V and Mahan are back!

In this episode we go over V's existential crisis that is social media as we catch her right in the thick of an Instagram break. Mahan raises some great points about Instagram as a tool, as well as offers a more grounded perspective as always. Mahan gets his astrological chart read by V via Co-Star, and then we launch into a talk on pleasure, sex, exes, having kids, witchcraft and the patriarchy. An off-road episode you won’t want to miss!

0:00 Intention setting for this episode

1:49 Social media monetization and selling your soul

6:03 Daylight savings time and S.A.D.

9:12 Iranian New Years in Spring

18:37 Language

20:51 V's Pleasure+Play event

29:47 The pursuit of Validation

31:20 V's social media break/existential crisis

47:54 Pre-Script Education and how we met

50:47 Mahan’s Astrology Reading

1:08:48 Being friends with your exes

1:14:20 More astrology and beliefs

1:18:40 The Patriarchy, sex, and witchcraft

1:23:45 Pleasure, Sex Ed and having kids

Shoutouts:

Killian Hamilton, Jordan Shallow and Pre-Script

‘Find Your Why’ by Simon Sinek

‘Mr. Inbetween’ TV series on FX

‘Love Sex & Goop’ on Netflix

Co-Star Astrology app 

FULL VIDEO episode posted on 'Vanessa Marilynn" Youtube page:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GCNEtRbbRk

Mahan is a personal trainer based in London, England. He is the founder of Will-O-Wisp Caching, co-founder of FHT Camps, co-host of the Majoring in the Minors Podcast and a good internet friend of V’s. 

In this episode we discuss:

-The complexities of being a personal trainer

-Social media and fitness misinformation

-The Dunning-Kruger effect

-Differences between the sexes in lifting, training and evolution

-How we train our clients

-Consent, intentions and transparency

-Starting conversations in the gym

-What Mahan enjoys about training women specifically

-Alcohol and training

-The importance of sleep

-Hyper-vigillance with health and the 80/20 Rule

-Being a personable personal trainer person

-Serial killers and detox tea sales people

-Cancel culture, Joe Rogan, Dave Chappelle

-Hate comments on Instagram

-Posting anxiety and social media struggles

Contact Mahan:

Instagram: @mahanelmi_

Web: www.wow-coaching.com

Podcast: ‘Majoring in the Minors’ @majoring.in.the.minors on IG

Shoutouts:

Dr. Jordan Shallow and Pre-Script: Human Performance Education, https://www.pre-script.com/

Disney’s Aladdin 

Dr. Matthew Walker and ‘Why We Sleep’

@you.look.like.a.man Instagram account

‘Sex Education’ on Netflix

Ep. 8: Trauma and Trauma + Fitness with Cayla Meredith

“Trauma is: anything that overwhelms your ability to cope.” -Cayla Meredith

website: 

https://www.movetohealproject.com/

social media:

@movetohealproject 

@caylameredith

In this episode:

•Warning: Astrology talk

•Issues and benefits around the popularization of trauma

•Transperancy and choice and why these are key tenants when working with trauma

•Trauma in the fitness space

•What is trauma? Definitions

•Dr. Gabor Mate, Bessel van der Kolk and their work as well as other resources on trauma

•Gaps in the medical space in diagnosing and treating trauma

•Interoception, exteroception, and disassociation in trauma

•Signs of trauma in individuals

•The deep importance of language and consent in realm of trauma or fitness + trauma

Shoutouts:

•Dr. Gabor Mate and his books:

-‘When the Body Says No: The Hidden Cost of Stress’

•’In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction’

•'The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma' by Bessel van der Kolk

•'Call of the Wild' by Kimberly Anne Johnson 

•documentary: 'The Wisdom of Trauma' https://thewisdomoftrauma.com/ 

•Trauma Sensitive RMT/Massage Therapist in Toronto: Sarah Reimer @sarahreimerrmt on Instagram, email: [email protected] 

•JRI Center for Trauma and Embodiment, Trauma Informed Yoga certification: https://jri.org/services/behavioral-health-and-trauma/center-for-trauma-and-embodiment

•The Embody Lab trauma trainings and workshops https://www.theembodylab.com/ 

Ep. 7: NUTRITION with Nathan Schwartz, Dietician Nutrition Coach 

“If you have to be SUPER motivated to do something— like beg yourself to do it, you’re on the wrong plan.” -Nathan Schwartz, Ep. 7 VWELLNESS Radio

Today on the show we have Nathan Schwartz, a Dietician Nutrition Coach and Personal Trainer based in Iowa, USA. We talk carb fear, keto and other fad diets, portion control, biomarkers of health, weight fluctuations, creating an effective atmosphere for clients to reach their goals, and why restriction is not the way to go.

Nathan's contact info:

Instagram: @nathan_schwartz_dietitian

email: [email protected]

Private Fitness & Nutrition Facebook Group: https://m.facebook.com/groups/371598680861930/?ref=share

Shoutouts:

Pre-Script: Human Performance Education

https://www.pre-script.com/

Time stamps:

[1:14:09] Your questions answered, from Instagram:

1. Q: What is a healthy amount of weight to fluctuate on a daily basis?

Also available to watch on Youtube on the 'Vanessa Marilynn' channel at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAvGWC-5D-Y

RECOVERY:

In this episode I give you everything I know on the topic of recovery including:

• Programming, how it is one of the main (yet often overlooked) dictators of your ability to recover, and how to ensure your programming is set up properly for you to optimize recovery and see progress in your training efforts.

• Sleep, and all of my advice and information on getting better sleep to enhance your recovery and training efforts.

We also discuss some common tools for recovery and sleep such as Thera-Guns, melatonin supplementation and blue light blocking glasses.

We also touch on nutrition, overtraining (and symptoms of), stress, and nervous system regulation and how these supplementary categories can play into recovery as well. 

Hope you enjoy, never hesitate to reach out and ask any questions you’d like to ask, or to suggest topics for further podcast episodes you want to hear :)))

Morgan Woodfine is a Pleasure Educator & Doula who specializes in Women’s Health Coaching at any stage of life. She is based in Quebec, Canada and can be found on Instagram at @morganwoodfine and via her website: www.morganwoodfine.com

Vanessa Marilynn is the owner of VWELLNESS Personal Training, for more information on services she provides please visit www.vwellness.ca

Or visit VWELLNESS on Instagram: @vanessamarilynn

In this episode we are going over some major players in revolutionizing your health: the concepts of Basic Human Needs and Re-Parenting, the importance of social connection for your health, my top 3 tips that will drastically improve anyone's nutrition and much more.

footnotes + mentions:

•Human Design

•Basic Human Needs

•Re-Parenting

-resource: Precision Nutrition

-book: PUSSY: A Reclamation

My very first episode! And thus, VWELLNESS Radio was born.

Enjoy :)

Foototes/Mentions:

•books:

-Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch 

-Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach

-Trusting the Gold by Tara Brach

Tara Brach www.tarabrach.com

web: www.VWELLNESS.ca

IG: @vanessamarilynn