Chai on Life Alex Segal

Hi everyone! Welcome back to another episode of The Chai on Life podcast. I'm Alex Segal.

Trigger warning for this episode: We speak about pregnancy, miscarriage and diet and nutrition so if any of those things may be triggering for you, definitely feel free to turn off the episode, I completely understand.

 

Now let’s learn about our amazing guest, Lauren Allen. Lauren is a former sugar addict turned Certified Nutrition Coach who specializes in women's hormonal health and fertility. After being diagnosed with PCOS after struggling with infertility, Lauren discovered the power of using food as medicine to heal her body, balance her hormones, and eventually get pregnant naturally. Lauren believes that all women deserve to harness the power of eating foods that help balance their hormones and optimize their fertility without feeling deprived or restricted. She is the creator of the Balance Your Hormones 101 program and The Empowered Path to Pregnancy program to help women learn how diet and lifestyle changes can help them balance their hormones and optimize their fertility. She coaches women privately as well.

 

In this episode, we speak about:

-How Lauren got to where she is today, working through a sugar addiction to become a health coach and conceive two children naturally

-What a hormone is and what its role is in your body

-What vital organs in your body do and how the food we eat can affect them

-What balancing our blood sugar means and how to do so effectively

-How to improve out diets to add in more nutrition, in a way that’s not overwhelming

-What it actually means to be “born with all your eggs” — it’s not what you think!

-The best things to eat during the pre-pregnancy, pregnancy and postpartum periods to optimize your health and your baby’s health

-How to make time to take care of ourselves

 

…and so much more!

 

If you want to learn more from Lauren, you can follow her on Instagram @laurenallennutrition and visit her website laurenallennutrition.com — there are tons of awesome recipes on there (I highly recommend the chickpea chocolate chip cookies!) She also has her own podcast called “About Health and Hormones” which you can learn more about here: laurenallennutrition.com/podcast. For more information on her courses, you can also visit her website.

 

If there is a guest you would like to see on The Chai on Life Podcast, send a DM to @chaionlifemag on Instagram or email alex@chaionlifemag.com.

 

Thanks for listening!

Hi everyone, welcome back to another episode of The Chai on Life Podcast. I’m Alex Segal and I am so excited about this conversation with Rebbetzin Yehudis Golshevsky. We’re in a difficult time for the Jewish people. We just marked 180 days since October 7 —  six whole months since Israel and the Jewish people were attacked on Simchat Torah. It’s hard to believe. It’s so hard to know that every single day, 134 hostages still remain in captivity, our soldiers are still fighting and our people are at risk

There is increased antisemitism around us. Incredible gaslighting about what Israel is doing in self-defense and just to survive and protect its people, our people. It’s truly a painful moment and it can be confusing to know where to turn or where to find hope. This conversation with Rebbetzin Golshevsky, I hope will help you find some comfort.

In our conversation, we speak about:

-Rebbetzin Golshevsky's path to becoming a profound Torah teacher

-How to connect to Nisan and Pesach during this unique time we're in and how we can extract so much meaning out of it

-How to become joyful at this time

-Why things may look so gross and ugly on the outside right now and what that means for the Jewish people

-The process of redemption — what we can look to for hope

-How to free yourself from something personal you're working on

...and so much more!

 

If you would like to learn more about Rebbetzin Golshevsky and SHIVITI and get on the school's mailing list for classes, visit https://shiviti.org.il/.

To reach out to Rebbetzin Golshevsky directly, you can email her at Yehudis@shiviti.org.

 

More about Rebbetzin Golshevsky:

Rebbetzin Golshevsky founded and is the director of SHIVITI, a school in Jerusalem for women. She holds primary and secondary teaching certifications from Yavne Teacher's College in Cleveland, Ohio, as well as a BA from SUNY Buffalo in Classics-Judaic Studies. Rebbetzin Golshevsky has been a well-known Torah educator in Jerusalem and abroad for twenty-five years, with students all over the world. She is also published author, editor, and translator.

 

To nominate a woman for the podcast, please send me an email at alex@chaionlifemag.com or send me a DM on Instagram at @chaionlifemag.

Thanks for listening!

 

Today's guest is Debbie Greenblatt and we are talking all about the secrets to a more connected marriage.

Debbie just released a book (Secrets of a Connected Marriage — order here!) where she breaks down profound Jewish wisdom into tangible, succinct ways you can improve your marriage. You will become more connected to your spouse and turn more into the person you want to be in the process.

In this conversation, Debbie and I speak about:

-Why marriage is such a challenge

-How husbands and wives and grow closer to each other

-How to become a great woman, using your marriage to get you there

-How we can create a more positive culture in our homes

-How to bring Hashem into our lives and marriages more

-What we can learn from relationships in the Torah, like Avraham and Sarah

...and so much more!

If you would like to get in touch with Debbie after listening, you can reach out to her at Debgreenblatt@gmail.com or through her website, deardebbie.com.

Please leave a rating and review for the podcast and reach out if there's anyone you'd like to see on! You can send a DM at @chaionlifemag or email at alex@chaionlifemag.com.

 

More about Debbie:

Debbie Greenblatt has been involved in teaching and counseling Jewish women for over thirty-five years.  Mrs. Greenblatt lectures across the United States on topics that include Jewish texts, Jewish thought and relationships. 

For over thirty years, her weekly class in the works of Rabbi Dessler have served as an anchor in her own life and has changed the lives of many of those who have attended. She currently gives several Middos Vaadim that concentrate on character development. Her warm and personal approach to the women she encounters has many women seeking her counsel and insight on the Torah’s approach to their personal dilemmas.

Using the unique Torah based and practical approach that she developed to help people navigate the dating process, Debbie has been successfully coaching singles for over twenty years. Mrs. Greenblatt writes a column on relationships for a large Jewish Magazine, and is regularly asked to contribute essays to a variety of publications. She is the founder of the Women’s Division of Gateways, an outreach organization.

Debbie is the Director of Education for the Mentorship Training Program of Core, and organization that seeks to strengthen the fabric of the Jewish People by building the woman of klal Yisrael and the connections between them.

Debbie’s new book, Secrets of a Connected Marriage, published by Judaica Press, gives us a glimpse into the deeper Jewish perspectives that form the basis of successful marriage, with practical applications for the woman of today.

Meet Ellie Azerad, the author of Frum Minimalism. This episode is ALL about decluttering your home to make it a more pleasant place for you to live.

In this episode, we dive into:

-How to start decluttering your home and why it will benefit you

-How to make this process last and not allow your home to get cluttered again

-How your connection to Hashem and spirituality fit into this process

-How to deal with it in regards to kids — how to get them involved and deal with the amount of stuff they bring into the home

-PESACH: How to get ready in time for Pesach so you can arrive at the holiday calm instead of stressed and anxious

-Letting go of the scarcity mindset

And SO much more!

 

To get in touch with Ellie and to find more resources from her, visit frumminimalism.com. 

If you have a guest you'd like to see on the Chai on Life podcast, email alex@chaionlifemag.com or send me a DM at @chaionlifemag. Thanks for listening!

Hi everyone! Welcome back to another episode of the Chai on Life podcast. I met my friend, Carmel Lehmann, in the fall of 2017 when we both studied at Midreshet Rachel V'Chaya, a seminary in Israel. She ended up making aliyah then and getting married shortly after. On October 7, she, like so many other women had to send her husband off to Gaza. Baruch Hashem, he is home now, hopefully for good.

*Important to note: This episode was recorded on February 15, 2023 so any details shared on the war during the podcast reflect what was going on at that time.

In this episode we talk about:


How she decided to make Aliyah and her Jewish journey leading up to it.
How she got over the hump to become fluent in Hebrew.
What October 7 was like for her and her family.
How she survived at home working full time and caring for two small children while her husband was in Gaza.
How her relationship with Judaism and Hashem as changed throughout this process.

The whole conversation was so real and I know you're going to love it.

If you know someone who you think would make a great guest, send me a DM at @chaionlifemag or email me at alex@chaionlifemag.com.

Thanks for listening!

On this week's episode, we are speaking with Rivkah Fox, a professional matchmaker. She goes into all the behind-the-scenes of matchmaking and shares her advice on the dating world. Listen in!