Podcasts about nutritional therapy consultant

Our Guest today is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant and She is the creator behind MadelineEvergreen.com In which she shares wellness tips, Healthy recipes that are keto and diabetic friendly & so much more. To help teach people that struggles to finding their way back to health.She is also the Host.. of the “Project Keto Podcast “ A podcast that teaches the how-to's, practical tips, and tactics to eat keto longterm.Madeline shares her early Health Struggles and how she was able to overcome them by mostly through her own research and a never giving up attitude. She was able to create a platform where she is now helping others through her own Podcast “Project Keto” where she shares the how-to's, practical tips, and tactics to eat keto longterm.On this Episode we Discussed-My Early Health Struggles-Growth Hormones-My Experience with the Medical Industry-Why I gave up Gluten, Sugar & Dairy-All about Gluten-All about Dairy-Beginning of my Health Journey-Why we should teach teens about Nutrition-What is Shamanic Breathing?-CoachingConnect with Madeline:https://madelineevergreen.comListen to Project Keto Podcast hosted by Madelinehttps://madelineevergreen.com/episodesSign up to Online Nutrition Course for teenshttps://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/kYzlOrVFollow Ketones and Coffee PodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/keton.esncoffeeInstagram: https://www.patreon.com/ketonesandcoffeepodcastYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyZia0TtezGqjGcXwXJhDoQSponsorsBasic Keto Subscription Box is a Premium Keto Subscription Box for Canadians. We offer a wide variety of Keto-friendly Snacks Delivered right to your door. Not only that, with your subscription box you also get a 30 Day meal plan that includes Breakfast, Lunch , and Dinner. Complete with Macro nutrients in every meal. We have an exclusive deal just for ketones and Coffee Podcast Listeners. Receive an extra 20% Off with your first months subscription. Head on over to https://basicketo.ca and Subscribe today! CODE: KETONES20We are excited be partnering with "KetoCon - The Science and Stories of Keto” this summer, July 8 - 10, in Austin, TX.KetoCon is an annual health and wellness event held at the Palmer Event Center in Austin, TX. It is the largest event in the U.S. focused solely on the science and stories of living a ketogenic diet and lifestyle.'Learn more about KetoCon www.keto.orgEmail for more information: help@ketocon.orgFor discounted tickets, go to ketocon.org and click on the GET TICKETS button. Use the discount code: “ketonesandcoffee” 

Our Guest today is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant and She is the creator behind MadelineEvergreen.com In which she shares wellness tips, Healthy recipes that are keto and diabetic friendly & so much more. To help teach people that struggles to finding their way back to health.She is also the Host.. of the “Project Keto Podcast “ A podcast that teaches the how-to's, practical tips, and tactics to eat keto longterm.Madeline shares her early Health Struggles and how she was able to overcome them by mostly through her own research and a never giving up attitude. She was able to create a platform where she is now helping others through her own Podcast “Project Keto” where she shares the how-to's, practical tips, and tactics to eat keto longterm.On this Episode we Discussed-My Early Health Struggles-Growth Hormones-My Experience with the Medical Industry-Why I gave up Gluten, Sugar & Dairy-All about Gluten-All about Dairy-Beginning of my Health Journey-Why we should teach teens about Nutrition-What is Shamanic Breathing?-CoachingConnect with Madeline:https://madelineevergreen.comListen to Project Keto Podcast hosted by Madelinehttps://madelineevergreen.com/episodesSign up to Online Nutrition Course for teenshttps://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/kYzlOrVFollow Ketones and Coffee PodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/keton.esncoffeeInstagram: https://www.patreon.com/ketonesandcoffeepodcastYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyZia0TtezGqjGcXwXJhDoQSponsorsBasic Keto Subscription Box is a Premium Keto Subscription Box for Canadians. We offer a wide variety of Keto-friendly Snacks Delivered right to your door. Not only that, with your subscription box you also get a 30 Day meal plan that includes Breakfast, Lunch , and Dinner. Complete with Macro nutrients in every meal. We have an exclusive deal just for ketones and Coffee Podcast Listeners. Receive an extra 20% Off with your first months subscription. Head on over to https://basicketo.ca and Subscribe today! CODE: KETONES20We are excited be partnering with "KetoCon - The Science and Stories of Keto” this summer, July 8 - 10, in Austin, TX.KetoCon is an annual health and wellness event held at the Palmer Event Center in Austin, TX. It is the largest event in the U.S. focused solely on the science and stories of living a ketogenic diet and lifestyle.'Learn more about KetoCon www.keto.orgEmail for more information: help@ketocon.orgFor discounted tickets, go to ketocon.org and click on the GET TICKETS button. Use the discount code: “ketonesandcoffee” 

Lets have a real conversation about modern dating, marriage, breaking through standards of what partnership looks like and what to do when you are unhappy in your relationship.About Our Guest! Clara Artschwager is a modern dating coach and writer, whose work has been featured on The Cut, Fox 5 NY, Pure Wow, Man Repeller, Well n' Good, Girl Boss, Mind Body Green, Elite Daily and more. She specializes in guiding women who already live rich, full lives, who seek partnership from a place of human intimacy and connection versus ego. She does so through a signature modality combining one to one coach, subconscious journaling and integrated content. Clara holds a B.A. with honors in Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University with a concentration in Women & Gender Studies. She received her life coaching training through the Coaches Training Institute and is a certified Nutritional Therapy Consultant. She has spent the last 25 years dedicated to her own personal growth through cognitive behavioral therapy,  sex therapy, career coaching, life coaching, yoga and meditation. She blends her own experience with her education and training to help women become more of themselves, in life, in work, and most of all, in love.Check Clara out on Instagram here!Ready to take back control of your health, your happiness and reach your goals for life?Heck Yes, Let's work together! Want to be part of the community?Follow along and connect with me on Instagram!

Do you suffer with IBS or have a possible food intolerance you just can't put your finger on? Tune in to this weeks episode as I chat to Judy Watson, Nutritional Therapy Consultant guiding you through gut health, foods to boost mood & immune, good carbs/bad carbs and quick tips for weight loss to promote a healthier lifestyle. Judy Watson - https://www.judywatsonnutritionist.co.uk/ (Nutrition Therapist | London | Hitchin / Nationwide online - Judy Watson Nutritionist) SPONSORS: Everything Genetic Ltd https://everythinggeneticltd.co.uk/ (Welcome - Everything Genetic Ltd) https://www.linkedin.com/company/everything-genetic/ (Everything Genetic: Overview | LinkedIn) https://www.facebook.com/everythinggeneticltd (Everything Genetic Ltd | Facebook) Appetite for Life is also supported by Dane Bank House Dental Practice https://www.danebankhouse.co.uk/ (https://www.danebankhouse.co.uk) https://www.facebook.com/danebankhouse (Dane Bank House Dental Practice | Facebook)

A multiple sclerosis diagnosis is a devastating thing to receive. It's a progressive chronic condition without too many solutions. Many with it assume that there's nothing to be done beyond taking medications to manage the symptoms. Today's guest explains how to use holistic treatments so that you're not relying solely on medical interventions.   About Alissa Frazier Alissa is the owner of LissMS Holistic Health. She is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, AIP Certified Coach, Certified Personal Trainer, and licensed Mental Health Counselor. She works with individuals 1-on-1 who have Multiple Sclerosis and other neurological issues. Alissa uses whole foods and an anti-inflammatory lifestyle to help individuals decrease their MS symptoms, gain energy and feel empowered to change their life. She is based near Boston, MA, and lives with her husband and three cats. Alissa loves being outdoors and can usually be found at the beach. She enjoys being active, and will often play tennis, go on hikes, or lift weights.   Improving MS Symptoms with Diet Although medication is usually the primary method for treating MS, nutrition, and diet can also go a long way. Alissa discusses how diet makes a huge impact on this disease. The right foods will help lower inflammation and improve overall health. It's scary to have to give things up after a diagnosis. Alissa wants us to focus on what we can add instead of what we lose. With that in mind, eating more vegetables, adding healthy fats, and staying well-hydrated makes a big difference.   Stress-Management and MS Symptoms The exact causes of MS are unclear. However, stress is likely a factor. There is a link between stress and all auto-immune diseases. This seems to be particularly the case with MS. Flare-ups of symptoms and relapses are often caused or made worse by stress. We talk about rewiring your thinking to mitigate the effects of stress. There are a lot of tools that can help with this. Alissa talks about the effects of addressing trauma and stress. When done correctly, you learn to alleviate trauma and calm your nervous system. This, in turn, will reduce the symptoms of MS. There's so much going on with MS. Trying to treat it by yourself can quickly get overwhelming. This is where coaching comes in. Working with someone knowledgeable will give you the clarity and direction to make the small changes that have big results. Have you seen a connection between diet and healing from an autoimmune disease? Tell me about it in the comments on the episode page!   Got a question you'd love to hear me answer on the show? Leave me a voice message here!   In This Episode Why Alissa focuses on helping people with MS [3:30] What multiple sclerosis is and its common symptoms [10:00] How a proper diet can alleviate MS symptoms [14:00] The link between stress and chronic disease [22:00] First steps for treating MS after taking the traditional medical route [30:00] The benefits of working with a coach [38:40]   Quotes “My success spurred me to help other people with this. I found a lot of success; I know there's something to this.” [7:10] “I think stress is an incredible component of all auto-immune disease, but really MS as well. A lot of our flares and relapses can be set off by stress.” [22:47] “We are essentially victims of our disease. Yeah, it did happen to us. I'm not saying it doesn't suck either…. It's not necessarily thinking about the past, but how you move forward.” [38:13] “There's hope. It's not a death sentence at all….There's so many things available to you to help manage and modulate the symptoms that you're feeling. Even just adding a vegetable today would be helpful.” [44:35]   Review Fed and Fearless on Apple Podcasts! Send a screenshot of your review to hello@lauraschoenfeldrd.com or send me a DM on Instagram and I'll send you my Overcoming Undereating eBook. If you post your favorite episode in your Insta stories and tag me @LauraShoenfeldRD, I'll also send you my 14-Day Calorie Challenge Recipe Guide!   Links Get the FREE Profit Planning Workbook Find Alissa Frazier online Follow Alissa on Instagram | Facebook Food for MS Cheat Sheet Leave a review of Fed and Fearless! Sign Up For The Free Training: The 5 Secrets of Fearlessly Healthy Women of Faith Learn more about business coaching with me Got a question you'd love to hear me answer on the show? Leave me a voice message here! Join the Fed and Fearless Society on Facebook Follow me on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Pinterest Podcast production & marketing support by the team at Counterweight Creative

Dr. Danby sits down for an inspirational chat with Jan Steele to talk about her nearly life-long journey with celiac disease, how she's managed a gluten-free lifestyle for over 40 years even while travelling internationally, and why she chose to have her whole family adopt a gluten-free lifestyle. Many people understand that gluten is problematic but few people know how to eat gluten-free wisely, without simply replacing an unhealthy glutenous diet for an unhealthy gluten-free diet. We want you to know that you're not alone, and you don't have to be left to your own devices when it comes to implementing positive dietary changes. Tune in for lots of great suggestions and words of encouragement.  About Jan Steele, NTC, AIP Certified Coach & Graduate of the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts: Jan Steele, aka “La Goose” is based in the beautiful Cévenne mountains, near Montpellier (France). She is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, cooking instructor, and allergen-friendly vacation host.  In short, Jan helps people learn to harness the power of REAL food and feel better.  Jan helps people adopt or better adhere to a specific diet (namely, gluten-free, Paleo, or AIP) and invites them into her (100% gluten-free) kitchen to reclaim healthful culinary traditions either virtually or as holidays guests in their B&B home, allowing them to discover the South of France while, at the same time, ensuring that their food restrictions and sensitivities are respected to a T. Connect with Jan: jsteelentc@lagoose.fr  https://lagoose.fr/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/La.Goose.English  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lagoose.fr/

Joining us on this episode is best-selling author, popular Nutritional Therapy Consultant, and fitness coach Steph Gaudreau, author of the new book, The Core 4: Embrace Your Body, Own Your Power, which she emphasizes is NOT a diet book.  Rather, Steph’s book explains how food can support us and how to be active without doing exercise we hate. It features strength training workouts, meal plans, journal prompts and more, to help you feel energetic, active, confident, strong, resilient, and ready to change the world! ****** Thanks to our sponsor of this episode! --> Hello Fresh: Go to hellofresh.com/nobodytoldme10 and use code 'nobodytoldme10' for 10 free meals, including free shipping. Find out for yourself why Hello Fresh is America's #1 Meal Kit! --> AirMedCare: If you're ever in need of emergency medical transport, AirMedCare Network provides members with world class air transport services to the nearest appropriate hospital with no out of pocket expenses. Go to airmedcarenetwork.com/nobody and use offer code 'NOBODY' to sign up and choose up to a $50 eGift Card gift card with a new membership! ****** Note: this show is part of our 'Best Of' series and has previously aired. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode of Beyond Birth, Liz sits down with Kate Markovitz, creator of the postpartum grace guide, to discuss the realities (both beautiful and shitty) of the postpartum experience. Kate shares her own struggles with postpartum anxiety and overwhelm and how she found purpose in her postpartum experience. More about Kate Kate Markovitz is a holistic lifestyle & personal growth advocate for women who are over media dogma and want to be joyful and confident in their own skin. Through her social media and blog, Kate teaches you how to approach life feeling in-control and empowered. And when she’s not oversharing on IG Stories, you can find her snuggling her middle-school-sweetheart, sweet and spunky 3-year-old daughter & furchild in Pittsburgh, PA, participating in every simplify challenge on the web, and indulging in (read: stalking) the Royal Family. Professionally, Kate is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, Creator of the Postpartum Grace Guide + other Motherhood resources coming soon, and Leader with Beautycounter. Connect with Kate @holistickate MotherhoodGrace.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/beyondbirth/message

Welcome to THE TRUE NORTH COLLECTIVE℠ PODCAST: SEASON 3! With co-hosts Rachel Bellotti (she/her) and Jenell Riesner (she/her), this is a gathering of un-sugar-coated conversations celebrating the untold stories of everyday people fearlessly finding and living their true north.  In our own search to discover and live from our TRUE NORTH, we continue to meet many interesting, courageous people from all walks of life, doing all sorts of amazing things to live life in their own unique way. Stories from all over the world. Stories with heart. Stories with grit. Stories with plot twists. Stories going untold - until now. This season, we celebrate these untold stories of everyday people who are fearlessly living their true north and inspiring each of us to do the same. Today, we talk to Lauren McAlister (she/her), co-owner of McAlister Training, Marketing Content Specialist at mindbody, and a Nutritional Therapy Consultant. We jam about body image and self-worth, becoming aware of our own bodies and body comparison, recognizing when innocent habits turn into self-sabotage, addiction to body positivity, taking responsibility by walking our talk, surrendering to the grey area, seeing the beauty in each of us, and getting naked to no longer hide our bodies.   *note: this episode includes explicit language appropriate for those ages 16+   RESOURCES MENTIONED: #amplifymelanatedvoices @encouragingdietitian #amplifymarginalizedvoices @dietiananna #amplifymelanatedvoices coming soon! MY BLACK BODY podcast @jessicawilson.msrd #amplifymarginalizedvoices @sarahherron Topo Chico Crazy Water Untamed by Glennon Doyle Duncan Trussell Family Hour Podcast Music from: https://www.jukedeck.com/   3 KEY TAKEAWAYS: Something can start as an innocent habit and if we aren’t paying attention, it can turn into self-sabotage, self-harm, or addiction. Notice when the actions you are choosing take blind precedence over living and experiencing life. Notice when innocent habits become rigid rules that run your life. Notice when you are reaching and yet it never feels like enough. Notice when actions stem from self-hate vs self-love or self-kindness. And know that it is always ok to ask for support when we find ourselves unable to choose on behalf of ourselves or love for self.   To borrow an idea from Glennon Doyle’s recent book, Untamed, where have you created an ideal humxn or an idealized version of yourself that you are trying to live up to? A ‘ghost’? And how has that illusion that you can never truly live up to (and changes over time to always stay just out of reach) keep you from actually living your life? Where are you living for unrealistic + out of reach ‘ghosts’ vs truly living? What if instead of forcing your body to do the things you think it’s supposed to do or should do (like workout every day, in this way, at this time, for this amount of time or you are “bad), we asked ourselves what our bodies need today? What DOES your body need today? Who does it want to be? What does it want to get up to? Or not get up to? Does it need to rest? If you cannot hear what it has to say that’s ok - we were never taught to listen! So, keep asking and keep listening until you DO hear it speak to you. Then make sure you take what it has to say seriously and genuinely show up for your body the way that it needs you to.   TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [1:20] Water obsessions [6:45] Celebrity run-ins [18:18] AD: Join us on 7/29 as we host a 75-min digital workshop with @her.hq_ called YOUR BODY’S TRUE NORTH. This is a movement + reflective workshop to reconnect + strengthen an authentic relationship with your body. We only get one body, let’s take some time to listen to its innate wisdom + show it some love. Sign-up here! [19:00] Welcome, Lauren! [29:00] Innocent habits or self-sabotage? [43:00] Wasting so much time focusing on our physical bodies [47:30] Addiction to the drama of body positivity + self-help [49:00] Giving up ‘the ghost’ [55:00] bridal bootcamp BULLSHIT! [1:00:00] Am I part of the problem? [1:10:00] Riding the wave of life in the grey area [1:12:00] Being ok being naked [1:20:00] Acknowledging that the way you speak to yourself is modeling for how the world will speak to us and each other [1:26:00] Spot the soul beauty in those around you [1:28:30] How do you live your TRUE NORTH? [1:18:30] Reach out to Lauren via mcalistertraining.com or via email at lauren@mcalistertraining.com or via FB or IG @mcalistertraining

Thank you for tuning in to What's Wellness with Ahlia Yoga!! On today's show, Alyssa Hustedt, a certified Nutritional Therapy Consultant and a Restorative Wellness Practitioner shares about her journey with wellness, nutrition, balance, and overcoming infertility. Alyssa offers FREE 15 minute consultations! To book your call with Alyssa, visit her Website: www.alyssahustedt.com Connect with Alyssa on Instagram and check out her online barre workouts, recipes and nutrition tips Instagram: www.instagram.com/alyssahustedt Email Alyssa: Alyssa.ntc@gmail.com Thank you for listening to today's episode of What's Wellness Podcast with Ahlia Yoga Please send any wellness or yoga related questions via email or instagram! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5kvbH9OUtAndfsSW-qJfFA Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sunshineyoga Email: ahlia@ahliayoga.com Website: www.ahliayoga.com - Ahlia offers a 200 hour yoga teacher training and yogi-life training both in person and online!! Instagram: Podcast: www.instagram.com/whatswellnesspodcast Ahlia: www.instagram.com/ahliayoga Sunshine Yoga With Ahlia Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sunshineyoga --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/whatswellness/support

On Episode 52, Whitney and Kristen sit down with Angie Alt, one part of the amazing duo, along with Mickey Trescott who make up the founders of Autoimmune Wellness. Angie is a Certified Health Coach and Nutritional Therapy Consultant who leads group coaching programs, as well as, works one-on-one with a small number of highly-motivated clients. She is the award-winning author of The Alternative Autoimmune Cookbook, co-author of The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook, and co-host of The Autoimmune Podcast with Mickey. She is the creator of the SAD to AIP in SIX, The Living Well Collective and have lead thousands through their progress through the Autoimmune Protocol. On this episode, we talk all about living life with not just one, but three autoimmune diseases during Covid-19, how the autoimmune protocol diet helps, how it works, and how you can incorporate it in to your life. We talk about what is in her AIP pantry, tips to starting and Angie breaks some myths surrounding AIP. Connect with Angie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angie.alt/?hl=en Angie's SAD to AIP in SIX program https://sadtoaip.com/ Connect with Autoimmune Wellness/Paleo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/autoimmunepaleo/?hl=en Visit the Autoimmune Wellness website: https://autoimmunewellness.com/ Listen to Angie's Podcast "The Autoimmune Podcast" Follow along with @tglpodcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tglpodcast/?hl=en Get social using #tgltuesdays & don't forget to stalk your hosts: @kgrace01 and @positivelyposie

In this episode, Jess sits down with Steph Gaudreau and we chat her new book, The Core 4 as well as deep dive into EVERYTHING. Literally everything. We chat change and the fear behind it, we chat mindset, feelings, and behaviors. We explore what we'd like to change about the health and wellness industry, Steph's biggest struggles, and what really lights her up. I loved getting to know more about this incredible woman and how she uses her voice for change in an industry that's rampant with misinformation. We hope you love it! Steph Gaudreau's mission is to help women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives — by building health from the inside out. She's a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, strength coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo. Steph has written three books. Her newest book The Core 4, is a #1 Amazon best-seller. It shares her Core 4 pillars of health (HarperOne). Her award-winning book, The Performance Paleo Cookbook: Recipes for Eating Better, Getting Stronger & Gaining the Competitive Edge (Page Street Publishing, 2015) and the best-seller The Paleo Athlete: A Beginner's Guide to Real Food for Performance (self-published, 2014). Steph has a chart-topping 2x weekly podcast, Harder to Kill Radio, where she talks all things fitness, nutrition and mindset about how to build unbreakable humans. She's also the creator of the wildly popular health program, the Core 4 Program, and the Women's Strength Summit. Steph's an accomplished strength coach (USA Weightlifting Level 1) and is the creator of fitness programs like Made Strong, Basic Barbell, and Oly Lifting Basics. She coached Olympic weightlifting at CrossFit Fortius in San Diego for 3.5 years and holds numerous CrossFit certifications. In addition, Steph's an international speaker on the subjects of nutrition and strength training, giving talks at PaleoFX, AHS, and AHS New Zealand. Steph's been recognized in the media by publications such as Outside Magazine, Triathlete and SELF, has appeared on ESPN Radio, and her blog was named by Greatist as one of its 15 Must-Read Health and Happiness blogs of 2016. She lives in San Diego with her Scottish husband Z and her cat Ellie. When she's not lifting heavy stuff, you can find her tending to her garden, standing on the dining room table to get the perfect food photo shot, getting her ass kicked at Brazilian jiu jitsu, and reading about how to be a better human. Follow along with all Steph shares on Instagram at @stephgaudreau Check out the Steph's website: https://www.stephgaudreau.com Purchase The Core 4 HERE. Thank you to our Sponsors! Shop 15% off Beekeeper's Naturals products with code: modernmamas Shop 15% off Four Sigmatic products with code: modernmamas --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-modern-mamas-podcast/support

Adina is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, a Medical Exercise Specialist and holds a master's degree in art therapy. This unique path solidified her thoughts about how connected the mind and body are and now she helps women gain strength and energy using real food, properly designed strength training programs, targeted stress management techniques and lifestyle changes. Her messaging is focused on the importance of auditing our total stress load for optimal health and how to manage it through food, movement and lifestyle. Adina began unlocking her own optimal physical and mental health when she trained competitively for powerlifting. She feels that all women should learn what it feels like to lift heavy things. And at 8 months pregnant she can still squat a pretty badass amount of weight. This week is part 2 of our conversation. In part 1 we discussed what strength training is, why it's so beneficial for women, and how to adjust your training for the different phases of your cycle. You can listen to part 1 here. What We Cover: Exercise considerations prior to conception Contraindications for exercise during pregnancy Modifications and beneficial exercises during pregnancy Postpartum exercise contraindications Postpartum favorite exercises How to support nursing posture & avoid injuries Gaining strength during menopause Show Notes: Follow Adina on Instagram and check out her website Download your free guide to strength and movement, including prenatal and postpartum fitness guides! Here's the Blue Tansy Deodorant we are obsessed with! (use code BBP for 10% off your first order) Connect with us on Instagram and join the Balanced Babes Community!

Adina is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, a Medical Exercise Specialist and holds a master's degree in art therapy. This unique path solidified her thoughts about how connected the mind and body are and now she helps women gain strength and energy using real food, properly designed strength training programs, targeted stress management techniques and lifestyle changes. Her messaging is focused on the importance of auditing our total stress load for optimal health and how to manage it through food, movement and lifestyle. Adina began unlocking her own optimal physical and mental health when she trained competitively for powerlifting. She feels that all women should learn what it feels like to lift heavy things. And at 8 months pregnant she can still squat a pretty badass amount of weight. What We Cover: What HIIT really is Definition and benefits of strength training for women Important of rest days and/or periods of rest Why strength training is the best option for most women How and why your workouts may change around different phases of your cycle Show Notes: Follow Adina on Instagram and check out her website Download your free guide to strength and movement, including prenatal and postpartum fitness guides! Here's the Fancy Face Serum from Primally Pure (use code BBP for 10% off your first order) Follow us on Instagram! Join the Balanced Babes Community here! Questions? Email us: hello@bodyinbalancenutrition.com

Joining us on this episode is best-selling author, popular Nutritional Therapy Consultant, and fitness coach Steph Gaudreau, author of the new book, The Core 4: Embrace Your Body, Own Your Power, which she emphasizes is NOT a diet book.  Rather, Steph’s book explains how food can support us and how to be active without doing exercise we hate. It features strength training workouts, meal plans, journal prompts and more, to help you feel energetic, active, confident, strong, resilient, and ready to change the world!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's podcast Mason chats to Steph Gaudreau. Steph is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, strength coach, blogger and podcast show host. Steph believes women have the right to be strong and take up space because the world needs their voices now more than ever, and we would have to agree! Steph and Mason discuss: Steph's Core 4 principals for health and happiness. Dogma in the areas of health and fitness. Embracing your bio individuality. Nutrition and food preparation. The importance of moving with intention. Aligning your activity with your life. Self worth, value and non attachment.   Who is Steph Gaudreau?  Steph Gaudreau’s is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, strength coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo. Steph's mission is to help women create bigger, bolder and fiercer lives by building health from the inside out. Steph has written three books. Her newest book The Core 4, is a #1 Amazon best-seller. Steph is the host of her own chart topping podcast; Harder to Kill Radio, here she talks all things fitness, nutrition and mindset about how to build unbreakable humans.   Resources: Steph's Website Steph's Podcast Steph's Facebook Steph's Instagram Steph's YouTube Steph's Twitter Steph's Book: The Core 4  Q: How Can I Support The SuperFeast Podcast?   A: Tell all your friends and family and share online! We’d also love it if you could subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes. Or  check us out on Stitcher :)! Plus  we're on Spotify! We got you covered on all bases ;P   Check Out The Transcript Here:   Mason Taylor:  Good day everybody. I've got Steph Gaudreau here with me. All right, Steph, I'm just go in and do my little brief introduction of you. Steph you [authored] a newly published book, The Core 4, which I got the opportunity to have a quick squeeze at when we were at Revitalizing in Arizona a couple of months ago. Steph believes women have the right to feel strong and take up space. Steph's a nutritional therapist consult, USA weight lifting strength coach, podcaster, which I really like your podcast, Harder to Kill, and blogger. Your blog's epic. We'll put the links to blogs in the show notes, basically leading a large community of women that are embracing their bodies and owning their innate power. You're a best selling author already, which is going to be awesome to talk about. You're an international speaker. You've been featured in SEKF, Outside, Elle and Greatest. Now, your favorite things, cold brewed [cats] and Liz Lemon. Tell me, what is it about Liz Lemon from 30 Rock that you love the most?   Steph Gaudreau:  I just love how irreverent she is and she's just perfectly awkward which is me. I relate to Liz Lemon so much.   Mason Taylor:  You know what one of my favorite memories of a show ever is watching Liz Lemon in that Muppet episode where she walks around like a Muppet. It's one of my favorite things ever.   Steph Gaudreau:  Oh my gosh, yeah. I just love her. I just love her so much.   Mason Taylor:  Hey, so tell me, where are you in the world? What's going on?   Steph Gaudreau:  I am in lovely San Diego, California. Not much is happening. It's been kind of quiet this week. It's only Monday but it's been pretty low key. I've been in post-book launch recovery mode, I would say, hermiting up a little bit more so than usually. Yeah, just getting out there and doing work as I always do and talking to people.   Mason Taylor:  You were saying it was about 2015 when you really started working on this book.   Steph Gaudreau:  Yeah. The book is based on a program that I created in early 2015. At the time it was called, Healthy, Happy, Harder to Kill. Over the years, it's morphed into the Core 4 program. It's crazy, over 1,000 people have done the program and just had really amazing transformations in their lives and then a year and a half or so ago started working on the book. It took about 17 or 18 months to bring it to the final result that you see today.   Mason Taylor:  Tell me about it. Core 4 is in the evolution of it. You've had Harder to Kill as the name of your podcast and of the program. Is there a reason that it's evolved beyond that name? Has there been an inner morphology for yourself in that time?   Steph Gaudreau:  For sure. I've been blogging on what I would call the iteration of my website that exists today, and even that's changed over the nine years, eight years but I've been blogging for about 10 years. As often does, when you're out there in the world synthesizing your thoughts and sharing things with people and learning, you change and things change. It's interesting to me because we always expect other people to change so quickly, relationships in the world. We're like, "Why aren't people changing?" Then when we think of ourselves, we're like, "Oh my God, but I'm changing." It's almost like a bad thing.   Steph Gaudreau:  It's definitely changed over time. The name of the program initially came from a nutrition seminar that I was doing in San Diego at a gym. I was talking to everyday people. I think in that gym setting, there was a tendency for people to think that they have to act like the elite level athletes that they see on TV and be really hard on themselves and push themselves really, really hard. I said something to them like, "You know, I think you guys here just want to be healthy and happy and harder to kill." Everybody reacted and laughed and elbowed each other. It was a funny moment.   Steph Gaudreau:  Initially, that phrase was in my brain from Mark Rippetoe who's a strength coach here in the States who has a quote that's something like, "Strong people are more useful in general and harder to kill," or something like that, just stuck as a way to talk about being resilient and strong. That became the name of the podcast.   Steph Gaudreau:  Over time, things have really changed. I really wanted a name for the book and the program eventually that summed up the holistic nature of that and the fact that it's not the only thing. These aren't the only four things that matter when we're trying to work on health and wellness and resilience and our mental health and our physical health. They're just four really important things but not the only four things. That's why I called them the Core 4. I anticipate that soon the podcasting will be changing as well. I just don't know what to. I think it's time to shed that skin yet again and continue to evolve and change.   Mason Taylor:  I only got to hang out with you for those couple of days. We got to spend a good amount of time together. I had a good chat with you on your podcast, but I'm interested in this morphology especially when you've got a large following. With that Harder to Kill, I love the name by the way, but I really can appreciate where you explored a particular area of your work, and especially with Harder to Kill, did that bring your focus really heavily onto the movement, the strength, diet ... I don't know if I'm missing anything else in terms of maybe mindset.   Steph Gaudreau:  Yeah. I think when you look out in the world, when you see the things that people are really passionate talking about and they're really sharing, it oftentimes mirrors their own experience, what they're going through, what's really prevalent for them in their life, what their values are. I think if you look back at 2013, '14, '15 Steph, I was strength training way more than I am now. I was really competing, training, really, really hard, building physical strength, certainly important. It still is important to me but maybe not so much in that type of intensity.   Steph Gaudreau:  Over time, I have drifted toward ... and it's become this really interesting evolution for me of really leaning into my own ... I don't know what you would call it. Some people might call it witchy. Some people might call it green. Some people might call it just very nature-loving. I've really come back around to a lot of the things that were really important to me as a kid and I was really interested in.   Steph Gaudreau:  My grandfather was really a hugely influential figure for me. I'm sure in a lot of ways I idolized him and put him on a pedestal. He was really like my father figure, but he died when I was eight. I feel like I lost a parent when I was so young. He really instilled in me this interest in nature and living things. It was something I was so interested in. When I went to high school and then eventually college, you do what most people do, when you're interested in that stuff, you study science. I have this really interesting duality to myself as a person where I feel so connected to nature as spirit and nature as wise and love, gardening ... I was gardening with my grandfather and my grandparents when I was really little, just experiencing that magic and then coming very steeped in science and scientific method and the coldness of science and the dogma of science.   Steph Gaudreau:  Only very recently have I started to explore those other parts of me again. I think you're seeing that reflected a lot in my work just with the idea that strength can be very hard but it can also be very soft. Strength can be holding on very tightly and persevering and never giving up. Strength can also be letting go and understanding that there is that duality to it. That's, I think, I'm really exploring that in my own work too and really coming home to this idea of myself as a very strong individual. While I am one of the most sensitive and pathic, highly sensitive person stimulized, everything is very amplified for me, my intuition and that really figuring out what is my role with all of that, what can I help people facilitate, what can I help women facilitate in their own ... this transformation, this journey that they're on. I think a lot of times when you see people who are talking about certain things, it is what's at top of mind for them. That's really why it's changed over the years, I think.   Mason Taylor:  I'm really interested, going forth, basically what interested me the most is a lot of women listening who follow along on this SuperFeast podcast, we talk a lot about the space between the stars. Before we get into the Core 4, I'm interested in what are space between the stars of the Core 4. Thanks for sharing all that because it clears it up a lot for me. I feel like it's one of these things that's difficult to communicate on paper. It's a living and breathing internal journey and it's something that needs to be felt and perceived almost by the body and the spirit rather than the mind just chewing it up.   Mason Taylor:  You already brought up the dogma of science, and then almost you can feel, and I can relate to this, especially you can feel when we start out our work especially with blogging or communicating with the world, we almost need a bit of a scientific method. It's got to be the coldness which in [Dower's] Theory is real foundation, physical yin. Yin is cold. It's cold energy. Although it does have a fluidity and leads onto that yang of expression and then in the middle of those two things, we get that middle part I think which we are talking about which doesn't have dogma. Dogma leads to us linking that primal essence of our yin and yang jing.   Mason Taylor:  The first time you showed me the book, one thing you really did bring up was wanting to bring forth a dynamic and non-dogmatic approach for women to embrace. I'm interested to hear exactly what you've been talking about with diet. I've enjoyed going through your blog. I think especially the cover of your book is you looking very strong, about to swing a kettlebell. It's something which I feel like for women to be able to go into something like strength training with a dogmatic approach or an identity approach or a justification or anything like that, that's the kind of space in between the stars I just want to talk a little bit about before we go into these Core 4, why you felt it was important to lead with that. I do that a lot as well when I talk about my approach to health and diet. As well, that breeds into things like the guilt and shame around food and body image and self-worth which become quite a huge thing.   Mason Taylor:  You seem to be hitting on a very unique point that I can tell your sensitivity is coming out, especially with women and strengthening themselves, not getting caught up in that strength means bulking. You had a recent post there, Instagram, where you really went on, really bled from your heart around that. Can you just tell me about that emotional fabric of the book that's weaving this all together, non-dogmatically?   Steph Gaudreau:  Oh my gosh, yeah. It's really hard to summarize and put all into one thing. I think it comes down to a few main points. The first is that we, and I say we as collective, we collectively, humans, in this modern space, are so distanced and divorced and separate from our bodies. What I mean by that is, for whatever reason, it's learned, it's power socialized, it is what we've been taught, it is what we've lost connection to with ourselves where we just don't even know how we feel. I'm not even necessarily talking about emotionally. I really mean in the body. What is our connection to our body? How does our body feel? What does our body need? What is our body telling us? What are our body's sensations.   Steph Gaudreau:  I'll give you a perfect example. I can tell you the very second I feel like I'm getting a cold. I don't get sick all that often, but I'm so tuned in to how my body feels that the second I feel that weird tickle, I'm like, uh-oh. You can feel it coming on. While I don't think everybody has that level of sensitivity, I also think that we, again collectively, make it seem like people are too stupid to pay attention to their own bodies. I think we're really busy as well, so I think some of that comes with slowing down, quieting down, turning inward. It's both an external and an internal. It's like a push-pull.   Steph Gaudreau:  I really think that we need to get back into connection with our bodies in that way. The perfect example, everybody knows when they have to use the bathroom. You're like, "All right, I've got to go." Yet if we think of something very simple like hunger, and I say simple in air quotes here, but this sensation of hunger of feeling full, that becomes extremely complicated for a lot of people for a lot of different reasons. We can sense that we have to use the bathroom but why is it so hard to sense hunger and fullness sometimes? A lot of that goes back to how we're told what to eat, when to eat, how much we should be eating. We're outsourcing that to somebody else. Maybe we learned it starting in childhood. We were told we had to clean our plate or we couldn't leave the table. We're overriding our own sensations of that, whatever the reason might be.   Steph Gaudreau:  The same thing goes for physical fitness or physical movement. A lot of people, myself included, in the past have really just pushed through really obvious signs and signals from the body that it's time to back off or it's time to rest.   Steph Gaudreau:  To bring it all back together, I think where we get mixed up is the dogma, there's only one right way to do things. There is only one way this can be accomplished. Here I'm going to bestow this knowledge upon you. Now you're beholden to me as the giver of that information. Your body's experience, your own personal experience is now taken away from you. You're just told listen to what I'm telling you.   Steph Gaudreau:  I could be the world's best nutritionist. I could be the world's best strength coach. I could put together a program that's going to make you ... say do these things exactly as I tell you, and you'll probably get stronger. However, you could be somebody for whom that's too much intensity, that's going too quickly, that food doesn't work for you. If you are convinced that I'm the expert and that you don't know anything about your own body, you may not catch those things and vice versa.   Steph Gaudreau:  I think that's where when people are coming to these things like I want to work on nourishing my body more, I want to perhaps improve my nutrition, I want to move more in my life, I want to introduce strength training, there is going to be a limit to which somebody can tell you what to do, and it's going to have a great outcome.   Steph Gaudreau:  I think that's really what I think about when I think about dogma and one right way to do things. Yes, people do get really hitched to that as part of their identity. When something happens in life where they can't keep doing that thing or they're presented with new information ... and the perfect example would be where somebody is really for either ethical reasons or health reasons or whatever the reasons would be, decides to not eat any animal products. Oftentimes, what happens is if there's a nutrient deficit or something happens and they then go back to eating animal products, there's a really huge dissidence between what is the identity versus what is making the body feel the best right now.   Steph Gaudreau:  I think taking a very bio individual approach is really important. In order to accomplish that, we have to be willing to develop, it's called inter-receptive awareness. You have to be willing to be back in touch with our body's signs and signals. How can we know what works for us if we're not paying attention? It becomes really tricky.   Steph Gaudreau:  I think ultimately, I would love for that space in between for people to be a very intuitive way of eating and a very intuitive way of moving and a fluid way of going about our lives where we're not beholden to the rules and the structure to the point that it degrades our life in some way. It causes us to have worse health outcomes or our enjoyment of life suffers. Oftentimes people will say, "I'm doing this thing because it's supposed to improve longevity," but they're not actually enjoying life because they're so worried about food or they're so worried about what they're eating when they go out, or they can't be in social situation and handle food. At that point, the benefit is now not outweighing the cost. The cost is outweighing the benefit.   Steph Gaudreau:  I really love the cost benefit analysis for people if they're not super in touch with their bodies yet is to think about what am I getting from this and what is it costing me. Everything has a cost. Ultimately, that's my goal is provide a framework, provide some structure for you to explore and experiment, but ultimately, you're the expert on that stuff.   Mason Taylor:  Yeah, it's interesting. I think it's the source of a lot of confusion yet it's also ultimately the source of a lot of clarity for people in learning that there is a bit of that yin-yang balance and a bit of dichotomy in the beginning between having a goal and having a framework. I was one of those people that was very obsessed with my diet back in the day when I was a raw foodist and very focused on longevity and on the particular supplementation and particular herbal protocols in order to give me an outcome, which in excess, I could see it was somewhat of a mental or egoic agenda. For me, I felt the time to tap out was I got bored with myself, and then I had to kick back in to try and develop a real intuitiveness, maybe an integration with my past and impulses that I did have that I'd label as bad that I wanted to integrate with. The pendulum swing was so large that in developing my perception of my inner world, I, at some point, lost and became resentful towards having goals or having a framework in any way.   Mason Taylor:  I really sympathize when women going through this process and men as well, going between those pendulums. I can imagine, maybe we can talk about this a little bit, what your experience was when you were getting your intra-perception really going. I think [Tonni] talks a lot about this on the podcast, my fiance. We do it together. She has a lot of yin yoga teacher training. The whole idea with that is to develop that intricate awareness of yourself and that intuitive awareness of yourself. How do you manage opening up that door to that tunnel of learning of how to go by your instincts and your unique body and then educating, you will come to the end of that tunnel where you would have gone through that first stage of learning what's you, what you need without dogma. Then you're going to have to close that door of ambiguity and move towards something where you've got a bit more of an integration between your impulses and your inter-perception and the framework that's going to work with you, and you're going to be able to use that cost benefit analysis.   Steph Gaudreau:  I think it's really tough. I think that the one biggest area of frustration that I observe with the people that I work with and with my community at large, with the people who do my program, is that they just want answers. They just want to know what to do. I totally understand that and yet the analogy that comes to me is that ... and I was talking about this earlier, so this is probably is why it's coming up, it's just on top at mind. People are always trying to find their voice. What's my voice? What do I stand for?   Mason Taylor:  What's my purpose?   Steph Gaudreau:  What am I here to do? The way that you find that out is not by just thinking about it. Thinking helps. I don't think being just impulsive into action all the time is a great thing. There's definitely a time to pause. I think if you were just to sit there and try to think this into existence, it's not as powerful as continuing to teach or whatever it is you do, create if you're a creator. Do the thing that you want to do and keep refining over and over and over again. There is part of it that is experiential. I think that's the tough part. I think where it becomes most elevated is where people don't feel good.   Steph Gaudreau:  If we don't feel good in our bodies, what do we do? I think that's where coming in with some basics, looking at those key things that you can incorporate that will bring you back some energy, that will make your digestive system feel better, that will perhaps help you sleep better. Those can go such a very long way, but at some point there's going to be some tinkering but tinkering forever. Not everybody's a bio hacker and not everybody has the money nor the time or the brain space to devote to that literal just constant self-experimentation, so finding the place for you that's that maintenance mode and being okay being there and dipping in and out of that mode from time to time.   Steph Gaudreau:  I think my friend Pat Flynn talks about it very well in terms of being a generalist. Sometimes you'll have an area you really want to learn about and totally nerding out on that and getting heavy into that and then doing those things that feel right. I would also say from a place of self-compassion and self-respect and self-care instead of a place of I hate myself and I just need to fix myself so I'll be happy. I think that [crosstalk 00:21:20].   Mason Taylor:  Yeah, super important, get that clear from the beginning. Rolling on from that, with one of the Core 4, I'm assuming is nutrition. Let's go into that. I really appreciate you having that conversation with me. I feel like sometimes I get the comment a lot that people really appreciate it and sometimes I like to reframe why I focus on these things before jumping into a topic where we need some structure is because I like to know that fabric of reality that these recommendations are coming from so that it can have more of that long burn, slow burn rollout of what's going to be right for our unique body. You put that as one of the things that's like eating the foods for your unique body, moving with intention. It's like, "Oh great. Okay, what are the steps that I take to do that," which there are steps, but we need to know the fabric of intention, I feel, behind it.   Mason Taylor:  With the food, let's look a couple of things. Let's look at the practical. What are the changes that you are generally going to be recommending if we're going to be a generalist? I do agree that that's nice, areas for people to explore to see if it works for their body in terms of core recommendations for women, if you could cast a wide blanket, what you're talking about, and then balance that out with eating. One of the things that comes up a lot is everyone's got their three square meals a day. I don't know if you talk about that or in terms of portions, what you eat when and allowing yourself to crack out of any kind of dogma that possibly we got from growing up, possibly from previous dieting, from magazines. I feel like that's a good balancing and practical and then bringing your intuition into that. Could you cover those both?   Steph Gaudreau:  Yeah, for sure. I think you're absolutely right. There's definitely going to be a time and a place for giving people some ... the way I describe it is if I just sat you at the edge of a forest without a map and there were no paths at all, you would just be wandering around and getting lost. I love the idea of a rough path to follow where you can always come back to that path. You can dip in and out but you still have that path to keep you from getting lost in all the information.   Steph Gaudreau:  You're right, there's a lot of misinformation that we're up against when it comes to nutrition. Unfortunately, when I talk about weight loss and dieting, and I'm talking about ... I don't know if this is a thing in Australia, but the Slim Fast, Jenny Craig dieting systems of the '80s and '90s that everybody thinks is hogwash. They're like, "Oh, that stuff's so silly." Yet, there are echoes of that that still-   Mason Taylor:  Absolutely. There's modern rendition.   Steph Gaudreau:  There are modern renditions of that. I think we need to be really clear, at least I need to be really clear that when I'm talking about nutrition, this is talking about nourishing your body and giving it everything it needs to thrive and not doing the thing where we're withholding food and punishing ourselves by withholding food and playing the game with how little can we eat.   Steph Gaudreau:  I say all this because this is all stuff that I've done. Certainly, I always like to mention that if people are having problems with disorder eating and eating disorders that professional help is really important with that stuff. We can't always just self-treat, especially if that stuff's really serious. I just always like to make that recommendation and tell people that there's no shame in getting help.   Steph Gaudreau:  With all that being said, I think that we're still facing a situation of chronic undernourishment with people, whether it's just food that's not super high-quality making up a lot of the diet or quantity of food. This is where it gets complicated too because not everybody has the same access to food and high-quality food. That's just a whole other just part of the discussion.   Steph Gaudreau:  Just in practical terms, I think people are always like, "Well, just tell me how much to eat." I get to that point where I'm like, "Yeah, but I don't know how much food you need. I don't know how hungry you are."   Mason Taylor:  Have you changed that progression from recommending portion sizes to now recommending something a little bit different?   Steph Gaudreau:  If I look back at the earlier work that I've done, sometimes I would provide some ballpark range for people or what does a standard serving look like. Yet, that has shifted over time as well. I really like a visual plate if people are really just like, "I don't even know where to start." Okay, let's just start with one meal a day. Can we start with one meal a day instead of saying I need to eat perfect for seven ... seven times three is 21. You need to eat 21 perfect plates this week. Let's just start with one meal. I would love to see that half that plate or a little bit more is plants, is vegetables, is something that you want to try, a new thing.   Steph Gaudreau:  I always am a really big advocate for adding things when we're talking about nourishment. Again, when we get into this mentality of this being diet and a diet, not diet in terms of what we eat but a diet which is not what this is but one of the things that comes up is removal, restriction, taking everything away. How would you feel, Mason, if I was like, "You can't have this, this, this, this, this, this and this." You'd be like, "This is my favorite stuff."   Mason Taylor:  For my particular archetype it works when I think egoically Little Mason, when I think that I'm somehow superior because I've found the thing that's better than what the rest of the people are doing. This is a little vain little thing that I've identified in myself. It is easy for me to follow it but then once ... that doesn't last so long. My rat bag kicks in after a while and then I rebel against that thing that I've given myself.   Steph Gaudreau:  Yes, which is what happens with most people. It's either it's too restrictive. It bring up in some people out of control or loss of control eating or rebellion. There's some part that's like, "I'm not doing this anymore." I really like to think about adding things to the plate whenever possible. Can you try a new vegetable this week? Make it fun and colorful. Okay, let's start with red. Everybody loves colors. I think it sounds so elementary and so little kid, but I promise you, okay, this week I'm going to try something new from the grocery store from the produce area that's red or orange. Just go through the colors. I'd like to challenge people to do half the plate or a little bit more of vegetables.   Steph Gaudreau:  I think no matter what you believe in terms of nutrition, whether you're like we include animal protein, we don't include animal protein, we're high carb, low carb, blah-blah-blah, whatever it is, everybody can agree except the carnivores, that vegetables are awesome.   Mason Taylor:  It's except for the carnivores and the people diving into the lectin theory.   Steph Gaudreau:  Yeah, that one's a little bit tough. I think for the most part most people agree getting some more vegetables really [crosstalk 00:27:58].   Mason Taylor:  I like to bring it up because I that you study it so extensively, and I do myself, but that exasperation that can come about when you do look at all of a sudden carnivore is huge and the lectin theory that plants are trying to basically kill us but they're just defending themselves and have anti nutrients, and that's quite often why cooking of it, which was hard for me to come to terms with as a raw foodist in terms of why cooking and preparation was important.   Mason Taylor:  I feel like where you're going with this especially is out of that diet mentality and into having, what I call anyway, a living kitchen where it's more about what's going to fit into your lifestyle and your flow. Inside of that, what are some of the preparation methods? What are some of the core ... principles are really a cold way to put it in that scientific model but to put it in your living and breathing culture of your diet, what are the aspects of food preparation and consistency in your choices that are really shining bright and you see working in your clients at this-   Steph Gaudreau:  That's a really good question. I think definitely properly preparing, like you said, especially grains and legumes, really, really important and even for something people nuts and seeds. They don't do so well with un-sprouted or un-soaked nuts, seeds, legumes, things like that. Actually my nutritional therapy training is very similar to a [inaudible] approach in terms of food preparation. We talk about properly prepared. If we're going to do beans or lentils or whatever, we're going to soak those. We're going to make sure that they're ready to cook, grains oftentimes sprouted.   Steph Gaudreau:  I've made the switch to I'll buy quinoa, but I'm buying sprouted or I'm buying something that's just had a little bit more preparation. You can do these things at home too. You don't always have to buy them. Nuts and seeds, too, a lot of people do really well with soaking those first.   Steph Gaudreau:  I would say that's a good practice to get into if you have that bandwidth. Yeah, cooking vegetables and cooking foods does make them easier to digest for a lot of people. I personally recommend a mixture of raw and cooked if you can handle the raw stuff.   Mason Taylor:  What do you mean by handling it? With your clients, what do you see as handling a raw food?   Steph Gaudreau:  I think some people don't do really well with FODMAPS which are some different types of essentially carbohydrates that are in certain foods, certain plant foods. Two that always come to top of mind because I don't do super well with are things like garlic and onions. For me, if I were to eat raw onions and raw garlic, my digestive system is not going to be happy. Cooking those things or slow roasting them oftentimes I do a little bit better. Some people just don't tolerate that stuff very well at all. This is where the bio individual stuff really comes in.   Steph Gaudreau:  For a lot of people that eat a lot of raw food, it's a lot of fiber. They're not used to it. It's too much too quickly. They'll oftentimes have bloating or it's possible for people who aren't used to eating a higher fiber diet, they eat a lot of fiber and then they get constipated, so just not used to that bulk of fiber, and so making sure we're really well-hydrated. Pooping every day is really important. I talk about poop quite a bit because it's so important to help move stuff out of the body in a timely manner. Certainly, we don't want to be pooping too much in a day, but going three, four, or five plus days is actually common for a lot of women. That can lead to things like recycling estrogens in the body and all sorts of stuff. We want to make sure we're moving stuff out.   Steph Gaudreau:  Again, if you notice that your gut is so sore or you're burping a lot or you're really bloated after you eat or you have excessive amount of gas, those are signs that your body's telling you that that might not be working. Maybe back off on the raw stuff and integrate more cooked foods for a while. It really depends on the person. I would say-   Mason Taylor:  That's so common as well. I've got to bring that up, the bloating and the connection. I feel like it's going to get to the point where we get to maybe stop talking about it soon and it really permeates through the community. It is actually amazing how many people write to me in that ... You know it. When you're dogmatic in the beginning and that diet really works with you in levels of energy and maybe your skin health or something like that. It happens a lot with veganism and raw food. It definitely was for me.   Mason Taylor:  Then there's these other symptoms like bloating that are occurring and the fear. It's well and good for us to say don't go with dogma, but I really understand that fear cycle. If I let go of this system that's healed me and this dietary protocol that's healed me even though I'm getting those signs my poo's runny and I'm bloating, even though that's occurring, if I move on to something like well-cooked foods for a while and nourishing spleen and gut diet, and this is just one pattern, it's not for everybody, but what if everything else goes away. What if my skin problems come back? What if my energy levels go down again? It's a difficult one sometimes or just something that we need to put out there as a possibility and there is a next step.   Steph Gaudreau:  I think that's a really important point that you bring up because it's not always just about removing more foods. We have to always have that opposing or a complimentary idea that their function's really important. Might the food affect the function? Sure, but it's possible to have ... and this where I see people get into trouble because they think, "Well, I've removed some foods from my diet. I'm doing an elimination protocol. I'm still not feeling better, so I need to remove more and more and more and more and more things."   Steph Gaudreau:  Then we get into a cycle where we have a lot of stress, we have a lot of fear and anxiety. That in and of itself psychologically feeds back into our digestive system and our digestive ability, so we're more sympathetic, we're sympathetic dominant. That's inhibiting things like our stomach acid production, digestive juices, that digestive fire, we don't quite have it. It becomes this really interesting feedback loop.   Steph Gaudreau:  For example, if somebody has an H-pylori infection, they need to get that taken care of. There's an overgrowth of bacteria that's an infection that they need to get cleared, or if they have overgrowth of bacteria in their small intestine, we really shouldn't have a preponderance of bacteria in our small intestine. It should be in our large intestine. That small intestinal bacteria overgrowth, you need to get that taken ...   Steph Gaudreau:  It's not just about removing more foods to try to improve that function. You get to a point where you're like, "I need to attack this directly," or they could have a parasitic infection. There's all sorts of stuff that could be going on in the gut. That then influences so many other things. We know there's a gut-brain connection. We know there's a gut-mood connection. We know there's a gut-skin connection. It's so incredibly important.   Steph Gaudreau:  I think it's important to mention that yes, what we eat and how we eat it matter but then come to a point where if you're still experiencing discomfort and dysfunction, just continuing to remove more and more and more foods might not be the answer for you.   Mason Taylor:  Yeah, it's interesting. I think it's something I've definitely bumped up against, what can I add in, what can I take out. That's a necessary surface conversation because it's easy to do and wrap your head around. Just for example, and whether you're eating animal products or not, just when you start going into depth rather than staying in that surface level, something like food preparation could be ... You just need to go deeper. You've gotten all these great take-outs, and you've added all these great things in and it's not working for you, maybe you just need to go a little bit deeper into your food preparation or a little bit deeper into your intuitive nature in and around when you ate, experimenting with what you're eating for breakfast and what you're not eating for breakfast.   Mason Taylor:  Before we move on to movement, have you got any good, real surface ... just throw out some lines for people in terms of basic what you think might be beneficial for people in terms of what they'll have for breakfast, what particular macro nutrients would be beneficial for people at different times?   Steph Gaudreau:  Again, I think there's going to come a point where you have to honor what tastes good to you, what feels good in your body, et cetera. Caveat, I see a lot of people who are struggling with blood sugar regulation. Myself, I dealt with this for many, many years where I essentially had reactive hypoglycemia which would be my blood sugar would crash out and I would feel ... Again, how are you feeling in your body? My palms would get sweaty. My heart would get racing. I would feel super lightheaded. Sometimes I would come close to passing out. My vision would narrow. I would eat something with sugar in it, and I'd feel better, which is what happens with that stuff.   Steph Gaudreau:  I think for a lot of people that are having this blood sugar dysregulation going on, and I'm not even talking about anything with diabetes, but we're just not in a great blood sugar place. We're getting headaches, nausea, claminess. Our body feels really wacky. We're getting just hungry, angry. All those things are happening. I really like to recommend for people that they just try to keep the sweets out of breakfast. I don't mean fruit or sweet potato. In America, we eat dessert for breakfast as a culture. It's muffins and pastries. Again, I don't want to make those foods bad.   Mason Taylor:  I feel like most people listening to this podcast are probably not doing the pastries and those kinds of things. What about even, I'm sure for some people it might be good, in your experience though, having the full fruit breakfast and having the full smoothie bowl for breakfast? Is that something you see work generally or do you prefer something a little bit lower on the glycemic index?   Steph Gaudreau:  I like to recommend that if people are really specifically coming to you for recommendations for breakfast, I talk about including enough protein in breakfast. That's one of the places where, again, eating fruits and vegetables, wonderful. Not super dense in protein. Protein is the most satiating macro nutrient. Whether you're going to eat a denser plant-based protein or it's going to be eggs or it's going to be whatever you decide, is getting a decent whack of protein first thing in the morning because as the day goes on, it's harder and harder to make up a protein deficiency. There's just that. If you don't eat protein all day and then you get to dinner, you're not going to be able to make up generally a days' worth of protein for you in one meal. It's so satiating, you're going to get to a point where you tap out, especially if that protein is very lean.   Steph Gaudreau:  There that. I think getting enough nourishing fats in your breakfast is super important as well, so protein there obviously for the satiety but getting enough nourishing fats. Again, fat is really awesome because it helps us to absorb fat soluble vitamins. If you're eating that smoothie bowl, then you want to make sure that all those vitamins are in those fruits and vegetables. You want to be able to absorb those and the fat soluble vitamins that are in there. Very important.   Mason Taylor:  You just reminded me, when I was in my real sugar head perspective, I never went down the route of acai bowls. Although I respect them, I always just have a little bit of a joke about acai bowls. When I was doing my sugary and colder bowls in the morning, what I eventually started doing is pouring olive oil all over it. I know that might seem disgusting for some people, but when you mix it in, it can mix quite well and doesn't congeal quite as much or, of course, just the coconut fat even though that's cooling in its own right. I just thought I'd bring that up, just a little bit of a fat.   Mason Taylor:  I'm someone that's just always ... Sorry, I'll let you go. I'm sorry to hijack here. I'm generally just doing a tonic with my mushrooms and some fats in the morning. A couple of times a year, especially as I've become more and more comfortable with eating meat, I was vegetarian, pretty much vegan for so many years, it's been hard for me to wrap my head around getting back into it, whereas, I'm at the point now where I'm really diving in. This is what I want you hear, your people, a layperson would see as extreme of what you're doing. I'm at that point where I'm order a whole deer that is going to be hunted out in the Byron Bay hinterland for myself. Eventually I'll get there out and do it myself so I can prove that I'm not soft.   Mason Taylor:  Every now and then I do experiment with a big hunk of meat in the morning for breakfast, just every now and then. I remember when I started doing that, that cracked me out of my dogma. I can't do it a lot. Is that something you gravitate towards yourself? Do you do much meat? I don't know if I just assumed with that?   Steph Gaudreau:  Yeah. I feel pretty good when I am including some kind of meat-based protein in the morning for me personally. I think the one thing I would say there is there's an interesting connection between certain types of protein. Certainly there are plant-based proteins that are higher in tryptophan as well. I think walnuts is one of them for a plant-based source of tryptophan. Tryptophan is an amino acid that is important in the production of serotonin.   Mason Taylor:  I think a cow as well. I always use it as a justification for my hot chocolate.   Steph Gaudreau:  Exactly. Tryptophan important in producing serotonin. Most of the serotonin in our body is made in our gut, which by the way is really important to mention because if you don't have great gut health, then we may not be making ... There's that gut-mood connection yet again.   Steph Gaudreau:  There serotonin that we make also then goes on later to some of it to be made into melatonin which helps us sleep. I like to just mention that to people. Get enough tryptophan-based protein or protein with tryptophan in the morning especially so you can go on through the day and make that serotonin which then in the evening makes melatonin that helps you to sleep.   Steph Gaudreau:  Quickly going back to fats, and I had one more thing that I wanted to add. Fats also help the stomach contents to empty slower. Oftentimes when people are eating a more fruit-based breakfast or a smoothie or an acai bowl or something like that, it's already partially digested because it's liquified. Without the fats in there, it just goes out of your stomach so quickly. I just like people to check in. Are you hungry within an hour or two of eating? It could be the volume of food that you're eating but maybe chewing your food. Maybe chop up all that fruit and put it in a bowl and chomp on it will slow things down a little bit as well as adding the fat.   Steph Gaudreau:  For people that do have a more liquidy breakfast, if they are feeling super hungry within an hour or two, take something solid and sprinkle it over the top. It could be coconut flakes. It could be chopped up nuts. It could be cacao nibs. It could be whatever.   Mason Taylor:  Bee pollen.   Steph Gaudreau:  You have to chew it a little bit. That chewing, there's that connection between your mouth and your brain that's saying, "Okay, I'm chewing. I'm more satisfied," and also helps your body to up-regulate your digestive juices.   Steph Gaudreau:  I just mention those things because I think those are easy things that people can tweak if they're like, "Oh, I just ate an hour ago or I just had a smoothie an hour ago, and I'm ..." Check the protein content. Make sure you have enough fats in there and then add something you have to chew. Even on the top, slow yourself down a little bit and get that signaling going.   Mason Taylor:  Yeah. That's the bread and butter. That the chopped wood, carry water that you're never going to be able to come back, go away from.   Mason Taylor:  In terms of your diet, what are you working on at the moment. Maybe to a layperson with the same quite fringe, on your extremities, what are you working on?   Steph Gaudreau:  It's going to sound really silly probably. I've been going through the process of becoming a certified intuitive eating counselor. I'm almost done with that. I'm really interested in how these two things inform each other. How does intuitive eating as that framework and a process inform nutrition? There is nutrition. Nutrition is a principle of intuitive eating. When somebody has a really dysfunctional relationship with food, it's typically not the first thing you would do is give people nutrition guidelines because then they'll turn them into strict rules that cause problems.   Steph Gaudreau:  One of the things I've been working on for myself and just paying attention, not so much of an actual food although this does play into that, one of the things I've been doing is paying a little bit more attention to when I'm actually done eating. I did come from a family where it was like eat everything on your plate. I'm pretty good at gauging how hungry I am, but I've been trying to pay attention to that.   Steph Gaudreau:  Also, about six or eight months ago, I just had a download from the universe that I was supposed to figure out how to make sourdough bread. I cannot explain it. Bread is not something that has been really in my diet since 2010. Occasionally here and there I would eat it. I don't have celiac disease. I thought at one point I might have some intolerance to gluten. Over the years if I went out to eat and there was a good-looking bread ... that's a good-looking bread in that bread basket. Not Wonder bread but something that looked homemade or that looked really rustic, I'd think, "Okay, I'm going to have some of that." Over time, I realized that though I don't crave bread as part of my every single day foods, I really wanted to play around with making it.   Mason Taylor:  You want to be hard enough to kill that a piece of bread won't kill you.   Steph Gaudreau:  Yeah. I think a challenge is the dogma. I came from a very standard American diet way of eating and then a very diet, diet way of eating, very low calorie and low fat. Eventually it went more to paleo and then, of course, wasn't eating any gluten really or any grains. That was very challenging to remember that is this dogma or is this just what feels better in my body?   Steph Gaudreau:  I'm sure there were some people that lost their minds when they saw an Instagram that I had made sourdough bread. I got sourdough starter from my friend. In the winter, it was nice to heat up the house and stuff. I was just making bread in the kitchen. Gosh, that was so cool. I've been bringing back more of that.   Steph Gaudreau:  Again, sometimes we'll go for weeks and I'm like, "It doesn't sound good to me." Then I'll be at the store and I'll see they have a sourdough bread from a company that's local. I'm like, "Yeah, that sounds good to me. I want to have that right now." It's been part of that challenging that am I following some rule from 10 years ago or whatever or am I listening to my body and thinking what sounds good to me right now?   Steph Gaudreau:  I think paleo was a necessary step for me to get away from low-fat, low-calorie, starve yourself dietland and really helped me so much. At the beginning, it was quite dogmatic how I approached it and then over the years became less and less so. Now I'm looking at bringing things back in. Here's the thing. Nutrition is important but it's only a small part of our health and how we feel.   Mason Taylor:  Yeah. We better step into our movement, but I'm allowing this conversation. That was the space between the stars here, being able to know that on your path, you might have frameworks that can very easily become dogma, but don't be scared of going through ... As you said, you had your low-fat more plant-based was it towards the beginning? No?   Steph Gaudreau:  No. It was just typical diet food.   Mason Taylor:  Oh, just typical diet. [crosstalk] You went straight into the paleo or a real common is just into the vegan and then of course we've got, it think it was about six months ago when it was really huge that vegan YouTubers were pouring their guts out about how they've actually been cheating and they've had to listen to their bodies and move on and then moving into something that's a little bit more paleo or primal. That's when everyone goes, right, okay, maybe this is the place. As you're saying, it's like, no, it's never the place. Stay there as long as you need but then move on and then you're going to have to burst that bubble again. Then you'll arrive at this point with enough experience. It's good to go and get that experience for yourself. It's not something you shouldn't do. Then you get to that point and you go, right.   Mason Taylor:  This is where I start looking at it. I'm like, where are all these cushy, a lot of us Westerners, not living off the land, living in a time when we're lucky enough to have some scientific and nutritional and ancient medicine inquiry that's going on for thousands of years. We've been able to amalgamate them to try and find what's optimal for our body. We are living in a time when we're quite cushioned. It's like, what's traditional but is traditional the best? Is all this new data showing us that something is more optimal. We're all just experimenting right now. It can be seemingly like there's infinite amount of choices. You want to try and find what's right, but you might need a little bit of experience in the arena.   Mason Taylor:  My advice there, and I don't know if you want to just give two cents before we move on, is to never ever proclaim that you've found it, especially if you're in the limelight and you're a professional and getting the vegan tattoo or getting the caveman tattoo or something like that. You will over-identify with that external persona that you've created and that dogma. When the bubble bursts, you're either going to have to hold on with rigidity and not evolve or it hits your psyche at that point.   Steph Gaudreau:  Can I give you a funny example that has nothing to do with what you're talking about but everything to do with what you're talking about?   Mason Taylor:  Yes.   Steph Gaudreau:  The car that I drive today I bought 15 years ago. At the time, I was super, super into racing downhill mountain bikes. That was my life. I loved it. I was going out and putting on the full-face helmet and the pads and going down a steep hill. That was my thing.   Steph Gaudreau:  At the time, I got a license plate that made reference to downhill mountain bikes. I feel like that was eight lifetimes ago. I haven't raced bikes for years. Because I still have my car, I still have that license plate. Every time I think, "Wow, okay, that was an interesting choice." It was something I was super into at the time and then life changes. Fifteen years is a long time. I'm reminded of that every time somebody asks what does your license plate mean. I'm like, "I used to be really into downhill mountain bikes when I got this car 15 years ago.   Mason Taylor:  At the same time, there's something nice and nostalgic about it. These little memories from our past I think are really sweet and nice that you have for identification, of course, [inaudible 00:49:58]. I feel like we've covered one of the Core 4.   Steph Gaudreau:  We don't have to cover them all. It's fine.   Mason Taylor:  I'm interested in at least hearing about them or maybe we've touched on some of the others. Moving body with intention, and I feel as well as that will bring in building strength. You do have a lot of practical workouts that are short, fun. You've traditionally had that focus there on strength which I can see is really evolved out.   Mason Taylor:  Let's talk about first moving with intention and what that means for you, and then because I feel a lot of the women and men listening to this, we talk a lot about herbalism. There is a lot of that moving with intention that we talk about, developing interperception, but we haven't really touched on so much the importance of strength training and the practicality of that if we are going to build this really powerful foundation for ourself to ideally just be able to live life the way that we intend to with our virtues coming forth. Could you touch on those things?   Steph Gaudreau:  Yeah. I think there's many different meanings of move with intention, which is why I really liked that term a lot. I think on a really mental level, you can meditate while you're moving. Having right moving meditation, having a mind-body connection while you're moving and being very intentional in that, I think that's one way to see it.   Steph Gaudreau:  I think another way to see it is really, again, looking for that way in which movement fits into your life. I'm always caveating what I say, not from a place of I don't want anybody to get angry, but because I really think that this stuff is so ... when you apply it to your life, it's going to look different from when I apply it to my life.   Steph Gaudreau:  I'm really interested in having people, again, walk that path, get that framework but then looking for ways to incorporate movement in their life that's very intentional, that aligns with their life instead of trying to make it the other way around. Instead of trying to cram your life into this little box, how can we have this thing work in with our life right now?   Steph Gaudreau:  A perfect example would be let's say you are a mom and you have two kids, and you want to start moving again. You are driving, and this is real examples from my community, maybe you're driving 45 each minutes each way to a gym before work or even after work. You're spending an hour, an hour and a half in the car. It's a long class. You get home, you're really tired. Maybe you don't have a lot of time to be with the kids or you have to get up super early, so you're not getting very much sleep.   Steph Gaudreau:  I just would ask that person, is that really an intentional way of moving in your life? Is that really working for you? Is there something else you could do where you're still getting that benefit of movement, of strength training perhaps even, which is why in the book that whole level one program people can do in their house. I do it on my front porch.   Mason Taylor:  What does it entail, the level one?   Steph Gaudreau:  Getting some dumbbells and moving in a very small area is really what it is; functional movements. You don't need a gym. You can just do it with some very, very minimal equipment and get it done. Would that be more beneficial? Would that be more intentional for that particular woman's life? Would that buy her more time with her kids? Would that buy her more sleep while still getting that benefit?   Steph Gaudreau:  You could make the argument, what if community and connection is really important to her? It's a way to get out of the house and connect with other adults, which is why I don't have one single answer that works for everybody. I think that the more we can think about am I using movement as a way to enhance my life, to make my body feel better, to get the mental benefit, to get the mood benefit. I think all that stuff's really important rather than seeing exercise as a transactional relationship with how much energy I ate today, how much of it can I get rid of, which is where a lot of people do come at movement from.   Steph Gaudreau:  Because in our culture, and I can't speak for Australia, but I can speak for America and the United States, if you're exercising it's like, "Okay, great, we're going to praise you. This is really awesome," but a lot of people also have a dysfunctional relationship with movement.   Steph Gaudreau:  That's part of what I mean by move with intention on all of those different levels. Then also, can you just move more in your day? I hear people a lot, they're like, "Walking doesn't count." What?   Mason Taylor:  Of course it does. Yeah.   Steph Gaudreau:  Sometimes if that's what you can do because you've just had a baby and you're going to walk five minutes because that's literally all your body can handle, great. If your autoimmunity is clearing up and your RA is going crazy and walking is literally all you can do, that's wonderful. Please, let's not dump on that stuff. I think sometimes we get into that mode where if it's not the most extreme and the most intense and the most I-want-to-hurl-after-I'm-done, then it didn't count. That's not productive either.   Steph Gaudreau:  It's intentional to move in such a way that it works with your body. Again, that's a very intuitive process over time. I would hope that people can get to the point where they start to build that awareness of their body so that if they set out to do a workout that day and they do a little bit of a warm-up and everything in their body is like, "Please don't do this to me today. I am not into it. I'm not feeling it," we just respect that. We realize that it's okay to take a day off. It's okay to rest if that's what we're really needing or if we need to make it easier, if we need to take the intensity down because we had a really stressful day. That's all great.   Steph Gaudreau:  On the second part of your question about strength training and why it's really important, and this is just from a physiological, scientific level, a lot of us are not physical laboring anymore. We sit and ... I do the same thing, I sit at a computer all day. I'm not building camp. I'm not hauling water. I'm not child-carrying or any of that stuff. A lot of us are quite sedentary. When the human condition is biological being preserve energy as well, but we're not getting any of that other stimulus.   Steph Gaudreau:  When we turn around 30, we start to lose muscle mass. We start to lose bone density. All these things are really, really important especially as we get older. If you're past 30 and you're like, "I haven't started," that's okay. It's not too late.   Steph Gaudreau:  I love on Facebook, this is one of the great things about Facebook, I always see these senior citizens who are doing stuff. They're out running races or they're lifting something or they're carrying something heavy. I'm just like, "Damn, that's awesome. I want to be able to do that." It proves the point that it's never too late. Muscle is really important. It's like an important reserve for our bodies. If we're sick, if we're injured, we hopefully can draw on that source of amino acids to actually get us through, which is really important, balance, coordination.   Steph Gaudreau:  I'll be honest, for a lot of women, there's something very freeing about doing very simple things that they couldn't do before. I'm not somebody who's like, "We should never ask for help. We should be able to do everything ..." Asking for help is totally fine, but there's something really powerful about, hey, I couldn't lift this thing, and I lifted it on my own, or I could put the suitcase in the overhead bin and I did it myself and I couldn't do it before, or I can carry my kids without back pain, stuff like that. It's very functional type movement.   Steph Gaudreau:  That's really what I teach in the book. Bicep curls are wonderful if you want to look like you have guns. That's great. That's fine. I don't take that away from anybody. I'm really interested in helping people build better functional ranges of motion so they can just live an easier life with moving things and getting things, carrying things around, carry all the groceries in one trip, whatever it is you want to do, but feeling better in your body, less pain, feeling more capable [crosstalk 00:57:53].   Mason Taylor:  There's a couple of things there. I just want to make sure we don't go too far past them. I feel like it's so core to this conversation. The reason we get swept up, what I've observed in ambiguous goals when it comes to strength, movement and of course with diet, weight loss, bulking, whatever it is is because the goals are based externally over them within that system.   Mason Taylor:  Now, this is, of course, a very obvious one, but I feel in our Western society and especially with modern women and men and everyone in between and beyond, that if you can have 20% in that external goal and then 80% based in observing these little things like you've just watched: am in pain less, am I able to get down on the ground and off the ground with a little bit more ease and a little less pain, can I pick that thing up myself or without that stress on my shoulder girdle or with less tension through my shoulder.   Mason Taylor:  These things, it's because they're not as, in an identity based way, they're not quite as gratifying as being able to hit 20 curls versus 10, yet exponentially the benefits multiply in 10 years, 20 years, 30, 40, 50 years. That level of basically how do I do all these things without the dogma? How do I get out of this mindset of I've been focused on my body image or shaming myself or whatever these kinds of things. We all have it.   Mason Taylor:  That, what you were just saying, I feel like it's so simple and it's always in front of our face and seemingly too easy. The potency in just focusing on those little things that matter, it's a skill to develop the noticing of that. It's something we need to continue to develop and observe in ourselves, but it is a gateway towards creating that liberation from our mental constructs on body imaging and being dominated by our seemingly vain goals or having some of them there is fun. [crosstalk]   Steph Gaudreau:  Yeah, for sure. I think for a lot of women, again, exercise is seen as very either transitional; I need to burn X many calories because I ate this thing or a very aesthetic based pursuit, which again, if you're somebody who love bodybuilding and that's your thing, that's cool. I think the majority of people that are listening to this and that I'm talking to are not in that camp. This was my thing too was I had to make my body look a very specific way by just trying to shape everything or try to lose a s

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Steph Gaudreau believes women have a right to feel strong and take up space. She's a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, USA Weightlifting strength coach, podcaster, and blogger leading a large community of women that are embracing their bodies and owning their innate power. Steph's a best-selling author and international speaker who's been featured in Self, Outside, ELLE, and Greatist. Cold brew, cats, and Liz Lemon are a few of her favorite things. Learn more about Steph at her website https://www.stephgaudreau.com/  Hang with her on Instagram @steph_gaudreau. Steph posts new episodes for her Podcast, Harder to Kill, every Tuesday and Friday. If you have any podcast questions or recommendations, please email me at honestlivingpodcast@gmail.com. Be sure to check out this episode on https://emilymorello.com/  Podcast Instagram: @honestlivingpodcast   Blog Instagram: @lhemmymo   Personal Instagram: @emilymorello --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today's episode is with Steph Gaudreau on four ways to embrace your body and own your power. Steph Gaudreau, a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, speaker, blogger, coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo. Steph Gaudreau's mission is to help women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives — by building health from the inside out. In this episode, you will learn about: Steph's personal journey in embracing and loving her own body What led Steph to leave her full-time job for 12 years as a teacher to starting her own online blog, podcast, and business to help other women transform their nutrition and fitness without shame tactics or crash diets. The why behind Steph shifting from an athlete and paleo-recipe based blog to coaching women in their nutrition, fitness, and mindset How Steph using her Core4 pillars of health to help women get stronger and embrace their bodies All the details on Steph's amazing new book, the Core 4 which includes education, client testimonials, personal stories, and a 30-day program filled with recipes, workouts, inspiration, encouragement and more Quotes: "For the first time in a very long time, I realized I wasn't micromanaging how my body looked." "Weight loss may be apart of the equation of you feeling better and being healthier, but it's not always guaranteed." "How can we use a framework (not a strict set of rules) to understanding how to nourish our bodies with food, move our bodies with intention, recharge our energy and get our mindset right to embrace our body and own our power?" Resources Mentioned: Steph's Resources Website Core 4 Book Facebook Page Instagram Facebook Group Podcast Brianna's Resources Whole30 Made Easy Program (Enrollment closes 08/28!) Discovery Call for 1:1 Coaching 7 Day Healthy Body Challenge (Free, available on demand) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/madewell345/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/madewell345/support

This week Olga is talking to Steph Gaudreau, a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, speaker, blogger, coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo. Steph Gaudreau’s mission is to help women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives — by building health from the inside out. Steph knows what it feels like to feel the complete opposite, as she has been battling with negative beliefs and shameful feelings around herself, her body and looks for over 3 decades. She would weigh herself every single day, pinch the fat on her inner thighs and let it dictate how her day would go. Steph had this one magic number in her mind where she thought „If I can just get to this weight, I’m going to be good!“ But Steph has learned that she has worth and value regardless of what her body looks like or what it can do. Learn how you too, can create a loving relationship with your body, develop unshakable confidence and regain ownership of your life.

We've got the one and only Steph Gaudreau on the show today! Steph believes women have a right to feel strong and take up space. She's a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, USA Weightlifting strength coach, podcaster, and blogger leading a large community of women that are embracing their bodies and owning their inner power. Steph's a best-selling author and international speaker who's been featured in Self, Outside, ELLE, and Greatist. Cold brew, cats, and Liz Lemon are a few of her favorite things. Shownotes: The Core 4 Book Steph Gaudreau.com  Harder To Kill Radio Essential Omnivore

You know her, you love her, and TODAY Steph Gaudreau is not only on the show, but her brand new book drops as well!Steph is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, podcaster, author, blogger, coach, and all around badass human.Listen in for a robust conversation around health + fitness and how we can learn to approach it in the BS and shame free style that Steph is so great at teachingCome hang with us and be sure to share it if you enjoy it!***Read Steph’s interview on the blogFollow Steph | @steph_gaudreauGrab a copy of The Core 4****Did you enjoy this episode? Be sure to hit SUBSCRIBE + leave A REVIEW and tell me why! Thank you for your support!

Steph Gaudreau’s mission is to help women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives — by building health from the inside out. She’s a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, blogger, coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo

Knowledge bomb: Vitamin D. Where do we find it? What are the benefits? How do we optimize it?  Product review: High fructose corn syrup and its detrimental effects. Ketchup quality worst to best.  Special guest: Steph Gaudreau (steph_gaudreau) is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, blogger, and best selling author. She has made a name for herself in transforming women physically, mentally, and emotionally. Her work has empowered countless women to be their highest selves. Through her podcast (Harder to Kill Radio), website, and now newest book The Core 4, Steph is trailblazing the way to change women's lives for the long term. An excellent interview which covers nutrition, diet fads, exercise, sleep, sense of purpose, societal influences, and self confidence. Heal Thy Self is a show based on empowerment. Empowerment of you, the viewer such that you can be your highest self on every level. Through knowledge, we will be giving you the information you need to make informed decisions. We lead you to water, you deep dive in. Be sure to like and subscribe to #HealThySelf Hosted by Doctor Christian Gonzalez N.D. Follow Doctor G on Instagram @doctor.g_ (https://www.instagram.com/doctor.g_) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heal-thy-self/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kristin is our very first return guest on The Tactical Kitchen Show and we couldn't be more excited. Kristin is a speaker, consultant, coach and founder of Energetically Efficient! She has completed 24 Marathons...yes, I said TWENTY FOUR full marathons. They are listed at the bottom of the show notes. She is also a Pro-Card carrying Natural Bodybuilder. Next on her agenda is completing her NTP (Nutritional Therapy Practitioner) training. We are chatting today about how to become Energetically Efficient utilizing the Ketogenic Diet. In this episode you will walk away with some simple steps to start your health and fitness journey or enhance what you're already doing. We encourage you to check out our first interview with Kristin in Episode 27 here! You can find Kristin on Instagram and on LinkedIn or by email at kristin@energeticallyefficient.com To get the 6 week meal plan discussed in the show just Text ENERGETIC to 66866 (message and data rates apply) To be stay up to date on Kristin's website launch just go to EnergeticallyEfficient.com Marathons 2000 - Chicago 2001 - TCM2003 - Boston2003 - TCM2004 - TCM2005 - Boston2005 - New York2006 - TCM2007 - Whistlestop2008 - San Francisco2009 - Boston2009 - TCM2010 - Chicago2011 - Grandma’s2012 - Fargo2012 - Sioux Falls2013 - Boston2013 - Big Sur2013 - TCM2015 - TCM2017 - Pike’s Peak2017 - TCM2018 - TCM2019 - Boston Be sure and like, subscribe, leave a review and share The Tactical Kitchen Show with your friends! We love the Carnivore and Ketogenic Community and how supportive you guys are. Eat Fat and Prosper! Steve and Melody For more information on becoming a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner or Nutritional Therapy Consultant go here and tell them Melody and Kristin sent you. Keep up with Steve and Melody on Instagram here!

When you’ve seen that you don’t want to play the diet culture games with your health anymore, it can feel overwhelming or confusing on how to take care of yourself and step farther away from diet culture. Steph Gaudreau is back on the show to talk about a holistic, compassionate and approachable way to do that with her new book, The Core 4.   About Steph Gaudreau Steph Gaudreau’s a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, blogger, coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo. Her mission is to help women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives — by building health from the inside out. Her upcoming book The Core 4, due out in July 2019, shares her Core 4 pillars of health (HarperOne).   Small Steps in the Show:  Fill half your plate with vegetables for your meals, consider starting with one meal Try doing 10 air squats, 10 push ups and/or 10 sec plank hold Walk to the end of your block and back Take your work break outside and go for a walk or have a movement break. Find a calm space (inside or outside) at work and sit without distraction. Pick one specific thing you’re grateful for in that day and write it down   Mentioned in the Show: Buy my Enamel Pin Preorder The Core 4 Meet Steph to celebrate the launch of The Core 4 Get the Preorder Bonuses for The Core 4 Small Steps Podcast #6 with Steph Gaudreau The Core 4 Program Performance Paleo Taylor Gage of She Thrives Pat Flynn The Pat Flynn Show Harder to Kill Radio with Aimée Harder to Kill Club Facebook Group Steph Gaudreau’s Website Follow Steph on Instagram | Twitter Sign up for Steph’s Newsletter Get the full show notes here! Follow Aimee on Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest Sign up for the Wellness Wednesdays Newsletter Interested in working with Aimee? Find out information here.

“I really believe that we have so many amazing gifts and talents and things to share with the world, but if we don’t feel good in our body it’s really hard to share with people.” Steph Gaudreau is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, weightlifting and mindset coach. She’s also the highly coveted author of the brand new book, “The Core 4”, and passionate about helping women build their inner and outer strength so they can take up more space. Through her ‘Core 4’ teachings, Steph empowers women to ditch their diets, the scales, and exercise as a form of punishment. Her work is powerful, her story is inspiring, and I could not wait to go down the rabbithole with her in this incredible episode. Like lots of other women, Steph used to struggled with her weight. She suffered with body dysmorphia and was obsessed with dieting. Food ruled and Steph never felt enough. Her inner dialogue told her she wasn’t pretty enough, smart enough, thin enough or even good enough. She had problems with blood sugar regulation and she wasn’t happy. But all that changed when she discovered a whole new way of eating called paleo. Out went her relentless calorie counting and in came fats and animal proteins. It was a revelation. Steph’s energy levels soared, and her body, mind, and confidence began to heal after years of pain. And now, Steph helps other women experience the exact same results. So if you’re fed up with endless dieting and you want to transform the way you feel about yourself and your body so you can get on with living, this episode is for you. “The people you see in life that you perceive as the most successful or are able to overcome hard things - they are not generally fearless. They are people who feel the fear, they recognise that if they take this action they can deal with that amount of fear and they’re going to do it anyway.” In this episode, Steph dives deep into her experiences to share the practices, mindsets, and philosophies that can help you live a full life. We talk about: Steph’s ‘Core 4’ pillars of health that provide nourishment, care, and strength Why confidence follows actions -- it’s not the other way aroundWhy you don’t need to be fearless to create the life you wantThe importance of creating space in your life and what space does for youA quick fix for healing your people pleasing tendenciesHow physical strength increases your mental and emotional strengthHow to take up more space as a woman -- and why you want to do thisThis episode was recorded LIVE in front of my Stay Grounded Hero community. The feedback from members was off the scale good. So if you’re ready to look at health and wellbeing through fresh eyes and empower yourself with strength and space, this episode is for you. “I really try to honor myself and who I am. For me that means a lot of quiet time and alone time.” How to contact Discover more about Steph’s work at https://www.stephgaudreau.comWe thrive on your feedback, so if you’ve enjoyed this show, please rate us and leave us a review. And don’t forget to subscribe to ensure you never miss an episode again. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Steph Gaudreau’s mission is to help women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives — by building health from the inside out. She’s a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, blogger, coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo. Steph wrote the best-seller The Paleo Athlete: A Beginner’s Guide to Real Food for Performance in 2014, and her award-winning book, The Performance Paleo Cookbook: Recipes for Eating Better, Getting Stronger & Gaining the Competitive Edge (Page Street Publishing, 2015). Her upcoming book The Core 4, due out in July 2019, shares her Core 4 pillars of health (HarperOne). Steph has a chart-topping 2x weekly podcast, Harder to Kill Radio, where she talks all things fitness, nutrition and mindset about how to build unbreakable humans. To date, it’s had over 1.5 million downloads. She’s also the creator of the wildly popular health program, the Core 4 Program, and the Women’s Strength Summit. Steph’s an accomplished strength coach (USA Weightlifting Level 1) and is the creator of fitness programs like Made Strong, Basic Barbell, and Oly Lifting Basics. She coached Olympic weightlifting at CrossFit Fortius in San Diego for 3.5 years and holds numerous CrossFit certifications. She lives in San Diego with the loves of her life, her Scottish husband Z and her cat Ellie. When she’s not lifting heavy stuff, you can find her tending to her garden, standing on the dining room table to get the perfect food photo shot, getting her ass kicked at Brazilian jiu jitsu, and reading about how to be a better human. Head over to her website and pick up your free eBook: stephgaureau.com/foodcravings Are you enjoying the podcast? Would you like a FREE copy of my 12 Week Core Program, ABS ON FIRE? All you need to do are 2 simple steps: To claim, simply leave a review on iTunes or Google Play Email me directly amanda@fitnchips.com to grab your free workout plan. Much Love, Amanda x

Are you tired of the fitness and nutrition industries telling you what you should look like or what you should eat? Isn't it true that we're constantly bombarded with billboard images, Google images, and messages all around us showing us how a fit woman look like? Does it really have to be all about that aesthetic looks or is there more to it than outside looks? Join my guest today, Steph Gaudreau who is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author of The Core 4, blogger, coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo. Steph Gaudreau’s mission is to help women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives — by building health from the inside out.  In today's episode, we discussed the following topics: how to appreciate and love your body. what does it mean with mind your own plate? ways to enjoy eating outside without the guilt and shame feelings around weight. The Core 4 Program and much more! To learn more about Steph's programs and stay connected with her, please visit her at https://www.stephgaudreau.com/ and to pre-order her book, you can visit https://www.stephgaudreau.com/core-4-preorder If you have any questions about your fitness journey or goals, you can also reach Coach Ola at www.befit4akhirah.com or stay connected on social media @BeFit4Akhirah Don't forget to screenshot this episode and tag Steph and Coach Ola on your social media sharing one biggest takeaway from this episode. Be Strong. Be Fit. BeFit4Akhirah.

Eating right can seem so complicated! How does one even begin to make healthier diet decisions for themselves and their family members? On this week’s podcast, nutritionist Chelsea Blackbird helps us simplify our food choices and start thriving! Truly understanding how food directly affects ones health is why Chelsea became a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, especially after experiencing the power of good nutrition in her and her family’s life. She used real food to help reverse her “unexplained” infertility, overcome years of digestive issues, manage a lifelong skin condition called Hidradenitis Suppurativa, get rid of her son’s eczema and constipation, and support her other son who has sensory issues. She is passionate about simplifying nutrition for people by teaching about Real Food, the Way God Made It. Her mission is to help people make more time for God and health in their lives. In addition to God and nutrition, her loves are her husband and three precious kiddos. You can find them spending lots of time at their Texas ranch. Is it time to make some changes in your life? Do you want to stop the madness and get on track with your health? Maybe coaching is right for you. I've helped many people gain their health back over the years, and would love to talk with you. Just reach out with the link below to get on my schedule. From time to time I have openings for new clients, and accept them on a first come first serve basis. Book a Discovery Call  

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. READ THE SHOW NOTES: http://www.livefablife.com/088 SUBMIT A QUESTION: http://www.livefablife.com/podcast

This podcast is all about evolution: how scary, difficult, frustrating, and ultimately freeing empowering it can be to figure out how to let go of things that aren’t serving you anymore and allow yourself to grow, change, and move on. Whether in fitness, business, relationships, or life in general, the key to authenticity and happiness is being able to learn from your experiences, pick and choose what works for you, and sometimes, take a leap into the unknown. Today’s guest, nutritional therapy consultant, podcast host, author, and fitness and nutrition coach Steph Gaudreau talks about her own journey, including her recent significant rebranding and all the fear that comes with rebuilding after the painstaking process of building a brand and a following. Steph talks about shifting priorities, stepping out of a “scarcity mindset,” and how staying true to yourself, even when that truth changes, is the best way to live and build a business.     Steph Gaudreau’s mission is to help women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives — by building health from the inside out She’s a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, blogger, coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo. Steph wrote the best-seller The Paleo Athlete: A Beginner’s Guide to Real Food for Performance in 2014, and her award-winning book, The Performance Paleo Cookbook: Recipes for Eating Better, Getting Stronger & Gaining the Competitive Edge. Her upcoming book The Core 4, due out in July 2019, shares her Core 4 pillars of health. Steph hosts her Harder to Kill Radio podcast, where she talks all things fitness, nutrition and mindset about how to build unbreakable humans. She’s also the creator of the Core 4 health program, and the Women’s Strength Summit. Steph’s an accomplished strength coach (USA Weightlifting Level 1) and is the creator of fitness programs like Made Strong, Basic Barbell, and Oly Lifting Basics. She coached Olympic weightlifting at CrossFit Fortius in San Diego for 3.5 years and holds numerous CrossFit certifications.     Minute Breakdown:   0 - 17  Ashleigh starts the podcast by talking about her own health and fitness journey and evolution      17 –  27 Steph talks about what it’s like to have a busy online business, how she structures her day, and tips for how to stay focused and avoid distraction when working from home       27 –43  Ashleigh and Steph talk about stepping out of fitness-related comfort zones, including switching from CrossFit to Brazilian jiu jitsu, and how her background in CrossFit and Olympic lifting helps inform her current movement and exercise   43 – 49 Talking about her rebrand from her popular Stupid Easy Paleo platform to her new eponymous brand, with less of a focus on a specific diet protocol and more on helping women with nutrition, fitness, and mindset: helping women find their voices and feel empowered to take up space in their lives and careers     49 – 1:02 Learning about the pros and cons of labels and categories, whether it’s labeling your brand or your nutrition or your fitness approach; how it can be both helpful and limiting   1:02 – Discussing the evolution of her fitness and business and how she learned to worry less about making everyone happy and more about making herself happy, through supporting other women in their journeys. So often, women are expected to be “palatable” to everyone, says Steph: not too strong, not too outspoken, pleasing and cute and happy to fit in to the mold others set for them. But doing the hard work of staying true to ourselves, even when it’s hard, will reflect positively in our businesses, our relationships, and even our fitness.   Follow Steph on social media @steph_gaudreau, and learn more about her books, programs, podcast, and coaching at stephgaudreau.com   ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Show notes: http://www.shruggedcollective.com/mmr-gaudreau ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Please Support our Sponsor: @beekeeper: hwww.beekeepersnaturals.com/musclemaven for 15% off

No. 26 | Take Back Your Power. You are More than Your Body! with Steph Gaudreau Beth and Steph chat through their experiences surrounding body image and ditching the idea that our worth lies in our external appearance. We talk through what we see to be the differences in body positivity and body neutrality and share personal stories and turning points in our journey that helped shift our perspectives. In this Episode We Discuss: the importance of the non-measurable aspects of health changes letting go of the societal rules surrounding food, willpower and our choices embracing making choices from a different perspective the mental and emotional freedom that comes from taking up space, showing up big and focusing on strength vs. shrinking, being small and making choices to "fix" our body negativity as a motivator and why it doesn't work body neutrality is NOT giving up can you make changes when you aren't moving from a negative mindset? how acceptance can offer clarity and solution it's OK to not love all of your body!! it is NOT your job or responsibility to make anyone else comfortable when they look at your body!!! on wearing the damn shorts, understanding cellulite and SO MUCH MORE!!!   A Bit About Steph: To share a bit about Steph, She's a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, blogger, coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo.  Steph Gaudreau's mission is to help women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives — by building health from the inside out. Steph wrote the best-seller The Paleo Athlete: A Beginner's Guide to Real Food for Performance in 2014, and her award-winning book, The Performance Paleo Cookbook: Recipes for Eating Better, Getting Stronger & Gaining the Competitive Edge (Page Street Publishing, 2015). Her upcoming book The Core 4, due out in July 2019, shares her Core 4 pillars of health (HarperOne). Steph has a chart-topping 2x weekly podcast, Harder to Kill Radio, where she talks all things fitness, nutrition and mindset about how to build unbreakable humans. To date, it's had over 1.5 million downloads. She's also the creator of the wildly popular health program, the Core 4 Program, and the Women's Strength Summit. Steph's an accomplished strength coach and is the creator of fitness programs like Made Strong, Basic Barbell, and Oly Lifting Basics.  I am so inspired by Steph, her message, her mission and how she shows up in the world and I am so excited to share her here with all of you, because I know you will be inspired too. >>> You can find Steph Gaudreau at stephgaudreau.com or follow her on Instagram @steph_gaudrea   Mentioned in this Episode:  Wear the Shorts - Harder to Kill podcast episode Cellulite Confidence - Harder to Kill podcast episode The Core 4 - Preorder the book and grab the pre-order bonuses

Steph Gaudreau’s mission is to help women create bigger, bolder, fiercer lives — by building health from the inside out. She’s a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, author, blogger, coach, podcaster, and the creator of the former Stupid Easy Paleo. Steph wrote the best-seller The Paleo Athlete: A Beginner’s Guide to Real Food for Performance in 2014, and her award-winning book, The Performance Paleo Cookbook: Recipes for Eating Better, Getting Stronger & Gaining the Competitive Edge (Page Street Publishing, 2015). Her upcoming book The Core 4, due out in July 2019, shares her Core 4 pillars of health (HarperOne). Steph has a chart-topping 2x weekly podcast, Harder to Kill Radio, where she talks all things fitness, nutrition, and mindset about how to build unbreakable humans. To date, it’s had over 1.5 million downloads. She’s also the creator of the wildly popular health program, the Core 4 Program, and the Women’s Strength Summit. Steph’s an accomplished strength coach (USA Weightlifting Level 1) and is the creator of fitness programs like Made Strong, Basic Barbell, and Oly Lifting Basics. She coached Olympic weightlifting at CrossFit Fortius in San Diego for 3.5 years and holds numerous CrossFit certifications. In addition, Steph’s an international speaker on the subjects of nutrition and strength training, giving talks at PaleoFX, AHS, and AHS New Zealand. Steph’s been recognized in the media by publications such as Outside Magazine, Triathlete, and SELF, has appeared on ESPN Radio, and her blog was named by Greatist as one of its 15 Must-Read Health and Happiness blogs of 2016. Scroll down to see more media appearances. She lives in San Diego with the loves of her life, her Scottish husband Z and her cat Ellie. When she’s not lifting heavy stuff, you can find her tending to her garden, standing on the dining room table to get the perfect food photo shot, getting her ass kicked at Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and reading about how to be a better human.   Check out the Peru Adventure Retreat HERE

We had such an awesome time chatting with Whitney in this episode about all things health related. We discussed mental health, utilizing food as medicine, and tools for shifting your lifestyle to be more supportive of healing. Whitney has an amazing story and shares valuable lessons she’s learned along the way.Whitney is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant who guides women through diet and lifestyle changes that aid in their healing process. She runs a blog and Instagram geared towards healing autoimmune disease and approaches healing in a holistic, loving way.How to get in touch with Whitney:Instagram: @rooted.in.healingBlog: rootedinhealing.net/Get in touch by emailing us at beyondyourdiagnosis@gmail.comor messaging us on Instagram @beyondyourdiagnosis. Send us any questions, comments, or episode topics you’d like us to address. You can find Victoria on Instagram @lemonsnlyme @theinfluencehealth and Derek at @chronicloveclub*Disclaimer: this podcast is not meant to replace medical advice. We are simply sharing our experiences and advice. Also, adult language may be used.

Angie Alt joins us today as we’re digging into the link between Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Infertility. ANGIE ALT, CHC, NTC, is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, Certified Health Coach and author of The Alternative Autoimmune Cookbook and co-author of The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook. She is the creator of SAD to AIP in SIX, an online coaching program that has helped thousands of people on the path to wellness, teaching them how to transition their diets and lifestyle over a six-week period. Angie also partnered with Dr. Gauree Konijeti, Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program at Scripps Clinic in San Diego, to run a medical study entitled, “Efficacy of the Autoimmune Protocol Diet for Inflammatory Bowel Disease” which had amazing results published in 2017. In 2015, Angie partnered with Autoimmune-Paleo.com founder, Mickey Trescott. Together, Mickey and Angie, transitioned Autoimmune-Paleo.com to AutoimmuneWellness.com in 2017, best reflecting their vision for AIP as a mainstream option for those with autoimmune disease in the near future. Angie lives in the Washington, D.C. area. Check out her website at: www.autoimmunewellness.com Success Story with POI/POF: https://sadtoaip.com/ -- Book your Free Supercharge Your Fertility Discovery Call here: https://intakeq.com/booking/cZ7XW6 -- Download your free fertility yoga video. In this 20-minute intro video, we focus on a calming and peaceful practice to connect back to our heart. These simple yoga poses can help quiet negative thoughts and make you feel more in control. www.yogafreebie.com -- Don't forget to check out my Resources page for more information and products that will help you on your fertility journey.

Now that I'm a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, I get a lot of questions from curious folks who want to know what it is and why I chose this path. Looking back, this was a crucial step in my brand transition and more importantly, the framework around which I help people understand nutrition in their own lives.  In this episode, I'm explaining what nutritional therapy is, why I became a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, why I chose this program, and more. If you're curious about what a nutritional therapist does, you want to better understand how to approach nutrition holistically, or you're thinking about furthering your own career or education in this field, this show is for you! Special note: If you sign up for the NTP or NTC program, consider adding my name as a referrer if you found out about it through my show. I may receive a small commission that helps support podcast production. Thank you!   Remember to find the show notes and other episodes on StephGaudreau.com On today's episode: What are the foundations of nutritional therapy? What's the difference between NTP and NTC? What's the NTC program like? How much work did it take each week? Why I chose this program / organization over others Resources from this episode: Pre-order The Core 4 & get all the bonuses Nutritional Therapy Association Goodbye, Hello – Harder to Kill Radio Ep 150 Harder to Kill Club Follow Steph on: Instagram| Facebook | Pinterest | YouTube | Twitter I'd really love it if you would take 10 seconds and subscribe to the podcast!

Today on the Live Well Podcast we'll be exploring relationships and autoimmune disease with Whitney Shook. Whitney is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant focused on helping women feel less alone as they work on navigating autoimmune disease. She runs Rooted in Healing, a lifestyle blog for women struggling with chronic illness, as well as an online nutrition practice. Whitney believes it's through a shift in diet, lifestyle, and mindset that people achieve the deepest level of healing. Join us as we speak about how to navigate our relationships with others while managing chronic illness.

Melanie Morton is a NASM certified personal trainer and a Nutritional Therapy Consultant. She is the creator of the Lean for Life Method 2.0, which is a 12-week program that helps women shed body fat and build beautiful muscle, by training less, eating more and doing zero cardio! She integrates her personal training background with her holistic and evidence based nutrition background to help women finally cut the BS fad diets and get results that last for life! She’s helped dozens of women change their bodies, hormonal health, gut health, mindsets, and life. She is also known as the Poop Queen and believes that women need to talk about their poop more! When she’s not coaching her clients, she’s binging Netflix and true crime podcasts and hanging out with her two young kids and hubby in Chicago! Links Website https://melaniemortoncoaching.com/ Instagram www.instagram.com/melanie_morton_ Facebook www.facebook.com/melaniemortoncoaching Free Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/669906560076021/ -    What we discuss Melanie's journey with overtraining and hormone imbalances The importance of bio-individuality  when it comes to diet and lifestyle Why we should all be aiming to live life in the ‘grey area’ How to know if your diet is working for you Why you should be working out smarter, not harder Self confidence and body love The importance of gut health   Got a podcast question? Send you emails to hormonesinharmony@gmail.com  Enjoyed this episode? Leave me a rating and review so that I can share this podcast with more women Want more from me? Check out my website, blog, Instagram and Facebook page.   If you leave a rating and review of the podcast, I will send you an awesome free guide: '6 Steps to Hormonal Harmony' , as a thank you gift! Just screenshot the rating and review you write on the platform you use to listen, then email it to me at hormonesinharmony@gmail.com .  

After losing 30 pounds and finding a love for Spartan Racing, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Megan Oesterreich, dove into a new section of her practice. She became a Nutritional Therapy Consultant and has helped her clients establish new healthy eating habits, lose weight, dig into why they gained the weight in the first place, how to avoid sabotage, and finally what she calls...learn to live in the gray. She talks about how our self story plays a roll in our ability to transform and the power of self awareness.  http://www.meganlcsw.com/ Facebook, Instagram @baconmudandhugs

This week on Low Carb Conversations with Leah Williamson NTP and Guests, Leah is joined by Co-Host Shelley Gawith and Certified Health Coach, Nutritional Therapy Consultant and co-founder of Autoimmune Wellness - serving the worldwide community of autoimmune sufferers Angie Alt. Sit back and relax while Leah discusses the latest health news headlines with special guests.   This week on the podcast Leah, Shelley and Angie discuss the upcoming Nutritional Therapy Association Conference - Roots.  Followed by a discussion on weight and Autoimmunity, is Carnivore really the solution to Autoimmunity, what's the go with celery juice and should you do Keto with an autoimmune condition? Tune in to hear what Leah, Shelley and Angie think.       The Nutritional Therapy Association will hold its 12th Annual Conference, Roots, March 1-3, 2019 in Portland, Oregon. This year’s conference brings together experts from across diverse fields to take a deep dive into the root causes of systemic health problems, investigate how we can grow strong roots in our food delivery system, and provide an opportunity for you to grow roots in the NTA tribe.   Articles discussed on the podcast: 10 TIPS TO REACH A HEALTHY WEIGHT ON THE AUTOIMMUNE PROTOCOL This Woman Says Meat-Only Diet Eased Her Autoimmune Disease Symptoms Celery Juice: Fad or Fabulous? Should You Try a Keto Diet if You Have an Autoimmune Disease?   SIGN UP TO The Low Carb Conversations Mail List and receive the latest news!     Low Carb Denver 2019, March 7-10.  REGISTRATION is open check out the details here.   Work with Leah! Leah is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and has appointments available for online consultation – one on one or in small groups. This is available to anyone looking to improve their health through low carb real food principles for themselves and their families (Australia, USA). If you would like to chat before making an appointment then please email Leah at info@nourishingconversations.com Join our Facebook Community!

This week on Low Carb Conversations with Leah Williamson NTP and Guests, Leah is joined by Co-Host Shelley Gawith and Certified Health Coach, Nutritional Therapy Consultant and co-founder of Autoimmune Wellness – serving the worldwide community of autoimmune sufferers Angie Alt. Sit back and relax while Leah discusses the latest health news headlines with special guests.  This week on the podcast Leah, Shelley and Angie discuss the upcoming Nutritional Therapy Association Conference – Roots.  Followed by a discussion on weight and Autoimmunity, is Carnivore really the solution to Autoimmunity, what’s the go with celery juice and should you do Keto with an autoimmune condition? Tune in to hear what Leah, Shelley and Angie think.  The Nutritional Therapy Association will hold its 12th Annual Conference, Roots, March 1-3, 2019 in Portland, Oregon. This year’s conference brings together experts from across diverse fields to take a deep dive into the root causes of systemic health problems, investigate how we can grow strong roots in our food delivery system, and provide an opportunity for you to grow roots in the NTA tribe.  Articles discussed on the podcast: 10 TIPS TO REACH A HEALTHY WEIGHT ON THE AUTOIMMUNE PROTOCOL This Woman Says Meat-Only Diet Eased Her Autoimmune Disease Symptoms Celery Juice: Fad or Fabulous? Should You Try a Keto Diet if You Have an Autoimmune Disease?   SIGN UP TO The Low Carb Conversations Mail List and receive the latest news!  Low Carb Denver 2019, March 7-10.  REGISTRATION is open check out the details here.  Work with Leah! Leah is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and has appointments available for online consultation – one on one or in small groups. This is available to anyone looking to improve their health through low carb real food principles for themselves and their families (Australia, USA). If you would like to chat before making an appointment then please email Leah at info@nourishingconversations.com Join our Facebook Community!

In episode 32 of the PCOS and Nutrition Podcast, I speak with Melanie Morton, a NASM Certified Personal Trainer, and Nutritional Therapy Consultant about training, nutrition, metabolism, gut health and finding balance. Find out Melanie's story Melanie's approach to nutrition and training You don't have a broken metabolism How to Boost your metabolism You don't need to do cardio to lose weight Why endurance exercise and overexercising may be doing you more harm than good. How to improve digestion and gut health How Melanie balances work, exercise and being a mother.  Overcoming fear food Melanie's biggest piece of advice for people looking to ditch the diet mentality and make peace with food. Melanie's Website Melanie's Instagram Melanie's Facebook Group   Despina's Instagram: @pcos_nutrition Despina's Twitter: @pcos_nutrition Despina's Facebook Page: @pcosandnutrition Despina's Pinterest: @pcos_nutrition Despina's YouTube: PCOS and Nutrition PCOS and Nutrition Website: pcosandnutrition.com

Cameo is a certified Nutritional Therapy Consultant and woman behind the blog, Lemon & Fig and the podcast, The Fig. She focuses on supporting and empowering busy women so they can do more, love big, and live unapologetically. Cameo lives in Denver, CO with her husband and dog and when she's not working, you can find her in the kitchen or trying out new restaurants in the city. In this episode, we discuss: - What began Cameo's wellness journey and/or wellness background. - How to stay healthy + sane while working full time. - How to plan out your week, workouts and meals. Meal prep magic tips Keep it simple - What advice would you give to the woman who's busy but wants to begin her health journey? - Cameo's advise for the ONE thing women can do to support their wellness. - Advise Cameo gives to busy working mom’s who have families they are trying to keep healthy too. Find Cameo at: Instagram: _lemonandfig Website: lemonandfignutrition.com Podcast: The Fig

ANGIE ALT, NTC, CHC, is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, Certified Health Coach and author of The Alternative Autoimmune Cookbook and co-author of The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook. She is the creator of SAD to AIP in SIX, an online coaching program that has helped thousands of people on the path to wellness, teaching them how to transition their diets and lifestyle over a six-week period.

Welcome to episode ninety one of The Inspired Women Podcast. In today's episode your host Megan Hall interviews Amanda Koch. Amanda Koch is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, Pilates Master Trainer, Director with Beautycounter, and blogs over at My Well Balanced... Read moreEpisode 91 From Miscarriage to Healthy Living Featuring Amanda Koch

April is the Month of the Military Child so to honor their sacrifices for their parent's service we have Amanda with us to discuss the lifestyle of the military child. Amanda is a a Pilates & Barre Master Trainer, Nutritional Therapy Consultant, Director with Beautycounter, military wife, and mother of two very energetic boys. For more information about Amanda, yummy recipes, and tricks for keeping a well balanced life check her out online: http://www.mywellbalancedlife.com/Instagram @mywellbalancedlife Here's the link for additional counseling mentioned in the episode for active military and spouses: http://www.militaryonesource.mil/You can find Balance and Peace online at: https://balanceandpeace.comInstagram @balance.and.peaceFacebook: Balance and Peace, LLC

"By sharing what's alive we give each other the gift of knowing each other, we give each other the gift of receiving" Liesbet Bickett Liesbet Bickett, a North #Tahoe Life Coach who specializes in coaching communication for strong relationships. Liesbet Bickett has been in the business of #health and #wellness for almost 20 years. She began her career as a massage therapist in 1998 after the death of her father. It was three years of caring for her father while he lived with colon cancer that Liesbet realized the importance of #body, #mind, #soul work for all who are healing into life. Liesbet’s studies in the wellness profession have taken her through work as a #massagetherapist for professional and amateur #athletes, a personal trainer, a fitness boot camp owner, a #Crossfit gym owner, a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, and a Professional Life Coach. Most recently Liesbet has focused her work on coaching Compassionate Communication to individuals, couples and community organizations, using her knowledge and skills to support strong relationships and meaningful connections for her clients. She now is working on her MS in Restorative Practices. Liesbet Bickett 510-393-7588 liesbet@bickett.net Sacred Connections Helpful Links: Non-Violent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg https://youtu.be/Cly5qL956SI Read Chapter 1 for free: https://www.cnvc.org/Training/nvc-chapter-1 Gain access to hundreds (maybe thousands) of video, audio, and written resources pertaining to the practice of non-violent communication: https://nvctraining.com 2.5 minute intro to NVC by Marshall Rosenberg - https://youtu.be/Cly5qL956SI What Liesbet is currently studing to further her education and career: Institute for Restorative Practices: What is Restorative Practices Restoring Community Video Restoring Bridges Trailer: an example of how restorative practices can be used to repair communities. TED Talk about Restorative Justice in school. Restorative Circles in school #compassionatecommunication #restorativepractices #NVC #noedits #realtime #nonviolentcommunication #RestorativeJustice #Fitness #bootcamp #massagetherapsit #NutritionalTherapyConsultant #nutrition #mind #body #soul #tahoe #northtahoe #coaching #lifecoach #positive #clarity #awareness #authenticity #meaningfulconnections #dyslexia #Coleyologypodcast #podcast

Listen in as guests Mickey Trescott and Angie Alt from join our new co-hosts Leah Williamson and Kara Halderman today in Episode 206 of “Low-Carb Conversations!” It's the very first episode with the new co-hosts Leah and Kara so grab a cup of bone broth and settle back to listen to the latest health headlines with educated opinions from people in the low-carb, Paleo, primal, and real food community. FAT STILL CAUSING FEAR? LOW CARB THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO LOSE WEIGHT SECRET HEALTH HEADLINE In this episode Leah and Kara speak with Mickey Trescott, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and Angie Alt, Nutritional Therapy Consultant from Autoimmune Wellness. Listen in at the start of the show as Mickey and Angie discuss their amazing stories and how they are living well with autoimmune conditions. Listen in as Leah, Kara, Mickey and Angie discuss: whether a low carb diet is good for weight loss and you long term, whether a low carb diet leads to a higher consumption of meat, now that fat is back on the diet are people focusing on plant based fat too much and not on animal fat, the importance of balancing omega 3 and omega 6, the importance of fats in your diet, the most searched diets of 2016. Plus don't miss Mickey's delicious, nutrient dense Magic chili recipe, and Angie's health tip and the app she uses, "". Don't forget you can email us articles and/or questions at Links used:  () () Our theme song is Desert Castles, kindly provided by . “LOW-CARB CONVERSATIONS” PODCAST SUPPORTED BY: AND LISTENERS LIKE YOU!: Please do your part to keep the show coming!

MICKEY TRESCOTT, NTP, is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, chef, blogger, and author of The Autoimmune Paleo Cookbook. She is the creator of AIP Batch Cook, a video-based cooking program that teaches users how to prepare allergen-free meals in their own home. She teaches cooking classes online and at seminars around the country, as well as at Bastyr University. Mickey is on the board of directors for Hashimoto’s Awareness, an advocacy organization for sufferers of Hashimoto’s disease. In 2012, Mickey founded Autoimmune-Paleo.com, a website with recipes and resources for those suffering from autoimmune diseases. She lives in Willamette Valley, Oregon. ANGIE ALT, NTC, CHC, is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant, Certified Health Coach and author of The Alternative Autoimmune Cookbook, a recipe, and guidebook for the Autoimmune Protocol. She is the creator of SAD to AIP in SIX, an online coaching program that has helped over 1,000 members on the path to wellness, teaching them how to transition their diets and lifestyle over a six-week period. In 2015, Angie became a partner at Autoimmune-Paleo.com. She lives in Washington, D.C. In our interview, Angie and Mickey teach several key principles for recovering from autoimmune disease: Empowerment - because it means the difference between wellness as drudgery and wellness and joy. Rebel Thinking - because autoimmune healing requires outside the box thinking and innovative methods - old school status quo doesn't work. Gentle Transitioning/Practical Application - because all the dietary & lifestyle adjustments in the world won’t help you achieve wellness if the implementation is a merciless process or the steps are impractical. You can live a vibrant, healthy life with autoimmune disease, by being proactive about your health and managing your care, both conventionally and naturally. Seven actions to the road to recovery include inform, collaborate, nourish, rest, breathe, move, and connect. Try an elimination and reintroduction protocol, like the autoimmune protocol, to get at the root of food-driven symptoms. Recommended Reading: The Paleo Approach by Sarah Ballantyne http://amzn.to/2fbejCH Mickey and Angie's cookbooks -: The Autoimmune Paleo Cookbook (Mickey) http://amzn.to/2eVRwWE The Alternative Autoimmune Cookbook (Angie) http://amzn.to/2e114BW The Autoimmune Wellness Handbook http://amzn.to/2e15poV http://autoimmune-paleo.com/   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If this episode made a difference in your life please leave me a tip in the virtual tip jar by giving my podcast a great rating and review in iTunes! http://bit.ly/learntruehealth-itunes Thank you! Ashley James http://bit.ly/learntruehealth-itunes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoyed this podcast episode? Visit my website so you can gain access to all of my episodes and more! LearnTrueHealth.com http://learntruehealth.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Need Help Ordering The Right Supplements For You? Visit TakeYourSupplements.com and a FREE health coach will help you! http://takeyoursupplements.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn How To Achieve Optimal Health for From Naturopathic Doctors! Get Our 7 Day Couse For FREE! Visit go.learntruehealth.com http://go.learntruehealth.com/gw-oi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I made a low-carb, gluten-free cookbook just for you! Download your FREE copy today! Visit learntruehealth.com/free-health-cookbook http://learntruehealth.com/free-health-cookbook/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Join our Facebook community group! Visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/LearnTrueHealth/ or search Learn True Health on Facebook! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow the Learn True Health podcast on social media! Share with your friends and spread the word! Let's all get healthier & happier together! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/2LearnTrueHealth Twitter: https://twitter.com/learntruehealth Medium: https://medium.com/@unstoppable_ashley Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/healthpodcast/ YouTube: http://bit.ly/LTH-YouTube-Subscribe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/2LearnTrueHealth Twitter: https://twitter.com/learntruehealth Medium: https://medium.com/@unstoppable_ashley Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/healthpodcast/ YouTube: http://bit.ly/LTH-YouTube-Subscribe -

In this episode I'm chatting with Michelle Strand, Nutritional Therapy Consultant and producer of Women of Impact and Health Theory! In this episode Michelle shares more about how her job at Quest eventually led her to becoming the producer at a digital media company and running multiple shows. She talks about the behind-the-scenes realities of being a producer, the importance of an open company culture, setting boundaries with a demanding job, and respecting people's time. We also talk about the different ways people stay motivated, who should be an entrepreneur, and what it's like working on a team. We discuss how to pitch yourself to a show, how to ask for a favor, the best way to contact people professionally, and more. For more from Michelle, follow her on Instagram (@wellbymichelle) and check out both Women of Impact and Health Theory! Make sure you listen to episode 102 with Lisa Bilyeu! For more from Christina, head to her website, christinaricewellness.com, to find her services, blog, programs, and ebooks. If there's a question you'd like answered or a topic you'd like discussed on the podcast, send it in to podcast@christinaricewellness.com! Don’t forget to join the Facebook group, Wellness Realness Podcast Tribe, to meet other podcast listeners! Want in on all of the health benefits of mushrooms?! Functional mushrooms like Reishi, Chaga, Cordyceps, and Lion's Mane have been used for medicinal purposes for centuries. With Four Sigmatic products, we can now easily take advantage of mushrooms' many health benefits for immunity, energy, longevity, and more. Four Sigmatic makes drinking mushrooms and superfoods delicious and easy with their Mushroom Coffees, Mushroom Superfood Blends, and Mushroom Elixirs! Head to foursigmatic.com/crw to check out all of their products, and use the code "CRW" for 15% off all purchases on their site! If you love desserts but want to avoid the sugar and sweeteners, pick up a copy of Christina's new ebook, #NoSugarNoProblems Part 2! This ebook contains over 30 paleo dessert recipes (most are also vegan) that contain absolutely no sugar or sweeteners - no stevia, xylitol, erythritol, maple syrup, honey, dates, bananas, or other sugar substitutes. Perfect if you're keto, low-carb, on a gut-healing diet, looking to balance your hormones, or trying to break your sugar addiction! Grab your copy at bit.ly/nsnp2 and use the code "wellnessrealness" for 20% off! If you're a woman looking to learn everything about using the Paleo lifestyle to reach your health goals , sign up for Christina's online course, The Paleo Women Lifestyle Program! This course has hours of video lectures, audio lectures, and PDFs that cover nutrition, fitness, sleep, stress management, balancing hormones, self love, cooking and grocery shopping, and more. You can sign up at bit.ly/paleowomenlifestyle. If you're finally ready to reach your fitness goals, check out the MAPS programs from Mind Pump Media at www.mindpumpmedia.com/christinaricewellness. You can use the code "WELLNESS" for 10% off! I recommend MAPS Anabolic to anyone who goes to the gym and wants something that will increase their strength and fitness levels while also reducing body fat, and I recommend MAPS Anywhere if you're looking for a program that doesn't require a gym and focuses more on bodyweight exercises. Interested in switching to safer beauty products to protect your health? Shop at beautycounter.com/christinarice for safer skincare, makeup, hair care, and more! If you need help with color matching or product recommendations, feel free to reach out to Christina. You can email her at christina@christinaricewellness.com. If you want to change your life with essential oils, head to bit.ly/doterrachristina to get started! Feel free to email Christina to learn more about how doTERRA essential oils can transform your health! If you're not sure where to start with essential oils, head here. Do you love Primal Kitchen Foods products as much as Christina?! If you want to stock up on healthy paleo mayo, salad dressings, bars, collagen, and more, use the code "WELLNESS" for 10% off your Primal Kitchen order! Are you a health coach, NTP, nutritionist, or just interested in wellness, and want to turn your passion into a thriving business and work from anywhere?! You NEED to check out my friend Amie Tollefsrud's online course, Digital Nomad Nutritionist, to learn how to build up your online nutrition business and finally make your side hustle your full-time gig! This is a 100% self-paced online course that will teach you EVERYTHING you need to know to create a thriving business and finally be your own boss. You'll learn how to distinguish yourself from other health/wellness blogs and websites, set up your website, email list, and blogging strategy, find your niche, expand your email list, grow your social media, build a personal brand without a designer, and much much more! For $100 off the course, head to bit.ly/digitalnomadCR! I cannot recommend this course enough. If you're still using olive oil from the grocery store, STOP!!! To snag some of my FAVORITE olive oil, head to kasandrinos.com and use the code "WELLNESS" for 10% off your entire order! You can count on Kasandrino's for pure olive oil that tastes amazing and that you can trust to be 100% real! If you'd like to support the show, you can do so by shopping through our Amazon link. All you have to do is do your regular Amazon shopping through this link or by clicking the button below, and a small amount of your total order will go towards the show's production, at no extra cost to you!   If you haven’t already, be sure to SUBSCRIBE on iTunes and/or Stitcher to keep up with new episodes! And leave a rating and review to show the show some love!

In this episode I'm chatting with Michelle Strand, Nutritional Therapy Consultant and producer of Women of Impact and Health Theory! Michelle has also previously been a guest on this show - you can hear her on episode 191.  In this episode, Michelle and I talk about supporting female-owned brands, the changes she made to get her period back, and the importance of your social life on your overall health. We discuss undereating on a paleo diet, the weirdest diet trends we've seen, and why people are offended so easily. We also talk about things on dating profiles we don't like, what traits we look for in a date, emotionally unavailable men, if you should date your type, and more! For more from Michelle, follow her on Instagram (@wellbymichelle) and check out both Women of Impact and Health Theory! For more from Christina, head to her website, christinaricewellness.com, to find her services, blog, programs, and ebooks. If there's a question you'd like answered or a topic you'd like discussed on the podcast, send it in to podcast@christinaricewellness.com! Don’t forget to join the Facebook group, Wellness Realness Podcast Tribe, to meet other podcast listeners! This podcast is sponsored by Clearstem Skincare, holistic skincare designed by acne specialists that addresses both acne and anti-aging concerns. Clearstem is specifically designed to calm skin and inflamed breakouts, reduce redness and inflammation, stimulate collagen production, and block excess oil production. Clearstem helps to reduce scars, eliminate and prevent acne, reduce fine lines and wrinkles, even out discoloration, brighten skin, and more! If you're looking for a nontoxic option that actually works when it comes to getting rid of acne and scarring, head to clearstemskincare.com and use the code "WELLNESS" for $15 off! This podcast episode is sponsored by Beekeeper's Naturals, a wellness company specializing in innovative nutraceuticals made from healing hive compounds and plant-based ingredients. At Beekeeper's Naturals, they're harnessing the power of the beehive to share a line of effective supplements and remedies to solve modern health challenges. Make sure you check out their Propolis Throat Spray (nature's antibiotic), B.Powered Superfood Complex, B.LXR Brain Fuel, and more! Head to beekeepersnaturals.com/CRW and use my code "CRW" for 15% off! Make sure you listen to episode 206 to learn everything you need to know about bee products! Want in on all of the health benefits of mushrooms?! Functional mushrooms like Reishi, Chaga, Cordyceps, and Lion's Mane have been used for medicinal purposes for centuries. With Four Sigmatic products, we can now easily take advantage of mushrooms' many health benefits for immunity, energy, longevity, and more. Four Sigmatic makes drinking mushrooms and superfoods delicious and easy with their Mushroom Coffees, Mushroom Superfood Blends, and Mushroom Elixirs! Head to foursigmatic.com/crw to check out all of their products, and use the code "CRW" for 15% off all purchases on their site! If you're ready to finally take control of your health, Christina's online course, The Paleo Women Lifestyle Program, is exactly what you need. This course is designed to teach you everything you need to know to optimize your health as a woman, no matter your age or where you are in your health journey. This course has hours of video lectures, audio lectures, and PDFs that cover nutrition, fitness, sleep, stress management, balancing hormones, self-love, cooking and grocery shopping, and more. You can learn more / sign up at bit.ly/paleowomenlifestyle. If you love desserts but want to avoid the sugar and sweeteners, pick up a copy of Christina's new ebook, #NoSugarNoProblems Part 2! This ebook contains over 30 paleo dessert recipes (most are also vegan) that contain absolutely no sugar or sweeteners - no stevia, xylitol, erythritol, maple syrup, honey, dates, bananas, or other sugar substitutes. Perfect if you're keto, low-carb, on a gut-healing diet, looking to balance your hormones, or trying to break your sugar addiction! Grab your copy at bit.ly/nsnp2 and use the code "wellnessrealness" for 20% off! If you're finally ready to reach your fitness goals, check out the MAPS programs from Mind Pump Media at bit.ly/mindpumpcrw. You can use the code "WELLNESS" for 10% off! I recommend MAPS Anabolic to anyone who goes to the gym and wants something that will increase their strength and fitness levels while also reducing body fat, and I recommend MAPS Anywhere if you're looking for a program that doesn't require a gym and focuses more on bodyweight exercises. Interested in switching to safer beauty products to protect your health? Shop at beautycounter.com/christinarice for safer skincare, makeup, hair care, and more! If you need help with color matching or product recommendations, feel free to reach out to Christina. You can email her at christina@christinaricewellness.com. If you want to change your life with essential oils, head to bit.ly/doterrachristina to get started! Feel free to email Christina to learn more about how doTERRA essential oils can transform your health! If you're not sure where to start with essential oils, head here. If you'd like to support the show, you can do so by shopping through our Amazon link. All you have to do is do your regular Amazon shopping through this link or by clicking the button below, and a small amount of your total order will go towards the show's production, at no extra cost to you!   If you haven’t already, be sure to SUBSCRIBE on iTunes and/or Stitcher to keep up with new episodes! And leave a rating and review to show the show some love!

Today I’m welcoming in the New Year (Happy 2019!) with a fun podcast episode wrapping up the last decade, joined by my friend Michelle Strand. Michelle is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant and producer of Women of Impact and Health Theory! Michelle has also previously been a guest on the show - you can hear her on episode 222 and episode 191. In this episode, Michelle and I recap our trip to Maui, how we feel about the slow pace of Hawaii, and how we spent New Year’s Eve. We talk about our experiences in 2019 as well as how we’ve changed in the last decade, which overlapped with formative years for both of us. We discuss our most noteworthy experiences of the decade, what we want to leave behind in 2019 and bring into 2020, and how to get over self-doubt. We also chat about the changes in media, technology, and wellness over the last decade, where we expect health and wellness trends to head in the next few years, and what we think about Well + Good’s projected wellness trends. Well + Good Top 13 Wellness Trends: https://www.wellandgood.com/fitness-wellness-trends/ For more from Michelle, find her on Instagram (@wellbymichelle) and check out episode 222 and episode 191. For more from Christina, head to her website, christinaricewellness.com, to find her services, blog, programs, and ebooks. If there's a question you'd like answered or a topic you'd like discussed on the podcast, send it in to podcast@christinaricewellness.com! Don’t forget to join the Facebook group, Wellness Realness Podcast Tribe, to meet other podcast listeners! I’m so excited to be partnering with Just Thrive Probiotic & Antioxidant to bring you this podcast episode! Just Thrive Probiotic & Antioxidant is the first 100% spore-forming probiotic that arrives alive in the intestines naturally. It helps to support optimal gut health, digestive health, immune health, and delivers antioxidants. The strains in Just Thrive were recently proven in a published study to begin to heal leaky gut in just 30 days! Head to bit.ly/justthrivechristina and use the discount code “christina15” for 15% off your order! This podcast episode is sponsored by BLUblox, the leader in blue light blocking glasses. BLUblox offers three different lenses for day time, nighttime, and color therapy that are backed by science, and they offer over 20 different frames as well as the option to send in your own frames to be turned into blue blockers. Wearing blue blockers helps to improve sleep, balance your hormones, boost your mood, increase your energy, reduce headaches, and optimize your circadian rhythm. You can use the code "WELLNESS" for 15% off your pair of BLUblox blue light blocking glasses at blublox.com! Want in on all of the health benefits of mushrooms?! Functional mushrooms like Reishi, Chaga, Cordyceps, and Lion's Mane have been used for medicinal purposes for centuries. With Four Sigmatic products, we can now easily take advantage of mushrooms' many health benefits for immunity, energy, longevity, and more. Four Sigmatic makes drinking mushrooms and superfoods delicious and easy with their Mushroom Coffees, Mushroom Superfood Blends, and Mushroom Elixirs! Head to foursigmatic.com/crw to check out all of their products, and use the code "CRW" for 15% off all purchases on their site! If you're ready to finally take control of your health, Christina's online course, The Paleo Women Lifestyle Program, is exactly what you need. This course is designed to teach you everything you need to know to optimize your health as a woman, no matter your age or where you are in your health journey. This course has hours of video lectures, audio lectures, and PDFs that cover nutrition, fitness, sleep, stress management, balancing hormones, self-love, cooking and grocery shopping, and more. You can learn more / sign up at bit.ly/paleowomenlifestyle. If you love desserts but want to avoid the sugar and sweeteners, pick up a copy of Christina's new ebook, #NoSugarNoProblems Part 2! This ebook contains over 30 paleo dessert recipes (most are also vegan) that contain absolutely no sugar or sweeteners - no stevia, xylitol, erythritol, maple syrup, honey, dates, bananas, or other sugar substitutes. Perfect if you're keto, low-carb, on a gut-healing diet, looking to balance your hormones, or trying to break your sugar addiction! Grab your copy at bit.ly/nsnp2 and use the code "wellnessrealness" for 20% off! If you're finally ready to reach your fitness goals, check out the MAPS programs from Mind Pump Media at bit.ly/mindpumpcrw. You can use the code "WELLNESS" for 10% off! 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Michelle is a Nutritional Therapy Consultant and producer of Women of Impact and Health Theory. She joins Christina in today’s episode to highlight key takeaways from the NTA Thrive Conference.In this episode of Wellness Realness:6:20 - Christina & Michelle’s favorite activities prior to the conference12:22 - The Qest4 machine & Christina’s results22:55 -  Energy work as a healing modality & the importance of consistency26:27 - The power of the mind & rethinking the placebo effect27:37 - Key points for optimizing your mitochondria 30:55 - Tips for coaches and working with clients33:40 - Ketogenic diet: contraindications & the right way to do it39:58 - Key takeaways for quality sleep47:50 - Nutritional templates54:00 - Case study reviews57:21 - Neurotransmitters and hormones1:04:21 - Using social media as a tool to build your brandThis show is supported by:Ned | Visit helloned.com and use the discount code “WELLNESS” for 15% off your hemp oil!Beekeepers Naturals | Head to beekeepersnaturals.com/CRW and use my code “CRW” for 15% off.Follow Michelle:IG: @wellbymichelleConnect with Christina:Learn more: christinaricewellness.comPersonal IG: @christinaricewellnessSecret IG: @wellnessrealnesscrew Wellness Realness IG: @wellnessrealnesspodcastWellness Realness FB Group: bit.ly/WRtribe This show is produced by Soulfire Productions