Vivatude

Caregiving can be physically demanding and emotionally overwhelming—but what if the key to resilience begins with compassion for yourself? In this episode of Vivatude, host Tracy Cromwell sits down with holistic wellness coach Stefanie Harris to explore how mindfulness, self-compassion, and body awareness can help caregivers and busy adults maintain emotional balance and physical wellness.

Stefanie shares her powerful journey from the corporate world into holistic coaching after a personal family tragedy reshaped her perspective on life. Through her coaching practice Spacious Heart, she teaches mindfulness-based stress reduction, meditation, and self-compassion practices that help people release emotional burdens and reconnect with their bodies. Together, Tracy and Stefanie discuss the difference between empathy and compassion, why caregivers often experience burnout, and how simple practices like body scans, meditation, and intentional breathing can help break the cycle of stress and overwhelm.

You’ll also learn practical strategies to build strength, protect your body while caregiving, and create small daily habits—like carving out just 15 minutes for yourself—that can rewire the brain and restore energy. If you’re caring for a loved one or simply looking for ways to cultivate greater resilience, presence, and self-kindness, this conversation offers tools you can begin using today.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Vivatude

01:14 Meet Holistic Wellness Coach Stefanie Harris

02:38 From Corporate Career to Mindfulness Coaching

05:19 Why Self-Compassion Is Essential for Caregivers

06:16 Empathy vs. Compassion (And Why It Matters)

08:47 Caregiver Stress and Letting Go of Outcomes

10:06 Pain, Resistance, and the Root of Suffering

13:34 How Stress Shows Up in the Body

15:07 Awareness and the Mind-Body Connection

17:15 Rewiring Stress Patterns Through Mindfulness

18:39 Meditation Myths and How to Start Simply

19:51 Body Scan Meditation for Relaxation and Awareness

23:18 Using Mindfulness While Physically Caregiving

27:03 Slowing Down to Reduce Stress and Injury

29:27 Strength, Mobility, and Staying Physically Healthy

31:25 The Importance of Nutrition and Energy Awareness

33:07 Living in the Present Moment

34:18 Starting Small: Creating Self-Care Habits

37:20 The Power of 15 Minutes of Daily Self-Care

39:10 Self-Love and Compassion Practices

41:07 Releasing “Should” and Creating Mental Space

43:12 Key Takeaways on Mindfulness and Self-Compassion

✨ Connect with Stefanie Harris

💠 Email: 👉 [email protected]

💠 Website: 👉 https://www.spaciousheart.com/

💠 Facebook: 👉 Stefanie Harris

💠 Instagram: 👉 @Sah3e

💠 App: Spacious Heart Coaching

✨ Connect with Tracy Cromwell

💠 YouTube: 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@tracycromwell

💠 Podcasts: 👉 https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/tracy-cromwell

💠 Interviews: 👉 https://tracycromwell.com/pages/interviews-with-tracy-cromwell

✨ Connect with Us at Vivatude's Facebook page at 👉 https://www.facebook.com/VivatudeOfficial

Vivatude's theme song is Moving Up by Origo, available to download at Epidemic Sound.

Caregiving is more than managing meals and medication… it’s also helping to protect your loved one financially. Vivatude host Kate Phillips sat down with Suzanne Newman of Answers for Elders to get great advice on how caregivers can help their loved ones with financial and legal matters.

In the episode packed with valuable tips, we discussed:

* Caregiving is more than managing meals and medication… it’s also helping to protect your loved one financially.

* Money and family dynamics

* Handling cash, keeping track

* Communication and transparency

* Power of Attorney: the different types

* Keeping organized—from everyday bills to important documents

* Protecting loved ones from financial abuse and mistakes

* Preparation protects families!

Drawing from her own experience caring for her mother, Suzanne shares hard-earned lessons about tracking caregiving expenses, avoiding costly Medicaid mistakes, preventing financial abuse of seniors, and managing family dynamics around money. She explains why caregivers should keep finances separate, document every transaction, and ensure critical legal protections like power of attorney are properly in place. These practical strategies can help families avoid legal complications while safeguarding both the caregiver and their loved one.

Vivatude is more than a podcast — it’s a movement for women over 40 who want to live with emotional strength, financial freedom, spiritual clarity, and vibrant health. Whether you’re currently caring for a parent or preparing for the future, this conversation offers empowering insights and actionable tools to help you navigate caregiving with confidence, compassion, and wisdom.

✨ Connect with Suzanne Newman:

💠 Answers for Elders 👉 https://answersforelders.com/

💠 Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/answers-for-elders-radio-network/id1559608980 💠 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@answersforelders5570 💠 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzanne-newman-59187bb

💠 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SuzannePerkinsNewman/

✨ Connect with Kate Phillips:

💠 Free Gifts & More: https://linktr.ee/katephillips

💠 YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/@totalwealth

💠 Website 👉 https://www.totalwealthcoaching.com/

💠 Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/thekatephillips

💠 Instagram 👉 https://www.instagram.com/totalwealth.kate/

✨ Connect with Vivatude

💠 Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/VivatudeOfficial

💠 Vivatude Podcast Playlist 👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAaH5P8bm1O2DNFGvKx2uh0rqhA8fWo7F

💠 Meet Our Hosts 👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAaH5P8bm1O0sTSMv6IkG3WThSRouw-2x

Vivatude's theme song is Moving Up by Origo, available to download at Epidemic Sound.

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Perpetual Wealth

In today’s conversation, we explore a counterintuitive approach to working with difficult emotions — not by suppressing them, fixing them, or pushing through, but by transforming them from the inside out. Host Lauren Archer is joined by Laurie Heusinger, is the creator of The Toggle Effect™, a practical method for emotional healing and nervous system regulation. This approach helps people untangle emotional patterns, release internal tension, and restore a sense of balance and well-being.

What makes this work especially compelling is its simplicity and accessibility. The Toggle Effect™ can be used for personal growth, to support children or loved ones, or by professionals working with clients in high-stress environments.

This method has been taught to first responders, police officers, veterans, healthcare professionals, and hundreds of individuals seeking relief from emotional overload, chronic stress, and unresolved inner tension.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why suppressing or “pushing through” emotions often backfires

• How emotional polarity creates internal stress patterns

• The core principles behind The Toggle Effet

• How this practice helps the nervous system reset naturally

• Practical ways to apply this method in everyday life

• Who this work is especially helpful for — including caregivers and helping professionals

About Laurie Heusinger

Laurie Heusinger is a Natural Therapeutic Specialist and author with over 28 years of experience in the alternative health field. Her work led to the development of Cognitive Polar Transformation (CPT), also known as The Toggle Effect™, a method designed to support emotional clarity, stress reduction, and overall well-being.

Laurie offers online private consultations, teaches courses, and speaks publicly about the mental and physical health benefits of CPT.

✨ Learn more & connect:

💠 Website: https://thetoggleeffect.com 💠 Email: [email protected] 💠 YouTube (Free Resources): https://www.youtube.com/@thetoggleeffectstressbusters

✨ Connect with Lauren Archer:

💠 YouTube 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@LaurenArcher

💠 Website and Gift 👉 https://www.laurenarcher.live/

💠 Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/LaurenArcher

💠 Instagram 👉 https://www.instagram.com/laurenarchercoaching/

✨ Connect with Vivatude

💠 Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/VivatudeOfficial

💠 Vivatude Podcast Playlist 👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAaH5P8bm1O2DNFGvKx2uh0rqhA8fWo7F

💠 Meet Our Hosts 👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAaH5P8bm1O0sTSMv6IkG3WThSRouw-2x

Vivatude's theme song is Moving Up by Origo, available to download at Epidemic Sound.

Mentioned in this episode:

Mindful Leadership Lab

Music: Unite by tubebackr & Stanty is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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In this powerful episode of Vivatude, host and fitness expert Tracy Cromwell sits down with Dr. Tanya Berfield, mindset medicine strategist, speaker, and author of "Radical Resilience: Mindset Medicine for High Achieving Women to Heal Burnout, Rewire Anxiety, and Rise in Calm and Confidence." Together, they explore how high-achieving women—especially those in midlife and the caregiving “sandwich generation” — can start healing. If you’re a woman over 40 juggling career, caregiving, family, and your own wellness, this conversation will speak directly to your heart.

Dr. Tanya shares her deeply personal story of burnout, emotional overload, and caring for a 90-year-old grandmother with dementia—while balancing adult children, a demanding career, and 30 years of marriage. She unpacks the science-meets-soul approach behind her work, blending nervous system regulation, emotional intelligence, energy awareness, and simple daily practices like breathwork, music, and mindset shifts. From box breathing used by Navy SEALs to small consistent habits that regulate the nervous system, this episode offers practical tools for anxiety relief, stress management, and emotional resilience.

Vivatude is more than a show—it’s a movement for women over 40 seeking emotional strength, spiritual clarity, financial freedom, and vibrant health. Whether you’re navigating caregiver stress, rediscovering your identity in midlife, or simply longing to feel calm and confident again, this episode will remind you that you are not alone—and you are doing better than you think. It’s time to spark your vitality and begin again.

Chapters

00:00 – Welcome to Vivatude

01:15 – Meet Dr. Tanya Berfield & Radical Resilience

03:00 – High Achievement, Burnout & “Never Enough”

06:50 – Caregiver Stress & The Sandwich Generation

09:00 – Hitting Emotional Capacity (And What to Do Next)

11:40 – Energy Protection & Spiritual Grounding Practices

15:40 – Small Daily Habits That Regulate the Nervous System

22:45 – Breathwork for Anxiety (Box Breathing & Coherent Breathing)

27:00 – Using Music to Shift Your Emotional State

31:00 – Emotional Intelligence: How You Impact the World

36:00 – Letting Go of Perfection & Performance

39:30 – Caregiver Guilt & Self-Compassion

41:00 – The Mind-Body Connection & Stored Stress

44:00 – Rewriting Your Internal Narrative

47:00 – Final Encouragement for Women Over 40

✨ Connect with Dr. Tanya Barfield

💠 Website: https://www.drtanyab.com/

💠 Listen to the Mindset Medicine podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mindset-medicine-with-dr-tanya-berfield-healing/id1765566175

💠 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCozpsLNzolEWFnjCU60euZw

✨ Connect with Tracy Cromwell

💠 YouTube: 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@tracycromwell

💠 Podcasts: 👉 https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/tracy-cromwell

💠 Interviews: 👉 https://tracycromwell.com/pages/interviews-with-tracy-cromwell

✨ Connect with Us at Vivatude's Facebook page at 👉 https://www.facebook.com/VivatudeOfficial

Vivatude's theme song is Moving Up by Origo, available to download at Epidemic Sound.

Jan Edwards' life changed on a business trip to Ethiopia, where she encountered human trafficking for the first time. In that moment, she decided to do something about it!

Two years later, Jan launched the Paving the Way Foundation to disrupt the cycle of trafficking and child exploitation.

Hear how one woman decided to make a difference for vulnerable teens and children, how she created a solution that is educating kids and keeping them safe. Jan describes the steps that allowed her to find financial support while following her mission of combating trafficking and exploitation. Through a combination of her own investments (the 401(k) her mom told her to start), plus her entrepreneurial spirit and fundraising, Jan and her foundation having found the support they need. Learn how you can support the mission of Paving the Way Foundation. During that time, Jan wrote and directed a short film, Trapped in the Trade, that went on to educate thousands while also winning film festival awards.

✨ Connect with Jan Edwards & Paving the Way

💠 Paving the Way Foundation Website: https://www.pavingthewayfoundation.org/

💠 Paving the Way on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PavingW/

💠 Paving the Way on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pavingw/

💠 Trapped in the Trade Film: http://www.trappedfilm.com/

💠 Jan’s book for caregivers: Managing Aging Parents While Keeping Your Sanity 👉 https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Parents-Keeping-Sanity-Advocacy-ebook/dp/B01HCESHMY

✨ Connect with Kate Phillips

💠 Free Gifts & More: 👉 https://linktr.ee/katephillips

💠 YouTube 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@totalwealth

💠 Website 👉 https://www.totalwealthcoaching.com/

💠 Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/thekatephillips

💠 Instagram 👉 https://www.instagram.com/totalwealth.kate/

✨ Connect with Vivatude

💠 Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/VivatudeOfficial

💠 Vivatude Podcast Playlist 👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAaH5P8bm1O2DNFGvKx2uh0rqhA8fWo7F

💠 Meet Our Hosts 👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAaH5P8bm1O0sTSMv6IkG3WThSRouw-2x

Vivatude's theme song is Moving Up by Origo, available to download at Epidemic Sound.

Mentioned in this episode:

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Mindful Leadership Lab

Music: Unite by tubebackr & Stanty is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

In this episode, we explore a simple, powerful way to create real connection — by learning how to show up, speak honestly, and listen with presence.

Lauren Archer is joined by author and teacher John David Latta to explore how creating safe, heart-centered spaces can transform the way we relate, heal, and feel connected in our everyday lives. Drawing from John’s book Something True Circles, this conversation offers a practical, human approach to cultivating emotional and spiritual wellness in a disconnected world.

Long before podcasts, therapy rooms, or self-help books, people gathered in circles to share stories, to listen, to be witnessed, and to remember who they were in the presence of one another. And in our overstimulated, hyper-connected world, this simple practice may matter now more than ever.

John David Latta, is a mystic, author, teacher, and founder of a multimillion-dollar consumer products company. His newest book, Something True Circles, offers a heartfelt and accessible blueprint for creating circles that foster honesty, presence, healing, and deep human connection — without dogma or performance.

Key Messages:

1) Learning to speak authentically with feeling and without masks.

2) Learning to listen with love and without judgement. How to listen with your whole body.

3) Why speaking vulnerably and revealing buried secrets can be good for your health and be a "Fountain of Youth."

4) Why practicing Beginner's Mind in the presence of another is a great gift to both of you.

5) Why "holding space" can help others solve their own problems.

6) Why revealing feelings between yourself and others creates trust and intimacy.

7) Why the process of coming out of hiding and speaking truthfully is so important in aiding the world into transitioning into something entirely new.

✨ Connect with John David Latta

💠 Website: https://johndavidlatta.com/

💠 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/john.latta.3

💠 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johndavidlatta/

💠 Something True Circles Book at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/John-David-Latta/author/B09WZGLYN3?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1763495983&sr=1-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=478c1e7a-9b7a-4263-bd1b-3192ab8f99bf

✨ Connect with Lauren Archer:

💠 YouTube 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@LaurenArcher

💠 Website and Gift 👉 https://www.laurenarcher.live/

💠 Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/LaurenArcher

💠 Instagram 👉 https://www.instagram.com/laurenarchercoaching/

✨ Connect with Vivatude

💠 Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/VivatudeOfficial

💠 Vivatude Podcast Playlist 👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAaH5P8bm1O2DNFGvKx2uh0rqhA8fWo7F

💠 Meet Our Hosts 👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAaH5P8bm1O0sTSMv6IkG3WThSRouw-2x

Vivatude's theme song is Moving Up by Origo, available to download at Epidemic Sound.

Mentioned in this episode:

Lauren Promo

Perpetual Wealth

Mindful Leadership Lab

Music: Unite by tubebackr & Stanty is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

In this powerful episode of the Vivatude Podcast, certified health coach and fitness professional Tracy Cromwell sits down with Dr. Shay, an acupuncturist, professor, author, and holistic coach, to explore what it truly means to heal—physically, emotionally, and spiritually. With more than a decade of experience across disciplines including acupuncture, fitness, nutrition, martial arts, and mindfulness, Dr. Shay shares how an integrative approach to health can help women over 40 build resilience, strength, and fulfillment through every season of life.

Dr. Shay opens up about her own life-altering car accident and the long road to recovery that followed—while she was finishing her medical boards. Together, Tracy and Dr. Shay discuss how physical fitness, mindset, movement practices like tai chi, and even creativity and play (yes, improv comedy!) can become powerful tools for healing. This episode speaks directly to women navigating injury, unexpected change, caregiving responsibilities, or feelings of loss—offering hope, perspective, and practical strategies for reclaiming well-being.

The conversation also dives deeply into caregiver wellness, emotional boundaries, and the often-overlooked need to “care for the caregiver.” Dr. Shay explains how acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine address not just pain, but the body’s stored stress and emotional weight—what TCM calls Shen, or spirit. If you’re a woman over 40 seeking holistic health, emotional resilience, and a more compassionate way to support both yourself and others, this episode offers insight, validation, and actionable tools you can start using today.

✨ Connect with Dr. Shay Vasudeva

💠 website: https://www.ShayTheCoachAcupuncture.com

💠 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shaythecoach/

💠 LinkedIn: Dr. Shaweta Vasudeva & ShayTheCoach

💠 email: [email protected]

💠 X: https://x.com/ShayTheCoach

💠 phone: 480-253-9642

✨ Connect with Tracy Cromwell

💠 YouTube: 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@tracycromwell

💠 Podcasts: 👉 https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/tracy-cromwell

💠 Interviews: 👉 https://tracycromwell.com/pages/interviews-with-tracy-cromwell

✨ Connect with Vivatude

💠 Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/VivatudeOfficial

💠 YouTube Playlist 👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAaH5P8bm1O2DNFGvKx2uh0rqhA8fWo7F

💠 Meet Our Hosts 👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAaH5P8bm1O0sTSMv6IkG3WThSRouw-2x

Vivatude's theme song is Moving Up by Origo, available to download at Epidemic Sound.

Jan Edwards' life changed on a business trip to Ethiopia, where she encountered human trafficking for the first time. In that moment, she decided to do something about it! Two years later, Jan launched the Paving the Way Foundation to disrupt the cycle of trafficking and child exploitation.

In part 1, hear how one woman decided to make a difference for vulnerable teens and children, how she created a solution that is educating kids and keeping them safe.

In part 2, Jan continues her story of launching the Paving the Way Foundation to combat child trafficking while juggling the responsibilities as a caregiver. During that time, Jan wrote and directed a short film, Trapped in the Trade, that went on to educate thousands while also winning film festival awards.

In part 3, Jan describes the steps that allowed her to find financial support while following her mission of combatting trafficking and exploitation. Through a combination of her own investments (the 401(k) her mom told her to start), plus her entrepreneurial spirit and fundraising, Jan and her foundation having found the support they need. Learn how you can support the mission of Paving the Way Foundation.

✨ Connect with Jan Edwards & Paving the Way

💠 Paving the Way Foundation Website: https://www.pavingthewayfoundation.org/

💠 Paving the Way on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PavingW/

💠 Paving the Way on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pavingw/

💠 Trapped in the Trade Film: http://www.trappedfilm.com/

💠 Jan’s book for caregivers: Managing Aging Parents While Keeping Your Sanity 👉 https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Parents-Keeping-Sanity-Advocacy-ebook/dp/B01HCESHMY

✨ Connect with Kate Phillips

💠 Free Gifts & More: 👉 https://linktr.ee/katephillips

💠 YouTube 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@totalwealth

💠 Website 👉 https://www.totalwealthcoaching.com/

💠 Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/thekatephillips

💠 Instagram 👉 https://www.instagram.com/totalwealth.kate/

✨ Connect with Vivatude

💠 Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/VivatudeOfficial

💠 Vivatude Podcast Playlist 👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAaH5P8bm1O2DNFGvKx2uh0rqhA8fWo7F

💠 Meet Our Hosts 👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAaH5P8bm1O0sTSMv6IkG3WThSRouw-2x

Vivatude's theme song is Moving Up by Origo, available to download at Epidemic Sound.

Mentioned in this episode:

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Mindful Leadership Lab

Music: Unite by tubebackr & Stanty is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

In this episode of Vivatude, Lauren Archer sits down with Rebecca Rama Devi Prien, author of This Again: Untangle the Root of What Distracts & Derails You from Your Life’s Work and host of the Sacred & Strategic podcast, for a rich and grounded conversation about the deeper patterns that quietly shape our lives — and how spiritual practice can reveal what strategy alone cannot.

Rebecca brings a rare fusion of intellect and soul to this dialogue. Trained in elite academic and professional environments before turning toward spiritual practice, she now works with purpose-driven women who are highly capable, highly strategic — and often unknowingly over-reliant on the mind. Her work invites a return to a deeper intelligence accessed through spiritual practice, particularly Sanskrit mantra.

Lauren shares that listening to Rebecca’s audiobook was the first time, as a Western woman, she truly understood mantra not as belief or philosophy, but as an embodied spiritual technology. Together, they explore how midlife can serve as a powerful threshold — a time when familiar patterns resurface not as failures, but as invitations to untangle what Rebecca calls the karmic knot.

In This Conversation, You’ll Explore

💠 Why there is often one core issue at the root of what distracts and derails us — no matter how many ways it appears

💠 What a karmic knot is, why it is so stubborn and elusive, and why mindset or strategy alone cannot fully resolve it

💠 How some patterns may be inherited from ancestry, culture, or the collective, rather than originating with us personally

💠 Why spiritual practice is underdeveloped in modern culture — especially for women trained and rewarded for strategic thinking

💠 How chanting Sanskrit mantra works at an energetic level to untangle deep patterns with clarity and precision

💠 How midlife can become a sacred initiation into alignment, purpose, and embodied wisdom

💠 A Core Insight from Rebecca

In a culture that prioritizes strategy, metrics, and logic, spiritual practice is often viewed as secondary or suspect. Rebecca explains that when used intentionally, spiritual practice doesn’t replace strategy — it reveals it. Through spiritual practice, we gain access to intelligence, insight, and solutions that the thinking mind alone cannot reach.

Rather than forcing clarity through effort, mantra practice allows clarity to emerge organically — from a deeper source of wisdom.

✨ Resources & Links

💠 Rebecca Rama Devi Prien’s website: https://www.ompreneur.com/

💠 Free This Again guided practice: https://www.ompreneur.com/this-again-practice/

💠 Book: This Again: Untangle the Root of What Distracts & Derails You from Your Life’s Work

💠 Podcast: Sacred & Strategic

✨ Connect with Lauren Archer:

💠 YouTube 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@LaurenArcher

💠 Website and Gift 👉 https://www.laurenarcher.live/

💠 Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/LaurenArcher

💠 Instagram 👉 https://www.instagram.com/laurenarchercoaching/

✨ Connect with Vivatude

💠 Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/VivatudeOfficial

💠 Vivatude Podcast Playlist 👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAaH5P8bm1O2DNFGvKx2uh0rqhA8fWo7F

💠 Meet Our Hosts 👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAaH5P8bm1O0sTSMv6IkG3WThSRouw-2x

Vivatude's theme song is Moving Up by Origo, available to download at Epidemic Sound.

Mentioned in this episode:

Mindful Leadership Lab

Music: Unite by tubebackr & Stanty is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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In this powerful episode of Vivatude, life coach Anu Aoroa sits down with entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Head of Women’s Health at Viome, Anu Jain, for a transformative conversation about closing the gender health gap and redefining healthcare for women over 40. Vivatude is more than a show — it’s a movement and mindset for women seeking emotional strength, financial freedom, spiritual clarity, and vibrant health in midlife and beyond. Together, they expose the truth about how women have historically been treated like “small men” in medicine, why women were excluded from clinical research until 1993, and how systemic bias continues to affect diagnosis, menopause care, heart health, autoimmune disease, and mental health.

This series dives deep into precision health, microbiome science, and personalized medicine, revealing how women can move beyond reactive, “band-aid” healthcare and become the CEOs of their own wellbeing. Anu Jain breaks down the five pillars of women’s health — food, sleep, stress, exercise, and purpose — and explains how gene expression, hormones, and the gut, oral, brain, and vaginal microbiomes are intricately connected. From strength training in perimenopause and menopause to understanding why superfoods aren’t universal, this conversation delivers science-backed insights designed specifically for women navigating midlife health changes.

The discussion also explores groundbreaking innovation in women’s health, including the future of menopause research, ovarian health, fertility, and targeted diagnostics. Anu Jain shares her investment work in women’s health startups, global initiatives like Women Moving Millions, XPRIZE, and Girl Up, and why funding and data equity are critical to advancing care. If you’re navigating caregiving, rediscovering your identity in midlife, or seeking smarter, personalized solutions for long-term vitality, this Vivatude series is an empowering roadmap to thriving — not just surviving — after 40.

✨ Connect with Anu Jain

💠 Viome website: https://www.viome.com/womens-health

💠 Viome website: https://www.viome.com/

💠 Evvy website: https://www.evvy.com/

💠 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theanujain/

💠 Women's Safety X-PRIZE: https://www.xprize.org/competitions/womens-safety

✨ Connect with Anu Arora

💠 Anu's book Ignite Your Light 👉 https://www.amazon.com/Ignite-Your-Light-infinite-potential/dp/1719066582

💠 Website 👉 https://www.anuarora.com/

💠 YouTube 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@speakeranuarora

💠 Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/anuarora21/

✨ Connect with Vivatude

💠 Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/VivatudeOfficial

💠 Vivatude Podcast Playlist 👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAaH5P8bm1O2DNFGvKx2uh0rqhA8fWo7F

💠 Meet Our Hosts 👉 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAaH5P8bm1O0sTSMv6IkG3WThSRouw-2x

Vivatude's theme song is Moving Up by Origo, available to download at Epidemic Sound.

Mentioned in this episode:

Guaranteed Lifetime Income

Mindful Leadership Lab

Music: Unite by tubebackr & Stanty is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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