Agents of Wellness by Nourish Melbourne: Recent Episodes

Nourish Melbourne

Raw and unscripted, the Agents of Wellness Podcast by Nourish Melbourne provides you with an opportunity to dive deep into a vast range of well-being topics with knowledgeable and passionate experts (aka agents of wellness), in the holistic health and wellness arena. This podcast extracts the wisdom of our agents of wellness via curious, casual, and intriguing discussions top benefit your everyday living, and enjoyment of life.Agents of Wellness is brought to you by Natasha and Mel of Nourish Melbourne, Australia’s first and only holistic health membership community, and well-being guide.

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In this final episode of season two, Natasha chats with renowned meditation teacher, speaker, and coach, Tom Cronin.

Tom Cronin spent 26 years in finance markets as one of Australia’s leading bond and swap brokers. He discovered meditation in the early stages of his career, when the anxiety and chaos he was experiencing had hit a crisis point, and it completely transformed his world, both personally and professionally. Founder of The Stillness Project, a global movement to inspire one billion people to sit in stillness daily, Tom is passionate about reducing stress and chaos in people’s lives.

His ongoing work in transformational leadership coaching and corporate training has seen him working with some of the top companies in the world like Amazon, Oracle, Harvard Business School, Qantas, UBS and Coca-Cola. He has spoken on stage at conferences and events like Adnews Summit, Afest, Wanderlust and Mind Heart Connect. Tom has six books published, a meditation app and produced the hit film The Portal.

This episode will take you from the head, to the heart!

Topics discussed in this episode

  • Tom’s story from broker to transformational coach and Vedic Meditation Teacher
  • From panic attacks, suicidal thoughts, and a euphoric world from synthetic creation, to stillness and utopia within
  • Happiness vs fulfilment - which one are human beings actually looking for?
  • We are in a paradigm shift - understanding the uncomfortability of transition
  • Destruction and war on the outside of our lives, and how this translates to what’s going on inside of us
  • How do we encourage others around us to shift their awareness?
  • Conscious business and the creation of a successful business - how do the two co-exist?
  • The energetics of money, and re-weighting our values.

Connect with Tomtomcronin.com
@tomcronin
Watch The Portal Movie here

Connect with Natasha

@nourish.melbourme
@_natashamason

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Prepare to fall deeply and full heartedly into the words of this episode's guest, Donna Wallace of The House of Orion.

Donna helps people all around the world to switch their lights. With over 25 years of energy healing work, exploring many modalities, Donna has been on a mission to find the most powerful and effective techniques for people to heal and evolve. The work she does with clients today is do help them discover their perfect ‘soulmate stone’, creating soul-sparking, heirloom jewellery that helps them blossom into their full soul potential! And yes - we can heal through beauty!

Natasha invites Donna to share the turning points in her life where she found her connection to the Divine, what the biggest mistake people make when learning to trust their intuition is, the biggest lies about spirituality and living an abundant life, and how we can discover the truth about who we are as soulful, unique beings on this planet.

Discover in this episode:

  • Donna’s turning point - started at age 16 with an experience of Reiki
  • How the birth of her daughter catapulted her evolution
  • The beauty and the often scary side of following your intuition
  • The birth of The House of Orion
  • As we have our own unique soul mission, every gem stone has its own unique mission
  • Donna’s personal story about the gem stone she’s wearing during our podcast recording
  • Are gems for life? How Donna uses jewels and gems as portals to your soul, and loved ones
  • Plus, an offering from Donna for all listeners to this episode!

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Connect with Donna, and useful links:Instagram@the_house_of_orion
Facebook OfficialHouseOfOrion
Book your FREE 10 MIN ENERGY READING to find out what your ‘soulmate stone’ could be
Find out more about Donna’s mission and custom made for the soul jewellery, please visit her website here

Connect with Natasha

@nourish.melbourme
@_natashamason

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We are being asked to lead within a new framework that recognises energy, frequency, and quantum consciousness. Amber Ward of Abundare is paving the path to allow more of us to understand and adopt this vision in our own lives!

Amber Ward is an eternal student of energy and quantum consciousness. Co-founder of abundaré, she works with a wide range of people to create harmonised realities by understanding life force as the starting point.

Having worked in the wellness space for over a decade, her diverse experience spans executive leadership in transformational tech and psychedelic medicine; transformational wellness mentoring; and sustainable design - culminating in creating bridges between worlds.

She will guide you to see how energy is unlimited and abundance is everywhere, in everything.

In this episode:

  • Amber's morning routine
  • Grief and joy aren’t mutually exclusive
  • Understanding energy, and the role of energy especially for holistic practitioners and energy healers
  • Why energy and frequency is required to be understood now more than ever
  • The global paradigm shift - structures and systems are failing, and falling
  • The missing aspect of scientific models of energy
  • Seeing the tangible realities of understanding frequency and energy
  • Where there are energies to empower people, there are also energies that create dis-ease
  • There’s more light on the planet now more than there has ever been, despite fear based projections
  • Being aware of our energy is being as grounded as possible in our life force - we’re being asked to unlearn
  • Standing in your power, flourishing, and then collective flourishing follows
  • Who is Abundare for?
  • As our awareness evolves it becomes like breathing - spontaneous and natural
  • Responsibility is our guiding point for devotion - self-responsibility is the greatest act of self-love
  • The importance of reigniting play and joy
  • Creating new realities, and envisioning new ways of being

*Attend our Live Virtual Event with Amber & Triz of Abundare!**Pathways to Being a Quantum Creator*Thursday 9th November 12-1pm AEDT
Details and tickets here

Connect with Amber & Abundareabundare.co@abundare.co@amber_leadingwithlove

Connect with Natasha

@nourish.melbourme
@_natashamason

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This episode with Stacey Lim, the co-founder of Uluna (the other co-founder being her Mum, Julie!), is one to enliven the part of you that is so inherently connected with nature. Natasha and Stacey talk about crystals, their vibrational qualities, the sourcing of crystals, and how they work into our day to day living.

Stacey is a Gemmologist, meditation therapist, transformation coach, Crystal + Reiki Master Healer, NLP Practitioner, Autonomic Nervous System Reprogrammer, Brain Body Medicine Therapist and is currently completing her Masters in Holistic Counselling.

Topics discussed in this episode:

  • The Uluna story
  • How we are attracted to crystals & gems
  • How do we find the crystal that’s right for us?
  • Clearing limiting beliefs
  • Finding and following our purpose
  • Getting out of our own way
  • Defining your values
  • Clear quartz crystal - the master healer, the all rounder, and highest vibrational crystal
  • How Stacey uses crystals in her daily life
  • The ethical side of crystals - being aware of synthetic stones and unnatural crystals
  • Crystals for the home
  • Crystals for travel and protection
  • Crystals for children

Connect with Staceyuluna.com.au
@ulunalife

Also, look out for Uluna's weekly live Instagram sales and crystal classes with Stacey and her Mum Julie, every Tuesday at 7pm AEST/AEDT @ulunalife

Connect with Natasha

@nourish.melbourme
@_natashamason

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Whether Ayurveda is already part of your vocabulary or you're entering new territory, you are going to enjoy this dive into sublime daily rituals and Ayurvedic wisdom with Chasca Summerville. Chasca is an Ayurvedic Practitioner and internationally published author of Ayurvedic Rituals. Chasca is passionate about sharing ancient wisdom to better serve ourselves and the planet.

Topics discussed in this episode:

  • Ushapaan - about this daily ritual and its benefits
  • Ushapaan - recipe for warm ginger lemon tea to be enjoyed first thing in the morning
  • On ageing: “if you’re not dead, you’re young” - Sadhguru
  • Doshas and their applicability to our life stages
  • Practices to employ that support graceful ageing
  • Abhyanga - warm oil self massage for lymphatics, skin health, toxin removal
  • Skin and the microbiome
  • Chasca's book - Ayurvedic Rituals
  • Diet and ageing well - Ayurvedic proverb: “when diet is right medicine is of no use…”
  • Sattvic foods - the quality of your food is of utmost importance
  • SOUL food: Seasonal Organic Unprocessed Local
  • How to start understanding your doshas and easy to support your body in each stage
  • The wonder that is ghee...and why we should include ghee in our diet
  • Chasca’s golden tip when it comes to ageing gracefully!

Connect with Chascaalchemyofayurveda.com.au
@alchemyofayurveda
Chasca's book: Ayurvedic Rituals

Connect with Natasha

@nourish.melbourme
@_natashamason

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If the title of this episode alone hasn't got you interested, then our guest surely will! Self titled 'Director of Magical Flow', Melanie O'Rourke is an Intuitive specialising in EFT and Tapping, Reiki, Tarot, and soon to be practising Mediumship. As at July 2023 Melanie is studying Mediumship at The Arthur Findlay College in the UK, "the worlds foremost college for the advancement of spiritualism and psychic sciences". Her own 'search of spirit' has quickly translated into a 'search of self', with much of what we touch on in this episode echoing what this entails.

'MelO' naturally attract healers, sensitives, and empaths everywhere she goes, including animals - who are also proving to be important teachers in her life!

Topics discussed in this episode:

  • Sound frequency as medicine
  • Meaning of spirit - spirit as feeling
  • Living with sensitivity in a post-pandemic world
  • Staying curious through uncertainty
  • Moving through residual energy from trauma
  • Using light as a tool to support high sensitivity
  • Tarot
  • Reiki & animals

MelO's sound frequency healing resources
Clearing:

  • Transmute Negative Energy - 417
  • Remove Unconscious Blocks - 396
  • Spiritual Cleanse - 741

Balancing Your Energy:

  • Keep your sacral chakra balanced - 288
  • Raise Positive Vibration - 528

MelO's personal favourites:

  • Manifest Miracles / Law of Attraction - 432
  • Abundance Love and Wealth - 888 Boom!
  • Sound Bath

Connect with MelOmelanieorourke.com
@iam_melanieorourke

Connect with Natasha

@nourish.melbourme
@_natashamason

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In this episode we are joined by Reiki Master & Teacher, Crystal Healing Instructor and Mentor Loretta Carraro of Nourished Energy. Loretta encourages us to move into the unknown, to adopt the role of the self-healer as being primary when it comes to better understanding the vastness of what we can become!

Topics discussed in this episode:

  • Universal Life Force Energy
  • The power of Reiki
  • Turning towards the tangible to trust the process
  • Sustaining awareness in the present to inform our next steps
  • Radical self-responsibility
  • The turning point of taking control of your healing
  • Energy healing and energetics
  • The healer, the self-healer within us, and healing
  • Breath, sound, and nature as medicine
  • Archetypes

Connect with Lorettanourishedenergy.com.au
@nourishedenergy

Connect with Natasha

@nourish.melbourme
@_natashamason

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We are thrilled to bring Irene Ais back onto the show, this time, to discuss what might just be the most important topic of our time - Mental Health. Irene has been teaching Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) for close to a decade and this life-changing work involves softening the stigma around mental health and focusing on human to human skills of listening without judgement.

This is THE conversation that will gently nudge you into having more conversations around Mental Health. You’ll learn the importance of real honest talk, as if your life depends on it, because it just might!

Topics discussed in this podcast:

  • Mental health stigma
  • The challenges of being human which face us all
  • What is a mental health problem?
  • Benefit of support & intervention
  • How to move towards an acceptance of mental health symptoms
  • Pathways to feeling mentally robust
  • Listening without judgement
  • Physical First Aid & MHFA are connected
  • The everyday burden of living with mental health symptoms
  • You can have an impact in someones life
  • Empower us to check in because we know we can make a difference
  • Understand when intervention is required
  • Accessibility of the online MHFA program

Connect with Irene
@irene_ais
ireneais.com

Connect with Natasha & Mel

@nourish.melbourme
@_natashamason
@the_good_food_rebellion
nourish.melbourne

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Georgie Collinson is someone who has experienced a kind of anxiety that is all too commonplace in our modern world - one that bubbles beneath the surface of a person who appears to have it all together, until they face the discomfort head on. Georgie allowed herself the space to unravel, as it was the only way through, and she now shows up for others to do the same. In this podcast Georgie shares the holistic mind-body approach she has created to overcome the spirals of self-doubt and inner critic battles that contribute to an anxious mind. A truly inspiring listen!

Topics discussed in this podcast:

  • How her own life journey brought her here
  • Her new book ’The Anxiety Reset Method’
  • Orthorexia
  • High functioning anxiety
  • Re-parenting our inner child
  • Gratitude for the things that caused the discomforts
  • Her work with the brave women who choose to go inwards
  • 'You can change'
  • Sitting with our emotions
  • The idea of normal is a myth
  • Holistic method to dealing with anxiety
  • Connection to self through movement
  • Unconditional love and acceptance to move through anxiety with others

Find The Anxiety Reset Methodhere, or at any major book store

Listen to Georgie's Podcast: The Anxiety Reset Podcast

Other books mentioned: The Brain That Changes Itself, by Norman Doidge

Connect with Georgiegeorgiecollinson.com
@georgiethenaturopath

Connect with Natasha & Mel

@nourish.melbourme
@_natashamason
@the_good_food_rebellion
nourish.melbourne

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In this emotional and engaging conversation with the wonderful Trish Devereux, Breathwork and Health Coach from High Health Club, she opens up with radical authenticity about the challenges that pushed her to address her own wellbeing. We discuss the ways in which she reclaimed the narrative of her own life, through breath and ritual, and embarking upon the challenging journey to self-love. Armed with knowledge and tools to help others do the same, Trish shares why so many of us don’t respond to our calling and why this is the foundation for connecting to our 'Why'.

Topics discussed in this podcast:

  • The fear of being seen
  • Self worth
  • Giving ourselves permission to do the things that we know serve us
  • What we think others think of us and therefore how we think of ourselves
  • The power of the breath
  • Control your breath, control your life
  • Breathing and the nervous system
  • How breath effects our gut & hormones
  • How can you feel better than you do now
  • Creating ritual in the everyday
  • Being conscious of programming in our current daily life

Connect with Trish@highhealthclub
highhealth.club

Connect with Natasha & Mel

@nourish.melbourme
@_natashamason
@the_good_food_rebellion
nourish.melbourne

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In this episode President of Meditation Australia and Founder of The Fifth Direction Asher Packman shares profound and poetic insights that not only shape the extraordinary human that he is, but teach us to refrain from judgement, and become our truest expression - often the person our wounded parts need. His cancer diagnosis brings with it an invitation to remember that life is finite, and this inspires him to love with all his heart.

Well versed in living a conscious existence, Asher reminds us that the change we are seeking in the world begins with changing the way we see ourselves and our place in the world. Truly an episode that will pull on your heart strings.

Topics discussed in this podcast:

  • Story-telling and the like-hearted community that is The Fifth Direction
  • Finding yourself through darkness
  • Descending down the well has its blessings
  • Purpose and the voice inside
  • Our children and the inner child
  • Death, fear and avoidance
  • Living with cancer
  • Work versus labour, and the work-life balance
  • Connecting to that which brings you joy
  • Manifesting and tuning in to what is.

Book mentioned: The Smell of Rain on Dust by Martin Prechtel

Connect with Asher
thefifthdirection.com
@asherpackman
@thefifthdirection_

Connect with Natasha & Mel

@nourish.melbourme
@_natashamason
@the_good_food_rebellion
nourish.melbourne

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Yoko is one fascinating human who has incorporated into fasting more joy and deliciousness than anyone we know. She has spent the last decade engaged in research on 'living food' in her very own raw food kitchen and cafe, Shoku Iku, creating food as medicine and art.

Her knowledge of herbs is profound and steeped in ancient herbal tradition. In this podcast we dive into the concept of Autophagy and the 5 day reset programs she has created to harness the power of the body’s incredible healing response.

Topics discussed in this podcast:

  • Safe fasting and when to expect to see the magic happen
  • Autophagy
  • The advanced reset and the science to back it
  • Fasting for women
  • Know your body and understand how it’s communicating with you
  • Herbs: tonic, adaptogens, medicinal mushrooms
  • Raw food, ‘living food'
  • The miracle food that is natto, explained
  • The lowdown on soy
  • Cafe wrapping up, a beautiful era for Yoko, and where to from here

Connect with Yoko
@shokuiku
@inoue.yoko
shokuikuaustralia.com

Connect with Natasha & Mel

@nourish.melbourme
@_natashamason
@the_good_food_rebellion
nourish.melbourne

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Today’s guest, Gut Expert Rachel Larsson has made it her life's purpose to support her clients to overcome the bloat! Acknowledging that she was destined to work in the field of gut health and naturopathy, Rachel owes her deep appreciation and respect for nature to being raised on a farm. Although it was through her own gut healing journey that she experienced the lack of empathy within the health system and from there made it her mission to guide her patients to health by offering greater emotional support and a clear understanding of the gut mind connection.

Her message is a powerful one - 'Food isn’t the enemy. Food is the messenger’.

Other topics discussed in this podcast:

  • Family health and epigenetics to flick gene switch off
  • Gut health & hormones
  • Food intolerance vs allergy OR overlap
  • There is a place for gluten, but read the fine print!
  • Leaky Gut
  • The gut mind connection
  • Power of Brain Resting
  • Do we really need probiotics?
  • Fibre - best friend or foe?
  • Mindful eating

Connect with Rachel
rachellarsson.com.au
@rachel.larsson

Connect with Natasha & Mel

@nourish.melbourme
@_natashamason
@the_good_food_rebellion
nourish.melbourne

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Laura Poole, having taught both Natasha and Mel in Vedic Meditation, joins us on the podcast. We think the fact that meditation is commonplace in Melbourne has a lot to do with Laura and her ability to do things differently. From creating the largest Vedic community in town, as well as founding Mahasoma, the first female led meditation collective, she truly is the go-to for understanding ancient knowledge and how we can apply it to our modern world.

Her wisdom belies her years, and we are so honoured to discuss both the big things, like conscious relationships, as well as the small moments of pleasure in every moment.

Other topics discussed in this podcast:

  • Do we truly understand what meditation does?
  • Realising we are love
  • Understanding Your Oceanic Self
  • Are you aware of what is?
  • Love is a state of consciousness
  • Knowledge, tools and techniques to embrace change through self awareness
  • Questioning your relationship to everything

Connect with Laura
laurapoole.com
@laura_poole
mahasoma.com
@mahasoma

Connect with Natasha & Mel

@nourish.melbourme
@_natashamason
@the_good_food_rebellion
nourish.melbourne

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A story of two people who met 15 years ago on the street dancing scene, and are partners in life to this day. Ange and Marty of The A Life offer us an incredible exploration into the power of mindset when it comes to excelling in movement. You’ll discover some fascinating hacks that simple movement can solve, and you’ll learn that your FEET are truly to be worshipped.

Other topics explored in this podcast:

  • Using exercise as a tool to bring balance to your life
  • Joint health
  • Walking as a foundational activity
  • Benefits of wearing minimal shoes and going barefoot
  • Ageing well with resistance training
  • Empowering yourself to connect to your body
  • Body awareness through mindset and consistency

Connect with Ange & Marty at The A Lifethealife.com.au
@the_a_life

Connect with Natasha & Mel

@nourish.melbourme
@_natashamason
@the_good_food_rebellion
nourish.melbourne

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Rosemarie from Raw Satya is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to using food as medicine. Not only does her wisdom come from a life full of experience, but it was an intrinsic knowing that she connected to in her youth that led her on this (at times) weird and wonderful path. In this podcast Rosemarie shares stories that are rich in esoteric wisdom, and we understand that devotion and resilience got her to where she is today - a teacher and a student of nature’s medicine. We learn that live food is the ultimate rejuvenator and Rosemary herself, a woman glowing in her late 60s, is testament to her teachings.

Other topics discussed in this podcast:

  • Searching for an answer for her depression
  • Using food as medicine
  • Empowers her clients - then the magic happens when the student becomes the teacher.
  • Important factors if considering a fast
  • Eliminating bad foods is better than fasting
  • Fasting with kindness as opposed to fear
  • A complete trust in nature
  • Parsley Smoothie
  • Fear of bananas
  • Nature’s medicine
  • Conscious Eating

Connect with Rosemarie
rawsatya.com.au
@raw_satya

Connect with Natasha & Mel

@nourish.melbourme
@_natashamason
@the_good_food_rebellion
nourish.melbourne

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This conversation with Irene 'Izzy' Ais is equally insightful and profound. Izzy’s wisdom runs deep so when she says that understanding the nervous system is the key to wellbeing, you believe it with every cell in your body. After all, she is an integrated physiotherapist, yogi, and meditation teacher - a force of nature and cheer-leader for your capacity. Izzy’s dedication to her path will assure you that anything is possible with the right tools to guide you.

Other topics discussed in this podcast:

  • Teaching self-sufficiency
  • Small steps to creating change
  • We are innately powerful
  • How one can enjoy wine and coffee without the guilt and shame
  • Acknowledging individual capacity
  • The key to reaching your goal using routines and habits
  • Being perfect isn’t what you think it is

Connect with Irene
ireneais.com
@irene_ais

Connect with Natasha & Mel

@nourish.melbourme
@_natashamason
@the_good_food_rebellion
nourish.melbourne

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A chat about shifting energy and facing your fears.

Lydia has made it her life’s purpose to give you the courage to look at your trauma, let those you don’t agree with be your teachers and break trauma bonds - all as a means of creating the life you desire. And she shares some interesting insights into ‘choices' and the power of asking for exactly what you need. 

Other topics explored in this podcast:

  • Victim mindset and how to shift out of it
  • Those you are usually in disagreeance with can be your biggest teacher
  • Why trauma bonds are unhealthy
  • Common limiting beliefs
  • Stepping up and asking for help
  • Making choices that serve your highest self
  • Facing your fears
  • Earthing and many small things to help shift energy

Connect with Lydia
wildme.com.au
@wildmebefree

Connect with Natasha & Mel

@nourish.melbourme
@_natashamason
@the_good_food_rebellion
nourish.melbourne

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This conversation with Dr. Marc Cohen will enhance your life in ways that can begin today. He beautifully simplifies an esoteric wisdom and advanced science about the nature of water and geometry into simple hacks to upgrade your wellbeing. From cold water therapy to poetry and tulsi tea, Dr Marc is a wealth of knowledge in a great many fields. Having spent 30 years as an integrative medical doctor and half of his career as a tenured professor in the trans-disciplinary field of wellness, the concepts explored in this podcast are both beautiful and mind expanding - you will never quite see water and wellbeing the same again.

Other topics discussed in this podcast:

  • Fascinating story of water
  • Importance of water - 5th phase of water
  • You dry, you die
  • Our contact with water is mostly through bathing not drinking
  • Chlorine and simple hack to remove it from bath water
  • Cold water hokey pokey
  • Relationship to your water source through sacred geometry
  • Eating less poison is good for you
  • Benefits of tulsi tea
  • Poems for wellbeing based on literature reviews
  • Daily Wellness Protocol
  • Guide to Pandemic Survival and Hacks to Relax

Connect with Dr. Marc:
@drmarcextremewellness
drmarc.co

To shop Dr Marc’s range of incredible products: https://drmarc.co/drmarc-shop/
Discover Extremely Alive Wellness Tonics: https://extremelyalive.com.au/

Connect with Natasha & Mel

@nourish.melbourme
@_natashamason
@the_good_food_rebellion
nourish.melbourne

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Have you ever thought about the clothes you wear, and the bedding you use as having a significant impact on your health? Our podcast guest Vinita Baravkar, founder of Bhumi Organic Cotton, will lift the veil on an industry that we literally wrap ourselves in daily and one that we are very rarely without. When you truly understand this insight - the choice to change to more ethical, sustainable and chemical free textile products becomes a choice you’ll make with conviction.

Vinita founded Bhumi organic cotton after she journeyed through India, seeing the devastating effects that synthetic textiles have on human health and the environment.

Now Bhumi has written their own story and single-handedly changed the game. This is an episode not to be missed!

Other topics discussed in this podcast:

  • Pesticides and fertilisers used in textiles
  • Fast Fashion and landfill
  • Greenwashing and debunking certifications
  • Bhumi’s draws on stories. Who made it, how, and in what condition?
  • 'GOTS' certification
  • Impacts on the endocrine system
  • Toxic threads campaign by Greenpeace
  • Best laundry products to use
  • Plant-based and water-based dyes

Connect with Bhumi Organic Cotton
@bhumi_organic_cotton
bhumi.com.au

Connect with Natasha & Mel

@nourish.melbourme
@_natashamason
@the_good_food_rebellion
nourish.melbourne

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In today’s podcast we dive deep into the rabbit hole that is health hazards in the home. You will be in awe of our guest, Nicole Bijlsma who single handedly created the Building Biology industry in this country, after 10 miscarriages lead her down this path. Her story will move you and inspire you. So grab a pen and jot down one or two simple things you can do today to radically transform your health. This is a must listen and we owe Nicole an epic amount of gratitude for pioneering an industry and pushing environmental medicine to new heights.

Other topics discussed in this podcast:

  • Unexplained recurrent miscarriages
  • Connection between ones health and the condition of their home
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • WIFI vs hardwiring
  • Mould and the link between mental illness and chronic insomnia
  • The real cost of cutting corners when building a home
  • Endocrine disrupting chemicals & household products
  • Poor sleep & fatigue
  • Tips to thriving in your environment
  • Nicole's book - Healthy Home, Healthy Family.

Connect with Nicole

@colbijlsma

buildingbiology.com.au

Connect with Natasha & Mel

@nourish.melbourme
@_natashamason
@the_good_food_rebellion
nourish.melbourne

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The incredibly honest, playful and devoted woman behind Angea shares stories to incite tears and laughter. Over 20 years ago her own health crisis brought her to study TCM and to this day she is as devoted as ever to her cause - sharing the medicine of the cosmos with the community of powerful women that she has nurtured along her path. She empowers women to embrace all stages of their life as an opportunity to re-birth into the next so this conversation is truly one not to be missed.

Other topics discussed in this podcast:

  • Conscious conception
  • Conceiving at a later age
  • Fertility issues leading many women to cycle awareness
  • Environmental stressors and the W’om’b
  • The Pill and the (lack of) science to support it, and why education is key!
  • The egg and the sperm and the cosmic intelligence to grow a human
  • Male infertility

Connect with Dr Amanda

@angea_acupuncture_yoga

angea.com.au

Connect with Natasha & Mel

@nourish.melbourme

@_natashamason

@the_good_food_rebellion

nourish.melbourne

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This episode with Dr Sarah Jane will open the confines of your mind. We dive deep into Sarah Jane’s path, one that brings with it healing for her clients and herself interchangeably. Dr Sarah Jane describes the moment she used a search engine to discover her purpose, then went on to let this direct her to where she is today! Join us for this beautiful conversation about how all the answers we seek are within us.

Other topics explored in this podcast:

  • Seeing the energetic field as a unique blueprint
  • Transpersonal counselling
  • Accepting our emotions
  • Moving through uncomfortable experiences
  • Communication from the soul
  • Our perception effects everything we do, think, feel
  • Sharpening your intuition

Books mentioned:

  • The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk
  • Metaphysical anatomy by Evette Rose
  • You can heal your life by Louise Hay
  • The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer

Connect with Dr Sarah Jane

@en_light_n_drsarahjanechiro

drsarahjanechiro.com

Connect with Natasha & Mel

@nourish.melbourme

@_natashamason

@the_good_food_rebellion

nourish.melbourne

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This episode will leave you with a strong sense of hope around ageing. Amy Crawford, of The Holistic Ingredient, has made it her mission to uncover a truth linking ageing and happiness, one that you really don’t want to miss. When it comes to the nature of ageing, this episode asks some big questions and the answers will surprise you and potentially shift you to your core. Beautifully poetic in its message around human behaviour, stereotypes and stories. 

Other topics discussed in this podcast:

  • Sleep
  • Who truly influences our choices
  • Attitudes and beliefs
  • Children as our witness
  • Misinformation surrounding ageing
  • Re-framing lockdowns
  • Pandemic as a means of going inwards
  • Is your own BS holding you back from happiness?

Connect with Amy

@theholisticingredient

theholisticingredient.com 

Connect with Natasha & Mel

@nourish.melbourme

@_natashamason

@the_good_food_rebellion

nourish.melbourne

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Welcome to Agents of Wellness by Nourish Melbourne. In this intro episode, get familiar with your podcast hosts and Nourish Melbourne founders - Natasha Mason and Mel Alizzi.

Raw and unscripted, the Agents of Wellness Podcast provides you with an opportunity to dive deep into a vast range of well-being topics with knowledgeable and passionate experts (aka agents of wellness), in the holistic health and wellness arena. This podcast extracts the wisdom of our agents of wellness via curious, casual, and intriguing discussions top benefit your everyday living, and enjoyment of life.