Episodes

EPISODE 120 – Dr. Janeeka Benoit (better known as “Dr. J” on social media) is a Board Certified Internal Medicine Physician and Sports Medicine Specialist. She’s the Founder of MedFitDO and also a runner, exercise enthusiast, and former ACE Certified personal trainer. Not only does she enjoy caring for athletes, she also has a passion for preventing chronic disease through exercise so people can live holistically healthier lives, both mentally and physically. As an osteopathic physician, Dr. J i...

EPISODE 119 – Dr. Jane Tornatore is a therapist, speaker, and author based in Seattle, WA; she has been in private practice for 15 years. Her style incorporates compassion, curiosity, deep listening, and heartfelt optimism, along with powerful shots of playfulness. Jane has dedicated her career and her life to helping people love themselves and have self-compassion. She received a Master’s degree at the University of Illinois, and a PhD at the University of Minnesota. Before going into private p...

EPISODE 118 – Tricia Nelson lost fifty pounds by identifying and healing the underlying causes of her emotional eating. She’s spent over thirty years researching the hidden causes of the addictive personality. Tricia is an Emotional Eating Expert and author of the #1 bestselling book, Heal Your Hunger: 7 Simple Steps to End Emotional Eating Now. She also certifies health coaches so they can get better results, referrals and revenue by helping their clients overcome emotional eating. Tricia is th...

EPISODE 117 – Welcome to this special *BONUS* episode! Since the content of this ep is so timely, I wanted to release it stat!! Paul Offit, MD, is the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia as well as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and a Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published more than 160 papers in medical and scientific journals in the areas of rotavirus-specif...

EPISODE 116 – Elizabeth Edwards is a graduate of Purdue University and a Registered Dietitian. She has worked in the food service industry for 17 years holding many different positions including grocery store stocker, restaurant line cook, server, hospital food prep & cook, and has been a K-12 Director of Food Service for the past 7 years. Elizabeth believes establishing healthy eating habits at a young age is vitally important to lay the foundation of health kids will take with them into adulth...

EPISODE 115 – Dr. Wendy Schofer is a certified life & health coach and pediatrician who specializes in helping parents struggling with their kids’ weight & obesity. Unlike medical weight loss programs, she doesn’t focus on what’s wrong with the child or try to fix their weight with diets, exercise, pills, and surgery. Instead, she empowers the parent to focus on what matters most to lead the whole family to lifelong healthy habits. In the episode, Wendy shares why it’s important to place less em...

EPISODE 114 | Brandon & Emily Wiseman are the owners of BE WISE Fitness. Simply put, they’re obsessed with helping busy moms and dads—like themselves!—get fit and reclaim their confidence, all without sacrificing family time. They call that a win, win, win! Brandon & Emily believe that fitness is about more than the time spent in the gym. It’s about setting a good example for your kids through healthy habits. And, it’s about looking and feeling like your best self, while still juggling family, w...

EPISODE 113 | Candice Davies is a former psychotherapist who worked extensively in the field of addiction and eating disorders for over a decade. She has always been intrigued by the ways in which the mind and body are (or aren’t) connected, and the various forms in which this communication can be enhanced or severed. Her belief that the ways in which people nourish and feed themselves exists in several manners, has resulted in her always being interested in the ways in which people “fill themse...

EPISODE 112 | After 40 years on a diet, yo-yoing up and down the scale, Renée Jones had learned every diet—and every cheat!—before finally stopping the comfort and stress eating to shed “those last 30 pounds” yet AGAIN in 2012…but this time, she has maintained at her goal weight. Now she helps others overcome their emotional eating to shed their weight AND keep it off. Renée has a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Counseling and a Clinical Residency in pastoral care to guide her internation...

EPISODE 110 | Kallista Andersen helps pregnant mamas get ready for their baby by preparing themselves, their space, and their significant other. She does so through her podcast, The New Mom Boss Podcast, as well as coaching, and online course New Mom Prep School. Kallista is a Registered Nurse, Certified Lactation Counselor, and mom of three. Her passion to help new moms was born when she had her first two kids 13 months apart, catapulting her into the new mom phase back to back. It’s her missio...

EPISODE 109 | Marisa Lonic is the founder of Mama Work It. She’s a working mom of four kids, a native New Yorker, and a California resider. A self proclaimed “Time Momager,” Marisa helps busy moms juggling mom life, work life, wife life, and/or fill-in-the-blank life via her books, courses, and coaching programs. Her time management and goal achievement strategies have helped the most overwhelmed mamas turn their dreams into reality, even when they thought they had no time to make any of it happ...

EPISODE 108 | Rich Webster is a productivity expert, graphic designer, and entrepreneur. He teaches people how to run profitable and productive businesses, using those techniques to work less than 20 hours a week running three businesses. His productivity business—Work Less, Earn More—can be found on Instagram at instagram.com/richwebz, where he offers productivity tips, lessons, and executive coaching. In the episode, Rich shares time management apps and tools he loves, the “two-minute rule,” w...

EPISODE 107 | Robert J. Davis, PhD—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 three previous books on health, 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 School of Public Health, and a PhD in heal...

EPISODE 106 | Lainey Younkin—MS, RD, LDN—is a Weight Loss Dietitian and Nutrition Communication Specialist based in Boston, MA. Her mission is to help people get out of a dieting mentality and into a healthy lifestyle. She has an “all foods fit” approach and is passionate about helping her clients change their mindsets and habits so they can get results without feeling restricted or deprived. Her practice is 100% virtual, and she coaches individuals one-on-one, through her group program, Makeove...

EPISODE 105 | Lauren Twigge is a Dallas based registered and licensed Dietitian with a Master’s degree in Clinical Nutrition and a bachelor’s degree in Animal Science. She works in corporate wellness and counsels private clients by day and runs her growing Instagram account by night. Lauren was born and raised in a family of farmers located in central California and is an outspoken supporter of the agricultural industry. Growing up on a dairy and being raised around farming her whole life has gi...

EPISODE 104 | Genevieve Anderson is a financial wellness coach who’s spent over a decade working in financial services, including banking and investments. She uses that experience—along with her personal experience—to help women increase their financial knowledge, take action towards their specific money goals, and become more confident investors. On her Instagram account, she shares easy-to-use wealth building tips and creates a judgement-free zone where anyone can share their experiences aroun...

EPISODE 103 | Decades of experience in the corporate world have shown Jodi Woelkerling that resiliency is a key feature of every enduringly successful individual and every organizational culture that’s productive and collaborative long-term. The modern workplace is filled with constant challenges and competing priorities—both for the business at large and for the individuals within the business—and resilience is a key component of effectively navigating these challenges. In the episode, Jodi sha...

EPISODE 102 | Vee Lockard is the host and co-founder of the popular sleep story podcast, Snoozecast. Snoozecast boasts over 400 episodes, 10,000 listens per day, and over 7 million total downloads. Along with her husband, they started producing Snoozecast over two years ago to help people who have trouble falling asleep. Like many Snoozecast listeners, Vee has experienced anxiety throughout most of her life and has learned techniques to manage it. She knows exactly how anxiety can sneak into bed...

EPISODE 101 | Erica Ziel is a mom of three, an FDN Practitioner, a certified personal trainer and Pilates instructor, a health and nutrition coach, AND a core exercise and pre/postnatal exercise specialist whose mission is to help women live a healthier life and heal their body through movement, wellness, intuition, and breath work. She’s morphed her education with her constant finding of research and hands-on approach to teaching female clients. Erica is passionate about education surrounding w...

EPISODE 99 | Lodro Rinzler is a meditation teacher and the author of seven books, as well as the co-founder of MNDFL meditation studios in New York City. His books Walk Like a Buddha and The Buddha Walks Into The Office both have received Independent Publisher Book Awards. Lodro has taught meditation for twenty years in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and travels frequently for his books, having spoken across the world at conferences, universities, and businesses as diverse as Google, Harvard Uni...

EPISODE 98 | Stephen Simpson is Academic Director of the Charles Perkins Centre and Professor in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney. After graduating as a biologist from the University of Queensland, Steve undertook his PhD at the University of London, then spent 22 years at Oxford before returning to Australia in 2005 as an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow, then ARC Laureate Fellow. Stephen developed an integrative modeling framework for nutri...

EPISODE 97 | Paul Salter is a Registered Dietitian, Coach, and Author who’s passionate about helping high-achieving men and women bring awareness to what’s really holding them back from achieving their sustainable weight-loss goals and feeling, looking, and being the best version of themselves—like their negative self-talk, toxic thought patterns, limiting beliefs, counterproductive habits, and self-sabotaging behaviors. Since 2013, he’s worked 1:1 with 1,453 men and women who have collectively ...

EPISODE 96 | Herman Pontzer, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and Research Associate Professor of Global Health at Duke University, investigates how our species’ evolutionary past shapes our lives today. His team conducted the first measurements of daily energy expenditure in traditional hunter-gatherers and in non-human apes, with findings that have challenged the way we think about diet, exercise, metabolism, and health. Dr. Pontzer’s new book, Burn: New Research Blows t...

EPISODE 95 | Katie Clack is a personal chef and restaurateur specializing in healthy meal prepping. With her unique meal plans, she teaches people how to batch cook individual ingredients that can be mixed and matched throughout the week to create a variety of delicious and healthy meals. She focuses on teaching people helpful and time-saving habits to take the stress out of their weekly cooking so they can spend LESS time in the kitchen and MORE time doing what they love! In the episode, Katie ...