Wise Health For Women Radio: Recent Episodes
Linda Kreter
Welcome to WiseHealth for Women Radio with Linda Kreter. Women are pressed daily to give more, learn more, and be more, often at the expense of mind, body, or spirit. Are you living the best version of you? Still dreaming and wishing? Join us as we explore awe and risk and growth. WiseHealth for Women Radio -- Helping Women Thrive!
Linda Kreter is joined today by Shenelle Green. Meet this amazing women who realized that obesity can be managed, and that not all physicians fully assist or support “life after surgery or medication” questions. Physicians are busy, and Shenelle and her team have created a community for questions, and community. Helping You to Thrive!
Linda Kreter is joined today by Todd Malloy, psychotherapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and Certified Sex Therapist who helps people move from survival to reclaiming the vitality you’ve earned. By blending lived experiences (these don’t go away…), clinical insight for patterns and straight talk, Todd helps others’ build emotional fitness. Learn to live a full life with what you’re given – and what you will explore and grow within. Helping People Thrive!
Linda Kreter is joined today by remarkable physician and bone specialist, John Neustadt, MD. Learn how to fracture-proof your bones, how nutrition and supplements matter. Be aware of how many medications are harmful to healthy bones, and know which programs/movements help you stay balanced and functionally strong for all your days. Helping Women Thrive!
Today's guest is an amazing therapist who knows the downfall of burnout and letting the accumulation of others' remain too long. True for everyone these days, in carrying what is "not ours", but not knowing how to shed it. Better understand how your body "hears" you and may falter... Listen for ideas, methods, tips, and wisdom, letting you live your own life with less baggage and more uplift. Helping Women Thrive!
Linda Kreter speaks with Certified Financial Planner Shannon Ryan about the need to understand debt; its uses and its traps. Debt is a both a useful tool and a psychological quagmire. With a plan in place, and steady progress, it is possible to not only erase your debt, but to also build your savings, and best understand money with less emotion and more assurance. Learn more and Thrive!
Linda Kreter speaks with guest Gokce Donat, serial entrepreneur, finance educator, and voice behind MillionElle, supporting women to grow their own businesses. Gokce (pronounce “Gucci”), she builds confidence with using a proven system to demystify money and encourage women to delve into male-dominated industries with confidence. Helping Women Thrive!
Linda Kreter speaks with guest Binyamin Rothstein, DO, a physician and elite communicator, especially in this confusing day and age of roles we play, and both masculine and feminine energy. When roles change as they have over the last 30 years, the cultural changes may exceed our ability to adapt seamlessly. Helping Us Thrive!
Linda Kreter speaks with guest Sandy Zeldes about how we all (especially women) get caught and stuck in perfectionism. Often seeking perfect is at the price of very good, and time, energy, and psyche is wasted. Today we break it down. Though high achievers are often wired for success, that isn’t always coupled with self-compassion. You can change your ways - Helping Women Thrive!
Linda Kreter speaks with author Chris Reade about his personal story of defeating diabetes and his book by the same name. Learn how to break the stigma, avoid extreme diets or regimens difficult to sustain, and also how to best understand nutrition and diabetes. Also, important to keep moving even if it's to walk the dog... Helping People Thrive!
Linda Kreter speaks with Certified Financial Planner Shannon Ryan about the importance of money and its emotional impact. How were you brought up to understand or manage money? Does it rule your life because you go paycheck to paycheck, or do you squander it on small things that chip away at your goals? Often the hardest part is aligning your values: what are your priorities and how do you get there. This is where Shannon and her knowledge can help you no matter where you fit on the money spectrum. Helping You Thrive!
Linda Kreter speaks with licensed clinical social worker Margarita Kogan, whose work with women navigating relational trauma helps break patterns that no longer serve. How many strong, smart women do you know who suffer from self-doubt, wandering direction, and even hollow purpose? Many go through this type of season – but learning how to change those patterns is beneficial. Helping Women Thrive!
Linda Kreter speaks with co-founders of I Am Heart, Heart-Based Meditation, Susannah and Puran Bair. Teaching and sharing this transformative practice, with synchronization of breath and heartbeat improves balance and coherence in mind, body, and spirit. Heart Based Meditation focuses inward on your own heart. It’s an excellent way to work through trauma, reduce stress and anxiety, and improve overall heart health. Helping You Thrive!
Linda Kreter and WiseHealth for Women Radio talk today with Cynthia Williams about a process to take back your life from poor eating, lesser habits, and feel good about yourself. It doesn't happen overnight that we become lethargic or lumpy, so right up front, let's be kind to ourselves. Cynthia brings up wonderful ideas that have worked for many; take the small steps to start today!
Linda Kreter speaks today with Steven Munatones, who following a near-fatal heart attack, used a special Japanese practice to regain his health and vitality. The practice, called KAATSU improves elasticity of blood vessels, and enhances recovery - his life turned around. Living in Japan for a time, he incorporated the KAATSU practices into his life with gratitude and discipline. We can all learn from his story and his very positive outcome despite the odds.
Linda Kreter welcomes Nurse Practitioner Lorinda Fontaine-Faris to respond to listener questions - when time is limited at the annual GYN visit... Here's your way to find out answers without a co-pay! This is the first of two episodes, and we help women thrive!
Linda Kreter speaks with Earthtones founder, Mary Bernitt about the use of psychedelics. Why consider psychedelics? Trauma, PTSD, and depression are showing positive results over the vast array of synthesized pharmaceuticals that often carry broad side effects. Energy medicine can help the experience just as grounding and nature can effect change in our bodies. Learn of microdosing and how psilocybin is being more widely used.
Welcome! Join Linda Kreter with Dr. Grazyna Pajunen for today's episode. Center yourself on the small changes you can make to invigorate yourself, get better sleep, slow the outside appearance of aging (as best we can!), and work on all the aspects of wellness. Nutrition, Movement, Sleep, Socialization, Spiritual, and Nature - add them up for your best self at any age. Helping Women Thrive!
Linda Kreter is joined today by Julie Wignall, amazing author of Fireflies - and the discussion is energized. You’ll recognize the fireflies in your midst, or perhaps you are one yourself? Fireflies cultivate courage and also speak with words and tone with care, as negativity dims the light of those around you. Helping Women Thrive!
WiseHealth Radio with Linda Kreter speaks with with guest Susie Reynolds Reece. How do we feel so disconnected today when there are so many ways to "connect"? We need other people, especially as life becomes so superficial. Authenticity is vital to our wellbeing and often hard to find. BUT, not if we focus on this key connection! Let's bring back connection to our communications - helping women thrive!
Such a difficult journey: Losing someone slowly to dementia or Alzheimers. Linda Kreter is joined by an expert in the field, Angie Swetland who has written a poignant book and has walked this path before - sharing compassionately about sparking what is left inside, supportive care that helps the entire family, and "sing their song when they no longer remember". A touching episode on a tough topic. Helping Women Thrive. Also on iTunes, Spotify, and other outlets.
Dr. Todd Cevene joins Linda Kreter today to discuss optimizing metabolism for renewed physical and mental potential. As we age, metabolism may slow, but we also may not fight the slow erosion of movement, weight gain, differences in diet, and behavior change. Small changes applied consistently can help you feel vibrant again, unstick from lethargy, and take actionable steps for better health and hormone levels! Helping Women Thrive!
Linda Kreter and WiseHealth for Women Radio with today’s guest Atala Tovar, International Patient Liaison, health coach, and entrepreneur, discuss the intense need for advocacy in navigating the health system. Fluent in four languages, Atala supports international visitors who come to America for treatment and procedures, sharing her unique combination of communication, compassion, and the cultural knowledge necessary support the fears and trepidation of the patient, and importantly, of the family. Helping Women Thrive!
What a special episode today with Karen Herrick, a multi-faceted, multidimensional woman who focused in this episode on her lived experience with being a child of an alcoholic father and the inherent hurdles that represented. Adult Children of Alcoholics focuses on many aspects of daily life that may carry forward to adult children. Linda and Karen discussed the patterns that may develop, and perhaps you recognize yourself among those who haven’t yet had the aha moment. You are not alone. Helping Women Thrive!
Linda Kreter and WiseHealth Radio speak with publisher Mike Miller of the #1 military and veteran magazine. Mike's approach has always been to be guided by inspiration, fueled by hard work, stay resilient as situations evolve, and know when you've arrived at what you were meant to be. Starting as a successful actor, moving into sales/consulting, and then taking his own plan into fruition, this is a story of grit, strategic risk-taking, and always growing. Mike's story is all our stories! Helping You Thrive!
Linda Kreter is joined today by Elouise Cloete, who shares her odyssey of becoming a mother, and the hopeful and complex journey. There is often great turmoil when fertility feels like futility, yet Elouise and her husband learned valuable lessons along the way. Experience has lent her a unique perspective on coaching and mentoring others on this often rollercoaster path, and with her brilliant diligence, their daughter shines on today! Life is a special journey; helping women thrive!
Linda Kreter and WiseHealth Radio bring you a discussion on how best to nourish your one and only body. Join us with The Food Oracle, Sevante Wulkan today. Listen to your cravings, know the basics of nutrition, and remember that stillness, emotional and mental health, and wisdom comes from listening to your body. Also recall the people you surround yourself with, your boundaries, kindness, self-talk, and other media input affect your health! #WeKeepGoing
Linda Kreter and WiseHealth for Women Radio presents an invigorating and thoughtful conversation with Dr. Diana Ponsky, Diana has a background of challenge: born in Vietnam of Vietnamese/Chinese parents, her family travelled as refugees first to Indonesia, then to their sponsor in Allentown PA. Later they relocated to New York City as her parents had difficulty assimilating in Pennsylvania; NYC had a diverse community of multi-cultural Asian life. Wrong labels: Asian, woman, immigrant, successful, proud American. Grit and determination with a positive perspective moved her forward.
WiseHealth Radio and Linda Kreter bring a compelling, technology-meets-need discussion about Exoskeleton technology for paralyzed veterans. Not only enabling upright stance, vets regain mobility and capability wearing the device. Chris Meeks, Chairman of SoldierStrong, Rachael Anderson CMO of Ekso Bionics, and veteran Laura Cowen share their vision, actions, adaptations, and gifts for improving the mental and physical health of veterans. More to come! Thrive -
Linda Kreter and WiseHealth Radio speaks with pharmacist-mom (with 4 children), Bonnie Hui-Callahan about the importance of health, balance, and vaccines. Self-care is particularly important and includes annual physicals, well-woman visits, and staying up to date on your medical regimen. Pharmacists are an under-utilized member of the medical health team! Helping Women Thrive.
Linda Kreter and WiseHealth Radio speak with the co-founder of KAATSU, Steven Munatones about this about this unique portable method for increasing blood level elasticity, benefits of muscle development in rehab or recovery, and the empowerment of better wellness.
KAATSU in Japanese means “additional pressure”, and unlike constricting bands that constrict bloodflow, KAATSU works to gently apply pressure in U-shaped bladders to apply gentle arterial flow and to slow venous return. This creates more flexible blood vessels and blood flow, also allowing muscle gains to be made in their oldest patients (late 90’s and into the 100yo group). Helping to Thrive!
Linda Kreter and WiseHealth Radio brings a very intriguing guest today: Midge Murphy, an attorney as well as the only licensed energy practitioner to be certified in this specific discipline. Energy practices are part of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and including many diverse practices that often work together with allopathic (conventional, Western medicine). Explore amazing methods of healing! Helping Women Thrive.
WiseHealth Radio with Linda Kreter speaks candidly with Binyamin Rothstein DO about his work with thousands of teens and young adults about the health of the family. In his medical practice, he has noticed a pattern over the years of the importance of the father-dynamic, especially as we watch the number of "absent" fathers rise year over year. He outlines four steps to provide guidance, provoke thought, clear misconceptions, and to support cohesive, well-considered roles that many don't see in themselves - until discussed. Intriguing conversation and an important topic! Helping Families Thrive
Linda Kreter and WiseHealth Radio speaks today with amazing musical artist, composer, producer, and author, Brazilian-born Kaliyani. Her vocals inspire healing, calm, invoke nature, and openness. Her latest song adds the power of letting go of what no longer serves us, and illuminates Oneness. High goals, but it has achieved recognition beyond her dreams. An inspired episode you'll enjoy! Helping Women Thrive!
Linda Kreter and WiseHealth for Women Radio is joined today by April Steele, an amazing anthropologist, and student of the WHY in corporate culture and how it matters! Creativity is treasured, and in those seeking to understand their staff, company culture, or clients, April knows multiple ways to get through to the “real” truth of how people share, and evolve. Integrity and values matter. Sponsored by BetterHelp.com. Helping Women Thrive!
Linda Kreter and WiseHealth Radio speak with publisher Mike Miller of the #1 military and veteran magazine. Mike's approach has always been to be guided by inspiration, fueled by hard work, stay resilient as situations evolve, and know when you've arrived at what you were meant to be. Starting as a successful actor, moving into sales/consulting, and then taking his own plan into fruition, this is a story of grit, strategic risk-taking, and always growing. Mike's story is all our stories! Helping Thrive!
WiseHealth Radio and Linda Kreter is joined today by Dr. Danielle Peebles, chiropractic physician, author, and speaker. Danielle shares how those long-forgotten prior injuries, that ache you ignore, troublesome monthly cycles or menopause, and other pain points bringing you initially to the chiropractor are often the keys to wellness. Insomnia? Gut issues? Headaches? How about your energy and general wellbeing? Remember that your body "archives" everything, and avoid long-term consequences by receiving help as soon as possible. #HelpingYouThrive
○Linda Kreter and WiseHealth for Women Radio sound-travel to Malta off the coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean and spend time with Emily Francis. Emily has wildly embraced her life in Malta and created her niche business drawing from the entirely GMO-free country and meeting farmers - in their fields. She's exuberant, joyful, and a treat to hear - may we all seek adventures and create our dreams! Helping Women Thrive!
Linda Kreter and WiseHealth for Women Radio shares time today with Erin Kerry, an amazing health coach, podcaster, and mom to discuss how what we eat affects our mood and behavior. Erin makes is look easy and her wisdom in overcoming her own struggles embody health and wellness! Listen, enjoy, and learn how to Thrive!
Linda Kreter and WiseHealth for Women Radio speak today with musician Jason Eastwood. Originally a touring rock artist with bands like Boston and Journey, progressive rock and the Beach Boys, life on the road became very stressful. He turned to yoga and meditation to ease, and one day was requested to play his guitar during class. A new genre of calm, relaxing, and using healing sound frequencies began a new direction. Guitarfulness provides beautiful relief from the stresses of today and is used today in hospitals, palliative care facilities, spas, with autistic children, and helps train the mind to destress. Thrive and Breathe!
WiseHealth for Women Radio and Linda Kreter join with amazing coaches Sandra Beck and Erin Kerry to discuss their individual methods of time management. From apps to old-school methods, the best way is the one you will USE. Feel the energy the women bring to their time challenges, and know there are many ways to "make something happen"! Helping Women Thrive
Linda Kreter and WiseHealth Radio bring you CranioSacral Care and Healing with Etienne Peirsman of the CranioSacral Therapie Academy in Holland. By releasing space with gentle physical manipulation at the base of the skull, this ancient practice allows for easing the flow of spinal fluid and providing a feeling of wellbeing, of releasing baggage, and breaking up poor systemic brain patterns. Our brains hold our story, and your body feels it – craniosacral work helps the energy flow which is stored in the body. Helping People Thrive!
WiseHealth for Women Radio and Linda Kreter welcome transformational coach and speaker, Felicia Searcy. "What would you love?" As we move from the pandemic to new realms, do you ask yourself this question? Or, "how would I do things differently?" Felicia speaks about increasing your energy field and unlocking abundance. Growth is essential to overcoming procrastination, fears, and distractions. Helping Women Thrive
Linda Kreter and WiseHealth for Women Radio presents CEO of MotherTruckerYoga, Hope Zvara as she shares her amazing story of supporting the lifeline of our nation: truckers. Without trucking, we'd be without food, fuel, goods, services, and the lifestyle can be brutal. Ten years into recovery, Hope discovered her passion in helping others with community, videos, classes, and easing the ailments of the road. With a 340% industry turnover, Hope is doing amazing and needed work. Helping People Thrive!
We are grateful for a special episode today with Karen Herrick, a multi-faceted, multidimensional woman who focused in this episode on her lived experience with being a child of an alcoholic father and the inherent hurdles that represented. Adult Children of Alcoholics focuses on many aspects of daily life that may carry forward to adult children. Linda and Karen discussed the patterns that may develop, and perhaps you recognize yourself among those who haven’t yet had the aha moment. You are not alone. Helping Women Thrive!
This is the audio portions of the Veterans', Caregiver and Survivor Federal Advisory Committee meeting held on January 25-36 at Red Cross HQ in Washington DC. The room had 20' ceilings and was acoustically difficult, but we boosted this as best we could. The meeting is formally recording and will be transcribed and put into the FACA record within 90 days. We know many will want to hear sooner, as this meeting was only in person.
Linda Kreter and WiseHealth for Women Radio speaks with Dr. Anna Cabeca, a triple-board certified physician talks all things hormones, sexual health, and hormone replacement options. Her new book, “Menupause” speaks of the important ways natural therapies like food and lifestyle changes make positive difference. This sometimes confusing and erratic time of life can be reframed as a grand opportunity for YOU !Helping Women Thrive!