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Today on the show, we have Vanessa Reiser. Vanessa is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), licensed in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Florida. She is a psychotherapist and the founder of the nonprofit TellaTherapist.org. She is also a long-distance runner and two-time Ironman who is best known for running the state of New York (285 miles in 11 days) in a wedding dress to raise awareness for narcissistic abuse. As a survivor of narcissistic abuse and a psychotherapist in private practice, Vanessa now specializes in narcissistic personality disorder, and her practice focuses on treating victims and survivors of cults, narcissists, domestic violence, and narcissistic abuse. Her insights are both personal and professional, giving her a unique lens into this insidious form of domestic abuse. Vanessa can be found online, sharing life-changing information that is educational and accessible. Her new book, is titled: Narcissistic Abuse: A Therapist’s Guide to Identifying, Escaping, and Healing from Toxic and Manipulative People.
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Today, we sit down with Palak Dave, entrepreneur, speaker, author of the book Beautiful Everydays: A Guide to Living in the Here and Now, and the Founder behind the brand, Embiria. Palak is not your typical wellness guru. She's on a mission to spark a crucial conversation about the importance of reclaiming our lives from digital overload and rediscovering the beauty IRL. Formerly an award-winning marketer with senior-level positions at companies including the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and Indigo Books and Music Inc., Palak embarked on a new journey in 2017, founding Embiria, a company on mission to inspire people to slow down and savor life, the European way.
As part of Embiria, Palak has opened the doors to her global membership community called Embiria Social Club, designed for women to escape the noise of social media and get back to being social. Through Embiria, she inspires a shift away from digital distractions toward cultivating friendships and embracing the beauty of the present moment. With having hosted over 300 curated events, Palak champions intentional living. Today we have a great conversation on fostering meaningful conversations and building authentic adult friendships that transcend surface-level interactions. Enjoy the episode!
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Today, we sit down with Dan Doty. As a writer, wilderness guide, men's work leader, and somatic meditation teacher, he has helped to instigate and lead a part of the current global men's movement. As the visionary and founder of EVRYMAN, he has led retreats, and had the fortune to give talks around the world on masculinity, fatherhood, and spirituality. Dan has been featured on the Joe Rogan Experience 3 times, and his work has been featured on the Today Show, the NYTimes, Men's Health, and tons of other publications. Dan helps men find confidence, connection, and step fully into themselves and their vulnerability — and today we have a really profound conversation on his powerful community of men and dad’s – and how he is supporting men on their journey to and through fatherhood.
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Today, we sit down with JENNIE KETCHAM CROOKS, licensed clinical social worker, anxiety specialist and author of LOOK UP: The 30-Day Path to Digital Minimalism and Real Life Maximalism. The book guides readers through 30 consecutive days of evidence-based interventions for managing our out-of-control digital consumption to improve our meaningful real-world connections and better align our actions with our values. Jennie’s expertise gives us actionable ways to adjust our behavioral patterns toward healthier digital habits. She has appeared on Oprah, The Dr. Drew Show and The View, is the founder of the West Coast Anxiety Clinic, and an OCD specialist.
Prior to becoming a psychotherapist, Jennie published a memoir titled “I am Jennie” through Gallery Books and made her own life changes on a televised VH1 show. She’s appeared on numerous talk shows, radio shows, and podcasts, lectured at Harvard, consulted as an in-house “sexpert” for Lovers, and her writing has appeared in Huffington Post and the New York Times. We have an in-depth conversation on her incredible journey, with Jennie offering tangible tips and tools for living a life that feels good offline.
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Today on the show, we welcome Chloe Harrouche. Chloe is the founder of The Lanby, a concierge primary care practice in NYC. Her goal is to reimagine what it's like to go to the doctor from every touchpoint. At age 23 Chloe was diagnosed with breast cancer and experienced our broken healthcare system. Through her experience, she found no one to coordinate care across specialists, no hospitality, and no emphasis on wellness and nutrition which gave her the drive and mission to create The Lanby, a full replacement for your primary care needs and beyond.
Today we discuss Chloe’s own journey with breast cancer, fertility challenges and ultimately creating a comprehensive solution for primary care coordination that can meet the unique needs of each patient.
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Today we speak to Jennifer Scheinman, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, and Senior Manager of Timeline Nutrition. Jen’s master’s degree in Integrative and Functional Nutrition, coupled with advanced training in bioenergetics, provides her with a profound understanding of the complex interplay between nutrition, cellular health, and longevity. This specialized education has equipped Jen with a unique skill set, enabling her to delve into the nuances of how dietary and lifestyle factors influence the body’s energy production and biological processes of aging.
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Career coach Megan Hellerer has become known as the “Conscious Career Coach,” working with clients including journalists, lawyers, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, a Fortune 30 Under 30 tech founder, the editor-in-chief of a major lifestyle magazine, and Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
She offers a culmination of over a decade of learning, training, and coaching in her new book, DIRECTIONAL LIVING; A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life, released on September 24th. Hellerer’s unique framework comes from her innovative premise that a fulfilling, purpose-filled career, and life are built by cultivating your inner sense of direction, not pursuing a fixed destination.
In DIRECTIONAL LIVING, Hellerer presents a new way of thinking about our lives, one that turns away from the voices telling us what a good life “should” look like, and instead relies on cultivating our own inner navigation. Through Hellerer’s revolutionary plan, we can get unstuck in our careers or even transform them, move from misery to meaning, and find the work we are meant to be doing in the world.
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Today on the podcast, Aly speaks with Dr. Morgan Anderson of Dr. Morgan Coaching. Dr. Morgan is a psychologist and attachment theory expert that works to help women do personal healing to attract healthy love and partnerships in their lives. She went from being on a rollercoaster with relationships in her early twenties to then committing to breaking the cycle of drama and heartache. This led her to start therapy, change her own course of studies , and start supporting women and help them to attract securely attached, reciprocal, authentic and emotionally safe, loving relationships.
Today, we break down attachment theory and get to the core of what each type of attachment looks like, and how we can work to transform our attachment patterns. Dr. Morgan gives us great self-reflective tools to examine our own patterns and dynamics that are sometimes easy to repeat. Go check out her wonderful podcast: “Let’s Get Vulnerable.” If you’d
like to work with Dr. Morgan you can visit: https://drmorgancoaching.com/
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Today on the show, Aly and Erica have a long overdue catchup with a solo episode! The hosts talk about self-like, caring for yourself through difficulties, hanging at the US open, changing the way we support our health through different life stages, and they also tease a new Courageous Wellness offering of astrological health readings with Erica!
Interested in making changes to your health routine? Reach out to Aly and Erica to inquire about their health coaching programs.
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Today, we welcome Micaela Hoo, co-founder of Chronically Hacked and My July, to the Courageous Wellness Podcast. Micaela Hoo is a writer, lifestyle entrepreneur, and chronic illness coach living in Los Angeles. She is the co-founder of Chronically Hacked, a world renowned and celebrity endorsed online course about how to navigate the confusing world of chronic illness. Additionally, Micaela and her mother, Dawn, run My July, a clean skincare line that was born out of her chronic illness. She serves as a mentor in the Global Lyme Alliance Peer-to-Peer Mentor Program. When Micaela was diagnosed with late-stage chronic Lyme disease among other chronic illnesses and found it difficult to find safe products that wouldn’t irritate her skin, her mother, Dawn, turned to nature’s simple gifts and developed homemade remedies that were effective, gentle, and comforting. This was the conception of My July.
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Today on the show, Aly speaks with Dr. Tara. Dr. Tara is a tenured professor of relational and sexual communication, and quantitative research at California State University Fullerton, an award-winning researcher, TV Sexpert on ‘Celebs Go Dating,’ and the host of Luvbites Podcast that focuses on sexual wellness and sexploration. Her work has been featured in ABC News, Cosmopolitan, Women’s Health Magazine, Insider, and other media outlets. She's also on the advisory board for the MŌN app, Couply app, and Superstars app.
You may be familiar with Dr. Tara’s work from her large social media presence with over 60 million impressions. On the show today we talk all about sexual communication, sexual self-esteem, body neutrality. She gives tips and tools for both singles and couples. We discuss multiple mature and adult topics so highly recommend that listeners of this episode be over 18. Also we do touch on the themes of sexual assault and trauma, and if hearing conversation on those topics is unsupportive of your current wellness journey, please tune back in next week.
We learned so much from having Dr. Tara on the show and we love how she approaches sexual wellness with a deeply researched yet light-hearted and fun point of view. Enjoy the episode.
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Today we have Dr. Efrat LaMandre, founder of The Knew Method. Dr. E is a Nurse Practitioner with a Ph.D. in Integrative Medicine and she created The Knew Method to empower patients and help millions of viewers worldwide understand that "YOUR SYMPTOMS ARE NOT IN YOUR HEAD."
She explains how conventional medicine often doesn’t address the root cause of symptoms. Using functional medicine and The Knew Method, she helps people with varying issues from general “I-don’t-feel-good-itis” all the way to autoimmune issues and other chronic illnesses. As a result, she helps people optimize their health, prevent illness, reduce medication usage, and feel great.
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Today on the podcast we have Doug Carlson. Doug is the North American CEO of Good Idea Drinks - the first functional beverage clinically proven to boost metabolism, sustain natural energy, and help to balance blood sugar - with no caffeine or sugar. Today we talk all about metabolic health and how Good Idea came to be, with its roots in years of research at the Univesrity of Lund in Sweden.
Good Idea has a remarkable amino acid blend combined with chromium picolinate, an essential mineral known for its ability to enhance insulin sensitivity. After conducting clinical trials to fine-tune the ratio, the results were impressive - GOOD IDEA drinks were able to reduce blood sugar spikes by an average of 25%, making every meal a little healthier.
Doug has a long standing history as a successful entrepreneur and was the co-founder and CEO of Fiji Water. On this episode, he shares about why the work from the Swedish team of Good Idea captured his attention in a major way. Erica and I both share the enthusiasm and passion the team at Good Idea has for helping tackle the metabolic health crisis we have in our country, in a way that feels accessible for people to integrate into their everyday lives.
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Today on the show, we have Dr. Morgan Nolte. DR. Nolte is a board-certified clinical specialist in geriatric physical therapy. Recognizing a lack of preventative education and care that focused on reversing risk factors instead of just treating symptoms, Dr. Nolte founded Zivli, an online course and coaching program that helps adults reverse insulin resistance for long-term weight loss and disease prevention.
Dr. Nolte’s content has reached millions of people through her podcast and YouTube channel, which now has over 100,000 subscribers. She’s been a guest lecturer for local physical therapy departments, State and National Physical Therapy Organizations, and has been a guest addressing insulin resistance on top-rated wellness podcasts including Everyday Wellness with Cynthia Thurlow, The Ultimate Health Podcast, and the Dhru Purohit Show.
On the episode, we discuss insulin resistance, preventative care, making small lifestyle changes that have big effects and also her thoughts around GLP-1 medications. We loved chatting with Morgan and keep an eye out for us on her popular youtube channel and podcast, where we will be sharing our personal health journeys.
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Today on the show, we have Stephanie Moyal. Stephanie is a co-founder of Troop Mushroom Gummies company with her cousin Jake Mellman. They are on a mission to demystify mushrooms and make them approachable. They believe nature, especially mushrooms hold many of the answers that we’re looking for. By turning to preventative rather than curative health measures, we as a troop can walk a path to a healthier life.
In this episode Stephanie and Aly chat about all things mushrooms: psychedelics, functional and her personal experiences with both.We here at Courageous Wellness are fascinated by the powers of the mycelium kingdom and hope you find Stephanie’s expertise and experience as interesting as we do. Enjoy the episode!
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Dr. Tom O’Bryan is a world-renowned Functional Medicine educator. He speaks all around the world at medical conferences in places like Rome, India, Brazil and the U.S.He’s the one that other doctors turn to when they need help. He’s helping to write medical textbooks to train the next generation of doctors. Recently he has released a new docu-series called “The Inflammation Equation.” In “The Inflammation Equation” Dr. Tom reveals the underlying cause of 14 of the top 15 causes of death in the world.
On our episode today, we discuss why we are so inflamed and how inflammation has been linked to fertility, Alzheimer’s and 14 of the 15 top causes of death. We also discuss some small steps we can all take to reduce our toxic load and reduce our inflammation in our bodies. We
gained a lot from the conversation with Dr. Tom and hope you do as well.
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On today’s episode, we have Kate Morton, an expert dietitian with a master's in Human Clinical Nutrition. Kate faced her own hormonal challenges after quitting birth control. This personal experience fueled her drive to launch her brand Funk It. Merging her scientific know-how with genuine care, Kate created a brand dedicated to menstrual health. Funk It stands as a trusted resource, offering high-quality, food-based vitamins for hormonal balance. She is on a mission to help women navigate, understand, and embrace our cycles confidently.
On today’s show, we go beyond nutrition and discuss all aspects of our life that impact the 4 phases of the menstrual cycle. Kate offers practical tips to focus on and why our period gives us many clues into our overall health. We loved chatting with Kate and hope this episode further empowers your own understanding of how you can optimize the four unique phases of the menstrual cycle.
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Today on the podcast, we welcome author, Banning Lyon. Banning was an average 15-year-old living in Dallas, Texas. He enjoyed skateboarding, listening to punk rock, and even had a part-time job. But his life quickly changed after a school guidance counselor believed he was suicidal after giving away his skateboard. Days later he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, and what he was told would be a two-week stay turned into 353 days that would change his life forever. Coming from Maria Shriver’s imprint, The Open Field is Banning’s first book, THE CHAIR AND THE VALLEY: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Outdoors
Banning takes readers through his fraught relationship with his family, the mistreatment he suffered at the hospital, the lawsuit against the owners of the facility, and his desire to make sense of what happened to him. We witness Banning navigate the difficult landscape of trauma and his daily battle to live a normal life. After years of highs and lows that include being adopted by his attorney and mentor, falling in love, grieving the death of his fiancée, and being sued by the same doctors who mistreated him, Banning decides to take control of his life and finds hope in the backcountry of Yosemite National Park, where he discovers new purpose in being a backpacking guide. Through friendship, nature, and eventually giving therapy another chance, Banning summons the courage to keep moving forward. This was a really powerful conversation and is a must-listen — and we hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did.
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Today, we welcome fiction writer, Mary Adkins to the show. Mary is the author of When You Read This, Privilege, and Palm Beach. A native of the American South and a graduate of Duke University and Yale Law School, her writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Atlantic. She also teaches storytelling for The Moth. Mary works as an online writing
coach, and helps other authors write through resistance and finish their books by finding a creative process that works for them. In this episode Mary discusses carving out time for creative self-care, her experience after suffering 3 miscarriages in one year and how to write from trauma without re-traumatizing yourself. We appreciate Mary’s insight into using creativity as a form of enriching and creating value in daily life.
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Today, we welcome Rachel Garahan to the show. Rachel is a creative director, artist, and innate nurturer. In all of her work, she is drawn to what she calls the "elemental connection": the space where nature and the human spirit overlap. She is also the author of a new pregnancy journal, 9 Months of Wonder. With a spare, modern design and gorgeous illustration, 9 Months of Wonder is designed to help mothers-to-be to document the liminal space between here and there while softening into the season they're in. In these journal pages, she will find a safe place to record and process her experiences, reflect on the ups and downs, move through fears, and honor the metamorphosis taking place in her as she gives birth to the new life of her child and the new parts of herself.
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