Healthier Together

This episode features Tara Schuster, an author, playwright, and accomplished entertainment executive. She served as Vice President of Talent and Development at Comedy Central where she was the Executive in Charge of ​Lights Out with David Spade,​ was the Executive in Charge of the Emmy® and Peabody Award-winning ​Key & Peele​, the Emmy® Award winning ​@Midnight​, and numerous other shows. She’s also the author of the amazing book, ​Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: and Other Rituals to Fix Your Life from Someone Who has Been There, which was our very first #LMbookclub pick. In this episode, we talk about:

• The self care practices she’s relying on to get through this pandemic
• Her 3-step plan for climbing out of bouts of depression or anxiety
• How she learned to love herself and when exactly it happened
• Her technique to deal with jealousy and envy
• The trick she uses to love her looks
• Her career progression, including exactly how she became a top exec at Comedy Central
• How she knew it was time to make the leap to work for herself
• How she developed a good relationship with money after having a crazy childhood
• Her advice to anyone looking to become a solo entrepreneur
• Her advice to anyone looking to climb a career ladder
• How she created her tribe of amazing female friends as an adult, including the brilliant trick she uses to uplevel the quality of women in her life
• How she got her book deal, and the exact path she used to start placing pieces in publications like the New Yorker
• How she overcame having parents who didn’t support her dreams—and the revelation she had about why they acted the way they did as a kid
• The realization that helped her finally forgive her parents for her childhood
• How she approaches dating and the fear of not meeting a dream partner

You can find Tara on Instagram @taraschuster, and I’m of course @lizmoody. Screenshot and tag us both with your thoughts, feelings, and reactions to this episode!

Enjoy!

PS: Healthier Together is officially a number one best-seller! You can get your copy on Amazon or at lizmoody.com/cookbook. Please keep sending me your creations on Instagram—they make me so happy!

This episode is sponsored by GoMacro. For all of May, GoMacro is going above and beyond and donating 10% of their net-proceeds from their Peanut Butter MacroBar to Farm Sanctuary. As one of the nation’s largest animal sanctuaries, Farm Sanctuary has rescued thousands of animals and has cared for them at its sanctuaries in New York and California.

You can get a whopping 30% off your order PLUS free shipping by using the code “healthiertogether30” at GoMacro.com. I highly recommend you try the peanut butter, the double chocolate peanut butter chip, and the oatmeal chocolate chip cookie!

This week is also sponsored by SOUND. SOUND combines sparkling water with certified organic tea, botanicals and fruit extracts. They don’t use any sweeteners, so they’re both sugar and artificial sugar free, but they still somehow taste amazing. My very favorite one is Chamomile with Vanilla and Elderflower, which tastes just like cream soda, and Zack loves the Green Tea with Grapefruit and Mint and the Blood Orange and Vanilla with Black Tea. They’re one of my favorite soda alternatives, and they’re also an awesome base for mocktails or cocktails. You can get 20% off at drinksound.com by using the code LIZ. Enjoy!

Healthier Together cover art by Zack. Healthier Together music by Alex Ruimy.

Today’s long overdue podcast is about why accessibility and diversity have been such a problem in the wellness world, and how we can all begin to support that changing. I wanted to feature people from different aspects of the wellness world to really paint a larger picture about the limiting factors at play, from doctor bias to the lack of diversity in workout studios to the unique challenges of breaking into the food startup world—to illustrate that there’s no part of the wellness world that’s untouched by this problem.

My first guest today is Chrissy King, a writer, speaker, fitness and strength coach, as well as the teacher of the Anti-Racism for Wellness Professionals Class, which I’m signed up for. You can find Chrissy online at chrissyking.com, and on Instagram @iamchrissyking. We talk about why anti-racism work is fundamental to wellness, what you can personally do when your favorite wellness spots (gyms, restaurants) aren’t diverse, and what needs to happen AFTER we educate ourselves in order to create real change.

My next guest today is Ibhraeem Basir, the founder of A Dozen Cousins, one of my favorite food brands. You can find A Dozen Cousins online at adozencousins.com and on Instagram @adozencousins. We talk about what anyone can do to support the expansion and success of Black-founded businesses, his advice for anyone worried about cultural appropriation in the food world , and his company’s social initiatives to help bring healthy eating to communities in need.

My last guest today is Dr. Tosin Odunsi, an Obstetrics & Gynecology physician. She’s the founder of The Mentorship Squad, a community comprised of Black and Latinx women seeking mentorship along their journey to becoming U.S. physicians. You can find Dr. Odunsi on instagram @lifebytosin and online at lifebytosin.com. We discuss why many common wellness treatments today actually have their roots in the abuse of Black people, why Black people consistently have higher rates of acute and chronic diseases, including COVID-19, and why only 5% of doctors are Black, and only 2% are Black women—and how we can help change those numbers.

This is an important episode, and I hope its startles you, inspires you, and makes you think, I’d love to hear your thoughts and learnings on Instagram–please screenshot and tag me (@lizmoody) and my guests and share your thoughts.

PS: Healthier Together is officially a number one best-seller! You can get your copy on Amazon or at lizmoody.com/cookbook. Please keep sending me your creations on Instagram—they make me so happy!

The Healthier Together Podcast is proud to support Partake Foods. When Denise Woodard’s daughter was diagnosed with severe food allergies as an infant, Denise looked for healthy & safe snacks, came up short, & decided to make her own. That’s how Partake was born. Now in retailers nationwide, including Target, Partake cookies are gluten-free, vegan, and free of the top 14 allergens and come in a variety of crunchy and soft-baked flavors. Food allergies, which affect 1 in 13 kids, are shown to be more likely in black children. Getting safe food into the hands of the Black community with allergies is a top priority for Partake, so the entire month of June, 10% of total sales on Partake’s website will go to the amazing efforts of Food Equality Initiative to ensure food insecure families have access to the food, education and advocacy they need.

They were kind enough to share a discount code—if you shop on PartakeFoods.com during the month of June, you can get 10% off your order and free shipping on $20 or more with code HEALTHIERTOGETHER.

We’re also proud to support The Honey Pot Company, a plant-powered feminine care company. In addition to healthy feminine washes, wipes, organic cotton tampons, and herb-infused menstrual pads, they also offer natural anti-itch cream, herb and boric acid suppositories, and more. They truly have pretty much everything you need to keep your vagina healthy and happy. Also, they’re packaging is truly too cute.

I’ve seen them in a ton of retail stores so definitely go to www.thehoneypot.co to find a retailer near you.

Healthier Together cover art by Zack. Healthier Together music by Alex Ruimy.

I’m excited to have on Jenné Claiborne, the founder of Sweet Potato Soul. Sweet Potato Soul is a crazy popular YouTube channel, a blog filled with the most DELICIOUS recipes, an Instagram community with over 300K members, AND one of my favorite plant-based cookbooks, Sweet Potato Soul: 100 Easy Vegan Recipes for the Southern Flavors of Smoke, Sugar, Spice, and Soul. On today’s episode, we chat about:

• The lessons she’s learned during the pandemic
• How she deals with her fears around money
• Her advice for helping with the divisiveness in politics, dietary preferences, and more
• Her thoughts on IIN and how to know how much to spend on your business when starting out
• Her motherhood journey, including her birth and how being a mom changed her relationship with her own mother
• How to find a good business coach
• The mistakes she made early in starting her business and how to avoid them
• Her secrets to making veggie-filled meals easier, more delicious, and less time consuming
• What type of nutrient she thinks is more important than protein and more often missing from the standard American diet
• How she gets her protein on a vegan diet
• Why she doesn’t drink coffee and what she does for energy instead
• Her struggles with anxiety, and what has helped
• The calming practice she’s relied on for more than a decade
• Her 37 hour labor and the practice that got her through it
• What she’d do if her daughter didn’t want to be a vegan
• How she recommends helping picky kids eat healthy
• The two things she thinks are missing in conversations about race in America
• Her secret to deep and lasting happiness

You can find Jenné on Instagram at @sweetpotatosoul, and we’d both love to hear your reactions to this episode, so please screenshot and write any thoughts or questions that come up as you’re listening and tag us both (I’m @lizmoody).

Enjoy!

PS: Healthier Together is officially a number one best-seller! You can get your copy on Amazon or at lizmoody.com/cookbook. Please keep sending me your creations on Instagram—they make me so happy!

Today’s episode is sponsored by Atoka Herbal Blends. They have two types of drinks, herbal shots and herbal tonics, and they have amazing ingredients—they’re 100% plant-based and non-GMO. More importantly, they’re super FUNCTIONAL—every single ingredient serves a purpose. You can get 25% off your first order using the code AtokaLiz25 at atokawellness.com.

This episode is also sponsored by Garden of Life, one of my all-time favorite brands. I focused on stress-relieving products in this episode, including their Mood Plus probiotic, which is formulated specifically to help with stress and anxiety, and their magnesium chelate, which I take nightly to help avoid constipation and help alleviate anxiety.

Healthier Together cover art by Zack. Healthier Together music by Alex Ruimy.

On this week’s super casual conversation, I’m doing my first ever Q&A! I’m a little nervous so please be kind to me! On this episode, I answer YOUR questions, including:

• What’s my morning and evening routine?
• What books have changed my life?
• What’s my attachment style and what’s Zack’s? How do we make it work?
• Can you eat meat and still have good gut health?
• What’s my favorite place I’ve traveled to?
• What diets did I try in the past that didn’t work?
• What are my thoughts on intermittent fasting?
• My healthy soda trick

And more. Let me know if you like this format, and I can throw a few more Q&A episodes in. Enjoy!

PS: Healthier Together is officially a number one best-seller! You can get your copy on Amazon or at lizmoody.com/cookbook. Please keep sending me your creations on Instagram—they make me so happy!

This episode is sponsored by GoMacro. For all of May, GoMacro is going above and beyond and donating 10% of their net-proceeds from their Peanut Butter MacroBar to Farm Sanctuary. As one of the nation’s largest animal sanctuaries, Farm Sanctuary has rescued thousands of animals and has cared for them at its sanctuaries in New York and California.

You can get a whopping 30% off your order PLUS free shipping by using the code “healthiertogether30” at GoMacro.com. I highly recommend you try the peanut butter, the double chocolate peanut butter chip, and the oatmeal chocolate chip cookie!

Healthier Together cover art by Zack. Healthier Together music by Alex Ruimy.

On today’s episode, I sat down with one of my favorite guests ever, the amazing Ivirlei Brookes. Ivirlei is an actress and mindset mentor for creatives. Her company, Mavenelle, focuses on helping female creatives and entrepreneurs create a lifestyle around self mastery and wellness.

You may know her from her recent viral video, White Women Who Truly Want To Help: Here’s How, which has over 5 million views on Instagram, and was re-shared by pretty much every huge celeb, including Hailey Bieber, Lili Reinhart, and Ellen Pompeo. She’s also creating online workshops for Fall, and currently at work writing her first non-fiction book about shaping your own identity and removing limiting beliefs. In this episode, we talk about:

• what scripting is, and how it helps her create her dream life
• the morning routine that sets her day up for success
• an example of how manifestation actually had real results in her life
• the one quality all of the mega-famous people she’s met have in common
• how to overcome limitations from your childhood
• the genius, simple phrase she uses to get people to actually listen to her
• how to be a good friend, and to cultivate incredible, deep female friendships
• what her love language is, and how to use love languages to strengthen all of your relationships
• her advice to people frustrated by dating
• how being in a inter-racial relationship has impacted her, especially at this moment in time
• what white people get wrong about anti-racism work
• her advice for people trying to incorporate anti-racism into their businesses, from corporate life to food blogging or wellness coaching
• how to diversify your income without starting your own business
• how to know if you’d be a good entrepreneur, and what people get wrong when they’re first starting their business
• how she developed sexual and body confidence, and why that was so important to her thriving in other areas of her life

You can find Lauren on Instagram at @ivirlei, and we’d both love to hear your reactions to this episode, so please screenshot and write any thoughts or questions that come up as you’re listening and tag us both (I’m @lizmoody).

Enjoy!

PS: Healthier Together is officially a number one best-seller! You can get your copy on Amazon or at lizmoody.com/cookbook. Please keep sending me your creations on Instagram—they make me so happy!

This episode is sponsored by Kyoto Botanicals, the first CBD brand I’ve recommended on this podcast! They believe every ingredient matters and should contribute to your overall health, which is why they only use USDA certified organic oils to deliver flavor with benefits. Their products only have organic, single-source plant extracts, not lab developed flavors and colors, so you get whole plant benefits as nature intended. Finally, their hemp is grown according to strict organic and biodynamic standards, and they only use only organic coconut MCT oil as a carrier. I recommend all of their products, but especially their tinctures. You can get a whopping 25% off your order (AND they always have free shipping!) by using the code “HEALTHIERTOGETHER” at kyotobotanicals.com.

This episode is also sponsored by Garden of Life, one of my all-time favorite brands. I focused on stress-relieving products in this episode, including their Mood Plus probiotic, which is formulated specifically to help with stress and anxiety, and their magnesium chelate, which I take nightly to help avoid constipation and help alleviate anxiety.

Healthier Together cover art by Zack. Healthier Together music by Alex Ruimy.