Best Jill Cruz Podcasts (2024)

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107. Good Habits for Weight Loss & Health 40:30

1+ y ago40:30

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We can’t rely on punishing popular health practices to offer us the gentle healing we need. Dr. Stephanie Zgraggen is a chiropractor and a nutritionist who focuses on the clinical nutrition side of her practice and helps women heal naturally. Many women suffer from a variety of health issues and can’t get the help they need from standardized health…

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106. “How much protein do I need?” 43:31

1+ y ago43:31

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There is a lot of confusion out there about how much protein you need in a day. That is why I really enjoyed this conversation with Beth Lipton. Beth is a food and wellness writer and shares her tips on why it is important to have meat-centric meals. Eating is all about self-care and giving the body what it needs, so the most important eating habit…

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105. Liz Johnson - Getting Sick Is A Part Of Life 38:12

1+ y ago38:12

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Take care of yourself to ensure you have the mindset needed to serve others. Liz Johnson is the owner and Care Planning Consultant for Seniors at Always Best Care Bergen & Passaic. She shares critical healthcare information and resources for seniors. When family members become ill, guilt and heavy emotional burdens can make handling the situation p…

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104. Beth Ramer - Work-Life Balance Is an Illusion 35:40

1+ y ago35:40

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The key to balancing work and life is to take more time for self-care. Beth Ramer is a career counselor and professional coach who helps women balance the alignment of work and life by prioritizing their well-being. The unfortunate truth is that the concept of work/life balance is often an illusion because being a high achiever can push us into a s…

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103. Dr. Beverly Tchang - Better Understanding of Obesity 43:11

1+ y ago43:11

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The healthcare system needs to view obesity through a more compassionate lens. Dr. Beverly Tchang is an endocrinologist who works with a medical team to help support patients seeking obesity management in a holistic and individualized way. Weight issues have historically been viewed by society and medicine as a problem that is centered on lifestyle…

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102. Samrah Kazmi - Find Your True Passion And Identity In The Workplace 35:38

1+ y ago35:38

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It’s time to stop putting our ambitions on the back burner and find our true passions. Samrah Kazmi is an entrepreneur, trend hunter, and startup advisor in the fintech industry and shares her thoughts on staying true to yourself and your passions in your professional life. It’s so easy for us to lose our true nature in the working world, and we of…

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101. Bette Vargas - Post-Menopause With The Right Mindset, Meals & Movement 37:13

1+ y ago37:13

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Menopause can be challenging for many women, but there are ways to make it easier. Bette Vargas is a certified holistic health coach and the creator of Crazy, Sexy Menopause, and she helps post-menopausal women improve their well-being and live more gracefully and vibrantly. First and foremost, regular exercise and healthy eating are essential for …

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100. Low Motivation is Not the Problem 18:56

1+ y ago18:56

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If you are waxing and waning with your motivation, there is a strong reason for that. While it is perfectly normal to have drops in motivation during your health journey, we need to ask ourselves why we feel this way. There is a lesson in our negative mindsets, and if we stop blaming ourselves and become curious about why we think the way we do, we…

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99. How Do You Accept But Not Give Up? 33:56

1+ y ago33:56

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We need to stop denying reality and start practicing acceptance. Stop putting everything else in your life ahead of yourself and take responsibility for your health because you can’t look after your loved ones or enjoy your hobbies as much if you are unhealthy and stressed. If you are practicing self-care but thinking negatively about yourself in t…

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05. Inner Work For Weight Loss 47:34

1+ y ago47:34

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🧟‍♂️ Inner work can help you lose weight: feeling like the Marilyn Munster of your family. 02:26 ❤️ Trust your body to know what it needs at any given time: parents want to make us happy. 09:13 😤 Feel the feeling, hate your mother - let the hate in so you can let it go. 11:48 🥊 "A little less Namaste and a little more make my day" - starting kickbo…

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98. Mindie Barnett - Balancing Burnout And Teamwork 33:51

1+ y ago33:51

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👩 Mindie is getting her master's in marriage & family counseling and is doing research on burnout syndrome: everybody needs recovery time so we don't become a depleted nation. 02:25 🤳 Make your body a leaner, meaner machine by taking time to unwind: the phone is often the main work-home interference. 10:24 🥱 Sleep compromises are not good, but we a…

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97. Shannon Black: Trauma Lives In The Body. Luckily, We Can Change The Template 45:30

1+ y ago45:30

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🧠 Trauma is stored in the body: our brain is built on our experiences and relationships. 03:23 ✅ When the vagus nerve is toned, we are in a safe and connected physiological state. 06:50 👪 Why creating a strong vagal tone is important: how trauma gets stored in us. 09:58 🤗 It takes a lot of energy to self-regulate but zero energy to be naturally reg…

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96. Yvette Sims - Women's Health, Stress, & Hormones 34:08

1+ y ago34:08

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Women need to have their voices heard in the medical care system. Yvette Sims is a nurse practitioner who specializes in women’s health and talks about the decline of femininity in the healthcare system. One of the biggest problems of the modern healthcare system is the shift towards prioritizing the business model of making money over focusing on …

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95. Time To Start Telling A Story That Serves You 19:10

1+ y ago19:10

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✅ We have inner dialogues around our goals all the time: you can be in the exact same situation as someone else but feel completely different. 00:22 👉 The only person who can make a change is you - not medication, diet change, or exercise, but being proactive: it's all about perspective, and you have control to change it - get to the root story fir…

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04. Allow Yourself To Feel Your Feelings 16:43

1+ y ago16:43

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🦠 Post covid symptoms are frustrating: acceptance is important. 02:14 ❗ Perfect enlightened humans without problems don't exist: it's all about the journey. 04:09 💩 Even the most beautiful person on Instagram has feelings, and they can feel like crap: nobody is immune to human experience. 05:29 ✅ Being brave enough to feel your feelings is where li…

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94. How To Be Fabulously Successful - And It’s Not What You Think! 8:52

1+ y ago8:52

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✅ You want to be fabulously successful and have great relationships and you can have it!: our worth is not tied to how we look. 00:26 💯 Establish what's important to you so you can have it all: don't listen to people who didn't do it themselves - success is an internal job. 02:32 💛 Relax to tune yourself like a beautiful Orchestra: you don't need t…

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93. Dr. Bonnie Gasquet - Overly stressed? Mood unbalanced!? - Get your hormones checked! 40:05

1+ y ago40:05

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🧬 Bioidentical hormones exactly match human DNA hormones: synthetic estrogen can be harmful, but that's not the whole story. 02:44 🤦‍♀️ Some women get a hysterectomy and nobody tells them anything about their hormones. 05:59 ❗ When some hormones start to dip: lower progesterone causes your body to want to hold on to fat like a survival mechanism. 0…

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92. Linda Clarkson, MS LPC - Help Your Brain Create Healthy Neural Pathways 39:13

1+ y ago39:13

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💡 Linda used her weight loss issue as an excuse not to love herself: discovering a connection with inner narratives/self-talk. 02:57 🧒 It's a fool's errand to be searching for worthiness externally or in your physical appearance: it all goes back to our childhood history. 09:20 🎓 Linda explored her inner child over several years of cognitive work a…

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03. Put Yourself First For Better Health 27:06

1+ y ago27:06

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🎯 The ultimate goal is being healthier, not losing weight: establish the habit and make it attainable. 02:39 💯 Stuff will always get in the way, so choose your priorities. 06:58 🤔 When we don't get the desired result, something else is happening that we're not aware of. 10:38 🌅 When your morning schedule is a battle between health stuff, work prep,…

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91. How and Why To Befriend Your Body 23:18

1+ y ago23:18

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🤱 It's easier to connect with nature than with our own body: observe how we're taught unconsciously to disconnect, to look outward. 00:32 🥰 To have a deep sustainable level of health, you need to befriend your body: our body is a source of everything we need. 03:58 ⛪ We source everything from within ourselves - we can read the Bible, but we connect…

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90. Dr. Renu Mansukhani - Obesity as a Medical Condition 45:25

1+ y ago45:25

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👩‍⚕️ Why Dr. Renu, an endocrinologist, chose to be an obesity medicine physician. 03:25 ❗ Obesity is not an intrinsic characteristic: we don't say somebody is cancer, yet, we say somebody is obese - it's not a personality flaw! 10:51 ✅ The weight problem is multifactorial - it has genetic, biological, psychological, lifestyle, and environmental com…

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89. The Mental & Emotional Journey of Fertility Issues 34:39

1+ y ago34:39

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🤗 It's important how we approach infertility mentally and physically: this shouldn't be an isolating journey - the more you talk, the less isolated you feel. 03:19 🎯 Challenge your core beliefs that there's something wrong with you or you're not enough. 09:05 💭 Helpful and nonhelpful core beliefs come from a compilation of everything in our lives, …

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88. Robin Wilson - All You Have Is Now, Use It Wisely! 44:26

1+ y ago44:26

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😮 Robin had a stroke even though she led a healthy life. 02:03 💤 Sleep is a time of healing. 06:28 💔 Living with a stroke and all risks: it's hard having speech problems and emotionally overwhelming moments. 08:15 💙 Robin couldn't teach in a physical classroom anymore: adopt a positive view and don't forget to recover emotionally, not just physical…

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02. Change Your Relationship With Food 22:32

1+ y ago22:32

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🥋 Karate impacted Patty's life and reshaped her mindset and relationship with food: when food is a source of comfort. 02:23 🔺 We're often unaware of what drives us: we can influence our state of mind with language, breathing & beliefs. 06:07 🔛 Change beliefs by looking at the opposite side: a dichotomous approach to food promotes more overeating an…

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87. Are You Humming in All Areas of Your Life? 23:49

1+ y ago23:49

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✅ We can have it all. 00:29 👉 The upper limit problem explains how we sabotage ourselves: it's not about perfection, it’s about things going well and doing better. 02:38 ❗ When something is recurring in your life, there's a reason - a beautiful lesson. 04:53 ✌️ Flip the script, and ask yourself the right questions: two questions to focus on. 06:51 …

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86. Karen Taylor Bass - Give Yourself Permission To Be You 40:10

1+ y ago40:10

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❤️ Allowing yourself to feel seen - you have permission to just be: Karen's three words for living authentically in 2023. 02:39 🌬️ Allow yourself to not feel good: we can breathe our way into shit! 05:19 💪 Freedom is rewriting the information we put in our brains - we have a choice. 10:32 🧘‍♀️ Life is stressful, but you have to choose yourself firs…

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85. Madeline Schwarz - Communication Builds Confidence 33:50

1+ y ago33:50

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📢 Getting more comfortable communicating: Madeline was terrified of public speaking, which negatively affected her well-being. 02:02 💪 Overworking is not a way to prove yourself: "I'm going to speak up, even if it makes other people uncomfortable" = revealing rather than concealing. 05:11 🫦 Anticipation is worse than doing the work: communication i…

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84. Source Your Own Love, You Are Worth It! 23:48

1+ y ago23:48

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❗ You are worthy of everything you desire: let's not confuse deserving love and taking from others. 00:20 🥰 Endogenously love yourself - value yourself, don't just go to the spa: we are looking for exogenous support because of guilt and shame. 02:57 💙 Source your love & safety from yourself: you can't source somebody else's love, but you can relax …

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01. Self-care is a Lifelong Journey 35:04

1+ y ago35:04

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😞 We tend to compartmentalize, but everything is interconnected: Deb didn't eat enough as a teenager, she shut down and neglected her body. 02:24 🧬 There's a genetic component to eating disorders: feel good in your body, don't focus on numbers. 04:39 💛 Women are blamed in our society for having eating disorders: Deb still has to think if she has co…

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83. Andi Locke Mears - Germanic Healing Knowledge 37:59

1+ y ago37:59

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🇩🇪 German New Medicine is a native cultural tradition: people with the same traumas have the same diseases. 02:23 🤧 All living beings have this circadian rhythm: we have the sick phase that comes after the conflict-active phase and then we have a scaring phase. 09:52 🏥 We have an entire system of medicine based on fear: use the aliphatic system sma…

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82. Svetlana Chamoun - Tackling The Business Of Burnout 45:51

1+ y ago45:51

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👩‍⚕️ From cardiology to lifestyle medicine: healthy lifestyle changes can prevent 85% of chronic diseases. 02:50 🔥 Before covid, 50% of healthcare workers had burnout: the upcoming potential shortage of physicians is in the hundreds of 1000s. 08:37 💀 Beware Karoshi syndrome - death by overworking and the societal effects of burnout. 13:14 💲 Physici…

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81. Why Dieting Makes Us Miserable & What You Can Do Instead 23:29

1+ y ago23:29

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❌ Dieting feels restrictive to us, it's against our nature. 00:36 😮‍💨 Negative judgment about bad food leads to a bad relationship with food - we start obsessing. 02:40 ✅ The drama around food often comes from our beliefs: it's not serving you if it's not making you happy. 06:30 🏋️‍♀️ Exercise, sleep & meditation help the relationship with food: it…

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80. Robin Maynard Dobbs - A Feminine Approach To Weight Loss & Health 45:00

1+ y ago45:00

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🙈 Counting calories, carbs & fats is shame-based.. 02:49 ❗ Secrecy + Hard on yourself + Analysis + Must be something wrong with me + Emergency = SHAME 04:58 👩 Women feel guilt 80% more than men: don't fight against the system, just step out! 06:39 3️⃣ Shame, lack, and isolation are the 3 main barriers for women: diets are the antithesis of what wor…

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79. Kate McKay - Claim Your Best Self 36:09

1+ y ago36:09

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🍾 Release self-sabotage & reclaim vitality - be in the process of celebration, not self-degradation. 01:36 6️⃣ Work on the 6 areas & have a badass, kickass life: Kate's meaning shifted when she lost her child. 04:38 🥰 Women have a very disrupted cultural view of men & competitive vibe between each other - let's embrace our inner hottie. 11:53 ✅ Get…

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78. Dr. Oluyemisi Famuyiwa - Exploring Choices & Freedom With Fertility Preservation 35:51

1+ y ago35:51

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⏳ The quality and quantity of eggs decline with the years. 02:22 🤰 In your early 30s, eggs are mature & best to freeze (20 eggs!). 07:13 👩‍⚕️ You can test your ovarian reserve: female doctors are particularly vulnerable to fertility issues. 12:13 🏃‍♀️ In your 40s it's easier to get pregnant with frozen eggs from your 30s: don't make choices because…

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77. Tami Murphy - The Dishonest Marketing Around Holistic Approach 36:28

1+ y ago36:28

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🟡 Holistic means using alternative, natural methods that can be easily obtained to improve health. 02:22 💊 Tami had severe digestive issues, and medications made it worse, but dietary change helped her. 07:09 🐟 Plant-based, vegetarianism, pesco-vegetarianism, or loose veganism: pay attention to what's on your plate. 08:45 🥕 Make food that's not jus…

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76. Is Food Your Only Indulgence? 23:07

1+ y ago23:07

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🥧 Food makes us feel good. 00:18 ❔ Is food your main indulgence, or do you provide yourself with satisfaction & pleasure from other sources? 01:43 👠 It's not about what you eat but your relationship with food: how to feel indulgent & expansive in your life. 04:13 🍗 Go back to the basics - eat whole foods & protein: we go for food when we lack satie…

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75. Matha Figaro - Delicious Cakes That Have Extra Benefits 30:27

1+ y ago30:27

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🍰 Helping people feel better by making butter cakes infused with cannabis. 01:31 🚬 Cannabis butter cakes and why Matha started making them: Jill uses CBD and edibles recreationally. 03:48 🧘‍♀️ Matha uses privately sourced organic flour: weed & yoga helped Matha deal with three herniated discs. 05:51 🏞️ Natural substance vs. opioids and steroids. 09…

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74. Christina Veselak - Feeding the Recovering Brain 37:03

1+ y ago37:03

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✅ Integrating mental health nutrition into psychotherapy can bring quicker recovery results. 02:46 🍗 When our blood sugar drops adrenaline kicks in: when did you last eat protein? 04:24 🐟 Protein helps people with chronic relapse: premenstrual women should eat 20g of protein every 3 hours. 06:07 🥨 People switch addictions in the early phases of rec…

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73. Heather Keyworth Conley - Bring Your Full Self to Work (living with ADHD) 34:15

1+ y ago34:15

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🔔 Imposter syndrome: ADHD presents itself differently in girls and can go undiagnosed. 02:18 💭 What could happen if mental health wasn't taboo? 08:54 🤗 Diversity, equity, and inclusion - helping people bring their full selves: Heather focuses on racial equity. 11:56 🤯 Hard time focusing, forgetting, excessive attention to detail, and time managemen…

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72. Shivi Goyal: Breathe Your Way to a Second Life 26:49

1+ y ago26:49

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🧍‍♀️ The prolonged effects of not taking care of our mental and physical health severely impact our life: a healthy body & a healthy mind are a healthy human being. 02:45 🌬️ A breath regulates the body from top to bottom: the body & mind sync using yoga and meditation. 04:44 🌌 Law of balance - using the breath to connect your vibrations with the vi…

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71. Edna White - Higher Health & Happiness is an Inside Job 41:52

1+ y ago41:52

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🤝 Even people with great jobs need help to find their purpose: desperation puts people where they are. 02:06 📼 If there's an unconscious replay in your head to work hard to have money - don't play the old tape: Edna's Vogue modeling experience. 07:18 🥰 Be mindful of internal stories about your physical body. 11:30 👍 Start from ground zero every tim…

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70. Maria Gavriel - Battling Burnout for Women in Businesses 27:28

1+ y ago27:28

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🔥 Women have different responsibilities and carry more in their personal life: burnout is an official disease that kills 1000s of people a year. 02:17 ⚠️ Perfectionism led Maria to burnout, marriage problems, and Hashimotos: compensating is a crutch we use when everything is falling apart. 04:13 👩‍👦‍👦 Maria felt triggered, fatigued, and depleted, w…

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69. When Food is Your Reward 25:04

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🤝 We've been trained to receive transactionally: kids receive actively and purely. 00:50 🍨 When Jill had a baby, her unconscious receiving was eating ice cream: nourish yourself first. 03:29 💞 Jill's work is nourishing and transactional simultaneously: we go into relationships with certain expectations. 05:52 🥄 Struggling with food often comes from…

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68. Rachel Bents - FUNctional fitness 32:35

1+ y ago32:35

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🌸 Health & wellness should be fun and enjoyable: faith, family, and fun are Rachel's 3 values. 02:06 🤸‍♀️ Build up from super small habits: do nothing and stay in the same place or have fun, take the risk and see what happens. 04:52 😞 Women between 40 & 60 often feel incapable of working out on their own. 09:41 ✨ It's FUN when it's playful, has som…

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67. Alex Van Tol - What's Love Got To Do With Health? 31:12

1+ y ago31:12

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❤️ Self-love is at the root of all our healing: inner work is a bit of a faith game, invisible and mood dependent. 03:14 💐 Focusing context vs. content: even flowers grow more fully surrounded by the context of love. 07:11 🤸‍♀️ Acceptance is where change can happen: our bodies are a very underused source of wisdom and knowledge in our society. 10:3…

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66. The Tsunami of Negativity 13:02

1+ y ago13:02

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🍧 We're surrounded by a culture that undermines our success: As women, in our 20s we learn that our value in society is based on how we look. 00:26 🤷‍♀️ Acknowledge and be aware of what's happening: it's inevitable. 03:00 👍 Don't see yourself as a victim: commit to taking action. 04:15 🥰 Give yourself the grace you would give to your loved ones: it…

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65. Dr. Shaniece Criss - The 5 Layers of a Healthy Society 33:07

1+ y ago33:07

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5️⃣ The five layers of public health: how to make the healthy choice an easy choice. 02:20 🤝 It's important to recognize individual power and partnership: townships & communities organize great events that are good for health & socializing. 06:16 4️⃣ Nutrition, physical activity, social support, and staying mentally stimulated are important for hea…

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64. Here is What to Eat 22:12

1+ y ago22:12

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✅ We just need guidance: start with the basics. 01:25 ❗ Disclaimer: This is for educational purposes. 04:43 🥬 Put away all the fancy diets and eat whole foods. 05:47 🛒 If you shop in the periphery of the supermarket, you'll see whole foods. 07:49 ❌ If it is in a box or a bag and has a long list of ingredients, it's highly processed, so stay away fr…

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63. Bianca Grant: Fight Autoimmune Disease by Listening to Your Body 28:00

1+ y ago28:00

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😴 Bianca started napping on work breaks and had jerks: after a car wreck, she lost all control of her body. 02:27 📚 Nobody knew the root of the problem: Bianca researched on her own. 08:20 👩‍⚕️ Getting a sarcoidosis diagnosis and fighting different symptoms: Bianca sometimes still has symptoms. 11:01 🌿 Herbal regimen, avoiding the sun, and managing…

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