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IMPACT

Impact is what lives on beyond our daily challenges as an entrepreneur, parent and global citizen. It is the end product of living on purpose, thinking strategically, optimizing your health and committing to an evolving mindset. Impact is possible for all of us. Join your host, Dr. Meghan Walker, an entrepreneur, author, mother and former Naturopathic Doctor for provocative, progressive and playful weekly conversations that shatter the boundaries of what is possible for your life. Whether it is a solo session with Meghan, a soulful story, or a profound interview with actionable takeaways, you will leave each conversation inspired and prepared to turn your dreams into impactful creations and opportunities. Each week we explore topics and speak to world-class experts related to optimal health, mindset, wealth creation, and entrepreneurial tactics. We believe you can have your cake and eat it too. If you are ready to escape hustle culture and build a life on your terms, we’ve got your back. Impact is for women who are ready to pick up the pen and write the unregrettable version of their life’s story. Brace for Impact.
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Episodes

Future of Health Series: Intermittent Fasting with Cynthia Thurlow

Food really is medicine, but sometimes staying away from food is even more healing. That’s the idea behind intermittent fasting. In this episode of Impact, Meghan talks with Cynthia Thurlow, a nurse practitioner and internationally known women’s health expert whose TEDx Talk has received more than 10 million views. Intermittent fasting is eating within a prescribed time period, and not eating within another prescribed time period. Why does it matter? It has to do with our metabolism. Metabolic f...

Nov 01, 202250 min

The Key to Thinking like an Entrepreneur with Kelsey Abott

What does thinking like an entrepreneur mean? In this week’s episode of IMPACT, Meghan unpacks this very question with her guest Kelsey Abbott, a serial entrepreneur and triathlete who is unapologetically invested in helping people unlock their true potential. Meghan and Kelsey discuss the mechanisms of thinking that define us as entrepreneurs which brings us to the final episode of this series and the final letter of the IMPACT acronym, the ‘T’, which stands for thinking like an entrepreneur. M...

Oct 25, 202228 min

Future-Proofing Your Business Financially with April Stroink

In this episode of Impact, Meghan talks with April Stroink, a money coach and financial advisor who specializes in helping entrepreneurs create financial clarity, ease, and abundance in their practice. Throughout their discussion, Meghan and April continually tie their conversation back to the analogy of a financial storm. The storm could represent a shift in the financial market or something that could potentially throw your business off course. Whatever it may represent, Meghan and April discu...

Oct 18, 202250 min

How To Effortlessly Attract Your Ideal Patients Using Short-form Video with Elise Darma

On this week’s episode of IMPACT, Meghan Walker is joined by Elise Darma, a Canadian entrepreneur, marketing coach and expert in creating effective social media strategies for businesses, to discuss the “A” in IMPACT medicine - attraction. As an entrepreneur, the task of constantly creating and posting can feel daunting and unbearable. How do you attract and capture that target audience when your video comes up in their feed? Elise answers this question and so much more in this episode as she an...

Oct 11, 202254 min

The 3 Ingredients You NEED In A Business For The People You Serve

On this week’s episode of IMPACT, Meghan talks about the ”P” in IMPACT Medicine -- the people you serve in your business. She points out that our healthcare system is based on the “line of fine,” meaning that most healthcare professionals think getting people to the “you’re fine” state is enough. Healthcare is not set up to prevent illness or to teach people how to live a healthy, optimal life for longevity. If you’re an allied care healthcare professional or any type of entrepreneur, there are ...

Oct 04, 202226 min

How You Sabotage the Mindset of Impact

On this week’s episode of IMPACT, Meghan Walker talks about how we all sabotage our own mindset at times and go to a place of scarcity rather than a place of abundance. The mindset of waiting for people to come into our world and recognize and value who we are before we can feel good about ourselves is misguided. We can’t move into a state of abundance when we’re trapped in a state of scarcity ourselves. Meghan invites all her viewers to set a new standard for who they surround themselves with a...

Sep 27, 202233 min

Intention Is The New Balance - How To Live On Purpose with Amy Wong

Intention Is The New Balance - How To Live On Purpose with Amy Wong Meghan is joined by the ever-compelling Amy Wong on this week’s episode of Impact. Amy is a leadership and transformational coach and the founder of Always On Purpose®. Amy started out studying and teaching math and then went on to get a master’s degree in transpersonal psychology to feed her hunger for answers to life’s big questions. She’s written a book called “Living on Purpose, Five Deliberate Choices to Realize Fulfillment...

Sep 20, 202249 min

Impact Medicine: The Future of Health

On this week’s episode of IMPACT, Meghan discusses the future of our healthcare system and what we can do to improve our present system which is based on a sick care system. Meghan starts out by talking about getting her first mammogram and how it brought up concerns of depersonalization and lack of dignity for patients and what they’re going through. Many aspects of our healthcare system have remained antiquated and have become undignified. Even handing a patient a hospital gown can be disenfra...

Sep 13, 202231 min

5 Steps to Radiance and Killer Skin with Rachel Varga

Rachel Varga is a double-certified nurse and aesthetic specialist who’s done more than 20,000 rejuvenation procedures and has written international papers on optimal skincare. She’s at the top of her field when it comes to evidence-based approaches to skincare. Let’s face it -- your skin quality is one of the first things people notice about you, and we all want to have radiant skin that glows. But how do you get to that level of radiance? It starts by solving your health issues from the inside ...

Sep 06, 202257 min

Finding and Keeping Love as a High Performance Woman with Sami Wunder

Love Coach, Sami Wunder, shares how high-performing women can find love in their lives without alienating their partners, and how they can keep that relationship high-performing. Many women who consider themselves ambitious go-getters have a hard time attracting and keeping a good man in their lives. The first step is to look at how, as a woman, you may be contributing to the dynamics that you face in your love life. When women stop placing blame and learn how to be vulnerable in relationships, ...

Aug 30, 202248 min

Building Intuitive Leadership and An Intentional Life with Dr. Isabel Sharkar

In today’s episode, Dr. Isabel Sharkar shares her journey as a Naturopathic doctor and integrative medical practitioner. In a world that is structured for masculine success, to be a conscious creatress you must live in alignment with your intuition and structure your business around your lifestyle. Dr. Isabel encourages you to seek balance in your daily life. Success, as it is defined today, inevitably leads to burnout. Self care is not a luxury. Dr. Isabel will guide you on how you can evaluate...

Aug 23, 202244 min

Going from Unstuck to Unstoppable with Cynthia Garcia

Cynthia Garcia shares her story and how she rewrote the story to become the inspiring woman she is today! Your brain accepts whatever story you tell yourself, but you can change that story and move into a new identity. Cynthia will show you how to empower yourself by questioning your beliefs about yourself in order to get through imposter syndrome. Life and your experience is what qualifies you to share your story! Be sure to tune in! Key Takeaways: [7:20] Trauma Response: Removing yourself out ...

Aug 16, 202246 min

Fixing Your Brain for Optimal Performance with Dr. Titus Chiu

In today’s episode, Dr. Titus Chiu gives his insight into brain optimization. After suffering from a concussion after a car accident, Dr. Titus slowly began to experience the reality of long term trauma to the brain. What he learned not only can help survivors of various traumas but can help you optimize your own brain for peak performance. He reviews the many tools available today that enhance brain function. In addition, Dr. Titus teaches you how to naturally sooth your vagus nerve using simpl...

Aug 09, 202252 min

Healing Autism and Other Chronic Diseases with Dr. Lauren Lee Stone

In this week’s episode of IMPACT, we had a conversation with Dr. Lauren Lee Stone. Dr. Lauren is a Board-Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS), Holistic Health Practitioner, and Integrative Health Practitioner. Today, she is here to talk to us about how to treat autism and other chronic diseases. Dr. Lauren discusses how her son’s autism diagnosis led her to switch her field of study from Italian and French literature to holistic and integrative health, how long it took to start seeing positive r...

Aug 02, 202243 min

What an Integrative Pediatrician Wants you to Know About Raising Healthy Kids with Dr. Elisa Song

In this week’s episode of IMPACT, we had a conversation with the inspirational Dr. Elisa Song. Dr. Song is an integrative pediatrician and a pediatric functional medicine expert. She has been doing this for over two decades now and it’s safe to assume that she is a powerful force in the integrative pediatric community. Today, she is here to talk to us about how to raise our children to grow up to live healthy and meaningful lives. Dr. Song discusses how she became involved with integrative pedia...

Jul 26, 202256 min

Your Kids Mental Health Needs Help... From You with Dr. Roseann Capana Hodge

On this week’s episode of IMPACT, we had a tremendously important conversation with Dr. Roseann Capana-Hodge. Dr. Roseann is a mental health clinician, author, and founder of the Global Institute of Children’s Mental Health and Dr. Roseann, LLC. She is definitely “Changing the way we view and treat children’s mental health,” and she is here today to give us her secrets to raising healthy kids. Dr. Roseann speaks about how she became involved with treating children’s mental health, how we are in ...

Jul 19, 202253 min

54% of Kids Have Chronic Disease — How to Reverse It

On this week’s episode of IMPACT, we did not have a guest but we still had an impactful and meaningful conversation. Raising our children to be responsible, successful, and meaningful is something that needs to have the utmost attention as parents. What I wanted to talk about are the 7 core categories that will help kids grow to be healthy and resilient beings. As parents, we may think that having our children grow up with the same customs and traditions that we had is acceptable because we did ...

Jul 12, 202225 min

How to Raise Resilient Kids with Jess Sherman

On this week’s episode of IMPACT, we had an enlightening conversation with resilience master, Jess Sherman. Jess is a Family Health Educator, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, Author, and host of the Feeding Families Podcast. In this show, we talk about what got her into the art of resilience for kids and how we can better our situation when it comes to overcoming anxiety and other mental health issues. There are many issues that we are facing as a modern civilization when it comes t...

Jul 05, 202240 min

Everyone Has Trauma - This is Where You Start with Dr. Aimie Apigian

On this episode of IMPACT, we had a conversation with the wonderful Dr. Aimie Apigian. Dr. Aimie is a Board Certified Preventative Medicine Physician with a Masters in Biochemistry and Public Health. She is also an author, speaker, and founder of Trauma Healing Accelerated, LLC. The topic of discussion for this week is understanding the complexity behind trauma and how to properly address it in order to heal from it. There are many factors that play into trauma but many of us don’t know what tho...

Jun 28, 202259 min

My Privilege is my Resilience and How I Built It... Solo with Meghan Walker

On this week’s episode of IMPACT, there are no guests, it’s just you and me. The topic of discussion for this episode is resilience. I wanted to unpack this very complex term because there are many layers to resilience and I think that it is something that every entrepreneur, every employee, every parent, every kid… everybody should have. I discuss the factors that lead to substantial and robust resilience, most of which is developed at an early age. When my parents divorced, I flew back and for...

Jun 21, 202226 min

You Are the Medicine with Asha Frost

On this week’s episode of IMPACT, we had one of the most intuitive conversations yet with the magical, Asha Frost. Asha is an Indigenous (Ojibwe) Medicine Person, mentor, space holder, author and more. Her mission is to have people decolonize their mind and free their spirit from the manacles that have been weighing us down for centuries. Some of the most impactful ideas from this discussion were how she got introduced to the world of natural medicine and homeopathy; how one shouldn’t care too m...

Jun 14, 202246 min

The Real Meaning of FAT and How to Drop It with Natalie Jill

On this week’s episode of IMPACT, we had a very special conversation with Natalie Jill. Natalie is a fat loss expert turned high-performance coach. One can also say she is a supermom. But more than that, she is an amazing philosopher that is turning the clock to a different time when it comes to our mindset. Her mission is to tackle these FAT’s, false assumed truths, and reprogram our minds in order to achieve our highest potential. In this conversation, we dive into many different topics regard...

Jun 07, 202243 min

People of Impact with John Jackson - From Prison to a Life of Impact

Evolved Podcasting Juan Daniel Galan 21, May 2022 Show Notes: IMPACT, Ep. 275 From Prisoner to Prison Reformer with John Jackson BRIEF DESCRIPTION: On this week’s episode of IMPACT, we had a very special conversation with a guest who is making tremendous changes in the prison rehabilitation space, John Jackson. John was incarcerated for 18 years in prison, so he shares the details that transpired his tumultuous yet inspiring and heart-warming story and how he uses his traumatic experiences to ma...

May 31, 202242 min

Everything You Need to Know About Long-Haul COVID and other Latent Infections with Dr. Marie Matheson

Dr. Marie is a Naturopathic Doctor and co-founder of BioHeal Ottawa. One can say that she is a health detective for chronic illnesses and diseases. In this episode, we discuss the dangers of long-haul COVID and other latent infections, and how they can be treated effectively through naturopathic treatments. Dr. Marie dives deep into the chronic illnesses and diseases that can transpire after having COVID. There are many things one can do in order to reverse and prevent this from happening. These...

May 24, 202253 min

Uncovering the Keys to Business & NFTs with Lee Richter

On this episode of IMPACT, we had a conversation with entrepreneurial guru, Lee Richter. Lee has been named in the top 100 business leaders for 7 years, as well as the Top 100 fastest growing businesses in the Bay Area. She is a part of the Forbes Business Council and is now making her imprint in the digital space known as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Lee helps us unpack the very complex idea of NFTs and what actually inspired her to cement herself in that arena. Being a successful entrepreneur s...

May 17, 202247 min

Why You Need to do Hard Things with Margaret Floyd Barry

On this episode of IMPACT, we had a very inspiring conversation with Margaret Floyd Barry. Margaret is a functional nutritionist, author, and co-owner of Restorative Wellness Solutions. Margaret is a nutrition guru but also a philosophy guru. The way she conveys her knowledge and wisdom is truly a work of art, so you definitely won’t want to miss this episode. We discuss topics such as the events that transpired that got her into functional nutrition, getting her clients to get on a restrictive ...

May 10, 202253 min

Discussing Key Takeaways from Past Episodes

On this week’s episode of Impact, there were no guests, but still lots of important information to discuss. I wanted to take a different approach on this episode and have a rundown of the key takeaways and ideas from our past episodes. From talking about menopausal health with Dr. Anna Cabeca, to discussing the importance of believing in our intuition with Reef Karim, to the inspiring and meditative app/community, Othership, with Robbie Bent, we talk about it all. Also dived into the conversatio...

May 03, 202224 min

Body: The Importance of Breathwork, Meditation, & Psychedelics with Robbie Bent

On this week’s episode of IMPACT, I had a powerful conversation with crypto, breathwork, and meditation guru, Robbie Bent. Robbie is the founder of the Othership app, an app that teaches people proper and effective breathing techniques, guided meditations, other strategies to control our nervous system, and much much more. Robbie dives deep into the controversial topics of psychedelics and how they can be used to treat trauma we have stored in our bodies since we were children. Something as litt...

Apr 26, 202256 min

Badass: Mad Genius Approach to Ideas with Reef Karim

Today, I am thrilled to speak with Reef Karim, a physician turned TV actor, entrepreneur, and mad genius. Reef talks about his incredible work of helping individuals unlock their deepest state of creativity, and will take you from a place of feeling unexpressed to finding who you are in the most authentic space. Connect with Meghan Walker: Instagram: @drmeghanwalker TikTok: @ drmeghanwalker...

Apr 19, 20221 hr

Business: Marketing the “Non-Squirmy” Way with Katy Prince

Katy Prince is the founder of the Squirm Free School of Business, where she is on a mission to revolutionize the way companies market themselves. In this episode, she’ll teach you how to give people an opportunity to lean into your products or services without feeling any pressure. Katy will also tell her story of leaving social media for good, and will give you all the details on how to spread the word about what you offer without any kind of social media presence. Connect with Meghan Walker: I...

Apr 12, 202254 min
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