Wisdom Stripes with Meg Tuohey

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June 0486. Your Body Already Knows How to Heal. Here's the Science Behind It. | Dr. Joy Kong
EPISODE 86 | Your Body Already Knows How to Heal. Here's the Science Behind It. | Dr. Joy Kong

What if your body already knows how to heal, and medicine has just been getting in the way?

In this fascinating episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Dr. Joy Kong, a UCLA-trained, triple board-certified physician in psychiatry, addiction medicine, and anti-aging and regenerative medicine. Dr. Kong is the president of Chara Health in Los Angeles, founder of the American Academy of Integrative Cell Therapy, and a 73rd-generation descendant of Confucius. She has dedicated her career to one question: what would medicine look like if we actually tried to heal people?

This conversation moves from stem cells and mesenchymal therapy to peptides, ozone, ketamine, and the mental health system Dr. Kong herself was caught inside, maxed out on Prozac in medical school, now off all antidepressants for years.

🎧 Tune in and learn:
What stem cell therapy actually is, and why your body already has the tools to regenerate

Why autoimmune conditions, long COVID, and chronic illness respond so well to this approach

The 9/11 responder who was told he was dying, and what happened after three sessions

What peptides actually do and why over 30 are now used in Dr. Kong's clinic

How ketamine therapy helps the brain rewire trauma, explained in plain language

Your body is a gift. This episode is an invitation to start treating it like one. 💚

💡 Featured Resources:
🧬 Chara Health: charahealth.com
📖 Tiger of Beijing, Dr. Kong's memoir

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49 min
May 2885. How to Build Resilience When You Have Nothing to Start With | Rich Robledo
Episode 85 | How to Build Resilience When You Have Nothing to Start With with Rich Robledo

Eyes up. Keep going. Life is going to punch you. What matters is what you do next.

In this grounded, energizing episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Rich Robledo, entrepreneur, real estate broker, community leader, and founder of both the Robledo Group and Cigars and Conversation, a networking hub that has brought together business minds from across the country, including the Governor of Nevada. Rich grew up with a teenage mother and an absent alcoholic father, navigated the 2008 recession without a safety net, and built a life and a career around one simple principle: if you've done well, you have an obligation to do good.

This conversation is warm, practical, and deeply human. It is about resilience, connection, mentorship, and what it really means to show up every day when showing up is hard.

🎧 Tune in and learn:
What eyes up actually means, and how to find the helpers when you feel alone

Why resilience is a muscle, not a stock, and how to build more of it

The art of the phone call, the thank you note, and why connection is a skill we have to practice

Why a non-decision is still a decision, and what avoidance is really costing you

Don't let your imagination be your limitation: how new rooms change what you think is possible

Take the punch. Take your breath. Lift your eyes. Look for the helpers. 💚

💡 Featured Resources:
Connect with Rich: @RichRobledo | richrobledo.com
Cigars and Conversation: follow Rich online for upcoming events

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1 hr 1 min
May 2184. She Spent 20 Years Hating Herself. Here's How She Finally Broke Free | Alexis Meruelo
Episode 84 | She Spent 20 Years Hating Herself. Here's How She Finally Broke Free with Alexis Meruelo
She spent 20 years trapped in a cycle of self-hatred, limiting beliefs, and an eating disorder she hid from the world. Now she helps women do in months what took her decades.
In this warm and deeply honest episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Alexis Meruelo, Chief Vision and Purpose Officer of Meruelo Group, women's empowerment advocate, keynote speaker, and author of the upcoming book Rising to Lead. Alexis grew up in a Cuban-Latin culture where women were taught to stay quiet, serve, and not take up space. There is even a saying for it: "te ves mas bonita cuando te callas." You look prettier when you're quiet. For 20 years, she believed it. Then everything fell apart. And she rebuilt herself from the floor up.
Now she mentors dozens of young women, speaks at conferences around the world, and is on a mission to help women identify and rewrite the limiting beliefs that are quietly keeping them from the life and career they were built for.

🎧 Tune in and learn:
How to identify where your limiting beliefs came from and why knowing the source is the first step to releasing them

What growing up in Latin machismo culture taught her about silence, worthiness, and women's power

Why your greatest purpose will always stem from your greatest pain, and how to find it when you're still in the thick of it

What real mentorship looks like for women in business (and why a woman with a mentor is 5x more likely to get promoted)

How to break generational money beliefs holding Latina women back and become the one who changes the lineage
The only thing holding you back is the story you have been telling yourself. This episode is an invitation to rewrite it. 💚

💡 Featured Resources:
Connect with Alexis: @alexismeruelo
Website: alexismeruelo.com
Women's Conference: The Business of Her, November, Sahara Las Vegas
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50 min
May 1483. Prevention Over Pills: What the Healthcare System Isn't Telling You | Sam Tejada
Episode 83 | Prevention Over Pills: What the Healthcare System Isn't Telling You with Sam Tejada

A chronically ill patient has one wish. A healthy person has many. Which side of that coin are you on?

In this grounding and eye-opening episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Sam Tejada, founder and president of LiquiVida, a multimillion-dollar wellness company revolutionizing preventative health and IV therapy across the United States. Sam's path began as a lifeguard teaching kids not to drown, evolved into 12 years as a firefighter-paramedic watching the same patients spiral into chronic illness, and transformed when he saw a cardiac surgeon quietly reversing disease by changing how people lived.

This conversation is a masterclass in taking ownership of your health, before crisis forces you to.

🎧 Tune in and learn:
The three pillars of modern health: prevention, early detection, and treatment intervention

Four free things you can start today: say no, eat right, move your body, sleep better

Why toxins in food, water, and your environment are the root cause of most modern disease

What Sam witnessed watching low-income and ultra-wealthy patients in the same decade and why information is the real divide

Why, if you want to change the system, do you have to get yourself into a position of power to change it

Your health is not just for you. It's for everyone who depends on you. This episode is your reminder to make it a priority.

💡 Featured Resources:
🧬 LiquiVida: liquivida.com
Website: www.SamTejada.com

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45 min
May 0782. Drama Is Data: The Mindset Shift That Helps You Find Peace in the Chaos | Lisa Stuart
Drama Is Data: The Mindset Shift That Helps You Find Peace in the Chaos with Lisa Stuart

What if drama wasn't something to avoid, but something to dance with?

In this warm and deeply practical episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Lisa Stuart, attorney, author, speaker, wife, and mother of three, creator of The Drama Diet. Known as the Drama Dietitian, Lisa helps people shed what's heavy: fear, guilt, and the stories that keep them small, so they can gain a life of peace and freedom.

Lisa's wisdom is not theory. It's earned. From divorce, blended family chaos, three miscarriages, and family rejection to a surprise daughter she dreamed about as a child, she has walked through it all and come back with a framework that actually works.

🎧 Tune in and learn:
Why drama never dies and how to stop fighting it and start dancing with it instead

The law of duality and how contrast shows you exactly what you want

How to turn comparisonitis from a wound into a compass

Why don't you dream of something that doesn't belong to you

What breaking generational chains actually looks like in a family and what changes for the next generation because of it

Navigate with fear. Lead with love. This is your permission slip. 💚

💡 Featured Resources:
📖 The Drama Diet by Lisa Stuart
Available on Amazon, Etsy, and lisastuart.com

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50 min
April 3081. The Persistence Formula: How One Woman Rebuilt Her Business Three Times and Still Won | Zeynep Ekemen
Episode 81 | The Persistence Formula: How One Woman Rebuilt Her Business Three Times and Still Won with Zeynep Ekemen

What do you do when your competitors fold, your partners leave, and the world decides it no longer needs your product?

In this energizing episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Zeynep Ekemen, founder of Z Realty Group and Silver Defender, inventor, investor, and advocate for women in business. Zeynep invented an antimicrobial film technology in 2018, launched it at the height of the pandemic, watched her competitors collapse when COVID ended, bought out her own partners, and rebuilt the company from scratch, twice, until it landed in the NFL, MLB, and World Trade Center buildings.

This conversation is about what persistence actually looks like from the inside: the gratitude journal she has kept for decades, the three-part formula that gets her through any obstacle, and why she still bets everything on herself, every time.

🎧 Tune in and learn:
The three-part daily formula she uses to access her intuition and keep moving: exercise, gratitude, and prayer

How writing your dreams in the past tense, as if they already happened, quietly rewires your brain toward them

Why the people who don't believe in you are often the people closest to you and what to do about it

The pivot that saved Silver Defender: shifting from pandemic product to permanent healthcare infrastructure

What it really means to bet on yourself when you've already lost it all before
If you've ever wondered whether persistence is enough, this episode will remind you it is.

💡 Featured Resources:
Silver Defender: silverdefender.com
Zeynep on IG: @z_silverdefender

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44 min
April 2380. Why Authenticity Is Your Strongest Asset & How To Use It | Imad Jbara
Episode 80 | Why Authenticity Is Your Strongest Asset & How To Use It | Imad Jbara

What if your darkest moment was actually the one that built you?

In this raw and energizing episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Imad Jbara, high ticket sales strategist, fractional COO, and sought-after coach who has trained elite sales teams for Tony Robbins, Dean Graziosi, Jay Shetty, and Grant Cardone. But before any of that, Imad was sleeping in Central Park at 21 with $150,000 of debt he didn't create, no family safety net, and nowhere to go.

This conversation moves from survival to sales mastery, from abandonment wounds to authentic leadership, and from the moment a stranger's three words on a cliff changed everything, to what it really takes to walk into a room and triple a company's revenue.

🎧 Tune in and learn:
Why authenticity is a silent confidence and how it becomes your strongest sales tool

The gas pedal and the steering wheel: how masculine and feminine energy work in sales and leadership

How to build a business that doesn't collapse when you leave

What his mentor said when he hit $1.4M in three months that cut straight to the bone

The three words from a stranger that pulled him back from the edge

If you've ever had your back against the wall and wondered whether you were going to make it, this one is for you.

💡 Featured Resources:
Follow Imad: @ImadSpeaks

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1 hr 9 min
April 1679. Stop Waiting to Feel Ready: The Truth About Confidence & Dating After 40 | Kimmy Seltzer
Episode 79 | Stop Waiting to Feel Ready: The Truth About Confidence & Dating After 40 with Kimmy Seltzer

What if confidence wasn't something you found... but something you created from the outside in?

In this episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Kimmy Seltzer, confidence therapist, authentic dating strategist, image expert, and creator of the Charisma Quotient. Kimmy spent years as a traditional therapist working from the inside out.
Then her own divorce threw her into the field, single, starting over, and learning to date for the first time since college. What she discovered changed everything. She flipped the script entirely and now helps people rebuild their confidence, identity, and love life through her signature three-pillar method: style intelligence, emotional intelligence, and social intelligence. Her work has been featured on TEDx, Cosmopolitan, and Oprah Magazine.

This conversation moves from the neuroscience of first impressions and the nonverbal signals we don't even know we're sending, to the scarcity beliefs that keep good people invisible to each other, the art of dating as a skill, and what it really means to put yourself back out there in your second act. It is one of the most grounded and practical episodes we have had on Wisdom Stripes.

🎧 Tune in and learn:
Why dating in your second act requires a completely different approach and what nobody tells you about it

The "leaking" phenomenon: how unhealed wounds show up in your body language before you say a single word

The 3-second rule, the LinkedIn exchange, and why leading with your wounds keeps love at a distance

Why confidence is not a feeling you wait for, it is a skill you build through action, one small step at a time
You are not behind. You are not broken. You are just waiting for someone to show you how to begin again.
💡 Featured Resources:
🌟 Kimmy Seltzer kimmyseltzer.com | Podcast: The Charisma Quotient
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53 min
April 0978. Why Women Are Always Tired: The Cellular Truth About Burnout | Jessica Kane
Episode 78 | Why Women Are Always Tired: The Cellular Truth About Burnout with Jessica Kane

What if you're not tired, inflamed, and burned out because of your schedule, but because of what's happening inside your cells?

In this fascinating episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohy sits down with Jessica Kane, co-owner and Chief Marketing Officer at Body Bio, a third-generation wellness company redefining health from the inside out. Jessica's grandfather was a biohacker decades before the word existed, a man who developed chronic fatigue in the 1980s and spent the rest of his life building a science-backed framework for cellular health. Jessica inherited both his mission and his research and now she's bringing it to the world.

This conversation moves from the science of cell membranes and mitochondrial function to grief, epigenetics, losing a father at 18, Lyme disease, mold toxicity, and what it actually means to take your health into your own hands. It's one of the most layered episodes we've had on Wisdom Stripes.

🎧 Tune in and learn:
What the cell membrane actually does and why damaged ones are behind so much modern illness

The difference between structural fats and seed oils and why it matters for your brain

How epigenetics passes maternal health, trauma, and mitochondrial burden down through generations

Sleep hygiene beyond the basics: circadian light, mouth tape, EMF, and why dimming your lights matters more than you think

What Jessica's grandfather built and the proprietary process only 10 to 15 people in the world know how to do

You have more agency over your health than you've been told. This episode is the beginning of that conversation.

💡 Featured Resources:
🧬 Body Bio bodybio.com
Follow Jessica on Instagram and LinkedIn

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46 min
April 02 77. Grounded Hope: How to Lead Your Family Through Uncertainty & Fear | Parul Somani
What do you do when there is no right answer, only the decision you can live with?
At 31 years old, days after an emergency C-section with her newborn in the NICU, Parul Samani felt a lump. Her husband wheeled her in a wheelchair to a neighboring hospital for a biopsy. They were told it was probably nothing. On her daughter's exact one-week birthday, while holding her newborn in her arms, she got the call: aggressive triple negative breast cancer.
In this episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohy sits down with Parul Samani, MIT and Harvard Business School trained strategist, cancer survivor, mother of two, and author of The Path of Least Regret. What began in a NICU became a five-phase decision-making framework now used by Fortune 100 leaders and medical communities worldwide.
Together they explore how to make the hardest decisions without a guaranteed right answer, what it means to lead your family through uncertainty with honesty and courage, and how grounded hope... not blind optimism... is what actually gets you through. Parul also shares the story of advocating for her mother's genetic testing, the ovarian cancer they caught just in time, and what her husband said on the first day of chemotherapy that she will never forget.
This conversation covers: the Path of Least Regret framework, lifespan vs. healthspan, BRCA genetic testing, raising children with a family cancer history, processing grief without getting stuck in it, intergenerational resilience, and why chemotherapy ages the body but matures the mind.
Pick up Parul's book at parulsomani.com and follow her on Instagram at @PDSomani. Follow Meg at @MegTuoheyOfficial. New episodes of Wisdom Stripes every week.

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57 min