The Wellness Mama Podcast
The Wellness Mama Podcast is a weekly series covering the topics of real food, stress, sleep, fitness, toxins, natural living, DIY, and other health tips to give you actionable solutions to improve your family’s health! Brought to you by WellnessMama.com
Episodes
Episode Highlights With Angela
- Her incredible story from starting as a biochemist to being on American Ninja Warrior
- The dramatic and shocking moment that happened to her on national TV
- How she learned to shift from everything that was wrong to openness to “What if it all goes right?”
- The journey back for her and learning to release parts of her identity that were tied to her competitions
- Putting a deadline on the tough emotions
- What...
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July 22, 2025 • 26 mins
Episode Highlights With Aimee
- Why perimenopause is a misunderstood phase of life and common vs normal
- Commonly overlooked symptoms of perimenopause that are helpful to understand
- How to look at midlife changes as an opportunity rather than a challenge
- Core mindset shifts that can make a massive difference
- Listening to symptoms as messengers of your body working hard to protect you
- Estrogenic things in our environment and how they i...
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July 21, 2025 • 42 mins
Episode Highlights With Aimee
- The pivotal moment in her career that led her to blend conventional and holistic medicine
- Normal doesn’t have side effects and what this actually means
- How normal lab ranges are calculated and why they aren’t as straightforward as you think
- Thyroid and thyroid testing: what to know and what results mean
- The actual ideal TSH range, what to look for, and what ideal lab results should be
- Her approach to nat...
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July 16, 2025 • 38 mins
Episode Highlights With Emily
- Manifesting: consciously creating a life you love
- Why we're manifesting all the time, whether we're conscious of it or not
- Mindfulness: handling stress in the now, meditation: handling stress in the past, manifesting: handling the future
- Simplest manifestation formula: feel good, place the order; place the order, feel good
- Visualize, alchemize, magnetize
- The same muscle that lets you feel the intensity ...
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July 14, 2025 • 41 mins
Episode Highlights With Emily
- Her unique journey into meditation and how it led to her work today
- How she had insomnia and was going grey at 27 before finding meditation
- What makes her method of meditation different and how it gives your body rest that is 5x more effective than sleep
- Investing just 2% of your day helps the other 98% be even more amazing
- The mind thinks involuntarily, just like the heart beats involuntarily
- Ziva is b...
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July 9, 2025 • 72 mins
Episode Highlights With Joseph
- His amazing story that led to his bestselling book and how great books often come from the author's great pain
- Thoughts vs thinking and why this is important
- The core questions he asked himself were: Who am I? Why am I here? Why do I have so many negative thoughts?
- Learning to question the root of negative thoughts and ask if they're true
- How to separate yourself from the thoughts you have
- Thoughts don’...
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July 8, 2025 • 23 mins
Episode Highlights With Jessica
- Why does cardiovascular disease risk rise in menopause to match the rate of men?
- What happens to hormones and the heart when a woman goes through menopause?
- 45% of women have some marker of cardiovascular disease
- How the loss of estrogen in menopause is the tipping point
- 1 in 3 women will die of cardiovascular disease which is more than all cancers combined
- What to monitor and look out for starting in ...
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Episode Highlights With Jessica
- She was a surprise twin and she and her sister could communicate in their own language before they could even talk
- What reparenting is and how we have the ability to give ourselves what we might not have gotten
- ACE scores and what we know about how highly traumatized people suffer from diseases at much higher rates
- The difference in how women and men respond to stressful events. Women don’t respond w...
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Episode Highlights With Shefaly
- The difference between soluble and insoluble fiber and what they each do
- Most plant foods that are fiber rich have a mix of both soluble and insoluble fiber
- What fiber does in the body and its roles in the body
- How fiber benefits gut ecology
- What resistant starch is and how it works differently in the body and are connected to short chain fatty acids and gut and systemic health
- What bitters are and why...
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June 30, 2025 • 33 mins
Episode Highlights With Shefaly
- What Vitamin J is and why it is a crucial nutrient in our life (and not a typical nutrient)
- Vitamin C, which stands for community and why it is so important
- How these in particular can have such a profound impact on our health
- The downstream effects of joy and community on so many aspects of physical health
- Habit stacking in a way that builds joy and community into daily life
- The benefits of gratitude ...
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June 25, 2025 • 30 mins
Episode Highlights With Tiffany
- What stress actually is and how it is more far-reaching than you might expect
- Your body can be experiencing stress even if you don’t “feel” stressed
- Even things like nutrient deficiencies are a form of stress for the body
- If we are in fight or flight, we can’t rest, digest, and heal
- We actually need stress, and not all stress is bad- how to get it in balance
- Exercise is an example of good stress, and w...
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June 23, 2025 • 37 mins
Episode Highlights With Tiffany
- Her first home birth story was also a breech birth, a connection she and I share!
- What is happening in the body when someone is diagnosed with autoimmunity
- When the immune system gets confused and attacks part of your body
- Autoimmune diseases are treated as different problems, but they share a common component and causes
- Why are women affected by autoimmunity more than men, and some reasons why
- The ris...
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Episode Highlights With Gina
- How our relationship with food is a mirror into our inner world and how this starts the day we are born
- Every single person on the planet develops a relationship with food and how this impacts us
- Associations we can develop around food, like food being a source of love and affection
- Knowing how to eat healthy is only about 5% of our drive and decision making when it comes to behaviors
- 95% of what influen...
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Episode Highlights With Dani
- Her own story and dramatic experience with adverse childhood experiences
- The childhood trauma she had and how her health problems started in high school from those experiences
- Data on ACE (adverse childhood experiences) and how a score of 4 or more is linked to a 20 year reduction in life expectancy
- How she addressed her own trauma and what she recommends to her patients
- Many people who come see her have...
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Episode Highlights With Dani
- Her 24 years spent with chronic lifestyle diseases like IBS, Lupus, urticaria, and others
- She was 24 years in before a doctor asked what she was eating
- If you were born healthy… you do not have to live sick!
- How quickly the body can adapt when given the right inputs
- Healing is incredibly simple, but not easy
- She starts with diet first and then builds from there… the importance of single-ingredient foods
- R...
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Episode Highlights With Roudy
- The fun way that drinking cacao at night leads to him being super energetic and extroverted while usually an introvert
- How he incorporates dance into his life
- What he learned by living with no artificial light and how it drastically changed his life
- You can’t get healthy in the same light environment that got you sick
- The quality of our life is entirely dependent on the quality of light that enters our...
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June 10, 2025 • 31 mins
Episode Highlights With Sharon
- A massive reframe in understanding fevers and the approach to handling them
- What homotoxicology is and how understanding this response is helpful
- Supporting vs repressing the body’s natural immune and detoxification responses
- What a fever actually is and why it is so helpful
- Reasons to consider not bringing down a fever
- What happens when we don’t let our bodies have a natural fever response
- Chronic inf...
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June 9, 2025 • 40 mins
Episode Highlights With Sharon
- Why we can forget the pause part of menopause and why this can mean much more than just the pause or end of the menstrual cycle
- This is a physiological process and also an important emotional and spiritual inflection point
- Why she suggests women write their eulogies at this age as a way to recenter
- How to reverse engineer the life we want to have as we go through menopause
- The different ways that othe...
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June 4, 2025 • 28 mins
Episode Highlights With Katie
- Why baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) helps regulate your body’s pH and CO2 levels
- How it boosts endurance and athletic performance (and why it was once banned in sports!)
- The surprising ways baking soda supports kidney health, inflammation, digestion, and more
- Safe dosing guidelines and how to use it for energy, recovery, and even oral health
- When and how to take it for maximum benefits—and who should b...
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June 3, 2025 • 32 mins
Episode Highlights With Meg
- The eight pillars of women’s health and the connections between them
- Order matters when it comes to these pillars, especially with things like detoxification
- Why starting with detox can be counterproductive and a helpful order to work through
- Most women are living in fight or flight and the importance of balancing the nervous system
- A two minute practice that can really help your nervous system and make h...
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