Today, my guest is the amazing Josh Peck. You might recognize Josh from the many movies and TV shows he’s been in, including The Wackness with Ben Kingsley, Red Dawn with Chris Hemsworth, his regular guest starring role on The Mindy Project, and more recently in How I Met Your Father, and of course, he starred as the Josh of the title in the Nickelodeon phenomenon Drake & Josh. He also shares incredibly funny content on social media, where he has more than 32 million followers across platfor...
Mar 09, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 103
My guest today is the amazing Logan Ury. Logan is a Harvard-educated behavioral scientist turned dating coach, and the Director of Relationship Science at the dating app Hinge, where she leads a research team dedicated to helping people find love. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, GQ, Glamour, and on HBO and the BBC. She was a featured speaker at SXSW 2021, and her book, How Not To Die Alone, is absolutely phenomenal, a really science-backed, totally unique approach to d...
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 102
I was excited to welcome Dr. Heather Moday to the podcast. Dr. Moday is an Allergist and Immunologist, Integrative and Functional Medicine Physician who received her Medical degree from Tulane Medical School in New Orleans before doing her her residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Allergy and Immunology at the Montefiore/Albert Einstein Medical center in In New York City. She completed a fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the Arizona Center of Integrative Medicine, is a certified...
Feb 23, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 101
For my 100th episode, Zack asks me YOUR questions. We get and honest about: my full career journey, including how Hootie and Blowfish jump started my career and my full path to becoming a magazine editor in NYC my hair, skin, and supplement routines the things I’ve learned from the podcast that have changed my life the most the best and worse parts of nomad life the biggest challenges and perks of being an entrepreneur I would LOVE to hear from you any thoughts you have as you’re listening, so d...
Feb 16, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 100
My guest is Marianna Hewitt, and you can probably tell from the interview, but I’m SUCH a fan of hers. She’s the founder of Summer Fridays, an amazing skincare brand and a mega influencer with over a million followers on Instagram. She also has her own podcast called Life with Marianna, which is one of my faves. how her childhood split between Europe and the US shaped her personality the best beauty and wellness secrets she learned from her time in Europe what she’s learned from having parents t...
Feb 09, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 99
My guest today is Dr. Anna Lembke, professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic and author of the instant New York Times best seller Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence.On this episode, we talk about: what dopamine is and what it does in your body why you don’t necessarily want to raise your dopamine levels (despite what pop science leads you to believe) how the way our brain is wired is...
Feb 02, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 98
My guest today is Jamie Varon, an amazing writer, designer, digital course creator, and creative consultant whose work has been featured in Huffington Post, Teen Vogue, and many other outlets. Her first book, Radically Content: Being Satisfied in an Endlessly Dissatisfied World, comes out in April. On this episode, we talk about: why we’re all so dissatisfied—and exactly what to do about it an exact plan for feeling better about your relationship with social media (without eliminating it from yo...
Jan 26, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 97
My guest today is the amazing Dr. Berzin, founder and CEO of Parsley Health. She attended medical school at Columbia University and trained in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, and has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Tech Pioneer, named as one of the 100 Most Innovative Women in Business by Inc. Magazine, and praised by Fast Company for founding one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Her new book, State Change, is available wherever books are sol...
Jan 19, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 96
My guest today is the lovely Jessie Inchauspe, founder of @glucosegoddess and the author of the upcoming Glucose Revolution. On this episode, she shares: how managing glucose can impact things like PCOS, fertility, aging, energy, gut health, and more why blood sugar impacts your weight as much if not MORE than calories the one food you can eat before any meal to mitigate glucose spikes (no matter what you’re eating!) how the order you eat food impacts your blood sugar curve why you actually SHOU...
Jan 12, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 95
My guest today is the incredible Chris Bailey, the best-selling author of The Productivity Project and Hyperfocus, and the host of the Time & Attention podcast. On this episode, he shares: a simple trick to decide what to be productive about and prioritize every day how to balance prioritizing what you WANT to do every day and what you HAVE to do every day how to build a better morning routine how your self talk is hurting your productivity—and how to change it the best time of day to wake u...
Jan 05, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 94
My guest today is Megan Roup. Megan is the founder of The Sculpt Society, one of my personal favorite ways to workout. On this episode, we talk about: her best tips for aspiring entrepreneurs, including mindset shifts and super actionable solutions how to have a side hustle without getting burnt out what no one tells you about starting your own business the pregnancy & postpartum struggles no one talks about how she knew she wanted to have a baby exactly how she dealt with body struggles &am...
Dec 22, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 93
Today I’m sharing the 21 things that changed my life the most in 2021. I hope they resonate and help you as we move into 2022! PS: My very first product is live!!! Go to htdeck.com to snag your Healthier Together Deck, which has 150 conversation starters in 6 categories! It’s the perfect holiday gift for friends, family members, romantic partners, co-workers…or, of course, yourself. Find out more at htdeck.com—this is a self-funded limited run and these will sell out!! PS: My Patreon is live! Yo...
Dec 15, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 92
My guest today is the amazing Dr. Megan Rossi, a registered dietitian and nutritionist, with a PhD in gut health and a research fellowship at King’s College London. She’s the author of the internationally best-selling book Love Your Gut and the founder of the wildly popular website theguthealthdoctor.com and the @theguthealthdoctor Instagram page. On this episode, we talk about: The number one way to support your microbiome, even during times of more indulgence What actually causes bloating—and ...
Dec 08, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 91
Welcome back to our annual holiday gift guide, where I share my favorite wellness products and experiences of 2021! You can find the full list of links for everything I talk about in this episode at lizmoody.com/2021-holiday-gift-guide. PS: My very first product is live!!! Go to htdeck.com to snag your Healthier Together Deck, which has 150 conversation starters in 6 categories! It’s the perfect holiday gift for friends, family members, romantic partners, co-workers…or, of course, yourself. Find...
Dec 01, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 90
Today’s episode is all about overcoming fear of flying, which has been one of my personal biggest fears FOREVER. I have two guests today—Melissa Tiers, a multi-award winning author, lecturer and international hypnosis trainer specializing in practical neuroscience for clinicians, and Patrick Smith, the best-selling author of Ask the Pilot books and a practicing pilot for a major US airline. My hope is that between the two of them, we’re really attacking a fear of flying from all angles, and that...
Nov 24, 2021•2 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 89
We’re back with another edition of healthy cooking secrets, and this one is holiday themed. We get into every aspect of having a happier, healthier holiday, including: ALL the tips to make cooking holiday meals less overwhelming the best entertaining secrets, including genius menu planning advice, exactly how to time your food, and the one thing that will make any party memorable super pragmatic tips to make entertaining WAY less stressful tools for dealing with anxiety during the holiday season...
Nov 17, 2021•1 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 88
Today is all about my nose job! I’m 3 weeks out from surgery, and I wanted to share with you all of the normally not-talked about details. I invited Zack on to get his view on taking care of me, plastic surgery and more, and I also answered all of YOUR questions. We talk about: Why I decided to get a nose job How I chose a good doctor How I prepped for surgery What no one shares about recovery The most useful things I bought that helped me get through the first few weeks How much it cost What Za...
Nov 10, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 87
I’m so excited to welcome Vanessa Marin to the pod! Vanessa is a licensed psychotherapist with 20 years of experience in the sex therapy field. On this episode, we talk about: what a sex therapist is and exactly what they help with how to overcome shame around sex or types of sexual activities how to feel more confident (and body confident!!) during sex exactly how to navigate conversations about what you want sexually both early in a relationship and later down the line what to when your partne...
Nov 03, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 86
We’re taking a bit of a left turn today with an episode I am personally VERY excited about, which is all about How To Look Cute. Basically, this year, I realized how little my clothes reflected or conveyed who I am as a person, and it became my personal mission to figure out this whole style thing, which is how I discovered today’s amazing guest, stylist extraordinaire Charly Goss. On this episode, we talk about: her personal story, including how having tongue cancer twice impacted her life why ...
Oct 27, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 85
Today we have a brand new episode of my How I Learned To Love My Body series featuring lovely Britney Vest, whom you might know as @fittybritttty. Britney is a fitness and wellness influencer and the founder of WVVY, a super cute line of size inclusive activewear. On this episode, we talk about: How to set boundaries around body and appearance conversations with family members How to overcome negative childhood body experiences Her weight loss experience and how that impacted her relationship wi...
Oct 20, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 84
Today’s episode is all about anxiety, but from a very different angle than it’s typically talked about. Dr. Wendy Suzuki is a Professor of Neural Science and Psychology in the Center for Neural Science at New York University and a celebrated international authority on neuroplasticity. She serves as a sought-after expert for publications including The Wall Street Journal, Shape, and Health, and her TED talk has more than 31 million views. Her most recent book, Good Anxiety, can be found wherever ...
Oct 13, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 83
I’m so excited to welcome my personal dermatologist, Dr. Samantha Ellis, to the podcast. Dr. Ellis is a board-certified medical and cosmetic dermatologist. In addition to her private practice, she’s a Clinical Instructor of Dermatology at UC Davis, serves as a dermatology consultant for cosmetic companies, and has published multiple peer-reviewed journal articles and authored several medical textbook chapters on things like immunology, dermatologic surgery, cosmeceuticals, and skin aging. This e...
Oct 06, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 82
I’m so excited to welcome Courtnie from @courtandnate to the pod to talk all about van life! I discovered Court and Nate’s page on TikTok during quarantine and became completely fascinated with the idea of living in a van, traveling between all of these beautiful places. And while this episode will answer all of your voyeuristic questions about van life, like how they deal with pooping and how much it costs and if it’s actually as aesthetic as it looks on social media, it ended up really being a...
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 81
On today’s episode—a shiny, fresh edition of our How I Learned to Love My Body series—I have on the incredibly charismatic Achieng Agutu. Achieng is the founder of No Ordinary Noire, where she helps hundreds of thousands of women tap into their most powerful selves. She’s also been the center of campaigns for companies like Valentino, and featured in online publications such as Vogue magazine. And let me tell you—her energy is CONTAGIOUS, and if this episode doesn’t leave a smile on your face, I...
Sep 22, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 80
We are kicking off a brand new series today called “How I Got My Dream Job.” It’s built on the idea that wellness encompasses feeling our best in every part of our lives, and our careers make up a huge portion of that. My hope with these episodes is that they’ll both demystify and maybe deglamorize quote unquote dream jobs a bit while also highlighting the behind the scene awesome elements that the public is typically less privy to. And of course, there’ll be plenty of pragmatic advice, whether ...
Sep 15, 2021•1 hr 48 min•Season 1Ep. 79
Today is all about STRESS. My guest today is Dr. Samantha Boardman, who did her undergrad at Harvard before getting her MD Cornell and going back for a masters in Applied Positive Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. She now has a thriving psychiatry practice in New York City and a brand new book called Everyday Vitality: Turning Stress into Strength, which is available wherever books are sold. I wanted this to be the most comprehensive, helpful episode on stress ever. On this episode, ...
Sep 08, 2021•2 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 78
Today, we have a brand new episode of Thriving Through Anxiety featuring the lovely Alex Snodgrass. Alex is the NYTimes best-selling author of The Defined Dish and the upcoming The Comfort Kitchen, and the woman behind the hugely successful blog and Instagram The Defined Dish. On this episode, we talk about: her anxiety journey how having kids impacted her anxiety her thoughts around medication and anxiety how she manages her anxiety-related vertigo the books, tools, and practices that have help...
Aug 25, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 77
Today, we have a brand new episode of How I Learned To Love My Body featuring the amazing Katie Sturino. Katie is an entrepreneur, digital influencer and body acceptance advocate. She’s also the founder of Megababe, one of my favorite product lines, which I think does a beautiful job of addressing issues like sweaty thighs or chest acne that so many of us deal with but nobody talks about. On this episode, we talk about: how she went from hating taking photos of herself to getting comfortable in ...
Aug 11, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 76
We’re back with another Ask the Doctor episode. This was a VERY highly requested episode, all about dental health and oral hygiene. If you want more Ask the Doctor episodes, be sure to check out the ones on Happiness, Longevity, Hormones, Gut Health, Anxiety, and more. My guest today is Dr. Mark Burhenne, the creator and author of AsktheDentist.com and the #1 bestselling author of The 8-Hour Sleep Paradox. He is a family and sleep medicine dentist whose advice regularly appears on TV, radio, and...
Jul 28, 2021•1 hr 44 min•Season 1Ep. 75
I have been feeling VERY wanderlusty lately—I have an adventure itch, and there was no one better to scratch it than Renee Hahnel, otherwise known as the powerhouse Renee Roaming (@reneeroaming). The author and mega-successful social media star and blogger joined me to talk about all things travel and getting outside, including: her best tips for taking amazing travel photos what shocked her about the US when she moved here how to take big, risky life steps without fear the harder parts of livin...
Jul 14, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 74
