Are you waking up exhausted even after a full night’s sleep, battling brain fog, or feeling “off” in your body—but brushing it off as just stress or getting older?
In this episode, health and mindset coach Angelica Ventrice breaks down the hidden connection between stress, gut health, and burnout. If you’ve ever wondered why you can’t slow down, why your body feels inflamed, or why your energy keeps tanking even though you’re “doing all the right things,” this conversation is for you.
In this episode, you will:
- Learn how to recognize the early warning signs of burnout before it derails your health and career.
- Understand how gut health influences not only digestion but also mood, energy, and weight loss.
- Discover simple, practical steps to reduce stress, support your hormones, and reclaim confidence in your body.
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Angelica Ventrice (00:00):
I think people forget your body is the
vessel that's driving your life,your business, your everything,
so treat it with the respect itdeserves.
Michelle Gauthier (00:13):
You're listening to Overwhelmed Working
Woman, the podcast that helpsyou be more calm and more
productive by doing less.
I'm your host, MichelleGauthier, a former overwhelmed
working woman and current lifecoach.
On this show we unpack thestress and pressure that today's
working woman experiences andin each episode you'll get a
strategy to bring more calm,ease and relaxation to your life
(00:37):
.
Hi, friend, thanks for joining.
Today's guest is AngelicaVentrice.
She's a health and mindsetcoach who helps high achieving
women like us spot the earlysigns of burnout and reclaim
their energy and confidence.
This was an interestingconversation.
She shares her personaltransformation story and breaks
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down the deeper connectionbetween stress, gut health and
self-worth.
I feel like gut health issomething I always heard about,
but I didn't really know what itmeant until now.
So when you listen today,you'll learn how to notice the
signs of burnout before itforces you to slow down, what
gut health is and why it impactsyour energy and your mood and
(01:18):
your ability to lose weight, andwhy it's so hard to slow down
even when you want to.
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Thank you, angelica, forjoining us today.
(02:47):
I'm so excited to hear yourstory and all the ways that
you're helping women get anearly read that they might be
getting to burnout before itactually happens to them.
But start off by telling us howyou got into this space in the
first place.
Angelica Ventrice (02:58):
Yes, I will make it as short as possible.
Thank you for having me.
About 15 years ago, I went onmy own weight loss health
journey.
I was doing pharmaceuticalsales.
I am from Long Island, new York.
I was pretty much overweight mywhole life into my late 20s.
One day I literally couldn'ttake it anymore.
I was burnt out.
I was feeling horrible in mybody.
I was doing well in my careerbut just feeling really out of
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alignment.
I fired a coach.
I lost 40 pounds with him andsomething kind of gut punched me
Like this is what you need todo.
So I left pharmaceutical sales,moved from New York to
California and started personaltraining and nutrition coaching
and moved into health coachingmy business online.
It really has turned into likehealth coaching, life coaching,
mindset coaching as well, justbecause I've done so much
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different coaching myself.
But that's really how itstarted.
I had my own transformationjourney and I felt really called
to help other women and I'vehelped some men as well.
Really, it's not just about thenumber on the scale, but find
true alignment and happiness intheir bodies and in their health
.
And so how much it changed mylife, my relationship with self,
my relationship with my careerand just everything around me.
And yeah, so I left mypharmaceutical job and here we
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are and just went for it.
I literally had no job lined upin California.
So hopefully a story inspiressomeone.
I didn't know what I was doing.
I just knew that I was meant todo something else other than
pharmaceutical sales, which Iwasn't aligned to do because I'm
very holistic in the way Iapproach health Interesting,
yeah.
So really it started to feelnot good to me to be pushing
drugs to doctors that arewriting it to get paid to write
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the prescription.
So it fell out of alignment todo that anyway.
So it all happened the way itwas supposed to happen and I
just moved to California no joband I was like right doing this,
going to figure it out.
Michelle Gauthier (04:36):
I love it.
That's so great.
Starting my business is asimilar story where one day I
decided I can't do this anymoreand I started this business.
You say it like one sentence,with a bow on it, doesn't show
all the times.
We're like laying on the floorcrying oh my gosh still yeah,
then I just started thisbusiness and became so
successful.
Angelica Ventrice (04:52):
A lot of hard work, a lot of trials and doing
things wrong.
But I think you have a calling,and especially women.
We're so intuitive that wefollow that gut instinct.
It will not lead you in thewrong way.
You just have to trust it.
And that doesn't mean it's notscary.
It was scary for me to leaveNew York.
It was scary to go to Cali andthen start that business and
then, scared, to move thebusiness online.
There's always a little bit offear, but I really do always
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feel, to that fear of an inkling, that you're moving in the
right direction.
Michelle Gauthier (05:16):
Yes, yes, that kind of fear.
There's a different brand offear.
This is scary, but it's likeyeah.
So you said that when you weredoing that pharmaceutical job,
you started feeling like youwere just out of alignment and
really burned out.
Is that kind of the hallmark ofthe people who come to you for
help?
(05:37):
They do, they come to youbecause they want to lose weight
.
Or like what does your clientusually come to you with?
Angelica Ventrice (05:40):
A lot of women are feeling there's a fat
loss or weight loss, bodyrecomposition.
But then there's also a lot ofwomen who want help with their
gut health.
They're feeling bloated,uncomfortable, green foggy.
They also come to us becausethey're not putting themselves
first, and they know it.
It's like that saying put youroxygen mask on first.
They know they need to do it,but they're not doing it and
they want help.
They want to break the peoplepleasing.
They want to put themselvesfirst.
(06:00):
They know they'll show upbetter for their careers,
businesses, family and partnerswhen they do start to put
themselves first.
But they've been stuck notdoing that years of putting
themselves last.
So, a lot of them are burned out.
We have such a mix.
Some women are burned out, someare in adrenal fatigue, some
women have gut health issues,hormonal issues, some have
autoimmune.
We kind of see it all At theend of the day.
All of them want to either losesome weight or lose some fat.
(06:23):
When you're in a state ofburnout.
Your body doesn't look good mostof the time, yes.
Michelle Gauthier (06:26):
What are some of the signs that you're either
in burnout or you're very closeto getting burnt out?
Angelica Ventrice (06:32):
Low ceiling, like you've slept six to eight
hours and you wake up but you'restill exhausted.
I would say that's a goodindication.
I think as women age, theystart to believe in hormones or
age on hormones or age.
It could also be that you're inburnout and you're in adrenal
fatigue.
You're looking bloated, you'relooking swollen, you're looking
inflamed.
I think that adrenal fatigueand burnout go together, because
when you are so burned out,your body isn't working properly
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.
So you'll start to feel fatigue, exhaustion, brain fog.
Like I said, you think you havea good night's sleep but you're
waking up exhausted.
Right, you slept the certainamount of hours Disconnected.
I think that when you're in alevel of burnout, you feel
disconnected from your work.
You may want to burn yourbusiness to the ground and feel
disconnected from your partner.
Maybe other signs that we don'teven think about is like saying
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no to, maybe, things that youused to like doing or events
that you used to like to go to.
Just starting to isolateyourself a little bit more is
another sign of burnout.
Sometimes you think, oh God,I'm just so tired.
But are you just tired or areyou really heading towards
burnout?
It's okay to be tired.
We all have times where we'retired, but if you're saying no a
lot, if you're disconnecting,if you love to paint or draw or
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you love to dance and thenyou're not doing any of these
things that you used to oncelove to do, that's a sign of
burnout, like a high level ofdisconnection, feeling out of
alignment in your life, out ofalignment in your body.
High level of beingdisconnected is a sign of
burnout, plus all the physicalsymptoms we just talked about.
Michelle Gauthier (07:51):
Yes, I find a lot of women who come to me
have forgotten what they likedoing.
Painting is a good example.
There could be.
Angelica Ventrice (07:58):
I like to paint and draw too, but I don't
do it often enough, because weforget these childlike thoughts.
Michelle Gauthier (08:03):
Yes, just like the fun we can have on some
of those simple things.
Will you tell us what adrenalfailure is, what that means?
Angelica Ventrice (08:11):
Adrenal fatigue is when your hormones
are not functioning properly andyour cortisol is through the
roof.
That bloat, that inflammation.
It happens.
Often Some people don't realizethat they're in it, but I see,
I would say probably half of thewomen that come to me are in it
.
Like there is a complete stateof exhaustion.
The hormones aren't functioningproperly.
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They have estrogen dominance,they don't have enough
progesterone, they don't haveenough testosterone, they're not
able to build lean muscle massand the cortisol is through the
roof.
When the cortisol is throughthe roof, the other hormones
cannot function properly.
Okay, and that comes from beingunder a lot of stress for a long
time.
Yep Chronic stress for sure.
Chronic stress can come frommultiple things and not taking
care of your health.
(08:52):
Right Like, what are the foodsyou're eating, who are you
surrounding yourself with?
But there are times when you'llbe doing a lot of things, right
Like, you'll eat well, you'redoing the workouts, but you're
so stressed and you're operatingthat high level of fight or
flight that you're not.
You're in burnout.
Right, Even if you're eatingthe good things, taking care of
yourself, but if you'reconstantly in the high state of
stress, you're still in burnout.
Michelle Gauthier (09:12):
Yeah, there's nothing that you okay.
And then you mentioned that alot of times you help people get
their gut health fixed.
Yeah, I feel like gut health issomething and I don't know if
it's because I just kind ofstarted paying attention to it
myself, but I feel like I see iteverywhere.
So will you tell us what doesthat mean and what does it drive
when our gut health isn't goodversus when it is?
Angelica Ventrice (09:33):
good.
So, like inflamed versusnon-inflamed, the gut is the
powerhouse of the body.
It doesn't affect yourdigestive system.
More and more studies areshowing that 80 to 90% of
dopamine and serotonin arelocated in your gut, which means
if your gut is inflamed and offbalance, you don't feel as well
, you have brain fog, you'remoody, you're depressed right,
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because your body isn'taccessing those
neurotransmitters the way itshould be.
I've had women come to me withsuch poor gut health and they're
depressed and they have anxietyand they're on meds for that,
which is there's something wrongwith it.
But we've done gut smellingwith them and they've been able
to get off of their medication.
So we often forget theconnection between the gut and
the brain, right, that accessthere.
(10:14):
So, yeah, anxiety, depression,moodiness, brain fog there, yeah
, so yeah, anxiety, depression,moodiness, brain fog.
There's so many other symptomsthat your gut is off, like the
whiteness of your eyes canbecome yellow, your teeth will
be more yellow, not to be TMIhere, but you know, like
recurring yeast infections orvaginal infections are also a
sign of poor gut health.
And then there's obviouslydiarrhea, constipation, acid
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reflux and bloat.
People always know those, right, but then also like extreme
fatigue and migraines are also asign, and constant headaches or
allergies.
Inability to shed weight right,you have a high level of gut
dysbiosis, which is inflammation, so it can be very hard to shed
weight.
A high level of gutinflammation hard for your body
to absorb the protein thatyou're eating to build lean
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muscle mass.
It literally affects everything.
Michelle Gauthier (10:59):
If you suspect that your gut health is
off.
What's one step people couldtake to figure that out?
Like a lifestyle change?
Angelica Ventrice (11:10):
I would say whichever, some more equally, I
think that people will noticesymptoms.
I say paying attention to howyou feel when you're eating.
Are you constantly bloated, allday or just in the evening?
Keeping a food log, even ifit's just writing it down, and
paying attention to how you feel?
I would say most women arebloated.
So how much caffeine are youintaking?
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Are you drinking enough water?
Are you eating enough fiber?
These are things people couldstart paying attention to.
25 to 30 grams of fiber a dayis essential.
Most people don't eat enough ofthat.
Fiber is so essential for goodgut health because it feeds the
good gut bacteria.
I'll just put it in layman'sterms it feeds the healthy
bacteria that we want toflourish.
So you want eating plenty offiber, fruits and veggies as
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well.
We don't need to go into likethe nitty gritty of free and
probiotics you can get that fromfood but just making sure
you're eating a variety offruits and veggies and lean
proteins and drinking plenty ofwater.
Don't start your morning withcoffee.
Start your morning with warmlemon water.
That stimulates the bile, getsthe toxins released and
stimulates your digestive system.
Also, you're dehydrated whenyou wake up and you don't want
(12:14):
to just jump to coffee.
So making sure that you havesome water and I strongly,
strongly encourage the warmlemon water.
It's really great.
Michelle Gauthier (12:20):
That sounds good actually.
Angelica Ventrice (12:22):
Yeah, it's such an easy thing.
Just yeah, so easy.
The water I squeeze a wholelemon in.
It's very, very simple and itreally makes the difference.
Your stomach will look flatter,Get the digestive system moving
.
It's really good for you.
It's good for you.
Michelle Gauthier (12:34):
Okay, that's, those are great tips.
Are there foods that willalways cause bloat, or is it
dependent on the person?
Angelica Ventrice (12:42):
That's a great question.
I think it's dependent on theperson, but in general, gluten
wheat, excess of soy corn dairy,can cause inflammation.
Dairy in America contains aninflammatory protein called
casein.
It's only found in America, notin Europe and other countries.
Because of the way we processthings here, gluten, even if you
don't have celiac, can behighly inflammatory.
(13:04):
I'm not saying never have dairyor gluten, just be conscious.
Like I love pizza, I'm Italian,so we eat pizza like once a
week, right?
So, yes, I'm having some foodand I'm having some dairy, but
I'm not doing it every day.
Does that make sense?
And also paying attention towhat type of proteins you're
getting.
Are they farm-raised or organic?
Right, because if you buy apiece of salmon and it's
farm-raised, that means itingested antibiotics.
(13:25):
You don't know what they'reputting into the fish, right.
But if you get wild-caughtsalmon, it's completely
different.
So, paying attention to whattype of products you're buying
is important.
Michelle Gauthier (13:34):
Okay, that makes sense.
I don't do dairy.
It just upsets my stomach, itmakes me feel terrible.
I didn't used to be like that,but for the past five or so
years I just really don't eatdairy.
And this summer I took my kidsto Europe for a couple weeks and
I ate all the dairy right and Iwas completely fine, completely
fine, that's what I'm saying.
Angelica Ventrice (13:51):
Same thing.
I went to Italy.
We ate pizza every day.
My stomach was fine.
If I ate pizza every day herewould be a problem, or I ate
pasta.
Every day.
I mean I would eat and I wouldgo pregnant, literally.
So it really is.
This is why and I'm not to sayyes to those, because I know the
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processing of what happensbehind the scenes right.
Yeah, like, let's put a lane interms the more label reading
you're doing, the worse it isfor your system.
So if you're buying things thatare packaged, what's not going
to be as good for you as justeating real fruits, veggies and
lean protein, right?
Do I like to eat gluten-freecrackers here and there?
Yes, of course.
I like some chips.
I live my life, but I think,just overall, avoiding excess of
(14:35):
dairy, gluten, corn, soy isgood for your system.
Michelle Gauthier (14:38):
Yeah, will be better on your stomach, better
on your gut health, yes.
And in your opinion, becauseeveryone who listens to this
podcast is overwhelmed and aworking woman and so busy.
And a working woman and so busy.
Why do you think that womenhave such trouble slowing down,
even when they know they'reheaded towards burnout or
they're not taking care of theirown health?
I feel like most womenconsciously know like
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something's got to change here,but why do we have so much
trouble slowing down in youropinion.
Angelica Ventrice (15:05):
Our identity is tied to achievement, our
identity from a very young age.
I'll speak for myself and theclients I work with.
I'm sure you've encounteredthis as well.
Super type A high achievingwomen like the women listening.
Michelle Gauthier (15:19):
Yes, like everyone who's listening.
Angelica Ventrice (15:20):
Yes, everyone is the same the women that I
work with, and this stems from alot of times childhood, like,
my parents put pressure on me toget good grades, just like, and
that's where it starts.
Or we play competitive sport,get to be the best.
So our identity is literally,from the time we're very young,
tied to our achievements andit's very hard to detach from
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that because that is our levelof work.
Oh, if I make X amount of money, I'm doing really well.
If I do this in my career andachieve X accolade, I'm doing
really well.
And then we lose our own senseof self-worth, the internal
sense, because along the way wegot disconnected from it,
because our identity was tied tohigh levels of achievement.
It's very hard, even if we'reheading toward burnout.
(16:02):
I've done this too, like I knowI'm burned out, I know I'm
exhausted, but I keep pushingbecause I want to hit that next
milestone in my business or helpas many more women in my life.
But I know I'm burnt down andexhausted, but I'm just so
attached to that result.
Yes, where the coaching aroundbeing less attached to the
destination and being morepresent in the journey is so
important and that's somethingwe work on our clients with.
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Because if you're only lookingto that end the destination I
got to get there to the top ofthe mountain.
Well, what happens when you'reat the top of the mountain?
Yes, you forgot the wholejourney, you weren't present and
now you're miserable.
Yeah, exactly, and I think wealways feel like when I get to
whatever, when I'll be happywhen you're not happy now,
you're not going to be any morehappy If we talk about
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generational trauma just howwe're all wired.
We're all wired for survival.
We have to do a lot of work toget out of that fight or flight
stress system Right, and thatfight or flight is what gets us.
I need that, I need to achieve,I need to keep going.
But we need to really learn howto pull that back and say like
no, I'm, I'm good enough, I'mworthy, I'm doing amazing, even
if I don't hit X goal.
And that's a lot of that'sshadow work, that's ego work,
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that's work most people don'twant to do.
Michelle Gauthier (17:09):
Yes, exactly when you do it, you can be happy
.
No matter, and I think that'sthe powerful part.
But when you said our identityis attached to success, I think
that is one sentence I wanteverybody to really think about.
Angelica Ventrice (17:25):
Because our identity is attached to success
and we also have just spent ourwhole lives praised for like
pushing through, praised for thehustle, praised for all these
athletes.
You know what I mean.
When I did pharmaceutical salesand I was the number one rep in
the country for one of the drugsI sell, that felt really good,
but it took a toll on my health
Michelle Gauthier (17:41):
Absolutely, and when I was I don't think I
can do this anymore the onlytool that I had was to just work
harder.
It was like I don't feel good,so I think I just need to work
harder.
I need to work harder.
Angelica Ventrice (17:51):
Yeah, it's like a work funk.
Let me just work harder.
And yeah, instead of liketaking a step back and realizing
that rest is a strategy foryour business or your career.
Rest is a strategy for yourlife, just like health is the
biggest hack for business.
My clients, who are thriving.
They take care of themselves,they take care of themselves,
they take care of their body,they take care of their mindset.
Michelle Gauthier (18:16):
So, yes, a rest for your body, even you
know when you're.
Yes.
So if people are today justlistening and like taking this
in and thinking this soundsreally interesting and knowing
that they're not taking as gooda care of themselves as they
should, what are a couple easychanges?
You gave us some for gut health, but what are a couple easy
changes they can make?
To start, what I hear so muchis women being like I'm just so
tired, I'm just so exhaustedbecause I'm doing, oh yeah, I
get.
Angelica Ventrice (18:36):
Let's go.
I have a whole here.
You're not going to start yourmorning checking your phone.
You're going to start yourmorning turning inwards.
I don't care if it's only threeminutes.
Do not check your phone, do notcheck the emails and not scroll
Instagram.
Do not answer the message.
Take, do not check the emails,do not scroll Instagram, do not
answer the message.
Take that time to harness yourown energy, your own soul energy
.
A lot of people wake up andthey're on the phone right away.
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Their brain is already beingoverloaded by everyone and
everything else puttingthemselves last.
Start your day in anon-reactive mode.
Turn inward, do some breathing,do some journaling.
You don't need to write a novel, you don't need to even
meditate for a half hour, buttake one, do one minute of
breathing and then you can go tothree and then you can go to
five.
Do a guided meditation, thenyou'll drink your warm lemon
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water Very simple.
Some other things you can do isnot rolling in bed right before
you go to sleep.
All these things drain ourenergy and, just like all the
time we spend on our phones like, give yourself a limit.
For me, 8.30 is going down Likeno more.
There's no need to be workingat that time.
You need to shut it down,unless you have some big, major
(19:40):
launch or project right.
But in general, we don't needto be doing things like that.
Yeah, take a midday, if youlive in a warm climate, to stick
your feet in the earth to getsome sunlight, to get some
vitamin D and give your bodyenergy.
If you don't live in a warmclimate, you can buy grounding
mats.
You know, you can buy a redlight Like.
There's so many things that wecan do to help give ourselves
energy.
Michelle Gauthier (20:00):
Yeah, and just be able to spend time
outside.
I live somewhere where it'scold in the winter, but it's
energizing to go for a walk whenit's like cold, even if it's
cold.
Angelica Ventrice (20:08):
There's really no excuse.
When I visit my mom in New York, I take walks.
I'm not like, oh, I can't getmy steps in because it's
freezing 18 degrees, which forme, coming from 82 in Maui, is
extreme.
But I bundle up and I gobecause you do feel a sense of
being recharged.
It's progress, not perfection,and it's the compound effect.
The workouts don't need to belong, the meditations don't need
to be long, but it's thecompound effect over time.
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Nobody calmed their entirenervous system from one
meditation.
Nobody grew a booty from oneworkout in the gym.
But it's a consistent effortover time.
So do a little something that'sgoing to move the needle forward
and don't think it.
You don't.
It doesn't need to be thisgrandiose thing.
I think high achievingperfectionists.
(20:53):
For those of us where ouridentity is tied to achievement,
we want it to be so big and soperfect.
Or I have to work out for anhour, or I have to do the half
hour meditation, or I have to doall the things.
You don't need to do, all thethings.
You need to pick the thingsthat work for you and make you
feel good and then add on.
Michelle Gauthier (21:00):
Yes, a little step, one little step at a time
, and then you can keep adding.
Exactly.
Well, I want to close by askingyou the two questions that I
ask every guest when they comeon the show.
Is there anything that I didn'task you that you want to share?
Angelica Ventrice (21:15):
I think because we talked about this a
little bit before we hopped on.
I think it's important tonotate, since maybe a lot of the
women listening are like 40s,50s plus.
I'm in perimenopause myself andI think that a lot of women,
when they hit a certain age,they start to blame it on
perimenopause or menopause.
But I urge you to really take alook at your gut health,
because your gut health, there'ssomething in it called the
estrobilome, which is just afancy term for the gut bacteria
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that controls estrogen.
If your estrobilome is off, youwill have estrogen dominance,
which will cause fatigue, weightgain, moodiness, that stubborn
belly fat I think a lot of womenare jumping to oh it's just my
age.
When it's really.
We got to look at what's goingon in my gut.
Michelle Gauthier (21:52):
That's great advice, because I think a lot of
people get to that point andthey're like okay, I guess this
is just how it is now.
Angelica Ventrice (22:01):
I guess this is it.
I turned 50.
It's like no, but there's somuch we can be doing and that's
why I'm literally obsessed withgut health.
Obviously lifestyle changes andnervous system regulation too.
I don't believe that it's justtelling people what to eat with
their gut health.
You have to regulate yournervous system to calm your
entire body.
Michelle Gauthier (22:12):
Yes, yeah.
That's why I like that you dothe whole picture of gut health.
What people should eat?
Mindset Nervous yeah Nervous.
System regulation yeah Nervoussystem regulation.
Angelica Ventrice (22:22):
Yeah, there's trillions of health coaching
programs out there that give youmeal plans and workouts.
You can actually go to chat GPTand look that stuff up yourself
.
But what we do, where we reallyhelp, is that mindset piece and
that nervous system regulation,along with the cuts of gut
health, because that's whatleads to you know, your body
being much less inflamed and youfeeling better getting on that
burner.
Michelle Gauthier (22:47):
Yeah, okay, great, I think that's great.
We just did a whole episode onmenopause, so I know at least
some of the people listening arein peri or menopausal.
Okay, so the questions that Iask everyone.
The first one is what issomething you do when you feel
overwhelmed to make yourselffeel better?
Angelica Ventrice (22:58):
When I feel overwhelmed, I typically will go
jump in the ocean, and I know Ihave that luxury living here.
Raleigh, that's your answer.
That's awesome.
For someone who doesn't livenear water.
You can stick your face in acold bowl of water.
I do that every morning, butthat also helps regulate your
nervous system.
It's also very good for yourskin and your pores, tightening
the skin.
Not everyone is near the oceanor body of water.
I dunk three times.
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I don't know why, but three,three with three, if we feel
like the magic numbers.
And I scream under the water,oh nice.
And then when you come out,you're like, yeah, no reset,
here we go, okay.
Michelle Gauthier (23:30):
And then what is something that you do to
save time for yourself or to doless Like an example would be
ordering your groceries insteadof going to the store?
What's something that you do tosave yourself time?
Angelica Ventrice (23:41):
Well, I like multitask in the morning, so
while I meditate I have my redlight mask on, so I save a
little bit of time there, so I'mnot having to do it later in
the day.
Michelle Gauthier (23:51):
Yeah, that's great, great.
Thank you so much for being on.
I really appreciate insightsand your great tips.
Yeah, tell everyone where theycan find you if they're
interested in learning moreabout your program or your
business in learning more aboutyour program or your business
Like.
Angelica Ventrice (24:04):
Send me on Instagram @ The Angelica
Ventrice.
Send me a message.
I have a free gut healing mealplan or a free course available,
so just send me a message andlet me know what you need and
we'll be happy to send it over.
Michelle Gauthier (24:14):
Sounds perfect.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thank you for listening to theOverwhelmed Working Woman
podcast.
If you wanna learn more aboutmy work, head over to my website
at michellegauthier.
com.
See you next week.
I think people forget your body is the
vessel that's driving your life,your business, your everything,
so treat it with the respect itdeserves.
Michelle Gauthier (00:13):
You're listening to Overwhelmed Working
Woman, the podcast that helpsyou be more calm and more
productive by doing less.
I'm your host, MichelleGauthier, a former overwhelmed
working woman and current lifecoach.
On this show we unpack thestress and pressure that today's
working woman experiences andin each episode you'll get a
strategy to bring more calm,ease and relaxation to your life
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Hi, friend, thanks for joining.
Today's guest is AngelicaVentrice.
She's a health and mindsetcoach who helps high achieving
women like us spot the earlysigns of burnout and reclaim
their energy and confidence.
This was an interestingconversation.
She shares her personaltransformation story and breaks
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down the deeper connectionbetween stress, gut health and
self-worth.
I feel like gut health issomething I always heard about,
but I didn't really know what itmeant until now.
So when you listen today,you'll learn how to notice the
signs of burnout before itforces you to slow down, what
gut health is and why it impactsyour energy and your mood and
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your ability to lose weight, andwhy it's so hard to slow down
even when you want to.
But before we jump into allthat exciting info, I want to
remind you that I am hosting afall declutter challenge and it
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When you join the declutterchallenge, you will get several
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So, for example, if you listento Monday's episode and you have
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Or if you have a big win, Iwould love to share that with
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house, your email, your mindset,all the things.
It's $17 to join the challengeless than that impulse target
run to buy more bins to hold thestuff you don't even want.
The link is in the show notesand I hope to see you there.
Thank you, angelica, forjoining us today.
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I'm so excited to hear yourstory and all the ways that
you're helping women get anearly read that they might be
getting to burnout before itactually happens to them.
But start off by telling us howyou got into this space in the
first place.
Angelica Ventrice (02:58):
Yes, I will make it as short as possible.
Thank you for having me.
About 15 years ago, I went onmy own weight loss health
journey.
I was doing pharmaceuticalsales.
I am from Long Island, new York.
I was pretty much overweight mywhole life into my late 20s.
One day I literally couldn'ttake it anymore.
I was burnt out.
I was feeling horrible in mybody.
I was doing well in my careerbut just feeling really out of
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alignment.
I fired a coach.
I lost 40 pounds with him andsomething kind of gut punched me
Like this is what you need todo.
So I left pharmaceutical sales,moved from New York to
California and started personaltraining and nutrition coaching
and moved into health coachingmy business online.
It really has turned into likehealth coaching, life coaching,
mindset coaching as well, justbecause I've done so much
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different coaching myself.
But that's really how itstarted.
I had my own transformationjourney and I felt really called
to help other women and I'vehelped some men as well.
Really, it's not just about thenumber on the scale, but find
true alignment and happiness intheir bodies and in their health
.
And so how much it changed mylife, my relationship with self,
my relationship with my careerand just everything around me.
And yeah, so I left mypharmaceutical job and here we
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are and just went for it.
I literally had no job lined upin California.
So hopefully a story inspiressomeone.
I didn't know what I was doing.
I just knew that I was meant todo something else other than
pharmaceutical sales, which Iwasn't aligned to do because I'm
very holistic in the way Iapproach health Interesting,
yeah.
So really it started to feelnot good to me to be pushing
drugs to doctors that arewriting it to get paid to write
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the prescription.
So it fell out of alignment todo that anyway.
So it all happened the way itwas supposed to happen and I
just moved to California no joband I was like right doing this,
going to figure it out.
Michelle Gauthier (04:36):
I love it.
That's so great.
Starting my business is asimilar story where one day I
decided I can't do this anymoreand I started this business.
You say it like one sentence,with a bow on it, doesn't show
all the times.
We're like laying on the floorcrying oh my gosh still yeah,
then I just started thisbusiness and became so
successful.
Angelica Ventrice (04:52):
A lot of hard work, a lot of trials and doing
things wrong.
But I think you have a calling,and especially women.
We're so intuitive that wefollow that gut instinct.
It will not lead you in thewrong way.
You just have to trust it.
And that doesn't mean it's notscary.
It was scary for me to leaveNew York.
It was scary to go to Cali andthen start that business and
then, scared, to move thebusiness online.
There's always a little bit offear, but I really do always
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feel, to that fear of an inkling, that you're moving in the
right direction.
Michelle Gauthier (05:16):
Yes, yes, that kind of fear.
There's a different brand offear.
This is scary, but it's likeyeah.
So you said that when you weredoing that pharmaceutical job,
you started feeling like youwere just out of alignment and
really burned out.
Is that kind of the hallmark ofthe people who come to you for
help?
(05:37):
They do, they come to youbecause they want to lose weight
.
Or like what does your clientusually come to you with?
Angelica Ventrice (05:40):
A lot of women are feeling there's a fat
loss or weight loss, bodyrecomposition.
But then there's also a lot ofwomen who want help with their
gut health.
They're feeling bloated,uncomfortable, green foggy.
They also come to us becausethey're not putting themselves
first, and they know it.
It's like that saying put youroxygen mask on first.
They know they need to do it,but they're not doing it and
they want help.
They want to break the peoplepleasing.
They want to put themselvesfirst.
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They know they'll show upbetter for their careers,
businesses, family and partnerswhen they do start to put
themselves first.
But they've been stuck notdoing that years of putting
themselves last.
So, a lot of them are burned out.
We have such a mix.
Some women are burned out, someare in adrenal fatigue, some
women have gut health issues,hormonal issues, some have
autoimmune.
We kind of see it all At theend of the day.
All of them want to either losesome weight or lose some fat.
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When you're in a state ofburnout.
Your body doesn't look good mostof the time, yes.
Michelle Gauthier (06:26):
What are some of the signs that you're either
in burnout or you're very closeto getting burnt out?
Angelica Ventrice (06:32):
Low ceiling, like you've slept six to eight
hours and you wake up but you'restill exhausted.
I would say that's a goodindication.
I think as women age, theystart to believe in hormones or
age on hormones or age.
It could also be that you're inburnout and you're in adrenal
fatigue.
You're looking bloated, you'relooking swollen, you're looking
inflamed.
I think that adrenal fatigueand burnout go together, because
when you are so burned out,your body isn't working properly
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.
So you'll start to feel fatigue, exhaustion, brain fog.
Like I said, you think you havea good night's sleep but you're
waking up exhausted.
Right, you slept the certainamount of hours Disconnected.
I think that when you're in alevel of burnout, you feel
disconnected from your work.
You may want to burn yourbusiness to the ground and feel
disconnected from your partner.
Maybe other signs that we don'teven think about is like saying
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no to, maybe, things that youused to like doing or events
that you used to like to go to.
Just starting to isolateyourself a little bit more is
another sign of burnout.
Sometimes you think, oh God,I'm just so tired.
But are you just tired or areyou really heading towards
burnout?
It's okay to be tired.
We all have times where we'retired, but if you're saying no a
lot, if you're disconnecting,if you love to paint or draw or
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you love to dance and thenyou're not doing any of these
things that you used to oncelove to do, that's a sign of
burnout, like a high level ofdisconnection, feeling out of
alignment in your life, out ofalignment in your body.
High level of beingdisconnected is a sign of
burnout, plus all the physicalsymptoms we just talked about.
Michelle Gauthier (07:51):
Yes, I find a lot of women who come to me
have forgotten what they likedoing.
Painting is a good example.
There could be.
Angelica Ventrice (07:58):
I like to paint and draw too, but I don't
do it often enough, because weforget these childlike thoughts.
Michelle Gauthier (08:03):
Yes, just like the fun we can have on some
of those simple things.
Will you tell us what adrenalfailure is, what that means?
Angelica Ventrice (08:11):
Adrenal fatigue is when your hormones
are not functioning properly andyour cortisol is through the
roof.
That bloat, that inflammation.
It happens.
Often Some people don't realizethat they're in it, but I see,
I would say probably half of thewomen that come to me are in it
.
Like there is a complete stateof exhaustion.
The hormones aren't functioningproperly.
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They have estrogen dominance,they don't have enough
progesterone, they don't haveenough testosterone, they're not
able to build lean muscle massand the cortisol is through the
roof.
When the cortisol is throughthe roof, the other hormones
cannot function properly.
Okay, and that comes from beingunder a lot of stress for a long
time.
Yep Chronic stress for sure.
Chronic stress can come frommultiple things and not taking
care of your health.
(08:52):
Right Like, what are the foodsyou're eating, who are you
surrounding yourself with?
But there are times when you'llbe doing a lot of things, right
Like, you'll eat well, you'redoing the workouts, but you're
so stressed and you're operatingthat high level of fight or
flight that you're not.
You're in burnout.
Right, Even if you're eatingthe good things, taking care of
yourself, but if you'reconstantly in the high state of
stress, you're still in burnout.
Michelle Gauthier (09:12):
Yeah, there's nothing that you okay.
And then you mentioned that alot of times you help people get
their gut health fixed.
Yeah, I feel like gut health issomething and I don't know if
it's because I just kind ofstarted paying attention to it
myself, but I feel like I see iteverywhere.
So will you tell us what doesthat mean and what does it drive
when our gut health isn't goodversus when it is?
Angelica Ventrice (09:33):
good.
So, like inflamed versusnon-inflamed, the gut is the
powerhouse of the body.
It doesn't affect yourdigestive system.
More and more studies areshowing that 80 to 90% of
dopamine and serotonin arelocated in your gut, which means
if your gut is inflamed and offbalance, you don't feel as well
, you have brain fog, you'remoody, you're depressed right,
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because your body isn'taccessing those
neurotransmitters the way itshould be.
I've had women come to me withsuch poor gut health and they're
depressed and they have anxietyand they're on meds for that,
which is there's something wrongwith it.
But we've done gut smellingwith them and they've been able
to get off of their medication.
So we often forget theconnection between the gut and
the brain, right, that accessthere.
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So, yeah, anxiety, depression,moodiness, brain fog there, yeah
, so yeah, anxiety, depression,moodiness, brain fog.
There's so many other symptomsthat your gut is off, like the
whiteness of your eyes canbecome yellow, your teeth will
be more yellow, not to be TMIhere, but you know, like
recurring yeast infections orvaginal infections are also a
sign of poor gut health.
And then there's obviouslydiarrhea, constipation, acid
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reflux and bloat.
People always know those, right, but then also like extreme
fatigue and migraines are also asign, and constant headaches or
allergies.
Inability to shed weight right,you have a high level of gut
dysbiosis, which is inflammation, so it can be very hard to shed
weight.
A high level of gutinflammation hard for your body
to absorb the protein thatyou're eating to build lean
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muscle mass.
It literally affects everything.
Michelle Gauthier (10:59):
If you suspect that your gut health is
off.
What's one step people couldtake to figure that out?
Like a lifestyle change?
Angelica Ventrice (11:10):
I would say whichever, some more equally, I
think that people will noticesymptoms.
I say paying attention to howyou feel when you're eating.
Are you constantly bloated, allday or just in the evening?
Keeping a food log, even ifit's just writing it down, and
paying attention to how you feel?
I would say most women arebloated.
So how much caffeine are youintaking?
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Are you drinking enough water?
Are you eating enough fiber?
These are things people couldstart paying attention to.
25 to 30 grams of fiber a dayis essential.
Most people don't eat enough ofthat.
Fiber is so essential for goodgut health because it feeds the
good gut bacteria.
I'll just put it in layman'sterms it feeds the healthy
bacteria that we want toflourish.
So you want eating plenty offiber, fruits and veggies as
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well.
We don't need to go into likethe nitty gritty of free and
probiotics you can get that fromfood but just making sure
you're eating a variety offruits and veggies and lean
proteins and drinking plenty ofwater.
Don't start your morning withcoffee.
Start your morning with warmlemon water.
That stimulates the bile, getsthe toxins released and
stimulates your digestive system.
Also, you're dehydrated whenyou wake up and you don't want
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to just jump to coffee.
So making sure that you havesome water and I strongly,
strongly encourage the warmlemon water.
It's really great.
Michelle Gauthier (12:20):
That sounds good actually.
Angelica Ventrice (12:22):
Yeah, it's such an easy thing.
Just yeah, so easy.
The water I squeeze a wholelemon in.
It's very, very simple and itreally makes the difference.
Your stomach will look flatter,Get the digestive system moving
.
It's really good for you.
It's good for you.
Michelle Gauthier (12:34):
Okay, that's, those are great tips.
Are there foods that willalways cause bloat, or is it
dependent on the person?
Angelica Ventrice (12:42):
That's a great question.
I think it's dependent on theperson, but in general, gluten
wheat, excess of soy corn dairy,can cause inflammation.
Dairy in America contains aninflammatory protein called
casein.
It's only found in America, notin Europe and other countries.
Because of the way we processthings here, gluten, even if you
don't have celiac, can behighly inflammatory.
(13:04):
I'm not saying never have dairyor gluten, just be conscious.
Like I love pizza, I'm Italian,so we eat pizza like once a
week, right?
So, yes, I'm having some foodand I'm having some dairy, but
I'm not doing it every day.
Does that make sense?
And also paying attention towhat type of proteins you're
getting.
Are they farm-raised or organic?
Right, because if you buy apiece of salmon and it's
farm-raised, that means itingested antibiotics.
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You don't know what they'reputting into the fish, right.
But if you get wild-caughtsalmon, it's completely
different.
So, paying attention to whattype of products you're buying
is important.
Michelle Gauthier (13:34):
Okay, that makes sense.
I don't do dairy.
It just upsets my stomach, itmakes me feel terrible.
I didn't used to be like that,but for the past five or so
years I just really don't eatdairy.
And this summer I took my kidsto Europe for a couple weeks and
I ate all the dairy right and Iwas completely fine, completely
fine, that's what I'm saying.
Angelica Ventrice (13:51):
Same thing.
I went to Italy.
We ate pizza every day.
My stomach was fine.
If I ate pizza every day herewould be a problem, or I ate
pasta.
Every day.
I mean I would eat and I wouldgo pregnant, literally.
So it really is.
This is why and I'm not to sayyes to those, because I know the
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processing of what happensbehind the scenes right.
Yeah, like, let's put a lane interms the more label reading
you're doing, the worse it isfor your system.
So if you're buying things thatare packaged, what's not going
to be as good for you as justeating real fruits, veggies and
lean protein, right?
Do I like to eat gluten-freecrackers here and there?
Yes, of course.
I like some chips.
I live my life, but I think,just overall, avoiding excess of
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dairy, gluten, corn, soy isgood for your system.
Michelle Gauthier (14:38):
Yeah, will be better on your stomach, better
on your gut health, yes.
And in your opinion, becauseeveryone who listens to this
podcast is overwhelmed and aworking woman and so busy.
And a working woman and so busy.
Why do you think that womenhave such trouble slowing down,
even when they know they'reheaded towards burnout or
they're not taking care of theirown health?
I feel like most womenconsciously know like
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something's got to change here,but why do we have so much
trouble slowing down in youropinion.
Angelica Ventrice (15:05):
Our identity is tied to achievement, our
identity from a very young age.
I'll speak for myself and theclients I work with.
I'm sure you've encounteredthis as well.
Super type A high achievingwomen like the women listening.
Michelle Gauthier (15:19):
Yes, like everyone who's listening.
Angelica Ventrice (15:20):
Yes, everyone is the same the women that I
work with, and this stems from alot of times childhood, like,
my parents put pressure on me toget good grades, just like, and
that's where it starts.
Or we play competitive sport,get to be the best.
So our identity is literally,from the time we're very young,
tied to our achievements andit's very hard to detach from
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that because that is our levelof work.
Oh, if I make X amount of money, I'm doing really well.
If I do this in my career andachieve X accolade, I'm doing
really well.
And then we lose our own senseof self-worth, the internal
sense, because along the way wegot disconnected from it,
because our identity was tied tohigh levels of achievement.
It's very hard, even if we'reheading toward burnout.
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I've done this too, like I knowI'm burned out, I know I'm
exhausted, but I keep pushingbecause I want to hit that next
milestone in my business or helpas many more women in my life.
But I know I'm burnt down andexhausted, but I'm just so
attached to that result.
Yes, where the coaching aroundbeing less attached to the
destination and being morepresent in the journey is so
important and that's somethingwe work on our clients with.
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Because if you're only lookingto that end the destination I
got to get there to the top ofthe mountain.
Well, what happens when you'reat the top of the mountain?
Yes, you forgot the wholejourney, you weren't present and
now you're miserable.
Yeah, exactly, and I think wealways feel like when I get to
whatever, when I'll be happywhen you're not happy now,
you're not going to be any morehappy If we talk about
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generational trauma just howwe're all wired.
We're all wired for survival.
We have to do a lot of work toget out of that fight or flight
stress system Right, and thatfight or flight is what gets us.
I need that, I need to achieve,I need to keep going.
But we need to really learn howto pull that back and say like
no, I'm, I'm good enough, I'mworthy, I'm doing amazing, even
if I don't hit X goal.
And that's a lot of that'sshadow work, that's ego work,
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that's work most people don'twant to do.
Michelle Gauthier (17:09):
Yes, exactly when you do it, you can be happy
.
No matter, and I think that'sthe powerful part.
But when you said our identityis attached to success, I think
that is one sentence I wanteverybody to really think about.
Angelica Ventrice (17:25):
Because our identity is attached to success
and we also have just spent ourwhole lives praised for like
pushing through, praised for thehustle, praised for all these
athletes.
You know what I mean.
When I did pharmaceutical salesand I was the number one rep in
the country for one of the drugsI sell, that felt really good,
but it took a toll on my health
Michelle Gauthier (17:41):
Absolutely, and when I was I don't think I
can do this anymore the onlytool that I had was to just work
harder.
It was like I don't feel good,so I think I just need to work
harder.
I need to work harder.
Angelica Ventrice (17:51):
Yeah, it's like a work funk.
Let me just work harder.
And yeah, instead of liketaking a step back and realizing
that rest is a strategy foryour business or your career.
Rest is a strategy for yourlife, just like health is the
biggest hack for business.
My clients, who are thriving.
They take care of themselves,they take care of themselves,
they take care of their body,they take care of their mindset.
Michelle Gauthier (18:16):
So, yes, a rest for your body, even you
know when you're.
Yes.
So if people are today justlistening and like taking this
in and thinking this soundsreally interesting and knowing
that they're not taking as gooda care of themselves as they
should, what are a couple easychanges?
You gave us some for gut health, but what are a couple easy
changes they can make?
To start, what I hear so muchis women being like I'm just so
tired, I'm just so exhaustedbecause I'm doing, oh yeah, I
get.
Angelica Ventrice (18:36):
Let's go.
I have a whole here.
You're not going to start yourmorning checking your phone.
You're going to start yourmorning turning inwards.
I don't care if it's only threeminutes.
Do not check your phone, do notcheck the emails and not scroll
Instagram.
Do not answer the message.
Take, do not check the emails,do not scroll Instagram, do not
answer the message.
Take that time to harness yourown energy, your own soul energy
.
A lot of people wake up andthey're on the phone right away.
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Their brain is already beingoverloaded by everyone and
everything else puttingthemselves last.
Start your day in anon-reactive mode.
Turn inward, do some breathing,do some journaling.
You don't need to write a novel, you don't need to even
meditate for a half hour, buttake one, do one minute of
breathing and then you can go tothree and then you can go to
five.
Do a guided meditation, thenyou'll drink your warm lemon
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water Very simple.
Some other things you can do isnot rolling in bed right before
you go to sleep.
All these things drain ourenergy and, just like all the
time we spend on our phones like, give yourself a limit.
For me, 8.30 is going down Likeno more.
There's no need to be workingat that time.
You need to shut it down,unless you have some big, major
(19:40):
launch or project right.
But in general, we don't needto be doing things like that.
Yeah, take a midday, if youlive in a warm climate, to stick
your feet in the earth to getsome sunlight, to get some
vitamin D and give your bodyenergy.
If you don't live in a warmclimate, you can buy grounding
mats.
You know, you can buy a redlight Like.
There's so many things that wecan do to help give ourselves
energy.
Michelle Gauthier (20:00):
Yeah, and just be able to spend time
outside.
I live somewhere where it'scold in the winter, but it's
energizing to go for a walk whenit's like cold, even if it's
cold.
Angelica Ventrice (20:08):
There's really no excuse.
When I visit my mom in New York, I take walks.
I'm not like, oh, I can't getmy steps in because it's
freezing 18 degrees, which forme, coming from 82 in Maui, is
extreme.
But I bundle up and I gobecause you do feel a sense of
being recharged.
It's progress, not perfection,and it's the compound effect.
The workouts don't need to belong, the meditations don't need
to be long, but it's thecompound effect over time.
(20:29):
Nobody calmed their entirenervous system from one
meditation.
Nobody grew a booty from oneworkout in the gym.
But it's a consistent effortover time.
So do a little something that'sgoing to move the needle forward
and don't think it.
You don't.
It doesn't need to be thisgrandiose thing.
I think high achievingperfectionists.
(20:53):
For those of us where ouridentity is tied to achievement,
we want it to be so big and soperfect.
Or I have to work out for anhour, or I have to do the half
hour meditation, or I have to doall the things.
You don't need to do, all thethings.
You need to pick the thingsthat work for you and make you
feel good and then add on.
Michelle Gauthier (21:00):
Yes, a little step, one little step at a time
, and then you can keep adding.
Exactly.
Well, I want to close by askingyou the two questions that I
ask every guest when they comeon the show.
Is there anything that I didn'task you that you want to share?
Angelica Ventrice (21:15):
I think because we talked about this a
little bit before we hopped on.
I think it's important tonotate, since maybe a lot of the
women listening are like 40s,50s plus.
I'm in perimenopause myself andI think that a lot of women,
when they hit a certain age,they start to blame it on
perimenopause or menopause.
But I urge you to really take alook at your gut health,
because your gut health, there'ssomething in it called the
estrobilome, which is just afancy term for the gut bacteria
(21:37):
that controls estrogen.
If your estrobilome is off, youwill have estrogen dominance,
which will cause fatigue, weightgain, moodiness, that stubborn
belly fat I think a lot of womenare jumping to oh it's just my
age.
When it's really.
We got to look at what's goingon in my gut.
Michelle Gauthier (21:52):
That's great advice, because I think a lot of
people get to that point andthey're like okay, I guess this
is just how it is now.
Angelica Ventrice (22:01):
I guess this is it.
I turned 50.
It's like no, but there's somuch we can be doing and that's
why I'm literally obsessed withgut health.
Obviously lifestyle changes andnervous system regulation too.
I don't believe that it's justtelling people what to eat with
their gut health.
You have to regulate yournervous system to calm your
entire body.
Michelle Gauthier (22:12):
Yes, yeah.
That's why I like that you dothe whole picture of gut health.
What people should eat?
Mindset Nervous yeah Nervous.
System regulation yeah Nervoussystem regulation.
Angelica Ventrice (22:22):
Yeah, there's trillions of health coaching
programs out there that give youmeal plans and workouts.
You can actually go to chat GPTand look that stuff up yourself
.
But what we do, where we reallyhelp, is that mindset piece and
that nervous system regulation,along with the cuts of gut
health, because that's whatleads to you know, your body
being much less inflamed and youfeeling better getting on that
burner.
Michelle Gauthier (22:47):
Yeah, okay, great, I think that's great.
We just did a whole episode onmenopause, so I know at least
some of the people listening arein peri or menopausal.
Okay, so the questions that Iask everyone.
The first one is what issomething you do when you feel
overwhelmed to make yourselffeel better?
Angelica Ventrice (22:58):
When I feel overwhelmed, I typically will go
jump in the ocean, and I know Ihave that luxury living here.
Raleigh, that's your answer.
That's awesome.
For someone who doesn't livenear water.
You can stick your face in acold bowl of water.
I do that every morning, butthat also helps regulate your
nervous system.
It's also very good for yourskin and your pores, tightening
the skin.
Not everyone is near the oceanor body of water.
I dunk three times.
(23:26):
I don't know why, but three,three with three, if we feel
like the magic numbers.
And I scream under the water,oh nice.
And then when you come out,you're like, yeah, no reset,
here we go, okay.
Michelle Gauthier (23:30):
And then what is something that you do to
save time for yourself or to doless Like an example would be
ordering your groceries insteadof going to the store?
What's something that you do tosave yourself time?
Angelica Ventrice (23:41):
Well, I like multitask in the morning, so
while I meditate I have my redlight mask on, so I save a
little bit of time there, so I'mnot having to do it later in
the day.
Michelle Gauthier (23:51):
Yeah, that's great, great.
Thank you so much for being on.
I really appreciate insightsand your great tips.
Yeah, tell everyone where theycan find you if they're
interested in learning moreabout your program or your
business in learning more aboutyour program or your business
Like.
Angelica Ventrice (24:04):
Send me on Instagram @ The Angelica
Ventrice.
Send me a message.
I have a free gut healing mealplan or a free course available,
so just send me a message andlet me know what you need and
we'll be happy to send it over.
Michelle Gauthier (24:14):
Sounds perfect.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thank you for listening to theOverwhelmed Working Woman
podcast.
If you wanna learn more aboutmy work, head over to my website
at michellegauthier.
com.
See you next week.
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