Courageous Wellness

Today on the podcast we welcome Stephanie Cowie. Throughout Stephanie’s professional life she was a Vice President at American Benefits Consulting and she also served as a Senior Employee Benefits Consultant for Fortune 50 & 100 companies in the U.S. for the past 22 years. Today on Courageous Wellness, she shares with us a more personal story -- of suffering a stroke in her spinal cord, prior to her 50th birthday. This spinal cord injury created paralysis for Stephanie from the waist down.

By sharing her very courageous story with us, we dive into Stephanie’s experience from being a temporarily abled body person to a person living with a disability. She not only shares with us concepts and language that are important to be aware of for individuals living with disabilities but also that we are all only ever having an experience of being temporarily abled.

Stephanie shares the ups and downs of navigating a new normal and inspires us with her intelligence and sense of humor surrounding how she navigates experiencing physical paralysis.

She remains an incredibly active and dedicated member of her community as the Co-President of the PTA at Greenwich High School, Vice-Chair to the First Selectman Advisory Counsel for People with Disabilities and has previously held a long list of leadership positions including the United Way of Greenwich and the Junior League.

Stephanie lives in Greenwich, CT with her husband Jim, their son Sean, and their English Golden Retriever Walter. Her interests include golf, spending time with family & friends, singing, playing basketball with her son, travel and volunteerism. We learned so much from Steph’s experience and are grateful to her for sharing her courageous wellness with us today.

To get in touch with Stephanie you can visit her StephBStrong Instagram and Facebook by visiting: @stephbstrong + https://www.facebook.com/stephbstrong/

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Today on the podcast we sit down with Kiley Anderson, co-founder of Jetson probiotics. Jetson is a brand that produces the worlds’ only seasonal probiotics that change along with your body. Kiley discusses how, as a new mom, she opened her eyes to the world of probiotics and the importance of healthy gut bacteria for her own health and her baby. This inspired deeper research to create a high quality probiotic program for both adults and children.

On this episode Kiley discusses her experience with C-sections births, creating a healthy gut microbiome for children and adults, and how Jetson and Jettie products offer a probiotic program that is clinically validated, offers strain rotations and why this is important, and offers fresh and convenient probiotics monthly, directly to your door -- for you, or your whole family. Kiley offers up invaluable knowledge and we can say from experience, using Jetson, our gut health has never been better.

Jetson has offered an incredible 40% discount code for your first order, if you want to try the products. Just visit www.wearejetson.com and use code: CWJetson40

To learn more about Jetson you can visit: https://wearejetson.com

You can also follow them on Instagram @wearejetson

We want to hear your thoughts! Reach out at www.courageouswellnesspodcast.com

Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review Courageous Wellness! We release new episodes each #WellnessWednesday!

You can also follow us on instagram @CourageousWellness

This episode is brought to you by Milk+Honey. To receive 15% off your purchase visit www.milkandhoney.com and use code: CWPODCAST (all one word) at checkout! Milk+Honey is a line of non-toxic, effective, and safe bath, body, and skincare products made in small batches in Austin, Texas.

This episode is brought to you by Ned! You can receive 15% off our favorite Ned CBD products . They even offer an entirely female created line for periods called Natural cycles. Go to helloned.com and enter the code CWPODCAST at checkout!

We are so happy to offer our listeners 10% off on all Four Sigmatic superfood coffee and elixirs! For 10% off Four Sigmatic products visit www.foursigmatic.com and use the code: courageous at checkout!

Today on the podcast we welcome Richa Gupta, founder of both, Good Food for Good, and Turmeric Teas! Growing up in India, Richa was used to eating fresh home cooked food, but as a marketing executive and mom, she found it challenging to find prepared shortcuts that met her expectations in terms of ingredients and taste. She grew frustrated with all the compromises she was expected to make for convenience.

Driven to make a difference through food, Richa launched Good Food for Good in late 2013. This was also how she found her true purpose, which she explains in this episode. She started Good Food For Good with a Buy One, Feed One Model and has proudly fed over 225,000 people to date and made a positive difference by donating over 225,000 meals.

Richa’s ardent belief in the power of real whole food and love for cooking delicious food made it easy for her to develop products -- loaded with nutrients, whole foods, and a delightful flavour making it easy for people to live healthier lives. She is actively working on reaching her goal of feeding 1 Million people by the end of 2020! Good Food for Good is a certified B Corps, and all products are made with organic ingredients free of gluten, soy, corn, refined sugars, and preservatives.

Similarly, her other company, Turmeric Teas is also certified organic and also supports the Buy One, Feed One Program. The mission of Turmeric Teas is to make it easy for everyone to enjoy the healing benefits of Turmeric. Drawing on the wisdom of Ayurveda, Turmeric Teas is inspired by the rhythms of nature and the therapeutic gifts of the extraordinary root which has been a fixture in Indian cooking. On this episode we really dive into the importance of ingredients, falling back in love with preparing your own food, getting back to the basics with food and nutrition, inflammation, and so much more. We really loved this conversation, and hope you enjoy the episode.

We want to hear your thoughts! Reach out at www.courageouswellnesspodcast.com

Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review Courageous Wellness! We release new episodes each #WellnessWednesday!

You can also follow us on instagram @CourageousWellness

This episode is brought to you by Milk+Honey. To receive 15% off your purchase visit www.milkandhoney.com and use code: CWPODCAST (all one word) at checkout! Milk+Honey is a line of non-toxic, effective, and safe bath, body, and skincare products made in small batches in Austin, Texas.

This episode is brought to you by Ned! You can receive 15% off our favorite Ned CBD products . They even offer an entirely female created line for periods called Natural cycles. Go to helloned.com and enter the code CWPODCAST at checkout!

We are so happy to offer our listeners 10% off on all Four Sigmatic superfood coffee and elixirs! For 10% off Four Sigmatic products visit www.foursigmatic.com and use the code: courageous at checkout!

Today on the podcast we welcome, Amber Romaniuk, an Emotional Eating, Digestive and Hormone Expert who helps professional women achieve optimal health through mindful eating, self-care and overcoming self-sabotage with food. Her podcast “The No Sugarcoating Podcast” has over a half a million downloads and she has appeared on Canadian television 50 times in the last three years.

Amber overcame her own emotional eating after gaining and losing more than 1,000 pounds, spending over $50,000 on binge foods and spending 5 years balancing her hormones and digestion. Now she helps others achieve Body FreedomTM so they have the confidence and health to create amazing lives. On the episode she shares her journey, tips and techniques with us that have been beneficial both to her and her clients. We also discuss hormone health and working through disordered eating patterns.

We want to hear your thoughts! Reach out at www.courageouswellnesspodcast.com

Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review Courageous Wellness! We release new episodes each #WellnessWednesday!

You can also follow us on instagram @CourageousWellness

This episode is brought to you by Milk+Honey. To receive 15% off your purchase visit www.milkandhoney.com and use code: CWPODCAST (all one word) at checkout! Milk+Honey is a line of non-toxic, effective, and safe bath, body, and skincare products made in small batches in Austin, Texas.

This episode is brought to you by Ned! You can receive 15% off our favorite Ned CBD products . They even offer an entirely female created line for periods called Natural cycles. Go to helloned.com and enter the code CWPODCAST at checkout!

We are so happy to offer our listeners 10% off on all Four Sigmatic superfood coffee and elixirs! For 10% off Four Sigmatic products visit www.foursigmatic.com and use the code: courageous at checkout!

Today on the podcast we sit down with PLATEFIT creator and founder, Rachael Blumberg. On this episode we discuss Rachael’s inspiring journey in fitness, entrepreneurship, and the incredible technology of the medical grade vibrating plates that are used in the 27-minute PlateFit classes!

PLATEFIT classes are taken on medical grade devices that utilize rapid harmonic vibration — a unique means of destabilizing the body. This destabilization forces reflexive, subconscious neuromuscular action, in both muscular and connective tissue, in order to re-balance the body and maintain stability. The plates are always moving three directions at once: left to right, front to back, up and down. The vibration activates your muscle reflexes, and during the workout classes, muscles are contracting 30 to 50 times per second — roughly 900 – 1,500 contractions every 30 seconds

The benefits of the class include: increased muscle toning, serotonin, bone density, endurance, increased metabolism, lymphatic drainage and blood flow, and a decrease in cortisol levels, among many others. We are huge fans of PLATEFIT, which is fun, challenging, and allows you to break a sweat in just 27 minutes.

Rachael is widely regarded as one of the most innovative and knowledgeable Power Plate® instructors in the industry and her mission is to help individuals achieve their goals, while feeling good in their bodies and in their lives. We loved this conversation with Rachael, learned so much about the power plate technology, the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, and why you should never be deterred by "no!"

We want to hear your thoughts! Reach out at www.courageouswellnesspodcast.com

Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review Courageous Wellness! We release new episodes each #WellnessWednesday!

You can also follow us on instagram @CourageousWellness

This episode is brought to you by Milk+Honey. To receive 15% off your purchase visit www.milkandhoney.com and use code: CWPODCAST (all one word) at checkout! Milk+Honey is a line of non-toxic, effective, and safe bath, body, and skincare products made in small batches in Austin, Texas.

This episode is brought to you by Ned! You can receive 15% off our favorite Ned CBD products . They even offer an entirely female created line for periods called Natural cycles. Go to helloned.com and enter the code CWPODCAST at checkout!

We are so happy to offer our listeners 10% off on all Four Sigmatic superfood coffee and elixirs! For 10% off Four Sigmatic products visit www.foursigmatic.com and use the code: courageous at checkout!