Sara puts her Health Coach hat on with Wendy as they discuss the hidden truths around our passion and science with sugar. Sweet is a natural favor the body needs AND becoming a savvy consumer and listening to your body is key to good health! We talk about the shocking amount of refined sugar in common food items. Hidden Truths: Fructose (the kind in pre-packaged foods not fruit/veggies) does not satisfy hunger so you might eat more.Brain fog, fatigue, and excessive...

Sara & Wendy have a great conversation about what it means to consider radical self acceptance and self care. It's not exactly what you think. This is also is a great introduction to our brand new Wise Women Collective Membership starting August 10th @ 6:45 pm. We talk about normalizing, being ok with not being ok. Life is full of pain and joy, suffering is optional. Using the analogy of the weather which is also always shifting, This is what the "weather" is toda...

Get comfortable, throw your headphones on and listen in for this Summer meditation with Sara. Summer Solstice represents the energy of the sun, strength, forward momentum, will, joy. It's a time to consider brining forth into fruition everything that you've been dreaming of, ideas, goals into action. Connect with Rising StrongHER community: Schedule your FREE one hour of Wellness & Life Coaching with Sara https://www.risingstrongher.com/health-coaching Summer S...

Ready for a fresh perspective on whatever you're facing right now? If so you've got to listen to this episode where we talk with guest and friend, Crissy Cicuzza, Tarot Card Reader. She delivers empowered, enjoyable readings that provide relevant guidance for your life situations (large and small!) to help you to step into your authentic self. Crissy shares with us: what Tarot Card Readings are and demystifieshow the cards can help with clarity and direction in your lifehow...

Sara & Wendy have a delightful conversation that was both vulnerable and illuminating on our recent podcast with Lynn Lyon. Lynn is a licensed individual and couples therapist with over 2 decades of experience. She is a dear friend of Wendy's and brings compassionate joy to everything that she does. In this podcast: Learn powerful & life changing tools to bring to any long term relationship. Enjoy a short guided meditation to land you back into your heart.Laugh & maybe...

We have a great discussion around finding joy while supporting aging parents with Brooks Haislip, a Simple Wellness Coach, strategic life mentor, meditation guide and lover of the full range of life. The AARP estimates that 53.0 million adults in the United States are caregivers. This is an important topic. Brooks shares her journey as one of the caregivers supporting her mother who has dementia and Alzheimer's and offers us ideas on how it's possible to find joy and self care during ...

Sara has a lively conversion with Rising StrongHER Ambassador, Gieselle "Gigi" Poveromo who is a Non-Profit Employee Engagement Leader and Certified Professional Coach and long time Vision Board Artist. We talk about how it’s possible to turn your dreams into reality, which takes a lot of work of course, through what’s called manifestation. Part of doing the work is creating the vision. One great idea to create vision is a Vision Board. Gigi shares how Vision Boards work ...

This episode is dedicated to Women's Heart Health. Sara & Wendy have an open & honest conversation with Sheila Caldwell, Heart Attack Survivor and Founder of The Heart to Heart Foundation. Sheila's mission mission is to inspire and enable women and their loved ones to take action that prevents heart attack, stroke, and premature death. She shares her story and message of hope about learning to thrive again after a Heart Attack. Along with steps to knowing your numbe...

Sara & Wendy talk with special guest, Kushal Choksi, ex- Wall Street Trader, survivor of 9/11 attacks, author " On A Wing And A Prayer" , chocolatier, serial entrepreneur as we talk about meditation, breathwork, chocolate, and life. One of the great learnings here is that yoga meditation and breathwork is for every body! It doesn't slow you down, it actually helps you be a better human in work, life, and play. Kushal guides us through Sky Breath and shares his top tips: 1....

Great warm and cozy for this Winter Solstice Meditation with Wendy. Music by Joe Levi music, find him on Instagram @joelevimusic Connect with Rising StrongHER community: Virtual Course - Overcome Emotional Eating & Negative Body Image coming in January 2022 https://risingstrongher.mykajabi.com/nourish-to-flourish Join our private Rising StrongHER free Facebook community here for more inspiration: https://www.facebook.com/groups/284428745896520 Instagram @rising_strongher Our websi...

Sara puts her Health Coaching hat on with Wendy as we explore why people fail with New Year Resolutions and how to ditch them AND still achieve your goals. Diets are usually like a pair of shoes that don’t quite fit right, uncomfortable, restrictive, not conducive to long-term wear, and causes other wellness issues. Letting go of the diet mentality is extremely hard for many people. It’s often engrained from other challenges, obstacles and ongoing emotional eating cycles, and life struggles...

Sara puts her Health Coaching hat on with Wendy as we explore 10 of the most popular "diets" and try to take the confusion out of them, including pros and cons for each. We also define bio-individuality towards diet. This means - what’s one person's way of eating is another’s poison. What works for you may not work for another. Unfortunately the diet industry tries to fit us all into a "one size fits all" approach. An estimated 45 million Americans go on a diet each y...

Settle into a cozy location, put your headphones on, breathe, and relax with Sara on this nature inspired visualization meditation "The Deer - Gentle Ease" and is inspired by a magical interaction Wendy and I had at the Grand Canyon in October. It's for letting go of force, pushing, and shift into gentle ease for the holiday season or any season of life. Music by Joe Levi music, find him on Instagram @joelevimusic Connect with Rising StrongHER community: Virtual Course ...

Sara and Wendy interview our guest, Debra Young, a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Clinical Hypnotherapist with over 23 years of experience. Our discussion is centered around our curiosity of Clinical Hypnotherapy as another holistic tool to help aid in tapping into your authentic self. AND we end up sharing all sorts of fabulous inspirational wisdom nuggets for our community. Who am I? this is a common question many of ask in midlife. We see this...

Get comfortable and enjoy a seasonal guided meditation with Sara. As the season shifts from Summer to Fall, we start to shed away what doesn't serve us. Music composed by Joe Levi Music You can find him on Instagram @joelevimusic Connect with Rising StrongHER community: In person in Charlotte Restorative Yoga @ Thrive Center for Wellness Nov 13 @ 1:30 pm-3 pm https://thrivecarolinas.com/events/ Fall Mini Retreat @ the Yoga Cottage in Charlotte Nov 6 https://risingstrongher.mykajab...

Yes, you read the title right! Wendy and Sara talk with Wendy's cousin, Dr. Carol Cox, MD from Tampa, FL with 24+ years experience as an OB/GYN. We ask her the hard questions with warmth and lightness, the questions many of us are afraid or ashamed to talk about because of our limiting beliefs, how we were raised, and/or what we're brainwashed to think. Here's what you can expect to hear in this important episode: * Most of our peri-menopause symptoms are normal!! Thank goodness...

Ever feel like you never have enough time with your doctor? Feel like you're only given a "band aid" for health issues and/or your issues are dismissed? Ready to take a deeper dive into your health and wellness? If so, you've got to hear this episode. Sara & Wendy talk with special guest Dr. Nancy Palermo, MD turned OB-GYN to Board Certified Functional Medicine Doctor and founder of Thrive Center for Personalized Healthcare & Wellness in Charlotte, NC. She spent over ...

Wendy interviews Sara as she puts on both her Health Coaching hat and opens up personally for this episode. We take a dive into the concept of Intuitive Eating, where how we eat is just important as what we eat and making peace with food and body image. Sara talks about her personal journey with emotional eating and how starting as a teenager she was conditioned to measure weight loss, body size, and what she was eating. Also learning what's nourishing for me may not be nourishing for you, n...

Sara & Wendy sit down and have an honest & fun conversation about the midlife journey of letting our hair grow out to it's natural color full of white, gray, silver! No woman should feel obligated to conform to anyone’s beauty standards but her own, let's remove the stigmas. For women, our hair is a big deal. Many of us spend years, lots of money, and time covering up what's authentically us to look younger, to live up to society's "beauty standards", feel better, ...

Sara & Wendy have a talk about Menopause and Hormones! We chat with special guest, Merritt Tracy, a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach and a Trained Hormone Coach. She has been helping women naturally balance their hormones and achieve their wellness goals for nearly 10 years. Merritt defines for us the stages of our midlife cycle: peri-menopause, menopause, and post-menopauseUnderstand what's really going on in our bodies as hormones shiftLearn natural...