In this soothing and insightful episode of the Beautiful Grit Podcast, Kristen Caissie, founder of Moon Canyon Healing, explores the deep connection between nature and personal transformation. Kristen shares her beautiful and gritty journey of building a floral design business, making the bold shift into studying herbal medicine, and blending somatic work into her holistic healing art that reveals how plants, rituals, and rhythms of the earth can guide us back to ourselves. She offers wisdom on ...
Mar 11, 2025•1 hr 1 min
This week I sat down with psychological astrologer Danielle Beinstein to explore the cosmic landscape of 2025. Together, we dive into spiritual psychology spiritual bypass, using the human experience to access divinity, astrological transits, planetary shifts, and energetic themes shaping the year ahead and beyond in years to come. In the episode learn about: Major planetary movements and their impact on global and personal transformation How Saturn, Pluto, and Uranus will influence societal str...
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 14 min
This week’s guest is Dr. Ashley Beckman, a doctor of Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture, board certified acupuncturist and herbalist, Functional Medicine practitioner, and epigenetics expert in Los Angeles. She received her doctorate in Healthy Aging and Longevity and wrote her thesis on epigenetics and the study of how our genes are affected by our diet and lifestyle. Over the last ten years as an acupuncturist at Dr. Soram Khalsa’s busy Functional Medicine practice in Beverly Hills, Dr. Ashley p...
Feb 05, 2025•30 min
Tami Lynn Kent is a women’s health physical therapist, founder of the original method of Holistic Pelvic Care™ for women, and author of Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit & Joy in the Female Body, Wild Creative, and Wild Mothering. Tami is a true practitioner, teacher, mentor and guide who is in awe of the potential in our female bodies and passionate about cultivating this vibrant energy that’s meant to run through all aspects of a woman’s life. In the episode Tami shares how she began her wo...
Jan 07, 2025•50 min
This week I sat down with Kate Hinkens, founder of The Sting Lab, which is a center for bee venom therapy and research and Kate is an expert in the bee venom therapy field. In the episode, Kate shares her story of a debilitating and mysterious illness as a child, again in teen years and again after graduating college and working as a professional. She was finally diagnosed with late, chronic stage Lyme in 2019. Despite pursuing intensive treatments, both western and alternative, Kate’s health co...
Jan 02, 2025•53 min
Dr. Anoop Kumar realized from a near death like experience in medical school that our healthcare system was deeply flawed and sought to provide a solution to bridge the science of consciousness with Western Medicine. Dr. Kumar is a Board-Certified Emergency Medicine physician, holds a Masters in Management with a focus in Health Leadership. Through reflecting on his childhood that was centered in nature, organic food and remedies, spirituality and consciousness, and experiencing how flawed our m...
Dec 13, 2024•50 min
In this heartfelt episode of the Beautiful Grit, Gwen Dittmar welcomes Jami Crist, author of The Losses We Keep. Together, Gwen and Jami dive into the transformative power of group coaching for women, letting go of the old ways of operating as women in order to step into true alignment, pregnancy loss, the grief and challenges women experience and hold, and exploring how grief can shape our lives in unexpected and profound ways. Jami Crist shares her deeply personal journey of navigating repeate...
Dec 06, 2024•40 min
Dan Regan is a personal growth consultant, teacher, speaker and guide. His specializes in the inner work and shadows with his clients and as a Gene Keys Ambassador, Dan helps individuals unlock the wisdom within their genetic blueprint, fostering profound self-awareness, emotional healing, and personal growth. With a deep understanding of this unique synthesis of ancient wisdom and modern science, Dan empowers others to explore their shadows, activate their innate gifts, and align with their hig...
Nov 26, 2024•1 hr 1 min
In this episode, Amy Southorn of Root Cause Healing, bridges the worlds of science and spirituality to shed light on chronic fatigue, mold toxicity, and Lyme disease. With a rich blend of evidence-based insights and intuitive wisdom, Amy shares her personal healing journey and offers guidance for navigating these complex health challenges. Amy shares about the science and somatic factors of chronic fatigue like mitochondrial dysfunction, immune imbalances, and systemic inflammation play a role, ...
Nov 21, 2024•1 hr 9 min
This week’s guest, Heather Rebecca Wilson, is a Trauma-informed Leadership Mentor, astro-ancestral healing guide, Embodied Empowerment Coach, Speaker, and Intuitive Empath. Inspired by her own lived experience and ancestral healing journey to dismantle internalized oppression, she empowers forward-thinking individuals and organizations to embody transformation of deep cultural programming and conditioning and shifts to higher levels of consciousness to rediscover empathy and connection for a mor...
Nov 12, 2024•56 min
Alyse Bacine, founder of Alyse Breathes, specializes in dissolving childhood relational and ancestral trauma, helping you discover your deeper purpose, and guiding you to build a successful business or life that aligns with your soul's calling. Alyse combines decades of experience in the mental health field, breathwork, trauma healing, and business coaching to lead you toward creating the long-lasting results you desire. In the episode Gwen and Alyse discuss the journey of having other careers p...
Nov 05, 2024•51 min
Ronit Menashe and Vida Delrahim of WeNatal dive into how their personal experiences with loss and fertility struggles led them to redefine prenatal care with a holistic, partnership-focused approach. In this episode, the WeNatal co-founders emphasize the importance of preparing both men and women for conception, introducing the concept of "trimester zero," a period of proactive health steps taken in the months before conception. They share how men’s sperm quality plays a critical role in fertili...
Oct 29, 2024•52 min
Sarah Shealy, a seasoned nurse, midwife and menopause expert, shares why she left the path of medical school for midwifery. and now a menopausal expert. From perimenopause to post-menopause, Sarah offers a virtual practice, speaking, practical advice, expert insights, and compassionate support for women navigating these life changes. Through her own journey of a host of health issues and hospitalizations, Sarah discovered the connection between her challenges was hormonal imbalances of perimenop...
Oct 23, 2024•1 hr 11 min
Jasmine Khorsandi, the founder of Sonobreast, is this week’s guest on the Beautiful Grit Podcast. Jasmine is here to discuss a revolutionary approach to breast cancer detection and the limitations of traditional mammograms. Sonobreast focuses on automated breast ultrasound (ABUS), a technology Khorsandi champions as a safer, more effective alternative, especially for women with dense breast tissue. In the episode you’ll learn about the limitations of mammograms while widely used, are often less ...
Oct 16, 2024•49 min
In this week's episode, we hear from Emily Sadri, NP, a seasoned midwife who had four children and then transitioned into a nurse practitioner after completing her degree, to focus on the care of perimenopausal women. Emily shares how her years of experience in midwifery provided her with a strong foundation in women's health, emphasizing physical as well as metaphysical approaches to caring for women. As someone who had children later in life and moved into perimenopause during postpartum, Emil...
Oct 08, 2024•48 min
In this enlightening episode, with Dr. Suzanne Gilberg- Lenz, Board Certified OB GYN + Integrative Medicine Practitioner, author and creator of Menopause Bootcamp joins us for this next season on women’s health. Dr. Suzanne shares her expertise and her own personal experience of moving through perimenopause and now menopause with us. In this episode we explore the benefits of HRT, including how it can support women in alleviating the myriad of symptoms and improve their quality of life. The conv...
Oct 01, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Lisa Gainsley is a celebrity coveted Lymphatic Drainage Specialist, Author, Educator, Speaker and Podcast Host. Lisa has worked with people with every condition under the sun including bloating, weight gain, inflammation, migraines, anxiety, cancer, lupus, lyme, digestion disorders and acne. The benefits of lymphatic drainage include glowing skin, a calmer nervous system, better brain function and less inflammation & puffiness. Lisa has been working with the lymphatic system for 30 years and cur...
Dec 20, 2023•1 hr
In today’s podcast episode, Meredith Oke shares about cutting edge research and science of light, biology and physics with tools on how to implement these findings in practical and doable ways in everyday life. Through the powerful message of her personal journey of feeling extreme, debilitating fatigue and uncertainty as to what was causing it, Meredith gives to hope to so many individuals and practitioners that do not know what is causing collective stress, irritability and exhaustion. During ...
Dec 08, 2023•56 min
Lori Bregman is a renowned doula, author, and wellness and empowerment coach. In this raw episode Lori shares about a series of mystical events, and her own rebirthing experience, that delivered her to the embodied profession of being a doula. Through shifting from massage therapist into a coach, healer and space holder for women, Lori tells us the pivotal opportunity she and her clients have in creating a portal for a mother and baby coming into this world. By integrating spirit and science, Lo...
Dec 01, 2023•53 min
This week's episode is with Dr. Sam Harte discussing addiction to perfectionism, control, alcohol, and how that shows up in our partnerships and marriages, and the relationship with ourselves. I am so excited to share this RAW and REAL podcast episode on a week that you might find family triggering some of your deepest wounds, aka opportunities for love. Dr. Samantha Harte, whose expertise spans from physical therapy and personal training to life coaching, nutrition consulting, choreographing an...
Nov 21, 2023•1 hr 1 min
This is a podcast episode you do not want to miss. Elizabeth Ralph is a high-level wealth strategist and intuitive investor who retired at the age of 39 in order to teach others how to reach financial freedom through non-traditional ways. Formerly a financial executive and energy trader, Elizabeth shifted her focus entirely in 2012 in order to fulfil her purpose of saving unwanted horses. She knew she needed to break free from the confines of corporate world and set up a strategy to achieve fina...
Nov 09, 2023•57 min
In this episode we are diving into a common challenge that many people face: repeating patterns in their lives and the frustration that comes with feeling stuck. We'll explore strategies and insights to help client Stephanie break free from these patterns and make meaningful changes in their life. Step 1 is to identifying the repeating pattern. Step 2 is to understand the why, and more importantly, where the pattern first started. Step 3 is to bring self-compassion and apply self-forgiveness to ...
Oct 26, 2023•34 min
In this insightful podcast episode, we delve into the life of Leslie, a corporate executive who is striving to find stability and alignment on their career path while overcoming the fears associated with making significant changes. Raised by a single mother and now a single mom themselves, this individual has spent their entire career in the corporate world and has ventured into training and certifications, experiencing a rollercoaster of uncertainty and transitions. The episode explores the des...
Oct 10, 2023•29 min
In this podcast episode, we follow Rachel's challenges and triumphs and path to gaining a deeper understanding of herself and finding the confidence to make life-altering decisions. The episode kicks off by introducing Rachel and her desire to attain clarity in her personal and professional life. Gwen guides Rachel through processing, somatic and breathwork healing techniques for self-reflection, uncovering the core beliefs that get in the way, and through releasing the misbelief comes clarity. ...
Oct 05, 2023•30 min
As a former professional dancer and Strictly Come Dancing winner, Camilla Sacre-Dallerup is the queen of reinvention. Now as a motivational speaker, hypnotherapist and mindful living coach,Camilla Sacre-Dallerup is the author of three books, Dream Believe Succeed, It’s Not You It’s Me, and Reinvent Me, and an app that is coming soon, provides a 7-System Mind Method which provides a complete approach to healing the subconscious mind, limitations, and raises your vibration from zero to hero. In th...
Sep 20, 2023•49 min
Dr. Jill Crista is a Naturopathic Doctor, an acclaimed author of Break the Mold and Light in the Dark, and she specializes in neuro-inflammatory conditions such as mold, Lyme, EBV, Parasites, Heavy Metal Detox, MCAS, PANDAS/PANS, and brain injury. Not only does Dr. Jill bring scientific knowledge and evidence-based success to her patients and students, but personal acumen to the burdens of healing these conditions creates in our bodies, to our families, friends, homes, and finances. In the episo...
Sep 12, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Dr. Christian Gonzalez, aka Dr. G, completed his Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine at the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine in 2014. During his time there, he took interest in many fields of medicine, but it wasn’t until his mother passed of cancer that he decided to shift his focus to oncology and completed his residency at the Cancer Treatment Center of America in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was then that he realized that cancer was not simply nutritional or exercis...
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Professional tarot reader, psychic, author and mentor, Kate Van Horn, is on the podcast this week. She tells the story about discovering tarot reading during the pandemic and the beautiful grit of writing her book. This leads to a discussion on the importance of being able to shift your business focus as a solo entrepreneur and being in alignment with your value Throughout the podcast, Kate and Gwen touch on the similarities and differences between breathwork and tarot reading. They also chat ab...
Aug 02, 2023•47 min
Sena Maria is here to increase our capacity for resilience through micro-healing. As a Re-Mineralizer, Wellness Explorer, and Root Cause Protocol Consultant, she believes that minerals are the language of evolution and that the mineral realms are powerful allies to our collective returning to the simple, natural joy of being alive. Sena’s career at Google and her subsequent studies of yoga, energy healing, shamanism, plant medicine, tools for building emotional capacity and integration, and the ...
Jul 12, 2023•51 min
Samson Odusanya is a transformation guide and teacher who helps people feel alive. In the episode, Samson shares about his journey with the divine masculine and how that has impacted his marriage. He also shares about breathwork, spirituality, emotional awareness and resilience, and how Human Design has changed his parenting, partnership, work, and self-awareness. In the episode, Samson describes what it is like to have an Emotional Authority in Human Design as well as practical ways knowing his...
Jul 06, 2023•1 hr 9 min
