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Wellness conversations that cut through the noise.
Each episode of The Live FAB Life Podcast unpacks the signals your body’s been sending — and offers Human Design insights, functional wellness tools, and lived perspective to help you respond with clarity (not just cope).
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318: You’re Not the Problem: Why Most Wellness Advice Doesn’t Work for Your Energy
This episode kicks off a series of foundational conversations — the kind that remind you: it’s not you.
It’s the systems you were handed. We’re unpacking what happens when you try to follow all the “right” wellness rules and still feel exhausted, bloated, or like something’s off — and why Human Design and functional nutrition offer a new way to listen, rebuild, and reclaim.
This is your permission slip to stop blaming yourself — and start working with your body, not against it.
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319: "I Thought I Was Lazy" — Reclaiming Energy Outside the Hustle
So many women secretly carry the shame of feeling "lazy."
This episode breaks down how Human Design helps reframe what laziness really is (hint: it’s not what you think).
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320: Stop Outsourcing Your Wellness
What does it really mean to stop outsourcing your wellness?
In this foundational episode, we look at what defines what outsourcing looks like in a wellness context, why we do it, and how to begin reclaiming trust in your body, even if you've spent years disconnected from it.
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Episode 173: The Stories We Don’t Talk About: My Asian American Experience
Wrapping this month’s Asian Pacific Heritage Month series of sharing real people's stories by sharing my story. In this episode I share:
My ethnic heritage
What it was like growing in Hawai’i, then transitioning to life in the mainland as an Asian American
What I’ve learned about the importance of community, and been seen & heard
Episode 172: The Stories We Don’t Talk About: An Asian American Experience, Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine with Emily Chui
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
Episode 171: The Stories We Don’t Talk About: An Asian Pacific Islander Experience with Luisa Mataele Tupea
AAPI is a commonly used acronym for Asian American Pacific Islanders. But thus far, my observation, not much attention is given to Pacific Islanders, which are entirely different ethnic groups of people.
So continuing with this month’s focus on sharing real people's stories for Asian Pacific Heritage Month, joining me in this episode is my friend, Luisa Mataele Tupea. Luisa is both an Asian American and Pacific Islander, being of Tongan and Japanese ancestry.
Luisa and I first met as freshmen in college. We lost touch after graduation but reconnected over a decade later when our paths crossed while we were both on work trips, and we’ve remained friends ever since!
In this episode, Luisa shares:
Her family history, her experiences as a member of both the Japanese and Tongan American communities
How her communities have evolved over the past 30 years
Her experience as a professional Asian American Pacific Islander woman in the sports broadcasting industry
Stories from her career at ESPN covering NFL and NBA games, and events like the Superbowl, World Series, NBA Finals, US Open for Tennis, & even the World Cup!
As I’ve previously said, it's so important to share our stories. So as you listen to Luisa’s story, think about your friends, and ask yourself how well do you know their stories? If you don’t, ask them to share it with you, and let them be heard.
Episode 170: The Stories We Don’t Talk About: An Asian American Experience with Julianne Chai
This show has always been a place to share real people’s stories around health and wellness, and our communities and social support systems are foundational to our vitality.
This month, being Asian Pacific Heritage Month, and I, being an Asian American, am dedicating this month’s episodes to the stories we don’t talk about, and sharing Asian Pacific Islander stories.
Because if we don’t know each other’s stories, how can we support our communities in ways that they need to be supported?
Joining me today is my friend Julianne Chai.
Julianne and I became friends over a decade ago through the Bay Area running and blogging community but we really bonded when we both became dog moms to our rescue pups.
Despite being friends for so many years, I never knew her immigrant story as a first-generation Korean American. So in this episode, Julianne joins me to share her story of immigrating to the United States at 10 years old, what the cultural acclimation was like, and how she assimilated to American culture while still retaining her native Korean culture.
As you listen to her story, think about your friends, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, and ask yourself how well do you know their stories? If you don’t, ask them to share it with you, and let them be heard.
Episode 169: Using Human Design to Avoid Burnout
In a society where we're expected to push ourselves to work and accomplish much as quickly as possible, it’s no wonder that burnout has become the accepted norm.
In this last installment of my three-part series on burnout, we explore Human Design and why you might be more susceptible to burnout than others.
I share with you how I use my Human Design to reframe my thought patterns and daily habits to avoid burnout.
Episode Highlights:
A recap of Parts 1 and 2 in this series on burnout
What areas of your Human Design chart can shed insight into whether you might be prone to burnout
How you can use Human Design to your advantage to manage your energy and avoid burnout
Episode 168: Using Functional Nutrition to Recover From Burnout
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!
Episode 167: What's Really At the Root of Your Burnout?
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
Episode 166: A Foundational Breakdown of Your Human Design Chart
If you’ve ever seen your Human Design chart, you know that it’s very confusing. Without any knowledge of the basic foundations of Human Design, it’s hard to understand the basics, let alone the intricacies of your charts. As a Health and Human Design coach, I’m here to help you understand your design so you can determine how to best integrate your design, and live your life with the least amount of resistance.
In this episode, I aim to clear up a few questions and misconceptions of Human Design for you! Knowing your Human Design can help you understand yourself better, shed some light on your gifts that you can offer the world, and how we all function harmoniously together.
Episode Highlights:
A summary of Human Design
The foundational elements of a Human Design Chart
A breakdown of my own Human Design
Episode 165: How Do You Listen to Your Body?
Just “listen to your body.” Haven’t we all heard this before? But what does it even mean? And more importantly, *how* do you even do that?
It’s a question I’ve asked myself for the better part of a decade while dealing with sports injuries, recovering from adrenal dysfunction, and a variety of circumstances.
In this episode, I share how confusing and overwhelming this question felt, how I came to realize that in many ways it’s a skill that not everyone has developed, and how I’ve come to learn what “listening to my body” means to me - and the tools that taught me how to do so.
Episode Highlights:
Why listening to your body is confusing
What it means to listen to your body
How I learned to listen to my body
The tools that taught me how to do so
