StRest with Kerstin Lindquist

StRest with Kerstin Lindquist

StRest is a transformative podcast hosted by Kerstin Lindquist—health coach, author, and Emmy Award-winning TV host. Inspired by her mother's battle with stress-induced dementia at the age of 59, Kerstin is committed to helping people reduce stress and make room for rest in their lives. The podcast blends impressive health science, attainable mindset changes, and biblical truth to provide practical tools for stress relief. Each episode features real conversations with leading health and faith experts and heartfelt discussions with Kerstin's close friends from her career at QVC and as a public figure. Laugh, cry, and learn alongside her and her guests as they navigate the pressures of life and discover the tools to overcome them. Subscribe now to StRest, and join me on this journey towards a less stressed and more restful life.

Episodes

Perimenopause, GLP-1s & Protein with Natalie Fader

August 29, 2025 • 69 mins
This is StRest! Registered CBT and Nutritional Therapist Natalie Fader joins Kerstin to tackle perimenopause and menopause with a practical, behavior-first plan. We dig into GLP-1s (Ozempic/Wegovy)—what they do, why rapid weight loss can mean lean-mass loss, and how to protect your metabolism with protein and strength training. We explore sleep and progesterone, the six-week whole-foods reset Natalie used to crush inflammation, an...
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Breathwork Detox with Kurtis Lee Thomas: Healing Stress, Trauma & Anxiety

August 26, 2025 • 57 mins
This is StRest! Author, speaker, and corporate mindfulness trainer Kurtis Lee Thomas joins Kerstin to unpack the power of breathwork as a tool for stress relief, trauma release, and clarity. After years of seeking healing through invasive therapies and global spiritual practices, Kurtis found that conscious breathing was the missing link—and now he teaches Fortune 500 companies, athletes, and everyday people how to use it. We ex...
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Skin, Stress & Longevity with Dr. Brent Ridge (Beekman 1802)

August 22, 2025 • 62 mins
This is StRest! Physician and longevity expert Dr. Brent Ridge—co-founder of Beekman 1802 and former Mount Sinai faculty—joins Kerstin to connect skin health, inflammation, and aging. He explains why getting off social media may be the lowest-lift stress intervention, how skin pH and the microbiome govern barrier function, and why goat-milk oligosaccharides act as prebiotics for healthier skin. We trace Brent’s pivot from medicine...
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HRT After Cancer, Previvors, and Menopause with Rachel Frankenthal (UCLA)

August 19, 2025 • 62 mins
This is StRest! Rachel Frankenthal—gynecologic oncology PA at UCLA and Menopause Society–certified practitioner—joins Kerstin to demystify hormone therapy for cancer survivors, genetic “previvors,” and women navigating midlife. She explains the stark difference between natural and treatment-induced menopause, how to build an individualized HRT plan (timing, route, dosing), and why informed, shared decision-making with your care tea...
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Alina Villasante: Building Peace Love World with Community and Grit

August 15, 2025 • 50 mins
This is StRest! Alina Villasante—creator of Peace Love World and longtime QVC partner—joins Kerstin to share how a simple, affirmation-led idea grew from trunk shows to a national brand. She traces immigrant beginnings and an aviation-business chapter, then explains the “embrace-the-chaos—with structure” mindset and the five-year grind behind every “overnight” success. We unpack the call from Oprah’s team, why short, honest affir...
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Invisible ADHD in Women: Misdiagnosis, Signs, and Tools That Work with Shanna Pearson

August 12, 2025 • 58 mins
This is StRest! Shanna Pearson—founder of Expert ADHD Coaching, the world’s largest 1:1 ADHD coaching company (nearly 500,000 sessions delivered)—joins Kerstin to reframe adult ADHD, especially in women. They unpack why so many midlife women are missed or misdiagnosed with anxiety/depression, the “everything-all-at-once-now” brain, and how ADHD often shows up internally for women (rumination, emotional surges, drama-magnets) versus...
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From QVC Marathons to Family First: Mary Beth Roe’s 38-Year Journey

August 8, 2025 • 67 mins
This is StRest! Mary Beth Roe is QVC’s “Queen of Live TV,” whose 38-year tenure demanded Olympic-level energy, unbroken focus, and unwavering authenticity. In this episode, she reveals the physiology of on-air marathon hosting, how her faith sustained her through power outages and spiritual warfare, and why she chose to retire at 65 to reclaim her family life. Mary Beth walks us through her divine calling to adopt, the grit require...
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Stress Isn’t the Enemy—Resilience, Love, and the SHIELD Method with Dr. Eva Selhub

August 5, 2025 • 58 mins
This is StRest! Dr. Eva Selhub is a physician and former director at Harvard’s Mind-Body Medical Institute who teaches a radically practical truth: stress is a neutral signal, not a life sentence. In this episode, she explains stress physiology and allostatic load, why midlife shifts can dysregulate sleep, mood, and metabolism, and how to build true resilience with breath, self-compassion, variability, and spiritual connection. Ev...
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Midlife Metabolism Isn’t Broken—You’re Just Missing This with Functional Health Coach Debbie Allen Wright

August 1, 2025 • 67 mins
This is StRest! Debbie Allen Wright is my go-to when my body starts sending signals that something’s off. She’s a board-certified functional health coach who cuts through the overwhelm of midlife metabolism, weight gain, and hormone confusion with clarity and compassion. In this episode, we dig into the truth behind slowing metabolism, how to build lean muscle mass after 40, and why “you’re just getting older” is not an acceptable ...
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Danced with Mariah, JT & 50 Cent—Now HGTV & QVC’s Star Carrie Locklyn Fixes Your Stressful Home

July 29, 2025 • 61 mins
This is StRest! Carrie Locklyn is my go‑to when a space (or a season of life) needs to shift from chaotic to calm—fast. She’s a professional organizer, designer, and QVC Home Reflections guest whose story spans touring with superstars to creating stress‑reducing systems for everyday families. In this episode, we trade notes on career pivots, practical organization that actually sticks, and the mindset tools—sleep, movement, and gra...
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Healed by Faith, Fueled by Food: Ancient Nutrition Founder Jordan Rubin’s Journey from Disease to Destiny

July 25, 2025 • 71 mins
This is StRest! Meet Jordan Rubin—founder of Ancient Nutrition, best-selling author of The Maker’s Diet and The Biblio Diet, and living testimony of healing through whole foods, biblical truth, and radical faith. In this episode, host Kerstin Lindquist welcomes Jordan for a deeply moving and richly informative conversation about overcoming chronic illness, the power of regenerative agriculture, and why collagen is the missing link ...
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Why I Take a Full Day Off Every Week—No Work, No Shopping, Just God | Kerstin Lindquist on Sabbath Rest

July 22, 2025 • 38 mins
This is StRest! In this deeply personal and spiritually rich episode, host Kerstin Lindquist invites you into the sacred practice of Sabbath—what it means, how to reclaim it, and why it might be the missing key to your spiritual, emotional, and physical recovery. Drawing on her family’s missionary sabbatical to Baja California, biblical wisdom, neuroscience, and everyday rhythms, Kerstin walks you through how one day off can change...
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Turn Down the Noise: Sarah Boyd on Resilience, Rest, and Raising Emotionally Healthy Kids

July 18, 2025 • 53 mins
This is StRest! Meet Sarah Boyd—educational psychologist, founder of Resilient Little Hearts, and global voice on emotional health and resilience. In this episode, host Kerstin Lindquist welcomes Sarah for a future-facing conversation (literally—from Australia!) about overstimulation, chronic stress, and the underestimated power of recovery. Together, they unpack why true resilience isn’t about grit alone—it’s about rest, rhythm, a...
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Faith Over Stress: Kim Gravel on Motherhood, Purpose & Real Success

July 15, 2025 • 62 mins
This is StRest! Meet Kim Gravel—QVC powerhouse, entrepreneur, wife, and Southern belle with a gift for telling the unvarnished truth. In this episode, host Kerstin Lindquist sits down with Kim for a candid conversation about faith-first living, emotional health, and why loving others is simpler (and harder) than we think. From navigating a son’s high-school graduation to fighting Bell’s palsy on live TV, Kim unpacks morning discipl...
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Hydrate, Heal, Perform: Demystifying IV Vitamin Therapy with IV-Active CEO Dan Continenza

July 8, 2025 • 57 mins
This is StRest! Meet Dan Continenza—endurance athlete, father of two, and founder of IV Active, the mobile IV therapy company changing how we hydrate and heal. In this episode, host Kerstin Lindquist and Dan break down hydration therapy from myth to medicine: how IV vitamins can help fight fatigue, speed post-surgery recovery, support pregnant women, and even boost energy via cutting-edge nutrients like NAD⁺. They also talk candidl...
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Faith, Family & Fierceness with Mally Roncal: Raising LGBTQ+ Kids, Hearing God’s Voice, and Finding Joy in the Chaos

July 1, 2025 • 63 mins
This is StRest! Meet Mally Roncal—celebrity makeup artist, “positivity preacher,” and devoted Christian mom raising three teenage girls (one proudly in the LGBTQ+ community). In this episode, host Kerstin Lindquist and Mally dive into the hard-won lessons behind joyful living: surrendering control to God, finding pockets of happy in grief, pushing back on toxic church culture, and loving your children—exactly as God created them. F...
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Adoption, Miscarriage & the Faith to Try Again — Kerstin Lindquist’s Motherhood Journey

June 24, 2025 • 40 mins
This is StRest! In Part Two of her most personal series yet, Kerstin Lindquist returns to share the continuation of her family’s story—this time focusing on the deep emotional journey of adoption, the trauma of miscarriage, and the decision to get attached even when everything could fall apart. With honesty, heartbreak, and hard-won perspective, Kerstin opens up about failed adoptions, lost pregnancies, and the emotional labor of ...
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Infertility, Faith, and the Fight to Become a Mother — Kerstin Lindquist on Loss, Adoption, and God’s Presence

June 20, 2025 • 44 mins
This is StRest! In this deeply personal episode, Kerstin Lindquist opens up about her long and emotional journey through infertility, miscarriage, and adoption. What began as a short reflection turned into one of her most vulnerable episodes to date—filled with heartbreak, healing, and hard-won wisdom. With raw honesty and unwavering faith, Kerstin shares what it felt like to wait for the one o’clock phone call, to say “thank you...
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Holy, Hormonal & Not Crazy with Kim Gargano: Why Faith Is the Missing Link in Women’s Health

June 17, 2025 • 58 mins
This is StRest! Meet Kim Gargano: Christian content creator, podcast host of Holy and Hormonal, and a passionate advocate for helping women reclaim their health by understanding their hormones through a biblical lens. In this episode, host Kerstin Lindquist talks with Kim about how trauma, PMDD, and cultural shame around menstruation once left her feeling lost and faithless—and how inviting Jesus into her hormonal health sparked a ...
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Faith, Food, and the Root of Disease — Dr. Josh Axe on Healing from the Inside Out

June 13, 2025 • 53 mins
This is StRest! Meet Dr. Josh Axe: Doctor of Natural Medicine, Doctor of Chiropractic, clinical nutritionist, founder of Ancient Nutrition and The Health Institute, and host of the top-25 Dr. Josh Axe Show. In this episode, host Kerstin Lindquist digs into Dr. Axe’s blueprint for healing “body, mind, and spirit” through biblically rooted nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and emotional restoration. From reversing type 2 diabetes with ...
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