If you’re reading this, you’re here for the final episode of the Wellness Glow Up Podcast (yep, you read that right) as I spill some tea about what’s going on behind the scenes. I'm sharing more about my decision to end the show, how I got here, what's next, and the lessons I've learned from 4 years of creating this beautiful, heart-opening show.  Since the spring of this year, I've worked hard to pivot and shift the podcast strategy, trying different revenue and business models, hoping to...

As a Latina Money Expert, an AFC® (Accredited Financial Counselor), author, speaker and hosts the Her Dinero Matters podcast, Jen Hemphill is focused on the advancement of Latinas to minimize the gender wage gap while creating a healthy, confident conversation around money. Her work is rooted in showing you how to have more money confidence and simplify your money so you can get out of debt more quickly, save more, AND get excited each time you sit down to manage your money. A returning guest...

As a spiritual wellness practitioner specializing in an array of healing arts, such as mindfulness meditation, energy healing, and breath work, Liana Naima’s practice is rooted in intuitive knowledge that trusts in the innate wisdom of the body. She creates brave containers for people to confront energetic blockages with curiosity and care. Her playful spirit makes the healing process enjoyable, operating from the heart, she invites people to meet her there for heart-centered transformations...

As the co-founder and CEO of Pure Culture Beauty, Joy Chen envisioned skincare to be personal. That’s why when she created her company, she focused her products on her passion for making skincare personal. They embrace your individuality and uncover your unique skin needs and goals through their comprehensive skin analysis and variety of skin tests to create custom skincare formulas and regimens that consider everything from your diet and lifestyle to your genes and skin priorities. If you’re...

As a lifestyle photographer and content creator, Taylor Baldwin uses the medium of photography she captures amazing style with a minimal aesthetic, combining color relationships and fabulous composition. Through her work, her mission is to help black women build sustainable, revolutionary social media and website content, while also ensuring that black women feel beautiful and seen!  This conversation was a powerful elixir of mindful inspiration and grounded chit-chat about all things content...

June Marisa Kaewsith, also known as "Jumakae," is a professional artist, wellness consultant, and storytelling coach. After spending her twenties as an artist and community organizer inside nonprofit organizations, she began craving an alternative narrative to healing and justice beyond the struggle. Curiosity led her back to Thailand, where she studied with a traditional midwife to learn the ways of her ancestors. That's when she realized that all of our ancestors were entrepreneurial,...

Something we don’t talk enough about is how hard the healing journey can be. We’re fed fluffy images on social media about the awakening that takes place or a cool infographic about what to expect when we’re going through the process, but those things don’t cover the breadth of what can happen when we start the process of healing.  In this solo episode, I’m sharing some reminders for you if you’re on the path in this chapter of your life. My goal for this episode is to give you both a pep...

As the founder of a full-service holistic wellness education platform dedicated to Menstrual Health and a decolonized approach to well-being, Saran James-Vaughan is all about supporting your journey of identifying the root cause of chronic illness, helping the body, mind, and soul return to balance by combining the latest evidence-based research on diet & nutrition, ancient alchemy tools, and herbal medicine.   My favorite thing about Saran is how deeply rooted her work is in taking a...

Self-awareness is one of the most talked about words and concepts in the healing space right now. From how to be more self-aware to what hinders us from being self-aware, it can cause a lot of us to ask ourselves the question, “How much do I know myself?” And if we don’t know the answer to that question, it can bring up a lot of shame as we look around to see the perception of other people knowing about themselves when we don’t.  In this solo episode, I’m sharing five tools that have helped...

As a mental health advocate in the wellness industry for over ten years who not only survived severe postpartum depression and thrives with a mental health condition, Sasha Nicole’s mission is to assist others in living a healed and whole life while honing in on what truly makes you happy. For women who feel stuck and stagnant in life, Sasha Nicole teaches how to feel more confident and courageous.  If you know me, you know that I love talking about mental health. My intention for this...

If you’re reading this right now, you might be contemplating a life-altering decision of some sort. Whether it’s big or small you have this pull to follow your heart to make said decision, but you might be a little scared to do so and I get it. Following your heart can bring up an elixir of feelings, but deep down you know something needs to change.  In this solo episode, I’m sharing a personal life update about moving out of the tri-state area and the process I took to make that big...

As a writer and memoir writing coach, Maryann Samreth is big on guiding people to write a best-selling book and create the impact they were born to make. She is the creator of the somatic trauma writing method helping people bring their stories to life in a safe, embodied, and healing way. She has published over 100 poems and personal essays online and has reached over 1 million people as a viral content creator on Instagram, TikTok, and her podcast, Mental Breakthrough. As a fellow writer,...

Raise your hand if you have a, potentially, complicated relationship with stuff and things. *Raises hand* In a world where we’re managing our constant stressors and trying to adult in the best way possible, we can get to a place where we’re noticing more stuff cluttering our mind, body, and spirit.  In this solo episode, I’m sharing my relationship with stuff, how it’s evolved over the course of the past few years, and why it’s become more of a relationship I needed to tend to in my life. My...

As former dancers and now the founders of The Ness, Alison Giampolo and Colette Dong are all about challenging and redefining movement as they don’t subscribe to outdated ideologies about fitness and weight loss. Their focus is wanting you to feel good. Experiencing what a positive impact the trampoline had on their personal bodies and minds, they were inspired to concentrate on a method and share the lasting benefits of rebounding with their community. I sit down to chat with Aly and Colette...

Look, life can be tough. With big, world events on display that shake us to the core happening on the regular, it can be incredibly difficult to maintain our balance. From social media to turning on the news, you're unable to escape everything unless you truly live under a rock. On the flip side, there’s a certain responsibility we hold to be good global citizens and know what’s happening. So what do we do? In this solo episode, my intention was to have a space for you to come to when you...

As a former senior executive and a corporate inclusion visionary, Deepa Purushothaman is all about challenging and redefining the status quo of leadership, success, and power by centering the needs and experiences of Women of Color. After leaving Deloitte in 2020, Deepa co-founded nFormation, a membership-based community for professional Women of Color, offering brave, safe, new space and placing them in C-suite positions and on Boards. She is also a Women and Public Policy Program Leader in...

If you’ve been paying attention to what’s happening within the world related to work, a lot of folks are rethinking how they show up within their workspaces (me included). With the panorama, all of us have been forced to look at our relationship with work and reimagine how we can flip the idea of a “work-life” balance to one of a “life-work” balance.  In this solo episode, and fresh off of vacation, I’m reflecting on my own journey to center my personal life and shift away from making my work...

As an actress, singer, and writer of Afro-Jamaican descent, Asha Bromfield is all about how we can experience the fullest expression of our creativity at the intersection of healing and self-exploration. Inspired by her own self-healing journey, Asha is focused on her mission to show that representation should include multifaceted Black characters along with nuanced storytelling, while also using creativity as a remedy for our own inner work.  Whew, this was a deep, fluid, and...

Have you been feeling like you can’t speak your truth? Those moments when you feel the push and pull between wanting to vocalize what you’re feeling and wanting to mind your business? Or maybe it’s a feeling of you wanting to run and hide to avoid any sort of discomfort? I’ve been there many times over friend. In this solo episode, I’m sharing what I’ve learned about self-censorship and how I now think about this concept in a practical way. My intention with this episode is to invite you to...

As a certified meditation guide, journal author, wellness educator, and founder of Manifest House™, Angelee Andorfer-Lopez is all about creating virtual wellbeing spaces rooted in a community that helps BIPOC women and allies care for all aspects of themselves unapologetically. Inspired by her own self-healing journey, Angelee has helped hundreds of women come back home to themselves by deepening their connection to self, community, and nature. If you’re looking for a conversation about all...

When I turned 30, I had a mini freak out and started asking myself a bunch of questions. Why do I still hate my job? Why aren’t my relationships going the way I want? What’s my purpose? And while I give myself an immense amount of grace during this time, I realized I wasn’t asking myself the correct question. I should’ve been asking myself: how do I live a more fulfilling life through the lens of jobs, relationships, etc? For the past 10 months, I’ve been intentionally focusing on how to...

As a Cuban-American journalist and podcast host, Gabriela Ulloa is all about covering topics from Latinx culture and mental health to beauty, style, identity, personal development, and mental health. Through her work, she’s dedicated her storytelling to highlighting stigmatized topics, particularly within marginalized communities. Mostly, she works to normalize talking about feelings on the internet. If you’re looking for a chill, down-to-earth conversation about mental health then this...

All of us can recall a moment along this journey of life where we’ve received a piece of relationship advice that made us go “huh”? Me included. In an age of constant information, we have access to so many different ways of thinking and perspectives related to relationships, but there’s still so much information out there that clings to a narrative that no longer works in today’s dating world. While I’ve been in multiple long-term relationships and have navigated my own dating life, I’ve...

As the Vice President of Health Strategy at the American Heart Association and a public health professional, Dr. Angelica Hardee (aka Dr. JB) is focused on addressing the top health priorities of the Greater Cincinnati/NKY region by leading work related to hypertension, e-cigarette/tobacco use, and healthy food access. More specifically, she engages with community organizations and neighborhood coalitions to identify their health and wellness priorities. As a friend of fifteen years and one...