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A Word for Mamas Everywhere | Reyna Wilson
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A Word for Mamas Everywhere | Reyna Wilson

In this episode your host, Reyna, shares her pregnancy “surprise” with their son LB and how that experience started to shape her heart with all the voices in motherhood. Listen in to hear some of your own experiences shared through your submissions on the best and worst advice you’ve received in your motherhood journey as well as some tangible reminders to find peace instead of perfection. I hope this episode is a tender encouragement to your heart no matter what your motherhood story looks like, and you can celebrate alongside me for our son’s coming birthday!

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Creating Healthy Expectations for a Wild Pregnancy + Free Birth | Isabel Jones
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Creating Healthy Expectations for a Wild Pregnancy + Free Birth | Isabel Jones

Isabel Jones is the creator of Your Wild Birth. Her online space is all about creating content for education and inspiration to help you birth in power, find bliss in postpartum, and build a conscious lifestyle in motherhood and marriage. And that’s exactly what we chat about for this episode! Isabel shares her own birth experiences and explains the heart of pregnancy, birth and postpartum outside of the western model and how to do that with peace and confidence.

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When Holistic Health Becomes an Idol | Arianna Tucker
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When Holistic Health Becomes an Idol | Arianna Tucker

Arianna is a wife and mom of two beautiful boys! She is passionate about healthy living with balance & seeking the Lord first in all things. In this episode she shares about her influence in the “crunchy sphere” and how she balances holistic expectations in her home alongside the passions God gave her! Tune in for her story on healing and freedom from all the “right” things in holistic health to find peace in exactly where God has her!

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Intuitive Eating Within Divine Design + Diet Culture in the Church | Liesel Maddox
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Intuitive Eating Within Divine Design + Diet Culture in the Church | Liesel Maddox

Liesel Maddox is a Registered Dietitian and entrepreneur specializing in eating disorders and disordered eating. Liesel has experience working as a clinical dietitian in inpatient eating disorder treatment centers and currently provides outpatient nutrition counseling to clients in recovery from eating disorders. She started an online business with the mission of helping Christian women break free from diet culture and disordered eating. Liesel provides one-on-one virtual nutrition coaching to help women embrace food freedom and intuitive eating from a faith-based approach. And in this episode, we chat about finding the balance in honoring your body and breaking free from unrealistic beauty standards, as well as how diet culture manifests within the Church. Don't miss this incredibly enlightening and encouraging conversation!

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Making the Wait Worthwhile | Jordan Lee Dooley
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Making the Wait Worthwhile | Jordan Lee Dooley

Jordan Lee Dooley is a two-time national bestselling author of Own Your Everyday and Embrace Your Almost, host of the top-rated SHE podcast, and founder of two companies: The Own It Academy and SoulScripts. Her trajectory began with a small Etsy shop in college, which quickly grew into so much more. With her books, programs, podcast, and other resources, her mission is to help women walk out their calling while prioritizing grace-based holistic living. She has been featured in places like Forbes, Inc. Magazine, USA Today, SUCCESS Magazine's 30 Under 30 List, and more. Jordan and her husband Matt are bio and adoptive parents to two boys and reside in Indiana. In this episode, Jordan shares her own story of loss and joy in her entrance into motherhood and how to dig into your faith when you don’t understand. I hope this episode serves as a vivid encouragement of God’s continued faithfulness and hope to keep trusting him in the waiting.

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Feeding your Feminine Physiology in Body + Soul | Paris Simpson
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Feeding your Feminine Physiology in Body + Soul | Paris Simpson

Paris is passionate about guiding women in reclaiming radical, embodied, & empowered feminine wellness. From embracing the ancestral wisdom & healing medicine we are donned with to exuding that within ourselves, our homes, & our circle of influence, her heart is to mirror back to women how to truly live within that vitality-body, mind, & spirit. In this episode, Paris shares her all encompassing approach to rewilding women, nourishing with proper protein, and how to find freedom in feminine physiology.

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How Women Should Train + Eat to Thrive Over Time | Kelsee Moore
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How Women Should Train + Eat to Thrive Over Time | Kelsee Moore

Kelsee Moore is a strength and conditioning coach for Air Force Special Warfare, owner/creator of Moore & Company, US Army Reserve officer and military spouse. Her small business, Moore & Company, provides remote workout memberships for women who previously had a poor relationship with exercise and nutrition. She uses holistic techniques, God-centered discussions, and her experience as a professional strength and conditioning coach to guide her conversations to improve health, fertility and vitality in her clients. And that’s exactly what Kelsee does and more in this conversation! We chat about creatine, creating healthy strength training schedules with proper nourishment, and how we can find true “body positivity” in Christ. Don’t miss this awesome convo with this sweet friend and female movement expert!

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Tallow Talks + Trusting God for a Miracle | Brit Richards
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Tallow Talks + Trusting God for a Miracle | Brit Richards

Meet Brit Richards: wife, mother of two, and a visionary entrepreneur who serves as the CEO of SMEAR, her pioneering holistic skincare company. With decades of experience in the beauty industry and a passion for clean living, she’s created a solution to toxic skincare that serves the entire family with beneficial ingredients and prioritizes sustainability. Through SMEAR, Brit empowers families to navigate product choices and understand bioaccumulative toxins. Beyond work, she enjoys spending lots of time with family talking about Jesus, building community with friends and family, enjoys a good cup of coffee, and talking all things birth-stories. This episode is not only a testament to Brit’s faith, but God’s goodness when things seem impossible. Don’t miss it as we chat about the benefits of beef fat for your FACE, hoping in the face of hard and what it truly looks like to surrender your healing journey to the hands of a good Father.

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How to Stop Outsourcing your Life Skills + Become a Confident Consumer | Liz Haselmayer
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How to Stop Outsourcing your Life Skills + Become a Confident Consumer | Liz Haselmayer

Liz Haselmayer, the founder of Homegrown Education, is empowering families to embrace real food. She believes the best way to nourish the body is through simple, nutrient-dense foods. After spending over a decade undernourished, Liz has made it her mission to spread the message of food freedom through accurate food education. She has written several real-food-based resources including children's nutrition curricula, a breakfast and dinner meal plan, the Real Food Guide, and a regenerative farm-based coloring book. Liz and her husband also host The Homegrown Podcast where they aim to share the truth behind food and farming. There's no holistic health gate-keeping here! In this episode, Liz lays out all the things you need to know to start building a holistic, whole food focus for your family. We chat about ditching the food pyramid, failing your way through sourdough, and realistic steps to faithfully steward our budgets and bodies for true health!

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What Food Freedom Actually Looks Like |Adison Barnhart
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What Food Freedom Actually Looks Like |Adison Barnhart

Adison Barnhart, a registered dietician with a focus in eating disorder recovery, returns to the show to share more wisdom on the process of healing from disordered eating patterns and myth busting in recovery. In this episode we talk about tangible steps and common troubles that women face after disordered eating behaviors. Adison lay’s out weight loss’ place in the intuitive eating conversation, how to have grace for yourself in the process and honoring your body through stressful seasons.

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Relearning + Returning to Primal Movement | Bam Lionheart
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Relearning + Returning to Primal Movement | Bam Lionheart

Bam Lionheart has been a movement coach for over 8 years. He has experience in gymnastics, football, jiu jitsu, wrestling, boxing, may Thai, MMA, CrossFit, Olympic Weightlifting, endurance running, endurance swimming, climbing, yoga, and modern dance. His goal is to give his clients freedom through movement by eliminating pain, in depth movement education, and reintegrating natural movement patterns. In this episode we go into returning to natural movement patterns, aligning our cycles with our primal postures, and creating body awareness that brings confidence to our movement no matter the season or stage of life.

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Intentional Intimacy + Power of Fertility Awareness Method | Nina Boyce
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Intentional Intimacy + Power of Fertility Awareness Method | Nina Boyce

Nina Boyce is a certified Fertility Awareness Educator and Health Coach who teaches women to prevent pregnancy hormone-free and with 99% accuracy. Her online coaching program, LUNA, focuses on helping clients transition off birth control, support their natural hormones, and prevent pregnancy with the Fertility Awareness Method. Nina takes a holistic approach - focusing on nutrition, cycle charting, and lifestyle modifications to help her clients achieve their desired goals. She is also the host of the Healing Hormones Podcast, where she interviews leading women in the world of menstrual health. In our episode Nina busts the myths surrounding FAM, tips to optimize your fertility awareness to really be a secret super power, and taking the guesswork out of your fertility. 

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True Healthy Stewardship in a Skewed Wellness Culture | Clara Collie
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True Healthy Stewardship in a Skewed Wellness Culture | Clara Collie

Clara is a dietitian, personal trainer, and founder of Redemptive Health, an online wellness practice where she offers 1:1 coaching and group membership to help women create simple, sustainable habits to improve their health, steward their body, and become the best version of themselves. She lives in Asheville with her husband and can usually be found re-reading the same 10 books, hiking in the woods, or piddling around in the yard. In this episode Clara shares a little bit about the start and growth of her own wellness story, and how we can each take steps towards creating true healthy body stewardship. Through tangible tips and biblical truths, we share more about what it really means to take ownership over your mind and trust the sanctification process. 

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When Divinity Encounters Human Suffering + Mental Illness as a Christian | Gabby Wilkinson
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When Divinity Encounters Human Suffering + Mental Illness as a Christian | Gabby Wilkinson

Gabby Wilkinson is a seminary student who has been working in ministry since 2014. At Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, Gabby is studying the intersectionality of mental illness and Christianity through the lens of church trauma and is working to make this area of focus the driving force of her vocation. She recently started a brand that was birthed out of this study called “Dear God, I’m Sad.” The mission of “Dear God, I’m Sad” is to craft a healthier & more holistic relationship between mental illness & Christianity through reflection, investigation, & exploration with the hopes of destigmatizing mental illness in faith spaces & promoting compassionate responses to mental illness by faith leaders. Gabby shares her own experiences finding hope through the ups and downs of mental illness, and how we can find freedom in healing too!

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Adrenal Cocktails, Sugar “Addictions” + Actually Healing your Metabolism | Kate Deering
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Adrenal Cocktails, Sugar “Addictions” + Actually Healing your Metabolism | Kate Deering

For over 25 years Kate have been involved in the health and fitness industry helping men and women of all ages achieve optimal health and wellness. Her practice is based on a holistic approach to health and wellness by looking at the entirety of a person’s well-being.  A person’s well-being includes diet, stress, exercise, posture, sleep, digestion, hormones, mind-set and lifestyle.  Kate's expertise is based on certifications as a CHEK Exercise Coach, CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Coach 2, Olympic Lifting Coach, Z-health Practitioner (neurology) and Certified Nutritional Consultant. In this episode, Kate bust's all the metabolism misconceptions in the fitness and wellness world, that so many of us have heard. Listen to learn more about how to heal your metabolism for longevity, simple steps to recovering and complete holistic health foundations.

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Weight Loss, Fat Loss + Balance in New Life Stages | Jordan Syatt
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Weight Loss, Fat Loss + Balance in New Life Stages | Jordan Syatt

Elite Powerlifter, Precision Nutrition & Westside Barbell Certified coach, Jordan Syatt is well known for having been Gary Vaynerchuk’s personal trainer. Jordan began Syatt Fitness, his online fitness coaching business, from his dorm at the University of Delaware in 2011 and has become one of the industry’s leading experts in strength training, nutrition, and behavioral psychology. One of the only people in the world to deadlift 4x his own body weight, Jordan's work has been featured all over the world including a variety of media publications such as CNN, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, Men's Health Magazine, Men’s Fitness Magazine, and Schwarzenegger.com. Jordan and his colleague Mike Vacanti co-wrote the Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller Eat IT!: The Most Sustainable Diet and Workout Ever Made: Burn Fat, Get Strong, and Enjoy Your Favorite Foods Guilt Free. This episode was a dream come true to record, and such a fun conversation on the truth behind weight loss vs. fat loss, fitness expectations and sustainable healthy habits through the life stages.

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Kissing Imposter Syndrome, Crunchy Culture + Girl Boss Labels Goodbye | Blake Guichet
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Kissing Imposter Syndrome, Crunchy Culture + Girl Boss Labels Goodbye | Blake Guichet

Blake Guichet is a writer and founder of the Crappy Christian Co., which aims to teach women how to use their God-given gifts for the Kingdom. She is the host of the popular podcast Confessions of a Crappy Christian—a weekly show that specializes in conversations with guests about their passions, struggles, and all the things they aren’t sure they can talk about. Blake is a proud Enneagram 8, American history buff, and playlist enthusiast, and her primary goal in all aspects of her ministry is to tell the truth while always pointing people to Jesus. In this episode we chat about what imposter syndrome is really, how to listen to God's voice, and finding joy in the midst of grumbling. 

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Balancing the Battle of Conventional & Alternative Medicine | Kristen Van Gilse
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Balancing the Battle of Conventional & Alternative Medicine | Kristen Van Gilse

Kristen is a trained graphic designer and photographer turned holistic health guru after going through an autoimmune disease that began in 2018. She is married to her med student husband, Nick, and they live in Indianapolis with their 1 year old daughter. In this episode we chat about what life has looked like since healing from mold illness and a severe autoimmune disorder that unfortunately started on her honeymoon. Kristen shares her family's experience with healing from mold, and what it has looked like to heal her autoimmunity on her own as her husband begins his own training to become a doctor. Listen to hear how to discern when to take mold into account, reducing inflammation and healing interstitial cystitis and finding the best balance for your family!

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Finding Feminine Freedom + Living like a Proverbs 31 Woman | Annika Duden
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Finding Feminine Freedom + Living like a Proverbs 31 Woman | Annika Duden

Annika is a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. She is a women’s health nutritionist specializing in the HTMA (Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis), cookbook author, and recipe developer. Her goal is to help women return to the way God designed them to eat and live. In a world where diet culture and being skinny is valued over true health and wellness, her purpose is to show women how much more there is to life when they break through the lies and get back to their purpose. In this episode, Annika breaks down what true femininity looks like through Proverbs 31 instead of the lens of masculine hustle culture.

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