Today’s guest, Giovanni Bartolomeo, is a full-spectrum entrepreneur, personal development coach and breathwork instructor who holds a deep reverence for the power plant medicine. After establishing himself within his multifaceted, but more traditional, career path—with a wife, kids and a nice BMW in the driveway—Gio realized that he still felt empty inside. Not too long after that, he found himself amidst a plant medicine ceremony in a foreign country, at which point his family and friends...

As we approach the middle of our lives, many of our parents are getting older and, the reality is, we don’t know how much time that we have left with them. Today’s guest, Kute Blackson is a beloved inspirational speaker and transformational speaker who has dealt with and fully processed the death of his mother through the magic of surrender. We learn why, whether it’s familial loss, or just letting go of our ego’s desires, when we really step into surrender, we begin to experience...

Samantha’s fresh off her trip to Jamaica, so she’s sporting a healthy glow and feeling grateful for the sun…So what better time than now to do an episode about safe sun exposure?! Society at large has become super fearful of the sun but this solo is all about what you can do to prepare your body, inside and out, to be sun resilient. With today’s sun 101, you can comfortably step into the sun and begin harnessing the power of it. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Today, Samantha’s guest is Udo Erasmus, the co-founder of Udo’s Choice line of essential fatty acids. Udo designed the machinery for making oils with optimal health in mind and pioneered flax oil, a billion-dollar industry, which can now be found in health food stores across the globe. Being a war child, and later working as a pesticide sprayer, are just two of the significant life events that ultimately shaped Udo into the vibrant eighty-year-old he is today. In this episode, Udo shares the...

Over the years, Samantha has worked with a number of coaches, both male and female. Today’s guest, Kevin Kwan, is uniquely down to earth, realistic and emotionally in tune, making him one of the few male coaches that’s been given Samantha’s seal of approval. Kevin is an entrepreneur, father and business coach who helps wellness coaches grow, scale and, most importantly, navigate their business when things aren’t going well. In today’s episode, Samantha and Kevin share their like-minded...

In our society, many of us have come to expect that, as we age, we will also experience a gradual decline of our overall health, wellness and libido. But it’s our birthright to feel happy, healthy and horny—this isn’t something you have to say goodbye to as your age begins approaching some arbitrary number. In today’s solo, Samantha shares the nutritional, emotional and relationship practices that have her thriving at 40, with the hopes that adopting some of these methods can help you to do...

In the world of social media, we are constantly being inundated with new information about everything and the messages from health and wellness influencers can be some of the hardest to discern and digest. In today’s solo, Samantha clears up some of the common misconceptions about one approach to nutrition that’s been gaining considerable steam, the pro-metabolic diet. Samantha tells us why she herself subscribes to the metabolic diet and breaks it down piece by piece for those who may be...

Kiki Athanas is an intuitive eating coach that helps smart women conquer emotional eating and practice healthy, balanced eating with consistency and ease. In this episode, Kiki and Samantha get honest about their own experiences with obsessing over food, as well as debunking diet culture myths and pointing out some of the toxic patterns within the wellness world—especially when it comes to nutrition. So many women have struggled with overeating, undereating, and everything in between. Kiki’s...

Today on the show, Samantha chats with Dr. Kevin Preston, a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner that practices in Vernon, BC. Kevin has become known for helping people overcome chronic illnesses, mystery syndromes and for optimizing the health and performance of his patients. In this episode, we learn how his curiosity, passion and reverence for both ancient and modern healing techniques have guided him to success as a nature loving, wu friendly and honest practitioner. Advertising...

As an entrepreneur, you may have a hard time accepting the fact that you’re actually in the business of sales…but it’s the truth! If you want to start securing more leads, and begin to scale your business, you’re going to need to get comfortable with selling. It’s as simple as that. In today’s final business class episode, Samantha teaches you everything you need to know about sales and even admits that she too had a hard time accepting that sales are an integral, and unavoidable, part of...

In today’s solo, Samantha shares some stories from her recent trip to Costa Rica. She had originally planned to make the trek with one of her best friends but, just days before the trip, things took an unexpected turn when she learned that she would be going alone. Samantha gives her honest perspective of what it felt like to be traveling in a foreign country as a single female, then does a deep dive into her relationship, and future plans, with the thing that brought her to Costa Rica in the...

We’ve all heard why it’s so important for entrepreneurs to have a strong social media presence but, without the right approach, social media has a tendency to make us feel overwhelmed. Some of us even have a deep seeded hatred towards it, to the point of refusing to make it a part of our business plan. Today’s solo is all about helping you heal your relationship with social media, and developing strategies to make posting and engaging quick and easy, so you can get out of your own way and...

As the self-described anti-woke, freedom-fighting life coach, Kaylor Bett’s loves to dive into uncomfortable topics, push people's buttons and offer new perspectives that inspire others to take ownership of their lives. After one long pot-pen-fueled, anxious Netflix binge, Kaylor finally got off his ass, started to sweat, and began taking steps that would become the pillars of his mental wealth mindset. In today’s episode, Samantha and Kaylor dive head first into a variety of touchy topics,...

As humans, we have a knack for overcomplicating things and getting in our own way. Today’s solo episode is all about simplifying and streamlining your message. Samantha walks us through the process of establishing your niche by mastering your mindset and really getting to know who your customer avatar is. Once you know exactly who you’re selling to, what you’re offering them, and why it matters, the leads will come pouring in. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Today’s solo episode is the first of four business episodes set to come out on four consecutive Thursdays in March. The original recording is from Samantha’s “marketing school” facebook live session back in October of 2022. In it, she dives into how she carved her own path to success, and gives you five tips for generating more leads with your online businesses. It can be easy to fall into the trap of education, thinking that once you have more knowledge, or that stronger skillset, then...

Today, Samantha is joined by Tara Vander Dussen, a fifth-generation dairy farmer who happens to be married to another fifth-generation dairy farmer. Daniel, her husband, manages the day-to-day on the farm, while Tara has her own career as an environmental consultant, online agriculture advocate, and podcaster. In response to the current global, political push towards meat and milk alternatives in this episode, Tara addresses some common misconceptions around animal protein production and...

Let’s face it, as we get into our forties, our resilience is declining. There are so many hormonal shifts within the perimenopause period that can create a cascade of effects that leave us feeling stressed and unbalanced. If only there were some sort of magic elixir that could help us thrive through perimenopause, meeting all the shifts with grace and vigor. In today’s episode, Brandi Garden, from Eversio Wellness, returns to the show to tell you all about how functional, medicinal mushrooms...

Samantha chats with Victoria Albina, a Master Certified Somatic Life Coach, meditation guide, and self-proclaimed Latina nervous system nerd, with a focus on codependency, people-pleasing and perfectionism. In this episode, Victoria passionately, and with expertise, explains how a host of different topics, such as hormones, orgasms and emotional outsourcing, relate to the sympathetic, dorsal and ventral vagal modes of the nervous system. With a better understanding of how and why our nervous...

Today on the show, Samantha shares an episode from April 2022, where she was interviewed by her friend, the Personal Leadership Coach and Podcaster, Dr. Laura Foster. This episode lays out Samantha’s entire business journey, from hopeful college nutrition student, to the well-established wellness expert and business mentorship coach she is today, in a much more exciting fashion than she feels she could have managed with another solo endeavor. Samantha and Laura confess that they, just like...

As health-conscious individuals, we put a great deal of effort into cleaning up our environment. We eat an ancestrally consistent diet, make sure our makeup and cleaning products are non-toxic and avoid plastics like the plague, but we often overlook our clothes. The truth is, our clothing can be just as toxic as these other factors. Today on the show, Samantha invites Kristi Soomer, the founder and CEO of the sustainable slow fashion brand, Encircled, to fill us in on the negative effects of...

Hormonal imbalances lie at the root of so many health issues. In today’s solo, Samantha addresses some of the most common hormone-related listener questions, including the difference between progesterone and progestin, the birth control pill, whether or not women should be supplementing with bioidentical hormones and the common misconception that estrogen is the “bad hormone.” Given that our hormones can easily be impacted by so many environmental and dietary factors, it can be a lot to keep...

In most cultures around the world, alcohol is the focal point of almost all forms of entertainment. Sports games, comedy shows, concerts–you name it. It’s because alcohol is such an effective antidote to the social anxiety that plagues so many of us in our face-paced, densely populated, modern world. In an effort to break his own patterned use of alcohol and cocaine, Robbie Bent embarked on a ten day vipassana retreat in Israel, followed by multiple plant-medicine ceremonies, and returned...

Acupuncturist and Chinese medicine practitioner, Katrina Dollano is the co-founder and clinical director at “What’s Good,” a mental, emotional, physical and spiritual wellness company grounded in honoring the wisdom of our bodies and the power of mother nature. In today’s episode, Katrina and Samantha talk about Katrina’s training in Daoist Chinese medicine and how it differs from the western approach, how the five elements impact womens’ health and hormones, big T and little T trauma, and...

Many of us enter the new year intending to establish more love, confidence, and money or maybe to lose some weight, but we often get stuck in the process and wind up with the same intention at the beginning of the next year. In today’s solo episode, Samantha explains how, from an early age, we’re programmed by the beliefs of others that can continue to weigh us down for the rest of our lives–unless we do something about it. The beginning of a new year is a great opportunity to distinguish...

Just because the new year hasn’t arrived yet doesn’t mean you need to wait until January 1st to start making changes. In today’s solo, Samantha talks all about the cornerstone of our hormonal, thyroid and overall health: the liver. Your liver is your main detoxification organ and it works for you, around the clock, day in and day out. In order to best support this process, you need to know how it works, what effects it and what it needs to function optimally. This episode is the framework you...