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This week’s episode is about empowering you to share who you uniquely are in your creative process. I’m joined by Meagan Williamson, a Pinterest marketing expert, certified business coach, trained psychologist, and mom based in Canada.
Get the Full Show Notes & Transcript here. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or on your favorite podcast platform while you cook, clean, or create.
What’s in This Episode:
This episode will leave you inspired to embrace how you create based on the season of life (and business) you are in. In our conversation, Meagan shares her approach to coaching and working with creative blocks by looking beyond the surface level of why you may not be sharing on social media.
Meagan shares that she can’t force herself to be creative. When she does have the energy she does massive brain dumps. She looks across what’s trending in other industries and brainstorms about her unique take on ideas, a tutorial that might help someone, and or answer a question she is getting asked by her community.
Meagan leaves us with advice: To not fall for viral get-rich-quick tactics using Pinterest but instead to focus on slow and consistent growth. She talks about this in terms of focusing on eating greens like steamed broccoli vs. cheese pizza. It’s not sexy but she will help you with sustainable growth and long term results.
Topics Covered:
Meagan’s experience with a leadership exercise in high school and how that shaped her view of creative thinking.
What it’s like to be creative in other areas of your life such as how you dress, work, and define the world. Meagan enjoys creative hobbies like gardening and being in nature.
Stop trying to be other people on social media, be yourself, she calls it, “Meaganizing.”
What it’s like to honor your energy and the phases of your life and business. She talks about rest and not working.
Meagan talks about her background as a trained psychologist, and how creative blocks are often not about creation but other things in your life like trauma or fear of failure.
We can’t wait to hear your thoughts, leave a comment below!
Eat Well,
xo Chef Carla
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This week’s episode is about being a multi-passionate creative, being open to what you enjoy vs. putting yourself in a box. I am joined by Juanina Kocher, a health coach, yoga teacher, and consultant, who primarily supports mothers.
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What’s in This Episode:
This episode is filled with a lot of laughs and personal shares! Juanina and I start with our love of the Italian Chopped Salad with Basil Swirls from Sakara Life. We are both ambassadors for the brand. We also both have backgrounds in the restaurant and hospitality world.
Juanina shares how she navigates modern motherhood and how she weaves in creativity throughout her busy day-to-day life. Juanina’s definition of creativity encompasses anything that excites you, which is so freeing!
In our conversation, she explains how excitement often becomes inspiration and weaves itself into problem-solving and uncovering new creative outlets. Juanina talks about creating room for creativity. And what a difference having space and quiet time makes for her creativity.
Topics Covered:
* Modern parenting and what that means to Juanina
* What it’s like to eat different meals or at different times than young children
* How Juanina defines creativity and its connection to problem solving
* Creating a bucket list for creative pursuits like pottery or cooking classes
* Feeding your creative juices through cooking for pleasure and making new recipes
* Wellness tools that don’t take an hour, a five minute meditation, 10-minute moment practice, or taking a walk
* Moving through creative blocks by giving yourself space, having quiet time
PS: Join Melissa Hoffman for a live free Nourishing Creativity Hypnosis workshop this Saturday April 20th at 1:00 pm EST
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This week’s episode is about finding pleasure in creative expression and the ability to pivot into purpose. I am joined by Melissa Hoffmann, an Intuitive Life, Mindset Coach, and Hypnotherapist for women who know they’re meant for more.
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What’s in This Episode:
Melissa shares her pivot from makeup artist to coach and how she has infused creativity in each step of her journey. We chat about making art simply for pleasure and to nourish yourself instead of seeking external validation.
She also talks about how to find balance when creativity is a big part of your work. We then discuss the creation of her newest offer, Soul Portraits, and how it builds on her other project, the Pivot Into Your Purpose podcast.
Melissa then highlights how creativity to come back to their path. Don’t miss Melissa sharing her favorite ways to use oracle cards and tools like EFT, hypnosis, and subliminals to move through creative blocks!
Topics Covered:
* Melissa shares that she finds nourishment in reading fiction and doing watercolor painting.
* The difference between creating for pleasure versus creating for work, with Melissa explaining that creating for oneself is more fulfilling and less pressured.
* How Melissa created her Soul Portraits offering: Being photographed is a powerful way to express your soul and feel empowered about being visible and being fully seen.
* Melissa mentions that creativity plays a role in her coaching, as she helps her clients explore creative activities for their own pleasure and fulfillment.
* Pivots and how to know when it’s time to make a change.
* Melissa also shares her love for oracle cards and how they spark her creativity.
* Melissa discusses the use of EFT, hypnosis, and subliminals in the creative process.
Resources Mentioned:
* Join Melissa + me for a live Nourishing Creativity Hypnosis workshop on Saturday April 20th at 1:00 pm EST
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Welcome to this week’s episode of Show Up Fully! I have been building and learning from Show Up Fully alongside you since 2020.
This journey has been a soul-shaking challenging process. But it’s exactly what I needed (and many of you) to grow and evolve as I discovered what showing up fully meant in my life.
It’s been really hard to let go and say goodbye to Show Up Fully. But today, I am officially turning the page on the podcast chapter and I am welcoming in the transition of this podcast into the Nourishing Creativity.
Get the Full Show Notes & Transcript here
Why Nourishing Creativity? For me, as a professional content creator: Food stylist, recipe developer, and podcast host, creation is life. My intention behind transitioning the podcast into Nourishing Creativity is to provide the space, resources, and inspiration for you (and me) to guide yourself to nourish your creativity, where you’re at right now.
As I’m moving into a deeper state of nourishing my own creativity, I’m also exploring new areas of slowing down and taking the time to deeply nourish myself. It’s interesting to me to live the principles of Show Up Fully: Res, Deep Nourishment, Movement, Mindfulness, and Water through a softer lens. If this interests you too, I invite you to do Show Up Fully Challenge
Topics Covered:
* A heartfelt goodbye to Show Up Fully and the journey of this podcast over the last four years.
* What is Nourishing Creativity? Hint: It’s about making it your own and it is definitely not about perfection
* Revisiting the five day Show Up Fully Challenge and how it’s supportive to do if you want to refresh how you nourish yourself.
* BTS of how I am nourishing myself right now which includes going to bed at 8:00pm with my kids.
Resources Mentioned:
* Listen to Show Up Fully Challenge Day One: Finding Your Moment of Rest here
* Listen to Show Up Fully Challenge Day Two: Deep Nourishment & Finding Pleasure in Food here
* Listen to Show Up Fully Challenge Day Three: Move your Body, in Whatever Way Feels Good! here
* Listen to Show Up Fully Challenge Day Four: Mindfulness & Using a Simple Breathing Practice to Ground Yourself here
* Listen to Show Up Fully Challenge Day Five & Wrap Up: Water + The Episode Where I Talk About Poop here
* Listen to my Pilates Mat journey here
xo Chef Carla
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Welcome to this week’s episode of Show Up Fully! I’m joined by Gretchen Holt, co-founder and executive director of Cookies for Kids’ Cancer, an organization that raises money for pediatric cancer. Pediatric cancer is the number one disease killer of children in the U.S. and yet receives the smallest amount of public and private funding.
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What’s in This Episode:
After receiving her son Liam’s cancer diagnosis when he was 2 and a half, Gretchen took action in the form of cookies, baking 96,000, in fact, to raise money for cancer research and support. Liam and her loved to bake together!
Cookies bring out a beautiful creativity and passion in everyone. Cookies are also an easy entry point for people to get involved with Cookies For Kids’ Cancer, whether that is holding a bake sale, donating your birthday, buying cookies, or attending one of their larger events.
For Gretchen, her creativity flows from love for her children, awareness that time with them is finite, and the drive to do anything for them. Stay tuned til the end to hear how Gretchen overcomes her creative blocks!
Topics Covered:
* Gretchen’s work with pediatric cancer and supporting her son Liam through his cancer journey
* How people can get involved with the Cookies for Kids’ Cancer
* Gretchen’s definition of creativity
* Cookies as a joy and a creative spark
* What underlines Gretchen’s creative determination
* Knowing yourself to know how to overcome creative blocks
Resources Mentioned:
* Donate to Cookies for Kids’ Cancer my daughter, Ella’s Birthday Donation page is LIVE! 100% of proceeds go to pediatric cancer research.
xo Chef Carla
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Welcome to this episode of Show Up Fully where Grief Coach and Death Doula, Tammy Faulds, and I are back for our annual chat! This week’s episode is about the rich interconnectedness between creativity and grief. “Emotions are energy in motion.”
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What’s in This Episode:
* Tammy’s definition for grief is “the end of or change in a familiar pattern of behavior.” Grief encompasses so much more than death — which is why Tammy’s mission is to change the narrative around both grief and death. We learn how being forced into creativity allowed Tammy to reimagine rituals around transition. Curiosity lets us navigate the world from a different perspective.
* Like any other emotion, grief wants to be honored. I share a recent loss within my family and the challenge of navigating both the creative and grieving process. Tammy helps us understand when we use creativity, curiosity, and bravery, grief can become a portal to a new way of doing things. And tears are the natural, healing response.
* Tammy and I also discuss creative blocks from the entrepreneur + solopreneur lens and the power of naming grief’s presence. Grief shows up whenever it wants — so how do we make space for it to both exist and exit? Join me as Tammy teaches us how to acknowledge grief and death as part of the cycle while noticing the unique ways it interacts with each of us. Learning the emotion allows us to move forward.
Topics Covered:
* Welcome back to the podcast, Tammy!
* The connection between creativity and grief
* Navigating grief to be able to nourish creativity
* Intangible loss vs. ambiguous loss
* Tears as a healing psychological response
* Multiple cycles occurring simultaneously
Resources Mentioned:
* Listen to Show Up Fully: Episode #77 with Tammy Faulds
xo Chef Carla
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Welcome to this week’s episode of Show Up Fully! I’m joined by Danielle Cohen, the founder of Visibility Medicine and a creative brand photographer with a background in healing modalities, business, and accounting.
Get the Full Show Notes & Transcript here Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or on your favorite podcast platform. We can’t wait to hear what you think!
What’s in This Episode:
* First, I share the breakthroughs I had with Danielle while working together in her Visibility Medicine program (check it out below!). From there, we dive into Danielle’s professional journey.
* Danielle details how she weaves her multifaceted background into her business and how she became a brand photographer as a commitment to her YES. We chat about authenticity, how Danielle defines creativity, and her relationship to it through photography.
* Danielle also shares the importance of engaging the senses to support her creative process, plus her trifecta for navigating feeling stuck.
* Danielle describes her creative journey as a perimenopausal woman and brand photographer — and stay until the end of the episode to hear about soul work as Danielle reads a quote from Clarissa Pinkola Estés.
Topics Covered:
* Carla’s connection to Danielle through her Visibility Medicine program
* Danielle’s photography origin story and the power of authenticity
* Danielle’s definition of and relationship to creativity
* Practices for cultivating and nourishing creativity
* A trifecta for navigating creative blocks and feeling stuck
* The power of making time for creativity and soul work
Resources Mentioned:
“I've seen women insist on cleaning everything in the house before they could sit down to write... and you know it's a funny thing about housecleaning... it never comes to an end. Perfect way to stop a woman. A woman must be careful to not allow over-responsibility (or over-respectabilty) to steal her necessary creative rests, riffs, and raptures. She simply must put her foot down and say no to half of what she believes she "should" be doing. Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.”― Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Eat Well,
xo Chef Carla
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Welcome to this week’s episode of Show Up Fully, for a Free Mindfulness & Mind Map Workshop. I’m joined by my guest and co-teacher, Meg Burton Tudman, a Holistic Life Coach, Reiki Master and Teacher, and yoga and meditation teacher with the intention of helping people honor their highest selves by aligning their mind, body, and soul. You can use this 30-minute workshop anytime you want some clarity.
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The Mindfulness & Mind Map workshop begins with a grounding practice to clear energy and get focused within the space. Next, we move into a vision exercise to help you honor what is important and aligned for you. From there, we transition into the first Mind Map, focused on creating three aspects of life important to you, and noting the language and desires around each.
Then we tune into the second mind map, focused on action steps. Inspired by James Clear, we illustrate the smallest step possible you can take to bring your vision to reality, all in less than two minutes. The takeaway here is to identify resistance, check in daily, and then track and celebrate!
Lastly, we incorporate a Heart Breathing exercise. This includes finding a song that resonates with you, visualization, and of course, deep heart breathing. How do you want to live your life, and what are the action steps that you want to take?
Join me and Meg on today’s episode as we get clear about our heart’s desires with our Mindfulness & Mind Map Workshop, built to help you create and live a life that you love. Want to dive deeper? Purchase the Workbook
Topics Covered:
● Why Meg and I believe in the power of practical self-care
● What mind mapping is and how it’s a tool to reset
● Getting grounded with three breaths
● How to dive into our desires and find language for it
● Limiting beliefs and how negative self-talk can impact action steps
● Using your creativity to illustrate the word you wrote in your Mind Map
● A Heart Breathing exercise to get clear about how you want to feel and the steps to take forward
xo Chef Carla
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Welcome to this week’s episode of Show Up Fully! I’m joined by Alissa Alter, certified Pilates instructor and founder of Pilates For Your Privates. She’s a former Broadway performer, a podcast host, an author, and the co-founder and Content & Community of the media platform, pstprtm.com.
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In my conversation, Alissa — also called the Amy Poehler of vaginas — shares her mission to destigmatize people with vagina's experience and body and normalize the conversation.
Alissa provides a LIVE demo to help you understand, Where Is Your Vagina Pointing? And highlights how her own physical recovery became the gateway to understanding both physical and emotional bodily responses.
Her energetic, yet educated approach around the topic of pelvic health serves as a reminder that we are our body’s best advocate.
Alissa describes ways to support pelvic health and why showing up fully means acknowledging all parts of ourselves.
Topics Covered:
● A demo of Alissa’s pelvic floor practice
● How vagina alignment played a role in Alissa's physical recovery
● Dialogue with the body about pain
● How change capitalizes on neuroplasticity as part of the healing process
● Tools for when you don’t want to show up and how to be present with it
● The power of normalizing conversations around advocating for yourself
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or on your favorite podcast platform. Tag us @chefcarlacontreras and @alissaalter to continue the conversation.
Eat Well,
xo Chef Carla
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Welcome to this week’s episode of Show Up Fully! I’m joined by Patricia Pinto, co-founder of Lila Flow Yoga and Pilates Trainings. She’s also a Shaman Practitioner and full-time teacher of meditation, yoga, and pilates therapies
In my conversation, Patricia shares her rituals an how she practices resilience in the chaos of life. Patricia lets us in on various ways to give yourself grace when showing up is a struggle and highlights why it is essential to say ‘no’ when you need to and take the time to heal from within.
Her Shaman practices expose the layers we all have and allow for acceptance of the things we cannot change while empowering us to change the things we can.
Join me on today’s episode as Patricia describes ways to be more mindful and how to shift into a joyful mindset. Get the Full Show Notes Here
Topics Covered:
● Learning new things to find out what sticks
● What does ‘showing up’ mean for you?
● Why you need to take time for yourself
● The importance of aligning your thoughts and actions
● What happens when you look for one miracle every day
● Why it’s important to say ‘no’ and to understand how to protect your peace
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or on your favorite podcast platform. Tag us @chefcarlacontreras and @thenycyogini #showupfully to continue the conversation.
xo Chef Carla
PS: Listen to the Pilates Mat Training Journey Podcast here
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Welcome to this week’s episode of Show Up Fully where repeat guest Victoria Granof, a food creative and visionary who heads up Victoria Granof Studio, sheds light on darkness, embracing sadness, and she shares her philanthropic spirit with World Central Kitchen in feeding the citizens of Ukraine in Poland.
Join me on today’s episode as we learn from Victoria how to reframe our perspective on the darkness in our lives.
After all, you can only see the stars in complete darkness. Get the full show notes here
In This Episode:
● Cooked purslane, a succulent weed with energetic qualities for survival
● Health benefits of dandelion tonic and other herbal medicines
● Philanthropy through World Central Kitchen to help feed Ukraine
● Anger gives us energy, it takes the darkness to see the stars
● Mistakes bring us to the truth. Victoria’s previous episode here
Listen on ITUNES + Spotify Tag us @chefcarlacontreras and @victoriagranof to continue the conversation. Eat Well,
xo Chef Carla
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This episode has been six months in the making. There have been a number of things that have happened in the past year, including two health scares, that required me to pause and shift my focus to my health and my family.
So much of my identity has been wrapped up in posting on Instagram and sharing with my community, but when my health wasn't there, showing up became almost impossible except for my brands and 1:1 clients.
Lately, I’ve been leaning into self-sourcing and letting myself move through these experiences without adding on the extra layer of content creation, unless it feels totally aligned.
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Topics Covered:
Moving through the feelings that come up when you’re visible in your brand
The tools I’ve been relying on to navigate uncertainty
Realizing where I was living out of alignment with my authentic self
Learning to love the magic and the hot mess (and everything in between)
What showing up means to me during this season of my life
Please tag me @chefcarlacontreras on Instagram so I can continue the conversation with you. Use the hashtag #showupfullypodcast
Eat Well,
xo Chef Carla
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Welcome to this week’s episode of Show Up Fully where Rachael Muller, a virtual CEO for service-based CEOs, shares how she coaches others to show up fully in their business.
“Set Instagram aside and be comfortable in your own journey. You don’t have to accomplish everything today or even in the next six months. You are building your business for the long term and deserve to check in with yourself.”
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Topics Covered:
● Showing up for yourself and why
● Focus on your own journey and being comfortable
● Operating in you zone of genius
● All or nothing mentality as an entrepreneur
● Lean into checking in with yourself
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or on your favorite podcast platform.
I am excited to hear your thoughts! Listen on ITUNES + Spotify Please tag us @itscarlacontreras + @hey.rachael on Instagram so we can continue the conversation with you. Use the hashtag #showupfullypodcast
Eat Well,
xo Chef Carla
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Welcome to this week’s episode of Show Up Fully where Tammy Faulds, enlightens us on sitting with our feelings and inviting them to the table. "This does suck right now, I am here for you."
Tammy helps us talk to our heart in a way we haven’t thought of before and gives us the space to do it on our own time, and hopefully share with someone we trust. “Your heart is broken, you are not broken.”
We learn grief exists on multiple different playing fields in several interconnected emotions.
We experience different losses: death, heartbreak, losing a job, adjusting our routine, hopes and dreams, etc. As anger and sadness roll in, so do anxiety, disappointment, and happiness.
The most important thing we can do is be aware of the grief and accept it for what it is. "Hi, what are you here to teach me, let's walk this path together."
FULL SHOW NOTES + TRANSCRIPT
Topics Covered:
● Grief exists in 40 different losses
● Showing up for your friends and family members in moments of grieving
● What is grief? Get Tammy’s Coping with Grief Workbook
● Healing begins with awareness and acceptance of what you’re grieving
● Multiple conflicting emotions simultaneously How We Feel App
● How to process the ugly side of grief
● How to sit with your feelings and share with someone you trust
I am excited to hear your thoughts! Listen on ITUNES + Spotify Please tag us @chefcarlacontreras + @innertravelcoach on Instagram so we can continue the conversation with you. Use the hashtag #showupfullypodcast
Eat Well,
xo Chef Carla
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I can’t wait for you to LISTEN to this podcast with Melissa Cassera. Put your headphones on and listen now!
Melissa Cassera is a Professional Screenwriter and Award-Winning Publicity & Content Strategist with a 15+ year track record of helping businesses create an Obsessed® fan base for their work.
Melissa goes deep into what BTS of a screenwriter looks like, including rejection. She also teaches us about, “pleasure breaks.” If you want to create your own practice, get her 30 day workbook here
“What do I find pleasurable that isn't in relation to my work? …Be playful about it, try and test (out) some different things. And then once you know what you like… schedule what I call, “pleasure breaks” into your day every day, these are 15 minute sometimes longer.” — Melissa Cassera
Journal Prompts & Full Show Notes
1. What activities do you find pleasurable? Hint: Some of mine are drinking hot tea, meditating, pulling tarot cards, drinking cacao and riding my Peloton bike.
2. Schedule in time to create pleasure breaks in your day. Need ideas? Grab Melissa’s workbook!
3. Do you need support? A friend or accountability buddy send them a text or call them.
I am excited to hear your thoughts! Listen on ITUNES + Spotify Please tag us @itscarlacontreras + @melissa.cassera on Instagram so we can continue the conversation with you. Use the hashtag #showupfullypodcast
Eat Well,
xo Chef Carla
PS: Want to learn about becoming a Health Coach? Listen to this episode here
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“Alexa, what’s Lizzo’s new show called?”
After watching Lizzo’s Big Grrrls on Amazon Prime, my self-care has changed completely. I am showing up for myself in how I dress, my makeup, styling my hair, and nails. I feel at home in my body for the first time in a long time.
Lizzo’s show inspired the creation of my Expansion Practice to help you show up for yourself, feel at home in your body, and empower yourself to be everything you already are! I created an Expansion Practice around this energy. I would love for you to listen.
FULL SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPT
Journal Prompts:
1. What was your upbringing with food? What was your primary care takers (cultural, societal, economic) relationships with food?
2. How did that influence your relationship with food as a child, teenager, and adulthood?
3. What’s your current relationship with food, eating, and your body? Have you have any rock bottom moments?
Please tag me @itscarlacontreras on Instagram so I can continue the conversation with you. Use the hashtag #showupfullypodcast
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or on your favorite podcast platform. Please rate, review and subscribe.
Eat Well,
xo Chef Carla
PS: I mention Sakara Life Meals: Believe it or not recipe testing and food styling all day does not always lead to meals in the fridge, sometimes its just sugar cookies, like I tested this past week for a client. Ordering Sakara two days a week is one of my forms of self care, next week there will be 25% off starting 11/17 use the code XOCHEFCARLA
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This podcast episode is about my mission and story of working for non-profits.
Full Show Notes + Transcript
Ways to Giveback:
1. Give your time, donate services, or volunteer.
2. Instagram: Share in stories, create a donation sticker, or create a 30 day donation.
3. Invest one time or set up a reoccurring donation.
I am excited to hear your thoughts! Listen on ITUNES + Spotify
Some of my favorite non-profits:
CCACP
WSACH
No Kid Hungry
World Central Kitchen (see Victoria Granof’s highlight Ukraine)
Please tag me @itscarlacontreras on Instagram so I can continue the conversation with you. Use the hashtag #showupfullypodcast
Eat Well,
xo Chef Carla
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This podcast episode is about refilling your taza (cup). Learn how I became a food stylist, why I started this podcast, and why I work with Tadin Tea & Herb Co, a brand that literally fills my cup to the brim!
This month (September through October) is Hispanic Heritage month, I share about my culture, my background as a Latina woman and how I continue traditions with my kiddos.
I also share my new Ebook Refill Your Taza (Cup) with Tadin Tea & Herb Co. DOWNLOAD YOUR COPY I can’t wait for you to see it! It filled my heart to create it.
FULL SHOW NOTES + TRANSCRIPT + SHOP THE TEAS
Journal Prompts:
1. What refills your cup?
2. What makes you whole?
3. Get out your calendar. When can this be scheduled?
4. Do you need support in making that happen?
I am excited to hear your thoughts! Listen on ITUNES + Spotify
Please tag us @itscarlacontreras & @tadintea on Instagram so I can continue the conversation with you. Use the hashtag #showupfullypodcast
Eat Well,
xo Chef Carla
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This podcast episode is deep dive into the process behind making time, space, energy, and resources for you to create the life of your dreams. Sometimes we get so wrapped up in the details that we can’t even see how things are possible for us!
Below are some journal prompts for you to make these dreams a reality for you, perhaps that includes becoming a health coach?
Journal Prompts + Full Show Notes
1. What do you want to create most right now?
2. How can you create time, space, energy, and resources in your life to make that happen? If money is part of this, listen to this episode about co-creating with money
3. Get out your calendar. When can this be scheduled?
4. Do you need support in making that happen?
I am excited to hear your thoughts! Listen on ITUNES + Spotify Please tag me @itscarlacontreras on Instagram so I can continue the conversation with you. Use the hashtag #showupfullypodcast
Eat Well,
xo Chef Carla
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I can’t wait for you to LISTEN to this podcast with Jake Hunt. Put your headphones on and listen now! Jake is the managing partner of Windy Brow Farms, a diversified farm, orchard, bakery & creamery in Northwestern NJ.
He runs this business along with his parents, tackling the unique challenges that come with all family businesses, and those that impact small farms in rural communities in a state that isn’t necessarily known for being “rural”.
Living out & proud, Jake struggles to find the balance between being an advocate & outspoken voice in the community, while running a successful business in a traditional, often hyper-conservative community in an otherwise blue state.
There are so many gems and delicious quotes in this podcast like these: Get the Full Show Notes + Transcript
“I chose to make this my life, I chose to love it… maybe not even minute of it but there have been sacrifices that make it all worth it.”
“I chose to show up by being a steward of the land, (and) I chose to make it my purpose to feed people.”
“Get outside, breath in, walk around fields, enjoy nature, eat an apple, and take in the view.”
“If (people) see tolerance in the space that we are creating in this corner of New Jersey, that is very red… then maybe they will be more tolerable and respectful in their own lives.”
“It’s about giving someone the gooey ganache brownie that gets them through their day.”
“You grow up queer without being able to put I into words or without being able to express yourself, that gives you a thick skin.”
“We all have trauma…recognize it, don’t suppress it, but (also) don’t let it ruin your life.”
I am excited to hear your thoughts!
Please tag us @itscarlacontreras + @windybrowfarms on Instagram so we can continue the conversation with you. Use the hashtag #showupfullypodcast
Eat Well,
xo Chef Carla
PS: Curious about my Health Coach journey? Listen to this episode
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