Welcome back! This week we have Dr. Gary Lewandowski with us and we are chatting all about his eye-opening new book, Stronger than you Think: The 10 Blind Spots That Undermine Your Relationship...and How to See Past Them . Gary shares the story of how he decided to pursue a career in psychology and eventually to focus on love and relationships. We hear his thoughts on classic dating rules and some of the biggest misconceptions people have about dating and relationships. A few topics we cover: Ho...
Feb 08, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 40
This week's minisode is all about how to know if a relationship is right for you. You know those early stages in a relationship when you aren't sure how to know if something is a red flag or a green flag? Carleigh & Mia both give their advice from their own personal experience and break down some signs that someone is or isn't "the one". We start with some red flags that may indicate you should walk away, and then end the episode with some of our favorite ways of recognizing when someone IS ...
Feb 05, 2021•14 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Welcome back! This week we are joined by Brooke Cates, founder of The Bloom Method - the most cutting-edge pre & postnatal fitness method. The Bloom Method is a blend of functional strength training, low-intensity interval training, cardio sweat sessions, daily re-patterning and pregnancy + post pregnancy core-specific moves meant to arm women with valuable tools that prepare them for birth and help prevent pregnancy-related injuries. The Bloom Method is meant for women who are trying to con...
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 38
In this week's minisode, Mia is interviewing Carleigh about emotionally toxic relationships - how to identify them and how to move on. Toxic relationships can be extremely difficult to identify, especially while you are in them, and our hope is that you will benefit from hearing our experiences and be better equipped to navigate your relationships. Toxicity is not only found in romantic relationships, but also in friendships, in the workplace, and with family members. We break down some of the s...
Jan 28, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Welcome back! This week we sit down with Zoia Kozakov to chat about her journey from serving in the Israeli army to pursuing a career in fashion and working at NY Fashion week, and eventually landing a lead role in product development at Citi. Zoia has worked hard to get where she is today and she takes pride in giving back to the community. She’s a global marketing lead at the global non-profit, Women in Innovation, focused on closing the gender-gap. Zoia opens up about what it was like moving ...
Jan 25, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 36
Welcome to our first minisode! Every Thursday we will be releasing a shorter, solo episode on a relevant topic in our lives or that has come up in our community. This week, we are turning the tables and interviewing Mia about moving in with your SO. Carleigh asks all the tough questions like how to keep the spark alive, what conversations you need to have before hand, and so much more. Hope you enjoy the episode! As always, find us on Instagram @mostly_balanced and on our blog . Thanks for joini...
Jan 21, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Welcome back! Today we're chatting with Elizabeth Endres and Dale Borchiver of Sweats and the City - everyone's go-to health, wellness, and class review destination. They share the story of how Sweats and the City came to be and how they grew it into what it is today. We also get to hear all about their new online workout platform, Sweat with Sweats, where they are truly cultivating a sense of community through virtual fitness. E&D open up about their journey as entrepreneurs and about why t...
Jan 18, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Welcome back! Today we're getting a digestible rundown on all things astrology from Amy Lauren Greenfield, healer, coach, and astrologer. Amy shares her story of how learning to read her own astrology chart helped her find her own true identity and how she uses this tool among many others to help people through 1:1 coaching and healing. If you've ever looked up your astrology chart, you know there are a LOT of moving pieces. Amy gives us an easy to follow breakdown of so many different aspects o...
Jan 11, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Welcome back! Today we have Colleen Wachob, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Mindbodygreen, lifestyle media brand dedicated to inspiring you to live your best life through a 360-degree approach to wellness. Mindbodygreen has been a huge resource for us when it comes to learning about all different areas of “wellness”. In addition to the company’s media platform, mindbodygreen now offers functional nutrition coaching, thousands of wellness classes, and nutritional supplements that TRULY work. Colleen is ...
Jan 04, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Welcome back! We’re closing 2020 with a bang with our favorite food blogger, content creator, podcast host, and cookbook author, RACHEL MANSFIELD. We’ve been making Rachel’s recipes for years, and talking to her was an absolute dream! She opens up about her experience getting fired from her corporate job and deciding to pursue her blog/Instagram full time, building it on her own from the ground up. We learn more about her current and previous pregnancy and birth story, and hear about Rachel’s fa...
Dec 28, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Welcome back! This episode is all about Female empowerment and turning your dreams into reality. CHRISTIE HORAN is a fitness instructor, choreographer, former NBA dancer, and our new favorite hype-woman. She's bursting with positive energy in the most genuine and uplifting way! She opens up about her journey to becoming a dancer for the Washington Wizards, what it was like traveling the world and dancing professionally, and how she balanced dancing, working, self care, and her relationship, and ...
Dec 21, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Welcome back! This week we're chatting with STEFANIE CAPONI, astrologer, tarot reader, author, illustrator, and creator of Moon Void Tarot. You may have also seen her on Well + Good or Refinery29 . This episode is packed with SO much information on astrology and tarot reading. Stefanie is an expert in "sextrology" and she breaks down exactly what to look for in your astrological chart to help you navigate your relationships. She also dives into which signs are most compatible with each other, ho...
Dec 07, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Welcome back! This week we're getting all the workout motivation from MARYKATE SCHMIDT, founder of Movement by MK (formerly Froyo to Fitness). MaryKate has build an incredible, dedicated community through Instagram and her Zoom workouts that has continued to grow over the last few months with everyone working from home. MaryKate tells us about her own weight loss journey and how she eventually found movement as a form of medicine. She talks about the importance of balance and how she's changed h...
Nov 30, 2020•54 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Welcome back! This week we’re chatting with Bethany Holmes, holistic health coach, reiki healer, trauma survivor and the creator of The Healthy B. As a holistic health coach, Bethany focuses on helping people who have gone through health traumas or who have chronic health conditions to manage their own health and take care of themselves. On today's episode she opens up about her experience with a brain injury that led her to an emergency brain surgery that changed her life and her mindset and ev...
Nov 23, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Welcome back! This week we have NICOLE RUTSCH joining us to talk about all things reiki, energy healing, childhood trauma, and calling in the life you desire. Nicole tells us all about her experience moving from Germany to America after High School and how she hustled her way through New York City. She shares her own journey of finding her authentic self and healing from trauma. We also talk about how she manifested her divine partnership and how her lifestyle has changed since she started truly...
Nov 16, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 26
This week we’re talking all about love languages. We give some background on Gary Chapman’s book, The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts , and break each of them down for you. We share what our own love languages are and how our relationships have changed since we started to understand the five different types. We give real life examples and advice on how to pick up on your significant other's love language, and things you can do from there to make your relationship better. And you ...
Nov 11, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Welcome back! This week we’re chatting with our favorite spiritual guide, Akashic records reader and breath work specialist KRISTA RAUSCHENBERG. We’ve both been lucky enough to receive Krista’s guidance over the past year and we’ve seen firsthand the benefits of her breath work and her ability to access the Akashic records. Krista explains what the Akashic records are, how she first found them, and how she uses them to help heal and guide her clients. We also discuss the importance of breath wor...
Nov 02, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 24
This week we’re joined by MARY BETH BARONE, comedian and creator/host of Drag His Ass: A F***boy Treatment Program. Mary Beth tells us how to spot a f***boy, and what to do when you realize you’re dating one. She dives deep into red flags and her own personal experience going f***boy free, complete with relapses and all. We also dive into the burning questions of “can you change a f***boy?” and why men choose this behavior. You can (& should) find Mary Beth on Instagram @marybethbarone &...
Oct 26, 2020•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 23
This week we are joined by THE BEYONCE OF HUMAN DESIGN, AYCEE BROWN. Aycee is a psychic channel, a human design reader, spiritual guide and an entrepreneur. She has her very own podcast, "Is my Aura on Straight?" which we LOVE! Aycee shares her journey of how she first realized she was psychic from a young age, how she found Human Design, and how she eventually started to use these modalities to help people. Aycee has really made Human design her own, using her own intuitive gifts in her reading...
Oct 19, 2020•54 min•Season 1Ep. 22
We’re back for another solo episode! This week we're re-introducing ourselves and diving deep with each other into some of our favorite topics to cover with guests! We cover: what a typical day looks like for each of us, our favorite methods of self care, what workouts we're loving, and how our routines have changed a bit in the last few months. As always, find us on Instagram @mostly_balanced and on our blog . What we tried this week: Carleigh's Pick: B.T.R Bar superfood protein bars - fav flav...
Oct 12, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 21
We are so excited for this episode! This week we are chatting with KELLY CHASE. You might know Kelly from Netflix's hit reality show, LOVE IS BLIND, which took the world by storm in the first few weeks of quarantine, but Kelly is also a hugely successful mindset coach and truly inspired us with her own story of personal development. We hear about what led her to Love is Blind, all about her dating history before the show, and how her dating mindset has shifted since then. Kelly opens up about wh...
Oct 05, 2020•59 min•Season 1Ep. 20
This week we're chatting all things witchy with KELLEY KNIGHT of Modern Mystic Shop in Atlanta. Kelley is an intuitive guide, tarot reader and new author of the highly anticipated Spells for the Modern Mystic (coming out TOMORROW, 9/29). Kelley is the most down to earth psychic we've ever met and she tells it like it is. She opens up about waking up to her intuition in her mid-20s, "coming out" to her family about her abilities, and how she made things like tarot and witchcraft more mainstream w...
Sep 28, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 19
This week we are chatting ALL about dating with professional matchmaker, TALIA GOLDSTEIN. After working a corporate job, Talia followed her true calling and became founder of the extremely successful matchmaking company, Three Day Rule. Talia gives us an inside look at what makes two people a “perfect match” and the behind the scenes process of how she matches her clients. We also talk about bad first date behavior and how we could all benefit from slowing down on the swiping. To learn more abou...
Sep 21, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Welcome back! This week we are joined by JASON LOEBIG and BRET GORNIK, founders of LIVE BETTER. Live better is a Chicago-based wellness company focused on helping people across the country make every day their best day ever. Jason and Bret share the story of how they got started in the Wellness industry and what led them to eventually go into business together. We also chat about how to navigate relationships, friendships and family life with people who are not as immersed in the health & we...
Sep 14, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 17
This week, we are joined by ABBY GIANNUZZI, founder of Siren Snacks. Abby shares with us the path that led her and her sister to start their own business. Siren Snacks started as a healthy snack they made for themselves to enjoy and then quickly grew into a buzz-worthy product that's now sold in the most mainstream stores across the country. In this episode, we really dive deep into all the things that went into building a successful company like this from the ground up and what it's like starti...
Sep 07, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 16
This week we are joined by GIDEON AKANDE, two-time Chicago Golden Gloves champion, Men's Health Top Trainer, NordicTrack & iFit Trainer, Founding Instructor at ShadowBox Chicago and the face behind one of our favorite motivational Fitness and Wellness accounts, @GetFitWithGiddy . We're chatting with Giddy about the role fitness has played in his life and how/why he decided to make the jump from his corporate career to follow his passion into the fitness industry 10 years ago, sharing step by...
Aug 31, 2020•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 15
This week we are chatting with KOLBY OURADA and ALEX ORTON, founders of Haven Holistic Health in Chicago. Kolby and Alex talk about their paths to becoming naturopathic doctors and eventually deciding to build their own practice together. We open up about our own experiences with viewing our bodies and our health holistically and the importance of treating the cause rather than the symptom. Later in the episode we dive deep into Alex & Kolby’s thoughts on hormonal birth control and how your ...
Aug 24, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 14
We’re back for another solo episode! Our last relationship-focused episode (E6) only scratched the surface, so today we are diving deep into our own personal experiences and what we’ve learned from them. We’re talking about everything from red flags and first date fails to gaslighting and getting out of unhealthy or unfulfilling relationships. We’re no experts, just two girls who have learned a lot from 10+ years of dating experience AND from each other. We hope you love this week’s solo episode...
Aug 10, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 13
This week, we are joined by SARI DISKIN, content creator and the face behind one of our favorite healthy food blogs, Eat Well With Sari. Sari chats with us about her background in advertising, her early inklings on the importance of Instagram in the food industry, how she left her corporate career to pursue her true passion, and ultimately developed her own brand. We talk about imposter syndrome and the importance of self confidence in the blogging space, and about how to stay balanced and set b...
Aug 03, 2020•59 min•Season 1Ep. 12
This week, we are joined by OLIVIA AMATO, a beloved Peloton bike & tread instructor who has built a huge following and a loyal team (and she is one of Mia's best friends!). Olivia opens up about originally being on the track to become a successful trader on Wall Street, but making a drastic change to enter the fitness scene by storm. Olivia gets real about how challenging that shift was, but how it was the best decision she ever made. We talk about her experience being on screen in thousands...
Jul 27, 2020•56 min•Season 1Ep. 11
