Episodes

EPISODE 144 – Dr. Adjoa Smalls-Mantey, MD, DPhil, is a physician-scientist and writer. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center where she practices emergency psychiatry. Prior to her career in medicine, she conducted HIV immunology research for many years at several institutions including the National Institutes of Health and the University of Oxford. As a contributor to the ABC News Medical Unit and on-air expert for Black News Channel s...

EPISODE 143 – Wendy Wood is Provost Professor of Psychology and Business at the University of Southern California and author of the book Good Habits, Bad Habits. For the past 30 years, she has studied the nature of habits, how they form, and why they are so difficult to break. In the episode, Wendy explains the role of willpower in forming new habits, how to create and break habits more easily, what to do if you’re a parent of young kids and your life has been turned upside down…and more! EPISO...

EPISODE 142 – Adrian Chavez holds a doctorate in Nutrition and Health Promotion where his research was focused on creating lifestyle interventions for the prevention of heart disease and type 2 diabetes. After his PhD, he had plans of staying in academic research but was frustrated with the lack of impact that his work was having and decided to start creating courses, programs, and free content online. Over the last 6 years since leaving academia, Adrian has helped thousands of people through hi...

EPISODE 141 – Diane Macedo is an Emmy Award-winning ABC News correspondent, former insomniac, and author of The Sleep Fix—a practical, user-friendly guide to getting better sleep. In The Sleep Fix, she flips the switch on common advice, illuminating her own relentless search for how to get a good night’s sleep and the surprising, scientific, and practical solutions she found along the way. In the episode, Diane shares why orthosomnia may be causing your poor sleep, common obstacles to falling an...

EPISODE 140 – Dr. Michael Albert is a co-founder and the Chief Medical Officer of Accomplish Health, a virtual obesity medicine practice. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and a Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine. Before joining Accomplish Health, he served a joint faculty appointment at Cedars-Sinai and UCLA. In addition, Dr. Albert founded the Medical Weight Loss Program at Cedars-Sinai under the Weight Loss Center. He completed his internship and residency at Cedars-...

EPISODE 139 – Tonia helps people declutter and redesign their lives so they can have time for what matters the most. This helps them live a more organized life which supports them in managing time, spaces, mental health and living their life purpose. She started her career as a teacher and after 12 years, in 2014, decided that she wanted to follow her passion of helping people create spaces to match their values and life purpose. Soon after starting Time + Space Solutions, she realized that whil...

EPISODE 138 – Michelle Mendez is a paradigm shift coach helping individuals to identify and replace limiting beliefs and habits hindering them from achieving their goals and dreams. Her personal growth journey began a few years ago when, through coaching, she became aware of her own limiting paradigms that were keeping her from achieving her boldest dreams. Because of the beautiful changes she was experiencing both in her inner and outer world, she had a desire to learn how to show others, throu...

EPISODE 137 – A veteran of the health and fitness industry, Ryan has spent over 14 years studying the human body and how it moves. At one point in his fitness career, he was squatting and deadlifting over 400 pounds, but his butt wasn’t showing it. Then his knees and back started giving out and his hips were so tight he couldn’t sit crossed-legged on the floor. After seeing various physical therapists and taking educational courses, Ryan stumbled across a couple of amazing practitioners that ope...

EPISODE 136 – Dr. Kara Wada is an Assistant Professor of Allergy/Immunology with over 10 years of experience teaching medical trainees about misbehaving immune systems. Currently, she serves as Associate Fellowship Program Director at the Ohio State University and Founder/CEO of The Crunchy Allergist. Her advocacy work focuses on improving the physician-patient relationship, improving awareness around invisible illnesses, and improving consumer protections in the personal care and cosmetics indu...

EPISODE 135 – EC Synkowski is the founder of OptimizeMe Nutrition, which delivers B2B and B2C educational nutrition programs without the dogma and gimmicks that saturate the current nutrition market. She has a bachelor’s in biochemical engineering, and two master’s degrees (one in Nutrition & Functional Medicine). She’s also a Certified Nutrition Specialist®, Licensed-Dietician Nutritionist, TEDx speaker, podcaster (The Consistency Project), and founder of the #800gChallenge®, in which users add...

EPISODE 134 – Frederic Bahnson is a personal and executive coach who works with individuals and teams to create happiness, improve performance, and foster well-being in their personal and professional lives. He has devoted two decades to the art and science of decision-making, delivering practical strategies that streamline this important human process. In addition to coaching, Frederic is a practicing general surgeon and served as Chief Medical Officer for Macro-Eyes, an AI company focused on g...

EPISODE 133 – Robert Davis—aka “The Healthy Skeptic”—is an award-winning health journalist whose work has appeared on CNN, PBS, WebMD, and in The Wall Street Journal. The author of four books on health—including a newly updated version of his book Fitter Faster—he hosts the “Healthy Skeptic” video series in which he dissects the science behind popular health claims. Davis holds an undergraduate degree from Princeton University, a master’s degree in public health from Emory University’s Rollins S...

EPISODE 131 – Michelle Kapler is a Certified Life Coach specializing in overdrinking and alcohol freedom. She works with individuals who identify as women who want to change their relationship with their alcohol consumption. Michelle is on a mission to create a modern conversation around drinking, alcohol culture (especially in motherhood), and how we think about using alcohol as a way to cope with stress. As a former heavy drinker, a highly successful entrepreneur, and a mother, Michelle unders...

EPISODE 131 – Angela Ficken, LICSW, is a full-time psychotherapist in private practice specializing in OCD, eating disorders, and anxiety-related concerns. She’s spent years building her business into something more than a standard full-time private practice, writing for Huffington Post (and eventually other major online sources) as an expert. Through her writing and hearing from her clients how difficult it was finding an understanding therapist—one who could actually teach coping strategies to...

EPISODE 130 – When Christopher Klesh left his successful marketing career with AT&T behind, he became a master of traveling in luxury for pennies on the dollar. Chris took advantage of his entrepreneurial nature and extensive travel experience to launch Lifetime Leisure Experiences. Since 2002, as a professional speaker, coach, consultant and media guest, Chris has guided hundreds of families around the world to do the same. In the episode, he shares how to fly for free, how to spend 80-90% less...

EPISODE 129 – Sini Ninkovic is known as “The Untethered Guy.” He’s a Berkeley MBA and Silicon Valley professional who turned digital wellness guru. After a lifelong struggle with digital dependency, Sini quit his job at Apple to live in a van and untether from tech. Along the way he learned that the key to inner harmony wasn’t found in abstaining from technology, but in redefining our relationship with it. The tools he discovered for himself were so transformative that sharing them with the worl...

EPISODE 128 – Hosts of the weekly podcast Loving Beyond The I Do, Jason and Tina Marie Scott are committed to building stronger marriages mentally, physically, financially, and spiritually. They are empowered and dedicated to helping married couples build, maintain, and have the ultimate marriage. Their goal is to emphasize the importance of building a strong community of remarkable couples who are succeeding in tackling life’s demands and issues in marriage. They use knowledge and experience to...

EPISODE 127 – Stephan Guyenet specializes in the neuroscience of obesity and is an advocate for information accuracy in health communication. He received a BS in biochemistry from the University of Virginia and a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Washington, where he remained as a postdoctoral fellow studying the neuroscience of obesity. His scientific publications have been cited more than 4,000 times by his peers. His book, The Hungry Brain, was named one of the best books of the year...

EPISODE 126 – Dr. Melina Jampolis is an internist and board-certified physician nutrition specialist (one of only several hundred practicing in the United States). She is the past president of the National Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists and has served on their board of directors for nearly a decade. Trained as an internist, for the past 20 years she has specialized exclusively in nutrition for weight loss, disease prevention, and treatment. She is currently the Chief Nutrition Officer ...

EPISODE 125 – An innovative drive and appreciation for simple, satisfying food has always been a part of James Beard Award-winning chef Marco Canora, found in everything from the seasonal, nourishing food he serves at Hearth to the restorative, sip-able bone broths of Brodo. After years working with and training under Danny Meyer and Tom Colicchio at Gramercy Tavern and Craft, Marco opened Hearth in the East Village in 2003, before the neighborhood was a culinary destination. In 2016, he re-inve...

EPISODE 124 – Dr. Evian Gordon is Chairman of the Board, Founder, and Chief Medical Officer of Total Brain, a mental health monitoring and support platform that has more than 1,000,000 registered users. He has more than 30 years of experience in human brain research and is considered one of the originators of the field of integrative neuroscience. He has authored more than 300 peer reviewed publications. In the episode, Dr. Gordon shares a framework for starting (or stopping!) any habit, the pow...

EPISODE 123 – Daniel Rosenthal is a certified personal trainer and nutrition coach who, after years working with clients in person, now works as an online weight loss coach. He used to be an overweight chain-smoker, at one point smoking 40 cigarettes every day while barely touching a vegetable. Daniel decided to clean up his act. He quit smoking, started studying nutrition, and learned about fitness. He has since dropped 40 pounds of body fat and built 20 pounds of muscle, now helping his client...

EPISODE 122 – Traci Butz is the owner of Traci Lynn Life Coaching. After 25 years in corporate America, Traci left it behind at the age of 45 so that she could fulfill her dream of becoming a Certified Professional Life Coach. She specializes in helping women over 40 make the second half of their lives the best half of their lives. She holds a master’s degree in Counseling Studies and works amongst the best coaches in the world as a Results Coach for Tony Robbins Research International. In the e...

EPISODE 121 – Lorna Green was born in Scotland, but she’s made the world her home. She’s best known for laughing loudly and sometimes she’ll talk so fast it’s hard to tell if she’s still breathing. Lorna is a yin yoga teacher and NLP master practitioner who loves nothing more than combining yogic wisdom and science backed mindset techniques to help you stress less and accomplish more. In the episode, she shares the power of yin yoga amidst our busy world, the difference between yin and restorati...