Stay ConnectedHi, I’m Chase Chewning (@chase_chewning on Instagram) and this is the podcast that is devoted to help you build a life that propels you forward – EVER FORWARD. Conversations with industry leaders in health and wellness, personal development, entrepreneurship, celebrities and entertainers, creatives, military and so much more.
I am a US Army veteran, ACE Certified Health Coach, and I hold a BS in Exercise Science and MS in Health Promotion and currently live in Los Angeles, CA.
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Chase and May are joined today by Kara and Caleb Campbell. Kara is a celebrity event planner and human connection facilitator, and Caleb is a West Point graduate, former US Army officer, former NFL player, and former US Olympic bobsled athlete.
Today, Chase, May, Kara, and Caleb talk all things relationships and the importance and necessity of continuous growth and maintaining a space for you to thrive in. They speak on how this all allows for the introduction of deep, meaningful relationships into your life as well as the strengthening of the relationships you already have.
They also dive deep into emotional honesty as being fundamental to progression (or regression, if you lack it). Emotional honesty, they say, serves as a guide that allows you to filter the friendships and other relationships that serve you from those that don't. That honesty also helps you accept the ease of falling in love and finding your person.
Finally, they reflect on why your perspective of events, particularly challenging ones, is the key factor to your getting through them while taking away valuable lessons for growth. From the divine ambush, discover how you can turn the holy frustration which follows into radical acceptance and, at last, go from there into sacred flow.
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Wendy McCallum is a burnout and balance coach, author, and speaker. In this conversation, she recounts her own struggles dealing with a high-stress lifestyle in the past, as well as the common signs and symptoms of burnout. She offers practical tools that anyone can use to both recover from burnout and prevent it from happening again in the future.
She talks about unhealthy coping mechanisms such as alcohol, food, and social media and how we can learn to rely less on these crutches and become more present.
Wendy also gives her thoughts on the unique challenges that many of us experienced in 2020 and continue to face in 2021.
One of her observations at the tail-end of the pandemic has been the emergence of a "third shift" in the lives of working professionals. If our "first shift" represents our actual career and our "second shift" refers to the people under our care—whether our children or aging parents—our new "third shift" is helping to orchestrate or manage schooling from home.
This, of course, is on top of the overall anxiety all of us have felt in the past year-and-a-half. The pandemic and the resulting lockdowns have led to a significantly higher stress load on the average human being.
Burnout is one of the symptoms of this stress. Whether one came into 2020 physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy, or already overworked, almost everybody has had to deal with exhaustion. (On the other hand, a very small minority—mainly business owners and employers—have found opportunities to become flexible and even more productive in their work.)
Wendy reflects on her own experience with burnout and how she learned to create a life that she no longer needed to escape from.
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Hailing from the small town of North Pole, Alaska, young Heidi Somers never saw herself as the face of a fitness brand with over 1.7 million followers on Instagram and 765,000 subscribers on YouTube. At the age of 20, the self-proclaimed introvert was working four jobs and left for San Antonio the following year to pursue medical school.
It was in university when she began sharing her passion for health and fitness on social media, just for fun. Before she knew it, she'd grown a sizable audience and had company after company at her doorstep.
Eventually, Heidi made the big decision to quit school and go all-in on her new business, Buffbunny Collection, which designs and creates luxurious fitness apparel made for every body. The brand showcases and celebrates women of all different body shapes, sizes, and backgrounds.
Listen in as Heidi shares her story from shy, small-town girl to entrepreneur and influencer. She also describes her unique relationship with Christian Guzman, who happens to run a well-known fitness brand of his own. Finally, Heidi explains how she stays creative and continues to gain inspiration in an increasingly saturated market.
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"Why is it so easy to take our health for granted? What is going to become the trigger that makes us say, 'I need to check in with myself?'"
Riley Rees is the Founder and CEO at Sofia Health, an airline pilot, and a veteran who has served for 20 years in the U.S. Air Force.
Listen in as Riley does a deep dive into prevention and holistic health, drawing from her expertise in healthcare alongside lessons learned after almost two decades of service in the military around one's physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing.
She talks about the value of self-awareness as the first step toward taking control of your health and explains why integrative medicine—an approach to healing that takes the whole person into account—is finally gaining steam and greater acceptance in the mainstream healthcare industry.
Finally, Riley shares what led to the founding of Sofia Health and how it offers a "business in a box" to healthcare providers around the world.
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At the start of 2020, health and fitness professionals everywhere stumbled into opportunity amid crisis when they realized that, through virtual classes or coaching, they could make the same level of income—if not more—while enjoying location independence and time freedom all at the same time.
The question then became: How can I turn what I now have into a sustainable, and even scalable, business?
Listen in as Jill Coleman of JillFit shares how health and fitness professionals can build and run an efficient and successful health and fitness brand online.
She offers advice on defining your brand as an online coach, best practices for content creation and running paid ads, knowing when it's time to pivot, why you might need to look for a mentor or support group, and how to move past burnout.
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"If we have a platform that allows us to account for the physiological and psychological variables that impact our performance, then we can effectively choose our level of performance at any given moment."
Kristen Holmes is the Vice President of Performance Science at WHOOP, a platform that delivers personalized insights on your fitness, sleep, and recovery to you in real-time, effectively facilitating the connection between you and your body.
According to Kristen, WHOOP allows us to apply our behaviors, because once we can understand, in a quantifiable way, why our body is performing the way it currently is, we then gain the confidence to be intentional in everything we do—from the sports we play to the daily routines we live out day-to-day.
Ultimately, we're all just trying to be as engaged, present, and available as we can be, no matter the task at hand. To be able to track performance changes through data in real-time is a powerful way to pinpoint weaknesses, fill gaps, and adapt to environmental stressors.
Listen in as Kristen does a deep dive into how personalized insights by WHOOP can help anybody, athlete or otherwise, to live their lives with more energy and joy.
She also shares why it's not just the physiological parameters that influence our adaptive capacity; that the research indicates that the psychological component impacts us more profoundly than anything we can do physiologically.
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As with any journey of self-improvement, weight loss starts and ends with mindset. "Stop thinking of food as 'good' or 'bad'," says today's guest, Carter Good. "There's just food and the context in which it is eaten."
The struggle to form healthy nutrition and lifestyle habits comes down to the stories that you tell yourself around every decision you make, big or small. Carter himself attributes his past obesity to "using food as an emotional suppressant."
Carter goes on to say, "It's really about reframing things and getting people to a place where they don't feel like they have to make better choices and they have to exercise, but that they get to do these things."
Carter Good is a weight loss coach and the founder of the Leaner for Life community. He shares the story of how he lost 100 pounds in eight months, and why the hardest part of his journey came only after he lost all that weight.
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More often than not, out of our most challenging moments emerge our greatest opportunities.
It took only 24 hours to turn young Logan Sneed's entire world upside down. A college athlete and aspiring entrepreneur, a stage-4 brain cancer diagnosis was the last thing Logan ever expected at that point in his life. But that's exactly what happened following a near-accident on the road when Logan blacked out while FaceTiming his girlfriend.
Together with his strong-willed parents, Logan was able to connect with one of the most sought-after neurosurgeons in the world, who thankfully managed to extract the egg-sized tumor. But just when Logan thought he was in the clear, he was given ten years to live with no word of hope whatsoever.
Even after receiving his "death sentence", Logan soldiered on, determined to find a solution. He found it when a long-time mentor encouraged him to take up the ketogenic diet, which at the time was still widely unheard of.
Logan went all-in and not only found a new lease on life, but also decided to share his experiences with the world on social media. In spite of a barrage of haters who doubted his story and the legitimacy of his so-called "keto diet", there were enough people who were inspired by his journey for Logan to realize that he could monetize his growing brand.
Even this wasn't the end of Logan's trials. Listen in as he describes the lowest point in his journey so far—even beyond the diagnosis—as well as his betrayal at the hands of a man he once called "mentor".
But Logan also shares why, when all is said and done, cancer was the greatest thing that ever happened to him, having led him down the path to discovering his purpose and impacting thousands of lives (and rapidly counting) for the better.
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Up till only a few years ago, Sean and Dala McDevitt never saw themselves leading a fast-growing community of wellness enthusiasts with 19 coaches on staff that has led to over 2800 people completely transforming their lives.
The couple had always had a passion for health and fitness (they actually met at a gym) even back when they worked traditional jobs (Sean was in sales and marketing, and Dala was a labor and delivery nurse).
In 2016, Dala set up her Instagram profile @dalalovesdumbbells to share how she found and healed herself through fitness, with the hope of inspiring and elevating others as well. Monetizing the brand was not on her radar; that is, until her budding community began referring to themselves with the hashtag #DLDNation.
Two years later, Sean and Dala decided to quit full-time employment to fully dedicate themselves to #DLDNation.
There was nothing easy about both Sean and Dala leaving their traditional career and plunging headfirst into the world of entrepreneurship; specifically in the health and wellness coaching space. What's more, neither Sean nor Dala were "certified" trainers or nutritionists.
Listen in as the McDevitts go down memory lane and speak on lessons learned since their life-changing decision to become online trainers exclusively through the #DLDNation brand, including how they navigated the many challenges of running a coaching business brought on by the pandemic.
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John Malanca was inspired to start United Patients Group in 2011 after a totally unexpected episode when his father-in-law Stan was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer along with a brain tumor on his brain stem. The situation seemed hopeless, seeing their father going from being a seemingly healthy 77-year-old one day, to being given a mere two weeks to live the next.
"When you're diagnosed," says John, recalling those moments of desperation, "you'll try anything." That "anything", as fate would have it, was cannabis. They started by giving Stan THC capsules infused with coconut oil in order to get him to start eating again. It worked. A day later, he was back at work on a computer.
Nine months after the diagnosis, John's family got an email that simply stated "no evidence of recurrent disease." That was in 2011. Today, Stan is alive and well.
Listen in as John shares the exciting journey that emerged out of that harrowing experience. He describes the many benefits of the cannabis plant and, by extension, naturopathic modalities, and how these can help bring the body back to homeostasis.
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