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#217 - How to prioritise your body and health goals as a busy mum with Nyssa Bovenkamp May 10, 2023

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If you’re a busy mum who is struggling to prioritise your health and body goals, @nyssa_bovenkamp and I have a few simple and easy tips for you!

Nyssa is one of our amazing coaches; We were friends before she worked with us, and I’ve known her for ages. Nyssa has overcome a lot of adversaries to get to where she is now. I just admire her so much.

But since I can’t truly understand what it’s like to be a mum, I wanted to get Nyssa on here to address how she does it and what has worked for her. We’ve worked with thousands of mums, and a lot of the time, it comes down to controlling what you can control and making imperfect action. Failure is normal. Not making progress is normal. What really matters is consistency, so how can you do this? Give our latest podcast episode with Nyssa a listen!

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SHOW NOTES

00:40 - Nyssa's background and dieting history

02:42 - Being vegan and how it damaged her body

03:36 - Her transformation

04:33 - Her body composition changes

06:38 - How to prioritise yourself as a mum

09:10 - Why imperfect consistent action is the key

11:40 - The big rocks that are going to make the most difference and how women can prioritise these things

13:30 - How meal prepping and food tracking doesn't really have to be complicated

18:56 - Good carbs sources

19:28 - Daily steps and how to get them in

20:52 - Eliminating excuses

22:42 - Asking yourself how much time you can commit and what you can do

24:08 - Why you're not always going to make progress with training and that's ok

26:12 - Creating momentum

27:07 - Changing your identity

31:48 - What if you have an unsupportive partner?

33:36 - Focusing on the things that you can control

33:50 - Investing in coaching or getting an accountability buddy

35:50 - Why getting support is key

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#216 - How you breathe will affect your physical and mental performance with Patrick McKeown May 08, 2023

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Patrick is the author of The Oxygen Advantage. I’ve been reading his book (highly recommend!), and since I’ve found breathwork to really help my anxiety and stress, I thought we could help even more people by having Patrick come on and really foster a better understanding of the breath and breathwork.

A surprising 75% of the anxiety population has breathing pattern disorders. Yet, we can self-regulate our stress and anxiety through our breath. So, if you’re stressed or anxious, this podcast is for you!

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Patrick Mckeown @oxygenadvantage

SHOW NOTES

01:11 - Patrick’s background

02:50 - How he found breathwork and how it helped his asthma sleep issues

03:57 - How breathwork originated and how it can help a lot of health issues

O4:40 - Functional breathing and mindfulness

06:20 - The breathing technique he uses and and how it helps people

07:10 - Nasal vs mouth breathing

08:48 - Breathing pattern disorders

08:30 - Biochemistry and carbon dioxide

09:16 - Air hunger and oversensitivity to carbon dioxide

10:20 - How to self-regulate stress and anxiety through our breath

12:55 - How you breathe during sleep will affect your sleep quality

13:52 - Nitric oxide

14:50 - How breathing affects your psychology

15:44 - Breathing techniques and how to use them

19:17 - Recovery through breathwork

22:41 - Breathing for yoga

24:24 - Irregular breathing and the stress response

28:09 - Activating the relaxation response

28:58 - Exercising with your mouth closed

31:30 - What other programs he offer

32:19 - How women’s breathing is different from men’s

33:34 - What is a BOLT score

34:25 - The effects of mouth breathing in childhood

36:20 - Breathing technique clinical trials

43:27 - Why you need a coach

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#215 - How Emily healed her autoimmune condition, acne, anxiety, digestive issues & fatigue with Emily Sims May 03, 2023

Show notes

A year ago, Emily was a completely different person.

Suffering from an autoimmune condition, acne, anxiety, digestive issues, fatigue, anxiety, hair falling out, and more, Emily had tried everything. It wasn’t until she started using Saturee supplementation and making nutrition and lifestyle changes that things began to drastically change.

Today, Emily IS an entirely new person. She’s a mum and lives on a farm, but she’s overcome so much. If you struggled with health issues during and after pregnancy, you might be able to relate to her story.

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SHOW NOTES

01:24 - Emily's background

03:04 - Her health issues in the past and being diagnosed with Celiac disease

06:04 - The things she tried to improve her health problems

07:00 - How she came across Emma and Kitty

09:00 - Demonizing sugar

10:18 - Loving potatoes

10:51 - Eating uncooked foods and too many green veggies and how this affected her gut

14:12 - Why your symptoms are the result of how you're living and eating

14:30 - How she started supplementing with Saturee's products and the results she has seen

19:46 - The carrot salad

20:29 - Going on a 15-minute walk

24:02 - Being curious without judgement

24:30 - Benefits of food tracking

26:51 - How she started strength training and how she feels about it

30:19 - How strength training is slowly building her resilience and improving her posture

32:35 - Her health and complete transformation

34:15 - Her advice to other women who are in the same journey and struggling

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#214 - Changing your mind about stress with Theresa Piela May 01, 2023

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Feeling stressed? Have you listened to our latest podcast episode?

Theresa and I chat about how you can change you mind about stress! The truth is that you aren’t restricted to your past frameworks. You CAN overcome them with a few simple changes and reframing techniques.

Untangle your past and current stressors, and finally start making progress toward becoming that women you know you can be! (And here’s a twist: It doesn’t necessarily mean adding more.)

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Theresa Piela @livingrootswellness

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SHOW NOTES

01:03 - Theresa's background and what she does

02:15 - Working as an EFT practitioner

03:23 - Brain rewiring

04:30 - How a well-balanced and well fed system is so much more resilient to stress (Vit B3 and Niacinamide)

05:47 - Listening to your body and physical symptoms when you're already pushing to hard (Hyper awareness)

08:05 - Building stress resilience

08:32 - What stops women from making progress

09:08 - The central nervous system and stress (Hyper aroused and depleted state)

10:49 - Knowing where in the spectrum you are

11:34 - Slowing down: the exhale technique (Taking deeper breaths)

12:28 - Window of tolerance

12:53 - Asking yourself what your body really needs right now, what you can control what you can let go of

18:53 - Why we need to focus on recovery

19:14 - Being honest with yourself and knowing what you really want

21:40 - Embodying confidence

23:19 - Balance by tally

24:38 - Learning to say "no"

26:30 - Being in a toxic relationship or a job that you hate and how this affects you

29:23 - Strategies on how you can overcome stress

30:30 - Acknowledging what you feel

35:57 - How do feel you about the "feeling"

37:42 - What is breathwork

38:15 - The two parts of autonomic nervous system (Sympathetic and parasympathetic)

40:13 - How to do breath work

41:38 - Non-sleep deep rest (NSDR)

44:35 - Circadian rhythm and the benefits of getting a dose of sunlight

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#213 - Are you a busy mum who puts herself last? with Amy Weldon Apr 25, 2023

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If you’re a busy mum, you can probably relate to Amy Weldon’s story…

With six kids, Amy is always on the go! When her husband got sick 10 years ago, they decided to take their health into their own hands. Yet, when 2020 hit, and after two miscarriages, Amy knew she needed more help.

Eventually, she signed up for our program and since then, has lost 13 inches (gaining muscle and losing body fat!), sleeps better, and has seen vast improvements in her mental health. Her transformation in even just this short amount of time has been incredible!

Amy says, “As women, especially as moms, we tend to invest in our children in so many other ways. I look at it as an investment for my entire family. It’s not just an investment into yourself. Because when you invest in yourself, you are a better mom and wife.”

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SHOW NOTES

00:41 - Amy's background

01:25 - Her health and diet history

02:41 - Going through 2 miscarriages

04:19 - Putting on so much weight after following a restrictive diet program

05:46 - What she was hoping to achieve when she joined the program

06:46 - How long she's been in the program

07:01 - How her body composition changed and improved

08:49 - Loving lifting weights

09:35 - Her health improvements

10:16 - Prioritising sleep

11:05 - Gaining confidence

12:05 - How much calories she's on and what sorts of food she's eating

13:16 - What she enjoyed most about the program

14:32 - What she find the most challenging part about the program

16:12 - The advantages of planning ahead

17:11 - How the food fits in the family

19:17 - Her advice to women who are still siting on the fence about joining the program

20:53 - How coaching and support helped her achieve great results

22:39 - Her advice to other women who are in the same journey

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#212 - Finding the wisdom in emotional eating with Stephanie Mara Fox Apr 24, 2023

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Let’s talk about binge eating and trauma… In this latest podcast episode, Stephanie, a somatic eating counselor for over a decade, unveils the intricate emotional factors involved in binge eating.

Emotional eating and binge eating can actually be a message from your body, signaling dysregulation of some kind. Yet, we often simply beat ourselves up when we overindulge in ice cream, cookie, chips, etc. So, here’s what you can do instead to overcome binge eating once and for all!

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Stephanie Mara Fox, MA, CMBEC, CHC, CYT, is a Somatic Nutritional Counselor and Mentor with a Master’s Degree in Somatic Psychotherapy. She is the creator of Somatic Eating®, a body-oriented, sensation focused therapeutic approach to eating. She’s supported women, coaches, and wellness professionals all over the world, helping them to heal from disordered eating patterns, binge eating, emotional eating, chronic dieting, and body image concerns. She has been working for over the past decade to guide women in feeling empowered in their relationship with their food and body. Stephanie is published in the International Body Psychotherapy Journal, featured in Somatic Psychotherapy Today, VoyageDenver, Elephant Journal, Authority Magazine, and Your Recovery Revealed Summit. She is a teacher at the Institute for the Psychology of Eating and has supervised thousands of mind-body eating coaches. Stephanie is on a mission to guide others into a safe and regulated relationship with food so they can go out and create their Satiated Life.

Websites: https://www.stephaniemara.com/

https://www.somaticeating.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_stephaniemara/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephaniemarafox

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephmara/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stephaniemarafox

Contact: support@stephaniemara.com

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SHOW NOTES

02:44 - Stephanie's background, practicing as a Somatic Nutritional Counselor

03:37 - Emotional eating and underlying trauma

05:10 - Physical hunger vs emotional hunger

07:17 - Binge and comfort eating

08:47 - Window of tolerance

10:42 - Alcohol consumption

11:17 - Fight or flight response

12:18 - Protective eating

14:36 - Fear response

14:58 - Connecting with food

18:45 - Interrupting emotional eating before it happens

21:01 - Bringing language to emotions

23:40 - Our TTC Journey

26:05 - Feeling your emotions

27:44 - Flowing with yourself with where you're at

29:06 - Starting to see our relationship with food as a doorway

29:45 - Trusting your body

31:10 - Stephanie's programs

32:12 - Working in baby steps

32:55 - Bringing in curiosity

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#211 - If my goal is weight loss should I be doing high reps with Craig McDonald Apr 19, 2023

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Should you be doing high reps and lower weight if your goal is fat loss? In our this podcast episode, Craig answers this question once and for all.

Craig and I dig into the #1 thing that will have the most impact on fat loss, how muscle maintenance or growth effectively supports this, what goes into building muscle, the importance of muscle as we age, and common mistakes many women make.

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SHOW NOTES

04:34 - The number 1 thing that drives fat loss

05:07 - Total daily energy expenditure

05:32 - Activity levels

05:59 - Hitting your protein target and why this is important

07:07 - Why you will really never know exactly how many calories you’re burning

08:25 - Do you need to do higher reps to burn calories and lose fat?

08:49 - Why you need to separate muscle building from calorie burning

09:56 - Strength capability and why this is important

11:02 - Losing body fat and losing muscle

14:05 - Why muscle soreness does not always mean muscle growth

18:12 - Can you lose weight without strength training?

18:46 - Health benefits of strength training

22:30 - How to build more muscle

23:32 - How our coaches customise programs specifically for each client

26:12 - Why it'll be so much more enjoyable once you learn how to strength train

27:28 - Seeing what your body is truly capable of

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#210 - Does the copper IUD affect your hormones? with Amanda Montalvo Apr 17, 2023

Show notes

In this episode I sit down with Amanda Montalvo and chat about the copper IUD, what we know about how it works, its potential impact on your hormones and metabolism, and adjusting after having the copper IUD taken out.

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Amanda Montavlo @hormonehealingrd

SHOW NOTES

01:15 - Amanda's background

02:25 - Misconception about copper IUD

02:57 - What is the copper IUD

03:16 - How it can affect fertility and how effective it is as birth control

04:07 - Symptoms and side effects you may experience once you have it

04:20 - How it impact the egg cells and cervical mucus

05:13 - The controversies behind IUD

05:47 - How copper impacts your body

06:33 - How some women struggle since having the copper IUD

07:39 - The connection between stress and your cycle

08:15 - The risk of infection while having the copper IUD

08:56 - Your cycle as a health marker

09:53 - Understanding cervical mucus

11:54 - What happens when you keep it for a very long time

13:47 - Learning your cycle

16:14 - Fertility Awareness Methods (FAM)

17:36 - Knowing your body better

18:23 - Working with a practitioner

19:30 - How to support your body when you plan to come off the copper IUD

22:08 - How much time should you give yourself to balance out your estrogen

22:51 - Copper and estrogen

24:03 - Addressing the basics first

24:56 - Recovery after taking the IUD out

25:55 - How long it took before Amanda fixed her estrogen dominance from copper toxicity

27:21 - Painful periods

28:31 - Looking up the symptoms

29:40 - Fertility and birth control track

30:20 - Eating enough food to lower stress and symptoms

34:23 - Why it takes time in order for you see results

36:32 - Building stress resiliency

37:55 - Sleep deprivation and hunger

39:02 - How do you know that you need to eat more food

39:45 - Building connection and spending your time with your community to lower stress

40:29 - Knowing when you're already pushing too far

41:53 - Finding that balance

42:40 - Learning the value of your cycle

43:38 - Why menopausal symptoms is not normal

48:52 - The benefits of lifting weights

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#209 - How to reverse engineer the body you want with Kathleen Knauf Apr 12, 2023

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One of our amazing coaches, Kathleen, is back on our podcast. We’ve had many of our coaches on here, but now we’re going through different client case studies with each one. If you haven’t listened to the previous episode with Kathleen, go back and give that a listen. She was a classic over-exerciser, under eater but has made incredible changes and had an amazing transformation

So, I wanted to get Kathleen on here to show you how you can reverse engineer the body or body composition you want.

In this episode, Kathleen and I discuss:

➡️Why it takes 12-18 months for most transformations

➡️Once you've built the body you want why you can do less work to maintain it

➡️Why it’s beneficial to build muscle when losing weight

➡️Can you lose weight without strength training?

➡️How muscle is beneficial through menopause

➡️How Kathleen approaches body recomposition for clients

➡️Healthy body fat percentages (and where most women are most happy)

➡️Why “getting lean” takes discipline and precision, if you want to do it in a healthy way

➡️How we approach lifting to get you to your desired body composition

➡️Why this journey is never linear

➡️Making sustainable lifestyle changes

➡️How everything is simple once you learn it

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SHOW NOTES

01:40 - Kathleen's background

02:49 - Building the body you want

04:39 - Why majority of the women we work with are under-muscled

05:32 - Unrealistic expectations

05:50 - Why it takes 12-18 months for most transformations

06:56 - The brilliant thing about building muscle

07:50 - Why it’s beneficial to build muscle when losing weight

10:17 - Can you lose weight without strength training?

11:20 - Muscle vs fat

12:02 - How having more muscle is beneficial through menopause

12:30 - How Kathleen approaches body recomposition for her clients

13:29 - Healthy body fat ranges

18:28 - Why it takes discipline and precision to achieve a lean body

23:53 - How we approach lifting to get you to your desired body composition

24:32 - Skill acquisition

26:20 - Fueling the body appropriately

27:23 - Focusing on strength training

27:57 - Why this journey is never linear

31:08 - Making sustainable lifestyle changes

31:58 - Becoming a new person and falling in love with lifting

33:35 - Fear of lifting and become bulky

35:10 - Consistency and self-sabotage

37:13 - Are you just making excuses?

41:15 - How everything is simple once you learn the foundations

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#208 - The power of bathing with Bathing Evolved Apr 10, 2023

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I have the guys from Bathing Evolved back on the podcast! A while back, they contacted me and sent me some of their awesome bath bombs. I was looking at them and noticed that they contained tea tree oil which is an endocrine disruptor, so I let them know. They did their own research and took the tea tree oil out!

Will and David are such nice and genuine guys, so I wanted to get them back on to talk more about bathing and how it can affect our health, hormones, and metabolism. In this episode, the Bathing Evolved guys and I chat about:

➡️Their company’s humble beginnings

➡️Hidden toxins in beauty and hygiene products

➡️How certain chemicals act like estrogen in the body

➡️The history of bathing

➡️The link between metabolism and bathing

➡️The benefits of getting magnesium via the skin

➡️The problem with a lot of Epsom salt brands

➡️The best way to bath (And how to use Bathing Evolved products)

➡️Depriving yourself and the power of doing nothing

➡️The niacin sauna detox

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SHOW NOTES

02:19 - How Bathing Evolved started

04:13 - Synthetic fragrances and chemicals from bath salts that may harm you

05:11 - Tea tree oil exposure

06:27 - Environmental toxins in beauty and hygiene products

07:53 - How certain chemicals act like estrogen in the body

09:26 - The history of bathing

10:59 - The connection between metabolism and bathing