In the world of social media, we are constantly being inundated with new information about everything and the messages from health and wellness influencers can be some of the hardest to discern and digest. In today’s solo, Samantha clears up some of the common misconceptions about one approach to nutrition that’s been gaining considerable steam, the pro-metabolic diet. Samantha tells us why she herself subscribes to the metabolic diet and breaks it down piece by piece for those who may be intere...
Apr 25, 2023•39 min
Kiki Athanas is an intuitive eating coach that helps smart women conquer emotional eating and practice healthy, balanced eating with consistency and ease. In this episode, Kiki and Samantha get honest about their own experiences with obsessing over food, as well as debunking diet culture myths and pointing out some of the toxic patterns within the wellness world—especially when it comes to nutrition. So many women have struggled with overeating, undereating, and everything in between. Kiki’s int...
Apr 18, 2023•54 min
Today on the show, Samantha chats with Dr. Kevin Preston, a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner that practices in Vernon, BC. Kevin has become known for helping people overcome chronic illnesses, mystery syndromes and for optimizing the health and performance of his patients. In this episode, we learn how his curiosity, passion and reverence for both ancient and modern healing techniques have guided him to success as a nature loving, wu friendly and honest practitioner. In this episode of ...
Apr 11, 2023•1 hr 3 min
As an entrepreneur, you may have a hard time accepting the fact that you’re actually in the business of sales…but it’s the truth! If you want to start securing more leads, and begin to scale your business, you’re going to need to get comfortable with selling. It’s as simple as that. In today’s final business class episode, Samantha teaches you everything you need to know about sales and even admits that she too had a hard time accepting that sales are an integral, and unavoidable, part of entrep...
Apr 06, 2023•1 hr 6 min
In today’s solo, Samantha shares some stories from her recent trip to Costa Rica. She had originally planned to make the trek with one of her best friends but, just days before the trip, things took an unexpected turn when she learned that she would be going alone. Samantha gives her honest perspective of what it felt like to be traveling in a foreign country as a single female, then does a deep dive into her relationship, and future plans, with the thing that brought her to Costa Rica in the fi...
Apr 04, 2023•54 min
We’ve all heard why it’s so important for entrepreneurs to have a strong social media presence but, without the right approach, social media has a tendency to make us feel overwhelmed. Some of us even have a deep seeded hatred towards it, to the point of refusing to make it a part of our business plan. Today’s solo is all about helping you heal your relationship with social media, and developing strategies to make posting and engaging quick and easy, so you can get out of your own way and begin ...
Mar 30, 2023•55 min
As the self-described anti-woke, freedom-fighting life coach, Kaylor Bett’s loves to dive into uncomfortable topics, push people's buttons and offer new perspectives that inspire others to take ownership of their lives. After one long pot-pen-fueled, anxious Netflix binge, Kaylor finally got off his ass, started to sweat, and began taking steps that would become the pillars of his mental wealth mindset. In today’s episode, Samantha and Kaylor dive head first into a variety of touchy topics, most...
Mar 21, 2023•1 hr 13 min
As humans, we have a knack for overcomplicating things and getting in our own way. Today’s solo episode is all about simplifying and streamlining your message. Samantha walks us through the process of establishing your niche by mastering your mindset and really getting to know who your customer avatar is. Once you know exactly who you’re selling to, what you’re offering them, and why it matters, the leads will come pouring in. In this episode of The Wellness Witch Podcast: Don’t wait to start yo...
Mar 16, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Today’s solo episode is the first of four business episodes set to come out on four consecutive Thursdays in March. The original recording is from Samantha’s “marketing school” facebook live session back in October of 2022. In it, she dives into how she carved her own path to success, and gives you five tips for generating more leads with your online businesses. It can be easy to fall into the trap of education, thinking that once you have more knowledge, or that stronger skillset, then people w...
Mar 09, 2023•59 min
Today, Samantha is joined by Tara Vander Dussen, a fifth-generation dairy farmer who happens to be married to another fifth-generation dairy farmer. Daniel, her husband, manages the day-to-day on the farm, while Tara has her own career as an environmental consultant, online agriculture advocate, and podcaster. In response to the current global, political push towards meat and milk alternatives in this episode, Tara addresses some common misconceptions around animal protein production and consump...
Mar 07, 2023•44 min
Let’s face it, as we get into our forties, our resilience is declining. There are so many hormonal shifts within the perimenopause period that can create a cascade of effects that leave us feeling stressed and unbalanced. If only there were some sort of magic elixir that could help us thrive through perimenopause, meeting all the shifts with grace and vigor. In today’s episode, Brandi Garden, from Eversio Wellness, returns to the show to tell you all about how functional, medicinal mushrooms can...
Feb 28, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Samantha chats with Victoria Albina, a Master Certified Somatic Life Coach, meditation guide, and self-proclaimed Latina nervous system nerd, with a focus on codependency, people-pleasing and perfectionism. In this episode, Victoria passionately, and with expertise, explains how a host of different topics, such as hormones, orgasms and emotional outsourcing, relate to the sympathetic, dorsal and ventral vagal modes of the nervous system. With a better understanding of how and why our nervous sys...
Feb 21, 2023•58 min
Today on the show, Samantha shares an episode from April 2022, where she was interviewed by her friend, the Personal Leadership Coach and Podcaster, Dr. Laura Foster. This episode lays out Samantha’s entire business journey, from hopeful college nutrition student, to the well-established wellness expert and business mentorship coach she is today, in a much more exciting fashion than she feels she could have managed with another solo endeavor. Samantha and Laura confess that they, just like the r...
Feb 14, 2023•1 hr 16 min
As health-conscious individuals, we put a great deal of effort into cleaning up our environment. We eat an ancestrally consistent diet, make sure our makeup and cleaning products are non-toxic and avoid plastics like the plague, but we often overlook our clothes. The truth is, our clothing can be just as toxic as these other factors. Today on the show, Samantha invites Kristi Soomer, the founder and CEO of the sustainable slow fashion brand, Encircled, to fill us in on the negative effects of fa...
Feb 07, 2023•47 min
Hormonal imbalances lie at the root of so many health issues. In today’s solo, Samantha addresses some of the most common hormone-related listener questions, including the difference between progesterone and progestin, the birth control pill, whether or not women should be supplementing with bioidentical hormones and the common misconception that estrogen is the “bad hormone.” Given that our hormones can easily be impacted by so many environmental and dietary factors, it can be a lot to keep str...
Jan 31, 2023•25 min
In most cultures around the world, alcohol is the focal point of almost all forms of entertainment. Sports games, comedy shows, concerts–you name it. It’s because alcohol is such an effective antidote to the social anxiety that plagues so many of us in our face-paced, densely populated, modern world. In an effort to break his own patterned use of alcohol and cocaine, Robbie Bent embarked on a ten day vipassana retreat in Israel, followed by multiple plant-medicine ceremonies, and returned home w...
Jan 24, 2023•55 min
Acupuncturist and Chinese medicine practitioner, Katrina Dollano is the co-founder and clinical director at “What’s Good,” a mental, emotional, physical and spiritual wellness company grounded in honoring the wisdom of our bodies and the power of mother nature. In today’s episode, Katrina and Samantha talk about Katrina’s training in Daoist Chinese medicine and how it differs from the western approach, how the five elements impact womens’ health and hormones, big T and little T trauma, and plant...
Jan 17, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Many of us enter the new year intending to establish more love, confidence, and money or maybe to lose some weight, but we often get stuck in the process and wind up with the same intention at the beginning of the next year. In today’s solo episode, Samantha explains how, from an early age, we’re programmed by the beliefs of others that can continue to weigh us down for the rest of our lives–unless we do something about it. The beginning of a new year is a great opportunity to distinguish your b...
Jan 10, 2023•48 min
Just because the new year hasn’t arrived yet doesn’t mean you need to wait until January 1st to start making changes. In today’s solo, Samantha talks all about the cornerstone of our hormonal, thyroid and overall health: the liver. Your liver is your main detoxification organ and it works for you, around the clock, day in and day out. In order to best support this process, you need to know how it works, what effects it and what it needs to function optimally. This episode is the framework you ne...
Dec 20, 2022•43 min
Danielle LaPorte has been a leading figure in the spiritual space, helping people around the world to learn how to be more loving, for quite some time. Today on the show, Samantha chats with Danielle–one of her idols–and the two cover a wide range of topics, including, love, the ego, virtue signaling, spiritual bypassing, cancel culture and addiction. The culture and technology of the modern age have given us more reasons than ever to feel anxious. Danielle reminds us to meet and treat this seem...
Dec 13, 2022•56 min
Being light-conscious is one of the simplest, cheapest, yet most overlooked approaches to health and hormonal healing. In today’s episode, engineer and light expert Roudy Nassif, talks about how light affects our overall health, including its impact on our mitochondria, blood glucose, adrenal health, and sleep. He also explains why most bluelight-blocking glasses on the market are actually not that effective and how this inspired him to create his own bluelight-blocking glasses company, Viva Ray...
Dec 06, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Mimi Lindquist is a culinary nutrition expert, AHCC educator, and co-owner of MushyLove, a mushroom company here to help you develop a conscious relationship with your health through a delicious-tasting mushroom elixir. Her passion is helping others become empowered, active participants in proactively creating a life that they love. Today on the show, Mimi talks with Samantha about how she and her ex-husband, Chase, rekindled their relationship and became co-owners at MushyLove. They also discus...
Nov 29, 2022•1 hr
Caitlin Kirkpatrick is a Human Design guide, holistic health coach, and 7D energy healer who’s obsessed with helping high achievers own their uniqueness, and create massive success on their own terms. Using human design as a framework, Caitlin supports clients in complete mind, body and spirit deconditioning to help them step into their fully expressed selves. Today on the show, Caitlin and Samantha have an intentional conversation about the many aspects of Human Design for those who are curious...
Nov 22, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Today on the show, Samantha has an honest, transparent discussion with her former student and Functional Nutrition Practitioner, Felicia Cafego. In this episode, Samantha and Felicia talk through the development of Felicia’s program, The Holistic Menstrual Reset, which helps women suffering from hormonal imbalances that lead to symptoms like PMS, irregular cycles, heavy bleeding, and cyclical depression and anxiety. Felicia talks about her journey to becoming the confident, assertive, and energe...
Nov 15, 2022•41 min
Alexa Bowditch is on a mission to reform sex-education and sexual expression across the globe. As a sex and love coach, Alexa is committed to helping women and couples have epic sex and deeply fulfilling relationships. In today’s episode, Samantha and Alexa talk all about sex and relationships, including the four things that ruin relationships and the power of scheduling sex. They unpack how what Alexa’s witnessed within her own familial upbringing, particularly from her mother, impacted her per...
Nov 08, 2022•1 hr 15 min
Today, we’re having a transparent and honest AF conversation with Kelli Moore, the co-founder, and CEO of Soulfire Productions, on her fertility and IVF journey. Kelli gives a play-by-play of the timeline of IVF, unpacking the extreme lows she experienced from the medications and how it painfully impacted her relationship with herself and her husband. Kelli gives insight into what to look for and questions to ask providers when considering IVF. She also shares differences in the 1st versus 2nd t...
Nov 01, 2022•1 hr 1 min
As the founder and CEO of BSB Tribe and CKCC, Lesya Holzapfel helps high-achieving, professional women shed fat utilizing a clean keto and carb cycling approach. Today, you’ll hear the ups and downs of her entrepreneurship journey, and what she’s learned about limiting beliefs and abundance while growing her business. Lesya unpacks how the success of her launches was linked to her mindset around money, and how raising her prices brought more success. Through her honest and transparent sharing, y...
Oct 25, 2022•50 min
Today on the show, Samantha is joined by nightclub owner turned psychedelic guide Eddy Phimphrachang. After close to a decade of owning and operating a restaurant and nightclub, Eddy experienced a health and life crisis that became the catalyst for his transition into the health and fitness industry as a gym owner and beach body extraordinaire. Although this was a step in the right direction, Eddy’s physical and mental health complications still lingered in these roles. Nowadays, Eddy lives in T...
Oct 18, 2022•53 min
With the ongoing, revolutionary research of psychedelic medicines, our collective understanding of mental health, and healthcare in general, is entering a new paradigm. There is a lot of new science about how these medicines can support addiction and depression, and widespread excitement about their ability to expand our understanding of transcendence and consciousness at large. In today’s solo, Samantha tells us what she learned when she recently took LSD for the first time and explains how, we...
Oct 11, 2022•47 min
Today’s guest is award-winning documentary filmmaker, Abby Epstein. Abby has directed a number of eye-opening documentaries, alongside executive producer, Ricki Lake. Two of her most notable films are The Business of Being Born , and The Business of Birth Control which are aimed to educate and empower women–and expecting families–to make informed medical decisions. In this episode, Samantha and Abby discuss in length, the driving forces behind the creation of The Business of Birth Control , as w...
Oct 04, 2022•1 hr 5 min
