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EP37: Train Your Brain, Fix Your Body with Zachariah Salazar

EP37:  Train Your Brain, Fix Your Body with Zachariah Salazar

Zachariah Salazar is a Z-health Performance master trainer.  He's a self educated practitioner who's dedicated to helping people discover their ultimate performance and pain free living.
Using simple neuroscience techniques he helps people live a pain free high performance life.

In this episode he shares with us his take on the fitness industry and what he thinks it takes to find success in your fitness practice

EP36: Strategic Vitality with Christa King

EP36:  Strategic Vitality with Christa King

Christa King is the CEO & Founder of Fitlandia. She’s also a recovered dieter. After reaching her highest weight of 192, she hit a wall and was determined to crack her own code for a making a healthier lifestyle change. Leaving a successful, 23-yr career in hospitality behind, she became a certified hypnotherapist, life coach, and nutritional therapist. By putting these pieces together, she saw what was truly missing in the diet and fitness industry: a holistic approach that starts with strengthening the mind. Her signature Mind Zoning® process helps people create new neural pathways in the brain to enable them to make a permanent, lifestyle change.

In this episode my takeaways were...

  • How coping or celebration strategies create neural connections and thought patterns that we go to during certain times of stress.
  • How you make a distinction between good sugars and bad sugars.
  • Getting clear on what you want through Christa's Mindzoning meditations - She explains that getting into a relaxed state helps you better connect with your inner wisdom and subconscious mind.

EP35: Reset Your Neural Program With Ashley James

EP35:  Reset Your Neural Program With Ashley James

Ashley James is an entrepreneur, coach and podcaster.

Her podcast is called Learn True Health with Ashley James where she interviews holistic health experts and doctors of Naturopathic medicine.

Through the interviews, her expert guests teach listeners how to gain health naturally through holistic medicine, diet, supplemental nutrition and lifestyle changes.

Ashley makes sure that listeners learn Natural Medicine Life Hacks for gaining energy, better sleep, a boosted immune system and an overall feeling of awesomeness!

In this episode we talk about how you can reset your neural programing with simple strategies.  She discusses how we can be in a hypnotic trance of negative belief about ourselves and shares with us how you can get yourself out of it.

EP34 - Dairy's Not So Scary - Topic Show

EP34 - Dairy's Not So Scary - Topic Show

Dairy contains a balanced ratio of phosphorus (essential mineral for bone development) and calcium (needed for healthy bones, nerve function, blood clotting, muscle and heart contractions).  This is important because the ratio of phosphorus to calcium in dairy aids in calcium absorption and that's why including dairy in the diet is so important as you get older.  Even more so since we're more susceptible to osteoporosis as we age.  The good news is we can essentially side step this issue if we're absorbing calcium properly which dairy can provide.

EP33: Discovering & Living Your Purpose With James Hollis PhD

EP33:  Discovering & Living Your Purpose With James Hollis PhD

James Hollis, Ph.D. is a Jungian Analyst in Washington, D. C. where he is also Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington. He has published fifteen books translated into nineteen languages and lectures widely on five continents.  His latest books are Hauntings and Living an Examined Life.

EP32: Integrating Community, Intuition & Movement With Katy Bowman

EP32: Integrating Community, Intuition & Movement With Katy Bowman

In this episode we discuss how Katy came to develop the concept of nutritious movement and movement ecology.  Role modeling as a way of showing others how to integrate change.

Finding your personal mission statement and defining your own personal value system which is different than the values you hold for your family and community. They are dynamic.

What you'll learn from this episode...

  • Role modeling vs. being an expert and what we hand down to other generations;  our truths, intuition and expert culture. 
  • Multitasking - how one task leads to another thus making integration much smoother.
  • How to make life less stressful and more joyful by integrating and stacking nature based activities.
  • How making things more complex has impacted our environment and health from an ecological standpoint.

EP30: Good Fats Bad Fats: Nuts & Seeds - Q&A

EP30:  Good Fats Bad Fats:  Nuts & Seeds - Q&A

In this episode you'll learn about:
- The five things that nuts and seeds have that make them extremely difficult to digest.  What could be causing your migraine headaches and how to create hormonal balance with simple diet tips.  Why the kinds of fats coming from nuts and seeds can be detrimental to your gut health and which fats are essential for your health.  If you can't live without nuts and seeds, the best way to prepare them for better digestion.

EP26: Integrating Natural Movement and Outdoor Exploration with Kimberly Alexander and Melissa Sher

EP26:  Integrating Natural Movement and Outdoor Exploration with Kimberly Alexander and Melissa Sher

We talk to Kimberly Alexander and Melissa Sher of Point Gym & Kitchen in Portland Oregon about how they help people integrate natural movement in the gym and take it outside and explore the outdoors.  They guide groups on various expeditions like mountain climbing, snowshoeing, and white water rafting in the Pacific Northwest.  

EP23: PANYA WALKER - STEPPING INTO THE UNKNOWN COURAGEOUSLY

EP23:  PANYA WALKER - STEPPING INTO THE UNKNOWN COURAGEOUSLY

We talk about Panya's vision and mission for her life which is to learn to LOVE and LIVE FREE, and teach others to do the same.  We explore what might be causing you to procrastinate and how to create follow through and consistency in your life with key lifestyle practices.  Panya shares with us how re-creating yourself can be joyful by allowing yourself to step into the unknown courageously.

EP10: Resistant Starch & The Glycemic Index

EP10:  Resistant Starch & The Glycemic Index

Is resistant starch healthy? It's a confusing subject because the answer is yes and no. A resistant starch is a food that is resistant to digestion, but you can turn a resistant starch into a more digestible food just by preparing it differently. We talk about this and the glycemic index as well as which sugars are better for you than others.

EP8: Movement and Energy

EP8:  Movement and Energy

What's the balance between too much movement and not enough?  Today we explore the paradox between the two and talk about how you can find balance in the middle.  We share tips to avoid aging faster and how stress hormones suppress your metabolism.

EP1: Learned Helplessness, Self Care And Creative Energy

EP1:  Learned Helplessness, Self Care And Creative Energy

Don't give your power away when it comes to your health.  We talk about how to take it back and share with you our health journey.  We also talk about some of the people who've influenced us over the years like Ray Peat, Josh and Jeanne Rubin and Kate Deering.