Meet Mariel Swan! We talk everything from pageantry to NASCAR. We get to hear how faith plays such a big role in her life and how she’s overcome obstacles and turned them into opportunities! Mariel is filled with so much positive energy it’s contagious, enjoy!
Chris McKenna joins us today to help teach us parents the dangers of the tech space for kids. He is the founder of Protect Young Eyes, which is an organization dedicated to provide resources for parents to help families use technology for good! He has such positive insight navigating technology and parenthood. He gives great advice but also is passionate about not shaming parents or making them fearful! He is all about bringing awareness to the dangers the tech world throws at children.
Helen Hall is a smoothie master and a young and successful business owner who is full of positive energy and life. She is focused on health without being too extreme. Speaking to Helen was so refreshing! She owns Blender Bombs, 80x20 Market, and is the co-founder of Hustle Smoothie Bar in Charleston. In this episode, Helen tells us about her personal health journey, and how helping her personal training clients led to building her businesses.
She shared her favorite way to exercise, workouts she says she’ll never do again, and her go-to healthy living tips. We learned some insight about what it takes to own a start-up, and she shared some ways that she is learning and growing with work. Helen is also friends with some of the women on Southern Charm, and she gave us a peek inside the health journey of her good friend, Naomi.
We loved chatting with Helen about all of the amazing projects she's working on, and learning more about hustle and health from her!
Helen’s Instagram: @hushupandhustle
Blender Bombs: blenderbombs.com
80x20 Market: 80x20market.com
Hustle Smoothie Bar: hustlesmoothiebar.com
Heather Sumlin is the Director of Performance Programs, and is a master level instructor with Mental Management. She specializes in self image training, goal setting and interview preparation. Her clients have received top level recognition in their respective sports and industries. Heather supports her clients with an upbeat and motivating manner. She works to bring out the best in each of her clients!
Today she joined us to give advice to woman, and moms in particular, about how to boost our confidence and improve the way we see ourselves. Heather shared great wisdom about how we can better navigate these tough times in our country, especially as many parents are currently facing major changes with their children’s schooling. She spoke about improving our moods, how trading frustration for joy builds energy, how to stop worrying about things outside of our control, and how to use directive affirmation to develop new habits and mindset. We discussed how to navigate the negativity of social media these days, and she gave us guidance about how to own our decisions as parents.
Heather’s words are gentle and full of grace, yet motivating and promote positive change. We are so grateful to have learned from her!
Heather’s Instagram: @heathersumlin
Heather’s Email: heather@mentalmanagement.com
Mental Management Systems: https://mentalmanagement.com/
Mental Management Store: https://www.mentalmanagementstore.com/
“Parenting Champions” Lanny Bassham
“With Winning in Mind” Lanny Bassham
“Freedom Flight: The Origins of Mental Power” Lanny Bassham
“The 13 Biggest Mistakes Parents Make and How to Avoid Them” Steven Anderson
We were incredibly inspired after today’s interview! Jamie Brown is a lovely Charlotte local who co-owns several popular restaurants in town. She and her husband have 3 kids, they both have their MBAs, and they own Haberdish, Crepe Cellar, Growler’s Pourhouse, Reigning Doughnuts, and Supper.Land, which is opening soon. In the midst of their food and beverage success, Jamie started noticing signs of a possible autoimmune disease in the form of anxiety and debilitating panic attacks. She radically changed her diet, took a functional medicine approach, and was willing to do whatever was needed to stop the anxiety from affecting her life in such a negative way.
Jamie provides insight about her experience of chasing dreams alongside her husband, and what it is like to form a team of employees and build a community. She poured out her heart when she shared about the fear she experienced due to panic attacks. Through dedication to a strict elimination diet, a visit to the Cleveland Clinic, and a whole lot of perseverance, she got to the root cause, is reversing leaky gut and the inevitable onset of an autoimmune disease. She tells us about the AIP diet, what it was like to quit sugar, and tips about how to identify food triggers when it comes to anxiety. Real food is her medicine, and she has found JOY again through this healing process! This episode is enlightening and encouraging! We are so thankful to Jamie for being vulnerable with us, and we know that her story can help others!
Jamie’s Instagram: @jamie_making
Their restaurants: Haberdish; Crepe Cellar; Growler’s Pourhouse; Reigning Doughnuts; Supper.Land
**Their restaurants are currently doing take-out orders during the Shelter In Place rule with Covid-19. Their food is wonderful! We highly recommend trying their take-out if you are in the Charlotte area!
Today’s episode is all about marriage! This episode of Well + Nourished does contain some sensitive discussions about pornography use and sexual language. Please listen to this one without little ears around.
Monica Mouer was a teacher in private and public schools as well as serving with her husband in youth ministry around the country. She saw the need for families and individuals to be helped on a deeper leave. She became a counselor, and specializes in therapy with teens, adults, families, and couples. She has a passion to see individuals live to their fullest potential with a peace of mind, purpose in action and joy for everyday living! Monica answered our questions about which problems are the biggest for couples, when couples should seek therapy, some methods for reconnecting with your spouse, how pornography affects marriages, finding joy, and more.
One way to find a therapist is to visit psychologytoday.com
The book Monica recommended: The 4 Habits of Joy-Filled Marriages
Meg is a doctor of pharmacy and director of safety, but she considers herself a FARMacist as well. She is a wife and a mom to three boys! She works as a pharmacist for patient safety in a hospital system, but she believes that prevention over pills is key. Meg takes a holistic approach to health and believes in finding the root cause of disease and that food is medicine. Her expertise is in antibiotics and their effects on gut health. We discuss different classes of drugs, including anti-anxiety and anti-depression medications, opioids, ADHD medicines, frequently used antibiotics, cholesterol drugs, and PPIs. Meg shares with us about black box warnings and defines informed consent and how to discuss prescriptions with your doctor. We also share how we can do our own research at home and how to be a better medical advocate for yourself and your family. Meg explained more about antibiotic resistance and its consequences, how much of our body is made up of bacteria, and why antibiotics are still in such heavy use. She tells us what actually happens to our gut after one round of antibiotics, and why we should save antibiotic use for emergencies whenever possible. Our hope with this episode is to bring awareness to the effects of medications, and to promote health and immunity naturally.
Meg’s Information:
Instagram @awholehealthlife
Blog: A Whole Health Life
This is a special episode of the Well + Nourished podcast to discuss Covid-19/coronavirus. Today we are welcoming Dr. Ana Maria Temple back to discuss this virus and it’s impact on our world. Currently, it is March 19th, 2020, and we are in a phase of social distancing and quarantine. Schools are cancelled for now, businesses are closing temporarily, and the anxiety is high. This is a very serious time, and we want to get as much information out to you as possible! Dr. Temple is a holistic pediatrician and leader in the functional medical community. She has been researching coronavirus nonstop, has appeared on the news many times already, and is trying to get as many facts out there as possible. There has been some panic and misinformation in the mainstream media, and people have (of course) felt extreme fear around this. Our goal with this episode is to give you truth and answers to questions in the midst of a scary time.
Dr. Temple’s instagram posts have been extremely helpful as well. She has shared a wealth of information there, including lots of supplement and healthy food information.
Where you can find Dr. Temple:
Instagram: @dranamariatemple
Her Practice: Integrative Health Carolinas
Her Blog: Family Wellness Tips
Here are the non-profits that we mentioned during the show, who are helping supply meals to families who typically rely on breakfasts and lunches provided by the public school system:
(These are the branches local to the Charlotte area, but Second Harvest Food Bank has locations around the country. You can also check with your local public school, and churches, to see how you can help).
Second Harvest Metrolina - you can donate money online to help pay for a week or more of meals for a family!
*One question we did not get to during the episode is whether or not the change of seasons, and hot weather, could help reduce the spread of coronavirus. Dr. Temple said that if it was going to behave like influenza, it would seem like the numbers would go down as the temperatures increase outside. However, so far it is behaving differently than the flu, so we cannot say for sure.
Courtney Bursich is a wife and mom to two girls! She recently moved from the Charlotte area to Charleston and is exploring and adapting to a new life there. She is a certified Primal Health coach with her own online courses, an expert in clean living, and a still a super fit stay at home mom to her daughters. Courtney is a wealth of information, and she shared so much during this episode. We discussed how toxin overload affects fat storage, the realities of how our metabolism works, how saunas can impact our immunity, and her take on intermittent fasting, or what she calls time-restricted eating windows. She teaches us how to better listen to our bodies, what stress actually does to us, and how important it is to have margin in our lives. And listen for the fascinating snacks she always carries in her purse! We loved learning from Courtney!
Courtney’s Website: Organic Blondie Life
Instagram: @organicblondie
Kasandrinos Olive Oil Packets use code organicblondie10 for 10% off!
Emily Breeze is well-known in Charlotte and beyond for fitness and also as a joyful mom of three children under the age of three! She is always smiling, always working out, and almost always rocking a sports bra! Her authenticity and drive motivate thousands of men and women through her online programs and local boot camps. in 2015, she started a free boot camp with Stax Fitness and Randy Moss, which has grown to include over 500 people participating.
Breeze is as real as can be, and we loved chatting with her about Crossfit, the body shaming she has experienced, working out during pregnancy, her approach to dieting (or not), how she plans to teach her daughters about body image, and how every woman should feel comfortable in the gym - no matter their shape or size. She shares a glimpse into her personal life, including their move out of the city and how she and her husband balance 3 young kids and active careers.
Emily’s Instagram: @emilybreeze
Sarah Clark is the owner of Fab Fertile, which offers coaching for people experiencing infertility. Her team takes a functional, whole body approach to infertility. Her passion for the functional medicine approach stems from personal experience, and she uses her story and her knowledge to help women get pregnant.
Sarah is a certified life coach, a health coach with training from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and the author of Fabulously Fertile; Fabulously Fertile Cookbook, and the Fertility Preparation Program. Her coaching program helps couples navigate the infertility journey, and she shares a wealth of information on her Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast!
This episode covers how Sarah’s team works to heal hopeful parents from the inside out so that they can get pregnant, how diet affects fertility, the intimacy aspect of trying to conceive, self-care tips, and how to be sensitive to friends and family who are going through infertility.
Sarah’s Book and Cookbook
Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast
Sarah’s Instagram: @fabfertile
Today we have the privilege to share an interview with you that warmed our hearts and left us encouraged. Joanna is the owner of Brave Broth, a Charlotte-based bone broth company. 20% of her proceeds go directly to organizations that help the victims of human trafficking.
Joanna is a mom of four who changed her own life by starting this business, and is using it to help benefit others! She shared with us how she gave up her iPhone for a year in order to clear her mind and find her purpose. She had her eyes opened to the needs of those in our city and beyond who have been trafficked and abused. Joanna also explains the benefits of collagen and bone broth, how she makes it and when and how to eat or drink it.
You can find her on Instagram at @brave_broth. Brave Broth is sold at two places in Charlotte: Reid’s Fine Foods and Green Brothers Juice Co. She also started shipping her bone broth! Here is the link to her website, and you can find more information about that on the Reid’s site.
Her company gives to the following organizations:
Today on the Well + Nourished podcast, we were joined by Lindsay’s brother, Patrick Link. His story of addiction to redemption is a powerful one. Patrick has experienced the struggle and hardships that come along with years of drug abuse and dealing, but he is now clean and has been working in the rehab ministry that helped him turn his life around. He has spoken at high schools, colleges, and in churches. His story is impactful and we hope that his sharing can help families who are dealing with addiction. Patrick also shares some advice for parents who want to be more informed as they raise their kids in a world where alcohol and drugs are powerful strongholds on so many. The verse that helped him tremendously during his journey to health was Romans 8:18, which says “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.”
This episode is heavy, and not appropriate for younger ears. Please keep that in mind by either listening without your young children around, or maybe wearing headphones.
We would truly appreciate your feedback after this episode. To help us, you could rate, review, and subscribe. You can also email Ashley (wonderandwear@gmail.com) or Lindsay (sevenlayercharlotte@gmail.com).
Where to find more info and follow Patrick:
Instagram: @patlink13
If you know someone who is in need of a rehab program, please reach out to Adult and Teen Challenge. This is the rehabilitation ministry that helped Patrick, and who he ended up working for to help other men. He was on staff there for 6 years.
In today's episode, we have the amazing Kristy Dickerson here chatting all things organization! Kristy is the CEO of START brands, a single mom to three boys, author, speaker on productivity, finances, and balance. She has been featured on publications such as Forbes, INC.com, Entrepreneur, and The Huffington Post. She has spoken for private companies and universities including Harvard where she truly inspires others to dream, be productive with their time, and be their best selves!
Where to find more info on Kristy!
Instagram @KristyDickerson
Website www.KristyDickerson.com
Today on the Well + Nourished podcast, we have BreeAnna Cox, founder and owner of Body by Bree Fitness. To be completely honest, our main goal in this interview was to learn her secrets for how to get her amazing abs! Kidding (sort of). Bree is certified in Pre and Post Natal Fitness, she is a Fitness Nutrition Specialist, and trains people all over the country. She is a mom to three, an entrepreneur, and makes mental health for herself and her clients a priority. Her perspective on training and macro counting is a healthy one, and she enlightened us about who should count macros, and when. Bree inspired us both, we learned from her, and we are so happy for you all to hear this episode!
Where to find more info and follow Bree:
Instagram: @bodybybreefitness
Website: https://bodybybree.com
Her programs are all listed on her website!
In this episode, we had the privilege of sitting down with Dr. Ana Maria Temple. She is a well-known pediatrician in Charlotte who now practices functional medicine and is bringing positive change to the world of kids’ wellness. She is currently helping patients in her practice, while also traveling the country to get her message out. Her mission is to help parents raise healthy kids in an unhealthy world! We discuss the rise of chronic illness in children, ear infections, sugar, constipation, picky eaters, and she explains functional medicine. Dr. Temple is an incredible resource for parents, and shares a wealth of information on her Instagram page. You can follow her there @dranamariatemple and her blog is familywellnesstips.com. Her practice in Charlotte is called Integrative Health Carolinas and their website is integrativehealthcarolinas.com
Today we are interviewing a woman we both admire greatly. Kelly is a successful entrepreneur, business coach, former Crossfit instructor, and an inspirational mom of two. She sat down with us today to discuss her experience with postpartum depression and anxiety. Kelly reveals how she decided to approach her own mental health - without taking a pharmaceutical approach - and what is working for her. We both learned from her during this episode, and we hope you all get as much out of this as we did! Thank you, Kelly!
We are all about consistency in working to stay fit, have a positive mental state, and a higher energy level. Today we are sharing wth you our overall daily healthy habits, and how we stay lean without dieting. Neither of us are a fan of fad diets, but we do have some tips to help you get on the right track for physical health!
In this episode we wanted to introduce ourselves! And please bear with us, because we are still getting the hang of recording and this episode is a bit rocky! We are telling how we each became interested in health, and share more about our personal blogs and platforms. Our journeys began in quite different places, but we landed in neighboring towns and me through our shared passion for wellness. We are here to discuss how we live life with purpose and strive to feel our best. As Ashley says, "live life in color, not in black and white!" We are determined to pursue mental, physical and emotional health, and we hope to share our tips and journeys through this podcast.
Get to know the hosts of Well Nourished, Ashley George and Lindsay Kingdon.
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