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Category: Friday with Friends

  • 345 | Bringing Balance & Mindfulness to the Military | with Dr. Jannell MacAulay

    345 | Bringing Balance & Mindfulness to the Military | with Dr. Jannell MacAulay

    Dr. Jannell MacAulay is a U.S. Air Force veteran who has managed human performance under high-stress situations for over two decades. As a military leader and combat pilot, she experienced the same stress, frustrations, and fears that leaders and teams in corporate America face daily in their personal and professional lives. She went on to earn her PhD with work in the field of strategic health and human performance.

    We talk about her work, how she brought mindfulness into the military, and bringing self-care and mindfulness into your own day-to-day life.


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  • 342 | Becoming an Advocate for Animal Rescue | with Lee Asher

    342 | Becoming an Advocate for Animal Rescue | with Lee Asher

    Lee Asher is traveling around the country in a school bus with eleven dogs helping people understand the importance of animal adoption, and he’s also currently building an animal sanctuary in Estacada, Oregon.

    When he was young, he knew he wanted to make as much money as he could to help save as many animals as he could. But, eventually, he realized that he didn’t actually need a lot of money to make his dream come true. We talk about the life transition that took place, what it’s like living with eleven dogs, and the work that has gone into building his own sanctuary.

     

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  • 339 | Helping Women Find Their Personal Power | with Eva Papp

    339 | Helping Women Find Their Personal Power | with Eva Papp

    Eva Papp is a licensed psychotherapist who’s developed a program for female empowerment. She believes that it’s incredibly important for women to feel financially independent, but that there are many systemic challenges that hold women back.

    She talks about giving women the ability to pivot in their life, and finding the mechanism to discover our authentic self.


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  • 336 | Helping Individuals Grow in Their Own Backyards | with Simon Holloway

    336 | Helping Individuals Grow in Their Own Backyards | with Simon Holloway

    Simon Holloway is the sales and marketing director of Vegepod, a self-watering portable garden bed. Lara is a huge fan (she’s been using them a LOT this year), and they talk about how the business came about and what it’s like running a small business during the pandemic.

    As they say, failure is the mother of invention. After several failed attempts at gardening, Simon’s business partner, Matt, built up a prototype in his backyard and systematically worked on addressing the biggest pain points in gardening.

    Simon talks about how appearing on Shark Tank brought a huge boost to the business, why the product appeals more to seasoned gardeners than the inexperienced gardener, and the benefits of growing your own garden.


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  • 333 | A Very Merry Christmas! | with the LYT™ Yoga Family

  • 330 | The Health Effects of Climate Change | with Meredith Clemmons

    330 | The Health Effects of Climate Change | with Meredith Clemmons

    Meredith Clemmons is a certified LYT™ Yoga teacher who is getting her masters degree in public health at George Washington University.

    Specifically, Meredith is studying global environmental health and looking at how the environment influences human health — because climate change is one of the biggest environmental factors that will affect our health in the coming years and decades — and we talk about the different ways that climate can impact our health all over the world.

    If you want to do your part in helping to curb climate change but don’t know where to start, here are some things you can do:

    • Eat a plant-based diet
    • Minimize your car use as much as possible or buy an electric car
    • Manage your household energy use by unplugging appliances that aren’t in use or converting to solar energy
    • Buying second-hand clothing


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  • 327 | The Seven Laws of Healing | with Dr. Ben Reebs

    327 | The Seven Laws of Healing | with Dr. Ben Reebs

    Dr. Ben Reebs is an award-winning integrative medicine physician and leading expert in alternative medicine. He offers a life-altering perspective on the attainment of optimal health by articulating the seven laws of healing and how to live in harmony with the body.

    We discuss his debut book, “The Serpent & The Butterfly: The Seven Laws of Healing,” what naturopathic medicine is, and the story on food intolerance.

    Plus, Dr. Ben shares his recommendation of five things everyone should do every day as a baseline of health:

    1. Exercise or yoga
    2. Hydrotherapy (hot shower or hot tub)
    3. Remove food intolerance
    4. Getting good sleep
    5. Connect with people


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  • 324 | To End the Suffering of Animals | with Sarah Lea

    324 | To End the Suffering of Animals | with Sarah Lea

    Sarah Lea is an animal psychologist, reiki practitioner, and vegan activist. She grew up on a farm in South Africa around animals, where she learned firsthand how delicate the ecosystem is and how valuable animal’s lives are. Around the age of 10, she stopped eating animals, but it wasn’t until later on in life when she became educated on where so many other animal products come from.

    We talk about arming children with knowledge about the difficult truths of our world and empowering them to make decisions about what they choose to consume from an early age.


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