Healthy Living by Willow Creek Springs
A podcast about practices to promote healthy lives featuring experts, businesses, and clients: we gather to share our stories about success, failure, exploration, and so much more. Our subscription episodes feature some personal and vulnerable, real-life stories that are sensitive to some of the general public.
Episodes
What if the fastest way to level up your career, relationships, and energy is to treat your body like your most valuable asset? We sit down with Ari Rastigar—entrepreneur, author of The Gift of Failure, and committed biohacker—to map a clear, no‑nonsense path from burnout to durable health. Ari’s story starts with a bloodwork wake‑up call and evolves into a system that’s simple enough to start today and strong enough to ...
A rough childhood doesn’t just fade; it leaves tracks in the body and mind that can guide every choice we make. We sit down with Juan, who speaks candidly from inside prison about ACEs—Adverse Childhood Experiences—and how early abuse, neglect, and instability hardwire a constant state of threat. Together we unpack the brain’s threat circuit: the brainstem scanning for danger, the amygdala firing alarms, and the prefront...
What if the difference between adversity and trauma is whether someone helps you carry it? We sit down with Juan, speaking from incarceration with striking clarity, to explore how childhood adversity, attachment, and the simple act of asking for help can rewrite a life. His story moves from suppression and survival to routine, reflection, and repair—offering practical tools anyone can use to feel safer in their own body ...
A bad cookie changed everything. When our guest, Mightylicious founder and CEO Carolyn Haeler, was blindsided by celiac disease, she didn’t just swap pasta for salad—she rebuilt how gluten free cookies are made, from flour particle size to protein balance. What started as a health crisis became a masterclass in food science and a blueprint for turning frustration into a beloved national brand.
We dig into the...
The loudest voices in cancer care rarely come with footnotes. We wanted to flip that script and build a conversation anchored in data, lived experience, and strategies patients can actually use. With Dr. Robert Hoffman, a researcher who has spent six decades in oncology, we separate hype from signal and outline a plan that starts with metabolism and ends with smarter treatment choices.
We dig into why methion...
What if the difference between survival and a life you actually want comes down to one honest question: what do you truly desire? Joe opens up about staring down an aggressive cancer diagnosis and discovering that desire alone wasn’t enough—he needed structure, community, and a mindset that turned fear into fuel. The result is a candid, practical conversation about choosing life with intention and building habits that...
What if a simple bar could carry real purpose—calm your nerves on a flight, ease a sensitive gut, or support daily resilience—without the sugar crash? We sit down with eBars co-founder Jan Dalton to unpack how a family project became a functional wellness brand shaped by faith, science, and a whole lot of grit. From ice storms in Tennessee to navigating Whole Foods shelves, this is the story of building something that...
What if your hardest season became the catalyst for your greatest purpose? Ty Gibson takes us from an eight-year-old’s brittle diabetes in the 1970s to a dual transplant that changed everything, through two decades of wins and setbacks, all the way to the day his wife turned out to be an exact kidney match. The story is gripping, but it’s also practical: the early insulin pumps, the 65 pills a day, the emotional calcu...
What if the words you use about yourself could shift your health, your relationships, and your capacity to create a life you love? Joe sits down with Dr. Karen Parker, creator of Quantum Human Design and author of Quantum Wellness, to unpack how story becomes biology—and how to rewrite it. Starting with her early days as a midwife, Karen noticed repeating patterns in the narratives clients told and the outcomes they e...
What if the most straightforward question—why Axay Shaw, founder of RawFoodiest, to explore how eating for energy and minimizing harm can transform performance, clarity, and long-term wellbeing.e His story spans sixteen years of raw nutrition, marathon training, and lab results that improved with age—built not on rigid purity, but on curiosity and attention.
I share my own path through an aggressive cancer an...
Quiet can change a body. That’s where we start—stepping out of the city hum and into a garden where owls work the night shift and mornings begin with breath, not sirens. From that ground, we sketch a retreat designed for real life: simple practices, honest food, and space to explore healing without pressure or hype.
We sit down with healer and herbalist Vee Martinez to map the weekend: qigong at sunrise, a so...
Most people plan to “figure it out later,” until later arrives with a hospital bracelet and a stack of bills. We invited Raymond Lavine—financial services veteran, caregiver advocate, and host of Planning with Purpose—to help us design long-term care with intention instead of panic. The result is a candid, deeply practical conversation about how to choose where and how you’re cared for, what it costs, and how to set u...
What happens when a clean-living family realizes their first aid cabinet is the last place to live clean? We sit down with entrepreneur and health psychology expert Jodi Scott to explore how Green Goo grew from backyard herbs and screen doors to a plant-based first aid line trusted by families, hikers, and chronic skin sufferers. Jodi bridges psychoneuroimmunology with practical skincare, explaining how the mind, nerv...
Feeling wiped out, lightheaded, or strangely clumsy isn’t just a bad day—it can be anemia quietly starving your body of oxygen. Joe shares a candid look at how anemia showed up during cancer treatment and the exact steps that brought energy back without leaning on a long list of meds. We unpack the difference between iron deficiency, B12 and folate issues, and chronic disease anemia so you can stop guessing and start ...
Bold claims don’t save lives—repeatable results do. We bring Dr. Robert Hoffman back to unpack a simple experiment with big consequences: when cancer and normal cells grow together in the same dish, methionine restriction hits tumors while sparing healthy cells, but cysteine restriction knocks out both. That single design choice—testing both cell types side-by-side—exposes why some popular protocols feel persuasive ye...
A simple question with enormous consequences: can the government send someone into your home to record you without a warrant and use it to put you in prison? We sit down with longtime activist Wesley Sudberry to unpack how a cannabis case became a national referendum on surveillance, biometric rights, and the Fourth Amendment.
Wesley walks us through years behind bars, the uphill fight to get attorneys to arg...
Peppermint doesn’t just taste fresh—it changes how a formula feels, works, and even smells. We open the lab door on our small-batch process and walk through the many jobs this single herb can do: calm a stubborn gut, lift a foggy mind, cool a throbbing temple, and open tight airways. Along the way, we share why ingredient quality matters, how peppermint acts as a catalyst alongside ginger and cayenne, and what separat...
Winter hands us a quiet invitation: press pause, clear the clutter, and set the stage for stronger growth. We take you into the garden at dormancy and show how smart pruning—removing dead wood, thinning crowded branches, and opening the canopy—translates directly to better health, clearer focus, and sturdier relationships. When sap slows, a clean cut heals faster; when life slows, a firm boundary heals clearer. Both c...
What happens when life swaps your sun-soaked vacation for a one-way flight to Kathmandu? That’s how Bron Watson describes the jolt from “I’m cured” to a fresh diagnosis of multiple myeloma—right as her family and business finally felt steady. A nurse-educator turned entrepreneur and two-time cancer survivor, Bron sits down with us to share how she traded toxic hustle for a calmer, wiser resilience built from gratitude...
What if the fastest way to steady your health is also the simplest: practice gratitude and step outside. Joe opens up about a year of recovery, the lessons learned from a stubborn body and a stubborn garden, and the surprising ways small, consistent habits reshape sleep, mood, and immunity. This is a grounded, hopeful guide for anyone craving practical steps that don’t require new gear or a perfect schedule—just your ...
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