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[party in my plants] 128: Why Do The Matcha and Gojis if You’re Not Even Getting in 8-10 Cups of Greens a Day? with McKel Hill of Nutrition Stripped Feb 01, 2019

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McKel Hill, a superstar dietician and the founder of the powerhouse wellness brand called Nutrition Stripped has been stripping down the complex topic of nutrition for five epic years now! In those five years, she’s written a cookbook, launched a robust society (not a secret one though), operates a thriving coaching practice, built a shop of super adorbs planty t-shirts and sexy stationary, and has brought knowledge and inspiration to millions and millions of health-seeking peeps. For someone whose senior high school superlative was to be “the Next Picasso,” she’s really been rocking the “next impressive and stylish entrepreneur female judge on Shark Tank” superlative these days, too. Here’s my chat with her about how she balances it all while keeping her body healthy and her plant eating on fleek!

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Her never-shared-on-a-podcast-before (I’m assuming...don’t fact check me) story of how she got engaged to a dude with the same name as my engaged dude!
What she says when people complain about their hubby, roomie, etc. not wanting to also eat healthfully.
How she created her massive brand “Nutrition Stripped.”
Why she believes that “nutrition found her.”
Her food philosophy in a nutshell...which coincidentally involves nuts.
How to balance balance.
Why she routinely strives to be uncomfortable (and why I think that’s a key to her major success!).
Why she also strives to adhere to a morning routine to be comfortable (and why she says that’s a key to HER major success!).
And lots more.

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[party in my plants] 127: Got Soup? How Slurping Might Be The Most Souper Antidote to Your Food Stress! with Nicole Centeno of Splendid Spoon Jan 25, 2019

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My guest today is really souper. And the queen of all things sippable and spoonable. Nicole Centeno is the founder of Splendid Spoon, a food delivery company that takes care of meal prep by sending peeps plant-party soups and smoothies so you can slurp up for breakfast and/or lunch and then sit pretty knowing you stole more than your required dose of fruits and veggies by noon. Suck on that, healthy eating is hard mentality! In our chat, Nicole serves more than soup - she dishes out so much wisdom about how simple it can actually be have a packed schedule (she’s juggling a company and two kiddos!) and still pack in the plants. What I love most about this entrepreneurial and enthusiastically health-conscious soup master is that she’s as down to earth as her foods. Nicole opens up about how, back in the day, she used to stress so much about food and her relationship with it. While she was pregnant with her first child, she was going craaaazy about doing everything right and treating eating like it was some sort of mysterious equation. Quickly she learned how those obsessive, worrying thoughts around food didn’t work. [Shocker.] And instead, she discovered how calming down about the whole healthy eating thing and making small, simple changes can radically change a life. [Also shocker.]

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How to get your plant party on from morning ‘til noon
How to soup up your soup game
Why white knuckling does. not. work.
Strategies for upping your smoothie game so you’re sipping on high-protein, low sugar blends
How dinner stress can FINALLY be a thing of the past
Three reasons that will make soups one of your menu staples forever
A down-to-earth approach to revamping your relationship with food
Plus some unlikely secret ingredients for your soups and smoothies that will change your world
And more!

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[party in my plants] 126: 6 Kitchen Tools That Make Healthy Cooking Suck Way Less ;-) Jan 18, 2019

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I totally understand that it might not be your instinct to buy a ton of kitchen gadgets. You might be reluctant to trade your time for money and then trade that money for some unnecessary kitchen tools. Especially after you got that completely unnecessary banana peeler. I get it. But I also get how daunting it can feel to be like “let me just whip up a healthy dinner” and then look at your bare hands and a potato, wondering what to do next. So in this episode, I share the top kitchen tools that, in my plant-party experience, are MUST HAVE’s if YOU want to have healthy meals easily coming out of your kitchen and into your mouth!

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[party in my plants] 125: The One Where a Doctor Raps. And Dumps Gut-Saving Advice! with Gastroenterologist Dr. Will Bulsiewicz Jan 11, 2019

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My guest today is one of a kind. He’s also just, kind. Dr. Will Bulsiewicz is a speaker, blogger, father, husband, microbiome specialist and a full time practicing Gastroenterologist. Now admittedly, I haven’t had the best experiences with gastro’s - I saw a couple many years ago in the heyday of my digestive struggles and they were not personable, not helpful and nowhere close to being on the “food-affects-your-gut-health” train. So aside from Dr. B’s hilarity, well-spoken-ness and palpable through the phone sincerity for educating and helping heal guts, the fact that he’s as passionate about plants as any person I’ve ever encountered -- which goes back to what I said earlier about him being one of a kind. Aside from being seen in scrubs and colonoscopies at and The Lowcountry Gastroenterology Practice in South Carolina, he’s been featured in Men’s Health, Huff Post, Women’s Health, & Reader’s Digest and hear me when I say his instagram account: @theguthealthmd is a hoot and a half plus an extra half of having helpful information!

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- Why doctors aren't being taught about food, nutrition, and diet.

- All about the microbiome, baby!!

- The very bad effects of losing gut diversity.

- How stress messes with your digestion. (My favorite topic.)

- The magic of fiber and how it's like a super hero.

- How sad the Standard American Diet really is…

- The #1 one thing we can add to our diets to improve our gut health!

- Advice for raising kids to have healthy tummies.

- A garden analogy to explain probiotics and prebiotics.

- And SO. MUCH. must-hear. MORE. !!

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[party in my plants] 124: Anxiety’s SO Last Year. Here’s How to Ditch Non-Productive Worries, Quit Overthinking and Truly Calm the F*&k Down! with Sarah Knight. Jan 04, 2019

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When it comes to giving advice, today’s guest doesn’t hold back. And because of that, she’s back! On my podcast! Because I just can’t get enough of Sarah Knight’s hilariously no BS tough love and her out of the box mind altering metaphors galores. And I’m not alone in not being able to get enough of Sarah Knight, considering she’s, like, an internationally best selling author of 3 - going on 4 - books!

In case you missed my first chat with Sarah back in episode 70, you should know that this funny lady and super likeable human is most well known for her first book called “The Life changing Magic of Not Giving a Fuck,” which has had readers from around the world LOLing while taking away magical lessons in saying bye to unwanted obligations. She’s also the hit writer of “Get Your Shit Together” and “You do You” - guides that hand hold you through making big life changes and embracing your imperfections. Now, Sarah has another work hitting shelves and kindles called “Calm the Fuck Down” and it’s another pee your pants funny and uncensored guide to… well, calming the fuck down.

Needless to say, this chat has a lot of unbleeped bleeps in it, as well as unbelievably awesome advice on how to stop overthinking, go easy on your freak outs, stop stressing about the uncontrollable, and just let shit goooooooo….

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[party in my plants] 123: The Top 18 Healthy Thought-McNuggets I Ate Up in 2018 Dec 28, 2018

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Since I have technology to remind me of all the podcast episodes that hit your earbuds in 2018, (thank you a mundo for listening, by the way!) I wanted to shimmy through the highlights of this year. The following 18 things are things I heard on my show this year that made me go WOAH.

These are facts that stopped me in my tracks, ideas that made me think a little differently, tips that helped me eat a little differently or were just catchy, coo, clever ways my guests phrased something I already knew to be true.

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[party in my plants] 122: The Self-Talk Smackdown! Proactively Being Positive, Planning Your Freakouts & Taking a Damn Compliment. (Plus Disagreeing with Tony Robbins!) with Katie Horwitch Dec 20, 2018

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My guest today is a self-talk shifter. She’s a negative word redefiner. And she’s a pretty prolific one-line spitter-outer! Katie Horwitch is a writer, speaker, artist, activist and one of my dearest most favorite friends. She’s the proud founder of WANT: Women Against Negative Talk, a platform that gives women tips, tools, motivation, and inspiration to move forward in their lives by shifting their negative self-talk patterns. Katie’s brought the house down twice at The Good Fest (which is how we originally met) and regularly speaks across the country about self-confidence and self image. She’s the host of the WANTcast: The Women Against Negative Talk Podcast, where she interviews visionary ladies (I was on there! Episode 47!) about moving forward fearlessly and taking a proactive approach to positivity. She’s a trainer on Aaptiv, the #1 audio fitness app, where she gets to reach over a million sweat-seekers per month with her melodic VOICE, customized running, cycling and elliptical workouts and of course - her unique brand of outa this world positive coaching! Katie’s just an overall joy - which happens to also be her middle name (Joy) - and I’m not sure what’s taken me so long to get her cutie booty on my show but after this powerhouse of a chat I’m sure she’ll BRB.

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The most brilliant definition of orthorexia I’ve ever heard
How to execute a “planned freak out”
Why you can’t feel fat because it’s not a feeling
What Katie disagrees with Tony Robbins on
Strategies to actually be able to take a compliment
How. And. Why. To. Keep. Things. Neutral.
The difference between hate and dislike + like and love
Some personality tests that can help you get to know yourself best
And sosososo much more!

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[party in my plants] 121: Eating Plants to Save the World, with Suzy Amis Cameron Dec 13, 2018

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My guest today believes we can save our health, our waistline AND the planet in one foul swoop...or swap..of one meat-based meal for a plant-based meal every day. Suzy Amis Cameron, an actress, environmentalist, and mom of five is hard at work on saving the world with her husband, James Cameron, known in this chat as Jim and known on IMDB as the genius writer, director and producer behind Avatar, Terminator and Titanic. Together, they’ve founded a number of environmental organizations and are mega-passionate about exposing and reducing the impact of animal agriculture on climate change and the environment. She’s the author of a new book called OMD: Changing the World by Changing One Meal a Day (hence the OMD) and OMG, this chat is an eye opener.

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[party in my plants] 120: This is Wussup with Spiritual Fitness, with Patricia Moreno, founder of IntenSati Dec 06, 2018

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My guest today is like the fitness industry’s OG OG, blazing fiery hot trails in the fitness space for well over two decades and impacting the lives and bodies of tens of thousands of humans worldwide. Patricia Moreno grew up with her fair share (and really, an extra share) of weight struggles and found fitness to be the greatest catalyst of change. She quickly rose to the top of the world HEY!, and dominated the fitness scene, only to find herself in a deeper struggle with her body image than ever before. Thanks to many epiphanies and the patience to take a long and winding road, Patricia found herself in a new world: the world of spiritual fitness. She created her signature workout called IntenSati which is a groundbreaking way to sweat that combines high energy cardio, mindfulness, meditation and the power of yelling out positive things which has proven time and time again to legit bring out participant’s inner badass best selves. Speaking of Patricia yelling out positive things, that’s what most of this conversation is - I triple down dog DARE you to not be LIT UP after hearing our chat.

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What the fitness industry looked like way back in the day. Like over 7,300 days ago. (That's 20 years.)
Everythang wrong with the idea that skinny = happy
Why everything else is a moot point if your MIND isn’t at the party
What Patricia’s life was like being overweight at age 8
The rockies of rock bottoms Patricia had that led her to jazz hands out of traditional fitness and lead the way to spiritual fitness
What really creates true, lasting change
How she instills a positive body image in the hearts and heads of her three daughters
And so much more!

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