Today on the podcast we sit down with Gabrielle Rodman. Gabrielle shares her very personal journey of experiencing debilitating pelvic floor pain and her journey to discover diagnosis and treatment. After months of experiencing symptoms including, painful sex, and painful movement in her day-to-day, Gabrielle was written off by 4 doctors, telling her that there was nothing medically wrong -- and to drink a glass of wine to manage the pain. Refusing to give up on herself, and trusting that her pa...
Sep 16, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 120
Today on the podcast we have a conversation on a plant-based, fruit centric, lifestyle with Robby Barbaro, the co-founder and author of the NY Times Best Selling book, Mastering Diabetes. Robby has been living with type1 diabetes for 15 years, and for 10 years has transformed his illness and gained control of his overall health on a low-fat, fruit-based diet. Mastering Diabetes is a revolutionary method to reverse insulin Resistance Permanently in Type 1, Type 1.5, Type 2, Prediabetes, and Gesta...
Sep 09, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 119
Today on the podcast we welcome Tarin Calmeyer. Tarin has spent the last 10 years bringing her yoga and meditation expertise to people around the world with a teaching style that highlights her deep understanding of the body, mindfulness and conscious living. Tarin is a Yoga, Meditation, and Wellness Coach with a background in Osteopathy and has extensive experience working with brands from Puma to Movenpick Resorts. In 2020 Tarin and her team launched Remote Team Wellness, a live virtual wellne...
Sep 02, 2020•48 min•Ep. 117
Our August bonus solo episode is here and we are answering your health and wellness questions! On this episode we cover sugar content, ideal breakfast, snacks, emotional eating tips, how to create a daily practice, our favorite at home workouts -- and how to motivate! Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review Courageous Wellness! We release new episodes each #WellnessWednesday ! You can also follow us on instagram @ CourageousWellness and visit our website: www.courageouswellness.net to get in...
Aug 28, 2020•50 min•Ep. 118
Today on the podcast we sit down with love, dating and relationship expert, Violet Lange. Violet's mission is to help women become empowered in love, feel amazing in their bodies, and reclaim their feminine essence. She teaches women how to attract and maintain incredible partnerships through her signature program: Queens of Pleasure. Violet teaches that we have the power to build healthy romance, healthy families, and a healthy world. She does this through integrating the masculine and feminine...
Aug 26, 2020•57 min•Ep. 116
This week on the podcast we sit down with Julianne Vaccaro a Somatic Sexologist, Spiritual Mentor & Women’s Holistic Health + Life Coach. Julianne helps powerful, purpose-driven individuals self heal, awaken their feminine, and come home to their body to reclaim an abundant life of freedom & pleasure. On this episode we have an in-depth conversation on somatic sexology, tapping into your sexual energy and power, the divine feminine, and practical tools and tips you can practice at home t...
Aug 19, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 115
Today on the podcast we welcome Food Freedom Coach, Sloane Elizabeth. Sloane works with individuals to tap into intuitive eating, to ditch food rules, diets, and restrictions. She also works to help clients learn how to eat with love and eliminate guilt and fear around food. On this episode, we discuss Sloane’s personal journey to her work and offer practical tools and tips to cultivate food freedom. Sloane has also recently released a free guide titled: 5 Steps to Eat With Love & Intuition ...
Aug 12, 2020•50 min•Ep. 114
On today’s episode of Courageous Wellness, we have an incredible conversation with Dr. Que Collins, principal scientist of Deuterium Depletion Therapies and the co-founder and principal investigator, at Cignature Health Metabolic Clinic – the first clinic in the world to use deuterium and tracer technologies to describe and follow the health status of patients with metabolic disorders such as cancer, diabetes, and autoimmune disorders. Now, if you are wondering what deuterium depletion is -- don...
Aug 05, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 113
On this month's bonus solo episode we discuss the effects of stress on the body and offer tools to manage stress during this time. We also offer simple digestion tips, share the launch of our new website, and explain more about our new monthly series of "bonus" solo episodes. We want to hear your thoughts! Reach out at www.courageouswellness.net Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review Courageous Wellness! We release new episodes each #WellnessWednesday ! You can also follow us on instagram @...
Jul 31, 2020•50 min•Ep. 112
Today on the podcast we welcome Stephanie Cowie. Throughout Stephanie’s professional life she was a Vice President at American Benefits Consulting and she also served as a Senior Employee Benefits Consultant for Fortune 50 & 100 companies in the U.S. for the past 22 years. Today on Courageous Wellness, she shares with us a more personal story -- of suffering a stroke in her spinal cord, prior to her 50th birthday. This spinal cord injury created paralysis for Stephanie from the waist down. B...
Jul 29, 2020•52 min•Ep. 111
Today on the podcast we sit down with Kiley Anderson, co-founder of Jetson probiotics. Jetson is a brand that produces the worlds’ only seasonal probiotics that change along with your body. Kiley discusses how, as a new mom, she opened her eyes to the world of probiotics and the importance of healthy gut bacteria for her own health and her baby. This inspired deeper research to create a high quality probiotic program for both adults and children. On this episode Kiley discusses her experience wi...
Jul 22, 2020•57 min•Ep. 110
Today on the podcast we welcome Richa Gupta, founder of both, Good Food for Good, and Turmeric Teas! Growing up in India, Richa was used to eating fresh home cooked food, but as a marketing executive and mom, she found it challenging to find prepared shortcuts that met her expectations in terms of ingredients and taste. She grew frustrated with all the compromises she was expected to make for convenience. Driven to make a difference through food, Richa launched Good Food for Good in late 2013. T...
Jul 15, 2020•56 min•Ep. 109
Today on the podcast we welcome, Amber Romaniuk, an Emotional Eating, Digestive and Hormone Expert who helps professional women achieve optimal health through mindful eating, self-care and overcoming self-sabotage with food. Her podcast “The No Sugarcoating Podcast” has over a half a million downloads and she has appeared on Canadian television 50 times in the last three years. Amber overcame her own emotional eating after gaining and losing more than 1,000 pounds, spending over $50,000 on binge...
Jul 08, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 108
Today on the podcast we sit down with PLATEFIT creator and founder, Rachael Blumberg. On this episode we discuss Rachael’s inspiring journey in fitness, entrepreneurship, and the incredible technology of the medical grade vibrating plates that are used in the 27-minute PlateFit classes! PLATEFIT classes are taken on medical grade devices that utilize rapid harmonic vibration — a unique means of destabilizing the body. This destabilization forces reflexive, subconscious neuromuscular action, in b...
Jul 01, 2020•51 min•Ep. 107
Today on the podcast we have the king of Kombucha, himself, GT Dave of GT's Living Foods ! GT started making kombucha at home, when he was still a teenager, after seeing the positive effects it had on his own mother’s health while battling breast cancer. In the past 2+ decades GT’s Living Foods has grown to be the leading Kombucha brand, making up 40% of the US market, while remaining a family owned and operated company. They have now expanded beyond Kombucha and offer many other living foods in...
Jun 24, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 106
This week on the podcast we welcome Dr. Diva Nagula, author, physician, and stage IV non-Hodgkins lymphoma survivor. On this episode he shares his remarkable non-traditional battle with cancer and share tips and ideas about how we can take a more functional and integrative approach to our own health before facing health battles. In his new book FROM DOCTOR TO PATIENT: Healing Cancer through Mind, Body, and Spirit , Dr. Nagula tells readers about the diagnosis that compelled him to take a hard lo...
Jun 17, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 105
This week on the podcast we are happy to welcome human design expert + leadership coach, Erin Claire Jones! For anyone unfamiliar with Human Design, it is described as the science of understanding yourself. Erin works with startups all over the world, supports executives in the building of companies and even works with partnerships and small teams in order for them to operate more harmoniously and effectively. Human Design sheds light on your emotional, psychological and energetic makeup, giving...
Jun 10, 2020•57 min•Ep. 103
This week on the podcast we have a conversation with plant-based culinary expert and author, Summer Sanders. As the creative force behind Local Juicery and lead instructor at the former Matthew Kenney Culinary Institute she became a champion for a plant-inspired lifestyle after beginning the journey of self-healing from a lifetime low self-esteem and disordered eating. On this episode Summer shares with us her journey to food freedom after painful struggles with food and eating disorders. She al...
May 27, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 102
Today on the podcast we welcome Brooklyn Borough President, Eric Adams . In 2016, President Adams was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. After losing vision in his left eye and suffering from nerve damage in his hands + feet -- he went against the initial recommendations of his doctors and instead pursued a whole-food, plant-based diet. Within three months of this lifestyle change, Eric reversed his diabetes diagnosis and he has subsequently been able to impact the health of countless New Yorkers f...
May 20, 2020•50 min•Ep. 101
Today on the podcast it is just the two of us! On this episode we give updates on where we are at and continue our conversation and discuss our most asked question and topic: body image + food. We end up with a passionate discussion on the importance of making small goals, discuss the concept of 'legalizing' food and end with a in depth dialogue on what "privilege" really means in wellness (spoiler: it is a lot more than just financial)! We want to hear your thoughts! Reach out at www.courageous...
May 13, 2020•57 min•Ep. 100
Today on the podcast we welcome, Kelly Bloodgood, owner of the Well+Good Health Studio -- a wellness oasis that offers treatments including: infrared sauna pods, red light therapy, pressotherapy, and other holistic healing modalities. These treatments, while relaxing and beneficial for any adult, can also be life saving for individuals with chronic illness, which is the reason Kelly opened her studio and started using these methods herself. Several years ago, after dealing with a host of crippli...
May 06, 2020•50 min•Ep. 99
On this episode of the podcast we sit down with the founders of Kensho Health , Danny Steiner and Krista Berlincourt. Kensho is an online platform that makes holistic health more accessible and helps individuals everywhere find the best practitioners, classes, workshops, and retreats. Danny and Krista believe everyone deserves to live a healthy life -- and created Kensho after their own frustration with the healthcare system. Unable to understand why it was so difficult to find what they needed ...
Apr 29, 2020•47 min•Ep. 98
Today on the podcast we sit down Dr. Amy Shah, a double board certified MD and wellness expert specializing in food allergies, gut health, and hormones. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Cornell University's world renowned school of nutrition and then went on to receive her MD with distinction. With training from Cornell, Harvard and Columbia - She helps busy people transform their health using cutting edge nutritional and medical science. She is also a well known expert on intermittent fasting...
Apr 22, 2020•55 min•Ep. 97
Today on the podcast we welcome Catherine Arnston, CEO and founder of ENERGYbits. Catharine started ENERGYbits after her sister was diagnosed with breast cancer and advised by her oncologist that an alkaline diet would help her heal. Catharine immediately sprung into action to help her sister research alkaline foods and in the process she discovered algae. When Catharine learned that algae was the most alkaline, plant-based, nutrient-dense food in the world and had been used for fifty years in A...
Apr 15, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 96
On this episode of the podcast we sit down for a conversation with LaToya D, host of The Analog Girl, and discuss living with depersonalization, healing from PTSD and tools to manage anxiety. Through her platform: The Analog Girl , LaToya has helped many individuals by sharing her struggles with depersonalization, anxiety and PTSD. LaToya tells her story of dealing with abuse in her past with authentic transparency and dives into what it was like suffering from chronic depersonalization. When sh...
Apr 08, 2020•55 min•Ep. 95
This week on the podcast we sit down for a conversation with Shannon McLay founder of The Financial Gym . The Financial Gym makes reaching your financial goals, getting out of debt, and living your best financial life easy and accessible -- with programs designed for clients of all ages and incomes. After years of working for a big bank and working as a financial advisor for Merrill Lynch, Shannon was inspired to create a financial services company that actually cared for its clients and provide...
Apr 01, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 94
This week on the podcast it is just the two of us and we are sharing updates during this uncertain time. In this episode we answer some of our most asked questions as we discuss anxiety, diet, and daily routine's during this global pandemic. We also dive deeper into tips and tools that are helping us manage and hope will inspire you during your own self-quarantine. We also realize it is a privilege to be home right now and have the most appreciation for our healthcare workers, grocers, delivery ...
Mar 25, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 93
Today on the podcast we sit down with Angela Mavridis founder of TRIBALÍ Foods! As a kid in her grandmother’s kitchen in Greece, Angela discovered the nurturing power of real foods. Angela saw her grandmother happily cooking, a naturally paleo diet, from scratch — using only real organic, local, and heirloom foods. Ironically, back in the states, Angela’s dad owned a fast-food hamburger drive-thru serving up burgers, fries, and shakes. With a busy schedule, the family ordered dinner from their r...
Mar 18, 2020•48 min•Ep. 92
On this episode we sit down with Grigore Madikians the founder and creator of Gaffer & Child, a company that uses clean skincare to inspire mindful living. Grigore shares his personal story of struggling with problem skin and the harsh chemical products he was given as treatment. Using these products ignored his own core beliefs around sustainability and how he wanted to treat his body, but was unable to find an alternative -- so he started to create his own natural skin care products! In th...
Mar 11, 2020•46 min•Ep. 91
Today on the podcast it is just the two of us! On this episode we discuss our current relationship with food, diet culture, and self care. We also discuss Geneen Roth's book: Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything , our experience during January Whole30, and much more! Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review Courageous Wellness! We release new episodes each #WellnessWednesday ! You can also follow us on instagram @ CourageousWellness and get in touch at https://www.coura...
Mar 04, 2020•55 min•Ep. 90
