Explore every episode of the podcast If Only I Were Wiser
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| Putting the Puzzle Pieces Together for PCOS + Secondary Infertility | Janet Wickenheiser | 27 Oct 2024 | 00:49:58 | |
Janet is an FNTP turned infertility detective after her own experience with secondary infertility. Now she loves putting puzzle pieces together for her clients and uses functional blood chemistry, HTMA, and bioressonance scans to do so! In this episode, Janet shares all the ways we might be missing the mark in dialing in our fertility health. We chat about PCOS, how you may have been misdiagnosed (birth control is not the answer) and how to even improve male factor infertility. We hope this episode is an encouragement to all the families in waiting, and gives a new perspective or things to consider in your TTC journey! Janet is an FNTP turned infertility detective after her own experience with secondary infertility. Now she loves putting puzzle pieces together for her clients and uses functional blood chemistry, HTMA, and bioressonance scans to do so! In this episode, Janet shares all the ways we might be missing the mark in dialing in our fertility health. We chat about PCOS, how you may have been misdiagnosed (birth control is not the answer) and how to even improve male factor infertility. We hope this episode is an encouragement to all the families in waiting, and gives a new perspective or things to consider in your TTC journey! More episode highlights on Living Wisely Well Website Work with Janet 1-1 on the Holistic Collaborative Program #StronglikeRoman Workout Fundraiser 11.9.24 @ 9am | For donations + shirt/tank orders Venmo @crossfitsacrice Place order in description like: [your name], Roman, [desired shirt style + size] Then message me on IG and I can follow up with your address! | |||
| Quitting the "Beauty" Chase + Does Modesty Even Matter? | Addie Overla | 20 Oct 2024 | 00:51:08 | |
Addie is 28 years old, married, and based in Columbus, OH. She currently works full-time in ministry, but was formerly a competitive bodybuilder. God has taught her so much about the beauty of breaking idols, removing the pressure of hustle culture, and just seeking Him above all else. Her passion is to motivate others to better physical, mental, and spiritual health through my social media and podcast ministry called Christ In Me With Addie. In this episode Addie shares the real talk about growing a platform in fitness on social media, and how her convictions on topics like modesty have not only shaped her online presence but her heart as well. To the men + women who have struggled with this topic, want exhortation and support through singleness and guarding your heart against unrealistic happiness standards — this episode is for you! Connect with Addie on Instagram Listen to the Christ in Me Podcast #StronglikeRoman Workout Fundraiser 11.9.24 @ 9am For donations + shirt/tank orders Venmo @crossfitsacrice Place order in description like: [your name], Roman, [desired shirt style + size] Then message me on IG and I can follow up with your address! | |||
| Ditching Dogmatic Food Rules for Sustainable Wellness Rhythms | Fallon Lee | 11 Aug 2024 | 00:55:03 | |
Fallon is a mom to three boys, wife to her college sweetheart, and a kitchen creative turned business owner out of Dallas, TX. She launched Fallon’s Table to help bridge the gap between nutrition, easy kitchen prep, and delicious food! After a long history of restrictive dieting and food sensitivities, Fallon has watched her own health journey go from being limited to seven foods to finding vibrancy and food freedom! In this episode, Fallon encourages and equips us to make the sustainable steps of whole food focused healing, and how to do that confidently without diet culture dogma or even wellness world standards! Lean in and don’t miss this episode of beautiful wisdom for finding freedom from black and white restriction in choosing health for yourself and family. Episode highlights on Living Wisely Well Website | |||
| Healing On & Off the Pill + Supporting your Cycle Naturally | Kelsie Anderson | 04 Aug 2024 | 00:45:57 | |
Kelsie is a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner who specializes in hormone health- specifically supporting women on and transitioning off of birth control. With all clients, she takes a root cause approach to simplifying the complexities of diet culture and the overwhelming space of nutrition to restore the way women approach their health! In this episode, we get into all the things your doctor never told you about birth control, how to focus on healing after the pill, and how to live well WITH your cycle! From post birth control hormones, to how caffeine effects your PMS symptoms — Kelsie covers it all! Episode Highlights + Recs on Living Wisely Well Websitelivingwiselywell.com/podcast | |||
| Getting Informed + Empowered for your Homebirth | Katelyn Fusco | 28 Jul 2024 | 00:46:30 | |
Katelyn Fusco is a homebirth mother, a childbirth educator, and an experienced homebirth attendant. She has seen birth from many angles (literally), and knows the impact this transformative event can have on you, your baby and your entrance into motherhood for the first, second or fifteenth time. This knowledge is what spurred Katelyn to create Happy Homebirth: A brand dedicated to supporting, educating and encouraging homebirth mothers. Through birth stories and expert interviews on the podcast to intimate education and coaching inside of her childbirth education programs, Katelyn's goal is to provide mothers with the tools to empower themselves in their birthing experience. There is no gatekeeping in this episode! We get right into home birth statistics, safety, and making the best informed choices for your healthy birthing experience! Episode highlights on Living Wisely Well Website | |||
| Leaning into Healing through Heartache + Claiming your Worth | Chrissy Powers | 21 Jul 2024 | 00:49:45 | |
Chrissy Powers is a licensed marriage and family therapist, embodiment coach, mom, wife, writer and ex mommy blogger. She lives and works in San Diego, CA but also works with people from all over the globe online. Through her personal healing journey she found a passion working with others to help heal from trauma, find their most authentic self, and teach them how to live in their bodies. In this episode, Chrissy emboldens us to hold space for ourselves in healing the heartache in all stages of life. Whether it came from our own childhood, marriage or motherhood — we can choose to believe we are worthy and find freedom. Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website Work with Chrissy 1-1 | |||
| Onboarding Your Spouse to Holistic Living | Reyna + Joseph Wilson | 14 Jul 2024 | 00:41:17 | |
Your favorite guest is back! In this episode, Joseph joins me to share about his perspective of the shift of our family into more a more holistic lifestyle. One of the most common questions about “crunchy” families, is how to get your spouse on board! As I have shared on Instagram, our family did not go from Bath and Bodyworks candle hoarders to daily raw liver shots, over night. Tune into this episode to hear how to gently share your passions about holistic swaps, and the best ways to encourage your husband towards “crunchier” choices without being a cringy spouse! Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website Listen to Reyna + Joseph’s Episode on Marriage Stay tuned for upcoming episodes on boundaries, friendships and parenting! | |||
| Hope in Healing Endometriosis & Infertility | Laura Bell | 07 Jul 2024 | 00:58:39 | |
Laura Bell is a wife, mother and multi passionate business owner helping women reclaim their wellness so they can pursue their God given calling. Together with her husband, she lives and runs a homestead in new harmony, AL. In this episode, Laura shares her story of wrestling western medicine for hope in healing from painful periods that led to a brutal infertility battle. Don’t miss this episode to hear how to lean into God’s comfort in seasons of waiting and confusion as well as getting started in the small steps towards truly healing your hormones holistically! And be on the lookout for Laura’s new book coming this October: Episode Show Notes + More on Living Wisely Well Website Connect with Laura: on Instagram + Laura Jean Bell FB All things Laura on her website: Laurabell.co Get your Hormone Healing Ebook Listen to the Finding Hope Podcast | |||
| Pursuing the "Perfect" Body + Protecting your Passions from Insecurity | Jacquilyne Keene | 30 Jun 2024 | 00:56:54 | |
Jacquilyne Keene was born in Northern California, but has been a Texan now for over 10 years. She is 26 years old, loves Jesus, has been married to the love of my life for almost 4 years, and have recently started pursuing my passion in health and fitness as my career. Jacqui loved health and fitness since she was 19, and has had my ups and downs in her journey, but has learned so much through my experience and now wants to help other women navigate the craziness as well…thus, Honeycomb Training came to be. Outside of health and fitness, she loves her family, her bunny named Bunny, her community, adventure, pizza, and laughing until she almost pees her pants. In this episode, we cover why the pursuit of the “perfect body” shouldn’t exist, and how to choose recovery and joy getting back into the gym. This one is for all the recovering athletes and gym girlies that want to have healthy confidence in their body stewardship! Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website Connect on IG + Tik Tok @jacquilynekeenefit | |||
| Surrendering to Suffering, Submission + Biblical Femininity | Heather Yarrington | 23 Jun 2024 | 01:01:32 | |
Heather is a 35 year old Catholic Christian military wife and homeschooling mother of 4 kiddos. She is passionate about making faith relatable and accessible to busy women who are seeking holiness through life’s messy moments not despite them. Her podcast, Holy Hot Mess, encourages and exhorts women to find confidence in their faith and their roles in their home and families! In this episode we get into the truth behind biblical submission and the hope that provides for healing in our marriage. We hope this episode is a gentle push towards obedience in the areas we may be struggling to let go of control, and finding joy in freedom from operating within our divine design! Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website | |||
| Building your Body for Baby + Eating your Prenatal | Emmalee Thompson | 16 Jun 2024 | 00:46:59 | |
Emmalee is a Registered Nurse turned holistic practitioner (FDN-P) with a focus on women’s health, hormones, and fertility. She is also a wife, mother of two young children, and passionate about slow, intentional living. Emmalee's journey into the holistic wellness space began with multiple autoimmune diagnoses as a young adult and, after finding healing outside of the western medical system, she opened her practice with the goal of helping other women do the same. In this episode, Emmalee shares why we should be diligent in reading our prenatal nutrition labels and why they may not be as “harmless” as they seem. Listen and learn best how to support your body while trying to conceive and how you can eat your prenatal instead! Emmalee's recommendations and resources + Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website Connect with Emmalee on Instagram & Break free of the Sickcare System with IMW Academy | |||
| Preparing for Postpartum: Nourishment, Community & Connection | Holly Stein | 09 Jun 2024 | 00:46:45 | |
Holly is a fellow holistic living, kinda crunchy mama with a heart for postpartum nourishment! After her own postpartum experiences and exposure to the book, The First 40 Days, she felt the nudge to create healing meals to all mamas everywhere. And so Holly created Mama Meals in December 2021! In this episode Holly shares her own postpartum experiences as well as the importance of postpartum nutrition, and how true nourishment in all aspects can help the mother feel loved and supported in her healing season. Don’t miss this episode with key tips for a smooth postpartum period, and tangible ways to find support in your community and for your spouse! Episode Highlights + Recommended Resources on Living Wisely Well Website Order Mama Meals Here Use code WISELYWELL to save! | |||
| Behind the Brand: Content Creating With Clarity + Creativity | Becca Bryce | 13 Oct 2024 | 00:45:37 | |
Becca is a wife to her highschool sweetheart, natural minded mama of 3, and a devoted follower of Christ living in Alberta Canada where her family serves in Camp Ministry. Becca owns Sojourn and Soul - a brand strategy and design studio where she collaborates with fellow female business owners and creators to discover what makes them unique and translate that into a visual brand identity. If you’re a content creator, or mama looking to dive in and want to learn all the behind the scene details— Becca is your girl! In this episode, she shares all about color theory, design psychology, and the best ways to communicate your brand identity with clarity + creativity! Episode Highlights + Show Notes on Living Wisely Well Website! (Tell her I sent you, we’re big fans here!) | |||
| Love as an Action Verb: Refining your Spouse + Marriage | Reyna + Joseph Wilson | 02 Jun 2024 | 00:35:54 | |
Get to know Reyna’s better half, her husband, Joseph! Coming up on 5 years of marriage, they share some insight into what has worked to provide healing in their marriage, and what tangible steps to make it strong and healthy! In the episode they share about 3 things they feel like they do differently than other couples, what love really looks like and hard lessons they have learned along the way in this sanctifying process. Listen in for this fun episode on marriage through Joseph and Reyna’s perspective, and how to find more meaning in your marriage! Episode Highlights and Recommended Resources on Living Wisely Well Website Shownotes Follow along with Reyna’s family + wellness stories on Instagram | |||
| Habits for Health in Your Heart & Home | Heather Brown | 26 May 2024 | 00:47:37 | |
Heather Brown is a blogger, podcaster, ebook author, and content creator behind the brand My Life Well Loved and Healthy By Heather Brown. She and her college-sweetheart hubby Eric live in Birmingham, AL (where she was born and raised) with their two young boys. She runs her podcast and business with 5 team members, where they daily share ways for young moms to love their life and pursue health in mind, body, and soul. Heather is passionate about sharing the gospel as often as she can and teaching others to take one step toward a healthier life every day. In this episode, Heather equips us as mothers to take tangible steps towards stewarding our minds, bodies and spirit with confidence through her Sunday Reset! A powerful prayer is included in this episode to speak to the women with passion in their hearts, but need rest to find the next steps. Don’t miss this tender and empowering conversation! Episode Highlights + Heather's Resources on Living Wisely Well Website Get your 7 Day free trial for Heather’s Community Membership Healthy By Heather Brown Podcast + All things Heather at mylifewellloved.com | |||
| Red Flags, Greenwashing + Truth Behind Clean Beauty | Becca Tetzlaff | 19 May 2024 | 00:47:17 | |
Becca is a blogger, wife, and dog mom living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Having seen firsthand the benefits of switching to a natural lifestyle herself, she's passionate about helping women make the switch to cleaner beauty, organic skincare, low tox products, and a holistic way of life (without the stress of being perfect about it!). In her spare time, Becca enjoys drinking coffee, hiking with her husband and pup, doing barre workouts, and traveling. In this episode Becca enlightens us with her years of clean beauty wisdom, and explains how we can be conscious consumers when it comes to navigating sketchy marketing, greenwashing and complicated ingredient labels. Don’t miss this episode full of tips and tricks to learn how to make the best beauty buys for YOU! Episode resources & highlights on Living Wisely Well Website | |||
| Nourishing your Life + Healing your Gut | Laura Lyons | 12 May 2024 | 00:46:07 | |
Laura Lyons is a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. She is the owner of Wild Lyons Wellness and the founder of Wild + Well-Fed Wellness Collective and online course Rewild Your Gut. She is a women’s health nutritionist with a focus on metabolism, hormones and digestion. Her goal is to help women understand their bodies better, take the fear out of food and help women thrive in a world of diet culture and confusion. She is a food first practitioner and helps women conquer their symptoms through mineral balancing, comprehensive lab testing, diet and lifestyle changes. In this episode, Laura explains how we can heal our gut without pounding the probiotics and how much our lifestyle influences our healing habits. Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website Listen to the Pod, order clean coffee at join her community! | |||
| Restful Foundations for Infant + Child Sleep | Taylor Kulik | 05 May 2024 | 00:51:15 | |
Taylor Kulik is an occupational therapist and holistic sleep specialist who developed a passion for helping new mothers overcome their sleep-related fears and helping them get back to trusting in their intuition. She provides radical re-education about how babies and children should sleep, and offers holistic and responsive sleep support to parents who do not want to sleep train. This episode breaks down all the misconceptions and mismanaged expectations all around infant and child sleep. Not only does Taylor share ways that we can create a foundation of responsive sleep support, but also make that transition smoothly and follow our innate intuition as parents. This conversation was a gold mine of gentle encouragements with helpful tips so that everyone can make informed decisions for their family, so everyone gets the sleep they need! Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website Resources + Services at taylorkulik.com | |||
| A Word for Mamas Everywhere | Reyna Wilson | 28 Apr 2024 | 00:19:09 | |
In this episode your host, Reyna, shares her pregnancy “surprise” with their son LB and how that experience started to shape her heart with all the voices in motherhood. Listen in to hear some of your own experiences shared through your submissions on the best and worst advice you’ve received in your motherhood journey as well as some tangible reminders to find peace instead of perfection. I hope this episode is a tender encouragement to your heart no matter what your motherhood story looks like, and you can celebrate alongside me for our son’s coming birthday! Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website Follow along for more real life mama moments + wellness wisdom on Instagram | |||
| Creating Healthy Expectations for a Wild Pregnancy + Free Birth | Isabel Jones | 21 Apr 2024 | 00:48:19 | |
Isabel Jones is the creator of Your Wild Birth. Her online space is all about creating content for education and inspiration to help you birth in power, find bliss in postpartum, and build a conscious lifestyle in motherhood and marriage. And that’s exactly what we chat about for this episode! Isabel shares her own birth experiences and explains the heart of pregnancy, birth and postpartum outside of the western model and how to do that with peace and confidence. Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website | |||
| When Holistic Health Becomes an Idol | Arianna Tucker | 14 Apr 2024 | 00:53:02 | |
Arianna is a wife and mom of two beautiful boys! She is passionate about healthy living with balance & seeking the Lord first in all things. In this episode she shares about her influence in the “crunchy sphere” and how she balances holistic expectations in her home alongside the passions God gave her! Tune in for her story on healing and freedom from all the “right” things in holistic health to find peace in exactly where God has her! Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website | |||
| Intuitive Eating within Divine Design & Diet Culture in the Church | Liesel Maddox | 07 Apr 2024 | 00:58:49 | |
Liesel Maddox is a Registered Dietitian and entrepreneur specializing in eating disorders and disordered eating. Liesel has experience working as a clinical dietitian in inpatient eating disorder treatment centers and currently provides outpatient nutrition counseling to clients in recovery from eating disorders. She started an online business with the mission of helping Christian women break free from diet culture and disordered eating. Liesel provides one-on-one virtual nutrition coaching to help women embrace food freedom and intuitive eating from a faith-based approach. And in this episode, we chat about finding the balance in honoring your body and breaking free from unrealistic beauty standards, as well as how diet culture manifests within the Church. Don't miss this incredibly enlightening and encouraging conversation! Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website | |||
| Making the Wait Worthwhile | Jordan Lee Dooley | 31 Mar 2024 | 00:52:39 | |
Jordan Lee Dooley is a two-time national bestselling author of Own Your Everyday and Embrace Your Almost, host of the top-rated SHE podcast, and founder of two companies: The Own It Academy and SoulScripts. Her trajectory began with a small Etsy shop in college, which quickly grew into so much more. With her books, programs, podcast, and other resources, her mission is to help women walk out their calling while prioritizing grace-based holistic living. She has been featured in places like Forbes, Inc. Magazine, USA Today, SUCCESS Magazine's 30 Under 30 List, and more. Jordan and her husband Matt are bio and adoptive parents to two boys and reside in Indiana. In this episode, Jordan shares her own story of loss and joy in her entrance into motherhood and how to dig into your faith when you don’t understand. I hope this episode serves as a vivid encouragement of God’s continued faithfulness and hope to keep trusting him in the waiting. Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website Embrace Your Almost:Find Clarity and Contentment in the In-Betweens, Not-Quites, and Unknowns | |||
| All Things Intimacy: Loving and Serving Your Spouse In + Out of the Bedroom | Reyna + Joseph Wilson | 29 Sep 2024 | 00:56:48 | |
We all know that “s” word that drives many insecurities in the early season of marriage. That’s right… I’m talking about, service. This uncertainty can stem from various factors, including differing expectations and the need to navigate new dynamics in the relationship. Physical intimacy often gets the spotlight in Christian premarital conversations, but many of us crave real wisdom in fostering closeness emotionally and spiritually as well. In this episode, Joseph and Reyna discuss the honest details of building intimacy inside and outside the bedroom, focusing on how to serve your spouse. Tune in for practical tips to enhance your romance and develop healing habits for meaningful connection. Episode Highlights + Show notes on Living Wisely Well Website Check out 24/7 Marriage Ministry on IG | |||
| Feeding Your Feminine Physiology in Body + Soul | Paris Simpson | 24 Mar 2024 | 00:59:10 | |
Paris is passionate about guiding women in reclaiming radical, embodied, & empowered feminine wellness. From embracing the ancestral wisdom & healing medicine we are donned with to exuding that within ourselves, our homes, & our circle of influence, her heart is to mirror back to women how to truly live within that vitality-body, mind, & spirit. In this episode, Paris shares her all encompassing approach to rewilding women, nourishing with proper protein, and how to find freedom in feminine physiology. Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website All things Paris at wildherwellness.com Connect with Paris on IG | |||
| Breaking Free from the Sickcare System | Elizabeth Parsons | 17 Mar 2024 | 00:55:46 | |
Elizabeth Parsons - best known on Instagram as Purely Parsons- is a follower of Christ, wife, and mother to 5. She worked as a pediatric RN in the hospital setting for 9 years before coming home full time in 2020. She is a voice in the health and wellness space and is passionate about empowering individuals to take charge of their health and the health of their families. In this episode, she shares her experience both as a mom and nurse to educate others to pursue natural alternatives and provides tangible tips to building your own holistic medicine cabinet! Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website | |||
| How Women Should Train + Eat to Thrive Over Time | Kelsee Moore | 10 Mar 2024 | 00:50:50 | |
Kelsee Moore is a strength and conditioning coach for Air Force Special Warfare, owner/creator of Moore & Company, US Army Reserve officer and military spouse. Her small business, Moore & Company, provides remote workout memberships for women who previously had a poor relationship with exercise and nutrition. She uses holistic techniques, God-centered discussions, and her experience as a professional strength and conditioning coach to guide her conversations to improve health, fertility and vitality in her clients. And that’s exactly what Kelsee does and more in this conversation! We chat about creatine, creating healthy strength training schedules with proper nourishment, and how we can find true “body positivity” in Christ. Don’t miss this awesome convo with this sweet friend and female movement expert! Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website | |||
| Tallow Talks + Trusting God for a Miracle | 03 Mar 2024 | 00:49:33 | |
Meet Brit Richards: wife, mother of two, and a visionary entrepreneur who serves as the CEO of SMEAR, her pioneering holistic skincare company. With decades of experience in the beauty industry and a passion for clean living, she’s created a solution to toxic skincare that serves the entire family with beneficial ingredients and prioritizes sustainability. Through SMEAR, Brit empowers families to navigate product choices and understand bioaccumulative toxins. Beyond work, she enjoys spending lots of time with family talking about Jesus, building community with friends and family, enjoys a good cup of coffee, and talking all things birth-stories. This episode is not only a testament to Brit’s faith, but God’s goodness when things seem impossible. Don’t miss it as we chat about the benefits of beef fat for your FACE, hoping in the face of hard and what it truly looks like to surrender your healing journey to the hands of a good Father. Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website | |||
| How to Stop Outsourcing Your Life Skills + Become a Confident Consumer | Liz Haselmayer | 25 Feb 2024 | 00:59:14 | |
Liz Haselmayer, the founder of Homegrown Education, is empowering families to embrace real food. She believes the best way to nourish the body is through simple, nutrient-dense foods. After spending over a decade undernourished, Liz has made it her mission to spread the message of food freedom through accurate food education. She has written several real-food-based resources including children's nutrition curricula, a breakfast and dinner meal plan, the Real Food Guide, and a regenerative farm-based coloring book. Liz and her husband also host The Homegrown Podcast where they aim to share the truth behind food and farming. There's no holistic health gate-keeping here! In this episode, Liz lays out all the things you need to know to start building a holistic, whole food focus for your family. We chat about ditching the food pyramid, failing your way through sourdough, and realistic steps to faithfully steward our budgets and bodies for true health! Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website Connect with Liz at the Homegrown podcast + Instagram Shop + Learn at homegrowneducation.org | |||
| What Food Freedom Actually Looks Like | Adison Barnhart | 18 Feb 2024 | 00:55:20 | |
Adison Barnhart, a registered dietician with a focus in eating disorder recovery, returns to the show to share more wisdom on the process of healing from disordered eating patterns and myth busting in recovery. In this episode we talk about tangible steps and common troubles that women face after disordered eating behaviors. Adison lay’s out weight loss’ place in the intuitive eating conversation, how to have grace for yourself in the process and honoring your body through stressful seasons. Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website Connect with Adison on Instagram | |||
| Relearning + Returning to Primal Movement | Bam Lionheart | 11 Feb 2024 | 01:02:51 | |
Bam Lionheart has been a movement coach for over 8 years. He has experience in gymnastics, football, jiu jitsu, wrestling, boxing, may Thai, MMA, CrossFit, Olympic Weightlifting, endurance running, endurance swimming, climbing, yoga, and modern dance. His goal is to give his clients freedom through movement by eliminating pain, in depth movement education, and reintegrating natural movement patterns. In this episode we go into returning to natural movement patterns, aligning our cycles with our primal postures, and creating body awareness that brings confidence to our movement no matter the season or stage of life. Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website Connect with Bam on Instagram | |||
| Intentional Intimacy + Power of Fertility Awareness Method | Nina Boyce | 04 Feb 2024 | 00:41:13 | |
Nina Boyce is a certified Fertility Awareness Educator and Health Coach who teaches women to prevent pregnancy hormone-free and with 99% accuracy. Her online coaching program, LUNA, focuses on helping clients transition off birth control, support their natural hormones, and prevent pregnancy with the Fertility Awareness Method. Nina takes a holistic approach - focusing on nutrition, cycle charting, and lifestyle modifications to help her clients achieve their desired goals. She is also the host of the Healing Hormones Podcast, where she interviews leading women in the world of menstrual health. In our episode Nina busts the myths surrounding FAM, tips to optimize your fertility awareness to really be a secret super power, and taking the guesswork out of your fertility. Episode Highlights & Nina's Recommendations on Living Wisely Well Website: | |||
| True Healthy Stewardship in a Skewed Wellness Culture | Clara Collie | 28 Jan 2024 | 00:42:01 | |
Clara is a dietitian, personal trainer, and founder of Redemptive Health, an online wellness practice where she offers 1:1 coaching and group membership to help women create simple, sustainable habits to improve their health, steward their body, and become the best version of themselves. She lives in Asheville with her husband and can usually be found re-reading the same 10 books, hiking in the woods, or piddling around in the yard. In this episode Clara shares a little bit about the start and growth of her own wellness story, and how we can each take steps towards creating true healthy body stewardship. Through tangible tips and biblical truths, we share more about what it really means to take ownership over your mind and trust the sanctification process. Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website Connect on IG @redemptivehealth 1-1 Coaching & Membership on redemptivehealth.com | |||
| When Divinity Encounters Human Suffering + Mental Illness As A Christian | Gabby Wilkinson | 21 Jan 2024 | 00:57:22 | |
Gabby Wilkinson is a seminary student who has been working in ministry since 2014. At Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, Gabby is studying the intersectionality of mental illness and Christianity through the lens of church trauma and is working to make this area of focus the driving force of her vocation. She recently started a brand that was birthed out of this study called “Dear God, I’m Sad.” The mission of “Dear God, I’m Sad” is to craft a healthier & more holistic relationship between mental illness & Christianity through reflection, investigation, & exploration with the hopes of destigmatizing mental illness in faith spaces & promoting compassionate responses to mental illness by faith leaders. Gabby shares her own experiences finding hope through the ups and downs of mental illness, and how we can find freedom in healing too! Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website
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| A Marriage that Matters: Setting Boundaries When it Stings | Reyna + Joseph Wilson | 22 Sep 2024 | 01:01:02 | |
“Did you know that 50% of military marriages end in divorce?” “You really should think about slowing down, you don’t know each other that well…” “Are you sure a baby is what you need right now?” Man, we could go on and on and we’re sure we’re not alone in some of you hearing these phrases in your own story as well! This week on the podcast Joseph joins me in sharing about our testing engagement season, and how we learned to set the foundation of creating boundaries in the areas we would come to need it most. If you’re single, dating, or married — this episode is for you to hear some encouragement in the hard and learn how we protect our marriage from the noise, and even the people around us that seem to love us a little “too well.” Don't miss our favorite resources on this topic all linked on the Living Wisely Well website! | |||
| Adrenal Cocktails, Sugar "Addictions" + Actually Healing your Metabolism | Kate Deering | 14 Jan 2024 | 00:52:48 | |
For over 25 years Kate have been involved in the health and fitness industry helping men and women of all ages achieve optimal health and wellness. Her practice is based on a holistic approach to health and wellness by looking at the entirety of a person’s well-being. A person’s well-being includes diet, stress, exercise, posture, sleep, digestion, hormones, mind-set and lifestyle. Kate's expertise is based on certifications as a CHEK Exercise Coach, CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Coach 2, Olympic Lifting Coach, Z-health Practitioner (neurology) and Certified Nutritional Consultant. In this episode, Kate bust's all the metabolism misconceptions in the fitness and wellness world, that so many of us have heard. Listen to learn more about how to heal your metabolism for longevity, simple steps to recovering and complete holistic health foundations. Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website Connect with Kate: Katedeeringfitness IG + Facebook Buy: How to Heal your Metabolism Book | |||
| Weight Loss, Fat Loss + Balance in New Life Stages | Jordan Syatt | 07 Jan 2024 | 00:53:32 | |
Elite Powerlifter, Precision Nutrition & Westside Barbell Certified coach, Jordan Syatt is well known for having been Gary Vaynerchuk’s personal trainer. Jordan began Syatt Fitness, his online fitness coaching business, from his dorm at the University of Delaware in 2011 and has become one of the industry’s leading experts in strength training, nutrition, and behavioral psychology. One of the only people in the world to deadlift 4x his own body weight, Jordan's work has been featured all over the world including a variety of media publications such as CNN, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, Men's Health Magazine, Men’s Fitness Magazine, and Schwarzenegger.com. Jordan and his colleague Mike Vacanti co-wrote the Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller Eat IT!: The Most Sustainable Diet and Workout Ever Made: Burn Fat, Get Strong, and Enjoy Your Favorite Foods Guilt Free. This episode was a dream come true to record, and such a fun conversation on the truth behind weight loss vs. fat loss, fitness expectations and sustainable healthy habits through the life stages. Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website | |||
| Kissing Imposter Syndrome, Crunchy Culture + Girl Boss Labels Goodbye | Blake Guichet | 03 Dec 2023 | 00:47:13 | |
Blake Guichet is a writer and founder of the Crappy Christian Co., which aims to teach women how to use their God-given gifts for the Kingdom. She is the host of the popular podcast Confessions of a Crappy Christian—a weekly show that specializes in conversations with guests about their passions, struggles, and all the things they aren’t sure they can talk about. Blake is a proud Enneagram 8, American history buff, and playlist enthusiast, and her primary goal in all aspects of her ministry is to tell the truth while always pointing people to Jesus. In this episode we chat about what imposter syndrome is really, how to listen to God's voice, and finding joy in the midst of grumbling. Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website | |||
| Balancing the Battle of Conventional & Alternative Medicine | Kristen Van Gilse | 26 Nov 2023 | 00:56:08 | |
Kristen is a trained graphic designer and photographer turned holistic health guru after going through an autoimmune disease that began in 2018. She is married to her med student husband, Nick, and they live in Indianapolis with their 1 year old daughter. In this episode we chat about what life has looked like since healing from mold illness and a severe autoimmune disorder that unfortunately started on her honeymoon. Kristen shares her family's experience with healing from mold, and what it has looked like to heal her autoimmunity on her own as her husband begins his own training to become a doctor. Listen to hear how to discern when to take mold into account, reducing inflammation and healing interstitial cystitis and finding the best balance for your family! Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website | |||
| Finding Feminine Freedom + Living like a Proverbs 31 Woman | Annika Duden | 19 Nov 2023 | 00:49:39 | |
Annika is a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. She is a women’s health nutritionist specializing in the HTMA (Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis), cookbook author, and recipe developer. Her goal is to help women return to the way God designed them to eat and live. In a world where diet culture and being skinny is valued over true health and wellness, her purpose is to show women how much more there is to life when they break through the lies and get back to their purpose. In this episode, Annika breaks down what true femininity looks like through Proverbs 31 instead of the lens of masculine hustle culture. Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website Well+ Fed community with Laura Lyons | |||
| Making Truth Tangible | Phylicia Masonheimer | 12 Nov 2023 | 00:48:42 | |
Phylicia Masonheimer is the author of the nationally bestselling books Stop Calling Me Beautiful (2020) and The Flirtation Experiment (2021), host of Verity Podcast (reached 1 million downloads in Nov. 2021), and CEO of Every Woman a Theologian. She lives in northern Michigan with her husband, Josh, and three children. Phylicia's heart is to help discern truth, create confidence in what (or really who) you believe in, and live with your faith on display, and that is exactly what we covered in this episode. She believes every woman should be a theologian, no matter the stage of life and how to create healthy spiritual rhythms to grow deeper as a believer whether you are a mama at home and raising littles, or out in the world navigating healthy spiritual community and leadership. Phylicia gives us the tools to equip ourselves for spiritual health through different seasons of life, and how to hold fast to truth for your family. Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website Connect with Phylicia on Instagram | |||
| Creating Contentment in Chaos | Reyna Wilson | 05 Nov 2023 | 00:17:53 | |
In this episode, I take you right into one of the funniest experiences I've had to date. We dive into how my driving instructor having an accident mid driving lesson, mirrors how we can approach creating habits for contentment in the crappy seasons of life. Our community sent in some of the ways they struggle in finding contentment in chaos, and how sometimes christian communities fail to provide true support in suffering. Listen in to hear how you can create tangible steps forward towards peace in pain. Be sure to listen to the end, for an exclusive reveal into the next big thing coming for the Living Wisely Well community! Episode highlighlights can be found on the Living Wisely Well website. | |||
| Boycotting Bounce Back Culture as a New Mama | Bailey Turner | 29 Oct 2023 | 00:49:00 | |
Bailey Turner, is a 25-year old fitness entrepreneur. She is married to her husband Zachary & has two morkie puppies (Ziggy & Jax). Bailey is on here motherhood journey after she gave birth to her rainbow baby girl, Marlow Marie! They currently reside in southern Utah but are both born and raised in the Midwest (a small WI town to be exact)! Bailey uses her platform to share the real & raws of motherhood, as well as tips & tricks to starting your fitness journey & living a healthy balanced lifestyle. And that is exactly what we cover in this episode! Bailey lays out the struggle of bounce back culture, especially within her influence in the fitness industry and how she hopes to encourage other women and her daughter to change the story and celebrate our bodies! Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website Connect with Bailey on Instagram Bodyfitbalance Website + Programs | |||
| Growing from the Ashes of your Story + Giving Grief Room to Heal | Tori Hein | 22 Oct 2023 | 01:02:21 | |
Tori is a down to earth communicator, coach, and Bible teacher who engages people with her authenticity, humor, and passion for God and His word. Whether on stage speaking, coaching her clients, or sitting snuggled on a couch with a friend, her goal is to move others toward God in their story and live for eternity, now. Her journey as a work-from-home mom began in support of her husband, Matt, and his traveling band, I AM THEY. After almost a decade-long career in online sales and health coaching, while also balancing motherhood, ministry, and homeschooling, Tori felt herself reaching a point of burnout.God met her with one question: "Are you working from worth, or for it?" Realizing she had placed much of her identity in the results she was producing for God rather than in the God she was working for, this began a two-year journey of healing from chronic stress and striving that led to her online course and mentorship program, "Work from Worth" that was launched in 2021. Alongside her personal coaching programs and courses, she serves as the program director for Freedom Movement, a nonprofit organization providing trauma-informed, Biblically-sound, and spirit-filled trainings and coaching certifications. Her and her husband, Matt, and two children, Micaiah and Amara, live in the Tennessee countryside just south of Nashville and serve at the The Belonging Co in Columbia, TN. In this episode we break down the walls holding us back in our own stories, so we can find healing and freedom in the calling set before us. Whether you're a mama, woman in the workforce, or finding yourself in the in between -- this episode is just for you. Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website | |||
| Real Talk About Real Life in Your 20s | Laura Allen | 21 Oct 2023 | 01:02:10 | |
Laura is a 25 year old non-profit fundraiser and podcaster living in Austin, TX. Laura hosts a podcast called Almost Somebody Podcast, where she helps listeners find their next right step, reminding them that they are Already Somebody. The podcast was born out of God's faithfulness to her and hopes that she can meet listeners with hope and help, wherever they are right now. In this episode we had a blast talking about all things beautiful and hard about doing adult life in your 20s after a world shut down. LA shares her incredible story about how she's fought for truth and healing despite all the ways the world has tried to lead her astray. Come hang out with us as we chat about worst dating experiences, our own woman at the well moments and how the health industry can only take you so far. Episode Highlights + LA's resources on Living Wisely Well Website
Connect with Laura on Instagram | |||
| Obedience Outside your Comfort Zone + Pendulum Swing of "Clean" Living | Katy Thomas | 15 Sep 2024 | 00:56:45 | |
Katy is a Jesus follower, wife and mama and sweet friend that really first introduced Reyna into the world of raw milk and beef liver! Her family has since transitioned out of the military and are learning to trust in God’s provision both big and small. Here is her story as she learns balance in real time, and how to even surrender all the “right” things to do in wellness at the foot of the cross! Don’t miss this richly authentic and real talk episode about the reality of wellness living when circumstances leave you unwell. Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website | |||
| Racial Discrimination + Gender Inequality in Healthcare | Natosha Ash | 08 Oct 2023 | 00:58:16 | |
Natosha Ash is a dedicated and passionate health and wellness advocate with a unique background in genetics and genomics, naturopathic medicine, and nutrigenomics. Her deep knowledge of these subjects has given her a holistic perspective on health and wellness that she shares freely with her community. As someone who understands the importance of using science and nature to promote optimal health, Natosha has made it her life's work to share her knowledge with others. Her mastery in Genetics and Genomics allows her to look at health and wellness from a unique angle, and she leverages this knowledge to promote positive lifestyle changes in others. In addition to her work in the health and wellness field, Natosha is also committed to giving back to her community. She believes that access to information and education is critical to promoting positive lifestyle changes, and she is dedicated to sharing her knowledge to help others achieve optimal health. In this episode she shares her own experiences in the hurt of discrimination and invalidation of pain as a provider and patient. Episode Highlights + Natosha's Recommendations on Living Wisely Well Website Episode Highlights:
Connect with Natosha on Instagram Natosha's Naturology Skincare Connecting Women of Color to Culturally Sensitive Providers: Health in Her Hue Website | |||
| Feeling, Dealing, Healing & Losing Toxicity in Life | Shawna Holman | 01 Oct 2023 | 00:50:28 | |
Shawna is the founder and owner of A Little Less Toxic, follower of Jesus, wife to Damien, mother to two littles, a devoted credentialed teacher now serving and educating her children at home as well as her online community. After battling chronic health issues for many years that nearly cost her life, she decided it was time to try something different that would have a lasting impact. Through intentional and mindful changes over time, she began a journey that left her pain free for the first time in several years. We break down all of that and more in this episode, and Shawna gives tangible tips to eliminate toxicity in our mind, body, soul and environment through the hard things life throws at us. Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website Connect with Shawna online: Instagram + Her Website Buy her book- A Healthier Home: The Room by Room Guide to Make Any Space A Little Less Toxic wherever books are sold or on Amazon | |||
| Fierce Faith, Foster Parenting + Cancel Culture Drama | Brittany Dawn Nelson | 25 Jun 2023 | 01:00:13 | |
Brittany Dawn is a born and raised Texan, wife, foster mom, and founder of She Lives Freed. In 2019, she had a radical, unexplainable incomprehensible encounter with Jesus that would forever change her life. Since that night, no aspect of her life has looked the same. She has walked through excruciating seasons of pruning, navigated divorce, miscarriage, walked through the flames of cancel culture, faced hardship, and found herself broken amidst heartbreak. Yet through every high and low, can confidently say that her constant has been Jesus. In this episode we openly talk about some of the toxic aspects to the health and fitness industry, navigating the hurt from cancel culture and what it has been like for Brittney to step into motherhood on a public platform. Episode highlights on Living Wisely Well Website Connect with Brittany on Instagram & Tik Tok More Stories with Brittany on YouTube | |||
| Creating Healthy Attachment + Gentle Parenting | Grace Boggs | 18 Jun 2023 | 01:04:45 | |
Grace is a fellow "crunchy" mama with a heart and passion for loving other mamas well. She is currently pursuing her masters in counseling while raising her two sons alongside her rockstar husband, Matt. In this episode Grace shares a little bit about her own journey in motherhood from postpartum depression to labor trauma, and the transition from one babe to two. We chat about how her own faith and a gospel perspective changes the way she approaches her family, and evidence based research stemming from attachment theory, to create a loving environment for her children to grow. We hope that by sharing our experiences in motherhood, the good, bad and ugly, that our own kids will see the light of Christ and other mamas will find encouragement for their families! Episode Highlights on Living Wisely Well Website | |||