What if your procrastination, burnout, or self-doubt weren’t problems to fix — but signs that you’ve drifted away from your true nature? In this episode, Hana offers a gentle reframe of struggle through the lens of Chinese Medicine. You’ll explore the power of understanding your elemental constitution — not to change who you are, but to finally understand yourself. Inside, you’ll learn: How disconnection from your element can feel like procrastination, anxiety, or burnout The emotional and physi...
Jun 25, 2025•29 min•Season 2Ep. 15
What happens when you stop pushing… and start listening? In this powerful conversation, Hana sits down with professional longboard surfer Kelis Kaleopaʻa to explore what it means to return to yourself after burnout — not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually. Kelis came to Hana depleted, disconnected, and without a cycle. What unfolded was so much more than a physical healing — it was a complete transformation of how she lived, moved, and trusted herself again. This episode is a windo...
Jun 18, 2025•42 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Burnout Isn’t the End — It’s a Sacred Beginning What if your exhaustion isn’t a failure… but a spiritual threshold? In this gentle, soul-opening episode, Hana explores how burnout can be a sacred invitation — not something to fix or push through, but something to honor. Through the lens of Chinese Medicine and lived experience, you’ll begin to see burnout not as the breakdown, but as the beginning of your return. In this episode, we explore: Why burnout often signals a deeper soul transformation...
Jun 11, 2025•21 min•Season 2Ep. 13
What if your symptoms, your confusion, even losing clients… were all part of your spiritual initiation? In this episode, Hana sits down with Cacey Scott — a healing guide who built his platform around Medical Medium protocols — and recently felt called to let it all go. What unfolds is a deeply honest conversation about growth, grief, and spiritual realignment. You’ll hear us talk about: How Cacey’s healing journey began with chronic illness — and turned into a soul awakening Why he chose to ste...
Jun 04, 2025•32 min•Season 2Ep. 12
I waited six months to tell this story. Not because I didn’t want to — but because I wasn’t ready. What began as a planned home birth became a multi-layered emergency: a transfer to the hospital, a C-section under general anesthesia, and the beginning of the most sacred unraveling of my life. Yes — it was traumatic. But not in the way we usually think of trauma. It wasn’t just medical. It was spiritual. It was a death of identity and the slow, sacred rebirth that followed. What saved me wasn’t a...
May 28, 2025•44 min•Season 2Ep. 11
What if healing isn’t something new — but something ancient we’re meant to remember? In this rich, soul-led conversation, Hana sits down with Nooci founder Steph Tan to talk about the medicine that actually works — not because it’s cutting-edge, but because it’s been trusted for generations. Steph shares how chronic symptoms and second-time motherhood led her back to Chinese medicine — and how that return reshaped everything from her health, to her parenting, to her purpose. Together, they explo...
May 21, 2025•31 min•Season 2Ep. 10
What if investing in your wellbeing wasn’t selfish… but sacred? In this heartfelt Mother’s Day episode, Hana shares a deeply personal story about her mother, Bell’s palsy recovery, and the moment she realized she had inherited the belief that care must be earned, not received. So many women are taught to give endlessly — but not to receive. Hana unpacks where this pattern comes from, how it affects our health, and what it takes to finally break free. In this episode: Why women struggle to receiv...
May 14, 2025•18 min•Season 2Ep. 9
What if the discomfort you're feeling isn’t a sign you’re broken — but a doorway to the life you've been calling in? In today’s episode, I sit down with my dear friend and former client, Alia Francisco, creator of Manifest With Alia . We explore the deep parallels between healing, spiritual growth, and manifestation — and how learning to sit with discomfort can radically change your life. Inside this powerful conversation, we talk about: How understanding your cyclical nature creates self-compas...
May 07, 2025•48 min•Season 2Ep. 8
If you feel stuck in your health, tired in your spirit, or like your body is working against you… this episode will change everything. Hana shares her own journey of releasing control, reconnecting with her body after trauma, and discovering the true root of healing: safety. Not just in your nervous system, but in your relationship to yourself. Rooted in Chinese Medicine and spoken straight from the heart, this episode explores: Why your body isn’t broken—it’s protecting you How trauma, perfecti...
Apr 30, 2025•16 min•Season 2Ep. 7
This isn’t just a story about hormones. It’s a story about honesty, healing, and finally giving yourself permission to slow down. When professional SUP athlete Maddi LeBlanc lost her period, she tried to push through it. Like so many women, she was focused on performance, ambition, and chasing her goals — until her body forced her to listen. What started as a search for physical healing quickly became a much deeper journey. In this episode, Maddi shares how working together helped her reconnect ...
Apr 23, 2025•27 min•Season 2Ep. 6
If you feel like you’re doing everything right—eating healthy, exercising, trying every new diet—but your body still isn’t responding, this episode is for you. Hana breaks down the truth about why traditional approaches to weight loss don’t work for women and reveals the real key: learning to work with your body’s hormonal rhythm, not against it. She shares her personal journey of releasing over 40 pounds without restrictive dieting—and how everything shifted once she began honoring her body’s i...
Apr 16, 2025•25 min•Season 2Ep. 5
How do you balance business, personal growth, and motherhood without burning out? In this episode, Abundance and Light Activation Coach Petia Kolibova Burns shares how becoming a mother transformed her approach to work, self-worth, and success. She went from overgiving and overworking to setting firm boundaries, simplifying her business, and embracing abundance on her own terms. We discuss: ✅ How motherhood shifts your business mindset and self-worth ✅ Why saying NO is the most powerful tool for...
Apr 09, 2025•29 min•Season 3Ep. 3
What if your anxiety, insomnia, acne, or hormone imbalances aren’t just physical… but emotional? In this episode, I’m sharing one of the most overlooked truths in healing: your emotions are shaping your health. Through the lens of Chinese Medicine — and my own story of anxiety, anger, and emotional shutdown — I’ll walk you through how suppressed emotions like grief, fear, and frustration can manifest as real physical symptoms: from PMS and digestive issues to skin flare-ups, sleep problems, and ...
Apr 02, 2025•19 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Your body isn’t broken—it’s speaking a language. But are you listening? In this episode, we uncover how symptoms are actually messages, what Chinese Medicine teaches about the mind-body connection, and how to start decoding your body’s wisdom. What You’ll Learn: - Why your symptoms aren’t random (and what they really mean) - How Chinese Medicine views the connection between emotions & physical health - A simple practice to start understanding your body’s signals Want to Go Deeper? - Join The...
Mar 18, 2025•19 min•Season 2Ep. 2
There comes a moment on every healing journey when we realize the life we’ve built no longer fits — and we’re standing at a powerful crossroads. In this episode, I’m joined by Edit B Kiss , a former petroleum engineer turned holistic therapist and Reiki Master, whose story of self-healing, overcoming anxiety, and stepping into her purpose is a beacon for every woman feeling stuck, lost, or unsure of her next step. Edit opens up about her struggles with panic attacks, imposter syndrome, and self-...
Mar 05, 2025•34 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Pregnancy is hard as fuck. There is so much change in such a short period of time, major hormonal shifts, financial stress and pressure, relationships being tested, weight gain, physical discomfort, fear of birth, miscarriages, stillbirths, challenging family dynamics, postpartum, anxiety about being perfect, etc, etc. I get it, I see you, and all of these fears, worries, anxieties, and emotions are all absolutely valid. This episode is devoted to helping you feel the way you ACTUALLY want to fe...
Oct 24, 2024•34 min•Season 1Ep. 24
I’m afraid of birth, I’m afraid of becoming a mother, I’m afraid of how this will change my life, my marriage, and my work. And yet, I’m doing it all anyways. Fear is the emotion that holds us back, it is paralyzing and keeps us stuck in our comfort zone. Even if we’re unhappy in our relationships, in our work, in our pain at least it’s familiar, right? Fear requires us to be brave, to take action, and step into the abyss and the unknown. In this episode I explore the connection between pregnanc...
Oct 09, 2024•32 min•Season 1Ep. 23
I often meet women when they’re in the midst of an unexpected crisis whether it be a major health issue, the end of a relationship, being let go from a job, etc. In our work together I help them reclaim their sense of control so that they can grow, heal, and transform through their experiences instead of continuing to feel like a victim to unforeseen circumstances. I hope that this podcast episode will offer you key insights as to how you can navigate your unique challenges with a greater sense ...
Sep 12, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Why do we have such a hard time letting go? When we experience grief from losing someone we love, heartbreak, contending with major disappointment after failing, etc there is a secondary emotion that emerges - guilt. We feel guilty for not feeling the way we were supposed to, guilty for continuing to live when someone else has passed on, guilty for feeling angry and resentful, guilty for letting people down, and more. Tune into this episode to learn more about how these grief and guilt are store...
Jul 29, 2024•32 min•Season 1Ep. 21
If you’re in the midst of a particularly dark moment in your life, presently emerging from one, or seeking a deeper understanding of the challenges you’ve been through, this episode is for you. I know what it’s like to be stuck, lost, and lonely in the isolation that comes with these experiences and through my own personal journey and my work with women I also know what it takes to feel light, free, empowered, and full of joy again. Chinese Medicine has a masterful understanding of both the dark...
Jul 19, 2024•26 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Disappointment, frustration, limitations, and defeat start to eat away at our sense of hope when it comes to healing. By the time most women find me they have explored so many other options like diets, medications, exercise routines, therapies, etc and placed their trust in doctors, books, and other healers only to end up doubtful, cynical, and pessimistic because they STILL don’t have the results they want. My years as an acupuncturist, teacher, and community leader have illuminated what it tak...
Jul 07, 2024•31 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Are we ever done healing? This question sparked a conversation between me and my husband, Jeff, which led to us immediately sitting down to record an episode. Throughout his life Jeff has experienced extraordinary loss, grief, fear, and self-doubt which ultimately led to him becoming the single most resilient, resourceful, and strong-willed man I’ve ever known. In this conversation we explore the many practices, tools, and necessary shifts he has made over the past several decades to equip him w...
Jun 22, 2024•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 18
Honestly, this is an episode I was nervous to share because I open up about experiences and challenges that very few women outside of my Balanced Woman community, even my closest friends and family members, know very much about. I offer it to you now because I recognize that part of me becoming a mother is leaving my shame, guilt, and fear in the past where it belongs so that my joy, gratitude, and strength can expand and flourish. Fertility and being ready for pregnancy, birth, and motherhood i...
Jun 08, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 17
My apprentice Michelle is the definition of a powerhouse - she is entrepreneurial, self-motivated, passionate, and commanding. Like many women who are natural born leaders, she is devoted to being of service to the greater good. She has BIG plans and dreams for the world which requires an abundance of energy, tenacity, and self-knowledge. Throughout her time in The Balanced Woman and then in my Apprenticeship, she discovered how deeply caring for herself and meeting her own needs first enables h...
May 31, 2024•48 min•Season 1Ep. 16
I just got back from spending 3 weeks with my family which has me reflecting on just how far our relationships have come. Don’t get me wrong, they are wonderful, supportive, and beautiful people but just like any other family, we are far from perfect. In this episode I share how I healed old wounds, sensitivities and triggers, and finally learned how to love and accept myself without relying on anyone else’s validation.
May 25, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Imagine drifting into a deeply relaxing sleep tonight with ease. Your mind is quiet, your body is peaceful, and you feel content with everything you accomplished today. As the warm haze of sleep washes over you, you smile knowing that when you wake up you’ll feel revitalized, restored, and ready for your day. Difficulty falling asleep and/or staying asleep is one of the most common concerns clients share with me. High quality sleep is the single most important factor when it comes to healing bec...
May 14, 2024•13 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Sometimes we don’t realize just how much we need to rest until we finally have the time and space to fully surrender our responsibilities, burdens, stress, and worries. A good night of sleep, daily naps, and the occasional weekend getaway all help to maintain our wellbeing, but more profound healing requires a devotion of time and attention. In the podcast episode I’m joined by one of my extraordinary apprentices, Karen Marie, who as a mother, wife, and hard-working esthetician hadn’t granted he...
Apr 25, 2024•31 min•Season 1Ep. 13
If you've been frustrated and disappointed because you aren't seeing shifts in your hormonal wellbeing, chances are you haven't explored a truly holistic approach. In this episode I go DEEP on the role that emotional blockages play in our hormonal wellbeing and why it always feels like a piece of the puzzle is missing despite the doctors we’ve seen, books we’ve read, diets and exercise routines we’ve tried, endless therapy sessions, and numerous self-care practices. Do you want to shortcut your ...
Apr 11, 2024•32 min
In this episode I’m joined by the powerful, empathetic, and heart-driven Chanelle! Tune in to listen to her reflect on what it took to release her anger and resentment, fall in love with who she truly is, and how immersing herself in Chinese Medicine taught her to transform her emotional and energetic sensitivity into her greatest strengths. If you feel called to experience your own transformation and to support others in their healing journeys, I’m currently accepting new apprentices! We begin ...
Apr 06, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 11
It was an honor to spend time with my long time client and apprentice, Anna! She reflected on how our deeply loving and accepting community of women helped her navigate a particularly challenging year, and how her own transformation inspired her to share this medicine with everyone from her family and friends to the clients at her salon! Her personal journey through The Balanced Woman led to her losing 20 pounds, developing unshakeable mental and emotional fortitude, and learning how to truly lo...
Mar 28, 2024•53 min•Season 1Ep. 10
