Episodes on Lifestyle
Knowing how we might be wasting it is important if health and Human Design are about abundance and energy alignment.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
What are energy leaks?
Two energy leaks that we all have around technology and social media
My personal experiences with these leaks and what steps I’m taking to address them
Returning to the show is a friend-of-the-program and frequent guest, 6 / 2 Emotional Projector, Julien Elizabeth.
Julien is an astrologer, yoga teacher, and facilitator of transformation for sensitive individuals here to develop their worth, knowing, and voice so that they can lead their life with confidence, consistency, and authenticity.
Julien previously joined me in Episode 144: Uncovering the Path towards Your Best Life through Astrology and Episode 216: Reframing Astrology for Personal Transformation.
Earlier this year I worked with Julien and she recommended that I try a deeply transformative practice: Yoga Nidra
You’ll hear us discuss:
What is Yoga Nidra
How Yoga Nidra helped me to experience deep rest
How she practices Yoga Nidra
Julien is primarily based in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, and leads classes, programs, trainings, and retreats virtually and around the world - including teaching Yoga Nidra.
Have you followed fashion “rules” that you learned from reading teen and fashion magazines? Or struggled over the years knowing how to dress when your body changed to varying sizes?
I’ve experienced this too, spending years searching for help but never really finding anything that “fit” until I found Jenny Wirt of Sartorevi.
Jenny is a potent energy healer whose background includes experience as a fashion stylist and creative director, alongside her Master of Physical Therapy degree and Craniosacral Therapy training.
Independently, Jenny has also studied chakra balancing, inner child healing, and manifestation work.
Additionally, Jenny trained as an assistant fashion stylist in New York, Amsterdam, and Los Angeles, where she honed her visual prowess, working on advertising and editorial shoots for brands and publications like ELLE, Glamour, Bloomingdale’s and Bergdorf Goodman.
Jenny has creatively merged her diverse skills and talents into her wellness-based personal styling offerings under the brand “Sartorevi”, which stands for “sartorial revival.”
Driven by the conviction that every woman deserves to feel radiant, magnetic, and powerful within her body, she believes in empowering women through fashion selections to facilitate healing from the inside out and the outside in her wardrobe as wellness sessions.
Episode Highlights:
Exploring Jenny’s work in physical therapy, cranial-sacral therapy, energy work, and fashion
How Sartorevi came to be
The role our wardrobe can play in our wellness
The impact colors and their relationship to the chakra centers
Have you ever experienced a healing journey where a lot of the practices would be deemed metaphysical (eg, deep meditation, energy work, yoga, etc) but you didn’t know exactly why they worked?
Returning guest Carly Lockman has and in this episode, she’s back sharing her own “real people stories” on her experience with Brain Rewiring.
After birthing her third child in the middle of a pandemic, Carly found herself struggling with anxiety, overwhelm, and exhaustion that was taking her to dark places, triggering past trauma.
Out of sheer desperation, she turned to Brain Rewiring for help.
You’ll hear Carly share:
What is brain rewiring?
The psychological science behind brain rewiring
Her before, during, and after experience with brain rewiring
We’re back for the second installment of a two-part mini-series with Dr. Shea Osuna (Tune into Part 1 in Episode 174)!
In this episode, Dr. Shea shares:
What the nervous system is and why a healthy nervous system is important
What it means to live your life through your nervous system
Four things that interfere with a healthy nervous system
How chiropractic care + transformational coaching can support your nervous system through interferences
If you’ve ever struggled with chronic aches and pain, this episode is for you. Joining me for a two-part mini-series is Dr. Shea Osuna. Dr. Shea is a chiropractor, based in Lafayette, Colorado, who specializes in a technique called Network Spinal.
This gentle approach is based on the foundation that we’re vibrating cells, looking at what’s the tone, tension, shape, and position of your spine and nervous system, and how it self-regulates itself from tension.
Dr. Shea up levels this technique with transformational coaching to provide her clients a soul-finding experience.
Episode Highlights:
Busting myths on chiropractic medicine
What is the Network Spinach technique
How your posture directly impacts your perception of reality and the world
How your body keeps the score and stores your life experiences in your tissues
Continuing with Asian Pacific Heritage Month, joining me in this episode is Emily Chui. Emily is a returning guest, having previously joined me in Episode 024 with an introduction to acupuncture.
Emily has been my acupuncturist for the past five years (and counting!) and has taught me so much about Traditional Chinese Medicine.
In this episode, Emily shares:
Her immigration story migrating from Hong Kong to Southern California as a high school student
What her transition to American schools was like
Why she pursued a career in acupuncture (after getting her undergraduate degree in a different field)
Similarities and differences between Western medicine and TCM
What are ear seeds and how they can be beneficial for healing
Functional Nutrition is an approach where you address not just WHAT you’re experiencing, but WHY. What’s the environment that’s created your condition(s)?
In Part 2 of this 3-part mini-series on addressing burnout, I walk you through how to use the tools of Functional Nutrition to explore YOUR antecedents, triggers, and meditators (ATMs) and construct YOUR big picture to understand WHY you’re experiencing burnout.
I walk you through the methods I use to help myself (and others) recover from burnout.
There’s never a one-size-fits-all solution, but this approach helps you create one that works for you!
At some point in our lives, we’ve all experienced dreaded feelings of burnout. Be it from long periods of chronic stress from work, relationships, family, a pandemic, or anything that weighs heavy on us.
If you’ve ever experienced this, you’re definitely are not alone.
In this episode, I share my most intense moments of burnout from different periods in my life, and how I managed to relight the spark to keep on going!
Episode Highlights:
What burnout is
Signs, symptoms, and contributions to burnout
Times in my life I’ve been burnout and what it was like
Four steps to really addressing burnout
There is so much wisdom in ancient medicines, where the parameters involve the mind, body, and spirit, and the harmony between these aspects of our human selves.
In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Avanti Kumar Singh, a medical physician who left the conventional medicine world to devote her work to the healing tradition of Ayurveda.
You’ll hear Dr. Kumar Singh explain the foundational principles, misconceptions, as well as break down the stereotypes of how the western world dampens its deeper cultural meanings and interpretations.
Episode Highlights:
How ancient healing traditions differ from western medicine
What is Ayurveda
Breaking Western misconceptions about Ayurveda
Why she doesn’t advocate online dosha quizzes
How yoga fits into Ayurvedic medicine
Can the pursuit of healthy become unhealthy?
In this episode, I’m joined by Abbie Attwood, a clinical nutritionist and an endurance athlete coach based in San Francisco. Abbie specializes in the intersection of sports nutrition and disordered eating and is passionate about helping athletes of all abilities improve their body image, their relationship with food, and their mindset around exercise.
You’ll hear us discuss:
Abbie’s experience as a marathon runner training for the Olympic Trials
What led to her to discover an undiagnosed autoimmune condition and how it shifted her training and ultimately her life
My experience with overtraining and burnout
Disordered eating, body image, and mindset in endurance athletes
What recovery actually looks like
Can the pursuit of healthy become unhealthy?
In this episode, I’m joined by Abbie Attwood, a clinical nutritionist and an endurance athlete coach based in San Francisco. Abbie specializes in the intersection of sports nutrition and disordered eating and is passionate about helping athletes of all abilities improve their body image, their relationship with food, and their mindset around exercise.
You’ll hear us discuss:
Abbie’s experience as a marathon runner training for the Olympic Trials
What led to her to discover an undiagnosed autoimmune condition and how it shifted her training and ultimately her life
My experience with overtraining and burnout
Disordered eating, body image, and mindset in endurance athletes
What recovery actually looks like
Getting adequate rest and sleep is essential to maintain your health and well-being. Though it might sound simple, it’s not easy to do.
If you're like me who's struggled with sleep then this episode will help you get an idea of what's keeping you from getting good rest and what you should do about it.
Join me for this episode as I talk about the key to adrenal recovery, rest, and the importance of sleep. Find out what happens when you sleep and how to embrace rituals to help you get in a state of rest.
Episode Highlights:
What happens when we sleep
Your sleep problems are deeply rooted
What’s keeping you from getting a good rest?
My eating routine before bed that helped me balance my blood sugar
How to live your life in alignment
The importance of rest and sleep
Do you struggle with sleep too? What does that struggle look like? What have you tried that worked and hasn’t?
At the time of recording, I’m on Day 43 of sheltering-in-place solo, and I think by now we can all attest to how important social connections are to our health and wellness. For some of us, its even more important than a healthy diet, exercising or even sleep!
The only thing keeping me company is my puppy girl, Coco Pop! I am so grateful to have her with me because this experience would have been so lonely without her and I know many of you feel the same way about your pets as well.
Joining me today is Samantha Vaccaro. She’s a public health professional but she’s also known as Poppy the Doodle’s mom. We’re both crazy dog mom’s who have Instagram accounts for our doodles, Coco Pop and Poppy, and that’s how we connected.
In this episode you’ll hear us chat about:
How we’re each sheltering in place solo and how our puppy girls are helping us through it
How having a canine companion can teach us, humans, how to have structure, routines, and boundaries, which are pretty vital to our health
How our pups help us maintain social connections, especially as adults when its so harder to meet people and make new friendships
In this solo episode, I’m sharing what life has been like for the first 36 days of sheltering in place - solo.
I share what’s changed and what hasn’t when it comes to my work, my workouts, meditation, my mindset and new introspections, and of course, food - and wanting all the comfort food!
I also share what I’ve been up to daily, new things I’ve tried, and three new curated recipe collections that I created for you (that you can find in the show notes for this episode!):
22 Healthy Recipes that Support Your Immune System
14 Healthy Pantry Staple Recipes
12 Healthy and Affordable Recipes
Studies have shown that clutter is a major source of stress. So how can you alleviate it? Get rid of the clutter! Perhaps you’ve already started the process while sheltering-in-place, but if you haven’t now might be a great time to get started!
Joining me in this episode is Carly Adams of the Tidy Revival. Carly is a Professional Organizer based in Sacramento, CA. She helps her clients get organized in their homes & businesses by working alongside them, or virtually through personalized action plans. Whether that’s helping clients declutter, create a Pinterest-perfect pantry, or helping busy parents re-examine the flow of their kitchen or utility closet - Carly is a self-proclaimed “organizational nerd” that loves to geek out to her clients’ benefit.
You’ll hear us discuss:
The Tidy Revival story
Her top tips of how to start decluttering when it feels so overwhelming
What to do when emotions take over
7 tips for decluttering any space
I started decluttering my home back at the beginning of the year and with each space that I cleared, it felt like a weight lifted off my shoulders, leaving me with a lightness I haven’t felt in a long time.
I truly believe that decluttering has helped make sheltering-in-place for a prolonged period of time feel comfortable because my home is now a space that I enjoy being in.
In this episode of The Live FAB Life Podcast, I’m joined by Sadie Adams, the Proprietress of Take Care, a spa with locations in New York City and in the Venice Beach area of Los Angeles where a collective of practitioners explore conversations of beauty and health, authenticity, and self-expression.
You’ll hear Sadie share:
How she started her career studying Ayurveda and teaching yoga
How she became an esthetician
What is microcurrent and the origins of it
How she cultivates relationships with her clients by working with intention to explore the schism between where their motor actions are, and how they can integrate their intentions closer to their motor actions and become more integrated beings.
It’s the time of year where we want to be healthier, we want to be wealthier, we want to make all our dreams come true, and it feels like anything is possible! It’s also the time of year where feelings of inadequacies, lacking, and not being enough can surface.
I fully advocate you doing you - embracing who you are, fully and unapologetically. But I also believe there’s nothing wrong with aspiring for more - of yourself and for yourself.
So what will be your catalyst for change? What will be the thing that will keep you steadfast and focused on whatever “that thing” is that you want for yourself?
In this episode:
I talk about mindset, self-growth, personal development and share what tools have helped me do this work over the past decade.
I share a few things I’m going to focus on in 2020 (and what the proudest goal I’ve achieved for myself has been thus far)
And I ask a few thought-provoking questions to help you figure out what your catalyst of change is going to be.
Over the past 2+ years of the show, I’ve shared my health journey in a number of episodes, but recently I had an experience that shifted the context of how I view my health.
It’s had such a profound impact on me so, in this episode, I’m taking you behind the scenes with an update of what’s going on in my health and how a slightly different approach in tracking is helping me to get to know my body in a whole new way with a fresh perspective.
Have you heard of Intermittent Fasting and wondered why it's supposedly good for you? Or how about why you often hear it associated with the Ketogenic Diet? Or have you heard how these things, and being a "fat-adapted" athlete can improve your athletic performance, but aren't quite sure how it works?
In this episode, I'm joined by Jamie Dant, a Licensed Dietitian-Nutritionist & Board Certified Nutrition Specialist. For the past 13 years, Jamie has worked in the fitness industry as a personal trainer, strength and conditioning coach & the owner and operator of her own gym.
Jamie specializes in helping female athletes nourish their minds and bodies without restrictive dieting or tons of cardio so they can achieve optimal health and performance.
You'll hear us discuss:
What is intermittent fasting, it's benefits & how to ease into it
The relationship between intermittent fasting, the Keto diet & Weight Loss
How nutrition impacts athletic training & performance
The role of mindset
And so much more.
In this podcast episode, I’m joined by my running coach, Josh Maio of Gotham City Runners. I started working with Josh back in 2010, took a break while I recovered from overtraining, and recently started working with him again, as I figure out what running looks like for me these days.
While we focused on discussing three topics in this episode:
Body Image
The Role of the Weight Room
And the Importance of Rest
We also talk shop about a number of other topics from personality traits of runners, to the dynamics of the running community, the role social media plays in it, and so much more.
In this episode, I’m joined by Martin Luna, a personal trainer at Equinox who’s certified by NASM and Precision Nutrition with specializations in kettlebells, animal flow, pro-natal, calisthenics, swimming, boxing, barbells & weight lifting.
He's also my own personal trainer.
You’ll hear us discuss the power of mindset & attitudes, overcoming challenges in training, and he shares tips on how to make your workouts more effective.
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.
In the final installment of this mini-series, we explore Tiers 3 and 4 of the Functional Nutrition Framework.
If your health concerns aren’t resolved in Tiers 1 and 2, there’s likely some complicated dysfunction happening. You’ll hear how in Tier 3, we look to add an Integrative or Functional Medicine doctor to the partnership if one isn’t already involved. I share:
How I found the functional and integrative doctors
How I guide my clients to find one to work with them no matter where in the world they’re located
What to consider when selecting one
After resolving your health problems in Tiers 1, 2 or 3, we move to Tier 4 and maintaining your new normal. I share my new normal is and how I maintain it seasonally.
Would you run before you can walk? Just like you can’t exercise your way out of a bad diet, you also can’t medicate or even supplement your way out of one either.
If you want to address the root causes of your health complaints and find a resolution for them, then the environment that your symptoms and illness manifested itself in needs to be addressed.
A sensible, flexible and bio-individual way to do this is through the Functional Nutrition framework. This is the framework that I’ve structured my health coaching services around and take all of my clients through.
So in this new mini-series of The Live FAB Life Podcast, I’m walking you through each step of this framework. In this first episode you’ll hear:
Why its critical to establish a solid foundation by removing obstacles to health and healing by taking care of the non-negotiables
What the non-negotiables are
How to start addressing the
This week marks the second anniversary of The Live FAB Life Podcast!
In this episode, I discuss having an epiphany, with the help of some friends, on my unique position to help women in tech bring health and wellness to the forefront of their careers and lives.
You'll hear me share my work experience of working in startups to large corporate environments, the different stressors I experienced and how being micro-managed directly impacted my health and how I learned to reframe and deal with the situation for the better.
In this episode, I’m joined by frequent guest (she’s been a guest here on the show more than anyone else) and friend of the program Katie Leadbetter and Alyssa Carrie.
Katie and Alyssa are both certified holistic Nutrition Consultants, 21-Day Sugar Detox Coaches, and they’re both very young cancer survivors.
Katie was on the show last October, specifically in Episodes 056, 057 and 058, sharing her experience of surviving stage 2B Invasive Ductal Carcinoma Breast Cancer which she has been in remission for almost five years.
Alyssa was diagnosed with Lymphoma a year ago at the age of 26 and thankfully is also in remission.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
Alyssa share her cancer story for the very first time. She shares how vital the Ketogenic diet was in her healing, as well as how she partnered with her oncologist to trace her steps to identify the root cause of her cancer.
You’ll also hear them both share how important self-care and personal growth was during their respective treatments
What went well during their treatments and what they found lacking
And how they’re filling that gap for cancer patients by collaborating on a new program they’ve created that launches in just a few weeks called, “The Cancer Survivor’s Course.”
It takes a special kind of vulnerability to share such personal experiences and I’m grateful that these women are brave enough to do so.
What role does finances play in making healthcare decisions? How much of a factor is it in your overall stress load? What’s your mindset around money?
Finances are at the center of our health and wellness yet one that we may be difficult to address and easily avoided.
Joining me to have a frank discussion on financial wellness is Bre Bauer. Bre is a self-proclaimed “Budget Nerd”, who spent years in a cycle of accumulating consumer debt and then working her tail off to pay it off.
It wasn’t until she changed her awareness and behaviors around her money mindset and spending habits that she was truly able to become and remain debt-free.
In this episode, we discuss:
Mistakes and misconceptions around money and finances
What budgeting means and what it doesn’t mean
The importance of building awareness around your spending habits
How to budget with a variable income
How to build a healthy money mindset
And a whole lot more!
In this episode, I’m joined by Kate Markovitz, a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, a 21-Day Sugar Detox Coach, creator of The Mindfull Makeover program, and an Executive Director with Beautycounter, as well as a holistic lifestyle & personal growth advocate for women who are over media dogma and want to be free and confident in their own skin.
One day a few months ago over on Instagram, she shared how she struggled and overcame Orthorexia (having an unhealthy obsession with being healthy, most commonly through diet and exercise).
I connected to it because in hindsight, Orthorexia was something that I lived through too. So, I invited Kate to join me for a real-people episode to have a deeper discussion on this topic.
You’ll hear us each share:
Our stories on what led us to develop Orthorexia
What life was like as we lived through it
What were the defining moments that pulled us on the other side
And what helped us most past it
Human Design can be practically applied to all facets of life, including how we dress and present ourselves to the world.
In this episode, I’m joined by Alisa Koz, a sustainable personal stylist. Using Astrology and Human Design, Alisa offers personal styling services to help women connect to and express their true selves through fashion.
You’ll hear Alisa share:
What does sustainability mean
How she uses Astrological natal charts and Human Design and translates it to personal styling, alignment, and transformation
Styling tips for proportion, starting a capsule wardrobe, and how to transition one's wardrobe to sustainable fashion
And she used my natal chart to give me personal styling tips that were on point!