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Embodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women173. 7 Signs You're On A Warrior's Journey (NOT A Weight Loss, Health, Or Fitness JourneyWhat if your struggle with food was never just about food? In this power-packed episode, Kayla shatters the illusion of a traditional weight loss journey and invites you into something much deeper—a Warrior’s Journey. Through seven soul-stirring signs, she reveals how your drama with food, body, and health might be the sacred battleground where your true identity is fighting to emerge. This is the episode for every woman who knows she’s powerful—except when it comes to food—and is ready to reclaim her fire, her focus, and her fierce feminine force. In This Episod...2025-05-0228 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women172. Break Free From Emotional Eating: Fasting, Journaling, & Future-Self Work with Nicki ThompsonIn this empowering episode, Kayla sits down with women’s wellness guide and fasting coach Nicki Thompson to explore what it really takes to heal emotional eating and create aligned health from the inside out.They cover:✨ How fasting helped Nicki regulate her emotions and rebuild trust with food🧠 The role of journaling, subconscious work, and future-self embodiment🍽️ The difference between coping mechanisms and true nourishment💥 Why food freedom isn’t about perfection — it’s about presence🌱 How to meet resistance with love and show up for your future self todayNicki shares her...2025-04-2534 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women167. How To Balance Your Slay & Thrive Energy For Maximum Energy, Happiness, & SuccessSometimes, life can take us into periods of imbalance.We can end up pushing so hard towards our goals, finding ourselves so deep in slay energy, that we forget to thrive.And sometimes we end up so focused on feeling good that we lose focus and momentum with our goals or aspirations.If we lose enough focus and momentum towards our goals, we also eventually get to the point where we don't feel good/thrive either.Today's episode includes powerful reminders to put you into a state of balancing your optimal...2024-04-1727 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women163. Forget Food Freedom - The Liberation You Desire Is Bigger & Wilder Than That (The New Era Of Slay & Thrive)This is a BIG episode as we move into a brand new era of the Slay & Thrive Podcast.The show has been ready for an upgrade for a while now, and this episode will include all the details of what you can expect in this new era.In today's episode, you're going to learn:Why Kayla is no longer talking about binge eating and food freedom.The six types of freedom to embody in your daily life and why all of them work together and play a massive role in growth and expansion.The...2024-03-2042 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women159. The One Sentence That Will Amplify Your Capacity To Finish StrongSometimes, a simple sentence can change everything.In today's episode, Kayla is breaking down a sentence she heard years ago that still impacts her on a deep level every single week, if not every single day.You're going to discover:The one sentence that can amplify your capacity to finish strong.How to apply this sentence/concept to every area of your life - your days, your weeks, months, your workouts, your projects... all the things.The masculine and feminine applications of this idea.8 Magic Words To Help You Optimize Your Energy & Achieve...2024-02-2126 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women157. Do You Have A Hardship Kink? This Shadow Work Will 10x Your Level Of Ease & JoyThis week's episode is inspired and informed by ideas in the book Existential Kink by Carolyn Lovewell (nee' Elliot).If you identity as a hard-working, goal-oriented, Type A person, you probably have a hardship kink.You believe in the power of hard work and discipline.You probably feel your best when you're slaying your to do list and crushing your goals.And... you might glorify hardship and challenge to such a severe degree that it's creating unnecessary drama and leading to burnout and disengagement.This pattern can often play...2024-02-0730 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women153. 6 Steps To Bring Fresh, Energizing Life Force To Long-Term Goals That Feel Boring Or MundaneSome of the biggest goals we have in life can't be completed in a week or a month or sometimes, even over the course of one year.Many of the greatest goals we can set can take multiple years or even decades.That doesn't mean they aren't worth pursuing. However, when you have a big goal that spans multiple years, there can be tendency for the goal to become stale, lifeless, joyless, and mundane.It starts to blend into the background of the rest of your life.You might experience more...2024-01-1054 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women142. My Four Part Journal Process For Improved Health, Reduced Anxiety, Increased Happiness, and Accelerated ProgressIn this week's episode, you're going to learn the four parts of a journal process to improve every arena of your life. This journal process will:Help you create a deep level of health that is mental, emotional, physical and spiritual.Relieve anxiety and stress about life's circumstances.Create a deeper sense of emotional stability.Moves you in the direction of YOUR absolute best life - whatever that looks like to you.Allow you to see all of life's difficult moments as opportunities for deep growth and transformation.You'll discover:Why journaling is the one tool...2023-10-2535 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women135. Why Cultivating Peace Will Transform Your Health & Body Like Nothing Else (+ 5 Ways To Make It Happen)There is one powerful, surefire way to create a rapid transformation with your health or body - and it's to cultivate more consistent levels of peace in your life.Peace is not just about managing or minimizing stress.Peace is stress management on steroids.Peace is a state that will make any health, fitness, or body transformation goal 100x easier.In today's episode, you'll learn:Why cultivate peace if you want to make sustainable progress towards your health and fitness goals.How to break through your comfort zone...2023-09-0656 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women125. Beast Mode Meal Planning - Prepare To Slay The Week AheadTune in for a tactical, practical episode on how to meal plan and prep for the week ahead like a beast.Meal planning and meal prepping is an essential, game-changing skill that will create more ease, more alignment, and more progress on a weekly-basis. In this episode, you'll discover:Why focusing on meal planning will change the entire trajectory of your week.Kayla's 9-Step Process for meal planning and meal prepping.How to modify your process for your unique goals and life situations.Happy Meal Planning!2023-06-2822 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women119. 8 Magic Words To Help You Optimize Your Energy Levels & Achieve Your GoalsHow different could your life look if you had access to more consistent life force energy?How much better would you feel?How much more would you be able to accomplish?How much more empowered and capable would you feel?In today's episode, Kayla is breaking down her simple mantra for optimizing your daily energy levels.You can use this mantra to create more consistent energy, which will lead to more consistent, joyful progress towards the goals you have for your life.Happy Slaying & Thriving.2023-05-1723 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women116. My Top 5 Foundational Skills For Simplifying & Accelerating Your Health & Fitness JourneyTo achieve success on in your health and fitness journey, you probably don't need to find more practices and tools.You probably already know what to do.To slay and thrive, you want to consistently and reliably execute the most critical foundational skills for success with weight loss, fitness, or improved health.Today's episode is a powerful reminder to prioritize the basics.Kayla is also sharing her top 5 foundational skills in her own journey and why they have been such game-changers in her own life.2023-04-2618 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women115. How To Take Your Personal Power & Manifesting Magic To The Next LevelYou have an immense amount of personal power in your everyday life.Today's episode is a potent reminder of how much influence you have over the external circumstances in your everyday life, when you choose to claim in.Tune in to hear: How Kayla used her manifesting powers to achieve an outcome on her wedding day that blew people's mindsFour strategies for taking your manifesting superpowers to the next level.Enjoy!2023-04-1913 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women106. Health, Fitness, & Weight Loss: The Traditional Path vs. The Spiritual PathIn today's episode, we're highlighting the differences between the traditional path of health and fitness versus the spiritual path.You'll learn:The red flags to watch out for on the traditional path of health and weight loss goalsPhysical, mental, and emotional shifts you can make to turn your health journey into a spiritual oneHow to use your challenges with eating, weight, or health as doorways to deeper personal transformationYou're also going to get a little bit of a Kayla rant in this episode, so get ready.Get your copy of Your Body...2023-02-1532 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women092. The 5 Toxic Traits Of High Performing Women That Lead To Chronic Stress & Burn OutToxic traits refer to habits, behaviors, and ongoing actions that harm others.Most high achieving women have one or more of the 5 toxic traits we cover today.The person most likely to be harmed by these traits is the high achieving woman herself.These toxic traits can lead to chronic stress and burnout.Chronic stress and burnout lead to a lack of energy, a deep sense of unhappiness and frustration, binge eating, and inconsistency.In today's episode, you'll learn:5 common toxic traits of high-performing womenHow to r...2022-11-0932 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women079. How to Eliminate The Bad Habits That are Killing Your Progress & Keeping You Stuck"Half of the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.”- Marshal GoldsmithWhen you're constantly trying to add more good habits or strategies without addressing your blocks and limitations, you'll set yourself up to fail.Constantly trying to add more to a busy schedule can actually create overwhelm that paralyzes a person. When you're always trying to add more, you might end up doing nothing because it feels like there's too much going on.What if you ch...2022-08-1029 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women078. The 5-Part Framework for Slaying Your Way Through Setbacks, Even if You're Feeling Frustrated & DiscouragedSetbacks. They're a normal part of any journey towards any goal.And oftentimes, they create a lot of negative emotion. Our confidence is shaken. We become crippled with doubt.We might even make the setbacks mean something about us. Maybe it means we're destined for permanent failure. Maybe we won't ever achieve this goal. Maybe there's something wrong with us.We also might feel resentful about having to make up lost ground, which can keep us stuck. Our fears, shame and resentment can cause us to stay trapped in the setback longer than...2022-08-0332 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women077. The #1 Reason To Transform Your BodyThere are many reasons why someone wants to lose weight or get in shape.Some of the reasons can be inspiring and motivating.Maybe it's to have more energy to keep up with their family.Maybe it's to challenge themselves and see what they're made of.Maybe it's for an event or race they've signed up for.Other reasons are less helpful.Because they feel like they "should" - according to some imaginary standards set by society.Because they feel like it'll make them more acceptable to those...2022-07-2725 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women076. The Keys to Food FreedomFood freedom. You hear the term tossed around in the health and weight loss world, but what does it mean?Food freedom is being liberated from compulsions and attachments to certain eating habits that aren't in our best interest.It's a state of relaxation and self-trust because you no longer feel like a slave to urges and cravings.It's being able to make choices around food from a place of power, agency, and alignment with your goals.Food freedom is the fast track to vitality, energy, health, fitness, and a deep...2022-07-2034 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women075. 9 Ways to Enjoy The Journey"If the journey is fun, you won't care how long it takes." - Abraham HicksThe pursuit of goals can often become hollow and frustrating and unfulfilling without regular reminders of the importance of enjoying a journey.The journey will inform the destination. You will never stress yourself into a place of inner peace. You will never hate yourself into a place of self-love and appreciation. You will never rage and fight your way to a place of happiness.When you feel good more often, you're more likely to continue doing whatever actions are...2022-07-1333 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women074. 4 Steps To Slaying Inconsistency & Lack of Motivation + A Success Strategy From a Bestselling AuthorWe're going to tackle the challenges of inconsistency and lack of motivation in today's episode.Most changes feel uncomfortable, maybe even miserable, until they don't anymore.There are so many things that people start and then give up on repeatedly, so they're perpetually stuck in that place of discomfort and unhappiness.However, there is a solution to all this, and it can be achieved with the 4 steps we're covering today.Listen to Episode 27: Make Hard Things Easy.2022-07-0619 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women073. Create Passion & Safety Together - In Relationships, Careers & Every Arena in LifeThere is a common tradeoff that people make in life.The tradeoff between passion and safety.Some people choose the safe path, the safe relationship, the safe life... and it lacks any semblance of fire and passion. They might live in comfortably numb states, choosing a cocoon of security.Then there are those whose lives are filled with passion. However, that passion might also feel like danger. It might leave a person in a state of constant stress. The relationships that are always on the brink of...2022-06-2933 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women072. Thrive After Postpartum Depression & Juggle Competing Priorities With Entrepreneur, Mom & Artist, Julie FreemanToday, we are joined by coach Julie Freeman. Julie is a mom and coach who helps highly sensitives moms get strong and feel badass.Julie shares her journey with health, fitness, pregnancy, mental health, and becoming a support for other women. Our conversation includes:The power of finding the right type of exercise for you as an individualThe importance of letting go of expectations about what pregnancy and motherhood will look likeThe need for honouring all emotional experience - even the moments of discomfort and challengeNavigating competing priorities after becoming a motherThe way an identity can...2022-06-2236 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women071. The Most Important Skill You'll Ever BuildTo slay and thrive on a regular basis, there is one vital skill you want to master.This skill will help you conquer any project or goal you tackle with more ease and less resistance.This skill will also help you thrive. You'll enjoy the journey. You won't even need the goal to be complete to be happy because you've mastered something far more important.You'll also be able to use this ability to collapse timelines and make things happen even faster than they would have otherwise.I know this sounds...2022-06-1538 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women070. Effortlessly Build Amazing Habits & A Growth Mindset With These 10 Personal Development BooksIt is Slay & Thrive's birthday week on the podcast, and we are celebrating with a special episode and a giveaway.Today, I'm sharing my top 10 most life-changing books of all time.These are books I've usually read multiple times. They're books I return to regularly as a resources. They're books with tools and practices I've implemented that have drastically changed my life.I am so excited to share each of these amazing books with you today. I'm going to cover:Why I picked up each book when I didHow my perspective changed...2022-06-081h 18Embodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women069. Why You Should Never Ask "What's Wrong With Me?" & What to Ask InsteadWhat's wrong with me?If this question has ever crossed your mind or if it's a question that plagues you on a regular basis, then this is episode is for you.My intention for this episode is for another listener to never feel the need the need to ask this question again.This question keeps us from slaying and thriving. It's also not real.There is nothing wrong with you, no matter what your struggles or challenges are. We're going to talk about how to approach your challenges and struggles through...2022-06-0118 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women068. Understanding the Psychology of Learned Helplessness So You Can Take Back Your Personal PowerEven if you pride yourself on a being a strong, independent, powerful person in most arenas in your everyday life, there might be an area or two where you struggle and don't feel as powerful as you'd like to.Many people feel a lot of agency and resourcefulness in most arenas. Then they often have this one place where they get stuck or tripped up. It could be with food, with spending, with certain triggering relationships.That feeling of situational helplessness can be frustrating and confusing. However, there is a way to conquer this sense...2022-05-2526 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women067. An Unexpected Element Stopping You From Enjoying the Journey Towards Your GoalsHave you been enjoying the pursuit of your goal? Does it light you up and excite you? Do you look forward to the prospect of doing the work required because you're so in love with the end result and the possibilities it will create for your life?Or do you feel a lot of self-imposed pressure? Are you struggling with a lot of impatience and frustration? Maybe you just want to get there today. Maybe you feel a ton of anxiety about the prospect of never reaching this goal.When you think about not reaching...2022-05-1839 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women066. Thriving After Trauma With Angel McLaughlin (The Catalyst Diaries)This episode is part of the Catalyst Diaries, which features women who are sharing their stories of growth, healing, and transformation after darkness and trauma.Today, Angel shares her story of shifting from surviving trauma to living a life where she is truly thriving. She has also become a massive change agent in helping people heal from both trauma and substance abuse.We cover:The differences between male and female responses to trauma, particularly with veteransThe limitations of medication and traditional talk therapy for helping heal traumaHow both the overperforming, perfectionist traumatized person and...2022-05-141h 08Embodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women065. How To Tackle Recurring Patterns of Self-Sabotage That Stall Consistent Progress Towards Your GoalsHave you ever felt like you've learned the same lesson repeatedly?Maybe you've overcome a habit or a challenge in your life. A money struggle. An eating challenge. A relationship pattern. Then, to your dismay, you find yourself returning to a familiar struggle after weeks, months, or years of feeling like you were "past" it.The first reaction could be frustration. Exasperation.You might worry that this means you haven't really grown and changed. You might feel fear that this is always going to be a battle.In today's episode, we're...2022-05-1127 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women064. Slay Perfectionism With Holistic Health Practitioner Theresa Weatherbee (The Catalyst Diaries)This episode is part of the Catalyst Diaries, which features women who are sharing their stories of growth, healing, and transformation after darkness and trauma.In today's episode, Theresa shares her journey from a physical health breakdown to healing inside and out.She shares the powerful way she combined spiritual healing with taking consistent, habit-based action in her daily life to heal from an unexplained, undiagnosed illness. We talk about:How to embrace ourselves as the Flawsome beings we are - absolutely awesome individuals not in spite of flaws, but alongside themThe five pillars...2022-05-0744 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women063. What Trumps Motivation & Works Every Time Even When You're In a Bad MoodThere's is real danger in relying on motivation.Even the most hyped-up, high energy person isn't going to feel motivated all the time,Fatigue happens. Stress happens. Anger, sadness, and frustration happen. Unexpected circumstances derail our best laid plans. There are a hundred things that can deplete our motivation and leave us uninspired and resistant to keeping our self-made promises.What if you could harness the power of something even better and more steady than motivation will ever be?What if you could tap into a force that is going to...2022-05-0422 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women062. Healing Generational Trauma & Living a Life Of Purpose With Charlene Madden (The Catalyst Diaries)This episode is part of the Catalyst Diaries, which features women who are sharing their stories of growth, healing, and transformation after darkness and trauma.Charlene Madden shares her empowering story of finding freedom and healing. After experiencing childhood trauma, domestic abuse, and mental health challenges, Charlene found herself in the right place at the right time just days before she'd been planning to take her own life.She is now on a mission to help others struggling with their demons. We have a powerful conversation which includes:The importance of noticing and transforming...2022-04-3033 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women061. Creating a Dream Life After Alcoholics Anonymous & Addiction Recovery With Billy ManasToday, we are joined by Billy Manas - an author and musician who has forged his own unique path to recovery after hitting rock bottom.In this powerful conversation about building your dream life after recovery, we cover:What did and didn't work about Alcoholics Anonymous for BillyThe danger of attaching to labels and absolving too much personal powerThe impact our personal narratives and beliefs can have on recovery and potential relapseThe importance of moving towards creating the life of your dreams once you've achieved sobrietyLearn more about Billy here: https://www.billymanas.com...2022-04-2748 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women060. How Mindfulness Helps You Recover From Depression With Andrea Manilla (The Catalyst Diaries)This episode is part of the Catalyst Diaries, which features women who are sharing their stories of growth, healing, and transformation after darkness and trauma.Today, we're talking with the Ministress of Mindfulness. Andrea Manilla shares how she's gone from suffering with depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideations to living a life of peace, presence, and fulfillment. She's now sharing her story and helping others experience more mindfulness in their everyday lives.We cover:The power of sharing our truth and being authentic with those around usHow to make anything in your life a mindfulness...2022-04-2339 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women059. How To Reinvent Yourself When It Seems Impossible & Use Self-Doubt to Fuel Your TransformationIf a floppy Koi fish can evolve into a majestic sea dragon, then there is no reason why you can't become anything or anyone you desire.Today, we're using the power of myth and storytelling to inspire you to take things to that next level.We're going to talk about a story of powerful, unexpected transformation, and how we can apply it to our own lives.It is absolutely possible to reinvent yourself.It's possible to take things to the next level... and then the next. And the next. There is...2022-04-2018 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women058. How To Use Tough Love & Tactical Negativity To Get ResultsPositivity, left unchecked and unbalanced, can turn to harmful delusion.Today, we're going to be covering something very out of the ordinary - the upside of negativity.This isn't about starting to look at everything through a negative lens or complaining about everything in life. It's about using a healthy dose of negativity where it's needed so that we can make more progress and, paradoxically, feel better in the long term.We'll talk a bit about the idea of toxic positivity, the power of negative emotions, and finally, three practices to help you...2022-04-1331 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women057. When Part of You Doesn't Want ItIf we whole-heartedly wanted what we thought we wanted, we'd have it by now.Or at the very least, we'd be well on our way towards it without the feelings of being stuck or perpetually going backwards and forwards.When we have big goals that have eluded us for a long time, there are parts of us that actually don't want the big goal itself or the consequences we believe we'll experience as a result of achieving this goal.These perceived consequences or drawbacks often live in our unconscious until we extract them...2022-04-0640 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women056. How to Harness the Power of Self-Discipline Without Becoming Controlling & ObsessiveWhen it comes to slaying our goals, we want to have focus and discipline.We want to be focused on whatever it is we're creating or pursuing. We want to cultivate the discipline required to not only achieve the goal but maintain the goal.However, anything taken to its extreme can become unhelpful or even dangerous. Control and obsession are focus and discipline that have been pushed over the edge.When over-control and over-obsession dominate, we often also experience an opposite reaction after we've fatigued our minds, bodies and spirits. After trying to...2022-03-3027 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women055. Why You Haven't Achieved Your Biggest Goal Yet... And What to Do About ItThis podcast is all about helping every listener create a life where they have it all.♥ The health♥The wealth♥The love♥The fulfilment♥ Along with any other desire imaginableIn this episode, you'll be reminded that it is possible for you to have it all... with just one catch. You'll also learn why you might not have achieved your biggest life goal and how to start making steady progress right away.2022-03-2329 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women054. Having is Evidence of Wanting & How This One Idea Can 10x Your Success & Create MiraclesThis might be one of the most controversial episodes to date. Today, we're going to be exploring the concept that having is evidence of wanting.This podcast episode was inspired by Carolyn Elliot's book, Existential Kink.She presents this idea: if we have something in our lives, we must, on some level, want it.What does this mean for those recurrent strokes of bad luck, those infuriating patterns that continue to surface with our money, our relationships, and our health?Is it possible that, on some level, we want these things?2022-03-1633 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women053. Top 10 Lessons I Learned In 2021 That You Need To Implement This YearLast year, I did an episode on my top 10 lessons from 2021, and it was a popular episode.2021 was another year of massive change, expansion, and transformation on multiple levels.In today's episode, I'm sharing the top ten lessons from 2021 and how I'm continuing to embody them in 2022.Some of the lessons include:The how is not my responsibility. My job is to focus on the desire. (From Amanda Frances)Another level, another devilExile nothingTo join the Unicorn Thunder Playground, click here.2022-03-0935 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women052. How to Stop Emotional Eating & Other Bad Habits During the Times That Feel Hardest For You - Evenings, Weekends, Vacations, & Times of Stress"I do great all day... and then I get to the evening and blow it.""I just can't stop overeating after dinner.""I get to 3 in the afternoon, and it's game over. I lose all energy and motivation"We often have defining moments in our days. Those times that either make or break us.These moments can be fraught with anxiety and dread because of all the times we've struggled in the past.It doesn't have to be this way. We can slay these defining moments. And by slaying...2022-03-0231 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women051.Feminine Energy, Spiritual Healing & Getting into Alignment With Life's Purpose With Moj Razmi (Thrive Series)Moj Razmi has been a catalyst for transformational and spiritual healing. She is an international coach, lecturer, and nutrition enthusiast.Moj started her journey as an engineer in Silicon Valley. Once she became a mother, she found herself dropping more deeply into her feminine energy. She knew something was out of alignment, and went on a seven year journey to discover her true calling.We talk about the ways she helps clients enjoy the journey towards their goals, turn their Joy-O-Meter all the way up, and access their feminine power.Connect with Moj...2022-02-2736 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women050. Activate Limitless Self-Love With This Simple Mindset Shift (Thrive Series)How different would your life be if you had as much love for yourself and your entire life as you did for the person or people that you love the most?How much more consistent and present would you be if you were if you were as devoted to your goals and growth as you were to the relationships in your life you were most committed to?In today's episode, we're activating the superpowers of love and devotion.We talk about the science behind heart intelligence and how it affects our physiology and...2022-02-2329 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women049. The Law of Resonance & Bringing Feminine Energy into Money & Business with Coach & Entrepreneur Michelle Cooper (Thrive Series)"We are all sacred creators." - Michelle CooperMichelle Cooper is an entrepreneur and accountant who brings Divine feminine energy to a male-dominated sphere.She finds that many women try to do finance in a hyper-masculine way. Restricting themselves with budgets. Focusing too much on numbers and not enough on their intuition and emotions.In today's episode, she shares how women can approach money and finance and business in a way that makes their relationship with money feel amazing.She shares her experience with dropping more into her feminine energy after...2022-02-2041 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women048. Activate This One Superpower To Take Full Advantage of The Law of Attraction (Thrive Series)"You don't get what you want. You get who you are."Magnetism is a deeply feminine superpower. It allows us to draw our desires to us without the hustle, the push, or the force.Have you ever met a person who always seemed to land on their feet? Who seemed to have the best luck ever?Maybe there was something about them. You couldn't quite put your finger on it, but you just wanted to be around them.That's magnetism at work. And you have this same superpower within you. Tune...2022-02-1616 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women047. Sexy Self-Love & Self-Care With Kelsey Templeman (Thrive Series)Sexual wellness is an integral (and often overlooked) aspect of a deeply healthy and thriving woman. This episode will invite you to higher levels of freedom and contentment in this arena of your own life.Kelsey Templeman has been working in the sexual wellness industry for over a decade. She also has a beautiful way of giving women the permission they're looking for when it comes to exploring their sexuality, both on a personal level and within their intimate relationships.This fun, sexy, and enlightening conversation includes:How to diffuse sexual shame and confusion...2022-02-1358 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women046. Activate Surrender & Deepen Your Trust in the Universe To Create Profound Inner Peace (Thrive Series)This episode of part of the Thrive Series: Activate Your Feminine Superpowers.There is one thing that is guaranteed to steal our joy and hold us back from thriving on an everyday basis.That one thing is resistance. When we fight with reality, we lose every time. We're agitated. We're edgy. We're frustrated. We're so busy wishing things were different than how they are in a given moment, that we check out and miss out on our lives unfolding.Being able to surrender in any given moment is a superpower that will elevate...2022-02-0932 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women045. Learn to Embody Feminine Energy Traits & Create Beautiful Morning Routines With Bestselling Author Gina DeVee (Thrive Series)Today, we are joined by a Divine Feminine leader and author of The Audacity to be Queen.We have an incredible conversation about what it means to be a Queen in our own lives.Gina DeVee shares how to infuse taking action and making moves with feminine desire, emotion, creativity, and faith.She talks about how to keep faith strong and maintain a powerful spiritual connection. She shares some of her best practices for an inspiring, uplifting morning routine, as well as what it was like to write her book.You...2022-02-0630 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women044. How to Turn Any Emotion Into a Superpower, Including the Ones That Have Led to Self-Sabotage in the Past (Thrive Series)This episode of part of the Thrive Series: Activate Your Feminine Superpowers.Today's superpower goes beyond simple emotional awareness.Knowing what you're feeling at any given moment is a powerful first step. Awareness is a valuable first step.But to activate emotional potency is to activate the deeply feminine, wild force of your emotions for your highest good.It's about being courageous enough to face any emotion and let it flow through your body.It's...2022-02-0222 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women043. Activate Commitment So That You Can Keep Moving Forwards, Even During Times of Stress & Chaos (Slay Series)We are wrapping up Slay Series by activating commitment and dedication.Most people have given up on their New Years Resolutions or their goals by January 19th. But not you. You are here because you know that whatever it is you're dreaming of is possible and you're dedicated to making it happen.In today's episode, we're going to talk about what commitment and dedication mean, and how to carry these strong, unshakeable forces into February and beyond.We're going to talk about seven ways you can continue building your commitment and dedication over...2022-01-2634 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women042. Becoming A Trauma Warrior With Michael Unbroken (Slay Series)In today's episode, we're talking with Michael Unbroken, a trauma survivor and life coach who is on a mission to break the curse of generational trauma.Michael shares his story of transformation and talks about the powerful work he does in the world. We talk about:How childhood trauma blocks people from reaching their goals and creating the life of their dreamsThe role of both coach and therapist in the healing of trauma, and the distinctions between the twoThe keys to healing childhood trauma and how to put it into actionWhy clarity is necessary for becoming...2022-01-2354 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women041. Activate This Masculine Energy Superpower to Become Unstoppable (Slay Series)"When there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm." - African ProverbWe have the power to create the landscape of our brain. We have the ability to create an internal fortress.What if your internal fortress was so strong, that you felt safe to go out in the world and experience any discomfort?You knew you could handle any uncomfortable emotion.You could face rejection without crumbling or doubting yourself.You could withstand the judgements of others.You know you could...2022-01-1933 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women040. Cultivating Self-Love & Defining Your Deepest Core Values with Health Coach & Entrepreneur Caleb Nelson (Slay Series)This episode is part of the Slay Series: Activate Your Masculine Superpowers.Today's episode features a wide-ranging and thought-provoking conversation with Caleb Nelson - a thriving business coach who helps couples and entrepreneurs with both love and leadership.A few of the highlights:How safety and connection in your personal relationships create deeper success and fulfilment in business and other areas in lifeHow challenge and safety can coexist in everyday lifeThe importance of training and preparing for all of life's potential challengesThe two types of boredom and how to determine one from...2022-01-162h 01Embodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women039. Activate Personal Responsibility (Slay Series)This episode is part of the Slay Series: Activate Your Masculine Superpowers.Full, unconditional personal responsibility changes everything.It's a full reclamation of our strength and our power.When we take ownership of everything - our thoughts, emotions, actions, and ultimately, our results - our ability to create and transform increases exponentially.In today's episode, we'll talk about how personal responsibility impacts our ability to slay and how you can activate this superpower in your everyday life.Join the Unicorn Thunder Playground here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/unicornthunder2022-01-1220 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women038. 130+ Pound Weight Loss Journey with Doug Thompson (Slay Series)This episode is part of the Slay Series: Activate Your Masculine Superpowers.In today's episode, we're going to hear Doug share the story of how he lost over one hundred pounds, and how his life has changed as a result.We cover a number of great topics, including:A new perspective on "short-cuts" or a perceived "easy-way out".What to do about haters and nay-sayers.The importance of finding your unique path to health and fitness.The difference between the healthy masculine and the toxic masculine in today's society.2022-01-0954 min
Distorted OpinionsDistorted Opinions: Gear Talk: Kayla's Kit GuitarIt's been a while since we've done a formal gear talk. Join Kayla and Ted as they discuss the Wilkinson kit guitar that Kayla recently won during Stewart MacDonald's 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway. Special thanks to StewMac, Arielle and Wilkinson for the kit. Be sure to follow us on social media to see updates as Kayla begins to build this guitar.There's no Song of the Week this week, but you can find all of our past picks in our Spotify Song of the Week Playlist at https://bit.ly/distortedops_songoftheweek. You can also find our...2022-01-0937 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women037. Activate Purpose & Clarity (Slay Series)This episode is part of the Slay Series: Activate Your Masculine Superpowers.“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” ― Friedrich NietzscheIn today's episode, we'll talk about how to bulletproof your progress and drive towards any ambition by activating purpose and clarity.Purpose: Your reason for doing what it is you're doing. Your deeper why. Your compelling reason to keep going, no matter what. Your reason to keep going when it's hard. When it's uncomfortable. When it feels like nothing is working.Clarit...2022-01-0519 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women036. Balance Masculine & Feminine Energy to Speed Up Growth & TransformationThis episode is for everyone, whether you are single or in a relationship. This isn't about building a literal power couple in your romantic relationship.This about building your internal power couple.Regardless of our gender, we have both masculine and feminine energy.The masculine is energy of slaying. It's goal oriented. It's protective. It's strong. It's directive.The feminine is the energy of thriving. It's nurturing. It's creative. It's receptive. It's deeply loving.Many times, struggle is born out of an imbalance between our healthy masculine and healthy...2021-12-2929 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women035. Heal From Religious Trauma & Deconstruct From a Place of Power with Exvangelical Coach Krista HoffmanEven the greatest things in life have their dark, toxic counterpart.The health and fitness world has its dark side.The personal development world has its own brand of toxicity.The same is true for religion. Today, we're talking with Krista Hoffman - a life coach who has healed from religious trauma. She now helps others find the same freedom and inner peace she found as a result.We discuss some of the common elements of religious trauma, such as:The pervasive sense of fear surrounding what happens when you...2021-12-261h 01Embodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women034. Raise Your Vibration To Accelerate Your Progress & Manifesting PowersThere are two basic ways to achieve your goals and dreams1. Grind and hustle and exert a ton of effort to get there2. Become the energetic match for the desire, and move towards it in a state of ease and flowToday, we'll be talking about the latter. We're going to be discovering how focusing on your default vibration makes everything easier and more enjoyable.You'll learn what your default vibration is, why it matters, and most importantly, how you can raise your own default vibration consistently over time.2021-12-2222 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women033. Mind-Body-Spirit Healing With Rachelle Manieri“Traumatic symptoms are not caused by the event itself. They arise when residual energy from the experience is not discharged from the body. This energy remains trapped in the nervous system where it can wreak havoc on our bodies and minds.” -Peter LevineTrue healing isn't always about getting the hip replacement or focusing on a symptom like headaches.Rachelle Manieri is a healer and practitioner who takes a stand for her client's wholeness. She has powerful tools that create mind-body-spirit healing. She shares how she works with people who have experienced trauma. We learn a lo...2021-12-1951 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women032. Achieve Your Goals Faster with Mental, Emotional, Physical & Spiritual AlignmentOne of the best ways you can make crushing your goals feel like self-care is to stay in alignment.Alignment with your core values, purpose, priorities and highest self.Alignment is also about being aligned physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.You'll learn why alignment matters on the path towards your best life, along with practical ways you can ensure you stay in alignment on a regular basis.Join the Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/unicornthunder2021-12-1526 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women031. Slay Your Way Through Life Transitions & Learn a Vital Element of Living Your Best Life with Lisa Frost"Transitions are a gateway to rewriting your life story." - Lisa FrostLife is filled with transitions. Career & job transitions. Relationship transitions. Family transitions. Losses. And these can be incredibly destabilizing - even if they're positive changes.Lisa Frost is an Integral Master Coach who has been in the field for decades. She specializes in helping people move through all kinds of life transitions. We had an incredible conversation on how to navigate these changes, both positive and negative, in our lives.We cover:Lisa's 5-step process for navigating transitions - this...2021-12-1251 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women030. The 3-Part System to Effortless, Pleasurable Manifesting & Goal AchievementToday's episode is going to be one part inspiration and one part invitation.Kayla will be sharing what the concept Unicorn Thunder means to her, and how it's helped her create the most magical year ever.This concept is a 3-part system to effortless, pleasurable manifesting & goal achievement that will work, no matter what your goals are.She's also going to be sharing the details about her brand new Facebook group that will help everyone inside create amazing shifts, take their lives and their goals to the next level, and have all kinds...2021-12-0823 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women029. How to Create Self-Care Routines That Feel Joyful & Fun, Even With a Busy Schedule With Health Coach Jen SpragueToday, we have an amazing Inner Coach Practitioner joining us. Jen Sprague is a health and life coach who used her own health challenges and chronic stress as the launching pad for her business.She helps people transform their health in a way that honours the mind-body connection. And by helping them change their health, she is also able to help her clients transform their entire lives as a result.In this conversation, we talk about:The impact of stress, mindset, and life circumstances in creating disease and disruptions in our physical bodiesHow to...2021-12-051h 02Embodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women028. A Powerful Mindset Shift to Stop Self-Judgement & ShameThis episode is one you can return to on a regular basis whenever you need it. Today, we'll be looking at Kayla's all-time favourite framework for slaying & thriving.Having an inspiring and effective framework for approaching your goals, your life, and your challenges can change everything. It starts by changing the way we think, which effects our emotions. And it's our emotions that drive our choices, which then drive our results.And our framework can sometimes shift depending on life circumstances, especially when things get hard. This episode can serve as a resource whenever hard...2021-12-0124 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women027. Your Simple, Foolproof Guide for Achieving Mastery in Any Area of Your LifeThere will probably always be things in our lives that feel hard as we work towards our best selves and our best lives.The good news is that there is one strategy that will make any hard thing easy. Tune in to today's episode to find out how you can apply this to any area of your life.Hard is also going to be relative and vary from person to person. However, most people would probably feel that writing an entire book in one month (or writing a book at all) qualifies as a hard...2021-11-2421 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women026. 3 Shortcuts to Speed Up Your Manifestations & Achieve Your Goals FasterNot all shortcuts are bad. In fact, shortcuts can be a powerful way to ensure you slay and thrive.Shortcuts can save you time and energy. They can also create a more joyful path forwards as you pursue your goals.Today, we're going to be talking all about three powerful shortcuts with taking as you continue your journey towards your best lives ever. We'll also be including one bonus shortcut at the end as well.2021-11-1724 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women025. The Wisdom of Dreams, Courageous Creativity & The Divine Feminine with Gabriela MasalaI was honoured to have a special guest on this episode. Gabriela is a fellow member of the Inner Coach community, and I've experienced her magic during a practice session together. She is an author, healer, coach, magician... and many more things.From Gabriela's website: Gabriela’s been steeping in universal wisdom teachings, contemplative expressive arts and energy medicine for over 20 years. Her guidance is infused with pure love and sober clarity. Her skills dive into the heart of matters, using the creative process as a catalyst for transformation. She is passionate about pioneering what it means to...2021-11-1046 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women024. The One Nutrition Strategy That Can Change EverythingThere is no shortage of nutrition information in the world. There must be hundreds of thousands of books, podcast episodes, articles, Youtube videos, and blog posts. There's also no shortage of contradictions within this information.Many people swear by Keto, while others choose vegan or vegetarian styles of eating. Some people get great results with a certain program, while another might not see any results at all.After consuming countless resources on nutrition and obtaining two nutrition certifications, Kayla have discovered that there is one nutrition strategy that has trumped all the rest in her...2021-11-0317 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women023. Stop Apologizing For Everything: 3 Keys to Living with Confidence, Self-Acceptance & Inner FreedomDo you find yourself apologizing for everything? Do you find yourself in a state of perpetual remorse and shame about who you are and how you are? If so, this is the episode is for you.Part of slaying and thriving is showing up as our truest, most authentic selves, without apologizing for it. We'll be diving into what being unapologetic looks like.This is not a free pass to excuse hurtful or damaging behaviour. It's not a free pass to do whatever we feel like, without regard for others. It's about still seeing the work...2021-10-2730 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women022. Use This Powerful Tool to Unlock More Joy & Fulfilment"Finding joy in what you're doing is not an added feature. It is a sign of deep health." - Mark NepoThis episode is an invitation to check-in with yourself. Are you finding joy in what you're doing? Ask yourself this across the board. Are you finding joy in your relationships, how you spend your free time, your job, how you're pursuing your goals?If not, we're going to be discussing ways you can not only find the joy, but choose joy. We can find joy in our perspective, and we can also...2021-10-2024 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women021. Sexual Alignment, Pleasure & Play With Corinne UnderwoodWe have an incredible interview with Corinne Underwood today. Corinne is a Sex, Intimacy & Relationship coach. She was also one of my coaches, so I was even more delighted to have her on the podcast.We talk about the importance of sexual alignment and how it looks different for everyone. We talk about pleasure and play. We talk about the importance of being in our bodies versus being disconnected from them. We also talk about how struggles with body image and diet are often connected to struggles with our sexuality and sexual desires.Corinne shares...2021-10-1350 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women020. How Shadow Work Can Heal Past Relationships So You Can Control Your Emotions & Manifest Your Soulmate"One of the recurring core truths I witness about the human psyche is that those who face the darkest parts of their life with courage, loving acceptance, and surrender — always — experience a massive blossoming in their life after. Confront the dragon; get the gold."- Eric GodseyOftentimes, we spend so much time fighting one dragon in our life - whether it's our weight, our debt, or something other external issue - that we expend all our energy. Then we realize that there was another meaner, scarier dragon hiding behind the external chal...2021-10-0633 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women019. Binge Eating Recovery Simplified With One Small Perspective ShiftWe are back with another episode on binge eating. We'll start out by discussing some ideas from the book, Brain over Binge by Kathryn Hansen.In this book, the author talks about the two theories for bulimia and binge eating disorder recovery - the tamed house-pet theory and the transformed butterfly theory.She argues that, in order to stop binge eating, all you have to do is stop acting on the urge to binge.This is simple in theory and this book has helped thousands of readers. Kayla will be sharing her thoughts...2021-09-2933 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women018. Healing & Transforming Through Writing With Jade RawlingsEvery human is an unfinished symphony. - Jade RawlingsToday's episode features an inspiring conversation with full-time author, Jade Rawlings.We discuss how growing as a writer translates into growth in our everyday lives. We also talk about how writing across various styles and genres can help us heal past pain and trauma, particular those challenging things that happened in childhood.Enjoy the episode with Jade - she has so many amazing things to say!2021-09-2253 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women017. A 5-Step Guide to Emotional Intelligence, Which Will Help You Manifest Your DesiresIf you are looking for a practical tool that will help you manage your emotions effectively, stop binge eating, AND accelerate the manifestation process, this episode is for you!There is one tool, more than any other, that has helped me heal my relationship with food, get consistent in my habits, and change my body once and for all. I'm going to be walking you through what this tool is and the step by step process for using it.I'm also going to use a personal example from my own life so you can see...2021-09-1531 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women016. Authoring Your Dream Life... With Special Bonus!You are the author of your story. You are creating and narrating your destiny every single day. With your thoughts. With your actions. With your focus.If you aren't living your dream life right now, you can start to tell a new story. This episode will help you do exactly that.Kayla is going to be sharing some of the ways that her journey as a writer has helped her craft a life that she is madly in love with. She'll be comparing the process of writing and editing a book to the process of...2021-09-0839 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women015. 4 Tips For Epic ManifestingI was originally going to call this episode, 'my best manifestation ever', but I realized that wouldn't do the episode justice. This episode isn't about one specific manifestation. You can use these tips to manifest anything you desire - love, money, health, career changes, all of the above.I'll be using a specific example from my own life. This is the most amazing thing I've manifested to date, but I'm going to be sharing the specifics about why it happened as beautifully and magically as it did.After listening to this episode, you will have...2021-09-0127 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women014. Feminine Finance With Laurie-Anne KingToday's guest is Laurie-Anne King - a coach and energy healer who is on a mission to help thousands of women win with money and create financial freedom and abundance. We had an incredible conversation about how to build financial peace into your life, using both energetic and practical strategies. We cover:Why women struggle more with money and finance than their male counterpartsWhat's going on with people who over-spend and with people who over-save, and how the solution for both is actually the sameHow to approach your finances in a way that honors your dreams and values...2021-08-2535 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women013. How to Resolve ANY Issue"Making more money won't resolve your issues with money. Resolving your issues with money resolves your issues with money. And, as a result, you often get more money." - Amanda FrancesIn this episode, we're going to be discussing the ways you can resolve any issue in your life. We'll be talking money, love, and health, but this can be applied anywhere. You'll get specific strategies for how to actually do the inner work to see lasting change. The best part is that when you change the inside, the external situations you want to affect also change.2021-08-1820 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women012. How To Set Goals & Achieve Anything with Patrick DominguezIn today's episode, I have an incredible conversation with Patrick about how to set goals and achieve anything. Patrick is the CEO and founder of Inner Coach, which is where I had so many breakthroughs of my own this past year.We cover a variety of topics, including:Common goal-setting pitfalls and how to avoid themPractical ways to move steadily towards your goals, while feeling amazing in the processHow to release resistance - which can be self-sabotage, procrastination, fear, anything that stands between you and your goal - so you can achieve whatever it is that...2021-08-1147 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women011. The Body Transformation of a Figure Competitor: Chatting with Christine Springman & Alysha LahmThis episode features a mother-daughter duo of bad-asses. Christine has gone from struggling with her weight and her habits to getting consistent and disciplined enough to participate in a bikini competition. Her entire identity changed. She talks about the obstacles she overcame, what she learned from starting her bodybuilding journey, and the power of having a coach.Now she's helping her daughter, Alysha, reach her health and fitness goals. Alysha is one of my best friends, and she has been crushing it on her own journey. She's a mom of two young children, and she's had to...2021-08-0430 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women010. Top 10 Lessons From 2020Even though we're almost halfway through 2021, this episode is so worth a listen. 2020 was a bigger year for growth and transformation than any other year for me. I didn't want to let this year get too cold without sharing my most powerful lessons.Most of these lessons are universal and can help anyone, regardless of whether they're chasing financial goals, health goals, or relationship goals. They have been a game-changer for me, and I know they positively impact you on your journey as well!2021-07-2833 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women009. Slaying & Thriving as a Writer with Hasan NamirToday's episode features an incredibly successful and fulfilled writer. We talk about how to slay and thrive as a creative person. Some of the topics we cover are:How Hasan has grown on his writing journeySome of the barriers he encountered along the wayHow he was able to use creativity and writing to manage dark times in his lifeHow to handle constructive criticism (and also, the criticism that isn't so constructive)2021-07-2147 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women008. How To Stop Fighting Yourself Do you ever feel like you're at war with yourself? Like you're your own worst enemy? You know there's more that's possible for you. More health, more success, more fulfilment. But it feels like you're constantly getting in your own way. Maybe you overeat at night. Or overspend while you're trying to get out of debt. Or you procrastinate for months on end. You're frustrated because you know that you're the thing standing in your own way, but you don't know how to end the fight. Listen to this podcast to discover how you can get onto your own s...2021-07-1421 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women007. Never Binge Again? Today, we're going to be talking all about binge eating. This podcast was somewhat inspired by the book of the same title. Is it possible to never binge again? Is it even a helpful goal to strive for? We're going to be talking about how to break free from binge eating without the need for perfectionism or rigidity. We do discuss eating disorders to a small extent, so make sure to skip this episode if you aren't in a good place to hear about this. 2021-07-0726 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women006. Truth Bomb: What Progress Actually Looks LikeOne of the biggest roadblocks that keeps us from being able to Slay & Thrive is the expectation that progress must be a straight line.We resist setbacks and the obstacles, wanting to see steady, constant progress.This episode will talk about how this perspective gets in the way and keeps us from loving the journey. We'll also talk about how to see it differently so you can move towards your goals with greater consistency and less resentment. 2021-07-0127 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women005. You Are Not BrokenThis episode will change your relationship with yourself and your ability to achieve any goal you have for yourself. No matter what your barriers or unhelpful habits are, you are NOT broken. By choosing the perspective presented in this episode instead, you will deepen your relationship with yourself and create a greater sense of power to affect change in any area that you desire.2021-06-2327 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women004. Why Focusing on Your Problems Will Not Fix Them & What to Do InsteadIf you want to slay and thrive at the same time, then this episode is for you.It's so common to lead with what we don't want. We can get overwhelmed thinking about all the problems in our life. The excess weight. The debt. The low quality relationships. When we focus on the problems, we don't feel our best.But there is another way. In today's episode, you'll learn what to do and where to focus your energy instead of stressing about life's problems and challenges.2021-06-1916 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women003. How to Stay Hungry & Ensure that Happiness Doesn't Distract You From Your Goals Thriving without slaying is where you are so focused on feeling good that your momentum has dissipated. You're floating through life in a cloud of positivity, but you're not making progress. Managing your state and vibration has become a full time job, possibly to the point where it's become self-indulgent. In this episode, you'll learn about how you can take all your positive emotions and get back to taking inspired, aligned action towards your goals. 2021-06-1817 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women002. Slaying Without Thriving Slaying with thriving is rampant in today's society. We glorify success, achievement, and productivity. But what if it's coming at the expense of a person's joy and well-being? In this podcast, we're going to dive deeper into slaying without thriving, which is at the root of unhappy achieving. You'll also get practical tips for how to feel better and enjoy the journey now instead of struggling with burn out, overwhelm, and frustration. 2021-06-1716 minEmbodied Warrior: Deep Health, Food Freedom, & Spiritual Growth for Wild Women001. The End of Unhappy Achieving This first episode will share how you can end patterns of unhappy achieving and self-sabotage forever. You'll also meet your host, who went from her rock bottom to creating the life of her dreams. You can be fulfilled and happy now. The best part is, when you feel better, you also do better. Get ready to Slay and Thrive. 2021-06-1020 min
Listen#3 - Kayla GreenKayla Green is a concert violinist and Artistic Director of the Michigan Institute for Contemporary Arts. She is the founder and president of GrandStand Music Festival, a nonprofit organization that merges the arts with social activism into one-of-a-kind events that take a stand against sex trafficking in the state of Michigan. 2021-01-282h 33
Nahma'Stay Real: Yoga On + Off the MatKeepin' it Real with Kayla: What yoga teacher training is REALLY likeJoin Kayla and Jay for a fun hour about her journey from dancing as a tot, playing her flute then certifying as a Buti Instructor and a 200 RYT yoga teacher.2020-07-1955 min
BioPsychoSocialLockdown Special: MacDonald TriadA special lockdown bonus with Kayla and special guest, her sister Alexis. We discuss the mystical MacDonald Triad, which many purport to be a predictor of violence, especially with serial killers. But is it accurate? Get your pitchforks out.
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Shezam037 – Stuart MacDonald MAES InterviewInterviewing Stewart MacDonald about using sophisticated manufacturing concepts to substantially improve your act. So here is TIM WOOD! T – Transport I – Inventory M – Movement W – Waiting and delays O – Over production O – Over Processing D – Defects Theme 0:00:00 Lean manufacturing 0:00:43 Removing the distinction between creative and pragmatic processes 0:02:25 Direct observation 0:04:37 Waste: transportation… Continue reading 037 – Stuart MacDonald MAES Interview2019-09-1647 minShezam037 – Stuart MacDonald MAES InterviewInterviewing Stewart MacDonald about using sophisticated manufacturing concepts to substantially improve your act. So here is TIM WOOD! T – Transport I – Inventory M – Movement W – Waiting and delays O – Over production O – Over Processing D – Defects Theme 0:00:00 Lean manufacturing 0:00:43 Removing the distinction between creative and pragmatic processes 0:02:25 Direct observation 0:04:37 Waste: transportation… Continue reading 037 – Stuart MacDonald MAES Interview2019-09-1647 min