Food, Success & Life For The Modern Woman

Karyn Garossino, former Olympic Figure Skater is just what we needed on the podcast to help move us forward in any goal we might have. We’ve discussed over physical fitness at length on the podcast, but today we will focus on mental fitness. Karyn talks to us about building mental fitness and resilience. This podcast episode is POWERFUL! Her successes did not make her resilient. Her challenges made her resilient. Listen in to find out how those very challenges we experience are building us up for success.   How to Build Resilience You can’t buy it. It’s something you must build. You need to take the challenges that come up in life, whether it’s in family, business, school or friendships and take those experiences and save them as learning opportunities. This is where mental fitness comes in.   How Do We Build Mental Fitness? It’s about withstanding the negative things that come our way. Not so much about withstanding the hurt, because it is real to feel the hurt, we’re only humans. Part of this mental fitness

Dr. Z talks to us about how to use essential oils and live the abundance life. He goes over the ailments that can be treated, how all the “smells” in our surroundings are creating havoc in our bodies and how to get started with a natural essential oil practice. If you’re not yet using essential oils in your everyday life, this episode is an eye opener. Listen in for his DIY natural and safe hand sanitizer and home freshener recipes.   The 101 on Essential Oils How can essential oils help us? Even though they’re extracted from nature, you’re not going to see a puddle of oils in nature. However, you will smell it on roses, and other particles in the air that trigger the nose and let the brain know there is something there. There is huge component of safety when it comes to essential oils. It takes a lot of extraction to get our current essential oils. These are chemicals that can heal and make us feel better. There is no nutrition or minerals, but do have antioxidant properties. These are the particles God put

On today’s episode of Food, Success & Life for the Modern Woman, we welcome Dr. William Davis to talk about why we’re seeing so many everyday diseases and conditions, how grains have changed from what they were only decades ago, how these are contributing to our health (or lack thereof), and how to regain control of our health. Dr. Davis is author of the newly released book Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You And How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor. Undoctored seeks to set you free from the predatory practices of the healthcare industry by helping you achieve ideal health, weight, and day-to-day functioning. Americans face daily struggles with ballooning costs, unsatisfactory outcomes, and over-whelming frustration with the U.S. healthcare system which aims to address illness but rarely accomplishes real health. Instead, we have a healthcare system that promotes a vicious cycle of illness followed by unnecessary medical procedures, expensive and counterproductive drugs, and disastrous healt

On today’s episode of Food, Success & Life for the Modern Woman, Dan Miller talks to us about the very simple rules he uses with his clients to help them stay healthy, fit and keep their weight under control. This goes for everyone from stay-at-home moms to top level executives. Everyone is pressed for time and money. His simple rules tackle both these challenges and he spills it all in this episode. If you’re interested in adding years to your life span, and reducing your waistline with very easy to follow steps, listen in! Dan is more fit and more healthy today than he was 20 years ago. He’s accomplished that by paying attention to his body and taking care of it because he intends to live in it for 110 years. So what does he do so differently today, than he did 20 years ago? Meditation Sleep better Don’t exercise nearly as much, and is much more effective Diet, make it easy: food and sugar stabilization Cold showers Hot saunas   What do busy executive women need to do to take control of their health?

If you have ever had a day where you were so busy, meeting to meeting, non-stop, fast forward to the end of the day and you ask “Did I really get anything done?” …if that is you, listen in on this interview with Geoff Woods from The One Thing. He discusses how can we become more accountable to ourselves and Time Blocking to reach our ultimate goal. We need to learn to take control of our time…our most important resource. But most of us have not been taught how to. Time Block is the act of scheduling time with yourself to do your most important work. We all know how to make and protect our important appointments like doctor appointments. But we have a very hard time scheduling time with ourselves and protecting it, turning off ALL distractions and interruptions. When you look at the coming week, what are you big rock? What absolutely has to happen? When you set ONE goal that you need to get done and just focus on it, it will get done.   Identify what your ultimate goal is. What do you need to accomplish in 5 y

This week we explore our mental state of mind, how we reached the point where we have our mean girl voice constantly talking to us, and how to tame it. Dr. Napatia Gettings talks to us about mental health. Seeking aid with our mental health is not a negative, it’s not about fixing something. It’s about being our best self, about being educated, and developing our fullest potential. The thoughts we have on a daily basis causes our emotions: fear, self-doubt, resistance, etc. On a daily basis when we have a self-dialogue, let’s be aware of that dialogue, and choose how we’re going to speak to ourselves. That conversation will be based on our upbringing, but we have the ability to reflect on it and evoke change as to how we speak to ourselves. We can be our own worst enemy. The man vs. woman hierarchy is a system we are living in and is built on comparison. We tend to compare ourselves daily and a way to pull ourselves from that is to accept individuality. We all have shortcomings, and we need to embrace that,

On this episode of Food, Success & Life for the Modern women, Dr. John Dempster talks to us about aging gracefully and optimally. Anti-aging results start from within. With nutrition and not with fillers. Dr. Dempster discusses IV Vitamin Therapy, which is gaining popularity with the general public, and how it can help us age gracefully, perform better, recover quicker and live in optimal health.   How can we age optimally? It needs to start within us. Anything we do to help our body avoid inflammation. Do a very through panel of tests and look specifically into the patient’s goals. But the first thing they work on is nutrition. What foods do to their body and what types of nutrients do they have. If nutrients are deficient over time the body will start breaking down over time. If someone is symptomatic, it can be reversed.   What are general protocols for everyone? Every single listener can benefit by increasing amount of green leaf vegetables. North Americans are generally not getting their 10 servings

Ever sit around with your girlfriends and talk about all those things that drive you nuts about your man??? This episode is absolutely hilarious as Alison puts all those pesky behaviors into perspective and teaches us exactly how to understand and what to do to have a happy relationship with men. It is shock full of great information and tips we can put into action immediately and improve our relationship with the men in our lives and receive what we need and expect from them. This is Part 2 of a 2-part series to Understanding Men and Understanding Women, so make sure to listen in on Part 1 first, Become the Confident, Happy Woman You’re Meant to Be.   Men 101- What do we need to know to successfully be in relationship with men? Most men are hunting most of the time. They are focused, committed, goal oriented, experience support and appreciation as it relates on what they’re focused on. Timing is everything because of their focus. If you want to connect with a man ask him what he’s focused on; what is importa

Successful, smart and ready for love? The listen in now! We often times think, WHY is it that men are wonderful in the beginning and then change? What if we told you that men are responding to women? This episode is for all the ladies out there who want to understand men. But before we understand men, we have to understand ourselves! We had an A-MA-ZING time chatting with Alison Armstrong, author of The Queen’s Code. In this episode you will learn how to shift your perspective, cherish yourself and learn relationship tools for smart and successful women. This is part 1 of a 2 part series with Alison Armstrong. Let’s start with women, so we can understand ourselves. In next week’s show, we will talk about how to succeed in love and the secrets to have men say “there is something special about her”. As women, we can use understanding ourselves, to understand men. The biggest mistake that women make is that we dishonor ourselves. We are so instinctually compelled to be pleasing and appealing and agreeable and li

Melissa Davis talks to us about the differences amongst different fad diets available, what they do to our muscles and the effect they have afterwards. She is all about evidenced based diets and offers some great tips on nutrition, supplements, workouts, organic foods and the three most important factors for weight loss. What is an evidence based diet? Melissa works with women to reach weight and physique goals with nutrition and training based on evidence based science. She chooses the appropriate amount of protein, fat, carbs, and timing based on activity level and client’s lean body mass. There is evidence that shows how the body reacts. And diets are adjusted when new data and reviews are available.   Most common goals for women in their 40s, 50s and 60s in terms of weight and physique. Many women haven’t been to the gym in years and just starting a regime, and they see women who are competing in master cross fit nationals. They see a wide range of women. Goals are similar for women across the decades, bu

Bill Benjamin helps us unpack the things we need to know about performing under pressure as women. When we hold leadership roles in corporate, we know as women, we operate under a different level of pressure than men. We have an added layer of pressure relating to making the right decisions and representing women positively in this role. A must listen-to episode to develop our emotional intelligence and perform better under pressure.   What is emotional intelligence? Our work is around the idea of performing under pressure. To effectively perform in difficult moments there’s only 3 things we need to manage: our emotions under pressure, our thinking under pressure and our conversations under pressure. Emotions under pressure is the emotional intelligence work: awareness of our emotional response to certain things, ie: criticism, so we can manage our responses and connect with others. Thinking under pressure is how we’re interpreting what we’re going through and the messages we’re receiving. Conversations under

Dr. Michael Ash goes into detail explaining the correlation between gut health and chronic illnesses. He provides some very good tips to prevent and reverse illnesses and talks about one very specific fruit we should all be consuming (and is probably sitting on every countertop in America right now). He’s scientifically explains everything, but in a way we can all understand.   What should we know about the mucosal immune system? The vast majority of people in the world will die of inflammatory chronic illnesses. The primary mechanism for making those conditions develop is an up-regulation of the immune system. And the largest part of our immune system is the referred to mucosal immune system. In simple terms, it’s all the tissues in our body that are wet: eyes, mouth, lungs, gastrointestinal tract, liver and kidneys. All these have fluids over the surface performing roles. We share all the cells in them with creatures like bacteria, viruses, worms and sometimes parasites. Some are helpful and some are proble

In this episode of Food, Success & Life for the Modern Woman, Julia Rucklidge talks about her trials in using micronutrients for the treatment of mental illnesses. She shares about the advances they have made in learning what can lead to reducing and eliminating symptoms of ADHD, anxiety, PMS, depression in both adults and children. Her research is quite astounding and she’s making waves to change the way we treat our illnesses with methods other than drugs.   In the trials they perform in her research lab, they take an approach where they give everyone the same micronutrients, and then test to see if and how that worked. It’s difficult to give everyone something different and pin point the trials that worked. They give people a broad spectrum of micronutrients, in levels that are higher than the average recommended allowances but in a safe level and within a therapeutic range.   They did trials with ADHD. Half went into micronutrient and half went into placebo groups, and those that were on the micronutr

Megan Ramos gives us a very good understanding of what intermittent fasting is, the different protocols she and Dr. Jason Fung recommend, and how massive amounts of weight can be lost by implementing it. This is the most comprehensive information we have had on the subject on this podcast, including some very useful tips on how to use the different protocols.   What is the basic dietary approach when helping patients? They actually start their patients with basic intermittent fasting, for about 7 to 14 days, based on bloodwork and medical history, and the patient’s comfort level. For the dietary approach, they start weaning out carbohydrates. As patients finish food items in their pantry, they’re requested to buy different options. More fatty foods. Too much protein can turn in to glucose in the body, and that’s what we don’t want.   What are the different types of intermittent fasting protocols available? In their office the offer the following: 24 hour fasting protocol- 3 times a week. Recommended for pati

Such a hopeful message for those struggling with fertility or irregular periods. In this episode, Sarah Clark  of FabFertile.com shares with us her fertility struggles, how she became interested in learning about fertility and what she discovered in the process. She may never have needed fertility treatment if she knew then what she knows now. Tune in and learn how she helps thousands of women across the globe become pregnant naturally.   What to look for when treating someone dealing with infertility? Review health history with a functional nutritionist, including symptom checklist. Sarah has yet to see someone struggling with infertility, just have infertility issues. There is usually something else going on in the body. Whether it’s too much stress, out of whack hormones, auto immune disease, gut infections, etc.   Recommended prep for someone who is thinking about getting pregnant Start with your sleep, get 7-9 hours of sleep per night. Disrupted sleep can affect insulin levels the next day. Diet- take o

In this episode of Food, Success & Life for the Modern Woman, Jay Samit discusses what it means to DISRUPT yourself for success. “Success comes down to two basic variables. You just need the following two things and you will be successful: Insight and perseverance. Everything else can be hired.” This episode is shock full of inspiration. Jay shares what he has learned about achieving success in life, and shows us a shortcut to get there.   “Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change themselves.” – Jay Samit   How do you find or shape insight? Everyone has problems. And a business person solves them. If you start looking at every problem as an opportunity to solve something, it becomes very easy. Act on it and you will find success.   In his book “Disrupt You” he breaks down disrupting yourself, then your business, and then how it can be applied to the big problems we have in the world.   “The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.” – Jay Samit   We only get one life, don’t you

Geoff Woods talks to us about focusing on The ONE Thing that will get us to our ultimate goal, discusses how to surround ourselves with the 5 people that will help us achieve our goal, and how to get our loved ones on board with our ideas. He takes us through the defining moments in his life that lead him to make the change that landed him where he is today. He was scared, but he did it. He got out of his comfort zone and THAT is when the real change happens. He went from working a 9 to 5, to starting a The Mentee podcast to get to surround himself with his 5 people, to now working side by side with The One Thing co-authors Jay Papasan and Gary Keller, founder of Keller Williams Realty.   “We are the average of the 5 people we spend the most time with”- Jim Rohn. Stop and think for a minute…who are your five people? That’s who you are. Are those people already living the life you want to be living? Do they have the types of marriages and careers you want? Are they making the type of income you want to be mak

In this episode of Food, Success & Life for the Modern Woman podcast, we talk with Gary Taubes about sugar. He provides a wealth of information on sugar including the effect it has had on our society for decades and some of the biggest “diet” myths. He explains the correction between sugar and cigarettes…you must here this! And we discuss why sugar is so addictive. This is one of those episodes you will want to download and save in your podcast app to listen to over and over again. It’s no fluff, all science, just the hard facts. Gary has brought a lot of scientific nutrition information to main stream media….with a lot of resistance. There is too much information out there and most of it is misguided. Even from BIG authorities we tend to trust.   How do we cut through the clutter to get to the truth? Obesity and diabetes epidemic is higher than ever before…and growing. What we’ve been told in the past is wrong. People are eating low fat diets, whole grains, fruits and vegetables and they’re still obese.

Erin Stutland is taking fitness to a whole new level. Blending fitness, nutrition, mind, confidence for the perfect fitness regime helping reshape not only your body, but most importantly your mind. Listen in to find out what ability the power of positivity has on our mind and lives.   Fitness is not solely about counting calories, losing weight and punishment. The fitness movement is about stepping into your power, so stay connected to yourself. To expand your mind, to expand what you think and expand what you believe.   “Creating movement with your body, creates movement in your life.”– Erin Stutland If you’re feeling stuck in business, in your life, your relationship, finances, and you just feel stuck. Get out and move. Even if it’s just a 20 minute walk. Getting the fresh air and creating easy movement will create a shift in your mind and heart. Shrink Session – What can I expect, see, feel? Shrink session is a combination of cardio dance, kickboxing, HIIT workouts and yoga. Yoga meaning the mindfulness.

Thank you for spending time with us every week. Thank you for your eagerness to want to learn something every week with us. If you’re just joining us recently….WELCOME! We have planned a stellar 2017 lineup of guests for the podcast, with authors, experts, thought leaders, scientists and more!   Reflecting on 2016 We strive to bring cutting edge information to our listeners, to help reinforce what you’re reading and hearing about. Cutting through the clutter of what the media is printing and throwing at us. Providing you with the right information you need to make sound decisions for you, your family and your community. Let’s do a recap of the great interview guests we had in 2016: Today’s Choices Will Help You Keep Your Brain Young and Healthy with Neurologist Andrew Hill– Dr. Andrew Hill talks about the effects of sleep. Sleep is an area where just the smallest change can have the biggest impact. And he provides us with a great sleep hack to help us wake up, get energized in the morning, and reduce jet lag