We expose ourselves to endocrine disruptors each and every day -- most of the time we aren’t even aware of it.

In this episode, I share with you six areas of concern for exposure to these toxins from within our very own homes. If we aren't conscious or careful, we run the risk of low-dosed and prolonged exposure that can negatively impact our health in the long run.

Episode Highlights:

• Everyday toxins we might not be aware of

• Endocrine Disruptors and where we can find them

• What we can do to lessen our exposure

Decluttering is more than just cleaning up. It’s organizing your environment and keeping yourself better in control of what you surround yourself with.

Clutter can be associated with laziness but this isn’t always the case. Often, there are deeper reasons behind clutter, and sometimes professional help can help explore and address this.

As a Functional Nutrition and Human Design Health Coach, I find that our environments play a bigger role than just being our surroundings.

In the last episode, I talked about hidden mold, but how about a problem much more visible to us?

Before we get into how to declutter, let’s first ask why we have disorganization and clutter, to begin with?

Joining me to help us answer this question is Carly Adams, a professional organizer, and owner of Tidy Revival.

Episode Highlights:

• What a personal organizer does, Carly’s personal story with clutter, and how she organized her life

• Big mistakes people make when decluttering and Carly’s steps to take instead

• How to stay organized after decluttering

• Practical tips to organize your mail, closet, laundry, storage, and much more!

Environmental impacts on our health are very real. Oftentimes we don’t even consider them as a reason for why we’re feeling sick, especially within our own homes.

Returning to the podcast is my friend, teacher, and mentor, Lara Adler, an Environmental Toxins expert and educator.

Lara joins me today to share her own personal story in dealing with mold.

Silent and unseen, mold can drastically affect your health especially when you have underlying conditions.

Lara goes into detail about her own struggle with mold, sharing:

• The signs and symptoms

• How she came to suspect and confirm mold exposure

• The steps she’s taken to remediate mold

• What’s worked, what hasn’t, and what life is like now

Lara also shares and provides context into what she’s learned through in-depth research.

After I first started on my journey to better health, I hit a plateau when I felt I wasn’t progressing as timely as expected.

When I consulted my doctor about it, I learned that sometimes the devil is in the details-- and I might not have been making the best decisions in the products I was using daily.

My doctor asked me, “What about toxins in your home? What’s in your tap water? Your everyday things?” and that’s what got me on this journey to discover the better, safer alternatives to my everyday products.

From makeup and personal care products to the Teflon pans and cookware we use. Though we may not be exposed to large quantities at a time, using these things daily exposes us to harmful chemicals that add to our toxic load, so much so that we can eventually feel its effects on our health.

In this episode you’ll hear me discuss:

• My journey and struggles to better health and how environmental toxins landed on my radar

• Everyday products that you’re using that can affect your health

• Reducing our toxic load

• Shifting to clean beauty and the unexpected but welcomed improvements it had on my skin and my confidence

So you want to live a cleaner lifestyle but it’s overwhelming and you don’t know quite where to start. That’s where Emily Popson comes in.

Emily is the founder of the Pop of Health community and the creator of The Non Tox Box™, a series of stylishly curated and impactful boxes, with products to help you reduce your exposure to harmful chemicals in items that you use every day.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• How the Pop of Health Community and The Non Tox Box™ came to be

• How Emily runs these businesses as side hustles to her full-time job as a woman in tech

• The role exposure to toxins played in both of our early development and the emotional challenges we experienced from it

• A behind-the-scenes glimpse into how Emily curates each The Non Tox Box™ and a preview into the next soon-to-be-released bundle!

Gluten-Free vs Grain-Free. Organic vs Pastured. Eco-Friendly vs Safer vs Chemical Free vs Green vs Sustainable.

Its confusing to know what all these terms mean, right (we know because they’re some of the most frequently asked questions that we get)?!

In this week’s podcast episode, I’m joined by my good friend Katie Leadbetter of @cleaneatingwithkatie for a casual conversation as we debunk these terms and offer our thoughts on navigating around them.

The vernal equinox, also known as the Spring Equinox, marks the shift from longer nights to longer days. It marks new beginnings and represents renewal, growth, and expansion. It’s the season to awaken from the slumber of winter and it the perfect time to do a cleanse or detox.

⁣⁣In this episode, I share how to go about doing a cleanse or detox:⁣⁣

• General guidelines ⁣

• The best foods that are in season to eat⁣

• Foods to avoid⁣

• Body support practices to enhance your cleanse / detox experience⁣

The word “detox” has gotten a bad rap because there’s been so much “noise” out there about how to detox, AND there’s different ways to do it.

In this week’s podcast episode, I break down:

• What a detox really is

• Why its essential in this modern world we live in

• The three ways toxins enter your body

And I share ten practical and tactical tips for your detox!

What do acne and breakouts, weight gain, allergies, arthritis, even and heart disease have in common?

Well, when you peel back and layers and tease out what’s actually going on, at the root of all these things is the health of your liver and how it’s functioning (or not functioning).

About four or five years ago, I learned that I had a fatty liver, and despite doing all the things, when I got a repeat MRI earlier this year, we learned there had been no improvement.

My doc and I have spent most of this year searching and tweaking things to find answers and when I got the organic acids and other industrial toxins lab work back, all the pieces started to come together.

Because at the root of this is how well my body is able to move toxins out of it and the liver is one of the main filters in the human body.

So in this episode, I share:

• How I came to learn I have a fatty liver 

• What the liver does

• Signs of liver congestion and how this happens

• What to do to support the liver

Now, I know that liver is not the most exciting topic to talk about. I mean, *I’m* fascinated by it, but for most people, it’s not a general topic of conversation.

But, you know what is?

Weight loss, hormones, fatigue, gut health and yes, even how to get clear skin.

So the next time you these things are a problem for you, and you’re thinking about what to do about it, I want you to *think functionally* and uncover what the root causes of it are — and more often than not, how your liver is functioning will be part of that equation.