233: Can Personality Tests Guide Your EO Choices?
233: Can Personality Tests Guide Your EO Choices?

There are so many different personality assessments out there - Enneagram, MyersBriggs, DiSC, CliftonStrengths, etc. So, besides the curiosity factor, why take a personality test? This week we’ll talk with Stephanie Brouwer, a Gallup-certified CliftonStrengths coach about how to apply your personality test results in your personal and professional life, and how your personality type may influence your essential oil choices. Stephanie works with individuals and organizations to help identify how they can use natural talents and strengths for enhanced results in their personal and professional life.

Personality assessments are meant to remind us that we all have something different that sets us apart from individuals that surround us. As a result, everyone’s journey to wellness will look different! What’s most important is to understand how to have self-awareness and focus on what you need to be truly successful in your personal and professional life.

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232: DNA & EOs with Dr. Lindsey Elmore
232: DNA & EOs with Dr. Lindsey Elmore

You may not realize this, but your DNA can tell you a lot about what essential oils can be used to help your body’s specific needs. This week we’ll dive deeper into what exactly DNA is, and what it can tell us about our bodies. We’re joined by popular repeat guest Dr. Lindsey Elmore who is a speaker, author, brand strategist, podcast host and world-renowned wellness expert. Lindsey translates complicated science into understandable stories, and travels the world educating audiences about natural wellness.

It’s so important to feel in tune with your body, and a DNA test is just one way to help get answers about your body’s needs, or even validate your healthy decisions! There are so many factors that influence the expression of your DNA, and it’s important to seek out healthy ways to control your diet, nutrition and environment. Remember - a better awareness of your body can set you up for lifelong health!

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231: Help for the Quarantine Woes
231: Help for the Quarantine Woes

Mindfulness isn’t something that is necessarily taught in our childhood or schools, it’s something we as adults must seek out and practice. 2020 has been full of very energized events and challenges, but this episode is meant to give you hope and help for navigating the pandemic.

We’ll talk with Josephine Atluri, an expert in meditation and in overcoming adversity to find joy. Through her unique journey on her path to become a mom of five, Josephine weathered many ups and downs with in vitro fertilization, international adoption and surrogacy. Channeling her experience to find calm and courage and to focus on perseverance, she now helps others navigate life’s curveballs, through group and individual online meditation training and her “Responding to Life” podcast.

Mindfulness is at the root of our health and can help us appreciate the beauty in the present moments. While it’s easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of chaos, using resources like essential oils and meditation will help keep you grounded and in control of your world.

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230: Top Anti-Aging & Longevity Expert Brian Vaszily Shares All 
230: Top Anti-Aging & Longevity Expert Brian Vaszily Shares All 

There are a lot of misconceptions about getting older, especially the myth that aging brings the potential for disease and suffering. As you’ll learn in this episode - that is absolutely NOT the case. We’ll chat with Brian Vaszily about some of the widely unknown life-changing secrets that can make an impact on your life.

Brian is a popular and outspoken advocate, author, and researcher with over 2 decades of experience in natural health who opposes the widespread perception that likens getting older to getting a disease, and who instead supports the truth that your 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond can and should be the best years of your life. Brian is hosting the worldwide release of his second major online summit – called “The Little-Known Life-Changing Health Summit” -- that relaunches July 22nd 2020, and really is the pinnacle of his mission.

It’s time to bypass the toxic “solutions” and destructive myths about getting older, and the fear, anxiety, and illness they provoke. This episode will help empower you with all the proven and most effective steps to look your best, feel your best, and live a long life doing it!

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229: Bergamot, Geranium & Black Pepper for Pregnancy 
229: Bergamot, Geranium & Black Pepper for Pregnancy 

There can be a lot of discomfort during pregnancy, but essential oils can be a great resource to help with fertility and conception and all throughout pregnancy, labor, and birth. In this episode we’ll talk with Stephanie McBride about her favorite essential oils that are safe to use in pregnancy and can help your physical and mental health for a more comfortable experience.

Stephanie is a passionate advocate for the use of essential oils as a form of natural self-care and in clinical practice, from the moment of conception on. Her 25 years of botanical medicine study, coupled with practical experience in the area of maternity as a certified clinical herbalist, professional aromatherapist, and functional nutritionist, qualify her to provide the in-depth knowledge necessary to simplify an ancient health modality for others.

Pregnancy and childbirth should be a happy time in a woman’s life, and essential oils can be a great way to keep this season of life enjoyable and thriving!

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228: Wellness Hacks to Get You Thriving
228: Wellness Hacks to Get You Thriving

In this episode we explore some inexpensive and easy wellness tips to help keep our spirits high during these unique times. Jeremy Abramson is known as the high energy coach who helps top level executives and entrepreneurs unleash their fullest potential. He is recognized around the world for his expertise in mindful movement, integrative nutrition, and brain chemistry. His vision is to impact 20 million people in 2020 through movement, gratitude, and joy.

We’ll explore Jeremy’s powerful THRIVE acronym and how to fuel your passion. Health doesn’t have to be expensive or complicated, and each person has the ability to take control of their health. By focusing on your thoughts, habits, and relationships you also will be able to thrive in your own life.

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227: The Art of Blending with Aromatherapist Jade Schutes
227: The Art of Blending with Aromatherapist Jade Schutes

On today’s special episode, we chat with Jade Schutes about the art of blending oils at home. Jade Shutes is the visionary and director of education for the School for Aromatic Studies. An aromatherapy practitioner, researcher, and educator for over two decades, Jade opened her first aromatherapy school, The Institute for Dynamic Aromatherapy (IDA), in New England in 1991. In 1997, Jade joined the education committee of the National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy Education committee and played a pivotal role in setting education standards for aromatherapy. Jade later served two terms as president of NAHA, and is the author of "Aromatherapy for Bodyworkers", one of the most widely used textbooks for massage therapists learning about aromatherapy.

As with any new skill, there can be some fear surrounding safety and “getting it right”. The benefits of learning how to heal yourself and your family easily outweigh the unknowns. Start slowly, educate yourself, and experiment with what delights and supports you and your body. Take one step toward self sufficiency and give blending a try!

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226: Metabolism, Appetite, and Mindset
226: Metabolism, Appetite, and Mindset

Many of us walk around, living our lives, having no idea what it’s like to actually FEEL GOOD. Once we do, we can’t believe we settled for feeling any other way! On today’s episode, Sammi shares her weight loss story…which is way more than a simple story about losing inches. Sammi Boerner is a certified aromatherapist and health and lifestyle coach whose goal it is to help create balance in people’s lives so they can feel as happy and healthy as possible. Her passion for health and wellness is driven by her own past struggles with weight, anxiety/panic disorder, and insomnia.

Food can control you and food can control your body…it’s truly amazing how reducing inflammation in the gut can help heal other things going on in the body. Essential oils are the perfect companion on this journey as they support healthy mental balance, healthy digestion, and deep sleep.

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225: All Things Woo Woo
225: All Things Woo Woo

It’s one thing to be told that an essential oil is good for this or that, and other thing entirely to feel an essential oil make a real, measurable shift in your body and spirit. Today we chat with intuitive Kathryn Galvin about using essential oils for protection, spiritual and intuitive connection, and attracting abundance.

Kathryn Galvin is a psychic medium, intuitive healing guide, and podcast host. She uses her intuitive gifts to help individuals heal limiting patterns and beliefs so that they can have better relationships with themselves and others. She frequently uses oils to aid with spiritual connection in meditation, in preparation for a psychic or medium reading, or in energetically clearing a home or space.

No matter what your goals are—refining mind, body, or spirit—essential oils can help you make the shift.

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224: Rosemary Essential Oil
224: Rosemary Essential Oil

In today’s episode, we dive into the topic of the supremely useful plant rosemary and discuss recipes and some of the lesser known uses of this plant.

Courtney Peritore-Montagne is a homeschooling mother of five who gave birth to all her babies at home and strives to raise them in the most balanced and conscious way possible. She strongly believes in a holistic approach and promoting balance to achieve overall health. Courtney believes the responsibility for health is ultimately ours and her mission is to help others create balance in their own lives.

Tune in and discover what you’ve been missing if you don’t yet have this oil in your toolkit!

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223: EMFs! Can Essential Oils Help?
223: EMFs! Can Essential Oils Help?

The world we are living in is changing. 2 5G satellites every day are getting launched into the Earth’s atmosphere, with 20,000 satellites orbiting the Earth by 2022…we need to understand the effects these electromagnetic frequencies are having on our bodies, and look for practical ways to protect ourselves.

Wendy Myers is founder of MyersDetox.com, a detox expert, functional diagnostic nutritionist, and NES Bioenergetic Practitioner in Los Angeles, CA. She is the #1 bestselling author of Limitless Energy: How to Detox Toxic Metals to End Exhaustion and Chronic Fatigue and the host of the heavy metals summit.com, plus creator of the Myers Detox Protocol and Mitochondria Detox.

If you are experiencing unwanted physical symptoms and nothing you try is offering relief, try some of the EMF-lowering tips in this episode to rule out EMF sensitivity.

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222: iTovi DNA Screenings Make Essential Oils Scientifically Personal
222: iTovi DNA Screenings Make Essential Oils Scientifically Personal

With the sheer number of essential oils available today, it can be overwhelming to know which ones will benefit us the most. For business builders, it can be intimidating to think about recommending your company’s products to someone new. iTovi products can help break the ice, giving people new to essential oils personalized recommendations based on their own physiology. On the show today are Jon McGarry and Justin Naduald, to share with us the science and stories behind the new and exciting iTovi DNA Collection Kits and what your DNA can tell you about which essential oils (and other things) work best for YOUR body.

The path to health and wellness is not a cookie-cutter approach…with all the supplements available to us, personalized wellness is the best approach to target your body’s specific needs and realize the best outcome for you

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221: Make Your Own Soap with Essential Oils
221: Make Your Own Soap with Essential Oils

Personal care manufacturers in the U.S. don’t always make the consumer’s health a priority, often adding ingredients known to be harmful to humans. Learning how to make your own personal care products not only increases your self-reliance skills, but also ensures only the highest quality ingredients are being absorbed into your body. Adding essential oils to the mix increases the therapeutic (not to mention aromatic!) benefits of homemade products. Today we chat with Kelly Cable, creator of Simple Life Mom and author of The Natural Soapmaking Book for Beginners. She has a passion for natural health and creating everything possible within the home herself in order to have more control over ingredients, self-sustainability, and health.

During this time when so many of us are passing the hours in isolation, why not experiment with making your own personal care products with essential oils?

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220: Conquering Toxic Emotions with Essential Oils
220: Conquering Toxic Emotions with Essential Oils

Many of us are experiencing higher-than-usual levels of fear, anxiety and depression due to lifestyle changes brought about by COVID-19. Knowing how to support ourselves during these and other trying times can make the difference between sickness and health. Today we discuss tools to help us process and release toxic emotions with Rhonda Favano, author of Conquering Toxic Emotions. Rhonda’s passion is assisting families in becoming more responsible and self-reliant for their health and well-being. Because essential oils have a high frequency and are very diverse in their benefits and effects, they are Rhonda’s first choice for supporting the body, mind, and spirit.

Many of us spend a lot of our energy caring for our families and communities. Giving ourselves the emotional support we need can improve our lives tremendously, giving us the reserves we need to help others.

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219: Caregiving and Essential Oils
219: Caregiving and Essential Oils

Being a caregiver is the hardest job in the world. There are currently 64 million unpaid caregivers in the US, mostly family members of individuals who aren’t able to care for themselves. What’s the secret to being an excellent care giver? Self care. Put your oxygen mask on first, show up for yourself, so that you can show up for others.

Today we discuss caregiving with Dawn Renee, founder of Traveling Caregivers, a grassroots faith-based organization that operates in a holistic way. Dawn is a pioneer of holistic caregiving, integrating herbal medicine, Ayurveda, and energy work along with emotional guidance. Dawn has been a live-in caregiver and health coach for almost 15 years, and knows that caregiving for others can easily take you away from yourself. She is passionate about helping other caregivers with their journey. Dawn is currently working on a book, I Care: Waking the Caregiver Inside, to be released this spring.

The tools and concepts mentioned in today’s episode are valuable—not only to those in the caregiving profession—but also to those of us looking for better ways to take care of ourselves and prevent virus and disease transmission.

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Encore: 010: Stop Fighting off Tigers! Adrenal Fatigue with Jessica Nolt
Encore: 010: Stop Fighting off Tigers! Adrenal Fatigue with Jessica Nolt

I think it’s safe to say that we all suffer from some form of adrenal fatigue. Just being human in this modern day and age can be taxing to say the least, especially during a time when most of our daily routines are interrupted and we are bombarded daily with news of the pandemic. Learn how to tune in to this special system of our body with special guest Jessica Nolt, and learn the practical tips you need to de-stress, slow down, and give that adrenal system of yours some extra love. Jessica Nolt is a Young Living leader, reading specialist, aromatherapist and is especially interested in oils for women’s health.

Let’s give our bodies every advantage we can! Tune in to learn about oils, supplements, and habits that can help us support our adrenal system so that we can be as healthy as possible!

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218: Kids & Big Emotions
218: Kids & Big Emotions

The world is a big place for tiny humans. Most children can benefit from the awareness that some emotions they experience aren’t coming from them, but from people and circumstances around them. In today’s episode, Kat Mulvaney, author of "A Good Day at School," discusses some tools in her coaching toolkit that she has found to be helpful with processing the energies we all encounter going through life. Kat is a holistic family coach, helping you understand your struggling child’s big emotions –– and move from surviving to thriving. She helps families connect to their sensitive family member who is unable to conform to many of today’s mainstream systems. She’s been teaching since 2014 and is currently writing her second book.

Tune in to discover tools to help the young people in your life navigate the turbulent ups and downs of everyday life.

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217: How to Distill Essential Oils at Home
217: How to Distill Essential Oils at Home

Have you ever wondered just what goes into producing those essential oils that we use every day? Helge Schmickl discusses how essential oils can be made right in your kitchen with equipment you already have! Helge graduated in chemical engineering at the Vienna Technical University in Austria. He writes books on distilling and fermenting on a small scale, hosting hands-on courses and online seminars, as well as developing small devices that produce an outstanding yield and quality of essential oils and concentrated hydrosols.

It’s absolutely fine to leave the distillation to the professionals, but for all the do-it-yourself-ers out there, this is an episode not to be missed!

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216: Eczema—Not Just a Skin Issue
216: Eczema—Not Just a Skin Issue

If you or your child suffer from eczema, you’re not alone— up to 1 in 5 children and 1-3% of adults are in the same boat! In today’s episode, Christa Biegler and Samantha dive into the imbalances that are often the source of the uncomfortable symptoms of eczema. Christa is the host of the Less Stressed Life Podcast, author of The Eczema Relief Diet & Cookbook (April 20), and the founder of the Eczema Nutritionist, specializing in difficult skin and digestive issues. She lives with her unicycling husband & kids in the Midwest.

Tune in to discover lifestyle changes, documentation tricks, and essential oils that can be helpful in supporting your body’s systems when searching for eczema relief. Remember that the skin is usually the last organ to respond to a treatment that is working—so focus on overall well-being and give a new regimen some time when searching for what works!

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