In this solo episode, Kit reflects on the last two seasons of Second Spring Podcast. Almost 20 guests joined the conversations around health and wellness for midlife women in their second spring. Kit is curious whether you are inspired to make any shifts in your life after having listened to their stories. If so, what are some tools you can use to ensure that you will not be stuck in overwhelm, create and follow through on some new patterns and habits that will benefit you in the long run. Tune ...
May 28, 2024•31 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Mitle Southey is a former lawyer turned circle facilitator, a teacher and founder of Circle School - a wonderful training platform that helps teach and support wellbeing practitioners to hold inclusive and enriching circles and gatherings for their clients and communities online and in person. Mitle believes in the power of Circle to offer us spaces of collective care and sacred activism, and to contribute meaningfully to our lives and businesses. I am happy to have experienced one of these powe...
May 21, 2024•48 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Laurie Wasserman is a registered dietitian and the founder of Life Hive Nutrition, a multi-location nutrition counseling firm that helps thousands of clients reach their wellness goals. Laurie is an educator; she brings her passion for healthy eating to many large corporations through on and off site lectures and cooking demonstrations. Laurie is also a mother living her second spring chapter! You can find her work at Life Hive Nutrition through the links below: Life Hive Nutrition: https://www....
May 14, 2024•43 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Nan is a fellow certified life coach, a midlife (French) woman, a mother of two living in Paris with her family. We covered so many topics including: How to up-level our life as we age. Why turning 50 is so great for Nan! Aging as seen in the French culture. Why Nan is focusing on muscle building now. Breaking down the Life Coaching model. What is the real definition of happiness anyway? And so much more! Enjoy this fun chat where we emphasized how important it is to both strong in BOTH mind and...
May 07, 2024•47 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Regan Walsh is an executive and life coach, a best selling author of the fabulous memoir Heart Boss. Her purpose is to help women trust their gut and shed their shoulds. Regan is a mom living her Second Spring midlife chapter right here in Columbus, Ohio, just a few miles away from me. I’ve been lucky to have her in my office and I'm so lucky to have her on the podcast today. Regan’s website: https://reganwalsh.com/ Regan’s Book, Heart Boss: https://reganwalsh.com/book/ Regan on Instagram: https...
Apr 30, 2024•38 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Doctor LeTa Jussila is a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and national wellness expert. She helps individuals achieve and maintain their healthcare goals efficiently. Leta is known for her therapeutic Cannabinoid recommendations and her education on topics like Microdosing. She has an in-person practice in Santa Cruz, California, and an online medical practice. Leta was featured in past podcast episodes with Kit here: https://kityoon.libsyn.com/episode-49-chinese-medicine-for-everyday...
Apr 23, 2024•51 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Xen Ayiotis is a mindful and intuitive eating coach who helps women get to the root of their food issues by changing their mindset to find freedom with food and peace with their bodies. Xen is a mother, a wife, a lover of food, and adventures. She is in transition and on the move, currently relocating from South Africa to the Netherlands with her husband. After getting rid of 90% of all their possessions, the empty nesters look forward to finding and creating a new place to call home. Xen’s webs...
Apr 16, 2024•48 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Olivia Mendoza is a breath work facilitator, a women’s circle holder, an intuitive artist. She’s also a self-healer and a proud sober warrior. I met Olivia last fall at a retreat we both attended in England. The first circle we had, Olivia was sitting right next to me and I remember her crying the whole time. Then there was a second day when she didn’t cry at all, but was quietly observing. Then I heard her story and I was obsessed with everything about Olivia! Olivia’s story of a challenging up...
Apr 09, 2024•47 min•Season 2Ep. 3
S1EP2 Marcia Miller Our guest today is known in and around Columbus as the mother of yoga, meditation, reiki, UZIT, and more. Marcia Miller co-founded Yoga On High, a thriving yoga studio that served the Columbus community for decades. In this episodes, you get to hear Marcia’s story of how she found Yoga (or did it find her?) to how it’s guided her to live a fulfilling and purposeful life. Marcia and Kit covered different areas of wellness from the importance of the pause, to listening to our “...
Apr 02, 2024•56 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Welcome to Season 2 of Second Spring Podcast! Kit is happy to be back and sharing a whole new season with you. She gives you an update of what she’s been up to, including how she’s ending her Acupuncture Sabbatical and starting to offer in person acupuncture (and more) sessions again. You will also hear about the plan for this Season which has a theme of wellness for midlife women. Kit goes over what “wellness” actually means and how we will explore it with this season’s guests along with her ow...
Apr 01, 2024•29 min•Season 2Ep. 1
The table gets turned (mostly) to Kit for this final episode of Second Spring Podcast Season 1 when her friend and coach colleague, Caitlin Faas, facilitates the interview! Kit shares how she’s feeling about parenting young adults as an empty nester; some tools that she has found helpful and what she finds challenging in this chapter. You will hear how Kit answered Caitlin’s question: “What do you not want the person in front of you to know about you?” See if she’s having a midlife crisis! You w...
Feb 27, 2024•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 10
Betty Brown is a NAMA - Ayurvedic Practitioner, holistic nurse, and founder of B Well Ayurveda Health Coach. Betty is also a yoga instructor, a mother, an amazing cook, a fellow food & Kimchi lover as well as a fellow Bexley resident. Ayurveda has helped Betty to take charge of her own health. She works with clients to help them feel empowered to make positive changes in their life using the ancient wisdom and medicine of Ayurveda. What is Ayurveda: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-is...
Feb 20, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Kelly Muir is a martial artist, 6th degree Black Belt in karate, 3rd degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. She has been featured in Karate/Kung Fu Illustrated and Black Belt Magazine as a pioneer for women in the Martial Art Industry. Kelly has been a columnist for Black Belt Magazine, writing in the Better Business Column and a contributor to the Personal Defense Network. Kelly was named Black Belt Magazine’s 2012 Woman of the Year. An influential teacher, an entrepreneur, a mother, an author, Kell...
Feb 13, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Cheryl is an award winning interior designer, founder and CEO of Crimson Design Group - a full-service interior design firm offering a range of services to both commercial and residential clients. Through her fearless leadership and steadfast mission, Cheryl has grown her company from a small local business in Columbus, Ohio into an impressive, successful, nationally renowned firm that is dedicated to bringing comfort, inspiration and beauty to her clients’ spaces. She simply (in her words) know...
Feb 06, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Rebecca is a licensed acupuncturist, an herbalist, and a Qi gong teacher. Not long after she moved from California did Rebecca become a very valuable Bexley resident. She’s the vice chair of Green Bexley and has contributed so much to the community, especially around encouraging our town to be more environmentally conscious. Rebecca embodies Chinese medicine in her professional and personal life. She credits it to her vitality and well-being as she feels more energized and healthy now in her ear...
Jan 30, 2024•36 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Dr Melissa Briggs Phillips is a clinical psychologist and leadership consultant. She’s also a teacher, a mom, a Bexley resident, a good friend to many here in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Melissa has spent years leading projects in health care, community development and higher education. She is the founder of her private practice Next Generation Behavioral Health and recently joined Mindset Integrative Ketamine Care as their Psychologist in residence. Weaving her expertise into her work wherever she is, ...
Jan 23, 2024•59 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Dr. Nicole O’Brien is a critical care physician at Nationwide Children’s hospital in Columbus, Ohio. She’s also an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine for the Ohio State University College of Medicine. In 2015, Nicole received the Fulbright Africa Regional Research Program award to work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She’s also received several NIH grants for research related to neurologic diseases in remote regions of Africa. Along with her husband Will O’Brien, Nicole founded Re...
Jan 16, 2024•55 min•Season 1Ep. 4
AJ is a self-taught painter specializing in abstract pointillism. She’s a mother to 3 daughters, a Pacific Northwest native, and a Bexley resident for over a decade. Growing up in a warm and loving family with a brother and her parents, AJ looks back to her childhood with fondness. As she got older, and family dynamics got complicated, including her parents’ divorce, addictions and more, AJ had to find ways to keep herself grounded. In recent years, she lost her parents to health conditions that...
Jan 09, 2024•51 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Welcome to Second Spring Podcast! This is a relaunch of Kit Yoon’s previous podcast, with a new identity and focus. You will hear Kit’s introduction that is broken down into the What, Why and How of Second Spring podcast in its first season. Kit guides you through the concept of Second Spring - a Chinese medicine term for the transition that women go through in midlife. You are invited to partake in the stories and inspirations from the women of Bexley, Ohio in Season 1. Kit also invites you joi...
Jan 02, 2024•8 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Liza Moore is a former lawyer, a midlife mom, a wife, a resident of Bexley, Ohio. After the challenge of her divorce, Liza experienced the unimaginable loss of her oldest daughter, Jadyn. To say that she’s gone through hell and back is an understatement. Liza had been coming to see Kit for healing sessions over several years, for a variety of conditions. But it wasn’t until Liza listened to one podcast that Kit sent to her that her life took a completely different turn and really began to heal. ...
Jan 02, 2024•48 min•Season 1Ep. 2
It’s a true welcome back to your favorite podcast! After a few weeks of the hiatus and the Unraveling Experiment , we are delighted to share with you one of the most fun and powerful conversations this season. In today’s episode, Kit discusses with the one and only Evelyn Tribole, the cofounder of the Intuitive Eating (IE) movement, how to unlearn diet culture, enjoy and have a healthy relationship with food, and ultimately, come home to yourself. The conversation unravels so many things, from t...
Apr 27, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 68
“It is time to listen to my body and my innervoice!” Kit Yoon This week’s episode is taking it to a different level. Today, it’s just you and Kit. Our host is sharing personal things, considering her health and mindset, and all about a new experiment – the UNRAVELING. More specifically, you’ll find out the reason Kit is taking a break, how recent podcast guests inspired Kit to follow the nudges and listen to her inner voice. Above all, this episode has an array of important questions, which can ...
Mar 17, 2021•31 min•Ep. 67
In this week's podcast, Kit chats Dana Evans, a fellow inner voice facilitator and coach. Dana helps people take action from their nudge, connect with their inner voices, and restore the feelings and energy by doing – absolutely nothing!? “Even when people aren’t busy, the energy is busy.” Dana Evans You'll hear and learn about the SLOTH EXPERIMENT, the specs of human design, why the mind is the one that keeps us limited, and how to get through anxiety and depression while coming back to yoursel...
Mar 15, 2021•49 min•Ep. 66
In today’s episode, Kit welcomes Cathi du Puy, a professional home organizer who helps people get their space uncluttered, so it helps them live the healthiest life. Creating calm on the inside creates calm on the outside, as our guest explains. Stay tuned as you will find out about du Puy’s background, when she started doing “organizing magic” and turned her hobby into a business. Learn which items serve a purpose in your life, how difficult it is to replace them, and where the difference betwe...
Mar 08, 2021•49 min•Ep. 65
In today's episode, Kit chats Brett Kaufman, a founder, CEO, and philanthropist in Columbus, Ohio. Tune in to see how Brett introduces himself, how he chooses to live his life, and how he views success. Brett also shares routines that allow him to remain honest with himself and start every new day with a positive mindset and end each one with gratitude. Find out his remarkable story and how he learned to align his personal and professional purpose for a well balanced life. For show notes, please...
Mar 01, 2021•59 min•Ep. 64
In today's episode, Kit shares her quarantine experience which happened to coincide with Chinese New Year 2021. Learn the two important things that she got to do with the unexpected at home time. It's like she got to start the new year over again! And you can, too! Tune in to find out what happened and what you can do to maximize your Year of the Yin Metal Ox. For Show notes, please go to: https://kityoon.com/yearofmetalox/...
Feb 22, 2021•24 min•Ep. 63
In today's episode, Kit talks with her former trainer, Ben VanTreese. Ben is a founder of Off the Mountain Strength. Tune in to this episode and you will see why it's good to have millennials on your team to inspire you to create that work-life balance where success and fun and coexist. Ben shares how he helps his clients take care of their bodies, what workouts are good for beginners as well as pro athletes, and how he structures his days to include work and fun... and much more! For show notes...
Feb 15, 2021•50 min•Ep. 62
"If you love the person you are with, you will never feel alone." Chan Hemintranont In today's episode, Kit chats with her friend Chan Hemintranont who was ending her 14-day quarantine in a Bangkok hotel as protocol to enter Thailand. Kit was so impressed at how much Chan was enjoying her alone time, and wanted to hear her secrets to being comfortable with herself for an extended period. Find out how Chan prepared herself, her takeaways and suggestions that are valuable regardless of where you a...
Feb 08, 2021•26 min•Ep. 61
In today's episode, Kit talks with Tennis Coach Al Matthews. Al has been teaching tennis to young athletes for decades. As you will see, he doesn't just prepare them for the sport, but for life. This engaging conversation digs deep, and asks many questions that can lead to the ultimate question: what do we really want from life? Tune into today's episode and learn how to interpret your behavior to understand yourself better. Learn why the majority of people in modern society go through life with...
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 60
In today's episode, Kit goes over her 5-day mini-course on intuitive eating she had just offered. "Trust Your Gut" touched on the foundations of intuitive eating. During the course, Kit linked the ten intuitive eating principles to the importance of our ability to literally, trust our gut. Tune in to hear about the origins of intuitive eating, how to take care of your body, respect it, and make it a peaceful and healthy place to live in. In short, Trust Your Gut helps us wake up, escape diet cul...
Jan 25, 2021•32 min•Ep. 59
