Episode 66: Aligning with Your Inner-voice with Dana Evans

The table gets turned (mostly) to Kit for this final episode of Second Spring Podcast Season 1 when her friend and coach colleague, Caitlin Faas, facilitates the interview!

Kit shares how she’s feeling about parenting young adults as an empty nester; some tools that she has found helpful and what she finds challenging in this chapter.

You will hear how Kit answered Caitlin’s question: “What do you not want the person in front of you to know about you?”

See if she’s having a midlife crisis!

You will also get to hear a bit about Caitlin who is an academic, a life coach as well as a meditation teacher. Caitlin has had her own version of Second Spring, a pretty traumatic one at that. While healing from the challenging transition, Caitlin found her mentor.

Learn what it’s like for a coach to have a guide and an apprenticeship and what you, too, can experience if and when you need help through your own Second Spring transitions as well. 

Kit’s (sort of) mentor Tara Brach: https://www.tarabrach.com/

Caitlin’s mentor, Scott Schwenk: https://www.scottschwenk.com/

Caitlin’s website: https://www.drcaitlinfaas.com/

Caitin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drcaitlinfaas

Caitlin’s newsletter: https://caitlinfaas.substack.com/

Kit’s website: https://kityoon.com/

Kit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kit_yoon/

Work with Kit: https://kityoon.com/work-with-me/

Betty Brown is a NAMA - Ayurvedic Practitioner, holistic nurse, and founder of B Well Ayurveda Health Coach. 

Betty is also a yoga instructor, a mother, an amazing cook, a fellow food & Kimchi lover as well as a fellow Bexley resident. 

Ayurveda has helped Betty to take charge of her own health. She works with clients to help them feel empowered to make positive changes in their life using the ancient wisdom and medicine of Ayurveda.

What is Ayurveda: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-is-ayurveda

Betty’s website

Betty on instagram

Women’s retreat with Betty

Work with Kit

Kelly Muir is a martial artist, 6th degree Black Belt in karate, 3rd degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. 

 She has been featured in Karate/Kung Fu Illustrated and Black Belt Magazine as a pioneer for women in the Martial Art Industry. 

 Kelly has been a columnist for Black Belt Magazine, writing in the Better Business Column and a contributor to the Personal Defense Network. 

Kelly was named Black Belt Magazine’s 2012 Woman of the Year.

An influential teacher, an entrepreneur, a mother, an author, Kelly is a proud Bexley resident and an almost Bexley High School graduate.

She recently wrote and published the book, Lessons from Nowhere, which chronicles the turbulent journey of her early years and how that paved the way to a fulfilling and purposeful life. 

Kelly’s Karate School

Kelly’s book: Lessons from Nowhere

Kelly on Instagram

Work with Kit

Cheryl is an award winning interior designer, founder and CEO of Crimson Design Group - a full-service interior design firm offering a range of services to both commercial and residential clients. 

Through her fearless leadership and steadfast mission, Cheryl has grown her company from a small local business in Columbus, Ohio into an impressive, successful, nationally renowned firm that is dedicated to bringing comfort, inspiration and beauty to her clients’ spaces.

She simply (in her words) knows how to make the typically unseen beauty, seen.

Cheryl is mother, a wife, a good friend to many, a philanthropist, a fellow Second Spring woman, and a Bexley resident.

Resources:

Crimson Design Group Website: https://crimsondesigngroup.com/

Crimson Design Group on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crimsondesigngroup/

Emotionally Healthy Relationship Course: https://subsplash.com/lifevineyardchurch/lb/ev/+nbx5kkh

Work with Kit: https://kityoon.com/work-with-me/

Rebecca is a licensed acupuncturist, an herbalist, and a Qi gong teacher. 

Not long after she moved from California did Rebecca become a very valuable Bexley resident.

She’s the vice chair of Green Bexley and has contributed so much to the community, especially around encouraging our town to be more environmentally conscious. 

Rebecca embodies Chinese medicine in her professional and personal life. She credits it to her vitality and well-being as she feels more energized and healthy now in her early 50s than when she was younger! 

Listen to the episode for some Chinese medicine secrets and so much more. 

Rebecca sees patients at Monarch Acupuncture and herbs, her private practice in Bexley, Ohio.

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Monarch Acupuncture website: https://www.monarchacupunctureandherbs.com/

What is moxibustion: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/moxibustion

Green Bexley: https://www.greenbexley.org/

Work with Kit: https://kityoon.com/work-with

Dr Melissa Briggs Phillips is a clinical psychologist and leadership consultant. She’s also a teacher, a mom, a Bexley resident, a good friend to many here in Columbus, Ohio. 

Dr. Melissa has spent years leading projects in health care, community development and higher education. She is the founder of her private practice Next Generation Behavioral Health and recently joined Mindset Integrative Ketamine Care as their Psychologist in residence.

Weaving her expertise into her work wherever she is, Dr Melissa is not shy to admit, in her own words: 

“I love what I do. It is sacred to me.”

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Dr. Melissa’s website: https://behaveforward.com/

Mindset Integrative Ketamine Care: https://mindsetketamine.com/

Work with Kit: https://kityoon.com/work-with-me/

Dr. Nicole O’Brien is a critical care physician at Nationwide Children’s hospital in Columbus, Ohio. She’s also an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine for the Ohio State University College of Medicine. 

In 2015, Nicole received the Fulbright Africa Regional Research Program award to work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She’s also received several NIH grants for research related to neurologic diseases in remote regions of Africa.

Along with her husband Will O’Brien, Nicole founded Restore Elikia, a nonprofit organization that works to provide sustainable orphan care and community development in a remote region of the Congo. 

Nicole is a mom of four children. She travels back and forth between Ohio and Africa. When stateside, she and her family call Bexley home. 

Several years ago, Nicole and Will faced the unimaginable loss of their adopted children from the Congo. That experience both traumatized them (including losing the ability to speak for Nicole), and guided them to living the purpose they have shared all along. 

Listen to their fascinating story of grit and determination, and how Nicole overcame her limitations despite all the challenges. At the end of the conversation, Nicole shares how she’s choosing to live fully and what she thinks we need to do to optimize our second chapter.  

For a full transcript of this episode, please go to Second Spring Chronicle. 

Check out Nicole's project in the Congo, Restore Elikia: https://restoreelikia.org/

More about Dr. Nicole O’Brien’s work

Work with Kit Yoon

AJ is a self-taught painter specializing in abstract pointillism. She’s a mother to 3 daughters, a Pacific Northwest native, and a Bexley resident for over a decade.

Growing up in a warm and loving family with a brother and her parents, AJ looks back to her childhood with fondness. As she got older, and family dynamics got complicated, including her parents’ divorce, addictions and more, AJ had to find ways to keep herself grounded.

In recent years, she lost her parents to health conditions that may have been due to genetics, but also preventable with lifestyle adjustments. She is hoping to rewrite her story and decided to make bold changes to take care of her future physical, mental and spiritual health today.

A brilliant artist, a loving mother, partner, and friend, AJ embraces life in the middle with so much grace and intention. Please enjoy our conversation here and check out her work via the links below.

For a full transcript of this episode, please go to Second Spring Chronicle. 

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Resources mentioned in the podcast:

AJ’s website: https://www.ajoishi.com

AJ on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aj_oishi/

Female Fight Club: https://femalefightclubcolumbus.com/

Work with Kit: https://kityoon.com/

Liza Moore is a former lawyer, a midlife mom, a wife, a resident of Bexley, Ohio.

After the challenge of her divorce, Liza experienced the unimaginable loss of her oldest daughter, Jadyn. To say that she’s gone through hell and back is an understatement.

Liza had been coming to see Kit for healing sessions over several years, for a variety of conditions. But it wasn’t until Liza listened to one podcast that Kit sent to her that her life took a completely different turn and really began to heal.

Liza's sessions with Kit began to take shape in a new way after that!

She is currently on an incredible journey of self discovery through deep meditations and mindset shifts.

Listen to Liza’s inspiring journey of loss & hope, of finding her way to living her truth in her Second Spring chapter.

For a full transcript of this episode, please go to Second Spring Chronicle. 

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Some resources mentioned in the podcast:

Feel Better Live More Podcast Episode with Dr. Joe:

https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/266-dr-joe-dispenza-on-how-to-unlock-the-power-of-yourmind/id1333552422?i=1000559472130

Dr. Joe Dispenza: https://drjoedispenza.com/

Michael Singer’s books: https://amzn.to/489Yh1P

Work with Kit: https://kityoon.com/

Welcome to Second Spring Podcast!

This is a relaunch of Kit Yoon’s previous podcast, with a new identity and focus.

You will hear Kit’s introduction that is broken down into the What, Why and How of Second Spring podcast in its first season.

Kit guides you through the concept of Second Spring - a Chinese medicine term for the transition that women go through in midlife.

You are invited to partake in the stories and inspirations from the women of Bexley, Ohio in Season 1.

Kit also invites you join her Second Spring Community of women who get to blossom and flourish in this chapter no matter what. 

Enjoy this short introductory episode with your host, Kit Yoon!

For a full transcript of this episode, please go to Second Spring Chronicle. 

LINKS:

Second Spring Podcast on Apple iTunes:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/second-spring-podcast-with-kit-yoon/id1485206387

Second Spring Chronicle: https://kityoon.substack.com/

Kit’s website: https://kityoon.com/

Free Consult with Kit here