Less Stress In Life: Recent Episodes
Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher
Co-hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher help individuals and organizations manage change and stress. Together, they bring you real conversations, stories about healing, and strategies to help people find the inspiration to move from stressed to their best.
Feeling overwhelmed by stress or stuck in survival mode? In this episode, we unpack the difference between basic self-care and true stress care—and why your nervous system needs more than the occasional bubble bath. Tune in to discover how complementary therapies like reflexology, breathwork, and even decluttering can help your body finally exhale.
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What if movement didn’t have to mean hitting the gym? In this episode of the Empowered Wellness Series, we explore how simple, joyful movement—like walking, gardening, or even grocery shopping—can boost your mood, protect your brain, and support your health at any age. Physical therapist Lindsay Vertalka breaks down the difference between movement and exercise, and why both are essential for feeling your best.
🎧 Tune in for practical tips and real-life stories that just might get you moving!
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Welcome to the Less Stress in Life Podcast – Empowered Wellness Series
Hosted by Deb Timmerman, RN, board-certified reflexologist and natural health practitioner, alongside co-hosts Susie Marsh, LBSW and professional organizer, and Lindsay Vertalka, master’s-level physical therapist.
Episode Summary:
In this episode, we’re diving into fear avoidance—what it is, how it shows up in the body and mind, and why it can hold you back from healing. Whether it's from an injury, a fall, or a painful experience, fear can quietly set the stage for a feedback loop that limits movement, confidence, and recovery.
Together, Deb, Lindsay, and Susie unpack the brain's protective mechanisms, the role of the nervous system, and the importance of small, supportive steps in rewiring fear-based patterns. You’ll hear real-life stories, science-backed strategies, and practical tools to help you or someone you love move through pain—physically and emotionally—with more trust and less stress.
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In this episode of the Empowered Wellness Series, Deb Timmerman is joined by Susie Marsh, professional organizer, and Lindsay Vertalka, physical therapist, to unpack one of the most common and frustrating wellness challenges: poor sleep. Whether you're struggling to fall asleep, stay asleep, or feel rested, you're not alone—and there's a lot more behind the problem than meets the eye.
This candid, relatable conversation explores the science of sleep, common disruptions, and practical tools for reclaiming rest without depending solely on sleep aids. From CPAPs and weighted blankets to heart rate variability and cluttered bedrooms, we explore the real-life strategies that have helped—and what might help you too.
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In today’s episode, we’re diving into a truth that many of us struggle with: healing isn’t linear. Whether you’re recovering from an injury, managing a chronic condition, or navigating emotional setbacks, the road to wellness is rarely a straight path—and that’s okay.
Hosts Deb Timmerman, Lindsay Bertulka, and Susie Marsh are here to remind you that progress isn’t about perfection. You’ll hear powerful stories from the clinic, tips for adjusting your mindset, and actionable ways to move forward—even when things feel like they’re going backward.
So if you’ve ever felt discouraged, stuck, or like you’re “doing everything right” but not getting the results you expected—this one is for you. Tune in and take a breath, you’re not alone on this journey.
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Welcome back to the Less Stress in Life Podcast and our Empowered Wellness Series! In this episode, co-hosts Deb Timmerman, RN, Lindsay Vertalka, MSPT, and Susie Marsh, LMSW and professional organizer, dive deep into a topic that’s often misunderstood: chronic disorganization.
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Welcome back to the Less Stress in Life Podcast and our Empowered Wellness Series! In this episode, your hosts Deb Timmerman, RN and natural health advocate; Lindsay Vertalka, physical therapist; and Susie Marsh, social worker and professional organizer, dig into the connection between organization, emotional wellness, and stress reduction.
In this episode they continue building on their previous discussion about the dangers of clutter, exploring why getting organized isn't just about tidy spaces, it’s about mental clarity, emotional release, and reclaiming control of your life.
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Welcome to the Less Stress in Life Podcast, your space to reimagine what it means to live well. In this episode of our Empowered Wellness Series, co-hosts Deb Timmerman, RN, Lindsay Vertalka, MPT, and Susie Marsh, LBSW explore a timely and often overlooked topic: the health impact of clutter.
Spring is here, and it's not just about cleaning—it's about reclaiming your space, your energy, and your well-being. If you're wondering whether that overflowing garage or drop-zone kitchen counter is affecting your mental or physical health, the answer might surprise you.
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Who is in Your Support Circle?
The people around you play a huge role in your well-being—but are they lifting you up or draining your energy? In this episode of the Empowered Wellness series, we explore how relationships impact your stress levels, healing, and overall health. Join Deb Timmerman RN, DAIS, HMCT, ARCB, Susie Marsh, LBSW and Lindsay Vertalka, MSPT, as they discuss the five key types of support every person needs, how to recognize and set boundaries with energy-draining relationships, and where to find meaningful connections that align with your wellness journey. Tune in and start building a circle that truly supports you!
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You had surgery expecting relief, but you're still in pain—why? In this episode of the Empowered Wellness series, we uncover the hidden reasons behind persistent post-surgical pain. Join Deb Timmerman, RN DAIS, HMCT, ARCB, Susie Marsh, LBSW and professional organizer, and Lindsay Vertalka, MSPT, as they explore how the brain, emotions, and nervous system play a crucial role in pain perception.
Learn why healing isn’t just about tissue repair and discover practical strategies to retrain your body and mind for lasting relief. If you're frustrated by ongoing pain after surgery, this episode is a must-listen!
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In this episode of the Empowered Wellness series, we explore how thoughts, emotions, and past experiences influence physical pain. Our hosts—Deb Timmerman RN, DAIS, HMCT, ARCB, Susie Marsh, LBSW, and Lindsay Vertalka, MSPT discuss the science behind pain perception, the impact of stress and fear, and practical strategies to retrain the brain’s response to pain. Learn how cognitive reframing, movement, and complementary therapies can help you break the pain cycle and reclaim your well-being.
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In this episode of the Empowered Wellness Series, Deb Timmerman RN, Lindsay Vertalka MPT, and Susie Marsh LBSW discuss how chronic stress and anxiety affect the body’s ability to heal. Learn how the nervous system reacts to stress, why it can lead to pain and inflammation, and how small actions—like mindful breathing, movement, and reducing clutter—can help restore balance. Tune in for practical tools and real-life insights to empower your wellness journey!
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In this episode, we dive into the challenges practitioners face in today’s healthcare system, including time constraints and limited communication, which hinder holistic patient care. Our co-hosts—Deb Timmerman, RN, DAIS, HMCT, ARCB, Lindsay Vertalka, MPT, and Susie Marsh, LBSW discuss how holistic care emphasizes prevention, balance, and treating the whole person rather than just symptoms.
Discover actionable steps to integrate holistic practices into your life, improve communication with your healthcare providers, and reduce stress through self-help tools and integrative health practices.
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Meet three passionate clinicians—Lindsay Vertalka, MPT; Susie Marsh, LBSW; and Deb Timmerman, RN, DAIS, HMCT, ARCB come together to guide you on a journey toward greater well-being. In this special pre-episode, we’ll introduce ourselves, share our unique paths in healthcare, and explain why we are committed to helping you reclaim control over your health. We believe that true wellness isn’t about quick fixes—it’s about addressing the mind, body, and spirit through simple, practical tools and empowering knowledge. Join us as we collaborate to offer expert insights, stories, and strategies designed to help you reduce stress, manage pain, and thrive in today’s chaotic world. Whether you’re struggling with health challenges or seeking a better balance in life, this series is your gateway to empowered healing. Let’s get started!
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Guest Lisa Fisher helps us wrap the 52 Practical Tools for Less Stress in Life series talking about strategies and hacks for successful goal setting. If you're thinking about where you want to go next year, or five years down the road, be sure to tune in.
She's the owner of Lisa Fisher and Associates. Lisa provides customized training and coaching packages focused on professional growth and development. She specializes in maximizing productivity, focusing on priorities and leadership. Her goal is to help her clients achieve their definition of success by providing the tools, resources and accountability to get there.
She's a principal investor of the Lansing, Michigan Keller Williams franchise and provides coaching and training to CFOs and business leaders with Keller Williams International across the US and Canada. Lisa has a strong foundational platform for helping others. She is also the founder and co-host of Adventures in Business, a podcast where Lansing Michigan based entrepreneurs and nonprofits shamelessly plug themselves and their business.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in Canada, click here. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in the US, click here.
Our goal is to give you tools and strategies to help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
Our guests today are Dr. Hollie Brown and her partner Keegan O'Guedes.
Our topic today is forging a heart-based relationship with your partner. We speak with Dr Hollie and Keegan about using HeartMath tools together to deal with rapid change and post-pandemic stress and explore the benefits of using this amazing tool as a couple.
Keegan is a music producer, audio engineer, and DJ among many titles. He was born in Ontario and now lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick. His time in the music industry so far has led him to working with such brands as Netflix and McDonald's. Keegan has spent many years working with recording artists, one on one, to help them develop their music.
Dr. Hollie is a Family Chiropractic practicing in Fredericton. She believes we're all born with the innate intelligence within us and has a passion for helping people heal and thrive from the inside out. Her practice focuses on perinatal, pediatric, and women's health. While attending chiropractic school in Toronto, she met her best friend and partner Keegan. Today they enjoy traveling spending time in nature camping and practicing yoga.
**Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
Kim Sneath joined us to take about the stress of holiday clutter. Don't miss her tips for clutter-free gift giving and reducing holiday overwhelm.**
About Kim: She is a Breakthrough Coach & Clutter Specialist. She helps men and women eliminate overwhelm and get unstuck, by taking simple steps to achieve their goals and take control of their lives with ease.
She is a Certified Master Freedom Facilitator guiding every day people to unlock their potential for more; more clarity, more joy, and more freedom!! Using powerful mindset and reframing tools, She helps her clients to breakthrough their limiting beliefs and self-sabotaging perspectives, that hold them back, releasing them from years of struggle. She has been inspiring her clients since 2007, to greater possibilities in their lifestyles and with their homes, families, and careers.
**Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
This episode's guest is Gael Wood**. Gael has over 25 years of experience in the massage and spa industry. She has an immeasurable amount of knowledge and expertise in the art of growing and maintaining a thriving massage & spa business and now concentrates on coaching, and teaching in the areas of marketing, business start up, online business creation, customer service and spa services.
Gael was inducted into the World Massage Hall of Fame and featured as a Massage Magazine All-Star in 2019. She is the co-host and co-founder of the Global Wellness Professionals Marketing Summits and creator of the Massage and Spa Marketing Content Clubs, Author of 10 eBooks, over 40 Online courses, and the Elevate Mastermind. Gael is the author of The Gratitude Habit Journal 30 Days of Gratefulness During Difficult Times. In this episode Gael shares her story and how she built her gratitude habits.
**Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
This episode's guest is Sharon Saraga-Walters**, Sharon has spent the past 35 years in the health and wellness world. After graduating with a BS in Health Promotions, she launched a business as a Personal Fitness Trainer, then trained to become a Massage Therapist and is now an author and gratitude coach.
**Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
Entrepreneur and mental health advocate Keenan Hart has a passion for impacting those around him with positivity. He is the co-founder of FRANSiS**, a mental wellness company, Keenan and his team have found a way to weaponize text messages for the power of good by interrupting your day in a positive way with support and encouragement.
Co-hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in Canada, click here. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in the US, click here.
**Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In the month of November, we are exploring the roles gratitude plays in stress and wellbeing. In this episode, we discuss the psychological, physical, and social benefits of gratitude. Are you ready to make gratitude a priority in your life?**
Co-hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in Canada, click here. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in the US, click here.
**Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In the month of November, we are exploring the roles gratitude plays in stress and wellbeing. In this episode, we discuss the psychological, physical, and social benefits of gratitude. Are you ready to make gratitude a priority in your life?**
Co-hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in Canada, click here. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in the US, click here.
**Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode we share the 6 concrete steps we take our clients through to experience less stress in life.**
Co-hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in Canada, click here. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in the US, click here.
Our guest this episode is Raissa Chernushenko a certified shiatsu massage therapist. She has been certified since 1994, and now offers an expansive list of holistic services and family wellness classes. She encourages her clients to regulate, and tune into their own bodies to achieve greater well-being. Her business Hand to Heart Being, promotes a threefold approach to health that addresses connecting through touch, ecologically conscious living, and healing practices. She feels strongly about the need to promote compassion through the Healthy Touch within our relationships from infancy through the senior years In this episode Raissa shares what shiatsu is, how it differs from the massage we get at the spa, and how it can help us release and heal. Co-hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living from the heart.
Our guest is Sarah-Jane VandenBerg, a Career Coach on a mission to bring honesty, truth and joy to the world of careers. She is a Certified Career Development Practitioner and a Holistic Narrative Career Professional with over 25 years of experience working with career decision makers and job seekers. She helps people move through confusion, despair and anxiety individuals have around work, and helps them feel relief and reassurance about their career plans and get the results they desire.
**She has a book, Lost & Found: An Adult’s Guide to Empowering Teens to Make Their Best Career Decisions coming out later this year.
Co-hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living from the heart.**
Susan Omilian, JD is an attorney, award-winning author, motivational speaker and recognized national expert who has advocated to end violence against women for the past forty years.
In the 1970s, she founded a rape crisis center and represented battered women in divorce proceedings in the early 1980s. She litigated sex discrimination cases including helping to articulate the legal concept that made sexual harassment illegal in the 1990s. With the death of her nineteen-year-old niece Maggie, who was shot and killed in October 1999 by her ex-boyfriend, Susan’s work became more personal and immediate.
Today, Susan is the originator and facilitator of My Avenging Angel Workshops based on the idea that “living well is the best revenge” that have helped hundreds of women who have been abused to take the journey from victim to survivor to thriver.
Co-hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living from the heart.
**Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
Our guest is Cora Naylor, Emotion Code practitioner**. Join the conversation of about how trapped emotions can hold you back from living your best life.
Co-hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in Canada, click here. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in the US, click here.
**Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode we answer questions submitted by podcast listener around the stress in their lives.**
Co-hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in Canada, click here. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in the US, click here.
**Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode we discussed the challenges of seasonal transitions and ways to transition from one season to another with ease.**
Co-hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in Canada, click here. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in the US, click here.
**Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode we discussed how mindfulness can help you connect to your body, process emotions and decrease stress.**
Co-hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in Canada, click here. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in the US, click here.
**Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
Our guest is Faigie Kobre**, a former early childhood educator and high-end portrait photographer. Faigie switched careers in her 50's to become an elementary school art teacher. She also got very into art herself particularly alcohol inks and teaches women how to reignite their creativity through this magical medium. Faigie is passionate about helping women who don't feel artistic, tap into the healing nature of art.
Co-hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in Canada, click here. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in the US, click here.
**Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
Our guest is Shenandoah Chefalo. Shenandoah Chefalo is a graduate of Michigan State University (holding a Bachelor of Arts with a Major in Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Science), a Core Essentials Graduate from Coach U, a Certified Law of Attraction Advanced Practitioner, a member of the National Speakers Association, and author of Garbage Bag Suitcase the true story of her dysfunctional journey through a childhood with neglectful, drug-and alcohol addicted parents.**
Shen wrote a memoir about her child and time in foster care after realizing her story could help others heal and create awareness about the broken foster care system. Now, Shen works to help organizations understand why trauma awareness is vital to changing the way we do business and helping to promote equitable access for all children.
Co-hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in Canada, click here. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in the US, click here.
**Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
Burnout makes us feel physically and mentally exhausted. Research shows it affects our body on the cellular level. Tune in to learn how long hours and burnout change the way your brain works.
Co-hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in Canada, click here. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in the US, click here**.
**Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
Busy-ness is not a badge of honor, even though society thinks that busy equals successful. Check out this episode for helpful tips and tools for creating a schedule that is manageable.
Co-hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in Canada, click here. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in the US, click here**.
**Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode we share tips and tools for less stressful social media time and managing your email inbox.
Co-hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in Canada, click here. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in the US, click here**.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.Elle Ingalls, author of Pressure-Free Parenting: The Ten-Second Solution to Less Stress and Anxiety for High-Achieving Families is our guest this week.
Elle is an international speaker, coach, professional violinist, conductor and founder of Pressure-Free Living. A former member of the Forbes Coaches Council, she has coached thousands of people from age 10 to 80.
She holds a Bachelor of Musical Arts, a Master of Music, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan where she was the first woman admitted to the orchestral conducting program.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in Canada, click here. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in the US, click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode we talk about three factors that impact the ability to get great sleep: Sleep apnea, over activated stress response, and having a sleep routine. If you're having trouble falling or staying asleep this episode is for you!
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in Canada, click here. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in the US, click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
Our guest Melissa Randall of Intentional Hope joins us for a discussion on building a social support system. Melissa is the founder of Intentional Hope, a personal growth and leadership development organization geared toward empowering women. She opened the door to Studio Hope in Charlotte, MI in November 2021.
She worked in medical administration positions for over 25 years, managing a large Orthopedic Group and a multidisciplinary provider group, providing ancillary services to residents in Michigan nursing home facilities. She believes in servant leadership and is a John Maxwell Certified Leadership team member.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in Canada, click here. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in the US, click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode we explore the body's energy system and heart brain communication.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in Canada, click here. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in the US, click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode we continue our series on mind body therapies that we have found helpful in our healing journeys. In this episode we explore Emotional Freedom Technique.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in Canada, click here. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in the US, click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode we continue our series on mind body therapies that we have found helpful in our healing journeys. We feature Michele Arsenault, RMT, to discussed how massage therapy works and how it reduces stress.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in Canada, click here. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in the US, click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode we continue our series on mind body therapies that we have found helpful in our healing journeys. We feature Michele Duncan, Certified Hypnotherapist, to discuss how hypnotherapy works and how it reduces stress.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in Canada, click here. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in the US, click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode we start discussing healing modalities and practices that have been helpful to us in our stress mastery journey. This episode, we talk about the origins and benefits of Taichi Easy, Deb is a Certified Taichi Easy Practice Leader.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in Canada, click here. To take the Stress and Wellbeing Assessment in the US, click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode how the stories we tell define us. The can help us heal or stay stuck depending on the labels we apply.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. or the Masterclass Series mentioned in the podcasts? click here.
Lisa Zarcone is an author of her memoir “The Unspoken Truth”. She is a Child & Mental Health Advocate and a Blogger on her website – www.lisazarcone.net.
As the Massachusetts National Ambassador NAASCA (National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse) she uses her title and personal story as a platform to speak about child abuse and mental health and suicide prevention.
Lisa has conducted many workshops geared toward these strong subjects and she shares positive ways to work towards healing, forgiveness and overall well being. Being mentally healthy is so important in all aspects of your life – professional & personal.
Lisa is a voice for the voiceless. Her vigorous career includes countless podcast interviews, TV Appearances, Radio Interviews & DJ Spotlights, and multiple Newspaper Articles.
You can also find Lisa on NAASCA Blog Talk Radio “Stop Child Abuse Now” as a panel host.
In June 2021 Lisa received The Heroine Award from the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women (MCSW) -- This award is in recognition of all the work she does out in the community. The Unsung Heroines of MA.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode we explore the relationship between managing stress and mental health.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. or the Masterclass Series mentioned in the podcasts? click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
This podcast is all about less stressful communications. We talk about the energetics of communication, barriers to sending and receiving clear communications, and how to make sure we send the messages we intend.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. or the Masterclass Series mentioned in the podcasts? click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best. Our bonus podcast guests are Dr. George (Jeep) Naum and his wife Vanessa Naum.
Dr. Jeep has been a physician for 31 years and a marriage coach for 27. Since 2019, he and his wife Vanessa had been specializing in physician marriage coaching. As a married physician and coach, he has mixed his passion for coaching doctors and helping them find love and a deeper connection in their marriage and career life. Dr. Jeep has been featured on many online podcasts and is a regular contributor to Physician Outlook Magazine. He is the author of What's Forever For: A Physician's Guide to Everlasting Love and Success in Marriage.
Vanessa, MBA is a sex and relationship coach trained in a philosophy that is a holistic and loving approach to sex and relationship coaching. Her approach invites people to move beyond shame, clarify their needs and boundaries, live emotionally connected in a radically embodied lives, and experienced the joy and satisfaction of great sex and authentic relationships.
Like Dr Jeep, she's passionate about helping married couples live their marriages full potential, particularly since her first marriage ended in divorce. From that experience, she expertly brings knowledge and perspective of what it's like to be in a marriage that isn't working.
Tune in as they share some great insights on reducing the stress in your marriage.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. click here. Interested in the Masterclass Series mentioned in the podcasts? click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
Dr Jeep Naum and his wife Vanessa, relationship coaches to married physicians taped a bonus podcast with us this week, that will release later this month. In this episode, we shared a few of their wisdom nuggets and talk about the carry-over effect of marriage and partner relationship issues on kids.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. or the Masterclass Series mentioned in the podcasts? click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
The human and monetary cost of workplace stress is rising exponentially. In this episode, we'll talk about the problem, and make the case for why employers and entrepreneurs should consider adding stress management tools to their mental wellness programs.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. or the Masterclass Series mentioned in the podcasts? click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode, we talk about the benefits of earthing or grounding for stress relief.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. or the Masterclass Series mentioned in the podcasts? click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode, we talk about two Chinese medicine practices, Human Design and Facial Reading, and the clues both can give to help understand and manage stress experiences.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers, and certified stress educators, who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. or the Masterclass Series mentioned in the podcasts? click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode, we talk about the five common stress responses: Flight, flight, freeze, faint and fawn, and share descriptions of what each looks like in real life. Is procrastination a stress response? Find out in this episode!
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. or the Masterclass Series, go click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
Compassion fatigue is the state of physical and emotional exhaustion leading to a diminished ability to empathize or feel compassion for others. In this episode, we talk about compassion fatigue as a response to constant stress without recharge.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. or the Masterclass Series, go click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode, we share our perspective on the Gap and Gain approach to stress. The concept was developed by Dan Sullivan and shared in a book he co-authored with Benjamin Hardy, PhD.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. or the Masterclass Series, go click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this bonus episode, Dr. Laura DeCesaris joins us to talk about stress and its hormonal effects, and why getting to the root cause of stress issues is so beneficial for health.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. or the Masterclass Series, go click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
Last week, we cracked the door open on early experiences and their influence from a negative lens. In this episode, we're going to share more about positive experiences and their power to help kids grow up to be healthy adults.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. or the Masterclass Series, go click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode, we talk about early life experiences and their influence on how our brain senses threats, kicks into survival mode and thinks its way through problems.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. or the Masterclass Series, go click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode, we talk about the power of the breath in helping to control stress.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. or the Masterclass Series, go click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode, we share the concept of coherence; a state in which the mind, body, heart and emotions are in sync. Coherence allows body systems to work better together.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. or the Masterclass Series, go click here.
Nicole Campbell BA, M.Ed., joins us for a bonus episode about her journey through necrotizing fasciitis. A better title for this podcast might be Positivity in the Face of Challenge and Suffering,
Nicole is one of the most resilient people we know, and her story will inspire you. She is the poster child for physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual resilience. We know it will inspire you and maybe even teach you a few things. It did both for us.
You can connect with Nicole on Facebook or via email at myzebrajourney@gmail.com
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode, we discuss spiritual resilience, rounding out our series on the different domains of resilience. Confused about the difference between spirituality and religion? We've got you covered!
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. or the Masterclass Series, go click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode, we explore mental and emotional resilience; the ability to bounce back during stressful and challenging times in life.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. or the Masterclass Series, go click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode, we explore physical resilience. If you feel you need a jumpstart, are slow to get going, or run out of energy before the end of the day, this is a MUST LISTEN episode.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. or the Masterclass Series, go click here.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode, we discuss the physical sighs of stress, and what modern day flight-fight might look like. Barb Fletcher shares her experiences of physical stress in the form of TMJ, and observations of how stress showed up in her body during a recent stressful time in her life.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. or the Masterclass Series, go to LessStressinLife.com
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
In this episode, we discuss the role of stress in keeping us safe, how stress hormones mobilize energy in an emergency, and how old stressful events in life create stress habit loops that may be running our stress programming. We'll share how to identify and use awareness to take away their power to add stress to your life.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. or the Masterclass Series, go to LessStressinLife.com
Dr Scott Grant joins us for a conversation on parenting, toxic stress, passing our stress to kids and his passion for helping dads engage their child's health and well-being.
Dr. Grant is a board-certified pediatrician who works in primary care and hospital pediatrics in Southeast Michigan. He met his wife, Laura, in medical school and they moved to Michigan in 2017. Since moving, he has become a father to wonderful kids who fill his life with the perfect mix of chaos and joy!!
Professionally, he is interested in learning how childhood adversity and toxic stress affects children into adulthood and how parents can break the cycle of generational trauma to find joy in parenting and develop happier, healthier children. His passion for helping other dads find the joy in fatherhood and engage with the health and well-being of their kids led him to launch the Docs2Dads podcast.
Our mission is to give you tools and strategies that will help you move from being stressed to feeling your best.
Is your support system stressing you out? If you aren't sure, tune into this week's episode to discover how to assemble one that will decrease, not add to your stress levels.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. or the Masterclass Series, go to LessStressinLife.com
Are you navigating life from your head or your heart? If you aren't sure, tune into this week's episode to discover why following the path of the heart is the easiest way to a life with less stress and more joy.
Co -hosts Deb Timmerman and Barb Fletcher, are certified HeartMath® Trainers who are skilled at helping people discover the power of living form the heart. Want more information on HeartMath®, heart-powered living. or the Masterclass Series, go to LessStressinLife.com
Barb Fletcher and Deb Timmerman are collaborating stress experts, specializing in tools to manage stress overwhelm, anxiety, burnout and trauma prevention. This season, they're bringing you 52 Practical Tools for Less Stress in Life. Make sustainable changes in your life through real conversations, stories, and strategies to help you move from stressed to your best
In this episode, they tackle the topic of New Year's resolutions, and whether they add to the stress in your life.
Rina Jensen is a Mental Fitness and Resilience Coach meshing neuroscience, energy work and spirituality together to create massive and instant change in the subconscious mind. She is a life-long learner, budding world traveler, and creator of the Not Just Pretty Faces Podcast, which explores the Divine Feminine and most importantly, disrupting the status quo at every opportunity!
You can connect with Rina on Facebook too
In this episode, author Beck Thompson talks about her book Chasing Normal, a memoir about her abusive childhood with parents who were unable keep her safe or meet her developmental needs. She shares some of the challenges she had to overcome and tools she used, to arrive a place of peace, and feel the most normal she has ever felt.
Now an educator, speaker and presenter, Beck uses her story to help other educators understand the effects of trauma and the importance of creating a safe and stable school environment.
Beck's memoir is a story of hope and determination to live life on her terms and not one dictated by trauma. This episode is filled with hope. If it's possible for Beck, it's possible for you.
Our guest this episode is Fuzz Manning, the creator, guide, and holistic healing arts practitioner behind Restorative Health & Healing. He practices a feminine Holistic Healing Arts process which is supported by science. He helps create customized self-healing plans.
Fuzz can be reached via email at fuzmanning@gmail.com
Michelle Hanton, OAM a multi-award winning business strategist who'll take you from confused and overwhelmed to crystal clear clarity on how to create and maximize opportunities for your life and business. Her awards include NT Export Awards for Manufacturing, finalist in Australian of the Year, Order of Australia from Her Majesty and Telstra (NT) Business Woman of the Year.
Being diagnosed with breast cancer many moons ago became a pivot point in her life. Dragon boating became a form of healing for her, and she had the vision to established the breast cancer survivor dragon boat movement in Australia, and a national charity - Dragons Abreast Australia.
Co hosts Barb Fletcher and Deb Timmerman, talked with Michelle about her healing journey, expanding the dragon boat movement around the world, and lessons and inspiration that came from the sport and the women she met along the way.
Erin Fisk LMSW is our guest this week. Erin earned her Bachelor of Social Work degree at Grand Valley State University and Master of Clinical Social Work degree at Western Michigan University. Her professional career has included medical social work, community mental health, residential treatment for adults with severe and persistent mental illness and corporate non-profit leadership. In 2019, Erin opened her consulting agency, Fisk Solutions, which partners with businesses to improve productivity and profitability through radical listening approaches and mental health support.
This week, co-hosts and collaborators Barb Fletcher and Deb Timmerman have a conversation about the subtle signs and symptoms of stress and getting to the root cause of stress symptoms.
Barb and Deb met as accountability partners in a stress certification workshop, and discovered a commonalities in their clients. Today they collaborate with the mission of helping individuals and organizations move from stressed to their best.
In this episode, Jessica Crosby shares her love of design and story about following her dream. A former telecommunications pro, she dared to follow her dream to become a a designer and launched her business after a cancer diagnosis.
"A house is not a home until your story is attached to it" is Jessica's mantra, she is passionate about truly knowing her clients, how they function in their space while sprinkling special touches of flair throughout her design. Being trained by the New York Art Institute has given Jessica the expertise to capture your style. She welcomes new construction as well as remodel. Jess enjoys using her creativity whenever possible and loves spending time with her husband Jamie.
Stephanie Kolakowski is Founder and Managing Director of Grow Hub GR, Grand Rapids first female and family owned business incubator and community Co-working space & Grow Business Today a Growth and Marketing consulting agency.
Stephanie grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her Nonie and Poppy were first generation Italian immigrants from Italy who taught here the importance of faith, family and service.
She spent 16 years in corporate America as a leader in the media sector. Leading local, regional and national sales teams in radio, television, digital and local programming. Over her career, she has worked with hundreds of companies on marketing and growth strategies, with a focus on encouraging companies to lead with social impact and people on the forefront. Known as an “Idea” person, she is natural born innovator. Where others see problems, she sees opportunity. She believes in working together to connect people, planet, profit and purpose for impact. She believes all should have equitable access and opportunity to achieve their dreams.
As a first-generation entrepreneur she chooses to spend her time, energy and talent focused on people, planet, profit and living in purpose. Noticing the lack of diversity, specifically with female entrepreneurship & feeling firsthand the frustration as a female raising capital. Stephanie set out to serve others on their business growth journeys and create a company and hub on the Westside of Grand Rapids that all who want to build business and impact have a community and location to thrive in.
She is passionate about the Grand Rapids Community and has served in multiple leadership roles in the community.
Dr Cathy Taig has a B.A. in International Studies from the University of Michigan and a D.C. from Life University. She is certified in Webster and Morphogenic Field Techniques and has specialized in the care of pregnant moms and babies for the past 18 years. She has been on television and radio promoting the benefits of natural health. She, and her husband, Dr. Tim Taig, have a chiropractic practice in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where they reside with their two children.
Her new book, Birth Right, Discovering God's Best for Your Birth Experience is available for preorder now. Partly-memoir and partly-informative, Dr. Cathy's book offers women considering becoming mothers an alternative to the typical medicine chest paradigm.
In this episode guest Erin Tarr chats with us about eradicating the female midlife crisis, by helping tween and teen girl become strong confident women. She has some powerful advice for women as well.
Erin Tarr is a Confidence Coach for teen and tween girls and creator of the Fierce & Flourish empowerment program. As a keynote speaker, parenting consultant, and host of the #fierce&flourish podcast, she is a thought leader in the youth confidence space.
Erin’s twenty year career in education and personal development led her to be named among Central Illinois Business Magazine’s 40 Under 40, invited to speak for the FedEx Ground Employee Parenting Group, and highlighted by the FemCity Collective. She has led countless Confidence Building workshops locally, nationally, and internationally and is a frequent podcast expert guest.
Erin’s leadership programs have impacted more than a thousand girls and young women of all backgrounds across the country by helping them overcome self-doubt and everyday anxiety, while discovering their most authentic self.
Sometimes life throws you a curve ball which creates the space for a new business or role in the community. In this episode, Registered Nurse, Karen Lake joins us to chat about moving from employee to independent Caregiving Consultant and the special passion she discovered to support, guide, and directing Caregivers to be the best they can be in their caregiving role, by helping them make informed choices and confidently navigate the complex issues that come with caring for a family member.
Rebecca Thomas is a successful Life Coach living in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In this episode, she shares how her own adversity put her on the path of personal growth, and helped her tap into her strength of finding joy in her pain. Now, with her high energy, contagious confidence, and natural ability to lead, she teaches women to show up for themselves in BIG, unapologetic ways, reclaiming their power, THEIR way and with THEIR rules. You can learn more about her business at More Than A Life Coach | The EnerChi Architect | United States (marieofvenus.com)
On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States. During one year, this equates to more than 10 million women and men.
In this episode, Orsika Julia, the founder and CEO of Out of the Quicksand joins us to share her experience and wisdom of breaking the cycle of domestic violence.
After surviving domestic violence, and being trained by Jack Canfield, Orsika decided to combine her experience and training to create her business in which she guides other survivors out of the shame, blame, and guilt into a life of peace, forgiveness, and healing.
In this episode, senior living expert, Valarie Cook, and Barb Fletcher, Stress Expert and co-host of the Less Stress in Life Podcast, talk about the stress of caregiving, and living in the "sandwich generation" of caring for kids and elderly parents at the same time.
Valarie Cook has been working in the Senior Care industry for 7 years working in both residential services and home care. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Management/Leadership from Northwood University and is working on her Doctorate.
Valarie is a member of the Council on Aging, Caregivers Resources Network, West Michigan Dementia Network, West Michigan Healthcare Network, a board member for the Wyoming/Kentwood Chamber, and Ambassador with the Grand Rapids Area Chamber. In her role with Samaritas Senior Living, Valarie helps bridge the gap between the medical community and residents, while also helping families and older adults to understand the amazing things that Samaritas Senior Living of Grand Rapids can do to help keep their loved one as independent as possible.
Barb Fletcher spent 35 years managing and supervising nursing homes in her province of New Brunswick, Canada. Now in an encore career as a Certified HeartMath Coach, Synergy Certified Stress Mastery Educator, a Licensed Independent Stress Mastery Associate and Certified HeartMath Trainer and Coach, she is her aging mother's primary caregiver.
Dawn Santoriello, CFP® is the founder and CEO of DS Financial Strategies, a fee-based financial planning firm that develops customized plans designed to maximize the efficiency of your money. She is focused on empowering women, couples and entrepreneurs to reach their financial goals with peace of mind and economic confidence across the U.S.
In this episode, Dawn shares her approach to financial freedom combining proven strategies for wealth accumulation with spiritual elements. She shares excerpts of her story and principles from her new book,The Spiritual Path to Prosperity…the Truth about Money Revealed, available at all book retailers.
Money and finances are the number 1 stressors in life. In this week’s podcast we’ll talk about reducing the stress around buying or refinancing a home with Eric Kistka, Branch Manager for Inlanta Mortgage.
Eric helps clients finance their dream home and build their personal wealth. As a 20-year mortgage industry professional, he has a wonderful depth of knowledge of the mortgage and financial services industry.
Wise Woman Mentor Suzy Manning has been helping women connect to their feminine energy for decades. In this season of her life, she is helping people expand their definition of health to experience the joy and beauty in life, and the gift of being present with the aging process.
In this episode, we chat with Suzy about that expanded definition of health, and the lessons nature has to teach us about ourselves and the natural flow of life.
In this episode, Chiropractor, Dr. Kelly Fortier, share a great explanation of what happens in your nervous system and brain when it is under stress.
Dr. Kelly has been practicing at Uptown Chiropractic in Fredericton, NB since 2008, with a focus on family health and wellness. A challenging pregnancy triggered an interest and more training in working with kids. She discusses the topic of birth trauma and its influence on our nervous system throughout the lifespan.
In this episode, chef Andy Schultz, owner of Four Chefs Catering LLC, a company offering event catering, meal delivery, in home intimate dining services and cooking classes, stops by to talk about food as medicine and a tool for stress relief.
Anna Cley is a transformative artist, author, opera singer, and artistic director who is passionate about growth, empowerment, and transcendence. She believes that individuals who overcome their limiting beliefs and dare to follow their heart can find true happiness and freedom, allowing them to care more for others, and to make the world a better place.
A native of France, she is performed on the stage of Carnegie Hall and in the title role of Carmen, after a successful career as a rocket scientist. She's the founding president of the nonprofit Vocalise, seeking to empower those who experienced trauma, celebrating the universal statement that our own truth is the best treasure of all. Her book, The Journey of the Heart is a philosophical tale of courage, freedom and love for children and adults alike, and a beautiful reminder that no matter what our circumstances are, and how we're born, the future is ours to write.
Chandra McBean, Executive Director of the Alzheimer Society of New Brunswick, Canada is our guest this episode. We have a candid conversation about mental health in the work place and how sharing her own struggles, helped her team create a culture of caring and support.
Francois Lupien is a dynamic mentor, coach, speaker, and presenter whose experience includes working with Tony Robbins, Stephen Covey (7 Habits of Highly Effective People) and as a consultant with Bob Proctor (Movie: The Secret).
Achieving excellence in everything he puts his mind to, Francois has been a Tae Kwon Do Canadian champion, a Top Real Estate agent for 11 years with Remax, and a serial entrepreneur with multiple successful 6-figure businesses.
Happily married and father to 6 amazing children, Francois loves spending time at the beach with his family and drinking his beloved Vitamix juice every morning for energy!
Passionate, dedicated and enthusiastic, Francois can show you how to get more success in business through mindset coaching and mentorship.
This episode features Kate Wendell, co-founder of Family OS. Kate and husband Tanner are helping to build strong marriages as the foundation for successful families, communities, and cultures.
Kate romanticized married life and motherhood, thinking it was going to be a fairytale-like experience. The chaos of balancing a radio broadcasting career, two babies, a stepdaughter and marriage were an emotional rollercoaster. So, Kate decided she could either crumble or embrace it, and uses her experiences and training to help others to Curb the Chaos. Listen as Kate describes the transition from career woman to mother and entrepreneur and shares her take on living the dream.
Sheila VanZile is the product of the first generation of career women that were gifted the ability to juggle “real” careers and family - the outcome of the original feminist movement of the 1960’s. Trailblazers who worked 2 full time jobs for decades, one outside the home, and the other managing the home.
She was by all accounts wildly successful in her business career, but not without a cost. As part of that generation, she neglected her own needs. At 60, she felt disconnected, dissatisfied and unfulfilled. After her mother’s death, she was also exhausted from caregiving and ready to collapse.
In this episode she talks about using her mothers death and the gift of time, to commit to herself and reshape her life. Listen in to discover how Sheila left behind the “shoulds” and discovering the woman she left behind decades before.
Financial Coach Jess VanderLaan shares her journey of resolving $140K of debt and becoming a stay-at-home mom. In this episode she shares tools, strategies and wisdom on how she and her partner stopped stressing about money.
Kat Roberts, owner of SurfaceFloat, New Brunswick, CA discusses her journey to #breakupwithstress and integrate stress strategies in her health and wellness plan. She shares how not paying attention to stress signals made her ill and the necessary changes to get her health back.
Over the past 30 years, Dr. James Petersen, Ph.D. has become the leader in helping to reduce workplace stress through evidence-based stress risk assessments and corporate training programs. He is creator of the Stress Mastery Questionnaire™ (SMQ), a validated stress risk assessment, that has been administered to over 600,000 people in 15 countries.
In this episode, Dr. Petersen talks about how information from SMQ can help people make lifestyle changes, and change their relationship with stress.
If you would like to take the SMQ, click this link:
Named one of the most inspirational paddlers alive by Canoe and Kayak magazine, and most inspirational outdoors person of the year in Blue Ridge Outdoors magazine, Anna is a world-renowned paddle-sports coach and trainer, and author of Yoga for Paddling, published by Falcon Guides.
Anna is the leading authority in whitewater kayaking and stand up paddle-boarding instruction for women. She's highly sought after for her unique and empowering approach to building confidence, facing fears and overcoming challenges both on and off the water.
She's an American Canoe Association Instructor Trainer Educator in whitewater kayaking, stand up paddle-boarding and SUP yoga, as well as a certified Ayurveda Wellness Counselor and yoga teacher (500 RYT).
Anna combines her experience and skill in paddling, Ayurveda and yoga to create mind, body and adventure coaching, retreats and programming for women. https://mindbodypaddle.com/
Patti Smith is an Intuitive Life/Business Success Coach and the Owner of Your Dream Genie. She has been called a "Practical Mystic" who integrates intuition, energy and spiritual practices with the systems, tools and techniques she teaches her clients. Patti loves working with inspired, inquisitive, heart-and-soul led business women so they can rise, shine and soar. She teaches her clients about the Energy of Money and helps them design and run 'conscious' businesses that create wealth and impact today and leave a legacy for tomorrow!
In this episode, Leslie Fiorenzo, of CoachwithLeslie.com shares tips and strategies for making difficult conversations less stressful and more productive, whether at home or in the workplace.
Is clutter controlling your life? Expert Conny Graf shares her approach to habits and systems that prevent the chaos of clutter from your controlling life. To learn more about Conny's approach visit her website.
Realtor Alix Criswell joined us to share her journey with the decluttering process, how it fueled focus, increased productivity, and gave her the emotional freedom to take on 2021.
Lisa is a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner. In this episode, we explore the concept of self-healing and how it impacts both the mind and body.
We also chat about how genetics, environmental factors, underlying triggers, physiological stressors, lifestyle choices lead to a state of dis-ease. Learn more about Lisa's work at Nourishing-Harmony.com
Author SaraJane Herrboldt, joins us to talk about her book, Don't Just Survive, Thrive, and shares her story of burnout in the classroom, her awareness of trauma as a contributor to classroom challenges and managing family-work balance.
In this episode, Michelle Butt, shares an interesting body of work called facial intelligence. Rooted in Chinese Medicine, the face is a record of who you are and who you were. It reveals your habits and behaviors, how you think and how life experiences and childhood events may have impacted the person you are today.
Barb Fletcher and Deb Timmerman both experienced burnout while working in the healthcare industry. In this episode, they share how their experiences changed their career path and share their vision for the Less Stress In Life Podcast.