Morning Matcha

Today, we welcome Dr. Laura Markham, author of Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How To Stop Yelling and Start Connecting. Dr. Laura Markham earned her PhD in clinical psychology at Columbia University and has worked as a parenting coach with countless families across the world. In today’s episode, Dr. Laura explains sibling envy, tantrums, and empathy development. Dr. Laura also explains the different stages of a child’s brain development and in doing so, provides incredible insight about the level of understanding your child is able to receive (physiologically, let alone psychologically). If you have kids or are thinking about it in the future -- this one’s a must listen!

Today, we are thrilled to welcome Usha Anandi to the podcast. Usha is the founder and creative director of Womben Wellness. Usha’s work is dedicated to revolutionizing the way modern healthcare serves the sacred and ancient within each woman. Refreshingly, Usha backs a lot of her teachings in science and hours of studies with embodied masters from Costa Rica to Mexico. She is eloquent, intelligent, fierce, and nourishing. She doesn’t speak in New Age language or promote superficial spiritual healing but rather advocates for every modern woman to delineate from patterns that have been inherited rather than intuited. It’s a powerful episode for anyone desiring to become more sovereign, clear, and strong.

Lauren Geertsen joins us today for an episode that is packed full of serious truths but delivered with compassion and understanding. After her own experience with both disordered eating and a disordered allopathic medical system, Lauren began her own healing journey. If you’ve ever felt disconnected from your own intuition, experienced confusion about the “correct” way to nourish yourself, have outsourced your own authority to food rules, or sought control and perfection from food -- this is an absolute must-listen. Many of these same subconscious patterns we apply to our relationship with food can be mirrored in our relationship with others, our careers, governments, and authority figures. Lauren and Nikki unpack the power of tuning into yourself and finding the courage to stand for your own beliefs in every area of life. There’s truly a takeaway for everyone in this episode!

Today, we welcome Raj Agni to THE FULLEST podcast. As you’ll hear, Raj is a man of many talents spanning energy healing, the arts, and herbalism. Today, we dive deep into the subject of our different physical and energetic bodies and the ways they can be tuned for deeper alignment, deceleration of aging, reincarnation, and energy attachment. These subject matters may be potentially more “out there’’ for some listeners but listening to Raj’s calm, clear, and gentle explanations of these more metaphysical concepts is an eye and heart opening experience.

Dr. Leah is a functional medicine doctor who specializes in root-cause women’s hormonal health, low libido, preconception, and fertility care. Today, she joins us to discuss all these issues and more. We dive deep into the conventional medical system’s primary solution to hormonal problems, the pill, which Dr. Leah explains is often a disservice to many (but not all) women. We also discuss nutrition and fertility, female libido, and porn’s impact on male (and female) sex drives. However, this conversation acknowledges that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to our bodies. Instead, true sovereignty comes in knowing our options and making our own empowered choices.

Today, we welcome Holly Owens from wellness account, Wellthy Belly, to the pod. Today, Holly specifically shares her direct experience with Lyme Disease and Bee Venom Therapy (BVT). After realizing that her body was struggling and that there was something “wrong,” she was eventually diagnosed with Lyme Disease. After considering multiple treatment paths, she opted for Bee Venom Therapy (BVT) and for the next two years, began to sting herself with bees to help heal herself. If you’re embarking on any sort of non-traditional healing path, are interested in BVT, or wish to share your own healing story on social media -- this one’s definitely for you!

The title of this episode may have you thinking that this one’s for the parents. And yes, it is a fount of child rearing wisdom. However, it is also an excellent listen for anyone that may have grown up in a household that didn’t encourage a healthy expression of big feelings. All of this is due to the clarity that today’s guest, Nicole Beurkens, imparts. She reframes the links between emotional resilience, healthy expression of feelings, and the mind-body connection -- not just for kids but also for adults. Have a listen and feel empowered and reassured that you can help yourself and your child build better behaviors, naturally.

Today’s guest, Kimberly Johnson, is a sexological bodyworker, somatic experiencing practitioner, yoga teacher, postpartum advocate, and single mom. She joins the podcast to remind us of the immense wisdom held in our physiology. However, for many of us, who have been taught to intellectualize our feeling states; reconnecting with the body is a process that must be remembered and cultivated. Learning to understand our flight, freeze, or fight response as well as the areas of our bodies that hold our these emotions can help us to move forward with our lives. This is an episode full of powerful insights relatable to every modern body. Check it out here.

Did you know 37 BILLION diapers are thrown away each year? It’s a number that feels too big to compute. Today, we welcome Liz Turriginao, mama and co-founder of Diaperkind and Esembly, to help us parent more sustainably. Although Mother Nature seems like the obvious reason for switching to Esembly (see previous gigantic statistic), it’s not the only reason. As Liz explains in this episode, their bespoke system and innovative design is made of natural organic materials for your baby, saves you time (big win), and also reduces the chance of diaper blowouts. For 15% off your Esembly order, use code THEFULLEST at checkout.

Today, we welcome Dr. Sophia Kogan M.D., co-founder and Chief Medical Advisor of Nutrafol, to the podcast. Nutrafol is the first clinically effective hair wellness supplement that utilizes powerful botanics — essentially, it’s hair wellness from within that legitimately works. Many cultures believed that our hair was our lifeforce. Equally, the confidence that comes from having your hair in its most natural and thickest state is a real thing (see: good hair days and its polarity, bad hair days). If you’re experiencing thinning, loss, or just generally have never felt that your hair was not glowing up to its maximum potential — this one is for you. Sophia breaks down everything from a scientific and plan-based perspective to help you find the formula that’s best for your current life cycle. And for a limited time you can receive $15 off your first month subscription of Nutrafol, using code THEFULLEST at checkout. (Available to US customers only for a limited time.)

Firstly, we want to give our deepest thank you to our guest,Elaina Bellis, for her vulnerability, strength, and grace in this conversation. We are honored to be able to share your story with our listeners. As you’ll come to hear, Elaina’s first son, Lincoln, was stillborn. An incredibly painful experience for any mother, Elaina walks us through her stillborn journey from pregnancy to delivery, and from immense grief to deep healing. Listen in here. However, if you are experiencing grief or loss of a child or loved one, heads up...this one is quite emotional.

Dr. Aly Cohen is a board certified rheumatologist and joins us on the podcast to discuss the correlation between environmental and human health. Aly began doing her own investigations about the link between toxins and disease. Her findings on the impact of chemicals on humans, animals, and the earth both shocked and inspired her. She has since dedicated a huge portion of her professional life to helping people adopt practical solutions that can reduce toxin exposure. Aly also shares her thoughts on water (including reverse osmosis), radiation, 5G, and the issues with BPA and manufacturing legislation. If you’re struggling to wrap your head around the extent of toxins in our modern lives, take a listen to this ep! We promise you’ll walk away more reassured and armed with useful advice to help you create healthier internal and external environments.

Today, we welcome Dr. Roy Nambudripad, a pioneer and practitioner of NAET (Nambudripad Allergy Elimination Techniques), to the podcast. This healing modality is powerful and extends far beyond the common definition of “allergies.” In this technique, allergies are defined as factors that create sensitivity in the body -- this can of course be food, like peanuts, but it can also be emotional and environmental sensitivities. NAET believes that when we look for causes, most could be found easily, allowing symptoms to be reduced or effectively mitigated. We encourage everyone to give this one a listen as even if you don’t suffer from allergies -- there’s a wealth of wisdom to be gained for every person.

Today’s guest opened up our minds and our mats to the massive impact of textiles. Heather Parkin is the founder of Bennd, an Ayurvedic and medicinal yoga mat and textile brand. Heather introduces us to a new concept (well, new to us) called Ayurvastra. As you may have guessed, Ayurvastra is a branch of Ayurveda. Essentially, this arm of the ancient healing lineage uses cotton as a medium for absorbing herb preparations into materials and textiles. Heather has used Ayurvastra to create her own line of healing yoga products and it was an absolute revelation to learn more about healing materials, Heather’s personal journey, and ways we can all add more personal wellness into our practice.

Our neighborhoods are an extension of our homes -- and yet, we can often feel that we have no ownership (or authority) when it comes to the public spaces that we and our children live and play in. Today’s guest, Kim Konte of Non-Toxic Neighborhoods, breaks down the truth about the pollutants and chemicals that are more than likely in your local area. She also explains the simple ways we can exercise our personal advocacy and make real change from the ground up. Plus, Kim offers listeners access to one of the Non-Toxic Neighborhoods’ webinars and loads of other resources.

Often on our podcast, we discuss the importance of healing the root causes of our personal health versus band-aid treatments that only tackle the symptoms. In today’s episode, we touch on this issue again -- but this time, from the perspective of Mother Earth. Incredibly, we were blessed to sit down with Grant Wilson, the Executive Director of the Earth Law Center. Grant is an expert on ecocentric law; a legal framework that asks us to imagine Nature’s perspective on climate issues and proposed solutions. What would Nature say about hydrotherapy, coal, or regenerative farming? One thing’s for sure, if we are going to truly create environmental healing, we are going to need to reframe Nature from a possession to a partner. This is a powerful conversation that stares directly at our challenges but also posits solutions and hope. Please listen and share this one.

Today, we welcome the lovely Carla Oates to the podcast, a woman who is a true embodiment of her brand -- The Beauty Chef. She is also kind of a clean beauty visionary -- being the first to recognize the link between a balanced microbiome (good gut health) and beautiful skin. Along with her comprehensive range of products, she’s also published books The Beauty Chef Gut Guide and The Beauty Chef Cookbook (a James Beard Award nominee) that includes 90+ delicious recipes and weekly meal plans to help readers heal, weed, seed and feed their gut. We’re so grateful to have Carla on the show and to learn that beauty really is more than skin deep.

Today, we are grateful to welcome the founder of Loco Love, Emica Penklis, to the podcast. It’s hard to fully capture the magic of Loco Love. Yes, it’s a chocolate brand but it’s also a portal, an art piece, and a form of healing. If you’ve ever come across a Loco Love chocolate -- you’ll understand our sentiment. If you’re interested in herbalism, intuitive business, the eternal balancing act that is motherhood and entrepreneurship, and of course, chocolate -- tune in for some bites of cacao-coated wisdom. And for our own “golden ticket” moment, all those who listen in will also receive a special discount for Loco Love products.

Today, we welcome Summer Sanders to the podcast to discuss all things high vibrational living. Summer became passionate about food as medicine after changing her diet and lifestyle and recovering from a lifelong body image struggle and eating disorder. It’s this lived experience that makes Summer’s take on wellness so balanced. Listening to Summer speak, you can tell that she is rooted in integrity but not at the expense of living a connected and full life. She has made it her mission to share her journey and knowledge base as a way to help other women achieve their own version of radiance and vitality. Tune in for food advice that is devoid of dogma, a breakdown of natural beauty practices, and enjoying the dance between family and business building.

This week, we welcome back life direction specialist Dara Dubinet to the pod. Although Dara has been a pioneer of raw food and tonics for many years, more recently she has been sharing the teachings of Feng Shui, North Nodes (your soul’s purpose according to astrology), and Astrogeography (a map that helps you understand the energies of place). In this ep, Dara generously breaks down each of these modalities and gives us a crash course in each of these tools. Listen in if you’re looking for a little guidance, interested in learning something new, or in need of a dose of human sunshine.