We're switching gears today and doing a solo show! Today I'm sharing my story about how I started to tune into my intuition and get in the driver's seat of my life in the past two years. My goal with this episode is to give you context on where I'm coming from when I talk about intuition in terms of life, movement and eating.
I learn through story, which is why I want to share my own in hopes that you can learn from it too. I know that your story will be different from my own, but I think we can all learn from each other. At the end of the episode I'm also sharing some wonderful things that have happened as a result of listening to my intuition as well as some tools you can try to apply yourself to tune into your own intuition.
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Ep. 31 - Balancing Nutrition Knowledge with Intuition Around Food & Eating Well in Busy Seasons of Life with McKel Hill
McKel Hill is the creator of Nutrition Stripped the (very) popular food blog turned cook book, shop, coaching and more! I chat with McKel about how she dove into the wellness world and how she stays happy and sane running her blog as a full time business.
We dive into the tricky balance between making food choices based of nutrition knowledge versus intuition. We also talk about how to stay well in busy seasons of life. McKel shares her morning routine (which sounds delightful) and why it’s the key to staying positive, healthy and managing stress.
I’ve followed Nutrition Stripped since I started my own blog and I’ve been amazed at how it’s grown and lead the way for so many amazing wellness bloggers and entrepreneurs. McKel is warm, fun and so engaging to talk to. I hope you enjoy this episode!
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Breaking through comfort zones, pursuing passions and surprisingly deep thoughts on ice cream
Happy 30 episodes! Every tenth episode is a Q&A show and this time we did things a little differently. I asked for anyone to send in their questions and got some amazing ones! Thank you.
My sister was on island for the weekend so I roped her into recording with me. My sister Nellie asked the questions and rather than just a simple Q&A this turned into more of a conversation which I loved. Obviously I am biased because my sister and I are best friends, but I think this episode was really special and so much fun.
I loved that the questions were deep and not black and white answers. Again, take my advice, like all advice, with a grain of salt because we’re different people. If you like something, use it. If you don’t, no worries babe!
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Connect with Nellie
on instagram: @madaketmorley
Today’s episode is all about financial health.
When today’s guest approached me asking me to be on the show I hesitated and asked myself is money related to wellness at all?
In the end I definitely believe it is.
My personal belief is that money is an energy.
Its not inherently good or evil, it’s a tool that we can use to amplify ourselves.
I’m a believer that if you’re a generous, positive person with good intentions money can just help you do the things and give and be more of that awesome energy.
The same goes for if you’re a dickhead.
Obviously there’s a million things we could dive into with money but today we kept it pretty simple.
This episode is especially geared towards folks who are in their twenties and early thirties, but heck anyone who just wants to feel a little more empowered and in control.
Just like with your wellness and health there’s no one right answer with how to manage your money.
If you’re listening and don’t agree with everything my guest says that’s absolutely ok. We all have a right and ability to manage our money in a way that works for us.
I also wanted to note that if any of the diet related metaphors don’t work or resonate with you I totally get that. Some of them didn’t really land with me but I was able to understand the point she was making and the money advice was still great. So just because maybe a certain metaphor doesn’t click - you can still listen to and enjoy the financial side of things.
What I really loved is that Shannon is not black and white about money. She knows that everyone thinks and manages things differently which is what really helped me get a lot of benefit from this advice. I loved how she didn’t say there’s just one way to do everything.
We Talk About:
Resources Shannon Mentions
Investment Tools
Different Types of Budgeting
Types of IRA’s for business owners
Connect with Shannon
Podcast: Martinis and Your Money
Email me your struggles & wins over at georgie@init4thelongrun.com to be featured on the next episode!
This week’s episode is with a huge inspiration of mine, Chinae Alexander. Former Texan-turned-New Yorker, Chinae Alexander is an entrepreneur, lifestyle personality, writer, speaker, and wellness expert based in Brooklyn, New York. Her message is to empower people to be better through positive thinking, active change, self-love…with a lot of humor along the way.
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On Instagram: http://instagram.com/chinaealexander
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Davida Kugelmass is the creator behind The Healthy Maven, a multi-channel health and wellness platform dedicated to making healthy living easier and sustainable. Davida’s content is diverse, ranging from recipes, to travel, to self-care with a focus on how to live healthfully, rather than living for your health. When Davida isn’t in the kitchen, she is travelling, hiking with her puppy or trying out local restaurants in her current home of San Francisco.
We Talk About:
x How the school system does not allow for a lot of creativity and self discovery as kids
x Women and success. Why is it so hard as women to celebrate our successes
x Why it’s important to share the lows and the highs (not just one or the other)
x Finding the happiness middle ground - it’s ok to not be high high or low low
x Why Davida encourages women to share what’s on their mind (when they’re ready to)
x How she’s learned how and when to share - (and when to journal/talk to friends first)
x It’s important with blogging to always remember to add value when you share your own story
x One of her biggest points of growth has been getting comfortable following her own path versus fitting into a mold that’s worked for others
x When she knew she didn’t have to define success the way others were
x How Davida’s relationship with her business has changed and how it’s changed her as a person
x Quitting the hustle culture and not being the “healthy maven” 24/7
x Setting boundaries in her business
x How building a great online life can sometimes replace real life magic
x Why friendships & relationships are so important for health/happiness
x How Davida’s definition of health has expanded since starting her blog
x Health experts are meant to be advisors - not dictators
x Judgement goes both ways
x Being open minded when it comes to letting people be on their journey
x Davids’s experience with exercise addiction
x Being patient with changing and improving our mental health
x Having compassion for how long change takes
x Lessons from dog ownership
x The alternative health practice that Davida loves - (essential oils)
This Episode is Perfect For Anyone Who:
x Runs their own business
x Learning to create boundaries
x Expanding and challenging their definition of health
x Has struggled with exercise addiction
x Honestly there are so many gems in this episode, everyone should listen!
Connect with Davida
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Connect with Alexis
On Instagram: http://instagram.com/hummusapien/
On her Blog: http://www.hummusapien.com/
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Today’s guest, Lisa Hayim shares some serious wisdom about the world of mindful eating. She shares her own journey to becoming a dietitian and mindful eater and how she teaches these skills to her clients.
If you’ve ever craved feeling healthy and normal around food this episode is for you. We dive in to the deep seeded reasons we over and under eat and why we’re so quick to want to label our diets.
If you’ve ever wanted to eat more intuitively or more mindfully but have absolutely no idea where to start, Lisa shares so many useful tools you can start using today. I consider myself a pretty intuitive eater and someone who now feels comfortable around food, and Lisa dropped even more knowledge that made the whole picture more clear for me too.
This episode will help you connect the dots between your mental and physical health and all the wonderful things that happen when you learn to listen to your body’s (sometimes subtle) cues.
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This episode is an absolute gold mine of information and joy. Kelly Trach spent over 10,000 hours in her life working on healing herself from a plethora of autoimmune diseases including candida, IBS and more. She shares her story and the tools that made the biggest difference in her life, so you don’t have to spend 10,000 hours yourself. I seriously loved this episode. I let it run long because Kelly is so knowledgeable and fun to talk to. We cover everything from the mental traps the stop us from healing to the nitty gritty how to’s of ridding inflammation from the body.
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I first connected with Jasmine’s BrandHuman work through previous guest, Holly Finigan. Taking her workshop helped me become more present in my life and impactful in my work. I wanted to chat with Jasmine about business, how we show up in our business and how we own our unique stories and skills to create powerful work. This episode is perfect for both the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial spirited aka anyone who really cares about the work they’re doing.
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Books I mentioned
Sapiens http://amzn.to/2sIxd6r &
Homo Deus http://amzn.to/2u60N99
Connect with Jasmine
BrandHuman http://brandhuman.com
CandorStudios http://www.candorstudio.com/
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connect with me on instagram at @init4thelongrunblog
On today's episode I'm chatting with the compassionate, humble Alexis Daddio aka @restoring_radiance on Instagram.
Lex is one of the first food and health Instagrams I followed way back and she continues to be one of my favorites because of her kind honest approach to health. Over the years she's shared her story with a binge eating disorder and how she over came it. On today's show, we talk about everything from how she started her Instagram (and accidentally made it public) to the path she's taken to overcome her binge eating disorder.
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Emily was one of the first bloggers I really connected with back in 2014. We’ve met a couple times in New York, Tampa and most recently Philly. What attracted me first to Emily’s blog is her amazing writing and ability to distill such relatable truths.
She’s someone who shares her thoughts in such a relatable valuable way without making everything a listicle or waiting until life has happened to wrap up some lessons in a bow.
This episode is all about life after college. The ups the downs and how to navigate between what you really want versus what the world is telling you you’re supposed to be doing.
On this Episode We Talk About:
x Why life transitions are hard
x When to tell your friends you have a blog
x The job hunt - why does it have to be so hard?!
x Identifying the “shoulds” in your life (and slowly getting rid of them)
x Why social media often adds to the “shoulds”
x Practical tips for practicing mindfulness and presence
x Why rest is totally underrated
x What it’s really like to live at home after college
x Emily’s running story
x Why hard times don’t last
x What happens when “healthy” becomes part of your identity
x Why sharing your story matters
x The pressure to turn your blog into a business
x Why blogging full time isn’t right for everyone
x The benefits of blogging as a hobby versus a business
x Why “following your passion” isn’t always good advice
This Episode is Perfect For:
x Recent grads
x Anyone balancing work and a passion project
x 20-somethings
x anyone in a major life transition
x bloggers
x runners
Connect with Emily
on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/myhealthyishlife/
online: http://myhealthishlife.com
For full show notes go to: http://init4thelongrun.com
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Evie is a yoga teacher whose classes balance physical wellness, mental health, spiritual growth and self-love. In addition to teaching a variety of yoga classes each week, Evie works as a Therapuetic Mentor at Fairwinds counseling center, offers seasonal holistic juice cleanses with a local juice-company and leads support groups on intuitive eating. She views wellness as lifelong journey of healing - and is a dedicated student and teacher of self-love.
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This week I have my boss, mentor and friend Jason Bridges on the Chasing Joy Podcast. Alongside his wife, Jason owns and operates two Nantucket businesses: Handlebar Cafe & Nantucket Bike tours. He’s also a local selectman and has spoken at Tedx about the power of emotional intelligence and self awareness.
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Today’s guest is extra special. She’s someone who’s known me my entire life. Yup, that’s right my sister is on the podcast. Nellie is a teacher, world traveler and an amazing best friend. We chat all about her career in teaching, navigating friendships after college, making wednesdays as special as fridays, what happens when travel plans aren’t what you expected and creating a flexible life plan.
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I was so excited to score an hour of today’s guest time. Holly Finigan is the creator of the Nantucket blACKbook a modern day marketing agency. It’s pretty much a go-to guide for all things food & drink, shopping, and real estate on island. She’s one of the hardest working female entrepreneurs I know. Not only that, but she runs her business with a spirit of creativity, growth, positivity and best of all, a great sense of humor.
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Links:
Website - http://nantucketblackbook.com
Instagram - http://instagram.com/nantucketblackbook
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month. On today’s show Jenn Orcutt and I have a uplifting, stigma-busting conversation surrounding mental health. Jenn and I share our experiences with the goal to not only get the conversation started, but also share the tools and resources we’ve used to make our lives ones of joy and growth. Neither of us are defined by our past with mental illness, rather it’s given us a platform to become more self aware and intentional about creating a joyful life, despite our struggles.
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Links:
Website - http://isntshelovelydesigns.com/client-request-form/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/isntshelovelydesigns
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On today’s episode of the Chasing Joy Podcast I’m chatting with friend, fellow blogger and former boss, Rachel Mansfield. Rachel runs the (super) popular blog and instagram: @rachLmansfield. What started as an overnight oats account grew into a healthy recipe brand.
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Links:
Blog - http://http://www.rachlmansfield.com/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/rachlmansfield
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Kylie Mitchell is the founder of the food/lifestyle blog immaEATthat.com, which she started 6 years ago in an effort to stop disordered eating and help people fall back in love with a healthful relationship with food and their bodies. Through her blog and her private practice, immaEATthat Nutrition Counseling, Kylie works to promote positive body image, intuitive eating, eating disorder recovery and Health at Every Size.
In 2016, Kylie released her “How to Eat” eCourse, an online course on intuitive eating & body acceptance. The course was created to offer a more affordable option for nutrition counseling other than one-on-one counseling with a non-diet dietitian.
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Links:
Blog - http://www.immaeatthat.com/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/immaeatthat
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Today my guest Jess, the blogger and personal trainer behind Hello to Fit sheds some serious light on an issue everyone is dealing with: our careers. We're fed this narrative that we go to school, find a job and then become an expert over the next 30-40 years. Unless you end up practicing law or medicine, then that's hardly ever the case. Yet here we are, kind of silently, yet collectively freaking out about how we honestly have no idea what we're doing or if we're moving in the right direction or why we're questioning everything we thought we wanted.
But guess what?! You're not freaking alone. Jess shares how a super stressful year forced her to look inwards. And yup! you guess it, that's where the magic happens.
This episode is perfect for you
Links:
Blog - http://www.hellotofit.com/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/hellotofit_
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On today's episode of the Chasing Joy Podcast I talk with Erin Bahadur, personal trainer and blogger behind Erin's Inside Job. Erin shares her incredible story of drug addiction, recovery, and rediscovery of self. Erin's path towards recovery and chasing joy is remarkable and so inspiring.
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Connect with Erin
Blog: Erin's Inside Job
Instagram: @erinsinsidejob
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On today's episode of the Chasing Joy Podcast we're shaking things up and doing a Q & A episode. Listeners wrote in with their questions and today I'm answering! It's a really fun show.
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Today's episode of the Chasing Joy Podcast I wanted to have a conversation about finding joy, presence and mindfulness when your life (and mind) are busy. My guest, Catherine, writes the wellness blog: theblissfulmind.com where she shares tips and tools on finding joy in the every day. Catherine is also on her way to becoming a health coach and shares her experience of choosing that path.
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Links:
Blog - http://theblissfulmind.com/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theblissfulmind
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On today’s show, Marina Di Loreto shares the ups, downs, challenges and triumphs of recovering from an eating disorder. Marina’s spirit is so vibrant and this episode really felt like a conversation between old friends. I can relate to Marina’s experience SO much (especially the binge gum chewing). Even if you’ve never struggled with disordered eating, Marina’s positive energy and drive to find body peace and positivity will inspire you.
We Talk About (a lot):
x Body image as a dancer
x How the mirror can distort your body image & the benefits of living without one in recovery
x Marina’s eating disorder story
x When she knew she needed to ask for help & who she went to
x Why recovery is not a linear journey
x The steps Marina took to recover from her eating disorder
x The surprising habit Marina quit and why it was important
x Is there ever a benefit to calorie counting?
x Wellness practices that help with recovery setbacks
x What it’s like to be stuck in pseudo recovery
x What it’s like to get stuck in the diet industry trap
x Why diets numb your intuition
Links:
Blog - http://adancersliveit.com/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/
Books: Intuitive Eating
For more information and full show notes visit init4thelongrun.com