Why We Love Kristina:

Kristina Santiago is an energetic amplifier here to help women reveal, and celebrate their Sacred Selves. Through simple ritual, deeper clarity, and a multitude of spiritual tools- she supports women in the discovery of self and purpose. By weaving spirituality and business she leads soul fueled ceos to embodying their calling with greater ease and trust.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• The concept of bringing real intention back into our regular rituals
• What happens when we get disconnected from our intuition/heart
• Why we don’t need to dedicate a huge amount of time to a spiritual practice
• How Kristina helps the women she works with integrate rituals into their daily life
• Why “busy” is a word we often use to feel important, when really it’s a detraction from our opportunity to fully live our lives with joy
• Kristina’s career/life trajectory and how she evolved into the life she has now
• Why we sometimes snuff down a nagging discontent by abusing our bodies in some way - in Kristina’s case with alcohol - and how she moved through it
• How to enjoy change, and why rituals can help us move through it more gracefully
• The types of rituals Kristina introduces people to: such as using sage, meditation, moon ceremonies, etc., and how to find what works best for you
• Why we’re starting to see more interconnection in the world, and what makes a huge difference for our energy levels
• How to deal if there’s a lot of toxic, negative energy at your company
• Why we don’t need to take our rituals so seriously or hit rock bottom to have a spiritual practice
• Crystals: how to use them intentionally and their purpose
• How Kristina marries spiritually and business in her program, and why connecting the two brings a certain centeredness into our work, especially for entrepreneurs
• Why everything else falls into place once we work on our own happiness first, despite the opposite formula is typically ingrained in us
• How complacency shows up in different areas of our lives
• And much more
• Whether or not entrepreneurship and the personal growth track is an innate trait or environmental

Helpful Links:

• Kristina’s beautiful website
• Get her free Rose Quartz Crystal Class to learn how to use your crystals!
• Follow Kristina on Instagram
• Follow Kristina on Facebook
• Listen to Kristina’s podcast, Exist Brightly
• EFT (tapping) with Brad Yates on Youtube
• Nick Ortner’s book, The Tapping Solution
• The Netflix documentary, Heal
• Kristina’s crystal shop
• Kristina’s program for healing, spiritual development and business growth, The Twelve Moons Academy
• Episode #3 of the pod with branding strategist Blair Badenhop
• Shawn Achor’s book, The Happiness Advantage
• Neuroscientist Sam Harris and his podcast, Making Sense

Learn more and view full show notes at wellnesslately.com/podcast

Kristina Santiago is an energetic amplifier here to help women reveal, and celebrate their Sacred Selves. Through simple ritual, deeper clarity, and a multitude of spiritual tools- she supports women in the discovery of self and purpose. By weaving spirituality and business she leads soul fueled ceos to embodying their calling with greater ease and trust.

Why We Love Megan:

Megan is a Registered Dietitian and Functional Medicine Nutritionist specializing in eating disorders. She completed her Masters of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics at Bastyr University in Seattle, WA, one of the country’s leading schools of integrative medicine. Megan is an active member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), the Integrative and Functional Nutrition Academy (IFNA), and the International Federation of Eating Disorder Dietitians (IFEDD).

She runs a her private nutrition practice, founded to help clients heal their relationships with food through nutrition intervention and psychological exploration. She is a certified Health at Every Size® Facilitator and has extensive experience developing and implementing detailed nutrition care plans.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• How she got started in her work of eating disorder recovery and emotional eating
• Why she believes that painful relationships with food aren’t about food at all but symptoms of something deeper out of whack in our lives
• How she worked through her own painful relationship with food
• Why she believes we must untangle food from body image and focus more on how it feels to be in our bodies
• What she believes causes this disconnection to ourselves and our bodies as women in our culture
• Why worthiness of taking up space in the world is such a common theme in recovery
• What our society is teaching girls that’s making them question their worthiness and right to take up space in this world
• Social media's role in our cultural body image struggle
• Why the masculine structure of our culture oppresses our feminine spirits and causes the emotional challenges that result in poor body image and negative food behaviors
• How dieting disconnects us from our bodies and forces what should be an intuitive connection to ourselves into our minds instead - where intuition cannot thrive
• Why food behaviors are really a canary in a coal mine for many
• Why we should look under the hood of negative food behaviors to find the root cause of a need to exert a sense of control
• Why the urge to numb our hunger forces us to numb out in the rest of our lives and how recalibrating our relationship to hunger helps us to rebuild the more meaningful areas of our lives as well
• Her favorite exercise to lead clients through that helps to stop numbing emotional and physical hunger
• The importance of the gut flora and the brain connection in healing from disordered eating
• The negative feedback loop created by disordered eating in your body and brain and why consistent eating helps to reset digestion and re-nourish the gut with improves that feedback loop
• Health at Every Size, what it means and why it’s so important 
• Why we need to take the focus away from weight loss in order to heal - because none of this has ever been about your body and it will never be about your body
• What it looks like to reconnect to your body and remove the judgement and fear and morality around food when you’re in the early stages of recovery.
• The political side of our food environment and how it affects diet culture, our body image, and the uphill battle of healing from disordered eating
• Megan’s favorite book and the three of us getting weird about wild, feminine energy and how our current patriarchal society stifles it
• The most influentials books, resources and teachers she’s found along the way
• Whether or not she is hopeful for the future for women everywhere

Helpful Links:

• Megan's Website
• Follow Megan on Instagram
• Follow Megan on Facebook
• Women Who Run with The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
• Body Respect by Linda Bacon
• Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole
• Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon
• The Minnesota Starvation Study
• Eating in the The Light of the Moon by Anita A. Johnston
• The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
• The Desire Map by Danielle LaPorte
• The Religion of Thinness by Michelle M. Lelwica

Learn more and view full show notes at wellnesslately.com/podcast

Why We Love Katie:

Katie is a writer, traveler and passionate advocate for living a life well explored. Through her brand, The Reset Ritual, she helps curious souls find adventure, rejuvenation and personal growth through enriching escapes at home or away.

Recently, Katie introduced The Reset Ritual’s first product, the Discover Journal, a guided travel journal with prompts to help you cultivate self-discovery and mindfulness while documenting your travel memories in a quick and meaningful way. When she’s not writing, creating or planning her next trip, you can find her retreating with a good book or exploring the world outside her NYC doorstep.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• Katie’s mindful travel brand, The Reset Ritual, and why she created it
• What led her to view travel with the lens of personal growth and transformation
• Her journey from cruise ship dancer to Vegas to NYC
• Travel addiction, and how it can be used as a tool to escape our lives as opposed to a life-enriching experience
• The intersection of travel, lifestyle and wellness, and how The Reset Ritual is a filling a unique void in a crowded space
• How to hold on to travel memories and use them as keepsakes, by recalling what you love about a trip
• How to avoid travel FOMO and make intentional, conscious travel decisions based on your individual needs
• How to create a DIY retreat at home to replicate the mindful benefits of travel, and the perspective you can gain
• Katie’s favorite travel destinations around the world (after visiting 60+ countries)
• How to fully enjoy your travel experience and make the most of your time (hint: it has nothing to do with this destination itself, but rather your mindset)
• How to bring your mindful travel experience home and into your life
• And so much more

Helpful Links:

• Visit Katie’s website, The Reset Ritual
• Purchase Katie’s beautiful guided travel journal, the Discover Journal
• Follow The Reset Ritual on Instagram
• Follow Katie on Instagram
• Follow The Reset Ritual on Facebook
• Vagabonding by Rolf Potts

Learn more and view full show notes at wellnesslately.com/podcast.

Why We Love Anuschka:

Anuschka Rees is a writer, ex-serial-dieter, and former beauty-fanatic. Despite growing up in the era of female empowerment and body positivity, she spent much of her twenties trying to fix yet another imagined “flaw,” researching diets, and comparing herself to attractive people on Instagram. Eventually she decided to put her INTJ mind to good use and see if she could find concrete, applicable advice for women like her, whose insecurities are keeping them from living their best life.

Anuschka’s first book The Curated Closet was a bestseller and has been translated into five languages. She lives in Berlin, Germany with her cats, books, and boyfriend.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• Anuscka’s journey and how she came to writing about body image after previously writing on style
• Body neutrality: what it is, why it’s important, and how it differs from body positivity
• The common myths of body positivity and how the concept in general misses the mark in terms of promoting a healthy body image
• How we can untangle our self-worth from our physical appearance, and how it affects our happiness levels as women
• How we got here in the first place: what’s responsible for everyone’s terrible body image
• The new social protocols we can use to shift away from a culture in which beauty is a magic bullet
• How we can avoid passing poor body image down to the next generation of women
• Body talk, and why our internal (and external) conversation has such a powerful effect on our body image and how to shift it
• How to respond to negative body talk happening around you (instead of just staring back in dead silence)
• How to name your inner voice and why it helps manage your internal negative self talk
• What body neutrality actually looks like, in terms of caring about our physical appearances and using things like skincare or makeup
• And so much more

Helpful Links:

• Anuschka’s amazing book, Beyond Beautiful
• Follow Beyond Beautiful on Instagram
• Follow Anuschka on Instagram
• Beauty Sick by Renee Engeln, PhD
• Lighten Up, our 90-day program in which we cover intuitive eating

Learn more and view full show notes at wellnesslately.com/podcast

Today we’re chatting with Lighten Up alumna, Tracy!

Meet Tracy, another Lighten Up program alumna who has graciously volunteered to chat with us about her experience in our program. Tracy has seen some dramatics shifts in her life thanks to implementing what she has learned in Lighten Up. If you’ve been considering joining us and want to learn more, give it a listen to hear directly from an alumna about her experience.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• How Tracy was feeling in her body and life before Lighten Up
• Her initial hesitations and why she ultimately decided to join the program
• What her experience was like and which components she enjoyed the most
• The massive transformation she has gone through and the big benefits she has seen in her life
• How she’s feeling today and what’s she excited about for the future

Helpful Links

• Our 90-day group coaching program, Lighten Up
• Our private Facebook group, Wellness Lately

For more info and full show notes visit wellnesslately.com/podcast

Today we're chatting with Lighten Up alumna, Anne!

Meet Anne, who has graciously volunteered to chat with us about her experience in our program. Anne has seen some dramatics shifts in her life by implementing what she has learned in Lighten Up. If you've been considering joining us and want to learn more, give it a listen to hear directly from an alumna about her experience.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• How Anne was feeling in her body and life before Lighten Up
• Her initial hesitations and why she ultimately decided to join the program
• What her experience was like and which components she enjoyed the most
• The massive transformation she has gone through and the big benefits she has seen in her life
• How she's feeling today and what's she excited about for the future

Helpful Links

• Our 90-day group coaching program, Lighten Up
• Our private Facebook group, Wellness Lately

For more info and full show notes, view wellnesslately.com/podcast.

Why We Love Erin:

Erin Claire Jones is a leadership coach specializing in Human Design. She has been featured in Forbes, the Times, Nylon, Culture Trip, Well+Good and more.

She helps leaders and teams step into their highest potential by offering them the self-knowledge and tools to perform at the top of their personal and professional games. She has consulted for startups all over the world, built companies supporting executives, partnerships and small teams to operate more harmoniously and effectively, and conducted research on leadership challenges at 90+ early-stage companies.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• What human design is and how to use to thrive in your life and career
• How she got started in human design, why she loves it so much and why she focuses specifically on leadership
• How human design gives us a language to understand our own energetics more fully so that we can relate to and work with everyone in our lives more efficiently
• The key first pieces to look at when reading your own chart - your type, strategy and decision making center
• Why when you align with your design, you feel so much better in your own skin have more energy, things flow easier, and life just clicks
• The different ‘types’ in Human Design, what they mean and how to use them to your advantage
• Why and how human design helps you focus on doing the things that light you up and give you energy
• How your decision making center can best be used to your advantage
• The 9 different centers, what they mean for you and how they’re helpful
• Why cultivating your awareness of yourself and others can alleviate so much frustration and annoyance in life on a really practical level
• What your ‘Not Self’ is, what that means, and how most people are living from that place
• How to use your energy in more effective ways 
• How to get started learning about your own design
• And so much more

Helpful Links:

• Erin's website
• Erin on Instagram
• Look up your Human Design type
• Get your Human Design blueprint

View full details and show notes at wellnesslately.com/podcast

Heyo, first solo episode! It's just us this time, and we're giving you an overview of our company, our mission and the main challenges we see among the women we work with. Namely: how to stop dieting, beating themselves up, and feeling like crap.

On this pod we discuss:

• Why we started Wellness Lately and our main mission.
• The challenges we see among our clients and what stands between them and a happy life.
• The big obstacle to feeling confident in your own skin.
• How to start breaking the obsessive dieting culture and break free from cultural programming and the negative self-talk cycle.
• Our group coaching program, Lighten Up, and the results we see among members.

Helpful Links:

• Our private Facebook group
• Our 90-day group coaching program, Lighten Up

Learn more details and view full show notes at wellnesslately.com/podcast

 

Why We Love Marla:

Marla Cinilia is an E-RYT 500 vinyasa and kundalini yoga teacher.  She is the co-owner of 3 Bridges Yoga in Portsmouth, NH and York, ME.  Her teaching is a dynamic and intuitive reflection of what’s happening in the universe, with specific attention to moon phases, cycles of the seasons and day-to-day astrology.  Marla believes that if we can align ourselves with these macrocosmic rhythms we can walk through life with greater ease and power. A clear channel for divine inspiration to flow through, Marla reads tarot for those seeking a higher frequency existence and solutions-based wisdom for everyday life experiences.  She leads retreats both locally and internationally. Her next destination is Uluwatu, Bali, Dec. 28th-Jan. 5th where all levels of practice are welcome to join and ring in 2020 with joy and intention. She lives on Kittery Point with her yogi husband, Mike and their shining son, Bodhi. Marla can be found on Instagram @marla__reads.

On the Pod, We Discuss:

• How Marla got into yoga and her journey from jumping into teacher training to owning a studio
• What it’s like to be a yoga teacher and what goes into effectively running a class
• What you may not know about being a teacher before beginning a training program
• How her studio has cultivated an environment of accessibility
• How she stepped into the role of co-owning a studio and what that transition was like
• The experience of running a small business when you’re constantly interacting with people and how her yoga practice applies
• Why yoga was originally created and why it’s so much more than a physical workout
• The of wide range benefits that come from yoga and why it has persisted for thousands of years
• Why small 1-degree shifts in consciousness can upgrade our lives and how yoga offers the opportunities to make those daily changes
• The differences between traditional vinyasa yoga and Kundalini yoga
• How a yoga practice and repeating mantras can help us reconnect to ourselves and tune inward and counter any negative self-talk
• How to raise our energetic vibration intentionally and why yoga compliments this practice
• Why yoga studios have been become such a safe haven in our modern culture
• Why yoga is for everybody, and what to know if you’re just starting out or feel intimidated to attend your first class
• The power of going on an immersive yoga retreat and what a typical itinerary looks like
• Educational resources you can access online to learn about yoga, kundalini and leadership (from anywhere, not necessarily in a studio)
• Marla’s experience with postpartum depression and how her yoga practice has changed since becoming a mother
• How she has infused her yoga practice and spirituality into her parenting
• And so much more

Helpful Links:

• Marla’s yoga studio in Portsmouth, NH + York, Me, 3 Bridges Yoga
• Follow 3 Bridges Yoga on Instagram
• Follow Marla on Instagram
• Sonic Yoga NYC, where Marla did her TT
• Jonathan Fields: The Good Life Project
• Jen Whinnen: Three Sisters Yoga
• Johanna Bell - Illumina Yoga
• Comprehensive website for yoga & spiritual teachings, 3HO.org
• Website that streams Kundalini classes (live & archived), RA MA TV
• RA MA Institute Aquarian Women’s Leadership Society with Guru Jagat
• 3 Bridges Yoga Teacher Training programs

View full show notes at wellnesslately.com/podcast