Founder and head coach at Thrive Training Studio in Costa Mesa, Joe El Khechef, brings a unique approach to fitness training. After facing severe depression and bipolar disorder due to the demands of his corporate career, Joe transformed his life through fitness and holistic wellness. He helps others achieve their health and fitness goals through personalized and evidence-based training methods. He uses practical strategies for maintaining physical and mental health and incorporates functional muscle and strength training for real-life situations into his programs.


Connect with Joe:
Website | https://www.gothrive.fitness/
Instagram | @gothrivefitness
 
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Alessa Caridi is the founder of JōbuFIT. She specialize in helping professionals integrate ergonomic practices and mobility movements into their workday to alleviate stress and enhance productivity. Alessa is a UCLA graduate and certified Pilates instructor, educator, and author. She has taught Pilates and danced professionally on 3 continents and owned her own Pilates studio in two countries. With her knowledge and expertise and recognizing a desperate need she decided it was time to put all of her favorite workspace hacks and exercises into one place, her book, The Ultimate Workspace Toolkit: Your Guide to Solving the Aches, Pains, and Productivity Problems of Your Workday


Connect with Alessa:
Instagram for JobuFIT | @jobufit
Instagram for Alessa | @alessa.jobufit
LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessa-caridi/
Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/jobuFIT/
 
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Bridging the gap between chiropractic and holistic medicine, Dr. Emma Wagner passionately advocates for healthy, active lifestyles through an integrative blend of chiropractic care, energy medicine, functional medicine, and nutritional coaching. In her book, “Shattering Habits, 7 Principles to Programming Body and Mind,” she discusses our learned programs and how we can shatter our habits to transform ourselves to be our best version.
Connect with Dr. Emma Wagner:
Website | https://shatteringhabits.com/
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If you could alleviate knee pain with exercises you can do in just 6 in just 6 minutes, would you? Dr. Jonathan Su, a physical therapist and fitness coach with a military background in injury prevention and rehabilitation is the author of “6-Minute Knee Pain Cure: The Simple Science of Relieving Knee Pain and Restoring Comfort in Walking, Running, Squatting, and Beyond”. With his expertise he put together at-home exercises to alleviate knee pain. You can regain control of your knee health and embrace a life free from pain.
Connect with Dr. Jonathan Su:
Website | https://sixminutefitness.com/
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How can you master candida overgrowth? Know the signs, symptoms, and how to solve it. As the founder of the Biamonte Center for Clinical Nutrition and the co-creator of BioCybernetics, Dr. Michael Biamonte spent over 5 years at NASA and thirty years in the field itself, to develop a treatment program to change the gut health arena as we know it. On today’s podcast, we discussed what candida is, what other health problems it can cause and what you can do about it. During Dr. Biamonte’s time working at NASA, he noticed that candida can mask itself as many other illnesses and most of the time goes unnoticed. He wrote, “The Candida Chronicles,” about his discoveries.
Connect with Dr. Biamonte:
Website | https://health-truth.com/
YouTube | Health-Truth
Facebook | Dr. Michael Biamonte
Book | The Candida Chronicles: A Manual for Candida Yeast infections
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Cory Sterling is a heart leading lawyer, small business owner, and the author of The Yoga Law Book. As group fitness instructor, yoga teacher and Pilates teacher, he realized he needed to center his law practice on helping other instructors and studio owners protect their business so they can focus on their clients and never have to worry about legal troubles. He operates an online law firm and loves working with health and heart leading business owners.
Connect with Cory:
Website | https://www.consciouscounsel.ca/
Linkdin | https://br.linkedin.com/company/conscious-counsel
Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/consciouscounsel/
Book | The Yoga Law Book: Legal Essentials For Yoga Professionals
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Inspiring, motivating, and guiding you towards your personal success, Maximilian Breboeck, a former competitive tennis player and author with a passion for personal development and lifelong learning came together with Leon Brudy, an expert in exercise and health, to write a book that offers daily inspiration and challenges for athletes, helping them to unlock their potential and learn from the wisdom of the greats. “Unleash your athletic potential with The Daily Athlete: A Full Year of Inspiration for Motivation, Mindset and Success,” is a comprehensive guide that offers a year’s worth of motivational quotes, insightful commentary, and monthly challenges designed to inspire athletes of all levels. Hear what inspired them to create this compilation and how it has become a worldwide sensation.
Connect with Maximilian and Leon:
Website | https://leonbrudy.com/en
Book | The Daily Athlete
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Tom Paladino is a Holistic Health Expert & Scalar Energy Researcher with over 40 years of groundbreaking experience. Tom‘s passion for making a difference through Scalar Light is truly inspiring, and his wealth of knowledge & dedication to the field is unparalleled. If you have never heard of Scalar light or Scalar energy, it is groundbreaking and can be used in so many amazing ways. Find out the benefits, how it works, what the future of Scalar light is and how it can change the world!

Connect with Tom:
Website | https://www.scalarlight.com/
FREE OFFER | https://www.scalarlight.com/free-trials
Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/experiencescalar
YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@TomPaladino
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In this show we discuss an innovative way to have healthier skin. Dr. Varma’s mission is to change the way we treat chronic bacterial diseases and is working tirelessly to achieve this goal with a microbiome-based technology platform. He is passionate about promoting scientific literacy and devotes a significant amount of time to demystifying microbiome research and making the latest research accessible to the general public.

Yug Varma, Ph.D., is the co-founder & CEO of Phyla, the world’s most advanced probiotic acne system. He has 10+ years of microbiome research experience including an extensive background in bio-organic chemistry, microbiology, and synthetic biology. Dr. Varma received his scientific training at several distinguished academic institutions, including Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D.) and the University of California, San Francisco. His scientific work has been published in many prestigious journals, including Nature.


He and his team discovered a probiotic that actually lives on healthy skin and specifically kills the acne-causing bacteria to balance our microbiome. They built Phyla products on this revolutionary breakthrough in skin microbiome research using bio-phages.


Connect with Dr. Varma:
Website | http://phylabiotics.com
X | https://twitter.com/phylabiotics
Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/phylabiotics/
Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/phylabiotics/
YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3ZzSy1ZuEzGFfsmG8fve8Q/
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How can we defeat our craving? We all have cravings, but do you constantly have cravings that cause you to overeat or binge? Dr. Glenn Livingston spent several decades researching the nature of bingeing and overeating via work with his own patients AND a self-funded research program with more than 40,000 participants. His new book can help you discover how to beat your cravings. If you struggle with food in any way, from occasionally eating beyond your own best thinking to regularly consuming mass quantities, you’re not a lost cause. In his new book, “Defeat Your Cravings'” you can find out how to reduce your cravings, recover from them, and think less about food all the time.
Connect with Dr. Livingston:
Website | https://www.defeatyourcravings.com/ 
Book on Amazon | Defeat Your Cravings
Ebook | FREE OFFER
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Marek Piotrowski and his son Alek are traveling the world on a quest unlocking longevity, biohacking and radical life extension. You can follow their journey at https://longevityadvocate.com/ where they interview top scientists, entrepreneurs and everyday biohackers. They’re visiting the blue zones and searching for flow learning how to not only extend lifespan 10, 20, even 100 years, but also living well.
Connect with Marek:
Website | https://longevityadvocate.com/
YouTube | Longevity Advocate
Instagram | Longevity Advocate
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Jamie Mittelman is the Founder and Host, of Flame Bearers. Flame Bearers is the first global storytelling platform celebrating the stories of women Olympians and Paralympians. From household names to unsung heroes around the world, each featured story highlights the successes, struggles, and social issues that drive the world’s most prestigious athletes. Hear about some of the amazing women she has had the opportunity to interview as well as her inspiration.
Connect with Jamie:
Podcast | Flame Bearers
YouTube | Flame Bearers
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“The Father of AFFORMATIONS®” and “The Mental Health Coach to The Stars,” Dr. Noah St. John can help you with a plan for a 7-figure life. As a business coach and motivational speaker he has helped many to change their mindset and create the lifestyle they desire. Money creates a stress that we all are victim too, but what is the secret to success that highly successful people are keeping? Hear about Dr. Noah St. John’s coaching  and how he helps people free themselves of what is keeping them from a 7-figure life.
Connect with Dr. St. John:
Website | https://noahstjohn.com/
Book | https://7figurelifebook.com/sfl-special-offer-secure
Coaching | https://breakthroughwithnoah.com/more-revenue-now-secure
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Energy healing practitioner, attorney and author Midge Murphy used her unique perspective to create a guide for her fellow professionals. “Practice Energy Healing in Integrity: The Joy of Offering Your Gifts Legally and Ethically” provides the supreme roadmap to avoiding ethical pitfalls and is an invaluable resource for helping practitioners have legally sound and ethical practices.
Connect with Midge:
Website | https://www.midgemurphy.com/
Book | https://www.midgemurphy.com/about-pehi-book
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Join Jake and Kim on a journey through the power of breath and the breathwork experience. Stumbling upon the world of breathwork led these two to partner together to bring breathwork and the journey of breath to others. Learn more about what breathwork can do for you, their experience, and the experience of others. Join a class in person or online at breath.energy and experience it for yourself.
Connect with Jake and Kim:
Website | breath.energy
Free Online Class | https://breathenergy.punchpass.com/classes (promo code: fitmin)
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Living healthy and learning to create healthy habits is all about creating a routine. Sean-Michael Doty, former Olympian and founder of TrAk Athletics, offers valuable insights on adopting an athlete’s mindset, integrating fitness into busy schedules, and achieving peak performance in all aspects of life. We discuss how to start and keep your routine and what living a healthy lifestyle can look like. It doesn’t have to be overcomplicated and scary.
Connect with Sean:
Website | https://trakathletics.com/
Email | sean@trakathletics.com
Twitter | https://www.instagram.com/coach_seanmichael_421/
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How much protein do I need? That depends. What are your goals? How old are you? The requirements for protein change and here are a few simple tips to know how much is enough for you.
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How can you improve your HRV and increase performance and longevity? What is HRV and how does it effect our health? Director of Applied Science at Longevity Labs and Co-Creator of HRV+ from Mode and Method, Don Moxley, is dedicated to spreading the word about heart rate variability and helping people live vibrant, fulfilling lives at all ages. Learn all about heart rate variability and how you can live better.
Connect with Don:
Website | http://www.modemethod.com/     
Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/donmoxley/
Twitter | https://twitter.com/donmoxley?lang=en
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Here are some of the best ways to maintain muscle mass as you age. We all start to lose flexibility and muscle as we get older but there absolutely is hope. Stick to your program and maybe add a few things to help keep your muscles and bones strong, protect yourself from disease, and live a healthier, happier life!
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Robert “Kirby” Woods brings the path to wellness to your front door. He offers Chinese medicine treatments including acupuncture and we discuss all the benefits that acupuncture has. His first encounter with Chinese medicine happened after an injury and from then on he was hooked. Becoming a practitioner and helping others became his passion. Hear his story and and all the benefits behind this special ancient practice.
Connect with Kirby:
Website | https://qingdaowellness.com/
Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/qingdaowellness/
Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/QingDaoWellness/
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