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Episode 69 – Drink Like Nature: Gut Health, Kombucha, and the Power of Fermentation with Joan Karp

In this deliciously insightful episode, we welcome Joan Karp, founder of Keystone Cultures, a Pennsylvania-based fermented beverage company helping people “drink like nature.” Joan joins us to share her journey from backyard brews to being a farmers market favorite, with a mission rooted in one simple truth: you are nature.

We dive deep...

In Episode 68 of the Healthy Team Healthy Business podcast, we welcome leadership consultant and Schooley Mitchell franchise owner Shawn Stratton. Drawing from decades of experience leading wilderness expeditions around the globe, Shawn shares powerful insights into team dynamics, trust-building, and leadership under pressure.

We discuss:

• How wilderness leadership mirrors the workplace
• Building trust and managing conflict in tight...

Struggling with low employee engagement or team misalignment? In this episode of Healthy Team Healthy Business, we talk with Brett Hoogeveen, co-founder of BetterCulture, about how intentional leadership and a strong workplace culture can transform your team—and your bottom line.

Whether you're a business owner, team leader, or HR professional, this episode is packed with actionable strategies to improve team performance, boost...

Curtis May joined our show today to discuss his approach to helping investors really lay out a plan and execute it well.  He describes himself as a 'defensive coordinator' for wealth planning and he explains it incredibly well.  He helps people set goals, find a path to achieve them, then execute each step.  When a business owner or their team can relax about their financial health, other parts of their life can also impr...

Amy Eiges is a health coach and reformed chronic dieter who is passionate about helping others recover from the diet-binge-gain-shame cycle she struggled with for years. Since discovering ketogenic and low-carb lifestyle, she has lost over 200 pounds and has both reversed pre-diabetes and resolved lifelong depression. “When I was just starting out, facing 200 pounds to lose seemed insurmountable, and the idea I would ever be where ...

If you were not able to attend our Wellness Summit in person, we wanted to take the time to recap some of our highlights from our presenters.  This episode does that and talks a bit more about what's coming up in 2025!!  Thanks for taking the time to listen.

Thanks to our speakers:
Scott Dolly
Dr. Stephen Hussey
Dr. Terin Fetty
Denyse Phelps
Stacie Haaga
Wernecke Wellness

Summit sponso...

The 2nd Annual Healthy Team Healthy Business Wellness Summit is just around the corner on Jan 16, 2025.  Have you registered yet?  Our inaugural event in 2024 was a great success and this year we have strived make it even better.  Our lineup of speakers and the topics we're covering will not be found in any events like this in our region.  We have world renowned experts in topics from body mechanics, ancestral health, sensory ...

Alex has a leadership coaching business called August Consulting where he helps leaders hone their skills to make sure their teams are high performing, healthy units.  His background in special operations during his military service gives him a unique perspective.  We discussed practices to remain calm, how to set your day up so that as the leader, you show up your best, giving yourself time between interactions, etc.  All of these...

Dr. Cyril Barch is a retired internal medicine and geriatric specialist who has decided to devote some of his time in retirement to encouraging people to put Advanced Medical Directives in place.  AMD's are documents that instruct a medical team on what to do and not to do if you are medically incapacitated and can't make your own decisions.  This document can help alleviate stress from family members and loved ones becau...

"In this episode, we speak with Terin Fetty, an occupational therapist specializing in sensory rehabilitation for children with autism and other sensory disorders. We explore how sensory processing challenges can affect children and the techniques used in sensory integration therapy. Whether you’re a parent, teacher, or healthcare provider, you’ll learn actionable tips to support children with sensory needs.  We also ask about...

As a college student and son of parents in the medical professions, Luka saw what the COVID-19 situation did to the front-line providers of care in terms of getting supplies on time, of good quality and definitely at a fair price.  He built a supply chain marketplace to help facilitate this and it caught on.  Now he and his team have built Grapevine into a marketplace not just for times of crisis, but in day to day operations of me...

Tammy Nevin was a busy realtor and mom who, like many during the Covid years, found herself stuck at home and needing to find options for caring for herself without access to the usual places.  But options like red light were either expensive or cheaply made so she set out to build her own version of products that found the happy medium and Happy Sol Wellness was born. 
Tammy talks about how red light has helped her skin, slee...

We always enjoy the opportunity to talk business and health and this episode was full of both topics!  Sylvia Tabor healed herself from some significant health issues (physical and mental) using the carnviore diet and couldn't find a portable, shelf stable food to help her continue her journey.  Using her mechanical engineering background, personal drive, and perseverance, she created what is now her brand Carnivore Snax.  Fro...

When Andy Schoonover found out that a basic procedure for his daughter could've cost him many thousands less than what he ultimately paid, he knew there was a better way to pay for healthcare and he setup a business to do just that.  Crowdhealth was born from this frustration and the desire to help others lower their healthcare costs and streamline the process.  This is a community-based system where members pay a monthly fee ...

We spent time with Dr. Anson today.  Her varied background and journey to her coaching and training business makes her an important part of the conversation we're looking for on our show.  Dr. Anson stressed the importance of buy-in by front-line managers and also how we need to not use generational descriptions to gauge how an employee will act once hired.  She really had some great perspectives and new studies (linked below)...

Ayurveda is ancient Eastern medicine that pushes our body toward healing using simple and natural remedies.  The trick is first figuring out your Dosha, basically your body's center point , and then finding ways to keep centering around that.  

Her website is HERE
Find Dr. Shivani on Instagram
Find Dr. Shivani on Facebook
Her YOUTUBE channel
Fusionary Formulas (discount code in episode)

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Gut health, circadian rhythm, fat loss, all of these and more are in Amanda Carneiro's coaching practice.  Amanda has been coaching for 15years or so now and helps her clients get past chronic issues, lose weight, improve sleep and just feel and perform better.  She's done extensive studying in analyzing labs, patterns in symptoms, gut issues and more.  We had a great discussion about staying on plan while traveling, rese...

Leah Wernecke spent her formative years in pain and ill.  Her mother Sheri decided to take control over her health and her family's health and started the recovery process.  This is really a great story and another testament to the power of persistence, faith, learning and healing.  And now, the Wernecke's have begun helping others with their own practice!!  We learned about their approach to assessing their clients, thei...

The Muscle Maven, Ashleigh Van Houten joined us for a really fun talk about all things wellness as a mom, entrepreneur, podcaster, author and coach.  We touched on all of those topics during our show and we got some great insight from Ashleigh on her journey to where she is today.  Our listeners will gain some good knowledge on taking your time post-partum, learning to allow yourself to eat enough food (especially protein), and bui...