EP38: Massage Is A Vehicle For Hope With Benny Vaughn

EP38: Massage Is A Vehicle For Hope With Benny Vaughn

Benny has 42 years of massage therapy experience treating athletes, fitness enthusiasts, and active adults; he is known internationally as an expert in the assessment, treatment and care of athletic related soft-tissue dysfunction using manual techniques. Mr. Vaughn produced the educational 1992 video series “Clinical Sports Massage” and the 1997 video “Functional Assessment Skills for Massage Therapists”.  He has been an invited lecturer for professional wellness and therapy conferences throughout the United States as well as Australia, Ireland, Japan, Spain and Russia.

MASSAGE MAGAZINE, an international publication, in their Special Year 2000 Millennium issue, recognized Benny Vaughn as one of the fifty most influential professionals of hands-on, soft-tissue therapy, in the world, over the past 100 years.

EP37: Train Your Brain, Fix Your Body with Zachariah Salazar

EP37: Train Your Brain, Fix Your Body with Zachariah Salazar

Zachariah Salazar is a Z-health Performance master trainer.  He's a self educated practitioner who's dedicated to helping people discover their ultimate performance and pain free living.
Using simple neuroscience techniques he helps people live a pain free high performance life.

In this episode he shares with us his take on the fitness industry and what he thinks it takes to find success in your fitness practice

EP36: Strategic Vitality with Christa King

EP36: Strategic Vitality with Christa King

Christa King is the CEO & Founder of Fitlandia. She’s also a recovered dieter. After reaching her highest weight of 192, she hit a wall and was determined to crack her own code for a making a healthier lifestyle change. Leaving a successful, 23-yr career in hospitality behind, she became a certified hypnotherapist, life coach, and nutritional therapist. By putting these pieces together, she saw what was truly missing in the diet and fitness industry: a holistic approach that starts with strengthening the mind. Her signature Mind Zoning® process helps people create new neural pathways in the brain to enable them to make a permanent, lifestyle change.

In this episode my takeaways were...

  • How coping or celebration strategies create neural connections and thought patterns that we go to during certain times of stress.
  • How you make a distinction between good sugars and bad sugars.
  • Getting clear on what you want through Christa's Mindzoning meditations - She explains that getting into a relaxed state helps you better connect with your inner wisdom and subconscious mind.

EP35: Reset Your Neural Program With Ashley James

EP35: Reset Your Neural Program With Ashley James

Ashley James is an entrepreneur, coach and podcaster.

Her podcast is called Learn True Health with Ashley James where she interviews holistic health experts and doctors of Naturopathic medicine.

Through the interviews, her expert guests teach listeners how to gain health naturally through holistic medicine, diet, supplemental nutrition and lifestyle changes.

Ashley makes sure that listeners learn Natural Medicine Life Hacks for gaining energy, better sleep, a boosted immune system and an overall feeling of awesomeness!

In this episode we talk about how you can reset your neural programing with simple strategies.  She discusses how we can be in a hypnotic trance of negative belief about ourselves and shares with us how you can get yourself out of it.

EP34 - Dairy's Not So Scary - Topic Show

EP34 - Dairy's Not So Scary - Topic Show

Dairy contains a balanced ratio of phosphorus (essential mineral for bone development) and calcium (needed for healthy bones, nerve function, blood clotting, muscle and heart contractions).  This is important because the ratio of phosphorus to calcium in dairy aids in calcium absorption and that's why including dairy in the diet is so important as you get older.  Even more so since we're more susceptible to osteoporosis as we age.  The good news is we can essentially side step this issue if we're absorbing calcium properly which dairy can provide.

EP33: Discovering & Living Your Purpose With James Hollis PhD

EP33: Discovering & Living Your Purpose With James Hollis PhD

James Hollis, Ph.D. is a Jungian Analyst in Washington, D. C. where he is also Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington. He has published fifteen books translated into nineteen languages and lectures widely on five continents.  His latest books are Hauntings and Living an Examined Life.

EP32: Integrating Community, Intuition & Movement With Katy Bowman

EP32: Integrating Community, Intuition & Movement With Katy Bowman

In this episode we discuss how Katy came to develop the concept of nutritious movement and movement ecology.  Role modeling as a way of showing others how to integrate change.

Finding your personal mission statement and defining your own personal value system which is different than the values you hold for your family and community. They are dynamic.

What you'll learn from this episode...

  • Role modeling vs. being an expert and what we hand down to other generations;  our truths, intuition and expert culture. 
  • Multitasking - how one task leads to another thus making integration much smoother.
  • How to make life less stressful and more joyful by integrating and stacking nature based activities.
  • How making things more complex has impacted our environment and health from an ecological standpoint.

EP31: Estrogen Misconceptions With Kyle Mamounis

EP31: Estrogen Misconceptions With Kyle Mamounis

In this episode we speak with Kyle Mamounis who shares how his own series personal dietary experimentations and how living in the extremes created his passion in the studies of nutrition.

We discuss the history of mainstream misconceptions in estrogen therapy, evolutionary cycle for why we need estrogen, his study in rapid estrogen signaling and how estrogen receptors binding to cells affects cellular dysfunction. 

We talk about the similarities in how endotoxins and estrogen both proliferate the cell by causing a increase of calcium accumulation and excess of bulk water leading to cancer growth and how muscle contraction is a positive sign for a slow metabolism and hypothyroid symptoms.

EP30: Good Fats Bad Fats: Nuts & Seeds - Q&A

EP30: Good Fats Bad Fats: Nuts & Seeds - Q&A

In this episode you'll learn about:
- The five things that nuts and seeds have that make them extremely difficult to digest.  What could be causing your migraine headaches and how to create hormonal balance with simple diet tips.  Why the kinds of fats coming from nuts and seeds can be detrimental to your gut health and which fats are essential for your health.  If you can't live without nuts and seeds, the best way to prepare them for better digestion.

EP29: Boundary Setting, Perfectionism & Money Confidence With Maddy Moon

EP29: Boundary Setting, Perfectionism & Money Confidence With Maddy Moon

In this Episode we talk about healthy boundary setting, what that looks like and how to start your boundary setting practice.  How this leads to getting out of perfectionism and people pleasing behaviors and begin the road to self confidence.  As well we talk about money confidence and how you can begin to change your beliefs around money for the better.

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EP28: Acai Berry Bowls, Kundalini Yoga & Micro Chakras with Rich Matusow

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EP28: Acai Berry Bowls, Kundalini Yoga & Micro Chakras with Rich Matusow

Richard Matusow is the CE-"OM" of Carioca bowls & Full Lotus PDX, a hub for people who strive for a happy, healthy lifestyle with classic acai bowls and donation based yoga. 

Carioca bowls name was inspired from the time when Richard lived in Rio De Janeiro where he experienced the beach culture and the “Cariocas”, the Brazilian people who embody health, wellness, and vitality and embraced the acai bowls.

EP27: The Bone Broth Episode With Tressa Yellig

EP27: The Bone Broth Episode With Tressa Yellig

Tressa Yellig is the founder of Salt, Fire, and Time, a retail store/classroom and the co-owner of the Broth Bar, a dedicated bone broth cafe offering positive & delicious experiences of traditional foods, add ons, and other organic food products in Portland, Oregon and throughout the US.   

She specializes in variety of health supporting cooking styles, advocate of nutritional philosophy of traditional fats, sprouted grains, pastured meats, raw dairy, & fermented food. She provides educational classes and loves teaching nostalgic simplicity of whole foods.

Tressa shares with us tips on how to make the most nutrient dense broth as well as how broth plays a major role in our regeneration.

EP26: Integrating Natural Movement and Outdoor Exploration with Kimberly Alexander and Melissa Sher

EP26: Integrating Natural Movement and Outdoor Exploration with Kimberly Alexander and Melissa Sher

We talk to Kimberly Alexander and Melissa Sher of Point Gym & Kitchen in Portland Oregon about how they help people integrate natural movement in the gym and take it outside and explore the outdoors.  They guide groups on various expeditions like mountain climbing, snowshoeing, and white water rafting in the Pacific Northwest.  

EP25: Esther Gokhale On Primal Posture And Back Pain Relief

EP25: Esther Gokhale On Primal Posture And Back Pain Relief

Esther Gokhale has been involved in integrative therapies all her life. Her early interest in healing led her to study biochemistry at Harvard and Princeton and, later, acupuncture at the San Francisco School of Oriental Medicine.

After experiencing crippling back pain after her first pregnancy and after an unsuccessful back surgery she later developed the Gokhale Method, a unique, systematic approach to help people find their bodies’ way back to pain-free living.  

We talk about how we've forgotten our genetic heritage as it relates to posture and back health. How our social norms and poorly designed furniture have dictated our postural norms and how we can change that by revisiting our ancestral heritage and way of life. Esther also shares with us her steps to back pain relief and how you can incorporate it in your everyday life. 

EP24: Topic Show - ANTI-AGING PROTECTIVE HORMONES & CHOLESTEROL

EP24: Topic Show - ANTI-AGING PROTECTIVE HORMONES & CHOLESTEROL

What's the difference between a younger body and an older one? The regeneration process A topic based show about progesterone, pregnenolone and DHEA. How these hormones are produced in the body and why the order and synthesis of these hormones is so important for a healthy body and better brain function.  Cholesterol plays an important role in this process but can built up if it's not getting converted. Taking estrogen or testosterone without the synthesis of these hormones first will result in negative effects.  We talk about that in the show as well as how valuable keeping production of these hormones at a normal level and eating foods that promote the anti-aging protective hormones will promote better brain function a higher metabolic rate and a body that regenerates faster.

EP23: PANYA WALKER - STEPPING INTO THE UNKNOWN COURAGEOUSLY

EP23: PANYA WALKER - STEPPING INTO THE UNKNOWN COURAGEOUSLY

We talk about Panya's vision and mission for her life which is to learn to LOVE and LIVE FREE, and teach others to do the same.  We explore what might be causing you to procrastinate and how to create follow through and consistency in your life with key lifestyle practices.  Panya shares with us how re-creating yourself can be joyful by allowing yourself to step into the unknown courageously.

EP22: AMANDA SPICER - NON-TOXIC NATURAL BEAUTY RITUAL

EP22: AMANDA SPICER - NON-TOXIC NATURAL BEAUTY RITUAL

Amanda Spicer is owner and operator of Pranic Forest, a small batch artisan apothecary company focused on chemical free, natural products. She calls herself a master herbalist, aromatherapist, intuitive energy channeler, cosmetologist and artist. 

She offers education about the practice of safe holistic beauty, herbal medicine and energy wellness.  She’s located in the rocky mountains of Calgary/Alberta Canada.  

Amanda has a very unique perspective on beauty care and health and we talk about the impact that beauty products have on the environment and on our bodies and why going natural is one of the best things you can do for your health.

EP21: DANNY RODDY - CARBON DIOXIDE, PRE-MATURE AGING AND HAIR LOSS

EP21: DANNY RODDY - CARBON DIOXIDE, PRE-MATURE AGING AND HAIR LOSS

Danny Roddy is an independent health researcher focusing on hair loss and how you can avoid it simply by looking at it from a biochemistry perspective and approaching it with the right kind of nutrition.  In this episode, we talk about the relationship between hair loss and carbon dioxide production in both men and women as well as how supplements could be negatively effecting your health and how to support your thyroid with food.

EP20: JOSH & JEANNE RUBIN | COLD SHOWERS & METABOLIC BREATHING

We talk with Josh and Jeanne Rubin of http://www.eastwesthealing.com about how to avoid energy wasting/depleting by learning how to self regulate your autonomic nervous system. Josh and Jeanne describe how you can use easy metabolic breathing techniques, cold showers and real food nutrition to bring your body back into a state of hormonal balance and avoid issues like sleep apnea and asthma. Josh and Jeanne Rubin of EastWest Healing are redefining what it means to heal in this day and age.

EP19: CATHERINE LUCIANO - HORMONE BALANCE AFTER A KIDNEY TRANSPLANT

Catherine Luciano has been a personal trainer, manager and athletic director in the fitness industry or close to two decades. She talks about her inspiring journey to health and hormonal balance after receiving a kidney from her brother. She says that just using real food nutrition has had the greatest impact on her life. What happens when we go through an intensely stressful situation and try to get our hormones back in balance? Catherine talks about her experience with this after her kidney transplant. She describes what worked for her and what didn't work and her process in this discovery.