Wellness As A Way of Life for Women Building the Future

In this week’s episode of Energetically You I had the joy of talking with Karolina Rzadkowolska. Karolina is a certified alcohol-free life coach who helps powerful women make alcohol insignificant in their lives.

Questions we address in this episode:

1. Why might you want to become alcohol-free even though you don’t have a ‘drinking problem’?
2. How might you know that alcohol is holding you back?
3. What are some of the benefits of going alcohol-free?
4. What is the moderation illusion?
5. How does alcohol change our brain chemistry?

Quotes

“It’s like that saying in Yoga, we learn to let go of things that no longer serve us. It doesn’t mean they didn’t serve us then, it doesn’t mean we were wrong for choosing them then but we outgrow the younger versions of ourselves. We choose things because we’re evolved, we have different needs that are more nuanced now.”

“When it comes to drinking, we all have very common human needs and oftentimes we try to meet those needs through alcohol and there’s nothing wrong in having those needs, that’s a very human experience.”

“If I have a need for adventure; I want to feel uncertain and have some risks. Like a Friday night sometimes you have no idea what’s going to happen; you’re drinking. If I want to feel that uninhibited, how can I actually create that experience in my life without that negative consequence alcohol brings? Maybe I go jump into a cold body of water, maybe I do a naked moon ritual, maybe I go out on a Tues and leave work early and go shopping. We are responsible for creating the feelings we want to feel.”

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Karolina Rzadkowolska is a certified alcohol-free life coach who helps powerful women make alcohol insignificant in their lives. She’s worked with thousands of clients through her online courses and coaching to change their drinking habit and unleash a new level of health, happiness, and potential to go after their biggest dreams. Her book Euphoric will be out on bookshelves next January. She’s the host of Euphoric the Podcast, founder of Euphoric Alcohol-Free, and her work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Authority Magazine, Greatist, and Elite Daily. Karolina’s passionate about helping you discover what really makes you happy outside of a beverage and design a life you love. She would love to hear from you at www.euphoricaf.com.

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In this week’s episode of Energetically You I am sharing some quick tips to help you cultivate optimal wellness.  

The top questions we will be asking ourselves throughout the episode include:

1. What are the 4 types of wellness you need to consider?
2. Why is sleep so essential to all 4 types of our optimal wellness?
3. How just 2 minutes a day of some simple mindful practices can improve your optimal wellness.
4. Why processing cortisol is an essential part of your stress management strategy.

Quotes

“It could be as simple as being a little more conscious around an activity you are already doing.”

“Even if it’s just 2 minutes a day can be life changing.

“You are better off including some live fermented foods such as coconut kefir,  kombucha, kimchi, sauerkraut, homemade pickles and miso.”

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In this week’s episode of Energetically You I had the joy of chatting with Lauren Johnston who helps women reclaim their feminine power, embody real self-love, build self-trust and balance their masculine and feminine energies in work and relationships.

The top questions we will be asking ourselves throughout the episode include:

1. What are some healthy habits for our relationships?
2. What are some good ways to build intimacy in your relationship?
3. What are some good boundaries around technology to protect your relationship(s)?
4. How self-love + leaning into our feminine energy improves our intimacy with our partner.

Quotes

“I had such a guarded heart, that when my partner leaned in I just wasn’t able to receive.”

“Now I help women with their relationship with  themselves, being able to balance their feminine and masculine energies so that they can have the deep love and success, and not have to sacrifice or do it with burnout or overwhelm but do it in flow and with joy as well.”

“Become the embodiment of what you desire  in your relationship, and your partner will either come on board with you, or they won’t.  You can’t control them, you can’t make them, but you can become the embodiment.”

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Lauren is a Self-Love & Relationship Coach that helps ambitious women shatter their masculine confines to embody the love, luxury and life they truly desire.

After overcoming an exhausting cycle of people-pleasing, perfectionism, guarding her heart and hustling for her worth, it has become Lauren's mission to guide women to redefine self-worth, reconnect to their feminine power and unapologetically become their most loved and loving self.

Through her high-level coaching programs, Lauren has helped several women reclaim their feminine power, embody real self-love, build self-trust and balance their masculine and feminine energies in work and relationships.

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In this week’s episode of Energetically You I had the privilege to interview Prue Blennerhassett about how she invites women to own their worth and the value of their sacred work, so they can stand in their power and sell their high end, high value offering and activate their financial ascension. 

The top questions/topics we will be asking ourselves throughout the episode include:

1. Why we need to reframe our ‘tiredness’ for what it might really be telling us.
2. How to own your story, get comfortable with ourselves and stop wasting energy resisting who we truly are.
3. Learning to trust our feminine energy flows.
4. Overcoming childhood shaming, and trusting your return to expansion.

Quote

“When women are deeply connected to ourselves, for each of us there is something to be expressed in this world.”

“Meditation doesn’t have to take a long time, it doesn’t have to be hard.”

“My greatest love is nature, I love lying in the grass, going to the beach, staring at the clouds.”

“When we come from the place of service, it feels really good, especially as women. We are here to be of service, this is so natural for us but that doesn’t mean we don’t deserve to be divinely compensated for what we do.”

Thank you for listening!

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From a Degree in Banking and Finance to managing million dollar accounts out of university, Prue now supports women to embody their truth and package their brilliant soul work in a way that offers them divine compensation while facilitating the greatest level of transformation for their clients. 

Prue invites women to own their worth and the value of their sacred work, so they can stand in their power and sell their high end, high value offering and activate their financial ascension. 

The work she does is a mixture of strategy and energetic acuity, always inviting women to their next level of self-mastery in business and life.

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In this week’s episode of Energetically You I had the opportunity to interview Rachel Engstrom who has written a part memoir, part toolkit of a book to help people who are caregiving for spouses or a close family member who is fighting a terminal illness.  She has mobilized her grief through writing this book, being of service to others, self-care and walking.  

The top questions we will be asking ourselves throughout the episode include:

1. How can I truly be of service to someone carrying the stress of a loved one with cancer?
2. How to ask for help.
3. How to trust the process and move through the grieving process.
4. What are the practical (not so emotional) things we can do to help navigate the paperwork + support systems?

Quotes

 “There are so many things that are tough for people to admit to themselves, such as I need help, I can’t do this 100% on my own.”

“What I’m really proud of societally is that more and more men are calling in for counseling themselves.”

“ If we could just afford in many different ways to slow down, breathe and figure out what works.”

“We have to figure out how to slow ourselves down and give in to the process.”

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More from Rachel:

Rachel Engstrom M.S.W., C.H.E.S has written a groundbreaking memoir/self-book on her experience as a young cancer wife then widow. With the increasing number of young women and men becoming widows/widowers due to not only cancer and serious illnesses, but also now Covid 19, this resource is needed more now than ever. Rachel shares her journey in a raw and honest way, while providing step by step resources to help you navigate your own journey. Never before has there been a combination of the personal grit of the healthcare journey, along with steps on how to navigate treatment, diagnosis, the ins and outs of hospital life, employment, finances, insurance, self care, grief and loss and much more. You can find “Wife, Widow, Now What? How I Navigated the Cancer World and How You Can Too.”

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Resources mentioned in the show:

Book: Lost Connections by Johann Hari

In this week’s episode of Energetically You I had the privilege to interview my good friend and fellow sugar detox expert Lily Sokolov about how she lost 45 pounds and came to be a Health Coach with the Institute of Integrated Nutrition. 

The top questions we will be asking ourselves throughout the episode include:

1. Why did she start detoxing sugar?
2. What is the key to sugar detoxing?
3. How does sugar and refined flour affect your appearance?
4. Why is it important to detox with a community?
5. Why do women struggle with sugar addiction postpartum?

Quote

"This community of people started asking me questions, as if I was an expert. I realized I need to answer these questions, I had zero knowledge and this is when I found integrated nutrition (IIN)." 

“The key is to listen to my body.”

Thank you for listening!

Are you looking to lose weight with Lily?  

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More from Lily:

A Yogi. A fitness junkie. A mom of a 5.5 year-old boy. 

Russian born. Proud Canadian living in the USA, Georgia. 

Lily is 39 years old and never felt better and happier than now - Quitting sugar 5 years ago and losing 45 pounds. 

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In this week’s episode of Energetically You we focused on mindful drinking with Genevieve Pardoe and Candice Lashley both who have recently embarked on a month “dry” or without alcohol.  They openly share their reflections, experiences and thoughts on their drinking moving forward.  I also shared my experience doing one year of mindful drinking before I decided to quit drinking all together 3 years ago this week.  

The top questions we will be asking ourselves throughout the episode include:

1. What inspired Candice and Genevieve to take a month off drinking?
2. What surprised them about being sober for a month?
3. What were the major benefits that they experienced?  
4. Are they reevaluating their relationship with alcohol moving forward?

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Genevieve Pardoe is the founder of Fallon Publishing. She helps first-time authors bring their memoirs, business, strategy, coaching, and health + wellness books to life.

She also brings her background as a certified trauma counsellor and MA in Geopolitics (conflict studies + strategy) to help women get unstuck in life and at work. She's sort of like a business doula! Whether it’s marketing, mindset, or both, Genevieve's clients hire her to help them gain clarity and take action with ease. Also, they have great fun achieving meaningful wins along the way. You can reach her at [email protected]

Candice Lashley @thekindwedding is a wedding and event specialist with over 10 years experience planning and catering in the Greater Toronto Area. Her newest venture, The Kind Wedding teaches an approach to wedding planning that leads with kindness: focusing on reducing environmental impact and wedding waste, budget-and-eco-friendly tips and how to get down the aisle while maintaining a generous, loving and caring relationship to yourself and your loved ones.

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In this week’s episode of Energetically You we focused on abundant energy and an abundant mindset with one of the leading experts on the topic, Sabrina Philipp.  Sabrina works with women all over the world helping them step into their power and reach their goals through her business and mindset coaching.  She excels at supporting women at all levels of their business journey.   One thing that she teaches is that mindset work is always something we need to keep at the forefront to ensure that our limiting beliefs don’t come back to sabotage our success.  She has trademarked the term AbundantAF and she will tell us how she came to embody abundant energy. 

Quotes from Sabrina:

“I do think there is a connection between the shifts you make energetically, mentally, and physically and how that will later transfer into financially."

“Abundance is a feeling, it’s the feeling and belief that there is always more than enough.”

“Make lifestyle changes about why you want to have that change versus how it’s something you have to do.”

“I talk about law of massive action. If you want something you go out and make it happen. There is a very specific process for doing that, you look at your thoughts, clear out any resistance, get locked in, get certain, and take action.”

Thank you for listening!

Are you looking to level up your mindset and business with Sabrina?  

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More from Sabrina:

I haven’t always been the CEO of a 30-person company, with students and clients in nearly every country on Earth, a husband who hops with me from country to country as my COO, and a multi-million dollar business built from the ground up.

When I started out, I was a college drop-out with $800 in her pocket, a one-way plane ticket to Bali, and a commitment to make it on my own. Little did I know, that single decision changed the course of my life forever.

Today you can find me cooking up new cocktails (and programs!) in Scotland with my Aussie hubs Paul and our Goldendoodle Bonnie.

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In this week’s episode of Energetically You we focused on how to protect your energy from being impacted by other people’s negative energy.  I chatted with my friend Britt Gustafson of BeMindBodySoul about her path that took her out of working corporate jobs to being a Reiki Master.  She shares her tips on protecting yourself from other peoples’ energy - even virtually.  

The top questions we will be asking ourselves throughout the episode include:

• What is Distance Reiki?
• What are some ways to restore your positive energy and protect yourself from absorbing the negative vibes of others?
• What is the best way to start your day to set yourself for good energy throughout the day?

Quote

“If there’s one thing you can do for yourself, try to implement more mindful practices in your life and what you’re doing.” -Britt Gustafson

Thank you for listening!

Are you looking to try Distant Reiki with Britt?   

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More on Britt:

As the owner of BE Mind Body Soul, I’ve built a modern health and wellness brand + community. The intention is on spiritual growth through building a mindful community supported by Reiki, Mindful Life Coaching, Intuitive Business Coaching, Essential Oils, Meditation, Manifestation, Women Empowerment Circles, Workshops and Retreats. 

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Binaural Beats Britt Loves:

Epic https://youtu.be/nkkJgdiR8IA

Amazing https://youtu.be/YmRs6UqhkZE

Good Vibes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R27N7lBZzuo&feature=youtu.be

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In this week’s episode of Energetically You, Megan Swan discusses the power of gratitude in your life. Tune in for 5 ways you can cultivate more gratitude in your life.  When we shift into a mindset of gratitude we are automatically shifting out of a mindset based in fear.  It is our ability to control our minds and think creatively that we can use to feel happier, more appreciative and more connected to those around us.  It is a practice anyone can develop.

“ I believe gratitude is a spirit within us all.”

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