Sistermixin' The Whole Circle

Since we began recording Sistermixin podcast, we have learnt exponential amounts of knowledge on a huge variety of topics from all the amazing people we interview. In this episode we share all the best tips that will dramatically improve your lifestyle and help you to spring out of bed in the morning! Do you find yourself glued to your phone on social media at bedtime? Perhaps you finish watching TV and roll straight into bed. We discuss how limiting screen time at night, can dramatically improve sleep quality and stress levels,and the top habits you can pass onto your kids. We discuss all the benefits of starting a food diary linking the type of food you eat, to how you feel afterwards, including removing harmful chemicals from your diet and the impact it has on your overall energy. It’s just so important to create routines in your family that allow you to sleep at the same time each night and have your body follow its natural routine. We talk about why early bed and early rise, helps you to squeeze much mo

For all our mumma listeners, this episode is for you! We discuss the self-care rituals you may have had before children, but how it takes a back seat when your kids become your priority. Stress can become an overwhelming factor when you become a parent. However, we talk about the importance of self-care and self-love and how you really need to take time out just for you. We also talk about the need to say no to the things that will only cause more stress. It makes such a difference in your life to surround yourself with positive people. We discuss why it’s OK to break out of friendships that consistently bring you down. There’s no doubt about it, life gets busy, but we talk about the little pockets of time you can really take advantage of and dedicate solely to yourself. However you achieve your self care goals, it’s all about doing the things that make you feel better and to live life more fully. Links & Resources Episode 67 with Paul Benson financial planner – How to be financially ready to start a f

In this episode, we share our top five tips to better budgeting and we’re on a mission to help you reach your financial goals! Money doesn’t have to be stressful and once you can get a grasp on what’s going out of your bank account, you’ll feel much more confident in meeting your financial goals and targets. Do you find yourself in the habit of spending more than you earn? In today’s society this is all too easy to do! We talk about interest free traps and ways to break out of this cycle and get ahead. We discuss the advantages of setting up a separate bank account, for bills alone, and how this helps with your daily spending over the course of the year. If you have teenagers, this is a great episode to tune into as we touch on the importance of teaching them about finances, especially if they’ve started working part time or saving for their first car. We find this guidance absolutely invaluable for setting them up for financial responsibility. We go through everything from setting realistic time frames, meal

In this podcast we cover five of our top downloaded podcasts ever and why you should go back and listen to them right now! If you’re fairly new to Sistermixin, then you may have missed out on some epic episodes from back in the days! We also cover our personal favourites and all the highlights of these episodes. There’s no limit to the range of topics we cover and not surprisingly, some of our most personal interviews have turned out to be the most popular ones. It’s pretty clear to see that real people, telling real stories, and not sugar coating anything will always bring out your own authentic side and truly touch your heart. We talk about all the interesting people we interviewed from yeast infections to body issues and common magnesium deficiencies.If you missed our very first episode we ever recorded, we cover why we started our Sistermixin' journey including Jo’s daughter Eva’s reaction to additives and preservatives and her legacy behind what we do! Links & Resources Meals made Easy: https://meals

Every round of our E-course, we have someone share why they started the course in the first place. We are just blown away by the responses and go through a range of emotions from crying to laughing out loud. One thing we noticed is the ever increasing amount of children being diagnosed with behavioural issues and your concrete proof that additives are at the centre of these issues. We are so proud of the awareness being raised and how a potential lifetime of medication is being avoided for your kid’s labelled behavioural issues. Jo touches on her personal story of how she treated her daughter Eva’s ADHD and the additives she recognized as being a key link to the way she behaves. We have heard all your amazing stories about taking your kids off medication, or massively lowering the dosage with an improvement in the foods your family are eating. We talk about your common hurdles when going additive free, such as telling your children’s grandparents what new diet changes and restrictions are happening when it

Today we are lucky to have Paul on the show who has been a financial planner for over 15 years. He is a father to two boys and recently started a podcast Financial Autonomy as he recognised a need for advice around every day financial challenges. If you’re thinking about starting a family, we talk about an abundance of topics that may not have even crossed your mind until this point. We ask Paul about what it truly means to be financially strong and having a handle on your cash flow before your baby arrives. We chat about the best time to narrow down to living off one wage and private health vs the public system when it comes to the birth. We talk about the many government benefits that are set up to help you out such as paid parental leave, family tax benefits, newborn payments and childcare rebates. We discuss our personal experiences on getting caught up in buying the best and newest prams, cots and high chairs and sneaky ways that marketers in the baby industry play on your vulnerabilities as a new parent

Today we’re chatting with Debbie who runs a website called TILT parenting which provides an abundance of insight and inspiration to parents with differently wired kids. She affectionately uses this term rather than disability or disorder and has her own differently wired 12-year-old son with ADHD and aspergers. We hear about Debbie’s very many challenges of bringing up her son and how she didn’t have any sign posts to help her out along the way.  As an author and former kid’s TV executive, Debbie has taken her gift of connecting and creating communities to become an advocate to parents dealing with similar situations. Debbie talks about the unnecessary social stigma attached to those that are different and how it can create isolation and separation.She dives into the ins and outs of home schooling her boy in a foreign country and how he is thriving with his curriculum. We also raise issues about the traditional educational model and how it is outdated in many aspects.  If you know of a close friend or family

Today we are chatting with Dr Kristof, or Damo as he much prefers to be called! Damo proudly wears three hats as a nutritionist, naturopath and chiropractor and is an absolute wealth of knowledge. He is clearly passionate and driven to share information that has the power to transform lives. In this episode we talk about all things stress and Damo breaks down the elements of stress, how it branches out and effects different areas of our lives, from the initial physical stress as we are born into this world and even the chemical stress from every day products we use. If you work seated all day in a sedentary office job, then you’ll want to tune in on this hot topic that is currently receiving a lot of media attention. Love your coffee too?Well we hear some amazing facts on the long term consequences of having coffee on an empty stomach or early in the morning before food that you may not be aware of. We’re taken through the primitive flight or fight response system and what it means in our modern day lives, in

Today we are chatting with John who sent us a Shakti mat about a year ago, but we won’t lie, we have been a little intimidated by it and haven’t used it all that much. But in this episode John takes the time to explain all of the life changing health benefits that he’s personally seen after showing around 20,000 people how it actually works! John shares some of the best feedback he has received. John describes why it’s worth pushing through the initial discomfort when first laying down on the spiky mat and how your body begins to release endorphins, boost circulation and release tension through pressure points. We also learn how to target specific muscle groups and the athletes that are increasing recovery time and performance by using the Shakti Mat. We hear about John’s personal trips to India to see for himself that the mats are made ethically throughout the production process from A-Z. Links & Resources Website: https://www.shaktimats.com.au/ Instagram: @shaktimatsNZ Facebook: ShaktimatsNZ

We steal Anne for her first ever podcast and hear about all things acupuncture. There’s something about acupuncture (mostly the needles) that really put people off giving it a go! But we learn that a doctor’s needle is actually 500x thicker than an acupuncture needle. Anne explains all the many ailments she has treated from simple back pain to trouble sleeping, quitting smoking, helping the body to deal with stress from physical to mental, all the way to hormonal issues. We learn about the medical, scientific, physical and spiritual perspective of acupuncture and how so many women that Anne treats, think that certain ailments are normal in their body, when in fact they are actually abandoning their health We really go into depth in this episode, where we’re filled in on the meridians that run through our bodies, and common areas of the body where you might be blocking energy. It’s amazing to hear Anne’s stories of clients with simple back pain, actually having ailments at much deeper levels If you have been c

In this episode we are speaking with Mike Vardy who is dedicated to helping people to do more of what they actually want to be doing in their lives, using simple and flexible techniques. If you’re after more freedom and time then you’re going to pick up on a lot of tips from Mike on how to shuffle your current schedule and get ahead. We learn about setting boundaries for yourself both in your work life and your personal life and how to truly follow your energy levels. Mike shares ideas on making forward progress and in particular how to isolate particular days for tasks, especially if you’re juggling looking after your kids. You’ll love the tips that will increase your kid’s productivity in completing homework on time, helping with chores around the house and also when they can indulge in free time. Would you describe yourself as a procrastinator? We find out how procrastination actually has value! And for those that are trying to simply be more organised, you’ll pick up plenty of advice on training yourself

In this episode we are excited to be talking to Cole Clayton who is a health coach specialist focusing on breathing programs for kids. After suffering from breathing problems in his younger years, Cole became highly curious on the topic and made a strong link between regulation of emotion and proper breathing in children. Cole has seen transformational changes while taking his training to the classroom and became passionate about correcting breathing problems early on in life. So how do you know if your child has any breathing issue? Cole talks about the tell-tale signs to look out for, from subtle signs to bigger problems. He also shares some inspiring success stories of problem sleepers, with one young girl taking up to four hours to fall asleep due to breathing issues! We learn about factors that come into play in breathing problems and when it’s time to step in and take intervention to improve sleep, mood and overall quality of life. Links & Resources Website: https://www.happykidsklinic.com/

We just can’t stop smiling in this episode as we hear about Nicole’s incredible story. She suffers from multiple diseases including lupus and rheumatoid arthritis and is also doubly immunosuppressed, meaning she picks up every cold that comes around. At the onset of her disease, Nicole struggled to even hold a coffee cup on her own and eventually had to resign from her office management role. She is heavily medicated, which comes with many unwanted side effects, including not being able to go into sunlight, as she almost instantly burns. We learn that some of her scripts cost up to $1,800.00 per month! After spilling one of her liquid medications on the floor and later finding it dry out into a horrible fatty mixture, she thought enough is enough. She simply didn’t want to put that in her body again. Nicole gave our additive and preservative free course a red hot go! We hear all about the transformational changes in her lifestyle, where she is now indulging in fresh fruits and vegetables, barely eating any

Jo was privileged when this amazing mum agreed to share her story with us. Tara is a mum of two boys that both suffer from allergies, including anaphylaxis to multiple foods. She tells her inspirational story about her son’s severe reaction to an asthma medication that has made media headlines recently. She walks us through the long two years it took for him to fully recover. Always putting her children’s health first, Tara wanted to improve her family’s overall wellbeing and decided to start the Additive Free Made Easy online course that we offer. The behavourial differences Tara noticed since the beginning of the course have been life changing. We’re filled in on specific changes she has made in order to live preservative free and what she has learnt along the way. Tara fills us in on the challenges of sourcing additive and preservative free when living in a rural area and what alternatives are available including shopping online. Links & Resources Online E-Course: http://www.additivefreemadeeasy.com/

Taneall shares with us her heartwarming story of how her life was absolutely ruled by her son Jordy’s extreme moods. After much denial, she finally followed her gut feeling and sought help, where his was diagnosed with OCD, ADHD and ODD. We learn the characteristics of each of these disorders. She believed her children’s diets were not that bad, but reviewed their staple foods and decided to walk down the path of additive and preservative free. She signed up for our E-Course on Christmas day, after yet another mood meltdown from her son. Taneall takes us through the transformations that she experienced, including taking her son off his medication and the huge positive behavioural differences she witnessed. We discuss how doctors are not wrong in any way, but that there are certainly alternatives to pharmaceutical drugs for life. Links & Resources Online E-Course: https://www.additivefreemadeeasy.com/

We were lucky enough to meet Melissa in the Philippines at the Tropical Think Tank conference. Melissa has a passion for supporting transgender and non-binary youth in their transitions. In this podcast we dive into some fascinating topics! With transgender becoming more and more accepted in today’s society, Melissa helps us to understand the key differences between often misunderstood abbreviations to describe sexual orientations and gender. Melissa explains practical ways to support young children, particularly if they choose to be gay, and how you can help them solidify their identity and lead a happy life. Ever wondered if someone is born gay? What about whether parts are completely functional post-surgery in sex changes? Melissa goes into depth to answer all of our curious questions! Links & Resources Email for consultations: Melissa@prideconnections.com Online communities: PFLAG http://www.pflagwa.org.au/ Australian Transgender Support Association Queensland Inc:http://www.atsaq.com/ http://www.gen

Today we are chatting with Clare who we met on a business trip to the Philippines and instantly connected with her. She holds a special role where she helps to overcome children’s attention, learning and behavioural challenges by incorporating more movement, play, connection and of course real food. Clare holds a Degree in Early Childhood Education and a Masters in Special Education. She also holds certifications in neuro-development with a focus on the brain/body connection. We discuss common foods that may be affecting the behaviour of your child and what signs to look out for. We also dive into interesting discussions on the topic of primitive reflexes. Clare touches on the importance of some of these reflexes in children’s ability to take in the information around them. We also hear why specific reflexes are commonly holding kids back in their learning capacity. Clare talks about events throughout her life that have fueled her passion for early education and improving food choices, including challenges

Sara has a clear passion in helping to inspire women and in particular new mums to create greatness in all areas of their lives. We met Sara in the Philippines and felt an instant connection with her. She runs an academy titled Shameless Mom Academy where she features her own podcast show. She is also the owner of Sync Fitness Boot Camp and Transformation Centre in Seattle. Sara was blown away with the struggles that came with motherhood. She felt she completely lost her identity and knew there had to be another way. When she found her feet, she wanted to dedicate her focus to helping other women, who were either new to motherhood, or any woman that might need help, to transform into becoming the best version of themselves. We talk about the physical challenges that come after giving birth, including a complete change in priorities and workout regimes. We also touch on the social expectations and pressures that are placed on new mums and how they are simply unrealistic. We look into the importance of self-lov

Today we are talking with Dr Brett Hill who loves to inspire others to lead a full life of energy and vitality. His biggest passion is helping families overcome eating issues, especially the all too common fussy eaters! Dr Brett Hill is co-host of the Wellness Couch and his own podcast show called That Paleo Show. He’s an author of numerous books and is no stranger to TV shows, numerous events and radio talkback. He also holds a Bachelor of Health Science and Masters of Chiropractic. In this episode we discuss new and unique concepts that encourage your kids to eat vegetables rather than making them eat vegetables. Dr Brett Hill gives real-life advice that’s tried and true, including engagement in the whole food process and conversations that matter from a child’s perspective. We talk about why the key to the best eating habits is consistency, but that you don’t need to strive for perfection! There’s always exceptions to the rules and it’s all about improvement in small steps. We discuss why the effort you pu

In this episode we go into depth about our new Meals Made Easy program. This program is designed to make EVERYONES lives a whole lot easier! All the recipes in Meals Made Easy are designed to be 100% additive free, with many different types of meals offered - there is something for everyone (including the fussiest of kids). We run through: Frequently asked questions, What's included in the program - how-to videos, e-books, prep guides, shopping lists etc We discuss the different pricing options for the program. You’ll pick up a lot from our tips on food preparation and how you can easily free up time during the week, by not having to worry about what to cook each night! The aim of our program is to save you both time and money along the way. We discuss practical tools to transform mealtime and include a huge variety of dishes. We even have freezable options and seasonal options for the upcoming Easter period. You’ll also hear about our lovely feedback from happy customers who joined this program! Links &