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Sponsored by Kindred Bravely - Use code Unstressed20 to save! The acclaimed 2021 Netflix documentary, The Alpinist, follows the incredble career and tragic death of climber Marc-André Leclerc.  In this episode, Marc-André's mother Michelle Kuipers offers a masterclass on how to raise empowered and purposeful adults. If you enjoyed The Alpinist, you'll love getting to know Marc-André more intimately through his mother's heart and mind.  Watch "The Alpinist" on Netflix (US) and Amazon Prime (Canada) Like the show? Please leave a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening & tag me on Instagram so I can thank you personally! Get the book Motherhood Unstressed - Daily Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love available on Amazon and Kindle Shop Motherhood Unstressed CBD - use code Podcast to save! Subscribe to The Motherhood Unstressed Podcast Instagram @motherhoodunstressed

"There is in the body, a current of energy, affection, and intelligence which guides, maintains, and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay with it." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Do this short guided meditation to feel instantly relaxed and connected to the divine intelligence within your body and soul.  Sponsored by Kindred Bravely - Use code UNSTRESSED20 to save Shop Motherhood Unstressed CBD and use code PODCAST to save Connect with me on Instagram @motherhoodunstressed If this meditation was of benefit, please consider leaving a review, thank you!

Sponsored by Kindred Bravely - Use code UNSTRESSED20 to save! In this episode Lunya Founder and CEO Ashley Merrill discusses why intentional rest and downtime is more than just self-care for busy moms. Learn why good sleep in particular has transformational effects on your health, quality of life, and even how resilient and independent your children become by you taking the time for what you need.  Connect with Ashley, Lunya and the new men's line Lahgo on Instagram at @ashley__merrill @lunya @lahgo Web: https://lunya.co  Like the show? Please leave a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening & tag me on Instagram so I can thank you personally! Get the book Motherhood Unstressed - Daily Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love available on Amazon and Kindle Shop Motherhood Unstressed CBD - use code Podcast to save! Subscribe to The Motherhood Unstressed Podcast Instagram @motherhoodunstressed

Sponsored by Sambucol - use code Mother15 to save 15% “Wherever you are be all there.” Jim Elliot The science-based benefits of meditation are immense, from decreasing anxiety and stress, to changing how the brain responds to negative stimuli. Happily, it doesn't take much time to reap the benefits of meditation, and when you make it a part of your daily routine, the results are life-changing. Thank you for doing the work. Like the show? Please leave a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening & tag me on Instagram so I can thank you personally! Get the book "Motherhood Unstressed - Daily Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love" available in print and Kindle. Subscribe to The Motherhood Unstressed Podcast Instagram @motherhoodunstressed Resources: Benefits of Meditation: 12 Science-Based Benefits of Meditation

This week actor and comedian Eugene Mirman discusses his incredible body of comedic work and his documentary It Started As A Joke which chronicles the 10 years of the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, an independent festival started on a lark by the Bob’s Burgers’ alum. As explained by comics like Kumail Nanjiani and Kristen Schaal, Mirman is essentially a founding father of the Brooklyn comedy scene (he's been called the original “influencer”), and the festival’s success is a testament to his impact. But, true to its title, there’s a bit more on the documentary’s mind; we’re also introduced to Mirman’s wife, Katie Westfall Tharp, and learn how the two fell in love, had a son, moved to Cape Cod, and fought through Tharp’s cancer diagnosis and later recurrence. Tragically, Tharp died almost a year after It Started As A Joke premiered at SXSW. In its depiction of her kind spirit, the film now doubles as a bittersweet tribute to a loved one gone too soon. Ultimately, this is a candid conversation about doing work

Sponsored by Sambucol - use code Mother15 to save 15% Motherhood Unstressed CBD - use code Podcast to save This week University of Virginia Professor, Leidy Klotz discusses his new book, "Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less" which explores the concept of subtraction as an effective yet often overlooked problem-solving strategy. A former professional soccer player, Leidy now studies how to transform things from how they are to how we want them to be, and has written for a number of prominent publications including The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, and The Behavioral Scientist.  Resources: Twitter @leidyklotz Web: https://www.leidyklotz.com Read "Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less" Read Bob Sutton's "The No Asshole Rule" Nature Article Global human-made mass exceeds all biomass Nature Article: People systematically overlook subtractive changes Like the show? Please leave a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening & tag me on Instagram so I can thank you person

Sponsored by Sambucol - use code Mother15 to save 15% Motherhood Unstressed CBD - use code Podcast to save In April 2018, Trey and Tanya Pyle, their daughter Soon-Ae, and Tanya's mother Merlita, were struck on the highway by a speeding tractor-trailer. The horrific crash took 4-year old Soon-Ae's life, and forever changed Trey and Tanya's lives.  In this episode we discuss that fateful day, how the couple has been able to cope with the tremendous grief of losing their daughter, and what they are doing to carry on Soon-Ae's legacy today.  Resources: Soon-Ae Pyle Memorial Fund - St. Catherine of Siena Catholic School Instagram @tanya.pyle Like the show? Please leave a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening & tag me on Instagram so I can thank you personally! Get the book Motherhood Unstressed - Daily Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love available on Amazon and Kindle Subscribe to The Motherhood Unstressed Podcast Instagram @motherhoo

Sponsored by Sambucol - use code Mother15 to save 15% Motherhood Unstressed CBD - use code Podcast to save Professor Avi Loeb is a Harvard theoretical physicist whose areas of professional interest include cosmology and astrophysics. In this episode we discuss his new book, "Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth", which proposes that Oumuamua, the interstellar object that passed through our solar system in 2017, may have been the creation of an alien intelligence. Like the show? Please leave a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening & tag me on Instagram so I can thank you personally! Get the book Motherhood Unstressed - Daily Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love available on Amazon and Kindle Subscribe to The Motherhood Unstressed Podcast Instagram @motherhoodunstressed Resources: The Galileo Project Websites: https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/ https://avi-loeb.medium.com Read Extraterrestrial: The Firs

Sponsored by Sambucol - use code Mother15 to save 15% Motherhood Unstressed CBD - use code Podcast to save Frank Elaridi is a 4-time Emmy-Award-Winning Journalist, quantum emotion healer, and Co-Founder of Modern Nirvana, an organization dedicated to helping practitioners take control of their spiritual and physical wellbeing, by sharing both ancient practices and modern bio-hacks. In this episode Frank turns his quantum emotional healing skills on me with a live healing session focusing on releasing negative trapped emotions from my body for the creation of healthier relationships, removal of blocks in health and career, and space for new opportunities.  Tune in to find out how you too can incorporate these ancient practices for the benefit of your life.  Like the show? Please leave a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening & tag me on Instagram so I can thank you personally! Get the book Motherhood Unstressed - Daily Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of

Sponsored by Sambucol - use code Mother15 to save 15% "Opening your chakras and allowing cosmic energies to flow through your body will ultimately refresh your spirit and empower your life." -Barbara Marciniak   The seven chakras are governed by spiritual laws, principles of consciousness that we can use to cultivate greater harmony, happiness, and well being in our lives and in the world. In this short guided meditation I help you relax, restore and realize the power you have within your own physical and energetic body through your innate connection to your chakras. Thank you for doing the work. Like the show? Please leave a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening & tag me on Instagram so I can thank you personally! Get the book "Motherhood Unstressed - Daily Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love" available in print and Kindle. Subscribe to The Motherhood Unstressed Podcast Instagram @motherhoodunstressed

Sponsored by Sambucol - use code Mother15 to save 15% At a time when online media has created a virtual firehose of information and opinions, parents and teachers worry how students will interpret what they read and see. Amid the noise, it has become increasingly important to examine different perspectives with both curiosity and discernment. But how do parents teach these critical thinking skills to their children? My guest Julie Bogart is the creator and owner of Brave Writer, the hugely popular online writing and language arts program and podcast, and the fast-growing weekly habit called Poetry Teatime. In this episode Julie and I discuss practical ways for teaching your children to boldly examine how they think and to become thoughtful consumers of information.  In this episode we discuss: How being well-read gives a false impression of being well-educated. In fact, reading can be dangerous to quality critical thinking. The importance of curiosity in nurturing a critical mindset. Video games are high qu

Sponsored by Sambucol - use code Mother15 to save 15% "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better" - Albert Einstein Nature has often been called the ultimate teacher on how to flow with life rather than against it, but as humans we sometimes forget. In this short guided meditation I help you relax, restore and realize your innate connection to everything in the universe. Thank you for doing the work. Like the show? Please leave a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening & tag me on Instagram so I can thank you personally! Get the book "Motherhood Unstressed - Daily Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love" available in print and Kindle. Subscribe to The Motherhood Unstressed Podcast Instagram @motherhoodunstressed

Sponsored by Sambucol - use code Mother15 to save 15% Dr. Kate Hendricks Thomas is a researcher, speaker and veterans' health advocate, she's also my sister. In this episode we discuss her personal cancer story, how her life and legacy has changed since her diagnosis, and the greater problem of aggressive cancers among veterans, thought to be linked with exposure to toxic burn pits while stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.   Want to help? Check out http://burnpits360.org Instagram @thedrkate Website https://dockate.com  Like the show? Please leave a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening & tag me on Instagram so I can thank you personally! Get the book "Motherhood Unstressed - Daily Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love" available in print and Kindle. Subscribe to The Motherhood Unstressed Podcast Instagram @motherhoodunstressed Resources: The Presumptive Benefits for War Fighters Exposed to Burn Pits and Other Toxins Act would cove

Sponsored by Sambucol - use code Mother15 to save 15% "Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind." - Zen Proverb In this short guided meditation I help you relax, connect with who you really are, and sink into a state of deep relaxation and calm. It's from this vibration that you can become the master rather than the slave of your own mind. Thank you for doing the work. Like the show? Please leave a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening & tag me on Instagram so I can thank you personally! Get the book "Motherhood Unstressed - Daily Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love" available in print and Kindle. Subscribe to The Motherhood Unstressed Podcast Instagram @motherhoodunstressed

Sponsored by Sambucol - use code Mother15 to save 15% It's a new year, and the perfect time to make your self-care the priority in your life. In this episode I share my top 3 tips for managing stress and making self-care a non-negotiable part of your daily routine. There's no time like now to focus on your well-being and consequently improve your life and that of your family. Like the show? Please leave a review here - even one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening & tag me on Instagram so I can thank you personally! Best Self Atlanta Article  Get the book "Motherhood Unstressed - Daily Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love" available in print and Kindle. Subscribe to The Motherhood Unstressed Podcast Instagram @motherhoodunstressed

"Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it." In this short guided meditation I help you relax, release stress and sink into a state of deep relaxation and calm. It's from this vibration that you can better visualize what you truly want to manifest for yourself in this next year. Thank you for doing the work. Sponsored by: Sambucol - Use code Mother15 to save 15% Lugz - Use code UNSTRESSED to save 30% at https://www.lugz.com Kindred Bravely - Use code UNSTRESSED20 at https://www.kindredbravely.com Motherhood Unstressed CBD - Use code Podcast to save Want more? Check out some of our most popular past episodes! Alex and Carlos Pena Vega Dave Asprey Poet Kate Baer Seth Godin "Somebody Feed Phil" Phil Rosenthal  The Way of Integrity with Martha Beck Connect with Motherhood Unstressed: Get the book "Motherhood Unstressed - Daily Meditations on Motherhood, Self-Care, and the Art of Living a Life You Love" available in print and Kindle. Subscribe to The Motherhood Unstressed Podcast Leave a review on iTu

Amanda Knox spent four years in an Italian prison following a wrongful conviction for the murder of her roommate: a sentence that was ultimately overturned by the Italian Supreme Court. She is now a mother, author, journalist, and co-host of the "Labyrinths" podcast alongside her husband Christopher Robinson. In this episode we talk about her journey to freedom, how motherhood has influenced her mindset, healing and growth after trauma, and what's next for her.  QUOTES "I thought I had that unknowing behind me, and instead, motherhood has shown me there's a lot of unknown in front of me" "Since I've had a daughter, I feel much more of a compulsion to set my daughter up in a better life than I've had...I want to defend her in ways I couldn't defend myself" "I became this blank slate onto which people could project all of their anger and hatred towards sexually active young women" RESOURCES: Twitter @AmandaKnox Instagram @amamaknox Web: https://www.knoxrobinson.com  Labyrinths Podcast Labyrinth's Patreon  The

Named in 2018 by Oprah Magazine as the Godmother of the full figured industry, super model Emme is globally recognized as an innovative social reformer for women’s empowerment and positive body image. In this episode we discuss her passion for body inclusion in the fashion industry, how self-confidence changes your reality, the impact of social media and perfectionism on self-esteem, and what practice has helped her the most with aligning with her true purpose.  QUOTES "Real change, real grappling with lions and tigers and bears, is when nothing is going right"   "Athletics was the one thing that kept telling me that my body was good...find something that you're good at"   "If we find confidence, and we get ourselves out of the ashes, well then you can do it over and over and over" RESOURCES: Web: www.emmestyle.com Email: [email protected] Follow Emme on Facebook and Instagram   Fashion Without Limits (FWL)                 Here's How You Can Support the Show: Leave a review on iTunes (why do you

Wade Lightheart is a 3-time Canadian bodybuilding champion, nutritionist and expert on fixing digestion. He’s the co-founder and president at BiOptimizers, a digestive and health optimization company and also serves as an advisor to the American Anti-Cancer Institute. In this episode we discuss the fundamentals to achieving lifelong health and keys ways mothers in particular can prioritize their self-care practice. QUOTES   "Technology has become the major obstacle to our general health...efficiency of energy expenditure makes us lazy and so we have to overcome those things"   "If you have a great attitude, you can achieve almost anything, if you have a poor attitude it's very hard to get anywhere"   "You're worth the effort, and no one determines your worth except for you" RESOURCES: Web: https://bioptimizers.com Podcast: Awesome Health Podcast Follow Wade Lightheart on Facebook and Instagram                     The Awesome Health Course (free 12 week program)  Here's How You Can Support the Show:

Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur and philanthropist driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges through innovation. As CEO of Viome he is working to make illness optional by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze an individual's gut biology, gain insight into their health, and offer personalized food and supplement recommendations according to the test results. In this wide ranging conversation we discuss parenting, legacy and how AI is primed to drastically alter the future of health care as we know it.  Some of the topics we discuss: key ways to parent your children into successful adults  how to leave a lasting legacy and create a life of abundance through scalable good intentions  the important difference between DNA and gene expression in diagnosing and treating illnesses the future of early diagnosis and treatment of diseases like IBD, IBS, and throat, oral and colorectal cancers through biological testing and artificial intelligence (AI) analysis  QUOTES "Every time I start a