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Be Still and Live#21: Digital Detox & Stillness: Reclaiming Attention in an Overstimulated World with Mason BerubeEver feel constantly “on” yet strangely absent from your own life? That quiet ache—of busyness without meaning—sets the stage for a candid conversation with Mason, who made a radical, practical choice at 25: he ditched his smartphone and rebuilt his days around presence, purpose, and real community. What follows isn’t a tech-bashing rant; it’s a grounded look at how attention gets stolen, how stillness returns it, and how small boundaries reshape a whole life.We trace Mason’s move from screen-saturated routines to regenerative farming in Costa Rica and Minnesota, and the turning point where morning...
2026-02-2458 min
Be Still and Live#20: Redefining Enough: Stillness, Skincare, and a Life Reimagined with Rebecca OgilvieWhat if the turnaround you crave doesn’t come from doing more, but from pausing long enough to hear what your life is asking for? We sit down with Rebecca Ogilvie—traveler, mother, and founder of The Detour Co.—to explore how stillness, simplicity, and small rituals can quietly rebuild a joyful, values-led life. From a one-way ticket through Southeast Asia to a forest studio in Muskoka, Rebecca traces the shifts that came with discomfort, identity changes, and the holy mess of early motherhood.We dig into the seasons of growth and rest, the awkward return home after...
2026-02-1748 min
Be Still and Live#19: From Striving to Alignment: Returning to the Pace God Intended with Colt CharleboisAmbition can build a beautiful life, and still leave the soul tired.In this episode of Be Still & Live, I sit down with kingdom-minded coach Colt to talk about burnout, the red line we don’t notice until we’ve crossed it, and why choosing stillness may be one of the bravest leadership decisions we make.Colt shares how chasing money, image, and approval led to exhaustion—and how a simple realignment (coach, speak, write) brought him back to work that felt life-giving. We explore the hidden drivers of burnout, what stress does to the nervou...
2026-02-1054 min
Be Still and Live#18: Less Stuff, More Peace: Making Space for Calm and Clarity with Amy WoppererThe calm you’re craving isn’t hidden in another storage bin—it’s found in the space you create when you let go.In this episode of Be Still & Live, I’m joined by Amy from Simplify Buffalo, professional organizer and mom of three, to explore how simplifying our homes can restore not just order, but peace. We talk about the connection between visual clutter and the nervous system, why empty space can feel uncomfortable at first, and how intentional environments support presence and ease.Amy shares compassionate, practical rhythms for slowing the inflow...
2026-02-0349 min
Be Still and Live#17: Stoic Calm In A Noisy World: Simple Ways to Quiet the Mind and Ground the Nervous System with Frank HealyEver feel like life is full, yet something inside you feels thin or unsettled?In this episode of Be Still & Live, we sit with licensed counselor and author Frank Healy for a grounded conversation about memory, meaning, and the quiet power of intentional stillness.Frank lives with hyperthymesia—an unusually vivid autobiographical memory—giving him a unique window into how past experiences can linger in the body and shape the present moment. Rather than trying to erase pain or rush toward positivity, he invites a gentler path: learning how to relate to our memories with...
2026-01-2755 min
Be Still and Live#16: The Jewels Inside: Healing Through Stillness, Self-Care, and Community with Elvie SchooleyIn this episode of Be Still & Live, we sit with movement artist and coach Elvie Schooley for a grounded, heart-centered conversation about what becomes possible when we slow down and listen inward.Elvie introduces the “Jewels Inside” metaphor—an invitation to see life’s hardest chapters not as wounds to conceal, but as raw material to be gently polished into wisdom, self-respect, and purpose. She shares the quiet courage it took to leave a 15-year marriage, the daily practice of forgiveness that followed, and how her healing began not with force or fixing—but with the smalle...
2026-01-201h 10
Be Still and Live#15: The Breath Is the Bridge: Returning to Safety, Stillness, and Self with Steve BeattieFeeling off doesn’t mean you’re broken. More often, it means your body has been living too long without safety, stillness, and breath in a noisy world.In this episode, we sit down with breathwork guide Steve Beattie, whose journey from chronic inflammation and repeated hospital visits to a more calm, grounded way of living began not with force—but with a simple, daily return to the breath. Along the way, an unexpected emotional release opened the door to deeper healing.Steve gently demystifies the Wim Hof Method, offers import...
2026-01-131h 12
Be Still and Live#14: The Power of Intention: A Quiet Practice that Transforms Everyday Life with Kim Stanwood TerranovaWhat if intention isn’t something you set, but something you inhabit—a way of being that changes the atmosphere wherever you go?In this conversation, we sit with Kim Stanwood Terranova, spiritual teacher and counselor, to explore intention as an inner practice that moves us from reactivity to coherence. Kim invites us to see intention not as a wish for outcomes, but as a steady orientation toward qualities like presence, compassion, and courage—qualities that quietly shape how we speak, listen, and show up in everyday moments.Together, we reflect on the wideni...
2026-01-0654 min
Sustainable in the Suburbs32: Overstimulation, Overconsumption, and the Pressure to Do More with Gillian GabrylukIf the week between Christmas and New Year’s leaves you feeling overstimulated, scattered, or unsure how to move forward without just adding more pressure, you’re not alone. After a season filled with noise, expectations, and stuff, it can be hard to find your footing — especially when the cultural message is already shifting toward doing more, fixing more, and buying more in January.This week, I’m joined by Gillian Gabryluk, founder of Sileo Health & Wellness and host of the Be Still and Live podcast. Gillian shares a grounded perspective to what it looks like to slow dow...
2025-12-3051 min
Be Still and Live#13: Balanced Health for Overwhelmed Moms: How Letting Go of Perfectionism Made Room for Real Change with Jess CotterchioSome health stories look polished on the outside while quietly falling apart behind the scenes. This conversation moves in the opposite direction.In this episode, we sit down with Jess — a mother of four and grounded health coach — for an honest conversation about healing body image anxiety, releasing disordered patterns around food, and stepping out of the all-or-nothing mindset that keeps so many mothers stuck.Jess shares how pregnancy, twins, and the realities of motherhood shifted her understanding of health from “getting smaller” to nourishing a life. Together, we explore the pressure modern mothers...
2025-12-3053 min
Be Still and Live#12: From Pain To Personal Power: Healing Beyond Trauma through Small, Faithful Shifts with Hope RoseWhat if the smallest shift in language could return your power, calm your nervous system, and begin to rewrite the story you're living?In this powerful and tender conversation, we sit down with ultra-endurance athlete and HEALthy founder Hope Rose to explore what it means to honor grief without giving it the pen. Through her own journey, marked by domestic abuse, a harrowing court battle, and painful years separated from her child - Hope reveals what it looks like to refuse a victim narrative and reclaim authorship over your life.Rather than bypassing the pain...
2025-12-2356 min
Be Still and Live#11: Safe to Become: The Quiet Path from Performance to Peace with Brandy GrahamWhat if peace doesn’t come from pushing harder, but from feeling safe enough to stop performing?In this episode of Be Still and Live, we sit with identity and legacy coach Brandy Graham for a deeply grounding conversation about safety, belonging, and the freedom that comes when we slow down enough to listen inward. Together, we explore why safety, not striving, is the true doorway to peace, and how stillness can become the most forward-moving force in your life.Brandy shares the wake-up moments that changed everything: a kitchen trash can crawling with maggots af...
2025-12-1639 min
Be Still and Live#10: The Body Knows: Returning to Yourself Through Mindfulness with Jelayna DaSilvaWhat if the way back to yourself isn’t about doing more, pushing harder, or fixing faster… but learning to listen?In this week’s episode, I sit down with my longtime friend and former rowing teammate Jelena DeSilva, whose life has carried her from powerful strokes on the water, to intentional movement on the mat, and now into the compassionate, grounded work of therapy.Together, we explore the kind of courage that doesn’t shout - the quiet, steady courage of trading perfectionism for presence, force for dialogue, and urgency for a ge...
2025-12-0936 min
Be Still and Live#09: The Power of Pen and Paper: How Handwritten Notes Heal in a Digital World with Carly BrentonWhat if the cure for overwhelm isn’t another hack, but a pen, a card, and ten quiet minutes?In this episode, Carly Brenton, founder of Paperscript, shares how a simple, human ritual like handwriting can cut through the noise, rebuild connection, and bring us back to ourselves.Carly’s story begins in loss and unfolds into creative repair: painting at her kitchen table, rediscovering stillness, and building a business rooted in intention rather than speed. Together, we explore why handwritten notes matter more than ever - the memory in a grandparent’s script...
2025-12-0239 min
Be Still and Live#08: Start Where You Are: Sustainable Living Made Simple with Sarah Robertson-BarnesWhat if the calm you crave isn’t hiding in a new planner or weekend reset, but in the way you shop, cook, mend, and move through your home?In this episode, sustainable living educator Sarah Robertson-Barnes shares a gentler path: start where you are, use what you have, and let “enough” be the goal.Sarah opens up about her shift from rigid zero-waste ideals to an approachable, suburban-friendly mindset. We talk about secondhand-first wins (like nearly-new graduation sneakers), the seven-day cart rule for online temptation, and the surprising peace that comes from shoppi...
2025-11-2538 min
Be Still and Live#07: Unlock Bliss and Happiness: Releasing Emotional Blocks and Realigning with Love with Tara CampIn this episode, Tara Camp, a Bliss & Happiness coach and retreat leader, shares a grounded path to spiritual awakening that actually fits real life. Tara helps people unlock lasting happiness and freedom by releasing emotional blocks, realigning with love, and reconnecting with their true essence. Through her retreats, programs, and teachings, she blends science, spirituality, and soul to guide others toward lives they truly love.We talk about the difference between transcendence and bypassing, why neutral doesn’t mean numb, and how to stay centered without shutting down your humanity. Tara also shares a simple he...
2025-11-1844 min
Be Still and Live#06: Peaceful Parenting: How to Regulate, Reconnect, and Bring Play Back Home with Carley AroldiPeace at home isn’t a personality trait, it’s a practice.In this conversation, Gillian talks with Carley Aroldi, clinical play therapist and childhood mental health expert, about why parenting feels so hard right now, and how small, steady shifts can bring calm back to family life.They explore the thermostat vs. thermometer idea, how parents set the emotional tone, and share simple, science-backed tools to move from stress to connection: co-regulation, playful moments, and everyday habits that reset the nervous system.From Candy Land to nature walks, Carley shows how...
2025-11-1146 min
Be Still and Live#05: From Survival Mode to Stillness: Rewire Your Brain for Calm with Xavier Duport NaemWhat if the fastest way forward is to slow down?In this episode, Gillian sits down with coach Xavier Duport Naem to explore how mental fitness, nervous system awareness, and monotasking can pull you out of survival mode and into a life that actually feels like your own.Xavier’s story, from high-performing corporate leader to purpose-driven coach, sets the stage for a conversation about stress, resilience, and the brain’s remarkable ability to rewire through conscious practice. Together, we unpack the science behind calm: understanding sympathetic vs. parasympathetic states in plain language and...
2025-11-0437 min
Be Still and Live#04: Redefining "Good": What if success is presence, not hustle? with Laura SinclairWhat if success isn’t about doing more, but choosing better?In this conversation with entrepreneur and community builder Laura Sinclair, we rethink what “good” looks like across motherhood, meaningful work, and modern life. Laura shares the story of a late-night text, an early class, and the version of herself who believed she had no choice, until one reframe changed everything: you can have it all, you just don’t have to do it all.Together, we unpack the quiet scripts that push women toward overwhelm at home and hustle at work, replacing them wit...
2025-10-2832 min
Be Still and Live#01: Take Back Your Life: How to Reclaim Stillness in a World of NoiseAre your days are full, but your soul feels tired?Welcome to Be Still and Live, a podcast reclaiming what it means to live slowly, calmly, and on purpose. In this opening episode, Gillian Gabryluk - speaker, coach, and founder of Sileo Health & Wellness - asks a braver question: What if nothing is wrong with you, and everything is wrong with the pace we're expected to keep?Stillness isn’t a fad or a luxury. It’s a survival instinct - a biological rhythm our nervous systems have always known but that’s...
2025-10-2107 minBe Still and Live#02: From Hustle to Healing: Remembering Who You Are Beneath the HurryWhat if your life isn’t asking for more effort - but more honesty?In this powerful episode of Be Still and Live, Gillian Gabryluk, founder of Sileo Health & Wellness, shares the story behind her own unraveling - and the rhythms that helped her heal.We talk about the quiet crisis so many are living through: full calendars, tired souls, and bodies whispering for rest in a culture that won’t slow down. Gillian traces her journey from barefoot childhood days that inspired her Five to Thrive framework, through years of achi...
2025-10-2111 minBe Still and Live#03: Five to Thrive: The Simple Rhythms That Heal Stress, Burnout, and OverwhelmWhat if thriving isn’t about doing more, but protecting a few simple rhythms that carry everything else?In this episode of Be Still and Live, Gillian Gabryluk, founder of Sileo Health & Wellness, shares her framework called Five to Thrive, five grounding pillars that turn a hurried, noisy life into one that feels calm, whole, and deeply human.We start with a truth most of us feel but rarely name: chronic stress, rising illness, restless sleep, and connection that feels unattainable. Then we explore a hopeful alternative, lifestyle medicine, the sm...
2025-10-2114 minBe Still and Live#00: Be Still and Live Trailer with Gillian GabrylukWelcome to Be Still and Live - a podcast for individuals, couples, and families longing for calm, connection, and a more meaningful way to live.I’m Gillian Gabryluk - speaker, coach, and founder of Sileo Health and Wellness. Like many of you, I spent years doing all the right things - working hard, raising a family, staying “productive” - yet underneath it all, I felt exhausted and disconnected.This podcast was born out of the realization that we need a different way. Not another hustle. Not another hack. But a return to what matters: stillne...
2025-09-1302 min
Science of a Profitable Practice#35: How to Escape the Superhero Mom Trap with Gillian GabrylukWhat if burnout isn’t about doing too much, but about doing too much of the wrong things?In this episode, I sit down with Gillian Gabryluk, health coach and founder of Sileo Coaching, to talk about what she calls a “nervous system crash” and how it forced her to rethink everything about how she was living, working, and showing up for her family.Gillian shares how ambitious women often fall into the trap of trying to “do it all”, only to end up in survival mode, constantly juggling competing...
2025-08-2620 min