Wanna Learn Kung Fu? Yeah. It's a Wellness Thing.
Wanna learn Kung Fu online? You actually can. Verca Partikova has 25 years of martial arts experience, almost 20 MMA fights, and moved across to Asia to train at the source. You won't learn it as fast as Neo downloaded it — but you can put in the real work at your own pace from wherever you happen to be in the world.
Snakes and Ladders. Keep Rolling.
Sarah Kay Brown is a straight talking coach and author based in the UK helping people get out of their own way and start living at their optimal. She also has a Snakes and Ladders analogy for wellness that just kicks ass — and reminds you that no matter what happens you are never pushed off the board. Keep rolling.
What Is Your Relationship With Rest?
Miranda Brooking is a rest consultant — yes that's a real job and yes we need it. This one covers the five areas of rest, burnout, permission, guilt, perimenopause, cold plunges, HRT, skinny dipping in a glacier lake on Vancouver Island, and why five minutes on the floor might change your life. Rest is not lazy. Miranda said so.
Wellness Me Up Is a Question
Joby Sanchez helps high-performing people navigate addiction privately — without losing their careers, their families, or themselves. He's lived it. He coaches from it. And he turned Wellness Me Up into a question. Nobody has done that before. Just listen.
Visualize Your Foot in Your Ass
Three cancers. 9/11. Two and a half years bedridden. Four knee surgeries. Four abdominal muscles removed. Dr. Sun Pandé has been through the boot camp and came out the other side joyful, crowned, and ready to teach you how to adjust your sails. Also there is something about visualizing your foot in your ass. Just trust it.
Everybody Has a Story. Everybody Has Worth.
Speaker. Author. Growth coach. Suicide survivor. Mullet enthusiast. David Chamotzky has been through it and came out the other side with 30 years of corporate wisdom, a Lucille bat, and the firm belief that everybody has a story and everybody has worth. This one goes everywhere.
The Warrior Stays Calm in the Chaos
My longest episode yet and I would do it again immediately. Natalie Zacharias is a healer, space holder, and emotion code practitioner where spirituality and psychology collide. Subconscious healing, trapped emotions, grief, plant medicine, Etch A Sketch, and why the warrior stays calm in the chaos. You're welcome.
The Diamonds Are in the Darkness
Danae Jensen is a plant medicine and healing guide based on Quadra Island BC. She has watched people crawl into ceremony at their lowest and walk out realizing their life is actually pretty amazing. Plant is going to show you what it needs to show you. And the diamonds are always in the darkness.
Accepting Your Darkness Is Part of Accepting Yourself
You don't stop the negativity coming in. You let it out. Empress Sparkle is a healer and energetic cleanser here to talk about energy, darkness, judgment, soul ties, and why accepting yourself — all of yourself — is where wellness actually begins
Burnout Is Sticky. So Is Peanut Butter. Let's Talk About Both.
Not enough people are helping the helpers. Kathleen Foldvari is a registered social worker and psychotherapist here specifically for the healthcare workers, first responders, teachers, and parents who give everything to everyone and forget themselves. Real, practical, and ends with pickles and peanut butter. You're welcome.
Fuck the Glue. Be the Acetone.
People pleasing is just self betrayal with a smile on. Janessa Neighbors is a certified relationship and trauma recovery coach who gets it — because she's lived it. This one goes deep into people pleasing, neurodivergence, limited beliefs, and why you were never supposed to be the glue.
Tiger. Sloth. Alpaca. Pick Your Healing Mascot.
Darcy Burtch has crawled through some serious basement level rock bottom moments in her life. Now she helps others do the same — faster than they think possible. This episode goes everywhere. Trauma. Accountability. Change. And somehow ends with a sloth. You're welcome.
Hey. You Can Whisk Wellness In Slowly.
Vera Jackson is a nutritional therapist helping women who feel exhausted, can't figure out why, and have been told by their doctor that everything looks fine. Spoiler — it's not fine. And you don't have to overhaul your entire life to feel better. You just have to whisk it in slowly.
S&S — The Wellness Code You Didn't Know You Needed
Peer support, speaking, art, journaling workshops, and now a book — Jessica Compton has been showing up for humans for almost a decade. This one is warm, real, and funny. By the end you'll have a brand new wellness code for checking in on your people. S&S. We said what we said.
Aware Me Up — Trauma, Relationships & Why the Problem Is Never Really the Problem
You've been showing up ready to do battle every day and you don't even know it. Amanda Kirkland is a trauma conscious transformational coach who helps you see what you can't see yet — because awareness is always the first step. And she's been there. Done that. Got the Positive Mind. Positive Lives. Positive Life. tattoo.
Set Me Up. But Make It Wellness. — Reiki, Crystals, Shamanic Healing & Why Your Energy Is Leaking Everywhere
What if you could walk up to a wellness bar and just order exactly what you need? Reiki. Crystal healing. Shamanic work. Iridology. Corinne Van Kampen has the whole shelf stocked — and she's here to help you figure out what to order. Pull up a stool. This one's a full pour.
Your Energy Body Is Frozen. Let's Defrost It. — Trauma, Relationships & Why Your Prayers Feel Like They're Hitting the Ceiling
What if your trauma isn't something you need to process through? What if you could just... defrost it? Heather Cypel is doing something unique and my brain has not stopped since our conversation. If your relationships keep looping, give this episode a listen — Heather explains why and what to do about it.
Do Your Laundry on Sunday. Be a Renegade. — Identity, Purpose & Tilting Your Head After 50
Sometimes you don't need a push. You just need to tilt your head. Transformational life coach Connelia Houston on rediscovering who you are after 50, why the gap isn't the end, and the Sunday laundry rule she finally broke at 55. Grab some Rocky Road ice cream and pull up a chair for this one.
Eat the Cake. The Shame Spiral Can F*ck Off. — Menopause, Midlife & Why Wellness Isn't a Punishment
The fitness industry is counting on you to fail. Kim Winsor is here to blow that whole thing up — one tiny habit, one honest conversation, and one slice of Karen's birthday cake at a time. If you'd like to unsubscribe from shame, give this a listen.
Stop Optimizing. You're Not a Bot. — Values, Identity & Building a Playbook That's Actually Yours
Meghan wrote her own wellness approach, I read it out loud, and she immediately burst out laughing and called it corporate bullshit. To be fair... it did sound good on paper. What she actually does is help women figure out who the f*ck they are and what they actually want. This one is for the woman who has it all on paper and still feels like something is missing.

