To Your Health

Executive & Life Coach, Kristin Taylor joins me to explore how self-compassion can be a powerful tool for quieting your inner critic and creating lasting change. With a background in psychology, neuroscience, and mindfulness, Kristin helps individuals and teams build stress resilience and emotional intelligence.

We dive into why self-compassion isn’t self-indulgent, how to move through the discomfort of being kind to yourself, and what makes it so essential for women juggling health goals, careers, and caregiving.

Kristin shares real-life examples and practical strategies for developing a self-compassion practice that actually sticks—especially for those who feel like they've already "tried" and failed.

If you’re your own harshest critic, this episode will show you how to turn that voice into one that supports your growth, health, and happiness.

Kristin Taylor, M.A. coaches individuals and teams in mastering anxiety management and stress resilience by blending elements of psychology, neuroscience, and mindfulness into her approach. She has a special talent for helping people to ignite their own brilliance as a leader by teaching them conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, and nervous system regulation and self-compassion. She has a passion for working with people as they explore their habits of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs that cultivate success, versus those that impede it. She holds a master’s degree in psychology and has been coaching since 2007.Follow her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristintaylorconsulting/ Website: https://www.kristintaylorconsulting.com/

Tune in each week for practical, relatable advice that helps you feel your best and unlock your full potential. If you’re ready to prioritize your health and level up every area of your life, you’ll find the tools, insights, and inspiration right here. 

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Sometimes the win is showing up at all. And if you're not currently doing that, you want to focus on just getting started and celebrating that you're taking action.

But showing up is also only half the battle so if you already are and you're feeling resentful that it doesn't seem to be working, we'll unpack what to do next.

Tune in each week for practical, relatable advice that helps you feel your best and unlock your full potential. If you’re ready to prioritize your health and level up every area of your life, you’ll find the tools, insights, and inspiration right here. 

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Joy isn’t something you have to chase—it’s something you can create. And it doesn’t take a total life overhaul to do it.

Christine Kutnick shares her 5-ingredient Joy Recipe, a simple and powerful framework to help you feel more aligned, fulfilled, and grounded in your day-to-day life.

We break down what each ingredient looks like in real life, how to recognize what might be missing, and practical ways to start feeling more joy—even when things are busy, messy, or uncertain.

Christine Kutnick is a certified coach and founder of Mudita Coaching, where she helps people rediscover joy and purpose after burnout, transitions, or just feeling stuck. Known by many of her clients as their “Joyologist,” Christine blends science, soul, and storytelling to help others build lives they’re actually excited to wake up to.

After more than 20 years in the nonprofit world, a life-changing adventure (and a broken ankle in Switzerland) led her to slow down and listen deeply—to herself and her purpose. Now she empowers others to do the same, guiding them to design lives that feel as good on the inside as they look on the outside.

You can find her at mudita-coaching.com or on Instagram @mudita.coaching.

Tune in each week for practical, relatable advice that helps you feel your best and unlock your full potential. If you’re ready to prioritize your health and level up every area of your life, you’ll find the tools, insights, and inspiration right here. 

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One missed workout or "bad" eating day doesn’t need to spiral into days or weeks, but it often does.

In this episode, I talk about how to identify the first "domino" in these chain reactions and give you simple strategies to stop it from knocking down all the rest.

Tune in each week for practical, relatable advice that helps you feel your best and unlock your full potential. If you’re ready to prioritize your health and level up every area of your life, you’ll find the tools, insights, and inspiration right here. 

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Relationship coach and Secrets of Happily Ever After podcast host Monica Tanner joins me to talk about the marriage myths we’ve been sold—and why so much common advice is actually making relationships worse.

We’ll unpack the real reasons couples drift into resentment and “roommate syndrome,” and how to rebuild connection through Monica’s simple but powerful framework.

From better communication to practical ways to handle conflict and commitment, this conversation is full of takeaways you can start using today—whether your marriage needs a total overhaul or just a little tune-up.

Plus, we’ll explore how taking care of yourself can be the best thing you do for your relationship.

Monica Tanner, RLT trained, Relationship Coach and host of the Secrets of Happily Ever After podcast, transforms marriages with simple communication, connection, conflict resolution and commitment strategies. Her mission is to lower the divorce rate and improve marital satisfaction. Through her engaging podcast, new book, Bad Marriage Advice, vibrant social media community, and couple’s coaching practice, Monica's expert guidance has impacted thousands of couples, by helping them ditch resentment and roommate syndrome and get back to living their happily ever after love story.

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Being “all in” isn’t about doing everything perfectly.

In this episode, I unpack what it really means to commit to your goals without burning yourself out or falling into black-and-white thinking.

If you’ve ever felt like going all-in means being perfect, this episode will help shift that perspective.

Tune in each week for practical, relatable advice that helps you feel your best and unlock your full potential. If you’re ready to prioritize your health and level up every area of your life, you’ll find the tools, insights, and inspiration right here. 

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Dr. Gary Sprouse, retired physician and author of Highway to Your Happy Place, joins me to share practical ways to stress, worry, and regret—less.

With over 38 years in medicine, Dr. Sprouse now helps people improve their mental and emotional well-being through humor, compassion, and mindset tools.

We talk about the real root of stress, how to stop overthinking, and his 4-step process for releasing guilt and finding forgiveness.

Dr. Gary Sprouse is a retired primary care physician who practiced in Maryland for 38 years. He graduated from George Washington University Medical School in the top 10% of his class & is a member of Mensa. Dr. Sprouse is extremely passionate about bringing happiness into people’s lives through humor, compassion, and understanding. 

He has taken everything he has learned about stress reduction and crafted his book, Highway to Your Happy Place: A Roadmap to Less Stress. Dr. Sprouse also collaborated on a book with Jack Canfield called Mindset Matters which is a best-seller.

Website: www.thelessstressdoc.comEmail: [email protected] Book: https://a.co/d/3hViCBz

Tune in each week for practical, relatable advice that helps you feel your best and unlock your full potential. If you’re ready to prioritize your health and level up every area of your life, you’ll find the tools, insights, and inspiration right here. 

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The way you eat and exercise doesn't need to fall neatly into a box or label. You can combine approaches to find the perfect combination for YOU.

That requires accepting some trial-and-error, or as I prefer to call it, self-experimentation.

This episode will show you how to do that and also how to stop beating yourself up for always looking for the next best thing and appreciate that you're committed to finding what works for you.

Tune in each week for practical, relatable advice that helps you feel your best and unlock your full potential. If you’re ready to prioritize your health and level up every area of your life, you’ll find the tools, insights, and inspiration right here. 

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Dr. Regina Lark, author of Emotional Labor: Why A Woman’s Work is Never Done and What To Do About It, joins me to discuss the invisible mental load many women carry—and how to lighten it.

We explore how emotional labor shows up in daily life, why it often goes unrecognized, and how the Fair Play method can help redistribute the work.

If you’ve ever felt like the default manager of everything in your life, this conversation offers practical tools to reclaim your time and energy.

Dr. Regina Lark is an expert in emotional labor, productivity, and the mental load that comes with managing households, caregiving, and daily life. As the founder of A Clear Path and a certified Fair Play facilitator, she helps overwhelmed people—especially women—understand, redistribute, and recover from the invisible work they carry. Regina is also the author of Emotional Labor: Why A Woman’s Work is Never Done and What To Do About It.Book: https://a.co/d/1fldTlELinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drreginaflark/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drreginaflark/

Tune in each week for practical, relatable advice that helps you feel your best and unlock your full potential. If you’re ready to prioritize your health and level up every area of your life, you’ll find the tools, insights, and inspiration right here. 

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The first form of progress you notice likely won't be on the scale or even related to how your body looks.

While the physical progress will come, those changes take weeks and months, while the sign of improvement that'll keep you going until then is one you'll experience within the first few days of showing up for yourself.

Tune in each week for practical, relatable advice that helps you feel your best and unlock your full potential. If you’re ready to prioritize your health and level up every area of your life, you’ll find the tools, insights, and inspiration right here. 

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