We are Women Empowered

On this episode, Nikki talks to Lisa Everett Andersen, a holistic clinical pharmacologist and board certified clinical nutritionist, about her holistic approach to health. She is passionate about helping people achieve the reversal of dis-ease and the reclamation of their health. She is also the co-owner of O'Brien Pharmacy and the Kansas City Holistic Centre in Mission, Kansas. Lisa talks about how she started learning about the ways our environment, food and medications disrupt our body's systems, and wanted to find the natural ways to fix health issues. She became so passionate about finding natural solutions that her father used to jokingly say "there you go un-filling prescriptions." She shares tactic she uses for herself and her patients to help with weight loss, hormone regulation and avoiding cancer.

For more information, check out

https://www.lisaeverettandersen.com/

On this episode, Nikki talks to Donny Kim, her personal trainer and exercise and nutrition consultant about why movement is so important for our health. He shares how he got into the fitness world, and how he gained knowledge in all areas including corrective exercise, senior and youth exercise, performance enhancement and nutrition. They discuss the benefits of weight/resistance training, cardio, HIIT and a plant based diet.

For more information on Donny you can email him or check out his Facebook page.

On this episode, Nikki talks to newly married Priscilla Everhart about the work she does in her company Live Boldly centered around the triangle of health. Priscilla shares the triangle of health, or the three most important pillars of health. She talks about the importance of our biochemical health (the food you eat and any supplements you take), structural health (physical movement) and spiritual health (your emotions and how you are feeling) and how all three of these work together to determine your overall health. She discusses how she helps her clients take care of each area of their life, and how through her Zoom calls or phone calls, she actively listens to her clients and can pick up on areas of their life that they may be neglecting. Nikki talks about how her emotional energy that she's ignoring sometimes ends up stored in her body, and Priscilla shares how she helped Nikki understand her recent shoulder pain as an emotional pain. Priscilla shares how she named her company Live Boldly because she does think the boldest thing her clients do is take responsibility for their lives and work to overcome the things holding them back.

For more information on Priscilla, check out her Facebook page

Priscilla Everhart Alternative and Holistic Health Services facebook.com/lboldly

On this episode, Nikki Ubaldini talks to Sonia Magruder about her journey becoming a health coach, and health tips that Sonia employs herself. Sonia talks about how 7 years ago, after working 70+ hours a week in real estate while being her mother's primary caregiver with her husband, she didn't feel great and wanted to get healthier. After she and and her husband switched their diet away from processes foods and started eating more nutrient dense foods and significantly more plants, they both were amazed at how much better they felt. That dramatic change in feeling lead her to be interested in all of the health world, and she went on to become a health coach. She shares some tips on how to gradually change your diet, foods that can help correct different ailments, and how detrimental glyphosate is to our gut biome, one of the most important parts of our bodies.

To learn more from Sonia, follow her on Instagram or Facebook or call, text or email her.

On this episode, Nikki and Priscilla discuss what it means to live life fully without fearing death. After hearing Dr. Lara talk about how he came to terms with his mortality, Nikki and Priscilla wanted to dive into how to not be consumed by the fear of death. They talk about how living life to the fullest means to be living fearlessly, so you don't want the inevitability of your mortality to keep you from enjoying life. They discuss how we tend to keep topics like death away from our children, but that if we had open discussions with them about it, it may not be as painful and scary of a concept to them as they grow up. Nikki shares how her diagnosis threw her mortality in her face and made her live life scared for a year and a half, but that once she faced it head on, she was able to live fully again. They mention that some fears and feelings are generational, and that a fear of death or loss of control could come from fears passed onto us from our ancestors.

To check out the books mentioned in the podcast, follow the links below

Feelings Buried Alive Never Die

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005WYQEVS/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Healed of Cancer

https://www.amazon.com/Healed-Cancer-Dodie-Osteen/dp/0912631333

On this episode, Nikki talks to Dr. Cesar Lara about how he has helped his patients heal themselves from the inside out. Dr. Lara shares how after being a family doctor for a while, his mother came to him and told him she just felt terrible and wanted to know if he could prescribe her something to make her feel better. She had diabetes that was being managed by insulin, so he ran her bloodwork to check for problems, and after it came back normal, he thought maybe an antidepressant would help. When the antidepressant didn't work, he began to wonder if her medications were the problem. He managed to get her off all of her medications and she felt wildly better, and Dr. Lara realized he wanted to start helping his patients heal themselves without medications when possible. Now he approaches his patients with a global perspective, considering their emotions and the stories they tell themselves as a way to heal many health issues. He shares how he has developed this approach, and also discusses how we should approach COVID-19.

For more information on Dr. Lara, check out

https://drlaraweightloss.com/

On this episode, Priscilla talks to Nikki about the last year of her life that she has spent taking care of her aging mother in her 90s. She shares how she wasn't necessarily close to her mother during her teenage years and her 20s, but that later in life she was able to have a better adult relationship with her, leading to the tough moment when she realized her mother was no longer able to take care of herself. Priscilla explains how she made the decision to have her mother stay with her in her home instead of placing her in assisted care, and she talks in depth about the drastic changes this created in her life. With her mother not wanting to be a burden, Priscilla expended extra energy trying to hide from her how taxing the situation actually was. She also shares an incredibly powerful moment she got to have with her mother as she passed, and how years of facing and dealing with death prepared her for that moment.

On this episode, Nikki talks to Dr. Mark Hashim about his practice with CBD and THC. He shares how he has gotten many patients off of large doses of opiates and benzodiazepines through a mixture of CBD and THC, or even just CBD. He discusses how so many people consider anything related to cannabis a gateway drug, but that in his opinion it is an exit drug. He also explains the massive benefits in fighting cancer cells by powering up the endocannabanoid system. For more info, go to theherbalclinicmd.com

Nikki talks about really truly loving yourself with all of your differences and flaws. She challenges listeners to think of the last time they looked at themselves in the mirror without clothing and said "I love myself." She shares how after a unilateral mastectomy, that got hard for her, but now, she loves her body because it is healthy and helps her do so many things. She explains how her morning routine of working out, meditating and journaling help her stay on a good track of loving herself.

Nikki discusses life lessons she has learned on her journey towards loving herself. She explains the importance of three lessons: listening to your intuition, being okay with asking for help, and knowing what you think about you can bring about. She shares a story from her past that shaped how she thought about herself, making her discredit her intuition and believe that she could only rely on herself and not others, and how challenging that narrative as an adult brought her real happiness.