What's The Juice

Ep 99. We're 100% here for Vanessa Rissetto's accessible, straightforward nutrition advice. She approaches nutrition from an outsider's perspective because, in many ways, she is one. As CEO and Co-Founder of Culina Health, her priority is making clinical nutrition care inclusive and accessible. Vanessa received a Master's in Science in Marketing from NYU and later completed her Dietetic Internship through their Nutrition and Food Studies Program at Mount Sinai Hospital. Her work in private practice includes treatment of GI disorders, bariatric surgery, weight management, PCOS, and family nutrition. She loves helping clients take an active role in their health journey and motivates them to achieve success. Vanessa was named by Essence magazine as one of the top 5 black nutritionists who will change the way you think about food.

Links from the ep:

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Here's the juice:

• How she felt like the nutrition field catered to the 1% and therefore started her company, Culina Health to increase access

• The value of a great practitioner as opposed to a bunch of functional tests that aren't covered by insurance

• Her simple, straightforward advice about eating that everyone can benefit from

• How to figure out "what works for you" when you have no clue

• Her opinion on intermittent fasting and when it's appropriate

• Why it's okay to want to look good in your body!

• How she built her company to be the first nutrition company run by RDs, with investment money, and accepting insurance

• Why not eating enough actually keeps you from losing weight

• The role of compromise in achieving your health goals

• How to incorporate healthy coping mechanisms that aren't related to food and drink

• The importance of sitting in the quiet for clarity and food-related emotions

• Tips on how to access nutritious, high quality food when you're on a budget

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Ep 98. This week I'm sitting down with the one and only Jenna Zoe. Jenna is the world-leading expert in Human Design and the creator of the popular My Human Design App. She turned a complicated science into an accessible, easy-to-implement tool that will totally change your life. Jenna presents Human Design through a lens of radial acceptance which has resonated with millions around the globe and essentially made it into the mainstream obsession it is now. Her #1 goal is to help us understand who we are and how we function so that we can spend our energy emphasizing our unique gifts and talents, instead of trying to be someone society wants us to be.

Links from the ep: - Follow the link notion.com/juice to try Notion Ai for note-taking and project planning

Here's the juice:

• How Human Design combines astrology, the chakras, and kabbala to paint a holistic picture of who you are + how you operate

• The full breakdown of each human design type – generator, manifesting generator, manifestor, projector, reflector

• Why it's important to open your mind so that you are ready to receive what the universe is sending you

• It's not about finding the "right" career path for you, it's about how much you genuinely love what you're doing

• Why it behooves you to remove things from your plate that you don't enjoy so that other people who love doing those things can do them

• How if you're living your design the right people will find you

• How to read and trust that your unique urges are divine

• What it looks like when you're living out of alignment with your human design type

• Why most of us need to be deconditioned to some degree

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Ep 97. This week I have a fun, conversational episode for you that feels like a night of girl talk on the couch sprinkled with deep wisdom. Rebecca Leigh is a nutritionist passionate about all things holistic health and wellness. Her health journey began with cycles of what she thought was "healthy" – "clean eating", counting calories, spending hours at the gym daily, and trying to look a certain way. In exploring holistic wellness, Rebecca learned the emotional and spiritual causes of her issues, examined them, and healed from them. She could quiet her inner critic and build true, lasting confidence. Living her best life meant realizing that she had everything she needed within her. Now Rebecca finds purpose in guiding women to become their most authentic and empowered selves.

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- Use code olivia for 15% off your first one-month supply of NOBS using the link betterbiom.com/olivia

Here's the juice:

• Rebecca's journey with obsessive eating and working out and how she broke free from unhealthy cycles

• Why you might feel the need to be productive 24/7 and feel a lack of worth when you are not

• What being the child of immigrant parents was like and how she rewired the belief that working extremely hard is the only way to get what you want

• How to unpack your belief system – first you must identify the belief before you are able to shift it

• Her favorite tools to become more self-aware

• The science behind synchronicity and how to feel more in flow with the universe

• The power of getting curious and asking questions about yourself and the world

• How physical ailments are messengers of deeper emotionally-driven issues

• Why jealousy is a powerful tool in determining your desires

• The role of community in healing, especially for women

• The power of daily affirmations – the harder they are to say to yourself, the better because that means you really need to hear them

• Visualizing your future self with the life you want as if you already had it

• Why keeping the small promises you made to yourself is key in building confidence

• Self care is doing the thing that you need the most when you least feel like doing them

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Ep 96. If you feel like you're in a rut or need a motivational pep talk, this episode is for you! Doug Bopst is an award-winning personal trainer, author, and speaker. However, his young adult life couldn't have been more different than his current reality. Around his 21st birthday, Doug was detoxing from opiates in a jail cell after years of drug addiction. He turned to physical exercise as an outlet which ultimately catalyzed him to face his demons head-on and completely reinvent himself. Doug's mission today is to inspire others to overcome adversity, break free from destructive addictions, and become the best version of themselves.

Links from the ep: - Follow the link notion.com/juice to try Notion Ai for note-taking and project planning

Here's the juice:

• How Doug's crippling insecurities and need for acceptance led him to drugs

• The moment that rock-bottomed him but ultimately turned his life around

• How negative habit stacking is just as much of a thing as positive habit stacking

• What got him to start working out in jail (spoiler: he couldn't do one pushup when he started)

• Why reaching your "most successful" point is often your most unhappy one

• How spirituality helped him drop his ego and allowed him to see the bigger picture

• No one is coming to save you; you have to take ownership of your own life

• The role of community when bettering yourself

• The concept of addiction transference – in his case, being addicted to drugs shifted to being addicted to validation

• Why you have to determine an identity for yourself or you'll become a chameleon, shaped by other people's identities

• When you're not feeling confident in yourself and your own victories you're unable to celebrate other people's wins

• What steps to take when you've hit rock bottom

• The importance of working your adversity muscle. Pain is like an adaptogen, the more you face it the stronger and more resilient you become

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Ep 95. Are you curious about why you dream and what your dreams might mean? Theresa Cheung is a modern mystic who has been researching and writing about spirituality, dreams and the paranormal for the past twenty-five years. She holds a degree from Kings College, Cambridge University in Theology and English, both of which have informed her "Dream Dictionary from A to Z '' and several other best-selling books. Theresa works closely with scientists studying consciousness and also hosts her spiritual podcast, White Shores.

Links from the ep:

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Here's the juice:

• How dreams are messages from your intuition that you've missed during your conscious, waking life

• Why dream work is the starting point to all spiritual growth because it teaches you that you are more than your physical body your conscious thoughts

• Nightmares are showing you the worst possible scenario which is actually a self help tool

• How you can apply dream decoding techniques to your waking life

• What her dream dictionary is and how to use it

• A two week step-by-step plan to start understanding your dreams and dream patterns

• Why dreams are the ultimate creativity hack – many inventions have come from visions in dreams!

• How dreams have saved many people's lives

• If you can't recall your dreams, you can start deciphering how you feel when you wake up in the morning and recording that in some way

• What some common recurring dreams mean (like all of your teeth falling out or being unprepared for a test)

• Techniques or exercises you can do to start recalling your dreams more effectively

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Ep 94. Today we're going deep with one of the leading voices in the global wellness movement, Millana Snow. To give you an idea of how committed she is to personal growth, Millana started meditating at age 4. She is a healer, teacher, and wellness entrepreneur with a passion for sharing healing with a global community of clients, followers, brands and celebrities. As an avid learner and seeker, Millana has practiced and studied Christianity, Hinduism, Wicca, Buddhism, anthropology, psychology, and more for most of her life. She blends these teachings with a healthy dose of humor and realness which results in incredibly rich and approachable offerings.

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Here's the juice:

• Why we're experiencing a lack of emotional intimacy in our culture

• If you're performing in work, life, etc then you're probably performing in your relationships

• What we do not complete we repeat. If you don't heal yourself you will continue to repeat negative patterns out in the world

• Why if you find yourself fighting for something or someone, that is a trauma response that you're playing out

• What coregulation in friendships and romantic relationships looks like

• The misconception that friendships don't require the same amount of work as romantic relationships

• The three steps you can take to make conscious friends as an adult

• Why you can't expect people to be your everything. For instance, if you're having a traumatic experience you need to seek out a trauma informed professional

• How to maintain intentional friendships when you have a full life. Hint: boundaries!

• Prioritizing yourself so that you aren't giving from an empty cup

• It's really not about the quantity but rather the quality and depth of your relationships

• Why the big life moments give you clarity on who your true inner circle is – weddings, successes, failures, break ups, death

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Ep 93. We cover so much ground in this deeply holistic episode with Dr. Sara Gotffried. Dr. Gottfried is a scientist, researcher, medical doctor and seeker. She always says that she practices medicine, but doesn't treat problems. Rather, Dr. Gottfried specializes in root cause analysis, helping people feel fully alive and balanced from their cells to their souls. If you're currently struggling with a hormonal condition and don't know where to begin, this episode is for you! She offers up the loving reminder that the misery of your body being out of whack is so much worse than the work that it takes to fix it.

Links from the ep:

• use code olivia for 15% off your first one-month supply of NOBS using this link betterbiom.com/olivia

Here's the juice:

• The science AND energetics of PCOS

• Looking at hormonal conditions from both a nature and a nurture standpoint – the role of soul wounds and intergenerational trauma

• How epigenetics impact hormonal and metabolic health

• Why therapeutic tools (like tapping and breathwork) matter just as much as diet and supplements, if not more, when it comes to hormone health

• What to do if your nervous system is in freeze mode

• Why she opts for somatic based solutions that are trauma informed like EMDR and the Hikomi method

• How to define your individual carb and protein threshold

• The healing power of therapeutic "pulsing" of a low carb diet for less than 4 weeks for those with PCOS and blood sugar issues

• The exact labs you need to order with your insurance-covered doctor if you have PCOS

• Why she recommends 1 POUND of vegetables a day for detoxification!

• Her favorite hormone supporting birth control methods

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Ep 92. My girl Dr. Gabrielle Lyon is back for another episode of "What's the Juice?"! Dr. Lyon has been my personal doctor for 7 years now and has truly changed my life. She is a well-respected functional medicine practitioner and the founder of the Institute for Muscle-Centric Medicine®, specializing in thyroid health, lean body mass support, and longevity. In this episode, we build off of our conversation from last year about the importance of skeletal muscle and its immediate positive impact on your health. We get into the principles and key takeaways of her new book, "Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well" which is SO motivating and easy to understand. You'll leave this conversation feeling ready to take action and not afraid to work hard for your health goals.

Links from the ep:

• Use code organicolivia for 10% off site wide on forceofnature.com
• Order Dr. Lyon's book HERE

Here's the juice:

• Why you're only going to get as healthy as your self-worth allows you to be

• How to navigate a present bias and why you need to focus on future goals over immediate results

• Why she sees anxiety as a distraction

• The concept of having "guard rails" – how getting the consequence right really keeps you from repeating that action again

• How the most successful people in the world are deeply aware of their weaknesses

• Asking yourself "what are the standards for my life?" vs abiding by a strict diet. What actions and personality traits are required in order to meet my goals?

• The importance of raising the wellness bar for those around you

• Food addiction and how protein can help stop the food noise and curb emotional eating

• As we evolve our coping mechanisms need to evolve as well

• Highlighting your patterns as characters by naming them and giving them a voice

• Why low skeletal muscle and excess body fat can lead to fertility issues in both men and women

• Why we actually THRIVE during challenges, contrary to what we may believe

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Ep 91. This episode with Evy Poumpouras might be one of my favorite conversations of all time. Evy is a multimedia journalist who once served as an agent in the US Secret Service, protecting Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and others. She also worked criminal investigations, operated undercover, and was an interrogator for the agency's polygraph unit specially trained in the art of lie detection, human behavior, and cognitive influence. It's no wonder she believes that words are your most powerful weapon and she loves teaching about how to protect yourself, read people, influence situations, and live fearlessly.

Links from the ep:

• use code olivia for 15% off your first one-month supply of NOBS using this link betterbiom.com/olivia

Here's the juice:

• Why we need to stop coddling others and telling them they're special
• Why placing too much focus on the self contributes to depression and anxiety
• How to fail well
• The power of problem-solving on your own – no one is going to come save you
• What she thinks about the concept in modern pop psychology of blaming everything on our childhood trauma and attributing all of our current challenges to our childhood wounding and our dynamic with our parents
• The role of the ego in judgment of and attachment to others
• What "chasing the good" means, especially when it comes to interpersonal relationships
• Why being an empath may not actually be a good thing and the role of boundaries
• People pleasing and the correlation between wanting to be liked and worthiness
• You need to stop looking for confidence – screw confidence, you don't need it. Just act.
• Why she says that if you are easily triggered you might be easily manipulated
• Your dreams don't have to be in alignment with other people's dreams

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Ep 90. This episode is for all of you fitness and science nerds out there. Alan Aragon is a nutrition researcher and educator well known for his evidence-based approach to health. He has over 30 years of experience in the field, designing fitness programs for recreational and professional athletes and people who just want to look and feel their best. Alan also writes a monthly research review (AARR) providing cutting-edge theoretical and practical information to the general public. His work has been published in popular magazines like Men's Health as well as peer-reviewed scientific literature.

Here's the juice:

• What flexible dieting is and why there's no such thing as one ideal diet for all of humankind

• How to combine flexible dieting with the parameters that we know work scientifically, like eating a certain amount of protein or fiber

• The science of fat loss – how to lose weight the slow, healthy way

• How to find what your maintenance calories are

• Why high protein hurting your kidneys is a myth, and we get into other nutrition myths that bug Alan

• If metabolic adaptation is a real thing

• How it makes sense for some people to add more calories when trying to lose weight

• Why intermittent fasting isn't all it's cracked up to be

• Why women MUST eat breakfast, especially those with PCOS

• How much protein you actually need per day

• When you should actually be eating more carbohydrates

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