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Episode 093: Surviving the Hardest of Days w/ Alexandra Franzen Nov 25, 2017

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Life is full of uncertainties, but a few things you can be certain you will face in your lifetime, and one of them is adversity. No one gets through life without facing challenges, and HOW we choose to face those challenges has everything to do with the quality of life we will live. Adversity shapes us, for better or for worse.

My guest on the Grace & Grit podcast today, Alexandra Franzen, just authored an entire book on the subject of adversity and how to rise above the disappointment of things not playing out in the way that we expected.

Alexandra and I covered a lot of ground in this interview, including: how to persevere, why awareness & honesty are so necessary for success, how to stay focused while living in a world of distraction, the power of morning routines and how self-care feeds creativity. This is an episode not to be missed.

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Episode 092: Beating Crohn's Disease w/ Kristen Boehmer Nov 18, 2017

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Now, typically when I schedule podcast interviews, I schedule them based on when my schedule aligns with the schedules of the guest I want to host. There is really no method behind how the podcasts are organized, which makes it extra special when I am able to host a guest like Jenny Carr to discuss inflammation and then immediately host my guest today, Kristen Boehmer, who has an incredible story of triumph in managing a serious disease via diet and lifestyle after medications and surgeries failed her.

Kristen Boehmer is the founder and creator of Living Loving Paleo, and from her own experience, is a true believer that food can be a powerful medicine. Tune into this episode for a serious hit of inspiration.

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Episode 091: The Secret to an Anti-Inflammatory Diet w/ Jenny Carr Nov 11, 2017

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Halloween is now over (I am sure I am not the only mother out there whispering "thank god" under her breath). I love a lot of the traditions of Halloween but the sheer volume of candy involved in the holiday drives me crazy! I went trick-or-treating for all of 25 minutes with my son and, in that short time; he must have collected several pounds of candy. Ugh!

Sugar makes things taste good, but as far as good qualities sugar provides, it ends there. I really try hard not to label foods "bad" but in the case of sugar it is really hard not to, because of all of the inflammation it creates in the human body.

Chronic inflammation has been linked to nearly EVERY dis-ease known to man. Our bodies have a lot of stressors to contend with on any given day; there are lots of reasons for our system to get inflamed outside of the food choices we are making. So, we aren't doing our body any favors when we ingest things that cause even MORE inflammation.

Inflammation is a very important topic that I have addressed on this podcast many times, and it is a topic I have every intention on continuing to talk about. Today's guest, Jenny Carr, is a health coach who specializes in the topic of inflammation, has been on the podcast before to speak with us about this topic. Jenny just authored her first book, called Peace of Cake: The Secret to an Anti-Inflammatory Diet, so I begged her to come back to share some more of her wisdom with you! And low and behold, she said yes!

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Episode 090: Taking Back Your Time w/ Amber De La Garza Nov 04, 2017

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Welcome to the Grace & Grit Podcast. I am super pumped you are here today and I am so grateful for all of the amazing feedback I got from last week's interview with Courtney Carver of Be More with Less.

Clearly, "simplicity" is a topic that hit home for a lot of you. And I get it. The large majority of the women I work with are doing all they can to keep their head above the sea of "to-dos" they have on their schedule.

I know I sound like a broken record when I say that if you want to improve your health, you are going to have to create time to improve your health. Many health issues I see women struggling with are a result of women having gigantic expectations and poor time management.

You may very well be someone who schedules your days; you might have an awesome planner and the perfect pen to hash out your to do's. When I say poor time management, I don't mean that women aren't making an effort to schedule their days. What I see is women creating schedules that are often misaligned with their values and jam-packed with outrageous expectations for what any one human can accomplish in a day.

I also see so much focus on DOING, that RESTORING is often neglected, which, as you well know if you are an avid listener of this podcast, is a recipe for a lot of dis-ease in the human body

So, knowing how much women struggle to organize their time to create a level 10 life, I asked my friend and productivity expert, Amber De La Garza, to come on the show and talk about time management and to give us some simple tips for creating realistic schedules that are in line with our life goals and still leave room for the important stuff like rest and play.

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Episode 089: Be More With Less w/ Courtney Carver Oct 28, 2017

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Simplicity, in my opinion, is a topic we cannot talk about enough because we are living in a time that is everything but simple.

Building the skill of living more simply isn't sexy (just as most of the things that will truly improve our health are not). It forces us to slow down, become aware and make conscious choices and it is easy to rationalize not having time for that in a world that pushes more is better and hustle as the only ways to be successful.

You are listening to this podcast because there is something you want for your health that you don't currently have. I don't sugarcoat, so here is the truth, if you want to up-level any area of your life, you are going to have to make room in your life to do that and most people I know are living with too much stuff to manage and too little time. Which, ultimately, is a recipe for breakdown and dis-ease, not a recipe for health & happiness.

And look… I get it, simplifying your life can feel really complicated and hard and overwhelming, which is why I am SO grateful there are people in the world like my guest today, Courtney Carver, who has a knack for showing people how to be more with less.

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Episode 088: The Art of Money w/ Bari Tessler Linden Oct 21, 2017

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Episode 087: The Value of Becoming Behavior Focused on the Road to Better Health Oct 14, 2017

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For years women have sought me out to help them improve their health, and often they come expecting a list of "what" they should be doing (via specific meal plans, calorie loads, foods to avoid etc.). They are often surprised when I ask them to start questioning HOW they might need to show up differently for themselves to elicit a different response.

How you greet the day is just as important as what you plan on doing in the day.

How you eat is just as impactful to your health as what you eat.

How you move is just as important as what modality you choose to up-level your physicality.

HOW should proceed the WHAT, because how you do anything has everything to do with the impact "the what" will have in the long term.

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Episode 086: Natural Hormone Healing w/ Madeline MacKinnon Oct 07, 2017

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I have had several guests on the show to discuss the power hormones have in the health equation because honestly, I do not think this is a topic we can discuss enough. Hormones influence and govern everything about our physiology: weight fertility, mood, energy, sleep and sex drive…just to name a few things. And their disruption can cause havoc on our tissues, our systems and ultimately our sanity.

While there may be a time and place for pharmaceutical intervention to help balance extreme hormone challenges, there are a lot of ways to balance our hormones naturally, which are often overlooked.

So today, I have invited to the show, Madeline MacKinnon the founder of Natural Hormone Healing to give us some insight into the wild world of hormones and how to create a state of hormonal bliss.

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Episode 085: Simple Ways to Become More Consistent with Exercise Sep 30, 2017

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Exercise inspires a host of emotions in people including: fear, dread, resistance and frustration. It is a shame that something that has been proven time and time again to be so good for us, can feel like such a hardship at times.

If you have every struggled to stay consistent with your exercise program, you are not alone. Everyone struggles at some point. So, in this episode of the Grace & Grit podcast I deliver my best tips for staying the course, even if you don't feel like it (because to be honest, there will be many days you won't feel like it).

Enjoy and please share it with the women in your life who you feel might benefit from listening too!

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Episode 084: Reworking the "Cheat Meal" Mentality Sep 23, 2017

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"Cheat meals" and "cheat days" are an integral part of the diet culture vocabulary. And while many people could argue that it is just "semantics" and, therefore, no big deal… I beg to differ.

Cheating implies dysfunction and deep health is not born out of dysfunction (not by a long shot).

If you have every found yourself in a position of trying to make amends with food choices that aren't necessarily in line with what you say you want for your health, check out this episode of the Grace & Grit podcast for tips and tricks that can help you rework the "cheat meal" mentality.

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