Live Well Episodes

June 14, 2023

Four Categories of Hormones and How They Affect Health and Weight Los…

Hormones can be divided into four main buckets: hunger, sex, stress, and thyroid. Allison Occkial dives into how we can optimize these four separate categories and gives us actionable tips for weight loss and improved functio...

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June 7, 2023

Tips and Tricks in the Action Line for Weight Loss [Ep. 46]

A collection of 5 tips and tricks I use every week with one client or another–or myself! Sometimes I have tips I want to share with you that don’t make an entire episode. So I just lumped them all together …

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May 24, 2023

Living Mindfully: Connecting with Nature, Emotions, and Breath for a …

Amy Stein and I discuss her journey to wellness through natural living, connecting with Mother Nature and breath work. We dive into primary programming and emotion work. We cover a lot of ground in this topic but it was so …

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May 17, 2023

The Weight Loss Blueprint: Building a Foundation of 6 Essential Healt…

If you feel like there is too much to do with weight loss, here’s your blueprint of where to start. I outline the 6 basics you need to do not only for weight loss, but also your overall health. In …

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May 3, 2023

Navigating Perimenopause and Menopause with Hormone Replacement Thera…

Have you heard of hormone replacement therapy? Most of us have and unfortunately many are worried about using it. Or we just don't realize the importance. Dr. Rosensweet labels the early 2000’s study on HRT and then the resul...

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April 12, 2023

Stress and Hormones with Ali Damron [Ep. 38]

Join the Group Coaching Program HERE Is stress one of your most common emotions? Did you know how it can affect your hormones? The emotion and state of stress has real impact specifically on the cortisol system of your body. …

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March 22, 2023

Types of Yoga, Fitting It In Your Schedule and How to Get Started wit…

Yoga can be so intimidating! Amanda Low really breaks it down for us today–the perfect place to start, how to fit it in and why we should even bother! This is the final installment of my Movement March series with …

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March 15, 2023

NEAT, Total Energy Expenditure, and the Effect on Weight Loss [Ep. 34]

Movement March continues! Do you know what NEAT is? It's your non-exercise activity thermogenesis. That basically means all the movement you do in a day that is not part of your formal "workout" or exercise routine. And you'l...

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March 8, 2023

Weight Lifting, Walking and Diet Culture with Maverick Willett [Ep. 3…

Join us today to chat all things weight lifting for women, walking, and just overall getting started with the movement that counts for making a physical change in the body! Maverick and I even get into some diet culture stuff...

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March 1, 2023

Constipation and Gut Issues That Affect Weight Loss With Functional N…

Liz Roman, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and Restorative Wellness Practitioner, joins me today to discuss constipation, bloating, gas and all things gut health! Even if you don't think you have gut issues, liste...

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Feb. 1, 2023

When Moms Get Sick: A Conversation with Jayne Ann Osborne [Ep. 28]

Have you ever been so sick that you simply could not take care of your regular tasks, including taking care of the kids? Yes, we all have. Even if it's only for a couple of days, most of us have …

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Jan. 18, 2023

The Microbiome: Mood, Metabolism and Appetite with Jared St. Clair

The microbiome--what is it and why should we care? This episode will answer that for sure. For starters, consider that genetically "we are about 150 times more bacteria than we are human. We actually have at least 150 times ...

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Dec. 21, 2022

No Last Suppers Before Your New Years Resolutions! [Ep. 22]

This next week and half--the time between now (when this episode is published) and the New Year is not a time to dread those coming resolutions. It's also not a time to overeat because of those scarcity thoughts that your …

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Nov. 30, 2022

The Fallacy of Vegan Diets Being Healthy with Erin Skinner, RD [Ep. 1…

Have you heard of the Blue Zones? Seems like a dream right--just follow their lifestyle and you too can live to be 100! It's not so simple, or straightforward. In this episode, Erin Skinner and I talk about Blue Zones, …

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Nov. 16, 2022

Your Inner Critic with Andrea Hanson [Ep. 17]

Do you have an inner mean girl? We pretty much all do so don't feel bad in the least if you answered yes! In this episode, my guest Andrea Hanson and I dive into what is going on with that …

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