Wellness While Walking

Hunger, cravings, emotional eating —discover how to distinguish between physical hunger and the urge to eat for comfort or pleasure. In this episode, we unravel the signals your body can send if we’re paying attention, and we’ll explore practical strategies for responding to them. Tune in to reclaim control and find balance in your relationship with food! Don’t worry – we can fuel ourselves and still have fun!

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Walking transformed anxiety into vitality for 69-year-old entrepreneur Ande Lyons, who discovered from a book-on-cassette that 35 minutes daily helped manage her symptoms and eventually led to her current six-mile routine despite facing osteoporosis. Ande argues that movement is a privilege rather than a chore, and that community connections matter more than almost anything else for healthy aging, while encoura...

Transform your health this fall! Feeling that September urge to get your life together? That energy is real, but so are the convenience culture, workplace demands, and distractions working against your wellness goals. Today we're turning that autumn reset feeling into your game plan for "walking against traffic" toward lasting health!

LET’S TALK THE WALK!

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IWT or Interval Walking Training (or Japanese 3x3 walking) is something that’s taking the fitness world by storm, and with good reason! It provides a framework for getting the most out of interval training while walking, one of our most essential, enjoyable and beneficial modes of movement. Many have praised it for its heart health benefits, for weight management, and for improved moods.

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Hunter-gatherers ate dozens of different plants each day! How can we use variety to maximize our health in the modern day, even while the American Heart Association asks us to limit the variety of what we eat?!? Also, how do you react when you take health-affirming steps? Do you diminish their power or do you celebrate and elevate them? Regardless, we’ll talk about how to tweak our small steps mindset for maxim...

When I consulted the wrong practitioner, it resulted in years of an overwhelming search for solutions and a multi-thousand dollar bill. I’m taking you along on my journey so you can avoid a similar one! We’ll also talk about why chewing is so important to our cognitive health, and how we can keep our indoor air clean and why we should care to!

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Alarmist headlines claim dieting leads to depression—should you let that stop your changing up your eating pattern to achieve your health goals? In this episode, we’ll examine those “sad diets,” and you’ll discover actionable, mindset-based strate...

Think your daily diet soda is keeping you trim and healthy? A shocking new study reveals that just one can increases diabetes risk by 38%, while artificial sweeteners disrupt gut health, trigger belly fat storage, and hijack brain chemistry – all for zero calories! Today, we expose diet soda myths and share proven strategies to break sweetened beverage addiction, including gradual reduction and a 30-day dopamin...

Mental roadblocks can sabotage our health goals. The key to success is identifying them, and replacing them with clear, empowering strategies. We’ll also introduce a powerful framework to help you stay consistent with what you’ll do daily, weekly, monthly—and what you’ll never do again. We...

Don’t wait for a health crisis or an unfortunate diagnosis. Let’s take steps now to get on the path to health. It’s not about perfection, but it’s also about not waiting until we have more time or anything else. Something is always better than nothing, and extra stars for doing that something today!

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Recent research found a way to enhance movement that allowed study participants to reduce their levels of cognitive decline, and we talk about how we can incorporate that add-on activity to our own walks or other movement activities we do! And we're back with Judy Benjamin, the 81-year-old walking across America to highlight how we can affect the impact of Alzheimer's disease. Today, she's sharing her best tips for walking!

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Want to know the lifestyle protocol that reversed Judy Benjamin's Alzheimer's diagnosis and transformed her from a sleep-deprived, mold-exposed humanitarian worker into an 81-year-old powerhouse walking across America? In this revelatory episode, we dive deep into her comprehensive transformation strategy—from optimizing sleep habits and eliminating environmental toxins to overhauling nutrition and mastering st...

Does an Alzheimer’s diagnosis mean it’s all downhill? Well, today’s guest has something to say about that commonly-held belief!