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Despite the frequency of miscarriage and pregnancy loss, we have yet to approach the conversation as a culture from a place of understanding and empathy. After Frieda Hoffman’s second miscarriage, she felt alone, emotionally overwhelmed, and unheard. She created the resource she wished she had at that time: real stories about real women going through what she had, but without the lens of academia or religion to devalue people’s valid emotional responses. Her book, “Carry Me: Stories of Pregnancy Loss,” details the complexity of fertility, miscarriage, and loss. We talk through it all—the grief, the laws surrounding it, and the importance of normalizing these conversations.
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Look, there’s plenty of information out there about what happens between you and your child once they’re born, but what happens to the couple’s relationship after that baby comes into the scene? And really, something that most couples struggle with in life after birth – and not just immediately after birth, but for the rest of their lives – is finding time for each other. We’re gonna talk about the contrast between our relationship before and after kids and how we try to keep the spark alive despite all the obstacles life throws at us. Because you have to put in the work.
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Remember when eating well was as easy as trusting the label and following the food pyramid? Or at least that’s what we believed. We now know that eating healthily is both much more complicated and much simpler than it seems. Thank goodness for Courtney Swan. She’s an integrative nutritionist on a mission to fix America’s broken food system. She shares all about the dirty practices of the food industry, how regenerative farming can help us take back our food, and what you can do to get started.
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Anxiety used to be understood as something you felt, not something you had – at least that’s how I understood it until the point in life where I just couldn’t grasp the bigness of everything and couldn’t shake the sense of impending doom. So I kept productive and outran those feelings, which made things better… until it didn’t. Running can’t solve those problems. As Dr. Tracy Dennis-Tiwary puts it, “The key to feeling good is knowing how to feel bad.” She’s the author of Future Tense: Why Anxiety Is Good for You (Even Though It Feels Bad), and if you’re anxious about your anxiety then she’s someone you need to listen to.
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The world of wellness has changed a lot from the 90s – when my mom would make do, sweating it out with Jane Fonda, the occasional doubles tennis match, or Jazzercising with friends. Now we have so many more options to stay healthy and feel well at our fingertips: infrared saunas, intermittent fasting, cryotherapy, somatic therapy, IV drips, and more. We have more information, more access to it, and more opportunities than ever to take care of ourselves. But we also have more to contend with than ever before. With everything from social media to the toxic hustle mentality, we need all the help we can get. Dr. Laura DeCesaris is a functional medicine-trained health strategist who helps female entrepreneurs, career women, and otherwise highly motivated people around the world. We talk about what you can do to channel the mental stress and physical imbalance that often rides alongside those big, ambitious goals.
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Being a boss is hard. There’s a fine balance between being liked and being respected, and you need a dose of both to be successful. Without holding employees accountable, you take on unreasonable personal pressures to keep your business afloat. Enter Violet Rainwater, a catalyst for healthy workplaces. She helps teams thrive through her interactive keynotes and workshops. We take a look at her mission to equip workplaces with her innovative framework to help them break free of past conditioning and thrive.
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This Parenthood Remix goes a bit off the rails. But you know what? We’re going to give ourselves some grace because that’s what this episode is all about. As parents, you’re constantly bombarded with advice – solicited or otherwise. And with advice comes the implication – intended or not – that you’re not doing things right. Look, there’s no “right” way to parent, and we’re all doing the best we can. So we’re going to take look at what it means to cut yourself some slack when you fall short of perfection. How about celebrating the fact that you’ve survived another day of the hardest job in the world – even if it means having to use fart jokes or sexual innuendo along the way?
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Amber Rae has a knack for anchoring the truth and allowing it to be shared freely. Amber is an author, artist, and global voice for emotional wellness and self-discovery, turning highly relatable insights on the human experience into viral art, sold-out venues, and bestselling books – one of those being The Answers Are Within You, and with a title like that, you know you want to recognize that truth. Whether you’re a creative in need of deep inspiration, a student moving into the next phase of life, or a budding entrepreneur gathering confidence for the next big leap, Amber is here to inject you with the confidence needed to trust your inner voice.
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So you have your first baby, fresh out of the oven, in your hands for the first time. You’re feeling all of the emotions, from the highest highs to the lowest lows. Then, some well-meaning relative pops in and says “When’s number two on the way?” without even giving your lady parts time to rest. And let me tell you, the question never stops coming—and if it does, it only gets replaced by “Why’d you stop at one?” There are some weird cultural expectations around kids, and when you go against the grain you start to get some odd looks. We’re going to explore what some of those expectations are, why we decided to be “one and done,” and share two pieces of game-changing parenting advice we received early on that we were grateful to hear.
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When Kimberly Snyder was on the podcast last year, she gave us a direct injection of get-up-and-go. She’s the founder of Solluna, a holistic haven to embody and maximize on the four cornerstones of true beauty: food, body, emotional wellbeing, and spiritual growth. She’s a three-time New York Times bestseller, and her latest self-help book You Are More Than You Think You Are: Practical Enlightenment for Everyday Life is sure to join those ranks. Drawing inspiration from the teachings of the great yoga guru, Paramahansa Yogananda, as well as personal stories, and the latest research, Kimberly offers simple exercises, potent ancient practices, and in-depth meditations to help you overcome negative beliefs, and see yourself as you truly are.
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