Thanks for listening to Season 2 of the podcast! I’m so grateful to all of you listeners and to all of the amazing guests I’ve had on the show. I’m looking forward to a short break before getting ready for the next season so I hope you all stick around for more of this little podcast!

Welcome to the very last guest episode of Season 2! This episode features Teresa Nguyen, a HIIT fitness instructor based out of Houston TX and an entrepreneur who launched her own brand, To the Nines. Listen to how she first started her own blog on style and fitness and how she made the leap to turn that into her business. Her advice to others is to jump in and have faith. You can find out more information about Teresa on Instagram @teresathuy and her website teresathuy.com Full bio at wishwell.health.blog

This week's episode features a topic we know is so important yet we hardly ever discuss: sleep! I am excited to bring to you Dr. Valerie Cacho, aka Dr. Val on the podcast this week. She is a board certified internal medicine and sleep medicine physician. We chat about how she got into the field of sleep medicine to become a sleep expert. She discusses the high prevalence of insomnia and we chat about sleep hygiene and what it exactly means. Her advice to others to take the time to be still. You don't want to miss this episode! Find out more about Dr. Val at www.sleeplifemed.com IG: @valerie.cacho.md (full bio at wishwell.health.blog IG wishwell.health)

Episode 75: Self Care is Not Selfish with Dr. Sonal Haerter This week’s episode features Dr. Sonal Haerter, an internal medicine physician with a special interest in wellness. She is in the process of completing her culinary medicine fellowship. She discusses the importance is self care especially amongst women. Find out more information about Dr. Haerter on Instagram @drsonalzhaertnsoul Full bio at wishwell.health.blog

This week's episode features pediatrician and life coach Dr. Wendy Schofer. We discuss her journey into becoming a life coach after seeing her patients in her practice struggle with obesity. "Should" is a word I've tried hard to eliminate from my vocabulary and so this episode really was close to home for me. I hope you all enjoy listening to this episode! Find out more about Dr. Schofer at www.wendyschofermd.com Dr Wendy Schofer is a pediatrician, lifestyle physician and family life and weight coach. Her 16+ years in clinical practice has taken her from military medical practice around the world, to primary care and then to nonprofit community work. She brings experience having difficulty conversations, supporting parents through emotional and behavioral challenges, transitioning (repeatedly!) in the military, using lifestyle as medicine, and a big dose of fun to coaching. Coaching has brought a new level of personal satisfaction and enjoyment to her clinical practice, and is the elusive missing link for helping families enjoy health at home. She helps parents "shed the shoulds" to address the fears around nutrition and overweight, and become the confident role model for family health. Bio at wishwell.health.blog IG @wishwell.health

This week's episode features Dr. Kristin Yates, an OB/GYN, coach, and podcast host. We discuss self doubt as part of the human condition and how it is 100% our choice. She shares how imposter syndrome led her to nearly leave medicine. She hosts the podcast, Imposter to Unstoppable where guests come on to share their stories with her. Find out more about Dr. Kristin Yates at kristinyatesdo.com and on Instagram @kristinyatesdo FULL BIO at wishwell.health.blog

This week's episode is a super fun one featuring my dear friend Dr. Ashley Maltz, an internal medicine and preventive medicine physician and fellowship trained integrative medicine physician. Hear her journey from college and attending her first yoga class and putting her health into her own hands. She shares her journey through her residency training in preventive medicine and then pursuing a clinical fellowship in integrative medicine. After practicing for several years, she moved back to Austin to start her own practice. She discusses why she chose the word "uncertainty" for her episode, and sitting with herself in the discomfort of that uncertainty. She talks about experiencing significant changes in her life and being "productively unproductive" with those changes, of which so many of us can relate. FULL BIO at wishwell.health.blog Connect with Dr. Ashley Maltz ashleymaltzmd.com IG @ashleymaltzmd

On this week's episode, I connect with a fellow integrative interventional pain management physician, Dr. Harini Chenna. As a former competitive gymnast along with the influence of her Indian cultural upbringing, she has always been passionate about fitness, nutrition, holistic healing and their vital role alongside modern medicine in building a mindset in which comprehensive wellness is a lifestyle. She shares her approach to chronic pain management in her patients. We also spend some time talking about Lagree fitness, which is how we connected on social media a few years ago! Find out more about Dr. Chenna on Instagram @drharinichenna Find out more about Lagree fitness on lagreefitness.com and you can save on your home microformer machine with code MICHELLEDANGMD FULL BIO on wishwell.health.blog or IG @wishwell.health

Dr. Rothschild is a double board certified physician in Preventive Medicine and Occupational and Environmental Medicine with additional certification in mind-body medicine. Listen to her chat with me on today's episode on what it means to fully enjoy life in the body that we have. She talks about tapping into what we have in ourselves to accomplish the goals in how we want to live our lives to the fullest potential. She shares her journey into mind-body medicine starting with her training in preventive medicine. Her advice to others is to not be afraid to choose the life you want to live. Every morning, we are gifted with a new day. And each day we get to choose how we want to spend that day. It's ours alone, nobody can live it for us, we just have to be brave enough to own our choices. Dr. Rothschild also has released a FREE 5 day mind-body boot camp starting May 24th *link in show notes or wishwell.health.blog* Find out more information about Dr. Rothschild: www.alpinehealthmd.com Guided Meditations on YouTube: Alpine Health https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4ZlhRr1TBN2ueKoGji5How Fitness Videos on YouTube: Adult Recess https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJPA2XYFIdyBgK2VsJuDXA Instagram: @jordanarothschild https://www.facebook.com/AlpineHealthMD https://www.facebook.com/groups/alpinehealthcommunity And you can even join our FREE 5 Day Mind-body Boot Camp starting May 24: https://mailchi.mp/alpinehealthmd/bootcamp FULL BIO at wishwell.health.blog

This week's episode features Dr. Joanne Jarrett and her episode title is "Share Your Stories". She is the host of the Fancy Free Podcast. She realized over the years that we all have embarrassing funny stories and that sharing these with each other is a great way to bond, connect, laugh together, and feel less alone in our imperfections. She believes it also changes our mindset so that we are not only viewing our foibles through the lens of humor and story telling, but we also look for opportunities to share them with others as a gift. Her advice to others is to share your embarrassing funny stories every chance you get. It's addictive and infectious! She would love to start a movement whereby instead of being mired in isolating embarrassment, we are all laughing at ourselves together! Find out more information about Joanne and her podcast at www.fancyfreepodcast.com and her clothing line at www.shelfieshoppe.com Full bio at wishwell.health.blog and Instagram @wishwell.health

On this week's episode I chat with Dr. Erika Maria Moseson, a lung and ICU doctor in Oregon. Her phrase for health and wellness is air health. She says don't light things on fire and breathe them into your lungs. This applies to tobacco, diesel, forests and more. She shares how as a lung and ICU doctor she realized how many patients she saw in the critical care setting due to people breathing in unhealthy air. She discussed how that is compounded by economic instability and racial inequities. We chat about vaping, the tobacco industry, wildfires, diesel and more. Her advice to others is to be an advocate for yourself and for your patients. She hosts her own podcast, Air Health Our Health, so please head over to her podcast and take a listen! Find out more about Dr. Moseson at: airhealthourhealth.org Podcast: anchor.fm/airhealthourhealth/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/AirHealthOurHealth/ Instagram: @airhealthourhealth FULL BIO: wishwell.health.blog

his week's episode features Dr. Monisha Bhanote, who comes onto the podcast to discuss the "Anatomy of Well-Being". She shares her journey as being a long windy road - from internist, to pathologist, to integrative medicine, yoga medicine therapeutic specialist and culinary medicine - but she shares that the journey has been been well worth it! She discussed what well-being means to her personally as well as for her patients. She sees herself as applying this holistic approach to the concept of well-being and her advice to others is to embrace a growth mindset. Check out her full bio at wishwell.health.blog and you can follow her at all the following links: https://www.drbhanote.com https://www.instagram.com/drbhanote/ https://www.facebook.com/drbhanote https://www.linkedin.com/in/drbhanote/

Today's episode features Dr. Arinola Dada, a rheumatologist in Bellevue, Washington at Overlake Arthritis and Osteoporosis Center. She says that as a rheumatologist I work with women who have a higher incidence of autoimmune disease and osteoporosis so she is very passionate about educating women on the importance of screening and exercise for bone health. Her advice to women is stressing the importance of exercise, weight bearing activity, and strengthening for bone health. We chat about the different kinds of arthritis and what osteoporosis is. We talk about the risks associated with osteoporosis, such as increased risk of fractures, and what we can do to decrease those risks. Take a listen to find out more about this important topic! You can find out more about Dr. Dada on overlakearthritis.com Full bio available at wishwell.health.blog

Today is my birthday, and I'm releasing a solo episode reflecting on 365 days. I've journaled and blogged a lot over the years, and thought it would be a fun trip down memory lane to read some old entries of a journal I wrote in over 8 years ago. I entitled it 365 Days of Zen because at the time, I was reading a book of daily quotes from mindfulness leader, Thich Nhat Hanh. When we are in the moment and feeling overwhelmed, it is challenging to remember how far we have come. I don't like to look "backwards" often, but when I do take a moment to reflect on and read some of the things I've written years ago, it is a gentle reminder that yes, I have come a long way. I hope that you enjoy listening to some of my old writings! And yes, today I am allowing myself to celebrate ME! Send me a message on Instagram @michelledangmd or @wishwell.health

This week's episode features Dr. Carrie Lam, MD, DABFM, ABAARM, FAAMFM. She is a board certified family medicine physician with additional certification in anti-aging, regenerative medicine and functional medicine. We discuss in this episode adrenal fatigue. She describes her journey into this field by learning from her father, Dr. Michael Lam, who has been doing nutritional telephone coaching since 2008 to help people recover from adrenal fatigue. She discusses how now we understand that stress actually affects the whole body in many different ways. She is a part of the Lam Clinic, a team of physicians and health professionals who believe in whole-person care. Dr. Lam hopes to change the future of medicine by being able to provide integrative medicine as regular medicine for all. Her advice to others is that the way to wellness is not a bandaid or narrow focus, but to get to the root cause and make sure to look at the big picture with all systems in place. She advises people to take a good listen to your body's symptoms and ask yourself why you're having the symptom and investigate the root cause. Your body has the ability to heal if given the right tools. Find out more information about Dr. Lam on Instagram @Lam_Clinic ; website www.lamclinic.com Podcast: The Dr. Lam Show TikTok: @LamClinic and on Facebook LamClinic FULL BIO at wishwell.health.blog

This week's episode features Dr. Yara Demo, a board certified neurologist and marriage and relationship coach. She shares feeling burnt out as a new attending and how it affected her professional and personal relationships. She describes how coaching has helped her learn how to manage her mind, her expectations, and take back her power. Her advice to others is that learning how to manage your mind and being deliberate about the thoughts you choose to have is life altering, allowing you to have empowered relationships. Find out more about Dr. Yara Demo at: www.yarademomd.com www.coachmestat.com

Meet Dr. Bergina Isbell, a board certified psychiatrist who shares her thoughts on individual and corporate mental wellness. Dr. Isbell recounts taking a "radical sabbatical" to learn how to better take care of herself and her patients. She now practices 90 minutes of self-care daily. She created her own business from the ground up via reverse engineering and now she helps other practices and corporations in the field of wellness. Her advice to others is to reverse engineer everything! Find out more info about Dr. Isbell: @berginaisbellmd www.LedLifeLLC.com FULL BIO: wishwell.health.blog

This week's episode features Dr. Marion McCrary, an Internal Medicine Physician and Certified Integrative Health and Wellness Coach in Durham, NC. She discusses the feeling of overwhelm in her own personal life and how to address this feeling that is so prevalent amongst not only women but in people in general. She talks about discovering health coaching to help patients and others as she was able to address the overwhelm in her own life. Her advice to others is if you find yourself overwhelmed and yearning for more time for yourself, follow these steps: 1. Determine your priorities: Do, Delegate, Delete, and Defer 2. Set boundaries to protect yourself and your relationships 3. Avoid relapse Find out more information about Dr. McCrary: Website: www.marion-wellness.com; FB and IG @marionmccrarywellness Twitter @marionmccrarymd Full Bio on podcast blog wishwell.health.blog

It's our One Year Anniversary of the Women's Integrative Summit on Health and Wellness Podcast! So much has happened in this past year not only in the world but in each and every single one of our lives. I chat with you all today on what's been going on with me. If you recall the very first episode I posted was on Balance and why I wanted to start this podcast. Balance isn't the end point but it's a journey and that journey has twists and turns and forks in the road. I am grateful to you all who are listening, and grateful to all the women I have had on this podcast. It's been an interesting year but there have been so many positives that have come out of this. "When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." - Helen Keller Connect with me on Instagram @michelledangmd ; michelledangmd.com ; the podcast on Instagram @wishwell.health

This week's episode features board certified cardiologist, Dr. Nicole Harkin, who comes on to share so much information about cardiovascular health, particularly as it pertains to women! She discusses lifestyle modifications such as diet and exercise, and she additionally goes into a discussion on the lipid panel. She moved across the country recently and started her own telecardiology practice, Whole Heart Cardiology, and is currently licensed to practice in New York, California, and Florida. Her advice is to focus on prevention and lifestyle changes now; progress over perfection; lifestyle can dramatically reduce risk even in those with high genetic risk. She can be found on IG @nicoleharkinmd. Visit her website at www.wholeheartcardiology.com to sign up for her newsletter and learn more about her practice. FULL BIO: wishwell.health.blog