Episodes on Functional Nutrition
What happens when a former school teacher swaps lesson plans for sheet pans — and merges these two areas of expertise together? You get Chef Laura Scheck of Teaching Table — a culinary educator with a knack for demystifying scratch cooking using fresh, seasonal ingredients.
As someone who’s deeply into health and wellness but couldn’t cook to save my life… let me tell you, this convo is personal. I took my first class with Chef Laura last fall, and when I pulled a golden loaf bread out of my oven, I thought: Wait. I made this? Since then, I’ve taken five (okay, maybe six) of her classes — from mocktails to gluten-free galettes — and my kitchen confidence has never been higher.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
How Chef Laura went from the classroom to the kitchen (and blended the two)
The power of modifying instead of stressing
Her 3 go-to meals for when you’re short on time
Why cooking confidence isn’t about perfection – it’s about play
The 3 kitchen tools she can’t live without
This one’s light on Human Design, but packed with heart, humor, and those quiet “oh wow, I can do this” moments we all need more of. If you’ve ever felt intimidated by the kitchen, this episode is for you!
Want to bounce back from stress and adapt to life’s challenges with ease?
This episode examines how combining Human Design with Functional Nutrition can help you build resilience from the inside out. Discover how understanding your unique Human Design Type and refining your nutrition choices create a powerful synergy, allowing you to handle stress, recover faster, and sustain energy even in the most demanding times.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
A listener questions how to shift their workouts to align with their Human Design
How Human Design has influenced my evolving relationship with exercise
Practical ways to incorporate movement and exercise into your daily routine and my favorite resource for workouts
In this episode, I’m sharing:
How my approach to eating for energy has evolved through the lens of Human Design
The two markers I look to for red flags in my health
A recent 3rd Line experiment I’ve had in curating a 10-day detox program to shape what eating for energy looks like for me
In this episode, I’m answering a listener's question - Are we meant to enjoy the sweet life?
As someone with a Splenic Authority, you’ll hear me talk about the Spleen and its relation to “the sweet life,” and as a 21-Day Sugar Detox Coach, the importance of satisfying our sweet tooth and healing with whole foods. I discuss the importance of balance and even share the backstory of how “balance” is the backbone of Live FAB Life.
Joining me in Episode 220 is Melinda Staehling. Melinda joined me way back in Episodes 041 on meditation and 046 on gray-area drinking. Since then, in true Manifesting Generator form, she’s made a complete career change going from a career in the restaurant industry to now as a Clinical Nutritionist and NASM personal trainer.
My curiosity was piqued when Melinda recently started a book club on Intuitive Eating. I’ve always been fascinated with Intuitive Eating because I didn’t know how to trust my intuition enough to practice it. I didn’t have the self-confidence to trust myself and my decision-making.
In this episode you'll hear us discuss:
What is Intuitive Eating
As a clinical nutritionist, why she advocates it
Intuition x Intuitive Eating
The relationship between intuition and Human Design
How we can develop self-trust and step into a self-leadership role through Intuitive Eating and Human Design
I recently put a call out to my Instagram community for requests on topics for future episodes. One topic that came up was how to make wellness more inclusive.
It’s a vast topic given the variety of things that fall into the wellness space. I certainly don’t have all the answers, but I do believe that we can find empowerment when we become leaders in our own health care.
In this solo episode, I share why I take an integrative approach to wellness, marrying science with holistic practices, and how I found empowerment through education, taking a leadership role in my health.
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!
They say that the best coaches have coaches and today we’re joined by *my* coach, Dr. Jacqueline Bouley Price (@livewellwithjacqueline)! Dr. Jacqueline is a chiropractor & certified holistic health coach who helps her clients find more balance on and off their plates.
After years of struggling with food and weight loss, she finally learned how to fuel her body and manage her weight without feeling restricted. To date, she has coached hundreds of happy clients who were able to change their habits and find a better relationship with their food and their bodies.
In this episode you’ll hear us discuss:
Why Dr. Jacqueline went from chiropractor to health coach
How she and her clients (myself included) have managed through the COVID-19 pandemic #realtalk
Her unique approach to macros and her BEST tips (they truly are) for taking a holistic approach to macros
And so. much. more!
Seriously, we had so much fun chatting about all the things, we could’ve talked for hours (these are my most favorite kind of episodes to do!).
As a health coach, I’ve had my fair share of challenges in my health.
Back in 2004, I first ventured into (what I perceived to be) healthy eating and was dogmatic in counting every calories that came my way. Years later I struggled with a variety of digestive conditions and poor gut health.
Along the way I’ve experimented with a variety of nutritional therapies and have come to learn that not all of them have the same effect, nor are they suited for the long-term, and, depending on one’s approach, can end up doing more harm than good.
In this episode, I share how I’ve adapted to the shifting nutritional needs that my body has required through different phases of my life.
You’ll hear me discuss:
My health journey from weight loss to fueling for endurance training to repairing my gut health
The aha moment when my weight plateaued
How I’ve come full circle with macros
It’s easy to think that we’re pretty healthy when we take supplements. This is true to some extent, but taking supplements is only one part of living a healthy life, and at times, can be overprescribed.
In this episode, I highlight supplementation and share my journey of how I started taking them back in 2013 when I began my self-healing journey to improve my overall health. I share how supplements helped me achieve optimal health over the years together, along with eating a well-nourished diet, practicing healthy lifestyle habits, and taking an integrative approach with prescriptions from medical and wellness experts.
Adrenal fatigue is used to define a number of symptoms related to your adrenal glands. Though its not always an accepted medical term, it doesn’t mean it's not real.
Adrenal fatigue is real and it’s affecting multiple people. Join me in this episode as I give you a brief intro into what adrenal fatigue is all about, my struggles and experience with it, and my process of recovery.
Have you heard of adrenal fatigue? Or maybe you’re experiencing it right now, you’re not just aware of it. Make sure you listen to this episode as a list of the common symptoms shared by many who struggle from adrenal fatigue.
Episode Highlights:
Adrenal fatigue in medical terms
Why you should remove gluten and dairy from your diet
The elimination diet and why you should give it a try
How to stabilize your blood sugar
Not forgetting to take a rest
Let go of your to-do-list
The most common adrenal fatigue symptoms
The healing process of adrenal fatigue
With the current events happening right now, I highly recommend that you should start giving yourself some attention!
Without knowledge, guidance, and support you can make mistakes along the way or worse jeopardize your health.
In this solo episode, I want to share with you the 10 mistakes that I’ve made over the past few years especially when I learned that I had adrenal fatigue.
Recovery from adrenal fatigue is slow, challenging, and can be quite confusing, but I’m here to share the lessons I’ve learned from all those trials and errors.
I hope that by sharing this, you’ll be able to avoid those pitfalls and not make the same mistakes that I did.
Episode Highlights:
Is it possible to heal and lose weight at the same time?
Healing and training athletically, can it be done at the same level at the same time?
Grain-free vs. gluten-free, know the difference
Dietary protocol and relying on supplements
Exercising your way out of a bad diet
Don’t beat yourself up!
REST! REST! REST!
When to overtrack & not overtrack?
Why nothing’s changing?
In this week’s episode, we:
Explore the dangers of perfectionism when it comes to healthy living
Examine how we came to form our perceptions on what perfect health
Why ebbs and flows of health are to be expected and showing yourself grace through it…especially during a pandemic!
In this week’s episode, we examine realities vs perceptions when it comes to how we’re consistent with the basics of health and wellness.
Are your daily habits matching what you think they are, or what you want them to be?
You’ll hear me discuss:
What the basics of health and wellness are
Why it's important to do self-audits and assess how consistent you are with them
How attending to these simple, but often overlooked practices can resolve health concerns
And you’ll hear me share my experiences and challenges with each of them.
After a mini-hiatus, I’m back with a new episode where you’ll hear me share my thoughts on:
Learning about racism
Exploring diversity in wellness
Simplifying health
In this episode, I’m joined by Monica Cox, a Fertility Health Coach, host of the Podcast Finding Fertility, author of “Baby & Me” and creator of #gratedvegbrekkie. Her infertility journey was a 9-year evolution, which led her to overhaul her diet and lifestyle choices.
You’ll hear Monica share:
What her life was like before deciding to start a family
What her 9-year journey looked like - the struggles, the wins and the role autoimmunity played in it
How she’s now a mum to two little boys and she now helps other women create the family of their dreams
Me: “I’m waking up at 2 am every night STARVING!”
My Dr: “Naomi, you have a blood sugar problem.”
This solo episode is the first in a series of solo episodes over the next few months taking you on a journey of my health history over the past 8-ish years. And we’re starting off talking about my blood sugar problem.
You’ll hear:
What blood sugar is
Why is fundamentally important to everyone’s general health (even just diabetics)
How I struggled with a blood sugar imbalance
And then I’ll give you a little bit of coaching by sharing what I did to address it, and what you can do too.
In this episode, I’m joined by Jennifer Tyler Lee. Jennifer is an award-winning author, game creator, self-trained home cook, and healthy eating advocate.
Her first book, The 52 New Foods Challenge, was nominated for an IACP Cookbook Award, and her nutrition game, Crunch a Color®: The Healthy Eating Game, was named one of Dr. Toy’s “10 Best” Children’s Products and received the Parent-Tested Parent-Approved seal of approval.
In her newest book is called Half the Sugar, All the Love.
Jennifer and I connected on Instagram as we both help people with sugar addiction. But as you’ll hear in this episode, we have different approaches. I coach people through the 21-Day Sugar Detox where they learn how to stop eating sugar to change their palette (and mindset) so they no longer crave sweet things.
Jennifer shares delicious low-sugar recipes to show that reducing added sugar doesn’t mean completely giving up the foods you love. She shows you how to sweeten foods, both savory and sweet, naturally with fruits and vegetables instead of added sugar.
Jennifer’s easy, healthy recipes have also been spotlighted by Jessica Alba, Jamie Oliver, Michael Pollan, Oprah, Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn Kids, Whole Foods, Parents Magazine, and US Weekly, among many others. She is a featured contributor at Red Tricycle and shares her recipes each week on her blog, www.52newfoods.com.
In this episode, I answer the most frequently and uniquely asked questions I’ve received as a 21-Day Sugar Detox coach, about the 21-Day Sugar Detox program. You’ll hear questions and answers about Yes/No foods and why, tips on how to navigate the program, and we even have some real talk about your mindset, and how and why it matters in how you approach this program.
As a 21-Day Sugar Detox coach, I’ve led dozens of people through the program. And over the years, I’ve seen the same mistakes made over and over again.
So in this episode, I’ve pulled together a collective list of the ten of the most common missteps made and how to avoid them.
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.
If you’ve ever tried macros eating and/or mindful, intuitive eating, then you know that these two approaches are on opposite ends of the spectrum. And to most of us, they don’t typically go together.
That is unless you’re Katie Garces.
Katie is a Nurse Practitioner and Certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner who focuses on a “real foods framework” to maximize health. Katie blends her professional background in traditional healthcare, wellness, and nutrition, with her passion for the healing power of spiritual wholeness to provide customized advice and life balance solutions for women.
She also believes that macros and mindful eating can be blended together and offers this service in her practice.
In this episode, we examine how she brings these two vastly different approaches together simply and sensibly. We discuss how slight tweaks to your macros can have profound effects and the role and impact that body wisdom, curiosity, and even nutrient density can play.
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.
As a 21-Day Sugar Detox coach, I spend a lot of time speaking with, listening to, observing, and coaching folks who have successfully completed the 21DSD, as well as those who want to, but have yet to try it.
In this episode, I’ve taken my best tips, along with advice from detox alumni, and curated a list of the 10 things you can do for a successful 21-Day Sugar Detox!
In this episode, I’m joined by Barb Vogel and Nikki Price, co-founders of inner-ēco, a mission-based company that makes food-based probiotics.
You’ll hear them:
Share their story of how the company came to be
Why they believe in bringing real food with clean ingredients to families of all sizes (pets included!)
The benefits of food-based probiotics
How they’re a mission-based company committed to helping free enslaved people around the world.
How they maintain their health and other life responsibilities as successful businesswomen
One of the first things that get sacrificed to our ever-busy schedules is eating healthy, nutritious meals. From personal experience, I know that the key to this is always being prepared, which is why meal prepping is a very handy skill to practice.
In this episode, I'm joined by Jenny Castaneda of Cook and Savor, a 100% gluten-free blog where she shares quick and easy recipes, healthy living and meal prep tips.
You'll hear Jenny share:
How she manages to make healthy home-cooked meals while working a 9-5 as a woman in tech
Three tips for anyone to get started with meal prepping or even if you already do this and want to take it to the next level
How to keep food fresh throughout the week and what she stores her meal-prepped food in
How she makes healthier versions of traditional dishes from our shared Filipino heritage
All about her brand new book, Easy Keto Meal Prep (releases on October 8th)!
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.
Returning to the show is friend-of-the-program and clinical nutritionist, Melinda Staehling.
Melinda recently joined me in Episode 220: Developing Self-Trust and Leadership through Human Design and Intuitive Eating.
(She was also a guest in Episode 041: How to Start A Meditation Practice and Episode 046: Gray-Area Drinking and Sobriety).
In this episode, we continue our conversation on trusting our intuition and stepping into a self-leadership role in our healing journeys.
Melinda shares her 17+ year struggle with migraine and how her approach to treating them has evolved over the years.
She shares:
Why migraine is a women’s health issue
Why and how she takes an integrative approach
Why only focusing on the physical aspects of pain is an incomplete conversation
How she’s chosen to reframe her relationship with pain and the tools that have helped her do so