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Andrea W. Hanson : Author & Master Coach

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Hear inspiring discussions with people living with chronic illness. These guests went after their passions and goals -even when everyone told them they couldn't. Listen to stories of resilience and gratitude in the face of uncertainty. Hosted by Andrea W. Hanson, Author, Motivational Speaker, and Autoimmune Rebel living with multiple sclerosis for over 25 years. You’ll not only fall in love with these guests, but you’ll soak up powerful mindset tips and ideas to find your own unique path to ...
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"Whether it's the stress of a physical illness or the stress of emotional stuff or the stress of moving, it's all going in the same bucket from our body's perspective. I was pouring more and more in there when what I needed was to get a bigger bucket and take some stuff out." - Becca Benning Becca Benning has multiple chronic conditions, but it was…
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”Your words can either heal or hurt. Don't you ever be the prick.” Blaze Hunter is an author, award winning speaker, brand specialist, and maybe most importantly, a communications expert. In this episode, Blaise discusses the connection between emotions and the body, and how it plays a role in autoimmune disease. Blaise was diagnosed in her 20’s wi…
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"Learning how to turn off your mind is as important as learning how to work on it." - Andrea Hanson This week I'm doing a little behind the scenes look at what I'm working on right now. My new online course, The 8 Week Mindset Challenge is starting soon, and this week I'm sharing what the challenge is all about - including negative thinking and the…
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"It almost became a puzzle. How can we solve this? What's the next thing?" - Amanda Dahl When Amanda Dahl and her husband started experiencing strange and debilitating symptoms, they didn’t think they were in for an 18-year journey of mystery and uncertainty. Little did they know that their son's diagnosis of autism and Lyme disease would be the ca…
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Amy Reinecke discovered she had Hashimoto’s after having her third child. She is now helping women love their body through healing their mindset. In this week’s podcast, Amy shares her very personal story with growing up in diet culture and developing an eating disorder. And her journey back to loving her body right now, as it is. Amy’s story is so…
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“I just trust that even if things don't work out, things are still working out.” -Courtney Bussard Courtney Bussard is on her own journey to limitless. From solo travel, to hula hoop performances (and a little fire dancing) - Courtney is determined to not let her chronic illness hold her back. Diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2019, her support …
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"How we think we're going to feel in the future when we're taking that next step is rarely how we actually feel once we get there." - Andrea Hanson Join me as I talk about a favorite piece of advice that was given to me at a time when I was ready to give up and walk away in the middle of a challenge. Drawing from my experience in a 150 mile bike ra…
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“Life isn't going to look like I wanted it to. I'm not able to have the child that I wanted, but who knows what's next? And it's clear I can't go on like I am. Maybe it's time to find new possibilities.” - Sarah Jane Smith Sarah Jane Smith Lyons is an embodiment teacher and mindset coach who helps fellow childless not by choice women integrate grie…
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“Cancer has brought me so many blessings in terms of lessons and rediscovering who I am and what I wanted in life.” - Mayda Poc Mayda Poc is an international life and career coach for executives in fast paced industries, with a background of over 16 years in the investment banking industry. She’s received multiple certifications and accreditations …
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“The intersection of racism and ableism is a high collision zone”- Ingrid Palmer Ingrid Palmer is an award-winning speaker, a diversity and inclusion consultant, and the founder and CEO of Focus On Ability - a campaign designed to encourage individuals to triumph over adversity, combat discrimination, and promote universal belonging. From a young a…
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Based on my #1 blog that's been read 1,000's of times, I'm talking about what I wish I knew when I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. It's been a while since I wrote this, and it's still 100% true. In this episode I talk about What I pretended to believe, but deep down definitely didn't. Helpful details on how to advocate for yourself when you'…
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“We want kids to take the time out. As adults, we need a timeout, too.” - Adam Webber Adam Weber is an accomplished speaker, author, and entrepreneur with a personal connection to the world of chronic illness. Living with primary progressive multiple sclerosis for over a decade, Adam has discovered the healing power of meditation in managing stress…
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"We all have stories. Our stories are what make us unique. They're what sets us apart." - Shaun Bernstein Shaun Bernstein has navigated life with hemophilia since birth. Despite the challenges that come with living with a chronic illness, Shaun has flourished thanks to the support of his parents and their emphasis on normalizing his condition while…
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You only have this one life. You only have this one body. Part of taking care of that body is making sure your mind is right. - Keshia Rice Diagnosed with kidney disease in high school, Keshia has faced her fair share of challenges and has learned the value of setting boundaries and choosing the right people to have in her life. As a preacher's kid…
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"Our honest thoughts hold the key to our strongest mindset." - Andrea Hanson I believe we judge ourselves entirely too much. This week I'm sharing my four new rules of mindset, designed to help improve self-compassion and confidence. I believe that having a strong mindset means embracing every aspect of our mindset, not just the positive parts. By …
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Helen Mallaburn is a hashimoto’s recovery specialist and nutritional therapist. She lived on the adrenaline of a high stress job, doing lots of sports, working out, and having a very active social life - until her health made her slow down when she developed autoimmune disorders including hashimoto's. She had to reframe her thinking around her heal…
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"My goal is not to look like the airbrushed Photoshopped models. I just want to be healthy. I want to have energy to play with my kids. "- Sarah Bowser Sarah Bowser, from That Weird, Nerdy Mom, has transformed her struggle with anxiety and hashimoto's, an autoimmune diagnosis, into a mission to help others find self-love and acceptance. Embracing h…
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"It almost became a puzzle. How can we solve this? What's the next thing?" - Amanda Dahl When Amanda Dahl and her husband started experiencing strange and debilitating symptoms, they didn’t think they were in for an 18-year journey of mystery and uncertainty. Little did they know that their son's diagnosis of autism and Lyme disease would be the ca…
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I’m sharing my journey with boundaries - the good, the bad and the ugly. The good news is, I learned a lot from being a terrible boundary maker and am bringing those lessons to the podcast today. Hear my personal train wrecks with boundaries and the five invaluable lessons I’ve learned along the way to make great boundaries that help me with my own…
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"As the Deaf Queen Boss, my goal is to teach others how to be inclusive and change how we approach mental health among people with disabilities and within the deaf community." - Kellina Powell Kellina Powell is an entrepreneur and advocate who specializes in working with young professionals with disabilities on managing depression, anxiety, and imp…
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“Yes, some days I'm in bed - others I am at the piano or in a gondola in Venice. Life is hard. Life is GOOD.” - Susie Schwartz Susie Schwartz is a Canadian writer, public speaker and singer-songwriter. In her latest book, Help the Doctor Help You: 31 Secrets and Tips to get the BEST from your appointments (available now), Susie compiles her wisdom …
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“When I decided to take the treatment, I made another decision, which was, now it's going to be my health first. It's going to be my work second. This had never occurred to me before. That was a massive shift.” - Audrey Zannese Audrey Zannese is the Founder of Step into Sophrology in which she helps anyone, especially women living with chronic pain…
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"I have to live with these things, but I don't have to suffer from them." -Lauren Rose Lauren Rose is an author, coach, and the host of the “It Hurts to Mom” podcast. In this week’s episode she’s speaking about her challenges with pretty severe chronic pain - and how through all of that, she found a loving partner and is raising a kind and compassi…
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What’s the difference between mindset, mindfulness, and positive thinking? They all work - and feel great. But there’s a big difference and only one can be managed for life long benefits. Master certified life and mindset coach Andrea W. Hanson is getting clear on what mindset really is, the difference between mindset and positive thinking, and the…
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"It's really important with all of the work that I do to be able to offer people a space to be seen and to treat themselves as respected, valued humans. That that their story is not only worthy, but also worth being heard and worth being seen." -Anna HeardinLondon Anna HeardinLondon at her core is an advocate for social justice. She took her love o…
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Gabriella True has not only an inspiring story of overcoming challenges herself, her story also extends to working to bring awareness to a complex and often missed diagnosis of PANS and PANDAS - a neuroimmune disorder affecting children and adults. In fact, after our interview she was getting ready to go to her state’s capital to promote legislatio…
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Amy Reinecke discovered she had Hashimoto’s after having her third child. She is now helping women love their body through healing their mindset. In this week’s podcast, Amy shares her very personal story with growing up in diet culture and developing an eating disorder. And her journey back to loving her body right now, as it is. Amy’s story is so…
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Let’s all be honest. We push ourselves- a lot. Whether it’s because we have to work, have deadlines, or just don’t want to let anyone down - we test our limits. And it’s especially problematic when we’re in a flare up, or are injured, or sick. This week, Andrea explores the concept of pushing it - and if we can do it in a way that doesn’t hurt our …
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Ali is the host of the hit international podcast “Challenges That Change Us”. She was running three successful businesses and raising 3 little girls when she suffered a major stroke at age 30. Her fortitude and ‘find what works’ attitude helped her recover, which included learning to read and write again. It also helped her weather life’s many othe…
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Lauren Zalewski and I are talking about one of my favorite subjects - gratitude. I feel like gratitude has become somewhat of a cliche recently - which is not where it belongs. Gratitude is so powerful, when it’s done right. There are less effective ways to use gratitude - I’m sure you’ve heard people say things like “you should be grateful for thi…
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The end of the year is here. Cue the joy, the laughter, the parties, and…the overwhelm. Because let’s get real. The end of the year can bring a lot of baggage - and getting it all done by the 31st (or sooner) can make us a bit crazy. Today, I’m teaching my go-to tool that I use whenever I’m overwhelmed and have roughly one million things to do in a…
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Lee Kilborn is one of those special people that devote their lives to family and service to community. Finding her passion - and absolute talent - early on as a professional volunteer coordinator, Lee made the jump from corporate to work in non-profit. Through her decades in service, she accumulated a volunteer “army” of 1,000’s that would do anyth…
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Have you ever been in a situation where you feel like you keep getting hit wave after wave and you can't breakthrough the Storm? Sometimes in these situations we can choose to worship or wallow. Is there something you're going through where you can take a moment and choose to worship? Worship God, even though you don't have all the answers and why …
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Integrative health coach Michelle Leotta takes us on her story of being a stressed out kid to being a stressed out adult and how the burnout in her life led her to a whole new career. She talks about the frustration of knowing that something was going on with her body, but not getting the answers she needed. Until she finally connected all the dots…
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Have you ever felt like you're mentally falling asleep at the wheel and you need God to take control. Dive in with us as we talk about actually, physically, falling asleep at the wheel. A lot of times, we make decisions or something happens to us in life and think wow, I can't believe I actually made it through. When in reality, it was God that got…
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Dr. Francesca Owoo is back on the podcast, sharing her knowledge as a therapist and as someone living with a chronic illness who is a caregiver to family members. Dr. Owoo brings her signature straight talk mixed with humor to give us great advice on how to make caregiving relationships much healthier. She also discusses breaking the cultural and g…
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Helen Mallaburn is a hashimoto’s recovery specialist and nutritional therapist. She lived on the adrenaline of a high stress job, doing lots of sports, working out, and having a very active social life - until her health made her slow down when she developed autoimmune disorders including hashimoto's. She had to reframe her thinking around her heal…
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Dr. Lj Johnson is a women’s hormone coach, specializing in endometriosis, PCOS and fibroids. She’s living with endometriosis herself, and has worked in the health and fitness industry for over 20 years. She’s got quite a story - including being a peppy morning news fitness coach (while feeling like her body was out of control) - and working on The …
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Elizabeth Guthrie is a board certified wellness practitioner who is living with PTSD and Long Covid. She’s an expert in Trauma and helps people use natural wellness as part of a trauma recovery program. There are so many questions around trauma - what it really is, do we have to address all of it, do we even have to know why we have it? She gets in…
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Many business owners are living with a chronic illness. It makes sense - you can work on your own time, put your health first- you don’t have anyone to answer to you. Except then a lot of us realize that we’re not the best bosses, either. And our new beautiful business can tax our health just as much as working in corporate. Sarah Berthon is going …
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Dr. Francesca Owoo is a therapist who focuses on couples and families navigating the complex world of chronic illness. She is passionate about working with this population due to several chronic illnesses within her family. While working on her Ph.D., she was diagnosed with fibroids, stage 4 endometriosis, and adenomyosis. She has 14 years of exper…
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Dr. Maryska Taylor is a Naturopathic Doctor, Mind-Body Therapist, Clinical Hypnotherapist and Intuitive Healer. She’s living with Psoriasis and practices the same healing methods that she teaches her patients. This episode is a masterclass in what the mind-body connection is all about and how to incorporate intuition and spiritual practice into you…
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Dana Baker-Williams is a Parent and Teen Coach specializing in ADHD and Anxiety, and mom of two. She’s living with Lupus as well as Sjogrens and Raynaud's. But the very sickness that made her have to learn how to walk again also allowed her to be with her kids and see that her daughter was struggling. A whole new career and a thriving daughter came…
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