Category: Wholistic Joy Podcast

Take time to be still, reflect on your life, your mindset, and your experience of the world. The Wholistic Joy Podcast allows you a chance to reset, contemplate your life, and inspire you.

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Overcoming Your Struggles With Body Image – a round table discussion

For the first time, the Wholistic Joy Podcast goes “round table” style in this important, upsetting, and necessary subject of body image. As we share our own stories and struggles around body image and the misery it has caused and continues to cause in our lives, we come away with ways that we can move forward and break the binds that keep us from living at our fullest and most beautiful selves. “It is strange to think about how much of it seeps into our everyday, even if you’re actively trying to remove yourself from it.” – Jenna Monroe “Who were you before the world told you you were too big or too fat?” – Rebeccah Brooking “We’re just constantly …

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Improve your Relationship by Improving Yourself, With Beatriz Vargas

“Personal growth is so important, but then we forget to apply it to our marriages or we don’t know how,” Beatriz Vargas In this episode, I am joined by certified coach and podcaster, Beatriz Vargas. We begin our conversation discussing the importance of having a “why” behind what you do. We discuss the power of having a life purpose behind your job and roles. We then go on to talk about the work that Beatriz does, focusing on marriages and wives in particular. What do you do when you want to work on your marriage, but your spouse is figuratively absent. We then extend this topic to include the other relationships in our lives. The message that we are left …

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How to stay happy, with Lee Buckton

“When you are beaming with light, that’s the best way to help someone with their darkness.” On this episode, I talk to fellow South African and friend, Lee Buckton. With spirituality, wellness, and music at the front of his life, Lee is always seeking. In fact, this curious nature brought him across the Atlantic and to Atlanta where he runs his own, thriving dog training business. We talk about how curiosity and continually seeking helps you to grow and discover your true self. He shares the importance and meaning around staying in alignment with your vibrational set point and how to manage difficult emotions.  Through his insights and efforts, Lee has found a way to always return to happiness and …

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Finding Your Path and Your Purpose, with Ben Swafford

“It’s being able to wake up and know that you’re doing what you’re supposed to be doing…and that you found something that lights you up when you do it,” Ben Swafford. Today, I share reflections with Ben Swafford. Area manager, trainer, and ERYT for CorePower Yoga, Ben’s life moved from saying cheers as he poured drinks, to saying Namaste as he teaches yoga. His life is all about movement, on his mat, his snowboard, his paddleboard, and anywhere else he can.   While an energetic life has always been core to who he is, this energy has found an outlet that is of deep service to others. He describes himself as an Atlanta native, rooted in kindness, strength, acceptance, and …

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Discovering who you really are, with Sadiqua Bynum

On the show this week, I am joined by professional stuntwoman and deep thinking yogini, Sadiqua Bynum. Sadiqua is a former UCLA gymnast whose aspirations are to inspire and encourage others to see the light that is inside of them and express the ways in which individuality should be celebrated as this allows us to figure out who we really are. We explore the journey she took in uncovering who she really is, the questions she had to answer, and perceptions she had to extinguish. It wasn’t always a simple matter of self-reflection, but she realized that by doing the work, making some mistakes, and allowing herself opportunities to learn, there is so much to gain. We also talk about …

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How to get better at listening to your own voice, with Caroline Smith

Do you struggle with listening to your own voice and trusting what that voice is saying? Is your mind overrun by the opinions of others and the influence those opinions have on you? Do you struggle with vulnerability? Today on the show, I talk to Caroline Smith, certified yoga instructor and wellness coach. Through her coaching business, Heal Love Connect, she helps clients using mindfulness, reflection, and action to break through bad habits, form new habits based on their unique needs and goals, and create a life they love. Together we talk about the work she has done on learning to trust and listen to her own voice. This has been a lifelong process for her, showing up in all …

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Ballet and Body Issues

In this episode I reflect on the experience of taking my 4 year old daughter, Maya, to her first ballet class. This was a magical, proud, and beautiful moment – definitely one for the mom books. However, it also took me down memory lane in terms of my own ballet journey as a child.  I started ballet as a way to correct my feet. I was born with a pretty severe case of “pigeon toes”. As a result, my options were either to break my legs and reset them or to start ballet super young and do the work to turn out my legs slowly. Of course, if you know anything about ballet, turn out is key. Sadly, my body …

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Why moderation might be the key to peaceful living

In case you didn’t catch last week’s episode, this is the new and slightly different Wholistic Joy Podcast. It is self-reflection on the go: real moments, real stories, real life. I keep things raw, unedited, and, as I said, real. In this episode I talk about how hard it is to do the things we know are good for us, like exercising, eating healthy food, and other acts of self care. I then go on to discuss my favorite night out – the SSB night in – and bring up the yogi principle of brahmacharya, or moderation.  Moderation sounds pretty boring, I know, but living life moderately may actually be a significant key to living a life of peace and …

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Why am I such a failure?

Welcome to the NEW Wholistic Joy Podcast: self-reflection on the go. Real moments, real stories, real life. In this episode, I introduce my new approach to podcasting. Brace yourself, it’s a little different to what you’re used to. But, it is unedited, raw, and real. I then go on to candidly talk about how harsh we are on ourselves. Have you ever uttered the phrase “I am such a failure”? I have…many times.  But as we search our days for evidence to prove this false reality true, what are we missing? As much as there might be evidence proving our failures, there is likely way more evidence proving our awesomeness. Sadly, we filter these out and we don’t deserve to. …

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Another Blue Day, A Different Response

I go through periodic blue days. They come about every other month or so; I wake up and I am just feeling sad. Everything gets harder to do and I find my healthy habits slip far out of my control. I have just come out of another blue period and in this one I realized something, I believe to be, profound. What if these blue days are my heart’s way of forcing me to purge all of the unwanted emotions that I have “kept under control”? Kind of like your body getting rid of bad food. What if, instead of trying to make myself feel better, what I ‘m supposed to do is feel, temporarily, worse?  In this episode I …

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