Episodes

Barb Nangle is back to unpack how real boundaries create internal safety, cut burnout, and help you stop abandoning yourself. We talk about learning to say no without guilt, and how that shift ripples through work, relationships, and recovery.

Barb Nangle and I dig into what it really means to feel safe in your own life by learning where your limits are and actually honoring them. Her story of codependency, recovery, and reparenting yourself shows how boundaries can transform everything from friendships and work to weight, health, and love.

Dr. Noushin Hart opens up about how trauma changed everything she believed about healing, cancer care, and what patients really need. She talks straight about the limits of Western medicine, the power of mindset, and why the whole person matters, not just the diagnosis.

Food isn’t the real problem, it’s the job we’ve given it. Paige and I get honest about food addiction, decision fatigue, planning, and how to build a life you don’t want to escape from with sugar and junk food.

Sugar isn’t just a “bad habit” for some folks; it hijacks the brain like any other addiction, and Paige Alexander breaks down what that actually looks and feels like so we can finally stop calling it a willpower problem.

Catherine Crestani comes back to talk about what happens when we hand our voice, our relationships, and even our kids over to AI and screens instead of showing up as ourselves. She shares stories from clients, her own writing, and her novel “My Virtual Obsession” to show how easy it is to trade real connection for a safe digital fantasy.

In this part two with Catherine Creestani of Willow Healing, we talk about what happens after you walk away from the life that looks “successful” on paper and finally admit your body and intuition weren’t lying. We get into inner authority, joy, and why your life starts to change when you stop outsourcing your decisions to social media, technology, and everyone else’s expectations.

Catherine Crestani thought she was living the dream: two six‑figure careers, a thriving clinic, and a picture‑perfect life, right up until her body started going numb and her soul checked out. In this episode, she shares how burnout, divorce, and a “dark night of the soul” forced her to walk away from everything and finally choose her own health, intuition, and happiness.

Jason Yun was the “healthy” gym owner doing all the right workouts, eating all the right foods, and secretly crashing inside from exhaustion, hormone chaos, and depression. In this episode, he walks through how deadlifts, late-night dinners, and expert advice failed him, and how circadian rhythm, sunlight, and simple timing changes gave him his energy and life back.

Magic opens up about being medically gaslit, excluded by friends and family, and raising kids while sick, then finding mentors who helped her understand the real root causes behind her illness. We get into fear, accountability, “giving away” our health to others, and what it actually looks like to build a life that supports your body instead of fighting it.

Greg shares wild, honest stories from his Lyme and chronic illness clinic, including a brilliant college student who used bee venom in his nose to get his memory back and a UK educator who discovered Lyme wasn’t her biggest problem at all. If you’ve been told your labs are “normal” while your body screams otherwise, this conversation will make you feel seen and give you new ideas to explore.

Greg shares how crippling gut pain, brain fog, and 2:30 a.m. robotics lab shifts pushed him to walk away from NASA and follow his bliss into Chinese medicine and root-cause healing. We talk about stubborn chronic symptoms, gut-brain connection, and the moment a 20‑year autoimmune gut nightmare finally broke.

Jessica walks us through a different way to think about food: not as “good” or “bad,” but as part of a bigger picture of your actual life, history, culture, and emotions. If you’ve ever tried every diet, still felt broken, and wondered “what is normal eating, really,” this one is going to hit close to home.

Dan MacQueen thought he just had savage headaches and a stressful tech job in London. Within days, he was blind on a tube platform, rushed into emergency brain surgery, and dropped into a month‑long coma while his family flew in from Canada not knowing if he would still be alive. When he finally woke up, he couldn’t walk, talk, or even smile, and the guy who used to run his own schedule at Hootsuite suddenly needed help just to make it down a hallway.

I finally put my money where my unhealthy mouth is and bought a smart ring, and no, I didn’t pick the one all the influencers brag about. I went with RingConn because I wanted real-world health trends, fewer subscriptions, and zero extra nagging about how broken my sleep is.

Beverly Meyer came back to talk food, and not the usual "try this new diet" nonsense. We're talking ancestral eating—the way humans actually evolved to eat before we started loading up on wheat, corn, and whatever's on sale at the drive-thru. She breaks down why carbs are the real culprit behind weight gain, why cholesterol got a bad rap, and how eating meat and vegetables at every meal (yes, even breakfast) can change everything. We talked about her "all meals are dinner" philosophy, cooking without recipes, and why following the biology beats following the trends. If you've been spinning your wheels on low-fat diets and feeling worse, this one's for you.

You're probably stopping breathing 50 times a night and have no idea. Beverly Meyer, a clinical nutritionist who's been fixing broken bodies since the '70s, told me sleep apnea is the number one undiagnosed disorder in America—and I'm pretty sure I have it. We talked about the symptoms everyone ignores, the at-home tests that actually work, and why those terrifying CPAP masks aren't so scary anymore.

I brought back Sherry Shaban to talk about cravings, comfort food, and why fear‑based health advice is slowly breaking our brains. We unpack the mixed messages from the fitness world, how to tell if you’re actually hungry or just avoiding your feelings, and why your environment and friendships matter just as much as what’s on your plate. If you’ve ever eaten wings and fries you didn’t even want just because everyone else kept ordering, this one’s for you.

I sat down with anti‑diet coach and osteopath Sherry Shaban to talk about the messy, uncomfortable, and often ridiculous way we deal with food, diets, and our bodies. She shares how she went from CrossFit-obsessed, macro-counting perfectionist to someone who actually makes peace with food, and why most of us don’t have a “willpower problem” so much as a nervous system, stress, and survival problem. If you’ve ever gone from “cheat meal” to weekend-long food bender and then woke up Monday swearing you’ll fast and be “good,” this one is painfully relatable in all the best ways.

Brian Parana and I sat down to talk about something I'm living right now—being over 40 and watching your health slip away while life keeps piling on. Brian runs The Call to Rise, a fat loss program for busy dads and husbands who've spent years putting themselves dead last. Full disclosure: I am exactly who he's talking about.

I sat down with pediatric surgeon Dr. Evan Nadler to talk childhood obesity, why it is not a moral failure, and what actually works when diet and willpower have done absolutely nothing but make everyone feel like crap.

I sat down with muscular therapist Julie Donnelly to talk about why your x-rays look perfect, your doctor shrugs, and your body still hurts like hell, and spoiler alert, your muscles have been the problem child this whole time. If you’ve been told it is just aging, arthritis, or “learn to live with it,” this conversation might be the first time any adult in the room actually talks about what your muscles are doing to your joints, nerves, and sanity.

I sat down with Dr. Zeest Khan, a heart and lung anesthesiologist who went from running an OR to barely making it to her car — and now lives with long COVID while helping other people navigate it without the medical B.S.

I brought Len May back to talk about how he went from “pothead kid the cops kicked out” to building a DNA platform that helps doctors actually tailor meds, hormones, and health plans to real people instead of imaginary averages. We talk ADHD as a superpower, antidepressants that spark suicidal thoughts, exosomes that helped him avoid knee surgery, and why your food, friends, and flow state matter just as much as your prescriptions.