest, work, and relate to ourselves.

In a wellness culture often dominated by extremes, Sujatha's perspective is a reminder that health is not something to conquer - it's something to cultivate. This conversation offers a nourishing pause for anyone feeling burned out by "doing all the right things" yet still feeling off-balance.

Whether you're a wellness professional, an Ayurvedic student, or simply someone seeking a more sustainable relationship with your body, this episode offers wisdom you can return to again and again.

• Guest Website (Ayumind LLC): Www.Ayumind.com
• Instagram: Ayumind Healing Center
• Yogahealer → https://www.yogahealer.com
• Club Thrive → https://clubthrive.global

📘 Uninflamed by Cate Stillman 📗 Body Thrive 📙 Primal Habits 📕 Master of You

Cate Stillman is an Ayurvedic practitioner, author, and founder of Yogahealer and Club Thrive. For over two decades, she has guided wellness professionals and conscious leaders to restore body intelligence, reverse inflammation, and create lives rooted in alignment, vitality, and purpose.

🎧 Reflect as You Listen: Where might your body be asking for gentleness instead of effort?

About this episode:

In this expansive and deeply grounding conversation, Cate Stillman is joined by Udo Erasmus, M.A., legendary pioneer of the healthy fats movement and author of Your Body Needs An Oil Change. With over four decades of research in biochemistry, nutrition, and counseling psychology, Udo brings clarity to one of the most misunderstood topics in modern wellness: dietary fats—and what truly creates disease and vitality.

Together, Cate and Udo dismantle the seed oil controversy, explaining why the real danger isn't omega-6 fats themselves, but the industrial processing methods that damage oils through heat, light, and oxygen. Udo shares the science behind "right fats," the essential role of linoleic acid, and how restoring fat intelligence restores cellular health.

The conversation goes far beyond nutrition. Drawing on his background in counseling psychology, Udo introduces his 10 Steps to Whole Health—a holistic framework that integrates physical health, mental clarity, emotional healing, and conscious presence. He also speaks powerfully about trauma, resistance to change, and how cultivating awareness and calmness is essential in chaotic times.

This episode is both deeply practical and profoundly philosophical—offering listeners a roadmap to reclaim health, peace, and personal agency in body and mind.

🧈 The Truth About Seed Oils Seed oils aren't inherently harmful—the damage happens during industrial processing. When oils are protected from heat, light, and oxygen, they become powerful healers.

🧠 Why Omega-6 Is Essential Avoiding omega-6 fats is misguided. Linoleic acid is vital for cell membranes, brain health, and immune function when consumed in its natural, undamaged form.

🌱 The 10 Steps to Whole Health Udo's holistic system addresses the full human experience—nutrition, nervous system regulation, awareness, and alignment with nature.

🕊 Mental Health for Modern Times Resistance to change is rooted in unresolved trauma. Healing begins with directing attention, cultivating calm, and learning the language of the heart.

🔥 Right Fats, Real Change Simple dietary shifts—choosing fresh, properly made oils—can rapidly reverse damage caused by years of processed fat consumption.

Guest Links Udo Erasmus Official Website → https://udoerasmus.com Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/theudoerasmus Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/udoerasmus

Books & Products Your Body Needs An Oil Change (New Book) → https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F7J3YJD7 Udo's Choice Supplements → https://udoschoice.co.uk/

Host Links

Yogahealer → https://www.yogahealer.com Club Thrive → https://clubthrive.global Wellness Pro Academy → https://wellnesspro.academy

Uninflamed → https://amzn.to/3UUBgJ2 Body Thrive → https://amzn.to/3udNFR0 Master of You → https://amzn.to/3OlfoGn Primal Habits → https://amzn.to/3OvfPOx

Cate Stillman is an Ayurvedic practitioner, behavior change expert, and founder of Yogahealer and Club Thrive. For more than 20 years, she has helped wellness professionals and conscious seekers reverse inflammation, restore body intelligence, and lead with alignment and purpose.

🎧 Tune in and reflect: What's one "right fat" choice or inner shift you can make today to support whole health?

About this Episode: In this groundbreaking conversation, Cate Stillman sits down with Dr. Charles Akle, pioneering surgeon, immunologist, and co-creator of immy. The friendly bacteria in immy, Mycolicibacterium aurum Aogashima (M. aurum), works naturally with your immune system to calm inflammation. With decades of experience in transplantation, oncology, and immunology, Dr. Akle brings rare clarity on how the immune system actually works, why chronic inflammation is rising globally, and how reconnecting with soil-based microbes may be the missing link in human health.

Together, they explore the science behind the gut-brain-immune axis, the role of mycolyssi bacteria in regulating inflammation, why modern environments weaken immunity, and the future of "bugs as drugs" for cancer, autoimmune disease, and post-viral syndromes.

🧬 Your Immune System Is an Orchestra Health isn't about killing pathogens—it's about tuning the entire immune "symphony." Mycolyssi bacteria act as the conductor that brings the immune system back into balance.

🌱 Soil Microbes Are Medicine For most of human history, we absorbed beneficial mycobacteria through dirt, animals, and nature. Modern sanitized living breaks this evolutionary relationship—and our immunity pays the price.

🧠 The Gut-Brain-Immune Superhighway New research shows the gut sends direct immune instructions to the brain via dendritic cells and the vagus nerve—reshaping how we understand placebo, mood, inflammation, and healing.

🔥 Chronic Inflammation Is an Immune Misfire Post-viral fatigue, brain fog, autoimmunity, and even some cancers stem from immune cells that have "gone to sleep." Mycolyssi bacteria help "wake" and repolarize these cells.

🌿 Natural Immunotherapy Is the Future From early cancer trials to mood improvements, the data on mycolyssi bacteria is impressive—and points toward a future where gentle, nature-based immune modulation replaces harsh interventions.

🌍 Modern Life is Anti-Immune Ultra-processed foods, sterile environments, and lack of microbial diversity weaken immune resilience. Rewilding your microbiome is now essential, not optional.

Learn about immy → https://immy.co/ Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/immyhealth/?hl=en Yogahealer → https://www.yogahealer.com Club Thrive → https://clubthrive.global Uninflamed by Cate Stillman → https://amzn.to/3UUBgJ2

Cate's Books: Body Thrive, Master of You, Primal Habits

Cate Stillman is an Ayurvedic practitioner, author, and founder of Yogahealer and Club Thrive. For over 20 years she has guided wellness pros and conscious leaders in reversing inflammation, reconnecting with body intelligence, and leading regenerative, purpose-aligned lives.

What if the key to healing chronic inflammation, fatigue, and immune dysfunction has been under our feet all along?

About this Episode: In this groundbreaking conversation, Cate Stillman sits down with Dr. Charles Akle, pioneering surgeon, immunologist, and co-creator of IMI—a mycolyssi soil bacterium–based immune modulator backed by 25+ years of research. With decades of experience in transplantation, oncology, and immunology, Dr. Akle brings rare clarity on how the immune system actually works, why chronic inflammation is rising globally, and how reconnecting with soil-based microbes may be the missing link in human health.

Together, they explore the science behind the gut-brain-immune axis, the role of mycolyssi bacteria in regulating inflammation, why modern environments weaken immunity, and the future of "bugs as drugs" for cancer, autoimmune disease, and post-viral syndromes.

🧬 Your Immune System Is an Orchestra Health isn't about killing pathogens—it's about tuning the entire immune "symphony." Mycolyssi bacteria act as the conductor that brings the immune system back into balance.

🌱 Soil Microbes Are Medicine For most of human history, we absorbed beneficial mycobacteria through dirt, animals, and nature. Modern sanitized living breaks this evolutionary relationship—and our immunity pays the price.

🧠 The Gut-Brain-Immune Superhighway New research shows the gut sends direct immune instructions to the brain via dendritic cells and the vagus nerve—reshaping how we understand placebo, mood, inflammation, and healing.

🔥 Chronic Inflammation Is an Immune Misfire Post-viral fatigue, brain fog, autoimmunity, and even some cancers stem from immune cells that have "gone to sleep." Mycolyssi bacteria help "wake" and repolarize these cells.

🌿 Natural Immunotherapy Is the Future From early cancer trials to mood improvements, the data on mycolyssi bacteria is impressive—and points toward a future where gentle, nature-based immune modulation replaces harsh interventions.

🌍 Modern Life is Anti-Immune Ultra-processed foods, sterile environments, and lack of microbial diversity weaken immune resilience. Rewilding your microbiome is now essential, not optional.

Learn about IMI → https://immy.co/ Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/immyhealth/ Yogahealer → https://www.yogahealer.com Club Thrive → https://clubthrive.global Uninflamed by Cate Stillman → https://amzn.to/3UUBgJ2

Cate's Books: Body Thrive, Master of You, Primal Habits

Cate Stillman is an Ayurvedic practitioner, author, and founder of Yogahealer and Club Thrive. For over 20 years she has guided wellness pros and conscious leaders in reversing inflammation, reconnecting with body intelligence, and leading regenerative, purpose-aligned lives.

What if the key to healing chronic inflammation, fatigue, and immune dysfunction has been under our feet all along?

About this Episode: In this powerful conversation, Cate Stillman interviews David Crow—renowned author, herbalist, plant-medicine researcher, and founder of Floracopeia. Together, they explore the worlds of Tibetan, Ayurvedic, and Chinese medicine through the lens of lineage, ritual, and spiritual ecology.

David shares his extraordinary journey—from being one of the first Western students in acupuncture college in the 1980s, to closing his clinic and moving to Kathmandu to study Tibetan and Ayurvedic medicine directly from lineage-holding masters. He speaks about transmission, apprenticeship, plant spirit intelligence, and the disappearing wisdom of traditional herbalism.

Cate and David dive into the deep relationship between inner and outer alchemy—how consciousness, meditation, ritual, and plants work together to heal, awaken, and extend longevity. They also explore how modern people can reconnect to ecosystems, attention, and plant intelligence in simple, practical ways.

If you're a wellness pro, herbalist, yogi, or seeker of spiritual ecology, this episode is a masterclass in ancient medicine—and a reminder of how far we've drifted from the natural world.

Transmission Matters: Healing wisdom traditionally passed through relationship, ritual, and mentorship—not data alone. David recounts learning from Tibetan teachers who safeguarded ancient manuscripts.

Inner & Outer Alchemy: Asian medicine teaches that herbal medicine is ultimately for longevity and spiritual illumination—not just symptom relief.

Meditation Potentizes Herbs: Where attention goes, prana flows. Mindfulness amplifies plant medicine more effectively than high doses.

Ecology = Pharmacology: The same plant species changes potency based on terrain, direction, climate, and ecosystem health.

Herbalism Requires Context: Not every ancient practice fits modern physiology. David teaches how to evaluate herbs safely in today's world.

Mind–Plant Intelligence: Plants respond to ritual, attention, and intention—something modern supplement culture often forgets.

• David Crow's Main Website: https://www.crowconsultations.com
• David Crow's Blog/Further Information: https://www.crowconsultations.com/blog
• Floracopeia Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/floracopeia
• Floracopeia Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/floracopeia
• Floracopeia YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/@floracopeia
• Yogahealer → https://www.yogahealer.com
• Club Thrive → https://clubthrive.global

Cate Stillman is an Ayurvedic practitioner, behavior-change expert, and founder of Yogahealer and Club Thrive. For 20+ years she has guided wellness professionals toward deeper healing, embodiment, and regenerative leadership.

How could you bring more attention, ritual, or ecological connection into your plant-medicine or self-care practice?

Aging is not a decline—it's an initiation. In this episode of the Thrive with Cate Stillman Podcast, Cate Stillman speaks with Ron Pevny, founder of the Center for Conscious Eldering and author of Conscious Living, Conscious Aging, to explore how the later chapters of life can become a time of growth, purpose, and legacy.

Ron shares his evolution from guiding vision quests to leading Conscious Eldering retreats, helping people transform retirement into renewal. His work illuminates a new paradigm of aging—one that integrates emotional maturity, spiritual awakening, and service to future generations.

Modern culture glorifies youth and productivity while neglecting the sacred role of elders. Ron explains that true elderhood is less about age and more about inner development—forgiveness, self-reflection, and deep listening to the call of spirit.

🌿 Elderhood as Evolution Aging invites transformation, not stagnation. The conscious elder cultivates wisdom, compassion, and purpose.

🌀 The Inner Work of Transition Letting go of past identities creates space for renewal. Reflection, solitude, and connection with nature are vital rites of passage.

💫 From Retirement to Renewal These years are a gift—a chance to live fully, share your gifts, and contribute meaningfully to the world.

🤝 Intergenerational Wisdom Elders play a crucial role in healing cultural divides by mentoring younger generations and modeling integrity, curiosity, and care.

✨ Community as Continuum The conscious aging movement invites circles of elders and youngers to grow together—bridging experience and innovation.

As Cate and Ron emphasize, the future of aging lies in conscious participation, not withdrawal. By engaging the heart, mind, and spirit, we reclaim the elder's sacred purpose—to embody wisdom and guide the next generation with humility and light.

📘 Conscious Living, Conscious Aging by Ron Pevny → Amazon 📘 Uninflamed by Cate Stillman → Amazon 🌿 Join Club Thrive 🧘 Yogahealer Website

Cate Stillman is an Ayurvedic practitioner, author, and founder of Yogahealer and Club Thrive. For over two decades she has guided wellness professionals and conscious seekers to unlock body intelligence, reverse inflammation, and live in alignment with purpose. She is the author of Uninflamed, Body Thrive, Master of You, and Primal Habits.

In this enlightening conversation, Cate Stillman sits down with Dr. Toni Engram, founder of Flourish Dental Boutique in Dallas, to explore how biological dentistry bridges oral health and whole-body wellness. Together, they unpack why your mouth is the mirror of your overall health—and how what's happening in your teeth and gums can reveal the state of your immune system, hormones, and even emotional resilience.

Dr. Toni shares her journey from a traditional, insurance-based dental practice to creating a toxin-free, holistic clinic grounded in terrain theory, functional medicine, and Eastern-Western integration. She explains how addressing inflammation, hidden infections, and oral microbiome imbalance can prevent chronic disease and autoimmune flare-ups. The conversation also explores how breathing patterns, ozone therapy, and nutritional care are transforming modern dentistry into a foundation for long-term vitality.

A powerful theme throughout this dialogue is medical freedom and informed choice—how Dr. Toni's experience during the pandemic reinforced her commitment to individualized care, clean practices, and patient empowerment.

🦷 The Mouth–Body Connection: Each tooth corresponds to an organ system. Oral inflammation and hidden infections can trigger systemic issues like fatigue, autoimmunity, and hormonal imbalance.

🌿 Terrain over Germ Theory: Health depends on the body's internal environment. By strengthening the terrain—through nutrition, detoxification, and non-toxic dental care—you naturally resist disease.

💧 Ozone in Dentistry: Ozone therapy cleanses infection, enhances healing, and supports a balanced oral microbiome—without harsh chemicals or antibiotics.

💫 Fluoride-Free Future: Dr. Toni explains the risks of fluoride exposure, how it entered our water supply, and why mineral-rich, fluoride-free options are the smarter path forward.

🌬 Breathe for Better Health: Mouth breathing alters jaw growth in children and disrupts the oral microbiome. Retraining to nasal breathing supports deeper sleep, stronger immunity, and calmer energy.

🧬 Oral Microbiome Testing: With new saliva-based tests, dentists can map bacterial balance and tailor precise healing protocols that blend functional medicine with oral care.

💖 Integrative Care & Coaching: Dr. Toni and her team pair dentistry with health coaching to address habits, diet, and lifestyle—because true healing requires more than dental work.

🌐 Flourish Dental Boutique → https://flourishdental.com 📱 Instagram: @drtoniengram

Cate Stillman is an Ayurvedic practitioner, behavior change expert, and founder of Yogahealer and Club Thrive. For over two decades, she has guided wellness professionals and conscious seekers to unlock deep healing, body intelligence, and aligned leadership.

Author of: 📗 Primal Habits → https://amzn.to/3OvfPOx 📘 Uninflamed → https://amzn.to/3UUBgJ2 📙 Body Thrive → https://amzn.to/3udNFR0 📕 Master of You → https://amzn.to/3OlfoGn

🎧 Tune in and reflect: How might upgrading your oral care routine and breathing habits become the foundation for your next level of energy, focus, and longevity?